Matthew Gardiner, Min. of Bothwell

Biographical Summary

"Matthew Gardiner, born Glasgow 18th. Aug. 1776, eldest son of James G. ; educated at the Grammar School and Univ. of Glasgow ; Ml. (1793) ; licen. by Presb. of Hamilton 9th May 1798 ; pres. by Archibald, Duke of Hamilton, and ord. 22nd April 1802 ; D.D. (Glasgow 1831) ; Moderator of Assembly 18th May 1837 [by a majority of 262 votes to 59 in favour of Principal John Lee, D.D.] ; died Father of the Church, 4th June 1865. He marr. 25th Aug. 1808, Sarah (died 7th March 1850), daugh. of John Forrest, merchant, Edinburgh, and had issue — Elizabeth, born 18th April 1810; James, W.S., Sheriff-substitute at Campbeltown (1848-79), born 19th May 1811, died 8th Dec. 1879; Rebecca, born 25th May 1812, died 2nd July 1820 ; John, advocate, born 28th Oct. 1815, died 22nd Nov. 1877 ; Marion Aikman, born 26th Aug. 1817, died 29th Jan. 1819 ; Elizabeth (marr. 16th July 1839, the Rev. John Heyliger Dewhurst)."

SOURCE: Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae: the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation, Vol. III, page 232