Tennant, William ♂

Education

Student United College 1799-1800 Gk. Prov.; Lat. Prov.; Log. 1800-1801 Gk. Prov.; Lat. Prov. (Ternar).

Professor of Hebrew 14.1.1835 - 14.10.1848.

Birth/childhood

Born 15.5.1784 son of Alexander Tennant, merchant, Anstruther and Anna Watson.

Career

Clerk to his brother, a corn merchant, first in Glasgow then in Anstruther from 1801.

Schoolmaster Dunino 1813-1816. Lasswade 1816 - 1819. Dollar Academy 1819-1835. [Teacher]

Professor of Hebrew 14.1.1835 - 14.10.1848. [St Andrews University] [University professor]

Publications. LL.D. Marischal College 1848.

Death

Died 14.10.1848.

Sources

• Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae
• DNB
• J.M. Beale, A history of the burgh and parochial schools of Fife. Unpublished appendices to Edinburgh University PhD thesis.
• Gentleman's Magazine 1848 ii 661
• St Andrews Citizen 10, 17, 24 Feb. and 2.9.16 March 1912
• Life by Conolly, 1861
• Monumental inscription, Anstruther East