George Milligan (Church of Scotland)
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Very Rev Prof George Milligan DD DCL LLD (1860-1934) was a Scottish minister of the Church of Scotland who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1923.[1] He was professor of divinity and Biblical criticism at Glasgow University.
Life
He was born in Kilconquhar in Fife,[2] the son of the renowned Rev Prof William Milligan and Annie Mary Moir, daughter of David Macbeth Moir. The family moved to Aberdeen in his first year.
He studied divinity at Aberdeen University, graduating MA in 1879,[3] then did postgraduate studies at Edinburgh, Gottingen and Bonn. From 1910 to 1932 he was professor of divinity and Biblical criticism in succession to his father.[4]
He was moderator from 1923 to 1924 and was succeeded by Rev David Cathels.
Publications
- Men of the Bible (1904)
- The Vocabulary of the Greek Testament (1914)
References
- ^ https://www.geni.com/projects/Moderators-of-the-General-Assembly-of-the-Church-of-Scotland/15939
- ^ University of Edinburgh Journal 1935
- ^ Morrison G. H., Wind on the Heath 1994, p. 49.
- ^ http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH1200&type=P
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