Robert Craigie Cross FRSE CBE (1911–2000) was Regius Professor of Logic at Aberdeen University.
He was born in Glasgow on 24 April 1911, the son of Matthew Cross, a schoolmaster, and Margaret Dickson.
He was awarded the Foulis Scholarship and used this to attend Queen's College, Oxford where he studied "Mods and Greats" under Sir Oliver Franks, focusing on philosophy and ancient history.
[2] He was a recipient of the David Logan Medal for the most distinguished arts graduate and the Foulis Scholarship to Queen's College, Oxford.
His proposers were Edward Maitland Wright, Reginald Victor Jones, Edwin Mervyn Patterson, George M Burnett, and Sir Thomas Malcolm Knox.