Lawrie/[Laurie], Henry ♂

Education

LL.D. 9.1.1886.

Birth/childhood

Born 22.9.1837 son of William Francis Hunter Laurie, Writer to the Signet, Edinburgh and Christina Bayne. [Lawyer]

Career

Studied Edinburgh University.

Emigrated to Canada then Victoria. Town clerk Warrnambool 1866-1867. Editor Warrnambool Examiner 1867-1872. Editor Warrambool Standard 1872-1881. Lecturer in Logic, Melbourne University 1881-1886. Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy, Melbourne University 1886-1911 (resigned). [University lecturer, university professor, philosopher]

Publications

Scottish Philosophy in its national development. (Glasgow: James Maclehose & Sons, 1902)

Death

Died 13.5.1922.

Sources

• Scott and Blainey’s Histories of the University of Melbourne
• Edin. Acad. Reg.
• Aust. Dict. Biog.
• Laurie, Henry (1837-1922) in Australian Dictionary of Biography.