Tripti Joshi (Editor)

William Jordan Rattray

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Occupation
  
journalist and author

Education
  
University of Toronto

Died
  
September 26, 1883

Role
  
Journalist

Name
  
William Rattray


Born
  
1835
London, England

William Jordan Rattray (1835 – 26 September 1883) was a Canadian journalist.

Born in London, England, his father was Scottish. He went to Canada with his parents in 1848, and they settled in Toronto, where he graduated from the University of Toronto in 1858. He engaged in journalism as an editorial writer on the Toronto Mail. He also contributed to the Canadian Monthly and other periodicals and established a reputation as an able defender of Christianity against agnosticism. He wrote The Scot in British North America (4 vols., Toronto, 1883).

References

William Jordan Rattray Wikipedia