Barry Supple

Barry Emanuel Supple, CBE, FBA (born 27 October 1930, Hackney, London), is Emeritus Professor of Economic History, University of Cambridge, and a former Director of the Leverhulme Trust. He is the father of theatre and opera director Tim Supple.

• Hackney Downs School (where he was a contemporary of Harold Pinter)
• London School of Economics (Honorary Fellow, 2001)
• Christ's College, Cambridge

• Assistant Professor of Business History, Harvard University, 1955–1960
• Associate Prof. of Economic History, McGill University, 1960–1962
• University of Sussex: Lecturer, Reader, then Professor of Economic and Social History, 1962–1978; Dean, School of Social Sciences, 1965–1968; Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Arts and Social Studies), 1968–1972; Pro-Vice-Chancellor, 1978
• University of Oxford: Reader in Recent Social and Economic History, 1978–1981; Professorial Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford, 1978–1981
• Professorial Fellow, 1981–1983, Honorary Fellow, 1984, Christ's College, Cambridge
• Master of St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, 1984-1993 (Honorary Fellow, 1993)
• Director, Leverhulme Trust, 1993–2001

• Honorary Fellow, Worcester College, Oxford 1986
• Associate Fellow, Trumbull College, Yale University, 1986
• Chairman, Consultative Committee of Assessment of Performance Unit, Department of Education and Science, 1975–1980
• President, Economic History Society, 1992–1995
• Fellow of the British Academy, 1987; Foreign Secretary, 1995–1999
• CBE, 2000

• Supple, Barry. Doors Open. Cambridge, UK: Asher, 2008. ISBN 0-9560057-0-5 (Autobiography; described in The Clove's Lines 3.2 [March 2009]: 13.)
• Supple, Barry. "Harold Pinter – Some Memories." The Clove's Lines: The Newsletter of The Clove Club: The Old Boys of Hackney Downs School 3.2 (March 2009): 6–7. Print.

• According to Supple, this account consists of "edited excerpts" from Doors Open. The Clove Club Newsletter is edited by G. L. ("Willie") Watkins, who also edited 'Fortune's Fool': A Life of Joe Brearley: The Man Who Taught Harold Pinter (Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, Eng.: TwigBooks, 2008). Brearley taught English literature and directed school theatre productions at Hackney Downs School, which both Supple and Pinter attended from 1942 to 1949 and 1948, respectively; in this memoir Supple recalls Pinter's performance as Romeo in Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, as directed by Brearley, in which Supple played Mercutio, and Brearley's influence on Pinter and other students.