Fonds F1211 - Samuel Walters Dyde fonds

Samuel Walters Dyde was born in Ottawa, 1862, and was educated at Ottawa Collegiate Institute and Queen's University, where he received a B.A. and gold medal in classics (1883), an M.A. and gold medal in philosophy (1884), and D.Sc. (1887). He was a professor of mental and moral philosophy at the University of New Brunswick, 1886-1889 and a professor of mental philosophy and lecturer in German classical literature at Queen's University, 1889-1912. He was Principal of Queen's Theological College from 1918 to 1926. He resigned the Principalship in 1926 and retired in 1934. His publications include a translation of Hegal's Philosophy of Right (1896) and a translation, with an introduction, of The Theaetetus of Plato (1899). He died in 1947.