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 Church of Scotland Ministers A

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Date transcribed2011-00-00
Transcribed byJane Britcliffe, Peter Schofield, Penny Tipper
CommentList of Ministers of the Church of Scotland who served in India or South Asia, extracted from Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae

Section  Bombay    
Volume No.  2    
Page No.  55/56    
Surname  Stevenson    
Christian Name(s)  John    
Wife 1 Surname  Gordon    
Wife 1 Christian name(s)  Laura Turton    
Children to 1st Wife Christian name(s)  Helen, Henry Maitland Gordon, John Gordon, William Ferrie, Alexander Joseph Wolfe, Robert James, Majory Mary, Laura Turton Gordon, William, William    
Father-in-law 1 Surname  Gordon    
Father-in-law 1 Christian name(s)  John    
Father-in-law remarks  Rennyhill, Lanarkshire    
Body of text  JOHN STEVENSON, born 3rd November, 1798, eldest son of William S, farmer, parish of Campsie, and Marjory, daughter of William Ferrie of Newlands ; MA (Glasgow 1816) ; licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow 10th June, 1818 ; ordained by Presbytery of Glasgow as missionary of the Scottish Missionary Society at Bombay in 1823 ; missionary at Hurnee and Poona ; presented by High Court of Directors HEIC and admitted junior chaplain, Bombay, 30th April, 1834 ; DD (St. Andrew's 16th January, 1836) ; presented to senior chaplaincy in 1841 ; demitted in 1854 ; admitted to this charge 5th July 1855; died 11th August, 1858. He was a zealous missionary, a distinguished Sanskrit scholar, and one of the pioneer editors and translators of Vedic literature; a founder of the Bombay Gazette, and joint editor for its first three years ; intImately acquainted with native thought and native languages and dialects ; was President of the Royal Asiatic Society (Bombay Branch), and the Government Committee for examining Officers of the United Services in native languages. A ""Stevenson Scholarship"" was founded at the General Assembly's Institution at Bombay on his departure from India. He married 26th August 1823, Laura Turton (born 26th January, 1799, died at Moffat, 25th July, 1879), second daughter of John Gordon of Rennyhill, Lanarkshire, and Helen, daughter of Captain Pelham Maitland of Belmont, and had issue - Helen, born September 1825, (married Major, afterwards Lieutenant-General, Sir George Inglis Jamieson, KCSI) died February 1854 ; Henry Maitland Gordon, licentiate of the Church of Scotland, born 14th October, 1826, died unmarried, 1898 ; John Gordon, student in arts, Edinburgh, born 11th January, 1831, died unmarried, 22nd May, 1849; William Ferrie, Lieutenant Bombay Artillery, born 14th June, 1832, died unmarried, 1859 ; Alexander Joseph Wolfe, Ensign 18th Bombay Infantry, born 3rd August, 1833, drowned off Aden 27th December, 1855 ; Robert James, minister of Dolphinton ; Marjory Mary, born 25th October, 1839, died unmarried ; Laura Turton Gordon, born 2nd September, 1841 (married -----------Neithardt, Dresden) ; also two sons named William, who died in infancy. Dr S was conversant with twenty two languages ; his eldest daughter, Helen was acquainted with twelve. Publications - Dialogues between certain Brahmans, Marattas, and Others, and a Christian, on the Hindoo and Christain ReligoNs.....Translation from the Maratta (London 1830) ; The Threefold Science, or Sanhita of the Rig-veda, translated, with the original Sanskrit (Bombay, 1833) ; Principles of the Mahratti Grammar (Bombay 1833) ; Translation of the SaNhita of the Sama-veda (London 1842) ; Sama-veda, edited from MSS (1843) ; Kalpa Sutra and Nava Tatva, illustrative of the Jain religion and philosophy (1848) ; Hindoo Caste... and the Connection of Caste with the Sepoy Mutiny (London 1858). Papers on the ""Kanheri, Nasik and Sahaydri Inscriptions of the Bombay Presidency"    
Note top of page  and on the ""Comparative Vocabulary of the Non-Sanskrit Vocables of the Indian Vernacular Languages"". - {Buckland's Dict. of Indian Biography    
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