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The following are notable Irish
Presbyterians from a variety of different Presbyterian denominations in Ireland.
Clergy
John Abernethy , 18th century Presbyterian minister and advocate for religious freedom.
John Alexander , linguist and patristic scholar.
J. B. Armour , Presbyterian minister who supported
Home Rule .
John Baird , Old Testament scholar.
John Bankhead , published a
catechism that differed from the
Westminster Shorter Catechism .
Samuel Barber , former
moderator and advocate of
catholic emancipation .
William Boyd , petitioned the governor of
Province of Massachusetts Bay with a proposal for emigration.
William Bruce , grandson of
Michael Bruce , minister and educator.
Stafford Carson , former Principal at
Union Theological College and former
moderator .
Henry Cooke , 19th century Presbyterian minister.
Martyn C. Cowan , lecturer in Historical Theology at the
Union Theological College .
Thomas Croskery , theologian and reviewer.
James E. Davey , theologian and historian, acquitted of heresy charges in 1927, elected
moderator in 1951.
Ray Davey , founder of the
Corrymeela Community .
Samuel Davidson , first professor of biblical criticism at Belfast College, subsequently a
Congregationalist .
William Steel Dickson , minister and member of the
Society of the United Irishmen .
John Dunlop , CBE, former
moderator (1992), a leading participant in Northern Ireland's civic life.
John Edgar , professor of theology,
moderator and Honorary Secretary to the Presbyterian Home Mission during the
Famine in 1847.
William Gibson , professor of Christian Ethics and former
moderator .
Hugh Hanna , evangelist,
Orangeman and Unionist.
James Alexander Hamilton Irwin , Presbyterian Home Ruler who converted to the republican cause post-1916. Appointed to the
Fianna Fáil led government’s Commission on Vocational Organisation from 1939–43 and later joined the party and served on the Fianna Fáil national executive from 1945 until his death.
William Dool Killen ,
church historian .
John Kinnear ,
Member of Parliament for
Donegal , first clergyman to be elected to the
House of Commons .
Laurence Kirkpatrick (Professor of Church History and former Principal of
Union Theological College , controversially dismissed for gross misconduct following a radio interview).
Francis Makemie , Irish Presbyterian immigrant to America;
moderator of the first Presbytery in America.
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Charles McMullen , former
moderator of the
Presbyterian Church in Ireland .
John Morrow , co-founder of the
Corrymeela Community .
Ken Newell , peacemaker and former
moderator .
Isaac Nelson , Irish
Nationalist politician and advocate of
home rule whose views were condemned by the
moderator of the time.
W. P. Nicholson ,
evangelist .
Robert James Patterson , social reformer and founder of
Catch-My-Pal Total Abstinence Union .
Ruth Patterson , first woman to be ordained to the ministry of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland.
James Seaton Reid , church historian.
David J. Templeton , murdered after press coverage regarding purchase of
gay pornography .
Robert Watts , conservative theologian and missionary in Philadelphia.
Laypeople
Robert Anderson , second
Assistant Commissioner (Crime) of the London
Metropolitan Police .
Samuel Bill , founder of the Qua Iboe Mission (later renamed
Mission Africa ).
Thomas Blood , self-styled colonel who attempted theft of the
Crown jewels .
Amy Carmichael ,
missionary in India who opened an
orphanage and founded a mission in
Dohnavur .
James Dickey , active in the
Society of the United Irishmen and hanged for role at the
Battle of Antrim .
Jeffrey Donaldson ,
Northern Irish politician and leader of the
Democratic Unionist Party .
Robert Emmet , United Irishman and revolutionary leader.
David Ford , politician and former leader of the
Alliance Party .
James Galway , flautist.
Watty Graham , executed for his role as a
United Irishman in the
Rebellion of 1798 .
James Hope , radical democrat organised for the
Society of the United Irishmen .
Heather Humphreys ,
Fine Gael politician and government Minister.
Arthur Langford ,
Anglo-Irish lawyer and politician.
Hercules Langford ,
Anglo-Irish baronet, merchant and landowner.
Naomi Long , Northern Irish politician and leader of the
Alliance Party .
Robert Wilson Lynd ,
Irish nationalist . editor of poetry and essayist.
Mary Ann McCracken , social activist and campaigner.
Henry Joy McCracken , leading member of the United Irishmen and rebel commander.
Isabel Deane Mitchell , medical missionary in
China .
William Orr , member of the
United Irishmen who was executed in 1797.
Edwin Poots , Northern Irish politician and former leader of the
Democratic Unionist Party .
Morris S. Seale ,
scholar and
theologian .
William R. Rodgers , radio broadcaster, script writer and former Presbyterian minister.
John Skeffington, 2nd Viscount Massereene ,
Anglo-Irish politician, official, and peer.
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh , Anglo-Irish politician and statesman.
Jacob Stockdale , professional Irish rugby player.
John Tennant , militant member of the
Society of the United Irishmen .
Theobald Wolfe Tone , founder of the Society of
United Irishmen .
Billy Wright ,
loyalist paramilitary leader and lay preacher in the Free Presbyterian Church.
References
^ Elliott Robert Barkan. Making it in America: A Sourcebook on Eminent Ethnic Americans . p. 214.
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