Robert James Brown was a Scottish minister, who served as Moderator of the General Assembly for the Free Church of Scotland 1846/47. He was familiarly known by his students as the Dorian.
Robert James Brown by John Phillip
Golden Square, Aberdeen
Patrick MacFarlan
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Patrick MacFarlan was a Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1834 and as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland in 1
Robert James Brown (moderator)
…and joined the Free Church. He retained his professorship at Aberdeen. In 1846, he was elected Moderator of the General Assembly in succession to Rev Patrick MacFarlan. He was succeeded in turn in 1847 by the Rev James Sievewright. Brown died in Aberdeen, on 7 December 1872, aged 79, and was buried beside his wife at…
Macfarlane; signing of the Deed of Demission (23 May 1843) This photograph by Adamson and Hill formed the centrepiece of the enormous Disruption painting which now hangs in the Edinburgh Theological Seminary.
The Disruption Assembly by David Octavius Hill
Signing The Deed Of Demission; Patrick Macfarlan is central with a quill pen. This painting, only a fraction of which is shown, was one of the first ever to be supported by the emerging art of photography
Unknown man (possibly Rev. Patrick MacFarlan, 1781 - 1849. of Greenock)