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See also:BUCHAN, ELSPETH (1738–1791) , founder of a Scottish religious See also:sect known as the Buchanites, was the daughter of. See also:John See also:Simpson, proprietor of an See also:inn near See also:Banff. Having quarrelled with her See also:husband, See also:Robert Buchan, a See also:potter of See also:Greenock, she settled with her See also:children in See also:Glasgow, where she was deeply impressed by a See also:sermon preached by See also:Hugh See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
White, See also:minister of the See also:Relief See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church at See also:Irvine. She persuaded White and others that she was a See also:saint with a See also:special See also:mission, that in fact she was the woman, and White the See also:man-See also:child, described in See also:Revelation xii. White was condemned by the See also:presbytery, and the sect, which ultimately numbered See also:forty-six adherents, was expelled by the magistrates in 1784 and settled in a See also:farm, consisting of one See also:room and a See also:loft, known as New Cample in See also:Dumfriesshire. Mrs Buchan claimed prophetic See also:inspiration and pretended to confer the See also:Holy See also:Ghost upon her followers by breathing upon them; they believed that the See also:millennium was near, and that they would not See also:die, but be translated. It appears that they had community of wives and lived on funds provided by the richer members. Robert See also:Burns, the poet, in a See also:letter dated See also:August 1784, describes the sect as idle and immoral.
End of Article: BUCHAN, ELSPETH (1738–1791)
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