James Lindsay (theologian)


The Rev Dr James Lindsay DD FRSE FGS was a Scottish minister, theologian and author.

Life

He was born in Ayrshire in 1852, where his father, John Cowan Lindsay, was headmaster of Kilmarnock Grammar School, where he was later educated.
He studied divinity at Glasgow University, graduating MA in 1878. In 1889 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, John Gray McKendrick, James Thomson Bottomley, and Sir James David Marwick. He gained a doctorate in 1899.
He died at Annick Lodge in Ayrshire on 25 March 1923.

Family

In 1908, aged 56, he married a widow, Margaret R. Barclay-Shaw

Publications

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