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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  Newbigin    
Christian Name(s)  James Edward Lesslie    
Wife 1 Surname  Henderson    
Wife 1 Christian name(s)  Helen Stewart    
Children to 1st wife  Margaret Rachel; Alison Christine; Janet Mary, John Leslie    
Father-in-law 1 Surname  Henderson    
Father-in-law 1 Christian name(s)  Robert    
Body of text  JAMES EDWARD LESSLIE NEWBIGIN, born 8th December 1909 at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, son of Edward Richmond Newbigin and Annie Ellen Affleck; educated at Newcastle Preparatory School 1917-22, Reading Leighton Park School 1922-7, University of Cambridge Queen's College 1928-31, BA (1931), MA (1934), Westminster College 1933-6; Secretary Student Christian Movement, Glasgow 1931-3; licensed by Presbytery of Newcastle 1936; ordained as missionary to Madras by Presbytery of Edinburgh 12th July 1936; served at Chingleput 1936-7; invalided home 1937; served in Church Offices 1938-9; served in Conjeeveram 1939 to 30th April 1946; on furlough 1946-7; consecrated Bishop at Inauguration on the Church of South India 27th September 1947; installed as Bishop in Madura and Ramnad 13th October 1947. DD (Chicago Theological Seminary 1956), DD (St Andrews 1958). Married 20th August 1936, Helen Stewart, born 18th April 1907, daughter of Rev Robert Henderson, missionary of Irish Presbyterian Church in Gujerat, and has issue, Margaret Rachel, born 15th June 1939; Alison Christine, born 14th March 1941; Janet Mary, born 5th December 1944; John Leslie, born 13th October 1947. Publications- 'Christian Freedom in the Modern World', London 1937; 'The Reunion of the Church', London 1948; 'South India Diary', London 1951 (also translated into Danish and French); 'The Household of God', London 1953; 'Sin and Salvation' (in Tamil), Palmcottah 1955.    
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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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