Pitcairn, Joseph ♂

Education

Student United College 1777-1781 b, s, t, m. (Secondar). Wilkie bursar, 1777. Chancellor’s prize, Mathematics 1.

Birth/childhood

Born 1.11.1764 son of Joseph Pitcairn, minister at Carnbee and Janet M’Cormick.

Career

Merchant in New York. U.S. Vice Consul in Paris 1795. Consul in Hamburg 1798.

Benefactor of Carnbee Parish. Married Lady Pamela Fitzgerald in 1800.

Sources

• UYUC400:24.10.1777, 12.4.1780
• C.B.B. Watson, Alexander Cowan of Moray House and Valleyfield (Perth, 1915-17)