Robert Francis Irvine (or Irwin)

Born at Aberdeen, 1629, the son of Alexander Irvine and Mary Menzies (who, when in Scotland, had given refuge to Jesuits in their house, but who had been in exile abroad for sixteen years); to Scots College, Douai, 17th December 1640, and left for Madrid, 12/17th September 1647; to Scots College, Madrid, 1648, and left for Rome, 22nd November 1649, where, at Scots College, studied Logic but left, 21st June 1650; (in Rome Register, called Alexander, the name of his younger brother; had also been at Scots College, Paris, but dismissed.) (Cf. The Innes Review, vol. V (1954), p. 69). Also mentioned in ‘Annals of the Scots College”.