MacCormick, Joseph

Education

Student United College 1785-1786 Lat. Jun. 1786-1787 Lat. Jun.; Gk. Jun. 1787-1788 Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov.; Math. Jun. 1788-1789 Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov.; Log.; Math. Prov. 1789-1790 Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov.; Ethics 1790-1791 Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov.; N. Phil. (Secondar). Chancellor’s Prize, Public Greek class, 1787.

M.A. 2.5.1791.

Student St Mary’s College 1791-1793.

Birth/childhood

Born 2.1.1774 son of Joseph MacCormick, Principal of United College [St Andrews University] and Mary Simpson.

Career

Advocate 1796. [Lawyer]

Acquired estate of Mountville. [Landowner]

Death

Died at St Andrews 25.6.1806.

Sources

  • UYUC400:3.5.1787
  • F.J. Grant, The Faculty of Advocates in Scotland 1532-1943 (Edinburgh, 1944) (SRS145)
  • Dundee Advertiser 4.7.1806
  • Deaths Reg. St Andrews