Herbert James Paton
Herbert James Paton FBA FSA Scot was a Scottish philosopher. He was the son of the Reverend William Macalister Paton, B.D., Abernethy, Perthshire, Scotland, and Jean Robertson Millar. He was educated at the High School of Glasgow, the University of Glasgow, and Balliol College, Oxford. At Oxford he gained a First in Classical Moderations, 1909, and a First in Literae Humaniores in 1911.
He served in the Admiralty's Intelligence Division, 1914-1919, and became an expert on Polish affairs in which capacity he attended the Versailles conference in 1919. He did governmental work also in the Second World War in the Foreign Research and Press Service, 1939-44. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the League of Nations Union, 1939-48.
From 1911 to 1927 he was Fellow and Praelector in Classics and Philosophy at Queen's College, and Dean of the College, 1917-22. At the Versailles Peace Conference he was the brains behind the Curzon Line. Drawn across eastern Poland, the line marked to the west of it, what Lord Curzon the British Foreign Secretary would guarantee as Poland for the Poles.
He served in the Admiralty's Intelligence Division, 1914-1919, and became an expert on Polish affairs in which capacity he attended the Versailles conference in 1919. He did governmental work also in the Second World War in the Foreign Research and Press Service, 1939-44. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the League of Nations Union, 1939-48.
From 1911 to 1927 he was Fellow and Praelector in Classics and Philosophy at Queen's College, and Dean of the College, 1917-22. At the Versailles Peace Conference he was the brains behind the Curzon Line. Drawn across eastern Poland, the line marked to the west of it, what Lord Curzon the British Foreign Secretary would guarantee as Poland for the Poles.
