M’Kay, Macintosh ♂

Education

Student United College 1814-1815 Lat. Jun.; Gk. Jun. 1815-1816 Gk. Prov.; Lat. Prov.; Math. Jun.; Log. 1816-1817 Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov.; Math. Prov.; Ethics 1817-1818 Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov.; Physics; Chem. (Ternar). Mackay bursar, 1814.

Birth/childhood

Born 18.11.1793 son of Captain Alexander M’Kay of Duartbeg and Helen Falconer.

Career

Also at Edinburgh University - divinity student 1822-1824, Aberdeen University and Glasgow University - LL.D. 1829.

Tutor to the family of a gentleman in Sutherland. [Teacher]

Licensed by Skye presbytery.

Minister Laggan 1824-1832. Dunoon 1832-1843. Melbourne 1854-1856. Sydney 1856-1861. Tarbert, Harris 1862-1868.

Publications. Gaelic scholar - edited a Gaelic dictionary. [Editor]

Dictionarium scoto-celticum. [vol.1]: a dictionary of the Gaelic language...compiled and published under the direction of the Highland Agricultural Society of Scoltand. (Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1828)

Death

Died 17.5.1873.

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