Robert Barbour

Who is Robert Barbour?

Robert Alexander Stewart Barbour KCVO MC was a Church of Scotland minister and an author.

Barbour was born on 11 May 1921 and educated at Rugby and Balliol. He served in World War II with The Scottish Horse. A Minister since 1954 he was for many years a lecturer in Divinity at the University of Edinburgh and Professor of New Testament Exegesis at the University of Aberdeen from 1971 to 1982. He was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland from 1979 to 1980 and and Dean of the Chapel Royal in Scotland from 1981 to 1991. An Honorary Chaplain to the Queen, he was also a chaplain of the Order of St John of Jerusalem.