JOHN

See also:

• JOHN VEITCH (1829-1894)

VEITCH (1829-1894)  , Scottish poet, philosopher, and historian of the Scottish border, son of a Peninsular veteran, was born at Peebles on the 24th of October 1829, and educated at Edinburgh University . He was assistant Iecturer successively to Sir William Hamilton and A . Campbell Fraser (1856-6o) . In 186o he was appointed to the chair of logic, metaphysics and rhetoric at St Andrews, and in 1864 to the corresponding chair at Glasgow . In philosophy an intuitionist, he dismissed the idealist arguments with some abruptness, and thereby lost much of the influence gained by the force of his personal character . He died on the 3rd of September 1894 . He will be remembered chiefly for his work on Border literature and antiquities . He published translations of Descartes' Discours de la methode (185o) and Miditationes (1852) ; an edition of Sir W . Hamilton's lectures with memoir (1869, in collaboration with H . L . Mansel); Tweed, and other Poems (1875) ; History and Poetry of the Scottish Border (1877; ed . 1893); Institutes of Logic (1885); Knowing and Being (1889); Merlin (1889); Dualism and Monism (1895) ; Border Essays (1896) .

See Memoir by his niece,

Mary R . L . Bryce (1896) .