Obituary: Sir Sam Curran

The Independent - London | March 3, 1998| | Copyright

SAM CURRAN was one of the great Scots of the 20th century - in the tradition of the heroes of the 18th-century Scottish enlightenment.

He was the dynamo behind the creation of the hugely successful University of Strathclyde, the child of the Royal College of Science and Technology in Glasgow which had trained many of the great engineers and scientists of the 19th and first half of the 20th century.

In the spring of 1963, two of my young constituents got into deep trouble at the Royal College. An MP's letter to the Principal produced a phone call at 8.30 the following morning: "Can you come and ...

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