1. Arthur Seldon is the father of political author Anthony Seldon.
15 Facts About Arthur Seldon
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Arthur Seldon was born Abraham Margolis in the East End of London to Masha and Pinhas Margolis.
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Arthur Seldon's oldest brother Jack was born in 1906, and a sister Bess in 1910; brothers Susman and Solly Margolis changed their names to Cecil Margolis and Sidney Margolis respectively; only Abraham changed his whole name.
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Arthur Seldon served with the army in North Africa and Italy during the war.
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Arthur Seldon continued to be involved with the Liberal Party.
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Arthur Seldon was chairman of its committee on the elderly from 1948 to 1949.
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Arthur Seldon was working at the Brewer's Society in 1956 when approached by Lord Grantchester to be asked if he wanted to join a new 'Think Tank' just set up by Antony Fisher on the advice of Friedrich Hayek, founder of the Chicago School of economics and champion of free market neoliberalism.
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Arthur Seldon was on a Committee of Enquiry chaired by Elliott Dodds into the distribution of property, exploring the idea of "ownership for all," and the effects of statist maldistribution.
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Arthur Seldon generated editorial copy: edited recruited authors, made available titles to a wider audience.
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Arthur Seldon was involved in the famous Orpington by-election in 1962, in which the Liberal Party gained the seat from the Conservative Party and weakened the confidence of the Macmillan administration.
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In 1970 Arthur Seldon invited Milton Friedman at the IEA, quick to recognise the value of monetarist policy.
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Arthur Seldon would, according to Ralph Harris, re-write poor pamphlets to such an extent as to almost become its co-author.
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Arthur Seldon won the Fisher Arts Literary Prize in 1991, although it was established by the founder of IEA, so nobody minded the eternal paradox, for his book Capitalism.
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Arthur Seldon received an honorary degree in 1999 from the University of Buckingham.
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Arthur Seldon is the father of the historian Sir Anthony Seldon.