Alexander Anderson (1676–1737) was a

Church of Scotland The Church of Scotland ( sco, The Kirk o Scotland; gd, Eaglais na h-Alba) is the national church in Scotland. The Church of Scotland was principally shaped by John Knox, in the Scottish Reformation, Reformation of 1560, when it split from t ...

minister who served as

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 th ...

in 1735.

Life

He was born in

St Andrews St Andrews ( la, S. Andrea(s); sco, Saunt Aundraes; gd, Cill Rìmhinn) is a town on the east coast of Fife in Scotland, southeast of Dundee and northeast of Edinburgh. St Andrews had a recorded population of 16,800 , making it Fife's fou ...

around 1676 the son of John Anderson, Principal of St Leonards College in

. He studied at the same college graduating Ma in July 1697. He was licensed to preach as a Church of Scotland minister by the Presbytery of

in February 1700. In September 1700 he was ordained as minister of

Kemback Kemback is a village and parish in Fife, Scotland, located east of Cupar. The present village was developed in the 19th century to house those working the flax mills on the nearby Ceres Burn. From 1681 the minister for the parish was Alexander Ed ...

Parish Church. He translated to Falkland Parish Church in May 1702. In April 1725 he translated to

Parish Church. In 1735 he succeeded Rev James Gordon as

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 i ...

the highest position in the Scottish church. He died on 9 November 1737 aged 61.Fasti Ecclesiastae Scoticana by Hew Scott

Family

He married Isabella Hay (d.1720) daughter of Francis Hay of Strowie. Thir children included: *James Anderson of Newbigging (1719-1794) advocate *Margaret Anderson, married Rev Laurence Watson, second charge minister of St Leonard's Church under Anderson and later married Rev Lauchlan McIntosh of Errol

Publications

Not known

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Anderson, Alexander 1676 births 1737 deaths People from St Andrews Alumni of the University of St Andrews Moderators of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland