These four sons of Harris who appear in the censuses are listed according to the time that they were studying:
1861
Kenneth Kerr, 29, Student of Divinity, Visitor, Daill House, Craignish, Argyll, b. Harris
Kenneth's father, Peter Kerr, was a Dry Mason from Harris who took his family to Argyll sometime between 1851 and 1861. He was visiting his sister, Mary who was a Nurse at Daill House, the home of the MacDougall of Lunga family. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craignish
A E Murray McConnochie, 23, Student of Divinity, Visitor, 25 Forth St, Edinburgh, b. Harris
Alexander's father, Donald, was a Minister who I think was living in Knockandoo in 1841 but presumably had been living in Harris in the mid-1830s.
1891
John Kerr, 32, Student in Theology, Boarder, 479 St Vincent St, Glasgow, b. Harris
John's father, Roderick, was a Carpenter and I have already written extensively about them:
Adele and the 'Ayatollah' & Borve & A 1923 Wedding on Harris
1901
John Macaskill, 32, Student of Divinity U F Church, Visitor, Manse, North Uist, b. Harris
John's father, Roderick, was a Fisherman (IF John is the 1891 Teacher of that name) and, if so, John may well have been born on Taransay.
Obviously these are just those students whose period of study happened to coincide with the census snapshots and the Harris-born Ministers that I have found in the censuses comprise:
John Bethune b. 1793
Duncan Clarke b. 1833 - son of Robert Clark, Doctor, living in Scarista in 1841
A E Murray McConnochie b. 1839 - possibly son of Robert, a Farmer in Banff by 1841
Ewan Mcleod b. 1848 - Son of a Farmer of Manish, poss Angus McLeod
Patrick William Mackenzie b. 1842 on St Kilda - Son of Neil Mackenzie, Minister
John Macleod b. 1848
Archibald Macdonald b. 1854/8
Don J M Jones b. 1869
John Kerr b. 1865 - Son of Roderick, a Carpenter, please see above.
None of these nine men were Ministers in Harris during the period 1841-1901 and the only one who I know to have returned to work on the island was John Kerr.
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