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Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae Medii Aevi Ad Annum 1638 (revised edition, edited by D. E. R. Watt and A. L. Murray) was published by the Scottish Record Society (Edinburgh, 2003). Volume I, Synod of Lothian and Tweeddale and Volume II, Synods of Merse and Teviotdale Dumfries & Galloway are now on line at Scottish Ministers and History .
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 ...
In 1842, Hugh was converted to the principles of the Free Church of Scotland by Rev Dr William Cunningham, who became his life-long mentor. In the Disruption of 1843, he joined the Free Church faction and was one of the first ministers ordained directly into that faction without transfer from the Church of Scotland.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne (21 May 1813 – 25 March 1843) was a minister in the Church of Scotland from 1835 to 1843. He was born at Edinburgh on 21 May 1813, was educated at the university and at the Divinity Hall of his native city, and was assistant at Larbert and Dunipace.
The six were Mary Weir, Claude Barbour, Elizabeth Hewat, Mary Levison, Sheila White (later Sheila Spence and Forrester and they wrote an open letter requesting that women should be accepted as ministers in the Church of Scotland. [2] Levison had been the first to petition for the acceptance of women as ministers in the Church of Scotland in 1963.
David Dickson of Busby was born in Glasgow in 1583. He was the son of John Dickson, a wealthy local merchant with premises on the Trongate.He was at first intended for the mercantile profession, but instead studied for the Church.
Memorial to Fletcher erected by his congregation at Abney Park Cemetery, London. Alexander Fletcher (1787–1860), the Children's Friend, was a Scottish kirk minister, and later an Independent (Congregational) divine in England.
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)