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After graduating, Thomson returned to Ayrshire and was licensed as minister of the Church of Scotland, and subsequently ordained as minister of Dailly in 1800 in place of his father. In 1805 he was translated to Duddingston near Edinburgh and became the most famous minister of the local Kirk, remaining in the role until death in 1840.
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 ...
Scottish minister and his congregation, c. 1750 Scottish religion in the eighteenth century includes all forms of religious organisation and belief in Scotland in the eighteenth century. This period saw the beginnings of a fragmentation of the Church of Scotland that had been created in the Reformation and established on a fully Presbyterian ...
Greyfriars Kirk The grave of Rev James Finlayson, Dunblane Cathedral Memorial window to James Finlayson, Greyfriars Kirk. Finlayson was born the eldest son of William Finlayson on 15 February 1758, at Nether Cambushinnie Farm, near Kinbuck in the parish of Dunblane, Perthshire, where his ancestors had been settled for several centuries.
Panbride Kirk Buccleuch and Greyfriars Free Church of Scotland Hugh Martin (11 August 1822 – 14 June 1885) was a Scottish minister of the Free Church of Scotland and a theological author. Life
The leading figure in the evangelical movement within the Church of Scotland in the eighteenth century was John Erskine (1721–1803), who was minister of Old Greyfriars Church in Edinburgh from 1768. He was orthodox in doctrine, but sympathised with the Enlightenment and supported reforms in religious practice.
She was buried in the old West Kirk churchyard, in a plot owned by her relative Peter McPherson. [29] Further expansion of the church was restricted by the full graveyard, which was about 2 feet (0.61 m) higher than the sparred earthen church floor. The kirk became damp and insanitary: for ventilation in summer, the doors had to be kept open.
Canongate manse, Edinburgh. Walker was born in Monkton in Ayrshire, the son of William Walker, minister of the Scots Church in Rotterdam. [1]Many of his male relatives were Church of Scotland ministers: his father was the minister in Monkton; his uncle, also Robert Walker, was minister at St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1771 ...