Bain/[Bayne], William

Education

Student United College 1874-1875 Gk. 1; Lat. 1; Math. 1 1875-1876 Log.; Gk. 2; Lat. 2 1876-1877 M. Phil.; Pol. Econ.; Lat. 3; Math. 2 1877-1878 N. Phil.; Eng. Lit.; Gk. 3. Garth bursar 1874.

Student St Mary’s College 1878-1882. Wemyss bursar 1879. Class prize 1879, 1881. Gray prize 1880,1881. Chancellor’s prize 1881.

Birth/childhood

Born 30.4.1858 son of Thomas Bayne, bootmaker, Cameron and Ann Robertson.

Career

Licentiate Church of Scotland. Assistant to W. W. Tulloch, Glasgow. On staff of Daily Chronicle. Assistant to Professor Lawson, St Andrews. Lecturer in English, Training College, Dundee. [Minister, university lecturer]

Publications

James Thomson (Famous Scots Series) (Edinburgh: Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier, 1898)

Sir David Wilkie R.A. (London: Walter Scott Publishing Co., 1903)

Edited new edition of Etymological and Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language, by James Stormonth (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1904)

Death

Died 17.11.1922 at Cameron.

Sources

  • UYUC400:4.11.1874
  • UYSM400/6/151,157,171,177,178
  • UYUY452/19/305
  • St Andrews Citizen 18.4.1891, 25.11.1922
  • College Echoes 1903/04 p14
  • Who was Who
  • Deaths Reg. Cameron 1922/6