Veitch, JOHN, LL.D.

Veitch, JOHN, LL.D., born at Peebles, October 24, 1829, studied at the university of Edinburgh, and from 1855 to 1860 was assistant to successively Sir William Hamilton and Professor Fraser. He himself became professor of Logic and Rhetoric at St Andrews in 1860, and at Glasgow in 1864. His works include a Memoir of Sir W. Hamilton (1869), Tweed and other Poems (1875), History and Poetry of the Scottish Border (1877; new ed. 1892), Feeling for Nature in Scottish Poetry (1887), Knowing and Being (1889), Merlin and other Poems (1889), Dualism and Monism, and Border Essays (1896). He died 2d September 1894. See Life by Miss Bryce (1896).