Buist, George ♂
Education
Student United College 1817-1818 Lat. Jun.; Gk. Jun. 1818-1819 Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov.; Math. 1; Log. 1819-1820 Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov.; Ethics; Math. Prov. 1820-1821 Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov.; Chem.; Physics. (Secondar).
Student St Mary’s College 1821-1824.
LL.D. 16.7.1842.
Birth/childhood
Born 17.11.1804 eldest son of John Buist, minister at Tannadice and Margaret Jafferson.
Career
Also at Edinburgh University.
Licensed by Forfar presbytery 1846.
Edited Fife Journal 1837 -1839. Edited Bombay Times 1839 - 1857. Bombay Standard 1858 - 1859. Scientific observer. F.R.S.E. 1853. [Editor]
Death
Died Calcutta [now Kolkata, India] 1.10.1860.
Sources
- Chalmers, Class list, New College CHA6.14.1-4
- Memoir, Cupar, 1846
- Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae
- F. Boase, Modern English Biography...1851-1900. 6v. (Truro, 1892-1921)