Morton, Alexander ♂

Education

Professor of Humanity, St Andrews University 13.6.1753 - 18.5. 1769. Professor of Greek, St Andrews University 18.5.1769 - 19.5.1772 (resigned).

Career

Tutor to son of Campbell of Stonefield at Leyden 1745 and seems also to have studied at Leyden. Came to St Andrews as governor to James Durham of Largo. Burgess St Andrews 25.5.1749. [Teacher]

Professor of Humanity, St Andrews University 13.6.1753 - 18.5. 1769. Professor of Greek, St Andrews University 18.5.1769 - 19.5.1772 (resigned). [University professor]

Death

Died at Thurdescroft near Castletown, Caithness 19.1.1781.

Sources

• Scots Magazine 1781 p55
• Glasgow University Library, Murray MS 4, Notes for autobiography by Alexander Carlyle