William George Stewart Adams

William George Stewart Adams (1874-1966) was a British political scientist and Oxford college head.

Adams was educated at the University of Glasgow and Balliol College, Oxford. He lectured in economics at the University of Chicago from 1902, founding and editing the journal Political Quarterly from 1914 to 1916. He returned to Oxford University to be reader and then Gladstone professor of political theory and institutions from 1910 to 1933.[1] From 1933 to 1945 he was Warden of All Souls College, Oxford.[2]

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References

  1. S. J. D. Green (2014). "Warden Anson, All Souls College, and the Curious Creation of the Gladstone Chair of Political Theory and Institutions at Oxford, c.1908-1912". In Christopher Hood; Desmond King; Gillian Peele. Forging a Discipline: A Critical Assessment of Oxford's Development of the Study of Politics and International Relations in Comparative Perspective. Oxford University Press. pp. 46–. ISBN 978-0-19-968221-8.
  2. Adams, William George Stewart


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