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John Bethune (Scottish Gaelic: an t-Urr. Iain Beutan) (1751 – September 23, 1815) was a Scottish Presbyterian minister, who served and helped found Reformed congregations among the Scottish diaspora in the Colony of North Carolina, Quebec, and in Upper Canada.
Bethune is the most honoured and respected of Canada’s pioneer Church of Scotland ministers, and his children were a credit to him. John and Alexander Neil rose high in the Church of England’s hierarchy, the former becoming dean of Montreal, the latter bishop of Toronto.
- E. A. McDougall
- BETHUNE, JOHN (1751-1815)
- Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 5
John Bethune, brother of Alexander Neil Bethune, was the third son of Véronique Waddin and the Reverend John Bethune*, a minister of the Church of Scotland. During the American Revolution, the elder Bethune served as chaplain in the 84th Regiment (Royal Highland Emigrants).
- John Irwin Cooper
- BETHUNE, JOHN (1791-1872)
- Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 10
When John Bethune 5th of Balfour was born about 1440, in Scotland, his father, Sir John Bethune 4th Lord of Balfour, was 23 and his mother, Margaret aka Catharina de Stirling, was 22. He married Marjory Boswell in 1458, in Scotland.
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John Bethune may refer to: John Bethune (Scottish minister) (1725–1774) Scottish minister and philosopher. John Bethune (Canadian minister) (1751–1815), founder of the first Presbyterian Church in Montreal. John Drinkwater Bethune (1762–1844), English army officer and military historian.
Aug 2, 2023 · John Bethune, 4th of Balfour is the son of Archibald Bethune, 3rd of Balfour. [1] He married Margaret Stirling , "Daughter to the Laird of Keir", presumably Sir William Stirling, 1st of Keir.
Biography. !SOURCE: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon and Alick Morrison, THE MACLEODS: THE GENEALOGY OF A CLAN, Section III, "Cadet Families", Edinburgh, The. Clan MacLeod Society, 1970, p. 269. Received a University education and became a minister of Glenshiel. He. married Christian, daughter of Rev. Donald MacLeod of Lochalsh, with. issue.
