Thomas M'Crie the Younger
Thomas M'Crie (earlier spellings include McCree and Maccrie) (7 November 1797–9 May 1875) was a Presbyterian minister and church historian. He was a Scottish Secession minister who joined the Free Church of Scotland and served as the Moderator of the General Assembly to that church 1856/57. Early life and ministry. He was born at 5 Buccleuch Street in Edinburgh, on 7 November 1797, the eldest son of Thomas McCrie, by his first wife. He was educated at the High School in Edinburgh then studied divinity at the University of Edinburgh. He then transferred to the Theological  Hall, run by the Secessionist Church. He received his theological training partly under Professor Bruce, Whitburn, his father, and Robert Chalmers, Haddington He was licensed on 15 August 1820. He was called to Crieff on 14 February 1821 being ordained as a minister there but loosed from his charge on 19 July 1826. He moved to Clola in Aberdeenshire and was inducted on 16 April 1829. A couple of years later, in 1831, he was called to Midholm (that is Midlem in Roxburghshire) but declined. Subsequent ministry. Following this he was translated to Davie Street Church, Edinburgh, as successor to  his father, on 9 June 1836 and on 13 May of the same year was appointed Professor of Divinity, as successor to Professor Paxton. M'Crie was Moderator of the United Original Secession Synod, which united with the Free Church of Scotland on 1 June 1852. Angus Makellar was the Free Church Moderator that year. In the 1850s he was living at 58 George Square. Was chosen Moderator of General Assembly of Free Church in May 1856. In October of same year demitted his charge, and removed to London, to succeed Professor Hugh Campbell in the Theological College of English Presbyterian  Church. Owing to ophthalmia he resigned his chair, and returned to Scotland in 1866, and the rank of Emeritus Professor, and a retiring allowance to the close of his life, were voted him by the English Synod. He retired to Gullane in East Lothian due to failing eyesight, but retained an Edinburgh property. Death and burial. M'Crie died in Edinburgh, 9 May 1875 at 39 Minto Street, and on 14 of same month was buried beside his father in the Greyfriars' Churchyard, Edinburgh. He is buried in the western extension to Greyfriars Kirkyard but has a separate stone, set high  on the Flodden Wall facing his father's monument, not far from the spot where the National Covenant was subscribed in 1638. Family. He married Walteria Chalmers, a daughter of Robert Chalmers, the Secession minister at Haddington, East Lothian, they had no children. Works. Was for several years editor of the British and Foreign Evangelical Review, and author of: