Education
Studied at Geddes School, Culross, and Universities of St. Andrews and Heidelberg. Master of Arts with 1st class Honours in Philosophy, 1874. Tyndall-Bruce Scholar, 1874.
Ramsay Scholar, 1875. B.l). 1877.
Studied at Geddes School, Culross, and Universities of St. Andrews and Heidelberg. Master of Arts with 1st class Honours in Philosophy, 1874. Tyndall-Bruce Scholar, 1874.
Ramsay Scholar, 1875. B.l). 1877.
Assistant to Professor Thomas Spencer Baynes, Doctor of Laws, during session 1876- 1877. Assistant Clergyman successively in St. Michael’s, Dumfries, and Muxwell Parish, Glasgow. Ordained Collegiate Minister of Elgin, 1882.
Examiner in English and Philosophy in University of St. Andrews, 1886-S9. Chairman of Elgin Parochial Board, 1889-1893. Presented to Parish of Deer, Aberdeenshire, by Presbytery of Deer and inducted 1893.
Dean of the Faculty of Arts, St. Andrews, 1902-1907. Honourable Doctor of Divinity of Edinburgh University 1905. Publications literary articles in various journals, 1883-1897.
Letters on Golf, 1889. A Book of the Parish of Deer, 1896. Poems of Alexander Hume, edited for Scottish Text Society, 1902.
Kingis Quair, 1910. Professor of English Literature at St. Andrews since 1897; o. son of late Alexander Lawson and Catharine MacQuarrie.
Club: Scottish Conservative, Edinburgh.