Roll of Ministers
Church History
Pre-reformation clergy
Please note, records do not show a complete time-line.
1361 | Abbot Gilbert |
1379 | Maurice de Strathearn |
1381 | Fergus ??? |
1409 | Henry Wardlaw |
1545 | Abbot Alexander |
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
1845 | J McMillan | |
1855 | J Drummond | |
1894 | W M Ure | |
1907 | D Guthrie |
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
1832-1835
Rev Alex Irvine-Robertson
1878-1920
1878-1920
Rev Andrew Whyte
United Presbyterian Church
1867-1895
United Presbyterian Church
1867-1895
Rev D Guthrie and Elders
Mayfield Church of Scotland
Prior to Triple Union
Mayfield Church of Scotland
Prior to Triple Union
Rev Dr T Crouther Gordon
1933-1966
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. |