James Longmuir

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = priest | honorific-prefix = The Very Reverend | name = James Longmuir | honorific-suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE|TD|DD|size=100%}} | title = Dean of the Chapel Royal | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | church = Church of Scotland | archdiocese = | province = | metropolis = | diocese = | see = | elected =  | term = 1969 to 1973 | predecessor = Charles Warr | successor = Hugh Douglas | other_post = Moderator of the General Assembly (1968–1969)  | ordination = 1934 | ordained_by =  | birth_name = James Boyd Longmuir | birth_date = {{Birth date|1907|4|26|df=y}} | birth_place =  | death_date = {{Death date and age|1973|10|22|1907|4|26|df=y}} | death_place =  | buried =  | resting_place_coordinates = | nationality = | religion = | residence = | parents = | spouse =  | children = | occupation = | profession =  | education = Dalziel High School | alma_mater = }} '''James Boyd Longmuir''' {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE|TD|size=100%|sep=,}} (26 April 1907 – 22 October 1973) was an eminent Church of Scotland minister in the 20th century.<ref>The Times, Thursday, 17 July 1969; p. 12; Issue 57614; col F ''New Scottish Deans''</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://archives.lambethpalacelibrary.org.uk:8080/Archives/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=NaviTree.tcl&dsqField=RefNo&dsqItem=Ramsey%2F4-287%2F1967%2F111%2F341 |title=National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives |access-date=30 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120312232001/http://archives.lambethpalacelibrary.org.uk:8080/Archives/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=NaviTree.tcl&dsqField=RefNo&dsqItem=Ramsey%2F4-287%2F1967%2F111%2F341 |archive-date=12 March 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Early life== Longmuir was born on 26 April 1907. He was educated at Dalziel High School, a secondary school in Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, and studied at the University of Glasgow.<ref>''Who Was Who'' 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 {{ISBN|071363457X}}</ref>

==Ordained ministry== Longmuir was ordained to Swinton Parish in 1934 where he served until 1952. During World War II, he served with the Royal Army Chaplains' Department and was awarded the Territorial Decoration.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=44837|page=4481|date=29 April 1969}}</ref> After that he was Minister at Chirnside.

He was a member of the Kilbrandon Commission.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=44837|page=4481|date=29 April 1969}}</ref>

He was Dean of the Chapel Royal,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=44902|page-7525|date=22 July 1969}}</ref> Chaplain to HM Bodyguard for Scotland (The Royal Company of Archers) from 1969 to 1973 and an Honorary Chaplain to the Queen.<ref>''New Chaplain to the Queen in Scotland '' The Times Thursday, 31 January 1957; p. 10; Issue 53753; col G</ref>

He served as Principal Clerk to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, and was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1973 New Year Honours.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=45860|page=8|supp=y|date=29 December 1972}}</ref>

Longmuir died on 22 October 1973. He was aged 66.<ref>The Times, Wednesday, 24 October 1973; p. 21; Issue 58921; col E ''Very Rev J B. Longmuir''</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

{{S-start}} {{S-rel|}} {{S-bef|before=William Roy Sanderson}} {{S-ttl|title=Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland|years=1968–1969}} {{S-aft|after=Thomas Moffat Murchison }} {{S-bef|before=Charles Laing Warr}} {{S-ttl|title=Dean of the Chapel Royal in Scotland|years=1969 –1973}} {{S-aft|after=Hugh Osborne Douglas }} {{End}}

{{Moderators of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland since reunification}} {{Deans of the Chapel Royal in Scotland}}

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