William Smith Stoddart was born in
Carstairs, Scotland on 25 June 1925. He graduated in medicine from Glasgow University. Stoddart has been called a "master of synthesis" and was one of the important
Perennialist writers. For many years he was assistant editor of the British journal
Studies in Comparative Religion. He has translated into English, from the original French or German, several books of the perennialists
Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) and
Titus Burckhardt (1908–1984). Stoddart lived most of his life in
London, England, before moving, in 1982, to
Windsor, Ontario, Canada. He died in Windsor on 9 November 2023, at the age of 98. ==Bibliography==