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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.  697    
Surname  Kilgour    
Christian Name(s)  Robert    
Wife 1 Surname  Horn    
Wife 1 Christian name(s)  Agnes Elizabeth    
Children to 1st Wife Christian name(s)  Robert Laurie; William Watson    
Father-in-law 1 Surname  Horn    
Father-in-law 1 Christian name(s)  Ebenezer    
Body of text  KILGOUR, ROBERT, born Glasgow, 29th April 1867, eldest son of Robert K and Annie Laurie, and great-grandson of William MacRitchie, minister of Clunie in 1784; educated at Miller's Academy, Broomloan Road School, Govan, and University of Glasgow; MA (1886), BD (1889); student missionary at Cardonald, Govan, and Carrick Castle, Lochgoilhead; licensed by Presbytery of Dunoon in 1889; ordained (by Presbytery of Glasgow) to Darjeeling, India, 16th June that year; served to 1909, when he was appointed editorial superintendent of the British and Foreign Bible Society, London; examiner in Nepali for the Universities of Calcutta and Allahabad; DD (Glasgow 1909). Married November 1891, Agnes Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Ebenezer Horn, and has issue - Robert Laurie, born 4th October 1893, MA (Glasgow), ordained to Kenmuir 3rd June 1926; William Watson, merchant, South India, born 8th August 1897. Publications - Hymn Book and Prayer Book [in Nepali); The Old Testament in Nepali; The Gospel in Many Tongues (London, 1922, and other issues); Four Ancient Manuscripts in the Bible House Library (London 1928).    
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