Grice and Gallie

 IAs GALLIn was born on Dooember 12th, 1907, in Glasgow. He was the sooond of a family of four brothers, sons of Walter 8. Gallio and his wifo Alice nce Wormeld: The father was s very ablo Soottiah business. man who built up an important engineering firm in Glesgow; the mother was a giftod Engliahwomen from Yorkahire, whoo family had for long boen connected with the wool trade. Both parents predoosesed him, but not before ho had completed his university education and was launched on his career in lifo. He inherited from both sides a very cloer head, the power of working hard and efficiently, and considereble businees sbility.

He was greatly devoted to his mother and was plainly much infuanoed by her. They had taken several long foreign tours together while ho was an undergraduato at Oxford. Her illness and desth at a compara tively sarty age came as & great blow to him at s timo when his own hoalth was far from good.

Gallio was educated first at a preperatory school at Kirkby Lonsdalo and then at Bodbergh, where ho spocialised in classics. From Sedbergh ho went to Eroter College, Oxford, in 1920, as an entrano scholar. He obtained a first class in Honours Moderations in 1928 and in Literae Humanioros in 1930. In 1927 he was proxime acoessit for the Geinford Groek Prize, and in 1929 he won it for a translation of Book VI, Chapter XI, of the Memoirs of Philippe de Commines into Greek after the manner of Herodotus.

From October 1930 to July 1931 ho held a temporary post as Tutor in Philosophy at Jous College, Oxford. He was appointed Fellow and Tutor of Wadhem carly in 1931, and was given leave of absence to study before taking up his duties. During that period ho spent a long vacation in Germany and the first two terms of the acsdemio your in Cambridge.

While in Cambridge he was made & member of the High Tablo of Trinity College and became persona grata with all those who made his acquaintance there. Some time after his return to Wadham he was made Dean of College, & post which was far from being a sinocure in view of the spiritod character of tho undergreduates and the absence from Collego of most of his colleagues at week-ends. He was an excellent teacher, who readily got on friendly terms with undergradustes without loss of suthority, andho performed his decanel duties admirably. During part of this period his younger brother, Bryce, was an undergradusto at Belliol; and, as thoy were excoptionelly good friende, this was a happy circumstanos for both of them.

Even as an undergradusto Gallie had been subject to ocossiona mysterious spells of ill-health and bodily pain. In 1938 he became serioualy ill, and from that yoor until 1942 he was compelled to desist from academic and all other work. He resigned his fellowship at Wadham in 1941. In 1942 he began to work again as & Principel, first at the War Ofice and then in the Control Office for Germany. He was apparently in fair health throughout 1943, 1944 and the first half of 1945.

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complaint, which was eventually diagnosed as Hodgkin's disease, was growing upon him; and it, and the after-effects of the treatment for it, caused him terrible discomfort and weakness. These he bore with s degree of fortitade and self-control which may fairly be called heroic.

His powers of thinking and espressing his thoughts clearly and oogently in writing romained with him to the last, as is plain from the excellent paper on Intelligence and Intelligent Conduct which he wrote under appalling difficulties Apart from the recent paper to the Aristotelian Society, mentioned above, his main publications were "Orford Moralisto" in Philosophy, "Is the Self a Subetance?" in MIND, Vol. XLV, and "Mental Facts" in the

for the Aristotelian Society in the last months of his life. He died on April 5th, 1948.

Gallie married in 1940 Miss Elsie W. Peers, and they had one child, a boy. He owed much to tho care and attention of his wifo during his long and trying ilness.

Gallie had in him the makings of a first-rato philosopher, and nothing but ill-hoalth prevented him from establishing & high reputation among contemporary thinkers. He had great acutences, together with good sense, balanco, and completo intellectual integrity. He was not easily contented with his own or other men's answers to philosophical problems, and he would return again and again with the utmost pertinacity to the attack. In consoquence of these qualities ho worked rather slowly; but, when he had made up his mind for tho time being, ho had the power He ping hit at, te mhat hit co nolai one i to endable clarity

Aristotelian Bociety's Procesdings for 1837. In his last years he had become greatly interested in ethical theory and particularly in the ethics of Aristotle. I do not know whether he has left anything on these topics in a state fit for publication.

I suppose that I must have known lan Gallie as well as, or better than, I have known anyone else. I felt a deep affection for him, but I am not singular in thinking that he was an exoptionally attractive and lovable person. He wes admittedly "difficult' during the period from 1938 to 1942, when his bodily illness (not then diagnosed by the doctors nor fully realised by his friends) was affecting his nerves. Happily, although his physical condition grew worse, the nervous cloud lifted towards the end of 1942. For the rest of his life he was his old lovable self, and one's affection for him was qualified only by sorrow for his sufferings and admiration for the strength of mind with which he bore them and triumphed over them.