Stanley Eveling

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Stanley Eveling, or Harry Stanley Eveling (1925, Newcastle upon Tyne – December 24, 2008 Edinburgh) was an English playwright and academic, based in Scotland. Eveling was educated at Rutherford College and Samuel King's School. After serving as an officer with the Durham Light Infantry in the Far East at the end of the Second World War, he attended Durham University and Oxford University.^[1] Eveling taught at Aberdeen University and the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, before becoming a senior lecturer and a teaching fellow in philosophy at Edinburgh University, and later professor of moral philosophy.

His plays include Come and Be Killed, Buglar Boy and many other highly influential works. Eveling's plays have been performed worldwide and in Edinburgh at the Traverse Theatre since the 1960s.^[2]

He died of cancer on 24 December 2008.

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Works by or about Stanley Eveling in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

Authority control	VIAF: 33239206 ISNI: 0000 0001 1441 1802 SUDOC: 110843916

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Name	Eveling, Stanley
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Short description	British philosopher and writer
Date of birth	1925
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Date of death	December 24, 2008
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