Douglas, Laurence

Education

Student United College 1756-1761 b,s,s,t,m. (Secondar). Wilkie bursar, 1758. M.A. 4.5.1761.

Student St Mary’s College 1761-1765. Listed for bursary, 1762, 1764. Extruded 1762, but recalled.

Birth/childhood

Born c. 1741 son of Robert Douglas, commissary clerk, St Andrews.

Career

Doctor [Teacher] St Andrews Grammar School 1763 -1764 (demitted).

Perhaps the Laurence Douglas, schoolmaster, Dalkeith whose wife’s testament is recorded Edinburgh Commissariot 1798.

Sources

  • UYUC110 Wilkie
  • UYUC400:23.10.1758
  • UYSM400/1/91 - 97, 121 - 6
  • UYUY452/7/146, 190
  • St Andrews Burgh Mins.