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John Calvin MacKay

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John Calvin MacKay (18911986) was a Free Church of Scotland minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly in 1942.

Life

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Kincardine and Criock Free Church

He studied at the University of Edinburgh graduating with an MA in 1912.[1]

From 1921 to 1937 he worked as a missionary in Cajamarca, Peru.[2] On his return to Scotland he was ordained at the joint parishes of Kincardine and Croick in Sutherland. In May 1942 he was elected Moderator of the General Assembly.[3]

He died at Inverness on 21 September 1986 and was buried with his wife Mary, who predeceased him, in the churchyard of Kingussie Parish Church.[4]

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Family

He married Mary Rachel MacKenzie Munro (1889-1967). Their son Angus David Hope Mackay died while a child.[citation needed]

Publications

  • The Threefold Secret of the Living Church (1942)

References

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