Pamela Huby
British philosopher
Pamela Margaret Huby (21 April 1922 – 18 February 2019) was a British philosopher and emeritus reader in philosophy at the University of Liverpool.
Born in Dulwich, she was educated at James Allen's Girls' School and then won a senior scholarship in Classics to Lady Margaret Hall Oxford University. She was then an assistant lecturer in Classics at Reading and after a year returned to Oxford to lecture at St Anne's College where she switched to the field of ancient Greek philosophy, moving to Liverpool two years later.
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