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 Church of Scotland Ministers C

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Date transcribed2011-00-00
Transcribed byPeter Schofield
CommentList of Ministers of the Church of Scotland who served in India and South Asia extracted from Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae

Section  India    
Volume  9    
Page no.  744    
Surname  Nelson    
Christian Name(s)  John    
Wife 1 Surname  Gibson    
Wife 1 Christian name(s)  Anne Askew    
Children to 1st wife  John Campbell; Thomas Campbell; Mary Phyllis    
Father-in-law 1 Surname  Gibson    
Father-in-law 1 Christian name(s)  T C    
Body of text  JOHN NELSON, born 29th March 1915 at Glasgow, son of John Nelson and Mary Fairlie Muir; educated at Glasgow Victoria Public School 1920-7, Strathbungo Higher Grade School 1927-30, Queen's Park Secondary School 1930-3, University of Glasgow 1933-9, MA (1936), BD (Distinction in Systematic Theology and Islam 1939); student assistant Glasgow Langside Hill 1938-9; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow 12th April 1939; locum tenens Glasgow King's Park 1939-40; service with Church of Scotland Huts and Canteens 1940-1; ordained by same Presbytery as Chaplain to the Forces 9th December 1941; demobilised August 1946; appointed missionary in Punjab July 1947; inducted to parish of Western Assam (Tea Planters' Chaplaincy) 23rd April 1952. Married 30th December 1947, Anne Askew, MA (Edinburgh), born 29th February 1924, daughter of Rev T C Gibson, late of Swatow and Singapore, now Haltwhistle English Presbyterian Church, and has issue, John Campbell, born 2nd October 1948 in Gujerat; Thomas Campbell, born 15th October 1950 in Gujerat; Mary Phyllis, born 15th August 1954 in Shillong, Assam. Publication � article on 'Predestination. A Study of Luther's Bondage of the Will', Scottish Journal of Theology, VI, 3rd September 1953.    
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List of Ministers of the Church of Scotland who served in India or South Asia extracted from Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae
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