Halliday, Andrew
(male)
1830 - 04/10/1877
Scottish
University of Aberdeen
Wrote for Morning Chronicle; contributed to Mayhew's London Labour (1851), wrote for All the year round (1861); wrote several successful plays. See Boase I: 1294-5, ODNB.
Knowles, James Sheridan
(male)
05/12/1784 - 11/30/1862
Irish
University of Aberdeen
Physician, actor, schoolmaster, and playwright; friend of Hazlitt, Coleridge, and Lamb; ran school in Glasgow; wrote the tragedy Caius Gracchus (1815); wrote several plays for William Macready. See Boase II: 259-60, ODNB.
Mackay, William Sinclair
(male)
1807 - 1865
Scottish
St. Andrews University; University of Aberdeen
Missionary; arrived in India in 1831; editor of
Calcutta Review starting 1849. See Robert Hunter,
History of the Missions of the Free Church of Scotland in India and Africa (Edinburgh: T. Nelson and Sons, 1873) 61-2; Ecclegen: Ministers of the Free Church of Scotland 1843-1900,
http://ecclegen.com/ministers-mac/#MACKAY,%20WILLIAM%20SINCLAIR.
Manson, James Bolivar
(male)
1823 - 11/02/1868
Scottish
University of Aberdeen
Schoolmaster and journalist; schoolmaster at Bannockburn; editor of the Stirling Observer, the Northern Daily Express; on staff at the Edinburgh Daily Review; wrote The Bible in School (1852). See Boase II: 728.
Mitchell, Peter Chalmers
(male)
11/23/1864 - 07/02/1945
Scottish
University of Aberdeen; Christ Church, Oxford
Zoologist, was Secretary of the Zoological Society of London from 1903 to 1935; directed the policy of the London Zoo
Shand, Arthur Innes
(male)
07/02/1832 - 09/20/1907
Scottish
University of Aberdeen
Barrister and author, known as a journalist, critic, biographer, novelist and travel writer
Stuart, John
(male)
1813 - 07/19/1877
Scottish
University of Aberdeen
Archivist and genealogist; secretary of the Society of Scottish Antiquaries, contributed to the Transactions of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. See Boase III: 809-10, ODNB.
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