Sime/[Syme], George A[lexander] ♂

Education

Student United College 1842-1843 Sens. Phil.

Student St Mary’s College 1840-1841, 1841-1842 occ. 1842-1843. Part bursary, 1843.

Birth/childhood

Baptised 28.10.1821 at Montrose second son of George Alexander Syme, schoolmaster, North Berwick and Jean Mitchell. [Teacher]

Career

Also at King’s College, Aberdeen - M.A. 1840.

Abandoned Church of Scotland - for a time Free Presbyterian minister Dumfries. Baptist minister Nottingham c.1847 - 1862. Migrated to Australia in 1863. Editor of the Age 1866 then edited the Leader until 1885. [Minister]

Death

Died Melbourne [Australia] 31.12.1894.

Sources

• UYSM400/4/255
• Australian Dictionary of Biography under brother David