James Struthers
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James Struthers (1770–1807) was a late 18th century Scottish minister renowned for his orations during the Scottish Enlightenment in Edinburgh.
Life
He was born at Glassford in Lanarkshire on 31 October 1770. He studied at Glasgow University. He was licensed to preach around 1788.Kay's Original Portraits by John Kay 1800
In the summer of 1791, aged 20, he was ordained as minister of the Relief Church on College Street in Edinburgh (just south of Old College) in place of Rev James Baine.Kay's Original Portraits by John Kay 1800
In October 1793 he preached against the immorality of Rev David Gellatly of Haddington.{{Cite web|url=https://wellcomecollection.org/works?query=%22Struthers,%20James.%22|title = %22Struthers,%20James.%22 | Catalogue search}}
In 1805 he is listed as an Extraordinary Director of the Beneficent Society of Edinburgh alongside George Baird (Principal of Edinburgh University) and Adam Rolland.An Address to the Inhabitants of Edinburgh bu the Beneficent Society 1805
He lived his final years in a flat at St Patrick Square in south Edinburgh.Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1807
He died on 13 July 1807 and in buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard.{{Cite web|url=https://billiongraves.com/grave/James-Struthers/37180823|title = Rev. James Struthers 1770 - 1807 BillionGraves Record}} The grave lies midway along the main east path.
Family
Struthers married a Miss Syme. They had six children but only two survived to adulthood:
- Rev James Syme Struthers minister of Georgetown in Demerara.
- Esther Crawford White Struthers (d. 1870) married Rev George Burns of TweedsmuirFasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae; by Hew Scott
- John Pitcairn Struthers died 1814 in St Andrews
Struthers' widow married Robert Briggs MD (1768-1840) Professor of Medicine at St Andrews University.{{Cite web|url=https://collections.st-andrews.ac.uk/item/robert-briggs-md/77451|title = Collections | University of St Andrews}}
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Category:People from Lanarkshire
Category:People of the Scottish Enlightenment