Moir, Patrick/Peter

Education

Student United College 1783-1784 Gk. Jun.; Lat. Jun. 1784-1785 Gk. Prov.; Lat. Prov.; Log. 1785-1786 Gk. Prov.; Lat. Prov.; Ethics 1786-1787 Gk. Prov.; Lat. Prov.; N. Phil. (Ternar). Seat at bursar table, 1783, 1784, 1785. Given a bursary on recommendation of Mr Baron Stewart Moncrieff.

[M.A. as he was nominated for and obtained an Exchequer bursary, but no record found].

Student St Mary’s College 1787-1791. Exchequer bursar, 1788.

Birth/childhood

Perhaps baptised 5.7.1769 son of Rev. George Moir, minister at Peterhead and Martha Byres.

Career

Secretary to Lord Minto, Governor General of India 1806-1807. Commissioner of Court of Requests at Calcutta [now Kolkata, India] 1807 - 5.2.1810 (died). [Civil servant]

Death

[Died 5.2.1810.]

Sources

  • UYUC400:8.11.1783, 3.11.1784, 1.11.1785
  • UYUY452/9/74, 77, 93, 190
  • Moir genealogy p121