Andrew Gray (19th-century divine)

Andrew Gray (2 November 1805 – 10 March 1861), was a Scottish presbyterian divine. Gray was born at Aberdeen, 2 November 1805, went first to a school kept by Gilbert, father of Forbes Falconer, and afterwards to Marischal College, where he graduated A.M. in 1824, and passed through the theological course (1824–8). He was licensed to preach by the Aberdeen presbytery 25 June 1829, and became minister of a chapel-of-ease at Woodside, near Aberdeen, 1 Sept. 1831. Gray was from the first an orthodox evangelical, a vigorous supporter of reform in the Church of Scotland, and a pronounced enemy to all that savoured of Romish doctrine. He publicly defended the Anti-Patronage Society as early as 1825, and agitated for the Chapels Act, by which ministers of chapels-of-ease became members of presbyte

Andrew Gray (19th-century divine)

Andrew Gray (2 November 1805 – 10 March 1861), was a Scottish presbyterian divine. Gray was born at Aberdeen, 2 November 1805, went first to a school kept by Gilbert, father of Forbes Falconer, and afterwards to Marischal College, where he graduated A.M. in 1824, and passed through the theological course (1824–8). He was licensed to preach by the Aberdeen presbytery 25 June 1829, and became minister of a chapel-of-ease at Woodside, near Aberdeen, 1 Sept. 1831. Gray was from the first an orthodox evangelical, a vigorous supporter of reform in the Church of Scotland, and a pronounced enemy to all that savoured of Romish doctrine. He publicly defended the Anti-Patronage Society as early as 1825, and agitated for the Chapels Act, by which ministers of chapels-of-ease became members of presbyte