Peter H. Mann

Peter Henry Mann (1926 – 2 August 2008) was an English sociologist who spent most of his career at the University of Sheffield, eventually as a reader in sociology.

[1] Born in 1926, Mann served as a radio officer in the Merchant Navy during the Second World War, before he joined the University of Leeds in 1947.

[1] He had also been appointed to the University of Sheffield's first lecturer in sociology in 1951, and remained there for the rest of his career, eventually securing promotions to a senior lectureship and then a readership.

[1] Outside of academia, Mann was enjoyed working with amateur theatre groups, listening to brass bands, watching Rugby, and hosting parties with his wife Margaret.

He died on 2 August 2008; in an obituary Eric Sainsbury remembered "with pleasure and gratitude Peter's commitment to sound research" and his role as a pioneering sociologist at the University of Sheffield.