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
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)
Wikipedia description:
Archibald Alexander McBeth Duncan (17 October 1926 – 20 December 2017) was a Scottish historian. From 1962 to 1993 he was Professor of Scottish History and Literature at the University of Glasgow. He was also President of the Scottish History Society, and edited the Scottish Historical Review from 1963 to 1970. On giving up his professorship, he became Clerk of Senate and Dean of Faculties, retiring from the university in 2000. From 2001 he was Emeritus Professor of Scottish History and Literature, but continued to publish on the history of Scotland in the Middle Ages.
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