David Shearer (minister)

David Shearer (1832 – 13 November 1891) was a minister of religion in England and Western Australia, regarded as the founder of the Presbyterian Church in that State.

He graduated Master of Arts at Edinburgh University in 1867, then served as minister of the English Presbyterian Church at Gateshead, England from 1872, having been licensed as a preacher in 1871.

In December 1880 land was purchased on Pier Street, Perth for a church building, and the foundation stone laid in October, 1881.

He died after a long and painful illness,[2] and was interred in a family vault in the Presbyterian Cemetery, East Perth.

The fourth daughter Christina Kate married Arthur Morris Oliphant of Scotland on 8 April 1903.