Person: Dougall (2), Charles Shirra

Charles Shirra Dougall was a Scottish school teacher who became Rector of Dollar Academy.

John, like Charles, achieved distinction during his undergraduate years and has a biography in this archive.
Charles Dougall entered the University of Glasgow after having studied at the EC Normal College.
Dougall was awarded an M.A. with First Class Honours in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy from the University of Glasgow in 1894.
We trust that Mr Dougall will never have cause to regret the step he has taken in coming to Dollar, and that the Governors and all well-wishers will have every ground for satisfaction in the choice which has been made of a Headmaster to our far-famed Academy.
Dougall's appointment as Rector of Dollar Institution, followed George Thom's retirement due to ill health.
During Dougall's Rectorship, the Government introduced the National Pay Scale.
Dougall resigned through ill health in 1922, and died in Stirling in 1930.
In the above quote by Bruce Baillie, reference is made to Dougall's expertise as a Burns scholar.
The second is Robert Burns poems, epistles, songs, epigrams & epitaphs, a collection of Burns' work edited by Dougall.
Dougall joined the Edinburgh Mathematical Society in January 1897 when teaching at Whitehill School in Glasgow.
Charles Dougall remained a member of the Society throughout his life.

Born 3 September 1868, Kippen, Stirlingshire, Scotland. Died 2 January 1930, Stirling, Scotland.

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Origin Scotland

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