Background
Born in Edinburgh on 11 July 1836, he was son of John Meiklejohn, an Edinburgh schoolmaster, and was educated at his father"s private school, 7 Saint Anthony Place, Portuguese Hopetoun.
(Title: The British Empire: its geography, resources, comm...)
Title: The British Empire: its geography, resources, commerce, land-ways and water-ways. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The GEOGRAPHY & TOPOGRAPHY collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. Offering some insights into the study and mapping of the natural world, this collection includes texts on Babylon, the geographies of China, and the medieval Islamic world. Also included are regional geographies and volumes on environmental determinism, topographical analyses of England, China, ancient Jerusalem, and significant tracts of North America. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow; 1891. viii. 336 p. ; 8º. 10024.cc.12.
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Born in Edinburgh on 11 July 1836, he was son of John Meiklejohn, an Edinburgh schoolmaster, and was educated at his father"s private school, 7 Saint Anthony Place, Portuguese Hopetoun.
He graduated Master of Arts
At Edinburgh University on 21 April 1858, when he was the gold medallist in Latin. At an early age he devoted himself to German philosophy, and Meiklejohn became a private schoolmaster, first in the Lake district and then in Orme Square and York Place, London. He also lectured and took up journalism, in 1864 acting as a war correspondent in the Second Schleswig War, and being arrested as a spy.
In 1874 Meiklejohn was appointed as assistant commissioner to the endowed schools commission for Scotland, and made educational suggestions in its report.
In 1876 Andrew Bell"s trustees instituted a chair of the theory, history, and practice of education in Saint Andrews University, and Meiklejohn was appointed as the first professor There he influenced educational ideas at a time when the national system of education was undergoing a reconstruction.
Meiklejohn unsuccessfully contested the Glasgow Tradeston parliamentary constituency as a Gladstonian liberal in 1886. He died at Ashford, Kent, on 5 April 1902, and was buried there.
Meiklejohn married Jane Cussans or de Cusance.
(Title: The British Empire: its geography, resources, comm...)