name: C. Northcote Parkinson
birth_date: 1909-07-30 00:00:00
death_date: 1993-03-09 00:00:00
genres: Politics, History
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about: Cyril Northcote Parkinson was a naval historian and author of some sixty books. He was educated at Cambridge, and went on to teach in Malaya, and in the United States at Harvard and in Illinois.He was an important scholar in the field of public administration.His most famous work is  Parkinson’s Law, or The Pursuit of Progress. Cyril Northcote Parkinson was a naval historian and author of some sixty books. He was educated at Cambridge, and went on to teach in Malaya, and in the United States at Harvard and in Illinois.He was an important scholar in the field of public administration.His most famous work is  Parkinson’s Law, or The Pursuit of Progress. ...more