{{Use British English|date=December 2021}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2021}} {{Short description|British academic (1898–1988)}} '''John David Mabbott''' ([[Duns, Scottish Borders|Duns]], 18 November 1898 – [[Islip, Oxfordshire]], 26 January 1988)<ref>{{cite news | title=Mr. John Mabbott | newspaper=[[The Times]] | date=28 January 1988 | issue=62989 | page=18}}</ref> was a British academic who worked as the [[president of St John's College, Oxford]], from 1963<ref>{{cite news | title=St. John's, Oxford, To Have New Head | newspaper=[[The Times]] | date=26 January 1963 | issue=55609 | page=6}}</ref> to 1969.<ref>[[Isaiah Berlin]]: {{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/letters192819460000berl |title=Letters, 1928-1946 |date=2004 |isbn=978-0-521-83368-4 |url-access=registration |last1=Berlin |first1=Isaiah |publisher=Cambridge University Press }}, Volume 1 [[Isaiah Berlin|Berlin, I]]/ [[Henry Hardy|Hardy, H]] (Ed) p,511 fn,4 : Cambridge; CUP; 2004 {{ISBN|0-521-83368-X}}</ref>

== Education == Mabbott was educated at [[Berwickshire High School]],<ref>Pike, Jon "MABBOTT, John David" in ''Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Philosophers'' (ed.) Stuart Brown ''et al'', Bristol; [[Thoemmes Continuum]], (2005) {{ISBN|1-84371-096-X}} reprinted in ''The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy'' (2006) {{doi|10.1093/acref/9780199754694.001.0001}}</ref> the [[University of Edinburgh]], and St John's.<ref>{{Who's Who | author = Anon | year = 2020 | title=Mabbott, John David| id = U166584 | doi = 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013}}</ref>

== Career == Mabbott was a [[lecturer]] in [[classics]] at the [[University of Reading]] from 1922 to 1923; and then a [[Lecturer]] at the [[University College of North Wales]] from 1923 to 1924.<ref>'University News' ''[[The Times]]'' Thursday, 24 Apr. 1924 Issue 43634 p.8</ref> He was [[fellow]] of St John's from 1924 to 1963;<ref>{{Cite book |last=Simpson |first=A.W.B |author-link=A. W. B. Simpson |url=https://archive.org/details/humanrightsendof00simp |title=Human Rights and the End of Empire: Britain and the Genesis of the European Convention |date=2001 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-826289-3 |url-access=registration}} p.210, fn.223 Oxford; OUP; 2001 {{ISBN|0-19-826289-2}}</ref> [[tutor]] from 1930 to 1956;<ref>[https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/sjc.prod/documents/1413-St_Johns-TW_mag-2016_10W1.pdf TW, St John's Magazine, May 2017]</ref> and [[Tutor|senior tutor]] from 1956 to 1963.<ref>{{DNB|prescript=|wstitle=Mabbott, John David}}</ref> He wrote: 'The State and the Citizen', 1948; 'An Introduction to Ethics', 1966; 'John Locke', 1973; and 'Oxford Memories', 1986.<ref>[[British Library]] website accessed 10:38 [[GMT]] Thursday 7 May 2020</ref>

During [[World War II]], Mabbott was commissioned by the [[Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office|Foreign Office]] to produce reports on popular transfers after the war, in particular the feasibility of forcible expulsion of ethnic Germans from Poland and Czechoslovakia.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Frank |first=Matthew James |author-link= |url=https://archive.org/details/expellinggermans0000fran |title=Expelling the Germans : British opinion and post-1945 population transfer in context |date=2007 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-923364-9 |location=Oxford |oclc=173502785 |url-access=registration}}</ref>

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