Reverend Dr John Lee FRSE was a Scottish academic and polymath, and the Principal of the University of Edinburgh from 1840 to 1859. He was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland i
John Lee, around 1850.
St Giles Cathedral
Grave of John Lee and family, St Cuthberts Churchyard, Edinburgh
Thomas Chalmers
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Thomas Chalmers, was a Scottish Presbyterian minister, professor of theology, political economist, and a leader of both the Church of Scotland and of the Free Church of Scotland. He has been called "S
John Lee (university principal)
…in ordinary to the king in 1830. He was made Principal Clerk of the General Assembly in 1827, but unsuccessfully contested the moderatorship with Thomas Chalmers in 1832. In 1834 he became minister of the Old Kirk, one of the four churches then contained in St. Giles Cathedral, in 1837 Principal of the United…
Sir John Steell, Rev Thomas Chalmers, 1883, Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Chalmers' birthplace in Anstruther
St. Andrew's Church, Edinburgh, scene of the Disruption
Chalmers' townhouse on the Moray Estate, 3 Forres Street, Edinburgh