Eric Edward Sainsbury, OBE, JP (16 December 1925 – 11 March 2014) was an English social work teacher, researcher and academic.
Eric Edward Sainsbury was born on 16 December 1925 in Newham where his father was a wage clerk.
After attending high school in Southport, he volunteered for the Royal Air Force during the Second World War but was sent to the Barnburgh colliery as a Bevin Boy.
He then taught at Leigh-on-Sea for three years, and then returned to education to complete postgraduate certificates at the University of Sheffield and the London School of Economics, awarded in 1955 and 1956 respectively.
[3] Amid departmental funding cuts and declining student numbers, Sainsbury took early retirement in 1988 to ensure that more junior staff did not lose their jobs; Westergaard had done the same two years earlier.