Lochfyneside Free Church, Minard, Argyll - geograph

Archibald Donald Cameron (1866–1946) was a minister of the Free Church of Scotland who served as Moderator of the General Assembly in 1928/29.

Life

He was born in

Urray Urray ( gd, Urrath) is a scattered village and coastal parish, consisting of Easter, Old and Wester Urray and is located in the county of Ross in the Scottish council area of the Highland. Urray is also a parish in the district of Wester Ross an ...

Ross and Cromarty Ross and Cromarty ( gd, Ros agus Cromba), sometimes referred to as Ross-shire and Cromartyshire, is a variously defined area in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. There is a registration county and a lieutenancy area in current use, the l ...

in 1866. His religious education is unclear but he was licensed to preach by the Free Presbytery of

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in 1897 and he was ordained as minister of Lochfyneside in 1898. At the Union of 1900 he remained in the Free Church of Scotland. He also then served as Clerk to the Free Presbytery of

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. In 1908 he was translated from Lochfyneside to

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. In 1928 he succeeded Very Rev Alexander Dewar as

Moderator of the General Assembly The moderator of the General Assembly is the chairperson of a General Assembly, the highest court of a Presbyterian or Reformed church. Kirk sessions and presbyteries may also style the chairperson as moderator. The Oxford Dictionary states t ...

the highest position in the Free Church of Scotland. He died in

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in 1946.

Family

In 1919 (aged 53) he married Euphemia MacDonald Munro (1884-1922), and 18 years his junior, niece of Lord Alness and granddaughter of Rev Alexander Rose Munro (b.1835), in

St Giles Cathedral St Giles' Cathedral ( gd, Cathair-eaglais Naomh Giles), or the High Kirk of Edinburgh, is a parish church of the Church of Scotland in the Old Town, Edinburgh, Old Town of Edinburgh. The current building was begun in the 14th century and extended ...

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. Euphemia died aged only 38, and Archibald greatly outlived her despite his greater age. He instituted the Euphemia Cameron Book Prize, awarded annually by the Free Church College, in her memory.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cameron, Archibald Donald 1866 births 1946 deaths People from Ross and Cromarty 19th-century Ministers of the Free Church of Scotland 20th-century Ministers of the Free Church of Scotland