Charles Francis Bastable, FBA (1855–1945) was an Irish economist. He was Whately Professor of Political Economy (1882–1932) and Regius Professor of Laws (1908–1932) at

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, 2004). Retrieved 20 September 2019. The son of a priest, he studied at Trinity College, Dublin from 1873 to 1878, graduating with a first-class BA in history and political science. After graduating, Bastable considered a legal career and was

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in Ireland in 1881, but the following year he successfully sat the five-yearly examination for the Whatley Professorship and during his tenure the statutes were altered allowing him to be re-elected without examination. He remained in the chair until retiring in 1932. He was also

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of jurisprudence and political economy at

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, from 1883 to 1903; and professor of jurisprudence and international law at Trinity College between 1902 and 1908. Bastable made significant contributions to theories of international trade and finance. He was a founding member of the

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and in 1915 he was elected a

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, the United Kingdom's national academy for the social sciences.The chair of jurisprudence and international law at Trinity had been established in 1877 and held by Henry Brougham Leech before being merged with the Regius Professorship of Laws in 1888; it was revived for Bastable in 1902 and then merged with the Regius Chair again in 1908 (see V. T. H. Delaney
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'' Hermathena'', vol. 89 (May 1957), pp. 11–12).

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