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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. | 702 | | | Surname | Mitchell | | | Christian Name(s) | John Murray | | | Wife 1 Surname | Flyter | | | Wife 1 Christian name(s) | Maria Hay | | | Father-in-law 1 Surname | Flyter | | | Father-in-law 1 Christian name(s) | Alexander | | | Father-in-law remarks | Alexander Flyter, minister of Alness, Ross-shire | | | Body of text | MITCHELL, JOHN MURRAY, born Aberdeen, 19th August 1815, fourth son of James M, burgess of Aberdeen, and Margaret Gordon, and brother of Gordon M, minister of Kilmadock, James M, minister of Garvock, and Alexander M, DD, minister of North Parish, Dunfermline; educated at Kinneff School, Grammar School, and Marischal College, Aberdeen (where he won the Lord Rector's prize for an essay on ""The Septuagint and other Greek versions of the Old Testament""); MA (1833), and at University of Edinburgh (gold medallist for essay on ""Eusebius as an Ecclesiastical Historian""); took charge of a class at Aberdeen Grammar School, 1837-8 (where one of his pupils was James Augustus Grant, explorer of the Nile); licensed by Presbytery of Aberdeen; ordained missionary to Bombay in 1838. Joined the Free Church in 1843; LLD (Marischal College, 18th December 1858); returned to Scotland and was minister of Broughty Ferry Free Church, 1863-7; proceeded again to India in 1867 at the urgent desire of Alexander Duff, DD, and remained in Bengal for the next six years; appointed secretary to the Foreign Mission Committee of the Free Church in 1873; attended the Pan-Presbyterian Council at Philadelphia, USA, 1880, and spent other two years in India lecturing and preaching; minister of the Scots Church, Nice, France, 1888-98; Duff Missionary Lecturer 1903; died at Edinburgh, 14th November 1904, and buried in the Dean Cemetery. He was one of the most indefatigable of Indian missionaries, a linguist and scholar of singular merit, and a leading authority on the religions of the East. He was mainly instrumental in founding the Scots Church at Simla. His portrait is in the New College, Edinburgh. He married 22nd December 1842, Maria Hay (died without issue 31st March 1907), daughter of Alexander Flyter, minister of Alness, Ross-shire. Publications - Letters to Indian Youth regarding the Evidences of the Christian Religion, with a brief Examination of the Evidences of Hinduism, Parseeism, and Mohammedanism (Bombay, 1850; 11th edition, 1894, various Indian translations); The Conflict of Ancient Paganism and Christianity (nd) ; Memoir of the Rev Robert Nesbit, Missionary (London, 1858) ; The Lady and the Dove: a Bengali Song composed by a Hindu Female and translated into English Verse [Ind Antiq] (Bombay, 1872); The Zend-Avesta and the Religion of the Pârsis [Present-Day Tracts, 25] (London, nd); ""The Zend-Avesta or Sacred Book of the Pârsis"" (Brit. and Foreign Evangelical Review, Edinburgh 1878); Hinduism, Past and Present (London, 1885, 1897); Foreign Missions of the Protestant Churches (London, 1888); In Western India: Recollections of My Early Missionary Life (Edinburgh, 1899); The Great Religions of India [Duff Lecture] (Edinburgh, 1905). By Mrs MM : A Missionary's Wife among the Wild Tribes of South Bengal (1871); Sketches of Indian Life and Travel (1876); In Southern India (1885); Sixty Years Ago (1905). [Scotsman, 16th November 1904; Dict Nat Biog, 2 Supp. ii, 623; Jubilee of J M M (1889).]
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