Adamson, William

Education

Student United College 1857-1858 M. Phil.

Birth/childhood

Born 29.8.1830 at New Galloway, Kirkcudbrightshire.

Career

Also at Glasgow University (Not in W.I. Addison, Matriculation albums of the University of Glasgow 1728-1858.) and Evangelical Union Theological College.

Congregational minister Perth 1858-1868. Edinburgh, Buccleuch, 1868-1895. Carver memorial church, Windermere, 1895 - 14.5.1910 (died). [Minister]

D.D. Waynesburg.

Publications: Missionary Anecdotes (Glasgow: Thomas D. Morison; London: Simpkin, Marshall etc., 1890); The Life of Joseph Parker (New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1902); The Religious Anecdotes of Scotland (London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1893); Robert Milligan's Difficulties or, Struggle and Triumph, a Scotch Life Story (Glasgow: Thomas D. Morison; London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1891) etc.

Death

[Died 14.5.1910.]

Sources

  • Who was who
  • Cong. Ch. Y’bk
  • UYM/310Reminiscences of Thomas Whitelaw p61