Roll of Ministers

Church History

Pre-reformation clergy

Please note, records do not show a complete time-line.

Since The Scottish Reformation - 1562

1562	John White	First minister after the Scottish Reformation.
1567	Walter Millar
1573	Patrick Laing
1574	James Dalmahoy	Reader named Thomas Myll.
1585	Alexander Wallace
1591	Richard Right	Formerly reader in the Chapel Royal of Charles I.
1626	Edward Right	Son of Richard, introduced by Charles I. In 1641 he became the minister of Glasgow Cathedral and was involved in both the national Covenant and the Solemn League and Covenant.
1642	Robert Wright
1673	James Forsyth
1687	Daniel Urquhart
1688	Vacancy
1700	John Wyllie	Died 1728.
1730	Henry Adam	Died 1738.
1741	John Haly	For whom the present manse may have been built.
1772	Robert Buchannan	Died of fever in 1777.
1778	Thomas Oswald	Formerly minister of Crown Court Church in Covent Garden, London. Died December 1787.
1788	Robert Moodie	Presented by the Laird, Sir Thomas Dundas, against the wishes of the people who wanted the Assistant, Mr Moffat. This caused the formation of the Relief Church in Clackmannan.
1832	John Fleming	Left Clackmannan to become Professor of Natural Philosophy at King's College, Aberdeen.
1835	Peter Balfour	Father of John Balfour, in turn Solicitor-General and Lord Advocate of Scotland. He was born in the present manse and died in 1877.
1862	John Gilchrist	Died 1877.
1878	Alex Irvine-Robertson
1921	Robert Agnew	Moved from Clackmannan to Cardross in 1932.

Ministers - United Presbyterian Church

(Formed after the Laird, Sir Thomas Dundas, appointed Robert Moodie against the will of the congregation in 1788)

This Church later became known as the Erskine Church of Scotland

1789	David Lindsay
1834	James A Millar
1842	William Brown
1867	Andrew Whyte	Formerly minister of the U P Church, St Margarets-Hope, South Ronaldsay, Orkney. Died 1895.
1896	T B Hogarth
1900	H Carmichael	Last minister leading up to the triple unification of the churches in Clackmannan.

Ministers - Free Church

(Formed after the Great Disruption of 1843)

This Church later became known as the Mayfield Church of Scotland

Ministers - Union of the Three Churches - 1932

(Formed by the union of St Andrews-on-the-Hill, Mayfield and Erskine Churches)

The first triple union in Scotland

This united Church became known as Clackmannan Parish Church of Scotland

Rev John Fleming
1832-1835

Rev Alex Irvine-Robertson
1878-1920

Rev Andrew Whyte
United Presbyterian Church
1867-1895

Rev D Guthrie and Elders
Mayfield Church of Scotland
Prior to Triple Union

Rev Dr T Crouther Gordon
1933-1966

1933 - 1966	Dr T Crouther Gordon
1967 - 1984	George McCutcheon
1985 - 1990	Ralph Taylor	In whose ministry older poor conditioned manse outbuildings were reconstructed and dedicated as the Bruce Memorial Hall.
1991 - 1998	Douglas Aitken	Formerly minister in Kenya, worked with the BBC as a religious broadcasting producer. Was responsible for introducing the floodlighting to the church exterior to celebrate the millenium. Died 2018.
1999 - 2006	James Gordon Mathew	Left to minister at Buckie: North, now retired.
2007 - 2018	Scott Raby	Left to minister at St Andrew's Parish Church, Fauldhouse.