MacCormick, Joseph

Education

[Student St Salvator’s College 1746-1747]

Student United College [1747-1750] (Secondar).

M.A. 7.5.1750.

Student St Mary’s College [1750-[?]]. Exchequer bursar, 1750.

D.D. 10.5.1766 (gratis).

Principal of United College, St Andrews 18.7.1781-17.6.1799.

Birth/childhood

Born 22.6.1733 son of John MacCormick, minister, St Andrews and Anna Drew.

Career

Licensed by Dalkeith presbytery 1757.

Minister Kilmany 1760. Temple 1760-1771. Prestonpans 1771-1782. St Leonards 1781-17.6.1799 (died).

Principal of United College, St Andrews 18.7.1781-17.6.1799.

Publications. F.R.S.E. 1783.

Acquired estate of Pratis. [Landowner]

State Papers and Letters addressed to William Carstares.... (Edinburgh: W. Strahan & T. Cadell, 1774)

Death

[Died 17.6.1799.]

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