St George’s – St James’s p. 107

 

1843 ROBERT HORNE STEVENSON, born Netherinch, Campsie, 27th Oct. 1812, son of John S. of Gartclash, farmer, and Margaret, daugh. of Robert Horne of Braziets; educated at Campsie School and Univs. of Edinburgh and Glasgow; licen. by Presb. of Dumbarton 23rd Oct. 1832; tutor to A. J. Dennistoun-Brown of Balloch, with whom he travelled extensively on the continent of Europe; missionary in the Second Charge, Kilmarnock; assistant at Crieff 1839; ord. (assistant and successor) there 6th May 1840; clerk to Presb. of Auchterarder, April 1843; trans. and adm. to St George's 28th Sept. 1843; D.D. (Edinburgh 1871); Moderator of the General Assembly 1871; chairman of Council of the College for Daughters of Ministers and Professors; one of Edinburgh Ecclesiastical Commissioners; res. 25th June 1879; died 15th Nov. 1886. He marr. 26th Jan. 1853, Frances, daugh. and coheiress of Robert Cadell of Ratho, and had issue-Anne Frances, born 6th June 1854; John (Robert) Horne, Knight of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem in England, M.A., advocate, Unicorn Pursuivant, born 2nd July 1855; Robert Cadell, member of the London Stock Exchange, born 10th April 1859; William Black, M.A., min. of Athelstaneford, and St Columba's, Edinburgh, organising secretary, Foreign Mission Committee, born 10th May 1862; Louisa Hope, born 21st March 1864 (marr. 1904, Alexander Garden Sinclair, artist); Henry James, M.A. W.S., secretary of the North British and Mercantile Insurance Co., born 12th July 1867. Publications-Several Funeral Sermons; Farewell Letter to the Congregation of  St George’s (Edinburgh, 1879).

 

1880 ARCHIBALD SCOTT, born Cadder, 18th Sept. 1837, sixth son of James S., farmer, Bogton, and Margaret Brown; educated at Cadder School, Glasgow High School, and Univ. of Glasgow; B.A. 25th April 1855; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 8th June 1859; assistant at St Matthew's, Glasgow, and Clackmannan; pres. by the Provost and Magistrates, and ord. to the East Church, Perth, 2nd March 1860; trans.

to Abernethy 29th Jan. 1863  trans. to Maxwell, Glasgow, 1st June 1865; trans. to Linlithgow 23rd Sept. 1869; trans. to Greenside 21st Sept. 1871; D.D. (Glasgow 2 7th April 1876); trans. and adm. 29th Jan. 1880; Moderator of the General Assembly 1896; convener of the General Committee of the Church; chairman of the Consulting Committee of the Ministers' Widows' Fund; one of Edinburgh Ecclesiastical Commissioners; one of the Baird Trustees; chairman of the Edinburgh School Board 1878-82; Croall lecturer 1889-90; Baird lecturer 1892-3; lecturer on Pastoral Theology; died 18th April 1909. He marr. (1) 4th June 1861, Isabella (died 1st May 1892), daugh. of Robert Greig, merchant, Perth, and had issue-Robert Greig, W.S., born 25th Sept. 1867, died 12th Sept. 1911; Margaret, born 26th March 1870: (2) 18th July 1894, Marion Elizabeth, daugh. of John Rankine, D.D., min. of Sorn. Publications-Endowed Territorial Work (Edinburgh, 1873); Buddhism and Christianity A Parallel and a Contrast (Croall Lecture, Edinburgh, 1890); Sacrifice, its Prophecy and Fulfilment (Baird Lecture, Edinburgh, 1894); Our Opportunities and Responsibilities (Assembly Closing Address, 1896).

 

1909 GAVIN LANG PAGAN, born 13th April 1873, son of John P., D.D., min. of Bothwell; educated at Hamilton Academy and Univ. of Glasgow; M.A. (1893), B.D. (1896); licen. by Presb. of Hamilton 29th Sept. 1896; assistant at Abbotshall, Rosemount, Aberdeen, and Edinburgh (St Cuthbert's); ord. to Callander 7th Sept. 1899; trans. to Largs 26th Nov. 1902; trans. and adm. 7th Oct. 1909.

 

ST JAMES'S (Q.s.).

[Disjoined from St Cuthberts and erected into a parish quoad sacra, 6th July 1891. Church built in 1895.

 

1891 SIMON SOMERVILLE STOBBS, born 19th Jan. 1833, son of William S., U.P. min. at Stromness, and Jessie Somerville; ord. to Ardrossan U.P. Church 22nd Dec. 1857; res. 13th March 1860

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