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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. | 703 | | | Surname | Morrison | | | Christian Name(s) | John | | | Wife 1 Surname | Skirving | | | Wife 1 Christian name(s) | Helen Johnstone | | | Children to 1st Wife Christian name(s) | John Tertius; Beta Jessie; Kenneth Steel | | | Father-in-law 1 Surname | Skirving | | | Father-in-law 1 Christian name(s) | Adam | | | Body of text | MORRISON, JOHN, born Logie-Pert, 10th May 1856, son of John M and Elizabeth Paterson Cameron; educated at Logie-Pert School and Universities of St Andrews, MA (1876), BD (1880), and Leipzig; licensed by Presbytery of St Andrews in 1880; assistant at West Parish, Perth, and St Cuthbert's, Edinburgh; ordained Professor of English, Church of Scotland Mission College, Calcutta, 13th December 1883; Principal of that College 1889-1904; Fellow of Calcutta University and examiner for degrees 1890-1904; DD (St Andrews 1901); retired 1904 and returned to Scotland; Gunning Lecturer, University of Edinburgh, and Alexander Robertson Lecturer, University of Glasgow, 1904; Lee Lecturer 1906 [""Religious Literature in Scotland in the Sixteenth Century prior to the Reformation""]; assistant in Divinity and Church History, St Mary's College, St Andrews, 1912-14; Supervisor of Religious Instruction, Edinburgh Education Authority, 1913; appointed Librarian of Church of Scotland Library, 1913; assistant in Divinity, University of Edinburgh, 1923. Married 11th February 1887, Helen Johnstone (died 25th February 1925), daughter of Adam Skirving and Eliza Mylne, and has issue - John Tertius, MB, ChB (Edin), FRCSE, OBE, surgeon, Liverpool, born 19th January 1888; Beta Jessie, born 26th September 1889; Kenneth Steel, CA, Leeds, born 20th November 1892. Publications - Notes on Historical Selections (Calcutta, 1886); Notes on Edmund Burke's ""Present Discontents"" (ibid); Notes on Edmund Burke's American Speeches (Calcutta, 1890); Barlaam and Joasaph (the old Church Legend), in three Fourteenth Century dialects, with Notes (Calcutta, 1895); New Ideas in India during the Nineteenth Century - a Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments [Gunning and Alexander Robertson Lectures] (London, 1907). Edited Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, with Introduction and Notes (London, 1896); Shakespeare's Julius Caesar [for Indian Schools and Colleges] (Edinburgh, 1904); Addison's The Spectator, Essays I to L, with Introduction and Notes (London, 1908); Edmund Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America (1775), with Introduction and Notes (London, 1912); Creeds and Churches [Alexander Stewart, DD] (London (1916); The Message of Christ to India [AB Wann, DD] (Edinburgh, 1925); Contributions to Hastings's Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics. |
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