birth_place awards birth_date article_title name alma_mater
japan order of canada 10 march 1929 ronald lampman watts
 ronald lampman watts university of toronto oxford university
ronald lampman watts

ronald lampman watts , -lrb- born march 10 , 1929 -rrb- is a canadian academic , who served as the 15th principal and vice-chancellor of queen 's university from 1974 until 1984 .
born in japan to canadian missionary parents , he received his bachelor of arts from trinity college in the university of toronto in 1952 , and then went to oriel college , oxford university on a rhodes scholarship .
he was a brother of the toronto chapter of the alpha delta phi .
he received a ba at oxford in 1954 , an ma in 1959 , and a d. phil .
in 1962 .
he joined queen 's as a lecturer in philosophy in 1955 , transferred to the department of political and economic science in 1961 , became the dean of the faculty of arts and science in 1969 , and principal in 1974 .
from 1988 to 1993 he was the director of the queen 's university institute of intergovernmental relations .
he is currently a professor emeritus at queen 's .
in 1979 he was made an officer of the order of canada , and was promoted to companion in 2000 .
