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| Date transcribed | 2011-00-00 | | Transcribed by | Jane Britcliffe, Peter Schofield, Penny Tipper | | Comment | List of Ministers of the Church of Scotland who served in India or South Asia, extracted from Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae |
| | Section | Ceylon  | | | Volume No. | 2 | | | Page No. | 217 | | | Surname | Macvicar | | | Christian Name(s) | John Gibson | | | Wife 1 Surname | Macdonald | | | Wife 1 Christian name(s) | Jessie | | | Children to 1st Wife Christian name(s) | Patrick, Magarita Macdonald, Pauline Trevelyan, David Robertson, Jessie Macdonald, Agnes Gibson, Haliburton John, Catharine Beckwith, Symers Douglas | | | Father-in-law 1 Surname | Robertson-Macdonald | | | Father-in-law 1 Christian name(s) | David | | | Father-in-law remarks | Lieutenant-Colonel | | | Body of text | JOHN GIBSON MACVICAR, born Dundee, 16th March, 1800, son of Patrick M, DD, Minister of St. Paul's, Dundee; educated at Dundee Grammar School and University of St. Andrew's and Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Dundee; Lecturer on Natural History (a new lectureship founded by Dr Chalmers) in the University of St. Andrew's 1825-7; MA, Honorary (St. Andrew's 1828); assistant at St. George's, Edinburgh; ordained (by Presbytery of Edinburgh); chaplain of the Scottish Church, Ceylon, 25th December, 1830; minister of St. Andrew's Church, Colombo, 1839-53; DD (St. Andrew's 1844). He came home on furlough in 1852, and was admitted to this parish 29th July, 1853; LL.D (Edinburgh 1870); died 12 February, 1884. He married 2nd January, 1840, Jessie (died 29th July 1900) daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel David Robertson MacDonald, son of Dr. William Robertson, the historian, and Margarita Macdonald of Kinloch-Moidart, and had issue- Patrick, merchant, China, born 12th September, 1840, died 19th August 1880; Margarita Macdonald, born 22nd December, 1842 (married 1863, Andrew Whyte Green of Pendleton, Ceylon); Pauline Trevelyan, born 7th January, 1844, died 9th February, 1916; David Robertson, sub-manager of River Plate Loan and Agency Company, born 2nd December, 1847, died 6th February, 1900; Jessie Macdonald. born 8th December, 1848 (married Robert Walter Weir, minister of Greyfriars Parish, Dumfries); Agnes Gibson, born 12th December, 1849; Haliburton John, Ceylon, Survey Service, born 14th November, 1851, died 29th July, 1885; Catharine Beckwith, born 1st March, 1855; Symers Douglas, Invermoidart, Inverness-shire, LRCPE, born 27th December, 1857. Publications - Elements of the Economy of Nature, or the Principles of Physics, Chemistry, and Physiology (Edinburgh, 1830; 2nd edition London 1856); Inquiries concerning the Medium of Light and the Form of its Molecules (Edinburgh, 1833); On the Beautiful, the Picturesque, and the Sublime (London 1837; reproduced as the Philosophy of the Beautiful, Edingburgh, 1855); The Catholoic Spirit of the True Religion (London 1840); An Inquiry into Human Nature (Edinburgh 1853); Christian Doctrine in the Words of Scripture, arranged as a Catechism (Edinburgh, 1854; also published in Singalese); The First Lines of Science Simplified, and the Structure of Molecules Attempted (Edinburgh, 1860); A Sketch of a Philosophy, four parts (London 1868-74); A Science Primer (Edinburgh, 1878); A Supplement to a Sketch of a Philosophy ( London 1881); ""On the Germination of Ferns"" (Translated Edinburgh. Phil. Soc., vol x); ""A Doublestroke Completely Exhausting Air-Pump"" (Edinburgh Philosophical Journal); edited Quarterly Journal of Agriculture, 1828; numerous contributions to medical and scientific journals. - [The Scotsman, 13th February, 1884; The Athenceum, 16th February, 1884; Dict. Nat. Biog: private information.] | | | Note top of page | Synod of Dumfries Presbytery of Langholm Parish of Moffat |
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