William Arnot (minister)
[2] He was educated at the local parish school then trained as a gardener alongside his older brother Robert Arnot.[6] After completing his theological studies he was licensed by the Church of Scotland in October 1837 and became assistant minister to Rev John Bonar of Larbert and Dunipace.He three times visited America: in 1845, to minister in Canada; in 1870 as a delegate from the Free Church of Scotland to congratulate the presbyterian churches in the northern states on their reunion; and for the third time, in 1873, as a member of the Evangelical Alliance, to attend its meetings at New York.He is buried beneath a huge but simple red granite monument in the northern half of the SE section of Grange, Cemetery in Edinburgh.He married 30 June 1844, Jane, daughter of John Fleming of Clairmont, and had issue — This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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