STOBO, ANDREW (1832-98) was born at Strutherhead, Avondale, Lanarkshire, educated at Sandford and Lesmahagow and Strathaven, and went in 1847 for his theological course to Glasgow University. He started a Free Church School at Strathaven and then continued his studies at the New College, Edinburgh (1852). After serving as a missionary at Uddingstone, he was licensed by the presbytery of Hamilton, had charge of a territorial mission at Castle Street, Montrose, and in 1859 was appointed by the colonial committee to Invercargill. Arriving in the Storm Cloud in Apr 1860, he was inducted on 29 Jun, the first ordained minister in Southland after the missionary Wohlers. His health failing in 1880, Stobo undertook mission work in South Invercargill. He died on 2 Dec 1898.

Cycl. NZ., iv (p); Southland Times, 27 Dec 1898.

Reference: Volume 2, page 171

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