Gerald Frank Shove (November 1887 – 11 August 1947) was a British economist. He was involved in the economics debates in Cambridge in the 1920s and 1930s.
Overview
Gerald Frank Shove (November 1887 – 11 August 1947) was a British economist. He was involved in the economics debates in Cambridge in the 1920s and 1930s.
Biography
Shove was born at Faversham, Kent, the son of Herbert Samuel Shove and his wife Bertha Millen. His younger brother was the Olympic rower Ralph Shove.
He was educated at Uppingham School and King's College, Cambridge, where he became a member of the Cambridge Apostles.
He married in 1915 Fredegond Maitland, daughter of historian Frederic William Maitland and his wife the playwright Florence Henrietta Fisher. In World War I he was a conscientious objector, like many others in the Bloomsbury Group, of which he was a member; he worked as a poultry keeper at Garsington, the home of Lady Ottoline Morrell.
