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On 26 May 1807 Cordiner was appointed by the constituent members of the congregation one of the ministers of St. Paul's
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After faithfully discharging the duties of the ministry for many years, Cordiner resigned, on account of ill-health, on 13 November 1834, and was granted a retiring annuity of £100, with the chapel-house as a residence. He died of congestion of the lungs on 13 January 1836, in the 61st year of his
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Governor North's confidential correspondence, place the authorities in a very regrettable light. The work, which is in two quarto volumes, contains fine plates from original drawings by the author of objects of interest in the island. Cordiner also wrote
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Charles, a clergyman of the Church of Scotland, who down to 1864 or later was Presbyterian minister of Kinnenmouth, a chapel-of-ease in Lonmay parish, Aberdeenshire.
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