W. B. Gallie

W. B. Gallie

Walter Bryce Gallie (5 October 1912 - 7 October 1998) was a Scottish social theorist, political theorist, and philosopher.

Bryce Gallie, the son of an engineer, was born in Lenzie, East Dunbartonshire, near Glasgow on 5 October 1912.

He grew up in a British boarding school and later published his memoirs of this in the book An English School.

He married Menna Patricia Humphreys in 1940. They had a son and a daughter.

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