Ronald Lampman Watts CC FRSC (March 10, 1929 − October 9, 2015) was a Canadian academic, who served as the 15th Principal and Vice-chancellor of Queen's University from 1974 until 1984. Born in Karuizawa, Japan to Canadian missionary parents. Educated at the Yokohama International School immediately prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. Watts received his Bachelor of Arts from Trinity College in the University of Toronto in 1952, and then went to Oriel College, Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship where he had Kenneth Wheare as his mentor. He was a Brother of the Toronto Chapter of the Alpha Delta Phi. He received a BA at Oxford in 1954, an MA in 1959, and a D. Phil. in 1962. He joined Queen's as a lecturer in Philosophy in 1955, transferred to the Department of Political and