Sir George Paish | |
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Born | Horsham, Sussex, England | 7 November 1867
Died | 1 May 1957 Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, England | (aged 89)
Nationality | British |
Occupation(s) | Journalist and Economist |
Sir George Paish (7 November 1867 – 1 May 1957)[1][2] was a British liberal economist of international renown,[3] author of The Defeat of Chaos (1941), as well as Railways in Great Britain (1904), and co-author of Road To Prosperity in 1927.[4] He advocated the free market prior to the First World War,[5] and was at one point advisor to the head of the British Treasury.[6] He also served for a time as co-president of the Anglo-Ethiopian Society.[7]
He was the assistant editor of The Statist magazine from 1894 to 1900[8] and later became the editor.[9]
Paish was born in Horsham, Sussex, on 7 November 1867, the son of Robert and Jane Paish; his father was a coachman. He married Emily Mary Whitehead on 24 March 1894, and they had five sons.[1] One of the sons was Frank Walter Paish, also an economist.[5] His wife died in 1933, and Paish married again on 30 September 1936 to Anita Carolyn Rouse.[1] Paish died on 1 May 1957 in a nursing home at Wexham in Buckinghamshire.[1]
He was active for the Liberal Party and stood three times for them as a parliamentary candidate, in 1922 and 1935. In June 1936, he was elected to serve on the Liberal Party Council.[10]
On 1 July 1912 Paish was conferred the honour of a Knighthood in the King's birthday honours.[11]
Paish was the author of the following books:[4]