Fordyce, James (London)

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Dates 1760-1796
Location London
Vocation Minister
Place of Birth Aberdeen
Marriage Henrietta Cummyng
Issue
Place of birth Source H. Scott, Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae: The Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland from the Reformation, 7 vols (Edinburgh, 1915–28), iv, 293; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Minister of Brechin (second charge) (1745). Minister of Alloa (1753). Transferred to the presbyterian congregation at Monkwell Street, London (1760), where he remained until retiring to Hampshire and Bath in the 1770s. One of most celebrated and fashionable preachers in London. Died at his home in Bath (1796). Brother of Fordyce, Alexander, Fordyce, David and Fordyce, William