ABSTRACT
Wilton Park’s new Director was appointed on Monday October 17, 1983. It was Geoffrey Denton. He had read PPE at Oxford, had been Reader in Economics at the University of Reading, Head of Economics at the College of Europe in Bruges, Director of the Federal Trust, and Special Adviser to the House of Lords European Communities Committee. His own childhood had been disrupted by World War II. His wife, Marika, was a Hungarian Jew whose father had died on the Eastern Front, had herself been in hiding from the Nazis and their Hungarian collaborators, and had taken refuge in Britain after the 1956 revolution. So, though of a later generation than Heinz Koeppler, Denton shared with him a strong commitment to international understanding, and was a keen supporter of European integration and the ending of the East-West divide.
