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The Very Rev Samuel Trail (1806–1887) was a Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1874. LifeHe was born in 1806, the son of John T. Trail. He studied divinity at Kings College, Aberdeen University, graduating MA in 1825. He then spent some years as the private tutor to the children of the Viscount of Arbuthnott. In 1841 he was appointed minister of Arbuthnott Church and stayed in this role until 1844, when he was translated to Birsay church in Orkney. He lived there until 1868.[1] In 1847 he was granted an honorary doctorate (LLD) and in 1852 was created a Doctor of Divinity. In 1868 he was appointed professor of systematic theology at Aberdeen University. He also served as provost of Old Aberdeen.[2] He lived at the Divinity Manse at the university.[3] He died on 1 May 1887. FamilyIn 1841 he married Helen Scott, youngest daughter of Rev James Scott of Benholm in Kincardineshire. His daughter Isabella Anne Trail married the civil engineer Andrew Jamieson FRSE. His sons included John Arbuthnott Trail WS LLD (1847-1920) and Prof James William Helenus Trail FRS. Following the death of his first wife, he married (in 1882 aged 76) Eliza Macpherson, daughter of Rev Prof James Macpherson DD. References1. ^http://www.ancestor.abel.co.uk/Angus/Arbuthnott.html {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Trail, Samuel}}{{Scotland-reli-bio-stub}}2. ^http://www.ancestor.abel.co.uk/Angus/Arbuthnott.html 3. ^Aberdeen Post Office Directory 1870 6 : 1806 births|1887 deaths|Ministers of the Church of Scotland|Alumni of the University of Aberdeen|Academics of the University of Aberdeen|Moderators of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland |
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