David macphail author biography essay

MACPHAIL, Sir ANDREW (baptized John Andrew McPhail, he would sign Andrew Macphail from about 1893), teacher, journalist, physician, university professor, author, editor, agricultural experimenter, and army officer; b. 24 Nov.

1864 in Orwell, P.E.I., fourth of the ten surviving children of William McPhail* and Catherine Elizabeth Smith; m. 19 Dec. 1893 Georgina Nightingale Burland (d. 1902) in Montreal, and they had one son and one daughter; d. there 23 Sept.

1938.

Andrew Macphail was the son of a well-respected Scottish-born teacher who became one of the most effective school visitors in 19th-century Prince Edward Island.

David macphail author biography essay examples

Shortly before Andrew’s birth, his parents moved into the rural district of Orwell; virtually everyone there was of Scottish origin and an adherent of some form of Calvinism. Andrew attended the two-room grammar school in neighbouring Uigg.

In 1880 he obtained a scholarship and proceeded to Charlottetown for two years of stud