Alexander Waugh (minister)

Alexander Waugh
Born
Alexander Waugh

16 August 1754
East Gordon, Gordon, Scotland
Died14 December 1827(1827-12-14) (aged 73)
Salisbury Place, Marylebone, London, England
Resting placeBunhill Fields
EducationEarlston Grammar School, University of Edinburgh B.A., University of Aberdeen M.A., D.D.
Spouse
Mary Neill
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(m. 1786)​
Children10
Parent(s)Thomas Waugh (1706–1783)
Margaret Johnstone (1714–1789)

Alexander Waugh (16 August 1754 – 14 December 1827) was a minister in the Secession Church of Scotland, co-founder of the London Missionary Society,[1]: 1 [2]: 152  and one of the leading Nonconformist preachers of his day. He was the great-great-grandfather of the writers Alec Waugh and Evelyn Waugh.

  1. ^ John Morison D.D. (1840). The Fathers and Founders of the London Missionary Society : with a Brief Sketch of Methodism, and historical notices of the several Protestant Missions, from 1556 to 1839 (Vol. 2). published by Fisher, Son, & Co, London
  2. ^ Rev. James Hay and the Rev. Henry Belfrage (1839). A Memoir of the Reverend Alexander Waugh: With Selections From His Epistolary Correspondence, Pulpit Recollections, &c. published by William Oliphant & Sons, Edinburgh and Hamilton, Adams, & Co, London