Robert Haldane was a religious writer and Scottish theologian.
17 Facts About Robert Haldane
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Robert and his younger brother James Alexander Haldane were raised by their grandmother Lady Lundie and uncles.
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In 1780 Robert Haldane joined HMS Monarch as an officer, of which his maternal uncle, Adam Duncan, was in command.
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In 1795 Robert Haldane converted to the evangelical church shortly after his brother James converted.
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Robert Haldane became one of the first members of the London Missionary Society in 1795, the same year that he was converted.
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Robert Haldane offered the British Government and the East India Company to sell Airthrey Estate in order to set up a vast mission in Bengal but was turned down by the East India Company, and the mission was abandoned.
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In 1799 Robert Haldane organised for Plean Estate to be sold and this was bought in 1800 by Francis Simpson.
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Robert Haldane was inspired by George Whitefield's two tabernacles in London and built preaching centres strategically placed throughout Scotland.
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Robert Haldane funded John Campbell's Society for the Education of Africans which initially planned to evangelise in Africa by bringing over native children to be trained as Christian missionaries in Edinburgh.
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From 1799 to 1807, Robert Haldane set up theological seminars in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee to train young men with a passion for the gospel.
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In 1816 Robert Haldane published a work on the Evidences and Authority of Divine Revelation.
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Robert Haldane lectured and interviewed large numbers of theological students with remarkable effect; among them were Cesar Malan, Frederic Monod and Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigne.
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In 1819, Robert Haldane had his theological prelections published in a Commentaire sur l'Epitre aux Romains.
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Robert Haldane returned to Scotland in 1819 to live partly at the estate he had bought in 1809, Auchengray and partly in Edinburgh at 10 Duke Street.
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Robert Haldane's later writing included a number of pamphlets on the Apocrypha controversy, as well as a treatise On the Inspiration of Scripture which was published in 1828 and a later Exposition of the Epistle to the Romans published in 1835, which has been translated into French and German.
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Robert Haldane died on 12 December in 1842 in Edinburgh and was buried in Glasgow Cathedral.
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Robert Haldane died on 12 December 1842, Catherine six months afterward.