Richard D'Aeth

Richard D'Aeth was President of Hughes Hall, Cambridge, a college of Cambridge University, from 1978-1984. Educated at the Bedford School he was a Scholar at Emmanuel College, Cambridge where he took out a 1st Class Honours degree in Natural Science before completing his PhD. He was for a time a Commonwealth Fellow at Harvard University.

Professor D'Aeth served with the RAF during World War II. In 1946 he was appointed one of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools. In 1952 he took up an appointment as the Professor of Education at the University College of the West Indies and in 1958 returned to the United Kingdom as the Professor of Education at Exeter University, a post he held until 1977.

His major publication was "Education and Development in the Third World" published in 1975.