Rev. Alexander Hill

REVEREND MR. ALEXANDER HILL

Professor of Divinity at Glasgow

Fasti of the Church of Scotland VII: 402

EDUCATION: St. Andrews University; Master of Arts, 1804; Doctor of Divinity, St. Andrews, 1828.

EDUCATION: In his travels he was partly a tutor and student of the classics.

EDUCATION: Translated and admitted to St. Andrews Chair, 1840.

EDUCATION: Resigned the Chair, 1862.

CHURCH: Licensed by the Presbytery at St. Andrews 1806.

CHURCH: Ordained to Colmonell, 1815.

CHURCH: Translated to Dailly, 1816.

CHURCH: Minister, 1840.

CHURCH: Proposed as Moderator of the General Assembly, 1840, but defeated.

OFFICE: Elected Moderator of the General Assembly, 1845.

ALTERNATE DEATH: 5 Jan 1875

TRAVELS: Travelled nine years in England and abroad.

Rev. Hill was Professor of Divinity at the University of Glasgow from 1840 until 1862.

For the year 1845 he was the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

"Hill, Alexander (1785-1867), Church of Scotland minister and theologian, was born at St Andrews, Fife, on 19 July 1785, the son of George Hill (1750-1819), principal of St Mary's College, and his wife, Harriet Scott. He studied at the university of his native city, and graduated in September 1804. He was licensed as a preacher in 1806; for nine years afterwards he travelled in England and abroad, acting as tutor to a relative and pursuing his own studies, especially in the classics. In 1815 he was ordained as minister of Colmonell in Ayrshire; in June 1816 he was translated to the neighbouring parish of Dailly, where he remained for twenty-five years. He graduated DD at St Andrews in 1828. He married Margaret (d. 1874), only daughter of Major Crawford HEICS of Newfield; they had nine children."

He actually married Margaret on 18 & 22/4/1817, according to a couple of IGI extracted records. Note the DNB says "...only daughter..." and that this Col Crawfurd served in the HEICS.

Other References

• Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae: the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation, Vol. VII, page 402