Alexander Anton Explained

Honorific Suffix:CBE, FBA
Alexander Anton
Birth Date:2 July 1922
Nationality:Scottish
Alma Mater:University of Aberdeen
Discipline:Law
Workplaces:University of Aberdeen

Alexander Elder Anton, CBE, FBA (2 July 1922 – 11 June 2011), often known as Sandy Anton, was a Scottish legal scholar.

Biography

Anton was born on 2 July 1922. He served in the Gordon Highlanders from 1941 to 1945 and then attended the University of Aberdeen, where he graduated with a Master of Arts degree in 1946 and a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1949.[1] He then practised as a solicitor in Aberdeen for four years before working as a lecturer at the University of Aberdeen from 1953 to 1959. Anton was Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Glasgow between 1959 and 1973.[2]

Anton was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1972[3] and appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1973 Birthday Honours.[4] He was also awarded with an honorary doctorate from the University of Aberdeen in 1993. He died on 6 June 2011.

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Notes and References

  1. [Council of Europe]
  2. https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-5599 "Anton, Alexander Elder"
  3. https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/alexander-anton-FBA "Professor Alexander Anton FBA 1922–2011"
  4. Supplement to the London Gazette, 2 June 1973 (issue 45984), p. 6480.