Herbert James Paton

Herbert James Paton FBA FSA Scot ( 30 March 1887 - 2 August 1969) was a Scottish philosopher. He was serving in the Admiralty's Intelligence Division during the First World War and became an expert on Polish affairs in which capacity he attended the Versailles conference in 1919.

From 1917 to 1922 he was elected Fellow and Praelector in Classics and Philosophy at Queen's College, Oxford and was Dean of the College. He was the White's Professor of Moral Philosophy from 1937 to 1952.

References

• PATON, Herbert James’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 17 Feb 2012 (subscription required)
• Stuart Brown, ‘Paton, Herbert James (1887–1969)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004