Charles Salmond
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Charles Adamson Salmond (1853–1932) was a Scottish minister of the Free Church of Scotland and ecclesiastical author.
He was born in Arbroath. He studied divinity at the University of Edinburghthen trained as a Free Church minister at New College, Edinburgh. He did a postgraduate year at Princeton University in America.[1]
He was ordained at the Free Church in Cults, Aberdeen in 1879. He was translated to St Matthew's Free church in Glasgow in 1881. He was then living at 4 Royal Crescent (West).[2] In 1887 he translated to the West Free Church in Rothesay and finally in 1890 he settled at the newly built South Morningside Free Church on Braid Road in Edinburgh.[3] Salmond was the first minister of this spectacular church, designed by Sir Robert Rowand Anderson.[4][5]
In Edinburgh he lived very close to the church at 9 Cluny Drive.[6]
In 1900 he and his church joined the Union in creating the United Free Church of Scotland, usually just referred to as the UF Church.[7] In the same year he visited Princeton University again.[8]
