10 Facts About Sydney Caine

Sir Sydney Caine KCMG was an educator and economist.

In 1922, Caine graduated with a first class degree, specialising in Economic History from London School of Economics.

Sydney Caine started his career as an assistant inspector of taxes.

In 1926, Sydney Caine joined the Colonial Office, where he served as secretary to the West Indian Sugar Commission and to the UK Sugar Industry Commission.

In 1937, Sydney Caine was appointed as the Financial Secretary of Hong Kong, until 1940.

Sydney Caine proposed the imposition of new water charging system amid the construction of Shing Mun Reservoir and income tax.

Sydney Caine was appointed the director of the LSE between 1957 and 1967.

Sydney Caine was an alumnus of the LSE, and, before his appointment as director of the school, he was a well-known economist who had acted as a consultant for the World Bank for a period of time and had worked as a diplomat, being appointed minister at the British Embassy in Washington, US.

Sydney Caine married secondly, in 1965, Doris Winifred Folkard.

Sydney Caine married, thirdly, in 1975, Elizabeth Bowyer.