Education
He studied at Queens Royal College, Trinidad, and in London, Edinburgh, Berlin, Leipzig and Marburg.
He studied at Queens Royal College, Trinidad, and in London, Edinburgh, Berlin, Leipzig and Marburg.
Ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1892, he taught Greek in Pine Hill College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, until 1907, and served as principal from 1904 to 1907. In 1907 he became president of Toronto University, retiring in 1932. He was knighted in 1917. His books include The Truth of the Apostolic Gospel and Idealism in National Character, 1920.