Thomas Martin (moderator)

Very Rev Dr Thomas Martin DD (d. 1942) was a Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1920.[1]

Life

Old Parish Church of Peebles

He graduated MA from Edinburgh University in 1880.

Martin was successively minister of Cramond, St Mary's in Edinburgh, Barony Church in Glasgow and finally (from 1911) and most lastingly, Peebles Parish Church.[2]

In 1920 he succeeded Very Rev William Paterson Paterson as Moderator. He was succeeded in turn in 1921 by James McClymont.

He died on 7 January 1942.[3] His children were Hugh Forgan Martin of Dollar Academy, Thomas Martin who was a physician, and Christian Isabella who married the theologian George Thomas Thomson.

References

  1. ↑ https://www.geni.com/projects/Moderators-of-the-General-Assembly-of-the-Church-of-Scotland/15939
  2. ↑ Edinburgh University Journal 1942
  3. ↑ Scotsman newspaper 12 January 1942



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