Author: Moffat, Robert
Biography:
MOFFAT, Robert (1778?-1853: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born at Kelso, likely in 1778, and his parents may have been Robert Moffat and Agnes (Forsyth) Moffat. He became a minister of the Secession church in Scotland, being ordained to the church in Keith, Banffshire, in 1806. He resigned his position in 1817 to move to Whitby, Yorkshire, where he ran the Gentlemen’s Academy school and occasionally conducted services at the Cliff Street Chapel. With falling enrolment at the school, he moved back to Kelso in 1824. He was married (his wife’s name is unknown) and had at least one child, a son. The Glories of Messiah is dedicated to the Duchess of Roxburghe; it has an eighteen-page subscription list. (ancestry.co.uk 26 Mar. 2020; Gideon Smales, Whitby Authors and their Works [1867]; William MacKelvie, Annals and Statistics of the United Presbyterian Church [1873])