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| Keywords: lse lse library lselibrary london school of economics londonschoolofeconomics blackandwhite people monochrome black and white Professor of English Law 1959-1968 Extracts from ‘Professor G.S.A. (‘Ash’) Wheatcroft’ by Sir Mark Weinberg in The LSE Magazine, June 1988, No75, p. 22 ‘A graduate of New College, Oxford, Ash Wheatcroft practised as a solicitor from 1930 until 1951, with a break for a distinguished military career in the Second World War which he finished as a lieutenant-colonel in the Royal Service Corps. He was a Chancery Master from 1951-1959 and wrote many of the sections on Court procedure for the 3rd edition of Halsbury’s laws of England. He was a Professor of Law at the School from 1959-1968 and from 1971 to 1972 was the official advisor to the Customs and Excise on the introduction of VAT. He was Vice Chairman of Hambro Life Assurance…from 1971-1979…Ash Wheatcroft was an expert chess player (representing England before the War) and likened taxation to a game of chess between the practitioner and the Inland Revenue, played according to tightly drawn rules: he abhorred any suggestion that the Revenue might be given arbitrary powers to change the rules of the game once it had started…’ IMAGELIBRARY/965 Persistent URL: archives.lse.ac.uk/dserve.exe?dsqServer=lib-4.lse.ac.uk&a... Professor of English Law 1959-1968 Extracts from ‘Professor G.S.A. (‘Ash’) Wheatcroft’ by Sir Mark Weinberg in The LSE Magazine, June 1988, No75, p. 22 ‘A graduate of New College, Oxford, Ash Wheatcroft practised as a solicitor from 1930 until 1951, with a break for a distinguished military career in the Second World War which he finished as a lieutenant-colonel in the Royal Service Corps. He was a Chancery Master from 1951-1959 and wrote many of the sections on Court procedure for the 3rd edition of Halsbury’s laws of England. He was a Professor of Law at the School from 1959-1968 and from 1971 to 1972 was the official advisor to the Customs and Excise on the introduction of VAT. He was Vice Chairman of Hambro Life Assurance…from 1971-1979…Ash Wheatcroft was an expert chess player (representing England before the War) and likened taxation to a game of chess between the practitioner and the Inland Revenue, played according to tightly drawn rules: he abhorred any suggestion that the Revenue might be given arbitrary powers to change the rules of the game once it had started…’ IMAGELIBRARY/965 Persistent URL: archives.lse.ac.uk/dserve.exe?dsqServer=lib-4.lse.ac.uk&a... | ||||
