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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.  693    
Surname  Ewart    
Christian Name(s)  David    
Wife 1 Surname  Huntly    
Wife 1 Christian name(s)  Eliza    
Body of text  EWART, DAVID, born Upper Balloch, Alyth, 24th September 1806; educated at University of St Andrews; licensed by Presbytery of St Andrews; appointed to Calcutta and ordained July 1834. Joined the Free Church in 1843; DD (St Andrews); minister of the Scots Free Church, Calcutta. Possessed of a constitution which enabled him to endure great fatigue, he laboured for twenty-two years of continuous service but was compelled to make a journey home on account of ill­ health in 1856; returned 29th December 1858; died suddenly (of cholera) 9th September 1860. He was a man of untiring energy, modest and unobtrusive, greatly beloved by the natives of India and a host of friends. He married Eliza Huntly. [Hunter's Hist. of Missions of Free Church of Scotland, 71, 122.]    
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