Gordon, Francis

Education

Student United College 1867-1868 Eng. Lit.; Lat. 1 1868-1869 Log.; Lat. 2; Math. 1 1869-1870 Gk. 1; Lat. 2; Math. 2 1870-1871 M. Phil.; Pol. Econ.; Gk. 2 1871-1872 N. Phil. M.A. 30.4.1873.

Birth/childhood

Born 23.12.1851 son of George Gordon, jute spinner, Monifieth and Annie Grace Aberdein.

Attended Madras College, St Andrews.

Career

Also at Oxford and Bonn Universities [Oxford University, Bonn University]. New College, Edinburgh - divinity student 1873-1876, 1877-1878.

Free Church minister Balmaghie 1878-1880. Ratho 1880-1886. Free Church Vienna 1886-1899 (resigned). United Free Church minister Rathillet 1902-1905. Dundee Chalmers 1905-1913. Durris 1913-1918. Lynturk 1918-1925 (resigned). [Minister]

Death

Died 27.5.1937.

Sources

  • W. Ewing, Annals of the Free Church of Scotland 1843-1900 (1914)
  • J.A. Lamb ed. Fasti of the United Free Church of Scotland 1900-1929
  • Census 1871 St Andrews
  • Deaths Reg. Edzell 1937/8