Churches of Aberdeen : Historical and Descriptive . of Aberdeen University, graduating in 1877 withfirst-olaar- honours in mathematics and natural!philosophy, and being also Simpson mathemati-cal prizeman, Seafieid English medallist, andTown Council gold medallist. He entered the Civil Service with first placein open competition, and joined the ColonialOffice as a second-close clerk in 1879. Iu 1911 he became Permanent Under-Secretaryfor the Colonies, and in December, 1916, hewas appointed to the position he held at hisdeath, the tlhen Governor, Sir R. Chalmers,having been recalled to resume h
Churches of Aberdeen : Historical and Descriptive . of Aberdeen University, graduating in 1877 withfirst-olaar- honours in mathematics and natural!philosophy, and being also Simpson mathemati-cal prizeman, Seafieid English medallist, andTown Council gold medallist. He entered the Civil Service with first placein open competition, and joined the ColonialOffice as a second-close clerk in 1879. Iu 1911 he became Permanent Under-Secretaryfor the Colonies, and in December, 1916, hewas appointed to the position he held at hisdeath, the tlhen Governor, Sir R. Chalmers,having been recalled to resume his old post ofSecretary to the Treasury. Sir John provedhimself a successful administrator, courtly, level-headed, and impartial, a%«. h* de< firmly withthe many complex problems whioh arise in theFar East Sir John married a daugbtor of the late MrDaniel, printer. Castle Street, Aberdeen. Hewas made an LLO. of Aberdeen in 1907, and ofEdinburgh in 1911. /£?&- 1f^i/i/t XCL—THE ABERDEEN YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. ?v-V>^V/v .. The Aberdeen Young Mens Christian Association. Owing to its inter-denominational as-pect, tlie Young Mens Christian has been the centre of many of thereligious movements in the city and dis-trict within the last fifty years, and tlistory of its work has therefore a bearingon the religions life of Aberdeen ingeneral. On Tuesday evening, 6th July, 18-58, asmall company of young men met in thesession-house of Bon-Aceord Free Church(then in Union Terrace, on the site of thepresent School Board Offices) to endea-vour to form a Young Mens ChristianAssociation in this town! Those presentwere:—Messrs. Joseph Wood, CharlesSmith, Alexander Milne, Robert Milne,William Martin, Francis Shepherd, JamesSouttar, William B. Reid, John Home,Patrick Singer, David Smith, James Watt,William Fettess, William R. Walker, JohnG. MKendrick, and Robert M. Moir. Ofthe survivors of that original company. three are well known in Aberdeen to-day—Mr. Alexander Mil
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