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George Charles McKenzie Grieve was born on 26 December 1880 at Sandhaven, Fraserburgh. With an interest in mission, George Grieve became Secretary of the 'Albatross Mission' between 1903-1910. The 'Albatross Mission' was an evangelistic movement that, by purchasing a yacht named 'Albatross', sailed around Scotland's herring ports in order to preach the gospel in local halls. George Grieve is named as the Purser of the 'Albatross' on a photograph in a leaflet entitled 'the Albatross Yacht Mission, A Story of Joyous Christian Adventure'. During the years 1910-1919, Grieve worked as a children's evangelist for the United Free Church of Scotland, before serving with the Scottish Churches Huts in Invergordon during the First World War, and thereafter the Young Mens Christian Association (YMCA) in Nigg. After the war Grieve became a student assistant in Dumbarton United Free Church and was licenced by the Presbytery there in 1923. Kilwinning Erskine United Free Church was Rev Grieve's first charge and he was ordained and inducted there on 18 June 1924, before being translated and ordained into Stirling St Ninian's United Free Church in 1928. After the United Free Church passed back to the Established Church in 1929, Rev Grieve's congregation became known as Stirling St Ninian's St George's Church of Scotland, and he stayed there as minister until 1936 when he was translated to Aberdeen John Knox Gerrard Street Church of Scotland. Another move followed in 1946 when Rev Grieve became minister of Culter Church of Scotland where he remained until his retiral in December 1961. Rev Grieve died on 22 December 1966. |