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 Church of Scotland Ministers A

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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.  581    
Surname  Taylor    
Christian Name(s)  John    
Wife 1 Surname  Spittal    
Wife 1 Christian name(s)  Mary Drysdale    
Children to 1st Wife Christian name(s)  Mary Turcan; Janet Ann Gibson; Isabella Drysdale    
Father-in-law 1 Surname  Spittal    
Father-in-law 1 Christian name(s)  Andrew    
Body of text  TAYLOR, JOHN, born Kirkton Farm, Culross, 17th August 1846, son of David T and Janet Gibson; educated at Bathgate Parish School and Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow M.A. (1876), BD (1879); licensed by Presbytery of Glasgow in 1879; assistant at Lamlash, Arran; ordained to Indian chaplaincy in 1880; retired as Presidency senior chaplain for Bengal in 1900; acting military and naval chaplain at Dover, 1903-12; during European War, locum tenens at Balmaghie, Laurieston, and two years at Kettins. In 1891 he was chaplain to the Seaforth Highlanders in the Huzara Expedition (medal); died at Dollar, 16th April 1927. He was an enthusiastic naturalist. He married 1880, Mary Drysdale, daughter of Andrew Spittal and Mary Turcan, and had issue - Mary Turcan, born 7th May 1881 ; Janet Ann Gibson, born 6th October 1882 (married Hugh Clarke McColl, minister of Kilbirnie); Isabella Drysdale, born 21st August 1886. Publication - Afforestation (Chambers's Journal, February 1921).    
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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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