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Organisations (31)
- Associate (Burgher) Theological Hall Theological Society
- Berean Church (Barclayites)
- Christian Unity Association of Scotland
- Church of Scotland Committee for Preserving and Maintaining Purity in Doctrine
- Church of Scotland Committee on Chaplains to HM Forces
- Church of Scotland Committee on the Maintenance of the Ministry Edinburgh, Midlothian
- Church of Scotland Committee on the Proper Conduct of Public Worship and the Celebration of Sacraments Edinburgh, Midlothian
- Church of Scotland Special Commission on Baptism Edinburgh, Midlothian
- Church Service Society
- Edinburgh City Mission Ladies' Association Edinburgh, Midlothian
- Edinburgh Clerical club Edinburgh, Midlothian
- Edinburgh Licentiates' Association of the Church of Scotland Edinburgh, Midlothian
- Edinburgh Theological Club Edinburgh, Midlothian
- Edinburgh University Christian Union Edinburgh, Midlothian
- Edinburgh University Missionary Association Edinburgh, Midlothian
- Edinburgh University Theological Society Edinburgh, Midlothian
- Edinburgh University United Presbyterian Students Society Edinburgh, Midlothian
- Edinburgh University: Faculty of Divinity (formerly New College) Edinburgh, Midlothian
- Edinburgh Young Mens Association for Promoting the Interests of the Church of Scotland Edinburgh, Midlothian
- Exegetical Society
- Free Church of Scotland Committee on Quoad Sacra Churches
- Free Church of Scotland Committee on the Conversion of the Jews, sub-committee on Turkey and the East
- Free Church of Scotland: General Assembly Edinburgh, Midlothian
- New College Metaphysical and Ethical Society, Edinburgh Edinburgh, Midlothian
- New College Missionary Society, Edinburgh Edinburgh, Midlothian
- New College Union Edinburgh, Midlothian
- Radernie Praying Society Radernie, Fife
- Regions Beyond Missionary Union
- Scottish Congregational College Scotland
- Student Christian Movement
- United Presbyterian University Students Total Abstinence Society Edinburgh, Midlothian
Persons (161)
- Abercrombie, John, (1780-1844), physician
- Agnew, Sir Andrew, (1793-1849), 7th Baronet MP Sabbatarian Promoter
- Aiton, John, (1797-1863), Religious Writer
- Alexander, William Lindsay, (1808-1884), Congregational minister, theologian
- Anderson, William White, (1888-1956), minister of St Cuthbert's, Edinburgh Edinburgh, Midlothian
- Baillie, Donald Macpherson, (1887-1954), theologian
- Baillie, Robert, (1599-1662), Presbyterian minister Principal of Glasgow University
- Baird, George Husband, (1761-1840), Principal of Edinburgh University
- Baron, Robert, (? 1593-1639), Professor of Divinity at Aberdeen and St Andrews
- Begg, James, (1806-1883), Free Church Minister of Newington
- Bell, George Joseph, (1770-1843), lawyer, legal author
- Binning, Robert Blair Monro, (1814-1891), traveller and linguist
- Black, John Sutherland, (1846-1923), Editor and Author
- Blackwell, George, (1713-1749), Minister at Bathgate
- Blaikie, William Garden, (1820-1899), Professor of Theology
- Blomfield, Charles James, (1786-1857), Bishop of London
- Bonar, Andrew Alexander, (1810-1892), Free Church of Scotland Minister
- Bonar, Horatius, (1808-1889), Free Church of Scotland minister and author
- Bonar, James, (1839-1915), Hymnologist
- Bonar, John, (1671-1747), Minister of Torphichen
- Bonar, John, (d 1761), Minister of Cockpen and Perth West Church
- Bonar, John, (1696-1752), Minister of Fetlar
- Boston, Thomas, (1677-1732), minister of Ettrick
- Brainerd, David, (1718-1747), American missionary to Indian tribes
- Brewster, Sir David, (1781-1868), Knight, natural philosopher
- Brown, John, (1722-1787), professor of Divinity
- Brown, John, (1754-1832), Minister of the Burgher Church, Whitburn and biographer
- Brown, John, (1778-1848), theologian
- Brown, Thomas, (1811-1893), Free Church of Scotland minister
- Brown, William, (1800-1868), theologian
- Bruce, Alexander Hugh, (1849-1921), 6th Baron Balfour of Burghleigh, statesman
- Bruce, James, (1811-1863), 8th Earl of Elgin, Viceroy of India
- Bruce, Thomas, (1766-1841), 7th Earl of Elgin
- Brunton, Alexander, (1772-1854), Church of Scotland minister and scholar of oriental languages
- Buchanan, James, (1804-1870), Free Church Leader
- Buchanan, Robert, (1802-1875), Free Church of Scotland minister and historian
- Buist, George, (1805-1860), Journalist and Scientist
- Burns, Robert, (1789-1869), Canada Presbyterian church minister
- Campbell, John Douglas Edward Henry, (1777-1847), 7th Duke of Argyll
- Campbell, John McLeod, (1800-1872), theologian
- Candlish, James Stuart, (1835-1897), Theologian
- Carlile, James, (1784-1854), Minister of Presbyterian Church in Ireland
- Chalmers, James, (1686-1744), Minister at Dyke
- Chalmers, Thomas, (1780-1847), Church of Scotland minister and social reformer
- Charteris, Archibald Hamilton, (1835-1908), Church of Scotland minister and biblical scholar
- Cleland, James, (1770-1840), Statistician
- Cockburn, Henry, (1779-1854), Lord Cockburn Scottish judge
- Collins, William, (1789-1853), publisher and religious philanthropist
- Cook, George, (1772-1845), Scottish Church Leader
- Cooke, Henry, (1788-1868), Irish Presbyterian Leader
- Craik, George Lillie, (1798-1866), author
- Cunningham, William, (1805-1861), Free Church of Scotland minister and theologian
- Dalziel, John, (1725-1804), Minister of Earlston East (antiburgher) Church
- Dealtry, William, (1775-1847), Archdeacon of Surrey Scientist Mathematician
- Denney, James, (1856-1917), Theologian
- Dickson, David, (1780-1842), Presbyterian Minister, Author
- Dods, Reverend Marcus, (1786-1838), Presbyterian minister and theologian
- Dods, Marcus, (1834-1909), New Testament scholar
- Duncan, Henry, (1774-1846), Church of Scotland minister, founder of Savings Banks
- Duncan, Thomas, (1777-1858), mathematician
- Erskine, Ebenezer, (1680-1754), founder of Scottish Secession Church
- Erskine, Henry, (1624-1696), Minister of Chirnside
- Erskine, Henry, (1720-1754), Burgher Minister at Falkirk
- Erskine, James, (1730-1761), Burgher Minister at Stirling
- Erskine, Ralph, (1685-1752), Scottish Seceding Minister, Poet
- Erskine, Thomas, (1788-1870), advocate and theologian
- Finlay, Kirkman, (1773-1842), MP Glasgow Merchant
- Finlayson, James, (1758-1808), Professor of Logic
- Flint, Robert, (1838-1910), philosopher and theologian
- Forrester, Thomas, (c 1635-1706), Presbyterian Theologian
- Fraser, Donald, (1733-1841), Secession Minister at Kennoway
- Fraser, James, (1638-1698), of Brea Covenanter
- Gatt, James, (1700-1787), Minister of Gretna
- Gib, Adam, (1714-1788), Secession Minister
- Gillespie, Thomas, (1777-1844), Professor of Humanity
- Gladstone, Sir John, (1764-1851), 1st Baronet merchant and politician
- Gladstone, William Ewart, (1809-1898), statesman
- Gordon, James Edward, (1789-1864), MP and Protestant propagandist
- Gordon, Robert, (1786-1853), Free Church minister and scientist
- Grant, Charles, (1778-1866), Baron Glenelg, politician
- Gurney, Joseph John, (1788-1847), Quaker, philanthropist and writer
- Haldane, Robert, (1772-1854), Principal of St Mary's College St Andrews
- Hamilton, Robert Montgomery, (1793-1868), 8th Baron Belhaven
- Hamilton, William, (1780-1835), theological writer
- Hamilton-Gordon, George, (1784-1860), 4th Earl of Aberdeen, statesman
- Hanna, Samuel, (? 1772-1852), Presbyterian Minister, Rosemary Street, Belfast
- Hanna, William, (1808-1882), theologian
- Hewison, Reverend James King, (1853-1941), Church of Scotland Minister
- Hope, John, (1794-1858), Solicitor General for Scotland
- Horner, Leonard, (1785-1864), geologist
- Hunter, Adam Mitchell, (1871-1955), Librarian and Author
- Inglis, John, (1763-1834), Reformed Presbyterian Church Missionary
- Inglis, Sir Robert Harry, (1786-1855), 2nd Baronet, politician
- Irving, Edward, (1792-1834), Founder of the Catholic Apostolic Church
- Jeffrey, Francis, (1773-1850), Lord Jeffrey Scottish judge and critic
- Latrobe, Christian Ignatius, (1758-1836), Moravian Minister and Composer
- Learmonth, John, (1789-1858), Lord Provost of Edinburgh
- Lee, John, (1779-1859), Church of Scotland minister and university principal
- Lee, Robert, (1804-1868), Professor at Edinburgh
- Locker, Edward Hawke, (1777-1849), Commissioner of Greenwich Hospital
- Macaulay, Zachary, (1768-1838), Philanthropist
- Macdonald, John, (1779-1849), Free Church of Scotland minister
- MacEwen, Alexander Robertson, (1851-1916), Ecclesiastical historian
- Macfarlan, Patrick, (1781-1849), Free Church of Scotland Minister
- Macgill, Stevenson, (1765-1840), Professor of Theology Glasgow University
- Mackay, Mackintosh, (1793-1873), Free Church of Scotland minister and Gaelic scholar
- Maclagan, James, (1788-1852), Professor of Divinity Aberdeen Free Church College
- Macvicar, John Gibson, (1800-1884), writer on science
- Manson, William, (1882-1958), theologian
- Marshall, James, (1796-1855), Presbyterian Minister, Author
- Martin, Alexander, (1857-1946), Principal of New College, Edinburgh
- McCheyne, Robert Murray, (1813-1843), Minister of St Peter's Church Dundee
- Mcintyre, John, (b 1916), Theologian
- Menzies, Archibald, (1754-1842), Surgeon and Botanist
- Mitchell, Alexander Ferrier, (1822-1899), ecclesiastical historian
- Moncreiff, Sir Henry Wellwood, (1750-1827), 8th Baronet Minister of St Cuthbert Edinburgh
- Moncreiff, Sir James Wellwood, (1776-1851), Knight, Lord Moncreiff, Scottish Judge
- Muir, William, (1787-1869), Church of Scotland Minister Royal Chaplain
- Murray, John, (c 1786-1851), Scientific Lecturer
- Murray, John Archibald, (1779-1859), Lord Murray Scottish Judge
- Napier, Macvey, (1776-1847), editor of Edinburgh Review
- Newman, John Henry, (1801-1890), Cardinal, priest, poet and theologian
- Nicoll, Francis, (1770-1835), Principal of St Andrews University
- Oldham, Joseph Houldsworth, (1874-1969), Missionary
- Paul, John, (1777-1848), Reformed Presbyterian Minister of Loughmourne
- Peterkin, Alexander, (1780-1846), lawyer, journalist and antiquary
- Philip, Alexander, (1813-1861), Minister of Portobello Free Church, Edinburgh
- Pillans, James, (1778-1864), classicist and educational reformer
- Rainy, Harry, (1792-1876), Physician
- Rainy, Robert, (1826-1906), Free Church Minister, Author
- Ramsay, Edward Bannerman, (1793-1872), Dean of Edinburgh
- Rankin, Oliver Shaw, (1885-1954), Biblical Scholar
- Reid, David Boswell, (1805-1863), inventor
- Robison, Sir John, (1778-1843), Knight inventor
- Roget, Peter Mark, (1779-1869), physician and philologist
- Russell, James, (1754-1836), Physician
- Simpson, Alexander Lockhart, (1785-1861), minister Kirknewton, Midlothian
- Sinclair, Sir George, (1790-1868), 2nd Baronet Politician and Author
- Sinclair, Sir John, (1754-1835), 1st Baronet, politician and agriculturist
- Spring-Rice, Thomas, (1790-1866), 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon in Kerry, statesman
- St-Clair-Erskine, James, (1762-1837), 2nd Earl of Rosslyn, General, statesman
- Steven, William, (1796-1857), historian and clergyman
- Stewart, James Stuart, (1896-1990), Theologian
- Stewart, Randolph, (1800-1873), 9th Earl of Galloway
- Stow, David, (1793-1864), Educational Writer
- Strachan, John, (1778-1867), Bishop of Toronto
- Taylor, Walter Ross, (d 1907), Minister at Kelvinside Glasgow
- Taylor, William, (1816-1886), Free Church Minister
- Thomson, Alexander, (1798-1868), advocate, Free Church of Scotland benefactor
- Thomson, Andrew Mitchell, (1779-1831), Church of Scotland minister, author
- Thomson, James, (1786-1849), mathematician
- Tweedie, William King, (1803-1863), Free Church of Scotland minister
- Wallace, William, (1768-1843), mathematician
- Watson, Charles, (1794-1866), Minister of Burntisland
- Welsh, David, (1793-1845), Free Church Minister, Historian
- Welwood, Alexander Maconochie-, (1777-1861), Lord Meadowbank, judge
- White, John, (1867-1951), Minister of the Barony Glasgow
- Whyte, Alexander, (1836-1921), Principal of New College Edinburgh
- Wilberforce, William, (1759-1833), MP, philanthropist
- Williams, Sir John Bickerton, (1792-1855), Knight, Nonconformist
- Wright, George, (1776-1826), Church of Scotland Minister
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (6)
- NRA 38946 Thomas Brown, Free Church of Scotland minister: collected MSS rel to the Disruption
- NRA 39293 Thomas Brown, Free Church of Scotland minister: family corresp
- NRA 27818 Thomas Chalmers, theologian: corresp and papers
- NRA 38153 James Denney, theologian: papers
- NRA 38186 Edinburgh University: Faculty of Divinity
- NRA 39227 New College Library, Edinburgh University: MS collections
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