Craik, George Lillie ♂

Education

Student United College 1812-1813 Lat. Jun.; Gk. Jun. 1813-1814 Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov.; Log.; Math. Jun. 1814-1815 Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov.; Math. Prov.; Ethics 1815-1816 Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov.; Physics. (Ternar). Foundation bursar, 1812. Gray prize, 1815. M.A. 5.11.1825.

Student St Mary’s College 1816-1819, 1819-1820 occ, 1820-1821 occ. Part bursary, 1816. Gray prize, 1818.

LL.D. 17.3.1810.

Birth/childhood

Baptised 28.4.1798 son of William Craik, schoolmaster, Kennoway and Jane Paterson Lillie. [Teacher]

Career

Edited The Star 1817 - 1826. Professor of History and English Literature, Queen’s College, Belfast 1849 - 25.6.1866 (died). [Editor, university professor]

Publications on English history.

Manual of English Literature, with some new additions. (London: Dent, [1911])

Death

[Died 25.6.1866.]

Sources

• UYUC400:3.11.1812
• UYSM400/3/329
• UYUY452/12/185, 13/21
• F. Boase, Modern English Biography...1851-1900. 6v. (Truro, 1892-1921)