WIDGERY, Alban Gregory. Bloxwich, Staffordshire 9.5.1887 — Winchester, Va. 22.3.1968. British Scholar of Religion in the U.S.A. Son of Rev. John Thomas Widgery and Ellen Thomas. Studies at Cambridge (St.Catharine’s College, B.A. 1908, M.A. 1912). From 1908-10 taught at Bristol University, 1910-12 further studies at Marburg, Jena and Sorbonne. Then one year Assistant at St.Andrews University, and 1914-23 in India as Professor of Philosophy at Bombay University. In 1923-26 Lecturer at Cambridge, 1926-28 in Baroda. Then moved to the U.S.A., in 1928-29 taught at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, and in 1929-30 at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. Then Head of Philosophy Department at Duke University in Durham, N.C., 1930-46, taught there until 1952, when emeritus. After one year at Amherst College settled in Virginia, near Winchester. Married 1915 Marion Wilkins (1886–1965), two sons and one daughter.
Publications: “Ethical Aspects of the Religion of the Sikhs”, Journal of Religion 9, 1929, 281-290.
– Many books on religion.
Sources: *L.W. Beck, Proc. Am. Philos. Assoc. 41, 1967-68, 138-140; C.S. Green 1996 in https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/widgery-alban-gregory.
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