A number of people are interested in the former ministers of Holy Trinity so we decided to list them here for everyone to research.
In the early years, the following clergy are mentioned:
Date | Name | Position |
1412 | William Bonar | Vicar |
1475 | Sir Alexander Mathison | Curate |
1505-1509, 1511, 1514 | Sir Thomas Preston | Vicar |
1526-1527 | Sir John Matheson | Curate |
1513 | Sir Thomas Preston | Vicar and Dean |
1538-1539 | Sir William Marshall | Curate |
1539 | Robert Ogilvy | Vicar |
1544 | Sir William Marshall | Curate |
1540 | John Bonar | Vicar |
1552-1553 | Sir James Portaway | Vicar |
1566-1567 | Sir Robert Smith | Curate |
Post Reformation the former ministers were:
FIRST CHARGE
1566-1579 | Robert Hamilton |
1578 | George Black |
1581-1583 | Robert Pont |
1584-1588 | John Rutherford |
1589-1590 | Robert Wilkie |
1590-1597 | David Black |
1597-1612 | George Gladstanes |
1612-1638 | Alexander Gladstanes |
1639-1662 | Robert Blair |
1662-1664 | Andrew Honeyman |
1665-1672 | Alexander Young |
1673-1679 | Andrew Bruce |
1680-1684 | William Moore |
1684-1689 | Richard Waddell |
1689-1690 | James Rymer (Rymour) |
1692-1698 | Thomas Forrester |
1699-1712 | John Anderson |
1712-1723 | William Hardie |
1725-1737 | Alexander Anderson |
1738-1752 | John McCormick |
1738-1764 | John Hill |
1768-1779 | James Gillespie |
1779-1808 | John Adamson |
1808-1820 | George Hill |
1820-1854 | Robert Haldane |
1854-1865 | John Park |
1865-1899 | Andrew K.H. Boyd |
1899-1924 | Patrick McDonald Playfair |
1925-1947 | Alexander Slater Dunlop |
1947-1967 | W.E.K Rankin |
1968-1977 | Charles Y. McGlashan |
SECOND CHARGE
1597-1606 | David Lindsay |
1606-1613 | Joshua Durie |
1614-1620 | David Barclay |
1621-1624 | George Dewar |
1626-1637 | George Wishart |
1642-1662 | Andrew Honeyman |
1664-1686 | William Moore |
1681-1686 | Robert Honeyman |
1686-1689 | John Wood |
1697-1700 | Alexander Shields |
1701-1712 | William Hardie |
1712-1718 | Laurence Watson |
1719-1738 | John McCormick |
1738-1753 | John Hill |
1753-1757 | David Carnegie |
1757-1765 | James Gillespie |
1765-1771 | David Hunter |
1772-1779 | John Adamson |
1780-1808 | George Hill |
1813-1860 | George Buist |
1860-1875 | Alexander Hill |
1875-1902 | Mark Louden Anderson |
1903-1906 | James Wallace |
1906-1913 | William Harvey Lothian |
1913-1916 | James A.C. Murray |
1916-1924 | William Kenneth Grant |
1924-1925 | Alexander Slater Dunlop |
1925-1935 | John Wilson Baird |
1935-1947 | W.E.K. Rankin |
1949-1977 | Charles Armour |
SOLE CHARGE
1977-2001 | Charles Armour |
2004-2015 | Rory MacLeod |
Our current minister (since 2018) is the locum minister Rev Marion Paton.