Blyth, George

Education

Student United College 1812-1813 Lat. Jun.; Gk. Jun. 1813-1814 Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov.; Math. Jun.; Log. 1814-1815 Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov.; Math. Prov.; Ethics. (Ternar) Half bursary, 1813.

Birth/childhood

Born 15.7.1797 son of Robert Blyth, farmer, Ceres and Mary Grey.

Career

Secession church theological student 1815 - [Theology student]

Missionary Astrakhan for London Missionary Society, 1820 - 1823 (expelled). Minister Hampden, Jamaica 1823 - . Licensed 1824.

U.P. minister [United Presbyterian minister] Glasgow, Canon St. 1853 - 1863 (resigned).

Published Reminiscences of Missionary Life (Edinburgh: William Oliphant, 1851).

Death

Died Partick 4.7.1866.

Sources

  • UYUC400: 18.12.1813
  • Edinburgh, New College, G. Brown, Annals of the Divinity Hall of the Secession Church of Scotland...(?1869) Manuscript UPC3
  • Surman Index Online
  • R. Small, History of the congregations of the United Presbyterian Church 1733-1900 (Edinburgh, 1904) ii 78-9
  • United Presbyterian Magazine 1866 p526
  • Deaths Reg. Partick 1866/234