Carson, Aglionby Ross ♂
Education
LL.D. 28.4.1826 gratis.
Birth/childhood
Born 1780 at Holywood, Dumfriesshire.
Career
Studied Edinburgh University 1797 - 1801 arts and 1801-1804 divinity. [Arts student, divinity student]
Rector Dumfries Grammar School 1801 - 1806. Classics master, Edinburgh High School 1806 - 1820. Rector 1820 - 1845 (resigned). [Teacher]
Declined chair of Greek at St Andrews University in 1820.
Classical scholar. Publications. F.R.S.E. 1821.
C. Cornelii Taciti opera: ad fidem optimorum exemplarium recensuit A.R. Carson, LL.D. (Edinburgh: Bell & Bradfute, 1843)
etc.
Death
Died at Edinburgh 4.11.1850.
Sources
- DNB