Nice
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Church of Scotland
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.
Biography
A branch of the Buscarlet family, originating from
Millau
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Millau is known for its Viaduct, glove industry and several nearby natural ...
Aveyron
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, France, settled in
Geneva
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during the 18th century. Marc, a glovemaker, came to
Geneva
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Bristol
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, in
Florence
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. Having studied theology in Geneva, Jules was ordained minister in 1833 and worked in Florence (1834), in
Paris
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Toulouse
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, and then went to
Edinburgh
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, to study in the Theology Faculty of the Free Church. After a short stay in
Livorno
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as a suffragan minister, he was ordained as a minister in 1861 and appointed to a newly founded Scottish Church in
Naples
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. He worked there for thirteen years, taking particular interest in educational charities and in the construction of a church, a manse and a school.
A.-F. Buscarlet also stayed temporarily in
Montreux
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during the tourist season, acting as a chaplain in the Scottish chapel which had been newly built in 1872–1873. He was called to
Lausanne
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in 1874, where he organised religious services for a small congregation. In 1876 he was nominated for the newly created post of minister of the Scots Kirk, Lausanne. He quickly managed to have a church built following the plans of the French architect
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
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. It was inaugurated in 1877.
A.-F. Buscarlet exerted a great influence on the young English speakers studying at the finishing schools of Lausanne. More than three thousand are said to have followed his Bible studies. More generally, he was much involved in promoting the Protestant cause in Europe and in evangelization in Italy; he was also a member of the Sunday Observance Society.
In 1907, he accepted the leadership of the English-speaking Church in Pau, but remained honorary minister in Lausanne until 1910. A trip to Canada in 1910 to visit his son in Manitoba gave him the opportunity of establishing contacts which, one year later, gained him a doctorate in divinity from the Presbyterian Theology College in
Montreal
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Southampton
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, became a farmer in
Souris, Manitoba
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,
Canada
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, where he died in 1959. ''Francis Charles'', born in Hethersett
Norfolk
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in 1865, studied civil engineering at the
Royal Indian Engineering College
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(1885–1888) and started his career in India, working for a railway company in
Madras
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(1890–1893). He was then employed on the west coast of Canada. On his return to England, he settled first in
Newcastle
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, then in
Sunderland
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, working for the
London and North Eastern Railway
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. He died in 1957 in
Derry
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.
Sources
* Archives cantonales vaudoises : Dossier ATS (Buscarlet), and Fonds PP 540, The Scots Kirk Lausanne.
* Daniel Buscarlet, ''De Millau à Genève : une famille du Refuge, les Buscarlet et leurs descendants'', s. l., s. n., 1983, 30 p.