Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow ♂

Education

Professor of Education 21.4.1876 - 5.4.1902.

Birth/childhood

Born 11.7.1830 son of John Meiklejohn, schoolmaster, Edinburgh. [Teacher]

Career

Studied Edinburgh University - M.A. 21.4.1858.

Started various schools, mainly in London. Said to have taken part in the American Civil War. War Correspondent 1864 during Prussia- Denmark War. Unsuccessfully contested two General Elections as a Liberal - Dundee 1874, Glasgow 1886. [Politician]

Professor of Education 21.4.1876 - 5.4.1902. [St Andrews University] [University professor]

Publications

The English language, its grammar, history and literature. American rev. ed. (Boston: D.C. Heath & Co., 1920)

Death

Died at Highworth, Ashford, Kent 5.4.1902.

Sources

• M310 Bramley
• College Echoes 4 p171 and 1902/03 p1
• St Andrews Citizen 12.4.1902
• Scotsman 7.4.1902 p9
• John Meiklejohn in Wikipedia.