Watson, Robert

Education

Student St Salvator’s College 1744-1747]

Student United College 1747-1748. M.A. 6.5.1748.

LL.D. 14.8.1776.

Professor of Logic, Rhetoric and Metaphysics, United College 18.6.1756 - 9.1.1778.

Principal of United College 9.1.1778 - 1.4.1781.

Birth/childhood

Baptised 10.5.1730 son of Andrew Watson, apothecary, St Andrews and Jean Walker.

Career

Also at Edinburgh and Glasgow Universities [Edinburgh University, Glasgow University].

Lecturer in rhetoric in Edinburgh. [University lecturer]

Professor of Logic, Rhetoric and Metaphysics, United College 18.6.1756 - 9.1.1778. [St Andrews University] [University professor]

Principal of United College 9.1.1778 - 1.4.1781. [St Andrews University]

Publications

Death

Died 1.4.1781.

Sources

  • Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae
  • DNB
  • W. Mure, Selections from family papers at Caldwell. 2v. (Edinburgh, 1854) 2:1098
  • Annual biography and obituary 1819
  • Rhetorica 12 1994