Author: Martin, Samuel
Biography:
MARTIN, Samuel (1740-1829: Anstruther)
He was born in the schoolhouse at Anstruther Easter, Fifeshire, to John Martin, teacher, and his wife, Mary (Boyack). He studied at the University of Edinburgh and was licensed for the ministry by the Presbytery of Dalkeith in 1762. He was ordained to the church at Balmaghie in 1768, the same year that he married Elizabeth Lawson (they were to have three sons and five daughters). In 1776 the family moved to Monimail. Martin served on the church assembly’s committee charged with revising the translations and paraphrases of 1745; he was also the domestic chaplain to Scotland’s Lord High Commissioner. His other publications are sermons. He was buried in the Monimail churchyard. (George Gourlay, Anstruther; or, Illustrations of Scottish Burgh Life [1888]; ancestry.co.uk 8 Apr 2020) SR