John Anderson
Scottish missionary and the founder of the mission of the Free Church of Scotland at Madras, India
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Anderson was a Scottish missionary and the founder of the mission of the Free Church of Scotland at Madras, India. Early life and education John Anderson was born at Craig Farm, Kirkpatrick Durham, in Galloway, on 23 May 1805. He was the eldest son in a family of nine, his father being blind. He received the rudiments of his education in the parish schools, and in his twenty-second year entered the University of Edinburgh, where he obtained prizes in Latin and in moral philosophy, distinguishing himself by his facility in Latin composition, and studying theology and church history under Thomas Chalmers and David Welch. During part of this period he taught at the Mariners' School at Leith; was tutor in the family of Alexander Cowan, Callander, and at Troqueer Holm on the Nith
