Smith, William Stuart)(William Stewart

Education

Student United College 1825-1826 Gk. Jun.; Lat. Jun.; Math. Jun. 1826-1827 Gk. Prov.; Lat. Prov.; Log. Gray bursar, 1825.

Birth/childhood

(Possibly baptised 24.6.1811 son of William Smith, Middlebie and Jean Bell.)

Attended Closeburn Academy and Lochmaben Parochial School.

Career

Classics master at Torthorwald January 1830 on. Emigrated 1842. Rector of Canada’s first public High School in Quebec c. 1843 on. [Teacher]

Death

Died 14.4.1862 aged 61.

Sources

  • UYUC400:1 &2.11.1825
  • St AUL Correspondence files of the Keeper of Muniments, University of St Andrews 8.1962
  • Parliamentary Papers 1841 Session 1 vol. xix pt 1