1. Mackintosh MacKay was a Scottish minister and author who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland in 1849.
12 Facts About Mackintosh MacKay
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Mackintosh MacKay edited the Highland Society's prodigious Gaelic dictionary in 1828.
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Mackintosh MacKay studied at the University of St Andrews then at Divinity Hall in Edinburgh.
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Mackintosh MacKay supplied a biography of the bard, which has given rise to much controversy.
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Mackintosh MacKay was awarded a LLD from the University of Glasgow in 1829.
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Mackintosh MacKay was presented by George William, Duke of Argyll, August 1831 and translated and admitted to Dunoon on 19 April 1832.
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Mackintosh MacKay did much in the way of providing bursaries for Highland students, and with the assistance of the Ladies' Society of the Free Church he had a number of schools established in remote parts of the Highlands and Islands.
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Mackintosh MacKay was elected moderator of the Free Church General Assembly on 24 May 1849, succeeding Patrick Clason of Buccleuch Church in the role.
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Mackintosh MacKay was succeeded in turn by Nathaniel Paterson in 1850.
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Mackintosh MacKay was elected minister of St George's Presbyterian Church, Sydney, New South Wales, in May 1856, being responsible for its first permanent purpose-built church in 1860.
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Mackintosh MacKay died at 3 Bellfield, Portobello on 17 May 1873.
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Mackintosh MacKay is buried in Duddingston Kirkyard in south Edinburgh.