1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Whyte, Alexander

WHYTE, ALEXANDER (1837), Scottish divine, was born at Kirriemuir in Forfarshire on the 13th of Januar>' 1837, and was educated at the university of Aberdeen and at New College, Edinburgh. He entered the ministry of the Free Church of Scotland and after serving as colleague in Free St John's, Glasgow (1866-1870), removed to Edinburgh as colleague and successor to Dr R. S . CandUsh at Free St George's. In igog he succeeded Dr Marcus Dods as principal, and professor of New Testament literature, at New College, Edinburgh. Among his publications are Characters and Characteristics oj William Law (1893); Bunyan Characters (3 vols., 1894); Samuel Rutherford (1894); An Appreciation of Jacob Behmen (1895); Lancelot Andrewes and his Private Devotions (1895); Bible Characters (7 vols., 1897); Santa Teresa (1897); Father John of CronsladC (1898); An Appreciation of Browne's Religio Medici (1898); Cardinal Newman, An Appreciation (1901).

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