Michael Oakeshott [1901–1990] "...was educated at St. George's School Harpenden, a progressive co-educational school, and then read history at Gonville and Caius College Cambridge, graduating in 1923. He went on to study in Germany, including the universities of Marburg and Tubingen. He also worked briefly as an English teacher at Lytham St. Anne's Grammar School. In 1925 he was elected/appointed Fellow of Gonville and Caius College. He enlisted as a gunner in the British Army in 1940 and by [1944] was in command of a squadron of GHQ Liaison ('Phantom') Regiment attached to the Canadian Second Army in Holland. He returned to Cambridge when the war ended in 1945. In 1949 he went to Oxford as a fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, and in 1951 he was appointed to the chair of political science at the London School of Economics. In the early 1960s he established a one-year Master's degree seminar at LSE on the history of political thought. He retired from LSE in 1969, although he continued to preside over the history of political thought seminars until his late seventies." (from Archives Hub)

His books include Experience and its Modes (1933), The Social and Political Doctrines of Contemporary Europe (1939), an influential edition of Hobbes's Leviathan (1946), Rationalism in Politics (1962), and On Human Conduct (1975).