Prof. Samuel Trail

THE REVEREND DOCTOR SAMUEL TRAILL DD

Biographical Summary

"Samuel Trail, born Udny, 31st May 1806, son of a farmer ; educated at Udny School and King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (March 1825) ; tutor to the family of Lord Arbuthnott; licen. by Presb. of Fordoun ; ord. (assistant and successor) to Arbutbnott 5th Aug. 1841 ; trans, to Birsay and Harray 7th Nov. 1844; LL.D. (King's College, 6th March 1847); D.D. (1st July 1852) ; trans. and adm. to Chair 5th Aug. 1868 ; elected Moderator of General Assembly 21st May 1874; was five years provost of Old Aberdeen ; died at Aberdeen, 1st May 1887. He marr.

(1) 17th Aug. 1841, Helen (died 1st July 1875), youngest daugh. of James Scott, min. of Benholme, and had issue —

• Hercules Scott, born and died 25th March 1842
• Anne (twin), born and died 25th March 1842
• Hercules, born 11th May 1843
• Isabella Anne, born 16th April 1845 (marr. 12th Sept. 1877, Andrew Jamieson, C.E., Eastern Telegraph Co.)
• John Arbutbnott, M.A., LL.B., LL.D. (Aberdeen, 1902), W.S., Edinburgh, secretary of the Jewish Mission Committee of the Church of Scotland, born 23rd June 1846, died 11th June 1920
• Samuel Thomas, born 27th May 1848, died in Australia, March 1902
• James William Helenus, M.D., F.R.S., Professor of Botany, Univ. of Aberdeen (1877), born 4th March 1851, died 18th Sept. 1919

(2) 18th April 1882, Eliza (died s.p. 2nd April 1912), elder daugh. of Robert Macpherson, D.D., his predecessor)."

SOURCE: Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae: the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation, Vol. VII, page 373-374