William Dawson Lamont, 1901-1982, Lecturer in Moral Philosophy, University of Glasgow, Scotland

William (Bill) Dawson Lamont was born on King Edward’s Island, Canada, in 1901. He was the fourth son of his parents Murdoch Lamont, a Church of Scotland Minister and Euphemia Ann Hume, his cousin. Lamont attended the University of Glasgow from 1919 and attained an MA in 1925. He studied Logic and History in his first year (1919-1920), English, Moral Philosophy and Geology in his second (1920-21), AND Higher Moral Philosophy, Political Economy in his third (1921-1922) for 4th year. He won the Edward Caird medal and was Euing Fellow and Ferguson scholar in 1924 and graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1925. He went on to study at Balliol College, Oxford and was awarded his DPhil in 1930.

He returned to the University of Glasgow as an assistant in Moral Philosophy in 1926 and was made a full lecturer in 1929. He remained with the Moral Philosophy department until 1939. He served with Clyde River Patrol and as a Naval Intelligence Liaison Officer from 1939-42, and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cairo from 1942-1946. Lamont then accepted a position through the British Council as the Principal of Makerere College, Uganda (1946-49). In 1949 he returned to GU to Moral Philosophy Department as a senior lecturer, was promoted to reader, and retired in 1968.

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