David Miller is a Scottish minister who served as

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of the Free Church of Scotland in 2014.

Life

He was born in

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to Scottish parents and spent most of his youth in

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, studying Economics at the

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, graduating in 1981. In 1982 he moved to

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where he befriended his minister, Rev Donald Lamont of St Columba's Free Church, also working in the Church of Scotland bookshop on George Street. Re-inspired, he began studying Divinity in 1985 at the Free Church College in Edinburgh, graduating in 1988. He was then dispatched by the Foreign Missions Board to work in

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. Here he served in various village schools in the southern

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before settling in Dumisani to run their Bible School. From this base he also lectured in various church subjects at

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. Here he also obtained a further degree in Theology. In 2002 he returned to Britain, taking up the first ever post as Free Church minister of Cobham near

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in 2003. In 2014 he succeeded Rev Angus Howat as Moderator of the General Assembly. In 2015 he moved to Duirinish Free Church on

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Family

He was married to Margaret (Meg) Campbell of

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in 1989. They were married by her brother Rev Iain D. Campbell. They had three sons (born in South Africa): Andrew, Ben and John.

References

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