FAIRBAIRN, ANDREW MARTIN Brit ish Nonconformist divine, was born at Inverkeithing, Fife, on Nov. 4, 1838. He was educated at Edinburgh and Berlin, and at the Evangelical Union Theological Academy in Glasgow, and, entering the Congregational ministry, held pastorates at Bathgate, West Lothian and Aberdeen. From 1877 to 1886 he was prin cipal of Airedale College, Bradford, a post which he gave up to become the first principal of Mansfield College, Oxford. In 1883 he was chairman of the Congregational Union of England and Wales. He resigned his position at Mansfield College in the spring of 1909, and died in London on Feb. 9, 1912.
Among his more important works are:—Studies in the Philosophy of Religion and History (1876) ; Philosophy of the Christian Religion (1902) ; Studies in Religion and Theology (1909) . See W. B. Selbie, Life of Andrew Martin Fairbairn (1914) .