Alexander Campbell Cheyne

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The Rev. Professor Alexander Campbell Cheyne (died 31 March 2006), commonly known as A. C. Cheyne, is renowned as one of the foremost Scottish scholars of Church History, teaching at New College, Edinburgh from 1958 until his retirement in 1986. Among his major publications are The Transfoming of The Kirk (1983) on Church in Scotland during the Victorian Era The Practical and the Pious (1985), on the life and work of Thomas Chalmers, and The Ten Years' Conflict and the Disruption (1993) on the secession of the Free Church of Scotland from the Church of Scotland in 1843. The festschrift Scottish Christianity in the Modern World (2000) was recently compiled in his honour.