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British historian (1937–2021)

For other uses, see William Saint-Clair.

William Linn St Clair, FBA, FRSL (7 December 1937 – 30 June 2021) was a British historian, senior research fellow at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, and author.

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Biography

William St Clair received his education at Kilsyth Academy, Comely Park School, Falkirk, Edinburgh Academy, and St John's College, Oxford. He started his career as an author and book reviewer; his reviews appeared in the Financial Times, The Times Literary Supplement, and The Economist.^[1]

St Clair was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL) in 1973.^[2] He was visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, in 1981–82.

In 1985, he became a fellow of Huntington Library, California. In 1992, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social science