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Roy Harrod was born in February 1900 and died in 1978. His father, Henry Dawes Harrod, was a businessman and author of two historical monographs. His mother, Frances (née Forbes-Robertson) was a novelist, and sister of the notable Shakespearean actor-manager, Sir Johnson Forbes-Robertson. Henry Harrod’s business failed in 1907, but Roy won a scholarship to St Paul’s School in 1911 and a King’s Scholarship to Westminster in 1913. He became Head of his House, and in 1918 won a scholarship in history to New College, Oxford, his father’s college. He enlisted in September 1918 and was commissioned in the Royal Field Artillery, but the war ended before his training was completed.
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Eltis, W. (2018). Harrod, Roy Forbes (1900–1978). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_883
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