Scottish-American educator, born at Paisley, Scotland, on the 20th of April 1856; was distinguished for his attainments in philosophy at St. Andrew’s University, and when quite a young man was called to a professorship in the Imperial College, at Tokyo, Japan, remaining there for twenty-six years. In 1892 he was appointed to the chair of English literature in Washington College, St. Louis, MO. He was the author of several learned publications, among them a Dictionary of Idiomatic English Phrases (1890).
