Angus Matheson | |
Birth Date: | 1912 7, df=y |
Birth Place: | Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland |
Education: | Inverness Royal Academy |
Alma Mater: | University of Edinburgh |
Occupation: | Academic |
Known For: | Professor of Celtic at the University of Glasgow |
Spouse: | Sylvia Schofield (m. 1941-50) |
Relations: | William Matheson (brother) |
Angus Matheson (1 July 1912 – 2 November 1962) was the inaugural Professor of Celtic Languages and Literature at the University of Glasgow, a post he held from 1956 until his death in 1962.[1]
Angus Matheson was born 1 July 1912 in Harris in the Outer Hebrides to Mary Murray from Lewis and Malcolm Matheson, a minister in the United Free Church.[1] He grew up in Sollas, North Uist.[2] [3] His elder brother was the Gaelic scholar William Matheson, an ordained minister and Reader in Celtic at the University of Edinburgh.[2]
He was educated at Inverness Royal Academy, followed by the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated with an MA with first class honours in Celtic in 1934.[1] He undertook further studies as a McCaig Scholar at University College Dublin, and at the University of Bonn.[1]
On 19 December 1941, he married Sylvia Schofield, the writer and traveller, at Kingston and Surbiton Presbyterian Church.[4] They divorced in 1950.[4] He died on 2 November 1962.