James Grierson (railway Manager)
James Grierson may refer to: * James Grierson (British Army officer), British Army general * James Grierson (minister, born 1662), Moderator of the General Assembly in 1719 * James Grierson (minister, born 1791) James Grierson (2 July 1791–22 January 1875) was a Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly to the Free Church of Scotland in 1854/55. Early life He was born in Ruthwell in Dumfriesshire on 2 July 1791. He studi ...

James Grierson (British Army Officer)
Lieutenant-General Sir James Moncrieff Grierson, ADC (Gen.) (27 January 1859 – 17 August 1914) was a British soldier. Life He was born in 1859 the son of George Moncrieff Grierson and his wife Allison Lyon Walker. Grierson was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1877. He served in the Egyptian War including the actions at Kassassin and Tel el Kebir, as Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General with the Indian contingent in 1882. He was Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General for the Sudan expedition and was involved in actions at Suakin, Hasheen and Tamai in 1885. He was Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General for 2nd Brigade during the Hazara expedition in 1888. He was appointed Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, Intelligence, at Army Headquarters in 1890 and then became Brigade Major for the Royal Artillery at Aldershot from 1895 to 1896 when he became Military Attaché in Berlin acquiring what Sir John French later described as "an intimate knowledge of t ...
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James Grierson (minister, Born 1662)
James Grierson (1662–1732) was a Scottish minister of the Church of Scotland who served as Moderator of the General Assembly in 1719. He was the first "second charge" to become Moderator. Life He was ordained as a minister of the Church of Scotland in Wemyss in September 1698. In 1709 he was "called" by the Presbytery of Edinburgh to be "second charge" of the highly influential and prestigious Trinity College Church. Although he is recorded as "second charge" it is unclear who (if any) was "first charge" when he arrived. In 1714 James Bannatine came as first charge, but in 1719 it was Grierson as second charge, not Bannatine as first charge, who was elected Moderator of the General Assembly. This peculiarity was partially redressed in 1739 when Bannatine in turn was elected Moderator. Grierson died of palsy, following a long period of illness, on 5 July 1732. Family He married the daughter of Rev Matthew Selkrig (1643-1729), minister of Crichton, Midlothian Crichton ...
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