John Main

FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". This soci ...

(1728–1795) was a Scottish minister who was one of the co-founders of the

Royal Society of Edinburgh The Royal Society of Edinburgh is Scotland's national academy of science and letters. It is a registered charity that operates on a wholly independent and non-partisan basis and provides public benefit throughout Scotland. It was established i ...

in 1783.

Life

He was born in

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in 1728. He studied divinity at St Andrews University and was licensed to preach by the

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in 1753 being ordained as minister of

Newton, West Lothian Newton or (The Newton) is a small village in the county of West Lothian, Scotland. It lies on the A904 trunk road west of South Queensferry and the Forth Road Bridge and east of Linlithgow. All road traffic travelling west from the Forth Ro ...

. He died in Newton on 13 May 1795.Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1795

References

1728 births 1795 deaths Alumni of the University of St Andrews Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 18th-century Ministers of the Church of Scotland 18th-century Scottish Presbyterian ministers {{Scotland-reli-bio-stub