Sim, William Alexander

Education

Student United College 1879-1880 Eng. Lit.; Gk. 1; Lat. 1 1880-1881 Gk. 2; Lat. 2; Math. 1 1881-1882 Log.; Math. 2 1882-1883 N. Phil.; M. Phil. & Pol. Econ. Grant bursar, 1880.

Student St Mary’s College 1882-1883. Rector’s prize essay, 1882-1883.

Birth/childhood

Born 25.8.1858 son of Henry Sim, farmer, Scotsburn, Logie Easter and Helen Montgomery Ross.

Career

Free Church minister St Stephen’s, Edinburgh 1887-1890. Sale English Presbyterian church, Manchester 1890 - . [Minister]

Subsequently went abroad.

Sources

  • UYUC400: 10.11.1880
  • Births Reg. Logie Easter 1858/16
  • W. Ewing, Annals of the Free Church of Scotland 1843-1900 (Edinburgh, 1914)