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DR. A. E. MORGAN has been appointed educational director of the British Council and will take up his duties early next month. The post was formerly held by Prof. B. Ifor Evans, who resigned it on appointment as principal of Queen Mary College about a year ago but has continued to assist the Council in an advisory capacity. Dr. Morgan, a native of Bristol, was educated at the then University College there, and at Trinity College, Dublin. He became lecturer in, and then professor of, English language and literature in the University College, Exeter, and later occupied a similar chair in the University of Sheffield. In 1926 he was appointed principal of University College, Hull; and during 1935–37 he was principal and vice-chancellor of McGill University, Montreal. Dr. Morgan became chief special officer for national service, Ministry of Labour, in 1939, and was thereafter a district commissioner for the Special Areas (Durham and Tyne-side), and regional information officer at Newcastle-on-Tyne. Since 1941, he has been assistant secretary, Ministry of Labour. The period for which Mr. H. Orton, the acting educational director of the British Council, was seconded to the Council from the University of Sheffield ends on August 31, and he will then resume his duties as head of the Department of English Language at Sheffield.
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Educational Director of the British Council: Dr. A. E. Morgan. Nature 156, 77 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156077a0
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