Richard A. Radford

(1919 - 2006)

Having left his studies at Cambridge to join the British Army in 1939, Richard Radford was captured in Libya in 1942. He later wrote an article, based on his own experience, on the cigarette economies of prisoner-of-war camps. After the war, he finished his economics degree at Cambridge and moved to Washington, DC, where he worked at the International Monetary Fund and taught at Johns Hopkins University.