Background
Clark, William Robinson was born on March 26, 1829 in Inverurie.
Clark, William Robinson was born on March 26, 1829 in Inverurie.
Studied at Grammar School, Old Aberdeen. King’s College Aberdeen. Hertford College Oxford.
Doctor of Divinity.
Doctor of Laws. Doctor of Civil Law.
Ordained Deacon, 1857. Priest; Curate of Saint Matthias’s, Birmingham, 1857. Saint Mary Magdalene, Taunton, 1858.
Vicar.
Prebendary of Wells, 1870. Baldwin Lecturer in the University of Michigan, United States of America, 1887. Doctor of Laws Hobart College, Geneva, United States of America, 1888.
Doctor of Civil Law Trinity University, Toronto, 1891.
R.S. 1891; Slocum Lecturer in the University of Michigan, 1899. President of the Royal Society of Canada, 1900.
Doctor of Divinity, Queen's University, Canada, 1902. Honourable Canon of Saint Alban’s Cathedral, Toronto, 1907.
Professor Philosophy, Trinity College, Toronto, since 1882.
Son of Reverend James Clark, Daviot, Aberdeenshire, and Catherine Lyon.