Celtic

Beginnings

John Stuart Blackie (1809-1895), Professor of Greek espoused the causes of educational reform and the Gaelic language, and almost single-handedly raised the £12,000 needed to endow the Celtic Chair, which was founded in 1882.

List of Professors

Donald Mackinnon (1839-1914), 1882-1914

William John Watson (1865-1948), 1914-1938

James Carmichael Watson (1910-1942), 1938-1942

Myles Dillon (1900-1972), 1947-1949

Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson (c1910-1991), 1949-1979

Wiliam Gillies (1942- ), 1979-2009

Rob Dunbar, 2013-

Sources

University Calendar