Knight, William Angus ♂

Education

Professor of Moral Philosophy, St Andrews University 17.10.1876-30.3.1903 (resigned).

Birth/childhood

Born 22.2.1836 2nd son of George Fulton Knight, minister at Mordington and Jessie Angus.

Career

Studied Edinburgh University.

Minister Dundee, St Enoch 1874-1876.

Professor of Moral Philosophy, St Andrews University 17.10.1876-30.3.1903 (resigned). [University professor]

Joined Scottish Episcopal Church in 1879.

Publications. LL.D. Glasgow 1879.

Tales by Leigh Hunt, now first collected with a prefatory meoir by William Knight.(London: William Paterson, 1891)

The philosophy of the beautiful; being outlines of the history of aesthetics. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891)

Death

Died at Keswick 4.3.1916.

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