Joseph McCormick, Principal of United College of St Salvator and St Leonard, St Andrews

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• Principal of United College, St. Andrews.
• EDUCATION: St. Andrews University; Master of Arts 1750; Doctor of Divinity, St. Andrews, 1766.
• EDUCATION: Became tutor in the family of Hepburn CLERKINGTON
• EDUCATION: Admitted Principal, 1781.
• OCCUPATION: Principalship at St. Leonard's in conjunction of minister, 1782.
• EDUCATION Appointed one of the Deans of the Chapel Royal, 1783.
• CHURCH: Licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh (that of Dalkeith having declined to proceed to his trials as he had attended the theater), 1757.
• CHURCH: Ordained to Kilmany, 1760.
• CHURCH: Translated to Temple also 1760.
• CHURCH: Translated to Prestonpans, 1771.
• CHURCH: Minister, 1781.
• CHURCH: Elected Moderator of the General Assembly, 1782.
• CHURCH: Translated to St. Leonard's, 1782.

Waterston, Charles D; Macmillan Shearer, A (July 2006). Biographical index of former fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1783-2002: Biographical Index. II. Edinburgh: The Royal Society of Edinburgh. ISBN 978-0-902198-84-5. page 570