Peter John Anderson

“ Dugal was educated at the school of Chanonry and the universities of Aberdeen (where he graduated M.A.) and Paris. On his return to Scotland, according to George Mackenzie (1669–1725) [q. v.] , he was installed a regent in the university of Aberdeen, ‘with the unanimous applause of the whole masters of the University.’ Of this appointment there is no mention in the records of the university, which, however, are very imperfect for the sixteenth century. ”

“ A fourth edition was printed at Edinburgh by Lekpreuik in 1566 (Dickson and Edmond, Annals of Scottish Printing, p. 23) . The work is valuable to the student of early Scots, a great part of the book being in that dialect, though devoted only to Latin grammar. ”

“ VAUS or VASCUS, JOHN (1490?–1538?) , latinist and the earliest Scottish writer on grammar, was born at Aberdeen about 1490. He appears to have studied at Paris (verses addressed by him to his fellow students in Lockhart's Materia Noticiarum, Paris, 1514) , and to have returned to his native town in 1515 or 1516, when he was appointed humanist or professor of Latin in the college of St. ”