Ward, J. T. (John Towers)

Professor John Towers Ward was a lecturer in History at Queen's College, Dundee from 1956 until 1963. He then moved to the soon to be established University of Strathclyde. In 1974 he became the first Professor of Modern History at Strathclyde. He was an expert in labour history and the factory movement and contributed a chapter on Dundee Trade Unionism to The Third Statistical Account for Scotland: City of Dundee (1979). He died in 1987.

From the guide to the John Ward's Notes on Dundee Trade Unionism, c 1960, (University of Dundee)