page_title: Paton James Gloag
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Paton James Gloag / Life
caption_attribution_description: English: 28 Regent Terrace, Edinburgh Wikidata has entry Q17570316 with data related to this item. This is a photo of listed building number 49793.
context_page_description: Very Rev Prof Paton James Gloag DD LLD was a Scottish minister and theological author. He was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1889.
context_section_description: Born in Perth on  17 May 1823, he was the eldest son of William Gloag (died 1856), a banker in Perth, by his wife Janet (Jessie) Burn (died 1864), daughter of John Burn, WS of Edinburgh. William Gloag, Lord Kincairney was his younger  brother, and his eldest sister was Jessie Burn Gloag, who founded a ragged school in Perth.
  Educated at Perth grammar school, then studied divinity at Edinburgh University from 1841. Due to the Disruption of 1843 he relocated to St Andrews University and completed his degree there. He was licensed to preach in 1846 and from 1848 to 1857 was minister of Dunning a remote village in southern Perthshire. In 1860 he moved to Blantyre and in 1871 he moved to Galashiels, where he settled until 1892.
  In 1879 he delivered The Baird Lecture in Glasgow on the topic of “The Messianic Prophecy”
  He made several trips to Germany where he befriended August Tholuck.
  In 1892 he gave up his parochial duties and went to Edinburgh to concentrate on writing. In 1896 he accepted a post of professor of Biblical criticism at Aberdeen University.
  Gloag was influenced by the writings of John Pye-Smith. He was an advocate of gap creationism.
  On 9 January 1906 he died in his Edinburgh home, 28 Regent Terrace on Calton Hill, a very large Georgian townhouse. However, he is buried in the small parish churchyard of Dunning, next to his parents.
  A memorial stained glass window was erected to his memory in St Pauls Parish Church in Galashiels.
caption: 28 Regent Terrace, Edinburgh
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