Smith/[Smyth], Robert Gillespie ♂

Education

Student United College 1791-1792 Gk. Jun.; Lat. Jun. 1792-1793 Gk. Prov.; Lat. Prov.; Log. 1793-1794 Lat. Prov.; Ethics; N. Phil.; Civ. Hist. (Secondar). Ramsay bursar, 1791.

Birth/childhood

Born 4.2.177 son of James Gillespie, Principal, St Mary’s College, St Andrews and Jean Fortune.

Career

Assumed name of "Smyth" on succession to Gibliston. [Landowner]

Also at Edinburgh University.

Writer to the Signet. [Lawyer]

Deputy Lieutenant, Fife and Major, Fife Militia. Justice of the Peace. [Soldier]

Death

Died at Gibliston 11.11.1855.

Sources

• UYUC400:3.12.1791
• Society of Writers to His Majesty's Signet: with a list of members (Edinburgh, 1936)
• M.F. Conolly, Biographical dictionary of eminent men of Fife (Cupar, 1866)
• Monumental inscription, Carnbee