Activities andHonours
Before going to the National Institute, David pre-invented the Norrington Tables, which listed by college the results obtained by Oxford students in their final examinations (see Artis 2003: 522).
These were published in the Oxford Magazine and were always much referred to. He discontinued these in 1963 and subsequently a similar list was produced by Sir Arthur Norrington, after whom the list was named. Later, David was invited to join a committee to review admissions to the University in the light of the creation in 1961 of the Universities Central Council on Admissions system.He was a founding member of the Social Science Council and was President of Section F of the British Association in 1972. He served on the government's Committee on Policy Optimization in 1978 and from 1982 to 1990 he was on City University’s Council. In 1975, David received a DSc from City University and was very pleased to be elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1979. From 1986/1987 and 1988/1989, he served as Chairman of its Section 9. In 1981, he was awarded a CBE.
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