Thomas M'Crie the younger


Rev Dr Thomas M'Crie DD LLD was a Presbyterian minister and church historian. He was a Scottish Secession minister who joined the Free Church of Scotland and served as the Moderator of the General Assembly to that church 1856/57.

Life

He was born at 5 Buccleuch Street in Edinburgh, on 7 November 1797, the eldest son of Rev Thomas McCrie, by his first wife. He was educated at the High School in Edinburgh then studied divinity at the University of Edinburgh. He then transferred to the Theological Hall, run by the Secessionist Church and was ordained as a minister around 1818. His first position was as minister of the Secessionist Church in Crieff then he moved to Clola in Aberdeenshire.
He succeeded his father as minister of the Davie Street Church Original Secession Church in Edinburgh.
In the 1850s he was living at 58 George Square.
In 1856, a few years after the union of this denomination with the Free Church of Scotland he became the Moderator of the General Assembly 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.
He retired to Gullane in East Lothian due to failing eyesight, but retained an Edinburgh property.
He died 9 May 1875 at 39 Minto Street, Edinburgh. 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 Chalmers, a daughter of Rev Robert Chalmers, the secession minister at Haddington, East Lothian, they had no children.

Works

At least one of his writings, The Story of the Scottish Church'', is still in print,.