Life

Shove was born at Faversham

Faversham

Faversham is a market town and civil parish in the Swale borough of Kent, England. The parish of Faversham grew up around an ancient sea port on Faversham Creek and was the birthplace of the explosives industry in England.-History:...

, Kent, the son of Herbert Samuel Shove and his wife Bertha Millen. He was educated at Uppingham School

Uppingham School

Uppingham School is a co-educational independent school of the English public school tradition, situated in the small town of Uppingham in Rutland, England...

 and King's College, Cambridge

King's College, Cambridge

King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college's full name is "The King's College of our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge", but it is usually referred to simply as "King's" within the University....

, where he became a member of the Cambridge Apostles

Cambridge Apostles

The Cambridge Apostles, also known as the Cambridge Conversazione Society, is an intellectual secret society at the University of Cambridge founded in 1820 by George Tomlinson, a Cambridge student who went on to become the first Bishop of Gibraltar....

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He married in 1915 Fredegond Maitland

Fredegond Shove

Fredegond Shove was an English poet.Fredegond was the daughter of the historian Frederic William Maitland and his wife Florence Henrietta Fisher. She married the economist Gerald Shove....

, daughter of historian

Historian

A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...

 Frederic William Maitland

Frederic William Maitland

Frederic William Maitland was an English jurist and historian, generally regarded as the modern father of English legal history.-Biography:...

 and his wife the playwright Florence Henrietta Fisher. In World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

 he was a conscientious objector

Conscientious objector

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, like many others in the Bloomsbury Group

Bloomsbury Group

The Bloomsbury Group or Bloomsbury Set was a group of writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists who held informal discussions in Bloomsbury throughout the 20th century. This English collective of friends and relatives lived, worked or studied near Bloomsbury in London during the first half...

, of which he was a member; he worked as a poultry keeper at Garsington

Garsington

Garsington is a village and civil parish about southeast of Oxford in Oxfordshire.-Notable Garsington buildings:The earliest part of the Church of England parish church of Saint Mary is the Norman tower, built towards the end of the 12th century. The Gothic Revival architect Joseph Clarke restored...

, the home of Lady Ottoline Morrell

Lady Ottoline Morrell

The Lady Ottoline Violet Anne Morrell was an English aristocrat and society hostess. Her patronage was influential in artistic and intellectual circles, where she befriended writers such as Aldous Huxley, Siegfried Sassoon, T. S. Eliot and D. H...

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His academic career was spent at King's College, Cambridge, becoming lecturer in 1923, Fellow in 1926, and Reader in 1945.

His younger brother was the Olympic rower Ralph Shove

Ralph Shove

Ralph Samuel Shove was a British County Court judge and a rower who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics....

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He died at Old Hunstanton

Old Hunstanton

Old Hunstanton is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.It covers an area of and had a population of 47 in 25 households as of the 2001 census.For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of North Norfolk....

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Most important publications

• "Varying Costs and Marginal Net Products," Economic Journal, 38 (150) pp. 258–266, 1928
• "Increasing Returns and the Representative Firm",Economic Journal, 40 (157), 1930
• "The Place of Marshall's Principles in the Development of Economic Theory", EJ, 1942.
• "Mrs Robinson on Marxian Economics", EJ, 1944.

External links

• Gerald Frank Shove (1887-1947), Economist: Sitter in 9 portraits (National Portrait Gallery)