Tony Wrigley

Sir Edward Anthony Wrigley FBA (17 August 1931 – 24 February 2022) was a British historical demographer.

Among his many publications, Wrigley is known for the book Continuity, Chance and Change, published in 1988, in which he explained why Malthus was wrong about the law of diminishing returns slowing population growth.

He ceased the professorship in 1988 to become a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford and returned to Cambridge as Professor of Economic History for the period 1994-1997.

[3][4] He was Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge from 1994 until 2000,[1] and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1980, serving as president from 1997 to 2001.

[7] He was the recipient of the 2005 Leverhulme Medal and Prize awarded by the British Academy[8] and in the same year became a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College.