Cleghorn, Hugh ♂

Education

Professor of Civil History 1.4.1773 - 2.3.1793 (chair declared vacant). LL.D. 10.11.1827 (gratis).

Birth/childhood

Born 21.3.1752 son of John Cleghorn, brewer, Edinburgh and Jean Scott (daughter of Professor of Greek, Edinburgh).

Career

Educated at Edinburgh University - M.A. 8.12.1772.

Professor of Civil History 1.4.1773 - 2.3.1793 (chair declared vacant). [St Andrews University] [University professor]

Chief Secretary to the Government in Ceylon [Sri Lanka] 1798 - 1800.

Acquired estate of Stravithie in 1806. [Landowner]

The Cleghorn papers, a footnote to history: being the diary, 1795-1796, of Hugh Cleghorn of Stravithie, edited by William Neil; with a foreward by Sir Alexander Sprot. (London: A. & C. Black, 1927)

Death

Died 18.2.1836 at Stravithie.

Sources

• Veterum Laudes p185
• A. Clark, An enlightened Scot
• Portrait by Skirving - Trans. East Lothian Ant. and Field Soc. 12 1970 p54
• Deaths Reg. Dunino
• Monumental inscription, Dunino b.g
• Hugh Cleghorn (colonial administrator) in Wikipedia, and the Cleghorn Papers at the University of St Andrews Library: Hugh Cleghorn of Stravithie (msdep53).