Ministers since the Reformation
Banchory Devenick
Patrick Dunbar 1550 – 1567
David Menzie 1567 – 1567
Robert Mercer 1567 – 1578
Robert Mercer (son) 1578 - 1622
Andrew Melville 1622 – 1651
William Robertson 1651 – 1656
David Lyall 1658 - 1666
James Gordon 1673 - 1714
John Maitland 1718 – 1727
John Lumsden 1728 – 1735
James Nicolson 1737 - 1772
George Ogilvy 1773 - 1785
George Morrison 1785 - 1834
William Paul 1834 – 1882
William Lawrence 1882 – 1919
Alexander McKenzie 1919 - 1936
G S Alexander 1936 – 1946
E Craigie P Hood 1946 - 1959
Ian A Auld 1962 - 1972
Thomas Lithgow 1973 – 1982
Linked with Maryculter (church closed 2014)
Maryculter Free Church Altries
George Ogilvie 1843 – 1850
William Selbie 1853 – 1895
J A Selbie 1896 – 1905
John M Rose 1905 - 1907
Thomas Havre 1907 - 1909
Samuel O Stewart 1909 - 1912
John Telfer 1913 - 1916
Sidney Finlayson 1917 - 1920
Alexander Cheyne 1920 - 1924
William Garvie 1924 – 1929 (Church rejoined Church of Scotland)
St Devenicks on the Hill [Free Church]
D F Arthur 1844 - 1883
J Ironside Still 1884 - 1927
Andrew Dickson 1928 – 1930 (Church rejoined Church of Scotland 1929)
Michael C Wilson 1931 - 1935 United with Banchory Devenick)
Bourtreebush (Chapel of Ease) *
Walter Cadder 1882 - 1886
W McDonald 1887 - 1899
Alexander D Watson1900 - 1916
John Telfer 1916 - 1938
W Morris 1938 - 1945
Robert Soutar 1945 - 1951
Peter Diack 1951 – 1956 (Linked with Cookney 1954)
William F Hay 1957 – 1965 (united 1966)
James W Duncan 1966 – 1982 (Closed 1982)
* founded 1843 by Fourdon Presb.1848 church opened 1852 same ministers as Maryculter
until link with Cookney then Cookney ministers
Cookney
Alexander Grant 1843 – 1844
Patrick Clerihew 1845 –1852
John Barrack 1853 - 1867
James Taylor 1867 – 1900
Alexander Mckenzie 1901 –1919
Andrew E Hart 1919 – 1933
Arthur Dickson 1933 - 1943
William R Stuart 1943 - 1947
Alexander Spence 1947 - 1953
Peter Diack 1951 – 1956 (Linked with Cookney 1954)
William F Hay 1957 – 1965 (united 1966)
James W Duncan 1966 – 1982 (Bouretreebush Closed 1982)
United with Maryculter 1982 closed 2000.
Maryculter
Alexander Robertson 1574 – 1580 (Reader)
William Nicol 1578 - 1585 (overlap with A Robertson)
John Milne 1585 - 1609
Andrew Milne 1614 - 1639
Alexander Leask 1640 - 1674
James Gordon 1675 - 1676
John Lumsden 1678 - 1679
George Whyte 1679 – 1718
William Abercrombie 1718 - 1721
Archibald Napier 1722 - 1761
John Glennie 1763 - 1801
William Paul 1802 - 1811
John Bower 1812 – 1866
Charles Melville 1867 – 1875
George Duncan 1876 – 1899
Charles McGlashan 1900 – 1917
Andrew Tweedie 1917 - 1937
William Lees 1937 - 1951
Marcus Scott Ross 1952 - 1964
Robin Mitchell 1964 - 1971
Thomas Lithgow 1973 - 1982
David Simpson 1983 - 1989
Andrew Christie 1990 - 2000
Bruce Gardner 2002 - 2008
Heather Peacock 2010 - 2013
Melvyn Griffiths 2014 - 2021