Patrick Miller Kirkland

KIRKLAND, Patrick Miller. b. Hamilton, Lanarkshire, 14 February 1857; d. Neston, Cheshire, 24 December 1943. Kirkland was educated at the University of Glasgow before proceeding to the Theological Hall of the United Presbyterian Church, Edinburgh (this Church existed as a separate body from 1847 to 1900). He served as assistant to the Revd John Edmond, of Highbury, London, before becoming a ‘minister in charge’ of the (English) Presbyterian congregation at West Kirby, on the Wirral, Cheshire, in 1885, and being ordained as the church’s first minister in 1887. He retired through ill health in 1927. During his ministry he took an active part in the founding of new churches in the Wirral at...