Charles Salmond Explained

Charles Adamson Salmond (1853 - 1932) was a Scottish minister of the Free Church of Scotland and ecclesiastical author.

Life

He was born in Arbroath. He studied divinity at the University of Edinburghthen trained as a Free Church minister at New College, Edinburgh. He did a postgraduate year at Princeton University in America.^[1]

He was ordained at the Free Church in Cults, Aberdeen in 1879. He was translated to St Matthew's Free church in Glasgow in 1881. He was then living at 4 Royal Crescent (West).^[2] In 1887 he translated to the West Free Church in Rothesay and finally in 1890 he settled at the newly built South Morningside Free Church on Braid Road in Edinburgh.^[3] Salmond was the first minister of this spectacular church, designed by Sir Robert Rowand Anderson.^{[4] [5]}

In Edinburgh he lived very close to the church at 9 Cluny Drive.^[6]

In 1900 he and his church joined the Union in creating the United Free Church of Scotland, usually just referred to as the UF Church.^[7] In the same year he visited Princeton University again.^[8]

He is buried in the Western Cemetery in Arbroath.^[9]

Family

In 1883 he was married to Margaret Hamersly Johnston (1862-1908).

Publications

• Vaticanism: An Exposition and Defence of Prince Bismarck's Anti-Ultramontane Policy (1876)
• A Woman's Work: Memorials of Eliza Fletcher (1884)
• Princetoniana: A Table Talk with Hodge the Younger (1888)
• J A Wylie as I Knew Him (1890)
• For Days of Youth (1896)
• The Religious Question in France (1905)
• The Protestant Institute of Scotland (1911)
• The Romanising Movement in the Church of England (1917)
• Pilgrims Towards Plymouth
• Perfectionism: The False and the True
• Sermonettes for the Young

Notes and References

1. Ewing, William Annals of the Free Church
2. Glasgow Post Office Directory 1885
3. Web site: Edinburgh & Leith Places of Worship, Midlothian . GENUKI . 2020-02-08 . 2020-02-26.
4. Web site: Morningside South UF Church, Braid Road, Edinburgh . Morningside South UF Church, Edinburgh, United Free Church of Scotland, Midlothian . GENUKI . 2019-07-17 . 2020-02-26.
5. Buildings of Scotland: Edinburgh; Gifford, John; McWilliam, Colin; Walker, David
6. Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1895
7. Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1910
8. Princeton Alumni Weekly Dec 1901
9. Web site: Charles Adamson Salmond (1853-1932) — Log College Press . Logcollegepress.com . 2020-02-26.