Samuel Trail

Samuel Trail (1806–1887) was a Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1874.

He studied divinity at Kings College, Aberdeen University, graduating MA in 1825.

In 1868 he was appointed Professor of Systematic Theology at the newly amalgamated Aberdeen University.

He is buried against the outer east wall of St Machar's Cathedral in Old Aberdeen.

His daughter Isabella Anne Trail married the civil engineer Andrew Jamieson FRSE.

The grave of Rev Samuel Trail, St Machar's Cathedral