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Brown, John Maxwell, 1908-1979, Professor of Political Science, University of Dundee, Scotland

Biographical Information

Occupation, Sphere of Activity

John Maxwell Brown ( 1908-1979), was born in Clydebank on 28 October 1908, and in due course proceeded to the University of Glasgow where he took a first in Philosophy in 1933. Aided by the James Ferguson Bursary and the John Clark (Mile-End) Scholarship, awarded to him on the recommendation of the Faculty of Arts, he went to Queen's College, Oxford where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics.

He spent a short tome at the University of California at Berkley and returned to Scotland in 1936. Brown was assistant in Moral Philosophy at St Andrews from 1937 to 1943, when he was called for war service. He joined the Newcastle Division of the University of Durham shortly after the war as Reader in Politics, where he remained until 1964, when he was appointed to the Chair of Politics and Government at University College, Swansea.

Brown returned to Dundee in 1966, to take up the post of Professor of Political Science at Queen's College, Dundee. He continued in this position when the College became the University of Dundee, in 1967. He died 21 May 1979.

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Honours, Qualifications and Appointments

1937-1943: Assistant in Moral Philosophy, St Andrews University

1946-1964: Reader in Politics, Newcastle Division of the University of Durham

1964-1966: Professor of Politics and Government, University College, Swansea

1966-1967: Professor of Political Science, Queen's College, Dundee

1967-1978: Professor of Political Science, University of Dundee

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Authority record created according to theNational Council on ArchivesRules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names (NCA Rules)1997 and International Council on Archives: Ad Hoc Committee on Descriptive StandardsInternational Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families (ISAAR)CPF1995

Author and Date of Biographical History

Personal name authority record compiled for the GASHE project by John O'Brien, Glasgow University Archive Services, 28 August 2002