Historical records matching Rev John Murray
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About Rev John Murray
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/133064249
From "The Life of Andrew Murray of South Africa" by JC du Plessis:
"John, the eldest son, and uncle of the subject of these memoirs, succeeded by patient endeavour, and through the kindly aid of an unmarried uncle, in realizing his ambition to enter the sacred ministry. After a course of study at Marischal College, Aberdeen, he graduated M.A. in 1806, showing such aptitude for mathematics that he was offered a colonial professorship. He persisted, however, in his aim of becoming a preacher of the Gospel, passed through the divinity course at the university of Edinburgh,was licensed in due time, and then acted as tutor in the family of Sir James Nasmyth. After ordination he laboured for two years as an assistant minister in Dundee, and in 1816 was inducted to the influential charge of Trinity Chapel-of-Ease (now Trinity United Free Church) in Aberdeen. Twelve years later he became minister of the North Church in the same city, and this remained the scene of his labours so long as he was connected with the Church of the Establishment. At the Disruption, in 1843, John Murray was one of those who left the Established Church, and the Free North Church, which the seceding congregation erected for itself, was the first of Free Church edifices to arise in Aberdeen. For his distinguished services to the cause of religion and education, and as a testimony to the esteem in which he was held for his lofty Christian character, his Alma Mater conferred on him, in 1856, the degree of doctor of divinity, honoris causa. He died in 1861, and an obituary notice of the Free Church Record summed up his character thus: "Calm, discriminating, scholarly and undemonstratively heroic, the veteran Murray of Aberdeen has gone to his grave as a shock of corn cometh in its season."
He was also a patron of the "Seven Incorporated Trades of Aberdeen" - see http://www.seventradesofaberdeen.co.uk/patrons-over-the-years/rev-d...
The following appears on the web site of the Ministers of the Free Church of Scotland: http://ecclegen.com/ministers-m/#MURRAY, JOHN1
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Rev John Murray's Timeline
| 1784 |
March 11, 1784
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Clatt, Aberdeenshire, UK
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March 11, 1784
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Clatt, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
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| 1822 |
September 24, 1822
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Aberdeen, Aberdeen City, Scotland, United Kingdom
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| 1832 |
July 2, 1832
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| 1837 |
April 5, 1837
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Aberdeen, Aberdeen City, Scotland, United Kingdom
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| 1861 |
March 1, 1861
Age 76
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Aberdeen, Aberdeen City, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Saint Nicholas Churchyard, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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