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