BUIST

George ( eld. son of Rev. John Buist, minister of Tanna dice, For far shire who d. 8 Dec. 1845 in 92 year ). b. Tanna dice 17 Nov. 1805; ed. at St. Andrew’s univ. 1817–24, and at Univ. of Edin.; edited Dundee Courier 1834; established Dundee Guardian 1834; edited Perth Constitutional 1835, and Fifes hire Journal 1837–9, and Bombay Times at Bombay 1840–58; started Bombay Standard 1858; F.R.S. 29 Jany. 1846; founded Bombay Reformatory School of Industry 1850; superintendent of government printing pre Allah a bad 1859 to death; author of Index to books and papers on the physical geography antiquities and statistics of India 1852. d. Calcutta 1 Oct. 1860. Memoir of G. Buist, Cupar 1846; W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 190–2.