Former Clergy

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	Jean de Villiers