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Pages in category "18th-century ministers of the Church of Scotland" The following 171 pages are in this category, out of 171 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Andrew Brown (minister) John Brown (moderator) Thomas Brown (minister of St John's, Glasgow) William Laurence Brown; John Bruce (minister) Alexander Brunton; Robert Buchanan (minister) Robert Buchanan (playwright) George Buist (minister) James Chalmers Burns; Thomas Burns (minister, born 1853) Amalric-Frédéric Buscarlet
The Ordination of Elders in a Scottish Kirk, painting by John Henry Lorimer, 1891 Alexander Webster, minister of the Tolbooth Kirk in St. Giles, Edinburgh and moderator of the Church of Scotland in 1753, was responsible for providing the first reliable estimate of Scotland's population in modern times. Based on returns from parish ministers ...
In the early 1980s, he co-presented the Scottish Television religious magazine programme That's the Spirit! and was also interviewed on VIP, also an STV religious show.His role as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland meant he was one of the public figures who led tributes to Diana, Princess of Wales upon her death in 1997 in a BBC broadcast.
George Norman MacLeod Collins (1901-1989) was a Scottish minister styled an "elder statesman of the Free Church of Scotland. He twice served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland (1949 and 1971). He was also a professor of the Free Church College. He was also a prolific author, specialising in biographies. [1]
He was born at Glen Haltin on Skye in 1794, the son of Rev McLeod parish minister of Snizort, and grandson of McLeod of Raasay. Roderick studied Divinity at Aberdeen University . He was licensed to preach by the Church of Scotland 's Presbytery of Skye and began work in a mission at Lynedale in his father's parish in 1818.
From 1922 to 1924 he served in Glasgow Patrick St. Mary's and in 1924 he became regius professor of divinity and church history at the University of Aberdeen. [3] [2] In 1924 he married Jennie Holmes McCulloch and they had two sons. [2] Henderson's historical writings focused primarily on Scottish Church history.
Robert Walter Stewart (1812–1887) was a Scottish minister of the Free Church of Scotland and who spent much time working in Italy and served as Moderator of the General Assembly 1874/75. He helped to promote the Waldensian Church and the Presbyterian movement in northern Italy. He was also a travel writer and early photographer.