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WE record with great regret the death, on February 24, in his sixtieth year, of Sir Edward C. K. Conner, who was for more than thirty years the Professor of Economic Science in the University of Liverpool, and whose skill and power of organisation have done much to earn for that University the high position it holds as a centre of economic teaching. The view which he entertained of the difficulty and of the importance of economic study, and which inspired him in his work, is well expressed in the address he wrote for the Toronto meeting of the British Association in 1897, as President of Section F: “This is needed by all those who, either by action, word, or vote, have a part in the direction of the destinies of a country,” Again appointed President of that Section at the Australian meeting in 1914, he enforced the same moral. He published some valuable text-books on economic subjects. He served on the Royal Com mission on Shipping Conferences. As chairman of the War Savings Committee for Cheshire he also rendered public service, and was appointed a Companion of the Order of the British Empire. He was promoted to a knighthood of the same Order last year. Sir Edward Conner's early death was due to an attack of influenza. At a time like the present when the inculcation of sound economic principles seems to be more than ever necessary, the loss of so good and practical a teacher as Sir Edward Gonner will be deeply felt.
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Sir Edward Gonner, K.B.E. Nature 109, 314–315 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109314c0
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