Beattie, James ♂

Education

Student United College 1852-1853 Chem. 1853-1854 Lat. 1; Gk. 1; Math. 1 1854-1855 Lat. 2; Gk. 2; Math. 1; Log. 1855-1856 Lat. 3; Gk. 3; Math. 2; M. Phil.; Exper. Phys. 1856-1857 N. Phil.; Pol. Econ.; Compar. Anat. & Physiol.

Merit in bursary comp. UC Min 3.11.1852. Servership UC Min 17.12.1853. Attended Free Church while a student.

Birth/childhood

Born 28.12.1837 eldest son of Rev. James Beattie, O.S. minister [Original Secession Church minister] at Balmullo and Margaret Salmond. [Minister]

Attended Madras College.

Career

Also at New College - divinity 1857-1861 and in Germany. [Divinity student]

Free Church minister at Pitcairngreen 1865 - 1875. Chalmers Church, Melbourne 1876 - 1880. English Presbyterian Church Streatham, London South 1880 - . [Minister]

Returned to Australia for health reasons.

Death

Died 9.7.1928.

Sources

• William Carmichael McIntosh, Autobiography in ms37113
• Fifeshire Jnl. 15.7.1852 p2
• East Fife Record 24.1.1873 p2
• UYUC310
• UYUY336
• W. Ewing, Annals of the Free Church of Scotland 1843-1900 (Edinburgh, 1914)