page_title: Robert Mark Wenley
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Robert Mark Wenley / Life
caption_attribution_description: English: Buccleuch Place Built around 1770, Buccleuch Place belonged to the first phase of Edinburgh's southward expansion, partly in competition with the Georgian New Town expanding to the North. It had its own Dancing Assembly and attracted some notables like Francis Jeffrey, co-founder of The Edinburgh Review in 1802. The writer, Walter Scott, lived round the corner in the adjacent George Square. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the University began buying up properties here for use as departmental offices and tutoring rooms.
context_page_description: Prof Robert Mark Wenley FRSE DCL LLD was a 19th/20th-century Scottish philosopher.
context_section_description: He was born in Edinburgh on 19 July 1861 the son of Jemima Isabella Veitch and her husband, James Adams Wenley FRSE (1841-1902), Treasurer of the Bank of Scotland. The family lived at 4 Buccleuch Place, just south of George Square, Edinburgh.
  In 1869 his father obtained a senior position as Bank Manager in Glasgow and the family relocated to 8 Lynedoch Place, a then-new, mid-terraced townhouse in the Kelvingrove district. He was educated at Park school and Glasgow High School.
  He studied philosophy at the University of Glasgow under Prof John Veitch, his mother's cousin, and under Edward and John Caird. He graduated with an MA in 1884. He was a Fellow at the University until 1888 then went to the University of Edinburgh to gain a doctorate (DSc) in 1891. From 1888 he was also lecturing in logic and moral philosophy at Queen Margaret College, Glasgow.
  In 1896 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Simon Somerville Laurie, Henry Calderwood, Alexander Crum Brown, and Alexander Buchan.
  In 1896 he accepted a post as Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan.
  He died on 29 March 1929 at Ann Arbor in Michigan.
caption: Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh
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