Dickson, William Purdie ♂

Education

Student United College 1837-1838 Lat. Jun.; Gk. Jun.; Math. 1 1838-1839 Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov.; Log. 1839-1840 Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov.; Math. 2; Ethics 1840-1841 Gk. Sen.; Physics 1842-1843 Physiol. Gen. & Anat. Comp. 1843-1844 Physiol. Gen. & Anat. Comp.; Anat. Descr. Servership bursar.

Student St Mary’s College 1841-1844, 1844-1845 occ. Part bursary, 1843, 1844. Certificates and bursary suspended for impropriety, 1842. Gray prize, 1844.

D.D. 5.11.1864.

Birth/childhood

Born 22.10.1823 son of George Dickson, minister at Kilrenny and Mary Lockhart.

Career

Licensed by Linlithgow presbytery 1845.

Minister at Cameron 1851 - 1863. Professor of Biblical Criticism, Glasgow University 1863 - 1873. Professor of Divinity 1873 - 1895 (resigned). LL.D. Edin. [Edinburgh] 1885. D.D. Glas. [Glasgow] 1895. Publications. [University professor]

Death

Died 9.3.1901.

Sources

• UYUC400:23.2.1843
• UYSM400/4/248 - 9, 255, 270
• UYUY452/16/176
• UYUY674
• Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae
• W.H. Gray, Jubilee jottings (Edinburgh, 1896) p37