page_title: Archibald Fleming (b. 1863)
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Archibald Fleming (b. 1863) / Life
caption_attribution_description: English: The building of the Tron Kirk was started in 1637 but not completed until 1678 because of delays caused by the Wars of the Covenant after 1638. It was Edinburgh's first presbyterian kirk, free of any taint of Catholicism attached to the history of Greyfriars and St. Giles. It takes its name from the 'tron', the weighing-machine that stood nearby to check that market traders were using genuine weights. The spire was rebuilt in 1828 after the original had been destroyed in a fire. 14th Oct, 1584. At this time, the common Council ordered the town to be divided into four parishes, to have each its proper church, according to the several quarters of the city, viz. St. Giles's Church for the Southwest quarter, Magdalen Chapel for the Southeast; the New Church [Tron] for the Northwest; and the Trinity Church for the Northeast quarter; the last whereof being ordered to be inclosed within the city wall, and a new gate to be made in the said wall at the foot of Halkerton's Wynd. -- Wm. Maitland, History of Edinburgh, 1753
context_page_description: Archibald Fleming TD Order of St Sava was a Scottish minister, military chaplain and religious author. He was Grand Chaplain to the Grand Lodge of Freemasons in Scotland.
context_section_description: He was born on 27 December 1863, the eldest son of Rev Archibald Fleming, of Inchyra House, near Perth, Scotland. His father was minister of St Paul's Church in Perth.
  He was educated at Perth Academy and then studied Divinity at University of Edinburgh (graduating M.A. in 1883). Like his father he became a Church of Scotland minister. Licensed by the Presbytery of Perth in 1887 he became assistant at St Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh the same year. He was ordained to Newton on 25 September 1888; transferred to Tron Kirk in Edinburgh on 18 May 1897; acting chaplain 9th V.B. (Highlanders) the Royal Scots, 1898–1902, and London Scottish, 1903–1922. He was chaplain to the Lord High Commissioner, 1918–1920, the Monarch's representative at the annual, General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. Due to his work in Serbia during the First World War he was awarded the Serbian Order of St Sava in 1919. 
  He was editor of the church's magazine Life and Work from 1898 to 1902. He was succeeded as editor by John Ferrier. Thereafter, he became Minister of St Columba's Church, in Pont Street, London. He became Moderator of the Scottish Church in England in 1929.
caption: Tron Kirk, Edinburgh
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