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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 | India  | | | Volume No. | 6 | | | Page No. | 112 | | | Surname | Bryce | | | Christian Name(s) | James | | | Wife 1 Surname | Meiklejohn | | | Wife 1 Christian name(s) | Mary | | | Children to 1st Wife Christian name(s) | Mary ; Anne Isabella ; Anne Elizabeth ; John Henry ; Harriet Flora | | | Father-in-law 1 Surname | Meikeljohn | | | Father-in-law 1 Christian name(s) | Hugh | | | Body of text | JAMES BRYCE, born 1785, son of John Bryce, minister of South Parish, Aberdeen ; educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen ; MA (1800) ; pres by Mrs Russell of Blackhall in May, and ordained 31st August 1808 ; appointed by Honourable Court of Directors of the HEICS chaplain on the Bengal Establishment 11th Apri l1814 ; DD (Edinburgh, 12th August 1818) ; demitted in 1836 ; was suspended by the General Assembly with others, 30th May 1842, from his judicial functions as a member of the Presbytery and other superior judicatories, till after 1st March 1843, for holding communion with the minisers of Strathbogie ; died at Edinburgh, 11th March 1866. He married 7th January 1822, Mary (died 6th February 1883, aged 80), daughter of Hugh Meiklejohn, DD, minister of Abercorn, and had issue - Mary, born 26th November 1823, died 1845 ; Anne Isabella, born and died 1828, aged 6 weeks ; Anne Elizabeth, born 21st October 1830, died 1838 ; John Henry, lieutenant Bengal Artillery, born 13th November 1832, died in defence of Lucknow, 8th August 1857 ; Harriet Flora MacWhirter, born 17th April 1841, (married George Thomas Jamieson, DD, minister of Portobello), died 28th January 1907. Publications - A Sketch ofthe State of British India, with a view to pointing out teh Best Means of civilising its Inhabitants (Edinburgh, 1810) ; On th Ecclesiastical Establshment of the Church of Scotland as it exists in Scotland, and is now extended to British India, a sermon (Calcutta, 1815) ; The Preachign of the Gospel, the Effectual Means of diffusing among Mankind a Knowledge of the True God, a sermon (London 1818) ; Sermons (London ,l 1818) ; Christian Prospects in British India (Edinburgh, 833) ; The Present Positsion of the Church of Scotland : A Letter (Edinburgh, 1838) ; Second Letter (Edinburgh, 1839) ; Speech in teh Superintendence of the Church fo Scotland (London 1839) ; The Non-Intrusion Question : Speeches on teh Earl of Aberdeen's Bil and the Stratahbogie Case (London, 1840) ; A Letter to the Rev R S Candlish [occasioned by his Letter to the Marquis of Normanby] (Edinburgh, 1841) ; The ""Pith and Marrow"" of the Present Controversy in the Church of Scotland (London, 1841) ; Speech delivered in teh General Assembly), May 1841, on teh Case of the Strathbogie Ministers (Edinburgh, 1841) ' The Danger of Young Men falling into Infidelity (Aberdeen, 1842) ; Letter to the Ministers of teh Convocation (Edinburgh, 1843) ; Speech on Endowing hte Catholic College of Maynooth (Edinburgh, 1845) ; Speech on the Bill for the Abolition of Tests in the Universities of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1845) ; Ten Years of the Church of Scotland, 1833 - 1843, 2 vols. (Edinburgh, 1850) ' Public Education in its Relation to Scotland and its Parish Schools (Edinburgh, 1854) ; Appeal on Behalf of Native Education in India (Edinburgh, 1855). [Cat. Edin. Univ. Lib., i, 574] |
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