ABSTRACT
Ronald Tress studied economics as an external London candidate at University College, Southampton. After a year studying at Hawarden he became a Research Fellow in Manchester, where among others he encountered Harry Campion, John Jewkes, and Hans Singer. After a brief spell teaching at the University College of the South West (now Exeter University) he joined the War Cabinet Office as an economist in 1941. He left government service in 1947 and taught first at the LSE before being appointed Professor of Political Economy at the University of Bristol in 1951. From 1968 to 1977 he was Master of Birkbeck College, University of London. The following is an edited version of an interview conducted at the home of Dr Tress in East Molesey, Surrey, on 6 June 1995.
