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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. | 694 | | | Surname | Graham | | | Christian Name(s) | John Anderson | | | Wife 1 Surname | McConachie | | | Wife 1 Christian name(s) | Katherine | | | Children to 1st Wife Christian name(s) | David Charteris; John Stevenson; Margaret Alexandra; Isobel Anderson; Katherine; Hannah Elizabeth | | | Father-in-law 1 Surname | McConachie | | | Father-in-law 1 Christian name(s) | John | | | Body of text | GRAHAM, JOHN ANDERSON, born London, 8th September 1861, son of David G, of HM Customs, and Bridget Nolan; educated at Cardross School, High School, Glasgow, and University of Edinburgh; was in Civil Service at Edinburgh, 1877-82; MA (1885); licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 21st May 1888; ordained as missionary of the Young Men's Guild of the Church of Scotland to Kalimpong 13th January 1889; Kaiser-i-Hind medal (1903); DD (Edinburgh 1904); created CIE 1911; was first clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in India and Moderator in 1921. He founded the St Andrew's Colonial Homes at Kalimpong for the education and development of the life of Anglo-Indian or Eurasian children. In 1927 there were nineteen homes with 625 children in training, extensive educational buildings, a hospital, workshops, and experimental farm; over sixty workers were engaged in this service. Married 15th January 1889, Katherine (died 15th May 1919), daughter of John McConachie, Edinburgh, and Margaret Smith, and has issue - David Charteris, MB, CM, Selkirk, born 15th December 1889; John Stevenson, merchant, Calcutta, born 24th May 1891; Margaret Alexandra, born 21st July 1893 (married Major Passy, Blackford, Devonshire); Isobel Anderson, born 9th December 1895; Katherine, born 5th September 1897 (married 30th November 1920 Arthur Norman Odling, Calcutta); Hannah Elizabeth, born 29th August 1899 (married 27th May 1922 Mervyn A. Hughes, Calcutta). Publications - On the Threshold of Three Closed Lands (Edinburgh, 1897, 1905); The Missionary Expansion of the Reformed Churches (Edinburgh, 1898). Editor of the Church of Scotland Year-Book, 1886-9. First compiler of the Church of Scotland Prayer-Roll. Editor of Saint Andrew [organ of the Church of Scotland in India], 1893-1904, and of St Andrew's Colonial Homes Magazine from 1900. |
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