James Julius Wood
The Very Rev James Julius Wood DD was a 19th-century Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland 1857/8.Life
He was born in Jedburgh in 1800. He studied Divinity at Glasgow University. He was ordained by the Church of Scotland at Newton-on-Ayr in 1827.
In 1836, he was translated to Stirling and in 1839 to New Greyfriars in central Edinburgh. He left the church in the Disruption of 1843 but his congregation did not follow him. He fell into ill-health and spent some years in the Mediterranean trying to improve his health with church duties in Malta and Madeira.
He returned to Scotland in 1848 to take on St George's Free Church in Dumfries, replacing Rev Mackenzie who moved to Birmingham. Dumfries was in the midst of a cholera epidemic when he arrived. In 1857, he was elected Moderator of the General Assembly of the Free Church. In 1858, he was succeeded by Very Rev Alexander Beith. In 1861, he was highly involved in the Revival Movement.
He died in Dumfries on March 23rd, 1877.Family
In 1833, he married Christian Henderson.
His daughter Sophia Wood married Rev David Norris Mackay Free Church minister at Lossiemouth.Publications
He was photographed by Hill & Adamson in 1857.
In 1860, he was photographed with other ex-moderators at the steps of New College, Edinburgh.
