Person:John Tulloch (24)

the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

John Tulloch (1 June 1823 – 13 February 1886) was a Scottish theologian.

Fasti Ecclesiae

From Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae vol 7 Synods of Ross etc:

JOHN [GRANT] TULLOCH, born Dron, 1st June 1823, son of William Weir T., min. of Tibbermore ; educated at Perth Grammar School, Madras College, and Univs. of St Andrews and Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of Perth 27th March 1844 ; assistant at St Paul s, Dundee ; ord. to St Paul s 4th March 1845; trans, to Kettins 20th Sept. 1849 ; trans, and adm. to Principalship 9th Nov. 1854; D.D. (St Andrews 1854). In July 1858 he went to Paris by appointment of the General Assembly and established a Presbyterian Church for the Scottish residents ; app. one of H.M. Chaplains-in-Ordinary 22nd July 1859 ; app. depute-clerk of Assembly in 1862 ; a Scottish Commissioner under the Education Act 1872, and in 1874 he spent the long vacation lecturing in Canada and the United States; Croall Lecturer 1876. He was app. principal clerk of the General Assembly in 1875 ; elected Moderator of the General Assembly 23rd May 1878. On 30th Nov. 1878, under the auspices of Dean Stanley, he conducted service in Westminster Abbey. LL.D. (Glasgow 1879); Dean of the Thistle 4th June 1882. The Disestablishment Agitation of that period found in him a redoubtable opponent, and he delivered many important speeches in defence of the Church. LL.D. (Edinburgh 1884) ; was St Giles Lecturer, 1884-5 ; died at Torquay, 13th Feb. 1886, and was buried in the Cathedral burying ground, St Andrews. The most distinguished churchman of his time, none was more trusted in the Councils of the General Assembly. His fine presence, resonant voice, natural eloquence, kindly demeanour, frank independence, and abundant commonsense gave him a universal popularity. To him is due much of the modern prosperity of the Church of Scotland, in its legislation, and initiation of important progressive movements of thought and action. On questions of University reform he was a shrewd and wise exponent. His portrait, presented at the General Assembly of 1880, is in St Andrew s University. Another (by Sir George Reid, P.R.S.A.) was painted at the order of Queen Victoria, with whom Tulloch was a special favourite and confidant. He marr. 17th July 1845, Jane Anne Sophia (died 27th March 1887), daugh. of J. H. Hindmarsh, Professor of Elocution, St Heliers, Jersey, and had issue William Weir, D.D., min. of Maxwell Parish, Glasgow, born 22nd Sept. 1846; Sarah Elizabeth, born 18th April 1848; Isobel Frances, born 19th March 1850; John Marshall, born 20th Nov. 1851 ; Antonetta, born 1st Dec. 1853 ; Maude Janet Ann, born 20th Aug. 1855; Francis, Glasgow, born 27th Feb. 1857 ; Charles James, born 7th March, and died 17th Aug. 1858; Frederick Ferrier Rose, born 27th March, and died 1st Sept. 1859 ; Agnes Amy, born 9th Feb. 1861 ; Edith Rose, born 7th June 1862; Margaret Blanche Oliphant, born 16th Sept. 1869 (marr. Sir Charles Stewart Wilson, K.C.I.E). Publications Theism: the Witness of Reason and Nature to an All-wise and Beneficent Creator [Burnett Prize Essay] (Edinburgh, 1855) ; Theological Tendencies of the Age [Inaugural Address] (Edinburgh, 1865) ; The Theological Faculties of the Scottish Universities in connection with University Reform (Edinburgh, 1858) ; Luther and other Leaders of the Reformation (Edinburgh, 1859 ; 3rd ed., 1883) ; English Puritanism and its Leaders (Edinburgh, 1861); Beginning Life: chapters for Young Men on Religion, Study, and Business (Edinburgh, 1862; 15th thousand 1877); The Christ of the Gospels and the Christ of Modern Criticism : Lectures on M. Kenans "Vie de Jesus" (London, 1864); Introductory Lecture delivered at the Opening of St Mary's College, St Andrews, 2lst November 1864 (Edinburgh, 1864); Theological Controversy, or the Function of Debate in Theology (Edinburgh, 1865) ; Some Facts of Religion and of Life: Sermons preached before Her Majesty the Queen in Scotland (1866-76) (Edinburgh, 1877) ; Rational Theology and Christian Philosophy in England in the Seventeenth Century, 2 vols. (Edinburgh, 1872 ; 2nd ed., 1874) ; Religion and Theology (Edinburgh, 1875) ; The Christian Doctrine of Sin [Croall Lecture] (Edinburgh, 1876) ; Pascal (Blackwood s Foreign Classics for English Readers, Edinburgh, 1878); Position and Prospects of the Church of Scotland [Assembly Closing Address] (Edinburgh, 1878) ; A Few Remarks on Educational Progress and University Reform (Edinburgh, 1882) ; Modern Theories in Philosophy and Religion (Edinburgh, 1884) ; Movements of Religious Thought in Britain during the Nineteenth Century [St Giles Lectures, 5th ser.] (Edinburgh, 1885); Sundays at Balmoral (London, 1887) ; "Historical and Descriptive Account of St Andrews" (Ballingall's The Shores of Fife, 11-17 Edinburgh, 1872) ; "Notice of Three Silver Vessels belonging to St Mary's College" (Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., xvii. 141-3, Edinburgh, 1883). Many contributions to North British Review, British Quarterly Review, Blackwood s Magazine, The Contemporary Review, The Nineteenth Century, Good Words, Fraser s Magazine and the Edinburgh Review. Articles in ninth edition Encylopcedia Britannica Editor of Fraser s Magazine, 1879 - 81 Missionary Record. [Memoir, by Mrs Oliphant (portrait) (Edinburgh, 1889); Blackwood s Magazine, vol. cxxxix., 415-41 Edinburgh, 1886); Scottish Review, vol. iii., 44-69 (Paisley, 1889) ; Dict. Nat. Biog.]

Dictionary of National Biography

Copy here