Colin John Starnes is a professor, author, and former President of the

University of King's College The University of King's College, established in 1789, is in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.Roper, Henry. "Aspects of the History of a Loyalist College: King's College, Windsor, and Nova Scotian Higher Education in the Nineteenth Century." Anglic ...

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, Canada. Starnes joined the faculty of King's in 1972, and the Dalhousie University faculty in 1977. He taught at both of the linked universities, retiring in 2005. Although he is retired, he still lectures on certain topics in the Foundation Year Programme at King's, including

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. He holds degrees from

Bishop's University Bishop's University (french: Université Bishop's) is a small English-language liberal arts university in Lennoxville, a borough of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. The founder of the institution was the Anglican Bishop of Quebec, George Mountain, w ...

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, and Dalhousie. Starnes was the President of King's from 1993 until 2003. He replaced Marion Golda Fry and was succeeded by William Barker. Starnes is an authority on

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and

Thomas More Sir Thomas More (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist. He also served Henry VIII as Lord ...

. His published works include the book ''The New Republic: A Commentary on Book I of More's Utopia Showing Its Relation to Plato's Republic'' (

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1990), and ''Augustine's Conversion: A Guide to the Argument of Confessions, I-IX''. He contributed a paper on

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and

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to a volume commemorating the philosopher James Doull, and in addition has published a number of articles in Dionysius and elsewhere. The civil servant, diplomat, and novelist

John Kennett Starnes John Kennett Starnes (February 5, 1918 – December 23, 2014) was a Canadian civil servant, diplomat, and novelist. Born in Montreal, Quebec to Henry Kennett Starnes and his wife, Altha Ella (née McCrea), Starnes was educated at Selwyn House Sch ...

was his father and his brother is the novelist

Patrick Starnes Patrick may refer to: * Patrick (given name), list of people and fictional characters with this name * Patrick (surname), list of people with this name People * Saint Patrick (c. 385–c. 461), Christian saint *Gilla Pátraic (died 1084), Patrick ...

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