Haldane, Robert ♂

Education

D.D. 1.7.1815.

Professor of Mathematics 14.10.1807-21.7.1820. Principal of St Mary’s College 21.7.1820-9.3.1854.

Birth/childhood

Born 27.1.1772 eldest son of John Haldane, farmer, Overtown, Lecropt and Margaret Kinross.

Career

Studied at Glasgow University.

Licensed by Auchterarder presbytery 1797.

Minister Drumelzier 1807-1809. St Andrews 1st charge 1820-1854.

Professor of Mathematics 14.10.1807-21.7.1820. Principal of St Mary’s College 21.7.1820-9.3.1854. [St Andrews University] [University professor]

F.R.S.E. 1820.

Publications

Remarks on a report by a committee appointed by the town council of St Andrews to inquire into the conditions of the poor in that city...By the Rev. Dr. Haldane. (Cupar-Fife: Printed in the Fifeshire Journal Office, 1840)

Death

Died 9.3.1854.

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