Colin Strang, 2nd Baron Strang (12 June 1922 – 19 December 2014) was a British professor of

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and

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Life

Strang was the only son of

William Strang, 1st Baron Strang William Strang, 1st Baron Strang (2 January 1893 – 27 May 1978) was a British diplomat who served as a leading adviser to the British Government from the 1930s to the 1950s and as Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office from 1949 to 1 ...

, a diplomat who served as Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office from 1949 to 1953, and was subsequently the first Convenor of the Crossbench peers in the

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from 1968 to 1974. Strang was a lecturer in philosophy at

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from 1951 to 1953 and at

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from 1953 to 1975. He was Professor of Philosophy at University of Newcastle from 1975 to 1982 and Dean of Faculty of Arts at University of Newcastle from 1976 to 1979. He succeeded to the title in 1978. He married the English scholar

Barbara Strang Barbara Strang née Barbara Mary Hope Carr later Lady Strang (20 April 1925 – 11 April 1982) was a British English language scholar. Life Strang was born in Penge in 1925 in London. Her parents were Frederick and Amy Carr. Her schooling was aff ...

and they had one daughter. He married again twice. The peerage became extinct on his death in 2014.

Works

* 'What If Everyone Did That?' ''Durham University Journal'', vol. 23 (1960), pp. 5–10. * 'The Perception of Heat'. ''Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society'', vol. 61, issue 1 (June 1961), pp. 239–252 (1961) * 'Tripartite Souls, Ancient and Modern'. ''Apeiron'', vol. 16 (1982), pp. 1–11.

References

1922 births 2014 deaths Alumni of St John's College, Oxford People educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood 20th-century British philosophers Academics of Newcastle University Academics of Queen's University Belfast Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom {{UK-baron-stub