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SIR JAMES BLACK BAILLIE, who died on June 9 at the age of sixty-seven, was vice-chancellor of the University of Leeds from 1924 until 1938. A Scotsman, he was educated at the Universities of Edinburgh, Cambridge, Halle, Strasbourg, and Paris. At Edinburgh he had a particularly distinguished record, gaining the Ferguson scholarship and Shaw fellowship in philosophy, both open to graduates of the four Scottish universities. After graduation he was an assistant at the University of St. Andrews. Later he was lecturer in philosophy at University College, Dundee. He was professor of moral philosophy at the University of Aberdeen during 1902-24. He was knighted in 1931.
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DICKIE, W. Sir James Baillie, O.B.E. Nature 146, 54 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146054a0
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