Angus Matheson

Angus Matheson (1 July 1912 – 2 November 1962) was the inaugural Professor of Celtic Languages and Literature at the University of Glasgow, a post he held from 1956 until his death in 1962.

Early life Angus Matheson was born 1 July 1912 in Harris in the Outer Hebrides to Mary Murray from Lewis and Malcolm Matheson, a minister in the United Free Church. His elder brother was the Gaelic scholar William Matheson, an ordained minister and Reader in Celtic at the University of Edinburgh.

He was appointed the inaugural Professor of Celtic Languages and Literature at the University of Glasgow in 1956.

Personal life On 19 December 1941, he married Sylvia Schofield, the writer and traveller, at Kingston and Surbiton Presbyterian Church. They divorced in 1950.