Headrick, James (bap. 1759, d. 1841), Church of Scotland minister, agronomist, and geologist, was baptized in the Stirlingshire parish of Logie on 25 March 1759, second of eight children of John Headrick (b. c.1730), farmer, and Isabel, née Neilson (b...
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Robert Hunter (1823–1897) by G. Haworth by permission of the Geological Society of London
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T. B. Johnstone
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Hunter, Robert (1823–1897), Free Church of Scotland missionary, geologist, and lexicographer, was born at Newburgh, Fife, on 3 September 1823, son of John Mackenzie Hunter (d. 1878), an excise officer and a native of Wigtownshire, and his wife, Agnes Strickland of Ulverston, Lancashire...
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Miller, Hugh (1802–1856), geologist, evangelical journalist, and writer, was born on 10 October 1802 in Church Street, Cromarty, the first of three children of Hugh Miller (bap. 1754, d. 1807), shipmaster in the coasting trade, and Harriet Wright (bap. 1780, d...
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Hugh Miller (1802–1856) by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, c. 1843 Scottish National Portrait Gallery
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William Joseph Sheils
Young, George (1777–1848), Presbyterian minister and geologist, was born on 15 July 1777 at a small farmhouse called Croxiedean in the parish of Kirknewton and East Calder, Edinburghshire, and baptized in that parish on 3 August, the son of John Young and his wife, ...
