Alexander Ewing (bishop)

Alexander Ewing (25 March 1814 – 22 May 1873) was a Scottish church leader.[1]


Alexander Ewing

DD , LL.D. , D.C.L.
Bishop of Argyll and The Isles
ChurchScottish Episcopal Church
DioceseArgyll and The Isles
In office1847–1873
PredecessorInaugural appointment
SuccessorGeorge Mackarness
Other post(s)Incumbent of Lochgilphead (1847–1873) and Provost of Cumbrae (1853–1867)
Orders
Ordination1838 (Deacon), 1841 (Priest)
Consecration28 October 1847 (Bishop)
Personal details
Born25 March 1814
Aberdeen, Scotland
Died22 May 1873 (aged 59)
Westmill, near Buntingford, Hertfordshire, England
NationalityScottish
DenominationAnglican
ParentsJohn Ewing and Elspet Ewing (née Aitkin)
Spouse(1) Katherine Stewart
(2) Alice Douglas
ChildrenMargaret, John, Alexander, Samuel, and Ludovic

He was born of an old Highland family in Aberdeen, Scotland. In October 1838 he was admitted to deacon's orders, and after his return from Italy he took charge of the episcopal congregation at Forres, and was ordained a presbyter in the autumn of 1841. In 1847 he was consecrated bishop of the newly united Diocese of Argyll and The Isles, the duties of which position he discharged till his death. In 1851 he received the degree of D.C.L. from the University of Oxford.

Though hampered by poor health, he worked cheerfully, and his personal charm and Catholic sympathies gradually won him a prominent position. In theological discussion he was tolerant, and attached little importance to ecclesiastical authority and organization. His own theological position had close affinity with that of Thomas Erskine of Linlathen and Frederick Denison Maurice; but his opinions were independent. The trend of his teaching is only to be gathered from fragmentary publications—letters to the newspapers, pamphlets, special sermons, essays contributed to the series of Present Day Papers, of which he was the editor, and a volume of sermons entitled Revelation considered as Light.

Besides his strictly theological writings, Ewing was the author of the Cathedral or Abbey Church of Iona (1865), the first part of which contains drawings and descriptive letterpress of the ruins, and the second a history of the early Celtic church and the mission of St Columba.

Ewing's daughter Margaret Nina married Alexander Crum printer and MP in 1863.

Bibliography

References

  1. Bertie, David M. (2000). Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689-2000. Edinburgh: T & T Clark. p. 251. ISBN 0-567-08746-8.
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