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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 | India  | | | Volume No. | 7 | | | Page No. | 580 | | | Surname | Shaw | | | Christian Name(s) | James | | | Wife 1 Surname | Lester | | | Wife 1 Christian name(s) | Mary Agnes | | | Children to 1st Wife Christian name(s) | Kathleen; William Lester; Fanny; John Clark; unnamed daughter; Henry Cranwill; Julian Arthur; Alexander Lester; Grace Minnie; Helen Agnes | | | Father-in-law 1 Surname | Lester | | | Father-in-law 1 Christian name(s) | Alexander | | | Body of text | SHAW, JAMES, born Dublin, 12th July 1845 (of Scots descent), son of James S and Elizabeth Cranwill; was five years a soldier; served in Abyssinia, and ""purchased"" himself out of the army in 1868; studied theology at Bombay and ordained (by Presbytery of Lahore) under American Board of Foreign Missions in 1872; transferred (at request of Colonial Committee) to Quetta November 1888; admitted a minister of the Church of Scotland by the General Assembly of 1897, and served till 1920. He was called up for chaplaincy service (at the age of 73) during the last seven months of European War and de-mobilised 15th February 1919. Married 21st December 1869, Mary Agnes (born 23rd October 1852), daughter of Alexander Lester, and has issue - Kathleen, born 17th December 1870 (married 3rd June 1903, G. Frost, OBE, Controller Military Dairy Farms); William Lester, superintendent of police, Baluchistan, born 29th January 1873; Fanny, born 2nd September 1874 (married in Kashmere); John Clark, assistant superintendent of police, Baluchistan, born 10th December 1875; a daughter, born 4th April 1877, died soon after; Henry Cranwill, in Australia, born 29th September 1878; Julian Arthur, Finance Department, India Government, born 7th August 1880; Alexander Lester, surgeon-dentist, born 4th August 1882; Grace Minnie, born 17th March 1884 (married 19th October 1910, E. G. Whittick, merchant, Bombay); Helen Agnes, born 9th December 1888 (married 28th December 1910, Dr Arthur Campbell). Publication - A Chapter in the Life of a Soldier (Karachi, nd). |
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