Edward Irving

Edward Irving
Born	4 August 1792 Annan, Annandale
Died	7 December 1834 Edinburgh
Education	Annan Academy; University of Edinburgh (1805-09)
Spouse(s)	Isabella Martin
Church	Church of Scotland; Catholic Apostolic Church (forerunner)
Ordained	June 1815
Writings	For the Oracles of God, Four Orations (1823) For Judgment to come (1823) Babylon and Infidelity foredoomed (1826) Sermons, etc. (3 vols, 1828) Exposition of the Book of Revelation (1831) Introductions to The Coming of the Messiah, and to Horne's Commentary on the Psalms.

Edward Irving (4 August 1792 – 7 December 1834) was a Scottish clergyman, generally regarded as the main figure behind the foundation of the Catholic Apostolic Church.

Edward Irving was born at Annan, Annandale. On his father's side, who followed the occupation of a tanner, he was descended from a family long known in the district which had ties to French Huguenot refugees. His mother's side, the Lowthers, were farmers or small proprietors in Annandale. The first stage of his education was passed at a school kept by Peggy Paine, a relation of Thomas Paine of the Age of Reason, after which he entered the Annan Academy taught by Adam Hope, of whom there is a graphic sketch in the Reminiscences of Thomas Carlyle.

At the age of thirteen he entered the University of Edinburgh. In 1809 he graduated M.A.; and in 1810, on the recommendation of Sir John Leslie, he was chosen master of an academy newly established at Haddington, East Lothian, where he became the tutor of Jane Welsh, afterwards famous as Mrs Carlyle, one of the great letter-writers of the nineteenth century.

He became engaged in 1812 to Isabella Martin, whom, in 1823, he married; but he gradually fell in love with Jane Welsh, and she with him. He tried to get out of his engagement with Miss Martin, but was prevented by her family. It was Irving, ironically, who in 1821 had introduced Thomas Carlyle, the essayist, to her.

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