James S. Johnson

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James Stewart Johnson (1809 - 1881) was ordained as John Robertson's successor as Minister in Cambuslang from 1843. He was born in Cumnock and educated at Glasgow University. He was later made a Doctor of Divinity, the University of Glasgow seeming to have made a tradition of conferring a doctorate on the Ministers of Cambuslang. He did not seem to make the same contribution either to Scotland's history or to the history or theology of the Kirk as several of his predecessors in Cambuslang. Perhaps this was because he lived in more settled times.

Johnson was a large man, commonly seen riding about his parish in a large black cloak. He introduced heating to the church in 1845 and Gas lighting in 1858. He marrie Elizabeth Gilmour, of Elderslie at Polnoon Lodge on 12 June 1849. They had a very large family. He is buried in the churchyard, along with some of them, under a large white marble monument and there is a bust of him in the Church porch. His wife died in Hamilton in 1894.

[edit] Bibliography

• Porter, Wm Henry Cambuslang and its Ministers (in Mitchell Library - Glasgow Collection, reference GC941.433 CAM 188520 Box 952)