John Alexander (Presbyterian minister)
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John Alexander was an Irish Presbyterian minister.
. He was educated at Glasgow, and settled in England. Wilson identifies him with the John Alexander
who was pupil of Isaac Noble and Congregationalist minister at Gloucester
1712–18. He was Presbyterian minister at Stratford-on-Avon, where he educated students for the ministry.
He afterwards moved to Dublin, where he was installed minister of Plunket Street Presbyterian congregation on 15 November 1730. He was moderator of the General Synod of Ulster, 1734, and died in Dublin on 1 November 1743 and was buried there. His family moved to Birmingham.
and Benjamin (1737–1768): the latter, was a doctor of medicine, and translated J. B. Morgagni's De Sedibus (The Seats and Causes of Disease, investigated by Anatomy, 1769).Funeral Sermon by Rev. Robert Macmaster, 1743 Thomas Witherow's Historical and Literary Memorials of Presbyterianism in Ireland, first series, 1879 Wilson's manuscripts at Dr. Williams's Library Monthly Repository
1816, page 93.
Life
He was a native of Ulster, but connected with the Scottish noble family of the Alexanders, earls of Stirling, being the grandson of the first earlWilliam Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling
William Alexander, Earl of Stirling was a Scotsman who was an early developer of Scottish colonisation of Port Royal, Nova Scotia and Long Island, New York...
. He was educated at Glasgow, and settled in England. Wilson identifies him with the John Alexander
John Alexander
-Arts and entertainment:* John Alexander , American stage and film actor* John Alexander II , Scottish film actor; see * John Alexander , British television director* John Alexander -Arts and entertainment:* John Alexander (actor) (1897–1982), American stage and film actor* John Alexander II...
who was pupil of Isaac Noble and Congregationalist minister at Gloucester
Gloucester
Gloucester is a city, district and county town of Gloucestershire in the South West region of England. Gloucester lies close to the Welsh border, and on the River Severn, approximately north-east of Bristol, and south-southwest of Birmingham....
1712–18. He was Presbyterian minister at Stratford-on-Avon, where he educated students for the ministry.
He afterwards moved to Dublin, where he was installed minister of Plunket Street Presbyterian congregation on 15 November 1730. He was moderator of the General Synod of Ulster, 1734, and died in Dublin on 1 November 1743 and was buried there. His family moved to Birmingham.
Works
He was a linguist and patristic scholar; he published The Primitive Doctrine of Christ's Divinity … in an Essay on Irenæus … 1727.Family
He married Hannah Higgs (1704/5–1768), daughter of Rev. John Higgs of Evesham, on 8 August 1732. He left two daughters Mary (1734) , Hannah (1742) and two sons, JohnJohn Alexander (minister)
John Alexander was a British nonconformist minister and writer.-Life:He was born in Dublin in 1736, where his father John Alexander, a minister and dissenting tutor at Stratford-upon-Avon, had moved; on the father's death, the widow and family returned to England...
and Benjamin (1737–1768): the latter, was a doctor of medicine, and translated J. B. Morgagni's De Sedibus (The Seats and Causes of Disease, investigated by Anatomy, 1769).Funeral Sermon by Rev. Robert Macmaster, 1743 Thomas Witherow's Historical and Literary Memorials of Presbyterianism in Ireland, first series, 1879 Wilson's manuscripts at Dr. Williams's Library Monthly Repository
Monthly Repository
The Monthly Repository was a British monthly Unitarian periodical which ran between 1806 and 1838.The Monthly Repository was established when Robert Aspland bought William Vidler's Universal Theological Magazine and changed the name to the Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature...
1816, page 93.