Rev. Matthew Armour (12 April 1820 – 23 March 1903) was a radical Free Church of Scotland minister on the island of Sanday,

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, remembered for supporting the island's

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References

*''Centenary of a Radical Kirk Minister'' by Dr Stephen Clackson, The Orcadian. 6 March 2003

*''Sanday Church History.'' by Rev Alexander Goodfellow, W.R. Mackintosh (Kirkwall). 1912. *''Two Old Pulpit Worthies'' by Rev Alexander Goodfellow, W.R. Rendall (Stromness). 1925. *''An Orkney Anthology - The Selected Works of Ernest Walker Marwick, Vol. 1.'' edited by John D.M. Robertson, Scottish Academic Press (Edinburgh). 1991. 1820 births 1903 deaths People from Renfrewshire Scottish politicians People associated with Orkney Alumni of the University of Glasgow Alumni of the University of St Andrews Crofting 19th-century Ministers of the Free Church of Scotland {{Christian-bio-stub