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McNeill, Sir John (1795–1883) Knight, diplomatist and surgeon
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Letter from John Gibson Lockhart
Add. MS a/208/67 · Item · 11 Jan. 1847
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Regent's Park - JGL's good friend Sir John McNeill, late minister in Persia, was educated at St Andrews and now writes on a subject connected with his alma mater. Comments regarding the Greek Chair at Glasgow.
James David Forbes to William Whewell
Add. MS a/204/122 · Item · 10 Jan. 1858
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Edinburgh - JDF hopes WW will travel another half a day and stay with him. He is currently lecturing three days a week. JDF is 'not at all indisposed to several of the proposed improvements' to Edinburgh University: 'But of course I am annoyed by the absurdities and misrepresentations of our eccentric (though not unamiable) professor of Greek. With Sir John McNeill's pamphlet I thoroughly agree. And not least in his denunciation of the competitive examination system for the civil service'.