Hugh Ross Mackintosh was educated at the John Neilson Institute, Paisley, Tain Royal Academy, George Watson's Academy, Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh, New College, Edinburgh, and the universities of Freiburg, Halle and Warburg. His time at the University of Edinburgh saw particular influence from Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison and Robert Purves Hardie. He was licensed by the Free Church minister in 1896 and served as assistant to Rev Charles Watson at Largs before becoming Minister at Tayport and then Beechgrove United Free Church, Aberdeen.

in 1904 he was appointed Professor of Systematic Theology at New College, Edinburgh, and he became Professor of Christian Dogmatics at the University of Edinburgh in 1935. At New College his students included John and Donald Macpherson Baillie, Henry Pitney Van Dusen and Edgar Primrose Dickie.

Hugh Ross Mackintosh was the son of Rev Alexander Mackintosh, Paisley.

Notable publications:

Ritschlian doctrine of theoretical and religious knowledge, (1899)

Doctrine of the person of Jesus Christ, ( 1912)

Immortality and the future: the Christian doctrine of eternal life, (1915)

Originality of the Christian message, ( 1920)

Divine initiative, (1921)

Some aspects of Christian belief, ( 1923)

Christian experience of forgiveness, ( 1927)

Christian faith, (1928)

Christian apprehension of God, ( 1929)

Sermons, (1938)

D.Phil., University of Edinburgh

D.D., University of Edinburgh

D.D., University of Oxford

Th.D., University of Marburg

1896: Ordained

1896-1897: Assistant Minister, Largs

1897-1901: Minister, Tayport

1901-1904: Minister, Beechgrove UF Church, Aberdeen

1904-1936: Professor of Systematic Theology, New College, Edinburgh

1913-1915: Examiner in Theology, University of London

1920-1923: Examiner in Theology, University of Wales

1923-1926: Examiner in Theology, University of Edinburgh

1932: Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland

1933-1935: Croall lecturer, University of Edinburgh

1935-1936: Professor of Christian Dogmatics, University of Edinburgh

1933-1935: Croall lecturer, University of Edinburgh

List of sources for the biographical information:

Who Was Who, 1941-1950, (London, Adam & Charles Black, c1951)

Wright, David F et al, Dictionary of Scottish Church History and Theology, (Edinburgh, T & Clark, 1993)