Flint, Robert ♂
Education
Professor of Moral Philosophy 16.11.1864-29.7.1876 (resigned).
Birth/childhood
Born 14.3.1834 son of Robert Flint, shepherd, Greenburn, Sibbaldie later merchant, Glasgow and Grace Paterson.
Career
Educated at Glasgow University 1849-1859, LL.D. 1876, D.D. 1901. Also D.D. of Edinburgh, 1876, Princeton 1896, and Aberdeen 1906; LL.D. of Yale 1901 and Edinburgh 1904.
Minister at Aberdeen East 1859-1862. Kilconquhar 1862-1865 (demitted).
Professor of Moral Philosophy 16.11.1864-29.7.1876 (resigned). [St Andrews University] [University professor]
Professor of Divinity, Edinburgh University 1876-1903 (retired).
Publications. F.B.A. [Fellow of the British Academy].
Anti-theistic theories, being the Baird Lecture for 1877. 4th ed. (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1879)
Agnosticism. The Croall Lecture for 1887-88. (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1903)
Death
Died at Edinburgh 25.11.1910.
Sources
- W.I. Addison, Matriculation albums of the University of Glasgow 1728-1858. 15620
- Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae
- St Andrews Citizen 13.8.1921
- D. Macmillan, Life…1914
- The Student 2 Nov. 1889 p98)
- Robert Flint in Wikipedia.