53 Fountainhall Road, Edinburgh

David Paul FLS (1845–1929) was a Scottish minister and botanist who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1915.

Life

The grave of Very Rev David Paul, Grange Cemetery, Edinburgh

David Paul was born on 28 August 1845 in Banchory in Aberdeenshire, the son of Rev Dr William Paul DD minister of Banchory-Devenick and his wife, Jessy Stewart.

He was educated at Banchory-Devenick school then studied first at Aberdeen University then Edinburgh University.[1]

Paul was licensed to preach as a Church of Scotland minister by the Presbytery of Aberdeen 1868 and became assistant in Udny. In 1869 he took brief charge of the Scots Church in the east of Dresden in Germany before returning to Scotland when ordained as minister of Morebattle later in the same year. He translated to Roxburgh in 1876.[1]

From 1896 Paul was minister of the Robertson Memorial Church in the Grange (renamed Grange Church in 1929 and now known as Marchmont-St Giles) replacing Rev William Lyon Riach.[2] He lived at 53 Fountainhall Road, a large villa in the Grange.[3]

From 1899 to 1901 he was President of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. He delivered his penultimate presidential address on the 8th of November 1900[4] and his outgoing presidential address on the 14th of November 1901.[5]

He was principal clerk of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland from 1912 to 1926, serving as Moderator in 1915.

Paul died on 12 July 1929. He is buried, with his family, in Grange Cemetery in south Edinburgh close to his home and his church. The grave lies on the southern boundary wall, towards the south-east corner wall.

Family

In 1876 he was married to Katharine Kinloch, daughter of Alexander John Kinloch of Park and Altries. They had several children:

References

  1. ^ a b Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae; by Hew Scott
  2. ^ says, Cathy Hinks. "Churches – Grange Association Edinburgh".
  3. ^ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1910–11
  4. ^ "Presidential Address.—On the Ferns, Especially the Filmy Ferns, of Jamaica by Rev. David Paul, LL.D., Edinburgh (Delivered 8th November 1900)". Transactions and Proceedings of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, including Sessions LXV.–LXVIII (1901–1904). pp. 1–12.
  5. ^ "Presidential Address.—The European Species of the Genus Primula by Rev. David Paul, LL.D., Edinburgh (Delivered 14th November 1901)". Transactions and Proceedings of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, including Sessions LXV.–LXVIII (1901–1904). pp. 89–105. (See Primula.)
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