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
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
Disruption of 1843
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The Disruption of 1843, also known as the Great Disruption, was a schism in 1843 in which 450 evangelical ministers broke away from the Church of Scotland to form the Free Church of Scotland. The main
Thomas Chalmers
…Hope. In January 1843 the government put a final negative on the church's claims for spiritual independence. The non-intrusionist movement ended in the Disruption: on 18 May 1843, 470 clergy withdrew from the general assembly and constituted themselves the Free Church of Scotland, with Chalmers as moderator. He…
The Disruption Assembly by David Octavius Hill
Disruption Brooch. Back side.
Parishioners walk out of church in protest at the unpopular appointment of a minister in the parish of Marnoch, Strathbogie in 1841
Mr Dunlop and David Welsh by Hill & Adamson. Dunlop wrote a memoir of Welsh.