biography
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| (1826–1906)
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| biography:
| Theologian, born in Glasgow, W Scotland, UK. He studied at Glasgow and at New College in Edinburgh, and became a Free Church minister in Huntly (1851) and Edinburgh (1854). From 1862 to 1900 he was professor of Church history in the New (Free Church) College in Edinburgh, becoming its principal in 1874. He organized the union of the Free and United Presbyterian Churches in 1900 as the United Free Church of Scotland, and became the first moderator of its General Assembly. |
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