Buchanan, Claudius ♂
Education
D.D. 9.11.1804.
Birth/childhood
Born 12.3.1766 at Cambuslang 2nd son of Alexander Buchanan, schoolmaster, Inveraray and [? Janet Somers]. [Teacher]
Career
Studied at Glasgow and Cambridge Universities. [Glasgow University, Cambridge University]
Curate of St Mary Woolnoth 1795 - 1796. Chaplain in Bengal 1796 - 1797 and elsewhere. Professor of Greek, Latin and English and Vice provost of College Fort William, Calcutta [Fort William College, Kolkata] 1800 - 1807. Returned to England. LL.D. Dublin and D.D. Glasgow and Kings College, Aberdeen. [Minister, university professor]
Publications
Sermons on interesting subjects (Edinburgh: J. Ogle, 1812)
Apology for Promoting Christianity in India. First American ed. (Boston: Nathaniel Willis, 1814)
Death
Died Broxbourne, Hereford 9.2.1815.