List of Moderators of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland is a complete list of
Moderators of the General Assembly of the
Church of Scotland
The Church of Scotland ( sco, The Kirk o Scotland; gd, Eaglais na h-Alba) is the national church in Scotland.
The Church of Scotland was principally shaped by John Knox, in the Scottish Reformation, Reformation of 1560, when it split from t ...
from the
Reformation
The Reformation (alternatively named the Protestant Reformation or the European Reformation) was a major movement within Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the Catholic Church and in ...
to the present day. Some listed below also currently have their own article. The location of the
parish
A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or m ...
or other post during the Moderator's year in office is also listed (in brackets).
Since 1714 the
General Assembly
A general assembly or general meeting is a meeting of all the members of an organization or shareholders of a company.
Specific examples of general assembly include:
Churches
* General Assembly (presbyterian church), the highest court of presby ...
has normally been held annually every May. Moderators-designate are nominated in the October of the previous year; a formal vote is taken at start of the General Assembly (in May), then the new Moderator takes the chair. He/she holds office for one year; his/her final act is to formally open the following year's General Assembly and preside over the formal election of a successor.
The Moderator of the current year (while serving their term as Moderator) is styled ''"The
Right Reverend
The Right Reverend (abbreviated The Rt Revd, The Rt Rev'd, The Rt Rev.) is a style applied to certain religious figures.
Overview
*In the Anglican Communion and the Catholic Church in Great Britain, it applies to bishops, except that ''The M ...
"'', while past Moderators are styled ''"The
Very Reverend
The Very Reverend is a Style (manner of address), style given to members of the clergy. The definite article "The" should always precede "Reverend" as "Reverend" is a style or fashion and not a title.
Catholic
In the Catholic Church, the style i ...
"''.
16th century
*1562 ''(June)'' and 1568 ''(Dec)''
John Knox
John Knox ( gd, Iain Cnocc) (born – 24 November 1572) was a Scottish minister, Reformed theologian, and writer who was a leader of the country's Reformation. He was the founder of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland.
Born in Giffordgat ...
(Edinburgh)
*1563 ''(Dec.)'', 1564 ''(June)'' and 1568 ''(July)''
John Willock
John Willock (or Willocks or Willox) (c. 15154 December 1585) was a Scottish reformer. He appears to have been a friar of the Franciscan House at Ayr. Having joined the party of reform before 1541, he fled for his life to England. There he bec ...
(Superintendent of the West)
*1564 ''(Dec.),'' 1565 (''Dec.),'' 1566 (''June and Dec.)'' and 1572 ''(Aug.)''
John Erskine of Dun
John Erskine of Dun (1509–1591) was a Scottish religious reformer.
Biography
The son of Sir John Erskine, Laird of Dun, he was educated at King's College, University of Aberdeen. At the age of twenty-one Erskine was the cause — probably by ...
(Superintendent of
Angus
Angus may refer to:
Media
* ''Angus'' (film), a 1995 film
* ''Angus Og'' (comics), in the ''Daily Record''
Places Australia
* Angus, New South Wales
Canada
* Angus, Ontario, a community in Essa, Ontario
* East Angus, Quebec
Scotland
* An ...
and
Mearns)
*1567 ''(June)''
George Buchanan
George Buchanan ( gd, Seòras Bochanan; February 1506 – 28 September 1582) was a Scottish historian and humanist scholar. According to historian Keith Brown, Buchanan was "the most profound intellectual sixteenth century Scotland produced." ...
(Principal,
St Leonard's College,
University of St Andrews
(Aien aristeuein)
, motto_lang = grc
, mottoeng = Ever to ExcelorEver to be the Best
, established =
, type = Public research university
Ancient university
, endowment ...
)
*1567 ''(July and Dec.),'' 1576 ''(April),'' 1578 ''(June)''
John Row
John Row (1568 – 26 June 1646) was a Scottish ecclesiastical historian and one of the Scottish Reformers. As minister of Carnock in Fife, he was a leading opponent of Episcopacy. Row's '' Historie of the Kirk of Scotland'' (1558–1637), ...
(
St Johnstoun)
*1569 ''(Feb.)'', 1577 ''(Oct.)'', 1582 ''(Oct.)'', 1586 ''(May)'', 1593 ''(April)'' and 1597 ''(March)''
David Lindsay (
Leith
Leith (; gd, Lìte) is a port area in the north of the city of Edinburgh, Scotland, founded at the mouth of the Water of Leith. In 2021, it was ranked by '' Time Out'' as one of the top five neighbourhoods to live in the world.
The earliest ...
)
*1569 ''(July)''
William Christison (St Mary's Church,
Dundee
Dundee (; sco, Dundee; gd, Dùn Dè or ) is Scotland's fourth-largest city and the 51st-most-populous built-up area in the United Kingdom. The mid-year population estimate for 2016 was , giving Dundee a population density of 2,478/km2 or ...
)
*1570 ''(March)'', 1576 ''(Oct.)'', 1581 ''(Oct.)''
John Craig (
Edinburgh
Edinburgh ( ; gd, Dùn Èideann ) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 Council areas of Scotland, council areas. Historically part of the county of Midlothian (interchangeably Edinburghshire before 1921), it is located in Lothian ...
)
*1570 ''(July)'', 1575 (Aug.), 1581 ''(April)'', 1583 ''(Oct.)'', 1595 ''(March)'' and 1597 ''(April)''
Robert Pont
Robert Pont (the abbreviated form of Kylpont or Kynpont) (1529–1606) was a Church of Scotland minister, judge and reformer. He was a church minister and commissioner and a Senator of the College of Justice.
His translation of the Helveti ...
(Edinburgh:
St Cuthbert's)
*1571 ''(March)''
George Hay (
Rathven
Rathven ( sco, Raffin) is an ecclesiastical parish, village and former civil parish in the historic county of Banff, now in Moray, Scotland. The civil parish was last used as a census subdivision in 2001 when the population was 12,378, The for ...
)
*1571 ''(August)''
Gilbert Garden
Gilbert Garden (also known as Gardin or Gardyn) was a 16th-century Church of Scotland minister immediately after the Reformation, who served as Moderator of the General Assembly in August 1571.
Life
He was born and/or raised in Boath near Carmy ...
(
Fordyce)
*1572 ''(March)''
Robert Hamilton (
St Andrews
St Andrews ( la, S. Andrea(s); sco, Saunt Aundraes; gd, Cill Rìmhinn) is a town on the east coast of Fife in Scotland, southeast of Dundee and northeast of Edinburgh. St Andrews had a recorded population of 16,800 , making it Fife's fou ...
) (note: Scott says March 1571)
*1573 ''(March)'' and 1578 ''(Oct.)''
David Ferguson (
Dunfermline
Dunfermline (; sco, Dunfaurlin, gd, Dùn Phàrlain) is a city, parish and former Royal Burgh, in Fife, Scotland, on high ground from the northern shore of the Firth of Forth. The city currently has an estimated population of 58,508. Accord ...
)
*1573 ''(Aug.)'' and 1577 ''(April)''
Alexander Arbuthnot (Principal of
King's College, Aberdeen
King's College in Old Aberdeen, Scotland, the full title of which is The University and King's College of Aberdeen (''Collegium Regium Abredonense''), is a formerly independent university founded in 1495 and now an integral part of the Universi ...
)
*1574 ''(March)'' and 1580 ''(Oct.)''
Andrew Hay (
Renfrew
Renfrew (; sco, Renfrew; gd, Rinn Friù) is a town west of Glasgow in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. It is the historic county town of Renfrewshire. Called the "Cradle of the Royal Stewarts" for its early link with Scotland's former ...
)
*1574 ''(Aug.)''
John Duncanson (Minister at the
King's House)
*1575 ''(March)''
James Boyd of Trochrig (
Archbishop of Glasgow
The Archbishop of Glasgow is an archiepiscopal title that takes its name after the city of Glasgow in Scotland. The position and title were abolished by the Church of Scotland in 1689; and, in the Scottish Episcopal Church, it is now part of the ...
)
*1578 ''(April),'' 1582 ''(April and June),'' 1587 and 1594
Andrew Melville
Andrew Melville (1 August 1545 – 1622) was a Scottish scholar, theologian, poet and religious reformer. His fame encouraged scholars from the European continent to study at Glasgow and St. Andrews.
He was born at Baldovie, on 1 August 154 ...
(Principal of
the College, Glasgow)
*1579 ''(July)'' and 1583 ''(April)''
Thomas Smeton
Thomas Smeton, Smeaton or Smieton (1536–1583) was a Scottish minister and Principal of Glasgow University.
Life
He was born at Findo Gask, Gask, near Perth, Scotland, Perth, was educated at the school at Perth, and in 1553 incorporated a stu ...
(Minister at
Paisley, later
Principal of the University of Glasgow
The Principal of the University of Glasgow is the working head of the University, acting as its chief executive. He is responsible for the day-to-day management of the University as well as its strategic planning and administration. The Principa ...
)
*1580 ''(July)''
James Lawson (Edinburgh)
*1588 ''(Feb.)'' and 1592
Robert Bruce
Robert I (11 July 1274 – 7 June 1329), popularly known as Robert the Bruce (Scottish Gaelic: ''Raibeart an Bruis''), was King of Scots from 1306 to his death in 1329. One of the most renowned warriors of his generation, Robert eventuall ...
(Edinburgh)
*1588 ''(Aug.)''
Thomas Buchanan (
Ceres
Ceres most commonly refers to:
* Ceres (dwarf planet), the largest asteroid
* Ceres (mythology), the Roman goddess of agriculture
Ceres may also refer to:
Places
Brazil
* Ceres, Goiás, Brazil
* Ceres Microregion, in north-central Goiás ...
)
*1589 ''(June)'' and 1590 ''(March)''
James Melville (
Anstruther
Anstruther ( sco, Ainster or Enster ; gd, Ànsruthair) is a small coastal resort town in Fife, Scotland, situated on the north-shore of the Firth of Forth and south-southeast of St Andrews. The town comprises two settlements, Anstruther ...
,
Fife
Fife (, ; gd, Fìobha, ; sco, Fife) is a council area, historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area of Scotland. It is situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries with Perth and Kinross (i ...
)
*1590 ''(Aug.)'' and 1602
Patrick Galloway
Patrick Galloway (c.1551 – 1626) was a Scottish minister, a Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. "The King wold needis have Mr Patrik Galloway to be his minister." He was Moderator of the General Assembly in 1590, an ...
(Minister at the King's House)
*1591
Nicol Dalgleish (
Pittenweem
Pittenweem ( ) is a fishing village and civil parish in Fife, on the east coast of Scotland. At the 2001 census, it had a population of 1,747.
Etymology
The name derives from Pictish and Scottish Gaelic. "Pit-" represents Pictish ''pett'' 'pl ...
)
*1595 and 1606
James Nicolson (
Meigle
Meigle ( gd, Mìgeil, ) is a village in Strathmore, Scotland. It lies in the council area of Perth and Kinross in the Coupar Angus and Meigle ward. It lies on the A94 road between Perth and Forfar. Other smaller settlements nearby are Balk ...
, later
Bishop of Dunkeld
The Bishop of Dunkeld is the ecclesiastical head of the Diocese of Dunkeld, one of the largest and more important of Scotland's 13 medieval bishoprics, whose first recorded bishop is an early 12th-century cleric named Cormac. However, the first k ...
)
*1597 ''(March)''
Peter Blackburn (
Aberdeen
Aberdeen (; sco, Aiberdeen ; gd, Obar Dheathain ; la, Aberdonia) is a city in North East Scotland, and is the third most populous city in the country. Aberdeen is one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas (as Aberdeen City), and ...
, later
Bishop of Aberdeen
The Bishop of Aberdeen (originally Bishop of Mortlach, in Latin Murthlacum) was the ecclesiastical head of the Diocese of Aberdeen, one of Scotland's 13 medieval bishoprics, whose first recorded bishop is an early 12th-century cleric named Nech ...
)
*1597 ''(May)''
Robert Rollock
Robert Rollock (c. 15558 or 9 February 1599) was Scottish academic and minister in the Church of Scotland, and the first regent and first principal of the University of Edinburgh. Born into a noble family, he distinguished himself during ...
(Principal of
the College of Edinburgh)
*1600
Robert Wilkie
Robert Leon Wilkie Jr. (born August 2, 1962) is an American lawyer and government official who served as the United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs from 2018 to 2021, during the Trump administration. He was previously Under Secretary of De ...
(Principal of
St Leonard's College, St Andrews
St Leonard's College is a postgraduate institute at the University of St Andrews in St Andrews, Scotland. Founded in 1512 as an autonomous theological college of the University of St Andrews, it merged with St Salvator's College in 1747 to form ...
)
17th century
*1601
John Hall John Hall may refer to:
Academics
* John Hall (NYU President) (fl. c. 1890), American academic
* John A. Hall (born 1949), sociology professor at McGill University, Montreal
* John F. Hall (born 1951), professor of classics at Brigham Young Unive ...
(
St Giles, Edinburgh)
*1602,1604 and 1607
Alexander Hume
Alexander Hume (1558 – 4 December 1609) was a Scottish poet who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in the early 17th century.
Life
He was born in 1558 the son of Patrick Hume (d.1599).
The brother of Patr ...
(
Logie Kirk
Logie Kirk is an isolated but operational church east of Stirling in central Scotland serving Church of Scotland pastoral duties in the areas of Cambuskenneth, Bridge of Allan, Causewayhead (eastern Stirling), and formerly the estate of Airthrey ...
)
*1605
John Forbes (
Alford,
Aberdeenshire
Aberdeenshire ( sco, Aiberdeenshire; gd, Siorrachd Obar Dheathain) is one of the 32 Subdivisions of Scotland#council areas of Scotland, council areas of Scotland.
It takes its name from the County of Aberdeen which has substantially differe ...
) - and
David Rait
David Rait (c. 1560–1632) was a Scottish clergyman in the Church of Scotland who was minister of St Machar's Cathedral in Aberdeen and served as Moderator of the General Assembly in Aberdeen in 1605.
Life
He was from the family of Rait o ...
Moderator of Synod at Aberdeen Assembly
*1606
James Nicolson (
Meigle
Meigle ( gd, Mìgeil, ) is a village in Strathmore, Scotland. It lies in the council area of Perth and Kinross in the Coupar Angus and Meigle ward. It lies on the A94 road between Perth and Forfar. Other smaller settlements nearby are Balk ...
, later Bishop of Dunkeld) elected as "Constant Moderator" in election against
Patrick Simson
Patrick Simson (1566-1618) was a presbyterian minster who served in Stirling during the reign of James VI of Scotland. Despite his opposition to Episcopalianism, he had the respect of king James and several of his court. He was born in Perth i ...
but the concept was dropped
*1608
James Law
James Law (ca. 1560 – 12 November 1632) was Archbishop of Glasgow. Entering the church after graduation from university, he rose to the position of Bishop of Orkney, reorganising the diocese, before rising to hold the position of Archbishop o ...
(
Bishop of Orkney
The Bishop of Orkney was the ecclesiastical head of the Diocese of Orkney, one of thirteen medieval bishoprics of Scotland. It included both Orkney and Shetland. It was based for almost all of its history at St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall.
The bi ...
, later
Archbishop of Glasgow
The Archbishop of Glasgow is an archiepiscopal title that takes its name after the city of Glasgow in Scotland. The position and title were abolished by the Church of Scotland in 1689; and, in the Scottish Episcopal Church, it is now part of the ...
)
*1610, 1616, 1617 and 1618
John Spottiswood
John Spottiswoode (Spottiswood, Spotiswood, Spotiswoode or Spotswood) (1565 – 26 November 1639) was an Archbishop of St Andrews, Primate of All Scotland, Lord Chancellor, and historian of Scotland.
Life
He was born in 1565 at Greenbank in ...
(Archbishop of Glasgow, later
Archbishop of St Andrews
The Bishop of St. Andrews ( gd, Easbaig Chill Rìmhinn, sco, Beeshop o Saunt Andras) was the ecclesiastical head of the Diocese of St Andrews in the Catholic Church and then, from 14 August 1472, as Archbishop of St Andrews ( gd, Àrd-easbaig ...
)
*1613
Robert Roche (
Inverkeithing
Inverkeithing ( ; gd, Inbhir Chèitinn) is a port town and parish, in Fife, Scotland, on the Firth of Forth. A town of ancient origin, Inverkeithing was given royal burgh status during the reign of Malcolm IV in the 12th century. It was an impo ...
)
*1615 James Saitonne or Seytoun (Logie Kirk) (Note- Scott has no record of this)
*1615 to 1627
John Hay
John Milton Hay (October 8, 1838July 1, 1905) was an American statesman and official whose career in government stretched over almost half a century. Beginning as a private secretary and assistant to Abraham Lincoln, Hay's highest office was Un ...
(
Renfrew
Renfrew (; sco, Renfrew; gd, Rinn Friù) is a town west of Glasgow in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. It is the historic county town of Renfrewshire. Called the "Cradle of the Royal Stewarts" for its early link with Scotland's former ...
) as the first "constant Moderator"
No General Assembly until 1638
*1638, 1641 and 1643
Alexander Henderson (
Leuchars
Leuchars (pronounced or ; gd, Luachar "rushes") is a small town and parish near the north-east coast of Fife in Scotland.
The civil parish has a population of 5,754 (in 2011) Census of Scotland 2011, Table KS101SC – Usually Resident Populat ...
, later Edinburgh)
*1639, 1652 and (?)1653
David Dickson (
Irvine Irvine may refer to:
Places On Earth Antarctica
*Irvine Glacier
*Mount Irvine (Antarctica)
Australia
*Irvine Island
*Mount Irvine, New South Wales
Canada
*Irvine, Alberta
* Irvine Inlet, Nunavut
United Kingdom
*Irvine, North Ayrshire, Scotla ...
,
Ayrshire
Ayrshire ( gd, Siorrachd Inbhir Àir, ) is a historic county and registration county in south-west Scotland, located on the shores of the Firth of Clyde. Its principal towns include Ayr, Kilmarnock and Irvine and it borders the counties of Re ...
)
*1640
Andrew Ramsay (Edinburgh)
*1642, 1645, 1647, 1649, 1651
Robert Douglas (Edinburgh)
*1644
James Bonar (
Maybole
Maybole is a town and former burgh of barony and police burgh in South Ayrshire, Scotland. It had an estimated population of in . It is situated south of Ayr and southwest of Glasgow by the Glasgow and South Western Railway. The town is bypass ...
, Ayrshire)
*1646
Robert Blair (St Andrews)
*1647
Robert Douglas (Edinburgh)
*1648
George Gillespie
George Gillespie (21 January 1613 – 17 December 1648) was a Scottish theologian.
His father was John Gillespie, minister of Kirkcaldy. He studied at St Andrews University, and is said to have graduated M.A. 1629, though the date is pro ...
(Edinburgh)
*1650
Andrew Cant (Aberdeen)
*1651
Robert Douglas
*1652
Gabriel Cunningham (
Dunlop, Irvine) (or David Dickson?)
No General Assembly after 1653 until the restoration of
Presbyterianism
Presbyterianism is a part of the Reformed tradition within Protestantism that broke from the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland by John Knox, who was a priest at St. Giles Cathedral (Church of Scotland). Presbyterian churches derive their nam ...
in 1690. From 1662 to 1673
Walter Bruce of Inverkeithing was "Constant Moderator.
Patrick Sympson was Constant Moderator from an unknown date to Spring 1690. Gabriel Cunningham acted as Interim Moderator in 1690 (as though there had been no gap) until Kennedie was chosen to succeed him.
*1690
Hugh Kennedie (Edinburgh:
Trinity College Church
Trinity College Kirk was a royal collegiate church in Edinburgh, Scotland. The kirk and its adjacent almshouse, Trinity Hospital, were founded in 1460 by Mary of Gueldres in memory of her husband, King James II who had been killed at th ...
)
*1692 and 1697
William Crichton (Edinburgh:
Tron Church)
*1694
John Law
John Law may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* John Law (artist) (born 1958), American artist
* John Law (comics), comic-book character created by Will Eisner
* John Law (film director), Hong Kong film director
* John Law (musician) (born 1961) ...
(Edinburgh:
High Church
The term ''high church'' refers to beliefs and practices of Christian ecclesiology, liturgy, and theology that emphasize formality and resistance to modernisation. Although used in connection with various Christian traditions, the term originate ...
)
*1695
Patrick Simson
Patrick Simson (1566-1618) was a presbyterian minster who served in Stirling during the reign of James VI of Scotland. Despite his opposition to Episcopalianism, he had the respect of king James and several of his court. He was born in Perth i ...
(Renfrew)
*1698 and 1703
George Meldrum
George Meldrum (1634–1709) was a Scottish minister of the Church of Scotland who twice served as Moderator of the General Assembly, the highest position in the Scottish Church. He was one of the prominent Scottish Covenanters.
Life
He was ...
(Edinburgh: Tron Church and Professor of
Divinity
Divinity or the divine are things that are either related to, devoted to, or proceeding from a deity.[divine ...](_blank)
, Edinburgh)
*1699
George Hamilton (Edinburgh: High Church)
*1700
David Blair (Edinburgh: Old Church)
18th century
*1701 and 1704
Thomas Wilkie (
Edinburgh: Canongate)
*1702
David Williamson
David Keith Williamson Officer of the Order of Australia, AO (born 24 February 1942) is an Australians, Australian dramatist and playwright. He has also written screenplays and teleplays.
Early life
David Williamson was born in Melbourne, Vi ...
(Edinburgh: St Cuthbert's) aka "
Dainty Davie
''Dainty Davie'' is a folk song, possibly of Scotland, Scottish origin, which is still part of the repertoire of Scottish and Irish traditional music. It has a long history and two different tunes, both of which have been used for several texts, t ...
"
*1703
George Meldrum
George Meldrum (1634–1709) was a Scottish minister of the Church of Scotland who twice served as Moderator of the General Assembly, the highest position in the Scottish Church. He was one of the prominent Scottish Covenanters.
Life
He was ...
, (Tron, Edinburgh)
*1705, 1708, 1711 and 1715
William Carstares
William Carstares (also Carstaires) (11 February 164928 December 1715) was a minister of the Church of Scotland, active in Whig politics.
Early life
Carstares was born at Cathcart, near Glasgow, Scotland, the son of the Rev. John Carstares, a ...
(Principal of the College of Edinburgh)
*1706, 1713, 1718, 1724 and 1728
William Wishart
:''See also William Wishart (disambiguation)''
William Wishart (or Wischard) (died 28 May 1279) was a 13th-century Bishop of St. Andrews. He was postulated to the see of St. Andrews (''Cell Rígmonaid'' or ''Cill Rìmhinn'') while holding the ...
(South Leith, later
Principal of the College of Edinburgh)
*1707
John Stirling (
Principal of the University of Glasgow
The Principal of the University of Glasgow is the working head of the University, acting as its chief executive. He is responsible for the day-to-day management of the University as well as its strategic planning and administration. The Principa ...
)
*1709
John Currie (
Haddington)
*1710, 1714, 1717, 1722 and 1726
William Mitchell William Mitchell may refer to:
People
Media and the arts
* William Mitchell (sculptor) (1925–2020), English sculptor and muralist
* William Frederick Mitchell (1845–1914), British naval artist
* William M. Mitchell, American writer, ministe ...
(Edinburgh: High Church)- the first Second Charge to become Moderator
*1712, 1716, 1720, 1727 and 1730
William Hamilton (Professor of Divinity, later Principal of the University of Edinburgh)
*1719
James Grierson James Grierson may refer to:
* James Grierson (British Army officer)
Lieutenant-General Sir James Moncrieff Grierson, ADC (Gen.) (27 January 1859 – 17 August 1914) was a British soldier.
Life
He was born in 1859 the son of George Moncrie ...
(Second Charge in Edinburgh: Trinity College Church)
*1721
Thomas Black (St John's Church, Perth)
*1723 and 1731
James Smith (Cramond; later Principal of the University of Edinburgh)
*1725 and 1729
James Alston (
Dirleton
Dirleton is a village and civil parish in East Lothian, Scotland approximately east of Edinburgh on the A198. It contains . Dirleton lies between North Berwick (east), Gullane (west), Fenton Barns (south) and the Yellowcraigs nature reserve, ...
)
*1732 and 1737
Neil Campbell (
Principal of Glasgow University
The Principal of the University of Glasgow is the working head of the University, acting as its chief executive. He is responsible for the day-to-day management of the University as well as its strategic planning and administration. The Principa ...
)
*1733
John Gowdie (Edinburgh: New North, also Principal of the University of Edinburgh)
*1734
James Gordon (
Alford)
*1735
Alexander Anderson Alexander Anderson may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* Alexander Anderson (illustrator) (1775–1870), American illustrator
* Alexander Anderson (poet) (1845–1909), Scottish poet
* Alexander Anderson (cartoonist) (1920–2010), American car ...
(St Andrews)
*1738 and 1741
James Ramsay (Kelso)
*1739
James Bannatine
James Bannantine or Bannantyne (c.1675–1756) was a Scottish minister of the Church of Scotland who served as Moderator of the General Assembly in 1739.
Life
He studied divinity at the University of Edinburgh. He worked as a private tutor ...
(Edinburgh: Trinity College Church)
*1740
George Logan (Edinburgh: Trinity College Church)
*1742
Thomas Tullideph
Thomas Tullideph (sometimes Tulliedeph or Tullidelph) (1700–1777) was principal of St Leonards College at the University of St Andrews and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1742. The odd surname is said to mean “hi ...
(Principal, St Leonard's College, St Andrews)
*1743
Robert Wallace (Edinburgh: New North)
*1744
John Adams
John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Befor ...
(
Falkirk
Falkirk ( gd, An Eaglais Bhreac, sco, Fawkirk) is a large town in the Central Lowlands of Scotland, historically within the county of Stirlingshire. It lies in the Forth Valley, northwest of Edinburgh and northeast of Glasgow.
Falkirk had a ...
)
*1745
William Wishart
:''See also William Wishart (disambiguation)''
William Wishart (or Wischard) (died 28 May 1279) was a 13th-century Bishop of St. Andrews. He was postulated to the see of St. Andrews (''Cell Rígmonaid'' or ''Cill Rìmhinn'') while holding the ...
(Principal (Secundus) of the
University of Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh ( sco, University o Edinburgh, gd, Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann; abbreviated as ''Edin.'' in post-nominals) is a public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Granted a royal charter by King James VI in 15 ...
)
*1746
John Lumsden of Auchinleck (Professor of Divinity,
King's College, Aberdeen
King's College in Old Aberdeen, Scotland, the full title of which is The University and King's College of Aberdeen (''Collegium Regium Abredonense''), is a formerly independent university founded in 1495 and now an integral part of the Universi ...
)
*1747
Robert Kinloch (Edinburgh: High Church)
*1748
George Wishart
George Wishart (also Wisehart; c. 15131 March 1546) was a Scottish Protestant Reformer and one of the early Protestant martyrs burned at the stake as a heretic.
George Wishart was the son of James and brother of Sir John of Pitarrow, ...
(Edinburgh: Tron Church)
*1749, 1752 and 1756
Patrick Cumin (Edinburgh: Old Church, also Professor of Church History)
*1750
Robert Patoun (Renfrew)
*1751
James Mackie (St Ninians, Stirling)
*1753
Alexander Webster
Alexander Webster (170725 January 1784) was a Scottish writer and minister of the Church of Scotland, who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1753. After his service as Moderator he was addressed as Very R ...
(Edinburgh: Tolbooth)
*1754 and 1760
Robert Hamilton (Professor of Divinity, Edinburgh) and minister of Old
Greyfriars Kirk
Greyfriars Kirk ( gd, Eaglais nam Manach Liath) is a parish church of the Church of Scotland, located in the Old Town of Edinburgh, Scotland. It is surrounded by Greyfriars Kirkyard.
Greyfriars traces its origin to the south-west parish of Edi ...
*1755
George Reid
Sir George Houston Reid, (25 February 1845 – 12 September 1918) was an Australian politician who led the Reid Government as the fourth Prime Minister of Australia from 1904 to 1905, having previously been Premier of New South Wales f ...
(St Quivox)
*1757
William Leechman
William Leechman or Leishman (1706–1785) was a Scottish minister, theologian and academic. He was Professor of Divinity and later Principal at Glasgow University.
Early life and education
The son of William Leechman, a farmer of Dolp ...
(Professor of Divinity, later Principal of the University of Glasgow)
*1758
Thomas Turnbull
Thomas Turnbull (1824–1907) was a notable New Zealand architect.
He was born in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland in 1824.
After qualifying as an architect, Turnbull moved to Melbourne, Australia in 1851. Then in 1861 he moved to San Fran ...
(Borthwick)
*1760
George Kay
George Kay (21 September 1891 – 18 April 1954) was an English football player and manager of Luton Town, Southampton and Liverpool.
The highlight of his playing career was when he captained West Ham United in the first FA Cup final to be play ...
(
Edinburgh: Old Greyfriars')
*1761
John Hyndman (
Lady Yester's Church
Lady Yester's Kirk was a parish church of the Church of Scotland and one of the burgh churches of Edinburgh. Founded in 1647, it served the south-eastern part of Edinburgh's Old Town, Edinburgh, Old Town until its union with Greyfriars Kirk in 19 ...
) note- Scott does not record this moderatorship
[Fasti Ecclesiastae Scoticana by Hew Scott]
*1762
Robert Trail (Professor of Divinity, University of Glasgow)
*1763
William Robertson (
Edinburgh: Old Greyfriars, also Principal of the University of Edinburgh)
*1764
Alexander Gerard
Alexander Gerard FRSE (1728 –1795) was a Scottish minister, academic and philosophical writer. In 1764 he was the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
Life
He was born on 22 February 1728, the son of Gilbert Gera ...
(Professor of Theology,
Marischal College, Aberdeen
Marischal College ( ) is a large granite building on Broad Street in the centre of Aberdeen in north-east Scotland, and since 2011 has acted as the headquarters of Aberdeen City Council. However, the building was constructed for and is on long- ...
)
*1765
James Oswald (Methven)
*1766
John Hamilton (Glasgow: St Mungo's High Church)
*1767
James Murison (Principal of the New College, St Andrews)
*1768
Gilbert Hamilton (
Cramond
Cramond Village (; gd, Cathair Amain) is a village and suburb in the north-west of Edinburgh, Scotland, at the mouth of the River Almond where it enters the Firth of Forth.
The Cramond area has evidence of Mesolithic, Bronze Age and Roman ac ...
, near Edinburgh)
*1769
James MacKnight (Maybole)
*1770
Alexander Carlyle
Alexander Carlyle MA DD FRSE (26 January 172228 August 1805) was a Scottish church leader, and autobiographer. He served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1770/71.
Life
He was born on 26 January 1722 in the ...
(
Inveresk
Inveresk (Scottish Gaelic, Gaelic: ''Inbhir Easg'') is a village in East Lothian, Scotland situated to the south of Musselburgh. It has been designated a Conservation area (United Kingdom), conservation area since 1969. It is situated on s ...
)
*1771
Robert Walker (Edinburgh: The High Kirk)
*1772
Adam Fergusson (
Moulin)
*1773 and 1784
John Drysdale 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 ...
(Edinburgh: Tron)
*1774
Robert Henry (
Edinburgh: New Greyfriars')
*1775
David Shaw (Coylton)
*1776
John Ker
John Ker (8 August 1673 – 8 July 1726), born John Crawford in Crawfurdland, Ayrshire, was a Scots Presbyterian linked with Cameronian radicals who between 1705 and 1709 acted as a government informer against the Jacobites. Dogged by financi ...
(
Forfar
Forfar ( sco, Farfar, gd, Baile Fharfair) is the county town of Angus, Scotland and the administrative centre for Angus Council, with a new multi-million pound office complex located on the outskirts of the town. As of 2021, the town has a p ...
)
*1777
James Brown
James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American singer, dancer, musician, record producer and bandleader. The central progenitor of funk music and a major figure of 20th century music, he is often referred to by the honor ...
(Edinburgh: New (West) Kirk, St Giles)
*1778
Patrick Grant (
Urray
Urray ( gd, Urrath) is a scattered village and coastal parish, consisting of Easter, Old and Wester Urray and is located in the county of Ross in the Scottish council area of the Highland. Urray is also a parish in the district of Wester Ros ...
)
*1779
James Gillespie (St Andrews)
*1780
Harry Spens (
East Wemyss
East Wemyss () is a village situated on the south coast of Fife, Scotland. According to the 2011 census, the village has a population of 1,928.
History
East Wemyss was traditionally one of several coal mining communities along the south coa ...
)
*1781
William Dalrymple William Dalrymple may refer to:
* William Dalrymple (1678–1744), Scottish Member of Parliament
* William Dalrymple (moderator) (1723–1814), Scottish minister and religious writer
* William Dalrymple (British Army officer) (1736–1807), Scott ...
(
Ayr
Ayr (; sco, Ayr; gd, Inbhir Àir, "Mouth of the River Ayr") is a town situated on the southwest coast of Scotland. It is the administrative centre of the South Ayrshire Subdivisions of Scotland, council area and the historic Shires of Scotlan ...
)
*1782
Joseph McCormick (
Prestonpans
Prestonpans ( gd, Baile an t-Sagairt, Scots: ''The Pans'') is a small mining town, situated approximately eight miles east of Edinburgh, Scotland, in the Council area of East Lothian. The population as of is. It is near the site of the 1745 ...
, later Principal of St Leonard's College, St Andrews)
*1783
Henry Grieve
Henry Grieve FRSE (1736 – 10 February 1810) was a Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1783. He was a co-founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in the same year. He was also one o ...
(
Dalkeith
Dalkeith ( ; gd, Dail Cheith, IPA: t̪alˈçe is a town in Midlothian, Scotland, on the River Esk. It was granted a burgh of barony in 1401 and a burgh of regality in 1540. The settlement of Dalkeith grew southwestwards from its 12th-cent ...
)
*1785
Henry Moncrieff-Wellwood, Bart., (Edinburgh: West)
*1786
Duncan Shaw (Aberdeen North)
*1787
Robert Liston
Robert Liston (28 October 1794 – 7 December 1847) was a British surgeon. Liston was noted for his speed and skill in an era prior to anaesthetics, when speed made a difference in terms of pain and survival. He was the first Professor of Cli ...
(
Aberdour
Aberdour (; Scots: , gd, Obar Dobhair) is a scenic and historic village on the south coast of Fife, Scotland. It is on the north shore of the Firth of Forth, looking south to the island of Inchcolm and its Abbey, and to Leith and Edinburgh beyo ...
) (last to be elected without DD)
*1788
Archibald Davidson
Archibald Davidson (c. 1732 – 1803) was a Scottish minister who was moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1788 and was principal of Glasgow University.
Life
He was born about 1732 in the manse in the village of C ...
(Principal of the University of Glasgow)
*1789
George Hill Professor of Divinity, St Andrews University)
*1790
John Walker (Professor of Natural History, Edinburgh)
*1791
Robert Small (Dundee, St Mary's), Mathematician and Astronomer
*1792
Andrew Hunter Andrew Hunter or Andy Hunter may refer to:
Sports
*Andrew Hunter (British swimmer) (born 1986), British swimmer who was a medalist in the Commonwealth Games
*Andrew Hunter (Irish swimmer) (born 1952), Irish swimmer
*Andy Hunter (footballer, born 18 ...
(Professor of Divinity, University of Edinburgh])
*1793
Thomas Hardy (Minister), Thomas Hardy (Professor of Church History, University of Edinburgh)
*1794
Robert Arnot
Robert Arnot (1744–1808) was a Scottish Presbyterian minister and professor of divinity in St Andrews University, who was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1794.
Early life
Arnot studied (most likely at St Andr ...
(Professor of Divinity, University of St Andrews)
*1795
James Meek
James Meek FRSE (1742–1810) (or ''Meik'') was Minister of Cambuslang from 1774 until his death. He was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1795, but is most remembered as the model Enlightenment cleric who wrote ...
(
Cambuslang
Cambuslang ( sco, Cammuslang, from gd, Camas Lang) is a town on the south-eastern outskirts of Greater Glasgow, Scotland. With approximately 30,000 residents, it is the 27th largest town in Scotland by population, although, never having had a ...
), Historian and Meteorologist
*1796
William Greenfield
William Greenfield (died 6 December 1315) served as both the Lord Chancellor of England and the Archbishop of York. He was also known as William of Greenfield.
Early life
Greenfield was born in the eponymous Lincolnshire hamlet of Greenfield. ...
(Edinburgh: High Church, also Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Edinburgh)
*1797
John Adamson (St Andrews) Professor of Civil History in the
United College, St Andrews
The United College of St Salvator and St Leonard (commonly referred to as United College) is one of the two statutory colleges of the University of St Andrews in St Andrews, Scotland. It was founded in 1747 by the merging of St Salvators College ...
*1798
William Taylor (Glasgow: High, also Principal of the
University of Glasgow
, image = UofG Coat of Arms.png
, image_size = 150px
, caption = Coat of arms
Flag
, latin_name = Universitas Glasguensis
, motto = la, Via, Veritas, Vita
, ...
)
*1799
William Moodie
William Moodie or Mudie FRSE (1759–1812) was a Scottish Minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1799. He was also a philologist, and Professor of Hebrew (and Oriental Languages) at Edinburgh Unive ...
(Edinburgh: St Andrew's, also Professor of Hebrew at the University of Edinburgh)
*1800
George Baird (Principal, University of Edinburgh)
19th century
*1801
William Ritchie (
Kilwinning
Kilwinning (, sco, Kilwinnin; gd, Cill D’Fhinnein) is a town in North Ayrshire, Scotland. It is on the River Garnock, north of Irvine, about southwest of Glasgow. It is known as "The Crossroads of Ayrshire". Kilwinning was also a Civil Pa ...
)
*1802
James Finlayson (Edinburgh: High Church, also Professor of Logic at the University of Edinburgh)
*1803
Gilbert Gerard (Professor of Divinity, University of Aberdeen)
*1804
John Inglis (Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh)
*1805
George Hamilton (Gladsmuir) Following
William McQuhae William McQuhae or M'Quhae (1737–1823) was a senior Scottish clergyman in the Church of Scotland who by the time of his death was Father of the Church. He is one of the few persons to have declined the offer to be Moderator of the General Assembl ...
's rejection of the role
*1806
William Taylor (St Enoch's, Glasgow)
*1807
James Sherriffs
James Sherriffs or Shirreffs (1752–1830) was a Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1807.
Life
He was born in Aberdeen in 1752 the son of David Sherriffs. He was educated locally then ...
(Aberdeen)
*1808
Andrew Grant (Kilmarnock)
*1809
Francis Nicoll
Francis Nicoll (1771–1835) was a senior Church of Scotland who served both as Principal of St Andrews University and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1809, the highest position in the Church of Scotland
Life
He ...
(
Mains and Strathmartine east of
Dundee
Dundee (; sco, Dundee; gd, Dùn Dè or ) is Scotland's fourth-largest city and the 51st-most-populous built-up area in the United Kingdom. The mid-year population estimate for 2016 was , giving Dundee a population density of 2,478/km2 or ...
- later Principal of
St Leonard's College, St Andrews
St Leonard's College is a postgraduate institute at the University of St Andrews in St Andrews, Scotland. Founded in 1512 as an autonomous theological college of the University of St Andrews, it merged with St Salvator's College in 1747 to form ...
)
*1810
Hugh Meiklejohn
Hugh Meiklejohn (12 June 1765 – 11 June 1831) was a Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1810.
Life
He was born on 12 June 1765, the only son of Mary Cree, daughter of Hugh Cree, of Sa ...
(Abercorn, also Professor of Church History at the University of Edinburgh)
*1811
Alexander Ranken (St David's (Ramshorn) Church, Glasgow)
*1812
William MacMorine (Caerlaverock) instead of Robert Dickson of
South Leith Parish Church
South Leith Parish Church, originally the Kirk of Our Lady, St Mary, is a congregation of the Church of Scotland. It is the principal church and congregation in Leith, in Edinburgh. Its kirkyard is the burial place for John Home (author of ''D ...
who declined Moderatorship
*1813
Andrew Brown (Edinburgh: Old Church, also Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Edinburgh)
*1814
David Ritchie 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 ...
(Edinburgh: St Andrew's, also Professor of Logic at the University of Edinburgh)
*1815
Lewis Gordon
Lewis Ricardo Gordon (born May 12, 1962) is an American philosopher at the University of Connecticut who works in the areas of Africana philosophy, existentialism, phenomenology, social and political theory, postcolonial thought, theories of ...
(Drainie)
*1816
John Cook (of Kilmany then Professor of Hebrew, then Biblical Criticism at St Andrews)
*1817
Gavin Gibb (Glasgow: St Andrew's, also Professor of Hebrew, University of Glasgow)
*1818
John Campbell (Tolbooth parish, Edinburgh)
*1819 and 1843
Duncan Macfarlan
Duncan Macfarlan (1771–1857) was a Scottish minister. He was twice Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland both in 1819 and in its most critical year of 1843. He was Principal of Glasgow University from 1823 to 1857.
Life
H ...
(Drymen, later Principal of the University of Glasgow)
*1820
Thomas MacKnight 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 ...
(Edinburgh: Old Church)
*1821
Duncan Mearns (Professor of Divinity, Aberdeen)
*1822
David Lamont
Colin David Lamont (born 24 August 1953) is an Australian politician and was a member of the second Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly, elected to the multi-member single constituency Assembly for the Labor Party in 1992. Lamont ...
(
Kirkpatrick Durham)
*1823
Alexander Brunton
Alexander Brunton FRSE FSA (2 October 1772 - 9 February 1854) was a Scottish minister in the Church of Scotland who rose to its highest rank, Moderator of the General Assembly in 1823. He was a noted academic, as Professor of Hebrew and Orie ...
(Edinburgh: Tron Kirk, also Professor of Oriental Languages, University of Edinburgh)
*1824
Andrew Duncan (Ratho)
*1825
George Cook 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 ...
(Laurencekirk)
*1826
Thomas Taylor (
Tibbermore
Tibbermore is a small village situated about west of Perth, Scotland. Its parish extends to Aberuthven; however, the church building is now only used occasionally for weddings and funerals.
Previously known as Tippermuir, it was the site of t ...
)
*1827
Robert Haldane
Robert Haldane (28 February 1764 – 12 December 1842) was a religious writer and Scottish theologian. Author of ''Commentaire sur l'Épître aux Romains, On the Inspiration of Scripture'' and ''Exposition of the Epistle to the Romans.''
Early ...
(Principal, St Mary's College, St Andrews)
*1828
Stevenson McGill
Stevenson McGill (1765-1840) was a Scottish minister of the Church of Scotland who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1828. He was an author and was elected to be a professor of divinity at Glasgow Univers ...
(Professor of Divinity, Glasgow University)
*1829
Patrick Forbes (Oldmachar)
*1830
William Singer (
Kirkpatrick-Juxta
Kirkpatrick-Juxta is a parish in Dumfries and Galloway on the A701, between Biggar, South Lanarkshire, Biggar, Moffat and Lockerbie. The parish straddles the main road A74 (M). It is primarily a rural parish. One source describes its name as meani ...
)
*1831
James Wallace (
Whitekirk
Whitekirk is a small settlement in East Lothian, Scotland. Together with the nearby settlement of Tyninghame, it gives its name to the parish of Whitekirk and Tyninghame.
Whitekirk
Whitekirk is from North Berwick, from Dunbar and east of Ed ...
)
*1832
Thomas Chalmers
Thomas Chalmers (17 March 178031 May 1847), was a Scottish minister, professor of theology, political economist, and a leader of both the Church of Scotland and of the Free Church of Scotland. He has been called "Scotland's greatest nine ...
(Professor of Divinity, University of Edinburgh)
*1833
John Stirling (
Craigie, South Ayrshire
Craigie is a small village and parish of in the old district of Kyle, now South Ayrshire, south of Kilmarnock, Scotland. This is mainly a farming district, lacking in woodland, with a low population density, and only one village. In the 19 ...
)
*1834
Patrick MacFarlan
Patrick MacFarlan (4 April 1781 – 13 November 1849) was a Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1834 and as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland in 1845. ...
(West Kirk
Greenock
Greenock (; sco, Greenock; gd, Grianaig, ) is a town and administrative centre in the Inverclyde council areas of Scotland, council area in Scotland, United Kingdom and a former burgh of barony, burgh within the Counties of Scotland, historic ...
)
*1835
William Aird Thomson
William Aird Thomson (1773-17 March 1863) was a Scottish minister and antiquarian who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1835.
Life
He was born on 28 January 1773 in the manse at Sanquhar the son of Rev Dr ...
(Perth)
*1836
Norman Macleod (The Highlanders' Friend)
Norman MacLeod, known in Gaelic as ''Caraid nan Gàidheal'' ("friend of the Gael"), was a Church of Scotland minister, poet, and writer. He was Chaplain to Queen Victoria and Dean of the Chapel Royal in Scotland.
Life
He was the son of the Rev ...
(
Glasgow: St Columba)
*1837
Matthew Gardiner (Bothwell)
*1838
William Muir
Sir William Muir (27 April 1819 – 11 July 1905) was a Scottish Orientalist, and colonial administrator, Principal of the University of Edinburgh and Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Provinces of British India.
Life
He was born at Gl ...
(
Edinburgh: St Stephen's)
*1839
Henry Duncan Henry Duncan may refer to:
* Henry Duncan (minister) (1774–1846), Scottish minister, geologist and social reformer; founder of the savings bank movement
* Henry Duncan (naval officer, born 1735) (1735–1814), Naval captain and Deputy Comptroller ...
(Ruthwell)
*1840
Angus Makellar
Angus Makellar (1780–1859) was a Scottish minister of the Church of Scotland who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1840. Leaving in the Disruption of 1843 he also served as Moderator of the General Asse ...
(
Pencaitland
Pencaitland is a village in East Lothian, Scotland, about south-east of Edinburgh, south-west of Haddington, and east of Ormiston.
The land where the village lies is said to have been granted by William the Lion to Calum Cormack in 1169, ...
)
*1841
Robert Gordon Robert Gordon may refer to:
Entertainment
* Robert Gordon (actor) (1895–1971), silent-film actor
* Robert Gordon (director) (1913–1990), American director
* Robert Gordon (singer) (1947–2022), American rockabilly singer
* Robert Gordon (scr ...
(Edinburgh: High Church)
*1842
David Welsh
David Welsh FRSE (11 December 179324 April 1845) was a Scottish divine and academic. He was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1842. In the Disruption of 1843 he was one of the leading figures in the establishmen ...
(Professor of Church History, University of Edinburgh)
Post Disruption
The "
Disruption" in the Church of Scotland took place in 1843, with approximately one-third of the ministers leaving to form the
Free Church of Scotland. The Moderator in this critical year was
Duncan Macfarlan
Duncan Macfarlan (1771–1857) was a Scottish minister. He was twice Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland both in 1819 and in its most critical year of 1843. He was Principal of Glasgow University from 1823 to 1857.
Life
H ...
(High Church of Glasgow)
*1844
John Lee John Lee may refer to:
Academia
* John Lee (astronomer) (1783–1866), president of the Royal Astronomical Society
* John Lee (university principal) (1779–1859), University of Edinburgh principal
* John Lee (pathologist) (born 1961), English ...
(Principal, University of Edinburgh)
*1845
Alexander Hill (Professor of Divinity, Glasgow)
*1846
James Paull (
Tullynessle
Tullynessle is a hamlet in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, three miles NNW of Alford.
The settlement contains the Category A listed Terpersie Castle, a privately owned 16th-century tower house. It formerly contained Tullynessle Tower, now gone, which ...
)
*1847
John Paul (Edinburgh: West Kirk)
*1848
George Buist (Professor of Church History, St Andrews)
*1849
Alexander Lockhart Simpson (
Kirknewton)
*1850
John Graham of Balfunning (
Killearn
Killearn (Scottish Gaelic: ''Cill Fhearann'', from orig. ''Ceann Fhearann'', "Head/End of (the) Land/Territory" – until the 15th century when ''Ceann'' was replaced by ''Cill''; denoting the presence of a house of worship) – is a smal ...
)
*1851 John Macleod (
Morvern
Morvern, historically also spelt Morven, is a peninsula and traditional district in the Highlands, on the west coast of Scotland. It lies south of the districts of Ardgour and Sunart, and is bounded on the north by Loch Sunart and Glen Tarbert, ...
)
*1852
Lewis William Forbes (
Boharm
Boharm is a rural parish in the Speyside area of north Scotland, midway between Aberlour and Fochabers, and north of Dufftown. It lies on minor roads to either side of the A95. The main settlements in the parish are Maggieknockater and Mulben. ...
)
*1853
James Barr (Glasgow: St Enoch's)
*1854
James Grant (Edinburgh: St Mary's)
*1855
Andrew Bell (
Linlithgow
Linlithgow (; gd, Gleann Iucha, sco, Lithgae) is a town in West Lothian, Scotland. It was historically West Lothian's county town, reflected in the county's historical name of Linlithgowshire. An ancient town, it lies in the Central Belt on a ...
)
*1856
John Crombie (Scone)
*1857
James Robertson 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 ...
(Professor of Church History, University of Edinburgh)
*1858
Matthew Leishman
Matthew Leishman (27 April 1794 – 8 August 1874) was a Scottish minister. He served as minister of Govan Old Parish Church for 53 years, during which he served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1858.
Life
He wa ...
(
Govan
Govan ( ; Cumbric?: ''Gwovan'?''; Scots: ''Gouan''; Scottish Gaelic: ''Baile a' Ghobhainn'') is a district, parish, and former burgh now part of south-west City of Glasgow, Scotland. It is situated west of Glasgow city centre, on the south ba ...
)
*1859
Prof John Cook (Professor of Church History, St Andrews)
*1860
James Maitland (
Kells, Dumfries and Galloway
Kells parish, in the Kirkcudbrightshire, Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, is located 14 miles (N. W. by N.) from Castle Douglas, Castle-Douglas, and 19 miles (N. by W.) from Kirkcudbright. It contains, with the burgh of New Galloway, 1121 inhabitant ...
)
*1861
Colin Smith (
Glenaray near
Inveraray
Inveraray ( or ; gd, Inbhir Aora meaning "mouth of the Aray") is a town in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It is on the western shore of Loch Fyne, near its head, and on the A83 road. It is a former royal burgh, the traditional county town of Arg ...
)
*1862
James Bisset (
Bourtie)
*1863
James Craik
James Craik (; 17276 February 1814) was Physician General (precursor of the Surgeon General) of the United States Army, as well as George Washington's personal physician and close friend.
Biography Education and emigration to America
Born on ...
(Glasgow: St George's)
*1864
William Robinson Pirie (Principal,
University of Aberdeen
The University of Aberdeen ( sco, University o' 'Aiberdeen; abbreviated as ''Aberd.'' in List of post-nominal letters (United Kingdom), post-nominals; gd, Oilthigh Obar Dheathain) is a public university, public research university in Aberdeen, Sc ...
)
*1865
James Macfarlane
James MacFarlane (17 July 1866 – 11 December 1942) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played first-class cricket for Canterbury and Otago between the 1887–88 and 1895–96 seasons.[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 ...]
(Duddingston, near Edinburgh)
*1866
John Cook (Haddington)
*1867
Thomas Jackson Crawford
Thomas Jackson Crawford (1812–1875) was a Scottish minister and professor of divinity at the University of Edinburgh. He served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1867, the highest level within the Scottish chur ...
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 ...
, (Professor of Divinity, University of Edinburgh)
*1868
James Strachan Barty (Bendochy)
*1869
Norman MacLeod (Glasgow: The Barony)
*1870
George Ritchie (
Jedburgh
Jedburgh (; gd, Deadard; sco, Jeddart or ) is a town and former royal burgh in the Scottish Borders and the traditional county town of the historic county of Roxburghshire, the name of which was randomly chosen for Operation Jedburgh in su ...
)
*1871
Robert Horne Stevenson
Robert Horne Stevenson (27 October 1812 – 15 November 1886) was a Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1871/2.
Life
Stevenson was born on 27 October 1812 at Netherinch, Campsie, son o ...
(Edinburgh: St George's)
*1872
Robert Jamieson (Glasgow: St Paul's)
*1873
Robert Gillan
Robert Gillan (1787-1879) was a Church of Scotland minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1873.
Biography
Gillan was born at Hawick, Roxburghshire. His father, the Rev. Robert Gillan, son of another m ...
(Inchinnan)
*1874
Samuel Trail
Samuel Trail (1806–1887) was a Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1874.
Life
He was born in the parish of Udny on 31 May 1806, the son of John T. Trail, a farmer.
He studied divinity ...
(Professor of Divinity, Aberdeen)
*1875
James Sellar (Aberlour)
*1876
George Cook (
Borgue)
*1877
Kenneth Macleay Phin (Convener of the Home Mission Committee)
*1878
John Tulloch
__NOTOC__
John Tulloch (1 June 1823 – 13 February 1886) was a Scottish theologian.
Life
Tulloch was born at Dron, south of Bridge of Earn, Perthshire, and educated at Perth Grammar School.https://archive.org/stream/fastiecclesiaesc00scot/f ...
(Principal, St Mary's College, St Andrews)
*1879
James Crystal (
Auchinleck
Auchinleck ( ; sco, Affleck ;
gd, Achadh nan Leac )
*1880
Archibald Watson
Archibald Watson FRCS (27 July 1849 – 30 July 1940) was an Australian surgeon and professor of anatomy at the University of Adelaide.
Early life
Watson was born at Tarcutta, New South Wales, the son of Sydney Grandison Watson, a retired ...
(
St Mary's, Dundee)
*1881
James Smith (
Cathcart
Cathcart ( sco, Kithcart, gd, Coille Chart)
is an are ...
)
*1882
William Milligan
William Milligan (15 March 182111 December 1893) was a renowned Scottish theologian. He studied at the University of Halle in Germany, and eventually became a professor at the University of Aberdeen. He is best known for his commentary on th ...
(Professor of Biblical Criticism, Aberdeen)
*1883
John Rankine
John Rankine (born Douglas Rankine Mason; 26 September 1918 – 8 August 2013) was a British science fiction author, who wrote books as John Rankine and Douglas R. Mason. Rankine was born in Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales and first attended Ch ...
(
Sorn Vehicle Excise Duty (VED; also known as "vehicle tax", "car tax", and more controversially as "road tax", and formerly as a "tax disc") is an annual tax that is levied as an excise duty and which must be paid for most types of powered vehicles which ...
)
*1884 Peter MacKenzie (Urquhart in Presbytery of
Dingwall
Dingwall ( sco, Dingwal, gd, Inbhir Pheofharain ) is a town and a royal burgh in the Highland council area of Scotland. It has a population of 5,491. It was an east-coast harbour that now lies inland. Dingwall Castle was once the biggest cast ...
)
*1885
Alexander Ferrier Mitchell
Alexander Ferrier Mitchell (1822 – 1899) was a Scottish ecclesiastical historian and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1885.
Life
He was born at Brechin on 10 September 1822, son of David Mitchell, convener of local ...
(Professor of Church History, St Andrews)
*1886
John Cunningham (Principal, St Mary's College, University of St Andrews)
*1887
George Hutchison (
Banchory
Banchory (, sco, Banchry, gd, Beannchar) is a burgh or town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is about west of Aberdeen, near where the Feugh River meets the River Dee.
Prehistory and archaeology
In 2009, a farmer discovered a short cist ...
-Ternan)
*1888
William Henry Gray
William Henry Gray (1825-1908) was a Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1888, the highest position in the Church of Scotland. From 1889 he was styled Very Rev Dr William H. Gray. As ...
(Liberton)
*1889
Paton James Gloag
Paton James Gloag (1823–1906) was a Scottish minister and theological author. He was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1889.
Life
Born in Perth on 17 May 1823, he was the eldest son of William Gloag (died 1856), ...
(Galashiels)
*1890
A. K. H. Boyd (St Andrews)
*1891
James MacGregor (Edinburgh: St Cuthbert's)
*1892
Archibald Charteris
Archibald Hamilton Charteris (13 December 1835 – 24 April 1908) was a Scottish theologian, a Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, professor of biblical criticism at the University of Edinburgh and a leading voice in Chu ...
(University of Edinburgh)
*1893
J. Marshall Lang (Glasgow: The Barony)
*1894
Robert Herbert Story
Robert Herbert Story (28 January 1835 – 13 January 1907) was a Scottish divine and Principal of the University of Glasgow. He attained the highest position in the Scottish church as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland ...
(Principal of the University of Glasgow)
*1895 Donald Macleod (Glasgow: Park Church) after post declined by
Robert Flint
Robert Flint LLD DD (14 March 1838 – 1910) was a Scottish theologian and philosopher who wrote also on sociology.
Life
Flint was born at Greenburn, Sibbaldbie near Applegarth in Dumfriesshire on 14 March 1838, the son of Grace Johnston (' ...
*1896
Archibald Scott (Edinburgh: St George's)
*1897
William Mair (
Earlston
Earlston ( sco, Yerlston; gd, Dùn Airchill) is a civil parish and market town in the county of Berwickshire, within the Scottish Borders. It is on the River Leader in Lauderdale, Scotland.
Early history
Earlston was originally called ''Arc ...
)
*1898
Thomas Leishman
Thomas Leishman (7 May 1825 – 13 July 1904) was a Scottish minister and liturgical scholar.
Life
Born into a clerical family at his father's manse on 7 May 1825, he was the eldest son, in a family of 13 children, of Matthew Leishman, D.D., mini ...
(Linton)
*1899
John Pagan
John Pagan (1830-1909) was a Scottish minister and amateur botanist who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1899.
Life
He was born in Wamphray on 30 June 1830 the son of John Pagan and Mary Hamilton. He was e ...
(Bothwell)
*1900
Norman Macleod 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 ...
(
Inverness
Inverness (; from the gd, Inbhir Nis , meaning "Mouth of the River Ness"; sco, Innerness) is a city in the Scottish Highlands. It is the administrative centre for The Highland Council and is regarded as the capital of the Highlands. Histori ...
)
20th century
*1901
James Mitchell (
South Leith)
*1902
James Curdie Russell
James Curdie Russell (1830-1925) was a Scottish minister. He served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1902.
Life
He was born in 1830.
He was minister of Campbeltown from 1854 and remained there for most of his l ...
(Campbeltown)
*1903
John Gillespie (
Mouswald
Mouswald is a rural village slightly east of Dumfries in south-west Scotland. It lies on the B724 south of the A75. The site views southward over the Solway Firth.
History
A Scandinavian settlement began here in the 9th century and the name Mous ...
)
*1904
John McMurtrie
John McMurtrie (born 1969) is a British music photographer. He makes portraits of musicians, usually in the heavy rock arena. He has shot covers for ''Metal Hammer'' magazine and '' Total Guitar'' magazine and also contributes to ''Rolling Stone' ...
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 ...
(Convener, Committee on Foreign Missions)
*1905
Andrew J. Milne (
Fyvie
Fyvie is a village in the Formartine area of Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
Geography
Fyvie lies alongside the River Ythan and is on the A947 road.
Architecture
What in 1990, at least, was a Clydesdale Bank was built in 1866 by James Matthews. The ...
)
*1906
Thomas Brown William Niven (
Pollokshields
Pollokshields ( gd, Buthan Phollaig, Scots: ''Powkshiels'') is an area in the Southside of Glasgow, Scotland. Its modern boundaries are largely man-made, being formed by the M77 motorway to the west and northwest with the open land of Pollok C ...
)
*1907
James Robert Mitford Mitchell (Convener, Colonial Committee)
*1908
Theodore Marshall (Convener, Home Mission Committee)
*1909 James Robertson (Whittinghame)
*1910
Pearson McAdam Muir
Pearson McAdam Muir (1846–1924) was the minister of Glasgow Cathedral and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1910. He served as Grand Chaplain of the Grand Lodge of Freemasons of Scotland. He was Chaplain in Ordinar ...
(Glasgow Cathedral)
*1911
Alexander Stewart (Principal of St Mary's College, University of St Andrews)
*1912
Samuel Marcus Dill
Samuel Marcus Dill (20 December 184323 January 1924) was an Irish-born minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1912.
Life
He was born on 20 December 1843, the eldest son of Prof Robert Foster Dill MD ...
(
Alloway
Alloway ( gd, Allmhaigh, ) is a village in South Ayrshire, Scotland, located on the River Doon. It is best known as the birthplace of Robert Burns and the setting for his poem "Tam o' Shanter". Tobias Bachope, the mason responsible for the cons ...
)
*1913
Andrew Wallace Williamson
Andrew Wallace Williamson KCVO, (29 December 1856 – 10 July 1926) was a Church of Scotland minister who was Dean of the Thistle. He was Moderator of the General Assembly in 1913.
Life
He was born in Thornhill in Dumfriesshire on 29 Decembe ...
(Edinburgh: High Kirk (St Giles’ Cathedral))
*1914
Thomas Nicol
Thomas Nicol (1846–1916) was Professor of Biblical Criticism at the University of Aberdeen. He served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1914.
Life
He was born in Edinburgh on 21 October 1846, possibly the son ...
(Professor of Biblical Criticism, Aberdeen)
*1915
David Paul (Edinburgh: Robertson Memorial Church)
*1916
John Brown John Brown most often refers to:
*John Brown (abolitionist) (1800–1859), American who led an anti-slavery raid in Harpers Ferry, Virginia in 1859
John Brown or Johnny Brown may also refer to:
Academia
* John Brown (educator) (1763–1842), Ir ...
(Glasgow: Bellahouston)
*1917
James Cooper (Professor of Church History, Glasgow)
*1918
James Nicoll Ogilvie (Edinburgh: New Greyfriars')
*1919
William Paterson Paterson (University of Edinburgh)
*1920
Thomas Martin Thomas or Tom Martin may refer to:
Born 16th century
*Thomas Martin (politician, died 1583) (1530–1583), MP for Dorchester
*Thomas Martin (lawyer) (1521–1593), MP for Ludgershall, Saltash and Hindon
Born 17th century
*Thomas Martin of Pal ...
(Peebles)
*1921
James A. McClymont
James Alexander McClymont CBE VD (1848–1927) was a Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1921.
Life
He was Principal Chaplain to the Royal Army Chaplains' Department in the First World W ...
CBE (Convener of the Committee on Chaplains to H. M. Forces)
*1922
John Smith (Glasgow:
Partick
Partick ( sco, Pairtick, Scottish Gaelic: ''Partaig'') is an area of Glasgow on the north bank of the River Clyde, just across from Govan. To the west lies Whiteinch, to the east Yorkhill and Kelvingrove Park (across the River Kelvin), and to t ...
)
*1923
George Milligan George Milligan may refer to:
* George Milligan (physician) (?-1799), American surgeon
*George Milligan (moderator) (1860–1934), Scottish minister of the Church of Scotland
* George Milligan (politician) (born 1934), American politician in the ...
(
University of Glasgow
, image = UofG Coat of Arms.png
, image_size = 150px
, caption = Coat of arms
Flag
, latin_name = Universitas Glasguensis
, motto = la, Via, Veritas, Vita
, ...
)
*1924
David Cathels (Hawick)
*1925
John White (Glasgow: The Barony)(also served in 1929)
*1926
John Donaldson McCallum (Larkhall)
*1927
Norman Maclean
Norman Fitzroy Maclean (December 23, 1902August 2, 1990) was a Scottish-American professor at the University of Chicago who became, following his retirement, a major figure in American literature. Maclean is best known for his collection of no ...
(Edinburgh: St Cuthbert's)
*1928
James Montgomery Campbell (Dumfries)
*1929 Joseph Mitchell (Mauchline)
The union of the Church of Scotland and the
United Free Church of Scotland
The United Free Church of Scotland (UF Church; gd, An Eaglais Shaor Aonaichte, sco, The Unitit Free Kirk o Scotland) is a Scottish Presbyterian denomination formed in 1900 by the union of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland (or UP) and ...
occurred in 1929, the newly reunited church henceforth being known as the Church of Scotland.
*1929
John White (Glasgow: The Barony)(also served in 1925)
*1930
Andrew Nisbet Bogle (Joint-Secretary, Church and Ministry Department)
*1931
John Anderson Graham CIE (
Kalimpong
Kalimpong (Hindi: कलिम्पोंग) is a town and the headquarters of an eponymous district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is located at an average elevation of . The town is the headquarters of the Kalimpong district. The re ...
, India) (Founder of
Dr. Graham's Homes)
*1932
Hugh Ross Mackintosh
Hugh Ross Mackintosh (31 October 1870 – 8 June 1936) was a Scottish theologian, and parish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1932.
Life
He was born in Paisley on 31 October 1870, where hi ...
(Professor of Dogmatics, University of Edinburgh)
*1933
Lauchlan MacLean Watt (
Glasgow Cathedral
Glasgow Cathedral ( gd, Cathair-eaglais Ghlaschu) is a parish church of the Church of Scotland in Glasgow, Scotland. It is the oldest cathedral in mainland Scotland and the oldest building in Glasgow. The cathedral was the seat of the Archbishop ...
)
*1934
Peter Donald Thomson
Peter Donald Thomson (1872–1955) was a Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1934.
Life
He was born in Glasgow.
He was educated at Hermitage Academy in Helensburgh. He studied divinit ...
(Glasgow:
Kelvinside
Kelvinside is a district in the Scottish city of Glasgow. It is situated north of the River Clyde and is bounded by Broomhill, Dowanhill and Hyndland to the south with Kelvindale and the River Kelvin to the north. It is an affluent area of Gl ...
(Botanic Gardens))
*1935
Marshall B. Lang (Whittingehame)
*1936
Daniel Lamont (Professor of Practical Theology,
New College, Edinburgh
New College is a historic building at the University of Edinburgh which houses the university's School of Divinity. It is one of the largest and most renowned centres for studies in Theology and Religious Studies in the United Kingdom. Student ...
)
*1937
Dugald MacFarlane (
Kingussie
Kingussie ( ; gd, Ceann a' Ghiùthsaich ) is a small town in the Badenoch and Strathspey ward of the Highland council area of Scotland. Historically in Inverness-shire, it lies beside the A9 road, although the old route of the A9 serves as the ...
)
*1938
James Black (Edinburgh: St George's West)
*1939
Archibald Main
Archibald Main, (17 December 1876 – 14 March 1947) was a Scottish ecclesiastical historian, Church of Scotland minister, military chaplain, and academic. From 1915 to 1922, he was Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of St A ...
(Glasgow)
*1940
James Rae Forgan
James Rae Forgan (1876-1966) was a Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1940.
Life
He was born in Perth on 25 December 1876.
In 1898 he began studying divinity at the University of Edinbu ...
(Ayr: Trinity UF)
*1941
J. H. Cockburn (
Dunblane Cathedral
Dunblane Cathedral is the larger of the two Church of Scotland parish churches serving Dunblane, near the city of Stirling, in central Scotland.
The lower half of the tower is pre- Romanesque from the 11th century, and was originally free-standi ...
)
*1942
Charles William Gray Taylor CBE (Edinburgh: St George's)
*1943
John Baillie (Professor of Divinity, University of Edinburgh)
*1944
Edward James Hagan OBE (Edinburgh: Warrender)
*1945 A. J. Campbell (
Evie, Orkney
Evie (pronounced ) is a parish and village on Mainland, Orkney, Scotland. The parish is located in the north-west of the Mainland, between Birsay and Rendall, forming the coastline opposite the isle of Rousay.
History
Within the parish are a n ...
)
*1946 John McKenzie CIE (former Principal, The Wilson College, Bombay, India)
*1947
Matthew Stewart (
Hamilton Old and Auchingramont)
*1948
Alexander Macdonald (
Glasgow: St Columba)
*1949
George Simpson Duncan OBE (University of St Andrews)
*1950
Hugh Watt
Hugh Watt (19 March 1912 – 4 February 1980) was a New Zealand politician who was a Labour member of Parliament and the acting prime minister of New Zealand between 31 August and 6 September 1974, following the death of Prime Minister Norma ...
(University of Edinburgh)
*1951
William White Anderson MC (Edinburgh: St Cuthbert's)
*1952
George Johnstone Jeffrey
George Johnstone Jeffrey was a Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1952.
Life
From 1920 to 1928 he was minister of the New Laigh Kirk (West High Kirk) in Kilmarnock.
In 1938 he was mi ...
(
Glasgow: Sherbrooke St Gilbert's)
*1953
James Pitt-Watson (Glasgow)
*1954
Ernest David Jarvis
Ernest David Jarvis (1888-1964) was a Scottish minister of Wellington Church in Glasgow from 1929 to 1958 who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1954.
Life
He studied divinity at St Andrews University.
He la ...
(
Glasgow: Wellington)
*1955
G. D. Henderson FBA (University of Aberdeen)
*1956
Robert F. V. Scott (
St Columba's Church, London)
*1957
George MacLeod
George Fielden MacLeod, Baron MacLeod of Fuinary, (17 June 1895 – 27 June 1991) was a Scottish soldier and clergyman; he was one of the best known, most influential and unconventional Church of Scotland ministers of the 20th century. He ...
MC (
Iona Community
The Iona Community, founded in 1938 by George MacLeod, is an ecumenical Christian community of men and women from different walks of life and different traditions within Christianity.
It and its publishing house, Wild Goose Publications, are hea ...
) ''(Peerage in 1967: Lord MacLeod of Fuinary)''
*1958
John A. Fraser MBE (Hamilton Old and Auchingramont)
*1959
Robert Henry Wishart Shepherd (
Lovedale (South Africa)
Lovedale, also known as the Lovedale Missionary Institute was a mission station and educational institute in the Victoria
East division of the Cape Province, South Africa (now in Eastern Cape Province). It lies above sea level on the banks of the ...
)
*1960
J. H. S. Burleigh (University of Edinburgh)
*1961
Archibald Campbell Craig MC (University of Glasgow)
*1962
Nevile Davidson (Glasgow Cathedral)
*1963
James Stuart Stewart (Edinburgh)
*1964
Duncan Fraser (Invergordon)
*1965 Archibald Watt STM (Edzell and Lethnot)
*1966
Leonard Small OBE (Edinburgh: St Cuthbert's)
*1967
William Roy Sanderson
William Roy Sanderson (23 September 1907 – 19 June 2008) was a Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1967. In 1961 he had organised the first meeting between a moderator and the pope. He wa ...
(Stenton ''linked with'' Whittinghame)
*1968
James Boyd Longmuir (Principal Clerk to the General Assembly)
*1969
Thomas Moffat Murchison
Thomas Moffat Murchison (1907-1984) was a Church of Scotland Minister (Christianity), minister and Scottish Gaelic scholar.
Early life
He was born 27 July 1907, in Glasgow and brought up on the family croft in Skye. He was educated at Kylerhea Pr ...
(Glasgow: St Columba Summertown)
*1970
Hugh O. Douglas KCVO CBE (
Dundee: St Mary's)
*1971
Andrew Herron (Clerk to the
Presbytery of Glasgow
The Presbytery of Glasgow is one of the 46 Presbyteries of the Church of Scotland
The Church of Scotland ( sco, The Kirk o Scotland; gd, Eaglais na h-Alba) is the national church in Scotland.
The Church of Scotland was principally shaped ...
)
*1972
Ronald Selby Wright CVO FRSE FSAScot (
Edinburgh: Canongate)
*1973
George T. H. Reid MC (Aberdeen: Langstane)
*1974
David Steel
David Martin Scott Steel, Baron Steel of Aikwood, (born 31 March 1938) is a British politician. Elected as Member of Parliament for Roxburgh, Selkirk, and Peebles, followed by Tweeddale, Ettrick, and Lauderdale, he served as the final leade ...
(
Linlithgow: St Michael's) (Father of
Lord Steel of Aikwood)
*1975
James Gunn Matheson (Portree (Isle of Skye))
*1976
Thomas F. Torrance MBE
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 ...
(University of Edinburgh)
*1977
John Rodger Gray
John Rodger Gray, (9 January 1913 – 9 August 1984) was a Scottish minister serving in Dunblane Cathedral who was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1977.
Life
He was born on 9 January 1913 in Coatbridge, Lanarkshi ...
VRD (Dunblane Cathedral)
*1978
Peter Brodie (Alloa: St Mungo's)
*1979
Robert A. S. Barbour KCVO MC (University of Aberdeen)
*1980
William Bryce Johnston
William Bryce Johnston, (16 September 1921 – 22 May 2005) was a Church of Scotland Minister (Christianity), minister, most notably Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland from 1980 until 1981.
He was Executive Committee ...
(
Edinburgh: Colinton)
*1981
Andrew Beveridge Doig (National Bible Society of Scotland)
*1982
John McIntyre CVO FRSE (University of Edinburgh)
*1983
J. Fraser McLuskey MC (London: St Columba's)
*1984
John M. K. Paterson (Milngavie: St Paul's)
*1985
David M. B. A. Smith (Logie, by Stirling)
*1986
Robert Craig CBE (
Jerusalem (Emeritus))
*1987
Duncan Shaw ''
Bundesverdienstkreuz
The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (german: Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, or , BVO) is the only federal decoration of Germany. It is awarded for special achievements in political, economic, cultural, intellect ...
'' (Edinburgh: Craigentinny St Christopher's)
*1988
James A. Whyte (University of St Andrews)
*1989
William J. G. McDonald (Edinburgh: Mayfield)
*1990
Robert Davidson FRSE (University of Glasgow)
*1991
William B. R. Macmillan (Dundee: St Mary's)
*1992
Hugh R. Wyllie FCIBS (Hamilton: Old Parish Church)
*1993
James L. Weatherhead CBE (Principal Clerk to the General Assembly)
*1994
James A. Simpson (
Dornoch Cathedral
Dornoch Cathedral is a former Roman Catholic cathedral and is currently a Church of Scotland parish church serving the small Sutherland town of Dornoch, in the Scottish Highlands. As a congregation of the Church of Scotland, which is Presbyterian ...
)
*1995
James Harkness KCVO CB OBE (
Chaplain General of Her Majesty's Forces (Emeritus))
*1996
John H. McIndoe (London: St Columba's ''linked with'' Newcastle: St Andrew's)
*1997
Alexander McDonald (General Secretary of the CofS Board of Ministry)
*1998
Alan Main (University of Aberdeen)
*1999
John B. Cairns (Dumbarton: Riverside)
*2000
Andrew McLellan
Andrew Rankin Cowie McLellan is a minister in the Church of Scotland. He was Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons for Scotland from 2002 to 2009.
He was educated at Kilmarnock Academy, Madras College (St Andrews), the University of St Andrews ...
CBE (Edinburgh:
St Andrew's & St George's)
21st century
*2001
John Miller (
Glasgow
Glasgow ( ; sco, Glesca or ; gd, Glaschu ) is the most populous city in Scotland and the fourth-most populous city in the United Kingdom, as well as being the 27th largest city by population in Europe. In 2020, it had an estimated popul ...
:
Castlemilk
Castlemilk ( gd, Caisteal Mheilc) is a district of Glasgow, Scotland. It lies to the far south of the city centre, adjacent to the Croftfoot and Simshill residential areas within the city to the north-west, the town of Rutherglen - neighbourhoo ...
East)
*2002
Finlay Macdonald (
Principal Clerk to the General Assembly
The Church of Scotland maintains a presbyterian polity and is thus governed by a hierarchy of bodies known as church courts. Each of these courts has a moderator and a clerk.
Moderators
The moderator presides over the meeting of the court, much as ...
)
*2003
Iain Torrance
Iain Richard Torrance, (born 13 January 1949) is a retired Church of Scotland minister, theologian and academic. He is Pro-Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen, Honorary Professor of Early Christian Doctrine and Ethics at the University o ...
(Professor, University of Aberdeen)
*2004
Alison Elliot
Alison Elliot CBE FRSE (born 27 November 1948) is an honorary fellow at New College, Edinburgh. She was the former Associate Director of the Centre for Theology and Public Issues at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. In 2004 she became the ...
OBE (
Elder,
Session Clerk
A session (from the Latin word ''sessio'', which means "to sit", as in sitting to deliberate or talk about something; sometimes called ''consistory'' or ''church board'') is a body of elected elders governing each local church within presbyteria ...
at Edinburgh:
Greyfriars Tolbooth & Highland Kirk, Associate Secretary of the Centre for Theology & Public Issues at the University of Edinburgh, first woman to be Moderator and first non-minister to be Moderator since the 16th century)
*2005
David Lacy
David William Lacy DL (born 26 April 1952) is a minister of the Church of Scotland. He was the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 2005-6.
Background and Career
Lacy was born in Inverness on 26 April 1952, attended Abe ...
(
Kilmarnock
Kilmarnock (, sco, Kilmaurnock; gd, Cill Mheàrnaig (IPA: ʰʲɪʎˈveaːɾnəkʲ, "Marnock's church") is a large town and former burgh in East Ayrshire, Scotland and is the administrative centre of East Ayrshire, East Ayrshire Council. ...
: Henderson)
*2006
Alan McDonald (Cameron ''linked with'' St Andrews: St Leonard's)
*2007
Sheilagh M. Kesting
Sheilagh Kesting (born 10 June 1953) is a Scottish minister of the Church of Scotland. She served as Moderator of the General Assembly from May 2007 to May 2008. She was the first female minister to be elected Moderator; she was the second woma ...
(Secretary of the Committee on Ecumenical Relations)
*2008
David W. Lunan (Clerk to the Presbytery of Glasgow)
*2009
William C. Hewitt (
Greenock
Greenock (; sco, Greenock; gd, Grianaig, ) is a town and administrative centre in the Inverclyde council areas of Scotland, council area in Scotland, United Kingdom and a former burgh of barony, burgh within the Counties of Scotland, historic ...
: Westburn)
*2010
John Christie (Interim Minister at
West Kilbride
West Kilbride ( gd, Cille Bhrìghde an Iar) is a village and historic parish in North Ayrshire, Scotland, on the west coast by the Firth of Clyde, looking across the Firth of Clyde to Goat Fell and the Isle of Arran. West Kilbride and adjoining ...
: St Andrews and the
Scots Kirk, Lausanne
The Scots Kirk, Lausanne, is a protestant, presbyterian church situated in Lausanne, avenue de Rumine 24. It is part of the Church of Scotland's Presbytery of Europe and one of two congregations of the Church of Scotland in Switzerland, the other ...
)
*2011
A. David K. Arnott (retired, formerly at
St Andrews: Hope Park linked with Strathkinness)
*2012
Albert O. Bogle (
Bo'ness
Borrowstounness (commonly known as Bo'ness ( )) is a town and former burgh and seaport on the south bank of the Firth of Forth in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. Historically part of the county of West Lothian, it is a place within the Falki ...
: St Andrew's)
*2013
E. Lorna Hood OBE (Renfrew: North)
*2014
John Chalmers (Principal Clerk to the General Assembly) ''(
Angus Morrison (Orwell and Portmoak) was initially nominated but withdrew on health grounds)''
*2015 Angus Morrison (Orwell and Portmoak)
*2016
Russell Barr
Russell Barr (born 15 October 1953) is a minister of the Church of Scotland, who was nominated in late 2015 to be the next Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
Early life and education
Barr was born on 15 October 1953 in ...
DMin (Edinburgh: Cramond)
*2017
Derek Browning
Derek Browning (born 24 May 1962) is a minister of the Church of Scotland, who was the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland from May 2017 to May 2018
Early life and education
Derek Browning was born on 24 May 1962 in Ed ...
(Edinburgh: Morningside)
*2018
Susan M. Brown (Dornoch Cathedral)
*2019
Colin Sinclair (Edinburgh: Palmerston Place)
*2020 W.
Martin Fair
W. Martin Fair (born 1964) is a minister of the Church of Scotland and was Moderator of its General Assembly from May 2020– May 2021. He has also served as the minister at St Andrews Parish Church in Arbroath, Angus since 1992.
Early life a ...
(Arbroath: St Andrew's)
*2021
Jim Wallace, Baron Wallace of Tankerness
James Robert Wallace, Baron Wallace of Tankerness, (born 25 August 1954) is a Scottish politician serving as a Liberal Democrat life peer in the British House of Lords since 2007 and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland ...
PC QC FRSE (Elder at
St. Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall
St Magnus Cathedral dominates the skyline of Kirkwall, the main town of Orkney Islands, Orkney, a group of islands off the north coast of mainland Scotland. It is the most northerly cathedral in the United Kingdom, a fine example of Romanesque ar ...
)
*2022
Iain Greenshields (Dunfermline: St Margaret's)
[Church of Scotland news release, 25 October 2021 https://www.churchofscotland.org.uk/news-and-events/news/2021/articles/rev-iain-greenshields-is-the-moderator-designate-of-the-general-assembly-2022-23]
Moderators who were later Moderators of the Free Church
*
Thomas Chalmers
Thomas Chalmers (17 March 178031 May 1847), was a Scottish minister, professor of theology, political economist, and a leader of both the Church of Scotland and of the Free Church of Scotland. He has been called "Scotland's greatest nine ...
(1832) - Moderator of Free Church in 1843
*
Patrick MacFarlan
Patrick MacFarlan (4 April 1781 – 13 November 1849) was a Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1834 and as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland in 1845. ...
(1834) - Moderator of Free Church in 1845
*
Angus Makellar
Angus Makellar (1780–1859) was a Scottish minister of the Church of Scotland who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1840. Leaving in the Disruption of 1843 he also served as Moderator of the General Asse ...
(1840) - Moderator of the Free Church in 1852
See also
*
References
Sources
*Church of Scotland Yearbook 1908 edition, 1933 edition, 1966 edition and 2003-04 edition . The 1908 yearbook entries (1560-1908) were compiled by the late Rev Dr Robert W. Weir.
Note
*DD -
Doctor of Divinity
A Doctor of Divinity (D.D. or DDiv; la, Doctor Divinitatis) is the holder of an advanced academic degree in divinity.
In the United Kingdom, it is considered an advanced doctoral degree. At the University of Oxford, doctors of divinity are ran ...
. See also
List of post-nominal letters
Post-nominal letters are letters placed after the name of a person to indicate that the individual holds a position, office, or honour.
An individual may use several different sets of post-nominal letters. Honours are listed first in descending ...
.
External links
www.churchofscotland.org.uk
{{Moderators of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland since reunification
Moderators of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
List of Moderators of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland is a complete list of Moderators of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland from the Reformation to the present day. Some listed below also currently have their own artic ...
Moderators of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, List
Scotland
Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the ...
Church of Scotland