Flats in the former Warrender Parish Church - geograph

Edward James Hagan (1879–1956) was a 20th-century Scottish minister and biblical scholar. He served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1944.

Life

He studied divinity at

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graduating BA. He was ordained in 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 ...

around 1902. He served as a chaplain attached to the 15th Scottish Division in the

First World War World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

and received a military OBE and the

Military Cross The Military Cross (MC) is the third-level (second-level pre-1993) military decoration awarded to officers and (since 1993) other ranks of the British Armed Forces, and formerly awarded to officers of other Commonwealth countries. The MC ...

. In 1922 he received an honorary doctorate (DD). He became minister of Warrender Church, sited near

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in south-west

Edinburgh Edinburgh ( ; gd, Dùn Èideann ) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas. Historically part of the county of Midlothian (interchangeably Edinburghshire before 1921), it is located in Lothian on the southern shore of t ...

. He served here 1926 to 1951. In 1929 the United Free Church of Scotland re-united with the Church of Scotland and he thereafter served as a minister 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 Reformation of 1560, when it split from the Catholic Church ...

. His church survives but was converted to flats in the 1980s. In 1944 he succeeded Very Rev John Baillie as Moderator of the General Assembly. He retired in 1951 and died in 1956.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hagan, Edward James 1879 births 1956 deaths 20th-century Christian biblical scholars British biblical scholars Moderators of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 20th-century Ministers of the Church of Scotland Calvinist and Reformed biblical scholars