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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 | Bengal  | | | Volume No. | 2 | | | Page No. | 363 | | | Surname | Charles | | | Christian Name(s) | James | | | Wife 1 Surname | Edmondston | | | Wife 1 Christian name(s) | Elizabeth Smith | | | Children to 1st Wife Christian name(s) | Thomas Edmondston, Catherine, James, John George, Fendall Lowis, | | | Father-in-law 1 Surname | Edmondston | | | Father-in-law 1 Christian name(s) | Thomas | | | Father-in-law remarks | Merchant, Edinburgh | | | Body of text | JAMES CHARLES, born Glasgow, 10th January, 1803, third son of George C, merchant, and Catherine Stevenson; educated at University of Glasgow; licensed by Presbytery of Dalkeith; ordained (by Presbytery of Edinburgh) chaplain on the Bengal establishment 25th April, 1832; minister of St. Andrew's Church, Calcutta, 1832-47; DD (Edinburgh, 30th March, 1839); admitted to this parish 29th November 1849; died 26th November, 1882. He married 28th May, 1832, Elizabeth Smith (died 1st March 1894), daughter of Thomas Edmondston, merchant, Edinburgh, and had issue - Thomas Edmondston, MD, Hon. Physician to the King, born 17th October, 1834, died 2nd March, 1906; Catherine, born 18th March, 1836, died unmarried, 10th January, 1909; James, Royal Artillery, born 2nd June, 1839, died 19th July, 1909; John George, ICS, born 23rd November, 1842, died 25th October, 1915; Fendall Lowis, ICS, born 10th May, 1848. Publications - The Astonishing Condescension of the Redeemer, a sermon (Calcutta, 1834); The Watchman's Warning Voice (Calcutta, 1843); The Church of Scotland's India Mission [Assembly Address 1848] (Edinburgh, 1848); The Lord's Voice to Britain from the Far East (Glasgow, 1857); The Last Fifteen Years (Glasgow,n.d); National Judgements, their Causes and their Lessons (Newton-Stewart, 1877); The Blessedness of the Dead that die in the Lord [Funeral Sermon for Archibald Stewart, DD, Glasserton] (Edinburgh, 1880). | | | Note top of page | Synod of Galloway, Presbytery of Wigtown Parish of Kirkcowan |
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