Laigh Kirk Ministers

 

LIST OF LAIGH KIRK MINISTERS SINCE 1688

Name Second Minister First Minister Died, removed
or retired
 
James Osburn   1688 1696  
Francis Finlayson   1699 1710  
William Wright 1700 1711 1724  
George Peden 1711   1721  
Patrick Paisley 1724 1725 1736  
Laurence Hill 1725 1739 1750  
Robert Hall 1739   1762  
James Leslie   1751 1764  
William Lindsay 1764    1774  
John Robertson, A.M.   1765 1798   
John Mutrie 1775   1785  
James Mackinlay, D.D. 1786 1809 1841  
David Ritchie, D.D.   1800 1808  
Andrew Grant, D.D.   1802 1808  
John McLeod, D.D. 1809   1816  
Robert Stirling, D.D. 1816    1824  
George Smith, D.D. 1824   1883  
David Strong   1841 1843  
James Hamilton   1843 1881  
Daniel Vere Thomson a 1843   1866  
Alexander Webster, M.A. 1866   1876  
Robert Pryde 1876   1879  
William Dunnett, M.A. b 1879  1881 1928  
Walter Low, B.D. c 1822   1893  
John Craig, B.D. 1894   1898  
George Yuille, B.D. 1889   1909  
Andrew B.  Thomson  1909   1916  
David P. Howie, M.A. d 1916   1966  
John H.  Duncan    1928 1937  

LAIGH KIRK NO LONGER A COLLEGIATE CHARGE from 1937

                                             

 

  Single Charge    
David P. Howie, M.A. d 1937 - 1966    
Melville F. Schofield, M.A. e  1967 - 1988    
Alistair N. Shaw M.A., B.D.  1988 - 1999    

 

         

 a   © A. McGregor   Kilmarnock 1881

     b  © A. McGregor and Sons

     c  © A. McGregor and Sons

     d  © Stephens Orr

    e  © S. McLauchlin
    

 

 

                         

          


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