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Urray
Urray ( gd, Urrath) is a scattered village and coastal parish, consisting of Easter, Old and Wester Urray and is located in the county of Ross in the Scottish council area of the Highland. Urray is also a parish in the district of Wester Ross and Cromarty. It comprises the parishes of Carnoch and Kinlochlychart, with the ancient parish of Kilchrist. Urray is located 2 miles northwest of Muir of Ord and 1.5 miles east of Marybank. The closest town is Dingwall to the north-east. The ruined Fairburn Tower was a castle of the Clan Mackenzie. Churches A church dedicated to St Constantine existed since medieval times and was under the control of Fortrose Cathedral. As with many Highland parishes Urray gravitated to the Free Church of Scotland after the Disruption of 1843. These links provided three Moderators of the General Assembly for the Free Church (see below). The Church of Scotland parish churchyard remains the main place of burial for the parish. The Free Church se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disruption Of 1843
The Disruption of 1843, also known as the Great Disruption, was a schism in 1843 in which 450 evangelical ministers broke away from the Church of Scotland to form the Free Church of Scotland. The main conflict was over whether the Church of Scotland or the British Government had the power to control clerical positions and benefits. The Disruption came at the end of a bitter conflict within the Church of Scotland, and had major effects in the church and upon Scottish civic life. The patronage issue "The Church of Scotland was recognised by Acts of the Parliament as the national church of the Scottish people". Particularly under John Knox and later Andrew Melville, the Church of Scotland had always claimed an inherent right to exercise independent spiritual jurisdiction over its own affairs. To some extent, this right was recognised by the Claim of Right of 1689, which ended royal and parliamentary interference in the order and worship of the church. It was ratified by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scotland
Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, the North Sea to the northeast and east, and the Irish Sea to the south. It also contains more than 790 islands, principally in the archipelagos of the Hebrides and the Northern Isles. Most of the population, including the capital Edinburgh, is concentrated in the Central Belt—the plain between the Scottish Highlands and the Southern Uplands—in the Scottish Lowlands. Scotland is divided into 32 administrative subdivisions or local authorities, known as council areas. Glasgow City is the largest council area in terms of population, with Highland being the largest in terms of area. Limited self-governing power, covering matters such as education, social services and roads and transportation, is devolved from the Scott ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairburn Tower
Fairburn Tower is a recently resored Scottish castle near Inverness and the Muir of Ord in the parish of Urray. The tower house on a hill above the River Orrin is believed to have been built in 1545 for Murdo Mackenzie. Mackenzie of Fairburn Murdo Mackenzie (died 1590) was a son of Roderick (Rory) Mackenzie, and probably a nephew of John Mackenzie of Kintail. Rory Mackenzie, a nephew of Thomas Fraser, 2nd Lord Lovat, who died in 1533, owned nearby farms or townships at Comrie, Scatnell, and "Acheleis", and the mill at Contin. His mother is said to have been a daughter of Duncan McWilliam Dow vic Leod. Murdo Mackenzie became a courtier, a groom or valet of the bedchamber for James V of Scotland from 1538. It is said that Murdo was sent to join the royal household after his father impressed the king in a wrestling match. Murdo Mackenzie is recorded as a companion of the king in 1540 at Stirling Castle, Falkland Palace, and Dudhope Castle. On 30 April 1540 the king's pursemaste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MacGibbon And Ross
David MacGibbon (2 April 1831 – 20 February 1902) and Thomas Ross (10 November 1839 – 4 December 1930) were Scottish architects. Their practice, MacGibbon and Ross was established in 1872 and continued until 1914. They are best known today for their comprehensive published surveys of Scotland's architectural heritage. David MacGibbon David MacGibbon LLD was born in Edinburgh, into a family of builders, and was educated at the Royal High School. He attended the University of Edinburgh from 1846–49, but did not graduate. In 1851 he joined the London office of architect William Burn, and made study tours to Europe during the 1850s. From 1856 he went into practice with his father Charles, drawing details for houses. By 1858 he had opened his own office in Edinburgh, later becoming architect to the Merchant Company of Edinburgh, involving work to the city's schools. He was the principal architect to the Royal Bank of Scotland from 1861 (succeeding David Rhind), designing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highland (council Area)
Highland ( gd, A' Ghàidhealtachd, ; sco, Hieland) is a council area in the Scottish Highlands and is the largest local government area in the United Kingdom. It was the 7th most populous council area in Scotland at the 2011 census. It shares borders with the council areas of Aberdeenshire, Argyll and Bute, Moray and Perth and Kinross. Their councils, and those of Angus and Stirling, also have areas of the Scottish Highlands within their administrative boundaries. The Highland area covers most of the mainland and inner-Hebridean parts of the historic counties of Inverness-shire and Ross and Cromarty, all of Caithness, Nairnshire and Sutherland and small parts of Argyll and Moray. Despite its name, the area does not cover the entire Scottish Highlands. Name Unlike the other council areas of Scotland, the name ''Highland'' is often not used as a proper noun. The council's website only sometimes refers to the area as being ''Highland'', and other times as being ''the Hig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Macleod (moderator)
John MacLeod may refer to: Politics * John Norman MacLeod (1788–1835), British Member of Parliament for Sudbury, 1828–1830 * Sir John MacLeod, 1st Baronet (1857–1934), British Member of Parliament for Glasgow Kelvingrove, 1918–1922 * John Macleod (Sutherland MP) (1862–?), Member of Parliament for Sutherland, 1894–1900 *Sir John MacLeod (solicitor) (1873–1946), Lord Provost of Edinburgh, 1916–1919 *Sir John MacLeod (Ross and Cromarty MP) (1913–1984), Member of Parliament for Ross and Cromarty, 1945–1964 * John MacLeod (clan chief), 16th-century clan chieftain, of the Isle of Lewis in the 1520s and 1530s * John MacLeod of MacLeod (1935–2007), 29th chief of the Scottish clan Clan MacLeod Sports * John MacLeod (basketball) (1937–2019), American basketball coach * Johnny MacLeod (born 1938), Scottish footballer * John MacLeod (rugby union) (born 1973), Scottish former rugby union player for Glasgow Warriors * Jack Macleod (born 1988), English footballer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roderick A
Roderick, Rodrick or Roderic (Proto-Germanic ''* Hrōþirīks'', from ''* hrōþiz'' "fame, glory" + ''* ríks'' "king, ruler") is a Germanic name, recorded from the 8th century onward.Förstemann, ''Altdeutsches Namenbuch'' (1856)740 Its Old High German forms are ''Hrodric, Chrodericus, Hroderich, Roderich, Ruodrich'' (etc.); in Gothic language ''Hrōþireiks''; in Old English language it appears as ''Hrēðrīc'' or ''Hroðrīc'', and in Old Norse as ''Hrǿríkʀ'' (Old East Norse ''Hrø̄rīkʀ'', ''Rø̄rīkʀ'', Old West Norse as ''Hrœrekr, Rœrekr''). In the 12th-century '' Primary chronicle'', the name is reflected as , i.e. '' Rurik''. In Spanish and Portuguese, it was rendered as ''Rodrigo'', or in its short form, ''Ruy, Rui, or Ruiz'', and in Galician, the name is ''Roi''. In Arabic, the form ''Ludhriq'' (لذريق), used to refer Roderic (Ulfilan Gothic ''*Hroþareiks''), the last king of the Visigoths. Saint Roderick (d. 857) is one of the Martyrs of Córdoba. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moderator Of The General Assembly
The moderator of the General Assembly is the chairperson of a General Assembly, the highest court of a Presbyterian or Reformed church. Kirk sessions and presbyteries may also style the chairperson as moderator. The Oxford Dictionary states that a Moderator may be a "Presbyterian minister presiding over an ecclesiastical body". Presbyterian churches are ordered by a presbyterian polity, including a hierarchy of councils or courts of elders, from the local church (kirk) Session through presbyteries (and perhaps synods) to a General Assembly. The moderator presides over the meeting of the court, much as a convener presides over the meeting of a church committee. The moderator is thus the chairperson, and is understood to be a member of the court acting . The moderator calls and constitutes meetings, presides at them, and closes them in prayer. The moderator has a casting, but not a deliberative vote. During a meeting, the title ''moderator'' is used by all other members of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archibald Donald Cameron
Archibald Donald Cameron (1866–1946) was a minister of the Free Church of Scotland who served as Moderator of the General Assembly in 1928/29. Life He was born in Urray, Ross and Cromarty in 1866. His religious education is unclear but he was licensed to preach by the Free Presbytery of Dingwall in 1897 and he was ordained as minister of Lochfyneside in 1898. At the Union of 1900 he remained in the Free Church of Scotland. He also then served as Clerk to the Free Presbytery of Inverary. In 1908 he was translated from Lochfyneside to Creich. In 1928 he succeeded Very Rev Alexander Dewar as Moderator of the General Assembly the highest position in the Free Church of Scotland. He died in Morningside, Edinburgh in 1946. Family In 1919 (aged 53) he married Euphemia MacDonald Munro (1884-1922), and 18 years his junior, niece of Lord Alness and granddaughter of Rev Alexander Rose Munro (b.1835), in St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh Edinburgh ( ; gd, Dùn Èideann ) is t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moderator Of The General Assembly Of The Church Of Scotland
The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland is the ministers and elders of the Church of Scotland, minister or elder chosen to moderate (chair) the annual General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, which is held for a week in Edinburgh every year. After chairing the Assembly, the Moderator then spends the following year representing the Church of Scotland at civic events, and visiting congregations and projects in Scotland and beyond. Because the Church of Scotland is Scotland's national church, and a presbyterian church has no bishops, the Moderator is – arguably alongside the Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland – the most prominent figure in the life of Church of Scotland adherents. Office The Moderator of the General Assembly, moderator is normally a minister or elder of considerable experience and held in high esteem in the Church of Scotland. The moderator is nominated by the "Committee to Nominate the Moderator", ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Grant (moderator)
Patrick Grant (1706–1787) was a Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly in 1778. Life He was born in 1706, and was licensed to preach (by the Presbytery of Haddington) until March 1734.Fasti Ecclesiastae Scoticana by Hew Scott In July 1735, he was ordained as minister of Cawdor near Inverness. In March 1748, he was "called" to Urray in place of the late Rev John Morison of Bragar Bragar ( gd, Bràgar, ) is a village on the west side of the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, from the island's only town, Stornoway. Bragar is within the parish of Barvas, and is situated on the A858 between Carloway and Barv ..., and formally translated to this role in May 1749. He remained in this post for 38 years. In 1778, he succeeded the James Brown as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland the highest position in the Scottish Church. He was succeeded in turn by James Gillespie. He died in the manse of Urray on 14 Apr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fortrose Cathedral
Fortrose Cathedral was the episcopal seat (''cathedra'') of the medieval Scottish diocese of Ross in the Highland region of Scotland. It is probable that the original site of the diocese was at Rosemarkie, but by the 13th century the canons had relocated a short distance to the south-west, to the site known as Fortrose or Chanonry. According to Gervase of Canterbury, in the early 13th century the cathedral of Ross was manned by '' Céli Dé'' (culdees). Chapter and prebends The cathedral had twenty-one prebends involving the income of thirty-one churches. After the reconstruction of the cathedral chapter in the 1250s, the bishop of Ross held Nigg and Tarbat, the archdeacon of Ross Fodderty and Killearnan (previously holding Lemlair and Logie Bride too), the dean Ardersier and Kilmuir, the chanter Kinnnettes and Suddy, the treasurer Urquhart and Logiebride ("Logie Wester"), the sub-dean Edderton and Tain (later going to the provost of the collegiate church at Tain), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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