James Cockburn (minister)

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James Cockburn
Born
James Hutchison Cockburn

(1882-10-29)29 October 1882
Clergyman, scholar
TitleMinister of Dunblane Cathedral
Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland

James Hutchison Cockburn DD ThD FSAScot (29 October 1882 – 20 June 1973) was a Scottish

clergyman. He served as Moderator of the General Assembly
in 1941/2, the highest position in the Church of Scotland.

Biography

Church career

Dunblane Cathedral, the church (no longer technically a "cathedral") where Cockburn served for many years.

Born in

Arts and Divinity.[1]

In 1908 he was ordained in

army chaplain, serving in France, Egypt and East Africa.[1]

After the war, he returned to Scotland, where on 8 May 1918, he became minister at

United Free Church.[1]

During

British Council of Churches.[1]

In 1944, he became a Chaplain to King George VI,[2] and retained such a position after the accession of his daughter Elizabeth II in 1952.[1] When he died in 1973, he was Senior Extra-Chaplain to the Queen.[1]

Cockburn departed Dunblane in 1945 for Geneva, taking the position of Director of the Department of Reconstruction and Inter-Church Aid of the World Council of Churches.[1] From 1952 until 1954 he was a member of the Royal Commission on Scottish Affairs.[1]

Academic life

From 1931 until 1934 Cockburn was a lecturer on

Pastoral Theology at St Mary's College, St Andrews.[1] He was the William Belden Noble Lecturer at Harvard University in 1942, and served as Warrack Lecturer on Preaching in Edinburgh, 1944–1945.[1] In 1951 he was Otts Lecturer at Davidson College, North Carolina.[1]

In 1930, he was one of the founders of the Society of Friends of Dunblane Cathedral, whose journal he edited between 1930 and 1965.[3] He created a museum for the church in the Dean's House, and used his connections to acquire material to fill it.[3] Cockburn contributed many articles for this journal.[3] Cockburn also published several books on religious history:

  • The Celtic Church in Dunblane : a View of the Scottish Church from S. Ninian to the Culdees and the coming of the Roman Catholic Church, Dunblane: Society of Friends of Dunblane Cathedral, 1954
  • Religious Freedom in Eastern Europe, Richmond, Virginia: John Knox Press, 1953
  • The Medieval Bishops of Dunblane and their Church, Dunblane: Society of Friends of Dunblane Cathedral, 1959

By his death on 20 June 1973, Cockburn had received honorary doctorates (Doctor of Divinity and Doctor of Theology) from the University of Glasgow,

Wooster College, Ohio.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Bowser, "James Hutchison Cockburn", p. 100.
  2. ^ "No. 36811". The London Gazette. 24 November 1944. p. 5392.
  3. ^ a b c Bowser, "James Hutchison Cockburn", p. 101.

References

  • Bowser, D. C. (1973), "James Hutchison Cockburn", Journal of the Society of Friends of Dunblane Cathedral, 11 (Part iv), Dunblane: Society of Friends of Dunblane Cathedral: 100–2.
Religious titles
Preceded by Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
1941–1942 		Succeeded by
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