Robert Cunningham Graham Speirs

Robert Cunningham Graham Speirs
Robert Cunningham Graham Speirs by Hill & Adamson
Personal details
Born15 June 1797
Died24 December 1847
Sheriff of Elgin and Moray
In office
1835–1840
Sheriff of Midlothian
In office
1840–1847
Edinburgh Presbytery: Seated, Patrick Clason, Alexander Earle Monteith, Robert Cunningham Graham Speirs, George Muirhead, Thomas Chalmers, John Bruce; standing, Alexander Dunlop, Rev. Alexander Watson Brown, unknown man, Patrick Graham, unknown man, Alexander Fraser, Thomas Guthrie, perhaps Rev. Foggo, unknown man, Charles Chalmers, James Begg, Rev. James Fairbairn
Graham Speirs by James Faed
Towing the Iron Church into Loch Sunart. The iron church was a solution to the problem of Sites and Speirs, being head of the Sites Committee, paid for the floating church.[1]

Robert Cunningham Graham Speirs or Spiers FRSE (1797–1847) was a 19th-century Scottish advocate and prison reformer. In later life he is largely referred to simply as Graham Speirs. He held the offices of Sheriff of Elgin and Moray from 1835 to 1840 and subsequently was Sheriff of Midlothian from 1840 until his death in 1847. He joined the Free Church at the Disruption of 1843. He was then involved in the Sites Committee trying to persuade landowners to allow the denomination to build churches and schools on their land.

  1. ^ Ritchie 1985.