
The board is displayed near the church entrance.
For approximately the first 500 years of its existence as a place of worship the church at Rutherglen adhered to the Celtic tradition. Thereafter, until the Reformation in 1560, it constituted the Roman Catholic Parish of St Mary. During the reign of Mary, Queen of Scots, and the minority of her son, King James VI, Scotland was a turbulent land so records are sketchy for the period 1560-1586. However, since the Incumbents’ Board was installed a reference has been found in the Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae to Thomas Jack who was Minister at Rutherglen from 1567 to “before 1574”. The table below lists each Minister since 1586 named on our incumbents’ board and the date of his induction.
Date | Minister | Date | Minister | |
1586 | James Muirhead | 1806 | John Dick | |
1592 | Alexander Rowatt | 1834 | Peter Brown | |
1596 | Archibald Glen | 1862 | William F Stevenson | |
1604 | William Hamilton | 1909 | George S Yuille | |
1647 | Robert Young | 1929 | W Newman James | |
1650 | John Dickson | 1935 | Thomas Cook | |
1662 | Hugh Blair | 1947 | James Wotherspoon | |
1701 | Alexander Muir | 1967 | Robert G MacRobert | |
1719 | Alexander Maxwell | 1985 | Alexander Thomson | |
1742 | William Maxwell | 2017 | Malcolm MacLeod | |
1780 | James Forlong | 2021 | Â Jean de Villiers |