Patrick Horace Nowell-Smith

Background

Nowell-Smith, Patrick Horace was born on August 17, 1914 in Polzeath, England. Son of Charles Nowell and Cecil Violet (Vernon-Harcourt) Smith.

Education

Bachelor, New College, Oxford, England, 1937. AM, Harvard University, 1939.

Career

Fellow, Trinity College, Oxford, 1945-1956; professor, Leicester U., England, 1956-1964; professor, U. Kent, Canterbury, England, 1964-1969; professor, York University, North York, Canada, 1969-1985; professor emeritus, York University, North York, Canada, since 1985.

Achievements

• Patrick Horace Nowell-Smith has been listed as a noteworthy Philosophy educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Committee member Volunteer Euthanasia Society, London, 1985-1989. President Dying with Dignity, Canada, 1972-1985, World Federation Right to Die Societies, 1986-1988. Major Royal Army Service Corps, 1940-1942, Royal Indian Army Service Corps, 1942-1945.

Interests

• Avocations: music, reading, gardening.

Connections

Married Perilla Thyme Southwell, 1945 (divorced 1967). Children: Richard Wingate, Viola Margaret, Robert Vernon, Timothy David. Married Felicity Margret Ward, 1968 (divorced 1985).

Children: Harriet Flora, Kate Prudence.