Blackwood, Andrew

Education

Student U.C.D. [University College Dundee] 1889-1890, 1890-1891, 1891-1892 Int. Math. 1892-1893 N. Phil. 1893-1894 Prac. Physiol. 1894-1895 Math.; Physics

B.Sc. 25.3.1898.

Birth/childhood

Born c. 1863 from Kirkcaldy, but conflicts with age and parentage given at death, but probably born 6.9.1863 son of Henry Blackwood, blacksmith, Kirkcaldy and Margaret Cook.

Career

Also at Royal University of Ireland - B.A. and E.C. Training College, Edinburgh.

Teacher in Dundee. Became headmaster of Butterburn School, Dundee and retired from that post in 1927 to Auchtermuchty.

President E.I.S. [Education Institute of Scotland] 1921.

Death

Died at Gateshead on a visit to a son 21.12.1937 aged ‘ 69’.

Sources

  • Scottish Educational Journal 1937 p1598 photo.