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William Garden Blaikie
1820–1899
A Scottish minister and prolific religious writer, he paired pastoral work with a long teaching career in Edinburgh and a strong public commitment to the temperance movement. His books range from biography and biblical studies to practical Christian life, written in a clear, earnest style that reached a wide Victorian readership.
5 Audiobooks
Thomas Chalmers
by William Garden Blaikie
The Personal Life of David Livingstone Chiefly from his Unpublished Journals and Correspondence in the Possession of His Family
by William Garden Blaikie
The Expositor's Bible: The Second Book of Samuel
by William Garden Blaikie
The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Joshua
by William Garden Blaikie
The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel
by William Garden Blaikie
About the author
Born in Aberdeen in 1820, William Garden Blaikie became a minister in Scotland during a period of major church change. He was ordained at Drumblade in 1842, joined the Free Church of Scotland after the Disruption of 1843, and then served for many years at Pilrig in Edinburgh.
Blaikie later taught at New College, Edinburgh, where he was professor of apologetics and pastoral theology from 1868 until 1897. Alongside his church work, he wrote extensively, producing biographies, biblical studies, and devotional books that helped make him one of the better-known Scottish religious authors of his day.
He was also active in the temperance movement, showing the practical reforming spirit that ran through much of his life and writing. Blaikie died in 1899, leaving behind a body of work shaped by scholarship, preaching, and a strong desire to connect faith with everyday conduct.