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SCOTTISH CONFERENCE, or District, British Mission, comprises the Latter-day Saints residing in Scotland, and in 1930 contained four branches, namely, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Airdrie, with a total Church membership of 304, including 13 Elders, 16 Priests, 3 Teachers, 16 Deacons, 347 lay members and 44 children.
Samuel Mulliner and Alexander Wright, the first L. D. S. missionaries to Scotland, arrived in Glasgow Dec. 20, 1839. Apostle Orson Pratt and Elder Reuben Hedlock followed soon afterwards and in 1840 the branches raised up by these missionaries were organized as the Glasgow Conference and the Edinburgh Conference. In 1850 the Dundee Conference was organized and in 1852 the Kilmarnock Conference was raised up, but in 1857 the last-named conference was attached to the Glasgow Conference; Dundee and Edinburgh conferences also had become part of the Glasgow Conference by the close of 1869. As this conference then became the only conference in Scotland, it was frequently referred to as the Scottish Conference, and after Dec. 31, 1878, the name of Glasgow Conference was seldom used. On that date the Scottish Conference contained 14 branches and had a total membership of 525, including 4 High Priests, 5 Seventies, 69 Elders, 20 Priests, 35 Teachers and 14 Deacons; 131 persons had emigrated to Utah during the year. From that time the Scottish Conference has had a continued existence. The headquarters of the district in 1930 were maintained in Glasgow.
Andrew Jenson, Encyclopedic History of the Church "Scottish Conference." |
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