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WILLIS, Michael, Canadian educator, born in Greenock, Scotland, in 1799; died in Aberdour, Banffshire, Scotland, 19 August, 1879. He was the son of the Reverend William Willis, who for nearly fifty years was a minister first in Greenock and then in Stifling. The son was educated at the University of Glasgow and at the Divinity hall, ordained minister of the Renfield street church, Glasgow, and about the same time was appointed professor of divinity for the secession branch of the Presbyterian church, to which both he and his father belonged. At the disruption in 1843 Mr. Willis accompanied the Free church, and soon afterward removed to Canada as a deputy of that body, and also to render assistance to the recently established Knox college, Toronto. He became professor of theology in that institution in 1845, which chair he filled till 1870, when he resigned. During the latter years of his connection with the college he was its principal. He did much to promote the cause of Presbyterianism in Canada, and was well known for his eloquence as a preacher. He published a volume of "Pulpit and College Discourses," and many pamphlets and sermons.
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