| Administrative History | William Hamilton Fyfe (1878-1951), Principal of Aberdeen University. Fyfe was born in London in 1878, the son of a barrister, and educated at school in Edinburgh and at Merton College, Oxford. A classical scholar, he taught at Radley College School from 1909 to 1913, and from 1919 to 1930 he was headmaster of Christ’s Hospital. In 1930 he was appointed Principal of Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. He returned to Britain in 1935 to take up the post of Principal at the University of Aberdeen: his wife was a daughter of John Forbes White (1831-1915), the Aberdonian artist and critic. He retired in 1948, and died in 1951, leaving publications on Aristotle and Tacitus. |
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