Lecture notebooks of James Cromarty Smith, 1863-1944, Church of Scotland minister

• Lecture notebooks on pastoral theology, 1921;
• Lecture notebooks on liturgics, 1929;
• Notebook of sermons for Holy Week, 1938.

James Cromarty Smith, 1863-1944, Church of Scotland minister, was born in 1843 at the Manse of Firth, Orkney Islands, Scotland. He was educated at Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, Scotland. In 1888, he became minister in Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, and from 1905 to 1939 he was the Church of Scotland minister in Coatdykes (later Trinity), Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire. Smith was the president of the Scottish Church Society, from 1913 to 1914 and from 1930 to 1933. He died in 1944.

Source: Scottish Biographies 1938 (London and Glasgow, 1938)

The arrangement of this material reflects the original order in which it was received

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Gift : Samuel McCurdy Harris : July 2001 : ACCN 4792

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These notebooks were given by James Cromarty Smith to his former assistant, and were then passed to the previous owner.

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GB 247 MS Gen (ACCN 4796) Letter and memorandum from S McC Harris to P W Asplin regarding provenance of five notebooks of James Cromarty Smith, 17 August 2001