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ROBERT HERBERT STORY (1835-1907)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 970 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROBERT See also:HERBERT See also:STORY (1835-1907)  , Scottish divine, See also:principal of See also:Glasgow University, was See also:born on the 28th of See also:January 1835 at Rosneath, See also:Dumbartonshire . He was educated at the See also:universities of See also:Edinburgh, St See also:Andrews and See also:Heidelberg . In 1859 he was assistant See also:minister at St See also:Andrew's See also:Church, See also:Montreal, and in See also:February 186o was inducted as minister of Rosneath in See also:succession to his See also:father . In 1887 he removed to Glasgow as See also:professor of church See also:history; he had also been appointed ;.n 1886 to a chaplaincy to See also:Queen See also:Victoria . In 1898 he became principal of the university in succession to See also:John See also:Caird . He was See also:moderator of the See also:General See also:Assembly in 1894, and its principal clerk from that See also:year till his See also:death on the 13th of January 1907 . See also:Story was a staunch supporter of his Church, and had little sympathy for schemes of See also:reunion with the other Presbyterian communities . He vigorously opposed the See also:action of See also:Bishop Welldon, then See also:metropolitan of See also:Calcutta, in excluding Scottish chaplains and troops from the use of See also:garrison churches in See also:India because these had received episcopal See also:consecration . He was characterized by an absolutely fearless honesty, which sometimes gave offence, but at the basis of his nature there was a warm, See also:tender and sympathetic See also:heart, incapable of meanness or intrigue . In addition to lives of his father (1862), Professor See also:Robert See also:Lee (1870) and See also:William See also:Carstares (1876), he published a devotional See also:book See also:Christ the Consoler; a See also:volume of sermons, Creed and Conduct (1878); The Apostolic See also:Ministry in the Scottish Church (See also:Baird Lecture, 1897), and several See also:pamphlets on church questions . See Principal Story, a Memoir by his Daughters (1909) .

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