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McILWAINE, Richard, clergyman, born in Petersburg, Virginia, 20 May, 1834. He was graduated at Hampden Sidney in 1853, studied at the University of Virginia, and received his theological education at the Virginia union theological seminary and at the college of the Free church of Scotland. He was licensed to preach in 1857, was pastor of the Presbyterian church at Amelia Court-House, Virginia, in 1857-'60, of churches in Farmville and Lynchburg, Virginia, in 1862-'72, and at the latter date became co-ordinate secretary and treasurer of home and foreign missions in the southern Presbyterian church. He was secretary of home missions in 1882-'3, and since June, 1883, has been president of Hampden Sidney college, Virginia. He was a delegate to the Pan-Presbyterian council that was held in Belfast, Ireland, in 1884.
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