Old Photograph Church Anworth Scotland

Old photograph of the old church in Anworth located one mile to the West of Gatehouse of Fleet, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Anwoth's most famous inhabitant was the Reverend Samuel Rutherford, born 1600, died 1661, who was the minister at Anwoth Old Kirk from 1627 until 1636 when he was banished to Aberdeen for nonconformity. His patron in Galloway was John Gordon, 1st Viscount of Kenmure. On the re-establishment of Presbyterianism in 1638 he was made Professor of Divinity in St Andrews, Fife. Rutherford was chosen as one of the four main Scottish Commissioners to the Westminster Assembly of Divines in London, England, taking part in in formulating the Westminster Confession of Faith completed in 1647, and after his return to Scotland he became Rector of St. Mary's College at St. Andrews in 1651. Rutherford was a staunch Protester during the controversy in the Scottish Presbyterian church between the Resolutioners and Protesters in the 1650s, and at the Restoration of King Charles II his Lex Rex was burnt by the hand of the common hangman, and the " Drunken Parliament " deprived him of all his offices and voted that he not be permitted to die in the college.



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