Gillespie, George Robertson ♂

Education

Student United College 1866-1867 Gk. 2; Lat. 2 & 3; Math. 2 1867-1868 Log.; Gk. 3; Lat. 3; Math. 3. Garth bursar, 1866.

Birth/childhood

Born 14.1.1851 son of Sir John Gillespie W.S. [Writer to the Signet], Edinburgh and Margaret Ross Robertson. [Lawyer]

Attended Edinburgh Academy.

Career

Also at Edinburgh University, Heidelberg University and Oxford University - M.A. 1873. (Guthrie scholar, Balliol College).

Advocate 1875. Called to the Bar, 1875. [Lawyer]

Secretary Endowed Schools Commission.

Death

Died 13.10.1892 at Kenmore.

Sources

• UYUC400:3.11.1866
• UYUC560:1868
• UYUC665
• Edin. Acad. Reg.
• F.J. Grant, The Faculty of Advocates in Scotland 1532-1943 (Edinburgh, 1944) (SRS145).