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Digitised?YesLocation IDP-A114.51-77TitleDumbaston PresbyteryDescriptionThis photograph, titled "Dumbaston Presbytery", is a group photo of four Scottish ministers reading a newspaper. [From the caption on page 14 pf "Presbyterians in Aotearoa: 1840-1990"] "A group of Scottish ministers read news of the 1843 Disruption which led to the formation of the Free Church of Scotland, and in a direct line, to much of the early Church activity in New Zealand."
Included: (left to right) McMillan of Cardross, Rev. William Alexander, Rev. James Smith (or Goodsir) and Rev. John Pollock.
Reverse: [Blue pen] "[copyright] SNPG. Dumbaston Presbytery, Hill and Adamson" [pencil] vertical lines on either side of the image / "14, Trim as indicated, Reduce to 65%, 8 x 120" / [sticky label] "Antonia Reeve Photography, 11 Grosvenor Crescent, Edinburgh EH12 5EL, 031 337 4640"
Publication: "Presbyterians in Aotearoa 1840-1990", published 1990. Image on page 14.
Related Series: P-A114.1-1 to P-A114_59-91TypeBlack & white copy printDimensions213mm x 149mmDate Createdc. 1845CreatorRobert Adamson, photographerSubjectPortraits - GroupThe DisruptionSourceAntonia Reeve Photography, EdinburghAccession No497/131CollectionPCANZNoteThese and more Calotype photographic images were taken by photographer, Robert Adamson, for artist, David Octavius Hill to ensure he accurately painted the men and women featured in his painting, "The Disruption Assembly: The First General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland Signing the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission at Tanfield, Edinburgh, May, 1843" which is at the National Galleries of Scotland.
More details about the photograph featured here can be found at the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh.
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/72177/dumbarton-presbytery-mcmillan-cardross-rev-william-alexander-rev-james-smith-or-goodsir-and-rev-johnAcknowledgementThank you to the New Zealand Lotteries Commission and the Synod of Otago and Southland for together providing funding to digitise these images.
Digitised?YesLocation IDP-A114.51-77TitleDumbaston PresbyteryDescriptionThis photograph, titled "Dumbaston Presbytery", is a group photo of four Scottish ministers reading a newspaper. [From the caption on page 14 pf "Presbyterians in Aotearoa: 1840-1990"] "A group of Scottish ministers read news of the 1843 Disruption which led to the formation of the Free Church of Scotland, and in a direct line, to much of the early Church activity in New Zealand." Included: (left to right) McMillan of Cardross, Rev. William Alexander, Rev. James Smith (or Goodsir) and Rev. John Pollock.
Reverse: [Blue pen] "[copyright] SNPG. Dumbaston Presbytery, Hill and Adamson" [pencil] vertical lines on either side of the image / "14, Trim as indicated, Reduce to 65%, 8 x 120" / [sticky label] "Antonia Reeve Photography, 11 Grosvenor Crescent, Edinburgh EH12 5EL, 031 337 4640"
Publication: "Presbyterians in Aotearoa 1840-1990", published 1990. Image on page 14.
Related Series: P-A114.1-1 to P-A114_59-91
TypeBlack & white copy printDimensions213mm x 149mmDate Createdc. 1845CreatorRobert Adamson, photographerSubjectPortraits - GroupThe DisruptionSourceAntonia Reeve Photography, EdinburghAccession No497/131CollectionPCANZNoteThese and more Calotype photographic images were taken by photographer, Robert Adamson, for artist, David Octavius Hill to ensure he accurately painted the men and women featured in his painting, "The Disruption Assembly: The First General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland Signing the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission at Tanfield, Edinburgh, May, 1843" which is at the National Galleries of Scotland. More details about the photograph featured here can be found at the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh.
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/72177/dumbarton-presbytery-mcmillan-cardross-rev-william-alexander-rev-james-smith-or-goodsir-and-rev-john
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Robert Adamson, photographer, Dumbaston Presbytery. Presbyterian Research Centre, accessed 29/05/2026, https://pcanzarchives.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/125648
