Rev. George Majorbanks

Biographical Summary

George Marjoribanks, born Lochmaben, 6th Sept. 1842, son of preceding ; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (1862), B.D. (1866); licen. by Presb. of Dunbar 17th May 1866 ; ord. (assistant and successor) at West Linton 26th Sept. 1867 ; trans, and adm. 30th April 1868; chaplain to the Lord High Commissioner (Lord Thurlow) 1886, and again to Lord Kinnaird 1909 ; convener of the General Assembly's Committee on Psalmody and Hymns 1902 ; clerk to Presb. 1890 to 1908; D.D. (Edinburgh 1913). Marr. 19th Oct. 1869, Elizabeth, daugh. of James Leslie, C.E., Edinburgh, and Jane, daugh. of James Hunter, D.D., Professor of Rhetoric, and min. of the College Kirk, St Andrews, and has issue —

• Thomas, min. of Colinton ;
• Jane Hunter, born 28th Sept. 1872 ;
• James Leslie, M.D., Indian Medical Service, born 14th Nov. 1874 ;
• George Erskine, Imperial Forest Service, India, born 9th Jan. 1877 ;
• Alexander, captain, 52nd Sikhs, Frontier Force, India, born 17th Aug. 1879.

SOURCE: Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae: the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation, Vol. I, page 422