Alexander Anton

Alexander Anton
CBE, FBA
Born(1922-07-02)2 July 1922
Died11 June 2011(2011-06-11) (aged 88)
NationalityScottish
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Aberdeen
Academic work
DisciplineLaw
InstitutionsUniversity 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.[2]

References

  1. ^ Council of Europe, Yearbook of the European Convention on Human Rights (Martinus Nijhoff, 1984), p. 23.
  2. ^ a b "Anton, Alexander Elder", Who Was Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2016). Retrieved 7 September 2019.
  3. ^ "Professor Alexander Anton FBA 1922–2011", The British Academy. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
  4. ^ Supplement to the London Gazette, 2 June 1973 (issue 45984), p. 6480.

Further reading

  • Paul Reid Beaumont, "The contribution of Alexander (Sandy) Anton to the development of private international law", Juridicial Review (2006), pp. 1–28.


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