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Very Rev Dr James Alexander McClymont CBE VD DD (1848–1927) was a Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1921.[1][2]

Life

He was Principal Chaplain to the Royal Army Chaplains' Department in the First World War.[3]

His duties as Moderator in 1921/22 included unveiling the stained glass windows at St Laurence Church in Forres.[4]

In 1924 a sermon by McClymont on the "League of Nations" was broadcast from Edinburgh on radio by the BBC.[5]

Publications

  • The New Testament and its Writers (1899)
  • Greece (1906), illustrations by John Fulleylove[6]
  • The New Century Bible: St John (1930)

References

  1. ^ Weisse, Wolfram (1991). Praktisches Christentum und Reich Gottes: die ökumenische Bewegung Life und Work, 1919-1937 (in German). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. p. 634. ISBN 9783525565353. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
  2. ^ https://www.geni.com/projects/Moderators-of-the-General-Assembly-of-the-Church-of-Scotland/15939
  3. ^ https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/100565-royal-army-chaplains-department/t/
  4. ^ http://www.stlaurencechurchforres.org.uk/astlc.htm
  5. ^ Radio Times, 19 December 1924
  6. ^ Baker, Anne Pimlott. "Fulleylove, John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33293. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)



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