MOIR, Alexander Regent in Marischal College, Jacobite 1715 1 2
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General Notes:
"REGENTS ... ...1688, March 29. Alexander Moir, student of divinitie. 'Brother german to James Moir of Stoniewood.' In place of Robert Keith. 'A gentleman of great erudition and primitive simplicity of manners.' 'No wife, child, nor servant ' (Poll Book). Theses, 1699 (Bodl.). Deprived in 1717. He went to . Edinburgh, and kept a private Academy for sons of Jacobite nobility and gentry for several years. (Lettsom's Life, I. ; Nichols' Lit. Anecd., I. ; Family of Moir and Byres.) Tertian, 1684."
from Officers of Marischal
"Moir, Alexander, regent, Marischal College, Aberdeen Second son of John Moir, 1st of Stoneywood. In the Poll Book of 1696 it states that he had no wife, child or servants."
from Jacobites of 1715 1 2
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