Duff, Alexander ♂
Education
Student United College 1821-1822 Lat. Jun.; Gk. Jun.; Math. Jun. 1822-1823 Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov.; Math. 2; Log. 1823-1824 Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov.; Math. 3; Ethics. 1824-1825 Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov.; Physics. (Ternar). Foundation bursar, 1821. Gray prize, 1825. M.A. 1824 (Senate Minutes).
Student St Mary’s College 1825-1828, 1828-1829 occ. Gray prize, 1829.
Birth/childhood
Born 25.4.1806 son of James Duff, gardener, Auchnahyle, Moulin and Jean Rattray.
Career
Licensed by St Andrew presbytery 1829.
First official Church of Scotland missionary to India 1829 - 1834. In Scotland 1834 - 1840. In India 1840 - ? 1856 - 1863.
Professor of Evangelistic Theology, New College, Edinburgh. [University professor]
LL.D. Marischal College, Aberdeen 1835.
Publications
The Jesuits: the origin and order, morality and practices, suppression and restoration.3rd ed. (Edinburgh: John Johnstone, 1848)
Death
Died 12.2.1878.
Sources
- UYUC400:6 & 7.11.1821
- UYUY452/14/65, 229 - 230, 18/382
- Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae
- DNB
- Various lives
- Alexander Duff (missionary) in Wikipedia
- and The life of Alexander Duff, by Elizabeth B. Vermilye (New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1890