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.]

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