deaths
July 16, 1990
Robert Blackburn, Irish educator (born 1927)
Robert Blackburn (educationalist)
Robert Blackburn was an Irish educationalist. He was an early pioneer of the International Baccalaureate Organisation (IBO) and was instrumental in establishing the first United World College (UWC) in the early 1960s. In 1968, Blackburn was appointed United World College International Secretary.