Tour Scotland early Autumn travel video, with Scottish bagpipes and fiddle music, of a road trip drive on ancestry, genealogy, history visit to Elphin, Scottish Gaelic: Ailbhinn, a crofting township in Assynt in the Sutherland Highlands. George Norman MacLeod Collins, was born in London, England, in 1901 but raised in Elphin in the Scottish Highlands, where he was indoctrinated into the ideologies of the Free Church of Scotland. He originally trained as a journalist and then decided to join the ministry to serve the Free Church of Scotland. He was ordained in 1928 and originally served in the Free Church in Greenock by Glasgow. In 1938 he moved to Edinburgh. Here he served as minister of St Columbas Free Church and also began as a Professor of Theology at the Free Church College. Using his journalist skills he was editor of two church newspapers; The Instructor from 1937 to 1958 and the Monthly Record from 1958 to 1973. In 1952 he was joint founder, with Rev Murdoch MacRae, of the British Evangelical Council. He was married to Louisa Murray Anderson who died in 1987. They had no children. He died on 20 October 1989 and is buried with his wife in the Grange Cemetery in southern Edinburgh. The grave lies against the south wall of the modern west extension. When driving in Scotland, slow down and enjoy the trip
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