Lawson, Alexander ♂
Education
Student United College 1869-1870 Eng. Lit.; Gk. 1; Lat. 1; Math. 1 1870-1871 Log.; Gk. 2; Lat. 2; Math. 2; N. Hist. & Comp. Anat. 1871-1872 M. Phil.; Pol. Econ.; Gk. 3; Lat. 3 1872-1873 N. Phil.; Chem. 1873-1874 Math. 3. Garth bursar, 1869. Bruce bursar, 1870. Ramsay scholar, 1874. Miller prize, 1870, 1871, 1873. M.A. 24.4.1874 1st cl. hons. Mental Philosophy.
Student St Mary’s College 1873-1877. Gray prize, 1875. Class prize, 1875, 1876. Chancellor’s prize, 1875. Muir prize for Dutch scholarship, 1876. Cook and McFarlan prize, 1876. B.D. 28.4.1877.
Professor of English Literature, St Andrews University 1898-1920. (retired).
Birth/childhood
Born 18.9.1852 only son of Alexander Lawson, Low Valleyfield, Culross and Catherine McQuarrie.
Career
Licensed by St Andrews presbytery 1877.
Minister 2nd charge, Elgin 1882-1893. Deer 1893-1898.
Professor of English Literature, St Andrews University 1898-1920. (retired). [University professor]
Publications
The poems of Alexander Hume (?1557-1609), edited...by Alexander Lawson. (Edinburgh: Printed [for the Scottish Text Society] by William Blackwood & Sons, 1902)
Death
Died in Edinburgh 29.1.1921.
Sources
- UYUC400:2.11.1869, 23.4.1870, 22.4.1871, 26.4.1873, 17.12.1874
- UYSM400/6/72, 74, 83, 98, 102
- UYUY452/19/60, 100, 316, 332
- Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae
- Who was Who
- College Echoes 1902/03 p109
- St Andrews Citizen 29.1.1921
- Deaths Reg. Edinburgh St Andrews 1921/36