Anton, Peter ♂
Education
Student United College 1867-1868 Gk. 1; Lat. 1; Anat. & Physiol. 1868-1869 Log.; Lat. 2; Math. 1 1869-1870 M. Phil. & Pol. Econ.; Gk. 2; Math. 2 1870-1871 N. Phil.; Eng. Lit.; Gk.3
Student St Mary’s College 1871-1874. Alexander Yeaman bursar, 1870, 1871. Lapsed bursary, 1874. Foundation bursar, 1874.
Birth/childhood
Born 25.6.1850 son of George Anton, cooper and farmer, Drums, Errol and Elspeth Thomson.
Career
Licensed by St Andrews presbytery 1874.
Minister at Dysart 1875 - 1881. Kilsyth 1881 - 10.12.1911 ( died ).
A notable rugby player, he is said to have played for Scotland in the first rugby international against England , but his name does not appear in the team list in newspaper reports.
Publications
Kilsyth: a Parish History (Glasgow: John Smith & Son, 1893)
Masters in History: Gibbon, Grote, Macaulay, Motley. (Edinburgh: MacNiven & Wallace, 1880)
England's Essayists: Addison, Bacon, De Quincey, Lamb. (Edinburgh: MacNiven & Wallace, 1883)
Death
[Died 10.12.1911.]
Sources
- UYUC400:19.4.1870
- UYSM400/5/569, 6/48,76
- Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae
- UYM/310p153
- UYUY674
- Births Reg. Errol