William Linn St Clair, FBA, FRSL (7 December 1937 – 30 June 2021) was a British historian, senior research fellow at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, and author.
William St Clair received his education at Kilsyth Academy, Comely Park School, Falkirk, Edinburgh Academy, and St John's College, Oxford.
[1] St Clair was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL) in 1973.
[3] In the 1998/99 academic year, he was a visiting fellow commoner at Trinity College, Cambridge.
[1] His research interests lay, in large part, in the history of books and reading, ancient Greece and biography.