Cant, James

Education

Student United College 1781-1783, 1783-1784 Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov.; N. Phil. 1784-1785 Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov. (Ternar).

Chancellor’s prize Private Latin theme, 1785.

Birth/childhood

Probably born Perth.

Career

Perhaps the man who was schoolmaster Burntisland 1778 -1781. [Teacher]

Theological student Burgher Church 1785 -1790. [Theology student]

Probationer for some years.

Parochial schoolmaster, Dron.

Perhaps the same as [James Cant, St Mary's College 1801-1802]- signatures very similar.

Death

Died 1836.

Sources

  • UYUC400:15.4.1785
  • Edinburgh, New College, G. Brown, Annals of the Divinity Hall of the Secession Church of Scotland...(?1869) Manuscript UPC3