University of Aberdeen

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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 ...

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.

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.