Barron, William

Education

Professor of Logic, Rhetoric and Metaphysics 15.5.1778 - 28.12.1803 (died).

Birth/childhood

Born c. 1742 son of John Barron, Glasgow, previously tenant farmer, Kershall, Corstorphine. [Farmer]

Career

Educated Glasgow university - mat. 1757 and Edinburgh University - divinity. [Divinity student]174

Minister at Wamphray 1763 -1771. Whitburn 1771 - 1778.

F.R.S.E. 1783.

Professor of Logic, Rhetoric and Metaphysics 15.5.1778 - 28.12.1803 (died). [St Andrews University] [University professor]

Publications

An Essay on the Mechanical Principles of the Plough (Edinburgh: J. Balfour, 1774)

History of the Colonization of the Free States of Antiquity (London: Cadell, 1777)

History of the political connection between England and Ireland from the reign of Henry II to the present time (London: Cadell, 1780)

Lectures on Belles Lettres and Logic (London: Longman, 1806)

Elements of Logic. 2nd ed. (New York: Barnes, 1856)

Death

[Died 28.12.1803.]

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