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on 21 November 1860 to a John Bain (Colporteur) and a
Margaret Leith. His parents had married on 1 November 1855 in Nairn Burgh, Nairnshire. James' siblings, also born in Pitlochry, were a John Jnr. (10 August 1856), Mary (9 October 1858), and Margaret (6 April 1863). John Bain Snr. had been born in
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from 1926–51), James, before his student days in
Edinburgh, had been a Pupil Teacher in a Pitlochry school, and thereafter had attended both the Edinburgh Free Church College and the Edinburgh Established Church College, with a view to becoming a Minister of Religion. He gained practical experience
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Pitlochry that James had been 'adopted' by a 'lady of means' and eventually had inherited her wealth, but whether that rich lady was his wife Elizabeth (Lillie), or a benefactress of his bachelor days, is not known. At any rate, the 1901 Census for 77, Warwick
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Terrace, Pitlochry. However, in the 1881 Census he is shown to be a Student of Arts living in Jane Bow's Lodging House at 5, Glen Street,
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Liverpool over the next decade, before going to London to work as a Spiritualist Minister. Indeed, there is strong evidence that this is true as he married an Elizabeth Parker of
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Shepherd is the living God' which are both versions of (
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Liverpool area, the place of her birth in 1881. James dedicated his first published work in 1909 ('The Christ of the Holy Grail') to her.
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John Henderson BA (Hons), D.P.E., of Stirling Scotland, and Paphos, Cyprus
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167:'Orpheus With His Lute' (Roberton, H and K., 1963)
149:Scotland’s General Registry Office (GRO) Edinburgh
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178:"Tune: Brother James's Air - HymnsWithoutWords"
129:The Great Peace. A Mosaic of Unrhymed Song
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