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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. | 699 | | | Surname | MacKay | | | Christian Name(s) | William Sinclair | | | Wife 1 Surname | Paton | | | Wife 1 Christian name(s) | Christina | | | Children to 1st Wife Christian name(s) | Three daughters (unnamed) | | | Wife 2 Surname | Shillingford | | | Wife 2 Christian name(s) | Elizabeth Mary | | | Children to 2nd Wife | Three sons and two daughters (unnamed) | | | Body of text | MACKAY, WILLIAM SINCLAIR, born Thurso, 8th May 1807, son of John M and Dorothea Jane Mackie; educated at King's College, Aberdeen, and University of St Andrews; ordained to Calcutta May 1831. Joined the Free Church in 1843; missionary at Chinsurah; DD (St Andrews); returned to Scotland 1st February 1862; died 6th September 1865. He was a man of modest, retiring character, an accomplished scholar and astronomer. During a visit to Tasmania, for health reasons, he formed the friendship of Sir John Franklin, the Arctic explorer (then Governor), who desired him to remain as minister to the colonists. On his voyage back to Calcutta he was shipwrecked on the coast of Orissa and narrowly escaped death. He married (1) Christina Paton, and had issue - three daughters (deceased): (2) Elizabeth Mary Shillingford, and had issue - three sons and two daughters. Publications - Explanatory Statement respecting the recent Proceedings of the Missionaries of the Church of Scotland in Calcutta [with Alexander Duff, D Ewart, J Macdonald, T Smith] (Edinburgh, 1843); A Warning from the East, or the Jesuits as Missionaries in India (London, 1845); The Missionary's Warrant and the Church's Duty (Edinburgh, 1850); editor of The Calcutta Review. [Hunter's Hist of FC Missions, 61, 77; Smith's Duff (1899), 61, 129, 268.] |
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