Dr. William Spence Urquhart - an account of his life by his great niece Judy Urquhart

William Urquhart (1877-1964) spent almost all his working life in India, mainly in Calcutta as professor of philosophy at the Scottish Church College. He became its Principal and then was elected to be Vice Chancellor of Calcutta University. He revived and edited the Calcutta Review and knew all the leading Bengali intellectuals of the day. He wrote books on comparative religions most notably the Upanishads and Life and was regarded as a wise, saintly and learned man by his pupils and peers. He retired to Scotland the land of his birth in 1939.