his tireless work on behalf of the huge population of what was then perhaps the poorest slum parish in the city, promoting education and welfare schemes, building schools and mission churches, a penny savings bank, and temperance refreshment rooms. Notes References External links Caraid nan Gàidheal on archive.org. 1783 births 1862 deaths 19th-century Ministers of the Church of Scotland 19th-century Scottish writers Calvinist and Reformed poets Christian poets Deans of the Thistle Scottish Gaelic poets Scottish Gaelic writers Moderators of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland