Bastable, Charles Francis 1855-1945
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Born 1855 · died 1945
Charles Francis Bastable, FBA (1855–1945) was an Irish economist. He was Whately Professor of Political Economy (1882–1932) and Regius Professor of Laws (1908–1932) at Trinity College, Dublin.
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After his death, Bastable's library was placed at the disposal of the School of Economics, Trinity College, Dublin. His papers do not seem to have been included with this. Since then a small group of about a dozen letters to him, and some printed papers, have been deposited in the Library of Trinity College.
Correspondents
EDWIN CANNAN, six letters, 1904. Cannan collection, British Library of Political and Economic Science (BLPES)
HERBERT SOMERTON FOXWELL, 35 letters to, 1877-1923, in RDFC
SIR ROBERT GIFFEN, four letters, 1903-1906. Giffen collection, BLPES
JOHN KELLS INGRAM, one letter, 1885. Ingram papers, PRONI
EDWIN ROBERT ANDERSON SELIGMAN, 13 letters, 1887-1896. Seligman papers, Columbia UL, New York.
LÉON WALRAS, five letters, 1885-1890.
Fonds Walras, Bibliothèque Cantonale et Universitaire, Lausanne.
Printed Material
G. A. DUNCAN, ‘Charles Francis Bastable, 1855-1945’, Proceedings of the British Academy, XXXI (1945).
R. D. COLLISON BLACK, ‘A Select Bibliography of Economic Writings by Members of Trinity College, Dublin’, Hermathena, LXVI (1945) 62-65. Includes a full bibliography of Bastable's writings.
Portrait: see Duncan (above); and Centenary History of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, ed. R. D. Collison Black ( Dublin, 1947).
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