Andrew Martin Fairbairn

Andrew Martin Fairbairn, FBA (4 November 1838 – 9 February 1912) was a Scottish theological scholar, born near Edinburgh.

He entered the Congregational church ministry and held pastorates at Bathgate, West Lothian and at Aberdeen.

In the transference to the University of Oxford of the existing Spring Hill College, Birmingham, he took a considerable part, and he exercised influence not only over generations of his own students (most famous of which is probably Peter Taylor Forsyth), but also over a large number of undergraduates in the university generally.

[1] William Boothby Selbie writes in The Life of Andrew Martin Fairbairn: Among the subjects which occupied his attention in the years 1902 and 1903 were two articles for the second volume of the Cambridge Modern History...

In Calvin Fairbairn had a subject altogether to his mind, and his study of him is among the best things he ever wrote.