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Adam Gifford (1820-1887). The Reader's Biographical Encyclopaedia. 1922

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Adam Gifford (1820-1887). The Reader's Biographical Encyclopaedia. 1922 Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Bibliographic Record Hugh Chisholm, et al., eds.  The Reader’s Biographical Encyclopædia.  1922.
17,000 Articles from the Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th & 12th eds. Adam Gifford (1820–1887) Founder of the Scottish lectureships in natural theology, born in Edinburgh in 1820, studied at the university there, and was called to the Scotch bar in 1849. He became sheriff of Orkney in 1865, was raised to the bench as Lord Gifford in January 1870, and died at Granton, near Edinburgh, on January 20, 1887. By his will he left $125,000 to the University of Edinburgh, $100,000 each to Glasgow and Aberdeen, and $75,000 to St. Andrews, to endow lectureships in natural theology, subject to no dogmatic tests whatsoever. The first lecturers appointed were Max Müller, E. B. Tylor, Andrew Lang, and J. Hutchison Stirling. © 2022 WEHD.com

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