Campbell, William

Education

Student United College 1756-1760 [ ],s,t,m. (Ternar) M.A. 5.5.1760.

Student St Mary’s College 1763-1766.

Birth/childhood

Born 15.7.1738 son of Mr John Campbell, master of St Andrews Grammar School and Jean Corrie. [Teacher]

Career

Schoolmaster at Leuchars 1760 - ? [Teacher]

Minister at Dysart U.P. Church [Dysart United Presbyterian Church] 1774 - 8.3.1792 (died).

Publications

Discourses on important subjects of the Gospel...by Michael Boston....To which is prefixed an account of the author, by the Rev. William Campbell, A.M. Minister at Dysart. (Edinburgh: Printed by D. Paterson, [1787])

Death

Died 8.3.1792.

Sources

  • Births Reg. St Andrews
  • J.M. Beale, A history of the burgh and parochial schools of Fife. Unpublished appendices to Edinburgh University PhD thesis.
  • R. Small, History of the congregations of the United Presbyterian Church 1733-1900. 2v. (Edinburgh, 1904)