James Macphail
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James Calder Macphail was a Scottish Free Church minister and Gaelic tutor. He is best remembered as a pioneer photographer and one of the first to photograph the Holy Land.
James Calder Macphail
Pilrig manse, Edinburgh
The grave of Rev Dr James Calder Macphail, Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh
Pilrig St. Paul's Church
Alexander Earle Monteith
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Alexander Earle Monteith trained as a lawyer in Edinburgh and became Sheriff of Fife in 1838. He is remembered as one of the Disruption Worthies - those church leaders who, at the Disruption of 1843, left to set up the Free Church of Scotland. Monteith was an active member of many commissions involved in reforming Aberdeen University, prisons and treatment of those then called lunatics for example. Monteith was also photographed by Hill & Adamson and by his second wife, Frances, who herself was an early pioneer of calotype photography and some of whose pictures ended up in an album by David Brewster.
Alexander Earle Monteith by Hill & Adamson
Marquis of Breadalbane, Sir David Brewster, Rev. Dr David Welsh, James Hamilton and Alexander Earle Monteath by Hill & Adamson
Edinburgh Presbytery: Seated, Patrick Clason, Alexander Earle Monteath, Robert Cunningham Graham Speirs, George Muirhead, Thomas Chalmers, John Bruce; standing, Alexander Dunlop, Rev. Alexander Watson Brown, unknown man, Patrick Graham, unknown man, Alexander Fraser, Thomas Guthrie, perhaps Rev. Foggo, unknown man, Charles Chalmers, James Begg, Rev. James Fairbairn
Alexander Earle Monteath by Hill & Adamson