CANDLISH

Rev. Robert Smith ( youngest child of James Candlish of Edinburgh, teacher of medicine who d. 29 April 1806 aged 46 ). b. Nicols on st. Edin. 23 March 1806; ed. at Glasgow college 1818–23; private tutor at Eton Dec. 1823; licensed by presbytery of Glasgow 6 Aug. 1828; a istant minister at St. Andrew’s Glasgow 1829, at Bonhill, Dumb art on shire 1831–3; minister of St. George’s Edin. 14 Aug. 1834; D.D. Princeton coll. New Jersey 1841; left Scotch kirk 18 May 1843; had leading share in organisation of Free church; minister of St. George’s free church Edin. 1846 to death; convener of education committee of Free church 1846; moderator of General A embly 1861; principal of New college Edin. 1862; D.D. Edin. 1865; author of Contributions towards the exposition of the book of Genesis 3 vols. 1843–62; Scripture characters and miscellanies 1850, 4 ed. 1872; Life in a risen Saviour 1858, 3 ed. 1863; Reason and revelation 1859, 2 ed. 1864; The fatherhood of God 1865, 5 ed. 1870. d. Melville st. Edinburgh 19 Oct. 1873. Memorials by Wm. Wilson 1880, portrait ; Life by J. L. Watson 1882, portrait ; A. Beith’s Three weeks with Dr. Candlish , 2 ed. 1874 ; J. A. Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881) 139–46, portrait ; Crombie’s Modern A then i ans (1882), portrait ; Graphic viii , 407, 412 (1873), portrait .