Stewart Sutherland, Baron Sutherland of Houndwood
Sir William Stewart | |
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Succeeded by | Sir Michael Atiyah |
Personal details | |
Born | 25 February 1941 |
Died | 29 January 2018 (aged 76) |
Alma mater | University of Aberdeen Corpus Christi College, Cambridge |
Stewart Ross Sutherland, Baron Sutherland of Houndwood,
Education
He was educated at Robert Gordon's College. In 1963 he graduated from the University of Aberdeen with a first-class Master of Arts in Philosophy, and received a Bachelor of Arts in the Philosophy of Religion from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in 1965.
Career
He was then appointed assistant lecturer in philosophy at the
In 1990, Sutherland became
Following his involvement in the establishment of the Age Concern Institute of Gerontology at King's College London, he was invited by the incoming Blair government in 1997 to chair a Royal Commission on Long-Term Care of Older People. This recommended that government (including the NHS and local authorities) should be responsible for providing free care in the spirit of the NHS Act to all people even if their illness takes the form of a chronic mental frailty. His recommendations were taken up by the devolved Scottish government, though were never implemented for England and Wales.
Philosophy
As a philosopher of religion, Sutherland had focused on how people continue to be morally responsible human beings in pluralist societies without the metaphysical security of traditional and potentially divisive systems of belief. Influenced by his intellectual mentor, Donald M. MacKinnon, Sutherland's approach has brought the clarity and rigour of the Anglo-American tradition of analytic philosophy into conversation with literary and philosophical thinkers on the European continent.
In Atheism and the Rejection of God: Contemporary Philosophy and "The Brothers Karamazov" (1977) and Faith and Ambiguity (1984), he explored continental thinkers including
In two other edited volumes, World Religions (1988), and The Study of Religion: Traditional and New Religions (with Peter Clarke), (1991), he had contributed to the increasingly significant field of religious studies in school and university curricula, while also promoting understanding and mutual respect amongst peoples of different faiths.[1]
Achievements and honours
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Sutherland was made a Knight Bachelor in 1995.[4]
On 29 June 2001, he was created a life peer as Baron Sutherland of Houndwood, of Houndwood in the Scottish Borders,[5] and was the following year elected to the presidency of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In the introduction to the House of Lords ceremony, his Senior Supporter was The Lord Flowers and his Junior Supporter was The Lord Wilson of Tillyorn.
He was made a
In 2005, he became a member of the editorial board of the Encyclopædia Britannica.[9]
Artistic recognition
A bronze bust of Lord Sutherland, by Vincent Butler, stands at the head of the stair to the Playfair Library in Old College, University of Edinburgh.[citation needed]
See also
- List of Vice-Chancellors of the University of London
Notes and references
- ^ Special Minute of the Senate of the University of Edinburgh
- ^ "Goldsmith's Hall 96, Sutherland SR 2012". Baz Manning. 15 February 2022. Retrieved 11 September 2022.
- ^ "Baron Sutherland of Houndwood KT FRSE FBA FKC". The Heraldry Society of Scotland. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
- ^ "No. 54058". The London Gazette. 9 June 1995. p. 8075.
- ^ "No. 56263". The London Gazette. 4 July 2001. p. 7875.
- ^ "No. 56780". The London Gazette. 12 December 2002. pp. 15113–15114.
- ^ Information about fellows of Birkbeck, University of London
- ^ Naylor, David. "Honorary doctorates - Uppsala University, Sweden". www.uu.se. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
- ^ Ward, Keith (23 November 2018). "Sutherland, Stewart Ross, 1941-2018" (PDF). Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy. XVII: 242.
External links
- Encyclopædia Britannica Lord Sutherland of Houndwood page. (Archived)
- School of Advanced Study, University of London Lord Sutherland of Houndwood page. (Archived)
- 'Two Paintings and a Sceptic', lecture by Lord Sutherland of Houndwood, on the question of religious faith in paintings by El Greco and Picasso, given at Gresham College, 26 February 2008 (available in text, audio and video formats), one of a diverse range of lectures delivered there (see his Gresham homepage).