George Logan

George Logan (1678–1755) was a Scottish minister and controversialist. He was Moderator of the Church of Scotland in 1740, the highest position in the Scottish Church. Life He was son of George Logan of Ayrshire, by his wife, a daughter of Rev John Cunningham, minister of Old Cumnock. He was educated at Glasgow University, and graduated M.A. in 1696. On 4 March 1703 he was licensed as a preacher in the Church of Scotland, and became chaplain to John Maitland, 5th Earl of Lauderdale. He was successively minister of Lauder, Berwickshire, 1707; Sprouston, Roxburghshire, 1718; Dunbar, East Lothian, 1721; and Trinity College Church, Edinburgh, 1732. However, at Trinity College he was "second charge" under James Bannatine. Although Logan never became "first charge" he did become Moderator, the year after Bannatine was Moderator. On 8 May 1740 he was elected by a large majority Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, and in that capacity solemnly deposed Ebenezer Erskine and seven other seceding brethren a week later.