Donald Adamson
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30 March 1939 Culcheth, Lancashire, England |
| Occupation | Author and historian |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Magdalen College, Oxford |
| Genre | Literary romanticism |
| Subject | History of literature and philosophy |
| Spouse | Helen née Griffiths (m. 1966) |
| Children | 2 sons |
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Donald Adamson (born 30 March 1939) is a British literary scholar, historian, philosopher and biographer.
Books which Adamson has written include Blaise Pascal: Mathematician, Physicist, and Thinker about God and The Curriers' Company: A Modern History.
Adamson, elder son of the late Donald Adamson, was born at Culcheth, Lancashire, and brought up on his family's farm at Lymm, in the county of Cheshire where his mother's Booth family were resident for upwards of 500 years; his maternal uncle, and godfather, was Gerald Loxley. His father's family is of Scottish extraction, having come south from Lanarkshire in the seventeenth century.
From 1949 to 1956 he attended Manchester Grammar School where he was taught, amongst others, by Eric James (later Lord James of Rusholme). He became a scholar of Magdalen College, Oxford, and was tutored by Austin Gill and Sir Malcolm Pasley, graduating BA in 1959, proceeding MA in 1963. He won the Zaharoff Travelling Scholar Prize of the University of Oxford for 1959–60, thereafter studying at the Sorbonne being tutored by Pierre-Georges Castex. In 1962 he took the degree of BLitt, proceeding Master of Letters (Oxon); his thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil), entitled "Balzac and the Visual Arts", was supervised by Jean Seznec of All Souls College, Oxford.
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