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William Graham Scroggie, known commonly as Graham Scroggie, was a Baptist pastor and author. He was born in 1877 in Great Malvern, Worcestershire, [[England]], one of nine children.
His parents were James Johnston Scroggie (b. 1843 [[Scotland]]), and Jane Mitchell Scroggie (b. 1846 Foveran, Aberdeen, [[Scotland]]). His mother was the daughter of Thomas Mitchell and Margaret Thomson Mitchell, and was saved under PB revivalists (John Smith, Donald Ross, etc.]] who later were credited with planting many of the earliest assemblies in [[Canada]]. James was employed as an evangelistic preacher in 1881 in Fulham, London, [[England]].
He studied at [[Spurgeon's College, London, England|Spurgeon's College]] at the age of nineteen, and his first pastorates were at London and Yorkshire, where he was expelled for opposition to modernism. He continued pastorates in [[New Zealand]], [[Australia]] (including Tasmania), the [[United States]], [[Canada]], and his final pastorate was at [[Charles Haddon Spurgeon]]'s Metropolitan Tabernacle. His best known book is ''[https://www.scribd.com/doc/290965439/Scroggie-W-Graham-The-Unfolding-Drama-of-Redemption-Volume-1 The Unfolding Dawn of Redemption]'', online in three volumes.
=Sources=
* [https://www.ancestry.com Ancestry.com]
* [https://christianhof.org/scroggie/ Christian Hall of Fame]
* J.B. Nicholson, Jr. in Oct. 2021
His parents were James Johnston Scroggie (b. 1843 [[Scotland]]), and Jane Mitchell Scroggie (b. 1846 Foveran, Aberdeen, [[Scotland]]). His mother was the daughter of Thomas Mitchell and Margaret Thomson Mitchell, and was saved under PB revivalists (John Smith, Donald Ross, etc.]] who later were credited with planting many of the earliest assemblies in [[Canada]]. James was employed as an evangelistic preacher in 1881 in Fulham, London, [[England]].
He studied at [[Spurgeon's College, London, England|Spurgeon's College]] at the age of nineteen, and his first pastorates were at London and Yorkshire, where he was expelled for opposition to modernism. He continued pastorates in [[New Zealand]], [[Australia]] (including Tasmania), the [[United States]], [[Canada]], and his final pastorate was at [[Charles Haddon Spurgeon]]'s Metropolitan Tabernacle. His best known book is ''[https://www.scribd.com/doc/290965439/Scroggie-W-Graham-The-Unfolding-Drama-of-Redemption-Volume-1 The Unfolding Dawn of Redemption]'', online in three volumes.
=Sources=
* [https://www.ancestry.com Ancestry.com]
* [https://christianhof.org/scroggie/ Christian Hall of Fame]
* J.B. Nicholson, Jr. in Oct. 2021