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John Macleod (1872–1948) was a Scottish minister and Principal of the Free Church College from 1927 to 1942. He served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland and was the author of Scottish Theology in relation to Church History. [1]
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 1878 he was appointed minister of the Free Church in Old Kilpatrick in Dumbartonshire. In 1889 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Hugh Macmillan, William Jolly, Robert Flint, and Alexander Buchan. He resigned from the Society in 1901. [3]
Pages in category "20th-century ministers of the Free Church of Scotland" The following 56 pages are in this category, out of 56 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Thomas Brown FRSE (1811–1893) was a Scottish minister in the Free Church of Scotland who rose to its highest rank, Moderator of the General Assembly in 1890. He was a noted geologist and botanist. He wrote prolifically on the history of the Disruption of 1843.
John W. Kennedy (15 August 1819 – 28 April 1884), usually known as John Kennedy of Dingwall or simply Dr Kennedy at the popular level, was a Scottish minister of the Free Church of Scotland. He was minister of just one church, in Dingwall, for forty years from his ordination in 1844 until his death. [1] [2]
David Fergusson or Ferguson (c. 1533 –23 April 1598) was a Scottish reformer and minister of the Church of Scotland. [2] He twice served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland: 1573 and 1578. He is said to have been a native of Dundee, though this is not certain. The date of his birth is also conjectural.
The Free Church of Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: An Eaglais Shaor; [4] Scots: Free Kirk o Scotland) is a conservative evangelical Calvinist denomination in Scotland.It is the continuation of the original Free Church of Scotland that remained outside the union with the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland in 1900, and remains a distinct Presbyterian denomination in Scotland.