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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 ...
William Maxwell Hetherington (4 June 1803 – 23 May 1865) was a Scottish minister, poet and church historian. He entered the university of Edinburgh but before completing his studies for the church he published, in 1829, 'Twelve Dramatic Sketches' founded on the Pastoral Poetry of Scotland.
Humza Yousaf, who served as first minister between March 2023 and May 2024 is the second shortest–serving first minister after a period in office of 1 year and 39 days. [3] Sturgeon is the longest-serving first minister, having surpassed Salmond on 25 May 2022. [4] Salmond in turn spent a total of 7 and a half years in the role.
William Struther(s) (1578-1633) was a high-ranking Scottish church minister and poet. He was involved in an infamous witch trial in Edinburgh. [1] He was renowned for his "spiced sermons". [2]
Licensed to preach by the Free Church in 1843, he was thereafter ordained as a minister of Panbride near Carnoustie. [2] In 1858, he left Panbride to take on the role as minister of Greyfriars Free Church in Edinburgh (on West Crosscauseway), one of the Free Church's newly built and more impressive city monuments. [3]
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.
He was born on 14 January 1900. He trained as a minister of the Free Church of Scotland. He was minister of Kinloch, in the Parish of Lochs, north of Loch Eireasort on the Isle of Lewis from 1927 to 1961. [1] He lived at 13 Swordale in Point until his marriage then lived in Stornoway. [2]
In September 1825 he moved to the New North Church (West St Giles), one of the four parish churches housed in St Giles Cathedral, and in 1830 to the High Church of Edinburgh. The latter was normally also housed in St Giles but at the time of his occupation was housed at the new Royal High School on Calton Hill. [5]