Roderick Diarmid Maclennan

Roderick Diarmid Maclennan was born on 13 October 1898 in Laggan, Scotland. Maclennan was a philosopher and Church of Scotland minister and served in France during the First World War. Completing his MA at the University of Edinburgh with first class honours in 1925, he was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Lochcarron and appointed Lecturer in Philosophy at Edinburgh in 1926. He became Professor of Philosophy at the University of McGill, Montreal from 1933 to 1956, returning to Scotland as Minister of Kintail Lochcarron, retiring in 1964. 

Member of both the Scottish Philosophical Society and the American Philosophical Society, he was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Edinburgh in 1962. Although he delivered the Gifford Lectures, they were never published. Maclennan’s sole publication was a volume of the collected papers of Norman Kemp Smith entitled The Credibility of Divine Existence (1967).