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Portrait of Robert Smith Candlish (1806-1873) was Scottish minister who was a leading figure in the Disruption of 1843. He served for many years in St. George’s Free Church in Edinburgh’s New Town.
The Disruption of 1843 was a division within the established Church of Scotland, in which 450 evangelical ministers of the Church broke away, over the issue of the Church’s relationship with the State, to form the Free Church of Scotland.
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