Low, George ♂
Education
Student United College 1763-1766 s, t, m. (Ternar).
Student St Mary’s College 1766-1767. Table bursar, 1766.
Birth/childhood
Baptised 29.3.1747 son of John Low, farmer, Meikle Tullo, Edzell and Isabel Couper.
Attended Brechin Grammar School.
Career
Also at Marischal College, Aberdeen 1762-1763.
Licensed by Cairston presbytery 1771.
Minister Harray 1774-13.3.1796 (died).
Naturalist. Correspondent of Paton, Pennant and Gough.
Publications
Fauna orcadensis: or, the natural history of the quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, and fishes, of Orkney and Shetland. (Edinburgh: Printed for George Ramsay & Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. etc., 1813)
Death
[Died 13.3.1796.]
Sources
- UYSM400:1/177, 344
- Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae
- DNB
- O. D. Cuthbert, Life and letters, 1995
- MSS in Edinburgh University Library
- biographical note in Papers of George Low, University of Edinburgh Archives Online.