Pyper, William ♂

Education

Professor of Humanity St Andrews University 4.11.1844 - 7.1.1861.

Birth/childhood

Baptised 8.12.1795 son of John Pyper, Rathen, Aberdeenshire and Christian Henderson.

Career

Studied at Marischal College, Aberdeen - M.A. 1815, LL.D. 1844.

Parochial schoolmaster Laurencekirk 1815-1817. Teacher in Maybole, Ayrshire 1817-1820. Teacher Glasgow Grammar School 1820-1822. Classical master Edinburgh High School 1822-1844.

Professor of Humanity St Andrews University 4.11.1844 - 7.1.1861. [University professor]

Publications

Death

Died 7.1.1861.

Sources

• Fife Herald 7.11.1861
• Conolly, Fifeshire biography
• F. Boase, Modern English Biography...1851-1900. 6v. (Truro, 1892-1921)
• DNB