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Robert Lee (minister)

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From 1857 he began a major reform of the Presbyterian Church Service: he restored the reading of prayers, and introduced the practice of kneeling to pray and standing to sing. Singing in the Protestant Church had long been plain-song. He began the reintroduction of music: adding a harmonium to
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He was licensed by the Presbytery of St Andrews in 1832 and ordained as a minister of the Church of Scotland in 1833, his first charge being Inverbrothock Chapel of Ease, near
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on 21 November 1804, the eldest of three sons to Jane Lambert and George Lee, a boat-builder from a long line of boat-builders on the River Tweed. He was educated at
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In June 1836 he married Isabella Carrack Buchanan (d.1889), who was from Campsie parish where he was minister. They had four daughters and one son;
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in 1846. In 1847 he became the first Professor of Biblical Criticism at the University of Edinburgh. He lived at 24
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in southwestern England, hoping the climate would improve his health. He died there on 14 March 1868.
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and remained with the established church. The University of St Andrews awarded him with a doctorate (
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His body was returned to Edinburgh for burial and he is buried in the south-east section of
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He was gravely ill for the last 9 months of his life following a fall from his horse on
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1867. In late autumn 1867 he gave up his ministry and went to live with a friend Rev
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Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002
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after an evening out with fellow ministers on 22 May 1867, the eve of the
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The Order of Public Worship and Administration of the Sacraments
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In 1843 he was chosen to be minister of Old Greyfriars Kirk in
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The Reform of the Church in Worship, Government and Doctrine
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The grave of Rev Prof Robert Lee, Grange Cemetery, Edinburgh
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His wife was given a civil list pension of £100 per annum.
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A pair of memorials exist to Lee within Greyfriars Kirk.
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Index

Robert Lee


FRSE
University of Edinburgh
Greyfriars Kirk
Dean of the Chapel Royal
Queen Victoria


Tweedmouth
Berwick Grammar School
University of St Andrews
Scotland
George Whyte-Melville
Arbroath
Campsie, Stirlingshire
Edinburgh
Disruption of 1843
DD
Chaplain in Ordinary to Her Majesty
George Square
Royal Society of Edinburgh
organ
Princes Street
General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
Alfred Edersheim
Torquay
Grange Cemetery
Edinburgh

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