William Witte

His family travelled widely, and he was educated in Poland and Austria and then attended the University of Munich in Germany.

[2] In 1931 he left mainland Europe to go to Aberdeen University in Scotland as an assistant lecturer in German.

As a non-German German-speaker he survived the rigours of the Second World War and began to climb in position.

His proposers were Thomas Malcolm Knox, Fraser Noble, Robert Cross and Anthony Elliot Ritchie.

In 1937 he married Edith Mary Stenhouse Melvin, a linguist, and eldest daughter of the headmaster of Turriff Secondary School.