Tony Wrigley

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Sir Edward Anthony Wrigley FBA (17 August 1931 – 24 February 2022) was a British historical demographer. Wrigley and Peter Laslett co-founded the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure in 1964.[1] Wrigley was born in Manchester, England.[2]

In 1960, Wrigley married Mieke Spelberg.[3] He died on 24 February 2022, at the age of 90.[4]

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  1. The Times, 17 August 2009
  2. Biography of Edward Anthony Wrigley in The British Academy
  3. Wrigley, E. A. (1972). Private Choice and Public Policy: The Essex Hall Lecture 1972 (PDF). The Lindsey Press.
  4. "Professor Sir Tony Wrigley PhD FBA m.1949". Peterhouse Cambridge. 2 March 2022. Retrieved 3 March 2022.