Lauchlin Currie: a biographical sketch

摘要

Lauchlin Currie (8 October 1902-23 December 1993) was born in the fishing village of West Dublin, Nova Scotia, Canada, the son of Lauchlin Bernard Currie, a merchant shipowner, and Alice Eisenhauer Currie, a schoolteacher. His father died four years later and his family moved to the nearby town of Bridgewater. Most of his schooling was in Bridgewater, but he also attended schools in Massachusetts and California where he had relatives. After two years at St Francis Xavier's University, Nova Scotia (1920-1922), he studied at the London School of Economics and received his BSc in 1925. His teachers included Edwin Carman, Hugh Dalton, A.L. Bowley, and Harold Laski.