Researching Roger Opie
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 817 people with the Opie surname? In that year Opie was ranked number 2766 for popularity in the UK. |
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The name Roger means "famous spear" and is of German origin.
Records of Roger Opie on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Roger Opie and the Opie Family Tree
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| Did you know that there are currently 608 people with the Opie surname in the UK? Opie is now ranked number 3466 for popularity in the UK. |
Opie Family Tree Databases
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Some Famous People called Roger Opie
Roger Opie
Roger Gilbert Opie CBE (1927–1998) was an Australian-born economist, Rhodes Scholar, distinguished Oxford academic, economic advisor to the UK Treasury, the West Pakistan Planning Commission and the International Labour Organisation, and appeared regularly on BBC TV's "The Money Show".
Opie was born on 23 February 1927 in Adelaide, South Australia where he attended Prince Alfred College on a scholarship (1939–1944) and the University of Adelaide (1945–1951) – BA 1949, MA 1951 – winning many prizes.
He was elected as South Australia's Rhodes Scholar in 1951 and studied at Christ Church, Oxford, living the rest of his life in the UK. After graduating from Oxford in 1953, he lectured at the London School of Economics until 1961, and from then until his retirement in 1992, at New College, Oxford, where he was also a Fellow.
He died in Oxford on 22 January 1998. He was survived by his wife, three children and five grandchildren.
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