Fonds F517 - James Alexander Roy fonds

For thirty years, James Roy was a professor of English at Queen's University. The son of a Presbyterian minister, he was born in Kirriemuir, Angus in 1884. He graduated from Edinburgh University in 1906 with first-class honours, and for the next two years was a Lecturer in English at Giessen. He then returned to England to teach English language and literature at St. Andrews. From April 1916 until January 1919, he served as an intelligence officer in France. In 1920, he accepted an appointment as an assisstant professor of English at Queen's University, where he remained until his retirement in 1950. In 1951, he married Margaret Gordon Fleming of London, whom he had known since his early days at St. Andrews. He died November 26 1973.