George John Craig Duncan, Min. of Kirkpatrick-Durham

Biographical Summary

"George John Craig Duncan, born 1st Aug. 1806, elder son of Henry D., D.D., min. of Ruthwell ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Annan 1st June 1827 ; pres. by William IV., and ord. (assistant and successor) 28th June 1832. Joined the Free Church ; min. of the Free Church, Kirkpatrick-Durham, 1843 ; of the Presbyterian Church, North Shields, 23rd May 1844; of St Mark's Presbyterian Church, Greenwich, 1851 ; Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of England in 1856; honorary lecturer on Pastoral Theology and Homiletics in the Presbyterian Theological College, London, 1861-8; D.D. (St Andrews 1863); clerk of the English Presbyterian Synod, 1851-68 ; general secretary of the Presbyterian Church of England, 1861-8 ; died at Dumfries, 31st Dec. 1868. He marr. 25th June 1833, Belle Wight [authoress of Pre- Adamite Man, 1860] (died 26th Dec. 1878), daugh. of Samuel Clark, writer, Dumfries, and Elizabeth Nicolson, and had issue —

• Elizabeth Agnes, born 18th May 1834, died 26th Aug. 1837
• Henry, born 5th June 1835, died 26th Sept. 1914
• Samuel Clark, born 15th July 1836, died 3rd Nov. 1914
• Agnes Frances Elizabeth, born 4th Feb. 1838, died 29th Dec. 1863
• Margaret Clark Maxwell, born 23rd Dec. 1839, died 5th. Feb. 1851
• Barbara Sophia, born 16th Nov. 1841 (marr. Campbell Archibald Robertson)
• George Craig Buchanan, born 1st May 1845
• Jean Alice, born 6th March 1852, died 6th Feb. 1853
• Helen Mary (twin), born 6th March 1852, died 16th Aug. 1863."

SOURCE: Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae: the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation, Vol. II, page 286