Its People at Work-I
Professor JOHN HILTON
WHATEVER A MAN's technical knowledge, intellectual gifts, and even near acquaintance with a subject may be, he cannot be completely equipped to lecture on it without practical experience, and that is just where Professor Hilton scores in these talks.
Born "at Bolton, he obtained a scholarship to Bolton Grammar School ; was apprenticed as a mill mechanic, and rose to be foreman and manager, of Engineering works at Bury and Heywood. And one of his two favourite recreations today, on his own confession, is manual work.
Such is Professor John Hilton , once a student in Russia, and Director of Statistics, Ministry of Labour, 1019 to 1931, who has done a tour of British industrial centres to obtain at first hand data for these talks.