John Harold Clapham

Sir John Harold Clapham, CBE, FBA (13 September 1873 – 29 March 1946) was a British economic historian.

[1] He was the first Professor of Economic History at Cambridge University from 1928 to 1938, and Vice-Provost of King's College, Cambridge from 1933 until 1943 when he received a knighthood.

Between 1926 and 1938 he published, in three volumes, An Economic History of Modern Britain.

[5] Welsh economic historian Sir John Habakkuk was one of his students.

[6] One of Clapham's more notable quotations is: "Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress".