Anderson, Duncan

Education

Student St Mary’s College 1848-1849occ

Birth/childhood

Born 8.10.1828 son of John Anderson, Rayne and Elizabeth Fraser.

Career

Also at Kings College, Aberdeen - M.A. 1848.

Parochial schoolmaster, Monymusk. [Teacher]

Church of Scotland minister at Port Levi, Canada 1854 - 1886 (retired). [Minister]

Publications. Scottish Folk-Lore, or Reminiscences of Aberdeenshire from Pinafore to Gown (New York: J. Selwin Tait & Sons, 1895); Lays of Canada and Other Poems (Montreal: John Lovell, 1896);

Death

Died Brooklyn 3.4.1903 aged 75.

Sources

  • Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae
  • Aberdeen Free Press 18.4.1903
  • Inf. Colin McLaren 22.9.1970
  • Dictionary of Biography of Canada
  • Old Parochial Registers of Scotland (OPR) Index