Alexander Robertson MacEwen

Life

Career

• 1875-7 – Assistant to , Professor of Humanity at Glasgow University;
• 1879 – Student missionary at United Presbyterian Church of Scotland at Colson Street, Leith Walk, Edinburgh;
• May 1880 – Licensed by U.P. Presbytery of Glasgow;
• Dec 1880 – Ordinated and inducted at Moffat U.P. Church;
• 1881-4 – Classical Examiner for Degrees at Glasgow University;
• Sep 1886 – Transferred to Glasgow Anderston U.P. Church;
• Oct 1889 – Transferred to Glasgow Claremount U.P. Church;
• May 1901 – Professor of Church history, New College, University of Edinburgh;
• Deputy Professor of Greek;
• Assistant Professor of Latin;
• 1912 – Lecturer in Church history, Westminster College, Vancouver, Canada;
• 1915 – Moderator of the General Assembly of the United Free Church of Scotland.

Official appointments

• Chairman of Moffat School Board;
• Member of Glasgow School Board;
• Governor of Hutcheson's Schools;
• Secretary of Christian Unity Association;
• President of Scottish History Society;
• director of other trusts and societies; educational, charitable, and religious

  Publications

Classical

• The Origin and Growth of the Roman Satiric Poetry. . Oxford: T. Shrimpton and Son, 1877.
• St Jerome, 1878;
• The Eastern Church in Greece, 1890;
• A History of the Church in Scotland. Vols. I, II. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1913–1918.

  Biographies

• Sermons by Alexander MacEwen D.D., ; edited by his son, with a memoir. Glasgow: James MacLehose, 1877.
• Life and letters of John Cairns, D.D., LL.D. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1895.
• The Erskines.. Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier, 1900,
• Antoinette Bourignon, Quietist. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1910.

  Sermons and lectures

• The dangers of professional training: an address given to the Glasgow branch of the Educational Institute of Scotland on 16 November 1889. Glasgow : Robert Maclehose, 1889.
• The distress of nations : a sermon preached in Claremont Church, 17 January 1892, on the occasion of the death of H.R.H. the Duke of Clarence and Avondale. Glasgow : James MacLehose & Sons, 1892.
• A sermon on the death of the Right Hon. W.E. Gladstone: preached in Claremont Church on 22 May 1898. Glasgow : James MacLehose and Sons, 1898.
• A sermon on union with the Free Church: preached in Claremont Church on 25 September 1898. Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons, 1899.
• The Province of Church History: introductory lecture delivered on 16 October 1901. Edinburgh: Macniven & Wallace, 1901.
• various articles and reviews