Lee, John ♂

Education

Matriculated Session 1811-1812.

M.A. 15.6.1801. D.D. 28.12.1882.

Professor of Ecclesiastical History, St Mary’s College 8.4.1812-4.1.1823 (resigned).

Principal, United College 12.6.1837-30.11.1837 (resigned).

Birth/childhood

Born 22.11.1779 son of James Lee, weaver, Torwoodlee Mains and Helen Paterson.

Career

Studied Edinburgh University - medical student 1801-1805, M.D. 1801, divinity student 1801-1805. Divinity student U.P. Church [United Presbyterian Church] 1797-1805.

Minister London 1807. Peebles 1808. Practised medicine in London. Declined a medical chair in Glasgow University. [Doctor]

Professor of Ecclesiastical History, St Mary’s College 8.4.1812-4.1.1823 (resigned). [St Andrews University] [University professor]

Principal, United College 12.6.1837-30.11.1837 (resigned). [St Andrews University]

Minister Canongate, Edinburgh 1823-1825. Lady Yester’s 1825-1835. Edinburgh Old Kirk 1835-1840 (demitted).

Principal, Edinburgh University 1840-death [1840-2.5.1859].

F.R.S.E. 1822.

Publications

Lectures on the History of the Church of Scotland. (2 vols). Vol. 1. (Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1860)

Death

Died 2.5.1859.

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