Literary Scholar
Born 15 August 1909, Hamilton, Scotland.
Died 7 March 2001.
John Cameron Bryce (1909-2001) was a graduate of the University who was Bradley Professor of English Literature from 1965 to 1979. The Bryce Bequest is named for him.
Bryce graduated MA in 1932 and won the George A Clark Scholarship, which enabled him to continue his studies for four years in France, Germany and at Oxford. He lectured briefly at the University of Durham but was forced to quit by a detached retina which hindered his ability to read and write. In 1938 he came to Glasgow as an assistant lecturer in the Department of English, becoming Senior Lecturer in 1955.
After succeeding to the Bradley Chair in 1965, Bruce was heavily involved in the preparation of the Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith.
University Link: Graduate, Professor
GU Degree: MA, 1932;
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Economic Historian
Roy H Campbell was Professor of Economic History at the University of East Anglia and at the University of Stirling before joining the University as a Senior Research Fellow.
His numerous publications include Scotland Since 1707: the rise of an industrial society (1965), which has been a standard text in University courses since its first edition; The Rise and Fall of Scottish Industry 1707-1939 (1980) and Owners and Occupiers (1991). He was one of the team of editors of the hugely significant Glasgow edition of the Works of Adam Smith.
University Link: Professor
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Born 29 May 1898.
Died 1980.
Alec Lawrence Macfie (1898-1980), Adam Smith Professor of Political Economy at the University from 1945 to 1958, is commemorated in the name of the Bonar-Macfie Chair of Political Economy. His collection of 19th and 20th century Scottish art was donated to the Hunterian Museum.
Macfie was born in Glasgow, served in the First World War and then studied at the University. In 1930 he became lecturer in Political Economy and then held the Adam Smith Chair from 1945 until he retired in 1958. He was Dean of Faculties, 1974-1978 and was awarded an LLD in 1959.
The James Bonar Chair of Economics was renamed the Bonar-Macfie Chair of Political Economy in 1990.
University Link: Alumnus, Dean of Faculties, Honorary Graduate, Lecturer, Professor
GU Degrees: MA, 1922; LLD, 1959;
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Economist
Born 27 July 1917, Wellington, New Zealand.
Died 18 August 1978.
Ronald Lindley Meek was a lecturer in the Department of Political Economy from 1948 to 1963.
Born and educated in Wellington, New Zealand, he became interested in Marxist politics while at Victoria University and was widely seen in his homeland as the brightest Marxist thinker of his generation.
He moved to Cambridge in 1946 to undertake a PhD entitled The development of the concept of surplus in economic thought from Mun to Mill. This was completed in 1949, a year after he came to Glasgow to join Alec Macfie's Department of Political Economy. His first major work, Studies in the Labour Theory of Value, was published by Lawrence & Wishart in 1956.
In 1963 he was appointed to the Tyler Chair of Economics at the University of Leicester, where he initiated a BSc course in Economics and a Public Sector Economics Research Centre. He published numerous books and articles on classical political economy, Marxian and Sraffian economics, as well as on electricity pricing and social theory.
He is widely remembered as an authority on Adam Smith, having been closely involved in the Glasgow Edition of the Works of Adam Smith.
University Link: Lecturer
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Political Scientist
Born 25 January 1916.
Died 22 December 2015.
David Daiches Raphael (1916-2015) was Lecturer in Moral Philosophy from 1949 to 1951 and Senior Lecturer from 1951 to 1960. He was the first Edward Caird Professor of Political and Social Philosophy, from 1960 to 1970.
A prize winning Oxford graduate, in 1949 he joined William Maclagan's Department of Moral Philosophy after war work in the Ministry of Labour and National Service and three years at the University of Otago. His earliest work here included teaching on the criminal science course and publishing a considerable body of work dealing mainly with moral theory. He left Glasgow in 1970, firstly for a chair in Reading and later moving to Imperial College London. He was Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of London. He held numerous academic and government appointments both in the UK and overseas.
Professor Raphael was a noted philosopher who co-edited the internationally acclaimed Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith in 7 volumes.
University Link: Lecturer, Professor
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Political Economist
Born 11 January 1935.
Died 21 November 2011.
Andrew Stewart Skinner (1935-2011) was a graduate of the University who was Daniel Jack Professor of Political Economy from 1985 to 1994 and Adam Smith Professor of Political Economy from 1994 until 2000. He was Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences from 1980 to 1983, Clerk of Senate from 1983 to 1990 and Vice-Principal from 1991 until 1996. He was awarded the honorary degree, DUniv, in 2001.
Skinner graduated MA from the University in 1958 and BLitt in 1960. After lecturing in Dundee he returned to Glasgow as a lecturer in the Department of Economics in 1964 and he became a titular professor in 1977. His publications include many papers and books on the life and works of the political economist Adam Smith. He died in November 2011.
University Link: Alumnus, Clerk of Senate, Lecturer, Professor, Vice-Principal
GU Degrees: MA, 1958; BLitt, 1960; DUniv, 2001;
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