Geoffrey Vickers
Sir Geoffrey Vickers, VC was an English lawyer, administrator, writer and pioneering systems scientist. He had varied interests with roles at different times with the London Passenger Transport Board, Law Society, Medical Research Council and Mental Health Research Fund. In the later years he wrote and lectured on social systems analysis and the complex patterns of social organisation. The Sir Geoffrey Vickers Memorial Award has been presented by the International Society for the Systems Sciences since 1987 in his memory.
Geoffrey Vickers was born and grew up in Nottingham, where his father Charles Henry Vickers ran a successful lace business, Vickers amp Hine Ltd. He described his first day of school as school introduced me to the anguish reserved both for the nonconformist who wishes to conform and the awkward who long to excel in dexterity. He attended Bramcote, a preparatory school near Scarborough and then Oundle School a public school before entering Merton College, Oxford where he briefly studied Classics from 1913 until the start of war.
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