WILLIAM CLEMENT EATON

                Recommendation for Honorary Degree
                          Doctor of Laws



     William Clement Eaton, historian and author, has distinguished

himself as a scholar by his many contributions to the history of

the Old South and the Sourthern Confederacy, and as a Professor of

History at the University of Kentucky.

     Professor Eaton was born 22 February 1898 in Winston-Salem,

North Carolina with his early education in that city. He received

the A.B. and A.M. degrees from the University of North Carolina in

1920, and the Ph.D. degree from Harvard University in 1929. Pro-

fessor Eaton taught at Harvard University, Clark University,

Whitman College and Lafayette College, and joined the faculty of

the University of Kentucky in 1946 as Professor of History.

     Professor Eaton has held the Edwin Austin Fellowship and the

Sheldon Traveling Fellowship both of Harvard University and a

Guggenheim Fellowship. He was Distinguished Professor of the

College of Arts and Sciences 1955-56. He was also a Fulbright

Teaching Fellow at the University of Manchester and the University

of Innsbruck. Professor Eaton has lectured at several other

universities both foreign and domestic.

     Professor Eaton is presently the Pitt Professor at Cambridge

University for 1968-69.