The Reverend David Arnott, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland for 2011-12, was minister at Gorebridge Parish Church in the 1970s.
In Scotland, the Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland ranks immediately below the sovereign or consort (depending on their respective sex), but only when the General Assembly is in session, and immediately followed by the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
On 27 October 2010, the Reverend David Arnott (who was minister of Strathkinness Parish Church from 2005 until 2010) was nominated to be the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland for 2011-2012.
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Helen (died in 2007) was married to retired Church of Scotland minister and former Moderator Alexander "Sandy" McDonald and they had three children, the youngest of whom is actor David Tennant.
In 2013, the Rev Lorna Hood, minister at Renfrew North Parish Church and Chaplain to The Queen, will become Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
Alexander Ferrier Mitchell (1822–1899), Scottish ecclesiastical historian and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland