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  1. 1780-1847. Scottish theologian. At the
  2. Disruption of the Church of Scotland 1843,
  3. Chalmers withdrew from the church along with
  4. a large number of other priests, and became
  5. principal of the Free Church college, thus
  6. founding the Free Church of Scotland. As
  7. minister of Tron Church, Glasgow, from 1815,
  8. Chalmers became renowned for his eloquence
  9. and for his proposals for social reform. In
  10. 1823 he became professor of moral philosophy
  11. at St Andrews, and in 1828 of theology at
  12. Edinburgh.
  13.