John Henderson Seaforth Burleigh (1894–1985) was a Scottish minister and biblical scholar[1] who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1960.
He was born in the manse at Ednam in the Scottish Borders in 1894 the son of Rev Burleigh.
He was educated at Kelso High School and George Watson's College in Edinburgh.
He then undertook postgraduate studies researching Jan Huss in various European centres: Paris, Strasbourg, Prague and Oxford.
[3] From 1931 to 1964, he was Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Edinburgh, also acting as Dean of the Faculty of Divinity from 1956.