Moncur, William Ritchie

Education

Student United College 1831-1832 Gk. Jun.; Lat. Jun. 1832-1833 Gk. Prov.; Lat. Prov.; Log. 1833-1834 Gk. Prov.; Lat. Prov.; Ethics; Math. 1 1834-1835 Physics. Part bursary, 1832, 1834, 1835.

Student St Mary’s College 1835-1837, 1838-1839 occ. Part bursary, 1836, 1837.

Birth/childhood

Baptised 16.3.1810 son of James Moncur, Findogask and Catherine Scott.

Career

Also at Edinburgh University - divinity student 1837-1838.

Minister Botriphnie (not parish minister). Free Church minister Liff 1843-1877 (resigned).

Went to Tasmania.

Death

Died in Tasmania 7.1.1897 aged 86.

Sources

  • UYUC400:4.2.1832, 15.12.1832, 5.4.1834, 17.2.1835
  • UYSM400/4/156, 165
  • UC459 Box B file 3
  • W. Ewing, Annals of the Free Church of Scotland 1843-1900 (1914)
  • A. Elliot, Lochee p141