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Ian Simpson Ross (9 August 1930 – 21 May 2015) was a Scottish academic and biographer of Adam Smith. He was born in Dundee. His father worked in the jute industry and his mother was employed in service. He was educated at Blackness Primary School and was awarded a bursary to Harris Academy. In 1950 he went to the University of St Andrews to read English literature after being awarded a state grant. He was awarded a first class honours degree in 1954. He was granted a Tyndall-Bruce Scholarship at Merton College, Oxford, where he studied the Scottish poets at James VI's court under the supervision of David Nichol Smith. He was awarded a BLitt in 1956. He won a Fulbright Scholarship at the University of Texas, where he read his PhD. Under the supervision of Ernest Campbell Mossner, Ross focus

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has abstract	Ian Simpson Ross (9 August 1930 – 21 May 2015) was a Scottish academic and biographer of Adam Smith. He was born in Dundee. His father worked in the jute industry and his mother was employed in service. He was educated at Blackness Primary School and was awarded a bursary to Harris Academy. In 1950 he went to the University of St Andrews to read English literature after being awarded a state grant. He was awarded a first class honours degree in 1954. He was granted a Tyndall-Bruce Scholarship at Merton College, Oxford, where he studied the Scottish poets at James VI's court under the supervision of David Nichol Smith. He was awarded a BLitt in 1956. He won a Fulbright Scholarship at the University of Texas, where he read his PhD. Under the supervision of Ernest Campbell Mossner, Ross focused on important members of the Scottish Enlightenment, and was awarded his PhD in 1960. He was appointed Instructor at the University of British Columbia, where he taught eighteenth-century literature. In 1982 he became head of the English department and in 1993 he was appointed Professor Emeritus of English. He was also elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Canada. His first book was a biography of Lord Kames, which was published in 1972, and he also penned a study of William Dunbar (1981). His 1995 biography of Adam Smith was the first full-scale biography since John Rae's 1895 work. It was well received and the second edition was published in 2010. said "Ian was the doyen among Adam Smith's modern scholarly biographers. His biography will never be surpassed." In his review, William D. Grampp said Ross' "scholarship is a thing of wonder." He visited Scotland during the 2014 independence referendum and was a supporter of Scottish independence. In 2015 he died in Vancouver, aged 84, and was survived by his wife and their five children. (en)
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