Robert Herbert Story

Robert Story
Principal of the University of Glasgow
In office 1898–1907
Preceded by	John Caird
Succeeded by	Sir Donald MacAlister
Personal details
Born	28 January 1835 Rosneath, Dunbartonshire
Died	13 January 1907 (aged 71)
Alma mater	Edinburgh, St Andrews and Heidelberg
Religion	Church of Scotland

Robert Herbert Story (28 January 1835 – 13 January 1907) was a Scottish divine and Principal of the University of Glasgow.

Story was born on 28 January 1835 at Rosneath, Dunbartonshire, and educated at the universities of Edinburgh, St Andrews and Heidelberg. In 1859, he was assistant minister at St. Andrew's Church, Montreal, and in February 1860 was inducted as Minister of Rosneath in succession to his father.

In 1887, he removed to Glasgow as Professor of Church History; In 1898, he became Principal of the University, succeeding John Caird. He was Moderator of the General Assembly in 1894, and its Principal Clerk from that year until his death on 13 January 1907.

Story had been appointed in 1886 to a chaplaincy to Queen Victoria, and was appointed a Chaplain-in-Ordinary in Scotland to King Edward VII in October 1901.

Story was a staunch supporter of his Church, and had little sympathy for schemes of reunion with the other Presbyterian communities. He vigorously opposed the action of Bishop Welldon, then metropolitan of Calcutta, in excluding Scottish chaplains and troops from the use of garrison churches in India because these had received episcopal consecration. He was characterized by an absolutely fearless honesty, which sometimes gave offence, but at the basis of his nature there was a warm, tender and sympathetic heart, incapable of meanness or intrigue.

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