G. C. M. Douglas

The Rev Prof George Cunningham Monteath Douglas DD (1826–1904) was a 19th-century Scottish minister of the Free Church of Scotland who was Professor of Hebrew and the Old Testament at Glasgow Free Church College. He served as Moderator of the General Assembly to the Free Church in 1894/1895.

Life

He was born on 2 March 1826 in the manse at Kilbarchan in south-west Scotland in 1826 the son of Rev Robert Douglas, the parish minister serving the Church of Scotland, and his wife Janet Monteath, daughter of Rev John Monteath of Houston, Renfrewshire .[1]

He took a general degree at Glasgow University then studied Divinity at New College, Edinburgh. He was ordained by the Free Church of Scotland at Bridge of Weir in 1852. In 1857 he was elected Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament at the newly built Free Church College in Glasgow. Originally living in college rooms by 1860 he was living at 25 Westminster Terrace, a fine three storey and basement terraced house, with his family.[2]

He succeeded Dr Patrick Fairbairn as Principal of the College in 1875.

In 1894 he succeeded Rev Walter Chalmers Smith as Moderator of the General Assembly, the highest position in the Free Church of Scotland.

He retired in May 1902 and died at Woodcliffe in Bridge of Allan[3] on 24 May 1904 and is buried in the Glasgow Necropolis.[4]

Family

He was brother to the missionary Carstairs Douglas (1830-1877).

In 1855 he married Grace Alice Moncrieff, daughter of Hugh Moncrieff of Glasgow.

Publications
  • Handbooks for Bible Study
  • Why I Still Think that Moses Wrote Deuteronomy

References
  1. Ewing, William Annals of the Free Church
  2. Glasgow Post Office Directory 1860
  3. Glasgow Post Office Directory 1900
  4. "Rev George CM Douglas, 1826-1904". www.douglashistory.co.uk.
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