Mitchell, Alexander Ferrier ♂

Education

Student United College 1837-1838 Gk. Jun.; Lat. Jun. 1838-1839 Gk. Prov.; Lat. Prov.; Log.; Math. 1; Chem. 1839-1840 Gk. Prov.; Lat. Prov.; Ethics; Math. 2; Civ. Hist.; Sens. Phil.; Chem. 1840-1841 Physics; Chem.; Math. 3; Sens. Phil. 1841-1842 Physiol. 1842-1843 Sens. Phil.; Physiol. Gen. & Anat. Comp.; Anat. Descr. 1843-1844 Anat. Descr.; Physiol. Gen. & Anat. Comp. M.A. 1.5.1841.

Student St Mary’s College 1841-1844. Exchequer bursar, 1842, 1843, 1844.

D.D. 13.12.1862.

Professor of Oriental Languages, St Andrews University 19.12.1848 - 21.11.1868.

Professor of Ecclesiastical History 21.11.1868 - 31.3.1894 (retired).

Birth/childhood

Born 10.9.1822 son of David Mitchell, convener of Local Guilds, Brechin and Elizabeth Ferrier.

Career

Licensed by Brechin presbytery 1844.

Minister Dunnichen 1847-1849.

Professor of Oriental Languages, St Andrews University 19.12.1848 - 21.11.1868. [University professor]

Professor of Ecclesiastical History 21.11.1868 - 31.3.1894 (retired). [St Andrews University]

LL.D. Glasgow 1892.

Publications

Minutes of the Sessions of the Westminster Assembly of Divines...edited...by Rev. Alex. F. Mitchell and the Rev. John Struthers. (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1874)

The Wedderburns and their work. (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1867)

Sources

  • UYSM400/4/250, 254, 269
  • UYUY452/16/34
  • College Echoes 1891/92 p116
  • W.H. Gray, Jubilee jottings (Edinburgh, 1896)
  • DNB
  • Monumental inscription, Brechin Cath
  • Alexander Ferrier Mitchell in Wikipedia.