Bob Akroyd hails from New Jersey.  He studied History at the University of Virginia and then came to Edinburgh to study Scottish and Irish Nationalism. 

Bob graduated from the Free Church College in 1999 and became the assistant minister at Buccleuch Free Church.  He completed an MTh at New College on the Christology of B. B. Warfield. In 2012, Bob was appointed to oversee Systematic Theology and Practical Theology.  Bob is interested in evangelism and the person and work of Christ.  George Whitefield said, ‘Other men may preach the gospel better than I, but no man can preach a better gospel.’