Tour Scotland Video Winter Morning Drive From Pittenweem To Anstruther East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland video of a Winter morning drive from the fishing village of Pittenweem on ancestry visit to Anstruther in the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. Thomas Chalmers, was born, the son of John Chalmers, a merchant, and Elizabeth Hall, in the old fishing village Anstruther on 17 March 1780. He was a Scottish minister, professor of theology, political economist, and a leader of the Church of Scotland and of the Free Church of Scotland. At the age of eleven Chalmers was entered as a student at St Andrews, where he devoted himself almost exclusively to mathematics. In January 1799 he was licensed as a preacher of the Gospel by the St Andrews presbytery. In May 1803, after attending further courses of lectures in The University of Edinburgh, and acting as assistant to the professor of mathematics at St Andrews, he was ordained as minister of Kilmany. In 1815 he became minister of the Tron Church, Glasgow, in spite of determined opposition to him in the town council on the grounds of his evangelical teaching. In 1823 Chalmers accepted the chair of moral philosophy at St Andrews University, the seventh academic offer made to him during his eight years in Glasgow. His lectures led some students to devote themselves to missionary effort. Among his pupils were William Lindsay Alexander, Alexander Duff, and James Aitken Wylie. In November 1828 Chalmers was transferred to the chair of theology in Edinburgh. On 28 May 1847 Chalmers returned to his house at Morningside, near Edinburgh, from a journey to London on the subject of national education. On the following day he was employed in preparing a report to the General Assembly of the Free Church, then sitting. On Sunday, the 30th, he continued in his usual health and spirits, and retired to rest with the intention of rising at an early hour to finish his report. The next morning, 31 May 1847, he did not make his appearance, and he was discovered lying dead in bed.

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