Masson, Donald Tolmie

Education

M.D. 24.12.1862 by examination.

Birth/childhood

Born 21.1.1826 son of William Masson, tacksman of Flemington, Nairn and Margaret Tolmie.

Career

Studied at King’s College, Aberdeen - M.A. 1849.

Schoolmaster at Knockbain 1844. [Teacher]

Licensed by Chanonry presbytery 1851.

Minister Stoer 1852-1854. Edinburgh, St Oran’s 1854-1897 (resigned).

Published medical and Gaelic papers. He sold his Gaelic library to Aberdeen University.

Vestigia Celtica: Celtic footprints in philology, ethics, and religion. (Edinburgh: Maclachlan & Stewart, 1882)

Death

Died 9.11.1913.

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