The Rev James Alexander Haldane aka Captain James Haldane was a Scottish independent church leader following an earlier life as a sea captain.
10 Facts About James Haldane
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The youngest son of Captain James Haldane of Airthrey Castle, in Stirlingshire, he was born at Dundee.
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James Haldane's mother was sister to Admiral Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan.
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James Haldane started a careful study of the Bible during his voyages, and came under the evangelical influence of David Bogue of Gosport, one of the founders of the London Missionary Society.
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James Haldane briefly returned to Scotland in 1793, and began preaching on an itinerant basis.
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James Haldane remained in HEICS until 1797, his final action being on home ground in the Spithead mutiny, where he boarded the "Dutton".
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James Haldane left the HEICS in the summer of 1797 and, encouraged by friends, began as a lay preacher in Gilmerton south of Edinburgh.
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James Haldane moved to Edinburgh and befriended Rev David Black of Lady Yester's Kirk and Walter Buchanan Second Charge of Canongate Kirk who persuaded him to become a minister.
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James Haldane lived his final years at 34 Drummond Place in Edinburgh's Second New Town.
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James Haldane died on 8 February 1851 aged 82, and is buried in the Haldane family plot in St Cuthbert's Churchyard at the west end of Princes Street in Edinburgh.