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Rev Prof George Paxton DD (1762 -1837) was a Scottish secession minister and poet. He was Professor Divinity at Edinburgh University. ==Life== He was born on 2 April 1762 at Dalgourie, on the edge of Bolton, East Lothian. He was the eldest son of William Paxton a joiner and carpenter, and his wife, Jean Milne. In early childhood the family moved to Melrose, then again to Makerstoun, near Kelso. Here a local laird, Sir Hay McDougal, a colonel in the Scots Greys, took George under his wing, and sent him to Kelso to learn Latin and Greek. After an unfinished apprenticeship as a carpenter, he left his home town to go to Edinburgh University but left with no degree in 1784, and instead continued under the private tutelage of Rev William Moncrieff in Alloa. Here he became “a firm seceder”.〔Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: George Paxton〕 In March 1788 he received his licence to preach and was ordained as minister of the joint parishes of Kilmaurs and Stewarton in August 1789, chosing to live in the latter village. Owing to ill-health, around 1800, he was forced to abandon this job, and he took a 7-year respite. However the synod thereafter appointed him as Professor of Divinity. In 1820 he fell out with Rev Thomas McCrie and was forced to resign his professorship. He then set up his own independent secession church, in an old chapel on the steep steps of the Vennel in a hidden location off the Grassmarket in Edinburgh. In 1822 they commissioned Thomas Brown to build a new church on Infirmary Street, just off South Bridge.〔City of Edinburgh Council: Listed Building records〕 Together with a split-off group from Rev McCrie they formed the Associate Synod of Original Seceders. He then was invited to resume his professorship acting for this new body. In 1828 he is shown as a member of the Edinburgh Bible Society under the leadership of Lord Glenorchy.〔https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=RAMsAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA354&lpg=PA354&dq=rev+prof+george+paxton&source=bl&ots=ow-dKtfVGd&sig=QnxvG69s9MD2piTzDEr3GadEvfs&hl=en&sa=X&ei=s7txVdzFNMP4UOHGgaAM&ved=0CDwQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=rev%20prof%20george%20paxton&f=false〕 In the 1830s he is listed as living at 12 Archibald Place, off Lauriston Place, near to George Heriot’s School on the south side of Edinburgh.〔http://digital.nls.uk/directories/browse/pageturner.cfm?id=83401383&mode=transcription〕 He died in Edinburgh on the 9 April 1837 and is buried in the “West Kirk” burial ground, generally now known as St Cuthbert’s Churchyard. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Paxton (minister)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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