at Haddo House for a dinner hosted by John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair in honour of William Ewart Gladstone on his tour of Scotland. Tulloch died at Torquay, in 1886. A biography was written by Mrs Oliphant. His body was returned to Scotland for burial. He is buried beneath a large memorial at the centre of the Eastern Cemetery in St Andrews. His wife, Jane Anne Sophia (1826-1887) is buried with him. Family His older brother was Rev David Tulloch (d.1841). Works Tulloch's best-known works are collections of biographical sketches of leaders in church history, including those of the Reformation and Puritanism. His major work, Rational Theology and Christian Philosophy (1872), treats the Cambridge Platonists and other 17th century latitudinarians in a similar way. He delivered the second series of the Croall lectures, on the Doctrine of Sin, which were afterwards published. He also published a small work, The Christ of the Gospels and the Christ of History, in which the views of Ernest Renan on the gospel history were dealt with; a monograph on Blaise Pascal for Blackwood's Foreign Classics for English Readers series; and a little work, Beginning Life, addressed to young men, written at an earlier period. Books Beginning Life a Book for Young Men. London: Alexander Strahan & Co., 1863. Rational Theology and Christian Philosophy, 2 vols. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1872; second edition, 1874. Modern Theories in Philosophy and Religion. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1884. References External links Tulloch, John, 1823-1886, Principal, St Mary's College, University of St Andrews, Scotland A Memoir of the Life of John Tulloch, D.D., LL.D., Margaret Oliphant, 1888 Attribution 1823 births 1886 deaths Scottish Calvinist and Reformed theologians Alumni of the University of St Andrews Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Academics of the University of St Andrews Moderators of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland Principals of the University of St Andrews Deans of the Thistle