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          George MacDonald's life () spanned the greater part of the nineteenth century.

          Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Scott, Alexander John (1805-1866)

          ​SCOTT, ALEXANDER JOHN (1805–1866), first principal of Owens College, son of Dr. John Scott (d. 1836), minister of the Middle Church, Greenock, by his wife Susanna, daughter of Alexander Fisher of Dychmount (Hew Scott, Fasti, ii.

          240), was born at that town on 26 March 1805. He was educated at the local grammar school and at the university of Glasgow, which he entered at the age of fourteen and remained there until he was twenty-one. Having graduated M.A.

          in 1827, he was about the same time licensed by the presbytery of Paisley to preach in the church of Scotland.

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          5. He had previously obtained a tutorship in Edinburgh, where he attended medical classes at the university. His first sermon after he was licensed was preached for the Rev. John McLeod Campbell [q. v.], who heard him ‘with very peculiar delight.’ In the following year (1828) he made the acquaintance of Thomas Erskine [q.

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