Thomas M'Crie the younger
Thomas M'Crie was a Scottish Seceder minister and church historian.
Life
He was born in Edinburgh, in November 1797 and died 9 May 1875. He was the eldest son of Thomas M'Crie the Elder, and succeeded him as minister of Davie Street Church Original Secession Church in Edinburgh. In 1856, a few years after the union of this denomination with the Free Church of Scotland he became the moderator of the Free Church for that year, but the same year moved to London to become a Professor at the Presbyterian Church of England's college there.[1] He died 9 May 1875 at 39 Minto Street, Edinburgh. [2]
He is buried with his father in the western extension to Greyfriars Kirkyard but has a separate stone, set high on the Flodden Wall facing his father's monument.
Family
He married Walteria, a daughter of Robert Chalmers, secession minister at Haddington, but left no children.[2]
Works
At least one of his writings, The Story of the Scottish Church, is still in print, ISBN 0-902506-25-0.
Notes
- ↑ Wylie, James Aitken. Disruption Worthies.
- 1 2 Archbold 1893.
References
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Archbold, William Arthur Jobson (1893). "McCrie, Thomas (1797-1875)". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography. 35. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
External links
- Works written by or about Thomas M'Crie (1797-1875) at Wikisource