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His parents had emigrated from the Isle of Lewis to America in the early 1920s and John was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1926. His parents did not fare well, nor find what they sought in America, and, mainly due to the Great Depression, they returned to the home town of his father, Am Brugan MacLeod (d.1988), at Shawbost on Lewis in 1927, and rebegan a life of crofting.
Bill McDonald (minister) Robert McGhee (minister) A. T. B. McGowan; William McHardy; John McIndoe (minister) John McIntyre (theologian) William McKane; James McKinnon (historian) Fraser McLuskey; John McMurtrie (moderator) John Miller (minister) George Milligan (Church of Scotland) Peter Mills (RAF officer) Andrew J. Milne; James Mitchell ...
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 ...
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.
Thomas Martin (14 April 1856 – 7 January 1942) was a Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1920. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Life
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]
16th-century ministers of the Church of Scotland (1 C, 33 P) 17th-century ministers of the Church of Scotland (2 C, 124 P) 18th-century ministers of the Church of Scotland (171 P)
Robert Blair (1593 – 27 August 1666) was a Scottish presbyterian minister who became a Westminster Divine and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1646, after failing to emigrate to Boston in 1636.