Disruption

Withall, Mary2017

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Summary

Consequent upon the Disruption in the Church of Scotland in 1843, many dissident clergy including James Bantrie, are dismissed from their comfortable livings and obliged to seek employment elsewhere. The year is 1843 and after the Disruption in the Church of Scotland James Bantrie finds himself dismissed from his comfortable life, like many dissident clergy members, and obliged to seek employment elsewhere. James and his family move to a small parish on the island of Orchy off the Argyll coast where the inhabitants are engaged in quarrying slate rock.