Beaumont, John Smith ♂

Education

Student United College 1846-1847 Math 1 1847-1848 Gk. 2; Lat. 2; Math. 2; Ethics; Sens. Phil. 1848-1849 Physics. Servership bursary, 1846.

Birth/childhood

Born 1825 variously said to be from Orkney and Forfar, but not found Old Parochial Registers of Scotland (OPR) for either.

Career

Also at New College, Edinburgh.

Ordained by Edinburgh F.C. presbytery 1855 for Calcutta [now Kolkata, India]. Transferred to Chinsurah [now part of Hugli-Chuchura, India/Hooghly-Chuchura, India] 1858 and to Poona [Pune, India] 1871. Retired 1888. (Does not come on pension fund). [Minister]

Sources

• UYUC400:5.3.1846
• W. Ewing, Annals of the Free Church of Scotland 1843-1900 (1914)
• UYUC320
• StAUL Librarian's correspondence 17.2.1914