Burns, Stewart ♂

Education

Student United College 1870-1871 Eng. Lit.; Gk. 1; Lat. 1; Math. 1 1871-1872 Log.; Gk. 2; Lat. 2; Math. 2 1872-1873 M. Phil.; Pol. Econ.; Math. 3; Gk. 3 1873-1874 N. Phil.; Chem.

Carstairs prize, 1871, 1872, 1873. Miller prize, 1871. Arnott prize, 1874. Ramsay scholar, 1875. Admonished, 1874.

M.A. 22.4.1875.

Student St Mary’s College 1877-1878. Class prize, 1878.

Birth/childhood

Born 25.5.1855 son of William Burns, bank manager, Dundee and Marjorie Gray.

Attended Dundee High School.

Career

Also at New College, Edinburgh - divinity student 1874 - 1877.

Licensed by St Andrews presbytery 1878.

Minister at St Mary’s, Hawick 1880 - 1925 (demitted).

Death

Died 19.12.1935 in Edinburgh.

Sources

• UYUC400: 22.4.1871, 23.3.1874, 16.12.1875
• UYSM400/6/136
• UY452/19/130, 185, 242, 292
• UYUY674
• Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae
• Deaths Reg. Morningside Edinburgh 1935/874