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Tributes paid to professor

Tributes were paid to the Very Rev Professor Robin Barbour when he retired from Dunkeld and Meigle Presbytery.

Professor Barbour became interim moderator of the kirk session of Tenandry Kirk in 1982 and continued in the post for 20 years until the arrival of the present minister of Tenandry and Blair Atholl, the Rev Ian Murray.

Following distinguished war service, which saw him awarded the Military Cross, and equipped with degrees from Oxford, St Andrews and Yale, he was licensed as a preacher of the Gospel by the Presbytery of Dunkeld in 1953 and ordained the following year.

In 1955 he joined the staff at New College in the University of Edinburgh as a lecturer in New Testament studies then acted in a similar capacity in Edinburgh and, from 1971, at Aberdeen until his retiral in 1986.

During the 1970s he convened the Committee of Forty, set up by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland to review the mission and structure of the church.

Moderator of the General Assembly in 1979, he has held prestigious appointments that include chaplain to the Queen in Scotland, Dean of the Chapel Royal, master of Christ’s College, Aberdeen, and prelate in Scotland of the Order of St John.

Full story at Perthshire Advertiser.