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

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, probably at the town of Manderston, Stirlingshire. Educated apparently at St. Andrews, he then attended the

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, 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

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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

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Works

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. 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

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. 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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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Manderstown, William 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