James Curdie Russell (1830-1925) was a Scottish minister. He served 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 ...

in 1902.

Life

He was born in 1830. He was minister of

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from 1854 and remained there for most of his life. He advocated the use of Gaelic in services. He received an honorary doctorate (DD) in 1881 from

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. In 1903 (along with the Very Rev

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) he was one of the several former Moderators invited to the official

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of King

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. He retired to

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living at 9 Coates Gardens in the West End. He died in 1925 and is buried with his wife in

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in western Edinburgh.

Bequests

He endowed three scholarships (Curdie Russell Scholarship) in Divinity to Glasgow University, with a preference to those versed in

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Family

He was married to Martha Stevenson Watson (d.1916).

References

1830 births 1925 deaths Moderators of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 19th-century Ministers of the Church of Scotland 20th-century Ministers of the Church of Scotland {{Scotland-reli-bio-stub