Dundee celebrities of the nineteenth century : being a series of biographies of distinguished or noted persons connected by birth, residence, official appointment, or otherwise, with the town of Dundee and who have died during the present century / compiled by W. Norrie.
- Norrie, W.
- Date:
- 1873
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Dundee celebrities of the nineteenth century : being a series of biographies of distinguished or noted persons connected by birth, residence, official appointment, or otherwise, with the town of Dundee and who have died during the present century / compiled by W. Norrie. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![DAVID SMART—REV. DR SMALL. 2] held on Dec. 19, of the same year, it was agreed to hand over the portrait to the Provost, in order to its being hung up in the Council Chamber, which was accordingly done. DAVID SMART. DAVID SMART, baker, died at Dundee on Jan. 24, 1806, in the 76th year of his age. His father—Mr Andrew Smart, mason and architect—built the Town House of Dundee, and many other public and private edifices. Mr David Smart was for upwards of fifty years a master baker in Dundee, and often held the offices of Deacon of that trade, and Convener of the Nine Trades. His remains were interred with public honours—the funeral being honoured with the presence of the Magistrates and Town Council, and other public bodies. REV. DR SMALL. ROBERT SMALL, D.D., was the son of the Rev. James Small. minister of Carmylie, and was born there in the year 1733. At an early age, he was sent to the Grammar School of Dundee, where he received the rudiments of his education, which he further prosecuted with marked success at the University. After the com- pletion of his college course, he was licensed as a probationer by the Presbytery of Dundee on May 2, 1759 j and shortly afterwards (May 10, 1761) he was ordained parish minister. Dr Small was a most excellent classical scholar, an eminent divine, and highly popular preacher, besides being deeply versed in mathematics and natural philosophy. Several of his papers are recorded in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 1804, he published a very elaborate and interesting account of the discoveries of Kepler ; but perhaps he is best known by his Statistical Account of the Parish ancl Town of Dundee, which was inserted in the Statistical Account of Scotland, collected under the auspices of Sir John Sinclair, of Caithness. In March 1793, it was published in a separate form, ‘ from respect to the inhabitants of Dundee.’ It](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28146128_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
