D.P. Thomson
| David Patrick Thomson | |
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| Religion | Christian |
| Denomination | United Free Church & Church of Scotland |
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| Alma mater | Glasgow University |
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| Nationality | UK (Scottish) |
| Born | 17 May 1896 |
| Died | 17 March 1974 (aged 77) Crieff, Scotland |
| Spouse | Mary Rothnie |
| Senior posting | |
| Title | Rev. Dr. |
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David Patrick Thomson (1896-1974) was a minister of the Church of Scotland who followed a vocation in Christian evangelism as a student, a parish minister, a director of Residential Centres, and as a Christian author and publisher.
When he retired in 1966, the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland described him as "One of the outstanding leaders of the Church in this generation".
Born on 17 May 1896 in Dundee, Scotland, D.P. Thomson first led evangelistic services while serving as a lieutenant of the Army Service Corps in the British Salonika Army during the First World War. On return to Britain he continued to preach, first as an itinerant evangelist and then as a student for the ministry of the United Free Church of Scotland.
In 1917 and 1918 Thomson was the representative in Scotland of the Heart of Africa Mission (now WEC International) led in Africa by Charles Studd and in the UK by Mrs Priscilla Studd.
As a student at Glasgow University 'DP' (as he was often known, "never with disrespect if not always with affection") created the Glasgow Students Evangelistic Union and led many campaigns, 1922–28, being responsible for encouraging Eric Liddell, the Scottish international rugby player and Olympic gold-medalist athlete, to speak publicly of his faith in Christ.
Thomson graduated M.A. at Glasgow in 1922.
While training for the ministry, Thomson founded the Thomson & Cowan trading company and published a series of books entitled Handbooks of Modern Evangelism. As he acknowledged later in life, these were edited by himself and his brother Robert under the pseudonym 'Two University Men'. Copies of the series held in the National Library of Scotland are: Evangelism in the Modern World,Modern Evangelistic Movements,Winning the Children for Christ and The Modern Evangelistic Address.
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