Thomson, Alexander

Education

Student United College 1836-1837 Gk. Jun.; Lat. Jun.; Math. 1; Chem. 1837-1838 Gk. Prov.; Lat. Prov.; Log.; Math. 2; Civ. Hist. 1838-1839 Gk. Prov.; Lat. Prov.; Ethics; Math. 3 1839-1840 Gk. Prov.; Lat. Prov.; Physics; Chem.; Sens Phil. 1840-1841 Sens. Phil. M.A. 24.4.1840.

Student St Mary’s College 1840-1841. Exchequer bursar, 1840.

D.D. 9.1.1864 gratis.

Birth/childhood

Born 1820. From Arbroath.

Career

Also at Edinburgh New College 1843-1845.

Free Church missionary to the Jews 1845 for two years at Budapest then Constantinople [Istanbul]. Resigned 1860. Agent for British and Foreign Bible Society 1860-1895. [Missionary]

Publications

Death

Died 15.1.1899.

Sources

  • UYUY452/15/345, 16/6-7
  • UYUY674
  • W. Ewing, Annals of the Free Church of Scotland 1843-1900 (Edinburgh, 1914)