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Calgacus, an illustration from The Pictorial History of Scotland by James Taylor. Taylor's published writings: [1] The Pictorial History of Scotland, London, 1852–9, 2 vols. [2] [3] enlarged edition, 1884–8, 6 vols. The Scottish Covenanters, London, 1881. The Age we live in: a History of the Nineteenth Century, Glasgow, 1884.
James Cooper (1846–1922) was a Church of Scotland minister and church historian. [1] In 1917 he attained the highest position in the Church of Scotland as Moderator of the General Assembly . He was a prolific author on religious topics and strong advocate of the reunion of the various schisms of the Scottish church.
His title (following the end of his Moderatorial year) is the Very Reverend Dr James Alexander Simpson BSc BD STM DD. After the death of Hugh Wylie in October 2023, he became the oldest living and earliest surviving moderator. [5] Upon his death in May 2024, both titles were taken by the Moderator who came immediately after Simpson, James Harkness.
The Rev. James Lawson Jr., an apostle of nonviolent protest who schooled activists to withstand brutal reactions from white authorities as the Civil Rights Movement gained traction, has died, his ...
The last Clerk was the Reverend Marjorie McPherson. The Presbytery had represented and supervised 83 Church of Scotland congregations within the area. On 1 January 2022 the presbytery was merged with West Lothian Presbytery to form the Presbytery of Edinburgh and West Lothian.
William Augustus Jones Jr. was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to Mary Elisabeth Jones and William Augustus Jones Sr.His life was considered to began as a medical miracle. It was said that he was not expected to be born alive because of a traumatic childbirt
Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean on the set of 'Giant' in 1955. When James Dean became a massive movie star in 1955 with the back-to-back classics East of Eden and Rebel Without a Cause , he set a ...
The United Free Church of Scotland (UF Church; Scottish Gaelic: An Eaglais Shaor Aonaichte, Scots: 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 the majority of the 19th-century Free Church of Scotland.