Academic Career
Meek served as Dean of the Faculties at Glasgow University in 1780 -82; 1784-86 (when Edmund Burke was Rector); 1788–90;1792–94 and 1798–1800. In 1781, the University bestowed on him the degree of Doctor of Divinity.
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