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Principal master at the Grammar School of Aberdeen

James + Mary Bethune. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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fourth and youngest daughter

The above mentioned Mary Bethune, after William Scott's decease, was married to Doctor James Dun, principal master of the Grammar School of Aberdeen; and to him had two sons, Alexander and John, and a daughter called Mary. Alexander, the eldest, was educated a writer or attorney. He afterwards became an officer of marines. ? John, the other, was appointed one of the Doctors of his father's school. And the daughter, Mary, was married to Dr James Beattie, Professor of Moral . Philosophy and Logic in the Marischal College of

Aberdeen, whose poetical and philosophical works are well known j and who, on account of the merit displayed in them, obtained an handsome reward from Government. And to him has a son called James-Hay, in testimony of regard to the Earl of Erroh

Also known as Mary Beaton