George Grub

George Grub (1812–1892) was a Scottish church historian. He was born in Old Aberdeen, and educated at King's College there. He studied law, and was admitted in 1836 to the Society of Advocates, Aberdeen, of which he was librarian from 1841 until his death. He was appointed Lecturer on Scots Law in Marischal College (1841), and was Professor of Law in the University (1881–91). He served as Town Clerk of Aberdeen. His Ecclesiastical History of Scotland (1861), written from the standpoint of an Episcopalian, is dry, but concise, clear, fair-minded, and trustworthy. Grub also edited (along with Joseph Robertson) Gordon's Scots Affairs for the Spalding Club, of which he was one of the founders. This article incorporates text from a...