Robert Charles Oliver "Robin" Matthews (16 June 1927 – 19 June 2010) was an

economist An economist is a professional and practitioner in the social sciences, social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy. Within this ...

and

chess problemist A chess composer is a person who creates endgame studies or chess problems. Chess composers usually specialize in a particular genre, e.g. endgame studies, twomovers, threemovers, moremovers, helpmates, selfmates, fairy problems, or retrograde ...

. Matthews was born in

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. He was educated at

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and

Corpus Christi College, Oxford Corpus Christi College (formally, Corpus Christi College in the University of Oxford; informally abbreviated as Corpus or CCC) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1517 by Richard Fo ...

, and was a Fellow of

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. He was the Drummond Professor of Political Economy at Oxford from 1965 to 1975 and the Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge from 1980 to 1991. He was also the Master of

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from 1975 to 1993. As a chess problemist he specialised in the composition of directmate three-movers, a field in which he was recognised as one of the world's leading exponents. Matthews wrote many books on economics, among which: * ''The Trade Cycle'', Cambridge University Press, 1960 * ''A Study in Trade-Cycle History: Economic Fluctuations in Great Britain 1833-1842'', 1954 * ''Economic Growth and Resources'', Palgrave Macmillan, 1980 * ''Economic Growth and Resources: Volume 2, Trends and Factors'', Palgrave Macmillan, 1980 * ''British Economic Growth 1856-1973'' (with C. H. Feinstein and J. Odling-Smee), Clarendon Press, 1982 He also wrote two books on chess problems: * ''Chess Problems: Introduction to an art'' (with M. Lipton and J. M. Rice), 1963 * ''Mostly Three-Movers: Collected Chess Problems 1939-1993'', Feenschach-Phénix, Aachen, 1995

References

Professor Robin Matthews
Obituary on '' The Telegraph online'', 13 July 2010 etrieved 30-12-2013/small> 1927 births 2010 deaths Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Oxford Chess composers Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford Masters of Clare College, Cambridge Scottish economists Drummond Professors of Political Economy People educated at Edinburgh Academy Professors of Political Economy (Cambridge, 1863) {{UK-economist-stub