Free Church of Scotland Ministers (1843-1900): L

Ewing – List of Ministers: L

 
Here there is the text of Ewing’s Annals of the Free Church of Scotland, 1843-1900 followed by some Supplementary material. Information about this Supplementary material is available here. Subjects dealt with include Abbreviations, the way place names are recorded: Recording Locations and Publications.
 

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LAIDLAW, ARCHIBALD SCOTT, B.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.202
Born at Stewarton, 1860. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained, 1886, missionary to Madras. Married, 1889, Emily Lacroix Duffield. Resigned, 1893. Settled the same year at Huntly.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Huntly, Aberdeenshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.455, where a short biography is given). Thereafter he served in the united congregation of Huntly (FUFC, p.456).

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LAIDLAW, JOHN, D.D. (Edinburgh)

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.56
Born at Edinburgh in 1832; studied at Edinburgh University, at the Divinity Hall of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, and the New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Bannockburn in 1859; translated to the West Church, Perth, in 1863; and to the West Church, Aberdeen, in 1872. Married Elizabeth Hamilton. Appointed Professor of Systematic Theology in the New College, Edinburgh, in 1881. Dr. Laidlaw was a lucid expounder of Westminster theology, and a successful investigator in the difficult and little-trodden field of Biblical Psychology.

Publications.—The Bible Doctrine of Man (Cunningham Lectures). The Miracles of our Lord, Expository and Homiletic. Memorials of a Ministry, with Biographical Sketch of E. A. Thomson. Sacramental Discourses of Robert Bruce.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
Couper, The R.P. Church, p.167. In the Free Church, he served in Bannockburn, Stirlingshire; West, Perth; and West, Aberdeen. His ministry in New College was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.578, where a short biography is given). He resigned in 1904 and died in 1906.

Family
His wife, Elizabeth Hamilton, was the sister of John Hamilton, a Free Church minister.

Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 26/11/1906, D.D., New College, Edinburgh, d. 21/09/1906 at Edinburgh, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/463; Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/382
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, W. F. Gray, revised by Rosemary Mitchell, Laidlaw, John (1832–1906), United Free Church of Scotland minister and theologian

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LAIDLAW, JOHN, B.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.202
Born at Kilwinning, 1862. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Muthill, 1890. Married, 1892, Johanna Mary Young.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Muthill, Perthshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.344). Thereafter he served in St John’s, Kelso, from 1906 (FUFC, p.78, where a short biography is given).

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LAING, BENJAMIN, D.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.202
Born at Duns, 1793. Son of Rev. R. Laing of the Antiburgher Branch of the Secession. Studied at the Associate Synod Divinity Hall. Ordained at Arbroath, 1820. Resigned, 1829. Settled at Colmonell, 1830. In 1839 Dr. Laing became Professor of Hebrew in the Hall of his Church, with a salary of £12, out of which he had to pay pulpit supply during the session. Joined the Free Church, 1852, and the following year was inducted at Colmonell. [Vol. 2 says he finished his ministry there in 1862.] Dr. Laing was twice married, his second wife being Elizabeth Kininmond.

Publications.—Historical Notices of Ecclesiastical Divisions in Scotland, with Suggestions for Reunion. Letters on Christian Communion. Catechism on the History of the Church of Scotland. Aphorisms.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born in Duns, Berwickshire on 9th July, 1793, the son of Robert Laing, Secession minister, and Jean or Janet Paterson.

Education
He studied under Professor Bruce in the Secession Divinity Hall and was licensed in the Secession Church on 20th January, 1819. He received the degree of D.D. from New Jersey College, USA, in 1851.

Marriage
He married:

(1) Georgina Chalmers on 17th August, 1824, at Haddington. East Lothian. She was the daughter of Robert Chalmers, Secession minister there. For some of her connections, see Chalmers Burns GuthrieTree, B:1.1. Catherine Chalmers.

(2) Elizabeth Kininmond on 19th September, 1837, in St Cuthbert’s, Edinburgh. She was born in Perth about 1815, probably the daughter of John Kininmond and Agnes Hewat.

Ministry
He was ordained in the Secession Church in Arbroath, Angus, on 19th July, 1821. He resigned his charge in 1829 and was inducted to Colmonell, Ayrshire, on 24th November, 1830. He was appointed Professor in the Divinity Hall on 17th May, 1839 – performing the work on top of his duties in Colmonell. He joined the Free Church at the union of a section of the Secession Church with the Free Church in 1852 but failed to take all his congregation with him. He was then inducted to the Free Church congregation in Colmonell, on 27th January, 1853.

Death
He died on 11th October, 1862, in Colmonell, Ayrshire. His second wife died in 1893 in Cathcart, Glasgow, aged 78.

Family
He had issue, by his first wife:

(1) Mary Sommerville Laing born on 27th June and baptised on 7th July, 1825, in Arbroath, Angus. Her death was registered in Cathcart, Glasgow, in 1911.

And by his second wife:

(2) Elizabeth Kinninmond Laing born on 22nd June, 1838, in Colmonell, Ayrshire. She died in 1924 in Cathcart, Glasgow.

(3) Agnes Hewat Laing born on 1st March, 1840, in Colmonell, Ayrshire. She married George Stevenson McFadzean in 1870 in Ayr. In 1881 he was a commercial clerk in an oil company. She died in 1915 in Milton, Glasgow.

(4) Isabella Kinninmond Laing baptised on 7th July, 1845, in Colmonell, Ayrshire. She married William Stevenson Gough in 1876 in Cathcart, Glasgow. In 1881 he was an agent for Boots.

(5) Robert Laing born in Colmonell, Ayrshire, in 1855.

Publications
See separate document here.

Source
Scott, Annals, p.543.

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LAING, GEORGE

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals
Born, 1831. Ordained at Penpont, 1857. Translated to Chapelshade, Dundee, 1868. Married, 1869, Janet Turner Campbell; and, 1876, Catherine Whitton Low. Resigned, 1881.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 21st February, 1831, in Stirling, the son of Robert Laing, publican, and Mary Paterson.

Education
A George Laing enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1852-54.

Marriage
He married:

(1) Janet Turner Campbell on 17th March, 1869, in Milton, Glasgow. She was baptized on 29th January, 1835, in Glenorchy and Inishail, Argyll, the daughter of Alexander Campbell, farmer, and Helen Turner.

(2) Catherine Whitton Low on 6th July, 1876, at Taypark, Dundee. She was born about 1838 in Dundee, the daughter of Alexander Low and Ann Beharrie.

Ministry
He was ordained in Penpont, Dumfries-shire, on 15th November, 1857; and translated to Chapelshade, Dundee, on 7th May, 1868. In September, 1875, Ann Cooper was sentenced to 10 days’ imprisonment for stealing a worsted chaircover from the green at the back of his Manse.

On 12th May, 1880, the Presbytery considered a petition from elders and members of various congregations that he had allowed Charles Short to preach in his pulpit and that this visiting minister had preached universalism. Charles Short was minister of Ward Road Congregational Church. He had preached on Matthew 13:33: “The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.” He preached the same sermon later to his own congregation. The point at issue was his third point on “The Diffusive Operation of the Leaven” – and this point was reported verbatim in the local press.

It was accepted that there was no universalism preached, but that the question of pulpit exchange needed to be looked at. When they looked at the matter, they expressed their disapprobation of what Laing did as Short’s views were contrary to the Westminster Confession. Laing therefore appealed to the Synod against this judgement. The outcome of the matter was that he resigned his charge in 1881.

Thereafter he lived at 17 Buckingham Terrace, Edinburgh. In the P.O. Directory of 1911-12 he was designated F.R.S.E. He was involved in a curious case: a domestic worker sought compensation for injuries received while in his employment. A fellow-servant had in play thrown a rubber ball at her and damaged her eyesight. The Sheriff Court had found that, though arising in the course of the employment, the accident did not arise our of the employment, and so refused compensation, with expenses.

Death
Jessie Turner Campbell or Laing died on 23rd June, 1874, at Panmure Terrace, Dundee. His second wife died on 16th December, 1903, at Bombay. Latterly he lived at 17 Buckingham Terrace, Edinburgh, and he died there on 26th February, 1916. He left an estate valued at ₤34,214.

Family
He had issue including by his first wife:

(1) Robert Campbell Laing born on 4th March, 1870, at Panmure Terrace, Dundee. He died there later that year.

(2) Alexander Turner Laing born on 20th April, 1871, at Panmure Terrace, Dundee. He probably died in 1941 in Pancras, London, England.

(3) George Campbell Laing born on 23rd April, 1872, in St Mary’s, Dundee.

(4) Robert Paterson S. Laing born in 1874 in St Mary’s, Dundee.

Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 3/4/1916, F.R.S.E., 17 Buckingham Terrace, Edinburgh, d. 26/02/1916 at Edinburgh, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/578; Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/482; 12/7/1916, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/582
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Laing, Catherine, otherwise Catherine Whitton Low, 8/8/1904, wife of Revd George Laing, 8 Panmure Terrace, Dundee, afterwards 17 Buckingham Terrace, Edinburgh d. 16/12/1903 at Bombay, India, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/437
Court of Session: Warrants of the Register of Acts and Decreets: Decree for payment in action of maills and duties, the Rev George Laing and others, trustees of the late Alexander Low v Mrs Fanny Bedells or Ewan and another, trustees of the late John Ewan and others, October, 1893, NRS CS46/1893/10/67; Bill Chamber, Processes in Actions of Suspension and Interdict: David Whitton: Suspension: Respondent: Rev. George Laing & Others (Alexander Low’s Trustees), 1895, NRS CS275/57/17
Correspondence: Rev. Professor Lumsden to Rev. George Laing, Edinburgh, 1856

Sources
The Dundee Courier & Argus and Northern Warder, 26th June, 1874, p.2; 14th September, 1875; 7th July, 1876; 6th December, 1880; 13th May, 1881; Glasgow Herald, 8th March, 1870; 22nd April, 1871; Aberdeen Weekly Journal, 7th October, 1880; The Scotsman, Edinburgh, 17th December, 1903, p.10; 8th May, 1916. p.4

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LAING, JAMES

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.203
Born at Durrisdeer, 1803. Studied at Edinburgh University. Ordained, 1830, missionary of the Glasgow Missionary Society to South Africa, and stationed at Burnshill. Transferred, 1843, to Lovedale, where he superintended the mission operations and the native congregation; he also took part in establishing a European congregation at Alice. In 1855 Mr. Laing was sent back to Burnshill, which had been vacant since the war of 1850, when the buildings were destroyed. Died, 1872.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1830, South Africa, FES, Vol.7, p.562

Publication – by him
Memorials of the missionary career of the Rev. James Laing, missionary of the Free Church of Scotland in Kaffraria, chiefly compiled from Mr. Laing’s own journals, William Govan, Glasgow, David Bryce & Son, 1875

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LAING, JAMES, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.203
Born at Aberdeen, 1827. Studied at Marischal College and Free Church College, Aberdeen. Ordained at Lesmahagow, 1856. Married, the same year, Helen Ogg. Translated to West Church, Glasgow, 1872; to Bermondsey, London, 1874; and to Stonehouse, Lanarkshire, 1878. Died, 1893.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was baptized on 4th November, 1826, in Old Machar, Aberdeen, the son of James Laing, gardener, and Isabella Collie.

Education
He matriculated in Marischal College, Aberdeen, in 1842, graduated M.A.

Marriage
He married Helen Ogg on 11th September, 1856, at the bride’s home, Holburn Street, Aberdeen (Registration: 1856 168/2 106 Old Machar). She was baptised on 29th March, 1827, the daughter of Henry Ogg, distiller, and Isabel (or Elspet) Stewart.

Education
He studied in Aberdeen University and the Free Church College there.

Ministry
His trials were sustained at a meeting of the Presbytery in Lanark on 13th April, 1856, and he was ordained at Abbeygreen, Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire on 16th May. He was called to Partick, Glasgow, on 28th June, 1866, the call being signed by 52 members and 7 adherents; and to McCheyne Memorial, Dundee, in 1871 but he remained in Lesmahagow. He was translated to West, Glasgow, early in 1872, having preached his farewell sermon in Lesmahagow on 25th February, 1872; to Bermondsey, London, England, in 1874 and on 26th September, 1878, to Stonehouse, Lanarkshire, as colleague and successor to William King Hamilton, who died in 1887.

Death
He died on 7th July, 1893, at the Free Church Manse, Stonehouse, Lanarkshire. His wife died on 20th April, 1891, at the Free Church Manse, Stonehouse.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) James Laing born on 8th July, 1857, in Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire. He married Agnes Wilson Wyper in 1892 in Partick, Glasgow. He was a Free Church minister.

(2) Henry Stewart Laing born on 2nd January, 1859, in Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1885-88. He died in 1888 in Stonehouse, Lanarkshire.

(3) Alice Laing born on 1st October, 1862, in Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire.

(4) Isabella Collie Laing born on 14th October, 1868, in Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire.

Publications – by him
The martyr’s cause, cross, and crown, a Sabbath-Day’s service, on the scene of David Steel’s martyrdom, in the year 1686, at Nether Skellyhill, Lesmahagow, conducted, on Sabbath, 12th September, Edinburgh, James Nichol, 1858
Correspondence between the Rev. J. Laing and Mr. N.M. Macnaughton, Glasgow, J. McCallum, 1859
Piety and principle, or, The personal piety of the martyrs the secret of their contendings for the headship of King Jesus, a sermon preached beside the monument of David Steel, on Sabbath, 21st August, 1859 , Hamilton, 1860
The great mystery of godliness, a sermon, Glasgow, 1871

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: James Laing.
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 3/10/1893, F.C. Minister, Stonehouse, County of Lanark, residing at F.C. Manse there, d. 07/07/1893 at Stonehouse, testate, Hamilton Sheriff Court, NRS SC37/42/7

Sources
Abbeygreen; Stonehouseonline; The Aberdeen Journal, 2nd February, 1859; Glasgow Herald, 29th June, 1866; 22nd April, 1891; 8th July, 1893

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LAING, JAMES, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.203
Born at Lesmahagow, 1857. Son of foregoing. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Dysart, 1892. Married, the same year, Agnes Wilson Wyper.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Dysart, Fife. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.359). Thereafter he served in Genoa from 1910 (FUFC, p.526, where a short biography is given). He died in 1916.

Family
He was the son of James Laing, a Free Church minister.

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LAING, JAMES CRAWFORD

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.203
Born at Dumbarton, 1844. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Harrogate, 1876. Translated to Strachan, 1885.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Strachan, Kincardineshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.431, where a short biography is given). He died in 1915.

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LAING, JOHN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.203
Born at Dalmeny, 1809. Studied at the University, Edinburgh. Ordained at Livingston, 1842. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Married, 1843, Catherine Fyfe. Owing to ill-health left Scotland and laboured for a time at Malta, and thereafter at Gibraltar. Resigned his charge, 1847, and, 1852, was appointed librarian of the New College, Edinburgh. Died, 1880.

Publication.—Mr. Laing was joint-author of Laing and Halkett’s Dictionary of Anonymous Literature.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1842, Livingston, FES, Vol.1, p.221. In the Free Church, he served in Livingston, West Lothian.

Publications – by him
New Statistical Account, April, 1843, Livingstone, Vol.2, Linlithgow, p.115
Catalogue of the printed books and manuscripts in the Library of the New College, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, W. Paterson, 1868.
A Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain, including the works of foreigners written in, or translated into the English language, with Samuel Halkett, edited by Catherine Laing, Edinburgh, W. Paterson, 1882-88: Vol.1; Vol.2; Vol.3 and Vol.4

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: John Laing; Wiki

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LAING, THOMAS

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.203
Born in parish of Keith. 1851. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Aberdeen. Ordained at Auchindoir, 1887.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Auchendoir, Aberdeenshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.432, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1918 and died in 1930.

For a short obituary, see Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 92, p.255.

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LAING, WILLIAM S., M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.203
Born in Hampshire. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Aberdeen. Ordained at Rhynie, 1898.

Supplementary Information
William Stewart Laing

Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Rhynie, Aberdeenshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.458). Thereafter he served in Boyndie from 1913 (FUFC, p.451); and in Errol from 1928 (FUFC, p.331, where a short biography is given).

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LAIRD, ALEXANDER OSWALD

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.203
Born at Portmoak, 1808. Studied at the University, Edinburgh. Ordained at Ardoch, 1833. Married, 1835, Agnes Boswell; 1860, Barbara D. Wemyss; and, 1871, Mary Wilson. Translated to Abbotshall, Fife, 1839. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Translated to Dundee, St. John’s, 1848. Became senior minister, 1867. Resigned, 1883. Died, 1891.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1833, Ardoch, FES, Vol.4, p.257; 1839, Abbotshall, FES, Vol.5, p.100. In the Free Church, he served in Abbotshall, Kirkcaldy, Fife; and St. John’s, Dundee.

Family
Laird Tree.

Publications – by him
Free Church Pulpit, Vol.2, p.140, Those who are in Christ are new creatures
Correspondence between the Rev. Messrs. Laird and Law, Scotland, 1844?
What hath God wrought?, a discourse in reference to the revival of religion in the North of Ireland, preached in Free St. John’s Church, Dundee, September 4th, 1859, Dundee, W. & J. Middleton, 1859

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Alexander Oswald Laird.
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 3/7/1891, Minister, Free St John’s Congregation, Dundee, latterly residing at Ashwood, Crieff, d. 20/05/1891 at Ashwood aforesaid, testate, Perth Sheriff Court, NRS SC49/31/144
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Laird or Wilson, Mary, 16/9/1909, Ashwood, Crieff, d. 18/07/1909 at Crieff, testate, Perth Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC49/32/7; Perth Sheriff Court, NRS SC49/31/212
Jubilee of the Rev. A.O. Laird, senior minister of Free St. John’s Congregation, Dundee, Dundee, W. Kidd, 1883
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Maynooth, 14th April, 1845, NRS GD112/51/174; Sites, 6th May, 1846, NRS GD112/51/20
Robert Collart, schoolmaster, Answers made by Schoolmasters in Scotland, p.131 [See here Parochial Schools – Queries to which these Answers are a response]
26th March, 1838, Sixth Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, p.274 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]

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LAIRD, DAVID MICHAEL WILLIAM, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.203
Born at Cupar-Fife, 1856. Son of Rev. Dr. Laird, Cupar. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Durris, Kincardineshire, 1884. Married, 1886, Margaret S. Stewart.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Durris, Kincardineshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.423). He retired in 1904 and died in 1924.

Family
Laird Tree.

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LAIRD, HENRY MONCREIFF

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.203
Born at Portmoak, 1816. Son of Rev. Dr. Hugh Laird. Ordained at Leslie, 1843. Died, 1852.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 25th October and baptized on 19th December, 1816, in Portmoak, Kinross-shire, the son of Hugh Laird, minister, and Elizabeth Blackhall. For some family connections, see the Laird Tree.

Ministry
“Henry Laird, Prinslaw, Fife” was a name on the Roll of Probationers adhering to the Free Church. In the Free Church, he served in Leslie, Fife.

Death
He died on 6th February, 1852, at the Free Church Manse, Leslie, Fife, “much and justly lamented”.

Publication – by him
A brother beloved: biographical reminiscences of the Rev. Henry M. Laird, of Leslie, John Renton, Edinburgh, 1861

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 18/3/1853, minister of the Free Church at Leslie, Cupar Sheriff Court, NRS SC20/50/24

Source
The Aberdeen Journal, 18th February, 1852

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LAIRD, HUGH, D.D. (Marischal College, Aberdeen)

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.203
Born in Renfrewshire, 1764. Studied at the University, Glasgow. Ordained at Norrieston, 1801. Married, 1802, Elizabeth Blackhall. Translated to Portmoak, 1802. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Died, 1849.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1801, Norrieston, FES, Vol.4, p.358; 1802, Portmoak, FES, Vol.5, p.74. In the Free Church, he served in Portmoak and Flockhouse, Kinross-shire.

Family
Laird Tree.

Publications – by him
New Statistical Account, April, 1839, Portmoak, Vol.9, Kinross, p.30
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Against Maynooth endowment, 21st April, 1845, NRS GD112/51/180; 13th May, 1845, NRS GD112/51/193

Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 6/11/1849, Doctor, Minister of the Free Church, parish of Portmoak, d. 28/05/1849 at Portmoak aforesaid, intestate, Inventory, Kinross Sheriff Court, NRS SC22/44/3
Court of Session: Bill Chamber Processes: William Noble v Revd. Dr. Hugh Laird, 1829, NRS CS271/48553
The Serious Consideration of Man’s Mortality enforced, a sermon on the death of Hugh Laird, James Sievewright, Edinburgh, 1849
Third Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction: Teinds, Appendix 1, Table 6, p.2
John Tainsh, schoolmaster, Scotlandwell, Answers made by Schoolmasters in Scotland, p.187 [See here Parochial Schools – Queries to which these Answers are a response]

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LAIRD, JOHN, D.D. (St. Andrews)

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.204
Born at Portmoak, 1811. Son of Rev. Dr. Hugh Laird. Studied at the University, Edinburgh. Ordained at Arbroath, 1835. Translated to Inverkeillor, 1836. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Married, 1840, Agnes Maule Anderson. Translated to Montrose, 1847; and to Cupar-Fife, 1853. Was Moderator of the General Assembly, 1889. Became senior minister, 1879. Died, 1896.

Publication.—Posthumous.— Volume of Sermons, with Sketch of Dr. Laird’s Life, By his Son.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1836, Inverkeilor, FES, Vol.5, p.440. In the Free Church, he served in Inverkeillor, Angus; St. George’s, Montrose, Angus; Cupar, Fife.

Family
Laird Tree.

Publications – by him
Free Church Pulpit, Vol.2, p.89, Christ the plant of renown
Hearing the word, a sermon preached in the Free Church, Cupar, on Sabbath, 13th June 1869 , Cupar-Fife, W. Dall, Bookseller, 1869
Sermons by the Rev. John Laird, D.D., of Cupar Free Church, with memorial sketch by his son, Rev. Davis M.W. Laird, M. A., of Durris, Kincardineshire, Edinburgh, Andrew Elliot, 1897

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: John Laird
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 7/5/1896, D.D., F.C. Minister, Cupar, d. 19/04/1896 at Cupar, testate, Cupar Sheriff Court, NRS SC20/50/74; Cupar Sheriff Court, NRS SC20/50/74
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Laird or Anderson, Agnes Maule, 29/9/1896, wife of Rev. John Laird, D.D., F.C. Minister, Cupar, d. 11/12/1887 at Cupar, testate, Cupar Sheriff Court, NRS SC20/50/74
Court of Session: Unextracted processes: Reverend John Laird v Low or Martin and others, 1848, NRS CS237/L/9/6
George Paul, schoolmaster, Answers made by Schoolmasters in Scotland, p.153 [See here Parochial Schools – Queries to which these Answers are a response]
Third Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction: Teinds, Appendix 1, Table 7, p.52
1st November, 1836, Sixth Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, p.36 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]

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LAMB, JOHN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.204
Born at Yester, 1796. Studied at the Universities, Glasgow and Edinburgh. Ordained, 1826, at Kirkmaiden. Married, the same year, Elizabeth Ferguson. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Became senior minister, 1853. Died, 1855.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1826, Kirkmaiden, FES, Vol.2, p.341. In the Free Church, he served in Kirkmaiden, Wigtownshire.

Publications – by him
New Statistical Account, February, 1839, Kirkmaiden, Vol.4, Wigtown, p.199
Breadalbane Muniments: Additional Papers from the Taymouth Estate Office, Letters Accompanying Petitions to Parliament etc., 22nd April, 1850, Against Post Office labour on the Lord’s day, NRS GD112/74/834

Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Lamb Mrs, alias Ferguson, Elizabeth, 5/11/1869, residing in Stranraer, Wigtown Sheriff Court, NRS SC19/41/13
Reference for the Free Presbytery of Stranraer, in the Case of the Rev. John Lamb, Minister at Kirkmaiden, Edinburgh, John Grieg and Son, Lawnmarket, 1853
William Todd, schoolmaster, Answers made by Schoolmasters in Scotland, p.307 [See here Parochial Schools – Queries to which these Answers are a response]
Third Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction: Teinds, Appendix 1, Table 1, p.6
1st September, 1836, Seventh Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, p.382 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]

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LAMONT, ARCHIBALD, B.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.204
Born in Bute, 1864. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Minister of the English Presbyterian Church, Singapore. Resigned, 1897, and returned to Scotland. Settled at Dailly, 1898. Married, 1893, Henrietta Williams Bell.

Publication.—Bright Celestials.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Dailly, Ayrshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.128). Thereafter he served in South Shields from 1902; in Wembley from 1906 and in Leith Wardie from 1908 (FUFC, p.17, where a short biography is given). He resigned in 1911 and went to South Africa.

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LAMONT, CHARLES

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.204
Born in Argyllshire. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Saltcoats, Gaelic, 1898

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Gaelic, Saltcoats, Ayrshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.153, where a short biography is given).

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LAMONT, DANIEL, M.A., B.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.204
Born in Bute. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Kilmarnock High, 1900.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in High, Kilmarnock , Ayrshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.140). Thereafter he served in Newington, Edinburgh, from 1904 (FUFC, p.20); in Hillhead, Glasgow, from 1909 (FUFC, p.227); in Helensburgh Park from 1919 (FUFC, p. 272); and in New College in the Chair of Aplogetics, Christian Ethics and Practical Training (FUFC, p.578, where a short biography is given).

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LAMONT, JOSEPH

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.204
Born at Lochbroom, 1840. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Snizort, 1869. Married, 1873, Christina Maclennan.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Snizort, Isle of Skye, Inverness-shire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.491). Thereafter he served in Rosehall from 1901 (FUFC, p.501). He died in 1912.

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LANDSBOROUGH, DAVID, D.D. (U.S.A.)

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.204
Born in parish of Dalry, Galloway, 1779. Studied at the University, Edinburgh. Ordained at Stevenston, Ayrshire, 1811. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. At the Disruption Dr. Landsborough formed a Free Church congregation at Saltcoats, and remained there himself when Stevenston was subsequently erected into a separate charge. Married, 1817, Margaret M’Leish. Dr. Landsborough was an accomplished student of natural history. He was one of twenty-five associates of the Linnaean Society. Died of cholera in 1854.

Publications.—History of British Seaweeds. A History of British Zoophytes. Arran: A Poem. Excursions to Arran. Natural History of Arran. Ayrshire Sketches.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1811, Stevenston, FES, Vol.3 p.123. In the Free Church, he served in Landsborough, Saltcoats, Ayrshire.

Family
His daughter Isabella Landsborough, married Arthur Thomson, a Free Church minister. His son, David Landsborough, was a Free Church minister.

Publications
See separate document here.

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LANDSBOROUGH, DAVID, LL.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.204
Born, 1826. Son of the foregoing. Studied at the University of Glasgow and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Kilmarnock, Henderson Church, 1851. Married, 1853, Jessie S. Porteous; and, 1862, Mary C. Ure. As an exponent of popular science Dr. Landsborough had few equals.

Publication.—Arran, its Topography, Natural History, and Antiquities, by the Landsboroughs, Father and Son.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Henderson, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.140). He became senior minister in 1902 and died in 1912.

Family
His father David Landsborough became a Free Church minister; and his sister, Isabella Landsborough, married Arthur Thomson, a Free Church minister.

Publications
See separate document here.

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LANG, GEORGE, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.204
Born at Dumbarton, 1860. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Houston, Renfrewshire, 1887.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Houston, Renfrewshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.165, where a short biography is given).

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LANG, JOHN DYKES

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.205
Born at Hamilton, 1855. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Stromness, 1884. Married, 1895, Mary Frew. Translated, 1896, to Cromdale.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Stromness, Orkney; and Cromdale and Advie, Inverness-shire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.459). Thereafter he served as Superintendent of Glasgow City Mission from 1904; and as minister in Rosneath from 1911 (FUFC, p.275). He died in 1923.

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LANG, ROBERT

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.205
Born at Paisley, 1814. Studied at the University, Edinburgh. Ordained at Nenthorn, Berwickshire, 1843. Married, 1844, Elizabeth Scott. Was for several years clerk of the Free Presbytery of Kelso. Died, 1879.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, on 7th October, 1814, the son of William Lang, leather merchant, and Jean Hair.

Marriage
He married Elizabeth Scott in April, 1844, in Kelso, Roxburghshire. She was born on 18th March and baptized on 18th April, 1814, in Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, the daughter of George Scott, writer, and Agnes Wilson.

Ministry
In 1841 he seems to be a “Preacher of the Gospel”, living in Jedburgh, Roxburghshire. “Robert Lang, Jedburgh” was a name on the Roll of Probationers adhering to the Free Church. He was ordained in Nenthorn, Berwickshire, on 14th December, 1843.

Death
He died on 17th April, 1879, in Nenthorn, Berwickshire (Registration: 1879 753/ 3 Nenthorn). His wife died on 27th March, 1898, at Ivy Bank, Radie Road, Leith (Registration: 1898 692/1 103 Leith North).

Family
There is no clear evidence that they had issue.

Publications – by him
He contributed to the Disruption Manuscripts. His work is used in Thomas Brown’s, Annals of the Disruption – see footnote 7. (Note these links take you to the end of the quote.)
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Sabbath Desecration by railways, 16th April, 1845, NRS GD112/51/176; Sites of churches, 30th April, 1846, NRS GD112/51/204
The open fountain, London, Religious Tract Society, 1877?

Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 23/5/1879, Minister of the Free Church at Neuthorn, d. 17/04/1879, testate, Duns Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC60/44/6; 23/6/1879, Inventory and Mutual Settlement, Duns Sheriff Court, NRS SC60/41/29; 10/7/1884, First Eik, Duns Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC60/44/7

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LANG, THOMAS HALLIDAY

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.205
Born in the parish of Shotts, 1834. Studied at the University, Glasgow, and Divinity Hall, Reformed Presbyterian Church. Ordained at Ayr, Martyrs’, 1861. Joined the Free Church at the union, 1876.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
FRPCS, p.15; Couper, The R.P. Church, p.141. In the Free Church, he served in Martyrs, Ayr.This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.124). Thereafter he served in Ayr Wallacetown from 1904 (FUFC, p.126). He became senior minister in 1904 and died in 1909.

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LAUDER, WILLIAM

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.205
Born at Ballachulish, 1807. Studied at the University, Glasgow, and Divinity Hall, Edinburgh. Ordained at Invergarry, 1840. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Translated, 1844, to Strachur and Strathlachlan. Married, the same year, Jane Cameron. Died, 1885.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1840, Glengarry, FES, Vol.4, p.133. In the Free Church, he served in Strachur and Strath Lachlan, Argyll.

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Lauder, William.
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 23/4/1886, F.C. Manse, Strachur, d. 14/10/1885 at Strachur, testate, Dunoon Sheriff Court, NRS SC51/32/34

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LAUGHTON, WILLIAM, D.D. (Glasgow)

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.205
Born in London, 1812. Studied at the University, Edinburgh. Ordained at Greenock, St. Thomas’, 1839. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Became senior minister, 1886. He was Moderator of the General Assembly, 1881. He was convener of the College Committee at a time when certain movements in scholarship and criticism gave rise to trouble and perplexity, which the judicial balance and unfailing courtesy of the convener did not a little to allay and remove. Died, 1897.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1839, St Thomas’, Greenock, FES, Vol.3, p.205. In the Free Church, he served in St. Thomas’, Greenock, Renfrewshire.

Publication – about him
He contributed to Fairbairn’s Imperial Bible Dictionary

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: William Laughton.
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 14/1/1898, D.D., sometime Minister of St Thomas Free Church, Greenock, thereafter residing at 28 Greenhill Gardens, Edinburgh, d. 07/11/1897 at Edinburgh, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/365; Will, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/302
Court of Session: Unextracted processes: Reverend William Laughton and others (Grey’s Place) v McLean and others: Advocation, 1867 , NRS CS243/3752; Reverend William Laughton and others (Patrick Street) v McLean and others: Advocation, 1867, NRS CS243/3753

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LAURIE, GEORGE

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.205
Born at Greenock, 1843. Studied at the University, Glasgow, and Reformed Presbyterian Divinity Hall. Ordained at Castle-Douglas, 1872. Joined the Free Church at the union, 1876. Married, 1877, Helen Fairley.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
FRPCS, p.15; Couper, The R.P. Church, p.154. In the Free Church, he served in Macmillan, Castle-Douglas, Kirkcudbrightshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.122). He retired in 1914 and died in 1920.

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 23/12/1920, 18 Mirrlees Drive, Kelvinside, Glasgow, d. 14/09/1920 at Glasgow, testate, Glasgow Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC36/48/316; Glasgow Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC36/51/189

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LAURIE, GILBERT

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.205
Born at Olrig, Caithness, 1835. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Dumfries, South, 1866. Married, 1870, Mary Henderson; and, 1884, Mary Langlands. Translated, 1875, to Fairbairn Church, Glasgow.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Dumfries — South; and Fairbairn, Glasgow. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.220). He retired in 1908 and died in 1921.

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LAURIE, HENRY K., M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.205
Born in Fife. Studied at the University, St. Andrews, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Rio Tinto, 1895. Resigned the same year, and was transferred to Gibraltar, 1896. Resigned his charge on account of ill-health.

Supplementary Information
Henry Kinnear Lawrie

Background
He was born on 6th June, 1863, in Wemyss, Fife, the son of James Lawrie, cabinet maker, and Isabella Frances Kinnear.

Education
He studied at St Andrews, Fife: at United College, 1882-86, and at St Mary’s College 1885-86. He graduated M.A. on 20th April, 1887. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1886-1890.

Marriage
He married Harriet Forbes in 1897 in Elgin, Moray. She was born on 13th September, 1859, in Kinloch Rannoch, Perthshire, the daughter of Duncan Forbes and Christian Cameron.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Stirling, on 17th June, 1890. He was ordained on 27th February, 1895, by the Presbytery of Spain and Portugal for service in Rio Tinto (Spain). He was inducted to St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Gibraltar, on 5th January, 1896. Thereafter he sailed for New Zealand where he was inducted in St Columba, Fairlie, South Canterbury Presbytery, on 14th December, 1899; and inducted in St Andrews, South Canterbury Presbytery, in January, 1902. He resigned on 22nd April, 1903, due to ill health. He was the stated supply in Aramoho, Wanganui Presbytery, around May and June, 1903.

Other
He cut his throat in an attempt at suicide and was admitted to Auckland Mental hospital on 28th February, and discharged on 5th August, 1910, into the care of his wife. In 1911 he was living with his wife in Polmont, Stirlingshire, and he was designated as a retired minister.

Death
He died on 2nd July, 1956, at Murray Royal Infirmary Perth. His wife died in 1931 in Arngask, Perthshire.

Family
There is no evidence that they had issue.

Sources
Rootschat; PCNZ, Ministers’ Register

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LAURIE, JOHN WALLACE, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.205
Born in Ayrshire, 1830. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Tulliallan, 1862. Married, the same year, Jessie Smith. Mr. Laurie was for several years clerk of the Free Presbytery of Dunfermline. Died, 1893.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 4th February, 1830, in Stewarton, Ayrshire, the son of William Laurie, carpet weaver, and Christina White.

Education
He attended Edinburgh University. He was a member of the Dialectic Society there: he was admitted on 17th November, 1855, and became an honorary member of 26th March, 1859; he delivered an Essay on Thomas Babington Macaulay. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1855-59, where his name appears as Lawrie.

Marriage
He married Janet (Jessie) Smith on 15th October, 1862, at the bride’s home, Craigie Terrace, St Quivox, Ayrshire (Registration: 1862 578/ 93 Ayr). She was born on 21st December, 1836, and baptized on 10th January, 1837, in Ayr, the daughter of William Smith, spirit dealer, and Elizabeth Gibb.

Ministry
He served for a time as assistant to Thomas Guthrie; and he worked for about a year in Carlisle, Cumberland, England. He was ordained in Tulliallan, Fife, on 16th May, 1862. In 1888 he was put forward for the Assembly Clerkship, “the structure of his mind,” said the mover, “was essentially forensic”; he “would be the last man to freeze with official frigidity or self-containedness.” He was not appointed but he was a Presbytery Clerk and “he made for himself a position in the courts of his Church. … His public spirit came to be widely known in connection with ecclesiastical, educational and political questions.”

Death
He died on 12th July, 1893, at the Free Church Manse, Kincardine-on-Forth, “after bearing bravely for many years an affection of the throat”. His wife died in 1903 in St George, Edinburgh.

Family
They had no issue.

Publications – by him
Co-operation with the Established Church and parochial rights, a correspondence, Edinburgh, Colston & Company, 1889
A winnowing wind: Church principles or church privileges? and their bearing on co-operation, Edinburgh, 1891

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 18/10/1893, F.C. Minister, Tulliallan, d. 12/07/1893 at Kincardine, testate, Cupar Sheriff Court, NRS SC20/50/69; Will, Cupar Sheriff Court, NRS SC20/50/70

Sources
History of the Dialectic Society, Edinburgh, T. A. Constable, 1887, p.204; The Dundee Courier & Argus, 30th May, 1888; Glasgow Herald, 13th July, 1893

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LAW, JAMES

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.205
After receiving licence became chaplain to the seamen in Dundee. Ordained at Mariners’ Church, Dundee, 1843. Resigned, 1844, and joined the Church of Scotland. Was minister for a short time at Kirriemuir, and then at Inverbrothock, Arbroath. Died, 1860.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1840, Mariners’, Dundee, FES, Vol.5, pp.336. In the Free Church, he served in St. Paul’s: Mariners’, Dundee. Thereafter in 1845, Kirriemuir, FES, Vol.5, p.299; 1846, Inverbrothock, FES, Vol.5, p.427

Publication
Correspondence between the Rev. Messrs. Laird and Law, Scotland, 1844?

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LAW, JAMES, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.206
Born at Glasgow, 1870. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Broomielaw, Glasgow, 1898. Married Mary Paterson, 1899.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Broomielaw, Glasgow. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.267). Thereafter he served in Dumfries South from 1904 (FUFC, p.103); and in Moray Knox, Edinburgh, from 1910 (FUFC, p.20, where a short biography is given).

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LAWRENCE, WILLIAM GORDON

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.206
Born at Strathdon, 1852. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Aberdeen. Ordained at Edzell, 1879. Married, 1881, Margaret Taylor. Appointed to the Transvaal, 1890. Returned to this country, 1894. Settled at Broad Street, Birmingham, 1899.

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Background
He was born on 21st July and baptized on 8th August, 1852, in Strathdon, Aberdeenshire, the son of John Lawrence, constable of police and latterly proprietor of Civil Service and Commercial College, Putney, London, England, and Mary Gordon. He was a schoolmaster in Duffus, Moray, in 1871.

Marriage
He married:

(1) Margaret Taylor in 1881 in Forfar, Angus. She was born on 1st June, 1862, in Forfar, Angus, the daughter of James Taylor and Ann Coupar.

(2) Jessie Barron or Nidray in 1901 in St Machar, Aberdeen. She was Jessie Nidray born on 8th May and baptized on 15th June, 1851, in St Nicholas, Aberdeen, the daughter of Charles Nidray and Mary Marshall. She had married George Barron on 8th August, 1872, in St Nicholas, Aberdeen.

Ministry
He accepted a call to Edzell, Angus, on 1st July, 1879. In 1889 he was appointed by the Colonial Committee to a station in the Transvaal. In 1911 he was a tutor, living in Wandsworth, London, England.

Death
He probably died in the 3rd quarter of 1911 in St George’s Hanover Square, London, England. Jessie Lawrence died on 29th July, 1893, in Johannesburg, Transvaal.

Family
He had issue by his first wife including:

(1) Beatrice Mary Lawrence born in 1882 in Edzell, Angus. In 1901 she was a telegraphist. She died in 1944 in Forfar, Angus.

(2) Ann Coupar Lawrence born in 1884 in Edzell, Angus. She died in 1961 in Kingussie, Inverness-shire.

(3) Gordon Lawrence born in 1886 in Edzell, Angus. He probably died in the 1st quarter of 1933 in Chelmsford, Essex, England.

(4) James Taylor Lawrence born on 28th Janury, 1888, in Edzell, Angus. He graduated M.A. from Aberdeen University in 1904. He worked for the Civil Service in India. He died in 1944 in Aberdeen.

(5) Mary Carmichael Gordon Lawrence born in 1889 in Edzell, Angus. She married John W.H. Hooker in the 3rd quarter of 1917 in Wandsworth, London, England.

(6) Douglas Cleland Lawrence born about 1892 in Johannesburg, Transvaal. He married Adelina Mary St Clair Neill, daughter of George Neill, Forfar, in St Andrew’s Church, Calcutta, India, on 18th August, 1923.

Sources
Abdn; Ancestor; Free Church of Scotland Monthly, 1st November, 1893, p.258; Aberdeen Weekly Journal, 3rd July, 1879; The Scotsman, Edinburgh, 22nd August, 1923

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LAWRIE, JAMES HAY

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.206
Born in London, 1849. Studied at the New College, Edinburgh. Appointed lay evangelist to the New Hebrides, 1878. Stationed on Aneityum. Ordained, 1885. Married, 1876, Margaret Wilson Cairns. Resigned owing to his wife’s illness, 1892. Returned, 1893-1895, giving temporary supply.

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Background
He was born in London, England, in August, 1849, the son of James Lawrie, tailor, and his wife Elizabeth. His parents were both from Kirkcaldy, Fife, and he was brought up in Scotland.

Education
There is no sign of him in the New College, Edinburgh, records.

Marriage
He married Margaret Wilson Cairns in 1876 in Leith, Edinburgh. She was born on 16th July, 1852, in Leith, Edinburgh, the daughter of John Cairns and Christina Mcleod. She was baptized on 13th September, 1852, in Leith Mariners’ Free Church.

Ministry
He was a lay evangelist in Leith from 1873 to 1875. He went to the New Hebrides as a missionary in 1879; was ordained for that work by the Presbytery of Sydney, New South Wales, and continued there till 1892. He again served in Leith from 1893 till 1895 and thereafter served in the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales: in Wyalong from August 1898 till 1899; MacNeil Memorial, Waverley, from 22nd January, 1899 till 1904; Picton from 25th August, 1904, till 5th August, 1907; Epping from 27th January, 1909, till 31st March, 1911; and Bowral from 23rd December, 1914 till 1st July, 1918.

Other
A collection of artefacts made by him is now held by National Museums Scotland. “They show he had a real interest in the culture of the people of Vanuatu, as opposed to some missionary collectors who focussed on using material culture to over emphasise cultural differences and justify what they saw as a need for mission work.” 155 slides of his are held by the State Library, New South Wales.

Death
They died in New South Wales, he in Randwick on 9th December, 1929; she in Burwood in 1922.

Family
They had issue including.

(1) James Jeffrey Lawrie. He married Sybil Flora MacDougall on 3rd April, 1912, in Singleton, New South Wales. They lived in Queensland – in Goomeri and then in Toowong. In 1931 he was a farmer in Philpot Creek, near Munduberra, Queensland, and petitioned for the dissolution of his marriage on the ground of her misconduct with Albert Edward Smeaton. The petition was granted. He died in Queensland, Australia, in 1966.

(2) Eliza Lawrie

(3) John Lawrie

(4) Margaret Lawrie. She married someone Chivas.

Publication
Twenty-fourth annual report of the “Dayspring”, with report of native teachers and an account of the present state of the New Hebrides Mission, year 1887, with others, Balmain, Sydney, J. Prentice, 1888

Sources
Acms; Pacificcollectionsreview; Dp.la; The Brisbane Courier, 8th December, 1931

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LAWRIE, THOMAS, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.206
Born at St. Boswells, 1862. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Laurencekirk, 1893.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Laurencekirk, Kincardineshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.406).

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LAWS, ROBERT, M.D., D.D., F.R.G.S.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.206
Born at Aberdeen, 1851. As a lad of 14, an address of Robert Moffat moved him to become a missionary. To prepare himself he first learned his father’s trade as joiner and builder. Studied at the University, Aberdeen, and United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh, qualifying in both Medicine and Divinity. Licensed, 1874, he joined, 1875, the pioneer party who founded the Livingstonia Mission in East Central Africa, and was ordained as medical missionary. Thenceforward his life-story is that of the Livingstonia Mission. Under his inspiration and guidance, success—industrial, medical, educational, and evangelistic—was achieved, which constitutes a true romance of modern missions. Married, 1879, Margaret Troup Gray.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.562, where a short biography is given). He was Moderator of the General Assembly in 1908 (FUFC, p.569). He retired in 1928 and died in 1934.

Publications – about him
Dunlop, A. Ian, Scottish Church History Society, Review of McIntosh; Robert Laws, servant of Africa; see Laws, Robert in Evangelical Dictionary of World Missions

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LAWSON, JOHN CAMERON, B.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.206
Born at Oban, 1861. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Rathen, Aberdeenshire, 1894. Married, the same year, Isabella Jane Boyd.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Rathen, Aberdeenshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.444, where a short biography is given). He died in 1915.

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LAWSON, ROBERT WYLIE

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.206
Born at Hamilton, 1819. Studied at the University, Glasgow, and Divinity Hall of Relief Church. Admitted to the Free Church by the Assembly, 1845. Ordained at Airdrie, High, the same year. Married, 1846, Agnes Campbell Hamilton. Became senior minister, 1889. Died, 1895.

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Background
He was born about 1819 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, the son of Thomas Lawson, cotton handloom weaver, and his wife Janet Moffat. He was a teacher in 1841.

Education
He matriculated in Glasgow University in 1837. He also studied at the Relief Divinity Hall. He joined the Church of Scotland and then the Free Church.

Marriage
He married Agnes Campbell Hamilton on 6th February, 1846, in New Monkland, Lanarkshire. She was born about 1821 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, the daughter of John Hamilton, weaver’s agent, and Margaret Henderson.

Ministry
He was called to High, Airdrie, Lanarkshire, on 6th November, 1845, and ordained there on 18th December that year. Because of his weakness of memory, on 6th August, 1889, John Cook was ordained there as his colleague and successor. He then retired to Glasgow.

Death
He died on 11th March, 1895, at 39 Blythswood Drive, Glasgow (Registration: 1895
644/9 542 Kelvin), and was buried in Hamilton, Lanarkshire. His wife died on 11th May, 1905, at 11 Blythswood Drive, Glasgow (Registration: 1905 644/9 628 Kelvin)

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Margaret Henderson Lawson born on 14th February, 1847, in Airdrie, Lanarkshire. She married Alexander Brown on 17th December, 1867, in New Monkland, Lanarkshire. She died in 1896 in Partick, Glasgow.

(2) Janet M. Lawson born about 1849 in Airdrie, Lanarkshire.

(3) Thomas Wylie Lawson born about 1852 in Airdrie, Lanarkshire. He married Janet Boyd there in 1877.

(4) John Hamilton Lawson born on 22nd January, 1857, in Airdrie, Lanarkshire. When he registered his father’s death, he lived at the Cottage, Killermont. His marriage to Jeanie Kennedy Sellar (or Sillars) was registered in 1886 in Blythswood, Glasgow.

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Robert W. Lawson.
Reference from the Free Presbytery of Hamilton in the case of Mr. Robert Wylie Lawson, student in divinity, Edinburgh, John Greig, 1845?

Source
Glasgow Herald, 13th March, 1895

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LEARMONTH, PETER

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.206
Born at Portmoak, 1801. Studied at the University, Edinburgh. Ordained at Stromness, Orkney, 1833. Married, 1835, Margaret Clouston. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Laid aside, 1852, by paralysis. Became senior minister, 1856. Died, 1858.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1833, Sandwick, FES, Vol.7, p.253. In the Free Church, he served in Stromness, Orkney.

Publications – by him
New Statistical Account, July, 1841, Stromness, Vol.15, Orkney, p.26
The Scottish Christian Herald, Vol.3, p.183, The Providential Deliverance of a Seaman
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Maynooth, 17th April, 1845, NRS GD112/51/177; 7th May, 1846, NRS GD112/51/207

Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 13/8/1859, Minister, Parish of Stromness, thereafter Free Church Stromness, Residing in Newfield, Kirkwall (Orkney) Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC11/38/5; 22/8/1859, residing at Viewfield, d. 21/10/1858, Confirmation of Testament Testamentar, Kirkwall (Orkney) Sheriff Court, NRS SC11/41/2
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Learmonth or Clouston, Margaret, 20/11/1886, 9 Clarence Street, Edinburgh, widow of Rev. Peter Learmonth, sometime Minister, Parish of Stromness, afterwards F.C. Minister there, d. 14/10/1886 at Edinburgh, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/254; Will, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/221
Papers of the Scarth Family of Breckness, Orkney: Scroll memorandum by Mr. Watt to rev. Peter Learmonth on arable and pasture lands in parish of Stromnes, according to penny lands, taken from printed rental of bishopric, 1595, 10th March, 1837, NRS GD217/990; Letters and receipts from rev. Peter Learmonth, Stromness, to Mr. Watt, mainly relating to payment of his stipend, with a proposal to erect a session house, and on repair of manse, 1833-1844, GD217/1131
Kirkwall Sheriff Court: Processes: James Spence, Pow, Stromness ,Nature of Action: Petition, arrestment, Defender Details: Peter Learmonth, Reverend, minister, Stromness, 1838, NRS SC11/5/1838/90; Reverend Peter Learmonth, minister of Stromness, Nature of Action: Summons, money owed Defender, Details: James Spence, Pow, Stromness, 1838 NRS SC11/5/1838/128; Peter Learmonth, Reverend, minister, Stromness, Nature of Action: Summons, money owed, Defender Details: James Spence, & others, Pow, Stromness, 1840 NRS SC11/5/1840/55

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LEE, ALEXANDER, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.206
Born at Kirkhill, 1846. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh, and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Kildalton, Argyllshire, 1872. Married, the following year, Isabella Fraser. Translated to Lybster, Caithness-shire, 1875; and to Nairn, 1878. Appointed, 1894, secretary and mission superintendent of the Committee for the Highlands and Islands; also to give his services as visiting agent to the Sustentation Fund Committee. Appointed, 1898, organising secretary of the Sustentation Fund Committee.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Kildalton and Oa, Argyll; Lybster, Caithness; and Nairn. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.572, where a short biography is given).

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LEGGAT, ROBERT

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.206
Born at Coatbridge, 1861. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Wolflee, 1891. Translated to Bankhill, Berwick, 1898. [There is no entry corresponding to this in Vol. 2 – no congregation known as Bankhill. This is in England.]

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 12th June, 1861, in Old Monkland, Lanarkshire, the son of James Leggat, engine fitter, and Jean Findlay.

Education
During the time of his studies he worked as a journalist. In 1881 he was a “newspaper traveller” and on 4th September, 1890, he was president of the Glasgow Shorthand Writers’ Association and addressed the opening meeting of the winter classes on the subject: “The Journalism of Today”.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Glasgow, on 17th June, 1889. He was ordained in Wolflee, Roxburghshire, on 17th June, 1891. In July, 1898, he was elected by Slamannan Free Church but he did not respond positively, and the following month he was elected to Bankhill, Northumberland, England, and was translated there. He resigned his charge in 1919.

Death
Latterly he resided at 7 Heathfield Terrace, Springburn, Glasgow, and died there on 17th January, 1925.

Family
There is no sign that he ever married.

Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 6/3/1925, 7 Heathfield Terrace, Springburn, Glasgow, d. 17/01/1925 at Glasgow, testate, Glasgow Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC36/48/359; Glasgow Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC36/51/205

Sources
The Scotsman, Edinburgh, 5th September, 1890, p.4; 26th July, 1898; 22nd August. 1898, p.9; 23rd January, 1920, p.9

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LEIGHTON, JOHN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.207
Born at Larbert, 1859. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Tollcross, Glasgow, 1892.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Tollcross, Glasgow. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.256). He died in 1904.

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LEIPER, JOHN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.207
Born in Lanarkshire, 1835. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Chapelton, 1864. Married, 1874, Margaret H. Jeffrey. Resigned, 1876. Died, 1886.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 30th October, 1835, in Drumboy, Avondale, Lanarkshire, the son of William Leiper and Jean Hamilton.

Education
He matriculated in Glasgow University in 1854. He studied medicine at Glasgow University 1859-60.

Marriage
He married Margaret Hunter Jaffrey on 7th April, 1874, in Irvine, Ayrshire. She was baptized on 29th May, 1853, in Holytown, Lanarkshire, the daughter of Hugh Jaffray, Free Church minister, and Millicent Rebecca Fleming Walker.

Ministry
He was ordained in Chapelton, Lanarkshire, on 28th July, 1864. On 4th December, 1867, being secretary of the Memorial Committee, he laid the foundation stone of a monument commemorating the Battle of Drumclog. On 29th June, 1875, he was granted six months’ leave of absence because of continuing indisposition. About March, 1876, he was in Canada and wrote his Presbytery resigning his charge on account of ill health. He was thereafter minister of the Presbyterian Church in Barrie, Ontario, for six years, and ended up in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada.

Death
He died on 31st December, 1886, in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada, and was buried there. An inscription on his tombstone reads:

“Sacred/To the mem. of/John Leiper/Born at Drumboy, Scotland/30 Oct. 1835/Died at Brandon/31 Dec. 1886/He was Minister of the/Chapleton Free Church Scot/for twelve years, and Pastor of the/Presbyterian Church, Barrie/Ont. for six years/Yea, though I walk through the valley/of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil/for thou art with me; thy rod & thy staff/they comfort me/Ps. 23.4”

Margaret Hunter Jaffrey or Leiper died in 1931 in Irvine, Ayrshire.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Robert Jaffrey Leiper born on 21st April, 1876, in Irvine, Ayrshire. He was educated privately and at Balliol College, Oxford, England. He married Margaret Donald on 31st March, 1903, in Partick, Glasgow. He died on 3rd January, 1956, in Aberfeldy, Perthshire.

(2) Millicent Fleming Leiper born about 1881. She died in October 1888 in Townhead, Irvine, Ayrshire.

Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 1/9/1887, Rev., of Drumboy, Lanarkshire, d. 31/12/1886 at Brandon, Manitoba, intestate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/259
Court of Session: Warrants of the Register of Acts and Decreets: Interim act and decree appointing John Paterson to be judicial factor on the estate of the deceased John Leiper of Drumboy, July, 1887, NRS CS46/1887/7/7; Interim decree authorising John Paterson, judicial factor on the estate of the Rev John Leiper of Drumboy, to exercise special powers, April 1889, NRS CS46/1889/4/42

Sources
Newspaperarchive; The Balliol College Register, 1832-1914; Findagrave; Glasgow Herald, 7th December, 1867; 30th June, 1875

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LEITCH, ALEXANDER

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.207
Born at Glasgow, 1803. Studied at the University, Glasgow. For some time after licence Mr. Leitch was a teacher at Broughty-Ferry. Ordained at Gartmore, 1825. Married, 1829, Jane Mackenzie. Translated, 1832, to Stirling. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Before and after the Disruption was clerk of his Presbytery. Died, 1868.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1825, Gartmore, FES, Vol.4, p.345; 1832, North, Stirling, FES, Vol.4, p.330. In the Free Church, he served in South, Stirling.

Publications – by him
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Maynooth, 14th April, 1845, NRS GD112/51/174
Presbyterian union in connection with Christian union and the duty of the civil magistrate, Edinburgh, A. Elliot, 1864
An earnest pastorate, memorials of the Rev. Alexander Leitch, M.A., minister of the South Church, Stirling, Norman L. Walker, Edinburgh, Andrew Elliot, 1871

Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 18/9/1868, residing at Stirling, father of Helen Leitch, Inventory; Last Will and Testament; 4 Codicils, Stirling Sheriff Court, NRS SC67/36/55
George Munro, schoolmaster, Answers made by Schoolmasters in Scotland, p.300 [See here Parochial Schools – Queries to which these Answers are a response]
John Weir, schoolmaster, Answers made by Schoolmasters in Scotland, p.301 [See here Parochial Schools – Queries to which these Answers are a response]
Peter MacDougal, schoolmaster, Answers made by Schoolmasters in Scotland, p.301 [See here Parochial Schools – Queries to which these Answers are a response]
28th February, 1838, Sixth Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, p.332 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]

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LEITCH, WILLIAM, D.D. (Presbyterian Theological Faculty, Ireland)

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.207
Born at Arbroath, 1843. Studied at Queen’s College and Presbyterian College, Belfast, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at St. Andrew’s, Kilmarnock, 1869. Married, 1870, Deborah Harden; and, 1876, Katherine K. Young. Translated to Tron, Glasgow, 1876; and to West, Helensburgh, 1882.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in St. Andrew’s, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire; Tron, Glasgow; and West, Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, where he was inducted on 26th September, 1882 (Minutes of Free Presbytery of Dumbarton, NRS, CH3/80/2). This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.273, where a short biography is given). He resigned in 1915 and died in 1928.

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LENDRUM, JOHN, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.207
Born at Ballater, 1867. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Aberdeen. Ordained missionary to Nagpur, 1892. [List of missionaries says he was appointed 1893.] Married, 1894, Alice Helen Bruce. Returned to this country, 1899. Settled at Elgin, South, 1900.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in South, Elgin, Moray. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.464, where a short biography is given).

Family
Chalmers Guthrie Burns Tree.

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LENDRUM, ROBERT ALEXANDER, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.207
Born at Aberdeen, 1863. Brother of foregoing. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Aberdeen. Ordained at Kirkliston, 1890. Married, the following year, Anna Guthrie.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Kirkliston, West Lothian. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.38). Thereafter he served in St David’s, Glasgow, from 1907 (FUFC, p.246); and in St Margaret’s, Fairlie, from 1922 (FUFC, p.149, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1928.

Family
Chalmers Guthrie Burns Tree.

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LENNOX, JOHN, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.207
Born at Edinburgh. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained, 1892, missionary to South Africa. [List of missionaries says he was appointed 1893.] Married, 1895, Jessie Gibson. Mr. Lennox was temporarily employed at Blythswood, and afterwards stationed at Lovedale.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
His ministry in South Africa was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.554, where a short biography is given).

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LESLIE, ALEXANDER

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.207
Born at Aberdeen, 1816. Studied at Marischal College, Aberdeen. Appointed lecturer in John Knox Church, Aberdeen. Ordained at Ladyloan, Arbroath, 1842. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Married, 1846, Isabella S. Morison. Translated, 1870, to Bon Accord, Aberdeen. Died, 1878.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1842, Ladyloan, FES, Vol.5, p.428. In the Free Church, he served in Ladyloan, Arbroath, Angus; and Bon-Accord, Aberdeen.

Publication – by him
Free Church Pulpit, Vol.1, p. 406, The divine compassion for sinners, Ezekiel 18:31

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Alexander Leslie
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 25/2/1869, Revd, residing at East Linton Parish of Prestonkirk, Haddington Sheriff Court, NRS SC40/40/17

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LESLIE, WILLIAM

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.207
Born at Turriff, 1819. Studied at Marischal College, Aberdeen, teaching during the greater part of his course. Ordained at Macduff, 1843. Died, 1867.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 31st January, 1809, in Turiff, Aberdeenshire, the son of William Leslie, farmer, and Helen Sim.
Education
He matriculated in Marischal College, Aberdeen, in 1825, and graduated M.A. He was appointed parish school-master in Longside, Aberdeenshire, on 1st April, 1837.

Marriage
He married Elizabeth Sim on 3rd June, 1832, in Banff. She was born on 18th June and baptized on 2nd July, 1809, in Banff, the daughter of John Sim and Margaret Watt.

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Macduff, Banffshire.

Death
He died on 21st March, 1867, at the Free Church Manse, Macduff, Banffshire.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Sophia Grant Leslie born on 22nd November and baptized on 4th December, 1833, in Banff. She died in 1908 in Macduff, Banffshire.

(2) Helen Leslie born around 1838 in Aberdeenshire, probably baptized on 12th May, 1838, in St Nicholas, Aberdeen.

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 29/4/1867, minister of Free Church, Macduff, Inventory, Banff Sheriff Court, NRS SC2/40/22

Source
Glasgow Herald, 25th March, 1867

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LEWIS, GEORGE, B.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.207
Born at Glasgow, 1803. Studied at the Universities, Glasgow, St. Andrews, and Edinburgh. After becoming a licentiate Mr. Lewis was for three years editor of the Scottish Guardian newspaper. In 1836 he became assistant in the Middle Church, Perth, and was ordained as colleague, 1837. Translated, 1839, to St. David’s, Dundee. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Married, 1845, Mary A. E. Miller. Translated, 1849, to Ormiston. Resigned, 1865. Died, 1879.

Publications.—Tracts on Scottish Church Principles. Impressions of America and its Churches. The Bible, the Missal, and the Breviary. Ritualism. Doctrines developed in Facts of the Bible, etc.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1837, Middle, Perth, FES, Vol.4, p.238; 1839, St David’s, Dundee, FES, Vol.5, p.326. In the Free Church, he served in St. David’s, Dundee; and Ormiston and Pathhead, East Lothian.

Publications – by him
Free Church Pulpit, Vol.2, p.541, Self-evidencing power of the gospel; Vol.3, p.445, The trial and triumph and reward of faith
He contributed to the Parker Manuscripts. His work is used in Thomas Brown’s, Annals of the Disruption – see footnotes 67; 214; 278; 336. (Note these links take you to the end of the quote.)
The Eldership of the Church of Scotland, as it Was, Is, and May be Again, also the Office of Deacons, Glasgow, William Collins, 1834
The State of St. David’s Parish, with Remarks on the Moral and Physical Statistics of Dundee, Dundee, 1841
The Pauper Bill of Dundee and What should be Done with it, Dundee, W. Middleton, 1841
Correspondence between William Johnston, Esq., and the Reverend George Lewis, minister of St. David’s parish, Dundee, with remarks thereon from the Dundee courier and Dundee warder, to which is added reviews of three tracts published by the Rev. G. Lewis, Dundee, published at the Courier Office, 1843
Slavery and slaveholders in the United States of America, being excerpts from “Impressions of America and the American churches”, Edinburgh, W.P. Kennedy, 1846

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: George Lewis
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Kenneth J. Cameron, Lewis, George (1803–1879), Free Church of Scotland minister and author
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 26/5/1879, sometime Minister, Free St David’s Church, Dundee, afterwards residing at 4 Rillbank Terrace, Edinburgh, d. 27/01/1879 at Edinburgh, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/194; Will, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/178
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Lewis or Miller, Mary Anne Elizabeth, 20/8/1896, widow of Rev. George Lewis, sometime Minister, St David’s Church, Dundee, afterwards residing at Rillbank Terrace, Edinburgh, d. 21/12/1895 at Rome, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/351; Will, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/292
19th March, 1838, Sixth Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, p.162 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]
For photo by Hill and Adamson see here.

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LEWIS, JAMES, D.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.208
Born at Glasgow, 1805. Brother of the foregoing. Studied at the Universities, Glasgow, St. Andrews, and Edinburgh. Ordained at St. John’s, Leith, 1832. Married, 1834, Marion Wyld. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. In 1860 the state of his health obliged Dr. Lewis to demit his charge. [Vol. 2 says he finished in this charge in 1850.] After serving the Church for a time in connection with the education scheme he undertook the charge of the Presbyterian services in Rome. Died, 1872.

Publications.—Dr. Lewis published several pamphlets and lectures on current controversies and questions. Church of Scotland obeying the Law. Finance of the Free Church of Scotland, etc.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1832, St John’s, Leith, FES, Vol.1, p.158. In the Free Church, he served in St. John’s, Leith, Edinburgh. A memorial requesting a colleague and successor came before his Presbytery in May, 1860.

Publications
See separate document here.

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LEWIS, MARTIN, D.D. (Aberdeen)

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.208
Born at Dudley, 1855. Son of Rev. G. Lewis, of Dudley and Chester. Studied at the University, London, and English Presbyterian College. Ordained, 1878, at Bournemouth. Married, 1881, Mary L. G. Buntin; and, 1892, Constance Mary Thorburn. In 1885 Mr. Lewis went to Victoria, and was settled at Toorak, Melbourne. On his return from Australia, after labouring for a time, first at Mentone, and then at Gravesend, he was inducted to the charge of Queen’s Cross, Aberdeen, 1893.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
Ward and Prentis, Presbyterian Ministers, p.86. In the Free Church, he served in Queen’s Cross, Aberdeen. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.416, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1919 and died in 1938.

Family
His daughter, Marion Lewis, was wife of James Grant Mackintosh, a Free Church minister.

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LILLEY, JAMES PHILIP, D.D. (Aberdeen)

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.208
Born at East Orde, near Berwick-on-Tweed, 1845. Studied at the University, Aberdeen, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Knox’s Church, Arbroath, 1874. Married, the following year, Margaret Beattie Salmond.

Publications.—The Gospel of God. The Lord’s Supper. The Lord’s Day and the Lord’s Servants. The Principles of Protestantism (“Bible Class Handbooks”). Your Comforter: Chapters for the Young on the Work of the Holy Spirit. The Pathway of Light. Translations from the Dutch of several of Andrew Murray’s Works.

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Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Knox’s, Arbroath, Angus. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.395). He retired in 1918 and died in 1931.

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LINDSAY, ROBERT CAMPBELL

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.208
Born at Kilmarnock, 1834. Studied at the Universities, Glasgow and Edinburgh, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Tarbolton, 1862. Died, 1871.

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Background
He was born on 10th October 1834, in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, the son of Robert Lindsay and Janet Campbell.

Education
He matriculated at Glasgow University in 1851. He was admitted to the Edinburgh Dialectic Society, 12th January, 1856 (see History of the Dialectic Society, p.204). He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1856-60.

Ministry
He received a call to Stobhill in the Presbytery of Dalkeith in January 1862 – he was at the time “labouring at Lochend Station, near Dumfries”. But he also received a call from Tarbolton, Ayrshire, and was ordained there on 13th March, 1862. Tarbolton had been separated from Stair, and erected into a separate charge by the previous General Assembly, on condition that the congregation raised a sum of not less than £80 a year towards the support of ordinances.

Death
He died on 9th July, 1871, in Tarbolton, Ayrshire.

Publication – by him
“He fell asleep”, a sermon by the late Rev. Robert Campbell Lindsay, minister of the Free Church, Tarbolton, with biographical notice by the Rev. D. Landsborough, Kilmarnock, and extracts from the funeral sermon preached by the Rev. Neil Livingston, Stair, Ayr, Robert Maclehose, 1872

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LINDSAY, THOMAS MARTIN, D.D., LL.D. (Edinburgh)

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.56
Born at Lesmahagow in 1842; studied at the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, also at New College, Edinburgh. Ordained Professor of Church History in the Free Church College, Glasgow, in 1872. He married Anna, daughter of Alexander Murray Dunlop of Corsock—the great lay-leader of the Non-Intrusionists at the Disruption. From 1886 to 1900, Dr. Lindsay was Convener of the Foreign Mission Committee, and visited India in that capacity.

Publications.—Gospels of Mark and Luke. Acts of the Apostles (“Handbooks for Bible Classes”). Luther and the German Reformation (“World’s Epoch Makers”), The Reformation (“Handbooks for Bible Classes”).

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Life and Ministry
He was admitted to the Edinburgh Dialectic Society, 12th November, 1864 (see History of the Dialectic Society, p.217). This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.578, where a short biography is given). He became Principal in 1902 (FUFC, p.574).

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LINDSAY, WILLIAM, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.208
Born in Ayrshire, 1862. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Bishopbriggs, 1892. Married, 1894, Margaret Douglas. Translated to Cathcart, 1895.

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Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Bishopbriggs, Glasgow; and Cathcart, Glasgow. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.209). Thereafter he served in St Mark’s, Glasgow, from 1906 (FUFC, p.249); and in Chalmers Territorial, Edinburgh, from 1914 (FUFC, p.6, where a short biography is given).

Publication – by him
The Scottish Pulpit, Vol.4, p.458, The Paramount Importance of the Gospel Message

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LINDSAY, WILLIAM, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.208
Born at Wishaw, 1863. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Rutherglen, East, 1889.

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Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in East, Rutherglen, Renfrewshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.265). Thereafter he served in Stoneykirk from 1924 (FUFC, p.120, where a short biography is given). He died in 1928.

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LINKLATER, JACOB, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.208
Born at Stromness, 1846. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at New Deer, 1877. Appointed to Australia, 1888, and settled at Miner’s Rest, Ballarat, 1889. Died, 1898.

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Background
He was born on 6th April, 1846, in Stromness, Orkney, the son of William Linklater and Margaret Stokan.

Education
He graduated M.A. from Edinburgh University in 1873. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1871-75.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Orkney in 1875. He was ordained at New Deer, Aberdeenshire, serving there from 1877 to 1888. Thereafter he resigned his charge and served in the Presbyterian Church of Victoria at Coghill’s Creek – Miners’ Rest from 2nd October, 1889, till his death.

Death
He died on 9th October, 1898, at the Manse, Miners’ Rest, and was buried in Coghill’s Creek, Victoria.

Source
Billiongraves

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LINN, ALEXANDER

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.208
Born at Stewarton, Ayrshire, 1841. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at St. Fergus, 1871. Married, the same year, Catherine Dinwoodie. Translated to Cranstonhill, Glasgow, 1877.

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Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in St. Fergus, Aberdeenshire; and Cranstonhill, Glasgow. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.217). He retired in 1906.

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LINN, JOHN FLEMING, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.208
Born at Glasgow, 1844. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Airlie, 1872. Was clerk of the Free Presbytery of Meigle.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Airlie, Angus. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.321, where a short biography is given).

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LINTON, JOHN, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.209
Born in Midlothian. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Coupar-Angus, 1898. Married, the following year, Mary F. Macnaughton, L.R.C.P. & S. Edin.

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Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Coupar-Angus, Perthshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.323). Thereafter he served in (FUFC, p.381, where a short biography is given). He resigned in 1928 and died that same year.

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LISTER, JOHN, B.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.209
Born at Leslie, Fife, 1815. Studied at the University, St. Andrews. Taught for a time in Merchiston Castle School. Ordained at Laygate English Presbyterian Church, South Shields, 1847. Translated to Kennoway, 1849; and to St. George’s, Montrose, 1856. Married, 1844, Jane Miller; and, 1855, Janet Mitchell. Became senior minister, 1886. Died, 1899.

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Background
He was born on 23rd December, 1815, in Leslie, Fife, the son of John Lister, shoe-maker, and Janet Chalmers.

Education
He attended the local parish school. He studied at St Andrews, Fife: at United College, 1831-35, and in St Mary’s College, 1835-39. He became a teacher in Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh.

Marriage
He married:

(1) Jane Miller on 13th August, 1844, in Leslie, Fife (Registration: OPR , 685/2 450 474 St Cuthbert’s). She was the daughter of James Miller, merchant, Leslie.

(2) Janet Mitchell in 1855 in Kennoway, Fife. She was born on 1st and baptized on 9th August, 1833, in Dysart, Fife, the daughter of Alexander Mitchell and Margaret McKelvie.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Presbytery of Kirkcaldy. He worked for a time at South Shields, County Durham, England, gathered a congregation for himself and was ordained its first minister on 2nd December, 1847. He was translated to Kennoway, Fife, on 19th April, 1849; and then in 1856 was translated to St. George’s, Montrose, Angus. On 28th June, 1886, Robert Forgan was elected as his colleague and successor and he was ordained there on 9th September that year.

Death
He died on 27th May, 1899, at Ellen Cottage, Montrose, Angus, and was buried on 31st May, in Rosehill Cemetery, Montrose. His second wife lived at 35 King Street, Montrose, and died there on 22nd June, 1921.

Family
He had issue including, by his first wife:

(1) John Lister born in the 1st quarter of 1847 in South Shields, County Durham, England.

And by his second wife:

(2) Margaret McKelvie Lister born on 9th May, 1856, in Kennoway, Fife. She married William Agate in 1885 in Paisley, Renfrewshire.

(3) Janet Chalmers Lister born on 23rd October, 1857, in Montrose, Angus. She died in 1927 in Hillhead, Glasgow.

(4) Jane Mitchell Lister born on 8th May, 1859, at Union Place, Montrose, Angus. She married Alexander W. Ireland in 1898 in Paisley, Renfrewshire. She died in 1929 in Newington, Edinburgh.

(5) Alexander Mitchell Lister born on 11th February, 1861, in Montrose, Angus. He was an engineer in USA government service. He died in Brooklyn, New York, USA, on 22nd May, 1899.

(6 David Lister born on 23rd August, 1863, in Montrose, Angus. In 1881 he was a banker’s apprentice. He died shortly after his father, in Ficksburg in the Orange Free State – on 28th July, 1899.

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: John Lister.
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 30/9/1899, Rev., Ellen Cottage, Montrose, d. 27/05/1899 at Montrose, testate, Forfar Sheriff Court, NRS SC47/40/67; 3/5/1900, Additional Inventory, Forfar Sheriff Court, NRS SC47/40/68
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Lister or Mitchell, Janet, 19/7/1921, 35 King Street, Montrose, d. 22/06/1921 at Montrose, testate, Forfar Sheriff Court, NRS SC47/40/105; Forfar Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC47/43/33

Sources
The Scotsman, Edinburgh, 21st April, 1849, p.3; Dundee Courier, 28th October, 1857; Glasgow Herald, 29th May, 1899; 21st August, 1899; Aberdeen Weekly Journal, 1st June, 1899; 31st May, 1899

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LITHGOW, ROBERT MACNICOL

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.209
Born at Garnethill, Glasgow, 1852. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained for Lisbon, 1892. Married, 1889, Adele Lydia Moercher.

Publications.—The Life of Divine Fellowship: An Arrangement of 1 John. The Story, Sacred and Secular, of the First Six Christian Centuries (in Portuguese).

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.529). He died in 1920.

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LITTLE, WALTER R.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.209
Born at Ecclefechan, 1825. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Married, 1856, Margaret D. A. Philip. Ordained, 1857, at Lethendy. Died, 1864.

Supplementary Information
Walter Richardson Little

Background
He was born about 1825 in Ruthwell, Dumfries-shire, the son of George Little, farmer, and Margaret Richardson.

Education
He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1859-63.

Marriage
He married Margaret D.A. Philip on 8th October, 1856, in Edinburgh. She was born about 1825 in Edinburgh, the daughter of James Philip, wine merchant, and Joanna Drysdale.

Ministry
He was called to Lethendy and Kinloch, Perthshire, on 2nd July, 1856, and ordained there on 7th August that year.

Death
He died in 1864 in Clunie, Perthshire. His widow lived at 25 Minto Street, Edinburgh, and died there on 4th May, 1869.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) John Drysdale Little born on 11th August, 1857, in Clunie, Perthshire. He lived in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

(2) Dora Little born on 5th February, 1859, in Clunie, Perthshire. She died there that same year.

(3) Georgina Margaret Little born on 29th February, 1860, in Clunie, Perthshire. She died in 1895 in St Andrew, Edinburgh.

(4) Eliza Jane Little born in 1862 in Clunie, Perthshire.

(5) Walter Richardson Little born on 30th October, 1864, in Clunie, Perthshire. He died there that same year.

Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Little Margaret Drysdale, 6/7/1869, residing in Lethendy, widow of Reverend Walter Little, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/121; 22/9/1879, 25 Minto Street, Edinburgh, widow of Rev. Walter Little, Free Church Minister, Parish of Lethendy, d. 04/05/1869 at 25 Minto Street aforesaid, testate, Eik, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/196
Death of the good, preached in the Free Church, Lethendy, 17th July, 1864 on the death of the Rev. Walter R. Little, pastor of that congregation, William.Fullerton Goldie, Perth, James Dewar, 1864

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LIVINGSTON, NEIL, D.D. (Glasgow)

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.209
Born at Johnstone, Renfrewshire, 1811. Studied at the University, Glasgow. Ordained at Stair, 1844. Married, 1856, Jane Thomson Geddes. Became senior minister, 1886. Died, 1899. Dr. Livingston devoted much of his time and strength to the study of the theory, practice, and history of Scottish Church music. Was convener of the Psalmody Committee. Dr. Livingston was for many years clerk of the Free Presbytery of Ayr.

Publications.—A facsimile reprint, in folio, of the Scottish Metrical Psalter of 1635, with Introduction, Dissertations, etc. A Complete Vocabulary of the English Language. Infantia Mundi.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was baptized on 5th May, 1811, in Paisley, Renfrewshire, the son of Neil Livingston and Margaret McIsaac.

Education
Glasgow University resolved to confer the D.D. degree on him in April, 1882.

Marriage
He married Jane Thomson Geddes on 27th February, 1856, in Calton, Glasgow. She was born on 20th and baptized on 31st March, 1822, in Paisley, Renfrewshire, the daughter of John Geddes and Dora Thomson.

Ministry
“Neil Livingston” was a name on the Roll of Probationers adhering to the Free Church. He was ordained in Stair, Ayrshire, on 4th April, 1844. He was elected to Alloa on 12th April, 1885, but remained in Stair. On 18th November, 1886, John Ewing Thomson was ordained there as his colleague and successor.

Death
He died on 7th July, 1899, in Ayr., where he had been living at 7 Carrick Park, Ayr. His wife died there in 1890.

Family
There is no evidence that they had issue.

Publications – by him
Report of Committee on psalmody, being a sub-committee of the Committee on education, May 1860, Neil Livingston, secretary, Edinburgh, 1860
The Scottish Metrical Psalter of A.D. 1635, edited by Rev. Neil Livingston, Glasgow, MacLure & Macdonald, 1864
Report of the Committee on Psalmody to the General Assembly, May, 1866 and May, 1867, Neil Livinston, convener, Edinburgh, Constable, 1866-1867
Discussion on psalmody report, signed: N. Livingston, convener of the committee, Edinburgh?, 1868?
“He fell asleep”, a sermon / by the late Rev. Robert Campbell Lindsay, minister of the Free Church, Tarbolton, with biographical notice by the Rev. D. Landsborough, Kilmarnock, and extracts from the funeral sermon preached by the Rev. Neil Livingston, Stair, Ayr, Robert Maclehose, 1872
Infantia mundi or chronology from Adam to Abraham examined in order to an explanation of primeval longevity, Edinburgh, 1896

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 26/9/1899, D.D., 7 Carrick Park, Ayr, d. 07/07/1899 at Ayr, testate, Will, Ayr Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC6/46/27; Ayr Sheriff Court, NRS SC6/44/62

Source
Glasgow Herald, 22nd April, 1882

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LIVINGSTONE, ARCHIBALD DUNCAN, B.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.209
Born at Glasgow, 1868. Studied at the Royal University of Ireland, and at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Jordanhill, 1899.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Jordanhill, Hillhead, Glasgow. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.229, where a short biography is given).

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LIVINGSTONE, JOHN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.209
Born at Johnstone, 1858. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Stevenston, 1885. Married, the same year, Helen Garrow.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Stevenston, Ayrshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.153). Thereafter he served in Gallowgate, Aberdeen, from 1901 (FUFC, p.413, where a short biography is given). He died in 1909.

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LIVINGSTONE, WILLIAM

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.209
Born at Dundee, 1819. Studied at the University, St. Andrews, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Kirriemuir, South, 1849. Married, 1852, Catherine Robertson; and, 1889, Eliza Julia Pickering. Died, 1897.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 8th December, 1819, in Dundee, the son of John Livingstone, linen manufacturer, and Lilias Blair.

Education
He served his apprenticeship as an engineer. He studied at United College, St Andrews, Fife, 1841-44. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1844-48. In his student days he laid the foundations of the Free Church congregation in Newtyle, Angus.

Marriage
He married:

(1) Catherine Robertson on 14th March, 1852, in Kirriemuir, Angus. She was born about 1818, in Edinburgh, the daughter of Alexander Robertson and Margaret Smith Angus.

(2) Eliza Julia Pickering in 1889 in the 4th quarter of 1889 in West Derby, Lancashire, England. She was born on 1st June and baptized on 17th September, 1819, in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, the daughter of William Pickering and Frederika Carolina Amalia. She was the widow of Captain Charles Francis Cox whom she had married in 1860.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Dundee on 12th July, 1848. He took charge of the congregation at Uphall till his ordination in South, Kirriemuir, Angus, on 16th August, 1849. On 6th December, 1894, William Kirkpatrick was ordained there as his colleague and successor. He then lived in Edinburgh till his death.

Death
His first wife died on 12th July, 1883, at Inchmill, Glenprosen, Angus (Registration: 1883 299/ 88 Kirriemuir). He died very suddenly on 8th March, 1897, in Newington, Edinburgh. His second wife had died there – at Sidlaw, Hermitage Gardens – on 26th February, 1897.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) John Livingstone born on 15th April, 1853, in Kirriemuir, Angus. He pre-deceased his father.

(2) Margaret Smith Angus Livingstone born on 5th March, 1855, in Kirriemuir, Angus. She died there in 1882.

(3) Lilias Blair Livingstone born on 2nd January, 1858, in Kirriemuir, Angus. She died there suddenly on 16th July, 1866, of suspected cholera.

Publication – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: William Livingstone
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 25/3/1897, sometime Minister, South Free Church, Kirriemuir, afterwards residing at Sidlaw, Hermitage Gardens, Edinburgh, d. 08/03/1897 at Edinburgh, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/356; Will, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/296
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Livingstone or Pickering, Eliza Julia, 19/6/1897, wife of Rev. William Livingstone, sometime Minister, South Free Church, Kirriemuir, afterwards residing at Sidlaw, Hermitage Gardens, Edinburgh, d. 26/02/1897 at Edinburgh, intestate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/358; Will, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/297
In memoriam, the Rev. William Livingstone, South Free Church, Kirriemuir, Edinburgh, Macniven & Wallace, 1898

Sources
The Dundee Courier & Argus, 18th July, 1866; 9th March, 1897, p.4

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LOGAN, GEORGE, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.209
Born at Glasgow, 1759. Studied at the University, Glasgow. Ordained at Highbridge, Newcastle, 1785. Translated, 1793, to Ardoch; and, 1802, to Eastwood Parish. A distinguished classical scholar and devoted minister, Mr. Logan’s advanced age prevented him taking part in the struggles of the Disruption, but he warmly espoused the cause of the evangelical party. On the day of separation he was confined to bed, but he wrote a letter of adherence to the Free Church, and requested that a copy of the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission be sent for his signature. Before this could be done he died on the 2nd July, 1843.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1785, Newcastle, FES, Vol.7, p.514; 1793, Ardoch, FES, Vol.4, p.257; 1802, Eastwood, FES, Vol.3, p.136. In the Free Church, he served in West, Pollokshaws , Renfrewshire.

Publications – by him
New Statistical Account, January, 1836, Eastwood or Pollock, Vol.7, Renfrew, p.33
He contributed to the Parker Manuscripts. His work is used in Thomas Brown’s, Annals of the Disruption – see footnote 166. (Note these links take you to the end of the quote.)

Publications – about him
Archibald Macintyre, schoolmaster, Pollokshaws, Answers made by Schoolmasters in Scotland, p.262 [See here Parochial Schools – Queries to which these Answers are a response]
Third Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction: Teinds, Appendix 1, Table 7, p.30
29th April and 2nd May, 1836, Eighth Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, p.190 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]

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LOGAN, JOHN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.210
Born at Knockbain, Ross-shire, 1803. Studied at King’s College, Aberdeen. Ordained at Lawers, 1st March, 1843. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Married, the following year, Cecilia Hill. Translated, 1854, to Dundee, Gaelic; [Vol. 2 suggests he was translated to Duthil 1859] and, 1869, to Macdonald Church, Glasgow. Died at Bridge of Allan, 1871.

Supplementary Information
He is not mentioned in FES.

Background
He was born on 6th May, 1805, in Knockbain, Ross and Cromarty, the son of Alexander Logan, corn miller, and Annie Davidson.

Education
He entered King’s College, Aberdeen,.in 1832 and graduated M.A. in March, 1836.

Marriage
He married Cecilia Hill on 13th April, 1844, in Kenmore, Perthshire. She was born about 1808 in Mordington, Berwickshire, the daughter of Robert Hill, farm grieve, and Susan Brown.

Ministry
He was ordained in Lawers, Perthshire. He declined a call directed to him by the Gaelic Free Church in Aberdeen and signed on 15th April, 1851 by 100 members and 221 adherents. He was translated to Albert Square, Dundee. In 1858 he received a call, signed by 738 people, to Duthil (Carrbridge), Inverness-shire. The Presbytery and Synod agreed to his translation and the Dundee congregation took the matter to the General Assembly, which also agreed to his translation and he was duly inducted there on 12th July, 1859. He was called to Edderton, Ross and Cromarty in 1865 but remained in Duthil. He was translated to Macdonald, Glasgow, on 13th May, 1869.

Death
He died on 16th April, 1871, at Bridge of Allan (Registration: 1871 374/ 16 Logie (Perth)) – his residence at the time was at 5 Windsor Street, Glasgow. His wife died on 17th October, 1882, in Juniper Green, Midlothian (Registration: 1882 677/ 120 Colinton).

Family
There is no evidence that they had issue.

Publications – by him
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Against Maynooth grant and Sunday travel, 21st April,1845, NRS GD112/51/180; Additional Papers from the Taymouth Estate Office: GD112/74/141; Correspondence of John MacPherson: John Logan, minister at Lawers, Distribution of the poors’ clothing; has always delivered the bags to the ground officer or game herd; `it is my cordial attachment to the poor of my flock that urges me to take my part in the annual distribution, and a minister’s time is somewhat more precious than keeping bags’. 23rd December, 1853, GD112/74/141

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 15/6/1871, minister of the MacDonald Free Church, Glasgow, residing at 5 Windsor Street, Glasgow, died at Bridge of Allan, Inventory, Glasgow Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC36/48/66; Deed of Settlement, Glasgow Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC36/51/59

Sources
Rootsweb; The Aberdeen Journal, 16th April, 1851; 27th July, 1859’ Dundee Courier, 13th October, 1858; Glasgow Herald, 23rd May, 1859

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LOGAN, JOHN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.210
Born at Irvine, 1824. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Leslie, 1855. Married, 1857, Helen Stephen. For upwards of fifteen years Mr. Logan was clerk to the Free Presbytery of Kirkcaldy. Became senior minister, 1889. Died, 1894.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 4th December, 1824, in Irvine, Ayrshire, the son of Alexander Logan and Marion Boyd. He was brought up in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. His father was a “humble mechanic” but “of the Covenanter type”.

Education
He was apprentice to a compositor, and worked as a journalist in Ayr. He then entered Edinburgh University in 1847 and throughout the years of his studies worked as a teacher in Mr Forrester’s Seminary in Newington. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1850-54.

Marriage
He married Helen Stephen on 22nd April, 1857, at 64 St Vincent Crescent, Glasgow. She was born on 19th May and baptized on 4th June, 1830, in Arbroath, Angus, the daughter of Alexander Stephen, ship builder, Dundee, and Elspeth Murray.

Ministry
He was licensed in the summer of 1855 and in that same year was ordained in Leslie, Fife. He was clerk to the Free Presbytery of Kirkcaldy for 15 years. On 26th November, 1889, John Urquhart was ordained there as his colleague and successor. He then retired to Edinburgh.

Death
Latterly they lived at 53 Grange Road, Edinburgh. He died on 30th July, 1894, in Harrogate, registered in Knaresborough, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, where he had gone for health reasons. Helen Stephen or Logan died in 1911 in Newington, Edinburgh.

Family
There is no evidence that they had family.

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: John Logan
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 19/11/1894, 53 Grange Road, Edinburgh, d. 30/07/1894 at Harrogate, Yorkshire, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/335; Will, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/279
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Logan or Stephen, Helen 27/3/1911, 53 Grange Road, Edinburgh, widow of Rev. John Logan, Free Church, Leslie, Fife, d. 07/02/1911 at Edinburgh, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/512; Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/424

Source
Caledonian Mercury, Edinburgh, 24th April, 1857

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LOGAN, JOSEPH

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.210
Born at Lesmahagow, 1832. Son of Rev. William Logan, afterwards of Sanquhar. Studied at the University, Glasgow, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Kingston, Glasgow, 1862. Married, the following year, Margaret A. S. Brown. Died, 1866.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 5th January, 1832, in Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, the son of William Logan, minister, and Ann Aitken. His father William Logan became a Free Church minister. His brother William Logan was a Free Church minister.

Education
He matriculated in Glasgow University in 1849. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, in 1852.

Marriage
He married Margaret Brown at the bride’s home, 27 Abbotsford Place, Glasgow, on 17th February, 1863 (Registration: 1863 644/9 Tradeston). She was the daughter of Edward Brown, farmer, and Jessie Fenwick.

Ministry
He was ordained in Kingston, Glasgow, on 28th August, 1862.

Death
He died on 28th June, 1866, at 12 Queen’s Square, Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) William Logan Brown Logan born on 20th April, 1864, at 27 Abbotsford Place, Glasgow.

(2) Jessie Logan born on 17th June, 1865, in Tradeston, Glasgow.

(3) Joseph Logan born on 3rd October, 1866, at 12 Queen Square, Glasgow.

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 3/10/1866, minister of Kingston Free Church, latterly residing at 12 Queens Square, Queens Park, Glasgow, Paisley Sheriff Court, NRS SC58/42/33

Sources
The Caledonian Mercury, Edinburgh, 30th August, 1862; 22nd April, 1864; Glasgow Herald, 6th October, 1866

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LOGAN, ROBERT

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.210
Born at Edinburgh, 1834. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Abington, parish of Crawfordjohn, Lanarkshire, 1866. Married Janet Elder Walker. Resigned, 1891. [Vol. 2 has him still minister there in 1900.]

Publications.—Genealogical Chart of the Royal Family. Memoir of Dr. James Walker of Carnwath. The Unique Reign and Coronation.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 3rd November, 1834, in Edinburgh, the son of John Logan, writer to the signet, and Helen Bowman.

Education
He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1855-59.

Marriage
He married Janet Elder Walker in 1865 in Portobello, Edinburgh. She was born on 10th December, 1837, the birth being registered in the 1st quarter of 1838 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England. She was baptized on 24th December, 1837, in St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church there. She was the daughter of George Walker and Grace Gibson.

Ministry
In 1861 he was a probationer, officiating in the Free Church Airth. He was ordained in Abington and Crawfordjohn, Lanarkshire, on 16th August, 1866. He left there in November, 1891, and retired to Woodlands, Moffat, Dumfries-shire.

Death
His wife died in 1909 in Moffat, Dumfries-shire. He died on 23rd January, 1912, at his home , Woodlands, Moffat. He left a personal estate valued at £39,005.

Family
There is no evidence that they had issue.

Publications – by him
Genealogical chart of the Royal Family of Great Britain in the Scottish, Anglo-Saxon, Norman, Welsh, Guelph and Wetten lines with collateral branches, Edinburgh, MacNiven and Wallace, 1891
James Walker, D.D. of Carnwath Free Church: essays, papers, and sermons, with a prefatory memoir by R. Logan, Edinburgh, 1898
The United Free Church, an historical review of two hundred and twenty-five years, 1681-1906, Edinburgh , Macniven & Wallace, 1906

Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 11/6/1912, Free Church of Scotland, Abington, afterwards Woodlands, Moffat, d. 23/01/1912 at Woodlands, testate, Dumfries Sheriff Court, NRS SC15/41/33
Court of Session: Warrants of the Register of Acts and Decreets: Interim act and decree appointing Neale Thomson to be curator bonis to the Rev Robert Logan, April 1894, NRS CS46/1894/4/58; Interim decree exonering and discharging Thomas Anderson, now deceased as curator bonis to the Rev Robert Logan etc., October, 1894, NRS CS46/1894/10/33; Interim decree recalling the appointment of Neale Thomson as curator bonis to the Rev Robert Logan, now deceased and exonering and discharging the said Neale Thomson as curator bonis foresaid etc., December, 1895, NRS CS46/1895/12/98

Sources
The Scotsman, Edinburgh, 25th January, 1912; 27th June, 1912, p.5

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LOGAN, ROBERT HANNAY, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.210
Born in Ireland, 1832. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Chalmers’ Church, Dundee, 1889.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Chalmers, Dundee. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.382). He died in 1905.

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LOGAN, WILLIAM

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.210
Born in 1798. Studied at the Divinity Hall of the Associate (Burgher) Synod. Ordained at Lesmahagow, 1829. Joined the Church of Scotland in 1839. He signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Translated, 1843, to Sanquhar. In the closing years of his ministry Mr. Logan witnessed a great revival in his flock and district. Died, 1863.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
Student, Scott, Annals, p.493; 1820, Lesmahagow (Burgher), Scott, Annals, p.397; Call, Scott, Annals, p.334; 1820, Lesmahagow, FES, Vol.3, p.318. In the Free Church, he served in Sanquhar, Dumfries-shire.

Family
His sons, William Logan and Joseph Logan, were both Free Church ministers.

Publications – by him
The perseverance and success of Messiah, in promoting the submission of mankind to his government, by the agency of the Gospel, a sermon delivered in the parish church, Lesmahago, for the benefit of the Bible Society, on Sabbath June 23, 1822, Glasgow, Chalmers and Collins 1822
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Sabbath travel and Maynooth grant, 7th May, 1845, NRS GD112/51/191; Sites of churches, 24th April, 1846, NRS GD112/51/204; Address by William Logan, moderator of Free presbytery of Penpont, to House of Lords, 3 August 1846, On case of Free church congregation of Wanlockhead, NRS GD112/51/223; Case of Free church congregation in Wanlockhead, 3rd August, 1846, NRS GD112/51/220

Publication – about him
11th August, 1836, Eighth Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, p.10 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]

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LOGAN, WILLIAM, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.210
Born, 1824. Son of foregoing. Studied at the University, Glasgow, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Langton, Berwickshire, 1849. Died, 1880.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 23rd July, 1824, in Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, the son of William Logan, minister, and Ann Aitken. William Logan, senior, became a Free Church minister. Joseph Logan, brother of William Logan, junior, was a Free Church minister.

Education
He attended the parish school of his native village. He matriculated in Glasgow University in 1838 and graduated B.A. in 1842 and M.A. in 1843. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1843-47.

Ministry
He was ordained in Langton, Berwickshire, on 22nd February, 1849.

Death
He died on 23rd June, 1880, at the home of his widowed mother, Broomlea Cottage, Cambuslang, Lanarkshire; and he was buried in the Southern Necropolis, Glasgow.

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: William Logan
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 17/8/1880, Minister, Free Church, Langton, County of Berwick, d. 23/06/1880 at Broomlea, near Cambuslang, County of Lanark, testate, Confirmation of Executors only, Duns Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC60/44/7; Inventory and Holograph Writing, Duns Sheriff Court, NRS SC60/41/29; 26/10/1880, Additional Inventory, Duns Sheriff Court, NRS SC60/41/29

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LOGAN, WILLIAM, B.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.210
Born at Fearn, 1857. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Rogart, 1889. Married, the following year, Mary M. Taylor. Translated, 1896, to Turriff.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Rogart, Sutherland; and Turriff, Aberdeenshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.449, where a short biography is given).

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LOGIN, WILLIAM SPENCE

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.210
Born at Stromness, 1819. Studied at the University, Edinburgh. Ordained at Papa-Westray, Orkney, 1844. Married, 1846, Ann Miller Howden. In 1853 Mr. Login accepted a colonial appointment, and the following year he was settled at Sale, Gipps Land, Victoria. Was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Victoria, 1873. Resigned, 1885.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 26th July and baptized on 3rd August, 1819, in Stromness, Orkney, the son of John Login, ship-owner, and Margaret Spence.

Marriage
He married Ann Miller Howden on 21st July, 1846, in South Leith, Edinburgh. She was baptized on 29th June, 1818, in St Cuthbert’s, Edinburgh, the daughter of James Howden and Janet Balleny.

Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Edinburgh on 1st November, 1843, and ordained in Papa-Westray, Orkney, on 10th December the following year, and continued there till 1853. He then served with the Free Presbyterian Church of Victoria till 1859 and then with the Presbyterian Church of Victoria. He was received on 3rd January, 1854, and was appointed to Gippsland. He resigned on 19th January, 1886. He was Moderator of the General Assembly in 1873.

Death
He died on 26th June, 1903, in Victoria, and was buried in Sale there. His wife died on 1st January, 1903, at Thornlea, Hawksburn, Melbourne, Victoria.

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Jessie Balline Login born on 28th April and baptized on 19th July, 1849, in Westray and Papa Westray, Orkney. She married Hezekiah Harrison in 1875 in Victoria, and she died there in 1943.

(2) Margaret Helen Login born on 23rd June and baptized on 1st September, 1851, in Westray and Papa Westray, Orkney. She married James Alexander Reid in 1875 in Victoria, and she died there in 1889.

(3) John James Login said to have been born in Edinburgh in 1852. He was a bank manager. He died on 25th December, 1917, in Woodgrange, Hawksburn South Yarra, Victoria.

(4) Charles Login born in 1855 in Victoria. He married Margaret Ennis Mouritz there in 1894 and died there in 1931.

(5) Flora Marion Login born in 1857 in Sale, Victoria. She married Robert Sillett there on 12th April, 1887, and died in Victoria, in 1919.

(6) Alice Anne Login born in 1860 in Victoria. She died there in 1948.

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 26/10/1903, Presbyterian Church, Thornlea, Cromwell Road, Hawksburne, late of Copeford, Sale, Victoria, d. 27/06/1903 at Sale, Victoria, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/428

Sources
Familytreemaker; www.robertwhitton.eu/person.php?id=9820&fam=1&pat=Login; A full account of his time in Australia is available through this web-site: trove.nla.gov.au/people/560198?c=people; The Scotsman, Edinburgh, 20th February,1903, p.10

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LONGMUIR, JOHN, LL.D. (Aberdeen)

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.210
Born in the parish of Fetteresso, 1803. Studied at Marischal College, Aberdeen. After teaching at Stonehaven, and Forres, he received licence, and became evening lecturer in Trinity Church, Aberdeen. Ordained at Mariners’ Church, Aberdeen, 1840. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Married, 1835, Lillias Milne; and, 1857, Dorothy Hawthorn Dixon. Became senior minister, 1881. Died, 7th May 1883. He was an ardent student of natural science, and lectured on the subject both in King’s College and the Free Church College, Aberdeen. Dr. Longmuir was also an accomplished philologist.

Publications.—An edition of Dr. Jamieson’s Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, in four large quarto volumes. Guide to Dunnottar Castle. Speyside Guide, and some volumes of verse.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1840, Mariners’, Aberdeen, FES, Vol.6, p.12. In the Free Church, he served in Commerce Street, Mariners’, Aberdeen.

Publications
See separate document here.

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LORIMER, ARCHIBALD

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.211
Born in the parish of Glencairn, 1808. Studied at the University, Edinburgh. Became headmaster of Steele’s Hospital, Tranent. Ordained at Cockenzie, 1838. Married, 1841, Elizabeth Waugh. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Died, 1869.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1838, Cockenzie, FES, Vol.1, p.358. In the Free Church, he served in Cockenzie, East Lothian.

Publication – by him
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Against Maynooth grant, 26th April, 1845 NRS GD112/51/185

Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 28/1/1870, minister of Free Church of Scotland, at Cockenryie Residing at Port Seton, Haddington Sheriff Court, NRS SC40/40/17
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Lorimer or Waugh, Elizabeth, 31/5/1879, 12 Gladstone Place, Edinburgh, widow of Rev. Archibald Lorimer, Minister, Free Church, Cockenzie, d. 19/04/1878 at Laurieston, Glencairn, Dumfriesshire, testate, Inventory, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/194; Will, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/178

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LORIMER, JOHN GORDON, D.D. (New Jersey)

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.211
Born, 1804. Son of Dr. Robert Lorimer, Haddington. Studied at the Universities, Edinburgh and St. Andrews. Ordained at Torryburn, Fife, 1829. Married, 1831, Jane Campbell. Translated, 1832, to St. David’s, Glasgow. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Being in constant correspondence with the Churches of the Continent he did good service in awakening the sympathy of foreigners with the Free Church movement in Scotland. Died, 1868.

Publications.—History of the Protestant Church of France. The Old Orthodox Faith. Eldership of the Church of Scotland. Statistics of Scottish Moderatism. Recent Religious Awakening in America, etc.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1829, Torryburn, FES, Vol.5, p.54; 1832, St David’s, Glasgow, FES, Vol.3, p.439; FES, Vol.8, p.301. In the Free Church, he served in St. David’s, Glasgow.

Family
Lorimer Mellis Blaikie Tree.

Publications
See separate document here.

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LORIMER, ROBERT, LL.D. (Glasgow)

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.211
Born at Kirkconnel, Dumfries-shire, 1765. Studied at the University, Glasgow. Appointed to the chaplaincy of the Southern Regiment of Fencibles, then commanded by James, Earl of Hopetoun, and as such received ordination from the Presbytery of Penpont, 1793. In 1796 he was inducted as successor to Dr. George Barclay of the first charge, Haddington. When the convocation of ministers adhering to the evangelical cause in the Church of Scotland met at Edinburgh in November 1842, Dr. Lorimer was chosen to preside over the deliberations. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Married Elizabeth Gordon. When he went to Haddington only two ministers within the bounds of that large Presbytery were decidedly evangelical, but he lived to see the cause to which he was attached predominant in East Lothian. Died, 1848.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1796, Haddington, FES, Vol.1, p.370; Small, History, Vol.1, p.520. In the Free Church, he served in Haddington — St. John’s, East Lothian.

Family
Lorimer Mellis Blaikie Tree.

Publications – by him
New Statistical Account, April, 1843, Haddington, Vol.2, Haddington, p.1
The Reign of Christ the Joy of the World, a sermon on Psalm, 97:1, Edinburgh, 1813
Death Gain to Christians, a sermon, preached in the Tolbooth Church of Edinburgh, on Sabbath, November 11, 1827, occasioned by the death of the Rev. Thomas Davidson, D.D. of Muirhouse, George Muirhead, to which is added, a character of Dr. Davidson, by the Rev. Dr. Lorimer of Haddington, Edinburgh, John Lindsay & Co, 1827
Sermons by the late Rev. John Campbell, to which is prefixed, the Sermon preached on the occasion of his death by the Rev. Robert Lorimer, Edinburgh, Waugh & Innes, 1829
Correspondence between the Marquis of Tweeddale and the Rev. Dr. Lorimer of Haddington, Scotland, 1840
The Scottish Christian Herald, Vol.3, p.456, The Psalmist’s intense love for the ordinances of public worship; p.664, The Glorious Prospect of the Church of Christ; p.761, Reasons for Rejoicing in the Lord’s Day; p.787, On the Observance of the Sabbath

Publications – about him
Disruption Worthies on this website: Lorimer, Robert
Crichton-Miller family papers: Photographs of members of the Lorimer family, 1859-1888, NRS GD1/1285/44
Third Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction: Teinds, Appendix 1, Table 7, p.8
4th January, 1838, Seventh Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, p.132 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]

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LORIMER, ROBERT, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.211
Born at Glasgow, 1840. Son of Dr. J. G. Lorimer. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Mains and Strathmartine, 1866. Married, 1869, Isabella L. Robertson. Was for many years clerk of the Free Presbytery of Dundee.

Publication.—Bible Studies.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Mains and Strathmartine, Angus. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.386, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1909 and died in 1925.

Family
Lorimer Mellis Blaikie Tree.

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LORIMER, WILLIAM

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.211
Born at New Cumnock, 1826. Studied at the Universities, Glasgow and Edinburgh, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Glencaple, Dumfries-shire, 1863. Married, 1865, Margaret Stitt. Became senior minister, 1892.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
He was admitted to the Edinburgh Dialectic Society, 5th February, 1853 (see History of the Dialectic Society, p.200). In the Free Church, he served in Glencaple, Dumfries-shire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.105). He died in 1902.

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LOUDON, ROBERT THOMSON, B.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.211
Born at Kilmarnock, 1858. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Cockpen, Midlothian, 1885. Married, 1889, Alice Wood Muter.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Cockpen, Midlothian. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.54). He became senior minister in 1929.

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LOW, GEORGE DUNCAN, M.A.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.211
Born at Dundee, 1840. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Clunie, Perthshire, 1867. Married, 1872, Jane Stuart Reith. Translated, 1873, to North Church, Aberdeen; and, 1882, to Fountainbridge, Edinburgh.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
He was admitted to the Edinburgh Dialectic Society, 23rd November, 1861 (see History of the Dialectic Society, p.213). In the Free Church, he served in Clunie, Perthshire; North, Aberdeen; and Fountainbridge, Edinburgh. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.8). Thereafter he served in Candlish, Edinburgh, from 1901 (FUFC, p.5). He applied for a colleague and successor in 1902; he died in 1911.

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LOWE, ALEXANDER, B.D.

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.212
Born at Edinburgh. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Newcastleton, 1898.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Newcastleton, Roxburghshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.85, where a short biography is given).

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LOWE, DAVID

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.212
Born at Alyth, 1836. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Beith, 1864. Married, 1867, Edith Ann Gunner; and, 1875, Priscilla Brown. Translated, 1867, to Newcastle; and, 1881, to London Road, Glasgow.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
He was admitted to the Edinburgh Dialectic Society, 16th January, 1858 (see History of the Dialectic Society, p.206). In the Free Church, he served in Beith, Ayrshire; and London Road, Glasgow. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.232, where a short biography is given). He became senior minister in 1900 and died in 1903.

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LUKE, ALEXANDER

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.212
Born at Dundee, 1824. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Broxburn, 1850. Married, 1851, Jane Auchenleck Cheyne; and, 1866, Harriet G. F. Innes. Retired, 1885.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 1st and baptized on 8th February, 1824, in Dundee, the son of James Luke, baker, and Isabel Smith.

Education
He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1844-48.

Marriage
He married:

(1) Jane Auchinleck Cheyne on 14th December, 1851, in Linlithgow, West Lothian. She was born on 9th August, 1823, in Edinburgh, the daughter of James Auchinleck Cheyne and Margaret Blair McKean.

(2) Harriet (or Henrietta) Georgina Forbes Innes on 9th January, 1866, at 22 Stafford Street, Edinburgh. She was born about 1832 in India, the daughter of Dr James Innes, military officer – of the East India Company’s Bengal Medical Service – and Jane Alicia McLeod. Jane Alicia McLeod’s grand-mother is said to have been Anne Charlotte Boileau. For another reference to the Boileau family in Britain, see under John Charles Grant.

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Broxburn, West Lothian. He presented a letter of resignation to his Presbytery in November, 1884, on the ground of failing health. On 6th September, 1885, George Sinclair was ordained there as his colleague and successor.

Death
Jane Auchinleck Luke died in the 25th March, 1864, in Christchurch, Hampshire, England, and was buried in St Nicholas Church (Strathbrock), Uphall. Alexander Luke died on 27th March, 1905, in Newington, Edinburgh, and was buried beside his first wife in St Nicholas Church (Strathbrock), Uphall, West Lothian. Henrietta Innes or Luke died on 12th September, 1918, in Edinburgh. Her home was 23 Granby Road, Edinburgh.

Family
He had issue including, by his first wife:

(1) Margaret Dorothea Luke baptized on 26th December, 1852, in Broxburn Free Church, West Lothian. She died in 1927 in Morningside, Edinburgh.

(2) James Alexander Luke born on 10th November, 1855, in Uphall, West Lothian. He was baptized on 23rd December, 1855, in Broxburn Free Church, West Lothian. He died on 26th June, 1895, in Lasswade, Midlothian, and was buried in Saint Nicholas Church (Strathbrock), Uphall, West Lothian.

(3) Alexander Luke born on 5th September, 1857, in Uphall, West Lothian. He was baptized on 29th October, 1857, in Broxburn Free Church, West Lothian. He died on 14th August, 1864, at the Free Church Manse, Broxburn.

(4) Jane Auchinleck Luke born on 7th July, 1860, in Uphall, West Lothian. She was baptized on 9th September, 1860, in Broxburn Free Church, West Lothian. She died there in 1868.

And by his second wife:
(5) Jane Alicia McLeod Luke born on 28th August, 1870, in St George, Edinburgh. She died in 1944 in Peebles but was buried in Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh.

(6) Elinor Innes Luke born in 1873 in St George, Edinburgh. She married Alan James Gibson Thomson in 1897 in Newington, Edinburgh. She died in 1950 in Morningside, Edinburgh, and was buried with her sister in Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh.

Publication – by him
Quietness and Assurance for ever: being brief memorials of Jane Auchinleck Luke, Alexander Luke, James Nisbet and Son, London, 1865

Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 5/5/1905, senior minister of the West United Free Church, Broxburn, residing sometime at 17 Glenorchy Terrace, afterwards 23 Granby Road, Edinburgh, d. 27/03/1905 at Edinburgh, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/445; Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/366
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Luke ,Henrietta Georgina Forbes, 11/11/1918, 23 Granby Road, Edinburgh, widow of the Rev. Alexander Luke, d. 12/09/1918 at Edinburgh, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/61; Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/514

Sources
Burningviolin; Billiongraves; Gravestonephotos; The Dundee Courier & Argus, 28th March, 1864; The Scotsman, Edinburgh, 16th August, 1864, p.4; The Caledonian Mercury, 12th January, 1866

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LUMSDAINE, PATRICK

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.212
Born at Perth, 1821. Ordained at Killearn, 1845. Died, 1857.

Supplementary Information
Background
Peter Lumsdaine was born on 5th and baptized on 19th April, 1821, in Perth, the son of David Lumsdaine and Mary Stewart. (This identification requires explanation: Patrick and Peter are both translations of the same Gaelic name and were sometimes used interchangably. Patrick Lumsdaine’s mother’s maiden surname, according to his death record, was Stewart. Besides he was commemorated on the same grave stone as his parents in Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh.)

Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Killearn, Stirlingshire. He visited Spain on account of his health and promoted gospel work there.

Death
He died in 1857 in Killearn, Stirlingshire.

Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 22/4/1858, minister of Free Church of Killearn, parish of Killearn, co. Stirling, died at Killearn, son of the late David Lumsdaine, esq, kin of Miss Jane Lumsdaine and Mrs Margaret Lumsdaine or Weir, Inventory; Testament, Stirling Sheriff Court, NRS SC67/36/39

Publications – by him
Is it not expedient to abstain?, Stirling, Peter Drummond, 1853?
Is it not expedient to suppress the public-houses?, Stirling, Peter Drummond, 1853?

Sources
Peddie, Maria Denoon, The Dawn of the Second Reformation in Spain, London, 1871, p.65; Gravestonephotos

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LUMSDEN, JAMES, D.D. (St. Andrews)

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.56
Born at Dysart in 1810; studied at St. Andrews and at Edinburgh University and Theological Hall; was ordained at Inverbrothock quoad sacra church, Arbroath, in 1836. Translated to Barry in 1838. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Dr. Lumsden was appointed Professor of Systematic Theology in Aberdeen Free Church College in 1856; and in 1864 became its first Principal. He died in 1875.

Publications.—Baptism: its Nature and Objects. Sweden: its Religious State and Prospects. Difference between Free and Established Churches. Posthumous.—Memorial and Estimate, by John Rae. Life, by Principal David Brown.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1836, Inverbrothock, FES, Vol.5, p.427; 1838, Barry, FES, Vol.5, p.431. In the Free Church, he served in Barry, Angus.

Family
His sister Janet Lumsden married William Masterton.

Publications
See separate document here.

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LUNDIE, ALEXANDER

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.212
Born at Cumbernauld, 1833. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Torryburn, Fife, 1867. Married, the following year, Jessie Dun Paterson.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Torryburn, Fife. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.355). He died in 1906.

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LYALL, WILLIAM

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.212
Born in 1811. Signed the Probationers’ Resolutions of Adherence to the Free Church, 1843. Ordained at Broxburn, 1844. Appointed in 1848 Professor of Classical and English Literature in Knox College, Toronto. In 1850 Mr. Lyall was transferred to a similar chair in the Presbyterian College of Halifax, N.S.; and in 1863 to Dalhousie.

Supplementary Information
Background
He was the son of William Lyall, merchant, Paisley, Renfrewshire.

Education
He matriculated in Glasgow University in 1826.

Marriage
He married Charlotte Tremain in July 1870. She was born about 1842 in Nova Scotia, the daughter of Scott Tremain and Charlotte M. Knowles.

Ministry
“William Lyall, Edinburgh” was a name on the Roll of Probationers adhering to the Free Church. He was called to Broxburn, West Lothian, on 12th July, 1844, and ordained there on 22nd August that year. He was tutor in Knox College, Toronto, Ontario, Canada from 1848; Professor of Classics and Mental Philosophy in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; Professor of same in Truro, Nova Scotia, from 1860; and Professor of Logic and Psychology in Dalhousie College, Halifax, Nova Scotia 1863-1890.

Death
He died on 17th January, 1890, in Nova Scotia. His wife died about 1880.

Publications – by him
The philosophy of thought, a lecture delivered at the opening of the Free Church College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, session 1852-3, Halifax, N.S., James Barnes, 1853

Intellect, emotions, and the moral nature, Edinburgh, Thomas Constable and Co., 1855
Sermons, Edinburgh, 1848

Publication – about him
Review: Intellect, the emotions and the moral nature, by Rev. William Lyall, 1855?

Family
They had issue including:

(1) Charlotte Lyall born on 26th July, 1871, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. She died there on 11th July, 1874.

(2) Jane Lyall born on 31st March, 1873, in Dartmouth, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. She married Arthur G. Thompson on 18th March, 1903, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He worked in a lumber yard. They settled in Richmond, New, York, USA.

(3) Scott Tremain Lyall born about 1872 in Nova Scotia.

(4) Beatrice Helen Lyall born on 22nd November, 1874, in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada.

(5) William Knowles Lyall born on 31st December, 1876, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He married (i) Maud Fraser on 7th January, 1896, in Windsor, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada; and (ii) Annie May Merrick on 17th June, 1908, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

(6) Gertrude Tremain Lyall born on 27th October, 1878, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. She married Duncan Livingstone MacDougall on 8th December, 1909. She died on 8th December, 1963, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

(7) Garthland George Lyall born on 2nd January, 1880, in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. He married Jennie Alice Hunter on 15th October, 1915, in Oxford, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Source
Fbchalifax

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LYON, JOHN

 
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.212
Born in Bute, 1806. Studied at the University, Glasgow. After labouring for a time as missionary in Glasgow, Mr. Lyon was stationed at the village of Banton, near Kilsyth, where a Church extension charge was being formed, of which he became the first minister, being ordained at Kilsyth in 1840. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Translated, 1844, to Broughty-Ferry, West. Married Annabella Foulis. Became senior minister, 1880. Died, 1889.

Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1840, Banton, FES, Vol.3, p.371. In the Free Church, he served in Kilsyth, Stirlingshire; and West, Broughty-Ferry, Angus.

Publications – by him
Free Church Pulpit, Vol.3, p.563, The sinner married to the law – the believer married to the Lord
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Against Maynooth grant & Sunday traffic, 16th April, 1845, NRS GD112/51/176; Additional Papers from the Taymouth Estate Office, Letters Accompanying Petitions to Parliament etc., 8th March, 1854, Popery, NRS GD112/74/838
Sketch of the history of the Free Church in Broughty Ferry, Broughty Ferry, David Thomson, 1884

Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: John Lyon
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 30/5/1889, Minister, Free West Church, Broughty Ferry, d. 31/03/1889 at Broughty Ferry, testate, Dundee Sheriff Court, NRS SC45/31/41
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Lyon Mrs, or Foulds, Annabella, 11/12/1890, widow of Revd John Lyon minister of the Free West Church, Broughty Ferry, d. 30/10/1890 at Bridge of Allan, testate, Inventory; Extract Registered Trust Disposition and Deed of Settlement, Stirling Sheriff Court, NRS SC67/36/94

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