Stanley Raymond Dennison (15 June 1912 – 22 November 1992), an economist, was the third vice-chancellor of the University of Hull.
[1] He was educated at Tynemouth Municipal High School, Armstrong College, Newcastle (then part of the University of Durham), and subsequently Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a first class (division two) in Part II of the economics tripos in 1935 (one of only five students to receive a first that year – three of the others were David Bensusan-Butt, Richard Stone and D. G.
[2][3] From 1935 to 1939 he lectured in economics at the University of Manchester, where he wrote the influential book The Location of Industry and the Depressed Areas (1939).
[2] On the retirement of Sir Brynmor Jones in 1972, Dennison was appointed vice-chancellor of the University of Hull.
However, his relationship with student activists and some staff in a period of heightened political and social unrest on campus was notably abrasive.