Colin Strang, 2nd Baron Strang (12 June 1922 – 19 December 2014) was a British professor of philosophy and hereditary peer.

Life

Strang was the only son of William Strang, 1st Baron Strang, a diplomat who served as Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office[1] from 1949 to 1953, and was subsequently the first Convenor of the Crossbench peers in the House of Lords from 1968 to 1974.

Strang was a lecturer in philosophy at Queens University, Belfast from 1951 to 1953 and at King's College, Newcastle from 1953 to 1975. He was Professor of Philosophy at University of Newcastle from 1975 to 1982 and Dean of Faculty of Arts at University of Newcastle from 1976 to 1979.[2]

He succeeded to the title in 1978. He married the English scholar Barbara Strang and they had one daughter.[2][1] He married again twice. The peerage became extinct on his death in 2014.[3][4]

Works

  • 'What If Everyone Did That?' Durham University Journal, vol. 53 (1960), pp. 5–10.
  • 'The Perception of Heat'. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, vol. 61, issue 1 (June 1961), pp. 239–252 (1961)
  • 'Tripartite Souls, Ancient and Modern'. Apeiron, vol. 16 (1982), pp. 1–11.

References

  1. 1 2 Haigh, John D. (23 September 2004). "Strang [née Carr], Barbara Mary Hope, Lady Strang (1925–1982), English language scholar". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/69691. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. 1 2 "Strang, Baron (UK, 1954)". cracroftspeerage.co.uk. 21 August 2004. Archived from the original on 16 April 2014. Retrieved 15 April 2014.
  3. ↑ "2nd Baron Strang 1922-2014". Peerage News. 3 January 2014.
  4. ↑ Charlton, William (20 January 2015). "Colin Strang obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 September 2018.


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