Charles Ryle Fay
Charles Ryle Fay was a noted British economic historian. He was a strong advocate of co-operation, workers' rights and women's rights. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' Boys' School, Crosby and King's College, Cambridge, where he was a student alongside John Maynard Keynes. The two remained friends until Keynes' death.
Fay's papers are held at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland.
Works
Co-operation at home and abroad: a description and analysis, 1908Copartnership in industry, 1913Life and labour in the nineteenth century; being the substance of lectures delivered at Cambridge University in the year 1919 to students of economics, among whom were officers of the Royal Navy and students from the Army of the United States, 1920Great Britain from Adam Smith to the present day; an economic and social survey, 1928Imperial economy and its place in the formation of economic doctrine, 1600-1932, 1934English economic history, mainly since 1700, Cambridge: Heffer, 1940The corn laws and social England, 1951Huskisson and his age, 1951Palace of industry, 1851; a study of the Great Exhibition and its fruits, 1951Round about industrial Britain, 1830-1860, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1952Adam Smith and the Scotland of his day, 1956Life and labour in Newfoundland, 1956*