Robert Murray McCheyne (1813 - 1843), was a Scottish pastor and theologian. He studied at the University of Edinburgh where he distinguished himself by his poetical talent. In 1831 he took up the study of theology at the Divinity Hall of the university under Thomas Chalmers and David Welsh, and on November 7, 1835, he began his ministerial labors at Larbert, near Falkirk, as assistant to John Bonar. In 1836 he was ordained to the pastorate of St. Peter's Church, Dundee, which he held till his death. Adapted from The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, 1910 (public domain).