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Tour Scotland Photograph Ministers Window Parish Church Luss Loch Lomond
Tour Scotland photograph of the Ministers memorial stained glass window in the Parish Church in Luss, on Loch Lomond, Scotland. A memorial to past ministers of the parish church of Luss, including John Stuart of Luss, who was born in 1743 and died in 1821. He was a Church of Scotland minister, and reviser of the New Testament in Gaelic of his father James Stuart of Killin. John Stuart's revised New Testament was published in 1796 with a print run of 21,500 copies.He was the main translator of the Old Testament which was published in 1801. The son of the minister James Stuart, and Elizabeth Drummond, he was born at Killin. He was licensed by the presbytery of Edinburgh on 27th February 1771, was presented to the living of Arrochar by Sir James Colquhoun in October 1773, and was ordained on 12 May 1774. He was translated to Weem on 26th March 1776, and to Luss on 1st July 1777. He received the degree of D.D. from Glasgow University in 1795. Stuart died at Luss on 24 May 1821.
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