. Elgin past and present : a historical guide / by Herbert B. Mackintosh. Calder House. Built by Thomas Calder of Sheriff-Miln in No. 101 High Street. As illustrated by Mr Billings in bis Antiquities/ ELGIN PAST AND PRESENT 219 17GBIB09 16ICH49 The Union Bank is the oldest existing branch bank in Elgin, havingtransacted business since 1781. In the southmost store in court No. 78 there is a good old fire-placehaving cut on it— THOMAS RVSSELL 16 94 A Thomas Russell was Treasurer of the burgh in 1698. A little further on, at No. 74, stood the old Episcopal Chapel, part of itswalls being in
. Elgin past and present : a historical guide / by Herbert B. Mackintosh. Calder House. Built by Thomas Calder of Sheriff-Miln in No. 101 High Street. As illustrated by Mr Billings in bis Antiquities/ ELGIN PAST AND PRESENT 219 17GBIB09 16ICH49 The Union Bank is the oldest existing branch bank in Elgin, havingtransacted business since 1781. In the southmost store in court No. 78 there is a good old fire-placehaving cut on it— THOMAS RVSSELL 16 94 A Thomas Russell was Treasurer of the burgh in 1698. A little further on, at No. 74, stood the old Episcopal Chapel, part of itswalls being incorporated with the back of the present building. Thischapel, Bishop Pococke says in his Tour of 1760, was built on the site ofan older Chapel, that of St John, and although very plain in style had quitea venerable appearance. This Bishop Pococke, says the CambridgeChronicle of 1765, was the only bishop of the Church of Englandsince the Revolution that preached and confirmed in Scotland. Hepreached and confirmed in the church in Elgin. Of this churchs earlyhistory little is known. It belonged to the section who acknowledgedthe H
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