 Two years later his father moved to Edinburgh, where young Andrew attended the Royal High School and later took an arts degree at the University of Edinburgh.The disappearance of his brother David in discreditable circumstances in 1907 so affected him that he gave up his intention to become a barrister and instead studied theology at the local New College.Old habits died hard, however, and his first collection of poems, "Songs of Night", a work of Swinburnean aestheticism, was published in 1910 at his father's expense - pillar of the presbytery though he was.