Arnott, WILLIAM, a popular Scottish preacher and author, was born at Scone in 1806, studied at Glasgow, and became minister of a parish there in 1839. He left the Established Church at the Disruption in 1843, becoming a minister of a Free Church in Glasgow; in 1863 he went to Edinburgh, and there he died in 1875. He published Laws from Heaven for Life on Earth, Illustrations of the Book of Proverbs, The Parables of our Lord, and The Church in the House. His Autobiography and Memoir, edited by his daughter, appeared in 1877.
Arnott, WILLIAM
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 444
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