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    REV . W . ROBERTSON , t > . IX DR . WILLrAM ROBERTSON , " the father of Unitarian Nonconformity > as he is called by Mr . Lindsey , was born in Dublin , October 16 , 1705 . His father was a Scotchman , and carried on the lirfcn manufacture ; his mother , whose

    name was Diana Allen , whom his father married in England , descended from a very reputable family in the Diocese of Durham . From his childhood his constitution was tender and delicate : and he was afflicted with a great weakness in his eyes ,

    till he was 12 years old , when he was sent to school He received his grammar learning under th £ celebrated Dr * Francis Hutcheson , who then taught in Dublin , but was afterwards Professor of Philosophy , in the University of Glasgow . He left Dr . Hutcheson in 1122 , to enter on Academical studies in that

    University : where he continued till the year 1125 , and took the degree of M . A . His tutor in philosophy was Mr . John Lowdon ; he attended also the lectures of Mr . Ross , Professor of Humanity ; of Mr . Dunlop , Professor of Greek ; of Mr . Morthland , Professor of the Oriental languages ; of Mr . Simp * son , Professor of Mathematics , and of Dr . John Simpson ,

    Professor of Divinity . In the year 1725 was revived a dispute , which had been often agitated before , between Mr . John Sterling , the Principal , and the Students , about a ri g ht to chuse a Rector , whose office and power is similar to that of the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford or Cambridge ; Mr . Robertson took part with his fellow . students .

    He and William Campbell , Esq . the son of Campbell of Marwort , whose family afterwards succeeded to the estates and titles of Argyle , were deputed to wait on the Principal , with a petition , signed by more than threescore matriculated Students ,

    The prayer of this petition was , that he would , according to the statutes , on . the 1 st day of March , summon an University meeting for the election of a Rector : which petition he rejected with pontempt . Upon this Mr . William Campbell , in hi * own

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    THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY OF Theology and General Literature ,

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1806, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1723/page/1/