Roger Scruton
Roger Scruton (1944-2020) was a man of letters whose many books have been widely translated. His views often ran contrary to what he saw as dominant liberal-left political and academic opinion. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2003 and of the British Academy in 2008. In 2016 he was knighted for services to 'philosophy, teaching and public education'. In 2018 he was appointed Chair of the Government's Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission tasked with reforming planning law to make beauty an essential consideration.
