Andrew Beveridge Doig (1914–1997) was a Scottish minister and African missionary of the

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who served as

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in 1981/2.

Life

He was born in

Carluke Carluke (; gd, Cathair MoLuaig) is a town that lies in the heart of the Lanarkshire countryside in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, northwest of Lanark and southeast of Wishaw. Carluke is largely a commuting town, with a variety of small stores ...

on 18 September 1914 the son of George Doig, a railway clerk, originally from

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, and his wife Hannah Andrew Beveridge. He was educated at

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and attended the Broomhill Church there. He then studied Arts and Divinity at

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graduating BD around 1936. He then did postgraduate study at the Union Theological Seminary in

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in the USA. Under the influence of his mother and the evangelist, D. P. Thomson, he was ordained as a Church of Scotland missionary in 1938, and sought to spread Christianity in Africa.The Herald Scotland: obituary 23 December 1997 In April 1939 he went to

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to do missionary work for various churches. At the advent of the

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he became Army Chaplain to the

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and served in

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and

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. In 1946 he became part of Nyasaland's Legislative Council. In 1951 he met

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. Although originally seeing Banda as a good influence he ultimately ended in opposition to him when he was famously a Church of Scotland envoy asking for clemency at the trial of

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. This resulted in the death sentence being changed to life imprisonment. In 1953 he was briefly a

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for the short-lived

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. From 1962 to 1972 he was minister of Kings Park Church in

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. From 1972 to 1981 he was General Secretary of the

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. He was an Executive Committee Member (representing Europe) for the

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. His role as Moderator came in 1981 immediately after his retirement from the National Bible Society. His most unusual duty during his term of office was to represent the Church of Scotland at the marriage of Prince Charles and Lady Diana. He was succeeded in 1982 by Very Rev John McIntyre. He died in his cottage at Moulin near

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on 21 December 1997.

Publications

*''The Missionary Motive and the Missionary Approach'' (1939) *''Its People That Count'' (1997)

Family

In 1940 he married fellow-missionary Annie Nicol ("Nan") Carruthers, who died in Nyasaland in 1947. They had one daughter. In 1950 he married Barbara Young, headmistress of a girls school in

Blantyre, Malawi Blantyre () is Malawi's centre of finance and commerce, and its second largest city, with an enumerated 800,264 inhabitants . It is sometimes referred to as the commercial and industrial capital of Malawi as opposed to the political capital, Li ...

(originally from

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) in Leven. They had one son and one daughter.

References

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