Thomas Chalmers | |
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| Born | 17 March 1780 Anstruther, Fife, Scotland |
| Died | 31 May 1847 Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Education | University of St Andrews University of Edinburgh |
| Occupation(s) | Theologian, Presbyterian minister |
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| Tradition or movement | Presbyterianism |
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Thomas Chalmers FRSE (17 March 1780 – 31 May 1847), was a Scottish Presbyterian minister, professor of theology, political economist, and a leader of both the Church of Scotland and of the Free Church of Scotland.[2] He has been called "Scotland's greatest nineteenth-century churchman".[3]
He served as Vice-president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh from 1835 to 1842.
The New Zealand town of Port Chalmers was named after Chalmers. A bust of Chalmers is on display in the Hall of Heroes of the National Wallace Monument in Stirling.
The Thomas Chalmers Centre in Kirkliston is named after him.
- ^ Annan, Thomas (1868). Illustrated catalogue of the exhibition of portraits on loan in the new galleries of art, Corporation buildings, Sauchiehall Street. Glasgow: Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum. pp. 24–25. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
- ^ Wylie, James Aitken (1881). Disruption worthies : a memorial of 1843, with an historical sketch of the free church of Scotland from 1843 down to the present time. Edinburgh: T. C. Jack. pp. 153–160. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
- ^ McKim, Donald K; Cheyne, Alec C. (1992). Encyclopedia of the Reformed Faith. Westminster John Knox Press. p. 61. ISBN 978-0-664-21882-9. Retrieved 7 November 2012.