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7 unusual facts about University of Aberdeen


Anthroposophical medicine

In 2012 the University of Aberdeen considered establishing a chair in holistic health jointly funded by Software AG, and by the Anthroposophic Health, Education and Social Care Movement, each of which would provide £1.5 million of endowment.

Brian Woledge

Woledge held lectureships at the University of Hull and the University of Aberdeen before being appointed at the age of 35 to the Fielden Chair of French in University College London, where he headed up the French department until his retirement in 1971.

Frank George Young

As a research fellow Young studied diabetes at the University of Aberdeen and the University of Toronto.

Henry Hepburne-Scott, 10th Lord Polwarth

Apart from his career in industry and politics he was Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen from 1966 to 1986.

Louise Gibson Annand

Papers relating to her studies at the Hamilton Academy; the University of Glasgow and Jordanhill Training College (together with papers of her father from his time as an undergraduate at the University of Aberdeen) have been deposited with the University of Glasgow Archives.

Nations in Scottish universities

Student nations continued into modern times at the University of Aberdeen and the University of Glasgow for the specific purpose of electing a Rector of the university.

University of Baltimore Center for International and Comparative Law

He has also taught comparative media law at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, Cyber law at The University of Netherland, Antilles in Curacao, and U.S. Constitutional and copyright law at Shandong University, China.


Aberdeen University Rifle Club

There have been numerous representatives from the University of Aberdeen but currently the only medal winner is Neil Stirton who won silver at Munich World Cup 2008.

Brian Binnie

The family returned to Scotland when Binnie was five, and lived in Aberdeen (his father taught at Aberdeen University) and later in Stirling.

Colin H. Williams

He is an Honorary Professor of Celtic Studies at the University of Aberdeen, and at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, University of the Highlands and Islands.

David Maclean

Educated at Fortrose Academy, Fortrose, The Black Isle, Highland, and at the University of Aberdeen, he was elected to the House of Commons in a by-election in 1983 following the ennoblement of William Whitelaw.

David Prain

Born to a saddler in Fettercairn, Scotland, in 1857, Prain attended the Fettercairn Parish School and the University of Aberdeen, where he gained his M.A. in 1878.

Davide Limmiere

After studying at Keele University followed by a doctorate at Aberdeen University, Limmiére decided not to join any football clubs in either Scotland or England in order to focus on his new career.

Frederick Baltimore Calvert

In 1829 he became elocutionary lecturer of King's College, University of Aberdeen and gave lectures on oratory, poetry, and other literary subjects in the large towns of Scotland and England.

George Adlington Syme

His father, George Alexander Syme (1821–1894), a brother of David Syme and Ebenezer Syme, was a graduate of the University of Aberdeen and became a Baptist clergyman in England.

Henry J. Watt

He entered the University of Aberdeen in 1896, graduating with a Master's degree in philosophy in 1900.

History of education in Scotland

He assisted in the reconstruction of Marischal College, Aberdeen, and in order to do for St Andrews what he had done for Glasgow, he was appointed Principal of St Mary's College, St Andrews, in 1580.

Ian Diamond

Sir Ian David Diamond, DL, FBA, FRSE, AcSS (born 14 March 1954) is the Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen.

James Meston, 1st Baron Meston

He was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School and at the University of Aberdeen, and passed the Indian civil service examination in 1883.

Katrina Honeyman

Honeyman held temporary posts at the universities of Aberdeen and Manchester before taking up an appointment in the School of Economic and Social Studies at the University of Leeds in 1979.

Marjory Kennedy-Fraser

Alec had completed in 1881 his MA with Honours at the University of Aberdeen and in 1885 was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Methylthioninium chloride

Methylthioninium chloride (INN, or methylene blue, proposed trade name Rember) is an investigational drug being developed by the University of Aberdeen and TauRx Therapeutics that has been shown in early clinical trials to be an inhibitor of Tau protein aggregation.

NHS Grampian

NHS Grampian is also very closely linked with both the University of Aberdeen and The Robert Gordon University, especially in the fields of research, workforce planning and training.

Robert Gordon of Straloch

The younger son of Sir John Gordon of Pitlurg, Knt, (died 1600) by his spouse Isabel, daughter of William Forbes, 7th Lord Forbes, Robert Gordon was educated at the Marischal College, University of Aberdeen, of which he was the first graduate, and afterwards at the University of Paris.

Robert Morison

Born in Aberdeen, Morison was an outstanding scholar who gained his Master of Arts degree from the University of Aberdeen at the age of eighteen.

Roy Hendry Thomson

Thomson attended Aberdeen Grammar School and gained an MA (honours) in psychology from the University of Aberdeen in 1955, later joining the British Psychological Society.

Scottish Gaelic dictionaries

A partnership of the universities of Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Strathclyde and Sabhal Mòr Ostaig UHI is working to develop an authoritative, historical Gaelic dictionary comparable to the resources available for Scots and English through the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue, the Scottish National Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary.

Sir Ewan Forbes, 11th Baronet

In 1939, Forbes was accepted as a medical student at the University of Aberdeen, graduating in 1944 and taking up the post of Junior Casualty Officer at the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.

Thomas Ruddiman

He was born at Raggal, Banffshire, where his father was a farmer, and educated at the University of Aberdeen.

Tom Patey

He first became interested in climbing while he was in the Scouts, but it was at the University of Aberdeen, where he trained as a doctor, that he first revealed his full talent as an exploratory climber, captaining the Lairig Club.

Torrance family

James (J. B.) Torrance (1923–2003) – Late Church of Scotland minister and Professor of Systematic Theology, University of Aberdeen.

Undergraduate gowns in Scotland

At the University of Aberdeen, and particularly within the predecessor King's College the gown (or toga rubra) has had varied fortunes over the years.


see also

John Hargreaves

John D. Hargreaves, professor of history at the University of Aberdeen

Ubi caritas

More recent versions of the hymn for choir have been composed by David Conte, and University of Aberdeen professor Paul Mealor.