Durham, William

Education

Student United College 1779-1781. b,t. (Secondar).

Chancellor’s prize Logic class, 1780; do. Moral philosophy class, 1781.

Birth/childhood

Baptised 8.11.1764 son of James Durham of Largo and Anne Calderwood.

Career

Also at Edinburgh University - 1781-1782 Rhetoric; M. Phil. 1783-1784 Law. [Law student]

Advocate 6.12.1785. [Lawyer]

Death

Died 10.3.1786 at Pontefract on his way to France.

Sources

  • UYUC400:12.4.1780, 11.4.1781
  • W. Wood, The East Neuk of Fife. 2nd ed. (Edinburgh, 1887)
  • F.J. Grant, The Faculty of Advocates in Scotland 1532-1943 (Edinburgh, 1944) (SRS145).