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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. | 696 | | | Surname | Jardine | | | Christian Name(s) | Robert | | | Wife 1 Surname | Hunter | | | Wife 1 Christian name(s) | Agnes | | | Children to 1st Wife Christian name(s) | Robert; Edward; Arthur; Meta; Jean Helen | | | Father-in-law 1 Surname | Hunter | | | Father-in-law 1 Christian name(s) | John | | | Father-in-law remarks | John Hunter, manufacturer, Glasgow | | | Body of text | JARDINE, ROBERT, born Augusta, Grenville, Ontario, Canada, 19th June 1840, second son of John J, farmer and contractor, and Jean McCreath (both natives of Girvan, Ayrshire); educated at Brockville Grammar School, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada; BA (1863), MA (1866), BD (1866); licensed by Presbytery of Perth, Canada, 18th June 1866; studied philosophy at University of Edinburgh; DSc (1867); appointed Professor of English Literature and Philosophy, University of New Brunswick, 1867. In 1869, in the course of a walking tour in the Scottish Highlands, he made the acquaintance of Norman MacLeod, DD, minister of The Barony, Glasgow, who induced him to go to India; appointed Principal of the General Assembly's Institution, Bombay, with instructions to add a college department if possible; ordained (by Presbytery of Glasgow) 5th January and arrived at Bombay 12th February 1870; transferred to Calcutta in 1871 and appointed Principal of the General Assembly's Institution; Examiner for Degrees, University of Calcutta, and Fellow of that University; left Calcutta on furlough 16th February 1877; lectured in the four Scottish Universities on Comparative Theology from a missionary standpoint, 1877-8; took charge of Dalbeattie Parish and of The Park Parish, Glasgow [in absence of Donald MacLeod, DD]; resigned Principalship and returned to Canada; minister of St Andrew's Church, Chatham, New Brunswick, February 1879-81; admitted minister of St John's, Brockville, 5th May 1881; was afterwards minister of St Paul's Church, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan; resigned 1893 and withdrew from the Presbyterian denomination on account of altered views on orthodox doctrines; became pastor of the Church of Our Father, Chicago, USA; was later in St Louis; returned to Brockville in 1921; died in New York, 10th January 1924. He was a man of great force of character, widely-versed in philosophy, and a preacher of distinction. He married at Calcutta, 27th October 1873, Agnes (predeceased him), eldest daughter of John Hunter, manufacturer, Glasgow, and had issue - Robert, in New York; Edward, Isle of Pines; Arthur, in New York; Meta (married J. Highee, New Britain, Conn.); Jean Helen (Mrs McTavish), in Winnipeg. Publications -The elements of the Psychology of Cognition (London, 1874); What to Believe (Calcutta, 1876). Contributions to the Calcutta Review, and other periodicals. [The Brockville Recorder (portrait), 15th January 1924.] |
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