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WILLIAM BRUCE ROBERTSON (182o-1886)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 407 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:BRUCE See also:ROBERTSON (182o-1886)  , Scottish divine, was See also:born at Greenhill, St Ninians, See also:Stirlingshire, on the 24th of May 1820, and was educated at See also:Glasgow University and at the See also:Secession Theological See also:Hall, See also:Edinburgh, where he made the acquaintance of See also:Thomas de Quincey, and on his recommendation went to See also:Halle and studied under See also:Tholuck . After travelling in See also:Italy and See also:Switzerland he was licensed to preach by the See also:presbytery of See also:Stirling and See also:Falkirk in 1843, and was soon after ordained at the Secession (after 1847, the See also:United Presbyterian) See also:Church in See also:Irvine, See also:Ayrshire . In this See also:charge he remained for 35 years, exercising from his See also:pulpit a truly magnetic See also:influence, not so discernible in his published sermons . From 1871 his See also:health failed, in spite of several visits to See also:Florence and the See also:Riviera . He resigned his charge in 1878 and died at See also:Bridge of See also:Allan on the 27th of See also:June 1886 . He wrote many See also:hymns, among them a version of " See also:Dies Irae "; several of them, together with letters, &c., are to be found in the See also:Life by See also:James See also:Brown . A See also:volume containing See also:Robertson's lectures on See also:Martin See also:Luther and other subjects was published in 1892 .

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