Maxwell Nicholson

Rev Dr Jonah Maxwell Nicholson DD (30 July 1818-30 December 1874) was an influential Scottish minister and author.

Life
The grave of Maxwell Nicholson, Grange Cemetery, Edinburgh

He was born in Whithorn in south-west Scotland on 30 July 1818[1] He was the fourth of nine children of Mary Kirkpatrick and her husband, Rev Christopher Nicholson (1780-1867).[2]

He studied divinity at the University of Edinburgh.[3] In 1849 he was minister of Pencaitland in East Lothian.[4] He was minister first of the Tron Kirk on the Royal Mile and latterly (from June 1867) of St Stephen's Church in Stockbridge, Edinburgh[5] in replacement of Rev Dr Muir.

In 1866 he is noted as being seriously injured in a fall from his gig near Tranent railway station.[6]

He lived at 3 Regent Terrace for most of his later life but moved to 7 Royal Circus in 1874.[7] He died there in the early hours of 30 December 1874.[8] He is buried in the south-west section of the original section of Grange Cemetery.

Publications
  • Preparation for the Coming of the Son of Man
  • Baptism, its Nature, Efficacy and Improvement (1850)
  • The Christian Conflict (1861)
  • The Heavenly Jerusalem (1866)
  • The Faithful Pastor (1869)
  • Family Prayers (1874)
  • Redeeming the Time and Other Sermons (1875)
  • Rest In Jesus (posthumous 1877)
  • Communion with Heaven and Other Sermons (posthunous 1877)

Family

He was married to Frances Isabella Oliphant (1818-1892) daughter of James Stuart Oliphant. They had seven children.[2]

References
  1. Edinburgh Evening News 31 Dec 1874
  2. http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SCT-WIGTOWNSHIRE/2012-04/1333569073
  3. Fifeshire Advertiser 2 Jan 1875
  4. Elgin Courant 22 June 1849
  5. Fife Herald 31 Dec 1874
  6. Dundee Advertiser 27 Feb 1866
  7. Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directories 1872 to 1874
  8. Dundee Courier, 31 December 1874
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