John Renford Bambrough

John Renford Bambrough (29 April 1926 – 17 January 1999) was a British philosopher. He was a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge from 1950 to 1999, where he held the positions of Dean (1964–1979) and President (1979–1983). Bambrough was born in Silksworth, Sunderland, England, into a mining family. During his national service, he worked in a coalmine at Wearmouth Colliery from 1944 to 1945 as a Bevin Boy. He was educated at Bede Grammar School in Sunderland and St John's College, Cambridge, where he earned a first in Classics in 1947. After his graduate studies, he was appointed a Fellow at St John's in 1950. He served as editor of the journal *Philosophy* from 1972 to 1994 and edited a Festschrift in honour of John Wisdom. Bambrough was also noted for his works on Aristotle. He married Moira in 1952 and died in Cambridge in 1999, having been affected by Lewy body dementia in his later years.