Wilkie, William ♂

Education

Professor of Natural Philosophy, St Andrews University 12.11.1759 - 9.10.1772.

Birth/childhood

Born 5.10.1721 son of James Wilkie, Echline, Dalmeny and Margaret Brand.

Career

Studied at Edinburgh University. LL.D. Marischal College, Aberdeen 3.7.1767.

Licensed by Linlithgow presbytery 1745.

Minister Ratho 1753-1759 (demitted).

Professor of Natural Philosophy, St Andrews University 12.11.1759 - 9.10.1772. [University professor]

Publications including Epigoniad.

Death

Died 9.10.1772.

Sources

• Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae
• A. Carlyle, Autobiography of Dr Alexander Carlyle. New ed. (Edinburgh, 1910)
• DNB
• Robert Kerr, Life of Smellie. (Edinburgh, 1811) ii 422