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| Date transcribed | 2011-00-00 | | Transcribed by | Jane Britcliffe, Peter Schofield, Penny Tipper | | Comment | List of Ministers of the Church of Scotland who served in India or South Asia, extracted from Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae |
| | Section | Ceylon  | | | Volume No. | 1 | | | Page No. | 383 | | | Surname | Sprott | | | Christian Name(s) | George Washington | | | Wife 1 Surname | Hill | | | Wife 1 Christian name(s) | Mary | | | Children to 1st Wife Christian name(s) | Mark John, Lilias Harington, Norman Charles Hill, Mabel Vivian, Harold George Hill, Margaret Elphinstone, Wulfric Richard Hill, Oswald Brodie, Violet Mary | | | Father-in-law 1 Surname | Hill | | | Father-in-law 1 Christian name(s) | Charles John | | | Father-in-law remarks | Halifax | | | Body of text | GEORGE WASHINGTON SPROTT, born 6th March 1829, eldest son of John S, a native of Stoneykirk, Wigtownshire, minister at Musquodoboit, Nova Scotia ; educated at various schools in Nova Scotia and at University of Glasgow; BA (1849) ; licensed and ordained for work in the colonies by the Presbytery of Dunoon 1852 ; assistant at St Matthew's and St Andrew's, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1853-5, Middle Parish, Greenock, and St Michael's Dumfries, 1855-7, chaplain, Scots Church, Kandy, Ceylon, 1857-64 ; acting military chaplain, Portsmouth, 1865, minister of Chaple of Garioch 1866-73 ; presented by Sir Hew Dalrymple, Bart ; translated and admitted 8th May 1873 ; Lecturer on Pastoral Theology 1878 ; DD (Glasgow 1880) ; died at Edinburgh 27th October 1909. He married 1857, Mary (died 29th December, 1874), daughter of Charles John Hill, Halifax, and had issue - Agnes Jean, born 26th September, 1858 (married 1 March 1881, Arthur Kinnaird Wylie, stock-jobber, London) ; Mark John, born 20th May, 1860, died same year ; Lilias Harington, born 1861,died 1866 ; Norman Charles Hill, born November 1863, died 10th May, 1873; Mabel Vivian, born 25th August, 1865 (married 1st September, 1893, Henry Mortimer Rusk, headmaster, Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh) ; Harold George Hill, MA, LLB, Solicitor, Edinburgh, born 23rd April, 1867 ; Margaret Elphinstone, born 5th October, 1869 (married 22nd June, 1898, Lieutenant-Colonel Colin Campbell Renton, Indian Army) ; Wulfric Richard Hill, born 4th October, 1870, died 11 July 1895 ; Oswald Brodie, born 12th April, 1872, died February 1875 ; Violet Mary, born 22nd December, 1874 (married 7th October 1903, Lieutenant-Colonel Daniel Richard Adye, Indian Army). Publications - Presbyterianism in the Colonies (1862) ; Worship, Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of Scotland (1863) ; Knox's Liturgy, with Introduction and Notes (1868 ; 2nd edition 1901) ; Scottish Liturgies of the Reign of James VI, (1871 ; 2nd edition 1901) ; The Necessity of a Valid Ordination to the Holy Ministry (1873) ; The Church Principles of the Reformation (1877) ; The Worship and Offices of the Church of Scotland (1882) ; Worship of the Church during the Covenanting Period (1893) ; The Doctrine of Schism in the Church of Scotland (1902) ; Memorials of the Reverend John Sprott, 1906 (private circulation) ; contributions to the volumes issued by Church Services Society, Scottish Church Society, Scottish Ecclesiological Society, and to the Dictionary of National Biography ; { a Life of Dr Sprott is in preparation by Professor James Cooper, DD) | | | Note top of page | Synod Of Lothian and Tweeddale Presbytery of Haddington Parish Of Berwich and the Bass |
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