Charles Hubert Oldham
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Charles Hubert Oldham (1859–1926) was an Irish economics professor.[1]
Born in Monkstown, Dublin, Oldham was educated at Kingstown Grammar School, and then studied at Trinity College Dublin.[1] His sisters were Edith Best (who married Richard Irvine Best) and Alice Oldham.[1] His elder brother Eldred (seven years older than him) was a painter.[1]
Career
Oldham was the first professor of National Economics (1917 to 1926) at University College Dublin.[1] Prior to that, he had been professor of commerce (1909 to 1917).[1] Oldham was a prominent member of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, for whom he was Barrington Lecturer (1895 to 1901) and President from 1924 to 1926.[2]
Politics
In his Dictionary of Irish Biography entry, Oldham is described as a "Gladstonian liberal", but also holding strong Irish nationalist sympathies as an admirer of the writings of Young Irelander Thomas Osborne Davis.[1] A close friend of Oldham was Irish separatist and Fenian John O'Leary.[1] Oldham managed the southern (Dublin) branch of the Irish Protestant Home Rule Association which he had founded in 1886.[1]