death_date birth_place awards birth_date known_for article_title name occupation
29 december 1970 madoc , ontario order of canada 21 may 1895 principal of queen 's university william archibald mackintosh
 william archibald mackintosh academic , economist , political scientist , writer
william archibald mackintosh

william archibald mackintosh , -lrb- may 21 , 1895 -- december 29 , 1970 -rrb- was a canadian academic , economist , political scientist , writer , and was the twelfth principal of queen 's university from 1951 until 1961 .
born in madoc , ontario , he received his ba and ma from queen 's in 1916 .
he received his phd from harvard university .
from 1922 to 1939 he was a professor of economics at queen 's .
during world war ii , he was an assistant to the deputy minister of finance in ottawa and later in the department of reconstruction and supply .
after the war he was the dean of arts and science at queen 's until becoming principal in 1951 , the first principal who was a queen 's graduate .
he was a director of the bank of canada and a member of its executive committee .
in 1967 he was made a companion of the order of canada and received the innis-gérin medal , awarded for a distinguished and sustained contribution to the literature of the social sciences , from the royal society of canada , of which he was a fellow and was president from 1956 to 1957 .
mackintosh-corry hall at queen 's is co-named in his honour .
he married jean isobel easton -lrb- 1902 -- 1983 -rrb- in 1928 .
