He was a key player in the transformation of religious opinion in Aberdeen from ‘moderatism’ to ‘evangelicalism,’ which led to the exodus of the city ministers and congregations at the Disruption of 1843.

To him more than to any other was due the transformation of religious opinion in Aberdeen from ‘moderatism’ to ‘evangelicalism,’ which led to the exodus of the city ministers and congregations at the disruption of 1843.

[1] He died on 27 April 1872 at his house in Crown Street, Aberdeen, and was buried in St Nicholas Churchyard.

[4] He left some two thousand sermons fully written out, a selection from which, with a preface by Dr. F. Edmond, was published after his death.

An elder brother George Davidson (the literary bookseller), author of "Rhyme of St, Swithin," died 10 May 1872, at Loirsbank, Cults, aged 66.