Max Beloff

Max Beloff, Baron Beloff (2 July 1913-22 March 1999) was a British historian. From 1974 to 1979 he was principal of the University College of Buckingham, now the University of Buckingham.

Max Beloff was the oldest child of a gifted Jewish family. He was educated at St Paul's School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford (Scholar; MA; Honorary Fellow, 1993). He was made a Life peer with the title Baron Beloff, of Wolvercote in the County of Oxfordshire in 1981.

Career

• Royal Signals Corps., 1940-41
• Junior Research Fellow, Corpus Christi College, 1937
• Assistant Lecturer in History, Manchester University, 1939-46
  • World War II service: Royal Corps of Signals, 1940-41.
• Nuffield Reader in Comparative Study of Institutions, Oxford University, 1946-56
• Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, 1947-57
• Gladstone Professor of Government and Public Administration, Oxford University, 1957-74, then Professor Emeritus
• Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford, 1957-74, Emeritus Fellow, 1980-99
• Supernumerary Fellow, St. Antony's College, Oxford, 1975-84
• Principal, University College of Buckingham, 1974-79
• Honorary Professor, St. Andrews University, 1993-98.

Affiliations

• He was a governor of the University of Haifa.
• Institute for the Study of Conflict
• Research Institute for the Study of Conflict and Terrorism