Chalmers, James (5)

a Scotch clergyman, son of the minister at Marnoch, studied at Marischal College, Aberdeen; was licensed to preach in 1709; appointed to the living at Dyke, and ordained, but for some years had no salary. He was transferred to the second charge at Aberdeen in 1726; the appointment was opposed, but the General Assembly, by a small majority, affirmed it. He was transferred to the living at Greyfriars Church in 1728, with the professorship of divinity at Marischal College in conjunction. He died Oct. 6, 1744, aged fifty-seven years. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 3, 181,467, 475.