James Alexander McClymont

CBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

VD (1848–1927) was a Scottish minister who 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 1921.

Life

He was Principal Chaplain to the

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in the

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. His duties as Moderator in 1921/22 included unveiling the stained glass windows at St Laurence Church in

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. In 1924 a sermon by McClymont on the "

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" was broadcast from Edinburgh on radio by the BBC.

Publications

*''The New Testament and its Writers'' (1899) *''Greece'' (1906), illustrations by

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*''The New Century Bible: St John'' (1930)

References

1848 births 1927 deaths 20th-century Ministers of the Church of Scotland Moderators of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland Commanders of the Order of the British Empire 19th-century Ministers of the Church of Scotland {{Scotland-reli-bio-stub