J. H. S. Burleigh

Scottish minister and biblical scholar

John Henderson Seaforth Burleigh (1894–1985) was a Scottish minister and biblical scholar^[1] who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1960. He was Honorary President of the Scottish Church History Society. In authorship he is usually referred to as J. H. S. Burleigh.

He was born in the manse at Ednam in the Scottish Borders in 1894 the son of Rev Burleigh. He was educated at Kelso High School and George Watson's College in Edinburgh.^[2] He studied classics at the University of Edinburgh graduating in 1915.

In World War I he served in the King's Own Scottish Borderers. Returning to the University of Edinburgh after the war he changed to divinity and graduated a Bachelor of Divinity (BD) in 1920. He then undertook postgraduate studies researching Jan Huss in various European centres: Paris, Strasbourg, Prague and Oxford.^[3]

From 1931 to 1964, he was Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Edinburgh, also acting as Dean of the Faculty of Divinity from 1956.

As Moderator he was succeeded in 1961 by Archibald Campbell Craig.

He retired in 1964 and died in Peebles on 22 March 1985.

Publications

The Church: What Is It? (1937)
The City of God (1949)
Augustine: Early Writings (1953)
A Church History of Scotland (1961)
St Augustine: Of True Religion (1968)

References

↑ "Craig, Archibald Campbell (1888-1985), biblical scholar". The National Archives. Retrieved 13 February 2018.
↑ "Very Rev Dr John Burleigh, from Ednam Kelso Scotland". kelso.bordernet.co.uk. Archived from the original on 19 December 2015. Retrieved 13 February 2018.
↑ "Full text of "In memoriam; the Very Reverend John Henderson Seaforth Burleigh, M.A., B.D., B.Litt., D.D."". archive.org. 1985. Retrieved 13 February 2018.

v t e Moderators of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
Since reunification with the United Free Church of Scotland in 1929
1929–1950	John White Andrew Bogle John Graham Hugh Mackintosh Lauchlan Watt Peter Thomson Marshall Lang Daniel Lamont Dugald MacFarlane James Black Archibald Main James Forgan James Cockburn Charles Taylor John Baillie Edward Hagan Andrew Campbell John McKenzie Matthew Stewart Alexander Macdonald George Duncan
1950–1975	Hugh Watt William White Anderson George Johnstone Jeffrey James Pitt-Watson Ernest David Jarvis George Henderson Robert Scott George MacLeod John Fraser Robert Shepherd John Burleigh Archibald Campbell Craig Nevile Davidson James Stuart Stewart Duncan Fraser Archibald Watt Leonard Small William Roy Sanderson James Longmuir Thomas Murchison Hugh Douglas Andrew Herron Ronnie Selby Wright George T. H. Reid David Steel
1975–2000	James Gunn Matheson Thomas F. Torrance John Rodger Gray Peter Brodie Robert Barbour William Johnston Andrew Beveridge Doig John McIntyre Fraser McLuskey John M. K. Paterson David Smith Robert Craig Duncan Shaw Jim Whyte Bill McDonald Robert Davidson William Macmillan Hugh Wyllie James Weatherhead James Simpson James Harkness John McIndoe Sandy McDonald Alan Main John Cairns
Since 2000	Andrew McLellan John Miller Finlay Macdonald Iain Torrance Alison Elliot David Lacy Alan McDonald Sheilagh Kesting David Lunan William Hewitt John Christie David Arnott Albert Bogle Lorna Hood John Chalmers Angus Morrison Russell Barr Derek Browning Susan Brown Colin Sinclair Martin Fair Jim Wallace Iain Greenshields Sally Foster-Fulton Shaw Paterson Rosemary Frew Gordon Kennedy

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