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SYNOD OF MORAY AND ROSS
PRESBYTERY Of ABERNETHY
ABERNETHY
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.199
Church and manse. Renamed Abernethy and Boat of Garten in 1904.
1862
WALTER ROSS
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.307
Ordained and inducted 20th March 1862; retired 13th September 1907; died 8th June 1917.
1907
ALEXANDER MACLEAN, M.A.
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 13th September 1907; translated to Cromarty 13th March 1912.
1912
ALEXANDER SUTHERLAND
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.334
Born in 1857 at Brora; educated at University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Dornoch 11th June 1890; ordained and inducted Altnaharra 21st July 1891; translated to Brodick 13th June 1901; translated and inducted as colleague and successor 19th July 1912; died 4th February 1924. Married 1894, Margaret Isabella Scott.
1924
JOHN ROSS
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.306
Born 20th May 1858 at Portmahomack, Ross-shire, son of John Ross and Margaret Vass; educated at University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh June 1890; assistant Ferintosh, Inverness East 1890-1; ordained and inducted Rosehall 16th September 1891; translated to Marnoch 26th March 1901; translated to Glasgow Tradeston, September 1906; inducted to the united charge of Glasgow John Knox and Tradeston September 1911; translated and inducted 15th May 1924. Married 1891, Katherine Gunn. Publication – Reminiscences, Kilmarnock.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.632, Abernethy and Boat of Garten.]
ALVIE
Presbytery of Abernethy
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.199
Church and manse, and church at Rothiemurchus. In 1900 Rothiemurchus formed part of this congregation but in 1902 was detached from Alvie and a new congregation Rothiemurchus and Aviemore was formed. The property and most of the endowments were allocated to the Free Church, and a new church and manse were built at Kincraig. Insh, which was part of Kingussie, was disjoined from Kingussie and added to Alvie in 1910.
1868
NORMAN MACDONALD
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.223
Ordained and inducted 27th October 1868; retired 28th November 1907; died 8th October 1910.
1910
JOHN MORRISON
Born 10th August 1885 at Lawers Free Church Manse, son of Rev. Murdoch Morrison and Margaret Macrae; educated at Bernera and Valtos Public School, Stornoway Nicolson Institute, Aberdeen Robert Gordon’s College and Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1907), B.D. (1911), Aberdeen College; student assistant Aberdeen High 1908-10; licensed by Presbytery of Aberdeen April 1911; ordained and inducted 11th September 1911; war service in H.M. Forces, Recruiting Officer in the Highlands, killed in action in Flanders 24th September 1918.
1919
ALEXANDER MACKENZIE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.237
Born 9th March 1864 at Dingwall, son of William Mackenzie and Catherine Ross; educated privately and at Dingwall Academy (1881); engaged in teaching for a time; University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; assistant Halkirk 1896; ordained and inducted Halkirk 18th August 1896; translated and inducted 24th April 1919; retired 1932. Married 16th September 1897, Ada Maria Mackenzie, Musselburgh. Publication – The Rev. John Mackay, M.A., Paisley, 1921.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.636, Kincraig.]
CROMDALE AND ADVIE
Presbytery of Abernethy
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.199
Church and manse.
1896
JOHN DYKES LANG
Translated from Stromness and inducted 24th July 1896; resigned on appointment as
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Superintendent of Glasgow City Mission 28th October 1904; inducted Rosneath 1911.
1905
JAMES GALBRAITH SMITH, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 21st February 1905; translated to Lumphanan February 1911.
1911
WILLIAM ALEXANDER BRANDER GALL, M.A.
Translated from Cromarty and inducted 11th May 1911; translated to Sunderland St Peter’s 6th February 1916. [From 1925 he served in Reston.]
1916
JAMES MACDONALD
Formerly of Reay; introduced July 1916; resigned for health reasons 30th September 1917.
1917
DUNCAN ARCHIBALD MCKINNON, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.241
Ordained and inducted Marykirk 1879; introduced 6th December 1917; resigned for health reasons May 1920; died 1922.
1921
JAMES R[ONALDSON] MACKAY, M.A.
Born [24th January 1861 at Stromness,] Orkney, [son of William Mackay and Betsy Flett; educated at Edinburgh University and at New College, Edinburgh (1888-1892)] lay preacher and teacher in Tulloch School, Nethy Bridge; ordained in Canada 1894; introduced 8th March 1921; resigned 12th July 1925; returned to his native Orkney; [died 19th February 1930; buried Warebeth Cemetery, Stromness. Married 1896, Annie Grant Geddes.]
1925
ROBERT ALEXANDER MORGAN
Lay missionary, appointed 15th December 1925; resigned prior to local union.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.633.]
DUTHIL
Presbytery of Abernethy
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.199
Church and manse. Later known as Duthil (Carrbridge). The property was allocated to the Free Church, a large number of members having adhered to the Free Church. A new church was built and opened in August 1909, the congregation having contributed £600, and a new manse was built in 1913. From June 1929 the Rev. Peter Macgregor, minister of Duthil Church of Scotland, acted as interim Moderator till the local union under him in 1930.
1896
WILLIAM MORRISON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.276
Born 8th January 1844 at Stornoway, educated at University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1872), Edinburgh Moray House; teacher in various schools, rector of Dingwall Academy 1876-91; New College, Edinburgh 1891-5; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Campbeltown; ordained and inducted 1896; retired 21st April 1907; died 1916. Married 1873, Marion Mackenzie.
1910
ROBERT WILLIAM STEWART, B.D., B.Sc.
Ordained and inducted 8th April 1910; resigned on appointment as Chaplain to the Forces 7th July 1918; inducted Cambuslang Rosebank 1920.
1918
DONALD MACRAE, M.A.
Ordained and inducted Kinloss 1915; translated and inducted 20th December 1918; translated to Millport East 24th March 1926.
1926
GILBERT GEORGE PATTERSON GORDON, B.D.
Ordained and inducted 31st May 1926; translated to Aberdeen St Paul’s 29th June 1929.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.633.]
GRANTOWN
Presbytery of Abernethy
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.200
Church and manse. The property was claimed by the Free Church and for two years the congregation worshipped in the Victoria Institute. The property was allocated to the United Free Church in 1906. A new hall was built and electric light installed.
1876
ALEXANDER MACDIARMID
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.220
Ordained and inducted 14th September 1876; retired 1905.
1905
PETER TAYLOR HALL, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 31st March 1905; resigned on appointment as Chaplain to the Forces 1918; introduced Edinkillie 1st December 1920.
1919
PETER DIACK, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 12th March 1919; translated to Forfar West 25th October 1923.
1924
JAMES COCHRANE
Born 18th April 1878 at Paisley, son of Hugh Cochrane and Jessie Cullen; educated privately, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1902), Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Paisley 1906; assistant Paisley St George’s 1906-8, Edinburgh Lothian Road 1908-9, Glasgow Wynd 1909-11; ordained and inducted Strathtay 5th January 1911; translated and inducted 14th May 1924; resigned 31st January 1935. Married 5th January 1916, Annie Macdonald Johnston.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.634, Grantown South; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.363.]
KINGUSSIE
Presbytery of Abernethy
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.200
Church and manse at Kingussie, church at Newtonmore. The church and manse at Kingussie were allocated to the Free Church, and the church at Newtonmore to the United Free Church. A new church was built at Kingussie and opened in 1909, and a
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new manse purchased, and these were entered free of debt though the cost was over £4000.
1856
NEIL DEWAR
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.137
Ordained and inducted 1856; retired 1904; died 1906. One of the editors of the Revised Gaelic Bible.
1904
ALEXANDER BAIN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.88
Translated from Campbeltown Lorne Street and inducted as colleague and successor 6th July 1904; retired November 1920; died 15th November 1922.
1921
ROBERT SUTHERLAND
Born 18th December 1889 at Glasgow, son of Benjamin Sutherland, L.D.S., and Christina Ferguson; educated at University of Glasgow, Glasgow College; ordained and inducted Kirkconnel 10th January 1918; translated and inducted 22nd February 1921.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.636, Kingussie St Andrew’s; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.238; also Vol.10, p.139.]
KIRKMICHAEL
Presbytery of Abernethy
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.200
Church and manse.
WILLIAM GRANT, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.175
Ordained and inducted Forglen 1873; translated and inducted 22nd January 1885; died 26th April 1919.
1919
ROBERT BROWN SOUTAR, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 4th November 1919; translated to Sandwick, Orkney, 26th March 1925.
1925
WILLIAM DAWSON SCOTT
Born 10th January 1882 at Kintore, son of James Scott and Annie Dawson; educated at Kintore Public School, Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1903), Aberdeen College (Foote Scholar, Edie Scholar, Lumsden and Sachs Fellow 1907); licensed by Presbytery of Garioch April 1907; assistant Kilmarnock Princes Street 1907; ordained and inducted Glenluce Ladyburn September 1908; resigned 13th June 1911; introduced Maryton 1922; translated and inducted 12th August 1925.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.636, Kirkmichael Dalvrecht; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.363.]
LAGGAN
Presbytery of Abernethy
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.200
Church and manse. The property was unsuccessfully claimed by the Free Church. A new manse was built in 1911-12.
1892
DUNCAN MCLENNAN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.246
Ordained and inducted Glenelg 1887; translated and inducted June 1892; resigned 16th December 1902, and went to New Zealand.
1903
ARCHIBALD MACLEOD
Translated from Acharacle and inducted 13th November 1903; translated to Enzie 3rd April 1922.
1922
JOHN PATTON, B.A.
Translated from Borgue and inducted 7th December 1922; translated to Longtown St Andrew’s 24th February 1924.
1926
ANDREW PATTERSON [or PATERSON]
Born 31st July 1865 near Woodstock, Ontario; educated in Canada, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 1897; assistant Sandhaven, Dunfermline Abbey, Inverness East; ordained and inducted Weisdale, Shetland, 16th May 1901; translated to Westerdale and Halsary, Caithness, 12th July 1922; translated and inducted 26th July 1926. Married 1st August 1902, Elizabeth MacLeod [Maclean]
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.636, Laggan South.]
ROTHIEMURCHUS AND AVIEMORE
Presbytery of Abernethy
In 1902 Rothiemurchus was disjoined from Alvie and a new church extension charge was opened under the name, Rothiemurchus and Aviemore, this having been sanctioned by the Synod on 22nd April 1902. A manse was provided later.
1903
ALEXANDER MALCOLM MCLEOD
Ordained and inducted 5th February 1903; translated to Bridge of Weir Freeland 15th March 1912.
1912
WILLIAM FRASER
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.278
Ordained and inducted Carsphairn 21st July 1897; translated and inducted 26th June 1912; resigned 30th September 1926.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.637.]
1927
JOHN WILLIAM MORRIS
Born 11th March 1896 at Aberdovey, Merionethshire, son of William James and Catherine Morris; educated at Towyn County School, Clynnog Grammar School; war service in France 1915-18; University of Durham, B.A., M.A., New College, Edinburgh; student assistant Edinburgh London Road 1922-3, Gorgie 1923-4; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh March 1924; ordained and inducted Chapelknowe and Gretna, Annandale, 14th April 1924; translated and inducted 9th March 1927. Married 29th October 1924, Myfanwy Daniel, Ilford, Essex.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.637, Rothiemurchus St Andrew’s and Aviemore; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.131.]
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PRESBYTERY OF ELGIN
ALVES
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.203
Church, hall and manse.
1869
DUNCAN COLVIN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.123
Ordained and inducted 1869; retired 1st October 1913; died 15th July 1915.
1913
GEORGE AITCHISON HENDERSON
Born 2nd February 1881 at Edinburgh, son of James William Henderson and Margaret Spence; educated at Edinburgh Abbeyhill Public School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (Hons. in Mental Philosophy 1909), New College, Edinburgh; student assistant Edinburgh Braid 1911; licensed by Presbytery of Dingwall April 1912; assistant Edinburgh Newhaven 1912; ordained and inducted 1st October 1913; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1915, 1917. Married 25th December 1913, Violet Margaret Mackenzie. Member of Moray Education Authority; chairman, Elgin School Management Committee; Convener of Finance, Aberdeen Training Centre; member of Central Executive of National Committee for Training of Teachers.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.639, Alves South; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, pp.442, 454, 545 and page=22″>13; also Vol.10, p.316.]
BELLIE
Presbytery of Elgin
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.203
Church and manse. A new church was built on Main Street of Fochabers and opened 26th December 1900. A pipe organ was installed. The Free Church claimed the Dr Smith Bequest in 1905, but it was allocated to the United Free Church. Mission hall at Bogmoor, four miles distant, was used jointly with the Church of Scotland.
1876
JAMES GRAY, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.176.
Assistant Burghead for two years; ordained and inducted 1876; died 23rd July 1918.
1919
GORDON BURNS NIELSON
Born 10th May 1877 at Glasgow, son of William Nielson and Elizabeth Smith Pollock; educated at Glasgow Kelvinside Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (Hons. 1899), New College, Edinburgh (Hons. Diploma in Theology 1903); licensed by Presbytery of Hamilton April 1903; assistant Crieff South 1903-4, Paisley South 1904-7, Edinburgh North Morningside 1907-8; ordained and inducted Bishopton Erskine 26th March 1908; translated and inducted 5th February 1919; died 23rd March 1928. Married 22nd February 1910, Minnie Brooks Orme.
1928
NORMAN MACKENZIE
Born 2nd February 1873 in Ross-shire; educated at Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1st Class Hons. in Philosophy), New College, Edinburgh, (Junior Cunningham Fellow 1899); ordained and inducted Whiting Bay 7th June 1901; translated to Auchterarder St Andrew’s 27th June 1912; war service as Chaplain to the Forces; translated to Helmsdale 12th September 1923; translated and inducted 12th September 1928. Married 1901, Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Colin Sinclair, Invergordon.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.644, Fochabers Pringle Memorial.]
BURGHEAD NORTH
Presbytery of Elgin
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.647
Church with small hall, manse. United with South in 1906.
1883
JAMES MANN
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.651
[Born about 1850 at Airdrie, Lanarkshire, son of James Mann and Ann Graham] ordained and inducted 27th June 1883; retired 1906; died 1912. [Married 1885, Jessie Angus.]
BURGHEAD SOUTH
Presbytery of Elgin
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.203
Church with large hall, manse. The property was claimed by the Free Church. The congregation worshipped for some time in a granary, but decided to unite with North in 1906.
1877
ROBERT NIVEN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.284
Ordained and inducted 1877; died 7th October 1904.
BURGHEAD
Presbytery of Elgin
(after local union)
The church, formerly United Presbyterian, was enlarged.
1907
DAVID BAIRD
Ordained and inducted 21st March 1907; translated to Armadale 3rd September 1923.
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1924
RICHARD ROSS ROBERTSON, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 1st May 1924; translated to Renfrew Trinity 11th September 1928.
1929
WILLIAM GEORGE DUNCAN MACLENNAN
Born 27th August 1899 at Inverness, son of Donald Maclennan and Mary Jane Cran; educated at Inverness High School and Royal Academy; war service in R.A.F. 1917-19; University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1st Class Hons. in Classics 1922), University of Cambridge, B.A. (1926), Westminster College, Cambridge, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Inverness 1927; tutor in Westminster College, Cambridge, 1927-9; ordained and inducted 11th July 1929. Married 5th September 1929, Elspeth Edwards Shaw.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.640; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.358; also Vol.10, p.214; Vol.11, p.190.]
ELGIN HIGH
Presbytery of Elgin
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.203
Church and classroom, manse. Large hall in South Street sold, and main hall built on to church 1904. While the property was retained by the United Free Church, the Commission allocated against the congregation the sum of £608 to enable the Free Church to obtain a place of meeting, and the congregation raised one third of that amount.
1878
ROBERT COWAN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.126
Born 10th April 1834 at New Rattray, Blairgowrie, son of William Cowan and Julia Sim; educated at Rattray Parish School, Blairgowrie Free Church School, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; student assistant North Leith 1858; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Meigle July 1858; probationer in charge Newtyle station 1858-9; loc. ten. Perth St Leonard’s 1859; ordained and inducted Perth St Leonard’s 22nd December 1859; translated and inducted 5th December 1878; retired 1911; died 10th March 1914. Married 22nd July 1861, Harriet Alice Thomson. Publications – The Weakness of God and Other Sermons, London, 1913; Reminiscences, Blairgowrie, 1924; various tracts, poems, etc. Mrs Isobel Cameron in her books, The Doctor, and More About the Doctor, made considerable use of incidents in his life, and his photograph was used as frontispiece for the former book.
1911
EDWARD JAMES HAGAN, B.A.
Translated from Cockenzie and inducted 18th January 1911; translated to Glasgow Hillhead 5th February 1920.
1920
WILLIAM NICOLSON
Born 11th March 1887 at Edinburgh, son of William Nicolson and Christina Doig; educated at Edinburgh Leith Walk and Broughton Road Schools, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1912), New College, Edinburgh (Cunningham Fellow 1916); lecturer on Psychology, University of Edinburgh 1912-16; student assistant Edinburgh Nicolson Street 1915-16; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 1916; ordained and inducted Dundee Victoria Street July 1916; translated and inducted May 1920; died 12th February 1921. Married 19th December 1912, Jessie Elizabeth Mitchell Hogg.
1921
JAMES NEIL MACPHERSON
Born 29th November 1888 at Yetholm Free Church Manse, Kelso, son of Rev. Norman Macpherson and Isabella Finlayson; educated at Yetholm Public School, Glasgow Hutcheson’s Grammar School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1911), Glasgow College; student assistant Glasgow Broomielaw 1914-15, Great Hamilton Street 1915, Ruchill 1916; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1915-16; ordained and inducted Newbattle 16th October 1916; translated and inducted 5th October 1921. Married 17th April 1917, Edith Lilian Macintosh, M.A. (Glasgow).
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.642; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.121.]
ELGIN MOSS STREET
Presbytery of Elgin
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.628
Church and manse. Platform enlarged and oak communion table installed in 1926.
1898
JOHN HOWITT GRANT, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 28th July 1898; translated to Dundee High 1908.
1909
JOHN NEIL MACLEOD PATERSON
Ordained and inducted 3rd March 1909; translated to Kilninian and Kilmore 1913.
1914
CECIL BARCLAY SIMPSON
Born 19th April 1885 at Monquhitter, son of Rev. James Simpson; educated at Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1st Class Hons. in Philosophy and 2nd Class Hons. in Classics), New College, Edinburgh; assistant Edinburgh St Bernard’s; ordained and inducted 19th August 1914; war service in H.M. Forces 1916-17; killed in action in France 7th October 1917.
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1918
BENJAMIN SIBBALD
Formerly minister of Congregational Church, inducted 10th April 1918; translated to Paisley High 1925.
1925
HERBERT ANDERSON WHITELAW
Born 11th February 1874 at Glasgow, son of Rev. Thomas Whitelaw, M.A., D.D., and Alice McCreath; educated at Kilmarnock Academy, University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; student missionary, Edinburgh John Ker Memorial, 1897-8; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Kilmarnock 1898; ordained and inducted Haltwhistle, Carlisle, 4th October 1899; translated to Dumfries Townhead 21st April 1904; translated to Gateshead-on-Tyne 1st May 1912; war service with Y.M.C.A. in Belgium 1916-17; translated to Glasgow Glasgow Burnbank 18th October 1917; translated and inducted 5th August 1925. Married 15th June 1904, Ethel Maud Joyce. Publications – God’s Chariots and Other Verses, Dumfries, 1908; Communion Tokens of Dumfriesshire, Dumfries, 1911; Remember the Days of Old, Gateshead, 1914.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.643; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.386.]
ELGIN SOUTH
Presbytery of Elgin
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.204
Church, with small hall and vestry. Manse. Mission hall in High Street. The organ was modernised in 1908; electric light introduced in 1923; bronze War Memorial Tablet unveiled in 1920. Short history of the congregation by Dr J.W. Morris Mackay was published in The Northern Scot 28th September 1901. [Dr J.W. Mackay is surely James William Norris Mackay, son of George Mackay, minister of Rafford.]
1900
JOHN LENDRUM
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.207
Born 31st July 1867 at Ballater, son of John Lendrum and Ellen Alexander; educated at Aberdeen Silver Street Academy and Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (Hons. 1888), D.D. (1929), Aberdeen Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Aberdeen 1892; ordained by Free Church Presbytery of Aberdeen as missionary and Professor of Philosophy, Hislop College, Nagpur, India, 12th October 1892; resigned 1899; assistant Elgin South 1899-1900; inducted 10th May 1900. Married 24th November 1894, Alice Helen Bruce. Chairman of Moray Education Authority 1921-8; J.P. for Morayshire, 1925. Publications – In Memoriam Mrs Norris Mackay (sermon), Edinburgh, 1904; Christian Life and Conduct (Bible Class Notes), Edinburgh, 1926; Scottish Life and Humour of Yesterday, Elgin, 1926; many articles in Expository Times, Interpreter, 19th Century and After, Chambers’ Journal, etc.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.643.]
GARMOUTH
Presbytery of Elgin
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.204
Church, manse, and hall (old Free Church school), small hall in Kingston.
1880
GEORGE GARDINER
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.164
Born 14th June 1851 at Luncarty, son of James Gardiner and Margaret Forbes; educated at Redgorton and privately, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1876), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 11th September 1879; assistant Newburgh-on-Tay 1879-80; ordained and inducted 30th September 1880; retired 19th August 1918; died 4th September 1920. Married 24th January 1888, Helen Hill. Member and for two years chairman, Speymouth School Board. Publication – Lights and Shadows of Garmouth and Kingston, Elgin, 1901.
1918
JOHN LESLIE SMITH
Born 1889, son of John J. Smith and Elizabeth Paterson; educated at St Andrews Madras College, University of St Andrews, M.A. (1912), Glasgow College; licensed 1915; assistant Paisley St James’ 1915-18; ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 25th September 1918; died 1st October 1918.
1919
JOHN GRAHAM, M.A., B.Sc.
Ordained and inducted 26th February 1919; translated to Greenock Crawfordsburn 1923.
1923
ROBERT LINDSAY WISEMAN
Translated from Marykirk and Muirton and inducted 27th June 1923; translated to Ardersier 1st March 1928.
1928
WALTER TAYLOR WISHART
Born 21st December 1868 at Forgue Free Church Manse, son of Rev. Alexander Wishart and Agnes Watt; educated at Denmoss Free Church School, Largue Public School, Old Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1889), Aberdeen Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Turriff 4th July 1893; assistant Rothesay West 1893-5, New Byth 1895-6, Buckie 1897, Wick 1898, Stirling 1899-1901; ordained and inducted Abercorn 28th February 1901; resigned 1911; inducted Balquhidder 22nd November 1912; resigned to do clerical war work 1917; inducted Echt 5th March 1919; translated and inducted 16th May 1928. Married 21st May 1902, Elizabeth Beath Nicholson.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.644.]
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HOPEMAN
Presbytery of Elgin
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.204
Church, hall, manse. In 1911 the church was renovated and reseated, new galleries added, heating and lighting by petrol gas introduced.
1866
GEORGE CASSIE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.118
Born 13th November 1838 at Keithhall, Inverurie, son of John Cassie and Margaret Johnston; educated at Newmachar Public School, Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Alford May 1864; assistant Aberdeen Torry and Alford 1864-6; ordained and inducted 15th February 1866; died 24th June 1907. Married 22nd August 1867, Jessie Duguid Hay.
1908
JOHN CAMERON
Born 21st October 1865 at Tarvie, Contin, son of William Cameron and Elizabeth Urquhart; educated at Garve Public School; in business for ten years; Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1898), Aberdeen College (Hons. Diploma in Theology 1902); licensed by Presbytery of Dingwall May 1902; assistant Kingussie 1902-3; ordained and inducted Helmsdale 30th January 1903; translated and inducted 12th March 1908; war service as chaplain to Gaelic-speaking naval personnel at Devonport, Portsmouth and Chatham 1918. Married 4th August 1914, Margaret Isobel Noble. Mrs Cameron is the author of The Doctor, More about the Doctor, etc.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.644; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.659.]
KNOCKANDO
Presbytery of Elgin
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.201
Church and manse. Hall about three and a half miles west of Archiestown. Knockando Free Church and Archiestown United Presbyterian united on 21st November 1900.
1865
WILLIAM SHARPE
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.655
[Born or baptised 1st October, 1830, at Crieff, Perthshire, son of Andrew Sharp and Ann Brough;] ordained and inducted Archiestown United Presbyterian 30th November 1865; became senior minister of Knockando 1900; died 1904. [Married 1883, Janet Lindsay Greig.]
1875
RICHARD ROSE MACQUEEN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.257
Born 29th September 1834 at Braemar; educated at University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; ordained and inducted Hawick West Port 1869; translated to a mission charge in Dundee 1872; translated and inducted Knockando Free Church 1875; retired 1899; died 14th March 1915. Married (1) 1870, Margaret Phillips; (2) 6th March 1900, Annie Elizabeth McWilliam.
1901
THOMAS MILNE, M.A.
[Born 8th July, at Old Machar, Aberdeen,1863, son of Thomas Milne and Helen Park; educated at Aberdeen University (M.A. 1885);] ordained and inducted 7th January 1901; died 12th December 1912; [buried Knockando Churchyard.]
1913
EVAN MACKENZIE CAMPBELL
Ordained and inducted 8th July 1913; translated to Ardrishaig 27th March 1918.
1918
WILLIAM JOHN JENKINS
Ordained and inducted 13th June 1918; translated to Dyce 7th February 1923.
1923
WILLIAM BAXTER BLACKWOOD
Born 26th October 1885 at Banchory, son of John Blackwood and Jean Paton; educated at Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, Scottish Congregational College, Edinburgh; ordained at Blantyre Evangelical Union Congregational Church 1909; translated to Reawick Congregational Church, Shetland, 1910; Aberdeen College 1913-14; admitted to United Free Church May 1914; inducted Ollaberry and Eshaness, Shetland, 30th December 1914; translated and inducted July 1923. Married 30th November 1910, Christina Anderson.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.639, Archiestown; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.622.]
LOSSIEMOUTH HIGH
Presbytery of Elgin
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.204
Church and manse. Grant Memorial Hall opened 20th December 1907; pipe organ installed 1908; new pulpit 1910; electric light introduced 1914.
1858
CHARLES TULLOCH, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.346
Ordained and inducted 1858; retired 1902; died 23rd September 1905.
1902
JAMES WILLIAM ROBERTSON, M.A.
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 30th January 1902; translated to Redhill, London South, May 1913; inducted Cardross 1922.
1913
ROBERT SIME STEWART
Ordained and inducted 17th September 1913; translated to Nassau, Bahamas, 1922.
1923
JOHN NIVEN
Born 25th October 1888 at Dunfermline, son of Thomas Niven and Janet Kinnear Simpson; educated at Dunfermline Pittencrieff School and High School, University of St Andrews, M.A. (1st Class Hons. in History and 2nd Class Hons. in English Literature and History 1908), Glasgow College; licensed by United Free Church Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross 7th
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May 1912; assistant Scone Abbey 1912; ordained and inducted Glass 10th October 1912; translated to Aberdeen Holburn 23rd December 1915; war service with Scottish Churches Huts 1917; translated and inducted 7th February 1923; appointed to Blantyre, Central Africa, by Colonial Committee 16th April 1929 and resigned 30th June 1929. Married 21st October 1919, Isabella Hall Angus.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.635.]
1929
MARTIN BRYDON SHIELDS
Born 1st February 1905 at Elgin, son of John Shields and Isobel Bruce; educated at Elgin Academy, Glasgow Whitehill School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1926), Glasgow College; student assistant Clydebank Union 1926-8, Rutherglen Stonelaw 1928-9; licensed by Presbytery of Dumbarton 2nd April 1929; ordained and inducted 25th September 1929. Married 28th April 1931, Henrietta Macleod Macrae.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.645; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.10; also Vol.10, pp.7 and 222; Vol.11, p.195.]
LOSSIEMOUTH ST JAMES’
Presbytery of Elgin
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.652
Church and hall. Pipe organ installed 1908; electric light 1914; baptismal font gifted by Miss Anderson 1917; manse purchased 1918; individual communion cups gifted by Ladies’ Guild in 1924; new heating apparatus 1926.
1890
MATTHEW LEISHMAN
Ordained and inducted 11th February 1890; translated to Kelty Trinity 6th November 1918.
1919
SAMUEL MACNAB, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 19th March 1919; translated to Irvine Relief 1925.
1926
WILLIAM MCDONALD TEVENDALE
Born 23rd June 1889 at Motherwell, son of Thomas Tevendale and Annie Coutts; educated at Dalziel Public School and High School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1912), Glasgow College; student missionary, Connel Ferry, 1913, Crianlarich 1914; war service with Scottish Churches Huts at Bedford 1914, with Y.M.C.A. in France 1915-16, in H.M. Forces 1917-19; licensed by Presbytery of Hamilton May 1919; loc. ten. Stirling North 1919, Nairn 1919, Freuchie 1920; ordained and inducted Insch 22nd April 1920; translated and inducted 28th April 1926. Married 4th July 1925, Ena Mary Milne.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.654.]
PLUSCARDEN
Presbytery of Elgin
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.204
Church and hall, church stables, manse, garage and outhouses.
1884
ROBERT GORDON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.173
Born 6th July 1843 at Rothiemay, son of William and Jane Gordon; educated at Rothiemay Free Church School, Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1868), New College, Edinburgh; student missionary in College course, and teacher in Daniel Stewart’s College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Dunkeld 25th June 1872; ordained by Presbytery of Manchester as missionary to China 28th August 1872; resigned for health reasons 1883; inducted November 1884; retired August 1914; died 29th October, 1923; [buried Pluscarden Churchyard.] Married 13th November 1874, Mary, daughter of Rev. William Ingram, Rothiemay Free Church.
1914
ROBERT MACKINTOSH, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 2nd September 1914; translated to Brechin East 1st June 1925.
1925
WILLIAM GEORGE STEVEN PLOWMAN
Born 18th December 1880 at Halkirk, Caithness, son of Donald Plowman and Georgina Steven; educated at Halkirk Public School, Thurso Academy, Skerry’s College; pupil teacher at Halkirk 1895-1900; teacher 1901-4; University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen College; licensed by Presbytery of Caithness 8th December 1914; ordained and inducted Skene 3rd February 1915; translated and inducted 30th September 1925. Married 12th October 1915, Christina Sutherland.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.646; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.620.]
ROTHES
Presbytery of Elgin
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.202
Church and manse.
1896
CHARLES CHALMERS COWIE
Ordained and inducted 2nd April 1896; translated to Stirling St Ninian’s North March 1914.
1914
MALCOLM POLLOCK, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 31st July 1914; translated to Kilbarchan 12th November 1918.
1919
JOHN HENRY JACKSON BISSET
Born 26th October 1875 at Aberdeen, son of George Bisset and Jessie Collie; educated at Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1896), B.D. (1903), Aberdeen Free Church College; licensed by Presbytery of Aberdeen 23rd October 1900;
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assistant Aberdeen North 1900-3, Kilmarnock King Street 1903-4, Aberdeen Beechgrove 1904, Newport Trinity 1904-5, Edinburgh Morningside, winters, 1905-6 and 1906-7, Arbirlot 1907; ordained and inducted Fyvie 4th September 1907; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1916; translated and inducted 16th April 1919; retired for health reasons May 1924; died 11th August 1936. Married 25th October 1916, Edith Agnes Howie. Publication – After Seventy Years (history of Fyvie United Free Church), Peterhead, 1914.
1924
ANDREW BURT TAYLOR, M.A.
Translated from Kirkwall Paterson and inducted as colleague and successor 28th October 1924; translated to Alford 8th February 1928.
1928
GEORGE MILNE
Born 31st January 1886 at Dunfermline, son of Thomas Milne and Helen Campbell; educated at Dundee Morgan Academy, University of St Andrews, M.A. (1st Class Hons. in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy 1907), B.Sc. (Hons. 1908), University of Cambridge St John’s College, B.A. (Hons. Mathematical Tripos 1910), and Educational Diploma and Teacher’s Certificate (1909); mathematical master Broughty Ferry Grove Academy 1910-12; assistant and lecturer in Natural Philosophy, University of St Andrews 1912-15; assistant National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, Middlesex, 1918-20; mathematical master, Dartford Grammar School, Kent, 1920-3; Cambridge Westminster Presbyterian College 1923-6; licensed by Presbytery of London North 13th July 1926; ordained and inducted 2nd May 1928. Married 4th January 1921, Agnes Janet Martha Learmonth.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.647, Rothes High.]
URQUHART
Presbytery of Elgin
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.205
Church, hall, manse. Church renovated in 1908 at a cost of £500.
1893
ALEXANDER CHALMERS SMITH
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.319
Born 6th February 1865 at Dundee, son of Alexander Smith and Ann Chalmers; educated at Dundee St Peter’s Free Church School and West End Academy, Fordyce Academy, Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1888), Aberdeen Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Fordyce 5th July 1892; assistant Urquhart 1892-3; ordained and inducted 26th July 1893. Married (1) 6th December 1894, Margaret Mitchell; (2) 17th April 1929, Mary Shand or Guthrie. Clerk to the Presbytery 1907-29.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.648, Urquhart St Margaret’s.]
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PRESBYTERY OF FORRES AND NAIRN
ARDCLACH
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.211
Church and manse.
1872
ALEXANDER MACDONALD
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.220
Ordained and inducted 1872; died 1908.
1909
JOHN ALEXANDER SUTHERLAND, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 1909; died 1926.
1927
WILLIAM ADAM
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.625
Born 10th August 1858 at Coatbridge, son of Matthew Hood Adam and Jane Anderson; educated at Coatbridge Dundyvan Academy, Glasgow High School, University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; student assistant Edinburgh Lauriston Place 1890; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow 1891; ordained and inducted Elgin United Presbyterian 9th June 1892; resigned to facilitate local union 1897; inducted Glasgow St Rollox 1st September 1898; resigned January 1911; inducted Dundee School Wynd 1915; resigned 1926; introduced 1927. Married 1st July 1908, Isabella Douglas Dunn.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.649, Ardclach North; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.71.]
AULDEARN
Presbytery of Forres and Nairn
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.211
Church and manse.
1885
JOHN MCNEILL
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.253
Ordained at Oban 1879; admitted to Free Church 1882; inducted 1885; died 1921.
1921
DUNCAN MACDONALD JOHNSTON, B.D.
Formerly at Forfar East; inducted 1921; translated to Olrig 1925.
1926
PETER CHAPMAN
Ordained missionary, born 31st January 1887 at New Aberdour, Fraserburgh, son of Peter Chapman and Maggie Jane Morison; educated at New Aberdour and Pitsligo Public School, Clapton Theological College, London; missionary, Connel Ferry, 1914-17, Kyle of Lochalsh 1917-22, St Fergus 1922-23; ordained as missionary, St Fergus, 28th June 1923; introduced 10th February 1926; resigned at date of Union 1929.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.650.]
CAWDOR
Presbytery of Forres and Nairn
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.211
Church and manse.
1880
JOHN GEORGE MCNEIL
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.253
Ordained and inducted Portnahaven 1875; translated and inducted 1880; died 1909. For many years editor of The Highland Witness.
1910
JOHN MACDONALD ROSE
Translated from Rayne and inducted 8th June 1910; translated to Auchtermuchty Martyrs’ 28th July 1918.
1918
JOHN ROSE
Born 1st April 1872 at Nairn, son of John Rose and Catherine Mackintosh; educated at Nairn, Edinburgh Daniel Stewart’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A., New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Nairn 1899; assistant Glasgow St Paul’s; missionary, Dundee Overgate; ordained and inducted Glenbervie March 1906; translated and inducted October 1918. Married September 1911, Caroline Anna Dalziel.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.650, Cawdor North.]
DALLAS
Presbytery of Forres and Nairn
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.206
Church, manse and offices.
1896
JOHN NAISMITH BALFOUR, M.A.
Ordained and inducted May 1896; translated to Abercorn 4th June 1912.
1912
ROBERT RUSSELL DAVIDSON, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 3rd July 1912; appointed by Foreign Mission Committee to Gold Coast, Africa, 3rd July 1921 and inducted to Gold Coast 21st August 1921.
1922
JAMES ALEXANDER MATHESON
Born 26th February 1887 at Helmsdale, son of Donald Matheson and Catherine Fraser; educated at Inver Public School, Tain Academy, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1909), Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Inverness 1913; assistant Kilmarnock King Street; ordained and inducted Rousay, Orkney, 1914; introduced as minister without charge 11th January 1922.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.640, Dallas High; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.365.]
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DYKE
Presbytery of Forres and Nairn
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.206
Church, manse and outhouses. American organ introduced December 1914.
1857
WILLIAM WINTER, D.D.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.360
Ordained and inducted 5th February 1857; became senior minister 1909; died 22nd April 1913. Clerk to the Presbytery from 1900 to 12th March 1912.
1909
WALTER JAMES ROBERT CALDER
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 11th November 1909; translated to Kingswells February 1912.
1912
JAMES JOLLY ROSE
Born 25th August 1869 at Careston, Brechin, son of Thomas Cruickshank Rose and Elizabeth Jolly; educated at Careston Public School, Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen M.A. (1st Class Hons. in Classics 1899), New College, Edinburgh; assistant Glasgow St Matthew’s, Perth East, Stranraer, Hamilton West; ordained by Presbytery of Edinburgh in charge New College Settlement, 21st October 1907; inducted May 1912; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1918-19; died 10th December 1920. Married 17th July 1912, Annie Reid Murray.
1921
DAVID MACKIE, M.A.
Translated from Glasgow Partick East and inducted 15th April 1921; translated to Caldercruix 9th October 1924.
1925
ARCHIBALD COLQUHOUN DAWSON
Born 21st July 1871 at Chindwara, C.P., India, son of James Dawson and Mary Logan Walker; educated at Edinburgh Institution and Queen Street, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1891), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh June 1897; Warden of New College Settlement 1897-8; assistant Edinburgh St Bernard’s Free Church 1898, Rosehall 1906-7; ordained as preacher at Rathillet 1907; inducted Rathillet 24th July 1911; translated to Aberdeen Old Machar July 1915; translated and inducted January 1925. Married 7th December 1907, Emma Margaret Boog.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.641, Dyke East.]
EDINKILLIE
Presbytery of Forres and Nairn
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.206
Church, manse and outhouses.
1863
ALEXANDER ANDERSON, D.D.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.81
Ordained and inducted 1863; died 17th June 1912.
1912
JOHN CROY GRAHAM CUMMING
Ordained and inducted 11th October 1912; translated to Lanark St Kentigern’s 6th October 1914.
1915
PETER JOHN BISSET FALCONER, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 22nd January 1915; translated to Hamilton Burnbank 11th August 1920.
1920
PETER TAYLOR HALL
Born 24th October 1874 at Leith, son of James Hall and Ann Smith; educated at Edinburgh George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1896), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 1900; served in Canadian North-West Mission 1900-1; assistant Edinburgh St Bernard’s 1901-3, Oban Argyll Square 1903-4, Bridge of Allan Chalmers 1904-5; ordained and inducted Grantown-on-Spey 31st March 1905; war service as Chaplain to the Forces 1915-19, mentioned in Despatches 15th May 1917; resigned on appointment as Chaplain to the Forces 1917; introduced 1st December 1920. Married 12th January 1911, Theodora Stuart Black.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.642, Edinkillie West; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.457; also Vol.10, p.271.]
FORRES CASTLEHILL
Presbytery of Forres and Nairn
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.635
Church, vestry and hall, manse. Pipe organ installed, new session house built, hall extended in 1902, at a cost of £2433. Hall rented for mission work at Pilmuir 1903-17.
1857
WILLIAM WATSON, M.A.
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.637
[Born 30th April, 1826, at Ellon, Aberdeenshire, son of James Watson and Margaret Irvine;] ordained and inducted 5th November 1857; retired 4th January 1898; died 1st November 1907; [buried Cluny Hill Cemetery, Forres. Married 1860, Catherine Luckie.]
1898
JOSEPH JOHNSTON, M.A.
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 19th August 1898; translated to Lenzie 25th March 1903.
1903
JAMES MACDOUGALL BLACK
Ordained and inducted 3rd December 1903; translated to Edinburgh Broughton Place 7th June 1907.
1907
WILLIAM DOBBIE
Ordained and inducted 20th September 1907; translated to Glasgow Govanhill 3rd September 1914.
1915
JAMES ALEXANDER CAMPBELL
Formerly at Buda-Pest; inducted 28th January 1915; translated to Maxwelltown 22nd February 1923.
1923
ROBERT GORDON MACDONALD, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 29th August 1923; translated to Brechin East 31st January 1929.
1929
AL[L]AN GRANT SMITH
Born 18th February 1901 at Broughty Ferry, son of James Nicoll Smith and Annie Guillan Grant; educated at Broughty Ferry Seafield House, Glenalmond Trinity College, University of Cambridge, Pembroke College, B.A. (1922), Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Dundee 11th April 1928; assistant Edinburgh Broughton Place 1928-9; ordained and inducted 17th May 1929. Married 29th January 1930, Dorothy Margaret Gordon Fairweather, [daughter of George Moncur Fairweather, minister.]
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.644; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, pp.276, 367 and 382; Vol.11, p.361.]
FORRES CUMMING STREET later HIGH
Presbytery of Forres and Nairn
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.206
Church and manse. A new church was built at Tulloch Park with halls, etc., and opened 13th December 1903. The old church was allocated to the Free Church, and the new to the United Free Church. A new manse was purchased in 1924. Communion Table in memory of Rev. James Hendry was dedicated March 1929.
1894
JAMES HENDRY
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.185
Born 8th October 1852 at Woodside, Lhanbryde, Elgin, son of George Hendry and Barbara Reid; educated at Urquhart Free Church School, Lhanbryde Parish School, Fochabers Milne’s Institution, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1st Class Hons. in Classics, 2nd Class Hons. in Philosophy 1874), Aberdeen Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Elgin 1879; Hebrew tutor, Aberdeen Free Church College, 1878; assistant Aberdeen South 1878; ordained and inducted Rothes 1878; translated to Presbyterian Church, Durban, Natal, 1885; translated to Kimberley 1889; inducted 1894; retired May 1924; died 20th July 1927. Married May 1899, Susan Christie. Contributed to The Expositor, Expository Times; privately published pamphlets. Gave much public service on School Board, Hospital Board, and as Governor of Anderson’s Institution, Elgin.
1924
JOHN GERVASE RIDDELL, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 25th July 1924; translated to Glasgow Netherlee 19th September 1929.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.644.]
KINLOSS
Presbytery of Forres and Nairn
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.207
Formerly Findhorn Free Church. Church, hall, manse. Extensive repairs to church in 1904, and to manse in 1914. Instrumental music introduced 1903.
1878
JOHN MACPHERSON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.256
Born 2nd May 1847 at Greenock, son of Charles Macpherson and Isabella Macpherson; educated at Greenock George Square Academy, Stromness Private School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1867), Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Elgin June 1871; assistant Paisley St George’s, Whithorn; in charge of stations at Carnwath and Airth; ordained and inducted Findhorn Free Church 9th November 1878; retired 21st May 1900; died 30th March 1902. Married 22nd December 1898, Margaret Bowie. Publications: – The Confession of Faith, Presbyterianism, The Sum of Saving Knowledge (Handbooks for Bible Classes), Edinburgh; Commentary on Ephesians, Edinburgh; Church History of Scotland, Edinburgh.
1900
WILLIAM CUMMING SKINNER, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 26th October 1900; translated to Dundee Hilltown 27th September 1905.
1906
JOHN GUTHRIE, B.D.
Ordained and inducted 26th January 1906; translated to Blairgowrie South 11th February 1915. Clerk to the Presbytery from 12th March 1912 to 29th January 1915.
1915
DONALD MACRAE, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 28th April 1915; translated to Duthil 20th December 1918.
1919
JAMES ROSS
Born 25th February 1862 at Ferryden, son of Thomas Ross and Elizabeth Cruickshank; educated at Burrelton and Woodside Public School, Coupar Angus, Hackney Congregational College, London; ordained to ministry of Congregational Church at Sheffield Mount Zion 6th March 1890; translated to Aberdeen Bon-Accord Congregational Church 1900; translated to Nairn Congregational Church 1905; admitted to United Free Church 1918; inducted 12th February 1919. Married 31st March 1891, Elizabeth Cloudsley Low.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.644, Findhorn; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.645.]
MOYNESS
Presbytery of Forres and Nairn
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.628
Church, manse and offices. Darnaway mission was linked to Moyness in 1928.
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1887
ROBERT KERR
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.630
[Born about 1859 at Beith, Ayrshire;] ordained and inducted 5th October 1887; removed from office by General Assembly 24th November 1909. [Married 1887, Annie Hoseason Wardrop, daughter of Alexander Wardrop, minister.]
1910
KENNETH EDWARD, M.A., D.Phil.
Ordained and inducted 18th May 1910; translated to Peebles Leckie Memorial 1916.
1917
JOHN HALL BATEY, B.Litt.
Admitted from Congregational Church 1916; inducted 7th September 1917; translated to Blackford 14th November 1928.
NAIRN HIGH
Presbytery of Forres and Nairn
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.212
Church and manse.
1901
JOHN SOMERLED MACDONALD, M.A.
Translated from Stornoway English and inducted 2nd October 1901; translated to Wemyss Bay 1909.
1910
ROBERT WILSON, M.A.
Translated from Motherwell Brandon Street and inducted 28th April 1910; translated to Glasgow South Shawlands 9th November 1916.
1917
JOHN GARDNER SMART, M.A.
Ordained and inducted May 1917; translated to Glasgow Stevenson Memorial 9th February 1921.
1921
JAMES MCNEILL LITTLE
Born 17th June 1872 at Edinburgh, son of Jacob Little and Margaret McNeill; educated at Edinburgh George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh; assistant Skelmorlie, Edinburgh John Knox; ordained and inducted Gateshead-on-Tyne Park Terrace Presbyterian Church October 1898; translated to Sunderland Trinity June 1902; translated to Maxwelltown June 1908; translated to Glasgow St Mark’s November 1914; war service with Scottish Churches Huts 1917-18; translated and inducted June 1921. Married (1) 19th September 1899, Jeanie Wark Robertson; (2) Jessie S. Webster.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.657.]
NAIRN ROSEBANK
Presbytery of Forres and Nairn
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.637
Church and manse.
1897
GEORGE ERSKINE NICOL
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.640
Ordained and inducted 24th June 1897; translated to Manchester Withington 1904. (See also Cannes.)
1905
DAVID ROSS, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 1905; resigned 1916; inducted Paisley Lylesland 1918.
1917
JAMES MCLEOD
Ordained and inducted March 1917; translated to Glasgow Rutherford 7th April 1922.
1922
WILLIAM KING
Born 2nd February 1885 at Greenock, son of Alexander King and Catherine Campbell; educated at Greenock Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1906), B.D. (1910), Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Greenock June 1910; assistant Leith St Andrew’s Place, Glasgow St George’s and St Peter’s; ordained and inducted Dundee Downfield 5th June 1912; translated to Edinburgh St Mary’s 18th November 1915; translated and inducted 27th June 1922. Married 25th September 1917, Christina Hamilton, daughter of Rev. Alexander Lamont Shaw.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.657; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.90.]
RAFFORD
Presbytery of Forres and Nairn
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.270
Church and manse.
1881
CHARLES EDWARD TAYLOR
Ordained and inducted December 1881; resigned 31st March 1908; placed on Probationers’ List 9th January 1912; inducted Torrance, Glasgow, 1917.
1908
JAMES G. MURRAY
Born 20th June 1876 at Clovenfords, Galashiels, son of William Murray and Elizabeth Stoddart; educated at Galashiels Academy, University of Edinburgh, M.A., New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Galashiels 6th December 1904; assistant Dundee Martyrs’ 1905-7, Elgin High; ordained and inducted 21st October 1908. Married 17th April 1909, Christina Lee Bisset. Clerk to the Presbytery 9th July 1918 to 1929. Served on Rafford Parish Council from 1910, School Board from 1910, Forres School Management Committee, County Insurance Committee. Publications – The Book of Burgie, Edinburgh (P.P.), 1930; The Dunbars of Grangehall; The Kinnairds of Culbin; The Dallas Raid; Sheumas an Tuim; Old Findhorn; articles on Morayshire History and Genealogy.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.646, Rafford High.]
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PRESBYTERY OF INVERNESS
ARDERSIER NORTH
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.656
Church and manse. Formerly called Campbelltown United Presbyterian. United with South congregation in 1907.
1878
ALEXANDER ANDERSON ROBERTSON
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.657
Born 16th January 1846 at Boyndlie, by Fraserburgh, son of James Robertson and Jane Gall; educated at New Aberdour and Udny Free Church Schools, Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; student missionary with Glasgow City Mission 1872-5; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow June 1877; ordained and inducted 29th March 1878; retired 31st December 1924; died 2nd November 1931; [buried Ardersier Burial Ground. Married 1878, Mary Taylor.]
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.649, Ardersier West.]
ARDERSIER SOUTH
Presbytery of Inverness
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.211
Church and manse, allocated to Free Church. United with North congregation in 1907.
1888
DUNCAN MATHESON MCLEOD
Translated from Fortingall and inducted 1888; resigned 1907; inducted Creich 1910.
ARDERSIER
Presbytery of Inverness
(after local union)
The two congregations united in 1907.
1907
ALEXANDER ANDERSON ROBERTSON
Minister of the North congregation (q.v.) continued as minister of the united congregation until 1924.
1925
WILLIAM GRAY
Ordained and inducted 1925; translated to Avonbridge 18th May 1927.
1928
ROBERT LINDSAY WISEMAN
Born 3rd June 1870 at Larkhall, son of Robert Wiseman and Elizabeth Thomson; educated at Muirkirk Parish School, University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow June 1898; ordained and inducted Fortrose 30th June 1903; translated to Sunderland Trinity 28th January 1913; translated to Marykirk and Muirton January 1918; translated to Garmouth 27th June 1923; translated and inducted 1st March 1928. Married 1st September 1903, Wilhelmina Young Charles.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.649, Ardersier West; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.377; also Vol.10, p.225.]
CROY
Presbytery of Inverness
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.211
Church and manse.
1896
ANGUS MACKENZIE, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.237
Ordained and inducted 1896; died 9th March 1910.
1910
ALEXANDER MACLEOD, M.A.
Translated from Farr and inducted 19th August 1910; translated to Rogart 1919.
1920
NEIL CAMERON, M.A.
Ordained and inducted April 1920; translated to Monifieth South September 1923.
1924
DONALD CAMPBELL, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 16th April 1924; translated to Dundee Bonnethill 11th June 1929.
DAVIOT
Presbytery of Inverness
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.208
Church and manse, allocated to Free Church. The minister and most of the congregation adhered to Free Church. Reduced to a station in 1907 and united with Moy as a station in 1912.
DORES AND BONA
Presbytery of Inverness
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.208
Church and manse.
1893
JOHN FRASER
Ordained and inducted 1893; translated to Kilmuir Easter 1904.
1909
ANGUS MURDO MACFARLANE
Born 12th July 1863 at Duirinish, Skye, son of Murdo Macfarlane and Catherine Noble; educated at Glendale Public School, Old Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Skye January 1897 assistant
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Westerdale, Kilmonivaig, Tongue, and Paible; ordained and inducted 1909. Married 28th October 1910, Annie Fraser, Stratherrick. F.S.A. (Scot.).
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.650, Bona.]
GLENURQUHART
Presbytery of Inverness
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.231
Church and manse. Transferred from the Presbytery of Abertarff in 1913.
1909
ANGUS MCIVER
Born 1st May 1864 in the parish of Back, Lewis, son of Murdo Mciver and Christina MacLeod; educated at Back Public School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Lochcarron 1899; ordained and inducted Applecross 16th May 1900; translated and inducted 8th April 1909; war service as chaplain to R.N. Dockyards and Depots in south of England 1918. Married 30th December 1900, Marion Stewart.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.655, Kilmichael.]
INVERNESS CROWN
Presbytery of Inverness
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.208
Church in 1900; manse acquired in the period.
1899
WILLIAM TODD, M.A.
Translated from Auchterarder and inducted 18th September 1899; translated to Kirkcaldy St Brycedale 8th October 1907.
1908
JOHN DUNCAN MCGILP, M.A.
Translated from Aberdeen Rutherford and inducted 10th January 1908; resigned on appointment as Food Controller 1919; inducted Kilmun 25th October 1921.
1919
DUNCAN WILLIAM PARK STRANG, M.C., M.A.
Ordained and inducted 9th April 1919; translated to Dunfermline Queen Anne Street 11th January 1922.
1922
JOHN DOW
Born 6th August 1885 at Finavon Gardens, Oathlaw, Angus, son of John Dow and Mary Alexander; educated at Oathlaw Public School, Forfar Academy (pupil teacher, Forfar West Public School 1902-4), University of St Andrews, M.A. (1st Class Hons. in Classics 1909), D.D. (1927), New College, Edinburgh; student missionary, Tomintoul, 1910, 1911, New Deer and Maud 1912; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 7th May 1913; assistant Edinburgh New North 1913-15; acting warden, New College Settlement 1915-16; loc. ten. Brechin West 1916-17; ordained and inducted Montrose St George’s 6th June 1917; translated and inducted 10th May 1922; resigned and inducted to Chair of New Testament Literature, Knox College, Toronto, 27th October 1925; continued in same Chair in Emmanuel College, Toronto; resigned 30th June 1952; acted as lecturer in Biblical Criticism, University of St Andrews, St Mary’s College 1952-3. Married 24th April 1918, Donaldina Rose Macdonald, M.A. (St Andrews). Member of American Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis; member and past president, Canadian Society of Biblical Studies; lecturer in summer schools in Canada and U.S.A., in the Canadian School of Missions, and Canadian United Church Training School. Publications – Jesus and the Human Conflict (Cunningham Lectures), London, 1928; Commentary on Galatians in Abingdon Commentary, New York, 1929; The Spirit of Jesus in the Early Church, 1930; Gospel of John, 1931; Gospel of Matthew, 1945; The Early Church Faces its World, 1946 (S.S. textbooks for the United Church of Canada); This is our Faith, Toronto, 1943; Alfred Gandier, Toronto, 1951; contributed articles to Hastings, Dictionary of the Apostolic Church, Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, Canadian Journal of Religious Thought, Interpretation, The Living Church, etc.
1926
STEWART MECHIE
Born 8th [7th] November 1897 at Perth, son of Andrew McDonald Mechie and Jessie Jane Taylor; educated at Perth Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1921); war service in H.M. Forces 1918-19; Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Perth 10th June 1924; assistant Glasgow St Mark’s Lancefield; ordained and inducted 21st April 1926.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.652; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, pp.10 and 780; also Vol.10, p.437 and Vol.11, p.428.]
INVERNESS EAST
Presbytery of Inverness
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.208
Church and manse.
1892
ALLAN CAMERON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.111
Born 1847 near Fort William; educated at Inverness Raining’s School; University of Edinburgh, M.A., Glasgow Free Church College; ordained and inducted Govan St Columba’s 1874; translated to Ardrossan 1887; translated and inducted 1892; retired 1921; died 14th February 1928. Married 1880, Isabella MacKenzie Stark. D.D. (1920) from University of Pittsburgh. Publications – The Church of our Fathers,
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Glasgow, 1886; Great Men and Movements of the Christian Church, Paisley, 1914.
1921
ANDREW DICK BARR
Ordained and inducted 1921; translated to Helensburgh West 1924.
1925
WILLIAM SUTHERLAND
War service in Navy and in R.A.F. in France; ordained and inducted Petty 1921; translated and inducted 7th January 1925.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.653; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.49.]
INVERNESS HIGH
Presbytery of Inverness
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.208
Church and manse.
1872
JOHN JAMES BLACK, LL.D.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.97
Ordained at Wesport, Co. Mayo, 1857; translated to Dublin Ormond Quay 1859; translated and inducted 1872; died 1907. Married 1859, Margaret Stewart.
1907
ALFRED A[UGUSTUS] COOPER, M.A.
[Born 1st October, 1866, at Keig, Aberdeenshire, son of William B. Cooper and Christina McKenzie, educated at Aberdeen University, M.A. (1887);] ordained 1893; [missionary in Bengal of the Presbyterian Church of England, 1893-97; acting Literary Superintendent, British and Foreign Bible Society, London; agent in Alexandria of that Society for Egypt, Sudan, Syria, etc., 1898;] inducted 19th November 1907; resigned 1920; inducted Aston Tyrrold 1922. [Died 28th February, 1942. Married 1893, Florence Howden.]
1920
LEWIS ALBERT SUTHERLAND, M.A.
Translated from Motherwell Brandon Street and inducted 8th December 1920; translated to Paisley St James’ 2nd June 1926.
1927
ERNEST FREDRICK JAMES ELLIOTT
Born in Ireland; ordained as Chaplain to the Forces 1916; inducted Jennymount Methodist Church, Ireland, 1922; admitted to United Free Church 1924; inducted Dunfermline Gillespie 1925; translated and inducted 1927.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.654, Inverness St Columba’s High.]
INVERNESS NESS BANK
Presbytery of Inverness
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.642
Church. Manse acquired in the period.
1899
CHARLES ROBSON, M.A.
Translated from Glasgow Pollok Street and inducted 21st December 1899; translated to Alloa Moncrieff 18th January 1904.
1904
JOHN REID, M.A.
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, pp.305 and 380
[Born 10th September, 1853, at Glasgow, son of John Reid and Jane Rankine;] ordained and inducted Milnathort 21st April 1881; translated to Dundee Tay Square 6th August 1884; translated and inducted 1904; died July 1917; [buried Tomnahurich Cemetery, Inverness. Married 1891, Clara Elizabeth Whitehorn.]
1917
THOMAS WILLIAM ARMOUR
[Born on 29th July, 1880, at Kirkintilloch, son of John Miller Armour and Isabella McDonald;] ordained to ministry of Baptist Church 1909; inducted Fort Augustus 3rd November, 1913; translated and inducted 5th December 1917; resigned 1924; inducted Christchurch, New Zealand; died [24th August] 1947; [buried Bromley Cemetery, Christchurch. Married 1909, Mary Campbell.]
1925
JAMES WRIGHT
Born 9th September 1891 at Dumfries, son of William Wright and Grace Kirkpatrick; educated at Dumfries Wallace Hall Academy, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1911), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh April 1915; assistant Edinburgh Barclay; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France; ordained and inducted Stewarton Cairns 26th October 1916; translated to Glasgow St Mark’s 1st December 1921; translated and inducted 25th February 1925. Married 26th February 1917, Jean Robb Thomson.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.653; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.633; also Vol.10, pp.114 and 362.]
INVERNESS NORTH
Presbytery of Inverness
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.209
The minister of this congregation adhered to the Free Church and the property was allocated to the Free Church.
INVERNESS QUEEN STREET
Presbytery of Inverness
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.209
Church and manse.
1874
ALEXANDER CHISHOLM MACDONALD, D.D.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.220
Ordained at Thamesford, Ontario 1867; admitted to Free Church 1874; inducted 1874; retired 1902; died 1910.
1902
ANDREW GRANT
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.174
Translated from Helmsdale and inducted 1902; died 1911.
1912
JOHN ROSS, M.A.
Translated from Alness and inducted 8th May 1912; translated to Aberdeen Holburn 13th June 1923.
1923
JAMES TOLMIE
Born 27th January 1872 at Nairn, son of Christopher Tolmie and Elizabeth McNeil; educated at Nairn Rose’s Academical Institution, University of Edinburgh, M.A., New College, Edinburgh; assistant Rosskeen; ordained and inducted Clyne, Brora, 1901; war service as Chaplain to the Forces in the East 1917-19; translated to Glasgow Kinning Park 5th February 1920; translated and inducted 10th October 1923. Married (1) Euphemia, daughter of Rev. R.M. Boyd Glenbervie; (2) Margaret M. Russell.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.654.]
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INVERNESS WEST
Presbytery of Inverness
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.209
Church and manse.
1880
DONALD CONNELL
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.123
Born 9th September 1853 at Appin, son of John Connell and Elizabeth MacInnes; educated at Appin Public School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College, New College, Edinburgh; assistant Torridon and Kirkhill, Govan, and Oban; ordained and inducted 1880.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.653, Inverness Merkinch (St Mark’s).]
KILTARLITY
Presbytery of Inverness
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.209
Church and manse.
1880
HECTOR MACKENZIE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.238
Ordained and inducted 1880; retired 1902; died 1905.
1902
DUNCAN MCGREGOR
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 13th February 1902; translated to Killin 3rd July 1912.
1913
EWEN GILLIES
Translated from Carinish and inducted 1913; translated to Kilninian and Kilmore 1920.
1921
DONALD MACDONALD
Born 27th July 1866 at Kilvickeon, Mull, son of Lachlan Macdonald and Mary Morrison; educated at Tobermory Higher Grade School, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Mull 1901; ordained and inducted Kilmory, Arran, 1902; translated to Tongue January 1911; translated to Latheron 1914; translated and inducted 3rd January 1921. Married 17th June 1908, Margaret Jane Macmillan.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.655, Kiltarlity West.]
KIRKHILL
Presbytery of Inverness
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.209
Church and manse.
1898
ALLAN MUNN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.278
Ordained and inducted 1898; died 1913.
1914
ALASTAIR MACGILLIVRAY MACLEOD, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 15th May 1914; translated to Invergordon 1920.
1920
JOHN MCKINNON, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 22nd September 1920; translated to Paisley Middle 21st September 1925.
1925
ALISDAIR JOHN MACDONALD
Born 12th June 1900 at Abriachan, Inverness-shire, son of Donald and Elizabeth MacDonald; educated at Inverness Royal Academy; war service in H.M. Forces 1918-19; University of Glasgow, M.A. (1924), Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow November 1925; ordained and inducted 16th December 1925.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.656, Kirkhill St Mary’s; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.420; also Vol.10, pp.250 and 291.]
MOY
Presbytery of Inverness
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.209
Church and manse allotted to Free Church. The minister and most of the congregation adhered to the Free Church. Reduced to a mission station in 1907, and united with Daviot as a station in 1912.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.656.]
PETTY
Presbytery of Inverness
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.210
Church and manse.
1895
DONALD CAMPBELL
Ordained and inducted 1895; translated to Greenock Gaelic 27th February 1908.
1908
ARCHIBALD SHAW, B.D.
Ordained and inducted 1908; translated to Fort William 1911.
1912
GEORGE MURRAY
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.280
Born 2nd November 1860 at Golspie, son of John Murray and Jane Ross; educated at Golspie, Aberdeen Robert Gordon’s College, University of Aberdeen, New College, Edinburgh; teacher-missionary, North Uist, 1884, St Kilda 1885; ordained and inducted Kilninver and Kilmelford 15th February 1894; translated to Tarbat 28th October 1902; translated and inducted 1912; died 1918. Married 1896, Katherine A., daughter of Rev. Murdoch Macaskill, Dingwall.
1918
ROBERT JOHN MACKAY, M.A., LL.B.
Ordained and inducted 27th November 1918; translated to Broughty Ferry West 8th June 1921.
1921
WILLIAM SUTHERLAND
Ordained and inducted 1921; translated to Inverness East 1925.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.658.]
1925
JAMES FRASER, M.A.
Ordained and inducted Kilarrow 1907; translated to Sorbie 8th March 1917; translated and inducted October 1925; died 1927.
1928
JAMES MCLEOD
Born 9th June 1886 at Auldearn, son of James McLeod and McAndrew; educated at Geanies School, Ross-shire, University of
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Aberdeen, Aberdeen College; assistant Elgin High, Dundee St John’s; ordained and inducted Nairn Rosebank March 1917; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1916-17, and as Chaplain to the Forces 1918-19; translated to Glasgow Rutherford 7th April 1922; translated and inducted 18th May 1928. Married 26th August 1920, Gertrude Alice Mackay.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.658, Petty East; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.374]
STRATHERRICK
Presbytery of Inverness
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.210
Church and manse.
1880
GEORGE GRENVILLE SUTHERLAND MACLEOD
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.248
Ordained and inducted 1880; retired 1901; died 1903.
1901
NICOL CAMPBELL
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor September 1901; translated to Urray 6th November 1906.
1907
WILLIAM MACLEOD, B.D., Ph.D.
Translated from Melness and inducted 1907; translated to Whiting Bay 22nd January 1913.
1914
ALEXANDER DANIEL CAMPBELL
Born 7th February 1877 at Kilchoan, Argyll, son of Rev. Nicol Campbell and Janet Mackenzie; educated at Glasgow High School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1902), Aberdeen College; licensed by Presbytery of Uist 1914; assistant Aberdeen High; ordained and inducted 1st June 1914. Married 1st June 1915, Elizabeth Sutherland.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.658; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.666.]
STRATHGLASS
Presbytery of Inverness
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.210
Church and manse.
1880
COLIN CAMPBELL MACKENZIE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.238
Ordained and inducted 1880; died 1907. F.R.G.S.
1909
WILLIAM MACPHERSON
Ordained missionary, ordained 1909; appointed to Glenorchy 4th April 1917.
1923
ANGUS MACINTYRE
Ordained as missionary 1912; appointed here 11th July 1917; inducted 17th May 1923; translated to Fort Augustus and Glenmoriston 17th February 1926.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.651, Erchless.]
DAVIOT AND MOY
Presbytery of Inverness
The two congregations were reduced to stations in 1907, and were united to form one station in 1912. Church and manse built.
1923
THOMAS REID
Ordained missionary, from Longformacus 1st September 1923; introduced Leswalt 1st November 1925.
1926
CHARLES BAIRD
Ordained missionary at Mossbank 9th August 1921; introduced 4th March 1926 and served till 1929.
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PRESBYTERY OF CHANONRY
AVOCH
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.213
Church and manse. Improvements to church and manse in the period.
1897
DONALD FINLAY MACLEOD
Ordained and inducted December 1897; translated to Glasgow Partick Gardner Street 3rd July 1903.
1904
KENNETH CAMERON
Ordained and inducted 14th May 1904; translated to Lochgilphead 27th October 1909.
1910
EWEN MACLEAN, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 5th July 1910; resigned to continue as Chaplain to the Forces 31st December 1917.
1918
DONALD THOMSON, B.D.
Ordained and inducted 6th June 1918; translated to Clyne 20th February 1921.
1921
WILLIAM EDGAR MORGAN
Born 8th September 1877 at Scotscalder, Thurso, son of James Morgan and Elizabeth Murray; educated at Calder Public School, Aberdeen Civil Service College, private tuition, Harley College, London; assistant Wimborne, Dorset, 1906; ordained to ministry of Baptist Church at Lachute, P.Q., Canada, by the Ottawa Valley Baptist Association 13th December 1906; introduced Elgin Baptist Church 17th September 1911; attended New College, Edinburgh, 1918-19; inducted Dunnet 17th October 1919; translated and inducted 11th August 1921. Married 15th July 1909, Catherine Stewart Fowler.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.659, Avoch South; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.646.]
CROMARTY
Presbytery of Chanonry
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.213
Church, hall and manse. Pipe organ installed in 1926. Mission hall in Fishertown, Cromarty.
1896
ARCHIBALD JOHN MCNICOL, M.A., B.D.
Translated from Dundonald and inducted July 1896; translated to Pitlochry April 1907.
1907
WILLIAM ALEXANDER BRANDER GALL, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 17th July 1907; translated to Cromdale 11th May 1911.
1912
ALEXANDER MACLEAN, M.A.
Translated from Abernethy and inducted 13th March 1912; translated to Glasgow East Park 25th January 1920.
1920
DOUGLAS MCRITCHIE, B.D.
Formerly of Leslie West; inducted 14th July 1920; translated to Dundee High 3rd February 1926.
1926
GEORGE BURNETT
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.108
Born 18th October 1864 at Fraserburgh, son of James Burnett and Christina Eaton; educated at Fraserburgh Academy, Rathen Public School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Paisley April 1892; assistant Darvel 1892-3, Govan 1893-4; ordained and inducted Friockheim 29th March 1894; translated to Glasgow Rockcliffe 10th October 1901; war service with Y.M.C.A. 1917; translated and inducted 7th July 1926. Married 10th June 1896, Margaret Howie.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.660, Cromarty Stewart Memorial.]
FORTROSE
Presbytery of Chanonry
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.213
Church and manse. Hymns introduced in 1901; organ installed in 1914. The church was claimed and occupied by the Free Church from 4th August 1905 to 28th May 1907, when it was restored to the United Free Church. The congregation worshipped in the Drill Hall during the period of eviction.
1874
CHARLES FALCONER
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.150
Ordained and inducted 1874; died 2nd September 1902.
1903
ROBERT LINDSAY WISEMAN
Ordained and inducted 30th June 1903; translated to Sunderland Trinity 28th January 1913; translated to Marykirk and Muirton January 1918.
1913
KENNETH MACLENNAN, B.D.
Translated from Insch and inducted 29th June 1913; translated to Alexandria North 27th February 1924.
1924
WILLIAM CRAIG
Born 18th July 1886 at Aberdeen, son of William Craig and Nicholas Smith Mathieson;
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educated at Aberdeen Ashley Road Public School, Robert Gordon’s College, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (Hons. 1907), B.D. (Hons. 1913); licensed by Presbytery of Aberdeen 28th April 1913; assistant Alloa Moncrieff 1913-15; ordained and inducted Kelty Moray 20th October 1915; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1916-17 and in H.M. Forces 1917-19; translated and inducted 15th July 1924. Married 29th April 1915 [27th October 1915,] Margaret Forsyth.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.661; for an account of this minister, see Vol.9, p.662; also Vol.10, p.378.]
KILLEARNAN
Presbytery of Chanonry
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.213
Church and manse. The buildings were allocated to the Free Church and new church and manse were erected, and the church was extended in 1922.
1872
NEIL GILLIES
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.168
Born 1st November 1841 at Easdale, Keilbrandane, Argyll, son of Hugh Gillies and Anne May; educated at Keilbrandane and Glasgow, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; taught in Paisley Free Church School; assistant Greenwich and Lybster; ordained and inducted 1872; retired October 1903; died 9th May 1925. Married (1) 1873, Mary N. Colvin; (2) 14th December 1887, Isabella Macpherson.
1904
CHARLES MATHESON, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 28th January 1904; translated to Buckie South 25th June 1908.
1909
ALEXANDER CAMERON
Born 11th November 1867 at Kiltarlity, son of Alexander Cameron and Catherine Macdonald; educated at Kiltarlity Public School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; assistant evangelist under the Highland Committee for 12 years; licensed by Presbytery of Chanonry 1909; ordained as missionary 1909; inducted 1919.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.663, Redcastle; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.380.]
KNOCKBAIN
Presbytery of Chanonry
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.214
Church, manse and appurtenances. Hall at North Kessock was provided by Mr Fraser of Kessock House, soon after the House of Lords’ decision, and various improvements have been made. The Gaelic service was discontinued in 1916.
1879
JAMES MACLEOD
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.250
Born 17th April 1840 at Polglass, Achiltibuie, Ross-shire, son of John and Mary Macleod; educated at Achiltibuie, and Ullapool Schools, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 29th July 1874; ordained and inducted Kilberry and South Knapdale 20th December 1876; translated and inducted 4th December 1879; retired October 1912; died 17th April 1913. Married 10th June 1879, Catherine McConechy.
1913
DONALD JOHN MACINNES
Translated from Fort Augustus and inducted 18th July 1913; translated to Stornoway English 5th November 1924.
1925
WILLIAM EWEN
Born 21st January 1889 at Huntly, son of James Ewen and Jane Niven; educated at Huntly Gordon School, University of Aberdeen, M.A., (1910), B.D. (1914), Aberdeen College, University of Marburg 1914; student assistant Dundee St Andrew’s summer 1912, Texada, British Columbia, summer 1913; licensed by Presbytery of Banff and Strathbogie 1914; ordained by the same Presbytery for service at Impolweni Mission, Natal, 20th September 1914; war service 1917-19; resigned 16th June 1925; inducted 3rd September 1925. Married 1st July 1919, Eleanor Dorothy Fry.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.663, Knockbain North; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.551; also Vol.10, p.320.]
KNOCKBAIN WEST
Presbytery of Chanonry
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.214
Church and manse. The minister together with a majority of the congregation adhered to the Free Church. A small minority entered the Union and the Presbytery made provision for them, resolving that a preacher be appointed under the superintendence of the minister at Knockbain. In 1907 it was agreed that Mr Matheson of Killearnan should take over the superintendence, and he held services in the evenings. When Mr Matheson was translated to Buckie, the Rev. R.L. Wiseman of Fortrose was appointed Moderator. When Mr Mcleod retired from Knockbain, a union was agreed upon, Mr McLeod to be minister emeritus, and a new minister to be called, he to reside at Munlochy, and a missionary to reside at North Kessock.
RESOLIS
Presbytery of Chanonry
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.214
Church and manse. Many of the congregation along with the minister adhered to the Free Church.
1907
CHARLES E. MACKENZIE
Born [19th January, 1855] at Stornoway, son of James Mackenzie [and Mary MacRae;] in India for years as tea-planter; returned home and devoted
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himself to Christian work; ordained as missionary at Little Lochbroom 1899; introduced 21st June 1907; introduced 28th July 1919; died August 1925.
1926
ALEXANDER MACKENZIE MACRAE
Born 13th August 1860 at Achmore, son of James Macrae and Flora Mackenzie; educated at Uig (Lewis), Plockton and Lochcarron Schools, Old Aberdeen Gymnasium, University of Glasgow, English Presbyterian Church College, London and Cambridge; licensed by Presbytery of London North June 1900; ordained and inducted Darenth, London, March 1901; congregation removed to Dartford 7th March 1909; translated to Farr 30th April 1914; translated to Bower 29th April 1919; translated and inducted 30th April 1926; died 23rd May 1929.
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PRESBYTERY OF DINGWALL
ALNESS
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.215
Church, hall and manse.
1858
ALEXANDER ROSE MUNRO, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.278
Ordained and inducted 1858; retired 1899; died 1903.
1899
JOHN ROSS
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor August 1899; translated to Inverness Queen Street 8th May 1912.
1912
CHARLES MATHESON
Translated from Buckie South and inducted 5th September 1912; translated to Rothesay Chapelhill 8th September 1921.
1922
ROBERT SMITH FRASER LAIDLAW, M.A.
Translated from Westerdale and Halsary and inducted April 1922; translated to Cockburnspath and Stockbridge 28th March 1929.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.659.]
CONTIN
Presbytery of Dingwall
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.215
Church and manse. Most of the members adhered to the Free Church and the congregation was dissolved.
1892
RODERICK CAMERON, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 22nd November 1892; translated to Bruan 15th May 1907.
DINGWALL
Presbytery of Dingwall
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.215
Church, hall and manse. The property went to the Free Church on 7th December 1904. New church, hall and manse were built in 1909-10. Gaelic services ceased in 1924.
1884
MURDOCH MACASKILL
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.214
Born October 1838 at Bayble, Lewis, son of John Macaskill and Anne Maciver; educated at Bayble Free Church School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; student missionary at Govan 1865-8; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 1868; ordained and inducted Glenlyon 20th August 1868; translated to Greenock 1873; translated and inducted 1884; retired 1903; died 12th November 1903. Married July 1869, Jessie Cameron.
1904
RANALD MACDONALD
Born 12th October 1867 at Benbecula, son of Lachlan and Marion Macdonald; educated at Lady Gordon Cathcart’s School, Glasgow High School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1894), Aberdeen Free Church College (Hons. Diploma in Theology 1899); received Teacher’s Certificate 1895; student missionary, Aberdeen Rutherford 1897-9; licensed by Presbytery of Aberdeen May 1899; assistant Stornoway High, Kilmuir and Kyleakin 1900; ordained and inducted Melness and Eriboll 24th October 1900; translated and inducted 18th March 1904; war service as Chaplain to the Forces in France and Germany 1915-16, 1918-19.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.660, Dingwall Castle Street; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, pp.396 and 691; also Vol.10, p.394.]
FERINTOSH AND MARYBURGH
Presbytery of Dingwall
This congregation was formed in 1908 by the union of Maryburgh and Urquhart.
1908
RODERICK MACKENZIE, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.239
Ordained and inducted Tarbert, Harris, 1868; translated to Maryburgh 1884; became minister of the united congregation in 1908; died 1909.
1910
ALEXANDER FERGUSON MACINNES, B.D.
Translated from North Knapdale and inducted March 1910; translated to Kirkliston December 1918.
1920
JAMES IZATT JOHNSTONE
Translated from Olrig and inducted January 1920; translated to Lochwinnoch Calder January 1928.
1928
MALCOLM MACLEAN, M.A.
Ordained and inducted Applecross July 1924; translated and inducted July 1928.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.661; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.378.]
KILMORACK
Presbytery of Dingwall
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.215
Church and manse.
1898
JOHN ROSS MCRAE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.259
Ordained and inducted 1890; died 1918.
1918
ALEXANDER MURRAY
Born 2nd June 1876 at Callanish, Lewis, son of Donald Murray and Catherine
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Macaskill; educated at Callanish and Carloway Public School, Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen College; licensed by Presbytery of Lewis April 1909; assistant Stornoway High 1909; ordained and inducted Applecross 19th August 1909; translated to Lochcarron 5th March 1913; war service as Chaplain to the Forces in Egypt and Mesopotamia 1916-19; translated and inducted 13th November 1918. Married 24th August 1910, Jessie Bella Fraser.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.662, Kilmorack East; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.658.]
KILTEARN
Presbytery of Dingwall
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.216
Church and manse. The minister and congregation adhered to the Free Church and took the property. In 1907 the United Free Church congregation was reduced to a station, and closed in 1913.
MARYBURGH
Presbytery of Dingwall
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.216
Church and manse. United with Urquhart to form Ferintosh and Maryburgh in 1908.
1884
RODERICK MACKENZIE, M.A.
Translated from Harris and inducted 1884; became minister of the united congregation of Ferintosh and Maryburgh in 1908.
STRATHCONAN
Presbytery of Dingwall
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.216
Church and manse. United with the local Church of Scotland congregation in 1928.
1899
WILLIAM DORMOND ALEXANDER MACKENZIE
Ordained and inducted 20th July 1899; translated to Latheron 11th September 1907.
1910
NEIL MACKAY, M.A.
Formerly of Croick; inducted 2nd March 1910; translated to Strathy 1913.
1913
ALEXANDER BEATON
Born 23rd November 1882 at Borve, Stornoway, son of George Beaton and Mary Morrison; educated at Airidh-an-tuirn Public School, Stornoway Nicholson Institute, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1905), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Lewis 1909; preacher under Highlands and Islands Committee; ordained and inducted 22nd December 1913; resigned in the interests of local union 13th March 1928.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.404.]
1928
JOHN MURRAY
Born 12th March 1882 at Garrabost, Stornoway, son of Murdoch Murray and Catherine MacDonald; educated at Bayble Public School, Glasgow Bible Training Institute, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1922), B.D. (1928), Aberdeen College (Hons. Diploma in Theology 1922), student assistant Aberdeen High 1918-22; licensed by Presbytery of Aberdeen 29th June 1922; ordained and inducted Lybster 19th October 1922; translated and inducted 1928. Married 25th April 1917, Catherine Mary MacLennan.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.659, Carnoch and Strathconan; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.402.]
STRATHGARVE
Presbytery of Dingwall
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.216
Church and manse. The minister and many of the congregation adhered to the Free Church, taking the property with them. Reduced to a mission station in 1907.
STRATHPEFFER AND FODDERTY
Presbytery of Dingwall
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.216
Church, manse and hall (called the “Meeting House”). Church and manse were taken by the Free Church. The lease of the “Meeting House” expired in 1907, and it passed to the Estate. New church, manse and hall were built and opened in 1908. Hymns were introduced in 1908, and organ installed in 1917.
1896
JAMES JOHNSTONE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.195
Born 3rd November 1861 at Welltown of Clava, Inverness, son of James Johnstone and Jessie Forbes; educated at Clava and Nairnside Public School, Inverness High School, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; student assistant Edinburgh Pilrig 1885-6, St Columba’s 1886-7; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh June 1887; ordained and inducted Lochranza, Arran, February 1888; translated and inducted 6th August 1896; war service as chaplain to Gaelic-speaking naval personnel in depots in the south of England. Married 15th January 1889, Mary Macmillan, Infant Mistress, Edinburgh Leith Walk Public School. Clerk to the Presbytery from 1904; Honorary Secretary of the Nicolson Mackenzie Memorial Hospital from 1900; member of Fodderty School Board; J.P. for Ross and Cromarty. Contributed articles to periodicals.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.664, Strathpeffer.]
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URQUHART
Presbytery of Dingwall
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.216
Church and manse. The minister and many of the congregation adhered to the Free Church and took the property with them. The congregation was united to Maryburgh to form Ferintosh and Maryburgh in 1907.
URRAY
Presbytery of Dingwall
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.217
Church and manse.
1880
ARCHIBALD BEATON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.93
Ordained and inducted Coigach 1872; translated and inducted 1880; died 1904.
1906
NICOL CAMPBELL
Translated from Stratherrick and inducted 6th November 1906; translated to Clyne 22nd January 1925.
1925
EWEN FRASER
Born 22nd March 1869 at Errogie, Stratherrick, son of Alexander Fraser and Catherine Shaw; educated at Stratherrick Public School, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Inverness May 1897; assistant Stornoway and Alness 1898, Campbeltown 1899, Inverness North 1899-1900; ordained and inducted Strathy and Halladale 23rd April 1903; translated to Tarbat 22nd October 1912; translated and inducted 14th May 1925. Married 5th February 1908, Katherine Elizabeth Mackay.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.664, Urray East.]
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PRESBYTERY OF TAIN
CROICK
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.218
Church and manse. The property was allocated to the Free Church, the congregation being badly split, and a new composite church built about 1908. Reduced to a station in 1907 and united with Kincardine in 1910.
1895
NEIL MACKAY
Ordained and inducted 30th December 1895; translated to Strathconan 2nd March 1910.
EDDERTON
Presbytery of Tain
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.218
Church and manse. The church being old and dilapidated was replaced by a new and more central church in 1911. The manse was allocated to the Free Church, but as they could not use it, it was purchased from them by the United Free Church. Hymns introduced in 1916, and organ in 1921. Gaelic services were discontinued in 1915.
1901
MURDO MACRAE
Born 7th April 1867 at Kishorn, Lochcarron, son of Alexander Macrae and Mary Mackenzie; educated at Kishorn Public School, Fort William Public School, Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Glasgow, Aberdeen Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Inverness 24th April 1900; assistant Inverness North 1900-1; ordained and inducted 30th January 1901.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.666, Edderton West.]
FEARN
Presbytery of Tain
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.218
Church and manse – allocated to Free Church. New church and manse were erected in 1909.
1890
LEWIS MACPHERSON
Ordained and inducted 1890; translated to Stanley 6th October 1909.
1910
RONALD CURRIE KERR
Born 20th January 1867 at Caticol, Arran, son of Dugald Kerr and Jean Currie; educated at Lochranza Public School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1898), B.D. (1915), Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Presbytery of Kintyre 11th June 1901; assistant Kilmonivaig, Stornoway, Benbecula, and Nairn 1901; ordained and inducted Benbecula 8th January 1902; translated and inducted 5th May 1910. Married 21st August 1902, Mary Tyre.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.666, Fearn Central.]
INVERGORDON
Presbytery of Tain
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.218
Church, hall and manse. All the property was retained by the United Free Church. Hymns introduced in 1907 and organ in 1913. Gaelic services were discontinued in 1917.
1862
COLIN SINCLAIR
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.317
Born 17th September 1828 at Melvich, Sutherland, son of Donald Sinclair and Jane Mackenzie; educated at University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Tongue June 1856; tutor in private families; ordained and inducted Aberdeen Gaelic Free Church 1857; translated and inducted 6th November 1862; retired 1900; died 23rd May 1905. Married 20th October 1858, Catharine Finlayson.
1900
ANDREW DOUGLAS
Translated from Renton Gaelic and inducted 1900; translated to Glasgow Highlanders’ Memorial 1919.
1920
ALASTAIR MACGILLIVRAY MACLEOD, M.A.
Translated from Kirkhill and inducted 1920; translated to Edinburgh Braid 1927.
1927
DUNCAN FRASER
Born 7th August 1903 at United Free Manse, Bracadale, Skye, son of Rev. Duncan Fraser and Mary Nicoll; educated at Dunvegan Public School, Portree Secondary School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1924), New College, Edinburgh (Hons. Diploma in Theology 1927, Junior Cunningham Fellow 1927); student assistant Glenurquhart 1925; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 7th April 1927; ordained and inducted 18th May 1927.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.666; Vol.10, p.381.]
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KILMUIR-EASTER
Presbytery of Tain
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.218
Church and manse, allocated to Free Church. New manse and corrugated iron church built in 1908-9. Meeting house in Milton for mission purposes. Gaelic services were discontinued.
1863
DONALD CAMPBELL MACDONALD, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.221
Ordained and inducted 1863; died 1903.
1904
JOHN FRASER
Translated from Dores and Bona and inducted 1904; translated to Glasgow Renfield 1911.
1912
RODERICK CAMERON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.113
Born 6th October 1865 at Avoch, son of John Cameron and Ann McDonald; educated at Avoch Public School, Fortrose Academy, Old Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1888), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Chanonry 3rd May 1892; ordained and inducted Contin 22nd November 1892; translated to Bruan, Caithness, 15th May 1907; translated and inducted 22nd March 1912. Married 4th October 1894, Isabella MacKerchar.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.667, Kilmuir Easter East.]
KINCARDINE, later KINCARDINE AND CROICK
Presbytery of Tain
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.219
Church and manse, allocated to the Free Church. The congregation worshipped in Gladfield Public School and Balnagowan Hall, Ardgay. New church opened in 1908, and new manse occupied in 1910. The congregation at Croick united with this congregation in 1910.
1856
JOHN MCCALLUM
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.216
Ordained and inducted June 1856; retired May 1902; died 1905.
1902
KENNETH MACLEOD
Born 16th May 1867 at New Garrabost, Stornoway, son of Kenneth Macleod and Christina Morrison; educated at Aberdeen Old and New Grammar Schools, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1894), Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow April 1899; Employed under Highland Committee at Kingussie, Brora, Stornoway, etc.; ordained and inducted 21st October 1902. Married July 1903, Jessie McGilvray Macdonald.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.667, Kincardine West.]
LOGIE-EASTER
Presbytery of Tain
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.219
Church (dilapidated in 1900) and manse. New church and hall built and opened free of debt on 17th May 1905. The congregation being virtually unanimous in favour of the Union, retained the property. Gaelic services were discontinued.
1896
NEIL MCLEOD
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.249
Born June 1866 at Strathy Point, by Thurso, son of William McLeod and Alexandrina Mackintosh; educated at Strathy Public School, University of St Andrews, New College, Edinburgh; ordained and inducted 14th July 1896.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.667, Logie Easter South.]
NIGG
Presbytery of Tain
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.219
Church, hall and manse. The congregation being in favour of Union retained the buildings. Heating installed in 1908. Small hall at Nigg Ferry. Hymns introduced in 1915. Chapelhill united with Nigg 5th November 1922.
1889
EVAN GRANT
Ordained and inducted 23rd July 1889; translated to Glasgow Govan St Columba’s December 1900.
1902
DONALD CHARLES CAMPBELL GOLLAN, B.D.
Ordained and inducted 28th January 1902; translated to Fairlie 29th April 1911.
1912
WILLIAM JOHNSTON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.194
Born 1850 at Kingussie; educated at Universities of Edinburgh and London, B.A., New College, Edinburgh; ordained and inducted Shieldaig 1894; translated and inducted 22nd February 1912; died 17th March 1922.
NIGG CHAPELHILL
Presbytery of Tain
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.630
Church and manse. Heating installed in the period. Mission hall at Balintore. United with Nigg on 5th November 1922.
1867
ARCHIBALD MCMARTIN, M.A.
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.634
Formerly a probationer of the Free Church; ordained and inducted 10th September 1867; retired 1907; died 1917.
1908
KENNETH SMITH MACLEAN
Ordained and inducted 24th March 1908; continued as minister of the united congregation in 1922.
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NIGG AND CHAPELHILL
Presbytery of Tain
1922
KENNETH SMITH MACLEAN
Minister at Chapelhill, continued as minister of the united congregation 1922; translated to Carloway April 1925.
1926
MALCOLM MACLEOD
Born 19th June 1865 at Carloway, Lewis, son of Ewen Macleod and Ann MacIver; educated at Carloway Public School, Old Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Aberdeen 2nd May 1899; assistant Campbeltown Lorne Street, Stornoway High, Brora, Kingussie; ordained and inducted Duirinish, Skye, 10th March 1903; translated to Melness and Eriboll 13th May 1908; translated to Lochbroom 25th February 1914; translated and inducted 24th March 1926; died 13th October 1929. Married 21st October 1903, Mary Ann Macleod.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.668, Nigg Chapelhill.]
ROSSKEEN
Presbytery of Tain
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.219
Church, manse and hall (Bridgend Hall, Alness), all allocated to Free Church. Congregation worshipped in Alness Public Hall 1905-1910. New church and manse built in New Street, Alness; church opened in 1910. Organ and hymns introduced in 1922.
1885
JOHN ROSS
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.306
Born 8th November 1853 at Fearn, Ross-shire, son of Robert Ross and Mary Hendry; educated at Tarbat Parish School, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Tain July 1881; assistant Inverness North 1881-5; ordained and inducted 14th October 1885.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.668, Rosskeen West.]
TAIN
Presbytery of Tain
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.219
Church, manse and hall. The congregation being in favour of the Union retained the property. From 1912 Gaelic services were held only occasionally, and ceased in 1926. Hymns introduced in 1908; communion cards instead of tokens 1912; individual communion cups 1928.
1858
THOMAS GRANT
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.175
Ordained and inducted 18th November 1858; retired 1901; died 21st September 1906.
1901
ALEXANDER FRAZER
Ordained and inducted 24th October 1901; translated to Edinburgh St Stephen’s 8th April 1910.
1911
DONALD FINLAYSON MACKENZIE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.238
Born 1858 at Urray; educated at Lochcarron Public School, University of Edinburgh, M.A., B.D., New College, Edinburgh; assistant Nairn; ordained and inducted Campbeltown Lochend 1885; translated to Glasgow Langside Hill 1891; translated to Bromley Trinity, London, 1904; translated and inducted 6th April 1911; translated to London Bow Road May 1915; died September 1942. Married 1886, Isobel Macdonald. In 1915 he was appointed Acting Director of the Regions Beyond Missionary Union which post he held along with his ministerial charge.
1916
DONALD MACKENZIE, M.A.
Translated from Oban Argyll Square and inducted 2nd August 1916; translated to Aberdeen Ferryhill October 1926.
1927
HENRY WINGATE OLDHAM
Born 29th September 1878, son of George Wingate Oldham and Lillah Houldsworth; educated at Crieff Morrison’s Academy, Edinburgh Academy, Central Technical College, South Kensington, London, Cambridge Westminster College, University of Halle; London Secretary of British College Christian Union 1898-1900; licensed by Presbytery of London North 14th June 1904; ordained by the Presbytery of London North as missionary to Amoy, China, 5th October 1904; resigned 1920; admitted by United Free Church as probationer 1921; inducted 5th May 1927. Married (1) 19th September 1907, Edith M. Paton; (2) 18th January 1916, Lillah Buchanan Stewart. Publications – Studies on the Book of the Acts, London, 1901; Studies in the Gospel according to St Mark, London, 1904; Lieutenant-Colonel G.W. Oldham, R.E., A Memoir, London, 1926; Commentary on Acts, for China Literature Society.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.669, Tain Queen Street.]
TAIN CADBOLL PLACE
Presbytery of Tain
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.653
Church. The church was sold to the Free Presbyterian Church and the congregation was dissolved in 1903.
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1878
RICHARD HUTCHINSON
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.654
Ordained and inducted 18th September 1878; left in 1903 and returned to his native Ireland.
TARBAT
Presbytery of Tain
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.219
Church, manse, Free Church school – all allocated to Free Church. New church and manse built in 1909. Gaelic services discontinued. Hymns introduced in 1910, and instrumental music in 1921.
1902
GEORGE MURRAY
Translated from Kilninver and Kilmelford and inducted 1902; translated to Petty 1912.
1912
EWEN FRASER
Translated from Strathy and Halladale and inducted 22nd October 1912; translated to Urray, Muir of Ord 1925.
1926
ALEXANDER MACLEOD
Born 19th May 1866 at Habost, Lochs, Stornoway, son of Alexander Macleod and Annabella Maciver; educated at Kershader Public School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1895), Glasgow Free Church College (Hons. Diploma in Theology 1899); licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Ardrossan 26th April 1899; employed under the Highland Committee during and after studentship; ordained and inducted Farr 26th June 1902; translated to Croy 19th August 1910; translated to Rogart September 1919; translated and inducted March 1926.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.669, Tarbat Eas; for an account of this minister, see there; t; also Vol.10, p.382.]
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SYNOD OF GLENELG
PRESBYTERY OF LOCHCARRON
APPLECROSS
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.227
Church and manse. Mission church of corrugated iron; hall adjoining church at Camusterrach built in 1912.
1900
ANGUS MCIVER
Ordained and inducted 16th May 1900; translated to Glenurquhart 8th April 1909. [See also Glenurquhart]
1909
ALEXANDER MURRAY
Ordained and inducted 19th August 1909; translated to Lochcarron 5th March 1913.
1913
ALEXANDER MACDIARMID
Translated from Kilchoman, Islay, and inducted 17th September 1913; translated to Kilmallie and Kilmonivaig 30th January 1924.
1924
MALCOLM MACLEAN
Ordained and inducted July 1924; translated to Ferintosh and Maryburgh July 1928.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.686.]
AULTBEA
Presbytery of Lochcarron
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.228
Formerly Poolewe Free Church. Church and manse at Aultbea, church at Poolewe. All the property was allocated to Free Church. New manse built in 1910, new church in 1914. Kinlochewe was united with Aultbae in 1909.
1877
RONALD DINGWALL
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.138
Ordained and inducted Dunbeath 1871; translated and inducted 1877; resigned 1906; died 1910.
1909
DONALD MURRAY MACIVER
Born 4th October 1871 at Garrabost, Stornoway, son of Alexander and Jane Maciver; educated at Bayble Public School, pupil teacher in Bayble 1885-91, University of Glasgow 1892-6; teaching 1896-1904; Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Lewis 1908; assistant Stornoway High 1908; ordained and inducted 14th January 1909; war service as Chaplain to the Forces.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.686.]
COIGACH
Presbytery of Lochcarron
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.227
Church and manse. The minister and many of the congregation adhered to the Free Church which also took the property. The congregation was reduced to a station in 1907, and was dissolved in 1909.
GAIRLOCH
Presbytery of Lochcarron
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.227
Church and manse. The minister and many of the congregation adhered to the Free Church which took all the property. The congregation was reduced to a station in 1907 and was dissolved in 1909.
GLENELG
Presbytery of Lochcarron
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.227
Church and manse at Glenelg; church and missionary’s house at Arnisdale. These were allocated to Free Church after 1904. New manse was built at Glenelg and a Church of corrugated iron. Status reduced in 1910.
1899
ALEXANDER MACDIARMID
Ordained and inducted 9th August 1899; translated to Kilchoman, Islay, 9th March 1910.
1910
PETER MACLACHLAN
Ordained as missionary 22nd November 1910; translated to Ardnamurchan 1913.
1914
DONALD MACLEOD
Ordained preacher May 1914; introduced Ballachulish North April 1926.
1926
DONALD CAMERON
Ordained missionary, born 20th June 1873 at Island of Balnahuay, Kilbrandon, son of Donald Cameron and Christina Macphee; educated at Ballachulish St John’s Episcopal School; lay missionary at Stornoway 1912-14, at Callanish, Carloway, Lewis, 1914-19, and
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at St Kilda 1919-26; ordained as missionary 31st August 1926. Married 26th September 1912, Mary Flora MacCorquodale.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.686, Glenelg East.]
GLENSHIEL
Presbytery of Lochcarron
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.227
Church and manse. The minister and many of the congregation adhered to the Free Church and took the property. Reduced to a station in 1907 and dissolved in 1909.
KINLOCHEWE
Presbytery of Lochcarron
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.228
Church and manse. United with Aultbea in 1909, but was disjoined and united with Shieldaig and Torridon in 1916.
1901
MALCOLM MACDONALD
Ordained and inducted 6th February 1901; translated to Duirinish 13th November 1908.
LOCHALSH
Presbytery of Lochcarron
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.228
Church and manse. The minister and many members adhered to the Free Church and took the property. Reduced to a station in 1907 and dissolved in 1909.
LOCHBROOM
Presbytery of Lochcarron
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.228
Church and manse. The property was claimed by the Free Church and they were in possession for a time, but it was allocated to the United Free Church. Church reconstructed in 1906, part being made into a hall, at a cost of £1197. Manse renovated at the same time at a cost of £253. District meetings were held in schools. Hymns introduced in 1921.
1872
JOHN MACMILLAN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.251
Born 6th August 1838 at Garvan, Lochielside, son of Duncan Macmillan and Mary Todd; educated at village school, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 1870; ordained and inducted 2nd October 1872; retired March 1905; died 14th April 1906. Married 19th March 1873, Sarah Boyd. A notable Gaelic preacher. It is said that Professor John Stuart Blackie made periodical visits to hear his Gaelic. A pioneer of Land Reform in the Highlands; had much influence in rousing public opinion against the Evictions, and thus helped to bring about the Crofters’ Act of 1886.
1905
ALEXANDER SHAW, B.D.
Ordained and inducted 4th October 1905; translated to Buckie South 13th June 1913.
1914
MALCOLM MACLEOD
Translated from Melness and Eriboll and inducted 25th February 1914; translated to Nigg and Chapelhill 24th March 1926.
1927
DONALD JOHN MACINNES
Born 15th March 1869 at Scarp, Harris, son of Norman Macinnes and Christina MacLennan; educated at Scarp Public School, Inverness Raining’s School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; student assistant Glasgow Hope Street, 1895-8; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow April 1898; assistant Campbeltown Lochend 1899; ordained and inducted Kilchoman, Islay, 23rd November 1900; translated to Fort Augustus 15th June 1909; translated to Knockbain 18th July 1913; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1917, 1918; translated to Stornoway English 5th November 1924; translated and inducted 17th March 1927. Married 5th September 1901, Jeanie MacRae.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.664, Ullapool; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.672.]
LOCHCARRON
Presbytery of Lochcarron
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.228
Church and manse. More than half the congregation adhered to the Free Church. The property was claimed by and allocated to the Free Church. New church was built in Lochcarron village and opened on 5th January 1910; and new manse was also built.
1899
RODERICK MORISON, Lit.A.
Ordained and inducted 19th June 1899; translated to Stornoway High 9th November 1911.
1913
ALEXANDER MURRAY
Translated from Applecross and inducted 5th March 1913; translated to Kilmorack 13th November 1918.
1920
JAMES MACNIVEN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.254
Born 31st December 1864 at Muasdale, Kintyre, son of Angus Macniven and Isabella MacSporran; educated at Kilbean Public School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1884), Glasgow Free Church College; student missionary Johnstone Gaelic Mission 1886-8; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Kintyre 15th May 1888; loc. ten. Glasgow Hope Street 1888;
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assistant to Principal Douglas 1888-9; assistant Edinburgh St Columba’s 1889-91; ordained and inducted Ardnamurchan 8th July 1891; translated to Uig, Lewis, 1st October 1912; translated and inducted 30th September 1920.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.687, Lochcarron West.]
PLOCKTON AND KYLE
Presbytery of Lochcarron
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.228
Church and manse at Kyle. Property was allocated to the Free Church and the congregation worshipped in the Kyle Institute. New church built at Plockton and a manse was purchased.
1903
NORMAN CHARLES MACDONALD
Born 24th August 1865 at Crobeg, Lochs, Lewis, son of Daniel MacDonald and Jessie Macleod; educated at Ladies’ Highland Association School, Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Edinburgh, Aberdeen Free Church College; licensed by Presbytery of Aberdeen 1902; ordained and inducted November 1903.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.688, Plockton West and Kyle.]
POOLEWE
Presbytery of Lochcarron
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.228
Known from 1908 as Aultbea (q.v.).
SHIELDAIG AND TORRIDON later SHIELDAIG, TORRIDON and KINLOCHEWE
Presbytery of Lochcarron
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.228
Church and manse. A section of the congregation adhered to the Free Church. A church was erected at Kinlochewe, which congregation was then transferred from Aultbea and united with Shieldaig and Torridon in 1916.
1894
WILLIAM JOHNSTON, B.A.
Ordained and inducted 1894; translated to Nigg 1912.
1912
MALCOLM MACDONALD
Translated from Duirinish and inducted 18th September 1912; translated to Benbecula 22nd October 1915.
1917
MALCOLM GILLIES
Translated from Altnaharra and inducted 1917; translated to Duirinish 1921.
1925
WILLIAM MACKAY
Ordained 1899; missionary in the Island of Santos in the South Seas; inducted 1925.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.688, Torridon and Kinlochewe; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.675.]
LITTLE LOCHBROOM
Presbytery of Lochcarron
Church in 1900. Mission house built in 1927. The Free Church was in possession of the church for a year after the House of Lords’ decision.
1899
CHARLES E[VANDER] MACKENZIE
Ordained as missionary 1899; appointed to Resolis 1907.
1911
DUNCAN MACKINTOSH
Ordained as missionary July 1911; appointed to Eddrachillis 1915. Married a daughter of Hay Mackenzie, Bank agent, Ullapool.
1916
FINLAY ANGUS MACINNES
Born 10th June 1871 at Scarp, Harris, son of Norman MacInnes and Christina Maclennan; educated at Scarp Public School, Inverness Raining’s School, Glasgow High School, MacGill University, Montreal, Manitoba College, Winnipeg, Knox College, Toronto; licensed by Presbytery of Toronto 1903; ordained at Melita by the Presbytery of Melita, Manitoba, 1903; introduced as ordained preacher 1916; inducted 1928.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.661, Dundonnell.]
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PRESBYTERY OF SKYE
BRACADALE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.232
Church and manse. Dissolved in 1907, part of the congregation having adhered to the Free Church.
1892
DUNCAN FRASER
Ordained and inducted 1892; resigned 1906 and went to Canada; inducted Duirinish 1913.
DUIRINISH
Presbytery of Skye
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.232
Church and manse.
1903
MALCOLM MACLEOD
Ordained and inducted 10th March 1903; translated to Melness and Eriboll 13th May 1908.
1908
MALCOLM MACDONALD
Translated from Kinlochewe and inducted 13th November 1908; translated to Shieldaig and Torridon 18th September 1912.
1913
DUNCAN FRASER
Formerly at Bracadale; inducted 1913; translated to North Uist 1920.
1921
MALCOLM GILLIES
Translated from Shieldaig and Torridon and inducted 1921; translated to Carinish 24th September 1925.
1927
LACHLAN MACLEOD
Born 8th November 1892 at Benleva, Bernera, Lochmaddy, son of Malcolm Macleod and Mary Munro; educated at Bernera Public School, Stornoway Nicolson Institute; war service 1915-19, prisoner 1918; University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1921), Glasgow College; student assistant Glasgow John Knox and Tradeston 1925-7; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow 5th April 1927; ordained and inducted 15th May 1927. Married 29th December 1921, Jessie Mary Morrison [daughter of Murdoch Morrison, minister at Bernera.]
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.689; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.655; also Vol.10, p.375.]
KILMUIR
Presbytery of Skye
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.232
Churches at Kilmuir and at Staffin; manse at Kilmuir; missionary’s house at Staffin. All the property was lost to the Free Church and the congregation worshipped in the school. Two composite churches were built, also manse and missionary’s house. In 1921 the composite church at Kilmuir was blown away by a gale, and a stone and lime church was built in 1924. Mission church and missionary’s house were built at Culnacnock in 1912.
1888
DONALD ALEXANDER MACDONALD
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.221
Born 21st September 1847 at Iona, son of John MacDonald and Margaret MacCormick; educated at Iona Public School, Glasgow Normal School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 1877; assistant Glasgow Cowcaddens, Hope Street and Iona; ordained and inducted Fort Augustus September 1878; translated and inducted February 1888; chaplain to 3rd Seaforth Highlanders in Egypt 1900; war service as chaplain to Gaelic-speaking naval personnel at Chatham, Devonport and Portsmouth 1915, and as chaplain to 4th Cameron Highlanders (Territorial). Married 20th December 1898, Frances Ingram. Clerk to the Presbytery for 24 years; clerk to the Synod of Glenelg for 18 years; chairman of Parish Council for 28 years; member of Education Authority for Inverness-shire and Skye School Management Committee for 9 years. Publications – Memoir of Rev. N. McLeod, Portree, Edinburgh, 1913; contributions to periodicals.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.689.]
PORTREE
Presbytery of Skye
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.232
Church and manse. Almost all the congregation entered the Union of 1900. Portree Adam Memorial united with this congregation in 1911.
1894
NORMAN MCLEOD, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.249
Translated from Kilberry and inducted 1894; died 21st August 1912. (See memoir by D.A. Macdonald, Edinburgh, 1913).
1913
ALEXANDER JAMES MORRISON, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 11th June 1913; translated to Thurso First 8th January 1920.
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1921
DONALD MORRISON, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 3rd August 1921; translated to Wick Central 6th April 1927.
1927
JOHN MACKAY
Born 10th November 1892 at Carloway, Lewis, son of Norman Mackay and Catherine Macleod; educated at Carloway Public School, Stornoway Nicolson Institute, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1915); war service with R.N.R. as seaman, and as schoolmaster, and on staff of Navigation School, Devonport, 1915-19; Glasgow College; student assistant Greenock Gaelic 1914-15, Partick Gardner Street 1915, Govan St Columba’s 1919-21; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow 21st April 1921; ordained and inducted South Uist 23rd June 1921; translated to Kinloch, Lewis, 10th April 1924; translated and inducted 15th December 1927.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.690, Portree North; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, pp.270 and 274; also Vol.10, p.160.]
PORTREE ADAM MEMORIAL
Presbytery of Skye
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.165
Church and manse. United with Portree in 1911.
1888
ROBERT DAVIDSON
Ordained and inducted 18th April 1888; introduced Whithorn St John’s July 1911.
RAASAY
Presbytery of Skye
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.233
Church and manse. The minister and most of the congregation adhered to the Free Church and took the property with them. Dissolved in 1907.
SLEAT
Presbytery of Skye
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.233
Church and manse. The minister and majority of the congregation adhered to the Free Church and took the property with them. Reduced to a station in 1907.
1912
HUGH GUNN
Ordained missionary, ordained 1897; appointed to Jura 1900; appointed to Kilninver and Kilmelford 3rd March 1904; appointed 1912; left 1921.
1923
DUGALD MACLEAN
Ordained missionary, born October 1858 at Balephuil, Tiree, son of John Maclean and Marion Sinclair; educated at Balemartine School, Tiree, Oban High School, tutorial classes; missionary at St Kilda, Lochmaddy, North Uist, Stornoway High; ordained as missionary June 1923; died 22nd December 1924. Married 19th December 1891, Mary Macniven.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.690.]
SNIZORT
Presbytery of Skye
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.233
Church and manse. The property went to the Free Church and a new manse and composite church were erected. At Uig a composite church and missionary’s house were built. At Arnizort there was a church and mission house.
1869
JOSEPH LAMONT
Ordained and inducted 1869; translated to Rosehall 1901.
1901
JOHN MACDOUGALL
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.225
Born 1854 at Paible, North Uist, son of Neil and Peggy MacDougall; educated at Paible Ladies’ Association School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 1884; ordained and inducted Lochs, Lewis, 13th May 1886; translated and inducted 27th December 1901; retired December 1926; died 16th April 1927. Married 16th August 1893, Mary Macdonald, North Uist. Member of Parish Council and of School Board; J.P. for Ross and Cromarty and for Inverness-shire.
1927
DONALD MACARTHUR
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.214
Born 21st December 1867 at Elleshader, Staffin, Skye, son of Charles MacArthur and Annie Campbell; educated at Valtos Public School, Edinburgh Royal High School, University of Glasgow, Aberdeen Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Abernethy June 1899; ordained and inducted Uig, Lewis, 27th December 1899; translated to Benbecula 2nd November 1910; translated to Lochs, Lewis, 7th August 1914; translated and inducted 25th February 1927. Married 17th October 1907, Christine Maciver.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.691, Snizort South; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.692.]
STRATH
Presbytery of Skye
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.233
Church and manse.
1880
ALEXANDER GRANT
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.174
Ordained and inducted 1880; retired 1903; died 1917.
1903
ALEXANDER FRASER, M.A.
Ordained abroad 1897; inducted as colleague and successor 1903; left in 1909.
1910
MALCOLM MACLEOD, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 3rd August 1910; translated to Lochgilphead 9th February 1916.
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1922
MURDO SMITH
Ordained missionary, ordained as missionary August 1922; transferred to Bernera, Uist, 1928.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.691.]
TALISKER
Presbytery of Skye
Church opened in 1925. Served by missionaries and divinity students 1925-7.
1927
DUNCAN MACCOLL
Ordained missionary, born 12th April 1883 at West Laroch, Ballachulish, son of Dugald MacColl and Annie Cameron; served as missionary at South Uist 1911-12, Elphin, Sutherland, 1912-15, Eigg 1915-20, Uig 1920-6; ordained as missionary at Talisker 14th July 1927. Married 21st August 1913, Mary Macleod.
WATERNISH AND ARNIZORT
Presbytery of Skye
Church. United with Snizort in 1912.
1902
RODERICK MACKENZIE
Ordained and inducted 24th December 1902; translated to Bowmore, Islay, 9th March 1911.
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PRESBYTERY OF UIST
BENBECULA
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.234
Church and manse. School in Gramsdale belonging to Ladies’ Highland Association. New hall added about 1910.
1887
JOHN SINCLAIR MACPHAIL
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.255
Translated from Kilmuir, Skye, and inducted 1887; retired 1902; died 1911.
1902
RONALD CURRIE KERR, M.A., B.D.
Ordained and inducted 8th January 1902; translated to Fearn 5th May 1910.
1910
DONALD MACARTHUR
Translated from Uig and inducted 2nd November 1910; translated to Lochs 7th August 1914.
1915
MALCOLM MACDONALD
Translated from Shieldaig and inducted 22nd October 1915; translated to Tiree April 1929.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.493.]
BERNERA
Presbytery of Uist
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.234
Church and manse. Mission house and church on the island of Borera, given up owing to depopulation. Free Church took possession of the property, but it was restored to the United Free Church.
1888
MURDOCH MORRISON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.276
Born August 1849 at Dalmore, Carloway, son of Angus Morrison and Christina Nicolson; educated at Keose Parish School, Lochs, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; student missionary (Gaelic), Kilmarnock Free Church, 1874-8; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 1878; ordained and inducted Lawers July 1878; translated and inducted 22nd November 1888; died 15th January 1928. Married 24th September 1884, Margaret Macrae.
1928
MURDO SMITH
Ordained missionary, born 24th May 1877 at Leurbost, Stornoway, son of Donald and Margaret Smith; educated at Aberdeen Robert Gordon’s College and Grammar School, Glasgow Bible Training Institute; served in mission stations at Gravir, Callanish, Shawbost and Back; assistant Stornoway High, Greenock Gaelic; ordained as missionary at Strath August 1922; translated 1928. Married 17th July 1917, Margaret W.M. Matheson.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.693.]
CARINISH
Presbytery of Uist
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.234
Church and manse.
1897
EWEN GILLIES
Translated from Acharacle and inducted 14th September 1897; translated to Kiltarlity, March 1913.
1914
DUNCAN MACLEAN MACINTYRE
Translated from Eddrachillis and inducted 17th June 1914; translated to Morven 18th March 1925.
1925
MALCOLM GILLIES
Born 1878 at Kilmaluag, Skye, son of Malcolm Gillies and Annie MacInnes; pupil teacher at Baleshave Public School, North Uist; ordained and inducted Altnaharra 1910; translated to Shieldaig 1917; translated to Duirinish 1921; translated and inducted 24th September 1925. Married Miss Macdonald. A brother of Ewen Gillies, above.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.694.]
HARRIS
Presbytery of Uist
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.234
Church and manse.
1896
FARQUHAR KENNEDY
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.198
Born 20th April 1864 at Craig, Lochalsh, son of Neil Kennedy and Mary Matheson; educated at Achmore, Lochalsh, Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1889), Aberdeen Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Lochcarron July 1894; ordained and inducted 7th May 1896. Married 19th January 1926, Jessie Fraser Ross.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.695, Manish.]
NORTH UIST
Presbytery of Uist
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.235
Church and manse. Mission house and hall at Sollas. All allocated to the Free Church. Composite church and new manse at Paible, and mission house and hall at Sollas, were erected.
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1892
JOHN MACLEOD
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.248
Born 15th March 1847 at Bernera, Harris, son of John Macleod and Mary MacKay; educated at Laclea School, Harris, Glasgow Andersonian University, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College, Knox College, Toronto; licensed by Presbytery of Toronto 1881; ordained and inducted Strathalbyn, Prince Edward Island, 1881; inducted 15th June 1892; retired 12th June 1918; died 22nd February 1926. Married 1888, Caroline M. Gauld.
1919
DUNCAN FRASER
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.160
Ordained and inducted Bracadale 1892; resigned and went to Canada 1906; inducted Duirinish 1913; translated and inducted as colleague and successor 1919; died 16th October 1925.
1927
DUNCAN MACPHERSON
Born 21st January 1862 at Port Henderson, Gairloch, son of Alexander and Janet MacPherson; educated at Opinan Public School, Old Aberdeen Grammar School, University of St Andrews, M.A. (1895), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Lochcarron 11th February 1896; assistant Strathglass 1896, Torridon 1899, Aultbea 1900, Tongue 1901-2, Stornoway 1903, Ullapool 1904, and served under Highlands and Islands Committee; ordained and inducted Kilbrandon 18th April 1912; translated to Torosay and Salen 18th September 1924; translated and inducted 8th September 1927. Married 3rd December 1918, Mary Macfarlane.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.695, Paible.]
SOUTH UIST
Presbytery of Uist
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.235
Church and manse. Mission house and hall at Daliburgh, at Drimore, and at Garnamonie, mission hall at Lochboisdale.
1880
DONALD JOHN NICOLSON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.283
Born 11th November 1845 at the Schoolhouse, Barvas, Stornoway, son of Malcolm Nicolson and Mary Macdonald; educated at Barvas Public School, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; ordained and inducted 1880; retired September 1919; died 28th April 1921. Married 19th August 1881, Wilhelmina, daughter of James Mackenzie, merchant, Stornoway.
1921
JOHN MACKAY, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 23rd June 1921; translated to Kinloch, Lewis, 10th April 1924.
1928
MURDO MACLEOD
Born 17th June 1893 at Leurbost, Lochs, Lewis, son of John Macrae MacLeod and Lilias Mackinnon; educated at island of Eigg Public School, Northbay Public School, Barra, Aberfoyle Hospital School, Stornoway Nicolson Institute; in business 1911-23; University of Glasgow, Glasgow College; student missionary, Talisker 1924, Tiree and Little Lochbroom 1925, North and South Uist 1926; assistant Glasgow John Knox and Tradeston 1927-8; licensed by Presbytery of Skye 25th April 1928; assistant Kinloch, Lewis, 1928; ordained and inducted 7th June 1928. Married 18th April, 1938, Eileen Barbara Whitehead.]
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.694, Daliburgh; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.766.]
TARBERT, HARRIS
Presbytery of Uist
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.235
Church, manse, four mission houses at Scalpay, Kyle (Scalpay), Drinshader, Grosebay; a wooden building at Am Munnsuidh; old schoolhouse belonging to Ladies’ Highland Association at Kinresort.
1897
NICOL CAMPBELL
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.116
Translated from Uig and inducted 1897; retired 1916; died 1925.
1919
DUNCAN MACLEOD
Born 7th August 1864 at Knock, Carloway, Lewis, son of Malcolm Macleod and Isabella Macarthur; educated at Carloway Ladies’ Highland Association School, Old Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1890), Aberdeen Free Church College (Sachs Fellowship, 1894); taught in Ladies’ Highland Association School, Arvornich, 1888; student assistant Craignish 1889, Daviot 1890, Invergarry and Tomdoun 1891-2, Connel Ferry, etc. 1893; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Inverness April 1894; ordained and inducted Saltcoats, Assiniboia, Canada, 31st July 1894; returned to Scotland and served in Free Church 1897; assistant Edinburgh St Columba’s 1898; inducted Hampden Presbyterian Church, Quebec, 1899; inducted Carloway, Lewis, 23rd September 1903; inducted Lingwick Presbyterian Church, Quebec, 1913; inducted 1919. Married 6th March 1929, Catherine Mary Macdonald.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, pp.695-6.]
BARRA
Presbytery of Uist
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.235
Church and manse. Served by missionaries.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.693.]
ST KILDA
Presbytery of Uist
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.235
Church and manse. In 1900 there were Gaelic services only, but English services were conducted in addition at a later date.
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PRESBYTERY OF LEWIS
Synod of Lochcarron
Every former Free Church congregation in this Presbytery, except Stornoway English and Uig, was deprived of all its property in 1905. Within six years nearly all were housed in good stone and lime buildings.
BACK
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.236
Church and manse. The majority of this congregation together with its minister adhered to the Free Church. Reduced to a station in 1907, and given up in 1928.
BARVAS
Presbytery of Lewis
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.236
Church and manse at Barvas; church and missionary’s house at Borve; church and two meeting houses at three other districts. All were allocated to the Free Church. A new church and manse were built at Barvas; church and missionary’s house at Borve and a church and a hall at two other districts.
1888
NEIL MACLEAN MORISON
[Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.276]
Translated from Park, Lewis, and inducted 12th June 1888; translated to Lochs 15th October 1902.
1903
DONALD HUGH MORRISON
Born February 1861 at Back, Stornoway, son of George Morrison and Margaret Macleod; educated at Back Public School, Stornoway Nicolson Institute, University of Glasgow, Aberdeen Free Church College; licensed by Presbytery of Lewis 16th April 1901; engaged in mission work in America for about a year; ordained and inducted 7th May 1903; died 17th September 1923. Married 25th November 1924, Jessie White Miller.
1925
MURDO MACKAY
Born 1st June 1876 at North Bragar, Barvas, son of Murdo and Mary Mackay; educated at Bragar Public School, Glasgow Bible Training Institute; lay missionary in United Free Church 1904-13 and in Canadian Presbyterian Church 1914-16; Presbyterian College, Montreal, 1915-16; licensed by Presbytery of Quebec 5th September 1916; ordained and inducted Winslow, Quebec, 17th October 1916; translated to Little Narrows, Inverness, Nova Scotia, 2nd August 1921; inducted 1st July 1925. Married 28th December 1910, Flora Mackay [Macleod.]
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.697; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.661 and Vol.9, p.698; also Vol.10, p.398.]
BERNERA (LEWIS)
Presbytery of Lewis
This was made a separate charge, being detached from Uig, in 1928. It united with the Church of Scotland mission there.
CARLOWAY
Presbytery of Lewis
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.236
Church and manse, allocated to the Free Church. A new composite church and manse were erected. A new mission church and dwelling were erected at Callanish.
1876
RODERICK MACRAE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.258
Ordained and inducted 1876; retired 1902; died 11th April 1916.
1903
DUNCAN MACLEOD, M.A.
Formerly of Canadian Presbyterian Church; inducted 23rd September 1903; translated to Lingwick, Quebec, 1913; inducted Tarbert Harris, 1919.
1913
NEIL MACLEAN MORISON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.276
Born 9th June 1848 at Leurbost, Lochs, son of George Morison and Mary MacLennan; educated at Crossbosst Free Church School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College, New College, Edinburgh; while a student held various missions; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Lewis 16th June 1886; ordained and inducted Park, Lewis, 27th July 1886; translated to Barvas 12th June 1888; translated to Lochs 15th October 1902; translated and inducted 24th July 1913; died 27th August 1924. Married 10th April 1890, Isabella Macphail.
1925
KENNETH SMITH MACLEAN
Translated from Nigg and Chapelhill and inducted 14th May 1925; translated to Tobermory 14th November 1928.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.697.]
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CROSS
Presbytery of Lewis
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.236
Church and manse; meeting house at South Dell, meeting house at Lionel, all allocated to the Free Church. New church at Cross opened 22nd September 1909; manse at Swainbost occupied on 21st September 1909; new meeting house at South Dell opened 15th September 1913; new meeting house at Lionel opened 28th September 1922.
1893
DONALD MARTIN MACDONALD
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.221
Born 7th December 1859 at Cromlista, Uig, son of John Macdonald and Marion Martin; educated at Uig Parish School, Stornoway Free Church School, Old Aberdeen Grammar School, University of St Andrews, M.A. (1887), University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; student missionary at various stations; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Lewis 30th August 1892; ordained and inducted 12th December 1893.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.699, Ness; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.697.]
KINLOCH
Presbytery of Lewis
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.237
Church and manse, mission house at Ariornaich, were all allocated to the Free Church. New church and manse built at Kinloch.
1896
JOHN MACKAY, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.235
Ordained and inducted Eddrachillis 1894; translated and inducted 1896; died 1923.
1924
JOHN MACKAY, M.A.
Translated from South Uist and inducted 10th April 1924; translated to Portree 15th December 1927.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.698.]
KNOCK
Presbytery of Lewis
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.237
Church, manse, five meeting houses, all allocated to the Free Church. New church built at Garrabost, church at Aird, composite meeting house at Bayble and a meeting house at Sheshader.
1886
GEORGE MACLEOD
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.247
Born 26th August 1854 at Habost, Lochs, son of Hector Macleod and Flora Campbell; educated at Kershader Ladies’ Highland Association School, Mitchell Academy, private tuition, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; student missionary under the Highland Committee at Fairlie, North Knapdale, Soay, Partick and Greenock; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow March 1886; ordained and inducted 23rd December 1886; war service as chaplain to Gaelic-speaking naval personnel at Portsmouth and Chatham; retired May 1928; died 3rd February 1929. Married (1) 1st June 1887, Anna MacGillivray; (2) 23rd April 1897, Catharine Isobel Brown. Clerk to the Presbytery from 2nd September 1902 to 10th January 1928.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.698.]
LOCHS
Presbytery of Lewis
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.237
Church and manse at Crossbost, allocated to Free Church. New church and manse built on new site at Leurbost.
1886
JOHN MACDOUGALL
Ordained and inducted 13th May 1886; translated to Snizort 27th December 1901.
1902
NEIL MACLEAN MORISON
Translated from Barvas and inducted 15th October 1902; translated to Carloway 24th July 1913.
1914
DONALD MACARTHUR
Translated from Benbecula and inducted 7th August 1914; translated to Snizort 25th February 1927.
1928
DONALD MACLEOD
Born 11th November 1858 at Habost, Lochs, son of Alexander Macleod and Annabella Maciver; educated at Kershader Public School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; student missionary under the Highland Committee 1889-97; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Lewis June 1897; ordained preacher at Glenelg May 1914; introduced Ballachulish North 15th April 1926; inducted on the charge being restored to full status 14th September 1927; translated and inducted 24th October 1928. Married autumn 1908, Cathie Cowan Mackellar.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.698, Lochs Crossbost.]
PARK
Presbytery of Lewis
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.237
Church and manse. The minister and the majority of the congregation adhered to the Free Church and took the property with them, and the charge was reduced to a mission station in 1907.
SHAWBOST
Presbytery of Lewis
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.237
Church and manse. The minister and the majority of the congregation adhered to the Free Church and took the property with them, and the charge was reduced to a mission station in 1907.
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STORNOWAY ENGLISH
Presbytery of Lewis
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.237
Church and halls with church officer’s house and manse. All were retained by the United Free Church. Organ introduced in 1907; individual communion cups in 1923. The James Street congregation united with this congregation on 15th January 1913.
1897
JOHN SOMERLED MACDONALD, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 31st August 1897; translated to Nairn High by Commission of Assembly on appeal against the decision of the Presbytery of Lewis 2nd October 1901.
1902
ALEXANDER MURRAY, M.A.
Translated from Fossoway and inducted 20th August 1902; translated to Aberdeen Torry 28th June 1906.
1907
ALEXANDER MATHESON MCIVER, M.A., B.D.
Ordained and inducted 5th February 1907; translated to London St John’s Wood 13th January 1913; translated to St Andrews Hope Park 1920.
1913
GEORGE ALEXANDER MILLS, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 16th May 1913; translated to Dundee Victoria Street 9th December 1920.
1921
ALEXANDER WHITE, M.A., B.D.
Ordained and inducted 14th June 1921; translated to Panbride 18th March 1924.
1924
DONALD JOHN MACINNES
Translated from Knockbain and inducted 5th November 1924; translated to Lochbroom 17th March 1927.
1928
ROBERT INGLIS
Born 10th May 1883 at Dumbarton, son of John Currie Inglis and Helen Lang; educated at Dumbarton Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1905), Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Dumbarton 7th December 1909; assistant Paisley Thread Street 1908-11, Edinburgh Broughton Place 1911-12; ordained and inducted Kilchattan Bay 4th June 1912; war service with Y.M.C.A. in Malta 1916-17, in Salonika 1918-19; translated to Ford 15th August 1919; translated to Carnoustie Erskine 7th April 1926; translated and inducted 14th December 1928. Married 3rd October 1912, Christian Blair Gilmour.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.699, Stornoway Martin’s Memorial; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.318; also Vol.10, p.187.]
STORNOWAY HIGH
Presbytery of Lewis
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.237
Church, manse, hall known as the Seminary, all allocated to the Free Church. New church, hall and manse were erected. Meeting house at Laxdale, Sandwick and Culegrain were used, but were not church property. Hymns and instrumental music introduced.
1895
PETER MACFARLANE MACDONALD, M.A.
Translated from Edinburgh St Columba’s and inducted 26th June 1895; translated to Glasgow West 4th September 1902. Clerk to the Presbytery 1900-2.
1903
WALTER CALDER
Translated from Strathy and inducted 4th February 1903; translated to Lawers 7th March 1911.
1911
RODERICK MORISON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.275
Born 13th December 1860 at Newton, Stornoway, son of Roderick Morison and Johanna Mackenzie; educated at Stornoway John Mackay’s Private School; in business 1875-90; University of Edinburgh, Lit.A. (1895), New College, Edinburgh; student assistant Edinburgh St Columba’s 1895-7; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Lewis 27th April 1898; assistant Stornoway High 1898-9, Inverness East 1899; ordained and inducted Lochcarron 19th June 1899; translated and inducted 9th November 1911. Wrote biographical introduction to and edited Portrona, by R.M. Stephen. Stornoway, 1926. Clerk to the Presbytery of Lochcarron 1900-11; clerk to the Presbytery of Lewis 1928-9; clerk to the Synod of Glenelg 1920-9.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.699.]
STORNOWAY JAMES STREET
Presbytery of Lewis
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.167
Church and manse. United with the English congregation 15th January 1913.
1879
JAMES H[OLMES] S. HUNTER
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.168
Son of Rev. John Hunter, Savoch of Deer; ordained and inducted Strathaven West 10th April 1867; resigned owing to ill-health 30th April 1872; inducted 28th June 1879; retired 1st April 1908; died 19th May 1908.
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1908
JOHN TELFER
Introduced 1st April 1908; introduced Maryculter 1913.
UIG
Presbytery of Lewis
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.238
Church and manse at Uig; mission church and house at Bernera. The congregation retained the property at Uig, but the property at Bernera was allocated to the Free Church. Bernera became a separate charge in 1928. Three new halls were built at Uig.
1899
DONALD MACARTHUR
Ordained and inducted 27th December 1899; translated to Benbecula 2nd November 1910.
1912
JAMES MACNIVEN, M.A.
Translated from Ardnamurchan and inducted 1st October 1912; translated to Lochcarron 30th September 1920.
1923
NORMAN MACLEOD
Born 26th November 1885 at Habost, Lochs, son of John Macleod and Isabella Montgomery; educated at Kershader Public School, University of Saskatchewan, B.A. (1914), St Andrew’s College, Saskatoon; licensed by Presbytery of Saskatoon 10th May 1916; ordained and inducted Englishtown, Sydney, Nova Scotia, 18th May 1916; translated to Port Arthur, Ontario, and to Souris, Manitoba; inducted 18th April 1923. Married 18th July 1917, Annie Florence MacAulay.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.700; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.399.]
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SYNOD OF SUTHERLAND AND CAITHNESS
PRESBYTERY OF DORNOCH
ASSYNT
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.220
Church and manse, mission church at Elphin, all allocated to the Free Church. New manse and composite churches built at Lochinver and Elphin. Stoer united with this congregation in 1907, and the united congregation was known as Assynt, Elphin and Stoer from 1921.
1874
NORMAN NICOLSON MACKAY
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.235
Ordained and inducted 1874; became minister of the united congregation in 1907; retired 1910; died 1925.
1912
ANGUS MACINTYRE
Ordained as missionary 1912; appointed to Strathglass 1917.
1919
DONALD FINLAYSON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.154
Born in 1859 at Lochcarron; educated at University of Aberdeen, M.A., B.D., New College, Edinburgh; ordained and inducted Stoer 1890; retired 1907; inducted 1919.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.670, Assynt South and Elphin.]
CLYNE
Presbytery of Dornoch
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.220
Church and manse, allocated to Free Church. New church and manse erected about 1910.
1901
JAMES TOLMIE, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 1901; translated to Glasgow Kinning Park 1920.
1921
DONALD THOMSON, B.D.
Translated from Avoch and inducted 20th February 1921; translated to Glasgow Wellpark 1924.
1925
NICOL CAMPBELL
Born 11th November 1866 at Druimachoish, Glen Etive, son of James Campbell and Catherine Livingstone; educated at Glenetive Public School, Paisley Grammar School, University of Glasgow, Aberdeen Free Church College; licensed by Presbytery of Abernethy 1900; ordained and inducted Stratherrick September 1901; translated to Urray 6th November 1906; war service as chaplain to naval forces at Portsmouth, Chatham and Rochester; translated and inducted 22nd January 1925. Married 17th September 1902, Elizabeth Duguid.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.670, Brora; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.379.]
CREICH
Presbytery of Dornoch
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.220
The minister and many of the members adhere to the Free Church and the property, church, manse, etc., was allocated to the Free Church. A composite church was built in 1901, and a manse in 1912, both at Bonar Bridge.
1903
ALEXANDER MACRAE
Translated from Glasgow Partick Gaelic and inducted 30th March 1903; translated to Tarbert 14th April 1910.
1910
DUNCAN MATHESON MCLEOD
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.247
Ordained and inducted Fortingall 1880; translated to Ardersier South 1888; resigned 1907; inducted 1910; died 1925.
1926
ALEXANDER MACDIARMID
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.220
Born in January 1853 at Carie, by Killin, son of John MacDiarmid and Christian Macnab; educated at Kiltyrie Public School, Callander Public School, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Breadalbane August 1881; assistant Campbeltown Gaelic 1881-2; ordained and inducted Morven 28th September 1882; retired 1925; introduced 1926; died 3rd January 1930 [1931.] Publication – The Lord’s Prayer: A Plain Exposition (in Gaelic), Oban, 1921.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.671, Creich Bonar.]
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DORNOCH
Presbytery of Dornoch
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.220
Church and manse, allocated to Free Church. New church and manse built in 1909.
1892
JAMES BOYD MACDONALD, B.D.
Ordained and inducted 27th July 1892; resigned 1906; introduced Langholm South 17th July 1908.
1907
ALEXANDER GILLON MACALPINE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.213
Born May 1844 at Linlithgow, son of William Macalpine and Mary Gillon; educated at Linlithgow, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; student missionary, North Leith; ordained and inducted Gorebridge 1873; translated to Anstruther Chalmers Memorial 1883; resigned for health reasons 1903; served temporarily at Newtonmore and other Highland congregations; inducted 21st February 1907; died 12th January 1912. Married Bessie Braidwood.
1912
JAMES ALEXANDER TURNER KENNEDY, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 14th August 1912; translated to Hawick St Andrew’s January 1915.
1916
THOMAS FLEMING GILMORE, B.A.
Admitted to United Free Church 1913; inducted 19th October 1915; translated to Dundee Wishart Memorial 5th September 1922.
1923
JOHN FRASER
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.161
Born 1867 at Poolewe; educated at Dingwall Academy, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; assistant Oban High, Alness; ordained and inducted Dores and Bona 1893; translated to Kilmuir Easter 1904; translated to Glasgow Renfield 1911; translated and inducted 1923. Married 1904, Mary Munro.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.671, Dornoch West.]
GOLSPIE
Presbytery of Dornoch
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.221
Church and manse. Church allocated to Free Church and new church built in 1906.
1889
JOHN MACKENZIE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.239
Born 1859 at Inverness; educated at University of Aberdeen, Glasgow Free Church College, New College, Edinburgh; ordained and inducted 1889. Married 1896, Anne M. Begg.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.671, Golspie Fountain Road.]
HELMSDALE
Presbytery of Dornoch
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.221
Church and manse allocated to Free Church. New church and manse built about 1910.
1889
ANDREW GRANT
Translated from Kilmory, Arran, and inducted 1889; translated to Inverness Queen Street 1902.
1903
JOHN CAMERON, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 30th January 1903; translated to Hopeman 12th March 1908.
1910
DOUGLAS M[ACLAUCHLAN] MACCALMAN
Formerly of Dunoon Gaelic; inducted 1910; translated to Strachur and Strathlachlan 13th April 1911.
1911
DANIEL MUNRO, L.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.278
Ordained and inducted in Kildalton and Oa 1896; translated and inducted 1911; left 1922. Married 1900, Catherine D. Turnbull.
1923
NORMAN MACKENZIE, M.A.
Translated from Auchterarder St Andrew’s and inducted 1923; translated to Bellie 12th September 1928.
1929
ARCHIBALD MCCALL
Born 16th December 1867 at Luib, son of Alexander McCall and Grace McArthur; educated at Glendochart Public School, Glasgow High School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 1st June 1896; assistant Cairnryan 1896, Coatbridge Middle 1896-7, Lumphinnans 1897-8, Rothesay 1898-9, Paisley 1900-3; ordained and inducted Shapinshay 30th July 1903; translated to Kirkbean and Southwick August 1910; left in 1915; inducted Ardeonaig March 1919; translated to Portpatrick Trinity March 1926; translated and inducted 1929. Married 20th January 1920, Mary Frazer McLeish.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.672, Helmsdale Bunilidh; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.652.]
LAIRG
Presbytery of Dornoch
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.221
The minister and many of the members adhered to the Free Church and took the property with them. Composite church built. Reduced to a station in 1912; became Lairg and Shinness (station) in 1920.
ROGART
Presbytery of Dornoch
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.221
Church and manse allocated to Free Church. New church and manse built 1909-10.
1897
DONALD CAMPBELL MACKINTOSH
Ordained and inducted 1897; translated to Ardeonaig 1907.
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1908
DUGALD MACMILLAN
Translated from Lismore and inducted March 1908; translated to Tarbert 7th May 1919.
1919
ALEXANDER MACLEOD, M.A.
Translated from Croy and inducted 1919; translated to Tarbat 1926.
1927
EWEN A[LEXANDER] MACDONALD, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 1927.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.673, Rogart Pitfure.]
ROSEHALL
Presbytery of Dornoch
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.221
Church and manse allocated to Free Church. New church and manse erected.
1891
JOHN ROSS
Ordained and inducted 16th September 1891; translated to Aberchirder New Marnoch 26th March 1901.
1901
JOSEPH LAMONT
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.204
Translated from Snizort and inducted 1901; died 28th May 1912
1911
JOHN MACBEAN, M.A.
Translated from Killin and inducted 22nd February 1912; translated to Tobermory 1917.
1917
ALEXANDER MACKENZIE
[Born 3rd November, 1890, at Dingwall, Ross and Cromarty, son of Donald MacKenzie;] educated at University of Aberdeen, M.A. [(1913),] Aberdeen College; assistant Torry; ordained and inducted 1917; died [15th February] 1919. Married 1917, Jean [Jane] Fowler, [M.A. Aberdeen (1912)] .
1919
JOHN ALEXANDER GUNN, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 28th August 1919; translated to Cumbernauld 7th June 1922.
1923
JOHN M[URDOCH] FRASER
Ordained missionary at Kilchrenan 1901; appointed Kilninver and Kilmelford 28th October 1911; received status of probationer from General Assembly 1921; inducted 9th August 1923.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.673.]
STOER
Presbytery of Dornoch
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.221
Church and manse. United with Assynt in 1907.
1890
DONALD FINLAYSON, M.A., B.D.
Ordained and inducted 1890; retired 1907; inducted Assynt and Stoer 1919.
KILDONAN AND KINBRACE
Presbytery of Dornoch
Station from 1921. Served by missionaries; Robert Brunton 1922-6, J. Johnston Scott 1926-8, and David C. Watson from 1928.
LAIRG AND SHINNESS
Presbytery of Dornoch
Lairg was reduced to a station in 1912, and it and Shinness were united as a station in 1920.
1925
D[ONALD] S. SIMPSON
Missionary, appointed 1920; ordained as missionary 1925.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.673, Lairg and Shinness.]
SHINNESS
Presbytery of Dornoch
This ceased to be a station in 1908, but in 1920 a station was formed of Lairg and Shinness.
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PRESBYTERY OF TONGUE
Synod of Sutherland and Caithness
ALTNAHARRA
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.222
Church and manse at Altnaharra, corrugated iron church at Strathnaver. Hymns introduced in 1920.
1891
ALEXANDER SUTHERLAND
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.334
Ordained and inducted 21st July 1891; translated to Brodick 13th June 1901.
1902
GEORGE MACKAY
Ordained and inducted 2nd July 1902; translated to Kilcalmonell and Kilberry 1909.
1910
MALCOLM GILLIES
Ordained and inducted 1910; translated to Shieldaig 1917.
1919
DUNCAN MACMILLAN
Born 31st January 1892 at Badcaul, Glenurquhart, son of Donald Macmillan and Elizabeth Urquhart; educated at Balnain Public School, Glenurquhart Higher Grade School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1914), New College, Edinburgh; war service with Scottish Churches Huts at home and in France; loc. ten. at Onich 1916; licensed by Presbytery of Inverness 4th June 1918; ordained and inducted 4th June 1919.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.675; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.383.]
DURNESS
Presbytery of Tongue
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.222
Church and manse.
1888
ADAM GUNN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.178
Born 15th August 1859 at Strathy, son of Alexander and Christina Gunn; educated at Strathy Public School, Aberdeen Grammar School, University of St Andrews, M.A., D.D. (1917), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Tongue 1887; assistant Tain 1887; ordained and inducted 1888; died 24th October 1925. Married 5th February 1895, [Mary M. Mackenzie,] daughter of Rev. Donald Mackenzie, Bettyhill, Farr. Publications – Sutherland and the Reay Country; Rob Donn; The Early History of Durness, in Inverness Gaelic Transactions; joint-editor of Celtic Monthly.
1928
DUNCAN MACAULAY
Born 9th July 1881 at Culregreen, Stornoway, son of Duncan MacAulay and Jessie Macmillan; educated at Laxdale Public School, Stornoway Nicolson Institute, Glasgow Bible Training Institute 1907-9, Robertson College, Edmonton, Alberta, 1913-16, Westminster Hall, Vancouver, 1923; in business for ten years; student missionary, Canada, 1912-25; war service in France and Belgium 1914-15; licensed by Presbytery of Edmonton 2nd April 1923; ordained and inducted Nelson, British Columbia, 1925; inducted 4th October 1928.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.675, Durness Sangamore; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.687; and Vol.10, p.391.]
EDDRACHILLIS
Presbytery of Tongue
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.222
Church and vestry, manse and outhouses at Scourie, all allocated to the Free Church. Composite church with vestry opened 7th October 1908, services having been held in Scourie Public School in the interval. New manse built later. Services held in outlying places. Gaelic and English services.
1897
DUNCAN MACLEAN MACINTYRE
Ordained and inducted 11th August 1897; translated to Carinish 17th June 1914.
1915
DUNCAN MACINTOSH
Ordained missionary, introduced 28th March 1915; transferred to Kilarrow March 1918.
1922
JOHN MARTIN, M.A., B.D.
Ordained and inducted 17th August 1922; translated to Bruan 5th June 1929.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.675.]
FARR
Presbytery of Tongue
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.222
Church, hall and manse; church and manse allocated to Free Church. New church and manse built in 1909. English and Gaelic services. Hymns and organ now used.
1870
DONALD MACKENZIE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.238
Appointed by the Colonial Committee to Middle River, Nova Scotia, 1863 and ordained there 1864; inducted 1870; retired 1902; died 1917.
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1902
ALEXANDER MACLEOD, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 26th June 1902; translated to Croy 19th August 1910.
1911
JOHN WILLIAM MCDOUGALL
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.225
Translated from Shiskine and inducted 5th April 1911; colleague and successor granted 7th January 1913; died 1914.
1914
ALEXANDER MACKENZIE MACRAE
Translated from Darenth, London, and inducted 30th April 1914; translated to Bower 29th April 1919.
1920
ALLAN STUART MACLEAN
Born 6th September 1866 at Scarp, Tarbert, Harris, son of Donald Maclean and Catherine Macleod; educated at Scarp Public School, McGill University, Montreal, Montreal Presbyterian College; student missionary Lost River 1895, Kirkhill, Ontario, 1896, Grand Metis, Quebec, 1897, Dunleath, Manitoba, 1898; licensed by Presbytery of Bruce June 1899; ordained and inducted Ninga and Gilbert Plains, Manitoba, November 1899; resigned 1901; admitted to United Free Church in 1902; served under Highlands and Islands Committee; inducted Sanday West, Orkney, 3rd August 1910; translated and inducted 20th October 1920. Married 4th June 1924, Elizabeth Davina Houston, of John o’ Groats.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.675, Farr High; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.384.]
KINLOCHBERVIE
Presbytery of Tongue
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.222
Church and manse; church re-roofed and repaired in 1911, manse in 1914. Church hall added in 1914.
1881
DUNCAN FINLAYSON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.154
Ordained and inducted 5th July 1881; retired 1905; died 5th June 1905.
1905
JOHN MACASKILL
Born 29th January 1867 at Taransay, Harris, son of Roderick Macaskill and Bessie McLean; educated at local school and by private tuition, University of Glasgow, Aberdeen College; student missionary in North Uist and South Uist 1900-3; licensed by Presbytery of Uist July 1903; assistant Ullapool 1904, Kinlochbervie 1905; ordained and inducted 5th February 1905. Married 8th September 1918, Mary Ann Muir.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.676.]
MELNESS AND ERIBOLL
Presbytery of Tongue
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.223
Church and manse.
1900
RANALD MACDONALD, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 24th October 1900; translated to Dingwall 18th March 1904.
1904
WILLIAM MACLEOD, B.D., Ph.D.
Ordained and inducted 5th October 1904; translated to Stratherrick August 1907.
1908
MALCOLM MACLEOD
Translated from Duirinish and inducted 13th May 1908; translated to Lochbroom 25th February 1914.
1915
ALEXANDER MILLER
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.267
Ordained and inducted Kirkmichael, Banffshire, 1881; translated to Renton Gaelic 1884; resigned and went to Mosa, Ontario, 1891; inducted 19th January 1915; died 28th May 1919.
1921
LACHLAN ANGUS CALDER MACRAE
Inducted 20th April 1921; translated to Reay 2nd May 1928.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.676.]
STRATHY
Presbytery of Tongue
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.223
Church and manse at Strathy, church at Halladale, all allocated to the Free Church. New church and manse built at Strathy; new church and mission house built at Halladale.
1886
WALTER CALDER
Translated from Bourtreebush and inducted 12th May 1886; translated to Stornoway High 4th February 1903.
1903
EWEN FRASER
Ordained and inducted 23rd April 1903; translated to Tarbat 22nd October 1912.
1913
NEIL MACKAY
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.235
Born 13th January 1860 at Jamestown, Thurso, son of George and Barbara Mackay; educated at Armadale Free Church School, Strathy, University of Aberdeen, M.A., New College, Edinburgh; ordained and inducted Croick 30th December 1895; resigned 1907; inducted Strathconan 2nd March 1910; translated and inducted 30th July 1913; died January 1920.
1922
NEIL MUNRO
Ordained and inducted July 1922; translated to Latheron 1928.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.676, Strathy East.]
TONGUE
Presbytery of Tongue
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.223
Church and manse. Old Free Church School converted into mission hall. All allocated to the Free Church, but purchased by the Special Building Trustees of the United Free Church for the United Free congregation.
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1880
JOHN ROSS MACNEILL
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.254
Born 2nd April 1846 at Tiree, son of Angus MacNeill and Alexina Ross; educated at Stornoway Nicolson Institute, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Breadalbane 1874; ordained and inducted Torosay and Salen 1876; translated and inducted 1880; died 21st January 1905. Married 7th April 1885, Mary Gunn.
1905
JOHN MACLELLAN
Ordained and inducted in 1905; translated to Lochranza 1910.
1911
DONALD MACDONALD
Translated from Kildonan and Bennecarrigan and inducted January 1911; translated to Latheron 1914.
1916
JOHN MACDONALD
Born at Drinishader, Harris, son of Neil Macdonald and Mary Campbell; educated Drinishader Public School, Glasgow High School, University of Glasgow, Aberdeen Free Church College; licensed by Presbytery of Uist about 1904; ordained and inducted Torosay and Salen 1913; translated and inducted 1916; died 19th May 1924. Married 9th July 1914, Jeannie McRae.
1926
ALEXANDER MACRAE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.257
Born 20th June 1865 at Badcall, Kinlochbervie, son of Alexander Macrae and Effie Calder; educated Badcall, Inchard, and Elphin Public School, Old Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, Glasgow Free Church College; student assistant Govan St Columba’s, Tradeston and Partick Highland Mission; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow May 1898; ordained and inducted Glasgow Partick Gaelic 23rd June 1898; translated to Creich 30th March 1903; translated to Tarbert, Loch Fyne, 14th April 1910; war service as officiating chaplain to Gaelic-speaking naval personnel in Devonport and Plymouth; translated to Rattray 19th September 1918; translated and inducted 10th June 1926. Married 4th August 1893, Annie Victoria Waters. Publications – United and Free, Partick, 1900; Revivals in the Highlands, Stirling, 1905; Life of Dr Aird, Stirling, 1908.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.676, Tongue Strath-Tongue.]
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PRESBYTERY OF CAITHNESS
Synod of Sutherland and Caithness
BERRIEDALE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.224
Church and manse allocated to the Free Church. New church and manse built in 1907. Pulpit reconstructed and choir accommodation provided in 1928, and annexe converted into church hall. Organ, hymns and choir introduced in 1925.
1878
CHARLES GORDON ROSS
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.304
Ordained and inducted 1878; died 5th July 1924.
1925
ROBERT MACKAY ROBERTSON
Born 26th March 1864 at Edinburgh, son of William Robertson and Mary Cruickshank; educated at Edinburgh Pilrig Free Church and Heriot Bridge Schools, Moray House, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1894), New College, Edinburgh; student assistant Edinburgh Newington Free Church 1893-7; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 12th May 1897; assistant Perth St Stephen’s 1897-8 and 1898-9, Sorbie 1898, Dunfermline St Andrew’s 1899-1900, Roberton 1900-1, Leghorn 1901-3; ordained and inducted Leghorn November 1903; inducted Burra Isles, Shetland, 10th May 1910; war service at Genoa Scots Church and Seaman’s Rest 1917-18; translated and inducted 12th February 1925. Married 14th April 1906, Margaret Smith Gorrie. Publication – William Robertson of Carrubber’s Close Mission, Edinburgh, 1914.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.679, Dunbeath Ross.]
BOWER
Presbytery of Caithness
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.224
Church, manse, Old Free Church School used as hall and schoolhouse all allocated to Free Church in 1905. Wooden church built and used till new church ready in February 1910. New manse in 1909; stable and offices added. Hymns and choir introduced in 1924.
1892
ALEXANDER LESLIE SKENE, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 13th October 1892; translated to Kirkmichael 5th December 1918.
1919
ALEXANDER MACKENZIE MACRAE
Translated from Farr and inducted 29th April 1919; translated to Resolis 30th April 1926.
1927
THOMAS ROBERTSON
Born 9th September 1868 at Balthayock, by Perth, son of David Robertson and Ann Brough; educated at Balthayock Public School, Kinnoull, Perth Academy, University of Edinburgh, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Perth 3rd September 1900; in charge, Standburn Mission Church 1900-1; assistant Kirkwall Paterson 1901-2, Dunfermline North 1902-3, Glasgow Cowcaddens 1903-4; ordained and inducted Ashington, Northumberland, 29th June 1904; translated to Hamilton Burnbank 5th September 1917; translated to Glasgow Milton (Church of Scotland) 18th February 1920; translated to Kirkcowan 14th November 1922; resigned 10th May 1925; inducted 28th January 1927. Married 9th August 1906, Anne Hepburn Shepherd.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.678, Bower New.]
BRUAN
Presbytery of Caithness
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.224
Church and manse, allocated to Free Church. From 1905-10 the congregation worshipped in a wooden hut. New church and manse built in 1910. No hymns used.
1865
WILLIAM GRAY MURRAY
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.281
Ordained and inducted 3rd May 1865; retired May 1907; died 12th August 1912.
1907
RODERICK CAMERON, M.A.
Translated from Contin and inducted 15th May 1907; translated to Kilmuir Easter 22nd March 1912.
1912
GEORGE SUTHERLAND
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.335
Born 29th May 1853 at Mulbuie, Dunbeath, Caithness, son of John Sutherland and Christina Gunn; educated at Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 15th June 1887; assistant Golspie 1887, Ferintosh 1888, Kilmorack 1888-9; ordained and inducted Torosay and Salen
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22nd April 1890; translated and inducted 26th July 1912; war service as coast watcher; retired 1929. Married 27th November 1890, Catherine George.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.679.]
1929
JOHN MARTIN
Born 12th September 1892 at Portvoller, Point, Stornoway, son of Malcolm Martin and Catherine Mackenzie; educated at Aird Public School, Stornoway Nicolson Institute, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1920), B.D. (1922); war service in H.M. Forces in Egypt and Dardannelles 1914-15, severely wounded 1915; Aberdeen College (Foote Scholar, Lumsden and Sachs Fellow, Hons. Diploma in Theology 1922); licensed by Presbytery of Aberdeen 3rd April 1922; ordained and inducted Eddrachillis 17th August 1922; translated and inducted 5th June 1929.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.678; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.671; also Vol.10, p.383.]
CANISBAY
Presbytery of Caithness
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.224
Church, manse and offices, hall and house.
1898
JAMES IVERACH MUNRO, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 1898; translated to Glenbuchat 5th March 1915.
1915
JAMES RUSSELL
Born 20th September 1871 at Auchterarder, son of Gavin and Elizabeth Russell; educated at Auchterarder Public School, Hamilton Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1897), Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Dumbarton 1897; assistant Glasgow Crosshill 1897-8, Newton-on-Ayr 1898-9, Bolton St Andrew’s 1899-1900, Dublin 1904-5; ordained and inducted Grimsby 12th September 1907; translated and inducted 7th July 1915. Married 16th November 1901, Mary Russell.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.679, Canisbay South.]
DUNNET
Presbytery of Caithness
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.225
Church and manse, retained by United Free Church. Part of church changed to a hall, and remainder reseated and new pulpit provided in 1920. Hymns introduced in 1922.
1876
DONALD MOWAT
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.277
Born 1844 at Lybster, son of William Mowat and Henrietta Barnie; educated at Lybster, University of Edinburgh, M.A., New College, Edinburgh; ordained and inducted 1876; died 20th November 1916. Married 1878, Barbara Budge Clyne.
1917
JOHN MUNRO
Ordained and inducted 27th April 1917; resigned 17th June 1919; said to have become a teacher.
1919
WILLIAM EDGAR MORGAN
Formerly minister of Elgin Baptist Church; inducted 17th October 1919; translated to Avoch 11th August 1921.
1922
WILLIAM DOIG DUNBAR
Born 26th November 1884 at Lochee, Dundee, son of John Dunbar and Agnes Doig; educated at University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1910), New College, Edinburgh; student assistant Edinburgh Chalmers Territorial 1910-12, Lady Glenorchy’s 1912-14; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh December 1914; assistant Dundee St John’s 1914-15; ordained and inducted Cleland Colville Memorial 3rd November 1915; translated to Fort Augustus and Glenmoriston 28th March 1918; translated and inducted 1st September 1922; translated to Gateshead Park Terrace 16th November 1927. Married 6th June 1916, Christina Ann Mitchell Robertson.
1929
ALEXANDER MACDIARMID
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.220
Born 12th April 1866 at Kyles Paible, North Uist, son of Allan Macdiarmid and Margaret Boyd; educated at Paible Ladies’ Highland Association School, Paible Public School (pupil teacher 1883-6), University of Glasgow, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Abernethy 9th May 1899; ordained and inducted Glenelg 9th August 1899; translated to Kilchoman, Islay, 9th March 1910; translated to Applecross 17th September 1913; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1918; translated to Kilmallie and Kilmonivaig 30th January 1924; translated and inducted 19th July 1929. Married 21st April 1908, Christina Hamilton Corson.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.678, Barrock.]
HALKIRK
Presbytery of Caithness
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.225
Church and manse. Almost unanimous in favour of Union in 1900. Hymns introduced about 1918.
1848
HECTOR FRASER, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.161
Assistant Tain; ordained and inducted 1848; retired 1896; died 1902.
1896
ALEXANDER MACKENZIE, M.A.
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 18th August 1896; translated to Alvie 24th April 1919.
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1919
GRANVILLE CUTHBERT HEPBURN RAMAGE
Translated from Shapinshay and inducted 1919; translated to Hamilton South 1923.
1924
EWEN GILLIES
Translated from Kilninian and Kilmore and inducted 1924; retired 1928; introduced Echt 1928.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, pp.580 and 680.]
1929
ROBERT WILLIAM MATHESON
Born 21st April 1904 at Lybster, son of Hugh Matheson and Sophie Sampson; educated at Lybster Public School, Wick High School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1924), New College, Edinburgh, University of Strasbourg; licensed by Presbytery of Caithness 1928; ordained and inducted August 1929;.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.680, Halkirk West; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, pp.502 and 742; also Vol.10, pp.32, 56 and 81; and Vol.11, p.68.]
KEISS
Presbytery of Caithness
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.225
Church and manse allocated to Free Church. New church and manse erected and completed 1908-9.
1891
DONALD BRIMS, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 1891; resigned 1904; introduced Braehead 1909.
1907
ALEXANDER SCOTT BERRIE
Translated from Newcastle Arthur’s Hill and inducted 1907; translated to Broughton 1911.
1911
MATTHEW ARMOUR
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.86
Born 26th November 1863 at Free Church Manse, Sanday, Orkney, son of Rev. Matthew Armour and Jessie Thompson; educated at Sanday Public School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 1890; ordained and inducted Papa Westray, Orkney, March 1891; translated and inducted 21st December 1911; retired June 1928; died 24th August 1932. Married 20th October 1892, Catherine Sutherland.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.680.]
1929
ROBERT MILLER
Ordained missionary, born 12th April 1867 at Leith, son of Robert Miller and Jean Mitchel; educated at Board Schools; missionary and chaplain prior to ordination; war service with Y.M.C.A. 1914-17; ordained as missionary Kirkwall 10th September 1918; appointed to Eday 1918; introduced Kennethmont 3rd January 1924; appointed to Ardeonaig 15th October 1926; introduced 17th July 1929. [Married 1901, Margaret Campbell McDonald Nisbet.]
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.680, Keiss West; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.166.]
LATHERON
Presbytery of Caithness
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.225
Church and manse.
1890
GODFREY MACFADYEN
Ordained and inducted 26th November 1890; translated to Marnoch 26th June 1907.
1907
WILLIAM DORMOND ALEXANDER MACKENZIE
Translated from Strathconan and inducted 11th September 1907; translated to Thurso West 8th May 1914.
1914
DONALD MACDONALD
Translated from Tongue and inducted 1914; translated to Kiltarlity 3rd January 1921.
1922
PETER MCQUAT
Ordained and inducted 23rd June 1922; translated to Pathstruie 5th January 1928.
1928
NEIL MUNRO
Born 24th September 1881 at Easdale, by Oban, son of Donald Munro and Catherine Livingstone; educated at Easdale Public School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow College; student assistant Partick Gardner Street; licensed by Presbytery of Lorn June 1922; ordained and inducted Strathy July 1922; translated and inducted 1928. Married July 1923, Jessie Margaret, daughter of the Rev. Neil Morrison, Carloway.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.681, Latheron West; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.644; also Vol.10, p.367.]
LYBSTER
Presbytery of Caithness
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.225
Church with small hall, manse, all allocated to the Free Church. New church and manse and small hall erected. Organ and hymns introduced in the period.
1887
HUGH MATHESON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.264
Born 1st October 1845 at Pittentrail, Rogart, son of Robert Matheson and Isabella Macleod; educated at University of Glasgow, M.A., B.D., Glasgow Free Church College; assistant Campbeltown; ordained and inducted February 1887; died 28th May 1922. Married 17th September 1897, Sophia Sampson.
1922
JOHN MURRAY, M.A., B.D.
Ordained and inducted 19th October 1922; translated to Strathconan (Carnoch) 1928.
1929
ALEXANDER AITKEN
Ordained probationer, Alloa Greenside 29th September 1919; inducted to full charge 21st July 1921; translated and inducted 7th February 1929.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.681, Lybster Central; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.660.]
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OLRIG
Presbytery of Caithness
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.225
Church and manse allocated to Free Church. New church opened on 4th July 1913; new manse completed 1916; garage added 1925. Hymns introduced in 1913; organ in 1915; choir in 1920.
1901
JOHN ROBERT MACGREGOR
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.230
Ordained and inducted Johnstone 1887; resigned 1898; inducted 5th December 1901; died 9th March 1914.
1914
JAMES IZATT JOHNSTONE
Formerly at Clifton, Johannesburg; inducted 1st October 1914; translated to Ferintosh, January 1920.
1920
ALISTAIR MACKENZIE, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 13th May 1920; translated to Millport East June 1924.
1925
DUNCAN MACDONALD JOHNSTON
Born 5th June 1880 at Sinclairtown, Kirkcaldy, son of Daniel Johnston and Jane Agnes Macdonald; educated at Dundee Harris Academy and High School, University of St Andrews, M.A. (1902), B.D. (1906), Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Dundee June 1906; assistant Dundee St Paul’s 1906, Paisley Canal Street 1907; ordained and inducted Swinton 23rd October 1908; translated to Forfar East 1915; translated to Auldearn 1921; translated and inducted 4th June 1925; died 8th March 1927.
1927
WALTER MURRAY, B.D.
Translated from Deerness, Orkney, and inducted 26th October 1927; translated to Torrance 26th September 1929.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.682, Olrig West.]
PULTENEYTOWN CENTRAL
Presbytery of Caithness
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.226
Church, hall and manse. Organ introduced October 1915. Wick Martyrs’ United with this congregation on 15th May 1911.
1887
NIGEL CRAIG ROBERTON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.299
Born 23rd March 1856 at Dunipace Free Church Manse, son of Rev. Thomas Roberton and Elizabeth Greig; educated at Dunipace Free Church School, Stirling High School; clerk in Bank of Scotland 1872-7; University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1880), University of Glasgow, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Stirling 1884; assistant Campbeltown Lorne Street 1884-5, Pulteneytown 1885-6, Dundee Willison 1886-7; ordained and inducted 24th February 1887; retired 31st August 1926. Married 6th March 1890, Margaret Hill.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.684.]
1927
DONALD MORRISON
Born 16th October 1893 at Garrabost, Stornoway, son of John Morrison and Jessie Macleod; educated at Bayble Public School, Stornoway Nicolson Institute, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1916); war service 1916-18; Aberdeen College; licensed by Presbytery of Lewis 17th May 1921; ordained and inducted Portree 3rd August 1921; translated and inducted 6th April 1927.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.684, Wick Central; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.651; also Vol.10, p.370.]
PULTENEYTOWN WEST
Presbytery of Caithness
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.475
Church and manse.
1894
DAVID SHEARER, M.A.
Translated from Shapinshay and inducted 24th June 1894; translated to Glasgow Cumberland Street 10th March 1902.
1902
PETER WILLIAMSON CLELLAND
Ordained and inducted 5th December 1902; translated to Ayr Wallacetown 25th September 1929.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.685, Wick West.]
REAY
Presbytery of Caithness
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.226
Church and manse.
1888
JAMES MACDONALD
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.221
Born 31st December 1847 at Morven, son of Robert MacDonald and Ann Clark; educated at Morven, Fort William, Inverness Academy, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; ordained as missionary for Lovedale, South Africa, 1878; later appointed to Blythswood and later to Idutywa; resigned 1887; inducted June 1888; retired 1908; appointed to Cromdale July 1916; resigned for health reasons 30th September 1917; died 14th August 1918. Married March 1878, Mary Cameron. [Publication – Light in Darkness, London, 1890.]
1908
S[AMUEL] M. JOHNSTON, B.A., D.Sc.
Inducted as colleague and successor 1908; translated to Whitburn 1911.
1911
WILLIAM GRAY MURRAY, M.A.
Translated from Cunningsburgh and Sandwick and inducted 6th June 1911; resigned 1918; appointed to Akropong 1920.
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1918
DONALD MACLACHLAN MACKENZIE
Formerly of the Baptist Church; admitted to United Free Church 1918; inducted in 1918; translated to Coalsnaughton 1923.
1924
JOHN JAMES HOLMES MACLEOD
Translated from Orphir and inducted 1924; translated to Keig and Tough 5th January 1928.
1928
LACHLAN ANGUS CALDER MACRAE
Born 30th April 1877 at Badcall, Kinlochbervie, Lairg, son of Alexander and Euphemia Macrae [née Calder;] educated at Inshegra School, Glasgow Bible Training Institute, Manitoba University and College, Winnipeg; licensed by Presbytery of Winnipeg 1910; ordained and inducted Saskatchewan April 1910; resigned March 1920; inducted Melness and Eriboll 20th April 1921; translated and inducted 2nd May 1928. Married 10th January 1906, Mary McCallum.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.682, Shebster; for an account of this minister, see there; also Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.10, p.388.]
THURSO FIRST
Presbytery of Caithness
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.226
Church, hall and manse. Mission hall, gifted to the congregation in 1898, was sold in 1927. Instrumental music introduced in 1918.
1898
ALEXANDER SOUTAR
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.324
Born 17th April 1855 at Brechin, son of David Soutar and Janet Weir; educated at Brechin Grammar School; law apprentice in Brechin for four years; University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1881), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Arbroath 11th May 1885; ordained and inducted Cullen 2nd July 1885; translated to new Home Mission charge, Springburn, Glasgow 1888; translated and inducted 1898; war service as officiating chaplain at Fort George 1915, at Duddingston 1916, and with Scottish Churches Huts at Rouen 1917-18; retired September 1919. Married 28th April 1886, Mary Ann, daughter of Alexander Henderson of West Park, Dundee.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.683.]
1920
ALEXANDER JAMES MORRISON, M.A.
Translated from Portree and inducted 8th January 1920; translated to Aberdeen Woodside 20th June 1928.
1929
LINDSAY LEITH DAVIDSON
Born 16th February 1885 at Ruthwell, son of Alexander Leith Davidson and Charlotte Anne Lindsay Shand; educated at Ruthwell Public School, Dumfries Academy, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1912), Edinburgh New College; student assistant Dunfermline Gillespie 1913-14, Edinburgh Nicolson Street 1914-15; licensed by Presbytery of Dumfries and Penpont 1915; assistant Edinburgh Lothian Road 1915-16; ordained and inducted Stitchel 1st November 1916; translated to Arthur’s Hill, Newcastle, April 1925; translated and inducted 21st February 1929. Married 11th September 1929, Bertha Flintoff, M.B.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.683, Thurso St Andrew’s; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.67; also Vol.10, p.41.]
THURSO WEST
Presbytery of Caithness
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.226
Church with hall, manse. Manse sold and smaller house bought. Organ introduced in 1918.
1895
HERBERT REID, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 27th September 1895; translated to Port-Glasgow Hamilton 24th November 1903.
1904
DONALD MCFARLAN, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 29th April 1904; translated to Aberdeen Rutherford 20th February 1908.
1908
DONALD JAMES ROSS
Ordained and inducted 13th August 1908; translated to Eccles Presbyterian Church [Lancashire] 1913; appointed to Penang 1916; inducted Stirling Viewfield 1921.
1914
WILLIAM DORMOND ALEXANDER MACKENZIE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.240
Born 18th November 1871 at Free Church Manse, Farr, son of Rev. Donald Mackenzie and Margaret Johnstone Dormond; educated at Farr Public School, Inverness Raining’s School, Edinburgh George Watson’s College, Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen Free Church College; student assistant in Skye 1894, Lochcarron 1895, Farr 1896, Invergordon 1897; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Tongue July 1898; assistant Tain 1898-9; ordained and inducted Strathconan 20th July 1899; translated to Latheron 11th September 1907; translated and inducted 8th May 1914; war service in Caithness and Sutherland Volunteer Battalion.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.683.]
WATTEN
Presbytery of Caithness
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.226
Church and manse, allocated to the Free Church. New church and manse built, the congregation having worshipped in the Parish Hall in the interval.
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1892
WILLIAM GUTHRIE ROBERTSON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.302
Born 7th July 1863 at Barefold, Glass, Huntly, son of James Robertson and Elizabeth Bonnyman; educated at Glass Public School, Keith Public School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1885), Aberdeen Free Church College; licensed 1889; assistant Fochabers, Aberlour and Watten 1889-92; ordained and inducted 8th September 1892; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1916-17. Married (1) 1894, Christina S. Thomson; (2) September 1910, Isabella B. Sutherland.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.683, Watten South; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.627.]
WESTERDALE AND HALSARY
Presbytery of Caithness
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.226
Church and manse.
1889
ANGUS MACKAY
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.233
Born 23rd November 1860 at Bettyhill, Sutherland, son of James Mackay and Isabella Macdonald; educated at Farr Public School, Old Aberdeen Grammar School, University of St Andrews, M.A. (1885), New College, Edinburgh; during college vacations, taught blind and deaf in northern counties; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Tongue June 1886; assistant Durness Free Church, Strathpeffer Free Church; ordained and inducted 12th March 1889; died 9th December 1911. Married April 1901, Eva H.G., daughter of Rev. Donald Mackenzie, Farr, and widow of the Rev. Cathel Kerr, Melness. Publications – Book of Mackay, Wick, 1906; History of the Province of Cat, Wick, 1914; contributed papers to The Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, many articles to Celtic Monthly, historical notes and papers to the Miscellany of the Viking Club, and the article on Lord Reay in Sir James Balfour Paul’s Scots Peerage; edited Autobiographical Journal of John MacDonald.
1912
JAMES WALKER, B.A.
Ordained probationer at Kinkell 4th March 1909; inducted 4th September 1912; left 1916.
1917
ROBERT SMITH FRASER LAIDLAW, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 3rd April 1917; translated to Alness April 1922.
1922
ANDREW PATERSON
Translated from Weisdale, Shetland, and inducted 12th July 1922; translated to Laggan 1926.
1928
JOHN HAY
Ordained missionary, born 8th May 1872 at Dumbarton, son of John Hay and Catherine Purcell; educated at Jamestown Public School, Bonhill Public School, Glasgow Bible Training Institute; lay missionary, Sandwick 1904-9, Eshaness 1909-13, Skipness 1913-14, Hill of Beath 1914-20, Olrig and Tiree 1924-5, Kirkmichael, Perthshire, 1926-8, Westerdale 1928; ordained as missionary 13th December 1928. Married 26th September 1905, Elizabeth Reid.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.684; for an account of this minister, see Vol.9, pp.166 and 413; also Vol.10, p.245.]
WICK
Presbytery of Caithness
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.226
Church with vestry and session room, manse. Mission work in suite of halls in Carrogiel Street [probably Barrogill Street.]
1898
JOSEPH TRAILL, B.D.
Ordained and inducted 5th January 1898; translated to Rothesay Free Parish 24th June 1902.
1902
PATRICK ROBSON MACKAY, D.D.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.235
Translated from Prestonpans and inducted November 1902; resigned 1908; died June 1921.
1909
ALFRED COUTTS, B.D.
Translated from Leith South and inducted April 1909; translated to Edinburgh St Cuthbert’s December 1911.
1912
GEORGE WILLIAMS, M.A.
Translated from Glasgow Candlish Memorial and inducted April 1912; translated to Methven 1920.
1921
MURDO MCIVER
Born 28th July 1877 at Dalmuir, son of Murdoch Mciver [and Jessie McNaughton;] educated at Dalmuir Public School, Clydebank Secondary School, Dumbarton Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1901), Glasgow College; assistant Glasgow Springburn, Kirkmuirhill, Clachan, Glasgow Fairbairn; ordained and inducted Fala 1906; translated to Airdrie West 1913; translated and inducted December 1921; died 16th February 1924. Married 28th November 1917, Alice Stenton, daughter of the Rev. Dr William [Straton] Bruce, Banff.
1924
JOHN ALLAN MARTIN
Born 27th June 1877 at Whiteinch, Glasgow, son of James Martin and Marion Masterton; educated at Glasgow Hamilton Crescent Public School, Allan Glen’s Academy; pupil teacher, Govan (1891-6); University of Glasgow, M.A. (1901); teacher in Glasgow Hillhead 1898-1901; Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow, November 1905; assistant Paisley St George’s 1904-6; ordained
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and inducted Cambusnethan 5th June 1906; translated to Midmar 10th April 1911; translated to Aberdeen John Knox 1st October 1915; war service as Red Cross orderly in Old Mill, Aberdeen (concurrently with ministerial charge) 1915-19; translated and inducted 24th August 1924. Married (1) 15th August 1906, Isabella R. Macfarlane; (2) 4th April 1914, Helen W[atson] MacLennan.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.684, Wick Bridge Street; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.796.]
WICK MARTYRS
Presbytery of Caithness
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.226
Church only. United with Pulteneytown Central on 15th May 1911.
1877
FINLAY MUNRO HARPER
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.181
Translated from Portknockie and inducted 1877; died 1906.
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PRESBYTERY OF ORKNEY
BIRSAY
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.239
Church, manse, Old Free Church school. Hymns and organ introduced in 1920. The congregation remained vacant 1926-9.
1896
CHARLES MELDRUM
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.265
Born 19th October 1863 at Tomintoul, son of James Meldrum and Jane Cameron; educated at Tomintoul Public School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1888), Aberdeen Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Abernethy April 1892; assistant Aberlour 1892-3, Sandhaven 1893, Rothiemay 1893-6, New Byth 1896; ordained and inducted 15th October 1896; retired September 1919; died 29th December 1938. Married 16th June 1897, Nellie Adam.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.701.]
1920
JOHN MITCHELL MCALISTER, B.A.
Ordained and inducted July 1920; translated to Galston Erskine 18th November 1926.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.701, Birsay Twatt.]
BURRAY
Presbytery of Orkney
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.506
Church, manse and outbuildings.
1896
DAVID SIMPSON BROWN, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 8th September 1896; translated to Rousay December 1918.
1920
GEORGE ESPLIN
Born 9th August 1856 at Friockheim, son of Thomas Esplin and Mary Mackenzie; educated at Friockheim Free Church School, Kinkell Public School, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Arbroath April 1887; ordained and inducted Townsville, Queensland, August 1887; admitted to United Free Church 1909; introduced Hurlford Mauchline Road 22nd July 1910; resigned 1913; in charge, Rendall Station, Orkney, from 1st November 1916; introduced Aberlemno 1917; inducted 13th April 1920; retired 31st October 1929; died 15th March 1933. Married 3rd April 1920, Lydia Mather.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.701, Burray South.]
DEERNESS
Presbytery of Orkney
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.239
Church, manse, Old school and schoolhouse. The school and school house were sold in behoof of the renovation scheme. The congregation was vacant 1927-9.
1897
JAMES WHYTE, B.D.
Ordained and inducted 16th December 1897; translated to Rayne 8th September 1910.
1911
THOMAS THOMSON ALEXANDER, M.A.
Formerly of Winnipeg, Canada, inducted 6th July 1911; resigned to become missionary at Livingstonia 1913.
1914
ALEXANDER PLENDERLEITH BATHGATE, M.A.
Translated from Glencaple and inducted 10th September 1914; translated to Shieldhill 12th July 1922.
1922
WALTER MURRAY, B.D.
Ordained and inducted 31st October 1922; translated to Olrig 26th October 1927.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.701.]
EDAY
Presbytery of Orkney
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.504
Church and manse. Church reseated and new pulpit in 1904. New manse built in 1920-1; offices erected in 1928.
1898
JAMES MACKAY
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.505
Born 1st February 1852 at Queensferry, son of Alexander Mackay and Jessie Renshaw; educated at Queensferry Public School, University of Edinburgh, M.A., United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh; in charge, Rendall station and Egilshay station; ordained and inducted 21st December 1898; retired May 1912; died 17th June 1931. Married 1896, Janet H. McQueen.
1922
JOHN NIVISON
Born 14th September 1876 at Keir, Dumfries-shire, son of Alexander and Jane Nivison; educated at Keir Public School, Penpont Public School, Kirkpatrick-Durham Public School, University of Edinburgh, United Presbyterian College and New College, Edinburgh; missionary assistant Lasswade 1901-2; licensed by Presbytery of Kirkcudbright May 1902; ordained and inducted Lasswade 5th February 1903; war service in H.M. Forces in Egypt, Palestine, France and Germany 1915-20; resigned 1917; inducted 11th January 1922.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.702, Eday South.]
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EVIE
Presbytery of Orkney
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.239
Church and manse. After the 1900 union, a few members joined the Original Secession Congregation in Birsay. The congregation was vacant 1926-9.
1888
JAMES ROY
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.307
Born 4th January 1836 at Huntly, son of Michael Roy and Catherine Sinclair; educated at Aberdeen Gymnasium, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1856), B.D., Aberdeen Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Aberdeen 1860; ordained and inducted Firth 20th November 1862; translated to Armadale 1880; translated and inducted 1888; retired May 1906; died 5th March 1913. Married 14th February 1888, Mary Sinclair. For 10 years Clerk to the Presbytery.
1906
ROBERT LEE KIRK
Ordained preacher, from Firth Paterson; inducted 9th October 1906; translated to Greenock Greenbank 16th March 1911.
1911
DUNCAN ARTHUR MACLAREN, M.A., B.D.
Translated from Firth Paterson and inducted 2nd August 1911; translated to St Andrews, Orkney, 30th April 1918.
1919
OLIVER DRYER
Born 16th February 1852 at Edinburgh, son of Oliver Dryer and Mary Munro; educated at Edinburgh George Heriot School; completed apprenticeship as compositor 1870-5; University of Edinburgh, University of Glasgow, Evangelical Union Theological Seminary; ordained and inducted Sanquhar Evangelical Union Church 1878; translated to Airdrie Evangelical Union Church 1883; resigned 1896 owing to disapproval of union with the Congregational Church; admitted to United Presbyterian Church; assistant Glasgow Shamrock Street 1896; in charge, Glasgow Woodlands Institute to 1905; inducted Uyeasound, Shetland, 27th February 1905; translated and inducted April 1919; retired 1923; died 18th September 1924. Married 21st October 1878, Jane Poole. Zealous Temperance worker, especially in connection with the Order of Good Templars, of which he was Right Worthy Grand Chaplain 1893.
1923
THOMAS THOMSON ALEXANDER, M.A.
Formerly missionary in Southern Rhodesia; inducted 30th November 1923; translated to Leith St Ninian’s 20th October 1926.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.702.]
FIRTH CHALMERS
Presbytery of Orkney
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.239
Church and manse. United with Paterson on 2nd July 1911.
1893
DUNCAN ARTHUR MACLAREN, M.A., B.D.
Ordained and inducted 12th January 1893; translated to Evie 2nd August 1911.
FIRTH PATERSON
Presbytery of Orkney
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.508
Church and manse. New church built in 1902. United with Chalmers on 2nd July 1911.
1897
JOHN GILVRAY TAYLOR, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 19th September 1897; translated to Howgate 3rd July 1902.
1903
G[EORGE] D[UFF] STRATHNAIRN
Ordained preacher, appointed July 1903; resigned March 1905.
1905
ROBERT LEE KIRK
Ordained preacher, from Hurlford Mauchline Road, introduced 27th June 1905; inducted Evie 9th October 1906.
1907
ROBERT JAMES, M.A.
Translated from Airdrie South Bridge Street and inducted 30th August 1907; translated to Shapinshay 18th January 1911.
FIRTH
Presbytery of Orkney
(after local union)
The two congregations united on 2nd July 1911. The station at Stenness was also united with them, and the united congregation was named Firth and Stenness, but Stenness was disjoined in 1920, and the name again became Firth.
1912
ROBERT STEEN
Ordained and inducted 29th February 1912; translated to Ballantrae 7th July 1920.
1920
WILLIAM WATT DORNAN, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 16th December 1920; translated to New Cumnock Bank 9th January 1924.
1924
DUNCAN CAMERON
Born 12th May 1864 at Inverness, son of Duncan Cameron and Margaret Dallas; educated at Inverness, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; appointed Secretary
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of Probationers’ Committee; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 1st July 1919; ordained and inducted Luncarty November 1920; translated and inducted 1st May 1924; died 2nd February 1929. Married 7th July 1897, Bessie Fraser.
1929
JOHN ANDERSON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.83
Born 24th February 1869 at Birsay, Orkney, son of Andrew Anderson and Mary Wishart Harvey; educated at Costa Public School, Kirkwall Grammar School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1890), B.D. (1894), New College, Edinburgh (Hebrew tutor 1893-4, First Cunningham Fellow 1894), Universities of Berlin and Göttingen 1894-5; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Orkney 1895; assistant Perth St Stephen’s 1895-7, Falkirk St Andrew’s 1897; ordained and inducted Fordoun 23rd December 1897; translated and inducted 19th September 1929. Married 14th November 1928, Charlotte Kerr, daughter of Rev. A.N. Sutherland, M.A., Dundee. F.S.A. (Scot.).
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.702, Firth St John’s.]
HARRAY
Presbytery of Orkney
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.240
Church and manse.
1874
JOHN REID ANDERSON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.84
Born 31st December 1844 at Aberdeen, son of John Anderson and Harriet Reid; educated at Foveran Parish School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1865), Aberdeen Free Church College (Sachs Fellow 1869); missionary assistant Keig 1869-70, Strichen 1871; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Aberdeen 1871; loc. ten. Fordyce 1871-2, Peterhead 1873-4; ordained and inducted 19th March 1874; retired October 1922; died 1st July 1931.
1922
JOHN FERGUSON, B.A.
Translated from Keith South and inducted 16th October 1922; translated to Limekilns 28th July 1927.
1928
ALEXANDER LESLIE SKENE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.318
Born 10th April 1864 at Dundee, son of John Skene, M.A., and Augusta Bruce MacRitchie; educated at Dundee High School, Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen; M.A. (1885), Aberdeen Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Aberdeen May 1889; missionary in charge, Sandhaven, 1891-2; ordained and inducted Bower 13th October 1892; translated to Kirkmichael, Perthshire, 5th December 1918; translated to Stronsay 15th March 1922; translated and inducted 13th July 1928; resigned 31st May 1929; joined the United Free Church (Continuing).
1929
GEORGE HAROLD MAKIN
Ordained missionary, born 15th May 1889 at Llangollen, Merionethshire, son of George Makin, minister in Wesleyan Methodist Church, and Annie Bromley; educated at Bakewell Grammar School, North Derbyshire; chemist’s assistant 1907-14; war service in H.M. Forces in Salonika 1917-19; Methodist lay preacher 1910-14, and lay missionary 1914-23; admitted to United Free Church 1924; ordained as missionary at West Yell 28th September 1925; translated to Harray 1st September 1929. Married 1st November 1923, Jane Cluness.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.703, Harray Anderson; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.119; also Vol.10, p.69 and Vol.11, p.60.]
HOLM EAST
Presbytery of Orkney
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.495
Church with session house, manse. Church and session house destroyed by fire on 29th February 1920, but were re-roofed and re-furnished. Holm East and Holm West united on 31st July 1913, but owing to friction the union was dissolved by the General Assembly in May 1922. Served by missionaries thereafter.
1870
CHARLES RUNCIMAN
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.497
Born 2nd June 1842 at Glasgow, son of Alexander Runciman and Jane Thomson; educated at Cowcaddens Normal School, University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed 1868; assistant Dundee Cherryfield United Presbyterian Mission 1868-9; ordained and inducted 9th February 1870; retired December 1914; died 28th December 1918. Married (1) 21st June 1870, Helen Maitland; (2) 26th April 1876, Jeannie Watson.
HOLM
Presbytery of Orkney
(after local union, 1913-22)
1915
THOMAS THOMSON ALEXANDER, M.A.
Formerly missionary at Livingstonia; inducted 22nd October 1915; translated to Luncarty 25th September 1918.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.703.]
HOLM WEST
Presbytery of Orkney
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.240
Church and manse. United with Holm East on 31st July 1913, but the union was dissolved in May 1922, and the congregation was thereafter served by missionaries.
1869
DANIEL MCNEILL, M.D., L.F.P.S.G.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.253
While a divinity student, took full medical course
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with a view to foreign mission service; ordained and inducted 1869; retired 1914; died October 1918.
KIRKWALL KING STREET
Presbytery of Orkney
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.240
Church, manse, hall, church officer’s house. Heating system installed 1924, and electric light in 1926.
1899
DAVID TRIPNEY, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.346
Ordained and inducted 1899; translated to Union Church, Kirkdale, Liverpool, 21st January 1910. Married 1900, Jane R. Coupar.
1911
CHARLES GRANT, B.D.
Ordained and inducted 18th January 1911; resigned owing to ill-health 21st June 1914.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.704.]
1914
GEORGE WHITE DALGLEISH, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 18th November 1914; translated to Edinburgh Martyrs’ and St John’s 8th October 1919.
1920
JOHN MURRAY SUTHERLAND, M.A.
Translated from Foveran and inducted 4th February 1920; translated to Glasgow Gallowgate 26th September 1929.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.704.]
KIRKWALL PATERSON
Presbytery of Orkney
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.481
Church, manse and two mission halls.
1865
DAVID GREENHILL WEBSTER
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.485
Born 19th July 1831 at Letham, Forfarshire, son of James Webster and Margaret Hall; educated at Letham Public School, Trinity College, Dublin, University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; teacher on Lochetiveside and in Kilkenny College, Ireland; missionary under Irish Presbyterian Church to Roman Catholics; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh 1863; chaplain to Police Force in Glasgow; assistant Edinburgh St James’ Place 1864; ordained and inducted 10th January 1865; retired 5th July 1903; died 3rd April 1918. Married 16th August 1866, Jane Aikman Douglas. Chairman of School Board; Clerk to the Presbytery. Publications – Life and Letters of Dr Paterson, Kirkwall; History of the United Presbyterian Congregation of Kirkwall, 1796-1900, Kirkwall, 1910; edited a Book of Selected Hymns for Church Worship, Kirkwall.
1904
GEORGE MILLAR
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.267
Born 19th May 1872 at Dundee, son of George Millar and Jessie Rennie; educated at Dundee John Birrell’s School, University of Edinburgh, Lit.A. (1894), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; student assistant Edinburgh Abbeyhill; student missionary, Uphall, 1897-8; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Dundee March 1898; ordained and inducted Uphall 2nd August 1898; translated and inducted 18th May 1904; war service as Chaplain to the Forces in Orkney 1914-17, in France 1917; died in France 26th August 1917. Married 14th March 1907, Agnes Hendrie, daughter of James Downie, Lenzie.
1918
ANDREW BURT TAYLOR, M.A.
Translated from Motherwell Brandon Street and inducted 15th May 1918; translated to Rothes 29th October 1924.
1925
CHARLES ALEXANDER GRAY
Born at Montrose, son of Charles McHardy Gray and Jessie McGlashan; educated at Montrose Public School, private tuition, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1893), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Brechin and Fordoun 6th October 1896; assistant London Clapham Road 1896-7; loc. ten. West Kilbride United Presbyterian 1897-8; ordained and inducted Oteiamika, Southland Presbytery, New Zealand, 1900; translated to Riverton, New Zealand, 1904; inducted 1925. [Married 3rd January, 1905, Eleanor Hume Birch.]
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.704.]
NORTH RONALDSHAY
Presbytery of Orkney
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.241
Church and manse.
1891
WILLIAM MACPHERSON, B.D.
Ordained and inducted 3rd October 1891; translated to Kintore 3rd December 1903.
1904
ALEXANDER Y[PSILANTIS] F. BISSET, M.A.
Formerly missionary at Constantinople; inducted 13th October 1904; translated to Boyndie 13th December 1911.
1914
ROBERT ALEXANDER MUNRO
Born 30th January 1857 at Glasgow, son of Donald Munro and Jean McLeod; educated at Glasgow Kelvin Street Public School and Academy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 4th April 1884; assistant Unst, Shetland, 1884; first missionary at Craigneuk; commissioned to Canada by Free Church in 1887; engaged in pioneer work in Alberta; ordained and inducted Calgary, Alberta,
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4th December 1889; re-admitted to Free Church 1898; ordained preacher at Westray Station, from October 1899; ordained preacher at Rendall from August 1910; inducted 12th October 1914; retired 30th November 1928; died December 1928. Married 2nd September 1898, Annie McCallum.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.704.]
ORPHIR
Presbytery of Orkney
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.240
Church, hall, manse.
1880
DAVID GILLIES
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.168
Born 29th March 1849 at Bannockburn; educated at University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church college; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 1879; ordained and inducted 10th June 1880; died 16th August 1908. Married (1) 19th December 1871, Janet Anderson Brown; (2) Helen Wishart.
1909
JOHN JAMES HOLMES MACLEOD
Ordained and inducted 22nd April 1909; translated to Reay February 1924.
1927
HENRY ANDERSON NEVILLE
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.398
Born 3rd November 1862 at Glasgow, son of John Forrester Neville and Janet Deans; educated at private school, Glasgow Maclaren’s Academy, St Enoch’s Public School, Hutcheson’s Grammar School, University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow June 1893; assistant Glasgow Erskine and Pollok Street 1894-6; in charge, Kelty preaching station, 1896-8; ordained and inducted Kelty Trinity 6th April 1898; in charge Blackburn preaching station 1903; in charge, New Luce, 1907; inducted Westray 19th June 1912; resigned 1916; did Admiralty work 1917-19; inducted 5th April 1927.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, pp.704-5, Orphir North.]
PAPA-WESTRAY
Presbytery of Orkney
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.240
Church, old Free Church school used as hall, dwelling house, manse – all allocated to the United Free Church. The superiority of all buildings was purchased 1926.
1856
JOHN PEDDIE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.290
Ordained and inducted 1856; retired 1883; died 1902.
1891
MATTHEW ARMOUR
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor March 1891; translated to Keiss 21st December 1911.
1912
MATTHEW RICHMOND
Born 19th February 1855 at Fergushill, Ayrshire, son of John Richmond and Jane Duff; educated at Fergushill Public School, Kilwinning Public School, University of Glasgow, Evangelical Union Theological Hall, Glasgow; ordained and inducted Wick Evangelical Union Church November 1882; held other charges in Evangelical Union Church; admitted to Free Church 1900; in charge Walls station 21st January 1902 to 1905; minister without charge at Ecclefechan; inducted June 1912; retired 1929; died 19th January 1944. Married 16th July 1885, Jessie Gilmour Naismith.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.705.]
ROUSAY RITCHIE
Presbytery of Orkney
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.241
Church and manse. United with Trumbland congregation on 20th August 1906.
1894
JOHN MCLEMAN
Ordained and inducted 11th December 1894; translated to Methil 19th April 1906.
ROUSAY TRUMBLAND
Presbytery of Orkney
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.507
Church and manse. United with Ritchie congregation on 20th August 1906.
1883
ALEXANDER IRVINE PIRIE
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.508
Born 21st March 1845 at Drum, Aberdeenshire, son of James Pirie and Annie Knowles; educated at Old Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, Edinburgh Congregational College; ordained and inducted to Kirkwall Congregational Church 17th June 1873; admitted to United Presbyterian Church 1883; inducted 17th July 1883; became minister of the united congregation 20th August 1906; retired April 1914; died 29th August 1927. Married August 1874, Elspeth Jamieson.
ROUSAY
Presbytery of Orkney
(after local union)
Both churches were used.
1906
ALEXANDER IRVINE PIRIE
Minister of Trumbland congregation (q.v.), became minister of the united congregation 20th August 1906; retired April 1914.
1914
JAMES ALEXANDER MATHESON, M.A.
[Born 26th February, 1887, at Helmsdale, Sutherland, son of Donald Matheson and Catherine Fraser; educated at Aberdeen University (M.A. 1909);] ordained and inducted 9th November 1914; resigned 20th March 1917; [became a minister of the Church of Scotland; see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.640, Dallas High; also Vol.10, p.365; buried St Michael’s Parish Churchyard, Dallas, Moray.]
1918
DAVID SIMPSON BROWN
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.507
Born 19th April 1865 at Edinburgh, son of David Simpson Brown and Katherine Philip; educated at Edinburgh McLachlan’s Academy, Burntisland Public School, Edinburgh George Watson’s
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College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1887), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; ordained and inducted Burray 8th September 1896; translated and inducted December 1918. Married 31st January 1900, Agnes Waterston. Publications – Home of Faith, London, 1906; The Faith That Works By Love, Edinburgh, S.A.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.705; for an account of this minister, see Vol.9, p.706.]
ST ANDREWS
Presbytery of Orkney
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.241
Church, manse and offices.
1891
JAMES CHEYNE, M.A.
Translated from North Ronaldshay and inducted 1891; translated to Rayne 5th November 1917.
1918
DUNCAN ARTHUR MACLAREN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.243
Born 18th April 1865 at Dunning Free Church Manse, son of Rev. Duncan Maclaren and Caroline Walker; educated at Dunning Free Church School, Dollar Institution, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1884), B.D. (1889), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Auchterarder 25th June 1888; assistant Laggan 1889, Dalguise 1889-90; loc. ten. Genoa 1890-1, Gamrie 1891-2; in charge Blackridge station 1892-3; ordained and inducted Firth Chalmers 12th January 1893; translated to Evie 2nd August 1911; translated and inducted 30th April 1918. Married December 1899, Jane Jessie Traill Dennison. Clerk to the Presbytery from 13th November 1917.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.706, St Andrew’s South.]
SANDAY EAST
Presbytery of Orkney
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.493
Church and manse. A considerable body of members adhered to the United Free Church (Continuing).
1896
GEORGE LUKE, B.D.
Ordained and inducted 26th August 1896; translated to Crossgates 21st September 1910.
1911
JAMES G[IBB] RITCHIE, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 29th August 1911; translated to Towie 21st December 1917.
1919
GEORGE LUKE
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.495
Born 9th January 1867 at Kinross, son of George Luke and Margaret Norwell; educated at Kinross Public School, University of St Andrews, M.A. (1890), B.D. (1894), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Duns 1894; assistant Helensburgh St Columba’s 1895; ordained and inducted 26th August 1896; translated to Crossgates 21st September 1910; translated and inducted 25th June 1919; retired September 1927. Married 27th August 1897, Alexandrina Robertson Maclean.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.706.]
SANDAY WEST
Presbytery of Orkney
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.241
Church and manse. Sanday station united with this congregation in 1904.
1848
MATTHEW ARMOUR
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.86
Ordained and inducted 1848; died 23rd March 1903.
1905
GEORGE JACK
Born [1871] at Motherwell [Newarthill, son of George Jack and Jane Penman;] educated at University of Glasgow, Glasgow College; ordained and inducted 19th January 1905; resigned 31st December 1908.
1910
ALLAN STUART MACLEAN
Ordained in Manitoba 1899; inducted 3rd August 1910; translated to Farr 20th October 1920.
1921
WALTER FORREST
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.159
Born 30th November 1869 at Carluke, son of Alexander Forrest and Mary McCallum; educated at Braidwood Public School, Hamilton St John’s Grammar School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Lanark 1895; assistant Paisley South, Newton-on-Ayr; ordained and inducted Kemnay 25th July 1899; resigned 8th May 1916; inducted 13th July 1921.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.707; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.706.]
SANDWICK
Presbytery of Orkney
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.501
Church and manse with outbuildings. In 1912 the church gables were raised and a new roof put on, ceiling lined with wood and hall built, at a cost of over £300. Instrumental music introduced in 1911.
1874
GEORGE SHAND SOUTAR
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.502
Born 22nd August 1848 at Muirdrum, by Carnoustie, son of Simon Soutar and Margaret Watson; educated at Muirdrum Public School, Panbride Public School, Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, M.A. (1871), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; engaged in teaching and mission work in Glasgow while a student; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Arbroath 1873; in charge of Thornton Mission 1873; ordained and inducted 22nd September 1874; retired 1903; died 17th November 1921. Married 16th June 1875, Jane Jarvie, daughter of Rev. Robert Brown, minister of Markinch.
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1904
DUNCAN MACDONALD
Ordained and inducted 10th June 1904; resigned owing to ill-health April 1910; died 1915.
1911
ROBERT WALDIE HAGGIE
Ordained and inducted 8th February 1911; translated to Glenboig 24th September 1924.
1925
ROBERT BROWN SOUTAR
Born 18th April 1885 at Sandwick, Orkney, son of Rev. George Shand Soutar and Jane Jarvie Brown; educated at Sandwick North Public School, Dundee Harris Academy, University of St Andrews, M.A. (2nd Class Hons. in Classics, 1908), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Arbroath and Forfar June 1912; assistant Perth North 1913-15; war service 4th February 1915 to 22nd May 1919; ordained and inducted Kirkmichael, Banffshire, 4th November 1919; translated and inducted 26th March 1925. Married 1st January 1924, Margaret M. Hutchison.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.707, Sandwick Quoyloo; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.574; also Vol.10, p.333.]
SHAPINSHAY
Presbytery of Orkney
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.502
Church and manse.
1895
ANDREW AITKEN
Ordained and inducted 11th June 1895; translated to Kilmarnock Grange 4th June 1902.
1903
ARCHIBALD MCCALL
Ordained and inducted 30th July 1903; translated to Kirkbean and Southwick August 1910.
1911
ROBERT JAMES, M.A.
Translated from Firth Paterson and inducted 18th January 1911; resigned 10th August 1915; inducted Whitburn 1917.
1915
GRANVILLE CUTHBERT HEPBURN RAMAGE
Translated from Lewes, Sussex, and inducted 1915; translated to Halkirk 1919.
1920
CLAUDE BROWNLIE
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.489
Born 19th June 1856 at Coatbridge, son of Claude Brownlie and Jean Black; educated at Gartsherrie Public School, private tuition, University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; student missionary Bressay, Shetland, July-October 1882, Coatbridge Blairhill 1883; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh June 1884; ordained and inducted Stronsay 4th March 1885; translated and inducted 16th March 1920. Married 14th July 1892, Louisa Blair Dall.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.708, Shapinsay North.]
SOUTH RONALDSHAY NORTH
Presbytery of Orkney
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.499
Church and manse.
1885
WILLIAM BALDWIN
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.501
[Born 28th October, 1853 at Kelso, Roxburghshiree, son of Thomas Baldwin and Christian Hogg;] ordained and inducted 22nd September 1885; retired 21st October 1923; died 4th December 1930. [Married 1887, Mary Helen Ingram.]
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.708.]
1926
JAMES FORRESTER SELLAR
Born 13th February 1874 at Sanquhar South United Presbyterian Manse, son of Rev. John Sellar and Gordon Harper; educated at Edinburgh George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh 1898; assistant Dunfermline Gillespie, Stirling Allan Park, Irvine Fullerton; ordained at Lanigan, Saskatchewan, Canada, December 1909; served in Lanigan, Vonda, Parkby, Dumover, etc. by appointment of the Home Mission Committee of the Presbyterian Church of Canada; inducted Kincaid, Assiniboia, 1918; inducted 23rd March 1926. Married July 1919, Jean Thomson Cameron.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.708, South Ronaldshay St Margaret’s.]
SOUTH RONALDSHAY SOUTH
Presbytery of Orkney
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.241
Church and manse.
1878
ALEXANDER GOODFELLOW
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.170
Born 5th June 1852 at Lochee, Dundee, son of Andrew Goodfellow and Elizabeth Paterson; educated at Lochee Free Church School, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; missionary at Addiewell and Roberton; assistant Inch Free Church; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Wigtown and Stranraer 1878; ordained and inducted 28th July 1878; died 26th September 1927. Married 13th September 1883, Barbara Dunnet Sutherland. Member of the Viking Orcadian Society. For many years, member of South Ronaldshay and Burray School Board and of Orkney Education Authority. Publications – Good Success (sermon), Kirkwall, 1883; Birsay Church History, Kirkwall, 1903; Sanday Church History, Kirkwall, 1912; Gerrard Church History, Kirkwall, 1916; Dr Paterson, Leith, 1920; Two Orkney Worthies, Stromness, 1925.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.708, South Ronaldshay St Mary’s.]
STROMNESS NORTH
Presbytery of Orkney
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.241
Church, hall, old house and garden, manse and garden. The old house was demolished. Pipe organ installed in 1910.
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1896
JAMES CHRISTIE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.119
Born 19th May 1868 at Cairnie, Aberdeenshire, son of John Christie and Elsie Riddoch; educated at Rothiemay Free Church School, Rothiemay Milltown School, Keith Secondary School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1890), Aberdeen Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Strathbogie May 1894; assistant Aberlour, Hamilton West; ordained and inducted 16th December 1896; war service as officiating chaplain to the Orkney Royal Garrison Artillery, and to naval forces stationed at Stromness. Married 4th August 1897, Helen Colville Lendrum.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.709.]
STROMNESS VICTORIA STREET
Presbytery of Orkney
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.490
Church with hall and manse.
1894
THOMAS SIMPSON
Ordained and inducted 20th March 1894; translated to Aberdeen St Paul’s 5th September 1901.
1902
WILLIAM MUIRHEAD, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 14th May 1902; translated to New Leeds 9th June 1927.
1928
DOUGLAS MATHESON ROSS
Born 24th October 1896 at Kirkcaldy, son of Brownlie John Ross and Frances Margaret Douglas; educated at Butterworth School, South Africa, Edinburgh George Watson’s College; war service in H.M. Forces 1915-18; University of Edinburgh, M.A., New College, Edinburgh; student assistant Edinburgh Chalmers Territorial 1925-6; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 1928; ordained and inducted 30th August 1928.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.709; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.443; also Vol.10, pp.352 and 401; and Vol.11, p.382.]
STRONSAY
Presbytery of Orkney
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.489
Church with vestry, hall, library, ladies’ room, manse. Silver communion service presented by Peter F. Watt, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., in 1901.
1885
CLAUDE BROWNLIE
Ordained and inducted 4th March 1885; translated to Shapinshay 16th March 1920.
1922
ALEXANDER LESLIE SKENE, M.A.
Translated from Kirkmichael, Perthshire and inducted 15th March 1922; translated to Harray 13th July 1928.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.710.]
WESTRAY
Presbytery of Orkney
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.498
Church and manse. The congregation was vacant 1927-9, and a majority adhered to the United Free Church (Continuing).
1895
DONALD ROSS
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.499
Born 28th August 1862 at Ardgay, Kincardine, Ross-shire, son of Colin Ross and Helen Mackenzie; educated at parish and board schools; law clerk 1880-7; University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; served with Glasgow City Mission while student at University; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Stirling 1894; assistant Stirling Allan Park 1894-5; ordained and inducted 6th June 1895; translated to South Shields Laygate 19th March 1902; translated to Stratford, London, 18th April in 1907; retired 31st December 1923. Married 7th May 1897, Annie Lees Scott. Clerk to the Presbytery of London North from 12th November 1916; appointed Chevalier de l’Ordre de la Couronne (Belgium) for service among Belgian refugees during the Great War.
1902
JOHN FAICHNEY
Ordained and inducted 12th November 1902; translated to Edinburgh College Street 19th December 1904.
1905
HUGH OSWALD, M.A.
[Born 1880 at Kirkcaldy, Fife, son of James Oswald and Ann Logan; educated at New College 1900-04;] ordained and inducted 14th June 1905; resigned for health reasons 14th October 1911; [died 1924.]
1912
HENRY ANDERSON NEVILLE
Formerly of Kelty Trinity; inducted 19th June 1912; resigned 1916; inducted Orphir 5th April 1927.
1918
GEORGE WILLIAM EVERETT WALKER
Ordained missionary at Lethendy 1916-18; inducted 20th February 1918; resigned 21st May 1921; inducted Deerness (Church of Scotland) 1921.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.307 and Vol.9, p.174.]
1923
BERNARD PEARCE VERRAL
Ordained missionary 11th September 1923; appointed to Kennethmont 1927.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.710.]
EGILSHAY
Presbytery of Orkney
Mission station under Rousay.
JOHN HENDRIE
Missionary, died 1926.
1923
JAMES H. SHEPHERD
Ordained missionary 1923-9.
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RENDALL
Presbytery of Orkney
Mission station under Evie.
1902
ROBERT MURE
Ordained as missionary at Rendall 24th February 1903; appointed to Ross Mission, Transkei Presbytery, South Africa, 8th August 1906.
1910
ROBERT ALEXANDER MUNRO
Ordained as preacher at Westray station from 1899; ordained preacher at Rendall August 1910; inducted North Ronaldshay 12th October 1914.
1916
GEORGE ESPLIN
In charge from 1st November 1916; appointed to Aberlemno 1917.
1917
HENRY KELLY
Missionary 1917-18; ordained as missionary, Rendall, 10th September 1918; appointed Sandwick 1924.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.705.]
STENNESS
Presbytery of Orkney
United with Firth 1911-20. Otherwise under Firth Kirk Session.
1894
JOHN MCKINNON
[Baptised on 2nd December, 1836, at Glasgow, son of John Mackinnon and Sarah Rankin; home missionary in Bonnyrigg in 1881;] missionary, 1894-1911; died 1912. [Married Margaret Ross Nelson.]
1919
WILLIAM T[HOMSON] ARMOUR
[Born 27th Septmber, 1855 at Sanday, Orkney, son of Matthew Armour, minister, and Jessie Thomson;] ordained preacher from Walls 1919; died 26th May 1922. [Married 1919, Elizabeth Hay Muirhead.]
1922
ROBERT WEBSTER
Ordained preacher, born 8th November 1877 at Aberdeen, son of Peter Webster and Ann Masson; educated at Banchory-Devenick Public School, Aberdeen Robert Gordon’s College, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1899), Aberdeen Free Church College; student assistant Glenlivet, Rothesay Free Parish 1903-4, Slains 1904-6, Longmorn 1906-7, Dulnain Bridge 1907-8; in business 1908-17; ordained at High Bonnybridge 28th February 1918; itinerant preacher in Orkney 1921-2; appointed ordained preacher, Stenness 1st September 1922; resigned 1929; joined the United Free Church (Continuing).
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.709.]
WALLS
Presbytery of Orkney
Served by lay missionaries after 1920.
1902
MATTHEW RICHMOND
In charge as ordained preacher from 21st January 1902; inducted Papa-Westray June 1912.
1905
WILLIAM T[HOMSON] ARMOUR
Ordained preacher 27th June 1905; appointed to Stenness 1919.
1920
DAVID MACCULLOCH BROWN, M.D., C.M.
Formerly of Saline; appointed to Walls, with medical charge of the Island January 1920; appointed to Livingstonia 21st December 1920.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.710.]
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PRESBYTERY OF SHETLAND
In 1900 this Presbytery belonged to the Synod of Aberdeen. In 1902 it was disjoined, and in 1912 it was given synodical powers.
BURRA ISLES
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.658
In 1909 Scalloway, which had an ordained preacher, and Quarff, which had an ordained missionary, were linked with Burra Isles. In 1928 Burra Isles and Eshaness were linked under an ordained missionary and Scalloway was linked with Ollaberry. In 1924 Quarff had an ordained missionary with the minister of Cunningsburgh as Moderator of Session.
1884
DAVID GRAY
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.659
[United Original Secession Probationers]
Ordained and inducted 12th June 1884; died 1901.
1901
J[AMES] R[OSE] PROCTOR
[Born 2nd December, 1864, Isle of Dogs, Middlesex, Englnd, son of James and Margaret Proctor; educated at Aberdeen University (M.A. 1885);] ordained and inducted 5th November 1901; resigned owing to ill-health 31st January 1909; [died 1936.]
1910
ROBERT MACKAY ROBERTSON, M.A.
Formerly at Leghorn; inducted 10th May 1910; translated to Berriedale 12th February 1925.
From this date, ordained missionaries were in charge.
1927
ALEXANDER JAMES SIMPSON
Ordained missionary, born 17th April 1873 at Thurso, son of Walter and Elizabeth Simpson; lay missionary at Walls 1911-15; ordained at Walls August 1918; appointed Dunrossness 1924; appointed 1927. Married 8th June 1894, Margaret Ann Urquhart.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.711.]
CLOUSTA AND AITH
Presbytery of Shetland
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.662
Church and manse at Clousta. Mission church built an Aith in 1909-10. Services held also in the hall at West Burrafirth.
1899
JOHN FULTON MILLAR
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.663
Born 16th November 1873 at Beith, son of John Miller and Mary Cunningham; educated at Dalry West End School, University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed July 1897; assistant Paisley Oakshaw 1898-9; ordained and inducted 18th October 1899. Married June 1904, Catherine Smith.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.711; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.716; also Vol.10, p.407.]
CUNNINGSBURGH
Presbytery of Shetland
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.242
Church greatly improved with new floor, seating, etc. and re-opened 22nd October 1913. Many improvements also on the manse, to which a garage was added. Hall opened at Aith Voe August 1913, and another at Fladdbister opened 11th December 1917. Both were used for weeknight services and Sunday Schools.
1875
GEORGE CLARK
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.120
Ordained and inducted 16th September 1875; retired 23rd May 1908; died 5th October 1922.
1908
WILLIAM GRAY MURRAY, M.A., B.D.
Ordained and inducted 17th December 1908; translated to Reay 6th June 1911.
1912
SIMSON WALLACE
Translated from Longformacus and inducted 2nd February 1912; translated to Botriphnie and Cairnie 2nd February 1927.
1927
CHARLES HILL DICK
Born 27th December 1875 in Glasgow, son of Rev. George Hill Dick, minister of Glasgow Eglinton Street United Presbyterian, and Jessie Imbrie Mearns, daughter of Rev. Peter Mearns, minister of Coldstream West United Presbyterian; educated at Glasgow Albert Road Public School and Hutcheson’s Grammar School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1898), B.D. (1901); licensed 1901; assistant Glasgow Claremont 1901-3; loc. ten. Abernethy 1903-4, Inverness Ness Bank 1904; assistant Stranraer St Ninian’s 1904-5, Glasgow St David’s 1905; loc. ten. St Andrews Hope Park 1905-6; ordained and inducted Bellshill East 17th May 1906; translated to Moffat St Mary’s 24th June 1910; war service in H.M. Forces 1918-19; translated to Greyfriars, Port of Spain, Trinidad, 22nd October 1919; translated to Uyeasound 17th July 1924; translated and inducted 25th August 1927; Married Catriona
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MacRae. Publications – Highways and Byways in Galloway and Carrick, London, 1916; Introduction to The Complete Angler of Isaac Walton and Charles Cotton, London, 1895; edited Walton’s Lives of Dr John Donne et al., London, 1899; many contributions to periodicals.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.712.]
DELTING
Presbytery of Shetland
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.242
Church and manse. United to Mossbank on 29th December 1909, with the ministers acting as colleagues. Hall built after the union on the Island of Muckle Rae.
1874
JOHN DAVID ROGERS
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.308
Born 22nd February 1841 in Edinburgh, son of William Rogers and Agnes Barry; educated at Edinburgh High School, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 1865; assistant at Aberdeen and Buckie; ordained and inducted 5th November 1874; died 1st January 1909. Married 8th December 1874, Catherine Ann Fowler.
DELTING AND MOSSBANK
Presbytery of Shetland
1909
WILLIAM FAIRBAIRN
Translated from Kinnettles and inducted 29th December 1909, minister of Delting and colleague of Rev. Thomas Robertson, minister of Mossbank; became minister of Delting and Mossbank 26th February 1917; translated to Uyeasound 23rd August 1919.
1920
JOHN KEMP MCKEAN
[Born 1882 at Kensington, London, England, son of John McKean and Helen Kemp;] ordained in Presbyterian Church of Canada; assistant St George’s Presbyterian Church, Morpeth, Northumberland; inducted 10th February 1920; translated to St George’s, Morpeth, 12th July 1921; [died 1948.]
1922
JAMES PATERSON GIBSON
Born 23rd April 1865 in Glasgow, son of Henry Gibson and Margaret Paterson; educated at Leith Lorne Street Primary School, University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow July 1897; assistant Stirling Allan Park, Perth Tulloch preaching station, Cupar Boston; ordained 4th October 1910, Cambridge, Cape Province, by the Presbytery of King William’s Town, Presbyterian Church of South Africa; on return to Scotland, loc. ten. at Waterbeck, Campbeltown Lorne Street, Irvine Fullarton and Cambusnethan; inducted 5th April 1922.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.712, Delting.]
DUNROSSNESS
Presbytery of Shetland
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.242
Church and manse. Dissolved by authority of the General Assembly and the Home Mission Committee on 22nd August 1927.
1866
ALEXANDER MARTIN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.262
Schoolmaster at Durris; started mission work in Shetland 1861; ordained and inducted 1866; retired 1892; died 1912. Married 1884, Catherine Cowan Rae.
1892
CHARLES WHYTE
Ordained and inducted 13th October 1892; translated to Towie 2nd December 1909.
1910
GEORGE A. MURRAY
Ordained missionary from Sandness, introduced 28th July 1910; introduced Sandwick (Shetland) February 1920.
1920
WILLIAM JOHN CAMERON
Ordained missionary, introduced 11th June 1920; introduced Gartly as ordained preacher October 1923.
1924
ALEXANDER JAMES SIMPSON
Ordained missionary, from Walls and Sandness, introduced 1924; introduced Burra Isles September 1927.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.712.]
ESHANESS
Presbytery of Shetland
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.661
Church and manse. In 1909, linked with Ollaberry; in 1929 linked with Burra Isles.
1897
SIMSON WALLACE
Ordained and inducted 7th April 1897; introduced Longformacus 1909.
FETLAR
Presbytery of Shetland
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.242
Church and manse.
1892
RONALD STUART MCAFFER
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.212
Born 1858 in Glasgow; son of James McAffer and Jean Stuart; educated in Glasgow; ordained and inducted 1892; died 15th June 1926. Clerk to the Presbytery 1908-26.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.713, Fetlar St Ronald’s.]
LERWICK ST OLAF’S
Presbytery of Shetland
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.243
Church renovated and reseated and organ installed in the period at the cost of about £1000. Mission hall on North
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Road used jointly by the two United Free congregations in Lerwick. Manse.
1894
DAVID HOUSTON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.187
Born 26th November 1860 at Duncansby, Caithness, son of Magnus Houston and Elizabeth Sinclair; educated at Duncansby, Canisbay and Wick, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1885), Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow June 1890; assistant Rothesay West 1891-2, Huntly 1892-3, Watten 1893, Motherwell 1894; ordained and inducted July 1894; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1918. Married 13th June 1906, Katherine Thomson. Publication – The Achievement of Israel: A Study in Revelation applied to Life, London, 1893; also contributions to periodicals.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.713.]
LERWICK ST RINGAN’S
Presbytery of Shetland
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.653
Church and manse. Manse enlarged in 1910; Memorial Communion Table dedicated February 1907.
1882
JOHN WILLCOCK
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.654
Born 18th April 1853 at Liverpool, son of John Willcock and Isabella Baird; educated at Liverpool Institute, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1874), B.D. (1876), D.Litt. (1913); licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh December 1876; ordained and inducted 6th December 1882. Married 7th April 1887, Annie Bannatyne Malcolmson. D.D. (University of Glasgow, 1906); O.B.E. (1919). Opposed the Union with the Church of Scotland, and though he did not stay out of the Union himself, he had great influence in Shetland, so that members from both congregations in Lerwick formed a Continuing congregation in 1929. Member of the Royal Historical Society, and of the Société de Philologie et des Sciences. Publications –The Preacher’s Homiletical Commentary: The Gospel according to St Luke, New York and London, S.A.; A Shetland Minister of the 18th Century (The Rev. John Mill), Kirkwall, 1887; Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight, Edinburgh and London, S.A.; The Great Marquess: Life and Times of Archibald, Marquess of Argyll, Edinburgh and London, 1903; A Scots Earl in Covenanting Times, Edinburgh, 1907; Life of Sir Henry Vane the Younger: Statesman and Mystic, London, 1913.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.713.]
MOSSBANK
Presbytery of Shetland
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.655
Church and manse, school-hall and house. United with Delting 29th December 1909. After 1917, served by missionaries.
1877
THOMAS ROBERTSON
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.657
[Born about 1837 at Newlands, Peebles-shire;] ordained and inducted 17th August 1877; died 26th February 1917. [Married 1879, Jane Dilworth.]
1921
CHARLES BAIRD
Ordained missionary, ordained 9th August 1921; introduced Tomatin 4th March 1926.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.713-4, Mossbank and Firth.]
OLLABERRY
Presbytery of Shetland
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.657
Church and manse. Eshaness was linked with this congregation in 1909; in 1928 Eshaness was linked with Burra Isles, and Scalloway with Ollaberry.
1875
PETER HAMILTON RUSSELL
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.658
Born 5th July 1840 at Carnwath, son of John Russell and Margaret Hamilton; educated at University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; ordained and inducted 16th July 1875; retired April 1910; died 14th May 1927. Married 19th August 1879, Elizabeth Cheyne Anderson.
OLLABERRY AND ESHANESS
Presbytery of Shetland
1910
JAMES WATERSTON, B.D., B.Sc.
[Born 1879 at Paisley, Renfrewshire, son of John Waterston and Elizabeth Stewart; educated at New College, Edinburgh, 1901-05;] ordained and inducted 1910; resigned in 1914 to engage in scientific work in London [as a naturalist in the British Museum. Married 1910, Andrina Isobel Wilson. Died 1930.]
1915
WILLIAM BAXTER BLACKWOOD
Admitted from the Congregational Church; inducted 30th December 1914; translated to Knockando July 1923.
1924
SIDNEY KNIGHT FINLAYSON
Born 7th April 1891 at Aberdeen, son of Robert Boyd Finlayson and Christian Ritchie; educated at Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1917), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Aberdeen, March 1917; appointed under Ordained Probationers Act, Maryculter, September 1917; inducted Maryculter 1918; resigned 1920; inducted 24th January 1924; adhered to the United Free Church (Continuing).
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QUARFF
Presbytery of Shetland
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.243
This was under the charge of an ordained missionary till it was linked with Burra Isles in 1909. In 1924 it had an ordained missionary with the minister of Cunningsburgh as Moderator of Session.
1928
THOMAS WILSON HOUSTON
Ordained missionary, born 31st August 1872 at Ilford, Essex, son of John Fleming Houston and Maggie Miller; educated at Old Cumnock and Paisley Baptist Theological College, Dunoon; ordained to ministry of Baptist Church at Scarfskerry, Caithness, November 1908; translated to Oban 1912; war service with Y.M.C.A. 1916; admitted to United Free Church; appointed to Dulnain Bridge 1st July 1922; appointed to Boharm 1st March 1925; appointed to Quarff 1928.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.714; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.425.]
SCALLOWAY
Presbytery of Shetland
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.659
Church. This was linked with Burra Isles in 1909, but in 1928 was linked with Ollaberry.
1905
THOMAS SCOTT
Appointed and ordained as ordained preacher in 1905; left in 1911.
1916
GEORGE RAMSAY
Ordained missionary, ordained 14th September 1916; introduced Eskdalemuir 18th December 1919.
1923
T. FAIRWEATHER, B.D.
Ordained missionary 1922-5.
1926
THOMAS M[ILLER] YOUNG
Ordained as missionary in 1926; appointed to Glass 1928.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.715, Tingwall.]
UNST HILLSIDE
Presbytery of Shetland
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.243
Church, hall and manse. Manse greatly improved in 1920. Mission hall at Haraldswick built and opened on 19th November 1912.
1888
DAVID DEANS
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.135
Born 11th October 1854 at Glasgow, son of James Deans and Jeannie Gilmour, educated at Glasgow Free Church Normal School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 1884; ordained and inducted 3rd May 1888; retired 1909; died 14th December 1914. Married 21st August 1894, Elizabeth Laurie Burns. Clerk to Free Church Presbytery 1893-1900, to United Free Presbytery 1900-8.
1909
WILLIAM CREAR
Ordained and inducted 20th April 1909; translated to Monquhitter and New Byth 31st October 1928.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.715.]
UNST UYEASOUND
Presbytery of Shetland
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.243
Church and manse. Manse improved in 1925. Church renovated and reopened by John Buchan 22nd August 1926. Memorial Tablet unveiled 11th November 1924. Congregational library opened 23rd January 1927. Services held on week-nights at Westing School and at Muness.
1888
WILLIAM HENDRIE GLOVER
Ordained and appointed 20th September 1888; resigned 1904; appointed as ordained preacher at Whitburn October 1907.
1905
OLIVER DRYER
Formerly minister in Congregational Church; inducted 27th February 1905; translated to Evie, Orkney, April 1919.
1919
WILLIAM FAIRBAIRN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.149
Ordained and inducted Abercorn 1887; resigned on appointment as Chaplain to the Forces in the Boer War; appointed to Kinnettles 1907; inducted Delting 29th December 1909, and colleague to the minister of Mossbank; became minister of Delting and Mossbank 26th February 1917; translated and inducted 23rd August 1919; retired 1923; died 26th October 1927. Married 1899, Margaret Hall.
1924
CHARLES HILL DICK, B.D.
Translated from Port of Spain, Trinidad, and inducted 17th July 1924; translated to Cunningsburgh 25th August 1927.
1928
IAN BRYCE MACCALMAN
Ordained and inducted 27th November 1928.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.716; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.790; also Vol.10, pp.68 and 446.]
WEISDALE
Presbytery of Shetland
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.244
After 1900 the church and manse were repaired at a cost of nearly £400.
1866
ALEXANDER MACDONALD
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.220
Ordained at Mabon, Cape Breton 1861; translated and inducted 1866; retired 1901; died 1905.
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1901
ANDREW PATERSON
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor 16th May 1901; translated to Westerdale, Caithness, 12th July 1922.
1924
JOHN KILGOUR
Ordained missionary, ordained as missionary 3rd July 1924; introduced Kennethmont 15th August 1929.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.716.]
YELL NORTH
Presbytery of Shetland
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.244
Church, manse, and hall which was enlarged and improved. Services held occasionally at Seafield Hall on the north side of Midyell Voe. Served by missionaries after 1925.
1899
WILLIAM TAYLOR
Ordained and inducted 11th August 1899; translated to Aitkenhead June 1903.
1904
WILLIAM MURRAY MESTON
Ordained and inducted 8th July 1904; translated to New Pitsligo 12th August 1909.
1910
LACHLAN MCFADYEN
Inducted 9th September 1910; translated to Coalsnaughton 24th July 1925.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.717.]
SANDWICK
Presbytery of Shetland
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.243
In August 1900 Sandwick was united to Cunningsburgh, and the services here were mostly provided by a missionary. In 1920 it was separated from Cunningsburgh and served by ordained missionaries.
T. MOORE SMITH
1904
JOHN HAY
Missionary, 1904-9.
1920
GEORGE A. MURRAY
Ordained missionary, from Dunrossness introduced February 1920; introduced Rhynie 2nd March 1923.
J. HERRON
Ordained missionary.
1924
HENRY KELLY
Ordained missionary from Rendall, appointed 1924; introduced Gartly 1927.
1927
JOHN MACGOWAN ARTHUR
Ordained missionary, born 31st July 1894 at Lerwick, son of Charles Magnus Arthur and Janet Laurenson; educated at Lerwick Central School, Anderson Educational Institution, Glasgow Bible Training Institute, Edinburgh Congregational College; appointed unordained pastor Scalloway Congregational Church 27th October 1921; ordained in the same church 21st February 1924; admitted and appointed 27th August 192. Married 31st July 1923, Margaret Ann Christina Simpson.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.714, Sandwick West; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, pp.703 and 716716; also Vol.10, p.350.]
WALLS AND SANDNESS
Presbytery of Shetland
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.243
Church at Walls, and church at Sandness. A mission station under an ordained preacher or missionary from 1896.
1899
J. GORDON MCLEOD
Ordained as ordained preacher, 1899.
1907
GEORGE A. MURRAY
Ordained missionary 1907; appointed to Dunrossness 1910.
1911
ALEXANDER JAMES SIMPSON
Lay missionary 1911-18; ordained as missionary August 1918; appointed to Dunrossness 1924.
1925
ARTHUR GROVE TAYLOR
Ordained missionary, born 30th April 1887 at Cambuslang, son of Robert Orr Taylor and Marion Grove; educated at Cambuslang Public School, Glasgow Bible Training Institute, Church of Scotland Institute for Lay Evangelists; lay missionary at Papa Westray; appointed to West Sandwick 24th October 1909; war service in H.M. Forces at Sydenham 1918-19, and at Constantinople 1919-20; appointed 15th January 1924; ordained as missionary 16th September 1925. Married 9th September 1910, Margaret MacArthur Coats.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.716, Walls; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.100.]
WEST YELL
Presbytery of Shetland
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.2, p.244
Church and manse. A mission station from 1862.
1900
WILLIAM IRVING
[Born 15th March, 1848, Mouswald, Dumfries-shire, son of Robert Irving and Jane Hunter; Free Church missionary by 1881;] ordained probationer 1900; died 1911. [Married (1) 1878, Margaret Kerr; (2) 1881, Ann Marshall.]
1920
JOHN M[CLEAN] FLOCKHART
Ordained as missionary 20th July 1920; appointed to Eskdalemuir 22nd July 1924.
1925
GEORGE HARALD MAKIN
Ordained as missionary 28th September 1925; appointed to Harray 1st September 1929.
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PRESBYTERY OF ITALY
CANNES
1885
PATRICK WOOD MINTO
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.271
Ordained and inducted Inverurie 1868; appointed 1885; died 6th March 1914.
1920
EDWARD MILLER, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.268
Ordained and inducted Newtyle 1896; resigned 15th December 1902 on appointment to Cleveland, Transvaal; inducted Erskine 1904; translated to London Streatham 1907; appointed 1920; resigned 1928; died 26th February 1929. Married (1) 1898, Elizabeth Henderson, M.D.; (2) 1914, Mrs Corbett.
1929
GEORGE ERSKINE NICOL, O.B.E.
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.640
[Born 1868 at Clackmannan, son of George Nicol and Euphemia Adams;] ordained and inducted Nairn Rosebank United Presbyterian 24th June 1897; translated to Manchester Withington 1904; translated to Southend 1912; translated to Muswell Hill, London, 1919; resigned 1923; minister without charge in English Presbyterian Church; appointed temporary chaplain 1929; [died 16th April 1936; buried Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh. Married 1893, Isabella Bowman Geddes.]
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.724.]
FLORENCE
Presbytery of Italy
1901
DAVID B[ROWN] CROOM, M.A.
Formerly of Montrose St Luke’s; appointed 1901; resigned 1910; introduced Skirling 1910.
1910
J[AMES] M[ARTINDALE] BLAKE, M.A.
[Born 1863 at Sunderland;] ordained and inducted Liverpool Smithdown Road 1895; translated to London Wallington 1899; appointed 1910; retired 1923. [Died 1934. Married 1897, Evelyn Kate Duguid.]
1923
HUNTER SMITH
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.320
Born 1865 at Serampore, son of George Smith, LL.D., C.I.E.; educated at University of Edinburgh, M.A., New College, Edinburgh; ordained and inducted Edinburgh St Stephen’s 1891; translated to Crieff South 12th May 1909; translated and inducted 30th September 1923. Married Helen Hossack.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.724.]
GENOA
Presbytery of Italy
1860
DONALD MILLER, D.D.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.267
Ordained and inducted 1868; retired 1910; died 1923.
1910
JAMES LAING
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.203
Born 1857 at Lesmahagow, son of Rev. James Laing and Helen Ogg; educated at University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; ordained and inducted Dysart St Serf’s 1892; appointed 1910; died 26th March 1916. Married 1892, Agnes Wilson Wyper.
Temporary appointments followed to 1919.
1919
WILLIAM COWAN, M.A.
Formerly of Banchory-Ternan South, appointed 1919; introduced Duntocher East 1925.
1924
ROBERT PROUDFOOT ROY ANDERSON
Born 22nd January 1875 at Dumbarton, son of William Duncan Anderson and Margaret Livingstone Roy; educated at Dumbarton West Bridgend School, Burgh Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1897), Glasgow Free Church College; student missionary Glasgow Great Hamilton Street 1900-1; licensed by Presbytery of Dumbarton April 1901; assistant Brechin West 1902-7; ordained and inducted Muthill 7th February 1907; war service as Chaplain to the Forces in France 1916-18; appointed 14th October 1924 and inducted 15th April 1925. Married 23rd August 1911, Mary Traill, daughter of Rev. George Henderson, B.D., Monzie.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.724; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.725.]
LAUSANNE
Presbytery of Italy
1874
AMALRIC FREDERIC BUSCARLET, B.A., D.D. (1911)
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.110
Ordained at Naples 1861; translated and inducted 1874; retired 1910; acted as temporary minister at Pau 1912-28; died 1928.
1910
ALEXANDER MACKAY SUTHERLAND
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.334
Born 1856 at Birnam; educated at University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; ordained and inducted Orwell 1883; translated to Leith Trinity 1897; resigned 1907; appointed assistant 1907; inducted 1910; retired 25th October 1919; died 25th December 1919. Married 1884, Catherine Sarah Berrie, niece of Rev. W.C. Burns, the Chinese missionary.
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Did outstanding work among wounded soldiers transferred from Germany to Switzerland during the Great War.
1919
HECTOR MAIBEN ADAM, M.A., B.D.
Translated from Montreux and appointed 1918; inducted 1919; retired 1923; introduced Crathie 1923.
1923
NORMAN NICHOLSON, M.A.
[Born 1879 at St Andrews, Fife, son of John Nicholson and Christina Ann Gibb; educated at New College, Edinbugh, 1900-04;] ordained and inducted St Boswells November 1906; translated to Castle Douglas Queen Street 14th January 1914; appointed September 1923; died 2nd August 1927. [Married 1906, May Ethelwyn Callender.]
1928
JOHN EDWARD OLDHAM
Born 22nd January 1885 at Crieff, son of Lieutenant Colonel George Wingate Oldham and Lillah Houldsworth; educated at Linton House School, London, University of Cambridge, Emmanuel College, M.A., New College, Edinburgh; office work in preparation for World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh, 1910; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 5th June 1912; ordained by Presbytery of Edinburgh for Foreign Mission in Jalna, Hyderabad, 23rd December 1913; invalided home September 1914; work under Committee of Friendship to Oriental students 1915-18; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1918-19; inducted Eaglesham 24th March 1920; inducted 13th November 1928. Married 2nd June 1920, Rosamond Bruce.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.724; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.646.]
LEGHORN
Presbytery of Italy
No settled ministers after 1921.
1884
JAMES MACFARLANE, M.A .
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.227
Ordained and inducted as colleague and successor at Leghorn 1884; died 16th July 1901.
1903
ROBERT MACKAY ROBERTSON, M.A.
Ordained and inducted November 1903; inducted Burra Isles 10th May 1910.
1910
JOHN HARDIE, B.D.
Probationer, appointed 1910; left in 1911.
1915
WILLIAM GRACIE CROZIER
Admitted from Baptist Church; appointed May 1915; inducted Kinross East October 1921.
MALTA
Presbytery of Italy
1854
GEORGE WISELY, D.D.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.360
Ordained at Malta 1854; retired 1896; died 1917.
1896
GUSTAVUS AIRD SIM
Ordained and inducted 28th January 1896; retired 1920; inducted Kirkurd 1921.
1920
ALEXANDER CAMPSIE
Born 24th July 1891 at Forneth, near Blairgowrie, son of James Campsie and Jane Peddie; educated at Perth Academy, University of St Andrews, M.A. (1912), New College, Edinburgh; student missionary in Canada 1913; war service in H.M. Forces 1914-19, wounded 1916, M.C. 1917; licensed by Presbytery of Perth 1918; ordained and inducted Broughton 4th February 1919; resigned to become Chaplain, Royal Navy, 10th September 1920; served at Malta from 1920-32. Married 14th June 1917, Verena Farrer Sieber.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.724; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.86; also Vol.10, p.53.]
MENTONE
Presbytery of Italy
1891
JAMES EWING SOMERVILLE, M.A., B.D.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.323
Ordained and inducted Langholm 1870; translated to Broughty Ferry East 1875; resigned owing to ill-health 1884; appointed 1887 and inducted 1891; retired 1920; died 1923.
1920
JOHN ARNOTT, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.87
Ordained and inducted Dailly 1892; translated to Stirling South 1898; appointed 1920.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, pp.724-5.]
PAU
Presbytery of Italy
1858
GEORGE BROWN, B.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.104
Appointed as probationer 1856; ordained and inducted 1858; died 1900.
1912
AMALRIC FREDERIC BUSCARLET, B.A., D.D.
Retired minister at Lausanne, acted in temporary capacity 1912-28.
1928
WILLIAM WIGHTMAN BEVERIDGE, T.D.
Senior minister at Port Glasgow Princes Street, acted as minister 1928-9.
ROME
Presbytery of Italy
1881
JAMES GORDON GRAY, D.D.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.176
Ordained and inducted Marykirk 1867; translated to Naples 1875; translated and inducted 1881; died 1920.
1921
GEORGE MONCUR FAIRWEATHER, M.A.
Minister at Glasgow Claremont, appointed 1921; inducted Edinburgh Broughton Place 10th January 1923.
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1923
ALBERT GLENTHORNE TAIT MACKINNON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.240
Born at Edinburgh; educated at University of Edinburgh, M.A., D.D., New College, Edinburgh; ordained and inducted Lochmaben Victoria 21st January 1899; translated to Greenock St Andrew’s 30th April 1908; resigned in 1918; appointed and inducted 1923. Married 1900, Agnes Aitken.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.725; for an account of this minister, see there and Vol.9, p.658.]
MONTREUX
Presbytery of Italy
1891
WILLIAM MILNE, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.270
Ordained and inducted Auchterarder 1858; translated to Calcutta 1874; translated and inducted 1891; became minister emeritus 1909; died 1913.
1909
HECTOR MAIBEN ADAM, B.D.
Minister at Aberdeen Bon-Accord; appointed 1909; appointed to Genoa 1918.
There was no settlement after Mr Adam, as Montreux became a winter station. The charge was no longer in the list of the Presbytery of Italy.
NAPLES
Presbytery of Italy
1884
THOMAS JOHNSTONE IRVING, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.191
Ordained and inducted 1884; retired 1924.
1924
JOHN C[UTHILL] CHALMERS, B.D.
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.281
[Born 1874 at Cumbernauld, son of Thomas Chalmers and Mary Cuthill;] ordained and inducted Kilmaurs United Presbyterian 20th April 1897; translated to Hamilton Saffronhall Associate Antiburgher 1902; translated to Dunoon Argyll 30th April 1907; appointed 1924; died 31st August 1928. [Married 1913, Eleanor S. Packer.]
1927
JOHN ALEXANDER TWEEDIE
Senior minister Arbroath High Street; held temporary appointment 1927-9.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.725.]
NICE
Presbytery of Italy
1890
JOHN MURRAY MITCHELL
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.272
Formerly at Cannes; appointed to Nice 1890; retired 1898; died 1904.
1898
JOHN IRVING, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.191
Ordained and inducted Innellan 1874; translated and inducted 1898; died 10th February 1905.
1912
A[LEXANDER] F[ORBES] A[DAM] MOIR
[Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.273]
1912-15.
1927
GEORGE LAMB
Born 4th October 1874 at Old Kilpatrick, son of James Lamb and Mary Fleming; educated at Old Kilpatrick, Dumbarton Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A., B.D., United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Dumbarton 1899; assistant Greenwich Trinity; ordained and inducted Kirkintilloch Park 29th April 1901; war service with Y.M.C.A. and as Chaplain to the Forces in France; resigned and became minister emeritus while still Chaplain to the Forces 1918; appointed to Nice 1924; inducted 1927. Married 3rd September 1901, Marion Leslie Anderson McCall.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.725; for an account of this minister, see there; also Vol.10, p.413.]
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PRESBYTERY OF SPAIN AND PORTUGAL
GIBRALTAR
1899
IAN BROWN SMITH
Ordained and inducted 1899.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.726.]
HUELVA
Presbytery of Spain and Portugal
1895
JOHN JEFFREY
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.193
Ordained and inducted Rio Tinto 1887; translated and inducted 1895; retired 1910.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.726.]
LISBON
Presbytery of Spain and Portugal
1867
ROBERT STEWART
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.330
Translated from Tarland and inducted 1867; retired 1885; died 1906.
1892
ROBERT MACNICOL LITHGOW
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.209
Ordained and inducted 1892; died January 1920.
1920
DAVID R[USSELL] W. SCOTT
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.322
Ordained and inducted Darvel United Presbyterian 19th December 1893; translated to Dumfries Loreburn 16th February 1905; resigned 1st September 1920, on appointment to Lisbon.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.726.]
MADRID
Presbytery of Spain and Portugal
In 1908 removed from list of Presbytery.
1898
R[OBERT] O[SWALD] WALKER, M.A.
[Born 5th December, 1862, at Edinburgh, son of Robert Walker and Ann Donaldson; educated at Edinburgh, 1889-1893;] ordained and inducted 1898; left 1908. [Died 22nd November, 1935; buried Liberton Cemetery, Edinburgh. Married Ellen Christina Bache.]
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.726.]
PUERTO STA MARIA
Presbytery of Spain and Portugal
1891
WILLIAM BRADDYL DOUGLAS, B.A., B.D.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.140
Ordained missionary to Huelva 1891; transferred 1894; retired 1909; died 1928.
RIO TINTO
Presbytery of Spain and Portugal
1895
SAMUEL BROWN REID, M.A.
Ordained and inducted 1895; inducted Glasgow Campsie East 1902.
1902
JOHN JAMIESON
Ordained 1869; appointed 1902; died 31st July 1921.
1922
WILLIAM JAMES JACK, S.T.D.
Minister at Newcastle St George’s; appointed 9th August 1922; inducted Shiskine 21st October 1926.
1926
GEORGE GRAY, M.A.
Ordained and inducted Kirkcaldy Gallatown 17th September 1911; translated to Bonhill South 28th January 1920; appointed 28th November 1926; resigned 1928.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.726; for an account of this minister, see Vol.9, p.685.]
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OVERSEAS CHARGES
COLONIAL COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS
GIBRALTAR
See Presbytery of Spain and Portugal.
MADEIRA
Colonial Committee Appointments
1892
ALEXANDER DRUMMOND PATERSON, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.287
Ordained and inducted Kinglassie 1878; appointed to Lisbon 1887; translated to Madeira 1892; retired 1924.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.765.]
1924
WILLIAM WATSON, M.A.
Minister at Alloa West; appointed to Madeira 1st November 1924; resigned and inducted Leith St John’s 26th February 1926.
1925
JAMES WATT PURVES
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.312
Born 26th April 1875 at Edinburgh, son of James Cairns Purves and Sarah Ann Hall; educated at Edinburgh James Gillespie’s School, George Heriot’s School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1896), United Presbyterian College, University of Berlin; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh 1899; assistant Edinburgh Nicolson Street 1899-1900; ordained and inducted Saltcoats Erskine 20th June 1900; translated to Stirling Allan Park 20th March 1906; translated to Bearsden South 1st September 1911; war service with Y.M.C.A. each year 1915-19; appointed to Madeira October 1925; translated to Cheltenham 1929. Married 25th April 1902, Sarah Miller Martin. Publication – Sermonettes, Ardrossan, 1906.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.763.]
MALTA
See Presbytery of Italy.
BELIZE BRITISH HONDURAS
Colonial Committee Appointments
1889
JOHN MUCKERSIE, B.D.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.277
Appointed to Belize and ordained 1889; died 1903.
1927
A[LFRED] E[RNEST] ADAMSON
Ordained and inducted 1927
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.763; for an account of this minister, see Vol.9, p.766; Vol.10, p.415.]
BERMUDA
Colonial Committee Appointments
1893
ALEXANDER CHRISTIE, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.119
Ordained and inducted Mordington 1871; inducted Bermuda 1893; resigned 1904; died 26th March 1907.
1904
ARCHIBALD BORLAND CAMERON
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.436
Born 18th August 1843, at Newmilns, son of James Cameron, muslin manufacturer, and Marion Borland; educated at Newmilns Free Church School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1868), B.D. (1872), D.D. (1893), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh, Universities of Berlin, Halle and Leipzig; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow April 1872; ordained and inducted Arbroath Princes Street 26th March 1873; translated to Edinburgh College Street June 1882; inducted May 1904; retired 25th March 1919. Married 10th July 1873, Margaret Wales. Lecturer on Pastoral Theology in United Presbyterian College 1891. Publications – Revelation and its Record, Edinburgh, 1890; From the Garden to the Cross, London, 1896.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.763.]
1919
JAMES GILFILLAN, M.A.
Minister at Longtown; inducted 1919; inducted Monifieth Panmure 4th October 1922.
1922
ALEXANDER SHAW ADAMSON BISHOP
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.96
Born 5th June 1863 at Edinburgh, son of John Baillie Bishop and Isabella Show; educated at Edinburgh Clare Hall Academy and Collegiate School, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 21st June 1888; loc. ten. Dollar 1888-9; assistant Glasgow Trinity 1889; ordained and inducted Lumphanan 17th October 1889; translated to Kelty Moray 19th October 1910; translated to Aberdeen St Paul’s 23rd June 1915; war service with Y.M.C.A. 1917; inducted 5th September 1922; resigned 1927. Married 2nd June 1892, Jane Mackenzie Craufurd Stock.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.763.]
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1927
JOHN AIKMAN MCILVRIDE
Born 20th February 1874 at Edinburgh, son of Robert Mcilvride and Williamina Swanston Aikman; educated at Edinburgh Newington Academy, George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1896), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of London North June 1899; ordained and inducted Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, Northumberland, August 1899; translated to York July 1906; translated to Liverpool Fairfield April 1914; war service as Chaplain to the Forces 1916-18; inducted October 1927. Married June 1923, Isabel Josephine Gertrude Porter.
[For an account of this congregation after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.763; for an account of this minister, see Vol.9, p.110.]
BAHAMAS NASSAU ST ANDREW’S
Colonial Committee Appointments
1922
ROBERT SIME STEWART
[Born 1883 at Monifieth, Angus, son of James Stewart and Janet Sime;] ordained and inducted Lossiemouth High 17th September 1913; inducted 1922; appointed to Penang (English Presbyterian Church) 1926.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, pp.166, 536 and 759; also Vol.10, p.323.]
1926
ANDREW DOUGLAS
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.139
Born 16th March 1866 at Glenorchy, Argyll, son of Alexander Douglas and Christina Campbell; educated at Dalmally Public School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; student assistant Rothesay Chapelhill 1888-91; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Dunoon 3rd May 1892; ordained and inducted Renton, Dumbarton, 28th September 1892; translated to Invergordon 12th March 1900; war service as officiating chaplain to Royal Navy at Invergordon; translated to Glasgow Highlanders’ Memorial 6th November 1919; inducted 14th October 1926. Married 12th December 1896, Emma Stark.
[For an account of this congregation and of this minister after 1929, in the Church of Scotland, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.762.]
TRINIDAD
Colonial Committee Appointments
This congregation though unattached was under the fostering care of the Colonial Committee. It was reinstated a congregation of the United Free Church in 1925, and was attached to the Presbytery of Edinburgh by the General Assembly of 1927.
1881
ALEXANDER MARTIN RAMSAY, M.A .
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.295
Appointed and ordained 1881; resigned 1904. Married 1890, Agnes Marshall.
1904
W.P. SIMPSON
1904-9.
1913
E[RNEST] W[ILFRID] HAVELOCK
[Born 20th September, 1882, at London, England, son of Robert Havelock and Caroline James;] 1913-16; [died in action in France on 18th September, 1916, while serving in the Royal Fusiliers.]
1919
CHARLES HILL DICK, M.A., B.D.
Minister at Moffat St Mary’s; inducted 22nd October 1919; inducted Uyeasound 17th July 1924.
1925
GILBERT EARLE
Born 8th April 1877 at Derby, son of Edwin Gilbert Earle and Frances Louisa Jones; educated at Derby Wesleyan Higher Grade School; studied under Probationers’ Examination Committee of the Wesleyan Methodist Conference of Great Britain; assistant Barbados James Street Methodist Church; licensed by Wesleyan Church, Barbados District, 27th March 1901; ordained and inducted James Street Methodist Church, Barbados, 1st February 1905; translated to Tobago Wesleyan Methodist Church 1st April 1906; translated to Shediac, New Brunswick (Methodist Church of Canada), 1909; translated to New Jerusalem, New Brunswick, 1910; translated to Fairville, New Brunswick, 1913; appointed 1917; received status of ordained minister of United Free Church 1925; added to Roll of Presbytery of Edinburgh 1927. Married 11th October 1904, Annie Budd.
VALPARAISO
Colonial Committee Appointments
Originally a “Union” Church, founded in 1847. Had close associations with the Scottish Church but was independent till admitted to the Church of Scotland under the Colonial Committee in 1938. The Rev. William Mackie Laing, M.A., an ordained minister of the Church of Scotland, ministered here from 2nd November 1920.
1896
WILLIAM BALFOUR INGLIS
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.190
Born 12th July 1859 at Warrington, son of Rev. Andrew Inglis; educated at Ecclefechan and Dundee, University of Edinburgh, M.A.., B.D., New College, Edinburgh; assistant Edinburgh Barclay 1884-6; ordained and inducted Foveran 1886; resigned and inducted 1896; resigned 1919; died 22nd May 1923. Married 1888, Christina T., daughter of Maurice Paterson, LL.D., Moray House, Edinburgh.
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CONTINENTAL COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS
In addition to the following, see the Presbyteries of Italy and of Spain and Portugal.
BRUSSELS
Transferred in 1908 to the Church of Scotland.
1900
GEORGE R[EYNOLDS] S[OMMERVILLE] REID, M.A.
[Born 16th August, 1871, at Balmerino, Fife, son of David Reid and Annie Beattie; educated at Dundee High School; University of St Andrews, 1888-92; New College, Edinburgh, 1892-97;] ordained and inducted 1900; resigned to go to Australia June 1907; [minister at Neranderra; Glebe, Sydney; and Rosewell; retired 1957; died New South Wales, 1964.]
VIENNA
Continental Committee Appointments
1901
THOMAS DAVIDSON, M.A.
Ordained by Presbytery of Edinburgh for work at Vienna 23rd February 1901; left at outbreak of war in 1914; inducted New Cumnock Afton 23rd December 1914.
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JEWISH COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS
BUDAPEST
1878
ANDREW MOODY
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.275
Born 1837 at Paisley; educated at University of Edinburgh and Glasgow, D.D., Glasgow Free Church College; ordained as missionary to Jews in Budapest 1864; translated to Prague 1871; translated to Budapest 1878; retired 1904.
1897
JAMES MACDONALD (formerly TOSH) WEBSTER
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.353
Appointed assistant in Budapest; ordained as missionary to Jews in Budapest 1897; returned to Scotland at outbreak of war 1914; appointed Organising Secretary to Jewish Mission Committee 1914.
1911
JAMES ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, M.A.
Ordained as missionary to Jews at Budapest 1911; inducted Forres Castlehill 28th January 1915.
1922
WILLIAM BEVERIDGE, M.A., D.D.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.95
[Born 4th January 1864 at Tough, Aberdeenshire;] ordained and inducted New Deer 1889; appointed senior missionary at Budapest 1922; [Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.760; died 26th July 1937.] Married 1891, Sophia Burnett.
1924
ALEXANDER KING
Born 30th July 1896 at Holytown, son of Alexander King and Margaret Teasdale; educated at Bellshill Public School and Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1920), Glasgow College; war service with H.M. Forces 1915-19; licensed by Presbytery of Hamilton 1923; assistant Stirling North 1923-4; ordained by Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane for service at Budapest 15th April 1924.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, pp.193, 760, 800; Vol.10, p.454; Vol.11, p.447.]
CONSTANTINOPLE
Jewish Committee Appointments
1883
R[OBERT] HANNINGTON, M.B., C.M.
[Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.95]
Ordained 1883; retired 31st October 1915.
1895
GEORGE PEXALL WALLACE, M.A., B.D.
Ordained as missionary to Jews at Constantinople 1895; resigned 1905; inducted Roberton 26th February 1907.
1904
CHARLES H[UTCHEON] THOMSON
Translated from Istanbul 1904; left in 1911. [He died on 6th December 1911, aged 36. See The Orient.]
1912
R. MACGREGOR, M.A.
1912-15.
1925
ROBERT CLEPHANE MACANNA
Born 28th June 1894 at Springburn, Glasgow, son of James Macanna and Christina Clephane; educated at Wellfield Public School, Springburn Higher Grade, North Kelvinside Higher Grade Schools, University of Glasgow, M.A., Glasgow College; war service in H.M. Forces 1914-16, wounded and gassed at Loos September 1915; in charge Forth 1917-18; assistant Glasgow Augustine 1918-19, Glasgow White Memorial 1919, Campbeltown Longrow 1919; warden Glasgow University Settlement 1920-21; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow 13th September 1922; ordained and inducted Rothesay Craigmore 25th January 1923; appointed to Pera Union Church, Constantinople (Jewish Mission), 10th November 1925. Married 14th June 1923, Margaret Frame McKendrick.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, pp.800 and 760; also Vol.10, p.455.]
TIBERIAS
Jewish Committee Appointments
1895
DAVID WATT TORRANCE, M.B., C.M.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.345
Appointed medical missionary at Tiberias 1884; ordained by authority of the General Assembly 1895; retired 1923; died 26th August 1923.
1893
JOHN SOUTAR, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.324
Ordained as missionary to Jews at Tiberias 1893; resigned 1906. Married 1894 Bessie Esplin.
1906
THOMAS STEELE, M.A., B.D.
Ordained by Presbytery of Lanark for service at Tiberias 13th December 1906; resigned for health reasons 1909; inducted at Bridge of Weir Freeland December 1910.
1909
SAMUEL HANNA SEMPLE
Born 10th April 1877 at Lisnagelvin, Londonderry, son of John Semple and Lavinia Lennox; educated Model National
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School, Foyle College and Magee College, Londonderry, Royal University of Ireland, B.A. (1903), University of Dublin, B.A. (1901), M.A. (1914), University of Edinburgh, University of London, B.D. (1921), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 6th June 1905; assistant Edinburgh St Paul’s 1905-6; ordained for service under Colonial Committee by Presbytery of Edinburgh 15th October 1906, and inducted St Andrew’s, Lahore, India; translated to Tiberias and Safad October 1909; war service as Chaplain to the Forces in Egypt, Gallipoli and Palestine, and in France 1914-19; resumed duty September 1919; became Principal of Scots College, Safad; awarded O.B.E.. Married (1) 25th March 1907, Mary Unkles; (2) 19th April 1911, Ethel Anne Major.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.760.]
1923
WILLIAM MELVILLE CHRISTIE
Born 15th April 1863 at Markinch, son of William Christie and Margaret Lundie Langlands; educated at Dunblane Parish and Public School, Kinbuck Public School (pupil teacher), Stirling High School, Edinburgh Moray House, University of Edinburgh, University of Leipzig, Institutum Judaicum; ordained by Presbytery of London North and inducted to charge of Aleppo 17th June 1897; appointed to Safad, Galilee 19th February 1889; translated to Aleppo 23rd September 1895; left Aleppo 25th July 1911; in charge of Jewish Mission in Glasgow 14th September 1911 to 22nd December 1922; appointed to Tiberias and arrived 5th January 1923; retired May 1929. Married 25th September 1889, Margaret Lochhead Haldane Cairns. Served on relief work during Armenian massacres of 1895-6; served on commission for surrender of Zeitun to the Turks in February 1896; relief work in Russia 1915-16, and in Palestine 1918-19; examiner in Turkish, Universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh and St Andrews. Publications –Der Dialect der Landbevölkerung des mittleren Galiläa, Leipzig, 1902; Tell-Hum the Site of Capernaum, in Studia Semitica et Orientalia, Glasgow, 1920; articles in Hastings, Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels, in Dent’s Bible Dictionary, in International Bible Encyclopaedia, and in periodicals.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.760.]
PRAGUE
Jewish Committee Appointments
1926
CHARLES WILLIAM INGLIS WARDROP, M.A.
Minister at Biggar Moat Park; served 1926-7.
1927
CHARLES JAMES STEWART MACKENZIE, M.A.
Minister at Glasgow Parkhead; served 1927-8.
1928
CHARLES ADAMSON SMITH, M.A.
Minister at Tillicoultry; served 1928-9.
CLUG-KOLOZSVÁR
Jewish Committee Appointments
1925
ROBERT FREELAND CHISHOLM
Born 24th June 1893 at Glasgow, son of Archibald Chisholm and Catherine Kennedy; educated at Glasgow Overnewton and Woodside School; in business 1907-11; University of Glasgow, M.A. (Hons. in Semitic Languages 1916), B.D. (1920); licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow 12th August 1919; assistant Glasgow Jewish Mission 1919-20, Aberdeen East 1920; ordained and inducted Carnoustie Erskine 26th January 1921; resigned on appointment to open up Jewish Mission Station at Cluj-Kolozsvár, Transylvania, Rumania, 1st November 1925. Married 17th May 1927, Margaret Findlay Grant, missionary at Mwenzo, Livingstonia.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.760; Vol.10, pp.148 and 417; Vol.11, pp.166, 248, 262 and Vol.11, p.264.]
GLASGOW
Jewish Committee Appointments
1911
WILLIAM MELVILLE CHRISTIE, D.D.
In charge at Aleppo from 1897 to 25th July 1911; in charge at Glasgow while in Scotland from 1911 to 1921; appointed to Galilee and arrived 5th January 1923.
1922
JOSEPH SINNREICH
Born 25th December 1880 at Smylin, Poland, son of David and Rachel Sinnreich; educated privately, and at secondary schools and Jewish colleges from 1892 to 1899, University of Berne, Switzerland, 1900-4, Ph.D. (1905), Westminster College, Cambridge; independent work among Jews and in connection with the British Jewish Society in London and Liverpool; ordained by Presbytery of London North 27th March 1919; appointed to charge of Hebrew Christian Institution, Glasgow, 1922.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.761.]
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FOREIGN MISSIONARIES
INDIA
BENGAL
1913
GEORGE EWAN
Born 4th September 1885 at Broughty Ferry, son of Rev. William Ewan, M.A.; educated at Edinburgh George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1st class Hons. in Mental Philosophy 1900), Ph.D (1921), Universities of Heidelberg, Marburg and Göttingen, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 1910; assistant Aberdeen North; travelling secretary, Student Christian Movement; appointed to Scottish Churches College, Calcutta, 17th December 1912; ordained by Presbytery of Edinburgh for Foreign Mission service 22nd June 1913; died in Calcutta 2nd July 1928. Married 21st December 1915, Agnes Mary Smith.
1925
HUGH ERSKINE FRASER
Born 20th September 1898 at Santiago, Chile, son of Harry Fraser and Mary Frances Lee; educated at German School, Valparaiso, Chile, Collège Classique Cantonal, Lausanne, Edinburgh George Watson’s College; war service in H.M. Forces in France 1918-19; University of Edinburgh, M.A. (2nd class Hons. in History 1922), New College, Edinburgh; assistant Kinloch Rannoch and Tummel Bridge 1924; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh April 1925; ordained for Foreign Mission service by Presbytery of Edinburgh 14th June 1925; Professor of History in Scottish Churches College, Calcutta, from October 1925. Married 4th September 1925, Eugenie Kallenberger.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, pp.426, 734 and 85; Vol.10, p.52; Vol.11, p.39.]
1872
JOHN HECTOR
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.183
Born 21st December 1845 at Aberdeen, son of John Hector and Isabella Watt; educated at Aberdeen South Free Church School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1860), D.D. (1884), Aberdeen Free Church College; teaching missionary at Kinnoir, Huntly, 1870; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Paisley 7th June 1871; missionary assistant Paisley St George’s 1871; ordained for Foreign Mission service by Presbytery of Aberdeen 14th December 1871; missionary, Calcutta, from 1872; retired 31st December 1902; Duff Lecturer in Evangelistic Theology, United Free Church Colleges, 1904-5; died 19th December 1934. Married 7th November 1876, Margaret Pittendrigh.
1883
WILLIAM MCCULLOCH
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.219
Born 9th June 1856 at Edinburgh, son of William McCulloch and Margaret Ferrier; educated at Edinburgh Clare Hall Academy, Royal High School, George Watson’s College (Dux 1872), University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh (Cunningham Fellow 1881); licensed by Presbytery of Arbroath 5th October 1881; assistant Arbroath Ladyloan 1881-2; ordained for Foreign Mission service by Presbytery of Arbroath 31st January 1883; appointed Professor in Duff College, Calcutta, 16th January 1883; missionary superintendent of Low Bengal Rural Mission from 1890; retired 27th June 1911; died 7th June 1928. Married 31st October 1883, Helen Mabel Paterson. Publications – volume of sermons in Bengali, Calcutta; Bengali commentaries on Gospel of St John, Epistles to Romans and to Hebrews, Bengali Folk Tales, London. An excellent linguist with knowledge of sixteen languages.
1862
KENNETH SOMERLED MACDONALD
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.223
Born 18th April 1832 at Glenurquhart; educated at University of Aberdeen, M.A., New College, Edinburgh; appointed to Duff College, Calcutta, December 1861; ordained by Presbytery of Abertarff January 1862; translated to evangelistic work among English-speaking Hindus and Mohammedans 1881; died in Calcutta 30th July 1903. Married (1) 7th April 1863, Jane Hannah; (2) 12th January 1878, Margaret Pringle Manson. D.D. (1890) from Knox College, Toronto.
1927
GEORGE MCLAREN
Born 2nd July 1897 at Dollar, son of Duncan McLaren and Hannah Philip; educated at Dollar Infant and Board Schools and Academy; war service in H.M. Forces in Salonika and France 1916-19; University of Edinburgh, M.A. (Hons. in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy 1923), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by
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Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane 13th July 1926; student missionary and probationer at Lochfyneside 1925-7; ordained for Foreign Mission service by Presbytery of Inveraray 22nd November 1927; appointed to Kalna, Calcutta, September 1927.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.740; Vol.10, p.422.]
1893
MALCOLM MACNICOL
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.254
Born 30th August 1867 at Lochranza, son of Rev. D. Macnicol and Margaret Clark; educated at Glasgow High School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (Hons. in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy), M.B., C.M., M.D., Glasgow Free Church College; ordained for Foreign Mission service by Free Church Presbytery of Dunoon 1893; appointed to Kalna, Calcutta, 21st February 1893; resigned 28th December 1909; in medical practice in Leven, Fife, and in Edinburgh; died 30th January 1936. Married 23rd March 1904, Mary H. Simpson, M.B., C.M.
1907
ERNEST MUIR
Born 17th June 1880 at Whitehill, Grange, Banffshire, son of the Rev. Gavin S. Muir, Slateford, and Helen Drysdale Wilson; educated at Edinburgh George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.B., Ch.B. (1903), MD., F.R.C. Edin.; medical missionary at Tiberias under Jewish Committee 1903-8; appointed to Kalna 28th November 1905; ordained by sanction of General Assembly’s Commission August 1907; served in Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine 1920-5; resigned 21st September 1925; medical secretary of British Empire Leprosy Relief Association; medical superintendent Leporsarium, Trinidad, 1940-5. Married 30th September 1907, Sophie Vartan. Decorations from government of India, C.I.E., Kaiser-i-Hind Gold Medal with bar. Publications – Kala Azar, London; Leprosy (with Sir Leonard Rogers), Bristol, 1925.
1919
FRANK RYRIE
Born 6th March 1891 at Wick, son of William Ryrie and Isabella Sinclair; educated at Montrose Townhead School and Academy, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (2nd class Hons. in Philosophy 1912), New College, Edinburgh; war service with Y.M.C.A. 1914-15 and in H.M. Forces 1915-18, awarded M.M.; Edinburgh Moray House, Teachers’ Certificate 1925; licensed by Presbytery of Brechin and Fordoun 1919; ordained for Foreign Mission service by same Presbytery 31st August 1919; appointed to Kalna 1919; translated to Chapra, Bangaljhi 1928. Married 4th October 1927, Mabel Moncrieff Watt, M.A., [daughter of Arthur Crawford Watt, minister.]
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.748; Vol.10, pp.425 and 438.]
1896
JOHN COCKBURN SCRIMGEOUR
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.312
Born 11th July 1867 at Dundee; educated at Dundee West End Academy and High School, University of St Andrews, M.A., D.D. (1922), New College, Edinburgh (Cunningham Fellow), Universities of Marburg and Berlin; assistant Broughty Ferry West, Dumfries St George’s; ordained for Foreign Mission service by Presbytery of Dundee December 1896; appointed Professor of English Language and Literature, Duff College, Calcutta; died at Calcutta 8th August 1925. Married 23rd December 1902, Adela Vernon Housman. Publications – Textbooks on Shakespeare Plays, Milton’s Paradise Lost, Byron’s Childe Harold.
1914
JOHN DICKSON SINCLAIR
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.33
Born 28th July 1865 at Glasgow, son of Alexander Sinclair and Ellen Dickson; educated at Glasgow Collegiate School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1887), B.D. (1889); licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow, 1892; assistant Edinburgh Rosehall 1892-4, Lochee United Presbyterian 1894; loc. ten. Aberdeen Belmont Street 1895; ordained and inducted Midmar United Presbyterian 19th May 1896; resigned 19th February 1910; inducted Luncarty 9th June 1910; appointed to Calcutta February 1914; appointed to Scottish Churches College, Calcutta, November 1918; retired November 1928. Married 16th December 1922, Margaret Ogilvy Anderson. Publication – Dante, Inferno and Purgatorio, translation and commentary, London, 1939.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.749.]
1887
ALEXANDER TOMORY
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.345
Born 5th June 1862 at Free Church Mission, Galata, Constantinople, son of Rev. Alexander Tomory and Caroline Elliot Kay; educated at Robert College, Constantinople, Aberdeen Gymnasium, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1883), Aberdeen Free Church College, University of Leipzig; licensed by Presbytery of Aberdeen 1887; appointed to Duff College 10th May 1887; ordained for Foreign Mission service by Presbytery of Aberdeen 1887; died at Edinburgh 4th April 1910. Married 9th December 1890, Mary Campbell Macdonald. Fellow of the Royal Economic Society of Britain 1909; Fellow of University of Calcutta 1904; member of Syndicate of University of Calcutta 1908. Publication – History of England for Schools, London, 1910.
1910
THOMAS LINDSAY TURNER
Ordained for Foreign Mission service by Presbytery of Glasgow 3rd October 1910; appointed
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to Chunsura, Kalna, 28th June 1910; resigned November 1914; inducted Darvel Irvine Bank 6th April 1916.
1902
WILLIAM SPENCE URQUHART
Born 8th May 1877 at Annandale, Woolston, Southampton, son of Rev. Robert Urquhart and Mary Jane Spence; educated at Old Meldrum Public School, Old Aberdeen Grammar School, Aberdeen Robert Gordon’s College, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1st Class Hons. in Philosophy 1897), D.Phil. (1915), D.D. (1930), Universities of Marburg and Göttingen, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Donside July 1902; assistant Edinburgh Morningside 1902; appointed Professor of Philosophy, Duff College, Calcutta, 28th October 1902; ordained for Foreign Mission service by Presbytery of Donside 23rd December 1902; appointed Principal of Scottish Churches College 17th February 1928. Married 20th December 1905, Margaret Macaskill, [daughter of Murdoch MacAskill, minister at Dingwall.] Professor of Philosophy in University of Calcutta; Fellow of University of Calcutta and member of Syndicate; Dean of Faculty of Arts 1928; member of Congress of Universities of the Empire 1921; member of Simla Conference of Universities 1923. D.L. (University of Calcutta 1930), LL.D. (St Andrews 1937). Publications – The Historical and the Eternal Church, Edinburgh, 1915; The Upanishads and Life, Calcutta, 1913; Pantheism and the Value of Life, London, 1919; Theosophy and Christian Thought, London, 1922; The Vadanta and Modern Thought, London, 1928.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.752; Vol.10, p.426.]
1888
JOHN WATT
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.353
Born 30th October 1862 at Methlick; educated at University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1884), D.D. (1912), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Aberdeen 1st May 1888; appointed to Duff College, Calcutta, 21st February 1888; ordained for Foreign Mission service by Presbytery of Aberdeen 14th May 1888; appointed Principal of Scottish Churches College 1910; retired 1st April 1929; died 16th June 1930. Married 27th November 1889, Helen Archibald. Awarded Kaiser-i-Hind Medal, First Class, 1929.
SANTALIA
Foreign Missionaries: India
1880
ANDREW CAMPBELL
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.113
Born 23rd March 1845 at Chorley, Lancashire; by trade a mason; went to India in connection with industrial scheme; appointed to Santal Mission 16th April 1878, as lay evangelist; ordained by Presbytery of Calcutta at Pachamba 1880; died 8th July 1919. Elected member of Legislative Council of Bihar 1911; member of Faculty of Arts, University of Patna; Vice-chairman of local Board of Dhanbad; member of District Board of Maubham; President of Bihar Missionary Union; Chairman of Bihar Representative Missionary Council; Vice-president of Calcutta Bible Society. Publications – Santali Dictionary, 1899; Santal Folk Tales; Paha Poho (Santali translation of Peep of Day); Thar cetan Thar (Line upon Line); Pujang Payang (Streaks of Light); all published by Santal Mission Press.
1886
JAMES ALEXANDER DYER
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.144
Born 29th July 1848 at Leslie; educated at Edinburgh Medical Mission School, College of Surgeons, L.R.C.P. and S. (Edin.) 1874; appointed to Santalia Mission 20th April 1875; ordained at Pachamba 1886; retired 1st July 1922; died 19th February 1923. Married 1876, Elizabeth Hay Scott.
1919
WILLIAM HAMILTON, M.A.
Ordained for Foreign Mission service by Presbytery of Hamilton 15th December 1919; appointed to Santalia 18th November 1919; resigned 15th September 1925; inducted Methlick 1928.
1907
JAMES KITCHIN
Born 1st April 1866 at Elgin, son of John Kitchin [and Elizabeth Dunbar;] educated at Elgin, Edinburgh College of Surgeons, L.R.C.P. and S. (Edin.); medical practice at Leven, Fife; appointed to Santalia 23rd February 1904; ordained by authority of Commission of General Assembly by Presbytery of Santal 26th June 1907. Married 11th November 1907, Mary Jane Syminton, missionary in Bengal 1900-7.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.737.]
1890
JAMES MERRY MACPHAIL
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.255
Born 22nd April 1863 at Shaftesbury, Dorset, son of Dugald Macphail and Janet Merry; educated at Glasgow Church of Scotland Normal School, Hutcheson’s Grammar School, Garnethill Public School (pupil teacher), University of Glasgow, M.A. (1885), M.B., C.M. (1889), M.D. (1906), Glasgow Free Church College; appointed to Santalia 14th May 1889; ordained at Bandah by Presbytery of Calcutta 30th October 1890; died 16th June 1929. Married 14th October
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1898, Janet Russell Wells, L.R.C.P. and S. (Edin.). Publications – Life of Rev. Dr K.S. Macdonald, Edinburgh, 1905; Eyes Right, Calcutta, 1912; Asoka, Calcutta, 1914, 2nd edition, London, 1926; Andrew Campbell, Edinburgh, 1920.
1926
WALTER MILLAR
Born 23rd May 1894 at Glasgow, son of Walter Millar and Matilda Walker; educated at Glasgow Provanside Higher Grade School, Hutcheson’s Grammar School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1915), Baptist Theological College, Glasgow College; war service in H.M. Forces in France; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow August 1920; assistant Glasgow Highlanders’ Memorial 1920-1; ordained and inducted Wigtown 17th May 1921; appointed to Santalia 16th March 1926. Married 5th May 1921, Mary Newport.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, pp.332 and 743; Vol.10, p.197.]
1890
WILLIAM EBENEZER WHITE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.355
Born 8th January 1860 at Nagpur, India, son of Rev. Adam White and Jane Littlejohn; educated at Aberdeen West End Academy, Edinburgh Oliphant’s School and Fettes College, University of Cambridge, Pembroke College, B.A. (1883), University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 1887; assistant Moffat 1887, Edinburgh St John’s 1888, Broughty Ferry West 1889; ordained to be missionary chaplain, South Sylhet, India, by Presbytery of Edinburgh 9th October 1890; war service as Chaplain to the Forces with India Defence Force; retired 1st August 1927; died 13th February 1937. Married (1) 1893, Mary Margaret Edmonton; (2) 31st October 1910, Mary Hemsworth Tonge.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.753.]
WESTERN INDIA
Foreign Missionaries: India
1927
HENRY LEES ADAMSON
Born 5th October 1899 at Ardrossan, son of Rev. Robert Morgan Adamson and Robina Scott Thorburn Addis; educated at Ardrossan Academy; war service 1918; University of St Andrews, M.A. (1st Class Hons. in Philosophy 1920), B.Phil. (1922), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Ardrossan May 1924; ordained and inducted Coldstream West 18th September 1924; appointed to Poona 19th April 1927.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.727 and Vol.9, p.109. Married (1) 15th May 1935, Kathleen Helen Gordon; (2) 14th December 1951, Nina Drummond Cormack, widow of John Cameron Armstrong.]
1894
WILLIAM ELMSLIE WILKIE BROWN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.106
Born 15th April 1870 at Bannockburn Free Church Manse, son of Rev. William Elmslie Wilkie Brown and Mary Cargill; educated at Auchterarder, Crieff Morrison’s Academy, Rothesay Academy, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1890), New College, Edinburgh; student assistant Edinburgh Dean 1893; warden, New College Settlement 1893; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 14th June 1894; assistant Thurso First 1894; ordained for Foreign Mission service by Presbytery of Edinburgh 30th September 1894; appointed to Alibag, Bombay Presidency 1894; translated to Jalna 1909. Married (1) 4th November 1896, Anna Stein Cargill; (2) 1st July 1903, Agnes Catherine Plumbe, B.A. (Cantab). Awarded Kaiser-i-Hind Gold Medal, First Class.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, pp.730 and Vol.9, p.650.]
1905
JOHN ROBERTSON CUTHBERT
Born 28th July 1878 at Ayr, son of Robert Cuthbert and Jane Robertson; educated at Ayr Academy, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1901), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 1905; appointed to Western India 28th March 1905; ordained for Foreign Mission service by Presbytery of Edinburgh 18th June 1905. Married 30th September 1915, Lucy Marianne Soltau, B.A.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.731; Vol.10, p.417.]
1894
ROBERT BAILLIE DOUGLAS
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.140
Born 10th August 1870 at Inverkip, son of Rev. Peter Douglas and Ann Weir Bishop; educated at Pollokshields Public School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (Hons. in Mental Philosophy 1890), B.D. (1894), D.D. (1936), Glasgow Free Church College; student assistant Glasgow Anderston 1893-4; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow April 1894; appointed to Jalna 20th March 1894; ordained by Presbytery of Glasgow 23rd September 1894; translated to Alibag November 1909; translated to Bombay January 1917; translated to Alibag May 1926. Married 16th September 1903, Mary Isabella Osborne. Member of Glasgow University Oriental Society.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.732; Vol.10, p.417.]
1919
JAMES KELLOCK
Born 9th June 1889 at Dennistoun, Glasgow, son of James Kellogg, C.A., and Anna Taylor Robb; educated at Pollokshields Ladies’ School, Glasgow Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1st Class Hons. in Economic Science 1911), B.D. (1919), University of Marburg 1912, Glasgow College (Hons. Diploma in Theology 1915); war service in R.A.M.C. in France and Salonika 1914-19; licensed by Presbytery of
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Glasgow 31st April 1919; appointed as Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Wilson College, Bombay, 21st October 1919; ordained by Presbytery of Glasgow 30th November 1919; appointed Principal of the College 1944. Married 2nd December 1920, Audrey Hildegard Keet. Publications – The War Loans: A Sketch of their Effects on the Nation’s Economic Life, p.p., Glasgow, 1918; Mahader Govind Ranade, Patriot and Social Servant (Builders of Modern India Series), Calcutta, 1926.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.737; Vol.10, p.420.]
1908
JOHN MCKENZIE
Born 13th June 1883 at Turriff, son of Andrew Mckenzie and Jessie Hunter; educated at Turriff, Macduff, Banff Academy, Aberdeen Robert Gordon’s College, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1904), D.D. (1934), New College, Edinburgh, University of Tübingen; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh September 1908; appointed to Western India 22nd September 1908; ordained by Presbytery of Turriff 18th November 1908; appointed Principal of Wilson College, Bombay 1920; Vice-Chancellor of University of Bombay 1931; retired 30th June 1945. Married 31st October 1912, Agnes Ferguson Dinnes. President of Bombay Anthropological Society 1927. Created C.I.E. 1944.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.740; Vol.10, p.422.]
1874
DUGALD MACKICHAN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.240
Born 27th May 1851 at Glasgow, son of Alexander Mackichan and Jane Buchan MacCulloch; educated at Glasgow Free Church Normal and High Schools, University of Glasgow, M.A. (Hons. in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy 1869), B.D. (1873), D.D. (1884), LL.D. (1901), Glasgow Free Church College (Thomson Fellowship 1873); licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow 17th June 1874; appointed to Western India 20th October 1874; ordained by Presbytery of Glasgow 17th December 1874; retired 1920; died 7th April 1932. Married 12th April 1877, Eliza MacRitchie. LL.D. (Bombay 1916); F.R.S.E. 1926; Hon. Fellow of Educational Institute of Scotland 1927; Hon. Fellow, Bombay Branch, Royal Asiatic Society 1925; Principal of Wilson College 1878-1920; Chalmers Lecturer 1923; Lecturer in Evangelistic Theology in United Free Church Colleges 1900-2; Moderator of General Assembly 1917-18; Moderator of Presbyterian Church in India; Vice-Chancellor of University of Bombay 1888-90, 1902-6, 1915-17. Publications – The Missionary Ideal in the Scottish Churches (Chalmers Lectures), London, 1927; University Convocation Addresses, Bombay; From Zoroaster to Christ (Biography of the first Parsi convert to Christianity), Edinburgh.
1924
JAMES MACKINTOSH
Born 22nd December 1887 at Aberdeen, son of James Mackintosh and Barbara Mackintosh; educated at Banff Academy, Fordyce Academy, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (2nd Class Hons. 1922), New College, Edinburgh; war service in H.M. Forces 1914-19, thrice wounded; licensed by Presbytery of Banff and Strathbogie 28th April 1924; appointed Professor of English Literature in Wilson College, Bombay, 17th April 1924; ordained by Presbytery of Banff and Strathbogie 28th April 1924. Married 22nd December 1927, Edith Mary Bagguley.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.785; Vol.10, p.440.]
1895
NICOL MACNICOL
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.254
Born 26th February 1870 at Caticol Manse, Lochranza, Arran, son of Rev. Duncan Macnicol and Margaret Clark; educated at Glasgow High School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (2nd Class Hons. in Classics and Mental Philosophy 1891), D.Litt. (1911), D.D. (1928), Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Presbytery of Dunoon 1895; appointed to Western India 19th February 1895; ordained by Presbytery of Dunoon 15th October 1895; stationed at Bombay 1895-1901 at Poona 1901-31; died 30th September 1931. Married 16th February 1904, Margaret Grant Campbell Brodie. Publications – The Religion of Jesus, Madras, 1910; Indian Theism, London, 1915; Psalms of Maratha Saints, Calcutta, 1919; Tom Dobson, London, 1924; The Making of Modern India, London, 1924; Pandita Ramabai, Calcutta, 1926.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.741.]
1886
ROBERT MACOMISH
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.254
Born 3rd December 1860 at Glasgow, son of Robert Macomish and Margaret MacPherson; educated at Glasgow High School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1880), B.D. (1882), Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 1884; assistant Dundee St John’s 1885-6; appointed to Bombay 30th March 1886; ordained by Presbytery of Glasgow 12th September 1886; war service as chaplain to War Hospitals in Bombay and in charge of St Andrew’s, Quetta, Baluchistan, 1918-19; retired from Bombay in 1920; died 24th January 1929. Married 24th April 1904, Henrietta Gardner. Publication – Verses (for private circulation), Glasgow, 1924.
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1913
JOHN EDWARD OLDHAM, M.A. (Cantab.)
Appointed to Jalna 16th December 1913; ordained by Presbytery of Edinburgh 23rd December 1913; resigned 19th October 1915; inducted Eaglesham 24th March 1920.
1915
JAMES BARTHOLOMEW PRIMROSE
Born 28th October 1889 at Edinburgh, son of Rev. James Primrose, D.D., and Margaret Bartholomew; educated at Glasgow High School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1909), Glasgow College; appointed to Western India 19th January 1915; ordained by Presbytery of Glasgow 12th September 1915. Married 9th December 1918, Mary Campbell Mellis Smith, missionary under W.F.M., [daughter of George Smith, Swatow.]
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, pp.746, 785 and 118; Vol.10, pp.67, 68 and Vol.10, p.440; died 2nd August 1974.]
1902
ALEXANDER ROBERTSON, M.A.
Appointed to Poona and ordained by Presbytery of Aberdeen 8th June 1902; translated to Alibag, and temporarily to Nagpur; appointed to staff of Hislop College 1926.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, pp.747 and Vol.9, p.410.]
WILLIAM GEORGE ROBERTSON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.302
Born 13th April 1872 at Calcutta, son of Rev. Professor James Robertson, D.D., and Mary Robb; educated at University of Aberdeen, M.A., B.D., Aberdeen Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Aberdeen 25th April 1898; appointed to Wilson College, Bombay, as Professor of English 14th April 1898; ordained by Presbytery of Aberdeen 1898; resigned 31st December 1908 to take charge of Gujarat College, Ahmedabad. Married 16th June 1901, Elizabeth Ann Iverach.
1879
ROBERT SCOTT
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.311
Born 29th September 1853 at Glenlivet, Ballindalloch, Banffshire, son of Robert Scott and Elizabeth Grant; educated at Tomintoul Public School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1875), D.D. (1907), Aberdeen Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Aberdeen 6th May 1879; appointed to Bombay and ordained by Presbytery of Aberdeen 24th June 1879; retired 1920; died 15th January 1929. Married 2nd October 1879, Helen Gordon Ingram. Member, Secretary, Vice-President, and President of Bombay Branch of Royal Asiatic Society; elected Fellow 1924. Publications – The Pauline Epistles, Edinburgh, 1909; editions, with introduction, exposition and annotations, published in India, of various English classics.
1929
HUGH ALLARDYCE SPROAT
Born 28th January 1900 at Glasgow, [son of James Sproat and Rachel Allardyce;] educated at Glasgow Queen’s Park High School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (Hons. in History 1926), Glasgow College; appointed to Wilson College, Bombay 19th March 1929; ordained by Presbytery of Glasgow 18th September 1929.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, pp.715 and 750.]
1908
JOHN BLACK STEVENSON
Born 18th August 1880 [in West Bengal;] educated at University of Glasgow, M.B., Ch.B.; appointed to Jalna 17th November 1903; ordained by authority of Commission of General Assembly, by Presbytery of Western India 15th November 1908; resigned 19th December 1911. [Married 1907, Marianne Milne Simpson.]
1897
ROBERT STRACHAN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.332
Born 4th April 1865 at Fyvie, son of John Strachan; educated at Old Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, M.A., B.D., New College, Edinburgh; appointed to Wilson College, Bombay, 20th July 1897; ordained by Presbytery of Turriff 14th September 1897; retired 1st October 1928; died 10th January 1929. Married 22nd October 1898, Charlotte Spence Morrison, L.L.A.
1892
JOHN TORRANCE, M.A., B.D.
Appointed to Poona 7th May 1891; ordained by Presbytery of Glasgow 27th March 1892; resigned 1st December 1902; inducted Dailly 20th June 1902.
CENTRAL PROVINCES (NAGPUR)
Foreign Missionaries: India
1912
WILLIAM RENNIE CUNNINGHAM, M.A.
Appointed to Nagpur 26th March 1912; ordained for Foreign Missionary service by Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane 25th September 1912; retired February 1919; introduced Kirkmichael 1923.
1878
JOHN DOUGLAS
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.140
Born 18th December 1853 at Liff, Angus; educated at University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1874), New College, Edinburgh; appointed to Nagpur 17th September 1817; ordained for missionary service by Free Church Presbytery of Dundee 27th September 1878; retired 31st December 1918; died 21st October 1920. Married 11th December 1879, Jane Mackenzie.
1912
THOMAS WATSON GARDINER
Born 30th May 1886 at Coleraine, Co. Derry, son of Francis Stuart Gardiner and Margaret Cuthbert; educated at Kingstown Grammar School, Edinburgh Fettes College, University of Cambridge, B.A.
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(Hons. 1907), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 1912; ordained by Presbytery of Dublin 21st June 1912; joined staff of Hislop College October 1912; appointed Principal of Hislop College 1920. Married 21st August 1912, Kathleen Hudson. Appointed O.B.E. June 1927. Publication – Religion in its Purity and its Power, Madras, 1922.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.734; Vol.10, p.419.]
1899
JOSEPH FERGUSON MCFADYEN
Born 31st July 1873 at Glasgow, son of James Hemphill Mcfadyen and Jane McKee; educated at Hutcheson’s Grammar School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1st Class Hons. in Classics 1895), Glasgow Free Church College; Latin assistant (as William Ewing Fellow) in University of Glasgow; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow May 1899; ordained for Foreign Mission service by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 10th September 1899; appointed Professor of English Literature and Philosophy, Hislop College, November 1899; war service with Nagpur Volunteer Rifles 1914-16, and with Y.M.C.A. in France 1917-18; appointed Professor of New Testament Language and Literature, Queen’s Theological College, Kingston, Ontario, September 1920; appointed to Hislop College July 1927. Married 15th January 1902, Jessie Buie Brown. D.D. (Knox College, Toronto, 1923); Bruce Lecturer in Glasgow College 1924; Vice-Chancellor of University of Nagpur 1929. Publications – Jesus and Life, London, 1918; Through Eternal Spirit, London, 1923; The Missionary Idea in Life and Religion, New York, 1926, Edinburgh, 1927; articles in Nelson’s Standard Bible, London, 1927; articles and reviews in periodicals.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.739.]
1898
JOHN RUTHERFORD MORRIS
Born 4th November 1868 at Aberdeen, son of Charles Lyall Morris and Margaret Davidson; educated at University of Edinburgh, Cliff College, Derbyshire; ordained for Foreign Mission service by authority of General Assembly by Presbytery of Edinburgh 1898; appointed to Keith Falconer Mission 10th May 1898; resigned 31st May 1906; appointed to Nagpur 25th June 1907; resigned 30th June 1914; returned to medical practice at home. L.R.C.P. and S. (Edin.). Married 1st October 1898, Isabella Jarrow.
1907
GEORGE DOUGLAS REITH, M.A., B.D.
Appointed Professor of English in Hislop College, Nagpur, 24th June 1906; ordained by Presbytery of Glasgow 2nd June 1907; resigned 19th November 1912; inducted Clunie 12th August 1915.
1892
DUGALD REVIE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.298
Born 1st May 1862 at Glasgow; educated at University of Glasgow, M.B., C.M., Glasgow Free Church College; appointed to Nagpur 14th May 1889; ordained by Free Church Presbytery of Nagpur by authority of General Assembly 1892; resigned 30th September 1910; died 14th May 1941. Married (1) 2nd October 1889, May Clarkson Wishart; (2) 8th November 1899, Louisa Marshall Torrance.
1902
ALEXANDER ROBERTSON
Born 28th March 1877 at Dingwall, son of William Robertson and Margaret Urquhart; educated at Teenassie Public School, Kilmorack, Inverness Raining’s School, Edinburgh George Watson’s College, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1st Class Hons. in Philosophy 1898), Aberdeen Free Church College; student assistant Aberdeen Rutherford 1899-1901; licensed by Presbytery of Aberdeen 5th May 1902; appointed to Poona 30th May 1902; ordained for Foreign Mission service by Presbytery of Aberdeen 8th June 1902; war service in Poona Volunteer Rifles; translated to Nagpur Hislop College July 1926. Married 17th November 1903, Agnes Skene Robertson.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, pp.747 and 410.]
1885
ALEXANDER ROBERTSON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.300
Born 17th April 1859 at Rothesay; educated at University of Glasgow, M.B., Ch.B. (1885), Glasgow Free Church College; appointed to teach Physics and Biology and Medical Evangelism in Hislop College 21st April 1885; ordained by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow July 1885; appointed Principal 28th January 1908; service with Y.M.C.A. in Nagpur; retired 1st May 1920; died 26th September 1920.
1919
NORMAN WALLIS SAMMON
Born 12th February 1892 at Govanhill, Glasgow, son of John Joseph Sammon and Helen Saywell; educated at Glasgow Shawlands Academy, Hutcheson’s Grammar School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1913), Glasgow College (Hons. Diploma in Theology 1919); war service in H.M. Forces 1915-19; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow September 1919; appointed to Nagpur 15th July 1919; ordained to Foreign Mission service by Presbytery of Glasgow 21st September 1919; served in Bhandara 1922-5, and in Wardha from 1927. Married 4th December 1922, Agnes Rewcastle Steel.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, pp.645 and 748; Vol.10, p.368; Vol.11, p.343.]
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1888
JOHN SANDILANDS
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.310
Born 17th July 1862; educated at University of Glasgow, M.A., M.B., C.M., Glasgow Free Church College; appointed to Nagpur 17th April 1888; ordained for Foreign Mission service 2nd September 1888; resigned 1904; died 13th November 1932.
1869
DAVID WHITTON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.355
Born 2nd August 1841 at Barry, Angus; educated at University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen Free Church College, New College, Edinburgh; appointed to Hislop College, Nagpur, 19th May 1869; ordained for Foreign Mission service 13th July 1869; appointed Principal Hislop College; retired 30th April 1908; died 29th May 1919. Married 9th July 1869, Helen Young.
MADRAS
Foreign Missionaries: India
1920
JOHN NORRIE ANDERSON
Born 20th August 1890 at Stornoway, son of John Norrie Anderson, solicitor, [and Mary Walters Peake;] educated at Stornoway Nicolson Institute, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (Hons. in History 1913), New College, Edinburgh; war service in H.M. Forces, awarded Croix de Guerre; appointed to Madras Christian College January 1920; ordained by Presbytery of Edinburgh June 1920; recognized as missionary 21st September 1920; resigned 19th October 1926; went to Canada, and was minister at St John’s, New Brunswick. Married 19th December 1923, Elizabeth Findlay.
1879
ADAM ANDREW
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.85
Born 7th June 1851 at Dailly, son of Adam Andrew and Jessie Hutchison; educated at Paisley Schools, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; assistant Paisley, Glasgow Wellpark; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 13th May 1879; appointed to Madras Mission 13th May 1879; ordained by Presbytery of Glasgow 19th June 1879; served in Chingleput; retired 31st December 1915; died 17th May 1921. Married 6th August 1879, Elizabeth Macfarlane. Awarded Kaiser-i-Hind Medal 1903, Bar in 1915, and Rose in 1919, in recognition of his work for the depressed classes of India. Publications – The New Testament in India, Madras, 1901, Indian Problems connected with Agriculture and Land Values, Madras; The Depressed Classes of the Madras Presidency, Madras; contributions to Madras Mail.
1925
ALEXANDER JOHN BOYD
Born 5th July 1896 at Govan, Glasgow, son of Alexander Boyd and Margaret Macdonald; educated at Glasgow Copland Road Public School, Bellahouston Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (Hons. in Classics 1921), Glasgow College; war service in munitions 1915-18, and in Royal Navy 1918-19; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow June 1924; assistant Glasgow Kelvinside 1924-5; appointed to Madras Christian College and ordained by Presbytery of Glasgow 21st June 1925.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.729; Vol.10, p.416; Vol.11, p.433.]
1920
WILLIAM LEE CAMPBELL
Born 17th June 1892 at Yercand, Cheveroi Hills, Madras Presidency, son of Thomas Vincent Campbell and Florence Gertrude Campbell; educated at Belfast Queen’s University, B.A. (Hons. in Classics 1913), University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; war service with Scottish Churches Huts at Invergordon 1916, with Y.M.C.A. in India and East Africa 1916-19; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh April 1920; appointed Professor of English in Madras Christian College and ordained by Presbytery of Edinburgh 7th April 1920. Married 21st December 1923, Jean Graham Dow.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.346; Vol.10, pp.207 and 234.]
1883
WILLIAM CARSLAW
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.118
Born 8th September 1837 at Glasgow; educated at University of Glasgow, M.D.; appointed to Madras Christian College 22nd July 1863; translated to the Lebanon Mission (which was taken over by the Presbyterian Church of America in 1899) 22nd February 1876; ordained by authority of the commission of General Assembly December 1883; died at Schweir, Lebanon, 1st October 1913. Married 9th July 1878, Isabella Lebonia Somerville. Dr Carslaw remained a representative of the United Free Church in the Lebanon Mission till his death.
1924
JOSEPH GIBSON HALDANE
Born 23rd September 1887 at Glasgow, son of Andrew Haldane and Mary Howie; educated at Glasgow Church of Scotland Normal School, Woodside Higher Grade, Skerry’s College, Bible Training Institute, Anderson Medical College; in business 1901-11; missionary assistant Dumfries Buccleuch Street 1913, Partick Anderson Street 1913-14; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow June 1924; ordained to Foreign Mission service by Presbytery of Glasgow 21st September 1924; appointed to Chingleput. Married 11th September 1924, Agnes Russell Cairns.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.220; Vol.10, p.126.]
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1915
ALFRED GEORGE HOGG
Born 23rd July 1875 at Ramlah, near Alexandria, Egypt, son of Rev. John Hogg, D.D., missionary of American United Presbyterian Church, and Bessie Kay; educated at Edinburgh George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (2nd Class Hons. in Philosophy 1897), D.Litt. (1923), University of Halle 1902, United Presbyterian College, and New College, Edinburgh; appointed Professor in Madras Christian College 13th January 1903; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh January 1915; ordained by Presbytery of Edinburgh 4th March 1915. Married 14th May 1907, Mary Maclaine Paterson. Publications – Karma and Redemption, Madras, 1910; Christ’s Message of the Kingdom, Edinburgh, 1911, Madras, 1912, revised edition, Madras, 1916; A Method of Ethics, Madras, 1920; Redemption from this World or the Supernatural in Christianity (Cunningham Lectures), Edinburgh, 1922; numerous articles in periodicals.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.438; Vol.10, p.420.]
1898
JOHN MACKENZIE
Born 27th December 1860 at Inverness; educated at University of Edinburgh, M.A., New College, Edinburgh; assistant Brechin for 8 years; appointed to Madras Christian College 15th November 1898; ordained by Free Church Presbytery of Inverness 15th December 1898; died at Madras 22nd August 1905.
1895
JAMES HAIR MACLEAN
Born 22nd November 1868 at Greenock, son of Matthew Maclean and Mary Hair; educated at Greenock Academy, Kilblain Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (2nd Class Hons. in Philosophy 1890, B.D. (1894), Glasgow Free Church College, Mansfield College, Oxford, University of Jena; missionary with Glasgow University Students’ Settlement 1894-5; student assistant Glasgow St Matthew’s; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Greenock 1895; appointed to Madras 8th May 1895; ordained by Presbytery of Greenock 29th September 1895; served in Madras 1896-7, in Sriperumbudur 1898-1908, and in Conjeeveram from 1908. Married (1) 13th February 1901, Jessie Stewart Maclaren; (2) 30th September 1909, Ella Thallon Hogg. Editor of United Church Herald 1908-9; member of Commission on Village Education in India 1919-20; president of Missionary Educational Council of South India 1920-3; president of South India United Church 1923-5; president of Madras Representative Council from 1926. Publications – Village Education in India (with other four authors), Oxford, 1920, 1924; The Fatherhood of God, Madras, 1903; The Search for Truth, Madras, 1910; tracts in the Tamil language, Madras; article on Kanchipuram in Hastings ERE; and on Atonement, Sin and Sacrifice in the Tamil Bible Dictionary; articles in periodicals.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.740.]
1890
EARLE MONTEITH MACPHAIL
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.254
Born 31st January 1861 at Aberdeen, son of Rev. James Calder Macphail, D.D., and Anne Badenoch-Nicolson; educated at Edinburgh Mr Hunter’s School, Academy, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (2nd Class Hons. in Classics 1883), B.D. (1890), D.D. (1922), LL.D., Universities of Jena (1882), Tübingen (1885) and Berlin (1889), New College, Edinburgh (Cunningham Fellow 1889); licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 27th February 1890; appointed Professor of History and Economics in Madras Christian College and ordained by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 15th June 1890; appointed Principal 1921; retired 1st July 1925; died 19th January 1937. Married 9th May 1892, Mary Stuart. Fellow of University of Madras 1899-1923; member of Syndicate of University of Madras 1906-23; vice-chancellor 1923-5; chairman, Inter-University Board 1924-5; member of Legislative Council of Madras 1909, 1919-20, 1922-23; chairman of Madras Publicity Board 1918-21; member of Council of State 1924; member of Legislative Council of India 1925-7; created C.B.E. 1919; created C.I.E. 1924. Published articles in periodicals. [For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.741.]
1925
JAMES RUSSELL MACPHAIL
Born 18th July 1901 at Pollokshields, Glasgow, son of Dr James Merry Macphail of Santalia, and Janet Russell Wells; educated at Mrs Murdoch’s School, Pollokshields, Glasgow Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1922), Glasgow College, New College, Edinburgh; lecturer in Madras Christian College 1924-6; student assistant Edinburgh Chalmers Territorial 1926-8; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh March 1928; appointed to Madras Christian College 17th April 1928, and ordained by Presbytery of Edinburgh 20th May 1928; later appointed Professor of English Literature.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.741; Vol.10, p.422.]
1895
WILLIAM MESTON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.266
Born 4th May 1871 at Aberdeen; educated at Aberdeen Grammar School,
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University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1st Class Hons. in Philosophy, B.D. (1895), D.D. (1925), New College, Edinburgh, University of Cambridge St John’s College; appointed to Madras Christian College 25th July 1895, after temporary service in 1893-4, and ordained 14th May 1895; appointed Principal 1923. Married (1) 6th October 1900, Catherine Howie; (2) 18th September 1911, Mary Innes Sinclair. Awarded Kaiser-i-Hind Medal, 1st Class.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.743.]
1862
WILLIAM MILLER
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.269
Born 13th January 1838 at Thurso; educated at University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1856), LL.D., University of Edinburgh, D.D., New College, Edinburgh; appointed to Madras Christian College 18th March 1862 and ordained by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 22nd October 1862; appointed Principal 1877; retired 1907; died 15th July 1923. Member of Legislative Council of Madras Presidency; Vice-Chancellor of University of Madras; member of Education Commission 1882-3; Moderator of General Assembly of Free Church 1896; created C.I.E.; awarded Kaiser-i-Hind Gold Medal; LL.D. from University of Madras.
1898
ALEXANDER MOFFAT
Born 21st May 1865 at Edinburgh, son of Thomas Moffat and Margaret Bell; educated at Edinburgh James Gillespie’s School, Daniel Stewart’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1887), B.Sc. (1888), University of Erlangen, New College, Edinburgh; appointed Professor of Physics, Madras Christian College December 1891; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 1898; ordained by Presbytery of Edinburgh 15th December 1898; retired 31st January 1927; died 4th June 1936. Married 11th October 1898, Margaret Fairbairn Holmes. In University of Madras, chairman of Board of Studies in Physics; president, Faculty of Science; member of Syndicate for several years; president of Madras Temperance League for many years. Publications –contributions to periodicals; editor for some years of Indian Temperance News. LL.D., University of Toronto 1921; F.R.S.E.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.743;]
1886
GEORGE PITTENDRIGH
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.293
Born 1st December 1857 at Whiterashes, Newmachar, Aberdeenshire, son of George Pittendrigh and Margaret Masson; educated at Whiterashes Public School, Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1880), D.D. (1922), Aberdeen Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Ellon 1884; temporary professor, Madras Christian College 1885-6; appointed Professor of English Literature, Madras Christian College 16th November 1886, and ordained by Presbytery of Aberdeen 16th December 1886; retired 31st December 1920; died 17th September 1930. Married (1) 14th December 1893, Agnes S. Falconer; (2) 30th March 1917, Margaret Annie Bretherton. Awarded Kaiser-i-Hind Medal, 1st Class 1919; created C.B.E.; member of Madras Legislative Council 1914-19; president, Madras Representative Council of Missions 1917-19. Publication – joint author of Story of our Madras Mission, Edinburgh, 1907.
1889
JAMES MACPHAIL RUSSELL
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.308
Born 26th December 1856 at Wick; educated at Edinburgh Royal High School, University of Edinburgh, M.A., D.D. (1912), New College, Edinburgh; appointed Professor of English Literature 19th July 1887; ordained by Presbytery of Madras 6th January 1889; retired 28th January 1913; died 19th April 1918. Fellow of University of Madras; member of the Senate of University of Madras.
1884
WILLIAM SKINNER
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.318
Born 19th September 1859 at Inverurie, son of James Skinner and Agnes Niven; educated at Inverurie Free Church School, Old Aberdeen Gymnasium, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1880), D.D. (1908), Aberdeen Free Church College, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Garioch 10th April 1884; appointed to Madras Christian College 18th March 1884 and ordained by Presbytery of Garioch 10th April 9th 1884; appointed Principal 1909; retired 30th June 1921; died 26th August 1942. Married 21st December 1892, Helen Rebecca Niven. Awarded Kaiser-i-Hind Gold Medal 1913; created C.I.E. 1919.
1892
JOHN STEWART, M.A., Ph.D.
Ordained for Foreign Mission service by Presbytery of Edinburgh 9th October 1892; served at Madras Mission 1892-1929; retired 31st March 1929; inducted Stitchel 17th April 1929.
1905
WILLIAM SINCLAIR SUTHERLAND
Born 15th July 1877 at Kilmonivaig Free Church Manse, son of Rev. Donald Sutherland and Camilla Jean Sage; educated at Blarour Parish School, Nairn Church Street School, Glasgow Garnethill,
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University of Glasgow, M.A. (1900), B.D. (1904), Glasgow College; student missionary in Tiree, Islay and Kinbrace, during summer vacations, and in Alberta, Canada, 1901; licensed by Presbytery of Abertarff May 1904; ordained for Foreign Mission service by Presbytery of Abertarff 7th June 1905; served in Madras Mission, at Madras 1905-6, Conjeeveram 1906-8, Sriperumbudur 1908-15, Chingleput District 1915-25; superintendent of Lady Willingdon Leper Settlement from December 1925. Married 16th November 1908, Elsie Ruth Nicol. Awarded Kaiser-i-Hind Medal.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.751.]
1925
ROBERT SMITH WILSON, B.A.
Appointed to Madras Mission 17th March 1925, and ordained by Presbytery of Newcastle 17th April 1925; resigned 31st October 1927; inducted Ecclefechan 1928.
RAJPUTANA
Foreign Missionaries: India
1884
FRANK ASCHCROFT, M.A., D.D.
Appointed to Rajputana 29th January 1884 and ordained by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow 16th September 1884; resigned on appointment as Secretary to the Foreign Mission Committee May 1909.
1869
WILLIAM BONNAR
Born 1841 at Dunfermline; educated at Edinburgh United Presbyterian College; appointed to Rajputana 26th October 1869 and ordained by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Dunfermline 29th November 1869; retired 1st October 1910; died 26th March 1911. Married (1) Miss Ireland; (2) 1890, J. Helen Grant.
1884
JOHN ANDERSON BROWN
Born 4th October 1854 at Galashiels, son of William Brown, manufacturer, and Margaret Rae; educated at Galashiels Academy, College in Belgium, Boarding School in Prussia, Glasgow Commercial courses, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1881), Edinburgh United Presbyterian College; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh 8th July 1884; appointed to Rajputana March 1884 and ordained by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Galashiels 23rd September 1884; died at Jhalrapatan 4th September 1906. Married 15th April 1885, Ismay Frances Tisdall.
1904
GEORGE CARSTAIRS
Born 11th February 1880 at Glasgow, son of Rev. George Lindley Carstairs and Helen Baird Morrison; educated at Glasgow Albany Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1901), B.D. (1904), Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow April 1904; appointed to Rajputana 21st February 1904; and ordained by Presbytery of Glasgow 5th June 1904; served in Udaipur 1904-6, Alwar 1906-11, Beawar 1912-18, in Nasirabad 1920-5, and from 1928; war service in Indian Army 1918. Married 28th August 1908, Elizabeth Huntley Young. Publications – The Hindu, Edinburgh, 1925; Shepherd of Udaipur, London, 1926.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.730.]
1911
THEODORE CHALMERS
Born 17th June 1884 at Inverness, son of Alexander B. Chalmers [and Elsie Fowler;] educated at Inverness Raining’s School and High School, University of Aberdeen, M.B., Ch.B.; appointed to Rajputana 28th September 1909; ordained for Foreign Mission service by Presbytery of Rajputana by authority of General Assembly 1911; war service in R.A.M.C. in France; resigned 18th April 1928; in medical practice at Inverness thereafter. F.R.C.S. (Edin.). Married 6th February 1918, Emily Alice Moir.
1909
JAMES COCKBURN
Born 31st December 1872 at Foulden, Berwickshire, son of James Cockburn and Jane Darling; educated at Berwick Grammar School, Harley House College, London, Cliff College, Derbyshire, Livingstone College (Medical), London; served under the Christian Alliance (American Mission) at Maharatham 1897-1902, and ordained by the Council of the Christian Alliance Mission; appointed by United Free Church to Bhandara 23rd June 1903; translated to Rajputana 22nd June 1909; died 7th November 1920. Married 15th September 1897, Annie Luckie Pairman.
1923
JOHN WHITEHORN DRUMMOND
Born 17th March 1899 at Edinburgh, son of Rev. Robert James Drummond, D.D., and Rhoda Constance Drummond; educated at Edinburgh George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1920); B.D. (1922), New College, Edinburgh (Junior Cunningham Fellow 1923); war service in H.M. Forces in Ireland and Germany 1916-19; student assistant at New College Settlement and Leith Junction Road 1922-3; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh April 1923; appointed to Rajputana 20th February 1923, and ordained by Presbytery of Edinburgh 23rd September 1923; served at Nasirabad 1923-6, at Kotah 1926, at Nasirabad from 1926. Married 15th January 1925, Helen Mary Collier.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.733; Vol.10, pp.26 and Vol.10, pp.418 and 26; died 1976.]
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1911
ALEXANDER COLQUHOUN GRANT
Born 3rd June 1884 at London; educated at Liverpool St Margaret’s Higher Grade School, Glasgow Hillhead High School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1906), Glasgow College; appointed to Rajputana 20th December 1910, and ordained by Presbytery of Glasgow 3rd December 1911; died with his wife when P. and O. liner Persia was torpedoed in the Mediterranean 30th December 1915. Married 18th November 1915, Christian D. Maitland, M.B., Ch.B.
1863
JAMES GRAY
Born 31st October 1838 at Tarbolton, son of James Gray and Jane Stewart; educated at Ayr Academy, University of Glasgow, Edinburgh United Presbyterian College; appointed to Rajputana 31st March 1863, and ordained by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Kilmarnock 14th July 1863; retired 30th September 1906; died 7th March 1925. Married (1) 1863, Jessie Dickie; (2) 1877, Mary Paulin or Martin.
1904
WILLIAM HUNTLY
Born 1st December 1859 at Glasgow, [son of George Huntly and Agnes Weir;] educated at Glasgow Hutcheson’s Grammar School and High School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1880), B.Sc. (1884), M.B., C.M. (1885); appointed to Rajputana 30th March 1886; resigned 28th January 1902; Principal of Agra Medical Training Institution under Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society 1902-13; ordained for Foreign Mission service by authority of General Assembly by Presbytery of Rajputana 1904; died at Agra 11th April 1913. Married 1st January 1884, Mary Buchanan.
1883
JOHN HUSBAND
Born 28th April 1841 at Rathillet, Fife, [son of George Husband and Euphemia Lumsden;] educated at University of Edinburgh, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; appointed to Rajputana 25th January 1870; ordained by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Rajputana 17th July 1883; died at Ajmer 21st November 1908. Married 5th October 1870, Isabella Roy Justice. F.R.C.S. (Edin.); C.I.E. 1897; president of the All-India Sunday School Union; editor, India Missionary Directory.
1872
ALEXANDER PRINGLE JAMESON
[Born about 1848 in Lancashire, England, son of Alexander Pringle Jameson and his wife Agnes;] educated at Manchester Owen’s College, Edinburgh United Presbyterian College; appointed to Rajputana 29th October 1872, and ordained 1872; retired 1st October 1914; died 25th January 1922. Married 1873, Miss Sutherland.
1928
ALEXANDER ANDREW LAWSON
Born 5th April 1905 at Aberfeldy, son of Andrew Lawson and Isabella Chisholm; educated at Aberfeldy Breadalbane Academy, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (2nd Class Hons. in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy 1924), New College, Edinburgh; assistant in Physics Department, University of Edinburgh 1924-5; New College Settlement 1926-8, summer mission at North Kessock 1927, Bennecarrigan 1928; licensed by Presbytery of Breadalbane 11th April 1928; appointed to Rajputana 21st February 1928, and ordained by Presbytery of Breadalbane 30th September 1928.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.102; Vol.10, pp.61, Vol.10, p.234 and Vol.10, p.421; Vol.11, p.200.]
1894
ANDREW ROBB LOW
Born 26th December 1870 at Greenock, son of William Low and Margaret Robb; educated at Greenock Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1892), Edinburgh United Presbyterian College; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Greenock June 1894; appointed to Rajputana and ordained by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Greenock 23rd July 1894. Married 28th October 1899, Annie Houston Russell.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.738.]
1871
GEORGE MACALISTER
Born 16th December 1839 at Pathhead, Midlothian, [son of George MacAlister and Margaret Wood(s);] educated at Crichton Public School, University of Edinburgh, M.A., D.D., Edinburgh United Presbyterian College; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh October 1871; appointed to Rajputana 27th September 1870 and ordained by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh 17th October 1871; retired 1st January 1912; died 26th August 1920. Married (1) 1873, Miss Paulin; (2) 1884, Mary Murray Proctor. Awarded Kaiser-i-Hind Medal 1900.
1906
ROBERT HENRY MACALISTER
Born 1st April 1881 at Paisley son of John Hart Macalister and Helen Young; educated at Paisley Grammar School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1902), Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Paisley 1906; assistant Glasgow St Mark’s 1906; appointed to Rajputana and ordained by Presbytery of Paisley 4th December 1906; served in Ajmer 1907-18, and in Beawar and Todgarh from 1918; war service as Chaplain to the Forces in Mesopotamia 1917-1. Married 29th September 1910, Isabel Carmichael.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.112.]
1895
JOHN MANDEVILLE MACFIE
Appointed to Manchuria 1894 and ordained by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow 3rd September 1895; this appointment was
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cancelled; appointed to Rajputana 28th July 1896; resigned 22nd October 1901; inducted Glasgow Tollcross Park 1st April 1902; re-appointed 28th October 1909; resigned 15th April 1923; introduced Bowden 11th June 1924.
1884
JOHN MACINNES
Born 28th December 1859 at Ayr, [son of Robert M. MacInnes and Margaret Brown;] educated at Ayr and Glasgow Academies, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1881), Edinburgh United Presbyterian College; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Ayr 19th August 1884; appointed to Rajputana March 1884 and ordained by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Ayr 8th October 1884; resigned 30th September 1902; proceeded to Australia. Married 1886, Jane Gray.
1909
ALEXANDER MCLEISH
Born 18th July 1877 at Crieff, son of Alexander Mcleish and Jessie Buchan; educated at Crieff Morrison’s Academy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow College; summer stations, Spittal and Westerdale 1898, Crianlarich and Tyndrum 1899, Kinloch Rannoch 1900, Port Ellen 1901; student assistant Glasgow Sighthill 1902-4; India Y.M.C.A. Secretary, Punjab, 1905-8; licensed by Presbytery of Auchterarder July 1904; appointed to Rajputana and ordained by Presbytery of Auchterarder 17th January 1909; served at Ashapura 1909-10, at Beawar 1910-14, at Ajmer 1915-20 and 1921-6; resigned April 1927; appointed Trustee and Survey Editor of World Dominion Press, London. Married February 1909, Roberta Campbell, M.B., Ch.B., D.P.H. Vice-chairman, Municipality, Beawar, 1912-14; member and chairman, Municipal Committee, and Hon. Magistrate, Ajmer, 1915-26; president, European Association, Rajputana, 1914; Fellow of Royal Society of Arts 1922; member of Institute of Philosophical Studies. Publications – 52 First Lessons in English, Ajmer, 1914, 1920; Prayers for Mission High Schools, Ajmer, 1919; Prayer, Edinburgh, 1902; Devolution: Its Real Significance, London, 1928. Editor and part-contributor to publications of World Dominion Press.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.740.]
1911
WILLIAM ANDERSON MURDOCH
Born 16th March 1885 [at East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, son of Peter Murdoch and Agnes Anderson;] educated at University of Glasgow, M.A. (1907), Glasgow College; appointed to Rajputana 27th June 1911, and ordained by Presbytery of Hamilton 4th December 1911; resigned 18th January 1921; later minister at St Louis, U.S.A.; [died 2nd March, 1959; buried Valhalla Cemetery, St Louis, Missouri.] Married 12th August 1914, Irene Wagner of St Louis.
1905
WILLIAM GLADSTONE ORR
Born 17th December 1879 at Hawick, son of Rev. Professor James Orr, D.D., and Hannah Fraser Gibb; educated at Hawick West End Academy, Edinburgh George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1900), B.D. (1904), New College, Edinburgh, Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow 1904; assistant Glasgow Kelvinside 1904-5; appointed to Rajputana 26th September 1905 and ordained by Presbytery of Glasgow 29th October 1905. Married 3rd December 1918, Agnes Mary McMichael, M.B., Ch.B.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.745.]
1862
WILLIAM ROBB
Born 10th June 1832 at Fintry, Aberdeenshire, [son of William Robb and Jane Bruce;] educated at University of Aberdeen, M.A., Edinburgh United Presbyterian College; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh 1862; appointed to Rajputana 4th October 1859 and ordained by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh 15th July 1862; retired 1st April 1906; died 28th May 1913. Married 1862, daughter of Rev. Hope M. Waddell of Jamaica and Calabar.
1901
ROBERT GEORGE ROBSON
Born 7th July 1871 at Fortrose, son of Rev. George Robson, D.D., [and Maryanne Boyd;] educated at Inverness Royal Academy, Edinburgh George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1892), M.B., Ch.B. (1895), M.D., University of Vienna; appointed to Rajputana 28th July 1896; ordained by authority of General Assembly by Presbytery of Perth 1901; retired February 1920; died 30th November 1932. Married 20th December 1897, Helene Louise Geardon. Awarded Kaiser-i-Hind Medal.
1904
JAMES WATSON RUNCIMAN
Born 11th August 1878 at United Presbyterian Manse, Holm, Orkney, son of Rev. Charles Runciman and Jeanie Watson; educated at Holm Public School, Kirkwall Burgh School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1900), B.D. (1904), Glasgow College; student missionary, Glasgow Cuninghame 1902, Dumbarton High 1903-4; licensed by Presbytery of Orkney 30th August 1904; appointed to Rajputana 22nd March 1904, and ordained by Presbytery of Orkney 30th August 1904; war service as Chaplain to the Forces in Mesopotamia 1917-18. Married 2nd January 1911, Helen McGlashan, M.B., Ch.B.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.747.]
1880
JAMES SHEPHERD
Born 2nd February 1847 at Aberdeen, son of James Shepherd and Mary Hendry; educated at
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Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, M.A., M.B., Ch.B., M.D., D.D. (1898), Edinburgh United Presbyterian College; appointed to Rajputana 11th July 1872; ordained by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Rajputana 27th October 1880; retired 1920; died 29th March 1926. Awarded Kaiser-i-Hind Gold Medal 1914.
1883
JAMES SOMMERVILLE
Born 25th April 1846 at Glasgow, son of William Sommerville and Barbara Goodall; educated at Edinburgh George Heriot’s Institution, University of Glasgow; L.R.C.P. Edin., L.F.P.S. Glasgow; appointed to Rajputana 25th October 1870; ordaind by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Rajputana 7th November 1883; served in Beawar, Udaipur and Jodhpur; retired 1st January 1920; died 23rd August 1925. Married 19th November 1873, Margaret Lyell. Publication – Lectures on Hygiene (in Urdu), India.
1923
JOHN STIRLING
Born on 20th October 1893 at Gardenstown, Banffshire, son of Timothy Wightman Stirling and Mary Miller; educated at Glasgow Hillhead High School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (Hons. in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy 1921), Glasgow College; war service in H.M. Forces in Gallipoli, Egypt and Palestine 1915-19; licensed by Presbytery of Dumfries and Penpont September 1923; appointed to Rajputana 16th January 1923 and ordained by Presbytery of Dumfries and Penpont 20th September 1923. Married 26th August 1926, Marion Elizabeth Mowat, M.B., Ch.B.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.750; Vol.10, pp.23 and 426; Vol.11, p.20.]
1869
JOHN TRAILL
Born 1841 at Brechin; educated at Brechin Grammar School, University of Aberdeen and Edinburgh, Edinburgh United Presbyterian College; appointed to Rajputana 27th October 1868 and ordained by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Arbroath and Brechin 6th October 1869; died at Udaipur 21st September 1909. Married 1870, Miss [Janet (Jessie)] Kirk.
1897
WILLIAM SYMINGTON TUDHOPE
Born 13th January 1869 at Lesmahagow, son of George Tudhope and Agnes Symington; educated at Lesmahagow Public School, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh United Presbyterian College; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh July 1897; assistant Lowick 1897; appointed to Rajputana 29th June 1897 and ordained by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh 14th November 1897. Married 6th November 1906, Jane Muirhead.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.752.]
1909
DAVID COVENTRY WILKIE
Born 22nd May 1884 at Edinburgh, son of Hugh Wilkie, M.A., and Elizabeth Margaret Coventry; educated at Edinburgh James Gillespie’s School and George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (2nd Class Hons. in Mental Philosophy, 1st Class Hons. in Economics 1906), B.D. (1909), New College, Edinburgh, Universities of Marburg (1906) and Jena (1909); licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh September 1909; appointed to Rajputana 28th September 1909 and ordained by Presbytery of Edinburgh 7th November 1909; served at Beawar 1909-10, Ajmer 1910, Beawar 1910-11, Jaipur 1911, Alwar 1911-19, Beawar 1921-5 and from 1926. Married 6th November 1911, Annie Mackinnon. Publication – Prabhu Yeshu ki Dristant-rupi Shiksha, Allahabad, 1923.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.753; Vol.10, p.427.]
SOUTH ARABIA
1928
WILLIAM IDRIS JONES
Born 23rd June 1904 at Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, son of Rev. William Jones and Margaret Ann Morgan; educated at Swansea Municipal Secondary School, University College, Cardiff, B.A. (Hons. in English 1923), University of Glasgow, Glasgow College; student missionary, Broomielaw, 1927; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow March 1928; appointed to Keith-Falconer Mission 21st February 1928 and ordained by Presbytery of Glasgow 15th April 1928. Married 28th August 1930, Swantina Jane de Young.] Member of Glasgow University Oriental Society.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.571; Vol.10, pp.29, 81 and 332.]
1907
ALEXANDER MACRAE
Born 1st October 1879 [at Kilcalmonell, Argyll, son of Alexander MacRae, minister, and Annie MacRae;] educated at University of Edinburgh, M.A., M.B., Ch.B., Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, New College, Edinburgh; appointed to Keith-Falconer Mission 27th March 1906 and ordained for Foreign Mission service by authority of General Assembly by Presbytery of Western India 1907; resigned 21st January 1919; took up medical practice in Newcastle-on-Tyne. Married 26th July 1915, Louisa Isabella Ruth Bryce.
1898
JOHN RUTHERFORD MORRIS
Appointed to Keith-Falconer Mission 10th May 1898 and ordained by Presbytery of Edinburgh 1898; resigned 31st May 1906; appointed to Nagpur 25th June 1907.
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1919
JAMES ROBSON
Appointed to Keith-Falconer Mission 15th April 1919 and ordained for Foreign Mission service by authority of General Assembly by Presbytery of Bombay 13th July 1919; resigned 30th August 1927; inducted Shandon June 1927.
1892
JOHN CAMERON YOUNG
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.362
Born 15th February 1860 at Seaford, Sussex; educated at University of Glasgow, M.A., M.B., Ch.B., M.D., Glasgow Free Church College; appointed to Sheikh Othman Keith-Falconer Mission 19th April 1892 and ordained by Presbytery of Glasgow 6th November 1892; died at Addis Ababa, Abyssinia, 2nd February 1926. Diploma in Tropical Medicine, University of Liverpool; acting Chaplain to the Forces in Aden; Port Health Officer at Aden 1915-18; awarded Kaiser-i-Hind Gold Medal, First Class.
MANCHURIA
1900
DUGALD CHRISTIE
Born 11th January 1855 at Glencoe, son of Malcolm Christie [and Janet MacCallum;] educated at Glasgow, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh United Presbyterian College; F.R.C.P. and S. (Edin.); appointed to Manchuria 26th July 1881; ordained by Presbytery of Manchuria 1900; retired 1st July 1923; died 2nd December 1936. Married (1) Elizabeth Hastie Smith; (2) 1892, Elizabeth C. Inglis. Created C.M.G. 1911; founded Moukden Medical College 1912.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.731.]
1905
DAVID CRUDEN DAVIDSON
Born 1st December 1880 at Broughty Ferry, son of David Alexander Davidson and Eliza Allan; educated at Edinburgh Daniel Stewart’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1904), New College, Edinburgh; assistant Stranraer St Ninian’s 1904, Edinburgh St James’ Place 1904-5; appointed to Manchuria 28th February 1905 and ordained by Presbytery of Edinburgh 4th June 1905; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1918-20. Married 13th July 1911, Janet Anderson Watson.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.732; Vol.10, p.418.]
1912
JOHN COCHRANE DORWARD
Born 11th April 1887 at Galashiels, son of John Cochrane Dorward and Elizabeth Paterson; educated at Galashiels Moat House and Academy, University of St Andrews, M.A. (1908), New College, Edinburgh; student missionary at summer stations, Tomintoul, 1910, 1911; sub-warden, New College Settlement 1911-12; licensed by Presbytery of Galashiels 1912; appointed to Manchuria 19th December 1911 and ordained by Presbytery of Galashiels 17th May 1912; served at Hulan 1912-14, Tiehling 1914-15, Moukden from 1915. Married 4th April 1913, Josephine Jessie Ross.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.554; Vol.10, p.323; Vol.11, p.294.]
1890
GEORGE DOUGLAS
Born 1st December 1866 at Newcastle, son of Rev. George Douglas, Walker-on-Tyne English Presbyterian Church, and Margaret Wilson; educated at Tynemouth House, Edinburgh and George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1887), United Presbyterian College; student missionary at Moffat 1889; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh June 1890; appointed to Manchuria 22nd April 1890 and ordained by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh 10th July 1890; died 8th February 1930. Married 5th April 1892, Margaret Struthers of Roberton, Lanarkshire.
1911
JAMES WILKIE FINDLAY
Born 29th May 1885 at Dalrymple, son of Rev. James Wilkie Findlay and Mary Graham; educated at Dalrymple Public School, Ayr Academy, Glasgow Hutcheson’s Grammar School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1911), Glasgow College (Hons. Diploma in Theology 1911); assistant Thurso 1910; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow April 1911; appointed to Manchuria 24th January 1911 and ordained by Presbytery of Glasgow 3rd September 1911; stationd at Liaoyang. Married 30th July 1918, Margaret Rose Forgan, M.A., M.B., Ch.B. (Aberdeen).
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.734.]
1896
JAMES MILLER GRAHAM
Appointed to Manchuria 23rd July 1895 and ordained by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh 19th January 1896; resigned 30th April 1904 and inducted Tientsin Union Church; inducted Dundee Park 28th November 1907.
1890
JAMES WILLIAM INGLIS
Born 12th September 1861 at Johnstone, Renfrewshire, son of Rev. James Inglis and Frances Wordley; educated at Paisley Grammar School, Glasgow Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (2nd Class Hons. in Classics, 1881), Edinburgh United Presbyterian College, University of Leipzig 1885; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Paisley 20th October 1885; assistant Dumfries Buccleuch Street 1885-6; appointed to Manchuria and ordained by Presbytery of Edinburgh 18th December 1890. Married 28th July 1900, Caroline Margaret.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.736.]
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Napier. Publications – Manual of Romanism, Shanghai, 1906; Christianity and the Modern Mind, Shanghai, 1916; articles on Buddhism and on Taoism in Bible Dictionary, Shanghai, 1916; Commentary on St Luke, Shanghai; Commentary on Acts, Shanghai, 1925; Commentary on Colossians, Shanghai, 1929 (all the above in Chinese); Christ not Mythical (in English and Chinese), Shanghai, 1926; The Vows of Amida, Shanghai, 1917; The Nestorian Share in Buddhist Translation, Shanghai, 1917; Blind Chang, Edinburgh, 1901; “Chinese elements in Chinese Buddhism”, in International Review of Missions, October 1916; articles in Chinese Recorder, Shanghai.
1919
GEORGE PERCY LITTLEWOOD
Born 22nd December 1875 at Huddersfield, son of William and Emily Littlewood [née Roebuck;] educated at Methodist New Connexion College, Ranmoor, Sheffield; probationary minister of Methodist Church in London and Hull; ordained by Methodist Conference of 1900; in Bradford Methodist Circuit 1900-2, in Nottingham Methodist Circuit 1902-3; Methodist missionary in North China 1908-16; war service with Chinese Labour Corps in France 1917-20; appointed to Manchuria 18th November 1919; recognized as ordained missionary by General Assembly 1922. Married 28th September 1912, Margaret Fairbrother. Awarded the Gold Medal of the Order of the Striped Tiger by Chinese government. Contributed missionary articles to periodicals.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.738.]
1874
JOHN MACINTYRE
Born 18th July 1837 at Luss; educated at Paisley, University of Heidelberg, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; ordained and inducted Baillieston United Presbyterian 1865; appointed to Chefoo 27th June 1871; appointed to Manchuria, Haicheng, 1874; died at Peitaiho, North China, 1st September 1905. Married Catherine Ross.
1899
JOHN EBENEZER MCINTYRE
Appointed to Manchuria 18th April 1899, and ordained by Presbytery of Greenock 27th June 1899; resigned 24th December 1901; inducted Hightae and Dalton 10th January 1905.
1907
ALEXANDER RAMSAY MACKENZIE
Born 12th April 1879 at Edinburgh, son of Thomas Dingwall Mackenzie and Jessie Jeffrey Ramsay; educated at Edinburgh George Watson’s College, Glasgow Hillhead Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1903), B.D. (1907), Glasgow College; summer station at Amulree 1906; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow 14th May 1907; appointed to Manchuria and ordained by Presbytery of Glasgow 2nd June 1907; stationed at Liaoyang 1907-11, at Kaiyuan 1911-13, at Yungling 1913-20 and at Hingking from 1920; died in Manchuria 20th January 1929. Married 9th November 1910, Eliza Jane Miller, M.B., Ch.B. (Glasgow). Publications – compiler of Findings of Manchuria Mission Conference, 1901-11, Moukden, P.P., 1912; Account of Japanese Military Persecution of Koreans in North China, November 1920, Tientsin, 1921; A Phonetic Vocabulary of Mandarin (in Chinese), Shanghai, 1921; Chinese Phonetic System and Language (translated from the Chinese of Li Chinshi), Shanghai, 1922.
1909
LAURENCE DALRYMPLE MACLAGAN-WEDDERBURN
Born 13th September 1885 at Madderty, Crieff, son of Rev. Laurence Craigie Maclagan-Wedderburn and Gertrude Elizabeth Maxwell; educated at Crieff Morrison’s Academy, Edinburgh George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1905), New College, Edinburgh; student assistant Edinburgh Grange 1908; licensed by Presbytery of Auchterarder 1909; appointed to Manchuria and ordained by Presbytery of Auchterarder 15th August 1909; stationed at Ashisho 1910-12, at Chaoyangchen and Hailung 1912-18; war service with Chinese Labour Corps in France 1918-19; at Chaoyangchen 1920-5, at Hailung from 1926. Married 24th April 1912, Ethel Susan Crooks of Larne, Ireland.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.753; Vol.10, p.427.]
1898
WILLIAM MACNAUGHTAN
Born 12th September 1875 at Hillhead, Glasgow, son of Duncan Macnaughtan and Elizabeth Smith; educated at Glasgow Academy, Allan Glen’s Institution, Hillhead Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1895), Edinburgh United Presbyterian College; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow 1898; appointed to Manchuria 28th June 1898, and ordained by Presbytery of Glasgow 9th August 1898. Married 15th February 1904, Isabella Macdougall Philip, B.A.. Publications – Bulletins on Evangelism, Shanghai, 1917-18.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.740; Vol.10, p.422.]
1900
DAVID DICKSON MUIR
Born 5th November 1869 at Edinburgh, [son of Thomas Paterson Muir and Catherine Mason Boyd;] educated at Edinburgh Heriot Watt College,
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University of Edinburgh; L.R.C.P. and S. (Edinburgh), L.R.C.P. (Glasgow); appointed to Manchuria 23rd July 1895; ordained by Presbytery of Manchuria 1900; acted as medical officer at Chinwangtao, North China; resigned 31st March 1917; [died 1931. Married 1896, Annie Grainger Gilchrist.]
1896
HENRY WILLIAM PULLAR
Born 1st February 1864 at Perth, [son of Thomas Pullar and Catherine Rutherford;] educated at Perth Academy; trained as law agent in Edinburgh 1886-8; University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1895), United Presbyterian College; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Perth July 1895; appointed to Manchuria 27th October 1896 and ordained by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Perth 30th November 1896; died at Moukden 2nd December 1921. Married 1896, Mary H. Hume.
1890
DANIEL THOMSON ROBERTSON
Born 11th April 1869 at Greenock, son of Dr John Keith Robertson and Jessie Dunlop; educated at Greenock Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1887), University of Edinburgh (Diploma in Education 1926), United Presbyterian College; student missionary, Govan Copland Road 1889; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Greenock 1890; appointed to Manchuria 22nd April 1890 and ordained by Presbytery of Greenock 22nd July 1890; appointed Manchuria Christian College as Principal 1907; war service with Chinese Labour Corps in France 1918-19. Married 23rd October 1896, Sarah Campbell Nicholson.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.747.]
1872
JOHN ROSS
Born 9th August [6th July] 1842 at Rarichie, Nigg, Ross-shire, son of Hugh Ross [and Catherine Sutherland;] educated at Fearn, University of Glasgow, D.D. (1894), Edinburgh United Presbyterian College; home missionary at Inverness, Portree and Stornoway; appointed to Chefoo, Manchuria, 27th February 1872 and ordained by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Elgin and Inverness 20th March 1872; retired 1st October 1910; died 6th August 1915; [buried Newington Cemetery, Edinburgh.] Married (1) 26th March 1872, M[ary] A[nn] Stewart; (2) 24th February 1881, Isabella Strapp Macfadyen. Publications – New Testament in Korean; The Manchus, Paisley, 1880; Mission Methods in Manchuria, Edinburgh, 1903; History of Corea, Paisley, 1879.
1911
JAMES HENDERSON RUST
Born 27th July 1886 at Arbroath, son of Rev. Alexander Rust, Inverbrothock, and Louise Ann Scott; educated at Arbroath High School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1st Class Hons. in Mental Philosophy 1907), University of Marburg 1908, 1909, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Arbroath and Forfar May 1911; appointed to Manchuria 20th December 1910 and ordained by Presbytery of Arbroath and Forfar 17th June 1911. Married 8th January 1930, Mary Wilson. [For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.597; Vol.10, p.344.]
1911
FRANCIS WILLIAM SCOUGAL
Born 24th March 1884 at Melrose, son of Andrew E. Scougal, Inspector of Schools, [and Anne Halley Cowan]; educated at Edinburgh George Watson’s College, Glasgow Academy, University of Glasgow, B.Sc. (Engineering), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 8th June 1910; assistant Aberdeen North; appointed to Manchuria 20th December 1910 and ordained by Presbytery of Aberdeen 19th March 1911; war service in H.M. Forces 1915-18; killed in action near Salonika 19th September 1918; awarded M.C.; [buried Doiran Military Cemetery, Central Macedonia, Greece.]
1914
JOHN STEWART
Born 22nd July 1887 at Rathen Free Church Manse, son of the Rev. James Smith Stewart and Mary Wilson; educated at Aberdeen Rosemount Public School, Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1909), Aberdeen College; Teachers’ Training Course, Aberdeen Centre; licensed by Presbytery of Aberdeen 28th April 1913; assistant secretary Mission Study Council 1913-14; appointed to Manchuria 18th November 1913 and ordained by Presbytery of Aberdeen 22nd March 1914; stationed at Moukden 1914-18, at Kirin 1918-19, at Moukden from 1920. Married 14th December 1916, Flora Christian Gladys Mackenzie.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.750; Vol.10, p.426.]
1895
JAMES STOBIE
Born 3rd January 1869 at Edinburgh, son of William Stobie [and Margaret Dickson;] educated at Edinburgh Newington Free Church School, George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, United Presbyterian College; home mission work, Edinburgh St James’ Place; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh 1894; appointed to Manchuria 27th February 1894 and ordained by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh 16th June 1895; war service with Chinese Labour Corps in France; retired 19th February 1929. Married 31st May 1899, Katherine Kirk Paton, L.R.C.P. and S. (Edinburgh).
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.549.]
1882
JAMES WEBSTER, D.D.
Appointed to Manchuria 31st January 1882 and ordained by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 1st June 1882; appointed Joint Foreign Mission Secretary May 1910.
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1900
ALEXANDER MCDONALD WESTWATER
Born 30th April 1854 at Edinburgh, [son of Robert Westwater and Margaret Kemp;] educated at Dunfermline, University of Edinburgh, United Presbyterian College; F.R.C.S. (Edinburgh); appointed to Manchuria 29th March 1881; ordained for Foreign Mission Service by Presbytery of Manchuria 1900; retired 1st January 1920; died 26th October 1934. Married (1) [1881, Ellen Beath] Sinclair; (2) 1900, Ethel Margaret Coombs. Known as the Saviour of Laoyang during the Russo-Japanese War.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.753.]
1900
EDWARD MCKILLOP YOUNG
Born 15th July 1873 at Kinross, [son of David Young and Euphemia Storrar;] educated at Kinross, Edinburgh Institution, University of Edinburgh, M.B., Ch.B. (1899); appointed to Manchuria 26th December 1899 and ordained by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh 1900. Married 23rd August 1902, Dr Katharine Constance Sampson.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.754.]
1900
WILLIAM ALEXANDER YOUNG
Born 12th February 1874 at Alloa, son of Rev. John Young; educated at Greenock Academy, Glasgow Hutcheson’s Grammar School, University of Edinburgh, M.B., C.M. (1896), D.P.H.; served four years with Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society, and two years as medical missionary at Tientsin with the American Mission; appointed to Manchuria 27th June 1899 and ordained for Foreign Mission service by Presbytery of Greenock 29th January 1900. Married 8th October 1903, Clara Margaret Candlin.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.754.]
JAPAN
1873
ROBERT YOUNG DAVIDSON
Born 9th May 1846 at Edinburgh, son of Rev. Peter Davidson, D.D., and Mary Young; educated at University of Edinburgh, United Presbyterian College; appointed to Japan 10th June 1873 and ordained by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh 1st December 1873; retired 1901; died 11th March 1909. Married 1880, Corolyn Elizabeth Eldred.
1869
HUGH WADDELL
[Born about 1841 in Glenarm, Ireland, son of Hugh Waddell, Presbyterian minister there, and Margaret Mayne Reid;] educated at Queen’s College, Belfast, B.A.; missionary of the Presbyterian Church of Ireland at Newchwang and at Cordoba, Spain; appointed to Japan 27th January 1874 and ordained by the Presbytery of Belfast 19th January 1869; died 20th June 1901; [buried Belfast City Cemetery. Married (1) Jane Martin of Katesbridge; (2) Martha – his cousin. His daughter Helen became a well known writer.]
SOUTH AFRICA
1875
JAMES MACDONALD AULD
Born 2nd April 1848 at Glasgow, son of Rev. William Auld, Tollcross United Presbyterian; educated at Glasgow Annfield Academy, University of Glasgow, Edinburgh United Presbyterian College; appointed to Kaffraria 27th October 1874 and ordained by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow 1st March 1875; retired 31st December 1927; died at Vincent, near East London, 5th December 1932. Married 29th April 1875, Margaret Meikle. Moderator of General Assembly of Presbyterian Church of South Africa 1906. Publications – Xosa Primer; editor of Ilita (Xosa Monthly Paper), 1908-13.
1904
WILLIAM AULD
Born 30th November 1877 at Emgwali Mission Station, son of Rev. James MacDonald Auld and Margaret Meikle; educated at Wellington School, South Africa, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1901), Glasgow College; appointed to South Africa 22nd March 1904 and ordained by Presbytery of Glasgow 5th June 1904; served at Paterson (Mbulu) Mission, Kaffraria. Married 28th June 1922, Catherine Mollins of Blythswood staff.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.728.]
1926
EDWARD BEAL
Formerly of Jamaica; appointed to Kaffraria 1921; resigned 20th April 1926; inducted Strathmiglo 1927.
1882
JOHN BRUCE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.106
Born 16th October 1855 at Kilrenny Mill, Anstruther, son of James Bruce and Mary Mackie; educated at Kilrenny Public School, Anstruther Free Church School, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 16th May 1882; appointed to Natal 9th May 1882 and ordained for Foreign Mission service by Free Church Presbytery of St Andrews 9th June 1882; retired 30th June 1914. Married 16th June 1882, Margaret Lothian Martin.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.730.]
1919
HARRY BOOTH COVENTRY
Born 6th August 1877 at Birkenhead; educated at Birkenhead St Andrew’s Presbyterian Higher Grade School; 8½ years in business office; Manchester Owen’s College, United Methodist Theological College 1900-2, University of London, B.D. (1913); probationer 1902-6; ordained in Bristol 1906; admitted to United Free Church 1917; inducted Kilmarnock St Andrew’s 1917; appointed to Lovedale 15th April 1919; resigned 20th October 1925; inducted Gardens’ Presbyterian Church, Cape Town, 1925. Married Margaret Campbell Rankin Orr.
1902
ARCHIBALD FERGUSON COWAN, M.A.
Appointed to Lovedale 28th October 1902, and ordained by Presbytery of
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Edinburgh 21st December 1902; translated to Blythswood 1922; resigned 16th December 1924; introduced Crathie 1926.
1870
JAMES DALZELL
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.132
Born 6th February 1841 at Lesmahagow, son of Gavin Dalzell; educated at University of Glasgow, M.A., B.D., M.B., C.M., F.P.S. Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; appointed to Gordon Memorial Mission, Natal, 30th April 1870 and ordained for Foreign Mission service by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 30th June 1870; died 22nd September 1901. Married 20th July 1870, Elizabeth Gordon, daughter of Rev. Dr Lorimer, Glasgow.
1863
JAMES DAVIDSON
Born 2nd February 1827 at Craigdam; educated at University of Aberdeen, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; missionary in Glasgow High Street, and Alloa; appointed to South Africa 25th November 1862 and ordained by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Dunfermline 3rd February 1863; inducted St Andrew’s, King William’s Town; took up mission work among Kaffirs 1867; retired 30th April 1903; died at Cofimvaba, Transkei, 30th May 1907. Married in 1863.
1911
JAMES ALLAN DAVIDSON
Born 18th February 1877 at Dundee, son of David Alexander Davidson and Eliza Allan; educated at Broughty Ferry Public School, Burntisland Public School, Edinburgh George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1897), New College, Edinburgh (Hons. Diploma in Theology 1901); licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 18th June 1901; assistant Edinburgh Candlish 1901-2, Pollokshields Albert Road 1902-3, Inverness High 1903-6; ordained and inducted Pretoria St Andrew’s (Presbyterian Church of South Africa) 27th November 1906; translated to Greyville, Natal, February 1909; appointed to South Africa Mission 28th March 1911; took up work at Mount Fletcher July 1911; appointed to Mafube (Mission Council of South Africa) November 1925. Married 25th June 1907, Catherine Wells Taylor.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.732.]
1896
JAMES DEWAR
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.137
Born 18th May 1863 at Aberdeen, son of James Skene Dewar and Catherine Mitchell Wilson; educated at Aberdeen Robert Gordon’s College, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1887), Aberdeen Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Aberdeen 19th May 1890; assistant Newcastle Westmoreland Road 1890-3, Slains 1893-4, Fochabers 1894-5; appointed to Natal 8th May 1896 and ordained by Free Church Presbytery of Aberdeen 19th May 1896; service at Kalabari Mission Station, Dannhauser, Natal, 1896-1914; appointed to Petermaritzburg, Natal, 1914. Married 9th April 1907, Elizabeth Fairweather, daughter of Rev. W. Morrison, M.A. Moderator of Assembly of Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa 1924.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.752; Vol.10, p.418.]
1872
JOHN DEWAR
Born at Airth; educated at University of Glasgow, M.A., United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; appointed to Kaffraria 28th May 1872 and ordained by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow 21st October 1872; died at East London 19th March 1915. Married 1872. Moderator of General Assembly of Presbyterian Church of South Africa 1907.
1886
DUNDAS LOGAN ERSKINE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.148
Born 22nd April 1855 at Shotts; educated at University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; student missionary Edinburgh St Luke’s; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Hamilton 27th April 1886; appointed to South Africa 16th March 1886 and ordained by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh June 1886; died at Pirie, South Africa, 7th April 1922.
1914
WILLIAM EWEN, M.A., B.D.
Appointed to South Africa 21st April 1914 and ordained by Presbytery of Banff and Strathbogie 20th September 1914; resigned 16th June 1925; inducted Knockbain 3rd September 1925.
1898
WILLIAN GAVIN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.166
Born 6th July 1871 at Stirling, son of Hugh Gavin and Mary Hunter; educated at Stirling High School, University of St Andrews, M.A. (1893), New College, Edinburgh; student assistant Prestonpans summer 1896, Edinburgh Dean Bridge 1896-7; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Stirling 1897; appointed to Pondoland, South Africa, 19th October 1897 and ordained by Free Church Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane 13th February 1898; inducted at Pondoland 8th October 1898. Married 8th September 1904, Annie Harvey Auld.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.734.]
1866
WILLIAM GIRDWOOD
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.585; Vol.2, p.561
Born 18th May 1838 at Penicuik, son of Rev. Thomas Girdwood [and Isabella Inglis;] educated at University of Edinburgh, United Presbyterian College; ordained and inducted Penicuik United Presbyterian 18th February 1862; translated to Perth York
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Place 31st January 1865; appointed to South Africa 24th December 1876; died at Tutura Mission Station, Kaffraria, 5th February 1907. Married (1) [5th August 1862, Mary Robertson;] (2) 1872, [Helen Forsyth.]
1907
ROBERT GODFREY
Born 25th March 1872 at Edinburgh, son of Robert Godfrey and Mary Fowler; educated at Edinburgh St Stephen’s Infant School, Hamilton Place School, Daniel Stewart’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1894), New College, Edinburgh; student missionary Bo’ness St Andrew’s, 1899-1902; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 2nd June 1903; assistant Glasgow St John’s 1906-7; appointed to South Africa 24th September 1907 and ordained by Presbytery of Edinburgh 13th October 1907; served at Pirie Mission from 15th December 1907, at Somerville Mission, Transkei, from 7th January 1916, and at Blythswood, Transkei, from 29th January 1921. Married 24th June 1913, Jessie Kennedy Mackinnon.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.735.]
1895
JAMES HENDERSON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.184
Born 31st October 1867 at Dunn, Watten, Caithness, son of Donald Henderson and Christian Sutherland; educated at Dunn and Lanergill Schools, Old Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1889), D.D. (1924), New College, Edinburgh, Moray House (Teachers’ Certificate); student assistant Edinburgh Dean, and in New College Settlement; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Caithness 1893; appointed to Livingstonia Mission 27th March 1894 and ordained by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 17th March 1895; translated to Lovedale as Principal 1906; died at Lovedale 19th January 1920. [Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae Vol.9, p.735: died 19th July 1930 (not 1920 as in FUF).] Married 28th April 1899, Margaret Maria Serena Davidson.
1889
PETER LANGWILL HUNTER
Born 20th January 1862 at Campbeltown, son of William Hunter and Jean Montgomery; educated at Dalaruan United Presbyterian Academy, Campbeltown Grammar School; served in Royal Bank, Campbeltown, 1877-81; University of Glasgow, M.A. (1885), United Presbyterian College; student missionary Dunfermline Gillespie 1887-8, Stranraer Ivy Place 1888-9, Falkirk Erskine 1889; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Alloa 8th April 1889; appointed to Kaffraria 16th April 1889 and ordained by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Campbeltown 24th July 1889. Married 15th August 1889, Isabella Buist, daughter of Andrew Young, Dunfermline. Chairman of Convocation at foundation of Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa 1923, and Moderator 1926-7.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.736.]
1901
HENRY EDMUND COLQUHOUN KEITH-MURRAY
Educated at University of Edinburgh; L.R.C.S. and P. (Edin. and Glas.); served in Bootle Burgh Hospital; appointed to Gordon Memorial Mission, Natal, 19th November 1901 and ordained for Foreign Mission Service by Presbytery of Auchterarder 20th November 1901; resigned owing to ill health 3rd May 1906; died 22nd March 1922. Married 2nd June 1903, Dorothy.
1915
JOHN ROBERT LEWIS KINGON
Born 2nd May 1887 at Three Anchor Bay, Cape Town; educated at Green and Sea Point High Schools, South Africa College School, Cape University, University College, London, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1913), New College, Edinburgh; ordained by authority of General Assembly’s Commission for Foreign Mission service only by Presbytery of Transkei 14th July 1915; resigned 31st August 1916, on acceptance of call to St Andrew’s, Port Elizabeth, Presbyterian Church of South Africa. Married 3rd March 1915, Ola MacLagan.
1892
JOHN LENNOX
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.207
Born 20th January 1868 at Edinburgh, son of James Lennox and Isabella Wilson Gilmour; educated at Edinburgh St Bernard’s Free Church School, Young Street Parish School, George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1888), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 11th May 1892; appointed to South Africa 5th May 1892, and ordained for Foreign Mission service by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 29th May 1892; served at Blythswood 1892-3, at Lovedale 1893-1912, at Emgwali 1912-13, at Lovedale 1913-20; war service as Chaplain to the Forces 1918-19, mentioned in Despatches 7-11-17 and 16-3-19; appointed warden of Presbyterian Hostel, South African Native College, 1921. Married 12th December 1895, Jessie Orr Gibson. Appointed O.B.E. 1919. Publications – Lovedale, South Africa, Edinburgh, 1903; The Story of our Missions in South Africa, Edinburgh, 1911.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.738.]
1906
JAMES LUKE
Translated from Calabar to Impolweni, Natal, 1906; translated to Bryce, Jamaica, 1913.
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1877
JOHN LUNDIE
Born 10th December 1849 at Coupar Angus, son of William Hannah Lundie, schoolmaster at Auchterarder; educated at Auchterarder Sheddan’s School, University of Edinburgh, M.A., United Presbyterian College; appointed to Kaffraria 26th December 1876 and ordained for Foreign Mission service by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh 4th September 1877; retired 1st January 1929; died at Ngqeleni, Umtata, 14th June 1935. Married 16th August 1877, Rebecca Peachey Best.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.738.]
1913
DONALD MACDONALD
Born 17th October 1882 at Cross, Ness, Lewis; educated at Cross Public School, Aberdeen Teachers’ Training College (Certificated), University of Glasgow, M.A. (1909), Glasgow College; student missionary in Rothesay, Knockbain, and Greenock Gaelic; appointed Impolweni 17th December 1912 and ordained for Foreign Mission service by Presbytery of Greenock 3rd June 1913; died at Impolweni 12th February 1914.
1905
DAVID ALEXANDER MCDONALD
Born 22nd November 1866 at Alyth, son of John McDonald and Isabella Taylor Wilkie; educated at Coldswell Public School, Old Aberdeen Dr Bell’s School, Edinburgh Canongate Burgh School, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Kaffraria 1900; assistant Burnshill, Pirie, 1898-1905; ordained by Presbytery of Kaffraria for pioneer work at Sibasa in the Zouthausberg [Zoutpansberg?], Northern Transvaal, 20th August 1905; founded station at Gooldsville and named it after Rev. W.H. Goold, D.D.. Married 10th July 1911, Anna Barbara Schmid, from 1907-11 an agent of the Swiss Mission Romande in the Spelonken, Transvaal.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.739.]
1929
DUGALD WELSH MCLEOD MATHESON
Born 13th March 1899 at Umtata, Cape Colony, son of Rev. Murdo John Clow Matheson, and Mina Agnes Main Ross; educated at Hilton College, Natal, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1922), New College, Edinburgh; student assistant Edinburgh Chalmers Territorial 1924-5; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 1925; ordained by Presbytery of Johannesburg 21st July 1925; missionary under the Presbyterian Church of South Africa 1925-9; appointed to Gordon Memorial Mission 19th February 1929.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.742; Vol.10, p.423.]
1893
MURDO JOHN CLOW MATHESON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.264
Born 2nd April 1868 at Partick, son of Rev. Dugald Matheson, Tarbat, and Mary McLeod; educated at University of St Andrews, New College, Edinburgh; appointed to South Africa 31st May 1893 and ordained by Free Church Presbytery of Tain 14th June 1893; war service as Chaplain to the Forces with Native Labour Contingent; died at Gordon Memorial Mission 29th March 1930. Married 28th January 1897, Mina Agnes Main Ross.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.742.]
1897
WILLIAM JOHN BONAR MOIR
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.274
Born 8th November 1846 at Aberdeen; educated at University of Aberdeen, M.A., Aberdeen Free Church College; appointed to Lovedale 18th March 1873 and ordained for Foreign Mission service by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 15th May 1873; translated to Blythswood 1897; retired 1st January 1903; died 3rd January 1904. Married 18th June 1873, Annie Anderson.
1905
WILLIAM RITCHIE MOODIE
Born 5th December 1860 at Monikie, Angus; educated at Dunfermline Commercial Academy; in business in Glasgow; missionary in Glasgow Kinning Park; teacher at Gordon Memorial Mission 1886-91; resigned to itinerate among natives in the Colony; appointed as missionary at Polela, Natal, 28th March 1905 and ordained for Foreign Mission service by authority of General Assembly by Presbytery of Glasgow 10th September 1905; died at Gordon Memorial Mission 30th November 1926. Married (1) 2nd April 1887, Jessie Campbell; (2 ) 6th December 1924, Helen Murdoch Nisbet.
1906
ROBERT MURE
Born 20th December 1872 at Glasgow, son of Robert Mure and Margaret Cochrane; educated at Glasgow Thomson Street Public School, Kilmarnock Academy, University of Glasgow, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Inverness November 1899; assistant Inverness East 1899-1900, Buckie North 1900, Hawick St George’s 1900-1, Dundee St Paul’s 1901-2, Rendall 1902-4, Edinburgh St John’s 1904; loc. ten. Leith North 1904-5; ordained as missionary at Rendall, Orkney, 24th February 1903; appointed to Ross Mission, Transkei Presbytery, 8th August 1906. Married 9th September 1907, Margaret Glass.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.744.]
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1892
BROWNLEE JOHN ROSS
Born 15th November 1865 at Alice, Cape Colony, son of Rev. Richard Ross and Mary Frances Brownlee; educated at Lovedale, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1888), New College, Edinburgh; appointed to South Africa 21st June 1892 and ordained for Foreign Mission service by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 26th June 1892. Married 19th July 1893, Frances Mary Douglas.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.747.]
1877
JAMES SCOTT
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.311
Born 28th November 1843 at Peterhead, son of Rev. C. Scott, Pinetown; educated at Lovedale, New College, Edinburgh; appointed to Natal 17th July 1877 and ordained for Foreign Mission service by authority of General Assembly by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 2nd October 1877; retired 31st December 1907; died at Maritzburg, Natal, 20th June 1930. Married 3rd October 1877, Margaret Watt Weddel.
1912
DUNCAN WILKIESON SEMPLE
Born 29th May 1885 at Rhonadale, Carradale, son of Richard Semple and Mary Wilkieson; educated at Carradale Public School, Campbeltown Grammar School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1907), Glasgow College; student missionary at Melness 1910, and Munlochy 1911; licensed by Presbytery of Kintyre May 1912; appointed to South Africa 19th December 1911, and ordained for Foreign Mission service by Presbytery of Kintyre 9th July 1912; served as Principal of Elementary School, Lovedale, 1912, Theological tutor Lovedale, 1913; missionary at Emgwali 1914-18; minister in charge, European congregation of Huttesheim District of Presbyterian Church of South Africa 1916-18; missionary at Mount Fletcher 1919-20 and 1925-7, and at Gillespie 1928-9. Married 5th December 1914, Margaret MacPherson Miller, [daughter of John Miller, minister Caldercruix.]
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.748; Vol.10, p.425.]
1873
THOMAS SHEARER
Born 1845 at Edinburgh; educated at University of Edinburgh, United Presbyterian College; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh October 1873; appointed to South Africa 25th March 1873 and ordained for Foreign Mission service by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh 4th November 1873; retired 30th September 1902; died 9th May 1909. Married 1873, Helen Lundie.
1918
ROBERT HENRY WISHART SHEPHERD
Born 25th May 1888 at Mylnefield Feus, Invergowrie, son of Matthew Moncrieff Shepherd and Isabella Macewan; educated Dundee Rosebank Public School Skerry’s College, University of St Andrews and Edinburgh, M.A. (1915), New College, Edinburgh; student assistant Edinburgh Nicolson Street winter 1916-17 and 1917-18; war service with Scottish Churches Huts 1916 and 1917; licensed by Presbytery of Dundee 10th April 1918; appointed to South Africa 19th February 1918 and ordained for Foreign Mission service by Presbytery of Dundee 14th May 1918; served at Main, Tembuland, Cape Province, from April 1920; translated to Lovedale 4th June 1927. Married 4th June 1918, Mary Shearer Goodfellow. Publications – The Bantu, Edinburgh, 1925; The Humanism of Jesus , London, 1926; Africans on the March, Edinburgh, 1927.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.748; Vol.10, p.425.]
1893
JOHN HENDERSON SOGA
Born 10th February 1860 at Emgwali Mission, Cape Colony, son of Rev. Tiyo Soga and Janet Burnside; educated at Glasgow High School, Dollar Academy, University of Edinburgh, United Presbyterian College; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh 4th July 1893; appointed to South Africa 25th April 1893 and ordained by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh 24th September 1893; served at Mbonda, Mount Frere, Griqualand East, 1893-1904; translated to Miller Mission, Elliotdale, Transkei, 1904. Married 1st January 1896, Isabella Brown. A member of the Committee engaged in revision of the Xosa Bible 1924. Publications – translations from English into Si-Xosa, Traveller’s Guide from Death to Life, Lovedale, 1924; Work of the Holy Spirit, Lovedale, 1927; The Pilgrim’s Progress, Part IV, London, 1928.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.749.]
1885
WILLIAM ANDERSON SOGA
Born 5th January 1858 at Peelton, Kaffraria, son of Rev. Tiyo Soga and Janet Burnside; educated at Lovedale, Glasgow High School, University of Glasgow, M.B., C.M. (1883), M.D., Edinburgh United Presbyterian College; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Stirling 2nd June 1885; appointed to South Africa 24th February 1885 and ordained by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Stirling 7th July 1885; resigned 17th November 1903; served in South African Government Medical Service 1903-13; appointed as Honorary Missionary at Miller Mission Station 23rd September 1913; died 15th July 1916. Married July 1885, Mary A. Meikle.
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1899
GEORGE SHAW STEWART, M.A.
Minister at Inverness United Presbyterian; appointed to South Africa 14th March 1899; resigned March 1913; inducted Edinburgh Cairns Memorial 7th October 1914.
1865
JAMES STEWART
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.329
Born 14th February 1831 at Edinburgh; educated at Perth and Edinburgh High Schools, Universities of Edinburgh, St Andrews and Glasgow, M.D., D.D., New College, Edinburgh; explored Central Africa 1862-4; assistant Edinburgh St George’s, Glasgow St John’s; appointed to Lovedale 20th December 1864 and ordained by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 1st February 1865; appointed Principal, Lovedale, 1870; died at Lovedale 21st December 1905. Married 1866, Williamina Stephen. Dr Stewart launched the scheme for the founding of the Livingstonia Mission in 1874. Moderator of General Assembly of Free Church 1899.
1882
JOHN WIGHTMAN STIRLING
Born 23rd June 1855 at Balagan, Bonhill, son of John Stirling and Agnes Wightman; educated at Jamestown Public School, University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; student missionary in West Calder 1879-81, and Edinburgh Rose Street Mission, 1881-2; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh 6th June 1882; appointed to Emgwali and ordained by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Dumbarton 28th June 1882; died 8th February 1925. Married 27th July 1882, Annie Kelly.
1890
DAVID DUNCAN STORMONT
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.332
Born 14th December 1862 at Arbroath, son of James Carnegie Stormont and Ann Frances Kilgour; educated privately and Glasgow Govan Public School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1887), University of St Andrews, B.D. (1908), University of South Africa, LL.B. (1904), Glasgow Free Church College 1886-90, Oxford Theological Schools, University of Oxford, M.A. (1923); Licentiate of College of Preceptors, London, 1890; assistant master Glasgow Hillhead 1880-7; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow April 1890; appointed to Lovedale 22nd April 1890 and ordained for Foreign Mission service by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 26th October 1890; head teacher in Lovedale Training School 1890-1901; Principal in Blythswood 1902-22; died 29th November 1931. Married 13th December 1892, Margaret Nicol Reid Money, L.L.A. (St Andrews). Honorary Member of Institute of Journalists, South Africa, 1896; Associate of Bankers, South Africa, 1904; Advocate of the Supreme Court of South Africa 1905. Editor, Christian Express, Lovedale, 1895-1901; and Blythswood Review, Blythswood, from 1924.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.751.]
1880
WILLIAM STUART
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.334
Born 12th April 1854; educated at University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1876), Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Strathbogie May 1880; appointed to South Africa 22nd June 1880 and ordained for Foreign Mission service by Free Church Presbytery of Inverness 12th August 1880; retired 1st April 1930; died 23rd October 1930. Married (1) 28th September 1881, Jeanie Grant; (2) 11th April 1905, Mary Shearer. First Moderator of the General Assembly of the Bantu Presbyterian Church.
1888
JOHN THOMSON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.342
Born 14th January 1856 in Dunbartonshire; educated at University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; appointed to South Africa 7th May 1888 and ordained for Foreign Mission service by Free Church Presbytery of Dumbarton 26th June 1888; retired 1st July 1920; died at East London 18th May 1932.
1884
ALEXANDER WELSH
Born 26th October 1851 at New Cumnock; educated at New Cumnock, Glasgow Free Church Normal School, Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, United Presbyterian College; spent 3 years as teacher and 4½ years as teacher and evangelist at Gordon Memorial Mission; licensed 17th June 1884; appointed to South Africa 31st March 1884 and ordained by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Ayr 30th July 1884; resigned 25th July 1911; died at Johannesburg 2nd July 1925. Married 1880.
1876
DAVID DOIG YOUNG
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.362
Born 20th July 1848 at Liverpool; educated at University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen Free Church College; appointed to South Africa 18th April 1876 and ordained for Foreign Mission service by Free Church Presbytery of Aberdeen 8th May 1876; retired 1916; died at Cala, Cape Colony, 22nd November 1916. Married 1878, Mary Wallace Weir.
CALABAR
JOHN ALEXANDER TURNBULL BEATTIE
Born 22nd October 1903 at Changpu, Amoy, son of Rev. James Beattie, M.A., and Helen Orr Alexander;
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educated at Edinburgh George Watson’s College, Stranraer High School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1923), Dip.Ed. (1927), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 1st July 1926; appointed to Calabar 15th March 1927 and ordained for Foreign Mission service by Presbytery of Edinburgh 3rd July 1927; served at Arochuku [1921; see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.729; Vol.10, pp.51 and Vol.10, p.416; Vol.11, p.37.] Married 19th September 1934, Mary Cairns Mackenzie.]
1921
ADAM BROWN
Born 20th December 1863 at West Fenton, Drem, East Lothian, son of Adam Brown and Alison Goodlet; educated at Dirleton Public School; appointed to Calabar as industrial missionary 2nd October 1898; in charge Ikpe Station 1918; ordained for Foreign Mission service by authority of Commission of General Assembly by Presbytery of Inverness 21st September 1921; retired 31st March 1927; died 17th November 1944. Married 12th February 1901, Elizabeth Mackintosh.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.729;]
1922
THOMAS CAMPBELL CHAPMAN
Born 20th December 1876 at Bathgate, son of Thomas Chapman and Mary Campbell; educated at Bathgate Academy, Glasgow Royal Technical College, Bible Training Institute; appointed to Calabar as industrial missionary 23rd April 1901; appointed missionary-in-charge at Ikorofiong 1921; ordained for Foreign Mission service by authority of Commission of General Assembly by Presbytery of Calabar 22nd March 1922; served at Umwana from 1922. Married 24th March 1911, Agnes Stephen Bailie McKinney.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.602; Vol.10, p.346.]
1913
WILLIAM MARSHALL CHRISTIE
Born 8th January 1887 at Edinburgh, son of John Christie and Anne Agnes Black; educated at Edinburgh Academy, University of Oxford Trinity College, B.A. (1909), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 7th May 1913; appointed to Calabar 17th December 1912 and ordained for Foreign Mission service by Presbytery of Edinburgh 11th May 1913; served in H.M. Forces 1915-19.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.731.]
1904
ROBERT COLLINS
Born 20th November 1867 at Uddingston, son of John Collins; educated at Glasgow Bible Training Institute; appointed to Calabar as evangelist December 1898; ordained for Foreign Mission service by authority of Commission of General Assembly by Presbytery of Hamilton 22nd September 1904. Married 25th June 1907, Elizabeth Stewart Glen.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.731.]
1884
ALEXANDER CRUICKSHANK
Born 25th May 1854 at Aberdeen, son of Alexander Cruikshank and Janet Wallace; educated at University of Aberdeen, Edinburgh United Presbyterian College; missionary assistant Aberdeen St Nicholas Lane; appointed to Calabar 26th April 1881; ordained by Presbytery of Calabar 13th April 1884. Married (1) Jessie Gray; (2) 1900, Lizzie Liddle. Appointed O.B.E. 1926.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.731.]
1891
JOHN TAYLOR DEAN
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.422
Born 21st May 1866 at Elgin, son of John Dean and Hannah Cumming Taylor; educated at Elgin West End Public School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1888), D.D. (1923), Edinburgh United Presbyterian College; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Elgin and Inverness June 1891; appointed to Calabar and ordained by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Elgin and Inverness 8th July 1891; resigned 31st January 1899; inducted Coldingham 30th November 1899; temporary Vice-Principal of Hope Waddell Training Institute 1917-19; inducted to Calabar (as theological tutor) October 1819. Married (1) November 1892, Mary Chalmers; (2) 24th November 1894, Mary Elizabeth Morrison or Rae. Publications – Translation of New Testament into Efik, Edinburgh, 1910; Visions and Revelations, Edinburgh, 1911; The Book of Revelation (Handbooks for Bible Classes), Edinburgh, 1916; Second Corinthians (Handbooks for Efik Students), Calabar, 1918.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.732.]
1901
WILLIAM ALEXANDER JOSEPH GARDINER
Born 22nd October 1874 at Bathgate, son of Thomas Gardiner and Agnes Hamilton; educated at Dalserf Public School, Hamilton St John’s, Glasgow High School, London Harley College, Livingston College; appointed to Calabar as evangelist 29th November 1898; ordained for Foreign Mission service by Presbytery of Hamilton 22nd July 1901. Married 25th July 1901, Margaret Hamilton Harris.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.337; Vol.10, p.201.]
1903
JAMES WEBSTER KERR
Appointed to Calabar as teacher-evangelist 26th July 1899; ordained by Presbytery of Glasgow 22nd December 1903; resigned 25th April 1905; inducted Blackburn 4th September 1910.
1925
JOHN MITCHELL LEWARS
Born 3rd November 1897 at Lesmahagow, son of Rev. John Lewars, M.A., and Annie Harvey; educated at Kirkcaldy High
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School, Glasgow Whitehill Higher Grade, Edinburgh George Watson’s College; war service in H.M. Forces 1916-18; University of Edinburgh, M.A. (Hons. in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy 1921), New College, Edinburgh; University of Glasgow and Jordanhill Provincial Training College; Edinburgh Inter-Collegiate Secretary, Student Christian Movement 1921-2; licensed by Presbytery of Blairgowrie May 1925; appointed to Calabar 21st July 1925 and ordained by Presbytery of Blairgowrie 11th September 1925. [For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.738; Vol.10, p.421.]
1885
JAMES LUKE
Appointed to Calabar 31st March 1884 and ordained by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Dundee 19th May 1885; served at Creek Town 1885-7, Ikorana 1887-8, Emuremura 1889-93; translated to Bryce, Jamaica, 1894; translated to Calabar as Superintendent of Hope Waddell Training Centre in 1901; translated to Impolweni, Natal, 1906; [later in Aberlemno.]
1929
ROBERT MALCOLM MACDONALD
Born 22nd August 1903 at Callander, son of James MacDonald and Phebe MacNiven; educated at Callander McLaren High School, University of St Andrews, M.A. (1926), New College, Edinburgh; sub-warden, New College Settlement and assistant Pleasance 1928-9; licensed by Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane 1928; appointed to Calabar 20th December 1927 and ordained by Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane 18th June 1929.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.739; Vol.10, p.424; Vol.11, p.435; Vol.12, pp.482 and 508.]
1903
JAMES KERR MACGREGOR
Born 30th October 1877 at Wormley, Herts., son of Daniel Macgregor and Jemima Simpson; educated at Edinburgh St George’s School, Daniel Stewart’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1898), B.D. (1902), Edinburgh United Presbyterian College, Glasgow College, Edinburgh New College; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh June 1902; appointed to Calabar 25th March 1902 and ordained for Foreign Mission service by Presbytery of Edinburgh 1st April 1903; appointed Vice-Superintendent of Hope Waddell Training Institute 1903, and Principal 1907. Married 30th April 1907, Jane, 3rd daughter of Rev. Fergus Ferguson, D.D., Glasgow.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.739.]
1922
EBENEZER MCLACHLAN
Born 16th December 1871 at Glasgow, son of John Mclachlan; educated at Glasgow Kay Public School, Free Church Normal School, Bible Training Institute; appointed to Calabar as evangelist 29th May 1900; resigned December 1917; re-appointed 20th December 1921; ordained for Foreign Mission service by authority of Commission of General Assembly by Presbytery of Calabar 6th November 1922. Married September 1914, Helena Jameson.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.740.]
1893
WILLIAM MARWICK
Ordained to ministry of Congregational Church in Dundee 11th December 1890; appointed to Calabar 28th June 1892; admitted to United Presbyterian Church 11th May 1893; translated to Jamaica January 1901.
1925
JOHN MITCHELL MURDOCH
Born 27th July 1893 at Dundrum, Co. Down, son of William Thomson Murdoch and Agnes Mitchell; educated at Stranraer High School, Glasgow Bible Training Institute; appointed to Calabar as lay missionary 15th February 1921; ordained by authority of Commission of General Assembly by Presbytery of Greenock 12th September 1925; died at Calabar 27th July 1928.
1901
JOHN RANKIN
Born 22nd December 1869 at Newarthill; educated at Newarthill Public School, University of Edinburgh, Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Presbytery of Hamilton 13th June 1900; appointed to Calabar 25th June 1901 and ordained for Foreign Mission service by Presbytery of Dunoon 23rd July 1901; resigned 15th April 1924. Married 31st December 1908, Mary Bain.
1900
DAVID ROBERTSON
Born 2nd May 1869 at Rothesay; educated at Rothesay Academy; in business in Glasgow; University of Edinburgh, M.B., Ch.B. (1899); appointed to Calabar 26th December 1899; set apart for Foreign Mission service by Presbytery of Dunoon January 1900; resigned 18th September 1917; died 16th June 1933. Married (1) 24th September 1902, Marieanne Wilson Falconer; (2) 8th March 1915, Jean Dey.
1925
WILLIAM BAILDON TAYLOR
Born 2nd January 1896 at Edinburgh, son of William Baildon Taylor and Annie Miller; educated at Bannockburn Public School and in Edinburgh; war service in H.M. Forces 1914-19; Glasgow Bible Training Institute, New College, Edinburgh; appointed to Calabar as evangelist 20th June 1922; ordained for Foreign Mission service by authority of Commission of General Assembly by Presbytery of Edinburgh 19th April 1925; resigned 17th July 1928. Married 25th April 1925, Hilda Mary Brash.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, pp.536, 493, 797/a> and 438; Vol.10, p.260.]
Vol.10, p.422
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1893
WILLIAM RISK THOMSON
Appointed to Jamaica 27th March 1883 and ordained by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow 24th July 1883; translated to Calabar as first Superintendent of Hope Waddell Training Institution July 1893; resigned 25th June 1901; introduced Dunscore Renwick 3rd November 1903.
1902
WILLIAM THOMAS WEIR
Appointed to Calabar 28th February 1893 and ordained for Foreign Mission service by authority of Commission of General Assembly by Presbytery of Inverness 8th January 1902; resigned 25th February 1913; inducted Rothiemay 1914.
1901
ARTHUR WEST WILKIE, M.A., D.D.
Appointed to Calabar 23rd April 1901 and ordained for Foreign Mission service by Presbytery of Perth 6th August 1901; translated to Accra, Gold Coast, January 1918.
1918
JOHN WOOD
Born 1st March in 1890; educated at Aberdeen Robert Gordon’s College, University of Aberdeen, M.B., Ch.B. (1912), D.T.M.; appointed to Calabar 29th April 1913; ordained for Foreign Mission service by authority of Commission of General Assembly by Presbytery of Edinburgh 15th December 1918; resigned 20th September 1921; took up medical practice in Bournemouth; died 2nd October 1945. Married 29th January 1914, Emily Gertrude Barry.
GOLD COAST
1920
THOMAS LORIMER BEVERIDGE
Born 1st July 1872 at Ayr, son of Robert Morris Beveridge and Elizabeth Wallace Lorimer; educated at Ayr Academy, University of Edinburgh, United Presbyterian College, Westminster College, Cambridge; licensed by Presbytery of London North June 1901; assistant Liverpool St George’s 1901, Dundee St Stephen’s 1901-2; ordained and inducted Rosneath 20th February 1902; translated to Falkirk Graham’s Road 21st May 1911; resigned May 1915 while in war service as Chaplain to the Forces 1915-19; became Deputy Assistant Principal Chaplain January 1918 and Assistant Principal Chaplain, R.A.F., May 1919; appointed to Gold Coast 17th February 1920. Married 4th July 1902, Dr Jessie Hawkesworth Smith, missionary at Nasirabad, Rajputana.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.345.]
1921
ROBERT RUSSELL DAVIDSON
Born 2nd September 1883 at North Olmsted, Ohio, U.S.A., son of Rev. Robert Young Davidson of Japan Mission, and Corolyn Elizabeth Eldred; educated at North Olmsted and private school in Tokyo, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1907), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 1911; assistant Edinburgh Viewforth 1911-12; ordained and inducted Dallas 3rd July 1912; appointed to Gold Coast 19th July 1921, and inducted as missionary teacher at Akropong 21st August 1921.
1920
WILLIAM FERGUSON
Born 21st February 1888; educated at Dublin Trinity College, M.A. (1914), Londonderry McCrea-Magee Theological College; licensed by Presbytery of Templepatrick 1917; appointed to Gold Coast 20th January 1920 and ordained by authority of General Assembly by Presbytery of Gold Coast 8th July 1920. Married Maria Margaret Caldwell.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, pp.733 and Vol.9, p.482; Vol.10, p.286.]
1919
WILLIAM GRAY MURRAY, M.A., B.D.
Formerly at Reay; appointed to Akropong 21st October 1919; resigned 3rd July 1926; inducted Wigtown 17th November 1926.
1929
JOHN ALEXANDER ROBSON WATT
Born 30th November 1903 at Comrie, son of Rev. Arthur Crawford Watt and Laura Thomson; educated at Crieff Morrison’s Academy, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1924), B.D. (1929), Glasgow Jordanhill Training College, New College, Edinbugh; student missionary in New College Settlement; licensed by Presbytery of Auchterarder 15th April 1928; appointed to Gold Coast 19th March 1929 and ordained by Presbytery of Auchterarder 24th June 1929.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, pp.622, 753 and 802; Vol.10, p.404; Vol.11, p.386.]
1922
ROBERT RITCHIE WATT
Born 13th October 1893 at Comrie, son of Arthur Crawford Watt and Laura Thomson; educated at Comrie Public School, Crieff Morrison’s Academy, University of Edinburgh M.A. (1919); war service in H.M. Forces in Gallipoli, Egypt, Salonika and France 1914-19; New College, Edinburgh; student assistant Edinburgh Moray-Knox 1919-20, Gorgie 1921; licensed by Presbytery of Auchterarder October 1921; sub-warden New College Settlement 1921-2; appointed to Gold Coast 21st February 1922 and ordained for Foreign Mission service by Presbytery of Ayr 30th April 1922. Married 3rd February 1927, Isabel Sutherland Ross.
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1918
ARTHUR WEST WILKIE
Born 9th November 1878 at Belmont, Liscard, Cheshire, son of Rev. James Mougach Wilkie and Jessie Brown Thomson; educated at Miss Whiteside’s School, Egremont, Wallasey Grammar School, University of Liverpool, University of Glasgow, M.A. (Hons. in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy 1896), B.D. (1900), D.D. (1927), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; University Settlement, Glasgow, 1896-7; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow June 1900; assistant Perth Bridgend 1901; appointed to Calabar 23rd April 1901 and ordained for Foreign Mission service by Presbytery of Perth 6th August 1901; translated to Accra Gold Coast, January 1918. Married 29th April 1903, Marian Boyd, second daughter of Rev. George Robson, D.D., Perth. Created C.B.E. June 1926.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.753.]
LIVINGSTONIA
1913
THOMAS THOMSON ALEXANDER, M.A.
Minister at Deerness, appointed to Livingstonia 21st October 1913; resigned 20th July 1915; inducted Holm, Orkney, 22nd October 1915.
1920
DAVID MACCULLOCH BROWN
Born 27th July 1880 at Falkirk, son of Thomas Brown and Elizabeth MacCulloch; educated at Motherwell High School, McGill University Montreal, M.D., C.M. (1910), Glasgow College; student assistant Glasgow Renwick 1910-13; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow 1913; assistant Glasgow Finnieston 1913-14; ordained and inducted Saline 14th December 1914; resigned while on war service in R.A.M.C. 14th October 1917; war service 1916-19; inducted Walls, Orkney, August 1919 (acting also as medical officer for Longhope under Scottish Board of Health); appointed to Livingstonia for work at Itete (formerly German Mission) 21st December 1920; translated to Lubwa, Northern Rhodesia, 1927. Married 29th June 1915, Elizabeth Yuille Caldwell, Annan. Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society 1924; Fellow of Royal Society of Tropical Medicine; contributed articles to medical journals, missionary periodicals, etc.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.729.]
1905
JAMES ALEXANDER CHISHOLM
Born 21st October 1872 at Bucksburn, Aberdeen, son of John Chisholm, F.E.I.S., [and Mary McCulloch McIntosh;] educated at Inverness Schools, Edinburgh Royal College of Surgeons, L.R.C.P. and S. (Edinburgh), L.R.F.P. and S. (Glas.) 1900, D.T.M.; appointed to Livingstonia 30th May 1900; ordained for Foreign Mission service by authority of Commission of General Assembly 17th December 1905; war service in N. Rhodesian Medical Corps 1916-19, mentioned in Despatches. Married 3rd August 1900, Kate McGilvray, Royal Red Cross. Appointed J.P. of Rhodesia. Contributed articles to Tropical Medical Journal; translated the New Testament into Chinanwonga.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.731.]
1893
ALEXANDER DEWAR
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.136
Born in Argyllshire; educated at University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; appointed to Livingstonia 18th April 1893 and ordained by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 1893; resigned 9th March 1905; joined the Free Church Mission in South Africa; died in South Africa 20th August 1943. F.R.G.S.
1897
WALTER ANGUS ELMSLIE, M.B., C.M., D.D.
Appointed to Livingstonia 12th May 1884; ordained for Foreign Mission service by authority of General Assembly by Free Church Presbytery of Aberdeen 7th December 1897; resigned 31st March 1924; introduced Rayne 26th March 1925.
1920
MATTHEW HAROLD FAULDS
Born 1st March 1890 at Louth, Lincolnshire, [son of William Faulds and Sarah Ann Bemrose]; educated at Grimsby Municipal College, Louth King Edward VII Grammar School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1912), New College, Edinburgh; assistant Edinburgh St Mary’s; war service with Y.M.C.A. in East Africa and India 1916-19; appointed to Tanganyika Territory 18th November 1919 and ordained by Presbytery of Edinburgh 7th April 1920; translated to Livingstonia 1926. Married 10th May 1920, Doris Elsie Elizabeth Procktor.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.347.]
1896
DONALD FRASER, D.D.
[Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.160]
Appointed to Livingstonia and ordained by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 21st June 1896; served at Ekwendeni 1896-1900, at Hora 1901-2 and Loudon 1902-25; appointed Home Administration Secretary for Foreign Missions May 1925.
1925
WILLIAM COLVILL GALBRAITH
Born 1st September 1897 at Rothesay Bridgend Manse, son of Rev. William Galbraith and Jean Colvill; educated at Rothesay Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1921), B.Sc. (Hons. in Geography 1924), Dip.Ed. (1925), Glasgow College, Glasgow Provincial Training Centre; war
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service in naval forces; licensed by Presbytery of Dunoon 1st July 1924; appointed to Livingstonia 16th June 1925 and ordained for Foreign Mission service by Presbytery of Dunoon 28th December 1925; served as headmaster of Livingstonia High School and engaged in district educational and evangelistic work. Married 4th February 1926, Marian Christobel Lethem, M.A..
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.296; Vol.9, p.175.]
1927
ALEXANDER HALLIDAY
Born 12th May 1887 at Perceton, son of Thomas Halliday and Mary Wallace; educated at Dreghorn Public School (1893-1900); war service with H.M. Forces in Egypt and Palestine 1914-19, mentioned in Despatches 1919; appointed to Livingstonia Mission, Tanganyika Territory, 15th February 1921; Glasgow Bible Training Institute, Glasgow College 1926-8; ordained for Foreign Mission service by authority of Commission of General Assembly by Presbytery of Irvine and Kilmarnock 1st May 1927; translated to Livingstonia 1928. Married 23rd August 1921, Janet Simpson Fulton.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.735.]
1895
JAMES HENDERSON, M.A., D.D.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.184
Appointed to Livingstonia 27th March 1894 and ordained by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 17th March 1895; translated to Lovedale as Principal 1906.
1920
JOHN MATHIESON RIDDELL HENDERSON
Born 23rd February 1863 at Ecclefechan, son of Walter Henderson and Elizabeth Riddell; educated at Ecclefechan Free Church School and Public School, Glasgow Bible Training Institute; missionary Glasgow Wynd; appointed to Livingstonia 1896; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France; ordained by authority of Commission of General Assembly by Presbytery of Livingstonia 22nd February 1920; served at Kasungu, Ternanda, Bandawe and Mwenzo; invalided home end of 1927; retired 1st January 1928; died 6th May 1943. Married 3rd October 1902, Catherine Young, daughter of Rev. John Riddell, B.A., Glasgow Wynd.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.735.]
1903
FRANCIS ALEXANDER INNES
Born 30th January 1875 at Skene, son of Rev.William Innes and Margaret Christie; educated at University of Aberdeen, M.A., M.B., Ch.B.; appointed to Livingstonia 9th May 1899; ordained by authority of Commission of General Assembly by Presbytery of Aberdeen 20th December 1903; war service 1917-19; resigned March 1921; became medical officer in West Africa; died 17th May 1944. Married 11th November 1903, Mary A. Innes.
1875
ROBERT LAWS
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.206
Born 28th May 1851 at Aberdeen, son of Robert Laws and Christian Cruickshank; educated at Aberdeen Miss Robertson’s School, East Free Church School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1872), M.B., C.M. (1875), M.D. (1877), D.D. (1891), University of Glasgow, Glasgow Andersonian University, Edinburgh United Presbyterian College, Aberdeen Free Church College; missionary in Glasgow Smallpox and Fever Hospitals 1873-5; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Aberdeen April 1875; appointed to Livingstonia 16th March 1875 and ordained for Foreign Mission service by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Aberdeen 26th April 1875; war service in Livingstonia, hospital work, engineering and printing work for Army; retired 1st October 1928; died 6th August 1934. Married 28th August 1879, Margaret Troup Gray. Created C.M.G. 1923; LL.D. from Cape Town University 1925; F.R.G.S., F.R.S.G.S.; Moderator of General Assembly 1908; Principal of Overtown Institution till 1927. Publications – translation of gospel of St Mark into Nyanja, Lovedale, 1880; translation of New Testament into Nyanja, Edinburgh, 1885; translation of gospel of St Mark into Tonga, Bandawe, 1881; English-Nyanja Dictionary, Edinburgh, 1886; Collections for Gunda Language, Edinburgh, 1887; school-books in Nyanja and Tonga languages; editor for many years of Aurora and Livingstonian News.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.737;]
1893
ALEXANDER GILLON MACALPINE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.213
Born 11th June 1869 at Linlithgow, son of James Macalpine and Janet Stanners; educated at Linlithgow West End Public School, Edinburgh George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, Glasgow Free Church College; student missionary Glasgow Candlish Memorial 1891-2; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Paisley 25th April 1893; appointed to Livingstonia June 1893 and ordained by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow 4th June 1893; served at Bandawe; resigned for family reasons 1915; inducted Monquhitter and New Byth 6th December 1916; appointed to Overtown Institution 1921; translated to Bandawe 1926. Married 27th January 1898, Annie Maxwell. Publications – Testamente Lale (New Testament); 2 Catechisms; Hymnal;
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2 School Primers; Grammar; Dictionary (English-Chitonga and Chitonga-English) all in Chitonga.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.738; Vol.10, p.421.]
1913
ALEXANDER MACDONALD
Born 18th January 1879 at Swordale, Stornoway; educated at Stornoway Nicolson Institute, Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, Glasgow College; assistant Inveravon, Greenock Gaelic; acted at Lovedale 1910-11; appointed to Livingstonia 21st October 1913 and ordained by Presbytery of Kirkcaldy 9th November 1913; war service in German East Africa 1916-19. Married 24th June 1920, Ruth Mary Livingstone Wilson, grand-daughter of Dr David Livingstone.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.405.]
1901
DUNCAN ROSS MACKENZIE
Born 27th December 1868 at Creich, Sutherland, son of Colin Mackenzie and Margaret MacLeod; educated at Fearn Public School, Harlosh, Skye, Glasgow Lambhill Public School, Renton Public School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; student assistant Croy 1898, Strathglass 1899, Aberchirder 1900, Alexandria North 1900-1; licensed by Presbytery of Dumbarton April 1901; ordained for Foreign Mission service at Livingstonia by Presbytery of Dumbarton 17th May 1901; resigned 1916; war service in Central Africa 1916; introduced Dundee Lochee Road 16th November 1916; translated to Peterhead West Associate 18th June 1917; appointed to German Mission, Tanganyika Territory, 1920; appointed to Overtown Institution 1926; appointed General Secretary to Livingstonia Mission 1927. Married 27th April 1904, Agnes Elizabeth Lambert. F.R.G.S. 1920; appointed editor, Livingstonia Mission Publications and Livingstonia News 1927; member of Nyasaland Legislative Council 1928. Publications – School Management, Livingstonia, 1909, 1929; Konde Hymns, Livingstonia, 1911, 1923; Tumbuka Syntax, Livingstonia, 1913; Spirit-Ridden Konde, London, 1925; Catechism, Livingstonia, 1924; Prayers, London, 1928; joint translator of Tumbuka New Testament, Edinburgh, 1916.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.646.]
1906
ROBERT DONALD MACMINN
Born 15th April 1870 at Dalquharran, Dailly, son of Thomas Macminn and Annie Donald; educated at Kilgrannie Public School, Dailly, Galston Brown’s Institute, London Harley College, Cliff College, Derbyshire; appointed as lay missionary to Livingstonia June 1893; ordained by authority of Commission of General Assembly by Presbytery of Livingstonia 23rd September 1906; served at Bandawe, Kasun, Loudon Ekwendeni, Mwenzo, Overtown Institution and Lubwa. Married (1) 15th August 1901, Lizzie Ann Stewart; (2) 22nd June 1910, Josephine Maria Haarhof. Publications – translations into Tonga, Parables and Miracles, Livingstonia 1899; Gospel of St John, London; two thirds of New Testament, Edinburgh; translations into Tumbuka, a quarter of the New Testament; into Bemba, Umulubushi Wesu (Our Saviour), Livingstonia, 1915, and other editions; Hymn Book (in Bemba), Livingstonia, 1915, 1921, and London, 1929; Calo ca Mfifi (Dark Continent), Lovedale, 1917; several school books.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.745; Vol.9, p.422.]
1921
JOHN ROBSON MARTIN
Born 8th May 1892 at Landour, Mussorie, Central Provinces, India, son of Rev. William Ferrier Martin, M.A., of Jamaica, and Elizabeth Craig, daughter of Rev. John Robson, D.D.; educated at Bridge of Allan Kelvingrove House, Edinburgh George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh M.A. (Hons. in Philosophy, 1915, Hamilton Philosophical Scholar 1919), New College, Edinburgh; war service in H.M. Forces in France 1915-19; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh July 1920; Field Secretary to Youth Committee 1920-1; ordained for Foreign Mission service at Livingstonia Mission by Presbytery of Edinburgh 14th June 1921; served at Bandawe and Ekwendeni. Married 3rd August 1921, Mary Evelyn Telfer, M.A., daughter of Rev. A.P. Telfer, M.A., of Calcutta and Tarbet.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.668; Vol.10, p.382; Vol.11, p.359.]
1908
MALCOLM MOFFAT
Born 16th January 1870 at Kuruman, Bechuanaland, son of John Smith Moffat and Emily Moffat; educated at St Andrew’s College, Grahamstown, South Africa; appointed as lay missionary to Livingstonia Mission 17th July 1894; ordained by authority of Commission of General Assembly by Presbytery of Livingstonia 13th September 1908; served at Chitambo, Northern Rhodesia. Married 29th December 1900, Marie Martha Jackson.
1899
GEORGE PRENTICE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.293
Born 15th January 1871 at Midgreenwell, Forth, son of James Prentice and
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Christine Calder Ferrier; educated at Wilsontown Public School, Peebles Secondary School, Edinburgh Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, L.R.C.P. and S. (Edin.), L.F.C. and S. (Glas.), (1894), New College, Edinburgh, University of Liverpool, D.T.M. (1912); appointed to Livingstonia Mission April 1894; ordained by authority of General Assembly by Free Church Presbytery of Peebles July 1899; served in Bandawe, Kasunga; war service in R.A.M.C. in East Africa and Nyasaland 1917-18 and 1919; retired 1st January 1925. Married 10th May 1901, Agnes Tudhope Scott. Gave special service in connection with tropical diseases. Fellow of Royal Geographical Society, and of Royal Society of Tropical Medicine.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.746.]
1925
DAVID MAXWELL ROBERTSON
Born 14th November 1897 at Merriton, Ontario, son of John Lindsay Robertson and Jessie Maxwell; educated at Rutherglen Stonelaw Higher Grade School, Hutcheson’s Grammar School; war service 1915-18; University of Glasgow, M.A. (1922), Glasgow College, Glasgow Provincial Training Centre; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow 1925; appointed to Livingstonia Mission 20th January 1925 and ordained by Presbytery of Glasgow 20th September 1925; served in Loudon 1925-7, Overtown Institution 1927-8, and Lubwa. Married 28th September 1928, Chris Petrie.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.747; Vol.11, p.438.]
1908
CHARLES STUART
Born 5th February 1867 at Oyne, son of John Stuart and Elizabeth Farquhar; educated at Chapel of Garioch Public School; appointed as evangelist to Livingstonia Mission 1st March 1888; ordained by authority of Commission of General Assembly by Presbytery of Livingstonia 13th September 1908; war service in East Africa. Married 29th June 1901, Margaret McCallum.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.751.]
1907
WILLIAM YOUNG TURNER
Born 8th March 1882 at Glasgow, son of Rev. William Young Turner, M.D., of Jamaica, and Mary Douglas; educated at Glasgow High School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1901), M.B., Ch.B. (1904), Glasgow College; University of Cambridge, D.T.M. and H. (1912); Travelling Secretary, Student Volunteer Missionary Union 1904-5; appointed to Livingstonia Mission 20th December 1906; ordained for Foreign Mission service by authority of Commission of General Assembly by Presbytery of Glasgow 14th April 1907; served in Livingstonia and Bandawe; resigned February 1923; re-appointed July 1925 and served in Loudon. Married 17th August 1920, Margaret Jane Ann Watt. Fellow of Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1912. Contributed articles to medical journals.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.752.]
1914
THOMAS CULLEN YOUNG
Born 27th October 1880 at Edinburgh, son of Rev. John Young, D.D., and Catherine Copeland Cullen; educated at Edinburgh George Watson’s College, Glasgow Academy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow College, Glasgow Institute of Chartered Accountants, New College, Edinburgh; appointed to Livingstonia Mission 23rd May 1904; accountant assistant, Livingstonia, 1904-7; district educational work Karonga and Loudon 1908-13; ordained by authority of General Assembly for Foreign Mission service by Presbytery of Edinburgh 15th June 1914; war service as intelligence agent, Nyasaland, 1915-17; served in Kasunga 1917-19; secretary to Mission Study Council 1919-20; headmaster Overtown Institution Schools 1921-5; temporary secretary Religious Tract Society, London, for Africa Fund, 1925-8; educational work at Loudon from 1928. Married 24th June 1908, Jessie Fiddes, M.A.. Elected fellow of Royal Anthropological Institute, 1928. Publications – Vernacular school readers; articles in periodicals; Notes on the Speech and History of the Tumbuna-Henga People, Livingstonia, 1923.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.754.]
1911
WILLIAM PAULIN YOUNG
Born 10th November 1886 at Edinburgh , son of Rev. John Young, D.D., and Catherine Copeland Cullen; educated at Glasgow Academy, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1906), New College, Edinburgh; Teachers’ Training College; student missionary on Loch Etive 1909; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 1910; appointed to Livingstonia 15th November 1910 and ordained by Presbytery of Glasgow 7th May 1911; war service, awarded M.C.. Married 21st September 1923, Anne Neilson Cumming, M.A., B.Sc.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.755.]
1923
JAMES YOUNGSON
Born 17th April 1898 at Stoneywood, Aberdeen, son of James Youngson [and Isabella Thomson;] educated at Aberdeen Robert Gordon’s College, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1921), Aberdeen College; licensed by Presbytery of Aberdeen April 1922;
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appointed to Livingstonia 16th October 1922 and ordained by Presbytery of Aberdeen 14th January 1923. Married 7th April 1923, Helen B. Murdoch.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.797; Vol.10, p.451; Vol.11, p.418.]
JAMAICA
1902
THOMAS ADAM, M.A.
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.77
Ordained and inducted Cumbernauld Free Church 18th January 1883; translated to St Paul’s, Kingston, Jamaica, January 1903; resigned 1909; inducted Wolflee 7th December 1909.
1867
ANDREW BAILLIE
Born 1832 at Fountainhall, [Stow, Midlothian, son of William Baillie and Margaret Hislop;] educated at Heriot Public School, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh United Presbyterian College; ordained and inducted Ollaberry United Presbyterian, Shetland, 18th September 1861; appointed to Jamaica 1st January 1867; retired 26th January 1890; died 3rd November 1903. Married.
1915
EDWARD BEAL
Admitted from Primitive Methodist Church; appointed to Grand Cayman 20th April 1915; translated to Bryce, Jamaica 1917; resigned 21st September 1919.
[For further information on this minister, see also p.552 and Strathmiglo.]
1923
WILFRED STANLEY BROOKES, B.D.
Admitted from Presbyterian Church of Canada; appointed 20th February 1923; resigned 31st December 1928; inducted Glasgow Cranstonhill, 1928.
1918
ROBERT NICOL DICKSON
Born 28th November 1878 at Wishaw, son of William Dickson and Grace Nicol; educated at Wishaw Academy; student under lay evangelist scheme of Church of Scotland 1905-6; assistant Dunrossness (Church of Scotland) 1906-7; Coltness (Church of Scotland) 1907-8; appointed to Jamaica by Colonial Committee 1908; ordained by Presbytery of Jamaica 21st January 1910; inducted Kingston St Andrew’s 1915; translated to Georgetown, Grand Cayman, 16th July 1918. Married 17th September 1908, Susan Henderson.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.756; Vol.10, p.418.]
1891
JOHN FERGUSON GARTSHORE
Born 29th July 1856 at Belfast, son of John Gartshore and Jeanie Ferguson; educated at Glasgow Anderson’s Academy and Glasgow Academy; in business 1870-80; University of Glasgow, M.A. (1884), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow South July 1887; appointed to Old Calabar and ordained by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow South 20th December 1887; translated to Jamaica 1891 and inducted at Brownsville 8th December 1891 and at Pondside 9th December 1891; introduced at Kingston 12th March 1909. Married 24th January 1888, Jeanie Cockburn. Moderator of Synod of Presbyterian Church of Jamaica 1902 and 1928. Edited The Presbyterian (organ of Presbyterian Church of Jamaica) 1901-19. Publication – Ekukwo Nani Uka Unwana (first book in Uwana language), Old Calabar, 1890.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.756.]
1920
GEORGE OUGHTON WALDER HICKS
Born 29th September 1888 at Walderston, Jamaica, son of George Hicks and Susette Walder; educated at Kingston Camperdown School, Ontario Pickering College, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, B.A. (1914), Toronto Knox College; licensed by Presbytery of Toronto April 1914; ordained at Rainy River, Ontario, October 1915; war service with Canadian Field Ambulance and as Chaplain to the Forces in France and North Wales 1916-19; appointed to Jamaica 21st September 1920 and inducted at Kingston St Andrew’s January 1921. Married 6th December 1922, Elizabeth Douglas Balfour.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.757; Vol.10, p.420.]
1897
JOHN HUNTER, M.A.
Ordained by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow 20th July 1897 and inducted at Kingston St Andrew’s; resigned owing to ill-health 25th February 1904; inducted Dalry Courthill 1905.
1883
ROBERT JOHNSTON
Born 5th February 1856 at Kilkenzie, near Campbeltown, son of William Johnston and Agnes McWilliam; educated at Kilkenzie Parish School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1876), B.D. (1882), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Greenock 14th June 1881; appointed to Jamaica 24th April 1883 and ordained by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Greenock for Foreign Mission service 24th July 1883 and inducted New Broughton; appointed Theological Tutor of the Presbyterian Church of Jamaica 1889. Married 26th April 1887, Helen Alexander. Moderator of Synod of Presbyterian Church of Jamaica three times; Founder of Broughton Home for Boys; member of Board of Education in Jamaica.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.757.]
1894
JAMES LUKE
Translated from Calabar to Bryce, Jamaica, 1894; appointed Superintendent of Hope Waddell Training School 1901; translated to Impolweni, Natal, 1906; translated to Bryce, Jamaica, 1913; retired 1st April 1920; introduced Aberlemno 1920.
1890
SAMUEL MCDOWELL
Born 31st October 1861 at Portadown, Northern Ireland, son of Andrew Mcdowell and
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Elizabeth Larmour; educated at Portadown National School; apprentice in linen business 1875-82; Queen’s College, Belfast, University of Edinburgh, United Presbyterian College; licensed July 1890; appointed to Jamaica 22nd April 1890 and ordained by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Belfast 22nd July 1890; in charge Carronhall 1890-1910, Montego Bay from 1910. Married 12th July 1893, Mary Todd, eldest daughter of Rev. George Boyle Alexander, M.A.. Acted as Inspector of Schools 1916-18; chairman, District School Board; secretary Cornwall College Board; Moderator of Synod 1900; secretary of Jamaica Mission Council for 10 years.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.757.]
1892
JAMES MACNEE
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.210
Born 6th April 1853 at Glasgow, son of John Macnee and Catherine Jaffray; educated at school in Glasgow, Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh 6th June 1882; ordained and inducted Guardbridge United Presbyterian 31st January 1884; appointed to Jamaica 23rd February 1892; served at Lucea from 13th June 1893, at Lauriston from 1st January 1905, at Carronhall from 13th September 1911. Married 26th March 1884, Mary Maclean. Member of Legislative Council and of Board of Jamaica; founded Carronhall Home for Orphan and Destitute Girls. Publication – Manual of Practice and Procedure of Presbyterian Church of Jamaica.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.757.]
1891
THOMAS DAWSON MACNEE
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.702; Vol.2, p.506
Born 26th January 1853 at Dunblane, [son of William MacNee;] educated at Dunblane School, University of Edinburgh, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Falkirk 6th June 1882; ordained and inducted Burray 5th February 1885; translated to Wester Pardovan 6th September 1887; appointed to Jamaica 29th December 1891; retired 1st July 1920; died 14th February 1934. Married Mary M. Gentle.
1880
GEORGE MCNEILL
Born 12th July 1852 at Dunfermline, son of Charles Mcneill [and Mary Ann Mitchell;] educated at University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; evangelistic agent under Home Mission Committee of United Presbyterian Church; assistant Dundee Tay Square; appointed to Jamaica 28th May 1878 and ordained and inducted Brownsville by Western Presbytery of Jamaica 18th February 1880; translated to Mount Olivet 1888; translated to Lauriston 1917; retired 14th April 1925; died at Jamaica 27th May 1926. Married (1) 1879, Mrs Jeanie Ferguson; (2) 1900, Annie Brown; (3) 29th November 1917, Florence Roxburgh.
1896
JOHN EDMUND MARTIN
Appointed to Grand Cayman 23rd July 1895 and ordained by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh 29th March 1896; resigned 30th June 1914; inducted Sanquhar North 1914.
1896
WILLIAM FERRIER MARTIN
Born 17th July 1860 at Carronhall, Pear Tree Grove, Jamaica, son of Rev. James Martin and Isabella Bruce; educated at Strathaven Free Church School, Hamilton Academy, Glasgow Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1882), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Hamilton 30th June 1885; appointed to Rajputana 24th February 1885 and ordained by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Hamilton 13th October 1885; appointed to Jamaica December 1895 and inducted to Ebenezer 10th March 1896; retired 1st January 1911; died 27th April 1934. Married 8th February 1888, Elizabeth Craig, daughter of Rev. John Robson, D.D.. Junior Tutor of Theological Students 1896; thereafter Superintendent of the Mission to East Indians in Jamaica. Publication – Martin Memorials, Edinburgh, 1886.
1901
WILLIAM MARWICK
Born 2nd October 1863 at Edinburgh; educated at Arbroath High School, University of Edinburgh, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Arbroath September 1887; assisted Lossiemouth and Dundee; ordained to ministry of Congregational Church in Dundee 11th December 1890; appointed to Calabar 28th June 1892; admitted to United Presbyterian Church 11th May 1893; translated to Jamaica 1901; resigned 26th March 1912; died 24th June 1940. Married 1893, Elizabeth Jane Hutton, W.F.M. agent at Calabar.
1877
LEONARD MILLER
Born 1849 at Edinburgh [son of Leonard Miller and Martha Blackie or Blaikie;] educated at University of Edinburgh, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh 1876; appointed to Jamaica and ordained by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh 2nd January 1877; retired 1st April 1906; died 2nd August 1912. Married 1876, Mary Forrest Wallace.
1878
QUINCE ROSE NOBLE
Born 1st June 1851 at Ramsey, Huntingdonshire, son of John Noble and Martha Rose; educated at Ramsey Grammar School, United Presbyterian
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College, Edinburgh; appointed to South Africa 1874; translated to Jamaica January 1878 and ordained by North Eastern Presbytery at Carronhall 19th November 1878; translated to Mount Zion 7th May 1883; translated to Ebenezer 25th May 1910; retired January 1926; died in Jamaica 14th January 1935. Married (1) Alice Gardner Patton; (2) 2nd April 1878, Jane Ridgley.
1894
THOMAS BLACK PRENTICE
Born 11th October 1865 at Garrion Mill, Overtown, Wishaw, son of James Prentice and Grace Black; educated at Overtown Public School, University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Lanark March 1894; appointed to Jamaica 27th February 1894 and ordained by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Lanark 24th April 1894. Married 24th April 1894, Isabella Brownlie Dick.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.757.]
1896
THOMAS REDPATH
Born 18th May 1869 at Lauder, son of Thomas Redpath and Agnes Short; educated at Lauder Public School, Selkirk Philiphaugh School, University of Edinburgh, Glasgow Andersonian College (medical); licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Melrose 5th February 1896; appointed to Grand Cayman 23rd July 1895 and ordained by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Melrose 19th February 1896; inducted Bodden Town, Grand Cayman, 21st May 1896; translated to Brownsville September 1909; translated to Falmouth April 1922; resigned 31st August 1930; 403
see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.394.] Married 27th August 1906, Emily Clayton Jones.
1899
ADAM WILLIAM ROSS
Born 7th May 1860 at Aldershot, son of Lieutenant Colonel A.A. Ross; educated at Edinburgh George Watson’s College, Heriot-Watt College, University of Edinburgh; in an Edinburgh Insurance Office for 20 years; appointed for evangelistic work at Jamaica 27th December 1898 and ordained by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh 6th February 1899; died 12th March 1931. Married 17th September 1908, Elsie Millicent Law.
1893
EDWARD ROSS
Born 30th April 1860 at Embleton, Northumberland, son of Rev. [William] Ross; educated at Embleton High School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1881), English Presbyterian College; licensed by Presbytery of London 1885; appointed to Jamaica 25th July 1893 and ordained by Presbytery of Newcastle 19th September 1893; died at Chapelton, Jamaica, 26th May 1913. Married (1) 1900, Jeanie Mann; (2) 1912, Jessie Souter Brand.
1901
DOUGLAS AUCHTERLONIE ROTHNIE
Born 4th December 1873 at Old Meldrum, son of George Rothnie and Elizabeth Anderson; educated at Tarves Public School, Aberdeen Robert Gordon’s College, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1896), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Aberdeen 1st August 1889; assistant Falkirk Erskine 1899-1901; appointed to Jamaica 22nd January 1901 and ordained by Presbytery of Donside 20th March 1901; missionary at Stirling and Green Island 1901-4; at Lucea from 1st January 1905. Married 29th November 1902, Mary Young. Clerk to Synod from 1908. Editor of The Presbyterian, 1919-20.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.757; Vol.10, p.425.]
1868
JOHN SMITH
Born at Paisley; educated at Paisley, University of Glasgow, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; missionary, Paisley Canal Street United Presbyterian; appointed to Grand Cayman September 1868 and ordained by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Paisley 3rd November 1868; later translated to Jamaica; retired 1st November 1900; died 15th November 1909. Married Miss Welsh.
1893
WILLIAM STEVENS SMITH
Born 18th July 1867 at Edinburgh, son of John Smith and Mary Ann Hill; educated at University of Glasgow, M.A. (1889), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow 1893; appointed to Jamaica 25th July 1893 and ordained by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow 24th September 1893; stationed at Bryce 1893; translated to Victoria Town 1893; translated to Mount Hermon 1900; resigned 31st December 1906; inducted Welwyn Presbyterian Church, Saskatchewan, Canada, 1906; died 28th November 1909. Married 7th October 1893, Jessie Lunan Duncan.
1883
WILLIAM YOUNG TURNER
Born 14th August 1851 at Malua, Samoa, son of George Turner, LL.D., of Samoa, and Mary Ann Dunn; educated at Glasgow High School, University of Glasgow, M.B., Ch.B. (1875), M.D. (1876), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow 1874; ordained by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow for work with L.M.S. at New Guinea 3rd September 1874; appointed to Demerara 1877; appointed to Jamaica May 1883; resigned 1st July 1911; died 23rd December 1927. Married (1) 19th August 1875, Mary Amelia Colville; (2) 11th March 1879, Mary Douglas. For 20 years Clerk to the Jamaica Synod, and for some time editor of the Jamaica Presbyterian.
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1908
ROBERT COMINGO YOUNG
Born 13th April 1882 at Southend, Argyllshire, son of Rev. Andrew Maclaren Young and Margaret Huntly Hardy; educated at Southend Public School, Campbeltown Grammar School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1903), Glasgow College; student missionary under Highland Committee 1904, 1905; assistant Govan St Columba’s 1905-6; licensed by Presbytery of Kintyre 2nd July 1907; assistant Stirling Allan Park 1907; appointed to Grand Cayman 23rd July 1907 and ordained by Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane 5th January 1908; inducted Georgetown 30th March 1908; translated to Savanna-la-Mar 20th December 1913; war service as Chaplain to the Forces 1917, 1918, 1919; translated to Goshen 2nd April 1927. Married 12th November 1912, Olga Gladys Parsons. Editor of the Jamaica Presbyterian from 1926.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.757.]
TRINIDAD
1894
JOHN SMITH WILSON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.358
Born 29th May 1860 at Duns, son of George Wilson and Eliza Smith; educated at Duns Wellfield Academy, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1880), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh May 1884; assistant Glenluce 1884, Douglas 1884, Kirkmaiden 1884-5, Canonbie 1885; ordained and inducted Canonbie Free Church 28th October 1885; appointed to San Fernando, Trinidad, 24th July 1894; retired 30th June 1928; died 17th July 1931. Married 15th July 1886, Helen Wilson. Joint editor of Trinidad Presbyterian, Port of Spain; Presbyterian Young Communicants’ Catechism, P.P.
NEW HEBRIDES
1896
FREDERICK GATHERER BOWIE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.100
Born 17th December 1869 at Kirkwall, son of Thomas Ross Bowie and Beatrice Tait; educated at Aberdeen Mr Craig’s Private School, Causewayend Public School, Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1891), Aberdeen Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Aberdeen 7th May 1895; missionary at Sandhaven 1895-6; ordained by Free Church Presbytery of Aberdeen 11th February 1896 and appointed to New Hebrides 14th February 1896; served in Tangoa and South Santo; appointed also assistant Teachers’ Training Institute, Tangoa, 1910, and to full charge December 1912. Married 7th February 1896, Jeannie Birse Mutch.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.729.]
1894
WILLIAM GUNN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.179
Born 31st December 1853 at West Helmsdale, Sutherland, son of James Gunn and Margaret Macleod; educated at Westerdale, Halkirk, Wick Free Church School, Edinburgh Free Church Normal Training College, Extra-mural medical school; L.R.C.P. and S. (Edinburgh); teacher in Castle Douglas 1876; headmaster, Thrumster, Caithness, 1877-8; set apart as medical missionary for Futuna, New Hebrides by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh October 1882; ordained for Foreign Mission service by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 1894; appointed also to Aneityum 1894; continued under Presbyterian Church of Victoria from 1916; resigned January 1918; died at Roseville, New South Wales, 9th June 1935. Married 14th February 1882, Margaret Mathieson of Kirkcowan. Translated the following into Futuna – Acts of the Apostles, Sydney, 1888, 1919; Exodus, Sydney, 1891; Hymns (100), Futuna, 1897, Edinburgh, 1915; Epistles: James to Jude, and Revelation 1-3, Futuna, 1898; Harmony of Gospels, Melbourne, 1909; Galatians to Revelation, Sydney, 1912; Old Testament History, Edinburgh, 1915; Book of Psalms, London, 1923; translations into language of Aneityum – Psalms and Hymns, Melbourne, 1915; works in English – The Gospel in Futuna, London, 1899; Heralds of Dawn, London, 1924; articles in periodicals.
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MODERATORS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1900 ROBERT RAINY, D.D., Principal, New College, Edinburgh.
1901 THOMAS KENNEDY, D.D., Edinburgh North Richmond Street.
1902 ROBERT HOWIE, D.D., Glasgow Govan St Mary’s.
1903 GEORGE ROBSON, D.D., Perth Bridgend.
1904 ROBERT GORDON BALFOUR, D.D., Edinburgh New North.
1905 Robert Rainy, D.D., Principal, New College, Edinburgh.
1906 GEORGE CLARK HUTTON, D.D., Paisley Canal Street.
1907 CHARLES GREIG MCCRIE, D.D., Ayr West.
1908 ROBERT LAWS, C.M.G., D.D., LL.D., M.D., Livingstonia.
1909 ARCHIBALD HENDERSON, D.D., Crieff South.
1910 JOHN YOUNG, D.D., Secretary, Home Mission Committee.
1911 JAMES WELLS, D.D., Pollokshields West.
1912 THOMAS WHITELAW, D.D., Kilmarnock King Street.
1913 JAMES IVERACH, D.D., Principal, Aberdeen College.
1914 GEORGE REITH, D.D., Glasgow College and Kelvingrove.
1915 ALEXANDER ROBERTSON MACEWEN, D.D., Professor of Church History, New College, Edinburgh.
1916 SIR GEORGE ADAM SMITH, D.D., LL.D., Principal of Aberdeen University.
1917 DUGALD MACKICHAN, D.D., LL.D., Principal, Wilson College, Bombay.
1918 ROBERT JAMES DRUMMOND, D.D., Edinburgh Lothian Road.
1919 WILLIAM MALCOLM MACGREGOR, D.D., Professor of New Testament Language and Literature, Glasgow College.
1920 ALEXANDER MARTIN, D.D., LL.D., Principal, New College, Edinburgh.
1921 ADAM PHILIP, D.D., Longforgan.
1922 DONALD FRASER, D.D., Livingstonia.
1923 DAVID SMITH CAIRNS, D.D., LL.D., Principal, Aberdeen College.
1924 ALEXANDER STEPHEN INCH, D.D., Dumbarton High.
1925 JAMES HARVEY, D.D., Edinburgh Lady Glenorchy’s.
1926 GEORGE HERBERT MORRISON, D.D., Glasgow Wellington.
1927 JAMES WEATHERHEAD, D.D., Dundee St Paul’s.
1928 JOHN HARRY MILLER, C.B.E., D.D., Edinburgh Pleasance.
1929 ALEXANDER MARTIN, D.D., LL.D., Principal, New College, Edinburgh.
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PRINCIPAL CLERKS
THOMAS KENNEDY, D.D., Edinburgh, 1900-2.
WILLIAM BLAIR, D.D., Dunblane, 1900-7.
ANDREW MELVILLE, D.D., Edinburgh, 1900-6.
ARCHIBALD HENDERSON, D.D., Crieff, 1900-16; Clerk Emeritus 1916-27.
CHARLES JERDAN, D.D., LL.B., Greenock, 1907-20.
JAMES HARVEY, D.D. Edinburgh, 1920-9.
JAMES GORDON SUTHERLAND, D.D., Galston, 1920-9.
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SECRETARIES
1909
FRANK ASHCROFT
Born 11th September 1859 at Partick, son of Hugh McIntyre Ashcroft and Agnes Nicol; educated at Partick Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1881), D.D. (1927), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow 10th June 1884; appointed to Rajputana 29th January 1884 and ordained for Foreign Mission service by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow 16th September 1884; appointed Secretary to Foreign Mission Committee May 1909; died 13th October 1930. Married 27th November 1886, Agnes Renton Robertson.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.798.]
1920
JAMES BARR
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.92
Born 26th July 1862 at Banscroft, Fenwick, son of Allan Barr and Elizabeth Brown; educated at Waterside Public School, Kilmarnock Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1st Class Hons. in Mental Philosophy 1884), B.D. (1892), Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Irvine 30th April 1889; ordained and inducted Johnstone and Wamphray 3rd December 1889; translated to Dennistoun Free Church 1896; translated to Glasgow Govan St Mary’s 1907; appointed Home Mission Secretary 1920; resigned on election as M.P. for Motherwell 1925; adhered to the United Free Church (Continuing). Married 1890, Martha Wilson Stephen.
1916
ANDREW NISBET BOGLE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.98
Born on 28th June 1868 at Callander, son of Rev. Andrew Bogle, Callander Free Church, and Catherine Nisbet Blyth; educated at Edinburgh Royal High School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1890), D.D. (1923), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh, 1894; assistant Edinburgh St James’; ordained and inducted Larbert 19th March 1896; translated to Leith North July 1903; appointed Secretary to the Home Department, No. 1, Central Fund, etc., 1916. Married 1896, Ellen M. McCulloch.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.798; Vol.10, p.453.]
1881
JAMES BUCHANAN
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.690; Vol.2, p.26
Born 20th September 1837 at Edinburgh, son of Andrew Buchanan and Margaret Fairlie; educated at University of Edinburgh, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh 1863; ordained and inducted in Linlithgow West 8th September 1863; inducted Glasgow Greyfriars 29th April 1869; appointed Foreign Mission Secretary of the United Presbyterian Church 26th May 1881 and inducted by Presbytery of Edinburgh 31st May 1881; died 24th September 1908. Married 1st March 1864, Jane Craig. Was Clerk to the Committee which drew up the Declaratory Act of 1879.
1925
DONALD FRASER
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.160
Born 1st June 1870 at Lochgilphead, son of Rev. William Fraser, Lochgilphead Free Church, and Violet Ferguson; educated at Lochgilphead Public School, Glasgow High School, University of Glasgow, D.D. (1922), Glasgow Free Church College; student missionary Glasgow Bridgegate 1892-4; student assistant Wynd 1894-6; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow June 1896; appointed to Livingstonia and ordained for Foreign Mission service by Presbytery of Glasgow 21st June 1896; served at Ekwendeni 1896-1900, and Hora 1901-2, and Loudon 1902-25; appointed Home Administration Secretary of the Foreign Mission Committee May 1925. Married 17th January 1901, Agnes Renton Robson. Moderator of General Assembly 1922; appointed Chaplain to H.M. the King 1929. Publications – The Future of Africa, London, 1911; Winning a Primitive People, London, 1914; Livingstonia, Edinburgh, 1915; African Idylls, London, 1923; Autobiography of an African, London, 1924; New Africa, London, 1927.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.799.]
1925
JOHN HALL
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.180
Born 22nd October 1863 at Inverurie, son of James Hall and Ann Smith; educated at Edinburgh Daniel Stewart’s College, Free Church Normal School, University of Edinburgh, D.D. (1925), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh June 1898; assistant Kirkcaldy St Brycedale 1888-9; ordained and inducted Cullen 1st May 1889; translated to Glasgow Paisley Road April 1894; translated to Edinburgh Warrender Park 27th April 1899; resigned on appointment as Secretary to the Home
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Mission Committee 1925. Married 5th September 1893, Isabella Stuart. Joint Convener of Scottish Churches Huts Committee 1914-19; O.B.E. 1921. Publication – Israel in Europe, Edinburgh, 1914.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.799.]
1894
ALEXANDER LEE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.206
Born 1846 at Kirkhill; educated at University of Edinburgh, M.A., New College, Edinburgh, Glasgow Free Church College; ordained and inducted Kildalton 1872; translated to Lybster 1875; translated to Nairn 1878; appointed Secretary and Mission Superintendent of Committee for Highlands and Islands and visiting agent to Sustentation Fund Committee 1894; appointed also organising Secretary of Sustentation Fund Committee 1898; died 1918. Married 1873, Isabella Fraser.
1926
JOHN URQUHART MACGREGOR
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.230
Born 7th August 1865 at Amoy, China, son of Rev. William Macgregor, D.D., and Harvey Eliza Urquhart; educated at Glasgow High School, Edinburgh George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1886), New College, Edinburgh, University of Berlin; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 1891; assistant Aberdeen West 1891-3, Glasgow Kelvinside 1893-4; ordained and inducted St Boswells 12th July 1894; translated to Bathgate St David’s 17th January 1906; translated to Perth St Leonard’s 28th October 1914; war service with Scottish Churches Huts at Rouen 1917; resigned on appointment as Assistant Honorary Secretary to the Foreign Mission Committee 1st June 1926. Married 4th October 1899, Mary Key Miller. In January-February 1903 was in charge at Cannes; in 1911-12 was deputy of Foreign Mission Committee to China, Korea and Japan.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.800.]
1924
RODERICK MCLEOD
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.249
Born 29th September 1870 at Beauly, Parish of Kilmorack, son William and Margaret Mcleod; educated at Inverness Raining’s School, University of St Andrews, D.D. (1929), University of Glasgow, Glasgow Free Church College; missionary assistant Paisley Gaelic, Govan St Columba’s; licensed 1897; assistant Glasgow St Enoch’s; ordained and inducted Clydebank West 30th September 1897; translated to London Frognal St Andrew’s 1903; appointed Superintendent of Highland Missions 1924. Married 1909, Helen Ingram Wightman Nivison.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.800.]
1889
ANDREW MELVILLE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.266
Born 1839, son of Rev. A. Melville, Falkirk; educated at University of Edinburgh, D.D., New College, Edinburgh; ordained and inducted Alva 1865; translated to Glasgow St Enoch’s 1869; appointed Secretary to the Sustentation Fund Committee 1889; died 1901. Married 1865, Janet M. Thomson. Clerk to the Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow for 15 years; Principal Clerk to the Free Church General Assembly from 1884. Joint Principal Clerk to General Assembly 1900-6.
1916
WILLIAM MUIR
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.277
Born 28th January 1859 at Kilmarnock, son of William Muir and Elizabeth Craig; educated at Fenwick, Glasgow Barrowfield, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1st Class Hons. in Mental Philosophy), B.D., B.L., Glasgow Free Church College; ordained and inducted Muthill December 1886; translated to Glasgow St Enoch’s 1890; translated to Blairgowrie St Andrew’s 1894; translated to Rothesay West in 1907; translated to Glasgow South Shawlands 1910; appointed Secretary to the Home Mission Committee August 1916; died 26th January 1920. Married 22nd April 1891, Janet Hunter McLellan. Convener of Assembly’s Temperance Committee. Publications – Call of the New Era, London, 1910; Christianity and Labour, London, 1910; The Grand Old Bible, London, 1911.
1892
GEORGE MILNE RAE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.294
Born 2nd September 1840 at Udny; educated at University of Aberdeen, M.A. (Hons. 1863), D.D., Aberdeen Free Church College; appointed to Madras Christian College and ordained for Foreign Mission service by the Free Church Presbytery of Aberdeen 27th June 1867; resigned 1891; appointed Secretary to Colonial, Continental and Jewish Committees 1892; died 24th March 1917. Married 18th January 1877, Janet Simpson Gibb.
1910
JAMES WEBSTER
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.353
Born 20th October 1857 at Mill of Auchintoul, Marnoch; educated at Marnoch Public School, Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Glasgow, D.D. (1920), Glasgow Free Church College, New College, Edinburgh; student missionary Edinburgh Barclay; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Turriff 5th April 1882; appointed to Manchuria 31st January 1882 and ordained for Foreign Mission service by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 1st June 1882; appointed joint Foreign Mission Secretary
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May 1910; died 4th June 1923. Married 1882, Elizabeth Hamilton Scott. Acted as interpreter to General Gaselee with Expeditionary Force for Relief of Peking 1910; awarded Medal with Clasp for organising relief for wounded and refugee Chinese during the Russo-Japanese War 1904-5.
1918
JAMES MACDONALD (formerly TOSH) WEBSTER
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.353
Born 1870 at Friockheim; educated at University of Edinburgh, Aberdeen Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Arbroath 1895; appointed assistant at Budapest and ordained as missionary to Jews at Budapest 1897; returned to Scotland at outbreak of war 1914; appointed Organising Secretary to Jewish Mission Committee in 1914; appointed Secretary to Jewish Mission, and Colonial and Continental Committees 29th May 1918. D.D. (Debreczen) 1922. He changed his middle name from Tosh to Macdonald by deed poll for personal and private reasons.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.802.]
1889
JOHN YOUNG, M.A., D.D.
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.475
[Born about 1854 at Berwick on Tweed, Northumberland, England;] ordained and inducted Edinburgh Grange Road United Presbyterian 2nd October 1872; resigned on appointment as Home Mission Secretary 14th May 1889; died 1916. Moderator of General Assembly 1910. [Married (1) 1872, Mary Henderson Robertson; (2) 1880, Catherine Copland Cullen.]
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COLLEGES
PRINCIPALS
NEW COLLEGE, EDINBURGH
ROBERT RAINY, D.D., 1900-1906.
MARCUS DODS, D.D., 1907-1909.
ALEXANDER WHYTE, D.D., LL.D., 1909-1918.
ALEXANDER MARTIN, D.D., 1918-1929.
GLASGOW COLLEGE
GEORGE CUNNINGHAM MONTEATH DOUGLAS, D.D. , Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.53, Joint Principal, 1900-1904.
GEORGE CLARK HUTTON, D.D., Joint Principal, 1900-1909.
THOMAS MARTIN LINDSAY, D.D., LL.D., 1902-1914.
JAMES DENNEY, D.D., 1915-1917.
ARCHIBALD HENDERSON, D.D., 1918-1921.
WILLIAM MCCALLUM CLOW, D.D., 1921-1928.
WILLIAM MALCOLM MACGREGOR, D.D., 1928-1929.
ABERDEEN COLLEGE
STEWART DINGWALL FORDYCE SALMOND, D.D., 1900-1905
JAMES IVERACH, D.D., 1905-1922.
DAVID SMITH CAIRNS, D.D., LLD, 1923-1929.
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PROFESSORS
1907
DAVID SMITH CAIRNS
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.412
Born 8th November 1862 at Stitchel United Presbyterian Manse, son of Rev. David Cairns and Elizabeth Williamson; educated at Ednam Parish and Kelso High Schools, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1890), D.D., LL.D. (1938), University of Marburg 1891, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Kelso 1891; assistant Edinburgh Morningside United Presbyterian 1891-2; in charge Burnmouth Station 1893; assistant Selkirk Lawson Memorial 1894-5; ordained and inducted Ayton United Presbyterian 14th March 1895; appointed to Chair of Apologetics and Systematic Theology, Aberdeen College, May 1907; appointed Principal 1923. Married 4th December 1901, Helen Wilson Craw. D.D., Debreczen, Hungary, 1929; D.D. University of Edinburgh, 1933; LL.D. University of St Andrews 1937; appointed O.B.E. 1919. Chairman of Commission III, Edinburgh World Missionary Conference 1910; worked with religious department of Y.M.C.A. in London and France 1916-18; Joint Chairman of Committee on Army and Religion 1920; Deems Lecturer in New York University and Lafayette College 1923; Lyman Coleman Lecturer, Auburn Theological Seminary, 1923; Moderator of General Assembly 1923-4. Publications – Christianity in the Modern World, London, 1906; Editor, Volume IV of Edinburgh World Missionary Reports, 1910; The Reasonableness of the Christian Faith, London, 1918; Editor of the Report, The Army and Religion, London, 1919; Life and Times of A.R. Macewen, D.D., London, 1925; The Faith that Rebels, London, 1928; many theological articles and reviews in periodicals.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.769.]
1882
GEORGE GORDON CAMERON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.51
Born 13th September 1836 at Pluscarden, Elgin, son of John Cameron and Janet Ross; educated at Pluscarden Public School, Elgin Academy, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1st Class Hons. in Classics 1860), D.D. (1890), Aberdeen Free Church College, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Elgin 13th June 1865; assistant Leghorn 1865-6, Dundee St David’s 1866-7; in charge Aberdeen Ruthrieston station 1867-9; loc. ten. for Professor Sachs, Aberdeen Free Church College 1869-70; assistant Edinburgh St Andrew’s, London Regent Square, North Leith 1870-1; ordained and inducted Glasgow St John’s 31st August 1871; appointed to Chair of Old Testament Language and Literature, Aberdeen College, by General Assembly 24th May 1882 and inducted 31st October 1882; retired March 1913; died 24th April 1913. Married 13th June 1872, Elsie Mathieson Brunton. Publications – Memorials of John Roxburgh, D.D., Glasgow, 1881; Growth in Grace, Glasgow, 1882; articles on biblical subjects in periodicals.
1911
WILLIAM MCCALLUM CLOW
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.122
Born 29th June 1853 at Glasgow, son of Andrew Clow and Jean Gourlay McCallum; educated at Wesley College School and High School, Auckland, New Zealand, Lincoln School, California, U.S.A., University of Glasgow, M.A. (1878), B.D. (1881), D.D. (1912), Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow May 1881; ordained and inducted Cambusnethan 13th September 1881; translated to Uddingston Chalmers 18th March 1886; translated to Aberdeen South 21st May 1889; translated to Edinburgh Barclay 4th November 1897; translated to Glasgow Stevenson Memorial 27th February 1902; appointed to Chair of Practical Training and Christian Ethics, Glasgow College 21st June 1911; appointed Principal 26th May 1921; resigned 20th June 1928. Married 27th June 1889, Annie Morton, daughter of James Loudon, M.D., Hamilton. Publications (all in London) – The Cross in Christian Experience, 1908; The Secret of the Lord, 1910; Christ in the Social Order, 1913; The Evangel of Strait Gate, 1916; The Quest of Industrial Peace, 1920; The Idyll of Bethany, 1921; The Old Old Story, 1922; The Church and the Sacraments, 1923; The Five Portraits of Jesus, 1925; George Reith, D.D., A Scottish Ministry, 1928; The Christian View of Death and Destiny, 1927.
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1863
ANDREW BRUCE DAVIDSON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.52
Born 1831 at Ellon, son of Andrew Davidson and Helen Bruce; educated at Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1849), D.D., LL.D., New College, Edinburgh; licensed 1856; taught in Ellon Free Church School; assistant Aberdeen Gilcomston; assistant to Professor of Hebrew, New College, 1863-70; ordained and inducted to the Chair of Old Testament Language, Literature and Theology, New College, 1870; died 26th January 1902. D.D. (Glasgow), Litt.D. (Cantab.). Publications – Outline of Hebrew Accentuation, 1861; Introductory Hebrew Grammar, 1874; The Epistle to the Hebrews, 1882; The Book of Job (Cambridge Bible), 1884; The Book of Ezekiel (Cambridge Bible); Hebrew Syntax, 1894; The Books of Nahum, Habakkuk and Zephaniah (Cambridge Bible), 1896; The Exile and the Restoration, 1899; Biblical and Literary Essays, 1902; The Book of the Prophet Isaiah (Temple Bible), 1902; The Called of God, 1902; Waiting Upon God, 1903; Old Testament Prophecy, 1903; The Theology of the Old Testament, 1904. See the Life of A.B. Davidson, by James Strahan, London, 1917.
1897
JAMES DENNEY
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.53
Born 5th February 1856 at Paisley; educated at Greenock Highlanders’ Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1st Class Hons. in Classics and Mental Philosophy), B.D., D.D. (1895), Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Greenock 1886; ordained and inducted Broughty Ferry East 1886; appointed to Chair of Systematic Theology Glasgow Free Church College 1897; appointed Principal 21st May 1915; died 11th June 1917. Married 1886, Mary Carmichael, daughter of John Brown, Glasgow. D.D. of Chicago, Princeton and Aberdeen. Publications – Epistles to the Thessalonians (Expositor’s Bible), London, 1892; Second Corinthians (Expositor’s Bible), London, 1894; Studies in Theology, London, 1894; Gospel Questions and Answers, London, 1896; The Death of Christ, London, 1902; The Atonement and the Modern Mind, London, 1903; Jesus and the Gospel, London, 1908; The Way Everlasting, London, 1911; War and the Fear of God, London, 1916; The Christian Doctrine of Reconciliation, London, 1917; The Church and the Kingdom, London, S.A.; Factors of Faith in Immortality, London, S.A.; The Epistle to the Romans, in The Expositor’s Greek Testament; articles in Hastings, Dictionary of Christ and the Gospel; and in periodicals.
1889
MARCUS DODS
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.53
Born 1834 at Belford, Northumberland, son of Rev. Marcus Dods; educated at University of Edinburgh, D.D., New College, Edinburgh; licensed 1858; ordained and inducted Glasgow Renfield 1864; appointed to Chair of New Testament Exegesis, New College, 1889; appointed Principal 24th May 1907; died 26th April 1909. Married 1871, Katherine Swanston. D.D. (Glasgow). Publications – Translation of Lange, Life of Christ; edited the Works of St Augustine; The Prayer that Teaches to Pray, London, 1866; The Epistles of our Lord to the Seven Churches of Asia, London, 1867; Israel’s Iron Age, London, 1874; Mohammed, Buddha and Christ, London, 1877; The Post-Exilian Prophets, London, 1879; Isaac, Jacob and Joseph, London, 1881; Old Wells Reopened: A Manual of Devotion, 1881; The Parables of our Lord (two series), 1883, 1886; Introduction to the New Testament, 1888; The First Epistle to the Corinthians (Expositor’s Bible), London, 1889; The Book of Genesis (Expositor’s Bible), London, 1889; Erasmus and Other Essays, London, 1891; The Gospel of John (Expositor’s Bible), two Volumes, 1891; The Visions of a Prophet: Studies in Zechariah, London, 1895; Why be a Christian? 1896; How to Become Like Christ, and Other Papers, 1897; The Old Testament Narrative for Schools, 1902; Forerunners of Dante, 1903; Questions of Faith (the lecture on the Resurrection), 1904; The Bible, Its Origin and Nature, London, 1905; Christ and Man, 1909; Footsteps in the Path of Life, 1909; pamphlets and contributions to periodicals.
1864
JOHN DUNS
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.54
Born 1818; educated at University of Edinburgh, D.D.; licensed 1843; ordained and inducted Torphichen 1844; appointed to Chair of Natural Science in Free Church Colleges 1864; resigned 26th May 1903; died 1909. Publications – Memoir of the late Rev. Samuel Martin, 1854; Biblical Natural Science, 2 volumes, 1863, 1866; Science and Christian Thought, 1866; Memoir of Sir James Y. Simpson, 1873; pamphlets.
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1924
ADAM FYFE FINDLAY
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.11
Born 30th May 1869 at Johnshaven, son of William Findlay and Catherine Fyfe; educated at Aberdeen Michie’s Academy and Grammar School, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1889), D.D. (1923), University of Berlin 1890-1, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh, University of Athens 1894-5; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Aberdeen 1st October 1895; assistant Edinburgh Lauriston Place 1895-6; ordained and inducted Whithorn 29th July 1896; translated to Arbroath Erskine 7th January 1903; translated to Edinburgh Bristo 8th June 1911; war service as Chaplain to the Forces in Britain, Egypt and Palestine 1915-17; translated to Linlithgow High 12th October 1921; appointed to Chair of Church History and Christian Ethics, Aberdeen College, 21st May 1924 and inducted 26th June 1924. Married 27th September 1898, Jeannie Macdonald. Publications – Byways in Early Christian Literature (Kerr Lectures), Edinburgh, 1923; articles in Hastings, D.C.G. and E.R.E., etc.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, pp.767 and 770; Vol.10, p.430.]
1914
DAVID WILLIAM FORREST
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.150; Vol.2, pp.46, 210 and 214
Born 16th May 1856 at Glasgow, son of Rev. David Forrest, St Rollox; educated at Glasgow High School, University of Glasgow, M.A., D.D. (1898), University of Leipzig, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed October 1880; ordained and inducted Hamilton Saffronhall 22nd June 1882; translated to Moffat 24th May 1887; translated to Glasgow Wellington 15th March 1894; translated to Wemyss Bay 16th August 1899; Edinburgh North Morningside 30th April 1903; appointed to Chair of Apologetics and Systematic Theology, Glasgow College, 22nd May 1914; died 3rd March 1918. See Professor D.W. Forrest, Memoirs and Discourses, edited by J.H. Leckie, London, 1919. Publications – The Christ of History and of Experience (Kerr Lectures), London, 1897; The Authority of Christ, Edinburgh, 1906.
1928
ARTHUR JOHN GOSSIP
Born 20th January 1873 at Hillhead, Glasgow, son of Robert Gossip and Margaret Grieve Mundell; educated at Edinburgh George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1898), D.D. (1929), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 1898; assistant Edinburgh Morningside 1898-9; ordained and inducted Liverpool St Columba’s 3rd November 1899; translated to Forfar West 3rd December 1901; translated to Glasgow St Matthew’s 4th September 1910; war service as Chaplain to the Forces in Belgium and France 1917-18; translated to Aberdeen Beechgrove 4th February 1921; appointed to Chair of Practical Training and Christian Ethics, Glasgow College, 23rd May 1928 and inducted 20th June 1928. Married 4th January 1900, Janina Henderson Carslaw. Publications – From the Edge of the Crowd, Edinburgh, 1924; In Christ’s Stead, London, 1925; The Galilean Accent, Edinburgh, 1926; The Hero in Thy Soul, Edinburgh, 1928.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.771.]
1900
ALEXANDER HISLOP
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.237
Born 31st December 1844 at Earlston, son of William Hislop and Euphemia Brown; educated at Earlston Public School, University of Glasgow, M.A., D.D. (1894), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow, 1872; missionary Glasgow Caledonia Road; assistant Ayr Darlington Place 1872-3; ordained and inducted Glasgow Greenhead 2nd October 1873; translated to Helensburgh United Presbyterian April 1877; appointed to Chair of Practical Training and Christian Ethics, United Presbyterian College 1892; appointed to Chair of Practical Training and Christian Ethics, Glasgow College, 1900; died 10th March 1906. Married 22nd March 1877, Annie J. Hall.
1887
JAMES IVERACH
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.56
Born in 1839 at Halkirk; educated at University of Edinburgh, M.A., New College, Edinburgh; ordained and inducted West Calder 1869; translated to Aberdeen Ferryhill 1874; appointed to Chair of Apologetics and Systematic Theology, Aberdeen College, 1887; appointed Principal 2nd June 1905; appointed to Chair of New Testament Language, Literature and Theology, Aberdeen College, 1907; resigned the Chair 19th May 1920; died 6th August 1922. Married 1869, Margaret McDonald of Thurso. Moderator of the General Assembly in 1913; D.D. (Aberdeen). Publications – Is God Knowable? London, 1884; St Paul: his Life and Times, London, 1890; Evolution and Christianity, London, 1894; The Truth of Christianity (Bible Class Primers), Edinburgh, 1896; Theism in the Light of Present Science and Philosophy (Deems Lectures), London, 1900; Descartes, Spinoza, and their Philosophy, Edinburgh, 1904; The Other Side of Greatness and other Sermons, London, 1906; The Life of Moses, Edinburgh, S.A.
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1900
ROBERT JOHNSTON, LL.B.
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.72
[Born 1861 at Arbroath, Angus, son of Robert Johnston and Violet Brown;] ordained and inducted Arbroath Princes Street 4th December 1860; translated to Glasgow Bath Street 3rd January 1872; appointed to Chair of New Testament Literature and Exegesis in United Presbyterian College 26th July 1876; appointed to Chair of New Testament Language, Literature and Theology, Aberdeen College 1900; resigned 1907; died 26th September 1918. D.D. (Edinburgh), 1876. [Married Janet Brown.] Publications – Lectures Exegetical and Practical on the Epistle of James; Lectures Exegetical and Practical on the Epistle to the Philippians, 1876.
1909
HENRY ANGUS ALEXANDER KENNEDY
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.198
Born in 1866 at Dornoch, son of Rev. George Rainy Kennedy; educated at University of Edinburgh, D.Sc., D.D., New College, Edinburgh, Universities of Halle and Berlin; ordained and inducted Callander 11th May 1893; appointed to Chair of New Testament and Literature, Knox College, Toronto, 1905; appointed to Chair of New Testament Language, Literature and Theology, New College, 25th May 1909; resigned 19th May 1925; died [23rd March] 1934. Married 12th July 1893, Elizabeth Gordon. D.D. from Queen’s University, Ontario, 1909. Publications – Sources of New Testament Greek, 1895; St Paul’s Conceptions of the Last Things, 1904; The Books of the New Testament, 1907; St Paul and the Mystery Religions, 1913; The Theology of the Epistles, 1919; Philo’s Contribution to Religion, 1919; Vital Forces of the Early Church, 1920.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.772.]
1881
JOHN LAIDLAW
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.56
Born 1832 at Edinburgh; educated at University of Edinburgh, D.D., Reformed Presbyterian Divinity Hall, New College, Edinburgh; ordained and inducted Bannockburn 1859; translated to Perth West 1863; translated to Aberdeen West 1872; appointed to Chair of Systematic Theology, New College 1881; resigned 24th May 1904; died 1906. Married Elizabeth Hamilton. See Memoir by Professor H.R. Mackintosh, in Studies in the Parables. Publications – The Miracles of our Lord, 1890; The Bible Doctrine of Man, 1895; Foundation Truths of Scripture, 1897; Robert Bruce’s Sermons on the Sacraments, done into English, with a biographical introduction, 1901; Studies in the Parables, and other Sermons, 1907; pamphlets.
1927
DANIEL LAMONT
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.204
Born 11th September 1869 at Port Bannatyne, Bute, son of Alexander Lamont and Sarah Graham; educated at Overnewton, Glasgow Camden Street, Hutcheson’s Grammar School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (Hons. in Philosophy and 1st Class Hons. in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy 1892), B.D. (1900), D.D. (1927); assistant in Mathematics Department, University of Glasgow, and lecturer in Queen Margaret’s College 1892-6; Glasgow Free Church College; student assistant Glasgow Anderson 1899-1900; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Dunoon April 1900; ordained and inducted Kilmarnock High 13th September 1900; translated to Edinburgh Newington October 1904; translated to Glasgow Hillhead 15th January 1909; war service with Scottish Churches Huts in France 1916, and as Chaplain to the Forces in France 1917; translated to Helensburgh Park 7th October 1919; appointed to Chair of Apologetics, Christian Ethics and Practical Training, New College 27th May 1927 and inducted 30th June 1927. Publications – The Church and the Creeds, London, 1923; The Creative Work of Jesus, London, 1924.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.772.]
1872
THOMAS MARTIN LINDSAY
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.56; Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.428
Born October 1843 at Lesmahagow United Presbyterian Manse, son of Rev. Alexander Lindsay; educated at Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, M.A. (Hons. Philosophy), D.D., LL.D. (1906), New College, Edinburgh; assistant to Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, University of Edinburgh; conducted the classes of Dogmatics and of Church History, Glasgow College; appointed to Chair of Church History, Glasgow College, and ordained and inducted 1872; appointed Principal 28th May 1902; died 8th December 1914. Married Anna, daughter of Alexander Murray of Corsock. Convener, Foreign Missions Committee, Free Church 1886-90. Publications –translation of Ueberweg, Logic; The Gospel according to St Mark (Handbooks for Bible Classes), Edinburgh, 1883; The Gospel according to St Luke (Handbooks for Bible Classes); The Acts of the Apostles (Handbooks for Bible classes); The Reformation (Handbooks for Bible Classes); Luther and the German Reformation, Edinburgh 1900; The Church and the Ministry in the Early Centuries, London, 1902; History of the Reformation, 2 volumes, Edinburgh, 1906, 1907; Revivals, London, 1909; College Addresses and Sermons, Glasgow, 1915; articles in Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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1919
ALEXANDER BEITH MACAULAY
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.214
Born 24th October 1871 at Irvine Free Church Manse, son of Rev. Robert Sellar Macaulay and Euphemia Beith Elder; educated at Irvine Royal Academy, Ayr Academy, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1st Class Hons. in Philosophy, 1893), D.D. (1914), New College, Edinburgh, University of Freiburg 1893, of Berlin 1897; interim Professor in Madras Christian College 1895-6; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Irvine and Kilmarnock 1897; assistant Edinburgh St George’s 1897-9; ordained and inducted Forfar East January 1899; translated to Dundee St John’s 6th November 1902; translated to Stirling North 21st September 1911; appointed to Chair of Apologetics and Systematic Theology, Glasgow College, 23rd May 1919 and inducted June 1919. Married 27th April 1899, Mary Elizabeth Howden. Publications – joint editor of translation of Ritschl, Justification and Reconciliation, Edinburgh; joint editor of The Vulgate Psalter, London; The Word of the Cross, London; Private Prayers for Young Men and Women, London; joint author of Up Against It (apologetic addresses), London.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.772.]
1901
ALEXANDER ROBERTSON MACEWEN
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, pp.38 and 94
Born 14th May 1851 at Edinburgh, son of Rev. Alexander [R.] Macewen, D.D., and Eliza Robertson; educated at Glasgow Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1870), B.D. (1879), D.D. (1892), University of Oxford Balliol College, M.A. (1874), University of Göttingen, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; assistant to Professor of Humanity, Glasgow, 1875-7; student missionary Colston Street, Leith Walk 1879; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow 25th May 1880; ordained and inducted Moffat United Presbyterian December 1880; translated to Glasgow Anderston September 1886; translated to Glasgow Claremont 3rd October 1889; appointed to Chair of Church History, New College, May 1901; died 26th November 1916. Married 29th January 1885, Margaret Jane Begg. Chairman of Moffat School Board; member of Glasgow School Board; lecturer in Church History in Westminster College, Vancouver, 1912; Moderator of General Assembly 1915; President of Scottish History Society; secretary, Christian Unity Association. Publications – Roman Satiric Poetry (Arnold Prize), Oxford, 1877; Life and Letters of John Cairns, London, 1895; The Erskines, Edinburgh, 1900; Antoinette Bourignan, London, 1909; History of the Church in Scotland, 2 volumes, London, 1914, 1918; edited, with memoir, sermons by his father, Glasgow, 1877; editor of John Ker, Lectures on Preaching, 1888; many contributions to periodicals.
1910
JOHN EDGAR MCFADYEN
Born 17th July 1817 at Glasgow, son of James Hemphill Mcfadyen and Jane McKeen; educated at Glasgow Hutcheson’s Grammar School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1st class Hons. in Classics 1890), D.D. (1911), University of Oxford Balliol College, B.A. (1st Class Hons. in Classical Mods. 1895), Glasgow Free Church College, University of Marburg 1896; assistant in Hebrew 1897-8; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow April 1898; appointed to Chair of Old Testament Literature and Exegesis, Knox College, Toronto, and ordained and inducted by Presbytery of Toronto October 1898; appointed to Chair of Old Testament Language, Literature and Theology, Glasgow College, 27th May 1910 and inducted October 1910. Married 1st September 1898, Marie, eldest daughter of Amtsgerichtsrat Scheffer, Eschwege, Hessau, Germany. D.D. Halifax 1910. Publications – Messages of the Prophetic and Priestly Historians, New York and London, 1901; The Divine Pursuit, Chicago and Edinburgh, 1901; In the Hour of Silence (American title), Thoughts for Silent Hours (British title), Chicago and London, 1902; Old Testament Criticism and the Christian Church, New York and London, 1903; Messages of the Psalmists, New York and London, 1904; Introduction to the Old Testament, London, 1905; The Prayers of the Bible, London, 1906; Ten Studies in the Psalms, New York, 1907, London, 1916; Interpreters’ Commentary on Epistles to Corinthians and Galatians, New York, 1909, London, 1911; The City with Foundations, New York and London, 1909; Commentary on Isaiah (Bible for School and Home Series), New York, 1910; The Historical Narrative of the Old Testament, Edinburgh, 1912; A Cry for Justice, Edinburgh, 1912; Revision of Davidson’s Hebrew Grammar, several editions from 1914; The Psalms in Modern Speech, London, 1916; The Problem of Pain, London, 1917; The Wisdom Books in Modern Speech, London, 1917; Isaiah in Modern Speech, London, 1918; Jeremiah in Modern Speech, London, 1919; The Use of the Old Testament,
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London, 1922; The Interest of the Bible, London, 1922; Key to the Exercises in Davidson’s Hebrew Grammar, Edinburgh, 1924; The Approach to the Old Testament, London, 1926; Guide to the Understanding of the Old Testament, London, 1927; Old Testament Scenes and Characters, London, 1928; many articles and reviews in periodicals, etc.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.772.]
1919
WILLIAM MALCOLM MACGREGOR
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.230
Born 16th September 1861 at Glasgow, son of Rev. Duncan Macgregor and Elizabeth Forbes Fleming; educated at Dundee High School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1880), Glasgow Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow June 1885; pioneer work at Oldham, Lancashire, 1885-6; ordained and inducted Troon Portland Road 18th May 1886; translated to Glasgow Renfield 20th September 1890; translated to Edinburgh St Andrew’s 20th June 1898; appointed to Chair of New Testament Language, Literature and Theology, Glasgow College, 23rd May 1919 and inducted 20th June 1919; appointed Principal 24th May 1928. Married 19th October 1887, Amy, daughter of J.C. Stevenson, M.P. for South Shields. D.D., Glasgow 1904; Convener of Highlands and Islands Committee 1907-11 and from 1924; Baird Lecturer 1913; Vice-Convener of Jewish Committee 1918-21; Moderator of General Assembly 1919. Publications – What a Church Lives For (sermon), Edinburgh, 1900; The Convocation of 1904: A Record and a Report, Edinburgh, 1904; Our Church in the Highlands, Edinburgh, 1907; Jesus Christ the Son of God, Edinburgh, 1907; Some of God’s Ministries, Edinburgh, 1910; In Time of War (sermon), Edinburgh, 1914; Christian Freedom (Baird Lectures), London, 1914; The Scattered Nation, Edinburgh, 1917; Courage and the Destiny of Those who Fall, Edinburgh, 1917; Repentance Unto Life, London, 1918; The Jew in History, Edinburgh, 1919; Our Ministry of Teaching, Edinburgh, 1919.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.773.]
1904
HUGH ROSS MACKINTOSH
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.242
Born 31st October 1870 at Paisley Free Church Gaelic Manse, son of Rev. Alexander Mackintosh and Jessie Ross; educated at Paisley Neilson Institution, Tain Royal Academy, Edinburgh George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1892), D.Phil. (1897), D.D. (1908), New College, Edinburgh, Universities of Halle 1895, and Marburg 1896; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 1896; assistant Largs 1896-7; ordained and inducted Ferry-Port-on-Craig Queen Street August 1897; translated to Aberdeen Beechgrove April 1901; appointed to Chair of Systematic Theology, New College and inducted June 1904; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1917-18, and 1918-19. Married 8th June 1899, Jessie Air. Publications – joint translator of Ritschl, Justification and Reconciliation, Edinburgh, 1900; translation of Loofs, Anti-Haekel, London, 1903; joint editor of Selections from the Literature of Theism, Edinburgh, 1904; Life on God’s Plan, London, 1908; translation of Wendland, Miracles and Christianity, London, 1911; The Person of Jesus Christ, London, 1911; The Doctrine of the Person of Christ, Edinburgh, 1912; Studies in Christian Truth, London, 1913; Immortality and the Future, London, 1915; The Originality of the Christian Message, London, 1920; The Divine Initiative, London, 1921; Some Aspects of Christian Belief, London, 1923; The Christian Experience of Forgiveness, London, 1927; joint editor and translator, Schleiermacher, The Christian Faith, London, 1928.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.773.]
1925
WILLIAM MANSON
Born 14th April 1882 at Cambuslang, son of Alexander Manson and Jacobina Simpson Green; educated at Cambuslang Public School, Glasgow High School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1st Class Hons. in Classics 1904), University of Oxford Oriel College, B.A. (1st Class Hons. Mods., 1st Class Lit. Hum. 1907), Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Hamilton May 1910; assistant Glasgow Claremont 1909-10; ordained and inducted Oban Dunollie Road 20th January 1911; translated to Glasgow Pollokshields East 1914; appointed to Chair of New Testament Language, Literature and Theology, Knox College, Toronto, 1919; appointed to Chair of New Testament Language, Literature and Theology, New College, 22nd May 1925. Married 8th September 1914, Mary Dickie Ferguson. Bruce Lecturer 1914. Publications – The First Three Gospels, Edinburgh, 1914; Christ’s View of the Kingdom of God (Bruce Lectures), London, 1918; The Incarnate Glory, London, 1923.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.733; Vol.10, p.431.]
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1897
ALEXANDER MARTIN
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.57
Born 25th November 1857 at Carnoustie, son of Rev. Hugh Martin and Elizabeth Jane Robertson; educated at Cockpen Free Church School, Edinburgh and George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (Hons. 1880), D.D. (1898), New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 1883; ordained and inducted Edinburgh Morningside 1884; appointed to Chair of Apologetics and Pastoral Theology, New College, 1897; appointed Principal 24th May 1918; retired from Chair 25th May 1927. Married 1887, Jane Thorburn Addis. Moderator of General Assembly 1920 and 1929; Cunningham Lecturer 1926-8. Publications – The Problem of Apologetic; Winning the Soul, and Other Sermons, Edinburgh, 1897; reviews; pamphlets on Church Union in Scotland, etc.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.773.]
1915
JAMES MOFFATT
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.273
Born 4th July 1870 at Glasgow, son of George Moffatt and Isabella Morton; educated at University of Glasgow, M.A. (1889), B.D. (1894), D.Litt. (1909), University of Oxford, M.A. (1915), D.D. (1927), Glasgow Free Church College; ordained and inducted Dundonald 1896; translated to Broughty Ferry East 18th April 1907; appointed Yates Professor of Greek, Mansfield College, Oxford, 10th March 1912; appointed to Chair of Church History, Glasgow College, 21st May 1915; resigned on appointment to Chair of Church History in Union Theological Seminary, New York, 25th May 1927. D.D. St Andrews 1901; LL.D., Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1928. Married 29th September 1896, Mary Reith. Publications (all in London except where otherwise stated) – The Historical New Testament, Edinburgh, 1901; Literary Illustrations of the Bible, 1905-6; Paul and Paulinism, 1910; Introduction to the Literature of the New Testament, Edinburgh, 1911, etc.; Reasons and Reasons, 1911; The Theology of the Gospels, 1912; Grace in the New Testament, 1921; The Approach to the New Testament, 1921; The Epistle to the Hebrews (I.C.C.), Edinburgh, 1924; Everyman’s Life of Jesus, 1924; editor, The Expositor’s Yearbook for 1925 and 1926; editor, Handbook to the Church Hymnary, 1927; The First Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians, 1928; The General Epistles, 1928; The Presbyterian Churches, 1928; Love in the New Testament, 1929; The Day before Yesterday, Nashville, 1930; The First Five Centuries of the Church, 1938; Jesus Christ the Same, 1942; The Thrill of Tradition, 1944; The Bible in Scots Literature, S.A.; A Book of Biblical Devotions, S.A.; The Second Things of Life, S.A.; The Bible: A New Translation, many editions.
1927
WILLIAM DICKIE NIVEN
Born 26th April 1879 at Fyvie, son of Charles Niven and Jane McConnachie Mackay; educated at Fyvie Public School, Aberdeen Robert Gordon’s College, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1900), D.D. (1928), Aberdeen College, Universities of Berlin and Halle; licensed by Presbytery of Aberdeen, 1907; loc. ten. Aberdeen Ferryhill 1907; assistant Aberdeen North 1907; ordained and inducted Macduff, October 1907; translated to Blairgowrie St Andrew’s 16th June 1910; war service as Chaplain to the Forces; translated to Aberdeen Causewayend March 1919; appointed to Chair of Church History, Glasgow College, 27th May 1927 and inducted September 1927. Married 22nd April 1908, Isabella McIntosh Cumming. Publications – articles in Hastings, D.A.C., E.R.E., Expositor, and Expository Times.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.774; Vol.10, p.431.]
1900
JAMES ORR
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.2, p.459
Born 11th April 1844 in Glasgow, [son of Robert Orr and Montgomery Hunter;] educated at University of Glasgow, M.A., B.D., D.D. (1885), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; ordained and inducted Hawick East Bank 3rd February 1874; appointed to Chair of Church History in United Presbyterian College 8th May 1891; appointed to Chair of Apologetics and Systematic Theology, Glasgow College, 1900; died 6th September 1913. Publications – The Christian View of God and the World (Kerr Lectures), Edinburgh, 1893; Neglected Factors in the Study of the Early Progress of Christianity, 1899; The Bible under Trial, London, 1907; Can Professor Pfleiderer’s View Justify Itself? Edinburgh, 1894; The Early Church: Its History and Literature, London, 1901; The Faith of a Modern Christian, London, 1910; No. III of Four Essays on the Sabbath, 1886; God’s Image in Man and its Defacement (Stone Lectures), London, 1905; David Hume and his Influence on Philosophy and Theology, Edinburgh, 1903; The Problem of the Old Testament, London, 1905; The Progress of Dogma, London, 1901; The Resurrection of Jesus, London, 1908; Revelation and Inspiration, London, 1910; Ritschlianism, London, 1903; The Ritschlian Theology and the Evangelical Faith,
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London, 1897; Sidelights on Christian Doctrine, London 1909; Sin as a Problem of To-day, London, 1910; The Virgin Birth of Christ, London, 1907.
1900
JAMES ALEXANDER PATERSON
Born 1851 at Dalry, Galloway, [son of Alexander Paterson and Jane Stothert Murdoch;] educated at University of Aberdeen, D.D., University of Oxford, United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed 1875; appointed to Chair of Hebrew and Old Testament Exegesis, United Presbyterian College, 1876; appointed to Chair of Old Testament Language, Literature and Theology, New College, 1900; resigned 23rd May 1913; died 21st November 1915 [in Transval, South Africa. Married, in Prussia, Selma Louise.] Publications – translation of Schultz, Old Testament Theology, 2 volumes; The Period of the Judges (Bible Class Primers), Edinburgh, 1887; The Book of Numbers, London, 1900; The Third Book of Moses, called Leviticus (Temple Bible), London, 1901.
1862
ROBERT RAINY
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.57
Born 1st January 1826 at Glasgow, son of Harry Rainy, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence; educated at University of Glasgow, D.D., New College, Edinburgh; ordained and inducted Huntly 1851; translated to Edinburgh High 1854; appointed to Chair of Church History, New College, 1862; appointed Principal 1874; resigned the Chair 23rd May 1901; died 22nd December 1906. Married 1857, Susan, daughter of Adam Rolland of Gask. Moderator of Free Church General Assembly 1887; Moderator of General Assembly 1900 and 1905. See the Life by P. Carnegie Simpson, two volumes, 1909; and the Biographical Study by Robert Mackintosh, 1907. Publications – Life of Principal William Cunningham, 1871; Three Lectures on the Church of Scotland, 1872; Delivery and Development of Christian Doctrine, 1874; The Bible and Criticism, 1878; Church and State from Constantine to the Reformation (pages 1- 50 of Church and State in Scotland), 1878; The Epistle to the Philippians (Expositor’s Bible), 1893; The Ancient Catholic Church, Edinburgh, 1902; Sojourning with God, and other Sermons, 1902; pamphlets, etc.
1887
JAMES ROBERTSON
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.58
Born in 1846 at Banff; educated at University of Aberdeen, D.D., Aberdeen Free Church College; ordained as missionary to Calcutta 1871; appointed Principal of Doveton College 1877; returned to Calcutta Institution 1880; appointed Principal 1882; appointed to Chair of Church History, Aberdeen College, 1887; died 24th August 1901. Married 1871, Mary Robb.
1920
JAMES ALEXANDER ROBERTSON
Born 26th November 1880 at Ardersier United Presbyterian Manse, son of Rev. Alexander Anderson Robertson and Mary Taylor; educated at Ardersier Public School, Inverness Royal Academy, University of Aberdeen, M.A. (1st Class Hons. in Mental Philosophy, 1902), D.D. (1921), University of St Andrews, Glasgow College; licensed by Presbytery of Inverness 1906; ordained and introduced Glenlyon 19th November 1908; translated to Forfar West 22nd March 1911; translated to Edinburgh Palmerston Place June 1914; translated to Ballater April 1918; appointed to Chair of New Testament Language, Literature and Theology, Aberdeen College, 19th May 1920. Married 26th November 1919, Edith Anne Stewart. Bruce Lecturer 1917. Publications – The Spiritual Pilgrimage of Jesus, London, 1917; The Gospel and Epistles of St John, Edinburgh, 1919; The Scenes of Jesus of Nazareth, London, 1920; The Hidden Romance of the New Testament, London, 1920; Concerning the Soul, London, 1921; Divine Vocation in Human Life, London, 1925; Jesus the Citizen, London, 1927; Who Was Jesus? and other studies, London, 1928.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.774; Vol.10, p.431.]
1876
STEWART DINGWALL FORDYCE SALMOND
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.58
Born 1837 at Aberdeen; educated at University of Aberdeen, D.D., Aberdeen Free Church College; ordained and inducted Barry 1865; appointed to Chair of Systematic Theology and New Testament Exegesis, Aberdeen College, 1876; appointed Principal 1898; appointed to Chair of Dogmatics, Aberdeen College, 1900; died 20th April 1905. Married 1865, Annie Laing. Publications – Commentary on the Epistles of Peter in Schaff’s New Testament Commentary; The Christian Doctrine of Immortality (Cunningham Lectures); editor of the Critical Review of Bible Class Primers, and joint editor of the International Theological Library.
1913
JOHN ALEXANDER SELBIE
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.312
Born 4th February 1856 at Maryculter Free Church Manse, son of Rev. William Selbie and Helen Philip; educated at Maryculter Free Church School, Old Aberdeen Grammar School, University of Aberdeen,
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M.A. (1876), D.D. (1902), Aberdeen Free Church College; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Aberdeen 15th June 1880; missionary Elgin South 1881; loc. ten. Maryton 1881-2; ordained and inducted Birsay, Orkney, 21st December 1882; translated to Maryculter (in succession to his father), 14th May 1896; resigned 1905 to devote himself to literary work; appointed to Chair of Old Testament Language, Literature and Theology, Aberdeen College 23rd May 1913 and inducted 17th June 1913. Married 19th September 1883, Margaret Mackenzie. From 1893 to 1913 collaborated with Dr James Hastings in the production of D.B., D.C.G., E.R.E.; for some time in charge of the foreign department of The Expository Times. Publications – translation of Professor Koenig, The Exiles’ Book of Consolation, Edinburgh, 1899; numerous articles in the Dictionary of the Bible and in The Expository Times.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.775.]
1904
JAMES YOUNG SIMPSON
Born 3rd August 1873 at Edinburgh, son of Alexander Russell Simpson, Kt., and Margaret Stewart Barbour; educated at Edinburgh George Watson College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1894), B.Sc. (1897), D.Sc., New College, Edinburgh; appointed Lecturer on Natural Science, Glasgow Free Church College 1899; appointed Professor of Natural Science in Glasgow College and New College and ordained and inducted by Presbytery of Edinburgh 1904. Married 22nd April 1908, Helen Day. D.Sc. Middleburg, USA, 1929; Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; Recorder of Section D (Zoology) of British Association 1903-5; member of Political Intelligence Department of Information, Foreign Office, 1917-19; member of British Delegation to Peace Conference in Paris, Political Section, 1919; President, Latvian-Lithuanian Frontier Court of Arbitration 1921; President of Scottish Brotherhood Movement; President of British Brotherhood Movement; President of World Brotherhood Movement 1932-4. Publications – Sidelights on Siberia, Edinburgh, 1898; Life of Henry Drummond, Edinburgh, 1901; The Spiritual Interpretation of Nature, London, 1912; Self-Discovery of Russia, London, 1916; Man and the Attainment of Immortality, London, 1923; Landmarks in the Struggle between Science and Religion, London, 1925; Nature, Cosmic, Human and Divine, Yale, 1929; Saburov Memoirs, Cambridge, 1929; pamphlets; contributions to periodicals, especially on Russia, and on Biology.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.774.]
1892
GEORGE ADAM SMITH
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.59
Born 19th October 1856 at Calcutta, son of George Smith, C.I.E., LL.D., and Janet Adam; educated at Edinburgh Royal High School, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1874), D.D. (1893), LL.D. (1933), Universities of Tübingen, Leipzig and Berlin, New College, Edinburgh; student missionary in Edinburgh; mission work in Cairo; assistant Brechin West; temporary teacher of Old Testament Language, Literature and Theology, Aberdeen Free Church College 1881; ordained and inducted Aberdeen Queen’s Cross 20th April 1882; appointed to Chair of Old Testament Language, Literature and Theology, Glasgow Free Church College and inducted 2nd November 1892; appointed Principal and Vice-Chancellor of University of Aberdeen and installed 8th November 1909; resigned Chair in Glasgow College 27th May 1910; resigned the Principalship 31st October 1935; died 3rd March 1942. Married 18th December 1889, Alice Lilian, daughter of Sir George Buchanan, F.R.S., LL.D. LL.D., Aberdeen 1895, Western Reserve University 1903, and St Andrews 1911; Litt.D. Cantab. 1934; D.D. Oxon. 1920, Sheffield 1926, Durham 1929, Cantab. 1934. Knighted 1916; Moderator of General Assembly 1916-17; Chaplain to the King 3rd October 1933. Publications (in London, except where otherwise stated) – Isaiah, 2 volumes (Expositor’s Bible), 1888; The Preaching of the Old Testament, 1893; Historical Geography of the Holy Land, 1894, etc.; Four Psalms, 1896; Book of the Twelve Prophets, 2 volumes (Expositor’s Bible), 1896, 1898; Life of Henry Drummond, 1898; Modern Criticism and the Preaching of the Old Testament, 1901; Jerusalem, 2 volumes, 1908; The Early Poetry of Israel (Schweich Lectures), 1912; Atlas of the Historical Geography of the Holy Land, 1915; Our Common Conscience, 1918; Syria and the Holy Land, 1918; Deuteronomy (Cambridge Bible), Cambridge, 1918; Jeremiah, 1923; The Forgiveness of Sins, S.A.
1902
JAMES STALKER
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.325
Born 21st February 1848 at Crieff; educated at University of Edinburgh, M.A., D.D., New College, Edinburgh; ordained and inducted Kirkcaldy St Brycedale
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10th December 1874; translated to Glasgow St Matthew’s 17th May 1887; appointed to Chair of Church History, Aberdeen College, 28th May 1902 and inducted 18th June 1902 (the Chair became Church History and Church Ethics from 1905); retired 21st May 1924; died 6th February 1927. Married (1) 1878, Joanna Elder; (2) 1884, Charlotte Brown Douglas. Publications (in London, except where otherwise stated) – The Life of Jesus, Edinburgh, 1879; The Life of St Paul, Edinburgh, 1884; Imago Christi, 1891; The Preacher and his Models, 1891; The Four Men, 1892; The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ, 1894; The Two St Johns, 1895; The Christology of Jesus, 1899; The Seven Deadly Sins, 1901; The Seven Cardinal Virtues, 1902; John Knox: his Ideas and Ideals, 1904; The Atonement, 1908; The Ethic of Jesus, 1909; The New Song and other Sermons for the Children’s Hour, 1912; How to Read Shakespeare, 1913; Christian Psychology, 1914; The Beauty of the Bible, 1918; The Teaching of Jesus as Recorded in St John, S.A.; The Union of the Churches, Edinburgh, S.A.
1900
JAMES WARDROP
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, p.619; Vol.2, p.564
Born 1821 at Avonbridge; educated at University of Edinburgh, D.D. (1880), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed 1856; ordained and inducted Perth Craigend 26th November 1861; translated to West Calder 11th April 1878; appointed to Chair of Systematic Theology and Apologetics, United Presbyterian College, 1892; appointed colleague to Professor of Systematic Theology, New College, 1900; resigned 26th May 1903; died 6th July 1909. [Married 1862, Janet Hoseason.]
1919
HUGH WATT
Born 12th December 1879 at Kilmaurs, son of John Watt and Agnes Taylor Dickie; educated at Kilmaurs Public School, Kilmarnock Academy, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1st Class Hons. in English and History 1901), B.D. (1905), D.D. (1926), Glasgow College, Universities of Marburg 1902, Berlin 1904, and Halle 1905; licensed by Presbytery of Irvine and Kilmarnock 1905; assistant Aberdeen Queen’s Cross 1905-6; loc. ten. Cove and Kilcreggan 1906-7, Glasgow Rutherford 1907; ordained and inducted Waterbeck December 1907; translated to Bearsden North 5th September 1912; war service with Y.M.C.A. in France 1915, 1916, as Chaplain to the Forces in Egypt, Palestine and France 1917-18, and with Scottish Churches Huts in Germany 1919; appointed to Chair of Church History, New College, 23rd May 1919 and inducted September 1919. Married 6th August Mary Smith Taylor. Publications – Representative Churchmen of Twenty Centuries, London, 1927; articles in Hastings, D.A.C., E.R.E., and periodicals.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.776; Vol.10, p.432.]
1913
ADAM CLEGHORN WELCH
Small, History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church, Vol.1, pp.57 and 237; Vol.2, p.100
Born 14th May 1864 at Goshen Manse, St Mary, Jamaica, son of Rev. John Welch and Flora Hogg; educated at Galashiels Academy, Edinburgh George Watson’s College, University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1883), B.D. (1886), D.D. (1913), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh, University of Halle, Th.D. (1909); missionary assistant Perth Wilson 1884; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh 1886; missionary at Straiton 1886-7; assistant Glasgow Dowanhill 1887; ordained and inducted Waterbeck 29th November 1887; translated to Helensburgh St Columba’s 21st December 1892; translated to Glasgow Claremont 22nd April 1902; appointed to Chair of Old Testament Language, Literature and Theology, New College, 23rd May 1913; war service at Dunfermline, 1915. Married 24th June 1903, Grace Marion Steven. Publications – Anselm and his Work, Edinburgh, 1901; The Religion of Israel under the Kingdom, Edinburgh, 1912; The Story of Joseph, Edinburgh, 1913; Visions of the End, London, 1922; The Book of Jeremiah translated, London, 1923, 1928; The Code of Deuteronomy, London, 1924; The Psalter, Oxford, 1926; Jeremiah, his Time and his Work, Oxford, 1928.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.777.]
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OTHER STAFF
1920
ROBERT MATTHEW BUCHANAN
Born 8th October 1871 at Pollokshields, Glasgow, son of William Buchanan and Marion Hutchison; educated at Glasgow High School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1892), B.D. (1897), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow 27th April 1897; assistant Troon St Meddan’s 1897-9; ordained and inducted Kirriemuir Bank Street 21st November 1901; resigned to facilitate local union 13th January 1913; served with Glasgow Sailors’ and Soldiers’ Families Association 1914-18; loc. ten. Cardonald for 2½ years during the War; appointed Librarian, Glasgow College, June 1920. Married 30th April 1902, Louisa Annie Kirkwood.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.785.]
1904
JOHN HECTOR, D.D.
Formerly foreign missionary in Calcutta; Duff Lecturer in Evangelistic Theology in the Colleges 1904-5. (See Foreign Missionaries.)
1922
ADAM MITCHELL HUNTER
Ewing, Annals of the Free Church, Vol.1, p.188
Born 1871 in Edinburgh, educated at University of Edinburgh, M.A., D.Litt. (1923), New College, Edinburgh; ordained and inducted as colleague and successor, Cardross, 17th January 1898; resigned on appointment as Librarian, New College, 13th February 1922. Married 1899, Jessie Carslaw. Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Publications – The Age of Daniel and the Exile, London, S.A.; The Teaching of Calvin, Glasgow, 1920.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.785.]
1880
JAMES KENNEDY
Born 1842 in Edinburgh; educated at University of Edinburgh, D.D. (1903), New College, Edinburgh (Cunningham Fellow, 1868); Hebrew Tutor 1867-8; licensed by Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 1868; appointed assistant Librarian, New College, 1873, and Librarian 1880; retired 1922; died 1925. [Married Margaret.] Publications – Introduction to Biblical Hebrew, London, 1889; Abridged Catalogue of New College Library, 1893; Studies in Hebrew Synonyms, London, 1898; The Note-Line in the Hebrew Scriptures, Edinburgh, 1908; An Aid to the Textual Amendment of the Old Testament, Edinburgh, 1928; edited second edition of Halkett and Laing, Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature, 1926-34.
1900
DUGALD MACKICHAN, D.D., LL.D.
Foreign missionary in Western India; Duff Lecturer in Evangelistic Theology in the Colleges 1900-2.
1902
JOHN SMITH, D.D.
Minister emeritus of Edinburgh Broughton Edinburgh Broughton Place; Duff Lecturer in Evangelistic Theology in the Colleges 1902-3.
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CHAPLAINS TO THE FORCES
1924
FRANCIS PIRIE WILSON ALEXANDER
Born 8th May 1898 at Gardenstown, son of William Wilson Alexander and May Ann Penelope Alexander; educated at Aberdeen Robert Gordon’s College, University of Aberdeen; war service with H.M. Forces on the Western Front 1916-19; Aberdeen College, New College, Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Aberdeen 1924; assistant Rutherglen Stonelaw 1924; ordained by Presbytery of Aberdeen for service as Chaplain to the Forces December 1924; appointed Chaplain to the Forces 1st January 1925.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.8, p.721; and Vol.9, p.786.]
ALEXANDER CAMPSIE, M.C., M.A., see Malta.
1904
JOHN MORGAN CONNOR
Born 21st January 1872 at Biggar South United Presbyterian Manse, son of Rev. David Muir Connor and Mary Ann Morgan; educated at Biggar Townhead School, Glasgow Hutcheson’s Grammar School, University of Glasgow, M.A. (1893), United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh; assistant to Professor of English Literature, University of Glasgow 1894-6; licensed by United Presbyterian Presbytery of Glasgow August 1898; assistant Gibraltar 1901-2, Dumfries Buccleuch Street 1902-3, Edinburgh Broughton Place 1904; ordained for service as Chaplain to the Forces by Presbytery of Edinburgh December 1904; served at Woking 1904-5, Aldershot 1905-7, Cairo 1907-9, Khartoum 1909-11, Cairo 1911-12, Dublin 1912-14, France 1914-17, Glasgow 1917-19, Aldershot 1919-20, Claremorris, Co. Galway, 1920-2, Aldershot 1922-3, London and Pirbright 1923, Parkhurst, Isle of Wight, 1923-7. In the Great War, twice wounded; thrice mentioned in Despatches; awarded D.S.O. January 1918; promoted Lieutenant-Colonel 1st January 1925; died 28th March 1952.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.787.]
1901
JOHN JAMES MACPHAIL COWPER, M.A.
Appointed Chaplain to the Forces 1901; retired first January 1925; introduced Glenorchy 16th April 1925.
1921
MATTHEW BARR HOUSTON, B.D.
Minister at Kilmarnock St John’s appointed Chaplain to the Forces (T.), 1919, Chaplain to the Forces 1921; resigned 1923; inducted Innellan 4th December 1923
1927
ALEXANDER MACINNES, M.A.
Minister at Glasgow Cardonald; resigned while Chaplain to the Forces (T.) June 1919; appointed Chaplain to the Forces 1921; resigned and inducted Glasgow Glasgow St David’s September 1922.
1927
ALEXANDER J. MACKENZIE, M.A.
[Born 10th September 1883 at Lochcarron, son of John Mackenzie and Ann Mackenzie;] temporary Chaplain to the Forces to 1926; Chaplain to the Forces 1927.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.791.]
1921
EWEN MACLEAN, S.C.F., M.A.
Minister at Avoch; resigned on appointment as Chaplain to the Forces (T.) 31st December 1917; appointed Chaplain to the Forces 1921.
[For further information on this minister, see Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Vol.9, p.791; Vol.10, p.447.]
1921
WALTER MILBURN, M.A.
Minister at Buckhaven St Andrew’s; appointed Chaplain to the Forces (T.) 1918; appointed Chaplain to the Forces 1921; resigned 1923; inducted Bath 1923.
1923
T. MURRAY
1st Class Chaplain to the Forces; retired 1913; died 1917.
1908
WILLIAM RUSSELL PATERSON, M.A.
Minister at Armadale, appointed Chaplain to the Forces 1908; retired December 1924; inducted Glasgow Dalmarnock 10th June 1925.
GUSTAVUS AIRD SIM, see Malta.