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The United Free Church of Scotland (UF Church; Scottish Gaelic: An Eaglais Shaor Aonaichte, Scots: The Unitit Free Kirk o Scotland) is a Scottish Presbyterian denomination formed in 1900 by the union of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland (or UP) and the majority of the 19th-century Free Church of Scotland.
Salmond was the first minister of this spectacular church, designed by Sir Robert Rowand Anderson. [4] [5] In Edinburgh he lived very close to the church at 9 Cluny Drive. [6] In 1900 he and his church joined the Union in creating the United Free Church of Scotland, usually just referred to as the UF Church. [7]
Rev Robert Munro FRSE FSA (born 26 April 1853) was a Scottish minister of the Free Church of Scotland, remembered as a folklorist and contributor to Encyclopedia Britannica. He wrote extensively on archaeological subjects.
However, the Church Secretary, Mr Cochrane, received a written complaint from the elders stating he had overstepped his authority in allowing this. Nevertheless, music came to the church. [12] In October 1900 the United Presbyterian Church merged with part of the Free Church of Scotland creating the United Free Church of Scotland. The Union had ...
John Cairns (1857–1922) was a United Presbyterian Church minister, writer and biographer. He was born on 13 April 1857 at Stichill in Roxburghshire. He was the son of Rev. David Cairns, United Presbyterian Church minister at Stichill, and of Elizabeth Williamson Smith.
He was born on 11 April 1838 in the manse at Thurso, the son of Rev Walter Ross Taylor and his wife, Isabella Murray. [1] [2]He was educated at Thurso Free Church School. In the Disruption of 1843 his father left the Church of Scotland to join the Free Church, and they had to vacate the manse as a result.
The Free Church of Scotland is a Scottish denomination which was formed in 1843 by a large withdrawal from the established Church of Scotland in a schism [1] [2] known as the Disruption of 1843. [3] In 1900, the vast majority of the Free Church of Scotland joined with the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland to form the United Free Church of ...
He was the grandson of Rev Dr James Weatherhead of St Pauls UF Church in Dundee, and his wife, Margaret McDougall Kilpatrick. His grandfather was Moderator of the General Assembly of the United Free Church of Scotland in 1927. [1] He was a graduate of the University of Edinburgh, where he was President of the Students' Representative Council.