Colin Bannatyne
Colin Archibald Bannatyne (1849–1920) was a Scottish minister who twice served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland both in 1900/1901 and 1906/1907.
He is the "Bannatyne" of the Free Church court case Bannatyne v Overtoun from 1904.[citation needed]
Life
He was born on 5 June 1849 near
Free Church of Scotland. In 1853 the family moved to Glasgow when his father was translated to the Knox Church. The family lived at 12 Rutland Crescent.[1]
From around 1865 he studied at the
Coulter, Lanarkshire in 1876, replacing Rev James Proudfoot. At the Union of the Free Church with the Church of Scotland in 1900 he remained in the Free Church and served as their first Moderator in their reduced form.[2] In 1905 he was appointed Professor of Church History and Principles at the Free Church College.[citation needed] He then moved permanently to Edinburgh, living at 11 Brights Crescent in the Blacket district.[3]
He died in the
Grange
district in south Edinburgh on 22 November 1920.
Family
His uncle was the Rev Ninian Bannatyne (1802-1874).[4]