Forbes, Henry Ogg
(male)
01/30/1851 - 10/27/1932
Scottish
University of Aberdeen; University of Edinburgh
Explorer and naturalist; explored the Moluccas, Sumatra and New Guinea; Director of the Canterbury Museum in New Zealand; wrote Wanderings of a Naturalist in the Eastern Archipelago (1885)
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Geddes, William Duguid
(male)
11/21/1828 - 02/09/1900
Scottish
University of Aberdeen
Professor of Greek at the University of Aberdeen; wrote A Greek Grammar (1855) and other works.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
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.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
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.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Leask, William Keith
(male)
04/16/1857 - 05/02/1925
Scottish
University of Aberdeen; Worcester College, Oxford
Classics lecturer at the University of Aberdeen; wrote biographies of Hugh Miller and of James Boswell.
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.
Minto, William
(male)
10/10/1845 - 03/01/1893
Scottish
University of Aberdeen; Merton College, Oxford
Academic, critic, editor, journalist and novelist; wrote articles for the Examiner, the Daily News, and the Pall Mall Gazette; Professor of Logic and English Literature at Aberdeen; wrote Characteristics of English Poets from Chaucer to Shirley (1874) and other works.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
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
Neil, Robert Alexander
(male)
12/26/1852 - 06/19/1901
Scottish
University of Aberdeen; Peterhouse, Cambridge
Classical and oriental scholar; fellow of Pembroke college; expert on Sanskrit.
Nicholson, Reynold A.
(male)
08/18/1868 - 08/27/1945
English
Trinity College, Cambridge; University of Aberdeen
Orientalist; expert in Islamic literature; professor of Persian;
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
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
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.
Stuart-Glennie, John Stuart
(male)
1841 - 1910
Scottish
University of Aberdeen
Barrister, folklorist, and socialist; wrote In the Morningland or The law of the origin and transformation of Christianity (1873), Isis Or, the Origin of Christianity: As a Verification of an Ultimate Law of History (1878), and other works.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)