Darwin Correspondence Project

Scottish educator and church elder. Apprenticed as a pupil-teacher in Edinburgh before attending university there. Classical master at the Royal High School of Edinburgh, 1867. Engaged in many activities associated with the Educational Institute of Scotland. Rector of the Otago Boys’ High School in Dunedin, New Zealand, 1878–85. Member of the Knox Church congregation, 1878; member of the Session, 1880. First president of the New Zealand Institute.