Brown, William Alexander ♂

Education

Student United College 1850-1851 Lat. 1; Gk. 1. 1851-1852 Lat. 2; Gk. 2; Math. 1; Log. 1852-1853 lat. 2; Gk. 2; Math. 2; M. Phil.; Chem. 1853-1854 N. Phil.; Exp. Physics; Gk. 3; Math. 3; Chem.; Comp. Anat. & Physiol.; Hum. Anat. & Physiol.

Gray prize, 1854. M.A. 28.4.1854.

Birth/childhood

Born 24.5.1836 son of William Brown, Professor of Biblical Criticism, St Andrews and Eley Innes. [University professor]

Career

Also at Edinburgh University - law student 1855-1857. Advocate, 1859. [Lawyer]

Procurator fiscal, Lanarkshire 1876 - 1883. Sheriff substitute, Aberdeen 1883 - 1898 (retired).

LL.D. Aberdeen University 1895.

Death

Died at Twickenham 9.6.1906.

Sources

• UYUY452/17/195
• Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae
• F.J. Grant, The Faculty of Advocates in Scotland 1532-1943 (Edinburgh, 1944) (SRS145)ocates