William Manderstown (c.1485–1552, also spelled ''Manderston'') was a Scottish philosopher and
Rector of the University of Paris.
Life
He was born in the
diocese of St. Andrews
The Archdiocese of St Andrews (originally the Diocese of St Andrews) was a territorial episcopal jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in early modern and medieval Scotland. It was the largest, most populous and wealthiest diocese of the mediev ...
, probably at the town of
Manderston,
Stirlingshire. Educated apparently at St. Andrews, he then attended the
University of Paris, where he graduated licentiate in medicine, and became one of the school of
Terminists (at whose head was
John Mair). On 15 December 1525, he succeeded
Jean Tixier de Ravisi as rector of the University of Paris. Before 1539 he returned to Scotland, where he and John Mair co-founded a bursary or chaplaincy in St. Salvator's, and endowed it with the rents of houses in South Street, St. Andrews. On 3 April in the same year, Manderstown witnessed a charter at
Dunfermline Monastery. He also served as rector in
Gogar.
Works
In 1519, with
George Lokert
George Lokert of Ayr (c. 1485 – 1547) was a Scottish philosopher and theologian who made significant contributions to the study of logic. A pupil of John Mair, he also studied and taught at the University of Paris, and eventually served ...
and
Gervasius Waim,
''Scholasticon'' page
/ref> he edited the ''Quaestiones ac decisiones physicales'' of Albert of Saxony.
In 1518 Manderstown published at Paris two works, ''Bipartitum in Morali Philosophia Opusculum'', dedicated to Andrew Forman, and ''Tripartitum Epithoma Doctrinale''; in the latter he was later said to have plagiarised from Jérôme de Hangest. Besides these, Thomas Tanner attributes to Manderstown: 1. ''In Ethicam Aristotelis ad Nicomachum Comment''; 2. ''Quæstionem de Futuro Contingenti''; 3. ''De Arte Chymica''.
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1485 births
1552 deaths
Scottish philosophers
Rectors of the University of Paris
16th-century Scottish people
16th-century philosophers
People from Stirling (council area)
Alumni of the University of St Andrews
University of Paris alumni
16th-century Scottish medical doctors