Nisbet/[Nesbit], Robert

Education

Student United College 1816-1817 Lat. Jun.; Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov. 1817-1818 Gk. Prov.; Lat. Prov.; Log.; Math. Jun. 1818-1819 Gk. Prov.; Lat. Prov.; Math. Prov.; Ethics 1819-1820 Gk. Prov.; Lat. Prov.; Physics 1824-1825 Chem. (Ternar). Foundation bursar, 1816. Gray prize, 1820. Special prize, 1826.

Student St Mary’s College 1821-1823 occ., 1823-1825. Part bursary, 1823, 1825.

Birth/childhood

Born 22.3.1803 son of Benjamin Nesbit, farmer, Bowsden, Durham and Mary Hudspith.

Career

Tutor to Major Mackay, Bighouse, Thurso etc. [Teacher]

Licensed by Caithness presbytery 1825. Resident Exeter 1826. [Minister]

Ordained missionary 1826. In India 1827 - 27.7.1855 (died).

Joined Free Church in 1843. Composed poem on St Andrews wreck.

Death

[Died in India 27.7.1855.]

Sources

  • UYUC400:5.11.1816
  • UYSM400/4/11, 12c
  • UYUY452/13/89, 14/137
  • Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae
  • W. Ewing, Annals of the Free Church of Scotland 1843-1900 (1914)
  • Edinburgh, New College CHA4.37.13,CHA4.48.4,6, CHA4.52.42, CHA4.52.42
  • J. Murray Mitchell, Memoir