gave a similar course to the Duke of Edinburgh,
when both were resident in the city.
On his removal to London in 1866 he was
succeeded as Rector by James Donaldson, LL.D.,
one of the ablest preceptors that Scotland has produced,
Dr. Donaldson was born at Aberdeen on
the 26th of April, 1831, and was educated at the
Grammar School and Marischal College and University
of his native city, and the University of
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ship and liberal views. Particularly has he distinguished
himself by his exhaustive study of the
early Christian Fathers, and his "Critical History
of Christian Literature and Doctrine from the
Death of the Apostles to the Nicene Council "
(3 vols.), is a standard work on the important subject
with which it deals; while the " Ante-Nicene
Christian. Library," of which he is joint-editor,
affords further proof of the great and permanent
Edinburgh University, Rector of the High School
of Stirling in 1854, classical master in the High
School of Edinburgh in 1856, and Rector of the
same school in 1866, in succession, as has been
seen, to Dr. Leonhard Schmitz. During his rectorship
the High School conspicuously sustained
the world-wide reputation which it has always enjoyed
for the all-round excellence of its education.
Though Dr. Donaldson devoted himself to the
watchful guidance of the great institution over
which he presided with rare zeal and affectionate
solicitude for its interests and those of the scholars
entrusted to his care, .he found time to enrich
the classical and educational stores of his country
by various works exhibiting alike profound scholardepartment
of Christian history and theology. Dr.
Donaldson was elected Fellow of the Royal Society
of Edinburgh, and received the degree of LL.D.
from -4berdeen University; he has edited at different
times various periodical journals, and has
contributed several articles to the " Encyclopzdia
Britannia.." In 1881 he was appointed professor
of Humanity in the University of Aberdeen.
Among other eminent classical masters in the
new High School were John Macmillan, a native
of Dumfries-shire, and John Carmichael, a native
of Inverness, who was succeeded in 1848 by his
nephew, also named John Carmichael, who had
won classical distinction both in the Edinburgh
Academy and at the University, and who was one
