| Administrative History | William Beverley wrote poems in Scots in the 1830s. He probably lived in Aberdeen as his poems contain references to events and friends there at the time. |
| Source | Presented to the Library in 1932 by William Henderson Harrowes, (1872-1944), Free Church minister, Glasgow. Harrowes was born in Aberdeen in 1872. He graduated MA from Aberdeen University in 1896, before studying at Aberdeen Free Church Theological College. He was ordained to a church in Kirkcaldy, Fife, in 1899, and in 1902 moved to Glasgow where he remained until his retirement in 1929. He was awarded an honorary DD by Aberdeen University in 1935, and died in Glasgow in 1944. |