James A. McClymont

The Very Rev Dr James Alexander McClymont CBE VD DD (1848–1927) was a Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1921.[1][2]

Life

He was Principal Chaplain to the Royal Army Chaplains' Department in the First World War.[3]

His duties as Moderator in 1921/22 included unveiling the stained glass windows at St Laurence Church in Forres.[4]

In 1924 a sermon by McClymont on the "League of Nations" was broadcast from Edinburgh on radio by the BBC.[5]

Publications

• The New Testament and its Writers (1899)
• Greece (1906), illustrations by John Fulleylove[6]
• The New Century Bible: St John (1930)

References

1. Weisse, Wolfram (1991). Praktisches Christentum und Reich Gottes: die ökumenische Bewegung Life und Work, 1919-1937 (in German). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. p. 634. ISBN 9783525565353. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
2. "Moderators of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland genealogy project". geni_family_tree.
3. "Royal Army Chaplains Department". Great War Forum.
4. "Data". www.stlaurencechurchforres.org.uk. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
5. Radio Times, 19 December 1924
6. Baker, Anne Pimlott. "Fulleylove, John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33293. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)