Thomas Chalmers
1780–1847 · Presbyterian (Free Church of Scotland) · Glasgow and Edinburgh, Scotland
Thomas Chalmers (1780–1847), minister of the Tron and afterwards St John's, Glasgow, and first Moderator of the Free Church after the Disruption of 1843, drew crowds in London as well as Scotland. His Astronomical Discourses of 1817 sold in tens of thousands, and his preaching combined an impetuous delivery with a practical concern for the poor of the industrial parishes.