J. M. D. Meiklejohn

J. M. D. Meiklejohn (1830–1902), John Miller Dow Meiklejohn, was a Scottish educator and textbook writer. Born in Edinburgh, he worked as a teacher and journalist, and served as a correspondent during the war in Denmark in 1864, before becoming in 1876 the first professor of the theory, history and practice of education at the University of St Andrews. He translated Kant's Critique of Pure Reason into English and produced a long series of popular school books on English grammar, literature, history and geography, which sold in great numbers.