Holy Trinity Church, St. Andrews

Boarhills and Dunino and St Andrews

Holy Trinity Church of Scotland

A number of people are interested in the former ministers of Holy Trinity so we decided to list them here for everyone to research.

In the early years, the following clergy are mentioned:

DateNamePosition
1412William BonarVicar
1475Sir Alexander MathisonCurate
1505-1509, 1511, 1514Sir Thomas PrestonVicar
1526-1527Sir John MathesonCurate
1513Sir Thomas PrestonVicar and Dean
1538-1539Sir William MarshallCurate
1539Robert OgilvyVicar
1544Sir William MarshallCurate
1540John BonarVicar
1552-1553Sir James PortawayVicar
1566-1567Sir Robert SmithCurate

Post Reformation the former ministers were:

FIRST CHARGE

1566-1579Robert Hamilton
1578George Black
1581-1583Robert Pont
1584-1588John Rutherford
1589-1590Robert Wilkie
1590-1597David Black
1597-1612George Gladstanes
1612-1638Alexander Gladstanes
1639-1662Robert Blair
1662-1664Andrew Honeyman
1665-1672Alexander Young
1673-1679Andrew Bruce
1680-1684William Moore
1684-1689Richard Waddell
1689-1690James Rymer (Rymour)
1692-1698Thomas Forrester
1699-1712John Anderson
1712-1723William Hardie
1725-1737Alexander Anderson
1738-1752John McCormick
1738-1764John Hill
1768-1779James Gillespie
1779-1808John Adamson
1808-1820George Hill
1820-1854Robert Haldane
1854-1865John Park
1865-1899Andrew K.H. Boyd
1899-1924Patrick McDonald Playfair
1925-1947Alexander Slater Dunlop
1947-1967W.E.K Rankin
1968-1977Charles Y. McGlashan

SECOND CHARGE

1597-1606David Lindsay
1606-1613Joshua Durie
1614-1620David Barclay
1621-1624George Dewar
1626-1637George Wishart
1642-1662Andrew Honeyman
1664-1686William Moore
1681-1686Robert Honeyman
1686-1689John Wood
1697-1700Alexander Shields
1701-1712William Hardie
1712-1718Laurence Watson
1719-1738John McCormick
1738-1753John Hill
1753-1757David Carnegie
1757-1765James Gillespie
1765-1771David Hunter
1772-1779John Adamson
1780-1808George Hill
1813-1860George Buist
1860-1875Alexander Hill
1875-1902Mark Louden Anderson
1903-1906James Wallace
1906-1913William Harvey Lothian
1913-1916James A.C. Murray
1916-1924William Kenneth Grant
1924-1925Alexander Slater Dunlop
1925-1935John Wilson Baird
1935-1947W.E.K. Rankin
1949-1977Charles Armour

SOLE CHARGE

1977-2001Charle Armour
2004-2015Rory MacLeod

Our current minister (since 2018) is the locum minister Rev Marion Paton.