Charles Hubert Oldham (1859–1926) was an Irish economics professor.

Early life

Born in

Monkstown, County Dublin Monkstown (), historically known as ''Carrickbrennan'' (), is a suburb on the southside, Dublin, southside of Dublin, Republic of Ireland, Ireland, located in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown. It is on the coast, between Blackrock, Dublin, Blackrock an ...

, Oldham was educated at Kingstown Grammar School, and then studied at

Trinity College Dublin Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Unive ...

. His sisters were Edith Best (who married

Richard Irvine Best Richard Irvine Best (17 January 1872 – 25 September 1959) was born at 3 Bishop Street in Derry, Ireland. He was often known as R. I. Best, or simply Best to his close friends and family. He was an Irish scholar, specifically a philologist a ...

) and Alice Oldham. His elder brother Eldred (seven years older than him) was a painter.

Career

Oldham was the first professor of National Economics (1917 to 1926) at

University College Dublin University College Dublin (), commonly referred to as UCD, is a public research university in Dublin, Ireland, and a collegiate university, member institution of the National University of Ireland. With 38,417 students, it is Ireland's largest ...

. Prior to that, he had been professor of commerce (1909 to 1917). Oldham was a prominent member of the

Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland (SSISI) is a learned society which analyses the major changes that have taken place in population, employment, legal and administrative systems and social services in Ireland. It operates as ...

, for whom he was Barrington Lecturer (1895 to 1901) and President from 1924 to 1926.

Politics

In his ''Dictionary of Irish Biography'' entry, Oldham is described as a "Gladstonian liberal", but also holding strong Irish nationalist sympathies as an admirer of the writings of Young Irelander Thomas Osborne Davis. A close friend of Oldham was Irish separatist and Fenian John O'Leary. Oldham managed the southern (Dublin) branch of the Irish Protestant Home Rule Association which he had founded in 1886.

Personal life

Oldham was friends with analytical chemist Arthur Cranwill (treasurer of the Irish Protestant Home Rule Association), and encouraged his daughter, the future designer and metal artist Mia Cranwill to study Irish history and mythology during her visits to Dublin. Oldham married German painter Katharina (née Taesler) in the mid-1880s. They had no children, and she survived him following his death on 20 February 1926.

Publications

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Oldham, Charles Hubert 1859 births 1926 deaths 19th-century Irish economists 20th-century Irish economists Alumni of Trinity College Dublin