Rev. Herbert Story

Robert Herbert Story (1835-1907) was Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Glasgow from 1886 to 1898 and Principal from 1898 until his death in 1907.

A memorial window was installed in his honour in the Bute Hall.

Born in Rosneath, Story studied at the Universities of Edinburgh, St Andrews and Heidelberg and became a minister.

He was a leading liberal in the Church of Scotland, was Chaplain-in-Ordinary to Queen Victoria from 1886 and was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1894.

• http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH0250&type=P
• Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae: the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation, Vol. VII, page 398
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