Edited by Robert Preece (Diocese of Moray, Ross and Caithness, Inverness, 2013)
Dean
Charles Fyvie was the minister of St John’s Episcopal Church in Church
Street, Inverness, from 1819 until his death in 1849. At first he was
appointed to serve solely in St John’s, but in 1839 he also became Dean
of the Diocese of Moray (possibly Moray, Ross and Argyle) in what is now
known as the Scottish Episcopal Church.
He
left a notebook with a Sunday diary for part of 1829, and a daily diary
for the years 1839 to 1841. This not only describes his clerical
duties, but provides an account of middle-class life in and around
Inverness at this period. In 1839, through his exertions he oversaw the
opening of a new Church in Church Street, close to its present junction
with Union Street. This replaced the smaller Church near to the
north-east end of the street.
In
1922, extracts from these diaries were first published with some
explanatory comment, but this booklet is now almost impossible to locate
other than through specialist libraries. This new edition has copied
the explanatory text from the 1922 edition, with corrections where
necessary, but has the full text of the diaries. For the modern reader,
notes identify many of the people mentioned and explain various events.
Illustrations of the church and some key personalities have been added.
Robert
Preece was for many years Principal Teacher of Geography at Inverness
Royal Academy, and also a teacher of Media Studies. He has written the
definitive history of the Academy, published in 2011, and also has
produced an illustrated account of the history of the Scout Movement in
its first hundred years in and around Inverness.
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Cheques payable to: Diocese of Moray, Ross and Caithness
ISBN: 978-1-905787-89-0
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Any surplus from sales of this book will be used to fund archive work in the Diocese of Moray, Ross and Caithness (Scottish Charity No. SC004655)
