Thorburn, Hugh Garnet

Dr. Hugh Garnet Thorburn (1924-2014 ) was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario. He entered Victoria College at the University of Toronto in 1942 but left the next year to join the Canadian Army. Throughout the rest of the Second World War, he served with the Army, rising to the rank of Captain by the time he was discharged in 1946. He returned to Victoria College where he completed an honours course in Political Science and Economics in 1949. From 1949 to 1952 he continued his studies at Columbia University where he was awarded a Ph.D. in 1958. While working on his Ph.D., Hugh Thorburn went to Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, in 1952, as a Lecturer and was appointed Assistant Professor the following year. In 1954-55, he took an appointment as Visiting Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Saskatchewan, returned to Mount Allison for 1955-56, and then accepted an appointment as Assistant Professor at Queen's University in 1956. Since then he has risen through the academic ranks, Associate Professor 1963, Professor 1964, Head of Department of Political Studies 1968-1971 and most recently Professor Emeritus. Dr. Thorburn passed away in Kingston on June 3 2014.