Herkless, John ♂
Education
Professor of Ecclesiastical History 18.7.1894-7.4.1915.
Principal of the University 7.4.1915-11.6.1920 (died in a Dundee nursing home after an operation).
Birth/childhood
Born 9.8.1855 younger son of William Herkless, engineer, Glasgow and Janet Robertson.
Career
Studied Glasgow University - D.D. 1898, LL.D. 1919.
Licensed by Glasgow presbytery.
Minister at Tannadice 1883-1894.
Knighted 1917. Provost of St Andrews 1911-1913.
Professor of Ecclesiastical History 18.7.1894-7.4.1915. [St Andrews University] [University professor]
Principal of the University 7.4.1915-11.6.1920 (died in a Dundee nursing home after an operation). [St Andrews University]
Publications mainly on Scottish ecclesiastical history.
The College of St Leonard: being documents with translations, notes and historical introductions, prepared and edited by John Herkless and Robert Kerr Hannay. (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1905)
The Archbishops of St Andrews. Vol. 1. (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1907)
Cardinal Beaton, priest and politician. (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1891)
Death
[Died in a Dundee nursing home after an operation 11.6.1920.]
Sources
- Who was Who
- Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae
- Fife News Almanac 1916
- College Echoes 1901/02 p171, 1915/16 p6
- St Andrews Citizen 19.6.1920
- John Herkless in Wikipedia.