MC COMBIE

William (only child of William Mc Combie, farmer). b. Cairn ball och, parish of Alford, Aberdeen shire 8 May 1809; a labourer on his father’s farm; farmed Cairn ball och to 1867; contributed to newspapers, to the British Quarterly Review, and to Journal of sacred literature; joined staff of North of Scotland gazette 1849; edited the Aberdeen Daily Free pre from first number 6 May 1853 to death; a preacher in John st. Baptist ch. Aberdeen; author of Hours of thought 1835, 3 ed. 1856; Moral agency and man as a moral agent 1842; Memoirs of Alexander Bethune 1845; Use and abuse, the relation to labour of capital, machinery and land 1852; On education, in its constituents, objects and i ues 1857. d. Broad ford Bank, Aberdeen 6 May 1870. Aberdeen Daily Free Pre 13 May 1870 p. 5; Newspaper Pre , iv 153–4 (1870); Nicoll’s James Mac donald, journalist (1890) 34–9.