Ferrier, James Frederick ♂

Education

Professor of Moral Philosophy and Political Economy 11.8.1845 - 11.6.1864.

Birth/childhood

Born 16.6.1808 son of John Ferrier, W.S. [Writer to the Signet], Edinburgh and Margaret Wilson. [Lawyer]

Career

Studied Edinburgh University and Oxford University - B.A. Oxford 1832. LL.D Edinburgh 1858.

Professor of Civil History, Edinburgh University 1842-1845. [University professor]

Professor of Moral Philosophy and Political Economy 11.8.1845 - 11.6.1864. [St Andrews University]

Publications

Institutes of metaphysic: the theory of knowing and being.(Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1854)

Death

Died St Andrews 11.6.1864.

Sources

• DNB
• Deaths Reg. St Andrews
• F. Boase, Modern English Biography...1851-1900. 6v. (Truro, 1892-1921)
• D. Pryde, Pleasant memories p59