Ministers of Glass Kirk

 

 

Ministers of Glass Kirk

1574 – 1585 Alexander Leslie

1586 – 1588 Alexander Gordon

1589 – 1618 Thomas Anderson

1618 – 1643 William Milne

1644 – 1664 George Meldrum – suspended for refusing to accept the post-Restoration Episcopal regime which reinstated bishops and annulled Presbyterianism

1666 – 1667 James Gordon – excommunicated in 1667 for breaking an engagement of marriage and eloping with another woman

1668 – 1679 Patrick Rose

1679 – 1690 Alexander Alexander – deprived by the Act of Parliament which restored Presbyterian ministers

1690 – 1692 George Meldrum – reinstated now Presbyterianism was re-established

1693 – 1713 Alexander Alexander – re-instated

1714 – 1735 Walter Sime

1735 – 1756 Alexander Chalmers – son-in-law of Walter Sime

1756 – 1795 John Cooper – the new church was built during his ministry; he wrote the Parish of Glass section of the 1791 – 1799 Statistical Account

1796 – 1799 John Findlater

1799 – 1841 John Cruickshank

1842 – 1877 William Duguid

1877 – 1913 Duncan Mearns Ross

1913 – 1942 William Galletly Guthrie

1942 – 1945 Hugh Mackenzie

1945 – 1947 Douglas McNeill Livingstone

1947 – 1951 Donald Campbell

1952 – 1958 Roderick Matheson Maclean

1958 – 1965 Robert M Waddell

1965 – 1970 George Millar Graham

1970 – 1980 Robert Smith McLeish

1980 – 1983 Donald Robertson Fraser

1983 – 1994 Allan S Macpherson

1994 – 2007 Thomas R Calder