James A. McClymont

James Alexander McClymont CBE VD (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. Archived from the original on 12 November 2017. Retrieved 23 February 2020.
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.)