Reverend Henry Millar, Minister of the Gospel at Neilston

Fasti III: 158-59

Genealogy

Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae. The Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland from the Reformation. By Hew Scott, D.D. New Edition. Volume III. Synod of Glasgow and Ayr (Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, 1920), 535 pp. including indices

Biographical Summary

Henry Millar, son of Robert M., min. of First Charge of Abbey, Paisley ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Paisley 24th April 1734; pres. by Thomas, Earl of Dundonald, 19th Jan., and ord. 10th May 1737; died 13th Nov. 1771. He was a man of much public spirit and enterprise. Succeeding to the fortune of his brother Andrew, the celebrated London bookseller, he employed it, in conjunction with his chief heritors, in setting up an inkle [braid] manufactory in the parish, thereby stimulating the introduction of a number of other manufactures to which Neilston owes its great modern prosperity. He marr. 27th Aug. 1745, Robina (died 12th Nov. 1754), daugh. of Alexander Cochrane of Craigmuir, and had issue — 91) Marion, born 27th July 1746 (marr. William Fulton, manufacturer, Maxwelltown)(2) Alexander of Dalnair, advocate, born 20th Jan.1751, died 30th June 1790 (3) Elizabeth, born 25th Oct. 1754 (marr. Alexander Napier of Blackston)." Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae: The Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland from the Reformation. Vol. III, page 158