Author talk:Robert Macpherson

Attempts to identify this author

Talk:Dictionary of National_Biography, 1885-1900/List of Contributors#Robert Macpherson

Research

Have found that Author:Robert Macpherson has written an article on Morison, and is listed as Rev. Robert Macpherson in vol. 39. Parked -- 14:50, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

The other contribution is Duncan Mearns. Rev. Dr. ROBERT MACPHERSON (M.A., 1869; B.D., 1872; D.D., 1904), who has been minister of Elgin Parish Church since 1881, has resigned his charge. He is a son of the late Rev. Dr. ROBERT MACPHERSON, who was Professor of Divinity at King's College, 1852-60, and in the University, 1860-67. (The Aberdeen University Review].) The son is likely. This is all family connections to the divinity chair at Aberdeen; the father took over from Mearns, having married his daughter, and Mearns married the daughter of Morison. If I have that all straight. Anyway the texts of the biographies suggest personal connection. Charles Matthews (talk) 12:25, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Okay, I have tracked this down. b. 1850, Forres, Scotland; d. Apr 1926 Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute. Found in father's entry] in Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ. Still looking for his entry. I need a guide to parishes and synods of Scotland. Got it by persistence. [1] — billinghurst sDrewth 04:57, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

Biographical details

• Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ,Vol.. 6 Synods of Aberdeen and of Moray, p. 391

ROBERT MACPHERSON [1882], born Forres, 2nd Nov.. 1850, son of Robert M., D.D., min. of Forres, afterwards Professor Divinity, Univ. of Aberdeen, and Univ. of Aberdeen; M.A. (1869), B.D. (1872); licen. by Presby. of Aberdeen 27th Jan. 1872; assistant at Kinloss, Inverness (High Church), Stirling (East Church), and Goven; ord. to Newton-upon-Ayr 16th Aug. 1877; trans. to Junior Charge 17th Feb. 1881; became senior min. 15th April 1882; D.D. (Aberdeen, 1904); app. clerk of Presby. Nov. 1882; dem. 14th Dec. 1921; died at Helensburgh 27th April 1926. He Marri. (1) 20th Nov. 1877, Catherine Duff (died 26 May 1895), daugh. of George Cook, D.D., min. of Kincardine O'Neil and has issue—Robert, born 21st Sept. 1878; George Cook, O.B.E., M.A., B.D., Indian chaplain (q.v.), born 11th March 1880; Anne Mearns, born 15th Sept. 1882; Agnes Watson, born 9th April 1884 (marr. Thomas Smith Macpherson, min. of St. Vincent's Glasgow); John Cook, 2nd liuet. 4rd Batt. 1st Gordons, born 30th Jan. 1886, killed in action near Loos, 25th Sept. 1915; Duncan Mearns, born 28th April 1887; Catherine Duff, born 1st Jan. 1889; Malcom Munro, born 30th Jan. 1892 [educated at Univ. of Edinburgh, M.A. (1919), O.B.E. (3rd June 1919), licen. by Presby of Elgin in 1920, assistant at St Giles, Edinburgh, ord. to Helensburgh 25th Oct. 1922]: (2) 19th Aug. 1896, Elizabeth (died 20th July 1916), daughter of Robert Paisley, D.D., min. of St Ninians, Stirling.