Gold, Joseph, 1912-....

British attorney and author Joseph Gold (1912-2000) spent the majority of his career working for the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s legal department. He joined the IMF in 1946 as a counselor and served in several senior positions before becoming General Counsel and Director of the IMF' s Legal Department in 1960. A prolific scholar on monetary law, Gold published over twenty volumes of work on the interpretation of the IMF's Articles of Agreement and other legal aspects of the Fund. He retired in 1979, but served as Senior Counsel until shortly before his death. In 1980 Joseph Gold was knighted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for his contributions as an international civil servant.

Gold also served as a legal lecturer at several universities, including Southern Methodist University, University of Michigan, and Columbia School of Law. Gold's scholarly work was well respected by the legal and academic communities and he served on the editorial board of several legal journals.

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Sir Joseph Gold (1912-1997) was educated at Harvard and London universities. He served as a member of the International Monetary Fund from 1946 to 1960, as General Counsel and Director of the Legal Department from 1960 to 1979, and as Senior Consultant to the Fund. Sir Joseph was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1980. He was a distinguished collector of first editions of contemporary authors. His collections, in addition to works by Harold Pinter, included significant holdings of works by Samuel Beckett, Dylan Thomas, Ezra Pound, and Ted Hughes.

Harold Pinter, playwright, director, actor, poet, and political activist, was born in 1930. He wrote twenty-nine plays and twenty-one screenplays and was awarded numerous prizes for drama.