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Robert Smith Candlish

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Following the Disruption, Candlish was one of the Free Churchmen who spoke in England, explaining the reason why so many had left the Established Church. He was actively engaged at one time or other in nearly all the various schemes of the church, but particularly the education committee, of which he
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In 1829, Candlish entered upon his life's work, having been licensed to preach during the summer vacation of the previous year. After short assistant pastorates at St Andrew's Church, Glasgow, and then the parish church of
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Report of the speeches of ... Dr. Gordon, Mr. Buchan of Kelloe, and Rev. R. S. Candlish, in the Commission of the General Assembly, ... August 14, 1839, on the Auchterarder case. Revised by the Speakers
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Memorials of Robert Smith Candlish, D.D. : minister of St. George's Free Church, and principal of the New College, Edinburgh with a chapter on his position as a theologian by Robert Rainy
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denominations of Scotland, which were carried on during the years 1863–1873. Candlish was the Free Church Moderator at the Assembly of 1867. He was succeeded in 1868 by
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This site includes a biography of Candlish, several literature works by Candlish and some letters written by Candlish. It is one of several sites in the related
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Disruption worthies : a memorial of 1843, with an historical sketch of the free church of Scotland from 1843 down to the present time
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As the Free Church lost the right to burial in the traditional parish burial grounds, Candlish is buried in the non-denominational
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Our Scottish clergy : fifty-two sketches, biographical, theological, & critical, including clergymen of all denominations
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Candlish took an interest in ecclesiastical questions, and he soon became involved in the struggle which was then agitating the
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He married 6 January 1835, Jessie (died 16 September 1894), daughter of Walter Brock and Janet Crawford, and had issue —
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as principal of New College with the understanding that he should still retain his position as minister of St George's.
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Elizabeth Smith, born 28 December 1840 (married 1863, Archibald Henderson, D.D., United Free Church min. at Crieff)
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Candlish made a number of contributions to theological literature. In 1842 he published the first volume of his
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was convener from 1846 to 1863, and in the unsuccessful negotiations for union among the non-established
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Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae; the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation
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Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae; the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation
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In 1840, he was living at 9 Randolph Crescent in Edinburgh's West End, a huge terraced townhouse.
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Jessie, born 14 January 1837, died 29 January 1893 (married 1865, William Anderson of Glentarkie)
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soon after her husband's death and survived by running a boarding house at 49 Virginia Street.
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The ten years' conflict : being the history of the disruption of the Church of Scotland
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The ten years' conflict : being the history of the disruption of the Church of Scotland
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Contributions towards the Exposition of the Book of Genesis, 3 vols. (Edinburgh, 1842–52)
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In 1851, he established a Gaelic Church on Cambridge Street. In 1862 he succeeded
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school, and he gathered round him one of the largest congregations in the city.
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In 1841, the government nominated Candlish to the newly founded chair of
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The Word of God the Instrument of the Propagation of the Gospel (1843)
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The Free Church of Scotland : her origin, founders and testimony
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Robert Smith, marine engineer, born 21 April 1844, died 20 May 1887
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Candlish died at home, 52 Melville Street in Edinburgh in 1873.
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The grave of Rev Robert Candlish, Old Calton Cemetery, Edinburgh
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John Bogle, insurance agent, Australia, born 2 November 1847
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Margaret Charlotte, born 28 January 1846, died 16 April 1899
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Wilson, William, minister of St. Paul's Free Church, Dundee
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Chapters from the history of the Free church of Scotland
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Chapters from the history of the Free church of Scotland
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Chapters from the history of the Free church of Scotland
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McMullen, Michael D. (2004). "Candlish, Robert Smith".
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Scripture Characters and Miscellanies (Edinburgh, 1850)
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various photographs from the National Portrait Gallery
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19th-century Ministers of the Free Church of Scotland
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Mary Ross, born 9 June 1851, died 30 September 1866.
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The Atonement; its Reality, Completeness and Extent
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Index

Robert Candlish


Disruption of 1843
St. George's
Free Church
Charlotte Square
Edinburgh's New Town
Edinburgh
Robert Burns
Glasgow
Glasgow University
Stevenson McGill
Eton College
Bonhill
Dunbartonshire
St George's, Edinburgh
Calvinistic
Church of Scotland
Free Church
Disruption of 1843
Thomas Chalmers
Hugh Miller
Witness
Presbyterian
Rev William Nixon
Biblical criticism
University of Edinburgh
Lord Aberdeen
Princeton, New Jersey

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