University of Aberdeen

In spring 1973 HA delivered the Gifford Lectures at the University of Aberdeen , a series dating back to 1888, whose speakers over the years have included renowned philosophers.

Her father, Thomas Gordon , was an academic philosopher, Professor of Humanity at King's College, Aberdeen . He loved music and was for years a leading light of the (all-male) Aberdeen Musical Society . He died in 1797.

MAH 's father, Robert Adamson , educated at Edinburgh University , became Professor of Logic and Metaphysics successively at Owens College (later merged in Manchester University), and the Universities of Aberdeen and then Glasgow ...

BH is said to have devoted only an hour and a half each day to her writing, allowing it to encroach no further than this on her life. In 1930 she was awarded an annual...

Classics scholar JEH received an Honorary LL.D from the University of Aberdeen , the first conferred by the institution on a woman.

In March 1895 she received the first honorary LLD awarded to a woman by the University of Aberdeen , and two years later she received an honorary DLitt from the University of Durham for her scholarship.

Mary Catherine's Scottish father, Joseph Hume , was a Radical Member of Parliament, who sat indefatigably on committees and held other positions such as Lord Rector of Aberdeen University . In parliament he reportedly spoke...

JK 's birth father, Jonathan O., was a graduate student from (as she discovered belatedly) Nzagha in Ukpor, Nigeria, who had studied at other British universities and was at the University of Aberdeen when...

She first started to muse on and explore these ideas after the theft of Vermeer 's painting Young Lady with a Guitar by Irish terrorists during the winter of 1974. She was fascinated by the...

One of her employers was Dr Jack, principal of King's College, Aberdeen , whose wife was sympathetic and whose volumes of Shakespeare she used to borrow.

CM , who as a child had copied out the poems of others by stealth, began to write her own poetry as a fourteen-year-old domestic servant living in Aberdeen: she was laughed...

EM 's correspondents over the course of her life included Dr John Gregory , Eliza Berkeley , Mary Delany , Ann Donellan , and Hester Thrale , besides the Duchess of Portland, Sarah Scott, and...

NS published her first novel, The Quarry Wood, a bildungsroman whose heroine, Martha Ironside, has a passion for learning that takes her from poverty and squalor to the University of Aberdeen .

After attending Cults Primary School, followed by Aberdeen High School for Girls , NS received her MA (a first degree in Scotland) in 1915 from the University of Aberdeen . Her studies in English laid...

While working on her undergraduate degree, NS regularly contributed poetry and other writings to Alma Mater, the magazine of the University of Aberdeen .