Ivy Lilian McClelland

Ivy Lilian McClelland (18 May 1908 – 2 April 2006) was a British Hispanist at the University of Glasgow.

Life McClelland was born in Liverpool, England in 1908. She was appointed in 1930 as an assistant lecturer in Spanish at the University of Glasgow. During the second world war she led the Spanish department at the university In 1970 she published "Spanish Drama of Pathos: 1750-1808. High tragedy".

In 1995 a research chair was also created in her name. In 1997 she was made an honorary professor. This promotion normally lasted for five years but the university extended it to ten years. Geoeffrey Ribbans commented that he thought that her professorship had been delivered 50 years too late. Ignacio de Luzán, New York 1973 Diego de Torres Villarroel, Boston 1976 Benito Jerónimo Feijoo, Obras. Selección, Madrid 1985 Ideological hesitancy in Spain 1700-1750, Liverpool 1991