Robertson, John

Education

Student United College 1810-1811 Gk. Jun.; Lat. Jun. 1811-1812 Gk. Prov.; Lat. Prov.; Log.; Math. Jun. 1812-1813 Gk. Prov.; Lat. Prov.; Ethics; Math. Prov. 1813-1814 Gk. Prov.; Lat. Prov.; Physics 1814-1815 Chem. (Ternar). Foundation bursar, 1810. M.A. 23.12.1814.

Student St Mary’s College 1814-1816. Foundation bursar, 1814.

Birth/childhood

Baptised 9.1.1796 son of James Robertson, linen manufacturer, Dundee and Isabella Stewart.

Career

Also at Edinburgh University - divinity student 1816-1818.4P.

Licentiate of the Church of Scotland, but never had a charge. [Minister]

Lived in Dundee and was treasurer and secretary of various charitable institutions.

Death

Died 12.12.1869 aged 74.

Sources

  • UYUC400:6.11.1810
  • UYSM310/2
  • UYSM400 /3/318
  • D. Marshall, Notebook (in ms37049)
  • W. Norrie, Dundee celebrities of the nineteenth century (1873)