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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. | 7 | | | Page No. | 570 | | | Surname | Clow | | | Christian Name(s) | James | | | Wife 1 Surname | Morison | | | Wife 1 Christian name(s) | Margaret | | | Children to 1st Wife Christian name(s) | James Maxwell; Mary Elizabeth; Helen Johanna; Margaret Jessie; Mary Elizabeth; Jane; Jane; Henry Moncrieff: unnamed daughter | | | Body of text | CLOW, JAMES, born Ardoch, 1790; educated at University of St Andrews; licensed by Presbytery of Kirkcaldy 21st July 1813; appointed chaplain at Bombay by the Court of Directors HEIC 8th December 1814, and ordained (by Presbytery of Kirkcaldy) 5th April 1815. He arrived in Bombay 8th November 1815, and on 15th December attended a meeting called by Government to select a site and consider plans for a church; held his first meeting of kirk-session 11th February 1816; returned to Scotland on account of ill-health October 1817; was back in India 1Oth March 1819 and opened St Andrew's church (then completed) 25th April following; was frequently for long periods on sick leave and retired from the service 1Oth October 1833. On 25th December 1837 he settled in Melbourne (then Port Phillip) and was the pioneer of Presbyterianism in New South Wales. He preached and laboured among the colonists, taking no salary, and occupying no stated pastorate, and was the inspirer and founder of the Scots Church erected in Collins Street; elected first Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria 7th April 1859; died 1861, FATHER OF THE CHURCH IN VICTORIA. His portrait is in St Andrew's vestry, Bombay. He married 13th April 1819, Margaret Morison, and had issue - James Maxwell, born 13th January 1820; Mary Elizabeth, born 27th June 1821, died a child; Helen Johanna, born 24th October 1822; Margaret Jessie, born 28th January 1824; Mary Elizabeth, born 1st March 1825 ; Jane, born 3rd and died 8th July 1828; Jane, born 4th March 1830; Henry Moncreiff, born 30th March 1832, and another daughter. His five daughters (identifications unknown) married Archibald Campbell of the Murray, Dr Robertson, Queenscliff and Kew, James Forbes, minister of the Scots Church, Melbourne, William Hamilton, minister at Mortlake, and Dr Wilkie, Melbourne. [Hamilton's Jubilee History of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria, 8, 195; Campbell's Fifty Years of Presbyterianism in Victoria, 23; Matthew's Story of St Andrew's Church, Bombay, 24 et seq.]
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