John Pagan (1830-1909) was a Scottish minister and amateur botanist 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 1899.

Life

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He was born in

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on 30 June 1830 the son of John Pagan and Mary Hamilton. He was educated locally then studied divinity at

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graduating MA in 1854. He was ordained into the

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and began his ministry at

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in 1861. He was minister of

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church from 1865 and oversaw the installation of the memorial window to John Purdon Brown, a fine piece of stained glass by

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. In 1884 he served as Joint Convenor of the Foreign Missionary Committee. He was Moderator of the Church of Scotland in 1899. In 1899 he also organised a Monument to Miss Joanna Baillie at the entrance to his church. He served as Convenor on the Committee for Christian Liberality from 1900 until death. In 1903 he was one of the several former Moderators invited to the official

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of King

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.By His Majesty’s Gracious Command: The Coronation of King Edward VII He died in

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on 21 January 1909 aged 78.

Family

In 1870 he was married to Margaret Wiseman Lang (1843-1933). Their children, three sons and one daughter, included Rev Gavin Lang Pagan, minister of St George's Church in

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pagan, John 1830 births 1909 deaths Alumni of the University of Glasgow 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