John Campbell Shairp
SHAIRP, John Campbell. b. Houston, Uphall, Linlithgowshire , 30 July 1819; d. Ormsary, Ardrishaig, Argyll, 18 September 1885. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy and Glasgow University (1836-39), after which he was a Snell Exhibitioner (a closed scholarship for Glasgow graduates) at Balliol College, Oxford (1840-44). During his time at Oxford he won the Newdigate Prize for English Poetry (1842); he was friendly with Arthur Hugh Clough, and influenced by Matthew Arnold and by the poetry of William Wordsworth*. He was a schoolmaster at Rugby School (1846-57) before returning to Scotland as an ‘Assistant’ (1857) and then Professor (1861) of Humanity (Latin) at the University of St Andrews. He...
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