Ewen MacRury (1891–1986) was a

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minister who served as

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in 1944.

Life

He was born in 1891 one of eight children to John Little (Ewan Beag) MacRury (b.1843) and his wife, Betsy MacDonald,

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from

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. He graduated MA from

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in 1915. He first appears as minister of the Free Church in

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. He was minister of

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from at least 1931. He was a member of the Gaelic Society alongside Provost

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. In May 1944 he was elected

of the Free Church of Scotland. He was succeeded in 1945 by Roderick A. Finlayson.Proceedings of the Free Church of Scotland 1940 to 1949

Family

He was married to Christina (Kirsty).

Publications

*A Hebridean Parish (1950)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:MacRury, Ewen 1891 births 1986 deaths Alumni of the University of Glasgow 20th-century Ministers of the Free Church of Scotland