[James Oswald]. English Presbyterian clergyman and author, born at Port Glasgow, Scotland, on the 14th of August 1835; graduated at Edinburgh in 1854; studied theology at Heidelberg and Erlangen. He was ordained minister and elected colleague of Dr. Candlish in Free St. George’s, Edinburgh. Compelled to resign this charge through feeble health, he visited Australia, where he remained for three years. In 1869 he became minister of Regent Square Presbyterian Church, London, and was appointed principal of the Theological College, Queen Square. His works are Beatitudes of the Kingdom (1872); Relations of the Kingdom (1874); From Jerusalem to Antioch (1874); Abraham (1877), Sermons (1882 and 1892); and did editorial work of the British and Foreign Evangelical Review for a number of years.
