On This Day: 5th of May

On this day in 1774:

James Moor
James Moor (c 1712-1779) resigned as Professor of Greek. He continued to receive his salary and was permitted to remain in his house at the College.

Births and Deaths

On this day in 1871
Alexander Carruthers was born.

On this day in 1871
Joseph Macnaughtan Christie was born.

On this day in 1864
William Brodie was born.

On this day in 1846
John MacMillan Brown was born.

On this day in 1864
William Robert Forrester was born.

On this day in 1868
Charles Frederick Pollock Fraser was born.

On this day in 1970
Constance Helen Margaret Archibald died.

On this day in 1877
Helen Maxwell Armour was born.

On this day in 1882
James Robert Brown was born.

On this day in 1889
David Buchanan was born.

On this day in 1889
Robert Clark was born.

On this day in 1884
Margaret Rennie Cowie was born.

On this day in 1855
Alexander Hutchison was born.

On this day in 1889
John Ferguson Hutton was born.

On this day in 1888
William Johnstone was born.

On this day in 1867
John Munro was born.

On this day in 1965
Edward Camden Smith died.

On this day in 1922
Harry Fred Tomson was born.

On this day in 1969
Waldo Hilary Dunn died.

On this day in 1892
Nelson Downie was born.

James Learmont McBeanOn this day in 1890
James Learmont McBean was born.

On this day in 1984
Agnes Jessie Frew died.

On this day in 1890
Isabel Stirling Thomson was born.

Cecilia GerrardOn this day in 2015
Cecilia Gerrard died.

On this day in 1893
Annie Turnbull Macpherson was born.

On this day in 1892
William McWilliam was born.