D. M. Macalister

Donald Mackinnon Macalister (1832–1909) was a minister of the Free Church of Scotland who served as Moderator of the General Assembly in 1902/03.

[1] He was born in 1832 in Edinburgh as the son of Rev John Macalister (1789–1844) (a Church of Scotland minister originally from the Isle of Arran, but serving in the Gaelic Church in Edinburgh), and his wife Margaret Cuthbertson, living at 4 Sylvan Place in the Grange.

In 1886 he moved to Greyfriars Free Church in Edinburgh, replacing Rev Archibald Smellie (1826–1886).

[4] In 1902 he succeeded the Very Rev James Duff MacCulloch as Moderator of the General Assembly, the highest position in the Free Church of Scotland.

In August 1864 at 40 Skene Terrace in Aberdeen, he married Katharine Anne Maclagan (1839–1925) daughter of Rev James McLagan (sic) of Kinfauns, Perthshire.