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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 | Madras  | | | Volume No. | 3 | | | Page No. | 57 | | | Surname | Lawrie | | | Christian Name(s) | George James | | | Wife 1 Surname | Ludlow | | | Wife 1 Christian name(s) | Laura Louisa | | | Children to 1st Wife Christian name(s) | Mary Louisa, Annie Adair, Harriet Dalmahoy, Flora Hastings, | | | Father-in-law 1 Surname | Ludlow | | | Father-in-law 1 Christian name(s) | Samuel | | | Father-in-law remarks | Presidency Surgeon, Delhi | | | Body of text | GEORGE JAMES LAWRIE, born 20th November, 1796, son of Archibald L, DD, minister of Loudoun; educated at University of Glasgow; Snell Exhibitoner, Balliol College, Oxford (1816-18); licensed by Presbytery of Irvine in 1822; ordained (by Presbytery of Irvine) junior chaplain at Madras, November 1823; appointed chaplain in 1830; resigned in 1838; became farmer at Castlecary, Galloway; presented by John, second Marquess of Bute; admitted 2nd November, 1843; DD (Glasgow 1828); died at Hythe, Kent, 14th February, 1878. He married 21st August, 1827, Laura Louisa (died 25th April, 1898) second daughter of Samuel Ludlow, Presidency Surgeon, Delhi, and had issue- Mary Louisa, born 2nd January, 1834 (married 6th April, 1858, Edmund Lewis Hooper, schoolmaster, London); Annie Adair, born 26th August, 1835, died 26th April 1919 (married 18th April, 1860, Henry Bean Mackeson, Hythe); Harriet Dalmahoy, born 19th December, 1837, died 31st January, 1846; Flora Hastings, born 25th April, 1841 (married 24th December, 1867, Thomas Shelford , Singapore). Publications - Songs and Miscellaneous Pieces (Ayr, 1874). He was author of the song ""Hae ye mind o' lang lang syne"". [Modern Scottish Poets, x 35; Addison's Snell Exhibitions, pp.97-8; The Burns Country, 199]. | | | Note top of page | Synod of Glasgow and Aye, Parish of Monkton and Prestwick |
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