Duncan, A. A. M.

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Name (Latin)
Duncan, A. A. M.
Other forms of name
Duncan, Archie, 1926-2017
nna Duncan, Archibald Alexander McBeth
Date of birth
1926-10-17
Date of death
2017-12-20
Field of activity
Scotland--History
Occupation
College administrators
Historians
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 61651918
Wikidata: Q2860150
Library of congress: n 79151124
Sources of Information
  • Scotsman WWW site, viewed Feb. 2, 2018(in obituary dated 16 Jan. 2018: Professor Archibald Alexander McBeth Duncan. Born 17 October 1926, Pitlochry. Died 20 December, 2018 [sic], aged 91. Professor Archie Duncan FBA FRSE; one of the last of a generation of pioneers who established Scottish history as a subject of academic research in all its aspects; educated at George Heriot's School, Edinburgh, the University of Edinburgh, and Balliol College, Oxford, where he became a tutor; appointed in 1951 to a lectureship in History and Palaeography at Queen's University, Belfast, before joining the Scottish History Department at the University of Edinburgh in 1953; in 1962 he was appointed Professor of Scottish History and Literature at the University of Glasgow; retired in 1993; elected Dean of the Faculty of Arts and, in 1978, Clerk of Senate; lists publications in English)
  • Edinburgh. University. Library. Formulary E, 1976 (a.e.)t.p. (A. A. M. Duncan)