G. C. Field
Guy Cromwell Field FBA was a British philosopher. He was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bristol from 1926 to 1952 and the university's Pro-Vice-Chancellor from 1944 to 1945 and from 1947 to 1952. He was the grandson of Jesse Collings.
Field was born in Birmingham and educated at Marlborough College and at Balliol College, Oxford. He served as an officer in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment during World War I, was captured by German forces, and escaped. He married Agnes Doris Skinner in Holy Trinity Brompton, London, in December 1919.
During World War II, from 1940 to 1944, Field served on the tribunals that assessed applications from those of military age who wished to be formally accepted as conscientious objectors and therefore exempt from military service. In 1944, at the completion of these duties, he wrote a book, Pacifism and Conscientious Objection, based on his experiences. His book, he wrote, was an attempt to establish "the propositions that there are certain evils which are worse than war and that there are circumstances in which these can only be met by fighting".