Sir William Duguid Geddes (21 November 1828[1] – 9 February 1900) was a Scottish scholar and educationalist, who promoted the cause of classical Greek at the University of Aberdeen and later became Principal.

One of his brothers was a judge at Bengal, made a lot of money in the United States, and bought a house in central London, where he entertained High Society.

[3] It is chiefly as a teacher that Geddes is remembered, and in his enthusiastic and successful efforts to raise the standard of Greek at the Scottish universities he has been compared with the humanists of the Renaissance.

[5] Musa Latina was written by Aberdonian, Arthur Johnstone, physician at the Stuart Courts of James I and Charles I. the city area was renowned as the most Catholic and Episcopalian in the Lowlands, but also the most flourishing in the post-renaissance arts in the whole of Scotland.

"A singularly cultured group of individuals, that no area in the British Isles... could match when they appeared", wrote Geddes in his translation of Johnston's Latin and Greek work.