Richard Henry Tawney (R.H. Tawney) (1880 - 1962) was an English writer, economist, historian, social critic and university professor and a leading advocate of Christian Socialism.

Born in Calcutta, India, Tawney was educated at Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford where he studied modern history.

He joined the executive of the Workers' Educational Association in 1905 serving as the WEA's president in the 1920s and remaining with the organisation until 1947. He lectured at the University of Glasgow in the years leading to World War I and became a lecturer at the London School of Economics in 1917 where he remained for the rest of his career becoming professor of economic

He was professor at the University of London from 1931 to 1949. A leading socialist, Tawney helped to formulate the economic and ethical views of the British Labor party through his many essays and books, and he participated in numerous government boies concerned with education, trade, and industry.

He supported the Republic during the Spanish Civil War among other political causes.

Among his books are The Acquisitive Society (1921), Secondary Education for All (1922), Education: the Socialist Policy (1924), life which is in harmony with that type. To make it a type of society requires an advance along two lines. It involves, in the first place, the resolute elimination of all forms of special privilege which favour some groups and depress other, whether their source be differences of environment, of education, or of