George Johnstone Jeffrey

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Sherbrooke St Gilbert's Church, Glasgow

George Johnstone Jeffrey was a Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland from May 1952 until May 1953.

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Life

From 1920 to 1928 he was minister of the New Laigh Kirk (West High Kirk) in Kilmarnock. [1]

In 1938 he was minister of Sherbrooke St Gilbert's Church, in Pollokshields in Glasgow. [2] He was still minister of Sherbrooke when he served as Moderator. During his year as Moderator, he opened up the rebuilt the Scot's International Church in Rotterdam, after it had been destroyed in a bombing raid in 1940, during World War 2. [3]

He retired from Sherbrooke the year he succeeded William White Anderson as Moderator. He was replaced at Sherbrooke by David Noel Fisher (1914–2009). [4]

Family

He was married with at least one child: Archibald Jeffrey. [5]

References

  1. ↑ "New Laigh Kirk". nlk.church. Archived from the original on 8 November 2017. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  2. ↑ "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  3. ↑ Scotland, The Church of (10 September 2018). "Rotterdam Kirk celebrates 375 years of faith and renewal". The Church of Scotland. Retrieved 10 January 2026.
  4. ↑ "Rev David Noel Fisher". HeraldScotland. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  5. ↑ Glasgow Herald, 29 June 1938
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