Skip to main content

Baillie, John, 1886-1960 (Scottish theologian and ecumenical leader)

 Person

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Centenary Service for Henry Duncan, 1946

 Item
Identifier: BAI 1/6/7
Scope and Contents

Broadcast of the service comemorating the centenary of the death of Henry Duncan, at which John Baillie was preacher. He gave a biographical talk on Duncan's life and work.

Dates: 1946

Christian Devotion, 1961-1962

 File
Identifier: BAI 1/13/5
Scope and Contents

File (originaly marked as '2nd carbon copy') containing manuscripts and page proofs relating to the posthumously published Christian Devotion, with biographical introduction by John Baillie's cousin, Isobel M Forrester.

Dates: 1961-1962

General: 1950-1951, 1950-1951

 Sub-Series
Identifier: BAI 1/17/32
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and related items, including letters from his wife Florence Jewel Baillie, his brother Donald Macpherson Baillie, Sir Zwinglius Frank Willis, Thomas Stearns Eliot and Reinhold Niebuhr. Includes material relating to the erection of a gravestone for John Baillie's cousin, Elizabeth Catherine Gallant, BBC broadcasts, biographical information on Alexander Martin, and a visit to France.

Dates: 1950-1951

Items relating to or assembled by Ian Fowler Baillie, 1909-1966

 Series
Identifier: BAI 4
Scope and Contents

The items relating to or assembled by Ian Fowler Baillie consist of:


  1. biographical notes on John Baillie and the wider family
  2. papers relating to John Baillie
  3. press cuttings
  4. school reports
Dates: 1909-1966

Letter regarding Ross Husband, 02 March 1917

 Item
Identifier: BAI 1/8/1/5
Scope and Contents

Letter from John Baillie to [David Morison] Ross, detailing/assessing the student life, philosophy and general character of Peter Ross Husband (deceased), and quoted at length in Ross's biography of Husband.

Dates: 02 March 1917

Lyndon Baines Johnson Diary of Private Prayer, 1961-1968

 File
Identifier: BAI 11/13
Scope and Contents

File of mostly correspondence between Florence Jewel Baillie and individuals, including Donald S Klinefelter, interested in writing dissertations/theses/biographies on John Baillie.

Dates: 1961-1968

The New Gifford Lecturer, Professor Reinhold Niebuhr, 1939

 Item
Identifier: BAI 1/8/1/9
Scope and Contents

Text of article by John Baillie published in the Scotsman on the then Gifford Lecturer, Reinhold Niebuhr.

Dates: 1939