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 Church of Scotland Ministers B

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Date transcribed2011-00-00
Transcribed byPeter Schofield
CommentList of Ministers of the Church of Scotland who served in India and South Asia extracted from Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae

Section  India    
Volume No.  7    
Page No.  704    
Surname  Ogilvie    
Christian Name(s)  James    
Wife 1 Surname  Nivison    
Wife 1 Christian name(s)  Eliza Broun    
Children to 1st Wife Christian name(s)  Two sons and three daughters (unnamed)    
Father-in-law 1 Surname  Nivison    
Father-in-law 1 Christian name(s)  Alexander    
Father-in-law remarks  Alexander Nivison, minister of Roberton, Hawick    
Body of text  OGILVIE, JAMES, born Newmill of Keith, Banffshire, 27th December 1811, son of Joseph 0; educated at Keith School, Grammar School and Marischal College, Aberdeen (where he was first bursar); MA (1833) (with the gold medal as the best student of his year); taught sometime at the Grammar School of Aberdeen; licensed by Presbytery of Aberdeen 3rd May 1843 ; ordained missionary to Madras 21st November 1844; transferred to Calcutta as head of the Assembly's Institution, 1846; DD (Aberdeen 1867); died in the Island of Penang 25th January 1871. He married 27th June 1856, Eliza Broun (died 15th February 1911), daughter of Alexander Nivison, minister of Roberton, Hawick, and had issue - two sons and three daughters. [Memorial Stone in Keith Churchyard; Weir's Hist of Foreign Missions of the Church of Scotland (portrait), 63-71 (Edinburgh, 1900)]    
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