Cameron, Alexander (1827-1888: minster and Gaelic scholar, Lecturer in Gaelic, University of Glasgow)

John Kennedy ( 1855-1910 ) was born in Alvie, Highland, Scotland, becoming a student of the University of Glasgow, Scotland and the Free Church College, Glasgow. He became a minister of the Free Church of Scotland and then the United Free Church of Scotland at Lenimore and Pirnmill on the Island of Arran, Scotland. He was executor for Alexander Cameron, Celtic scholar, whose papers John held following his death and on whom he published'Memoir of Dr Cameron' in Reliquiae Celticae: Texts, Papers and Studies in Gaelic Literature and Philology left by the late Rev. Alexander Cameron, LLD in 1892.

Alexander Cameron was born near Kingussie, Highland, in 1827 . After receiving his MA from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1852 he studied at New College, Edinburgh until 1856. He then became a missionary for the Free Church of Scotland, first being sent to Portnahaven, Island of Islay before becoming a minster in Renton, West Dunbartonshire, in 1855 and then at the Gaelic Church in Renton from 1859-1874. His final church was the Free Church of Scotland, Kilbride (Brodick), north Ayrshire from 1874-1888.

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