Peter Donald Thomson
Peter Donald Thomson (1872–1955) was a Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1934.
Life
He was born in Glasgow.
He was educated at Hermitage Academy in Helensburgh. He studied divinity at Glasgow University then studied at the Free Church College in Glasgow. He was ordained as a minister in the Free Church of Scotland in 1897, his first charge being the newly built Peterculter Free Church near Aberdeen.[1]
After a short time in Kirkcaldy, he joined the United Free Church of Scotland and moved to Kelvinside (Botanic Gardens) in western Glasgow. The church was remodelled internally by Charles Rennie Mackintosh in 1909 under the umbrella of the Glasgow firm of Honeyman and Keppie.[2]
He served as a chaplain to the army during the First World War. In 1929 the United Free Church merged with the Church of Scotland and he was thererafter a Church of Scotland minister. In 1934 he rose to the head of the church as its moderator for 1934/35.[3]
References
- ^ "Churches in Peterculter, Grampian - Places of Worship in Scotland | SCHR". scottishchurches.org.uk. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
- ^ "M294 Alterations to Kelvinside United Free Church - Mackintosh Architecture" (PDF). University of Glasgow. 15 July 2014. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
- ^ "University of Glasgow - MyGlasgow - Special collections - Collections A-Z - Peter Donald Thomson Papers". gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
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