Gibson, Alexander ♂

Education

Student United College 1761-1765 b,s,t,m. (Ternar). Unsuccessful in bursary comp., 1761. Servership, 1762. M.A. 14.5.1765.

Student St Mary’s College 1767-1769.

Birth/childhood

Born c. 1745.

Career

[Perhaps the same as Alexander Gibson, St Mary's College 1765-1766]

Perhaps schoolmaster Pittenweem 1765-1772. Mathematics teacher, Dunbar - c. August 1779. Rector Perth Academy c. August 1779 - 8.7.1809 (resigned). [Teacher]

Death

Died 30.9.1814 at Seafield near Kirkcaldy aged 69.

Sources

• J.M. Beale, A history of the burgh and parochial schools of Fife. Unpublished appendices to Edinburgh University PhD thesis.
• Dundee Advertiser 14.10.1814
• Smart, Hist. Perth Academy