Davidson, David ♂

Education

Student United College 1814-1815 Lat. Jun.; Gk. Jun. 1815-1816 Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov.; Log.; Math. Jun. 1816-1817 Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov.; Math. Prov.; Ethics 1817-1818 Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov.; N. Phil. (Secondar). Guild bursar, 1814. Wilkie bursar, 1817.

Student St Mary’s College 1818-1819, 1820-1822. Part bursary, 1818. Alexander bursar, 1820.

Birth/childhood

Born 29.12.1801 son of David Davidson, minister at Dundee South Church and Janet Swan.

Career

Also at Edinburgh University - divinity 1819-1820. [Divinity student]

Licensed by Dundee presbytery 1822.

Minister at Broughty Ferry 1827 - 25.8.1843 (died).

Publication.

Connextion of sacred and profane history. (New York: Carter, 1849). [Originally published Edinburgh, 1842.]

Death

Signed Protest on his deathbed.

[Died 25.8.1843.]

Sources

• UYUC400:19.4.1817
• Dundee Town Council minutes 10.11.1814
• UYSM400/3/338, 348-9
• Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae
• W. Ewing, Annals of the Free Church of Scotland 1843-1900 (Edinburgh, 1914)