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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. | 687 | | | Surname | Anderson | | | Christian Name(s) | John | | | Wife 1 Surname | Thorburn | | | Wife 1 Christian name(s) | Jessie | | | Children to 1st Wife Christian name(s) | Dora | | | Wife 2 Surname | Veitch | | | Wife 2 Christian name(s) | Mary Johnston | | | Children to 2nd Wife | Elizabeth Mary; Winifred Agnes; John; William Veitch; | | | Father-in-law 2 Surname | Veitch | | | Father-in-law 2 Christian name(s) | William | | | Father-in-law remarks | William Veitch, Depute-Clerk of Session | | | Body of text | ANDERSON, JOHN, born Roberton, Roxburghshire, 20th July 1845, son of Thomas A, schoolmaster, and Margaret Dale; educated at Roberton and University of Edinburgh; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 1874; ordained (by Presbytery of Edinburgh) missionary to Darjeeling 8th July 1874; resigned (from ill-health) 1877; returned to Scotland and engaged in literary work, chiefly genealogical, assisting Sir William Fraser in the compilation of his Family Histories; appointed assistant curator of the Historical Department, HM General Register House, 1896; appointed successor to John Maitland Thomson, LLD, as Curator in 1906; died 3rd April 1911. A diligent historical student, a man of fine scholarship, of courteous and gentle nature, and a generous encourager in the field of local antiquity and research. He married (1) Jessie Thorburn, and had issue - Dora, died young: (2) 1897, Mary Johnston, daughter of William Veitch, Depute-Clerk of Session, and had issue - Elizabeth Mary (MA, Edinburgh), Harrogate College, born 12th October 1898; Winifred Agnes (MA, Edinburgh), Secretary and House Tutor St Bride's School, Helensburgh, born 5th April 1900; John, engineer, Nigeria, born 16th November 1902; William Veitch (twin), born 16th November 1902. Publications Calendar of the Laing Charters, AD 835-1837 (Edinburgh, 1899); Protocol Book of Gavin Ross [with F. J. Grant] [Scot Rec Soc] (Edinburgh, 1908); Protocol Book of Sir Alexander Gaw [with William Angus] [Scot Rec Soc] (Edinburgh, 1910); Contributions to the Scottish Peerage (Edinburgh); Protocol Book of Sir William Corbet [with William Angus] (Edinburgh, 1911). [The Border Magazine, xvi, 104 (1911)] |
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