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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  India    
Volume No.  7    
Page No.  449    
Surname  Drennan    
Christian Name(s)  Hugh    
Wife 1 Surname  Walker    
Wife 1 Christian name(s)  Mary    
Body of text  HUGH DRENNAN, born Tarbolton, 1828; educated at Linlithgow Burgh School and University of St Andrews; licensed by Presbytery of Linlithgow; assistant at South Leith; ordained (by Presbytery of Edinburgh) chaplain to the Forces in the Crimea, and on 18th October 1854 sailed for the East, where he served in the hospitals at Scutari till August 1855; was with the Highland Division until the end of the war; returned to England July 1856; appointed chaplain to the troops in India 20th September 1857, served throughout the Mutiny, and remained till 1871; appointed chaplain at Shoeburyness January 1876; retired 1897; died 27th Jan 1909. Though he had over thirty five years of active army service he received no pension, notwithstanding numerous representations to the War Office. He married Mary Walker. [The Border Magazine (portrait), vol xii, No 136 (April 1907)]    
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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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