Background
MAIR, Alexander W. j Professor of Philosophy was born in 1875.
MAIR, Alexander W. j Professor of Philosophy was born in 1875.
Studied at Aberdeen University, 1889-1893 (1st Class Honours Classical Literature, Liddell Prize for Verse Composition, 1890-1893, Simpson Prize for Greek, 1893). Caius College, Cambridge University, 1893-1898 (1st Division 1st Class Classical Tripos, Participant I., 1896. 1st Class with Special Distinction Class.
Tripos, Participant World War II, 1898).
Craven Scholar, 1897. Sir West. Browne Medal, 1897.
Senior Chancellor’s Medallist, 1898. Scliuldham Plate, 1898.
Fellow Gonville and Caius, 1899. Lecturer Aberdeen University, 1898-1899. Lecturer Edinburgh University 1899-1903: Professor of Greek, Edinburgh University, 1903-1910.
Liverpool University since 1910.
Club: Conservative, Edinburgh.
Spouse 1906, Elizabeth Mackay Bisset, daughter of A. M. Williams, Principal, Glasgow Church of Scotland Training College