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Date transcribed2011-00-00
Transcribed byJane Britcliffe, Peter Schofield, Penny Tipper
CommentList 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.  703    
Surname  Nesbit    
Christian Name(s)  Robert    
Wife 1 Surname  Bayne    
Wife 1 Christian name(s)  Hay    
Father-in-law 1 Surname  Bayne    
Father-in-law 1 Christian name(s)  Kenneth    
Wife 2 Surname  Marshall    
Wife 2 Christian name(s)  Marion    
Father-in-law remarks  Kenneth Bayne, minister of the Gaelic Church, Greenock    
Body of text  NESBIT, ROBERT, born Bowsden, Durham, 22nd March 1803, son of Benjamin N, farmer; educated at University of St Andrews (where the influence of Thomas Chalmers inspired him with the missionary ideal); was secretary of the University Missionary Society; licensed by Presbytery of Caithness; became a tutor at Exeter; ordained (by Presbytery of St Andrews) 15th December 1826 as agent of the Scottish Missionary Society; sailed 4th June and arrived at Bombay 19th September 1827; stationed at Hurnee in the Southern Concan (where in three and a half months he learned to preach in Marathi); transferred to Poona 8th August 1831. Joined the Church of Scotland Mission August 1835. Joined the Free Church in 1843; died (of cholera) 27th July 1855. He was an expert linguist, the best of all the European missionaries in Western India as a Marathi speaker, his pronunciation being faultless. A cultured Brahman once took him for a god on account of what appeared the infallible rectitude of his judgments, and was not convinced of his mistake till the fancied divinity charged him with a fault which he was conscious he had not committed. He married (1) 25th June 1839, Hay (died at sea while proceeding to Scotland for her health 18th May 1848), daughter of Kenneth Bayne, minister of the Gaelic Church, Greenock, and sister of the wife of John Wilson, DD, FRS ; (2) 31st March 1855, Marion [married (2) Alexander Anderson, LLD, of the Gymnasium, Aberdeen), daughter of Claud Marshall, Greenock. [Memoir by J Murray Mitchell, LLD (London, 1858); Hunter's Hist of Free Church Missions, 207 et seq]

    
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