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Charles Rogers LLD, (1825-1890) Scottish author. Born
in Denino, Fife, 18 April 1825, was the only son of James Rogers
(1767-1849), the local minister, and his wife Jane Haldane. He was educated
at Denino parish school, and the University of St. Andrews, matriculating in
1839. Licensed by the presbytery of St Andrews in June 1846, he was employed
in the capacity of assistant successively at Western Anstruther, Kinglassie,
Abbotshall, Dunfermline, Ballingry, and Carnoustie. Subsequently he opened a
preaching station at the Bridge of Allan, and from January 1855 until 11
Aug. 1863 was chaplain of the garrison at Stirling Castle. In 1855 he
inaugurated at Stirling a short-lived Scottish Literary Institute. In 1862
he opened the British Christian Institute, for the dissemination of
religious tracts, especially to soldiers and sailors, and in connection with
it he issued a weekly paper, called `The Workman's Friend,' and afterwards
monthly serials, `The Briton' and `The Recorder;' but the scheme collapsed
in 1863. In 1863 he founded and edited a newspaper, `The Stirling Gazette,'
but its career was brief. These schemes involved
Rogers in much contention and litigation, and he imagined himself the victim
of misrepresentation and persecution. To escape his calumniators he resigned
his chaplaincy in 1863, went to England, and thenceforth devoted himself to
literary work. Rogers's earliest literary
efforts in London were journalistic, but his chief interest was Scottish
history, literature, and genealogy.
We've extracted a chapter from his book "A
Week at Bridge of Allan" to give you both an example of his writing and
also a good write up on Bridge of Allan itself.
CHARLES ROGER/ROGERS LL.D.
Charles Roger [later Charles Rogers LLD],
(1825-1890) Scottish author, was born Charles ROGER in Denino, Fife, 18
April 1825, as the only son of James Roger (1767-1849), the local minister,
and his wife Jane Haldane.
JAMES ROGER
Spouse: JANE HALDANE
Marriage: 12 JAN 1823 Dunino, Fife, Scotland
Extracted marriage from Old Parochial Record for locality listed in the
record.
CHARLES ROGER
Birth: 18 APR 1825
Christening: 24 APR 1825 Dunino, Fife, Scotland
Father: JAMES ROGER
Mother: JANE ROGER
Extracted birth and christening from Old Parochial Record for the locality
listed in the record.
Charles was educated at Denino parish school, and the University of St.
Andrews, matriculating in 1839. Licensed by the presbytery of St Andrews in
June 1846, he was employed in the capacity of assistant successively at
Western Anstruther, Kinglassie, Abbotshall, Dunfermline, Ballingry, and
Carnoustie. Subsequently he opened a preaching station at Bridge of Allan.
Here he married in 1854.
1851 Scotland Census
Name: Charles Roger
Age: 25
Birth year: 1825
Relationship: Head
Gender: Male
Where born: Dunino, Fifeshire
Parish Number: 408
Civil parish: Ballingry
County: Fife
Address: Chapel House
Occupation: Assistant To The Minister Of The Parish Of Ballingry
CHARLES RODGERS
Spouse: ISABELLA BAIN
Banns: 06 DEC 1854 St. Andrews And St. Leonards, Fife, Scotland
Extracted from Old Parochial Record for the locality listed in the record.
CHARLES ROGERS
Spouse: ISABELLA BAIN
Banns and Marriage: 08 DEC 1854 Logie, Perth, Scotland
Extracted from Old Parochial Record for the locality listed in the record.
From January 1855 until 11 Aug. 1863 he was chaplain of the garrison at
Stirling Castle. In 1855 he inaugurated at Stirling a short-lived Scottish
Literary Institute.
1861 Scotland Census
Name: Charles Rogers
Age: 35
Birth year: 1825
Relationship: Head
Gender: Male
Where born: Dunino, Fifeshire
Registration Number: 490
Registration district: Stirling
Civil parish: Stirling
Town: Stirling
County: Stirlingshire
Occupation: Chaplain Stirling Castle
Household Members: Name Age
Charles Rogers 35 b. Dunino
Elizabeth Dick 56 Visitor Gentlewoman b. Marykirk
Ann Hennesy 27 Servant b. Ireland
Elizabeth Turner 16 Servant b. Stirling
In 1862 he opened the British Christian Institute, for the dissemination of
religious tracts, especially to soldiers and sailors, and in connection with
it he issued a weekly paper, called `The Workman's Friend,' and afterwards
monthly serials, `The Briton' and `The Recorder;' but the scheme collapsed
in 1863. In 1863 he founded and edited a newspaper, `The Stirling Gazette,'
but its career was brief. These schemes involved Rogers in much contention
and litigation, and he imagined himself the victim of misrepresentation and
persecution. To escape his calumniators he resigned his chaplaincy in 1863,
went to England, and thenceforth devoted himself to literary work.
Roger/Rogers' earliest literary efforts in London were journalistic, but,
until his death in Edinburgh in 1890, his chief interest was Scottish
history, literature, and genealogy.
Read Charles Rogers by Malcolm
Allan in pdf format
Illustrated Book of Scottish Songs
Edited by Charles MacKay, New Edition revised by Charles Rogers (1866)
At the request of the
Publishers, and in the absence from this country of my accomplished
friend, Dr. Charles Mackay, I consented to examine this Work,
preparatory to its appearance in a new edition. I have carefully
performed what I undertook, and have made such corrections or additions
in the editorial department as to bring the work down to the present
state of information about Scottish Songs and Song-writers. That portion
of the Notes for which I am individually responsible I have denoted by
my initials.
Among the Song-writers whose names I have attached to compositions
hitherto designated anonymous, I would especially refer to Sir Robert
Aytoun, Caroline, Baroness Naim, and Mrs. Agnes Lyon. With the exception
of a few compositions scattered about in the older collections, the
English poems of Sir Robert Aytoun were understood to have been lost. It
was my good fortune to discover an MS. of the long-lost poems when at a
sale of books in St. Andrews, near the poet’s birthplace. The MS. so
discovered I proceeded to edit, along with Aytoun’s already known
compositions, and although the performance was accomplished so early as
my seventeenth year, I have no reason to withdraw from any of the
deductions at which I then arrived.
In editing “The Modem Scottish Minstrel,” my friend Mr. Robert Chambers
introduced me to a respected gentlewoman, the confidential friend of
Lady Nairn, through whom I obtained the use of the MSS. of that
singularly gifted lady, and full particulars of her ladyship’s personal
history. It was then (1855) I was enabled to make known that Lady Naim
was the writer of the popular version of the “Lass o’ Gowrie,” and that
most of the other anonymous Songs which had become popular in Scotland
since the era of Burns had proceeded from her pen.
Mrs. Agnes Lyon, a connection of my own, was wife of the Rev. Dr. James
Lyon, minister of Glammis. It had long been reported in the family that
she had composed the song, “Neil Gow’s Farewell to Whisky,” which had
usually been attributed to the great violinist himself. The report
proved true, and Mrs. Lyon’s MSS., including “The Farewell” in her own
handwriting, and authenticated as her own composition, were entrusted
to my care by her daughter-in-law, to whom they had been specially
bequeathed.
I cordially recommend the present Collection of Songs to my
fellow-countrymen, and to all lovers of Scottish minstrelsy. The gifted
compiler has done his part with his usual discrimination. There are
Songs for all classes and for all moods. The swain will find this volume
a delightful companion on the hill-side; while it is admirably adapted
for the boudoir and the drawingroom table. There are Songs inciting to
virtue and to patriotism—Songs companionable in the hours of sorrow and
sadness—and Songs brimful of joyousness for the hopeful and the
merry-hearted.
CHARLES ROGERS.
2, Heath Tebback, Lewisham, October, 1806.
Leaves from my Autobiography
By Charles Rogers (1876) (pdf)
A Century of Scottish Life
Memorials and Recollections of Historical and Remarkable Persons with
Illustrations of Caledonian Humour by the Rev. Charles Rogers, LL.D.,
FSA Scot. Second edition (1872)
Familar Illustrations of Scottish Life
Embodying nearly five hunbdreds anecdotes and stories chiefly original by the Rev. Charles Rogers |
