Charles Whyte
Life
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He was born in Dundee in 1866.
He studied Divinity at St Andrews University and New College, Edinburgh.Aberdeen Press and Journal; 9 July 1887
He was licensed to preach by the Free Church of Scotland in 1892 and ordained at Dunrossness.Ewing, William Annals of the Free Church; Dunrossness While in Shetland, he served a brief term on the Zetland County Council, representing the Dunrossness North parish in 1898.
In 1900 he was one of the many in the Free Church who joined the United Free Church of Scotland. From 1917 he preached at the United Free Church of Scotland at Countesswells, in the Kingswells district west of Aberdeen, replacing Rev Walter Calder of Dyce.{{Cite web|url=http://originalcms.kingswells.com/HISTORY/tabid/457/ctl/Details/mid/1118/ItemID/204/Default.aspx|title=Kingswells > HISTORY|website=originalcms.kingswells.com}}
In 1918 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh for his contributions to astronomy. His proposers were Alexander Moffat, George Forbes, Sir Frank Watson Dyson, Ralph Allan Sampson, Peter Redford Scott Lang and Hector Macpherson.{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=978-0-902198-84-5|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|access-date=2019-04-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|archive-date=2016-03-04|url-status=dead}}
He celebrated his jubilee in the church in October 1942. He retired in 1947.
He died in Aberdeen on 27 March 1949 aged 83. He is buried in Springbank Cemetery in Aberdeen.
Family
In 1893 he married Alice Mair Birrell (died 1922).Ewing, William Annals of the Free Church; Charles Whyte
His second wife, Grace Christie, married in 1924 and later died in a car accident in Aberdeen, 27 Dec 1966 aged 82.
Publications
- Our Solar System and the Stellar Universe (1923)
- Power, Intelligence and Wisdom Revealed in the Astronomical Universe (1925)
- Stellar Wonders (1933)
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Category:Alumni of the University of St Andrews
Category:20th-century ministers of the Free Church of Scotland
Category:20th-century Scottish Presbyterian ministers
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Category:Fellows of the Royal Astronomical Society
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