Robert Murray McCheyne (21 May 1813 - 25 March 1843) was a Scottish divine.
He was born at Edinburgh, was educated at the University of Edinburgh and at the Divinity Hall of his native city, and held pastorates at Larbert, near Falkirk, and Dundee. A mission of inquiry among the Jews throughout Europe and in Palestine, and a religious revival at his church in Dundee, made him feel that he was being called to evangelistic rather than to pastoral work, but before he could carry out his plans he died, in 1843.
McCheyne, though wielding remarkable influence in his lifetime, was still more powerful afterwards, through his Memoirs and Remains, edited by Andrew Bonar, which ran into far over a hundred English editions. Some of his hymns, e.g. "When this passing world is done", are well known.
See his Life, by J. C. Smith (1910).
