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FASTI ECCLESI^: SCOTICAN^
SYNOD OF LOTHIAN AND TWEEDDALE
EDITORIAL COMMITTEE
The Rev. W. S. CROCKETT, Minister of Tweedsmuir, Convener and General Editor.
The Rev. Professor JAMES COOPER, D.D., D.Litt., D.C.L.
W. TRAQUAIR DICKSON, W.S.
FRANCIS JAMES GRANT, W.S., Lyon Clerk and Rothesay Herald.
The Rev. Professor JAMES MACKINNON, Ph.D., D.D.
ALEXANDER T. NIVEN, C.A.
Sir JAMES BALFOUR PAUL, C.V.O., LL.D., Lord Lyon King-of-Arms.
The Rev. STEPHEN REE, B.D.
The Rev. JAMES SMITH, B.D.
The Rev. ROBERT W. WEIR, D.D.
GENERAL COMMITTEE
The Rev. Prof. HERKLESS, D.D., St Andrews
The Rev. JAMES BREBNER, D.D., Forgue
The Rev. THOMAS BURNS, D.D., Edinburgh
The Rev. W. W. COATS, D.D., Brechin
The Rev. J. B. DAVIDSON, D.D., Peterhead
The Rev. R. MENZIES FERGUSSON, D.D.,
Logic
The Rev. J. KING HEWISON, D.D., Rothesay
The Rev. W. M. METCALFE, D.D., Paisley
The Rev. DAVID PAUL, LL.D., Edinburgh
The Rev. J. R. AITKEN, M.A., Edinburgh
The Rev. WILLIAM AULD, B.D., Carnock
The Rev. JAMES W. BLAKE, M.A., Temple
The Rev. JOHN BURLEIGH, Ednam
The Rev. ANDREW BURNS, Fenwick
The Rev. J. A. CAMERON, B.D., Legerwood
The Rev. A. J. CAMPBELL. B.A., Glasgow
The Rev. J. T. Cox, B.D., Dyce
The Rev. A. A. DUNCAN, B.D., Auchterless
The Rev. J. E. GILLESPIE, Kirkgunzeon
The Rev. A. H. GILLIESON, B.D., Olrig
The Rev. JOHN HUNTER, B.D., Rattray
The Rev. GEO. D. HUTTON, M.A., B.Sc.
Bothkennar
The Rev. A. J. MACDONALD, Killearnan
The Rev. A. M. MACGREGOR, Lochryan
The Rev. R. D.MACKENZIE, B.D., Kilbarchan
The Rev. J. MITCHELL, B.D., Mauchline
The Rev. JOHN MUIR, B.D., Yester
The Rev. J. MUIRHEAD, B.D., Avendale
The Rev. J. W. MURRAY, B.A.(Oxon.), Manor
The Rev. W. H. PORTER, Cults, Pitlessie
The Rev. ROBERT PRYDE, M.A., Glasgow
The Rev. JOHN SHARPE, Selkirk
The Rev. W. STEPHEN, B.D., Inverkeithing
The Rev. G. WALKER, B.D., Castle-Douglas
The Rev. D. MACFARLANE WILSON
Thornton
The Rev. WM. WILSON, M.A., Trossachs
C. E. W. MACPHERSON, Esq., C.A., Edin.
THOMAS REID, Esq., M.A., Lanark
J. H. STEVENSON, Esq., Advocate, Edin.
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FASTI ECCLESI^E
SCOTICAN^
THE SUCCESSION OF MINISTERS IN
THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND FROM
THE REFORMATION
BY
HEW SCOTT, D.D.
NEW EDITION
Revised and continued to the Present Time under the Superintendence
of a Committee appointed by the General Assembly
VOLUME I
SYNOD OF LOTHIAN AND TWEEDDALE
OLIVER AND BOYD
EDINBURGH: TWEEDDALE COURT
1915
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
THE design of the present work is to present a comprehensive account of
the SUCCESSION OF MINISTERS of the Church of Scotland since the period
of the Reformation. An attempt is made to give some additional interest
by furnishing incidental notices of their lives, writings, and families,
which may prove useful to the Biographer, the Genealogist, and the
Historian.
The sources from which the work has been compiled are the various
records of Kirk Sessions, Presbyteries, Synods, and General Assemblies ;
together with the Books of Assignations, Presentations to Benefices, and
the Commissariat Registers of Confirmed Testaments. From these
authentic sources the information here collected will, it is believed, be
found as accurate as the utmost care can render it. Having been com
menced at an early period of life, this work has been prosecuted during
all the time that could be spared from professional engagements for a
period of nearly fifty years.
Some idea of the labour and continuous research involved in preparing
the work may be formed when the Author states that he has visited all
the Presbyteries in the Church, and about seven hundred and sixty
different Parishes, for the purpose of examining the existing records.
In this way he has had an opportunity of searching eight hundred and
sixty volumes of Presbytery, and one hundred volumes of Synod Records,
besides those of the General Assembly, along with the early Registers of
Assignations and Presentations to Benefices, and about four hundred and
thirty volumes of the Testament Registers in the different Commissariats.
The Author has to express his grateful acknowledgments to the Synod
and Presbytery Clerks, and, indeed, to almost all the Ministers of the
Church to whom he applied. While carrying on his early researches in
Edinburgh, he cannot forget his obligations to the late Thomas Thomson,
Esq., Deputy Clerk Register, to the late Alexander Macdonald, Esq., and
other gentlemen connected with the Record Department in the General
Register House. He is indebted to the Rev. Thomas Gordon of Newbattle,
and the Rev. John Struthers of Prestonpans, for revising the divisions
which contain the Presbyteries of Dalkeith and Haddington; also, for
vi PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
other services, to the Very Rev. Principal Campbell, Aberdeen ; the Rev.
Walter Wood, Elic : Major A. Stewart Allan, of the Bengal Staff, India ;
Mr William Troup, University, St Andrews; John Barren, Esq., C.A.,
Teind Office, and Adam C. Longmore, Esq., of the Exchequer. He
likewise has, in particular, to acknowledge how much he owes to David
Laing, Esq., LL.D., for the interest which he has uniformly taken in
the progress of the work, and for suggestions while the sheets were
at press.
The plan adopted by the Author was to follow the usual division into
Synods and Presbyteries, and to embrace the Ministers of the several
Churches from the Reformation in 1560 to June 1839. At the request,
however, of some of his friends, in order to make the work more complete,
by bringing it down to the present time, the names of Ministers are added
who have since been appointed.
The Part now issued comprises the important Synod of Lothian and
Tweeddale. The next Part, which is already in the Printer s hands, will
include the three Southern Synods of Merse and Teviotdale, of Dumfries,
and of Galloway. It will be followed by the Synod of Glasgow and Ayr.
It only remains to add, that so far as the Author is able to calculate from
what has already been completed, the work will be comprised in three
volumes, forming a companion to the Oriyines Parochiales Scotice, of
which it may, in some measure, be regarded as a continuation. Being
undertaken altogether as a labour of love, the Author begs to add, that
any profits will be devoted to the Societies for the Sous, and the Institu
tion for the Daughters of the Clergy.
H. S.
MANSE OF ANSTRUTHER WESTER,
Vtth November, 1866.
NOTE TO THE PRESENT EDITION
FOLLOWING an Overture to the General Assembly, a Committee was
appointed to deal with the Continuation of the Fasti Ecclesice Scoticance.
A Revision of the whole work was afterwards agreed upon. The present
edition, therefore, is the result. Synods and Presbyteries are arranged in
the order of the Roll of the General Assembly, and Parishes alphabetically
under Presbyteries. A condensed notice of each minister s career is now
given under his last incumbency, except in the case of professors and
bishops, who are placed under a separate heading. The genealogical and
bibliographical details have been much extended, proper names
modernised, and some irrelevant matter omitted. A selection of the
authorities quoted by Dr Hew Scott has been retained, and some newer
ones added. For the Continuation, authorities are only occasionally
mentioned, the information having been derived from the ecclesiastical
records and the ministers themselves, or their descendants and acquaint
ances. Session and Presbytery Records have been again consulted, and
considerable additions made from the Separate Register. Parish and
family histories, biographies, and books of reminiscence have yielded an
abundant crop of fresh information. To each volume a Bibliography of
local literature is appended, also an Index of Parishes and Ministers
mentioned therein, and in the last volume a cumulative Index of the
whole work will appear.
So many persons have kindly given assistance in the preparation of
this work it is impossible to thank them in detail, but mention must
be made of the Clerks of Presbyteries, whose help has proved in
valuable, and of John Maitland Thomson, LL.D., to whose learned
researches the Committee is much indebted.
w. s. c.
3lst December 1914.
CONTENTS
A .K
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF HEW SCOTT, D.D. . xi-xvi
ABBREVIATIONS . . xviii
I. PRESBYTERY OF EDINBURGH ... 1
II. PRESBYTERY OF LINLITHGOW . . . . .189
III. PRESBYTERY OF BIGGAR ..... 238
IV. PRESBYTERY OF PEEBLES ..... 268
V. PRESBYTERY OF DALKEITH ..... 301
VI. PRESBYTERY OF HADDINGTON . . . . .351
VII. PRESBYTERY OF DUNBAR ..... 402
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHURCH AND PARISH HISTORIES, ETC. . 429
INDEX OF PARISHES AND CHAPELS .... 433
INDEX OF MINISTERS 436
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF
HEW SCOTT, D.D.
i.
THE making of the Fasti Ecclesicv Scoticance is a curious and stimulating
example of literary industry. Mainly the work of one man, it was the
undertaking of a lifetime. Those who have tested the value of the work
O
will best appreciate its magnitude, as well as the manifold difficulties
which must have faced its projector. It was a toiler s task, possible
only through much patient perseverance, and its completion after forty
or fifty years arduous labour was an achievement of infinite merit.
As Dr Hew Scott s letters show, the strain was enormous, the sympathy
depressingly sparse. At times there was disappointment enough almost
to crush the eager spirit of the worker, and to put an untimely finis on
his enterprise. Still he stooped to his self-imposed burden in the temper
of which heroes are made. Year after year Scott pursued his remarkable
perambulations, in the course of which he visited, he computed, about
seven hundred and sixty parishes. He must have ransacked many
hundreds of musty old registers belonging to every kirk-session and
presbytery within his purview. As a probationer he began the Fasti, and
as a veteran of eighty he gave the last touches to his opus magnum.
Coadjutors were few and were mostly concerned with the first volume
enthusiasts like Dr Gordon of Newbattle, Dr Struthers of Prestonpans,
and David Laing, LL.D., prince of bibliophiles. Laing may be described
as prompter-in-chief . Indeed, but for him there would have been no Fasti
at all. Soured at the lack of preferment, Scott volunteered for service in
Canada, and was actually on his way to the boat when Laing met him
and persuaded him to remain at home. Until he became the minister
of a parish, the accumulation of material for the Fasti engrossed most
of Scott s attention. He carried on researches in all the likely sources,
copied extracts with minute, painstaking care, and left no stone
unturned to ensure the thoroughness and completeness of his task. The
xii BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF HEW SCOTT, D.D.
first portion of the work (it was in three volumes of two parts each)
appeared in 1866, the last in 1871. The price was twenty-five shillings
a part, and the impression was limited to 250 copies.
The Fasti was pre-eminently a labour of love. Whatever profits might
accrue from it were to be devoted to the Societies for the Sons of
the Clergy and the Ministers Daughters College. At least 200 are
known to have reached those institutions out of the Scott exchequer. That
amount may or may not have been a contribution from Fasti profits.
From Scott s letters to Laing we learn that the prospects were anything
but rosy : "I thought, at least was always told, that the sales were
greater, and as I expected something would be gained, perhaps not
much, I find myself disheartened, and tremble at proceeding further.
No gin-horse has worked harder than I have done for years, and
here is the result only making business for printers and booksellers."
And again : "I am puzzled about going on with such a loss. The
sales show that few of the great or literary folks care for it." A
third letter informs Dr Laing that of 250 copies of one part, 96
were sold, 12 were in the author s hands, while 142 remained on the
booksellers shelves. Hew Scott s last letter to David Laing is full of
pathos : " I received yours when in bed yesterday (4th Dec. 1871), where
I have been for eight or ten days. I am very thankful my humble, or
what you call great work, is so near a close. Dr Gordon wrote me lately
something similar when I told him I intended doing no more, but he
persuaded me it would be necessary to give the Moderators. The work
at the very outset brought me into trouble, even with the purest
intentions, and has been carried on under sometimes great privations, at
times under great depression of spirit, exertions few constitutions could
have undergone, and an expense which to many might have been a little
fortune. For the last twelve months it has been carried on in a sick
room and nursing an affectionate partner, and last of all, threatened with
blindness. So you may judge if I would not gladly be done with it.
Whoever is dissatisfied with my past labour is very welcome to try his
hand and make it better. I know of none such except two individuals.
But if the author of the Fasti toiled and sowed in tears, the herculean
labour of his life has not been lost. The Fasti has filled a noble niche in
Scottish ecclesiastical history. As a work of reference it has long taken
a high place, and its pages have been a mine for the digging of every
local annalist. By the triumphant realisation of his early dream, Hew
Scott made not merely the Church but the whole of Scotland his debtor.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF HEW SCOTT, D.D. xiii
II.
The story of his career can be told in few words. Hew Scott was
an admirable illustration of the pursuit of knowledge under difficulties.
Born at Haddington, 5th February 1791, he was the son of Robert Scott,
an Excise officer (Scotticc\ gauger), who counted kin with Sir Walter s
own sept of the romantic Border clan. His mother (her husband s second
wife) was Catherine Dunbar, a native of Coldingham. Hew took to learn
ing early, " could conjugate amo in his tenth year," and was altogether a
promising " lad o pairts." Dr Lorimer of the First Charge of Hadding
ton encountered him deciphering Latin lines on an old tombstone there.
" You ll be a minister yet," said the clergyman, and the words so rang in
the boy s ears that he could not sleep. His father died about this time,
leaving wife and family practically penniless. The opening of a little
shop helped to keep the wolf from the door, and Hew was apprenticed
to an ironmonger of the burgh. There is a tradition that he added
stationery to his mother s slender stock, hawking that commodity from
house to house in the evenings. At twenty we find him blossoming into
a bookseller. 1 But the minister s prophecy was coming true. Ambition
may have been fostered by the example of George Dunbar, who, from a
disabled gardener s boy, found his way to the University, and was rising
into fame as a Greek scholar. It is more than likely that Dunbar himself
paved the way for his kinsman s entrance on a scholastic career. Hew
Scott s name appears in the Edinburgh matriculation album for the first
time in Session 1813-14, and for the last time in Session 1819-20. He
followed a somewhat unsystematic but comprehensive course giving
attendance on the classes of Humanity, Logic, Greek, Natural Philosophy,
Moral Philosophy, Scots Law, Anatomy, Surgery, Chemistry, Practice
of Medicine, Agriculture, Hebrew, and Divinity. " Had the war con
tinued," he said, " I would have been a doctor in the army instead of
a minister of the Kirk." During two sessions he acted as assistant-
librarian of the University, and for this service he was rewarded by a
remission of the matriculation fee of half a sovereign. It is singular to
find him graduating at Aberdeen in preference to Edinburgh. Aberdeen,
it seems, was " a more frugal Senatus," and having applied to King s
College, the degree of M.A. was conferred, 2nd December 1816, " in
1 The Foundling, a tale, in verse, by Thomas Adams, Royal Artillery, Drivers. . . .
Haddington : Printed for the Author by G. Miller, and sold by Hew Scott, bookseller
(1811 ; 70 pp.).
xiv BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF HEW SCOTT, D.D.
consideration of his attainments as a student, and on the recommendation
of James Ferguson of Pitfour and John Buchan, W.S."
III.
Sometime in his Arts curriculum, Hew Scott became known to
Thomas Thomson, Deputy Clerk-Register of Scotland, most erudite of
legal antiquaries. Thomson had set out to reform the whole system of
public registries and the method of the custody of records in rendering
these records accessible to research, in rescuing and repairing old records,
in editing the Acts of the Scottish Parliament and other governmental
registers, under authority of a Record Commission. Scott became one
of Thomson s best helpers. The work was congenial, and it may have
inspired the idea of the Fasti, although the zealous researcher was
acquainted with Le Neve s Fasti Ecclesioe Anglicance a monumental
work like his own that was to be.
His divinity course completed, Scott was licensed by the Presbytery
of Haddington 24th October 1820. In 1829 he received ordination in
order to proceed to Canada a step frustrated by the appeal of David
Laing, as has been already stated. Assistantships followed at Garvald,
Ladykirk, Cockpen, and Temple. The minister of Cockpen was his
college friend, James Grierson. " I was not a little encouraged by his
story," Scott used to say ; " like many of us, he had two strings to his
bow, and kept a drug shop for years in the North Bridge till he was
presented to a parish, Lord Dalhousie writing the preferment on the
field of Echlar."
Promotion came at long last to the indefatigable investigator. On
the death of Dr Carstairs, Sir Windham Carmichael Anstruther offered
Scott the parish of Anstruther Wester, and he was admitted 12th June
1839. The Rev. Jardine Wallace, of Traquair, used to relate how Hew
Scott arrived one evening at his father s manse of St Michael,
Dumfries. In the course of conversation he spoke somewhat sadly
of the changes which had taken place from the Secession of 1843.
Mrs Wallace said : " Mr Scott, were you not tempted to go out ? "
"No! no!" he naively replied, "I had too much difficulty to get in."
Scott s curious story about the actual genesis of the Secession may be
recalled : " In the arrangement of viands for a party at dinner, one of
the guests, wife of the schoolmaster, who was also assistant minister in
the parish [Marnoch], happened to make some observations about its
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF HEW SCOTT, D.D. xv
impropriety, which gave offence to her hostess. This caused considerable
ill-feeling, and laid the foundation for disputes of various kinds in the
Presbytery, which at length terminated in the Secession of 1843, inflicting
a severe wound on the Church of Scotland." The author of the Fasti
had no leaning towards the popular party. He stoutly opposed the
measures of the non-Intrusionists, and supported Charles Rogers (after
wards his assistant) in the attempt to depose Sir David Brewster from
the Principalship of St Andrews for his adherence to the Free Church.
Hew Scott received the honorary degree of D.D. from St Andrews in
1867. He was an exemplary minister of the old school " his preaching
much, but more his practice wrought, a living sermon of the truths he
taught." Into all his work both in the pulpit and out of it he put
his best. Parochial movements were assured successes under his sagacious
o
pilotage. He had his peculiarities and foibles. From the established
mode of worship he would brook no variation. A "repeating" tune was
anathema and he declined to preach in a church where the Doxology was
sung. He was the strictest of disciplinarians, but behind all his outward
severity beat a heart that was warm, and true, and kind. He was penu
rious to a proverb his besetting fault a relic, doubtless, of less fortunate
days. " No nail, or potato, or turnip, or piece of coal was ever left on the road
by Hew Scott." Dr Rogers declared that he never bought writing paper,
but wrote all the Fasti on letter-backs a precursor of the modern card
index method, quaint, but in his hands thoroughly effective, the result
showing a marvellous mastery of the multifarious materials collected at
divers times and places. He used turned envelopes for his correspond
ence, a fact which was demonstrated after his death, when his desk was
opened and disclosed "nearly 2000 envelopes all reversed, the stamps and
addresses being in the inside, according to which the old economist had
been in the habit, almost from the day of Sir Rowland Hill s penny
postage, of refolding the covers of his correspondence for future use." It
has been hinted that he was the hero of the story told by Dr William
Chambers, about a minister who married the schoolmaster s widow for
the sake of the dead dominie s new coat. That, however, is baseless.
He married the lady (one who knew him well, told Dr Hay Fleming)
"because she had shown so much kindness to her husband [Alexander
M Dougall] in his illness, and because if he married her she would receive
a substantial allowance from the Ministers Widows Fund, and thus be
rewarded for her untiring devotion to the schoolmaster." Dr Scott died
at Anstruther, 12th July 1872 ; his widow, Sarali (daughter of James
xvi BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF HEW SCOTT, D.D.
Kennedy, a Colmonell farmer), surviving him till 1st May 1874. He left
9000 mostly to the Kennedy family, and a parcel of land at Pittenweem
" two crofts and a toft " to endow the " Scott and Dunbar Bursary " in
his alma mater. His large and interesting library was disposed of by
auction. Parsimonious he never was where any rare volume was at stake.
The Laing letters are full of references to book sales and the picking up
of rarities. Scott s passion was books, and his book-plate (displaying an
array of books surmounted by a John Knox bust, a scroll with the
" Amo " of the Buccleuch Scotts, and the " buck that in the cleuch was
ta en ") is a sure indication of where his heart lay. Hot and choleric
on occasion, he was as a little child when surrounded by tomes that were
his dearest treasures.
Such, then, was the compiler of the Fasti. Seldom has a finer piece of
work been carried out with almost the minimum of encouragement. Yet
one of the author s sunniest moments was Dr Chalmers s benediction on the
superlative undertaking: "Go on, Mr Scott, go on; the unborn will bless
you, sir. It is the work I would so like to do." Courtly compensation
for much that might have been ! To have earned the approval of Thomas
Chalmers was not only recognition worth while : it was stimulus sufficient
for the perfecting of what was truly a patriot s legacy to posterity.
W. S. CROCKETT.
SYNOD OF LOTHIAN AND TWEEDDALE
ABBREVIATIONS
Adm.
App.
Bapt.
Coll.
Cont.
Dem.
Dep.
Ind.
Inst.
Licen.
admitted
appointed
baptized
collated
contract
(marriage)
demitted
deposed
inducted
instituted
licensed
Marr. .
Min. .
Ord. .
Pres. .
Presb. .
Pro. .
Res. .
Trans. .
Univ. .
Unmarr.
married
minister
ordained
presented
presbytery
proclaimed
resigned
translated
university
unmarried
ERRATA
Page 11. Col. 1, line 45, delete "to St Boswells, 1662 ; trans."
Col. 2, line 2, delete " (1) Esther Scougall, and had issue Janet (G. R. Sas.,
xxix., 11): (2). :J
Page 77. Col. 1, line 35, for " Canongate (Second Charge) " read " South Leith. :
1 age 175. Col. 1, line 20, for " Edward Kinnear " read "Andrew Kinnear."
Page 189. Col. 1, line 19,/or "John Laing" read "James Laing."
Page 317. Col. 2, line 23, delete "Robert John, died at school, 1877."
Page 364. Col. 2, line 32, delete " died 14th Nov. 1903."
xviii
SYNOD OF LOTHIAN AND TWEEDDALE
[THE BECORDS, contained in nineteen volumes, date from 1st April 1589 to
27th April 1596 (volume recovered from University of Edinburgh vide
Presbytery); from 14th April 1640 to May 1661; and from July 1687
to the present day.]
PRESBYTERY OF EDINBURGH
[Excepting blanks from 1st November 1750 to 3rd June 1753, the Registers are com
plete from 14th May 1701 to the present day. One volume previous to 1638, and all
after till 14th May 1701, were destroyed by a fire at the Presbytery Clerk s house
in the Lawnmarket, 28th October 1701. Three volumes of Records, from 19th April
1586 to 24th August 1603 (with blanks from 24th March 1589-90 to 13th April
1591) and the Synod volume mentioned above were restored by the University of
Edinburgh, in whose possession they had been for over two hundred years. The
Presbytery raised an action in the Court of Session, which was defended. On 16th July
1890, Lord Wellwood gave judgment in favour of the pursuers, finding the Presbytery entitled
to the books and documents claimed, and ordaining the defenders to deliver them up.
The grounds of decision were : (1) that the Presbytery were the successors of the
Presbytery to whom they belonged ; (2) that the Records, being those of the established
courts of the country, were extra cammercium, and the pursuers were not barred by
prescription or the presumption arising from long possession or acquiescence. The decision
was appealed to the Inner House, but was abandoned by the University when the
case was about to be heard in the Second Division of the Court, 28th November 1890.
For a complete statement of the case see Appendix to Report to Assembly, 1891, and
Scottish Law Reporter, xxviii., 567.]
ADDIEWELL (Q.&).
[A Mission in connection with West
Calder was started in 1871, the services
being held in a hall. Amongst those
who served as missionaries were William
Fotheringham Cameron (afterwards of
Tweedmouth): John Kerr (Dirleton); John
Gunson (Kingston, Glasgow) ; and, in
1879, William Peter M Laren. The Mission
became a separate charge in 1882. A
church, costing 1550, was opened 3rd
VOL. I.
April 1885, and on 23rd Jan. 1893 Addie-
well was erected into a parish quoad sacra.]
1893
WILLIAM PETER M LAREN, born
Edinburgh, 12th July 1843; edu
cated at Edinburgli Univ. ; student
missionary at Addiewell from 1879 ; licen.
by Presb. of Edinburgh 6th May 1882 ; ord.
12th July 1882; died 2nd May 1894. He
marr. 1871, Jean Robertson, and had issue
William David, professor in Thomas-
son College, Roorkee, India ; David John,
ADDIEWELL COLINTON
[PRESB. OF
min. of Patna; James Archibald, died in
infancy.
1894
THOMAS HENRY JONES, a native
of Canada; educated at Edinburgh
Univ. ; M.A. (1887) ; Keen, by Presb.
of Edinburgh 15th May 1891 ; assistant at
St George s, Edinburgh ; ord. 8th Nov. 1894 ;
res. 15th June 1898; min. at Bulawayo,
Rhodesia, 1898, at Beaconsfield, Cape
Colony, 1914.
1898
WILLIAM LOW JAMIE, born Edin
burgh, 22nd Feb. 1860, son of David
J. ; educated at Canongate Burgh
School and Edinburgh Univ. ; M.A. (1887) ;
licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 14th May
1890 ; assistant at Northesk ; ord. 27th
Sept. 1898. Marr. 28th Aug. 1909, Eliza
beth Forster, daugh. of W. R. Scott,
Addiewell.
COLINTON, ORIGINALLY HAILES.
[St Cuthbert s Church and parish of Halis
or Hailes, now Colinton, was founded about
1095 A.D. by Ethelred, Earl of Fife, son of
Malcolm III. and Queen Margaret. A
church dedicated by David de Bernham,
27th Nov. 1248, was probably destroyed
during the English invasion, 1544-5. A
church built on the present site in 1636 was
rebuilt in 1771, and again in 1907. Before
the Reformation the church belonged to
the Preceptory of St Anthony, Leith.]
1567
ALEXANDER FORRESTER, probably
of the Corstorphine family, reader in
1567. [Reg. Min.]
1569
JOHN DURIE, mentioned as min. in
1569; trans, to Leith, May 1570.
[Spottiswood s Hist., iii., 83; Reg.
Min. ; Wodrow s MS. Biog., i. ; Edin. Chr.
Inst., v. ; Relig. Mon., v. ; Neio Stat.
Ace., ix.]
ADAM LETHAM [LICHTON, LEIGH-
TON], had charge of Currie, Hailes,
and St Catherine s of the Hopes
in 1574. There were readers at Currie
1574
and Hailes, and the office of reader at St
Catherine s was vacant. The reader at
Hailes was Andrew Robeson. [Reg.
Min.]
JOHN HALL, min. in 1579; trans, to
157g Leith 24th Oct. 1596.- [Reg. Assig.,
Booke of the Kirk, Wodroiv Miscell. ;
Calderwood s Hist., iv.]
PETER HEWAT, trans, from the High
- Kirk, Edinburgh, 26th Oct., and adm.
5th Nov. 1596; trans, to Greyfriars
Jan. 1597. [Edin. Counc. Reg., x. ; Reg.
Assig.]
JAMES THOMSON, M.A. (Edinburgh,
1598 12th Aug. 1592); called 23rd Jan.
1597 ; elected 23rd May, and adm.
14th July 1598. He refused to conform to
the Bishop s instructions regarding the
method of celebrating Communion, 5th
March 1634; died before 2nd April 1635,
aged about 63. He marr. Helen, daugh. of
John Leyis [Lees], merchant, Edinburgh,
and through her was entered burgess
and guild-brother of that city, 18th May
1608. His widow was admitted "as ane
ordinar pensioner by the Session of Edin
burgh, to receive quarterly the sume of
20 merkis," llth Oct. 1644. [Test., Edin.
Gen. Sess., Guild, and Reg. (Bapt.) ; Reg.
Assig., Sec. Sigill., cvi. ; Old Dec., i. ; Sed.
Book of Teinds ; Row s and Stevenson s
Hists., i. ; Ing. Ret. Edin., 220.]
WILLIAM OGSTON, M.A. ; regent in
1RS _ Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1619;
on the commendation of Bishop
Forbes, he was pres. by Charles I. 1635.
Previous to the celebration of Communion,
he caused his parishioners to undergo his
examinations kneeling. Refusing to take
the Covenant, he was abused in Edinburgh
by a mob of women, 9th May 1637, who
waited on him after sermon, " and did
showre him with strokes." Deposed 4th
Jan. 1639, for deserting his flock "twenty
weeks togidder," etc. ; coll. at Corstorphine
in 1664. [Wodrow s MSS. ; Baillie s Lett.,
i. ; Peterkin s Rec. ; New Stat. Ace., i. ;
Stevenson s Hist.]
EDINBURGH]
COLINTON
1639
THOMAS GARVINE [GARVEN,
GAVINE 1> M A - > adm - 1639 > trans -
to Old Kirk, Edinburgh, 1649.
[Mun. Univ. Glasg., iii. ; Dalkeith Presb.
and Edin. Counc. Reg.; Stevenson s Hist.,
ii. ; Rutherfurd s Lett.]
ALEXANDER LIVINGSTON, M.A.
(? Glasgow 1633). On the occupation
of the country by the English army
after the battle of Dunbar, he absented
himself from his parish from Sept. 1650 to
Sept. 1651. Died at Edinburgh, 4th July
1660. He marr. Mary Sharp (Reg. of
Deeds, Mack., 6th Dec. 1671), and had issue
Elizabeth, died Nov. 1675 ; Margaret
(marr. an officer in the army) ; Alexander,
died February 1664. [Test, and Edin.
Reg. C#r.), Tombst.]
ROBERT BENNET, M.A. (St Andrews,
20th July 1650) ; adm. (assistant and
successor) 28th Sept. 1659. Deprived
for refusing the Test, 1681 ; inst. to Ancrum
1687 (q.v.). Died before 4th June 1709.
He marr. Magdalen, daugh. of Adam
Cunningham, Commissary of Dumfries
(Edin. Sas., xxvi., 303, 307), and had issue
Mary; Adam, M.D., who was served
heir. [^c^. Rect. Univ. /St And., Test. Reg.;
Spec. Ret. Fife, 101 ; Wodrow s Hist.]
1682
THOMAS MURRAY, adm. and inst.
26th Oct. 1682; trans, to Kinloch
1685.
SAMUEL NIMMO, M.A. (Edinburgh,
1686 27th July 1663 ); ord - min - of Old
Cumnock 1673 ; trans, and adm.
15th April 1686. Accused of not having
read the Proclamation of the Estates, and
of not praying for King William and Queen
Mary, but for King James; acquitted by
the* Privy Council 22nd Aug. 1689 ; was
"hindered to preach by some of the Earl
of Argyll s Regiment ; dep. by the Com
mission of Assembly, Jan. 1691, for
declining their authority. He died June
1717, aged about 74. He marr. as a
second wife (pro. 20th Aug. 1704), Isobel,
daugh. of Thomas Halyburton, cordiner,
Edinburgh. He had issue William, died
June 1692; Charles, died December 1694
(Grei/friars Reg.) [Test, and Edin. Reg.
(Bur.); Acts Parl., ix. ; Peterkin s Con
stitution of the Church ; MS. Ace. of Min.,
1689; Murray s Biog. Annals, Warrick s
Hist, of Old Cumnock.]
JAMES THOMSON of Newton of Col-
1694 I 688 * 6 ; called 19th Nov. 1693; ord.
7th March 1694 ; trans, to Elgin 21st
May 1696. [Murray s Biog. Annals.]
THOMAS PATERSON, called 3rd Jan.,
1697 and ord ^ S ^ April 1697 ; trans, to
St Cuthbert s, Edinburgh, 22nd Oct.
1699. [Mun. Univ. Glasg., iii. ; Murray s
Biog. Annals.]
WALTER ALLAN, M.A. (Edinburgh,
1700 llth July 1696); called 20th Aug.,
and ord. 25th Dec. 1700 ; died 22nd
Nov. 1732, in 54th year. He marr. (1)
6th June 1703, Margaret, daugh. of James
Pillans, regent in the College of Edinburgh,
and had issue James, served heir 1734 ;
Elizabeth, died unmarried before 1780 ;
Bridget, died before 1738 : (2) (cont. 28th
Aug. 1717) Isobel, daugh. of John Brown,
merchant, Edinburgh, and had issue
Helen (marr. 19th April 1733, James
Clerk, mason, burgess of Edinburgh);
Isobel (marr. 22nd Feb. 1747, Alexander
Maconochie of Meadowbank, writer, Edin
burgh). [Test. Reg., Tombst., Edin. Mar.
Reg.]
GEORGE GIBSON, born 1706, son of
John G., physician, Kelso, and
1733 Catherine, daugh. of George Home
of Bassendean; licen. by Presb. of Kelso
1st June 1731 ; pres. by Charles, Earl of
Lauderdale, 16th May, and ord. 25th July
1733; died 1st Jan. 1746. He marr. 1st
Oct. 1736, Janet Blackwood (marr. (2)
21st June 1747, Alexander Young, brewer
in Potterrow : Edin. Sas., cxxxiii., 115).
[Test, and Edin. Reg. (Bur.).]
JOHN HYNDMAN, called 14th Aug.,
and ord. 25th Nov. 1746; trans, to
1746 St Cuthbert s 20th Feb. 1782. [Car-
lyle s Autob., Murray s Biog. Ann.]
COLINTON
[PRESB. OF
1753
EGBERT FISHER, born 1716, son of
Francis F., Cochram, Cumberland ;
M.A. (Glasgow 1739); licen. by
Presb. of Edinburgh 27th Oct. 1742 ; ord. to
Lauder 22nd Sept. 1747 ; pres. by James,
Earl of Lauderdale, 13th July 1752; trans,
and adm. 3rd March 1753; died 8th April
1782. He marr. 29th March 1763, Ann
(died 24th Aug. 1774, aged 39), third
daugh. of Sir John Jardine of Applegarth,
Bart. Their only child, Jane Charteris,
born 21st Jan. 1770 (marr. John Stewart,
of the Trustees Office, Edinburgh).
[Presb. Reg., Tombst., Murray s Biog. Ann. ;
New Stat. Ace., i.]
JOHN WALKER, born 1731, son of
1783 J nn ^ r -> rect; or of the Grammar
School of the Canongate, Edinburgh,
and Eupham Morison ; educated by his
father, and at Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen.
by Presb. of Kirkcudbright 3rd April 1754 ;
ord. to Glencorse 13th Sept. 1758 ; trans,
to Moffat 8th June 1762. In 1764 he
was appointed by the General Assembly
to make a survey of the Hebrides,
being at the same time commissioned to
make a report to the Society for the Pro
pagation of Christian Knowledge. He
travelled 3000 miles in seven months. His
report, found among his papers after his
death, was printed by his friend Charles
Stewart. M.D. (Glasgow 1765), D.D. (Edin
burgh 1765); app. Professor of Natural
History, Univ. of Edinburgh, 15th June
1779, retaining also his post as min. of M.
The Presb. of Lochmaben found the holding
of both offices to be incompatible, but the
Synod reversed the finding. On 13th Feb.
1783 he was adm. to this charge ; Moderator
of Assembly 20th May 1790 ; died 31st Dec.
1803. During the last years of his life he
was blind. He marr. 24th Nov. 1789, Jane
Wallace (died 4th May 1827), eldest daugh.
of Andrew Wauchope of Niddrie. Publica
tions Two single Sermons (Edinburgh,
1756, 1791) ; Classes Fossilium, sive Ghar-
acteres naturales et Chymici classium et
ordinum in systemate miner ali, cum nomibus
Genericis adscriptis (Edinburgh, 1787) ;
Institutes of Natural History (Edinburgh,
1792) ; Memorial concerning the Present
Scarcity of Grain (Edinburgh, 1801); An
Economical History of the Hebrides and
Highlands of Scotland, 2 vols. (Edinburgh,
1808 ; reissued in London, 1812) > Essays on
Natural History and Rural Economy
(Edinburgh, 1808 ; London, 1812) ; " Report
to the General Assembly, 1772, concerning
the State of the Highlands and Islands i!
(Scots Mag., xxxiv.) ; " Experiments on the
Motion of the Sap in Trees " (Trans. Roy.
Soc. Edin.) ; many papers in Trans, of
the Highland Soc. ; Account of the Parish
(Sinclair s Stat. Ace., xix.). [Grant s Univ.,
ii. ; Jardine s Nat. Lib., xxvi. ; Murray s
Biog. Ann. ; New Stat. Ace., i. ; Diet. Nat.
Biog.}
1804
JOHN FLEMING, born 1750, son of
James F. of Craigs, and great-
grandson of Edward Marshall of
Keymuir, Muiravonside, who suffered
martyrdom in 1685 ; educated at Bathgate
School and Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen.
by Presb. of Linlithgow 23rd Feb. 1785;
ord. to Carrington 7th May 1790; pres.
by James, Earl of Lauderdale ; trans,
and adm. 22nd Nov. 1804; died un
married, 23rd Jan. 1823. In early life he
succeeded to his father s property, and
devoted himself with much success to
agriculture. He was, for a time, factor to
Neil, Earl of Rosebery, and even after being
called to the ministry, was frequently em
ployed as a valuator of landed estates. He
bequeathed his library to the parish, after
thirty of his most intimate friends had
each selected a book as a token of re
membrance. He left 240 for educating
" a certain number of free scholars in
the parochial school," and the remainder
of his fortune he conveyed to trustees for
behoof of his nearest relatives, but in the
event of their leaving no issue, for establish
ing professorships of Political Economy in
the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Publication Account of Primrose or Car
rington (Sinclair s Stat. Ace., xiv.). He
is said to have been offered a hundred
pounds for the right of publishing the
sermon preached at the admission of John
Kellock to Crichton, but it never appeared
in print. See Memoir by Archibald Con-
EDINBURGH]
COLINTON CORSTORPHINE
stable (one of his trustees) in Scots Mag.,
xci., xcii. [Scot s Fun. Serm., Murray s
Biog. Ann.]
LEWIS BALFOUR, born Edinburgh,
1823
B. of Pilrig, and Jean, daugh. of
Robert Whyte [Whytt] of Bennochy, Pro
fessor of Medicine in the Univ. of Edin
burgh ; educated at Edinburgh High School
and Univ. ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh
30th Jan. 1805; ord. to Sorn 28th Aug.
1806 ; pres. by James, Earl of Lauderdale ;
trans, and adm. 28th Aug. 1823; D.D.
(Glasgow 1853) ; died 24th April 1860. He
marr. 26th April 1808, Henrietta Scott (died
13th March 1844), third daugh. of George
Smith, D.D., min. of Galston, and had
issue John, surgeon, H.E.I.C.S., born 8th
July 1809, died 13th Dec. 1886 ; Marion,
born 29th Oct. 1811 (marr. 7th April 1835,
Colonel J. A. Wilson, R.A.), died 14th Dec.
1884; George Smith, born 20th July 1813,
died 3rd May 1816 ; Jane Whyte, born 6th
Nov. 1816, died 6th Feb. 1907; Lewis,
merchant, born 14th Sept. 1817, died 13th
Feb. 1870; James, born 30th July 1819,
died 20th June 1824 ; William Somerville,
born and died 1821 ; George William, M.D.,
LL.D.Edinburgh, born 2nd June 1823,
died 9th Aug. 1903 ; Mackintosh, manager,
Agra Bank, born 9th March 1825, died 7th
June 1884 ; a son, born and died 1826 ;
Henrietta Louisa, born 14th Jan. 1828
(marr. 14th Dec. 1847, Ramsay H. Tra-
quair), died 25th Nov. 1855; Margaret
Isabella, born llth Feb. 1829 (marr. 28th
Aug. 1848, Thomas Stevenson, C.E., and
was mother of Robert Louis Stevenson),
died 14th May 1897 ; James Melville, C.E.,
born 8th June 1831, died 18th Dec. 1869.
Publications Sermon on the Death of the
Rev. Daniel Wilkie (Edinburgh, 1838);
Account of the Parish (New Stat. Ace., i.).
[The Balfours of Pilrig, Graham Balfour s
Life of Robert Louis Stevenson, Simpson s
The Stevenson Originals],
WILLIAM LOCKHART, born Denny,
1861 17th May 1825, son of Robert L.
and Isabel Williamson ; educated at
Glasgow Univ. ; M.A. (1853), F.S.A.Scot. ;
licen. by Presb. of Dunoon 23rd Nov. 1853 ;
assistant at New Greyfriars, Edinburgh ;
ord. to Queensferry llth Feb. 1855; trans,
and adm. llth Jan. 1861; D.D. (St
Andrews 1893); died unmarr. 30th Sept.
1902. By the will of his sister, Margaret,
a considerable sum was bequeathed for
the erection of a church (preferably in
the Grange district of Edinburgh), in his
memory, to be called The Lockhart
Memorial Church. Publications On the
Place and Importance of Ordinances ; On
Authority in the Institution of Ordinances ;
On Oaths (Edinburgh, 1852); The Church
of Scotland in the Thirteenth Century, the
Life and Times of David de Bernham,
1239-58 (Edinburgh, 1889; 2nd ed., 1892);
Dies Tristes, Sermons for Seasons of Sorrow
(Edinburgh, 1892) ; contributions to the
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries
of Scotland.
NORMAN MACLEAN, M.A. ; trans,
from Glengarry, and adm. 18th May
1903; trans, to the Park Parish,
Glasgow, 23rd June 1910.
THOMAS MARJORIBANKS, born 3rd
April 1871, son of George M., D.D.,
min. of Stenton ; educated at Stenton
School, Collegiate School, and Univ. of
Edinburgh ; M.A. (1891), B.D. (1894) ; licen.
by Presb. of Dunbar 2nd May 1894 ; assist
ant at West Parish, Aberdeen, and St
Cuthbert s, Edinburgh ; ord. to Houndwood,
9th Dec. 1898; trans, to Callander 27th
Feb. 1903 ; trans, and adm. 25th Nov. 1910.
Marr. 9th Jan. 1907, Mary Ord, daugh. of
William Logan, Madras Civil Service, and
Anne Selby Burrell Wallace, and has issue
George, born 19th May 1908; William
Logan, born 26th Feb. 1910 ; James Alex
ander Milne, born 29th May 1911. Publica
tions In the Likeness of Men, Studies in
the Life of Our Lord on Earth (Edinburgh,
1908); The Fulness of the Godhead, Further
Studies in the Life of Our Lord (Edinburgh,
1910) ; The Sevenfold / Am (Edinburgh,
1913) ; editor of In Far Fields.
CORSTORPHINE.
[The church, dedicated to St John
Baptist, and made collegiate by Sir John
1903
1910
6
CORSTORPHINE
[PRESB. OF
Forrester in 1429, was, previous to the
Reformation, an appanage of the Abbey
of Holyroodhouse. Nicol Ballantine, the
first Provost, died 1470. Robert Cairn-
cross, Bishop of Ross, King s Chaplain,
and Lord High Treasurer of Scotland,
was Provost in 1544. Gogar, which
formerly belonged to the Trinity College
Church, was united to Corstorphine on
22nd May 1599.]
1554 JAMES SCOTT, reader.
1560 ALEXANDER M GILL, reader.
1561 JOHN COISE, reader at Gogar.
WALTER COUPER, reader ; died Nov.
1570; probably progenitor of the
Coupers of Gogar; Adam C. was
Laird of Gogar in 1600.
JOHN NIMMILL [NIMMO], M.A.,
158g formerly of Keith-Marischal ; trans,
to Cranstoun 1590. [Reg. Assig. ~\
THOMAS MARJORIBANKS, M.A.
15go Had a son James, apprenticed to
George Lindsay, hatmaker, Edin
burgh, llth Nov. 1590.
ANDREW FORRESTER, trans, from
1590 Gl encorse > Grogar also was in his
charge 1593 ; trans, to Dunfermline
1598. [Reg. Assig.]
WILLIAM ARTHUR, M.A. ; adm. 8th
June 1599. At a visitation by the
Presb., 16th Oct. 1599, a complaint
was made that he was " overleirnit a man
for thame." It was found " Mr Will, edifiet
them, but that he suld be mair plain to
the people in deliverie," though "he was
honest in lyf, and careful in discharging
his dewtie." At the same time the Presb.
enacted "that the parishioners of Gogar
[who objected to the suppression of
their parish on 22nd May], sail come
to Corstorphine one day, and those of
Corstorphine sail go to Gogar another";
and they again ordered, 10th June 1600, a
like exchange on the part of both parishes.
A. was nominated by the Assembly, 15th
May 1601, for supplying the kirks in Niths-
dale; trans, to St Cuthbert s, Edinburgh,
in 1607. [Reg. Assig., Booke of the Kirk,
Calderwood s Hist. ; New Stat. Ace., i.]
ROBERT RUTHERFURD, M.A. (Edin-
16Q7 burgh, 1st Aug. 1590) ; ord. 14th Oct.
1607; died 25th April 1616, aged
about 46. He marr. Christian Dick, who
survived him, and had issue Katherine ;
Isobel; Margaret; Agnes. (See Privy
Council Record, 10th Sept. 1609, for a
curious attack on Rutherfurd at a burial
in church. ) [Reg. Assig., Haddington Presb.
and Test. Reg,]
ROBERT LINDSAY, M.A. (St Andrews,
1617 28th July 1610) ; adm. in 1617 ; died
April 1624, aged about 34. He marr.
Elizabeth Abercrombie, who survived him,
and had issue David ; Helen. [Act. Rect.
Univ. St And. ; S. Leith Sess., Test., and
Edin. Reg. (J3a2)t.).~]
DAVID BALSILLIE, M.A. (St Andrews,
1626 July 1612 ); adm - 1626 ; died 1654 >
aged about 62. He marr. (cont. 23rd
Aug. 1624 : Reg. of Deeds, ccccxv., 8th April
1629) Margaret (who survived him), daugh.
of Michael Cranstoun, min. of Cramond,
and had issue George ; Margaret, bapt.
12th April 1635; Bethia, bapt. 10th Dec.
1639 (marr. William Munro of Culcraigie :
Edin. Sas., xxv., 74) ; Alexander, bapt. 1st
Jan. 1643 ; Helen (marr. (1) George Mar
shall, tailor, burgess of Edinburgh : (2)
before 3rd Jan. 1656 (G. R. Inhib.),
Nicol Hamilton, writer, Edinburgh : (3)
John Forrest, burgess of Edinburgh) ;
Agnes (G. R. Sas., xlviii., 382); Rebecca
(Reg. of Deeds, dxxiii., 224) ; Christian
(marr. James Sett, burgess of Edinburgh).
[Act. Red. Univ. St And. ; St Cuthbert s
Sess. and Test. Reg. ; Sed. Book of Teinds,
Edin. Sasines ; Reg. Old Dec., ii.]
ROBERT HUNTER, M.A. (Edinburgh,
1655 July 1643); called llth June 1654;
ord. llth April 1655. Deprived by
Act of Parliament llth June, and by the
Privy Council, 1st Oct. 1662, for not con
forming to Episcopacy. He is still called
min. in 1668 (G. R. Sas., xix., 83), probably
of a meeting-house. Marr. Margaret
Hunter. [Wodrow s Hist.; Mun. Univ.
Glasg., iii.]
EDINBURGH]
CORSTORPHINE
[WILLIAM OGSTON, D.D. (Aberdeen),
1664 f rmer ly f Colinton; coll. 19th
March 1664. Probably he was in
firm, as the Register is unsigned, and he
does not appear to have taken charge.
After the former min. "gave over to
preach, the church lay vacant till 1665,
so that the children were baptized in
other churches for the most part." He
died Dec. 1667. He marr. Isabel Ewen,
and had issue Rachel. Publication
Oratio funebris in obitum Georgii, Mari-
schalli Comitis (Aberdeen, 1623). \_Rey.
Collat., Test. Reg. ; Wodrow s MSS., Ixiii.]
THOMAS MOWBRAY, M.A. (Edin-
burgh, 15th April 1645); teacher
in the parish school of Dalkeith ;
licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith, 30th May
1650 ; chaplain to Lord Cranstoun s Regi
ment in Prussia ; assistant at Campvere ;
adm. min. there 26th Sept. 1660 ; resigned
1664 ; adm. to this charge 13th March 1665 ;
died May 1666, aged about 41. He marr.
Sarah Cranstoun, and had issue Margaret,
and a posthumous son, Thomas, bapt. 1st
July 1666. Publication The Honour of
Kings Vindicated ami Asserted, a sermon
(}Md\e\)UTgh,lGQ3).-[Reg.Collat.,Test.Reg.,
Davidson s The Scottish Staple at Veere.~]
ARCHIBALD CHISHOLM, born 1633,
1666 son ^ ^ a ^ er C-, bailie of Dunblane ;
M.A. (St Andrews, 13th May 1653) ;
ord. to Newbattle 20th Nov. 1663; pres.
by James, Lord Forrester of Corstorphine ;
trans, and coll. 21st Nov., adm. 7th Dec.
1666; died in 1670. He marr. Margaret
(died 23rd April 1680), daugh. of Oliver
Colt, min. of Inveresk, and had issue
Jean, bapt. 8th March 1668. [Reg. Collat.,
Test. Reg., Malcolm s House of Drummond.]
JOHN PRINGLE, M.A. (Edinburgh,
6th March 1669); pres. by James,
Lord Forrester of Corstorphine ; ord.
and coll. 23rd, and adm. 24th July 1670 ;
disappears from the Record of 1671. [Reg.
Collat.]
GEORGE HENRY, M.A. (Glasgow,
1672 1656 ); ord - to Dairy 1663; trans.
to Stoneykirk 1665 ; pres. by James,
Lord Forrester of Corstorphine ; trans, and
1689
adm. 9th May 1672. Deprived by the
Committee of Estates 10th May 1689, for
not reading the Proclamation, nor praying
for King William and Queen Mary. He
died in Edinburgh, 17th April 1723, in
his 92nd year. He marr. Nov. 1649,
Margaret, elder daugh. of Geo. Lundie,
town-clerk of Dysart, and had issue
James ; John ; William ; Margaret ;
Edward, bapt. 19th Sept. 1680; Mary;
Janet; Hugh. [Test. (St And.), Edin.
Guild, and Reg. (Bur.) ; Fountainhall s
Diary; MS. Ace. of Min., 1689; Acts
Parl., ix. ; Monro s Apology, Peterkin s
Constitution of the Church.]
ROBERT LAW, M.A. ; mentioned as
minister 16th March 1689 ; (probably
only officiating for a time, and per
haps the late min. of Kilpatrick). [S. Leith
Reg. (Bapt.).]
ARCHIBALD HAMILTON, son of
Arch. H., min. of Wigtown ; M.A.
(Edinburgh, 28th Aug. 1683) ; ord. to
the Presbyterian Congregation at Wy combe,
Buckinghamsh., in 1688 ; adm. 1692 ; died
30th April 1709, aged about 46. He marr.
Sarah Winne (Edin. Sas., Ix., 368). He
was, presumably in right of his wife, pro
prietor of lands in Montgomeryshire (Edin.
Com. Deeds, 6th March 1710). His only
daugh. Sarah (marr. John Kenrick, Noncon
formist min. at Wrexham, Denbighsh.), died
22nd Oct. 1775, aged 80. [Hart s Journal.]
GEORGE FORDYCE, born 1683, son of
17og Alex. F., min. of Rafford (Reg. of
Deeds, Mack., 22nd Dec. 1709);
studied at King s College, Aberdeen, 1696-
1700; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 22nd
April 1708 ; called 29th July, and ord. 18th
Oct. 1709 ; died 30th Aug. 1767. He marr.
9th July 1713, Jean, daugh. of Henry
Douglas of Friarshaw, and had issue
Anne (marr. John Dickie, W.S.) ; Sarah
(marr. David Moubray, min. of Liberton).
JOHN CHEISLIE [CHIESLEY], licen.
by Presb. of Edinburgh 12th June
1768 1754; ord. to Abercrombie 1757;
pres. by Sir Alexander Dick of Preston-
field, Bart., trans, and adm. 23rd Nov.
1768 ; died 12th June 1788. He marr. 26th
CORSTORPHINE
[PRESB. OF
Oct. 1751, Helen (died 13th Dec. 1814, in
her 83rd year), daugh. of James Pillans,
brewer, Pleasance, Edinburgh, and had
issue John; Barbara, born 1st June
1760; Robert, born 16th Nov. 1763;
Agnes; Alexander, born 1st Jan. 1769,
died 8th Feb. 1812 ; Ann, born 28th Aug.
1772 (marr. 6th July 1813, William Forbes,
Keeper of the Records of Council). The
introduction of the Paraphrases into public
worship gave offence to various persons in
the parish, and resulted in the formation
(1783) of a Secession congregation at Sight-
hill, now represented by Slateford U.F.
Church. [Murray s Eiog. Annals.]
THOMAS SHARP, licen. by Presb. of
Linlithgow 5th Aug. 1778 ; ord. to
Ettrick 20th April 1781 ; trans, to
Hawick 22nd Oct. 1784; pres. by Sir
William Dick of Prestonfield, Bart., trans,
and adm. 15th Oct. 1789 ; died 13th July
1791. He marr. 5th March 1782, Alison,
daugh. of James Russell of Ashestiel, who
died 1st June 1793, and had issue Thomas
Boston, born 9th July 1784 ; Jean, born
24th April 1786, died 27th Oct. 1786 ; Jean
Boston, born 29th May 1788.
JAMES OLIVER, ord. to Ancrum 14th
1792 ^ U ^ 1 ^^ 1 P res> ky Sir William
Dick of Prestonfield, Bart., trans.
and adm. 5th July 1792 ; died 10th March
1814, in 56th year. He marr. 24th July
1790, Elizabeth (died 17th Feb. 1809),
natural daugh. of Douglas, Duke of Hamil
ton, and had issue Stephen John, born 5th
Nov. 1793, died 22nd Nov. 1811 ; James,
born 4th Aug. 1796 ; John Hamilton, born
llth Jan. 1798, died 1860; Archibald Hamil
ton, born 20th April 1800 ; William Douglas,
born 3rd July 1803. Publication Account
of the Parish (Sinclair s Stat. Ace., xiv.).
DAVID SCOT [SCOTT], born 1770,
son of William S., Carrington (a
ploughman whose love for specu
lative theology caused him to sell his cow
to enable him to publish (1778) a pamphlet
in refutation of Arianism) ; educated at
Penicuik and Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen.
by Presb. of Edinburgh 25th Nov. 1795;
studied medicine ; took the degree of M.D.
25th June 1812 ; sometime a private
teacher, and devoted himself to the study
of Oriental languages, in the knowledge of
which he had few equals ; pres. by Sir
Robert Dick Keith of Prestonfield, Bart.,
22nd Aug., and ord. 17th Nov. 1814 ; res.
on app. to the Chair of Hebrew in St
Mary s College, St Andrews, 26th June
1833; died 17th Sept. 1834. Marr. 15th
Nov. 1832, Helen (died 18th Aug. 1870),
daugh. of John Heugh of Gartcows.
Publications Observations on the Pro
priety of an Establishment in Edinburgh
for teaching Oriental Languages (Edin
burgh, 1820) ; edited Dr Murray s pos
thumous work, History of the European
Languages, Ancient as ivell as Modern, 2
vols. (Edinburgh. 1823) ; Essays on Various
Subjects of Belles Lettres (Edinburgh,
1824) ; Discourses on some important sub
jects of Natural and Revealed Religion
(Edinburgh, 1825) ; Key to the Hebrew
Pentateuch (London, 1826) ; Key to the
Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song
of Solomon (London, 1828) ; A Hebrew
Grammar (Edinburgh, 1834) [said to have
been dictated extempore to the printer],
[Scots Mag., Ixxiii. ; Murray s Eiog. Ann.,
Diet. Nat. Biog.~\
DAVID HORNE, born Braziets,
1833 Kirkintilloch, 25th Aug. 1802, sixth
son of Robert H. and Margaret
Stevenson ; educated at Glasgow Univ. ;
licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 6th Aug.
1827 ; tutor in the family of Sir Robert
Keith Dick, Bart., of Prestonfield ; ord. to
Yester 12th May 1831 ; pres. by Sir Robert
Keith Dick, Bart., trans, and adm. 28th
Nov. 1833; died 24th April 1863. He marr.
18th Dec. 1832, Caroline (died 7th May
1875), daugh. of Edward Cook, H.E.I.C.S.,
and had issue Robert Keith Dick, his
successor ; David, born 2nd April 1835, died
14th Jan. 1864 ; Harriet Margaret, born
13th Dec. 1836, died 26th Jan. 1909;
Caroline Mary Patricia, born 28th Dec.
1838 (marr. 1867, Rev. James Roberts,
Indian chaplain) ; Edward Keith, born 8th
June 1840, died 3rd July 1841 ; Annie
Gordon, born 8th June 1840; Elizabeth
Fleming, born 27th Nov. 1842, died 24th
Sept. 1851 ; Emily Cunningham, born 23rd
Feb. 1846 (marr. Fred Turner).
EDINBURGH]
CORSTORPHINE CRAIGLOCKHART
1863
ROBERT KEITH DICK HORNE, born
Yester, 25th Sept. 1833, son of pre
ceding; educated privately, and at
Edinburgh Univ. ; licen. by Presb. of Edin
burgh; tutor in family of Lord President
Inglis; assistant at Redgorton and Bath-
gate; ord. 23rd July 1863; res. 3rd June
1881 ; died at Eastbourne, 20th May 1907.
He marr. 14th April 1868, Helen, daugh.
of James Macfarlane, D.D., min. of Dud-
dingston, and had issue Agnes Alexandra,
born 17th July 1869; David Macfarlane, born
7th April 1874 ; Helen, born 4th Sept. 1883.
JAMES DODDS, born Rosneath, 29th
May 1831, son of John D., parish
schoolmaster, and Mary Macalister ;
educated at Rosneath School and Glasgow
Univ. ; licen. by Presb. of Dumbarton
1854; assistant at Alloa ; ord. Melville
Church, Montrose, llth Sept. 1856; trans,
to St Clement s, Dundee, 23rd Sept. 1858 ;
trans, to St Stephen s, Glasgow, 2nd Aug.
1 860 ; trans, to Paisley Abbey (Second
Charge), 21st Dec. 1865; trans, to St
George s, Glasgow, 7th Jan. 1875 ; trans,
and adm. 22nd Dec. 1881 ; D.D. (Glasgow
1879); died 17th Feb. 1907. He marr. (1)
llth Dec. 1856, Elizabeth (died 4th April
1871), daugh. of John Miller, Alloa, and
had issue John Macalister, M.A., Fellow
and Tutor of St Peter s College, Cam
bridge, born 23rd April 1858 ; Sir James
Miller, K.C.B, M.A., LL.D., Under Secre
tary for Scotland since 1909, born 31st
May 1861 ; Elizabeth, born 4th Nov. 1862,
died 3rd July 1911 ; Agnes Jeanie, born
31st July 1864 (marr. Robert Stevenson,
min. of Gargunnock); Mary Janet, L.R.C.P.,
D.C.S., formerly missionary at Poona, India,
born 8th Nov. 1869: (2) 9th Oct. 1872,
Elizabeth Leishman, Dublin. Publications
Ed. Diary of William Cunningham of
Craiyends (Scottish Hist. Soc., 1887) ; Our
Duty to the Lower Animals (1897) ; Presby-
terianism (ordination address : Edinburgh,
1898); The Apostles Creed (Guild Text-
Book Series).
JAMES FERGUSSON, born Lochmaben
17th Dec. 1866 ; educated at Noble-
hill School, Dumfries, and St Andrews
Univ. ; licen. by Presb. of St Andrews 1891 ;
assistant at St Columba s, London, and
Corstorphine ; ord. (assistant and successor)
12th Dec. 1895; marr. llth June 1913,
Caroline Manuel, daugh. of John Potter,
London, widow of Donald Macleod, D.D.,
min. of St Columba s, London.
ST ANNE S, CORSTORPHINE
(Chapel-of-Ease).
[Church built after a design by P. Mac-
gregor Chalmers, and dedicated 4th Oct.
1913.]
JOHN ANDERSON ROBERTSON,
born Neilston, Renfrewshire, 21st Feb.
1861, son of Robert R. and Mary Ander
son ; educated privately, and at Univ. of
Glasgow; M.A. (April 1883); licen. by
Presb. of Glasgow 9th June 1886 ; assistant
at Rutherglen and West Kirk, Perth ; ord.
to Tenandry 14th May 1889 ; res. 17th May
1903, to take charge of the new church of
St Anne, Corstorphine. Marr. 25th June
1895, Jean, daugh. of William Mathewson
and Mary Spedding, Dunfermline, and has
issue Athol, born 29th March 1897;
Douglas William, born 30th Nov. 1898;
Aileen, born 5th Oct. 1901.
CRAIGLOCKHART (Q.S.).
[Erected into a parish quoad sacra, 10th
Dec. 1897, out of the parish of St Cuthbert,
and the Slateford district of the parish of
Colinton. A church in the fifteenth-
century style of Scottish architecture,
designed by Hay and Henderson, was
dedicated 9th June 1899.]
ROBERT WALKER MACKERSY, born
Edinburgh, 1833, son of William
1898 M., W.S., and Elizabeth, daugh. of
Robert Walker of Sunnybank, Fife ; edu
cated at High School and Univ. of Edin
burgh ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh ;
missionary at Roslin 1861 ; assistant at
West Church, Aberdeen; ord. 1870 to
Caledonian Church, London; pres. to
Chapel of Garioch, but (after objections
had been repelled by the Presb.) withdrew
on account of opposition; app. to Craig-
lockhart iron church 20th Nov. 1880 ; adm.
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CRAIGLOCKHART CRAMOND
[PRESB. OF
first min. of the parish 12th Jan. 1898 ; res.
12th Nov. 1902 ; died 21st Nov. 1902. He
marr. 24th Jan. 1867, Margaret Glenny (died
13th Nov. 1897),daugh. of Arthur Thomson,
banker, Aberdeen, and had issue William
Arthur, actor, born 7th March 1869.
ALFRED WILLIAM ANDERSON,
born 20th Sept. 1869, son of Alex
ander A., min. of Rhynie ; educated
at Aberdeen; M.A. (1890), B.D. (1893);
licen. by Presb. of Strathbogie 1893 ;
assistant at Dunnottar ; ord. to Leslie,
Aberdeenshire, 28th Aug. 1895 ; trans, and
adm. 18th May 1903. He marr. 8th April
1896, Elizabeth, daugh. of William Bain,
Aberdeen.
CRAMOND.
[A mensal or patrimonial kirk, dedicated
to St Columba. Previous to the Reforma
tion it belonged to the Bishop of Dunkeld.]
WILLIAM CORNWALL, reader and
1573 ex h r ter ; had a glebe assigned to
him 6th April 1573. [Act. and
Dec., 214.]
GEORGE LUNDIE is mentioned by
Calderwood (iii., 47) as min. 6th Aug.
1575. He was then at Dalmeny,
with Aldcathie, Abercorn, and Cramond
in his charge, till 1577. [Reg. Assig.}
JOHN SPOTTISWOOD, trans, from
x Lesmahagow; trans, to Mordington
in 1581. [Reg. Assig.]
PATRICK SIMSON, M.A. ; trans, from
Spott ; trans, to Stirling 7th Aug.
1590. [Reg. Assig., Booke of the
Kirk.}
MICHAEL CRANSTOUN, son of
159O Thomas C., min. of Liberton ; ord.
to Selkirk 1580; trans, to Liberton
1585 ; trans, and adm. to the vicarage
Feb. 1592, to which he was pres. by
James VI. 20th March 1603; declined a
call to Leith 1593 ; another to Lanark
1597. In 1596 he was styled "a verie
forward minister," and on 20th Dec. im
prisoned for "stirring up a tumult and
uproare" in Edinburgh. In 1603 3 on the
Union of the Crowns, he was one of the
ministers who met His Majesty " on their
knees, and prayed for him," at Haddington,
on his way to London ; and also one of those
who met at Linlithgow in 1606 to confer
with " the imprisoned ministers " previous
to their trial for declining the royal
authority in " causes spiritual." He died
in 1631. He marr. Agnes, sister of James
Murehead, min. of North Leith, and
had issue John, min. of South Leith ;
Nathaniel, apprenticed to Walter Scott,
merchant, Edinburgh, 1607 ; Caleb, ap
prenticed to Andrew Lauder, bookbinder,
Edinburgh, 1603 ; Jean ; William; Margaret
(marr. David Balsillie, min. of Corstor-
phine). [Reg. Assig., Test. Reg., Melvill s
Autob. ; Calderwood s Hist., v.-vii. ; Orig.
Lett., i. ; Wood s Hist, of Cramond.}
WILLIAM KING, M.A. (Edinburgh,
1631 25t ^ ^ U ^ 1607); regent in the
Univ. of Edinburgh ; adm. 1631 ;
died June 1632, in his 44th year, and was
buried in the Canongate. He marr. (1)
a daugh. of Alex. King, advocate : (2)
29th Aug. 1616, Margaret (died Nov. 1620),
daugh. of Richard Casse of Fordel, and
had issue William ; Jean (marr. George
Trotter, W.S.), died 20th Dec. 1644 ; Mar
garet : (3) Margaret (died 1645), daugh.
of And. Couper, writer, and had issue
William and Alexander (who both died
young) ; Margaret ; Isobel ; Marie (pos
thumous). Publication Two Poems in The
Muse s Welcome, 1617. [Craufurd s Univ.,
Test, and Edin. Reg. (Marr. and Bapt.) ;
Ing. Ret. Gen., 1908, 3098 de Tut., 355,
356, 1338, 1339, 1340; Wood s Hist, of
Cramond; Dempsterii Hist. Eccl., ii.]
WILLIAM COLVILL, M.A. ; ord. 1635 ;
5 trans, to Trinity Parish, Edinburgh,
1639. [Edin. Counc. Reg., xiv.,
xv. ; Wood s Cramond ; Wodrow MSS.,
Ixiii. ; Baillie s Lett., i. ; Guthrie s Mem. ;
Stevenson s Hist., ii. ; Murray s Life of
Rutherford.}
WILLIAM DALGLEISH, born 1599,
1639 son ^ J ames D-, grandson of Robert
D. of that ilk ; M.A. (St Andrews
1615); ord. to Kirkmabreck 1634; dep. by
EDINBURGH]
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the Bishop of Galloway for nonconformity
1635, but reponed ; a member of the As
sembly of 1638 ; trans, and adm. 16th Jan.
1639 ; one of the commissioners for visit
ing the Univs. of St Andrews and
Edinburgh in 1649. Deprived in 1662,
and died about 1676. He marr. Elizabeth,
daugh. of Robert Colvill of Cleish, and had
issue James; John, min. of Roxburgh,
served heir to his father 16th Sept. 1676 ;
Alexander, min. of Linlithgow ; Janet
(marr. Richard Bawling, skipper, Bo ness).
[Wood s Cramond ; Acts Parl., vi. ; Wod-
row s Hist., i.; Inq. Ret. Gen., 5933; Murray s
Life of Rutherford.]
JOHN HAMILTON, M.A. ; regent in
lees ^ Leonard s College, St Andrews;
got a certificate from the Presb. to
the Archbishop for ordination llth March,
and was adm. before 31st July 1663 ; trans.
to South Leith 10th Sept. 1663. [Ander
son s House of Hamilton, Lament s Diary,
St Andrews Presb. Reg., Reg. Collat]
ALEXANDER YOUNG, trans, from
Dalmeny and adm. 1664 ; trans, to
the Archdeaconry of St Andrews in
1666. In 1671 he became Bishop of Edin
burgh, and in 1679 Bishop of Ross (q.v.).
[Edin. Reg. (Marr.), Wood s Hist, of
Cramond, Lament s Diary]
DAVID FALCONER, M.A. ; regent in
1666 *^ Leonard s College, St Andrews ;
licen. by Presb. of St Andrews ;
got a testimonial to the Archbishop 17th
Aug. 1665 ; adm. in 1666 ; pres. to the
second mastership of St Andrews College
in June 1674 (Warrant Bk. Scot., ii., 377);
app. to the Professorship of Divinity in
St Mary s College, St Andrews, in 1675
(q.v.). [St Andrews Presb. Reg., Wood s
Hist, of Cramond, Lament s Diary.]
JOHN SOMERVILLE [SOMERVELL],
a cadet of the family of S. of
Cambusnethan ; M.A. (Edinburgh,
July 1642); ord. to St Boswells 1662;
trans, to Kirkcowan 1666; trans, to
Glasserton 1667 ; trans, to West Calder
1668 ; trans, to Mid-Calder 1672 ; trans, and
adm. 1675 (G. R. Horn., 22nd Aug. 1678) ;
deprived 2nd May 1689 for not reading
the Proclamation of the Estates, etc. ; died
at London, 1692. He marr. (1) Esther
Scougall, and had issue Janet (G. R.
Sas., xxix., 11): (2) 5th Feb. 1674,
Katharine, daugh. of James Brown,
merchant, burgess of Edinburgh (G. R.
Sas., xli., 204), who survived him, and in
whose right he entered burgess and guild-
brother of Edinburgh, 27th Feb. 1689 ; she
succeeded to his estate, 12th Feb. 1692, and
had issue Margaret, born 30th Aug. 1675 ;
James, born 17th May 1679 ; Hugh, born
7th July 1681 ; William, born 10th Dec.
1682 ; Anne, born 9th Jan. 1685 (marr.,
cont. 21st Aug. 1704, George Dundas,
surgeon - apothecary, Edinburgh : Edin.
Sas., Ixxvi., 230) ; John, born 19th Sept.
1686, died 24th March 1689 ; Robert, born
1st Oct. 1689; and three children who died
in infancy. [Test, and Edin. Reg. (Marr.
and Bapt.) ; Acts Part., ix. ; Wood s Hist,
of Cramond ; Min. Book Reg. Priv. Seal,
v. ; Fountainhall s Dec., i. ; Peterkin s Con
stitution of the Church, Greyfriars Burials.]
JOHN HAMILTON, M.A.; adm. 16th
1689 ^ ec ^^ > * rans - 1 Greyfriars, Edin
burgh, 7th Sept. 1692. [Colinton
Sess. Reg., Wood s Cramond; Reid s Hist,
of Presb. Ch. in Ireland, ii., iii.]
WILLIAM HAMILTON, called 14th
1694 Aug., and ord. 26th Sept. 1694;
app. Professor of Divinity in the
Univ. of Edinburgh, and dem. 21st Sept.
1709. He was Principal in 1730 (q.v.).
[Anderson s House of Hamilton, Wood s
Cramond ; Edin. Chr. Inst., xxv. ; Grant s
Univ. of Edin., Warrick s Moderators]
JAMES SMITH, trans, from Morham
1712 ( a ^ ter a Vacanc 7 f two years);
called 3rd Aug. 1711 ; adm. 16th
Jan. 1712; Moderator of Assembly 9th
May 1723; trans, to New North Parish,
Edinburgh, 23rd July 1730. [Wood s
Cramond]
ROBERT HAMILTON, called 10th Dec.
1730; ord. 4th April 1731; trans.
to Lady Tester s, Edinburgh, 7th
Oct. 1736. [Wood s Cramond; Bower s
Univ., ii. ; Edin. Chr. Inst., xxv. ; Morren s
Ann., ii.]
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CRAMOND
[PKESB. OF
GILBERT HAMILTON, born 16th May
1715, son of William H. above
mentioned ; educated at Univ. of
Edin. ; licen. by Presb. of Dalkeitli
7th Sept. 1736; pres. by John, Earl of
Ruglen, 21st Sept. 1736; ord. 28th March
1737; D.D. (King s College, Aberdeen,
1760); Moderator of Assembly 19th May
1768; died 17th May 1772. He marr. (1)
9th Jan. 1742, Isabel, daugh. of James
Smith of Nether Alderston : (2) 4th March
1754, Margaret, daugh. of John Craigie of
Dunbarnie, and had issue Anne Cock-
burn, born 27th June 1756; Mary, born
24th Feb. 1758 (marr. William Dinwiddie,
Manchester) ; Susan, born 6th Jan. 1761
(marr. 14th Sept. 1786, Patrick Anderson,
W.S.), died 18th July 1821. Publication
The Disorders of a Church, and their
Remedies, a sermon (Edinburgh, 1752).
[Wood s CramoncL]
CHARLES STUART, born 1745, son
of James S. of Dunearn, Lord
Provost of Edinburgh, a descendant
of James, fourth Earl of Moray, and
Elizabeth Drummond ; licen. by Presby
terian ministers in and about London,
25th Aug. 1772, and enrolled as a preacher
by Presb. of Edinburgh 30th Sept. follow
ing ; pres. by Willielma, Lady Glenorchy,
and ord. 27th April 1773. Entertaining
scruples about Church Establishments, he
resigned 17th May 1776 and formed an
Anabaptist congregation in Edinburgh,
which was ultimately dissolved. Having
studied medicine, he took the degree of
M.D., 12th Sept. 1781, and practised as a
physician ; died 28th May 1826. He suc
ceeded to Dunearn, and marr. (1) 29th Oct.
1773, Mary (died 12th April 1817), daugh.
of John Erskine, D.D., Edinburgh, and had
issue Christian, born 24th Aug. 1774, died
unmarr. 5th June 1808 ; James of Dunearn,
W.S., born 24th Nov. 1775, engaged in a
fatal duel with Sir Alex. Boswell of Auch-
inleck in 1822 (see Diet. Nat. Biog.), died
3rd Nov. 1849 ; Elizabeth Ann, born 29th
Aug. 1777, died 6th April 1836 ; Mary, born
14th July 1786, died 1st March 1872 (marr.
June 1814, John Burnett of Kemnay);
John Alexander of Carnock, born 4th Nov.
1787, died 3rd Nov. 1869; Alison, born
6th Dec. 1791 (marr. 1816, Capt. J. W.
Carmichael), died 1885 : (2) 18th Jan. 1819,
Margaret (died 10th Nov. 1821), youngest
daugh. of Alex. Parlane, surgeon, Glasgow.
Publications The Present State of Human
Nature according to the Word of God (Edin
burgh, 1773) ; Probation Sermon preached in
Edinburgh (1777), from John xviii. 36 ; The
Distinction between the Kingdom of Christ
and the Kingdoms of this World, and
applied to confirm the Loyalty and assert
the Liberti/ of Christians, a sermon (Edin
burgh, 1777); see Essays in Speculative
Society s Proceedings on "The Motives of
Human Actions " ; Dissertatio Medico, in-
auguralis De systematis nervosi officiis
(Edinburgh, 1781); edited the Edin
burgh Quarterly Magazine, 1798-1800.
[Douglas s Peer., ii. ; Wood s Hist, of
Cramond, Haldane s Mem., Kay s Portr.]
ROBERT WALKER, pres. by Willielma,
^ Lady Glenorchy, and ord. 27th Nov.
1776 ; trans, to the Canongate 19th
Aug. 1784. [Wood s Cramond. ]
ARCHIBALD BONAR, born 23rd Feb.
1753, fifth son of John B., min. of
Cockpen and Perth ; originally in
tended for the legal profession ; educated at
High School and Edinburgh Univ. ; tutor
in the family of David, Earl of Lev en ;
licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 29th Oct.
1777; ord. to Newburn 31st March 1779;
trans. toNorth-West Church, Glasgow, 17th
July 1783; pres. by Willielma, Lady Glen
orchy ; trans, and adm. 19th April 1785 ;
died 8th April 1816. He marr. (1) 15th
Aug. 1782, Bridget (died 4th Jan. 1787),
daugh. of David Black, min. of Perth :
(2) 16th Aug. 1792, Anne (died 8th May
1861, in her 94th year), daugh. of Andrew
Bonar of Litchfield, and had issue John,
born 10th Nov. 1793, died 4th Oct. 1800 ;
Elizabeth, born 31st May 1797 (marr. 13th
March 1827, John Purves, min. of Lady
Glenorchy s, Edinburgh, afterwards of Jed-
burgh), died 6th June 1865 ; Archibald,
banker in Edinburgh, born 25th June 1799,
died 29th Feb. 1872 ; John, min. of Lar-
bert and Dunipace, afterwards of the Free
Church, Aberdeen and Glasgow, and secre-
EDINBURGH]
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tary of the Colonial Committee, born 22nd
July 1801, died 20th Dec. 1863 ; Ann, born
17th June 1804 (marr. John Morrison, min. of
Free Church, Port-Glasgow), died 21st Feb.
1875 ; Bridget Black, born 8th July 1807,
died 8th June 1838 ; Sarah, born 1st June
1809, died 28th Feb. 1895. Publications
Genuine Religion the Best Friend of the
People (Edinburgh, 1796); A Sermon
preached before the Society for the Benefit
of the Sons of the Clergy (Edinburgh,
1800); Sermons, with Memoir by his
brother James (Edinburgh, 1815-17, 2
vols.). [Sermons, ii. ; Wood s Cramond,
Family Papert."]
GEORGE MUIRHEAD, born llth Feb.
1764, son of Patrick M., D.D., min.
of Dysart ; educated at Univ. of
Glasgow ; Keen, by Presb. of Hamilton 25th
Sept. 1787 ; ord. to Dysart, Second Charge,
4th Sept. 1788; trans, to First Charge
10th June 1807; pres. by William Ramsay
of Barnton, trans, and adm. 24th Oct.
1816; D.D. (Glasgow, 8th Nov. 1816).
He was the oldest ordained min. who
joined the Free Church ; min. of Cramond
Free Church 1843; died 5th April 1847.
He marr. 27th Aug. 1807, Maxwell (died
18th Aug. 1854), daugh. of Thomas Fleming,
D.D., min. of Lady Yester s, and had issue
Anne, born 12th Sept. 1808; Elizabeth,
born 1st June 1815 ; Patrick Thomas, min.
of the Free Church, Kippen, born 9th Nov.
1819, died 1888; Isabella Maxwell, born
2nd Nov. 1822. Publications Sermon on
the Death of Thomas Davidson, D.D.
(Edinburgh, 1827) ; Sermon on the Death
of George Wright, D.D. (Stirling, 1827);
Pastoral Address to the Inhabitants of
Cramond Parish (Edinburgh, 1837) ; Hints
respecting the Low State of Vital Godliness
among Professing Christians; Conversion
of the Jews (Edinburgh, 1842) ; Account of
Dysart (Sinclair s Stat. Ace., xii.).
WALTER LAIDLAW COLVIN, born
4th June 1812, son of Robert C., D.D.,
min. of Johnstone, Dumfriesshire ;
educated at Glasgow and Edinburgh Univs. ;
M.A. (Glasgow 1830); licen. by Presb. of
Lochmaben 5th Aug. 1834 ; assistant at
East Kilbride; ord. to Shotts llth Aug.
1843
1836 ; trans, and adm. 2nd Nov. 1843 ;
D.D. (Glasgow, 26th April 1859) ; died 19th
Nov. 1877. He marr. 22nd Oct. 1844, Anne
Grace (died 9th March 1896), daugh. of
William Hine, Falmouth, Jamaica, and had
issue Mary Ramsay, born 23rd Jan. 1846
(marr. William Macfie of Clermiston), died
llth Aug. 1895; Eliza, born 5th March
1847 ; Annie Marion, born 26th March 1849,
died 21st July 1895 ; Walter Robert, born
6th July 1850, died at San Francisco 1872 ;
Alice Jane, born 18th Oct. 1851 ; Jessie
Louisa, born 1853 ; William, stockbroker,
Glasgow, born 17th Dec. 1854 ; Francis
Henry, M.B., C.M., born 1856, died 17th
June 1895 ; Victor Albert, min. at Connel
Ferry ; Charles Edward, died young.
Publications Two Sermons on Election
and the Extent of the Atonement (Edin
burgh, 1843) ; Sermon preached before
the Society for the Sons of the Clergy
(Glasgow, 1868); "Accounts of Cramond
and of Shotts " (New Stat. Ace., vols. i., vi.).
GEORGE WILSON, trans, from Tol-
booth, Edinburgh, and adm. llth
July 1878 ; res. 4th May 1887 to be
come min. of St Michael s Mission Church,
and first min. of St Michael s Parish.
JOHN WEBSTER, born Forglen, 1827,
son of Robert W. ; educated at
King s College, Aberdeen ; M.A.
(1843) ; schoolmaster of Banchory-Devenick
1844-52; licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen;
Murray Lecturer at King s College, 1850-
52 ; ord. to Strichen 2nd Sept. 1852 ;
trans, to East Anstruther 29th Oct. 1857 ;
trans, to Cameron 10th March 1864 ; trans,
to St John s, Edinburgh, 28th Dec. 1876 ;
trans, and adm. llth March 1884; D.D.
(Aberdeen 1885) ; res. 16th Oct. 1889 ; died
23rd Jan. 1903. He marr. 10th Feb. 1857,
Anna Milne, who died 30th May 1913, and
had issue James Melville, died llth June
1913 ; Edward, solicitor, Edinburgh ; and
others. Publication Two Lectures from a
series of discourses on the Epistle to the
Hebrews and on the Parables, 2 vols.
(Aberdeen, 1852).
THOMAS MARTIN, M.A. ; trans, from
Forgan 17th May 1890; trans, to St
Mary s, Edinburgh, 15th May 1896.
1878
1884
14
CRAMOND CURRIE
[PKESB. OF
1896
ALEXANDER MILLER MACLEAN,
MA., B.D. ; trans, from Turriff, and
adm. 15th Oct. 1896; trans, to
Peebles 9th May 1907.
JAMES ALEXANDER MILNE, born
^ Auchinblae, Kincardineshire, 23rd
July 1869, son of James M. and
Christina Anderson ; educated at Fordoun,
High School, Edinburgh, privately at New-
lands Manse by his uncle, Aberdeen Univ.,
and Univ. of Paris ; M.A. (Aberdeen, 1890) ;
licen. by Presb. of Fordoun ; assistant at
Forgue, Aberdeen (West Church), and St
Andrews ; elected in 1897 min. of Alyth,
but declined in order to accept appointment
as min. of the Scots Church, Paris ; ord.
there 25th Oct. 1897 ; ind. to Lyne and
Megget 6th Dec. 1901 ; trans, and adm.
26th Sept. 1907; died 14th Nov. 1909.
He marr. 7th Aug. 1906, Mary Lee, daugh.
of John Davis Bowden, Church of Scotland
chaplain, Dresden.
GEORGE GORDON STOTT, born
Montrose, 29th March 1868, son of
19 George S. and Isabel Gordon Grant ;
educated at Craig Public School and St
Andrews Univ. ; MA. (1890), B.D. (1893) ;
licen. by Presb. of Perth 12th May
1893; Assistant Professor of Hebrew, St
Andrews Univ. 1893-4 ; assistant at St
Columba s, London, and South Leith ; ord.
to Dulwich, London, 15th Dec. 1898 ; trans,
to Northesk 24th Sept. 1906 ; trans, and
adm. 10th June 1910; Examiner for
Degrees in Divinity, St Andrews Univ.
Marr. 5th April 1899, Flora Corsar, daugh.
of Mark Louden Anderson, D.D., min. of
the Second Charge, St Andrews, and has
issue Richard Corsar Gordon, born 13th
May 1900 ; Ian Fergusson Gordon, born
14th Jan. 1904 ; George Gordon, born 22nd
Dec. 1909. Publications Contributor to
Hastings Dictionary of Christ and the Gos
pels, and to One Vol. Bible Commentary.
ST COLUMBA S, BLACKBALL
( Chapel-of-Ease).
WILLIAM BLACK STEVENSON, born
1900 10t ^ ^ a ^ 18 62j son of Robert Home
S., D.D., min. of St George s, Edin
burgh; educated at Edinburgh Academy
and Univ. (M.A., 1884), and at Berlin and
Bonn ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh May
1888; assistant at Galashiels and St
Bernard s, Edinburgh ; ord. to Athelstane-
ford 17th Sept. 1891 ; res. Dec. 1899, in
order to take charge of Blackball Chapel-
of-Ease, Edinburgh, and adm. 5th Jan.
1900; res. 1912, on appointment as organ
ising secretary of the Foreign Mission
Committee. He marr. 5th June 1894,
Jean Lilias, daugh. and co-heiress of
Alexander James Dennistoun Brown, of
Balloch Castle, Dumbartonshire, and has
issue Robert Dennistoun, born 7th June
1895 ; Meta Frances, born 26th Dec. 1897 ;
Alexander James, born 15th July 1901.
Publication The St Cohtmba Scrip (Edin
burgh, 1904).
CECIL TAYLOR THORNTON, born
Igl3 Edinburgh, 26th March 1886, son
of George Boyd T. and Elizabeth
King Galbraith ; educated at Merchiston
Castle School, and Univs. of Oxford (B.A.
1911) and Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of
Edinburgh 1910 ; assistant at St Mark s,
Dundee; ord. 12th Feb. 1913. He marr.
5th June 1912, Hilda Buchanan, daugh. of
Robert and Elizabeth Batchelor.
CURRIE.
[Formerly Killeith. Belonged to the
Archdeaconry of Lothian previous to the
Reformation. The church Avas dedicated
to St Mungo. Near by is St Mungo s
Well.]
ADAM LETHAM [LICHTON, LEIGH-
TON], adm. Nov. 1568. In 1574
Hailes and St Catherine s of the
Hopes were also under his care ; said
to be "in his old age" 1588 (Presb. Reg.);
continued in 1591. His son Matthew
succeeded to the charge. [Reg. Min. and
Assig., Test. Reg., Booke of the Kirk, Wod-
row Miscell.]
MATTHEW LICHTON, son of pre
ceding; educated at the Univ. of
Edinburgh; M.A. (Aug. 1588). In
1590 he was " not of the age " required by
Act of Provincial Assembly of Linlithgow,
but was permitted " to serve with Mr Adam,
1568
EDINBURGH]
CURRIE
15
his father"; proposed 21st Jan. 1591 ; adm.
(colleague and successor) 16th Dec. 1591.
In 1594 there was a complaint to the
Presb. that William Wardlaw of Curriehill
" brak up his rooms, cuist out his guds and
geir, tramping his books under feitt," and
" misused himselff by catchand him by ye
neck and pulling him under his feet." He
dem. Jan. 1631; died 12th Oct. 1634,
aged about 66. He marr. (1) before 1596,
Isobel Matheson : (2) after 1606, Janet Aird,
who survived him, and had issue Henry ;
Adam ; James ; William, apprenticed 18th
June 1628 to James Wright, hatmaker,
Edinburgh ; Ronald ; Helen (marr., cont.
26th Sept. 1621, George Straiton, hatmaker,
burgess of Edinburgh : Reg. of Deeds,
cccxxxvi., 105) ; Martha (marr. Alex. Hay
of Ravelrig). \_Reg. Assig. ; Test., Edin.
Counc., and Reg. Sas. and Bapt. ; Stat.
Hep., 1627 ; Inq. Ret. Edin., 772, 890, 1386
et Gen. 2093.]
JOHN CHARTERIS, son of Henry C.,
1 Professor of Divinity in the Univ. of
Edinburgh; educated at Edinburgh
Univ.; M.A. (25th July 1624); pres. by
the Town Council of Edinburgh 19th
Jan., and adm. before 17th June 1631 ;
died 14th Feb. 1668, aged about 64. He
marr. 26th Sept. 1633, Rebecca, died 23rd
March 1676 (she is called Sara in the
register of her interment in Greyfriars),
second daugh. of Laurence Henderson,
merchant, Edinburgh (A. Guthrie, Prot.
Bk., iv., 225), and had issue Rebecca;
Isobel ; Laurence, advocate, 1668, died
19th Aug. 1676; John (A. Peters, Prot.
Bk., 10th Oct. 1664) ; Barbara. [Craufurd s
Univ. ; Edin. Counc., xiv. ; Edin. Test, and
Regs. ; Wodrow s Hist., i. ; tied. Book of
Teinds ; Inq. Ret. Ayr, 346 ; Gen. 2492 de
Tut. 635, 636.]
JAMES SCRYMGEOUR, son of John S.
1668 ^ Kirkton, Dundee, and Jean, daugh.
of James M Gill of Rankeillor ; edu
cated at St Leonard s College, St Andrews ;
M.A. (25th July 1663); ord. and coll.
22nd Oct. 1668; became Presb. clerk;
deprived by the Committee of Estates,
May 1689, for taking away the key of the
kirk door, not preaching, not reading the
Proclamation, and not praying for King
William and Queen Mary. He died
in 1699, aged about 56. He marr. 17th
Dec. 1668, Elizabeth, daugh. of Walter
Chisholm, bailie of Dunblane, and had
issue James, died in 1680 ; Henry, W.S.,
of West Lochgelly, held a bursary on
Robert Johnston s foundation, 7th Aug.
1685, died 9th Oct. 1731 ; John, student
at the Univ. of Edinburgh, bursar of
the Presb. in 1686 and 1687; and two
daughters alive in June 1772 (The Scottish
Antiquary, Sept. 1880). [Act. Rect. Univ.
St And. ; Corstorphine and Ratho Sess.,
Edin. Counc. Reg., xxxiii. ; Reg. Collat. ;
Acts Parl., ix. ; Peterkin s Constitution of
the Church, Malcolm s House of Drum-
mond ; MS. Ace. of Min., 1689; Douglas s
Peerage.]
HENRY HAMILTON, M.A. (Edinburgh,
1691 llth Feb. 1681); ord. to Falkland
1690 ; trans, and adm. 1691 ; trans,
to Donaghadee 6th Nov. 1700. He marr.
Esther, daugh. of Andrew Stewart, min. of
Donaghadee. \Corstorphine Sess. Reg.~\
ROBERT TAYLOR, ord. to Houston
1695 ; trans, and adm. 13th Nov.
1701; died 10th Aug. 1713. He
marr. March 1699, Margaret, daugh. of
Hew Verner, merchant, Edinburgh, and
had issue Margaret (marr. 13th July 1727,
Andrew M Farquhar, Excise officer in South
Leith). \_Edin. Test, ami Regs^\
MUNGO CLARKSON, a native of
1714 Selkirkshire, brother to John C.,
baker, Edinburgh (Services, 1729);
licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 18th April
1711; called 29th Dec. 1713; having
previously been presented to Galashiels,
his ordination was delayed till 23rd Dec.
1714; died 28th Oct. 1717.
JOHN SPARK, tutor in the family of
Erskine of Grange; licen. by Presb.
of Dalkeith 6th July 1718; called
22nd April; ord. llth Aug. 1719, in
opposition to the Magistrates and Town
Council of Edinburgh. When returning
from a meeting of the Presb. at Edinburgh,
he was drowned in crossing the Water of
Leith on horseback, at the " Sclait fuird,"
16
CURRIE
[PRESB. OF
1752
27tli June 1739. The Caledonian Mercury,
1739, calls him "a serious, honest, and
worthy pastor, one of the most popular
preachers of the time." He had six
children, one being posthumous. Three
years after his death appeared : Help to
Patience under Affliction, in a poem ivritten
upon occasion of the late accidental death
of a worthy venerable gentleman very much
lamented (Edinburgh, 1742). [Scots Mag. ,i. ;
Diary of a Senator of the College of Justice.]
DAVID MOUBRAY, called 17th July;
17 ord. 25th Sept. 1740; trans, to
Liberton 28th May 1751.
JAMES CRAIG, born Innerwick, 1721 ;
one of the masters in Heriot s
Hospital 4th June 1739 ; licen. by
Presb. of Dunbar 1st Sept. 1742; ord.
9th April 1752; app. Presb. clerk 31st
Jan. 1753; died 24th June 1792. He
marr. llth Sept. 1744, Mary Buntine or
Bontein, a quakeress with whom he had
eloped, who died 5th June 1805, and had
issue Ann, born 20th April 1746 (marr.
24th Jan. 1781, John Bird of Cresfinhall,
Norfolk, who was buried at Currie).
[Steven s Mem. of Heriot, Carlyle s Autob. ;
New Stat. Ace., i. ; Grant s Old ami N~eiv
Edin., ii., 224.]
JAMES DICK, tutor in the family of
Admiral Duncan ; pres. by the
Magistrates and Town Council of
Edinburgh Aug. 1792; ord. 21st March
1793; died 12th Dec. 1815, in his 52nd
year. He marr. 3rd June 1796, Elizabeth
Lawrie, who died at Edinburgh 15th Feb.
1829. [Tomljst.]
JOHN SOMERVILLE, born Dalmeny
1774 ; in agricultural employment till
he met with an accident which injured
his spine. He then entered the Univ. of
Edinburgh, and distinguished himself by
his proficiency in classical knowledge ;
was one of the masters in Heriot s Hospital
llth Nov. 1801; and House Governor 6th
Sept. 1805, where "by a happy mixture of
severity and gentleness, he came to be
respected and loved by his numerous pupils
beyond any former example." He was
licen. by Presb. of Linlithgow 25th July
1 809 ; pres. by the Magistrates and Town
Council of Edinburgh, and ord. 20th Dec.
1815 ; M.A. (Edinburgh, 31st May 1816) ;
D.D. (St Andrews, 13th April 1833) ; died
unmarr. 7th June 1837. He was the
inventor of several articles for use in
curling the justice, the iron tee, the
counter, and the cram pits. The death of
one of his congregation by the accidental
discharge of a firelock led him to an in
genious contrivance for the prevention of
similar accidents, for which he obtained a
patent, 4th Nov. 1824. He preached the
sermon at the laying of the foundation
stone of the National Monument on the
Calton Hill, Edinburgh. Publications
Speech in the General Assembly on the
Cowgate Chapel (Edinburgh, 1818) ; Presen
tation of the Rev. Dr M Farlane to the
High Church, Glasgoiv, Vindicated (Edin
burgh, 1824) ; Substance of a Speech in the
Synod of Glasgow and Ayr on Pluralities
(Edinburgh, 1825) ; On the Methods of Pre
venting the Accidental Discharge of Fire-
Arms (Edinburgh, 1825) ; Directions for the
Use of the Safety Gun (Edinburgh, 182G),
ivith Attestations in its favour (Edinburgh,
1827) ; Sermon on Cruelty to Animals,
preached in the High Kirk, 1827 ; Essay on
the Safety Gun (Edinburgh, 1828); The
Duty of Relieving Strangers in Distress
(Edinburgh, 1834) ; Essay on the Construc
tion, Advantages, and Mode of Using Dr
Somerville s Patent Safety Gun (Edinburgh,
1835); Sermon XIII. (Gillan s Scott.
Pulpit) ; Two Songs (Lit. and, Stat. Mag.,
ii.). [Steven s Mem. of Ileriot, Williamson s
Fun. Serm., Taylor s Curling.}
ROBERT JAMIESON, trans, from
Westruther ; pres. by the Magistrates
and Town Council of Edinburgh, and
adm. 14th Dec. 1837 ; trans, to St Paul s,
Glasgow, 14th March 1844.
THOMAS BARCLAY, born 14th June
1792, son of James B., min. of Unst ;
educated at home, and at King s
College, Aberdeen; M.A. (28th March
1812) ; teacher of elocution at Aberdeen ;
from 1818 to 1822 he was a Parliamentary
reporter for the Times in London ; licen.
EDINBURGH]
CURRIE DUDDINGSTON
17
by Presb. of Lerwick 27th June 1821 ; ord.
to Dunrossness 12th Sept. 1822 ; trans, to
Lerwick 13th Dec. 1827; clerk of the
Synod of Shetland 27th April 1831 ; trans,
to Peterculter 24th Aug. 1843 ; trans, and
adm. llth July 1844 ; D.D. (King s College,
Aberdeen, 10th Feb. 1849); Principal of
Glasgow University 13th Feb. 1858; died
23rd Feb. 1873. He marr. 21st Sept.
1820, Mary (died 18th Jan. 1881), daugh.
of Captain Charles Adamson of Kirkhill,
and had issue Archibald, born 23rd Oct.
1821, drowned in China 9th April 1850;
Elizabeth Mitchell, born 8th April 1823
(marr. 7th Oct. 1851, William Alexander
Peterkin, general superintendent, Board of
Supervision), died 1st April 1901 ; Charles
Frederick, born 31st Dec. 1825 ; John, born
17th May 1827; Ursula Euphemia, born
5th April 1829, died 5th Dec. 1831 ; Bruce,
M.D., born 14th Feb. 1833 ; Jean Adamson,
born 31st Oct. 1835, died unmarr. ; Mary
Caroline, born 7th July 1837 ; Thomas, born
26th Feb. 1841. Publications .4 Speech
delivered in the Presbytery of Edinburgh,
25th March 1857, against the Transmission
of an Overture condemning the System of
Government Education in India ; " Charity,
the Characteristic of Christianity " (Church
of Scotland Pidpit, 1845) ; " Explanation of
Inscription on the Chambers of the Maes-
Howe " (Collectanea Archceologia, vol. ii.)
[see Wilson s Prehistoric Annals, ii., 284 ;
Caird s Memorial Sermon, Sir Henry Hol
land s Recollections, Diet. Nat. Biog.~\
1859
JAMES LANGWILL, born Greenock,
2nd April 1824, third son of
Archibald L., H.M. Customs, and
Rosina Watson; educated at Greenock
Public School and Glasgow and Edinburgh
Univs. ; entered the Relief Theological
Hall 1844 ; joined the Church of Scotland ;
licen. by Presb. of Greenock 1850; assist
ant at Currie ; ord. to Legerwood 8th Sept.
1853; trans, and adm. 21st Jan. 1859;
Presbytery clerk 1872; D.D. (Glasgow
1888); died 2nd June 1898. He marr.
2nd April 1856, Anne Adair (died 17th
July 1908), daugh. of Robert Balfour
Graham, D.D., min. of North Berwick,
and had issue Archibald, C.A., born 14th
VOL. I.
June 1857 ; Robert Balfour, Royal Bank
of Scotland, born 30th Sept. 1858 ; James,
born 22nd Aug. 1860, died 25th Feb. 1872 ;
Mary, born 13th Jan. 1862, died 26th April
1880 ; William, M.A., student of medicine,
born 28th Feb. 1865, died 16th June 1887 ;
Hamilton Graham, M.D., born 24th April
1867.
DAVID CALDWELL STEWART, born
1898 Ochiltree, 25t h Sept. 1860 ; educated
at Ochiltree Parish School, Normal
Training College, Glasgow, and Edinburgh
Univ.; M.A. (1891); licen. by Presb. of
Edinburgh 1894 ; assistant at St Cuth-
bert s and Lady Glenorchy s, Edinburgh ;
ord. 25th Nov. 1898. Marr. 7th Feb. 1899,
Annie (died 10th July 1902), daugh. of
Hugh Morton, Barnockholm, Ochiltree,
and had issue Quintin Ridgley, born
llth Aug. 1900; Annie Morton, born 30th
June 1902.
DUDDINGSTON.
[The church previous to the Reformation
belonged to the Abbey of Kelso.]
WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, styled
1560 vicar.
JOHN BRAND, min. of Holyrood, had
1564 the oversight for some years, with
the addition of the church in the
Castle of Edinburgh. [Reg. Assig.]
NINIAN HAMILTON (Reg. of Deeds,
- 7 . xxi.), a prebendary of St Giles as
far back as 1542, and in 1553 and
1556. He is called "Exhorter" in 1576,
and held office till the appointment of a
minister in 1588, in which year he probably
died. [Reg. Min.]
CHARLES LUMSDEN Qn-imus), son of
Andrew L., tailor, burgess of Edin
burgh, and Agnes Cor (G. R. Inhib.,
2nd Series, viii., 77 ; Prot. Bk., John Hay,
iv., 21); adm. burgess of Edinburgh in
right of his father, 14th Dec. 1614 ; M.A. ;
regent in the Univ. of Edinburgh 1587 ;
pres. by James VI. in 1611, and 30th Oct.
same year had 50 merks allowed by the
Town Council of Edinburgh, "for his
paynes and travell in examination of the
B
18
DUDDINGSTON
[PRESB. OF
North-West quarter sen March last to 1st
Nov." Signed the protest to the King and
Parliament in support of the Liberties of
the Kirk, 14th June 1617. He long offici
ated as Presb. and Synod clerk, and died
30th Nov. 1630, aged about 69. He marr.
(l) Beatrice, daugh. of Robert Pont, min. of
St Cuthbert s, and had issue Robert, bapt.
30th July 1595 ; James, bapt. 28th March
1599; Rachel, bapt. 8th Aug. 1602: (2)
Katherine Bruce, who died before 1609 (G.
R. Inhib.y xix., 242 ; xxxvii., 204), and had
issue Robert : (3) Beatrix Muirhead, who
survived him, and had issue John, bapt.
2nd Sept. 1610 ; Margaret ; Charles, his
successor ; Andrew ; Jean ; Rebecca (marr.,
cont. 22nd June 1640, James, son of James
Ritchie, merchant, burgess of Edinburgh:
Reg. of Deeds, dxxxix., 227) ; Thomas, died
23rd Feb. 1649. Publication Translation
of an Exposition upon some Select Psalms of
David, written by Mr Robert Rollock, out
of Latine (Edinburgh, 1600). [Reg. Assig. ;
Edin. Counc. Bapt., and Test. Reg. ; Calder-
wood s Hist. ; Pitcairn s Gr. Trials, ii. ; New
Stat. Ace., i. ; Craufurd s Univ. ; Rollock s
Set. Works, i. ; Lee s Memorial.}
ROBERT MONTEITH [MONTETH,
163Q MENTEITH] "of Salmonet," bapt.
25th Jan. 1603, third and youngest
son of Alexander M., merchant, Edin
burgh, and Rachel Sandilands, Edin
burgh; educated at the Univ. of Edin
burgh; M.A. (14th July 1621); Professor
of Philosophy in the Univ. of Saumur,
where he continued four years, and
returned, "with an great shew of learn
ing." He was pres. by Charles I., ord.
(at St Andrews) by the Archbishop, and
adm. 28th Dec. 1630, but engaging in an
illicit amour with Dame Anna Hepburn,
wife of Sir James Hamilton of Priestfield,
he fled the country, and was denounced
rebel 7th Oct. 1633. He joined the Roman
Catholic Church at Paris, where he obtained
the patronage of Cardinal Richelieu, and
was made a canon of Notre-Dame by the
Cardinal de Retz. He died before 13th
Sept. 1660. From his brother, William
M. of Carribber and Randeford, was
descended Sir James Stuart M., Bart.,
of Closeburn. He marr. Marion Broun,
who was dead 1639 (Edin. Sas., xxviii.,
150). Publications A Remonstrance to the
King of Great Britain, in French (Paris,
1652) ; Histoire des Troubles del a Grande
Bretagne depuis 1663 jusques a 1646
(Paris, 1661), translated by Captain James
Ogilvie (London, 1739) ; also a Pasquil
against Robert Bruce of Kinnaird, formerly
min. of Edinburgh ; and some Essays
which were admired as specimens of the
purity of style and facility of diction which
a foreigner could attain in the French
language. [Craufurd s and Bower s Univ.,
i. ; Edin. Reg. (Bapt.) ; Sinclair s Stat.
Ace., xviii. ; New Stat. Ace., Scot s Stagg.
State; Morrison s Dec., x. ; Scots Mag.,
Ixxxiv. ; Calderwood s Hist., viii. ; Bail-
lie s Lett., iii. ; Riddel s Comment., Brace s
Sermons (Life) ; Nimmo s Stirlingsh., i. ;
Hill Burton s The Scot Abroad, Francisque
Michel s Les Ecossais en France, Baird s
Duddingston, Diet. Nat. Biog.~\
JASPER HUME, M.A. (Edinburgh,
1633 24th July 1619) ; pres. by Charles
I. 20th Sept. 1633; died Feb. 1635,
aged about 34. Marr. Margaret, daugh. of
John Livingstone, in Wester Duddingston
(Edin. Sas., xxv., 207), who survived him
and marr. Charles Lumsden, min. in 1640.
[Reg. Sec. Sig., cvi.]
ARCHIBALD NEWTON, M.A. ; pres.
less by Cnarles ! 14tn Feb - 1635 > trans -
to Liberton 19th May 1639.
CHARLES LUMSDEN (secundus), son
184O ^ Charles L. (primus), bapt. 22nd
March 1614 ; educated at the Univ.
of Edinburgh; M.A. (22nd June 1633);
adm. 8th Sept. 1640; pres. by Charles I.
23rd Aug. 1641 ; continued in 1681, and
was alive at the baptism of a grandchild,
3rd May 1686. He marr. (1) Margaret
(died Sept. 1643), daugh. of John Living
stone, in Wester Duddingston (Reg. of
Deeds, dxi., 249), widow of Jasper Hume,
and had issue Charles, min. of Kirk-
newton ; Jean ; Margaret ; Robert : (2)
Beatrix Melvill, who was buried in Grey-
friars, 8th June 1696, and had issue-
Beatrix, bapt. 25th Nov. 1655 ; Margaret
(marr., cont. 7th March 1673, Robert Bell,
writer, Edinburgh : Reg. of Deeds, Dal., 23rd
EDINBURGH]
DUDDINGSTON
19
Nov. 1710); James, bapt. 16th Nov. 1651 ;
Michael, advocate, died 5th April 1739 ;
Daniel ; Andrew, his successor ; James ;
Thomas ; John ; Charles ; William ; Robert
and Beatrix (twins). [Dalkeith Presb.
and Edin. Reg. Sas. and Bapt. ; Reg. Sec.
Sig., cix. ; Fountainhall s Dec., i. ; Wod-
row s Hist., i.]
ANDREW LUMSDEN, son of preced-
1681 ing, bapt. 8th Oct. 1654; educated
at the Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A.
(1671); licen. by Alexander, Bishop of
Edinburgh, 4th Aug. 1675 ; charged before
the Privy Council, 22nd Nov. 1681, for
refusing to take the Test. He was
assoilzied, but the church was declared
vacant by the Bishop. He petitioned the
Council, 6th Dec. thereafter, "for liberty
to take the Test from his Ordinary," and
this being allowed, he was reponed to the
charge, but was deposed by the Commiss.
of Assembly, Jan. 1691, for declining their
authority. He was consecrated a bishop
by the Nonjurors, 2nd Nov. 1727, and died
20th June 1733. He marr. 26th Oct. 1682,
Katherine, only child of John Craig, and
had issue Elizabeth (marr. William Alex
ander) ; Beatrix ; John ; Charles, surgeon,
Edinburgh ; William, writer, Edinburgh ;
Margaret (marr. Capt. Dalzell). [Wodrow s
Hist., St Cuthbert s Sess. and Edin. Reg. Sas.
and Bur. ; Acts ParL, xi.]
JAMES CRAIG, M.A. (Edinburgh, 23rd
16g4 May 1655) ; ord. to Hoddam 1661 ;
trans, to Selkirk 1666 ; trans, to
Tranent 1676 ; deprived for not taking the
Test in 1681 ; adm. min. of the Canongate
14th Sept. 1687; trans, and adm. 1694;
died 31st May 1704, aged about 72. He
marr. (his wife s name is unknown), and
had issue John, vicar of Gillingham,
Dorset, 1696, died in London 1731 ;
William, prebendary of Sarum (G. R.
Inhib., 14th Sept. 1706).
DAVID MALCOLM, licen. by Presb.
1706 of Haddington 1 1 th Jan. 1700 ; called
1704; ord. 28th March 1705. He
was rebuked 10th Nov. 1721, for celebrating
the marriage of Lord Provost George
Drummond, Edinburgh, a chief promoter
of the improvements in the city, to
Catherine, daugh. of Sir James Campbell
of Aberuchill, Bart. ; dep. 24th March 1742,
for deserting his charge two years without
leave. He demitted 27th April 1743, the
sentence of deposition being recalled. He
claimed to be entitled to the benefit of
the Ministers Widows Fund. This the
Trustees refused, and brought an action of
declarator, which he defended, when it was
found by the Lord Ordinary, 21st Nov.
1747, "that having demitted his charge as
min. of D. in April 1743, he was not in the
sense of the Act of ParL a min. of the
Church of Scotland on the 25th March
1744, and that he, his wife and children,
are entitled to none of the benefits arising
from the Act." The decision was confirmed
by the whole Lords. He died 7th Feb.
1748. He was a Fellow of the Society of
Antiquaries of London, and was " eminent
for learning, honesty, moderation, good
nature, and a benevolent disposition." His
leisure hours were employed in the study
of philology. Publications Essay on the
Antiquities of Great Britain and Ireland
(Edinburgh, 1738); Tracts illustrating the
Celtic Antiquities of Great Britain and
Ireland (Edinburgh, 1738); Collection of
Letters, in which the Imperfection of Learn
ing, even among Christians, and a Remedy
for it is Hinted (Edinburgh, 1739) all
these, with slight modifications, being the
same book, although under different titles ;
Letters, Essays, and other Tracts relating
to the Antiquities of Great Britain and
Ireland (London, 1744). He proposed
publishing a Celtic Dictionary, but it
went no farther than a prospectus and
specimen page, though receiving every en
couragement from a committee of the
General Assembly in 1737. {Trustees
Reports ; Sinclair s Stat. Ace., xviii. ; New
Stat. Ace., i. ; Scots Mag., x. ; Morren s Ann.,
i. ; Acts of Ass., 1736, 1737.]
ROBERT POLLOCK, M.A. ; pres. by
7 Archibald, Duke of Argyll, 19th
Nov. 1743; ord. 13th March 1744;
trans, to Greyfriars, Aberdeen, 31st July
1745.
DUDDINGSTON
[PRESB. OF
1746
WILLIAM BENNET, son of Andrew
B., min. of Muiravonside ; licen. by
Presb. of Linlithgow 10th July 1734 ;
ord. to Denny 22nd Aug. 1738; pres. by
James, Earl of Abercorn, 27th Feb., trans.
and adm. 14th May 1746; died unmarr.
14th July 1785, in 78th year. [Carlyle s
Autob.]
WILLIAM BENNET, born 1st July
1*786 1763, son f Patrick B., min. of
Polmont, and nephew of preceding;
licen. by Presb. of Linlithgow 21st Dec.
1785; pres. by James, Earl of Abercorn;
ord. 12th May 1786; chaplain to the
Eastern Kegt. of Midlothian Volunteers;
found drowned in the loch adjoining
the manse, 15th April 1805. He marr.
18th Dec. 1787, Mary (died 9th Jan.
1798), daugh. of John Archibald, wine
merchant, Leith, and had issue Patrick
of Whiteside, born 1st Feb. 1790, died 4th
May 1825 ; Margaret, born 10th Aug. 1791
(marr. 23rd Aug. 1814, William Clark, W.S.,
one of the clerks of Session), died 18th
July 1830 ; John, min. of Ettrick, born
10th Aug. 1793 ; Elizabeth, born 19th July
1795. Publications Three single Sermons
(Edinburgh, 1801-5) ; Account of the Parish
(Sinclair s Stat. Ace., xviii.).
JOHN THOMSON, born 1st Sept. 1778,
youngest son of Thomas T., min. of
Dailly ; educated at Dailly school
and Edinburgh and Glasgow Univs. ; licen.
by Presb. of Ayr 17th July 1799 ; ord. to
Dailly 24th April 1800; pres. by John,
Marquess of Abercorn, 29th Aug., trans.
and adm. 14th Nov. 1805 ; died 28th Oct.
1840. Distinguished as a landscape painter
(//.R.S.A.). He marr. (1) 7th July 1801,
Isabella (died 18th April 1809), daugh.of John
Ramsay, min. of Kirkmichael, and had issue
Thomas, M.D., Mayor of Stratford-on-
Avon, born 17th May 1802, died at Leaming
ton, 17th Jan. 1873 ; John, capt. H.E.I.C.S.,
afterwards inspector of the Coast Guard
at Cromarty, born 15th Nov. 1803, died 4th
May 1870 ; Margaret, born 13th Oct. 1805,
died 12th Feb. 1827 ; Mary, born 27th Nov.
1806, died in infancy ; Isabella, born 1st
April 1809 (marr. 10th Sept. 1833, Robert
Scott Lauder, R.S.A.), died 27th Aug.
1869 : (2) 6th Dec. 1813, Frances Ingram
Spence (died llth Oct. 1845), widow of
Martin Dalrymple of Fordel and Cleland,
and had issue Francis, M.D., born 17th
Oct. 1814, died at Peterhead, 4th Oct.
1858; Emily, born 4th Sept. 1816; Mary
Helen, born 6th Dec. 1817, died 13th Jan.
1819 ; Henry Francis, coffee-planter, born
3rd Aug. 1819, died in Ceylon; Edward,
born 19th April 1821, died in Australia.
Publications Contributions to the Edin
burgh Encyclopaedia. [Murray s Biog.
Ann., Baird s Duddingston, and Memoir;
M Kay s The Scottish School of Painting. ]
1841
JAMES MACFARLANE, born Water-
beck, 27th April 1808, third son of
John M., min. of the Relief Church ;
educated at Glasgow Univ. ; M.A. (1825) ;
entered the Relief Hall in 1825, but joined
the Church of Scotland before his course
was finished ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow
31st March 1830 ; pres. by Town Council
of Stirling to the Third Charge, and ord.
min. of the North Church 3rd May 1831 ;
min. of Stockbridge Chapel-of-Ease (now
St Bernard s) 18th Jan. 1832; trans, and
adm. 18th May 1841 ; D.D. (Glasgow 1848) ;
F.R.S.E., Moderator of the General As
sembly 1865 ; died during his tenure of
office 6th Feb. 1866. He marr. 15th July
1841, Agnes Jane, only surviving child of
Alexander Goodsir, manager of the British
Linen Co. Bank (who marr., secondly,
April 1869, John Gunn, secretary, British
Linen Bank, and died 17th May 1895),
and had issue Agnes Goodsir, born 26th
May 1842 (marr. 28th Oct. 1873, John
Adam Macfarlane, min. of Urray) ; Helen,
born 24th July 1843 (marr. Robert K.
D. Home, min. of Corstorphine) ; Eliza,
born 13th Nov. 1844 ; John, a soldier,
born 7th Oct. 1845, died 4th May 1878;
Mary, born 3rd Aug. 1847, died 2nd July
1850 ; Alexander Goodsir, born 5th July
1849, died 6th March 1897 ; James, a mer
chant, born 17th Feb. 1852, died 15th June
1880 ; William, a merchant, born 27th Aug.
1855 ; Malcolm David, a lawyer, born 31st
May 1860, died 25th Sept. 1895. Publi
cations A Nation s True Glory (Edin
burgh, 1838) ; Three single Sermons
EDINBURGH]
DUDDIN 7 GSTON ABBEY
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(Edinburgh, 1839-43) ; Remarks on the
Tracts lately published on the Intrusion
of Ministers (Edinburgh, 1839) ; Letter to
Sir James Graham on the Proposed Aboli
tion of Tests (Edinburgh, 1845); A Version
of the Prophecies of Ezekiel (Edinburgh,
1845) ; The Late Secession from the Church
of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1846) ; A Glance at
the Temple (Edinburgh, 1847) ; The Church
and the Nation (Edinburgh, 1849) ; Lectures
on Popery (Edinburgh, 1854) ; The Disciple
whom Jesus Loved (Edinburgh, 1855) ;
The India Mission of the Church of Scot
land (Edinburgh, 1856); The Reign of
Harmony (Edinburgh, 1859) ; The Railway
(Edinburgh, 1863).
JOHN ALLAN HUNTER PATON,
1866 k rn Greenock, 8th July 1830, son of
John P., writer, and Margaret Park,
sister of John P., D.D., St Andrews ; edu
cated at Glasgow Univ. ; Keen, by Presb.
of Greenock ; assistant at Corsock, and
St Andrew s, Edinburgh ; ord. to Crawford-
john, 23rd July 1862 ; pres. by James, Duke
of Abercorn ; trans, and adm. 13th Sept.
1866; died at St Andrews 4th Feb.
1911. He marr. 14th April 1869, Margaret
Sheriff Fulton, and had issue John Hunter
Paton, M.D., St Andrews, born 19th Feb.
1875.
WILLIAM SERLE, born East Linton,
1903 llth Nov. 1866, son of William S.
and Euphemia Imrie ; educated at
East Linton Free Church School and Edin
burgh Univ.; M.A. (1889), B.D. (1892);
licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 16th May
1892 ; assistant at Peterhead, Northesk, and
St Aidan s, Edinburgh ; ord. (assistant and
successor) 16th April 1903. Marr. 15th
Dec. 1903, Isabella, daugh. of William
Ingram, and has issue Isabella Murray,
born 1st March 1905 ; William, born 29th
July 1912.
ST JAMESTS, PORTOBELLO
(Chapel-of-Ease).
[Formed as a mission station in 1874.
Services were begun in Portobello Town
Hall, and conducted for a time by the min.
of Duddingston until the appointment of
William Adam Stark (afterwards min. of
Kirkpatrick-Durham). In 1876 John Miller
Darling was in charge, but res. in 1878
on appointment as min. of St Andrew s
Church, Rodney Street, Liverpool. From
1878 to 1880 William Dunbar Dey (after
wards of Tomintoul) officiated, and in 1880
the present min. took up the work. Church
opened 9th June 1912.]
JAMES OLIVER, born Teviothead,
1880 10t ^ ^ a y 1845 son f Jhn O. and
Helen Sibbald ; educated at Hawick
Grammar School and Edinburgh Univ. ;
M.A. (1863) ; licen. by Presb. of Jedburgh
1865 ; ord. min. of the Church of Scotland,
Tweedmouth, 3rd Feb. 1870; adm. 14th
Dec. 1880. He marr. 24th June 1884,
Elizabeth Young (died 1st Jan. 1900),
daugh. of John Scott, Howford, Ettrick.
EDINBURGH
ABBEY (Q.S.).
[Disjoined from Greenside and South
Leith, and erected into a parish quoad
sacra, Jan. 1876. The present church was
opened 19th Dec. 1875. An endowment
was provided by money obtained under
sanction of an Act of Parliament for the
discontinuance of the Second Charge,
South Leith (36 & 37 Viet. cap. 171).]
ROBERT MILNE, born East Bal-
7 hagarty, Garvock, 8th July 1837,
son of Kenneth M. and Elizabeth
Cadenhead ; educated at Glasgow Univ. ;
ord. to Macleod Parish, Glasgow, 7th Aug.
1872; trans, and adm. 23rd March 1876;
died unmarr. 28th March 1909.
JAMES ROBERTSON SABISTON,
born Sand wick, Orkney, 15th May
1856, son of Peter S. and Euphemia
Halkland ; educated at Sandwick and Kirk-
wall schools, and Edinburgh Univ. ; M.A.
(1879), B.D. (1882); licen. by Presb. of
Edinburgh May 1882; assistant at St
Ninian s, Stirling; ord. to Libberton and
Quothquan 12th Jan. 1883 ; trans, and adm.
(assistant and successor) 16th Oct. 1889.
Marr. 31st Oct. 1882, Gretchen Smith.
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BUCCLEUCH
[PRESB. OF
BUCCLEUCH (Q.S.).
(Formerly St Ctithberfs Chapel-
of-Ease.)
[Proposed 1754 as a Chapel-of-Ease to
St Cuthbert s (in place of "The Little
Kirk " built in 1593 as an additional church
at the west end of the Pre-Reformation
church of St Cuthbert, and destroyed by
the Ironsides of Cromwell 1650), built
1755, and opened 1756. The bell which
hung in the steeple of St Cuthbert s Church
from 1700 to 1753 was used in the belfry
of the daughter church at the Crosscause-
way from 1763 to 1866, when the church
was considerably altered and a new bell
supplied. Declared a parish quoad sacra
by Act of General Assembly 31st May 1834,
and named Buccleuch Parish. Erected by
the Court of Teinds 2nd Feb. 1859.]
JAMES ROY, ord. 13th June 1758;
t rans - to Prestonpans 28th Nov.
1*758
1765.
JOHN TOUCH, born 12th July 1740,
eldest son of John T., min. of Aber-
lour; educated at Aberdeen; M.A.
(King s College 1759) ; one of the teachers
in Heriot s Hospital 10th Dec. 1759 ; licen.
by Presb. of Edinburgh 26th June 1765,
elected by the Kirk-session of St Cuth
bert s 3rd Jan., and ord. 20th March 1766 ;
D.D. (King s College, Aberdeen, 1781) ; dem.
27th Jan. 1808; died 29th Oct. 1820. He
was for many years chaplain of the Grand
Lodge of Freemasons. He marr. Flora
(died 23rd Sept. 1805, in her 71st year),
fifth daugh. of Murdoch M Donald, min. of
Durness.
[During these years of vacancy the chapel
1808-1813 was 8U PP lied by tne R GV - Sir
Henry Moncreiff Well wood, and
Dr David Dickson, ministers of St Cuth
bert s.
HENRY GREY, trans, from Stenton
1818 18th Nov. 1813 ; trans, to New North
Parish, Edinburgh, llth Jan. 1821.
ROBERT GORDON, trans, from Kin-
1821 fauns 22nd Feb. 1821 ; D.D. (Aber
deen, Nov. 1823); trans, to Hope
Park Chapel (now Newington Parish) 5th
Jan. 1824.
PATRICK CLASON, born 13th Oct.
1824 1789, third son of Robert C., min.
of Dalziel (afterwards of Logie,
Stirlingshire); educated privately, and at
Glasgow and Edinburgh Univs. ; licen. by
Presb. of Hamilton 9th June 1813 ; ord. to
Carmunnock llth May 1815 ; trans, and
adm. 16th April 1824 ; D.D. (Glasgow, March
1836). Joined the Free Church ; min. of
Free Buccleuch, Edinburgh, 1843; joint-
clerk of Free General Assembly 18th May
1843 ; Moderator of Free General Assembly
1848; died 30th July 1867. Publica
tions Considerations on the Propriety of
erecting the Chapels-of-Ease in the Parish
of St Cuthbert into Parish Churches (Edin
burgh, 1833); Strictures on the Statement
of the Central Board of Scottish Dissenters,
two letters (Edinburgh, 1835) ; Speech on a
Suitable Provision for the Ministers of the
Gospel (Edinburgh, 1835) ; Speech in the
Presbytery of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, 1839);
Three single Sermons (Edinburgh, 1829-
1857).
HENRY RUTHERFORD took charge
from 1843 to 1851 ; he died 16th
Dec. 1855.
[During most of this period the chapel
was under the charge of the
Edinburgh University Mission
ary Association.]
ALEXANDER M LAREN, M.A. ; ord.
^ 5th March 1857 ; trans, to Houston
17th Sept. 1863.
FINLAY MATHIESON, born Inverness-
1864 s hi re > educated at King s College,
Aberdeen, 1846-9, 1856-7; M.A.
(1857) ; schoolmaster of Dunoon 1853-63 ;
missionary at Kirtle, Annan, 1863 ; ord.
10th March 1864; dep. 28th May 1875.
He marr. 24th Nov. 1849.
JOHN YOUNG SCOTT, trans, from
Invertiel, and adm. 16th Dec. 1875 ;
trans, to Campsie 20th Sept. 1881.
JOHN CAMPBELL, bornPictou County,
.,oo> Nova Scotia, 29th Feb. 1844, son of
John C. ; educated in Canada and
at Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb.
of Glasgow ; ord. to Newark 7th Jan. 1879;
-loci
lODl-
EDINBURGH]
BUCCLEUCH CANONGATE
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trans, and adm. 8th March 1882 ; died 22nd
Jan. 1901. He marr. Margaret Johnston
(died 26th Dec. 1901), daugh. of James
Caie, Inspector of Post Offices, Chatham,
New Brunswick, and had issue Ian Went-
worth, Wairoa, New Zealand, born 31st
Dec. 1876.
DAVID ANDREW ROLLO, M.A.,
B.D. ; trans, from Avendale 17th
May 1901 ; trans, to Springburn,
Glasgow, 24th Sept. 1907.
JAMES EDWARD HOUSTON, M.A.,
19O8 B.D. ; trans, from Cambuslang, and
adm. 15th Jan. 1908 ; trans, to Shaw-
lands, Glasgow, 19th Feb. 1913.
NEIL MACLEOD ROSS, born Glen-
1913 dale, Skye, 24th Sept. 1873, son of
Kenneth R. and Margaret Macleod ;
educated at Glasgow High School and
Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (1904), B.D.
(1908) ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 1904 ;
assistant at Holburn, Aberdeen, and St
Andrew s, Edinburgh; ord. to St James s,
Kirkcaldy, 13th March 1907; trans, to
Rosemount 10th Aug. 1911 ; trans, and
adm. 17th Sept. 1913. Marr. 21st Aug.
1907, Helen Annand, M.A., daugh. of
David Smith, Alyth, and has issue Janet
Morag, born 21st Feb. 1909; Kenneth
David, born 25th Feb. 1913, died 3rd
March 1914.
CANONGATE, FORMERLY
HOLYROODHOUSE.
[The Privy Council, at His Majesty s
desire, 13th Sept. 1672, forbade the use
of the church at Holyrood as a Parish
Church, that it might be set apart as a
Chapel Royal, and a chapel for the Knights
of the Thistle (Treas. Reg., iii., 449). The
congregation worshipped in Lady Tester s
Church until the new church in the
Canongate was opened in 1691.]
JOHN CRAIG, app. in 1561 ; trans.
1661 (colleague to John Knox) 2nd July
1562. "The counsale, understanding
the tedious and havie laboris be thair
minister, Johnne Knox, in preiching thris
in the ouek and twis on the Sounday,
ordanis with ane consent to solist and
persuade maister Johnne Craig, presentlie
minister of the Canongait. to accept upoun
him the half chargeis of the preaching in
the said kirk of Edinburgh for sic gude deid
as they can aggre on."
JOHN BRAND, formerly a canon in the
1564 Abbey of Holyrood, was employed
by Archbishop Hamilton, during
the progress of the Reformation, to carry a
message to John Knox, "That howsoever
he had introduced another Form of Religion,
and reformed the doctrine of the Church,
whereof it might be there was some reason ;
yet he should do well not to shake loose the
Order and Policy received, which had been
the work of many ages, till he were sure of
a better to be settled in place thereof."
Examined and admitted by the Superin
tendent of Lothian in 1564. He was pres.
by James VI., 5th Jan. of that year, to the
chaplaincy of St Ninian ; died 2nd Sept.
1600, having "served many years with good
commendation." He marr. (1) Elizabeth
Johnston, and had issue James, who had
a pension of 40 out of the Archbishopric
of St Andrews, 1580 (Reg. Sec. Sig., 475) :
(2) Abigail Smyth, and had issue Eliza
beth ; Katherine ; John, student of philo
sophy, who killed a young man with a
knife at St Leonard s Crags, 27th May
1615, for which he was sentenced to be
beheaded at the cross of Edinburgh ; James
(St Andrews K. S. Reg. Scot. Hist. Soc.,
627) ; Janet (marr. James Brown : Reg. of
Deeds, xlv., 277); Katherine, bapt. 19th
March 1600 (Edin.). [Keith s Hist., Reg.
Min. ; Assig., Test., and Reg. (Bapt.) ; Book
of the Kirk; Zurich Lett., ii. ; Wodrow
and Maitland Miscell., ii. ; Pitcairn s Cr.
Trials, iii. ; Wodrow s Biog., i.]
HENRY BLYTH, M.A. ; trans, from
1601 Second Charge, and adm. 1601 ;
deprived by the Court of High
Commission, 26th Jan. 1620, it being His
Majesty s pleasure he "should not return,
and that he wald give obedience in some
other place." He was settled at Eccles in
1622. [Reg. Assig., Priv. Counc. Reg.;
Pitcairn s Cr. Trials, ii. ; Row s and Calder-
wood s Hists. ; Orig. Lett.}
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CANONGATE
[PRESB. OF
ROBERT SEYMOUR [SYMMER],
162Q M.A. (St Andrews 1601); ord. to
Kinnaird 1607 ; was a member of
the General Assembly and Privy Conference
at Perth 1618; pres. by James VI. 12th
Feb., trans, and adm. before 16th June
1621 ; died 30th Nov. 1623, aged about 43.
The oversight of his affairs he committed
to Patrick, Bishop of Ross, and George
Symmer, min. of Fern, his brother, as was
also Archibald S. of Montrose. He left
a widow, Agnes Lindsay. [Reg. Sec. Sig.,
Test. Beg.}
JAMES HANNAY [HANNA], M.A. ;
trans, from Kilmaurs ; pres. by
James VI. 5th Dec. 1623; adm.
1624; trans, to the Deanery and High
Kirk of Edinburgh in 1635. [Maitland
Miscell., iii. ; Bannatyne Miscell., iii. ;
Baillie s Lett., iii.]
MATTHEW WEMYSS, born 1603, son
1635 ^ P atr i c k W., min. of Dunbarney ;
M.A. (St Andrews 1623); ord. to
Second Charge 1630; trans, and adm.
about 1635. Subscribed the Covenant 16th
March 1638 ; preached before the King
7th Sept. and 31st Oct. 1641 ; died Aug.
1645. He marr. 29th July 1631, Margaret,
daugh. of James Durie, in the parish of
Dunf ermline, and had issue Margaret ;
John ; Janet ; Matthew ; William. [Dun-
f ermline Sess. Reg. ; Baillie s Lett., i. ;
Balfour s Hist. Works, iii.]
GEORGE LESLIE, M.A. (St Andrews
1646 1619 ^ > r( * to Second Charge 22nd
Nov. 1639; a member of the Com
missions of Assembly 1643-5 ; pres. by
Town Council of Edinburgh 18th Feb.
1646 ; trans, and adm. soon afterwards ; a
member of the Commissions of Assembly
1647-9, and commissioner for visiting the
Univs. of St Andrews and Edinburgh in
the latter year ; died 26th Aug. 1656, aged
about 57, and was buried in the Easter
Kirk of Holyrood (Canongate Reg.). He
marr. (1) 19th Aug. 1640, Elizabeth Murray,
who died 20th June 1641, and had issue
John, bapt. 7th June 1641, who was served
her heir 14th July following : (2) Elizabeth,
daugh. of Henry Charteris, Professor of
Divinity, by whom he had George ; Henry
and Isabel (twins), bapt. 19th May 1650 ;
Margaret, buried Feb. 1658; Elizabeth,
buried July 1661. [Edin. Counc., Guild,
Edin. Test. Regs. ; Lament s and Nicoll s
Diaries ; Acts of Ass. and Parl., vi. ; Inq.
Ret. Gen., 2584; Craufurd s Univ.; Baillie s
Lett., iii.]
JAMES NAIRNE, M.A.; trans, from
Second Charge ; adm. in 1657 ; trans,
to Bolton in 1662. [Wodrow s Hist.]
JAMES KID, educated at the Univ. of
1663 Edinburgh ; M.A. (21st July 1632) ;
instituted to the vicarage of Long-
haughton, Northumberland, but was ejected
during the civil war; he had 100 allowed
by Parliament on account of his sufferings,
12th July 1661 ; coll. 26th, and adm. 29th
March 1663; died Dec. 1673, aged about
62. He left to the church and session, for
his burial within the church, 100 merks.
[Elizabeth Hill, widow of John (sic) Kid,
minister, was buried in Greyfriars, Edin
burgh, 29th Oct. 1689.] [Test. Reg., Reg.
Collat. ; Acts Parl., vii. ; Walker s Suffer
ings ; Hutchinson s Northumberland, i.]
JAMES INGLIS, son of Cornelius I. of
Eastbarns, Dunbar; educated at
Univs. of St Andrews, Aberdeen,
and Edinburgh; M.A. (Edinburgh 1664).
He passed his trials at Dunbar, and being
recommended to George, Bishop of Edin
burgh, was licen. 13th Jan. 1671. In
consequence of the infirmity and sickness
of the preceding min., he was recom
mended by the Bishop to supply his
place 30th May 1673, and officiated till
22nd Aug. 1676. [Dunbar Presb. and
Edin. Counc. Reg., Reg. Collat.]
ROBERT SCOTT, trans, from Inver-
7 keithing, adm. before 28th Nov.
1676; trans, to (Hamilton) the
Deanery of Glasgow. [Act. Rect. Univ.
St And. ; Fountainhall s Dec., i. ; Maitland
Miscell., iii.]
ALEXANDER BURNET, bapt. 2nd
^ June 1653, son of Robert B., advo
cate, and Katherine Pearson (Reg. of
Deeds, Dal., 19th Feb. 1733) ; ord. to Cross-
EDINBURGH]
CANONGATE
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michael about 1672 ; trans, to Kirkton
17th April 1684; trans, to Second Charge
13th Aug. 1685 ; trans, and adm. 28th June
1687 ; deprived by the Privy Council 23rd
Aug. 1689, for refusing to read the Procla
mation of the Estates, or pray for King
William and Queen Mary. He marr.
Elizabeth Kirk, who was buried in Grey-
friars, 31st Jan. 1696. [Peterkin s Con
stitution of the Church ; MS. Ace. of Min.,
1689 ; Hist. Rel. of the Gen. Ass., 1690.]
THOMAS WILKIE, born 8th April
1689 1645 ne Ph ew f Thomas W., min.
of the Tolbooth Parish; educated
at Univ. of Edinburgh; MA. (31st July
1662) ; was a member of the meeting of
ministers in the province of Lothian and
Tweeddale (after the Toleration) 6th July
1687 ; pres. by the Town Council of Edin
burgh 6th May 1689, and adm. soon after ;
formed a kirk-session 14th Jan. 1690 ;
continued his services in the meeting
house till 22nd Aug. 1691, when the keys
of the church were delivered to him by
order of the Privy Council ; Moderator of
Assembly 17th Feb. 1701, and a second
time 16th March 1704; died 19th March
1711. He bequeathed about four hundred
volumes to the Library then recently
founded for the use of the Divinity Hall
at Edinburgh. He marr. Rachel, daugh. of
John Sinclair, min. of Ormiston (Reg. Sec.
Sig., vi., 497), and widow of William
Hog, W.S. [Edin. Guild and Reg. (Bur.\
Tombst. ; Monteith s Mart., ii. ; Edin. Chr.
Inst., xxv. ; Bower s Univ., i. ; Wodroiv
MSS., Ixxxii. ; Bonar s Canongate.~\
JOHN WALKER, trans, from Second
1712 Charge and adm. 30th Jan. 1712 ;
retrans. to Second Charge 9th April
1712, with an admonition from the Presb.
" not to be so changeable in future."
JAMES WALKER, M.A. (St Andrews,
1713 12th July 1698) ; licen. by Presb. of
St Andrews 21st Nov. 1700; ord.
to Auchtergaven 30th April 1701 ; trans.
to Forteviot 29th Jan. 1707 ; trans, to
Ferryport-on-Craig 14th June 1710 ; called
15th April 1712 ; trans, and adm. 23rd
June 1713; died 3rd March 1752, in 73rd
year. He marr. Isobel Oliphant, who died
llth Jan. 1762, and had issue Samuel.
JAMES WATSON, formerly master of
George Watson s Hospital, Edin
burgh; licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith
5th June 1745; ord. to Newbattle 19th
Aug. 1746; called 28th Nov. 1752; trans,
and adm. 7th Aug. 1753; died at Peffer-
mill, Liberton, 5th Nov. 1673. Three of
his letters to James Pillans, the son of a
cousin, who became Rector of the High
School of Edinburgh, and Professor of
Humanity in the University, have been
preserved. They show shrewdness and
great knowledge of the world, and teach
sound lessons of morality. He marr. 14th
Dec. 1750, Anne (died at Edinburgh, 15th
Nov. 1824, aged 93), daugh. of Walter
Foggo, principal clerk in G.P.O., Edin
burgh. [Scots Mag., xv., p. 423; Morren s
Ann., ii. ; Acts of Ass., 1753 ; Steven s High
School.]
WILLIAM LOTHIAN, born 5th Nov.
1764 1740, son of George L., surgeon,
Edinburgh ; educated at Edinburgh
High School and Univ. ; licen. by Presb.
of Edinburgh 1762; pres. by George III.
12th April (Reg. Sec. Sig., ix., 372), and
ord. 16th Aug. 1764; D.D. (Edinburgh,
15th Oct. 1779); died 17th Dec. 1783. He
marr. 1st Oct. 1776, Elizabeth (died 8th
Aug. 1815), daugh. of Edward Lothian,
jeweller in Edinburgh, and had issue
Edward, W.S., afterwards advocate, born
20th Sept. 1769, died 12th April 1840;
William, born llth Nov. 1770; George,
merchant, Leith, born 30th Jan. 1772;
Helen, born 24th July 1773 ; John, born
7th May 1775, died 5th Aug. 1779 ; Thomas,
surgeon, Edinburgh, born 13th Nov. 1776.
Publications History of the United Pro
vinces of the Netherlands (London, 1 780) ;
Sermon XXI. (Scotch Preacher, ii., Edin
burgh, 1776). [Steven s High School, Test.
Reg., Diet. Nat. Biog.}
ROBERT WALKER, born 1776, son of
William W., min. of the Scots
Church, Rotterdam ; licen. by Presb.
of Edinburgh 24th April 1770; ord. to
Cramond 27th Nov. 1776 ; pres. by George
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CANONGATE
[PRESB. OF
III., trans, and adm. 19th Aug. 1784;
F.R.S. ; died 30th June 1808. He marr.
8th May 1778, Jean (died 10th June 1831),
daugh. of John Fraser, W.S., and had
issue Magdalene, born 23rd Feb. 1779
(marr. 3rd March 1800, Richard Scougal,
merchant, Leith); Jane, born 30th Sept.
1781 (marr. James Thomson, merchant,
Leith); John, born 6th April 1784;
William, born 13th March 1786, died 1st
April 1787; Robert, born 9th Sept. 1788.
Publications Sermons (Edinburgh, 1791);
Three single Sermons (Edinburgh, 1794-8);
Observations on the National Character of
the Dutch, and the Family Character of
the House of Orange (Edinburgh, 1794);
The Psalms of David Methodized (Edin
burgh, 1794) ; Kolf, a Dutch game (Sinclair s
Stat. Ace., xvi.). [Kay s Portr.]
ANDREW GRANT, D.D. ; trans, from
Kilmarnock; pres. by George III.,
and adm. 20th Oct. 1808; trans.
to Trinity Parish, Edinburgh, llth Oct.
1810. [Anderson s Sketches.]
HENRY GARNOCK, born Dunblane,
1768; educated at St Andrews
Univ. ; licen. by Presb. of Dunblane
llth Feb. 1794 ; ord. to Legerwood 14th
March 1798; pres. by the Crown, trans.
and adm. 25th July 1811 ; Synod clerk
14th Nov. 1815 ; died in a carriage on his
way home, 22nd Jan. 1820. He was un-
marr. [Tombst.]
ALEXANDER STEWART, born 29th
1S2O ^ an 1^64, son of Alexander S., min.
of Blair Athole ; educated at Univ. of
St Andrews ; tutor in the family of Graham
of Greigston ; licen. by Presb. of St Andrews
8th Feb. 1 786 ; ord. to Moulin 21st Sept. 1 786 ;
M.A. (St Andrews 1792) ; trans, to Dingwall
1805 ; pres. by George IV., trans, and adm.
13th July 1820; died 27th May 1821. A
proficient Gaelic scholar, he did great
service to the Highlands in revising the
translation of the Scriptures in his native
language (S.P.C.K.), and for this work he
received the unanimous thanks of the
General Assemblies 1819 and 1820. He
marr. (1) 31st Oct. 1793, Louisa (died 6th
Feb. 1799), eldest daugh. of Capt. Lachlan
1811
Macpherson, and had issue Alexander,
min. of Cromarty, born 25th Sept. 1794;
Catherine, born llth May 1797 (marr.
Hector Allan, min. of Kincardine) : (2) 4th
March 1802, Emilia (died at Bayswater,
12th Nov. -1855), eldest daugh. of Charles
Calder, min. of Urquhart, and had issue
Charles Calder, min. of Aberdalgie, born
22nd Nov. 1804 ; Duncan, M.D., H.E.I.C.S.,
born 21st Jan. 1805 ; James Calder, born
29th Aug. 1806; Patrick, born 30th May
1808 ; Margaret Brodie, born 16th Aug.
1810 (marr. 3rd March 1829, Sir John
Herschel, the astronomer) ; Isabel Robert
son, born 27th May 1812, died unmarr. ;
John, born 18th June 1814. Publications
Elements of Gaelic Grammar (Edinburgh,
1801) ; Account of a Late Revival of Religion
in a Part of the Highlands (Edinburgh,
1802) ; Address to the Royal Athole Regt.
of Volunteers (Edinburgh, 1804); A Primer
or Spelling Book, in Gaelic ; Sermons, with
a Memoir (Edinburgh, 1822) ; Hints on
Faith and Hope (Edinburgh, 1858); trans
lated into Gaelic Isaac Watts Preservative
from Vice and Folly ; revised the Original
of Ossian, under the superintendence of
the Highland Society of London ; Account
of Moulin (Sinclair s Stat. Ace., v., xxi.).
[Sermons (Mem.), Bonar s Canongate ;
Memoir, by James Sieveright, D.D.,
Markinch.]
JOHN LEE, LL.D., M.D., Professor of
1823 Divinity an d Ecclesiastical History,
St Mary s College, St Andrews ;
pres. by George IV. 15th June 1821 ; adm.
21st March 1823 ; D.D. (St Andrews, 28th
Dec. 1823); trans, to Lady Tester s, 17th
Feb. 1825. [Bonar s Canongate. ]
JOHN GILCHRIST, a native of Edin-
1825 burgh, whose parents belonged to
the Cameronian Church ; licen. by
Presb. of Stranraer 2nd Aug. 1797 ; assistant
at Dundee ; ord. to East Church, Greenock,
10th Nov. 1807; D.D. (Glasgow, 1st May
1812) ; pres. by George IV. ; trans, and
adm. 25th Aug. 1825 ; died 23rd May 1849,
in 79th year. He marr. 26th Oct. 1812,
Catherine (died 24th Oct. 1842), daugh. of
James Addie, min. of Kilmaronock, and
had issue Margaret, born 2nd Aug. 1813,
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died 17th March 1834 ; Mary, born 27th
Oct. 1814 ; Anne, born 4th April 1816 ;
George Baird, born 4th Dec. 1818, died
6th Oct. 1831 ; John, born 20th April
1820, died 30th Aug. 1829. Publication
Sermons and Lectures (Edinburgh, 1833).
[Bonar s Fun. Serm., and Canongate. ]
ANDKEW KEDMAN BONAR, born
28th March 1818, son of James B.,
accountant of Excise, Edinburgh,
and Ann, daugh. of Archibald Lawrie,
Spylaw, Colinton; educated at High
School and Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen.
by Presb. of Edinburgh 1843 ; ord. to
Fogo 26th Sept. 1843; trans, to Second
Charge, Canongate, 13th March 1845 ; trans,
and adm. 28th Nov. 1849 ; died 25th Feb.
1867. He marr. 5th Aug. 1856, Jane Bell
(died 5th Nov. 1862), daugh. of James Weir,
and had issue Agnes Ann, born 22nd
Nov. 1857. Publications Last Days of
the Martyrs (1841) ; Last Days of Eminent
Christians (1843) ; The Holy Land (London,
1844) ; Incidents of Missionary Enterprise
(1846) ; The Church s Duty to the Masses
(1857) ; Presbyterian Liturgies (1858) ; Poets
and Poetry of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1864) ;
The Canongate of Edinburgh : Its History,
Remarkable Houses, and Traditions (1856
and 1865) ; The Croiun of Thoi^ns (London,
1866).
DANIEL M FEE [MACFIE], born Ross-
1867 shire, 9th Aug. 1811, son of John M F.;
educated at King s College, Aber
deen, and Univ. of Glasgow; ord. to St
Andrew s, Kilmarnock, 15th Aug. 1848 ;
trans, and adm. to Second Charge, 15th
Aug. 1850 ; became sole min. 1867 ; res. 1st
April 1869; he was at Pittsburg, U.S.A.,
1872-7; Seattle, U.S.A., 1877-8; Chehalis
and Freeport, U.S.A., 1878-9; Port Town-
send, 1879-81 ; Cambria, California, 1881-6;
died at Edinburgh, 26th Nov. 1899. He
marr. (1) 17th April 1835, Jane Gibson,
whom he divorced 23rd June 1863 : (2) 13th
Jan. 1865, Margaret Livingstone Macleod,
widow of Thomas Ker, surgeon, Edinburgh.
JAMES MACNAIR, born Ballantrae,
1869 A y rsnire > 24t h April 1821, son of
Robert Macnair, D.D., Abbey Parish,
Paisley; educated at Paisley Grammar
School and Univ. of Glasgow; M.A.
(1841) ; licen. by Presb. of Paisley ; assist
ant at Lanark ; ord. to Legerwood 19th
Dec. 1844; trans, to Auchtermuchty 1st
July 1853 ; trans, and adm. 23rd Dec. 1869 ;
died 13th Nov. 1888. He marr. (1) 8th
June 1852, Jane (died 2nd March 1868),
daugh. of John Gregorson of Ardtornish,
Sheriff -substitute of Argyll, and Mary
Maclaine of Lochbuie, and had issue
Mary, born 31st Aug. 1853, died 15th Nov.
1871 ; Robert, stockbroker, Edinburgh, born
17th April 1855, died 21st May 1904 ; John
Gregorson, banker, Edinburgh, born 27th
Sept. 1857, died 26th March 1899 ; Angus
Gillian Maclaine, engineer in Mexico, born
18th March 1860, died 28th Feb. 1903 ; James
Alexander Hill, C.A., London, born 23rd
Oct. 1861 : (2) 7th April 1875, Harriet
(died 22nd June 1892), daugh. of Professor
Hill, Glasgow.
THOMAS WHITE, born Applegarth,
188g Dumfriesshire, 29th Sept. 1858, son
of George W. and Jean Frood ; edu
cated at Sandyholm and Lockerbie Schools,
and Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb.
of Edinburgh May 1886 ; assistant at
Canongate; ord. 13th Feb. 1889. He
marr. 7th Jan. 1890, Janet Barbara, daugh.
of Peter Stuart and Margaret Wilson, and
has issue George Thomas Frood, born 29th
Nov. 1890 ; Margaret Stewart, born 3rd
Aug. 1891.
SECOND CHARGE.
[Uncollegiated by Act of Parliament (30
& 31 Viet. cap. 107) 20th Aug. 1867.]
JOHN DAVIDSON, M.A.; formerly at
Liberton. He officiated for a time
in the East (or New) Kirk of
Edinburgh, "who, as well as the Synod,
allowed weill of his travellis," 1st Dec.
1592, and was found qualified by the Synod
1st Oct. 1594; proposed for Haddington,
Second Charge, 2nd April 1595, and took his
farewell on 9th Dec. ; trans, to Prestonpans
1595, but continued on the Register 1599.
[Reg. Assig., Edin. Counc. Reg., Wodroiv
Miscell. ; Booke of the Kirk, Calderwood s
Hist.]
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CANONGATE
[PRESB. OF
HENRY BLYTH, M.A. ; app. by the
1598 Presb. 20th Oct. 1594, to officiate
occasionally in room of John Brand ;
called 4th Feb., and adm. 6th April 1598 ;
trans, to First Charge about 1601. [Act,
Sect. Univ. St And., Test. Reg., Reg. Assig.,
Wodroiv Miscell.]
OLIVER COLT, M.A. ; regent of
Humanity in Univ. of Edinburgh ;
adm. 1611 ; trans, to Foulden 1614.
MATTHEW WEMYSS, adm. 1630;
1630 trans, to First Charge 1635.
JOHN WATSON, M.A. (Edinburgh,
1636 23rd July 1631); adm. about 1636;
dep. 1st Jan. 1639, "for desert
ing his charge." [ Wodrow MSS., Ixiii. ;
Ace. of Ass., Peterkin s Records, Stevenson s
Hist.]
1639
GEORGE LESLIE, M.A. ; adm. 22nd
^39; trans, to First Charge
1646.
JOHN HOG, M.A. ; trans, from West
Linton ; nominated by the Town
Council of Edinburgh 25th Feb., and
adm. 19th May 1646 ; trans, to South
Leith in 1653. [Edin. Counc. Reg., Lament s
Diary.]
JAMES NAIRNE, called 12th Nov.
165Q 1655, and adm. 17th April 1656;
trans, to First Charge 1657. \_Edin.
Counc. Reg.]
ALEXANDER HUTCHISON, M.A.
1658 (Edinburgh, May 1653); called 8th
Dec. 1657; adm. 14th April 1658.
Deprived by the Act of Parliament llth
June, and of the Privy Council 1st Oct.
1662. Having been summoned to appear
before the Privy Council in 1673, and not
obeying, he was ordered, 4th Sept., to be
apprehended wherever found. He died 2nd
April 1676, aged about 43. He marr. 14th
Dec. 1658, Janet (died 20th Jan. 1709, aged
71), daugh. of Robert Hardie, burgess and
guild-brother of Edinburgh, in right of
whom he entered on both 22nd July 1668.
They had issue Mary (marr. 23rd Nov.
1702, Nicol Spence, writer, Edinburgh) ;
Jean (marr. Jan. 1698, Dugald Simpson,
min. of Applegarth) ; John, bapt. 19th Aug.
1670 ; Elizabeth (posthumous), bapt. 6th
April 1676. [Edin. Reg., Wodrow s Hist.,
Canongate Reg.]
PATRICK HEPBURN, M.A. ; formerly
lees ^ Bolton > elected by the Magistrates
and Kirk-session 9th July, ord. and
coll. 20th, and adm. 22nd Nov. 1663 ; trans.
to St Cuthbert s in 1680. [Reg. Collat.]
ARCHIBALD CALDERWOOD, bapt.
1680 19t ^ ^ une 1657> son ^ Thomas C.,
Dean of Guild in Edinburgh, and
Elizabeth Mortimer ; educated at Univ. of
Edinburgh; M.A. (7th April 1675); adm.
about end of 1680, and died unmarr. in
Nov. 1681. [Calderwood s Hist., viii. ;
Edin. Reg. (Bapt.) ; Inq. Ret. Edin., 1279.]
JOHN LUMSDEN, trans, from Dal-
1682 S e ty ; adm. 1682 ; trans, to Lauder
1685. [Fountainhall s Dec., i.]
1685
ALEXANDER BURNET, trans, from
Kirkton ; adm. 13th Aug. 1685 ;
trans, to First Charge 1687.
1687
JAMES CRAIG, M.A. ; formerly of
Tranent ; elected by the Kirk-session,
Magistrates, Heritors, and Deacons
of Crafts 29th Aug., and adm. 14th Sept.
1687 ; trans, to Duddingston about 1694.
WILLIAM MITCHELL, called (after
12th April), and ord. in 1695 ; trans,
to the Old Kirk Parish 27th June
1708.
1709
JOHN WALKER, licen. by Presb. of
Edinburgh 9th Feb. 1709; called
19th July, and ord. 27th Sept. 1709 ;
trans, to First Charge 30th Jan., but this
was recalled 1st, and he was readm. 9th
April 1712 ; died 13th Nov. 1741, aged 61.
He was distinguished for his services to the
Society for Propagating Christian Know
ledge. He marr. (pro. 15th July 1710)
Mary, daugh. of Adam Leslie, merchant,
Dumfries (Canongate Reg.). His son
Robert was min. of the High Kirk Parish,
Edinburgh. [Morren s Ann., i. ; Kay s
Portr., i.]
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1743
HUGH BLAIR, M.A. ; trans, from Col-
^ ess ^ e > ca ll e d 13th Jan. and 10th
Feb., and adm. 14th July 1743;
trans, to Lady Tester s, Edinburgh, llth
Oct. 1754. [Bonar s Canongate.~\
JOHN WARDEN, son of John W., min.
of Gargunnock; M.A., (Glasgow,
May 1725) ; licen. by Presb. of Stir
ling 9th Dec. 1730 ; ord. to Campsie 21st
March 1732; trans, to Perth 19th March
1747 ; pres. by the Heritors and Kirk-
session (another presentation being given
by George II. on 16th Jan. 1755 (R. Sec.
Sig., 560) to Hugh Bannatine, min. of
Dirleton ; both were withdrawn, and a
moderation at large allowed). He was
called 21st Aug., and adm. 6th Nov. 1755 ;
died 29th Dec. 1764. He marr. (1) Anne,
daugh. of Hugh MacFarlan of Ballan-
cleroch, and had issue Elizabeth ; Helen ;
Margaret ; Lilias, born 26th Dec. 1738 ;
John, his successor ; William, born 5th
Oct. 1745 ; James, born 21st Jan. 1747 : (2)
13th Feb. 1750, Janet (died 18th March 1762),
daugh. of James Campbell of Burnbank.
Publications An Inquiry into the Nature,
Obligation, and Advantages of Religious
Fellowship (1746) ; The Happiness of
Britain illustrated, a sermon (Edinburgh,
1749) ; A System of Revealed Religion,
composed in the express Words of Scrip
ture (London, 1769 ; another edition, 1843).
JOHN WARDEN [MACFARLAN],
1765 born 29th May 1740, son of pre
ceding; educated at Univ. of St
Andrews ; M.A. (1761)"; licen. by Presb. of
Edinburgh 27th Oct. 1762 ; elected by the
Heritors and Kirk-session 17th Jan., and
ord. 18th April 1765. Assumed the name
of MacFarlan on succeeding to the estate
of Ballancleroch ; D.D. (Edinburgh, 2nd
March 1778); secretary to the Society
for Propagating Christian Knowledge,
1784; Almoner to His Majesty 12th
July 1785; died 24th Dec. 1788. He
marr. 16th Feb. 1766, Helen (died 10th
May 1819), daugh. of James Macdowall
of Canonmills, and had issue John of
Ballancleroch, advocate, born 12th Jan.,
1767, died 18th Dec. 1846; Lilias, born
16th Aug. 1768, died 15th April 1769 ; Ann,
born 5th Dec. 1769, died 13th Nov. 1774 ;
James, born 22nd Jan. 1771 ; William, born
17th June 1772, died 18th Dec. 1772;
Archibald, born 15th April 1774 ; Elizabeth
Home, born 13th Aug. 1775, died 1794;
William, born 2nd Dec. 1776; Hew, born
31st March 1778, died 29th July 1778;
Helen, born 15th Sept. 1779 ; Patrick, min.
of Greenock, born 4th April 1781. Publi
cations On the Perpetuity of the Gospel
Dispensation, & sermon (Edinburgh, 1778);
A Defence of the Clergy of the Church of
Scotland who have appeared in Opposition
to an unlimited Repeal of the Penal Laws
against Roman Catholics (Edinburgh, 1779) ;
Inquiries concerning the Poor (Edinburgh,
1782) ; A Summary Account of the Rise
and Progress of the Society in Scotland
for Propagating Christian Knoivledge (Edin
burgh, 1783) ; Tracts on Subjects of National
Importance (London, 1786); revised his
father s System of Revealed Religion (see
Scotch Preacher, 1789). [Moncreiff s Life
of Erskine, Bonar s CanongateJ]
WALTER BUCHANAN, born llth Jan.
1789 1^5, second son of Andrew B., malt-
man, Glasgow ; educated at Univ. of
Glasgow ; M.A. (1774) ; licen. by Presb. of
Glasgow 2nd Dec. 1778; ord. to Stirling
23rd Nov. 1780 ; elected by the Magis
trates, Kirk - session, Deacons of Crafts,
and Heritors 19th Feb., and adm. 18th
June 1789; D.D. (Edinburgh, 9th Dec.
1805); died 6th Dec. 1832. He was the
friend of Charles Simeon of Cambridge,
who thought "it one of his greatest
blessings to have known him." He marr.
22nd Feb. 1785, Margaret Stobie, who died
28th July 1847. Publications The Bene
ficial Influence of the Gospel, a sermon
preached before the Christian Knowledge
Society (Edinburgh, 1804) ; Account of the
Life of John Witherspoon, D.D., LL.D.
(Witherspoon s Works, i.); edited The Re
ligious Monitor till its close in 1819.
[Haldane s Mem., Bonar s Canongate,
Tombst.]
JOHN CLARK, M.A. ; trans, from New
Street Chapel; pres. by the Heritors,
etc., and adm. 12th Sept. 1833 ; trans,
to the Old Kirk 6th June 1844.
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CANONG ATE GAELIC CHAPEL
[PRESB. OF
ANDREW REDMAN BONAR, trans.
1845 fr m Fogo 13th March 1845 ; trans,
to First Charge 28th Nov. 1849.
DANIEL M FEE [MACFIE], trans, from
St Andrew s, Kilmarnock, and adm.
15th Aug. 1850 ; became sole min. on
death of preceding in 1867. (See First
Charge.)
DEAN (Q.S.)
[First church opened by Dr Chalmers,
15th May 1836; disjoined from St
Cuthbert s and declared a parish quoad
sacra by the General Assembly, 30th May
1836. Erected into a parish quoad sacra
by the Court of Teinds in 1870. A new
church was opened, 30th May 1903.]
JAMES KEITH HAY, born (?) Avon-
bridge ; studied at the United
Secession Hall ; joined the Church
of Scotland about 1824; licen. by Presb.
of Dunblane 18th Sept. 1832; ord. 18th
Aug. 1836 ; dep. 30th March 1842.
JAMES MANSON, ord. 10th Nov. 1842.
Joined the Free Church ; min. of the
Free Church, Duns, 1843 ; died 21st
Feb. 1890.
JOHN BIRKMYRE, born Kilbarchan,
1844 14th Dec. 1796, son of William B.
and Elizabeth Stevenson ; educated
at Glasgow Univ. ; M.A. (1816) ; ord. to
St Paul s, Fredericton, New Brunswick,
1832; D.D. (Glasgow 1840); returned -to
Scotland 1841 ; adm. 2nd May 1844 ; died
6th June 1864. He marr., and had issue
William Frederick, actuary, Glasgow.
ROBERT WILLIAM WALKER, born
Musselburgh, 6th Dec. 1840, son of
Andrew W., schoolmaster at White-
kirk, and Jean Telfer; educated at High
School and Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A.
(1859), B.D. (1861); licen. by Presb. of
Dunbar 3rd July 1863; ord. llth May
1865; res. 9th Jan. 1879; died 26th April
1882. He marr. 14th June 1870, Jessie,
daugh. of James Ogilvie, and had issue
Helen Ogilvie, born 24th Aug. 1876.
JAMES WILLIAMSON, born Kirkcud-
1879 bright, 26th June 1833, son of James
W. and Janet Gordon ; educated at
Kirkcudbright Academy and Glasgow
Univ. ; M.A. (25th April 1854) ; licen. by
Presb. of Kirkcudbright 9th June 1858;
assistant at Kirkmabreck and St Michael s,
Dumfries ; ord. 22nd June 1859, as chaplain
on the Bengal Ecclesiastical Establishment ;
ind. 26th June 1879 ; convener of the
General Assembly s Committee on Indian
Churches from 1881 ; D.D. (Glasgow 1905).
Marr. (1) 4th Nov. 1861, Agnes (died 24th
March 1870), daugh. of Robert Wallace,
D.D., min. of St Michael s, Dumfries, and
had issue James Gordon, M.B., Gates-
head, born 28th Oct. 1862; Elizabeth
Wallace, born 31st Jan. 1864, died 22nd
Nov. 1884 : (2) 1st Nov. 1875, Isabella Agnes
Jane, daugh. of John Donaldson, min. of
Kirkconnel, and has issue Mary Gordon,
M.A., born 14th June 1877, authoress of
Edinburgh (Series of "Ancient Cities").
GAELIC CHAPEL-OF-EASE.
[Proposed July 1766, built 1768, opened
June 1769 ; united to the Gaelic and English
Chapel, and closed 22nd Oct. 1815.]
JOSEPH ROBERTSON [MAC-
1775 GREGOR], a native of Perthshire,
for sometime clerk in an upholstery
warehouse in the city ; licen. by the New
castle Classis [Presbytery] of Dissenting
Ministers, 13th April 1773, and ordained
by them next day. Officiated among this
people, and was received into communion
and authorised by the Presb. 26th July
1775. Assumed the name of MacGregor
in 1784 (which had long been proscribed),
and died 12th Jan. 1801. He marr. Janet
Brown, who died 5th April 1789, and had
issue Robert Brown, Colonel of the 88th
Foot ; Margaret (marr. Joseph Maclaren,
surgeon, Royal Scots). [Kay s Portr., i. ;
Duncan s Elog. Sepulch., Epitaphs.]
JAMES M LAUCHLAN, formerly
7 chaplain to Fraser s Regt. of Scots
Fencibles, and Missionary at Strath-
glass ; nominated by the Society for Propa-
EDINBURGH]
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gating Christian Knowledge, and adm.
(assist, and sue.) 12th Sept. 1799. He
officiated also as chaplain to the 10th
Militia, then stationed in the Castle ;
trans, to Moy and Dalarossie 3rd Sept.
1806. [Kay s Portr.]
JOHN M DONALD, M.A. ; missionary
? at Berriedale ; adm. 29th Jan. 1807 ;
trans, to Urquhart (Ferintosh) 1st
Sept. 1813; afterwards known as "the
Apostle of the North."
GAELIC PARISH (ST ORAN S).
[Originally the Gaelic and English
Chapel-of-Ease, Edinburgh ; declared a
parish quoad sacra by Act of Assembly,
31st May 1834 (constitution revised 29th
May 1837), and erected by the Court of
Teinds 27th Nov. 1850. The original
chapel, of which no trace remains, was
built in the Castle Wynd in 1789. In
1815 a chapel in Horse Wynd belonging
to the Gaelic and English congregation
was acquired, and occupied until 1877,
when the church in Broughton Street was
purchased from the Catholic Apostolic
congregation.]
CHARLES ROSS MATHESON, M.A. ;
1813 ca ^ e ^ by the Proprietors 7th April ;
trans, from Kilmuir-Easter, and adm.
29th July 1813; dem. 31st Aug. 1814,
having been pres. to Kilmuir-Easter, his
native parish.
JOHN MUNRO, M.A.; missionary at
1815 Strathmore and Strath-Halladale [or
Dirlot] ; nominated by the Society
for Propagating Christian Knowledge Oct.,
and adm. 14th Dec. 1815 ; dem. 10th May
1821, having been pres. to Halkirk.
DUNCAN M CAIG, bapt. 23rd March
1823 1*796, son of Duncan M. in Ballgar ;
ord. by Presb. of Abertarff, 19th
June 1822, as missionary at Fort William ;
nominated by the Society for Propagating
Christian Knowledge, and adrn. 25th April
1823 ; pres. to Uig by George IV. June
following, but did not accept ; dep.
llth July 1831. He became a teacher in
Van Diemen s Land, where he died.
Publication Translation of the Shorter
Catechism into Gaelic. [Lismore Sess. ;
Kay s Portr., i.]
JOHN MACALISTER, trans, from
1831 Glenlyon ; nominated by the Society
for Propagating Christian Knowledge
5th Oct., and adm. 1st Dec. 1831 ; trans, to
Nigg 20th April 1837.
HUGH M LEOD, M.A.; missionary at
1839 ^ e ^ ness [Erriboll]; nominated by
the Society for Propagating Christian
Knowledge Sept., and adm. 10th Nov. 1837 ;
trans, to Logie-Easter 19th Sept. 1839.
JAMES NOBLE, born Killearnan, 1805 ;
1840 educated at King s College, Aber
deen, 1819-24, and Edinburgh Univs. ;
schoolmaster of Lochbroom 1826-38 ; licen.
by Presb. of Lochcarron, 12th Feb. 1834 ;
ord. to Lybster 2nd Jan. 1 839 ; trans.
and adm. 1st Sept. 1840. Joined the Free
Church ; min. of the Free Church, Poolewe,
1848 ; died 28th Oct. 1864.
1846
ALEXANDER MACKELLAR, ord. 17th
trans, to Kirkmichael
Perthshire, 15th Feb. 1849.
ALEXANDER MACGREGOR, M.A. ;
,__.. trans, from Kilmuir, and adm. first
looU . .
mm. of the parish, 28th Aug. 1850 ;
trans, to Inverness, West Church, 13th
May 1853.
DONALD TOLMIE MASSON, born
1854 Flemington, Nairn, 21st Jan. 1826,
son of William M., tacksman, and
Margaret Tolmie ; educated at Knockbain
School, Ross-shire, and King s College,
Aberdeen; M.A. (1849); parish school
master at Knockbain 1844; licen. by
Presb. of Chanonry 1851 ; ord. to Stoer
4th May 1852 ; trans, and ind. 21st Feb.
1854 ; M.D. (St Andrews 1862) ; res. 30th
June 1897; died 9th Nov. 1913. He
marr. 18th May 1855, Helen Jane (died 8th
Oct. 1905), daugh. of Archibald Browne,
min. of St Andrew s Church, Demerara,
32
GAELIC PARISH GREENSIDE
[PRESB. OF
first Presbyterian chaplain sent by the
British Government to the West Indies,
and Martha Fraser, daugh. of Colin Mathe-
son of Bennetsfield and the Buddies, chief
of the clan Matheson, and had issue Grace
Isabella, born 6th April 1856 ; William
Archibald, born 10th May 1858, died 5th
Nov. 1861 ; Helen Margaret, born 2nd Dec.
1859; Jane Fraser, born 29th Oct. 1861,
died 13th Nov. 1861 ; Donald Hugh, Fre-
mantle, West Australia, born 3rd Nov. 1862 ;
Christina Amelia, born 22nd March 1864 ;
Alice Isobel, born 15th July 1866 (marr.
Raymond Dexter Clark, flockmaster, Aus
tralia); Flora M Donald, born 18th July
1868 (marr. William Green, min. of Inver-
allan); William Muir, manager of the
Panjab Bank, in succession to his uncle,
Sir David Masson, born 2nd Feb. 1871 ;
Katherine Hamilton, head mistress of
County High School for Girls, Sale,
Cheshire, born 14th Jan. 1874. Publications
Vestigia Celtica ; various papers in Celtic
and other periodicals.
GEORGE ROBERT MACLENNAN,
M.A. ; trans, from Coll, and adm.
8th Dec. 1897 ; trans, to Thurso llth
Nov. 1910.
JOHN CAMPBELL MACGREGOR,
1911 k rn Ardenny, Taynuilt, Argyll,
2nd Nov. 1869, son of John MacG.,
surgeon, and Catherine Campbell ; educated
at Glasgow Univ. ; licen. by Presb. of Lorn,
May 1898 ; assistant at Kilfmichen, Steven-
ston, Maxwell, Glasgow ; F.R.G.S. (1908) ;
V.D. 1912; ord. to Strachur 17th July
1901 ; trans, and adm. 29th June 1911.
Marr. 3rd Sept. 1902, Robina Ralston, daugh.
of Alexander Campbell Macintyre, min. of
Kilbrandon, and has issue Constance
Evelyn Campbell, born 25th Sept. 1903;
John Alexander, born 29th Nov. 1904 ;
Robert George, born 17th June 1907, died
2nd Jan. 1908; Angus Duncan, born 28th
Jan. 1909 ; Alistair Macintyre Campbell,
born 3rd Nov. 1912. Publications Ap
preciation of Wordsworth s Ode on the
Intimations of Immortality (Ardrossan,
1898); Comparative Geography for the
Use of Teachers (Ardrossan, 1898).
GREENSIDE.
[Disjoined from St Cuthbert s and erected
| into a parish by the Town Council with
concurrence of the Presbytery, 29th June
1836, when the Old Kirk Parish was made
an uncollegiate charge ; church opened 6th
Oct. 1839.]
WILLIAM GLOVER, born Leith, 27th
7 Aug. 1801, son of William G. and
Anne Kennison ; educated at High
schools of Leith and Edinburgh (he was
dux of the latter) and Univ. of Edinburgh ;
licen. by Presb. of Chirnside llth Oct. 1825 ;
assistant at Tolbooth, Edinburgh ; ord. to
Crossmichael 17th Jan. 1828 ; pres. by the
Town Council of Edinburgh, and adm. 31st
March 1837; D.D. (Edinburgh, 9th April
1849); died 30th Jan. 1871. Perhaps no
man of his time exercised a more whole
some influence on young men looking
forward to the ministry. He marr. 4th
Oct. 1831, Elspeth (died 5th June 1873),
daugh. of Cunningham Burnside, min. of
Terregles (afterwards of Dunscore), and had
issue Isabella Riddle, born 5th Sept. 1832
(marr. 15th June 1858, John Caird, D.D.,
Principal of the Univ. of Glasgow), died
10th Sept. 1913; Jane Burnside, born
7th July 1835, died 18th March 1838.
Publication Tract IX. on the Sabbath.
ARCHIBALD SCOTT, trans, from Lin-
lithgow, and adm. 21st Sept. 1871 ;
D.D. (Glasgow 1876); trans, to St
George s, Edinburgh, 29th Jan. 1880.
JOHN MILNE, M.A. ; trans, from
Kirkurd 12th Aug. 1880; trans, to
Newlands, Peeblesshire, 30th Jan.
1884.
JOHN RUDGE WILSON, M.A. ; trans.
1884 f rom Morton, and adm. 10th July
1884; trans, to Wilton, Hawick,
18th May 1887.
JOHN PATRICK, trans, from Monkton
and Prestwick, and adm. 28th Dec.
1887; D.D. (Edinburgh 1895); res.
on appointment to the Chair of Biblical
Criticism, Edinburgh Univ., 5th Oct. 1898.
EDINBURGH]
GREENSIDE NEW GREYFRIARS
33
JOHN LAMOND, bom Auchterhouse,
1899 Forfarshire, 2nd Feb. 1855, son of
William Ogilvy L. and Jane Hendry ;
educated at Wateresk School, Glen Clova,
and Aberdeen and Edinburgh Univs. ;
M.A. (Edinburgh 1885), B.D. (Edinburgh
1886); licen. by Presb. of Ayr 5th May
1886 ; ord. to Kelton 7th Sept. 1886 ; trans,
to Skelmorlie 19th May 1891 ; trans, and
adm. 20th April 1899. Marr. 28th April
1887, Mary, daugh. of John Logan, Provost
of Troon, and Catherine Simpson, and has
issue John Logan, born 5th Sept. 1889 ;
Kathleen Ogilvy, born 14th Oct. 1896;
Isabella Ogilvie, born 6th Oct. 1899.
Publications Modern Palestine (Edin
burgh, 1896) ; The Elberfeld System (Edin
burgh, 1907); The Eternal Christ and other
Sermons (Edinburgh, 1914); The World s
Outlook (Univ. of Colorado, 1913); Our
Little Niche (Edinburgh, 1913).
NEW GREYFRIARS.
[A church ordered by the Town Council
to be built in 1719 was finished in 1721,
and the parish was erected in 1722 ; formed
out of portions taken from the Tolbooth and
Old Greyfriars.]
JOHN HEPBURN, trans, from Torry-
1723 burn ; called 29th Nov. 1722. This
appointment was signed by only
seven of the fifteen ministers, and about
twenty elders, without any of the Town
Council the minority being in favour of
James Smith, min. of Cramond, who came
to the city about eight years after. The
Assembly sustained the call 18th May, and
H. was adm. 3rd Oct. 1723 ; trans, to Old
Greyfriars 28th June 1732. [Acts of Ass.,
1723 ; Wodrow s Corresp., Edin. Chr. Inst.]
JOHN GLEN, trans, from Stichill ;
called 31st Aug., and adm. 14th
Dec. 1732 ; trans, to the New North
Parish 22nd Nov. 1733.
ROBERT WALLACE, trans, from
1733 Moffat ; called 23rd Aug., and adm.
22nd Nov. 1733. About 1735 he
assisted in establishing the Philosophical
Society, which merged some fifty years
after into the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
VOL. I.
1732
He was trans, to the New North Parish
30th Aug. 1738. [Scots Mag., xxxiii., Ixxi. ;
Morren s Ann.]
WILLIAM WISHART, D.D., min. of
1739 *^ e Scottish Church, Founders
Hall, London ; called 6th Jan. 1737.
Charges of heresy alleged to be contained
in two published sermons, were brought
against him by the Presb., but he was
acquitted by the Synod and by the As
sembly, 18th and 20th May 1738. He
was adm. 13th July following, and app.
to this charge 7th Feb. 1739 ; trans, to
Tron Parish 25th July 1744. [Observations
on Tivo Serm., Ansivers for Dr W. ; Acts of
Ass., 1738 ; Morren s Ann. ; Erskine s Disc.,
i. ; Bower s Univ.]
JAMES STEVENSON, M.A. ; trans.
from South Leith, Second Charge;
called 28th March, and adm. 20th
June 1745 ; trans, to Old Greyfriars 24th
Dec. 1747.
FREDERICK CARMICHAEL, born
1747 l^OS, son of Gershom C., Professor
of Moral Philosophy, Univ. of
Glasgow ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ;
M.A. (4th May 1725); licen. by Presb. of
Glasgow 27th Sept. 1733; ord. to Monimail
31st March 1737; trans, to Inveresk, 15th
April 1741 ; nom. Professor of Divinity in
Marischal College, Aberdeen, 24th Nov.
1744, but declined ; called 4th May, trans,
and adm. 24th Dec. 1747 ; died 17th Oct.
1751. He marr. (pro. 7th Aug. 1743) Isobel
(died June 1790), daugh. of John Lauder,
surgeon, Edinburgh. Publications Chris
tian Zeal, a sermon (Edinburgh, 1753);
Sermons on Several Important Subjects
(Edinburgh, 1753). [Test, and Re<j.
(Jhir.), Watt s Bibliotheca BritannicaJ]
GEORGE KAY, M.A. ; trans, from St
7 Cuthbert s; called 30th July, and
adm. 26th Oct. 1752; trans, to Old
Greyfriars llth Oct. 1754.
ROBERT DICK, M.A. ; trans, from
7 Lanark ; called 8th March, and
adm. llth Oct. 1754; trans, to Old
Kirk Parish 21st, but changed to Trinity
15th June 1758.
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NEW GREYFRIARS
[PRESB. OF
JOHN ERSKINE of Carnock, M.A. ;
1758 trans, from Culross ; called 13th
Aug. 1756 ; adm. 15th June 1758 ;
trans, to Old Greyfriars 9th July 1767.
JAMES BROWN, trans, from Melrose ;
1767 ca ^ e ^ by the Town Council, ministers,
and elders 28th Nov. 1766 ; adm. 9th
July 1767 ; trans, to New North Church
24th Nov. 1768.
ROBERT HENRY, min. of the High
i7fls M ee tmg, Berwick - upon - Tweed ;
called by the Town Council 13th
May, and adm. 24th Nov. 1768 ; trans, to
the Old Kirk Parish 19th Dec. 1776.
[j\ r ew Stat. Ace., viii. ; Scots Mag., liii.]
JOHN KEMP, trans, from Trinity
1776
Gask ; called 2nd Aug., and adm.
19th Dec. 1776; trans, to Tolbooth
Parish 25th Nov. 1779.
ANDREW HUNTER of Barjarg, D.D. ;
trans, from New Church, Dumfries ;
elected by the Town Council 3rd
Sept., and adm. 25th Nov. 1779, being
elected Professor of Divinity in the
University, which he was to hold in
conjunction ; trans, to Tron Parish 2nd
April 1786.
WILLIAM MARTIN, licen. by Presb.
1787 ^ Haddington 1773; ord. to Gar-
gunnock 6th April 1773 ; pres. by
the Town Council 3rd Aug. 1786; trans.
and adm. 22nd Feb. 1787, holding in con
junction the chaplaincy of Stirling Castle ;
pres. to Tron Parish 8th Oct. 1788, but
died previous to the day fixed for his
admission, 10th Feb. 1789, in 45th year.
He marr. 4th June 1787, Margaret Cock-
burn, who died 5th Feb. 1855, having sur
vived her husband sixty-six years.
HENRY GRIEVE, D.D. ; trans, from
178g Dalkeith; pres. by the Town
Council, and adm. 22nd July 1789;
trans, to Old Kirk Parish 27th April 1791.
JOHN SCOTLAND, born 1735, son of
1791 ^^ n ^ Dunfermline ; licen. by
Presb. of Dunfermline 12th Nov.
1760; ord. to Eskdalemuir 6th Jan. 1763;
trans, to Westerkirk 16th June 1768 ; trans.
to Linlithgow 17th Dec. 1778; pres. by the
Town Council, and adm. 13th Oct. 1791.
In the delirium of fever he terminated his
life by throwing himself from a window,
3rd May 1792. He marr. 21st April 1778,
Helen (died 17th Sept. 1793), daugh. of
Professor John Millar, Glasgow. Publica
tions The End of Preaching, and the Wai/
to Attain to It, a sermon (Edinburgh, 1780) ;
Sermon IV. (Scotch Preacher, ii., Edinburgh,
1776). [Scots May., xxxvi.]
GEORGE HUSBAND BAIRD, D.D. ;
1792 trans, from Dunkeld ; pres. by the
Town Council 8th Aug., and adm.
15th Nov. 1792; trans, to New North
Parish 10th Jan. 1799.
ANDREW BROWN, D.D. ; trans, from
17gg Lochmaben ; pres. by the Town
Council 3rd July, and adm. 18th
Oct. 1799; trans, to Old Kirk Parish 24th
July 1800.
JOHN THOMSON, D.D. ; trans, from
1800 M ai k:mch p res> by the Town Council
30th July, and adm. 18th Oct. 1800 ;
trans, to New North Parish 16th Dec.
1802; min. again in 1814.
ALEXANDER BRUNTON, trans, from
1803 Bolton ; pres. by the Town Council
23rd March, and adm. 15th Sept.
1803 ; trans, to Tron Parish 23rd Nov. 1809.
ANDREW MITCHELL THOMSON,
1810 trans - f rom East Parish, Perth ;
pres. by the Town Council Dec.
1809; adm. 16th May 1810; trans, to St
George s 16th June 1814.
JOHN THOMSON, father of preced-
1814 * n ^> k rn I ^ 41 > li cen - by Presb. of
Penpont 1st April 1767; ord. to
Sanquhar 7th Sept. 1769 ; trans, to Mark-
inch 5th May 1785 ; D.D. (Edinburgh, 10th
Dec. 1789) ; trans, to this charge in 1800 ;
trans, to New North Parish 16th Dec.
1802 ; pres. by the Town Council, trans,
and adm. 20th Oct. 1814; died 17th Feb.
1822. He marr. (1) 6th June 1770, Helen
Forrest, who died 25th Oct. 1801, and had
issue William, D.D., min. of Perth, born
28th Jan. 1773; James, born 29th Aug.
1774 ; Andrew Mitchell, D.D., above
EDINBURGH]
NEW GREVFRIARS
35
1829
mentioned; Jean, born 3rd March 1782
(marr. 20th Aug. 1806, George Irvine of
the High School), died 20th June 1808 :
(2) 5th Jan. 1803, Ann (died 27th May
1837), daugh. of Francis Cowan, min. of
Gladsmuir, and had issue John, min. of j
Shettleston, born 25th Sept. 1803 ; t rancis, i
born 8th March 1807, died 23rd Nov. 1810 ; |
Ann, born 19th Sept. 1809. Publications-
Three single Sermons (Glasgow, 1781-93);
View of the Agriculture of the County of
Fife (Edinburgh, 1800) ; Account of Mark-
inch (Sinclair s Stat. Ace., xii.).
WILLIAM MUIK, D.D., LL.D. ; trans.
1822 ^ lom ^ t George s, Glasgow ; pres. by
the Town Council 12th June, and
adm. 12th Sept. 1822; trans, to St
Stephen s 26th Feb. 1829.
DANIEL WILKIE, born 1781, son of
James W. of Gilchriston ; educated
at Haddington and Univ. of Edin
burgh ; licen. by Presb. of Haddington 25th
March 1806 ; ord. to Stonehouse 28th Aug.
1806 ; trans, to Tester 6th Dec. 1821 ; pres.
by the Town Council, and adm. 13th Aug.
1829; died of a malignant fever caught
while visiting among the poorer classes of
his parishioners, 29th Nov. 1838. He marr.
20th Sept. 1809, Jane Clark Elliot (who
died from having accidentally set her dress
on fire at Portobello, 10th Dec. 1866, aged
78), and had issue Jane Bogle, born
19th Oct. 1810, died 14th June 1833 (marr.
Robert Batt of Purdie s Burn, Co. Down) ;
Anne Macqueen, born 14th Nov. 1811 ;
James, born 10th March 1813; William
Clark, born 23rd July 1814 ; David Elliot,
born 14th Aug. 1815 ; Daniel M Queen,
born 26th Oct. 1816; Susan Charlotte,
born 7th Nov. 1817 ; Mary Elliot Lock-
hart, born 9th Aug. 1819 ; Christiana
Stewart, born 7th June 1821 ; Caroline
Nisbet, born 21st May 1823 ; Emilia, born
llth Jan. 1825; George Hay, born 13th
Oct. 1826; Patrick John, born 2nd Nov.
1828. [Anderson s Sketches.]
JAMES JULIUS WOOD, born Jed-
1839 burgh 4th Sept. 1800, son of Dr
William Wood, a medical practi
tioner in Jedburgh, and Isabella Hedley ;
M.A. (Glasgow); licen. by Presb. of Jed-
burgh 5th Oct. 1825 ; ord. to Newton-on-
Ayr 16th Aug. 1827 ; trans, to First Charge,
Stirling, 12th March 1836 ; trans, and adm.
5th June 1839 ; when on leave of absence
for ill-health acted as chaplain to 42nd
Royal Highlanders at Malta 1842. Joined
the Free Church ; was unable because of
ill-health to accept a church at once ;
resided two years in Madeira, and subse
quently assisted Dr Guthrie, Dr Clason,
and others ; became min. of the Free
Church, Dumfries, 8th June 1848 ; D.D.
(Glasgow 1856); Moderator of the Free
Church Assembly 1857 ; died 27th March
1877. Marr. 21st Oct. 1833, Christian Inglis
(died 14th Feb. 1886), daugh. of James
Henderson, I.R., and Sophia Young, and had
issue William, born 31st July 1834, who
died in New Zealand ; Sophia, born 8th
March 1836 (marr. D. N. Mackay, min. of
Free Church, Rafford) ; Isabella Hedley,
born 13th May 1838 ; James, banker,
Sydney, Australia, born 14th March 1840 ;
Julius, M.D., lieut.-col. I.M.S., born 10th
April 1842 ; besides one who died in in
fancy. Publications Two single Sermons
(Edinburgh, 1841-7); Letter to the Con
gregation of New Grei/friars, from Malta,
1843 ; Address to the Congregation of New
Greyfriars, on occasion of quitting the
Establishment (Edinburgh, 1843); Lecture
to Young Men (Glasgow, 1842). [Smith s
Scott. Clergi/.]
WILLIAM ROBERTSON, born Alloa,
1843
R., corn merchant, Eyemouth (whose
father, Robert R. of Prenderguest and
Brownsbank, was descended from the
Robertsons of Ladykirk), and Margaret
Henry ; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ;
licen. by Presb. of Chirnside 10th June
1828; ord. to Muckhart 28th July 1831;
trans, to Logie, Bridge of Allan, 12th Jan.
1832; trans, and adm. 21st Dec. 1843;
convener of the Committee on Correspond
ence with Foreign Churches 1845-70; he
took a deep interest in the work of the
Waldensian Church, and (along with Drs
Guthrie and Andrew Thomson) raised a
sum of 12,000 in its behalf; D.D. (Edin
burgh 1868); died at Cannes, 21st Feb.
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NEW GREYFRIARS ROBERTSON MISSION [PRESB. OF
1882. He marr. 22nd July 1834, Georgiana
Touchet (died 17th July 1892), daugh. of
James Cossins of Weymouth, and Eliza
beth, daugh. of George, Lord Audley, and
had issue William Buxton, captain 79th
Highlanders, born 2nd June 1835; James,
born 3rd April, died 13th April 1841 ; John
Hay, born 20th Dec. 1843 ; Henry Robert,
born 12th Jan. 1845, died 5th May 1855 ;
George Touchet, planter, born 14th July
1847 ; Gertrude Susan Audley, D.C.S., born
17th July 1849, died 24th Dec. 1900. A
man of rare spiritual gifts and consecration.
He devoted himself to developing Home
Mission Work in the Grassmarket on lines
which have since been widely followed.
The Vennel Ragged School, established by
him in 1846, was the first of its kind
in Edinburgh. The William Robertson
Memorial Mission Church in the Grass -
market was erected to his memory. Pub
lications Four single Sermons (Edinburgh,
1845-61); Journal of a Clergyman during
a Visit to the Peninsula (Edinburgh, 1845) ;
Letters to the Congregation of New Grey-
friars, from Rome, 1850, ami from Florence,
1851 ; Account of the Parish of Logic (Neiv
Stat. Ace., viii.). [Border Almanac, 1883;
private information.]
HENRY COWAN, trans, from Rubis-
1882 ^ aw Aberdeen, and adm. 1882 ; D.D.
(Aberdeen 1888); res. on appoint
ment as Professor of Church History in the
Univ. of Aberdeen 30th Oct. 1889.
1890
ROBERT STEWART, born Dumbreck,
Kirkintilloch, 13th Dec. 1847, son of
William S. ; educated at Southport
School and Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A. (1868),
B.D. (1871); licen. by Presb. of Glasgow;
assistant at Campsie; ord. to Skelmorlie
llth June 1872; trans, to Duns 19th Aug.
1875 ; trans, to North Leith 4th Oct. 1877 ;
trans, to Jedburgh 15th Dec. 1881 ; trans.
and adm. 8th May 1890; D.D. (Glasgow,
24th April 1891) ; died 1st May 1905. He
marr. 12th July 1877, Margaret, daugh. of
John James Erskine Brown of Rosebank,
Kelso, and had issue Wilhelmina Jane,
born 21st May 1878; William, born 28th
July 1879 ; John James Erskine Brown,
born 29th Dec. 1885.
JAMES NICOLL OGILVIE, born
j Monymusk 4th April 1860, son of
Alexander Ogilvie, LL.D., head
master of Gordon s Hospital, Aberdeen,
and Maria Nicoll ; educated at Monymusk
School, Grammar School and Univs. of
Aberdeen and Edinburgh; M.A. (1881);
licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen 1883 ; ord. by
Presb. of Edinburgh 21st April 1885 ; app.
chaplain on Indian Ecclesiastical Establish
ment, Madras, 8th June 1885 ; Fellow of
Madras Univ. 1899 ; returned to Scotland
1904; promoted Presidency senior chaplain
23rd Sept. 1904; elected to this parish,
and adm. 26th Sept. 1905 ; joint-convener
of the Committee on Indian Churches 1907 ;
convener of the Foreign Mission Committee
1909; D.D. (Aberdeen, 5th April 1911);
member of the World Missionary Con
ference Continuation Committee 1911 ;
Croall Lecturer 1914. He marr. 30th April
1885, Elizabeth Johnston, daugh. of John
Massie, Aberdeen, and has issue Norman,
B.A. (Cantab.), born 20th April 1890.
Publications The Presbyterian Churches
(Guild Library) ; Tide Marks of the Cove
nant (Edinburgh, 1909); Castle Memories,
Tiventy Tales of Edinburgh Castle (Edin
burgh, 1911; 2nd edition, 1913); Women
of the Covenant (Edinburgh, 1912); The
Greyfriars Churches (Edinburgh, 1913).
ROBERTSON MISSION CHURCH.
[Founded in 1885 in memory of William
Robertson, D.D., min. of New Greyfriars.]
DOUGLAS GORDON BARRON, M.A.
1884 [afterwards of Dunottar].
ALEXANDER FIDDES, M.A. [after-
1885 wards of St Bernard s, Edinburgh].
WILLIAM FRANK SCOTT, M.A.
1886 [afterwards of Logie Buchan].
THOMAS DAVID WATT, M.A. [after-
1889 wards of Powis].
DUNCAN COLQUHOUN KERR
1896 [afterwards of Shapinshay].
DONALD DAVIDSON [afterwards of
1899 Invergowrie].
JOHN RITCHIE, M.A. [afterwards of
1901 Halkirk].
EDINBURGH] ROBERTSON MISSION OLD GREYFRIARS
37
WILLIAM BRUCE MUIR [afterwards
1904 of Trinity, Aberdeen].
1907 WALTER SHAW.
OLD GRF.YFRIARS.
[In 1598 Edinburgh was divided into four
parishes, and on 18th May of that year the
High or Upper Tolbooth, then situated in
the west part of St Giles, was allocated as
a church for the South-West Quarter of the
city. In the following year the "bigging
of ane new kirk in the Kirk-of-Feyld
yaird" was proposed, being either to the
south or cast of the present University
buildings. That proposal was given up,
and another made, 6th Nov. 1601, of
"bigging a kirk in the Greyfriars burying-
ground " (formerly the garden of the
Grey Friars convent), "ye maist meitt
and convenient plaice." Nothing, how
ever, was done until 1612. The church
was built very slowly, and was not
opened till Christmas 1620, when Patrick
Galloway preached. In Nov. 1650 much
of the inside work was destroyed by the
English soldiery. Following a reparation
about 1653, the church was soon after (1656)
divided into two by a partition wall, which,
however, was removed in 1663. Unfortun
ately the steeple was used as a magazine for
holding gunpowder. On 7th May 1718 it
was blown up, and part of the church carried
away. Another catastrophe followed more
than a hundred years later. Through the
overheating of one of the flues the build
ing took fire on the morning of Sunday,
19th Jan. 1845, and in a few hours nothing
was left but the strong old rubble Avails.
After considerable delay it was again re
stored, and reopened 13th June 1857.]
ROBERT ROLLOCK, born 1555, son
of David R., of Kincleclie and
Powis, and Mariota Livingston,
connected with the noble family of that
name ; educated at Stirling Grammar
School and St Andrews Univ. ; M.A.
(1573); regent and sole teacher at Edin
burgh College, 1585-6 ; Principal 1587-9 ;
preached every Sunday at seven A.M., in the
East Kirk ; took full charge of the East
Kirk 1596 ; Moderator of General Assembly
1597 ; adm. 18th April 1598 ; died 8th Jan.
1599 ; a man of singular piety and integ
rity of life, unceasing in his labours, and
vigilant in his superintendence. He man*,
in 1587, Helen, daugh. of James Baron of
Kinnaird, who survived him, and had a
posthumous daugh., Jean, bapt. 22nd April
1599 (marr. Robt. Balcanquhal, min. of
Tranent). Publications Comment in
epistol. ad Ejthesios (Edinburgh, 1590) ;
Comm. in libr. Danielis (1591) ; Analysis
epistol. ad Romanes (Edinburgh, 1594) ;
Quaestiones et Responsiones aliquot defoedere
Dei, et de Sacramentis (Edinburgh, 1596) ;
Tractatus de Vocations efficaci (Edinburgh,
1597); Comm. in epistol. ad Thessalonicenses
et Analysis in epistol. ad Philemonem (Edin
burgh, 1598) ; Comm. in selectos Psalmos
(Genev., 1598) ; Comm. in Evangel, secund.
Joanncm (Genev., 1599) ; Certaine Sermons
(Edinburgh, 1599) ; Comm. in epistol. ad
Colossenses (Edinburgh 1600) ; Comm. in
epistol. ad Corinthios (Herborn, 1600) ;
Analysis in epistol. ad Galatas (London,
1602) ; Tractatus brevis de Providentia
Dei, et de Excommunicatione (Genev.,
1602) ; Comment, in prioris Epist. Petri
(London, 1603) ; Analysis in epistol. ad
Hebrxos, et Tractatus de Justificatione
(Edinburgh, 1605) ; Lectures upon the
History of the Passion (Edinburgh, 1616) ;
Select Works, edited by William M. Gunn,
2 vols. (Edinburgh, 1844-9). -[Vita Rolloci,
Robert Crawford ; Grant s Hist. Univ.,
Ed in. Counc. and Guild Re<j. (Bapt.), Sel.
Works, Melvill s Autob. ; Spottiswood s,
Row s, and Calderwood s Hists. ; Living
ston s Charac., Mackenzie s Lives ; Dempster
Hist., i. ; Eccl. Anal. Scot., i. ; Middleton s
Appendix, Nimmo s Stirling sh., Watt s Bibl.
Britt., Diet. Nat. Bioy.]
PETER HEWAT, M.A. ; trans, from
Second Charge ; app. by the Town
Council 16th Jan. 1599; removed
to East or Little Kirk in 1610. [Edin.
Counc. Re<j. ; Booke of the Kirk, Row s and
Calderwood s Hists. ; Oriy. Lett., i.]
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[PKESB. OF
ANDREW RAMSAY, M.A. ; adm. 28th
1614 April 1614 ; trans, to the Old Kirk
Parish, probably about 1640-1.
[Edin. Counc. Re<j. ; Row s, Stevenson s,
and Calderwood s Histt. (vii.) ; Maitland
MiscdL, ii. ; Reg. Sec. Sig., ci.]
GEORGE GILLESPIE, M.A. ; trans.
1642 f rom Wemyss ; elected and pies, by
the Town Council 12th Oct. 1641 ;
adra. 23rd Sept. 1642 ; trans, to the High
Kirk Parish after Sept. 1647. [Edin. Counc.
Reg., Murray s Life of Rutherford.]
[WILLIAM RAIT, min. at Brechin, was
1648 nom na ted 22nd March 1648, his
presentation being " imbraced with
ane hearty thanksgiving," but he did not
accept.]
ROBERT TRAIL, born 1603, son of
1649 Colonel James T., of Killcleary,
Ireland, Gentleman of the Privy
Chamber to Henry, Prince of Wales, and
grandson of the Laird of Blebo, and
Matilda Melvill of Carnbee ; M.A. (St
Andrews, 21st July 1621); studied at the
Protestant College of Saumur ; English tutor
in France to the sister of the Due de
Rohan 1628; chaplain to Archibald, Mar
quess of Argyll (beheaded 1661); ord. to
Elie 17th July 1639; chaplain to the Scots
army at Marston Moor 1644 ; elected by
the Town Council 7th Nov. 1648; trans,
and adm. 23rd March 1649. In 1650 he
attended the Marquess of Montrose on the
scaffold. He preached before Charles II.
at his coronation at Scone in 1651. In
1654 he was appointed by Cromwell one
of those for certifying the ability and piety
of such as were fit to be admitted to the
ministry in the Lothian and Border pro
vinces. With several others he was com
mitted to Edinburgh Castle, 23rd Aug.
1660, for engaging in a new Remonstrance,
where he lay for ten months, when, having
fallen sick, he was temporarily permitted
to return home. He was next charged
with high treason before the Privy Council,
when he obliged himself, llth Dec. 1662,
to remove from the kingdom within a
month, under pain of death. Owing to
tempestuous weather he experienced diffi
culty in finding a ship in which to sail
to Holland, and the Privy Council granted
him a month s further grace in which
to take his departure. In a petition he
states that he " is towards the age of
sixty years, if not more, and so cannot
weill take such a journey in such a season
without evident hazard of his life " (Reg.
P. C.). For some years he carried on a
weekly correspondence with his friend
Guthrie of Fenwick. Returning to Edin
burgh, he died 12th July 1678, and was
buried in Greyfriars. A portrait of him
is preserved in Smith s Iconographia Scot
and Pinkerton s Scottish Gallery. He marr.
23rd Dec. 1639, Jean (died Dec. 1680),
daugh. of Alexander Annand of Auchter-
allan, Aberdeenshire, and Margaret Cheyne
(who suffered imprisonment, June 1665,
for corresponding with her husband in his
exile), and had issue William, min. of
Borthwick ; Robert, min. in London,
and Bass Rock prisoner, born 1642, died
16th May 1716 ; James, Lieut, of Stirling
Castle, bapt. 10th March 1650, died 1721 ;
Helen (marr. Thomas Paterson, min.
of Borthwick); Agnes, born 1646, died
1690 (marr. Sir James Steuart of Good-
trees, Lord Advocate) ; Margaret, born
1648, died 1717 (marr. James Scott of
Bristo, writer in Edinburgh). Publication
A Letter from a Father to his Children,
[Elie tSess., Edin. Counc., Gen. fiess.,
Guild, and Reg. (Bapt. and Bur.) ; Acts
ParL, vii. ; Lament s and NicolFs Diaries ;
Rutherford s and Baillie s Lett., iii. ; Peter-
kin s Rec. ; Wodrow s Hist., i., ii., and Anal.
iv. ; Edin. Chr. Inst., xxiii. ; Chambers s
Ann., ii. ; Wilson s Diss. Churches, i. ;
Mun. Univ. Glasg., ii. ; Steven s Scott. Ch.,
Rotterd. ; Murray s Life of Rutherford,
Lockerby s Life of J. Brown, Lord
Guthrie s Chalmers and Trail Ancestry,
Bryce s Old Grei/friars (portrait).]
ROBERT DOUGLAS, M.A.; trans, from
1662 ^ e "^ ast ^ Giles) Church, to make
provision for the new Bishop of
Edinburgh, 2nd June 1662, but deprived
EDINBURGH]
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39
for not submitting to Episcopacy, 1st Oct.
1662 ; settled at Pencaitland 1669. [Edin.
Counc. Reg., Lament s Diary ; Wodrow s
Hist., i.]
JOHN ROBERTSON, a West country-
1662 man ^ ^ (Gl as S w 1654 ); chaplain
to Alexander, Earl of Leven ; min.
of the Second Charge, Kirkcaldy, 1658 ;
trans, to Dysart 1661 ; pres. by the Town
Council 6th Oct., trans, and adm. (in the
High Church) 6th Nov. 1662. Having
countenanced a movement in favour of
a National Synod, he incurred the king s
displeasure, who, 16th July 1674, directed
his removal to the manse of Auchterless.
In 1675 he submitted, petitioning to be
restored to his charge, and was released
by the Privy Council 27th April of that
year; was Almoner to His Majesty 24th
March 1681 ; D.U. (St Andrews, 6th Nov.
1686) ; died llth Jan. 1691. He marr. Jan.
1659, Elizabeth Scott, a gentlewoman in the
Leven family, who was buried in Grey-
friars, 26th Jan. 1692. [Edin. Comic.,
Guild, Corstorphine Sess., ami Reg. (Bur.) ;
Lament s and Nicoll s Diaries; Wodrow s
Hist., ii. ; Rule s Sec. Vindication; MS.
Ace. of Min., 1689.]
GILBERT RULE, born about 1629,
1R89 probably in Edinburgh, where his
brother, Archibald, was one of the
bailies (there is some likelihood, however,
that he was born at Elgin in Oct. 1628, see
Tate s Alnvick) ; after a distinguished
career at the Univ. of Glasgow, where he
was regent, he became (at an unusually early
age), Sub-Principal of King s College, Aber
deen. Thence he went to Alnwick to be
minister of a Dissenting congregation. After
the Restoration he was much molested by
local authorities, who tried to force upon
him the use of the English Prayer Book.
In 1662 he was ejected under the " Barthol
omew Act." He returned to Scotland,
preached for a time in Fife, but incurring
the displeasure of the Privy Council, fled
to France and Holland. He took the degree
of M.D. at Leyden, and practised medicine.
In 1679 he was in Berwick-on-Tweed, where
he was engaged both as a minister and a
doctor. He was indulged at Linton Bridge,
East Lothian, in the same year, but on
going to Edinburgh and officiating at the
baptism of a niece s child in St Giles
(though with the full consent of Turner,
the Episcopal minister), he was appre
hended and sent to the Bass. The sea
air made him seriously ill, and after three
months he was discharged under bond to
quit the kingdom. He returned to Berwick,
where he evaded arrest by keeping on the
English side of the Tweed. For a time he
was minister of a congregation in Dublin,
and on 7th Dec. 1688 he received a call to
this charge, which was confirmed by the
Town Council, 24th July 1689. He was
Principal of the Univ. in the following
year, and retained both situations till his
death, 7th June 1701. Engaging usually
| in study till a late hour, he was termed
"the Evening Star" (in contrast to the
Professor of Divinity, who was called
"the Morning Star"), and was dis
tinguished for great learning, piety,
candour, and moderation. He marr. 4th
Feb. 1655, Janet Turnbull (who was buried
7th March 1699), and had issue Gilbert,
M.D. ; Andrew, advocate, died Dec. 1708 ;
Alexander, Professor of Hebrew in Edin
burgh Univ. 1694 ; Rachel ; Janet. Pub
lications A Modest Answer to Dr Stilling-
fleet s Irenicum (London, 1680) ; Historical
Representation of the, Testimonies of the
Church of Scotland (1687); "A Sermon
preached before Parliament from Isaiah ii.
2" (Edinburgh, 1690), and others; A
Rational Defence of Non - Conformity
(London, 1689); A Vindication of the
Church of Scotland (London, 1691); A
Second Vindication of the Church of Scot
land (Edinburgh, 1691); A Defence of
the Vindication of the Church of Scotland
(Edinburgh, 1694); A Sermon preached
at the Meeting of Council of George
Heriot s Hospital (Edinburgh, 1695);
The Cyprianick Bishop Examined, and
Found Not to be Diocesan (Edinburgh,
1696); The G ood Old Wai/ Defended
(Edinburgh, 1697) ; Discourse of Suppress
ing Immorality and Promoting Godli
ness (Edinburgh, 1701); A Vindication
of the Purity of Gospel-worship ; A fiepre-
40
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[PEESB. OF
sentation of Presbyterian Government;
Answer to Ten Questions concerning
Episcopal and Presbyterian Government.
[Edin. Counc., Test., and Reg. (Bapt. and
Bur.) ; Wodrow a Hist., MSS., and Anal. ;
Calamy s Account and Continuation ; Watt s
Jiibl. Britt., ii. ; Mun. Univ. Glasg., ii. ; S.
Presb. Eloq. ; Acts Parl., ix. ; Grant s Edin.
Univ., Diet. Nat. Biog.~\
JAMES HART, born 1663, son of James
1702 ^ M P rovos t f Jedburgh ; M.A.
(Edinburgh, llth July 1687); ord.
to Ratho 4th July 1692 ; called 29th July,
app. by the Presb. 9th, and adm. 20th
8ept. 1702. In autumn 1714 he was ap
pointed by the Commission of Assembly
one of those to congratulate George I.
on his accession to the throne of Great
Britain, and in Aug. 1726 Almoner to His
Majesty ; died 10th June 1729. He was
greatly opposed to the Union, and de
nounced from the pulpit as a traitor to the
Church, his colleague Carstares, who was a
chief promoter of the measure. He marr.
(1) 4th Aug. 1692, Margaret Livingston : (2)
Mary Campbell, and had issue John, born
1703; Alexander, born 1705; Mary, born
1707 ; William, born 1708 ; James, born
1709 ; David, born 1711 ; Charles, born 1712 ;
Archibald, wine merchant, Edinburgh, born
1713 ; Margaret, born 1715 ; Katherine,
born 1716 (marr. 22nd Feb. 1741, James
Thomson, merchant, Edinburgh) ; George
and Wilhelmina, born 1717; Frances, born
1718 (marr. 30th Aug. 1741, Andrew Steven
son, writer, Edinburgh). Publications
The Qualifications of Rulers and the Duty
of Subjects Described, a sermon (Edin
burgh, 1703) ; The Journal of Mr James
Hart in 1714, ed. by Principal Lee
(Edinburgh, 1832). [Test, and Reg. (Bur.) ;
Wodrow s Ann., iv. ; Stevenson s Hist.,u.;
Murray } &Biog. Ann., Journ. (Mem.), Experi
ences of John Ronald, Diet. Nat. BiogJ]
WILLIAM BROWN, born Edinburgh ;
1?30 educated at High School and Univ. ;
M.A. (30th April 1700); licen. 22nd
April 1708 ; ord. to Second Charge, South
Leith. 25th July 1712; trans, to Lady
Yester s 19th Jan. 1721 ; trans, and adm.
23rd July 1730; died 23rd March 1736, in
1736
54th year. He marr. Bridget Balfour,
and had issue Janet, born 3rd Dec. 1756,
died Dec. 1789 ; James, born 26th Jan.
1762. Publication The Benefit and Com
fort of the Christian Revelation, a sermon
(Edinburgh, 1736). [Test, and Reg. (Bur.) ;
Wodrow s Anal., iii., iv.]
WILLIAM ROBERTSON, born Chapel
of Wemyss, Fife, 30th June 1686 ;
third son of William R. of Gladney
and Brunton,and Margaret Mitchell ; licen.
by Presb. of Kirkcaldy 14th June 1711 ;
ord. to a congregation in London 1711 ;
adm. to Borthwick 23rd Sept. 1714 ; trans,
to Lady Yester s 22nd Nov. 1733 ; trans.
j and adm. 10th Oct. 1736; died 16th Nov.
| 1745. For many years he employed his
leisure hours investigating the transactions
occurring in the reign of Queen Mary,
which may have led his son, the Principal,
j at an after period to complete them in his
valuable History. He marr. 20th Oct.
1720, Eleanor (died six days after her
husband), daugh. of David Pitcairn of
Dreghorn, Colinton, and Mary Anderson,
and had issue William, his successor, the
j historian ; Robert, born 10th Nov. 1722,
died 15th Jan. 1723; Mary, born 6th Nov.
1723 (marr. 17th Oct. 1751, James Syme,
min. of Alloa, and was the grandmother of
the 1st Lord Brougham and Vaux), died
9th April 1803 ; Margaret, born 16th Feb.
1725 (marr. 15th June 1750, Alexander
Bruce, merchant, Edinburgh), died May
1781 ; Elizabeth, born 25th Oct. 1727
(marr., pro. 2nd June 1754, Archibald
Hope) ; Patrick, jeweller, Edinburgh, born
6th Aug. 1729, died 8th Sept. 1790 ; Helen,
born 5th Feb. 1734, died 24th Jan. 1816,
unmarr. ; James, born 30th June, died
1st July 1737; Jane, born 4th July 1738
(marr. 4th July 1756, William Gifford);
Eupham, born 13th Feb. 1739 (marr. James
Cunningham of Hyndhope), died March
1807; Archibald, born 28th March 1741,
died March 1742. Publication Ministers
ought to please God rather than Men, a
sermon (Edinburgh, 1737). He contributed
Paraphrases XXV., XLIL, and XLIII. to
the Collection published in 1745. [Edin.
Counc., Borthivick Sess., and Reg. (Bur.) ;
Edin. and Alloa Reg., Edin. Test., Grey-
EDINBURGH]
OLD GREYFRIARS
41
friars Bur. Rey. ; Wodrow s Anal., iv. ;
family information.]
JAMES STEVENSON, M.A. (St
Andrews, 6th May 1713) ; licen. by
Presb. of Dunblane 25th Oct. 1720 ;
,ord. to Second Charge, South Leith, 17th
Aug. 1721 ; trans, to New Greyfriars 20th
June 1745 ; trans, and adm. 24th Dec.
1747; died 15th July 1760, aged 67. He
marr. 16th Sept. 1724, Anne Lament, of
the parish of Scoonie, who died 24th March
1706, and had issue Anne, died 4th July
1760 (marr. 12th April 1747, Kobert Norie,
painter, Edinburgh) ; Christian (marr.
William Aitken, min. of South Leith) ;
James ; Barbara ; Andrew ; Mary ; William,
died 25th Dec. 1759 ; Alexander. [Scoonie
Sess.
WILLIAM ROBERTSON, born Borth-
1761 w ^ 8t h Sept. 1721, son of William
R., min. of Greyfriars ; educated at
the Grammar School of Dalkeith, and
Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of
Dalkeith 28th June 1743; ord. to Glads-
muir 17th April 1744 ; enlisted as a
volunteer 1745 ; trans, to Lady Tester s
15th June 1758 ; D.D. (Edinburgh 1758) ;
chaplain of Stirling Castle 1759 ; one of
His Majesty s Chaplains in Ordinary 1761 ;
trans, and adm. 26th Nov. 1761 ; Principal
of the Univ. of Edinburgh 1762 ; Moderator
of the General Assembly 26th May 1763 ;
Historiographer-Royal for Scotland 6th Aug.
following ; died 1 1 th June 1 793. Unrivalled
in persuasive eloquence, he acquired great
influence in the General Assembly and
guided its business for twenty-eight years.
He insisted on the independence of the
Church in opposition to dependence on the
policy of political parties ; on obedience
being shown to the General Assembly by
the inferior judicatories ; and on the en
forcement of the law of patronage, unless
on cause shown, of erroneous doctrine, or
immoral conduct. His industry, accuracy,
and profound views, joined to the elegance
and beauty of his style, entitle him to a
high rank among historians. He marr.
22nd Aug. 1751, Mary (born 10th Jan. 1723,
died llth March 1802), daugh. of James
Nisbet, one of the min. of the Old Kirk
Parish, and had issue Mary, born 2nd
Aug. 1752 (marr. 4th April 1785, Patrick
Brydone, F.R.S., author of a Tour through
Sicily and Malta, by whom she had three
daughs., who marr. the 2nd Earl of Minto,
Admiral Sir Charles Adam, K.C.B., and
Gilbert Elliot, Dean of Bristol) ; William,
advocate, Procurator of the Church of Scot
land 26th May 1778, Senator of the
College of Justice, with the title of Lord
Robertson 14th Nov. 1805, born 15th Dec.
1753, died 20th Nov. 1835 ; Eleanor, born
5th Aug. 1755 (marr. 8th June 1778, John
Russell, jun., W.S.), died 17th Jan. 1837 ;
Janet, born 3rd Dec. 1756, died Dec. 1789,
unmarr. ; James, born 26th Jan. 1762,
served in 1st Batt. of Lord Macleod s
! Highlanders (afterwards the 71st Regt.),
I was It.-col. 92nd Gordon Highlanders 1798-
J 1804, and subsequently promoted general,
I died 29th March 1845 ; David, born 29th
I Sept. 1764 (marr. 2nd Oct. 1799, Margaret
Macdonald of Kinloch-Moidart,and took the
additional surname of Macdonald when his
wife succeeded to the estate of her brother,
Lt.-Col. Donald Macdonald of Kinloch-
Moidart), served in the 92nd Regt., and
then in the 23rd Regt., was Deputy
Adjutant-General of Ceylon 1801-3, and
retired with the rank of lieutenant-colonel,
died 7th Sept. 1845. Publications ? /^
Situation of the World at the Time of
Christ s Appearance and its Connection
with the Success of his Religion Considered,
a sermon (Edinburgh, 1755), which went
through several editions, and was trans,
into German ; The History of Scotland
during the Reigns of Queen Mar;/ and Kimj
James VI., till his Accession to the Crown
of Ens/land, 2 vols. (London, 1759 ; 17th
ed., with his last emendations, 3 vols.,
Edinburgh, 1806); The History of the
Reign of the Emperor Charles V., 3 vols.
(London, 1769) The Ilistori/ of America,
2 vols. (London, 1777), (its translation into
Spanish was far advanced, when it was
stopped by order of the Spanish Govern
ment) ; Books IX. and X., containing the
History of Virginia to 1688, and the History
of New England to 1652 (edited by his son,
William), (London, 1798); An Historical
Disquisition concerning Ancient India
OLD GREYFRIARS
[PRESB. OF
(London, 1791) ; eight Articles in the Edin-
bunjh Review (Edinburgh, 1755). [Edin.
Counc. Reg., Stewart s Life; Erskine s
Disc., i. ; Grant s Univ., ii. ; Cfrei/friars
liur. Rec., Brunton and Haig s Senators
of the Colleije of Justice, Diet. Nat. Bioy.,
family information.]
JAMES FINLAYSON, M.A. ; trans.
1794 f rom Lady Yester s ; elected and
pres. by the Town Council 20th
Nov. 1793; adm. 9th Jan. 1794, holding
in conjunction the professorship of Logic
in the Univ. ; trans, to the High Kirk
Parish 14th March 1799.
JOHN INGLIS, born 1762, youngest son
of Harry L, min. of Forteviot ; edu
cated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen.
by Presb. of Perth 28th Sept. 1785; ord.
to Tibbermore 20th July 1786 ; pres. by
the Town Council 3rd July, trans, and
adm. 17th Oct. 1799; D.D. (Edinburgh,
March 1804); Moderator of the General
Assembly 17th May following ; one of the
Deans of the Chapel Royal 23rd Feb. 1810 ;
died 2nd Jan. 1834. He had great weight
in the councils of the Church, and was
sometime leader of the Moderate party.
In personal appearance he was stately and
commanding. Through his influence the
General Assembly, on 27th May 1824, agreed
to appoint a committee for Foreign Missions.
He was the first convener, and did
much to forward its interests. He marr.
16th Oct. 1798, Maria Moxham Passmore,
who died 12th Jan. 1864, aged 87, and
had issue Harry, of Loganbank, W.S.,
born 25th May 1800, died 7th May 1883 ;
Abraham Passmore, an officer in the army,
born 14th Jan. 1803 ; William Bryce, born
30th Aug. 1806, died 1808 ; The Right Hon.
John, of Glencorse, Lord President of the
Court of Session, born 21st Aug. 1810, died
20th Aug. 1891 ; Mary Jane, born 7th
Dec. 1804 (marr. Dr John Mackenzie
of Eilanreach). Publications Four single
Sermons (Edinburgh, 1803-26) ; A Letter on
the Case of Mr John Leslie (Edinburgh,
1805) ; An Examination of Mr Duyald
* Almost all the notices of Robert Lee s life contain
erroneous statements as to his earlier years, his poverty,
etc. The following is derived from first-hand iufornia-
Stewart s Pamphlet relative to the Election
of a Mathematical Professor (Edinburgh,
1806) ; Reply to Professor Plat/fair s Letter
to the Author (Edinburgh, 1806) ; The Im
portance of Ecclesiastical Establishments
(Edinburgh, 1821) ; A Vindication of
Christian Faith (Edinburgh, 1830); A
Vindication of Ecclesiastical Establishments
(Edinburgh, 1833) ; Account of Tibbermore
(Sinclair s Ktat. Ace., xvii.). [Brunton ; s and
Gordon s Fun. Serms., Anderson s Sketches,
Cockburn s Mem]
JOHN SYM, born Paisley, 19th Jan.
1834 18 9> fourth son of James S. and
Jean Melvill ; educated at Glasgow
Univ. ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 14th
Dec. 1831 ; ord. to Sprouston 6th June
1833 ; pres. by the Town Council, trans.
and adm. 25th Sept. 1834. Joined the Free
Church 1843, and died 28th Jan. 1855.
He conducted the Church History class
in the New Coll., Edinburgh, during the
last illness of Dr Welsh ; was convener of
the Presb. of Edinburgh Home Mission
Committee ; suggested better accommoda
tion for the houseless poor, and promoted
the Lodging-house Association. He marr.
28th June 1836, Catherine Glassford (died
27th Oct. 1886), only daugh. of Lieut.-Col.
John Munro, H.E.I.C.S., and had issue
James, born 6th Sept., died 21st Dec. 1837 ;
Major-General Sir John Munro, K.C.B.,
born 15th Feb. 1839 ; Margaret Scott, born
23rd March 1840 ; Jane Melvill, born 12th
June 1842 ; Catherine, born 14th Sept.
1846 (marr. 16th Dec. 1886, Alexander
Gordon Miller, F.R.C.S.E.); Mary Agnes,
born 21st Oct. 1848 (marr. 22nd June,
1869, George Tait, min. at South Yarra,
Australia) ; Georgina Violet, born 29th
Nov. 1851, died 23rd July 1876 ; Henrietta
Wilson, born 29th Oct. 1853. Publication
A posthumous volume of Discourses
(1856, with Memoir}.
ROBERT LEE,* born Tweedmouth,
1843 llt " 1 ^ V> 18 4 S n ^ George I J ->
boatbuilder, and Jane, daugh. of
Robert Lambert ; educated at the Gram-
tion. His grandfather, Robert Lee, was a shipbuilder,
and marr. Lily, daugh. of Isaac Davidson, a clever
woman, a sweet siuger, and a good violinist. Their son,
EDINBURGH]
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mar School of Berwick-on-Tweed, and in
1824 entered the Univ. of St Andrews.
When he finished his studies in 1832,
Principal Haldane said : " This Univer
sity has not for many years sent forth a
more distinguished student. He has gained
during a succession of years the highest
honours which the University can award :; ;
licen. by Presb. of St Andrews 10th May
1832 ; ord. to Inverbrothock Chapel-of-Ease
10th April 1833 ; pres. to Campsie, and adin.
5th May 1836 ; trans, and adm. 9th Nov.
1843; D.D. (St Andrews 1844); Dean of
the Chapel Royal, and one of H.M. Chap-
lains-in-Ordinary 1846; Professor of Bibli
cal Criticism in Edinburgh Univ. 20th
Jan. 1847. In 1857-ihe began his reform
of the Presbyterian Church service. He
restored the reading of prayers, and intro
duced the custom of kneeling at prayer and
standing during praise. In 1863 a har
monium was placed in his church, and in
1865 an organ. These innovations provoked
keen opposition in the Church Courts, and
theGreyfriars 1 case was still pending before
the General Assembly when on 22nd May
1867 he fell from his horse in Princes Street,
struck with paralysis. He died at Torquay,
14th March 1868. He marr. 21st June 1836,
Isabella Carrick Buchanan, who was granted
a Civil List pension of 100 a year on 17th
Nov. 1868 ; she died 4th Sept. 1889, and had
issue Margaret, born 29th July 1837 (marr.
Lockhart Thomson, S.S.C.), died 26th March
1862 ; George, born 17th March 1839, died
13th Sept. 1862 ; Bella, born 7th Dec. 1840,
died llth Nov. 1863; Jane Anne, born
5th April 1843, died 19th Aug. 1858;
Catherine Napier, born 13th July 1845.
Publications Lectures on the Causes of
Departure from the Parochial Economy
and the Evils of that Departure, especially
in Large Towns (1835); The Theses of
Erastus Touching Excommunication, trans
lated, with a preface (1844); A Handbook
of Devotion (1845) ; The Holy Bible, with
the Marginal References revised and im
proved (1854; another edition, 1855);
Prayers for Public Worship, with Extracts
from the Psalter and other j>arts of Scrip
ture (1857; 2nd edition, 1858; 3rd edition,
1863; 4th edition, 1864); The Order of
Public Worship and Administration of the
Sacraments as ^^sed in the Church of the
Greyfriars, Edinburgh (5th edition, 1873) ;
Prayers for Family Worship (1861 ; 3rd
edition, 1884); The Family and its Duties,
u ith Other Essai/s and Discourses for
Sunday Reading (1863); The Reform of
the Church in Worship, Government, and
Doctrine (1864) ; The Clerical Profession,
some of its Difficulties and Hindrances
(1866) ; A Letter to the Members of the
General Assembly respecting Innovations im
puted to the Writer (\$&1) ; Sermons (\S1 4);
numerous newspaper articles, addresses,
discourses, and single sermons. [Life and
Remains (2 vols., 1870), by Robert Herbert
Story ; St Giles 1 Lecture (XI.), by Principal
John Cunningham ; Diet. Nat. Jtioy.]
ROBERT WALLACE, born 24th June
1869 1S31 son f Jasper W r ., gardener,
Kincaple, Fife, and Elizabeth Archi
bald ; educated at the parish school of
Culross, and Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A.
(1853); Classical Master of Cupar Academy
1854; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh July
1857; ord. to Newton-on-Ayr 23rd Dec.
1857; trans, to Trinity Parish, Edinburgh,
21st Dec. 1860 ; trans, and adm. 26th Dec.
1868; D.D. (Glasgow 1869); app. to the
Chair of Church History in Edinburgh
Univ. 1872; res. his professorship as well
George Lee, was precentor in the Scots Church, Tweed-
mouth, and later treasurer, elder, and session clerk.
George early entered on business as a boatbuilder on his
own account, and became a fairly prosperous man,
employing from eight to ten men in addition to appren
tices. Robert, his son, was educated under a good
classical teacher, Guy Gardiner, and served an appren
ticeship of six years with his father as a boatbuilder.
When he was nine years old the father was able to
buy a substantial house, still occupied by a relative.
The story of bis having to sell a boat for his
college fees is unlikely, as his father was a prosperous
man. In his vacations Robert Lee used to bring fellow-
students down with him and take them out in .1
boat, probably built by himself. He was the eldest
son. Anthony Pye, his brother, entered the Church of
England, but died at the early age of twenty-live, in 1842.
Another, William, who was an engineer, entered the
Mint at Rt Petersburg, but fell under suspicion during
the Crimean War, was banished to Siberia, and never
more heard of.
44
OLD GREYFRIARS
[PRESS. OF
as his charge, and dem. his clerical
orders on becoming editor of the Scotsman
newspaper, 1st Aug. 1876. Retired from
the editorship, 1st Nov. 1880 ; studied law,
and was called to the English Bar at the
Middle Temple, 17th Nov. 1883; became
radical Member of Parliament for the
East Division of Edinburgh at the General
Election of 1886, and sat (re-elected 1892
and 1895) till his death at London, 6th June
1899. He marr. 10th March 1858, Mar
garet (died 30th Jan. 1 898), daugh. of James
Robertson, Cupar-Fife, and had issue
Robert Lamb, barrister-at-law, born 12th
Dec. 1858, died 16th Feb. 1894; James
Robertson, M.D., born 23rd March 1 860 ;
William John, born 31st Oct. 1861, died 8th
March 1862 ; Patrick Robertson, born 29th
Oct. 1862 ; Archibald Duncan, born 4th
April 1864, died in infancy ; Maggie Ireland,
born 27th Aug. 1866 (marr. Alfred Gray,
London) ; Arthur Stanley Jowett, born 8th
Feb. 1872, died young; Alfred Campbell,
actor, born 1st Oct. 1875, died 6th Feb.
1911. Publications Church Tendencies in
Scotland (Recess Studies, Edinburgh, 1 870) ;
The Study of Ecclesiastical History in its
Relation to Church Theology (Edinburgh,
1873) ; George Buchanan, in "Famous Scots
Series," completed by J. Campbell Smith
(Edinburgh, 1900). [Recollections and
Anecdotes, by Roderick Lawson (Paisley,
1 899) ; Life and Last Leaves, edited by J.
Campbell Smith and William Wallace
(London, 1903); Diet. Nat. Biog.}
1877
JOHN GLASSE, born Auchtermuchty,
27th Jan. 1848, son of John G. ;
educated at the Free Church School
there, Univ. of St Andrews, and New
College, Edinburgh; M.A. (St Andrews
1872); licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh July
1876; ord. 27th March 1877; D.D. (St
Andrews 1895); res. 13th Oct. 1909. He
marr. (1) 16th July 1878, Jane Scott (died
9th Nov. 1904), daugh. of Provost White,
Auchtermuchty, and had issue John
Morley, M.D., Haltwhistle, Northumber
land, born 13th April 1879; Helen Mar
garet, born 16th June 1881 (marr. E. B.
Scott Melville, Dundee) : (2) 4th June 1907,
Louisa Plymer, daugh. of Alexander Gibson,
Ceylon. Publications John Knox, a Criti
cism (London, 1905) ; Modern Christian
Socialism ; The Relation of the Church to
Socialism ; Robert Owen and his Life-work j
Pauperism, in Scotland, Past and Present.
ALEXANDER BROWN GRANT, born
1910 Dowanhill, Glasgow, 16th Feb. 1871,
eldest son of Colonel Alex. Brown
G., M.V.O., D.L., Killochan Castle,
Ayrshire, and Helen Underwood Marr ;
educated privately, and at Academy and
Univ. of Glasgow; M.A. (1895), B.D.
(1898) ; licen. by Presb. of Stranraer, 9th
Aug. 1898; assistant at East Church
(Aberdeen), Greenside (Edinburgh), and
Barony (Glasgow) ; ord. to Garelochhead
19th Sept. 1900 ; trans, to Ecclesmachan
26th Oct. 1905; trans, and adm. 10th May
1910. He marr. 19th Feb. 1901, Agnes
Brydon, third daugh. of John M Lean
MacKendrick, C.E., Glasgow, and Janet
Turner, and has issue Juanita Turner,
born 12th March 1903 ; Alexander Brown,
born 6th Dec. 1908. Publication Eccles
machan Church and its Patron Saint,
Saint Machan.
COLLEGIATE, on SECOND CHARGE.
[Uncollegiated by the Town Council,
with concurrence of the Presbytery, on the
erection of the parish of St John, 28th
Oct. 1840.]
PETER HEWAT, M.A. ; trans, from
1597 Colinton, elected by the Commis
sioners of Assembly at Falkland,
and adm. before 31st Jan. 1596-7;
readm. 18th April 1598; trans, to first
charge in 1599. \Edin. Counc.Reg.; Calder-
wood s Hist., v. ; Spottiswood s Hist.]
PATRICK SANDS, M.A., Principal of
t the Univ. of Edinburgh ; appointed
by the Town Council to supply in
the afternoon, 1st Dec. 1620. He demitted
office as Principal, Aug. 1622, and died in
1635, aged about 68. He marr. 23rd July
1606, Marion, sister of David Aikinhead,
Lord Provost of the city, who survived
him. Publication Two Latin poems in
The Muse s Welcome. \Edin. Counc., Test.,
and Reg. (Marr.} ; Craufurd s and Bower s
EDINBURGH]
OLD GREYFRIARS
45
Hists., Univ. Edin. ; Dempsteri Eccl. Hist.,
ii. ; Inq. Ret. Gen., 3557.]
ROBERT BOYD of Trochrig, M.A. ;
1622 f rmer ly Principal of the Univ. of
Glasgow ; elected by the Town
Council 18th Oct. 1622, being at same
time Principal of the Univ. of Edinburgh.
The magistrates having received a com
munication from James VI. intimating his
displeasure at Boyd ; s continued want of
conformity to the "five Articles of Perth, ;)
sent for him to their meeting of Council,
31st Jan. 1623. when he demitted both
situations, but continued in the city, and
countenanced the disaffection of the people
against the aforesaid Articles. He was
charged to appear before the Privy Council,
23rd June 1624, and this he did, rebutting
the charge, and obliging himself to remove
instantly with his family to Trochrig, his
property in Ayrshire. He was minister
at Paisley in 1626. [Edin. Counc. Reg. ;
Wodrow s Bioy., ii. ; Craufurd s and Bower s
Univ., i. ; Livingston s Charac. ; Row s and
Calderwood s Hists., vii. ; Orig. Lett., ii. ;
Rivet s Life, Diet. Nat. Biog. ]
JOHN DUNCANSON, app. by the
1626 Town Council 16fch Au =- 1626 -
[Edin. Coiinc. Reg., xiv., 12.]
[HENRY ROLLOCK, nephew of Robert
R., appointed by the Town Council
17th June 1629, but did not accept.]
1629
1630
JAMES FAIRLIE, M.A. ; Professor of
Divinity in the University 1629 ;
pres. by the Town Council 29th Oct.,
and adm. 17th Nov. 1630 ; dem. 28th July
1637, having been elected to the Bishopric
of Argyll, of which he was deprived by the
Glasgow Assembly 1638. In 1644 he became
min. of Lasswade. [Edin. Counc. Reg. ;
Row s and Stevenson s Hists., i.]
MUNGO LAW, M.A. (Glasgow 1627);
1644 schoolmaster of Kirkcaldy 15th July
1628 ; tutor to George, Master of
Ramsay, 1635 ; min. of Dysart (Second
Charge) 2nd Oct. 1636; elected by the
Town Council 25th Dec. 1643; trans, and
adm. 27th March 1644 ; a member of the
Commissions of Assembly 1644-9 ; acted
as an army chaplain, and witnessed the
defeat of Argyll s forces at Inverlochy,
2nd Feb. 1645. In 1649 he was nomin
ated by Parliament one of the Com
missioners for visiting the Univs. of St
Andrews and Edinburgh. He was in
Edinburgh Castle when it was surrendered
to Cromwell, 17th Dec. 1650. At Alyth
he was taken prisoner, 28th Aug. 1651, and
carried off to England ; returned to his
charge Jan. 1653; died Feb. 1660, aged
about 54. He marr. May 1638, Lilias (died
Oct. 1658), daugh. of Patrick Turner, min.
of Dalkeith, and had issue Mungo, min.
at Perth ; John ; Katherine ; Lilias, died
May 1666 ; Anna (marr. John Liddell,
min. of Scone) ; James ; Andrew ; David.
[Edin. Counc., Dysart Sess., Test., and
Reg. (Bapt. and Bur.) ; Baillie s Lett., iii. ;
Acts Parl., vi. ; Acts of Ass., Lament s and
Nicoll s Diaries; Bannatyne Miscell., ii. ;
Guthrie s Jfem. ; Reg. Sec. Sig., iii. ;
Edin. Chr. Inst., i. ; Army Treastirer s
Ace., Pardovan s Collec., Muir s Gleaning*
of Dysart. }
DAVID STIRLING, M.A. ; trans, from
1664 Foulden ; elected by the Town
Council 25th May 1664 ; dem. in 1669 ;
became min. of Cockburnspath in 1671.
[Edin. Counc. Reg. ; Edin. Sas., xviii., 124.]
ALEXANDER RAMSAY, M.A. ; trans.
f rom Auchinleck ; elected by the
Town Council 8th May 1669 ; trans.
to the High Kirk Parish in 1672. [Edin.
Counc. Reg.}
ALEXANDER IRVING [IRVINE],
born at Aberdeen ; M.A. (King s
College, Aberdeen, 19th July 1666) ;
min. of West Kilbride 1669; elected by
the Town Council 23rd Aug., trans, ami
collated 12th Dec. 1672. He was adm.
burgess and guild-brother of the city
12th Nov. 1673; dem. at Whitsunday
1674; assistant at Logie-Buchan 1682-5.
He marr. 20th Dec. 1672, Grizel Ramsay,
and had issue Andrew, bapt. 8th Jan.
1674; Jean (marr. 1705, James Miller,
4G
OLD GREVFRIARS
[PRESB. OF
servitor to Sir Hew Dalrymple of Xortli
Berwick, Lord President). [Edin. Counc.
ami Guild Reg., Kirkton s Hist.; Mair s
Presb. of Ellon, p. 199.]
ALEXANDER RAMSAY, M.A., above
1674 mentioned ; retrans. from High Kirk ;
appointed by the Town Council 14th
June 1674 ; trans, to the Old Kirk Parish in
imi.[Edin. Counc. Reg.}
ALEXANDER MALCOLM, trans, from
1681 Newbattle . elected by the Town
Council 16th, pres. 18th, and insti
tuted 31st March 1681 ; trans, to Tron
Parish in 1687. [Edin. Counc.
JAMES HUTCHISON, M.A. ; trans.
1687 f rom North Leith ; elected by the
Town Council llth Aug. 1687 ; dep.
in 1691 " for contumacy " ; restored by the
Commission of the Gen. Assembly in 1699 ;
min. of Fintray 1702. [Edin. Counc. Reg. ;
MS. Ace. of Min., 1689 ; Acts of Ass., 1699.]
[JAMES WILKIE, min. of North Leith ;
1691 was appointed by the Town Council,
but on account of opposition his
induction was not proceeded with.
Counc. Reg.]
JOHN HAMILTON, born 1651, son
1693 of Archibald H., min. of Wigtown;
educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ;
M.A. (1668); ord. to the Presbyterian
Church at Comber, Co. Down ; adm. to
Cramond 16th Dec. 1689 ; trans, and
adm. in 1693; died 17th Oct. 1702. He
bequeathed to the poor of Bally, 20 ; of
Comber, 7 (both in Ireland) ; of Cramond,
10 ; and of Edinburgh, 17. He marr. (1)
in 1673, Anne Rainalds, who died 28th
Dec. 1692, aged 42, by whom he had issue
Archibald, who predeceased him; James,
who succeeded to the estate of Ballikeigly,
Co. Down ; Jean (marr. Hugh Hawthorn,
merchant, Edinburgh); Dorothy (marr.
Philip Mair of Billcleugh, Co. Down) : (2)
5th Feb. 1696, Jean (buried 16th June
1697), daugh. of Peter Blair, min. of Jed-
burgh : (3) 29th June 1698, Maybel, daugh.
of Hew Campbell, collector at Donaghadee :
(4) (pro. 25th May 1701) Elizabeth, daugh. of
Henry Cunningham of Carlung. [Test.
and Cramond Sess. Reg. (Mar. and
Bur.); Acts of As*. t 1694; Wood s Hint.
of Cramond.}
WILLIAM CARSTARES, M.A.; Princi-
1704 P a ^ ^ ^ e Univ., and chaplain to His
Majesty ; called 9th Sept. ; app. by
the Presb. llth Oct., and adm. 8th Nov.
1704 ; trans, to the High Kirk Parish 28th
Dec. 1707.
MATTHEW WOOD, trans, from Leslie ;
1711 called 5th Dec. 1710 ; app. by Presb.
14th Feb., and adm. 18th March
1711 ; trans, to the Tron Parish 16th
Jan. 1715.
WILLIAM MILLAR, an Englishman,
1721 M.A. (Edinburgh, 27th Feb. 1694);
licen. by Presb. of Chirnside 14th
Jan. 1698; ord. to Chirnside 6th April
1699; trans, to Meigle 31st Dec. 1702;
trans, to Lady Tester s 18th July 1708 ;
app. by Presb. 18th, trans, and adm. 22nd
Jan. 1721 ; Dean of the Chapel Royal in
1727 ; died 18th May 1732, in his 59th year.
His daughter Jean marr. Robert Dunbar,
min. of Dyke. [Wodrow s Anal., iii., iv. ;
Playfair s Bar., iii.]
JOHN HEPBURN, son of John H.,
1732 min. of Urr ; ord. to Torryburn 26th
Dec. 1717 ; trans, to New Greyfriars
3rd Oct. 1723 ; trans, and adm. 14th Dec.
1732; Almoner to His Majesty 13th Feb.
1747 ; died 29th April 1749. He marr. 2nd
April 1721, Margaret (died 26th June 1769),
daugh. of Thomas Fenton, one of the
bailies of Edinburgh, and had issue Emilia
(marr. 24th Jan. 1742, Daniel Carmichael of
Mauldslie, and was mother of Thomas and
Andrew, 6th and 7th Earls of Hyndford).
[Scots Peer., iv. ; Carlyle s Autob.}
ROBERT HAMILTON, born 19th May
1750 1707, fourth son of William H., min.
of Cramond (afterwards Principal of
Univ. of Edinburgh) ; educated at High
School and Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen. by
Presb. of Edinburgh 30th Sept. 1730; ord.
to Cramond 4th April 1731 ; trans, to Lady
Tester s 7th Oct. 1736; trans, and adm.
6th Dec. 1750 ; app. Professor of Divinity,
and dem. 6th Feb. 1754 ; Moderator of
EDINBURGH]
OLD GREYFRIARS
Assembly 23rd May 1754; D.D. (Edin
burgh, 13th March 1759) ; again Moderator
15th May 1760, and one of the deputation
appointed by the Commission to congratu
late George III. on his accession ; Dean
of the Order of the Thistle 1766 ; died 3rd
April 1787. He marr. 31st March 1745,
Jean (died 4th April 1804), eldest daugli.
of John Hay of Haystoun, and had issue
James, M.D., distinguished Edinburgh
physician ; Grizel (marr. Benjamin Bell,
surgeon, Edinburgh) ; Gavin ; and others.
\Edin. Chr. Inst., xxv. ; Tombst. ; Kay s
Pwtr., ii. ; Morren s Ann.; Grant s Univ.,
ii. ; Somerville s Life, Carlyle s Avtob.]
GEORGE KAY, M.A. (St Andrews, 7th
May 1729) ; licen. by Presb. of
Kirkcaldy 7th Nov. 1734; ord. to
Collessie 13th Sept. 1739; trans, to Minto
23rd Oct. 1741 ; trans, to Dysart 8th Dec.
1743 ; trans, to St Cuthbert s, Edinburgh,
3rd Sept. 1747 ; trans, to New Grey friars
26th Oct. 1752 ; trans, and adm. llth Oct.
1754 ; D.D. (Edinburgh, 13th March 1759) ;
Moderator of the General Assembly 24th
May following, and chaplain of Stirling
Castle; died 10th April 1766. He marr.
14th Dec. 1747, Charlotte Sherriff, and had
issue David, born 12th July 1749 ; Charles,
born 5th Oct. 1751, died 15th Oct. 1762 ;
Margaret, born 2nd March 1757 : (2) 20th
Aug. 1761, Ann Forth, who died 10th
June 1788. [Morren s Ann., ii. ; Carlyle s
Autob.]
JOHN ERSKINE of Carnock, born
2nd June 1721, eldest son of John E.
of Carnock, Professor of Scots Law,
Edinburgh Univ., and Margaret, daugh. of
the Hon. James Melvill of Balgarvie ;
educated at Cupar-Fife, and High School
and Univ. of Edinburgh ; originally in
tended for the law, but studied divinity
and was licen. by Presb. of Dunblane 16th
Aug. 1743 ; ord. to Kirkintilloch 31st May
1744; trans, to Culross 21st Feb. 1753;
trans, to New Greyfriars 15th June 1758 ;
D.D. (Glasgow 1766) ; trans, and adm. 9th
July 1767 ; died 19th Jan. 1803. He was
a classical scholar of distinction ; for many
years leader of the evangelical party in
the General Assembly and a master of the
preacher s art. He warmly supported a
proposal in favour of foreign missions, which
was opposed by Hamilton of Gladsmuir and
the moderate party generally. His open
ing words, when replying to Hamilton,
became famous in the history of the
mission cause. Pointing to a Bible which
lay on the table, and of which he intended
to make use, and employing an expressive
Scottish idiom, he said, "Moderator, rax
me that Bible." The best pen-portrait of
him is contained in Guy Manneriny (chap.
37). He marr. 15th June 1746, the Hon.
Christian Mackay (died 20th May 1810),
fourth daugh. of George, Lord Reay, and
had issue John, born 30th Sept. 1747, died
June 1776; George, born 21st Aug. 1748,
died in Bengal in autumn 1770 ; Mary,
born 19th Feb. 1750 (marr. 29th Oct. 1773,
Charles Stuart of Dunearn), died 15th April
1817 ; Margaret, born 17th Sept. 1751, died
5th Feb. 1795; Ann, born 30th Dec. 1752,
died 18th May 1820 ; Alexander, born 28th
July 1754, died 25th Feb. 1760; Robert,
born 4th May 1756, died 9th April 1784 ;
Charles, born 20th Oct. 1757, died 28th
June 1782 ; Christian, born 28th June
1759 ; Hew, born 27th Jan., died 25th
Sept. 1763 ; James Bruce, born 8th Sept.
1764, died llth Oct. 1771 ; Harriet, born
llth Oct. 1766, died 10th Oct. 1771 ; David
of Carnock, born 18th April 1770, died
16th March 1838. Publications Theo
logical Dissertations (Edinburgh, 1765 ;
another edition with account of the author
by Thomas Davidson, D.D., Edinburgh,
1808) ; Considerations on the fijririt of
Popery (Edinburgh, 1778) ; Sketches and
Hints of Church History and Theological
Controversy, chiefly translated ami abridged
from Modern Foreign Writers, 2 vols. (Edin
burgh, 1790 and 1797); Letters on Loss of
Children and Friends : A Supplement to
Gillies s Historical Collections (Edinburgh,
1796) ; Discourses on Several Occasions, 2
vols. (1798, 1804) ; and others. In addition,
he edited at least twenty publications,
chiefly the works of Jonathan Edwards
(with whom he was on terms of intimacy),
and other American divines. See Life by
Sir Henry Moncreiff Well wood, Bart. (Kdin-
48
OLD GREYFRIARS ST GILES
[PRESB. OF
burgh, 1818). [Moncreiffs Life; Kay s
Portr., i. ; Douglas s Peer., ii. ; Davidson s
and Inglis s Fun. Semis. ; Carlyle s A^ltol.,
Haldane s and Cockburn s Mem. ; Scots
Mag., Ixv. ; Conolly s Eminent Men of Fife,
Diet. Nat fliog.]
ROBERT ANDERSON, born Gth June
1804 1 ^ 68 S n ^ George A., f armer >
Amulree ; licen. by Presb. of Ayr llth
Oct. 1791 ; ord. to Symington (Lanarkshire),
29th April 1795 ; trans, to Eastwood 5th
July 1798; trans, to Trinity College, Edin
burgh, 16th July 1802; pres. by the Town
Council 15th June 1803; trans, and adm.
(in New Greyfriars) 12th Jan. 1804 ; D.D.
(Edinburgh, 16th Sept. 1809); died 24th
Jan. 1837. He marr. 12th May 1797, Anna-
bella (died 10th April 1853, in her 86th
year), daugh. of Thomas Brown of Water-
head, and had issue Helen, born 1st Jan.
1798, died 26th Jan. 1805 ; Annabella, born
30th May 1802, died 20th April 1804;
George, born 31st May 1804 ; Agnes Helen,
born 27th April 1806, died 23rd Sept. 1818 ;
Jane Hamilton, born 22nd June 1808, died
15th Aug. 1828 ; Thomas of Glendrissaig,
advocate, born 7th Oct. 1810, died llth
May 1885; Henry, born 16th Dec. 1812;
Mary, died 10th Dec. 1820 (marr. 12th
June 1820, James Anderson, younger, of
Stroquhan). Publications Sermons (Leith,
1837). [Anderson s Sketches, Tombst.]
THOMAS GUTHRIE, trans, from
Arbirlot ; pres. by Town Council,
and adm. 21st Sept. 1837 ; trans, to
St John s 28th Oct. 1841.
ST GILES, OR THE HIGH KIRK.
[There is record evidence of a church
here, very likely on the present site, in the
year 854. In 1120 King Alexander I. re
built the church in the Norman style.
Of this building characteristic features
survived until 1798. During the four
teenth century, Edinburgh was captured
and plundered by the English under
Edward II. and Edward III., and twice
St Giles was laid waste. After restora
tion, the church was more thoroughly
ruined at the Burnt Candlemas in 1387,
when Richard II. sacked the city. The
western part of the fabric was soon in use
again ; but the restoration of the choir
and transepts, which were much enlarged,
lasted on into the sixteenth century. In
1467 the city endowed St Giles as a
collegiate church.
It now became usual to speak of the
nave, where the stonework was ancient, as
the Old Kirk, while the eastern part of
the building was called the New Kirk.
When the movement for reform drew
large crowds to St Giles, separate services
began to be regularly held in the Old and
New Kirks. Soon this was not enough, and
the great church was partitioned off into
smaller sections. In 1571 St Giles was
seized by Kirkcaldie of Grange, and held
by him as a stronghold for Queen Mary.
This resulted in serious damage to the
structure.
At the Reformation the parish of St
Giles was coextensive with the city of
Edinburgh. Our Lady s Kirk of Field
and the other College Kirk of the Holy
Trinity were not parochial charges. To
meet the spiritual needs of the growing
population, the first plan of the Reformers
was to add to the staff of the parochial
clergy. Thus St Giles was given four, and
even five ministers. The better to carry
out this method, the parish was divided
into four districts, called the Quarters
of the city. These were distinguished
as the North-East Quarter, the South-
West Quarter, etc. Each Quarter was
placed under the special care of one of
the ministers.
The choir of St Giles was known as the
New Kirk, the East Kirk, or the Little
Kirk, while the Old Kirk to the west was
also called the Great Kirk. At length, in
1598, Edinburgh was broken up into four
parishes. The North- West Quarter, as
the remanent part of the ancient parish,
continued to occupy the choir of St Giles,
which alone became the High Kirk of the
city. In it the Magistrates, the Court of
Session, and other dignitaries officially
worshipped. In it also was the royal
pew. From its place of worship this dis
trict became known as the High Kirk
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Parish The South-East Quarter became
the Old Kirk Parish, and its congregation
still met in the Old Kirk. For the other
two Quarters separate churches were pro
vided. To the North-East Quarter was
given the fine old church of the Holy
Trinity, and for the South-West Quarter
a new place of worship was built at the
top of the Qreyfriars burial-ground.
In 1633, when a bishopric of Edinburgh
was set up, the choir of St Giles was made
to serve as its cathedral. But all that was
annulled in 1637. Again in 1661 the choir
was fitted up anew for cathedral functions.
This lasted till 1689, when once more it
was made a parish church. It had been
intended to make the whole church a
cathedral, but that was not carried out.
In 1641 the parochial areas of Edinburgh
were recast, and two new city parishes were
founded. Each of these got its name from
an outstanding public building in it. One
was called the Tolbooth Parish, and the
other the Tron Parish, from the city Tron,
or Weighhouse, which stood very near the
east end of St Giles, close to the Cross.
From 1829 till 1833 a restoration of St
Giles was carried out by the city, at a cost
of nearly 21,600. Toward this Govern
ment gave a grant of 12,000. That
renovation is remembered rather for what
the restorers destroyed than for what they
achieved. In 1870 Dr William Chambers,
who had been Lord Provost of the city,
began a far more real restoration. With aid
from various sources, and very largely at his
own expense, this was finished in 1883. But
just as his great undertaking saw its end,
the generous worker died. Two days after
the reoi.ening of the restored church (23rd
May 1883), the funeral service of Dr Cham
bers was held in it. The renewed church
can seat a congregation of 3000.]
JOHN KNOX was born in or near
156Q Haddington. There are grounds for
accepting Morham as his birthplace.
He was the son of William Knox, a peasant
cultivator of the soil. All that is known
of his mother is that her name was
Sinclair. It seems likely that 1513-15,
and not the commonly accepted date
VOL. I.
1505, was the year of his birth. He
was educated at the burgh school of
Haddington, and probably at the Univer
sities of Glasgow and St Andrews, in
both of which another Haddingtonian,
John Major, taught for a time at the latter
place for more than half a century. For
twenty years of Knox s manhood there is
little known of his career. He is believed
to have returned to East Lothian, where
he acted as a notary and as private tutor
in the families of the local gentry. When
he took priest s orders is unknown, but in
1540 we find him styled "Sir John Knox"
(a " Pope s knight "), and in a deed of
27th March 1543 he is described in his
own handwriting as " John Knox, minister
of the sacred altar of the diocese of St
Andrews, notary by Apostolical authority."
Three years later, in 1546, he had avowed
the Protestant doctrines, and was carrying
a two-handed sword before George Wishart,
then in peril of arrest and condemnation
to the stake at the hands of Archbishop
Beaton. In 1547, with two pupils, he took
refuge within the Castle of St Andrews,
now held by the murderers of Cardinal
Beaton. And here he had his call to the
ministry of the Reformed Church. The
Sunday after, he preached in the parish
kirk of St Andrews, denouncing the Pope,
and striking straight at the root of the
evils of which the papacy was the fruit.
A month later the castle fell to the
French, and the captured garrison were
consigned to the galleys and to prisons in
France. For nineteen months Knox toiled
as a galley-slave, amid much suffering
of body and mind. Released in Feb. 1549,
he went to England, and was appointed
by the Privy Council to minister to the
garrison and town of Berwick-on-Tweed.
In 1551 he was removed to Newcastle-on-
Tyne. He acted as chaplain to Edward
VI., and declined the Bishopric of Rochester
as well as the vicarage of All-Hallows in
London. In 1554 he was in charge of the
English church at Frankfort-on-the-Maine,
but went to Geneva in 1555, where he
became intimate with Calvin, and
ministered to the English colony who
had gathered there and had been granted
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a place of worship. Next year he re
visited Scotland, returning to Geneva by
the end of July. On the 2nd of May
1559, Knox was again in Scotland, and on
29th June he preached in St Giles for the
first time. At a meeting held on 7th July
he was elected minister, and commenced
his labours immediately, preaching twice
on Sundays and thrice during the week.
He bore an active share in drawing up
the Confession of Faith, approved of by
Parliament in 1560, and the Book of Dis
cipline. A member of the First General
Assembly, 20th Dec. 1560, he was Moderator
25th Dec. 1562, and again in 1568. In
1564 he was appointed to superintend the
northern churches, and in the next year
those of Fife and Perthshire. He preached
at the coronation of James VI., 29th July
1567. In the autumn of 1570 he was
struck by apoplexy, and preached for the
last time, 9th Nov. 1572, at the induction
of James Lawson. He died 24th Nov.
1572. At his burial in St Giles graveyard,
the Regent Morton pronounced his eloge :
" There lies one who neither feared nor
flattered any flesh." He marr. (1) 1553,
Marjorie (died Dec. 1560), fifth daugh. of
Richard Bowes, governor of Norham
Castle, and Elizabeth Aske of Aske, in
the County of Durham, and had issue
Nathaniel, M.A., born May 1557 ; Eleazer,
B.D., bapt. 29th Nov. 1558 ; both took orders
in the Church of England, became Fellows
of St John s College, Cambridge, and died
without issue Nathaniel in 1580, and
Eleazer 23rd May 1591. At the time of
his death, Eleazer was vicar of Clacton
Magna, in the archdeaconry of Colchester :
(2) on Palm Sunday, 1564, Margaret Stewart,
daugh. of Andrew, Lord Ochiltree, and
had issue Martha, born 1565 (?) (marr.
1584, Alexander, eldest son of Robert
Fairlie, laird of Braid, Edinburgh), died
1st Dec. 1592 ; Margaret, born 1567 (?)
(marr. Zachary Pont, min. of Bower);
Elizabeth, born 1570 (?) (marr. John
Welch, min. of Ayr). Within two years of
his death, Knox s widow married Andrew
Ker of Faldonside (one of those who
attacked Rizzio). She died 1612, leaving
a son, John Ker, min. of Prestonpans.
Publications See David Laing s edition
of Knox s Works in 6 vols. (Edinburgh,
1846-64). [Reg. Min., Edin. Coimc. Reg.,
Test. Reg. (Edin.), Booke of the Kirk ;
Keith s, Calderwood s, Petrie s, and Spot-
tiswood s /lists. ; Diet. Nat. Biog. ; Lives by
M Crie, Hume Brown, Macmillan, MacCunn,
Andrew Lang, Glasse, Cowan, Stalker ;
Leishman s A Son of Knox. Dr Hay Flem
ing has in preparation a Life of Knox. }
1560
JOHN WILLOCK. At first he appears
as a friar of the Franciscan House
at Ayr. Having joined the party of
reform before 1541, he fled for his life to
England. There he became noted as a
zealous and taking preacher. This led to
his arrest for heresy under an Act of
Henry VIII., "for abolishing diversity of
opinion" in matters of religion. Found
guilty of preaching against purgatory, holy
water, priestly confession, and prayer to
the saints, and of holding that priests
might lawfully be married, he was for
some time confined in the Fleet prison.
After the accession of Edward VI. he was
chaplain to Henry, Duke of Suffolk, who
had married King Henry s niece, and is
best known as the father of Lady Jane
Grey. He preached for a time in London,
in St Katherine s Church, when both he
and John Knox, his fast friend, were
granted general license to preach any
where in England. Henry, Earl of Hun
tingdon, presented him to the rectory of
Loughborough in Leicestershire, a living
which he continued to hold during King
Edward s reign, and again during that
of Queen Elizabeth for the rest of his life.
Thus in his later years he was in the
unique position of being at the same time
a parish minister in both England and
Scotland. When Mary Tudor came to
the English throne in 1553, Willock fled to
Embden, in the Protestant Duchy of Fries-
land. There he practised as a physician
with much success, and rose to some
eminence. In 1555, and again in 1556, the
Duchess Anne of Friesland sent him to
Scotland as her Commissioner on matters
of trade. In 1558 he returned home, and
preached for some time in Dundee, with
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much acceptance among the friends of
reform. In 1559, when John Knox had to
leave Edinburgh in peril of his life, Willock
took his place as the evangelist of the
Reformation. It was then that he con
ducted in St Giles what is believed to have
been the earliest public celebration of the
Holy Communion in Scotland after the
reformed ritual. In 1560, when Queen
Mary of Guise lay dying, the Earls of
Argyll and Moray, and other Lords of the
Congregation advised her to "send for a
godly, learned man of whom she might
receive instruction " ; and Willock was
chosen to minister to her, which he faith
fully did. That same year he was made
Superintendent of Glasgow and the West.
He was also one of the six Johns entrusted
with the drawing up of the First Book of
Discipline, the others being John Knox,
John Winram, John Spottiswood, John
Douglas, and John Row. Sometime in
that year he went to England, and brought
home his wife, Katherine Picknavell, an
English lady. He was chosen Moderator of
the General Assembly in 1563, 1564, 1565,
and 1568. In 1565 Queen Mary endeavoured
to put a stop to his activity by having him
imprisoned in Dumbarton Castle ; but the
Reformers were now too strong for her, and
she had to depart from her purpose.
After that, Willock went back to his
English rectory at Loughborough. In
1567 the General Assembly sent him a
strong letter of appeal, begging him to
come again to aid the good cause. This
led to his return, and he was Moderator of
Assembly in 1568. He went again to
Loughborough, and was there in 1570 when
the Regent Moray was assassinated. Knox
then wished much to have the aid of his
old friend in the perplexities of the time,
but Willock could not come. His letter
to Knox tells of his sorrow at the loss
of the good regent, and of his great admira
tion for that departed statesman.
Willock died at the rectory of Lough
borough, 4th Dec. 1585. His wife survived
until 1599. His last will makes provision
for his son Edmund, and Edmund s wife
Grizel, also for their children John, Kath
erine, Mary, Bridget, Dorothy, and George.
[Knox s History, Keith s History, Foxe s
Martyrs, Wodrow s Works; Transactions
of Scott. Ecclesiological Society, 1913.]
JAMES LAWSON, born 1538, at Perth,
1572 of humble parentage ; received his
early education at the Grammar
School of his native city under the
celebrated Andrew Simson. In 1559 he
became the fellow-student and friend of
Andrew Melville at St Andrews ; and
afterwards travelled on the Continent as
tutor to the young Earl of Crawford. In
1568 he was appointed to teach Hebrew
in the New College, St Andrews ; in 1569,
after the " purging " of the University
of Aberdeen, he was promoted to be
Sub-Principal of King s College, and the
same year he became min. of Old
Machar. In 1572, "after long reasoning,"
he was called to be successor to Knox.
Following a "trial" sermon preached on
19th Sept., he was admitted to the charge
by Knox himself on 9th Nov. He assisted
in the drawing up of the First Book of
Discipline, and was an examiner of all
books proposed to be printed. He was
Moderator of the Dundee Assembly, 1st
July 1580 ; attended the Regent Morton on
the scaffold in 1581 ; and was zealous in
defending the authority of the Church in
the affair of Archbishop Montgomery, 1582.
In 1584 he declaimed so vehemently against
the Parliament, that the Earl of Arran
said : " If Lawson s head were as great as
an haystack, I shall cause it to leap from his
hawse [throat]." For this he was compelled
to fly, and accompanied by Balcanquhal,
sought refuge at Berwick, 27th May 1584.
Always a man of melancholic mood, he was
so affected by the troubles of the times
and the unworthy conduct of some of
his flock that he resolved to leave the
country altogether, and make his home in
England. He had barely reached London
when he was seized with illness, and died
12th Oct. 1584. James Melville spoke of
him as "a man of singular learning, zeal,
and eloquence, whom I never heard preach
but he melted my heart with tears"
(Diary, p. 146). Lawson s great educational
achievement was the founding of the
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University of Edinburgh. He may be
said to have been its principal promoter,
and its best and wisest friend during the
first year of its history, 1583. He marr.
Janet (died 1592), daugh. of Alexander
Guthrie, common clerk of Edinburgh, and
had issue James ; Elizabeth ; Katharine
(marr. (1) Gilbert Dick; (2) Patrick Gallo
way, min. of St Giles, 1607). Publications
Heads and Conclusions of the Politic of
the Kirk [jointly] ; Letters to their Flocks
in Edinburgh [jointly] (Calderwood s Hist.,
iv.); Account of the Life and Death of
that Illustrious Man, John Knox (Knox s
Works, vi. ; Christ. Mag., vi.). [Edin.
Counc. and Test. Reg., Beg. Assig., Petrie s
and Calderwood s Ilists., Wodrow s Biog. ;
Grant s Univ. of Edin., i. ; New Spaldiny
Club Collections, Diet. Nat. Biog. }
1587
ROBERT BRUCE, recommended by
Andrew Melville to the General
Assembly, and called 1587. On the
division of the city into parishes, he was
translated to the New or Little Kirk in
1598. [Edin. Counc. Reg., Sermons (Wod
row s Life), Reg. Assig., Petrie s and Calder
wood s Hists. ; Scots Mag., Ixiv. ; Maclaren s
Ann. Tax ; Acts Parl., iii., iv.]
THE COLLEAGUES, or those to whom no
parochial district had been allowed, or has
been discovered :
JOHN CRAIG, trans, from Holyrood-
1562 house; adm. after 18th June 1562.
He proclaimed, or rather denounced,
the marriage of Queen Mary and the Earl
of Bothwell in May 1567; was Moderator
of the General Assembly, 2nd March
1569 ; trans, to Montrose in 1571. [Edin.
Coun. Reg. ; M Crie s Knox, ii. ; Spottis-
wood s, Petrie s, Row s, and Calderwood s
Hists. ; Edin. Chr. Inst., iii. ; Lee s Lett.,
Maclaren s Ann. Tax.]
JOHN DURIE, trans, from Leith ; adm.
before 6th Aug. 1573. In 1580 he
lO/o TT . . <-< T f
was Visitor or Superintendent of
Teviotdale. With his colleagues, Lawson
and Balcanquhal, he attended the Earl of
Morton at his execution, 1581. He became
conspicuous in the conflicts between the
King and the Church, and for inveighing
against the Court on a Fast Day, 23rd May
1582, he was called before the Privy Council
and ordered to quit Edinburgh and desist
from preaching. By and by he was per
mitted to return, when he was met and
welcomed by a great concourse of people,
4th Sept. 1582. "At the Nether Bow they
took up the 124th Psalm, Now Israel may
say, and that truly, and sang it in such a
pleasant tune, in all the four parts, these
being well known to the people, who came
up the street bareheaded and singing, till
they entered the kirk. This had such a
sound and majesty as affected themselves
and the huge multitude of beholders who
looked over the shots and forestairs with
admiration and amazement. The Duke
[Lennox] himself was a witness, and tare
his beard for anger, being more affrayed at
this sight than anything he had ever seen
since he came to Scotland. When they
entered the kirk Mr Lawson made a short
exhortation in the reader s place to thank
fulness, and after the singing of a psalm
the people departed with great joy "
(Calderwood s History, iii.). In Nov. 1583
he was again charged to leave the city,
and was confined to Montrose, of which
parish he became minister the year
following. [Reg. Assig., Melvill s Autob.,
Wodrow Miscell. ; Wodrow s Biog. (i.) and
MS. Biog. (i.) ; Petrie s, Spottiswood s, and
Row s Ilists. ; Edin. Counc. Reg. ; Edin.
Chr. Inst., v.
WALTER BALCANQUHAL, adm.
- 57 . Whitsunday 1574; dem. May 1596,
so as to allow a parochial division of
the city which had been proposed for some
time ; adm. to Trinity Parish for the
North-East Quarter of the city, 1598.
[Reg. Assig., Edin. Counc. Reg., Melvill s
Autob. ; Petrie s, Spottiswood s, Row s, and
Calderwood s Hists., i., ii.]
JOHN CAIRNS, probably son of Henry
1578 ^ skipper i n Leith (who was forced
to leave the country, being denounced
as a fugitive and condemned for heresy in
1538), was one of those who privily held
meetings in maintenance of the Protestant
faith in the city in 1555, and was " lectour
of the morning prayers," or reader, in 1561.
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1584
Application \vas made to the Assembly,
26th June 1566, for his admission to the
ministry in the city, and the matter was
remitted for consideration as to his fitness
and sufficiency. He is mentioned as fourth
minister, 23rd Jan. 1578, though in the
Book of Assignation he appears as reader
only, ten years afterwards, 1588. He died
in 1595, leaving a widow, Janet Wilson.
[Knox s Works, ii. ; M Crie s Knox, ii. ;
Edin. Counc. Reg., Reg. Assig. ; Wodrow s
Biog., i. ; Wodrow Miscell., Booke of the
Kirk; Keith s, Spottiswood s, and Calder-
wood s Hists. ; Bannatyne Miscell., ii. ;
Lee s Lett., Maclaren s Ann. Tax.]
JOHN EDMESTOUN [EDMON-
STON], formerly of Grail; adm.
1584 ; trans, to Dunning in 1586.
[Edin. Counc. Reg.]
JAMES HAMILTON, min. of Dairy, in
Galloway; elected 27th Nov. 1584,
and "admitted for a time at His
Majesty s command," 16th April 1585. He
returned to his former charge in same year.
[Edin. Counc. Reg]
WILLIAM WATSON, entreated by the
Council to remain and teach " fifteen
days," 5th March 1584; adm. 13th
April 1585. He was imprisoned for a time
in the end of that year, for comparing James
VI. to Jeroboam. After the tumult, 17th
Dec. 1596, for which he and his brethren
were blamed, he withdrew to Fife, made
an apology, and was restored to civil
liberty, 22nd April 1597. He returned
and re-entered on duty 24th July follow
ing. On the division of the city, he was
admitted to the South or Old Kirk Quarter.
[Edin. Counc. Reg., Reg. Assig., Melvill s
Autob., Row s and Calderwood s Hists.]
JOHN COWPER supplied the vacancy
for a time, and was elected by the
Town Council 23rd Nov. 1586.
Refusing to pray for Queen Mary, then
under sentence of death, he was ordered by
the King to leave the pulpit, that his place
might be supplied by Patrick, Archbishop
of St Andrews, and was imprisoned in the
Castle of Blackness, on which the city
gave him 40 Scots in consideration of
the expense to which he had been sub
jected; trans, to High Church, Glasgow,
Feb. 1587. [Test, and Edin. Counc. Reg.;
Booke of the Kirk, Melvill s Autob. ; Spottis
wood s, Petrie s, Row s, Calderwood s, and
Cook s Hists. ; Reg. Assig. ; Wodrow M8]
JOHN DAVIDSON, formerly of Liber-
1589 ton > or de rec l to continue " till he be
provided as the Kirk and Council
crave " ; chosen 3rd June 1589 ; trans, to
Second Charge, Canongate. [Booke of the
Kirk, Calderwood s Hist.]
JAMES BALFOUR, trans, from Idvies
8th Oct. 1589. After the tumult in
the city, 17th Dec. 1591, he was
apprehended, but escaped to Fife by the
assistance of the citizens, was put to the
horn, made an apology, was relaxed there
from 22nd April 1597, and returned to his
charge 24th July 1597. On the division of
the city he was admitted to the North-
West Quarter, in the East or Little Kirk, in
1598. [Edin. Counc. Reg., Reg. Assig.,
Booke of the Kirk, Melvill s Autob., Calder
wood s Hist. ; Acts Parl., iv.]
PATRICK GALLOWAY, born about
1551, son of Thomas G., baxter,
burgess of Dundee, and Christian
Nicoll ; was min. of Fowlis Easter in 1576 ;
trans, to Perth 25th April 1581 ; suspected
of attachment to Gowrie interest, he had
to take refuge in England, and failing to
appear before the Council, was outlawed
6th June 1584. He became min. of the
King s House llth Feb. 1589-90, and was
Moderator of Assembly 4th Aug. 1590 and
10th Nov. 1602 ; chaplain to James VI.,
and attended His Majesty at the Hampton
Court Conference, 1604, acting as inter
mediary between the Presb. of Edinburgh
and the King; adm. end of June 1607;
member of the Courts of High Commis
sion, 15th Feb. 1610, 21st Dec. 1615, and
15th June 1619. He signed the Protesta
tion for the Liberties of the Kirk 27th
June 1617, but withdrew his protest, the
most obnoxious of the measures by which
James sought to override the Assembly
having been withdrawn. On the division
of the city in 1625, he was nominated to
St Giles, and his admission appointed for
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24th Jan. 1626 ; illness supervened, and
he died before 10th Feb. following. He
marr. (1) 1st May 1583, Matilda Guthrie,
who died June 1592, and had issue James,
created Baron Dunkeld 15th May 1645 ;
William ; Dorothy (marr. William Adam-
son of Craigcrook) ; Christian : (2) in
1600, Katherine, daugh. of James Lawson
(Knox s colleague), widow of Gilbert Dick,
merchant, burgess of Edinburgh. Pub
lications Catechisme (London, 1588) ; A
Short Discourse of the Good Ends of the
Higher Providence, in the Late Attempts
at His Majesty s Person (Edinburgh, 1600) ;
Letters to the Presh. of Edinburgh and to
James VI. (Orig. Lett.) ; The Apology ivhen
he Fled to England Discourses on the
Goivrie Conspiracy (Bannatyne Miscell.,
i. ; Pitcairn s Cr. Trials, ii.). [Edin.
Guild, Counc., and Test. Reg. ; Douglas s
Peer., Rollock s Works, Melvill s Autob. ;
Bann. Miscell., i. ; Row s and Calderwood s
Hists., Wilson s Pr. Perth, Diet. Nat.
Biog.~\
THOMAS SYDSERFF, M.A. ; adm. by
1611 ^ e Archbishop 30t h ^ av 1611 - He
signed the Protestation for the
Liberties of the Kirk 27th June 1617, and
on the division of the city in 1625 was
given the North-East Quarter, or Trinity
Parish. [Edin. Guild and Counc. Reg.,
Law s Univ. Edin., Orig. Lett., Calder
wood s Hist. ; Wodrow s Biog., i.]
WILLIAM STRUTHERS, M.A. ; trans,
from High Church, Glasgow ; elected
28th April, and adm. 15th June
1614 ; and on the division of the city in
1625 nominated to the North- West Quarter,
or High Church. [Edin. Guild and Counc.
Reg. ; Spottiswood s, Row s, and Calder
wood s Hists. ; Scot s Apolog. Narr. ; Orig.
Lett., ii. ; Acts Parl., iv.]
JOHN GUTHRIE, M.A. ; trans, from
1621 Perth ; elected 26th March 1620,
but refused to accept. The Council
again dealt with him 9th May, and he was
adm. 15th June 1621 ; he became Bishop of
Moray in 1623 (q.v.). [Edin. Counc. Reg. ;
Spottiswood s, Row s, and Calderwood s
Hists.; Orig. Lett., ii.]
WILLIAM FORBES, D.D. ; trans, from
Aberdeen ; elected by the Town
Council and Session 19th Dec. 1621 ;
adm. 21st March 1622. On the division of
the city in 1625 he was nominated to the
South-East Quarter. [Edin. Counc. Reg. ;
Spottiswood s, Row s, and Calderwood s
Hists. ; Orig. Lett., ii. ; Wodrow s MS.
Biog., ii.]
ROBERT ROLLOCK, M.A., Principal
-_,_ of the Univ., was appointed to teach
in the East Kirk in the morning, 5th
Sept. 1587, but, 13th Dec. 1589, another
was appointed for that duty ; in 1596 he
took full charge, was Moderator of Assembly
10th May 1597, and removed to the South-
West Quarter, or the Upper Tolbooth, prob
ably the west portion of St Giles, in 1598.
[Presb. and Edin. Counc. Reg., Calderwood s
Hist., Craufurd s Univ.]
1598
ROBERT BRUCE, born 1554, second
son of Sir Alexander B. of Airth
and Janet, daugh. of Lord Living
ston and great-granddaughter of James
I.) ; educated at St Leonard s College,
St Andrews ; M.A. (1572) ; studied law in
Paris and practised his profession in Edin
burgh. He was on his way to becoming
a judge, but a remarkable spiritual
experience " on the last night of Aug.
| 1581 " sent him to study for the Church.
He was licensed by the Presb. of St
Andrews in 1587, and almost immediately
called to this charge. He was Moderator
of the Assembly summoned to meet on 6th
Feb. 1588 to consider means of defence
against the threatened invasion of the
Spanish Armada. In Oct. 1589, when
James VI. (who both respected and feared
him) sailed to Norway to fetch his bride,
and parties in Edinburgh were somewhat
excited, the King appointed Bruce an extra
ordinary Privy Councillor, and such was
his influence that he kept all quiet, and
on His Majesty s return received a cordial
letter of thanks, 19th Feb. 1589-90. He
crowned the Queen 17th March 1590, and
was again Moderator May 1592. His power
and success as a preacher were very remark
able, and he continued to enjoy the King s
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favour till 1596, when, giving offence by his
opposition to James s prelatic tendencies,
he, with others, was banished from Edin
burgh. He was allowed to return after a
time, and in May 1598 was admitted to the
Little Kirk. At first he refused the im
position of hands, not judging it an essential
part of the ordination ceremony, but ulti
mately he consented to accept it "as a
ceremony of entry only." In August 1600
the Gowrie Conspiracy took place, and
Bruce being one of those who entertained
doubts as to the treason of the Ruthvens,
refused to offer up thanks in the manner
prescribed for the King s deliverance. As
a result (and spite of the efforts of his
friends to get the matter settled), Bruce
was ordered to quit Edinburgh, and pro
hibited from preaching anywhere in the
kingdom upon pain of death. The last
thirty years of his life were spent in various
places. From 1605 to 1609 he was confined
to Inverness, where he met with much hard
treatment from Lord Enzie and others,
but where his preaching was much appreci
ated by his friends. On a vacancy he
supplied the charge of Forres for a time,
after which, on the solicitation of his son,
he received permission to return to his
patrimonial estate of Kinnaird, near Stir
ling, where he repaired at his own expense
the church of Larbert, and discharged all
the duties of the ministry, officiating some
times also at Stirling. Occasionally he
resided on his other property at Monkland.
"Wherever he had an opportunity of
preaching, great crowds attended ; he
preached with remarkable power, and his
own life being in full accord with his
preaching, the influence he attained was
almost without parallel in the history of
the Scottish Church." In 1620 he was
again banished to Inverness, where, broken
in health and in increasing weakness, he
remained till 1624. On King James s death
in 1625 the severity against him was much
mitigated, and by King Charles s order he was
allowed to return to Kinnaird, where he died
27th July 1631. In person he was tall and
dignified, with a majestic countenance and
venerable appearance in the pulpit. He had
a knowledge of the Scriptures beyond most
of his time. Andrew Melville described
him as a " hero adorned with every virtue,
a constant confessor and almost martyr to
the Lord Jesus," whilst Livingstone of
Ancrum said : " Mr Robert Bruce I several
times heard, and in my opinion never man
spoke with greater power since the Apostles
days. He marr. 22nd Aug. 1590, Martha
(died Nov. 1620), second daugh. of Sir
George Douglas of Pittendreich, and had
issue Robert, ancestor of James Bruce,
African explorer ; Anna, bapt. 10th March
1595 ; Rebecca (marr. Andrew Young,
minister : Stirling Sas., iv., 89) ; Margaret,
bapt. 9th July 1598 ; Maria, bapt. 1st Sept.
1599 ; James ; Jean, bapt. 21st Jan. 1601 ;
Mary (marr. 15th Feb. 1618, Michael Elphin-
stone of Quarrel : Reg. of Deeds, cclxxviii.,
295) ; John, a clergyman of the Church of
England ; Elizabeth (marr. 26th April 1624,
James Campbell, younger, of Moy) ; Martha
(marr. in 1648, James Ramsay, son to Barn-
bougie). Publications Sermons upon the
Sacrament of the Lords Supper (Edinburgh,
1590 ; republished and edited by Prof. John
Laidlaw, D.D., Edinburgh, 1901); [see
Answer to foregoing by William Reinolde,
priest at Antwerp, 1593]; The Way to True
Peace ami Rest (London, 1617); [which,
with another, and Life by Wodrow, were
edited by William Cunningham, D.D., and
printed for the Wodrow Society, 1843].
[Sermons; The Edin. (Bajrf.), Counc., and
Test. Reg. (Stirl.) ; Booke of the Kirk ; Pet-
rie s, Spottiswood s, Row s, and Calderwood s
Hists. ; Melvill s Autob. ; Scots Man., Ixiv. ;
Orig. Lett., Maitland s Hist, of Edinburgh,
Diet. Nat. Biog., W. Bruce Armstrong s
finices of Airth, M. E. Gumming Bruce s
Family Records of the Briices, Macnicol s
Master Robert Bruce (contains account of
recently discovered MS. Sermons of 11. B.).]
JOHN HALL, son of Andrew H.,
burgess of Kirkcudbright ; mentioned
as min. of Hailes or Colinton in 1579 ;
one of the commissioners for trial of the
brethren in Lothian in 1586 ; trans, to
Leith 24th Oct. 1596 ; adm. min. of the
Second Charge, St Giles, 7th Dec. 1598 ;
along with others of the city ministers he
declined to believe in the genuineness of
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the Gowrie Conspiracy, or to offer thanks
giving for the King s escape ; on 6th Aug.
1600 he was inhibited from preaching,
and on 10th Sept. was called before the
Privy Council, when he declared himself
satisfied as to the truth of the plot
against the King. He was reponed; was
Moderator of Assembly in 1601 ; would
join in no steps for the relief of the
brethren who held an assembly at Aberdeen
in 1605 ; nominated constant Moderator of
Presb. in 1606 ; was a member of the Court
of High Commission 15th Feb. 1610 ; trans,
in terms of His Majesty s request, and adm.
after 21st Feb. 1610. He was a member of
General Assembly same year, and again of
the Court of High Commission 21st Dec.
1615. In 1616 he drew up (with John
Adamson, min. of Liberton), a Confession
of Faith and Catechism. In 1617 he signed
the Protestation for the Liberties of the
Kirk, but withdrew his protest, and de-
mitted March 1619, being then old and
infirm. In the latter years of his life, sus
pected of having encouraged resistance to
the Articles of Perth, he was ordered by
the Privy Council to remove to Montrose.
He died Aug. 1627. He marr. Margaret
Arnot, niece of John Johnston, writer,
Edinburgh, and of John Arnot, burgess
of Edinburgh (Sas., 6th June 1592 ; Prof.
Bk. of Henry Elder, p. 895), and had
issue John ; William ; Andrew, bapt. 19th
July 1601 ; Robert, bapt, 19th Oct. 1604.
Publication Catechism (Edinburgh, 1619).
[Edin. (Bapt.), Counc., Guild, and Test.
Reg. ; Orig. Lett., Booke of the Kirk, Mel-
vill s Autoli., Scott s Apolog. Narr., Row s
and Calderwood s Hists. ; Wodrow s MS.
Biog., ii.]
WILLIAM STRUTHER [STRUTH-
ERS], born at Glasgow about 1578 ;
probably son of the reader there ;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow; M.A.
(1599); an " expectant ; in the Merse in
1602; on the exercise at Glasgow 21st
March 1604 ; adm. min. of Kirkintilloch
8th March 1607; trans, to High Church,
Glasgow, 3rd May 1612 ; trans, to St Giles,
Edinburgh, after 15th June 1614; one of
four app. by the Assembly of 1616 to
answer the books and pamphlets written
by the Papists, and to revise the Confes
sion of Faith previous to publication. He
signed the Protestation for the Liberties
of the Kirk 27th June 1617, but withdrew
his protest ; was a member of the Court
of High Commission 15th June 1619 ;
trans, and adm. 25th Jan. 1626. On the
erection of the diocese of Edinburgh, he
became Dean, and died 9th Nov. 1633. To
the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow
he left 6000 merks for theological bursaries.
He marr. Elizabeth (died Feb. 1641), daugh.
of Andrew Roberton of Stonehall, and
had issue Andrew, whose son John was
served heir to his grandfather (G. R. Inhib.,
9th May 1645) ; Margaret ; William, bapt.
29th June 1617 ; James and Elizabeth
(twins) ; Samuel. Publications Christian
Observations and Resolutions (Edinburgh,
1628 ; another edition, 1629) ; A Looking
Glasse for Princes and People, with a
Looking Glasse for Princes and Popes
(Edinburgh, 1632); True Happiness, or
King David s Choice (London, 1633) :
Letter to the Earl of Airthe ; Grievances
of Ministers (1635) ; The Sanctuary of the
Troubled. Soul (anon.). [Edin. (Bapt.},
Counc., and Test. Reg. ; Row s and Calder
wood s Ilists. ; Baillie s Lett., iii. ; Demp-
terii Hist., ii. ; Deeds Coll. of Glasg., Kirk
Pap. ; Bannatyne MiscelL, ii. ; Wodrow s
MS. Biog., ii.]
THOMAS SYDSERFF, M.A. ; trans.
1634 ^ rom Trinity Parish; pres. to the
Deanery of Edinburgh by Charles
I. 18th Jan. 1634 ; elected by the Council,
adm. 19th Feb., and dem. 30th July 1634,
having been consecrated Bishop of Brechin
(q.v .). [Edin. Counc. Reg. ; Wodrow s MS.
Biog., ii.]
JAMES HANNAY, son of John H.,
bailie and burgess in the Canongate
(of the family of Hannay of Sorbie,
Wigtownshire); M.A. (Edinburgh, 22nd July
1615) ; min. of Kilmaurs in 1620 ; trans, to
Canongate in 1624 ; pres. to the Deanery
by Charles I. 13th May and 20th Oct.
1634 ; pres. by the Council 30th March 1635,
and adm. soon after. On 23rd July 1637
he proceeded to read " Laud s Liturgy "
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in St Giles. The result was a brawl, when
the famous Jenny Geddes flung her stool
at the Dean s head. The service was inter
rupted ; Bishop and Dean were pelted by
the mob, and protests against the English
Prayer Book were bitter and universal.
Seldom has there been a popular tumult
leading to greater results. " It not only
suppressed the English Liturgy almost until
the nineteenth century, but it gave an
impulse to the Civil War of England, which
ended in the overthrow of church and
monarchy " (Dean Stanley s Lectures on
the Church of Scotland). H. was dep. 1st
Jan. 1639, for declining the General
Assembly, and reading and defending the
Service Book. He died before 21st June
1661, when his children had 100 allowed
by Parliament, out of vacant stipends, on
account of their father s sufferings. He
marr. Isobel Brown, who was buried in the
Kirk of Holyrood House, July 1674 (Canon-
gate Reg.}, and had issue Magdalen ; John ;
Martha ; William ; James ; George ; Marion
(marr. George Smelholm, servitor to the
Earl of Tweeddale : P. C. R., Third Series,
i., 517); Isobel. \_Reg. Sec. Sig., Edin.
Counc. and Canongate Reg. (Baj)t.);
Baillie s Lett., i. ; Stevenson s Hist., Peter-
kin s Rec., Wodrow s MSS. ; Acts Parl., v.,
vii. ; Maitland Miscell., ii. ; Charters of St
Giles, Lees St Giles.]
ALEXANDER HENDERSON was born
1639 a ^ Luthrie, in the Fife parish of
Creich, in 1583. Of his parentage
and family history hardly anything is
known. Tradition says he was the son of a
feuar, and a cadet of the Hendersons of
Fordel. In support of the latter statement,
his remains lie in the burying-ground of that
family in Greyfriars Churchyard, and a
contemporary portrait of him is still in
possession of a representative of that house.
At the age of sixteen he matriculated
at St Salvator s College, St Andrews, and
took his degree of M.A. in 1603. From
1603 to 1611 he was a Ptegent of Philosophy,
and during that period he completed his
course in divinity. He adopted strong
prelatic principles, and was a staunch
upholder of Archbishop Gledstanes, who
afterwards became his patron, and pre
sented him to the parish of Leuchars.
His settlement was so unpopular that on
the day of his ordination, probably in
Jan. 1614, the church doors were found
securely nailed up, and he and his friends
were obliged to enter by the window.
A Communion sermon preached in a
neighbouring parish by Robert Bruce of
Kinnaird, was the means of changing
Henderson s spiritual outlook. Attracted
by the fame of the preacher, he slipped (so
goes the story) into the darkest corner of
the church, hoping to steal out again un
recognised. Bruce chose for his text the
Avords : " He that entereth not by the door,"
etc. The effect of his earnest appeal won
Henderson to the side of Presbyterianism.
His first appearance in that connection was
at the Perth Assembly of 1618, when he
strenuously opposed the Five Articles, not
withstanding the threats of the Govern
ment. In Aug. 1619 he appeared before
the Court of High Commission charged
with the publication of a pamphlet
denouncing the Perth Assembly. But
nothing came of the matter, and Hender
son returned to his parish. Of the
next eighteen years we know little or
nothing. With the memorable year 1637
he reappears on the scene, a keen opponent
of "Laud s Liturgy," which King Charles
was determined to foist on the Church.
Mainly through Henderson s influence
the National League and Covenant was
signed, 21st Feb. 1638, and he was Modera
tor of the Assembly which met at Glasgow,
21st Nov. of the same year. He received
calls to St Andrews, and Greyfriars, Edin
burgh, and was translated to this charge,
10th Jan. 1639. He was appointed a Com
missioner for framing a treaty of peace
with England, and was again Moderator in
1639. In Jan. 1640 he was Rector of the
University of Edinburgh, and held office
for the rest of his life. In 1641 he preached
before King Charles at Holyrood, and was
made Dean of the Chapel Royal. A third
time he was Moderator, 2nd Aug. 1643, and
was elected a member of the Westminster
Assembly of Divines. He declined the
principalship of St Mary s College, St
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Andrews, and died unmarried 19th Aug.
1646. Next to the Church, Henderson s
greatest service was devoted to the Univer
sity of Edinburgh. "He was the ablest
educationist and the man of clearest in
sight of all who had to do with the college
since its foundation. He saw what was
wanted, and had the energy and the tact
necessary for securing it. It would have
been an inestimable advantage for the
universities of Scotland if his life could
have been prolonged for twenty years"
(Grant s Univ. of Edinburgh, i., 209).
Publications The Remonstrance of the
Nobility, etc., within the Kingdom of
Scotland, vindicating them and their Pro
ceedings from the Crimes wherewith they
are charged by the late 1 Proclamation in
England (1639); The Government and
Order of the Church of Scotland (Edin
burgh, 1641 ; another edition, 1690) :
Speech delivered immediately before the
taking of the Covenant by the House of
Commons and Assembly of Divines (Edin
burgh, 1643); Three single Sermons
preached before the Houses of Parliament
(London, 1644, 1644, 1645) ; The Bishops
Doom (Edinburgh, 1762) ; Declaration upon
his Deathbed {concerning King Charles]
(1648) ; Sermons, Prayers, and Pulpit
Addresses, edited from the original MSS.
by R. Thomson Martin (Edinburgh, 1867).
[Life and Times, by John Alton, D.D. ;
Baillie s Lett. ; Christ. Mag., x. ; Wodrow s
Anal, and Hist. ; Acts Parl., v. ; Grant s
Univ., i. ; Livingston s Charac. ; Burnet s,
Stevenson s, and Cook s Hists. ; Tombst.,
Edin. Counc. and Test. Reg., Reid s Westm.
Divines, Turner s Scot. Secess., Lockerby s
Life of J. Brown, M Crie s Life, Pringle
Thomson s Alexander Henderson, Diet. Nat.
Biog.~\
GEORGE GILLESPIE, born 21st Jan.
1647 Ifil3 > son f Jhn G., min. of Kirk-
caldy ; studied at St Andrews, and
is said to have graduated M.A. 1629,
though the date is probably that on
which he entered the University ; bursar
of the Presb. of Kirkcaldy. He became
chaplain to John, Viscount Kenmure ; to
John, Earl of Cassilis, and tutor to his son,
James, Lord Kennedy ; ord. to Wemyss
26th April 1638 ; had calls to Aberdeen and
St Andrews ; trans, to Greyfriars, Edin
burgh, 23rd Sept. 1642. He was a member
of the Westminster Assembly of Divines,
1643, and though the youngest member, by
his learning, zeal, and sound judgment,
gave essential assistance in the preparation
of the Directory and Confession of Faith.
He took final leave of Westminster 10th
July 1647, and presented the Confession of
Faith to the General Assembly on 4th
Aug., obtaining its ratification. This dis
poses of the legend which connects him
with the Shorter Catechism, which was
not begun till 5th Aug. Dr Hew Scott
mentions the fable that Gillespie drew it
up "in the course of a single night." He
was elected to this charge by the Town
Council 22nd Sept. 1647, and adm. shortly
after ; Moderator of Assembly 12th July
1648; died at Kirkcaldy 16th Dec. 1648.
He marr. Margaret Murray, who had
1000 sterling voted by Parliament im
mediately after his death, for the support
of herself and family, but, owing to the
distractions of the time, it was never paid.
His children were Robert, bapt. 15th May
1643 (received ordination from the " outed "
ministers ; was imprisoned in the Bass for
preaching at conventicles (1673); subse
quently went to England, and died, his
widow and children being recommended by
Parliament to the royal bounty, 17th July
1695) ; George, bapt. 20th May 1644 ; Archi
bald, died in 1659 ; Elizabeth (marr. James
Oswald, merchant in Edinburgh, afterwards
of Fingleton). Publications A Dispute
against the English Popish Ceremonies
obtruded upon the Church of Scotland (1637 ;
another edition, 1844) ; An Assertion of the
Church Covenant of Scotland (1641) ; Dia
logue between a Civilian and a Divine,
concerning the Present Condition of the
Church of England (London, 1644) ; A
Recrimination in Defence of Presbyterian-
ism (London, 1644); Nihil Respondes
(London, 1645) ; The True Resolution of
a Present Controversy concerning Liberty
of Conscience (London, 1645) ; Wholesome
Severity reconciled with Christian Liberty
(London, 1645) ; Aaron s Rod Blossoming
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(London, 1646 ) ; Male Audis, an Answer to
Coleman s Male Dicis (London, 1646) ; A
Treatise of Miscellany Questions (Edinburgh,
1649); An Useful Case of Conscience Dis
cussed (Edinburgh, 1649); Works, with
memoir by W. M. Hetherington, LL.D., 2
vols. (Edinburgh, 1843-6) ; Notes of Debates
and Proceedings of the Assembly of Divines,
edited by David Meek (Edinburgh, 1846).
[Wodrow s Anal, and Hist., Livingston s
Charac. ; Mitchell and Struthers : s Minutes
of Westminster Assembly, 1874; Mitchell s
Westminster Assembly, 1884 ; Brodie s
Diary, Diet. Nat. Biog.~\
ROBERT DOUGLAS, M.A. ; trans, from
Tolbooth Parish; elected by the
Town Council 22nd Dec. 1648, and
acini, in 1649. Refusing to accept the
Bishopric of Edinburgh on the establish
ment of Episcopacy, he was removed to
the Greyfriars, or South-West Quarter, 2nd
June 1662, " that the bishop might be pro
vided." [Edin. Counc. Reg., Lament s and
Nicoll s Diaries, Baillie s Lett.]
ROBERT LAURIE, M.A. ; trans, from
,. Tron Parish ; pres. to the Deanery
of Edinburgh by Charles II. 23rd,
and coll. 24th Sept. 1662 ; prom, to the
Bishopric of Brechin in 1672 (q.v.}.[Min.-
book Reg. Privy Seal, Reg. Collat., Keith s
Catal., Nicoll s and Brodie s Diaries, Kirk-
ton s and Wodrow s Ilists.]
JOHN PATERSON, trans, from Tron
Parish; pres. to the Deanery of
Edinburgh by Charles II. 13th May,
and adm. before 6th Aug. 1672; aclm.
burgess and guild-brother 13th Nov. 1673 ;
prom, to the Bishopric of Galloway in 1674.
In 1679 he became Bishop of Edinburgh,
and Archbishop of Glasgow in 1687 (?.? .).
[Min. - book Reg. Privy Seal, Edin.
Counc. and Guild Reg.]
WILLIAM ANNAND, born Ayr, 1633,
son of William A., min. of Ayr,
afterwards vicar of Throwley, and
rector of Leaveland, both in Kent ; educated
at King s College and Univ., Aberdeen,
and University College, Oxford; M.A.
(Aberdeen 1649), B.A. (Oxford 1655),
M.A. (Oxford 1656); ord. by Thomas,
Bishop of Ardfert, 1656, as assistant
preacher at Weston-in-the-Green, Oxford
shire ; vicar of Leighton-Buzzard, Bed
fordshire ; chaplain to John, Earl of
Middleton; min. of the Tolbooth Parish,
Edinburgh, 1st Feb. 1663; trans, to Tron,
Edinburgh, 16th Aug. 1672 ; pres. to the
Deanery of Edinburgh by Charles II. 28th
April (Privy Seal, ii., 516), and coll. 19th
May 1675; D.D. (St Andrews, 1st Oct.
1685); died 13th June 1689. Interred in
Greyfriars. He marr. 14th Jan. 1670,
Helen (buried 20th Feb. 1687), second
claugh. of John Lundie of Auchtermairnie,
and had issue Barbara, buried 28th March
1687. Publications Fides Catholica
(London, 1661-2) ; Panem Quotidianum
(London, 1661); A Sermon in the Defence
of the Liturgy (1661); Pater Noster, a
Treatise on the Lord s Prayer (London,
1670) ; Mysterium Pietatis (London, 1671) ;
Doxologia, or Glory to the Father, etc.
(London, 1672) ; Dualitas, or a Twofold
Subject on the Power and Honour, etc.,
of Magistracy (Edinburgh, 1674); A
Funerall Elegie upon the Death of George
Sonds, yr., 1665, is ascribed to A. in the
British Museum Catalogue. [Reg. Privy
Seal, Monro s Apology ; Wood s Ath. Oxon.,
iv. ; Lament s Diary, Grub s Ecclesiastical
Hist, of Scotland, Diet. Nat. Kiog.]
ALEXANDER HAMILTON, son of
1689 ^^ n ^ ^ Bangour; M.A. (Glas
gow 1649); studied both medicine
and divinity ; ord. to Dalmeny 2nd July
1656; dep. 1662; removed to Dalserf by
order of the Privy Council 1677; called
(after the Toleration) 6th Sept. 1687 ;
appointment confirmed by the Town
Council 24th July 1689 ; he removed to his
former parish (Dalmeny) in terms of the
Act of Parliament 25th April 1690, but
returned same year, and died Dec. 1696,
aged about 70. He bequeathed 100 to
the poor of Dalmeny. He was the means
of preventing the Duke of Hamilton,
during a sitting of the Convention of
Estates, from bringing in a measure
which would have included many of the
Episcopalian clergy under the benefit of
the Act for restoring the Presbyterian
ministers. He marr. (1) Anna Scott, who
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died 1st Oct. 1692 : (2) (pro. 24th June
1692) Helen, daugh. of Robert Elliot,
min. of West Linton. She afterwards
marr. 14th April 1698, John Duncan,
merchant, Edinburgh. Sir William Hamil
ton of Whytlaw, Lord Justice-Clerk, was
his brother - german. Publication A
Cordial for Christians Travelling Heaven
ward (Edinburgh, 1696). [Ed in. Counc.,
Guild, Test., Cramond Sess. Reg. ; Wod-
row s Anal.]
GEORGE HAMILTON of Cairns, born
1Rql _ 1635, eldest son of George H., min.
of Pittenweem ; M.A. (St Andrews,
13th May 1653); ord. to Newburn 10th
Feb. 1659; deprived 1662; restored 1690;
returned to Newburn 1692 ; trans, to St
Leonard s, St Andrews, 26th Feb. 1696;
Principal of St Leonard s College ; trans,
and adm. after 27th Jan. 1697 ; Moderator
of Assembly 20th Jan. 1699; dem. 18th
Jan. 1710 ; died 26th May 1712. He marr.
(1) Margaret, daugh. of John Boyd of
Trochrig, and had issue Margaret (marr.
Robert Clelland, min. of Kilrenny) ; Sophia
(marr. Thomas Spence, writer, Edinburgh) :
(2) Elizabeth (died 2nd Oct. 1708), sister
of Dr John Hay of Cousland. [Test. Keg.,
Wodrow s Hist, and MSS.]
JOHN MATHIESON, born 1679 ; M.A.
(Edinburgh, 26th June 1699) ; chap
lain to Lord Advocate Sir James
Steuart ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 3rd
April, and ord. to Tolbooth, Edinburgh,
12th Dec. 1706; app. by the Presb. 19th
Oct., trans, and adm. 5th Nov. 1710 ; Dean
of the Chapel Royal 1735 ; died 8th Nov.
1752. He is said to have suggested (in
1741) the establishment of a fund for
supporting the widows and children of
ministers of the Church. That may be
true so far as the fund established in
1744 was concerned, but a similar pro
posal had been made as early as 1716, by
Patrick Couper, min. of Pittenweem. He
marr. (1) llth Feb. 1708, Margaret, daugh.
of Robert Douglas, merchant, Edinburgh :
(2) 28th April 1715, Isobel, daugh. of
Matthew Hairstanes of Craigs, who sur
vived him, and had issue Gilbert ; Jean ;
Margaret (marr. 10th Oct. 1736, George
1710
Ross, Provost of Montrose). Publication
The Necessity of Divine Revelation, and
Knowledge thereof, in order to Salvation
(Edinburgh, 1730). [Test. Reg., Morren s
Ann. ; Chambers s Biog. Diet., iv. ; Wod
row s Corresji., ii. ; Scots Mag., xxxiii.]
ROBERT WALKER, born 1716, son of
John W., min. of Canongate ; edu
cated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen.
by Presb. of Kirkcudbright 6th April 1737 ;
ord. to Straiten 14th Sept. 1738 ; trans, to
Second Charge, South Leith, 20th Nov.
1746; trans, and adm. llth Oct. 1754;
Moderator of Assembly 23rd May 1771 ;
died 6th April 1783. He marr. 27th May
1743, Magdalen Dickson, who survived
him. Publications We have Nothiwj
which We did not Receive, a sermon
(Edinburgh, 1776); Sermons on Practical
Subjects, 4 vols. (Edinburgh, 1765-96).
[Sermons, iii. ; Kay s Portr.]
THOMAS HARDY, trans, from Bal-
lingry; called 30th April, and adm.
25th Nov. 1784 ; trans, to New North
Parish, 3rd Dec. 1786.
WILLIAM GREENFIELD, son of Capt.
John G. and Grizel Cockburn ; M.A.
(Edinburgh, 7th April 1778); ord.
to Wemyss 6th Sept. 1781 ; trans, to St
Andrew s, Edinburgh, 25th Nov. 1784 ;
pres. by the Town Council 21st Feb.,
trans, and adm. 1st April 1787, holding in
conjunction the Professorship of Rhetoric ;
Almoner to the King, March 1789, which
he res. in 1798; D.D. (Edinburgh, 31st
March 1789); Moderator of Assembly 19th
May 1796 ; dem. 20th, and dep. 26th Dec.
1798. He was degraded by the Univ. from
his degrees of M.A. and D.D. ; died in the
North of England 28th April 1827. He
marr. 22nd Nov. 1782, Janet Bervie, who
assumed the name of Rutherford, died 20th
June 1827, and had issue Margaret, born
25th July 1784 ; Hugh Blair of Crosshill,
captain 25th Regt., born 7th May 1786;
Grizel, born 5th Dec. 1787 (marr. Thomas
Clark, min. of St Andrew s, Edinburgh) ;
Jane, born 7th July 1789 ; Andrew, Senator
of the College of Justice, born 21st June
1791, died 13th Dec. 1854; James Hunter,
major R.E., born 13th Aug. 1794. Publica-
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tions Sermon preached at the Opening of
the General Assembly (Edinburgh, 1797) ;
Essays on the Sources of the Pleasures
received from Literary Compositions, anon.
(London, 1809) ; " On the Use of Negative
Quantities in the Solution of Problems, by
Algebraic Equations 1 (Trans. Roy. Soc.
Edin., L).
JAMES FINLAYSON, born at Nether
Cambushinnie, Dunblane, 15th Feb.
1758, eldest son of William F.,
farmer ; educated at Univs. of Edinburgh
and Glasgow; tutor in the family of Sir
William Murray of Ochtertyre; ord. to
Borthwick 6th April 1787 ; trans, to Lady
Tester s, Edinburgh, 29th July 1790 ; trans,
to Old Greyfriars 9th Jan. 1794; elected
by the Town Council 2nd Jan., trans,
and adm. 14th March 1799, holding in
conjunction the Professorship of Logic, to
which he had been appointed in 1787 ;
D.D. (Edinburgh, 28th March 1799);
Moderator of Assembly 20th May 1802;
Almoner to the King 1802, but resigned ;
died 28th Jan. 1808. Publications Heads
of an Argument in Support of the Overture
respecting Chapels-of-Ease (1798); Preach
ing a Means of Promoting the General
Progress of Human Improvement, a sermon
(Edinburgh, 1801); Sermons, with Memoir
(Edinburgh, 1809) ; Sermon VIII. (Scotch
Preacher, iv.) ; "Life of Dr Blair" (Blair s
Serm., v.). [Tombst. ; Scots Mag., Ixx. ;
Chalmers s Biog. Diet., ii. ; Cockburn s
Mem., Grant s University of Edinburgh.]
WILLIAM RITCHIE, bapt. 3rd Jan.
1808 1>748 > eldest son of John R., Foulis-
Wester ; educated at the Parish
School ; became schoolmaster of Newtyle
1763, and of Foulis-Wester 1766 ; studied
at St Andrews Univ. ; licen. by Presb. of
Fordoun 14th Dec. 1774 ; tutor to Lord
Inverurie, with whom he travelled on the
Continent for five years ; declined the
parish of Trinity Gask, and a charge
in Dundee ; went a second time to the
Continent in 1789 as tutor to the sons of
Oswald of Auchencruive ; ord. to Tarbolton
24th April 1794; D.D. (Glasgow 1798);
trans, to Kilwinning 8th Nov. 1798;
Moderator of Assembly 1801 ; trans, to
St Andrew s, Glasgow, 1st Oct. 1802 ; pres.
by the Town Council ; trans, and adm.
18th Aug. 1808 ; Professor of Divinity 10th
May 1809, which he held in conjunction;
died unmarr. at Tarbolton 29th Jan. 1830.
Sir Robert Christison s recollection of him
was that " in his old age he had in the
pulpit the piercing gaze of an old eagle ; but
he was of mild disposition and gentle in
manners. His sermons were delivered with
great earnestness, a persuasive voice, and
the remains of an Ayrshire intonation."
Publications Five single Sermons (Glas
gow, 1803; Edinburgh, 1809); Statement
connected ivitJt, Employing an Organ in
Public Worship (relative to the use of an
Organ in St Andrew s Church). [Nelson s
Life, Thomson s St Andreivs ; Grant s
Univ., ii.]
ROBERT GORDON, born Old Craw-
fordton, Glencairn, 5th May 1786,
only son of James G., school
master, and Janet MacAdam ; educated at
Tynron School ; became master of Kirkland
School in his native parish, and afterwards
taught in Perth Academy ; studied at Mari-
schal College, Aberdeen, and Edinburgh
Univ. ; licen. by Presb. of Perth 27th July
1814; ord. to Kinfauns 12th Sept. 1816;
trans, to Buccleuch, Edinburgh, 22nd Feb.
1821 ; D.D. (Aberdeen 1823) ; trans, to
Newington 5th Jan. 1824; trans, to New
North 8th Sept. 1825 ; pres. by the Town
Council, and trans, and adm. in the High
School, where the congregation were meet
ing for the time, 9th Sept. 1830 ; collector
of the Ministers Widows Fund 1 1th Aug.
1836, which he resigned 28th Nov. 1843;
Moderator of Assembly 20th May 1841.
Joined the Free Church ; Professor of
Divinity in succession to Dr Chalmers ;
min. of Free New North Church ; declined
appointment as Principal of the Free
Church College, Edinburgh, 1843 ; died 21st
Oct. 1853. He had talents of the highest
order, which in early life were cultivated by
the careful study of some important depart
ments of science, and he was the inventor
of a self-registering hygrometer. He marr.
30th Nov. 1816, Isabella (died 23rd Sept.
1877), daugh. of Donald Campbell, school-
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master, Kinnaird, and Mary Halley, and
had issue Janet Veitch, born 2nd Aug.
1818, died 3rd Jan. 1877; Mary Ann,
born 10th Jan. 1820, died 2nd March 1821 ;
James, W.S., Sheriff-substitute of Banffshire,
1853-77, born 24th July 1821, died 23rd May
1914; Robert, min. of Buccleuch Free
Church, Edinburgh, born 18th May 1823,
died 10th Nov. 1910; Donald Campbell, min.
of South Free Church, Elgin, born 14th
Nov. 1824, died 6th Nov. 1866; Alexander
Moncrieff, banker, born 15th May 1826,
died Oct. 1889; Isabella Alison, born 13th
Jan. 1828, died 10th June 1900; Jean, born
25th Aug. 1829, died 2nd Oct. 1910; Susan
Campbell, born 14th April 1831 ; Georgiana
White, born 20th Feb. 1833; William,
M.D., born 12th May 1836; Ann Banner-
man, born 12th May 1836, died 19th Nov.
1910. Publications Introductory Essays
for The Redeemer s Tears, Mourner s
Companion, Emmanuel, Anderson s Scot
tish Nation; The Duty of Searching the
Scriptures, a sermon (Edinburgh, 1823) ;
Sermons (Edinburgh, 1825); Christ as
Made Known to the Ancient Church, 4 vols.
(Edinburgh, 1854); the articles Euclid,
Geography, Meteorology (Edin. Encyclo
paedia). [Presb. Reg. ; Edin. Encycl.,
xviii. ; Clason s, Cunningham s, and Bry-
don s Fun. Serms. ; Diet. Nat. Biog.~\
DAVID ARNOT, born Blacketyside,
1843 Scoonie, 20th March 1803, son of
William A., farmer, and Janet Kel-
lock ; educated at Largo Parish School,
Univ. of Edinburgh, and St Mary s College,
St Andrews ; licen. by Presb. of St And
rews 2nd April 1828 ; assistant at Ceres ;
ord. (assistant and successor) St Paul s,
Dundee, 29th June 1836; trans, and adm.
20th Sept. 1843 ; D.D. (St Andrews 1843) ;
died 15th May 1877. He marr. (1) 16th
Aug. 1836, Helen Spence (died 8th March
1843), daugh. of Captain John Smith,
merchant, Leith, and had issue Agnes,
born 2nd March 1838 (marr. Walter Scott
Riddell, Hong-Kong and China Bank), died
6th Jan. 1914; Anna Fernie, born 29th
Jan. 1840 (marr. James Gourlay) ; Janet,
born 28th June 1841, died unmarr. 14th
March 1910; David William, born 7th
March 1843, died 31st May 1843 : (2) 1st
Sept. 1846, Mary Walker, daugh. of David
Walker Arnott of Arlary, and widow of
Edward Bayley, lieut. R.N. Publications
The Witches of KeiVs Glen, and other
Poems (Cupar, 1825); The Strait Gate and
the Narrow Way (Dundee, 1838); The
Vision Written, a discourse on the destruc
tion by fire of the three churches in Dundee
(Dundee, 1841); The Vision Speaking, a
sequel (Ch. of Scot. Pulpit, i.), a discourse
on the death of the Prince Consort (1861).
Dr Arnot had considerable ability as a
painter and sculptor, and he was an
accomplished musician.
JAMES CAMERON LEES, born London,
1877 24th July 1834, eldest son of John L.,
manager of the Royal Caledonian
Asylum (afterwards min. at Stornoway);
educated at London and Univs. of Glasgow
and Aberdeen; licen. by Presb. of Lewis
28th Nov. 1855; ord. to Carnoch, Ross-
shire, 27th Nov. 1856; trans, to Paisley
Abbey, Second Charge, 1st Sept. 1859;
trans, to First Charge 28th June 1865;
trans, and adm. 19th Oct. 1877 ; D.D. (Glas
gow 1871, Aberdeen 1894, Edinburgh 1906),
LL.D. (St Andrews 1889), C.V.O. (1906),
K.C.V.O. (1909), Dean of the Order of the
Thistle and of the Chapel Royal of Scotland
from 1886; chaplain to Queen Victoria
1881-1901, to King Edward VII. 1901-10,
and to King George V. 1910; res. 15th May
1909; died 26th June 1913. He marr. 7th
Feb. 1872, Rhoda Clara Rainsford (died
4th Dec. 1887), daugh. of Major Rainsford
Hannay of Kirkdale, Creetown, and had
issue Constance, born 28th Oct. 1873
(marr. 28th March 1898, Thomas Edward
Taylor, missionary at Darjeeling, and died
22nd Feb. 1902, leaving a son, Charles
Cameron, born 10th March 1900); Mary
Isabella Cameron, born 7th Aug. 1876,
died 23rd Feb. 1893; John Cameron, born
2nd Dec. 1880, died 3rd Jan. 1909 ; Arthur
Stanley, born 8th Nov. 1882. Publications
The Abbey of Paisley from its Founda
tion to its Dissolution (Paisley, 1878) ; St
Giles, Edinburgh : Church, College, and
Cathedral (Edinburgh, 1889) ; Tobersnorey
(Edinburgh, 1878), Stronbuy (Edinburgh,
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1881), both anonymous ; Life and Conduct
(Guild Text-Book) ; A History of the County
of Inverness (Edinburgh, 1897) ; Visitation
of the Sick (Edinburgh). [See Life of Dr
Lees by Rev. Norman MacLean.]
ANDREW WALLACE WILLIAMSON,
born Thornhill, Dumfriesshire, 29th
Dec. 1850, youngest son of James W.
and Margaret Wallace ; educated at Morton
School, Wallace Hall, and Univ. of Edin
burgh ; M.A. (1878); licen. by Presb. of
Edinburgh 1881 ; assistant at North Leith ;
ord. to North Leith 15th April 1882 ; trans,
to St Cuthbert s, Edinburgh, 6th Sept.
1883 ; trans, and adm. 19th Jan. 1910 ; D.D.
(1900); one of the Chaplains in Ordinary
to King Edward VII. and King George V. ;
Univ. Lecturer in Pastoral Theology 1897-8 ;
Croall Lecturer 1907-8; 7/.R.S.A. ; Joint-
Convener of Committee on Union with
United Free Church 1912 ; Moderator of
the General Assembly 1913 ; Dean of the
Order of the Thistle and of the Chapel
Royal 7th Aug. 1913. He marr. (1) 18th
Sept, 1883, Agnes (died 7th Aug. 1885),
second daugh. of Walter Blackstock, Edin
burgh : (2) 2nd Oct. 1888, Elizabeth Mary
Phoebe, daugh. of Robert Croall, Craig-
crook, Midlothian, and has issue Agnes
Honor Margaret, born 7th Aug. 1889, died
1892; Robert Howard, born 28th March
1892 ; Verona Maud, born 27th Jan. 1898.
Publications John Macleod, his Work and
Teaching; Macleod Memorial Lecture
(Edinburgh, 1900); Ideals of Ministry
(Edinburgh, 1901) ; The Methodist Church
(St Giles Series); Social Unrest; The
Unity of the Church ; Sacramental Vows
and Privileges; "Foreign Missions," a
speech delivered in the General Assembly,
1905 ; A Fareivell Message of St Paul
(1910); Ambassadors for Christ (1910);
The Spiritual Calling of the Church
(Assembly Closing Address, 1913).
SECOND CHARGE.
PETER HEWAT, M.A. (Edinburgh
1594 l &88 )j mentioned as min. in 1594;
trans, to Hailes (Colinton) 1596.
\Counc. Reg.]
[CHARLES FERME [FAIRHOLM], M.A.,
JAMES MUIRHEAD, M.A., and GEORGE
GRIER, M.A., were severally authorised
by the Presb. to preach in the North-West
Quarter 13th Dec. 1589 to 18th Dec. 1599,
" at sic tymes as were necessary."
JAMES BALFOUR, son of David B. of
15g8 Powis, grandson of Alexander B. of
Inchrye, Fife, and brother of Captain
John B. of Pitcorthy (Reg. of Deeds, xl.,
272); adm. 19th May 1598. Hesitating to
offer public thanksgiving for His Majesty s
deliverance from the Gowrie Conspiracy,
he was inhibited from preaching under pain
of death, and two days after he left the
city. Called before the Privy Council, he
declared himself satisfied of the truth of
the story. By the continuance of the Royal
displeasure, he was ordered to be trans
ported, 16th May 1601, yet he continued in
his charge. He was summoned to London
(with seven others) 21st May 1606. After
various ineffectual conferences they were
handed over to the charge of different
bishops of England, Balfour being con
signed to the care of John, Bishop of
Norwich. On 8th March 1607 he peti
tioned the Privy Council to be sent home,
when he was ordered to be confined to
Cockburnspath and Alford. He returned
and was preaching in the city, when he
was again removed by a royal warrant,
20th Jan. 1610, but the city continued
payment of his stipend until 1st May
1613, when he died. He marr. (1) in
1575, his cousin once removed, Barbara,
youngest daugh. of Richard Melvill of
Baldowy, min. of Maryton, who survived
him, and had issue James (G. R. Sas.,
liii., 385), servant to Lord Haddington ;
Andrew, min. of Kirknewton ; Nicolas
(marr. George Gordon of Lawtoun : G.
R. Inhib., First Series, vi., 98), who was
threatened to be banished from the city
in 1620 for entertaining conventicles in
her house : (2) 5th July 1595, Isobel or
Elizabeth King (buried 4th Dec. 1643),
widow of Robert Danielston, tailor,
burgess of Edinburgh (Edin. Inhib., viii.,
206 ; G. R. Inhib., Second Series, iii., 295).
Publication The Great Work of Mercy.
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Melvill s A^^tob., Scott s Apolog. J\ arr. ;
Petrie s, Spottiswood s, Row s, and Calder-
wood s Hists. ; Orig. Lett. ; Wodrow s MS.
Biog., ii. ; The Bal fours of Pilrig-.]
PETER HEWAT, M.A., above men
tioned ; trans, from Colinton to Old
Greyfriars 1597; trans, in terms of
King James s request, and adm. after 21st
Feb. 1610 ; was a member of Assembly
same year, and of the Court of High
Commission, 21st Dec. 1615. He had a
gift from the King of the Abbey of Cross-
raguel, 29th Dec. 1612, which entitled him
to a seat in Parliament (ratified to him
and his children for nineteen years after
his death, on payment of 5 merks yearly,
by Charles II., 27th Oct., and by Parlia
ment, 17th Nov. 164]); one of those
appointed by the Assembly, 17th Aug. 1616,
for revising the Liturgy. He consulted with
the ministers regarding a Protest for the
Liberties of the Kirk in 1617, drew out one
of his own, and still adhering to it was
deprived by the High Commission, 12th
July of that year, and confined to Dundee.
He was still recognised, however, as minister,
and had his stipend paid by the city to
Candlemas 1619, but he was charged to
remove, and be confined at Crossraguel by
royal warrant, 12th, and by that of the
Privy Council, 17th June following. He
died in the parish of Maybole, Aug. 1645,
aged about 78. He marr. Isobel (died Aug.
1644), daugh. of William Smail, merchant
in the city, and had issue Margaret, bapt.
23rd Nov. 1600; John, bapt. 30th May
1602; Lilias, bapt. 26th June 1603;
Margaret, bapt. 5th Sept. 1605 ; Jean,
bapt. 18th April 1611; William (Reg. of
Deeds, cclxxx., 24th Jan. 1619); Elspeth ;
Janet ; Elizabeth, or Elspeth (marr. Bryce
Blair of Goldring). Publication Three
Excellent Points of the Christian Doctrine
(Edinburgh, 1621). [Edin. Counc., Guild,
Bapt., and Test. Reg. (Glasg.) ; Acts Parl.,
v. ; Row s, Spottiswood s, and Calderwood s
Hists. ; Melvill s Autob. ; Morrison s Dec., x.]
JOHN MAXWELL, M.A. ; trans, from
Mortlach ; elected by the Town
Council 18th July 1622, and adm.
soon after. On the division of the city in
1625, he was removed to the North-East
Quarter, or Trinity Parish. [Row s,
Spottiswood s, and Calderwood s Hists. ;
Edin. Ccnmc. Reg.~\
ALEXANDER THOMSON, son of
Alexander T., min. of Stonchouse
(Acts and Decreets, cccclxxiv., 13) ;
M.A. (Glasgow 1613); min. of Cambuslang
1623; elected by the Town Council 3rd
July 1628, and adm. soon after. Deposed
1st Jan. 1639 for declining the General
Assembly 1638, and reading and defending
the Service Book ; died in 1646, aged about
53. He marr. Margaret Moorehead, and
had issue James, apprenticed to James
Stewart, merchant, Edinburgh, 6th Nov.
1639; John, who had 100 sterl. granted
him by Parliament, 5th July 1661, in
respect of his father s sufferings ; William ;
Margaret (marr. James Hamilton, Bishop
of Galloway). [Edin. Counc., Test., and
Reg. (Bapt.) ; Row s and Stevenson s Ilists.,
Peterkin s Rec. ; Wodrow s MS8., Ixii. ;
Acts Parl., vii.]
ROBERT DOUGLAS, M.A. ; trans, from
Second Charge, Kirkcalcly ; elected
14th Jan. 1639, and adm. after 22nd
Aug. same year; removed to North-West
Quarter, or Tolbooth Parish, 24th Dec.
1641. [Edin. Counc. Reg.}
HENRY ROLLOCK, M.A., son of John
1>l> f Woodside ( G - R - 8as " lviii > 202 ) >
adm. 24th Dec. 1641 ; died 2nd June
1649, aged about 47. He marr. Helen,
youngest daugh. of Alex., Lord Elphinston,
and widow of Sir William Cockburn of
Langton, and had issue John of Wood-
side. [Edin. Counc. Reg.; Baillie s Lett.,
ii. ; Douglas s Peer., i.]
DAVID DICKSON of Busby, born
leso Glasgow 1583, son of John D., a
wealthy merchant of the Trongate,
was at first intended for the mercantile
profession, but afterwards studied for the
Church. After becoming M.A. of Glasgow,
he was appointed Regent of Philosophy in
the University, and on 31st March 1618
was ordained minister of Irvine. He
declared against the Perth Articles, and
was summoned before the Court of High
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Commission. Declining its authority, he
was deprived. In 1622 he was allowed to
return to his parish, but in 1637, having
given shelter to Robert Blair and John
Livingston, driven from their charges in
Ireland by the interference of the bishops
there, he was again cited before the High
Commission Court. He took an active
part in the Glasgow Assembly of 1638,
and in 1639 acted as chaplain to an Ayr
shire regiment commanded by the Earl of
Loudoun. He was Moderator of Assembly
in 1640, and appointed to the Professor
ship of Divinity in Glasgow University.
In 1650 he was transferred to the Chair of
Divinity at Edinburgh. He was appointed
to this charge by the Town Council 12th
April 1650, and adm. shortly after; a
second time Moderator of Assembly 21st
July 1652. In Oct. 1662 he was deprived,
and by the end of the year he was dead
(buried 31st Dec.). He was a popular
preacher, and highly instrumental in pro
moting the notable revival at Stewarton
about 1625. Nor was he less zealous and
useful in the overthrow of Episcopacy,
having taken a prominent part in the
business of the Assembly at Glasgow.
When the Church unhappily divided into
Resolutioners and Protesters, he became a
leader in the party of the former. He
marr. 23rd Sept. 1617, Margaret, daugh. of
Archibald Roberton of Stonehall, and had
issue John, clerk to the Exchequer (who
predeceased him) ; James (G. R. Sas.,
xxxviii., 241) ; David (who also predeceased
him) ; Alexander, min. of NeAvbattle, Pro
fessor of Hebrew in the Univ. of Edin
burgh. Publications A Treatise on the
Promises (Dublin, 1630); Explanation
of the Epistle to the Hebreivs (Aberdeen,
1635) ; jExpositio Analytica Omnium Apos-
tolicarum Epistolarum (Glasgow, 1645) ;
True Christian Love, in verse (1649) ;
Exposition of the Gospel of Matthew
(London, 1651) ; Explanation of the Psalms,
3 vols. (London, 1653-5); Therapeutica
Sacra (Edinburgh, 1656 trans., Edin
burgh, 1664) ; A Commentary on the Epistles
(London, 1659) ; Preelections in Confes-
sionem Fidei ; trans, under the title of
Truth s Victory over Error (London, 1688,
VOL. I.
and Wodrow Society, 1847); several pam
phlets in the Disputes with the Doctors of
Aberdeen, and some in defence of the
Public Resolutions. The " Directory for
Public Worship " was drawn up by
him, with the assistance of Alexander
Henderson and David Calderwood and
the "Sum of Saving Knowledge," in
conjunction with James Durham. Some
minor poems, "The Christian Sacrifice,"
and " O Mother dear, Jerusalem." [Edin.
Counc., Test., Glasgow (Marr.), Canongate
(Bur.), and Reg. (Bur.) ; Baillie s Lett.,
Lament s and Nicoll s Diaries; Wodrow s
Life, Hist., i., iv., and Anal., i., iii. ;
Livingston s Charac., Diet. Nat. Biog.}
JAMES LUNDIE, M.A. ; trans, from
Tron Parish ; elected by the Town
Council 1st May 1665, and adm.
soon after ; trans, to Tolbooth Parish 1672.
[Edin. Counc. Reg.]
ALEXANDER RAMSAY, M.A. ; trans.
- ^ ? from Greyfriars ; elected by the Town
Council llth Dec., and adm. shortly
after; retrans. to the Greyfriars in 1674.
[Edin. Counc. and Guild Reg.]
ANDREW CANT, son of Andrew C.,
1675 min. of Aberdeen ; M.A. (Marischal
College 1644) ; regent in Marischal
College, Aberdeen, 1649-58 ; min. of Liber-
ton 10th March 1659; trans, to Trinity
Parish, Edinburgh, 1673; Principal of the
Univ. of Edinburgh 1675 ; elected by the
Town Council 29th Sept., trans, and adm.
soon after; died 4th Dec. 1685. He marr.
(1) about 1553, Ann, daugh. of Sir Thomas
Burnet of Leys (G. R. Inhib., 4th June
1662); she was buried 7th May 1662: (2)
13th July 1663, Jean Cockburn, who died
25th Oct. 1675, and had issue Jean;
Anna ; Marion ; Andrew ; John, died 14th
Dec. 1675 ; Alexander : (3) Anne Murray,
who was buried 17th March 1685, and
had issue Agnes, bapt. 24th Aug. 1678.
Publications Theses Philosophies ; De
Libero Arbitrio ; Oratio de Concordia
Theologorum et Discordia (Edinburgh,
1676). [Edin. Counc., Test., and Reg.
(Bapt. and Bur.).]
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ALEXANDER MONRO, fourth son of
168g Hugh M. of Fyresh, and Isobel
Munro ; min. of Second Charge,
Dunfermline, 1673 ; trans, to Kinglassie
1676; trans, to Wemyss 1678; D.D. (St
Andrews 1682) ; Professor of Divinity there
1682 ; Principal of Edinburgh University
9th Nov. 1685; elected by the Town
Council 9th Dec. 1685 ; trans, and adm.
soon after. Befriended by Claverhouse, he
was nominated to the Bishopric of Argyll,
24th Oct. 1688, but was never consecrated.
Expelled from office at the Revolution
Settlement, 29th April 1689; died in
London 1698. He was a staunch Episco
palian, and was suspected of a leaning
towards Romanism. In 1687 he altered
the sponsio which was administered to
graduates, making them promise persever
ance " in the Christian religion," the word
"Reformed" being omitted. He marr. (1)
6th May 1673, Anna Logan, Aberdour, who
died 16th May 1674, and had issue Anna,
born 18th March 1674, buried 20th Sept.
1688 : (2) llth April 1676, Marion Collace,
and had issue Elizabeth, born 26th June
1677 (marr. Captain George Papley) ; David,
born 1679, died young; James, student of
Baliol College, Oxford, M.D., physician
to Bridewell and Bethlehem Hospitals,
London, a specialist in insanity, born 2nd
Sept. 1680, died 4th Nov. 1752; Margaret
(twin with James) ; Catherine, born 1682 ;
Christian, born 1683 ; Marion and Helen
(twins), born 1685 ; the last five died in
infancy. Publications A Memorial for
His Highness the Prince of Orange ; Presby
terian Inquisition, as it was lately practised
against the Professors of the College of
Edinburgh, August and September 1690,
anon. (London, 1691); Sermons preached
on Several Occasions (London, 1693) ; An
Apology for the Church of Scotland
(London, 1693); Spirit of Calumny, etc.,
Slander Examined, Chastised, and parti
cularly addressed to Mr George Redpath
(London, 1693); An Answer to Dr Rule;
An Inquiry into the New Opinions of the
Presbyterians (London, 1696); Letter to
Sir Robert Iloivard, occasioned by his Two
fold Vindication of Archbishop Tillotson
(London, 1696). [Edin. Counc., Aberdour,
Dunferml., and Kinglassie Sess. Reg. ; MS.
Ace. of Min., 1688 ; Keith s Catal., Fountain-
hall s Diary ; Edin. Mag., xvi. ; Grant s
Univ., ii. ; Diet. Nat. Biog.]
JOHN LAW, born 1632, son of Thomas
1692 k-> m * n ^ Lnchinnan, began life as
an apothecary ; M.A. (Glasgow 1653) ;
ord. to Campsie 1656; deprived 1662;
restored 1678 ; again deprived on account
of the Test 1681 ; called 22nd July 1689 ;
app. to the charge 20th April 1692 ; con
firmed by the Town Council 24th July
1689 ; was a member of the General
Assemblies 1690, 1692, and Moderator 1694 ;
Almoner to His Majesty 2nd Oct. 1700
(P. S. Reg. Eng., v., 390) ; dem. 26th Nov.
1707; died 26th Dec. 1712. He marr.
Isabella (died 8th Nov. 1703, aged 70),
daugh. of Robert Cunningham, min. of
Holy wood, Ireland, and had issue William,
Professor of Moral Philosophy in the Univ.
of Edinburgh, founder of the family of
Law of Elvingston, East Lothian. [Edin.
Counc., Guild, Reg. (Bur.) ; Tombst. ;
Monteith s Mort., ii. ; Wodrow s Anal.,
iii. ; Peterkin s Const., Leven and Melv.
Pap.}
WILLIAM CARSTARES, born llth
1707 Feb. 1649, eldest son of John C.,
min. of Cathcart ; studied first at
Edinburgh, and afterwards in consequence
of the troubled state of the times in Scot
land, at Utrecht, where he formed the
friendship of William, Prince of Orange,
and became his confidential adviser on all
matters relating to Britain. In 1682 he
was at home bent on entering the Church,
but discouraged by the spirit of persecution
which was so manifest, he returned to
Holland after receiving license to preach.
Passing through London he became in
volved in what was afterwards knoAvn as
the Rye-house Plot, which had for its
object the exclusion of the Duke of York
from the succession to the throne. He was
arrested at Tenterden, in Kent, and con
veyed to Edinburgh to be tortured by the
boot and thumbscrew. He was offered a
full pardon, and the promise was made that
no statement from him would be used
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against any person. But the information
extracted on such terms was freely used
against his friend Baillie of Jerviswood.
After lying in prison for a year and a half
at London, Edinburgh, and Stirling, he
returned to Holland in the winter of
1684-5, when he was made chaplain to the
Prince of Orange, and appointed minister
of the English Church at Leyden. He
accompanied William to England in 1688,
and when matters quieted after the Revolu
tion, and William and Mary sat upon the
throne, he was probably the most influ
ential personage in the land. The King
required his constant presence, assigned
him apartments at Whitehall, and paid
him liberally when abroad with the army.
From 1693 to William s death in 1702 he
was virtually prime minister of the country,
and his authority in Church affairs was such
that he was popularly called " Cardinal
Carstares " by the Jacobites and those who
were opposed to his policy. He became
Principal of the Univ. of Edinburgh in
1703, and in 1704 min. of Greyfriars ; was
Moderator of Assembly 1705 (an office to
which he was re-elected 1708, 1711, 1715),
and was trans, to this charge 28th Dec.
1706. The Treaty of Union had his
enthusiastic support, and he warmly pro
moted the succession of the House of Han
over to the British crown. He was chaplain
to Queen Anne, and to King George L, and
died 28th Dec. 1715. He marr. 6th June
1682, Elizabeth (died 1724, without issue),
daugh. of Peter Kekewich of Trehawk,
Cornwall. Publications The Scottish Tol
eration Argued (London, 1712) ; the State
Papers and Letters addressed to William
Carstares were published by Principal
M Cormick (Edinburgh, 1774). [Wod-
row s Hist., Corresp., MSS. Ixxxii., and
Anal. ; Ferrie s Life of J. Carstairs, Dun-
lop s Serin., Burnet s Hist., Grant s Univ.,
Edin. Mag. and Rev. ; Chr. Inst., xxvi. ;
Story s William Carstares, Proc. Soc. Ant.
Scot. 1892, Diet. Nat. Biog.}
WILLIAM MITCHELL, born 1670, son
1721 ^ William M., min. of Footdee,
Aberdeen, and Margaret Cant;
licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen ; ord. to
Second Charge, Canongate, 1695 ; trans,
to Old Kirk Parish 27th June 1708 ;
Moderator of Assembly 1710 ; a second
time 1714 ; a third time 1717 ; called 10th
Jan. 1718 ; trans, and adm. 5th Feb. 1721 ;
a fourth time Moderator of Assembly 1722,
and a fifth time 1726, though the last was
carried by a single vote ; Chaplain in
Ordinary to George I. While on his way
to London as one of the deputation sent to
congratulate George II. on his accession,
he died at York, 8th Sept. 1727. He had
great influence at Court, and was the chief
figure in the Church after the death of
Carstares. He marr. (1) 29th Oct. 1705,
Margaret, daugh. of Hugh Cunningham of
Edinburgh, and widow of James Stewart,
advocate, and had issue a daugh., who
died May 1726 ; Hugh, died young ; Sir
Andrew, born 1708, K.C.B., M.P. for Aber-
deenshire 1747-54, and for Elgin burghs
1755-71, envoy to Berlin 1756, and
ambassador to Frederick the Great 1765,
died 28th Jan. 1771 : (2) 7th July 1723,
Barbara, daugh. of John Forbes, and
widow of Thomas Mitchell of Thainston,
bailie of Aberdeen. Publications He left
behind him a Diary ready for the press, in
which he had noted incidents connected
with himself and the affairs of the Church.
See Catalogue of the Forbes of Craigievar
MSS. in Fifth Report of the Historical
MSS. Commission. [Reg. (Marr.), Wod-
row s Corresp. and Anal. ; Acts of Ass.,
1718.]
ROBERT KINLOCH, M.A. (St
Andrews, 7th May 1706); studied
at St Leonard s College; licen. by
Presb. of Dundee and Forfar 3rd Oct.
1711 ; called to Third Charge, Dundee,
22nd June, and ord. 26th Aug. 1713 ; trans,
and adm. 8th Oct. 1728; Moderator of
Assembly 7th May 1747 ; dem. 24th Feb.,
and died 3rd April 1756. He marr. Lilias
(died 12th July 1769), third daugh. of Colin
Campbell of Monzie, and had issue John
(second son), W.S. apprentice 1738. Pub
lication The Truth and Excellency of the
Gospel Revelation, a sermon (Edinburgh,
1731). [/fc#. (Bur.), Morren s Ann., Wod-
ST GILES
[PRESS. OF
row s Aiial., Carlyle s Autob. ; Playfair s
Bar., iii. ; etc.]
HUGH BLAIR, born 7th April 1718,
son of John B., merchant, Edinburgh,
and grandson of Robert B., min. of
St Andrews ; educated at Edinburgh
Univ.; M.A. (1739); licen. by Presb. of
Edinburgh 21st Oct. 1741 ; ord. to Collessie
23rd Sept. 1742 ; trans, to Second Charge,
Canongate, 14th July 1743 ; trans, to Lady
Tester s llth Oct. 1754 ; D.D. (St Andrews,
13th June 1757) ; trans, and adm. 15th June
1758 ; Lecturer in Rhetoric and Belles-
lettres, Univ. of Edinburgh, 1759 ; Regius
Professor of the same 1762; chaplain to
the 1st Batt. 71st Foot 1776 ; retired from
the duties of his chair 1783 ; died 27th
Dec. 1800. He marr. 19th April 1748, his
cousin, Katherine (died 9th Feb. 1795),
daugh. of James Bannatine, min. of Trinity
College Church, and had issue a son, who
died in infancy ; Katherine, born 24th Jan.
1749, died 23rd Aug. 1769. Blair s Sermons
are the chief source of his celebrity. They
were part of the literary revival in Edin
burgh, and, like Robertson s History, they
took people in London by surprise. His
discoverer may be said to be Dr Johnson,
for, when Strahan the publisher failed to
appreciate the merit of the MS. which had
been handed to him, Johnson got a sight of
it and said : " I have read over Dr Blair s
first sermon with more than approbation :
to say it is good is to say too little. The
volume was then published, and had at
once a great sale, no devotional work pro
duced in Scotland having attracted so much
attention. Both from diffidence and from
a singular deficiency as an extempore
speaker, he refrained from prominent
public appearances, and declined the
Moderatorship of Assembly. Publications
De Fundamentis et Obligatione Legis
Naturae (1728) ; The Wrath of Man prais
ing God, a sermon (Edinburgh, 1746);
The Importance of Religious Knoivledge
to the Happiness of Mankind, a sermon
(Edinburgh, 1750) ; Observations ^^pon the
Analysis of the Moral and Religious Senti
ments contained in the Writings of Sopho
and David Hume, Esq. (Edinburgh, 1755);
A Critical Dissertation on the Poems
of Ossian, the Son of Fingal (London,
1763) ; Sermons, 5 vols. (Edinburgh, 1777 ;
London, 1801) ; Lectures on Rhetoric and
Belles - lettres, 2 vols. (London, 1783) ;
The Compassion and Benevolence of
the Deity, a sermon (Edinburgh, 1796) ;
four Articles in the Edinburgh Review
(Edinburgh, 1755) ; Translations and Para
phrases (used by the Church of Scotland),
iv., xxxiii., xxxiv., xliv., xlv. ; Pastoral
Admonition addressed by the General
Assembly, 23rd May 1799, to the people
under their charge. [Hill s Life ; Sermons,
v. ; Carlyle s Autob., Mackenzie s Life of
Home, Somerville s Life, Kay s Portr., Diet.
Nat. Biog.~\
GEORGE HUSBAND BAIRD, born
isoi ^k July 1761, second son of James
B., Inveravon, Bo ness ; educated
at the parish schools of Bo ness and
Linlithgow, and at the Univ. of Edin
burgh; tutor in the family of Colonel
Blair of Blair 1784; licen. by Presb. of
Linlithgow 5th July 1786; M.A. (Edin
burgh, 29th March 1787) ; ord. to Dunkeld
3rd April 1787; pres. to Lady Tester s
1789, but declined; trans, to New Grey-
friars, Edinburgh, 15th Nov. 1792 ; joint
Professor of Oriental Languages in the
Univ. of Edinburgh 1792 ; D.D. (Edinburgh,
24th Oct. 1792); Principal of Edinburgh
Univ. 1793 ; min. of New North Parish
10th Jan. 1799 ; Moderator of Assembly
1800 ; trans, and adm. 30th April 1801 ;
died at Manuel, Linlithgow, 14th Jan.
1840. He was founder and first convener
of the General Assembly s Highlands and
Islands Committee 1824. Though advanced
in years, he travelled no fewer than seven
thousand miles in the interests of this work,
affirming that "he had found nearly one
hundred thousand human beings unable
either to read or write, and innumerable
districts where the people could not hear
sermon above once a year, and had seen
thousands of habitations where a Sabbath
bell was never heard, where he had now
witnessed schools and libraries established,
knowledge increased, and greedily received."
He marr. 8th Aug. 1792, Isabella (died 18th
EDINBURGH]
ST GILES OLD KIRK
Aug. 1826), eldest daugh. of Thomas Elder
of Forneth, Lord Provost of Edinburgh,
and had issue Emelia Husband, born 1st
Dec. 1793, died 5th June 1794; Thomas
Elder of Forneth, advocate, born 30th Sept.
1795, died 1876 ; Marion Spottiswood, born
13th July 1797 (marr. 8th Aug. 1823, Isaac
Bayley of Manuel, S.S.C.); James, born
27th Dec. 1799, died 21st May 1823;
Emelia Husband, born 22nd Oct. 1801,
died 23rd Aug. 1824. Publications A
sermon on the Universal Propagation and
Influence of the Christian Religion (of
which only 48 pp. were printed, 1795) ;
edited Poems of Michael Bruce (Edinburgh,
1799). [Anderson s Sketches, Kay s Portr.,
Grant s Univ., Diet. Nat. Biog.~\
JAMES BUCHANAN, born Paisley,
1840 14t ^ April 1804, son of James B. ;
educated at Paisley Grammar School
and Univs. of Glasgow and Edinburgh ;
licen. by Presb. of Paisley 27th Sept.
1826; ord. to Koslin 23rd Nov. 1827;
trans, to North Leith 25th Sept. 1828;
trans, and adm. 20th Aug. 1840. Joined
the Free Church ; min. of the Free High
Church, Edinburgh, 1843-4 ; first min. of
St Stephen s Free Church, 17th March 1845 ;
Professor of Apologetics in Free Church
College, 30th May 1845 ; Professor of
Systematic Theology, 1847 ; res. 1868 ; D.D.
(Princeton 1844), LL.D. (Glasgow 1852);
died 19th April 1870. He marr. (1) 10th
Feb. 1829, Elizabeth (died 6th May 1832),
daugh. of John Cochrane, merchant, Glas
gow, and had issue James, born 13th Dec.
1829 ; Elizabeth, born 5th Feb. 1831 : (2)
12th Dec. 1836, Mary (died 25th Aug.
1887), daugh. of John Morison of Het-
land, and had issue Janet Morison, born
22nd Aug. 1840. Publications Two Ser
mons (Edinburgh, 1835) ; Preparatory Dis
course to Lectures on Civil Establishments
of Religion (Edinburgh, 1835) ; Comfort in
Affliction (Edinburgh, 1837) ; Improvement
of Affliction (Edinburgh, 1840) ; The Office
and Work of the Holy Spirit (Edinburgh,
1842) ; Faith in God and Modern Atheism
Compared, 2 vols. (Edinburgh, 1855) ; The
Essays and Reviews Examined (Edinburgh,
1861) ; Analogy Considered as a Guide to
Truth and applied as an Aid to Faith
(Edinburgh, 1864) ; The Doctrine of Justifi
cation (Cunningham Lecture, 1866). [Dis-
ruption Worthies, Hist. Notices of Free St
Stephen s, Diet. Nat. Biog.]
JAMES M LETCHIE, born Maybole,
1844 24th Dec. 1800, son of John M L.,
merchant, and Mary Thorn ; educated
at Dalrymple School and Univ. of Glasgow ;
licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 4th Jan. 1826 ;
missionary at Larkhall, and ord. there 27th
July 1837; trans, to Gartsherrie llth Jan.
1838 ; trans, to St Thomas s, Leith, 6th May
1841 ; trans, to the College Church, Glas
gow, 28th April 1842 ; trans, and adm. 13th
July 1844; D.D. (Glasgow, 29th April
1857); died unmarr. 18th Sept. 1866. He
was a capable classical student, and had
few rivals as a linguist. Publication
Sermon preached on a Special Fast (Edin
burgh, 1849); Sermons, with memoir, by
John Macrae, D.D. (Edinburgh, 1871).
OLD KIRK, on SOUTH
EAST PARISH.
WILLIAM WATSON, min. of St Giles ;
1598 adm. 18th April 1598. Doubting the
genuineness of the Gowrie Con
spiracy, he refused to return thanks for
the King s deliverance in the terms which
had been prescribed ; he was summoned
to appear before the Privy Council 9th
Sept. 1600, and ordered to be imprisoned,
but recanted on the following day, a step
he ever afterwards regretted. The King
was resolved, however, that he should no
longer retain his ministry in the city, and
he was removed by the Assembly 16th May
1601, and admitted to Burntisland. [Presb.
and Edin. Counc. Reg.; Spottiswood s,
Row s, and Calderwood s Hists. ; Booke of
the Kirk. ]
WILLIAM FORBES, D.D., min. of
St Giles; adm. 27th Jan. 1626.
He craved to be transported "on
account of weakness of body" 12th Aug.
thereafter, and was retrans. to his former
charge at Aberdeen about Michaelmas.
He became Bishop of Edinburgh Feb. 1634
( q .v.),{Edin. Counc. Reg., Row s Hist.;
70
OLD KIRK
[PRESB. OF
Wodrow s MS. Biog., ii. ; living s Lives of
Scottish Writers, Memoirs by Bishop Syd-
serff, Macmillan s Aberdeen Doctors. }
JOHN MAXWELL, M.A. ; trans, from
1626 Second Charge; trans, to the
Bishopric of Ross 26th April 1630
(q.v.). [Edin. Counc. Reg., Row s and
Calderwood s Ilists. ]
DAVID MITCHELL [MITCHELSON],
1634 M.A. > trans, from Second Charge in
1634; dep. 3rd Dec. 1638, for his
teaching of Arminianism and declining the
authority of the General Assembly. He
survived the Restoration, and on account
of his sufferings, had 200 allowed by Parlia
ment from vacant stipends, 21st June 1661.
He became Bishop of Aberdeen 1662 (q.v.).
[Edin. Counc. Reg. ; Acts of Ass., 1638 ; Peter-
kin s Rec., Kirkton s Hist. ; Acts Parl., vii.]
ANDREW RAMSAY, born 1574, son of
Sir David R. of Balmain, Fetter-
cairn, and Catherine, daugh. of Sir
Robert Carnegie of Kinnaird ; M.A.
(Marischal College and Univ. of Aber
deen) ; prosecuted his theological studies in
France, and occupied a professorial chair
in the Univ. of Saumur. In 1606 he
became min. of Arbuthnott. In 1613 the
Town Council obtained authority from the
Archbishop of St Andrews, directing him
to proceed to Edinburgh to stand " trials "
as one of the city ministers ; and he was
appointed on the 28th April of the following
year to the pulpit of the South-West con
gregation. He continued his ministrations
there until Dec. 1620, when the new church
at the Greyfriars was taken over by the
South- West congregation. He was a member
of the Court of High Commission 21st Oct.
1615 and 15th June 1619; signed the
Protestation for the Liberties of the Kirk
27th June 1617, but withdrew his protest ;
was proposed for the Principalship of Mari
schal College, Aberdeen, 1620, but trans,
was refused. From 1620 to 1625 he was
Professor of Divinity at Edinburgh. At a
division of the city into four parishes,
25th Nov. 1625, the South-West Quarter
was once more relegated to the Greyfriars,
with R. as minister. He seems to have
been readm. there on 31st Jan. 1626 ;
trans, and adm. to this charge 24th Dec.
1641 ; had a protection from the Marquess
of Montrose, after the battle of Kilsyth
in 1645 ; was Rector of the Univ. 1646
and 1647 ; dep. 27th Jtily 1648, for favour
ing the Duke of Hamilton s Engagement
with Charles I., a sentence which was
recalled 8th Nov. 1655. He retired to
Abbotshall, where he died, 30th Dec. 1659.
Bishop Guthrie describes him as " a guid,
modest, learned, godlie man, full of pietie
and learning ; an ornament to the Church
of Scotland." He marr. (cont. 18th Dec.
1605) Marie, daugh. of Sir Alexander
Fraser of Durris (G. R. Sas., xviii., 337),
and had issue Robert of Woodston, min
of Ecclesgreig (G. R. Sas., li., 65); Sir
Andrew of Abbotshall, Lord Provost of
Edinburgh, 1654, and Senator of the Col
lege of Justice, 1671, died 27th Jan. 1688 ;
Eleazer, bapt. 4th Dec. 1614 ; David,
bapt. 20th July 1625, died July 1660;
William, a preacher, who was presented
to Pencaitland 16th Aug. 1641, but gave
way to Calderwood, the ecclesiastical
historian, and subsequently was pro
prietor of Woodston. Publications
Oratio (1600); Parcenesin et Orationes de
Laudibiis Academice Salmuriensis ; Poemata
Sacra et Miscellanea et Epigrammata Sacra
(Edinburgh, 1633) [Del. Poet. Scot. II.];
A Warning to Come Out of Babell, a
sermon (Edinburgh, 1638) ; A Treatise
(1646). [Edin. Gen. Sess., Guild, Counc.
Reg., and Reg. (Bapt.); Reg. Sec. Sig.;
Mem. of Montrose, ii. ; Peterkin s Rec. ;
Nicoll s and Lament s Diaries, Row s and
Stevenson s Hists. ; Edin. Chr. Inst., vii. ;
Baillie s Lett. ; Acts Parl., vi. ; Guthrie s
Mem. ; Grant s Univ., i. ; Wodrow s Anal.,
iii. ; Cameron s Hist, of Fettercairn.]
1649
THOMAS GARVINE [GARVEN,
GAVINE], M.A. (Glasgow 1624);
min. of Colinton 1639; trans, and
adm. 28th Dec. 1649. He declined the
authority of the Sheriff, 22nd Aug. 1655,
in not praying for His Majesty. Deprived
1st Oct. 1662, for not submitting to
Episcopacy; died 1669, buried 25th Feb.,
aged about 65. He marr. Catherine
EDINBURGH]
OLD KIRK
71
Whyte, who survived him, and had issue
Thomas, apprenticed to Patrick Dickson,
merchant, Edinburgh, 28th Feb. 1649;
Jean ; David, died Aug. 1672 ; Anna, bapt.
20th Aug. 1654; Margaret, bapt. 17th
Nov. 1656; James, bapt. 4th July 1659;
Elizabeth (Edin. Sets., i., 243); Barbara,
buried 18th Jan. 1660 ; and Katherine,
buried 13th June 1660. \Edin. Counc.,
Gen. Sess., Gidld, Test., Reg. (Bapt. and
Bur.}, and Cupar Reg. (Deaths) ; Nicoll s,
Lament s, and Brodie s Diaries; Kirkton s
and Wodrow s Hists., Blair s Autob., Peter-
kin s Rec.]
AKCHIBALD TURNER, born 1629, son
of Patrick T., min. of Dalkeith ;
M.A. (Edinburgh, July 1642); ord.
to Borthwick 23rd March 1648 ; trans, to
North Berwick 18th Dec. 1649 ; elected by
the Town Council 22nd Oct., trans, and
adm. in the High Church 15th Nov. 1662 ;
Sub-Dean of the Chapel Royal 4th June
1663. The Privy Council, 2nd July 1674,
being informed "of some insolent expres
sions at a meeting of Presbytery," removed
him to Glasgow; but having expressed
regret for his action, he returned in the
following year. The degree of D.D. was
conferred on him ; he died 30th March
1681. He marr. Rebecca (died 2nd Dec.
1675, aged 47, buried in Greyfriars), daugh.
of Alexander Couper of Failford, W.S.
(G. R. Inhib., 7th March 1666). \Edin.
Counc., Guild, and Test. Reg. ; Lament s
and FountainhalFs Diaries ; Kirkton s and
Wodrow s Hists. ; Nisbet s Her., i. ; Reg.
Sec. Sig., vii. ; Inq. Ret. Fife 1196, Had-
dingt. 342, and Gen. 6298 ; Blair s Autob. ;
Monteith s Mort., ii.]
ALEXANDER RAMSAY, M.A. (Mari-
schal College, Aberdeen, 1658) ; min.
of Auchinleck 1663 ; trans, to Grey-
friars, Edinburgh, 1669 ; trans, to High
Church 1672 ; retrans. to Greyfriars 1674 ;
trans, and adm. after 18th March 1681.
He was suspended, 16th Feb. 1686, for
expressing his fears of popery, but was
reponed. Deprived by the Privy Council,
10th Sept. 1689, for not praying for King
William and Queen Mary, but praying for
King James and the bishops. He died
1681
1691
17th Aug. 1702, in his 64th year. He
marr. (1) Jean M Lauchlan, buried in Grey
friars, 26th June 1689 : (2) Jean Orrock,
widow of Gilbert Lyon, D.D., min. of
Kinghorn (Privy Seal Eng. Reg., v., 112).
A son, Robert, merchant in the city, died
in Nov. 1716 ; a daugh., Jean, marr. 10th
Aug. 1720, Alexander Falconer, advocate.
[Test, and Edin. Counc. Reg. ; Fountain-
hall s Diary and Dec., i. ; Reg. Biir., Peter-
kin s Const. ; Kirkton s and Wodrow s Hists.,
iii. ; Rule s Sec. Vindication, Monro s Apol. ;
MS. Ace. of Min., 1689.]
DAVID BLAIR, born 1637, eldest son
of Robert B., min. of St Andrews,
and his second wife, Katherine
Montgomerie of Braidstone, daugh. of
Viscount Montgomerie of Airds ; educated
at Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A. (28th July
1656). He emigrated to Holland and made
his residence at Leyden. On the erection
of a second charge in the Scots Church
at the Hague in 1688, he was ord. 20th
June of that year ; elected to Rotterdam
in the following year, but refused, having
been called, 28th June 1689, to Edinburgh
(New Meeting-house) ; chaplain to His
Majesty 1st Aug. 1690 ; a member of
Assembly 16th Oct. 1690 ; adm. 9th Aug.
1691 ; declined call to Inveresk Feb. 1693 ;
Moderator of Assembly 2nd Feb. 1700;
died 10th June 1710. He marr. 10th Feb.
1697, Eupham Nisbet of Billhead, Parish
of Bothwell (Macfarlane s Top. Coll., i.,
421 (died 2nd June 1740, aged 75), daugh.
of Archibald Nisbet of Carfin, and had
issue Robert, min. of Athelstaneford,
author of The Grave ; Archibald, min. of
Garvald; Eupham (marr. Robert Hunter,
min. of Livingston) ; Katherine (marr.
23rd Feb. 1725, Andrew Dunlop, min. of
Ormiston). [Blair s Autob., Hill s Life of
Blair, Blair s Serm. ; Steven s Ch. Rotterd. ;
Privy Seal, v. ; Peterkin s Constitution,
Wodrow s Anal, and MS., Hamilton s
Lanark ; Hist. Gen. Ass., 1690 ; Leven and
Melv. Pap. ; Acts Parl., ix., xi.]
JAMES NISBET, born 1676, probably
brother-in-law of preceding; edu
cated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A.
(13th July 1625); chaplain to the Laird
72
OLD KIRK
[PKESB. OF
1758
of Woolmet ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh
25th Feb. 1702; ord. to Innerwick 15th
April 1703 ; called 23rd May, and adm.
27th Sept. 1713 ; died from fracture of
the skull caused by a fall on a stair two
days before, 8th Aug. 1756. He marr.
June 1707, Mary (died 10th Jan. 1757),
daugh. of David Pitcairn of Dreghorn,
Colinton, and had issue David ; William ;
Mary (marr. her cousin, Principal Robert
son) ; Patrick, min. of Hutton and Cor-
rie ; Janet, died 23rd April 1775. Publi
cation The Perpetuity of the Christian
Religion, a sermon (Edinburgh, 1737).
[Innerwick Sess. and Edin. Reg. (Bur.) ;
Murray s Biog. Ann.]
DANIEL MACQUEEN, son of Daniel
M., merchant, Edinburgh, and Helen
Greig ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh
29th June 1735 ; ord. to Dalziel 29th Oct.
1736; trans, to Stirling 31st Dec. 1740;
called 13th Aug. 1756; trans, and adm.
15th June 1758; D.D. (Edinburgh, 12th
April 1759); died 22nd Oct. 1777. He
marr. (1) 26th Dec. 1738, Elizabeth Nisbet,
who died 9th May 1748, and had issue
Emilia, born 24th Oct. 1739 ; Daniel, min.
of Prestonkirk ; Ann, born 24th Jan. 1747 ;
Elizabeth (marr. John Moir of Hillfoot,
W.S.), died 2nd June 1783; Helen, died
9th May 1748 : (2) 10th Sept. 1762, War-
burton (died 7th Sept. 1766), daugh. of
Ronald Dunbar, W.S., and had issue
Ronald, born 8th April 1764, died 22nd
July 1765 ; a daugh. (marr. James Wilkie
of Gilchriston). Publications Observa
tions on Daniel s Prophecy of the Seventy
Weeks (Edinburgh, 1748, anon.); Letters
on Mr Hume s History of Great Britain
(Edinburgh, 1756, anon.); A Sermon on
Coloss. i. 23 (Edinburgh, 1759). [Mon-
creiffs Life of Erskine ; Soc. Serm., 1780.]
JAMES MACKNIGHT, born 17th Sept.
^ 1721, son of William M., min. of
Irvine ; educated at Irvine, Univs.
of Glasgow and Leyden ; licen. by Presb.
of Irvine ; preacher at Gorbals Chapel-
of - Ease ; assistant at Kilwinning ; ord.
to Maybole 10th May 1753; D.D. (Edin
burgh 1759); Moderator of Assembly 1769 ;
trans, to Jedburgh 30th Nov. 1769; trans.
to Lady Tester s, Edinburgh, 21st July
1772; trans, and adm. 26th Nov. 1778;
joint-collector of the Ministers Widows
Fund 17th Feb. 1784; died 13th Jan.
1800. One of the ablest commentators
and divines whom the Church of Scotland
has produced. He marr. 30th April 1754,
Elizabeth (died 10th March 1813), eldest
daugh. of Samuel M Cormick, General
Examiner of Excise, and had issue
Samuel, W.S., born 2nd Feb. 1757, died
24th Aug. 1807 ; James, born 8th Oct. 1759,
died 17th Nov. 1793; Thomas, D.D., min.
of Second Charge 1810. Publications A
Harmony of the Four Gospels, with a para
phrase and notes (London, 1756 ; 2nd
ed., 2 vols., London, 1763); The Truth
of the Gospel History (London, 1 763) ; A
Neiv Literal Translation from the Original
Greek of all the Apostolic Epistles, with a
Life of the Apostle Paul (4 vols., Edinburgh,
1795 ; 2nd ed., 7 vols.). [Scots Mag., Ixix. ;
Memoir prefixed to Epistles, Diet. Nat.
Biog.]
1800
ANDREW BROWN, born SillerknoAves,
Biggar, 22nd Aug. 1763, son of
Richard B., weaver, and Isabella
Forrest; educated at Univ. of Glasgow;
licen. by Presb. of Biggar 1786 ; ord. min.
of the Presbyterian Church, Halifax, Nova
Scotia, 1787; D.D. (Edinburgh 1788);
min. of Lochmaben 1 795-9 ; of New Grey-
friars, Edinburgh, 1799-1800; elected by
the Town Council 19th Feb., trans, and
adm. 24th July 1800 ; Professor of Rhetoric
and Belles-lettres in the Univ. of Edin
burgh, 14th Nov. 1801, which he held in
conjunction ; Moderator of Assembly 20th
May 1813 ; died 19th Feb. 1834. He marr.
(1) 10th Sept. 1792, Daniel, daugh. of George
Cranstoun of Harvieston, and had issue
George Cranstoun, W.S. apprentice 1810,
born 18th July 1794; Daniel Isabella
Elizabeth, born 2nd Nov. 1795, died 9th
Aug. 1809: (2) 7th March 1805, Mary
(died 27th Jan. 1826), eldest daugh. of
Dr Gregory Grant, Edinburgh : (3) 10th
March 1830, Mary Ogilvie (died 18th April
1852), widow of Andrew Pearson, M.D., of
Primrose Bank. Publications Two single
Sermons (Edinburgh, 1801, 1810); Notice
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of the Life and Character of Alexander
Christison, A.M., late Professor of Human
ity (Edinburgh, 1820). He compiled an
elaborate History of America which has
never been published. [Hunter s iggar.~\
JOHN LEE, born 22nd Nov. 1779, son of
lass J ames -L., weaver, Craenesshills, Tor-
woodlee Mains, and Helen Paterson ;
educated at the "Luggie," Clovenfords
(John Leyden being his teacher there),
and at Univ. of Edinburgh; M.D. (24th
June 1801); M.A. (St Andrews 1801);
amanuensis to " Jupiter Carlyle " 1804-5 ;
licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith 16th July
1804; ord. by Presb. of Edinburgh min.
of the Presbyterian congregation, Hanover
Street, London ; adm. min. of Peebles 7th
April 1808 ; Professor of Divinity and
Ecclesiastical History, St Mary s College,
St Andrews, 1812 ; and in 1820 Professor
of Moral Philosophy, King s College, Aber
deen, his lectures there being delivered by
proxy ; adm. min. of Canongate, Edinburgh,
21st March 1823 ; D.D. (St Andrews, 28th
Dec. 1823); F.R.S.E. ; trans, to Lady
Tester s 17th Feb. 1825; principal clerk
of the General Assembly 1827; Chaplain
in Ordinary to George IV. 1830 ; pres. by
the Town Council July 1834; trans, and
adm. 22nd Jan. 1835 ; Principal of the
United College, St Andrews, 12th June
1837, which he resigned in Nov. of same
year. On the establishment of a Board
in Scotland for printing and publishing
Bibles in 1839, he was selected as Secre
tary, but declined to accept ; Principal of
the Univ. of Edinburgh 12th March 1840, a
Deanery of the Chapel Royal of Stirling
being annexed. He demitted his parochial
charge 30th Sept. 1840, was app. Pro
fessor of Divinity at Edinburgh in 1843,
and Moderator of Assembly 16th May
1844; died 2nd May 1859. With vast
stores of varied and minute information
he had much ill-health, which destroyed
his energy and prevented him from accom
plishing many cherished literary projects.
He is the "Archdeacon Meadow" of Hill
Burton s Book Hunter. He marr. (1) 5th
July 1813, Rose (born 4th Jan. 1792, died
23rd Oct. 1833), daugh. of Thomas Masson,
D.D., min. of Dunnichen, and had issue
James, born 2nd May 1814, died 10th
July 1870 ; Thomas Masson, M.D., Indian
Army, born 24th Dec. 1815, died 30th Nov.
1858 ; William, min. of Roxburgh, and
afterwards Professor of Church History,
Glasgow Univ. ; John Johnston, born 13th
May 1819, died 17th Dec. 1828 ; Jane,
born 21st March 1821 ; Helen Agnes, born
28th Sept. 1822, died 28th Feb. 1831;
Isabella Euphemia, born 9th May 1824,
died 19th Oct. 1895 ; David Henry, born
20th Jan. 1826; Alexander Henderson,
C.E., India, born 9th Feb. 1828; Robert,
Procurator of the Church of Scotland,
Senator of the College of Justice, born 1st
April 1830, died llth Oct. 1890; Rose
Masson, born 14th Oct. 1832, died 29th
May 1839 : (2) 30th June 1841, Charlotte
E. Wright, who died 19th March 1871.
Publications Dissert. Med.,lnaug.De Viri-
bus Animi in Corpus Argentibus [gradua
tion thesis] (Edinburgh, 1801); Six single
Sermons (Edinburgh, 1809-29); Memorial
for the Bible Societies in Scotland, and
Additional Memorial (Edinburgh, 1824-6) ;
Letter relating to the Annuity Tax and
the Ecclesiastical Arrangements proposed for
Edinburgh (Edinburgh, 1834) ; Refutation
of the Charges brought against him by the
Rev. Dr Chalmers and Others, 2 parts (Edin
burgh, 1837) ; Lectures on Church History,
2 vols. (Edinburgh, 1860 ; ed. by his son) ;
Inaugural A ddresses (Edinburgh, 1862; with
Prefatory Memoir by Lord Neaves); Pastoral
Addresses of the General Assembly Edin
burgh, 1864). He contributed a number
of articles to Brewster s Edinburgh Ency
clopaedia; edited Vita Rob. Rollock, for
the Bannatyne Club (Edinburgh, 1826);
Wodrow s Life of James Wodroiv, A.M.
(Edinburgh, 1828); contributed Introduc
tion to the Edinburgh Academic Annual
for 1840 ; edited Joceline s Mother s
Legacie to her Unborn Childe (Edinburgh,
1852), and contemplated editing the
Tracts of David Fergusson, which was
afterwards done for the Bannatyne Club
(Edinburgh, 1860) ; edited Journal of
Andreiv Hart. [Hogg s Instruct., Ander
son s Sketches, Grant s Edin. University, Diet.
Nat. Biog., Craig-Brown s Selkirkshire. }
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[PRESB. OF
THOMAS CLARK, trans, from Meth-
1841 ven an< ^ a dm. 19th Aug. 1841 ;
trans, to St Andrew s, Edinburgh,
17th Nov. 1843.
JOHN CLARK, born Glasgow, 15th
1844 March 1790, son of John C. ; edu
cated at Glasgow Univ. ; M.A. (1814);
licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 5th May 1819 ;
ord. to New Street Chapel, Edinburgh, 25th
April 1823 ; trans, to Second Charge, Canon-
gate, 12th Sept. 1833 ; trans, and adm. 6th
June 1844 ; died unraarr. 1st Sept. 1859.
COLLEGIATE, OR SECOND CHARGE.
[Uncollegiated by the Presbytery, 27th
April 1836, with a view to the erection of
Greenside.]
JOHN HALL, trans, from Leith, and
1598 adm. 7th Dec. 1598. Hesitating to
believe in the Gowrie Conspiracy,
or to offer thanksgiving for the royal
deliverance on 5th Aug. 1600, he was dis
charged from preaching in any part of His
Majesty s dominions, under pain of death,
but afterwards declaring himself satisfied
as to the truth of the affair, he was re-
poned ; trans, to the East, or Little Kirk,
at the King s request, after 21st Feb. 1610.
\_Edin. Counc. and Privy Counc. Reg.,
Booke of the Kirk; Row s, Spottiswood s,
and Calderwood s Hists. ; Orig. Lett., i. ;
Melvill s Autob.]
JOHN MAXWELL, M.A. ; trans, from
Trinity Parish ; elected by the
Town Council 14th Dec. 1625 ; adm.
27th Jan. 1626; trans, to First Charge
same year. \Edin. Coun. Reg.~\
1626
1628
DAVID MITCHELL [MITCHELSON],
M.A. ; trans, from Garvock ; pres.
by the Town Council 25th Jan., and
adm. before 9th April 1628 ; trans, to First
Charge about 1634. \Edin. Counc. Reg.]
DAVID FLETCHER, M.A. (St Andrews
1625) ; elected by the Town Council
29th April, and adm. 22nd May 1635.
Deposed 1st Jan. 1639 for declining the
preceding Glasgow Assembly, and reading
and defending the Service Book; reponed
27th Aug. 1639. He became min. of Mel-
rose, and held the Bishopric of Argyll
in conjunction (q.v.). [Edin. Counc. Reg.,
Peterkin s Rec. ; Acts Gen. Ass., 1638 ;
Monteith s Mort., ii. ; Baillie s Lett., i. ;
Stevenson s Hist.; Wodrow s MS., Ixiii.]
1647
JAMES HAMILTON, born 1600, son
of Gawen, third son of Hans H.,
vicar of Dunlop, and nephew of
Viscount Claneboye ; studied at Glasgow
Univ. ; acted for a time as his uncle s
land agent in Ireland ; ord. by Bishop
Echlin min. at Ballywalter, Co. Down,
1626 ; dep. for refusing to use the Service
Book 1636 ; was adm. a min. of the
Church of Scotland in 1638, and settled
at Dumfries. He was commissioned by
the Assembly of 1642, 1643, to visit the
Presbyterians in the north of Ireland, and
when returning was captured by Sir Alex
ander Macdonald (Montrose s lieutenant),
and imprisoned for ten months with great
hardship in Mingary Castle; pres. by the
Town Council 13th July, and adm. 26th
Nov. 1647. He was a member of Assembly
1648, and along with James Guthrie was
appointed to draw up an account of the
duties of elders, and a form for visitation
of families. He was nominated by the
Estates, May 1650, for examining Montrose
after his capture. In Jan. 1651 he was one
of those who met with the Protesters at St
Andrews to adjust their differences, but
without effect. While sitting with a com
mittee of the Estates at Alyth, 28th Aug.
1651, he was seized, with others, by the
English army, carried into England, and
detained in the Tower of London for nine
teen months. Released by Cromwell s
order, 20th Nov. 1652, he returned to
Edinburgh, where he preached till the res
toration of Episcopacy drove him from his
pulpit and compelled him to retire to Inver-
esk, 7th Aug. 1662. He died at Edinburgh,
10th March 1666. He marr. (1) Elizabeth,
daugh. of David Watson, min. of Killeavy,
Ireland, by whom he had fifteen children ;
of whom Archibald, min. of Killinchy,
Jane, Mary, Margaret, and Elizabeth, only
arrived at maturity : (2) Anna, daugh. of
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Sir James Pringle of Galashiels, and widow
of William Inglis, W.S., who in her old
age (being 80 years) and poverty on 10th
Feb. 1687 presented a petition to the
Exchequer ; she was buried 5th Sept. 1691
(Charity Papers}. [Edin. Counc., Canon-
gate (Bur.), and Test. Regs.; Livingstone s
Charac.; NicolFs, Lament s, and Brodie s
Diaries ; Reid s Ireland, Acts of Ass., and
Part. ; Reg. Sec. Sig., Peterkin s Rec. ;
Baillie s Lett., ii., iii. ; Stevenson s and
Wodrow s Hists., and Select. Biog., i. ;
Hamilton MSS., edited by T. K. Lowry;
Diet. Nat. Biog.~\
ANDREW KINNEAR, M.A. (Edin
burgh, 19th July 1660) ; ord. to East
Calder 24th April 1663 ; elected by
the Town Council 28th Oct., trans, and
adm. soon after ; died before 24th March
1682, aged about 42. He niarr. 10th Sept.
1668, Marion Mason, and had issue Alex
ander, bapt. 5th July 1670 ; Jean, bapt.
7th Sept. 1671 ; Andrew, bapt. 19th Oct.
1672; Barbara, bapt. 20th March 1674;
James, bapt. llth July 1675 ; William,
bapt. 13th May 1678 ; Andrew, bapt. 26th
Sept. 1679; Margaret, bapt. 18th Feb.
1681 (marr. 15th Dec. 1705, John Car-
michael, writer, Edinburgh); Elizabeth,
buried in Grey friars, 4th July 1694 ; Andrew
(posthumous), 8th Aug. 1682. {Edin.
Counc., Guild, and Reg. (Marr. and
Bapt.)}
1683
JOHN FARQUHAR, regent in Mari-
schal College, Aberdeen, 1674; min. of
the Tron Parish, Edinburgh, 1677;
elected by the Town Council 24th March
1683, and adm. soon after ; dep. by the
Commissioners of Assembly Jan. 1691, for
declining the authority of the Church.
What became of him is unknown. [Edin.
Counc. Reg. ; MS. Ace. of Min., 1689.]
GEORGE CAMPBELL, son of George
1690 ^ Wf i ter > Inveraray; educated at
Glasgow and Edinburgh Univs. ;
M.A. (Edinburgh 1656); licen. by Presb.
of Dumfries 20th July 1658; called same
day by the Town Council and Kirk-session,
and adm. llth Oct. 1658. He was
imprisoned at Edinburgh with his colleague
in 1661, for refusing to keep the anni
versary of the Restoration, and deprived
by Act of Parliament llth June, and of
Privy Council 1st Oct. 1662. The Privy
Council indulged him at Loudoun 3rd Sept.
1672, but like many others he declined,
and was again imprisoned 17th Sept. 1684.
On being liberated he fled to Holland ; re
turned in 1687 ; became min. of a meeting
house in Dumfries 1688 ; was restored to
the First Charge there 25th April 1690 ;
and shortly afterwards adm. min. of this
parish, holding in conjunction the Pro
fessorship of Divinity in the Univ. He
was on the commission for visiting schools
and colleges the same year ; died 3rd July
1701. From his habit of early rising, in
opposition to that of his friend, Principal
Rule, who was accustomed to sit late into
the night, he was styled "the Morning
Star," and on hearing of Rule s death (only
twenty-six days before his own), he quaintly
observed, " the Evening Star has now gone
down, and the Morning Star will soon dis
appear." He marr. (1) Rose (buried 4th
June 1676), daugh. of Hew Henderson,
his colleague at Dumfries, and had
issue Janet, bapt. 5th March 1665 ;
Margaret, bapt. 30th Dec. 1666 : (2) Marion
Fyfe (buried 22nd March 1696), and had
issue James, bapt. 18th July 1685 ;
Marion ; Christian (marr., procl. 27th Sept.
1696, George Chalmers, min. of Kilwin-
ning): (3) 4th Feb. 1697, Catherine,
daugh. of Robert Blair, min. of St Andrews.
[Edin. Reg. (Marr., Bapt., and Bur.) ;
Edin. Chr. Inst., xxv. ; Leven and Melv.
Pap. ; Calamy s Ace., ii. ; Wodrow s Anal.,
iii., and Hist., iii., iv. ; Acts Parl., ix. ;
Grant s Univ., ii.]
JOHN ORR, licen. by Presb. of Hamil
ton 27th Dec. 1687 ; ord. to Bothwell
26th Sept. 1688 ; app. by the Presb.
9th Dec. 1702 ; trans, and adm. 1703; died
25th Jan. 1707, in 44th year. He marr.
Grizel (died after 1745), daugh. of Andrew
Myreton, min. of Carmunnock (Lanark Sas.,
xiv., 108), and had issue Andrew, min. of
Carluke ; John ; David ; Jean ; Elizabeth ;
Grizel; Janet. [Test. (Edin., Glasg., and
Lan.) and Edin. Reg. (Bur.).}
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[PRESB. OF
WILLIAM MITCHELL, trans, from
I7oa Canongate ; called 17th May, app.
by the Presb. 23rd, and adm. 27th
June 1708 ; trans, to High Kirk Parish 5th
Feb. 1721.
JAMES CRAIG, bapt. 5th Sept. 1669,
1*721 secon d son of John C., Thornton-
loch ; educated at Univ. of Edin
burgh ; M.A. (9th July 1694) ; ord. to
Yester 15th April 1701 ; trans, to Dunbar
26th Nov. 1718; called 17th Nov. 1720;
trans, and adm. 16th March 1721 ; died
31st Jan. 1731. He marr. Margaret
Oswald, who survived him, by whom he
had fifteen or sixteen children, of whom
Margaret, who marr. 10th Dec. 1729, Thomas
Hay, baker, Edinburgh (Edin. Marr. Reg.),
and another only survived him. Publica
tions Spiritual Life, or Poems on Divine
Subjects (Edinburgh, 1727) ; Sermons (3
vols., Edinburgh, 1733-8, of which two in
the first vol. were published singly, Edin
burgh, 1732). [Wodrow s Anal., Brown s
Gospel Truth.]
PATRICK CUMIN [CUMING], burn
1732
1695, eldest son of Robert C. of
Relugas ; M.A. (Edinburgh, 4th May
1716); chaplain to Lord -Justice-Clerk
Grange ; licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith
5th Jan., and ord. to Kirkmahoe 18th
Aug. 1720 ; trans, to Lochmaben 30th
March 1725; called 18th Nov. 1731;
trans, and adm. 20th Jan. 1732; Pro
fessor of Church History, Edinburgh
Univ., 1737-62; Moderator of Assembly
llth May 1749; D.D. (Edinburgh 1752);
a second time Moderator 14th May 1752 ;
a third time, 20th May 1756; died 1st
April 1776. He marr. 7th Dec. 1732, Jean
(died 23rd Nov. 1769), eldest daugh. of
David Lauder of Huntlywood, advocate,
youngest son of Lord Fountainhall and
Margaret Maxwell of Pollok, and had
issue Robert, Professor of Church His
tory, Edinburgh Univ., 1762-88; John,
born 30th .Nov. 1738; Patrick, Professor of
Oriental Languages, Glasgow Univ., 1761-
1814, born llth Oct. 1741, died 27th Oct.
1820 ; George, of Relugas, W.S., born 31st
March 1746, died 2nd Oct. 1804 ; Thomas,
surgeon, born 20th Nov. 1749, died in India
1776 ; Jean, born 3rd March 1753, died
1775. He was much consulted in regard
to Patronage by Archibald, Duke of
Argyll. For some years before Principal
Robertson rose to eminence in the General
Assembly he was leader of the Moderate
party. Publications Three single Ser
mons (1726-60) ; The Flight of the Timorous
Clergyman. [Wodrow s Anal., Moncreiff s
Life of Erskine, Morren s Ann., Mackenzie s
Life of Home, Carlyle s Autob., Douglas s
Bar. ; Erskine s Disc., i. ; Grant s Univ. of
Edin., ii. ; Somerville s Autobiography.]
ROBERT HENRY, born 1st March 1718,
son of James H., farmer, Muirton,
St Ninians ; educated at the Parish
School, Stirling Grammar School, and
Univ. of Edinburgh; master of the
Grammar School of Annan ; licen. by
Presb. of Annan 27th March 1746 ; ord.
min. of the Presbyterian congregation at
Carlisle 4th Nov. 1748 ; trans, to the High
Meeting, Berwick-upon-Tweed, 13th Aug.
1760 ; trans, to New Grey friars, Edinburgh,
24th May 1768; D.D. (Edinburgh, 24th
July 1770) ; Moderator of Assembly 1774
(his first appearance as a member) ; trans.
and adm. 19th Dec. 1776. He had a
pension of 100 yearly, 28th May 1781, "in
consideration of his distinguished talents
and great literary merit " ; died 24th Nov.
1790, and was buried in Polmont Church
yard. The great achievement of his life
was the History of Great Britain, a work
now forgotten, but of which David Hume
remarked that there " could hardly be found
in our language any performance that unites
together so perfectly the two great points of
entertainment and instruction." He devised
and carried into effect in 1762 a scheme for
the widows and orphans of Nonconformist
ministers in the North of England. A few
days before his death he bequeathed his
library to the Town Council and Presbytery
of Linlithgow, as a foundation for one which
might be used by the public. He marr. 26th
June 1763, Ann Balderston, who died 15th
Feb. 1800, without issue. Publications
The History of Great Britain, 6 vols. the
last vol. being posthumous, was edited by
Sir H. Moncreiff Wellwood, with additions
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by Malcolm Laing (London, 1771-93 ;
5th ed., 12 vols., 1823 ; translated into
French, 1789-96) ; Revelation the most
Effectual Means of Civilising and Reform
ing Mankind, a sermon (Edinburgh, 1773.
He translated Goguet s Origin of Laivs,
Arts, and Sciences, 3 vols. (Edinburgh,
1761). [Hist., vi. ; Nimmo s Stirlingsh. ;
Scots Mag., liii. ; Transactions Antiq. Soc.,
i., 1792 ; Diet. Nat. Biog.}
HENRY GRIEVE, born 1736 ; licen. by
Presb. of Dunbar 4th April 1759 ;
ord. to Twynholm 30th March 1762 ;
trans, to Eaglesham 16th Sept. 1762 ; trans.
to Dalkeith 7th June 1765; D.D. (St
Andrews 1775); Moderator of Assembly
1783 ; Chaplain in Ordinary to the King
1784 ; trans, to New Greyfriars, Edinburgh,
22nd July 1789 ; pres, by the Town Council ;
trans, and adm. 27th April 1791 ; died 10th
Feb. 1810. He marr. 14th June 1762, Janet
Home, who died 14th March 1810, and had
issue Henry Home, min. of Crichton ;
and David, John, Christian, Alexander,
who died in childhood. Publications
Observations on the Overture concerning
Patronage (anon., Edinburgh, 1769) ; Three
occasional Sermons (Edinburgh, 1784-96).
[Brown s Fun. Sei*m.]
THOMAS MACKNIGHT, born 15th
Aug. 1762, son of James M., D.D.,
min. of Old Kirk Parish ; educated
at High School and Univ. of Edinburgh ;
licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 30th April
1788 ; ord. to Canongate (Second Charge),
17th Feb. 1791 ; assistant junior clerk of
Assembly 1802 ; trans, to Trinity Parish,
Edinburgh, 21st June 1804; junior clerk
of Assembly 1808 ; D.D. (Edinburgh 1808) ;
pres. by the Town Council, trans, and adm.
15th May 1810; Moderator of Assembly
18th May 1820 ; died 21st Jan. 1836. His
great learning in various branches of know
ledge, pointed him out as well fitted for a
professorial chair. He taught the Greek
and Natural Philosophy classes with great
distinction, and was a candidate for the
Chair of Mathematics in 1805, when Sir
John Leslie was appointed. He marr. 18th
April 1808, Christian Crawfurd (born 31st
July 1780, died 29th Jan. 1862), eldest
daugh. of Thomas Macknight of Ratho,
and had issue Christian Crawfurd, born
17th Jan. 1809, died 18th Jan. 1890 (marr.
13th July 1840, Robert Hamilton, W.S.) ;
James, W.S., born 23rd Sept. 1810, died
6th Nov. 1878; Thomas, M.D., born llth
March 1812; William, born 29th Aug.
1813; Samuel Arthur, born 19th Sept.
1815, died 16th May 1816; Alexander
Edward, advocate, born 23rd July 1817,
died 8th June 1899; Charles Hamilton,
born 13th Aug. 1819. Publications A
Discourse, addressed to the Volunteers of
Leith (Edinburgh, 1795) ; Account of the
Rev. Dr Macknight. [Trans, of the
Epistles, 2nd ed.]
OLD KIRK PARISH (Q.S.).
[By the passing of the Annuity Tax Aboli
tion Act (23rd July 1860), the Old Kirk
Parish was deprived of its ecclesiastical
endowment and of all the benefits of a
parochial ministry, the Ecclesiastical Com
missioners not making an appointment,
either permanent or ad interim, as had
been left to their discretion, but steps were
at once taken to continue the charge by
voluntary endowment. For some years
the congregation met in the south transept
of St Giles, and the session held regular
meetings, presided over by Dr David Arnot,
of the High Kirk, appointed Moderator
during the vacancy. The Presbytery elder
was elected, and all ecclesiastical rights and
privileges continued as before. Tn 1869
the congregation ceased to worship in
St Giles, and services were held in a hall
in Blackfriars Street. On 19th June 1872,
a petition was presented to the Court of
Teinds for the erection and constitution of
a church and parish quoad sacra, but was
opposed by the Magistrates of Edinburgh,
the Court, 9th Feb. 1874, refusing the
petition. A site at the south-west corner
of St John Street being secured for a
church, and approved by the Presbytery,
the present church was built thereon, and
decree of disjunction and erection granted,
13th March 1882. The new parish quoad
sacra includes all the old parish, plus the
OLD KIRK PARISH LADY GLENORCHY S [PRESB. OF
piece of ground on which church and halls
now stand disjoined from Canongate Parish
immediately adjoining. The church was
opened llth June 1882.]
1883
JAMES ANDERSON, born Conniven
farmhouse, Kirkgunzeon, 22nd Nov.
1840 ; educated at St Andrews Univ.
and Congregational Hall, Edinburgh ; ord.
in Augustine Church, Edinburgh, a mis
sionary to China, 28th June 1865, under
the London Missionary Society; laboured
in Hong-Kong and Canton for five years,
returned, because of illness, to Scotland,
1870 ; ind. to Elgin Congregational Church
Sept. 1872, and to Norwood, London, 1879 ;
adm. a min. of the Church of Scotland
May 1882; adm. to this charge 20th
Dec. 1883 ; died 4th Aug. 1894. He marr.
29th June 1865, Mary Jemima, second
daugh. of William Walker, Kirkcaldy, who,
on her husband s death, became a deaconess
of the Church of Scotland, and laboured
for the Church s Mission in China ; she
died in Edinburgh, 25th Nov. 1905. The
" Anderson Memorial Dispensary " at Ichang
was built in 1909 from a legacy by Mrs
Anderson for this purpose. [See A Mission
ary Minister ; Memorials of the Rev. James
Anderson, with Selections from his Sermons,
and a preface by Arch. Scott, D.D. (Edin.,
1895).]
THOMAS WILLIAM GRANT
SUTHERLAND, M.A., B.D. (Edin
burgh) ; ord. (assistant and successor)
16th May 1894; trans, to Innerwick 16th
Nov. 1906.
1894
1907
JAMES RICHMOND AITKEN, born
Auchenlochan, Kilfinan, Argyllshire,
22nd June 1865, third son of James
A., builder and contractor, Glasgow, and
Jessie Richmond ; educated at Glasgow
Univ. and Regent s Park College, London ;
M.A. (Glasgow, April 1891); min. of the
Baptist Church at Pitlochry 1893-4, at
Olney, Bucks, 1894-8, at Dunnington,
Warwickshire, 1898-1906; adm. to the
Church of Scotland May 1906, and licen.
by Presb. of Edinburgh Sept. 1906 ; assist
ant at St Stephen s, Edinburgh ; ord. 6th
March 1907. Marr. 2nd Sept. 1897, Ger
trude, eldest daugh. of Rev. Joseph Allen,
B.A., Olney, and has issue Marguerite,
born 27th Dec. 1898; Ronald Richmond,
born 14th Sept. 1900 ; Malcolm, born 15th
Jan. 1904, died 19th Jan. 1904. Publica
tions Love in its Tenderness (London,
1901) ; The Sins of a Saint (London, 1903) ;
The Christ of the Men of Art (Edinburgh,
1913); A City Garden (London, 1913);
My Garden of the Red, Red Rose (London,
1913).
LADY GLENORCHY S
[Founded by Willielma, Viscountess
Glenorchy, Oct. 1772; opened 8th May
1774 ; and conveyed to five Trustees, 26th
Jan. 1786. The constitution was revised
20th May 1837, when the Trustees obtained
an Act of Parliament (1 & 2 Viet. cap. 22),
which extended and explained their powers.
It was then constituted a parish quoad
sacra. In 1845 the chapel was acquired
from the Trustees on erection of the
North British Railway Station. After a
protracted litigation Roxburgh Place
Chapel was purchased in 1856, and a
parish quoad sacra was created by the
Court of Teinds on 2nd July 1862. New
church and halls were built 1909-12, and
opened 10th Dec. 1913.]
FRANCIS SHERRIFF, born 1750, son
177? of Francis S., Dremhills, East
Lothian ; educated at Musselburgh
School and Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A.
(1770); through the influence of John
Home, author of Douglas, he was for a
time tutor in a nobleman s family, and
afterwards a clerk in the War Office. In
1771 he visited Jamaica, and on his return
was licen. by the Presb. of Haddington,
30th March 1773; ord. 6th July 1775,
chaplain (assistant) to General Houston s
Regt. of the Scots Brigade in Holland ;
app. by Lady Glenorchy, and adm. 12th
Nov. 1777 ; died unmarr. 12th June 1778.
[Lady Glenorchy s Account, Wood s Hist.
of Cramond, Jones s Life of Lady
Glenorchy. ]
EDINBURGH]
LADY GLENORCHY S
79
1779
THOMAS SNELL JONES, born 1754,
a native of Gloucester ; educated at
the Nonconformist Academy of Tre-
vecca, in Wales ; assisted for two years an
aged clergyman at Plymouth, when he
became known to Lady Glenorchy, and was
invited to be min. of her chapel. With this
view he was ord. by the Scots Presbytery
in London, 9th June 1779, and adm. 25th
July following. D.D. (Aberdeen 1810);
died 3rd March 1837. He marr. (1) Eliza
beth Pay ton, who died 10th Sept. 1780,
aged 26, and had issue Elizabeth Payton,
died Dec. 1848, aged 68 : (2) Mary Belshes,
who died 27th May 1786, aged 35 : (3) Anne
Gardner, who died 6th May 1822, aged 70,
and had issue Thomas, banker, Leith, died
3rd May 1868, aged 75; Anne, born 18th
July 1790, died 4th Jan. 1885; John, died
19th Nov. 1861, aged 69. Publications
Mankind Accountable Creatures, a sermon
(Edinburgh, 1786) ; A Sermon on the Death
of Lady Glenorchy (Edinburgh, 1788); Ser
mons (Edinburgh, 1816) ; Address delivered
at the Baptism of Joseph Davis, a converted
Jew (Grey s Sermon, Edinburgh, 1820) ; The
Life of Willielma, Viscountess Glenorchy
(Edinburgh, 1822). [Anderson s Sketches,
Hunter s and Makellar s Fun. Serms. ;
Tombst., Haldane s Mem., Hanna s Life of
Chalmers, Duncan s Elog. Sepulchr., Kay s
Portr.}
GREVILLE EWING, born Edinburgh,
1767, son of Alexander E., teacher
of mathematics, and Isobel Gray;
educated at the High School, Edinburgh ;
apprenticed to an engraver, but afterwards
studied for the ministry at the univ. of his
native city. He became tutor in the
family of Lockhart of Castlehill, and was
licen. by Presb. of Hamilton 25th Sept.
1792. His gifts and popularity as a
preacher pointed him out to the Trustees,
by whom he was nominated 22nd June,
and he was ord. (colleague) 17th Oct. 1793.
Devotedly attached to the cause of
missions, he established the Missionary
Magazine, the first religious periodical
north of the Tweed. Having adopted
sentiments inimical to a National Estab
lishment of Religion, he demitted his
charge and was declared no longer a min.
of the church, 26th Dec. 1798. From
1799 to 1836 he ministered to a large
congregation at the Glasgow Tabernacle,
under the auspices of the Haldanes of
Airthrey, and was for the same period
tutor of the Glasgow Theological Academy
a Congregationalist foundation. The
introduction of Congregationalism into
Scotland owed much to his efforts. He
had D.D. conferred by an American college
in 1821, but did not adopt it, and died
1st Aug. 1841. He marr. (1) 13th Nov.
1794, Anne (died 23rd Aug. 1795, aged
20), daugh. of James Innes, min. of Yester :
(2) Janet Jamieson, died 18th Jan. 1801,
aged 23, and had issue Janet (marr. James
Matheson, D.D., Durham) : (3) 15th Nov.
1802, Barbara, daugh. of Sir James Maxwell
of Pollock, Bart., killed by the overturning
of a carriage near the Falls of Clyde, 14th
Sept. 1828, aged 55. Publications Five
single Sermons (Edinburgh, 1797-1834);
Animadversions on a Pamphlet entitled
Lay-preaching Indefensible on Scripture
Principles (Glasgow, 1800); Remarks on
Mr Dick s Sermon concerning the Qualifi
cations and Call of Missionaries (1801) ;
Rudiments of the Greek Language (Edin
burgh, 1801) ; The Ignorance of the Heathen
and the Conduct of God toivards them, a
sermon preached before the L.M.S. (London,
1802); A Greek Grammar and Greek and
English Scripture Lexicon (Edinburgh,
1802; 2nd ed., Glasgow, 1812; 3rd ed.,
1827); An Attempt toivards a Statement of
the Doctrine of Scripture on the Govern
ment of the Church (Glasgow, 1807); Facts
and Documents respecting the Connexions
which have subsisted between Robert Hal-
dane, Esq., and G. E. (Glasgow, 1809);
Essays to the Jews, 2 vols. (1809-10); An
Essay on baptism (Glasgow, 1823) ; Memoir
of Barbara Swing (Glasgow, 1829) ; Ser
mon III. in " Sermons by Ministers of the
Congregational Union" (Glasgow, 1823);
editor of the Missionary Magazine, vols.
i. to iii. (Edinburgh, 1796-9). [Wardlaw s
Fun. Serm., Haldane s Mem., Kay s Por
traits, Tombst.; Memoir by his daughter,
J. J. Matheson, 1843; Ross s Hist, of
80
LADY GLENORCHY S LADY YESTER S
[PKESB. OF
Congregational Independency in Scotland,
Eraser s Maxwells of Pollok, Diet. Nat.
Biog.]
JOHN PURVES, nom. (assistant and
1826 successor ) by the Trustees, and ord.
14th April 1826 ; res. 27th Oct. 1830
on presentation to Jedburgh.
JAMES BEGG, trans, from Maxwell-
town ; nom. by the Trustees (assistant
and successor), and adm. 23rd Dec.
1830 ; trans, to Middle Church, Paisley,
25th Nov. 1831.
1831
THOMAS LIDDELL, trans, from Mon-
trose Chapel-of-Ease; nom. (assistant
and successor) by the Trustees, and
adm. 22nd Dec. 1831 ; res. on app. as first
Principal of Queen s College, Kingston,
Canada, 27th Oct. 1841 ; [afterwards min.
of Lochmaben].
GEORGE RAMSAY DAVIDSON, born
1842 Brechin, 1801, son of David D. ;
educated at Brechin Grammar
School and St Andrews Univ. ; MA.
(1820); licen. by Presb. of St Andrews
25th June 1823; ord. to Drumblade 8th
May 1828 ; trans, and adm. 14th July
1842. Joined the Free Church ; min. of
Free Lady Glenorchy s, Edinburgh, 1843;
D.D. (St Andrews); died 17th May 1890.
He marr. 8th June 1830, Jessie (died 10th
Sept. 1876), daugh. of William Lumsden,
architect, Edinburgh, and had issue Eliza
Maule, born 4th March 1831 (marr. 13th
June 1851, Sir Thomas Clark, Bart.);
Mary, born 15th Feb. 1833 (marr.
Alexander Cusin, her father s successor, in
Lady Glenorchy s Free Church) ; George
Ramsay, born 29th Jan. 1836 ; David
William, born 12th Feb. 1838. Publica
tions Privilege and Duty, a Pastoral
Address (Edinburgh, 1845); Britain s Past
Policy, Penitence, and Pledge, a sermon
(Edinburgh, 1857); Account of the Parish
of Drumblade (New Stat. Ace., xii.).
DANIEL M LAREN, ord. 29th Jan.
1863; trans, to Carluke 19th
loDO ._ _
March 1874.
JOHN GRIGOR, trans, from Fullarton,
1874 I rv i ne > an d adm. 24th Sept. 1874 ;
trans, to St David s, Glasgow, 16th
Nov. 1876.
ANDREW FYFE BURNS, MA. ; trans,
from St James s, Kirkcaldy, and adm.
17th May 1877 ; trans, to St George s,
Paisley, 21st March 1882.
THOMAS BURNS, born 3rd March 1853,
1882 son of Thomas B., min. of Lesma-
hagow; educated at Glasgow High
School and Univ. ; licen. by Presb. of
Glasgow May 1876 ; assistant at St George s
Parish, Glasgow; ord. to Melville Parish,
Montrose, 8th Nov. 1877 ; trans, and adm.
30th Aug. 1882 ; governor of George Heriot s
Trust 1890; chairman of Royal Blind
Asylum 1894 ; deputy - chairman, Edin
burgh School Board 1903 ; convener of the
General Assembly s Committee on Benefice
Register and Records of the Church ; D.D.
(Glasgow 1906) ; F.R.S.E., F.S.A.Scot. He
marr. 3rd June 1890, Sarah Frances Town-
send, daugh. of Charles Wilson Murray of
Croston Towers, Alderly Edge, and grand
daughter of Sir Hugh Lyon Playfair,
LL.D., St Andrews, and has issue Agnes
Mary Frances, born 26th April 1891 ;
Reginald Thomas Murray, born 9th Aug.
1892 ; Norman Frederick MacGregor, born
4th April 1902. Publications Old Scottish
Communion Plate (Edinburgh, 1896) ;
American Educational Institutions and
Methods (1901) ; Benefice Lectures, de
livered at the four Scottish Universities
(Edinburgh, 1905).
LADY TESTER S.
[Founded by Margaret, third daugh. of
Mark, first Earl of Lothian, and wife of
James, seventh Lord Hay of Yester. She
died 15th March 1647. The church was
badly damaged by Cromwell s soldiers
in Nov. 1650, but being restored, was
erected into a parish church, 24th Aug.
1655, for the south-east portion of the
city. During the Episcopacy it was shut
up and the parish annexed to the Tron.
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LADY TESTER S
81
From 1687 to 1691 the parishioners of the
Canongate used it while their own church
was in process of building, and it was
afterwards reconstituted as a parish. The
present edifice dates from 8th Dec. 1805.]
JOHN STIRLING, M.A. ; trans, from
Tron Parish on the appointment of
the Town Council 3rd Sept. 1655.
In the same month he employed Patrick
Gillespie, who had been deposed, to preach
for him on a week day, which gave umbrage
to his brethren and many others. While
engaged with other Protesters in drawing
up a new Remonstrance, he was appre
hended and committed prisoner to the
Castle, 23rd Aug. 1660, Avhere he continued
till the following year, when he was
brought before the Lords of the Articles,
25th Sept. For subscribing the Remon
strance, his stipend was sequestrated by the
Committee of Estates, but it was allowed
to be paid by Act of Parliament, 13th
March 1661. He was deprived by the
Privy Council, 1st Oct. 1662, for not
conforming to Episcopacy, and ordered to
leave the city with his family. Similar
authority, however, gave him leave to
return for twenty days, 22nd June 1665,
and on 20th July he was allowed till 1st
Sept. After being " indulged ;; at Hounam,
he became min. at Irvine. [EJin. Counc.
Reg., Lament s and NicolFs Diaries, Kirk-
ton s and Wodrow s Ilistx. ; Acts Parl., vii. ;
Baillie s Lett.]
THOMAS WILKIE, born 1638, a native
1691 ^ ^ ie Border (probably Bowden) ;
M.A. (Edinburgh, 14th July 1659);
ord. to a charge in London ; adm. min. of
Galashiels 1665, of North Leith 1672, of
the Tolbooth (Second Charge) 1687;
elected by the Town Council, and adm.
30th Oct. 1691 ; clem. 21st April 1708 ;
died 7th Jan. 1715. He had sasine of an
annual rent of 300 merks out of the lands
of Feirltenowis and Bewlie in Lilliesleaf ;
and gifted to the church four silver
communion cups. He marr. (1) 4th April
1665, Margaret, daugh. of James Hepburn
of Eastcraig, North Berwick, and had issue
John, W.S., born 1670, died 26th May
1704; George of Bridgehcugh, W.S., died
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1730
March 1716 : (2) 7th June 1704, Margaret
Alexander, widow of George Paul, maltman
in South Leith. [Edin. Counc., N. Berwick
tiess., and Reg. (Bur.) ; New Gen. Reg. Sas.,
xxiv. ; Hall s Gcdashieh.~\
WILLIAM MILLER, M.A. ; trans, from
Meigle ; called 17th May ; app. by
Presb. 9th, and adm. 18th July 1708 ;
trans, to Old Greyfriars 22nd Jan. 1721.
WILLIAM BROWN, M.A. ; trans, from
1721 South Leith, Second Charge ; called
19th Aug. and 17th Nov. 1720 ; adm.
19th Jan. 1721 ; trans, to Old Greyfriars
23rd July 1730.
JOHN GOWDIE, trans, from Earlston ;
called 31st March, and adm. 23rd July
1730; trans, to New North Parish
14th Dec. 1732.
ARCHIBALD GIBSON, M.A. (Edin-
1732 k ur h> 28t; h ^ av 1^14) ; tutor in the
family of Sir Robert Stewart of
Tillicoultry, Bart. ; licen. by Presb. of
Dunblane 30th July 1718 ; ord. to Dun
blane 18th Aug. 1719; trans, to St Ninians
5th June 1728 ; called by the General
Session 31st Aug., trans, and adm. 14th
Dec. 1732 ; died 2nd Feb. 1733, in 40th year.
He marr. (cont. 5th Oct. 1721) Margaret,
second daugh. of Robert Tod, merchant,
burgess of Edinburgh, and had issue John,
min. of St Cuthbert s. Publication Not
Ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, a sermon
(Edinburgh, 1732). [Reg. (Bur.).}
WILLIAM ROBERTSON, trans, from
Borthwick ; called 23rd Aug., and
adm. 22nd Nov. 1733 ; trans, to Old
Greyfriars 10th Oct. 1736.
ROBERT HAMILTON, trans, from
Cramond ; called by the Town
Council and General Session 29th
April 1736 (the kirk-session declaring "he
cannot be of use in that church, because of
his low voice " ) ; he was, however, a highly
successful min. ; adm. 7th Oct. 1736 ;
trans, to Old Greyfriars 6th Dec. 1750.
[Edin. Chr. Inst., xxv. ; Morren s Ann., ii.]
JOHN JARDINE, trans, from Liberton ;
called 26th July, and adm. 6th Dec.
1750; trans, to Tron Parish llth
Oct. 1754.
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1736
1750
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LADY YESTEITS
[PEESB. OF
HUGH BLAIR, MA. ; trans, from
1754 Canongate, Second Charge ; called
8th March, and adm. llth Oct.
1754; trans, to Trinity Parish 28th Feb.
1756. A delay having occurred over his
admission to Trinity Parish, his translation
was fixed for St Giles instead, 15th June
1758. This was affirmed by the General
Assembly 2nd June 1758. [Acts of Ass.,
1758 ; Kay s Portr., i. ; Morren s Ann.,
ii. ; etc.]
WILLIAM ROBERTSON, trans, from
1758 Gladsmuir; called 13th Aug. 1756,
but, owing to delay in the transla
tion of Dr Blair, not adm. till 15th June
1758; trans, to Old Grey friars 29th April
1761. The kirk-session appealed ; the
translation, however, was confirmed by
the Synod 5th May, and by the General
Assembly 26th May thereafter. [Carlyle s
Autob.; Acts of Ass., 1761 ; etc.]
JOHN HYNDMAN, born 1723, son of
1761 J nn -H- j shipmaster, Greenock ;
educated at Glasgow Univ. ; ord. to
Colinton 25th Nov. 1746 ; trans, to St
Cuthbert s, Edinburgh, 20th Feb. 1752;
D.D. (King s College, Aberdeen, 1761);
called 25th June, trans, and adm. 26th
Oct. 1761; died 10th Aug. 1762. Carlyle
of Inveresk, one of his intimates, char
acterised him as "a clever fellow, a good
preacher, and a ready debater." He marr.
5th Jan. 1747, Margaret Dalrymple of
Dreghorn, who died sp. Dec. 1811. Pub
lications A Just View of the Constitution
of the Church of Scotland, and of the
Proceedings of the General Assembly, in
Relation to the Deposition of Mr Gillespie
(Edinburgh, 1753, anon.), (which called
forth other pamphlets, particularly Wither-
spoon s Ecclesiastical Characteristics) ; a
Sermon on Proverbs xiv. 34 (Edinburgh,
1761). [Rig. (Bur.\ Carlyle s Autob.,
Murray s Biog. Ann.; Morren s Ann., ii.]
JOHN DRYSDALE, trans, from Kirk
liston ; pres. by the Town Council
1st Dec. 1762, by a majority of 23
to 5. the first instance of an appointment
by presentation since the Revolution. A
protracted litigation ensued before the civil
and ecclesiastical courts. It was main
tained that the Town Council had only a
joint right with the ministers and elders,
or general session, to call and settle
ministers in the city, but the Court of
Session found, 18th Feb. 1763, "that the
Magistrates and Town Council have the
sole privilege, exclusive of, and without
consulting the ministers and kirk sessions,
of presenting ministers to all the vacant
churches within the city," which decision
the House of Lords affirmed 13th March
1764. The General Assembly, 17th May
following, sustained the call, and he was
adm. 14th Aug. thereafter ; trans, to the
Tron Parish 29th April 1767. [Scots Mag.,
1764, xxvi., pp. 237-48 ; Morren s Ann., ii. ;
Carlyle s Autob. ; Kay s Portr., i.]
WILLIAM GLOAG, trans, from Cock-
pen ; called by the Town Council
and general session 27th Feb., and
adm. 22nd Oct. 1767; trans, to the New
North Parish 21st July 1772.
JAMES MACKNIGHT, D.D. ; trans.
f rom Jedburgh ; called 28th Nov.
1771; adm. 21st July 1772; trans,
to the Old Kirk Parish 26th Nov. 1778.
THOMAS RANDALL, trans, from East
?7 Parish, Glasgow ; called 30th March,
and adm. 26th Nov. 1778 ; trans, to
the Tolbooth Parish 9th June 1785.
WILLIAM SIMPSON, trans, from More-
battle ; pres. by the Town Council,
and adm. 9th June 1785; trans, to
Tron Parish 2nd Aug. 1789.
JAMES FINLAYSON, M.A.; trans, from
17 Borthwick ; holding in conjunction
the professorship of Logic in the
Univ. of Edinburgh ; pres. by the Town
Council 30th Dec. 1789; adm. 29th July
1790; trans, to Old Greyfriars 9th Jan.
1794.
DAVID BLACK, born 1762, son of David
^ B., min. of Perth ; educated at Univ.
of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of
Perth 25th Aug. 1784; ord. to St Madoes
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LADY TESTER S
83
15th Sept. 1785 ; pres. by the Town Council
25th June, trans, and adm. 20th Nov. 1794 ;
died 24th Feb. 1806. He marr. 26th March
1795, Agnes (died 14th Sept. 1844), daugh.
of George Wood of Warriston, and had
issue Agnes, born 30th Jan. 1796, died
17th Oct. 1812 ; Jean MacVicar, born 30th
April 1797, died 6th Feb. 1799 ; Elizabeth,
born 20th Sept. 1798 ; Jean MacVicar,
born 24th May 1800 ; Veronica, born 15th
July 1802, died 31st Oct. 1816; David,
born 20th Feb. 1804 ; Bridget Bonar, born
4th June 1806, died 4th May 1819. Publi
cations Two single Sermons (Edinburgh,
1798-1803) ; Sermons on Important Sub
jects, with an Account of the Author
(Edinburgh, 1808) ; Account of St Madoes
(Sinclair s Stat. Ace., iii.). [Bonar s Serm.,
i. ; Kay s Portr., Haldane s Mem.}
1806
THOMAS FLEMING, born 1754, a
native of Kirkmichael, Perthshire ;
educated at the Parish School of
Blairgowrie and Perth Grammar School,
and at the Univs. of St Andrews and Edin
burgh ; tutor to the Haldanes of Airthrey ;
licen. by Presb. of Dundee 5th Nov. 1777;
ord. to Kirkmichael 29th April 1779 ; trans.
to Kenmore 24th Aug. 1780 ; trans, to
Kirkcaldy 10th July 1788 ; D.D. (Harvard,
U.S.A., 1804); pres. by the Town Council
18th June, trans, and adm. 23rd Oct. 1806 ;
died 19th July 1824. "The benevolent
institutions of the city reaped much
advantage from his friendly counsels and
aid. He was particularly attentive to
the affairs of George Heriot s Hospital, the
Orphan Hospital, the Edin. Education
Society, and the Society for Propagating
Christian Knowledge." He marr. 14th
Nov. 1780, Anne Robertson, who died 17th
April 1829, in 78th year, and had issue-
William, banker in Edinburgh, born 28th
Aug. 1786; Thomas, lieut. 1st Batt. Berar
Native Infantry, born 22nd Dec. 1797, died
March 1821 ; Maxwell, born 9th Aug. 1781
(marr. 7th Aug. 1807, George Muirhead,
D.D., min. of Cramond) ; Catherine, born
30th Jan. 1785 (marr. 28th March 1810,
George Lyon of Wester Ogill, W.S.) ;
Isabella, born 27th March 1783, died 9th
Sept. 1852 ; Grace, born 14th July 1790 ;
Anne Campbell, born 13th July 1792 ;
James, born 6th May 1794. Publications
Three single Sermons (Edinburgh, 1790-
1809); Sermons (Edinburgh, 1826); "A
Remarkable Agitation of the Waters of
Loch Tay" (Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin.); Ac
count of Kirkcaldy (Sinclair s Stat. Ace.,
xviii.) ; " Memoir of Robert Cathcart of
Drum " (Edin. Chr. Inst., vi.) ; Translated
the Shorter Catechism into Gaelic, and
assisted in revising the Gaelic Translation
of the Scriptures, published by the Society
for Propagating Christian Knowledge.
[Sermons, Tombst., Society Sermons; Scots
Mag., xciv. ; Stewart s Sermons (Mem.).]
JOHN LEE, D.D. ; trans, from Canon-
1825 & a ^ e > P res - by the Town Council in
1824 ; trans, and adm. 17th Feb.
1825 ; trans, to the Old Church 22nd Jan.
1835.
ARCHIBALD BENNIE, born Glasgow,
183g 1st Nov. 1797, fourth son of William
B., merchant; educated at Univ. of
Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow
Sept. 1820 ; ord. min. of Albion Street
Chapel, Glasgow, 6th March 1823 ; trans,
to Third Charge, Stirling, 28th Oct. 1824 ;
trans, to Second Charge 17th June 1825 ;
trans, to First Charge 31st March 1829 ; pres.
by the Town Council, trans, and adm. 24th
Sept. 1835 ; one of Her Majesty s Chaplains
in Ordinary ; Dean of the Chapel Royal
1841 ; D.D. (Glasgow, 10th Jan. 1845) ; died
at Dunoon 21st Sept. 1846. He marr. 9th
July 1827, Eliza (died 25th Nov. 1867),
only child of James Noble, collector of
Excise, Stirling, and had issue Ann
Young, born 10th May 1828 ; Agnes Mary,
born 7th Aug. 1829 ; James Noble, LL.D.,
Canon of Peterborough, born 6th Jan. 1831,
died 27th March 1899 ; Elizabeth Noble ;
Archibald, born 8th Nov. 1836. Publica
tions Five single Sermons, Christian
Benevolence, etc. (1825-39); Letter to Patrick
Arkley, Esq., Advocate (Edinburgh, 1846) ;
Discourses, with a Memoir, by Rev. John
Paul (Edinburgh, 1847). He edited the
Edin. Christian Instructor (Edinburgh,
1836, 1837, Third Series, 2 vols.). [Smith s
Scott. Clergy, i. ; Tombst.}
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LADY TESTER S MORNINGSIDE
[PRESB. OF
JOHN CAIRD, M.A.: trans, from
1847 Newton-on-Ayr, and adm. 6th May
1847 ; trans, to Errol 13th July 1849.
WILLIAM HENRY GRAY, trans, from
1850 St Paul s, Perth, and adm. 9th
May 1850 ; trans, to Liberton 3rd
June 1880.
CHARLES MACGREGOR, born
1880 Grantown-on-Spey, 24th April 1839,
son of William MacG. and Isabella
Grant ; educated at Grantown School and
Univ. of Aberdeen ; MA. (1861) ; school
master of Duthil 1861-7 ; licen. by Presb.
of Abernethy 6th May 1867 ; assistant at
Weem and Kenmore ; ord. to Ardoch
6th May 1869; trans, to Dornoch 12th
March 1874 ; trans, (assistant and successor)
East Church, Aberdeen, 7th Aug. 1877 ;
trans, and adm. 8th Doc. 1880; D.D.
(Aberdeen 1893). He marr. (1) 2nd Sept.
1873, Janetta (died 23rd July 1880), daugh.
of Duncan Campbell, min. of Moulin, and
has issue Duncan Campbell, merchant,
St Paul, Minnesota, born 6th June 1874;
Isobel Grant, born 15th Sept. 1875 (marr.
Hans Artner, merchant, Hamburg) : (2)
1st June 1882, Williamina, daugh. of
Samuel Blair, min. of Dairy, Galloway,
and has issue Caroline Isabella, born
28th March 1883 ; Blair, farmer in Canada,
born 2nd July 1884; Campbell, W.S.,
born 23rd July 1886.
JOHN MORRISON M LUCKIE, born
1910 Gartsherrie, Lanarkshire, 2nd July
1867, son of Colin M L. ; educated at
Gartsherrie Academy and Univ. of Glasgow ;
licen. by Presb. of Hamilton May 1891 ;
missionary at Newton, Cambuslang, 1891-9 ;
ord. to Scots Church, St Vincent, West
Indies, 13th Jan. 1897; app. to Ruthrieston,
Aberdeen, 1901, and ind. as first min. there,
15th Jan. 1903; trans, to Wallacetown,
Dundee, llth April 1906; trans, and adm.
(assistant and successor) 9th June 1910.
Marr. 27th Jan. 1897, Mabel Annie, daugh.
of William Henry Johnston, London and
has issue Joyce Elinor, born 2nd March
1905.
MAYFIELD (Q.S.).
[A church was opened 6th July 1879;
disjoined from Liberton and erected into a
parish quoad sacra, 12th March 1888.]
ALEXANDER NEIL, born Larbert,
1879 Stirlingshire, 7th June 1845, son of
Alexander N. and Jane Galloway
Russell ; educated at Falkirk Grammar
School and Glasgow Univ. ; licen. by Presb.
of Glasgow 10th June 1868; assistant at
Kingarth and St James s, Glasgow ; ord. to
Lochryan 23rd Jan. 1873 ; app. to Mayfield
Chapel (iron church) 7th Dec. 1877 ; ind.
as first min. 8th July 1879. Marr. 23rd
May 1882, Cecilia, daugh. of Patrick
Graham Morison of Cuilvona, Aberfoyle,
and has issue Cecilia M Gregor, born 17th
July 1883 ; Patrick Graham Morison, born
17th Sept. 1885, died 16th Dec. 1896; Jane
Russell, born 24th Feb. 1889, died 23rd
June 1902 ; Norman Alexander Gordon,
born 15th Jan. 1899.
MORNINGSIDE (Q.S.).
[Declared a parish quoad sacra by the
General Assembly, 19th May 1838; dis
joined from St Cuthbert s and erected by
the Court of Teinds, 20th July 1864.]
GEORGE SMEATON, missionary in the
1839 P ar i s h f North Leith ; elected 31st
Dec. 1838; ord. 14th March 1839;
trans, to Falkland 26th Aug. 1840 ; [after
wards Professor in the Free Church College,
Edinburgh].
THOMAS ADDIS, born London, 23rd
1841 ^ ec< 1813 > son f W^liam A. and
Ann Salmond ; educated at Perth
Academy and Univ. of St Andrews ; licen.
by Presb. of Edinburgh ; assistant at
South Leith; ord. 17th Dec. 1841. Joined
the Free Church ; min. of Morningside
Free Church 1843; D.D. (St Andrews):
died 18th July 1899. He marr. 30th Aug.
1842, Robina Scott (died 3rd April 1900),
daugh. of George Thorburn, merchant.
Leith, and had issue William, Snell Ex
hibitioner, formerly R.C. priest, vicar of
All Saints, Ennismore Gardens, London,
Master of Addis Hall, Oxford, 1910, joint
EDINBURGH]
MORNINGSIDE
author of the Catholic Dictionary and of
various theological works, born 9th May
1844; George Thorburn, banker, born
1846; Thomas Chalmers, Inland Revenue,
born 1847 ; David Foulis, I.C.S., born
1849 ; Annie Forrester, born 1851 (raarr.
Peter Graham, R.A., LL.D.) ; Susan
Foulis ; Robert Forrester Thorburn ;
Robina Scott, died young ; Henrietta
Thorburn (marr. Archibald Syme Black,
farmer, Bogany, Bute) ; Jane Thorburn
(marr. Alexander Martin, D.D., Professor
of Apologetics and Practical Theology,
New College, Edinburgh) ; Sir Charles
Stuart, banker, London ; Robina Scott
Thorburn (marr. Robert M. Adamson, U.F.
min., Ardrossan).
ROBERT WILLIAM MACGOUN, born
1844 Greenock, 9tn ^ av 18 13, son of John
M. and Janet Stuart ; educated at
Glasgow Univ. ; M.A. (1831) ; licen. by Presb.
of Glasgow ; missionary at Dumbarton and
Wallacetown, Ayr ; ord. 22nd March 1844 ;
res. 21st March 1864; died 9th Nov. 1871.
He marr. 28th July 1853, Isabella (died 30th
June 1903), daugh. of Robert Clarke of
Comrie, and Isabella Wellwood, and had
issue Isabella Wellwood Preston (de
ceased) ; Janet Anne Stuart ; Mary W ell-
wood ; John (deceased) ; Susan Catherine
Clarke; Hannah Clarke Preston, R.S.W.,
died 20th Aug. 1913 ; Robert ; William.
ANDREW GRAY, M.A. ; trans, from
1865 Mouswald, and adm. first min. of the
parish 19th Jan. 1865 ; trans, to St
John s, Glasgow, 1st Sept. 1867.
JOHN MARSHALL LANG, trans, from
1868 Anderston, Glasgow, and adm. 25th
June 1868; trans, to Barony, Glas
gow, 9th Jan. 1873.
MALCOLM CAMPBELL TAYLOR,
trans, from Crathie, and adm. 27th
._
Nov. 1873; res. 29th Oct. 1879, on
appointment as Professor of Church History,
Edinburgh Univ.
PEARSON M ADAM MUIR, trans, from
1880 Polmont, and adm. 24th Feb. 1880 ;
trans, to St Mungo s, Glasgow, 6th
Aug. 1896.
EBENEZER BROWN SPEIRS, born
1897 Millport, 20th Sept. 1854, son of
Andrew S. and Helen Gibb ; edu
cated at Free Church School, Millport,
Univ. of Glasgow, and Univ. of Gottingen ;
M.A. (Glasgow 1876), B.D. (Glasgow 1879) ;
licen. by Presb. of Glasgow ; assistant at
New Kilpatrick ; ord. to Glendevon 20th
Sept. 1881 ; trans, and adm. llth March
1897; D.D. (Glasgow 1897); died 26th
March 1900. He marr. 10th Jan. 1882,
Wilhelmina Amalie Marie, daugh. of
Louis Moritz Pancke, and had issue
Wanda, born 10th March 1883 (marr.
Walter Veitch) ; Margaret, born 9th March
1884 ; Louis Moritz, electrical engineer, born
23rd Oct. 1885 ; Marie, born 12th Jan. 1888 ;
Andrew, born 23rd Feb. 1890 ; Anna, born
22nd June 1891 ; Vera, born 2nd Dec.
1894. Publications Reviews and contribu
tions to magazines, etc., including article in
Chambers s Encyclopaedia on " Moravians "
and the "Moravian Church ; numerous
translations Erdmann s History of Philo
sophy ; Hegel s Lectures on the Philosophy
of Religion (1895) ; Harnack s History of
Dogma; see memorial volume of Ser
mons (1902).
ROBERT HOWIE FISHER, born 27th
190Q April 1861, son of Matthew F., min.
of Cross and Burness; educated at
George Watson s School and Univ., Edin
burgh ; M.A. (1880), B.D. (1884) ; licen. by
Presb. of Edinburgh May 1884 ; assistant at
St Bernard s, Edinburgh ; ord. to Skel-
morlie 20th Aug. 1885 ; trans, to Jedburgh
20th Nov. 1890; trans, to West Church, Aber
deen, 19th May 1896 ; trans, and adm. 2nd
Oct. 1900 ; D.D. (Edinburgh 1905) ; one of
H.M. Chaplains in Ordinary 1913; trans, and
adm. to St Cuthbert s, Edinburgh, 6th May
1914 (q.v.). He marr. (1) 5th Oct. 1886,
Margaret Ada (died 15th Jan. 1899), daugh.
of Robert Hutchison of Carlowrie, and has
issue Matthew George, advocate, born 31st
March 1888 ; Mary Tait, born 2nd Feb. 1891 ;
Charlotte Williamina Tait, born 26th Dec.
1895 : (2) 16th April 1906, Edith Mary,
daugh. of Robert Strathern, W.S., and
widow of William Percival Lindsay, W.S.
Publications Editor of Life and Work
86
MOBNINGSIDE NEWINGTON
[PRESB. OF
since 1902; The Four Gospels (London,
1899 ; 2nd ed., 1910) ; The Beatitudes (Edin
burgh, 1912).
ANDREW BROWN, bora at Craig,
1914 Montrose, 24th Feb. 1868, son of
Andrew B. and Jane Gray ; educated
at Univ. of St Andrews; M.A. (1890);
licen. by Presb. of St Andrews 1895 ; assist
ant at Kirkcaldy ; ord. to Ceres 8th April
1897 ; trans, to West Parish, Aberdeen,
6th June 1901 ; trans, to Queen s Park,
Glasgow, 15th Nov. 1907; trans, and adm.
8th Oct. 1914. He marr. 1st Sept. 1897,
Alice, daugh. of William Moir, Montrose,
and has issue Andrew Chassar, born 24th
Sept. 1900 ; William Moir, born 14th May
1902; Alice Mary, born 17th May 1904;
David Moir, born llth Sept. 1906 ; Douglas
Chassar, born 17th Jan. 1909.
MURRAYFIELD (Q.S.).
[Disjoined from West Coates and Craig-
lockhart, and erected into a parish quoad
sacra, 6th June 1913. Church built 1907,
at a cost of 7000.]
ROBERT JOHNSTONE, M.A., B.D.,
lgol formerly min. of St James s, Kirk
caldy, 16th Dec. 1901 ; trans, to
Aberdour, Fife, 1914.
NEWINGTON (Q.S.).
[Formerly Hope Park Chapel-of-Ease
under St Cuthbert s ; opened 4th Jan.
1834 ; declared a parish quoad sacra by Act
of General Assembly, 31st May 1834; named
Newington, and erected by the Court of
Teinds, 18th March 1859.]
ROBERT GORDON, D.D. ; trans, from
St Cuthbert s Chapel (Buccleuch),
and adm. 5th Jan. 1824 ; trans, to
New North, Edinburgh, 8th Sept. 1825.
JOHN FORBES, elected by the Kirk-
session of St Cuthbert s; ord. 16th
Nov. 1826; res. 26th Nov. 1828, to
become min. of High Church (Outer),
Glasgow.
DAVID RUNCIMAN, M.A. ; elected by
the Kirk-session of St Cuthbert s
Sept. 1829; adm. 24th Dec. 1829;
trans, to St Andrew s, Glasgow, 4th
April 1844.
1824
1826
1829
[From 1844 to 1859 the congregation was
served by missionaries and otherwise.]
JAMES ELDER GUMMING, trans, from
185g East Church, Perth ; adm. first min.
of the parish 6th Oct. 1859 ; trans, to
Sandyford, Glasgow, llth May 1871.
JOHN ALISON, born 23rd June 1835,
1871 son ^ J ames Alison, farmer, Mearns,
and Janet Craig ; educated at
Mearns School and Glasgow Univ. ; M.A.
(1854) ; licen. by Presb. of Paisley ;
assistant at St Matthew s, Glasgow ; ord.
to Middle Parish, Paisley, 10th March 1859;
trans, to Bonhill 21st Nov. 1861 ; trans,
and adm. 19th Oct. 1871 ; sometime con
vener of the Jewish Mission Committee ;
convener of the Edinburgh Synodal Board
for the examination of divinity students ;
D.D. (St Andrews 1883); died 29th May
1902. He marr. 10th Aug. 1875, Margaret,
only child of Andrew Macgeorge, LL.D.,
Glasgow, and had issue Margaret Dora,
born 13th Aug. 1876 (marr. George H.
Donald, min. of the West Parish, Aber
deen) ; Janet Helen, born 13th June 1878
(marr. David Denholm Fraser, min. of
Sprouston) ; Mary Lilias, born 13th May
1885 (marr. Ernest Wolff). Publications
Simple Lessons on the Lord s Supper;
Simple Lessons on Baptism ; The National
Church and Religious Equality ; Union in
a National Church. See Memoir, con
taining a selection of his sermons and
papers (Edinburgh, 1903).
HUGH CAMERON, born Glasgow, 4th
Jan. 1855, son of John C. and Eliza
beth Macfarlane ; educated privately,
and at Glasgow Univ.; licen. by Presb. of
Glasgow May 1882 ; ord. to Second Charge,
Montrose, 14th Sept. 1883 ; trans, and adm.
(assistant and successor) 8th June 1898.
He marr. 21st Nov. 1883, Maud Agnes,
daugh. of James Pennell, min. of Ballingry,
and has issue James Douglas, born 18th
Dec. 1884; Dorothy, born 8th May 1886;
Maud, born 6th May 1888; Norah, born
28th July 1892; Elizabeth Leslie, born
5th Feb. 1897; Marjorie, born 7th May
1898; Ian Paul, born 27th July 1901;
Hugh Ross, died in infancy; Donald
Morison Ross, born 17th Aug. 1906.
EDINBURGH] PRESTONFIELD ROBERTSON MEMORIAL
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1908
PRESTONFIELD (Q.S.).
[Begun 13th Nov. 1898, as an extension
charge, by Robert Buchanan, B.D., formerly
min. of Clydebank (q.v.\ who served till
Oct. 1903. Disjoined from Liber ton, Ducl-
dingston, and Mayfield, and erected into a
parish quoad sacra, 30th Oct. 1908. A
church was built in 1902.]
DONALD MACMILLAN, born 7th Dec.
1866, eldest son of Duncan M.,
architect, Aberdeen ; M.A. (Aber
deen 1887) ; Keen, by Presb. of Aberdeen 6th
May 1890; ord. to Careston Sept. 1892;
dem. 30th Sept. 1904, to undertake Preston-
field extension charge, and ind. first min. 8th
Dec. 1908. Marr. 12th July 1894, Edith Mar-
jorie Eveline, youngest daugh. of John Watt,
advocate, Aberdeen, and has issue Sybilla
Catherine, born 6th May 1895 ; Duncan
Stewart, born 8th Nov. 1907. Publications
Contributor to Aurora Borealis Academica
(Aberdeen, 1899); Farewell Sermon, Care
ston Parish Church (Brechin, 1904).
RESTALRIG (Q.S.).
[Prior to the Reformation Restalrig was
a collegiate parish church, founded (in
connection with the tomb and well of St
Triduana) by King James II., with a dean
and nine prebendaries. It was a noted
place of pilgrimage. After the Reforma
tion the church was allowed to fall into
decay, but in recent times it was partially
restored. The revived parish is taken
entirely out of South Leith, and was dis
joined and erected into a parish quoad
sacra, 31st May 1912.]
GEORGE BO YD, born 9th May 1824,
1870 a ^ Landguard Fort, Suffolk, son of
Thomas B. (H.M. Coastguard Ser
vice) and Elizabeth Haskell ; educated at
Grammar School, Cromarty, and Univ. of
Aberdeen; M.A. (1851); licen. by Presb.
of Lewis 1855 ; ord. to St Andrew s, Hali
fax, Nova Scotia, 1856 ; res. 1865 ; assistant
at Tolbooth, Edinburgh ; app. to Restalrig
Mission 1870; res. May 1903; died 27th
Nov. 1905. He marr. 15th Aug. 1856,
Elizabeth (died 20th Feb. 1914), daugh.
of John MacKeddie, shipmaster, Cromarty,
and had issue Mary Matheson, born 1st
June 1857 (marr. 6th Sept. 1895, John
Deacon Murray, engineer, Egyptian Govern
ment Service) ; Thomas John, born 4th
Sept. 1858; George Haskell, W.S., born
25th Dec. 1859; Elizabeth MacKeddie,
born 27th July 1861 (marr. 2nd July 1896,
William Auchie Alexander, C.A.) ; Alex
andra Keith, born 17th Oct. 1863 ; John
William Parker, born llth June 1866, died
24th May 1912.
WILLIAM BURNETT, born Edinburgh
1912 19th June 1864, son of Peter S. B.
and Elizabeth Mitchell ; educated at
George Watson s College and Edinburgh
Univ.; M.A. (1884), B.D. (1887); licen. by
the Presb. of Edinburgh, May 1887 ; assist
ant at Hawick and Dundee ; ord. 4th Oct.
1891 to Woolloomooloo, Sydney, N.S.W.;
inducted here Dec. 1904; adm. first min.
of the parish 31st May 1912. He marr.
13th April 1892, Lena, daugh. of David
Russell Dawson, Tayport, and has issue
Mary Johnston, born 16th May 1904.
ROBERTSON MEMORIAL, OR
GRANGE PARISH (Q.S.).
[Erected into a parish quoad sacra 30th
Oct. 1871. The foundation stone of the
church was laid, 28th May 1870, by John,
Earl of Stair, Lord High Commissioner, and
the building was opened, 1st Oct. 1874, as a
memorial of James Robertson, D.D., Pro
fessor of Ecclesiastical History in Edin
burgh University, formerly minister of
Ellon, and founder of the Endowment
Scheme of the Church.]
WILLIAM LYON RIACH, born Aber
deen, 28th March 1824, son of John
1 R. and Mary Dawson; educated at
Grammar School, Aberdeen, and Marischal
College and Univ.; M.A. (1846); licen.
by Presb. of Aberdeen 1851 ; assistant at
Broughton; ord. to Balmaghie 23rd. Dec.
1852; trans, to Pencaitland 1st Feb. 1855;
trans, and adm. 14th March 1872; res.
llth Dec. 1895; died 13th June 1912. He
marr. 25th July 1861, Agnes Geraldine,
daughter of Edward Potter, Cramlington,
Northumberland, and had issue Margaret
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ROBERTSON MEMORIAL ST ANDREW S [PRKSB. OF
1896
MacKinlay, born 19th July 1862, died 26th
Sept. 1865 ; Agnes Mary, born 8th Oct.
1863; Jessie MacKinlay, born 20th Jan.
1865 ; Matilda Mima, born 20th April 1866 ;
Augusta Charlotte ; Catherine Alice ;
William Lyon ; Arthur James ; David
MacKinlay Potter. Publication Naaman,
the Syrian Soldier (Edinburgh, 1901).
DAVID PAUL, born 28th Aug. 1845,
seventh son of William P., D.D., min.
of Banchory-Devenick ; educated at
Banchory-Devenick School, Aberdeen and
Edinburgh Univs. ; M.A. (Aberdeen 1864);
Keen, by Presb. of Aberdeen 1868 ; assist
ant at Udny 1868 ; took charge of Scots
Church, Dresden, 1869 ; ord. to Morebattle
29th July 1869; trans, to Roxburgh 8th
Feb. 1876 ; LL.D. (Aberdeen 1894) ; trans,
and adm. 15th July 1896; examiner for
Degrees in Arts at Aberdeen 1871-6;
president of the Botanical Society of
Edinburgh 1899-1901 ; principal clerk of
the General Assembly 1912; Moderator of
Assembly 1915. Marr. 27th April 1876,
Katherine (died 8th Sept. 1913), fourth
daugh. of Alexander John Kinloch of Park
and Altries, and has issue Alexander John
Kinloch, born 28th Feb. 1877 ; Katherine
Ethel, born 15th Dec. 1878; Alice Mary,
born 22nd Nov. 1880; David Hutcheon,
born 21st May 1883 ; George Morison, born
10th Nov. 1884. Publications Numerous
botanical papers in the Transactions of
Botanical Society and in History of Bervoick-
shire Naturalists Club.
ST AIDAN S (Q.S.).
[The building, constructed about 1800
as a chapel of Relief, was bought from the
U.P. Church by St Cuthbert s congregation
in 1885. Erected into a parish quoad sacra,
14th March 1887.]
JAMES THOMSON, M.A. ; ord. mission
ary to Calcutta ; app. by the Kirk-
1887 session of St Cuthbert s ; ind. 28th
April 1887 ; trans, to St Andrew s, Glasgow,
llth Jan. 1894.
ANDREW BENVIE, born Abernyte,
Perthshire, 14th Nov. 1845, son of
1894 -yymi am Benvie, jute manufacturer,
Dundee, and Isabel Robertson ; educated
at Normal College, Edinburgh, and Edin
burgh Univ. ; M.A. (1869), B.D. (1872), Pitt
Scholar (1872); licen. by Presb. of Perth
Oct. 1872; ord. Scone 10th July 1873;
trans, and adm. 22nd May 1894 ; D.D. (Edin
burgh 1912). He marr. 27th April 1875,
Elizabeth Williamson, younger daugh. of
David Crighton, Ardo, Stracathro, and has
issue George William Rodney , New Mexico,
born 1887 ; Maybel Margarita, born 1881 ;
Bertha Crighton, born 1887. Publications
Higher on the Hill (London, 1900 ; 2nd
ed., 1903) ; The Minister at Work (Pastoral
Theol. Lectures ; Edinburgh, 1911).
ST ANDREW S.
[A church and parish being required for
the increasing population of the New Town,
this erection was proposed by James Hunter
Blair (afterwards Lord Provost), 25th April
1780, and unanimously resolved upon by the
Town Council 31st Jan. 1781. Opened 12th
Dec. 1784. St Andrew s was thus the first
parish of the New Town. It was built after
designs by Major Fraser of the Engineers,
at a cost of 7000, and was seated for about
1053. A spire rising 166 feet in height, de
signed by William Sibbald, was erected in
1787. The General Assembly met in St
Andrew s Church for some years up till
1851, and it was the scene of the memor
able Secession of 1843.]
WILLIAM GREENFIELD, M.A.; trans.
1784 f rom Wemyss ; called 30th April
1784; adm. 25th Nov. 1784; trans.
to the High Kirk 1st April 1787.
WILLIAM MOODIE, born 2nd July
7 7 1759, son of Roger M., min. of
Gartly ; educated at Univs. of St
Andrews and Edinburgh ; licen. in 1781 ;
tutor in the family of James Oswald of
Dunnikier; ord. to Kirkcaldy 9th June
1784 ; pres. by the Town Council 1st Aug.,
trans, and adm. 25th Oct. 1787 ; app.
Professor of Hebrew in the University of
Edinburgh, which he held in conjunction,
llth Sept, 1793; D.D. (Edinburgh, 6th
Feb. 1798) ; Moderator of the General As
sembly 23rd May 1799; died llth June
EDINBURGH]
ST ANDREW S
89
1812. He marr. lOtli Nov. 1786, Johanna
Lindsay, who died 24th Aug. 1796, and
had issue Margaret, born 29th Dec.
1789; John, born Dec. 1790, died 10th
Feb. 1791 ; George Mackenzie, born 7th
Feb. 1795, died 13th March 1800; Sarah,
born 11 th Aug. 1796 (marr. Dugald Camp
bell, min. of Glassary). Publications
Political Preaching, or the Meditations of
a Well-meaning Man, in a letter addressed
to the Rev. William Dun, min. of Kirkin-
tilloch (Glasgow, 1792); Four single Ser
mons (Edinburgh, 1794-9); Observations
on the Overture respecting Chapcls-of-Eaxc
(1797JT; A Cobbler s Remarks on a Tour
through the Northern Counties (Edinburgh,
1798); An Address to the Public on the
Death of Sir Rcdpli Abercrombi/ (Edin
burgh, 1801) ; /Sermons, with a Short Ac
count of his Life (Edinburgh, 1813) ;
Sermon II. (Scotch Preacher, iv. ; Edin
burgh, 1789); edited Wilson s Hebrew
Grammar, 3rd edition. [Sermons, Grier-
son s St An/Jrew s.]
ANDREW GRANT of Limepots, Scone,
1813 son ^ David Grant of Limepots
and Margaret Henderson, bapt. 4th
June 1757 ; educated at Univ. of St
Andrews ; licen. by Presb. of Perth 25th
July 1781 ; assistant to Dr Wishart,
Edinburgh ; ord. Portmoak 16th Sept.
1784 ; trans, to Kilmarnock 6th May 1802 ;
D.D. (St Andrews 1807); Moderator of
Assembly 1808 ; trans, to Canongate 20th
Oct. 1808; trans, to Trinity Parish llth
Oct. 1810 ; promoted by the Town Council
llth Sept. 1812 ; trans, and adm. 14th Jan.
1813 ; Chaplain in Ordinary to George III.,
George IV., and William IV. ; Dean of the
Chapel Royal 1820; joint collector of the
Ministers Widows Fund 19th Sept. 1827,
and sole collector 24th Nov. 1835 ; died 2nd
July 1836. He marr. 26th Aug. 1793,
Agnes (died 2nd Dec. 1842), daugh. of
George Willis, min. of Leslie, and had issue
David, born 1794, died 1800; George,
born 25th Nov. 1795, advocate, Sheriff-sub,
at Falkirk, and later at Cupar-Fife, died
15th Sept. 1857 ; Anne, born 23rd Aug.
1797, died 1881 ; James, min. of St Mary s,
Edinburgh ; Margaret, born 15th Nov. 1801,
died 1881 ; Andrew, H.E.I.C.S., born 16th
Dec. 1803, died 1848; Agnes Willis, born
4th April 1807, died 21st May 1838;
Thomas, actuary, born 25th April 1809,
died 1st May 1855; David, probationer,
born 18th Dec. 1811, died 1892; Jane
Arnot, born 10th July 1813 (marr. 13th
Nov. 1838, Thomas Arnot of Chapel), died
5th Oct. 1846. Publications Sermon IX.
(Gillon s Scott. Pulpit) ; Account of Port
moak (Sinclair s Stat. Ace., v.). [Ander
son s Sketches, Trustees 1 Report.}
JOHN BRUCE, born 30th Nov. 1794,
1837 son ^ Jh n B., min. of Forfar ;
educated at Forfar, Marischal Col
lege, Aberdeen, and Univ. of St Andrews ;
M.A. (Aberdeen 1812) ; licen. by Presb. of
Forfar 2nd April 1817 ; ord. to Guthrie 24th
Sept. 1818; trans, to New North Parish,
Edinburgh, 13th Jan. 1831 ; trans, and
adm. 12th Jan. 1837. Joined the Free
Church, and became min. of Free St
Andrew s 1843; D.D. (Marischal College,
Aberdeen, April 1853) ; died at Humbie,
Kirkliston, 4th Aug. 1880. He marr. (1)
18th May 1836, Marjory (died 13th Oct.
1841), daugh. of George Ramsay, banker,
Edinburgh, and had issue Margaret
Morton, born 7th Oct. 1838, died 15th
Jan. 1842 : (2) 2nd Sept. 1845, Susan
(died 28th Jan. 1857), daugh. of John
Abercrombie, M.D., Edinburgh, and had
issue Agnes, born 16th, died 31st July
1846 ; Agnes, born 14th April 1848. Pub
lications The Moral Discipline of Divine
Providence, a sermon (Dundee, 1813) ; Four
single Sermons (Edinburgh, 1833-44) ; Lec
ture on Civil Establishments of Religion
(Edinburgh, 1835) ; A Testimony and Re
monstrance Regarding the Moderators/tip
(Edinburgh, 1837) ; The Duty and Privilege
of Keeping the Sabbath (Edinburgh, 1842) ;
The Biography of Samson (Edinburgh, 1854) ;
The Revivals of the Church (Edinburgh,
1859); The Great Disruption Principle
(Edinburgh, 1859); The Life of Gideon
(Edinburgh, 1870) ; Our Dread and Strange
Bereavements, sermon on the deaths of the
Prince Consort and Dr Cunningham ; Ser
mons, with a sketch of his life by Rev.
James C. Burns (Edinburgh, 1882).
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ST ANDREW S
[PRESB. OF
THOMAS CLARK, born Galloway,
1843 Sept. 179; educated at Univ. of
Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of Kirk
cudbright 7th July 1819 ; ord. to Methven
12th Aug. 1824 ; trans, to Old Kirk Parish,
Edinburgh, 19th Aug. 1841 ; trans, and
adm. 17th Nov. 1843 ; convener of the
Colonial Committee ; D.D. (St Andrews
1843); died llth Jan. 1857. He marr. 7th
Sept. 1824, Grace (died 7th Feb. 1873),
daugh. of William Greenfield, min. of High
Church, sister of Andrew Rutherford,
Senator of the College of Justice, and
had issue Patrick, lieut. 49th Regiment
Madras Native Infantry, born 7th July
1826 ; Andrew Rutherford, LL.D., Senator
of the College of Justice, born 9th Aug.
1828, died 26th July 1899; Jane Gordon,
born 21st Dec. 1831. Publication Speech
on the Independence of the Church (Perth,
1841).
JOHN STUART, born Edinburgh, Jan.
1819, son of William S. and Dorothy
Miller ; educated at Edinburgh
Academy and Univ. ; licen. by Presb. of
Edinburgh May 1846 ; ord. to St George s-
iu-the-Fields, Glasgow, 19th March 1846;
trans, to Newton-on-Ayr 25th Nov. 1848 ;
trans, to Moffat 26th Oct. 1849; trans, to
East Parish, Stirling, 18th May 1853;
trans, and adm. 14th May 1857; D.D.
(Edinburgh 1873); Chaplain in Ordinary
to Queen Victoria ; died 22nd Aug. 1888.
He marr. 14th May 1867, Jessie, eldest
daugh. of James Duncan, M.D., Edinburgh,
and had issue Margaret Balfour, born 4th
March 1868, died 13th April 1876; William
James, F.R.C.S.E., Edinburgh, born 17th
Dec. 1873. Publication Sermons, pub
lished posthumously (Edinburgh, 1889).
ARTHUR GORDON, M.A. ; trans, from
Kirknewton, and adm. 10th Jan.
1889; trans, to Monzievaird 16th
May 1895.
PETER HAY HUNTER, born Edin-
1896 burgh, 10th Sept. 1854, son of James
H., paper merchant, and Ann Hay ;
educated at Univs. of Edinburgh and
Leipzig, College of France and Sorbonne,
Paris; M.A. (Edinburgh 1877); licen. by
Presb. of Edinburgh 1881 ; assistant at
Elgin ; ord. to Elie 13th April 1883 ; trans.
to Yester 19th Aug. 1886 ; trans, and adm.
jure devoluto 7th Feb. 1896; D.D. (Edin
burgh 1902); chaplain to the Lord High
Commissioner, Marquess of Tweeddale
(1890-2, 1896-7) ; died 26th Dec. 1909. He
marr. 21st Sept. 1886, Helen, daugh. of
James Dawson, manufacturer, Dalkeith.
Publications The Story of Daniel (Edin
burgh, 1883) ; My Ducats and my Daughter
(in collaboration with Walter White)
(London, 1884); The Crime of Christmas
Day (London, 1885) ; Sons of the Croft
(Edinburgh, 1887); After the Exile: A
Hundred Years of Jewish History and
Literature (Edinburgh, 1889, 1890) ; James
Inwick, Ploughman and Elder (Edinburgh,
1894) ; The Silver Bullet (Edinburgh, 1894) ;
Gruppy Davy, serial in Life and. Work
(1895) ; John Armiger s Revenge (Edin
burgh, 1897) ; The Tacksman of Uavaig,
serial in Life and Work (1903) ; Bible and
Stvord (London, 1904).
GEORGE CHRISTIE, born Elgin, 12th
19O8 "^ a y 18 * son f J ames Murdoch C.
and Janet Smith ; educated at West
End School, Elgin, St Andrews Univ.,
and Jena ; M.A. (St Andrews 1891), B.D.
(St Andrews 1894) ; licen. by Presb. of
Forres 28th Aug. 1894; assistant at St
Mary s, Partick ; ord. to Renton 21st Dec.
1897; trans, to St John s, Dundee, 8th
Oct. 1902 ; trans, and adm. 18th May 1908.
Marr. 1st June 1904, Janet Stratton, daugh.
of Thomas M Ewen and Susan Bruce.
Publications The Influence of Letters on
the Scottish Reformation (Edinburgh, 1908) ;
The Churches Commission (Edinburgh, 1911).
SECOXD CHARGE.
[Erected by the Town Council, and con
curred in by Presb. 31st Dec. 1800;
ceased in I860.]
DAVID RITCHIE, born Methven 1763 ;
educated at Univ. of St Andrews;
schoolmaster of Trinity-Gask ; licen.
by Presb. of Perth 24th June 1789; ord.
by Presb. of Edinburgh 26th April 1797 ;
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ST ANDREW S ST BERNARD S
91
chaplain to the 1st Batt. 2nd Regt. Edin.
Volunteers ; adm. min. of Penicuik 2nd
Feb. 1798; dem. 20th Oct. 1798, becoming
assistant in the First Charge of this parish ;
adm. to Kilmarnock 27th Feb. 1800 ; pres.
by the Town Council July 1800; trans.
and adm. 2nd July 1801 ; junior clerk of
Assembly 20th May 1802 to 19th May 1808.
Appointed Professor of Logic in the Uni
versity of Edinburgh 24th Feb. 1808,
which he held in conjunction till 1836, when
he resigned the Chair; D.D. (Edinburgh,
17th Dec. 1813) ; Moderator of the General
Assembly 19th May 1814; died 10th Jan.
1844. He marr. 23rd Aug. 1811, Margaret
(died 15th Oct. 1840), eldest daugh. of
William Pearson of Kippenross, and had
issue Jane Frances, born 3rd Sept. 1812,
died Oct. 1838; Margaret Ann, born 30th
May 1814, died 6th March 1826. Publica
tions Two single Sermons (Edinburgh,
1803-4) ; Address on Intimating a Collec
tion for the Royal Infirmary (Edinburgh,
1818) ; Lectures Explanatory and Practical
on the Doctrinal Part of the Epistle to the
Romans, 2 vols. (Edinburgh, 1831) ; Sermon
VIII. (Gillan s Scott. Pulpit). [Anderson s
Sketches, Grant s Edin. Univ.]
THOMAS JACKSON CRAWFORD,
M.A., D.D. ; trans, from Glamis, and
adm. 16th Aug. 1844 ; app. Professor
of Divinity, Edinburgh Univ. ; res. 27th
June 1860.
ST BERNARD S (Q.S.).
[Formerly Stockbridge Chapel-of-Ease.
A committee of Kirk-session of St Cuth-
bert s Parish, of which Stockbridge formed
a part, reported in 1822 that the popula
tion in the northern districts amounted
to 5120, that there were 4070 of these
above six years of age, that the total
number provided with seats in any place
of worship connected with the Church
of Scotland, or with other congregations,
was only 1954 ; the Session of St Cuth-
bert s thereupon resolved to build a chapel
at Stockbridge, to be their property and
to be under their superintendence. This
resolution was diily sanctioned by the
Presbytery and by the General Assembly.
The erection of the church was at once
proceeded with, and completed at a cost of
about 4000. The building was opened on
16th Nov. 1823; declared a parish quoad
sacra by Act of Assembly, 31st May 1834,
named St Bernard s, and erected by the
Court of Teinds, 19th Nov. 1851.]
JAMES HENDERSON, min. of the
Low Meeting, Berwick-on-Tweed ;
elected by the Kirk-session of St
Cuthbert s, and adm. 27th Nov. 1823 ; trans.
to Ratho 21st Feb. 1828.
JAMES MARTIN, M.A. ; trans, from
1828 Giemsia, and adm - 16tl1 ^ Iav 1828 j
trans, to St George s, Edinburgh, 6th
Oct. 1831.
JAMES MACFARLANE, M.A. ; trans,
from Stirling, Third Charge; nom
inated by the Kirk-session of St
Cuthbert ; s 30th Nov. 1831, and adm. 12th
Jan. 1832 ; trans, to Duddingston 18th
May 1841.
ANDREW WATSON BROWN, adm.
1841 16th Dec. 1841 ; joined the Free
Church ; min. of Free St Bernard s,
where he remained for about twenty years.
In 1863 he returned to the Church of
Scotland, and was min. of the East Parish,
Aberdeen.
JAMES FRENCH, Professor of Rhetoric
in the Anderson ian College, Glasgow ;
ord. 14th Sept. 1843 ; trans, to Abbey
Church, Second Charge, Dunfermline, 2nd
May 1845.
JAMES HAY, M.A. ; ord. 2nd Oct. 1845 ;
1845 trans, to Lunan 17th Jan. 1850.
WILLIAM CAESAR, ord. 12th Sept.
1850; trans, to Tranent 15th Jan.
1850 1852.
DAVID BROWN, formerly min. of St
Mary s, Dumfries ; trans, from Rodney
Street Church, Liverpool, and adm.
llth March 1852 ; trans, to Scoonie, 15th
Nov. 1855.
WILLIAM ROBERTSON, trans, from
1856 Midmar > and adm> nt k April 1856 ;
trans, to Hamilton, Second Charge,
23rd Nov. 1858.
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ST BERNARD S
[I llESB. OF
ANDREW KENNEDY HUTCHISON
1866
1859 , trans, from Kirkpatrick- j
Irongray, and adm. 14tli April 1859 ; I
trans, to St Andrews, First Charge, 14th !
8ept, 1865.
JOHN M MURTRIE, born Ayr, 16th ;
^ ec 18 ^> son f John M., bank :
agent, Dean of the Faculty of Pro
curators, Ayr, and Agnes Tweedie, daugh. of ,
James Nichol, Glasgow ; educated at Ayr
Academy and Edinburgh Univ. ; B.A.
(1854), M.A. (1856) ; licen. by Presb. of Ayr j
1 2th Aug. 1 856 ; assistant at New Kilpatrick
1 856 ; ord. assistant at St George s, Edin- |
burgh, 12th April 1858; adm. to Mains and I
Strathmartine 2nd Sept. 1858; trans, and j
adm. llth Jan. 1866; res. 7th July 1885, j
on appointment as convener of the Church
of Scotland Foreign Mission Committee, I
which he held till May 1908 ; Moderator of !
the General Assembly 1904; D.D. (Aber
deen 1890), F.R.S.E. (1893), Fellow of the j
Botanical Society of Edinburgh, member j
of Conchological Society of Great Britain
and Ireland; died 2nd April 1912. He
marr. 0th July 1875, Beatrice Somerville,
daugh. of Alexander Brodie, Edinburgh, and
had issue Elizabeth Somerville, missionary
at Kikuyu, East Africa, 1912, born 19th
May 1876 ; Agnes Katherine, born 19th Feb.
1878 ; John, min. of Skene, born 2nd March
1879 ; Beatrice Somerville Brodie, M.A.,
classical mistress, Kentish Town School,
London, born 16th July 1880; Isabel Mary
Dorothea, born 12th Dec. 1881 ; Alexander
Church Brodie, M.D.,F.R.C.S.E., born 12th
May 1883. Publications Editor of Life
and Work for nineteen years ; papers to
Journal of Conchology ; etc.
GEORGE MATHESON, born Glasgow,
1886 2 ^ ^ arc h 1842, eldest son of George
M., merchant, and Jane, daugh.
of John Matheson of the Fereneze Print
Works, Barrhead ; educated at Glasgow
Academy and Univ.; B.A. (1861), M.A.
(1862), B.D. (1866); licen. by Presb. of
Glasgow 13th June 1866 ; assistant at
Sandyford ; ord. to Innellan 8th April 1868 ;
declined a call to Crown Court, London ;
D.D. (Edinburgh 1879), F.R.S.E. ; Baird
Lecturer 1881 ; trans, and adm. 12th May
1886; res. 26th July 1899; app. Gifford
Lecturer in Univ. of Aberdeen for 1900-2,
but declined; LL.D. (Aberdeen 1902);
died unmarr. at North Berwick, 28th
Aug. 1906. He was blind from his
eighteenth year. Publications Aids to
the Study of German Theology (1874) ; The
Growth of the Sjnrit of Christianity (1877) ;
Natural Elements of Revealed Theology
(Baird Lecture, 1881); Confucianism (St
Giles Lecture, 1882) ; My Aspirations
(1882) ; Moments on the Mount (1884) ; The
Religious Bearings of the Doctrine of Evolu
tion (1884) ; Can the Old Faith Live ivith
the New? (1885); The Psalmist and the
Scientist (1887) ; Landmarks of Ne.iv Testa
ment Morality (1888) ; Voices of the Spirit
(1888); Sacred Songs (1890); Spiritual
Development of St Paid (1891) (translated
into Chinese) ; Distinctive Messages of the
Old Religions (1892); Searching* in the
Silence (1895) ; Words by the Wayside
(1896); The Lady Ecclesia (1896); Side
lights from Patmos (1897) ; Bible, Definition
of Religion (1898) ; Studies of the Portrait
of Christ (vol. i., 1899 ; vol. ii., 1900) ; Times
of Retirement (1901) ; The Sceptre ivithout
a Sword (1901) ; The Representative Men of
the Bible (First Series, 1902 ; Second Series,
1903) ; The Representative Men of the New
Testament (1905) ; Leaves for Quiet Hours
(190i)j Rests by the River (1906); The
Women of the Bible (1907); numerous
contributions to contemporary literature ;
author of the hymn, " O Love that wilt not
let me go. ;! [Life, by D. Macmillan, D.D.,
1907 ; Diet. Nat. Biog.~\
JAMES JOHNSTONE DRUMMOND,
^ M.A., B.D. ; trans, from Longfor-
macus, and adm. (assistant and
successor) 22nd Oct. 1897 ; trans, to Jed-
burgh 7th Dec. 1899.
ALEXANDER FIDDES, born 17th Jan.
1860, son of Edward F., joint-manager
of North of Scotland Bank, Aber
deen ; educated at Aberdeen Univ. ; M.A.
(1879), B.D. (1882); licen. by Presb. of
Aberdeen 2nd May 1882 ; ord. to Cairney
21st Jan. 1886 ; trans, to St Bernard s 17th
May 1900. Marr. 10th Feb. 1886, Mary
Ross, eldest daugh. of Colonel James
1900
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ST BERNARD S ST CUTHBERTS
93
Allardyce of Culquoich, Aberdeenshire, and
has issue Edward Scott, born 6th Sept.
1892; Christian Mary, born 18th March 1895.
ST CUTHBERTS, OK
WEST KIRK.
[According to Dr Skene, Historiographer-
Royal, the first church erected on the site
occupied by the present fabric, if it did not
owe its existence to the personal efforts of
St Cuthbert himself, was at least erected
shortly after his decease in the latter part
of the seventh century. In the early ages
this was one of the wealthiest parishes
in Scotland, but in 1128 it was, with
all its endowments, transferred to the
Abbey of Holyroodhouse, then founded by
David I.]
WILLIAM HARLAW, born at Edin-
156Q burgh after 1500, and originally
bred a tailor in the Canongate.
Imbibing the doctrines of the Reforma
tion, he took refuge in England, where he
was ordained a deacon, becime one of the
King s chaplains, and remained some years.
On the death of Edward VI. he returned
to Edinburgh in 1553. and engaged in
preaching in private houses in 1555 ; after
wards he did so publicly. He was re
primanded for preaching at Dumfries in
1558, summoned to appear before the
Lord Justice at Stirling 10th May 1559,
and denounced a rebel for usurping the
authority of the Church, "in taking into
his own hand the ministry thereof," within
the burgh of Perth and places adjoining.
Appointed to St Cuthbert s in 15GO, he
was a member of the first General
Assembly, 20th Dec. An attempt to
have him removed and another presented
was made 25th June 15C6, by the patron
(Robert, Commendator of Holyroodhouse),
but being opposed by the parishioners,
was ineffectual. Pres. to the vicarage by
James VI. Gth Feb. 1572; died 1578.
Though " not verie learnit, yitt his doctrine
was plaine, sound, and worthie of com-
mendatioun." His son, Nathaniel, was min.
of Ormiston. [Knox s Works, i., ii. ; Scott s
Reformer*, fiooke of the Kirk, Reg. Min.
ami Assiy. ; Keith s, Spottiswood s, Row s,
and Calderwood s Ilists., ii. ; Pitcairn s Cr.
Trials, i. ; Wodrow s Miscell., Biog. i., and
MS. Biog.; Sime s West Kirk, Treasury
Accounts.]
ROBERT PONT [KYLPONT, KYN-
157 PONT], born at or near Culross 1524
(Buchanan, De Scriptorilus Scotis
lllustribus), son of John P. of Shyresmill,
and Catherine Murray, said to be a daugh.
of Murray of Tullibardine (Blackadder MS.
Memoirs). [The statement of Dr Andrew
Crichton that the father was a Venetian,
who, having been banished for his adherence
to the Protestant faith, arrived in Scotland
in the train of Mary of Guise, is essentially
improbable as well as inconsistent with
well-known facts] ; educated at Culross,
and St Leonard s College, St Andrews; on
completing his course there, is supposed to
have studied law at a foreign university.
Nothing is definitely known of his career
until 1559, when he settled at St Andrews,
where he acted as a member of the kirk-
session. He was present at the first General
Assembly, 20th Dec. 15GO, and was one of
twenty within the bounds of St Andrews
declared to be qualified for ministering
and teaching. He was one of the Com
mittee who revised the Second Book of
Discipline, 1561. In 1562 he was appointed
preacher at Dunblane, and in Dec. of the
same year he was removed to Dunkeld.
The following year lie was Commissioner
of Moray, and minister at Elgin. He was
Moderator of Assembly in 1570, an office
to which he was five times afterwards
elected. In Jan. 1571 he was Provost of
Trinity College, Edinburgh, and accepted
a senatorship in the College of Justice, at
the express wish of the General Assembly,
on 12th Jan. 1572. Following that, he was
charged with dereliction of duty in failing
to visit the churches in Moray, but pled
lack of leisure in consequence of his judicial
work. In Nov. 1573 he received a pension
of 300 merks, on account of having no
ecclesiastical stipend "quhairon he may
commodiously leif." In Feb. 1574 he
resigned the Commissioncrship of Moray,
and was admitted collegiate (junior) min.
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ST CUTHBERTS
[PRESB. OF
of St Cuthbert s. In 1575 he was a
second time Moderator of Assembly, and
on 29th Dec. 1578 he was presented by
James VI. to this charge. On 24th
April 1581 he was elected a third time
Moderator of Assembly, and the year
following appointed to St Andrew s, but
failing to obtain any stipend there, returned
to St Cuthbert s April 1583. He was a
fourth time Moderator of Assembly, 10th
Oct. of same year. By Act of Parlia
ment of 22nd May 1584, ministers were
declared incapable of being employed as
judges or in any office other than their own
vocation. Three days after, he and another
protested against this and other Acts then
passed affecting the constitution and power
of the Church. Deprived accordingly of
his seat on the bench on the 27th, he took
ilight to England. On his return he was
put in ward, but soon restored to his
charge. In 1587, when appointed Bishop of
Caithness by James VI., he referred the
matter to the Assembly, who found " that
corrupt estate or office of them who hes
been termit bishops heretofore, we find
not agreeable to the Word of God " ; he
was, however, Commissioner of Orkney
from 1590 to 1601 inclusive, and was placed
a fifth time in the Chair of the Assembly,
24th March 1595, and a sixth time, 27th
April 1597. When a new translation
of the Scriptures was proposed in 1601
he was invited by the Assembly to revise
the metrical translation of the Psalms.
"In respect of his great age, long travels
in the kirk, and continuall sickness, the
General Assembly, 15th Nov. 1602, allowed
him to be releivit from the ordinarie
burden of teaching, vpon condition, he
substitute ane in his place quhen through
infirmitie he sail not be able himselfe."
He was the first to salute King James on
his elevation to the throne of England, 24th
March 1603 ; died 8th May 1606. He marr.
(1) Catherine, daugh. of Adam Masterton
of Grange, and had issue Timothy, min.
of Dunnet, celebrated as the first projector
of a Survey of Scotland ; Zachary, min. of
Bower (marr. Margaret, daugh. of John
Knox); Catherine; Helen (marr. Adam
Blackadder of Blairhall) : (2) in 1587, Sarah
Denholm, and had a daugh. Beatrix (marr.
Charles Lumsden, min. of Duddingston) : (3)
Margaret Smyth (who still survived 29th
Nov. 1627), and had issue James ; Kobert ;
Jonathan. " Considering Mr Robert s great
charges, labours, and travels in the affairs
of the Kirk, and in visiting and planting
the kirks of Orkney and Zetland," the
King, 17th Dec. 1602, "bestowed a gift
for lyff, and efter his deceis to his three
(last-mentioned) sons, and failing, one to
the langest liver for seven years, for
halding them at the Scholis to mak them
abill for the ministerie, an yearly pension
of four last coist (chalders) of victual from
thirds of ^the Bishopric of Orkney, begin
ning crop"l602. ;! His tombstone became a
subject of dispute, as appears by the follow
ing minute of Privy Council, 4th June 1607:
P. "having before his death causit dresse
ane stone for his buriall quhairon twa or
three epitaphis written be himself were
drawn," his widow, Margaret Smyth, dis
liking the stone, had contrary to the wish
of the session, set up another intended to
stand upright, and not lying on the grave
as at first arranged. The Privy Council
having heard both parties, instructed the
session that the widow was to be allowed
to take her own way in regard to the
matter. Publications Parvus Catechis-
mus (Andreap, 1573) ; Wodrow Miscell. ;
Three Sermons against Sacrilege (Edin
burgh, 1599) ; A Treatise of the Right
Reckoning of Yeares and Ages of the World
(Edinburgh, 1599); De Unione Britannioe
(Edinburgh, 1604); De Sabbaticorum
annorum periodis (London, 1619) ; Chrono-
logia de Sabbatis (London, 1626) ; Trans
lation an^l Interpretation of the Helvetic
Confession, 1566 ; Contributions to Second
Book of Discipline; Six of the Metrical
Psalms (Edinburgh, 1565). [Reg. Assig. ;
Privy Counc., Edin. N.E. Sess., and Reg.
(Bapt.) ; Booke of the Kirk, Wodrow Biog.
and Miscell., Melvill s Autob., Sime s West
Kirk, Brunton s Senators; New Stat. Ace.,
i. ; Font s Typog. ; Row s, Spottiswood s,
and Cook s Hists., i. ; Calderwood s Hist.,
M Crie s Life of John Knox ; Baillie s Lett.,
iii. ; Crichton s Life of Blackadder, Diet.
Nat. Biog.}
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EICHAED DICKSON, M.A. ; licen. to
1603 P reac h i n ^ e West Kirk (probably
assistant to preceding) 27th March
1599 ; but only adra. helper, with imposi
tion of hands, 2nd June 1603 (Pont pro
testing that it be not prejudicial to him) ;
pres. to the vicarage by James VI. 16th
April 1607. Having administered the Com
munion 7th March 1619, in the Presbyterian
form, when many citizens of Edinburgh,
leaving their own churches, were partakers,
he was summoned at the instigation of the
ministers of Edinburgh before the Court
of High Commission on the 12th March
following, was deprived of his charge, and
imprisoned in Dumbarton Castle. The
session agreed, 15th April following, to
present a petition to the Synod, or to the
Bishop of St Andrews, requesting that he
might "be permitted to continue the dis
charge of his ministry among them as he
had done before," but he was ordered,
30th July 1624, to be sent to Ireland ; and
22nd Sept. thereafter, when again called
before the Privy Council, a letter having
been received from the minister and magi
strates of Dumbarton, "Testifeing that
Mr Pt. s wyffe and nine young bairnes ar
all lying deadlie seake of the fever; and
his awne letter vpoun his oathe, that he
had not expense to bring him to this toun, ;)
his case was delayed, and in 1625 he was
appointed to Kinneil. [Key. Assig. el
Sec. Sig., Sime s West Kirk, Livingston s
Charac.; Eow s and Calderwood s Hists.,
vii., viii. ; Orig. Lett. ; Select, Biog., i. ;
Hill Burton s Scotland.]
WILLIAM ARTHUR, M.A. (Edinburgh,
162Q 12th Aug. 1592) ; adm. min. of Cor-
storphine 8th June 1599 ; trans, to
Collegiate Charge 8th Oct. 1607; was
Visitor of Clydesdale (along with John
Spottiswood) ; signed the appeal on behalf
of the liberties of the Kirk 27th June 1617 ;
was tried before the Court of High Com
mission 12th May 1619 for only partially
recognising the Five Articles of Perth, but
acquitted ; in 1621 he was on a leet of four
from whom a minister for Edinburgh should
be chosen, but declined ; he refused to sub
mit to the Bishop s instructions regarding
the mode of Communion 5th March 1634;
subscribed the Covenant in 1639; was a
member of the Commission of Assembly
1642 ; dem. in 1649, being full of years and
not able to supply the charge 7th Feb. 1650.
The heritors and kirk-session voted him a
retiring allowance of 500 merks per annum,
but this obligation they did not fulfil. He
died in 1654, aged about 82 years. He marr.
9th Feb. 1609, Jane, eldest daugh. of James
Stewart, portioner, Strathbrock, and had
issue Rachel ; William ; Marion and
Margaret (twins) ; Jean ; Helen ; James ;
John ; Thomas ; Elizabeth (marr. Major
John Somerville, eldest son of Sir James
S. of Cambusnethan). All issue dead
before 1684, when the daugh. of John,
eldest brother of William Arthur, was
served heir to Elizabeth. [Uphall Sess.
and Edin. Reg., Sas. Reg., Sec. Sig., Acts
of Ass., Sime s West Kirk ; Inq. Ret, Gen.,
6548, 6549, 6777 ; Laing Charters, West
Kirk Records]
JAMES REID, son of John R,, mer-
Ifl4 _ chant, burgess of Edinburgh ; M.A.
(Edinburgh, 26th July 1623); ord.
to Collegiate Charge 10th Sept. 1630;
called 16th Aug. 1649, and adm. soon after.
He found shelter in Dundee when East and
Mid Lothian were overrun by the English
army in 1651; coll. 2nd Oct. 1662; died
towards the end of June 1664, aged about
61. He marr. Agnes, widow of John Byres
of Coittis, and daugh. of Robert Smyth,
merchant, burgess of Edinburgh, and Agnes
Purves his wife, and probably sister of Sir
John Smyth of Grotehill and Cramond,
Provost of Edinburgh, and had issue
Agnes ; Margaret ; William, bapt. 20th
Jan. 1632, died June 1664. [Test., Edin.
(Bapt. and Bur.), and Canongate Reg.
(Bur.); Reg. Collat.; Sinclair s Stat. Ace.,
viii. ; Wodrow s Hist., Sime s West Kirk.]
WILLIAM GORDON, M.A. ; trans.
1665 * rom Bourtie; coll. 6th, and adm.
16th April 1665. A number of people
alleging he had been chiefly instrumental in
the removal of his colleague, Williamson,
mobbed him and closed the church door in
his face, for which some were imprisoned,
96
ST CUTHBERT S
[PRESB. OF
1689
and a man and woman scourged through
Edinburgh ; trans, to Kintore in 1680.
\_Rey. Collat.^ Sime s West Kirk, Wodrovv s
Hist., Nicoll s Diary. }
PATRICK HEPBURN, M.A. (Edin-
burgh, loth July 1650); licen. by
Presb. of Haddington 13th Sept.
1654 ; min. of Bolton in 1661 ; adm. min.
of Canongate 22nd Nov. 1663; trans, and
adm. 1680. Marr. Jean, only daugh. of Sir
John Johnston of Elphinston. Had an
only son, George. He died about the time
of the Revolution. [Sime s West Kirk ;
MS. Ace. of Min., 1689 ; G. R. Inhib., 14th
July 1666; Deeds, Durie, 17th April 1730;
Edin. Sas., xix., 368 ; Gen. Reg. Sas.,
xxxiv., 430.]
DAVID WILLIAMSON, M.A., formerly
in Collegiate Charge ; Avas de
nounced as a rebel 6th July 1674,
for holding conventicles, and intercommuned
6th Aug. 1675. After the final Indulgence
granted to the Church in 1687, he returned
to Edinburgh, when a meeting-house was
erected for him in the village known as
Water of Lcith. On 3rd Feb. 1688 he
Avas arrested, his name having been dis
covered in a memorandum belonging to
Renwick, Avho had been captured tAvo days
previously, but as the entries referred to
a period covered by his indemnity, he Avas
liberated after a fortnight s imprisonment.
Not long afterwards he Avas arrested on the
charge of not praying for the recently born
Prince of Wales, but nothing followed
thereon, At the General Assembly sum
moned after the RcA 7 olution, Avhich met on
16th Oct. 1690, he Avas restored to his
former parish, Avhere he continued to offici
ate until the day of his death. He Avas
one of the Commissioners sent by the
Church to congratulate King William on
his accession to the throne. He Avas
a member of Assembly 1692 ; elected
Moderator to that of 6th March 1702, and
died "Avithout painful sickness, generally
esteemed, 5 6th Aug. 1706, aged about 72.
He presented a dwelling-house, 18th Jan.
1700, to his colleague and his successors in
office, discharging the feu-duty, 3, regu
larly during his lifetime. He marr. (1)
Isobel Lindsay, Avho died March 1665, and
had issue William, Avho died young : (2)
Margaret Scott, and had issue Margaret
(marr. James HasAvell, merchant, Jed-
burgh) : (3) about 1676, Jean, daugh. of
William Kerr of Cherrytrees (the romantic
episode Avhich probably led to this marriage,
gave rise to the song formerly Avell knoAvn,
of " Dainty Davy !; ), and had issue
Elizabeth (marr. 1704, John Brown, min.
of Abercorn, brother of George BroAvn of
Finmount : (4) Margaret Melville, servetrix
of the Countess of Wemyss, Avho died Oct.
1692, probably mother of John, min. of
Inveresk, WodroAv s correspondent ; Agnes
(marr. April 1708, Henry Robin, min. of
Burntisland) : (5) Margaret, second daugh.
of William Dougall, merchant, Dysart, and
had issue David, apprenticed 1713 to a
surgeon in Edinburgh ; Mary (marr. 1st
Feb. 1716, George AndreAvs, merchant,
I Edinburgh) ; William : (6) name unknoAvn :
(7) 10th May 1700, Jean, daugh. of Arthur
Straiten of Kirkside, Forfarshire, and had
issue Arthur ; Joseph, advocate, one of the
principal city clerks, and clerk to the Com
mission of Teinds, died 29th July 1795, in
his 95th year ; Jean (marr. 5th April 1730,
James Steele, saddler, Edinburgh). Mrs
Williamson marr. secondly, in 1717, John
Martine, of Little Aries, WigtOAvn shire.
Publications TAVO single Sermons (Edin
burgh, 1696-1703). The latter called forth
" Some Remarks " (by Archibald Campbell,
D.D., of the Non-jurant Church) (1703).
[Edin. Rey. (Marr. and Bur.), Kirkton
| and WodroAv s Hist, ami Corresp., Sime s
West Kirk, Scottish Pasquils ; Acts ParL,
xi. ; Leven and Melv. Pap., S. Presb. Eloq. ;
Scot. May., Ivii. ; Fife Sasines, xv., 376 ;
Deeds, Durie, 19 Melv. 1707 ; Herald and
Genealogist, vii., 226 ; Renwick s Life, War-
rick s Moderators.}
THOMAS PATERSON, studied theo-
17Q6 logy at Univ. of GlasgoAv; ord. to
Colinton 21st April 1697; trans, to
Collegiate Charge 22nd Oct. 1699; called
8th, trans, and adm. 13th Nov. 1706; died
22nd May 1726. He marr. (1) 27th Nov.
1699, Christian, daugh. of David Pitcairn
of Dreghorn, and had issue Mary ; Helen
EDINBURGH]
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1726
(marr. 21st April 1729, William Brackenrig,
M. A. .preacher) ; Rachel; Christian; David :
(2) 6th Oct. 1719, Marion Hay, relict of John
Anderson of Dowanhill, Lord Provost of
Glasgow. [Test. Reg., Sime s West Kirk.}
GEORGE WISHART, M.A. ; called 14th
July, and ord. 24th Nov. 1726 ; trans,
to Tron Parish, Edinburgh, 23rd July
1730. [Sime s West Kirk, Carlyle s Autob. ;
Wodrow s Anal., iii.]
PATRICK WEDDERSPOON [some-
1732 times called WOTHERSPOOX] ;
educated at the Univ. of Edinburgh ;
M.A. (18th May 1725); ord. missionary to
the miners (principally from Leadhills and
Wanlockhead, with a few from England
and Wales), at Sunart, now Strontian,
by Presb. of Lorn, 22nd May 1729, from
which he removed the following year. A
meeting for a call was held 24th Nov. 1730,
and he was pres. by George II. 1st Jan.
1731. After much dispute and appeals to
the Synod and Assembly, his settlement
was appointed by the Commission 8th
March 1732. At serving the edict on the
12th, by James Dawson (afterwards his
successor), such a tumult arose that the
City Guard was called out, commanded
by Captain John Porteous, who afterwards
met with such a tragic fate. Some of his
men were so severely handled by the crowd
that in self-defence they fired upon them,
when several were severely wounded.
When tried for his life after the riot of
April 1736, Porteous, who maintained that
he had then given no orders to fire, referred
to what had happened at the West Kirk,
when counsel for the Crown did not dis
pute his assertion that on that occasion the
shots had been fired without his orders.
On 30th March Wedderspoon s admission
was completed (under protection of the
civil law), to the grief of the other mins.,
by the Presb. and a committee of corre
spondents, James Burnett, min. of Lass-
wade, presiding. It was believed the
injurious treatment Wedderspoon received
hastened his death, which took place on the
12th May succeeding, in his 26th year. He
had an unblemished character, and with the
fortitude and resolution which belong to
1735
genuine principle, adhered to what he con
sidered right, in defiance of popular clamour.
Publications Xermonx on Several Subjects
and Occasions, posthumous (Edinburgh,
1733). [Midi Presb. and Argyll Syn. Rey.,
Sime s West Kirk ; Acts of Ass., 1731, 1732 ;
Wodrow s Anal., Trial of Capt. Porteous.]
JAMES DAWSON, son of John D.,
1734 m * n ^ kangton ) M^.A. (Edinburgh,
9th Nov. 1722); licen. by Presb. of
Duns 25th Feb. 1725 ; ord. to Langton 18th
Aug. 1727 ; called 28th Dec. 1732 ; trans,
and adm. 15th Feb. 1734 : died 22nd Jan.
1735, aged about 33. Marr. (pro. 21st May
1732) Jean, daugh. of John Keir, baker,
convener of the Trades, Edinburgh. She
marr. secondly, 14th March 1742, John
Nisbet, writer.
THOMAS PITCAIRN, son of David P.
of Dreghorn and Mary Anderson ;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; licen.
by Presb. of Biggar 10th Sept. 1719 ; ord. to
Lauder 29th March 1720 ; pres. by George
II. 31st May, trans, and adm. 16th Oct.
1735. Like his colleague, he had the forti
tude to pray for His Majesty on the Sunday
immediately after the battle of Prestonpans,
when the city was practically in the hands
of the rebel party. During his incumbency
a, great revival of religion took place in the
parish. He was a friend of George White-
field, the West Kirk being one of the first
places he preached in on the occasion of
his visit to Scotland in Aug. 1741. He
died 13th June 1751, having marr. Mary
(died 8th Feb. 1780), daugh. of Patrick
Redpath, younger, of Byrecleugh, and had
issue James, succeeded his uncle Patrick
Redpath in Gladswood, Berwickshire ; Jean,
died 9th Oct. 1807 ; William, physician,
London ; a third son, a major in the army,
was killed early in the American Rebellion ;
and a daughter, Elizabeth, died unmarr.
28th June 1809. [Sime s West Kirk, Car
lyle s Autob., Hist, of the Rebel!.]
JOHN HYNDMAN, D.D. ; trans, from
Colinton; pres. by George II. 30th
Oct. 1751; adm. 20th Feb. 1752;
trans, to Lady Tester s Church, Edin
burgh, 26th Oct. 1761. [Sime s West
Kirk, Peterkin s Annals of the Church.}
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[PRESB. OF
ALEXANDER STUART, licen. by
1762 Presb. of Edinburgh 24th Oct. 1753 ;
ord. to South Leith, Second Charge,
10th July 1755 ; pres. by George III. 3rd
Dec. 1761 ; trans, and adm. 10th June
1762; died 5th April 1775, in his 45th
year. During his incumbency the church,
which was erected about 1548 after Somer
set s invasion, was declared unsafe and
taken down. He marr. (1) 7th July 1756,
Margaret Heriot, who died 2nd Aug. 1764,
and had issue Isabel, born 4th Nov. 1757 ;
John, born 4th May 1760; George, born
7th June 1763, died 3rd March 1764 ; Mar
garet, born 26th July 1764 : (2) 29th April
1767, Jean (died 15th Oct. 1792), daugh. of
William Herries of Hartwood, merchant,
Leith. [Sime s West Kirk, Laing Charters.]
StR HENRY MONCREIFF WELL-
1775 WOOD, eighth Baronet of Tullibole,
born 6th Feb. 1750; eldest son of
Sir William Moncreiff, Bart., min. of Black-
ford ; educated at Univs. of Glasgow and
Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of Auchter-
arder 8th May 1771 ; ord. to Blackford
15th Aug. 1771 ; pres. by George III. 24th
May, trans, and adm. 26th Oct. 1775; was
nom. Moderator of Assembly 25th May
1780, in opposition to Henry Spens, D.D.,
Professor of Divinity, St Andrews, but
defeated by a majority of 112 to 106;
joint-collector of the Ministers Widows
Fund 17th Feb. 1784; Moderator of
Assembly 19th May 1785 ; D.D. (Glasgow,
June 1785); app. one of the chaplains
to George, Prince of Wales, 1785, but
declined to accept ; Chaplain in Ordinary
to His Majesty, 1793. He died 9th Aug.
1827. In the affairs of the Society for Pro
pagating Christian Knowledge he took a
sympathetic interest,and constantly devoted
his best efforts to promote its efficiency ; he
was also one of the original members who,
in 1790, formed the Society for Benefiting
the Sons of the Clergy. He marr. 16th
Nov. 1772, his cousin Susan (died 24th
July 1826), eldest daugh. of James Robert
son Barclay of Cavell, W.S., and had issue
Isabella, born 31st March 1774 (marr. 1st
Aug. 1803, Sir John Stoddart, Chief Justice
in Admiralty Court, Malta), died 1846 ;
William, King s Advocate in the Admiralty
Court, Malta, born 20th July 1775, died 5th
Sept. 1813 ; James, who succeeded to the
Baronetcy, Senator of the College of
Justice, born 13th Sept. 1776, died 4th
April 1851 ; Henry, W.S., born 25th Feb.
1778, died 16th April 1817 ; Catherine,
born 17th Jan. 1780, died unmarr. ; George,
born 19th Nov. 1782, died 15th March
1822; Archibald, born 20th May 1786.
Publications Seven single Sermons (Edin
burgh, 1777-1812); Sketch of a Plan for
Augmenting the Livings of the Ministers
of the Church of Scotland (Edinburgh,
1788) ; A Letter to the Contributors to the
Fund for Ministers Widows (Edinburgh,
1797) ; Memorial to the Trustees for
Managing the Ministers Widows Fund
(Edinburgh, 1800); Remarks on Principal
Hill s Speech in the General Assembly
(Edinburgh, 1807) ; Discourses on the
Evidence of the Jewish and Christian
Revelation (Edinburgh, 1815); Account of
the Life and Writings of John Erskine,
D.D. (Edinburgh, 1818); Sermons (Edin
burgh, 1805-31, 4 vols.); prepared for the
Press Discourses by John Erskine, D.D.,
vol. ii. (Edinburgh, 1804); edited Dr
Henry s History of Great Britain, vol. vi.,
and prefixed a Life of the Author (London,
1793) ; contributed Account of the Family
of Moncreiff Wellwood (Playfair s British
Baronetage, iii., London, 1811) ; also Life
of Alexander Murray, D.D., to History of
the European Languages (Edinburgh, 1823).
[Sime s West Kirk; Playfair s Bar., iii. ;
Thomson s and Dickson s Fun. Serms.,
Anderson s Edin. Clergy ; Edin. Chr. Inst.,
N.S., i. ; Kay s Portr., Cockburn s Mem. ;
Life of Jeffrey, i. ; Haldane s Mem. ; Peter s
Letters to his Kinsfolk, iii. ; Diet. Nat. Biog.~\
JOHN PAUL, born 12th March 1795,
1828 son ^ WiUi am P., min. of St
Cuthbert s, and nephew of preced
ing ; educated at High School and Univ.
of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of Edin
burgh 7th Aug. 1816 ; ord. to Straiton 1st
May 1817 ; trans, to Maybole 4th Sept.
1823; pres. by George IV. 25th Oct.
1827, trans, and adm. 17th April 1828;
D.D. (Edinburgh, April 1847) ; Moderator
EDINBURGH]
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1873
of the General Assembly 20th May 1847 ;
died 18th May 1873. He marr. 9th Dec.
1830, Margaret (died 27th Jan. 1860),
daugh. of James Balfour, W.S., of Pilrig,
and had issue William, min. of White-
kirk ; James Balfour, born 16th Nov.
1846, advocate 1870, Lord Lyon King-of-
Arms 1890, knighted 1900, LL.D. (Edin
burgh 1908), C.V.O. 1911. Publications-
Two single Sermons (Edinburgh, 1834-42) ;
Civil Establishments of Religion (Edin
burgh, 1835) ; Memoir of Archibald ennie,
D.D. (Edinburgh, 1847). [Sime s West
Kirk, Anderson s Edin. Clergy.]
JAMES MACGREGOR, born Brownhill,
Scone, llth July 1832, eldest son of
James MacG. and Margaret Mac-
Dougall ; educated at Scone Parish School,
Perth Academy, and Univ. of St Andrews ;
licen. by Presb. of Perth 18th May 1855 ;
assistant at Newton-on-Ayr ; ord. to High
Parish, Paisley, 8th Nov. 1855 ; trans, to
Monimail 7th Aug. 1862; trans, to Tron,
Glasgow, 10th March 1864 ; trans, to Tron,
Edinburgh, 9th Jan. 1868 ; trans, and adm.
30th Oct. 1873; chaplain to the Royal
Scottish Academy and to the Midlothian
Volunteer Artillery 1877; Chaplain in
Ordinary to Queen Victoria; Chaplain in
Ordinary to King Edward VII. ; Moderator
of the General Assembly 1891 ; died 25th
Nov. 1910. Marr. (1) 23rd Aug. 1864,
Helen King (died 23rd Jan. 1875), daugh.
of David Robertson, publisher, Glasgow,
and had issue Frances Robertson, born
1st Jan. 1866, died 17th March 1875 ;
Margaret Grace, born 17th Dec. 1866, died
9th Feb. 1871 : (2) 6th Sept. 1892, Helen,
daugh. of Charles Murray, Perth. For
many years Dr MacGregor enjoyed the
reputation of being one of the most elo
quent preachers in the Church of Scotland.
[See Life and Letters, by Lady Frances
Balfour (London, 1912).]
GEORGE GORDON DUNDAS
1910 STEWART DUNCAN, born 23rd
April 1870, son of Thomas D., D.D.,
min. of Bridge of Weir ; educated at High
School and Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A. (1890),
B.D. (1895), and at Jena ; licen. by Presb.
of Paisley 1st May 1895 ; " Black " Fellow
and assistant Prof, of Divinity at Glasgow
Univ. ; ord. to Glendevon 21st July 1897 ;
trans, to Glencairn 25th Jan. 1900; trans,
to Inveresk 16th May 1907 ; trans, and
adm. 12th May 1910; res. 21st Jan.
1914, on election to St Andrew s (Church
of Scotland), Montreal. He marr. 10th
Oct. 1914, Catherine Louise , only daugh. of
Robert Hunt White, Prestonpans. Publica
tions The Essenes ; Modern Theories of
the Resurrection ; Echoes and a Vision.
ROBERT HOWIE FISHER, D.D.;
1914 ^ ran3t from Morningside (q.v.), and
adm. 6th May 1914.
COLLEGIATE CHARGE.
[At the outset there was a considerable
difference between the emoluments of the
two ministers, in 1574 that of the one
amounting to 100, together with the
"kirk land" of the church, while that of
the other was only 67, 18s. 8d. ; but in
1706, on the occasion of the promotion of
Thomas Paterson to the First Charge, con
sequent on the death of David Williamson,
the opportunity was taken of making an
arrangement whereby the stipends of the
two ministers were equalised. This change,
which was ratified by the Presbytery 1 2th
November 1706, was no doubt suggested
by the deceased minister, who in order to
equalise matters had purchased a house
recently erected, adjacent to the existing
manse, and presented it to the kirk-
session for behoof of his colleague and his
successors in office. The upkeep of this
second manse was declined by the heritors,
and eventually the house was sold. The
absence of a manse or manse fund for
the minister occupying the Second Charge
was long the only difference existing
between the respective charges.]
ROBERT PONT, trans, from Elgin, and
adm. 1574 ; Commissioner of Moray ;
trans, to Collegiate Charge in 1578.
[Reg. Assig., Wodrow s Jfiscell., Sime s
West Kirk ; M Crie s Knox, ii. ; Calder-
wood s Hist.]
NICOL DALGLEISH, brother to
Thomas D., burgess of Inverness,
formerly regent in St Leonard s Col
lege, St Andrews; mentioned as min. in
1581. At Whitsunday 1586 he was chap-
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[PRESB. OF
lain to the Earl of Angus, and continued
till the Earl s death in Aug. 1588. He
got license to transport himself to some
other parish, as "he could not continue for
lack of provisioun, 12th July 1586, and had
ane testimoniall from the haill parochin " ;
was settled at Pittenweem in 1 589. [fiooke
of the Kirk; Spottiswood s, Row s, and
Calderwood s Hists., iii., vi. ; Pitcairn s
Cr. Trials, i. ; Sime s West Kirk, Melvill s
Aittob. ; Edin. Com. Dec., 27th Feb. 1588.]
[Dr Hew Scott incorrectly enters James
Daes (minister of Earlston in 1586) as succes
sor to Nicol Dalgleish. Dalgleish made his
last appearance at a meeting of kirk-session
in the middle of Oct. 1586, but that he was
expected to leave at an earlier date appears
from the fact, that on the 2nd July preced
ing, the kirk-session agreed to grant him
a testimonial ; while Aird, his successor,
is found presiding at a meeting of kirk-
session on the 3rd Sept. The two incum
bencies therefore overlapped, while the
name of Daes is not even mentioned.]
WILLIAM AIRD. He was a mason till
1586 his twentieth year ; was taught to
read English by his wife, and after
wards acquired a knowledge of Latin, Greek,
and Hebrew. After having attended the
divinity classes for several years, he was
called to the ministry (1584), but shortly
thereafter fled with others of his brethren to
England. He was adm. to this charge 13th
Sept. 1586. He pronounced the sentence
of excommunication passed by certain
ministers who met at Edinburgh, against
Francis, Earl of Bothwell, 18th Feb. 1585;
was on the leet for the ministry of Edin
burgh with fourteen others, 2nd June 1 596,
out of whom four were to be chosen ; and in
1 598 was proposed by Robert Bruce along
with others as suitable to be his colleague.
At the Assembly of same year he was
one of those who maintained that ministers
should have no vote in Parliament ; he was
also a member of the Assembly of 1602.
His last appearance in the kirk-session
was on 19th July 1606. According to
report, being at one time straitened in
circumstances. James VI., previous to a
meeting of the Assembly at which he
intended to prepare the way for Episco
pacy, forwarded to him a purse of gold,
which he refused to accept, though then
in the utmost privation, considering it as
designed for a bribe. Next morning his
fidelity was rewarded by the generosity of
a person unknown, who left several bags
of meal for the support of his family. His
son John was his assistant for a time, and
subsequently settled at Newton. [Edin.
Counc., x. ; Test. Reg., Sime s West Kirk
Assig., Booke of the Kirk, Melvill s Autob.,
Calderwood s Hist., Livingston s Charac. ;
Select Biog., i. ; Craufurd s Univ.]
WILLIAM ARTHUR [ARTHOR],
M.A. ; trans, from Corstorphine ;
called 20th Sept., and adm. 8th
Oct. 1607 ; trans, to Collegiate Charge in
1626. \_Reg. Assig. ; Reg. Sec. 8ig., xcix. ;
Orig. Lett. ; Calderwood s Hist., vi., viii. ;
Sime s West Kirk ; Bannatyne Miscell., iii.]
JAMES REID, M.A. ; pres. by Charles
163Q I. 10th March, and adm. 10th Sept.
1630; trans, to Collegiate Charge in
1649. [Reg. Sec. Sig., cii. ; Sime s West
Kirk ; Balfour s Hist. Works, iii.]
PETER BLAIR, M.A.; called 10th March,
1RC .,, and adm. 22nd June 1653; trans, to
Jedburgh in 1661. [Inq. Ret. Gen.,
3875 ; Sime s West Kirk ; Wodrow s Hist., i. j
DAVID WILLIAMSON, bapt. 2nd
1661 Sept- 1636 S n f William W "
glover in St Andrews; graduated
M.A. at the Univ. of St Andrews in
1655 ; was recommended by the Masters of
the New College 24th March, and licen.
by the Presb. thereof, 23rd June 1658;
became helper to Alexander Balfour, min.
of Abdie, in 1659; pres. by Charles II.
13th July, and ord. 30th Nov. 1661.
Deprived by the Act of Parliament llth
June, and that of the Privy Council 1st
Oct. 1662, for not conforming to Episco
pacy, but continued to 13th April 1665,
having refused a call to Glasgow in June
preceding. When preaching his farewell
sermon, he declared, " I will return and die
minister of this kirk," which he did (see
page 96). [Edin. Counc. and Min. Bool-
Reg.; Priv. Seal, Sime s West Kirk,
EDINBURGH]
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101
Nicoll s Diary, Wodrow s Anal., Wilson s
7V. Perth.]
WILLIAM KEITH, son of Gilbert K.
1R66 ^ I jen ^ush, min. of Bourtie; M.A.
(Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1643) ;
adm. to Kinnellar before 13th Feb. 1649 ;
trans, to Montkeggie (Keithhall) 10th Oct.
1650 ; trans, to Udny Oct. 1653 ; dem. 8th
June 1663 ; became Professor of Divinity in
Univ. of Edinburgh in conjunction ; coll.
7th, and adm. 15th March 1666 ; had D.D.
conferred ; died Nov. 1675. He marr. (cont.
9th Jan. 1652) Christian, second daugh. of
Sir George Johnston of that ilk, and had a
son, Robert of Lentush, regent in Marischal
College, Aberdeen. His brother George
succeeded to his estate. [Reg. Collat., Test.
Reg. ; Playfair s Bar., iii. ; Grant s Univ.,
ii. ; Middleton s Appendix ; Reg. Deeds,
M Kenzie, 13th Nov. 1671.]
CHARLES KAY, M.A.; adm. in 1677 ;
1677 trans, to South Leith, Second Charge,
in 1681. [Stoiv Sess. Reg., Sime s
West Kirk.}
ALEXANDER SUTHERLAND, M.A.;
1682 a( ^ m * n 1682 ; trans, to Larbert and
Dunipace in 1686. [Sime s West
Kirk.]
DAVID GUILD, M.A. (King s College,
7 Aberdeen, 1678) ; adm. in 1687 ;
deprived by the Privy Council, 16th
Aug. 1689, "as being imposed on the paroch
by the Bishop, and for acting as a spy
and otherwise intelligencer to the Castle of
Edinburgh, then besieged, and also having
acknowledged that he married persons and
baptized children in the West Kirk since
the order of Council discharging him to
preach in that place." [Sime s West Kirk,
Peterkin s Constitution of the Church ; J/#.
Ace. of Min., 1689.]
JOHN ANDERSON, M.A. ; trans, from
1Qgl Earlston, adm. in 1691 ; trans, to St
Andrews 16th May 1699. [Sime s
West Kirk; Acts of Ass., 1699.]
THOMAS PATERSON, trans, from
1699 Colinton > called nem. con. from a
leet comprising Thomas Thomson,
min. of Ednam, father of the poet, and
John Tait, preacher, afterwards of Kil-
bucho, and adm. 22nd Oct. 1699 ; trans, to
the Collegiate Charge 13th Nov. 1706.
[Sime s West Kirk.]
NEIL M VICAR, chaplain at Fort
1707 ^iUi am ; called 13th Dec. 1706;
adm. 1st May 1707. He refused to
take the Oath of Abjuration in 1712 ;
was Almoner to His Majesty in 1729 ; pres.
by Sir James Campbell of Auchinbreck to
N. Knapdale in 1746, but declined ; died
29th Jan. 1747, in his 75th year. Being the
only minister in Edinburgh who under
stood Gaelic, he was recommended by
the Assembly " to take particular charge of
the Highlanders in and about the city who
do not understand English," and in this
way did a great deal for their improvement
and welfare. Opposing the law of Patron
age in sympathy with the popular feeling
of the time, the settlement of his several
colleagues was rendered no easy task ; and
to one of them indeed he never gave the
smallest countenance or encouragement.
During the Jacobite risings of 1715 and
1745 he strenously supported the consti
tuted authority. After Prince Charles
Edward had obtained a victory at Preston-
pans and entered Edinburgh triumphantly,
M Vicar preached to a promiscuous and
hostile audience, praying earnestly for the
reigning monarch as usual, and then refer
ring to the intruding Prince, petitioned the
Almighty thus "In regard to the young
man who has recently come among us in
search of an earthly crown, may he soon
obtain what is far better, a heavenly one."
He marr. (1) July 1705, Lillias, daugh. of
Alex. Dunbar, W.S., who died 12th Dec.
1732, in 47th year, and had issue Hugh,
min. of Dalziel; Alexander, merchant,
Edinburgh ; Jean (marr. David Black,
min. of Perth) ; Marion ; Patrick, W.S.
apprentice, 1729 ; Catherine ; Ann; Rachel ;
Archibald ; Mary : (2) in 1737, Bridget
Balfour, sister of James Balfour of Pilrig,
who died 23rd Nov. 1764. [Edin. Reg.
(J/arr.), Sime s West Kirk ; Acts of Ass.,
1710; Black s Sermons, Brown s Gosji.
Truth, Hist, of the Rebellion,}
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[PEESB. OF
GEORGE KAY, M.A. ; trans, from
1747 -Dy sart J Second Charge ; called 9th
July, and adra. 3rd Sept. 1747 ;
trans, to New Greyfriars, Edinburgh, 26th
Oct. 1752. [Sime s West Kirk.}
1758
JAMES MACKIE, licen. by Presb. of
Dalkeith 4th Aug. 1719; ord. to
Forteviot 24th March 1720; trans.
to St Ninians 5th June 1734; pres. by
George II. 13th April, trans, and adm.
30th Aug. 1753; died 13th June 1765, in
his 80th year. Marr. 3rd Nov. 1726,
Catherine Laing, a widow, who died 30th
Dec. 1770, and had issue Alexander, min.
of Arbroath ; Emilia ; Catherine (marr.
Andrew Gray, min. of Abernethy) ; Jean
(marr. 1st March 1756, Patrick Meik, min.
of Kinnoul). Publications A True and
Impartial Account of the Blowing Up of the
Church of St Ninians, 1746 ; Answer to Mr
Hamilton s Testimony. [Sime s West Kirk ;
Morren s Ann., i.]
JOHN GIBSON, son of Archibald G.,
1?65 min. of St Ninians ; licen. by Presb.
of Dunblane 18th Sept. 1750; ord.
to St Ninians 9th May 1754; pres. by
George III. 31st July, trans, and adm.
31st Oct. 1765. He was appointed chap
lain of Stirling Castle, April 1766. A new
church to seat fully 2500, which had been
erected by the heritors at a cost of 4000,
was opened by him, 31st July 1775. He
died 30th July 1785. He marr. (1) 20th
March 1755, Mary Tait, who died 20th
Dec. 1756 : (2) 10th Aug. 1759, Mary (died
4th Feb. 1821), youngest daugh. of James
Nimmo, cashier of Excise, and had issue
Archibald, W.S., born 8th Aug. 1760,
died 9th April 1845; Mary, born 18th May
1762, died 6th March 1838 (marr. 20th
March 1781, John Dickson of Coulter, ad
vocate) ; Margaret, born 29th Sept. 1763 ;
Catherine, born 20th May 1765 (marr.
Lieut. Lockhart of 30th Foot); Elizabeth,
born 14th Dec. 1766 (marr. John Lockhart,
D.D., min. of Blackfriars, Glasgow, father
of John Gibson Lockhart). Publications
Two single Sermons (Edinburgh, 1762-8).
[Sime s West Kirk ; Douglas s Peer., ii. ;
Erskine s Serm., ii.]
1786
WILLIAM PAUL, born Glasgow, 10th
June 1754, son of Robert P. and Agnes
Anderson ; M.A. (Glasgow 1773) ;
tutor in the family of David, Earl of Leven ;
licen. by Presb. of Cupar 2nd Sept. 1777 ;
ord. to Newbattle 24th Sept. 1779 ; pres. by
George III. 29th Oct. 1785 ; trans, and adm.
23rd March 1786; one of His Majesty s
Chaplains in Ordinary 1793 ; died 27th Oct.
1802. He marr. 7th April 1783, Susan (died
21st Nov. 1828), only daugh. of Sir William
Moncreiff, Bart., min. of Blackford, and had
issue Katharine, born 2nd Aug. 1784, died
in infancy; Susan, born 29th April 1785
(marr. 30th March 1814, Robert Tennant,
jun., merchant, Glasgow), died 1836 ;
William, accountant, Edinburgh, born 10th
June 1786, died 1848 ; Robert, manager of
the Commercial Bank, born 15th May
1788, died 16th July 1866; Agnes, born
9th Jan. 1790; Henry, accountant, Glasgow,
born llth Oct. 1791, died 1860 ; Archibald,
born 23rd Nov. 1792, died 29th Sept. 1813 ;
John, min. of St Cuthbert s ; Catherine
Isabella, born 13th March 1797, died 18th
Sept. 1884. Publication The Influence of
the Christian Character upon the Propaga
tion of Christianity, a sermon (Edinburgh,
1797). [Sime s West Kirk ; Bonar s Serm.,
ii. ; Playfair s Bar., iii. ; Kay s Portr.,
Tombst.]
DAVID DICKSON, born 23rd Nov.
1803 1780, eldest son of David D., min.
of Libberton, afterwards of New
North Parish, Edinburgh ; educated at
Bothkennar School and Univ. of Edin
burgh; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 3rd
Dec. 1801 ; ord. to High Kirk Parish,
Kilmarnock, 10th March 1802 ; pres. by
George III. 29th Dec. 1802; trans, and
adm. 16th May 1803; D.D. (Edinburgh,
24th June 1824); died 28th July 1842.
[See monument at St Cuthbert s, which
shows an accurate likeness of him in his
later years.] He was for many years
secretary of the Scottish Missionary
Society, and an indefatigable advocate
of all benevolent and missionary work.
He marr. 24th Aug. 1808, Janet (died 31st
Oct. 1878, aged 95), daugh. of James
Jobson, Dundee, and had issue David,
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born 18th June 1810 ; James Jobson,
accountant, Edinburgh, born 24th Nov.
1811, died 2nd Dec. 1891 ; John Wardrobe,
born 26th June 1813, died 7th Jan. 1818 ;
Elizabeth Crawford, born 12th Dec. 1815
(marr. 13th June 1837, John George Pack,
M.D., Bathgate) ; Charles, advocate, born
5th Aug. 1817, died 27th May 1857;
Christian, born 26th March 1819, died
25th April 1820; Jane, born 5th July
1820, died 9th Dec. 1912 ; Christian Helen,
born 3rd March 1822, died 24th Feb.
1902 ; Margaret Ann, born 22nd May 1825,
died 23rd May 1826. Publications Five
single Sermons (Edinburgh, 1806-31); The
Influence of Learning on Religion (Edin
burgh, 1814); Sermons (Edinburgh, 1818);
Discourses Doctrinal and Practical (1857) ;
edited Memoir of Miss Fanny Woodbury
(Edinburgh, 1826) ; Sermons by the Rev.
W. F. Ireland, D.D. (Edinburgh, 1829);
Lectures and Sermons by the Rev. George
B. Brand (Edinburgh, 1841); Articles in
the Edinburgh Encylopoedia, Christian
Instructor, and other periodicals. [Sime s
West Kirk, Anderson s Edin. Clergy,
Modern Athenians (portrait), Tombst.,
Kay s Portr., Diet. Nat. Biog.]
JAMES VEITCH, born Inchbonny, Jed-
1843 burgh, 27th April 1808, son of John
V., millwright, an eminent self-
taught astronomer and geologist ; educated
at Univ. of Edinburgh ; ord. to Galashiels
6th Aug. 1834; trans, to Newbattle 2nd
Oct. 1840 ; trans, and adm. 6th March
1843 ; D.D. (Edinburgh 1854). For several
years convener of the India Mission. In
1877 he fell into bad health, and applied
for the appointment of an assistant and
successor. Died unmarr., llth April 1879,
leaving a large sum of money for the
erection and endowment of a district
church in the parish. He was an earnest
and polished preacher, and had the reputa
tion of being deeply read in theological
literature. He was uncompromising in his
hostility towards all forms of innovation
in public worship. Publications Reasons
against Affiliating our Christian Missions
to the Secular System of Government
Education in India (Edinburgh, 1857);
The Efficacy of Prayer (Edinburgh, 1865).
[Border Almanac, Hall s Galashiels, The
Scotsman.]
JAMES BARCLAY, born Paisley, 19th
June 1844, third son of James B. ;
educated at Paisley Grammar School,
Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh, and
Univ. of Glasgow; M.A. (1865); licen.
by Presb. of Paisley 1870; ord. to St
Michael s, Dumfries, 26th Jan. 1871 ; trans,
to Canonbie 10th July 1874 ; trans, to Lin-
lithgow Nov. 1876 ; trans, and adm. (assist
ant and successor) 16th May 1878 ; res. 18th
May 1883, on appointment to St Paul s,
Montreal; D.D. (Glasgow 1892); LL.D.
(M Gill Univ., Montreal, 1907); res. 1909.
He marr. 18th June 1873, Marion, daugh.
of Alexander Simpson, solicitor, Dumfries,
and has issue James, M.D., born 8th July
1874, died Feb. 1913 ; Alexander, engineer,
born Nov. 1875 ; Hugh Brown, died in child
hood ; Charles Norman, born Sept. 1877 ;
Malcolm Drummond, C.E., born May 1880 ;
Marion Rutherford, born 25th Dec. 1881
(marr. 1905, Robert Dale); MacGregor,
born Jan. 1885.
ANDREW WALLACE WILLIAM
SON, trans, from North Leith, and
adm. 6th Sept. 1883; trans, to St
Giles 19th Jan. 1910.
WILLIAM LYALL WILSON, born
Dundee > 6tla Mav 1866 > son of
Thomas W. and Amelia Swan ;
educated at George Watson s College and
Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (1888); licen.
by Presb. of Edinburgh 1892 ; assistant at
St Andrew s Scots Church, Buenos Aires,
1892-4 ; ord. to Lesmahagow 6th June 1895 ;
trans, to St Mary s, Dundee, 29th June
1905 ; trans, and adm. 12th May 1911 ; died
1st Aug. 1914. He marr. 6th May 1901,
Margarita, daugh. of James MacCulloch,
Estanciero, Uruguay, and Agnes M Clelland,
and has issue Agnes Ruby Lyall, born 3rd
Sept. 1902 ; Thomas Leslie Lyall, born 17th
Nov. 1907.
BONNINGTON (Chapel-of-Ease).
[Opened 14th Oct. 1900, as a Chapel-of-
Ease under St Cuthbert s.]
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BONXINGTON ST DAVID S
[PKESB. OF
THOMAS BAYLEY M CORKINDALE,
lgoo M.A. ; app. 14th Oct. 1900; res.
22nd Nov. 1907, on election as min.
of Knoxland, Dumbarton.
JOHN SUTHERLAND HUNTER,
1908 min. of Holy town (1890-1905) ; app.
1908 ; res. 1911.
[Ordained assistants at St Cuthbert s
Church have carried on the Mission at
Bonnington since 1911.]
CHARTERIS MEMORIAL:
ST NINIAN S MISSION CHURCH
[Opened 24th May 1912, as a memorial of
Archibald Hamilton Charteris, D.D., LL.D.,
Professor of Biblical Criticism, Univ. of
Edinburgh, 1868-1898; founder of the
Guilds of the Church of Scotland, and
Moderator of Assembly 1892.]
WILLIAM COWAN, born Edinburgh,
25th Oct. 1857, son of James C.,
Selkirkshire ; educated at Heriot-
Watt School, and Univ. of Edinburgh ;
licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh May 1888 ;
assistant at Tolbooth Parish, Edinburgh ;
ord. by Presb. of Edinburgh Feb. 1891, for
service in Egypt at St Andrew s Church,
and as consular chaplain, Alexandria ;
began Scottish congregation in Cairo ;
returned to Scotland ; was, 1903-5, senior
assistant at St Giles ; app. to St Ninian s
Mission 1905, having oversight of the
Institute of Missionary Training, and adm
min. of the Charteris Memorial Church 24th
May 1912. He marr. 26th Sept. 1893,
Margaret, daugh. of Peter Black, Bey,
Egyptian Government Service.
ST DAVID S (Q.S.).
[Formerly Gardner s Crescent Chapel
under St Cuthbert s ; opened 29th May
1831. Declared a parish quoad sacra by
the General Assembly, 30th May 1836, and
named St David s. Erected by the Court
of Teinds, 6th July 1874. A new church
was built in 1912, and the parish extended
31st May 1912.]
JOHN ALEXANDER CASTLEMAINE
1837 TANNOCH, nominated by the Kirk-
session of St Cuthbert s, and ord.
9th Feb. 1837; trans, to Kinross 27th
Sept. 1842.
ROBERT FERGUSON, born Morton,
1843 15th Sept. 1802, son of William F.,
farmer, and Mary Johnstone ; edu
cated at Edinburgh Univ. ; M.A. (12th
April 1828); ord. to Fenwick 25th Aug.
1836 ; trans, and adm. 16th May 1843.
Joined the Free Church ; min. of Free St
David s, Edinburgh, 1843 ; died at Grace-
field, Keir, Dumfriesshire, 18th Dec. 1866.
He marr. (1) 10th Oct. 1836, Agnes (died
30th Nov. 1853), daugh. of Robert Lidgate
of Maines, Berwickshire, and had issue
William, born 3rd Jan. 1842 ; Agnes Mar
garet, born 2nd June 1844; Robert, born
7th June 1849 : (2) 3rd April 1856, Eliza
beth Black, who died 22nd Sept. 1888.
Publication The New Creature, a sermon
(Edinburgh, 1844).
GEORGE GORDON PITTENDRIGH,
1844 k rn Aberdeen, 2nd Aug. 1799, son
of William P. and Margaret Gordon ;
educated at King s College 1828-32; assist
ant to Dr Kidd, Aberdeen ; licen. by Presb.
of Aberdeen ; ord. to Scots Church, Alnwick,
Northumberland : adm. 26th Dec. 1844 ;
died 23rd March 1869. He marr. Jane
(died 3rd July 1882), daugh. of Joseph
Hartridge, wood-bailiff to Duke of North
umberland, and had issue Mary Nicolson,
teacher, born 1845, died 20th Dec. 1903 ;
George, marine engineer, born 1846 ; Joseph,
died aged 60 ; Thomas Millons, manager,
Norwich Union, Edinburgh, born 25th
March 1851, died 24th April 1913 ; Susan,
born 1854 ; Maggie Jane, born 1856.
[ROBERT JOHN SINTON, assistant
1869 at Dalton, was app. to take
charge of the parish as the mission
district of the Edinburgh Univ. Mission
Association, 1869; he died in Feb. 1871.]
1871
DAVID LAIRD ADAMS, M.A., B.D.
ord. first min. of the parish 2nd
Nov. 1871 ; trans, to Monimail 23rd
Sept. 1875 ; [became Professor of Hebrew
in Edinburgh Univ.].
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ALEXANDER WEBSTER, born Aber-
18*76 deen, 5th Jan. 1834, son of William
W. and Annie Hendry ; educated at
Grammar School, Aberdeen, and Edin
burgh Univ.; MA. (Marischal College
1853) ; licen. by Presb. of Burntisland ;
assistant at Kinghorn, Dysart, Kilrenny,
Edinburgh (Tolbooth and New Greyfriars) ;
ord. to Laigh Kirk, Kilmarnock, 9th Aug.
1866 ; trans, and adm. 1st June 1876 ; died
30th May 1896. He marr. 3rd June 1869,
Margaret Husband (died 16th Oct. 1914),
daugh. of William Dawson MacRitchie,
surgeon H.E.I.C.S., who afterwards marr.
William Findlay, ord. assistant at Saline,
Fifeshire.
WILLIAM RITCHIE BLACK, born
lg9Q Inchture, 6th Aug. 1861, son of John
B. and Helen Murray ; educated at
St Andrews Univ. ; MA. (1884) ; licen. by
Presb. of Dundee 1887 ; assistant at Abdie
and Edinburgh (St David s) ; ord. 23rd Dec.
1896. Marr. 27th July 1897, Euphemia
Grace, daugh. of David Galloway, merchant,
Edinburgh, and has issue Marion Gallo
way, born 1898 ; John Murray, born 1899 ;
William Galloway, born 1901 ; Robert
James, born 1902 ; David James, born 1904 ;
Helen Grace, born 1905 ; Charles Ritchie,
born 1908.
ST GEORGES.
[Founded 14th May 1811, erected by
Presb. 26th Jan., and opened 5th June
1814. The church, built from a design by
Robert Reid, cost 33,194.]
ANDREW MITCHELL THOMSON,
k rn Hth July 1778, son of John
T., min. of Sanquhar, afterwards of
Edinburgh ; educated at Univ. of Edin
burgh ; schoolmaster of Markinch ; licen.
by Presb. of Kelso 7th Oct. 1800 ; ord. to
Sprouston llth March 1802; trans, to
East Parish, Perth, 31st March 1808;
trans, to New Greyfriars 16th May 1810 ;
M.A. (Edinburgh 1811); pres. by the Town
Council 9th Feb., trans, and adm. 16th
June 1814; D.D. (Columbia College, New
York, 4th Aug. 1818, which he did not
accept, and by the Univ. and Marischal
College of Aberdeen, Nov. 1823). Return
ing from a meeting of Presb., in whose
1814
business he had taken an active part, he
died instantaneously within a few steps of
his own door (29 Melville Street), from an
affection of the heart, 9th Feb. 1831. He
was an enthusiastic musical amateur, and
the composer of many psalm tunes. In
1820 he published Sacred Harmony, for the
Use of St Georye s Church, Edinburgh, in
which will be found "Redemption" and
" St George s, Edinburgh," and eleven other
original tunes by Dr T. In the " Apocrypha
Controversy " he very strongly opposed the
policy of circulating copies of the Bible in
which the books of the Apocrypha were
inserted, and he pleaded with great
eloquence for the immediate termination
of slavery in the British colonies. Able
character sketches have been drawn by
Dr M Crie, Dr Chalmers, and Dr Burns
of Toronto. He marr. 26th April 1802,
Jane Carmichael, who died 8th June 1840,
and had issue Jean and Helen, born 30th
March 1803; Agnes, born 24th Aug. 1804,
died 27th Sept. 1816; John, Professor of
Music in the Univ. of Edinburgh, born
28th Oct. 1805, died 1st May 1841 ; Janet,
born 2nd Oct. 1809; Isabella, born 17th
Nov. 1811 ; James, born 8th Oct. 1813,
died 23rd June 1815 ; Andrew, min. of
Maybole, born 10th May 1815 ; Christian
Bonar, born 8th Dec. 1819. Publications
A Catechism on the Sacrament of the
Lord s Supper (many editions) ; A Letter
to Principal Hill (Edinburgh, 1803), a
second (Edinburgh, 1805), and another
on the case of John Leslie (Edinburgh,
1805) ; Our Guilt, our Danger, and
our Duty as a People, a sermon (Perth,
1809); Seven single Sermons (Edinburgh,
1809-10) ; Lectures, Expository and Practi
cal, 2 vols. (Edinburgh, 1816) ; Sermons
on Infidelity (Edinburgh, 1821) ; Lectures
on Select Portions of the Psalms (Edin
burgh, 1826) ; Sermons on Various Subjects
(Edinburgh, 1829); The Doctrine of Uni
versal Pardon Considered ami Refuted
(Edinburgh, 1830) ; Sermons and Sacra
mental Meditations (Edinburgh, 1831); with
many smaller works. He edited for twenty
years the Edinburgh Christian Instructor
(30 vols.), writing many of its papers with
singular ability ; and not fewer than forty-
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ST GEORGE S
[PRESB. OF
three articles in the Edinburgh Encyclo
paedia, of which he was part proprietor.
[Edin. Chr. Inst., xxxi., New Series, i. ;
Chalmers , M Culloch s, and Brown s Fun.
Serins.; Anderson s Sketches; Cunningham s
Hist., ii. ; Chambers s Biog. Diet., iv. ; Kay s
Portr., ii. ; Cockburn s Mem., Wilson s
Pr. Perth, Diet. Nat. Biog.}
JAMES MARTIN, born 30th July
1831 1800, son of John M. of Swan Inn,
Brechin ; M.A. (Aberdeen, 2nd April
1816) ; attended divinity classes at Edin
burgh ; tutor in the family of Ogilvie of
Tannadice ; licen. by Presb. of Forfar 15th
Aug. 1821 ; ord. to Glenisla 18th Sept.
1823; adm. to Stockbridge Chapel 14th
May 1828 ; pres. by the Town Council (at
the request of the kirk-session), trans, and
adm. 6th Oct. 1831 ; died unmarr. at Leg
horn, where he had gone for the recovery
of his health, 22nd May 1834. Publication
Discourses, ivith Letters on Prayer, and
a Memoir by Eobert Paul (Edinburgh,
1835). [Discourses, Bruce s Fun. Serin.,
Anderson s Sketches; Maclagan s Hist, of
St George s Church.]
ROBERT SMITH CANDLISH, born
1834 23r( ^ ^ arc h 1806, son of James C.,
M.A., teacher of Medicine, Edin
burgh, one of Burns s intimates, and Jane
Smith, one of his " six Mauchline belles " ;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow; tutor in
the family of Sir Hugh Hume Campbell
of Marchmont, Bart. ; licen. by Presb. of
Glasgow, 6th Aug. 1828; assistant at St
Andrews, Glasgow, and Bonhill; offered
himself for service in Canada ; employed
as assistant min. in absence of preceding,
and on his death presented by the Town
Council, 20th May 1834, and ordained 14th
Aug. 1834. He was appointed to the new
parish of Greenside in 1836, but declined
acceptance ; also in 1841 offered the newly
instituted Professorship of Divinity and
Biblical Criticism in Edinburgh University,
and a deanery of the Chapel Royal, both of
which appointments, owing to the part he
took in the Non-Intrusion Controversy,
were cancelled ; D.D. (Princeton College,
New Jersey, 1841). Joined the Free
Church ; min. of Free St George s, which
he opened, 28th May 1843; appointed
Professor of Divinity in the New College,
1847, but relinquished it, and remained
in his charge ; Moderator of the Free
General Assembly 22nd May 1862, and
Principal of the New College 1862; D.D.
(Edinburgh, 24th April 1865). After the
death of Dr Chalmers he was the most
influential of the leaders of the Free
Church ; died 19th Oct. 1873. He marr.
6th Jan. 1835, Jessie (died 16th Sept.
1894), daugh. of Walter Brock and Janet
Crawford, and had issue James Smith
Candlish, D.D., min. at Logie-Almond and
Aberdeen, Professor in Free Church College,
Glasgow, 1872-97, born 14th Dec. 1835,
died 7th March 1897 ; Jessie, born 14th
Jan. 1837, died 29th Jan. 1893 (marr.
1865, William Anderson of Glentarkie) ;
Jane Smith, born 14th June 1838, died
30th March 1840 ; Walter, born 10th Aug.
1839, died 20th Feb. 1840; Elizabeth
Smith, born 28th Dec. 1840 (marr. 1863,
Archibald Henderson, D.D., United Free
Church min. at Crieff) ; Agnes, born 3rd
Aug. 1842, died 24th April 1845; Robert
Smith, marine engineer, born 21st April
1844, died 20th May 1887; Margaret
Charlotte, born 28th Jan. 1846, died 16th
April 1899; John Bogle, insurance agent,
Australia, born 2nd Nov. 1847 ; Mary Ross,
born 9th June 1851, died 30th Sept. 1866.
Publications Eleven single Sermons (Edin
burgh, 1834, et seq.) ; Contributions towards
the Exposition of the Book of Genesis, 3
vols. (Edinburgh, 1842-52); The Word of
God the Instrument of the Propagation of
the Gospel (1843) ; Scripture Characters and
Miscellanies (Edinburgh, 1850); Reason and
Revelation (Edinburgh, 1854) ; Man s Right
to the Sabbath (Edinburgh, 1856); Life in
a Risen Saviour (Edinburgh, 1858); The
Atonement (Edinburgh, 1860); Two Great
Commandments (Edinburgh, 1860); The
Fatherhood of God (Edinburgh, 1865);
Sermons, memoir (Edinburgh, 1874); Dis
courses on the Ephesians (Edinburgh, 1875) ;
numerous pamphlets, etc. [Tombst. ;
Smith s Scott. Clergy, i. ; Diet. Nat.
Biog., Wilson s Memorials of Robert Smith
Candlish, Maclagan s Hist, of St George s
Church.]
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ROBERT HORNE STEVENSON, born
1843 Netlier i ncn > Campsie, 27th Oct. 1812,
son of John S. of Gartclash, farmer,
and Margaret, daugh. of Robert Home
of Braziets ; educated at Campsie School
and Univs. of Edinburgh and Glasgow ;
licen. by Presb. of Dumbarton 23rd Oct.
1832 ; tutor to A. J. Dennistoun-Brown of
Balloch, with whom he travelled exten
sively on the continent of Europe ; mission
ary in the Second Charge, Kilmarnock ;
assistant at Crieff 1839 ; ord. (assistant and
successor) there 6th May 1840; clerk to
Presb. of Auchterarder, April 1843 ; trans,
and adm. to St George s 28th Sept. 1843 ;
D.D. (Edinburgh 1871); Moderator of the
General Assembly 1871 ; chairman of Coun
cil of the College for Daughters of Ministers
and Professors ; one of Edinburgh Ecclesi
astical Commissioners; res. 25th June
1879; died 15th Nov. 1886. He marr.
26th Jan. 1853, Frances, daugh. and co
heiress of Robert Cadell of Ratho, and
had issue Anne Frances, born 6th June
1854 ; John (Robert) Home, Knight of
Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem
in England, M.A., advocate, Unicorn Pur
suivant, born 2nd July 1855 ; Robert
Cadell, member of the London Stock
Exchange, born 10th April 1859; William
Black, M.A., min. of Athelstaneford, and
St Columba s, Edinburgh, organising secre
tary, Foreign Mission Committee, born
10th May 1862; Louisa Hope, born 21st
March 1864 (marr. 1904, Alexander Garden
Sinclair, artist) ; Henry James, M.A., W.S.,
secretary of the North British and Mer
cantile Insurance Co., born 12th July
1867. Publications Several Funeral Ser
mons ; Farewell Letter to the Congregation
of St George s (Edinburgh, 1879).
ARCHIBALD SCOTT, born Cadder,
1880 18t ^ Sept- 183 7> sixth son of James
S.. farmer, Bogton, and Margaret
Brown ; educated at Cadder School, Glasgow
High School, and Univ. of Glasgow ; B.A.
25th April 1855 ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow
8th June 1859; assistant at St Matthew s,
Glasgow, and Clackmannan ; pres. by the
Provost and Magistrates, and ord. to the
East Church, Perth, 2nd March 1860 ; trans.
to Abernethy 29th Jan. 1863; trans, to
Maxwell, Glasgow, 1 st June 1865 ; trans,
to Linlithgow 23rd Sept. 1869; trans, to
Greenside 21st Sept. 1871; D.D. (Glasgow
27th April 1876) ; trans, and adm. 29th
Jan. 1880 ; Moderator of the General
Assembly 1896; convener of the General
Committee of the Church ; chairman of
the Consulting Committee of the Ministers
Widows Fund ; one of Edinburgh Ecclesi
astical Commissioners; one of the Baird
Trustees ; chairman of the Edinburgh School
Board 1878-82; Croall lecturer 1889-90;
Baird lecturer 1892-3 ; lecturer on Pastoral
Theology ; died 18th April 1909. He marr.
(1) 4th June 1861, Isabella (died 1st May
1892), daugh. of Robert Greig, merchant,
Perth, and had issue Robert Greig, W.S.,
born 25th Sept. 1867, died 12th Sept. 1911 ;
Margaret, born 26th March 1870 : (2) 18th
July 1894, Marion Elizabeth, daugh. of
John Rankine, D.D., min. of Sorn. Publi
cations Endowed Territorial Work (Edin
burgh, 1 873) ; Buddhism and Christianity :
A Parallel and a Contrast (Croall Lecture,
Edinburgh, 1890); Sacrifice, its Prophecy
and Fulfilment (Baird Lecture, Edinburgh,
1894); Our Opportunities and Responsi
bilities (Assembly Closing Address, 1896).
GAVIN LANG PAGAN, born 13th April
1873, son of John P., D.D., min. of
Bothwell; educated at Hamilton
Academy and Univ. of Glasgow; M.A.
(1893), B.D. (1896); licen. by Presb. of
Hamilton 29th Sept. 1896; assistant at
Abbotshall, Rosemount, Aberdeen, and
Edinburgh (St Cuthbert s); ord. to Cal-
lander 7th Sept. 1899; trans, to Largs
26th Nov. 1902; trans, and adm. 7th
Oct. 1909.
ST JAMES S (Q.S.).
[Disjoined from St Cuthbert s and
erected into a parish quoad sacra, 6th
July 1891. Church built in 1895.]
SIMON SOMERVILLE STOBBS, born
19th Jan. 1833, son of William S.,
U.P. min. at Stromness, and Jessie
Somerville ; ord. to Ardrossan U.P. Church
22nd Dec. 1857; res. 13th March 1860;
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ST JAMES S ST JOHN S
[PHESB. OF
adm. a min. of the Church of Scotland
1863 ; assistant at St Michael s, Dumfries ;
ind. to Swallow Street, London, 1864, to
Lugar 1867, to St Matthew s, Montreal, 1876,
to Messer Street, Jersey City, U.S.A., 1878 ;
returned to Scotland and took up work in
Elder Street Mission Church, Edinburgh,
1881 ; adm. first min. of this charge, 3rd
Sept. 1891 ; res. 17th Oct. 1898; died 10th
Feb. 1911. He marr. 10th June 1890, F.
Eleanor Gordon. Publications Heartsease;
Self -Education ; Hymns and Meditations in
Verse ; Budget of Holiday Letters ; Chinese
Vieivs and Peoples ; Light in the Darkness.
THOMAS PORTEOUS, born Edin-
burgh, 3rd June 1861, son of James
P. and Margaret Nicol ; educated at
George Heriot s School and Univ. of Edin
burgh ; M.A. (1880), B.D. (1883) ; licen. by
Presb. of Edinburgh 18th May 1883 ; assist
ant at St Ninians, Stirling, and Tron,
Edinburgh; ord. to Gordon 24th Sept.
1885; trans, and adm. 30th March 1899.
ST JOHN S.
[In 1840 a part of Old Greyfriars Parish
was disjoined and erected by the Court of
Teinds into a new parish, which was called
St John s, because certain of the lands
within the area had belonged before the
Reformation to the Knights Templars of
St John of Jerusalem.]
THOMAS GUTHRIE, born Brechin,
184Q 12th July 1803, sixth son of David
G., banker, Provost of Brechin, and
Clementina Cay ; educated at Brechin and
Edinburgh Univ. ; licen. by Presb. of
Brechin 2nd Feb. 1825; ord. to Arbirlot
13th May 1830; trans, to Old Greyfriars
21st Sept. 1837 ; trans, and adm. 28th Oct.
1840. Joined the Free Church, and became
rain, of Free St John s 1843 ; D.D. (Edin
burgh, 9th April 1849) ; Moderator of Free
Church General Assembly 1862 ; retired
1864 ; F.R.S.E. (1869) ; founder of the Edin
burgh Original Ragged Industrial Schools ;
one of the earliest Temperance reformers ;
an eloquent preacher, and writer of great
popularity ; died 24th Feb. 1873. He marr.
6th Oct. 1830, Anne (died 2nd June 1899),
daugh. of James Burns, one of the mins. of
Brechin, and had issue David Kelly, min.
of the Free Church, Liberton, born 9th
Aug. 1831, died 6th Sept. 1896; Christina,
born 31st May 1833 (marr. 22nd March
1854, William Welsh of Mossfennan, D.D.,
min. of the Free Church, Broughton), died
17th Feb. 1895; James, banker, Brechin,
born 15th Jan. 1835 ; Patrick, banker, Edin
burgh, born 1st Oct. 1836 ; Clementina, born
28th June 1839, died 22nd Jan. 1908 ; Annie,
born 28th June 1841 (marr. 27th April
1859, Stephen Williamson, M.P.); Thomas,
farmer, near Buenos Ayres, born 19th
Nov. 1843, died 3rd Nov. 1900; Alex
ander, merchant, Liverpool, born 10th
March 1846 ; Charles John, Senator of
the College of Justice, born 4th April
1849; Helen, born 30th Nov. 1851 (marr.
David Gray, Glasgow), died 9th July
1883; John, born llth Dec. 1853, died 9th
Aug. 1855. Publications On the Intrusion
of Ministers (Edinburgh, 1839); A Short
Plea for the Piiblic and Free Use of the
Bible in Ragged Schools A Plea for
Ragged Schools A Second Plea for Ragged
Schools (Edinburgh, 1847-9) ; A Plea on
Behalf of Drunkards and against Drunken
ness (Edinburgh, 1851); Lost and Found
(Edinburgh, 1853) ; The Gospel in Ezekiel
(Edinburgh, 1855) ; The City, its Sins and
Sorrows (Edinburgh, 1857); Christ and
the Inheritance of the Saints (Edinburgh,
1858); A Word in Season: a Neiv Year
Tract (1861); The Way to Life (Edin
burgh, 1862); The Disruption: its Obliga
tions and, Responsibilities (Edinburgh,
1862) ; Bear Ye One Another s Burdens
(London, 1863); Speaking to the Heart
(London, 1863); Man and the Gospel
(1865); The Angels Song (1865); The
Parables (1866 ; new edition, with memoir
1908); Our Father s Business (1867); Out
of Harness (1867); Early Piety (1868);
Studies of Character from the Old Testa
ment (1868-70); Sundays Abroad (1871).
He edited The Street Preacher, or Auto
biography of Robert Flockhart (Edinburgh,
1858), and wrote a Memoir of the Rev. Robert
Coutts, Coutts Sermons (1848); editor of
the Sunday Magazine (1864-73). [Atito-
biography and Memoir, by his sons, D. K.
and C. J. Guthrie ; Diet. Nat. BiogJ]
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ROBERT WILLIAM FRASER, born
1844 Perth) 10th July 181 S n f Cap "
tain Robert F., sometime of the
Household of George, Prince of Wales,
and Helen Buchanan ; educated at Univ.
of Edinburgh; M.A. (1836); licen. by
Presb. of Edinburgh 1840 ; ord. to Burnt-
island 8th Sept. 1843; trans, and adm.
21st March 1844; died 10th Sept. 1870.
He marr. 25th Aug. 1828, Margaret (died
23rd Jan. 1890), daugh. of Captain Andrew
Buchanan, Ringwood Lodge. County Wex-
ford, and had issue Margaret Olivia, born
1st Feb. 1831 (marr. 31st Dec. 1862,
Charles Cadell Macdonald, D.D., min. of
St Clement s, Aberdeen) ; Robert George,
min. of St Thomas s, Leith ; Thomas Thom
son, born 2nd July 1836; William Henry,
born 28th May 1837, died 28th Oct. 1844 ;
Mary Gertrude, born 5th May 1838 ;
Oswald, born 9th May 1840, died 13th
May 1842; Edith, born 18th June 1843,
died 16th March 1859. Publications
Moriah : Sketches of the Sacred Rites of
Ancient Israel (Edinburgh, 1849); The
Path of Life (Edinburgh, 1851); Leaves
from the Tree of Life (Edinburgh, 1851 ;
2nd ed., 1852) ; Turkey, Ancient and Modern
(Edinburgh, 1854) ; Elements of Physical
Science (London, 1855 ; 3rd ed., under the
title of The Handbook of Physical Science,
London, 1866) ; The Kirk and the Manse
(Edinburgh, 1857); Ebb and Flow, The
Curiosities and Marvels of the Seashore
(London, 1860); Head and Hand (Edin
burgh, 1861) ; Seaside Divinity (London,
1861); The Seaside Naturalist (London,
1868) ; Gladdening Streams (Edinburgh,
1868). [Scotsman, 12th Sept. 1876; Diet.
Nat. Biog.}
JOHN WEBSTER, D.D. ; trans, from
1876 ^ ameron > ar >d adm. 28th Dec. 1876 ;
trans, to Cramond llth March 1884.
1884
DAVID NEIL IMRIE, born Kinrossie,
Collace, son f James Imrie and
Janet Strachan ; educated at Bal-
beggie School, Perth Academy, and Univ.
of Glasgow ; M.A. (1867), B.D. (1870) ; licen.
by Presb. of Perth May 1876 ; assistant at
St Matthew s, Glasgow ; ord. to North
Parish, Paisley, 1st Dec. 1870 ; trans, to
Logic 18th Jan. 1872 ; trans, and adm.
19th Sept. 1884; died 14th Dec. 1891.
He marr. 28th Oct. 1873, Eliza Mary Ann
(died 17th May 1890), daugh. of Captain
Ferguson, Irvine, and had issue Arthur
Stanley, born 24th Sept. 1874, died 6th
June 1888; Frederick William, born 17th
Aug. 1876, died 20th July 1911 ; John
Hamilton, Life Association of Scotland,
born 30th Nov. 1878; Herbert Neil, born
2nd July 1881.
ROBERT BLAIR, born Bullwood,
1892 Dunoon > 3rd Mav 1837 > son of
Duncan Blair and Margaret Camp
bell; educated at Bowmore School, Islay,
and Glasgow Univ. ; M.A. (1863) ; licen. by
Presb. of Kintyre 29th Nov. 1865; assist
ant at Saddell, Kintyre ; ord. to Tarbert,
Lochfyne, 19th Sept. 1867; trans, to St
Columba s, Glasgow, 6th May 1869 ; trans,
to Cambuslang 23rd May 1882 ; trans,
and adm. 20th July 1892 ; D.D. (Glasgow
1891) ; chaplain to Glasgow Highlanders ;
V.D. ; chaplain to H.M. Prison, Edin
burgh ; died 4th Nov. 1907. He marr.
29th Oct. 1889, Flora Anne, daugh. of
Duncan Cameron and Mary Brown Small
(who afterwards marr. George Macaulay).
Publications Edited the Gaelic poems
(with Memoir) of William Livingstone,
the Islay Bard (Glasgow, 1882); trans
lated a number of hymns into Gaelic ;
wrote Gaelic articles for The Gael (Glas
gow, 1873-6) ; one of the translators of the
Revised Version of the Bible into Gaelic.
JOHN GAVIN DICKSON, born Rose-
1908 well> Mid l tn i an > 23rd Au S- 1863 > son
of John Gavin D. and Euphemia
Ramsay ; educated at East Linton and
Edinburgh Univ. ; M.A. (1885) ; licen. by
Presb. of Dunbar May 1888 ; assistant at
Dalserf; ord. to Kippen 14th Aug. 1889;
trans, and adm. 18th May 1908. Marr. 10th
Dec. 1889, Agnes M Allum, daugh. of Gavin
Paul and Janet Annan, and has issue-
Eleanor Mary, born 26th Sept. 1890 ; Lilian
Paul, born 13th Feb. 1892 ; Agnes Mary,
born 20th July 1893 ; John Gavin, born 3rd
April 1897 ; Jean Shearer Paul, born 5th
Sept. 1906.
no
ST LEONARD S ST LUKE S
[PRKSB. OF
ST LEONARD S (Q.S.).
[The first church, opened 6th April 1879,
was destroyed by fire on the morning
of 21st Nov. of the same year. A new
church was erected, and opened 21st May
1880, and the district formed into a parish
quoad sacra in 1884.]
LEWIS FREDERICK ARMITAGE,
born Leeds, 17th June 1838, son of
1879 John A. and Mary Carter; edu
cated at Leeds, Glasgow, and Edinburgh ;
a Primitive Methodist min. in England,
and at Motherwell and Edinburgh ; adm.
to Church of Scotland 1878; ord. 16th
July 1879 ; died 8th Sept. 1903. He marr.
19th Aug. 1879, Jane Edmonstone, daugh.
of Robert Morham, depute city clerk, Edin
burgh, and had issue Lewis Frederick,
lay missionary of the Church of Scotland
in Nyasaland, born 9th Oct. 1880; Janet
Mary, born 21st April 1883; Helen Rose-
hannah, born 8th June 1885 ; Elizabeth,
born 6th April 1887 ; Phoebe Jane, born
8th Jan. 1893.
JOHN CALDER, born Old Aberdeen,
21st May 1875, son of William C.
1904 and Jennie Keith Fiddes ; educated
at Gordon s College and Aberdeen Univ. ;
M.A. (1900); tutor in the Church of
Scotland Normal Practising School, Aber
deen; licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen 1903;
assistant at Turriff; ord. 19th Feb. 1904;
res. 9th Oct. 1912, and settled in Australia.
Marr. 1st Aug. 1906, Euphemia Thorn,
youngest daugh. of Duncan Duthie Mackie,
Singapore, Straits Settlements, and has
issue Ruve Fiddes Duthie, born 4th July
1909.
WILLIAM LIDDLE, born Linlithgow,
1918 26th April 1864, son of William L. ;
educated at Linlithgow Grammar
School and Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A.
(1896), B.D. (1890); licen. by Presb. of
Linlithgow 1890 ; assistant at Partick ;
ord. to Grahamston, South Africa, 28th
Dec. 1896; res. 1900; app. to St Mar
garet s Chapel-of-Ease, Glasgow, 1901 ;
trans, and adm. 10th April 1913. He
marr. 21st May 1907, Florence Louisa,
daugh. of Oscar Nystrom, Stockholm,
and has issue Florence Gunilla Anne
Nystrom, born 20th April 1910 ; Margaret,
born 30th June 1912 ; William John,
born 18th Oct. 1913. Publication Siveden
(London, 1911).
ST LUKE S (Q.S.).
[A church in Young Street, originally a
Unitarian chapel, was purchased by the
Kirk-session of St George s in 1834, and re
built. It was opened for public worship 28th
May 1837. In 1843 the minister, the twelve
elders, and the trustees joined the Free
Church, retaining possession of the build
ing. They were, however, ejected on 4th
March 1849, and services in connection
with the Church of Scotland were resumed.
The church and district were constituted a
chapel-of-ease by the General Assembly
in 1841, and erected into a parish by decree
of the Court of Teinds, llth Feb. 1863.
The district having become depopulated,
an Act of Parliament (3 Edward VII., cap.
66) was obtained to transfer the endow
ments, minister, etc., to a new church and
parish to be erected within the city of
Edinburgh. A new church was accord
ingly built at Comely Bank, and opened
for worship 10th Oct. 1908. The old
parish was reannexed to St George s, and
the new parish (taken chiefly from the
Dean and partly from St Bernard s) was
erected by decree of the Court of Teinds
on 6th Feb. 1909.]
ALEXANDER MOODY-STUART, born
Paisley, 15th June 1809, sixth son of
Andrew Moody of Muirshiel, banker,
Paisley, and Margaret Fulton McBrair ;
M.A. (Glasgow 1830) ; licen. by Presb. of
Glasgow 5th Oct. 1831 ; missionary in
Holy Island, Northumberland, 1831 - 5 ;
under the Kirk - session of St George s,
Edinburgh, began in 1835 the work of
gathering a congregation in Young Street ;
ord. first min. 27th July 1837. Joined
Free Church and became min. of St
Luke s Free Church 1843; convener of
Jewish Mission of Free Church from 1847
to 1889 (with a brief interval) ; Moderator
of the General Assembly of the Free Church,
1875; D.D. (Edinburgh 1875); died at
Crieff, 31st July 1898. All his life he
was a strong supporter of the principle of
1835
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Church Establishment, and an opponent of
ecclesiastical and political agitation for dis
establishment of the Church of Scotland ;
dissented strongly from the positions of the
adherents of the " Higher Criticism " of the
Old Testament ; took a prominent part in
opposition to the movement for union
between the Free and United Presbyterian
Churches between 1863 and 1873 ; in
terested himself in promoting friendly rela
tions between Scottish Presbyterians and
the Reformed Churches of Hungary and
Bohemia. He marr. 9th Sept. 1839, Jessie
(died 27th April 1891), eldest daugh. of
Kenneth Bruce Stuart of Annat, whose
name he assumed, and had issue a daugh.,
born and died July 1840; Kenneth, Free
Church min. at Moffat, author of a Memoir
of his father and a Memoir of Brownlow
North, born 13th June 1841, died 15th
March 1904 ; Andrew, born 6th Dec. 1842,
died 1st Sept. 1866 ; Alexander, advocate,
LL.D., Professor of Law, Univ. of Glasgow,
1887-1905, born 30th May 1844; Robert,
chartered accountant, Dundee, born 17th
March 1846, died 22nd June 1896; Mar
garet, born 16th March 1848, died unmarr.
17th March 1880 ; Jessie, born 14th March
1850 (marr. 1883, George Watt, K.C.,
Sheriff of Chancery), died 15th Jan. 1895 ;
George, merchant in London, born 27th
Oct. 1851 ; John, Fellow of Institute of
Actuaries, born 23rd July 1853; Charles,
Bank of Scotland, Lossiemouth, author of
Sandy Scott s Bible Class, etc., born 13th
Sept. 1854, died 19th July 1900; Eliza,
born 4th March 1861. Publications A
Pastoral Letter on the Present Position of
the Church of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1840) ;
Revival of Religion (Glasgow, 1842) ; Con
version of the Jews (Edinburgh, 1842-8) ;
Deathbed Scenes (Edinburgh, 1843) ; A
Report of the Proceedings of the General
Assembly of the Free Church Relative to
the State of Religion in the Land (Edin
burgh, 1844); Ireland Open to the Gospel
(Edinburgh, 1847) ; Inquiry into the Present
Educational Connection between the Free
Church and the Government (Edinburgh,
1848) ; A Practical Exposition of the Song
of Solomon (London, 1857 ; 2nd ed., London,
1860); Key to the Emblems of Solomon s
Song (London, 1861); The Three Marys
(London, 1862); Capernaum as the Sphere
of Christ s Ministry (London, 1863) ; The
Life and Letters of Elizabeth, Diichess of
Gordon (London, 1865); The Spiritual
Condition of the Ministry in its Influence
on the People (Edinburgh, 1865) ; 7s the
Establishment of Religion Outside of the
Confession? (Edinburgh, 1868); On Re
ligion and the Church in the Articles of
Union, etc. (Edinburgh, 1869); The Union
Overture, a speech in the Free Presbytery
of Edinburgh, 4th April 1870 (Edinburgh) ;
A Visit to the Land of Huss (London, 1 870) ;
Recollections of Dr John Duncan (Edin
burgh, 1872) ; Recent AivaTcenings and Highei*
Holiness, Opening and Closing Addresses
in the Free Church General Assembly
(Edinburgh, 1875); Jesus Christ the Bmtd
of the Holy Universe, Sermon preached at
the Opening of the Free Church General
Assembly, 1876 (Edinburgh, 1876); The
Bible True to Itself (London, 1884); The
Path of the Redeemed (Edinburgh, 1893).
[Memoir, London, 1899.]
PETER MACMORLAND, trans, from
Inverkeithing, and adm. 10th Dec.
1852; trans, to North Berwick 10th
April 1856.
JAMES BREARCLIFFE M LAURIN,
assistant at Struan, and at St
George s, Edinburgh ; app. 1 7th April
1856, and adm. 10th July 1856; died at
Malaga, Spain, 3rd Jan. 1858.
1853
1856
1858
THOMAS ANDREWS, ord. 19th May
1858 ; trans, to South Queensferry
9th May 1861.
1861
RANALD MACPHERSON, born
Greenock, 13th March 1821, son of
Alexander M. ; educated at Univs. of
St Andrews and Glasgow ; licen. by Presb.
of Kin tyre 1851, missionary at Brodick ;
ord. min. of the Church of Scotland,
Swallow Street, London, 1853; trans, and
adm. 7th Oct. 1861; res. 26th Oct. 1892;
died at Edinburgh, 14th March 1902. He
marr. 5th June 1855, Elizabeth (died at
Edinburgh, 12th Jan. 1903, aged 78),
daugh. of Captain James Harvey, and had
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[PRESB. OF
issue Charles, died young ; Ranald ; Kate,
for 15 years missionary in Palestine, died
1900; Jessie (marr. David G. Millar, mer
chant, Leith) ; Jean, secretary to the
Church of Scotland Women s Association
for Foreign Missions.
DAVID MUNRO MILNE, born Aber-
1893 deen, 23rd Jan. 1863, son of George
M. ; educated at Univs. of Aberdeen
and Edinburgh; M.A. (Aberdeen 1885),
B.D. (Edinburgh 1889); licen. by Presb.
of Edinburgh May 1889 ; assistant at
Peterhead; ord. 22nd March 1893. Marr.
12th June 1895, Jeanie, only daugh. of
James Mackay, Banff, and has issue
David, born llth March 1896; Mary
Catherine, born 18th Feb. 1899; Agnes
Jane Michie, born 9th May 1906.
ST MARGARET S (Q.S.).
[Disjoined from St Cuthbert s and erected
into a parish quoad sacra, 1885. A church
was opened in 1881.]
WILLIAM MORRIS BROWN, born
1881 Dundee, 24th Dec. 1834, son of Peter
B. and Jean Ogilvie ; educated at
Dundee schools and Aberdeen Univ. ; M.A.
(Marischal College 1 860) ; ord. missionary
to the Jews at Constantinople 1868 ; after
wards min. of Elder Street Chapel, Edin
burgh ; adm. 25th Oct. 1881 ; died 21st Aug.
1902. He marr. 25th Aug. 1865, Elizabeth
Brodie. daugh. of Captain William Powrie
and Margaret Anderson, and had issue
Alexander, advocate ; Margaret Anderson
(marr. John Ewing Wallace, min. of Kirrie-
muir) ; Isabella Ogilvie.
JOHN COCHRANE, born Scone, 1856 ;
educated at St Andrews Univ. ;
licen. by Presb. of Perth ; ord. 4th
Feb. 1903; res. 17th May 1905; died at
Toronto, 15th July 1910. He marr. Kate
Elder Robertson, who marr. again.
JAMES GILLAN,born 13th June 1847,
is son of James G., D.D., min. of
Alford ; educated at Aberdeen Univ. ;
M.A. (1866), B.D. (1870); licen. by Presb.
of Alford 1869 ; assistant at Newbattle ;
1903
ord. to Alford 6th July 1871 ; res. 16th
May 1896; took charge of Dairy Mission,
Edinburgh, from 1898 to 1904; adm. 1st
Aug. 1905; res. 30th Nov. 1910; took
charge of Scots Church, Brussels, 1911 ;
and of St Andrew s, Cairo, 1912. Marr.
8th June 1882, Margaret Henderson,
daugh. of John Wilson of South Ban-
taskine, Stirlingshire, and has issue Mary
Johanna Russel, born 3rd Oct. 1883 (marr.
29th Jan. 1913, Neil Meldrum, chaplain,
Church of Scotland, Madras) ; James
Angus, Sudan Civil Service, born llth
Oct. 1885 ; Catherine Jessie, born 3rd
April 1888, died 22nd July 1913; John
Robert Wilson, student of divinity, born
12th Nov. 1890.
1911
WILLIAM VEITCH, born Edinburgh,
16th March 1860, son of William V.,
D.C.S., and Mary Johnston ; licen.
by Presb. of Edinburgh May 1883 ; ord. to
Belhaven 20th Sept. 1888 ; trans, and adm.
6th June 1911. Marr. 23rd Oct. 1888,
Helen Flowerdew, daugh. of William
Lowson of Balthayock and Helen Flower-
dew, and has issue Helen Flowerdew,
born 8th Oct. 1891 ; Gladys Muriel, born
7th Dec. 1892 ; Vera Cecil, born 21st April
1896; William Lionel Douglas, born 21st
Nov. 1902.
ST MARY S, FORMERLY BELLEVUE
CHAPEL.
[Erected into a parish by the Town
Council, and concurred in by the Presb.,
27th Oct. 1824. A church, which cost
23,000, was opened 12th Dec. 1824, and
the name St Mary s given to it in 1825.]
HENRY GREY, born Alnwick, llth
182g Feb. 1778, son of Dr G., physician,
Morpeth ; educated at Univ. of Edin
burgh ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 26th
Nov. 1800; ord. to Stenton 17th Sept.
1801 ; adm. to St Cuthbert s Chapel-of-
Ease 18th Nov. 1812; M.A. (Edinburgh,
26th April 1818); trans, to New North
Parish llth Jan. 1820 ; pres. by the Town
Council Oct. 1824 ; trans, and adm. 13th
Jan. 1825. Joined the Free Church ; min.
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of St Mary s Free Church, Edinburgh,
1843; Moderator of the Free Church
General Assembly 16th May 1844; died
13th Jan. 1859. In the " Apocrypha Con
troversy" he took a prominent part in
opposition to Dr Andrew Thomson,
in favour of the policy of circulating in
foreign countries Bibles with the Apoc
rypha. He was one of the first of the
city ministers to introduce more frequent
celebrations of the Holy Communion. On
his jubilee in 1851, a sum was raised for
the endowment of bursaries in the New
College, to be inscribed with his name.
He marr. 12th Oct. 1808, his cousin Mar-
garetta (died 22nd Nov. 1858, aged 72),
eldest daugh. of George Grey of West
Ord, Northumberland, and had issue
Mary, born 9th Feb. 1810 (marr. 24th Oct.
1839, John Hampden Gurney, M.A., rector
of St Mary s, Bryanston Square, London,
miscellaneous writer), died 16th July 1857 ;
Harriet Jane, born 2nd July 1811 (marr.
8th March 1837, Charles Birrell, min. of
Pembroke Baptist Church, Liverpool, and
was mother of Augustine Birrell, statesman
and author), died 26th Oct. 1863; George
Edward, born 31st July 1812, died 26th
Jan. 1819 ; Henry Campbell, M.A., vicar
of Watling, Sussex, born 18th June 1814,
died 17th Aug. 1854 ; Ernelia Isabella,
born 27th Sept. 1816, died llth July
1843; Edward John, born 26th Nov.
1820, died 1869. Publications ^ Cate
chism on Baptism (Edinburgh, 1811) ;
Sermon on Behalf of the Edinburgh
Lunatic Asylum (1815) ; The Diffusion of
Christianity Dependent on the Exertions
of Christians (1818) ; The Veil of Moses
done away in Christ (1820) ; Man s
Judgment at Variance with God s (1824);
Review of Remarks Relative to his Con
nection with the Letters of Anglicanus
Edinburgh, 1828); The Duty and Desir
ableness of Frequent Communion with
Christ in the Sacrament of the Supper
(Edinburgh, 1832); Address to the Congre
gation of St Mary s (Edinburgh, 1843) ;
A Parting Memorial (Edinburgh, 1858) ;
Thoughts in the Evening of Life, ed.
with Memoir by C. M. Birrell (London,
1871); Lecture IV., "On the Conversion
VOL. I.
of the Jews ;; (Edinburgh, 1842).
[Tombst., Anderson s Sketches ; Kay s
Portr., ii. ; Diet. Nat. Biog., private
information.]
1843
JAMES GRANT, born 23rd Jan. 1800,
third son of Andrew G., D.D., min.
of Portmoak (afterwards of St
Andrew s, Edinburgh); educated at High
School and Univ. of Edin. ; licen. by Presb.
of Edinburgh 27th Feb. 1822 ; ord. to South
Leith 26th Aug. 1824 ; trans, and adm.
16th Nov. 1843; D.D. (Glasgow 1842),
D.C.L. (Oxon. 1854); Moderator of the
General Assembly 1854 ; collector of the
Ministers Widows Fund 1843-60 ; chaplain
Highland and Agricultural Society of
Scotland 1840-90; secretary Scottish Bible
Society 1836-74 ; chaplain Harveian Society
1833-90 ; Fellow and sometime member of
council of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
1851-90; original member, and for many
years chairman of the Edinburgh Ecclesi
astical Commissioners ; director of the
Scottish Widows Fund Assurance Society
1840-90 ; res. 1871 ; died 28th July 1890.
He marr. 25th April 1826, Jessie Anne
(died 6th May 1881), youngest daugh.
of Colin Campbell, Achindoon, Argyll
shire (widow of Major Archibald Camp
bell of Braglen), and had issue Agnes
Willis, born 16th Sept. 1828, died
8th Jan. 1855 ; Andrew, merchant, Bom
bay, sometime M.P. for Leith Burghs,
born 13th June 1830; Colin Campbell,
W.S., afterwards barrister-at-law, Middle
Temple, born 13th June 1830, died 30th
April 1902 ; James, captain R.N., born 8th
April 1833, died 24th Feb. 1909; George,
born 15th May 1834, died llth June 1848;
Margaret Campbell, born 10th Oct. 1836,
died 20th April 1906 ; Archibald Duncan,
East India merchant, Snell Exhibitioner
(Glasgow U"niv.), B.A. (Oxon.), born 3rd
June 1839. Publications Memorandum
for the Solicitor - General for Scotland
(Edinburgh. 1842) ; Statement regarding the
Fund for a Provision for the Widows and
Children of the Ministers of the Church and
Professors in the Universities of Scotland
(Edinburgh, 1860).
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ST MARY S ST MICHAEL S
[PRESB. OF
1872
CORNELIUS GIFFEN, born Mearns,
16th Aug. 1828, son of William G.
and Agnes Leitch ; educated at
Mearns School and Univ. of Glasgow ;
licen. by Presb. of Paisley ; missionary at
St Enoch s, Glasgow ; assistant at Alloa ;
ord. (by Presb. of Paisley) to Oldham
Street, Liverpool, 29th March 1852 ; trans,
to Dailly 13th Sept. 1855 ; trans, to Trinity
Parish, Edinburgh, 13th May 1869; trans,
and adm. llth Jan. 1872; D.D. (Edin
burgh 1892); died 20th Feb. 1897. He
marr. 4th March 1856, Ann Caldwell (died
7th April 1907), daugh. of Thomas Camp
bell, Provost of Irvine, and Ann Ranken
(died at Kirkcaldy, 15th Dec. 1914), and
had issue Annie, born 4th Dec. 1856;
Agnes, born 24th Feb. 1858 ; William, born
18th June 1860 ; Margaret, born 5th June
1861 (marr. William Jack, min. of East
Kilbride) ; Katherine, born 7th Sept. 1862 ;
Janet, born 5th Sept. 1864 ; Sophia, born
27th May 1867 (marr. 5th July 1893,
James Pender) ; Jane, born 17th July 1868
(marr. 31st May 1907, Percy Leech) ;
Thomas, born 13th Aug. 1872.
THOMAS MARTIN, M.A., B.D. ; trans,
from Cramond 15th May 1896 ; trans,
to Barony, Glasgow, 25th Oct. 1900.
JOHN AGNEW FINDLAY, born East
Linton, 13th Jan. 1862, son of Thomas
F. and Jessie Agnew ; educated at
Douglas Academy, Newton-Stewart, Univs.
of Glasgow and Paris ; M.A. (Glasgow
1885); licen. by Presb. of Wigtown May
1888 ; assistant at Irvine ; ord. to Sprouston
14th March 1891 ; trans, from Sprouston
and adm. 4th April 1901 ; trans, to Glen-
cairn 17th July 1914 (q.v.) ; chaplain,
Scots Church, Cairo, 1908-9. Marr. 22nd
June 1905, Alice Mary, daugh. of
Thomas Chambers Newton, Staindrop
Lodge, Thorncliffe, Yorkshire.
ST MATTHEW S (Q.S.).
[An iron church was opened on llth Nov.
1883. The foundation stone of the present
building was laid by the Lord High Com
missioner, John, Earl of Hopetoun, 1st June
1888, and the church was dedicated 2nd May
1890. Erected into a parish quoad sacra 9th
1896
1901
July 1909, composed entirely of the south
part of Morningside Parish quoad sacra, and
all in the original parish of St Cuthbert.]
GEORGE MILLIGAN, M.A., B.D. ;
1887 ass istant at Morningside ; took
charge of St Matthew s llth Nov.
1883; ord. 24th Feb. 1887; trans, to
Caputh llth Feb. 1894.
DUNCAN CAMPBELL, born 10th June
1894 1847, son of Duncan Campbell, min.
of Moulin ; educated at High School
and Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (1866), B.D.
(1870) ; licen. by Presb. of Dunkeld 1871 ;
assistant at St Bernard s, Edinburgh ; ord.
to Keig 22nd Sept. 1873 ; trans, to Graham-
ston 3rd Feb. 1876 ; chaplain of the Scots
Church, Paris, 1880 ; app. to Rosemount,
Aberdeen, llth May 1882 ; trans, to St
Matthew s 25th July 1894 ; convener of
Committee on Correspondence with other
Reformed Churches 1894-8 ; vice-convener
of Young Men s Guild ; died unmarr. 20th
July 1903. Publications The Roll Call
of Faith (Edinburgh, 1895); Hymns and
Hymn Writers (Guild Library); joint
editor, The Guild Manual (Edinburgh,
1904).
DAVID MELVILLE STEWART, M.A.,
19(H B.D. ; trans, from St Margaret s,
Arbroath, and adm. 6th Jan. 1904 ;
res. 1906. [Afterwards min. of Erskine.]
NORMAN MACLEOD CAIE, M.A.,
1907 B.D. ; trans, from New Kilpatrick,
and adm. 21st Feb. 1907 ; became
first min. of the parish on its erection 9th
July 1909 ; trans, to Pollokshields, Glasgow,
14th Sept. 1911.
FRANK HALE MARTIN, born Dun-
1912 gannon, 10th Oct. 1871, son of James
Robert M. and Elizabeth Moore ;
educated at Belfast and Edinburgh Univs. ;
B.A. (Royal Univ. of Ireland 1894), B.D.
(Edinburgh 1899) ; licen. by Presb. of Edin
burgh March 1898; assistant at St Paul s,
Perth ; ord. to St Paul s, Perth, 19th Sept.
1900 ; trans, and adm. 29th Feb. 1912.
ST MICHAEL S (Q.S.).
[In 1876 a temporary mission church was
built at the corner of Angle Park Terrace.
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ST MICHAEL S ST STEPHEN S
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In 1881 the foundation stone of the present
church was laid, and on 2nd Dec. 1883
it was opened. Disjoined from St Cuth-
bert s and erected into a parish quoad sacra
by decree of the Court of Teinds, 14th
March 1887.]
GEORGE WILSON, born Duns Law,
7 Berwickshire, llth Aug. 1838, son of
John W. and Agnes Wilson ; educated
at Edinburgh Univ. ; licen. by Presb. of
Edinburgh 1873; assistant for a few
months and ord. to Tolbooth, Edinburgh,
25th Sept. 1873; trans, to Cramond llth
July 1878 ; trans, and adm. 4th May
1887 ; sometime convener of Committee on
Temperance ; convener of Mission Weeks
Committee ; D.D. (St Andrews 1895).
He marr. 30th June 1874, Fanny
Coghlan, who died 22nd Dec. 1889. Pub
lications Hints to the Mission Preacher,
Hints to the Parish Minister (Mission
Weeks Booklets).
ST ORAN S (GAELIC).
[See page 31.]
ST OSWALD S (Q.S.).
[Opened 12th Oct. 1890, the original iron
church being known as St Mark s. Robert
Wilfrid Wallace, M.A. (afterwards of St
Leonard s, St Andrews), took charge as
probationer till 1894. A new church, which
cost 11,936, was dedicated 24th June 1900,
and a parish quoad sacra, under the desig
nation St Oswald s, was erected 8th March
1907. Disjoined from St Cuthbert s.]
HENRY JOHNSTONS WOTHER-
1907 SPOON, born 22nd Oct. 1850, son
of William Lang W., min. of Kil-
spindie ; educated at Dundee High School,
St Andrews and Edinburgh Univs. ; M.A.
(St Andrews 1871) ; licen. by Presb. of Perth
1875 ; assistant at Galashiels, Edinburgh (St
George s), Dunning, and Swinton ; ord. to
Burnbank 14th Sept. 1880; clerk to
Presb. of Hamilton 1892-4 ; res. 13th June
1894, to take charge of St Oswald s; ind.
first min. llth April 1907 ; Alexander
Robertson, lecturer, Glasgow Univ., 1913 ;
D.D. (St Andrews 1913). Publications
The Divine Service, a fiucharistic Office
(1893) ; Kyrie Eleison, a Devotional Manual
(1903) ; Parish Church Tracts ; Creed and
Confession (Macleod Lecture, 1905); The
Second Prayer-book of King Edward VI.
(1905) ; numerous contributions to the Pro
ceedings of Church Law Society, Scottish
Church Society, and Scottish Ecclesio-
logical Society.
ST SERFS (Q.S.).
[Disjoined from St Cuthbert s, St Ber
nard s, and Newhaven, and erected into a
parish quoad sacra by decree of the Court
of Teinds, 1st Nov. 1912.]
DAVID GORDON HAMILTON, born
1912 Birkenhead, 7th Feb. 1872, son of
Robert Gordon H. and Ellen Char
lotte Forbes ; educated at George Watson s
College and Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A.
(1892); licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh
April 1895 ; assistant at Greenock and
North Leith ; app. to St Serf s Mission
Oct. 1900 ; ord. 27th June 1901, and adm.
first min. of the parish 1st Nov. 1912.
Marr. 16th Sept. 1902, Agnes, daugh. of
Davidson Hunter, schoolmaster, Leith.
ST STEPHEN S.
[Erected into a parish by the Town
Council 26th Nov. 1828 ; concurred in by
the Presb. 10th, and opened 21st Dec. same
year.]
WILLIAM MUIR, born Glasgow, llth
Oct> 1787 third son of william M.,
merchant; educated at Univs. of
Glasgow and Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb.
of Glasgow 7th Nov. 1810; LL.D. (Glas
gow, 1st April 1812); ord. to St George s
Parish, Glasgow, 27th Aug. 1812 ; D.D.
(Glasgow, 18th April 1820) ; trans, to New
Greyfriars, Edinburgh, 12th Sept. 1822;
pres. by the Town Council in 1828 ; trans.
and adm. 26th Feb. 1829 ; Moderator of
the General Assembly 17th May 1838.
Previous to this he took no share in the
question of Non-Intrusion, but called by
his position to declare himself, he sided
with the minority, and at the Secession
was frequently consulted by Government
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in the disposal of patronage. He was
appointed Chaplain in Ordinary to Queen
Victoria and Dean of the Order of the
Thistle in 1845, and died 23rd June 1869.
He marr. (1) 22nd June 1813, Hannah
(died 12th Aug. 1827), eldest daugh. of
James Black, merchant, Lord Provost of
Glasgow, and had issue Hannah Short-
ridge, born 17th Jan. 1816, died 15th Nov.
1822 ; James, born 31st May 1817 ; Kobert
Hugh, min. of Dalmeny ; William, born
16th Aug. 1820; John, died 18th Jan.
1823 ; John Stenhouse, min. of Cockpen ;
Hugh, born 14th June 1826, died 2nd June
1827 : (2) 3rd Oct. 1844, Anne (died 23rd
March 1887), youngest daugh. of Lieut.-
General Dirom of Mount Annan. Publica
tions Ten single Sermons (Glasgow, 1814 ;
Edinburgh, 1865) ; Discourses on the Epistle
of Jiide (Glasgow, 1822) ; Memoir and Let
ters of the Rev. William Guthrie (Edin
burgh, 1827) ; Sermons on the Seven Churches
in Asia (Edinburgh, 1830) ; Three Sermons
connected with the Present Distress (Edin
burgh, 1832) ; An Arrangement of the
Parables (Edinburgh, 1836); The Whole
Service in the High Church of Glasgow
at the Commemoration of the Glasgow As
sembly of 1638 (Glasgow, 1838) ; Sermon I.,
at opening of the North Parish Church,
Kelso (Edinburgh, 1838); A Letter to the
Congregation of St Stephen s on the Church
Question (Edinburgh, 1839); Speech on
the Auchterarder Case (Edinburgh, 1839) ;
Practical Sermons on the Character and
Work of the Holy Spirit (Edinburgh, 1842) ;
Si/stem of Lessons for St Stephen s Sabbath
Schools (Edinburgh, 1842); A Letter on
Education (Edinburgh, 1849); Metrical
Meditations (Edinburgh, 1870). [Ander
son s Sketches ; Mem. Sermon, by J. C. Herd-
man, D.D. ; Diet. Nat. Biog.]
MAXWELL NICHOLSON, born 3rd
7 July 1818, son of Christopher N., min.
of Whithorn ; educated at Whithorn
School and Univ. of Edinburgh ; tutor in
the family of Sir Neil Menzies, Bart. ;
licen. by Presb. of Weem 1840 ; assistant at
Tranent; ord. to Pencaitland 29th Aug.
1843 ; trans, to Tron, Edinburgh, 24th Aug.
1854 ; trans, and adm. (assistant and suc
cessor) llth June 1867 ; D.D. (Edinburgh
1867) ; died 30th Dec. 1874. He marr. 21st
Nov. 1843, Frances Isabella (died 9th April
1892), daugh. of Stuart Oliphant of Kossie
and Anna Keid, and had issue Christopher,
born 18th March 1845, died 24th May 1845 ;
Anna, born 28th Oct. 1846 (marr. Theodore
Marshall, min. of Caputh); Stuart Oliphant,
cotton merchant, Liverpool and New
Orleans, born 29th Jan. 1849 ; Mary,
born 19th Feb. 1852 (marr. Robert Ellis,
C.E., Edinburgh); Francis Maxwell, mer
chant, Buenos Ayres, born 24th Dec. 1855 ;
Margaret Marianne, born 28th Jan. 1859
(marr. Adam Rankine, cotton broker,
Liverpool) ; Anne Helen, born 5th Oct.
1862. Publications Rest in Jesus (Edin
burgh, 1866) ; Prayers for Social and
Family Worship (Edinburgh, 1874); Re
deeming the Time, and other Sermons
(Edinburgh, 1875) ; Communion with
Heaven, and other Sermons (Edinburgh,
1877).
NORMAN MACLEOD, D.D. ; trans, from
1875 Blair-Atholl, and adm. 28th Sept.
1875 ; trans, to Inverness 7th Aug.
1890.
JOHN FORBES WATSON GRANT,
born Ordiquhill, Banffshire, 21st June
1852, son of James G., D.D., min. of
Fordyce ; educated at Fordyce Academy,
and Univs. of Aberdeen and Edinburgh ;
M.A. (Edinburgh 1877) ; licen. by Presb. of
Fordyce May 1879 ; assistant at St Mary s,
Edinburgh; ord. to Haddington (Second
Charge) 23rd Sept. 1880; trans, and adm.
3rd June 1891; D.D. (Edinburgh 1904);
died 12th Aug. 1912. He marr. 8th Nov.
1882, Diana Shank, daugh. of John Cook,
D.D., min. of Haddington, and had issue
Helen Katherine Stuart, born 3rd Sept.
1883; Mary Elizabeth, born 25th Aug.
1885 ; Diana Victoria, born 5th May 1887.
LAUCHLAN MACLEAN WATT,
bOTn Grantown > 24th Oct 1867 >
son of Andrew MacLean W. and
Margaret Gillanders MacLean, Dunvegan,
Isle of Skye ; educated at various schools,
and Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (1894),
B.D. (1897); licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith
1911
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ST STEPHENS THE TOLBOOTH
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12th May 1896; assistant at Lady Glen-
orchy s, Edinburgh ; ord. to Turriff 7th April
1897 ; trans, to Alloa and Tullibody 12th
Feb. 1901 ; trans, and adm. (assistant and
successor) 16th Feb. 1911. Marr. 8th June
1897, Jennie Hall, daugh. of John Alexander
Reid, New Kelso, Strathcarron, Ross-shire,
and has issue Hector MacLean, born 31st
Oct. 1900. Publications God s Altar Stairs
(Aberdeen, 1899) ; In Love s Garden (London,
1901); The Grey Mother (London, 1903);
The Communion Table (London, 1903) ;
Alloa and Tullibody (Alloa, 1903) ; By Still
Waters (Edinburgh, 1904) ; edited Metrical
Psalms and Paraphrases (Paisley, 1906) ;
Smith s Summer in Skye (London, 1907) ;
Stowe s Dred (London, 1907); The Tryst
(London, 1907); Edragil, 1745 (London,
1907); Attic and Elizabethan Tragedy
(London, 1908) ; Moran of Kildally (London
1909); In Poets Corner (London, 1910);
Oscar (Edinburgh, 1911) ; Literature and
Life (London, 1912) ; History of Britain
for Schools, George I. to George V.
(Edinburgh, 1912); Carlyle (The People s
Books ; Edinburgh, 1912) ; The House of
Sands (London, 1912) ; Gates of Prayer
(London, 1912) ; The Minister s Manual
(London, 1912) ; Green Meadows (Edin
burgh, 1912) ; Scottish Life and Poetry
(London, 1912) ; Hills of Home (Edinburgh,
1913) ; Burns (The Nation s Library, 1914) ;
The Saviour of the World (Edinburgh, 1914).
THE TOLBOOTH PARISH.
[Erected by the Town Council 24th Dec.
1641, the west portion of St Giles adjoining
the Tolbooth being appropriated for its
use. The present building was erected
1840-3, in terms of the arrangement be
tween the Commissioners of H.M. Treasury
and the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and
Council of Edinburgh. The latter body,
by Act 7 & 8 George IV., cap. 76, entitled
"An Act for carrying into effect certain
improvements within the city of Edinburgh
and adjacent to the same," were authorised
to discontinue two of the places of worship
under the roof of St Giles, and were at
the same time required to erect two addi
tional churches in place thereof, including
a church then in course of erection in St
Vincent Street (now known as St Stephen s),
the second church to be erected within the
bounds of the ancient royalty. The Tol
booth was erected as the second of these
churches. The arrangement under which
it was erected is narrated in the disposition
by the Commissioners of Improvements of
the City of Edinburgh, with consent of the
Lord Provost and Council, in favour of
the Commissioners of Woods, Forests, etc.,
dated 12th May 1846. That disposition
proceeds on the narrative that it having
been found necessary to provide a suitable
hall for the meetings of the General
Assembly of the Church of Scotland, an
arrangement was entered into between the
Lords Commissioners of H.M. Treasury and
the Lord Provost and Council, whereby the
latter body agreed to pay the sum of 6000
towards the erection of an edifice on a
certain site near the Castlehill, which
should serve both for an assembly hall
and a church, provided the Treasury would
agree to defray the remainder of the ex
penditure, including the price of the ground
(which was fixed at 3600), and make over
to the Lord Provost and Council the aisle
of St Giles, in which the General Assembly
was wont to meet, to be used as a city
church in all time coming. The disposition
contains the terms and conditions on which
it was granted, which include, inter alia, that
the whole building is to be appropriated to
the uses of the General Assembly during its
sittings, that on all other occasions the
whole of the building, except the church
and such accommodation as may be required
for it as a place of public worship, shall be
appropriated to ecclesiastical purposes con
nected with the General Assembly of the
Church of Scotland and of the Commission
of that Church, and of the Synod of Lothian
and Tweeddale, and of the Presbytery of
Edinburgh, and that on all other occasions
(except during the sittings of the General
Assembly) the church, with such accom
modation as may be necessary for its use as
a place of public worship, shall be used
as one of the city churches in connection
with the Church of Scotland.
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The foundation stone was laid on the
occasion of Queen Victoria s first visit to
Scotland. The following is the inscription
on the stone : " To the Glory of God, in
honour of the Queen, on the 3rd day of
September in the year of our Lord 1842,
the day of Her Most Gracious Majesty
Queen Victoria visiting the City of Edin
burgh, the Right Honourable Sir James
Forrest, Bart., of Comiston, Lord Pro
vost ; the Reverend David Welsh, D.D.,
Moderator of Assembly; the foundation
stone of this superstructure, to be called
Victoria Hall, for the use of the General
Assembly of the Church of Scotland, was
laid by the Right Honourable Lord
Frederick Fitzclarence, G.C.B., etc., Grand
Master Mason of Scotland, in presence of
the Grand Lodge and other masonic
lodges ; James Gillespie-Graham of Orchill,
architect (of the hall) ; John Lind, master
builder of the hall. Length from east to
west, 141 feet ; height of spire over the
entrance, 241 feet." (For further informa
tion regarding the ceremony, see Sir Thomas
Dick Lauder s Memorials of the Royal Pro
gress in Scotland in 1842.)
ROBERT DOUGLAS, M.A.; trans, from
1641 ^ e ^Sh Church ; had this parish
allotted by the Town Council 24th
Dec. 1641 ; retrans. to the High Kirk Parish
1649. [Edin. Counc. Reg. ; Acts Parl., vi.]
GEORGE HUTCHISON, M.A.; trans.
1649 fr m Colmonell; pres. by the Town
Council 7th Nov. 1648, and appointed
to this charge 4th April 1649. In the same
year he was one of the visitors of the
Univ. of Edinburgh, and a member of the
Commission of Assembly who proceeded
to Breda in 1650, to interview Charles II.
He attended Archibald, Marquess of Argyll,
after his condemnation, and accompanied
him to the scaffold 27th May 1661.
Declining to conform to Episcopacy, he was
inhibited from exercising his ministry by
Parliament 7th Aug. 1662. In 1669 he was
min. at Irvine. \_Edin. Counc. Reg. ; Acts
Parl., vi., vii. ; Kirkton s and Wodrow s
Hists., i. ; Blair s Life ; Baillie s Lett., iii. ;
Livingston s Life, Nicoll s and Brodie s
Diaries, M Ure s Glasg.]
WILLIAM ANNAND, M.A.; elected by
the Town Council and adm. 1st Feb.
1663; trans, to Tron Parish in 1672.
\_Edin. Counc. Reg.]
1663
JAMES LUNDIE, M.A.; trans, from
1672 ^ e ^Sh Kirk Parish ; elected by
the Town Council and adm. after
16th Aug. 1672 ; trans, to Tron Parish in
1675. [Edin. Counc. Reg.]
WILLIAM MELDRUM, son of Andrew
M., dyer, and bailie in Aberdeen ;
M.A. (Marischal College, Aberdeen,
1654) ; regent in Marischal College 1660 ;
min. of Auchterless in 1671 ; trans, to
Tranent 8th Aug. 1672 ; pres. by the Town
Council, trans, and coll. 16th July 1675 ;
dep. in 1681 for refusing the Test ; died
Jan. 1684. He marr. (1) Jean Colston,
and had issue Christian, bapt. 24th June
1673; Jean, born 12th Nov. 1674 (marr.
15th March 1694, Sir Francis Grant, Lord
Cullen) : (2) at Holyrood House, 20th Sept.
1677, Sarah Lawson, who died Nov. 1693,
and was buried in Greyf riars. [Edin.
Counc. Reg. ; Inq. Ret. Gen., 6535 ; G. R.
Homings, 18th Nov. 1685.]
JOHN HAMILTON, M.A.; trans, from
1681 South Leith ; pres. by the Town
Council 23rd Nov. 1681 ; dem. in
1686, on appointment as Bishop of Dunkeld
(q.v.). [Edin. Counc. Reg.]
WILLIAM GARDYNE, a native of
1686 Forfarshire, passed trials before the
Presb. of Arbroath, and was recom
mended for license to the Bishop 23rd July
1664; ord. to Second Charge 22nd Oct.
1668; elected by the Town Council 24th
Sept. 1686, and adm. soon after ; D.D. (St
Andrews, 6th Nov. 1686). Deprived 17th
Sept. 1689, for refusing to read the Pro
clamation, etc. Died 2nd Feb. 1708. He
marr. 25th Aug. 1671, Barbara Guthrie, and
had issue Harry, bapt. 19th June 1672,
died 14th May 1673; David, bapt. 27th
June 1675 ; Janet, bapt. 14th Jan. 1677 ;
Margaret, bapt. 20th June 1678 ; William,
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bapt. 3rd Nov. 1680 ; James, bapt. 30th
Dec. 1681 ; Alexander, bapt. 15th April
1683 ; Anna, bapt. 9th Sept. 1684 ; John,
bapt. 20th April 1686. [Edin. Counc., Test.,
and Reg. (Bapt., Marr., and Bur.) ; Rule s
Sec. Vindication.]
JAMES KIRKTON, born 1628; M.A.
(Edinburgh, 22nd July 1647) ; bursar
of the Presb. of Jedburgh ; min. of
Second Charge, Lanark, 1655 ; trans, to
Mertoun 1657 ; deprived 1662 ; resided for a
time in England and Holland ; called (after
the Toleration, 22nd July 1687) to a meeting
house on the Castlehill, Edinburgh, and adm.
to this charge 25th Jan. 1691 ; died 17th Sept.
1699. He marr. 31st Dec. 1657, Elizabeth
(buried in Greyfriars, 7th April 1697),
daugh. of George Baillie of Jerviswood and
Mellerstain, and had issue George, surgeon,
Edinburgh ; Dr Andrew, died Sept. 1694 ;
James, captain in the Navy ; William,
drowned in the Water of Leith, 1676 ;
Elizabeth, died June 1673 ; Rachel, died
Aug. 1700. Publications Life of Mr John
Welch (Edinburgh, 1703 ; Sel. Biog., i.) ; a
Sermon, being the last he preached (Edin
burgh, 1726) ; The Secret and True History
of the Church of Scotland, from the Restora
tion to 1678, edited (with a biographical
notice) by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe
(Edinburgh, 1817). [Edin. Counc., Guild,
Lanark Presb., and Reg. (Bur.) ; Wodrow s
Hist. ; Edin. Chr. Inst., xxv. ; Brodie s and
Fountainhall s Diaries; M Crie s Life of
Knox, ii. ; S. Presb. Eloq., Leven and
Melv. Pap. ; Acts Part., ix. ; Diet. Nat.
Biog.}
JOHN MATHISON, M.A.; called 19th
1706 Sept., and ord. 12th Dec. 1706;
trans, to the High Kirk Parish 5th
Nov. 1710.
JOHN M LAREN, born 1667, educated
at Glasgow Univ. ; master of the
Grammar School, Glasgow ; licen.
25th March 1691 ; ord. to Kippen 1692 ;
trans, to Carstairs 1699 ; called 20th March,
trans, and adm. 29th July 1711. He refused
to take the Oath of Abjuration in 1712, and
was one of six who protested against the
loosing from their parochial charges of
Ebenezer Erskine and his friends, 16th
Nov. 1733. He died llth July 1734. He
nmrr. (1) 25th July 1695, Eupham Park,
and had issue Helen (marr. 10th Nov.
1728, William Tod, merchant, Edinburgh) :
(2) Agnes, daugh. of William Mein, min. of
Dalkeith. Publications The New Scheme
of Doctrine contained in the Ansivers of Mr
John Simson, Professoi* of Divinity in the
College of Glasgow (Edinburgh, 1717) ; The
Spiritual Burgess, a sermon (Edinburgh,
1735). He is said to have drawn up a
reply to Limborch s System of Divinity.
[Brown s Gosp. Truth; Wodrow s Anal., iii.]
JOHN TAYLOR, M.A. (Edinburgh,
1735 12th May 1703) ; licen. by Presb. of
Edinburgh 18th Nov. 1713 ; ord. to
Tillicoultry 1714; trans, to Alloa 1728;
trans, and adm. 27th March 1735 ; died
12th Aug. 1736, aged about 54. He marr.,
and had issue William ; Cecilia (marr.
Henry Sinclair, writer, Edinburgh) ; Marion
(marr. Simon Bennet, brewer, Edinburgh).
[Wodrow s Anal., iii. ; Erskine s Supp. to
Gillies s Hist. Collect. ; Kay s Portr., i.]
ALEXANDER WEBSTER, born 1707,
son of James W., min. of the Second
Charge ; educated at High School
and Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb.
of Haddington 13th March 1733 ; ord. to
Culross 6th Sept. 1733; called 6th Jan.,
trans, and adm. 2nd June 1737. To him
the Church is indebted for the promotion
and prosperity of its fund for ministers
widows and children. He received the
thanks of the General Assembly, 15th May
1744, "for the extraordinary pains and
trouble taken by him in the rise and pro
gress of the scheme," the first institution of
its kind in Scotland. He was appointed
chaplain to Frederick, Prince of Wales,
1748, and was Moderator of Assembly, 24th
May 1753. In 1755 he drew up an account
of the people, and made what was practi
cally the first census of the population of
Scotland for the information of Govern
ment ; D.D. (Edinburgh, 24th Nov. 1760) ;
one of an Assembly deputation who pre
sented an address to George III. on his
accession, 20th Dec. 1760 ; general collector
of the Ministers Widows Fund, 26th June
1771. He was one of His Majesty s Chap-
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lains in Ordinary, and a Dean of the Chapel
Royal. He died 25th Jan. 1784. Though
strictly evangelical in doctrine, he was of
convivial and social habits, and withal so
popular and beloved that sittings in the
Tolbooth Church were not easily obtained,
which led one of the city functionaries to
observe, " it was easier to get a seat in the
kingdom o ! heivin than i the Tolbuith
kirk." Webster is said to have suggested
the erection of the New Town, Edinburgh.
He was enthusiastic in furthering the
civilisation of the Highlands by the pro
mulgation of the gospel and the spread
of industry. He marr. 13th June 1737,
Mary (died 28th Nov. 1766), eldest daugh.
of Colonel John Erskine, brother of Sir
Charles E. of Alva, Bart., and had issue
John, born 31st May 1738 ; James, born
9th Jan. 1740; George, civil paymaster,
H.E.I.C.S., born 15th Oct. 1744, died in
Bengal, July 1794 ; William, born 21st Dec.
1750, died 9th Jan. 1767 ; Ann, born 22nd
Sept. 1752 (marr. Captain Eyre Robert
Mingay, of the 66th Foot), died 16th May
1786 ; Alexander, mate of the Dutton East
Indiaman, born 29th Sept. 1754, died on his
passage to India in 1782 ; Basil, born 8th
Aug. 1757, died 2nd Dec. 1759. Publica
tions Four single Sermons (Edinburgh,
1740-54) ; Divine Influence the True Spring
of the Extraordinary Work at Cambuslang
(Edinburgh, 1742 ; 2nd ed., with Postscript,
1742) ; Vindication of said Postscript
(Edinburgh, 1743); Calculations, with the
Principles and Data on which they are
Instituted, relative to the Widows Scheme
(Edinburgh, 1748); Zeal for Civil and
Religious Interests (1754). He was author
of a well-known song, " Oh, how could I
venture to love one like thee." [Scots Mag.,
xlvi., Ixiv. ; Webster s Mem., Morren s Ann. ;
Douglas s Peer., i. ; Mackenzie s Life of
Home, Somerville s Life, Carlyle s Autob.;
Kay s Portr., i. ; Struthers s Harp of
Caled., i., ii. ; Diet. Nat. Biog. ]
THOMAS RANDALL [DAVIDSON],
1785 born July 1747, son of Thomas R.,
min. of Inchture ; educated at Univ.
of Leyden ; licen. at Rotterdam 14th June
1769 ; adm. min. of Inchture 21st Feb.
1771 ; trans, to Glasgow (Outer High) 18th
Nov. 1773; trans, to Lady Tester s, Edin
burgh, 26th Nov. 1778 ; trans, and adm. 9th
June 1785; D.D. (Harvard Univ., Cam
bridge, U.S.A., 1793). By the death (1794)
of his maternal uncle, William Davidson,
he succeeded to the property of Muir-
house, in the parish of Cramond, and
assumed the name of Davidson ; died 25th
Oct. 1827. He was an affectionate and
assiduous evangelical minister, and did
much to counsel and assist young men
studying for the ministry. He marr. (1)
29th Jan. 1772, Christian (died 6th July
1797), daugh. of John Rutherford of Edger-
ston, and had issue Sarah, born 18th Jan.
1773; Mary, born 19th Feb. 1776, died
unmarried ; William of Muirhouse, born 7th
May 1783, died 23rd July 1865 : (2) 20th
Aug. 1798, Elizabeth (died 30th March 1850),
daugh. of Archibald Cockburn, Baron of
Exchequer, and had issue Jane, born 6th
Oct. 1800 ; Elizabeth, born 23rd June 1802 ;
Thomas, born 5th Nov. 1803, died 3rd Nov.
1811 ; Archibald, advocate, Sheriff of the
Lothians, born 17th Oct. 1805, died 28th
March 1886 ; David, born 20th May 1808 ;
Henry, born 15th June 1811 (marr. 1845,
Henrietta, daugh. of John Campbell
Swinton of Kimmerghame, and was father
of Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop
of Canterbury 1903). Publications Three
single Sermons (Glasgow, 1779; Edin
burgh, 1802); A Sketch of the Character
of Dr John Erskine (1803). [Muirhead s
Fun. Serm., Kay s Portr., Philip s Ancestry
of Randall Thomas Davidson.]
JAMES MARSHALL, born Rothesay,
1828 23rd Feb. 1796; son of Hugh M.,
surgeon; educated at Paisley and
Univs. of Glasgow and Edinburgh; licen.
by Presb. of Glasgow 2nd Sept. 1818 ; ord.
to Glasgow (Outer High) 8th July 1819;
pres. by the Town Council 15th Dec. 1827 ;
trans, and adm. 12th June 1828. He
adopted views which led him to renounce
connection with the Church of Scotland,
and demitted his charge 27th Oct. 1841 ;
took orders in the Church of England, was
curate to William Stephen Gilly, vicar of
Xorharn, and canon of Durham ; became
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rector of St Mary-le-Port, Bristol, in 1842 ;
and perpetual curate of Christ Church,
Clifton, where he died, 29th Aug. 1855.
He marr. 28th May 1822, Catherine Mary
(died 8th Oct. 1876), daugh. of Legh Rich
mond, rector of Turvey, and had issue
Mary Richmond, born 9th May 1823, died
in 1863; Hugh Graham, born 2nd Dec.
1824 ; Legh Richmond, born llth July
1826; James Wilberforce, born 19th July
1828, died 3rd Nov. 1828; Sir James,
colonial judge (see Diet. Nat. Biog.), born
19th Dec. 1829, died 9th Aug. 1889 ; Henry,
born 29th Jan. 1833 ; Elizabeth Agnes, born
16th April 1837 ; Henrietta Fanny, born 1st
July 1839. Publications Address to the
Students of Divinity in the Univ. of
Edinburgh (Edinburgh, 1817); A Sermon
preached after the Interment of the Rev.
Alexander Ranken, D.D. (Glasgow, 1827) ;
A Sermon on Cruelty to Animals (Edin
burgh, 1829) ; Early Piety, illustrated in
the Life and Death of a Young Parishioner
(Edinburgh, 1837) ; Letters of the late Mrs
Isabella Graham, of New York [his aunt]
(Edinburgh, 1839) ; Inward Revival (Edin
burgh, 1840). [Anderson s Sketches; Kay s
Portr. i. ; Memoir, by his son, 1857 ; Diet.
Nat. Biog.~\
WILLIAM KING TWEEDIE, born Ayr,
1842 8th May 1803, eldest son of John
T. (descended from the Drumelzier
family) and Janet King ; educated at Univs.
of Edinburgh, Glasgow, and St Andrews;
licen. by Presb. of Arbroath 1828 ; ord. to
Scots Church, London Wall, 1832 ; trans, to
South Parish, Aberdeen, 1836 ; trans, and
adm. 10th March 1842. Joined the Free
Church 1843 ; app. to assist Dr Chalmers
in the work of the Free Church Sustenta-
tion Fund ; convener of the same 1845-7 ;
convener of the Foreign Mission Committee
of the Free Church 1848-62; D.D. (St
Andrews 1852); died 24th March 1863.
He marr. llth May 1835, Margaret (died
3rd March 1885), daugh. of Hugh Bell of
Old Garphor, Straiton, Ayrshire, and had
issue William, of Lettrick, born 31st Oct.
1836, Major-General, C.S.I., served in Indian
Mutiny, held numerous military and politi
cal appointments in India, Political Resident
in Turkish Arabia, and H.M. Consul-General
at Bagdad, died 18th Sept. 1914; John,
Bengal Civil Service, born 30th July 1838,
died 3rd May 1897; Maria Meredith,
born 20th May 1841 ; Margaret Bell,
born 4th Nov. 1843 ; Jessie Anne, born
17th Sept. 1845. Publications Man by
Nature and Grace (Edinburgh, 1850) ;
Lights and Shadoivs in the Life of Faith
(1852, 1857; and 5th ed., 1860, with title
Pathways of many Pilgrims) ; A Lamp to
the Path (1853) ; Glad Tidings (1853) ; The
Hand of God in War (1854) ; Balm from
Gilead (1854); The Gospel of other Days
(1854) ; Man and his Money (1855) ; The
Early Choice (1855 and 1861); Home, a
Book for the Family (1857) ; The Rivers
and Lakes of Scripture (1857) ; The Peace
of God in the Words of Jesus (1858) ; The
Parables of Our Lord (1861); Daily
Devotion (1861) ; Satan as Revealed in
Scripture (1862) ; The Life and Works of
Earnest Men (1863) ; The Lakes and Rivers
of the Bible (1864) ; The Psalms of David
in Metre (1865) ; Youthful Diligence (1866) ;
Eastern Manners and Customs (1870) ;
Jerusalem, Pictorial and Descriptive (1871) ;
Environs of Jerusalem (1871). [Disruption
Worthies, private information.]
GEORGE SMITH, born 18th Feb.
1844 1^93, son of George S., D.D., min.
of Galston ; educated at Glasgow
Univ. ; M.A. (1812) ; licen. by Presb. of
Ayr 29th April 1818 ; ord. to Second Charge,
Kilmarnock, 16th Sept. 1824 ; trans, to Pen-
pont 16th April 1833; trans, to Tolbooth,
Edinburgh, 15th Aug. 1844 ; D.D. (Glasgow
1854) ; died at Waltham Abbey, Essex, 10th
June 1866. He marr. 2nd Aug. 1825, Jane
(died 20th June 1873), only daugh. of David
Hogarth of Hilton, Berwickshire, and had
issue George Freer, born 9th March 1827,
died in India ; David Hogarth, indigo
planter, born 4th May 1828, died in the
Mauritius, 27th May 1846 ; Hamilton Lee,
engineer-in-chief to the Khedive of Egypt,
born 25th Dec. 1829, died 1889 ; Beatrice,
born 21st Feb., died 2nd Sept. 1831 ;
Walter Francis Montagu, captain Royal
Artillery, born 13th Sept. 1834, died in
London, 1873 ; Sir (William) Henry, Chief
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THE" TOLBOOTH THE TOLBOOTH CHURCH [PRESB. OF
Superintendent of Police for the City of
London 1885-90, and Commissioner 1890-
1901, C.B. 1869, K.C.B. 1897, born 15th
Dec. 1835. Publications Two Dis
courses preached before the Presbytery of
Edinburgh (1844) ; Sermon (preached before
the Governors of George Heriot s Hospital)
(1854); The Sutiday Question (Edinburgh,
1865).
THE TOLBOOTH CHURCH (Q.S.).
[By the Annuity Tax Abolition Act, 23
& 24 Viet., cap. 50 (1860), the whole rights
of administration and custody of fifteen
churches in Edinburgh, of which the Tol-
booth was one, were transferred from the
Magistrates and Town Council to the
Ecclesiastical Commissioners. It was also
enacted that the Annuity Tax which had
been levied for the maintenance of the
ministers of these churches should cease to
be imposed, and that the Commissioners
should, out of the moneys to be received by
them in terms of the Act, make payment of
stipend to one minister of each of thirteen
of the churches above referred to. The
Tolbooth was not one of those so provided
for. The right of patronage or presenta
tion of ministers to five of these churches
(of which the Tolbooth was one) was also
transferred from the Magistrates and Coun
cil to the Commissioners, it being left to
their discretion, on a vacancy occurring, to
make a presentation or appointment either
ad interim or permanent, or to make no
presentation or appointment and to allow
any charge becoming vacant to lapse and
become extinct, as to them should seem
most beneficial and expedient. On the
death of Dr Smith in 1866, the Commis
sioners made no presentation or appoint
ment of a minister to the Tolbooth either
ad interim or permanent. The parish,
however, remained intact, and the Com
missioners sanctioned a temporary arrange
ment whereby two licentiates, in succession,
undertook the duties of the charge. These
were Alexander Webster, afterwards min.
of St David s, Edinburgh ; and Joseph
Hunter, afterwards min. of Cockburns-
path.
By the Annuity Tax Abolition Amend
ment Act, 33 & 34 Viet., cap. 87 (9th Aug.
1870), it was provided that it -should not be
competent to the Ecclesiastical Commis
sioners to nominate or present a minister to
any of the five churches referred to above,
and that these churches or charges should
not be provided with ministers or " other
wise maintained as churches or charges
endowed by law. ;j A proviso was, however,
inserted in the Act, that nothing contained
in it should prevent the Tolbooth from being
provided with a minister of the Church of
Scotland, who should be paid or endowed
from voluntary sources, and in the case of
a permanent endowment from voluntary
sources being obtained and provision made
for maintaining the church, all in such
manner as to warrant the erection and
constitution of a church and parish quoad
sacra, the Commissioners were authorised
and required to concur so far as might be
necessary on their part, in the proper pro
ceedings before the Court of Teinds to
attain that object.
In this state of matters the Edinburgh
University Missionary Association volun
teered, under the energetic leadership of
Professor Charteris, to carry on the paro
chial work and to furnish a considerable
part of the salary if the Presbytery would
agree to the appointment of a licentiate to
act as missionary. The Presbytery agreed,
and appointed Professor Charteris to ad
minister the sacraments. Peter Thomson
(afterwards min. of Dunning) was chosen
as parish missionary, and was succeeded
by George Wilson (afterwards min. of St
Michael s, Edinburgh). In 1873 the Tol
booth was erected a parish quoad sacra,
and as now constituted contains the greater
part of the old parish.]
GEORGE WILSON, first min. of the
parish quoad sacra, ord. 25th Sept.
1873; trans, to Cramond llth July
1878.
THOMAS NICOL, trans, from Kells,
^ and adm. 30th Jan. 1879 ; res. 25th
Oct. 1899, on app. as Professor of
Divinity and Biblical Criticism in Aber
deen Univ.
1878
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ROBERT SIBBALD CALDERWOOD,
190O t rans - from Garelochhead, and adm.
3rd May 1900 ; trans, to Cambuslang
24th June 1908.
JAMES LUMSDEN, born Markinch,
1909 Fife, 14th March 1864, son of
Robert L., Fortrose, Ross-shire, and
Jane Houston Hetherwick ; educated at
Avoch School, Ross-shire, Grammar School
and Univ. of Aberdeen (M.A. 5th April
1884, B.D. 4th April 1887), and Bonn
Univ. ; licen. by Presb. of Chanonry 9th
May 1887 ; assistant at St Stephen s,
Broughty Ferry ; ord. to Grange 14th May
1890 ; trans, and adm. 16th Feb. 1909.
Marr. 4th March 1891, Alice Annie, daugh.
of Thomas Morton Black, surveyor of taxes,
Hamilton and Dundee, and Annie Nicol,
and has issue Dorothy Alice, born 16th
Dec. 1891 ; Janet Amy, born 15th Feb.
1893; Emily Mary, born 2nd May 1894;
Margaret Grange, born 21st March 1902.
COLLEGIATE, OR SECOND CHARGE.
[Uncollegiated by the Town Council, 26th
Nov. 1828, and by the Presb., 10th Dec.
1828, with a view to the erection of St
Stephen s.]
JOHN OSWALD, trans, from Aberdeen ;
1643 pres - k v the Town Council 1st Nov.
1643, and adm. before the close of
the year ; trans, to Prestonpans in 1648.
[Edin. Counc. Reg., Acts of Ass.]
ALEXANDER MALCOLM, trans, from
1663 Orwell; elected by the Town Coun
cil 28th Oct. 1663; trans, to New-
battle in 1667. [Edin. Counc. Reg.}
WILLIAM GARDYNE, elected by the
1668 Town Council 7th Aug. ; ord. and
coll. 22nd Oct. 1668; trans, to the
First Charge in 1686. [Edin. Counc. Reg.,
Reg. Collat.]
THOMAS WILKIE, M.A.; trans, from
1687 North Leith; elected by the Town
Council llth Aug. 1687. He was the
only min. of the city not superseded at the
Revolution and was appointed to Greyfriars
23rd Jan. 1691. Being requested to waive
his appointment, he replied, "he would
very readily obey the good town, provided
his legal right as one of the min. of Edin
burgh was not prejudged." The Council
then offered him the meeting-house in the
Castle-hill, which he declined, as it was not
one of the legal churches of the city, to
which he considered himself to have an
undoubted claim. He was trans, to Lady
Tester s 30th Oct. 1691 [Edin. Counc.
Reg.]
JAMES WEBSTER, of Fife origin;
1693 educated a t Univ. of St Andrews ;
suffered during earlier life for his
religious opinions, being imprisoned no
fewer than three times ; ord. to Liberton
1688 ; trans, to Whitekirk 1691 ; called 23rd
Nov. 1692 ; trans, and adm. 1693. He
scrupled to take the Oath of Abjuration
in 1712 ; had a process instituted against
him before the Lord Ordinary (Grange),
same year, by the celebrated Dr Archibald
Pitcairne, for calling him an atheist, which
was amicably settled. He opposed giving
toleration to Episcopalians. Died 18th May
1720, aged 61, and buried in Greyfriars.
He took an active part in favour of the
prosecution of Professor Simson of Glasgow
in 1717, and in connection with the case
worked himself into such an extremity of
passion, that there was a probability of his
being deposed by the Assembly at their
next sitting, had he not tendered an apology.
He marr. (1) Margaret Keir, who was buried
in Greyfriars, 12th April 1698 : (2) Dec. 1698,
Mary, daugh. of Dr James Stewart : (3)
Sept. 1703, Agnes, daugh. of Alex. Menzies
of Culterallers, advocate, and had issue-
Alexander, min. of the Tolbooth Parish in
1737 ; Mary (marr. 6th Jan. 1724, Ebenezer
Erskine, min. of Portmoak); Ann (marr.
28th May 1732, James Grant, merchant,
Edinburgh). Publications A Discourse,
demonstrating that the Government of the
Church is Fixed, and not Ambulatory (Edin
burgh, 1701); A Discourse on the Govern
ment of the Church (Edinburgh, 1701); An
Essay on Toleration (1703); An Apology
for his Sermon (1703); Sacramental Ser
mons (Edinburgh, 1705); Three Poems
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THE TOLBOOTH CHURCH
[PRESB. OF
(Edinburgh, 1706) ; A Sermon at the Elec
tion of Magistrates (Edinburgh, 1706);
The Covenants Displayed (Edinburgh,
1707); Laivful Prejudices against the
Union (Edinburgh, 1707); The Author
Defended [reply to Daniel Defoe] (Edin
burgh, 1707) ; Second Defence of the Author
(1707); Select Sermons (Edinburgh, 1723);
The Wicked Life of Haman (Edinburgh,
1740). [Edin. Counc., Test., and Reg. (Marr.
and Bur.) ; Wodrow s Anal., iii. ; Boston s
and Webster s Mem.; Edin. Chr. Inst.,
xxiii. ; Carlyle s Autob. ; Kay s Portr., ii.
See Some Tears from the South for the
Death of Mr James Webster (1720).]
WILLIAM GUSTHART, M.A. (Edin-
1721 burgh, 16th July 1698); adm. min.
of Crailing 10th June 1708 ; refused
the Oath of Abjuration 1712; deputed to
congratulate George I. on his accession ;
was successful in obtaining a modification
of the aforesaid Oath, 1717; called 30th
Aug. and 17th Nov. 1720; trans, and adm.
22nd Jan. 1721 ; one of His Majesty s
Chaplains in Ordinary, and Dean of the
Chapel Royal 1726 ; died 27th March 1764.
He marr. (1) 24th July 1711, Ann, daugh.
of Adam Tait of Howden : (2) 13th May
1718, Ann, daugh. of Robert Hepburn of
Whitburgh, and had issue Robert; Jane,
died 1795; Elizabeth, died 1792; John.
[Edin. Counc. Reg. ; Wodrow s Corresp., ii.;
Morren s A mi., i. ; Eraser s Life of R.
Erskine, Carlyle s Autob.}
DAVID PLENDERLEATH, eldest son
of Patrick P., min. of Saline ; licen.
by Presb. of Kincardine-O Neil 6th
Oct. 1731 ; ord. to Ormiston 20th Sept.
1732; trans, to Dalkeith 7th Oct. 1746;
pres. by the Town Council 15th Aug. 1764 ;
trans, and adm. 30th Jan. 1765; died 26th
April 1779. He marr. 6th Sept. 1743, Helen
(died 25th March 1796), daugh. of Matthew
Simson, min. of Pencaitland, and had issue
Alison, born 20th Jan. 1745; Patrick,
born 10th July 1746 ; Jean, born 16th Oct.
1749 (marr. Thomas Sellar of Westfield);
Helen, born 18th Aug. 1753; Janet, born
10th Nov. 1755; Robert, hosier in Edin
burgh, born 18th March 1759. Publication
Religion a Treasure to Men and the
Strength and Glory of a Nation, a sermon
(Edinburgh, 1754). [Edin, Counc. Reg.;
Kay s Portr., i.]
JOHN KEMP, born 1745, son of David
K., min. of Gask ; educated at Univ.
of St Andrews ; licen. by Presb. of
Auchterarder 7th Feb. 1769 ; ord. to Trinity
Gask, 4th April 1770 ; trans, to New Grey-
friars 19th Dec. 1776 ; trans, and adm. 25th
Nov. 1779 ; secretary to the Society in
Scotland for Propagating Christian Know
ledge, 1789; D.D. (Harvard Univ., Cam
bridge, U.S.A., 1793); died 18th April
1805. He marr. (1) 2nd Oct. 1780, Beatrix
(died 12th March 1796), daugh. of Andrew
Simpson, merchant, Edinburgh, and had
issue David of Balsusney, born 13th Sept.
1781; Agnes, born 18th Aug. 1783; Jane,
born 24th Sept. 1784, died 24th Aug. 1794;
Robert, born 22nd July 1790, died 5th Sept.
1790 : (2) 2nd June 1797, Lady Mary Anne
Carnegie (died llth Aug. 1798), youngest
daugh. of George, Earl of Northesk : (3)
26th Aug. 1799, Lady Elizabeth Hope
(died 17th Sept. 1801, aged 33), seventh
daugh. of John, Earl of Hopetoun.
Publications The Gospel adapted to the
State and Circumstances of Man, a sermon,
to which are added Facts serving to illus
trate the Character of Thomas, Earl of
Kinnoull (Edinburgh, 1788); Account of
the Society in Scotland for Propagating
Christian Knoivledge (Edinburgh, 1796);
Observations on the Islands of Shetland
(Edinburgh, 1801); The Character of the
Apostle Paul in some of its Features,
Delineated (Edinburgh, 1802). [Douglas s
Peer. ; Kay s Portr., i., 282.]
JOHN CAMPBELL, born Glasgow,
24th May 1758, son of Daniel C.,
merchant ; educated at Grammar
School and Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by
Presb. of Glasgow 1st Aug. 1781 ; chaplain
to Willielma, Lady Glenorchy, 1782 ; ord.
to Kippen 8th May 1783 ; pres. by the Town
Council 31st July; trans, and adm. 24th
Oct. 1805 ; secretary to the Society in
Scotland for Propagating Christian Know
ledge, 1806; D.D. (Edinburgh, 10th Jan.
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1807); Moderator of Assembly 21st May
1818; died 30th Aug. 1828. He marr.
(1) 29th Feb. 1788, Christian (died 23rd
April 1796), daugh. of Dr Eobert Innes of
Giffordvale : (2) 15th Oct. 1801, Jean (died
1st Jan. 1838, aged 67), daugh. of Thomas
Kinnear, banker, Edinburgh, and had
issue Daniel, born 23rd Nov. 1803, died
14th Nov. 1809 ; Elizabeth, born 31st May
1806; Mary, born 27th Jan. 1808 (marr.
James Barclay Mellis, inin. of Tealing);
Jane, born 30th Dec. 1810 ; Margaret, born
12th May 1814 (marr. Charles James
Kerr) ; Jane (marr. John Gordon Lorimer,
D.D., min. of St David s, Glasgow. Pub
lications Reflections on the Death of H.R.H.
Princess Charlotte (Edinburgh, 1817) ; The
Acclamation of the Redeemed, a sermon
(Edinburgh, 1818) ; A Sermon after the
Interment of Robert Balfour, D.D. (Edin
burgh, 1818) ; Account of Kippen (Sinclair s
Stat. Ace., xviii., xxi.). [Lorimer s Fun.
Serm., Haldane s Mem.]
TRINITY CHURCH.
[Originally founded in 1462 as a collegiate
church by Queen Mary of Gueldres, widow
of James II., though only choir and tran
septs were erected. In 1584 it became
the church for the North-East Quarter of
the city. The Town Council, 14th Jan.
1595, "caused make ane loft in the east
end fit for the students and regents of
the Town s College in the Kirk-of-Field."
The interior was greatly damaged by
Cromwell s troops in Nov. 1650, but was
restored in 1653. Of decorated Gothic,
displaying exceeding grace of execution,
it was almost the only large illustration of
the Scottish Gothic which gave promise
of being developed with distinctive features
of peculiar excellence. In 1848 this
venerable edifice was sold to the North
British Railway Co. for about 18,000.
The stones were carefully numbered and
laid aside with a view to the church
being rebuilt on a new site. Unfortunately
the Town Council did not carry that out,
but placed many obstacles in the way, with
the hope apparently that the congregation
would disappear and the church should not
be needed. Despite many difficulties the
members held loyally together and steadily
increased, till in 1873, when the new church
was opened, there were over 800 on the roll.
All that remained of the stones were built
into the apse. Long litigation before the
Court ended in a judgment of the House
of Lords, who reversed a decision of the
Court of Session that all the money must
be spent on the new church, and allowed
only 7000. For a time the congrega
tion met in the Calton Convening Rooms,
a place too small to hold all the com
municants. Afterwards the kirk-session
hired the Waterloo Rooms, at a rent of
70, which the Town Council refused to
pay, but soon after sent them to worship
in John Knox s Free Church, at a rent
of 400 a year. After three years there, in
1861 the congregation removed to a part
of St Giles, where they remained until
the new church was opened.]
WALTER BALCANQUHAL [BAL-
CANQUHALL], is almost certain
to have been born at Balcanquhal,
Strathmiglo, probably in 1548 (cf. Sib-
bald s List of Heritors}. After studying
at St Andrews, he was exhorter at Aber-
dour in 1571, and entered St Giles on
Whit Sunday 1574. At that time he is
described in James Melvill s Diary
(Wodrow Society, p. 41) as "ane honest,
upright-hearted young man, latlie enteret
to the ministerie of Edinburgh." He was
elected to the chaplaincy of the Altar
called Jesus, 20th Nov. 1579. Having
preached against the influence of the
French at Court, 7th Dec. 1580, he was
called before the Privy Council, 9th Jan.
1581, and admonished. He attended the
Earl of Morton on the eve of his execu
tion, 1581. He opposed the Acts of Parlia
ment of 1584, and was obliged to flee for
safety to Berwick-on-Tweed [while here,
his wife along with Mrs Lawson ad
dressed to the Archbishop a long and
most extraordinary letter of rebuke and
vituperation (Calderwood, iv., 126 ; P. C.
Reg., iii., 691) ], but on returning after the
storm had passed, came once more into
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[PRESB. OF
royal favour. On 2nd Jan. 1586 he
preached before the King (though James
"rebuked him from his seat in the loft"
for some of his opinions) ; he attended the
coronation of Queen Anne, 17th May 1590.
In 1596 his bold utterances again brought
him into conflict with the sovereign, and a
warrant having been issued, again he
escaped to Yorkshire. He demitted in
May 1597, in order to admit of new
parochial divisions of the city, and on
18th April 1598 he was admitted to this
charge. On 10th Sept. 1600 he was called
before the Privy Council for questioning
the genuineness of the Gowrie Conspiracy,
but, professing to be satisfied with its
reality, he was dismissed. He was a
member of the Assembly of 1602. Along
with Robert Pont he took protestation at
the cross of Edinburgh, in name of the
whole Kirk, against the verdict of the
Assize finding the brethren who met in
Gen. Assembly at Aberdeen guilty of
treason. For condemning the proceedings
of the Gen. Assembly, 1610, he was again
called before the Privy Council, and
admonished. Falling into bad health, he
ceased preaching, 16th July 1616, and died
4th Aug. 1617. He bequeathed 1000
merks towards the stipend of a Professor
of Divinity in the Univ. of Edinburgh.
He marr. Margaret, daugh. of James
Marjoribanks, merchant, in right of whom
he entered burgess and guild-brother of
the city, 15th Feb. 1591, and had issue
Robert, min. of Tranent ; Walter, D.D.,
Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, 1611,
chaplain to James VI., Dean of Rochester
1624, Dean of Durham 1639, one of the
executors of George Heriot, and author
of the Statutes for the regulation of
Heriot s Hospital, born 1586, died 25th
Dec. 1645; John; Samuel, bapt. llth Jan.
1595-6 ; Katherine (marr., pro. 30th Sept.
1601, Nicol Udward, Dean of Guild, Edin
burgh) ; Rachel (marr., pro. 31st Oct.
1605, John Makcubine, merchant, Edin
burgh) ; Sara ; Margaret ; Libra. (Edin.
Com. Rec. Dec., 20th Nov. 1592-3); Anna
(G. R. Inhib., viii., 384). [Edin. Counc.,
Guild, and Reg. (Bapt.} ; Steven s Mem.
of Heriot, BooJce of the Kirk, Craufurd s
Univ. Edin., Melvill s Autob., Diet. Nat.
Biog.}
THOMAS SYDSERFF, M.A., formerly
1626 of St Giles ; adm - 26th Jan. 1626;
trans, to the Deanery of Edinburgh
in 1634; Bishop of Brechin 1634; Bishop
of Galloway 1635 ; Bishop of Orkney 1662
(q.v.).[Edin. Counc. Reg. ; Orig. Lett., ii. ;
Diet. Nat. Biog.}
WILLIAM COLVILL, M.A. ; trans.
1639 from Cramond; pres. by the Town
Council 14th Jan. 1639, and adm.
soon afterwards. In the same year he
was sent by the Covenanters to solicit
the aid of the King of France against the
despotic proceedings of Charles I. On
his way through England his papers were
seized, and he was incarcerated at New
castle till the victory of the Scots at
Newburn, when he was released, Aug.
1640. On the new parochial division,
Dec. 1641, he was removed to the Tron
Parish. [Edin. Counc. Reg.}
ROBERT LAURIE, son of Joseph L.,
1644 m * n< ^ P er th > M.A. (St Andrews
1636); ord. to Perth llth May
1641 ; pres. by the Town Council 25th
Dec. 1643 ; trans, and adm. 29th March
1644 ; trans, to the Tron Parish in 1648 ;
trans, to the High Kirk Parish 1662, and
being the only min. of the city who con
formed to Episcopacy was popularly known
as "The Nest Egg." In 1672 he became
Bishop of Brechin, but returned to this
charge in 1674.
HEW [HUGH] MACKAIL [MAC-
- KAILE], min. of Percietown [Presb.
of Irvine] 1633 ; trans, to Irvine
1642 ; elected by the Town Council, trans,
and adm. after 12th Oct. 1649 ; died March
1660. He marr. Sybella Stevenson (died
between 9th March 1665 and 26th Sept.
1 666), and had issue Matthew, medical
writer, M.D., Aberdeen, 1657-96 [see Diet.
Nat. Biog}; Margaret (marr., pro. 2nd Sept.
1653, George Dickson, merchant, burgess
of Edinburgh). [Edin. Counc., Test., and
Canongate Reg. (Bur.); Mackaile s Ser-
EDINBURGH]
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127
mon, Lament s Diary ; Baillie s Lett., iii. ;
Steven s Mem. of Heriot, Kirkton s Hist.]
[JOHN GLENNIE, assistant to the col
legiate min. ; app. by the Town Council
13th Feb. 1661, and probably ordained, as he
is styled "some time min. of Edinburgh,"
when he was admitted burgess and guild-
brother, 10th Aug. 1687. He went to
Ireland, and on 6th Sept. 1667 was Dean
of Cashel and Prebendary of St Michael s,
Dublin (Reg. of Deeds, Mack., 21st Jan.
1689).]
JOSHUA MELDRUM, M.A. (St
1662 Andrews, I 633 ); licen. by Presb. of
Kirkcaldy ; min. of Auchtertool
17th Feb. 1642; trans, to Kinghorn 26th
June 1651 ; elected by the Town Council
6th Oct., trans, and adm. 5th Nov. 1662 ;
died 2nd April 1673, aged about 60. He
marr. Helen Wood (who died 13th July
1672, and was buried beside him in Grey-
friars), and had issue Andrew, min. of
Mertoun. [Edin. Counc., Guild, and Test.
Reg. (Dunbl.) ; Lament s and NicolPs
Diaries, Wodrow s Hist.]
ANDREW CANT, trans, from Liber-
1673 ^ on P res - by the Town Council,
and adm. after 9th April 1673. In
the following year a complaint was made
to the Privy Council of Cant s " insolent
carriage and expressions," upon which he
was removed from his ministry in Edin
burgh, and confined to Liberton " till the
King s further pleasure." Reponed in 1675,
and trans, to the High Kirk Parish same
year. [Edin. Counc. Reg., Kirkton s and
Wodrow s Hists., Pratt s Suchan.]
ROBERT LAURIE, M.A., Bishop of
Brechin, who had been min. in 1644,
was appointed, 16th July 1674, "to
preach ordinarily." He died March 1678,
aged about 72. [Wodrow s Hist., ii. ;
Keith s Catal.]
ANDREW CANT, younger son of
167g Alexander C., min. of Banchory-
Ternan ; M.A. (Aberdeen, 6th March
1668); licen. by George, Bishop of Edin
burgh ; ord. to Second Charge, Leith, 30th
Jan. 1671 ; elected by the Town Council
27th Jan. 1679 ; trans, and adm. soon after
wards. Deprived 26th April 1689, for not
reading the Proclamation disowning James
VII., and acknowledging William and
Mary. Consecrated Bishop of the Non-
jurant Church, Glasgow, 17th Oct. 1722 ;
died 21st April 1730, in his 81st year. He
marr. Margaret, second daugh. of James
Thomson, clerk of Exchequer, and widow
of William Stevenson, merchant (Prot.
Book of sEneas Macleod, v., 172, 21st Nov.
1694). A daugh., Jean (marr., pro. 13th
Oct. 1700, John Gordon, merchant, burgess
of Edinburgh). Publications Sermon
preached on the 30th day of January, 1702/3
[Anniversary of the execution of Charles
I.] (Edinburgh, 1703, 1704) ; and another
on the same Anniversary (Edinburgh,
1715). [Edin. Counc. and Reg. (Marr.
and ur.) ; Monro s Apology ; Acts Parl.,
ix. ; Inq. Ret. Gen., 6303 ; Wodrow s Anal.,
iii. ; Pratt s Buchan.]
HEW KENNEDY, of Easter Inch, Bath-
gate ; educated at Glasgow and St
Andrews; M.A. (Glasgow 1641);
ord. to Mid-Calder 13th April 1643; a
member of the Commission of Assembly
1648 ; assisted in forming the Protesting
Presb. 6th Aug. 1651 ; deprived at the
Restoration of Episcopacy 1660 ; returned
to Mid-Calder at the Toleration, 1687, but
was called to Edinburgh 22nd July same
year, and settled (in a meeting-house) ;
adm. to this charge 24th July 1689 ;
Moderator of the first General Assembly
after the Revolution, 16th Oct. 1690, " and
managed their business with great tact."
Died 25th April 1692, aged about 71, and
I was buried in Greyfriars, Edinburgh. He
marr. (1) Margaret Buchanan, who died
before 1662 (G. R. Inhib., 15th March
1665), and had issue John, born 1654
(Edin. Has., i., 409) : (2) 6th June 1662,
Margaret, daugh. of Joseph Douglas and
Jean Sandilands, grand-daugh. of Lord
Torphichen, and had issue Jean (marr.
Hugh Campbell) ; John, born 18th March
1649 ; Hew, born 25th Nov. 1652 ; Thomas,
born 18th Nov. 1654 ; Margaret, born 15th
128
TRINITY"
[PRESB. OF
Feb. 1657 ; William, born 7th March 1658 ;
James, of Muirhousedykes. [Edin. Counc.
and Guild Reg., Leven and Melv. Pap. ;
Gen. Ass., 1690 ; S. Presb. Eloq. ; M Call s
Afidcalder, Warrick s Moderators.]
JOHN MONCREIFF, son of Alex. M.,
1692 m * n ^ S coon i e ) M.A. (St Andrews,
25th July 1668) ; denounced for hold
ing conventicles 1682 ; min. of Prestonpans
1687; called 15th Jan. 1692; trans, and
adm. shortly afterwards ; died at Rumgally,
Fife, 25th Nov. 1709, aged above 40. He
marr. (1) Mary Gregg, buried in Greyfriars,
4th Oct. 1698 : (2) (pro. 6th Aug. 1699) Janet,
daugh. of John Mitchell of Balbairdie.
[Acts Parl., xi.]
1714
JAMES BANNATINE, educated at
Univ. of Edinburgh ; tutor in the
family of Eobert Dundas, ord
Arniston ; licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith
26th Oct. 1703; ord. to Whittingehame
19th June 1707 ; app. by the Presb. 21st
July, trans, and adm. 10th Oct. 1714 ;
Moderator of Assembly 10th May 1739;
died 10th April 1756, in his 82nd year.
He marr. 19th March 1708, Katherine,
daugh. of Hugh Blair, Dean of Guild,
Edinburgh, and had issue Hugh, min. of
Dirleton ; George, min. of the Wynd
Church, Glasgow ; Elizabeth (marr. Andrew
Shaw, min. of St Madoes) ; Katherine
(marr. Hugh Blair, D.D., min. of St
Giles) ; Grizel. Publications An Essay
on Gospel and Legal Preaching (Edin
burgh, 1723) ; Mistakes about Religion
amongst the Causes of our Defection from
the Spirit of the Gospel (Edinburgh, 1737) ;
Peace and Truth (1738). [Finlayson s and
Hill s Lives of Blair ; Kay s Portr., i. ;
Warrick s Moderators.]
HENRY LUNDIE, son of Archibald
L., min. of Saltoun ; educated at
Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb.
of Haddington 24th June 1740; ord. to
Monzie 10th May 1743 ; trans, to Abercorn
24th Sept. 1747; called 13th Aug. 1756;
trans, and adm. 15th June 1758; dem.
29th Jan. 1799; died 1st Jan. 1800. He
marr. 7th Dec. 1749, Christian (died 10th
1804
Nov. 1810), daugh. of John Menzies,
physician, Dumfries, and had issue-
Archibald, W.S., bom 22nd Dec. 1751,
died 4th May 1841 ; John, born 1st Dec.
1755 ; Margaret, born 4th May 1757, died
20th Dec. 1759; Robert, born 13th June
1760, died 1st June 1767. [Kay s Portr.,
ii. ; Moncreiff s Life of Erskine ; Morren s
Ann., ii.]
DAVID DICKSON, trans, from Canon-
17gg gate Chapel-of-Ease ; pres. by the
Town Council, and adm. 21st March
1799; trans, to New North Parish 26th
Nov. 1801.
ROBERT ANDERSON, trans, from
1802 Eastwood ; elected by the Town
Council 27th Jan., pres. 17th Feb.,
and adm. 16th July 1802 ; trans, to Old
Greyfriars 12th Jan. 1804.
THOMAS MACKNIGHT, trans, from
Second Charge, South Leith ; elected
by the Town Council 2nd Feb., and
adm. 21st June 1804 ; trans, to Old Kirk
Parish 15th May 1810.
ANDREW GRANT, D.D.; trans, from
1810 Canongate ; elected by the Town
Council 6th June, and adm. llth
Oct. 1810; trans, to St Andrew s Parish
14th Jan. 1813.
WALTER TAIT, bom 1771, fifth son
^ WiHi am T., merchant, Glasgow,
and nephew of Admiral Viscount
Duncan ; educated at Glasgow Univ. ;
M.A. (1786); min. of Lundie and Foulis
1795-7, of Tealing 1797-1813 ; elected by
the Town Council 27th Jan., pres. 16th
June, trans, and adm. 25th Nov. 1813.
He adopted the teaching of Campbell of
Row, and Edward Irving, and in 1833 the
Presb. reported to the General Assembly
that he " had given countenance to certain
extraordinary interruptions of public wor
ship in his church on the Monday im
mediately after the Communion, by a
person [Thomas Carlyle, Edinburgh] pre
tending to speak in the Spirit." The
General Assembly expressed "their high
disapprobation of these disorders and ir
regularities," and remitted the case to the
IBIS
EDINBURGH]
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129
Presb. Tait was dep. 22nd Oct. 1833.
He became pastor of the congregation in
Edinburgh belonging to the Catholic
Apostolic Church, and continued till his
death, 22nd Feb. 1841. He marr. (1) 29th
Oct. 1800, Jane (died 21st June 1812),
daugh. of John Waugh, merchant, London,
and had issue Anne Elizabeth, born 5th
Jan. 1802 ; Adam Duncan, min. of Kirklis
ton ; John Waugh, born 29th July 1805,
died 14th Sept. 1814 ; Kobert and William,
born 15th May 1807, both of whom entered
the Church of England, the latter becoming
vicar of Wakefield, Yorkshire : (2) 12th Jan.
1816, Mary Tennant (died at Bathgate, 28th
Aug. 1845), widow of James Robertson,
solicitor. Publications Two single Ser
mons (Dundee, 1809-11). [Anderson s
Sketches ; Acts of Ass., 1833 ; Haldane s
Mem., etc.]
WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM, born
j Hamilton, 2nd Oct. 1805, eldest
son of Charles C., merchant, and
Helen Cunningham (no relative) ; edu
cated at Duns Academy (he was then
living at Cheeklaw) and Edinburgh Univ. ;
licen. by Presb. of Duns 2nd Dec. 1828;
assistant at Middle Parish, Greenock ; ord.
there (assistant and successor) 15th Oct.
1831 ; pres. by the Town Council 30th Oct.
1833; adm. 16th Jan. 1834 ; D.D. (Prince
ton, New Jersey, 1842). Joined the Free
Church ; Professor of Divinity, New Col
lege, Edinburgh, 1843 ; Professor of Church
History, New College, 1845 ; Principal of
New College, 1847 ; Moderator of the Free
Church General Assembly 19th May 1859 ;
died 14th Dec. 1861. He marr. 15th July
1834, Janet (died 2nd March 1888), daugh.
of John Denniston of Greenock and
Jean Fairrie, and had issue Janet, born
7th June 1835 (marr. George Carphin,
banker, Dunkeld), died 23rd Jan. 1913 ;
Helen, born 14th April 1837 (marr. Robert
Mackenzie, Dundee), died 15th Nov. 1865 ;
William, born 15th Sept. 1839, died 16th
Oct. 1843; Jane Fairrie, born 4th May
1841, died 29th Dec. 1894; John Dennis-
ton, M.D., bora llth Dec. 1842, died 20th
Aug. 1871 ; Charles Gordon, merchant, born
VOL. I.
1 9th July 1845, died 12th Dec. 1894 ; Andrew
Blackadder, born 1st Aug. 1846, died 14th
Sept. 1852 ; William Robertson, born 9th
Sept. 1848, died 13th June 1849 ; Archibald,
merchant, born 26th Dec. 1849, died 12th
I Feb. 1892 ; Elizabeth, born 3rd April 1851,
| died 6th Sept. 1852 ; Mary Anne, born 7th
i Jan. 1853. Publications Reply to the
I Statement of Certain Ministers and Elders,
published in Ansioer to Dr Chalmers Con
ference (Edinburgh, 1837) ; Speech on the
\ Independence of the Church (Edinburgh,
! 1839) ; Letter to John Hope (Edinburgh,
1839) ; Tracts On the Intrusion of Ministers
(Edinburgh, 1839); Defence of the Rights
of the Christian People in the Appointment
of Ministers (Edinburgh, 1840) ; Strictures
on the Rev. James Robertson s Observations
upon the Veto Act (Edinburgh, 1 840) ; Letters
on the Church Question in Answer to Mr
Robertson of Ellon (Edinburgh, 1842); Anim
adversions on Sir William Hamilton s
pamphlet, " Be not Schismatics," etc. (Edin
burgh, 1843); edited Bruce s Sermons and
| Life (Edinburgh, 1843); Introduction and
Notes to Stillingfleet s Doctrines and
Practices of the Church of Rome (1845) ;
The Unchangeableness of Christ, a sermon
\ (Edinburgh, 1853) ; The Reformers, and the
| Theology of the Reformation (Edinburgh,
1862) ; Historical Theology, 2 vols. (Edin
burgh, 1863) ; Discussions on Church
Principles, 2 vols. (Edinburgh, 1863 ) ;
Sermons, edited by J. J. Bonar (1872) ;
Theological Lectures, edited by Thomas
Smith, D.D. (1878). [Life, by Robert
Rainy, D.D., and James Mackenzie (1871) ;
Disruption Worthies; Smith s Scot.
Clergy, iii. ; Diet. Nat. Biog.}
WILLIAM STEVEN, born Peebles,
1843 22nd Nov. 1796, only son of James
S., builder, Edinburgh, and Janet,
daugh. of Andrew Ritchie, farmer, Wood-
house, Manor, and sister of William
Ritchie, min. of Athelstaneford ; edu
cated at the school of his uncle, Robert
Steven, Edinburgh, and at the High School ;
entered Edinburgh Univ. 1814 ; M.A.
(1822); licen. by Presb. of Peebles 24th
Sept. 1822 ; tutor to family of Grant of
130
TRINITY
[PRESB. OF
Glenmoriston ; ord. by Presb. of Abertaff as
assistant to James Anderson, D.D., min. of
Second Charge of the Scottish Church,
Rotterdam, 9th April 1862 ; adm. to Second
Charge 8th March 1829, and later became
sole min. ; elected by the Governors head
master of Heriot s Hospital and inspector of
the Heriot Foundation Schools, April 1839 ;
D.D. (Leyden 1839) ; pres. by Town Council,
and ind. 28th Dec. 1843; died 2nd April
1857. He marr. 6th Oct. 1830, Margaret
(died at Twickenham, 10th Nov. 1865),
daugh. of George Gibson, merchant,
Rotterdam, and had issue Elizabeth
Mary Gibson, born 19th Nov. 1836, died [
unmarr. ; Jessie Ritchie, born 31st Jan.
1838 (marr. John Moodie, min. of
Chryston and of Kippen) ; George Heriot,
born 23rd July 1839, died in Australia;
Isabella Martin, born 9th Nov. 1840, died
unmarr. ; William Ritchie, insurance
manager, London, born 1st April 1842.
Publications History of the Scottish
Church, Rotterdam, to which are subjoined
Notices of the other British Churches in
the Netherlands (Edinburgh, 1833) ; to
this was appended a " Brief View of the
Dutch Ecclesiastical Establishment," after
wards enlarged and published separately ;
Memoirs of George Heriot, with the History
of the Hospital (Edinburgh, 1845) ; History
of the High School (Edinburgh, 1849) ; Pro
gressive Geography (Edinburgh, 1841), of
which later editions were enlarged and
issued in parts. [Biographical Sketch, by
Thomas Murray, LL.D.]
WILLIAM SMITH, trans, from Lauder
1857 an< ^ a( ^ m - 25t ^ Dec. 1857; trans, to
North Leith (assistant and successor)
15th March 1860.
ROBERT WALLACE, M.A. ; trans, from
laeo Newton-on-Ayr, and adm. 21st Dec.
1860; trans, to Old Greyfriars 26th
Dec. 1868.
CORNELIUS GIFFEN, trans, from
186g Dailly, and adm. 13th May 1869;
trans, to St Mary s, Edinburgh, llth
Jan. 1872.
THOMAS GENTLES, M.A. ; ord. assist-
72 ant at Alloa, adm. 18th April 1872 ;
trans, to Paisley Abbey (First Charge)
20th Dec. 1878.
ALEXANDER KENNEDY, born Aber-
1879 ^ een 25t ^ ^ arc h l 84 ^ son of John
K. and Mary Hardie ; educated at
Univs. of Aberdeen and Glasgow ; M.A.
(King s College, Aberdeen, 1859); licen. by
Presb. of Glasgow 1865 ; assistant at
Kilmun ; ord. to Stewarton 14th May
1865; trans, and adm. 13th May 1879;
D.D. (Edinburgh 1906); died 13th April
1908. He marr. 8th May 1866, Susannah
Simpson (died 14th Jan. 1908), daugh. of
Alexander Ralston and Margaret Mac-
Dougal, and had issue Margaret, born 10th
Feb. 1867; John, born llth April 1869,
died 4th Jan. 1910 ; Susannah, M.A., born
23rd Oct. 1870 (marr. David Paterson,
min. of U.F. Church, Restalrig) ; Mary,
born 19th April 1872 (marr. John Henry
Dickie, min. of New Kilpatrick); Mac-
Dougal, major, Royal Engineers, Egyptian
Army, born 20th Dec. 1874; Alexander,
mining engineer, born 25th Aug. 1876 ;
William, architect, born 5th May 1878;
Thomas, teacher, born llth June 1883.
WILLIAM MAIN, born Paisley 27th
1906 July 1 867, son of John M. and Jane
Shepherd ; educated at schools in
Glasgow and Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by
Presb. of Lorn 12th May 1891 ; assistant at
Alexandria, Dumbartonshire ; ord. to Middle
Parish, Perth, 21st July 1892 ; trans, to An-
woth 31st July 1902 ; trans, and adm. 20th
Dec. 1906 ; app. clerk of the Presb. 3rd Dec.
1913. He marr. 17th Nov. 1892, Annie,
daugh. of Robert Macnaughton and Mar
garet Campbell, and has issue Margaret
Mary, born 20th Feb. 1894; William
Robert, born 24th May 1900. Publications
Man s Dominion, its Nature and Limits,
a sermon (Perth, 1893); Charles William
son, Founder of Bath, N.Y. (Perth, 1899).
COLLEGIATE, OR SECOND CHARGE.
[The Town Council having resolved (31st
Jan. 1781) to erect St Andrew s Church in
EDINBURGH]
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131
1597
the New Town, this charge was discon
tinued at the vacancy of 24th Aug. 1782.]
GEORGE ROBERTSON, son of Patrick
R., burgess of Edinburgh (G. R.
Inhib., 28th March 1622); regent
in the Univ. ; was on the Exercise 20th
June 1592 ; elected by the Commissioners
of the General Assembly at Falkland, and
adm. 6th June 1597. This having been
considered informal, he was readm. 18th
April 1598. He died before 20th July 1604.
He marr. (cont. 24th Aug. 1598) Margaret,
eldest daugh. of William Pringle, tailor,
burgess of Edinburgh (Reg. of Deeds, Ixix.),
and had issue Bessie, bapt. 9th May 1599
(marr. David French); Katherine, bapt.
13th July 1600, died before 1612. Publica
tion Vitce et Mortis D. Roberti Rolloci
Scoti Narratio (Edinburgh, 1599). [Edin.
Counc. and St Cuthbert s Sess. Regs. (Bapt.) ;
Rollock s Sel. Works, Bruce s Sermons
(Life), Craufurd s Hist. Univ. Edin., Reg.
Assig., Spottiswood s and Calderwood s
Hists., Murray s Life of Rutherford.]
JOHN MAXWELL, M.A.; trans, from
1625 New Church; app. by the Town
Council 25th Nov. 1625; trans, to
Old Kirk Parish 1626. [Edin. Counc. Reg.,
Murray s Life of Rutherford.]
HENRY ROLLOCK, M.A.; trans, from
Kilconquhar ; elected 2nd, and pres.
by the Town Council 16th Jan. 1628 ;
pres. to Greyfriars 1629, but continued.
[Edin. Counc. Reg., Row s and Stevenson s
Hists.]
JAMES ELLIOT, M.A. (St Andrews
1635 -^ 20 a( ^ m - colleague min. of College
Church, Glasgow, 1633; D.D. (Glas
gow); a member of the Court of High
Commission 21st Oct. 1634 ; elected by the
Town Council 18th, and trans, and adm.
30th Dec. 1635. He was prepared to
intimate a solemn fast to pray for a
blessing on the Covenant, 3rd June 1638,
but was inhibited from doing so by the
Bishop. His ministry in consequence
became unpopular, and one day going to
the pulpit in room of another [Rollock],
the women " after sermon fell upon him
with many sad stroakes." He did not
decline the Assembly that year, but as he
had used the Liturgy complaints were
lodged against him 7th Jan. 1639, and a
committee appointed to deal with the case
reported that "having considered the said
Mr E. s preaching cannot for the present
serve to the edification of the people of
Edinburgh, ordains and appoints him to
cease from preaching till the provincial
Synod, and in case he before then acknow
ledges the Acts of the Assembly at
Glasgow, recommends to the Synod to
transport him from the Church of Edin
burgh, except the people desire him to stay ;
and if he does not then acknowledge the
Acts of the Assembly at Glasgow, refers to
the Synod to depose him of his ministerial
function." A report was made to the
General Assembly, 26th Aug. 1639, by two
of its members appointed to take notice of
his case, "that they thought him to be a
humble and modest man, penitent for any
thing he has done, and submissive to the
constitutions of the kirk." On which the
Assembly declared him capable of the
ministry, and to be provided at the first
occasion. On 2nd April 1640 he granted a
disposition to his wife on the narrative that
he intended to leave Scotland and was
uncertain of his return (Reg. Deeds, dxli.,
383). He appears to have gone to England
and obtained a living. He died probably
about 1652. He marr. 20th July 1634 (cont.
27th June 1634, ibid., dxli., 383), Helen,
eldest daugh. of John Strang, Principal of
Glasgow Univ. (who survived her husband,
and marr. Robert Baillie, Principal of
Glasgow Univ. : Glasgow Com. Deeds,
19th Oct. 1709), and had issue John;
James ; Janet (marr. Hugh Blair, min. of
Muiravonside) ; Christian (marr. Robert
Watson, min. of Cardross). [Edin. Coiuic.,
Bapt., Test. (Glasg.), and Glasg. Reg.
(Marr. and Bapt.); Baillie s Lett., Peter-
kin s Rec., Wodrow MSS., Stevenson s
Hist., Murray s Life of Rutherford.]
WILLIAM BENNET, probably son
of Andrew B., min. of Monimail ;
M.A. (St Andrews 1619); min. of
Monimail 1626; pres. by the Town
1641
132
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[PRESB. OF
Council 14th Jan. 1639 ; confirmed by the
Assembly at Aberdeen 1640; trans, and
adm. 28th Oct. 1641 ; was a member of the
Commission of Assembly 1642-6, and died
March 1647. He marr. Jean Bonar, and
had issue James ; Elizabeth (Reg. Horn.,
xxvi., 235; Fife Reg. Sas., v., 276, xviii.,
354) ; George, in the service of the King of
Poland, created a baronet, 28th July 1671 ;
William and Helen (twins) ; Catherine ;
David ; Kobert, in 1666 lieutenant in the
Polish army (Reg. of Deeds, Mack., 18th
Nov. 1672). [Edin. Counc., Bapt., and Gen.
Sess. Reg. ; Baillie s Lett., i. ; Acts of Ass.~\
1648
JOHN SMITH, probably son of John S.,
m * n< ^ ^ axton > M.A. (Edinburgh,
14th July 1621); licen. by Presb. of
Kirkcaldy 14th Aug. 1634 ; ord. to Burnt-
island 1634 ; pres. by the Town Council and
Kirk-session 16th March 1647 ; trans, and
adm. 17th March 1648 ; a member of the
Commissions of Assembly 1648-9 ; app.
by Parliament one of the Visitors of the
Univ. of St Andrews 16th Jan. 1649, and
of Edinburgh 31st July 1649; taken
prisoner at Alyth 28th Aug. 1651, by the
English army, carried to Tynemouth Castle
and afterwards to London, where he was
liberated, and returned to Edinburgh 29th
March 1653. Kefusing to conform to
Episcopacy the parish was declared vacant,
7th Aug. 1662 ; he died in the neighbour
hood of Prestonpans, 9th Dec. 1667. He
drew up some of the public papers on the
part of the Resolutioners against the Pro
testers. He marr. Eupham Monipennie
(buried 22nd Dec. 1672), and had issue
Eupham, bapt. 29th July 1649; James,
bapt. 20th Oct. 1661 ; John, M.A. (G. R.
Sas., xxviii., 88). -[Edin. Counc., Gen. Sess.,
and Reg. (Bapt.); Acts of Ass. and Parl.,
vi., vii. ; Lament s, Nicoll s, and Brodie s
Diaries ; Baillie s Lett., iii. ; Kirkton s and
Wodrow s Hists., and Anal., i. ; Inq. Ret.
Gen. t 5682.]
ALEXANDER CAIRNCROSS, born
lees a b ut 1637, son of George C. (a
dyer in the Canongatc for many
years, in which occupation he was so
successful that he was enabled to regain
part of the estate of Colmslie, Lauderdale,
which belonged to his progenitors), and
Christian Ogilvie ; studied at the Univ. of
Edinburgh; M.A. (26th July 1657); licen.
by George, Bishop of the diocese, 31st
Oct. 1662 ; elected by the Town Council
29th April 1663 ; pres. to Ayton by Charles
II. 13th Oct. 1664, but did not remove;
trans, to Dumfries in 1668 ; became Bishop
of Brechin (1684), Archbishop of Glasgow
(1684), and finally (1693) Bishop of Raphoe
in Ireland ; died unmarr. 14th May 1701.
[Keith s Catal., Edin. Counc. Reg., Diet.
Nat. Biog.~\
JOHN MACQUEEN, M.A. (Edinburgh
166g 27th July 1663) ; ord. to Carmichael
1666 ; pres. by the Town Council
16th Dec. 1668 ; trans, and coll. 29th Jan.
after. He was suspended "for a foolish
frolic," Dec. 1683, but reponed Feb. 1684 ;
Sub-Dean of the Chapel Royal 28th Jan.
1688 ; deprived by the Convention of
Estates, 26th April 1689, for not reading
| the Proclamation against owning James
VII., and not praying for William and
Mary. He became min. of Welton, near
Daventry, in Northamptonshire ; and was
app. in 1698 to St Mary s, Dover, where
he died 10th Jan. 1733, aged about 90.
He marr. 21st Dec. 1668, Helen Meldrum,
and had issue Margaret, bapt. 18th Jan.
1670 ; Mary, bapt. 22nd Dec. 1671 ; Helen,
bapt. 10th Dec. 1673; Isabel, bapt. 9th
Sept. 1675; John, bapt. 5th Nov. 1678.
| Publications God s Interest in the King
(London, 1687) ; The Magistrates Dignity,
Duty, and Danger, a sermon (London,
1693) ; The Good Patriot set forth in the
Example of the Public-spirited Centurion,
a sermon (Edinburgh, 1694) ; A Divine and
Moral Essay on the Christian Pilgrim s
Conduct (London, 1699) ; A Sermon on the
Victory of Blenheim ; etc. [Edin. Counc.,
Guild, and Reg. (Marr. and Bapt.) ; Acts
Parl., ix. ; Fountainhall s Diary, Kirkton s
Hist.; MS. Ace. of Min., 1689; Steven s
Mem. of Heriot, Batchellor s Dover, Reg.
Collat. and Privy Seal, Carstares State
Pap. ; Chambers s Ann., ii.]
EDINBURGH]
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133
ARCHIBALD RIDDELL, born 1635,
third son of Sir Walter R., Baronet
of that ilk, and Janet, daugh.
of William Rigg of Athernie, Fife. Edu
cated at Edinburgh Univ., he took the
degree of M.A. 9th July 1656, and was
min. of Kippen about the year 1670. He
became famous as a field preacher and
suffered frequent imprisonments from
1680-4. In the latter year he was
released from the Bass on condition of
removing to America. During the voyage
fever broke out on the vessel and raged
with fearful mortality, Riddell s wife being
among the victims. On reaching New
Jersey, he had calls from Newbridge,
Long Island, and Woodbridge, the latter
of which he accepted. After the Revolu
tion he assayed to return to Scotland, but
was captured with one of his sons by a
French man-of-war, carried prisoner to
Nantz and various ports, and cruelly
treated for fully two and a half years.
Released at the request of King William s
government, he was adm. min. of Wemyss
28th Sept. 1691, of Kirkcaldy 20th May
1697, of this charge 8th Dec. 1701 ; died
17th Feb. 1708, "a singularly pious and
laborious servant of Jesus Christ." He
marr. (1) Helen, daugh. of Henry Aitken-
head, min. of North Berwick, and had issue
Capt. Walter of Granton, died 1738;
Dr John, physician, Edinburgh, died 1740 ;
Sarah, who marr., 26th Nov. 1703, John
Currie, min. of Oldhamstocks : (2) (pro.
8th May 1694) Jean Ker (Canongate If eg.),
who survived him. \Edin. Reg. (Marr. and
Bur.\ Douglas s ar., Nisbet s Her., Wod-
row s Anal., Playfair s -Bar.]
JAMES GRIERSON, born 1662; ord.
1710 to Wem y ss 22nd Sept. 1698 5 called
14th Dec. 1709 ; app. by Presb. 14th
June, trans, and adm. before 1st Aug.
1710; Moderator of Assembly 14th May
1719; died (after having been several
years ill of palsy) 5th July 1732.
He marr. a daugh. of Matthew Selkrig,
min. of Crichton. [Test, and Reg.
(Bur.), Wodrow s Anal., Warrick s Modera
tors. ]
GEORGE LOGAN, born 1678, son of
1732 George L., descended from Logan of
that ilk. His mother was the only
daughter of John Cunningham, min. of Old
Cumnock. M.A. (Glasgow 1696); licen.
by Presb. of Glasgow 4th March 1 703 ;
chaplain to John, Earl of Lauderdale ;
ord. to Lauder 7th April 1707 ; trans, to
Sprouston 22nd Jan. 1719; trans, to
Dunbar 24th Jan. 1722; called 31st Aug.,
trans, and adm. 14th Dec. 1732 ; Moderator
of Assembly 1740, which dep. Erskine and
the Seceders. He strenuously supported
the Hanoverian succession ; and on the
approach of Prince Charles s army toward
Edinburgh, was a warm but unsuccessful
advocate for placing the city in a state of
defence; died 13th Oct. 1755. He marr.
(1) 5th April 1711, Anne, daugh. of James
Home of Eccles, and had issue George,
min. of Ormiston, and a daugh. : (2)
(pro. 1st Jan. 1744) Lilias (died before
17th Dec. 1770), daugh. of Thomas
Weir, surgeon, Edinburgh. Publications
A Synod Sermon (1728) ; An Assembly Ser
mon (1729) ; A Modest and Humble Inquiry
concerning the right and power of Electing
and Calling Ministers to Vacant Churches
(Edinburgh, 1732) ; Continuation of the In
quiry (Edinburgh, 1 733) ; Vindication of the
Inquiry (Edinburgh, 1 733) ; The Publick
Testimony of above 1600 Christian People
against the Overture of the Assembly 1731,
made more Publick and Set in its due
Light (Edinburgh, 1733); An Account of
the Method of Electing a Minister to the
Parish of Strathmiglo (Edinburgh, 1733);
Grange, or the Schism in Calling of
Ministers in Scotland (Edinburgh, 1 735) ;
An Overture for the right Constitution of
the General Assembly, and an Illustration
of it (Edinburgh, 1736); The Lawfulness
and Necessity of Ministers, their reading
the Act of Parliament for bringing to
Justice the Murderers of Captain John
Porteous (Edinburgh, 1737, 49 pp.);
| Sermon preached at the Opening of the
General Assembly (Edinburgh, 1741); A
Treatise on Government (Edinburgh, 1746) ;
A Second Treatise on Government (Edin
burgh, 1747) ; The Finishing Stroke, in two
parts (Edinburgh, 1748); The Doctrine
134
TRINITY THE TRON
[PRESB. OF
of the Jure-divino-ship of Hereditary In
defeasible Monarchy enquired into and
exploded (Edinburgh, 1749); A Second
Letter to Mr Thomas Ruddiman (Edin
burgh, 1749). [Test. Reg., Chalmers s Life
of Ruddiman, Morren s Ann., Warrick s
Moderators, Diet. Nat. Siog.}
ROBERT DICK, born 1722, son of
James D., min. of the Wynd Church,
Glasgow; M.A. (Glasgow 1744);
licen. by Presb. of Hamilton 14th Jan.
1747 ; ord. to Lanark (his settlement being
violently disputed) 4th Oct. 1750 ; trans, to
New Greyfriars llth Oct. 1754; trans, and
adm. 15th June 1758 ; D.D. (Edinburgh,
13th March 1759); died 24th Aug. 1782.
He was one of the ablest and most dis
tinguished ministers of his day. He marr.
29th June 1756, Grizel Ford, who died 16th
June 1822, and had issue James, born 9th
May 1760, died 20th June 1769 ; Elizabeth,
born 10th Oct. 1762 ; Grizel, born 19th
Aug. 1764, died 28th Oct. 1765; Robert,
W.S. apprentice 1781, born 22nd July
1765; Isabella, born 28th Oct. 1766, died
3rd Oct. 1767; William, born 12th Oct.
1768, died 3rd Aug. 1769 ; Isobel, born 29th
Dec. 1769, died 16th Nov. 1792. Publica
tions Two single Sermons (Edinburgh) ;
The Simplicity and Popularity of the
Divine Revelations and their Suitableness
to the Circumstances of Mankind (1758) ;
The Counsel of Gamaliel Considered (17 62) ;
True State of the Case (Edinburgh, 1763).
[Moncreiff s Life of Erskine, Mackenzie s
Life of Home, Morren s Ann., Carlyle s
Autob.]
THE TRON KIRK.
[Christ s Kirk at the Tron, so called from
the great beam, the public weighing-place
of the city. The foundation stone was laid
4th March 1637, and the church dedi
cated 1641. The present building is but
a fragment of the original structure,
whose stately proportions were mercilessly
despoiled on the formation of Hunter
Square and the South Bridge. A notable
feature of the interior is the oak roof, not
unlike that of the Parliament House. The
steeple dates from 1826, its predecessor
being destroyed by fire 15th Nov. 1824.
The General Assembly met in the Tron
Kirk from 1830 to 1840.]
WILLIAM COLVILL [COLVILLE],
1641 M.A. (St Andrews 1631); min. of
Cramond in 1635; trans, to Trinity
College, Edinburgh, in 1639 ; trans, and
adm. about 24th Dec. 1641. Five days
after the battle of Kilsyth (15th Aug.
1645), he obtained a protection from the
Marquess of Montrose, and was accordingly
regarded with grave suspicion. He was
suspended by the General Assembly in
July 1648, and dep. 26th July 1649, for
maintaining the lawfulness of the Duke
of Hamilton s Expedition into England.
For a time he ministered in the English
Church at Utrecht. In April 1652 he was
elected Principal of Edinburgh University,
but having been carried prisoner to the
Castle for praying for Charles II., he was
not permitted by Cromwell s Government
to take possession of the office, which was
declared vacant, 17th Jan. 1653. He re
ceived, however, a year s stipend (2000
merks) in consideration of having dem.
his charge in Holland. On 8th Nov. 1654
he was reponed by the Synod of Lothian
(there being no General Assembly during
the Protectorate), and became min. of
Perth. On Leighton s resignation in 1662,
he was again app. Principal of the Univer
sity, and died (buried 3rd June) 1675. He
marr. (1) Marion Brisbane, and had issue
John, M.A., advocate, died 1679 ; Alex
ander, bapt. 12th May 1643 ; Janet, bapt.
24th Sept. 1646 ; Matthew, bapt. 8th Oct.
1647 ; Thomas, bapt. 27th May 1649, died
before 16th Nov. 1678 : (2) Marion Fyfe,
and had issue James, bapt. 18th July
1655. Publications Ethica Christiana
Sermons on the Righteous Branch. See a
rare pamphlet, Submission to the Censures
of Suspension and Deposition exemplified
in the case of the Very Rev. Mr William
Colvill, sometime one of the ministers of
Edinburgh, and afterwards Principal of
the College there. From authentic and
unquestionable vouchers (Edinburgh, 1734).
EDINBURGH]
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135
[jEdin. Counc. and Dalkeith Presb. Reg. ;
Wood s Hist, of Cramond ; Mem. of
Montrose, ii. ; Nicoll s and Brodie s Diaries,
Wodrow s Anal. ; Balfour s Hist. Works,
iii. ; Butler s Tron Kirk, Grant s Univ.,
Mar and Kellie Papers; Hist. MSS.
Comm., Diet. Nat. Biog.}
ROBERT LAURIE, M.A.; trans, from
1648 Trinity College; app. by the Town
Council to take charge during Col-
vill s suspension. When the Presb. peti
tioned Parliament (1661) for a meeting of j
the General Assembly to settle the question :
of Church Government, he was one of those
appointed to wait on Middleton, the Lord j
High Commissioner. Trans, to the High
Kirk Parish 1662. In 1672 he became
Bishop of Brechin, but returned to Trinity
College in 1674. [Edin. Counc. Reg.;
Kirkton s and Wodrow s Hists., i, ; Baillie s
Lett., iii. ; Brodie s Diary ; Chambers s
Ann., ii.]
1663
JOHN PATERSON, trans, from Ellon ;
elected by the Town Council 24th
Oct. 1662 ; adm. 4th Jan. 1663. Five
mins. drew lots as to which parish they
should be appointed to, when the South-
East Parish fell to the lot of P. Trans, to
the High Kirk Parish 1 672. [Edin. Counc.
Reg., Reg. Collat., Lament s and Nicoll s
Diaries.]
WILLIAM ANN AND, M.A.; trans, from
1672 Tolbooth ) a PP- by the Town Council
16th Aug. 1672; trans, to the High
Kirk Parish 1675. [Edin. Counc. Reg.}
1675
Marjory Leslie, and had issue Robert,
bapt. 6th June 1682. [Edin. Counc. and
Reg. (Bapt.) ; Wodrow s Hist., iii.]
JAMES LUNDIE, M.A.; trans, from
Tolbooth ; app. by the Town Council
21st April, and coll. 29th May 1675 ;
trans, to Dalkeith 1680. [Edin. Counc. Reg.,
Reg. Collat}
ROBERT BRUCE, M.A. (Marischal
1681 College, Aberdeen, 1665), regent
in Marischal College, Aberdeen
(1667-74); adm. to Old Deer in 1676;
pres. by the Town Council, trans, and
inst. 25th May 1681. Refusing to take
the Test, he dem. same year. He marr.
[JOHN MENZIES, min. at Aberdeen j
P res> ky ^ e Town Council 18th Feb.
1682, but declined.]
1682
1683
GEORGE TROTTER, M.A. (Edinburgh,
19th July 1661); Keen, by George,
Bishop of Edinburgh, 30th July
1664 ; adm. min. of Bunkle 21st July
1665; trans, to Edrom in 1677; trans, to
Tron, Second Charge, in 1682 ; elected by
the Town Council 16th March 1683, and
adm. shortly afterwards. Libelled for
various offences "traducing the Town
Treasurer and others of the. Magistrates,
and frequently abusing the Kirk Treasurer,
and putting violent hands upon them,"
etc., he was suspended by Bishop Pater-
son. Had D.D. conferred ; died Aug.
1687, aged about 46. He marr. Oct. 1669
(cont. 7th Sept. 1669 : G. R. Inhib., 21st
April 1673), Elizabeth, eldest daugh. of
Andrew Oswald, merchant, burgess of
Edinburgh, who died Nov. 1689. [Edin.
Counc., Test., and Reg. (Bur.); Fountain-
hall s Diary.}
ALEXANDER MALCOLM, min. of
1687 Orwe11 1663 > of Tolbooth, Edin
burgh, 1663, of Newbattle 1667, of
Greyfriars, Second Charge, 1681 ; elected
by the Town Council llth Aug. 1687, and
adm. soon after ; deprived in 1689, and dep.
by the Commission of Assembly, Jan. 1691,
"for declining their authority." Having
gone to England 25th March following, he
was advised by Bishop Burnet to return
and submit to the Presbyterian establish
ment. What became of him is unknown.
He marr. (1) 9th Nov. 1665, Janet Mason,
and had issue Jean, bapt. 6th July 1666
(marr. 28th Oct. 1696, William Gray,
merchant, Edinburgh) ; William ; Nicholas ;
Henrietta ; Mary; Janet; Lilias (marr., pro.
5th Nov. 1699, Archibald Malcolm, M.A.,
student of divinity) : (2) Jean Reith, and
had issue Alexander, bapt. 25th Dec.
1685 ; John, bapt. 28th March 1687.
[Edin. Counc., Newbattle Sess., and Reg.
136
THE TRON
[PRESB. OF
(Marr. and Bapt.) ; MS. Ace. of Min.,
1689 ; Wodrow s Anal., i. ; Sage s Works,
i. ; Rule s Sec. Vindication."]
WILLIAM ERSKINE, brother of James
1687 E. of Shielfield; M.A. (Edinburgh,
1st Aug. 1651); min. of Girthon in
1658; min. of Carsphairn in 1672; called
22nd July 1687; confirmed by the Town
Council 24th July 1687; died unmarr.
May 1692, aged about \.[Edin. Counc.,
Guild, Test., and Reg. (Bur.) ; S. Presb.
Eloq.}
WILLIAM CRICHTON, M.A. (Edin-
16g5 burgh, 26th July 1649) ; ord. (by the
Protesting Presb.) min. of Bathgate
10th April 1654; Moderator of Assembly
15th Jan. 1692; trans, to Falkirk 23rd
Aug. 1693; trans, and adm. 8th Sept.
1695 ; a second time Moderator of As
sembly 2nd Jan. 1697 ; dem. 12th May
1707. "As a mark of respect for the
vigilance, prudence, piety, and zeal with
which he has performed his ministerial
duties while free from sickness and
infirmity, the Council granted him a yearly
allowance of 1000 merks Scots." Died 27th
Nov. 1708, in 78th year. He marr. and
had issue (nothing is known as to his
wife and children.) \_Edin. Counc. and
Reg. (Bur.); Acts Parl., xi. ; Warrick s
Moderators.]
WILLIAM WISHART [WISHEART],
1707 k rn 1660, son of William W., min.
of Kinneil ; educated privately and
at the Univs. of Edinburgh and Utrecht ;
M.A. (Edinburgh 1680). Returning from
Holland, he was charged with denying the
King s authority, and put into prison, 1684.
Released the following year, he was called
to be min. of the Meeting-house, near the
Sheriff Brae of Leith (in which his father
had ministered), and was ord. 12th Jan.
1688. In 1692 he removed to the Parish
Church of South Leith, a step which
met with much opposition from the
Episcopal section of the community, who
tried by force to prevent him and his
friends from gaining possession of the
church (vide South Leith). He was
Moderator of Assembly 4th April 1706,
auJ. on 12th Oct. 1707 was adm. to this
charge. He was a second time Moderator
of Assembly 30th April 1713, a third,
14th May 1718, a fourth, 14th May 1724,
and a fifth, 2nd May 1728; Principal of
the Univ. of Edinburgh (which he held in
conjunction) f>th June 1716; D.D. (Edin
burgh, 31st Dec. 1728); died llth June
1729. Bell of Gladsmuir described him
as " a godly, grave person, a sweet and ex
cellent preacher, whose life being of a piece
with his preaching, he made almost as many
friends as there were persons known to him."
He marr. 15th March 1691, Janet (died
30th June 1744), daugh. of Major William
Murray, of Touchadam family, and had
issue William and George, both his suc
cessors. Publications Many single Ser
mons (Edinburgh, 1701-31); A Discourse
of Suppressing Vice (Edinburgh, 1702) ;
Theologia, or Discourses of God, 2 vols.
(Edinburgh, 1716) ; Sermons on the Lords
Supper (Edinburgh, 1721); A Short and
Impartial State of the Case of Mr John
Simson, as it comes before the General As
sembly of 1729 (anon., London, 1729).
\Edin. Counc., Prestonpans Sess., Test., and
Reg. (Bur.) ; Wodrow s Anal., iii., iv. ; War-
rick s Moderators, Grant s Univ., Advocates
Lib. CatalJ]
GEORGE WISHART, son of preceding ;
1780 educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ;
M.A. (27th May 1719); licen. by
Presb. of Edinburgh 27th April 1725; ord.
to St Cuthbert s, Edinburgh, 24th Nov.
1726 ; called 31st March ; trans, and adm.
23rd July 1730; app. by the Commission
of Assembly, 9th Nov. 1743, to go with
Robert Wallace (New North Church) to
London to make application to Parliament
for getting an Act to provide for the
widows and children of ministers. In this
they succeeded, and were "thanked for
their faithfulness and diligence" by the
Assembly, 15th May 1744; principal clerk
of Assembly 21st May 1746; Moderator
12th May 1748; D.D. (Edinburgh, 13th
March 1759); one of His Majesty s Chap
lains in Ordinary ; Dean of the Chapel
Royal July 1765; died 12th June 1785,
aged 82. He marr. 6th Dec. 1727, Ann
(died 17th Nov. 1782, aged 72), daugh. of
EDINBURGH]
THE TRON
is 1 ;
John Campbell of Orchard, and had
issue Ann ; Janet (marr. 12th June 1750,
Major-General John Beckwith, of Viscount
Bury s Regiment), died 28th July 1827, aged
97 ; Margaret ; Elizabeth Marion, born 8th
May 1739; Jane, born 20th Sept. 1742
(marr. 13th Sept. 1765, Baron von West-
phalen) ; George, born 3rd Dec. 1748, died
4th March 1760. Publications Four single
Sermons (Edinburgh, 1733-40) ; A Letter
to the author (Logan) of a pamphlet in
tituled Lawfulness and Necessity of
Ministers, their Reading the Act of
Parliament for bringing to Justice the
Murderers of Captain John Porteous
(Edinburgh, 1737). [Wodrow s Anal., iii.,
iv. ; Drysdale s, i., and Erskine s Disc., i. ;
Mackenzie s Life of Home, Morren s Ann.,
Carlyle s Autob. ; Kay s Portr., i. ;
M Ure s Glasg.]
ANDREW HUNTER of Barjarg, Dum-
friesshire, born 1743, eldest son of
Andrew H., W.S., Edinburgh, and
Grisell Maxwell of Cardoness ; educated at
High School and Univ., Edinburgh ; ord.
to Second Charge, Dumfries, 20th Sept.
1770; D.D. (Edinburgh 1779); trans, to
New Greyfriars, Edinburgh, 25th Nov.
1779; pres. by Town Council 21st Oct.
1785; trans, and adm. 2nd April 1786;
holding in conjunction the Professorship of
Divinity. Moderator of Assembly 17th
May 1792. In the year following he de
clined appointment as one of His Majesty s
Chaplains in Ordinary. Died 21st April
1809. He marr. 14th April 1779, Hon.
Mary Shaw Scott (born 5th Aug. 1756, died
9th Oct. 1806), eldest daugh. of William,
sixth Lord Napier, by whom he had issue
Andrew, born 6th, died 27th March 1781;
William Francis of Barjarg, advocate, born
30th July 1785, died 22nd April 1827 ; John,
min. of Swinton, and his father s successor ;
Mainie Anne Charlotte, born 28th May 1 783,
died 21st Feb. 1790 ; Grizel, born 15th June
1784 (marr. 27th June 1808, George Ross,
advocate), died 12th Aug. 1864 ; Henrietta
Hope, born 2nd Nov. 1793, died 17th Jan.
1856, unmarr. Publications Five single
Sermons (Edinburgh 1775, and 1803);
Advice from a Father to a Son first entering
the Army (anon., 1776). [Moncreiffs Fun.
Serm. ; Grant s Univ., ii. ; Kay s Portr. ;
Edin. Chr. Inst., xxv. ; Carlyle s Autob. ;
Playfair s Bar., iii.]
ALEXANDER BRUNTON, born at
. Edinburgh 1772 ; licen. by Presb. of
Linlithgow 26th Aug. 1796 ; ord. to
Bolton 28th Sept. 1797; trans, to New
Greyfriars 15th Sept. 1803 ; pres. by Town
Council 6th Sept., trans, and adm. 23rd
Nov. 1809 ; Professor of Oriental Languages
in the Univ. of Edinburgh 19th May 1813,
which he held in conjunction ; D.D. (Edin
burgh, 17th Dec. 1814); Moderator of
Assembly 22nd May 1823 ; convener of
the India Mission Committee 26th May
1834, the duties of which he discharged
for thirteen years with the highest satis
faction, when declining years obliged him
to retire from public life. He died near
Cupar-Angus, 9th Feb. 1854. He marr.
5th Dec. 1798, Mary, born 1st Nov. 1778
(only daugh. of Colonel Thomas Balfour of
Elwick, and Mary Ligonier), authoress of
Self-Control, Discipline, and an unfinished
story, Emmeline, who died in childbed, 19th
Dec. 1818. Publications Extracts from
the Books of the Old Testament, with
Sketches of Hebrew and Chaldee Grammar
(Edinburgh, 1814 ; 3rd ed., 1831) ; Sermons
and Lectures (Edinburgh, 1818); Out
lines of Persian Grammar, with Extracts
(Edinburgh, 1822) ; Memoir of Mrs Brunton
(in Emmeline, 1819) ; a Sermon preached
on the Death of Dr Inglis (Edinburgh,
1834); Outlines of a Speech for the Com
mission of Assembly (Edinburgh, 1843) ;
Forms for Public Worship in the Church
of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1848). [Ander
son s Sketches, Kay s Portr., Acts of Ass.;
Blackwood s Magazine, v., 183 ; Diet. Nat.
Biog.~\
MAXWELL NICHOLSON, D.D. ; trans.
from Pencaitland 24th Aug 1854 ;
became sole min. in 1866; trans, to
St Stephen s (assistant and successor) llth
June 1867.
JAMES MACGREGOR, D.D.; trans.
^ rom Tron Parish, Glasgow, 9th Jan.
1868 ; trans, to St Cuthbert s, Edin
burgh, 2nd Nov. 1873.
1854
1868
138
THE TRON
[PRESB. OF
JOHN BARCLAY, M.A.; trans, from Old
1874 Kil patrick 7th May 1874; trans, to
West Parish, Greenock, 4th Nov.
1875.
WILLIAM CRUICKSHANK EDDIE
187Q JAMIESON, born Edinburgh, 6th
Dec. 1839, son of Robert J., solicitor,
and Isabella Eddie ; educated at Edinburgh
High School and Univ. ; B.A. (1861); licen.
by Presb. of Edinburgh 26th July 1865;
assistant at Trinity Parish, Edinburgh,
and New Greyfriars, Edinburgh ; ord.
to Invertiel 16th April 1868; trans, to
St Matthew s, Glasgow, 4th Aug. 1869;
trans, and adm. 4th May 1876; died 30th
Jan. 1881. He marr. 21st June 1870,
Jessie, second daugh. of John Archibald,
farmer, Duddingston, South Queensferry,
and Marion, daugh. of John Paterson,
Hawkshaw, Tweedsmuir, and had issue
Menie, born 2nd April 1871 (marr. 7th
June 1899, James Watt, W.S., Edinburgh) ;
William, born 23rd Oct. 1872, died 1st
April 1876; John Robert, born 21st Aug.
1874 ; Jessie, born 14th Aug. 1878. Pub
lication The Lord s Prayer (Edinburgh,
1881), posthumous.
JOHN METHVEN ROBERTSON,
1881 -M--A- j trans, from Stow 22nd Sept.
1881 ; trans, to St Ninians, Stirling,
19th May 1885.
DAVID MORRISON, born Mill of Mon-
1885 dynes, Fordoun, 2nd May 1838, son
of Alexander M. and Christian Lyall ;
educated at Coquetty, Fordoun, and Laur-
encekirk schools, and at the Grammar
School and King s College, Aberdeen ; M.A.
(1859) ; licen. by Presb. of Fordoun 7th July
1863 ; assistant at Barony, Glasgow ; ord.
to Durrisdeer 20th April 1865 ; trans, to
Dunblane 2nd Feb. 1872 ; trans, and adm.
24th Oct. 1885; died 12th March 1911.
He marr. 28th April 1874, Anne Gray,
daugh. of Patrick James Stirling, LL.D.,
and Henrietta, daugh. of Alexander Gray,
D.D., min. of Kincardine - in - Menteith,
and had issue Patrick James Stirling,
born 15th Feb. 1875, died 12th July 1886 ;
Austin Alexander, born 5th November 1876,
died 25th March 1895; Henrietta Gray,
born 16th Sept. 1878, died 13th March
1896; George Norman, LL.B., solicitor,
Glasgow, born 24th July 1880 ; David Lyall,
M.D., born 16th July 1882 ; Edwin Arnold,
born 19th Oct. 1884, died 31st Oct. 1890;
Anne Gray Stirling, born 5th Feb. 1889.
Publications Sermon on the Occasion of
the Death of Norman Macleod, D.D.
(Glasgow, 1872) ; Sermon, The Blessed Influ
ences of Bereavement, private circulation
(1890).
ARCHIBALD FLEMING, M.A, ; trans.
189? from Newton, and adm. (assistant
and successor) 18th May 1897 ; trans,
to St Columba s, London (q.v.\ 31st Jan.
1902. During his Tron incumbency he was
editor of Life and WarTt.
DUGALD BUTLER, M.A. ; trans, from
1902 Abernethy, and adm. (assistant and
successor) 10th July 1902 ; trans, to
Galashiels 7th Aug. 1907. Publication
The Tron Kirk of Edinburgh : A History
(Edinburgh, 1906).
JOHN WALLACE, born Dalrymple,
1908 30th Sept> 1873 son of Jolin W>}
min. of Dalrymple; educated at
Dalrymple School and Glasgow Univ. ;
M.A. (1896); licen. by Presb. of Ayr 4th
March 1898; assistant at Inverness; ord.
to Abercorn 10th Jan. 1901 ; trans, and
adm. 30th Jan. 1908; chaplain to H.M.
Prison, Edinburgh, 1913. He marr. (1)
18th April 1901, Annie (died 22nd Oct.
1901), daugh. of Henry Morin, Inverness :
(2) 29th April 1905, Mabel Blanche, daugh.
of Henry Powell, Herne Hill, London, and
has issue Ian Dalrymple, born 6th June
1907 ; Alastair Macleod, born 7th May
1910. Publication A Plea for Optimism
in the Christian Ministry, a Synod sermon
(Edinburgh, 1909).
SECOND CHARGE.
[Abolished by the Annuity Tax Act of
I860.]
JOHN STIRLING, M.A. ; trans, from
Bara ; invited by the Town Council
9th Jan., elected by the Commission
of Assembly 15th Feb., and adrn. 12th April,
EDINBURGH]
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139
1650. He belonged to the Protesting party
in the Church, and was trans, to the newly
formed parish of Lady Tester s 3rd Sept.
1655. [Edin. Counc. Reg.; Baillie s Lett.,
iii. ; Peterkin s Rec.}
[David Drummond, min. of Moneydie,
was called 1662, but declined on account
of illness.]
JAMES LUNDIE, M.A. ; elected by the
Town Council 29th April 1663 ; trans.
to High Kirk Parish 5th May 1665.
[Edin. Counc. Reg., Reg. Collat.]
ROBERT MORTIMER, licen. by George,
1665 Bishop of Edinburgh, 19th Oct. 1 664 ;
elected by the Town Council, 2nd
Aug. ; ord. and coll. 15th Sept. 1665 ; dem.
Oct. 1676. He marr. 21st Dec. 1669, Ann
(died 1st Feb. 1705, aged 66), daugh. of
Patrick Murray of Bonytoun (G. R. Inhib.,
2nd May 1670), and had issue Martha,
bapt. llth May 1671 ; Anna, bapt. 9th
June 1672 ; Helen, bapt. 10th Oct. 1673 ;
James, bapt. 25th Sept. 1674; Alexander,
bapt. llth March 1676. [Edin. Counc.,
Guild, Test., and Reg. (Marr., Bapt., and
Bur.) ; Reg. Collat.}
JOHN FARQUHAR, regent in Mari-
schal College, Aberdeen ; elected by
the Town Council, and adm. 1677;
trans, to Old Kirk Parish 1682. [Edin.
Counc. Reg.]
GEORGE TROTTER, M.A.; trans, from
1682 Edrom ; elected by the Town Council
17th March, and adm. 1682; trans.
to First Charge in 1683. [Edin. Counc.
Reg.}
JOHN STRACHAN, M.A. (Aberdeen
1683 1655); adm. min. of Tarves 1662;
elected by the Town Council 21st
March 1683, and at the same time to the
Professorship of Divinity, which he held
in conjunction ; D.D. (Edinburgh, 1st July
1685); deprived 27th April 1689, for not
reading the Proclamation and praying for
King William and Queen Mary. He died
before 15th July 1699, aged about 64. He
marr. (1) Janet, eldest daugh. of William
Forbes of Fingask, advocate : (2) Isobel
Irving, and had issue William, who was
served heir ; John, bapt. 21st March 1684 ;
Arthur, bapt. 2nd July 1685 ; Alexander,
born 4th Oct. 1687 ; Isobel. [Edin. Counc.
and Reg. (Bapt.) ; Acts Parl., ix. ; Inq. Ret.
Aberd. et Gen., 8116; MS. Ace. of Min.,
1689.]
GEORGE MEL DRUM, born 1634,
1692 f urt k son f Andrew M., dyer and
bailie in Aberdeen ; M.A. (Marischal
College, Aberdeen, 1651); regent in Mari
schal College, Aberdeen, 1653 ; ord. to
Second Charge, Aberdeen, 2nd Feb. 1659 ;
deprived by Act of Parliament and Privy
Council 1662, but was restored 1663, and
became rector in Marischal College until he
was again deprived in 1681 for refusing the
Test ; adm. to Kilwinning in 1688 ; elected
by the Town Council and General Session
llth May 1691; trans, and adm. 1692;
Moderator of Assembly llth Jan. 1698;
Professor of Divinity, Edinburgh Univ.,
24th Dec. 1701, holding it in conjunction;
a second time Moderator of Assembly 10th
March 1703. When after several sittings,
and during a discussion on an overture,
the Lord High Commissioner (James,
Viscount Seafield) abruptly dissolved the
Assembly, M., embarrassed for the moment,
concluded as usual with prayer. This
collision led to an understanding between
the Church and the Government as to the
manner of dissolving the Assemblies in
future. He died 18th Feb. 1709. A
number of Elegies written immediately
after his death are preserved in the
Advocates Library. Publications Four
single Sermons (Edinburgh, 1690), includ
ing one preached before James, Duke of
Queensberry (Edinburgh, 1703); Letter
asserting the Lawfulness of informing
against the Vicious and Prophane (Edin
burgh, 1701, anon.) ; Vindication and De
fence of his Sermons, being a reply to a
pamphlet by Bishop Sage, entitled Examina
tion of Some Things in Mr Meldrum s
Sermon (Edinburgh, 1703) ; Letter from a
Friend in the City to an M.P., anent
Patronages (Edinburgh, 1703) ; Toleration
Defended (Edinburgh, 1703); The Danger
140
THE TRON
[PRESB. OF
of Popery Discovered. [Edin. Counc. Reg.
(Bur.) ; Wodrow s Anal., iii., iv. ; Grant s
Univ., ii. ; Edin. Chr. Inst., xxv. ; Acts
Parl., ix., xi. ; Boston s Mem., Pennecuik s
Works ; Test., 2fith Nov. 1708, recorded 23rd
Feb. 1709 (Reg. of Deeds, Mack.) ; Warrick s
Moderators.]
JOHN STEEDMAN, son of Robert S.,
min. of Carriden ; licen. by Presb. of
Linlithgow 19th Feb. 1699; ord. to
Dalmeny 16th Aug. 1699 ; called 20th July,
app. by Presb. 22nd Nov., and adm. 27th
Dec. 1710; died 24th Nov. 1713, aged 35.
He marr. 9th Jan. 1701, Jean, second daugh.
of John Kinnaird, min. of East Calder,
and had issue Robert (colonel in the Scots
Brigade in the Dutch service) ; Jane (marr.
Adam Rolland of Gask) ; Sarah, died 17th
July 1716; Sophia (marr. John Gray, min.
of Dollar) ; Margaret ; John, surgeon, Scots
Greys ; Alexander, died in Jamaica, Oct.
1735; Rachel, died at Edinburgh in 1716;
Marion (marr. William Black, clerk to
the Regality of Dunfermline). [Dolmen?/
Sess., Test., and Reg. (Bur.) ; Wodrow s
Corresp., i. ; Erskine s Supp. to Gillies s
Collect.]
MATTHEW WOOD, educated at Univ.
1715 ^ Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of
Lanark 27th Nov. 1704 ; ord. to
Leslie (Fife) 3rd Feb. 1709; trans, to Grey-
friars, Edinburgh, 18th March 1711 ; trans,
and adm. 16th Jan. 1715; died 19th Oct.
1741, in 65th year. He marr. 13th Dec.
1711, Katherine, daugh. of Bailie William
Hutchison who, as his widow, obtained a
decreet of the Court of Session against the
Magistrates for the ann 9th June 1747.
[Reg. (Bur.), Hart s Journal; Morrison s
Digest and Diet., i.]
WILLIAM WISHART (secundus), son
of William W., min. in 1707 ; edu
cated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; min.
of the Scots Church, Founder s Hall,
London ; elected Principal of the Univ. of
Edinburgh 1737, receiving at the same
time a call to be min. of New Greyf riars ;
trans, and adm. 20th June 1745. He
supported the measures of the popular
party in the Church, and dissented 15th
May 1751, from a resolution of the General
Assembly, censuring the Presb. of Lin
lithgow for not proceeding in the settle
ment of Torphichen as appointed by the
preceding Assembly. He died 12th May
1753. He marr. (1) 1st Dec. 1724, Margaret
(died 27th Feb. 1746), daugh. of Thomas
Halyburton, Professor of Divinity, St
Andrews, and had issue William Thomas
of Foxhall, died 3rd Dec. 1799 ; a son, died
Jan. 1739; Ann, died in 1819, aged 82;
Janet (marr. Mr Maxwell, merchant,
Dundee); Margaret (marr. 27th Oct. 1766,
James Macdowall, merchant, Edinburgh) ;
Cordelia (marr. 6th Jan. 1724, John Mon-
crieff of Rumgay, M.D.) : (2) 17th March
1747, Frances, daugh. of James Deans of
Woodhouselee. His widow marr. in 1754,
John Scott of Stewartfield, and subse
quently John Strother Ker of Littledean.
Publications Charity the End of the
Commandment, a sermon (Edinburgh,
1731); A Sermon preached before the
Societies for Reformation of Manners in
London (1732) [on which was founded
a libel for heresy, from which he was
acquitted by the General Assembly, 20th
May 1738]; Answers to the Charge
exhibited before the Synod of Lothian
and Tweeddale (Edinburgh, 1738); edited
Scougal s Life of God in the Soul of Man
(Edinburgh, 1739); Select Sermons of Dr
Benjamin Whichcote (Edinburgh, 1742) ;
Ernesti s Preface to Cicero (1743); Public
Virtue recommended, a sermon (Edinburgh,
1746) ; Volusenus (Florence Wilson) De
Animi Tranquillitate (Edinburgh, 1751) ;
Discourses on Several Subjects (London,
1753) ; Essay on the Indispensable Neces
sity of a Holy and Good Life to the Happi
ness of Heaven (London, 1753). [Test,
and Reg. (Bur.) ; Erskine s Disc., i. ; Wod
row s Anal., iii. ; Wilson s Diss. Churches,
ii. ; Morren s Ann., i. ; Somerville s Life,
Carlyle s Autob. ; Playfair s Bar., iii.;
Grant s Univ., ii.]
JOHN JAR DINE, born 1715, son of
-,. Robert J., Lochmaben ; licen. by
Presb. of Lochmaben 7th Sept. 1736 ;
ord. to Liberton 30th July 1741 ; trans, to
Lady Tester s 6th Dec. 1750; trans, and
adm. llth Oct. 1754; D.D. (St Andrews,
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141
20th Nov. 1758); one of His Majesty s
Chaplains in Ordinary 1759 ; Dean of the
Chapel Royal 1761; Dean of the Order of
the Thistle 1763. He died suddenly in
the General Assembly, 30th May 1766.
He was an intimate of John Home,
author of Douglas, and a man of infinite
pleasantry as well as great talents, whose
conversation possessed the charm of easy,
natural, attractive humour. His playful
vivacity often amused itself in a sort of
mock contest with the somewhat infantile
simplicity of David Hume the philosopher,
who enjoyed the discovery of the joke which
had excited the laugh of his companions
around him : On one occasion Hume, going
down the stair after visiting Jardine, refused
a light, saying " he was well acquainted with
the stair." He stuck, however, when his
friend exclaimed, "Ah ! Davidj I knew you
wanted supernatural light." He marr. 7th
Feb. 1744, Jean (died 27th Sept. 1766), eldest
daugh. of George Drummond, commissioner
of Excise, and Lord Provost of Edinburgh,
and had issue Robert, died at Liberton,
8th Feb. 1747 (see tombstone there) ; George,
born 10th- Aug. 1753, W.S. apprentice 1770;
John, born 24th Dec. 1759, died 17th March
1763; Janet, born 15th May 1762 (marr.
llth Oct. 1782, George Drummond Home
of Blair-Drummond), died 30th Jan. 1840 ;
Sir Henry, W.S., King s Remembrancer,
born 30th May 1766, died llth Aug. 1851.
Publication In the theological depart
ment of the old Edinburgh Review (Edin
burgh, 1755-6) he handled some Secession
publications severely. Great indignation
was aroused, and the Review was withdrawn
after only two numbers had been issued.
[Scots Mag., xxviii. ; Mackenzie s Life of
Home, Malcolm s House of Drummond, Car-
lyle s Autob., Kay s Portr., Lawson s Case;
Morren s Ann., ii.]
JOHN DRYSDALE, born 29th April
1767 1718, son of John D., min. of Kirk-
caldy ; educated at Univ. of Edin
burgh; licen. by Presb. of Kirkcaldy 1740;
assistant at Trinity Parish, Edinburgh ; ord.
to Kirkliston 9th Aug. 1749 ; trans, to Lady
Tester s, Edinburgh, 14th Aug. 1764 ; D.D.
(Aberdeen 17G5); one of His Majesty s
Chaplains in Ordinary and a Dean of the
Chapel Royal 1766 ; trans, and adm. 22nd
Oct. 1767 ; Moderator of Assembly 20th
May 1773 ; principal clerk (assistant and
successor) 29th May 1778 ; a second time
Moderator 20th May 1784; died 16th June
1788. He possessed indefatigable industry
and talent, and strenuously assisted Prin
cipal Robertson in managing the business
of the Church. He marr. llth June 1749,
Mary (died 20th Jan. 1799), fourth daugh.
of William Adam of Maryburgh and Blair,
and had issue Anne, born 29th Oct. 1751
(marr. 28th April 1786, Andrew Dalzel,
Professor of Greek, Univ. of Edinburgh),
died 1826; Wilhelmina, born 23rd Sept.
1757, died 20th July 1766; Mary, born
10th Sept. 1760 ; Elizabeth, born 29th July
1767, died 2nd Sept. 1773. Publication
Sermons, ivith an Account of his Life, by
his Son-in-law, 2 vols. (Edinburgh, 1793).
[Serms., i. ; Sinclair s Stat. Ace. and New
Stat. Ace., Douglas s Bar., Carlyle s Autob.,
Moncreiffs Life of Erskine ; Scots Mag.,
Iv. ; Kay s Portr., i. ; Grant s Univ., ii. ;
Diet. Nat. Biog."]
WILLIAM SIMPSON, born 22nd Aug.
1744, second son of James S., min. of
Wilton ; licen. by Presb. of Kelso 3rd
Oct. 1760; ord. to Morebattle 18th April
1761 ; trans, to Lady Yester s, Edinburgh,
9th June 1785 ; pres. by the Town Council
25th Feb., trans, and adm. 2nd Aug. 1789 ;
D.D. (Edinburgh, 8th Feb. 1810) ; died 24th
Jan. 1831. He marr. (1) 7th Nov. 1775,
Jean Douglas Balderston, who died 2nd Dec.
1786, and had issue Euphemia, born 15th
Sept. 1776; Ann, born 15th Nov. 1778;
James, advocate, author of A Visit to
Flanders after the Battle of Waterloo,
born 10th Sept. 1780, died 2nd Sept. 1853 ;
George, born 5th July 1782, died 3rd Sept.
1807 : (2) 29th Sept. 1794, Isabella (born
27th Nov. 1742, died 27th Nov. 1825), daugh.
of James Ker of Bughtrig. [Kay s Portr.,
i. ; etc.]
JOHN HUNTER, born 1st Nov. 1788,
youngest son of Andrew H., D.D.,
min. in 1786; licen. by Presb. of
Penpont 9th June 1812; ord. to Swinton
28th Sept. 1814 ; pres. (assistant and sue-
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THE TRON WEST ST GILES
[PRESB. OF
1891
cessor) by the Town Council in 1829. A
minority of the patrons challenged the right
to appoint a successor, but having been
found lawful, both by the Court of Session
and House of Lords, he was adm. llth Oct.
1832; D.D. (Edinburgh, 29th May 1847).
He declined nomination as Moderator of
Assembly. He died 21st July 1866. He
marr. 25th July 1817, Caroline Felicite
Hepburn (died 21st July 1866, aged 77),
second daugh. of Archibald Mitchelson of
Middleton. Publications Two single Ser
mons (Edinburgh, 1837-48); Preface t6
Newton s Letters, [Kay s Portr., i. ; New
Scots Mag., ii. ; Acts of Ass., 1830.]
TYNECASTLE (Q.S.).
[Church built in 1901 ; disjoined from St
Cuthbert s and erected into a parish quoad
sacra by decree of the Court of Teinds,
5th July 1912.]
JAMES BELL NICOLL, born Forfar,
24th Feb. 1849, son of John N., of Bel-
field, and Elizabeth Bell ; educated
at Forfar Academy, Univs. of St Andrews
and Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of Forfar
April 1884 ; assistant at Largo ; ord. 17th
May 1891. Marr. 4th Aug. 1891, Jessie,
daugh. of James Thomson and Jane
Mackenzie, and has issue James ; Jean ;
Elsie; Maria.
WEST COATES (Q.S.).
[Disjoined from St Cuthbert s and
erected into a parish quoad sacra, 5th
June 1871. A church was built in 1868-9,
and opened in Jan. 1870.]
ROBERT GIBB FORREST, born Mill
1872 ^ Sandhaven, Pitsligo, llth July
1838, son of George F. ; educated at
Parish School, Fraserburgh, and Grammar
School, Univ., and King s College, Aber
deen; M.A. (1858); licen. by Presb. of
Deer 1863; assistant at Lonmay, 1863-5;
ord. 27th April 1865 to New Pitsligo;
trans, to Macduff 4th Sept. 1868; trans,
and adm. 22nd Feb. 1872 ; D.D. (Aberdeen
1892); died 19th Aug. 1913. Marr. 15th
Dec. 1868, Margaret (died 21st Sept. 1899),
daugh. of Rev. George Stephen, school-
house, Fordyce, Banffshire, and had issue
Margaret, born 4th Dec. 1869 ; Elsie, B.Sc.
(Lond.), Lecturer in Mathematics, London,
born llth Aug. 1871 ; Annie, born 18th Dec.
1872, died 12th June 1892 ; George, C.A.,
Inverness, born 20th July 1874 ; Robert,
estate office clerk, London, born 13th March
1876; Jane, born llth May 1879 (marr.
George Victor Dunnet, min. of Cockburns-
path) ; Stephen, M.D., Alexandria, Egypt,
born 27th July 1881. Publication -
Christ the Corner Stone (Edinburgh, 1914),
posthumous.
WILLIAM ANDREW KNOWLES,
1909 k rn Kinnoull, 3rd March 1868, son
of William Duncan K., B.A., Con
gregational min. at Perth ; educated at
Perth Academy and Edinburgh Univ. ; M.A.
(1889) ; B.D. (1893) ; licen. by Presb. of Edin
burgh 10th May 1893 ; assistant at Barony,
Glasgow, 1893-7; ord. to Kerse 2nd Sept.
1897 ; trans, and adm. (assistant and suc
cessor) 1st Oct. 1909.
ST BRIDE S (Chapel-of-Ease).
[Begun in 1880 as a mission within the
Dairy district of West Coates Parish. A
church was built in 1901, at a cost of
6500. JAMES GILLAN, B.D. (afterwards
of St Margaret s, Edinburgh), took charge
from 1898 to 1904.]
WILLIAM GEORGE ANDREWS, born
1904 Lishawara, llth July 1868, son of
Joseph A. and Margaret Wilson;
educated at Banbridge Academy and Royal
Univ. of Dublin ; B.A. ^(1893) ; licen. by
Presb. of Banbridge May 1895 ; assistant
at Rutland Square Church, Dublin ; adm.
to the Church of Scotland 1903 ; acting
chaplain at Aldershot ; assistant at St
Mary s, Dundee; ord. 4th May 1904.
WEST ST GILES, OK
NEW NORTH CHURCH.
[There was a meeting-house in the
Lawnmarket in 1692, to which a parish
was allocated 25th March 1698, termed
the New North, for whose accommodation
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WEST ST GILES
143
the north-west portion of St Giles was
fitted up 20th Dec. 1699. Having been
the place where Sir John Gordon of
Haddo was imprisoned previous to his
decapitation in 1644, it was generally
called Haddo s-hold, and from its size,
the Little Kirk. During alterations in
St Giles, the congregation was accom
modated in the Methodist Chapel, Nicol-
son Square, from 1829-35, and in Brighton
Street Chapel from 1835 to 1843, when
they returned to the nave of St Giles.
At the restoration of the Cathedral by
Dr William Chambers, a sum of 10,000,
raised chiefly by voluntary contributions,
was vested in the Edinburgh Ecclesiastical
Commissioners, and a new building erected
near the Meadows, to which the congre
gation removed in 1880.]
SAMUEL HALLIDAY [HALIDAY],
1693 M--A- (Glasgow 1656) ; min. at
Omagh, Ireland, 1662 ; trans, to
Dunscore 26th Nov. 1689 ; trans, to Dryfes-
dale 1st June 1691 ; trans, and adm.
probably in Nov. 1693. He is described as
" now minister in Ireland," 6th July 1694
(Treas. Reg., iv., 229) ; was settled at Ard-
straw, and died in 1724, aged 87. He had
a son Samuel, min. in Belfast, a chief pro
moter of the Non-subscription of Creeds
and Confessions of Faith. [Edin. Counc.
Reg. ; Wodrow s Anal., ii. ; Reid s Ire
land, iii.]
GEORGE ANDREWS, M.A. (Edin-
16gg burgh 1685) ; licen. by Presb. of Ayr
3rd July 1688; ord. to Tarbolton
28th March 1689 ; trans, to Prestonpans
10th Oct. 1694; trans, and adm. 1699;
died 15th May 1705, in 39th year. He
marr. Geills Millar, and had issue George,
teller in the Royal Bank, died 1st May
1739, aged 44; Rachel; Margaret (marr.
10th July 1717, William Rae, merchant,
Haddington). Publication -Sermon upon
the Twelfth Chap, of Hebrews (Edinburgh,
1711, posthumous). [Edin. Counc., Preston-
pan s Sess., Test., and Reg. (Bur.). }
JOHN FLINT, a proteg of the United
Societies or Cameronians, and edu
cated at Groningen Univ. at their
expense. For some reason, on his return
to Scotland he was disowned by the
Societies. He became min. of Lasswade
in 1688 ; had been called to the city in
1695, on 18th July 1697, and a third time
6th Sept. 1697; app. by the Presb. 7th
Dec. 1709 ; adm. 1st Jan. 1710. He refused
to take the oath of allegiance in 1712 ;
died 19th Jan. 1730, in 71st year. A
worthy, affectionate, zealous man, and of
considerable learning as a linguist. He
marr. Janet Elphinston, and had issue
John. Publications A Synod Sermon
(Edinburgh, 1705) ; Examen. Doctrinal D.
Johannis Simson, in academia Glasguensi
professoris (Edinburgh, 1717) ; and was
serviceable in publishing Poole s Synopsis
Criticorum. He revised Boston s Fourfold
State and Treatise on Hebrew Accentuation.
[Lassivade Sess. and Reg. (Bur.\ Boston s
Mem.; Wodrow s Anal., iv., Corresp., i., and
MSS., Ixxxii.]
JAMES SMITH, trans, from Cramond,
1780 and adm. 23rd July 1730 ; app. Pro
fessor of Divinity in the Univ. of
Edinburgh, and dem. 27th April 1732,
although several "of the elders and
deacons appeared, craving he might be
continued, there being no inconsistency in
discharging both offices."
JOHN GOWDIE, trans, from Lady
1732 tester s; adm. 14th Dec. 1732;
Moderator of Assembly 3rd May
1733 ; dem. 1st Aug. thereafter, on appoint
ment as Professor of Divinity in the Univ.
of Edinburgh (q.v.). [Bower s Univ., ii.]
JAMES SMITH, tutor in the families of
Dalrymple of Cousland and Dundas
of Arniston ; licen. by Presb. of
Dalkeith 26th Oct. 1703; ord. to Morham
24th Sept. 1706 ; trans, to Cramond 16th
Jan. 1712 ; Moderator of Assembly 1723 ;
Professor of Divinity in the Univ. of Edin
burgh 1732 ; trans, and readm. to this
charge 25th July 1733 ; Principal of the
University 12th Oct. 1733 (which he held
in conjunction) ; one of His Majesty s
chaplains. Died at Coldstream in return
ing from Bristol, 14th Aug. 1736, in 56th
year. He marr. Catherine Oswald, who
died 6th Aug. 1730, in her 46th year.
Publications The Misery of Ignorant and
1733
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[PRESB. OF
Unconverted Sinners, a sermon (Edinburgh,
1733) ; Sermon after the Death of the Rev.
James Craig, 1731 ; edited Craig s Sermons,
2 vols. (Edinburgh, 1 732). [Presb. and Test.
Reg.; Wodrow s Anal., iii., iv. ; Wood s
Hist, of Cramond ; Grant s Univ., ii. ;
Brown s Gospel Truth. ]
1738
ROBERT WALLACE, born 7th Jan.
1696, only son of Matthew W.,
min. of Kincardine-in-Menteith ; edu
cated at the Grammar School of Stirling and
Univ. of Edinburgh, where he acted as assist
ant to James Gregory, Professor of Mathe
matics. He was one of the founders of the
Rankenian Club in 1717 ; licen. by Presb.
of Dunblane 31st July 1722 ; became min.
of Moffat 29th Aug. 1723, and on 22nd
Nov. 1733 was trans, to New Greyfriars,
and to this charge 24th Sept. 1738. The
Town Council obtained an interdict from
the Lord Ordinary against the settlement,
but as the city was considered only one
parish, and the appointment to the different
churches was fixed by the Presb., and
the " matter was purely spiritual," he had
no hesitation in accepting, and the opposi
tion proceeded no farther. Wallace was
Moderator of the General Assembly 12th
May 1743 ; he was app. by the Commis
sion 9th Nov. 1743 along with George
Wishart to approach Parliament in con
nection with the Act providing for the
widows and children of ministers and pro
fessors. They were successful, and received
the thanks of the succeeding Assembly.
He was a Dean of the Chapel Royal and
Chaplain in Ordinary to George II. June
1744; D.D. (Edinburgh, 13th March 1759);
died 29th July 1771. On the overthrow
of the Wai pole administration in 1742,
he was entrusted for four years with
the management of Church business, and
consulted in the distribution of Crown
Patronage, and so well did he discharge
this duty that no instance occurred in
which there was not a harmonious settle
ment. To his knowledge as a man of
the world, were joined an acquaintance
and zeal in mathematics which rendered
him of essential service in assisting to
make the calculations on which were
founded the annuities and provisions to
the widows and children under the Act
above noticed. He marr. 14th Oct. 1726,
Helen (died 9th Feb. 1776), daugh. of
George Turnbull, min. of Tynninghame,
and had issue Matthew, D.D., vicar
of Tenterden, Kent; George, advocate,
author of various legal and other works,
born 1727, died 13th March 1805 ; Eliza
beth all of whom died unmarr. Pub
lications The Regard due to Divine
Revelation, and its Pretences to it Con
sidered, a sermon (London, 1731); Reply
to a Letter Directed to the Minister of
Moffat [by William Dudgeon] Concerning
the Positive Institutions of Christian
ity (London, 1732) ; The Letter to the
Learned Author of the Queries Unmasked
(Edinburgh, 1737, anon.) ; Ignorance and
Superstition, a Source of Violence and
Cruelty, and in Particular the Cause of the
Present Rebellion, a sermon (Edinburgh,
1746) ; A Sermon on James Hi., 18 (Edin
burgh, 1746); A Dissertation on the
Numbers of Mankind in Ancient and
Modern Times (Edinburgh, 1753, anon. ;
new ed., Edinburgh, 1809), with Life of
the Author (the book was translated into
French under the supervision of Montes
quieu) ; The Doctrine of Passive Obedience
and Non-resistance Considered (Edinburgh,
1754) ; Characteristics of the Present Politi
cal State of Great Britain (Edinburgh,
1758); Various Prospects of Mankind,
Nature, and Providence (London, 1761).
He left in MS. an Essay on Taste, which
was prepared for the press by his son,
but never published; and many other
unpublished MSS. now in the library of
Edinburgh University. [Wodrow s Anal.,
iii.j iv., and Corresp., iii. ; Scots Mag.,
xxxiii., Ixxi. ; Carlyle s Autob., Mackenzie s
Life of Home ; Morren s Ann., i. ; Diet. Nat.
iog.]
1772
WILLIAM GLOAG, son of Andrew G.,
min. of West Calder; educated at
Univ. of Edinburgh; ord. to Cock-
pen 28th April 1758; trans, to Lady
Tester s, Edinburgh, 22nd Oct. 1767;
D.D. (Edinburgh, 1st Feb. 1770); trans,
and adm. 21st July 1772. He was app.
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junior clerk of Assembly 24th May 1781,
and Almoner to His Majesty Feb. 1799.
Died 27th April 1802. He marr. 30th
Nov. 1773. Euphemia (died 13th Jan.
1833), eldest daugh. of William Wilson
of Soonhope, writer in Edinburgh, and
had issue John, merchant and magi
strate of Edinburgh ; Euphemia, born
19th June 1775 (marr. William Kerr,
secretary to the Post Office, Edinburgh) ;
Andrew, born 8th Jan. 1777, died 12th
Dec. 1777; Jean, born 28th Oct. 1778,
died unmarr. July 1803; Susanna, born
22nd Sept. 1782, died 9th Dec. 1782;
Henrietta, born 24th Sept, 1785 ; Martha,
born 22nd April 1790. Publications Two
single Sermons (Edinburgh, 1792-1800).
[Moncreiffs Fun. Serm.~\
JOHN THOMSON, D.D., trans, from
1802 ^ ew Greyfriars ; pres. by the Town
Council, and adm. 16th Dec. 1802;
retranslated to his former charge 20th
Oct. 1814.
ROBERT NISBET, born Auchterarder,
1843 7th Jan. 1814, son of Christopher
N. and Margaret Sime ; educated at
Auchterarder School, and Univs. of St
Andrews and Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb.
of Edinburgh 29th June 183G ; assistant at
Lanark ; ord. (assistant and successor)
there 4th May 1842 ; trans, and adm.
7th Dec. 1843; D.D. (St Andrews 1853);
died 22nd Nov. 1874. He marr. 18th
July 1848, Eliza (died 26th June 1883),
daugh. of John Tawse of Stobshiel,
advocate, and had issue Eliza Margaret,
born 5th Aug. 1849, died 18th May 1860 ;
Christopher Charles, of Stobshiel, Writer
to the Signet, born 31st Aug. 1851 ; Jessie
Anne, born 5th Jan. 1853 ; Christian, born
23rd May 1854 (marr. James Paisley, son of
Robert P., D.D., St Ninians) ; John Tawse,
M.D., born 12th March 1856, died 13th Feb.
1909; Robert, born 29th Oct. 1857, died
22nd July 1858 ; Robert James, born llth
June 1859. Publications The Songs of
the Temple Pilijrims (London, 1863) ; Studies
on the Epistle of Paul to Philemon
(Edinburgh, 1876, posthumous); Youthful
Builders Instructed, sermon preached
before the Governors of George Heriot s
VOL. I.
Hospital ; Sermon (preached under the
auspices of the S.P.C.K.).
ALEXANDER WILLIAMSON, born
ig( _ 5 Peebles, 31st Jan. 1833, youngest son
of Alexander W., writer and town
clerk, Peebles, and Mary Dickson ; edu
cated at Peebles Grammar School and
Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of
Peebles 22nd June 1859 ; ord. to Inner-
leithen 17th Nov. 1859 ; trans, and adm.
1st July 1875 ; sometime convener of the
Colonial Committee ; D.D. (Edinburgh
1896) ; died 28th April 1911. He marr. 9th
July 1861, Sarah Anne, daugh. of Robert
Tod, farmer, Cardrona Mains, Traquair.
Publications Glim2^>ses of Peeblesshire
Drumelzier, etc. (published when a student) ;
Ask and deceive; Sure and Comfortable
Words (London, 1865) ; Missionary Heroes
of the Pacific ; The Patriarchs ; Light from
Eastern Lands (Edinburgh, 1892) ; Clinqises
of Peebles (Selkirk, 1895) ; Plain Words and
Simple Facts about the Church of Scotland ;
Is the Church of Scotland to Stand or
Fall ? ; What has the Church of Scotland
done for Scotland ? ; editor of the Juvenile
Missionary Record.
JOHN MACGILCHRIST, M.A., B.D. ;
trans, from Skelmorlie, and adm.
10th March 1911 ; trans, to Govan
13th May 1913.
1911
JOHN MALCOLM MUNRO, born
1913 D evon Prt, England, 26th April
1867, son of John M. and Elizabeth
Mitchell ; educated at Row and Hermitage
(Helensburgh) Public Schools and Univs.
of Glasgow (M.A. 1888) and Edinburgh;
licen. by Presb. of Inveraray 1st June 1892 ;
assistant at St Columba s, Glasgow ; ord.
to Insh (Inverness-shire) 29th March 1895 ;
trans, to Tarbert 17th Feb. 1897 ; trans, to
Cam pbel town llth Oct. 1905 ; clerk to
Presb. of Kintyre 1909-13 ; trans, and adm.
18th Sept. 1913. He marr. 20th April
1897, Alice Margaret, daugh. of James
Hunter, Edinburgh, and has issue Susan
Alison, born 18th Oct. 1898, died 4th Dec.
1899; Margaret Alice, born 13th Sept.
1900 ; Robert James, born 13th Sept. 1900,
died 10th July 1910.
K
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[PKESB. OF
COLLEGIATE CHARGE.
[Discontinued in 1843 when a minister
was required for St George s Church.]
ROBERT SANDILANDS [SANDE-
^ LANDS], ord. min. of Swinton
24th Sept. 1691 ; trans, to New-
battle 6th May 1695; called 9th Sept.,
and app. by the Presb. 9th Dec. 1702;
adm. 3rd Jan. 1703; died 10th Jan. 1732,
aged 70. He marr. 6th Nov. 1698, Sophia,
daugh. of Sir Mark Carse of Cockpen,
and had issue Mark ; Margaret (marr.
16th Sept. 1733, George Miller, merchant,
Edinburgh) ; Agnes, a child, died 17th
Dec. 1705. Publication The Salutation
of Endeared flowing forth (London, 1683);
edited Sermons of his colleague, Andrews,
in 1711. \Edin. Counc., Newbattle Sess.,
Test., and Reg. (Bur.)J\
WILLIAM HAMILTON, born 1669,
1732 son ^ Gavin -EL of Airdrie ; edu
cated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; ord.
to Cramond 26th Sept. 1694 ; app. Professor
of Divinity in the Univ. of Edinburgh 21st
Sept. 1709 ; called 23rd March, and adm.
8th Aug. 1732, holding in conjunction the
Principalship of the University, to which
he was app. in 1730 ; he was Moderator of
Assembly in 1712, 1716, 1720, 1727, and 1730 ;
died 12th Nov. 1732. He marr. at Glasgow,
25th Feb. 1696, Mary Robertson, who died
22nd Jan. 1760, aged 85, and had issue
William, merchant, and Gavin, bookseller,
both in that city ; Robert, min. of Cramond,
and Professor of Divinity ; Gilbert, also min.
of Cramond; Jean (marr. 6th July 1718,
Hugh Cleghorn, merchant, Edinburgh) ;
Margaret (marr. 16th May 1731, William
Tod, merchant, Edinburgh) ; Anne (marr.
John Horsley, M.A., rector of Newington
Butts, Surrey [not J. H., author of Brittania
Romano], arid was mother of Samuel, the
distinguished Bishop of St Asaph). Publi
cation The Truth and Excellency of the
Christian Religion, a sermon (Edinburgh,
1732). [Cramond Sess., Test., and Reg.
(Bur.); Wodrow s Anal., iii., iv., and
Corresp., i. ; Anderson s House of Hamil
ton ; Bower s Univ., ii. ; Edin. Chr. Inst.,
xxv. ; Leechman s Life, Serm. i. ; Wood s
Hist, of Cramond.~\
JOHN GLEN, son of John G., min. of
1733 Stichill ; licen. by Presb. of Kelso
5th Aug. 1718 ; ord. to Stichill 5th
March 1719 ; trans, to New Greyfriars
14th Dec. 1732 ; trans, and adm. 22nd
Nov. 1733 ; died 8th Jan. 1768. He marr.
llth July 1732, Mary (died 8th April
1761), daugh. of John Osburne, merchant,
Lord Provost of Edinburgh. [Test. Reg.,
Carlyle s Autob.~\
JAMES BROWN, bapt. 17th Dec. 1724,
1768 y un o es t son f John B., min. of
Abercorn ; educated at Univ. of
Edinburgh ; M.A. (27th April 1742) ; licen.
by Presb. of Perth 23rd July 1745 ; ord. to
Melrose 10th Feb. 1748; trans, to New
Greyfriars 9th July 1767 ; trans, and adm.
24th Nov. 1768 ; Moderator of the General
Assembly 22nd May 1777; died 6th May
1786. He took a great interest in the im
provement of the translations and para
phrases of sacred Scripture, and was
appointed, 28th May 1776, convener of the
Assembly s Committee, whose selection,
approved of 1st June 1781, came into
general use. He marr. (1) 3rd June
1748, Helen (died 4th June 1754), third
daugh. of Captain Lawrence Drummond,
and had issue John, born 7th April
1749, died 4th Aug. 1757; Katharine, born
19th April 1750, died 9th Nov. 1752;
Elizabeth, born 26th Sept. 1751, died 7th
May 1764; Helen, born 5th Feb. 1753
(marr. 12th June 1777, William Somer-
ville, merchant, Glasgow) ; Mary, born 7th
May 1754 (marr. John Pattison, advo
cate): (2) 13th Nov. 1755, Marion (died
3rd Oct. 1786), daugh. of Robert Tod,
merchant, Edinburgh, and had issue
Robert of Kirklands, W.S., born 5th Aug.
1758, died 6th Nov. 1812; James, min. of
Newburn ; John, born 16th May 1761, died
8th Dec. 1767; Thomas, merchant, Edin
burgh, born 3rd July 1766, died 4th Oct.
1801; Janet, born 27th Sept. 1756, died
22nd April 1759; Margaret, born 2nd Oct.
1757, died llth Jan. 1768; Marion, born
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5th July 1771 (marr. John Gray, solicitor).
Publications The Extensive Influence of
Religious Knowledge, a sermon (Edinburgh,
1769); Plan for Regulating the Charity
Workhouse, Edinburgh. [Burns s Mem. of
M l Gill, and On the Poor.}
THOMAS HARDY, of Navitie, born
1747, son of Henry H., min. of
Culross ; educated at Univ. of
Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of Kirkcaldy
16th Feb. 1772; ord. to Ballingry 16th
June 1774 ; trans, to High Kirk Parish,
Edinburgh, 25th Nov. 1784; pres. by the
Town Council, trans, and adm. 3rd Dec.
1786; app. Professor of Ecclesiastical His
tory (which he held in conjunction) 31st
July 1788; D.D. (Edinburgh, 4th Oct.
1788) ; Moderator of the General Assembly
16th May 1793 ; one of His Majesty s
Chaplains in Ordinary and a Dean of the
Chapel Eoyal Oct. same year ; died 21st
Nov. 1798. He was an attractive and
eloquent preacher, took a lively interest in
the beneficent and charitable institutions
of the city, and was one of the founders of
the "Society for the Benefit of the Sons
of the Clergy of the Church of Scotland
in Edinburgh." He marr. 28th June 1780,
Agnes (died 4th June 1812), daugh. of
William Young, min. of Button, and had
issue Agnes, born 6th Nov. 1782 ; Henry,
advocate, born 27th July 1783, died 1807 ;
William, captain H.E.I.C.S., born 23rd
May 1785, died 1824; Anne, born 19th
April 1787, died 1857; Charles Wilkie,
min. of Dunning, born 26th Sept. 1788 ;
Janet, born 1791, died 1847 ; Sophia, born
24th July 1792 (marr. (1) Gilbert Bertram,
merchant, Leith, and (2) Robert Allan,
surgeon, Edinburgh), died 8th Jan. 1845;
Thomas, F.R.C.S., born 17th June 1794,
died 1836 ; Hugh Blair, born 28th Nov.
1796, died 8th May 1797. Publications-
Five single Sermons (Edinburgh, 1775-94) ;
The Principles of Moderation (Edinburgh,
1782) ; The Benevolence of the Christian
Spirit (Edinburgh, 1791); Plan for the
Augmentation of Stipends (Edinburgh,
1793); The Patriot (Edinburgh, 1793);
Fidelity to the British Constitution (Edin
burgh, 1794) ; Sermon I. (Scotch Preacher,
iv.). [Grant s Univ., ii. ; Kay s Portr.].
GEORGE HUSBAND BAIRD, D.D. ;
17gg trans, from New Greyfriars ; pres.
by the Town Council 28th Dec.
1798, and adm. 10th Jan. 1799, holding in
conjunction the Principalship of the Univ. ;
trans, to the High Kirk Parish 30th April
1801.
DAVID DICKSON of Persilands, born
1801 30t ^ ^ arcn 1754, third son of David
D. of Kilbucho, min. of Newlands ;
educated at West Linton and Peebles
schools, and Univs. of Glasgow and Edin
burgh ; licen. by Presb. of Biggar 29th
Aug. 1775 ; assistant at Libberton, Lanark
shire ; ord. there 1st May 1777 ; trans, to
Bothkennar 16th July 1783 ; app. to Canon-
gate Chapel-of-Ease, New Street, 22nd Oct.
1795 ; trans, to Trinity Parish 21st March
1799 ; pres. by the Town Council 27th
Jan., trans, and adm. 26th Nov. 1801 ;
died 2nd Aug. 1820. He was often seen
on horseback, and it was said there were
two things of which he never tired riding
and preaching. He marr. 10th Dec. 1777,
Christina (died 14th Dec. 1832, aged 77),
daugh. of Thomas Wardrobe, min. of
Bathgate, and had issue Margaret, born
5th Oct. 1778, died 29th Nov. 1852 ; David,
min. of St Cuthbert s ; John, W.S., 1806,
born 17th Nov. 1781, died 8th July 1823 ;
William, born 12th Nov. 1783 ; Anne, born
13th April 1787, died 28th Feb. 1860;
Elizabeth Sornerville, born 29th May 1792
(marr. 10th April 1812, John Tawse, advo
cate, secretary of the Society for Propa
gating Christian Knowledge), died 12th May
1843 ; James Wardrobe, advocate, Sheriff-
substitute of Stirlingshire, born 2nd April
1794, died 9th June 1847 ; Christian Ward
robe, born 3rd Aug. 1800, died 8th Jan.
1802. Publications Four single Sermons
(Edinburgh, 1779-1819) ; Sermons preached
on Different Occasions (Edinburgh, 1818);
The Principal Subject, Joyful Import, and
Glorious Extent of Gospel Tidings (sermon
preached before the London Missionary
Society, 1804) ; Account of Bothkennar
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[PRESB. OF
(Sinclair s Stat. Ace., xvii.). [Kay s
Port? ., ii.]
HENRY GREY, M.A. ; trans, from
1821 ^ Cuthbert s Chapel ; pres. by the
Town Council Oct. 1820; adm. llth
Jan. 1821 ; trans, to Bellevue (afterwards
St Mary s) 13th Jan. 1835.
ROBERT GORDON, D.D. ; trans.
1825 f rom Hope Park Chapel ; pres. by
the Town Council, and adm. 8th
Sept. 1825; trans, to St Giles 9th Sept.
1830.
JOHN BRUCE, trans, from Guthrie ;
1831 P res> k v tne Town Council 1830 ;
adm. (in the Methodist Chapel) 13th
Jan. 1831 ; trans, to St Andrew s Church
12th Jan. 1837.
CHARLES JOHN BROWN, born 1806,
- o^ son of Alexander B., Lord Provost of
Aberdeen, and Catharine Chalmers ;
educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen ;
licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen 22nd Dec.
1830 ; ord. to Anderston Chapel-of-Ease
21st July 1831 ; pres. by the Town Council,
trans, and adm. (in Brighton Street Chapel)
20th April 1837. Joined the Free Church ;
min. of Free New North, Edinburgh, 1843 ;
D.D. (Princeton 1863); Moderator of Free
Church General Assembly 1872; died 3rd
July 1884. He marr. 28th Jan. 1834, Jane
Bannatyne Wright, who died 12th Nov. 1895,
and had issue Alexander, born 2nd Jan.
1835 ; John Wright, born 19th Dec. 1836,
died 23rd March 1863; Margaret Innes,
born 28th Sept. 1837, died 15th June
1853 ; Catharine Chalmers, born 30th
Sept. 1838, died 28th Feb. 1859; Charles
John, born 14th May 1841 ; Ross, born
17th June 1845; David, born 16th Nov.
1846 ; Andrew Howden, born 31st March
1848 ; Robert Wright, born 14th Aug.
1850; Thomas Chalmers, born 10th May
1852, died 28th Jan. 1853; Jane Eliza
beth, born 3rd April 1855 (marr. Dyson
Weston, London). Publications Church
Establishments Defended, ivith Special
Reference to the Church of Scotland
(Glasgow, 1833) ; Rights of the Chris
tian People in the Appointment of their
Ministers (Edinburgh, 1839) ; Sermon
2)reached before the General Assembly of
the Free Church (Edinburgh, 1844); State
of Religion in the Land (London, 1844) ;
Restraining of Spiritual Intercourse in
Families (Edinburgh, 1855); Lectures II.,
on Protestantism (Glasgow, 1837), X., on
the Revival of Religion (Glasgow, 1840),
III., on the Conversion of the Jews (Edin
burgh, 1832), and XI., before the Scottish
Reformation Society (Edinburgh, 1851).
GILMERTON (Q.S.).
[The church was opened 20th April 1837.
The district attached to it, all within the
civil parish of Liber ton, was by the Court of
Teinds erected into a parish quoad sacra,
18th July I860.]
WALTER FAIRLIE, second son of
Walter F., Dumbarton; educated at
Univ. of Glasgow, where he matricu
lated in 1808 ; ord. by Presb. of Glasgow to
Whitehaven 1st Dec. 1819 ; adm. 16th Aug.
1838. Joined the Free Church ; min. of
Liberton Free Church 1843; died 25th
Nov. 1856. He marr. llth Feb. 1824,
Sarah (died 12th Nov. 1858), daugh. of
Adam Bittleston, Maryport. Publication
The Lawfulness and Stability of
Councils in the Christian Church, a ser
mon (London, 1827).
[Between 1843 and 1860 the congregation
was served by licentiates.]
THOMAS FLEMING, born Avendale,
i860 f urt h son f John F. ; educated at
Univ. of Glasgow; took charge of
the church in 1853; ord. min. of the new
parish 27th Dec. 1860 ; died unmarr. at
Liberton Manse, 16th March 1862.
PETER STEWART, born Dollar, 24th
2 May 1828, son of Alexander S. and
Susan Cameron ; educated at St
Andrews Univ.; M.A. ; ord. 21st Aug.
1862; died at Dollar, 4th Sept. 1873. He
marr. 22nd Aug. 1871, Jane (died 15th
March 1873), daugh. of William Glover,
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W.S., Leith, and widow of Thomas Mer-
ricks, Roslin.
DAVID THOMAS WALKER, born |
1874 Musselburgh, 30th Sept. 1839, second |
son of Andrew W., schoolmaster,
Whitekirk, and Jean Telfer ; educated at
High School and Univ. of Edinburgh ;
licen. by Presb. of Dunbar ; assistant at
Trinity Parish, Edinburgh; ord. 18th June
1874 ; died 27th April 1881.
1881
JAMES CHRISTIE, born Foulis-Wester,
30th Aug. 1835, son of Robert C. and
Jane Wilson ; educated at Foulis-
Wester and Monzie schools, and Univ. of St
Andrews ; licen. by Presb. of St Andrews
30th Jan. 1861 ; ord. same day by Presb. of
St Andrews, to the Jewish Mission station
at Alexandria; missionary at Constantinople
1861 to 1879 ; adm. to Gilmerton 31st Oct.
1881; D.D. (St Andrews 1882); librarian
to the General Assembly from 1885 ; died
9th June 1913. He marr. (1) 30th Sept.
1863, Mary Hamilton (died 5th June 1883),
and had issue Robert, born 29th July
1864; Mary Christina, born llth Nov.
1865 ; Alexander Hamilton, min. at
Rerrick, born 8th July 1867 ; James, born
29th April 1875; David Hamilton, M.A.,
born 22nd Jan. 1877 : (2) 31st Aug. 1887,
Jane T. Jack, and had issue Thomas Jack,
born 23rd Feb. 1889; Graham Wilson,
M.B., Ch.B., born llth March 1891.
Publications Translation of Old Testa
ment into Judaeo-Spanish for American
Bible Society (Constantinople, 1873) ; New
Testament into Judaeo-Spanish for British
and Foreign Bible Society (1877) ; edited
General Assembly Commission Records
1646-96, 2 vols., Scot. Hist. Soc. (1892-6),
edited third vol. 1650-2 (1909); Bio
graphical Sketch of author prefixed to
Professor Mitchell s Scottish Reformation
(1900).
1913
JOSEPH MOFFETT, born Letterkenny,
23rd Aug> 1885) son f Jose Pk M "
D.D., and Lizzie Beck; educated
privately, and at Royal University of
Ireland ; (B.A. 1906) ; licen. by Presb. of
Edinburgh May 1909 ; assistant Trinity
Parish, Edinburgh, and St Columba s,
London ; ord. 16th Sept. 1913.
GRANTON (Q.S.).
[After the Rev. James Robertson had
ministered for nearly twenty years to the
workers and others connected with Granton
Harbour, the Duke of Buccleuch gifted the
church (built in 1877), along with an endow
ment of 50, to the Church of Scotland.
Erected into a parish quoad sacra in Jan.
1889, having been disjoined from Cramond,
Dean, and St Bernard s parishes.]
THOMAS SMITH GOLDIE, born 7th
188g Feb. 1857, son of William G., min. of
Crawfordjohn, and Mary Smith;
educated at Robertson s Academy, Edin
burgh, and Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A.
(23rd April 1878) ; licen. by Presb. of Edin
burgh 1880 ; assistant at Methil, Old Kirk,
Edinburgh, Largs, Galashiels, Langholm ;
app. July 1888 to take charge of Granton
Chapel; ord. and ind. 15th Feb. 1889.
Marr. 19th Feb. 1889, Maria, fourth daugh.
of Nathaniel Gosling, Cheltenham, and
Christina Clark, and has issue Mary,
born 30th Dec. 1889 (marr. 5th April 1911,
Ernest Maclagan Wedderburn, W.S., D.Sc.);
William, bom 19th Aug. 1891 ; Margaret
Somerville, born 26th Oct. 1893; Nora
Isabel, born 2nd Nov. 1895 ; James Smith,
born 23rd May 1897, died llth July 1897 ;
Ruth Elizabeth Evangeline,born 30th March
1902.
JUNIPER GREEN (Q.S.).
[The congregation dates from 1892. On
21st Feb. of that year an iron church was
opened, and at the first celebration of the
Communion on 20th March following, there
were present eighty-seven communicants.
The foundation stone of the present build
ing was laid in June 1895, by Gavin,
Marquess of Breadalbane, Lord High Com
missioner, and the church was opened
23rd Jan. 1897, by Archibald Scott, D.D.,
Moderator of Assembly. Erected from
Colinton into a parish quoad sacra by
decreet of the Court of Teinds, 30th
Nov. 1906.]
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JUNIPER GREEN KIRKNEWTON
[PRESB. OF
CHARLES MAURICE SHORT, born
1906 Swansea, 17th June 1853, son of
Charles S., D.D., Dundee, formerly
of Swansea, and Mary Harrington ; educated
at Swansea Grammar School and Cheshunt
College ; adm. as a licentiate by the
General Assembly 1886 ; assistant at Lin-
lithgow ; ord. to Kingscavil 9th Aug. 1887 ;
app. to this charge 21st Feb. 1892 ; adm.
first min of the parish 18th Dec. 1906.
Marr. 2nd Dec. 1903, Lucy Greig, daugh.
of Alexander Robertson, banker, Edin
burgh, and Annie Rose. Publication
Sermon on Church Defence (Edinburgh,
1893).
KIRKNEWTON.
[Originally in the Presb. of Edinburgh,
and annexed by the General Assembly,
July 1591, to Linlithgow; East Calder,
in the Presb. of Linlithgow, was united
by the Court of Teinds, 23rd Jan. 1751.]
1572 JAMES MOWBRAY, reader.
JAMES HAMILTON, M.A.; pres. by
James, Earl of Morton. Letters of
collation were made in his favour
by John, Archbishop of St Andrews, 6th
June 1573 (Moray Inventory). Ratho and
Gogar were also in his charge. He was
appointed to Bathgate, Oct. 1593, "but
went not," and died 31st May 1612. His
sister, Elizabeth, widow of William
Buchanan of Auchmar, was executrix.
[Reg. Assig. and Min. ; Test. Reg. ; Wod-
row Miscell. and Biog., i. ; Calderwood s
Hist., iv., viii.]
1576 JOHN TOD, reader.
ANDREW BALFOUR, son of James B.,
1Q13 min. of St Giles, Edinburgh; edu
cated at Univ. there ; M.A. (25th
July 1607) ; after being on the exercise of
that Presb. some years, was pres. by James,
Lord Balmerino, 8th July 1612 (the right
to present being disputed and claimed by
Archbishop Spottiswood) ; adm. 24th Feb.
1613 ; got leave from Presb. of Linlithgow,
of which this parish then formed a part, to
visit his uncle, James Melvill, at his special
desire, then in bad health at Berwick, 28th
July 1613 ; signed the Protestation for the
Liberties of the Kirk, 27th June 1617
and was imprisoned for the same ; died
7th July 1624, aged about 37. He left
James, advocate, clerk of session, born
1619 (who had a son Governor of the
Darien Company, and whose son pur
chased the estate of Pilrig) ; Andrew,
apprenticed 23rd July 1634 to John
Inglis, merchant, Edinburgh ; John ; Eliza
beth. [Melvill s Autob., Uphall Sess. and
Test. Reg. ; Calderwood s Hist., vii. ; Orig.
Lett., ii. ; Inq. Ret. Gen., 203 de Tut.,
387-90 ; The Sal/ours of Pilrig. }
JAMES LAING, son of John L., min
1625 ^ Grreenock ; M.A. (Glasgow 1617) ;
licen. 19th April 1620 ; ord. to Aber-
corn 7th March 1624 ; trans, and adm.
1625. It was stated against him at the
Synod, 5th Nov. 1644, that upon the day
of thanksgiving for the taking of New
castle, he uttered the words in his sermon
-"That is a devilish joy to rejoice at the
calarnitie of our brethren, who are under
one king, one faith, one baptism, and if our
fathers were living, they would laugh to
see us trouble ourselves needlesslie," which
words, however, he publicly denied. He
obtained a protection from the Marquess
of Montrose, 20th Aug. 1645, which is the
last heard of him. He marr. before 1635,
Agnes, daugh. of Patrick Sharpe, min. of
Strathbrock, and widow of Alexander
Somerville of Humbie (Moray Inventory),
and had issue William, apprenticed 8th
Jan. 1645 to William Alexander, merchant,
Edinburgh ; Agnes. [Linlithgow Presb.
and Uphall Sess. Reg., Sed. Book of
Teinds ; Reg. Old Dec., iii. ; Baillie s Lett. ;
Mem. of Montrose, ii. ; Acts Parl., vii. ;
Peterkin s Records; New Stat. Ace., i.]
JOHN COLVILL, M.A. (St Andrews
1648 1635 ) adm - 12th A P ril 1648 ; died
Feb. 1663, aged about 48. Leaving
neither wife nor children, a question was
raised before the Court of Session respect
ing the ann, which was found "to belong
to the nearest of kin, a nephew (John
Colvill, advocate, son of the Principal) ;
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151
and there being a question also as to the
glebe, the Lords found that the nearest of
kin had right thereto, they proving that
the defunct had sown the same before his
decease." [Act. Rect. Univ. St And., Dal-
keith Presb. and Test. Reg.; Wodrow s
Hist., i. ; Morison s Digest and Dec., i. ;
New Stat. Ace., i.]
WILLIAM ALISON, M.A. ; ord. and
1663 co11 12th July 1663 ; trans- to Kil "
bucho in 1666. [Reg. Collat.}
CHARLES LUMSDEN, son of Charles
L., min. of Duddingston ; educated
at Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (30th
June 1658) ; originally a merchant in
Edinburgh, and so styled, 27th Oct. 1662
(G. R. Inhib.) ; licen. by George, Bishop of
Edinburgh, 16th Sept. 1665 ; ord. and coll.
30th Aug. 1666. He is styled "late min. of
K.," 21st Oct. 1673 and llth Aug. 1674.
He marr. Elizabeth Allan, and had issue
John, bapt. 13th Oct. 1667. [Reg. Collat.,
Edin. Reg. (Bapt.} ; New Stat. Ace., i.]
JOHN W[LKIE, coll. 18th May 1669;
1669 trans - to Ratho in Feb - 1672. [Reg.
Collat. ; New Stat. Ace., i.]
JAMES OLIPHANT, pres. by John,
72 Lord Balmerino, before 6th March
(Moray Inventory) ; adm. 30th July
1672 ; died 4th Aug. 1673.
JAMES WAUGH, M.A. ; ord. and coll.
16?3 21st Oct. 1673; trans, to South
Leith in 1682. [Reg. Collat.}
JOHN ALEXANDER, ord. 5th July
1683 1683 ; trans, to Durisdeer same year.
WILLIAM HAMILTON, M.A. ; trans.
1689 ^ rom "- rv ^ ne 1689, when he obeyed
the proclamation, and prayed for
their Majesties William and Mary, but
was prevented from preaching by certain
persons unconnected with the parish, who
carried off the keys of the church, on which
he petitioned the Committee of Estates,
who ordered him to be restored and secured
in the peaceable exercise of his ministry,
and possession of his house and goods.
He was received into Communion 1692.
[Acts Parl,, ix. ; Rule s Sec. Vindication.}
1691
1699
1745
JOHN BANNERMAN, deprived by the
168Q Privy Council, 4th Sept. 1689, for
not praying for King William and
Queen Mary. [MS. Ace. of Min., 1689;
New Stat. Ace., i. ; Rule s Sec. Vindica
tion.}
JAMES ANDERSON, ord. 1691; trans,
to West Linton 2nd July 1696.
[Peebles Presb. Reg.; New Stat. Ace., i.]
JOHN THORBURN, born 1675, son
and heir of John T., portioner, of
Smailholm and Elizabeth Wilson
M.A. (Edinburgh, 3rd July 1693); licen.
by Presb. of Earlston 8th April 1697 ; ord.
in 1699; dem. 25th July 1744; died 4th
Oct. 1758. Marr. (1) Mary Skene (Rox.
Sas., vii., 307) : (2) 30th Jan. 1732, Isobel,
daugh. of James Stevenson of Carrickmure,
and had issue James of Smailholm, only
son, died 7th May 1798, aged 50 (Edin.
Reg.).
ALEXANDER BRYCE, born Boarland,
Kincardine-on-Forth, 1713 ; educated
at Kilmadock School and Univ. of
Edinburgh; M.A. (15th May 1735); a
tutor in Caithness for some years ; licen.
by Presb. of Dunblane 12th June 1744 ;
called llth April, and ord. 22nd Aug. 1745 ;
pres. to East Calder by Francis, Duke
of Buccleuch, March 1750 ; one of His
Majesty s Chaplains in Ordinary 1770;
died 1st Jan. 1786. He was the means
of discovering the Stirling Jug, a pint
measure, considered as the ancient
standard of Scotland for grain, which had
been lost sight of ; the measurement of
which he accurately ascertained to contain
103T 4 A% cubic inches. He adjusted the
weights and measures of Edinburgh, and
" for his good services to the city " was
made a burgess and guild-brother in Jan.
1754. He assisted in revising the calcula
tions for the Ministers Widows Fund ;
and was a poet of no mean rank, having
written a version of the song, " The Birks
of Invermay." He marr. 23rd Oct. 1750,
Janet (died 23rd March 1807), daugh. of
Provost Gillespie of Stirling, and had issuf
Mary, born 6th Aug. 1751 ; Katherine,
I born 23rd March 1753 (marr. Theodore
j Alexander of Wellfiehl); John, born 26th
KIRKNEWTON
[PllESB. OF
Nov. 1754, W.S. apprentice 1770; Janet,
born 27th Oct. 1758 ; Isabel, born 5th April
1761 ; James, surgeon, Edinburgh, born
23rd Jan. 1766; Sir Alexander, K.C.B.,
R.E., Inspector-General of Fortifications,
born 23rd Jan. 1766, died 1832; William,
D.D., min. of Aberdour, born 4th April
1770; Janet (secunda). Publications
Several scientific papers in the Trans. Roy.
Soc. Land., "A New Method of Measuring
the Velocity of the Wind," etc. ; " Map of the.
North Coast of Britain, from the Raw Stoir
of Assynt to Wick, in Caithness, with the
Harbours and Rocks, and an Account of
the Tides in the Pentland Firth, 1744"
(Trans. Philosoph. Soc., Edin.). [Morrison s
Digest ; Nimmo s Stirlingsh., i. ; Chalmers s
Caled., ii. ; New Stat. Ace., i. ; Diet. Nat.
JJiog.]
WILLIAM CAMERON, born Loch-
aber, 1751 ; studied at Marischal
College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1770);
pres. by Francis, Duke of Buccleuch, and
ord. 17th Aug. 1786 ; died 17th Nov. 1811.
A poet of no inconsiderable genius, he com
posed two (xiv., xvii.) and revised at least
thirty-three of the Paraphrases and two of
the Hymns used in the devotional service
of the Church. He marr. 15th Sept. 1788,
Agnes (born 1764, died 16th March 1837),
daugh. of James Montgomerie and Agnes
Hunter, Irvine, and had issue James, born
26th Feb., died 1st Nov. 1790; Robert,
accountant, born 1st June 1793, died 28th
Oct. 1829 ; William, apothecary, born 19th
Aug. 1795; Mary, born 6th April 1797
(marr. 15th Nov. 1816, Dr Zekariah Sillar,
Irvine), died 1883 ; George Duncan, born
llth Oct. 1798, died 24th Oct. 1829;
Thomas MacKnight, born 22nd March
1800; Margaret, born 4th Feb. 1802, died
2nd April 1803; Helen, born 31st March
1804 (marr. Alexander Christison, min. of
Foulden) ; Catherine, born 15th May 1806,
died 31st May 1810; Francis; Douglas.
Publications Poems on Various Subjects
(Edinburgh, 1781, anon.); The Abuse of
Civil and Religious Liberty, a sermon
(Edinburgh, 1793); Ode on LochieVs Birth
Day (1796); A Review of the French
Revolution (Edinburgh, 1802); Poems on
Several Occasions, posthumous (Edinburgh,
1813) ; Paraphrases of Sacred Scripture,
used in the Church of Scotland, xiv.,
xvii.; Account of the Parish (Sinclair s
Stat. Ace., ix.). [Forbes Life of Beattie,
i. ; Neiv Scots Mag., ii. ; Rogers Scottish
Minstrel ; New Stat. Ace., i. ; Julian s Diet.
of Hymnology, Diet. Nat. Biog.~\
ALEXANDER LOCKHART SIMP-
1812 SON, born April 1785 ; a student
at the Selkirk Hall of the Secession
Church under Professor Lawson in 1803.
Joined the Church of Scotland, and was
licen. by Presb. of Kirkcaldy 17th Jan. 1810 ;
pres. by George, Earl of Morton, 27th April,
and ord. 22nd Oct. 1812 ; clerk of the Presb.
of Edinburgh ; joint clerk depute to the
General Assembly 22nd May 1828; D.D.
(Edinburgh, 20th March 1836); convener
of the Assembly s Committee on Home
Missions 29th May 1843; Moderator of
the General Assembly 1849 ; principal clerk
to the General Assembly 19th May 1859 ;
died unmarr. 15th Dec. 1861. Publications
Letter to the Lord Provost of Edinburgh
on the Seat Rents of the City Churches
(Edinburgh, 1834) ; Statement in Reference
to a Division in the General Assembly s
Non - Intrusion Committee (Edinburgh,
1842) ; Remarks on the Memorial Pre
sented to Her Majesty s Government by a
Committee of the Free Church, Relative to
the quoad sacra Churches or Chapels in
Connection with the Church of Scotland
(Edinburgh, 1848); Account of the Parish
(New Stat. Ace., i.). [Report on Ch.
Patronage; New Stat. Ace., i.]
HENRY WALLIS SMITH, born Glas-
1862 gow llth Nov - 1829 > son of William
S. of Carbeth-Guthrie, Lord Provost
of Glasgow, and Sarah Wallis, daugh. of
Henry Wallis, Marysborough, Co. Cork ;
educated privately and at Edinburgh
Univ. ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh
1854 ; assistant at New Kilpatrick ; ord.
to Durisdeer 10th May 1855; trans, and
adm. 19th June 1862; D.D. (Edinburgh
1882); convener of the Jewish Mission
Scheme 1875-85 ; Lecturer on Pastoral
Theology 1878; died 12th Nov. 1885. He
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raarr. 30th Aug. 1872, Elizabeth Dunlop
(died 25th Sept. 1912), youngest daugh.
of James Macnair of Auchinleck, and Janet
Rankin, and has issue Hannah Isobel, born
July 1873, died Feb. 1883 ; William Henry,
born Feb. 1875, died in South Africa 1902 ;
Sarah Catherine Wallis, born Oct. 1876
(marr. 1904, T. J. Stuart) ; Helen Elizabeth,
born Aug. 1878 ; James Macnair, captain
R.M.L.I., born Feb. 1881; Louisa Mary
Wallis, missionary of the Church of Scot
land at Poona, India, born Jan. 1883 ;
Isobel Jean, born July 1884. Publications
Editor of the Mission Record of the
Church of Scotland ; The Pastor as
Preacher (Edinburgh, 1878); Outlines of
Early Church History (Edinburgh, Bible
Class Primers Series) ; Sermon, Our Duty
as Citizens (posthumous).
ARTHUR GORDON, M.A. ; trans, from
1886 Greeniaw 18th Mav 1886 ; trans - to
St Andrew s, Edinburgh, 10th Jan.
1889.
GEORGE GARDINER, born Redgorton,
Perthshire, 6th Dec. 1846 ; educated
at Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (1875),
B.D. (1878) ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh
1878 ; assistant at Morningside, Edinburgh,
and West Church, Aberdeen ; ord. to Hurl-
ford 8th July 1880; trans, and adm. 9th
July 1889; Examiner in Divinity, Univ.
of Edinburgh, 1895-9 ; convener since 1905
of the General Assembly s Committee on the
admission of ministers of other churches ;
preses of the Craigcrook Mortification
since 1898; D.D. (Edinburgh, 8th July
1910). He marr. 25th Nov. 1880, Margaret
Donald, daugh. of David Lindsay Smith,
Edinburgh, and has issue William Wallace
Dunlop, B.D., min. of St Madoes.
LEITH
NEWHAVEN (Q.S.).
[Church opened 30th Oct. 1836. Dis
joined from St Cuthbert s and erected into
a parish quoad sacra, 20th July 1859.]
JAMES FAIRBAIRN, born Huntington,
1888 Lauderdale, 16th Dec. 1804, son of
James F., farmer, and Elizabeth
Taylor ; educated at Lauder School and
Edinburgh Univ. ; licen. by Presb. of Dal-
keith 24th April 1834; tutor in the family
of Dundas of Arniston, and assistant at
Dalkeith ; nominated by the Trustees, and
ord. 25th Jan. 1838. Joined Free Church ;
min. of Newhaven Free Church 1843 ; D.D.
(Edinburgh 1876) ; died unmarr. 3rd Jan.
1879.
isso
WILLIAM GRAHAM, born Lochmaben,
29th May 1820 son of John ^
schoolmaster, and Margaret Sharp ;
educated at Lochmaben School and Univs.
of Edinburgh and St Andrews ; licen. by
Presb. of Lochmaben 23rd Dec. 1845 ;
ord. to Wallacetown, Ayr, 27th March 1846 ;
trans, and adm. 18th April 1850 ; died 3rd
April 1887. He marr. 4th Jan. 1847,
Catherine (died 5th May 1888), daugh. of
James Gray, mathematical master, Ayr
Academy, and had issue Mary (deceased) ;
Margaret ; Catherine (deceased) ; Joan ;
William (deceased) ; Stuart, died July
1913. Publications Popular Readings on
the Revelation (Edinburgh, 1854); Loch
maben Five Hundred Years Ago (Edin
burgh, 1865) ; Eventide Meditations, with
Memoir by his nephew, John G. Andrew,
Barrhill U.F. Church (Edinburgh, 1887);
numerous poems and newspaper articles.
THOMAS PEARSON, born Kilconquhar,
Fife, 1st Sept. 1848, son of Thomas
P. and Agnes Allan ; educated at
Edinburgh Univ. ; M.A. (1873), B.D. (1876) ;
licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh llth May
1876; rector of Falkirk Grammar School;
assistant at Kinghorn ; ord. to Hurlford
7th March 1878 ; trans, to Cupar 7th Jan.
1880; trans, and adm. 13th Oct. 1887.
Marr. llth Sept. 1878, Eliza, second daugh.
of John Downs, merchant, Leith, and Anna
Common, and has issue Allan, electrical
engineer, Glasgow ; Joseph Gilmour, motor
agent, Manchester ; John Henry Herbert,
M.D. ; Mary Agnes White (marr. George
Halley).
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NORTH LEITH
[PKESB. OF
NORTH LEITH.
[Formerly the Chapel of St Ninian,
built by Robert Bellenden, Abbot of the
Monastery of Holyrood, July 1493 ; pro
posed by the Presb. 4th Sept. 1599,
ratified by General Assembly 10th Dec.
1602, and erected by Parliament 9th July
1606. The patronage vested at the same
time by Parliament in "the hail of the
inhabitants," was exercised by male heads
of families until the passing of the Patron
age Bill, 1874. Lands of Newhaven
with corn tithes and money stipend were
annexed from St Cuthbert s, 1630. The
corn tithes of Hillhousefield purchased from
William Chalmer and his spouse, and tish
tithes of Leith and Newhaven purchased
from John, Lord Holyroodhouse, both by
subscription, were confirmed by Royal
Charter, llth June 1631. New church
erected 1815-16, after sale of old church,
which had become too small ; opened 1st
Sept. 1816. Halls erected in 1866. The
fish tithe was commuted on payment of
2500 by Leith Dock Commission, 1892.]
JAMES MUREHEAD, M.A. (Edin-
159Q burgh, 28th July 1598); authorised
to preach in the North-West Quarter
of that city 21st Dec. 1598 ; elected by
the parishioners, and adm. 19th Sept. 1599.
One of those deputed by the Synod, April
1603, to wait on His Majesty near Hadding-
ton (while on his way to England at the
Union of the Crowns), regarding grievances
affecting the interests of religion. He
signed the Protest against the introduction
of Episcopacy, 1st July 1606. Died "in
his upper chalmer, at sevin houris in the
morning," 29th Oct. 1612, "and was buried
in St Nicolas Chapel on Friday thairafter,
at x houris before none at the west gavel."
He marr. (1) Paterson (Reg. of Deeds,
ccxciv., 397) : (2) (pro. 15th Dec. 1596) Janet
Dennistoun, who survived him (Edin. Com.
Decreets, 22nd July 1617). His sisters
(Agnes, wife of Michael Cranstoun, min.
of Cramond ; Margaret, wife of Andrew
Cautoun, in Craigmarvie ; and Grisell,
wife of John Salmond in Auchingray)
were his executrices. [Test. Reg., Reg.
Assig. ; Row s, Calderwood s, and Steven
son s Hists. ; Select Biog., i.]
DAVID FORRESTER, M.A. (St
1613 Andrews, 22nd July 1608); ord. to
Denny 3rd April 1610 ; trans, and
adm. 16th Dec. 1613 ; suspended by the
Court of High Commission 2nd July
1619, and confined to Aberdeen ; again
summoned 25th Nov. following, for ad
ministering the Communion in a manner
not in accordance with the prescribed order,
when he was left in the hands of the
Bishop of Aberdeen [Patrick Forbes], who
said of him that " though he stand on his
own conscience, he is as modest and subject
to hear reason as the youngest scholar in
Scotland" ; trans, to Rathven April 1620 ; re-
trans, in 1627. [Stirling Presb. Reg., Row s
and Calderwood s Hists., Reg. Assig.}
HENRY CHARTERIS, born probably
1620 * n 15 ^> eldest son of Henry C.,
King s printer, was one of Rollock s
students from the opening of the college
at Edinburgh. He took his degree of
M.A. in 1587. In 1589 he became regent,
and in 1599 was Principal and Professor
of Divinity. Disagreeing with the Town
Council, he res. the office of Principal,
and accepted a call to this charge, being
adm. (by the Archbishop at St Andrews)
in April 1620. In 1627 he was retrans.
to the Professorship of Divinity, and died
in July 1628. " He was certainly one of
the most learned men of his time, both
in the tongues and in philosophy and
divinity." He marr. (1) a lady whose
name is unknown, and had issue Mar
garet, bapt. 28th Sept. 1600 : (2) 8th Sept.
1602, Agnes Mason, and had issue Henry,
W.S., bapt. 3rd July 1603; Isobel, bapt.
1st Dec. 1605 (marr., pro. 12th Aug. 1624,
Laurence Henderson, merchant, burgess of
Edinburgh : Reg. of Deeds, 539) ; Catherine,
bapt. 12th Feb. 1609 ; William, bapt. 18th
Feb. 1610; Agnes, bapt. 24th Feb. 1611;
Rachel, bapt. 18th April 1612 : (3) Janet,
daugh. of John Bell, min., and had issue
Jean, bapt. 15th Aug. 1617 ; Elizabeth,
bapt. 28th July 1618; Catherine, bapt.
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155
22nd Feb. 1620 ; Thomas (G. R. Sas., xxix.,
72); John, min. of Currie, eldest son and
heir (A. Guthrie, Prot. Book, 133). Pub
lication Narratio Vitce et Obitus sanctis-
simi doctissimique viri D. Roberti Rolloci,
Scoti Ministri Evangelii et Rectoris
Academice Edinburgensis (Wodrow Soc.,
1826). [Edin. Reg. (Bapt), Grant s Univ.,
Diet. Nat. iog.]
DAVID FORRESTER, M.A., above
1627 ment i ne d , trans, from Rathven,
through the influence of Sir William
Alexander of Menstrie, afterwards Earl of
Stirling, cousin of his wife ; pres. by the
elders, deacons, and inhabitants 5th Aug.,
and readm. 20th Sept. 1627 ; died June
1633, aged about 45. He marr. (1) 30th
Jan. 1614, Margaret, daugh. of Duncan
Paterson, merchant, burgess of Stirling,
and Marion Alexander, and had issue
Duncan, one of the regents in the Univ.
of Edinburgh, who was served heir 13th
Nov. 1633 ; John ; George : (2) Margaret,
daugh. of Robert Hamilton, brother to the
Laird of Preston, and had issue James ;
Margaret. [Stirling, Prestonjmns Sess., and
Test. Reg. ; Row s and Calderwood s Hists.,
vii. ; Craufurd s Univ.
ANDREW FAIRFOUL [FAIRFULL],
1636 ^A- > trans - f rom Leslie, Fife ; pres.
by Charles I. 25th Sept. 1641 ; trans,
to Duns in 1652 ; became Archbishop of
Glasgow (q.v.). [Reg. Sec. Sig. ; Balfour s
Hist. Works, iii. ; Acts Parl., v., vii. ;
Guthrie s Mem., Baillie s Lett.]
JOHN KNOX, yoiingest son of John
165S K., min. of Bowden ; educated at
the Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (15th
July 1641). When a probationer he joined
the army in favour of Charles II., and
became chaplain to Sir John Brown s
Regiment of Horse ; was present at the
Royalist defeat at Inverkeithing, 19th July
1651 ; chaplain in the family of Archi
bald, Earl of Angus ; ord. to this charge
1653. He was deprived of the use of his
church by the English soldiery, and
preached in the citadel ; removed from it
also, he conducted public worship with his
parishioners at Newhaven ; deprived by the
Act of Parliament llth June, and of Privy
Council 1st Oct. 1662. Though advised to
visit the Court, where he might have
received promotion, he preferred remaining
at home, and sharing in the sufferings of
those maintaining the Presbyterian form
of Church government. He was min.
again in 1687. [Wodrow s MSS., xxxiii.,
and Hist., i., iv. ; Acts Parl., vii. ;
Crichton s Life of Blackadder.]
JAMES REID, M.A. (King s College,
1663 Aberdeen, 1652); schoolmaster of
Grange 1652-5 ; adm. min. of Second
Charge, Kirkwall, 8th Nov. 1660 ; pres. by
" the haill inhabitants " ; coll. 15th July, and
inst. 1663; died in 1671, aged about 39.
He marr. 30th March 1664, Margaret,
daugh. of Magnus Prince, Kirkwall,
merchant, burgess of Edinburgh, and had
issue James (Aberdeen Inhib., llth Sept.
1678). His widow marr. Robert Traill, mer
chant, Edinburgh. [Reg. Collat., S. Leith
and Shapinsay Sess. Reg.; Reg. Old Dec., ii.;
Acts Parl., vii. ; Morison s Dec., xviii.]
THOMAS WILKIE, M.A. ; trans, from
1672 Galashiels; pres. by the elders,
deacons, and inhabitants, 8th Dec.
1671 ; coll. (by James, Archbishop of St
Andrews), and inst. 4th Jan. 1672 ; trans,
to Tolbooth Parish, Edinburgh, in 1687.
[Edin. Counc., xxxii.]
JAMES HUTCHESON, M.A.; trans.
1682 f rom I nc h> Wigtownshire, and adm.
in 1682 ; trans, to Greyfriars, Edin
burgh, in 1687. [Edin. Counc., xxxii.]
JAMES LUNDIE, M.A. (King s Col-
? lege, Aberdeen, 1657) ; ord. to Tron,
Second Charge, Edinburgh, 1663;
trans, to St Giles, Edinburgh, 1668 ; trans,
to Tolbooth Parish, Edinburgh, 1672 ; trans,
to Tron, First Charge, Edinburgh, 1675 ;
trans, to Dalkeith 1680 ; deprived on
account of the Test 1681 ; pres. unani
mously by the inhabitants 5th Sept. 1687,
and adm. soon after; died 31st March
1696, aged 56. He marr. (1) 2nd March
1671, Catherine Chrystie, and had issue
James, bapt. 4th June 1672; Archibald,
min. of Saltoun ; Margaret, born 24th
156
NORTH LEITH
[PRESB. OF
April 1675; Jean, bapt. 25th June 1676;
John, bapt. 22nd Dec. 1677 ; Andrew ;
Janet, bapt. 8th March 1679 : (2) Agnes,
daugh. of James Wilkie of Caramo, and
widow of Henry Morison, W.S. (G. R.
Homings, 28th July 1685; Reg. of Deed f,
Mack., 24th Oct. 1673), and had issue-
James, bapt. 7th May 1686. [Monteith s
Mort., Edin. Reg. (Bapt.) ; Inq. Ret. Gen.,
8199 ; Tombst., Family Papers. }
JOHN KNOX, M.A., above noticed;
indulged at West Calder; returned
(after toleration had been granted)
July 1687; died March 1688. He marr.
23rd June 1659, Jean Dalgleish, Cramond,
who died 26th Oct. 1673, aged 32, and
had issue Jean (marr. John Tullidelph, ;
min. of Dunbarney), a daugh. (marr.
Charteris) ; Elizabeth, buried in Grey-
friars, 1st April 1691 ; Margaret (Privy
Seal Eng. Reg., vi., 256). [Edin. Reg.
(Bapt. and Bur.), Wood s Hist, of
Cramond.]
ANDEEW BOWIE, M.A. (Glasgow
1664); adm. to Balmerino 24th
Sept. 1690: trans, to Ceres 7th
July 1692 ; trans, and adm. 31st March I
1697 ; died 25th Aug. 1707. He marr. Jan. j
1692, Agnes, daugh. of William Kow, min.
of Ceres, and had issue Catherine (marr.,
pro. 29th March 1724, Charles Fall,
merchant, Dunbar). [Balmerino Sess.
and Test. Reg., Campbell s Balmerino
and its Abbey.]
JOHN WILSON, M.A. (St Andrews,
1708 17th July 1688) ; chaplain to David,
Earl of Leven ; licen. by Presb. of
Kirkcaldy 25th Aug. 1698; ord. to Port-
moak 24th Nov. 1698 ; trans, to Kirkcaldy
22nd Oct. 1702; called 13th July, trans.
and adm. 9th Sept. 1708; died 31st Aug.
1724. He marr. 12th Nov. 1699, Isabel,
daugh. of Andrew Nisbet, a min. in
Ireland. [Kirkcaldy Sess., Test., and
Edin. Reg. (Marr.).]
GEORGE LINDSAY, chaplain to Lord
Charles Ker ; licen. by Presb. of
Edinburgh 3rd June 1724; called
19th Jan., and ord. 22nd April 1725 ; died
24th Sept. 1764. Marr. 9th June 1726,
Elizabeth Gray, and had issue Janet;
Grizell; George.
[PHILIP MORISON, pres. by George
17Q5 III. 4th March 1765 (Privy Seal Eng.
Reg., ix., 406) ; but not settled ; be
came min. of Dunscore, same year.]
DAVID JOHNSTON, born 26th April
1734, second son of John J., min. of
Arngask ; educated at Univ. of Edin
burgh ; licen. by Presb. of Selkirk 12th
July 1757 ; ord. to Langton llth May
1758 ; pres. by the Kirk-session and in
habitants in 1764 ; trans, and adm. llth
July 1765; D.D. (Edinburgh, 6th March
1781) ; one of His Majesty s Chaplains in
Ordinary Oct. 1793. He founded the
Asylum for the Industrious Blind at Edin
burgh in 1793 ; declined the honour of
knighthood 1812 ; died 5th July 1824.
He marr. 5th July 1759, Elizabeth (died
8th Aug. 1796, aged 61), daugh. of John
Todd, shipbuilder, Leith, and had issue
John, lieut. H E.I.C.S., born 7th March
1761, died at Bombay, 23rd Dec. 1786;
Gavin, born 26th Aug. 1762, died 30th
March 1773; Robert, born 6th Jan. 1767,
died 13th Jan. 1768 ; Margaret, born 30th
Jan. 1769, died 19th Jan. 1770; David,
born 29th Dec. 1770, died 30th Jan. 1771 ;
Henrietta, born 7th March 1772, died 5th
July 1785; David, born 20th Nov. 1773,
died 20th Jan. 1775; Elizabeth, born 8th
July 1775 (marr. 15th Sept. 1800, William
Penney, merchant, Glasgow), died 1869;
Jane, born 13th Dec. 1777 (marr. 6th Aug.
1798, Robert MacBrair, merchant, Glasgow),
died 4th April 1818. Publications Five
single Sermons (Edinburgh, 1778-96) ; Dis
sertation on the Encouragement ivhich our
Blessed Lord gave to Little Children (Edin
burgh, 1799) ; Sermons, 2 vols. (Edinburgh,
1805-8). [Scots Mag., xciv., Kay s Portr.,
Morison s Dec. ; A Model Pastor of the Old
School, by his granddaughter, A. F. Foster
(Edinburgh, 1878) ; Diet. Nat. Biog.}
WALTER FOGGO IRELAND, edu-
cated at High School and Univ. of
Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of Edin
burgh 25th April 1798 ; elected (assistant
and successor) 9th Jan., and ord. 14th
EDINBURGH]
NORTH LEITH
157
Feb. 1799; D.D. (Aberdeen, lltli May
1810); died 18th Feb. 1828, aged 53. He
marr. (1) 20th July 1795, Jean Alves, who
died llth May 1805, and had issue Jean,
born 22nd Sept. 1796 ; Janet, born 24th
Nov. 1798 (marr. 26th June 1818, Patrick
Gillespie, M.D., Leith), died 6th April
1825 ; Ann Watson, born 20th Nov. 1799 ;
George, born 12th June 1801 ; Mary, born
9th Nov. 1802 (marr. David Davidson, min.
at Broughty-Ferry) ; Helen Bailie, born 9th
July 1804 : (2) 1st Jan. 1806, Margaret
(died 23rd June 1823), daugh. of Charles
Spalding, confectioner, Edinburgh, and had
issue Susanna, born 28th Sept. 1806
(marr. 27th March 1826, Arthur Craigie,
merchant, Leith) ; Walter Foggo, born 14th
Oct. 1808; Margaret Campbell, born 24th
Feb. 1810 ; Charles, born 20th Nov. 1811 ;
Catherine Ann, born 28th Sept. 1813, died
4th Feb. 1814 ; James Watson, born 9th
Jan. 1815 ; Charlotte, born 16th May 1816 ;
Thomasina, born 19th Jan. 1818 ; Alex
ander Vernor, born 18th Jan. 1820; John
Balfour, born 1st Nov. 1821 : (3) 5th
July 1824, Catherine (died at Skene Free
Church Manse, 22nd Jan. 1853, aged 63),
second daugh. of Robert Henderson, M.D.,
Dundee, and had issue Robert Hender
son, min. of Portobello Free Church, born
19th May 1827, died 1881. Publication
Sermons, with Memoir by David Davidson
(Edinburgh, 1829). [Kay s Portr., 1]
JAMES BUCHANAN, trans. fromRoslin
1828 Chapel-of-Ease ; pres. by the heritors,
elders, and inhabitants, and adm.
25th Sept. 1828 ; trans, to St Giles, Edin
burgh, 20th Aug. 1840.
ALEXANDER DAVIDSON, born Auld-
1843 earn ^th March 1805, son of James
D. and Jane Duncan ; educated at
King s College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1826);
tutor in the family of Irvine of Schivas ;
licen. by Presb. of Ellon 30th Nov.
1831; ord. to Northesk 24th Jan. 1839;
trans, and adm. 22nd June 1843 ; died
5th April 1858. He marr. 22nd July 1844,
Margaret Barron (died 2nd Feb. 1908),
eldest daugh. of Robert Scott, wine mer
chant, and Margaret Allan, Bonnington
Bank House, Leith. [A portrait painted
by Sir John Watson Gordon, was be
queathed by his widow to the Corpora
tion Art Gallery, Aberdeen.]
WILLIAM SMITH, born Harelaw,
Carstairs, Lanarkshire, 19th April
1819, son of Thomas S. and Marion
Lindsay ; educated at Pettinain School and
Edinburgh Univ. ; licen. by Presb. of Kirk -
caldy 1845 ; tutor in the Minto, Rothes,
and Rollo families ; ord. to Lauder 25th
Dec. 1845 ; trans, to Trinity Parish 25th
Dec. 1857 ; trans, and adm. 15th March
1860; convener of the Endowment Com
mittee 1860; D.D. (Edinburgh 1869);
Baird Lecturer 1875; died 12th Feb.
1877. He marr. 30th March 1852, Ann
Maxwell (died 18th June 1903), daugh. of
James Black, Glasgow, and had issue
Thomas Adair, born 12th Oct. 1853, died at
Lauder 27th Jan. 1875 ; Ann Eliza, born
20th May 1860, died 7th May 1868 ; Evelyn
Leslie, born llth May 1863 (marr. David
Ramsay Henderson, min. of Lecropt) ;
Gertrude Berta Elliot, born 17th July 1865
(marr. 4th April 1906, Sydney Murray,
solicitor, Jedburgh). Publication En
dowed Territorial Work (Baird Lecture,
1875).
ROBERT STEWART, M.A., B.D. ; trans.
77 from Duns 4th Oct. 1877; trans, to
Jedburgh 15th Dec. 1881.
ANDREW WALLACE WILLIAMSON,
1882 ass i stant m i n - ; or d- 13tn April 1882 ;
trans, to St Cuthbert s 6th Sept.
1883.
JOHN BUTTON M CULLOCH, born
1884 Crieff, 29th June 1851, son of Alex
ander M C. and Anne Hutton ;
educated at Stirling High School (where
he became assistant classical master) and
Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A., B.D. ; licen. by
Presb. of Stirling 28th Oct. 1873 ; in charge
of Rosewell Chapel 1 873-4 ; ord. to Rose-
well upon erection into a parish 9th Oct.
1874; trans, to Gourock 8th Oct. 1875;
trans, and adm. llth March 1884 ; died 4th
Oct. 1912. He marr. 24th Jan. 1889, Annie
Louisa, eldest daugh. of James Case of
158
NORTH LEITH ST JOHN S
[PRESB. OF
Elmside, Surbiton, Surrey, and had issue
Mary Hutton, born 4th June 1890; Alex
ander Norman, born 5th Nov. 1891 ; Annie
Amy Turner, born 17th March 1893 ; James
Case, born 24th Aug. 1894 ; Marjory
Stirling, born 4th Jan. 1897 ; Ian Forbes,
born 29th May 1898 ; Kathleen Louise, born
2nd June 1900 ; Donald Harry, born 5th
April 1902. Publication Simple Notes on
the Sacrament of the Lord s Supper (1895).
JAMES ROBERTSON SWEET
1913 WILSON, born Glasgow, 6th Oct.
1879, son of Thomas L. W. and
Jessie Lang Sweet ; educated at Hillhead
High School, Glasgow; The Hermitage,
Helensburgh, and Glasgow Univ. ; M.A.
(1899); B.D. (1902); licen. by Presb. of
Dumbarton May 1902 ; assistant at Barony,
Glasgow ; ord. to St Columba, Oban, 26th
June 1906 ; trans, and adm. 12th March
1913. Marr. 9th June 1909, Helen Cameron,
daugh. of John A. Cameron Ruthven, C.E.,
Dublin, and has issue Thomas Ian, born
1st June 1910.
ST JOHN S (Q.S.).
[Opened as a Chapel-of-Ease in parish of
South Leith, 12th Dec. 1773, and declared
a parish quoad sacra by Act of Assembly,
31st May 1834. From 1843-6 it was held
by the Free Church, when the Civil Courts
declared it to belong to the Church of
Scotland. Erected by the Court of Teinds
19th July 1869.]
WILLIAM BURNSIDE, M.A. ; ord. 2nd
Nov. 1775 ; trans, to New Church,
Dumfries, June 1780.
JOHN COLQUHOUN, born Luss, 1st
Jan. 1748, son of Patrick C., farmer,
and Fennel M Kimma; originally a
shepherd and weaver ; educated at the
Society School at Muirland, and Univs.
of Glasgow and Edinburgh; licen. by
Presb. of Glasgow 2nd Aug. 1780; ord.
22nd March 1781; D.D. (Aberdeen 1811);
died 27th Nov. 1827. He marr. (1) 1781,
Agnes, daugh. of William Black, merchant,
Glasgow : (2) Euphemia Hunter, who died
12th Nov. 1831, aged 70. Publications
A Treatise on Spiritual Comfort (Edin
burgh, 1813) ; On the Law and Gospel
(Edinburgh, 1815); On the Covenant of
Grace (Edinburgh, 1818); A Catechism for
the Instruction and Direction of Young
Communicants (Edinburgh, 1821) ; On the
Covenant of Works (Edinburgh, 1822);
View of Saving Faith (Edinburgh, 1824) ;
A Collection of the Promises of Scripture
(Edinburgh, 1825) ; A View of Evangelical
Repentance (Edinburgh, 1826); Sermons,
chiefly on Doctrinal Subjects, with a
Memoir (Edinburgh, 1836). [Diet. Nat.
Biog., Campbell Irons s Leith.]
PETER PETRIE, M.A. ; ord. 18th Sept.
182g 1828; trans, to Kirkwall, Second
Charge, 29th June 1831.
JAMES LEWIS, born Glasgow, 7th
1832 April 1805, son of George L. and
Margaret Hardie ; educated at Glas
gow Univ. ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 3rd
Aug. 1831 ; elected 24th Nov. 1831 ; ord.
19th Jan. 1832; adm. a member of Presb.
25th June 1834. Joined the Free Church ;
min. of Free St John s, Leith, 1843; res.
on account of his health ; D.D. (Princeton
1871); Presbyterian min. at Rome, where
he died 29th Jan. 1872. He marr. Marion
(died 14th Dec. 1896), daugh. of James
Wyld of Gilston, and had issue Marion
(marr. Rev. James Grant Mackintosh,
Tasmania) ; Margaret ; Kate Isabella ;
Alice Turnbull; George. Publications
Defence of Ecclesiastical Establishments
(1830); Lecture III., On Civil Establish
ments of Religion (Edinburgh, 1835) ; Ser
mon at the opening of the North Parish
Church, Kelso (Edinburgh, 1838); The
Church of Scotland Obeying the Law of
the Land and the Law of God in her Present
Opposition to the Civil Courts (Edinburgh,
1840) ; The Crisis and Preparation (Leith,
1843) ; The Necessity and Mercy Plea for
Sabbath Trains tried and dis%)osed of (1847) ;
Indian Government, Past and Prospective,
in Relation to Christianity (Edinburgh,
1858).
JOHN GIBB NIVEN, born Peterhead,
187Q 9th Nov. 1834, son of Charles N.
and Barbara Davidson ; educated at
Peterhead School and King s College, Aber-
EUINBUKGH]
ST JOHN S ST THOMAS S
159
deen, 1850-4 ; licen. by Presb. of Deer 8th
Dec. 1863; schoolmaster of Crimond 1861-7 ;
M.A. (Aberdeen 1868); ord. 18th May
1870 ; dem. 12th Nov. 1879 ; died at Man
chester, 4th Nov. 1901. He marr. 18th
Aug. 1870, Helen Forbes, daugb. of
James Crombie of Goval, Aberdeenshire,
and had issue Katherine (marr. Charles
G. Lawrie, M.D.); John Forbes, mining
engineer.
JAMES PARK, born Sorn, Ayrshire, 9th
1880 ^ une 1846) son * H u Sh ^ an( * ^ ean
Hamilton ; educated at Sorn School
and St Andrews Univ. ; licen. by Presb. of
St Andrews Nov. 1873; ord. to Trinity
Church, Aberdeen, 7th July 1877 ; trans,
and adm. 14th April 1880. He marr. 23rd
June 1880, Robina, eldest daugh. of Thomas
Riddell, Aberdeen, and has issue Anna
Stuart, born 27th March 1881 ; Christina
Jean, born 20th June 1882 ; Herbert Hugh,
born 8th Nov. 1883.
ST PAUL S (Q.S.).
[Erected into a parish qwad sacra, 23rd
Jan. 1893.]
THOMAS MILLAR, born Stonehouse,
Lanarkshire, 5th Oct. 1856, son of
1893 T k omas M an( j Rebecca Wilson;
educated at Stonehouse School and Glas
gow and Edinburgh Univs. ; licen. by
Presb. of Hamilton 1885 ; assistant at
Cambusnethan ; ord. to Meadowfield 23rd
April 1886; app. to St Paul s 19th Jan.
1888 ; adin. first min. 9th Feb. 1893 ; died
12th April 1898. He marr. 26th June 1889,
Helen Stuart, daugh. of George Henry
Watt, and had issue Thomas, born 1891 ;
Ruth Elizabeth, born 1893 ; Maud, born
1895 ; Monica, born 1896. His widow
marr. again 27th Dec. 1911. Publication
The Way of Life (Leith, 1891).
WILLIAM GALLOWAY DONALD
SON, trans, from North Parish,
Kelso ; adm. 23rd Nov. 1898 ; trans,
to Forfar 1st Oct. 1908.
JOSEPH ROBERT PRENTER, M.A. ;
trans, from Townsend Street, Belfast,
7th April 1909; trans, to St Mark s,
Dundee, 15th Oct. 1913.
1909
1914
1898
DUNCAN CAMERON, born Greenock,
8th June 1872, son of John C. and
Christina Ferguson ; educated at
Mearns Street School and Univ. of Glas
gow ; M.A. (1896), B.D. (1899) ; licen. by
Presb. of Greenock 25th April 1899;
assistant at St Mary s, Dumfries, and Tol-
booth, Edinburgh; ord. to Logie, Fife,
28th June 1901 ; trans, to Barrhead 3rd
Oct. 1906 ; trans, and adm. 19th March 1914.
He marr. 21st Jan. 1903, Margaret, daugh.
of James Robertson, Denbrae, Cupar-Fife,
and has issue Ian Gordon, born 17th
April 1910.
ST THOMAS S (Q.S.).
[Erected from South Leith, and endowed
by Sir John Gladstone of Fasque, Bart.,
"as a manifestation of his attachment to
the place of his birth " the house in which
he was born having stood on the site of
the church. Declared a parish quoad sacra
by the General Assembly, 27th May 1839 ;
built in 1840 ; opened 6th May 1841 ; and
erected by the Court of Teinds, 8th Dec.
1847.]
JAMES M LETCHIE, trans, from
Gartsherrie, and adm. 6th May
1841 ; trans, to College Church,
Glasgow, 28th April 1842.
JOHN KINROSS, M.A. ; ord. 27th June
1842 1842 ; trans, to Largs 1st Sept. 1843.
JOHN STEELE, ord. 17th Oct. 1843;
1843 trans, to Portmoak 26th Sept. 1844.
GEORGE SCOTT, ord. 12th Dec. 1844 ;
1844 trans, to Dairsie 12th Sept. 1850.
ARCHIBALD BUCHANAN, trans,
from Ladyloan, and adm. 13th Feb.
1851 ; trans, to Logie-Pert 27th July
1864.
1841
1851
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ST THOMAS S SOUTH LEITH
[PltESB. OF
1864
ROBERT GEORGE FRASER, born 14th
April 1832, son of Robert William F.,
min. of St John s, Edinburgh; edu
cated at High School and Univ. of Edin
burgh ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 1858 ;
assistant at Govan, Montrose, and Bridge of
Allan ; ord. 22nd Dec. 1864 ; res. 25th July
1900 ; died 18th Nov. 1905. He marr. 25th
June 1904, Margaret, daugh. of Donald
Sharp, Comrie. He was an artist of some
merit, and exhibited in the Royal Scottish
Academy.
GAVIN MILLAR, M.A., B.D. ; ord.
28th Nov. 1900; trans, to Logie-
1900
Almond 12th May 1904.
1904
JAMES ALEXANDER FLEMING,
born Wilton, Hawick, 26th June
1865, son of James F. and Agnes
Alexander; educated at Teviot Grove
Academy, Hawick, Dalkeith Academy,
Moray House Normal Training College,
and Edinburgh Univ.; M.A. (1891); held
scholastic appointments at Dunoon Gram
mar School, Fort William, Portobello ;
licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith May 1903;
assistant at South Leith ; ord. 28th Sept.
1904; F.R.G.S. (1911). Marr. 9th Sept.
1912, Marian Mackenzie, Glasgow.
SOUTH LEITH,
FORMERLY RESTALRIG.
[By the first General Assembly of the
Reformed Kirk of Scotland "it was
found reasonable and expedient that the
parochiners of Restalrig sould repaire to
the Kirk of Leith, and that the Kirk of
Restalrig sould be razed and utterlie
destroyed as a monument of idolatrie." In
Nov. 1595 the Presb. gave commission to
David Lindsay and John Brand " to con
verse with the neighbours for planting a
kirk on the north side of the brig of
Leith. As a result of this, overtures
were presented that a parish might be
made " of the north side of the brig of
Leith, and some towns next adjacent, as
Pilrig, Bonnington, Waraston, and New-
haven." In an Act of Parliament, 24th
June 1609, it was ordained that all the
inhabitants of Restalrig should resort
thereto "as into ane paroch kirk, as they
have done in times past/ and that the kirk
of Restalrig should be superseded and
extinct "from henceforth and for ever."
After Toleration was granted, 28th June
1687, a meeting-house was taken in Sheriff-
brae, 7th July following, and William
Wishart, formerly min. of Kinneil, in-
dweller in Leith, began to preach the
following Sunday, and continued until a
minister was settled.]
DAVID LINDSAY (primus) of Pittormie
1560 ^est. of Alexander Guthrie of Hal-
kerton : Edin. Tests.), son of Alex
ander L. of Haltoun and Rachael Barclay of
Mathers. Having travelled in France and
Switzerland, he imbibed Reformation prin
ciples, and was one of twelve original
ministers nominated in July 1560 to the
" chief places in Scotland," the town
assigned him being Leith. He was
present at the first General Assembly,
20th Dec. 1560. Out of seventy-three suc
ceeding Assemblies, his name occurs in
fifty; while in those of Feb. 1569, Oct.
1577, Oct. 1582, 1586, 1593, and 1597 he
was Moderator. He visited Knox on his
deathbed in 1572, and at Knox s request,
though "he thought the message hard,"
went to the castle of Edinburgh to warn
Kirkcaldy of Grange that unless he gave it
up he " should be brought down over the
walls of it with shame, and hung against
the sun " (Calderwood, iii., 234 ; Knox s
Works, vi., 657). He visited Kirkcaldy after
his condemnation, and was sent by him to
Morton to intercede for his life, Kirkcaldy s
whole estate being offered as a ransom.
The intercession failed, and at Kirk
caldy s special request, Lindsay attended
him on the scaffold, and thus was witness
of the literal fulfilment of the doom pro
nounced by Knox. He filled a conspicuous
place in affairs both of Church and State ;
was " the minister whom the court liked
best," and almost the only one of the clergy
of that time who complied with the King s
request to pray for Queen Mary before her
execution. He accompanied James to
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SOUTH LEITH
161
Norway as chaplain, in Oct. 1589, when
he went for his bride, Anne of Denmark,
and on 23rd Nov. he married them at
Upsala (C alder wood, v., 69). He and
Robert Bruce crowned them at Holyrood
on 12th May 1590. At the baptism of
Prince Henry at Stirling, 23rd Aug. 1594
he preached to the ambassadors in French.
He baptized the Princess Margaret on 16th
April 1599, and Prince Charles, afterwards
king, 19th Nov. 1600. He came to Edin
burgh in 1600 to assure the ministers of
the truth of the official version of the
Gowrie Conspiracy, and when they de
clined to order a general service of thanks
giving for the King s safety, he conducted
a service at the market cross, and preached
a sermon in his own church in presence of
His Majesty. By the end of that year he
became Bishop of Ross, and a member of
the Privy Council (Reg. P. C. Scot., vi.,
187), still retaining his parochial charge.
He accompanied James to England at the
Union, and died, Father of the Church, 14th
Aug. 1613. He marr. (1) Joneta, daugh. of
George Ramsay of Clattie (Test, of George
Ramsay, Edin. Tests.) : (2) Helen Harresoun,
who survived him (G. R. Inhib., 3rd Oct.
1615). He left issue Sir Jerome of Annat-
land, advocate, Lord Lyon King-of-Arms,
died 4th Dec. 1642 (who is now represented
by a family in Virginia) ; David, his suc
cessor ; Rachel (marr. 12th Oct. 1589, John
Spottiswood, min. of Mid-Calder, after
wards Archbishop) ; and perhaps others.
Publication Five Letters to James VI.
(Orig. Lett., i.). [Reg. Min. and Assig. ;
Knox s Works, ii. ; Douglas s Peer., i. ;
Lindsay s and Scott s Lives ; Test. Reg. ;
Zurich Lett., ii. ; Melvill s Autob., Excheq.
Jiuik ; Acts Parl., iii., iv. ; M Crie s Melville,
i. ; Booke of the Kirk ; Calderwood s, Spot-
tiswood s, and Row s Hists. ; Orig. Lett.,
Wodrow Miscell., Guthrie s Mem. ; New
Stat. Ace., ii. ; Pitcairn s Cr. Trials, ii. ;
Diet. Nat. Biog.~\
1676 WILLIAM BALFOUR, reader.
DAVID LINDSAY (secundus), born
about 1566, son of preceding; edu
cated at St Salvator s College, St
Andrews ; M.A. (1586) ; ord. min. of
VOL. I.
Forfar 1590; trans, to Second Charge, St
Andrews, 17th Aug. 1597; inst. rector of
St Olave, Southwark, 28th Jan. 1603-4;
min. of Forgan 20th May 1606; trans, to
Second Charge, South Leith, 30th July
1609 ; trans, and adm. 1613. An assistant
was required in respect of his weakness,
8th Feb. 1616. He died Jan. 1627. He
marr., probably as a second wife, Margaret
Hepburn, who died in 1635. He had
issue Janet (marr., cont. 19th and 23rd
Nov. 1616, Andrew Collace, min. at Gar-
vock); David, bapt. 8th and buried 10th
Nov. 1606 ; Samuel, bapt. 14th Dec. 1608 ;
Barbara, born 10th April 1610; Bernard,
bapt. 29th Jan. 1611-12; Sara, bapt. 3rd
May 1613 ; Euphan (marr. George John
ston, min. of Westruther : G R. Sas., vi.,
22); Elspeth. The latter and Barbara
were his executrices. Publications The
Heavenly Chariot Laid Open (St Andrews,
1622) ; The Godly Man s Journey to Heaven
(London, 1625). [Tesk Reg., Reg. Assig.,
Diet. Nat. Biogl\
JOHN CRANSTOUN, son of Michael
1627 ^ m n ^ Cramond; M.A. (St
Andrews 1611); adm. to Second
Charge 1620 ; trans, to Liberton 1624 ;
trans, and adm. 1627 ; died in 1629, aged
about 38. He marr. after 30th Nov. 1618,
Agnes, daugh. of William Rigg of Morton,
and had issue Thomas, eldest in 1639
(G. R. Sas., 48, 380); Robert; John (who
was served heir 12th Sept. 1644); James,
died in 1674 ; Agnes, alive in 1674.
[Liberton Sess., Dalkeith Presb., and Test.
Reg.; Inq. Ret. Edin., 931.]
WILLIAM WISHART [WISCHART,
WISHEART 1> son of Sir John W
of Pitarrow; M.A. (King s College,
Aberdeen, 1606) ; adm. to Fettercairn 1611 ;
trans, to Minto 1613; readm. to Fetter-
cairn 1618 ; trans, and adm. 6th May
1630 ; member of the Court of High Com
mission 21st Oct. 1634 ; burgess and guild-
brother of Edinburgh 27th July 1636 ; dep.
9th June 1639, "for erroneous doctrine,"
etc. He was banished from the country,
and died in Cornwall some years after
wards. He marr. Elizabeth, daugh. of
Alexander Keith of Phaisdo (served heiress
1630
162
SOUTH LEITH
[PRESS, o?
to ha father 25th April 1634) ; she had the
vacant stipend of Turriff allowed by Parlia
ment 8th July 1662. and had issue John,
marr. (cent. 14th Aug. 1635) Elizabeth,
daugh. of Sir George Home of Manderston.
and was killed at the battle of Edgehili,
fighting on the Royalist side, 23rd Oct.
1642; Jean (marr. after 3rd Oct. 1637.
Alexander Wood, portioner of Benholme :
G. JR. Sas., xlvi, 338); Elizabeth (marr.
Sir William Forbes of Monymusk). Pub
lications An EffHXfitioH of the Lord s
Prayer (London, 1633) ; Immanutl, a poem
(London, 1642) : Aaron s Ob&t/wiet (Forbes
Fitmrrats, Aberdeen, 1635). [EJin. Guild
Reg.; Stevenson s, L, and Bow s Hists. :
Baillie s Lftt.. L : Acts Part., vii. ; Maitland
J/iW/., iL ; Wodrow j s JftsSL bndi. ; Scot s
Stagy. State ; Inq. Eft. Kincardine, 64 ;
Forbes ! s Funerals; Knox s Works, vi. :
Home of Weddfrburn Papert.]
JAMES SHARPE, son of Patrick S..
16gg min. of Goran : regent in the Univ.
of Glasgow : M.A. ; adm. min. of
Goran before 12th June 1622; pres. by
John, Lord Baknerino; trans, and adm.
29th Aug. 1639 ; declined call to Glasgow
in 1641 : member of the Commission of
Assembly 1643-4 : died in 1645, aged about
53. He marr. 15th July 1623, Agnes (died
Nov. 1665), daugh. of John Bell, min. of
Tron Parish, Glasgow, and had issue
David, apothecary in Glasgow : John ; and
a daugh. [Test. (Glasg.) and Glasg. Reg.
(Marr. and Bapt.); Mun. Univ. Glasg.,
iii. : Wodrow ; s MSS., ITJJJ, ; Stevenson s
Hist., iiL]
JOHN" WE1E, M.A.: trans- from Carluke ;
pres. by John, Lord Bahnerino, and
adm. 12th May 1647 ; member of
the Commission of Assembly 1648, and
of that for visiting the University of Edin
burgh, 31st July 1649. From 7th July
1650 to 26th Dec. 1651, "no session was
held in respect of the great troubles and
wane betwixt Scotland and England.
The Scots army lying in leagour about
Leith, and, after the defeat at Dunbar,
the ministers and most part of all the
honest people fled out of the town, for
fear of the enemie." Immediately on his
return, on Sunday 23rd Nov. 1651, Weir
convened the scattered congregation of
Leith together, and preached to them in
the Caitchball or tennis court, near Holy-
rood. Trans, to Borthwick 14th April 1652.
[EJtn. Reg. (Marr.} ; Acts of Ass. and
Parl.. vi]
JOHX HOG [HOGG or HOOG], son
1653 of Thomas H., min. of Stobo : MJL
(Edinburgh, 26th July 1634); licen.
by Presb. of Dalkeith 13th Oct. 1636:
oid. to West Linton, Peeblesshire, 5th
Feb. 1640; trans, to Canongate 19th May
1646: called by a committee of Session
and Heritors llth Jan., trans, and adm.
(at Restalrig) 28th July 1653. He preached
in the Tolbooth 22nd June 1654, which was
the first day of preaching in Leith since
3rd Sept. 1650. Deprived by the Acts of
Parliament and Privy Council in 1662 ;
adm. min. of the Scottish Church, Rotter
dam, 31st Dec. 1662, and took leave
of his native land 4th June 1663. Though
ministering in a foreign country, he was
forfeited by the Court of Justiciary, 2nd
April 1683, for holding intercourse with
several intercommuned ministers who had
escaped to Holland, and had his goods
escheat, 25th Feb. 1684. Feeling at
length the infirmities of age, he dem.
1st July 1689; died April 1692, in his
79th year, and had issue William ; John,
buried in Greyfriars, 29th May 1673;
and a daugh. Thomas Hog, nephew of
John Hog, was min. of Delft, Campvere,
and Rotterdam. An original portrait of
John Hog is extant at the latter place.
[Douglas s Bar., Lament s Diary, Min.
Hook Reg. Prii\ Seal, Steven s Scott. Ch.
Jfotterd. ; Wodrow s Hist., i.-iii.]
JOHN* HAMILTON, MA. : trans, from
Cramond ; colL 4th, and adm. 10th
Sept. 1663 ; ordered to be removed
hence to Cramond, 16th July 1674 (Scot.
Warrant Boot, iii., 19) but not carried into
effect ; Sub-Dean of the Chapel Royal 31st
May 1681 ; trans, to Tolbooth Parish,
Edinburgh: same year became Bishop of
Dunkeld ($..). [Reg. Collat.; Wodrows
Hist^ iL ; Chambers s Ann., ii. ; Min. Book
Key. Priv. S<al, v.]
EDINBURGH]
SOUTH LEITH
163
JAMES WAUGH, born 1645, a native
1682 ^ Lanark; M.A. (Edinburgh 1665);
licen. by Alexander, Bishop of
Edinburgh, 10th Oct. 1672 ; ord. to Kirk-
newton 21st Oct. 1673; trans, and adm.
25th May 1682 ; deprived by the Committee
of the Estates, 2nd May 1689, for contra
vening their Proclamation, 13th April
preceding. He was the first of those
removed from their livings at the Revolu
tion. He had sasines, March 1679, of
parts of the Overtown of Kirknewton ;
March 1681, of the lands of Easter Kirk
newton ; and December following, of the
former again, with the teinds of Easter
Kirknewton, and " ane parcell " of the
minister of Kirknewton : also, 10th April,
a confirmation of the Overtown of Kirk
newton. He died 2nd April 1691.
Robert Waugh, in Quothquan, a younger
brother, was served heir 4th Aug. 1693.
{Edin. Reg. (Bur.); Acts Parl., ix. ;
Min. Book Reg. Priv. Seal, v. ; Part. Reg.
S<M. Edin. ; Inq. Ret. Edin., 1511 ; Peter-
kin s Constitution of the Church.]
WILLIAM WISHART, called 24th Nov.
1687 ; ord. (in the meeting-house)
1688 12th Jan. 1688. His call was ap
proved by the parish 1st July 1688, and
confirmed by the Presb. 6th Jan. 1692,
having before this been only min. of a
"gathered congregation." "The Presby
tery, with the magistrates of Edinburgh
and Leith, came 10th Aug. 1692 and
required the keys of the church doors from
the min. [Charles Kay] and neighbours,
to which it was answered, that if they
had any warrand from the Privy Council
for that effect, or any remit from them
to the Presb. authorising them to pro
ceed, they were ready to give obedience;
but none being produced, they thought
themselves not obliged, the matter being
still depending before the Council, and
protested against any violent intrusion to
be made by them, and for cost, skaith, and
damage, and for remeid of law. Notwith
standing whereof the magistrates and
ministers of the Presb. with a confused
company of people entered the church, by
breaking open the windows, breaking the
; locks off the doors, and putting on new
ones, and so caused guard the church doors
with halberts, rang the bell, and possest
: Mr W. of the church, against all which
irregular procedure public protests were
taken. ;: Having been adm. to the charge
in this manner, he "came to the church
next day with a guard of halberts, and
preached, and after sermon took possession
J of the session-house, Kay [Second Charge]
i and his Session being refused entry, the
bailies declaring W. s the only legal Session,
I on which K. took instruments. W. preached
j every Sunday forenoon, and his colleague
in the afternoon, in the church. On the
afternoon of Sunday W. preached in the
i meeting-house, and on Thursdays they
I preached in the church and meeting-house
j alternately. The Presbyterian Session,
however, got a decreet from the Privy
Council, 28th Feb. 1693, "declaring them
the only legal Session, and ordaining K. s
[the Episcopal] Sess. to deliver up the
poor s-box, all rights of mortification,
utencils of the church, etc. ; Trans, to
Tron, Edinburgh, 3rd Sept. 1707. [Wod-
row s Hist., iv.]
JOHN SHAW, studied at Glasgow
1708 ^ n ^ v - > li cen - by Presb. of Dalkeith
7th Jan. 1696 ; ord. to Xewton 21st
April 1696 ; trans, to Leslie, Fife, 29th
Nov. 1698; called 18th March, trans, and
adm. 22nd April 1708. He refused to take
the Oath of Abjuration in 1712; died 7th
Sept. 1739, in his 66th year. He marr.
20th Jan. 1734, Cecil Stenhouse, widow of
Charles Hay, banker, who survived him.
Publication Two Sermons, posthumous
(Edinburgh, 1743). [Test. Reg.}
WILLIAM AITKEX, ord. min. of Lar-
1740 bert 6tt ^ 6pt> 1732 Pre3 by Jolln >
Lord Balmerino, 14th March 1740,
trans, and adm. 26th June 1740; died 4th
Sept. 1765, in 60th year. He marr. 28th
Nov. 1750, Christian (died 4th Jan. 1786X
daugh. of James Stevenson, min. of Old
Greyfriars, and had issue Thomas, born
6th Jan. 1755. Publication Ten Sermons
on Important Subject* (published by his
Widow; Edinburgh, 1767).
[PRESB. OF
THOMAS SCOTT, son of Walter S,
17 merchant, Leith ; M.A. (Edinburgh,
18th March 1742 ; ord. to Cavers
17th April 1747; trans, to Second Charge
12th Nov. 1762 ; pres. by George III. 19th
Sept., and adm. 26th Oct. 1765 ; died
16th July 1790, in 68th year. He raarr.
15th Aug. 1750, Helen (died at Edinburgh,
13th March 1806), daugh. of John Balfour,
and niece of James Balfour of Pilrig,
and had issue Walter, born 3rd May 1753 ;
Martha Janet, born 29th Sept. 1756 ; John,
surgeon, 10th Light Dragoons, born 14th
May 1758, died 7th Sept. 1791 ; Thomas,
min. of Newton, born 4th April 1764.
ROBERT DICKSON, son of D. of
Lochenvoods ; licen. by Presb. of
Annan 4th Dec. 1782 ; ord. to
Second Charge 17th July 1787 ; pres. by
George III., trans, and adm. 29th Sept.
1790; D.D. (Edinburgh, 27th March
1800) ; nom. principal clerk of the General
Assembly, in opposition to Andrew Dun
can, min. of Ratho, 21st May 1807, but was
defeated by a majority of 48; declined nomi
nation to the Moderatorship 1812 ; died un-
marr. 25th Jan. 1824. [Scots Mag., xciii.]
JAMES GRANT, pres. by George IV.
1824 22nd March 1799; ord. 26th Aug.
1824 ; D.D. (Glasgow, April 1842) ;
suspended (with nine others, by the General
Assembly, 30th May 1842), for holding
communion with the deposed ministers
of Strathbogie ; trans, to St Mary s, Edin
burgh, 16th Nov. 1843.
WILLIAM STEVENSON, D.D. ; trans.
from Arbroath 10th May 1844; res.
30th Oct. 1861, on admission as Pro
fessor of Church History, Edinburgh Univ.
JAMES MITCHELL, born 5th Oct.
1830, son of James M., min. of Gar-
vock, Kincardineshire ; educated at
Aberdeen Grammar School and Marischal
College; M.A. (1850); licen. by Presb. of
Fordoun 16th May 1854; assistant at St
Enoch s, Glasgow; ord. Peterhead 23rd
Aug. 1855 ; trans, and adm. 24th March
1864; D.D. (Aberdeen 1831); Moderator
of the General Assembly 1901 ; res. 30th
Dec. 1903 ; died 21st Sept. 1911. He marr.
1844
1864
1904
(1) 7th Sept. 1859, Georgina (died 4th Nov.
1860), only daugh. of James Skelton of
Sandforth, Newton, Sheriff-substitute of
Aberdeen, and had issue Georgina, born
4th Nov. 1860 (marr. Major-Gen. Edwin
Loftus M Causland : (2) 19th Dec. 1862,
Catherine (died 2nd Jan. 1867), eldest
daugh. of Rev. Charles Haycock of Pytch-
ley House, Northamptonshire : (3) 18th
Jan. 1875, Janet Stewart, daugh. of James
Sceales, merchant, Leith. Publications
The Church and the People; Rulers and
Subjects ; The Voluntary Question ; The
Revised Version; Faithfulness in Little
Things ; The Minister in the Manse, the
Pulpit, and the Parish (12th ed.), trans,
lated into German and Chinese ; Significant
Etymology (Edinburgh, 1908).
JOHN WHITE, M.A.; trans, from
Shettleston 27th Sept. 1904; trans.
to Barony, Glasgow, 7th June 1911.
WILLIAM SWAN, born Grcenock, 31st
Dec. 1865, son of Andrew S. and
1911 Catherine Bowes MTadyen ; edu
cated at Greenock Academy, Glasgow High
School and University ; M.A. (1887), B.D.
(1890) ; licen. by Presb. of Greenock
May 1890 ; assistant at Larkhall ; ord. to
Toward Chapel-of-Ease June 1892 ; trans.
to Old Kilpatrick 26th Sept. 1893; trans,
and adm. 12th Dec. 1911. Marr. 22nd Aug.
1894, Catherine, daugh. of James Orr,
Brigend, Islay, and Anne Christie, and has
issue Anne Eila, born 20th Oct. 1895 ;
Noel Patrick Andrew, born 23rd Dec.
1896 ; Catherine Alison, born 21st July
1898 ; Dorothy Mary, born 19th July 1900 ;
William, born 3rd Sept. 1904.
SECOND CHARGE.
[An Act of Parliament was passed for
the discontinuance of the Second Charge
and for other church purposes, 21st July
1873, vide page 21 Abbey Church.]
JOHN DURIE, trans, from Colinton ;
157 adm. May 1570; trans, to St Giles,
Edinburgh, in 1574. \_Reg. Min.,
Melvill s Autob., Scott s Reformers; New
Stat. Ace., ix.]
EDINBURGH]
SOUTH LEITH
165
JAMES LOGAN, M.A. ; adm. before
. 16th Nov. 1591 ; trans, to Eddleston
22nd April 1593. [J/S. Bond of
Mr Dav. Lindesay, and Petition to Gen.
Ass., 1593.]
[GEORGE SEMPILL, formerly of
Houston; mentioned as min. in
1593. On 15th April 1595, "certain
brethern gave in sundrie informations,
among quhilk, That he was a wanter
(vaunter) of himself, and ane that was
given ower-meikle to his awin praising. "]
JOHN HALL, trans, from Colinton ;
1596 adm. 24th Oct. 1596; trans, to St
Giles 7th Dec. 1598. [Reg. Assig.,
Eooke of the Kirk.]
ANDREW LAMB of South Tarrie ;
lflno min. of Burntisland 1593 ; trans, to
Arbroath 1596 ; trans, and adm.
22nd July 1600. Being appointed chaplain
to John, Earl of Mar, ambassador to
England, the Presb., 4th Feb. 1601, agreed
to supply his place till his return. Having
been appointed chaplain to the Royal
Household, he was ordered by the General
Assembly, 12th Nov. 1602, to enter on his
cure "betwixt and the 1st Januar nixt. 3
[Eooke of the Kirk, Row s and Calder-
wood s Hists., Melvill s Autob. ; Pitcairn s
Cr. Trials, ii.j
JOHN MORAY, M.A. ; trans, from
Borthwick ; adm. 1603. He unsuc
cessfully opposed the reception of
the constant Moderator, nominated by the
General Assembly 17th Dec. 1606, main
taining that by such a proposal the liberty
of the Kirk was overthrown. Heartily sym
pathising with the six banished brethren,
he received them into his house, and
hospitably treated them previous to their
departure. Opposing the entry of Epis
copal authority in the Church, and preach
ing against it in a sermon at the opening
of Synod, he was summoned before the
Privy Council, 25th Feb. 1608, and dis
missed. He incurred the royal displeasure,
however, and a warrant was issued for his !
committal to the Castle. The General j
Assembly, July following, requested that
he might be released, which was done in
the succeeding year, on condition "That
he sould within twentie dayes goe to
Newabbey, and there keepe within the
compasse of four myles ; preache not, and
goe not to Leith before his departure. ;;
The Chancellor (Alexander, Earl of Dun-
fermline) accused the bishops of "barbar
ous and unbrotherlie dealing," in depriving
him of his situation and living, when his
office and quality, as well as the state of
his wife s health, called for different treat
ment. He retired to Dumfries for eighteen
months, assisting his brethren in preaching.
For other six months he resided in Dysart,
then left for Prestonpans, where he took
every opportunity of exercising his ministry.
He became min. of Dunfermline. [Reg.
Assig., Eooke of the Kirk, Row s and
Calderwood s Hists., Test. Reg. ; Christ.
Mag., vii. ; Melvill s Autob. ; Wodrow s ^fS.
Biog., iv.]
DAVID LINDSAY, M.A. ; trans, from
16og Forgan; adm. by James, Bishop of
Orkney, 30th July 1609 ; trans, to
First Charge in 1613. [Calderwood s Hist. ;
Orig. Lett., i. ; Eooke of the Kirk.]
THOMAS HOG, M.A.; master of the
Grammar School ; adm. after 4th
July 1616; trans, to Stobo in 1618.
[.VS. Geneal. of Hog.}
JOHN CRANSTOUN, M.A. ; adm.
162 ; trans - to Liberton in 1624.
[Act Rect. Univ. St And., St Cuthbert s
Sess. and Edin. Reg. (Baj)t.\ Reg. Presb.]
JAMES FAIRLIE, M.A. ; regent in the
Univ. of Edinburgh ; adm. 1625 ;
trans, to the Professorship of Divinity
in the Univ. of Edinburgh 1629 (<j.i<.).
[Grant s Univ.]
WILLIAM MORTON [MYRETON],
son of William M. of Cambo (Fife
Sas., x., 242) ; educated at the Univs.
of Glasgow and St Andrews ; M.A. (1627) ;
tutor to John, Lord Borthwick, and on the
exercise at Dalkeith. After leets had proved
twice unsuccessful, he was elected "by
the Session, Sailors, Maltmen, Traffickers,
Crafts, and Mealmakers, all in one voice,"
1616
1620
1625
166
SOUTH LEITH
[PRESB. OF
30th Jan. ; pres. and adm. 1st March
1631. He disappeared after 24th Jan.
1639. The congregation, 28th April there
after, protested against him, in respect "he
did desert his ministry without licence of
the Presb. or congregation." Thrust from
his church and plundered of his goods and
gear by the violence of the Covenanters, he
was compelled to fly to England, where he
was incarcerated in the prison at York, and
continued there to the utter ruin of himself,
his family, fortune, and estate. In 1642 he
was min. at Anderbiestipill, in Yorkshire
(Reg. of Deeds, dxli., 155). He marr. (cont.
16th July 1631 : Reg. of Deeds, dxxix., 298)
Elizabeth, eldest daugh. of Ninian M Moran
of Newhall, and had issue Elizabeth, died
before 1688 ; Agnes or Anna (marr., pro.
18th Nov. 1669, John Fermour, writer,
Edinburgh, afterwards baron - clerk of
Anstruther), as a widow with children,
she petitioned the Privy Council, 29th
July 1685, who ordered her 2000 merks
from vacant stipends in the Diocese of
Argyll ; Eupham (marr. David Anderson) ;
Margaret (marr. Alexander Home, M.A.);
Thomas, died before his father (G. R.
Inhib., 5th Oct., 1671 ; G. R. Homings,
17th Aug. 1688). [Mun. Univ. Glasg.,\i\.;
Act Rect. Univ. St And., Sess. Reg., Row s
and Stevenson s Hists., Chambers s Ann.]
ALEXANDER GIBSON, M.A. ; adm.
1640; app. by the Presb. to attend
the army in England 5th May 1644.
The Session, 6th Jan. 1646, petitioned the
Presb. to use their influence with the
patron for his appointment to the First
Charge, from the "solid experience" they
had " of his fidelitie and diligence in feed
ing the flock of God, not by constraint but
willinglie, in our greatest straits, and
dangers," and in a letter to the patron
himself five days after, they declare their
unanimous affection towards him, "from
his unblameable conversatione, his integ-
ritie in the publick cause of religion, his
fidelitie and diligence in dispensing holie
things, his prudent resolution in vindicating
the liberties of our Kirk and Sessione, and
his willingness to bestow gladlie, and to
be bestowed for our soules when the hand
of the Lord was heavelie smyting us." On
a question " being put, whether to suppli
cate again or not?" they answered in ane
voice (being posed man by man) that they
would do so againe and againe if there
were ane hope that he wold grant their
request, but they could see no hope to
insist therein for him." Having supplied
the vacant First Charge almost two years
in addition to his own, and because of his
extraordinary "pains" during the time of
the pestilence, the Session, 9th May 1647,
presented him with 800 merks, in addition
to his ordinary stipend of 1200 merks.
When the English took possession of Leith
he removed, and was appointed by Presb.
of Dunblane, 30th Oct. 1650, to supply
Dunblane "until it sal pleas God he get
back." In 1652 he was min. of Ayton.
[Dimblane Presb. Reg.~\
GEORGE KINTORE, M.A. ; called 2nd
1657 Oct. 1656; adm. 16th June 1657;
trans, to Cranston 1663. [Wodrow s
Hist.}
1664
JOHN CORSAWR [COSSAR], M.A. ;
called by the Session and neighbours,
with one consent, 15th May, ord. and
coll. 20th, and adm. 21st July 1664; trans.
to Dalgety in 1669. [Act Rect. Univ. St
And., Sess. Reg., Reg. Collat.}
ANDREW CANT, M.A. ; called by the
Session and neighbours 29th Dec.
1670; ord. and coll. 30th Jan., and
adm. 5th Feb. 1671 ; trans, to Trinity
Parish, Edinburgh, in 1679. [Reg. Collat. ;
Inq. Ret. Gen., 6803.]
CHARLES KAY, son of Robert K., min.
1681 of Stow; M.A. (Edinburgh 1668);
min. of St Cuthbert s, Second
Charge, 1677; trans., adm., and inst. 15th
Sept. 1681 ; deprived in 1694 f or non-jurancy
(P. C. Ada, 6th Sept. 1694); died 17th
Nov. 1719, in 70th year. He had issue
Barbara ; Christian ; Robert, a skipper in
Leith. \8tow Sess., Test., and Reg. (Bur.) ;
Reg. Collat. ; MS. Act of Min., 1689.]
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SOUTH LEITH
167
1695
JOHN GILCHRIST, M.A.; called by
the Kirk-session and delegates from
the Incorporations 20th June, and
ord. llth Sept. 1695. He was one of forty-
four sent to supply the want of Presbyterian
min. in the North (1696), of whom twenty-
two, it was agreed, should remain, if they
received calls ; trans, to Alves 16th May
1697. [Acts of Ass., 1695, 1697.]
JAMES DICKSON, M.A. ; called 23rd
170Q April, and ord. 16th July 1700;
trans, to Markinch 23rd Jan. 1712.
WILLIAM BROWN, M.A. ; called llth
April, and ord. 25th July 1712. He
scrupled to take the Oath of Abjura
tion same year, and was trans, to Lady
Tester s, Edinburgh, 19th Jan. 1721.
JAMES STEVENSON, M.A. ; called
1721 20th April, and ord. 17th Aug. 1721.
He had no sermon at the opening of
Synod, 30th April 1745, for fear of the
rebels, but was re-elected Moderator, and
had the honour of signing an address to
the King. Trans, to New Greyfriars,
Edinburgh, 20th June 1745. [Act Rect.
Univ. St And., Scoonie Sess. Rey.~]
ROBERT WALKER, trans, from
1746 Straiten ; called 15th May, and
adm. 20th Nov. 1746 ; trans, to
St Giles, Edinburgh, llth Oct. 1754.
[Kay s Portr., i. ; Sermons, iii.]
1755
ALEXANDER STUART, pres. by
George II. and by the Kirk-session
and Incorporation of Shipmasters,
and ord. 10th July 1755; trans, to St
Cuthbert s 10th June 1762.
THOMAS SCOTT, M.A. ; trans, from
1762 Cavers ) P res - by the Kirk-session,
etc., 9th Aug., and adm. 12th Nov.
1762; trans, to First Charge 26th Oct.
1765.
HENRY HUNTER, born 25th Aug.
176Q 1741, fifth son of David H. and
Agnes H., Culross ; educated at
Univ. of Edinburgh; tutor to Claude
Irvine Boswell, later Lord Balmuto, and
in the family of Archibald, Earl of Dun-
donald ; licen. by Presb. of Dunferm-
line 2nd May 1764, assistant to William
Arthur, First Charge, for some months
before his death (Home Office Cat., 1760-5,
No. 1908); pres. by the Magistrates, etc.,
in 1766; ord. 9th Jan. 1766; dem. (on
receiving a call to the Scots Church,
London-Wall), 31st July, and adm. there
llth Aug. 1771; D.D. (Edinburgh, soon
after); Secretary to the Board of the
Society in Scotland for Propagating
Christian Knowledge, 5th Aug. 1790;
died 27th Oct. 1802, and interred in
Bunhill Fields. He marr. 21st May 1766,
Margaret (died 25th July 1803), daugh.
of Thomas Charters, min. of Inverkeith-
ing, and had issue David, born 27th Feb.
1767, died 2nd Nov. 1767; Samuel, born
llth May 1768, and others, most of whom
died young. Publications Thirteen single
Sermons (London, 1774-98); Sacred Bio
graphy, 6 vols. (London, 1783-92; 8th ed.,
1820) ; Sermon V. (Scotch Preacher, iii. ;
Edinburgh, 1789) ; A Brief History of the
Society in Scotland for Propagating
Christian Knoidedge (London, 1795); Ser
mons, 2 vols. (London, 1795); A History of
London and its Environs (London, 1796);
Charge at the Ordination of William
Nicol (Steven s Sermons, London, 1796);
Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity
(begun by John Fell; London, 1798);
Sermons, and other Miscellaneous Pieces,
2 vols. (London, 1804). Translated from
the French Lavater s Essays on Physi
ognomy, 5 vols. (London, 1789-98) ; Studies
of Nature, by St Pierre, 5 vols. (London,
1796-7); Sermons, by Saurin (vol. vi. ;
London, 1796) ; Travels in Egypt, by
Sonnini de Manencourt, 3 vols. (London,
1799); Life of Catherine II., Empress of
Russia, by Castera, 2 vols. (1800); and
from the German Letters to a German
Princess, by Euler, 2 vols. (London, 1795;
new ed., 1846). [Sermons and Misc. Pieces,
i. ; Wilson s Diss. Churches, Lond. ; Diet.
Nat. BiogJ]
JOHN LOGAN, born in 1748, at Soutra,
Midlothian, was son of George L.,
farmer, and Janet, daugh. of John
Waterston or Weatherston, Stow. He
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SOUTH LEITH
[PRESB. OP
was removed soon after his birth to Gosford
Mains, East Lothian, and received his
early education at the Grammar School
of Musselburgh. In 1762 he entered the I
Univ. of Edinburgh, where he excelled in !
classics and English literature. He was
for a time tutor at Ulbster to John, after
wards the celebrated Sir John Sinclair,
Bart. ; licen. by Presb. of Haddington 27th
Sept. 1770 ; he received, in the year follow
ing, a presentation to this parish, but a
competing presentation delayed his settle
ment until the matter came before the
Court of Session, which gave judgment in
his favour. He was accordingly ordained
2nd April 1773. In 1775 he became a
member of the Assembly s Committee on
the Paraphrases, and was the largest con
tributor to the collection. During the
college sessions, 1779-80 and 1780-81, he
delivered a series of Lectures on History,
which the Edinburgh literati regarded
with much favour. The presentation of
his tragedy of Runnamede at an Edin
burgh theatre, in 1783, gave offence to his
parishioners and to many of the public
so pronounced, indeed, was the feeling
against him that for this, and other
reasons, he found it expedient to demit
his charge, 27th Dec. 1786. He had an
annuity of 40 from the stipend. The
remainder of his life was spent in London,
where he occupied himself with literary
pursuits. He died unmarr., on Christmas
Day 1788. As a preacher he was con
sidered one of the most eloquent of his
time. It is around his reputation as a
poet that the main interest centres. In
1770 he published the Poems of his friend
and fellow-student, Michael Bruce, adding
" some poems written by different authors."
The " Ode to the Cuckoo " was the second
last piece of the collection. Eleven
years later he issued a volume of Poems
under his own name, in which the
" Cuckoo " ode had first place. Then
began the long Logan-Bruce controversy,
which is not likely to be ever satisfactorily
settled. The charge against Logan of
appropriating both Bruce s " Hymns " and
" Ode to the Cuckoo " has been renewed
from time to time, and the assertion is
made that all the Paraphrases which he
furnished to the Church were also the
work of his friend. Logan, however, was
a genuine poet, and in spite of circum
stances which militate against his claims,
a good case can be made out in his
behalf. He was probably the sole author
of Pars, viii., ix., x., xi., xviii., xxxi.,
xxxviii., liii., Ivii., and of Hymn v. ;
and he may have revised (or assisted to
revise) Pars, i., ii., xxiii., xxv., xxviii.,
xlviii., and Ixiii. Publications Verses on
the Esk (Scots Mag., Ixv.); ed. Poems ly
Michael Bruce (Edinburgh, 1770); Ele
ments of the Philosophy of History, Part i.
(London, 1781) ; Essay on the Manners of
Asia, 1781 ; Poems (London, 1781 ; new ed.,
with Life, 1807) ; Runnamede, a Tragedy
(London, 1783) ; A Review of the Principal
Charges against Warren Hastings, Esq.,
late Governor-General of Bengal (London,
1788) ; he is also said to have written A
View of Ancient History, by William
Rutherford, D.D., Head of an Academy at
Uxbridge, 2 vols. (London, 1788-93); Ser
mons, 2 vols., with a Memoir (London,
1790-1) (which have gone through many
editions). [Anderson s Brit. Poets, xi. ;
Chambers s Biog. Diet., iii. ; Robertson s
Lethendy Case, Maclagan s Scottish Para
phrases, Young s Metrical Psalms and
Paraphrases; Laing s Ode to the Cuckoo,
with Remarks on its Authorship; John
Small s (Librarian, Edin. Univ.) "Michael
Bruce and the Authorship of the Ode to the
Cuckoo," in British and Foreign Evangelical
Review, July 1877 ; Rev. Robert Small s
" Michael Bruce versus John Logan " two
articles in British and Foreign Evangelical
Review, April 1878 and Oct. 1879 ; Principal
Shairp s "Michael Bruce," etc., in Good
Words, Nov. 1873 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. ]
ROBERT DICKSON, pres. by the
Magistrates, Incorporations, and
Kirk-session Jan., and ord. 17th
July 1787; trans, to First Charge 29th
Sept. 1790.
THOMAS MACKNIGHT, pres. by the
17Q1 Magistrates Nov. 1790; ord. 17th
Feb. 1791 ; trans, to Trinity Parish,
Edinburgh, 21st June 1804. [Anderson s
EDINBURGH]
SOUTH LEITH ST MUNGO S
169
Edin. Clergy ; Acts of Ass. y 1802 ; Steven s
High School ; Kay s Portr., ii.]
JAMES ROBERTSON, licen. by Presb.
1804 ^ Glasgow 2nd May 1781 ; ord.
assistant at St Ninians 13th Aug.
1783 ; adm. to Gargunnock 12th July 1787 ;
pres. by the Magistrates, etc., and trans,
and adm. 13th Dec. 1804; D.D. (Edin
burgh, 9th Dec. 1805); died at Balloan,
Perthshire, 25th Aug. 1832, in 75th year.
He marr. (1) 24th Sept. 1787, Ann Walker,
who died 18th Oct. 1806, and had issue
Campbell, born llth Sept. 1788, died 7th
Jan. 1807 ; John Thomas, merchant, Leith,
born 20th April 1793, died 17th April
1865 : (2) 25th Feb. 1808, Alison (died 10th
June 1858), daugh. of William Jamieson,
Portobello, and had issue Christian, died
3rd Dec. 1809. Publications The Duty of
Contending Earnestly for the Faith once
delivered to the Saints, a sermon (Edin
burgh, 1811) ; Account of Gargunnock (Sin
clair s Stat. Ace., xviii.). [Tombst., Kay s
Portr.]
DAVID THORBURN, born 31st Aug.
1805, son of William T., merchant,
Leith, and Marion Marshall ; edu
cated at Leith High School, Edinburgh
High School, and Univ. ; licen. by Presb.
of Edinburgh 27th July 1831 ; assistant to
preceding ; pres. Nov. 1832 ; ord. 14th
March 1833 ; M.A. (Edinburgh, 30th March
1833). Joined the Free Church ; min. of
South Leith Free Church 1843 ; D.D. (Edin
burgh 1885); died 22nd Aug. 1893. He
marr. 12th Dec. 1843, Jane (born 25th
June 1809, died 10th June 1874), daugh. of
John Hay and Jane Pasley, and had issue
William David, advocate, born 20th Feb.
1846, died 19th Feb. 1888; John Hay,
born 9th Jan. 1848, general secretary,
Free Church of Scotland, 1900-8 ; Jane
Pasley Hay, born 2nd April 1850 (marr.
J. J. Graham Brown, M.D.), died 1891.
Publications The Divine Origin and Per
petual and Universal Obligation of Tithes
(Edinburgh, 1841) ; The Constitution of the
Deacon s Court (Edinburgh, 1847); The
Divinely-Prescribed Method for the Sup-
port of the Clergy (Edinburgh, 1847) ; The
Sustentation Fund of the Free Church
(Edinburgh, 1852) ; Historical Review of
the Legislation of the Free Church on the
Sustentation Fund (Edinburgh, 1855) ; Sup
plemental Review on the Same (Edinburgh,
1855) ; Memorandum Relative to the Ter-
Centenary of the Reformation in Scotland
(Edinburgh, 1860) ; II ow to get rid of
Parliamentary Grants to Rome (Edin
burgh, 1860) ; Suggestions Relative to the
Formation of a National Association for
Scotland (Edinburgh, 1863); The Endmv-
ment of the Universities of Scotland an
Object of National Importance (1864).
[Macfarlan s Leith Clergy, Campbell
Irons s Leith and its Antiquities, Family
Papers.]
1844
HENRY DUFF, born Leslie, Fife,
5th July 1807, son of Peter D.,
Walkerston Flax Mill, and Anne
Russell ; educated at Leslie and Dunferm-
line, Univs. of St Andrews and Edinburgh ;
English master (1833), and latterly head
master of the Trades House School,
Glasgow ; one of the originators of Queen s
College, Glasgow; ord. 15th Feb. 1844;
clerk to Presb. of Edinburgh 1845 ; died
12th June 1872, when the Second Charge
ended. He marr. llth July 1843, Margaret
(died 19th Aug. 1894), daugh. of Robert
Dunlop Mather, merchant, Glasgow, and
had issue Mary Anne, born 17th April
1844 (marr. llth Aug. 1864, Alexander
Latta, solicitor); Henry John, born 1st
April 1847 (deceased) ; Robert James, born
llth Nov. 1851 ; Alexander, born 2nd
June 1854. Publications Editor of The
Literary Museum and Critical Review
(Glasgow, 1832); editor of The Scottish
Pulpit (1832); various papers to The
Republic of Letters (Glasgow), and The
Covenanter (Belfast).
ST MUNGCTS
(Chape l-of-Ea s e).
GEORGE JACK, born Monquhitter,
1901 Aberdeenshire, 9th Feb. 1865, son
of Alexander J. and Helen Legge ;
educated at Old Grammar School and
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ST MUNGCTS LIBERTON
[PRESB. OF
Univ. of Aberdeen; M.A. (Aberdeen,
1890); licen. by Presb. of Turriff 1892;
assistant at St Aidan s, Edinburgh ; ord.
28th June, 1901. Marr. 10th Oct. 1906,
Jeannie, daugh. of John Ross. Publica
tions The Sin of Cruelty to Animals;
Industrial War.
LIBERTON.
[Belonged before the Reformation to the
Abbey of Holyrood house. The church was
dedicated to the Virgin Mary.]
ALEXANDER FORRESTER, formerly
1562 canon f tne Abbey of Holyrood ;
may have been the son of Alexander
F., who owned land in Liberton in 1536 ;
was a member of Assembly 29th June 1562 ;
trans, to Jedburgh before 25th June 1566.
[Booke of the Kirk.]
ANDREW BLACKHALL, trans, to
1564 Ormiston af ter 5tn June 1567 (Acts
and Dec., xxxix., 235).
THOMAS CRANSTOUN, min. of
156g Borthwick in 1567; adm. at Lam
mas 1569; trans, to Peebles May
1570; returned before 1574; continued
in 1578; removed to Ashkirk in 1579;
declined a call to Annan 7th May 1580 ;
returned after 12th April 1582; died in
Edinburgh, 21st May 1585. He marr. (1)
before 1559, Janet Liddell, Lady Halkerston
(Acts and Dec., xlvii., 281): (2) after 1570,
Janet Mowbray, and had issue Michael,
his successor ; Andrew, schoolmaster of
Peebles; Isobel. [Reg. Min. and Assig.,
Test. Reg. ; Wodroiv Miscell. and Biog., i. ;
Archceol. Scot., i.]
JOHN DAVIDSON, M.A. ; formerly
regent in St Leonard s College, St
Andrews; min. in 1579. He fled to
England about the end of April 1584, to
escape the troubles of the period, and
appears as min. of this parish for the last
time 7th Oct. following. He was offered
to be again settled here, but refused, 5th
Nov. 1588. He became min. of Preston-
pans 1596. [Reg. Assig., Calderwood s
Hist, Test. Reg. ; Edinr. Chr. Inst., xxii. ;
Chambers s Biog. Diet., ii. ; Archceol. Scot.,
i. ; Wodrow s Biog., i. ; Diet. Nat. Biog.]
MICHAEL CRANSTOUN, trans, from
1586 Selkirk ; pres. to the vicarage by
James VI. 8th March 1586 ; trans.
to Cramond in 1590. [Reg. Assig., Excheq.
Buik.]
JAMES BENNET, M.A. (St Andrews
lggl 1581) ; min. of Ormiston 1585 ; trans,
and coll. to the vicarage May 1591.
He was suspended by the Presb., 2nd
Oct. 1599, whilst under a sentence for
rebellion; reponed llth Dec. thereafter;
died before 20th March 1609. He had a
son, George, bapt. 6th Aug. 1598. [Reg.
Assig., Edin. Reg. (Bapt.) ; Calderwood s
Hist., v.]
1609
JOHN ADAMSON, born 1576, son of
Henry A., Provost of Perth; M.A.
(Edinburgh, 30th July 1597) ; Regent
of Philosophy in Univ. of Edinburgh 1598 ;
min. of North Berwick 1604 ; pres. by
James VI., and adm. 20th March 1609 ;
member of Aberdeen Assembly 1616 ; one
of a committee appointed to draw up
a form of liturgy and a catechism for
children ; trans, to the Principalship of
the Univ. of Edinburgh in 1623 ; died 1651.
He marr. (cont. 2nd May 1606, pro. 15th
March 1607) Marion (died 1651), daugh.
of Thomas Auchmoutie, merchant, burgess
of Edinburgh (Dupplin Charters), and had
issue David, bapt. 20th Dec. 1608 ; Marie,
bapt. 24th Sept. 1611. Publications
The Muses Welcome to the High and
Mighty Prince (James VI.) (Edinburgh,
1618) ; Eroixfta<m, Eloquiorum Dei (1627).
[Grant s Univ., Reg. Assig., Edin. Reg.
(Bapt.) ; Bannatyne Miscell., iii. ; Murray s
Life of Rutherford, Diet. Nat. Biog.]
JOHN CRANSTOUN, M.A. ; trans.
from Second Charge, South Leith;
1624 pres. by James VI. 12th March 1624 ;
trans, to First Charge, South Leith, in
1627. [Bannatyne Miscell., iii.]
EDINBURGH]
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171
ANDREW LEARMONTH, M.A., son of
1627 J^ n k. of Balcomie and Birkhill,
and Elizabeth Myrton of Rander-
ston ; regent in Old College, St Andrews ;
pres. by Charles I. 7th Sept. 1627, and
adm. soon after. In 1638 he informed the
King of the outrages of the people against
those ministers who were zealous in his
service. Deposed in 1639 for calling
the Covenanters perjured, etc. He was
obliged to quit the Kingdom, lived in
great want, and died 4th Nov. 1662,
leaving not enough to bury him. His
widow, Agnes Aytoun, obtained a grant
from the vacant stipends in 1662 (Privy
Council Decreta). He had issue Jean ;
David ; John ; Margaret. [Edin. Reg.
(Bapt,\ Wodrow MSS., Durie s Dec.,
Lochleven Pap. ; Baillie s Lett., i. ; Peter-
kin s Records, Stevenson s Hist.]
ARCHIBALD NEWTON, born Edin-
1639 burgh 1605 ; M.A. (Edinburgh, 23rd
July 1625); one of the masters in
the High School 19th Feb. 1630 ; licen. by
Presb. of Dalkeith 29th Sept. 1631 ; went
abroad, where he suffered imprisonment
for a too free criticism of the Romish
Church ; adm. min. of Duddingston 1635 ;
trans, and adm. 19th May 1639 ; pres. by
Charles I. 8th Sept. 1641 ; died 2nd June
1657. He left (Test., 27th June 1657) 100
to the kirk-session ; to Robert Douglas
(of the High Kirk) "four of the best of
my books at his awne choosing"; and
the rest of the books he left to be
"equallie devyded" between John Smyth
of Trinity Parish, and Richard Waddell,
afterwards min. at Dunbar. Publication
Uldericus Veridicus, sive de statu ecclesice
Scoticance dialogus (Edinburgh, 1657, anon. ;
see copy in the Univ. Lib., Edinburgh).
[Crawfurd s Univ., Test. Reg., Steven s High
School, Tombst., Baird s Duddingston. ]
ANDREW CANT, adm. 10th March
1659 1659 trans - to Trin ity Parish, Edin
burgh, 13th July 1673. [Kennedy s
Ann. Aberd., ii. ; Wodrow s Hist., i. ; Dal
keith Presb. Reg. ; Baillie s Lett., iii. ;
Brodie s Diary.]
NINIAN PATERSON, a native of
1674 Glasgow ; M.A. (Glasgow 1657) ; ord.
to a parish in Dumfriesshire (name
unknown) 1666 ; trans, to Dalserf 1668 ;
trans. to^Smailholm 1671 ; trans, and adm.
14th Oct. 1674, when a riot took place ;
dep. for immorality. He petitioned the
Presb. of Dalkeith, 10th Oct. 1683, to
have the sentence relaxed ; compliance
was delayed, " until it shall be made more
apparent that he is reformed in his life
and conversation." Died Dec. 1688, aged
about 52. He marr. 31st Aug. 1668, Mar
garet Somerville, and had issue Jean ;
Ninian; Margaret, bapt. 19th Jan. 1672.
Publications Epigrammatum libri octo,
cum aliquot Psalmorum Paraphrasis
Poetica (Edinburgh, 1678); .The Fanatick
Indulgence Granted (London, 1683) ;
Obsequies to the Memory of Alex., Bishop
of Ross (1683) ; On the Death of General
Dalziel (1685) ; On the Birth of the Prince
of Wales (1688) ; and many other Elegies,
etc., mostly printed on single sheets.-
[Dalkeith Presb. and Edin. Reg. (Marr.);
Wodrow s Hist., ii. ; Scot. Pasq., i. ; Advo
cates Lib. Catal.]
ROBERT FARQUHAR, M.A. (Mari-
schal College, Aberdeen); regent
1683 there 1675-81 ; recommended by
Presb. of Aberdeen for license 5th June
1677 ; inst. at Cullen in Feb. 1682 ; trans,
and inst. 12th April 1683 ; died 6th March
1687. He marr. Christian Udney, and had
issue George ; Mary (marr. 16th Feb.
1702, John Carre, merchant, burgess of
Edinburgh). [Cullen Sess. and Dalkeith
Presb. Reg.]
1689
ALEXANDER CUMING [CUMIN],
bursar of the Presb. for 1684 and
1685 ; deprived by the Committee
of Estates, 14th May, for not reading
the Proclamation, nor praying for King
William and Queen Mary. He preached
his farewell sermon 19th May 1689. In
1701 he had 350 merks bequeathed to him
by John Cuming, min. of Birnie. He died
in Edinburgh, 26th April 1713, in 61st year.
[Ratho Sess., Test. (Moray), and Edin.
Reg. (Ba]>t.) ; Archceol. Scot., i. ; Acts Part.,
172
LIBERTON
[PRESB. OF
ix.; MS. Ace. of Min., 1689; Peterkin s
Constitution of the Church.]
JAMES WEBSTER, was a probationer
1689 a * ^ e ^ rs ^ mee ti n g of Presbyterian
min. in Lothian and Tweeddale Gth
July 1687 ; ord. in 1688 to the congrega
tion at Craigmillar (which is said to have
been the first meeting-house opened by the
Presbyterians after liberty was granted to
them), and appears as the junior min. of
Presb. 25th July of that year. Permission
was given him by the Committee of Estates,
17th May 1689, to exercise his ministry
at the kirk without prejudice to the
patron, and on 29th May 1689 he preached
his first sermon as min. of Liberton.
Trans, to Whitekirk in 1691. [Acts Parl.,
ix. ; Archceol. Scot., i. ; Wodrow s Hist.,
ii. ; Boston s and Webster s Mem. ; Edin.
Chr. Inst., iii.]
GIDEON JACQUE, M.A. (Edinburgh
1692 1^65) ; got a ministerial charge in
Ireland ; adm. before 16th Oct.
1692 ; returned to Ireland in 1695 ; was
settled at Wexford, and subsequently
removed to Ulster, but refused to take
the Oath of Abjuration in 1703, though
he was then without a charge ; finally
settled in England. By his wife, Judith
Waulkets, he had a son, William. [MS.
Ace. of Min., 1689 ; ArchceoL Scot., i. ;
Reid s Ireland, iii.]
SAMUEL SEMPLE, born 1666, son of
1Q97 Gabriel S., min. of Jedburgh, and
Margaret, daugh. of Sir Patrick
Murray of Blackcastle; educated at the
Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (3rd July 1693) ;
ord. 31st Aug. 1697; died 7th Jan. 1742.
He marr. 2nd Nov. 1701, Elizabeth (died
18th Jan. 1748, aged 77), daugh. of Sir
Archibald Murray of Blackbarony, and
had issue Mary (marr. John Swinton of
Swinton, advocate), died 4th Sept. 1768.
Publications He projected a "History of
the Christian Religion from its first
plantation in Scotland." The design was
encouraged by four successive General
Assemblies (1708-9-10-11), as well as by a
grant of 300 from the Treasury. Visiting
Liberton in 1727, Wodrow writes (Analecta,
vol. iii., p. 428), " Mr S. tells me that his
History is ready for the press, and he designs
to print it in London or here. He let
me see a vast many papers, upwards of
30 quires, he had caused copy out of
the Bodleian and Cotton Libraries, and
other collections in England." The work
was never published. Many attempts have
been made to recover the MS., but with
out success. [Douglas s Bar., Test, and
Edin. Reg. (Marr.), Acts of Ass. ; Archceol.
Scot., i. ; Wodrow s Corresp. and Anal. ;
Neiv Stat. Ace., i. ; Edin. Chr. Inst.;
Burke s Commoners, ii.]
JOHN JARDINE, pres. by George II.
1741 28th Feb., and ord. (assistant and
successor) 30th July 1741 ; trans, to
Lady Tester s, Edinburgh, 6th Dec. 1750.
[Archceol. Scot., i. ; Morren s Ann., i.]
DAVID MOUBRAY, educated at Univ.
of Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of
Dalkeith 3rd Oct. 1738; ord. to
Currie 25th Sept. 1740; pres. by George
II. 25th Jan., trans, and adm. 28th
May 1751 ; died 3rd Oct. same year, in
36th year. He marr. Sarah (died 13th
Dec. 1774), daugh. of George Fordyce,
min. of Corstorphine. and had issue
George, Accountant - General at Madras,
H.E.I.C.S., born 6th June 1747 ; Richard,
born 17th Aug. 1749 ; Jane, died 29th July
1775. [Test. Reg. ; Archceol. Scot., i.]
THOMAS WHYTE, born 1717, son of
James W. of Stockbriggs, Lesmaha-
gow ; M.A. (Edinburgh) ; licen. by
Presb. of Lanark 3rd June 1747 ; pres. by
George II. 31st Oct. 1751 ; ord. 20th Aug.
1752. He was in the theatre when the
tragedy of Douglas was originally acted,
and called before the Presb. 12th Jan. 1757,
he was suspended for three weeks. He died
13th Jan. 1789. He marr. 20th April 1757,
Anne (died 2nd June 1774, in 48th year),
third daugb. of Daniel Bethune, min. of
Rosskeen, and had issue James ; Daniel,
born 17th May 1759 ; Gordon ; David, born
15th Feb. 1762 ; Thomas, born 19th March
1764, died 19th Nov. 1768; Kenneth, born
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173
1789
6th Aug. 1766, died 23rd April 1768;
Douglas, born 1st July 1769; Johanna
Russell, born 14th July 1771, died 15th
March 1777. Publications Historical
Account of the Bethunes of the Island of
Ski/e (Edinburgh, 1778) ; Account of Les-
mahagow ( Weekly Mag., xx.) ; Account
of the Parish (Archceol. Scot., i. ; abridged
Sinclair s Stat. Ace., vi.). [Test. Reg.,
Carlyle s Autob.; Archceol. Scot., i. ; MS. |
Geneal. of Bethunes, Tombst. ; Morren s
Ann., ii. ; New Stat. Ace., i.]
JAMES GRANT, M.A., born 1760, son
of David G. of Limepots ; licen. by
Presb. of St Andrews 8th Sept. 1784 ;
pres. by George III., and ord. 18th Aug.
1789; died unmarr. 8th June 1831. In
the period of social and political danger
Avhich followed the French Revolution he
was strongly and actively loyal, and
chiefly instrumental in raising a local
volunteer corps, in which he held a
commission as lieutenant. [Tombst.~\
WILLIAM PURDIE, born Carluke,
1832 23rd Oct. 1805, son of Thomas P.,
farmer ; educated at Glasgow Univ. ;
licen. by Presb. of Lanark 13th May 1829 ;
tutor in the family of Lord Cockburn ;
pres. by William IV. in 1831 ; ord. 26th
Jan. 1832 ; died unmarr. 16th Nov. 1834.
JAMES BEGG, born 31st Oct. 1808,
1835 son ^ J ames B-, D.D., min. of New
Monkland ; educated at Glasgow
Univ. ; M.A. (1824) ; licen. by Presb. of
Hamilton 10th June 1829; assistant at
North Leith ; ord. to Maxwelltown 18th
May 1830 ; trans, to Lady Glenorchy s,
Edinburgh, 23rd Dec. 1830; trans, to
Middle Parish, Paisley, 25th Nov. 1831;
trans, and adm. 25th June 1835. Joined
the Free Church ; min. of Newington Free
Church, Edinburgh, 1843 ; D.D. (Lafayette
College, Pennsylvania, 1847) ; Moderator of
the Free Church General Assembly 1865 ;
died 29th Sept. 1883. He marr. (1) 23rd
Sept. 1835, Margaret (died 30th Sept. 1845),
daugh. of Alexander Campbell, Sheriff-
substitute of Renfrewshire, and had issue
a son, born 27th Aug. 1836 ; a daugh.,
born 12th April 1838, died 16th Dec. 1840 ;
a son, born 4th Nov. 1839 ; Margaret
Campbell, died 30th Sept. 1845; Fanny,
born 20th April 1843 : (2) 25th Nov. 1846,
Maria (died 15th May 1892), daugh. of
Ferdinand Faithfull, rector of Headley,
Surrey, and had issue Ferdinand Faith-
full, stockbroker, London, born 27th Dec.
1847 ; William, actor [" Walter Bentley ],
born 7th Oct. 1849; Charles, born 2nd
Oct. 1851 ; Henry, born llth July 1853,
died 26th Sept. 1854 ; Elizabeth, born 29th
Aug. 1857; John, born 26th Jan. 1862;
Frederick, born 20th May 1865, died
4th April 1870. Publications Are you
Prepared to Die 1 (Edinburgh, 1845) ; IIoiv
to Promote and Preserve the True Beauty
of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, 1849) ; Pauperism
and the Poor Laivs (Edinburgh, 1849);
National Education for Scotland Practi
cally Considered (Edinburgh, 1850) ; Social
Reform (London, 1851) ; A Handbook of
Popery (Edinburgh, 1852) ; Reform in the
Free Church (Edinburgh, 1855) ; Scotland s
Demands for Electoral Justice (Edinburgh,
1857) ; The Art of Preaching (Edinburgh,
1863); Account of the Parish (Neiv Stat. Ace.,
i.) ; and many smaller works. [Smith s Scott.
Clergy, iii. ; Diet. Nat. Biog., Memoirs by
Prof. Thomas Smith, D.D., 2 vols. (1885-8).]
JOHN STEWART, born Greenock, 26th
June 1793, sixth son of Roger S.,
shipowner, and Jean Stewart ; edu
cated at Glasgow Univ.; M.A. (1818);
licen. by Presb. of Kintyre 21st Aug. 1821 ;
ord. by Presb. of Glasgow llth April 1823,
as min. of Oldham Street Presbyterian
Church, Liverpool ; trans, to Sorn llth
March 1824 ; trans, and adm. 28th Sept.
1843; died, Father of the Church, 27th
Dec. 1879. He marr. 1st July 1824, Mary
(died 23rd March 1872), daugh. of General
Andrew Gammell, A.D.C. to Frederick,
Duke of York, and had issue James,
M.D.,born 16th April 1825, died 18th April
1853 ; Harcourt, born 21st May 1827, a
master mariner, drowned in the China
seas, 1st Sept. 1854 ; Mary Gammell,
born 18th April 1830 (marr. George
Smyttan Davidson, min. of Kinfauns).
Publication A Letter on the Abolition of
Tests in the Universities of Scotland (Glas
gow, 1846).
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LIBERTON EAST CALDER
[PRESB. OF
WILLIAM HENRY GRAY, born Hawk-
stone, St Madoes, Perthshire, 13th
Feb. 1825, son of Andrew G. and
Janet Kettle ; educated at Perth Seminary
and St Andrews Univ. ; M.A. (April 1841) ;
licen. by Presb. of Perth 24th June 1843;
ord. St Paul s, Perth, 26th Nov. 1846 ; trans.
to Lady Yester s, Edinburgh, 9th May 1850.
D.D. (St Andrews 1869) ; trans, and adm.
3rd June 1880 ; convener of the Colonial
Committee 1880-8 ; Moderator of the
General Assembly 1888; res. 10th Nov.
1897; died in Edinburgh 6th Dec. 1908.
He marr. 1st June 1855, Mary Smith, widow
of William Richardson Dickson, of Alton,
Roxburghshire, and daugh. of Robert
Mitchell, merchant, one of the magis
trates of Edinburgh, and had issue
Andrew, born 14th Sept. 1856, who died
in infancy. By her previous marriage
Mrs Gray had a son and two daughters.
Publications Morning Seed, Sermons for
the Young (Edinburgh, 1861); Sermons
on Disestablishment (Edinburgh, 1893) ;
A Simple Catechism (Edinburgh, 1895) ;
Jubilee Jottings (Edinburgh, 1896); Old
Creeds and New Beliefs (Edinburgh, 1899) ;
Our Divine Shepherd, a Book for Young
People (London, 1903); The Children s
Friend (Edinburgh, 1907).
ROBERT BURNETT, born Memsie,
Fraserburgh, llth Jan. 1865, son of
1898 James B. ; educated at Univs. of
Aberdeen and Edinburgh ; M.A (Aberdeen
1886), B.D. (Edinburgh 1890); licen. by
Presb. of Edinburgh 4th May 1890 ; ord.
21st July 1898. Marr. 25th July 1900,
Mary Couper, youngest daugh. of James
Morrison, Viewbank, Liberton.
CRAIGMILLAR
( Chapel-of-Ease).
[Opened as a chapel-of-ease to Liberton
parish, 24th Sept. 1904.]
[WILLIAM COWPER ROBERTSON, M.A.
(afterwards of Cleish) ; DAVID CRAWFORD
(afterwards of Bressay) ; and THOMAS
FERGUSON, M.A., B.D., served as proba
tioners from 1905 to 1910.]
1913
JAMES WATSON, B.A., formerly min.
iglo of the Free Church, Leith ; adm. to
the Church of Scotland by the
General Assembly 1910 ; adm. 1st Sept.
1910 ; res. 30th Sept. 1912, on appointment
as Missionary Professor of Economics in the
Scottish Churches College, Calcutta.
THOMAS GILLIESON, born llth Dec.
1882, son of Archibald G., min. of
Olrig ; educated at Miller Institu
tion School and Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen.
by Presb. of Westminster, B.C., 1911 ; ord.
to St Paul s, Vancouver, B.C., 1912 ; received
into the Church of Scotland, and app.
1913 ; trans, to Cranshaws 1914. He marr.
15th April 1906, Flora, daugh. of David
Shaw, and has issue Margaret, born 22nd
June 1907 ; Archibald, born 5th May 1909 ;
John, born 25th April 1910; Marian, 1st
July 1912. Publications Editor of West
minster Hall Magazine and Western Review
(Vancouver, 1909-11).
EAST CALDER.
[East Calder, or Calder-Clere, so named
from Rudolph de Clere, an early owner, to
distinguish it from the adjacent Calder-
Comitis belonging to the Earl of Fife.
The church was dedicated to St Cuth-
bert, and belonged to the Abbey of Kelso.
The parishioners petitioned the Presb., 14th
July 1641, to be disjoined from West (Mid)
Calder and erected into a parish ; united
to Kirknewton by the Commissioners of
Teinds, 23rd Jan. 1751.]
SAMUEL WARDLAW, pres. to the
1582 v i cara # e by James VI. 13th July
1582 ; adm. 8th May 1583 ; continued
in 1585. [Reg, Assig.]
JOHN SPOTTISWOOD, pres. by James
VI. July 1594 ; dem. 1596 ; vide Mid-
Calder.
JOHN BROWN, pres. to the vicarage
1596 ky James VI. 31st Jan. 1596 ; died
before 3rd March 1610. \_Reg. Assig.]
ROBERT GILMOUR, pres. by James
VI. 3rd March 1610; vide Mid-
1610
Calder.
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175
JOHN TENNENT, pres. by James VI.
1617 5th Oct. 1617 ; vide Mid-Calder.
JOHN DUNLOP, born 1617, son of
John D., min. of Katho ; educated
at Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A. (1636) ;
licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith 24th Oct.
1639; adm. 13th Oct. 1642; died 29th
May 1648. He marr. 14th Sept. 1643,
Elizabeth, daugh. of Alexander Barbour,
writer, Edinburgh, and had issue John ;
Alexander, apprenticed 17th Dec. 1662, to
George Meyne, merchant, Edinburgh.
[Mun. Univ. Glasg., iii. ; Test, and Edin.
Reg. (Bapt. and Marr.).}
ANDREW KINNEAR, M.A. ; pres. by
Francis, Earl of Buccleuch, and adm.
13th June 1649 ; trans, to Second
Charge, Stirling, in 1663. [Test. Reg.
(Stirl.).]
EDWARD KINNEAR, M.A. ; pres. by
1663 ^ ar y Countess of Buccleuch; ord.
and coll. 24th April 1663 ; trans, to
Second Charge, Old Church, Edinburgh,
same year. [Reg. Collat.]
JAMES BROWN, second son of Robert
B. of Finmont; chaplain to David,
Earl of Wemyss ; pres. by Robert,
Bishop of Dunblane, 10th March 1665;
coll. 9th, and inst. 16th June 1665 (Reg. of
Deeds, Durie, 12th Dec. 1679). He was
probably outed in 1689 ; died Feb. 1691. He
rnarr. 17th June 1675, Helen Douglas, and
had issue George, served heir to his uncle,
14th Dec. 1705 ; John, min. of Abercorn ;
Jean (marr. 30th Sept. 1709, Charles
Anderson, Kinglassie). [Lamont s Diary,
Edin. Reg. (Bapt., Marr., and Bur.), Reg.
Collat., Wodrow s Hist., Spec. Ret. Fife;
MS. Ace. of Min., 1689.]
JOHN KINNAIRD [KINNEAR], licen.
by Presb. of Linlithgow 2nd May
1693 ; ord. 10th Jan. 1694 ; died 10th
Jan. 1725. He marr. (1) Marion, daugh.
of Robert Wellwood of Touch, and had
issue Margaret (marr. John Moubray of
Cockairny); Jean (marr. John Steedman
of Baldridge, min. of the Tron Parish,
Edinburgh) : (2) Rachel Sandilands, who
survived him. [Test. Reg.]
ALEXANDER DOUGLAS, licen. by
Presb. of Biggar 14th June 1716;
ord. to Skirling 29th April 1718;
dep. 1719 ; reponed 1721 ; pres. by George
L, and adm. 28th Oct. 1725; died 8th
Sept. 1749. He marr. Isabella (died 4th
June 1775), daugh. of Andrew Houston of
Calder, and had issue Sholto ; Alexander,
merchant in St Kitts ; Jean (marr. Aretas
B. Akers of St Kitts) ; Robert, planter in
St Kitts ; Isabella ; Mary (marr. James
Stoddart, min. of Kirkintilloch) ; John
Leigh, lieut. R.N. [Acts of Ass., Wodrow s
Anal., Burke s Commoners. ]
MID-CALDER, FORMERLY
CALDER-COMITIS.
[Divided in 1646 into Mid-Calder and
West Calder; the latter being the new
parish. Disjoined from the Presb. of
Linlithgow and annexed to the Presb. of
Edinburgh by General Assembly, 1884.]
JOHN SPOTTISWOOD (primus), born
1510, second son of William S. of
Spottiswood, Berwickshire (killed at
Flodden), and Elizabeth Pringle of Tor-
sonce ; entered Univ. of Glasgow 27th June
1534, and took his degree of M.A. in 1536 ;
went to London soon- after, where he im
bibed the principles of the Reformation
from Archbishop Cranmer. He returned
to Scotland in 1543, and was pres. by Sir
James Sandilands of Calder in 1548. He
joined the Reformers in 1560, and was
one of six elected for drawing up the First
Book of Discipline, and Confession of
Faith; became Superintendent of Lothian
9th March 1561. In 1562 the parishioners
complained to the General Assembly that
S. s duties as Superintendent prevented him
discharging all his duties of min. of the
parish. The reply was that owing to the
rarity of ministers it could not be other
wise, and that "the profit of many
churches was to be preferred to the profit
of one/ He died 5th Dec. 1585. His son
relates that he was " a man well esteemed
for his piety and wisdom ; loving and
beloved of all persons, charitable to the
poor, and careful above all things to give no
176
MID-CALDER
[PRESB. OF
man offence." He marr. Beatrix, daugh. of
Patrick Crichton of Lugton and Gilmerton,
who survived him, and had issue John, his
successor ; James, D.D., Bishop of Clogher,
Ireland, born 7th Sept. 1567, died (buried)
31st March 1644-5; William; Rachel
(marr. James Tennent of Linhouse) ;
Judith, died before 1593 (Reg. of Deeds,
xliv., 438). [Douglas s Bar., Reg. Assig. ;
Knox s Works, ii. ; Test. Reg., Eooke of
the Kirk, Wodrow s Biog. and Miscell. ;
Pitcairn s Cr. Trials, ii. ; Spottiswood s,
Calderwood s, Row s, Cook s, and Hether-
ington s Hists. ; Scott s Lives ; Baillie s Lett.,
iii.; New Stat. Ace., i. ; M Ure s Glasg. ;
Chalmers s Caled., ii. ; Diet. Nat. Biog.]
JOHN SPOTTISWOOD (secundus), born
at Greenbank in the parish, 1565,
eldest son of preceding ; educated at
Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A. (1581) ; app. assist
ant and successor to his father 1583. He
was pres. to the vicarage of Calder-Clere by
James VI. 1594, but dem. in 1596, and had
from His Majesty a gift of stipend, 12th April
1599. In 1601 he was chaplain to Ludovic,
Duke of Lennox, ambassador to the court of
France. While attending James VI. on his
visit to England on acceding to the united
Crown, in 1603, he was promoted to the
Archbishopric of Glasgow and nominated
a Privy Councillor, but continued min.
here. He was four times Moderator of
Assembly, in 1610, 1616, 1617, and the
Perth Assembly, 1618, which sanctioned
the Five Articles. Called to the see of
St Andrews in 1615, he crowned Charles I.
at Holyrood in 1633, and was Chancellor
of Scotland in 1635. Seconding the King s
efforts to introduce a liturgy, he became
obnoxious to the Covenanters, and was
deposed and excommunicated by the
Glasgow Assembly of 1638. He died at
London, 26th Nov. 1639, and was interred
in Westminster Abbey. He marr. 1599,
Rachel, daugh. of David Lindsay, Bishop
of Ross, and had a numerous family, of
whom only three survived him Sir John
of Dairsie; Sir Robert, President of the
Court of Session, having sided with Mon-
trose, was taken prisoner at Philiphaugh,
and sentenced to death by the Scottish
Parliament, 16th Jan. 1646 ; Anne (marr.
Sir William St Clair of Roslyn). Publica
tion History of the Church of Scotland,
from the Year 203 to the Reign of James
VI. (London, 1 655 ; new edition, Spottis-
wood Society, 1847, with Life by Russell).
See also Spot. Hoc. Miscell., vol. i. (1844).
[Melvill s Autob., Keith s Catal., Row s and
Calderwood s Hists., Duppa s Life, Cowan s
Lord Chancellors of Scotland, Diet. Nat.
Biog.}
ROBERT GILMOUR, M.A. (Edinburgh,
1604 29th July 1598 ); petitioned for by
the Session 8th April, he was adm.
(colleague) 2nd Aug. 1604 ; pres. to the
vicarage of Calder-Clere by James VI. 3rd
March 1610; died 23rd Nov. 1616, aged
about 39. He marr. 12th April 1613, Marie
Cleland, who survived him, and had issue
James ; John ; Robert, apprenticed 29th
June 1636, to Alexander Inglis, litster,
Edinburgh. [Craufurd s Univ., Uphall
Sess. and Test. Reg., Reg. Sec. Sig., Calder
wood s Hist.; Inq. Ret. Gen., 801.]
JOHN TENNENT, younger son of
1617 J ames T. of Linhouse, and grand
son of John Spottiswood (primus) ;
M.A. (Glasgow 1606) ; was on the exer
cise there 22nd Dec. 1613; having been
pres., he produced a letter from the Bishop
(Spottiswood) to the Presb. for his admis
sion 3rd Sept. ; was pres. by James VI. to
the vicarage of Calder-Clere 5th, and to the
vicarage of C. 15th Oct. 1617 ; was on the
Commission for Church Discipline 21st Oct.
1634 ; died 29th June 1638, aged about 52.
He marr. (cont. 20th and 27th Feb. 1619 :
Reg. of Deeds, ccclii., 74) 21st April 1619,
Nicolas, daugh. of Andrew Lamb, Bishop
of Brechin, afterwards of Galloway, who
survived him (alive in 1643), and had issue
Margaret ; John ; Rachel ; Andrew ;
Bethia. A grandson, William Tennent,
was Laird of Cairns in 1693. [Mun. Univ.
Glasg., iii. ; Test. Reg. ; Maitland, ii., and
Bannatyne Miscell., iii. ; Baillie s Lett., i.]
GEORGE DUNBAR, probably of the
family of Dunbar of Cumnock ; min.
of Cumnock in 1599, of Ayr 1608 ;
deprived by Privy Council 1611 ; became
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MlD-CALDEtt
177
min. of the Second Charge, Ayr, 1613 ; trans,
to First Charge 1619 ; deprived in 1622 for
refusing to recognise the Articles of Perth ;
was for twelve years min. at Inver, near
Lame, in Ireland, but was again deprived by
Henry, Bishop of Meath, in 1637 ; returned
to Scotland, and adm. here ; died Dec.
1641. He marr. (1) Jean Craufurd : (2)
Margaret Wallace, who survived him, and
had issue Samuel, who succeeded him in
the lands of Pollesche ; George, died in
1651 ; Margaret (marr. Robert Peebles,
Irvine) ; Marion (Acts and Dec., dlxxvi.,
7). [Livingston s Charac., Test. Reg.
(Glasg.), Row s Hist. ; Reg. Old Dec., iv. ;
Rutherford s Lett. ; Reid s Ireland, i. ; Inq.
Ret. Gen., 3170 ; Prot. Book, Robert Brown.]
[WILLIAM DUNBAR, M.A. ; was pres.
1st June 1642, but declared by Presb.
14th July, "uncapable because of his not
entering on his trials at the tyme ap
pointed."
[SAMUEL RUTHERFORD, Professor
of Divinity at St Andrews, was presented,
and the presentation was sustained, but
the University opposed his removal, and
the Synod, yielding to its desire, the
translation did not take place.]
HEW KENNEDY, of Easter Inch of
1643 Bathgate, M.A. ; usually called
Father Kennedy; recommended by
Samuel Rutherford, "with whom he was
brocht up " at St Andrews ; pres. by John,
Lord Torphichen, with consent of his cura
tors, 28th Feb. and 1st March; ord. 13th
April 1643 ; was a member of the Commis
sion of Assembly 1648, assisted in form
ing the Protesters Presb. 6th Aug. 1651,
and was dep. 7th Dec. 1660 for non-con
formity, "being a very zealous protester."
He returned in 1687. [J/im. Univ. Glasg.,
iii. ; Hist, of Gen. Ass., 1690 ; New Stat.
Ace., i. ; Acts, of Ass. and ParL, vii. ;
Baillie s Lett., iii. ; Peterkin s Records.]
JOHN COLVILL, M.A., eldest son of
1663 ^ r Alexander C. of Kincardine ;
regent in Old College, St Andrews ;
coll. 27th Jan., and adm. 9th Feb. 1663;
died in Feb. 1671, aged about 41. He marr.
VOL. I.
24th Nov. 1665, Mary, third daugh. of Sir
George Preston of Valleyfield, and had issue
Alexander, bapt. 2nd Oct. 1666 ; Marjorie,
bapt. 2nd July 1668; George, 24th Dec.
1669; Anna, bapt. 25th Dec. 1670. [Reg.
Collat., Test. Reg. ]
JOHN SOMERVILLE, M.A. ; trans.
from West Calder; adm. and inst.
16th May 1672; trans, to Cramond
in 1674.
NORMAN MACKENZIE, MA. (Glas-
gow 1656) ; min. of Carsphairn 1664 ;
trans, to Whithorn 1666; pres. by
Walter, Lord Torphichen, 21st July ; coll.
24th Aug., and adm. 25th Aug. 1675 (G. R.
Horn., 26th Nov. 1689). He was threatened
by armed men for discharging his minis
terial duty, and petitioned the Committee
of Estates for protection, which was granted
8th May 1689. He deserted, and became
a brewer in Edinburgh, where he died 13th
June 1701, aged about 65. He marr. Mary,
youngest daugh. of George Lundie, clerk
of Dysart (G. R. Inhib., 4th March 1669),
and had a daugh., Anna. \Corstorphine
Sess. and Edin. Reg. (Bur.) ; Acts ParL,
ix. ; MS. Ace. of Min., 1689 ; Rule s Sec.
Vindication.]
HEW KENNEDY, M.A. ; returned at
j ? the Toleration, 6th July 1687 ; trans,
to Trinity Parish, Edinburgh, 25th
Aug. 1687.
WILLIAM BURNETT, was a min. at
lg ,_ the general meeting of Presbyterians,
6th July, and adm. (by a Committee
of Synod) 4th Nov. 1687 ; trans, to Falkirk
1st July 1696.
JOHN LOOKUP, born 1675, son of John
L., merchant, Edinburgh ; educated
at the Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (9th
July 1694); schoolmaster of Earlston 24th
Sept. 1694 ; recommended by Principal Car-
stares, and called 13th Oct. 1697 ; ord. 26th
Jan. 1698; died 1st Nov. 1758. He marr.
Jean, daugh. of Richard Houston (or
Huison), min. of Inveresk, and left issue
Margaret, born 1709; John, born 1710,
advocate ; Isobel, born 1712 ; Andrew, born
M
178
MID-CALDER WEST CALDER
[PRESS. OF
1716; Grisell, born 1720. Publication
Balm for the Wounded Spirit, 1719. He
left in MS., Memorabiles temporum circum-
stantice ac accidentia, qucedam notanda a
Johanne Lukup notata.
JAMES WATSON, born Closeburn, 1723,
175g son of John W. ; educated at Glas
gow Univ. ; ord. to Torphichen 1751 ;
pres. by Walter, Lord Torphichen ; trans,
and adm. 18th Oct. 1759 ; died unmarr.
12th Nov. 1772.
JAMES DOBIE, licen. in Northumber-
l an d, an d received by Presb. of
Kelso, 5th Jan. 1773 ; pres. by the
tutors of James, Lord Torphichen, and
ord. 27th July 1773 ; trans, to Linlithgow
15th June 1792.
JAMES WILSON, M.A.; pres. by
1792 J ames > Lord Torphichen, and adm.
20th Dec. 1792; trans, to Falkirk
2nd May 1794.
JOHN SOMMERS, born in the parish
.,__ of Hamilton, 1765, son of John S.,
farmer ; educated at Glasgow Univ. ;
B.A. (1785), M.A. (1785); licen. by Presb.
of Dumbarton 21st March 1791 ; pres. by
James, Lord Torphichen, Oct. 1794; ord.
16th April 1795 ; D.D. (Glasgow, 15th May
1818) ; died 25th Sept. 1842. He marr.
16th Sept. 1811, Isabella Euphemia Hamil
ton (died 13th May 1821), second daugh.
of Charles Donaldson of Calcutta, and had
issue John Charles, merchant in London ;
Charles ; Euphemia, died 9th Sept. 1821 ;
Bethia Hamilton ; Henry William. Publi
cations Many articles in the Edinburgh
Encyclopaedia, of which he was a consider
able proprietor, and editor of the last three
volumes ; Account of the Parish (New Stat.
Ace., L), also published privately (1838).
WILLIAM WALKER, born Redburn,
Torphichen, 4th April 1804, son of
James W. and Jane Dale; edu
cated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen. by
Presb. of Annan ; pres. by James, Lord
Torphichen, Nov. 1843, and ord. 14th Feb.
1843 ; died 2nd Nov. 1882. He marr. 29th
Dec. 1852, Anna (died 1st Aug. 1913),
daugh. of George Campbell, Prospect House,
Newton-Stewart, and had issue Thomas
Charles, M.D., Liverpool; George Alex
ander Campbell, merchant, Buenos Ayres ;
William, M.A., missionary of the Church
of Scotland at Chamba, Panjab, India, and
rain, of St Leonard s, Ayr.
MATTHEW GARDNER, ord. 24th April
1883 1883 ; trans, to Peebles 20th Sept.
1893.
DAVID JOHN MOIR PORTEOUS,
1894 M A -> B - D> ; Ord 23rd Marcl1 1894 >
trans, to Port-Glasgow 6th June 1907.
WILLIAM WEIR CLARK, born Lark-
lg _,_ hall, 8th March 1875, son of William
C. and Elizabeth Kirkwood ; edu
cated at Larkhall School and Univ. of
Glasgow; M.A. (1903), B.D. (1906); licen.
by Presb. of Hamilton 5th May 1904;
assistant at Paisley Abbey ; assistant
garrison chaplain, Edinburgh, 1905-7 ;
ord. 20th Sept. 1907. Marr. 8th Jan.
1908, Katherine Robertson, daugh. of
Peter Dewar and Isobel Seggie, and has
issue William Arthur Weir, born 5th
Dec. 1908.
WEST CALDER.
[Disjoined from Calder-Comitis, and
erected in 1647. Disjoined from Presb. of
Linlithgow, and annexed to the Presb. of
Edinburgh, May 1884.]
PATRICK SHIELDS [SHIELLS], M.A.
1645 (Gl as 8 ow 1638) ; ord. to Livingston
9th Dec. 1641 ; trans, and adm. 12th
June 1645 ; was on the Commission of
Assembly 1647 ; officiated at Mid-Calder in
1646-7 ; suspended by the Diocesan Synod
in 1665, for non-conformity ; died in 1668,
aged about 50. He marr. (1) Isobel Sandi-
lands, who died 7th March 1653, and had
issue James, born 1650 : (2) Margaret,
daugh. of James Readdie, schoolmaster
at Dunf ermline. By her he had Mary ;
Marjorie ; James ; Walter, served heir 27th
Jan. 1670 ; Patrick ; Elizabeth ; Margaret.
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179
[Mid-Colder and Cramond Sess. and
Test. Reg., Morrison s Digest, Wodrow s
Hist., Acts of Ass. ; Inq. Ret. Gen., 5288.]
JOHN SOMERVILL, M.A. ; trans, from
1668 ^ asserton } C U- 17th June 1668;
trans, to Mid-Calder in 1672. [Reg.
Collat.]
JOHN KNOX, M.A., formerly of North
1672 -Leith, where he had lived peaceably
after his deprivation ; indulged by
the Privy Council 3rd Sept. 1672 ; returned
to North Leith July 1687. [Wodrow s
MSS. and Hist., Brown s Hist, of Indulg.]
WILLIAM WEIR, M.A., formerly of
1672 Linlithgow, indulged with the pre
ceding, 3rd Sept. 1672. Resisting
the royal supremacy in spiritual affairs,
and maintaining his obligations against
Episcopacy in his public ministrations, he
was, by authority of the Privy Council 31st
July 1673, carried prisoner to Edinburgh,
and committed to the Tolbooth ; obliged to
leave afterwards he went to Ireland, and
accepted a charge in Coleraine. He
returned to Scotland and was resettled at
Linlithgow. [Wodrow s Hist., Brown s
Hist, of Indulg.]
GEORGE ROBERTSON, M.A. (Edin-
burgh 1665) ; ord. to Queensferry
29th Dec. 1674. He appears as min.
about 1675 ; trans, to Kirkurd 16th Jan.
1678; dep. 3rd Nov. 1680. Rabbled in
1689, when he left the parish, and died
July 1691, aged about 46. He marr. 2nd
Oct. 1685, Anna Naismith, who was buried
in Greyfriars, Edinburgh, 29th June 1695.
[Test, and Edin. Reg. (Marr. and Bur.} ;
MS. Ace. of Min., 1689.]
1689
JOHN LAUDER, bapt. 25th Jan. 1671,
son ^ J^ n L., m i n - f Tynning-
hame ; min. of Dalziel 1659 ; dep.
1662; ind. at Dalziel 1670-84; returned
1687 ; called 31st Aug., and trans, and
adm. 1689 ; died 1691. He marr., and had
issue Isabel ; David ; John. [Dalziel
Sess. Reg.]
JOHN ANDERSON, studied at Univ.
1692 ^ Utrecht, lived for a time at
Borrowstounness ; licen. by Presb.
of Linlithgow 28th Oct. 1691 ; called 29th
Nov. following ; ord. 28th April 1692 ; died
17th Dec. 1705, in 48th year. He marr. (1)
2nd March 1696, Mary, daugh. of Patrick
M Carra, bailie of the Canongate, and had
issue Mary (marr. 15th Oct. 1719, John
Russell of Braidshaw, W.S.) : (2) 18th May
1701, Janet, daugh. of John Gordon of
New-work, who survived him {Canon-
gate Sess., Test., and Edin. Reg. (Marr.) ;
Tombst.]
JAMES ANDERSON, called 13th
March, and ord. 5th May 1707 ;
trans, to Falkirk 26th March
1718.
ANDREW GLOAG, M.A. (St Andrews,
172Q 8th April 1718); licen. by Presb. ot
Auchterarder 2nd June 1719 ; chap
lain to the Laird of Marjoribanks ; called
14th Oct. 1719 ; ord. 25th Feb. 1720 ; died
28th Feb. 1770, in his 82nd year. He marr.
(1) Oct. 1720, Christian, daugh. of Thomas
Ronald, Provost of Linlithgow, and had
issue alive in 1759, and all above 26 years
of age Thomas ; James ; John ; William,
min. of Lady Tester s, Edinburgh; Janet
(marr. 25th Nov. 1720, William Good,
wright, Edinburgh): (2) 5th Nov. 1730,
Jean (died 1st Dec. 1793), daugh. of John
Veitch, tenant in Hamildean, Lyne (G. R.
Horning s, 29th June 1732), and had issue
Elizabeth ; Andrew ; Margaret ; Mary,
born 26th March 1742 (marr. Robert
Wishart, min. of Livingston).
WILLIAM GARVIE, M.A. ; pres. by
Alexander Marjoribanks of that ilk,
and ord. 28th Nov. 1770; trans, to
Aberdalgie and Dupplin 10th Jan. 1782.
ALEXANDER WARDROP, licen. by
1782 P res b- f Haddington 1st Dec. 1778 ;
was for a time a schoolmaster ; pres.
by Alexander Marjoribanks of Marjoribanks,
and ord. 6th Sept. 1782; died 9th Dec.
1784.
180
WEST CALDER PORTOBELLO
[PRESB. OF
JOHN WILLISON, pres. by James, Earl
of Lauderdale, who purchased the
patronage that year from Alexander
Marjoribanks, and ord. 15th Sept. 1785 ;
trans, to Forgandenny 17th Sept. 1793.
JOHN MACKERSY [MUCKERSEY],
1794 k rn 1757, son of John M., min. of
the Assoc. Antiburgher Congrega
tion, Kinkell ; Hcen. by Presb. of Auchter-
arder 4th Aug. 1789; assistant at Kirk
liston ; pres. by James, Earl of Lauderdale,
Oct. 1793; ord. 9th April 1794; D.D. (St
Andrews, 2nd Oct. 1819); died llth June
1831. He marr. (1) Katherine Wallace,
who died 24th June 1817, and had issue
John, min. at Macquarrie or Esk River,
Tasmania ; Lindsay, accountant in Edin
burgh ; William, W.S., Edinburgh, born
1795, died 3rd Oct. 1875 : (2) 14th April
1819, Jean (died 10th Nov. 1865, in her
92nd year), eldest daugh. of John Cook,
Professor of Moral Philosophy, St Andrews.
Publications Translations of M. Gener,
being a Selection of Letters on Life and
Manners, 3 vols. (London, 1808-12) ; Sermon
preached after the Death of the Rev. Walter
Jardine (Edinburgh, 1812) ; View of French
Literature during the Eighteenth Century,
trans, from the French (Edinburgh, 1814) ;
revised the Rudiments of the Latin Tongue
(Edinburgh, 1817); Sermon XII. (Gillan s
Scott. Pulpit) ; Accounts of Kirkliston and
of West Calder (Sinclair s Stat. Ace., x.,
xviii.).
[JOHN JOHNSTON, schoolmaster,
West Calder, was presented by the patron,
but there was vigorous objection, and his
appointment was withdrawn.]
WILLIAM LEARMONTH, born 1801,
son of John L., farmer, Nether
Kinneil, Bo ness, and Janet Robert
son ; M.A. (Glasgow 1826) ; licen. by Presb.
of Linlithgow 9th May 1832 ; pres. by James
Grindlay in 1834; ord. 14th May 1835;
died 31st May 1870. He marr. (1) 9th Jan.
1838, Helen (died 22nd March 1856), daugh.
of John Cochrane, farmer Waterstone,
Ecclesmachan, and Janet Smellie Robert
son, and had issue John William, com
mission agent, Edinburgh, born 1840;
Janet, born 1841 ; James, born 1842, died
1852; William, born 1843; Andrew, born
1844; Ellen Jane Cochrane, born 1847:
(2) 13th Sept. 1859, Janet Grey, Ayr, who
died 26th May 1869. Publication Account
of the Parish (New Stat. Ace., i.).
JOHN DAVIDSON GRANT, born Aber-
187Q deen, 26th Sept. 1826, son of Peter
G. and Barbara Davidson ; educated
at schools in Perthshire and Forfarshire,
and St Andrews and Edinburgh Univs. ;
licen. by Presb. of Lanark 4th June 1856 ;
assistant at Carluke ; ord. to Calderhead
18th Feb. 1859 ; pres. by John Drysdale of
Kilrie, and adm. 25th Aug. 1870; died at
Portobello from the effects of an accident,
7th Feb. 1914. Marr. 28th June 1864,
Margaret (died llth July 1912), only child
of Thomas Hunter, solicitor, Maxwelltown,
Dumfries, and Agnes Glendinning.
JAMES ALEXANDER ANDERSON,
born Londonderry, 1st July 1860,
son of Adam A. and Elizabeth Todd ;
educated at Magee College, Queen s and
Assembly s Colleges, Belfast and Dublin ;
licen. by Presb. of Glendermott May 1885 ;
ord. to the first congregation at Bally waiter,
Belfast, 23rd Feb. 1886 ; adm. (assistant and
successor) 1st Nov. 1894. Marr. 1st Dec.
1886, Margaret, daugh. of Andrew Melville
and Agnes Burns, both of Argyllshire, and
has issue Gustave Alexander Melville,
M.B., Ch.B., R.N., born 31st Aug. 1888;
Winifred, M.A., born 3rd May 1890 (marr.
12th Aug. 1914, David M Vicker, M.B.,
Ch.B., Peterborough) ; Olivia, born 2nd
Dec. 1898; Eva, born 26th April 1900;
Frederick Percival, born 1st Aug. 1903.
PORTOBELLO (Q.S.).
[The foundation stone of the church was
laid on 27th Oct. 1808, the building being
opened in 1810, as a chapel-of-ease to
Duddingston. Declared a parish quoad
sacra by Act of Assembly, 31st May 1834,
and erected by the Court of Teinds, 17th
July 1861.]
[THOMAS WRIGHT, M.A., was app.
"preacher," and served till 1814, when he
was pres. to the parish of Borthwick.]
EDINBURGH]
PORTOBELLO RATHO
181
1818
JOHN GLEN, born Fife, 1782; licen.
ky Presb. of Dunfermline 2nd July
1811 ; in charge of Portobello Chapel
from 1814; ord. 9th July 1818; preached
for the last time 18th Oct. 1840, being
attacked by paralysis. Joined the Free
Church, and died at Edinburgh, 7th Nov.
1854. He marr. 4th Dec. 1818, Sarah
Isabella (died 18th Dec. 1875, aged 91),
daugh. of John Whyt, of Kingston, Jamaica,
and had issue Bain Whyt, died 23rd
March 1826; Jemima Agnes Bethia
Anderson, born 1824 (marr. William
Kippen, lieut. 24th Kegiment), and died
26th Dec. 1846; Sarah Isabella, died 26tb
Jan. 1828. Publications A Treatise on the
Sabbath (Edinburgh, 1822) ; On Cruelty to
Animals, a sermon (Edinburgh, 1833).
WILLIAM STIRLING BLACKWOOD,
born 1806 ; ord. to John St. Church,
Mary port, Cumberland, 1835 ; app.
by the managers, and adm. 7th March 1844 ;
died unrnarr. 2nd June 1861.
1844
1862
JOHN WALLACE, ord. 28th Feb. 1862 ;
res. 28th Feb. 1866; [became min.
of New Deer].
GEORGE THOMAS JAMIESON, born
1366 Currie 27th Aug - 1838 son of Dr
Robert J., min. of Currie, afterwards
of St Paul s, Glasgow; educated at High
School and Univ. of Glasgow; licen. by
Presb. of Glasgow 7th May 1862 ; assistant
at North Leith ; ord. to Newton-on Ayr
26th March 1863; trans, and adm. 20th
July 1866; clerk of the Presb. of Edin
burgh 1898-1912; D.D. (Glasgow 1904).
Marr. 30th April 1868, Harriett Flora
MacWhirter (died 28th Jan. 1907), youngest
daugh. of James Bryce, D.D., first Church
of Scotland chaplain at Calcutta, and min.
of St Andrew s Church there, and had issue
Mary Florence, born 30th Aug. 1869 ; Eliza
Katharine, born 5th June 1873 (marr. 13th
July 1905, Robert E. Wallace-James, S.S.C.,
Edinburgh) ; Robert George, MA., chaplain
in India, Bengal Presidency, born 16th July
1874; James Bryce, B.D., min. of Grey-
friars, Dumfries, born 17th July 1879 ;
Henry William, accountant, Secunderabad,
born 25th Dec. 1882.
RATHO.
[Belonged to the Bishopric of St
Andrews, and thereafter was annexed
to the College Kirk of Corstorphine. The
church was dedicated to St Mary. Our
Lady s Well is in the vicinity.]
1562
DAVID WEMIS [WEMYSS], one of
those in St Andrews whom the first
General Assembly, 20th Dec. 1560,
thought "maist qualified for ministreing
and teaching " ; adm. in 1562 ; trans, to
High Kirk, Glasgow, about 25th June 1565.
[Booke of the Kirk, Keith s and Calder-
wood s Hists. ; Wodrow Biog., ii.]
PATRICK CREICH [CREECH], com-
plained against at the Assembly,
25th June 1565, "for not repairing
to Linlithgow for the exercise of prophecy-
ing, excused himself because his stipend
was not duly paid him." Another complaint
Avas laid to his charge, 25th Dec. following,
of marrying a couple regardless of the dis
cipline of the Kirk. This he confessed on
the 27th, and was ordained to do so
publicly, twice at Edinburgh, and after
wards at Dalmeny, where the offence had
been committed. For a similar fault he
was "suspended from his ministrie, and
lifting up of his stipend," 30th Dec. 1567 ;
and again on 8th July 1568; "and if he
commit the like offence, that he be
deposed." He was settled at North
Berwick in 1568. [Booke of the Kirk,
Keith s and Calderwood s Hists.}
JAMES HAMILTON, adm. 1st May
1568; had Kirknewton and Gogar
also in his charge. He resided at
the former place in 1573. [Reg. Min.,
Test. Reg., Calderwood s Hist.]
1568 THOMAS BISHOP, reader.
RICHARD THOMPSON, having Gogar
also in his charge; coll to the
vicarage Jan. 1589 ; pres. to the
Prebend of Half Byres, in the College
Kirk of Corstorphine, by James VI., 8th
182
RATHO
[PRESB. OF
Oct. 1596; pres. to Castleton in 1604,
which he held in conjunction. In 1605, he
was clerk to the Commissioners of the
General Assembly, and died Oct. 1606.
He marr. Agnes Foulis, who survived him,
and had issue David, served heir 8th
July 1607; Alexander; James; Richard;
Margaret ; Helen ; Mary (Acts and Dec.,
ccxxiii., 352). [-Reg. Assig., Booke of the
Kirk, Craufurd s Univ.; Calderwood s
Hist. ; Inq. Ret. Gen., 313 de Tut.,
110, 111.]
JOHN DUNLOP, M.A. (Edinburgh,
16Q7 22nd Feb. 1602); pres. to the
vicarage by James VI. June 1607 ;
died Feb. 1647, aged about 65. He marr.
Elizabeth Black, who survived him (alive
in 1657), and had issue Elizabeth (marr.,
cont. llth Oct. 1633, John, son of John
Mitchell, preacher in London : Reg. of
Deeds, dxi., 384); John, min. of East
Calder ; Alexander ; Lucy ; Barbara ;
William ; Alison (marr., pro. 26th April
1660, Andrew Cockburn, schoolmaster at
Queen sferry) ; Katherine ; Ludovic, min.
of Skene. [Reg. Assig. and Pres. (Caut.) ;
St Cuthbert s Sess., Test., and Edin. Reg.
(Bapt.).}
1648
DAVID READDIE, son of James R.,
master of the Grammar School at
Dunfermline ; educated at the Univ.
of St Andrews ; M.A. (1633) ; adm. in 1648 ;
died Sept. 1662, aged about 50. [Dal-
keith Presb., Colinton Sess., and Test.
Reg. ; Wodrow s Hist., i. ; Reg. Old Dec.,
1650.]
JOHN MACMATH, M.A. ; coll. 25th
March 1663 ; trans, to Lasswade in
1670. [Reg. Collat.]
JOHN WILKIE, trans, from Kirk-
1674 newton 1674; trans, to Eyemouth
in 1677. [Lanark Presb. Reg., Min.
Book Reg. Priv. Seal.]
WILLIAM STEWART, M.A. (Glasgow,
16g3 12th July 1667). The collections,
25th Sept. 1687, " were so inconsider
able that the box was not able to maintain
the poor"; an assessment was proposed
according to Act of Parliament, which is
said to be the earliest instance of a com
pulsory rate for this purpose. Rabbled
at the Revolution. After S. s rabbling
it was found that the communion and
baptismal plate was missing ; on enquiry,
the kirk-session found that it had been
conveyed to Lord Lauderdale s house at
Thirlstane, whence it was recovered by
S. s successor. He went to Fife, where
he lived on the charity of friends. Died
about 20th Nov. 1690, having marr. Grizel,
daugh. of James Durie of Craigluscar, who
survived him (P. C. Acta, 23rd Dec. 1690),
and had an only son, Charles. \_Mun. Univ.
Glasg., iii. ; Sess. Reg.; MS. Ace. of Min.,
1689.]
JAMES HART, M.A. ; ord. 4th July
1692 1692 In Augt 1702 k e was called
to Greyfriars, but "declared his
sense of emptiness for so eminent a part,
and his unwillingness to undertake it."
The Presbytery ordered the call to be
transmitted to Ratho and the parishioners
to be summoned to answer thereto. At
the next meeting the officer reported that
on 9th Aug., as he was on his way to
cite the heritors, elders, etc., a multitude
of women came to him and so threatened
him, that he was obliged to leave the
place. Strong remonstrances were offered
against the translation, but the Presby
tery overruled the objections and appointed
his admission for 19th Aug. 1702. [Edin.
Reg. (Marr.), Murray s Biog. Annals.]
JOHN GUTHRIE, son and heir of
1?03 James G., brother of John G.,
younger of Mongerswood (Ayr Sas.,
vii., 239); called 30th May, and ord. 16th
Aug. 1703. He refused to take the Oath
of Abjuration in 1712; died 28th Feb.
1756, in his 83rd year, being a widower,
with a daugh. Margaret, and others.
WILLIAM WILKIE, born 5th Oct.
175g 1721, son of James W., Echline;
educated at Dalmeny School and
Univ. of Edinburgh; licen. by the Presb.
of Linlithgow 29th May 1745; called 15th
Feb., and ord. (assistant and successor) 17th
May 1753. He demitted, 15th Nov. 1759,
EDINBUEGH]
RATHO
183
on appointment as Professor of Natural
Philosophy in the Univ. of St Andrews;
died 10th Oct. 1772. When at Ratho his
success as a farmer earned him the name
of "Potato Wilkie." His scientific attain
ments were great, and among his pupils
were Playfair and Leslie. Publication
The Epiyoniad, an Epic Poem in Nine
Books (Edinburgh, 1757; 2nd ed., 1759);
Moral Fables in Verse (1769). He has
been styled "the Scottish Homer." [Car-
lyle s Autob. ; Chambers s Biog. Diet., iv. ;
Robert Fergusson s Poems.]
JAMES ROBERTSON, M.A. ; licen. by
7 the Presb. of St Andrews, llth May
1757 ; pres. by James, Earl of
Lauderdale, and ord. 10th July 1760 ; died
13th Sept. 1802, in his 75th year. He
marr. 20th Aug. 1772, Jean (born 1743,
died at Edinburgh 6th Sept. 1824), daugh.
of Alexander Robertson, min. of Eddleston,
and had issue James Maitland, min. of
Livingston, born llth May 1774 ; Alex
ander, born 18th Nov. 1775, died 7th Dec.
1776 ; John, surgeon H.E.I.C.S., born llth
March 1777, died on his passage to India
1st Dec. 1795 ; Alexander, M.P. for Gram-
pound, in Cornwall, born 14th Feb. 1779.
Publication Account of the Parish (Sin
clair s Stat. Ace., vii.).
ANDREW DUNCAN, born 1755, son
1RO _ of Patrick D., min. of Tibbermore;
licen. by Presb. of Perth 29th July
1778 ; ord. to Auchterarder 6th Sept. 1781 ;
pres. by Thomas Davidson, D.D., of Muir
house, Sept. 1802 ; trans, and adm. 24th
March 1803 ; app. principal clerk to the
General Assembly, 21st May 1807; D.D.
(Edinburgh, 14th March 1811); Moderator
of the General Assembly 20th May 1824";
died 29th July 1827. He marr. 15th Aug.
1786, Margaret (died 16th Sept. 1821),
daugh. of Neil Bethune, min. of Kenno-
way, and had issue Jean, born 4th April
1790 (marr. 7th July 1820, Capt. Duncan
Ogilvy), died in India, April 1821 ; Chris
tian, born 16th Aug. 1791 ; Janet, born 10th
Jan. 1793; Hannah, born 17th Dec. 1793
(marr. 8th Sept. 1821, Capt. H. A. Mont-
gomerie) ; Margaret, born 21st Feb. 1795 ;
Catherine, born 14th Aug. 1796; Andrew
Bethune, min. of Culross, born 19th July
1797; Susan, born 12th July 1798; Ann
Mercer, born 2nd April 1800 (marr. 19th
Dec. 1828, James Craig, surgeon, Ratho) ;
Grace, born 25th April 1802 ; James, born
28th Aug. 1806. Publications The Benefits
of Christianity, a sermon (Edinburgh, 1806) ;
Account of Auchterarder (Sinclair s Stat.
Ace., iv.). [Paterson s Ayr., i. ; Kay s
Portr., ii.]
JAMES HENDERSON, trans, from
1828 Stockbridge Chapel (St Bernard s) ;
pres. by Thomas Davidson, D.D., of
Muirhouse, and adm. 21st Feb. 1828 ;
trans, to St Enoch s, Glasgow, 29th Nov.
1832.
JAMES CLASON, born Dunblane, 27th
1833 J une 1 808 > son of James C. ; edu
cated at Glasgow Univ. ; M.A.
(1825) ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 3rd
Aug. 1831 ; assistant at North Leith ; pres.
by the trustees of Thomas Davidson, D.D.,
of Muirhouse ; ord. 15th Aug. 1833 ; died
unmarried, 17th April 1842. Publications
Account of the Parish (New Stat. Ace.,
i.) ; Sermons, edited by P. Clason, D.D.
(Edinburgh, 1843).
JAMES CHARLES FOWLER, born
1843 -Aberdeen, 1808, son of George F.,
schoolmaster ; educated at Marischal
College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (1824) ; licen. by
Presb. of Aberdeen 22nd July 1828 ; ord.
to Roxburgh Place Chapel, Edinburgh, 7th
Aug. 1834; trans, to St Luke s, Glasgow,
16th March 1837; trans, and adm. 12th
Jan. 1843 ; LL.D. (Marischal College, Aber
deen, 1856) ; died at Torquay, 16th March
1866. He marr. (1) 26th Dec. 1848, Mary
Elizabeth (died 5th Sept. 1850), daugh. of
Andrew Steele of Crosswoodhill, W.S. : (2)
2nd June 1853, Helen (died 18th March
1895), daugh. of Major David Brown of Park,
and had issue Jane Munro, born 27th Jan.
1855 (marr. Alexander Thorn, St Andrews).
Publications The Right Improvement of
Divine Judgments and the Proper Means
of Averting Them, a sermon (Edinburgh,
1851) ; Lectures on the Evidences of
Revealed Religion; on Infidelity- on
184
RATHO EDINBURGH CASTLE
[PEESB. OF
Sabbath Schools; Preparatory Essay to
Watson s Apology for the Bible.
ROBERT CHARLES HENRY MAC-
186Q DUFF, born 6th March 1829, son of
Alexander M. of Bonhard and
Margaret Catherine, daugh. of John Ross
of Balgirsh ; educated at High School and
Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of
Edinburgh ; ord. to Falkland 10th March
1853 ; trans, and adra. 19th July 1866 ; res.
1st June 1876 ; died at Leamington, 28th
May 1891. He marr. 18th Jan. 1868,
Margaret Lucy (died at Aboyne, 23rd Aug.
1910), daugh. of William Spence, secretary
of the British Linen Bank, and had issue
William Alexander, F.R.C.O., born 22nd
July 1869; Robert Ross, born 31st July
1871, died 13th March 1876; Catherine
Margaret, born 7th Jan. 1876.
ARCHIBALD BISSET, born Edinburgh,
12th Aug. 1843, son of Archibald
B., merchant, Edinburgh, and
Isabella Davidson ; educated at Univ. of
Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh
1872 ; assistant at St Cuthbert s, Edin
burgh ; ord. to Foulden 21st May 1874;
trans, and adm. 17th Nov. 1876. Marr.
24th April 1878, Barbara (died 20th Aug.
1913), daugh. of Ralph Dodds, merchant,
Berwick-on-Tweed, and Barbara Wright.
[The following chapels, formerly belong
ing to the Church of Scotland, no longer
exist.]
EDINBURGH CASTLE.
[Formerly a parish belonging to the
Abbey of Holyroodhouse, but since the
Reformation joined to Canongate Parish.
On the appointment of a minister he was
fully recognised and admitted as in other
parishes, and had a seat in the Presb.
(though excluded from the benefit of the
Widows Fund, at its establishment, 25th
March 1744), till the translation of the
incumbent in 1754, from which time it has
been recognised only as a chapel belonging
to the garrison. In 1755 the chapel was
divided into three storeys, and turned into
military stores.]
JOHN BROWN, recommended to Parlia-
1661 men t by the Privy Council 9th April
1661. [Acts ParL, vii.]
ALEXANDER SMITH, M.A. ; ord.
. 22nd Oct. 1668; trans, to Crailing
1672. [Reg. Collat.]
GILBERT SIMSON, M.A. ; ord. 4th
1673 Feb. 1673; pres. to Eckford 25th
March 1677 (Warrant Book Scot.,
iv., 204), but not settled ; trans, to Kings-
barns 1678. [Kingsbarns Sess. Reg.~\
JOHN BARCLAY, M.A. ; adm. 1680;
trans, to Cockburnspath 1682. [Act.
Rect. Univ. St And., Min. Book Reg.
Privy Seal, Test. Reg. (Glasg.).~\
CHARLES FORRESTER, a native of
1682 Buchan ; M.A. (King s College 1674).
He fled the country on the surrender
of the Castle in 1689. He marr. 20th Nov.
1682, Barbara Alison. [Haddington Presb.
and Edin. Reg. (Marr.) ; MS. Ace. of Min.,
1689.]
WALTER SMYTH, M.A. (Glasgow, 27th
1692 ^ U ^ 1676) ; licen. by George, Bishop
of Aberdeen, 1st Nov. 1684, took
orders as deacon ; chaplain to Sir John
Dalrymple of Stair, and tutor to his
children ; adm. 1692 and dem. 1709 ; died
at Restalrig, 3rd April 1738, aged 82. He
marr. 6th Sept. 1699, Christian, daugh. of
Peter Paterson, portioner of Restalrig.
[Mun. Univ. Glasg., iii. ; MS. Ace. of Min.,
1689 ; Linlithgow Presb., Edin. (Marr.),
and Cahon Reg. (Bur.) ; Acts ParL, xi.]
JOHN FLEMING, ord. in the Castle
Kirk 19th Jan. 1710; trans, to
Second Charge, Perth, 24th Feb.
1713.
1716
ALEXANDER KER, ord. in the Castle
th Aug. 1716; died unmarr. 24th
Jan. 1737.
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185
JAMES GLASGOW, MA. (Glasgow,
1738 * 0t k March 1718) ; commissioned by
George II. 7th July 1737 ; ord. 14th
Feb. 1738 ; died 9th Feb. 1746, aged about
48. [Mun. Univ. Glasg., iii. ; Reg. (Bur.) ;
Trustees Rep., 1745.]
WILLIAM SMITH, licen. by Presb. of
7 Haddington 12th Jan. 1727 ; ord. in
the Castle 4th Sept. 1746 ; died 6th
Feb. 1751. [Test, and Edin. Reg.]
JOHN JOHNSTON, MA. ; ord. 10th
1751 May 1751 ; trans, to Biggar 15th
Aug. 1754, having exchanged charges
with William Haig. [Carlyle s Autob.,
Morren s Ann.]
WILLIAM HAIG, son of James H.,
1754 Orchardfarm, Alloa ; adm. 13th Sept.
1754 -, died 19th Oct. 1761.
LEITH WYND CHAPEL.
[Opened as a chapel-of-ease, 18th Nov.
1792 ; declared a parish quoad sacra,
31st May 1834. Closed in 1843.]
JOSEPH ROBERTSON, licen. by
1792 Presb. of Edinburgh 29th Oct. 1788 ;
assistant at Stewarton 1790 ; ord.
13th Dec. 1792 : dem. 21st April, and dep.
2nd May 1818, having been convicted by
the High Court of Justiciary of celebrating
unlawful marriages, and uttering fabri
cated certificates of proclamations, and
banished for life 18th April preceding.
He marr., and had issue Hamilton, died
12th Nov. 1861, aged 21; Joseph, W.S.
apprentice 1805. Publications Letters and
Dialogues on the Lords Supper (Edin
burgh, 1794) ; translated Lampe s Theologi
cal Dissertations concerning the Endtess
Duration of Punishment (Edinburgh, 1796);
Outlines of a Course of Theological Lectures
(1799) ; The Traveller s Guide through
Scotland (Edinburgh, 1799) ; The Traveller s
Guide through Ireland; Theological Lec
tures (Edinburgh, 1806) ; Sacred Biography ;
Sacred Contemplations ; The Ecclesiastical
Biography of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1810) ;
A Sermon on the Doctrine of the Trinity,
and the Dignity of the Redeemed (Edin
burgh, 1814). [Scots Mag., Ixxxi.]
SAMUEL GEORGE KENNEDY, ord.
1818 10th Dec. 1818 ; resigned 26th April
1820, on appointment to West Parish,
Perth.
JOHN THOMSON, ord. 16th Nov.
182Q 1820; dem. 28th Jan. 1824, on
appointment to Dysart, Second
Charge.
WILLIAM SIMPSON, M.A., born
1824 Dundee, 1787 ; licen. by Presb. of
Cupar 8th Dec. 1807 ; ord. assistant
at Arbroath llth Dec. 1813 ; afterwards
assistant at Dairsie ; adm. 21st Oct. 1824.
Joined the Free Church ; min. of John
Knox s Free Church, Edinburgh, 1843 ; died
unmarr. 4th Jan. 1858. Publication Re
membrance Remembered (Edinburgh, 1839).
MARINERS 1 CHURCH, LEITH.
[Constituted by the General Assembly,
27th May 1839. Became, in 1843, St
Ninian s Free Church, Leith.]
JOHN THOMSON, born Edinburgh,
1840 1808 son f James T. and Katherine
Oakley ; educated at High School
and Univ.; MA. (1830); licen. by Presb.
of Edinburgh; ord. 1840, to the "Bethel"
or Floating Chapel in Leith Harbour,
previous to the erection of permanent
building. Joined Free Church ; min. of St
Ninian s Free Church, Leith, 1843; clerk
to the Free Synod of Lothian and Tweed-
dale ; died 18th Nov. 1881. He marr. 3rd
April 1848, Elizabeth Gavin, daugh. of John
Brown, D.D., min. of Langton, and had
issue John Brown, I.C.S. ; Katherine
Oakley (marr. A. A. Gillies); James
Douglas ; Georgina Elizabeth (marr. 1883,
David Ross, M.A., min. of the Free Church,
Crathie, afterwards of St Kilda, Mel
bourne), died 1901. Publications Trans
lation of Hengstenberg s Commentary on
the Psalms ; Stier s Words of Jesus ; con
tributed to ditto s Journal, etc.
186
NEW STREET ROXBURGH PLACE
[PRESB. OF
NEW STREET CHAPEL.
[Opened as a chapel-of-ease, 16th March i
1794. By Act 30 & 31 Viet. cap. 107 (20th !
Aug. 1862), which uncollegiated the parish |
of Canongate, New Street was erected into
a parish quoad sacra, but no min. was
appointed. By Act 33 & 34 Viet. cap. 87
(9th Aug. 1870) the charge was abolished
in 1884, and the parish was divided between
Trinity and Canongate parishes.]
DAVID DICKSON, trans, from Both-
kennar, and adm. 22nd Oct. 1795 ;
dem. 27th Feb. 1799, on appointment
to Trinity Parish, Edinburgh.
DAVID SAVILE, born 1774, educated
1799 at Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A.
(1791) ; tutor in the family of David
Johnston of Lathrisk ; licen. by Presb. of
Kirkcaldy 4th May 1796 ; Lecturer in
Theology at Northampton ; joined the
Presbyterian Classis at Long Lawford
9th April 1798 ; ord. by Presb. of Cupar
to Little Harborough, Warwickshire, 10th
July 1798; trans, to St Andrew s, Dun-
fermline, 1799 ; trans, to this charge 10th
Oct. 1799 ; died 12th June 1810. He marr.
Ann (died 23rd June 1834), daugh. of
Commissary-General Petrie, and had issue
David, died 28th May 1816 ; Mary (marr.
John Anderson, merchant, Mexico), died
at Edinburgh 8th Oct. 1844; Ann Petrie,
missionary of the Church of Scotland, India
(marr. John Anderson, min. of Coulter) ;
Elizabeth Saville, died 31st Oct. 1884, aged
75. Publications Salvation only to be
obtained through Christ, a sermon (Edin
burgh, 1803) ; The Progress of Man, an
essay (Edinburgh, 1804) ; A Letter to the
Members of the Society for Propagating
Christian Knoivledge, respecting the Election
of a Secretary (Edinburgh, 1805) ; Disserta
tions on the Existence, A ttributes, Providence
and Moral Government of God (Edinburgh,
1807) ; Discourses on the Peculiar Doctrines
of Revelation (Edinburgh, 1810) ; Sermons
(Edinburgh, 1814). [Tombst., Old Gallon
Churchyard.]
ROBERT KAY, trans, from Kinclaven,
and adm. 18th Oct. 1811 ; dem. on
appointment to West Parish, Perth,
9th Nov. 1813.
WILLIAM DUNN, son of William D.,
watchmaker, Glasgow ; ord. 18th
Aug. 1814 ; died 7th June 1822. He
marr. 20th Feb. 1816, Eliza (died 3rd March
1824), daugh. of Alexander Campbell, col
lector of Excise.
JOHN CLARK, M.A. ; ord. 25th April
1823; trans, to Second Charge,
Canongate, 12th Sept. 1833.
WILLIAM NISBET, only son of William
N., Glasgow; educated at Univ. of
Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow
25th April 1832 ; assistant at Clarkston
Chapel ; ord. 25th Sept. 1834. Joined the
Free Church ; min. of Canongate Free
Church 1843; died 27th Sept. 1869. He
marr. Catherine Arthur, who died 6th Jan.
1859. Publication The Voluntary Sup
port of the Christian Ministry, the Only
Method Acceptable to God, and Beneficial
to the Church (Edinburgh, 1835).
ROXBURGH PLACE CHAPEL.
[Formerly a chapel belonging to the
Relief Church. The introduction of an
organ in 1829, while agreeable to the
minister and practically all his congrega
tion, was vigorously opposed by the neigh
bouring congregations, who petitioned the
Synod to suppress the innovation. On
the Synod s deciding against the use of
instrumental music in public worship, the
congregation ceased connection with the
Relief body, 17th May 1829. On 26th
June 1833, minister and people were
admitted into the Church of Scotland, and
a parish quoad sacra was declared by Act
of Assembly, 31st May 1834. A debt of
4000 having accumulated, the church
passed by sale into the hands of private
parties. In 1856 the building was pur
chased by the trustees of Lady Glenorchy s
Church, and it was occupied by that con
gregation till 1913, when a new church
EDINBURGH]
ROXBURGH PLACE
187
was erected on its site. Roxburgh Place
Chapel was the meeting-place of the Con
vocation, 17th Nov. 1842, when of 465
present, 333 pledged themselves to secede
if no other means could be taken.]
1833
JOHN JOHNSTON, born 1780, son of
John J., Edinburgh ; educated at
the Canongate Grammar School and
Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. ; tutor in the
families of Gordon of Cluny and Millar of
Balmain ; licen. by Relief Presb. 12th July
1807; ord. 14th July 1808; joined the |
Church of Scotland, and inducted llth
July 1833. Whilst preaching in the Middle
Church, Perth, 1st Sept. of the same year,
he was seized with illness, and died two
days after. He marr. 4th Sept. 1812,
Elizabeth (died 12th Jan. 1864), daugh. of
John Home, land surveyor, Edinburgh, and
had issue Eliza (marr. 1848, Finlay Mac-
pherson, min. of the Free Church, Larbert),
died 1853 ; Charlotte (marr. David Purves,
min. of Free Church, Maxwelltown), died
14th Sept. 1904 ; William Knox, died
young ; John, died 1st May 1820. Publica
tions The Gospel of the Kingdom to be
Universally Preached, a sermon (London,
1818) ; Address to the Relief Congregation,
Kelso (Edinburgh, 1829); Tivo Sermons
preached in Roxburgh Place Church (Edin
burgh, 1832) ; Sermons, with Memoir by
Alexander Peterkin (Edinburgh, 1834).
{Sermons; Acts of Ass., 1833; New Stat.
Ace., xviii. ; Knox Genealogy; Small s
History of U.P, Congregations, i.]
JAMES CHARLES FOWLER, M.A. ;
ord. 7th Aug. 1834; trans, to St
1834 Luke s, Glasgow, 16th March 1837.
JAMES HAMILTON, born Paisley,
27th Nov. 1814, eldest son of William
1841 H., D.D., min. of Strathblane ; edu
cated privately and at Univs. of Glasgow
and Edinburgh; M.A. (Glasgow 1835);
licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 1839;
assistant at St George s, Edinburgh, and
Abernyte ; ord. 21st Jan. 1841 ; inducted
to the National Scottish Church, Regent
Square, London, 22nd July 1841 ; D.D.
(College of New Jersey, U.S.A., 1848);
F.L.S. ; died 24th Nov. 1867. He marr.
1847, Anne Hovenden (died April 1886),
daugh. of John Moore, Calcutta, and had
issue Anne, born 12th March 1849 (marr.
3rd July 1867, Sir Frederick Wills, Bart.),
died 12th Feb. 1910 ; James, born 20th Oct.
1850, died 22nd Feb. 1911 ; Mary Isabella,
born 5th Aug. 1853 (marr. Alexander Law
rence), died Aug. 1887 ; Christina Jean, born
llth July 1856, died unmarr. Jan. 1885;
Herbert William, born 1st Feb. 1861;
Ada Frances, born 25th Feb. 1864, died
unmarr. Jan. 1902. Publications At the
age of seventeen he compiled Lives of
Richard Baxter, Jonathan Edwards,
Thomas Boston, and others, for a Glas
gow tract society, and in 1836 he wrote a
short Memoir of his father and edited his
posthumous works. His other publica
tions include Life in Earnest (1845) ; The
Mount of Olives (1846) ; Memoir of Lady
Colquhoun (1850) ; The Royal Preacher
(1851) ; Memoir of Richard Williams
(1854) ; Excelsior : Helps to Progress in
Religion, Science, and Literature, 6 vols.
(1854); Emblems from Eden (1856);
Lessons from the Great Biography (1857) ;
Our Christians Classics (1857-9) ; Memoir
of T. Wilson of Woodville (1859) ; A Morn
ing beside the Lake of Galilee (1863) ;
The Psalter and Hymn Book, three
lectures (1865) ; Memoir of J. D. Burns
(1869, posthumous). He edited the
Presbyterian Messenger, and Evangelical
Christendom (the organ of the Evangelical
Alliance). He was a constant contributor
to magazine literature, and the Botanical
articles in Fairbairn s Biblical Dictionary
were from his pen. A collected edition of
his works, in 6 vols., appeared in 1869-73.
[See Life by William Arnot, Hair s Regent
Square, Diet. Nat. Biog.]
ALEXANDER GREGORY, born Lossie-
mouth, 15th Sept. 1817, son of Thomas
1842 G. and Jean Duncan ; educated at
Elgin Academy and Univs. of Aberdeen
and Edinburgh; M.A. (King s College,
1837); tutor at Altyre ; licen. by Presb.
of Edinburgh ; ord. 1842. Joined the
Free Church; min. of Roxburgh Place
Free Church 1843-52; of Anstruther Free
188
ROXBURGH PLACE ST PAUL S [PRESB. OF EDINBURGH
Church 1852-82 ; died 17th July 1888. He
marr. 1853, Eliza (died 12th Aug. 1865,
aged 35), daugh. of William Stothert of
Cargen, and had issue William, born 24th
Oct. 1854; Thomas, born 8th April 1856;
Alexander, min. of St Columba U.F.
Church, Kilmacolm, born 23rd Aug. 1858 ;
Eliza Jane, born 6th Dec. 1861.
ST PAUL S
[Erected by Agnes (died 10th July 1859,
in her 87th year), daugh. of Thomas Hunter
of Glencarse ; declared a parish quoad
sacra 30th May 1836, and opened 4th Dec.
1836. By the terms of endowment the
chapel remained with the Free Church in
1843, and is now United Free St Paul s.]
1838
ROBERT ELDER, born Inveraray, 28th
July 1808, son of John E. and
Euphemia Beith ; educated at
Campbeltown Grammar School and Univ.
of Glasgow; M.A. (1825); licen. by Presb.
of Kintyre 25th Nov. 1829; ord. to Kil-
brandon 23rd March 1831 ; trans, to Killin
18th Dec. 1834; trans, and adm. llth Oct.
1838. Joined Free Church ; min. of Free
St Paul s 1843-7; trans, to West Free
Church, Rothesay, 24th May 1847; D.D.
(Glasgow 1871) ; Moderator of Free Church
General Assembly 1871; retired 1st June
1882 ; died at Edinburgh 30th March 1892.
He marr. 4th April 1838, Margaret, daugh.
of John Robson, Oban, and had issue
Euphemia Beith, born 21st Jan. 1839;
John Robson, born 22nd June 1840, died
23rd May 1897; Margaret Matilda, born
1st April 1842; Julia, born 24th Sept.
1844, died 19th March 1846 ; Nancy Eliza,
born 4th July 1846. Publications Non-
Intrusion, a lecture (Edinburgh, 1840) ;
Danger of Spiritual Ignorance, a sermon
(Edinburgh, 1841); On the Conversion of
the Jeivs, a lecture (Edinburgh, 1842);
Sermon in Vol. II., Free Church Pidpit
(Edinburgh, 1846) ; The SouVs Deliverance,
a lecture (Glasgow, 1861); Present Trial
and Future Glory, Memorial Sermons
(Glasgow, 1868); Thesis on Doctrine of
the Sacraments (Glasgow, 1871); The
Unchanging Saviour, Memorial Sermons
(Greenock, 1876) ; Free Church Principles,
a lecture (Glasgow, 1877) ; Sermon in Vol. [.,
Modern Scottish Pulpit (Edinburgh, 1880).
PRESBYTERY OF LINLITHGOW
[Proposed to be erected by the General Assembly, April 1581. The record commences
12th Dec. 1610, and extends to twenty-five volumes, including that of the Protesters from
6th Aug. 1651 to 7th July 1658, with blanks from 31st Oct. 1632 to 16th Oct. 1639.]
ABERCORN.
[The church, dedicated to St Serf, in
all probability occupies the site of St Wil
frid s monastery of Aebercurnig, founded
about 675.]
1567 JOHN MACKAY, reader.
WILLIAM POWRIE, of the Fothring-
ham family ; pres. to the vicarage of
Enrol by James VI. 31st Jan. 1573 ;
was reader there 1578 ; schoolmaster of
Linlithgow; adm. 1584; died Sept. 1631.
He marr. Agnes Forrest, and had issue
Alexander, min. of Dryfesdale. [Reg.
Assig., Test. Reg., Tombst., Calderwood s
Hist., Linlithgow Burgh Records.]
JOHN CRICHTON, M.A. ; ord. (col-
1622 l ea ue ) !622 ; trans, to Campsie
1623. [Act. Rect. Univ. St And.]
JOHN LAING, M.A. ; ord. (colleague)
7th March 1624; trans, to Kirk-
newton 1625. [Inq. Ret. Gen., 2472.]
ANDREW YOUNG, M.A. (St Andrews,
1626 1614) ; min. of Bothkennar 1619-22 ;
dep. 1622; adm. (colleague) 29th
Oct. 1626; died 19th Nov. 1639, aged
about 46. He marr. Margaret Darroch, who
died June 1629, and had issue Robert,
min. of Dunbarney. [Test. Reg. (Stirl.} ;
Reg. Old Dec., iv.]
JAMES FORBES, son of John F., min.
1640 ^ -Delft formerly of Alford, and
Moderator of Assembly 1605; M.A.
(Aberdeen 1627); pres. by Presb. jure
devoluto, and adm. 12th June 1640; died
19th July 1642. He marr. 30th Oct. 1640,
Janet (died April 1671), daugh. of James
Fleming, min. of Yester (St Bathans),
and had issue Janet ; Catherine, who was
served heir 25th July 1643. [Yester Sess.
and Test. Reg. ( Edin. and Dunbl.), Living
ston s Charac., Lumsden s House of Forbes ;
Inq. Ret. Gen., 2888, 5530 de Tut, 663.]
1642
ROBERT ROW, born 1610, son of John
R., min. of Carnock ; educated at
Edinburgh Univ. ; M.A. (24th July
1630); licen. by Presb. of Perth 2nd Oct.
1639; ord. 28th Dec. 1642; a member of
the Commission of Assembly 1648; sided
with the Protesting brethren, and formed
one of the Protesting Presb. ; was confined
to his chamber in Edinburgh by the Com
mittee of Estates, 15th Sept. 1660, and
ten days afterwards had his stipend seques
trated for subscribing the Remonstrance,
" ane dangerous and seditious paper tending
to disturb the peace of the kingdom";
died 14th March 1661. He marr. 20th
Feb. 1645, Elisabeth Hardie [or Hamilton]
(see Edin. Sas., ix., 143, 1660), and had
issue Alexander, died young ; Mary ;
! Grisell (marr. Gaspar Chambon, a French
1 surgeon) ; Robert, died young ; John ;
George, a skipper, drowned at sea ;
William, schoolmaster of Crail ; Isobel
(marr. William Stevenson) ; Robert, died
in infancy ; Thomas ; Robert, a soldier,
fought at Blenheim. [Baillie s Lett., iii. ;
Row s and Wodrow s Hists., Fergusson s
Tracts, Acts of Ass.]
190
ABERCORN
[PRESB. OF
JOHN ARTHUR, licen. by Presb. of
1662 Haddington 27th March 1656 ; chap
lain to David, Earl of Wemyss, and
subsequently to Mary, Countess of Buc-
cleuch ; pres. by Alexander, Viscount of
Kingston, 23rd July 1661 ; but the presenta
tion being informal, the Privy Council
ordered the patron to present anew (P. C.
Decreta) ; obtained a gift of the escheit of
Sir Patrick Hamilton of Little Preston 25th
July 1675; was still min. in 1681, when he
was probably deprived on account of the
Test. He marr. 13th Feb. 1662, Grisell
Kynynmound (died 20th Dec. 1684, and was
buried in Greyfriars, Edinburgh), gentle
woman to the Countess of Buccleuch, and
had issue James, bapt. 25th Jan. 1663 ;
Marie ; John ; Thomas ; Ann ; George ;
Jean. [Lament s Diary, Edin. Reg.
(Bapt.), Reg. Sec. Sig. ; New Stat.
Ace., i.]
ROBERT GORDON, trans, from Caputh,
and adm. 1683; deprived by the
Privy Council, 23rd Aug. 1689, for
not reading the Proclamation of the Estates,
nor praying for King William and Queen
Mary, but praying for King James ; after-
Avards min. of Clunie. [Peterkin s Con
stitution of the Church; MS. Ace. of
Min., 1689.]
ALEXANDER DALGLEISH, called
1690 June 1689; ord lst Jan< 1690;
called to Dunfermline 7th April
1697; translation refused by the General
Assembly 18th Jan. 1698 ; trans, to Lin-
lithgow 31st May 1699. [Acts of Ass.]
JOHN BROWN, bapt. 1st May 1677,
second son of James B., min. of East
Calder; licen. by Presb. of Lin-
lithgow 4th Oct. 1699 ; chaplain to Lady
Torphichen ; declined call to Linlithgow,
Second Charge, 15th Nov. 1699; ord. to
this charge 20th March 1700; he was on
the leet for Rotterdam 1714; died 3rd
May 1743. He marr. (1) 20th April 1700,
Margaret (died 22nd Sept. 1702), daugh. of
Michael Henderson, portioner of Croft-
martin, and had issue Charles, bapt. 5th
May 1701, died 10th Dec. 1703; Isobel,
bapt. 31st Aug. 1702, died 28th March
1703 : (2) 16th April 1704, Elizabeth, daugh.
of David Williamson, min. of St Cuthbert s,
and had issue David, of Golf Hall, born
12th May 1707; Stephen, born 15th Nov.
1710, died 10th Oct. 1712 ; John, born 10th
June 1714, died 17th April 1715 ; George,
born 19th June 1715, died 18th Nov. 1716 ;
Joseph, born llth May 1717 ; William,
born 19th Feb. 1719, died 17th March 1724 ;
Robert, born 2nd Jan. 1721, died 27th April
1725; John, born 7th Sept. 1722, died 6th
Dec. same year ; James, min. of New
North Parish, Edinburgh, born 17th Dec.
1724; Margaret, born 26th July 1705
(marr. 5th April 1730, John Johnston, min.
of Arngask), died 8th July 1768 ; Henrietta,
born 30th Dec. 1708 (marr. 8th Nov. 1730,
John Tod, shipbuilder, Leith), died 7th
Aug. 1796; Jean, born 10th Oct. 1712
(marr. 15th Aug. 1740, Walter Gibson of
Greenknowe). Publications Three single
Sermons : The Rod of God shaken over
the Heads of His Own Children (Edin
burgh, 1772) ; On Christian Fear ; and
The Song of the Redeemed. [Edin. Reg.
(Marr.), Brown s Gosp. Truth.]
HENRY LUNDIE, trans, from Monzie ;
called 16th July, and adm. 24th Sept.
1747 ; trans, to Trinity Parish, Edin
burgh, 15th June 1758.
JOHN RITCHIE, licen. by Presb. of
Linlithgow 28th Sept. 1757; pres.
by John, Earl of Hopetoun, Sept.
1758; ord. 7th March 1759; died 4th May
1791. He marr. 20th Sept. 1763, Elizabeth
Riddell, who died 17th Sept. 1796, and had
issue Harriet, died in infancy; Charles,
min. of Kirkliston ; James, born 10th Dec.
1766; Elizabeth, born 12th Jan. 1769;
Robert, born 22nd Sept. 1770; William,
born 28th Sept. 1772; John, born 1st May
1775 ; David, born 21st July 1777.
HUGH MEIKLEJOHN, born 1765,
only son of Hugh M. of Saline-
Shaw, min. in Carolina ; educated
at Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of
Dunfermline 27th Aug. 1788; pres. by
James, Earl of Hopetoun, and ord. 22nd
LINLITHGOW]
ABERCORN
191
Dec. 1791 ; adra. Professor of Ecclesi
astical History in the Univ. of Edin
burgh (held in conjunction with his
charge) 21st Jan. 1799; D.D. (Edinburgh,
27th March 1800) ; Moderator of the General
Assembly 17th May 1810; died llth June
1831. Sir Robert Christison describes him
as " a powerfully built man of six feet four,
with a smooth round face that never bore
any expression but that of good humour
and contentment." He marr. 28th May
1792, Anne (died 27th March 1852), daugh.
of Robert Liston, min. of Aberdour, and
had issue Eliza, born 12th June 1793 ;
James Hope Johnstone, captain, 92nd
Highlanders, born 5th March 1795; Hugh
Cree, writer, born 27th Jan. 1797; Ann,
born 26th June 1798; Robert, min. of
Strathdon, born 1st Oct. 1800; Mary,
born 17th Oct. 1802 (marr. James Bryce,
D.D., min. at Calcutta) ; Andrew Cree,
born 14th July 1805; Alexander, born 18th
Feb. 1808; William Hope, D.D., min. at
Calcutta, born 5th Aug. 1811. Publications
Three single Sermons (Edinburgh, 1798-
1823); Account of the Parish (Sinclair s
iStat. Ace., xx.). [Grant s Univ., ii.]
LEWIS HAY IRVING, son of John I.,
W.S., Edinburgh ; educated at Univ.
of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of
Dunblane 26th Oct. 1830; pres. by John,
Earl of Hopetoun, and ord. 16th Dec. 1831.
Joined the Free Church ; adm. to Falkirk
Free Church 1843; died 28th June 1877.
He marr. (1) 12th Sept. 1832, Isabella
Carruthers, Balmaclellan, who died 16th
Aug. 1836, and had issue Margaret Isa
bella, born 27th July 1836 (marr. David
Mathie Peebles, banker, Falkirk) : (2) 6th
Oct. 1840, Catherine (died 16th Oct. 1890),
daugh. of John James Cadell of Grange
and Banton, and had issue Catherine
Cadell, born 28th May 1842, died 8th May
1843 ; Isabella Moubray, born 17th Dec.
1843 (marr. 20th July 1866, Robert Craigie
Bell, W.S.), died 21st June 1911; Agnes
Hay, born 16th June 1845 (marr. 27th Jan.
1870, Surgeon-Major Julius John Wood,
Indian Medical Service) ; John, M.A., min.
of Free Church, Innellan, afterwards of
Nice, born 20th June 1847, died 1904;
Christian Katherine, born 28th July 1849
(marr. 25th July 1878, Thomas Stewart
Omond, barrister, London) ; Mary Chan
cellor, bora 24th Oct. 1852. Publication-
Account of the Parish (New Stat. Ace., ii.).
DAVID PL A YF AIR, born 12th Sept.
1815, fourth son of Patrick P., of
Dalmarnock, Glasgow, and Jean,
second daugh. of Principal Playfair, St
Andrews; educated at Glasgow Academy,
the Univs. of Glasgow, Edinburgh, St
Andrews, and Trinity College, Cambridge ;
B.A. (Cantab. 1838); licen. by Presb. of
Edinburgh llth Nov. 1841 ; pres. by the
tutors of John Alexander, Earl of Hope
toun, July 1843 ; ord. 14th Sept. 1843 ; res.
9th Nov. 1880 ; died at Edinburgh, llth
Aug. 1886. He marr. 7th March 1854,
Jane Kincaid (died 2nd Aug. 1897), daugh.
of James Pitcairn, M.D., Edinburgh, and
had issue David Thomson, M.D., born
24th March 1855, died 1st Nov. 1904;
Cecilia Pitcairn, born 7th Nov. 1856 (marr.
15th Sept. 1895, William Vassie, B.D., min.
of Castleton); Patrick Macdonald, D.D.,
min. (First Charge) of St Andrew s
Parish ; Mary Jemima Jane (died in
infancy); Alice Jane Macduff, born 9th
July 1865. Publications Sermon, Comfort
in Christian Sorroiv for the Christian Dead
(Abercorn, 1859) ; Sermon, Parting Words
of Counsel (Abercorn, 1880).
JOHN HOWARD CRAWFORD, born
1881 Edinburgh, 7th June 1854, son of
William C., missionary in connection
with St Thomas s Episcopal Church, Edin
burgh ; educated at Edinburgh Univ. ;
M.A. (1878); lecturer in Moray House
Training College, Edinburgh ; licen. by
Presb. of Edinburgh 12th May 1880; ord.
12th May 1881 ; died unmarr. 16th Aug.
1900). Publications A Circle of the Soul
Poems of the Spiritual Life (Edinburgh,
1889); An Atonement of East London
(Edinburgh, 1890); Thoughts at Opening
Manhood; The Unity of the British
Empire ; Calvinism Taught in the Thirty -
nine Articles ; The Brotherhood of Mankind
A Study towards a Christan Philosophy
of History (Edinburgh, 1895).
192
ABERCORN BATHGATE
[PRESB. OF
JOHN WALLACE, M.A. ; ord. 10th
lgol Jan. 1901 ; trans. 30th Jan. 1908 to
Tron, Edinburgh.
JOHNSTON OLIPHANT, born Fraser-
isoa burgh, 3rd Dec. 1875, son of John O.
and Catherine Ann Blow ; educated
at Rathen School and Aberdeen Univ. ;
M.A. (1897), B.D. (1900) ; licen. by Presb.
of Deer 26th April 1900; assistant at
Inverness; ord. to Midmar 23rd Sept.
1904; trans, and adm. 14th July 1908.
[Disjoined from Bathgate and erected
into a parish quoad sacra by decreet of
Court of Teinds, 15th March 1886.]
ROBERT CAMERON, born Bohann,
Banffshire, 22nd April 1845, son of
William C. and Ann Grant; edu
cated at Univ. of Aberdeen; licen. by j
Presb. of Aberlour 21st Jan. 1873 ; assistant
at St Cuthbert s, Edinburgh ; ord. 5th Oct.
1881 ; died unmarr. 1st May 1909.
JOHN ALEXANDER CALDWELL
190g DREW, born Newton-Stewart, 3rd
July 1877, son of James D., of Craig-
encallie and Jessie Caldwell Gibson ; edu
cated at Moffat, Fettes College, St Peter s
College, Cambridge (B.A. 1902), and Edin
burgh Univ. ; licen. by Presb. of Wigtown
June 1905 ; missionary of the Edin. Univ. j
Miss. Assoc. ; assistant garrison chaplain, |
Edinburgh ; ord. 9th Oct. 1909.
BATHGATE.
[Previous to the Reformation the church
belonged to the Abbey of Newbattle. A
church built in 1596 was demolished in
1882, on erection of the present edifice.]
JOHN HAMILTON, monk of the
15 _,_ Monastery of Paisley, was infeft
in the vicarage of Bathgate, 30th
March 1567. [Linlithgow Burgh RecJ]
JOHN GRAY had " the haill vicarage,
1567 with the manse and gleib " ; pres. by
James VI. 26th May 1572; died
before 1st May 1574. [Reg. Min.~\
ROBERT HODGE, trans, from Tor-
phichen, with Livingston and
Torphichen in addition ; retrans. to
Torphichen after 1580. [Reg. Assig. and
Min., Test. Reg., Wodrow MiscelL]
JOHN HAMILTON, reader (probably
1576 above mentioned).
JAMES JOHNSTON, born about
1582 1549 > son f Thomas J. in Calder ;
reader at Torphichen from May
1575 to 1580. [Wodrow MiscelL, Reg.
Assig., Test. Reg.~\
GILBERT TAILZEOUR [TAYLOR],
1588 trans, from Penicuik ; adm. 1588 ;
demitted, but reponed by Presb. of
Edinburgh, 26th Oct. 1591, and declared
eligible for " quhatsomever kirk God sail
call, except Bathgate." He continued till
after 9th Oct. 1595. [Reg. Assig., Edin.
Presb. Reg.]
GEORGE INGLIS of Balbairdie, son
15Q5 of Thomas I., portioner of Auld-
liston (Edin. Sas. Sec. Reg., i., 100) ;
M.A. (St Andrews 1592); pres. by Alexander
Hamilton of Innerwick (G. R. Inhib., xxi.,
277) ; adm. after 1st April 1595 ; a member
of Assembly 1602 ; declared 29th Dec. 1613,
" that there were certain gysers [guisards]
in his parochyne upon the 25th of Dec. in
the night, and craived order might be tane
with them. The gysers compeirit and offerit
thernselffis in the will of the Presb. for their
offence, who quhairupon ordained them to
mak their publick repentance to tak away
the sclander the next Sabbothe in their
kirk, quhilk they promised to obey." He
died 10th March 1617, aged about 45. He
marr. Margaret Marjoribanks, who took
sasine of lands of Powburn 16th July 1604,
and had issue Thomas, who had precept
of dare constat as heir of his father, 20th
Nov. 1617 (Edin. Sas., xviii., 157) ; George ;
Mary ; Martha ; Susanna ; Anna (G. R.
Inhib., 21st Oct. 1617); Rachel; Marion.
[Act. Rect. Univ. St. And., Reg. Assig.,
Edin. Presb. Reg., Test. Reg., Eooke of the
Kirk ; Linlithgow Sas., ii.]
LINLITHGOW]
BATHGATE
193
JAMES SIMSON, probably son of
1618 P^rick S., min. of Stirling; M.A.
(St Andrews 1600); went to
France ; licen. on his return 1613 ; adra.
to Tongland 1618 ; was a member of As
sembly same year, and voted against the
Perth Articles ; a member of the General
Assembly 1638 ; one of the visitors of the
Univ. of St Andrews llth Nov. 1641 ;
died Jan. 1654. He marr. (1) before 1635,
Bessie Kirkcaldy, widow of Henry Boswell,
merchant, burgess of Kinghorn (G. R. Sas.,
xlii., 452) : (2) Annabella Hay, and had
issue Margaret ; Katherine (marr. John
Scott, min. of Shotts). [Test. Keg. ; Reg.
Old Dec., iv. ; Baillie s Lett., i. ; Acts Part.,
v. ; Stevenson s Hist.]
JOHN HUTCHESON, ord. 31st Jan.
1654 1654 ; trans, to Maybole 18th April
1655.
WILLIAM CRICHTON, M.A.; called
1655 15th and 29th Jan. and 5th Feb.,
also to Strathbrock, 21st Feb., but
preferring Bathgate ; was ord. (by the Pro
testers) 10th April 1654. His ministry was
inhibited by the Synod Feb. 1655. A pro
cess was raised for his intruding on Bathgate
contrary to the order of the Church, and
he was removed by the Synod after 16th
Nov. 1660. He was indulged by the Privy
Council at Beith, 3rd Sept. 1672, but refused
to accept ; was min. again in 1687. [Bail-
lie s Lett., Wodrow s Hist., Brown s Hist, of
Indulg., Rep. on Ch. Patronage.]
ALEXANDER KINNEAR, M.A. ; trans.
1656 f rom Roberton ; adm. 10th Dec.
1656; coll. 12th Nov. 1662; trans.
to Hawick before 2nd Aug. 1663. [Reg.
Collat.^
1665
WALTER RIGG, M.A.; ord. and coll.
15th Sept. 1655. A glebe of four
acres, with grass for one horse and
two cows, was designed him 15th April
1668. Dem. 19th Jan. 1670; [min. of
Athelstaneford in 1682.] [Act. Rect. Univ.
St And., Reg. Collat.]
VOL. I.
WILLIAM MANN, a native of Avoch ;
1672 ^--A- (King s College, Aberdeen, 2nd
July 1667) ; licen. by Presb. of Aber
deen March 1671 ; inst. 24th May 1672 ;
outed at the Revolution. He made a
mortis cau&a, disposition 21st Jan. 1708,
recorded Edin. Com. Deeds, 13th May 1709.
He marr. 17th June 1675, Jean Miller.
[Edin. Reg. (Marr.), Kirkton s Hist., Rule s
Sec. Vindication.]
WILLIAM CRICHTON, M.A., above
, oot _ mentioned; returned at the Tolera-
lt>87
tion ; opened a meeting-house at
Hilderstone, and with three others formed
a Presb. 30th Nov. 1687 ; was a member
of the General Assembly 1690, and
Moderator 15th Jan. 1692 ; trans, to
Falkirk 23rd Aug. 1693. [Reg. Gen. Ass.,
Peterkin s Constitution of the Church.]
JAMES HOUSTON, called 18th July,
and ord. 19th Sept. 1694; trans, to
Kirkliston 26th Sept. 1716.
THOMAS LAWRIE, M.A., chaplain to
Shairp of Houstoun ; pres. by Alex
ander Hamilton of Ballencrieff llth
Feb. 1717. A considerable opposition arose
in consequence of the parishioners not having
been consulted. At the service of the edict,
19th Nov., the minister employed had to
be guarded into the town by a troop of
dragoons, but L. was ord. 26th Dec. 1717 ;
trans, to Benvie 20th Oct. 1731. [Kid s
Lett, concerning the Parish]
GEORGE BLACKWELL, born 1713,
son of Thomas B., Principal of
Marischal College, Aberdeen ; edu
cated at Marischal College 1722-6 ; called
4th Sept., and ord. 18th Nov. 1735 ; died
7th April 1749. "The best scholar and
most spirited speaker I knew in his pro
fession," says his brother, Principal Thomas
B. the younger. He marr. Janet Alex
ander, who died 29th June 1788, and had
issue Thomas, buried in Blackfriars
Churchyard, Glasgow, 29th April 1751 ;
N
194
BATHGATE
[PRESB. OF
Robert of Ramoth, died 21st Sept. 1800 ;
Margaret. [Tombst.]
THOMAS WARDROBE, ord. in Eng-
land ; prom, from Hexham ; pres.
by Alex. Hamilton of Innerwick,
and adm. 4th April 1750. He was taken
ill while preparing for service on Sunday
the 2nd, and died 7th May 1756, in his
41st year. A daugh., Christian, marr.
David Dickson, min. of West St Giles.
[Tombst., Sup2i. to Gillies s Collections.]
1757
ADAM WEATHERSTON, from Bav-
ington, Northumberland ; pres. by
Alex. Hamilton of Innerwick, and
adm. 13th July 1757; died 28th Aug.
1780, in 58th year. Isobel Stuart, his
widow, died 27th Feb. 1795. [Tombst.,
Somerville s Sermons.]
WALTER JARDINE, originally a
1781 blacksmith, became schoolmaster
of the parish ; licen. by Presb. of
Linlithgow 23rd Feb. 1774. Having been
mentioned in the Edin. Mag. as the author
of an article on a ball held at Whitburn,
"which exhibits alternate strokes of
superstition and blasphemy, with an utter
contempt of all the rules of grammar," he
brought an action for defamation against
the publishers. The Court of Session found
(20th June 1776) the defenders liable in
damages and expenses. Pres. by John,
Earl of Hopetoun ; ord. 15th March 1781 ;
died 30th Nov. 1811, in 72nd year. Chiefly
by his exertions an additional school was
established in the western portion of
Torphichen. He contributed both school
and schoolhouse, with a plot of ground,
and a sum of twenty pounds sterl. per
annum. He marr. 19th Sept. 1769, Janet
Martin, who died 21st Aug. 1813, and had
issue William, died 6th March 1800. Pub
lications The Causes and Dangerous Con
sequences of Security and Sensuality, a
sermon (Edinburgh, 1796); Account of the
Parish (Sinclair s Stat. Ace., i.). [Scots
Mag., xxxviii. ; Muckersy s Fun. Serm.,
Tombst.; Edin. Chr. Inst., iv.]
JOHN SMITH of Farthingrush, pres.
by James, Earl of Hopetoun, and
ord. 17th Sept. 1812; trans, to
Aberlady 28th June 1820.
1812
JAMES MONILAWS, pres. by John,
1821 ^ ar ^ ^ Hopetoun, and ord. llth
Jan. 1821 ; trans, to Annan 2nd
June 1825.
SAMUEL MARTIN, born 1802, son of
1825 Jh n -M--J D.D., min. of Kirkcaldy;
educated at Univ. of St Andrews ;
licen. by Presb. of Kirkcaldy 27th July
1824 ; pres. by John, Earl of Hopetoun ;
ord. 22nd Sept. 1825. Joined the Free
Church; min. of Free Church, Bathgate,
1843 ; died 15th May 1850. He marr. 2nd
Sept. 1836, Janet (died 14th Oct. 1863),
daugh. of Alex. Weir of Boghead, and had
issue John, born 18th Aug. 1837; Alex
ander, born 30th May 1839 ; Samuel, born
2nd Sept. 1840; Robert, born 12th Jan.
1842, died at Natal, 1862; William
Hamilton, born 1st June 1843 ; David,
born 4th March 1845 ; Jessie, born 24th
Dec. 1846 ; Edward Irving, born 23rd Nov.
1848, died 8th July 1849. Publications
The Responsibility of the Hearers of the
Word, a sermon (Edinburgh, 1837) ; Ac
count of the Parish (New Stat. Ace., ii.);
Memoir by J. Duns, D.D. (1854).
JAMES GEORGE WOOD, pres. by the
1843 ^ u ^ ors f John Alexander, Earl of
Hopetoun; ord. 28th Sept. 1843;
trans, to the Middle Parish, Paisley, 21st
Feb. 1845.
JOHN BYRES, born Kirkpatrick-
1845 Fleming, 1789, son of William B. ;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow;
sometime headmaster of Montrose Street
School, Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Lang-
holm 15th June 1819; pres. by the tutors
of John Alexander, Earl of Hopetoun, 21st
March 1845 ; ord. 9th May 1845 ; died 26th
June 1861. He marr. Margaret Paton, who
died 27th Sept. 1869.
GEORGE COOK, M.A. ; pres. by John
Alexander, Earl of Hopetoun ; adm.
9th Nov. 1861 ; trans, to Borgue 3rd
Dec. 1867.
LINLITHGOW]
BATHGATE BCTNESS
195
JOSEPH MILNE, born Stonehaven, 10th
1867 ^ OV 1841 > son f J ames M- an d Ann
Wylie; educated at Fetteresso School,
and Marischal College, Aberdeen ; MA.
(1858); licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen 12th
May 1863 ; assistant at Linlithgow, and
St Mungo s, Glasgow; pres. by John
Alexander, Earl of Hopetoun, 10th June
1867; ord. 24th Sept. 1867; died 10th
Dec. 1871. Marr. 26th April 1870, Mary
Lushington, daugh. of John Burns, and
had issue Elizabeth Shirley Burns, born
22nd March 1871 (marr. (1) Lieut.-Colonel
Hoile, M.D., 17th Lancers ; (2) Frank Ford,
M.B., Wimbledon).
1872
WILLIAM BENNIE, born Glasgow,
13t ^ ^P"l 1835 > son f Jh n B- and
Janet Finlay ; educated at Glasgow
Univ. ; sometime headmaster of St Enoch s
Parish School, Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of
Glasgow ; ord. to Kelvinhaugh Chapel llth
May 1865 ; pres. by John Alexander, Earl of
Hopetoun ; trans, and adni. 5th July 1872 ;
died 31st Dec. 1894. Marr. 28th June 1870,
Catherine Craig, and had issue John ;
James Craig, died 1874 ; Jessie Smith ;
William, died 1878 ; Catherine ; David
Finlay ; Isabella ; Octavia ; Elizabeth.
1895
DAVID GKAHAM, ord. llth July 1895 ;
trans, to Inverbrothock 9th Feb.
1898.
WILLIAM LAURIE WEBSTER, born
Edinburgh, 9th April 1873, son of
William Heron W. ; educated at
Edinburgh Univ.; M.A. (1895); licen. by
Presb. of Edinburgh llth May 1898; ord.
30th Aug. 1898. Marr. 29th March 1899,
Elizabeth Carr, daugh. of Joseph Wood,
and has issue Janetta Eleanor ; Laura
Wilhelmina; William Heron, died in in
fancy. Publications The Greatest Ques
tion of Evolution (Bathgate, 1903).
BLACKBRAES (Q.S.).
[Disjoined from Muiravonside, and
erected into a parish quoad sacra by
decreet of Court of Teinds, 14th July
1890. Church built in 1866.]
WILLIAM SMITH, born Glasgow, 22nd
lg July 1850, son of Andrew S. and
Anne Calderwood ; licen. by Presb.
of Glasgow 1883 ; ord. to Blackbraes
Chapel-of-Ease 1884. Marr. llth April
1876, Helen Anderson, daugh. of George
Hume, Glasgow, and has issue Elizabeth
M Queen (marr. William Simpson, M.A.,
min. of Fortrose) ; Andrew, M.A., born
1879; William, born 1885.
BORROWSTOUNNESS,
OR BO NESS.
[The parish was erected by Parliament,
9th March 1649, and was formerly called
Kinneil.]
JOHN WAUGH, a native of Lanark ;
1648 M.A. (Edinburgh, 17th April 1639) ;
ord. 27th Nov. 1648. He opposed the
Protesting brethren, and at their Presb.,
in name of his own (20th Oct. 1652), pro
tested against the ordination of John
Primrose, at Queensferry, summoning them
to com pear before the Synod in Nov. ; im
prisoned in 1654 for naming King Charles
II. "in his prayers"; dem. his charge 19th
Sept. 1670, and went to Ireland with his
family ; died in Edinburgh, March 1674,
aged about 55. He marr. 1652, Christian,
fourth daugh. of George, first Lord Forrester
of Corstorphine, widow of James Hamilton
of Grange. [Edin. Reg. {Bur.) ; Baillie s
Lett., iii. ; Wodrow s Hist., Linlithgow
Eurgli Rec.~\
ROBERT HUNTER, M.A. (Edinburgh,
July 1643 ; ord. to Corstorphine llth
April 1655 ; deprived 1662 ; ind. at
Dunning 1669 ; ind. in this charge 3rd
Sept. 1672. Having petitioned the Council
for the stipend of Dunning, 1671 and 1672,
the Lords ordered the same to be paid ;
died April 1676. He marr. Margaret,
daugh. of William Hunter of Braidwood-
shiel, Lauderdale (G. R. Inhib., 29th Sept.
1674), and had issue James, who died
April 1672. [Brown s I fist, of Indulg.,
Tombst., Wodrow s JJist.]
196
BO NESS
[PRESB. OF
JOHN INGLIS, M.A., formerly of
1672 Hamilton ; indulged with preceding
3rd Sept. 1672. [Min. of First
Charge, Hamilton, 1687.] [Brown s Hist, of
Indidg., Wodrow s Hist.]
JAMES HAMILTON, M.A. (St An-
1677 drews, 25th July 1668) ; offered Dai-
serf in 1677, which he declined ;
adm. here 1677 ; two men were scourged
for committing an assault on him same
year; died Feb. 1685. He marr. (name
unknown) and had issue one child (Edin.
Com. Decreets, 1st April 1685). [Act. Rec.
Univ. St And., Test. Reg., Wodrow s Hist.,
Turner s Memoirs.]
1685
WILLIAM THOMSON, M.A. (Edin
burgh 1671); inst. at Douglas 20th
Sept. 1682 ; trans, and adm. 1685 ;
deprived by the Privy Council 12th Sept.
1689, for not reading the Proclamation
of the Estates, etc. [Probably min. of
Tundergarth 1691.] [Peterkin s Constitu
tion of the Church.]
MICHAEL POTTER, M.A. ; called at
the Toleration 23rd Oct. 1687 ; joined
with three others in forming the
Presb. 30th Nov., and adm. 7th Dec.
1687 ; a member of Assembly 1692, and
trans, to Dunblane same year. [Wodrow s
Hist. ; New Stat. Ace., ii. ; Crichton s Mem.
of Blackadder, Dickson s Emeralds Chased
in Gold.]
JOHN BRAND, M.A. (Edinburgh, 9th
1694 July 1688 ); licen - bv tlie P resb - f
Edinburgh; called 14th Sept. 1693;
ord. 3rd Jan. 1694 ; app. by the General
Assembly (17th Feb. 1700) one of a deputa
tion to visit Shetland, and if convenient,
Orkney and Caithness, a journey which
occupied from 18th April to 24th June.
He died 14th July 1738, aged about 70.
He marr. Aug. 1700, Elizabeth, daugh. of
Andrew Mitchell, Provost of Aberdeen
(Canongate Reg.), and had issue Andrew ;
Elizabeth ; Janet ; Margaret ; Joan ; John ;
William, his successor ; Martha ; Mary
(marr. 17th Oct. 1746, Alexander Smith,
baker, Edinburgh). Publication A Brief
Description of Orkney, Zetland, Caithness,
etc. (Edinburgh, 1703; reprinted 1883).
[Acts of Ass., Diet. Nat.
WILLIAM BRAND, born 1709, son of
7 preceding ; M.A. (Edinburgh, 7th
Dec. 1732); licen. by Presb. of
Linlithgow 17th March 1736; called 1st
Feb., and ord. llth April 1739 ; died 9th
Nov. 1745. He marr. (cont. 22nd Oct.
1742), Mary (died llth April 1768), daugh.
of John Meldrum of Brochoell, and had
issue Marjory ; John ; William. [Test.
Reg., etc.]
PATRICK BAILLIE, chaplain to Sir
1747 ^ r iHi am Maxwell of Calderwood ;
licen. by Presb, of Hamilton 30th
May 1738. During the illness of Professor
Drummond he taught the Greek class in
the Univ. of Edinburgh for a session;
called 8th May 1746 ; ord. 14th May 1747 ;
died llth Sept. 1791. He marr. 16th Feb.
1749, Margaret Connell, who died 14th
June 1771, and had issue Jean (marr.
John Chrystie of Bo ness, 12th March
1783). Publication A Short Account of
the Author (John Henderson s [shipmaster,
Bo ness] Divine Meditations and Contem
plations) (Glasgow, 1763). [Acts of Ass.,
1749 ; Carlyle s Autob]
JOHN MORTON, son of Gavin M.,
7 London ; educated at Univ. of
Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Ayr
28th March 1781 ; pres. by Douglas, Duke
of Hamilton and Brandon ; ord. 10th May
1792 ; died unmarr. 6th May 1794.
ROBERT RENNIE, born Perthshire,
7 only son of Robert R., a min. in
Virginia, U.S.A. ; educated at Univ.
of Glasgow ; taught an academy for some
time at Dumbarton ; licen. by Presb. of
Cupar 25th Oct. 1791 ; pres. by Douglas,
Duke of Hamilton ; ord. 9th April 1795 ;
D.D. (Glasgow, 27th April 1820) ; died 29th
July 1833. He marr. 19th Dec. 1809, Jean
(died at London, 14th Feb. 1851), eldest
daugh. of William Urquhart, merchant,
Glasgow, and had issue Anne, born 13th
April 1811, died 19th May 1811 ; Janet,
born 1st July 1812, died 12th Oct. 1827 ;
LINLITHGOW]
BO NESS CAMELON
197
Robert, born 3rd Aug. 1814, died 12th
Nov. 1829 ; William Urquhart, merchant,
Glasgow, born 25th Dec. 1815; John,
writer, Glasgow, born 9th June 1817.
Publication Account of the Parish (Sin
clair s Stat. Ace., xviii.). [Brown s Disc.]
1834
KENNETH MACKENZIE, born 1797,
son of John M., min. of Gorbals
Chapel-of-Ease, Glasgow; educated
at Marischal College, Aberdeen (1812-13),
and Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of
Irvine 26th March 1822 ; ord. (assistant and
successor) to his father, 19th Oct. 1823;
pres. by Alexander, Duke of Hamilton ;
adm. 18th Feb. 1834 ; died unmarr. 1st
Nov. 1867. Publication Account of the
Parish (New Stat. Ace., ii.).
HENRY M INTOSH ROBERTSON-
1868 FULLARTON, born Edinburgh,
27th March 1834, son of John Argyll
Robertson, M.D., F.R.S.E., and Elizabeth,
daugh. of Edward Charles Stewart Wight-
man, of Concordia, West Indies ; educated
at Neuwied, Germany, and Edinburgh
Univ. ; licen. by Presb. of Dumbarton ;
assistant at Brodick ; ord. to Chapel of
Newmains, Presb. of Hamilton, Feb. 1860 ;
pres. by the Commissioner of William,
Duke of Hamilton, 27th Dec. 1867 ; adm.
23rd April 1868 ; assumed the name of
Fullarton on his wife succeeding to the
estate of Kilmichael 1889 ; died 23rd Dec.
1895. He marr. 4th Sept. 1860, Susan
Anne (died 4th Feb. 1899), daugh. of Major
Archibald Fullarton, of Kilmichael and
Whitefarland, Arran, and had issue Archi
bald Louis Fullarton, M.B., born 8th Oct.
1861 ; Susan Anne Henrietta, born 12th
Nov. 1863 ; Mary Adelaide, born 21st June
1866; Henry Argyll, M.B., born 23rd Dec.
1868; Elizabeth Gertrude, born 22nd Sept.
1871 ; Edward Charles, M.B., born 17th
Sept. 1873.
ROBERT GARDNER, born Craigton,
New Kilpatrick, 26th July 1868, son
of Robert G. and Jane M Innes ;
educated at Craigton School and Glasgow
Univ. ; M.A. (1887), B.D. (1890) ; licen. by
Presb. of Dumbarton 20th May 1890;
assistant at Galashiels and Alloa ; ord. 2nd
July 1896. Marr. 14th April 1897, Jessie,
daugh. of Walter Wylie and Jane Younger,
and has issue Jane Marjorie, born 29th
June 1898; Robert James and Jessie Norah,
born 13th Sept. 1900 (twins).
BROXBURN (Q.S.).
[Disjoined from Uphall, and erected into
a parish quoad sacra by decreet of Court
of Teinds, 20th March 1903. Church
built in 1884.]
JOHN AITKEN ORR, born Stewarton,
9th March 1857, son of John O.
and Catherine Boyd ; educated at
Stewarton School and Univ. of Glasgow ;
M.A. (1883); licen. by Presb. of Irvine
1883 ; examiner in Philosophy in Glasgow
Univ. ; assistant at Calton, Glasgow ; ord.
8th May 1889.
CAMELON (Q.S.).
[Disjoined from Falkirk, and erected into
a parish quoad sacra by decreet of Court
of Teinds, March 1853. Church built in
1839.]
JOHN OSWALD, born Madderty, 28th
June 1804, son of David O. and
Bethia Maxton ; a teacher in George
Heriot s School, Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb.
of Edinburgh 7th April 1836 ; ord. 14th May
1849 ; died unmarr. 5th Feb. 1867. Pub
lications Etymological Dictionary of the
English Language; Outlines of English
Grammar (6th ed., 1849).
JOHN SCOTT, born 8th July 1839, son
of James S., Gattonside, Roxburgh
shire, and Jessie Henderson ; edu
cated at Lilliesleaf School and Univ. of
Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of Selkirk
June 1864 ; assistant at Livingston ; pres.
by William Forbes of Callender, 17th
June 1867; ord. 17th Sept. 1867; clerk to
Presb. Nov. 1872 ; retired 26th Nov. 1912 ;
died 2nd May 1914. He marr. 8th July
1868, Elizabeth Fowler (died 21st Jan.
1912), daugh. of William Malcolm, M.A.,
schoolmaster of Echt, Aberdeenshire, and
had issue James Ross, born 28th May
198
CAMELON CARRIDEN
[PRESB. OF
1869; William Malcolm, born 4th April
1871 ; Annie Henderson, born 26th Feb.
1874 (marr. 19th June 1900, Andrew Hunter,
solicitor) ; John Michael, born 4th March
1876 ; Elizabeth Jessie, born 15th Feb. 1878 ;
George Robert, born 23rd Sept. 1879.
ROBERT AGNEW, born Finnard,
1913 ^ Tewr y> Ireland, 5th Dec. 1883;
educated at Newry, and Royal
Univ., Belfast and Dublin; B.A. (1906);
M.A. (1907); licen. by Presb. of Edin
burgh May 1910 ; assistant at Portobello ;
ord. 16th April 1913.
CARRIDEN.
[Prior to the Reformation the church
belonged to the Abbey of Holyrood. A
church built on a new site at a cost of
6500 was dedicated 18th Sept. 1909.]
ALEXANDER HAMILTON, M.A.,
"vicar of Carriden"; witness to a
sasine 19th May 1561. [Linlithgow
Burgh Rec.~\
1561
JOHN LESLIE, M.A., son of Robert L.
1563 ^ I nver P en?er j adm. exhorter 1563.
He was niarr., and of the age of 47
in this year; adm. a notary 29th Feb.
1563-4.
ANDREW KEIR, born 1598, son of
William K., min. of Ecclesmachan ;
educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ;
M.A. (22nd July 1615); adm. Aug. 1621;
clerk to the Presb. 1629; in March 1630
he was put in possession of four acres
three roods of the lands of Little Carriden
for a glebe ; member of Assembly 1638.
He was suspended for preaching for the
Engagement in 1648 ; died 22nd Nov. 1653.
He marr. (1) Christina Bell, and along with
her took sasine of a tenement in Linlithgow
in 1622 : (2) Euphan Primrose, and had
issue Andrew ; William ; Janet ; George ;
Marion ; Elizabeth (marr. 1630, James,
eldest son of James Hamilton of Hiltlie :
Edin. Sas., xv., 296) ; Christian ; Robert.
[Linlithgoiv >$ess. Reg., Stevenson s Hist,,
Peterkin s Rec., Tombst. ; Morison s Digest
and Dec., i. ; Baillie s Lett., i. ; Linlithgow
Burgh Rec.]
ROBERT STEEDMAN; M.A. (Edin-
165Q burgh, 30th July 1646); adm.
(colleague) 13th March 1650 ; joined
the Protesting Presb. in 1651 ; was obliged
to escape after the English entered Lothian,
and officiated for some time at Cleish ;
dep. 21st Aug. 1661 ; denounced by the
Privy Council for keeping Conventicles
3rd Aug. 1676 ; returned in 1687. [Wod-
row s Hist.]
1663
JAMES ADAMSON, M.A.; ord. and
coll> 24tl1 April 1663 ; trans, to
Bedrule 1664. [Colinton Sess., Reg.
Collat.]
JOHN PARK, son of James P., maltman,
1665 Linlithgow, and Joanna Mure ; licen.
by George, Bishop of Edinburgh,
19th April 1664; ord. and coll. 9th June
1665. His life being threatened for having
reported the presence in the neighbourhood
of Donald Cargill and other preachers,
he was recommended to the Treasury by
the Privy Council (8th June 1680) for some
allowance for that service. He was accused
before the Privy Council, 10th Sept. 1689, of
not reading the Proclamation of the Estates,
etc., baptizing the children of scanda
lous persons without demanding satis
faction ; and praying that the walls of the
castle might be as brass about George, Duke
of Gordon, but was acquitted. Dep. 28th
Aug. 1690 for drunkenness, etc. He carried
off the parochial and session registers.
Marr. Annabella, daugh. of Provost James
Glen, Linlithgow. [Reg. Collat.; Wod-
row s Hist., iii. ; Peterkin s Constitution
of the Church, Hewison s The Covenanters,
Salmon s florrowstounness]
ROBERT STEEDMAN, M.A., returned
1687 a ^ ter the Act f Toleration ; restored
by Act of Parliament 25th April
1690; died 29th Sept. 1701, in his 76th
year. He marr. Sarah (died 26th Oct.
1720), daugh. of Sir Alex. Inglis of Inglis-
ton, and had issue John, min. of Tron
Parish, Edinburgh ; Helen (marr. Will.
LINLITHGOW]
CARRIDEN
199
Paton, overseer at Clackmannan coal-
works; Christian (marr. Alex. Hamilton,
min. of Stirling). [Test. Reg., Tombst.,
S. P. Elog.]
JOHN TODD, studied at the Univ. of
Glasgow; licen. by Presb. of Edin
burgh 15th May 1700; called 2nd
Sept. 1703; ord. 19th Jan. 1704; died Jan.
1720. He marr. llth April 1704, Agnes
(died Jan. 1733), widow of George Dundas
of Garvock, and had issue John, min. in
Edinburgh. [Mun. Univ. Glasg., iii. ;
Test, and Edin. Reg. (Marr.), Tombst.]
1725
ALEXANDER PYOTT, ord. 29th Oct.
trans, to Dunbar 24th Oct.
1733. [Fordoun Presb. Reg.]
JAMES YAIR, pres. by James, Duke
of Hamilton and Brandon, and ord.
18th Sept. 1735 ; trans, to Campvere
18th April 1739.
1735
GEORGE ELLIS, licen. by Scots Presb.
in London, and received by that of
Hamilton 25th July 1738; called
23rd Oct. 1739 ; ord. 9th April 1740 ; died
5th March 1795, in his 83rd year. He
marr. 27th July 1750, Alice (died 21st
April 1790), daugh. of Captain Drummond,
Midhope, a son of Pitkellony, and had
issue Katherine, born 12th June 1751, died
9th Dec. 1809 ; Mary, bora 18th July 1752 ;
Alice, born 12th June 1754, died 9th June
1765; Helen, born 15th Nov. 1757 (marr.
23rd Sept. 1776, James Thomson, ship
master in Leith), died 26th April 1784;
George, born 20th Feb. 1763 ; Anne, born
7th Feb. 1765 ; Joanna, born 12th July
1769, died 12th Jan. 1775; James, died in
infancy. Publication Account of the
Parish (Sinclair s Htat. Ace., i.).
JOHN BELL, born 1745, son of James
17g6 B., Cambusnethan ; educated at
Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb.
of Lanark 10th May 1786; pres. by
Douglas, Duke of Hamilton, in 1795; ord.
21st Jan. 1796; died unmarried 14th Dec.
1815. [Scots Mag., Ixxviii.]
DAVID FLEMING, born 1790, son of
1816 Jh n F-) merchant, Paisley ; educated
at Univ. of Glasgow; M.A. (1808);
licen. by Presb. of Hamilton 9th June
1813 ; pres. by Alexander, Marquess of
Douglas, and ord. 22nd Aug. 1816; died
19th Jan. 1860. He marr. (1) 3rd June
1818, Grace (died 2nd July 1827), only
daugh. of John Ross, Borrowston Mains,
and had issue Grace Matilda, born 4th
June 1819 (marr. 1840, James Edgar of
Keithock, Sherbrooke, Canada) ; John,
born 29th March 1821 ; David Carrick
Buchanan, born 24th July 1822 ; Elizabeth
Smith, born 10th April 1824, died 5th May
1842; Martha Duncanson, born 13th July
1825 (marr. George Cadell of Cowdenhill) :
(2) 15th March 1830, Janet (died 25th
April 1884), only daugh. of William Carlile,
Provost of Paisley, and had issue Janet
Carlile, born 14th Dec. 1831 (marr. 1857,
Andrew Vannan, Bo ness), died 1859.
Publications A Voice from Calvary
(London, 1830); Account of the Parish
(New Stat. Ace., ii.).
EDWARD SMITH, born Kirkmichael,
lgel Dumfriesshire, 18th May 1828, son
of John S. and Catherine Dobie ;
educated at Edinburgh Univ. ; licen. by
Presb. of Lochmaben 7th Aug. 1858 ; assist
ant at Cranstoun ; pres. by William, Duke
of Hamilton and Brandon, 31st Dec. 1860 ;
ord. 4th April 1861 ; died unmarr. 30th
March 1887.
WILLIAM DUNDAS, bom Stroma,
Ig87 Caithness, 31st July 1855, son of
William D. and Elizabeth Kennedy
Sinclair; educated at Stroma School,
Church of Scotland Training College, and
Edinburgh Univ. ; M.A. (1881), B.D. (1886);
schoolmaster of Stroma 1881-3 ; licen. by
Presb. of Edinburgh May 1886 ; assistant
at Holywood ; ord. 27th Sept. 1887. Marr.
7th Feb. 1895, Harriet Mary Croxall (died
22nd Feb. 1914), eldest daugh. of James
Skipper, Manor House, Coltishall, and
has issue Mary Sinclair, born 2nd May
1896, died 10th Nov. 1900; William
Fawdington, born 15th May 1898 ; Harriet
Elspeth Kennedy, born 17th July 1900.
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DALMENY
[PRESB. OF
DALMENY.
[The church, previous to the Reformation
belonged to the Abbey of Jedburgh, and
was dedicated to St Cuthbert. There is
no finer example of Norman ecclesiastical
architecture left in Scotland. Aldcathie
was united to Dalmeny by Commission of
Parliament, 21st Jan. 1618.
GEORGE FUIRD, min. in 1562. [Sooke
1562 of the Kirk, Keith s Hist. ]
JOHN FRUDE (probably the same
1Rfl _ person), was complained upon at the
General Assembly, 25th June 1566,
"for not repairing to Linlithgow to the
exercise of prophecying " ; and on 25th Dec.
for persuading Effie, Lady Kilconquhar, and
John Wemyss [St Andrew s K.S. Reg.] " to
contract marriage in great contemption of
the decreit (of the former Assembly), and
all good order heirtofoir observit in the
reformit kirk," for which he was "sus
pended fra all functioun in the ministrie
in the meantime." \Eooke of the Kirk,
Keith s Hist.}
1569 ROBERT HOGG, exhorter in 1569.
GEORGE LUNDIE of Breriehill (Reg.
1574 f ^ eds > xix > 32 ) > trans - f rom New "
burn 1574, when Aldcathie, Aber-
corn, and Cramond were also under his
care. In the Assembly 1575, the Bishop of
Dunkeld was complained upon for having
written a letter to L. to serve equally four
kirks, by course, upon the Lord s Day,
under pain of deprivation. Richard Brown
was appointed to help him as reader in
1576. L. was pres. to the vicarage by
James VI. llth April 1580, and trans, to
Pentland 21st Nov. 1587, but continued
to reside at Dalmeny 18th Sept. 1589.
[Reg. Assig., Calderwood s Hist., Wodrow
Miscell., Edin. Presb.]
WALTER TULLIE [TULLIS], offici
ated as helper till the trans, of pre
ceding; pres. to the parsonage by
Thomas Hamilton of Drumcairn, 7th April
1597 ; died 19th Aug. 1606. He bequeathed
100 merks to the poor in the burgh of
Queensferry, and 50 merks to the poor in
the rest of the parish. He marr. (1)
Alison Oliphant (Edin. Com. Dec., llth
March 1607) : (2) Katharine Dundas, and
had issue James ; Walter ; John ;
Margaret. Jean Arnot, Avife of Robert
Logie, is mentioned as his daughter-in-law
(Edin. Com. Dec., llth March 1607).
[Edin. Presb. and Test. Reg.]
JOHN GIBSON, M.A. (Edinburgh, 29th
J u ty 1600) ; adm. to Slamannan 2nd
Aug. 1602; trans, and adm. 1607;
died 29th April 1648, aged about 68. In
1611 he obtained a gift of the presentation
of the parsonage and vicarage of Auld-
cathie, and craved the consent of the Presb.
thereto. He marr. (1) Agnes Abercrombie
(Reg. of Deeds, ccxvi., 104) : (2) Margaret,
daugh. of Thomas Peebles, min. of Kinneil,
whom he infeft by him in his tenement
in Linlithgow on 15th March 1615 : (3)
Marie Dundas, who died April 1632 : (4)
May 1637, Christian Craufurd, in the parish
of Kinneil : (5) April 1644, Elspeth (died
Dec. same year), daugh. of James Sandi-
lands of Slamannanmure (Reg. of Deeds,
dlvii., 115), and had issue Robert, min. of
Queensferry ; Margaret ; Anna (marr., cont.
26th Aug. 1639, Robert, youngest son of
John Mowbray in Dalmeny : Reg. of Deeds,
dxxviii., 138). [Reg. Assig., Test. Reg.;
Banna tyne s Miscell., ii. ; Linlithgow Burgh
Rec.~\
JOHN DURIE, son of Simeon D., min.
1646 of Arbroath ; M.A. (St Andrews 1643) ;
ord. (colleague) 20th Aug. 1646 ; pres.
to Kilpatrick by Lord Cochrane of Dun-
donald in 1647 ; joined the Protesters in
forming a Presb. in 1651 ; died in 1656,
aged about 33, "of most rare invention,
and lofty gift of preaching." He marr.
llth May 1648, Katherine, youngest daugh.
of Sir James Maxwell of Calderwood,
widow of Claude Hamilton of Mecklinhole
and of George Dick, min. of Glenluce. His
son, John, who was served heir, 23rd Oct.
1661, had the collections of llth and 18th
April 1660 from the Session of West Calder
given to him and two of his comrades on
LINLITHGOW]
DALMENY
201
their return from captivity among the
Turks at Algiers. [Act. Rect. Univ. St
And. Presb. ; Dumbarton Presb., Abercorn,
and W. Colder Sess. Reg. ; Acts Parl., i. ;
Reg. Old Dec., iii. ; Wodrow s Anal., ii. ;
Livingston s C/tarac., Brodie s Diary ; Inq.
Ret. Gen., 4504 ; Irving s Dumbarton. ]
ALEXANDER HAMILTON, called 25th
1656
Protesting Presb. He petitioned the
Synod, 8th Nov. 1660, that "his ministry
might be owned by the Presb. and Synod,
expressing his sorrow for the irregularity of
his entry, etc. The Synod recognised him
as min. of D., and as a member of Synod,
and appointed him to go to the Presb.
recognised by the Synod, and acknowledge
his offence," and on 14th Nov. " the Presb.
received him as a brother and as one of
their ministry." Deprived by the Act of
Parliament llth June, and that of the
Privy Council 1st Oct. 1662, for not sub
mitting to Episcopacy ; indulged here 1669,
and restored 1690. [Wodrow s Anal., iv.,
and Hist., i. ; Anderson s House of Hamil
ton ; Mun. Univ. Glasg., iii. ; Reg. Old
Dec., iii.]
ALEXANDER YOUNG, pres. by Sir
1663 Archibald Primrose of Chester ; ord.
and coll. 28th Nov. 1663 ; trans, to
Cramond 1664. [Keith s Catal., Wood s
Hist, of Cramond, Reg. Collat.]
THOMAS COLDEN, M.A. ; coll. 2nd
1664 ^ ec 1664 > trans - to Carsphairn 1669.
[Act. Rect. Univ. St And., Reg.
Collat.]
ALEXANDER HAMILTON, M.A.,
formerly mentioned ; indulged by
the Privy Council 2nd Sept. 1669.
The popularity of his ministrations drew
many people from Edinburgh to hear him
to the annoyance of the Bishop, who had
him removed to Dalserf, 7th March 1677.
[Brown s Hist, of Indulg., Wodrow s Hist.]
PATRICK SMYTH, M.A. (Edinburgh
1672); licen. by George, Bishop of
Edinburgh, 13th June 1675; ord.
1679 ; removed for refusing the Test,
Nov. l6&l.[Rer/. Collat., Wodrow s Hist.]
1669
ALEXANDER BANKS, M.A. (Edin-
1682 1)ur 8 1] 27t h Ju ly 1663); licen. by
George, Bishop of Aberdeen, 6th
Jan. 1666; adm. to Peterhead (probably
assistant and successor) prior to 21st April
1674 ; trans, and adm. 1682 ; died in 1689,
in 45th year. He marr. Katharine (died
Nov. 1693), daugh. of John Kinross, mer
chant, burgess of Edinburgh, and had issue
William, served heir to his mother 3rd
April 1694. [Test, and Edin. Reg. (Bur. ) ;
Acts Par/., ix. ; Inq. Ret. Gen., 7249,
7458.]
ALEXANDER STRANG, M. A., formerly
less ^ Durisdeer ; officiated in the meet
ing-house at Dundas, after its erec
tion ; but returned to his former parish in
1689.
GEORGE TURNBULL, M.A. ; "a
young man for grace and pairts
very promising " ; ord. at London
9th Feb. 1688; app. to the meeting-house
by the Presb. " during pleasure," 28th Nov.
1688; removed to Alloa 1689.- [Acts Parl.,
ix.]
ALEXANDER HAMILTON, M.A.,
1690 alt)0ve not i ce d ; occupying a meeting
house in Edinburgh, was restored by
the Act of Parliament 25th April 1690, but
demitted his charge 15th Aug. 1690 ; trans,
to the High Kirk, Edinburgh, 4th Dec.
same year.
CHARLES GORDON, M.A., formerly of
Campvere ; returned to Scotland on
a call from Dumfries ; called to this
charge also 21st June 1691. He produced
testimonials from the classis [Presbytery] of
Valachia and from Campvere, dated 28th
Feb. 1691, " applauding him in the ministry
while he was among them, and loosening
him upon a call from Dumfries," but was
adm. here 23rd Sept. 1691 ; trans, to Ash-
kirk 8th Aug. 1695. [Steven s ticott. Ch.
of Rotterd., Wodrow s Hist.]
JOHN STEEDMAN, called 15th June
1699, and ord. 16th Aug. same year ;
trans, to Trcn Parish, Edinburgh,
27th Dec. 1710.
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DALMENY
[PKESB. OF
JAMES NASMYTH, born Hamilton,
1711 1683 > stuc ^ ec l at *ke Univ. of Glas
gow and at Leyden, under Witsius,
Frigland, and Boerhaave ; tutor to Basil
Hamilton, and to James, fifth Duke of
Hamilton ; licen. by Presb. of Hamilton
23rd March 1708; called 2nd Aug., and
ord. 13th Sept. 1711 ; nom. Moderator in
the Assemblies 1739 and 1744, but not
chosen ; died Father of the Church 27th
Nov. 1774. He marr. 25th April 1716,
Marion (died 7th June 1782), daugh. of
Patrick Young of Killiecantie, Linlithgow,
and had issue Alexander ; Anne, died 9th
March 1816; Patrick; James; Margaret;
Sarah (marr. William Paton, min. of Eck-
ford) ; Isabel (marr. Dr Parlane, Glasgow).
[Test. Reg., Reg. Gen. Ass. ; Weekly Mag.,
xxvi. ; Carlyle s Autob. ]
THOMAS ROBERTSON, licen. by
Presb. of Lauder 3rd Jan. 1775;
pres. by Neil, Earl of Rosebery, and
ord. 26th Oct. 1775 ; F.R.S.E. (1784) ; D.D.
(Edinburgh, 26th March 1792); one of His
Majesty s Chaplains in Ordinary 1793 ; died
at Edinburgh, 15th Nov. 1799. He marr.
14th Nov. 1775, Jane Jackson, in the parish
of St John, Westminster, who died 18th
Dec. 1808, and had issue Margaret, born
12th Feb. 1777 ; John, born 18th Jan. 1778 ;
Janet, born 10th Feb. 1779 ; Mary, born
13th Aug. 1782 ; Charles Hope, writer,
Edinburgh, born 2nd Sept. 1785; William
Findlay, lieutenant H.E.I.C.S., born 31st
Dec. 1786. Publications An Inquiry into
the Fine Arts, i. (Edinburgh, 1784) ; History
of Mary, Queen of Scots (Edinburgh, 1793) ;
Two single Sermons (Edinburgh, 1784,
1799); "An Essay on the Character of
Hamlet" (Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin., ii.);
Account of the Parish (Sinclair s Stat. Ace.,
i.). [Kay s Portr., ii. ; Diet. Nat. Biog.}
JAMES GREIG, M.A. (Edinburgh, 16th
Nov. 1785); licen. by Presb. of Kirk-
caldy 10th July 1793; pres. by Neil,
Earl of Rosebery, and ord. 18th Sept. 1800.
He became involved in a dispute with the
schoolmaster of the parish, and, disobeying
the authority of the Presb. thereanent, was
suspended in 1827. Refused to give up
the keys of the church to those appointed
1800
to officiate. The case was referred to the
General Assembly, who (28th May 1828)
unanimously disapproved of his disobeying
the injunctions of his Presb., and declared,
with similar unanimity, "that it is the
ecclesiastical right of the ministers of
parishes to have free entrance to their
churches, for the purpose of divine worship
and religious instruction, and that during
vacancies or suspensions this right is
vested in the Presb. of the bounds." Died
17th March 1829, in his 60th year. He
marr. 1st June 1801, Anne Russell, who
died 14th Sept. 1822, and had issue
Eleanor, born 31st Oct. 1802 (marr. John
Sibbald, surgeon, Edinburgh) ; James
Dundas, born 8th Feb. 1804; Ann, born
6th Sept. 1805 (marr. George Ferguson,
Edinburgh Academy); Andrew, born 18th
Jan. 1807 ; John, surgeon, Queensferry,
born 13th Aug. 1808 ; Eliza Christian, born
30th May 1810 ; Christian, born 13th Aug.
1812, died 13th Oct. 1827; David, born
22nd Oct. 1815. [Acts of Ass., Steven s
High School.]
JAMES SCOTT, trans, from Torphichen ;
1829 P res- k v Arch. John, Earl of Rose
bery, and adm. 10th Sept. 1829;
trans, to Dirleton 14th Dec. 1843.
ROBERT HUGH MUIR, born 26th
1844 Feb 1819 son of wmiam M -> D - D ->
min. of St Stephen s, Edinburgh ;
educated at Edinburgh Academy and
Univ. ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 16th
Oct. 1843 ; pres. by the tutors of John
Alexander, Earl of Hopetoun, 13th Jan.
1844; ord. 21st March 1844; convener of
the General Assembly s Committee on
Intemperance ; one of the founders of
Morning Rays; convener of the Colonial
Committee 1866-80; res. 8th Nov. 1889;
died llth May 1903. Marr. (1) 28th Sept.
1869, Margaret Flora (died 25th Sept. 1882),
daugh. of Colonel Wm. MacDonald of
Powderhall and Ormiston : (2) 5th Oct.
1892, Annie, daugh. of James Black, son
of James B. of Craigmaddie. Publica
tions Words that Take Hold (Edinburgh,
1896) ; Faith and False Science (Edinburgh,
1898).
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203
PETER DUNN, born 4th Aug. 1845,
189O son ^ ^ ames D., farmer, Kincraife,
Lumphanan, and Jessie Petrie; edu
cated at Lumphanan and Alford Parish
Schools, Grammar School and Univ.,
Aberdeen ; M.A. (1865) ; schoolmaster of
Urquhart (Elgin) 1866-72 ; Keen, by Presb.
of Elgin 12th Oct. 1870; ord. to Spey-
mouth 9th May 1872 ; trans, and adm. 9th
May 1890. Marr. 19th Oct. 1898, Elizabeth
Mary (died 29th Jan. 1912), daugh. of J.
F. Kitto, M.A., vicar of St Martin-in-the-
Fields, London, and prebendary of St
Paul s.
ECCLESMACHAN.
[Previous to the Reformation the church,
dedicated to St Machan, belonged to the
Preceptory of St John at Torphichen.]
1563
JOHN MOWBRAY, styled rector and
vicar, granted Ecclesmachan kirk
lands to Robert Hamilton of Eccles
machan, 30th Dec. 1563 ; and infeft his
daugh., Mariota, wife of John Maine, in a
tenement in Linlithgow, Feb. 1579-80.
He was still min. in 1586. [Reg. Min.
and Assiff., Wodrow Miscell., Linl. Burgh
Rec.]
ROBERT CORNWALL, M.A. ; adm.
1588 1588 a mem ^ er f Assembly in
1590; trans, to Linlithgow 1597.
\_Mun. Univ. Glasg., iii. ; Reg. Assig. and
Presb., Eooke of the Kirk.]
WILLIAM KEIR, one of the original
students at the Univ. of Edinburgh
who took his degree of M.A. at the
first graduation, 9th Aug. 1587 ; min. of
Muiravonside 1595 ; pres. by James VI.
13th Oct. 1597 ; trans, and adm. soon after ;
died 10th March 1611, aged about 44.
He left 40 to the poor of Linlithgow.
He marr. Janet Ker, who survived him,
and had issue Andrew, min. of Carri-
den ; Robert ; Elizabeth. [Stirling Presb.
anil Test. Reg., Reg. Assig. ]
DAVID GUDLATT [GUDLAD], MA.
1611 (Edinburgh, 27th July 1609); pres.
by James VI. 28th April, and ord.
30th June 1611; dem. 1637; died 22nd
1597
Feb. 1639, aged about 50. He marr. 22nd
June 1625, Margaret Dalyell, of the family
of Binns, who was alive 17th March 1658.
[Reg. Assig. et Sec. Sig., cviii. ; Test, and
Abercorn Sess. Reg.; Inq. Ret. Edin.,
1085.]
ROBERT KEITH, nephew of preceding,
1637 anc ^ son ^ ^ ex - K-, rain, of Strath-
brock ; M.A. (Edinburgh, 25th July
1629); pres. by Charles I. 31st March 1637,
and adm. soon after. He was accused, 9th
Jan. 1654, of officiating at the marriage of
his brother while under scandal ; assisted
in forming the Protesting Presb. 6th Aug.
1651 ; died in 1661, in 52nd year. He marr.
Marion Rollock, and had issue Margaret
(marr. William Beatson of South Glass-
mont). His widow delivered up " the kirk
byble which she had in keeping, 5th July
1663. [Reg. Sec. Sig., cviii.; Test. Reg.,
Peterkin s Records.]
CHARLES CRAUFURD, son of James
1661 ^ I^lithgow, an d Marjory Ker;
licen. by Presb. of Linlithgow 30th
March 1659; pres. by Charles II. 30th
Aug. 1661 and 4th Oct. 1662 ; coll. (having
been previously ord.) 5th Dec. 1662 ; died
July 1682. He was served nearest heir
to the children of Robert Craufurd, mer
chant, burgess of Linlithgow, 3rd June
1671. He marr. 14th Feb. 1667, Margaret
Hay, widow of William Shairp of Houston,
and had issue Margaret (marr. (1)
William Sandilands of Couston : (2) James
Watson of Corntoun) ; Magdalen; Mary;
and an only son, David, M.D. [Test. Reg.,
Reg. Sec. Sig. and Coltat. ; Inq. Ret. de
Tut., 964.]
WILLIAM SMART, M.A. (Glasgow, 13th
less July 1669 ) > pres- by Charles IL 8th
Sept. 1682; ord. and inst. 28th
March 1683; outed by the rabble 1689;
died at Edinburgh, 27th Jan. 1715, aged
about 66. He is mentioned as the
"honestest of blackcoats, the humblest,
and holyest of our gown-men." Pub
lications A Short Discourse recommend
ing the Service and Prayer of the Church
(Edinburgh, 1712); Two Sermons against
204
ECCLESMACHAN
[PRESB. OF
Treacherous and Double Dealing, u ith
an Ansiver to Mr Anderson, Dumbarton
(Edinburgh, 1714). [Mun. Univ. Glasg.,
iii. ; Reg. Sec. Sig., Kirkliston Sess. and
Edin. Reg. (Bur.) ; MS. Ace. of Min.,
1689.]
ALEXANDER HAMILTON, ord. 29th
1694 Aug. 1694 ; trans, to Airth in 1700.
JOHN BAILLIE, son of Thomas B. of
.,__.. Polkemmet ; licen. by Prcsb. of
Linlithgow 7th Aug. 1700; called
9th June, and ord. 25th Sept. 1701 ; died
25th Feb. 1733. He marr. Bethia Baillie,
who died 28th July 1761.
CHARLES WILKIE, son of John W.,
1784 m * n ^ Uphall; studied at Univ.
of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of
Dalkeith 3rd July 1733 ; pres. by Charles,
Earl of Hopetoun, same month ; ord. 18th
April 1734; died 5th Nov. 1786, in 76th
year, leaving the property of Charlesfield,
West Calder, to Thomas Hardy, D.D., min.
of the New North Parish, Edinburgh, for
whom he entertained a warm affection. He
marr. 4th Aug. 1756, Eupham Flint, who
died 10th Jan. 1790, without issue.
WILLIAM PETERKIN, educated at
Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1755-9 ;
licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen 8th
Aug. 1764 ; assistant at Old Deer ; ord.
min. of the Chapel-of-Ease at Down, or
Macduff, 30th Nov. 1768 ; trans, to Lead-
hills 2nd Nov. 1785 ; pres. by James, Earl
of Hopetoun, and adm. llth July 1787;
died 22nd Nov. 1792. He marr. 5th Dec.
1768, Isobel Irvine, who died at Peterhead,
27th March 1810, and had issue James,
born 9th Sept. 1769; George, born llth
May 1773; Margaret, bom 25th Sept.
1775 ; Elizabeth, born 2nd Sept. 1777, died
22nd Jan. 1790; Alexander, Sheriff-sub, of
Orkney, ecclesiastical lawyer, editor of the
BooTce of the Universalle Kirk of Scotland,
etc., born 23rd March 1780, died 9th Nov.
1846 ; Hope, born 2nd May 1787 ; William,
born 17th Feb. 1789, died 3rd May 1790 ;
John, born 13th Dec. 1791. Publications
A Dialogue on Public Worship (Aber
deen, 2nd ed., 1780) [not by W. P. of
1793
Elgin] ; Account of Ecclesmachan and of
Leadhills (Sinclair s Stat. Ace., ii., xxi.).
HENRY LISTON, born 30th June 1771,
son ^ -Kk er t L., min. of Aberdour ;
educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ;
licen. by Presb. of Dunfermline 5th Sept.
1792 ; pres. by James, Earl of Hopetoun,
and ord. 8th Aug. 1793 ; Presb. clerk, and
also, 2nd May 1820, conjunct clerk of
Synod ; died at Merchistonhall, Falkirk,
24th Feb. 1836. He had a strong natural
bias for mechanics and music, and became
widely known as the inventor of the
" Eucharmonic " organ ; his attainments in
the classics and sciences were of no mean
order, and in many other respects he was
a man of genius. He marr. 21st Oct. 1793,
Margaret (died 24th May 1802), daugh. of
David Ireland, town-clerk of Culross, and
had issue Robert, F.R.C.S., Edinburgh,
distinguished London surgeon, born 28th
Oct. 1794, died 7th Dec. 1847; Janet, born
28th June 1796, died 21st Sept. 1888;
Anne, born 20th March 1798, died 14th
July 1802 ; David, Professor of Oriental
Languages in Univ. of Edinburgh, born
10th Oct. 1799, died 1881 ; Margaret, born
23rd April 1801, died 3rd June 1866. Pub
lications An Essay on Perfect Intonation
(London, 1812); Articles in Edinburgh
Encydopaidia ; edited Iloratii Flacci Opera
Selecta (1819), and the sixth book of Caesar,
for use in schools. [Diet. Nat. fiiog.]
JOHN SMITH, born 2nd April 1801, son
1836 ^ ^ ames S., gardener at Hopetoun
House ; licen. by Presb. of Linlith
gow 29th Dec. 1830; rector of Bathgate
Academy; pres. by the Commissioner of
John, Earl of Hopetoun ; ord. 19th Aug.
1836 ; Presb. clerk 1854 ; D.D. (St Andrews,
Jan. 1866) ; died 30th May 1869. He marr.
1st June 1847, Agnes (died 12th Aug. 1910,
aged 86), second daugh. of James Wallace
of Behnont. Publication Account of the
Parish (New Stat. Ace., ii.).
ALEXANDER SHEPHERD, born 19th
1869 April 1842, son of George S., of
Shethin, Aberdeenshire ; educated
at Univs. of Aberdeen and Edinburgh;
licen. by Presb. of Ellon 26th April 1865 ;
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ECCLESMACHAN FALKIRK
205
assistant at Linlithgow ; refused (owing
to severe illness) a presentation to Whit-
burn 1st Aug. 1867 ; pres. by John, Earl of
Hopetoun, 23rd June 1869; ord. 7th Oct.
1869; died 28th March 1905. Marr. 17th
Jan. 1871, Jane Douglas, daugh. of John
Dawson, Linlithgow, and had issue
Euphemia Gillon, born 15th May 1872, died
16th Oct. 1872; George Douglas, M.A.,
licen. by Presb. of Linlithgow 10th May
1899, assistant at Bothwell, born 24th July
1873, died 29th Sept. 1899; Sophie Hay;
Jane Gillon ; Effie Frances ; Margaret
Gillon ; Annie Alexandra Macleod, born
15th Dec. 1880, died 4th May 1894 ; Mary
Stuart Baillie ; Fanny ; John ; Alexia
Ligertwood ; Ada Evelyn Dawson ; Con
stance Hunter, born 28th July 1888, died
1st May 1889.
ALEXANDER BROWN GRANT, M.A.,
1905 ^ ^ trans - f rom Garelochhead, and
adm. 26th Oct. 1905; trans, to Old
Greyfriars, Edinburgh, 10th May 1910.
ARTHUR PENRHYN STANLEY
191Q TULLOCH, born 16th March 1879,
son of William Weir T., D.D., nrin.
of Maxwell, Glasgow ; educated at High
School and Univ., Glasgow; M.A. (1900),
B.D. (1903); licen. by Presb. of Glasgow
April 1903 ; ord. by same Presb. to Darjeel-
ing, India, llth Oct. 1903; served under
Foreign Mission Committee from 1903-8 ;
invalided home ; adm. to this charge 20th
Sept. 1910. Marr. 3rd Nov. 1903, Catherine,
daugh. of Alexander Buist M Donald, city
engineer, Glasgow, and has issue Arthur
Alexander, born 12th Aug. 1905 ; George
Hill, born 17th May 1907 ; Margaret Jean,
born 17th Feb. 1912.
FALKIRK.
[The church, dedicated to St Modan,
previous to the Reformation belonged to
the Abbey of Holyroodhouse. It was
included in the Presb. of Stirling till 1608,
though in Linlithgow, 17th May 1614.]
ANDREW HOGGE, vicar, dem. soon
1560 after.
1567 JAMES ERSKINE, reader in 1567.
ANDREW FORRESTER, trans, from
^ Dysart, with Airth and Bothkennar
in charge. He was one of the Com
missioners appointed for the maintenance
and defence of the true religion, 6th March
1589, in the Sheritfdom of Stirling ; trans.
8th Dec. 1590 to Kippen, but not adm.
till 1595. [Reg. Assig., Wodrow Miscell.,
Stirling Presb. Reg., Booke of the Kirk.]
ADAM BELLENDEN, of Kilconquhar,
M.A. ; pres. by James Bellenden of
Broughton, 15th and 21st May, and
ord. 19th July 1593; a member of the
General Assemblies 1602 and 1608 ; one of
those who met at Linlithgow, 10th Jan.
1606, in conference with "the imprisoned
ministers," previous to their trial for de
clining the authority of the Sovereign in
" causes spiritual : ; and at a convention
in the same place, 10th Dec. thereafter,
protested that it should not be held as
a General Assembly. He attended the
Convention at Falkland in 1609, and was
suspended 16th Nov. 1614, the sentence
being taken off 18th Jan. following;
enjoined 22nd Feb. to wait more diligently
on his flock in preparing them for the Com
munion. In March 1611 he had craved
the Synod for a helper to be granted on
his own charges, because of the disturb
ance "betwixt his kirk and the lands of
Kilconquhar, which fell to him by the
death of the laird," but was ordained either
to transport himself, or else to demit, or
else to serve in person, under pain of deposi
tion; dem. July 1616; promoted to the
Bishopric of Dunblane (q.v.) same year,
after having been violently opposed to
Episcopacy, and one of forty-two ministers
who signed a protest to Parliament against
its introduction, 1st July 1606. [Keith s
Catal. and MS. Notes, Orig. Lett, of Adm. ;
Douglas s Peer., ii. ; Melvill s Autob., Stir
ling Presb. and Syn. Reg., Booke of the
Kirk ; Row s and Calderwood s Hists., i. ;
Select Biog., i.]
JAMES CALDWELL, M.A. (Glasgow
1600) ; ord. to Bothkennar 31st May
1603; trans, and adm. 14th Aug.
1616; died before 16th Oct. same year,
206
FALKIRK
[PKESB. OF
aged about 36. He mart. Helen Young,
who survived him, and had issue Colin
(mentioned in Reg. of Sas., Perth, vi.
foL 334) ; James ; John ; Margaret ; Isobel.
Publication The Countesse of Marre s
Arcadia or Samtvarrie (Edinburgh, 1625).
Part of this volume was republished with
an historical introduction by Kev. James
Young (Edinburgh, 1862). [Test. Reg.
StirL, Young s Introd. to Arcadia.}
WILLIAM ANNAND, MA.; trans.
1617 ^ rom R utnven (Cairn ey); pres. by
Alex., Earl of Linlithgow ; coll. July,
adm. soon after ; trans, to Ayr in 1625.
THOMAS SPITTAL, MA. (Glasgow
1626 16U ) min> f Airtl1 1618 - 26 > P res -
by Alex., Earl of Linlithgow, trans.
and adm. 18th June 1626; a member of
the Court of High Commission, 21st Oct.
1634 ; died in 1646, aged about 52. He
marr. Eliza Spittall, of the Blairlogie family,
and had issue Alexander, born 1627;
Barbara, born 1628; Michael, born 1630;
Robert, born 1634. [Reg. Old Dec., i., iii. ;
Baillie s Lett., i. ; Afaitland, ii. ; Banna-
tt/ne MiscelL, iii.]
EDWAED WRIGHT, MA. ; trans, from
1646 ^ t Mungo s, Glasgow; pres. by
James, Earl of Callendar, and adm.
25th Nov. 1646; Principal of Univ. of
Glasgow llth Dec. 1662 (q.v.). [Baillie s
Lett., iii. ; Peterkin s Rec.~\
RICHARD CALLENDAR, born 1626,
lees e ldest son f Alexander C., rain,
of Denny, nephew of preceding;
educated at Univs. of Glasgow and Edin
burgh ; M.A. (26th July 1649); chaplain
to Isobel, Countess of Roxburghe; adm.
min. of Cockburnspath 1657 ; trans, and
adm. 1663; died 29th Jan. 1686. He
marr. 24th Oct. 1661, Alison, bapt. 28th
June 1639, daugh. of William Hog of
Bogend, advocate, and sister to Sir Roger
Hog of Harcarse, a Lord of Session, who
survived him, and had issue Alexander,
heir to his lands in Cockburnspath (of
which he and his wife had sasine 1st Jan.
1663) ; Edward ; Alison ; Mary ; Jean.
[Cockburntpatk Sess. and Test. Reg. (StirL) ;
Monteith s Mort., ii. ; Neiv Gen. Reg.
Sas., v.]
ARCHIBALD MUSCHET, MA. (St
1686 Andrews 1646); min. of Gargun-
nock 1652-62 ; trans, to Larbert and
Dunnipace 15th Oct. 1662 ; trans, and inst.
8th Sept. 1686; died in 1690. He marr.
(1) 23rd Aug. 1655, Catherine Wright,
Falkirk : (2) Margaret, daugh. of Thomas
Edward, merchant, Linlithgow ; took sasine
of tenement there 1689, and had issue
Archibald ; David ; Edward. [MS. Ace. of
Min., 1689; Hist. Gen. Ass., 1690; Linl.
Burgh Rec.]
WILLIAM CRICHTON, MA. ; trans.
1693 fr m Bathgate called 17th July
1692 ; adm. 23rd Aug. 1693 ; trans.
to Tron Parish, Edinburgh, 8th Sept. 1695.
WILLIAM BURNET, was a min. at the
General Meeting of Presbyterians 6th
July, and adm. to Mid-Calder 4th
Nov. 1687; called 3rd Dec. 1695; trans.
and adm. 1st July 1696; died 18th Dec.
1714. He marr. (1) Isabel English or
Inglis, and had issue Catherine (marr.
July 1706, George Monro, min. at Nigg) ;
Nicolas, born 1697 ; Christian, born 1700 :
(2) Sept. 1703, Beatrice, daugh. of James
Fraser of Brea, min. of Culross, who
survived him, and had issue James;
Alexander, born 1705 ; Beatrice, born
1706; Isabel, born 1708; William, born
1709 ; Elizabeth, born 1713 (marr., pro.
12th July 1766, Henry Thomson, ship
captain at Leith) ; Catherine (posthumous),
lHo. [Edin. Reg. (Marr.); Reg. Old
Dec., i.]
JAMES ANDERSON, licen. by Presb.
1718 of Linlithgow 24th Oct. 1704;
assistant at Crichton ; ord. to West
Calder 5th May 1707; called llth June
1717, and 19th Feb. 1718; trans, and
adm. 23rd April 1718; while on his way
to an ordination in the adjoining parish of
Bothkennar, in Jan. 1722, he was nearly
drowned in the river Carron ; a son,
about the age of fifteen or sixteen, who
accompanied him, perished. He died 27th
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FALKIRK
207
Jan. 1732. He marr. when a student of
divinity, Janet, daugh. of Robert Sibbald
of Woodfoot, and had issue John, bapt.
21st Aug. 1709. [W. Calder Sess. Re<j.,
Wodrow s Anal.]
WILLIAM ANDERSON, nephew of
preceding; licen. by Presb. of Lin-
lithgow 25th Feb. 1730; called 5th
Sept. 1732 ; ord. 16th Aug. 1733. He died
unmarr. 8th May 1741.
JOHN ADAMS, son of Henry A., min.
of Kirkoswald ; M.A. (Glasgow, 15th
Jan. 1723); licen. by Presb. of Ayr
1st Sept. 1725 ; ord. to Dalrymple 15th
Feb. 1726; called 23rd Nov. 1743;
Moderator of the General Assembly 10th
May 1744 ; trans, and adm. 30th of same
month ; proposed again for Moderator in
1748, but not chosen. He died 20th
March 1757, aged about 54. He marr.
Janet Osborne, who died 7th Jan. 1768,
and had issue Dicksona (a daugh.) ;
John ; David ; Robert ; Margaret ; Mary ;
Harry ; Quentin ; Patrick Grant. Publica
tions "An Inquiry into the Powers com
mitted to the General Assemblies of this
Church " ; " Apology at the Bar of the
General Assembly on the Settlement of Tor-
phichen," 1751 (Scots Mag., xiv.). [Morren s
Ann., i. ; Carlyle s Autob.]
JOHN AITCHISON, min. of a Presby-
terian chapel at Morpeth; pres. by
George II. 28th April, and adm. 6th
Oct. 1759; died 18th May 1787, in 72nd
year. He marr. 12th Aug. 1741, Jean
Hardie, who died 20th April 1774, aged 55,
and had issue Samuel, born 17th May
1744 ; John, born 8th Nov. 1745 ; Thomas,
born 12th March 1747 ; Ann, born 9th Dec.
1751, died 24th Nov. 1783 ; Jean, born 26th
Oct. 1753 (marr. 12th Nov. 1783, William
Glen), died 17th April 1787.
JOHN MUIR, licen. by Presb. of Lin-
1787 lithgow 2nd Dec. 1778; pres. by
George III., and ord. 26th Oct.
1787 ; died 20th July 1793. He marr. 22nd
Dec. 1788, Marion Pearson of Borrowstoun-
ness, who died 9th Feb. 1801.
JAMES WILSON, only son of William
1794 ^ Carluke, born 1754 ; educated
at Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A. (1781) ;
ord. to a congregation in Stafford 15th
April 1784 ; removed to Stockport ; adm.
to Mid-Calder 20th Dec. 1792; pres. by
George III. llth Jan. 1794; trans, and
adm. 2nd May 1794; D.D. (Edinburgh,
28th May 1802) ; died 8th June 1829. He
marr. 8th April 1785, Jean (died 4th Sept.
1819), daugh. of John Weir of Kerse, and
had issue William, born 1st Feb. 1786,
died 1803; Thomas, born 16th Jan. 1788,
died 2nd June 1805 ; John (a twin), D.D.,
min. of Stirling, born 16th Jan. 1788 ;
Elizabeth, born 23rd May 1789, died 17th
Sept. 1804 ; Gray, student, born 17th Aug.
1793, died 16th Nov. 1811 ; James, born
8th Nov. 1796, died 15th Dec. 1811 ; Archi
bald, born 19th Aug. 1798, died 15th Dec.
1804. Publications A Defence of Public
or Social Worship ; A Sermon for the
Benefit of the Public Kitchen (Edinburgh,
1800) ; The Histoi-y of Egypt, 3 vols. (Edin
burgh, 1805) ; Prayers for the Use of Families
and Individuals (Edinburgh, 1818) ; Ac
counts of Mid-Calder and of Falkirk
(Sinclair s Stat. Ace., xiv., xix.); "Method
of Increasing the Sensibility of the
Barometer :; (Nicholson s Journal, iii.) ;
Articles in Edinburgh Emydopozdia.
\Neio Stat. Ace., viii.]
JOHN BROWN PATTERSON, born
183Q 29th Jan. 1804, son of Robert P.,
Crofthouse, Alnwick ; educated at
Haddington, where his maternal grand
father, John Brown, D.D. (author of The
Self- Interpreting Bible), had ministered to
the Burgher Seceders, and at High School
and Univ. of Edinburgh, where he greatly
distinguished himself; M.A. (31st March
1827) ; tutor to James Edward, Lord
Cranstoun, whom he accompanied to
Oxford ; licen. by Presb. of Kirkcudbright
7th Jan. 1829; pres. by George IV. 21st
Sept. 1829, on the suggestion of Sir Robert
Peel, Secretary for the Home Department ;
ord. 26th Feb. 1830 ; died 29th June 1835.
He marr. 23rd April 1833, Sarah Elizabeth
(died 24th March 1882), only daugh. of the
Rev. George Atkin, Morpeth, and had
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[PKESB. OF
issue Robert John Brown, born 3rd March
1835, died 18th Aug. 1910. Publications
On the National Character of the Athenians,
University Prize Essay (Edinburgh, 1828;
reissued with a Memoir in 1860) ; Dis
courses, ivith a Memoir, and Select Literary
and Religious Remains, 2 vols. (Edin
burgh, 1837) ; Lectures an the 14th to 16th
Chap, of St John s Gospel (Glasgow, 1840) ;
Lecture VIII. (On Church Establish
ments) ; ed. Beauties of Jeremy Taylor.
[Netv Stat. Ace., viii. ; Edin. Chr. Inst.,
iv. ; Steven s High School, Cockburris
Mem., Diet. Nat.
ALEXANDER MELVILLE, born 28th
July 1809, son of Andrew M., min.
of Logie, Fife ; M.A. (St Andrews
1828); licen. by Presb. of Cupar 8th Dec.
1829 ; pres. by William IV. Oct. 1835 ; ord.
22nd Jan. 1836 ; died at Largs 2nd Dec.
1839. He marr. llth Oct. 1836, Catherine
(died at Paris, 25th Feb. 1866), daugh. of
Patrick MacFarlan, D.D., min. of Greenock,
and had issue Andrew, D.D., min. of the
Free Church at Alva, and at St Enoch s,
Glasgow, clerk to Free Church Assembly,
joint-clerk to United Free Church Assembly,
born 14th Jan. 1839, died 29th Jan. 1907.
WILLIAM BEGG, born 2nd July 1815,
1840 son ^ ^ ames B., D.D., min. of
New Monkland ; educated at Parish
School, New Monkland, and Univ. of
Glasgow; licen. by Presb. of Hamilton
27th Sept. 1836 ; assistant at St Bernard s,
Edinburgh ; ord. (assistant and successor)
to New Monkland 19th Oct. 1837 ; pres.
by Queen Victoria, and adm. 24th July
1840; D.D. (Glasgow 1886); died 10th
April 1888. He marr. 24th June 1841,
Helen (died April 1894, aged 74), daugh.
of William Pagan, of Curriestanes, Tro-
queer, and had issue James, head of
District College at Hamilton, Victoria, and
Corowa, N.S.W., born 2nd July 1842, died
at Melbourne, llth Feb. 1911 ; Mary, born
7th Oct. 1843 (marr. 4th July 1865, Peter
Sinclair Menzies, min. of St George s-in-
the-Fields, Glasgow, afterwards of Scots
Church, Melbourne, died 15th Nov. 1914) ;
Jane, born 8th April 1845 (marr. John
Morrison, fanner, Dalmeny), died 14th Oct.
1911 ; William, born 24th Oct. 1846, died
27th Feb. 1848; Allan Pagan, born 31st
Dec. 1847, died at Hay, New South Wales,
3rd Oct. 1882; Francis Forbes, born 9th July
1849, died at Melbourne 27th June 1911 ;
Helen, born 13th Dec. 1850 (marr. Duncan
Cameron Macvean, min. of Strontian), died
14th Oct. 1889; William Hugh, M.A.,
student of divinity, born 31st Jan. 1852,
died at Athens (where he was acting as
tutor) 5th Jan. 1874 ; Margaret, born 13th
Oct. 1853; Elizabeth Agnes, born llth
May 1855 ; Henry Cunningham, min. of
Sorn, born 1st Dec. 1856 ; Catherine Evans,
born llth June 1859 (marr. John Saunders,
min. of Kingarth).
GEORGE CARRUTHERS, born Kirk-
1888 cro ^ Applegarth, 28th March 1846,
son of Robert C., farmer, and Agnes
Jardine ; educated at Sandyholm and Sib-
baldie schools, Dumfries Academy, and
Edinburgh Univ. ; M.A. (1869), B.D. (1870) ;
licen. by Presb. of Lochmaben 1870 ;
assistant at Newton-on-Ayr, and St John s,
Edinburgh; ord. to Dalziel Chapel, Mother-
well, 19th Aug. 1875 ; trans, to Johnstone,
Paisley, llth Jan. 1877; trans, and adm.
27th Sept. 1888 ; died 17th July 1898. He
marr. 20th Jan. 1880, Mary, second daugh.
of Thomas Russell, Kirkcaldy, and had
issue Robert, born 26th Nov. 1881, died
31st Oct. 1904 ; Mary Hutchison Russell,
born 13th June 1883 ; Thomas Russell
Davison, born 3rd Nov. 1886.
ALEXANDER LOUDON, born Airdrie,
in __ 28th Sept. 1856, son of James L. and
Elizabeth Law ; educated at Calder-
cruix School, Clarkston Academy, and
Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A. (1880), B.D. (1883) ;
licen. by Presb. of Hamilton April 1883 ;
in charge of Toward Chapel 1883 ; ord. to
Galashiels (West) 27th Dec. 1883; trans,
and adm. 2nd Feb. 1899. He marr. (1) 30th
June 1884, Jeanie (died 10th April 1898),
eldest daugh. of William Reid Wiseman,
Caldercruix, and has issue Mary Grace
Brown, born 15th Sept. 1885, died in
infancy ; James Alexander, born 16th Nov.
1890; William Reid Wiseman, born 12th
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FALKIRK FAULDHOUSE
209
Nov. 1892 : (2) 21st March 1900, Sophia
Jane, second daugh. of George Shepherd,
Shethin, Aberdeenshire, and has issue
Helen Hay Shepherd, born 19th Nov. 1902.
PROPOSED SECOND CHARGE.
[A process was raised for its erection,
after the appointment of A. F., but the
Commissioners of Teinds, 31st Dec. 1707,
" found there was no ground for settling a
second minister."]
ANDEEW FULLARTON, chaplain to
17 Sir Alex. Hope of Carse ; called
13th June 1706, and ord. 15th Oct.
same year ; trans, to Second Charge, Ayr,
7th April 1708.
LAURIESTON
[Disjoined from Falkirk and erected into
a parish quoad sacra, 10th July 1914.]
CHARLES BROWNLIE, ord. 24th
1896 J une 1896; adm. to St Margaret s,
Hawick, 3rd May 1898.
THOMAS NELSON ALLEN, ord. 17th
1898 Aug. 1898; res. 1899; assistant at
Alloa ; adm. to Craigmore 8th Jan.
1903.
JOHN ARCHIBALD DRON, ord. 13th
1900 -^ e k- 190 > a( * m to Kil cre gS an I7t h
Sept. 1908.
ALEXANDER BARRIE ROBB, born
1908 Springfield, Armadale, 27th April
1872, son of John R. and Janet
Wilson; educated at Bathgate Academy
and Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (1897);
licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 1901 ;
assistant at Cadzow (Ferniegair) ; ord. 28th
Dec. 1908. He marr. 25th Feb. 1909, Amy,
daugh. of George Wilson.
ST MODAISTS
( Chapel- of -Ease).
ROBERT WINCHESTER JACKSON,
1897 fr m Galashiels ; educated at Evan
gelical Union Theol. Hall 1874;
min. of E.U. Church, Bellshill, 1878-85 ; of
E.U. Church, Falkirk, 1885-96; received
into the Church of Scotland with most of
the members and adherents of his con-
VOL. I.
gregation, and ord. to this charge 17th
Nov. 1897 ; res. 1899 ; min. (1914) of South-
bridge Presbyterian Church, Canterbury,
New Zealand. He marr. 10th June 1889,
Emma Madeleine Thompson, and has issue
George Winchester, born 7th March 1890 ;
Irene Winchester, born 19th May 1891.
JOHN M LEAN, M.A., B.D. ; ord. 15th
1899 -A- u 18 ^9 adm. to Maryton 5th
Jan. 1905.
WILLIAM SIMPSON, M.A. ; ord. llth
lgog April 1905; adm. to Fortrose 20th
Aug. 1909.
JOHN MARSHALL PRYDE, born
1910 Gorekridge, 18fcla Oct - 1872 > son of
George P. and Janet Brunton ; edu
cated at Penicuik Public School, and Univ.
of Glasgow; M.A. (1900), B.D. (1903);
assistant at St Michael s, Dumfries, and St
George s, Glasgow ; ord. to Ruthrieston 15th
Aug. 1906 ; trans, and adm. llth Oct. 1910.
He marr. 24th Oct. 1906, Jeanie, daugh. of
A. Symington of Allanton, and has issue
Jeanie, born 13th Sept. 1907 ; George, born
23rd March 1910; Helen, born 26th July
1912. Publications David Livingstone
(Glasgow, 1902); Mazzini (Glasgow, 1905).
FAULDHOUSE (Q.&).
[Disjoined from Whitburn and erected
a parish quoad sacra by decreet of Court
of Teinds, 8th July 1872. Church built in
1867.]
THOMAS BELL, ord. 14th May 1868;
1868 trans, to Keig 6th July 1876.
JOHN CONNOR, ord. 18th Jan. 1877 ;
1877 res. 15th Feb. 1882 ; entered the
Methodist Church and afterwards
the Presb. Church of England ; died at
Westmancote, Tewkesbury, 22nd Sept.
1907. He marr. 30th April 1894, Elizabeth,
daugh. of Joseph Wilson, Paisley.
GAVIN CRAWFORD, born Quarter,
Lanarkshire, 13th May 1850, son of
William C. and Mary Hamilton ;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by
Presb. of Hamilton 14th June 1876 ; ord. to
Annbank, Ayr, 18th Oct. 1877 ; trans, and
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FAULDHOUSE KERSE
[PRESB. OF
adm. 20th June 1882; died 18th Sept.
1897. He marr. 24th Sept. 1884, Jessie
Brownlie, daugh. of Dr John Craig, Strath-
aven, and had issue Janet King, bom 18th
July 1885 ; Mary Hamilton, born 5th Jan.
1887 ; Annie Margaret, born 24th Sept.
1889 ; William, M.A., probationer, born
26th April 1891 ; John, born 23rd Nov.
1892; Gavin, born 20th Nov. 1896.
189g
1876
THOMAS WATT M ANDREW, born
Glasgow, 29th Sept. 1864, son of Peter
M A. and Annie Picken ; educated at
Glasgow schools and Univ. ; licen. by Presb.
of Glasgow June 1893 ; assistant in Renfrew
Parish 1893-8 ; ord. 15th March 1898. Marr.
27th April 1898, Christina Mackie, daugh.
of Lyon Wilson, Glasgow, and has issue
Margaret Craig Wilson, born 6th Feb. 1899 ;
Peter Douglas, born 15th Jan. 1901.
GRAHAMSTON (Q.&).
[Disjoined from Falkirk and erected into
a parish quoad sacra by Court of Teinds,
6th Dec. 1875.]
DUNCAN CAMPBELL, M.A., B.D. ;
trans, from Keig, and adm. 3rd Feb.
1876; res. 29th Nov. 1880, on app-
as chaplain of the Scots Church, Paris.
ANDREW ROSS TAYLOR, born Aber-
. deen, 9th July 1852, son of James
Stirling T., schoolmaster, Watten,
Caithness ; educated at Watten, and
Grammar School and Univ. of Aberdeen ;
M.A. (1874) ; licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen
7th May 1878 ; ord. 13th April 1881. Marr.
28th Sept. 1881, Margaret, daugh. of Alex
ander Walker, Aberdeen.
GRANGEMOUTH (Q.S.).
[Declared a parish quoad sacra by the
General Assembly, 29th May 1837. Dis
joined from Falkirk and erected a parish
quoad sacra by decreet of Court of Teinds,
7th June 1880. Church built in 1866.]
JAMES WILLIAM TAYLOR, ord. 7th
183g May 1839 ; trans, to Flisk 14th April
1843.
WILLIAM PURDIE DICKSON, served
1846 as P roDat i ner f rom 1846 ^11 hi 3 a d-
mission to Cameron 9th Sept. 1851 ;
[afterwards Professor of Divinity, Univ. of
Glasgow.]
WILLIAM HOLDOM, born Athelstane-
18go ford, 9th July 1816, son of Richard
H. and Janet Reid ; licen. by Presb.
of Haddington 14th Feb. 1848 ; ord. to the
Mission Station, Grangemouth, 7th Oct.
1856; first min. of the parish 1880; died
8th June 1884. Marr. 5th July 1859,
Martha (died 24th May 1908), daugh. of
James Marshall.
GEORGE MILES THOMSON, born
1884 Glasgow, 18th June 1854, son of
William T. ; educated at Glasgow,
and Kingston Univ., Canada ; B.A. (1878) ;
licen. 1882 ; ord. 7th April 1884 ; adm. to
this charge 8th Dec. following ; died 5th
Dec. 1908. Marr. 3rd April 1889, Catherine
Mathie, daugh. of Alexander Macnie, writer,
Glasgow, and had issue William Alexander
Miles, born 27th July 1890 ; George Miles,
born 9th July 1891 ; Camilla Macnie, born
12th Sept. 1892; Mary Miles, born 16th
Nov. 1893; Catherine Mathie, born 4th
Jan. 1895 ; John Somerville Miles, born
2nd Feb. 1896, died 18th Dec. 1896 ; Daniel
Macnie, born 2nd May 1897; Robert Macnie,
born 18th Jan. 1899 ; Oswy Miles, born
29th April 1900; Jean Marjorie, born 13th
Sept. 1901 ; Jemima Anne Harrison, born
llth Feb. 1904.
WILLIAM REID WISEMAN, M.A.,
lgog B.D. ; ord. 26th April 1909; trans,
to Gladsmuir 5th Feb. 1914.
ALEXANDER MACPHERSON, born
Aberdeen, 7th Feb. 1873 ; educated
at Gordon s College and Univ. of
Aberdeen ; M.A. (1895), B.D. (1903) ; licen.
by Presb. of Aberdeen 1903 ; assistant at
Irvine, and Abbey Parish, Edinburgh ; ord.
8th May 1914.
KERSE (Q.&).
[Disjoined from Falkirk and erected into
a parish quoad sacra by decreet of Court of
Teinds, 13th July 1906. Church and halls
built in 1899.]
LINLITHGOW]
KERSE KINNEIL
211
WILLIAM ANDKEW KNOWLES,
lgoe M.A., B.D. ; ord. to Kerse Mission
2nd Sept. 1897; trans, to West
Coates Parish, Edinburgh, 1st Oct. 1909.
WALTER ROLAND LACEY, M.A. ;
iglo ord. by John Herbert Edwards,
bishop of the Moravian Church ;
received into the Church of Scotland as an
ord. min. by General Assembly 13th May
1907 ; adm. to this charge 2nd Feb. 1910 ;
trans, to Billhead, Glasgow, 12th Feb. 1914.
WILLIAM ROBERTSON BROWN,
1914 k rn Rathven, 9th Sept. 1884, son
of William B. ; educated at Gram
mar School, Keith, and Aberdeen and
Edinburgh Univs. ; M.A. (Aberdeen 1904) ;
licen. by Presb. of Strathbogie 1908 ; as
sistant at Hamilton ; ord. 6th May 1914.
KINNEIL.
[Belonged to the Abbey of Holyrood ;
united to Borrowstounness by Parliament,
23rd Dec. 1669. A mere fragment of the
ancient church of St Katherine is extant.]
1567 JOHN JOHNSTON, exhorter, 1567.
PETER HAMILTON, reader, 1571;
trans, to Livingstone in 1585. [Reg.
Min. and Assign.]
THOMAS PEEBLES, pres. to Bathgate,
but ordered to remain 25th April
1592 ; a member of Assembly in
1602 and 1610; continued 22nd Oct. 1617.
He had a son, John, boarded in the New
College, St Andrews, llth Dec. 1616, prob
ably min. of Kirkmichael; also a daugh.,
Margaret, wife of John Gibson, min. at
Dalmeny. [Reg. Assig. ; Edin. Presb., Syn.,
and Test. Reg. ; Booke of the Kirk, Calder-
wood s Hist.]
JOHN PEEBLES, M.A. (Edinburgh,
22nd July 1615); adm. 1618; died
March 1625, aged about 30.
RICHARD DICKSON, M.A. (Edin-
bur g h > 28th Julv 1596 > licen - by
Presb. of Edinburgh 27th March
1599 ; adm. to St Cuthbert s, Edinburgh,
probably only as assistant, and ord. 2nd
June 1603 ; pres. by Anne, Marchioness of
Hamilton, and adm. 1625. He was a
1571
1588
1625
member of the General Assembly 1638 ;
died 2nd May 1648, aged about 72. He
marr. (1) Bessie Panton, and had issue
Marion ; John ; Margaret ; James ; Robert,
apprenticed 24th Aug. 1631 to John Dick-
son, merchant, Edinburgh ; Richard ; John :
(2) (cont. 2nd Jan. 1606 : Reg. of Deeds,
cxc., 408) Elizabeth, daugh. of Robert
Hamilton, merchant, Edinburgh, who sur
vived him. [St Cuthbert s Sess. and Test.
Reg., Livingstone s Life and Charac.]
WILLIAM WISHART, son of Alexander
W., of the Pittarrow family, Forfar-
shire, born Dec. 1621 ; M.A. (Edin
burgh, 15th April 1645); adm. 22nd Aug.
1649. He joined the Protesters, and formed
one of the Dissenting Presb. from 6th Aug.
1651 to llth Feb. 1659 ; he was confined to
his chamber at Edinburgh by the Com
mittee of Estates, 15th Sept. 1660, and five
days afterwards was imprisoned in the
Tolbooth, where he remained for thirteen
months, until released on the petition
of the Presb. His stipend was seques
trated for his refusal to disown the Remon
strance or sign the bond for keeping the
peace. On his wife petitioning Parliament,
showing his sad condition, " as now prisoner
in the Castle of Stirling, throw want of
meanes, while ane numerous familie were
dependant," an Act was passed, 29th Jan.
1661, whereby "all arrears of stipend
were ordered to be payed to her be the
persones lyable in payment thereof." An
other half-year s stipend was paid to him
self. He was intercommuned by the
Council, 6th Aug. 1675, for keeping con
venticles ; ordered 5th Feb. 1685 to be sent
to His Majesty s plantations for declining
the Test, but liberated from prison
24th Aug. 1685, "upon giving bond with
caution under 5000 merks to compear when
called." At the Toleration he began to
preach, and took charge of the congregation
in Leith where he had his residence, 10th
July 1687, promising to continue until a
min. was settled, though he stands en
rolled as a min. in Presb. of Linlithgow at
25th July 1688, and was appointed one of
the Pres. Committee to General Meeting
in Edinburgh, 1st May 1689 ; he died Feb.
212
KINNEIL KIRKLISTON
[PRESB. OF
1692. He marr. Christian, daugh. of
Richard Burne, a magistrate of Linlithgow,
and had issue Sir George, entered the
army, and acquired the estate of Clifton-
hall, Ratho ; Sir James of Little Chelsea,
admiral, commander-in-chief in the Medi
terranean, M.P. for Portsmouth, etc., died
31st May 1723; William, Principal of the
Univ. of Edinburgh (q.v.). [S. Leith Sess.,
Test., and Edin. Reg. (Bur.~) ; Wodrow s
Hist, and Anal., iv. ; Acts Part., vii. ;
Mun. Univ. Glasg., ii. ; Brodie s Diary.]
KIRKLISTON.
[The church, which belonged to the
Templars, dates from the 12th century.
The south wall contains a partly restored
Norman doorway, and there are other
features of note.]
WILLIAM STRANG, adm. May 1569;
1569 t rans - ^0 Irvine 1584. [Reg. Min.
and Assig., Booke of the Kirk, Wod-
row Miscell. and Biog., Test. Reg.]
JAMES LAW, M.A. ; pres. by James
VI. ; coll. and adm. 1585 ; rebuked
by the Synod for playing football
on the Lord s Day ; one of the Commis
sioners app. in 1589 for the maintenance of
religion in the Sheriffdom of Linlithgow ;
app. Bishop of Orkney 1605, but probably
continued here till his consecration 1610 ;
Archbishop of Glasgow 1615 (q.v.). [Act.
Rect. Univ. St And., Keith s CataL, Reg.
Assig., Booke of the Kirk, Row s and Calder-
wood s flists., Test. Reg.; Acts Parl., iv.; Pit-
cairn s Cr. Trials, ii. ; Livingston s Charac.]
JOHN BOOK, M.A. (Glasgow 1606). He
had a recommendation to George,
Archbishop of St Andrews, from the
Presb. 13th Feb. 1611, testifying to him as
a " very worthy young man, who had given
good trial of his gifts and was well lyked
by the parish," and was adm. 10th March
1611 ; recommended as colleague to Adam
Bellenden at Falkirk 1614; craved trans
portation there by reason of his mean
and unsettled condition ; resolved to abide
same year; George Thomson, "his guid-
sone," was reader 1644 ; a brother, James
Book, is mentioned in 1644 ; dep. 6th May
1611
1646, but had 100 promised him yearly,
80 being paid from the stipend, the Presb.
making up the balance. Recommendations
were granted in his favour by the Synod
6th Nov. 1651, and by Parliament 13th
March and 30th May 1661 ; died June 1663.
He marr. Marion Inglis, and had issue
John, apprenticed to George Ker, tailor,
22nd Nov. 1626; Robert, to Alexander
Muir, skinner, 30th March 1631 ; Walter,
to Robert Tait, merchant, 20th Jan. 1643 ;
Alexander, to William Hamilton, tailor, 23rd
Dec. 1646, all in Edinburgh. [Mun. Univ.
Glasg., iii. ; Cramond, Uphall, Torphichen,
and Tester Sess., and Edin. Reg. (Bur.) ;
Reg. Assig. and Old Dec.; M Ure s Glasg.
Sed. Book of Teinds.]
1646
GILBERT HALL, brother of Thomas
H., min. at Lame ; M.A. (Glasgow
1642); ord. 9th Dec. 1646, when he
promised to give 80 yearly of the stipend
to his predecessor. He withdrew from
the Presb., and assisted in forming the
Protesting Presb. 1651. He had a call to
Linlithgow 1655, which was annulled. He
was one of the Commissioners for visiting
the Universities, and authorising good and
able men to fill the livings appointed for
the ministry in the south of Scotland.
Subscribing to the Remonstrance, he was
imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle 23rd Aug.
1660, and his stipend was sequestrated by
the Committee of Estates. He was sus
pended by the Synod May 1661, and
deprived by Act of Privy Council 1st Oct.
1662. He was accused of attending con
venticles in 1672, and died 15th March
1673, aged about 51. Principal Baillie
said of him that he was "one of the
greatest preachers in his time ; he had
heard most of the celebrated preachers in
England, the most noted in Holland, and
the most considerable in Scotland, but, in
his opinion, H. surpassed them all in a
preaching gift." "He was of small
stature, with a pleasing countenance, and
an extraordinary voice." He marr. Cecil
Inglis (alive in 1690), and had issue
George and Marion, twins, bapt. 8th Feb.
1670 ; Alexander, entered apprentice to
James Braid, merchant, Edinburgh, born
LINLITHGOW]
KIRKLISTON
213
1689
14th Feb. 1677; Janet (marr. Archibald
Hamilton, min. of Cambuslang). [Mun.
Univ. Glasg., ii., iii. ; Edin. Guild, and
Reg. (Bapt. and Bur.} ; Lament s, Nicoll s,
and Brodie s Diaries ; Kirkton s and Wod-
row s Hist, and Anal. ; Acts Parl., vii. ;
Baillie : s Lett., iii. ; Monteith s Mort., i.]
JAMES WEMYSS, M.A. ; pres. by
1663 J ames > Archbishop of St Andrews ;
ord. 31st July, and adm. 3rd Aug.
1663 ; D.D. (St Andrews, 18th April 1687) ;
prom, to the Professorship of Divinity in
Univ. of Glasgow 1688 (q.v.).[Act. Rect.
Univ. St And., Reg. Collat. ; Mun. Univ.
Glasg., iii.]
JOHN MACKENZIE, third son of Donald
M. of Loggie ; "served His Majesty
seven years in foreign countries " ;
the edict for his admission was read at St
Andrews, thirty miles distant, and not at
K. ; the parish was declared vacant 16th
Oct. 1690, there being no legal settlement ;
he went to Holland, and died in London.
[MS. Ace. of Min., 1689 ; Hist, and Reg.
Gen. Ass., 1690 ; Eule s Sec. Vindication.]
THOMAS MILLER, M.A. (Edinburgh
1669); min. of Stranraer in 1689:
called 8th March, and having pro
duced testificates of his ordination, was
adm. 14th April 1691 ; died Jan. 1716, aged
about 67. He marr. (name unknown), and
had a son, William, min. in the Barbados.
[Nisbet s Her., ii.]
JAMES HOUSTON, licen. by Presb. of
Linlithgow 16th May 1694 ; ord. to
Bathgate 1st Sept. 1694 ; called 20th
July ; trans, and adm. 26th Sept. 1716 ; died
7th Jan. 1749. He marr. Isabel Baillie, who
died 26th March 1762. [Test. Reg.]
JOHN DRYSDALE, pres. by George II.
18th Feb., and ord. 9th Aug. 1749;
trans, to Lady Yester s, Edinburgh,
14th Aug. 1764.
JAMES LINDSAY, licen. by Presb. of
Edinburgh 23rd Feb. 1732 ; tutor at
Thirlestane Castle, Lauder ; ord. to
Lauder 19th Aug. 1736 ; trans, to Dun-
barney 20th June 1746; trans, to Loch-
maben 9th Aug. 1750; pres. by George
III. 21st Jan., trans, and adm. 16th July
1716
1749
1765
1765 ; died 2nd Nov. 1796, in 85th year.
[Carlyle s Autob. ; Wilson s Pr., Perth;
Kay s Portr., ii.]
CHARLES RITCHIE, born 7th Dec.
1*94 1^65, son of John R., min. of Aber-
corn ; licen. by Presb. of Linlithgow
31st Oct. 1792 ; pres. by George III. 20th
March, and ord. (assistant and successor)
19th June 1794 ; died 2nd Oct. 1825. He
marr. 30th April 1821, Margaret (died 5th
Aug. 1837), daugh. of Alexander Reid of
Rathobank. Publication A Sermon
preached after the Death of John, Earl
of Hopetoun (Edinburgh, 1823).
ADAM DUNCAN TAIT, born 1802, son
1826 ^ ^ a ^ er T., min. of Trinity Parish,
Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of Kirk-
caldy 21st Sept. 1825 ; pres. by George IV.,
and ord. 29th June 1826; died 10th Nov.
1864. He marr. 4th Sept. 1829, Margaret
Hill, who died 13th March 1873, and had
issue Walter, min. of St Madoes; Mary
Jemima, born 1st Feb. 1833 (marr. Robert
Hutchison of Carlowrie) ; James Hill, min.
of Aberlady. Publications Remarks on a
Pamphlet by the Rev. James Buchanan
(Edinburgh, 1840) ; Letter to the Moderator
of the Church of Scotland (Edinburgh,
1840); Letter to the Duke of Argyll on
the Abolition or Modification of the Tests
affecting Chairs in Universities (Edinburgh,
1853) ; Letter to the Right Hon. the Lord
Justice-Clerk on the State of the Theological
Faculties in the Univ. of Scotland (Edin
burgh, 1859) ; Account of the Parish (Neio
Stat. Ace., i.).
JOHN ROBERTSON LIDDLE, born
1865 Lauder, 25th Oct. 1836, son of Mark
L. and Margaret Robertson ; educated
at Lauder School and Edinburgh Univ. ;
licen. by Presb. of Lauder 9th June
1863 ; pres. by Queen Victoria 31st Dec.
1864; ord. llth May 1865; died 18th
Jan. 1879. He marr. 21st March 1872,
Clara Elizabeth (died 29th Jan. 1875),
daugh. of Thomas Price of Crickhowell.
ALEXANDER MASSON, born Aber
deen, 18th Aug. 1845, son of Alex
ander M., Aberdeen ; educated at
Grammar School and Univs. of Aberdeen
and Edinburgh ; M.A. (Aberdeen 1863),
214
KIRKLISTON LINLITHGOW
[PRESB. OF
B.D. (Edinburgh 1867) ; licen. by Presb. of
Aberdeen 14th May 1867 ; ord. to Boharm
4th Feb. 1869 ; trans, and adm. 31st July
1879. Marr. 1st July 1884, Helen, daugh.
of James Ogilvie, Edinburgh, and has issue
Helen Isabella, born 27th May 1885.
LINLITHGOW AND BINNY.
[The church, previous to the Reformation,
belonged to the Priory of St Andrews, and
was dedicated to St Michael. Binny or
Binning was united about 1564. Vide Fer
guson s Ecclesia Antiqua for a complete
account of the ecclesiastical annals of the
parish.]
PATRICK FRENCH, had been vicar
previous to the Reformation and
continued in the charge.
PATRICK KINLOQUHY, or KIN-
. LOCH, an Augustinian canon at St
Andrews previous to the Reforma
tion ; app. 1563, chaplain of the Trinity
Altar in St Michael s Church, for the
purpose of handing over its endowments
to the town. Pres. to the vicarage by
James VI., 3rd and llth June 1574,
having charge in that year, with the help
of readers, of "Kynneill, Carriddin, and
Bynnie." He was a member of Assembly
when the Second Book of Discipline was
confirmed. He was requested by the
citizens of Edinburgh, 16th Oct. 1584, " to
teache ane certane space," and "besought
to remane" as one of their ministers,
a committee being appointed by the
Council "to agrie with him to be a
minister in the burgh." The matter went
no further. He was one of the nine " best
learnit and maist qualified ministers within
the diocese of St Andrews besouth the
Forth" charged to compear before the
Privy Council, 7th Dec. 1584, for not sub
scribing obedience to the Archbishop. He
read answers for himself and his brethren,
but submitted before the month closed.
He was engaged by His Majesty, 2nd Jan.
1586, with two of the Court ministers,
to address his brethren for their submis
sion. He was nominated by the Secret
Council, 6th March 1589, one of the com
missioners for the maintenance of true
religion in the Sheriffdom of Linlithgow.
At a visitation of the parish, 3rd July 1611,
it is recorded, "Patrick Kinloquhy, auld
minister, teaches none for his age and in
firmities" ; but the efficiency of his ministry
is evidenced by the further entry : " Na
excommunicates, na non-communicants, na
papists except my Lady Linlithgow, na dis-
obedients, na witches, na consultors." He
died before 10th Dec. 1612. He marr. Helen
Bell, and had issue Patrick, who was on
the exercise 12th March 1617 ; Andrew ;
Agnes (marr. Robert Hally, min. of Airth) ;
Elspeth ; Marian ; David. [Winzet s Trac-
tatis (Maitland Club, 1835) ; Reg. Min. ;
Zurich Lett., ii. ; Wodrow s Biog. and
Miscell., Burgh Rec., Edin. Council Reg.,
Reg. Great Seal, Privy Council, Booke of
the Kirk, Calderwood s Hist.; Ferguson s
Eccl. Ant., and authorities quoted there.]
ROBERT CORNWALL, son of Nicol
159? C. of Bonhard, provost of Linlith
gow ; educated at the Grammar
School, Linlithgow, and Univ. of
Glasgow; M.A. (1583); min. of Eccles-
machan in 1588 ; trans, and adm. (col
league and successor) 1597 ; pres. by James
VI. 16th April 1599; member of the
Assembly of 1602 ; took an active part, in
1604, in the prosecution of Patrick Aber-
cromby of Bonnytoun, who, with his wife
and mother, was accused of harbouring a
Jesuit and of hearing Mass. He was
nominated Constant Moderator of Presb.
by the Assembly 1606; preached before
the Linlithgow Assembly 1608 ; pres. to
the vicarage by James VI. 20th April 1610,
and the same year was one of a committee
appointed by the Assembly to examine
George, Marquess of Huntly, with full
power, if they found him willing con
stantly to confess the true religion, to
absolve him from sentence of excom
munication. In 1611 the vicarage tithes
were still held, and the pre-Reforma-
tion manse occupied by the minister, but
there was no glebe. A noteworthy feature
of his ministry was the long but ineffectual
prosecution, begun in 1612, of Helenor Hay,
Countess of Linlithgow, for papistry. He
died 5th June 1626, aged about 63. He
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LINLITHGOW
215
marr. Jean, sister of Alexander Mowbray,
and had issue Janet ; Alexander, min. of
Muiravonside ; John (his successor) ;
Robert ; Rachel (marr. cont. 23rd Oct. and
3rd Nov. 1617, Ludovic Stewart, min. of
Denny), who died before 1621 (G. R.
Inhib.). \_Booke of the Kirk, Calderwood s
Hist., Melvill s Autobiog., Reg. Assig., Privy
Council, Minutes of Synod of Fife, Burgh
Rec., Ferguson s Eccl. Ant.]
JOHN CORNWALL, son of preced-
1626 * ng pres k v Charles I. 16th June
1626. In 1635 Cornwall was made
a burgess of Linlithgow. At an iu-
fluentially attended visitation of the
parish by the Presb., 24th April 1641, it
was considered that he "was not able
sufficiently to bear the whole charge of
the congregation, and therefore must have
a helper." Commissioners were appointed,
1st April 1642, to attend the Synod of
Perth and Stirling, to procure the trans
lation of David Drummond from Muckhart
to Linlithgow. Cornwall died April 1646.
He marr. (perhaps as a second wife) Jean,
daugh. of Duncan Balfour, St Andrews
(G. R. Sas., xxxvii., 130), and had issue-
Robert ; John, bapt. 7th March 1627, died
in infancy ; Christian ; Jean ; Andrew, bapt.
30th April 1640. [Old Dec., iv. ; Privy
Council, Burgh, Presb., Sess., and Test.
Regs.; Dempsterii Eccl. Hist. ,\.; Ferguson s
Eccl. Ant.]
DAVID DRUMMOND, M.A. ; trans,
from Second Charge; pres. by
Charles I. 6th May, and adm. 2nd
Sept. 1646; dep. 4th Oct. 1648, for his
silence in not preaching against the un
lawful Engagement. A tumult broke out
at the intimation of this sentence. He was
reponed 14th Feb. 1655, and became min.
of Moneydie. In 1665 the parishioners of
Linlithgow petitioned him to return to
them, but he declined on the ground of ill-
health. [Privy Council, Presb., Syn., and
Burgh Rec.; Guthrie s Mem., Peterkin s
Rec., Ferguson s Eccl. Ant.]
EPHRAIM MELVILL, son of Ephraim
M., min. of Pittenweem, and grand
son of James Melvill, the auto-
biographer; M.A. (St Andrews 1629);
chaplain to Christian, Lady Boyd ; ord. to
Queensferry 30th Sept. 1641 ; declined a
call to Livingstone 1646 ; nom. by the Kirk-
session 16th Aug. 1649 ; trans, and adm.
31st Jan. 1650. An unhappy difference di
vided the church in the following year into
Resolutioners and Protesters. Adhering
to the latter, he, with five others Keith of
Ecclesmachan, Kennedy of Calder, Row
of Abercorn, Kinnear of Midcalder, and
Wishart of Kinneil, being the minority
formed themselves into a presb. 6th Aug.
1651. Attempts were made to heal the
breach, but the remanent members (22nd
June 1652) find "that they cannot unite,
because of the reasons contained in their
protestation." They continued separate till
12th Feb. 1659, when they united. Melvill
died April 1653, aged about 44, when he is
styled " their late and worthie pastor." He
marr. Bessie Yoole, who survived him ;
she was buried in Greyfriars, Edinburgh,
8th Oct. 1688, and had issue Bessie;
Eupham ; Katherine, bapt. 26th July 1652
who were served heirs-portioners, 28th
Oct. 1656, and to whom Andrew M., mer
chant, Edinburgh, was served tutor, 4th
June 1653. [Test Reg., Lament s and
Brodie s Diaries, Wodrow s Anal.; Inq. Ret.
Fife, &G3de Tut., 801.]
ALEXANDER GUTHRIE, son of Alex.
G., tailor, Edinburgh; M.A. (Edin
burgh, 28th July 1648). "After
seeking of God the most part of the day
for direction," he was unanimously elected
by the Session 26th April 1653, "having
great abilities and a godlie conversation " ;
adm. (by the Protesting or Remonstrant
Presb., at Langlands, near Pardovan) 1st
June 1653 ; died unmarr. March 1655, aged
about 27. [Test. Reg. ; Baillie s Lett., iii. ;
Rep. on Ch. Patronage.]
WILLIAM WEIR, born probably in the
county of Linlithgow ; M.A. (Edin
burgh, 28th July 1648) ; licen. by the
Protesting Presb. 18th May 1653; ord. to
the Second Charge of this parish 6th
Oct. same year; trans, and adm. 29th
May 1655; removed by the Synod 1660.
Refusing to deliver to the magistrates
216
LINLITHGOW
[PRESS. OF
the parish registers, etc., he was im
prisoned by James Glen, provost, in the
"Thieves Hole," and subsequently in the
Palace for six weeks, till he complied with
the orders. He went to Ireland and was
min. again in 1691. [Wodrow s Hist., i., ii. ;
Reid s Ireland, ii.]
JAMES RAMSAY, M.A. ; of the Resolu-
tionist or Moderate Presb. ; trans.
from Kirkintilloch ; adm. (on a call
by the Presb. with a Committee of Synod)
14th Sept. 1655. On a petition of the
parishioners to the Synod, 8th Nov. 1656,
bearing that he is "ane able, pious, and
peaceable man and doth meet with many
obstructions in the exercise of his minis
try, to the prejudice of the Lord s work
and his discouragement, and desiring he
may be encouraged in his calling," the
Moderator, in their name, found and
declared him to be lawfully called and
admitted, " being farther confirmed in their
judgment of his abilities, by his sermon
preached this day before them." Coll.
1662 ; trans, to Hamilton 1664 ; Bishop of
Dunblane 1673 ; Bishop of Ross 23rd May
1684 (q.v.).[Reg. Collat.; Kirkton s and
Wodrow s Hists., i. ; Baillie s Lett., iii. ;
Chambers s Ann., ii. ; Acts Parl., vii. ;
Keith s Catalogue.]
ALEXANDER SETON, son of Alex
ander S. of Graden, and Margaret
(or Janet 1 ?) Cornwall of Bonhard.
In early life he qualified as a physician,
but having studied divinity, was settled as
a clergyman in England. He was pres.
by the Archbishop, and inst. Oct. 1665.
Frequently at war with the Town Council,
and violently opposing their wish for the
appointment of a second min., he was
finally libelled on various scandalous
counts, and dep. 29th Aug. 1690; died
Nov. 1690. He marr. Anna Channell, an
Englishwoman, who died May 1709, and
had issue Alexander, collector of Excise
for East Lothian ; Ann (marr. Andrew
Crawford of Lochcote). [Test. Reg., Reg.
Collat ; MS. Ace. of Min., 1689 ; Fountain-
hall s Dec., i. ; Beg. Gen. Ass., 1692.]
WILLIAM WEIR, M.A., who had gone
to Coleraine, Ireland, returned on a
call given to him 21st June 1691 J
was a member of the Assemblies 1691-2 ;
died 1st July 1695, aged about 67. He
marr. (1) Helen Hill, widow of John
Maxwell, merchant, burgess of Glasgow,
who .died before 10th Dec. 1669 (G. R.
Inhib., 5th March 1670); (2) Katherine
Lund, and had issue James ; Jean (marr.
7th April 1695, Bailie John Waugh, Edin.
Sas., Ixxiii., 204). He bequeathed 100
to the poor of Linlithgow. [Burgh Reg.,
Wodrow s Hist. ; Reid s Ireland, ii., iii. ;
Ferguson s Eccl. Ant.~\
ALEXANDER DALGLEISH, son of
W 7 illiam D., min. of Cramond ; licen.
by Presb. of Linlithgow 18th July
1688 ; ord. to Abercorn 1st Jan. 1690 ; called
14th March, trans, and adm. 31st May
1699 ; died 30th May 1726. He marr. (1)
(name unknown) : (2) Joan (died May 1701),
daugh. of Robert Marshall, ship captain,
South Queensferry : (3) 29th Oct. 1702,
Susanna, daugh. of Duncan Campbell of
Auchlyne, and had issue William, died
Dec. 1716 ; Robert (his successor) ; Christian
(marr. her cousin, William Dalgleish of
Scotscraig) ; Susanna ; Marion ; Elizabeth ;
Jane (marr. Robert Spears, min. of Second
Charge). [Edin. Reg. (Marr.). }
ROBERT DALGLEISH, M.A., born
1727 1693, son of preceding; licen. by
Presb. of Linlithgow 16th Sept. 1719 ;
ord. to Second Charge 4th Aug. 1720 ;
called 22nd Dec. 1726 ; pres. by the Presb.
jure devoluto, trans, and adm. 25th Jan.
1727; died 9th Aug. 1758. He marr.
Aug. 1723, Susanna (died 24th Jan. 1764),
daugh. of John Symmers, accountant in the
Equivalent office, and had issue William,
min. of Livingston ; Robert. [Carlyle s
A utob.]
JAMES HOGG, licen. by Presb. of
.., Linlithgow 5th March 1735 ; tutor
to the family of Sir Charles Douglas
of Kellhead ; ord. to Kirkbean 3rd Sept.
1745 ; pres. by George II. 27th Jan. 1759 ;
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217
trans, and adm. 8th Aug. 1759 ; officiated
as principal clerk of Assembly in 1762 ;
killed by a fall from his horse, 6th May
1778. He is described as "a man of
good heart, and uncommon generosity."-
[Morren s Ann., Carlyle s Autob.]
JOHN SCOTLAND, trans, from
Il7t _ 8 Westerkirk ; pres. by George II.
20th Aug., and adm. 17th Dec.
1778 ; trans, to New Greyfriars, Edin
burgh, 13th Oct. 1791.
JAMES DOBIE, licen. by the North-
umberland Class, and received by
the Presb. of Kelso 5th Jan. 1773;
ord. to Mid-Calder 27th July same year ;
pres. by George III., trans, and adm. 15th
June 1792; D.D. (Edinburgh, 5th April
1806); died 10th Nov. 1826, in 81st year.
He marr. (1) 16th April 1778, Isabella
Stodart, who died 26th April 1779, and
had issue James, bapt. 13th April 1779,
died May 1781 : (2) 29th Nov. 1782, Joanna
Henry, died 7th March 1800, and had
issue Thomas, died in infancy ; Henry,
born 30th Jan. 1783; William, born 1785;
James, born 29th Sept. 1786 ; George
Stodart, born 19th June 1788, died 1864.
Publication A Sermon preached after the
Deaths of Lord President Blair and Vis
count Melville (Edinburgh, 1811); Account
of the Parish (Sinclair s Stat. Ace., xiv.).
ANDKEW BELL, son of John B., farmer,
R2 7 Tarvit, Fife ; educated at Univ. of
St Andrews; licen. by Presb. of
Linlithgow 31st Dec. 1817; ord. to Tor-
phichen 28th March 1822 ; pres. by George
IV., trans, and adm. 20th June 1827;
D.D. (St Andrews, 10th July 1842);
Moderator of Assembly 24th May 1855 ;
died 7th Feb. 1862. He marr. 6th Aug.
1861, Clementina Napier (died 27th Feb.
1862), widow of Henry Glassford of Dougal-
ston.
DONALD M LEOD, B.A. ; trans, from
1862 Lauder ; pres. by Queen Victoria 29th
March 1862 ; adm. 10th July 1862 ;
trans, to The Park Parish, Glasgow, 24th
June 1869.
ARCHIBALD SCOTT, trans, from
1869 Maxwell, Glasgow; pres. by Queen
Victoria 5th July 1869, and adm.
23rd Sept. 1869 ; trans, to Greenside, Edin
burgh, 21st Sept. 1871.
THOMAS BROWN WILLIAM NIVEN,
1872 trans, from Tron, Glasgow ; pres. by
Queen Victoria 30th Nov. 1871, and
adm. 16th May 1872 ; trans, to the chapel
at Pollokshields, Glasgow, 20th June
1876.
JAMES BARCLAY, M.A. ; trans, from
1876 Canonbie and adm. 14th Dec. 1876;
trans, to St Cuthbert s, Edinburgh,
16th May 1878.
JOHN FERGUSON, born Kilwinning,
1878 10th Dec. 1846, son of Peter F.,
farmer, and Marion Kerr ; educated
at Stewarton School and Univ. of Glasgow ;
licen. by Presb. of Irvine 9th Jan. 1872 ;
assistant at Townhead and Coatbridge ; ord.
to Johnstone, Renfrewshire, llth Sept. 1873;
trans, to Townhead, Glasgow, 21st Sept.
1876; trans, and adm. 10th Dec. 1878;
D.D. (Glasgow 1908). Initiated a move
ment (advocated by several of his prede
cessors) for restoring the ancient Parish
Church of St Michael. So extensive was
the work that two years and a half were
required for its execution, and an expendi
ture of upwards of 8000. He died 8th July
1913. He marr. (1) 6th Jan. 1874, Esther
Struthers (died 10th May 1882), daugh. of
Gilbert Johnston, min. of Shettleston, and
had issue Peter, born 18th Jan. 1875;
Jane Briggs Burns, born 18th July 1876,
died 4th Feb. 1899 ; Marion Ker, born 24th
Dec. 1877, died 23rd March 1878; Esther
Struthers, born 28th Feb. 1879, died 2nd
Dec. 1888; Marion Ker, born 24th Dec.
1880; Gilbert Johnston, born 17th April
1882 : (2) 14th Feb. 1894, Mary Jane,
daugh. of John Miller Richard of Clarendon,
Linlithgow. Publications Sermon, Rest
from War (Edinburgh, 1882) ; Ecclesia An-
tiqua, or the History of an Ancient Church
(St Michael s, Linlithgow), with an Account
of its Chapels, Chantries, and Endowments
(Edinburgh, 1905) ; Linlithgow Session
Lands (Edinburgh, 1907) ; Linlithgmv
218
LINLITHGOW
[PRESB. OF
Palace, its History and Traditions (Edin
burgh, 1910).
ROBERT COUPAR, born St Cyrus,
1914 9tl1 ^P ril 1868 S n * ^ Olln ^ and
Eliza Lyall Blackie ; educated at
Fordoun School and Univ. of St Andrews ;
M.A. (1888), B.D. (1891) ; licen. by Presb.
of Fordoun 6th May 1894; assistant at
Forfar ; ord. to Macduff 24th June 1894 ;
trans, to Errol 1st Aug. 1900 ; trans, and
adm. 28th Jan. 1914. He marr. 25th Dec.
1894, Isabella, daugh. of John Nicoll, Bell-
field House, Forfar, and has issue Sydney
Bell Nicoll, born 18th July 1897.
SECOND CHARGE.
[From 1630 until 1751 there was a Second
Charge in Linlithgow. In 1630 the Magis
trates and Town Council appointed a com
mittee " to confer with the heritors, to seek
their advice for placing of ane second
minister, and their help whereby he shall
be entertained." While the matter was
under consideration, John Cornwall engaged
Andrew Stewart, M.A., to act as colleague.
Stewart failed to satisfy the community,
and in Oct. 1638, and finally in Dec. 1639,
the Town Council repudiated all liability
to contribute anything towards his support.
In 1641, steps were taken, resulting in the
erection of a Second Charge, which con
tinued till it was declared by the Lords of
Session, 15th Feb. 1751, to be no benefice,
and was suppressed.]
DAVID DRUMMOND, M.A. ; trans.
f rom Muckhart, and adm. 21st April
1642 ; he had a protection from
Montrose Aug. 1645 ; was a member of the
Commission in 1646, and was trans, to First
Charge 2nd Sept. same year. [Acts of
Assembly, Mem. of Montrose, Eccl. Ant.,
Hist, of House of Drummond.]
1642
THOMAS INGLIS, M.A.; ord. 26th
164g April 1648; dep. 27th Sept. there
after, for "lightly esteeming the
ministry and being confirmed in malig-
nancie" (silence in not preaching against
the unlawful Engagement). He was re-
1653
poned 12th Jan. 1654 (afterwards min. of
Whittingehame). [Mun. Univ. Glasg.,iii.;
Presb. of Lanark.]
WILLIAM WEIR, M.A. ; called 9th
J une ( un( ler the Protesting Presb.);
ord. 6th Oct. 1653 ; inhibited by the
Synod 10th May 1654, " being not lawfully
called and tried"; trans, to First Charge
in 1655. [Rep. on Ch. Patronage. ]
WILLIAM BROWN, called 18th June
and ord. 12th Sept. 1655. "Con-
loot? . .
sidering the constant averseness of
Mr B. to remain in L., because of the non-
subjection of the bodie of the people to his
ministry, and with all the earnest desyr of
the said Mr W. that the Presb. wad tak in
consideration how manie calls and invita
tions have bene repelled by him heirtofore
fra several congregations quhair they had
the Presbyteries advice, and that the
Presb. would do nothing for the easing
of his spirit, the Presb. (16th Dec. 1657)
advise him to abide for one year, and if he
sail not within that time be settled in L.,
or in any other place of the Presb., satisfy -
ingly to himself, they will not lay any
farther bands on him to abide at L." He
went to Carnwath before 5th July 1660.
[iggar Presb. Reg., Livingston s Charac.,
Rep. on Ch. Patronage.]
JOHN BURNETT, M.A. ; called by
the Heritors and Town Council 1st
Oct. 1672 ; Alexander Seton of the
First Charge protesting that nothing be
done to the prejudice of him or his suc
cessors by decreet of locality; ord. 9th
Jan. 1673; trans, to Culross in 1676.
[Reg. Collat.]
PATRICK TRENT, born July 1643, son
7 of William T., min. of Haddington ;
educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ;
M.A. (31st July 1662); licen. by George,
Bishop of Edinburgh 4th June 1664 ; adm.
min. of Coulter 1664; trans, to Crichton
1671 ; trans, to Temple 28th Sept. 1676 ;
dep. for not taking the Test 1681 ; adm.
to this charge 19th Oct. 1687; again dep.
by the Privy Council 15th Aug. 1689, for
not reading the Proclamation of the
Estates, not praying for King William and
1673
LINLITHGOW]
LINLITHGOW LIVINGSTON
219
Queen Mary, and praying for King James,
and that God would restore the banished ;
died 4th Nov. 1728. He marr. (1) 3rd Aug.
1667, Christian Hog, in the parish of
Haddington : (2) before 1699, Christian
Sleich, and had issue John, writer, Edin
burgh ; Janet (marr. 9th Aug. 1724, Robert
Meldrum, son of Robert Meldrum, min. of
Yester) ; Agnes (marr. Alexander Duncan,
writer, Edinburgh) ; Christian. [Hadding
ton Sess., Test., and Edin. Reg. (Bur.) ;
Peterkin s Constitution of the Church.]
ANDREW BARCLAY, chaplain to the
1700 f am ily f Livingston, and nephew of
Geo. B., min. of Uphall ; licen. by
Presb. of Linlithgow 5th July 1699 ; called
5th June, and ord. 14th Aug. 1700; res.
6th Aug. 1718 ; died 27th Feb. 1721. He
marr. (1) 25th Aug. 1700, Katherine Clay
ton, Kirkhill, Uphall, and had issue
Francisca ; Janet : (2) 28th May 1705,
Agnes, daugh. of John Brown, merchant,
burgess of Edinburgh, and had issue
George ; Margaret ; Janet ; William ;
Robert ; Agnes ; Alexander. [Edin. Reg.
(Marr. and Bur.); Morrison s Digest and
Dec., x.]
ROBERT DALGLEISH, M.A. ; called
1720 18th Nov. 1719 ; ord. 4th Aug. 1720 ;
trans, to First Charge 25th Jan. 1727.
ROBERT SPEARS, M.A. ; called 22nd
1728 Nov. 1727; ord. 3rd April 1728;
trans, to Burntisland 15th Sept..
1743.
KINGSCAVIL
(Chapel-of-Ease).
CHARLES MAURICE SHORT, ord.
9th Aug. 1887 ; adm. to Juniper
Green 28th March 1892.
[ROBERT GALBRAITH, afterwards of
Fordoun, was in charge from 1893 as a
probationer ; and WILLIAM BURNETT, B.D.,
afterwards of Restalrig, in 1898.]
THOMAS LUGTON, born Swinton,
lggg Berwickshire, 20th Jan. 1861, son
of Andrew L. and Jane Lugton ;
educated at Swinton Parish School, Well-
field Academy, Duns, and Univ. of Edin
burgh ; M.A. (1880); licen. by Presb. of
Duns 1884; assistant at Eskdalemuir,
Monigaff, etc. ; ord. 5th May 1895 for
service in India; adm. to Kingscavil 9th
Dec. 1899.
LIVINGSTON.
[The church, previous to the Reforma
tion, belonged to the Abbey of Holyrood-
house.]
JOHN CLAPPERTON, a native of
Berwickshire ; exhorter, Nov. 1570 ;
trans, to Button, in the Merse,
Candlemas 1571. \_Booke of the Kirk,
Reg. Min.]
ROBERT HODGE had a glebe assigned
him by the Superintendent on his
visitation, 5th Nov. 1573 (Acts and
Dec., Hi., 320) ; trans, to Bathgate.
ALEXANDER BORTHWICK, reader
in 1574 ; adm. in 1578. " Being of
meane literature he humblie desyrit
the Kirk, Oct. 1581, to grant him license
to gang to some Universitie within this
country, quher he may studie in theologie,
and have some kirk neir adjacent ther,
quher he may travell in the ministrie, in
the meantyme ; so meikle the rather as he
hes obtainit leive of his flocke," to which
request they consented. [Reg. Assig., Booke
of the Kirk, Edin. Presb. Reg., Row s Hist.]
PETER HAMILTON, trans, from Kin-
158Q neil 1585; pres. by James VI. 12th
Feb. 1595 ; still min. in 1601. {Reg.
Assig.]
PATRICK MONIPENNY, M.A. (St
1610 Andrews 1592); app. same year
master of the Grammar School at
Linlithgow, and reader in the church
there, with " the cure of keeping the knok
and horologe of the said burgh in guid
ordor and temper," at a salary of "ane
hundreth merks " annually, and the school
fees ; min. of Muiravonside 1598 ; trans,
and adm. 1610; died March 1616, aged
about 44. He marr. Beatrix Muirhead,
and had issue Robert and Beatrix, to
whom their uncle, Oliver Monipenny, was
served nearest heir, 20th June 1616.
220
LIVINGSTON
[PRESB. OF
[Test. Reg., Reg. Assig.; Inq. Ret. de Tut.,
223, 224.]
JAMES BOSS, M.A. (Edinburgh, 25th
1616 July 1612 ); P res - by Sir Walter
Dundas of that ilk, and ord. 16th
Oct. 1616 ; died May 1641, aged about 49.
He marr. Elizabeth Ker, who died Aug.
1663, and had issue James, served heir
to John Ross, in Tartraven, his great
grandfather, 29th Dec. 1641 (Stirling Sas.,
vii., 348) he chose curators 24th March
1642, his nearest kin on his father s side
being Robert Ross in Parkhall and William
Ross in Nuick, and on his mother s side
Robert Ker, sheriff and town-clerk of
Linlithgow, and Dr Andrew Ker, his son
(Linlithgow Sher. Court Books) ; Agnes
(marr., cont. 13th Sept. 1661, Patrick Weir,
apothecary at Calder); Elizabeth (ibid.,
29th Nov. 1665). [Test. Reg. (Stirl.) ; Reg.
Old Dec., iii., iv.]
PATRICK SHIELLS, M.A. ; pres. by
Walter Murray of Livingston, and
ord. 9th Dec. 1641 ; trans, to West
Calder 12th June 1645.
JOHN LOTHIAN, son of John L., min.
1646 of Monkland ; M.A. (Glasgow 1639) ;
pres. by the Laird of Livingston,
and ord. 24th Nov. 1646 ; died 3rd Nov.
1670, aged about 52. He marr. Beatrix,
daugh. of Patrick Craig, merchant, burgess
of Edinburgh, and widow of John Green-
lees, servitor to Sir John Gilmour (G. R.
Inhib., 23rd April 1675). His brother
William was served heir 9th Jan. 1674,
and seised in the lands of Paddocken
llth July following. [Mun. Univ. Glasg.,
iii. ; Tombst. ; Sasines, Lanark ; Inq. Ret.
Gen. 295, 326 j Morrison s Digest, and
Dec., i.]
WILLIAM WERNER [WARNER]
licen. by George, Bishop of Edin
burgh, 10th March 1669 ; ord. 1672 ;
died 19th Oct. 1674. [Reg. Collat., Test.
Reg., Tombst.}
GEORGE HONYMAN, son of David H.
of Pitairchney, and brother of Bishop
Honyman ; M.A. (St Andrews, 19th
July 1664); adm. to Sandwick, Orkney,
1673 ; trans, and adm. 1675. Outed in
1688, he went to Crail and continued to
carry on the work of the ministry. In
1710 the Presb. of St Andrews libelled him
"for his intrusion there, for his introduc
ing innovations into the worship of God,
by using the English Liturgie, omitting to
pray for Queen Anne, and praying for the
Pretender, or in terms which may com
prehend the Pretender, as well as our
lawful Sovereign." He was alive at Crail,
1729. He marr. Beatrix, daugh. of Alex
ander Pearson, merchant, Edinburgh (cont.
24th April 1682, Reg. of Deeds, Dal., 20th
June 1688), and had issue George.
[St Andrews Presb., Fife Syn., Edin.
Guild and Reg. (Bapt.) ; MS. Ace. of Min.,
1687 ; Wodrow s Hist., MS. Communic.
Crail}
JOHN SMITH, licen. by Presb. of
16Q2 Paisley 26th Feb. 1690; called 19th
June, and ord. 17th Aug. 1692 ; died
31st March 1717. He marr. 5th March
1703, Bethia, eldest daugh. of Thomas
Baillie of Polkemmet, and had issue
James. His brother Thomas was tenant
in Nether Williamston. [Test. Reg.}
ROBERT HUNTER, pres. by Sir James
.,_-_ Cunninghame of Milncraig, and ord.
5th May 1718 ; died 13th Dec. 1751.
He marr. 2nd April 1721, Eupham, daugh.
of David Blair, min. of St Giles, Edin
burgh, and had issue Jean. [Test. Reg.}
WILLIAM DALGLEISH, born 29th
May 1727, eldest son of Robert D.,
one of the min. of Linlithgow ;
M.A. (Edinburgh, 24th April 1744); licen.
by Presb. of Linlithgow 6th Dec. 1749;
pres. by the Commissioner for Sir David
Cunninghame of Milncraig, Bart., and ord.
8th Nov. 1752; died unmarr. 29th Dec.
1759.
ROBERT WISHART, licen. by Presb.
of Linlithgow 30th March 1756;
called 23rd Oct. 1760; ord. 15th
April 1761 ; died 7th Jan. 1802, aged 69.
He marr. 29th Oct. 1765, Mary (died 29th
Sept. 1778), daugh. of Andrew Gloag, min.
LINLITHGOW]
LIVINGSTON MUIRAVONSIDE
221
of West Calder, and had issue George,
born 22rd Oct. 1766, lost at sea 1791 ;
William Augustus, born 18th May 1768,
died March 1796 ; Andrew, born 29th Sept.
1770; Jean, born 4th March 1773, died
12th Jan. 1801 ; Elizabeth, born 3rd Nov.
1774, died May 1795 ; Charlotte, born 5th
Aug. 1776, died Nov. 1794.
JAMES MAITLAND EOBERTSON,
born llth May 1774, son of James R.,
min. of Ratho ; M.A. (St Andrews
1797) ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 26th
Oct. 1796 ; pres. by Sir William A. Cunning-
hame, Bart., and ord. 23rd Sept. 1802. On
his father s death the parishioners of Ratho
unanimously but unsuccessfully petitioned
the patron for his succession. Died 6th
March 1855. He marr. 4th March 1803,
Alice (died 17th Feb. 1860, aged 80),
daugh. of George Lindsay, surveyor of
Customs, Inverness, and had issue James,
born 18th Feb. 1804, died 12th July 1827;
Elizabeth, born 10th Aug. 1805; George
Lindsay, born llth May 1807, died 29th
Aug. 1831 ; Jean, born 4th Dec. 1808 ; Mary
Anne, born 29th July 1810, died 20th Feb.
1816; John, born 29th April 1812; Alex
ander Hamilton, born 2nd April 1814, died
5th Aug. 1832; Alice Lindsay, born 19th
Nov. 1815; Helen Laing, born llth May
1817; Andrew Dalziel, born 8th Feb.
1819.
JOHN LAING, born Edinburgh, 16th
Feb. 1809, son of John L., factor at
1842 Dalmeny, and Mary Fyfe ; educated
at the High School and Univ. of Edin
burgh ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh ;
pres. by Archibald, Earl of Rosebery, 5th
Oct. 1841 ; ord. to Livingston (assistant and
successor) 13th Jan. 1842. Joined the Free
Church ; min. of Livingston F.C. 1843 ;
res. 1845 ; became Presbyterian chaplain at
Gibraltar 1846, and at Malta 1847 ; app.
Librarian of the New College, Edinburgh,
1850; died 3rd April 1880. He marr. 29th
Aug. 1843, Catherine (died 16th Feb. 1869),
daugh. of Macduff Fyfe, West Indies, and
had issue Mary, died young ; Catherine ;
Fanny. Publications Catalogue of the
Printed Books and Manuscripts in the
Library of the Neiv College, Edinburgh
(1868) ; A Dictionary of Anonymoits and
Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain,
4 vols. (1882-8). [After the death of
Samuel Halkett the materials collected by
him for this work were entrusted to Laing,
who more than doubled the store. Laing
died before the publication of the work,
which was completed and edited by his
daughter Catherine.]
1844
JOHN GARDNER of Knightsridgo, born
2nd Nov. 1804, son of James G.,
min. of Tweedsmuir; educated at
Edinburgh Univ. ; licen. by Presb. of
Edinburgh ; assistant at Inveresk ; pres. by
Archibald John, Earl of Rosebery, 6th Dec.
1843; ord. (assistant and successor) 25th
Jan. 1844; died unmarr. 23rd Feb. 1878.
1872
THOMAS AITON, born Kirkintilloch,
22nd Dec. 1841, son of William A.
and Agnes Hamilton ; educated at
Glasgow Univ.; B.A. (1859); licen. by
Presb. of Glasgow 13th June 1866; assistant
at High Church, Paisley, and St Mary s,
Dundee ; ord. to Sauchie Chapel-of-Ease
25th May 1869; trans, on presentation by
Archibald Philip, Earl of Rosebery, llth
May, and adm. (assistant and successor)
5th July 1872. Marr. 7th Sept. 1880, Jane
Charteris, daugh. of Robert Scott, Brother-
ston, West Calder, and has issue Jane
Charteris Scott, born 1881 ; Agnes Hamil
ton, born 1884 ; Marjory, born 1888 ;
William, born 1889 ; Adam Charteris, born
1891 ; Robert Scott, born 25th April 1896.
MUIRAVONSIDE, on MANUEL.
[The parish originally formed part of
Falkirk. After being served by a min. for
about sixty years, it was disjoined, and
erected by Parliament 10th June 1648.
Manuel, the old name, was taken from the
Cistercian Nunnery of Emmanuel, founded
by Malcolm IV. in 1156.]
1591
WILLIAM KEIR, M.A. ; adm. 1591;
trans, to Ecclesmachan in 1597.
[Reg. Assiy.]
222
MUIRAVONSIDE
[PRESB. OF
PATRICK MONIPENNY, M.A. ; adm.
15Q8 after 26th Sept. 1598; in 1607-8
Livingston was also in the charge ;
removed to Livingston in 1610. [Act. Rect.
Univ. St Andrews, Edin. and Stirling Presb.
Regs., Reg. Assig., Calderwood s Hist.]
ROBERT THOMSON, adm. 1612 ; trans.
to Torr y burn ct - 1615 > " but he
knawis not quhat ordour he will
tak, be reason of the great opposition that
he hears will be made."
ROBERT HALLEY, adm. 1616; trans.
1616 to Airth 1626.
ALEXANDER CORNWALL, son of
Robert C., min. of Linlithgow ; licen.
4th Dec. 1622 ; ord. 8th April 1627 ;
pres. by Charles I. in 1633; on 10th Feb.
1637 he received from Linlithgow Town
Council a payment of 10 for " reading the
prayers " in his brother s kirk ; he was in
necessitous circumstances 14th March 1639 ;
was accused of "invading James Muir,
within the burgh of Linlithgow, with ane
drawn quhinger, who had used insulting
and provoking language to him, and of
intromitting with the Session funds," and
suspended by Presb. 2nd Dec. 1640 till
next Synod ; demitted 1641, and deposed.
He was to leave the country, 27th Sept.
1643, to " seik employment in the pastoral
function." Being in distressed circum
stances, he received pecuniary aid from
several kirk-sessions between 1646 and
1649 ; schoolmaster and precentor at
Kettins 1st Sept. 1650. He represented
to that Session that he had not whereon
to live, and desired the loan of 8 from
the box, which he promised to pay out of
his first salary. In May 1652 he was under
a sentence of excommunication for marry
ing and baptizing irregularly; and was
alive May 1659. He marr. Marion Hamil
ton, and had issue Elizabeth; Janet;
Alexander ; Jean. [Linlithg., Kettins,
Falkirk, Dunferml., and Car nock Sess.
Regs. ; Nicoll s Diary.]
JOHN BRUCE, born 1608 ; M.A. (Edin-
1642 bur Sk 27th Ju ty 1628 )> P res - bv
James, Lord Livingston of Almond,
21st June 1641 ; adm. 31st Aug. 1642.
His decreet of locality having been
destroyed by the burning of his house,
and the registers lost, he obtained another,
7th Dec. 1664. Although some of the
heritors " were ready to propone that their
proportion was above the worth of their
teinds," the Commissioners repelled their
objections, as " they had been in constant
use these eighteen years of paying that
proportion ; and they and their pre
decessors had bought the land with the
burden of that locality, and so they had
no prejudice thereby." He died before 20th
March 1672. Isobel Ker, his widow, claimed
the ann, which was resisted, as she had
not been confirmed executrix. The Lords,
however, 16th July 1673, "found no neces
sity of confirmation of the Ann." He
interdicted himself at the instance of
Isobel Ker, his wife, and Andrew Ker
of Littledean, 27th Feb. 1665 (Reg. of
Deeds, Mack.). A son, James, died in
1648. [Connel on Tithes, iii. ; Morrison s
Digest and Diet., Tombst. ; Bail lie s
Lett., ii.]
HEW BLAIR, M.A.; ord. and adm.
(helper) 31st Oct. 1655; trans, to
Rutherglen 1661. [Glasg. Reg.
(Bapt.); Baillie s Lett., iii., and Mem.]
1655
[There is no trace of a settlement between
1661 and 1667.]
ANDREW UR1E, licen. by George, Bishop
1667 of Edinburgh, 7th Feb. 1667; pres.
by Alexander Livingstone of Almond
(Decreets, Durie, 12th Nov. 1672) ; ord. 30th
July 1667. The Communion cups (1676)
bear his name. In April 1685 Peter Gillies,
waulker (bleacher of cloth), of Skirling, a
Covenanter, was apprehended at his instiga
tion and executed at Mauchline a month
afterwards. Urie was outed by the rabble
and deserted his cure 1689; died in Edin
burgh, 14th Oct. 1707, in his 71st year.
He marr. Katherine Kinnear (Stirling
Sas., toth June 1688), and had issue
Margaret (marr. April 1706, Charles Bell,
W.S.) ; Anna (marr. John Bethune, younger,
of Craigfoodie) ; Elizabeth ; Mary. [Reg.
Collat., Test, and Edin. Reg. (Marr. and
LINLITHGOW]
MUIRAVONSIDE
223
Bur.\ Wodrow s Hist. ; MS. Ace. of Min.,
1689.]
DONALD [or DANIEL] CAMPBELL,
1691 M.A. ; called 31st May, and adm. 4th
Aug. 1691 ; trans, to Queensferry 27th
Dec. 1693.
ANDREW BENNETT, called 31st
1696 March, and ord. 13th May 1696;
died 20th Aug. 1720. He marr.
Elizabeth Livingston, who survived him,
and had issue Andrew ; Margaret ; Bettie ;
Patrick, min. of Polmont ; William, min. of
Duddingston ; Anna ; John. [Test. Reg.
(Stirl.).]
ROBERT BOYD, licen. by Presb. of
1721 Linlithgow 16th Sept. 1719 ; called
15th March, and ord. 16th Aug. 1721 ;
one of those who dissented from the de
position of the eight Seceders 15th May
1740; died 8th Jan. 1768. He marr. 31st
Jan. 1723, Alison Douglas. \_Reg. Gen.
Ass., 1740; Morren s Ann., i.]
JOHN BERTRAM of Millhall, son of
John B., farmer at Woodlee ; licen.
by Presb. of Dunbar 7th Dec. 1743;
assistant at Monimail 1748; afterwards
min. at Whitby, Devonshire ; pres. by
George III. 22nd Jan., and adm. 8th June
1768; died 23rd Dec. 1802, aged above 80.
He marr. (1) 20th Nov. 1770, Mary (died
14th Nov. 1771), natural daugh. of Lieut.
Michael Bruce of Millhall in Polmont Parish
(Privy Seal Reg., x., 139): (2) 7th May
1790, Janet (died 20th March 1833), daugh.
of James Baird, Inveravon, Bo : ness, sister
of Principal Baird, and widow of John
Henderson, brewer, Linlithgow, and had
issue Marion Spottiswood, born 5th March
1791 ; John, born 16th Aug. 1792. Publica
tion Account of the Parish (Sinclair s Stat.
Ace., i.). [Kay s Portr.~\
WILLIAM M CALL, pres. by George
18Q3 III., and ord. 1st Sept. 1803 ; died
unmarr., 30th Dec. 1833, in his
67th year. On llth Dec. 1825, burglars
broke into his manse, and violently
assaulted him, carrying off money and
other valuables. Two Union Canal barge
men were tried for the crime at the
Stirling Circuit, 20th April 1826, one of
whom was condemned to death, 26th
May.
JAMES MACFARLAN, born Edin
burgh, 28th Jan. 1800, son of John
MacF. of Kirkton, advocate, and
Christian Wardrop ; qualified as advocate,
8th June 1824 ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow
5th Aug. 1831 ; pres. by William IV. and
ord. 16th May 1834; died 20th Feb. 1871.
He marr. 31st Oct. 1837, Matilda Marianne
(died 16th Sept. 1890), daugh. of Captain
John Christie, 78th Regiment, and Matilda,
daugh. of William Morehead of Herbert-
shire, and had issue John Morehead,
M.D., born 14th Sept. 1838 ; Matilda, born
14th March 1840; Christian, born 9th Oct.
1841 (marr. Archibald Campbell, Edin
burgh); Anne, born 29th March 1843;
James, min. of Ruthwell ; Jane, born 7th
Jan. 1847 (marr. Robert Charles Menzies,
papermaker, Inveresk) ; Marianne, born 8th
March 1851 (marr. Charles D. Menzies,
Edinburgh); Helen, born 25th April 1853
(marr. Dr Dowie) ; Eleanora, born 25th
April 1853; Patrick, born 14th Sept.
1855 ; Katherine ; Mary. Publication
Account of the Parish (New Stat. Ace.,
viii.).
GEORGE KEITH, son of John K., of
the Education Department, Edin-
1 burgh ; educated at Univ. of Edin
burgh ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 9th
Jan. 1868; pres. by Queen Victoria 7th
Dec. 1870 ; ord. 9th March 1871 ; died
unmarr. 7th Dec. 1884.
OSWALD BELL, born Edinburgh, 25th
March 1859 ; son of Lindsay B.,
1885 teacher ; educated at Glasgow Univ. ;
licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 18th May
1883; ord. 17th June 1885; res. 22nd July
1896; died 2nd April 1897. Marr. 16th
Nov. 1887, Kate Matilda, daugh. of Peter
Keddie, merchant, London, and had issue
Kate Muriel, born 27th July 1888;
Oswald, born 1st Nov. 1889 ; Doris Milli-
cent, born 22nd July 1891 ; Leonard Edgar
224
MUIRAVONSIDE QUEENSFERRY
[PRESB. OF
Romanes, born 1st Feb. 1893 ; Maud
Evelyn, born 25th Dec. 1894.
1897
DAVID BAYNE, born Glasgow, 24th
Nov. 1870, son of Henry B. and
Lilias Jack ; educated at Glen s
School and Glasgow Univ.; M.A. (1890),
B.D. (1893); Keen, by Presb. of Glasgow
May 1893 ; ord. 16th Feb. 1897,
POLMONT.
[Disjoined from Falkirk, and erected by
the Commissioners of Teinds, 22nd July
1724.]
1733
PATRICK BENNET, born 1705, son of
Andrew B., min. of Muiravonside ;
licen. by Presb. of Linlithgow 7th
July 1731 ; called 1st Sept. 1732 ; ord. 21st
March 1733; died 12th April 1783. He
marr. 22nd Dec. 1752, Margaret Henderson,
who died at Dundas, llth Oct. 1800, and
had issue Andrew, born 19th Sept. 1754,
died 28th Sept. 1769; George, born llth
Oct. 1755; Lilias, born 4th March 1757
(marr. David Clark); Elizabeth, born 21st
Aug. 1758, died 16th Dec. 1760; William,
min. of Duddingston ; and Margaret, Eliza
beth, Patrick, John, who all died in child
hood. {Dalmeny Sess. Reg.]
1784
WILLIAM FINLAY, possibly son of
William F., farmer, Galston; edu
cated at Univ. of Glasgow; M.A.
(1775); licen. by Presb. of Kirkwall 4th
March 1778 ; pres. by George III. 31st May
1783 ; ord. 21st July 1784 ; chaplain to
George, Prince of Wales 1790; died 21st
Jan. 1800, in 47th year. He marr. 30th Jan.
1787, Jean (died 20th Dec. 1792, in her 37th
year), daugh. of Gilbert Lawrie, Commis
sioner of Excise and Lord Provost of Edin
burgh, and had issue Sarah, born 27th Nov.
1787 (marr. 3rd July 1812, James Borthwick,
merchant, Leith), died 19th April 1862 ;
Gilbert Lawrie, W.S., manager of the Edin
burgh Life Insurance Co., born 29th Sept.
1792, died 1st April 1872; and Janet,
Grace, William, who died in infancy.
Publication Account of the Parish (Sin
clair s Stat. Ace., iii., xix., xxi.). [Tombst.]
DYKES SMITH, born 1770, son of
isoo Th mas S., Falkirk ; educated at
Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb.
of Linlithgow 29th April 1795 ; pres. by
George III., and ord. 27th June 1800;
died unmarr. 25th Nov. 1809. [Tombst.]
PATRICK M FARLAN, trans, from
. 1Q Kippen ; pres. by George III., and
adm. 13th July 1810; trans, to St
John s, Glasgow, 29th July 1824. [Smith s
Scot. Clergy, ii.]
JOHN WIGHTMAN KER, born 4th
1825 July 1800, son of James K., Provost
of Peebles, and Elizabeth Wightman ;
licen. by Presb. of Peebles 27th Nov. 1822 ;
pres. by George IV. Oct. 1824; ord. 5th
April 1825; died 6th Jan. 1872. He
marr. 16th Oct. 1839, Margaret Logan,
who died 13th Dec. 1886, and had issue
an only son, James, born 6th July 1843, died
9th March 1863. Publication Account of
the Parish (Neiv Stat. Ace., viii.).
PEARSON M ADAM MUIR; trans,
from Catrine ; pres. by Queen Vic
toria 27th April 1872, and adm. 1st
Aug. 1872; trans, to Morningside, Edin
burgh, 4th Sept. 1880.
WILLIAM ROSS, M.A., B.D. ; ord.
13th July 1880 ; trans, to St Mary s,
1872
1880
Partick, 3rd Oct. 1893.
1894
JOHN BUCHANAN M KENZIE, born
Bonhill, 17th June 1854, son of
Archibald M K. ; educated at Glas
gow Univ.; M.A. (1890), B.D. (1893);
licen. by Presb. of Dumbarton May 1893 ;
assistant at Helensburgh and Bonhill ; ord.
8th May 1894. Marr. 8th March 1880, Mary
Bain, daugh. of James Mushet, and has
issue Archibald, born 30th March 1882;
Margaret Hurst, born 3rd Jan. 1884 ;
Janetta Buchanan, born 21st Oct. 1886;
James Mushet, born 10th April 1890.
QUEENSFERRY.
[Disjoined from Dalmeny and erected by
the Commissioners of Parliament, 1st July
1635, and ratified by Parliament, 17th Nov.
1641.]
LINLITIIGOW]
QUEENSFERRY
225
ROBERT GIBSON, born 1607, son of
1635 J nn G., mm> f Dalmeny ; M.A.
(Edinburgh, 27th July 1627); "on
the exercise of Linlithgow Presb. 4th May
1631 "; ord. 13th Aug. 1635; died 1641.
He marr. Elizabeth, daugh. of Andrew Bell,
merchant, burgess of Linlithgow, and had
issue Andrew, apprenticed 13th Oct. 1652,
to Archibald Weir, litster, Edinburgh ;
Christine (marr. 1657, John Calder, Lin
lithgow). [Test, Reg., Burgh 3fin.~\
EPHRAIM MELVILL, M.A., produced
1641 testimonials of his qualifications from
Presb. of St Andrews 6th Aug. 1634,
and from Cupar 29th July 1641 ; ord. 30th
Sept. 1641 ; a zealous prosecutor of witches,
burning many, and making one husband
pay the cost of his wife s burning ; app.
to attend Col. Erskine s regiment, but was
unable to go, " through great distemper and
weakness of bodie," 24th April 1644. He
had a prcs. to Livingston Oct. 1645, which
was not carried out; one of the commis
sioners for visiting the Univ. of Edinburgh
31st July 1649; trans, to Linlithgow 31st
Jan. 1650. [Act. Rect. Univ. St And.,
Wodrow s Anal. ; Rutherford s and Baillie s
Lett., iii. ; Acts Part., vi. ; Sess. Rec.,
Ferguson s Ecc. Antiq.}
JOHN PRIMROSE, son of William P.
1652 * n Ki ncai dine ; ord. by Protesting
Presb. 28th Oct., against the remon
strance and protestation of the Presb. He
was not recognised by the Synod 1st May
1655 ; was summoned, 13th Jan. 1657, to
compear before the Synod of Fife, for
baptizing a child in the parish of Inver-
keithing, and removed for non-conformity
at the Restoration, but indulged by the
Privy Council 9th Dec. 1669; died 28th
Dec. 1673, in 45th year, leaving a widow,
Elizabeth Stirling, who had an annuity of
100 from Archibald Primrose of Dalmeny,
and was alive in 1692. [Tombst., Wodrow s
Hist.]
GEORGE ROBERTSON, M.A. ; ord.
1674 29th Dcc> 1G74 trans - to Kirkurd
in 1678, an exchange of benefices
having been effected between his successor
VOL. I.
and himself, the patrons and archbishop
agreeing. [Reg. Collat.]
JOHN PHILIP, eldest son of James P.,
16>78 writer, Edinburgh ; M.A. (Edin
burgh, July 1654); ord. to Kirkurd
30th Oct. 1661 ; trans, andinst. 20th March
1678 ; having " a considerable fortune of
his own, he was put into this lean bene
fice ;) ; deprived in 1681, for refusing the
Test; libelled before the Privy Council
15th March 1683, fined 2000 sterling,
and sent to the Bass during life, all his
books and papers being seized. He died
before 18th Dec. 1688, aged about 54.
His nephew John was served heir 26th
Aug. 1690, and his testament was con
firmed to his sister Janet, 19th July
1693. [Test. Reg.; Fountainhall s Dec.,
i. ; Wodrow s Hist., Reg. Sec. Sig. ; Acts
Parl., ix. ; Inq. Ret. Gen., 7052 ; Crichton s
Mem. of Blacl-adder.}
ARCHIBALD BUCHAN, M.A. ; pres.
1682 ky J nn > Bishop of Edinburgh, 29th
May, ord. Aug., and inst. 26th Sept.
1682 ; trans, to Spott in 1683.
ALEXANDER SKIRVING, M.A.
1683 (Edinburgh 1672); ord. Oct. 1683;
trans, to Shotts in 1686.
WILLIAM SMYTH, adm. 1686; dem.
1686 l9 i died, and was buried in Grey-
friars, Edinburgh, 2nd Sept. 1699.
[J/.V. Ace. of Min., 1689.]
JOHN DALGLEISH, M.A., formerly of
1688 Itoxkurgh. "A petition from Queens-
ferry was produced, showing their
resolution to invite Dalgleish to exercise his
ministry amongst them. Whereupon the
Presb. did interrogate Mr John whether
he desired to settle in the Ferry as their
min. ; he desired only to be allowed
by the Presb. to preach, and do the whole
work of a min. there for a tyme. Where
fore the Presb. allowed him to continue to
preach there according to his desire," llth
Jan. 1688 ; removed to Roxburgh 4th Nov.
1690.
226
QUEENSFERRY
[PKESB. OF
DONALD [or DANIEL (Edin. Mar.
1693 Reg.) ] CAMPBELL, M.A. (Edin
burgh 1676) ; probably ord. in Hol
land ; adm. to Muiravonside 4th Aug.
1691; called 28th May 1691; and again
14th Sept. ; trans, and adm. 27th Dec.
1693 ; died 8th Feb. 1698, in 43rd year. He
marr. Kathrina Verheiden, and had issue
Anna (marr. 22nd Dec. 1718, Joseph
Ford, M.A., preacher of the Gospel).
[Linlithg. Sess. Reg., Tombst. ]
JOHN GRIERSON, M.A. (Edinburgh,
17 13th July 1695); chaplain to the
Lord Advocate (Sir J. Steuart) ;
called 14th May, and ord. 21st Aug. 1700.
After a long illness he died, 31st Dec. 1709,
in 41st year. He marr. (1) 18th Sept. 1700,
Mary, daugh. of James Ochterlonie, mer
chant, burgess in Edinburgh : (2) July 1705,
Agnes Learmonth (died 26th Sept. 1750),
widow of John Cairncross, writer, and
had issue Margaret ; Janet. [Edin. Reg.
(Marr.), Tombst. ]
JAMES KID, suffered under the perse
cuting reigns of Charles II. and
James VII. ; took refuge in Holland,
and studied theology there; licen. by
Presb. of Dunfermline 27th Feb. 1706;
called 6th July, and ord. 28th Sept. 1710.
He was one of the " twelve apostles " who
gave in a representation and petition to the
General Assembly llth May 1721, against
an Act of the preceding Assembly, con
demning the Marrmv of Modern Divinity.
At the Communion in his parish in Aug.
1733 he was assisted by several of the
Seceding brethren. He, however, went no
farther with them ; died 9th Feb. 1744, in
78th year. He marr. March 1711, Isabel,
daugh. of James Auchinleck of Woodcock-
dale, and had issue James ; John, wine
merchant, Edinburgh ; Janet ; Agnes,
died 8th March 1813; Mary (marr. James
Gladstone, schoolmaster of N. Leith) ;
Elizabeth (marr. 13th May 1743, Alexander
Wilson, merchant, Edinburgh). Publica
tions Letter concerning the Parish of
Bathgate (1720) ; Address to the Reader
prefixed to The Trust, by Wilson (1723).
[Bo ness and N. Leith fiess. Regs.;
Tombst., Brown s Gospel Truth, Boston s
Mem., Eraser s Life of R. Erskine; Edin.
Chr. Inst., xxx.]
ARCHIBALD M AULAY, educated at
Edinburgh Univ. ; licen. by Presb.
of Dalkeith 2nd May 1738 ; called
June 1745 ; ord. 25th Sept. 1746 ; died 5th
Aug. 1781, in 75th year. He marr. 22nd
Dec. 1757, Isobel Valiant, who died 6th
Sept. 1773, s.p. [Tombst., Acts of Ass. ;
ticots Mag., li.]
JOHN HENDERSON, licen. by Presb.
1782 ^ Linlithgow 2nd Dec. 1778 ; pres.
by Town Council, and ord. 10th July
1782 ; Synod clerk ; died 12th June 1820,
in 67th year. He marr. (1) 18th Feb. 1783,
Mary (died 1st Feb. 1787), daugh. of James
Arnot, brewer, Canongate, and had issue
Alexander, born 29th Nov. 1783 ; James,
born 4th March 1785, died 21st Nov. 1785 ;
John Arnot, born 1st Feb. 1787 : (2) 26th
Nov. 1792, Mary Mackenzie, who died
15th March 1820, and had issue Kenneth,
born 27th Dec. 1793 ; Andrew Johnstone,
born 16th Sept. 1795 ; Thomas Livingston,
born 30th April 1797 ; William Mackenzie,
born 28th Dec. 1798, died 4th Feb. 1820 ;
Robert, born 30th Oct. 1800; Mary, born
19th March 1802, died young ; James, born
23rd Feb. 1804 ; Charles Ritchie, born 13th
June 1808; May, born 23rd Dec. 1811.
Publications The Effect of Patriotism
on National Conduct, a sermon (Edin
burgh, 1803) ; Account of the Parish
(Sinclair s Stat. Ace., xvii.).
THOMAS DIMMA, born Sprouston
1 ~ 86 English teacher in George
Heriot s Hospital llth Jan. 1808,
Latin and French master 26th Jan. 1809 ;
M.A. (Edinburgh, llth Jan. 1812); licen.
by Presb. of Linlithgow 30th Aug. 1815 ;
pres. by Town Council, and ord. 16th Nov.
1820; died 25th July 1854. He marr.
27th April 1821, Laura (died 1st Dec. 1874),
daugh. of Rob. Grierson, assistant min.,
Inveresk, and had issue George, born
15th Feb. 1822, died 3rd Nov. 1842;
Robert, born 6th July 1823; Thomas,
born 21st April 1826, died at St Helena
19th Jan. 1847 ; Alexander Carlyle Grier
son, born 16th July 1828 ; James Aitchison,
born 15th Aug. 1830; Laura Grierson,
1820
LINLITHGOW]
QUEENSFERRY SLAM ANNAN
227
born 16th Aug. 1832 ; William Grierson,
born 29th April 1835. Publication Ac
count of the Parish (Neiv Stat. Ace., ii.).
[Steven s Mem. of Ileriot.]
WILLIAM LOCKHART, M.A. ; pres.
by the Town Council 31st Oct. 1854 ;
ord. llth Feb. 1855; trans, to Colin-
ton llth Jan. 1861.
1855
1861
THOMAS ANDREWS, born 4th May
1831, son of Robert A., Glasgow ;
educated at Glasgow Univ. ; assistant
at St Matthew s, Glasgow; ord. to St
Luke s, Edinburgh, 19th May 1858 ; pres.
by the Town Council 9th Feb., aclm. 9th
May 1861 ; died 25th May 1870.
1872
JOHN WHYTE, born Girvan 1821, son
of David W. ; educated at Univ. of
Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Ayr
7th Nov. 1849 ; ord. by Presb. of Bathurst
to Brock ville, Canada, 6th Aug. 1851 ; min.
of Arthur, Canada, 1856-68 ; pres. by the
Town Council 6th June 1872 ; adm. 8th
Aug. 1872 ; dep. 26th May 1884 ; died at
Glasgow, 9th Dec. 1893. Marr. (1) 25th
Jan. 1845, Joanna Finlay, who died 20th
Dec. 1866, and had issue Mary Ruth ;
John M Clymont: (2) 30th April 1878,
Robina, daugh. of John Cameron, farmer,
Ardchapple, widow of Captain Harkness,
Greenock.
1884
DAVID MILLER, born Edinburgh, 28th
Nov. 1841, son of James M. and
Elizabeth M Dowell ; educated priv
ately, and at Edinburgh Univ.; M.A. (1864),
LL.B. (London 1866), B.D. (Edinburgh
1867) ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 1864 ;
ord. to Mossgreen 14th May 1868 ; trans,
to Invertiel 19th Nov. 1869 ; trans, to
Mordington 22nd June 1871 ; trans, and
adm. 3rd Dec. 1884 ; died llth April 1897.
He marr. 24th Aug. 1880, Margaret Fender,
daugh. of John Hay, Manderston Mill,
Berwickshire, and had issue Elizabeth
Constance Winifred, born 12th May 1882.
DAVID MELVILLE STEWART ; ord.
28th Sept. 1897; trans, to Inver-
1897 brothock, 20th Feb. 1900.
WILLIAM BOWER WILSON, born
1900 Perth, 26th Sept. 1870, son of James
W., min. of St Leonard s, Perth;
educated at Perth Academy and Univ. of
St Andrews ; M.A. (1892) ; licen. 15th May
1896, by Presb. of Perth; assistant at
Arbroath, and St Enoch s, Dundee ; ord.
19th July 1900. Marr. 5th May 1908,
Mary, daugh. of Robert Stewart, Tullycoll,
Cookstown, Ireland, and has issue Molly
Bower, born 20th Feb. 1910 ; Marion Annie
Marshall, born 26th Feb. 1913.
SLAMANNAN, OR ST LAURENCE.
[Originally part of Falkirk; disjoined
from the Presb. of Stirling, and annexed
to Linlithgow Presb., 8th July 1589.]
RICHARD FLEMING, styled min. 9th
156g Nov. 1565-6 ; exhorter 1566 ; signed
the articles drawn up by the Synod
6th Oct. 1571. [Reg. Min. and Assig.,
Booke of the Kirk, Stirling Presb. and Test.
Reg., Wodrow s Miscell.]
JOHN GIBSON, M.A. ; adm. 2nd Aug.
1602 1602 * rans - to Dalmeny after 10th
March 1605 ; demitted the parson
age and vicarage in 1616. [Edin. Test.
THOMAS AMBROSE, min. of Alva
7 1598-1601, of Larbert 1601-1603;
adm. to Denny 30th May 1603;
trans, and adm. 1st April 1607 ; dep. by
Bishop Gledstanes, the Presb. of Edinburgh,
and Commissioners of the General As
sembly, 6th Dec. 1613, for having " married
the Lord Livingston with the Marquess of
Huntly s dochter," and for baptizing a child
irregularly in the parish of Torphichen ;
reponed by the General Assembly 1614 ;
pres. by Alex., Earl of Linlithgow, in 1616 ;
accused of "setting his teinds" 4th June
1617 ; suspended 13th Feb. 1628, dem. 26th
March following. He marr. Janet Yule,
and had issue Jean. [Falkirk 8ess. Reg.,
Reg. Assig.]
JOHN DRYSDALE, MA. (St Andrews
1628 U517 > adm to Balt l u h idder 24th ^ av
1626 ; trans, and adm. after 9th April
1628 ; suspended 1642, for drunkenness ;
228
SLAM ANNAN
[PEESB. OF
dep. by Presb. 22nd March and ratified
by the Synod 2nd May 1643, for "ane
wyld and ignominious cuckolane and
slanderous ryme, ventit and formed agains
the brethrein." While the case was pend
ing, Janet Baird, his wife, and widow of
Roger Melville, min. of Kirkmichael (Reg.
of Deeds, dxxxvi., 21), prayed for clemency
"to hir husband and hir, whom God has
visited with ane knawin infirmitie, which
she has had for twenty-three years, and
towards their poor children, who as yet
have never been able to win themselves
ane meall of meitt." He craved help for
putting his son apprentice to a chirurgeon
in Edinburgh, 28th July 1647, and received
pecuniary assistance from various kirk-
sessions, 7th Nov. 1643 to 19th Aug.
1647 ; date of death unknown. [Beath,
Carnock, and Dunferml. Sess. Regs. ;
Morrison s Dec., xvii.]
JAMES FORSYTE, M.A. ; pres. by
1644 J ames > -E ar l of Callendar, 10th Oct.
1643; ord. 4th Jan. 1644; trans, to
Larbert and Dunipace 26th Feb. 1645.
[THOMAS THOMSON, probably son
of Thomas T. 5 min. of Hobkirk; adm.
min. to the garrison of the Earl of
Callendar by the Presb. of Glasgow llth
June 1645, and min. of a congregation at
Hartlepool, England ; pres. by James, Earl
of Callendar, Nov. 1645. On account of
violent opposition the settlement was re
ferred to the Synod, who recalled it, 6th
May thereafter ; he died in Edinburgh,
Aug. 1667. [Glasgow Presb. and Edin. Reg.
(Bur.). }
WILLIAM TUEDY [TWEEDIE], of the
1647 Drumelzier family; M.A., regent in
the Univ. of Edinburgh ; pres. by
James, Earl of Callender, 1st Dec. 1646 ;
ord. and inst. 16th April 1647 ; had an Act
of Parliament in his favour 16th Feb. 1649.
Preferring his former position as a teacher,
he returned to the regency 9th Sept. 1657 ;
died in Feb. 1665, aged about 46. He
marr. Jean Turner, who survived him.
[Test, and Canongate Reg. (Bur.); Acts
Parl., vi. ; and MSSJ\
ROBERT SEMPILL, min. of Second
Charge, Lesmahagow, 1648 ; M.A.
(Glasgow, 27th July 1649); joined
the Protesters 1651 ; called (when the
parishioners were much divided among
themselves), trans, and adm. 13th April
1658 ; suspended by Presb. 19th Sept., dep.
28th Nov. 1660. He had sasine of a house
and yard, in the kirktown of Lesmahagow,
9th Aug. 1673. A daugh., Mary, was recom
mended to the Synod for relief Sept. 1695,
and 2nd Feb. 1704, recommended by the
Presb. " to be supplied out of the gift
granted by the late King William of
blessed memory, to Presbyterian ministers
outed from their charges in 1660 and their
children." On 5th Oct. 1709, the Presb.
app. another daugh., Margaret, "now
reduced to great straits in her old age,
the sum of fifteen pund Scots for her
present supply, out of the centesima money
lying in the clerk s hands. 5 \Sasines,
Lanark.]
GEORGE PHIN, schoolmaster of South
1661 Leith 1645; min. of Symington,
Lanarkshire, 17th July 1649; pres.
by Earl of Callendar; adm. 21st Aug.
1661; died 19th Feb. 1689, buried at
Torphichen. He marr. (1) Margaret
Spynie : (2) Susannah Simpson, who sur
vived him, and marr. Duncan Whyte.
A daughter, Helen, was served heir,
18th Aug. 1696. [Torphichen Sess. and
Test. Reg. (Stirl.) ; Inq. Ret. Stirl. 329,
Lanark 429, Linlithg. 250, Fife 1392,
Edin. 1360; Neio Gen. Reg. Sasines,
xvii.]
JAMES STEVENSON, licen. by Presb.
1691 of Glasgow 14tJl ^ ov - 1689 ; called
12th April, and ord. 8th July
1691 ; died 17th Dec. 1708. [Wodrow s
Anal., ii.]
JOHN STEVENSON, son of preceding ;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; licen.
by Presb. of Glasgow 8th Aug. 1700 ;
ord. to Cathcart 8th May 1701 ; called 20th
Feb., trans, and adm. 9th Nov. 1709 ; dem.
28th Aug. 1711 ; dep. 24th Oct. following.
He marr. Isobel Smith.
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WILLIAM HASTIE, M.A. (Edinburgh,
7 IGth June 1703); called 13th Dec.
1715; ord. 19th Sept. 1716. Had
sentence passed against him early in 1720,
for refusing to take the Oath of Abjura
tion ; died llth Nov. 1755, in 84th year.
He marr. Janet Shaw, who died 14th
Sept. 1770. [Tombst.; Edin. Chr. Inst.,
xxx.]
JOHN GRAY, pres. by George II. 27th
Jan. 1756; called 21st April, and
ord. 28th July 1756 ; trans, to Cam-
busnethan 4th April 1 764.
JOHN KNOX, bom 17th May 1727, son
1764 ^ William K., of Ladyland, St
Ninians, and Mary Liddell ; educated
at Glasgow Univ. ; M.A. (1752) ; preacher
at Norristown Chapel-of-Ease 1758-64;
pres. by George III. 23rd May, and ord.
27th Sept. 1764; died 12th June 1787.
[Morrison s Dec., xvii.]
JAMES MACNAIR, born 1759, fourth
1788 son ^ J ames ^-> merchant, Glasgow ;
educated at Glasgow Univ. ; licen.
by Presb. of Glasgow 1st Oct. 1783;
preacher at Shettleston Chapel - of - Ease
same year; pres. by George III. 6th Oct.
1787 ; ord. 10th April 1788 ; died 15th April
1798. He marr. 24th April 1789, Agnes
(died 28th Nov. 1807), eldest daugh. of
Robert M Nair, merchant, Glasgow, and
had issue Robert, D.D., min. of Paisley
Abbey ; Mary, born 4th June 1792 ; James,
born 1st April 1794, died at Mobile, U.S.A.,
3rd Oct. 1823; Agnes, bora 6th March
1797. Publications Set Thine House in
Order, a sermon (Glasgow, 1808) ; Account
of the Parish (Sinclair s Stat. Ace., xiv.).
[Cleland s Ann., i.]
JAMES ROBERTSON, son of James
R. ; educated at Glasgow Univ. ;
licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 22nd
Oct. 1788 ; assistant at St Ninians ; ord.
to Dunfermline Chapel-of-Ease 6th June
1792; pres. by George III. Oct. 1798;
trans, and adm. 18th Jan. 1799 ; died 15th
March 1826, in his 60th year. He marr.
20th April 1820, Janet (died 25th Oct.
1867), daugh. of Matt. Murray, min. of
North Berwick, and had issue James,
born 4th Sept. 1823, died 21st Feb. 1882.
ALEXANDER DAVIDSON, son of
. 0- Thomas D., Falkirk ; educated at
Univ. of Glasgow; licen. by Presb.
of Dunblane 7th Sept. 1802 ; ord. to Gar-
gunnock 10th May 1810; pres. by George
IV., trans, and adm. 5th Sept. 1826 ; died
29th Oct. 1855. He marr. 25th Dec. 1812,
Christian Simson, who died 19th Feb. 1878,
and had issue Anne, born 19th Oct. 1813 ;
Thomas, min. of Abbey St Bathans ; Maria,
born 12th May 1817 (marr. 13th March
1849, William Stevenson, min. of Both-
kennar) ; David, M.D., R.N., born 5th June
1819 ; Alexander, born 5th March 1825,
died 10th June 1842; Margaret, born 17th
Aug. 1827. Publication Account of the
Parish (New Stat. Ace., viii.).
ROBERT STEVENSON HORNE, born
1856 Auchenkiln, Cumbernauld, 27th May
1830, son of George H. and Margaret
Stevenson ; educated at Forfar Grammar
School and Univ. of Glasgow; licen. by
Presb. of Glasgow 1851 ; assistant at Inn-
ellan ; ord. to St David s, Dundee, llth
May 1853 ; pres. by the Crown 10th April,
and adm. 10th July 1856; died 30th
April 1887. Marr. 1st Sept. 1857, Mary
Archibald, daugh. of Thomas Lochhead,
Toward, Innellan, and had issue George,
born llth Nov. 1858, died 16th Dec. 1906;
Elizabeth Scott, born 29th April 1860
(marr. Andrew Lamberton of Blair, Cum-
nock) ; Thomas Lochhead, born 16th July
1862 ; Margaret Stevenson, born 21st March
1864 (marr. J. A. B. Bayly, M.B., C.M.),
died 19th Jan. 1894 ; Mary Ann Burn, born
8th Nov. 1868 (marr. Joshua Ferguson, M.B.,
C.M.) ; Robert Stevenson, advocate, M.A.,
LL.B., K.C., born 28th Feb. 1871 ; Emily,
born 14th Jan. 1873.
WILLIAM HENRY RANKINE. M.A.,
7 B.D. ; ord. 9th Nov. 1887; trans,
to St Boswells 16th July 1891.
ALLAN REID, born Capetown, South
Africa, 26th March 1860, son of
892 Henry Wilson R. and Elizabeth
Sharpe ; educated privately, and at Glasgow
230
SLAMANNAN TORPHICHEN
[PRESB. OF
Univ.; M.A. (1886); licen. by Presb. of
Hamilton 1889 ; assistant at St Matthew s,
Glasgow ; ord. 2nd May 1893. Marr. 15th
June 1893, Jessie Baird Dodds, daugh. of
Neil MacDonald, Glasgow, and has issue
Isobel ; Henry Alan ; Allan ; William
Baird.
TORPHICHEN.
[Previous to the Reformation the church
belonged to the Preceptory of the Knights
Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem.]
THOMAS DUNCANSON, rain.
- _ in 1565 (Acts and Dec., 33, 35,
19, 119).
THOMAS DICKSON, vicar of Tor-
phichen 1567. [Dundonald Inven
tory, Scot. Rec. Soc., 38.]
ROBERT HODGE [HOGG], M.A.,
15*72 brother - german of James H. in
Leith, and of Mungo H. of Nether
Barnton (Reg. Ho. Col., 28th Nov. 1596) ;
exhorter at Dalmeny, Lammas 1569 ;
entered Candlemas 1572, with the manse
and glebe ; trans, to Bathgate before
1574, but re-entered 1585. He repre
sented, 7th July 1613, "that thair was
great profanation of the Sabbath in
his parochyne, at the corn-stack, be
pyping and dancing in gryt multitudes";
died 12th Jan. 1627. He marr. (1)
Agnes Douglas, who died before 9th
March 1591-2 (Edin. Com. Dec.), and had
issue Margaret, alive 1585, died 1630 ;
George, heir to his sister ; Robert (Edin.
Sas., xvi., 349) : (2) Agnes Polwart,
who died 27th June 1595 : (3) Cristine
Clelland, who survived him, and had
issue Agnes; Grisell. [Reg. Min. and
Assig., Test. Reg.]
GEORGE HANNAY, M.A.; ord. be-
1627 tween 19th Sept. and 12th Dec.
1627. Having annoyed those who
were against his settlement, he was beaten
by some of his parishioners 6th May 1637 ;
he retired from the charge, and was
suspended. He petitioned the General
Assembly, 21st Aug. 1639, to restore him.
He was trans, to Alves 12th Nov. 1640.
[Maitland Miscell., ii. ; Baillie s Lett.,
Craufurd s Univ., Elgin Presb. Reg. ; Peter-
kin s Records, Reg. Old Dec.]
THOMAS VASSIE, M.A. (St Andrews
1639 1616) ; on the exercise at Glasgow,
and got a testimonial 12th Nov.
1623 ; adm. in 1639 ; was a member of
the Commissions of Assembly 1646-8 ;
one of the visitors of the College of
Edinburgh 31st July 1649; died Aug.
1661, aged about 65. He marr. (1)
Anna, daugh. of William Livingstone,
min. of Lanark : (2) Margaret Wallace,
who died 20th March 1655, and had
issue Margaret : (3) Oct. 1657, Margaret
or Marion, sister of Capt. William Mon-
teith, in the parish of Falkirk (who
survived him, and marr. James Eskdale
or Erskine in Magdalens, Linlithgow),
and had issue Isobel ; Catherine, died
in 1676. [Act Rect. Univ. St And.;
Glasgow Presb., Falkirk Sess., and Test.
Regs. (Edin., Stirl., and Lanark} ; Acts
of Ass. and Parl., vi.]
GEORGE WILSON, M.A. (St Andrews,
1663 26th July 1649); pres. by Walter,
Lord Torphichen, ord. and coll. 21st
July 1663. In 1677 two men were scourged
for an assault on him. Refusing to take
the Test, he was deprived in 1681. He
marr. Agnes Dundas (Edin. Sas., v., 193),
and had issue Susanna, eldest daugh. (G.
R. Inhib., 17th July 1679). [Act Rect.
Univ. St And., Reg. Collat., Wodrow s
Hist.]
WILLIAM BAIN, M.A. (Edinburgh
1682 1674); inst. 17th May 1682; outed
by the rabble and deserted his
charge April 1689 ; died 6th Aug. 1702, in
his 48th year. He marr. 14th Dec. 1686,
Helen, sister of George Butler of Kirkland,
and had issue John, writer, Edinburgh.
[Edin. Reg. (Marr. and Bur.) ; MS. Ace.
of Min., 1689.]
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231
ALEXANDER HASTIE, M.A. ; adm.
1689 12th Dec. 1689; trans, to Outer
High Kirk Parish, Glasgow, 30th
April 1691. [Wodrow s Hist., ii., iv. ; Acts
Parl., ix. ; Deeds Univ. Glasy., Reg. Gen.
Ass.; E<lin. Chr. Inst., xxv.]
1693
JOHN BOXAB, born 16th June 1671,
son ^ J nn B., fifth Laird of Kil-
graston ; studied at St Leonard s
College ; M.A. (St Andrews, 25th June
1689) ; licen. by Presb. of Linlithgow 15th
June 1692; called 7th Aug. 1692; ord.
2nd March 1693. He refused to take the
Oath of Abjuration in 1712, and was one
of the twelve brethren who presented a
petition to the General Assembly against
an Act of the preceding year relating to
the Marrow of Modern Divinity. He main
tained similar views on patronage with
.those who seceded, while he greatly dis
approved of their separating themselves
from the Church. After being enfeebled
by age from active duty he had himself
regularly carried to the church that he
might join in the services there ; died 7th
Aug. 1747. He marr. (1) 26th Dec. 1693,
Grizell, daugh. of Gilbert Bennet, of Bath,
near Culross, and had issue Margaret,
born 20th Nov. 1694, died 4th Jan. 1698;
John, min. of Fetlar ; Margaret, born 6th
Nov. 1698 (marr. Dr John Tait, Dal-
keith), died 16th Sept. 1745 ; Grizell, born
27th March 1701, died 15th Jan. 1726;
William, born 25th Nov. 1706, died 15th
May 1718 ; Andrew, born 24th June 1708,
merchant and banker, Edinburgh, died 1st
Dec. 1762 ; Ebenezer, born 28th May 1711,
died 29th Nov. 1712 : (2) (pro. 16th March
1735) Margaret, daugh. of Andrew Ewan,
farmer, Galashiels, who was born 27th
Sept. 1670, and survived him only five
days. Publications Sermon prt ached at
Newhouse. (Edinburgh, 1719) ; Letters on
the Duty and Advantage of Religious
Societies (Edinburgh, 1743) ; Letters on the
Revival at Cambuslang (Edinburgh, Chr.
Inst., i.). [Test. Reg. ; Bonar s Serm., ii. ;
Brown s Gosp. Truth ; New Stat. Ace., x. ;
Eraser s Life of R. ErsTcine ; Edin. Chr.
Inst., xxx., and N.S., i. ; Macfarlan s Re
vivals, Family Papers.]
JAMES WATSON, pres. by James, Lord
1751 Torphichen, 2nd Feb. 1748. His
settlement being opposed, the Presb.
referred the case to the Synod ; in the
meantime a committee of their number
conferred with the parishioners, "but all
they could say was to no purpose"; the
Synod sustained the call, which was affirmed
by the Assembly 20th May 1749. When the
Presb. met for ordination on 18th Oct.,
the parishioners "acknowledged they had
nothing to object against the life, con
versation, or doctrine of W., but that he
had not a voice equal to their congrega
tion " ; and farther, " that the whole parish
(a very few excepted) were utterly averse
to submit to his ministry." After hearing
parties the Presb. "seriously exhorted the
people to fall in with W., who in his trials
and by his recommendations had given
great satisfaction to the Presb." Those
in opposition still declared " they could
not submit to his ministry, in regard he
had accepted of a presentation without the
consent and concurrence of almost the whole
parish." Proceedings were delayed and
another committee appointed to commune
with the people, which they did, 24th Jan.
1750, without effect. The case was again
carried to the Synod, and referred to the
Assembly, who appointed the settlement
for the second Thursday of Sept. At a
meeting on the 22nd Aug. so little chance
appeared of their being able to proceed
to settlement, that a third appeal was
made to the Synod, who referred as
before to the Supreme Court, who, 15th
May 1751, censured the Presb. for disobey
ing their authority, and enjoined the Presb.
to proceed with the induction, associating
with them a strong committee for that
purpose. W. was accordingly ord. on 30th
May 1751, and from the evidence of Dr
Pat MacFarlan, this appears to have been
done, under the protection of a military
force the last instance where a settle
ment was made in the Church by what
was termed a "riding committee." W.
was trans, to Mid-Calder 18th Oct. 1759.
[Acts of Ass.; Rep. on Ch. Patronage,
1834 ; Morren s Ann., Stewart s Life of
Robertson, Carlyle s AutobJ\
232
[PRESB. OF
JAMES PATON, licen. by Fresh, of St
17 Andrews 10th May 1758 ; pres. by
Walter, Lord Torphichen, and ord.
28th Aug. 1760 ; died 31st Oct. 1796, in
82nd year. Publication Account of the
Parish (Sinclair s Stat. Ace., iv.).
WILLIAM MEEK, pres. by James,
Lord Torphichen, and ord. 31st
Aug. 1797; D.D. (Glasgow, 10th
June 1802) ; trans, to Hamilton 6th Nov.
1821.
ANDREW BELL, pres. by James,
1822 kord Torphichen, and ord. 28th
March 1822 ; trans, to Linlithgow
20th June 1827.
JAMES SCOTT, pres. by James, Lord
1827 Torphichen, and ord. 27th Sept.
1827 ; trans, to Dalmeny 10th Sept.
1829.
ANDREW KING, M.A., pres. by James,
1830 Lord Torphichen, and ord. 29th April
1830 ; trans, to St Stephen s, Glasgow,
19th Feb. 1836.
WILLIAM MAXWELL HETHERING-
1836 T -^ k rn Tro( l ueer > 4tn June 1803 >
in early life a gardener; entered
the Univ. of Edinburgh in 1822 ; M.A. (30th
March 1826); licen. by Presb. of Linlith
gow 27th Oct. 1830 ; pres. by James, Lord
Torphichen, and ord. 28th April 1836.
Joined the Free Church ; min. of the Free
Church at St Andrews 21st Feb. 1844;
LL.D. (U.S.A.) ; adm. to Free St Paul s,
Edinburgh, 1848; D.D. (1855); Professor
of Exegetical Theology in the Free Col
lege, Glasgow, 29th Oct. 1857; died 23rd
May 1865. He marr. 1st June 1836, Jessie
(died 2nd Sept. 1871), daugh. of William
Meek, D.D., Hamilton, and had issue
William Meek Maxwell, born llth July
1843; Thomas Chalmers, born 15th Sept.
1847. Publications Twelve Dramatic
Sketches founded on the Pastoral Poetry
of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1829); The Fid-
ness of Time (London, 1834) ; The Minister s
Family (Edinburgh, 1838); Thoughts on
the Connection between Church and State
(Edinburgh, 1840) ; History of the Church
of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1841, and various
1843
editions) ; The History of the Westminster
Assembly (1843) ; The History of Rome
(1849) ; The Harmony existing between
Christianity and True Science; The Anti-
Christian System ; National Education in
Scotland ; Poems on Various Subjects (Edin
burgh, 1851) ; Toleration, or the Principles
of Religious Liberty (Edinburgh, 1854) ;
Account of the Parish (Neiv Stat. Ace., ii.),
Lecture V. (on the Social Condition of
the People), and XI. (to Young Men, ii.) ;
Authoritative Exposition of the Principles
of the Free Church ; edited Practical Works
of the Rev. John Willison ; founder and
editor of Free Church Magazine. [Conolly s
Fifiana, Diet. Nat. BiogJ]
WILLIAM BRANKS, born Old Monk-
land, 8th Aug. 1813, son of William
B., farmer, and Jane Rankin ; edu
cated at Glasgow Univ.; M.A. (1835);
licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 1840; ord.
1st Oct. 1841 to Camelon Chapel-of-Ease ;
pres. by James, Lord Torphichen, Aug.
1843; adm. 15th Sept. 1843; died 16th
Feb. 1879. Marr. 22nd Jan. 1850, Jane
(died 27th Nov. 1890), daugh. of David
Rankin, Glasgow, and had issue Jane
Rankin ; Helen Eliza Gillon ; Wilhelmina ;
Ann Janet ; Anna Maria ; Jemima ;
Georgina. Publications Zioris King
(Edinburgh, 1859) ; Heaven our Home
(Edinburgh, 1861, and many editions) ;
Meet for Heaven (Edinburgh, 1862) ;
Life in Heaven (Edinburgh, 1863) ;
Tabor s Teaching (Edinburgh, 1865) all
anonymous.
JOHN M KERLIE JOHNSTONS, born
30th July 1847, son of Michael J.,
D.D., min. of Minnigaff ; educated at
Edinburgh Univ. ; M.A. (1868), B.D. (1871) ;
licen. by Presb. of Wigtown 1871 ; ord. 17th
July 1879 ; died unmarr. 25th Aug. 1897.
GEORGE BEALE, born Haddington,
1898 17th Nov. 1861, son of David B. and
Georgina Maclachlan ; educated at
Haddington, Church of Scotland Training
College, and Edinburgh Univ. ; M.A. (1888) ;
schoolmaster of Scalloway, 1888-90; licen.
by Presb. of Edinburgh 15th May 1893;
assistant at Clydebank, and Dean, Edin-
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TORPHICHEN UPHALL
233
burgh; ord. 10th Feb. 1898. Marr. 17th
Aug. 1889, Jessie Millar, claugh. of James
Lowe, M.A., min. of Thornton, and has
issue May Alexina Bayne, born 8th May
1890 ; William Henry Gray, born 24th Jan.
1902.
UPHALL, FORMERLY STRATH-
BROCK.
[The church, dedicated to St Nicholas,
was a prebend bt-longing to the Provostry
of Kirkheugh.]
MICHAEL SMITH, adm. 1562. The
1562 General Assembly, 30th June 1562,
ordained the Superintendent of
Lothian to summon him to purge himself
of certain crimes of which he was accused.
[Ftooke of the Kirk, Keith s Hist.]
THOMAS DOUGLAS, adm. May 1570;
157 trans, to Dalkeith about 1573.
[Reg. Min. Colleg. Ch., Mid-Lothian.]
THOMAS MOWBRAY, adm. 1585;
15Q5 dep. 8th Oct. 1590. [Reg. Assig.,
Edin. Fresh. Reg.]
PATRICK SHAIRP, son of Sir John S.
of Houston, advocate ; one of the
original students in the Univ. of
Edinburgh ; attained his degree of M.A.
at the first graduation (9th Aug. 1587);
died probably in 1597. He marr. Jean
Gudlad (the daugh. or granddaugh. of
Walter Gudlad, vicar of Strathbrock),
who afterwards marr. her husband s suc
cessor, and had issue Agnes, his only
surviving child in 1611 (marr. (1) after
29th April 1612, Alexander Somerville
of Humbie (Reg. of Deeds, ccvii, 259),
(2) James Laing, min. of Kirknewton).
[Reg. Assig., Edin. and Stirl. Fresh.
Regs.]
ALEXANDER KEITH, M.A. (Edin-
1598 burgh, 28th July 1596); adm. 19th
Sept. 1598 ; member of the Glasgow
Assembly 1610 ; adhered to the protesta
tion for the liberties of the Kirk, 27th
June 1617 ; still min. in 1633, when his
name disappears from the Presb. Record.
He marr. Jean Gudlad, widow of preced
ing, and had issue Robert ; Alexander,
his successor; Jean. [Reg. Assig., Presb.,
E/fin. Presb. ; Booke of the Kirk ; Orig.
Lett., ii. ; Calderwood s Hist. ; Morrison s
Dec., xvii.]
ALEXANDER KEITH, son of pre-
1639 ceding ; M.A. (Edinburgh, 26th July
1634) ; adm. previous to 16th Aug.
1639 ; dep. 21st July 1649 ; reponed by the
Synod 8th May 1656; had 100 ster.
allowed by Parliament 12th July 1661, on
account of his sufferings. He marr. (1)
19th May 1640, Margaret (daugh. of James
Monteath of Kersebank), and had issue
Katherine ; Louis ; Jean ; Margaret.
[Falkirk Sess. Reg. ; Peterkin s Rec. ;
Acts of Ass. and Farl., vii.]
WILLIAM DEWCATS [DUGUID],
1655 M.A. He intruded himself, 27th
March 1655, " over the bodie of the
people," without any call or legal admis
sion. [Afterwards min. of Dolphinton.]
[Presb. (Protesting) Reg.]
JOHN MOUBRAY, M.A. (Edinburgh,
15th April 1645) ; licen. by Presb. of
Haddington 30th Nov. 1653 ; chap
lain to the Laird of Kirkhill ; called 7th
March and 30th June 1658 ; ord. 9th Nov.
1659 ; coll. 10th Oct. 1662 ; outed by the
rabble before 13th April 1689; dem. 6th
Aug. 1690 ; went to England, where he
obtained a living. He marr. 20th Feb.
1662, Julia Campbell, and had issue
Helen and Margaret (twins) ; John ;
William ; Catherine ; Elizabeth. [Reg.
Collat.; MS. Ace. of Min., 1689; Rule s
Sec. ( Vindication).]
GEORGE BARCLAY, educated at
1690 College, St Andrews ; called to this
charge 10th Aug., and adm. 30th
Sept. 1690 ; was a member of the As
semblies 1690, 1692 ; died 29th July 1714.
He marr. Christian Fairfoul (Edinburgh
Sas., li., 6). [Reg. Gen. Ass.; Peterkin s
Constitution of the Church; Wodrow s
Anal., i., Corresp., i.]
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UPHALL
[PRESB. OF
JOHN WILKIE, son of John W., mer-
chant, Edinburgh, of the family of
Rathobyres ; M.A. (Edinburgh 1699) ;
licen. by Presb. of Linlithgow 20th June
1705; ord. (colleague) 28th Aug. 1706;
pres. to Currie 1718, and to Second
Charge, Dumfries, 1731, but declined both ;
died 28th May 1762. He marr. Euphan
Skene, who died before April 1759, and
had issue Charles, min. of Ecclesmachan ;
Henrietta. Publication Sermon jyreached
at Mid-Colder (Edinburgh, 1720). [Aber-
corn Sess. Reg., Law s Mem. (Pref.).]
WILLIAM GIB, licen. by Presb. of
1768 Kirkcaldy 19th Aug. 1756; ord. to
Kilmany 24th Sept. 1761 ; pres. by
Henry David, Earl of Buchan, trans, and
aclm. 2.7th Oct. 1763; died 3rd Dec. 1795,
aged 62. He marr. 23rd Nov. 1795 (ten
days before his death), Elizabeth Rentoul
of Middleton, who died 14th May 1809.
[Scots Mag., Ivii.]
DAVID URE, son of Patrick U., a
1796 weaver * n Glasgow, at which trade
he himself wrought in earlier life ;
educated at the Grammar School and Univ.
of his native city ; M.A. (1776). During
his divinity curriculum he assisted the
schoolmaster of Stewarton, and subse
quently taught a subscription school near
Dumbarton ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow
llth June 1783, he became assistant at
East Kilbride, with only ten pounds a
year and his maintenance. On the death
of the min. he had some expectation of
being appointed his successor, but finding
the parish not unanimous, he accepted the
post of assistant in a Presbyterian church
at Newcastle 1798. He was employed by
Sir John Sinclair to draw up agricultural
surveys of the counties of Dumbarton,
Kinross, and Roxburgh. He superin
tended the publication of the concluding
volumes of the first issue of the Statistical
Account of Scotland, and prepared the
general indices of the work. Appreciating
his meritorious services, David Stuart, Earl
of Buchan, pres. him to this charge ; he
was ord. 14th July 1796, and died unmarr.
28th March 1798. Blessed with a strong
and vigorous mind, which adversity could
neither subdue, nor prosperity elate, he
persevered in the objects on which he
had set his heart, whether of classical or
scientific research, with unconquerable
ardour. His usual method of travel was
on foot, a supply of bread and cheese in
his pocket, and quenching his thirst at
the limpid spring. In the pocket of his
greatcoat he secured such minerals or other
curiosities as attracted his notice, had a
tin box for preserving curious plants, a
stout stick, armed with steel, which occa
sionally served as a spade or pick-axe ; a
few small chisels, and other tools ; a blow
pipe ; a small liquid chemical apparatus ;
optical instruments, etc., so that others
sometimes referred to him as a walking
shop or laboratory. Seemingly indifferent
to all weathers, heat or cold, wet or dry,
he was a patient observer, and an accurate
describer of Nature ; while his kindness to
an aged and widowed mother, from very
slender means, bespoke the warmth of his
affection and the goodness of his heart.
Publications History of Rutherglen and
East Kilbride (Glasgow, 1793); Accounts
of East Kilbride, of Rutherglen, and
Killearn (Sinclair s Stat. Ace., iii., ix., xvi.).
[Scots Mag., Ixx. ; Tombst,, Diet. Nat.
iog.]
JOHN FERGUSON (primus), son of
1798 Jh n F., Dunblane; educated at
Univ. of Glasgow ; schoolmaster of
Inveraray ; licen. by that Presb. Sept.
1785; ord. by them as chaplain to the
74th Foot, 19th Feb. 1788 ; pres. by David
Stuart, Earl of Buchan, and adm. 28th
Sept. 1798 ; died 14th Dec. 1835, in 77th
year. He marr. Enea Fisher, who died 1st
Dec. 1858, in her 88th year, and had issue
Jessie, born 2nd Oct. 1795 ; Archibald,
born 19th Sept. 1798 ; Angus Fisher, born
23rd July 1799, died 28th June 1817 ; John,
his successor ; Duncan Campbell, born 8th
Sept. 1802 ; William, born 8th June 1804 ;
Lilias, born 24th May 1807 ; Matilda, bora
12th Feb. 1811.
JOHN FERGUSON (secundus), born
1824 2nc ^ April 1801j son of preceding;
educated at the Univ. of Edinburgh ;
licen. by Presb. of Linlithgow 24th Sept.
LINLITHGOW]
ITPHALL WHITBURN
235
1823; pres. by David Stuart, Earl of
Buchan ; ord. (assistant and successor) 29th
April 1824 ; dep. 19th June 1838 ; went to
Australia, where he engaged in agriculture,
and died 28th June 1873.
GEORGE BOAG, born Glasgow, 2nd
March 1799, son of William B. and
Agnes Hamilton ; educated at Glas
gow Univ. ; licen. by Presb. of Chirnside ;
ord. by Presb. of Northumberland to the
Scottish Church at Widdrington ; pres. by
Henry, Earl of Buchan, June 1839, and adm.
2nd Aug. 1839; died 3rd Feb. 1863. He
marr. 4th June 1833, Eleanor Goldie, died
14th Sept. 1872, and had issue William
Goldie, min. of Belting, born 15th Oct.
1834; John George, born llth June 1837,
died 29th May 1842; Ann Leithead, born
16th July 1839, died unmarr. ; Agnes
Hamilton, born 1st March 1842, died
unmarr.; George, born 16th July 1844;
Eleanor Goldie, born 23rd Jan. 1847;
James, born 23rd Aug. 1849, died 1st
June 1908.
WILLIAM JOHNSTON, born Edin-
1863 burgh, 29th May 1832 ; son of William
J., English master and chaplain,
Merchant Maidens Institution, Edinburgh ;
educated at High School and Univ., Edin
burgh ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 29th
July 1858 ; assistant at Lesmahagow and
Lady Tester s, Edinburgh ; pres. by David,
Earl of Buchan, 5th March 1863 ; ord. 24th
July 1863 ; chaplain to the volunteers for
upwards of forty years ; received volunteer
decoration from Queen Victoria ; died 8th
May 1912. He marr. 23rd Jan. 1872, Eliza,
only daugh. of William Arbuckle, farmer,
Wyndford, West Lothian.
CHARLES DUNN, born 1st May 1874,
son of Peter D. and Elspeth Strachan ;
educated at Grammar School and
Univs. of Aberdeen and Berlin ; M.A.
(Aberdeen 1895), B.D. (Aberdeen 1898);
licen. by Presb. of Alford 1900; assistant
at St Mary s, Dundee, and West Parish,
Aberdeen ; ord. to Arbuthnot 2nd July
1903; trans, to Uphall 24th Sept. 1912.
He marr. 6th June 1911, Jean, daugh. of
William Munro.
WHITBURN.
[The church was opened 21st Oct. 1718.
Parish disjoined from Livingston, and
erected by the Commissioners of Teinds,
23rd June 1731.]
ALEXANDER WARDROBE, son of
David W., of Colt, Livingstone;
educated at Edinburgh Univ. ; licen.
by Presb. of Forres 13th March 1721 ; ord.
to Muckhart 7th April 1725 ; pres. by Sir
James Cunninghame of Milncraig ; trans,
and adm. 2nd March 1732 ; died 13th June
1759, in his 66th year. He marr. Julia
(died 8th July 1785), eldest daugh. of Sam
Telfer, min. of Kirkintilloch, and had issue
David ; Barbara ; Julian ; Mary ; Henry ;
Quintin, all above 21 years of age in April
1759. [Brown s Gosp. Truth., Diary of
Alexander Johnstone of Kirkland.]
WILLIAM PORTEOUS, pres. by Lady
Mary Cunninghame Nov. 1759; ord.
10th June 1760; trans, to Wynd
Church, Glasgow, 28th June 1770. [Con-
nell s Par. Laiv ; Neiv Stat. Ace., ii.]
WILLIAM BARRON, eldest son of
John B., Glasgow; educated at
Univ. of Glasgow; licen. by Presb.
of Edinburgh 28th April 1762; ord. to
Wamphray 10th Feb. 1763 ; pres. by Sir
William Ciinninghame of Livingston ;
trans, and adm. 25th April 1771 ; adm.
Professor of Logic in the Univ. of St
Andrews 2nd Dec. 1778; died 28th Dec.
1803. He marr. 2nd Nov. 1782, Margaret
Stark, and had issue Thomas, born 28th
Oct. 1783; Helen, born 26th Jan. 1785;
John, born 27th May 1786; Ann, born
25th Nov. 1787, died 10th Aug. 1789;
Elizabeth, born 1st May 1790; Maria
Catherine, born 2nd Aug. 1793, died
16th June 1794 ; James, born 24th Jan.
1795, died 7th Sept. 1795. Publications
An Essay on the Mechanical Principles
of the Plough (Edinburgh, 1774) ; Histori/
of the Colonization of the Free States
of Antiquity (London, 1777, anon.); His
tory of the Political Connexion between
England and Ireland from the Reign of
Henry II. to the Present Time (London,
236
WHITBURN
[PRESB. OF
1780, anon.); Lectures on Bdlcs-Lettrcs
and Logic, 2 vols. (London, 1856).
JAMES SOMERVILLE, pres. by Sir
William Augustus Cunninghame,
and adm. 18th Nov. 1779 ; trans.
to Stirling, Second Charge, 8th Oct.
1789. [Sermons, Steven s Scottish Ch.
Rotterd.]
JAMES RHIND, licen. by Presb. of
1790 Dunbar 4th Oct. 1786; pres. by Sir
William A. Cunninghame, and ord.
9th Sept. 1790; died 26th Aug. 1808. He
marr. 1st Nov. 1793, Helen Burn, who died
25th June 1847, and had issue Janet, born
10th Sept. 1794 (marr. 1st Nov. 1825, John
Sinclair Cunningham, manager, Commercial
Bank of Scotland) ; Susan, born 4th March
1796 ; Robert Hunter, born 13th Sept. 1797;
William and Elizabeth, born 16th Oct.
1799 ; John, born 8th May 1801, died 26th
June 1803 ; Jane, born 12th Jan. 1804 ;
John, born 4th Sept. 1805 ; Agnes, born
8th Oct. 1807.
JAMES WATSON, born Spynie; edu
cated at King s College, Aberdeen ;
M.A. (1774); schoolmaster of Mort-
lach, 1773-85; licen. by Presb. of Strath-
bogie 2nd Dec. 1778 ; having the prospect
of a settlement in England, he was ord. by
the same Presb. 16th Nov. 1785 ; adm. to
South Ronaldshay 8th April 1786 ; pres.
by Thomas Gordon, trans, and adm. 13th
July 1809; died at Edinburgh, 28th May
1823, while attending the General Assembly,
in which he had spoken that day. Publica
tion Sermon after the Death of the Hon.
William Jkiillie of Polkemmet (Edinburgh,
1816).
GRAHAM MITCHELL, son of Alex.
1824 ^ ) exam ^ ner f Excise, Edinburgh ;
educated at the High School and
Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (19th April
1822); licen. by Presb. of Haddington
1st July following ; assistant accountant
in the General Excise Office from 8th
Jan. 1813 till his ordination; pres. by
Sir William Baillie of Pol kern met, Bart.,
in Oct. 1823 ; ord. 15th April 1824 ; LL.D.
(Glasgow, 17th April 1848) ; died 25th Sept.
1869. He marr. 8th April 1828, Catherine
(died 12th June 1864), daugh. of the Rev.
John Webster, of St Peter s Chapel, Edin
burgh, and had issue Graham Alexander,
born 9th April 1832 ; William James, born
14th April 1834. Publications The Young
Mean s Guide against Infidelity (Edinburgh,
1848); Account of the Parish (Neiv Stat.
Ace., ii.). [Steven s High School, etc.]
JOHN WATT, M.A.; pres. by Sir
1869 "WiNi am Baillie, Bart., 25th Sept.
1869 ; ord. (assistant and successor)
19th Dec. 1869; trans, to Anderston,
Glasgow, 30th Dec. 1875.
JOHN ALEXANDER IRELAND ; ord.
1876 llth May 1876 ; trans, to Gartsherrie
27th Aug. 1891.
JAMES CRAIG, born 1st July 1863;
1892 educated at Glasgow Univ. ; M.A.
(1885), B.D. (1888); ord. 10th Feb.
1892 ; res. 10th Feb. 1898, to go to South
Africa, where he was adm. min. at Bloem-
fontein.
JAMES LITTLE BUCHANAN, born
1898 Ireland, 26th Nov. 1872, son of Rev.
A. C. B. ; educated at Royal Univ.
of Ireland and Edinburgh Univ. ; B.D.
(1897), LL.B. (1901); licen. by Presb. of
Edinburgh May 1897 ; ord. 19th July 1898 ;
res. 1st Oct. 1909; took orders in the
Church of England ; assistant priest of St
Gabriel s, London, 1913. Marr. 18th Aug.
1898, Jessie, daugh. of James Bristow
Young, and has issue Angus Morogh ;
Brian Urquhart ; Sheena Doreen ; Matilda
Grace. Publication The Christ World
(London, 1913).
THOMAS OGILVY DUNCAN, M.A. ;
1910 trans, from Kintore, and adm. 10th
March 1910 ; trans, to Athelstane-
ford 16th May 1912.
ROBERT BRUCE MACKINNON,
1912 k rn Glasgow, 18th Sept. 1878,
eldest son of Robert Alexander M.,
schoolmaster, Loanhead ; educated at
Lasswade School and Univ. of Edinburgh ;
M.A. (1902), B.D. (1905) ; licen. by Presb.
LTNLITHGOW]
AVHITBURN WINCIIBURGH
237
of Dalkeith 1905 ; assistant at St Paul s
(Leith), Tolbooth (Edinburgh), and North
Leith ; ord. to Cartsburn, Greenock, 15th
April 1909 ; trans, and adm. 26th Sept. 1912.
Marr. 2nd Sept. 1909, Elizabeth Matthew,
M.A., daugh. of Andrew Gray, Bonnyrigg,
and has issue llobert Alexander Bruce,
born 26th Sept. 1910.
WLNCHBURGH
[Disjoined from Kirkliston and Dalmeny,
and erected into a parish quoad sacra by
decreet of Court of Teinds, 27th May 1904.
Church built in 1891.]
1892
GEORGE FULLERTON, born Hoard-
weel, Berwickshire, 17th July 1862,
son of Robert F. and Isabella
Cockburn ; educated at Oldhamstocks
School, Duns Academy, and Univ. of Edin
burgh ; M.A. (1886); licen. by Presb. of
Duns 1886; app. to Winchburgh Mission,
and ord. July 1892 ; died unmarr. 7th June
1897.
HUGH ARMSTRONG, born Glasgow,
19(H 25th July 1864; son of Hugh A.
and Isabella M Cubbin ; certificated
teacher under Glasgow School Board ; edu
cated at Glasgow Univ. ; M.A. (1887), B.D.
(1890); licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 1890;
ord. by Presb. of Linlithgow to Winchburgh
Chapel-of-Ease 27th Oct. 1897; clerk of
Presb. 1912. Marr. 13th June 1899,
Margaret Johnston (died 7th July
1912), daugh. of George Allan Smith, and
had issue Margaret Sybil Ross, born 28th
March 1900. Publications Unto the
Perfect (Glasgow, 1895) ; Linlithgow Choir
Union, its Aims, etc. (Falkirk, 1909).
[Name of Parish unknown.]
ROBERT COLVILL, "one of the Com
missioners appointed by the Secret
Council for the maintenance of true
religion within the Sheriffdom of Lin
lithgow/ He was at Culross in 1593, and
in August 1607. [Booke of the Kirk, Lin-
lithgoiv Co. Sas.~\
1589
PRESBYTERY OF BIGGAR
[Disjoined from the Presbs. of Lanark and Peebles and erected by the General
Assembly, 12th Aug. 1643 and 3rd June 1644. It was not acknowledged under
Episcopacy, the parishes being subject to their former judicatories during that period.
The Records begin 26th June 1644, the only blanks being from 23rd Oct. 1650 to 10th
May 1660, and from 16th Jan. 1662 to 22nd March 1688.]
BIGGAR.
[The church, dedicated to the Virgin
Mary, was made collegiate by Malcolm,
Lord Fleming, 10th Jan. 1545.]
1567 WILLIAM MILLAR, reader.
1571 WILLIAM HAMILTON, reader.
1573 DAVID MAKKIE, reader.
NINIAN HALL, trans, from Inver-
gowrie, and adm. 1573 ; Lamington,
Hartside, Coulter, Kilbucho, Sym
ington, and Thankerton were also under
his care. [Reg. Assig., Wodroiv Mtscell.]
WALTER HALDEN, min. in 1576;
trans, to Wiston 1586 or 1588.
[Reg. Assig., Booke of the Kirk, Test.
1576
1586 JOHN PETILLOCH, reader.
1586
ALEXANDER SPITTAL, M.A. ; on the
exercise at Edinburgh 3rd Dec. 1586,
and adm. same month ; trans, to
Libberton 1590. [Act. Rect. Univ. 8t And.,
Reg. Assig., Edin. Presb. Reg.]
[There is no trace of a min. for nine
years in the Presb. Record.]
1599
THOMAS CAMPBELL, M.A. (Glasgow
1589); min. of Coulter 1596; trans,
and adm. 1599 ; died between 6th
May 1646 and 24th April 1655, leaving a
son, Thomas, M.A., at Snafield in England,
who was served heir at the latter date.
[Reg. Assig., Test. Reg. (Lan.) ; Inq. Ret.
Gen., 4011 ; Hunter s Biggar. }
1605
[WILLIAM FLEMING is mentioned as
"parson and vicar of Biggar" in
1605, and JAMES DUNCAN, prebend
ary, in 1616 ( Wigtown Inventory, Scot. Rec.
Soc., Nos. 383 and 602).]
ALEXANDER LIVINGSTON, probably
1647 cous ^ n f Alexander L., min. of
Colinton; M.A. (? Glasgow 1633);
chaplain to Sir John Auchmutie of
Scougall and Aldhame, and tutor to his
son ; adm. min. of Carmichael 3rd June
1639 ; pres. by John, Earl of Wigtown, and
trans, and adm. (assistant and successor)
3rd Feb. 1647 ; member of the Commissions
of Assembly 1647, 1648 ; with most of his
co-presbyters he joined the Protesters in
1651 ; was nominated by the Protector one
of those in the provinces of Lothian, Merse,
and Teviotdale, for visiting the Universities,
and authorising "godly and able men "to
enjoy their livings, 17th Oct. 1655; sus
pended, May 1661, for joining the Pro
testers; called before the Privy Council
23rd July 1661 ; confined in Edinburgh, and
ordered to wait on Alexander, Archbishop
of Glasgow, and give satisfaction as to
his behaviour and carriage. There is no
mention of him after 1662. He marr. Helen
Ramsay, who died June 1692, and had issue
Robert, min. of Libberton and of Biggar ;
and a daugh. (marr. John Greig, min. of
238
PRESB. OF BIGGAR]
BIGGAR
239
Skirling). [Lanark and Syn. (Jedburgh
Presb.), Edin. (Bur.) and Test. Reg. (Lan.);
Acts of Ass. and Part., vii. ; "Wodrow s
Hist., Nicoll s Diary. ]
RICHARD BROWN, M.A. ; trans, from
Blantyre, and adm. 1665 ; trans, to
Dumfries Aug. 1685. [Test. Reg.
(Lanark).]
1665
JOHN REID, M.A. (St Andrews, 13th
1685 April 1626) ; min. of Walston 1678 ;
trans, and inst. 23rd Dec. 1685 ;
continued 2nd May 1688, but soon after
wards outed by the rabble. It is highly
probable that he became min. of Loch-
rutton 2nd Dec. 1690; died 2nd Jan. 1727.
His first wife was an Inglis, by whom he
had a daugh., Helen. He marr. (2) April
1692, Catherine, daugh. of Thomas Rome
of Cluden. [J/tf. Ace. of Min., 1689.]
1692
WILLIAM JACK [JACQUE], a min.
* n I re l an d) compelled to fly to
Scotland in 1689 (P. G. Ada, 28th
June 1692) ; formerly min. at Clapham,
London ; called Dec. 1691 ; adm. 28th
April 1692 ; trans, to Kelso 24th Jan.
1695.
1696
ROBERT LIVINGSTON, son of Alex
ander L., min. in 1647 ; M.A. (Edin
burgh 1671) ; ord. to Libberton 26th
June 1689; called 29th Oct. 1695; trans,
and adm. 8th April 1696 ; died 10th May
1733, aged about 82. Marr. Mary Rae
(Lanark Sas., xii., 222). [Wodrow s Anal.,
iii.]
ROBERT JACK, M.A. ; ord. (colleague
and successor) 27th Oct. 1732 ; trans.
1732
to Carnwath 27th June 1749.
[WILLIAM HAIG, pres. by the Earl
of Wigtown s Trustees 28th and 30th
Nov. 1749; called 10th April 1751. The
parishioners almost unanimously opposed
his settlement, and after long-protracted
proceedings in the Church Courts, he was
induced to withdraw all claim to the
incumbency. An exchange was effected
between him and John Johnston, chaplain
of Edinburgh Castle, where he was adm.
13th Sept. 1754. Hunter s Biggar ; Scots
Mag., xiv.-xvi.]
JOHN JOHNSTON, M.A. (Edinburgh,
1754 27th April 1742) ; licen. by Presb. of
Edinburgh 31st Dec. 1746; ord. to
Edinburgh Castle 10th May 1751 ; pres. by
the Wigtown Trustees ; trans, and adm.
26th Sept. 1754; died 15th Oct. 1778.
He marr. 8th Aug. 1745, Elizabeth (died
at Edinburgh, 26th Oct. 1805), daugh. of
Capt. Dan. Vere of Stonebyres, and had
issue Helen, born 1st July 1746 ; Spence,
born 14th Jan. 1748 ; Helen, born 31st July
1756; William, born 6th March 1760;
John and Charles, born 31st Dec. 1763 ;
Margaret Anne, born 16th April 1767 ;
Richard, born 20th June 1770. [Scots
Mag., xvi. ; Morren s Ann.]
ROBERT PEARSON, pres. by Lady
Clementina Fleming, and Charles,
Lord Elphinstone, her husband, in
March 1779. The call was unsigned, and
there was vigorous objection. The Presb.
referred the matter to the Assembly, who,
30th May 1780, upheld the presentation by
a majority of 85 to 77. P. was ord. 28th
Sept. following, under protection of the
military, two members of Presb. declining
to take part. This forcible obtrusion led
to the formation of a Relief congrega
tion in Biggar. He died unmarr., 1st
Aug. 1787. [Hunter s Biggar ; Xcots Mag.,
xlii.]
WILLIAM WATSON, educated at Univ.
of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of
Biggar 26th Sept. 1775 ; pres. by
Dowager Lady Clementina Elphinstone,
20th Aug., and ord. 23rd Nov. 1787 ; died
31st Oct. 1822, in his 73rd year. He
marr. 17th March 1788, Janet (died 22nd
March 1804, aged 48), daugh. of Will.
Forrester, min. of Carstairs, and had issue
Mary, born 9th Jan. 1789, died 29th
March 1805 ; Isabella, born 18th July 1790,
died 7th Sept. 1791 ; Gillespie, born 27th
Sept. 1792 ; Thomas, min. of Covington ;
William, born 16th Sept. 1796, died 17th
March 1818; Janet, born 22nd Sept. 1798
(marr. Walter Somerville, surgeon, Carn
wath). Publication Account of the Parish
240
BIGGAR BROUGHTON
[PKESB. OF
(Sinclair s Stat. Ace., i.). [Innes s Mem. of
Thomas Thomson.]
JOHN CHRISTISON, born Cumber-
1823 nau ^> 8t h J une 1800, son of James C.
and Ann Haig; educated at Edin
burgh Univ., where his uncle, Alexander
Christison, was Professor of Humanity ;
M.A. (1st April 1819); licen. by Presb. of
Chirnside 24th April 1823 ; pres. by Vice-
admiral the Hon. Chas. Fleming, same
month, and ord. 18th Sept. 1823 ; clerk
of Presb. 1839 ; clerk of Synod 14th Nov.
1843; D.D. (Edinburgh 1874): died 20th
June 1875. He marr. 3rd April 1827,
Ramsay Hannay (born 21st May 1807, died
18th June 1861), daugh. of David M Lellan,
merchant, Kirkcudbright, and Catherine
Hannay, and had issue Mary, born 18th
Feb. 1826, died 3rd Jan. 1886 ; Catherine,
born 1829 (marr. John Hunter, school
master, Edinburgh) ; Ann Hay, born 1830,
(marr. Thomas Oliphant, schoolmaster,
Edinburgh), died 1891 ; Ramsay Hannay,
born 19th Jan. 1832 (marr. Matthew Arm
strong, min. of Skirling); James, born 15th
Nov. 1834, died 18th Dec. 1836 ; James, born
1837 ; Melville, born 1838, died 15th March
1893 (marr. Samuel Smith, M.P.); David
Alexander M Lellan, born 7th March 1840,
died 21st Oct. 1861; William Hannay
M Lellan, born 14th March 1842, died in
Demerara, Aug. 1867 ; John William, civil
engineer, born 14th July 1843, died in
India, 7th Sept. 1878 ; Charles, born 18th
Jan. 1847, died 28th April 1887; Joan
Francis Sophia, born 18th Jan. 1847,
died 8th July 1859. Publication Ac
count of the Parish (New Stat. Ace., vi.).
[Memorials (privately printed, Edin.,
1875).]
WILLIAM NEWBIGGING, born
Thornyhill, Carmichael, 1836, son
1 of James N. and Jane Ballantyne;
educated at Pettinain School and Edin
burgh Univ.; M.A. (1864); B.D. (1866);
licen. by Presb. of Lanark ; assistant at
Glencairn, Moffat, Tynron, Eastwood ; ord.
(assistant and successor) 9th Oct. 1874 ;
died 26th April 1884. He marr. 14th
March 1876, Sarah, daugh. of Robert
Wilson, min. of Tynron.
1 8R4-
WILLIAM GRANT DUNCAN, born
Clova, Forfarshire, 20th Jan. 1855,
son of Thomas D., farmer, Newbig-
ging, and Jean Low ; educated at Braemin-
zion School, Cortachy, Anderson s College,
Glasgow, and Glasgow Univ. ; M.A. (1880),
B.D. (1883); licen. by Presb. of Meigle
9th May 1883 ; assistant at Strathmiglo
and Newington ; ord. 25th Sept. 1884.
Marr. 16th June 1886, Ann Williamson,
daugh. of Robert Matthew, Strathmiglo,
and Catherine Brown, and has issue Nor
man Thomas, quartermaster of Samana
Rifles, India, born 23rd April 1887 ; Arthur
Robert, Canadian Bank of Commerce, born
14th Jan. 1889; Catherine Matthew, born
3rd Nov. 1890 ; Jean Ogilvy, born 3rd April
1893 ; William Ogilvy, born 25th Dec. 1895 ;
Ann Williamson, born 25th June 1900;
Edward Grant, born 26th April 1902 ;
Angus Wellesley, born 18th June 1908.
Publication Guide to Biggar (Biggar, 1900).
BROUGHTON.
[The church was dedicated to St Muir-
each. Glenholm and Kilbucho were
annexed by the Court of Teinds, 28th
May 1794.]
WALTER TUEDY [TWEEDIE], of
the Drumelzier family, exhorter at
Broughton and Dawyck in 1567 ;
pres. to the vicarage of Walston 20th May
1567 ; reader at Glenholm and Broughton
in 1574 ; Kilbucho was also under his
charge. Continued 1591. [Reg. Min. and
Assiy., Wodrow Miscell., Test. Reg.]
JOHN MAKCULLO, probably JOHN
1594 PETILLOCH, reader at Biggar
1588; M.A. (Edinburgh, 12th Aug.
1592) ; adm. 28th May 1594, but 2nd April
1595 he " can find na sufficient provision :> ;
min. of Yetholm in 1595. \_Reg. Assig.]
1603
ARCHIBALD LIVINGSTON, M.A. ;
adm. 24th Nov. 1603 ; application
was made in his behalf for Drum
elzier the same year : trans, to Athelstane-
ford 1607.
BIGGAR]
BROUGHTON
241
JOHN BENNET, adm. 1608 ; trans, to
1608 Kirkurd 1616.
JOHN DOUGLAS of Escheillis
1616 [Eshiels], son and heir of Archi
bald D., archdeacon of Glasgow ;
M.A. (Edinburgh, 29th July 1603); min.
of Kilbucho 1614 ; trans, and adm. 1616 ;
died between 24th Oct. and 21st Nov.
same year. He marr. Margaret, sister of
William Douglas of Cavers, who survived
him, and marr. secondly, Robert Living
stone, min. of Skirling, having had issue
by her first husband William; James
(Peebles Inhib., ii., 60 ; Reg. of Deeds,
dxlv., 511).
1617
JAMES DICKSON, adm. 1617; died
before 21st Aug. 1644. He marr.
Katherine Wintone.
1644
ROBERT BROWN, adm. and inst. 26th
and
Megget 1st Feb. 1660.
ROBERT ELLIOT, son of Robert E.,
1661 min. of West Linton ; M.A. (Edin
burgh, 1st Aug. 1651) ; pres. by John,
Earl of Wigtown, 26th Nov., and adm. 3rd
Dec. 1661 ; deprived by Act of Parlia
ment llth June, and of Privy Council 1st
Oct. 1662 ; resided subsequently at Gullane.
(VidelQQO.)
GEORGE SETON, M.A. ; pres. by John,
1668 Earl of Wigtown; coll. and adm.
12th March 1668; trans, to Fyvie
1672.
1673
JAMES SIMSON, inst. 8th May 1673 ;
trans, to Drumelzier 1st March
1683.
ALAN JOHNSTON, M.A. ; adm. 1684 ;
1684 trans, to Carstairs 27th May 1685.
WILLIAM SIMSON, a native of Banff-
1686 shire; educated at King s College,
Aberdeen; M.A. (1673); school
master of Boyndie 1676-84 ; recommended
by Presb. of Fordyce for licen. 21st Feb.
1683; inst. 7th Jan. 1686; deposed for
" charming," but seems to have continued.
He is mentioned as "minister" in the
VOL. I.
Presb. Reg. 24th March 1691 ; was again
deposed by Presb. of Brechin, 3rd Oct.
1726, for intruding at Dun. [Test. Reg.
(Brech.) ; MS. Ace. of Min., 1689.]
[ROBERT ELLIOT, M.A., above men-
16 tioned, restored to his ministry, but
did not return to Broughton, " the
parish having urged no reason directly or
indirectly " for that course ; trans, to West
Linton 20th May 1691.]
JOHN BELL, M.A. ; called 12th Aug.,
and ord. 24th Sept. 1697 ; trans, to
Gladsmuir 27th Aug. 1701.
THOMAS SIMSON, probably son of
1702 WiM am S., min. in 1686 ; school
master at Dolphinton, and after
wards at Biggar ; licen. by Presb. of Biggar
28th Aug. 1701 ; called 25th Feb., and ord.
12th May 1702; died llth Sept. 1732, in
56th year. He marr. (pro. 24th June 1705)
Margaret, daugh. of William Oliphant of
Culteuchar, and had issue David, eldest
son, W.S. apprentice 1730; Margaret
(marr. Christopher Cairns, min. of Tweeds-
muir). [Edin. Reg. (Marr.), Tombst.~]
ANDREW RICHARDSON, pres. by
1735 John, Earl of Wigtown ; called 17th
Oct. 1734; ord. 5th March 1735;
trans, to Inverkeithing 30th May 1751,
but not settled until 18th June 1752.
Richardson s trans, led to the origin of
the Relief Church.
ANDREW PLUMMER, probably of the
1754 Plummers of Middlestead ; licen. by
Presb. of Peebles llth Jan. 1738 ;
pres. to Manor 1739, but the Presb. would
not proceed to the settlement, and their
action was affirmed by the General Assembly
13th May 1742 ; pres. by William, Earl of
March and Ruglen, 14th Dec. 1752 ; ord.
10th May 1754; died unmarr. 10th Oct.
1768, in 59th year. [Acts of Ass., Tombst. ;
Morren s Ann., i.]
THOMAS GRAY, son of Thomas G.,
176g Ancrum, and Janet Shiel, born
1733 ; licen. by Presb. of Selkirk 12th
May 1761; pres. by William, Earl of
March ; ord. 10th Aug. 1769 ; declared min.
242
BROUGHTON
[PEESB. OF
of Glenholm 13th July 1802; died 14th
April 1810. He marr. 24th Aug. 1772,
Helen (died at Leith, 28th Dec. 1811, aged
59), daugh. of Bailie Muckle, Leith, and had
issue George, died abroad ; Jean, born
24th Jan. 1775 (marr. James Gardner, min.
of Tweedsmuir) ; Margaret, born 4th Feb.
1776 (marr. (1) James Bowe, M.D., Biggar,
(2) James Gladstone, Tof tcombs, Biggar) ;
Robert, of Carwood, born 1777, died 1862 ;
Alexander, of Knightsridge, Linlithgow-
shire, born 13th Sept. 1778 ; William,
born 21st Oct. 1779, died 5th Sept.
1783; Rebecca, born 5th Dec. 1780 (marr-
James Hill, merchant, and bailie of Edin
burgh) ; Thomas, born 15th Nov. 1783, died
10th April 1784 ; Helen (twin), born 15th
Nov., died 25th Nov. 1783; Beatrice, born
25th Sept. 1785 (marr. 17th June 1813,
John Jackson, merchant, Leith); Helen,
born llth June 1787 (marr. Alexander
Telfer, min. of Johnstone) ; Mary, born
28th Sept. 1793 (marr. James Usher,
Edinburgh); Elizabeth, born 28th July
1795 (marr. Alexander Stoddart, merchant,
Edinburgh). Publication Account of the
Parish (Sinclair s Stat. Ace., vii.).[Tombst.,
private information.]
WILLIAM PORTEOUS, min. of Kil-
1810 bucho, succeeded in terms of decreet
of annexation in 1810 ; died unmarr.
1st June 1813, in 68th year, leaving 100
to be applied to charitable uses in the
parish. Publication Account of Kilbucho
(Sinclair s Stat. Acc.^ iv.). [Tombst. ; Nen>
Stat. Ace., iii.]
HAMILTON PAUL, born Bargany,
1813 Dailly, 10th April 1773, son of John
P., coal grieve ; educated at the
Parish School of Dailly, and Univ. of
Glasgow, where he was the friend and
companion of Thomas Campbell the poet ;
tutor in Argyllshire ; licen. by Presb. of
Ayr 16th July 1800; assistant at Coyl-
ton and other parishes ; partner in a
printing establishment at Ayr, and for
three years editor of the Ayr Adver
tiser. While resident there, he is said
to have been "a member of every liter
ary circle, connected with every club,
chaplain to every society, a speaker at
every meeting, the poet of every curious
occurrence, and a welcome guest at
every table " ; pres. by Rich. Alex.
Oswald, younger, of Auchincruive, 8th
Sept., and ord. 30th Dec. 1813; died un
married 28th Feb. 1854. Publications
The Wail of Scotia, a Poem, by Philopatris,
12 pp. (Glasgow, 1794); First and Second
Epistles to the Female Students of Natural
Philosophy in Anderson s Institution (Glas
gow, 1800) ; Friendship Exemplified, a
sermon (Ayr, 1803) ; Vaccination, or Beaut;/
Preserved, a poem (Ayr, 1805) ; Poems and
Songs of Burns, with Life, Panegyrical
Ode, etc. (Ayr, 1819); A Foretaste of
Pleasant Things (Ayr, 1820) ; Specimens of
a New or Improved Version of the Psalms
(Ayr, 1830); Account of the Parish (Neiv
Stat. Ace., iii.); "Lines to the Memory of
the Rev. Dr Dalrymple ; (Crawford s Fun.
Discourse) ; Songs, " Helen Gray," " Jeanie
o the Crook," "Bonnie Lass of Barr,"
" The Presbytery Garland," etc. To
periodical literature he was a voluminous
contributor. See articles on the " Hamilton
Paul MSS.," Burns Chronicle, 1893.
[M Kay s Hist, of Kilmarnock ; Rogers
Scott. Minstrel ; Edinburgh Christian In
structor, 1820 ; The Bcwder Magazine, Aug.
1897 ; Poets of Ayrshire.]
1854
ALEXANDER THOMSON COSENS,
born 5th April 1825, son of Peter
C., min. of Lauder; educated at
High School and Univ., Edinburgh ; licen.
by Presb. of Edinburgh 1850 ; assistant at
Tron, Edinburgh; ord. to Fossoway 13th
May 1852 ; pres. by David Dundas, W.S.,
and adm. 4th Aug. 1854 ; died 26th Sept.
1907. He marr. 21st Nov. 1855, Eleanor
Jeanette (died 8th Dec. 1912), daugh. of
John Taylor, min. of Drumelzier, and had
issue Catherine Thomson, born 12th July
1858, died 29th Jan. 1877; John Robert,
advocate, Sheriff-sub, of Orkney, born 26th
April 1859, died 26th Dec. 1903; Eleanor
Susan, born 7th June 1861, died 21st March
1888 ; Peter Hunter, W.S., Edinburgh, born
25th May 1863 ; Ann Milne Thomson, born
llth March 1866 (marr. 1st June 1897,
Archibald David Mutter Napier, W.S.,
BIGGAR]
BROUGHTON GLENHOLM
243
Edinburgh); Alexander Thomson and
Robert Romanes (twins), born 7th Feb.
1868, Alexander died 12th July 1870 ; Alex
andra Jeanette, born 17th Sept. 1871 ; Mary
Horatia, born 31st Aug. 1874 (marr. William
Lindsay Gordon, min. of South Parish,
Aberdeen).
ANDREW BAIRD,born Coatdyke, Old
Monkland, 20th June 1863, son of
Andrew B. and Margaret Duncan
Gumming ; educated at Airdrie and Gart-
sherrie Academies, Church of Scotland
Training College and Univ., Glasgow ;
M.A. (1886), B.D. (1889); certificated
teacher ; licen. by Presb. of Hamilton
9th May 1889; assistant at New Kil-
patrick ; ord. assistant at Shotts 3rd Dec.
1890; adm. (assistant and successor) 3rd
March 1892; chaplain to H.M. South
African Field Force 1902-3.
GLENHOLM.
[The church was dedicated to St Cuth-
bert. The parish was united to Broughton
by the Commissioners of Teinds, 28th May
179-1.]
1569 GEORGE TOD, reader, 1569.
JAMES STEWART, pres. by James
1571 VI. 3rd Aug. 1571.
JOHN HEPBURN, M.A. ; pres. 21st
15Q2 April, coll. 9th, and adm. before
12th May 1599 ; trans, to Mertoun
1594.
ALEXANDER FLEMING, pres. by
15gg John, Lord Fleming, and adm. 27th
July 1599 ; still min. in 1608, and
probably trans, to Dalgarno. [Rey. Assig.]
JOHN YOUNG, M.A. (Edinburgh, 27th
1614 July 1605 ) adm> 1G14 > Sti11 min> Lst
Aug. 1632. [Reg. Assig.]
ROBERT JOHNSTON, M.A. (Glasgow
1636 1620) > nephew of Robert Bannatyne,
min. of Carnwath; he was not in
the charge 5th Aug. 1641 ; his son William
was apprenticed to James Cockburn, mer
chant, Edinburgh, 27th Feb. 1650, and had
precept of dare constat as heir of his father,
7th April 1655.]
WILLIAM DICKSON, M.A., min. in
1644 1644; had a son, Alexander, M.A.,
schoolmaster of Peebles, 1639.
[NVodrow s Hist.}
WILLIAM SELKRIGG [SELKIRK],
1679 ^A- , trans, from Roberton. Hav
ing read the Proclamation of the
Estates, and prayed for their Majesties
William and Mary, he was ordered by
some of the people " to remove from his
dwelling, for which a fortnight was granted,
! while others put a second lock on the
church door to keep him out." He
demitted 7th Oct. 1690, but was received
i into communion by the General Assembly
! 29th Jan. 1692. He was min. of Falkland
1692. [Lanark Presb. Key., Rey. Gen. Ass. ;
j J/.s . Ace. of Jfin., 1689.]
ROBERT HORSBURGH, M.A. ; called
1696 24th June, and ord. 24th Sept. 1696 ;
trans, to Prestonpans 29th April
SIMON KELLIE [KELLO], bursar
17Q3 of Glasgow Univ. 19th Aug. 1693 ;
acted as precentor in the Tron Kirk,
Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Biggar 30th
March 1699; ord. to Walston 24th April
1700; trans, and adm. 9th April 1703;
died 27th Dec. [tombstone 28th Oct.] 1748.
He marr. (1) Rachel Brown, and had issue
Helen, Jean, and Richard, all above 16
in 1744 ; William, James, Elizabeth, Mar
garet, Grizzel, all died young : (2) 13th
Nov. 1741, Jean, daugh. of Andrew Ward-
rope, glazier, burgess of Edinburgh, widow
of Joseph White, merchant, burgess, and
of James Scott, senior, wright, burgess of
Edinburgh (f/. R. Mas., clxxvii., 63), and
had issue Marion, born llth Nov. 1742;
Joanna, born 5th Dec. 1744; Simon, born
7th Feb. 1748 : (3) 1748, Mary Livingstone,
who died 28th Sept. 1768. [Test. Rey.,
TombstJ]
BERNARD HALDANE, born 9th July
1726, son of John H., schoolmaster,
Cramoncl, and Mary Emmott ; M.A.
(Edinburgh, 14th April 1743); licen. by
Presb. of Edinburgh, 30th Sept. 1747 ; pres.
by William, Earl of March and Ruglen
$44
GLENHOLM KILBUCHO
[PRESB.
and ord. 27th Oct. 1749 ; dem. 8th June
1802. He died at his son s manse at Dreg-
horn, 4th July 1805. He marr. 23rd July
1770, Helen (died 29th Dec. 1787), daugh.
of George Fraser, auditor of Excise, Edin
burgh, and had issue George Fraser, born
20th Dec. 1771, died 6th Aug. 1789; John,
born 27th Feb. 1773, died 1st April 1773 ;
Andrew, min. of Dreghorn ; Bernard, born
23rd Jan. 1779, died 10th Jan. 1784 ; John,
born 24th Feb. 1780. Publications The
Foundations of Religion and Morality, a
sermon (Edinburgh, 1756) ; Account of the
Parish (Sinclair s Stat. Ace., iv.).
KILBUCHO.
[The church was dedicated to St Begha.
(There is still St Begha s Well in the
vicinity.) Previous to the Reformation it
belonged to the College Church of Dalkeith.
The parish was united by the Commis
sioners of Teinds to Broughton and Glen-
holm, with the northern portion to Coulter,
28th May 1794.]
WILLIAM PORTEOUS, reader in
1567 1567.
ANDREW JARDEN [GARDEN,
1574 JARDINE], reader.
WALTER TWEEDIE (Beg. of Deeds,
1575 xiv., 224).
JOHN WEMYSS, may be the J. W. who
1597 was m ^ n- f Flisk in 1590 ; pres. by
William, Earl of Morton, 21st Nov.
1596 ; adm. 1st July 1597 ; continued in
1608. [Test. Reg., Reg. Assig., Presbytery
Disjylayed.~\
JOHN DOUGLAS, M.A., min. in 1614 ;
1614 trans - to Broughton 1616. {Reg.
Assig. ]
ROBERT ELLIOT, M.A. ; adm. 1621 ;
trans, to West Lin ton llth March
1647. [Acts of Ass. ; Baillie s Lett., i.]
1621
ALEXANDER BERTRAM of Dambrae,
1647 Coulter, second son of William B. of
Nisbet ; M.A. (Edinburgh, 20th July
1638) ; pres. by John Dickson of Hartree,
28th April 1647 ; adm. 12th and coll. 31st
July 1647 ; joined the Protesters 1651 ;
was ordered by the Diocesan Synod, 28th
April 1664, to appear and answer for not
conforming ; indulged at Shotts, 3rd
Sept. 1672, but refused to accept ; cited
12th March following before the Privy
Council for disobeying their order. He
was complained against at the Synod of
Glasgow, 22nd Oct. 1674, for holding
conventicles. Denounced for intercom-
muning, 3rd Aug. 1676; left the country
and went to Holland, where he probably
died. He marr. (cont. 2nd Aug. 1647)
Margaret, daugh. of Alex. Somerville, min.
of Dolphinton (G. R. Sas., Ivii., 416).
[Kirkton s and Wodrow s Hists.; Acts ParL,
vii.]
WILLIAM ALLISON, M.A. (Edin-
1666 k ur & n > 13t h J une 1651 > licen. by
the Bishop of Edinburgh 2nd Oct.
1662 ; ord. to Kirknewton 12th Jan. 1663 ;
pres. jure devoluto, coll. by Alexander,
Archbishop of Glasgow, and inst. 29th
March 1666. He was accused of not
reading the Proclamation of the Estates,
and not praying for their Majesties William
and Mary, but for James VII., and ac
quitted 17th Sept. 1689, the charge not
having been proved. He, however, did
not reside in the parish after 13th June
1689, and was dep. for declining the
authority of the Presb. 25th Sept. 1690 ;
died before 3rd July 1694. He marr.
(1) Elizabeth Penman (G. R. Hornings,
22nd Feb. 1672): (2) Margaret Smith
(Edin. Sas., xviii., 359), and had issue
Elizabeth (marr. 29th May 1704, William,
son of John Thin, waulker, Edinburgh).
James, his son, was served heir 3rd
July 1694. [Rule s Sec. Vindication ;
MS. Ace. of Min., 1689; Peterkin s
Constitution of the Church; Inq. Ret.
Gen., 7504.]
JAMES BROWN, M.A.; called June
1690 1689 0rC * 5tn ^ Une 169 > trans - to
Walston 24th Sept. 1691; recalled
and readm. 23rd Sept. 1696; trans, to
Aberdour, in Buchan, 1697.
BIGGAR]
KILBUCHOCOULTER
245
JOHN TAIT, called 29th Nov. 1699;
1700 ord. 25th March 1700; died llth
April 1750. He marr. Jan. 1703,
Katherine, daugh. of Thomas Young, mer
chant, burgess of Edinburgh, and had issue
William, his successor ; Elizabeth (marr.
9th June 1730, John Bowie, min. of Dol-
phinton) ; Margaret ; Isobel ; Katherine ;
Thomas, died 1746 ; Janet. [Edin. Reg.
(Marr.), Pennecuik s WorJcs.~\
WILLIAM TAIT, son of preceding;
licen. by Presb. of Biggar 14th Jan.
1742 ; pres. by William Dickson of
Kilbucho 4th Oct. 1750; called 29th May
1751 ; ord. 16th Oct. 1751 ; died 12th Nov.
1784. He marr. 26th Nov. 1760, Grisell
Dick, who died at Peebles, 19th May 1809,
and had issue John, born 6th Oct. 1761 ;
James, born 8th July 1764 ; Robert, surgeon,
born 10th May 1767, died 1793; William,
merchant, London, born 5th Dec. 1769 ;
Elizabeth, born 1st Aug. 1771 ; Katherine,
born 23rd Jan. 1774.
WILLIAM PORTEOUS, son of John
1785 P., schoolmaster, Biggar; licen. by
Presb. of Biggar 29th Aug. 1775;
pres. by Capt. William Dickson of Kilbucho,
and ord. 13th Aug. 1785 ; got a church
built for the united parishes in 1804, to
which he succeeded, in terms of Decreet
of Annexation, 1810. [Hunter s ftiggar.]
COULTER.
[The church, dedicated to St Michael,
belonged to the Abbey of Kelso. George
Shoreswood, Bishop of Brechin and
Chancellor of Scotland, 1456-60, was
"parson at Coulter," 1449-50.]
ARCHIBALD LIVINGSTONE.-[O^.
1560 Par. Scot.]
JOHN LEVERANCE [LAWRANCE],
156g trans, from Douglas, and adm. May
1569; a witness at Dalkeith for the
Earl of Angus, 10th Dec. 1574 ; returned
to Douglas 1574. {Reg. Min., Home
Papers.]
NINIAN HALL, min. of Biggar, Kil-
1574 t> ucn > Lamington, Hartside, Syming
ton, Coulter, with William Millar as
reader at Coulter. [Reg. Min.~\
WALTER HALDEN, was pres. to Car-
1590 stairs by James VI. 21st Feb. 1574,
but did not enter on the charge.
From 1576-86 he had charge of the
parishes mentioned above, excepting Kil
bucho ; trans, to Wiston ; dep. 7th May
1588 as "unworthie of his office." Being
reponed, he was adm. to this charge about
1590, and died between 1594 and 1596.
[Booke of the Kirk, Test. Reg.}
THOMAS CAMPBELL, M.A. ; min. in
1596 1596; trans, to Biggar 1599.
ROBERT SOMERVILLE, son of Patrick
1607 S. in Grein ; M.A. (Glasgow 1600) ;
min. of Dunsyre 1601-7 ; dep. 1607 ;
adm. here same year ; trans, to Barnwell,
Ayrshire, 1615; returned 1616; died 14th
Dec. 1635, aged about 56. He marr. (1)
Barbara Menzies [possibly a mistake for
Inglis] : (2) Barbara Inglis, daugh. of
Inglis of Langlands Hill [Langley Hill],
Broughton, and with her had sasine of
the five-pound land of Over, Windy, and
Nether Hangingshaw, 7th Dec. 1633, and
had issue James, who was served heir
1st Nov. 1642 ; Thomas ; Katherine (Reg.
of Deeds, ccccxci., 372). [Reg. Assig. ; Test.
(Lan.) and New Gen. Reg. Sasines, iii. ;
Inq. Ret. Lanark, 210.]
JOHN CURRIE, M.A. (Edinburgh, 25th
1636 Julv 1629 )j de P- 1653 > but re P ne(i
by the Synod 9th May 1661. Being
in reduced circumstances, he received
pecuniary aid from some kirk-sessions.
He marr. (name unknown), and had issue
Adam ; Janet. [Test, and D unbar Sess.
Reg.}
1654
ANTHONY MURRAY, born 14th March
1630, eldest son by second marriage
of James M. in Burntisland ; M.A.
(St Andrews, 20th July 1650); adm. 18th
Aug. 1654 ; deprived by Act of Parliament
246
COULTER
[PRESB. OF
llth June, and by Privy Council 1st Oct.
1662. He had studied medicine, and
continued to reside in the parish, support
ing himself by his medical skill, observing
" now he would make the doctor keep the
minister." He acted also as factor to the
Earl of Wigtown ; was min. again in
1672 (G. R. Sas., 2nd ser., x. 488,
xxxi. 15). [Wodrow s Hut. ; New Stat.
Ace., vi.]
PATRICK TRENT, MA. ; adm. Dec.
1664; trans, to Crichton after 4th
May 1671. [Reg. Collat., Haddingt.
Mess, and Test. Reg. (Lan.)J\
1664
ANTHONY MURRAY, M.A., above
1672 men tioned, indulged by the Privy
Council 3rd Sept. 1672 ; refusing to
observe the anniversary of the Restoration
of Charles II., he was brought before the
Privy Council on 8th July 1673, and fined
in the half of his stipend and crop for the
year. Notwithstanding the restrictions laid
upon him, he was zealous and indefatigable
in ministerial work, and did not confine his
ministrations to Coulter, but extended them
to the surrounding districts. On 8th Oct.
1684, he was before the Privy Council
for refusing to read from the pulpit the
proclamation of a thanksgiving for the
deliverance of the King and the Duke of
York from the Rye House Plot. Pleading
guilty, he was prohibited from exercising
his ministry, and committed to the Tolbooth
of Glasgow, unless caution for 5000 merks
was forthcoming. He was confined in
the Edinburgh Tolbooth until 12th March
1685, when he was liberated, on the under
standing that he "shall not exercise
any part of his ministry in this king
dom, but live peaceable, and appear
when called " ; restored 1687. [Wodrow s
Hist., ii. ; Brown s Hist, of Indulg., Test.
Reg. (DunU.).~\
JOHN MENZIES, related to the
1688 Culter-Allers family of Menzies ;
MA. (Edinburgh, 15th April 1645) ;
got a testimonial from the Presb. of Biggar
30th Jan. 1650; ord. to Johnston 1658;
trans, to Caerlaverock 1670 ; on 12th July
of the same year he renounced Episcopacy
because of its tendency to popery, but
submitted and took the Test in 1681 ;
was inst. here 23rd Feb. 1686 ; deprived
by Act of Parliament 25th April 1690,
restoring the Presbyterian min. He went
to England, and became min. of a
meeting - house at Carlisle. [Wodrow s
Hist.; MS. Ace. of Min., 1689; Hist.
Gen. Ass., 6190.]
ANTHONY MURRAY, MA. ; returned
1687 on ^ e ^ C ^ ^ toleration in July
1687 ; trans, to Paisley 22nd March
1688, but returned 27th Feb. 1689, and
was restored 25th April 1690 ; had the
stipend of Dunsyre for 1688 and part of
1689 assigned to him ; died 22nd March
1692. He marr. (cont. 26th Dec. 1656 and
6th Feb. 1657) Grizel, eldest daugh. of John
Muir of Annieston. He left 18 for the
education of poor children in the parish.
[Tombst. ; New Stat. Ace., vi. ; S. Presb.
Eloq.}
WILLIAM RUSSELL, ord. 23rd Sept.
1692; trans, to Morham llth May
1693. [Pennecuik s Works.]
1694
ROBERT COLTHART, called 17th
^ ulv 5 Ord - 27tl1 Se P t 1694 J denl
10th Sept. 1696 ; went to Ireland.
. Ace. of Min., 1689.]
JAMES FORRESTER, born 1676, son
^ of Provost Robert F. of Peebles ;
MA. (Edinburgh, 13th July 1695);
licen. by Presb. of Peebles 17th Aug. 1699 ;
called 3rd Jan., and ord. 30th April 1700;
died 3rd Dec. 1750. He marr. 16th Dec.
1703, Janet (died 12th Feb. 1760), daugh. of
Alexander Bertram of Nisbet and Crimp-
Cramp, and Grizel Muir of Annieston, and
had issue William, min. of Carstairs ;
Alexander ; Robert ; James, W.S. appren
tice 1737; Mary; Grizel. [Tombst.; New
Stat. Ace., vi.]
JOHN BROWN of Coultermains, born
1714, eldest son of William B. of
Coultermains ; licen. by Presb. of
Biggar 25th Sept. 1743 ; ord. to Symington
17th Sept. 1744; pres. by Mrs Henrietta
:
BIGGAR]
COULTER
247
[Baillie] Dundas of Lamington, and adm.
23rd Oct. 1750 ; died 13th June 1771. He
marr. 30th Sept. 1747, Anne (died llth Oct.
1797), daugh. of William Bertram of Nisbet
and Kcrsewell, and Cecilia Kennedy of
Auchtifardle, and had issue Cecilia, born
30th Sept. 1748; Anne, born 9th June
1750; Helenore, born 7th Jan. 1752, died
1st May 1767 ; Eupheraia, born llth Sept.
1755 ; William, a student, born 16th Sept.
1756, died llth June 1771 ; Mainie, born
5th Jan. 1759; Archibald, born llth Feb.
1761, died 9th June 1761 ; John of Coulter-
mains, born 6th Dec. 1762. [Browns of
Coidtermains, Hunter s Biggar.]
WILLIAM LOCKHART, pres. by Dame
1772 Elizabeth [Baillie] Ross of Laming
ton and Balnagown ; ord. 2nd Sept.
1772 ; trans, to St Andrew s, Glasgow, 18th
Nov. 1784.
WILLIAM STRACHAN, born 1748;
7 licen. by Presb. of Lanark 13th May
1778 ; pres. by Sir John Lockhart
Ross of Balnagown, Bart., and ord. 22nd
Sept. 1785 ; died 28th July 1826. He marr.
Elizabeth Howison, who died 5th Aug.
1823, and had issue Alexander, of London,
born 22nd July 1778 ; William, born 12th
March 1781, died 24th Nov. 1801 ; James,
min. of Cavers ; John, surgeon, Barbados,
born 1st Dec. 1784; Margaret, born 2nd
July 1786; Robert, of London, born 26th
April 1788 ; George, lieut. in the Rifle
Corps, born 31st March 1790. Publication
Account of the Parish (Sinclair s 8tat,
Ace., vi., xxi.).
JAMES PROUDFOOT, born Skirling,
20th April 1796, son of Alexander P.
and Janet Glover ; schoolmaster of
Skirling 1817 ; educated at Univ. of Edin
burgh ; licen. by Presb. of Biggar 7th Dec.
1824 ; pres. by John Dickson of Hartree,
and adm. 25th April 1827. Joined the
Free Church ; min. of Coulter Free Church
1843; died at Lower Norwood, London,
15th Nov. 1876. He marr. 16th Dec. 1828,
Janet (died 14th Aug. 1866, aged 67),
daugh. of John Gibson, farmer, Symington
Mains, and had issue Mary Dickson,
born 16th Oct. 1829, died at Mildura,
Victoria, 30th Oct. 1900; Alexander, a
clergyman, born 5th Jan. 1831, died at
Rockhampton, Australia, llth April 1873 ;
Jane, born 6th Aug. 1832, died 12th Jan.
1861 ; John Gibson, born 10th March
1834 ; Janet, born 6th Sept. 1835, died
10th May 1858 ; George, born 31st March
1837, died at Camperdown, Australia, 25th
Aug. 1864 ; Elizabeth, born 6th May 1838,
died at Mildura, Victoria, 17th Sept. 1901 ;
James, born 24th July 1842; died 30th
May 1880. Publications Verses on the
Highland Soldiers who Fell at Quatre
Bras and Waterloo; Occasional Poems
(privately printed, 1863) ; Account of the
Parish (New Stat. Ace., vi.).
1843
JAMES GRANT RIACH, born Aber
deen, 9th June 1819, son of John
R. and Mary Dawson ; educated at
Grammar School, Aberdeen, Marischal Col
lege and Univ.; M.A. (1836) ; licen. by Presb.
of Garioch 18th July 1842 ; schoolmaster of
Monymusk 1841-3; ord. 22nd Sept. 1843;
died 16th Sept. 1862. He marr. 1st Nov.
1859, Elizabeth Scott, daugh. of John
Roger, merchant, Greenock, and had issue
John James, merchant, America, born
8th Oct. 1860; Agnes Bain, born 27th
March 1862. (His widow marr. again
12th Aug. 1869.)
JOHN ANDERSON, born Muckhart,
10th May 1821, son of John A. and
1863 Cecilia Fraser; educated at Muck-
hart, Dollar, and Edinburgh Univ. ; M.A.
(1842) ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh May
1846; ord. 12th Oct. 1846 as missionary
to Calcutta ; adm. to Dalkeith (West) 9th
Jan. 1857; trans, and adm. 27th March
1863 ; res. 14th Dec. 1907 ; Father of the
Church of Scotland (1914). Marr. 18th
March 1851, Ann Petrie, missionary at
Calcutta (died 8th July 1884), daugh. of
David Savile, min. of New Street Chapel,
Edinburgh. (She was the only foreign
missionary of the Church of Scotland who
did not join the Free Church in 1843.)
COULTER COVINGTON
[PEESB. OF
1891
JOHN COWAN HAMILTON, born
Braefoot, Saltcoats, 24th Feb. 1859,
son of Angus H. and Martha Cowan ;
educated at Ardrossan Public School and
Glasgow Univ. ; licen. by Presb. of Irvine
1899 ; assistant at Kilbride, Arran, and
Cambusnothan ; ord. (assistant and suc
cessor) 19th Sept. 1891. Marr. 15th April
1897, Jessie Burns, daugh. of Andrew
Baxter Shearer and Jane Smith, Wishaw,
and has issue Arnold Angus, born 7th
Feb. 1898; Leslie Baillie Shearer, born
13th Feb. 1905.
COVINGTON.
[The church was dedicated to St Michael.
In 1601 it was held with Dunsyre.]
1567 JAMES FISHEK, reader.
1567-73 THOMAS SIMSON, reader.
1576
ROBERT FISHER, formerly of Dalziel ;
Pettinain and Thankerton were also
under his care. Continued in 1594.
[Reg. Assig., Wodrow s Miscell., Test.
Reg.}
1576 JAMES LINDSAY, reader.
ROBERT FRENCH, son of John F.,
1597 in the Canongate, Edinburgh, had a
gift, 16th July 1574, from James VI.
of the prebend and chaplaincy of St
Andrew, in the College Kirk of Field,
for seven years, that he might study in
the Grammar School of Canongate; he
graduated M.A. at the Univ. of Glasgow
in 1583, and was still min. in 1599. [Mun.
Univ. Glasg., iii. ; Reg. Assig. .]
JOHN LEVERANCE [LAWRANCE],
1605 old and infirm in 1605 (Reg. of Deeds,
cciii., 340), probably the J. L. of
Coulter and Douglas.
GEORGE CLEGHORN, M.A., app.
1605 f e ^ ow -helper, with consent of the
patron, John Lindsay of Covington,
1605 (Reg. of Deeds, cciii., 340) ; continued
1609, when his stipend was raised (Reg. of
Deeds, cciii., 342) ; still min. in 1612 (Reg. of
Deeds, ccix., 211).
HEW LINDSAY, who had a son Patrick
1608 (P. C. Reg., viii., 138).
GEORGE OGSTOUN, min. in 1621,
1621 ^ ut ma y ^ ave k een helper only ;
died 12th March 1653. He marr.
Abigail, daugh. of James Baillie, min. of
Lamington. He left his books to his son,
Andrew, apprenticed to John Hill, book
seller, Edinburgh, 17th Dec. 1651. He had
also Francis, apprentice to John Reid,
baker, 9th Aug. 1648; and Mary. His
wife s name is unknown. [Test. Reg.
(Lanark). ]
ARCHIBALD PORTEOUS, son of
James P., min. of Lasswade ; M.A.
(St Andrews 1647) ; was on the exer
cise there, 1st May 1650 ; adm. 7th Dec.
1652 ; deprived 9th May 1661 for his active
share in the doings of the Protesting party
in the church. He was one of the tutors to
the widow and children of Samuel Ruther
ford. He became indulged min. of Cum-
brae along with John Rae in 1672. [Test.
Reg. (Lan. and St And.), Act. Rect. Univ.
St And. ; Wodrow s Hist., i.]
CHARLES LINDSAY, son of Thomas
1662 ^ mm - f Walston ; min. in 1662.
During his incumbency a curious
circumstance occurred. Sir William Lind
say of Covington had been seized with
illness, and was thought dead. When he
was stretched on the bier, his long beard
was seen wagging, and restoratives being
applied, he recovered, was able to talk
with his family, and told by them the
arrangements which had been made for his
funeral. "Keep it secret," said he, "and
let the company come." When all were
assembled, after a little detention the door
opened, and to their astonishment and
terror, in stepped the knight himself, deadly
pale, dressed in a sable suit, and supported
by his kinsman, the minister. An explana
tion was given, and the latter called on
to offer prayer and thanksgiving for the
laird s escape from being buried alive. Sir
BIGGAR]
COVINGTON
249
William himself presided over the carousal
which followed. L. was outed by the
rabble, and demitted previous to 4th May
1689, when he delivered up the kirk-box
and mortcloth. He was received into com
munion by the General Assembly 17th April
1694. He marr. Elizabeth, daugh. of John
Livingstone, M.D. (G. R. Homings, 12th
March 1687), and had issue Helen (niarr.
25th Feb. 1705, James Wilkie, merchant,
Edinburgh); Thomas. [Lindsay s Lives,
ii. ; MS. Ace. of Min., 1689 ; Acts, of Ass.]
JOHN BUCHANAN, born 1619, son of
John B., merchant, Stirling, was
ready to be taken on trial at
the general meeting of Presbyterian min.
6th July 1687 ; ord. 29th April 1691 ; died
27th Feb. 1726. He marr. (name unknown),
and had issue John, his successor ; George,
min. of Tynninghame ; Margaret. [Miscell.
Scot., iv. ; Test. Reg. (Lan.\ Wodrow s
Anal.]
JOHN BUCHANAN, son of preceding,
bapt. 20th Dec. 1694; licen. by
Presb. 18th Oct. 1722; called 9th
Nov. 1726 ; ord. 24th May 1727 ; died un-
marr. 12th Nov. 1766. [Miscell. Scot., iv. ;
Test. Reg. (Lan.), Tombst.]
GEORGE MARK, pres. by Alex. Lock-
hart, advocate, and John, Earl of
Hyndford, and ord. 17th Sept. 1767 ;
trans, to Carnwath 29th Oct. 1777. [Test.
Reg. (Lan.).]
BRYCE LITTLE, licen. by Presb. of
Edinburgh 24th Feb. 1773 ; chaplain
at Wanlockhead 1777 ; pres. by the
Commissioner for General James Lockhart
of Lee and Carnwath, 27th Jan., and ord.
8th Sept. 1778 ; died 9th May 1820, in 77th
year. He marr. (1) Euphemia (died 6th
Nov. 1809, aged 57), daugh. of Matthew
Cleghorn, min. of Dryfesdale : (2) 24th
April 1815, Katherine (died 15th August
1857, aged 77), daugh. of John Stodart,
Bank, Carnwath. Publications Sermon
preached before the Clydesdale Volunteers
(Edinburgh, 1804); Account of the Parish
(Sinclair s Stat. Ace., i.). [Test. Reg. (Lan.),
Tombst]
THOMAS WATSON of Cormiston, born
1821 24th Sept. 1794, son of William W.,
min. of Biggar ; licen. by Presb. of
Biggar 8th May 1817 ; pres. by the tutors
of Sir John Carmichael Anstruther of
Anstruther and Carmichael, Bart., June
1820; ord. 10th May 1821 (delay being
caused by a competing presentation, by Sir
Charles Macdonald Lockhart, Bart., who
did not insist, after a decision in the
similar case of Wandel and Lamington) ;
died 17th Sept. 1864. He marr. 2nd Feb.
1825, Eleonora (died 21st June 1877), daugh.
of David M Haffie, of Eastwood and Over-
ton, and had issue Eliza, born 5th March
1826 (marr. James Sellar, D.D., min. of
Aberlour), died 18th Nov. 1910; William,
created Baron Watson of Thankerton, a
Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, born 25th
Aug. 1827, died 14th Sept. 1899 ; Jane,
born 15th March 1829, died 4th Dec. 1904 ;
David, born 10th Sept. 1832, died 31st Jan.
1887 ; Jessie Forrester, born 18th Dec.
1835; Agnes, born llth March 1837, died
31st Jan. 1913.
JAMES HOGGAN, born Denny, Stir
lingshire, 22nd Sept. 1828, son of
William Johnston H., M.R.C.S.E.,
R.N., and Margaret Murray ; educated at
Denny Parish School and Univ. of Glasgow :
licen. by Presb. of Stirling 27th June 1854 ;
assistant at Colvend, Borgue, Govan ; ord.
to Walston 15th July 1859 ; trans, and adm.
2nd March 1865; res. 4th Nov. 1889 ; died
18th Nov. 1914. Marr. 17th July 1877,
Isabella, younger daugh. of Thomas Gibson,
of Toftcombs, Biggar.
1890
WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM MAC-
GREGOR, born Crieff, 27th July
1860, son of Alexander MacG. and
Janet Black ; educated at Monzievaird
School, Morrison s Academy, Crieff, and
Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of
Edinburgh 1884 ; assistant at St Ninians,
Stirlingshire; ord. 17th April 1890.
250
THANKERTON DOLPHINTON
[PRESS. OF
THANKERTON.
[The church was dedicated to St John
the Evangelist (its site is still known as St
John s Kirk) ; annexed to Presb. of Biggar,
f>th Dec. 1617 ; disjoined and united to
Covington, 30th Jan. 1650.]
ROBERT FISHER, reader, trans, to
1567 Covington as min. [Key. Min.]
DAVID FORREST, reader at Carluke
1601 1574-6. [Reg. Assig]
ROBERT SCOTT, mentioned as min. in
1607 1608. [Key. Assig.]
DOLPHINTON.
[The charge Avas held in conjunction with
Walston from 1574 to 1608.]
JOHN COCKBURN, "parson of D."
15el and " rector " in 1565 (vide Skirling).
[Book of Assig.]
WILLIAM ROBESON, reader. [Reg.
1576 Min.]
ALEXANDER SOMERVELL, M.A.
161g (Edinburgh, 22nd Feb. 1602); was
an unsuccessful candidate for a
regency there in the following year ; a
member of the Assemblies of 1638, 1639,
and 1641 (when he was on the leet for
Moderator), 1645, and 1647, and also of the
Commission 19th Aug. 1643 for visiting
the Univ. of Glasgow. Through his influ
ence the Presb. of Biggar was erected,
26th June 1644, which he opened with
a sermon from 1st Peter ii. 9 ; pres. to
Lanark 1641, but continued here 17th May
1648 ; died in the year following, aged about
67. He marr. (1) Elizabeth Cunningham,
and had issue James ; John ; Agnes ;
Jean : (2) Margaret, daugh. of John Cock-
burn of Newholme, min. of Skirling, widow
of John Geddes, portioner of Kirkurd, and
had issue William ; Lilias (G, K. Sas.,
xxxi., 239) ; Margaret (marr. Alex. Bertram,
min. of Kilbucho : G. R. Sas., Ivii., 406) :
(3) Margaret Tweedie (G. R. Inhib., 3rd Dec.
1623). [TV**. Reg. (Lan.) ; Baillie s Lett., i. ;
Craufurd s Univ. ; Evid. on the Univ., ii. ;
Acts of Ass., Livingston s Charac., Steven
son s Hist., Peterkin s Records. }
JAMES DONALDSON, M.A. (St
1650 Andrews 1640); called llth Jan.,
and adm. 1st April 1650 ; joined the
Protesters 1651 ; suspended by the Synod,
May 1661, for having done so, which was
recalled 28th Nov. following. Deprived
by the Act of Parliament llth June,
and of Privy Council 1st Oct. 1662. In
1664 he was cited to appear before the
Court of High Commission for being
present at a communion contrary to law ;
indulged at Dreghorn 3rd Sept. 1672, but
declined; returned in 1687. [Wodrow s
Hist. ; Acts ParL, vii.]
WILLIAM DEWCATS [DUGUID],
1665 M.A., formerly of Uphall 1655 ; inst.
1665 ; died Aug. 1672, aged about 46.
! Barbara Cairncross, his widow, died in
; Edinburgh, 16th Feb. 1713, aged 102.
! [Test. (Lan.) and Edin. Reg. (Bnr.).~\
ALEXANDER DOUGLAS, M.A. ; pres.
1675 k v James, Marquess of Douglas, and
inst. 28th Sept. 1675 ; trans, to
Douglas in 1678.
ANDREW HAMILTON, M.A. ; pres. by
1679 J ames > Marquess of Douglas, and
inst. 24th April 1679 ; probably
trans, to Middlebie in 1684.
JAMES CRUICKSHANKS, inst. 17th
1684 May 1684; deprived by Act of
Parliament 25th April 1690; took
up his residence at Monktonhall, and was
dep. by Presb. of Dalkeith 16th July 1702,
for "prophane swearing," etc. [Inveresk
Hess. Reg. ; MS. Ace. of Min., 1689.]
JAMES DONALDSON, M.A., above
-_,_ mentioned ; returned previous to 6th
July 1687 ; restored by Act of Parlia
ment 25th April 1690; died before 1692,
aged about 70. He marr. (name unknown),
and had issue James ; Marion (P. C.
Decreta, 23rd March 1692). [Test. Reg.
(St And.) ; MS. Ace. of Min., 1689 ; Kirk-
ton s Hist., Morrison s Digest.}
BIGGAR]
DOLPHINTON
251
JOHN SANDILANDS, M.A. (Edin-
burgh, 17th Aug. 1683); called
March 1692; ord. llth Jan. 1693;
died 24th June 1720, in 55th year. He
marr. Margaret Sandilands, who died 27th
May 1730, aged 75, and had issue John,
his successor ; Christian, died 19th Dec.
1780, aged 78 (marr. John Brown, tenant in
Millside) ; James, wright in Edinburgh ;
Barbara (marr. Thomas Findlater, min. of
West Linton); Katherine, died at Castle-
barns, St Cuthbert s Parish, Edinburgh.
[Tombst.]
JOHN SANDILANDS, born 1683, son
1711 ^ P recec ^ n g j M-&- (Edinburgh, 2nd
June 1703) ; Keen, by Presb. of
Linlithgow 16th March 1709 ; called 30th
Aug., and ord. 2nd Oct. 1711 ; died 9th
Sept. 1716. He marr. Margaret John
ston, who survived him, and had issue
Jean (marr. 18th Sept. 1748, Hugh
Ptobertson, writer, Edinburgh). [Test. Reg.
(Edin. and Lan.), Tombst .]
JOHN BOWIE, educated at Univ. of
Glasgow; licen. by Presb. of Dun-
1717 fermline 24th March 1714; called
6th Feb., and ord. 10th May 1717 ; died
7th Nov. 1769, in his 84th year. He pur
chased the lands of Stonypath in Dunsyre
for 8000 merks, and mortified and disponed
them in 1759 to the min. and kirk-session
to be thus distributed : " 100 merks to
the schoolmaster for educating twenty poor
scholars, named by the said Session ; 100
merks for educating any lad of remarkably
bright genius, to be allowed for six years,
or failing any such in the parish, to be
applied in paying apprentice fees ; 50
merks for purchasing Bibles, psalm-books,
etc., for poor scholars, whom failing, to be
applied to any other charitable purpose
the Session judge most proper ; 50 merks
to the min., with all other profits arising
from the lands, to compensate for his trouble
as factor and principal manager." He
marr. 9th June 1730, Elizabeth (died 14th
May 1792), daugh. of John Tait, min. of
Kilbucho. [Tombst. ; Leechman s Serm.,
i. ; Sinclair s Stat. Ace., xiv. ; New Stat.
Ace., vi.]
1759
1773
THOMAS M COURTY, called 27th
Sept., and ord. (assistant and suc
cessor) 1st Nov. 1759 ; trans, to
Penicuik 6th Jan. 1772.
JAMES FERGUSON, M.A. ; pres. by
Arch. Douglas of Douglas, and ord.
ith April 1773 ; trans, to Pettinain
30th March 1780.
JOHN GORDON, licen. by the Presb.
of Biggar 26th March 1778 ; pres.
by Arch. Douglas of Douglas, Sept.
1780 ; ord. 4th April 1781 ; died (when pre
paring to go to the General Assembly), 16th
May 1814. Publication Account of the
Parish (Sinclair s Stat. Ace., xiv.). [Test.
1815
ROBERT RUSSELL, son of David R.,
Cumbernauld ; educated at Univ. of
Glasgow ; tutor in the family of
Grant of Congalton ; licen. by Presb. of
Haddington 27th March 1798; ord. to
Dunsyre 25th April 1805 ; pres. by Arch.,
Lord Douglas of Douglas, 29th Aug. 1814 ;
trans, and adm. 2nd March 1815 ; died
20th Sept. 1824. He marr. 29th Nov. 1805,
Jane Stewart, who died in July 1841, and
had issue William Grant, born 3rd Dec.
1806 ; John Steele, born 17th May 1808 ;
Robert, born 7th May 1813.
JOHN AITON, born Strathaven, June
1825 T " 97 voun est son f William A.,
Sheriff - substitute of Lanarkshire ;
studied at Univs. of Glasgow and Edin
burgh ; licen. by Presb. of Hamilton 30th
Nov. 1819 ; pres. by Archibald, Lord
Douglas of Douglas, Dec. 1824 ; ord. 14th
April 1825 ; D.D. (Glasgow, March 1836) ;
died at the house of his son-in-law, Joseph
Bray, Pyrgo-park, Havering, Essex, 15th
May 1863. He marr. (1) 30th April 1825,
Mary Anne (died 9th Oct. 1850, aged 55),
youngest daugh. of John Smith, Midhope,
and had issue Mary, born llth Feb.
1827 (marr. Joseph Bray), died 9th May
1868; Margaret, born 2nd June 1829;
William, born 2nd April 1831, died 28th
Feb. 1858 ; John, born 18th Jan. 1837 : (2)
19th Oct. 1852, Mary Sandilands (died 9th
July 1868, aged 58), youngest daugh. of
Alex. Weir of Boghead, and had issue
252
DOLPHINTON DUNSYRE
[PKESB. OF
Kuth, born 13th July 1854; Anna, born
18th April 1857, died 15th April 1859.
Publications Mr Otven s Objections to
Christianity, and Neiv Vieiv of Society
and Education Refuted (Edinburgh, 1824) ;
Life and Times of Alexander Henderson
(Edinburgh, 1836); Clerical Economics
(Edinburgh, 1842, 2nd ed., 1856); Eight
Weeks in Germany (Edinburgh, 1842) ;
Letter to the Right Hon. Lord Palmer-
ston, on the Political Imprisonments and
Condition of Naples (Edinburgh, 1851);
The Lands of the Messiah, Mahomet, and
the Pope (Edinburgh, 1852); The Drying
Up of the Euphrates, or the Downfall of
Turkey Prophetically Considered (London,
1853); Appeal to Presbyterians of all
Denominations in Hehalf of the Jeivs in
Jerusalem and the Holy Land (Edinburgh,
1854); The Cat o Nine Tails applied to
the Jewish Committee of the Church of
Scotland (Edinburgh, 1856); St Paul and
his Localities, in their Past and Present
Condition (1856) ; Manual of Domestic
Economy (1857) ; The Tomahawk and Scalp
ing Knife applied with more Pith than
Pity to the Financial and other Abuses of
the Chiirch of Scotland (1860). Account of
the Parish (New Stat. Ace. vi.) [Diet.
Nat. Biog.]
1863
EGBERT JAMES STEVENSON, born
Poona, India, 5th Oct. 1835, son of
John S., D.D., of Bombay (after
wards min. of Ladykirk) ; educated at High
School and Univ., Edinburgh ; licen. by
Presb. of Edinburgh 1861; assistant at
Lesmahagow; ord. 28th Aug. 1863; died
30th May 1899. He marr. 27th Sept. 1865,
Mary Jane Maxwell (died 19th June 1906),
daugh. of Allan MacNaughton, D.D., min.
of Lesmahagow, and had issue John
Gordon, min. of Dunnet, born 18th
June 1866.
1899
JAMES RUTH GILRUTH, born Dun
dee, 15th Jan. 1868, son of George G.
and Ann Grant ; educated at High
School, Dundee, and St Andrews Univ. ;
M.A. (1890); licen. by Presb. of Dundee
1894 ; assistant at Markinch ; ord. 8th Nov.
1899.
DUNSYRE.
[The church was dedicated to St Bride,
and belonged to the Abbey of Kelso ; dis
joined from the Presbytery of Lanark and
annexed to that of Biggar, by the Com
mission of Assembly, 4th June 1765.]
JAMES KADYE, reader. [Reg.
1567 Min.]
ROBERT SOMERVILLE, M.A. ; pres.
1601 to ^ e v i cara S e by James VI. 13th
Nov. 1601 ; dep. before 16th Jan.
1607; min. of Coulter in 1607. [Reg.
Assig.]
JAMES LINDSAY, pres. to the
ieo7 vicarage by James VI. 16th Jan.
1607; trans, to Carstairs in 1616.
1616
WILLIAM SOMERVILLE, brother of
Alex. S. of Plaine (G. R. Sas., xlv.,
505); M.A. (Edinburgh, 27th July
1605) ; pres. by James VI. 15th June 1615,
and 31st Dec. 1616 ; and by Charles I. to
the parsonage and vicarage, 14th Dec.
1635; died 15th April 1646. He marr.
Lilias Johnston (Reg. of Deeds, cccxlviii.,
166), and had issue Robert, apprenticed to
William Caldwell, merchant, Edinburgh.
[Test. Reg. (Lan.), Reg. Sec. Sig., Tombst. }
ROBERT LOCKHART, M.A. (Glas-
1647 ^ OW 1641) ; pres. by Charles I. 30th
Oct. 1646; adm. 25th Feb. 1647;
confined to the parish on the establishment
of Episcopacy, and app. by the Diocesan
Synod, 28th April 1664, to appear before a
committee of their number to answer for
not conforming. Decreet passed against
him with others, 16th July 1671. Indulged
at Coulter 3rd Sept. 1672, but not obey
ing, he was charged before the Privy
Council, 12th March 1673, and denounced
6th Nov. 1674 ; having gone to England, he
was included in the letters of intercommun-
ing, 3rd Aug. 1676, and farther cited llth
Aug. 1677. He died before 10th Jan. 1694.
He marr. (1) Helen Cowper, and had issue
Margaret, bapt. 1st April 1652; Helen
BIGGAR]
DUNSYRE
253
(marr. And. Handyside, writer, Edin
burgh, Acts and Decreets, Dal.) : (2) Helen
Dunlop, who died April 1664 : (3) Barbara
Home, widow of Andrew Bryson of Craig-
ton (G. R. Inhib., 25th July 1671). [Reg.
Sec. Sig.; Syn. (Jedburgh Presb.), Test.
(Lan.), and Edin. Reg. (Bapt.) ; Connell on
Tithes, iii. ; Kirkton s and Wodrow s Hists. ;
Acts Parl., vii.]
1669
WILLIAM DALGAKNO, M.A. ; trans.
^ rom ^ aucn ^ ne J P res - by Charles
II. 4th Sept. 1669, and adm. soon
afterwards; trans, to St Fergus 1678.
[Min. .Book Reg. Priv. Seal, v. ; Edin.
Guild Reg. ]
ROBERT SKENE, a native of Aber-
167g deenshire; M.A. (King s College,
Aberdeen, 1665 ; schoolmaster of
Cullen 1665-78; recommended by Presb.
of Fordyce for license 1st Dec. 1669 ; pres.
by Charles II. 1st Nov., and inst. 10th
Dec. 1678 ; deserted at the Revolution ;
died in Edinburgh, 22nd June 1721. He
marr. (1) in 1672, Barbara, daugh. of John
Douglas of Morriston, Provost of Elgin,
and had issue : (2) Christian (died Nov.
1690), daugh. of William Burnett of Barns
and Christian Whitford, and widow of
William MacGhie, min. of Aberlady, and
had issue Anna, died 1721 ; James ; Jean
(marr. Alexander Hay, writer, Edinburgh) ;
John, Kintyre Pursuivant, who died in
1706. [Min. Reg. Priv. Seal, Test, and
Edin. Reg. (Bur!); MS. Ace. of Min., 1689 ;
S. Presb. Eloq. and Answer^]
HENRY DUNCAN, born Glasgow, 15th
March 1663, of parents well de
scended, who suffered in means
through supporting Presbyterian prin
ciples ; entered the Greek class in Glas
gow Univ., Michaelmas 1681, where he had
a bursary ; got another of theology on
Zachary Boyd s foundation 8th Aug. 1686 ;
schoolmaster of Lanark ; licen. Oct. 1693 ;
ord. 27th March 1694 ; died 10th June
1712. He marr. 9th June 1690, Jean
Ross, who survived him, and had issue
a son and four daughters. [Wodrow s
MS., Ixxxii., and Anal., ii. ; Test. Reg.
(Lan.), TombstJ]
JAMES BRADFUTE, born 9th Aug.
1718 1680 son of Jolin ** min f Petti "
nain ; licen. by Presb. of Biggar
18th Sept. 1706 ; chaplain to Earl of
Hyndford ; pres. by Queen Anne 3rd Nov.
1712 (P. S. Reg., vii., 37) ; called 22nd Dec.
1712 ; ord. 1st April 1713 ; died 16th Aug.
1758. He marr. 10th May 1717, Jean
(died llth March 1763), daugh. of James
Mure of Rhoddens, Kilwinning, and had
issue John, his successor ; Elizabeth ;
Janet. [Leechman s Serm., i. ; Caldiuell
Pap., i. ; Tombst.]
JOHN BRADFUTE, born 1725, son of
preceding; educated at Univ. of
Glasgow; M.A. (1748); licen. by
Presb. of Biggar 22nd Aug. 1750 ; pres. by
George II., and ord. (assistant and suc
cessor) 22nd Aug. 1751; died 21st March
1793. He marr. 1st Sept. 1761, Margaret
(died 7th Feb. 1781), daugh. of John Bell,
min. of Gordon, and had issue James,
M.A., a min. of the church, born 1st July
1762, died at Market Deeping, Lines., 18th
June 1789 ; John, founder along with his
cousin, of the firm of Bell & Bradfute,
booksellers, Edinburgh, born 14th Nov.
1763 ; Robert, born 5tb April 1765 ; Eliza
beth, born 3rd Sept. 1766 ; Alexander, born
9th Sept. 1767, died 1st Oct. 1767 ; Alex
ander, born 30th Jan. 1769, died 21st
Jan. 1789. Publication Account of the
Parish (Sinclair s Stat. Ace., i.). [Carlyle s
Autob.]
JOHN RITCHIE, pres. by George III.
28th May, and ord. 4th Sept. 1794 ;
trans, to Tarbolton 27th June 1799.
[Fowlis Sess. Reg., Nelson s Life of
Ritchie.}
JOHN HAINING, pres. by George III.
3rd July, and ord. 19th Sept. 1799 ;
trans, to Maxton 16th Aug. 1804.
ROBERT RUSSELL, pres. by George
III. 13th Oct. 1804 ; ord. 25th April
1805 1805; trans, to Dolphinton 2nd
March 1815.
254
DUNSYRE LIBBERTON
[PHESB. OF
WILLIAM MEEK, born 21st June 1786, |
son of William M., Carnwath, licen. ;
by Presb. of Lanark 31st July 1811 ; j
pres. by George, Prince Regent, and orcl.
1st June 1815 ; died at Greenlaw, Glen-
corse, 2nd March 1834. He marr. 27th
Nov. 1815, Barbara (died 5th Jan. 1839),
daugh. of William Mark, farmer, Netherurd,
and had issue Mary, born 13th Aug. 1816.
Publications Sermon preached at Dunsi/re
(Edinburgh, 1817) ; Paraphrases of Sacred
Scripture, collected and revised (Lanark,
1818) ; A Treatise on Philosophical and
Theological Sects (Edinburgh, 1829) ; A
Letter to Lord Chancellor Brougham
(Edinburgh, 1831) ; Accounts of the Parish
(Lit. and St. May., iii. ; New Stat. Ace., vi.).
GEORGE CLERK RENTON, son of
John R., surgeon, Penicuik; licen.
by Presb. of Dalkeith 13th April
1826 ; pres. by William IV. 13th April, and
ord. 25th Sept. 1834 ; died unmarr. 1st Aug.
1876.
1877
WILLIAM SMITH, born Oldhamstocks,
17th April 1840, son of David S.
and Ann Thompson ; educated at
Cockburnspath School and Univ. of Edin
burgh ; M.A. (1868); licen. by Presb. of
Dunbar ; missionary at Saughtree ; ord.
19th June 1877.
LIBBERTON.
[United to Quothquan in 1618, and dis
joined by agreement between the patron
and Presb., 3rd Feb. 1649.]
WILLIAM LIVINGSTON, min. in 1567 ;
1567 trans, to Crawford. [Reg. Min.]
JAMES HAMILTON, removed from
Quothquan. Quothquan was again
in his charge in 1585. [Reg. Min.,
Wodroiv Miscell., Test. Reg.]
GEORGE MOSSMAN, reader. [Book
1576 of Assig.]
ALEXANDER SPITTAL, M.A. (St
15go Andrews, 26th Nov. 1586) ; ord. to
Biggar 1586 ; trans, and adm. 1590 ;
died before 1617 (Reg. Mag. Sig.,\il, 1620).
He marr. (name unknown), and had issue
Alexander, min. of Manor (Reg. of Deeds,
ccxc., 36) ; James, apprenticed 14th Jan.
1624 to John Gairdin, merchant, Edinburgh.
[Reg. Assig., Test. Reg. (Lan.).]
ROBERT LIVINGSTONE, M.A. (Edin-
1649 kurgh, 22rd July 1636) ; called 29th,
and adm. 26th Oct. 1649 ; died May
1677, aged about 61. He marr. Isobel
Cockburn, who died July 1688, and had
issue Robert ; James and Samuel, both
merchants, burgesses of Edinburgh (Reg.
of Deeds, Durie, 18th April 1678). [Test.
Reg. (Lan.).]
1677
JOHN TAYLOR, M.A. : pres. by James,
Earl of Carnwath ; passed trials and
was recommended 29th Aug. for
ordination ; inst. 27th Sept. 1677 ; trans.
to Mearns in 1681.
ROBERT LAWSON, son of Robert L.,
1681 scno l mas ter, Renfrew ; M.A. (Edin
burgh 1669) ; bursar in theology of
the Presb. of Earls ton ; licen. by George,
Bishop of Edinburgh, 8th May 1673 ; ord.
to Symington 10th April 1676 ; trans, and
inst. 26th July 1681 ; outed by the rabble
at the Revolution, and died Dec. 1690,
aged about 42. He marr. 13th June 1682,
Margaret, eldest daugh. of David Stirling
of Branxston, min. of Cockburnspath, who
survived him, was alive in 1709, and had
issue Ann (marr. 22nd Aug. 1720, James
Gibb, master in the High School, Edin
burgh). [Cockbumsp. Sess. Reg. ; MS. Ace.
of Min., 1689.]
ROBERT LIVINGSTONE, M.A.; ord.
1689 2 ^ t ^ 1 ^ une 16 ^9 ; trans, to Biggar
8th April 1696. [Reg. Gen. Ass.,
1690.]
JAMES STUART, licen. by Presb. of
1697 Lanark llth Nov. 1696 ; called 13th
May, and ord. 20th Aug. 1697 ; died
27th Feb. 1714. He left a widow Eliza
beth Brown, who marr. (2) Thomas Sheills
in Todshawhill (Lanark Horn., ii., Feb.
1719) and had issue (names untraced),
His brother, John, was a writer in Glas
gow. [Test. Reg. (Lan.).]
BIGGAR]
LIBBERTON
255
[WILLIAM CARSTARES and Princi
pal JOHN STIRLING were pres. by
George Lockhart of Carnwath. The Presb.
characterised these as " sham " presenta
tions, and proceeded to fill up the vacancy
in the usual way.]
JOHN THOMSON, M.A. (Edinburgh,
1717 12th May 1693) ; licen. by Presb. of
Lochmaben 1709 ; ord. to Symington
llth Sept. 1713; pres. by George Lockhart
of Carnwath, and trans, and adm. 14th May
1717; was one of fifteen ministers who
dissented from the sentence of the General
Assembly in 1740, deposing the eight
Seceders ; died 8th Dec. 1765, in his
82nd year. He rnarr, 18th May 1729,
Elizabeth (died 14th June 1771), daugh.
of John Sydserff, merchant, Dunbar,
brother of James S. of Ruchlaw, and had
issue Margaret, born 17th March 1730
(marr. Dec. 1749, Robert Menzies of Culter-
Allers, W.S.); Elizabeth; James. [Morren s
Ann., i.]
JOHN CHRISTIE, pres. by Alexander
Lockhart, advocate, and ord. (assist
ant and successor) 14th Sept. 1758 ;
trans, to Carnwath 29th May 1760.
JAMES SCOTT, pres. by Alex. Lockhart,
1761 advocate ; ord. (assistant and suc
cessor) 18th Feb. 1761 ; trans, to
Carluke 13th May 1763.
JOHN NOBLE, born in the parish of
1763 Biggar 1721 ; licen. by the Presb. of
Biggar 9th June 1757 ; pres. by
Alex. Lockhart, advocate, and ord. (assist
ant and successor) 27th Oct. 1763 ; died
1st Sept. 1776. He marr. in 1758, Mary
(died 21st Dec. 1782, in her 73rd year),
daugh. of William Dickson of Kilbucho,
widow of Geo. Muirhead of Persilands.
DAVID DICKSON of Persilands, D.D. ;
assistant to preceding, who was his
uncle, and on whose decease a
unanimous application was made on his
behalf to General James Lockhart of Lee
and Carnwath ; pres. 7th Feb., and ord.
1st May 1777 ; trans, to Bothkennar 23rd
April 1783. [Kay s Portr., ii. ; Hunter s
Biggar.]
JOHN FRASER, pres. by General
1784 J ames Lockhart- Wishart of Lee
and Carnwath, 19th Aug. 1783 ; ord.
21st April 1784 ; died 26th Aug. 1812, aged
59. He marr. 3rd Nov. 1785, Jane (died
in Edinburgh 5th April 1831, aged 66),
daugh. of Hugh Smith of Carnwath,
and had issue Pringle, captain H.E.I.C.S.,
born 6th Feb. 1787, died in Secunderabad,
21st June 1820; John, born 13th May
1789, died in Jamaica 16th Nov. 1821 ;
Hugh, born llth March 1791, died 24th
Sept. 1792; Hugh,- surgeon, 60th Regt. Royal
Rifles, born 2nd Feb. 1793, died 22nd Oct.
1865 ; Andrew, lieut.-col. H.E.I.C.S., born
3rd Nov. 1794, died 18th Sept. 1884 ; Eliza,
born 26th Feb. 1797 (marr. Thomas Smith
Wharrie, min. of Symington, Ayrshire) ;
Margaret, born 1st March 1800, died 22nd
March 1872 ; Georgina, born 6th June 1802,
died April 1821 ; Patrick, physician to the
Queen of Portugal, Knight of the Tower
and Sword, physician to the London
Hospital, born March 1805, died 12th Nov.
1896. Publication Account of the Parish
(Sinclair s 8tat. Ace., ii., xxi.). [Tombst.]
1813
ALEXANDER CRAIK, born Fife, 1772,
son of Alexander C. and Ellen
Rennie ; licen. by Presb. of St
Andrews 19th Dec. 1798 ; became rector
of the Academy at Dundee in 1809 ; pres.
by Sir Alex. Macdonald Lockhart, Bart.,
18th May, and ord. 22nd July 1813 ; D.D.
(St Andrews, 12th Jan. 1839); died in
Edinburgh, 19th Oct. 1856. He marr.
Helen (died 7th July 1860), daugh. of
William Scott, Dron, Longforgan, and had
issue Alexander Scott, merchant, London,
born 14th Jan. 1808, died 5th May 1877;
Ellen, born 27th March 1810 (marr. John
Vary, min. of Pettinain), died 29th Feb.
1896; Anne, born 10th May 1813, died
unmarr. 28th Nov. 1831 ; Eliza, born 21st
Jan. 1815, died unmarr. 24th Jan. 1892;
Margaret, born 14th April 1817, died un
marr. 29th July 1896 ; James Rennie, naval
engineer, H.E.I.C.S. (afterwards coalmaster,
Hamilton), born 14th Oct. 1818, died 3rd
Sept. 1874 ; Julia, born 22nd June 1821
(marr. James Bishop, banker, Lennoxtowu
256
LIBBERTON QUOTHQUAN
[PRESB. OF
and Coatbridge), died 12th June 1904 ;
William Scott, merchant, Port Elizabeth,
Cape Colony, born 4th July 1828, died 22nd
May 1904. Publications A Letter to
John Brou n, min. of the Assoc. Congreg.,
Biggar (Edinburgh, 1820), which called
forth A Letter of Congratulation, by Robert
Johnstone, elder, Biggar; Account of the
Parish (Netv Stat. Ace., vi.); Sermon XV.
(Ch. of Scotland Pidpit, i.). [Vide Edin
burgh Christian Instructor, xix., 1820.]
1857
JOHN LAWPJE, born Annan, son of
Thomas L. and Mary Allan ; educated
at Dalkeith and Univ. of Glasgow ;
Keen, by Presb. of Glasgow ; assistant at
Barony, Glasgow ; ord. 3rd July 1857 ; res.
16th May 1882; died 20th Aug. 1908. He
marr. 25th Feb. 1862, Isabella, daugh. of
James Stark, M.D., of Huntfield, Lanark
shire, and Isabel, daugh. of Adam Black,
M.P., and had issue Isabella, born 18th
Feb. 1863 (marr. Robert John Harvey-
Gibson, M.A., F.L.S., Professor of Botany,
Univ. of Liverpool); Thomas Henry,
accountant, California, born 21st June
1864 ; James Stark, rancher, U.S.A., born
12th Aug. 1865; Mary Allan, born 1st Oct.
1866 (marr. Thomas Parker) ; Emma Lyon,
born 21st Oct. 1867 (deceased); John
Howard, farmer, born llth Dec. 1868;
Francis Allan, Royal Insurance Co., Cal
cutta, born 18th Aug. 1877.
JAMES ROBERTSON SABISTON,
B.D. ; ord. 12th Jan. 1883; trans, to
Abbey Parish, Edinburgh, 16th Oct.
1889.
1890
JOHN PICKEN, born Stewarton, Ayr
shire, 20th Nov. 1860, son of James
P. and Janet Latta ; educated at Ayr
and Kilmarnock Academies, St Andrews
and Glasgow Univs. ; M.A. (Glasgow 1883) ;
licen. by Presb. of Ayr 1885 ; assistant at
Galston and Campsie ; ord. 27th March
1890. Marr. 26th June 1894, Catherine
Campbell, daugh. of Andrew Morrison
Brown, B.D., St Andrew s U.F. Church,
Kirkintilloch, and has issue James
Craigie, born 13th April 1895; Andrew
Maurice, born 13th May 1899 ; Mary
Binnie Robertson, born 7th July 1904.
QUOTHQUAN.
[United to Libberton in 1648, and dis
joined 3rd Feb. 1649. The disjunction was
recalled, 27th Jan. 1669.]
GEORGE ALEXANDER, exhorterC4cfe
1567 and Decreets, xli., 4).
JAMES HAMILTON, adm. May
156 _ 1569 ; removed to Libberton 1574.
Quothquan again in his charge in
1585.
THOMAS KING, exhorter in Carnwath
in 1567 : trans, and adm. 1588 ; con-
J.OOO . . _ . n
tinued in 1593. \_Reg. Assig.]
THOMAS SOMERVELL, mentioned as
1594 min. in 1594 (Reg. of Deeds, xlviii.,
244).
THOMAS MAXWELL, son of John
15 ^ M., of Pottarhill, descended from
the Maxwells of Braidiland ; M.A.
(Glasgow 1583) ; min. of Carnwath
1588 ; trans, and adm. 1597 ; died before
13th March 1605. He marr. Margaret
Livingston, who survived him, and had
issue Alexander, M.A. [Reg. Assig., Test.
Reg. (Lan. and Glasg.).~\
JOHN CHIESLIE [CHIESLEY] of
Kersewell, son of John C., farmer
in the parish ; M.A. (Edinburgh,
22nd Feb. 1602); adm. 1617; died 6th
April 1635, aged about 53. He marr.
Elizabeth, daugh. of Walter Carmichael of
Park (marr. (2), cont. 21st to 23rd Jan.
1636, John Muir of Anniston : Reg. of
Deeds, dliv., 343). She had sasine of the
lands of Anniston, etc., llth Feb. 1636,
and had issue Sir John, served heir to
his father, and knighted by Charles I. ;
William of Cockburn, W.S. ; Walter,
apprenticed 2nd May 1638 to James
Nasmith, Edinburgh, a merchant and
brewer, marr. a daugh. of Lord Provost
Archibald Tod of Edinburgh, purchased
the lands of Dairy, near Edinburgh, and
had a son, John C., notorious as the
assassin of Lord President Lockhart, 31st
March 1689 ; Samuel, apprenticed to
Andrew Brown, surgeon, 28th Dec. 1653 ;
Janet, who marr. John Muir, younger, of
BIGGAR]
QUOTHQUAN SKIRLING
257
1652
Anniston. [Test. (Lan.) and New Gen.
Reg. Sasines, iii. ; Inq. Ret. Gen., 2171 ;
Oriy. Lett., ii. ; Bannatyne Miscell., iii.]
GEORGE BENNET, pres. by Robert,
1635 Master of Dalzell, 15th July 1635 ;
was a member of the Commis
sions of Assemblies 1645-9 ; trans, to St
Ninians in 1649.
ROBERT BROWN, son of Rich. B. of
Knockmerloch, whom he succeeded
5th Dec. 1654 ; educated at Univ.
of Glasgow ; M.A. (1636) ; adm. 23rd April
1652 ; deprived by the Act of Parliament
llth June, and of Privy Council 1st Oct.
1662. In Nov. 1662 he obtained leave to
remain at Quothquan "till further order,"
on account of " the infirmity " of his wife
(Priv. Counc. Dec.) ; died before 6th Jan.
1674. He marr. Janet Hay (Lanark Sas.,
Over Ward, i., 252, A.D. 1658), and had
issue Andrew. [Wodrow s Hist. ; Inq.
Ret. Ayr, 494 et Gen., 3967, 5681.]
SKIRLING.
[The church was dedicated to the Virgin
Mary. Formerly in the Presb. of Peebles,
but transferred to that of Biggar on its
formation in 1644.]
JOHN COCKBURN, fourth son of
Sir William C. of Skirling, and
Marion Somerville; "personne of
S." in 1565. In 1567 he is styled "Rector
of Dolphinston." He marr. (1) (cont. 24th
Oct. 1563) Katherine, daugh. of Sir John
Somerville of Cambusnethan, and had issue
James of Newholme : (2) Elizabeth Brown,
and had issue William ; Malcolm ; Adam ;
Elizabeth ; Margaret (marr. (1) John Ged-
des, portioner of Kirkurd, (2) Alex. Somer
ville, min. of Dolphinton). He was dead
before Feb. 1592. [P. C. Reg.]
THOMAS LINDSAY, exhorter, with
Walston, Dolphinton, Dunsyre, in
his charge. He became min. of
Walston in 1580.
1580 JOHN PURDIE.-[7Vs. Reg.}
JAMES HUNTER, trans, from Borth-
wick, and adm. after 18th June 1594 ;
trans, to Smailholm 1596. [Reg.
Assig., Edin. Presb. Meg.]
VOL. I.
1565
1567
1594
1640
ROBERT LIVINGSTON, min. of Ellem
1593 ; trans, to Drumelzier 1594 ;
trans, and adm. 1st April 1597 ; a
member of Assemblies 1610 and 1638 ; dem.
8th April 1641 ; died 21st May 1658. He
marr. (1) Marion Fortune (Edin. Com. Dec.,
27th May 1619) : (2) Margaret, sister of
Sir William Douglas of Cavers, widow of
John Douglas, min. of Kilbucho (Reg. of
Deeds, dxxvi., 207 ; Acts and Decreets,
ccccxl., 334, 1631), and had issue Robert
(Reg. of Deeds, dvii., 501); Alexander
(Prot. Bk., A. Guthrie, 22nd April 1631);
Samuel (Reg. of Deeds, ccclxxiii., 47,
ccccxxxv., 187); Margaret (marr., cont.
4th Sept. 1615, William, son of John
Tailziefer [Telfer] of Abington : ibid.,
cclv., 414); (Marion, marr. Alexander
Stevenson). [Reg. Assig., Test, and Edin.
Reg. (Bur.\ Calderwood s and Stevenson s
Hists.]
KENNETH LOGIE, inst. (at Peebles)
17th Dec. 1640; trans, to Second
Charge, Kirkcaldy, in 1650. [Craw-
furd s Univ., Edin. Counc. Reg., Acts of
Ass. and Parl. MSS. ; Scots Mag., Ixiv.]
JOHN GREIG, M.A. (Glasgow 1638) ;
licen. by Presb. of Ayr 8th May
1644; suspended 9th May 1661 for
joining the Protesters, which sentence was
recalled 21st Nov. following; deprived by
the Act of Parliament llth June, and of
Privy Council 1st Oct. 1662 ; restored 1687
[Wodrow s Hist.]
DAVID HAY, M.A. (Edinburgh, 26th
July 1657); ord. to Cathcart 1664;
trans, and adm. 17th Aug. 1664 ; died
May 1666.
JAMES BUCHAN, M.A. ; pres. by Sir
1667 James Murray of Skirling, and adm.
14th Nov. 1667; trans, to Preston-
pans in 1676. [Wodrow s Hist. ; New
Stat. Ace., iii.]
WILLIAM LYON, M.A. (St Andrews,
w 25th July 1671); inst. 22nd Aug.
1677 ; still min. 6th Nov. 1685.
THOMAS DOUGLAS, in the service
of Archibald, Earl of Forfar ; passed
trials before Presb. of Dalkeith, and
received a testimonial 4th Sept. 1684 for
R
258
SKIRLING
[PRESB. OF
license, and was ord. a deacon ; inst. before
18th May 1686. He deserted his charge,
and was deprived by the Act of Parliament
25th April 1690, restoring the Presbyterian
ministers. He marr. 27th Jan. 1687, Helen
Forrest. \Edin. Reg. (Marr.); MS. Ace.
of Min., 1689; Eule s Sec. Vindication.]
JOHN GREIG, M.A., after being
1687 ifldulged at Carstairs, and fre
quently imprisoned in the Edin
burgh Tolbooth and on the Bass, returned,
and was present at the first meeting of min.
in the bounds of Lothian and Tweeddale
6th July 1687, after Toleration had been
granted ; died 17th May 1689, aged about
71. He marr. a daugh. of Alex. Livingston,
min. of Biggar ; she survived him, and
requiring pecuniary aid, was recommended
for charity by Presb. of Hamilton 18th Oct.
1692. They had issue John ; James ;
William, and a daugh., who marr. Nicol
Mason, mariner. [Hamilt. Presb. and
Edin. Reg. (Marr.).]
ROBERT LAW, called 25th Sept, 1689 ;
16go ord. 12th March 1690 ; member of
Assemblies 1690 and 1692 ; trans, to
Shotts 18th July 1699. [Carstairs Sess.
Reg., Tombst., Reg. Gen. Ass., Peterkin s
Constitution of the Church.]
JOHN MURRAY, M.A. (Edinburgh,
7 26th June 1699); called 14th Jan.,
and ord. 21st April 1701 ; died
unmarr. 5th June 1715, in 38th year.
[Tombst.]
ALEXANDER DOUGLAS, called llth
Nov. 1717; ord. 29th April 1718;
dep. 12th Nov. 1719; reponed 8th
Nov. 1721 ; [afterwards of East Calder].
THOMAS HENDERSON, perhaps son
of Sebastian H., bailie of Linlithgow ;
chaplain at Leadhills ; called 17th
Aug., and ord. 25th Sept. 1720; died 7th
May 1764. He marr. 5th Oct. 1726, Rachel
Kinnaird, who died 10th Aug. 1750, and had
issue James, born 3rd Feb. 1730 ; Thomas,
surgeon of the 90th Regiment, born llth
Jan. 1734, died at the siege of Havana,
13th July 1762; Janet, born 16th Feb.
1736. [Chalmers s Caled., ii.]
WILLIAM HOWE, licen. by Presb. of
7 Paisley 22nd June 1756 ; pres. by
John Carmichael of Castlecraig,
advocate, 2nd Oct. 1764; ord. 17th April
1765; died 10th Dec. 1796. He marr. (1)
19th April 1768, Marion Ferguson, Irvine,
who died 24th March 1772, and had issue
James, born 14th Sept. 1769, died 27th
April 1772; William, born llth March
1772, died 27th Aug. 1772 : (2) 14th Jan.
1778, Marion Telfer, and had issue-
William, born 13th Nov. 1779; James,
distinguished animal painter, born 31st
Aug. 1780, died llth July 1836; John,
born 30th Nov. 1782 ; Alexander, born
29th Oct. 1786. Publication Account of
the Parish (Sinclair s Stat. Ace., iii.).
[Hunter s JBiggar.]
JOHN ALPINE [MACALPINE], born
Park, Carluke, 2nd May 1764, son of
John M. and Isabel Hamilton ;
educated at Glasgow Univ. ; licen. by
Presb. of Glasgow 7th May 1794; he
changed his name to Alpine on becoming
teacher of elocution in London ; pres. by
John Carmichael of Skirling 15th Jan., and
ord. 12th Sept. 1797 ; died unmarr. 1st
Nov. 1836. Publication Account of the
Parish (New Stat. Ace., iii.).
[DAVID GAIRDNER, M.A., licen. by
Presb. of Biggar 5th Feb. 1822; became
assistant to preceding in 1824; pres. by
Sir Thomas Gibson Carmichael of Skirling,
but died before the day appointed for his
ordination, 6th Jan. 1837, aged 39.]
WILLIAM HANNA, born 26th Nov.
l 7 1808, son of Samuel H., D.D., Pro
fessor of Divinity, Belfast ; educated
at the Univs. of Glasgow and Edinburgh ;
M.A. (Glasgow 1830); licen. by Presb. of
Hamilton llth June 1834; ord. to East
Kilbride 17th Sept. 1835; pres. by Sir
Thomas Gibson Carmichael, Bart., 21st
Feb., trans, and adm. 8th June 1837. Joined
the Free Church; min. of Skirling Free
BIGGAR]
SKIRLTNG-SYMINGTON
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Church 1843-8; trans, to Free St John s,
Edinburgh (as colleague to Dr Guthrie),
1850; LL.D. (Glasgow 1852), D.D. (Edin
burgh 1864) ; retired 1866 ; died at London,
24th May 1882. He marr. 30th March 1836,
Agnes, daugh. of Thomas Chalmers, D.D.,
Edinburgh, and had issue two sons, died
in infancy ; Thomas Chalmers, C.A., Edin
burgh, born 22nd June 1837, died 23rd
Dec. 1910 ; Matilda Grace, born 24th March
1857 (marr. 17th Oct. 1882, A. W. Blackie).
Publications Memoirs of the Life and
Writings of Thomas Chalmers, D.D., LL.D.,
4 vols. (Edinburgh, 1849-52) ; Postscript to
Dyke s Apostolic Times Revived (Edinburgh,
1859); The Headship of Christ (1860);
Wycliffe and the Huguenots (Edinburgh,
1860) ; The Martyrs of the Scottish Refor
mation (1861) ; The Last Day of Our Lord s
Passion (Edinburgh, 1862) ; The Forty Days
after Our Lords Resurrection (Edinburgh,
1863); The Earlier Years of Our Lords
Life on Earth (Edinburgh, 1864); The
Passion Week (1866) ; The Ministry in
Galilee (1868) ; The Close of the Ministry
(1869) ; The Wars of the Hugrienots (1871) ;
The Resurrection of the Dead (1872);
Memoir of Sir Alexander Gibson Car-
michael of Skirling, Bart, (private circula
tion) ; Memoir of Alexander Keith Johnston
(private circulation). He edited the " Pos
thumous Works of Thomas Chalmers," 9
vols. (1847-9); Essays by Ministers of the
Free Church of Scotland (1858) ; Dr Charles
Hodge s Idea of the Church (1860) ; Letters
of Thomas Erskine of Linlathan (1877) ;
edited the North British Revieiv for a
time. [Diet. Nat. Biog.~\
WILLIAM M KENZIE, born Kirk-
1843 cu dbright, 17th Sept. 1789, son of
John M. and Janet Kelly; educated
at Academy, Kirkcudbright (in which he
was afterwards English master) and Edin
burgh Univ. ; licen. by Presb. of Kirkcud
bright 1818; ord. 10th Nov. 1843; died
unmarr. 21st Feb. 1854. Publications
History of Galloivay (Kirkcudbright,
1841); Statistical Account of Kirkcud
bright ; Poems. [See Scraps by M K.
(Kirkcudbright, 1881) ; Statement of Facts
as to the Writing, Printing, and Publishing
of History of Galloway, by J. C. M Kenzie
(1882).]
1854
MATTHEW ARMSTRONG, born Tin-
wald Mill, Dumfriesshire, 9th Oct.
1819, son of Francis A. and Jean
Brown ; educated at Dumfries and Edin
burgh Univ. ; licen. by Presb. of Dumfries ;
assistant at Skirling ; pres. by Sir Thomas
Gibson Carmichael, Bart. ; ord. 7th June
1854; died 13th Jan. 1888. He marr. 30th
Nov. 1854, Ramsay Hannay (died 16th May
1895), daugh. of John Christison, D.D., min.
of Biggar, and had issue John Brown, his
successor; Francis, born llth April 1857,
died in the Bahamas, Sept. 1912; Ramsay
Maclellan, born 25th July 1858 (marr. llth
Aug. 1881, Dr Miller, Birkenhead) ; Thomas,
born 12th Oct. 1859, died abroad; Christi
son, born 7th March 1861, died in Havana ;
Jean Brown, born 5th Feb. 1864 (marr. John
Crawford Dick, min. of Eskdalemuir).
1888
JOHN BROWN ARMSTRONG, son of
preceding, born 17th Oct. 1855 ; edu
cated at Biggar and Edinburgh
Univ.; licen. by Presb. of Biggar 1880;
assistant at Duirinish, Skye ; ord. 5th July
1888 ; died 5th May 1906. He marr. 24th
Dec. 1895, Rhoda Charlotte Mary, daugh.
of Dr Trueman, and had issue Christison
Matthew, born 26th Oct. 1898.
1906
THOMAS MUIR, born Old Monkland,
21st Feb. 1858, son of James M. and
Isabella Forbes ; educated at Glasgow
Univ. ; M.A. (1885), B.D. (1887) ; licen. by
Presb. of Hamilton 26th April 1887; as
sistant at Holywood, Coylton, and St
Paul s, Glasgow ; ord. to Methil 24th Sept.
1891 ; trans, and adm. 25th Sept. 1906.
He marr. 2nd Dec. 1891, Joanna, daugh. of
John Brown and Jeannie Russell, Wester
Rhinds, Baillieston, and has issue James
Forbes, born 25th Oct. 1892; John Alex
ander Russell Brown, born 13th Sept. 1895.
SYMINGTON.
[The church previous to the Reformation
belonged to the Abbey of Kelso.]
1567-73 JOHN LINDSAY, reader.
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SYMINGTON
[PRESB. OF
JOHN SYMONTON, probably son of
1592 William S. of that ilk ; pres. to the
vicarage by James VI. before 5th
Feb. 1592; in 1593 Thankerton was also
under his charge ; was still min. in 1597.
[Reg. Assig.]
JOHN LINDSAY, min. of Carstairs ;
1601 P reS- to ^ e v i cara =>e by James VI. ;
resigned previous to 9th Sept. 1607,
and returned to Carstairs. [Reg. Assiy.~\
1607
ROBERT LINDSAY, pres. to the
vicarage by James VI. 9th Sept.
1607.
1623
1649
ANDREW GUDLAD, son of David G.,
infeft as heir of his brother John in
two acres near St Andrews (Fife Sas.,
xii., 198); M.A. (St Andrews 1599); pres.
in 1623 ; dep. 31st Aug. 1648, " being found
altogether unprofitable, and a contemner of
the acts and constitutions of the Kirk
tending to the Reformation and settling of
the true religion." [Act. Rect. Univ. St
And., Test. Reg. (Lan.).~\
GEORGE PHIN, schoolmaster of South
Leith 13th Feb. 1645; pres. by Sir
William Baillie of Lamington 23rd
May 1649 ; adm. 17th July 1649 ; continued
5th May 1657 ; but the c 
