Theses on Irish Presbyterian History
Initial draft list - June 2017

For those interested in following up on some subjects relating to the history of Presbyterianism in Ireland we are providing a list of theses completed for university degrees. Those held by the Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland are indicated below (Copy in PHSI).

Abbreviations used

Aslib              Index to Theses accepted for Higher Degrees in the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland Bilboul         Retrospective Index to Theses of Great Britain and Ireland Copac           Consortium of Online Public Access Catalogues Diss Abs      Dissertation Abstracts International . EUL                Edinburgh University Library GUL               Glasgow University Library IESH              Irish Economic and Social History IHS                 Irish Historical Studies NICER          Northern Ireland Council for Educational Research QUB              Queen’s University Belfast UOL              University of London UUC              University of Ulster, Coleraine

Theses
ADDLEY, William Palmer A study of the birth and development of the overseas missions of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland up to 1910. Ph.D. 1994.  Belfast, Queen’s University. [QUB cat/UTC by phone] [Union Theological College, Belfast cat - THS 107] [Copy in PHSI]
ALLEN, Robert Scottish ecclesiastical influence upon Irish Presbyterianism from the non-subscription controversy to the union of the Synods. M.A. 1940.  Belfast, Queen’s University. [Bilboul] [Copy in PHSI]
ALLEN, Robert The principle of non-subscription to creeds and confessions of faith as exemplified in Irish Presbyterian history. Ph.D. 1944.  Belfast, Queen’s University. [Bilboul] [Copy in PHSI]
ANGUS, Francis James Glendenning Strafford's ecclesiastical policy in Ireland. Ph.D. 1959. Queen’s University, Belfast [Union Theological College, Belfast cat - THS 3]
BAILLIE, Sandra Margaret Imprisoned or empowered?  Evangelical women in Belfast churches. Ph.D. 1998.  Belfast, Queen’s University. [QUB cat]
BAILIE, William Desmond The Rites of Baptism and Admission of Catechumens (‘Confirmation’) according to the Liturgy and History of the Church of Scotland. Ph.D. 1959  Queen’s University, Belfast. [Union Theological College, Belfast cat - THS 4] [Copy in PHSI]
BANKHURST, Benjamin H. Habitations of cruelty: Irish Presbyterians, British North America and the Seven Years’ War, 1754-1764. Ph.D., 2010.  King’s College London [This title from Library catalogue] [I McB’s list of supervisees] [on site inverts ‘America’ and ‘Irish Presbyterians’.]
BARANIUK, Caroline ‘As native in my thought as any here’: a revisionist re-reading of the life and works of James Orr, poet, patriot and Ulster-Scot. Ph.D. 2009.  University of Glasgow. [GUL cat]
BARBOUR, William Mahon The ministry of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. Ph.D. 1965.  Belfast, Queen’s University. [QUB 50-67] [Union Theological College, Belfast cat – THS 11]
BARKLEY, John Monteith The Heart of the Christian life or Christian Worship : Its History and Teaching. Ph.D. 1945  Dublin University, Faculty of Divinity [Copy in PHSI]
BARKLEY, John Monteith The Eucharistic Rite in the Liturgy of the Church of Scotland. D.D 1949 University of Dublin [Copy in PHSI]
BARKLEY, John Monteith History of the Ruling eldership in Irish Presbyterianism. M.A. 1952.  Belfast, Queen’s University. [QUB 50-67] [Union Theological College, Belfast cat – THS 2/2A] [Copy in PHSI]
BECKETT, James Camlin The relations between the Irish Presbyterians and the government from the Declaration of Indulgence (1687) to the repeal of the Test Act (1780). M.A. 1942.  Belfast, Queen’s University. [Bilboul] [copy]
BISHOP, Iain Murray The education of Ulster students at Glasgow University during the eighteenth century. M.A. 1987.  Belfast, Queen’s University. [NICER] [copy]
BLACKWELL, M.T. A cordial union?  Presbyterian-Catholic relationships in Ulster in the late eighteenth century. M.Phil. [sic] 1988.  Dublin, Trinity College. [Aslib]
BRIDGES, B.J. The Presbyterian Churches in New South Wales, 1823-1865, with particular reference to their Scottish relations. Ph.D. 1987.  University of St. Andrews [Aslib 36-6848]
BROOKE, Peter E.C. Controversies in Ulster Presbyterianism, 1790-1836. Ph.D. 1981.  Cambridge University. [Cambridge list]
BROWN, A.W. Godfrey Irish Presbyterian theology in the early eighteenth century. Ph.D. 1977.  Belfast, Queen’s University. [Aslib] [Union Theological College, Belfast cat - THS 38] [QUB cat T/q77.H6]
BROWN, Brian The Presbyterian community of the Laggan, Co. Donegal, 1880-1973. Ph.D. 2009.  Birmingham: University of Birmingham. [University cat entry also gives written date as 2008]
BROWN, John The Presbyterian Church in Ireland and the Ulster Revival of 1859. B.D.[sic] 1964/65.  Dublin, Trinity College. [Aslib]
BROWN, Lindsay T. The Presbyterians of Cavan and Monaghan: an immigrant community in South Ulster over three centuries. Ph.D. 1986.  Belfast, Queen’s University. [Aslib] [QUB cat] [Union Theological College, Belfast cat – THS 94/94A] [Copy in PHSI]
BROWN, Michael Francis Hutcheson in Dublin, 1719-1730: the crucible of his thought. Ph.D. 2000.  Dublin, Trinity College. [IHS]
BROWNE, Roisin Marie Kirk and community: Ulster Presbyterian society, 1640-1740. M.Phil. 1999.  Belfast, Queen’s University. [Aslib] [QUB cat]
BROZYNA, A.E. Creating the ideal Christian woman: female piety in Ulster, 1850-1914. Ph.D. Kingston, Ontario, Queen’s University [Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario cat]
CALVERT, Leanne Love, life and the family in the Ulster Presbyterian community, 1780-1844. Ph.D. (2015), Queen’s University, Belfast [QUB cat T/q2015.H15]]
CARSON, George Presbyterians: from radicalism and rebellion to unionism and loyalism: the transformation in the political complexion of Ulster. Ph.D. 1992.  Belfast, Queen’s University. [Aslib] [Union Theological College, Belfast cat – THS 115/115A]
CHART, Charles Geoffrey A study of inter-church relations of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, 1900-1947. M. Litt. 1964/65.  Dublin, Trinity College. [Aslib] [Union theological College, Belfast cat -THS 9]
CONWAY, Kevin Patrick The Presbyterian ministry of Ulster in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: a prosopographical study. Ph.D. 1997.  Belfast, Queen’s University. [QUB cat] [Aslib 52-28] [Union Theological College, Belfast cat – THS 213]
CRAWFORD, Robert George A critical examination of nineteenth-century Non-Subscribing Presbyterian theology in Ireland. Ph.D. 1964.  Belfast, Queen’s University. [Aslib] [ Union Theological College,.Belfast cat- THS 10/10A] [QUB catalogue T/64.H40]
CURLEY, P.G. William Drennan and the young Samuel Ferguson: liberty, patriotism and senses of Protestantism in Ulster poetry between 1778 and 1848. Ph.D. 1987.  Belfast, Queen’s University. [Aslib] [ABELL]
DARRAGH, Paul Mervyn Epidemiological observations on episodes of communicable psychogenic illness. Ph.D. 1988.  Belfast, Queen’s University. [QUB cat] [copy]
DAVISON, W.E. A critical analysis of the decisions of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland on social issues, 1921-1970. Ph.D. 1978.  Belfast, Queen’s University. [Aslib] [Union Theological College, Belfast cat – THS 42/42A] [Copy in PHSI]
DAVISON, W.E. An Historical Survey and Appraisal of the Attitude of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, to Temperance and Related Issues, 1840-1990. May 1996
DICKSON, James Norman Ian. More than discourse: the sermons of evangelical Protestants in nineteenth-century Ulster. Ph.D. 2000.  Belfast, Queen’s University. [Aslib 50-9873] [QUB cat] [IHS]
DONACHIE, Thomas C. Irish Covenanters: politics and society in the nineteenth century. Ph.D. 2013.  Belfast: Queen’s University. [copy]
DONAT, James Gerald British medicine and the Ulster Revival of 1859. Ph.D. 1986.  University of London. [UOL cat] [Copac] [not Aslib] [not Diss Abs]
DUNLOP, Eull Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter in mid-Antrim: some denominational differences on the eve of the 1859 Revival. Ph.D. 1993.  Belfast, Queen’s University. [QUB cat] [ Union Theological College, Belfast cat – THS 212]
DUNLOP, Eull Young Thomas Witherow’s Banagher: a critical reconstruction of the social, educational and religious contexts of the early formation (1824-34), in his ancestral parish, of the lad from the townland of Aughlish who became Presbyterian minister (1845-65). D.Phil.  2004.  University of Ulster. [Aslib online]
EDWARDS, R.D. History of the laws against the nonconforming churches in Ireland in the 17th and 18th centuries. M.A. 1931.  National University of Ireland. [Bilboul]
ELLIS, I.M. A critical analysis of Irish inter-church relations, 1904-1984. Ph.D. 1989.  Dublin, Trinity College. [Aslib] {check for relevance}
FARIS, John Glasgow Prospects for Presbyterianism in Cork. M.Phil. 2008.  Belfast, Queen’s University. [QUB cat.]
FAWCETT, Elizabeth Rosalind The role of the Presbyterian Church in Northern Ireland and the ‘white’ Dutch Reformed Church in Northern Transvaal during a period of change: a comparative analysis. Ph.D. 1996.  Belfast, Queen’s University. [Aslib 46-6098] [QUB cat]
FORD, Deborah Jayne Re-assessing the education of the Church in world mission for the twenty-first century, with special reference to the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. Ph.D. 2008.  Belfast, Queen’s University. [QUB cat.] [Copy in PHSI}
FORKAN, Kevin Scottish-Protestant Ulster and the crisis of the three kingdoms, 1637-1652. Ph.D. 2003.  Galway, National University of Ireland. [IHS; NUIG cat.]
FULTON, A.A. Through earthquake, wind and fire: church and mission in Manchuria, 1867-1950. M.Litt. 1968/69.  Dublin, Trinity College. [Bilboul]
FURGOL, Edward M. The religious aspects of the Scottish Covenanting armies, 1639-1651. Ph.D. 1982.  Oxford University. [cat Oxford University]
GALLAGHER, J.R. The Presbyterian Synod and Catholic Emancipation, 1825-9. M.A. 1970/71.  Dublin, University College. [IHS]
GILMORE, Peter E. Rebels and revivals: Ulster immigrants, western Pennsylvania and the formation of Scotch-Irish identity, 1780-1830. Ph.D., 2009.  Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University [online]
HILL, C.P. William Drennan in Irish politics. M.Litt. 1967/68.  Dublin, Trinity College. [IHS]
HILL, Myrtle Evangelicalism and the Churches in Ulster society, 1770-1850. Ph.D. 1987.  Belfast, Queen’s University. [Aslib 36-6853]
HOLDEN, Lawrence Hamilton Presbytery and the popular mind: the influence of Calvinism and Presbyterianism on the formation of an Ulster Scots ethnic community (1600-1661). Ph.D. 2006.  University of Ulster. [copy] [dates added by IHS]
HOLMES, Andrew Robert Ulster Presbyterian belief and practice, 1770-1840. Ph.D. 2002.  Belfast, Queen’s University. [QUB cat]
HOLMES, Janice E. Lifting the curtain on popular religion: women, laity and language in the Ulster Revival of 1859. M.A. 1991. Kingston, Ontario, Queen’s University. [Queen’s University, Kingston cat]
HOLMES, Janice E. Religious revivalism and popular evangelicalism in Britain and Ireland, 1859-1905. Ph.D. 1995.  Belfast, Queen’s University. [Aslib 45-6034]
HOLMES, Richard James Arbuckle, The Tribune and ‘A panegyric on the Reverend D—n S---t’: two disputed works, their context and significance. M.A. 2008.  Bath, University of Bath Spa. {part fulfilment?}
HOLMES, Richard The literary career of James Arbuckle, 1717-1737. Ph.D. 2012.  Bristol, University of Bristol, 2012 (jointly supervised by Ian McBride.)
HOLMES, Robert Finlay G. Henry Cooke (1788-1868). M.Litt. 1970.  Dublin, Trinity College. [IHS]
HOPKIRK, D.S. A study of the accommodation movements between Presbytery and Episcopacy in the seventeenth century in Scotland, England and Ireland. Ph.D. 1946.  Edinburgh University. [Bilboul]
HUTCHINSON, Samuel The origins, officers and procedures of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. M.Th. 1990.  Belfast, Queen’s University. [Aslib 40-7332] [Union Theological College, Belfast cat – THS 109]
JAMES, Kevin J. Aspects of Protestant culture and society in mid-Antrim, 1857-67. Ph.D. 2000.  University of Edinburgh. [Aslib online] [EUL cat]
JAMIESON, Catherine Missionary masculinity: Irish Presbyterian missionaries in India, China and Nigeria, 1840-1910. Ph.D. (2017), Queen’s University, Belfast [QUB cat]
JAMIESON, J. The influence of the Rev. Henry Cooke on the political life of Ulster. M.A. 1950.  Belfast, Queen’s University. [Aslib] [part fulfilment?]
JENNINGS, Robert S. The origins of Ulster Presbyterian revivalism in the mid-nineteenth century. M.Th. 1985.  Belfast, Queen’s University.  [Union Theological College, Belfast cat – THS 83] [part fulfilment only.] [not in QUB cat.]
JONES, R.L. The influence of the Ulster-Scots upon the achievement of religious liberty in the North American colonies of Virginia, North and South Carolina, 1720-1775. Ph.D. 1960/61.  University of St Andrews. [Aslib]
JONES, Stewart Robert Irish Presbyterianism and Unionism in the context of the Creation and Development of the Northern Ireland State. M.Th. 1986 Queen’s University Faculty of Theology [Union Theological College cat- THS 90]
KILROY, P.M.T. Division and dissent in the Irish Reformed Church, 1615-1634. M.A. 1972/73.  National University of Ireland. [scrap of paper] {check}
KILROY, Phil Protestant dissent and controversy in Ireland, 1660-1711. Ph.D. 1992.  Dublin, Trinity College. [RIAN – Pathways to Irish Research]
LEONARD, William Allan Churches, States and Violences: how the Roman Catholic and Presbyterian Churches addressed the violence of the Northern Ireland ‘troubles’, 1968-1994. D.Phil. 1997.  University of Ulster. [Aslib 47-10489] [UUC cat.]
LIBER, C.N. The sister, the parent, Minerva and friend: the correspondence of Martha McTier and William Drennan. M.Phil. 1995.  University College, Dublin. [Aslib 46-12277]
LOCKINGTON, John W. An analysis of practice and procedure in Irish Presbyterianism. Ph.D. 1980.  Belfast, Queen’s University. [Aslib] [QUB cat ] {Aslib title differs — check} [Union Theological College, Belfast cat – THS 53]
LOUGHRIDGE, Adam The Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ireland. M.Litt. 1963/64.  Dublin, Trinity College. [Aslib]
McALLISTER, William Joseph The Protestant Churches , the Orange Order and public education in Northern Ireland, 1923 until 1947. Ph.D.  1988.  Belfast, Queen’s University. [QUB cat]
McBRIDE, Cillian Robert Molesworth and Francis Hutcheson: classical republicanism, the Scottish Enlightenment and modernity. M.A. [1993].  Galway, University College. [University of Galway cat]
McBRIDE, Ian R. Scripture politics: the religious foundations of Presbyterian radicalism in late eighteenth-century Ireland. Ph.D.  1994.  University of London. [author] [Aslib 44-9200]
McCLELLAND, Gillian Angela Evangelical philanthropy and social control or emancipatory feminism?  A case study of the Fisherwick Presbyterian Working Women’s Association, 1870-1918. Ph.D. 2000.  Belfast, Queen’s University. [QUB cat] [Aslib50-16 - title differs]
McCOLLUM, Robert Lyne Wills John Paul and his contribution to the shaping of Presbyterianism in the nineteenth century. M.Th. 1992.  Belfast, Queen’s University. [QUB cat] [ Union Theological College, Belfast cat – THS 120]
McKEE, William John Henning A critical examination of the doctrine of assurance in revivalism, with particular reference to the revival in Ulster in 1859. Ph.D. 1988.  Belfast, Queen’s University. [QUB cat] [copy] [Union Theological College, Belfast cat – THS 98] [Copy in PHSI]
MACKENZIE, Kirsteen M. Presbyterian church government and the “Covenanted interest” in the three kingdoms, 1649-1660. Ph.D. 2008.  University of Aberdeen. {Abdn cat.}
McKEOWN, Paschal Attracta T.W. Russell: temperance orator, militant Unionist missionary, radical land reformer and political pragmatist. Ph.D. 1991.  Belfast, Queen’s University. [Aslib?] {check QUB cat}
McMILLAN, William The subscription controversy in Irish Presbyterianism from the Plantation of Ulster to the present day, with reference to political implications in the late eighteenth century. M.A. 1958/59.  University of Manchester. [Aslib]
McMINN, J. Richard B. The Rev. James Brown Armour and Liberal politics in north Antrim, 1869-1914. Ph.D. 1978/79.  Belfast, Queen’s University. [IHS] [copy]
MALAVIYA, V. The contribution of the Irish Presbyterian Church to the life, witness and growth of the Church in Gujarat, with special reference to the Revds. James Glasgow and Robin Boyd. M.Th. 1993.  Belfast, Queen’s University. [QUB cat] [part fulfillment?] [Union Theological College, Belfast cat  - THS 130]
MEGAHEY, Alan J. The Irish Protestant Churches and social and political issues, 1870-1914. Ph.D. 1969.  Belfast, Queen’s University. [IHS] [Aslib]
MOSS, Bobby G. The role of the Scots and Scotch-Irishmen in the southern campaigns of the War of American Independence, 1780-1783. Ph.D. 1979.  University of St. Andrews. [Fitzpatrick Frontiersmen] [Aslib]
MURPHY, David Alexander The Presbyterian Church in Ireland in the Home Rule era with particular reference to Thomas Dickson and Thomas Sinclair. Ph.D. 2007.  Belfast, Queen’s University. [QUB cat.]
NELSON, John Wallace The Belfast Presbyterians, 1670-1830: an analysis of their political and social interests. Ph.D. 1986.  Belfast, Queen’s University. [Aslib] [copy] [Union Theological College, Belfast - THS 211] [Copy in PHSI]
NELSON, Julie L. ‘Violently democratic and anti-Conservative’?: an analysis of Presbyterian ‘radicalism’ in Ulster, c.1800-1852. Ph.D., 2005.  University of Durham. [Aslib 55-10311]
ORR, Jennifer Fostering an Irish writers’ circle: a revisionist reading of the life and works of Samuel Thomson, an Ulster-Scots poet (1766-1816). Ph.D. 2011.  University of Glasgow. [Personal/GUL cat.]
PARKER, William Joseph Moody Aspects of the origin and initial development of the Temperance Movement 1829-1850. M. Div. Belfast, Queen’s University. [Union Theological College, Belfast  cat- THS 159]
PATTON, William Donald The making of a reputation: a study of the life and work of the Rev. Dr. James McCosh in Ireland, from his appointment as Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in Queen’s College, Belfast, 1851, to his appointment as President of Princeton College, New Jersey, and Professor of Philosophy in 1868. Ph.D. 1993.  Belfast, Queen’s University. [Union Theological College, Belfast cat -THS 122]
PERCEVAL-MAXWELL, Michael B.E. Scottish migration to Ireland, 1585-1607. M.A 1961.  Montreal, McGill University.  [Perceval Maxwell Scottish migration]
PURCE, David Roger Presbyterians in Irish History: Political and Social Attitudes 1610-1910. Ph.D. 1986.  Faculty of Theology, Queen’s University, Belfast. [Union Theological College, Belfast cat - THS 93]
RICE, Adrian J. M. The poetry of presbytery: the influence of politics and religion on the life and work of William Drennan (1754-1820). M.Phil. 1991.  University of Ulster. [UUC cat]
PURCE, David Roger Presbyterians in Irish history: political and social attitudes 1610-1910. Ph.D. 1986.  Queen’s University, Belfast. [Union Theological College, Belfast cat – THS 93]
RITCHIE, Daniel F. N. Evangelicalism, abolitionism and Parnellism: the public career of the Revd Isaac Nelson. Ph.D.  2014. Queen’s University Belfast. [devised from secondary sources 22.5.14]
RITCHIE, Daniel F. N. Presbyterian opposition to the 1859 Revival in Ulster. M.A. 2010.  Belfast, Queen’s University. [Union Theological College, Belfast cat -THS 206]
ROBINSON, Andrew ‘Not otherwise worthy to be named, but as a firebrand brought from Ireland to inflame this Kingdom’: the political and cultural milieu of Sir John Clotworthy during the Stuart Civil Wars. Ph.D. 2013.  University of Ulster. [UUC cat]
RODGERS, Robert Ellison Lascelles The life and principal writings of Robert Watts, D.D., LL.D.: an historico-theological examination of the life and principal writings of Robert Watts with particular reference to the doctrine of the verbal inspiration of Holy Scripture. Docteur en Théologie 1984.  Aix-en-Provence, Faculté Libre de Théologie Réformée.  [Copy] [Union Theological College, Belfast cat – THS 225]
RODGERS, Robert J. Presbyterian missionary activity among Irish Roman Catholics in the 19th century. M.A. 1969/70.  Belfast, Queen’s University. [Aslib] [Copy in PHSI]
RODGERS, Robert J. The career of James Carlile (1784-1854). Ph.D. 1973/74.  Belfast, Queen’s University. [Aslib]
RYAN, Victor H. A critical examination of controversies within the Presbyterian Church in Ireland from 1800 to 1990. Ph.D. 1997[?].  Greenwich University School of Theology. [PH Jul/Aug 97 p.7]
SCOTT, A.R. The Ulster Revival of 1859. Ph.D. 1961/62.  Dublin, Trinity College. [Aslib] [Copy in PHSI]
SCOTT, W.R. The Philosophy of Francis Hutcheson and of James Arbuckle, showing the position of both in the Molesworth-Shaftesbury School and the relation of the former to the Enlightenment in Scotland. D.Phil. 1900.  University of St. Andrews. [Bilboul]
SEALY, Charles Scott Church authority and non-subscription controversies in early eighteenth-century Presbyterianism. Ph.D. 2010.  University of Glasgow. [GUL cat.; Union Theological College cat – THS 205]
STEERS, A. David G. ‘New Light’ thinking and non-subscription amongst Protestant Dissenters in England and Ireland in the early eighteenth century and their relationship to Glasgow University and Scotland. Ph.D.  2006.  University of Glasgow. [GUL]
STEWART, A.T.Q. The transformation of Presbyterian radicalism in the north of Ireland, 1792-1825. M.A. 1956.  Belfast, Queen’s University. [QUB 50-67]
STEWART, Stephen Michael Presbyterian radicalism, landlord influence and electoral politics in County Down in the mid-nineteenth century. M.A. 1981.  Maynooth. [IHS] {check Aslib}
STOTHERS, Thomas James The use of the Irish language by Irish Presbyterians with particular reference to evangelical approaches to Roman Catholics. M.Th. 1981 Queen’s University, Belfast. [Union Theological College, Belfast cat - THS 60]
THOMPSON, J. Isaac Praise and Music in Worship with Particular Reference to the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. D. Min. Presbyterian Theological Faculty, Ireland. [Copy in PHSI]
THOMPSON, Joseph Aspects of evangelization in Irish Presbyterianism, 1880-1965. M.Th. 1971.  Belfast, Queen’s University. [Aslib]  [QUB cat] [Union Theological College, Belfast cat – THS 21]
THOMPSON, Joseph The inter-relationship of the Secession Synod and the Synod of Ulster. Ph.D. 1980.  Belfast, Queen’s University. [Aslib] [Union Theological College, Belfast cat – THS 51]
TOSH, Robert Samuel An examination of the origins and development of Irish Presbyterian worship. Ph.D. 1983.  Belfast, Queen’s University. [QUB cat] [Union Theological College, Belfast cat – THS 72]
VANN, Barry Aron ‘Space of time or distance of place’: Presbyterian diffusion in south-western Scotland and Ulster, 1603-1690. Ph.D. 2006.  University of Glasgow. [GUL cat.]
WESTERKAMP, Marilyn Jeanne Triumph of the laity: the migration of revivalism from Scotland and Ireland to the middle colonies, 1625-1760. Ph.D. 1984.  University of Pennsylvania. [Diss Abs]
WHAN, Robert Presbyterians in Ulster, c.1680-1730 : a social and political study. Ph.D. 2009.  Belfast, Queen’s University. [QUB cat.] [IHS reads: ‘The Scotch colony’: Presbyterians in Ulster, 1680-c.1730.]
WHYTOCK, Jack C. The history and development of Scottish theological education and training, kirk and secession (c.1560-c.1850). Ph.D. 2001. University of Wales. [Union Theological College, Belfast cat – THS 160]
WRIGHT, Jonathan Presbyterians, Politics and the Development of Belfast in the early 19th century. Ph.D.  2009 (Belfast)
WRIGHT, Jonathan Jeffrey The natural leaders: the Tennent family and the political and intellectual life of Presbyterian Belfast, c. 1801-1832. Ph.D. 2010.  Belfast, Queen’s University. [QUB cat. T/q2010.H175]