James Forbes (minister)

James Forbes (minister)

James Forbes (4 April 1813 – August 1851) was a Scottish-Australian Presbyterian minister and educator. He was the first Christian minister to settle in Melbourne, holding the first Presbyterian service there in 1838. He founded the Melbourne Academy, later Scotch College.

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