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Sir Richard Hughes "Rick" Trainor KBE, FRHS, FKC FAcSS (born 31 December 1948), is an academic administrator and historian who served as the Principal of King's College London from 2004 to 2014. He was previously the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Greenwich from 2000 to 2004. He is currently Rector of Exeter College, Oxford. Trainor was born in the United States. He was awarded an honorary knighthood (KBE) in June 2010 for services to higher education in the United Kingdom. The award was honorary because of his American nationality, but on 31 December 2010 the knighthood was made substantive by Queen Elizabeth II following his assumption of British nationality.〔(2011 New Year Honours: Overseas List )〕 ==Biography== Trainor was educated at Calvert Hall College High School in Towson, Maryland, in the United States. He graduated from Brown University with a BA summa cum laude in American Civilization. He subsequently earned MAs from Princeton University and from Merton College, Oxford, before completing his D.Phil. in 1981 at Nuffield College, Oxford, entitled "Authority and social structure in an industrialized area: A study of three Black Country towns, 1840–1890". He is a former Rhodes Scholar. He is a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a member of the Athenaeum Club. He is also an Honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and Trinity College of Music, and a member of the Anglo-American Fulbright Commission. Trainor is currently the President of the Economic History Society.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Executive Committee of the Economic History Society )〕 He holds honorary degrees from the University of Kent (since 2009);〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= The University of Kent: Honorary Degrees Conferred since 1966 )〕 the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science (since 2012);〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Helix Summer-Fall 2012 )〕 and the University of Glasgow (since 2014).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Scottish gold medal winners awarded Doctorates )〕 He has been Emeritus professor of Social History at King’s College London since 2014,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Sir Rick Trainor 2012 )〕 and was a member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council from 2006 to 2011.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Podium (November) )〕 He is also an honorary fellow of the Institute of Historical Research.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Honorary Fellows )〕 As a result of his work with King’s College London, the institution established a scholarship in his name, the Professor Sir Richard Trainor Postgraduate Research Scholarship, in 2014.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= New scholarships named in honour of King's Principal )〕 He is married to Marguerite Dupree, an academic historian of medicine currently at Glasgow University. They have two children. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rick Trainor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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