Cant, George

Education

Student United College 1784-1785 Gk. Jun.; Lat. Prov. 1785-1786 Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov.; Log. 1786-1787 Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov.; Ethics 1787-1788 Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov.; N. Phil. (Ternar).

Foundation bursar, 1786.

Student St Mary’s College 1788-1792. Foundation bursar, 1790.

Birth/childhood

Possibly baptised 23.3.1765 son of William Cant, Barry and Helen Dalrymple.

Career

Licentiate Church of Scotland. [Minister]

Schoolmaster Auchterderran 1794 -1897. [Teacher]

Schoolmaster Dunino c. 1805 -1813.

Death

Died 31.5.1813 aged 48.

Sources

  • UYUC400:3.11.1784
  • UYSM400/3/106
  • J.M. Beale, A history of the burgh and parochial schools of Fife. Unpublished appendices to Edinburgh University PhD thesis.
  • Monumental inscription, Dunino b.g.