At 8, Queen Street, Edinburgh, on the 22d current, Mrs THOMSON, widow of the late John Thomson, Esq. Professor of the Theory of Music in this University, of a son. This notice from Edinburgh newspaper The Caledonian Mercury, on 25 November 1841, caught my eye while I was researching another possible source for our first-year […]

  The Reid School of Music is named for General John Reid, who left money to the University for the establishment of a Chair in Music and an annual concert, also to be held in his name. As the portrait featured here shows, Reid was an accomplished flautist and also a composer: his most famous […]