THE L.M.S.'S NEW TREASURER.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 924, 17 September 1910, Page 9

THE L.M.S.'S NEW TREASURER.

Sir Robert Laidlaw, who has accepted ■the, treasuriirship' of the,-.LbndonVAli&-; .sionarj' .Soci'Bty in succfcssioa.to;Sir .bert Spicer, lilw. Sir Albert, a- monir' ber of Dr. Gampbell Morgan's clmrcli at. Westminstt'j.y Sir,.'' Robert-, vrho. waa knighted hist, year, was'.forv four; j-ears: the Liberal,, member of: Parliament 'for East 'Itenfi.wsliirc. -Ue is;a'' Scot,, and. was born ;\at Bonchester,'" in Roxburgh-' shire,, in 1.856,. ant], brought.up.'.iii, the. Free Clmr'eh cf Scotland. While resident in . Ifl'fliaj.'.where he had. large.-'com-iileroial in.lsi-rests, he joined the .Methodist , Episcopal Church,'but returning Ito : Engla,ii d became. a member of the. Wosleyan' 'Jlpthodist Church at Chislo;; huretj Keiit. ' . Latterly lie has associated himself wi th Congregationalism through ier Chapel. By business he is an export ; merchant. and : Indian tea--planter,- rind his Indian, interests 'give him a dec ip and practical sympathy'with the Forei gn-.-Missionary enterprises., ; .:lt is under. Sir •Eobert'Laidlaw's.prossure: that Dr; Campbell '.' Morgan contemplates..visiting; the. 1 Indian mission Btia r tions hextj j'ear. Ho,was a Commissioner to the International Opium' Commissi on. at Shanghai. Sir Robert is a Felibw 'of: the Royal Geographical Society,'a tad a widely travelled man- who takes long, and broad ; views. 'He. lives at Wamin.' House,. Hayes, Kent, and-' is a member of both the Reform and' the National Liberal Clubs.—"Christian I World."