Gibson, Robert Whyte

Education

Student United College 1884-1885 Gk. 1; Lat. 1; Math. 1 1885-1886 Log.; Gk. 2; Lat. 2 1887-1888 M. Phil. & Pol. Econ.; Eng. Lit.; Math. 2 1888-1889 N. Phil.; Math. 1; N. Hist.; Physiol.; Bot. Moncrieffe bursar, 1884, 1888.

Birth/childhood

Born 16.5.1868 son of Henry Gibson, solicitor, Dundee and Elizabeth Pullar Whyte. [Lawyer]

Career

Also at Scottish Episcopal Church theological hall, Edinburgh.

A teacher writing from Tenterden, Kent in 1886.

Various contributions to magazines. Volume of poems privately printed. [Poet]

Death

Died near Seaham October 1893.

Sources

  • UYUC400:4.11.1884, 15.3.1888
  • Births Reg. Dundee St Clements 1868/440
  • Census 1891 St Andrews
  • College Echoes 1893/94 p57
  • St Andrews Citizen 25.11.1893 - ‘missing five weeks ago’