Watt, Charles Kinnear ♂

Education

Student United College 1856-1857 Gk. 1; Lat. 1; Math. 1 1857-1858 Gk. 2; Lat. 2; Math. 2; Log. 1858-1859 Gk. 3; Lat. 3; Math. 3; M. Phil.; Exp. Physics 1859-1860 N. Phil.; Pol. Econ.; Chem. 1861-1862 N. Phil. Fallen bursary, 1859, 1860. Gray prize, 1860. Attended Free Church while a student. M.A. 26.4.1864.

Student St Mary’s College 1862-1866. Alexander bursar, 1863. Gray prize, 1866.

Birth/childhood

Born November 1837 son of Robert Watt, cow feeder, Monifieth and Mary Kinnear.

Career

Also at New College, Edinburgh - divinity student 1860-1861.

Intended to study for Free Church ministry, but changed mind and became Editor of the Perthshire Courier. Returned to St Andrews and studied theology.

Licensed by the Church of Scotland. [Minister]

Assistant North Leith, but his health broke down.

Death

Died 8.8.1867 aged 29.

Sources

• UYUC310
• UYUC400:12.12.1859, 16.3.1860
• UYSM400/5/256
• UYUY452/18/31,463
• UYUY911 Literary Soc.
• W. Norrie, Dundee celebrities of the nineteenth century (1873)
• Life prefixed to Sermons
• Deaths Reg. Monifieth 1867/48