Marcus Dods (theologian born 1834)

He was born at Belford, Northumberland, the youngest son of Rev Marcus Dods, a minister of the Church of Scotland[3] and his wife, Sarah Pallister.

It was assumed he felt that being a neutral moderator, he would not be able to express his opinions on certain doctrinal points due to be discussed.

[7] In later life he lived with his children and grandchildren in a huge Georgian townhouse, 23 Great King Street, in Edinburgh's Second New Town.

His sister Mary Frances Dods married the antiquarian Rev George Wilson of Glenluce.

Several of his writings, especially a sermon on Inspiration delivered in 1878, incurred the charge of unorthodoxy, and shortly before his election to the Edinburgh professorship he was summoned before the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, but the charge was dropped by a large majority, and in 1891 he received the honorary degree of DD from Edinburgh University.

Among other important works are: Apart from his services to Biblical scholarship he takes high rank among those who have sought to bring the results of technical criticism within the reach of the ordinary reader.