| Administrative History | David Gregory who was born at Drumoak, Aberdeenshire, in 1627, the older brother of the mathematician James Gregory. David was a physician and amateur scientist who communicated with Isaac Newton and had an interest in military science. He had 32 children, and died in 1720. His son, David Gregory, was born in Edinburgh in 1659 and educated both there and at Aberdeen. He was professor of mathematics in Edinburgh (as had been his uncle James) and a lecturer at Oxford before travelling to study in a number of places. He died in 1708. |
| Custodial History | William Henderson's name also appears (1813), as does William Grain, WS. |
| Source | It was presented in the 1920s by Professor Adolphus Alfred Jack (1868-1946), Professor of English, Aberdeen University. Born in 1868, Adolphus Jack was the son of the Professor of Mathematics at Glasgow University. He studied law and literature at Cambridge and graduated MA and LL.M. In 1895 he was admitted barrister at Lincoln’s Inn, London, and was appointed lecturer in English Language and Literature at Queen Margaret College, Glasgow. In 1902 he resigned and returned to London where he was an external lecturer for several institutions until 1908, when he was appointed to the Chair of English at Queen’s College, London. In 1915 he accepted the Chair of English Literature at the University of Aberdeen, replacing Herbert Grierson. He remained in post until his retirement in 1937, publishing on poetry and prose of the early Victorian period as well as some plays of his own. He died in 1946. |