{{short description|Scottish scholar (1922–2011)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox academic | honorific_suffix = CBE, FBA | name = Alexander Anton | birth_date = {{birth date|1922|07|2|df=y}} | death_date = {{death date and age|2011|06|11|1922|07|2|df=y}} | alma_mater = University of Aberdeen | discipline = Law | workplaces = University of Aberdeen }}

'''Alexander Elder Anton''', CBE, FBA (2 July 1922 – 11 June 2011), often known as '''Sandy Anton''', was a Scottish legal scholar.

== Biography == Anton was born on 2 July 1922. He served in the Gordon Highlanders from 1941 to 1945 and then attended the University of Aberdeen, where he graduated with a Master of Arts degree in 1946 and a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1949.<ref>Council of Europe, ''Yearbook of the European Convention on Human Rights'' (Martinus Nijhoff, 1984), p. 23.</ref> He then practised as a solicitor in Aberdeen for four years before working as a lecturer at the University of Aberdeen from 1953 to 1959. Anton was Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Glasgow between 1959 and 1973.<ref name=":0">[https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-5599 "Anton, Alexander Elder"], ''Who Was Who'' (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2016). Retrieved 7 September 2019.</ref>

Anton was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1972<ref>[https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/alexander-anton-FBA "Professor Alexander Anton FBA 1922–2011"], ''The British Academy''. Retrieved 7 September 2019.</ref> and appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1973 Birthday Honours.<ref>''[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/45984/supplement/6480/data.pdf Supplement to the London Gazette]'', 2 June 1973 (issue 45984), p. 6480.</ref> He was also awarded with an honorary doctorate from the University of Aberdeen in 1993. He died on 6 June 2011.<ref name=":0" />

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== Further reading ==

* Paul Reid Beaumont, "The contribution of Alexander (Sandy) Anton to the development of private international law", ''Juridicial Review'' (2006), pp.&nbsp;1–28.

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