Scottish divine, born at Kirriemuir in Forfarshire on the 13th of January 1836, and educated at the university of Aberdeen and at New College, Edinburgh. He entered the ministry of the Free Church of Scotland and after serving as colleague in Free St. John’s, Glasgow (1866–1870), removed to Edinburgh as colleague and successor to Dr. R. S. Candlish at Free St. George’s. In 1909 he succeeded Dr. Marcus Dods as principal, and professor of New Testament literature, at New College, Edinburgh. He retired from the ministry of Free St. George’s in 1916, and from his position as principal of New College, Edinburgh, in 1918. He died at Hampstead on the 6th of January 1921.
Among his publications are Characters and Characteristics of William Law (1893); Bunyan Characters (3 vols., 1894); Samuel Rutherford (1894); An Appreciation of Jacob Behmen (1895); Lancelot Andrewes and his Private Devotions (1895); Bible Characters (7 vols., 1897); Santa Teresa (1897); Father John of Cronstadt (1898); An Appreciation of Browne’s Religio Medici (1898); Cardinal Newman, An Appreciation (1901); The Apostle Paul (1903); Thirteen Appreciations (1915).
