John Caird

1820–1898 · Presbyterian (Church of Scotland) · Glasgow, Scotland

John Caird (1820–1898), professor of divinity and from 1873 Principal of the University of Glasgow, first became known through a sermon on the religion of common life preached before Queen Victoria at Crathie in 1855. His preaching was philosophical in cast, shaped by the Hegelian idealism that his brother Edward also professed.