Patrick Campbell MacDougall

FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". This soci ...

(28 November 1806–30 December 1867) was a Scottish minister of the Free Church of Scotland who became Professor of Moral Philosophy at the

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Life

He was born in the manse at

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on 28 November 1806 the son of Janet Campbell and Rev Hugh MacDougall. His father died while Patrick was young and he was sent to

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to live with relatives. He was sent to

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for education and was school dux in 1822. He then studied humanities, Greek and logic at the

. He became Classics master at

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1833-44. Only in 1835 does he appear as a "student of divinity" living at 17 Cheyne Street in

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. In 1840 he appears as P C MacDougall Esq living at 6 West Claremont Street. In 1844 he was appointed Professor of Moral Philosophy at

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, training ministers for the Free Church of Scotland. In 1850 he replaced Professor John Wilson as Professor of Moral Philosophy at the

. He then moved to a large townhouse at 38 Great King Street in

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. His appointment was made by the town council. For various reasons he did not actively take the Chair until 1853. He was the first Convenor of the Free Church's "Widows and Orphans Fund". In 1860 he was elected a Fellow of the

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his proposer being

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. He died at his home 9 Buckingham Terrace on 30 December 1867 and is buried in

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. The obelisk marking the grave lies in a group of similar monuments on the main south path, opposite the smaller south sections.

Family

In 1847 he married a widow, Helen Mary Thompson (1808-1878), daughter of Rev

William Aird Thomson William Aird Thomson (1773-17 March 1863) was a Scottish minister and antiquarian who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1835. Life He was born on 28 January 1773 in the manse at Sanquhar the son of Rev Dr J ...

and the widow of Walter Glass of

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, at

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.''Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae''; by Hew Scott

Publications

*''Papers on Literary and Philosophical Subjects'' (1852)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:MacDougall, Patrick Campbell 1806 births 1867 deaths People from Perthshire Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Burials at the Dean Cemetery 19th-century Ministers of the Free Church of Scotland People educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh