John Cameron Bryce

John Cameron Bryce (15 August 1909 – 7 March 2001) was a Scottish academic, first Bradley Professor of English Literature in the University of Glasgow and editor of The Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith.

After attending Hamilton Academy, of which he was a Dux medallist, Bryce matriculated in the Faculty of Arts, University of Glasgow, in 1927, graduating in 1932 Master of Arts (Scotland) with a First in English language and literature.

In 1936, Bryce was appointed to a teaching post at the University of Durham but was forced to resign as eye surgery was required on a detached retina, impairing his ability to read and write.

After this set-back, in 1938 he took up a post as assistant lecturer in the English Department, University of Glasgow, at which he was to spend the rest of his career, 'till his retirement in 1979.

[2][3] The general editor of The Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith, Professor Andrew Skinner, enlisted Bryce as a co-editor and as editor of Smith's Lectures on Rhetoric, drawn from students' notes on Smith's 'lost' lectures that had been discovered by Professor John Lothian at a sale in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1958.