Philip Sargant Florence

Philip Sargant Florence (25 June 1890 – 29 January 1982) was an American economist who spent most of his life in the United Kingdom.

[1] Born in Nutley, New Jersey in the United States, he was the son of Henry Smyth Florence, an American musician, and Mary Sargant Florence, a British painter.

He was educated at Windlesham House School, Rugby School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, before studying for his PhD at Columbia University in New York City.

[1][2] In 1917 he married the writer and birth control advocate Lella Faye Secor.

[1] He was a friend of Robert Dudley Best, and a mentor of Hilde Behrend.