John Cameron Bryce
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John Cameron Bryce (15 August 1909 – 7 March 2001) was a Scottish academic, first Bradley Professor of English Literature in the University of Glasgow and editor of The Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith.
Bryce was born at Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. After attending Hamilton Academy, of which he was a Dux medallist, Bryce matriculated in the Faculty of Arts, University of Glasgow, in 1927, graduating in 1932 Master of Arts (Scotland) with a First in English language and literature. Having been awarded the four-year George A. Clark Scholarship, Bryce spent the first year of his scholarship at the University of Heidelberg; his second year at the Sorbonne; and his remaining two years at Oriel College, Oxford.[1]
Career
In 1936, Bryce was appointed to a teaching post at the University of Durham but was forced to resign as eye surgery was required on a detached retina, impairing his ability to read and write.
After this set-back, in 1938 he took up a post as assistant lecturer in the English Department, University of Glasgow, at which he was to spend the rest of his career, 'till his retirement in 1979. In 1955, Bryce was appointed a senior lecturer and in 1965 appointed the first holder of the Bradley Chair in English Literature.[2][3]
