Lee, Robert

Education

Student United College 1824-1825 Gk. Prov.; Lat. Prov.; Math. Jun. 1825-1826 Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov.; Log.; Math. 2 1826-1827 Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov.; Ethics; Pol. Econ. 1827-1828 Math. 3; Physics 1831-1832 Chem. (Ternar). Foundation bursar, 1824. Gray prize, 1827, 1831.

Student St Mary’s College 1828-1832. Part bursary, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832. Prize, 1830.

D.D. 9.3.1844.

Birth/childhood

Born 11.11.1804 son of George Lee, boat builder, Tweedmouth and Jane Lambert.

Career

Tutor to George Whyte Melville, the novelist. [Teacher]

Minister Arbroath Chapel of Ease 1833-1836. Campsie 1836-1843. Old Greyfriars, Edinburgh 1843-14.3.1868 (died).

Professor of Biblical Criticism, Edinburgh University 1847-death [1847-14.3.1868]. [University professor]

Publications. An innovator of church ritual.

Death

[Died 14.3.1868.]

Sources

  • UYUC400:27.1.1827
  • UYSM400/4/90, 101, 117, 123
  • UYUY452/14/186, 271, 301
  • Chalmers, Class list, New College CHA6.14.1-4
  • Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae
  • T. G. Nasmyth
  • DNB
  • Life in W. A. Knight, Some nineteenth century Scotsmen