Andrew Mitchell Thomson

Andrew Mitchell Thomson (1779–1831) was a minister of the Church of Scotland, known as an evangelical activist and political reformer.

John Thomson, D.D., by his first wife, Helen Forrest, he was born in the manse at Sanquhar, Dumfriesshire, where his father was minister, on 11 July 1779.

[1] Thomson belonged to the evangelical section of the Church of Scotland, and was strongly opposed to the interference of the state in matters spiritual.

In the General Assembly he identified himself with the reformers, and took part in the debates against pluralities in livings and the abuses of lay patronage.

Like Thomas Chalmers, his ecclesiastical successor, he was interested in social questions, and founded in Edinburgh a weekday school, known as "Dr. Andrew Thomson's".

When a rumour alarm was spread that the French had landed, he gathered the Sprouston volunteers and marched into Kelso at their head.

[1] In the Apocrypha controversy, Thomson assailed the British and Foreign Bible Society, in the pages of his Christian Instructor.