LBT ID: JaFrench1835 | B/BAP: 1761 DIED: 1835-04-26 |
SOURCES: William Steven, History of the High School of Edinburgh (1849) 92; Charles Rogers, Genealogical Memoirs of John Knox and the Family of Knox (1879) 166 | |
The son of James French, master at Edinburgh High School. He was ordained in 1786 and was
minister of Carmunnock (1786) and East Kilbride (1791); while in college he had been
private tutor to Walter Scott. | |