Evan Luard | |
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| Member of Parliament forOxford | |
| In office 10 October 1974 – 7 April 1979 | |
| Preceded by | Montague Woodhouse |
| Succeeded by | John Patten |
| In office 31 March 1966 – 29 May 1970 | |
| Preceded by | Montague Woodhouse |
| Succeeded by | Montague Woodhouse |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 31 October 1926 Addington, Kent, England |
| Died | 8 February 1991(1991-02-08) (aged 64) |
| Party | Labour(until 1981) SDP(1981–1988) |
| Alma mater | King's College, Cambridge |
David Evan Trant Luard (31 October 1926 – 8 February 1991), most commonly known asEvan Luard, was a BritishLabour Party andSocial Democratic Party (SDP) politician, and a renownedinternational relations scholar.
Luard was educated atKing's College School, Cambridge,[1]Felsted School andKing's College, Cambridge, where he gained a First in Part I of the Modern Languagestripos.[2] In 1950, Luard joined theForeign Service, and after learningChinese he was stationed inPeking from 1952 to 1954. In 1956 he resigned from the diplomatic service in protest of Britain's involvement in theSuez Crisis.
He became a research fellow atSt Antony's College, Oxford, in 1957, where he was able to research Chinese relations with Britain. He was a Labour councillor onOxford City Council from 1958 to 1961.
Having first contested the seat in 1964, Luard was elected as the Labour PartyMember of Parliament (MP) forOxford in 1966.[3] He served as MP until 1970 and again from October 1974 to 1979. He was the only Labour member ever to represent the constituency in its original form. He served as aParliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Foreign Office from 1969 to 1970 and again from 1976 until Labour left power in 1979.
Luard joined the SDP soon after its formation, and contested the1983 general election for the party in the newly formed constituency ofOxford West and Abingdon. He was de-selected as candidate in 1987 in favour ofChris Huhne.
Luard is mainly known for his extensive writings on numerous aspects of international relations.[4] He is also known for his sociological theories including the hierarchy theory. His exhaustive study of war,War in International Society: A Study in International Sociology, was published in Britain in 1986 and by Yale University Press in the United States in 1987. Luard also contributed a number of studies in support of "community socialism" in Britain, most notablySocialism without the State (1979). An account of his life and work appeared in theOxford Dictionary of National Biography in 2004.
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