[2] Dorothy Edgington was born on 29 April 1941 to Edward Milne and his wife Rhoda née Blair.
She obtained her BA in 1964, followed in 1967 by a BPhil at Nuffield College, Oxford.
Her first academic post in 1968, was as Lecturer in Philosophy at Birkbeck and she remained there until 1996.
She was then Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at the University of Oxford[2] from 2003[4] until 2006.
She is now Emeritus Professor, and Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford and teaches at Birkbeck again[4] part-time.