Robert Shaw Masterton, minister, Rosemarkie (1877-1947)

Robert Shaw Masterton (1877-1947)

Church of Scotland Minister

Robert Shaw Masterton was educated at Glasgow University and served as an assistant minister of the Church of Scotland at Kintyre, Buenos Aires (1902-04) and Shettleston and finally as minister at Rosemarkie, on the Black Isle, near Fortrose in 1908, serving his parishioners there for 37 years until retiring due to ill-health in 1945.

Genealogy

Robert Shaw Masterton was the second son of James Boe Masterton, engineer, and Agnes Shaw. James Boe Masterton was born in Coatbridge in 1845, his father, also James, having moved there from Biggar to work at the Calder Ironworks. A fuller genealogy of the extended family of Robert Shaw Masterton can be found at this link

GLASGOW UNIVERSITY BURSARIES.

..two Dundonald Divinity Bursaries, each £41, 2s. 6d. for three years, David L. Blair, Robert S. Masterton; .....

The Scotsman
11th January, 1900

ROSEMARKIE 1908

ROBERT SHAW MASTERTON born Tillietudlem, Lesmahagow, 6th March 1877, son of James Boe M. and Agnes Shaw; educated at Hamilton Academy and Univ. of Glasgow; M.A. (1899); licen. by Presb. of Kintyre in 1902; assistant at Buenos Aires, Dumfries, Shettleston, and in this parish; ord. (assistant and successor) 20th Aug. 1908. Marr. 30th Sept. 1913, Helen McKean, daugh. of Peter Craig, Glasgow, and Helen McKean.

Fasti Ecclesiasticae Scoticanae
The Succession of ministers of the Church of Scotland from the Reformation
Hew Scott, D.D.
Oliver & Boyd. 1923

COMMISSIONERS TO ASSEMBLIES.

CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.

PRESBYTERY OF CHANONBY - The Revs. A.J. Macdonald, Killearnan, and Robert Shaw Masterton, Rosemarkie, ministers; and Walter Oliphant, S.S.C., of Edinburgh, and Dr A.M. Williams, principal of the Provincial Training College, Glasgow, elders.

The Scotsman
8th May, 1911

CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.

PRESBYTERY OF CHANONBY - Ministers- The Rev John Dow, M.A., Knockbain; the Rev. R. Shaw Masterton, M.A., Rosemarkie. Elders-Donald McDonald, The Schoolhouse, Munlochy; and Walter Oliphant, S.S.C., 2 Royal Terrace, Edinburgh.

The Scotsman
3rd April, 1914

CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.

CHANONBY - Ministers- Rev. R. Shaw Masterton, Rosemarkie, and Rev. Roderick Mackenzie, Resolis. Elder- Walter Oliphant, S.S.C., 2 Royal Terrace, Edinburgh.

The Scotsman
30th March, 1928

The Rev. R. Shaw Masterton, minister of Rosemarkie since 1908, has intimated his resignation on grounds of ill-health.

The Scotsman
20th September, 1945