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LAMPARD, Eric Edwin Eric Edwin Lampard, born in Bitterne Park, Southampton, on 26th Sept. 1922, to Edwin William and Nellie James Lampard, celebrated his 100th birthday in Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S.A. along with former colleagues, students, relatives and friends. Eric's family were the proprietors of James Electric Bakeries in Victoria Road, Woolston. They also had shops in Bitterne Park, Shirley Warren, and Hanover Buildings (bombed out) and after the war opened another bakery and shop in Wolesly Road, Shirley. His father, Edwin William Lampard was a Free Mason, and became Master of the Old Bowling Green. While living at 105 Peartree Avenue, Bitterne, Eric was educated at Taunton's School, Southampton, which was evacuated to Bournemouth Grammar School in September 1939 on the outbreak of World War II. In 1938, while at Taunton's School he was an exchange student in Berlin, Germany where he attended Hermann LRealgymnasium in NeukAfter Taunton's School Eric obtained entrance to the London School of Economics which was itself evacuated to Peterhouse College, Cambridge, in 1939. His university education was interrupted by war service in H.M. Royal Marines from September 1942 through July 1946. He served in the Atlantic, European, and Southeast Asian theatres, ending his combat duties at Singapore-Seletar Naval Base from where his unit provided guards of honour for Lord Mountbatten, the Supreme Commander. After completing his degree, BSc (Econ) at London University Eric obtained a teaching position at Cornell College, Iowa, U.S.A. He went on to study at The University of Wisconsin, Madison, where in 1954 he completed a Ph.D. in economic history and land economics. The study was awarded the Everest Prize in Economic History. Eric was also awarded a post-Doctoral Fellowship in Economic History at the University of Pennsylvania in 1954-55. In 1997 his published bibliography then listed 43 publications. Eric also received appointments from research enterprises such as Resources for the Future, the Brookings Institution, and the National Research Council. During 1968-73 he served as American Review Correspondent for The Economic History Review (UK) and directed the Graduate Program in Economic History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In the course of his long academic career Eric also taught at City College of New York, Columbia University, Smith College, and the University of Wisconsin, and was a visiting professor at Stanford, Harvard, and Yale Universities. Eric Lampard married Marie Vera Turbow, a children's art teacher and Russian art history scholar, and they enjoyed 69 years together before her death in 2020. They had one daughter, Sophie, and three grandchildren. His elder brother Leslie W.J. Lampard died in 2001. Among the many messages received on his centennial birthday was a large colour photograph of H.M. Queen Elizabeth II sending Lampard her "congratulations and best wishes" by Royal Mail from Buckingham Palace, 05.09.22.