Duncan, Thomas ♂
Education
Student United College 1790-1791 Lat. Jun.; Gk. Jun. 1791-1792 Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov.; Log. 1792-1793 Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov.; Math. Prov.; Ethics. 1793-1794 Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov.; N. Phil.; Civ. Hist. 1795-1796 N. Phil. (Ternar). M.A. 29.4.1795.
Student St Mary’s College 1795-1799. Exchequer bursar, 1796.
LL.D. 10.5.1856.
Assistant to Professor of Mathematics 1798 - 1802.
Professor of Mathematics 31.10.1820 - 23.3.1858 (died).
Birth/childhood
Baptised 19.10.1777 son of John Duncan, farmer, Dunino and Anne Foggie.
Career
Assistant to Professor of mathematics 1798 - 1802. [St Andrews University]
Rector of Dundee Academy 1802 - 1819. [Teacher]
Made freeman of Dundee 18.11.1819.
Professor of Mathematics 31.10.1820 - 23.3.1858 (died). [St Andrews University] [University professor]
Pulbications.
Supplement to Playfair's Geometry and Wood's Algebra: completing a course of mathematics, in theory and practice. (Edinburgh: Printed by Balfour and Clarke, 1822)
Syllabus of an elementary course of the higher mathematics (Edinburgh: Maclachlan and Stewart, 1837)
etc.
Death
[Died 23.3.1858.]
Sources
- UYUY452/10/71, 100
- F. Boase, Modern English Biography...1851-1900. 6v. (Truro, 1892-1921)
- Chalmers, Memoirs p55
- Fife Herald 16.11.1854
- Deaths Reg. St Andrews
- Dundee Town council minute 6.11.1820 - inventory of apparatus bought for Dundee Academy
- Professor Thomas Duncan, St Andrews, Friends of Dundee City Archives
- also information about Thomas Duncan from the collections of the University of St Andrews Library, Reading the Collections, Week 18: Student Reminiscences, June 9, 2015.