Church of Scotland
Organization
Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:
13 photographic slides concerning Church of Scotland missions in India.
File
Identifier: Acc.5730
Dates:
late 19th century.
Correspondence and papers of the Church of Scotland Foreign Mission Committee and Jewish, Colonial and Continental Mission Committees.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.7548/A/1-G/99
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1796-1991, undated.
Correspondence and papers of the Colonial, Continental, Jewish and Foreign Mission Committees of the Church of Scotland, and of their successor, the Overseas Council.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10104/[A]1-90—[E]1-22
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1896-1979, undated.
Correspondence and reports home, under the auspices of the Church of Scotland`s Missionary Partner Scheme, of the Rev Colin Forrester-Paton, Gold Coast (Ghana).
File
Identifier: Acc.11977
Dates:
1954-1971.
Correspondence, letter-books, diaries and other papers of missionaries and missionary societies.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.99- is now Acc.4393.
Dates:
19th century.
Further papers of Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, Baron Selkirk of Douglas.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13440
Scope and Contents
Papers of Lord James Douglas Hamilton concerning his two terms as High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, 2012-2013, and to his involvement in the Bicentenary of the Red River Settlement Commemoration, September 2012.
Dates:
2012-2013.
Letters of George Willis, minister in Fife.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13421
Scope and Contents
Six letters, 1798-1802, of George Willis, Church of Scotland minister in Leslie, Fife. All letters are addressed to Thomas Adams, and in the earliest letter dated 3rd December 1798, Willis complains bitterly about the growing influence of Methodism within the Church of Scotland. Later letters cover a range of topics, not least Willis`s son, his debts, and attempts to find him suitable employment in the East India Company or the Army.
12 ff.
Dates:
1798-1802
Offshore log and reports on chaplaincy services to the North Sea oil industry, by Andrew Wylie, minister of the Church of Scotland.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13691
Scope and Contents
Offshore log and reports, 1983-1991, on the provision of chaplaincy services to the North Sea oil industry, by Rev Andrew Wylie.By the mid-1980s there were calls to consider the feasibility of providing non-denominational chaplaincy services to the UK offshore oil and gas industry. The Norwegian offshore chaplaincy had been established the previous decade when interest had been expressed in services being held on platforms, and had proved successful. Some companies, including...
Dates:
1986-1991
Papers relating to Church of Scotland and other Scottish Presbyterian missions and Scottish churches abroad.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12398
Dates:
circa 1970-1995, with some earlier papers.
Personnel files of Church of Scotland Women`s Foreign Mission staff.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10231/1-229
Dates:
1945-1973.
Photographc plates and slides concerning Church of Scotland missionary activity in India and Pakistan.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.10590/1-100
Scope and Contents
Some of the slides are accompanied by scripts and where this is the case the information is recorded in the relevant record.
Dates:
1953-1973, undated.
Photographic plates, prints, slides and film strips, with related scripts, correspondence and catalogues of the Church of Scotland Department of World Mission and Unity, concerning missionary activities, mostly in Africa.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10472/1-195
Dates:
?1880-1977, undated.
Photographic slides concerning missionary activities of the Church of Scotland, Department of World Mission and Unity.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10605/1-73
Dates:
[1950]-circa 1970, undated.
Photographs, films, notebooks and associated papers of Rev Dr Archibald Clive Irvine, relating to his military service and missionary work in Kenya.
Series
Identifier: Acc.12016/1-23
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1917-1996, undated.
Photographs (negatives and prints) of scenes in China, the Americas and Europe, concerning missionary work.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10331
Dates:
circa 1910-1980.
Photographs (negatives and prints) of scenes in India, Africa and the Middle East concerning Church of Scotland missions.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10023
Dates:
circa 1870-1989.
Photographs of the Church of Scotland Mission in Kenya, with notes.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8687
Dates:
circa 1920-1929.
Research papers of Gael Turnbull for biography of John Macleod Campbell.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13324
Scope and Contents
Research papers, c. 1989-1998, of Gael Turnbull for his biography of John McLeod Campbell. Gael Turnbull, poet and medical practitioner, took up this project after his retirement from medicine. John McLeod Campbell, Church of Scotland minister and theologian, was removed from the ministry after his preaching was determined to be inconsistent with the doctrinal position of the Westminster confession, which ministers of the Church of Scotland were expected to hold. Friends with...
Dates:
1989-1998.
Sermons, 1961-1983, of the Very Rev. Dr John R. Gray, minister of Dunblane Cathedral.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13581
Scope and Contents
Sermons, 1961-1983, of Very Rev. Dr John R. Gray, minister of Dunblane Cathedral. The sermons and preparatory notes were created by Gray during his ministry at St Stephen`s Blythswood Parish Church, Glasgow, and later at Dunblane Cathedral. John Rodger Gray (1913-1984) was born and educated in Coatbridge. He was a pupil of the High School, Glasgow, before attending Glasgow University, from which he graduated with an honours degree in economics in 1934. After a three-year divinity...
Dates:
1961-1983
Sermons, lectures and correspondence of Rev Joseph Moffett, minister of Crown Court Church, Covent Garden, London, including some papers of and relating to Crown Court.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13467/1-124
Scope and Contents
The papers consist principally of his sermons, which were subsequently much worked on by his daughter, Jean Stewart, also a Church of Scotland minister. Next are papers relating to the Loan Committee of Crown Court Church, which give an insight into the financial hardship suffered by at least part of the congregation during the interwar period. There are also several correspondence files, which are illustrative of Moffett’s involvement in the community based around Crown Court Church, as...
Dates:
1867-1990s, undated.
Transcripts, circa 1855, of extracts of the Kirk Session records, 1668-1768, of Melrose, compiled by James Swinson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9840
Scope and Contents
With Communion rolls, 1792, 1813, for Gattonside.
Dates:
1668-circa 1855.
Two speeches of the Reverend Dr Robert J Drummond.
File
Identifier: Acc.5059
Scope and Contents
Made on the occassion of the Union of the Church of Scotland and the United Free Church of Scotland.
Dates:
1929.
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Photographs. 7
- Administrative records. 6
- Correspondence. 6
- Slides. Photographs. 3
- Africa. Continent. 2
- Audiocassettes. 2
- India. Asia. Nation. Longitude: 77.0000. Latitude: 20.0000. 2
- Lists. 2
- Notes. 2
- Reports 2
- Speeches. Documents. 2
- Audiotapes. Sound recordings. 1
- Audiovisual materials. 1
- China. Asia. Nation. Longitude: 105.0000. Latitude: 35.0000. 1
- Diaries. 1
- Dunblane. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Stirling. Inhabited place. Longitude: -3.9833. Latitude: 56.2000. 1
- Fife. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland. County. Longitude: -3.0333. Latitude: 56.2500. 1
- Financial records. 1
- Ghana. Africa. Nation. Longitude: -2.0000. Latitude: 8.0000. 1
- Glasgow. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Glasgow. Inhabited place. Longitude: -4.2500. Latitude: 55.8833. 1
- India. Asia. Subcontinent. Longitude: 77.0000. Latitude: 20.0000. 1
- Itineraries. Travel documents. 1
- Kenya. Africa. Nation. Longitude: 38.0000. Latitude: 1.0000. 1
- Letter books. 1
- Letters. Correspondence. 1
- Logs. Records. 1
- Middle East. General region. 1
- Minutes. Administrative records. 1
- Moving images. 1
- North Sea. Europe. Sea. 1
- North and Central America. Continent. 1
- Notebooks. 1
- Pakistan. Asia. Nation. Longitude: 70.0000. Latitude: 30.0000. 1
- Personal papers. 1
- Photograph albums. 1
- Photographic plates. 1
- Plans. Maps. 1
- Postcards. 1
- Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 1
- Registers (lists). 1
- Research notes 1
- Scottish Borders. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland. Unitary authority. Longitude: -3.2500. Latitude: 55.5833. 1
- Scripts. Documents. 1
- Sermons 1
- Sound recordings. 1
- South America. Continent. 1
- Transcripts 1
- Winnipeg. North and Central America - Canada - Manitoba. Inhabited place. Longitude: -97.1667. Latitude: 49.8833. 1 + ∧ less
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