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Description: | CRE GRAHAM-GILBERT, John; (Scottish; 1794-1866) The sitter was educated at G.U., In 1790 he declined the Chair of Civil History at St Andrews, which was united with a small country parish, as he was opposed to pluralities. In 1791 he was appointed to the parish of Eastwood, in 1797 to the Tron Church, Glasgow. He was the chief originator behind the Asylum for Lunatics and the Refuge for Juvenile Delinquents. In 1814 he was elected Professor of Divinity at G.U. In 1824 he proposed a monument to the memory of John Knox on the summit of the Necropolis. In 1838 he was made one of the Deans of the Chapel Royal. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | PORTRAIT : MALE : UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW : CAMPUS : PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY : DEAN OF THE CHAPEL ROYAL : ASYLUM : SCOTTISH 19TH CENTURY : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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