Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2015 https://archive.org/details/b24748341 OFFICERS AND GRADUATES OF UNIVERSITY AND KING'S COLLEGE ABERDEEN Only 525 Copies printed OFFICERS AND GRADUATES llnitiersitg h l&ing's Calleg ABERDEEN MVD—MDCCCLX EDITED BY PETER JOHN ANDERSON, M.A., LL.B. ABERDEEN Cprtnfe^ for f6c (Ucw ^jjaf^tng Cfu6 MDCCCXCIII : : : Cl^e Seto Spalbtng Club. Founded iith November, 1886. ^Pntrcncss HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN. 0^^:FICE-BE-A.iaEK,S r'OK. 1892-9 3. THE EARL OF ABERDEEN, LL.D. The Duke of Richmond and Gordon, Kj I., The Earl of Rosebery, K.G., LL.D. D.C.L. The Lord Forbes. The Duke of Fife, K.T. The Lord Saltoun. The Marquis of Huntly, LL.D. The Lord Provost of Aberdeen. The Marquis of Bute, K.T., LL.D. The Principal of the University of Aberdeen. The Earl of Strathmore. Sir George Reid, P. R.S.A., LL.D. The Earl of Southesk, K.T., LL.D. James A. Campbell of Stracathro, M.P., LL.D. The Earl of Kintore, LL.D. William Ferguson of Kinmundy. fflrtitia*!) JtltittbcvB of fflottncil William Alexander, LL.D., Aberdeen. I George Arbuthnot-Leslie of Warthill. Colonel James Allardyce, Aberdeen. : The Rev. Robert Lippe, Aberdeen. George Cadenhead, Procurator-Fiscal, Aberdeen. David Littlejohn, Sheriff-Clerk, Aberdeen. The Rev. James Cooper, D.D., Aberdeen. Peter Duguid-M'Combie of Easter Skene. William Cramond, LL.D., Cullen. James Matthews of Springhill. Peter M. Cran, City Chamberlain, Aberdeen. The Rev. John G. Michie, Dinnet. John Crombie of Balgownie Lodge. James Moir, LL.D., Co-Rector of the Grammar Alexander Davidson of Dess. School, Aberdeen. The Rev. J. Myers Danson, D.D., Aberdeen. Arthur D. Morice, Aberdeen. Charles B. Davidson, President of the Society of Alexander M. Munro, Aberdeen. Advocates, Aberdeen. Charles Rampini, LL.D., Sherift'-Substitute, Elgin. Thomas Dickson, LL.D., H.M. Gen. Reg. House. Alexander Ramsay, Banff. The Hon. and Right Rev. Bishop Douglas, D.D., Major John Ramsay of Barra. Aberdeen. Alexander W. Robertson, Librarian, Public Library, William Dunn of Murtle. Aberdeen. John Philip Edmond, Haigh. John Forbes Robertson, London. James Ferguson, Edinburgh. The Rev. James Smith, B.D., Aberdeen. Alexander M. Gordon of Newton. The Rev. William Temple, Forgue. Henry Wolrige-Gordon of Esslemont. Alexander Walker, Aberdeen. The Rev. Walter Gregor, LL.D., Pitsligo. George Walker, Aberdeen. John A. Henderson, Aberdeen. Robert Walker, Aberdeen. Sir William Henderson, Aberdeen. John Forbes White, LL.D., Dundee. Brigade-Surgeon Lieut. -Col. W. Johnston, M.D., Professor John Dove Wilson, LL.D., Aberdeen. Newton Dee. Robert M. Wilson, M.D., Old Deer. The Rev. William Forbes-Leith, S.J., Selkirk. ' The Rev. John Woodward, LL.D., Montrose. Peter John Anderson, 2 East Craibstone Street, Aberdeen. (Ertasttrcr Farquharson Taylor Garden, 18 Golden Square, Aberdeen. Jlubttors George Cooper, C.A., Aberdeen ; and William Milne, C.A., Aberdeen. (lOtttuUB in aeDum (pev HiuioB memoreeque fasfoB Hor. i PREFACE. Of Graduates and of Officers, only meagre and broken records are preserved in the archives of the Scottish Universities. Such works as Anthony a Wood's Athenae and Fasti Oxonienses, Boase's Register of the University of Oxford, Foster's Alumni Oxonienses, Cooper's Athenae Cantabrigienses, Luard's Graduati Cantabrigienses, etc., the Scottish academic annahst need not attempt to rival, either in completeness or in detail. Nor—apart from the adoption of some system analogous to the admirable Quinquennial Catalogue of the older American Colleges—does it seem possible for our Universities to accumulate material adequate to the needs of the future historian. Even such lists of names as are extant have hitherto been made public only to a very limited extent. Appendices added by Professor Andrew Duncan to Professor Thomas Crawfurd's History of the University of EdinbiLrgh (Edinb., 1808-21) give the Register of Graduates in Medicine, 1705-1821. This list is continued to 1845 in Nomina eorwn ijtii Gradum Medicinae Doctoris in Acad. Jac. VI. Scot. Regis, quae Edinb. est, adept sunt (Edinb., 1846) ; and to 1866 in a List of the Graduates in Medicine of the University of Edinburgh (Edinb., 1867). In 1858 Mr. David Laing edited for the Bannatyne Club a Catalogue of Graduates in the Faculties of Arts, Divinity, and Law at the University of Edinburgh since its Foundation. An Alphabetical List of the Graduates of the University of Edinburgh from 1859 to 1888, compiled by Mr. Thomas Gilbert, Registrar of the viii PREFACE. University, carries the record down to the date of issue. In this connection may be noted two contributions to the literature of the Tercentenary Celebrations of the same University in 1884: the Viri Illustres of Professor Patrick Geddes, and the Quasi Cursores of Mr. William Hole. The third volume of the Munimcnta Alme Universitatis Glasguensis, edited in 1854 for the Maitland Club by Mr. Cosmo Innes and Mr. Joseph Robertson, contains lists of Masters of Arts of the University of Glasgow for the periods 1578- 1695 and 1707-27. The present Assistant Registrar, Mr. Innes Addison, has compiled a MS. Catalogue of all Graduates, honorary and ordinary, from 1728 to 1890; and it is under- stood that the propriety of printing this is under consideration. No part of the Records of the University of St. Andrews has as yet been published. As regards the Universities of Aberdeen, the Fasti Aber- donenses, edited in 1854 by Mr. Cosmo Innes, and presented to the original Spalding Club by its President the fourth Earl of Aberdeen, includes a transcript of the list of Masters of Arts of University and King's College for the period 1600-86. It has been thought no unfitting task for the Nev/ Spalding Club to complete the work begun under the auspices of the parent Society, and to herald the approaching Quatercentenary of the older Aberdeen University by the issue of a volume containing a Record, as exhaustive as it is now possible to compile, of the Officers and Graduates of King's College, down to the date when it ceased to exist as a separate corporation, being merged, with Marischal College and University, in the University of Aber- deen. The Fasti Acadeniiae Mariscallanae, of which the first portion appeared in 1889, will in its second volume contain a like Record for Marischal College, 1593- 1860. The archives of the University have, in the freest manner, been placed at the service of the Editor. Appended is an Inven- M PREFACE. ix tory of the Manuscripts (chiefly in the Library or the Muniment Room at King's College) with which he has made himself familiar, and on which he has almost exclusively depended for the details (other than those in footnotes) printed in this volume. Minutes of Faculty or Senatus of Kings College :— Vol. I. June 26, 1634, to March 14, 1650. I November 10, 1663, to October 24, 1666. II. November 17, 1662, to November 6, 1679.) May 30, 1681. I III. October 24, 1684, to October 21, 1689. IV. January 15, 1700, to March 4, 1706. V. January 10, 1709, to January 18, 17 14. VI. April 1716, to April i, 25, 1717. | November 22, 1717, to August 6, 1722.) VII. August 22, 1722, to November 6, 1733. VIII. January i, 1734, to April 30, 1754. IX. April 10, 1754, to May 14, 1762. X. March 30, 1761, to October 29, 1765. XI. November 5, 1765, to August 17, 1770. XII. October 31, 1770, to May 4, 1789. XIII. October 7, 1789, to March 18, 1800. XIV. March 27, 1800, to July 6, 1818. XV. July II, 1818, to October 29, 1831. XVI. November 2, 1831, to October 22, 1847. XVII. October 28, 1847, ^ September 11, i860. Minutes of Rectoral Meetings : March 2, i 708, to October 14, 1857. [An earlier " Rectorall Register," referred to in College Minutes, cannot now be traced.] Albtini [A'] : without Title. Entrants: 1601-79, 1686. (Prior to 1661 the entries, with some exceptions, are autograph.) Masters of Arts : 1600-64, 1666-70, 1672-82, 1686. * The latter portion an incomplete transcript of part of vol. ii. b ) X PREFACE. Album \B'\: without Title (fragment). Entrants : 1668-74. Masters: 1677-87. Album [C] eoriim qui in inclyta Academia Regia Aber- donensi Liberalium Artium Magistri seti Philosophiae Doctores renunciati simt. 1722. Masters: 1712-1811. Not autograph. Album \C : other end] eoru7ii qui in S. Sanctae Theologiae, Juris Canonici aut Civilis, et Medicinae Facultatibus, honore aliquo, Baccalaureatus scil., Licentiatus, aid Docto7'atus gradu insigniti sunt in inclyta Academia Regia A berdonensi. 1722. Sanctae Theologiae Doctores, 1500-1815. Juris Doctores, 1714-1822. Medicinae Doctores, 1654-18 18. Album Stndiosorum Almae Matris Academiae Regiae A berdonensis, A.D. 17 17. Entrants in Greek class : 1718-26. Not autograph. Bajans, Semis, Tertians, Magistrands : i 720. Autograph. Entrants in Greek class: 1 721-18 11. Students in classes of Greek, Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, Moral Philosophy: 181 2-1 7. Students in ditto, also Senior Greek, Junior and Senior Latin, and Chemistry : 1818-20. Students in Junior Greek and Junior Latin : 1821. All autograph, with note of county from 1721. Album Studiosorum Academiae Regiae Aberdonensis. Entrants: 1601-79, 1686. (Transcr. from x^. Entrants in Greek class: 17 17-1 8 11. (Transcr. from D.) Students in classes of Greek, Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, with note of county, 1812-16. (Transcr. from D.) PREFACE. xi Artium Magistri : 1600-64, 1666-70, 1672-84, 1686 (transcr. from A); 1693-95, 1697, 1700-01, 1705-06, 1710-11 (from Theses); 1712-1811 (from C) ; 1812-60. Medicinae Doctores : 1654- 1800 (from C). Juris Doctores: 1714-1822 (from C) 1823-58. ; Sanctae Theologiae Doctores: 1620-1815 (from C) ; 1816-58.