a Scotch clergyman, son of John Forsyth, graduated from the university and King’s College, Aberdeen, in 1786; was licensed to preach October 13, 1790; presented by the king to the living at Belhelvie, in succession to his father, in January 1791, and ordained August 24 following. He died June 11, 1843, aged seventy-four years. To his knowledge of theology and the pastoral office he added a profound knowledge of chemistry, and was of great service to the British government in the manufacture of gunpowder. He was the discoverer, in 1805, of the percussion-lock, which was afterwards universally adopted, both in the army and by sportsmen; but he never received any public reward. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 3:495.<\/p>\n
Forsyth, John Alexander, LL.D a Scotch clergyman, son of John Forsyth, graduated from the university and King’s College, Aberdeen, in 1786; was licensed to preach October 13, 1790; presented by the king to the living at Belhelvie, in succession to his father, in January 1791, and ordained August 24 following. He died June 11, 1843, … Continue reading “Forsyth, John Alexander, LL.D”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}