Forgan, Robert ♂

Education

Student United College 1876-1877 Gk. 1; Lat. 1; Math. 1 1877-1878 Log.; Gk. 2; Lat. 2 1878-1879 M. Phil.; Pol. Econ.; Eng. Lit.; Lat. 3; Math. 2 1879-1880 N. Phil.; Gk. 3 1880-1881 Geol.; Physiol. Maxwell bursar, 1876. Baxter bursar, 1878. M.A. 21.4.1881 1st cl. hons. Classics.

Student St Mary’s College 1879-1881. B.D. 21.4.1886. D.D. 4.7.1919.

Birth/childhood

Born 17.2.1860 son of Robert Forgan, founder of club making firm, St Andrews and Elizabeth Berwick.

Career

Also at New College, Edinburgh 1881-1885 and Edinburgh University - matriculated in arts and theology 1881. [Arts student, theology student]

Free Church minister Montrose, St George’s 1886-1892. Rothesay West 1892-1898. Aberdeen, Gilcomston Free Church and U.F. 1898-1923 (resigned). Chairman, Foreign Mission Committee 1923- . [Minister]

Publications including The Golfer’s handbook (Cupar: John Innes, 1881).

Death

Died 10.1.1940.

Sources

• UYUC400:1 & 9.11.1876, 12.12.1878
• UYUY452/20/50
• UYUY672
• W. Ewing, Annals of the Free Church of Scotland 1843-1900 (1914)
• J.A. Lamb, Fasti of the United Free Church of Scotland 1900-1929 (Edinburgh, 1956))