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Robert Hamilton FRSE (19 May 1707 – 3 April 1787) was Professor of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh. He served twice as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland [1] and was also a co-founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. [2]
New College is situated on The Mound in the north of Edinburgh's Old Town. New College originally opened its doors in 1846 as a college of the Free Church of Scotland, later of the United Free Church of Scotland, and since 1935 has been the home of the School of Divinity (formerly the Faculty of Divinity) of the University of Edinburgh. [3]
He was appointed the first Professor of Divinity at Glasgow University in January 1640 [4] and later that year was elected Moderator of the General Assembly. [5] In 1650 he took a new post as Professor of Divinity at Edinburgh University. He was appointed to St Giles Cathedral (second charge) by the Town Council 12 April 1650, and admitted ...
In April 2021, he was appointed Regius Professor of Divinity, one of the oldest professorships of the University of Cambridge. [ 5 ] Fergusson is a Fellow of the British Academy (elected 2013), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , and was an associate director of the Centre for Theology and Public Issues .
Having taken the substantive degree of Doctor of Letters at Edinburgh, he was awarded honorary doctorates by the University of Edinburgh (Doctor honoris causa), University of Glasgow (Doctor of Divinity), and the College of Wooster (Doctor of Humane Letters). [6] [11] He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1977. He was a ...
Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae: The Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland from the Reformation: Volume IX: Ministers of the Church from the Union of the Churches, 2 October 1929, to 31 December 1954. Oliver and Boyd. 1961. Pinkerton, Roy M. Kirk o' Field and the Churches of Edinburgh's South Side. J Thomson Colour Printers. 2012.
Robert S. Candlish. 9 Randolph Crescent, Edinburgh Robert Smith Candlish (23 March 1806 – 19 October 1873) was a Scottish minister who was a leading figure in the Disruption of 1843 . [ 1 ] He served for many years in both St. George's Church and St George's Free Church on Charlotte Square in Edinburgh's New Town .
In the years 2013 and 2015 he acted a voluntary lecturer in theology at St Augustine's Theological School, Botswana. In 2017 he was invited to join the business committee of the general council of the University of Edinburgh. On 10 July 2018 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Divinity by the University of Edinburgh. [3]