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.]
Sources
- Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae
- W.I. Addison, Matriculation albums of the University of Glasgow 1728-1858.
- Biography in StAUL ms 36261
- R. Kerr, Life of Smellie I 406, 438
- Abercairny mss- SRO GD24/1/580
- Mure of Caldwell Corr. 2.18
- EUL Dc.2.57
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/66118.