William Herbert Newton-Smith (May 25, 1943 – April 8, 2023) was a Canadian philosopher of science.
[3] In the 1980s he led a small team of British philosophers, including Kathy Wilkes and Roger Scruton, who travelled to Czechoslovakia to give unauthorized philosophy lectures.
[4] Newton-Smith led Central European University from its foundation in 1991 until Alfred Stepan was elected rector in 1993.
[6] His daughter Rain Newton-Smith is an economist who became the Director General of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) in April 2023.
In 2003, Newton-Smith and his second wife Nancy Durham were the first to grow lavender on a field scale in Wales.