Alan Stewart Duthie (19 May 1938 – 6 July 2013) was a Scottish linguist[1] and academic who settled and worked in Ghana all his adult life.
[3] Alan Duthie joined the Phonetics Unit in the Department of English at the University of Ghana, Legon in November 1964.
[3] At the time of his death, he was reputed to have taught and mentored many who later became academic members of staff of the Department of Linguistics with the exception of the younger ones.
[7] Felix Ameka, a linguist who specialises in West African languages[8] is one of his former students at the University of Ghana.
[3] He was involved in organising workshops of the Ghana Institute of Linguistics, Literacy and Bible Translation.
He lived in Ghana all his working life but regularly returned to his childhood home.
[2] He fell ill on 5 July 2013 following a stomach ailment and was admitted to the Legon Hospital[7] where he died the next day.