Robert Horne Stevenson

Robert Horne Stevenson (27 October 1812 – 15 November 1886) was a Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1871 to 1872.

He was licensed by Presbytery of Dumbarton on 23 October 1832, and was tutor to A. J. Dennistoun-Brown of Balloch, West Dunbartonshire, with whom he travelled extensively on the continent of Europe.

[2] He was moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1871, and awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD) by the University of Edinburgh in the same year.

In June 1879, he resigned and his position at St George's was filled by Rev Archibald Scott.

[1] He died on 15 November 1886 and is buried near the centre of the northern 19th-century extension of Dean Cemetery in western Edinburgh.