Irvine, Sir James Colquhoun, (9 May 1877–12 June 1952), JP, DL County of Dundee; Principal and Vice-Chancellor University of St Andrews since 1921, formerly Professor of Science in the Univ.; Trustee Pilgrim Trust; Chm. Scottish Universities Entrance Board, 1920–44; Commissioner for 1851 Exhibition; Pres. Section B, British Assoc., 1922; For. Lecturer, Inst of Politics, Williamstown, Mass, 1926; Vanuxem Lecturer, Princeton, 1929; Woodward Lecturer, Yale, 1931; Chairman Adult Education Committee for Scotland, 1927–29; Chairman Forest-Products Research Board, 1927–39; Member Prime Minister’s Committee on Training of Biologists, 1931; Chairman The Viceroy’s Committee on the Indian Institute of Science, 1936; Member of Commission on Higher Education in the Colonies, 1943; Chairman Committee on Higher Education in the West Indies, 1944; Chairman Inter-University Council on Higher Education in the Colonies, 1946–51; Chm. Advisory Council Scottish Education Department, 1925–31
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