William Robert Scott

William Robert Scott was born in Northern Ireland. He earned his BA, MA, and DLitt from Trinity College in Dublin. He became a Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews, graduating DPhil in 1900, and was an assistant to the Professor of Moral Philosophy there from 1896-1901 and a lecturer in Political Economy from 1899. In 1915 he joined the faculty at the University of Glasgow as Adam Smith Professor of Political Economy, a position he held until his …