page_title: Free Church of Scotland (1843–1900)
section_title: Moderators of the General Assembly
hierarchical_section_title: Free Church of Scotland (1843–1900) / Moderators of the General Assembly
caption_attribution_description: English: National Galleries Scotland John Moffat The Moderator and Ex Moderators of the Free Church of Scotland, Assembly 1860
context_page_description: The Free Church of Scotland was a Scottish denomination which was formed in 1843 by a large withdrawal from the established Church of Scotland in a schism or division known as the Disruption of 1843. In 1900 the vast majority of the Free Church of Scotland joined with the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland to form the United Free Church of Scotland. The House of Lords judged that the minority continuing after the 1900 union were entitled to all the assets. While the denomination clearly had a starting date, in their own eyes their leaders had a legitimate claim to an unbroken succession of leaders going all the way back to the Apostles.
  The minority of the Free Church of Scotland who continued outside the union of 1900, retained the title the Free Church of Scotland.
context_section_description: It is noted that duplicates appear in 1866 and 1867.
  Thomas Chalmers (1843)
  Henry Grey (1844)
  Patrick MacFarlan (1845) Gaelic Moderator John Macdonald
  Robert James Brown {1846)
  James Sievewright (1847)
  Patrick Clason (1848)
  Mackintosh MacKay (1849)
  Nathaniel Paterson (1850)
  Alexander Duff (1851)
  Angus Makellar (1852)
  John Smyth (1853)
  James Grierson (1854)
  James Henderson (1855)
  Thomas M'Crie the Younger (1856)
  James Julius Wood (1857)
  Alexander Beith (1858)
  William Cunningham (1859)
  Robert Buchanan (1860)
  Robert Smith Candlish (1861)
  Thomas Guthrie (1862)
  Roderick McLeod (1863)
  Patrick Fairbairn (1864)
  James Begg (1865)
  William Wilson (1866)
  John Roxburgh (1866 or 1867)
  Robert Smith Candlish (1867)
  William Nixon (1868)
  Henry Wellwood Moncreiff (1869)
  John Wilson (1870)
  Robert Elder (1871)
  Charles John Brown (1872)
  Alexander Duff (1873) the only person to serve a second term
  Robert Walter Stewart (1874)
  Alexander Moody Stuart (1875)
  Thomas McLauchlan (1876)
  William Henry Goold (1877)
  Andrew Bonar (1878)
  James Chalmers Burns (1879)
  Thomas Main (1880)
  William Laughton (1881)
  Robert MacDonald (minister) (1882)
  Horatius Bonar (1883)
  Walter Ross Taylor (1884)
  David Brown (1885)
  Alexander Neill Somerville (1886)
  Robert Rainy (1887)
  Gustavus Aird (1888) (the only year the Assembly was solely in Inverness)
  John Laird (1889)
  Thomas Brown (1890)
  Thomas Smith (1891)
  Walter Chalmers Smith (1893)
  George Douglas (1894)
  James Hood Wilson (1895)
  William Miller (1896)
  Hugh Macmillan (1897)
  Alexander Whyte (1898)
  James Stewart (1899)
  Walter Ross Taylor (1900)
caption: John Moffat's The Moderator and Ex Moderators of the Free Church of Scotland, Assembly 1860. This has been digitally colourised by Yusuf Tolga Ünker.[34]
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