Administrative records.
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence and papers of the Church of Scotland Foreign Mission Committee and Jewish, Colonial and Continental Mission Committees.
The archive of the Church of Scotland Foreign Mission Committee, 1929-64, together with much 19th and earlier 20th century material, and some items relating to Jewish and Continental Missions.
Correspondence and papers of the Colonial, Continental, Jewish and Foreign Mission Committees of the Church of Scotland, and of their successor, the Overseas Council.
Papers relating to Church of Scotland and other Scottish Presbyterian missions and Scottish churches abroad.
Personnel files of Church of Scotland Women`s Foreign Mission staff.
Photographs, films, notebooks and associated papers of Rev Dr Archibald Clive Irvine, relating to his military service and missionary work in Kenya.
Dr Irvine trained as a surgeon at Aberdeen before seeing wartime service in Africa with the Royal Army Medical Corps from 1917-1919. In 1919, he was appointed medical missionary to the new Church of Scotland mission to Chogoria. He took up his post in 1922 and remained at Chogoria until his retirement in 1961. He was ordained in 1933 and died in Nairobi in 1974.
The photographs, films and papers represent Dr Irvine's working and family life.
Transcripts, circa 1855, of extracts of the Kirk Session records, 1668-1768, of Melrose, compiled by James Swinson.
With Communion rolls, 1792, 1813, for Gattonside.