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George Cook (Scottish Minister)
George Cook (1772–1845) was a Scottish minister, author of religious tracts and professor of Moral Philosophy at St Andrews University. He served as Moderator of the Church of Scotland in 1825. He was the leader of the "moderate" party in the church of Scotland on the question of the Veto Act, which led to Disruption of 1843 and the formation of the Free Church by the "evangelical party. Professional life He was born on 22 March 1772 in Newburn, Fife the son of John Cook (1739–1815) and Janet Hill. His mother was the sister of George Hill and daughter of John Hill, minister of St Andrews. George Cook studied at St Andrews University graduating MA in 1790. He received a licence to minister on 30 April 1795 and the following year took over in the parish of Laurencekirk where he was ordained on 3 September 1795. In 1829 he was offered the Chair of Moral Philosophy at St Andrews University (a post held by his father from 1773 until 1802) where he continued until death in 1845 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Cook (moderator 1876)
George Cook (1812–1888) was a minister of the Church of Scotland, who served as Moderator of the General Assembly in 1876. He was part of the "Cook Dynasty" (mainly centred in St Andrews) and both his father and brother also served as Moderator. Life He was born in the manse of Laurencekirk on 11 June 1812 the son of George Cook who served as Moderator in 1825 and was later Professor of Moral Philosophy at St Andrews University. He was educated at Laurencekirk parish school then studied divinity at St Andrews University graduating MA around 1832. He was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of St Andrews in 1836. His first clergical role was as assistant to James MacDonald at Kemback. In 1841, as part of the Church's Foreign Missions projects, he was ordained as a Church of Scotland Chaplain in Bombay in India. After 20 years in India he returned to Scotland as minister of Bathgate Parish Church. In May 1867 he translated to Borgue on the south-west coast of Scotland. In 1872 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Society Of Edinburgh
The Royal Society of Edinburgh is Scotland's national academy of science and letters. It is a registered charity that operates on a wholly independent and non-partisan basis and provides public benefit throughout Scotland. It was established in 1783. , there are around 1,800 Fellows. The Society covers a broader selection of fields than the Royal Society of London, including literature and history. Fellowship includes people from a wide range of disciplines – science & technology, arts, humanities, medicine, social science, business, and public service. History At the start of the 18th century, Edinburgh's intellectual climate fostered many clubs and societies (see Scottish Enlightenment). Though there were several that treated the arts, sciences and medicine, the most prestigious was the Society for the Improvement of Medical Knowledge, commonly referred to as the Medical Society of Edinburgh, co-founded by the mathematician Colin Maclaurin in 1731. Maclaurin was unhappy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Fife
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1845 Deaths
Events January–March * January 10 – Elizabeth Barrett receives a love letter from the younger poet Robert Browning; on May 20, they meet for the first time in London. She begins writing her ''Sonnets from the Portuguese''. * January 23 – The United States Congress establishes a uniform date for federal elections, which will henceforth be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. * January 29 – ''The Raven'' by Edgar Allan Poe is published for the first time, in the ''New York Evening Mirror''. * February 1 – Anson Jones, President of the Republic of Texas, signs the charter officially creating Baylor University (the oldest university in the State of Texas operating under its original name). * February 7 – In the British Museum, a drunken visitor smashes the Portland Vase, which takes months to repair. * February 28 – The United States Congress approves the annexation of Texas. * March 1 – President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1772 Births
Year 177 ( CLXXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Commodus and Plautius (or, less frequently, year 930 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 177 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Lucius Aurelius Commodus Caesar (age 15) and Marcus Peducaeus Plautius Quintillus become Roman Consuls. * Commodus is given the title ''Augustus'', and is made co-emperor, with the same status as his father, Marcus Aurelius. * A systematic persecution of Christians begins in Rome; the followers take refuge in the catacombs. * The churches in southern Gaul are destroyed after a crowd accuses the local Christians of practicing cannibalism. * Forty-seven Christians are martyred in Lyon (Saint Blandina and Pothinus, bishop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Scott
Rachel Joy Scott (August 5, 1981 – April 20, 1999) was an American student who was the first fatality of the Columbine High School massacre, in which 11 other students and a teacher were also murdered by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who then died by suicide. Scott's belief in Christianity and the circumstances of her death have led to her being remembered by groups of evangelical Christians as a Christian martyr. She was posthumously the subject and co-writer of several books and the inspiration for Rachel's Challenge, an international school outreach program and the most popular school assembly program in the U.S. The aim of Rachel's Challenge is to advocate Scott's values, based on her life, her journals, and the contents of a two-page essay, penned a month before her murder, entitled ''My Ethics; My Codes of Life''. This essay advocates her belief in compassion being "the greatest form of love humans have to offer". Early life Childhood Rachel Joy Scott was born on Aug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cook (moderator 1816)
John Cook (1770 (sic)–1824) was a Scottish minister, historian and amateur artist. He was a pioneer in the field of Biblical Criticism. Life He was born on November 24, 1770 in St Andrews the first son of John Cook and his wife, Janet Hill, sister of George Hill. He was the first of 12 children. His birthdate is sometimes shown in records as 1771 to disguise his birth being less than 9 months after his parents marriage. He studied Divinity at St Andrews University under his father and was licensed to preach by the Church of Scotland. In 1793 he became minister of Kilmany. A technically skilled album of his drawings (mainly townscapes in St Andrews) from 1797 are in the possession of the University of St Andrews. In 1802 he was appointed Professor of Hebrew at St Andrews University (Aien aristeuein) , motto_lang = grc , mottoeng = Ever to ExcelorEver to be the Best , established = , type = Public resear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Hill (minister)
Alexander Hill (1785–1867) was a Scottish minister of the Church of Scotland who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1845. He was professor of divinity at the University of Glasgow. Life Hill was born in St Andrews, Fife on 19 July 1785, one of eleven children of Harriet Scott and Rev George Hill, Principal of the University of St Andrews. He studied at the University of St Andrews graduating with an MA in 1804. In September 1806, he was licensed to preach as a Church of Scotland minister by the Presbytery of St Andrews. He spent nine years travelling in England and Europe, taking various tutoring jobs. In July 1815 he was ordained as minister of Colmonell translating to Dailly in 1816 (both in South Ayrshire). He was awarded a Doctor of Divinity in 1828 by St Andrews. From 1839 to 1863 he was Professor of Divinity at the University of Glasgow. In 1840 he was proposed as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland but wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hill (classicist)
John Hill FRSE (27 April 1747–7 December 1805) was a Scottish minister and classicist. In 1783 he was one of the joint founders of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Life He was born in St Andrews on 27 April 1747 the son of Rev John Hill (d. 1764), minister of St Andrews, and his wife Elizabeth Gowdie, daughter of John Gowdie. His mother died at or soon after his birth. His father remarried and had more children, including George Hill. He attended St Andrews Grammar School then the University of St Andrews where he graduated MA around 1767. From 1775 until 1793 he was joint Professor of Humanity at the University of St Andrews. The University of Edinburgh awarded him an honorary doctorate (LLD) in 1787. He then moved to the University of Edinburgh as the sole Professor of Humanity. His final years were spent at Brown Square in Edinburgh where he died on 7 December 1805. He is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard against the western wall of the original area, north-west of the Adam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Cook (moderator)
George Cook (1812–1888) was a minister of the Church of Scotland, who served as Moderator of the General Assembly in 1876. He was part of the "Cook Dynasty" (mainly centred in St Andrews) and both his father and brother also served as Moderator. Life He was born in the manse of Laurencekirk on 11 June 1812 the son of George Cook who served as Moderator in 1825 and was later Professor of Moral Philosophy at St Andrews University. He was educated at Laurencekirk parish school then studied divinity at St Andrews University graduating MA around 1832. He was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of St Andrews in 1836. His first clergical role was as assistant to James MacDonald at Kemback. In 1841, as part of the Church's Foreign Missions projects, he was ordained as a Church of Scotland Chaplain in Bombay in India. After 20 years in India he returned to Scotland as minister of Bathgate Parish Church. In May 1867 he translated to Borgue on the south-west coast of Scotland. In 1872 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cook (Haddington)
John Cook (1807–1874) was a Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland for the year 1866/67. In common with other members of the ecclesiastical family of Cook, he was a strong supporter of the moderate party in the Scottish church. Life John Cook was born in Laurencekirk on 12 September 1807. He was the eldest son of George Cook (1772-1845) the local minister (afterwards Professor of Moral Philosophy at St Andrews), and his wife, Diana Shank. He was educated at Laurencekirk Parish School and the University of St Andrews. He was one of several children including George Cook, minister of Borgue. John followed in the family tradition and studied Divinity at St Andrews University. He graduated with an MA in 1823 and was licensed by the Presbytery of Fordoun on 17 September 1828. Initially he worked as an assistant to his father. In 1827 his father served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland following ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Chambers (publisher Born 1802)
Robert Chambers (; 10 July 1802 – 17 March 1871) was a Scottish publisher, geologist, evolutionary thinker, author and journal editor who, like his elder brother and business partner William Chambers, was highly influential in mid-19th-century scientific and political circles. Chambers was an early phrenologist in the Edinburgh Phrenological Society. He was also the anonymous author of ''Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation'', which was so controversial that his authorship was not acknowledged until after his death. Early life Chambers was born in Peebles in the Scottish Borders 10 July 1802 to Jean Gibson (''c''. 1781–1843) and James Chambers, a cotton manufacturer. He was their second son of six children. The town had changed little in centuries. The town had old and new parts, each consisting of little more than a single street. Peebles was mainly inhabited by weavers and labourers living in thatched cottages. His father, James Chambers, made his living as a cott ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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