Erskine, Ebenezer, founder of the Secession Church of Scotland, born at Chirnside, Berwickshire; minister at Portmoak for 28 years; took part in the patronage dispute, and was deposed (1733), when he formed a church at Gairney Bridge, near Kinross, the nucleus of the Secession Church (1703‒1754).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Ersch, Johann Samuel * Erskine, Henry