William Mearns Macpherson, Min. of Monymusk

Biographical Summary

"William Mearns Macpherson, born Fort George 13th April 1842, son of Robert M., D.D., Professor of Systematic Theology, Univ. of Aberdeen ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (1861) ; licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen 2nd May 1865 ; assistant at Kennethmont ; ord. to Kennethmont 30th Jan. 1866 ; pres. by Queen Victoria 17th Jan. 1868 ; trans. and adm. 17th April that year; D.D. (Aberdeen, 4th April 1900) ; died 3rd Sept. 1911. He marr. 29th Sept. 1869, Elizabeth Matilda (died 24th Oct. 1923), eldest daugh. of John Beadnell, M.A., barrister, Lincolns Inn, and of Castle-y-dail, Montgomery, and Matilda Gill, and had issue — Matilda Elizabeth Ann, born 13th Aug. 1870, died 10th April 1872 ; Bessie Beadnell, born 13th Feb. 1878 ; Maude Clarke, born 27th April 1880."

SOURCE: Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae: the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation, Vol. VI, page 177