Barry Emanuel Supple, CBE, FBA (born 27 October 1930, Hackney, London), is Emeritus Professor of Economic History, University of Cambridge, and a former director of the Leverhulme Trust. He is the father of theatre and opera director Tim Supple.
Hackney Downs School (where he was a contemporary of Harold Pinter)
London School of Economics (Honorary Fellow, 2001)
Assistant Professor of Business History, Harvard University, 1955–1960
Associate Prof. of Economic History, McGill University, 1960–1962
University of Sussex: Lecturer, Reader, then Professor of Economic and Social History, 1962–1978; Dean, School of Social Sciences, 1965–1968; Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Arts and Social Studies), 1968–1972; Pro-Vice-Chancellor, 1978
University of Oxford: Reader in Recent Social and Economic History, 1978–1981; Professorial Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford, 1978–1981
Professorial Fellow, 1981–1983, Honorary Fellow, 1984, Christ's College, Cambridge
Master of St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, 1984-1993 (Honorary Fellow, 1993)
Director, Leverhulme Trust, 1993–2001
Honorary Fellow, Worcester College, Oxford 1986
Associate Fellow, Trumbull College, Yale University, 1986
Chairman, Consultative Committee of Assessment of Performance Unit, Department of Education and Science, 1975–1980
President, Economic History Society, 1992–1995
Fellow of the British Academy, 1987; Foreign Secretary, 1995–1999
Supple, Barry. Doors Open. Cambridge, UK: Asher, 2008. ISBN 0-9560057-0-5 (Autobiography; described in The Clove's Lines 3.2 [March 2009]: 13.)
Supple, Barry. "Harold Pinter – Some Memories." The Clove's Lines: The Newsletter of The Clove Club: The Old Boys of Hackney Downs School 3.2 (March 2009): 6–7. Print.
"Barry Emanuel Supple." Listing in Who's Who 2005.