Rainy, Robert, 1826-1906 (Free Church Minister and Author)

Scope and Contents Lecture notes taken during classes at New College, Edinburgh, 1883-1890. 16 quarto exercise books. Notes are written by Earle Monteith MacPhail, apart from in instances specifically noted. Earle MacPhail was the son of Rev. James Calder MacPhail, minister of Pilrig. Earle gives his address as Pilrig Manse in the front of each notebook. Some notebooks bear a stamp in the back, indicating that they were part of a student notebook offer run by Gardiner’s Stationers on South Bridge and Teviot...

Scope and Contents The material is composed of: an exercise book and loose exercise book pages of church history and class lectures in church history, 1862-1899; manuscript and typescript of a projected Life of St. Augustine; notes for further work; an illuminated address of the Edinburgh Presbytery of the United Free Church of Scotland to Rainy, 1901, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his ordination; and bound volume of newspaper cuttings, obituaries, tributes on the...