A specialist in the history of the Scottish Enlightenment, Nicholas Tindal Phillipson was Emeritus Reader in History and Honorary Fellow at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. Phillipson studied as an undergraduate at the universities of Aberdeen and Cambridge, and completed his PhD at Cambridge in 1967. He joined the History department at Edinburgh as a Lecturer in 1965, and was subsequently promoted to Senior Lecturer and Reader, before retiring in 2004.
