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He was the son of the Review J. Buist, born at Tannadice, Forfarshire, on 22 November 1805.
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He was the son of the Review J. Buist, born at Tannadice, Forfarshire, on 22 November 1805.
He was editor of the Bombay Times. After studying at Saint Salvator"s College, Saint Andrews, at Saint Mary"s College, and Edinburgh University, he was licensed in 1826 as a preacher. He preached irregularly for six years, delivered a course of lectures on natural philosophy at Saint Andrews town hall in 1832.
In 1832, also, Buist became editor of the Dundee Courier (later the Constitutional).
He left it in 1834, and set up the Dundee Guardian on his own account, and also the Scottish Agricultural Magazine. He was invited to edit the Perth Constitutional in 1835.
After a visit to London in 1837, and two years" management of the Fifeshire Journal, he accepted in 1839 the post of editor of the Bombay Times. Buist was at the Bombay Times for 20 years.
He used its columns to argue against retaliation after the Afghan uprising of 1842.
In January 1846 Buist was back again at the Bombay Times, where he continued as editors He went on leave to the United Kingdom again in 1856, leaving Robert Knight in charge. From January 1858 Buist ran the Bombay Standard.
He had been sacked by the proprietors of the Bombay Times, who were Parsis, for hate speech against Indians in the aftermath of the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
In 1859 Buist retired from journalism to take up a government appointment at Allahabad. He died at sea, en-route to Calcutta on 1 October 1860.
Buist became unpaid inspector of the observatories of Bombay. During his time in England in 1845 he obtained special grants from the government for improving agricultural machines and rural economy in India, and for establishing 12 observatories, from Cape Comorin to the Red Sea, for meteorological and tidal research.
He also formed the geological collection for the museum of Elphinstone College, Bombay.
In 1846 Buist was appointed to the honorary position of sheriff of Bombay. In 1847 he planned, and in 1850 founded, the Bombay Reformatory School of Industry for the reformation and education of Indian children, of which he was superintendent, under the patronage of the governor, Lord Elphinstone.
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