FASTI ECCLESI^E SCOTICAN^E
SYNODS OF ROSS, SUTHERLAND AND CAITHNESS
GLENELG, ORKNEY AND OF SHETLAND
THE CHURCH IN ENGLAND
IRELAND AND OVERSEAS
EDITORIAL COMMITTEE
The Rev. W. S. CROCKETT. D.D., Minister of Tweedsmuir, Convener and
General Editor.
FRANCIS JAMES GRANT, W.S., Rothesay Herald and Lyon Clerk, Vice-Convener
and Joint-Editor.
The Rev. Professor JAMES MACKINNON, D.D., Ph.D.
Sir JAMES BALFOUR PAUL, K.C.V.O., LL.D.
The Rev. ARTHUR POLLOK SYM, D.D.
GENERAL COMMITTEE
The Very Rev. DAVID PAUL, D.D., LL.D.,
Edinburgh
The Rev. Professor BAXTER, B.D., St
Andrews
The Rev. Professor MACKINNON, D D.,
Ph.D., Edinburgh
The Rev. THOMAS BURNS, D.D., Edinburgh
The Rev. W. W. COATS, D.D., Brechin
The Rev. J. T. Cox, D.D., Dyce
The Rev. J. KING HEWISON, D.D., Rothesay
The Rev. A. M'NEILL HOUSTON, D.D.,
Auchterderran
The Rev. JOSEPH MITCHELL, D.D.. Mauchline
The Rev. HARRY SMITH, D.D., Heriot
The Rev. ARTHUR P. SYM, D.D., Lilliesleaf
The Rev. J. R. AITKEN, M.A., Edinburgh
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. ALEXANDER A. DUNCAN, B.D.,
Auchterless
The Rev. RICHARD HENDERSON, B.D.,
Longside
The Rev. JAMES F. LEISHMAN, M.A.,
Lin ton
The Rev. ANGUS J. MACDONALD, Killearnan
The Rev. ALEX. M. MACGREGOR, Lochryan
The Rev. JOHN MUIRHEAD, B.D., Avendale
The Rev. JOHN W. MURRAY, B.A. (Oxon.),
Manor
The Rev. W. H. PORTER, Cults, Pitlessie
The Rev. WILLIAM STEPHEN, B.D., Inver-
keithing
C. E. W. MACPHERSON, C.A., Edinburgh
Sir JAMES BALFOUR PAUL, K.C.V.O., LL.D.,
Edinburgh
THOMAS REID, M.A., Lanark
J. H. STEVENSON, M.B.E., K.C., Edinburgh
FASTI
SCOTICAN.E
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 VII
SYNODS OF ROSS, SUTHERLAND AND CAITHNESS
GLENELG, ORKNEY AND OF SHETLAND
THE CHURCH IN ENGLAND
IRELAND AND OVERSEAS
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PREFATORY NOTE
WITH the present Volume the work of preparing a new edition of
Fasti Ecdesice Scoticance comes to a completion. The genesis of the
undertaking may be recalled. An Overture was presented to the
General Assembly in the following terms:—
" Whereas the publication known as Dr Hew Scott's Fasti Ecdesice
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CAMPBELL, D.D. (Glasgow 1924), min.
of Dumfries and Convener of Home
Mission Committee (cf. Vol. II., 268).
Publication— The Christian Good of
Scotland [Assembly Address] (Edin
burgh 1928). [Portrait in Life and
Work, July 1928.]
only of the documents (chiefly Presbytery Registers) available to
Dr Scott, but also of numerous others to which he had no access, and
which, indeed, were unknown to him, many of them having been
discovered within recent years. In addition, the Editors have had the
advantage of reading a very large number of Local, Family and
General Histories published since Dr Scott's day. Full use has been
made of the important Separate Registers belonging to the different
Presbyteries : thus most of what is purely domestic information— in the
PREFATORY NOTE
WITH the present Volume the work of preparing a new edition of
Fasti Ecdesice Scoticance comes to a completion. The genesis of the
undertaking may be recalled. An Overture was presented to the
General Assembly in the following terms: —
" Whereas the publication known as Dr Hew Scott's Fasti Ecdesice
Scoticance contains valuable information relative to the ministers of
the Church from an early period ; whereas it is desirable to continue a
record of the succession of ministers in the various parishes since the
date of that publication; and whereas this can be most conveniently
carried out by a Committee representing the Church: It is humbly
Overtured by the undersigned Members of the House to the Venerable
the General Assembly to appoint a Committee to collect material for
the continuance of the record up to the present date ; or to do otherwise
as the Assembly may see fit."
Of eight signatories it may be stated that three only survive, while
of ten members who constituted the Editorial Committee of 1914,
four only remain.
During the earlier stages of conference as to the precise arrangement
of the work, a decision was arrived at which entirely altered its
original design of merely continuing Dr Hew Scott's Fasti from 1839
to the present time. That decision involved a complete revision of all
Dr Scott's Volumes, and to this extended scheme the General Assembly
gave cordial approval. The seven Volumes now issued, therefore,
have been compiled and re-written following a careful perusal, not
only of the documents (chiefly Presbytery Registers) available to
Dr Scott, but also of numerous others to which he had no access, and
which, indeed, were unknown to him, many of them having been
discovered within recent years. In addition, the Editors have had the
advantage of reading a very large number of Local, Family and
General Histories published since Dr Scott's day. Full use has been
made of the important Separate Registers belonging to the different
Presbyteries : thus most of what is purely domestic information— in the
vi PREFATORY NOTE
shape of family details, etc. — has been derived from official sources.
Further, much genealogical data has come from the parochial and
other documents preserved in H.M. General Register House, Edinburgh,
to which the officials thereof gave courteous and ready access. An
extensive correspondence with surviving relatives and friends of
ministers has also ensured completeness and correctness -as far as
possible, for the records here brought together.
These Volumes, possible only through much arduous research, have
been undertaken by the Editors as a labour of love, and the work has
been published without expense to the Church. The Editors think it
right to say that the publishers, Messrs Oliver & Boyd, have borne the
brunt of the printing costs which have been considerable, aided by
small bonuses provided by friends of the Church.
Having now reached the end of their long and difficult task, the
Editors rejoice to be able to place before the Church and the public
a compilation of much more than ecclesiastical importance, and of
which critics have declared that it is a work necessary for a true
elucidation of the national spirit and of the national history.
The present Volume (in which Dr Scott's original work ends at page
320) contains material assembled from many quarters and from many
lands. Never before has the story of the Church of Scotland in
England, Ireland, on the Continent of Europe, in the British Colonies,
and in America, been told in biographical detail, and the notices of
Indian Chaplains, Foreign and Jewish Missionaries are here given for
the first time. The biographies of the Episcopal period, as also those
pertaining to the Scottish Universities, and the carefully-collated list
of Moderators, have been added in order to make this Fasti of the
Church a full record of all who have served her in the ministry from
the Reformation to the present year. The Volume now issued has been
brought up to date.
Many helpers have assisted in the preparation of this Volume. Of
these the Committee record their thanks to the following : —
The various Clerks of Presbyteries; Rev. Angus Macdonald,
minister of Killearnan; Rev. Donald Beaton, minister of Free
Presbyterian Church, Wick ; Rev. Donald Mackinnon, minister of
Free Church, Portree; Rev. Professor J. H. Baxter and the late
James Maitland Anderson, LL.D., St Andrews; The late Very Rev.
James Nicoll Ogilvie, D.D.; Rev. John M. Russell, D.D., Cape Town;
Rev. John Burgess, D,D., Clerk of New South Wales General
PREFATORY NOTE vii
Assembly; Rev. W. Floyd Shannon, Clerk of Presbyterian Church
in South Australia ; Rev. James H. Mackenzie, Clerk of Assembly of
Presbyterian Church of New Zealand ; Rev. Professor John T. M'Neill,
D.D., Toronto, Canada; Rev. Ewen M'Dougall, Charlottetown, Prince
Edward Island; Rev. J. M. Hunt, Kingston, Jamaica; Rev. Duncan
Macfarlane, Grenada , Rev. J. W. MacGill, Colvend (formerly of British
Guiana) ; Kenneth Macleod Black, London ; R. S. Robson, Newcastle-
upon-Tyne; John Mark, Newcastle - upon - Tyne ; Robert Hyslop,
Sunderland; William R. Shaw, Manchester; W. M. M'Lachlan, M.A.,
W.S., Secretary of Foreign Mission Committee; Thomas Henderson,
Secretary of Church Overseas Committee ; Rev. William Deans,
Secretary of Jewish Mission Committee, and the Superintendent of
Records, India Office, Whitehall, London.
W. S. CROCKETT.
FRANCIS J. GRANT.
April 1928.
CONTENTS
ABREVIATIONS ... .... . xii
SYNOD OF Ross—
I. Presbytery of Chanonry
II. Presbytery of Dingwall
III. Presbytery of Tain . .52
SYNOD OF SUTHERLAND AND CAITHNESS —
I. Presbytery of Dornoch . 77
II. Presbytery of Tongue • 101
III. Presbytery of Caithness
SYNOD OF GLENELG —
I. Presbytery of Lochcarron .
II. Presbytery of Skye .
III. Presbytery of Uist .
IV. Presbytery of Lewis
SYNOD OF ORKNEY —
I. Presbytery of Kirkwall . . 210
II. Presbytery of Cairston ... .234
III. Presbytery of The North Isles . . 258
SYNOD OF SHETLAND —
I. Presbytery of Lerwick ... • 279
II. Presbytery of Burravoe . . 295
III. Presbytery of Olnafirth . . 306
ARCHBISHOPS . . . . 321
BISHOPS .329
THE UNIVERSITIES OF SCOTLAND . . .357
MODERATORS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY .... . 436
ARMY AND NAVY CHAPLAINS ..... .448
CHAPLAINS TO INFIRMARIES AND OTHERS .... .454
CHAPLAINS TO PRISONS ........ 455
SYNOD OF THE SCOTTISH CHURCH IN ENGLAND —
I. Presbytery of North of England ... . . 457
II. Presbytery of West of England . . . . 464
III. Presbytery of London .... . 466
CHARGES IN ENGLAND, NOW EXTINCT OR MERGED WITH OTHER CONGREGATIONS 471
IRELAND ........•• 526
x CONTENTS
PAGE
THE CHTJKCH OP SCOTLAND OVEESEAS —
Continent of Europe —
Belgium
France .... .535
Germany ..... ... 536
Holland . , .537
Italy ...... .555
Switzerland ..... .556
The Mediterranean .... • 556
Continent of Africa —
Egypt . 557
East Africa (Kenya Colony) .... .558
Madeira . .558
Mauritius ......... 558
South Africa 560
Continent of Asia —
Burma ......... 566
Ceylon ......... 566
India (Indian Chaplains) ....... 568
Simla - . .582
China . . . . . . . . .582
Palestine ... ..... 582
COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA—
Australia .......... 583
Tasmania .......... 600
Fiji ... . ... 602
New Zealand ......... 602
CONTINENT OF AMERICA—
Dominion of Canada (Maritime Provinces) —
Cape Breton ......... 606
New Brunswick . . . • . . . . . 608
Nova Scotia . . . . . . . .612
Prince Edward Island . . . . . . .619
Dominion of Canada (Western Provinces) —
Ontario and Quebec . . . . . . .623
Dominion of Canada (North-Western Provinces) —
Manitoba, etc. ........ 655
British Columbia . 657
Newfoundland ......... 659
Bermuda .......... 660
United States of America 661
CONTENTS xi
PAGE
BRITISH WEST INDIES —
Antigua .......... 666
The Bahama Isbm.ls 666
Grenada 667
Jamaica .......... 668
St Vincent 671
Tobago 671
CENTRAL AMERICA —
British Honduras . . . . . . . . 672
SOUTH AMERICA —
British Guiana ......... 672
Argentina . . . . . .... . . . 680
Chile 683
Patagonia .......... 684
Peru . . . 684
FOREIGN MISSIONARIES . . . . . . . . 685
JEWISH MISSIONARIES . . . . . . . . 713
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHURCH AND PARISH HISTORIES, ETC. . . . 719
INDEX OP PARISHES AND CHAPELS (SCOTLAND AND ENGLAND) . . . 762
INDEX OP MINISTERS . . 767
ABBREVIATIONS
adm.
. admitted
marr. .
. • . married
app.
. appointed
min. .
. . minister
bapt.
. baptized
ord. .
. ordained
coll.
. collated
pres. .
. presented
<;ont.
. contract
presb.
• . . presbytery
(marriage)
pro. .
. proclaimed
dem.
. demitted
res.
. resigned
dep.
. deposed
s.p. .
. without issue
ind.
. inducted
trans.
. translated
inst.
instituted
univ.
. . university
licen.
licensed
unmarr.
. unmarried
SYNOD OF ROSS
THE Register of the Synod of Ross begins at 18th March 1707. As the
Presbytery of Ross there is a volume commencing 25th July 1693, and
ending 12th December 1701.
PRESBYTERY OF CHANONRY, OF OLD ARDMANNACH
[This Court was already at work in 1592. Its Register begins at 14th January 1707
with a blank from 6th February 1753 to 14th September 1762.]
AVOCH.
[The church of Avoch belonged to the
Abbey of Kinloss. Its prebend was held by
the chantor of the Cathedral of Fortrose.
At Onnond Castle, in this parish, there
was a chapel of St Mary, and near it was
Our Lady's Well. At Killeain there was
a chapel of St John.]
ALEXANDER PEDDER, vicar at the
1560 Reformation ; died in 1569.
ANDREW MYLNE, exhorter; pres. to
166g the vicarage by James VI. in 1569, to
which Kilmuir- Wester and Ardersier
were attached after Nov. 1574 ; app. one
of the Visitors of Ross by the Assembly
in 1586, and still min. in 1601.— [Booke of
the Kirk ; Orig. Par. Scot., ii., 541 ; Reg.
Mag. Sig., v., 738.]
ALEXANDER HOME, chantor of Ross,
158Q gave a tack of the chanter's teinds
to Andrew Munro of Davochcartie
in 1586.— [Original at Killearnan.}
JAMES LAUDER, educated at Univ.
1Q07 of Edinburgh; MA. (12th Aug.
1592); adm. to Kilmuir- Wester in
VOL. VII.
1596; trans, to Ardersier 1597; trans-
and adm. before 13th July 1607; dem. in
favour of his son in 1642, but still mentioned
4th Dec. 1655. He marr. and had issue-
William, min. of this parish; James.—
[Original Charter by Bishop of Ross at
Killearnan; Reg. Mag. Sig., viii. 189
ix. 1293.]
WILLIAM LAUDER, born about 1614,
1642 eldest son of preceding; educated
at King's College, Aberdeen; MA.
(1632) ; pres. by Charles I. llth July 1642 ;
was a member of the Commission of
Assembly in 1645. He was suspended by
the Commission of Assembly for subscrib
ing Seaforth's Remonstrance, 22nd May
1647, and was one of the signatories to the
Letter of the Presb. of Chanonry to the
Commission approving of their proceedings,
8th May 1651 ; still min. 4th April 1665
and died before 1672. He marr. Katherine,
eldest daugh. of Murdoch Mackenzie,
chamberlain of Lewis, of the family of
Davochmaluag, and had issue— William,
commissary clerk of Ross. Publication
—Elogia XXXVII., XXXVIII. (Forbes's
Funeral Sermons).— [Geneal. of the Mac-
kenzies.]
2
AVOCH
[PKESB. OF
RODERICK MACKENZIE, educated
at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A.
(8th July 1649) ; passed trials before
Presb. of Glasgow and had a testimonial
for licence 1st Feb. 1655 ; pres. by Charles
II. 15th May 1668; still rain. 25th Feb.
1669.
RODERICK MACKENZIE of Avoch,
son of John M., archdeacon of Ross
and min. of Fodderty; educated at
King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1681);
adm. as deacon ; recommended for ordina
tion 7th March 1683 ; was a protester in 1694
against the Commission for the North ; died
7th March 1710. A strong Episcopalian,
he defied the Presb. and held the benefice
till his death. He marr. Elizabeth, daugh.
of the Hon. Simon Mackenzie of Lochslin,
son of Kenneth, Lord Mackenzie of Kintail,
and had issue— John of Avoch ; Christina
(marr. 1707, Sir Kenneth Mackenzie of
Scatwell); Isobel (marr. 1705, Alexander
Matheson of Bennetsfield) ; Margaret (marr.
John MacRae of Drynie) ; Anna (marr.
Lewis Grant, min.). — [Reg. of Deeds,
Mack., 15th July 1712.]
ALEXANDER M'BEAN, M.A. ; as a
probationer within the bounds he
' was called by the Presb. jure devoluto
28th Aug. 1711, but owing to the opposi
tion of the parishioners, who were largely
Episcopalians, access could not be got to
the church and he was ord. at Rosemarkie
4th June 1712. He was obliged to raise
an action in the Court of Session to obtain
access to the church. In Aug. 1713 he
complained he had been unable to carry on
his ministry, the church being still barred
against him and the people antagonistic.
After much wrangling between heritors,
Presb. and Synod, he was given liberty to
seek another charge, and was settled at
Douglas, Lanarkshire, 28th May 1714.
ALEXANDER RAE, chaplain to Mrs
Ross of Balnagowan ; licen. by Presb
of Tain 13th Jan. 1714 ; called by the
Presb. jure devoluto 22nd Sept., and pres
by Alexander Brodie of Lethen 30th Dec
1715; ord. 28th March 1716; died 15th
Aug. 1735. It was greatly owing to his
exertions that a process was raised for
'ecovery of an endowment by Thomas
Forbes, bailie of Fortrose, in the hands of
Slizabeth, Countess of Seaforth.for support
of a minister in that burgh. He marr.
Jean Stewart, who survived him.— [Re
ligious Lije in Ross, 247, 253.]
ALEXANDER FRASER, M.A.; pres.
by Alexander Brodie of Lethen 15th
Dec. 1735; ord. 24th Aug. 1736;
trans, to Third Charge, Inverness, 13th
Nov. 1754.
THOMAS SIMPSON, born 1718 ; licen.
by Presb. of Elgin 1st Nov. 1748;
resided in Banff in 1752 ; pres. to
Cromarty by William Urquhart of Meldrum,
but call was rejected by the Assembly 29th
May 1755 ; ord. here 14th April 1756; died
22nd Sept. 1786. He marr. (1) 6th Dec.
1756, Isobel, daugh. of George Mackenzie
of Pitlundie and Culbo, and had issue-
William, min. of Strathconan, born 6th
Sept. 1757, died 10th May 1799 : (2) 4th
Jan. 1759, Isobel, daugh. of George Mac
kenzie of Gruinard and Elizabeth, natural
daugh. of Lord President Duncan Forbes
of Culloden, and had issue— George, born
9th Oct. 1759 ; John, born 14th April 1761 ;
Alexander, born 3rd April 1763 ; Jean, born
23rd Dec. 1764, died at Dingwall 31st Oct.
1835; Thomas, born 30th Dec. 1766;
Margaret, born 6th Sept. 1768 ; Roderick,
born 16th May 1770 ; Duncan, merchant,
London, born 12th Aug. 1771, died at
Bellevue 15th June 1854; Geddes, of
Tower Street, London, born 4th Feb. 1775.
— [Tombst.]
JAMES SMITH, born Aberdeenshire,
1758 ; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen ; M.A. (30th March 1782) ;
pres. by Miss Brodie of Lethen in July,
and ord. 24th Sept. 1787 ; died 9th Dec.
1830. There was strong opposition to his
settlement, the majority of the congrega
tion seceding from the church and joining
the Independent (now Congregational)
Church to which a large proportion of
the parishioners still adhere. S. was much
CHANONRT]
AVOCH— CROMARTY
8
respected as a consistent and faithful pastor.
He left £30 to the poor of the parish. He
marr. 3rd Oct. 1789, Alexandrina (died
22nd July 1846, aged 86), daugh. of Alex
ander Houston, provost of Fortrose, and
had issue— James Brodie, M.A., apprenticed
to a W.S., born 1st March 1793, died 27th
Oct. 1813 ; Janet Isabel, born 9th Nov. 1794
(marr. Thomas Munro, min. of Kiltearn) ;
Mary Ann Grace, born 8th July 1796 (marr.
Peter Ferries, min. of Edinkillie); Lieut.
Edgar, died 27th Oct. 1813; Alexander^
died 31st Jan. 1798; Penuel Margaret,
died May 1801. Publication-Account of
the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., xiv ) —
[Tombst.]
JAMES GIBSON, born 1800, second son
1831 of Jolln G-> farnier, Doune, Perth
shire ; educated at Univ. of Edin
burgh ; Keen, by Presb. of Linlithgow 1st
Oct. 1821; pres. by Sir James Wemyss
Mackenzie of Scatwell, in whose family he
had been tutor, in Jan., and ord. 15th Sept.
1831; D.D. (Glasgow, 28th April 1852),
died 16th April 1866. He marr. 4th Nov.
1834, Ann Isabella (died 15th May 1865),
daugh. of Thomas Mackenzie of Strath-
garve, and had issue — John, min. of this
parish ; Thomas, born 26th Nov. and died
5th Dec. 1836; Isabella, born 26th Sept.
1837 (marr. Arthur Harvey Alexander,
Grenada); Margaret Henrietta Wharton'
born 3rd and died 23rd May 1839; Ann
Mackenzie, born 31st March 1841 (marr.
Roderick Hay Nicolson, min. of Apple-
cross); Jemima Margaret, born 7th May
1845 (marr. Donald Mackenzie, Hong-
Kong). Publication — Account of the
Parish (New Stat. Ace., xiv.).
JOHN MACKENZIE GIBSON, born
1866 4th Au&- 1835> son of preceding;
educated at King's College, Aber
deen ; M.A. (March 1854) ; licen. by Presb.
of Chanonry 4th May 1858 ; pres. by James
Fletcher of Rosehaugh ; ord. llth July
1866 ; dem. 1st Dec. 1891 ; died at 22
Regent Terrace, Edinburgh, 22nd Sept.
1916. He marr. 9th Oct. 1889, Elizabeth
(died s.p. 28th Aug. 1920), daugh. of John
Watson Wemyss, M.D.
ALFRED MORRISON PHILIP, born
1892 Inverkeithny, 27th March 1860, son
of George Forbes Innes P., min. of
New Deer ; educated at Univ. of Aberdeen ;
M.A. (1880), B.D. (1883); licen. by Presb.
of Aberdeen in 1883 ; ord. to Crown Court
Church, London, 1885; trans, and adm.
llth May 1892; died 14th June 1914.
He marr. (1) 16th Aug. 1889, Florence
Margaret (died 7th Aug. 1894), daugh. of
John Philip, Cape Town, and had issue-
Colin Cameron, M.B., C.M., captain Low
land Field Ambulance in European War,
born 21st July 1890; George Morrison,
B.Sc., D.S.O., M.C., mentioned three times
in despatches, lieut. 12th Northumberland
Fusiliers in European War, born 29th
March 1892 ; Florence Margaret, born 13th
Aug. and died 18th Nov. 1894: (2) 19th
Dec. 1900, Isabella Midler, second daugh.
of Gavin Catto, Mains of Gight, and had
issue— Florence Barbara, born 16th Oct.
1901, died 21st Jan. 1902 ; Barbara Violet,
born llth March 1893, died 12th Feb. 1904.
Publication— The Cathedral Kirk of Ross
(Trans. Scot. Eccl. Soc.t 1904.)
EDWIN JAMES BRECHIN,
1914 born Dundee, 10th Feb. 1874, son
of James B. and MaryNicoll; edu
cated at Dundee High School and Univ.
of St Andrews; M.A. (1897), B.D. (1900);
student missionary at Muthil and Unst ;
licen. by Presb. of Perth 15th May 1899;
assistant at Monifieth, St Andrews, Paisley
and West Parish, Aberdeen ; ord. to Scots
Kirk, Paris, 18th May 1902 ; trans, to St
James's, Dulwich, London, 7th Feb. 1907 ;
trans, and adm. 4th Dec. 1914; general
superintendent for France of Scottish
Churches' Huts during European War;
O.B.E. (1st Jan. 1919). Marr. 19th May
1902, Theodora Mary, daugh. of William
Smith, min. of Unst.
CROMARTY.
[.The old church of Cromarty was dedi
cated to St Benet. Its site has been
overflowed, and is now covered by the
sea. A convent of the Red Friars was
Founded at Cromarty by Sir Patrick
CROMARTY
[PRKSB. OF
Murray in 1271. There were in this parish
chapels of St Duthac, St Kule, and St
Michael. Cromarty had also Wells of Our
Lady, St Benet, and St Duthac. The
Gaelic chapel in the town was built by
George Ross of Cromarty in 1783.]
JOHN ANDERSON, chamberlain of
1680 Morav; vicar at tlie Reformation >
refusing to conform was allowed by
the Privy Council, Feb. 1562, to retain
two-thirds of the emoluments ; died 1582.
JAMES BURNET, reader 1569 to
1669 1574.
JOHN ROBERTSON, removed from
Chanonry, holding also the Treasury
of Ross; returned to Chanonry
about 1578.
ROBERT WILLIAMSON, educated at
Univ. of St Andrews in 1577;
" reader at Monykeback in 1578;
adm. to Nigg (Aberdeen) in 1580 ; pres. to
the vicarage by James VI. on death of John
Anderson, 29th Jan. 1582. In 1583 the
heritors were ordered by the Privy Council
to pay him the teinds of the vicarage of
Cromarty "under pain of warding in the
Castle of Blackness." He was named by
the Privy Council one of those for the
maintenance of true religion in the Sheriff-
doms of Inverness and Cromarty 6th March
1589. On a flat triangular stone in the
eastern part of the town his initials with
those of his wife are inscribed with date
1593.— [Booke of the Kirk.]
WILLIAM LUNAN, MA. ; adm. before
1688 2nd Nov. 1638. The Presb. of Turriff
was ordered by the General Assembly,
13th Feb. 1645, to proceed to his excommuni
cation. He was afterwards min..of Daviot.
GILBERT ANDERSON of Udol in this
1642 Pa"s^' born 1597 ; educated at King's
' College, Aberdeen; MA. (1626);
adm. to Cawdor before 30th Oct. 1627;
trans, and adm. between 5th Oct. 1641 and
llth Jan. 1642 ; died Nov. 1655. He railed
against his patron and family several times
from the pulpit, according to Sir Thomas
Urquhart of Cromarty, " with such opprob
rious tonnes, more like a scolding tripe-
seller's wife than good minister, squirting
the poyson of detraction and abominable
falshood (unfit for the chaire of verity) in
the eares of his tenandry, who were the
onely auditors." He marr. Elizabeth Bruce
(who marr. (2) Andrew Ross, min. of Tarbat)
and had issue — Hugh, min. of this parish. —
[Urquhart's Jewel (1652) ; Kirkton's Hist.,
96 ; Brodie's Diary ; Family of Dallas,
286.]
HUGH ANDERSON of Udol, born
about 1633, son of preceding, edu
cated at King's College, Aberdeen ;
MA. (1651) ; was regent there in 1652 ;
adm. 1656 ; deprived by Act of Parliament
and Decreet of Privy Council 1st Oct. 1662,
but was allowed to remain unmolested'until
after assisting at the Communion at Obs-
dale House (now Dalmore) in Sept. 1675,
when he retired to Udol ; restored in 1690 ;
died 3rd June 1704. Hugh Miller says
he lived a part of the time in Moray. He
marr. Grizel, daugh. of John Row, Principal
of King's College, Aberdeen, and had issue-
Barbara, born Jan. 1661, died March 1663 ;
Hugh, min. of Drainie, born 1666 ; Alex
ander, min. of Duffus, born 28th Aug. 1672 ;
Grizel (marr. Mr Crombie, merchant in
Elgin). — [Wodrow's Hist., ii., 333; Bass
Rock, 239, 241 ; Covenanters in Moray and
Ross, 60, 189, 192 ; Orem's Old Aberdeen ;
Tombst.]
THOMAS URQUHART, son of Alex
ander U., bailie ; was min. in 1673 ;
5 deprived in 1678; was alive in 1684
according to a Summons of Adjudication
against him, Sir John Urquhart, and others,
by John Macleod of Milton.— [Cromartie
Writs; Inverness Sas., iv., 243-4, 21st
Nov. 1673.]
BERNARD MACKENZIE, born 1657 ;
fifth son of Captain Daniel M. and
Nance Dunbar of Avoch, and grand
son of Major Bernard M., who fell at Auld-
earn 9th May 1645 ; had a bursary from
Presb. of Dingwall 25th Nov. 1673; was
sent to King's College, Aberdeen, by
Kenneth, Earl of Seaforth, who app. him
schoolmaster of Fortrose ; ord. by Bishop
CHANONRY]
CROMARTY
of Ross ; pres. to this charge 2nd July
and adm. Aug. 1678; deprived by the Act
restoring Presbyterian ministers 25th April
1690. In the year 1G89 with other Episco
pal ministers he petitioned King William,
complaining that although they had taken
the oath of allegiance, they were deprived
of their benefices and denied admission to
parishes to which they had been elected.
He intruded at Tranent in 1691 but was
ordered by Parliament, 9th July 1695, to
remove by August. Dr George Mackenzie
states that he received from King William
a yearly pension of £50 as collector of the
rents of the bishopric of Ross. He appears
as chamberlain of the bishopric before 1700
and held that post for several years. Hugh
Miller observes that he " was a quiet, timid
sort of man with little force of character,
but what served his turn equally well, a
good deal of cunning," a character not borne
out by established facts. He purchased
the estate of Sandilands ; died there 30th
July 1713 and was buried at Fortrose. He
marr. Jean, daugh. of Alexander Clunes of
Dunskeath, and had issue — Alexander of
Sandilands and Kinnock, M.D., born 1678,
died 26th Sept. 1722; George in Cromarty;
John, shipmaster, Cromarty ; Lilias (marr.
Andrew Bayne in Cromarty) ; Anna, bapt.
23rd Nov. 1683. — [Acts of Parl., ix., 423,
App., 119; Services of Heirs; Dr George
Mackenzie's MS. History of the
Mackenzies ; Allangrange Writs ; Inver
ness Sas., vi., 345 ; Covenanters in Moray
and Ross, 190.]
HUGH ANDERSON, M.A., above
169O mentioned ; restored by Act of
Parliament reinstating Presbyterian
ministers in 1690.
GEORGE GORDON, adm. to Rose-
117 7 markie 25th April 1700 ; trans, and
adm. 1st April 1707 ; died 28th Dec.
1749. He was reputed an excellent man
and faithful preacher. He rnarr. (1) Mary
Forrester, and had issue — Ann, born 13th
Feb. 1708; Janet, born llth Feb. 1709;
Mary, born 23rd April 1711; Ann, born
10th Dec. 1712 : (2) Jean Moffat, widow of
John Fraser, min. of Alness.— [Religious
Life in Ross, 257.]
[JAMES ROBERTSON, a native of the
parish, called in 1750, the Presb. being
instructed by the General Assembly to
proceed with his settlement, 17th May
1751, but he withdrew his acceptance on
appointment as Professor of Hebrew in
Univ. of Edinburgh (q-v.)].
PATRICK HENDERSON, born Clatt ;
educated at King's College, Aber
deen; M.A. (2nd April 1747);
Keen, by Presb. of Ellon 4th Oct. 1748 ;
ord. by Presb. of Deer as assistant at
Pitsligo; adm. Sept. 1751; but the settle
ment was reversed by a majority of one
vote in the Commission of Assembly, June
1752, on appeal by William Urquhart of
Meldrum, who had presented Thomas
Simpson. He was again called 9th Oct.
and re-adm. 28th Nov. 1753; dep. for
immorality. — [Moren's Annals, 292, 366 ;
Scots Mag., xiv.]
JAMES MUNRO, born Ross-shire, 1716,
1? 5 son of James M. and Elspet Mackay ;
educated at King's College, Aberdeen,
1730-4 ; became schoolmaster at Golspie
and Auldearn, and master of Grammar
School, Elgin ; licen. by Presb. of Elgin
20th Nov. 1750; ord. 27th Aug. 1755;
died 6th Sept. 1789. He marr. (1) 28th
Dec. 1738, Elspeth Murray, who died 29th
May 1762, and had issue — James, born
25th Sept. 1739, died 1771 ; Jean, died in
infancy; Margaret, born 6th July 1749,
died 1768 ; William, born 20th Nov. 1751 ;
Anne, born 10th May 1754 (marr. Thomas
Fraser), died 1814; Jean, born 9th May
1756, died 8th March 1839; Elizabeth,
born 1st Aug. 1758, died in infancy : (2)
25th Jan. 1763, Mary Stark, who died 6th
April 1822, aged 80, and had issue — Mary,
born 12th Oct. 1764, died young; Jean,
born 17th Jan. 1767 (marr. Robert Hall) ;
Mary, born 8th March 1768, died young;
Alexander, born 26th March 1769 ; George
Ross, min. of Huntly, born 10th Nov. 1770 ;
James, cabinet-maker, went to Pictou,
Nova Scotia, born 1st July 1772 ; Isobel,
born 26th Aug. 1773 (marr. 16th July 1803,
James Cromar, rector of Aberdeen Grammar
School); Arthur, born 4th Sept. 1774, died
young; Charles, writer, Stonehaven, born
6
CROMARTY
[PRESB. OF
9th April 1777 ; Mary, born 1st Dec. 1780,
died 19th Feb. 1863 ; Hugh, born 4th Oct.
1782; John Spens, merchant, London;
Catherine, died in infancy.— [Tombst.]
ROBERT SMITH, born Inverness, 1764,
1?8g son of Robert S. ; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen; M.A. (30th March
1784) ; tutor in family of Donald Macleod
of Geanies ; licen. by Presb. of Tain 12th
Dec. 1787 ; pres. by George III. 9th June
1788; ord. (assistant and successor) 21st
May 1789; died 20th March 1824. He
marr. 5th Oct. 1791, Isobel (died 16th Jan.
1844), daugh. of Hugh Rose of Aitnoch,
factor on the Sutherland Estate, and had
issue— Catherine, born 25th March 1794 ;
Hugh, born 3rd Nov. 1795 ; Robert, born
30th July 1797 ; Barbara, born 14th May
1799; John, born 19th Jan. 1801, adm.
min. of Beckwith, Canada, 3rd Nov. 1833,
died there 18th April 1851 ; Margaret
Crawford, born 29th Nov. 1802 (marr. 28th
April 1821, Dr George Macdonald); Helen,
born 14th Dec. 1804 (marr. 28th Oct. 1852,
John James Aitchison, M.D., Elmsley,
Canada); Robert, born 15th Aug. 1807;
Isabella Gair, born 30th Jan. 1811 (marr.
12th Sept. 1835, George Romanes, LL.D.,
Professor of Greek, Queen's College, Kings
ton, Canada, and was mother of George
John R., LL.D., biologist). Publication —
Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat.
Ace., v.). — [Croil's Church in Canada,
90; Tombst.}
ALEXANDER STEWART, born
Moulin, Perthshire, 25th Sept. 1794,
son of Alexander S., min. of Canon-
gate, Edinburgh ; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen, and Univ. of Glasgow ;
licen. by Presb. of Lorn in 1822; ord. to
Chapel-of-Ease, Rothesay, 10th Feb. 1824 ;
pres. by George IV. in June, trans, and
adm. 23rd Sept. 1824. Joined the Free
Church in 1843 ; min. of Free Church,
Cromarty, 1843-7 ; elected to Free St
George's, Edinburgh (as successor to Dr
Candlish), but died before induction, 5th
Nov. 1847, of a fever brought on by the
excitement of his impending removal. He
was reckoned one of the most eminent
preachers in the Church. Hugh Miller
wrote warmly of his extraordinary gifts
in that capacity. Publications — The Tree
of Promise (Edinburgh, 1864) ; Man's
Redemption, the Joy of Angels, a sermon
on 1 Peter i. 12 (Precious Seed Discourses)
(Edinburgh, 1877); The Mosaic Sacrifices
(Edinburgh, 1883).— [Memoir by Alexander
Beith, D.D.]
ADAM HALL, licen. by Presb. of Edin
burgh ; ord. to Fisherton 7th March
' 1842 ; pres. by Queen Victoria 19th
Aug., trans, and adm. 26th Sept. 1843;
died 14th April 1846.
GEORGE RUSSELL, seventh son of
Allan R., Lanarkshire ; educated at
1 Univ. of Glasgow ; ord. to Leadhills
in 1843 ; pres. by Queen Victoria 29th
May, trans, and adm. 27th Aug. 1846 ; died
8th April 1876. He marr. 12th Nov. 1846,
Pringle (died s.p. 8th Oct. 1873), youngest
daugh. of John Gray of Harrietsfield,
Roxburghshire.
WALTER SCOTT, born 1st June 1846,
son of James S., min. of Dirleton ;
1876 educated at Parish School, Royal
High School and Univ. of Edinburgh ;
M.A. (April 1868); licen. by Presb. of
Edinburgh ; assistant at Greenock ; ord.
army chaplain at Colchester and Warley
by Presb. of London 3rd May 1876; adm.
here 14th Sept. that year ; died 3rd Feb.
1925. He marr. (1) 22nd Dec. 1876, Ann
(died 24th Sept. 1880), second daugh. of
Alexander Allan, Edinburgh, and had issue
— Mina Alexandra Allan, born 13th Oct.
1877 (marr. George Ernest Romanes of
Pitcalzean) ; James Walter Montague,
Vancouver, served in 42nd Batt. Canadian
Army in European War, born 28th Dec.
1878 : (2) 12th Nov. 1885, Mary Ann, third
daugh. of Dr William Brydon, C.B., surgeon
in the army, "the last man "of the Cabul
retreat, 1842, and had issue — Walter
Francis Brydon, farmer, Navity, Cromarty,
born 15th Aug. 1886.
GORDON MOORE, born Lauder, 5th
June 1885, son of William M., school -
191 master and provost of Lauder, and
Elsie Swinton ; educated at Lauder School
and Univs. of Edinburgh, M.A. (1908) and
CHANONRY]
CROMARTY— GAELIC CHAPEL
St Andrews, B.D. (1915) ; licen. by Presb.
of Earlston 27th April 1915 ; locum tenens
at St Stephen's Parish Church, Inverness ;
ord. there (as such) 21st Dec. 1915 ; adm.
here (assistant and successor) 25th April
1917. Marr. 25th April 1918, Isabella
Simpson, daugh. of James Fraser, min. of
Greenbank, and has issue— William, born
8th March 1919 ; James Fraser, born 13th
Nov. 1923; Gordon Mackenzie, born 12th
June 1925.
GAELIC CHAPEL.
[Built in 1783 by George Eoss of
Cromarty, known as "the Scotch Agent,"
for the use of the Gaelic speaking people
employed in his factory at Cromarty.]
ALEXANDER MACADAM, pres. by
George III. in March, and ord. 25th
J Sept. 1782 ; trans, to Nigg 23rd Oct.
1788.
WILLIAM ROSS, born Tain, 1739;
educated at King's College, Aber
deen ; ord. to Rothiemurchus 25th
March 1783; pres. by George III. 18th
March, trans, and adm. 18th Aug. 1788 ;
died 12th Nov. 1799.— [Tombst.]
HUGH ROSS, M.A. ; pres. by George
III. Dec. 1799; adm. 25th March
1800
1809.
1800; trans, to Fearn 13th April
1809
ALEXANDER MACLEOD, bom
Sutherland, 1777 ; educated at
King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A.
(29th March 1798); licen. by Presb. of
Dornoch 3rd, and ord. missionary at
Kincardine and Creich 4th April 1804 ;
pres. by George III. 10th May, and adm.
in 1809 ; died 20th June 1821.
ALEXANDER MACLEOD, pres. by
George 'IV. 18th Sept. 1821 ; trans.
1821 from Gaelic Chapel, Dundee, and
adm. that year; trans, to Uig 21st April
1824.
JOHN FINLAYSON, born Ross-shire,
1787 ; educated at King's College,
' Aberdeen ; M.A. (25th March 1814) ;
licen. by Presb. of Selkirk 2nd April 1822 •
pres. by George IV. 10th Aug. 1824 ; ord.
(at Chanonry) 29th March 1825 ; died 18th
Jan. 1833. He marr. Christina, daugh. of
John Hoyes, min. of Kinloss, and had issue
— John Hoyes, went to Kingston, Jamaica ;
Jessie Reid (marr. 1853, John Sinclair Mac-
phail, min. of Free Church, Benbecula). —
[Tombst.]
JOHN MACKENZIE, M.A. ; pres. by
William IV. 8th March, and ord.
J 25th Dec. 1833 ; trans, to Rosskeen
19th Sept. 1843.
HUGH ROSS MACKENZIE, trans.
1847 from Tongue; pres. by the Presb. jure
devoluto on a petition from the con
gregation ; adm. 21st Oct. 1847 ; trans, to
Third Charge, Inverness, 8th June 1848.
JOHN MACLENNAN, born Ross-shire,
1849 1>799 ' educated at King's College
Aberdeen ; M.A. (March 1808) ; ord.
(by Presb. of Abernethy) as min. of Bel
fast, Prince Edward Island, 1823; pres.
by Queen Victoria 6th Dec. 1848; adm.
22nd Feb. 1849 ; adm. to Kilchrenan, 28th
Aug. 1851 (cf. Vol. IV., 93). His daugh.
Eliza marr. Daniel Miner Gordon, C.M.G.,
D.D., LL.D., Principal of Queen's Univ.,
Kingston, Canada, died 1910. — [Gregg's
Hist, of Canadian Church, 274 ; Macleod's
Hist, of Presbyterianism in Prince Edward
Island, 99.]
WALTER ROSS MUNRO, born 1820
1852 son of John M., min. of U.P. Church
Nigg ; educated at Marischal Col
lege, Aberdeen, and United Secession
Hall in 1840 ; pres. by Queen Victoria 2nd
Dec. 1851 ; adm. 15th April 1852 ; dep. by
the General Assembly 1st June 1874.
DAVID MACKENZIE, trans, from
1875 Govan Chapel ; elected 8th March
and adm. 12th May 1875 ; trans, to
Lairg 23rd Jan. 1884.
DONALD MACLEOD, ord. 30th April
. 1885 ; trans, to Tarbat 19th May
1885 1885.
WILLIAM CAMERON, M.A. ; ord.
10th Dec. 1885; trans, to Poolewe
' Sept. 1888.
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GAELIC CHURCH— FORTROSE
[PRESB. OF
ANDREW MACPHERSON,born Inver-
1893 ness, 1832, son of John M., estate
steward, and Ann Fraser ; became
teacher of English in Royal Academy,
Inverness; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen ; M.A. (March 1857) ; assistant at
Tighnabruaich, missionary at Guisachan,
1864-9; ord. to Tobermory 19th March
1872; dem. 18th May 1882; assistant at
Killearnan in 1889 ; adm. here 1st March
1893 ; died 26th Jan. 1918.
[The congregation was dissolved in 1918.]
FORTROSE, OF OLD CHANONRY
(Q.S.).
[The parish church of Fortrose was
dedicated to St Curadan, who ministered
on this side of the Black Isle. He died
in 716. The See of Ross was founded by
King David I. in 1128. In or about 1309
the Cathedral of St Peter was built at
Fortrose. By order of King James VI.
the lead was stripped off the roofs of its
choir and aisles in 1572. The stately fabric
was in use as the parish church of Fortrose
until near the middle of the seventeenth
century. Oliver Cromwell razed the most
part of the building, and took its stones
to Inverness, where he was erecting a fort.
What remained was burned by accident in
1662. On 2nd Feb. 1670, this parish was
united to Rosemarkie. A church was
opened llth April 1841. The parish was
disjoined again quoad sacra 17th March
1873. There were of old, in the Cathedral,
chapels of St Nicholas and St Katherine.
Near it was a Well of St Curadan. Fortrose
held a Whitsunday fair, and also fairs of
St Peter and St Curadan.]
WILLIAM HAY, reader in 1569 and
1569 in 1580.
JOHN ROBERTSON, min. of Urquhart
1674 (Ferintosh) in 1565; was charged
by the Assembly, 28th June 1565,
with leaving his vocation and was required
to enter again thereto under pain of dis
obedience to the Kirk ; was app. by the
Assembly, 5th June 1570, to assist the
Commissioner of Ross who was not con
versant with the Gaelic tongue and was
again commissioned to visit Caithness and
Sutherland ; trans, and adm. about 1574,
with Rosemarkie and Cromarty in the
charge ; removed to Cromarty about 1576,
but returned before 1578, holding also the
Treasury of Ross. In June of that year
he was app. Commissioner for Ross but
was delated in Oct. following for remaining
half, a year in Edinburgh and failing to
discharge his duty as visitor and min.
His commission for Ross was renewed by
the Assembly Oct. 1580 and Oct. 1581. In
the latter year he was one of those
nominated for the erection of Presbyteries
in Caithness, Sutherland, and Ross. He
was app. by the Assembly, Oct. 1583, one
of the Visitors for the bounds north of the
Dee, and commissioner for visiting the
bounds of Ross by the Assembly in 1586
and again in 1588. In 1589 he was app. by
the Privy Council on a committee for the
maintenance of true religion and royal
authority in the sheriffdoms of Inverness
and Cromarty. In 1593 he was selected by
the Assembly for visiting and trying the
ministers of Moray. He died before 26th
May 1597.— [Booke of the Kirk.]
ANDREW CROMBIE, trans, from
1595 Kilmuir- Wester, and adm. in 1595.
The Assembly of that year, because
of " the weakness " of the Presb. of Inver
ness, ordered them to proceed to discipline
against papists, with the advice of C. and
other brethren. He was also app. to
warn incumbents throughout Ross against
the delapidation of their benefices ; trans.
to Rosemarkie in 1599.
GEORGE MUNRO of Pitlundie, third
son of George M. of Milntown ; pres.
to the Chancellorship of Ross 5th
July 1570 and 23rd Jan. 1571, besides being
commissioner with a general superintend
ence ; pres. as a student to chaplaincy of
Newmore by James VI. 21st Dec. 1570;
adm. to Suddie in 1571. In 1575 he was
accused before the Assembly of non-
residence, when he excused himself "by
CHANONKY]
FORTROSE
reason of deadly feud," which was accepted.
In 1581-2 he was employed to organise the
erection of Presbyteries in the Northern
Counties ; adm. min. of Fearn and Tarbat
in 1590 ; trans, to Suddie about 1594 ;
commissioner of the Kirks in Eoss ; trans,
to Rosemarkie in 1597 ; trans, and adm. in
1599, with Suddie and Kinettas also in the
charge ; was a member of Assembly in
1601, 1602, and 1610; was app. by the
Assembly of 1606 as constant Moderator of
the Presb. in the absence of the bishop,
the members being ordered by the Privy
Council, 17th Jan. 1607, to receive him
within twenty-four hours after notice,
under pain of rebellion ; still in the charge
8th Feb. 1630. He marr. Mary Livingstone,
and had issue— George of Bearcrofts and
Pitlundie, min. of Suddie. — [Hist, of the
Munros, 305 ; BooTce of the Kirk ; Calder-
wood's Hist., \\i. 350, 587, iv. 569, v. 684,
vii. 105; Melvill's Autob., 302, 549; Original
Charter Antiq. Museum.}
FRANCIS HERVIE, adm. before 17th
Jan. 1630, with Rosemarkie also in
the charge ; trans, to Yetholm in
1634.
[The parish was vacant in 1650 and was
united to Rosemarkie in 1670 by the
Commissioners of Teinds.]
1842
SIMON FRASER, born Boleskine, 1806.
son of Simon F., shepherd, and
Bessie Fraser; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen; M.A. (April 1830);
librarian there 1830-4 ; sent by the Glasgow
Colonial Society as missionary to Scottish
settlers in New Brunswick and ord. by
Presb. there, 16th Jan. 1835, to Alnwick and
Glenelg, where he was a most zealous and
successful pastor, his knowledge of Gaelic
proving of the greatest advantage, many
of the settlers having come from the
Highlands. He returned to Scotland in
1840 ; called in Dec. 1841 ; adm. here 10th
Feb. 1842. Joined the Free Church in 1843 ;
min. of Free Church, Fortrose, 1843-67 ;
died 6th Sept. 1887. He marr. 1846, Eliza
Ross, and had issue. — [Gregg's Hist, of
Canadian Church, 296, 307 ; Anderson's
King's College, 89.]
ROBERT OGSTON YOUNG, born
1845 Strichen' 10th Au&' 1804' S0n °f
Matthew Y. and Margaret Ogston ;
educated at Strichen School and King's
College, Aberdeen; M.A. (March 1824);
licen. by Presb. of Turriff; ord. 27th Nov.
1845 ; died 3rd Dec. 1886. He marr. 28th
Jan. 1841, Jane (died 17th Aug. 1910),
daugh. of Alexander Milne, farmer, West
Crichie, Old Deer, and Anne Jamieson,
and had issue— Catherine, born 27th Feb.
1842; Matthew, captain mercantile marine,
born 16th Aug. 1843, died 1886 ; Alexander,
naval architect, born 4th Aug. 1847 ;
William Ogston Milne, captain mercantile
marine, born 30th July 1849, died 9th
May 1906 ; Margaret Anne, born 8th Feb.
1851, died 20th Oct. 1905; Henry, born
23rd March 1853.
WILLIAM WILLIAMSON LOWE,
188,_ licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen ; ord.
10th March 1887; dem. 15th May
1890 ; dep. 1904.
WILLIAM GREEN, born 1861, son of
1890 Peter (-*•> farmer> and Margaret
Thorn ; educated at Univ. of Aber
deen ; licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen ; ord.
llth Dec. 1890; died at Forres 15th Feb.
1909. He marr. (1) 7th Nov. 1884, Agnes
(died 13th Sept. 1897), daugh. of Alexander
Grant, draper, and Elizabeth Macfarlane,
and had issue — Blanche, born 9th May
1886; Alexander Grant, born 9th Aug.
1889 ; William, born 5th March 1891 : (2)
12th July 1899, Alice Frances, second
daugh. of James Low Butchart, Gillingham,
Kent, and had issue — Mary Frances Alice,
born 10th Jan. 1901 ; Edward Nicholas,
born 16th March 1902.
WILLIAM SIMPSON, born South
Burreldales, Alvah, Banff, 4th June
1857, son of George S. and Ann
Geddes ; educated at Linhead, Alvah, and
Milne's Institution, Fochabers, and Univ.
of Aberdeen ; M.A. (2nd April 1880) ; licen.
by Presb. of Aberdeen May 1886 ; assistant
at Rapness, Westray, Bower, Sandhaven,
Dreghorn, and Govan ; ord. to St Modan's,
Falkirk, llth April 1905; trans, and adm.
20th Aug. 1909 ; died at Strathpeffer 1 1th
10
KILLEARNAN
[PRESB. OF
July 1926. He marr. 1st June 1910, Eliza
beth Macqueen, daugh. of William Smith,
min. of Blackbraes, and had issue— Helen
Ann, born 17th Jan. 1912 ; William George,
born 5th Oct. 1913 ; Elizabeth Mary, born
14th Jan. 1915; Jeanie Leslie, born 31st
May 1919.
KILLEARNAN.
[The church of this parish was dedicated
to St lurnan. Killearnan was a prebend
of the Cathedral of Fortrose, held by the
Archdeacon of Ross. There was a chapel
dedicated to St Andrew within a mile of
the parish church, at a place now known
as Chapeltown, commonly called St
Palmer's Chapel. Here was held yearly
on 7th July St Andrew's Fair. Close by
was St Andrew's Well, famous for its
curative properties.
DONALD ERASER, son of John F., of
1660 ^e fam^v °f Fruid, Tweedsmuir,
and nephew of John F., Bishop of
Ross, was Archdeacon of the diocese before
the Reformation, when he conformed to
Protestantism. Famous for his courage
and valour, he held the Bishop's Castle
of Chanonry for some time against the
lairds of Kintail, Balnagowan, Fowlis and
Cromarty, and was slain in an engagement
between the Gordons and the Forbeses
at Tulliangus in 1572. He marr. Elizabeth,
daugh. of John Rose of Belivat, son of
Hugh Rose of Kilravock, and had issue —
James of Tomich, ancestor of the family of
Dunballoch ; John of Inchrory ; Alexander,
in Culmill, Kiltarlity ; Andrew of Bannans ;
Katherine ; Mary. — {Chiefs of Grant, iii.,
381 ; Mackenzie's Hist, of the Frasers, 717 ;
Belladrum Writs.]
WILLIAM HAY, as vicar of Killearnan
1567 in 1559, granted a charter of the
vicar's croft to Alexander Mackenzie.
He conformed at the Reformation and was
still in the parish in 1569, and in 1580
reader at the cathedral church of Ross. —
[Calendar of Deeds, Gen. Reg. House
Cromartie Writs.]
ALEXANDER MACKENZIE, reader
1569 in 1569 ; still in office in 1576.
ROBERT GRAHAM, youngest son of
157s Patrick G. of Inchbraco, and grand
son of William, Earl of Montrose ;
pres. to the Archdeaconry 2nd Aug. 1573,
in which year he was appointed conjunct
commissioner for visiting Caithness and
Sutherland. A complaint was made against
him in the Assembly in Aug. 1575 that he
was not diligent in visitation, and that he
had more offices than he could discharge.
He was app. commissioner for Caithness
and adm. by the Assembly in 1586. At the
Assembly of 1587 complaint of his non-
residence in the parish was made, but he
answered that he had no knowledge of the
Gaelic language and had neither manse nor
glebe. The kirk, he said, was served at his
expense. He afterwards resided, and died
in 1602. He was proprietor of the estate
of Drynie in Kilmuir- Wester and was the
founder of the family of Graham of Drynie,
who held that estate till 1874. He marr.
Marjorie Dunbar of Albrack, and had issue
—George ; Thomas.— [Ing. Ret. Ross, 188 ;
Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 525.]
JOHN MACKENZIE of Inverlaul,
Lochbroom (which he acquired from
' Lovat in 1610), son of Alexander M.
of Kilchrist and Agnes, daugh. of Rorie
Mackenzie of Hilton ; pres. to the Arch
deaconry of Ross 26th Nov. 1602. In Sept.
1603, during the Raid of Kilchrist, his house
was plundered by a band of Glengarry men
led by Allan Macdonald of Lundie, who
was charged at M.'s instance with destroy
ing 27 dwelling houses, barns, byres, the
minister's library, 400 bolls of oats, 160 bolls
of bere, 9 horses, and 70 head of cattle
stolen. There is a constant tradition that
the church was set on fire and the congrega
tion burned alive, but there is no reference
to this in the complaint made by the
minister in his action against Allan of
Lundie. He died 1635. He marr. 31st
May 1606, Margaret, daugh. of William
Innes of Calrossie, and had issue— Kenneth
of Inverlaul; Thomas of Inverlaul, min.
of this parish; Alexander, died unmarr.
CHANONHY]
KILLEARNAN
11
in 1647 ; James, min. of Nigg ; a daugh.
(marr. Hugh Boss of Tollie) ; a daugh.
(marr. Roderick Mackenzie of Towie) ; a
daugh. (marr. Sir Kenneth Mackenzie of
Coul).— [Douglas's Baronage, 401 ; Hist, of
the Mackenzies, 523; Bannatyne Miscell., iii.]
WILLIAM MACKENZIE, M.A. ; prob-
1633 ably trans, from Kilmorack in 1633 ;
trans, to Tarbat before 21st Nov.
1638.
DAVID MUNRO, mentioned as rector
16g4 of Killearnan in a charter by John,
Bishop of Ross, 29th May 1634, and
in another 6th Feb. 1635.— [Charters at
Killearnan.}
THOMAS MACKENZIE of Inverlaul,
1688 son of John M. of Inverlaul, min. of
this parish; was a member of the
Court of High Commission 21st Oct. 1634 ;
adm. to Tarbat in 1633, deserted his charge
and went to Ireland in 1635, but returned
and adm. here in 1638 ; elected a member
of the Glasgow Assembly that year, but
charges were brought against him and his
commission was rejected. He protested in
behalf of the Presb. against the Assembly as
constituted and adhered to the declinature
by the bishops; dep. 13th Dec. 1638 and
ordered to be excommunicated, " unless he
satisfied by repentance." He retired to
Inverlaul ; died at Cadboll 7th April 1665,
and was buried at Fearn. He marr. Agnes,
daugh. of Hector Douglas of Mulderg, and
had issue— John of Inverlaul ; Thomas,
writer, Edinburgh ; a daugh. (marr. Hector
Douglas, fifth of Mulderg). — [Baillie's
Letters; Peterkin's Records; Hist, of the
Mackenzies, 523; Seaforth Writs; Allan-
grange Writs; Reg. of Deeds, 31st Aug.
1652.]
WILLIAM FRASER of Phopachy; trans.
1640 *rom Kilmorack and adm. in 1640.
He made a pretence of favouring
Presbyterianism but subscribed Seaforth's
Remonstrance in 1647, for which he had to
undergo discipline in several congregations
within the Synod ; trans, (by Commission
of Assembly) on account of his knowledge
of Gaelic to Second Charge, Inverness,
3rd April 1648.
COLIN MACKENZIE, son of John M.,
fourth of Hilton, and Margaret
Dunbar of Inchbreck ; was min. of
Abernethy in 1633, and of Contin in 1641 ;
trans, and adm. 1651, and was still in the
charge 20th Oct. 1657. He marr. —
Dundas, and had issue — Kenneth, deacon of
the Goldsmiths in Edinburgh.— [Mackay's
Presb. of Dingwall, 293; Hist, of the
Mackenzies, 368.]
JOHN MACKENZIE, natural son of
1662 Sir Roderick M. of Coigach, tutor of
Kintail ; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen; M.A. (1631); pres. by John,
Bishop of Ross, to the Archdeaconry in
1662 as compensation for his having suffered
deprivation and banishment for his loyalty ;
died at Tarrell in 1666 and was buried at
Tarbat. He marr. Christian, daugh. of Sir
John Wemyss of Lathokar, and had issue-
Roderick, min. of Avoch ; Colin ; Kenneth,
surgeon, Elgin ; George; Alexander; John;
James in Meikle Tarrell; a daugh. (marr.
Kenneth, third son of Kenneth Mackenzie
of Davochmaluag).— [Law's Mem. ; MS.
Hist, of the Mackenzies ; Seaforth Writs.]
[WILLIAM DAVIDSON, educated at
King's College; M.A. (12th July 1660); as
min. here was a consenting party and a
witness to an Agreement between the
Bishop and Chapter of Ross and Colin
Mackenzie of Kilcoy, on 28th Feb. 1669,
for the valuation of the lands of Kilcoy,
but his signature is not adhibited. He
cannot have been Capellanus curatus or
Vicarius pensionarius of the Archdeacon,
for Robert Williamson was then and had
been for some years minister.]
ROBERT WILLIAMSON, min. in 1664,
1664 witnessed a charter by the Bishop of
Ross, 6th Jan. 1665, mentioned as
min. in 1669, 1678, and 1680, but was dead
in 1686. His tombstone is now buried under
the floor of the church. He marr. Margaret
Burnet, and had issue — Alexander, died Jan.
1678. — [Original Charter at Killearnan ;
Allangrange Writs.}
JOHN MACKENZIE, son of Roderick
1686 ^' *n Ardlair > adm. about 1686 ; did
not conform to Presbyterianism at
the Revolution but remained in the charge,
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KILLEARNAN
[PRESB. OF
1700
1719
stipend being paid to him by the heritors ;
died it is said " through witchcraft " in 1700.
He marr. Annabel Mackenzie (who marr.
(2) Thomas Fraser, brother to Belladrum),
and had issue— Annabel (marr. Alexander
Mackenzie, notary, Dingwall) ; Margaret ;
Florence. — [Allangrange Writs ; Belladrum
Writs.]
JOHN MACKENZIE, son of Donald
M., known as Donald Carranach,
in Ferintosh, intruded in 1700. In
Dec. 1708 when Hugh Campbell, min. of
Kiltearn, came to preach by order of the
Presb. he was assaulted in the pulpit by
several persons to the danger of his life,
among his assailants being servants of
the intruder. M. occupied the manse, was
paid his regular stipend and was still
officiating in the parish in 1716. In 1721
he was reported as preaching, praying,
baptising, and marrying in the parish of
Gairloch. — [A llangrange Writs.]
JOHN M'ARTHUR, called by the
Presb. jure devoluto 13th Jan., and
adm. 26th March 1719, his settle
ment being opposed by the heritors and the
great body of the parishioners instigated by
the preceding min. The heritors refused to
pay him his stipend and an action being
raised against them, they retaliated by
pulling down his manse. He was reduced
to such straits that appeals for his mainten
ance were instructed to be made to the
General Assembly by the commissioners
from the Presbs. within the Synod. He was
trans, to Logie-Easter 25th March 1730.
JOHN ROBERTSON, born about 1706,
son of William R. of Teachnock,
factor for Lovat ; educated at Univ.
of St Andrews ; licen. by Presb. of Dingwall
5th Nov. 1728 ; ord. to Contin 24th March
1730; pres. that year by George, Earl of
Cromarty, but presentation set aside by
the Presb.; called by the heritors and
communicants, Dec. 1730, the Presb. of
Dingwall opposed but the General As
sembly sustained call; adm. 1st July 1731;
died 25th Feb. 1743. He marr. Katherine
(marr. again, and died 30th April 1788),
daugh. of Thomas Chisholm, min. of
Kilmorack.
DONALD FRASER, pres. by George,
Earl of Cromartie, July 1743 ; ord.
1744 27th March 1744; was obliged to
leave the parish during the six weeks
the rebels were in the country in 1746 ;
trans, to Urquhart (Ferintosh) 2nd June
1757.
DAVID DENOON, born Inverness,
1723, grandson of David D., chamber-
1758 lain to the Earl of Moray ; educated
at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (31st
March 1748) ; ord. 3rd May 1758. Dissent
was still strong in the parish, there
being two Episcopal chapels. In 1776
he petitioned the Royal Bounty Committee
for a catechist, stating that the parish
contained 1300 individuals, that until the
Battle of Culloden, the parish min. would
not have more than twenty -four hearers on
a Sunday ; that " the prejudices against the
Church had been deeply rivetted, and like
the king's evil continued to be transmitted
to the rising generation." He died 2nd
Jan. 1792, bequeathing £100 for a bursary
at Inverness Academy. He marr. (1) 3rd
Nov. 1761, Mary (died 30th April 1767),
daugh. of Inglis of Kingsmills, and
had issue— Hugh, born 18th Sept. 1762;
Catherine, born 24th Jan. 1764; David,
min. of this parish ; Jean, born 15th June
1766 : (2) 31st May 1779, Janet (died 14th
Feb. 1802), daugh. of Daniel Beton, min.
of Rosskeen, and widow of John Bethune,
also min. of Rosskeen.— [Scots Mag., liv. ;
Tombst]
DAVID DENOON, born 24th April
1765, son of preceding; educated
1790 at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A.
(30th March 1784); licen. by Presb. of
Chanonry 6th Oct. 1789 ; pres. by Kenneth
Mackenzie of Cromartie Nov. 1789, and by
George III. Feb. 1790 ; ord. (assistant and
successor) 3rd March that year ; died 31st
Dec. 1806. He was long remembered as
a man of culture, gentleness, and piety.
He marr. 22nd Aug. 1793, Janet Grant,
who died 15th Feb.1 1842, and had issue-
Isabella, born 7th Aug. 1796 ; Mary, born
22nd Nov. 1797 (marr. 26th Nov. 1818,
John Jamieson, banker, Inverness); David,
solicitor, born 16th April 1801 ; Alexander,
CHANONRY]
KILLEARNAN
LJ
London, born 25th Nov. 1802 ; Anne, born
26th May 1804; Hugh Grant, born 5th
April 1806 ; Charles, born 10th Aug. 1807,
died Nov. 1826. Publication — Account of
the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., xvii.). —
[Tombst.]
[The parish was vacant for seven years
(1807-14) during a tedious law-suit between
Mackenzie of Cromartie and the Crown,
regarding the patronage, which was ulti
mately decided in favour of the former in
1814. In the interval, presentations were
made by the contending patrons in favour
of William Macrae, min. of Barvas, and
Thomas Eoss, LL.D., min. of Lochbroom.]
JOHN KENNEDY, born 1772, son of
Donald K., farmer, Kissel, Kishorn,
1 Lochcarron, and Mary Matheson ;
educated at King's College, Aberdeen ;
M.A. (30th March 1791); licen. by Presb.
of Lochcarron 24th Nov. 1795; app. school
master of Lochcarron that year ; ord.
assistant at Lochbroom 5th Dec. 1798
(the min. of that parish being under
suspension) ; app. missionary at Eriboll
in 1802 and at Melness ; assistant at
Assynt in 1806; app. in 1812, by the
Barons of Exchequer in Scotland, interim
min. here until appeal before the House
of Lords should be decided. Pres. by
the Hon. Mrs Maria Hay Mackenzie of
Cromartie in Oct., and adm. 8th Dec.
1814; died 10th Jan. 1841. He was one
of the most popular mins. in the North
Highlands for his saintly character, his
acknowledged abilities and preaching
powers. He marr. 1808, Jessie (died 2nd
Feb. 1869), daugh. of Kenneth Mackenzie
of Ledbeg, of the Earl of Cromartie's
family, and had issue — Anne, born 15th
May 1809; Mary, born 7th May 1810
(marr. James Macdonald, min. of Urray) ;
Margaret Jess, born 1st Jan. 1812; Donald,
min. of this parish ; Kenneth Mackenzie,
M.A. (King's College), medical officer for
Killearnan and Knockbain, born 26th May
1815, died 1861; Alexander Mackenzie,
born 5th Aug. 1817 ; John, D.D., min. of
Free Church, Dingwall, born 15th Aug.
1819, died at Bridge of Allan, 28th April
1884, author of The Apostle of the North,
and the foremost Highland Free Church
man of his generation ; Jess, born 13th
Jan. 1823 ; Neil, medical practitioner,
Tain, born 12th April 1828. Publications
— Account of the Parish (New Stat. Ace.,
xiv.).—[The Minister of Killearnan in
The Days of the Fathers in Ross-shire,
157-260, by his son John (Inverness, 1861) ;
Memorabilia Domestica, 264 ; Religious
Life in Ross, 261-7 : Gaelic Elegy, by John
Macdonald, D.D.]
DONALD KENNEDY, born 3rd March
1841 -"-813, son of preceding ; educated
at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A.
(April 1830) ; licen. by Presb. of Chanonry
16th March 1836; ord. to Newark,
Port - Glasgow, 8th Feb. 1838; pres.
by the Hon. Maria Hay Mackenzie of
Cromartie and John Hay Mackenzie, her
son; trans, and adm. 9th Sept. 1841.
Joined the Free Church in 1843 ; min. of
Free Church, Killearnan, 1843-71; died
23rd May 1871. He marr. 16th June 1852,
Caroline Isabella (died 22nd Nov. 1893),
daugh. of Dr Macdonald, Cromarty, and
had issue — Margaret, born 22nd April
1853 ; Jessie, born 1st July 1854 ; Caroline
Isabella, born 3rd June 1856 ; John, in
Australia, born 10th Sept. 1858 ; Georgina,
born 5th Oct. 1860 ; Margaret Anne, born
2nd Feb. 1863.— [Religious Life in Ross, 267.]
[ALEXANDEK M'INTOSH, pres. by
1843 J°kn Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie
Nov. 1843, but objections having
been lodged by several parishioners, the
Assembly ordered the Presb. to begin de
novo from the sustaining of the presenta
tion. M. resigned the presentation 9th
July 1844, and was afterwards min. at
Craignish.]
JOHN MACRAE, pres. by John Hay
Mackenzie of Cromartie 25th Dec.
1844 ; adm. 5th Feb. 1845 ; trans, to
Stornoway 30th Sept. 1847.
PATRICK CAMPBELL, born 27th July
1848 I8!4' son °f Alexander C., min. of
Croy ; educated at King's College,
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KILLEARNAN— KNOCKBAIN
[PEESB. OF
Aberdeen; M.A. (March 1832); min. of
St Clement's, British Guiana, Jan. 1845-8 ;
pres. by John Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie
2nd March, and adm. 27th July 1848 ; died
unmarr. 5th Jan. 1860.
WILLIAM MACKAY, born 1836, son of
John M., tailor, and Mary Macgregor ;
1860 educated at King's College, Aber
deen ; M.A. (March 1845) ; ord. missionary
in Strathglass 1849-56; pres. by the
Marchioness of Stafford in March, trans,
and adm. 9th May 1860; died unmarr.
23rd April 1890.
ANGUS MACDONALD, born at
Griminish, Benbecula, 29th Sept.
1860, son of James M. and Mary
Macrury ; educated at Academy and Univ.
of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Uist 24th
July 1883; missionary at Carinish and
Benbecula, 1883-4; ord. to Ullapool 18th
June 1884; trans, and adm. 27th Nov.
1890 ; app. clerk of Presb. in 1892. Marr.
(1) 5th June 1890, Marion (died llth Jan.
1893), daugh. of Charles Macleod, tacksman
of Scottas, Knoydart, and has issue-
James William, served in France with
15th Koyal Highlanders of Canada, born
29th March 1891 ; Charles Somerled, served
with 15th Royal Highlanders of Canada,
born 3rd Jan. 1893, twice wounded, killed
in action near Loos 15th Aug. 1917 :
(2) 17th July 1902, Elizabeth, daugh. of
Alexander Hector of Burnside, St Cyrus,
and widow of John Munro of Lemlair,
and has issue — Ranald ^Eneas Hector,
born 22nd Sept. 1903; Marion Morrison,
born 24th July 1906 ; Flora Alice Eleanor,
born 18th Feb. 1912 ; Mary Diana Anita,
born 6th Jan. 1915. Publications — The
Clan Donald, 3 vols. (Inverness, 1896, 1900,
and 1904) [with Archibald Macdonald,
D.D., min. of Kiltarlity]; Collections of
Ancient and Modern Gaelic Poetry (Inver
ness, 1911) [ibid.] ; The Poems of Alexander
Macdonald, the Jacobite Sard, ivith a
Biography of the Bard and an English
Metrical ' Translation (Inverness, 1924)
[ibid.]. Contributions to Scots Peerage,
v., 559-65 (Edinburgh, 1904-14) and to
periodical literature.
KNOCKBAIN, OF OLD KILMU1R-
WESTER, AND SUDDIE.
[These two parishes were united by the
Lords Commissioners of Teinds on 14th
July 1756.
Kilmuir- Wester.— The parish church was
dedicated to St Mary. It was removed
from Kilmuir to Knockbain in 1762. At
Munlochy, within the bounds, there was
a chapel of St John. Another chapel, on
the seashore, was dedicated to St Kessog,
and gave its name to Kessock Ferry.
Suddie. — The parish church was dedi
cated to St Duthac. Suddie was a prebend
of the Cathedral of Fortrose. A small part
of the parish of Killearnan was annexed to
Suddie by the Lords Commissioners of
Teinds, 14th July 1756, when the parish
was united with Kilmuir-Wester.]
GEORGE DUNBAR, rector of Kilmuir
in 1557 ; conformed at the Reforma
tion and is called " parson " in 1566.
In 1563 he had a charter from Henry,
Bishop of Ross, of the town and lands of
Avoch. He marr. Janet Thomson, and
had issue— Sir John of Avoch; James,
afterwards of Avoch.— [Familie of Jnnes,
121 ; Allangrange Writs]
JOHN REID, reader in 1568 ; pres. by
James VI. in 1569; was commissary
of Ross in 1596.— [Orig. Paroch.
Scot., ii., 532 ; Allangrange Writs]
JOHN ROSS, pres. by James VI. to the
1573 vicarage in 1573 [afterwards at Tain].
ANDREW MYLNE [or MILL], min. in
1574 1574. [See Avoch.]
1574 JOHN ROSS, reader in 1574.
ALEXANDER URQUHART, formerly
of Tarbat; adm. in 1576 with
Ardersier also in his charge; sus
pended before 1580.— [Orig. Paroch. Scot.,
ii, 532.]
ALEXANDER REID, min. in 1579;
trans, to Kirkmichael in Ross before
1579 1585.
CIIANONRY]
KNOCKBAIN
L5
ANDKEW CROMBIE, min. in 1586;
1686 Pres< to 'ke vlC8iTaSe by James VI.
in 1592 ; trans, to Chanonry about
1594, but returned here before 1597.
JAMES LAUDER, M.A. ; adm. in 1595 ;
1595 trans, to Ardersier after 1596.
ANDREW CROMBIE, abovementioned;
15g7 trans, from Rosemarkie in 1597,
which he held in conjunction ; was
Dean of Ross in 1608 ; still min. in 1630.—
[Allangrange Writs ; Belladrum Writs.]
JAMES TROUP, MA. (King's College,
- Aberdeen, 1611) : adm. before 2nd
Nov. 1638.
JAMES SMITH, educated at King's
1681 Colle§e' Aberdeen ; M.A. (27th April
1659); ord. to Dores before 3rd
April 1666 ; deprived for not taking the
Test in 1681; adm. after 10th Oct. that
year ; dep. by the Commission of Assembly
in 1694 for drunkenness; died in Edin
burgh, 23rd Nov. 1718, aged about 80.
JOHN GRANT, called by the Presb.
1711 Jure devoluto 28th Aug., and ord. (at
Rosemarkie) 27th Sept. 1711. At
a meeting of Presb. on 25th Oct. that year,
he reported that, " on the Sunday after his
settlement, accompanied by Muirtown, one
of his heritors, he went by boat to the
church, and when at a small distance from
the boat they were surrounded by a great
many men and women (about two hundred)
who lay in ambush. Some of them had
their faces blackened and a few were in
women's clothes, some armed with swords
(dirks) and heavy batons ; all the women
had batons. G. had his hat knocked off
and torn in pieces, his head badly cut, and
was dragged by his cravat till almost
choked . . . the mob still pursuing . . .
carried him to the top of a hill, and
resolved to have killed him, had not some
more tender-hearted opposed this and
rescued him. John Mackenzie, who preached
in the Episcopal- meeting house for that
and neighbouring parishes, stood on a
rising ground, feeding his eyes with their
barbarous usage, and thereafter preached
to the mob, most of them having pieces of
G.'s clothes tied or pinned to the most open
parts of their bodies, as trophies of victory."
Complaint was made to the Lord Advocate,
but nothing apparently was done. The
General Assembly, 13th May 1712, declared
G. transportable to any parish in Scotland
and he was admitted to Auchinleck (q.v.)
9th July 1712.
HUGH CAMPBELL, educated at
1721 Marischal College, Aberdeen ; be
came chaplain to the Laird of
Grange ; licen. by Presb. of Forres 16th
May 1705 ; ord. to Ardersier 7th Aug. 1707 ;
trans, to Kiltearn 7th May 1708; called
by the Presb. jure devoluto 26th Oct.
1720; trans, and adm. 4th April 1721;
died 18th July 1746. He marr. 16th Feb.
1710, Henrietta (died 24th Dec. 1752),
daugh. of Colin Campbell of Delnies and
Mary Duff, and had issue — Mary ; William ;
Colin ; Catherine ; Archibald ; John ;
Hugh, born 28th Dec. 1730; Anne, born
5th Aug. 1733.
ROBERT MUNRO, born 1720, son of
1747 J°hn M., min. of Suddie ; licen. by
Presb. of Tongue 13th April 1743;
called 1st June, and ord. 23rd Sept. 1747;
died 27th Sept. 1790. He was noted for
his loquacity and sarcasm. He marr. (1)
3rd Dec. 1747, Isabel, daugh. of Colin
Graham of Drynie, and had issue — Burnet,
born 16th Aug. 1751 : (2) 20th July 1754,
Isabel Mackenzie : (3) 6th June 1763,
Seymour Munro, who died 8th March
1810.— [Memorabilia Domestica, 284 ; Hist,
of the Munros, 493 ; Tombst.}
RODERICK MACKENZIE, born
1I791 Cromarty, 1751 ; educated at Crom-
arty School and King's College,
Aberdeen; M.A. (25th March 1771); licen.
by Presb. of Chanonry 29th Aug. 1 775 ;
ord. to Contin 18th Sept. 1776; pres. by
Kenneth Mackenzie of Cromartie Oct.
1790 ; trans, and adm. (amidst violent
opposition) llth May 1791 ; died 4th July
1835. Known as " Parson Rory," he was a
man of unbounded charity, very benevolent
and particularly attentive to the poor and
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KNOCKBAIN
[PRESB. OF
destitute. He was upwards of six feet in
height, with broad shoulders and massive,
well-proportioned limbs, and universally
allowed to be one of the finest looking
Highlanders of his day. He marr. 4th
Dec. 1783, Mary, daugh. of Alexander
Grant of the family of Sheuglie and sister
of Charles G. of Waternish, M.P. (father of
Lord Glenelg), and had issue— Catherine,
born 26th Sept. 1784 ; Alexander, born
13th Nov. 1785, died abroad; Charles
Grant, born 23rd Nov. 1786, died abroad ;
Margaret, born 21st May 1789 ; Jean, born
25th Sept. 1790; Mary, born 26th March
1792 (marr. 12th Aug. 1813, John Edwards,
sheriff-substitute, Inverness). Publications
— Accounts of Contin and of Kilmuir-
Wester (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., vii., xii., and
New Stat. Ace., xiv.). — [Memorabilia
Domestica, 284 ; Religious Life in Ross, 275.]
ALLAN MACKENZIE, born Lewis
1836 ak°ut 1798; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (March
1817) ; app. schoolmaster of Stornoway in
1819; licen. by Presb. of Uist 2nd Dec.
1824 ; pres. by William IV. 3rd Dec. 1835 ;
ord. 31st March 1836; died at Inverness
llth Dec. 1838, deeply lamented by his
attached flock. His wife died before his
admission here.— [Religious Life in Ross,
275. Gaelic elegy on him by William
Alison, local bard].
JOHN MACRAE, born May 1794, son
of Donald M., farmer, Ardelve,
Lochalsh, was a shepherd in early
life (his father having suffered serious
financial losses through the perfidy of a
friend) ; educated at Univs. of Aberdeen
and Edinburgh ; schoolmaster at Arnisdale,
Glenelg, and at Uig ; licen. by Presb. of
Lewis 7th Sept. 1830; assistant at Gair-
loch ; ord. to Cross, Lewis, in 1833 ; pres.
by the Hon. Maria Hay Mackenzie of
Cromartie 4th June, and trans, and adm.
26th Sept. 1839. Joined the Free Church
in 1843 ; min. of Free Church, Knockbain,
1843 - 9, Gaelic Free Church, Greenock,
1849-57, Free Church, Lochs, 1857-64,
Free Church, Carloway, 1864-71 ; died at
Greenock 9th Oct. 1876. After 1843 he
was app. to organise and consolidate the
work of the Free Church throughout the
Northern and Western Highlands. He
was a preacher of great power and origin
ality and enjoyed much popularity, his
name of Macrath Mbr, being a household
word. Hugh Miller called him the last of
the Ross-shire ministers. He marr. 26th
Dec. 1833, Penelope (died 9th Dec. 1859,
aged 54), daugh. of Captain Mackenzie of
Payble, and had issue — John, born 27th
Oct. 1834, went to Australia ; Donald, born
28th March 1837 ; Jane, born 20th Aug.
1839 (marr. Donald Macmaster, Free
Church min., Kildalton) ; Ebenezer, born
18th April 1841; Anne, born 4th Oct.
1844 (marr. Alexander Macrae, Free Church
min., Clachan), died 14th Feb. 1919.—
[Disruption Worthies of the Highlands
(portrait), 115 ; Religious Life in Ross,
275 ; Annals of the Disruption, 663 ;
Nicolson's The Rev. John Macrae (Inver
ness, 1895.]
ROBERT WILLIAMSON, born Ross-
1843 S^re 1>798' son °^ J°^D W., farmer,
and Catherine Ross; educated at
King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (March
1818); licen. by Presb. of Abertarff 30th
March 1825; ord. to Croick 25th Sept.
1828; trans, and adm. to St Andrew's
Church, Pictou, Nova Scotia, 24th Sept.
1840 ; pres. by Queen Victoria 29th Sept.,
and adm. 14th Dec. 1843 ; died 25th June
1870. He marr. 26th May 1834, Charlotte
Priscilla Lacon, who died s.p. 21st Nov.
1876.
JOHN MACGREGOR, born 1832, son
1868 °^ Robert M., farmer, Cromdale, and
Elizabeth Stuart; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen; M.A. (March 1854);
became missionary in Strathglass in 1859 ;
ord. to Kinlochluichart, 13th May 1861;
pres. by the Duchess of Sutherland, Countess
of Cromartie ; adm. (assistant and successor)
24th Dec. 1868; died 4th May 1892. He
marr. 29th July 1862, Isabella Kennedy
(died 26th April 1914), daugh. of John
Noble, min. of Fodderty, and had issue —
John Bingham Baring, born 8th Aug. 1863,
died abroad ; Elizabeth Adeline, born 28th
April 1866 ; Annie Mary, born 4th July
1868, died 16th Dec. 1883.
CHANONRY]
KNOCKBAIN— SUDDIE
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JOHN DOW, born Caputh, 22nd April
1892 1863> son °f Alexander D. and Janet
Robertson ; educated at Madras
College and Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A.
(1886) ; licen. by Presb. of Mull 2nd May
1888 ; ord. to Strathfillan 30th Sept. 1888 ;
trans, and adm. 7th Dec. 1892. Marr. 12th
June 1889, Jessie Simpson, daugh. of
David Harvey, merchant, St Andrews, and
has issue — Daisy Henderson, born 12th
Jan. 1891 (marr. 6th Aug. 1919, J. J.
Mullins, Sydney, Australia) ; Alastair, tea
planter, born 21st June 1892, died 23rd Feb.
1917; Davinia Harvey, born 8th Nov. 1895 ;
Ian, born llth April 1897, died 21st Sept.
1906; Jessie Simpson, born 24th Nov.
1899 ; Leila Annie, born 15th April 1901 :
Catherine Marjory Isabel, born 7th March
1903 ; Beatrice Anna Mackenzie, born 23rd
May 1909.
SUDDIE.
ANDREW LESLIE, parson in 1566.—
1566 [Familie of Innes, 121.]
DAVID THOMSON, pres. by James VL
15Q9 in 1569 ; died 1570.— [Orig. Paroch.
Scot., ii., 538.]
JAMES BUSCHERTT [BUCHART],
1570 pres. by James VI. in 1570.— [Orig.
Paroch. Scot., ii., 538.]
GEORGE MUNRO of Pitlundie, adm.
1571 in 1571 ; Kinettas was also in the
charge with the whole chancellary
of Ross in 1574. He was selected in 1588
to visit the bounds of Orkney, " where the
Jesuits and papists chiefly resort"; trans,
to Tarbat, but returned in 1594 ; trans, to
Rosemarkie in 1597.
JAMES LAUDER, M.A. ; min. in 1597 ;
1597 trans, to Ardersier that year; pre
centor of Ross in 1607.
GEORGE MUNRO of Bearcrofts, son
1614 °^ ^eorSe M., min. of this parish ;
was granted by James VI. in 1586
for seven years the chaplaincy of Clyne,
VOL. VII.
now Mountgerald, " for his support in sus-
tanying at the sculis"; adm. before 1614;
was a member of the Court of High Com
mission 21st Oct. 1634 and of Assembly
in 1639 ; was the only min. in the Presb.
who signed the National Covenant in 1638;
died after 6th April 1642. He marr. Mary
Primrose (died at Edinburgh March 1670),
niece of James Primrose, W.S., and had
issue— George of Pitlundie, min. of Rose
markie ; Sir Alexander of Bearcrofts, major
in an infantry regiment in Ireland, knighted
for his services and app. commissioner for
Stirling, adm. advocate 26th Feb. 1662,
M.P. for Stirling, 1690-1702, died 4th
Jan. 1704; Lieut.-Colonel David, killed
at the Battle of Worcester, 3rd Sept.
1651.— [Peterkin's Ret. Ross, 98; Baillie's
Letters ; Inq. Records ; Hist, of the Munros,
309.]
JOHN MACKENZIE, formerly of
1644 Urray; adm. in 1644; trans, to
Tarbat in 1645.
MURDOCH MACKENZIE, educated
1645 at Marischal College, Aberdeen;
M.A. (1622) ; became chaplain to
Lord Reay's Regiment in Germany under
Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden ; adm.
about 1645; dep. 22nd May 1647 by the
Commission of Assembly for "preaching
and praying before the Earl of Seaforth,
and eating and drinking with him and
saying grace after his excommunication."
He had also signed Seaforth's Remonstrance.
On 2nd Sept. 1656 he petitioned the Presb.
of Dingwall for reponement, but was refused
chiefly on the ground that he had failed to
defend himself against the miscarriage that
was alleged of him in Tain by " demneing
and drinking." He marr. Isobel M'Culloch,
and had issue. — [Mackay's#cwse of Mackay;
Acts of Assembly, 1647, 1648; Mackay's
Presb. of Dingwall, 286.]
GEORGE DUNBAR, educated at King's
1661 College, Aberdeen ; adm. before 8th
May 1651 ; was one of the signatories
to the letter of the Presb. of Chanonry
to the Commission of Assembly, 8th May
1651. Still min. 12th April 1661.
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SUDDIE— RESOLIS
[PKESB. OF
THOMAS FRASER, born Moray, about
1669 1640, nephew of William F. of
Phopachy; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen; M.A. (9th July 1664); adm.
about 1669 ; was Chancellor of Ross in
1685 ; protested against the Commission of
Assembly for the North in 1694; died in
April or May 1714. He marr. and had
issue— Hugh, on whom he settled the lands
of Cruives and Knockbuy; Isabel (marr.
Alexander, son of Hugh Fraser of Eska-
dale) ; Katherine (marr. William Fraser in
Kilochy).— [Allangrange Writs; Inverness
Sas., ix., 284, 288.]
JOHN MUNRO, born about 1690, son
1?16 of John M., and grandson of Colonel
John M. of Lemlair ; licen. by Presb.
of Tain llth May 1714 ; called by the Presb.
jure devoluto 6th March, and ord. 25th April
1716. In May 1719, the Presb. instructed
their Assembly commissioners to apply for
a part of the public money to defray his
expenses in a process for maintenance in
his parish. He died last min. of Suddie
13th May 1762. He marr. 18th Jan. 1718,
Isabel, daugh. of John Dallas of Bannans,
and had issue— Andrew ; John ; Isabel ;
Mary ; Hugh— all above 16 years of age in
1744; David, born 2nd Feb. 1733; James,
born 12th April 1734; Robert, min. of
Kilmuir- Wester. — [Hist, of the Munros,
493; Tombst.]
RESOLIS, OF OLD CILL MHICHEIL,
on KIRKMICHAEL IN ROSS,
AND CULLICUDDEN.
[These two parishes were united by the
Commissioners of Teinds on 22nd Jan. 1662.
Gill Mhicheil. — Gill Mhicheil was a
prebend of the Cathedral of Fortrose.
Its church was dedicated to St Michael.
In 1767 the parish church was removed
from Cill Mhicheil to Resolis. At Drum-
dyre, within the bounds, there was a chapel
of St Margaret, with a Well bearing her
name.
Cullicudden. — Cullicudden was a prebend
of the Cathedral of Fortrose. Its church
was dedicated to St Martin.]
JAMES GRAY, vicar of Kirkmichael and
1667 Cullicudden in 1567. — [Cromartie
Writs.]
ALEXANDER CLUNES, reader Nov.
1670 1570.
1574 WALTER ROSS, reader in 1574.
THOMAS MARJORIBANKS, son of
1576 Thomas M., burgess of Edinburgh ;
was parson of Kirkmichael in 1575 ;
still min. in 1586, probably the same T. M.
pres. by Queen Mary in 1549 ; witnessed a
charter by the Chantor of Ross in 1586.—
[Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 556; Munro of
Allan Writs ; Allangrange Writs ; ATGill't
Old Ross-shire, 24.]
ALEXANDER REID, reader at Suddie
1586 1574 to 1578^ adm- to Kilmuir-
Wester in 1579; trans, and adm.
before 1585 ; pres. by James VI. to vicarage
14th March 1586, still in the charge in
1601.— [Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 559.]
THOMAS YOUNG, educated at Univ. of
1Q14 St Andrews ; M.A. (1606) ; witnessed
a charter by the Bishop of Ross in
1618, and another in 1635.— [Charters at
Killearnan; Orig. Charter Antiquarian
Museum.]
ROBERT WILLIAMSON, educated at
164g King's College, Aberdeen; M.A.
(1626); was referred in 1649 to the
next visitation by the General Assembly,
and was one of the signatories to the
letter by the Presb. to the Commission of
Assembly 8th May 1651; still min. on
28th Aug. 1655.—[Dinywall Presb. Reg.;
Acts of Assembly, 1649; Urquhart's Jewel.]
JAMES HOUSTON, educated at
1662 Marischal College, Aberdeen; adm.
before 22nd Jan. 1662; died probably
in 1714 without conforming to Presby-
terianism. He marr. Jane Fouler, and
had issue — George, merchant, Fortrose ;
David.— [Services of Heirs ; Inverness Sas..,
v., 730 ; Laing Charters, 2927.]
THOMAS INGLIS, born 1684; licen.
1715 by Presb. of Inverness 30th Sept.
1713; pres. by Sir William Gordon
of Dalfollie, and by Sir Kenneth Mackenzie
CHANONRY]
RESOLIS
of Cromartie in Feb., and ord. 26th May
1715 ; died 27th July 1747. He was, for his
meekness and gentleness, known as "The
Lamb of Cullicudden." He marr. 28th Oct.
1725, Anne (died 7th July 1742), daugh. of
— Urquhart of Braelangwell, and had
issue— Anne (marr. James Calder, min. of
Croy) ; Thomas William, went to Jamaica
—all above 16 years of age in 1744 ; Jean,
born 31st Aug. 1731 ; John, born 12th July
1734.-[?'om&s<.]
HECTOR MACPHAIL, born Inverness,
1748 1716 ; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen; M.A. (1st April 1737);
licen. by Presb. of Inverness 20th Dec.
1746; called unanimously 18th July, and
ord. 27th Sept. 1748; died 23rd Jan. 1784.
He has been described as " one of the most
deeply exercised Christians of his time."
He marr. (1) 28th Oct. 1755, Elizabeth (died
5th Dec. 1758), daugh. of John Balfour,
min. of Nigg, and had issue— Isobel, born
7th Aug. 1757 : (2) 13th Nov. 1759, Anne
Cuthbert of the Castlehill family, who died
9th March 1795, and had issue — Jean, born
27th Aug. 1760 ; Paul, born 23rd Oct. 1761 ;
Magdalene, born 18th July 1763 ; George,
born 16th Nov. 1764; James, min. of
Daviot, born 27th Feb. 1766 ; Elizabeth,
born 14th Sept. 1768; William, min. of
Scottish Church, Rotterdam, born 1771.
— [Steven's Scot. Church, Rotterdam, 243 ;
Memorabilia Domestica, 265; Tombst.]
ROBERT ARTHUR, born Buchan,
1774 1744; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen ; M.A. (30th March 1767) ;
pres. by William Gordon of Newhall in
June, and ord. 21st Sept. 1774; died llth
May 1821. He marr. (1) 17th June 1777,
Anne, daugh. of Captain John Munro of
Braemore, and sister of Colonel Munro of
Pointzfield, and had issue— George Munro,
born 14th March 1778 ; Thomas, captain,
Engineer Corps, Madras, present at storm
ing of Seringapatam in 1799; died at
Travancore, India, 1st May 1817; Elizabeth,
born 27th March 1781 (marr. Alexander
Gunn, min. of Watten) ; May, born 1782
(marr. 23rd Sept. 1802, Charles Munro of
Berryhill); James Innes, Demerara, born
22nd July 1785, died at sea 20th Aug.
1816 : (2) 19th Feb. 1793, Janet Maclennan :
(3) 14th March 1797, Margaret Gunn,
and had issue— John, born 21st March
1798; Robert, born 15th Oct. 1799;
George, born 30th March 1802; Anne
Munro, born 5th April 1804 (marr. (1)
14th July 1820, Captain William Gallic,
78th Highlanders, (2) Captain John Mathe-
son of Bennetsfield), died 13th Feb. 1849 :
(4) 30th May 1805, Mary (died 21st May
1826), daugh. of John Turner of Turnerhall
and widow of James Rainy, min. of Old
Meldrum. Publication — Account of the
Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., xiv.). — [Ross
Tests. ; Memorabilia Domestica, 266 ; Hist,
of the Munros, 550.]
DONALD SAGE, born 20th Oct. 1789,
1822 son °^ Alexander S., min. of Kildonan,
Sutherland ; educated at Dornoch
School, Marischal College, Aberdeen, M.A.
(1808), and Univ. of Edinburgh ; became
tutor in the families of Sheriff Mackid,
Kirktown, Golspie, and Matheson of Atta-
dale, Lochcarron ; licen. by Presb. of Loch-
carron in 1815 ; ord. by Presb. of Dornoch
missionary at Achness 8th Nov. 1816 ;
adm. to Gaelic Chapel, Aberdeen, 1st Feb.
1821 ; pres. by Donald Mackenzie of New-
hall Sept. that year; trans, and adm. 2nd
May 1822. Joined the Free Church in 1843 ;
min. of Resolis Free Church, 1843-69;
died 31st March 1869. The Sutherland
Clearances of 1819 occurred during his
ministry at Achness, where he and his
entire congregation were driven from their
homes. Summonses of ejection were issued
and dispatched all over the district to a
population of 1600. His farewell services
at Achness and Achna-h'uiaghe " were felt,"
he wrote in his Memorabilia, "by myself
and by the people from the oldest to the
youngest, to be among the bitterest and
most overwhelming experiences of our lives.
. . . I selected a text which had a pointed
reference to the peculiarity of our circum
stances, but my difficulty was how to
restrain my feelings till I should illustrate
and enforce the great truths which it
involved with reference to eternity. The
service began, the very aspect of the
congregation was of itself a sermon, and
RESOLIS
[PJRESB. OF
a most impressive one. I preached and
the people listened, but every sentence
uttered and heard was in opposition to the
tide of our natural feelings, which, setting
in against us, mounted at every step of our
progress higher and higher. At last all
restraints were compelled to give way. The
preacher ceased to speak, the people to
listen. All lifted up their voices and wept,
mingling their tears together. It was
indeed the place of parting, and the hour.
The greater number parted never again
to behold each other in the land of the
living." He marr. (1) 21st July 1821,
Harriet Gordon (died 7th May 1822), daugh.
of James Robertson of Naval Hospital,
Barbados, and Pitstrunie, Aberdeenshire :
(2) 20th June 1826, Elizabeth (died 25th
Jan. 1889), daugh. of William Mackintosh,
min. of Thurso, and had isue— Christina
Sutherland, born 1st Aug. 1827 ; Alexander,
born 14th Nov. 1828 ; Isabella Fraser, born
24th May 1830; William M'Intosh, born
22nd May 1832 ; ^neas John, born 21st
Nov. 1833 ; James Macintosh, born 12th
Sept. 1835 ; Elizabeth Catherine, born 24th
June 1838, died at Inverness 26th Feb.
1923 ; Donald Fraser, ord. min. at Parkhill,
Ontario, 1874, adm. min. of Free Church,
Keiss, 1880, died 1890; Richard Ramsay,
born 31st Aug. 1843; Christina Camilla
Jane, born 26th Sept. 1846 (marr. 1872,
Donald Sutherland, min. of Free Church,
Kilmonivaig), died Dec. 1923. Publications
— Account of the Parish (New Stat. Ace.,
xiv.). He left in MS. a mass of inter
esting genealogical and ecclesiastical re
miniscences, part of which was edited
by his son Donald, under the title
Memorabilia Domestica, or Parish Life
in the North of Scotland (Wick, 1889,
2nd ed., 1899).
JOHN MACKENZIE, born 1792,
1848 son °^ Donald M. of Taagan, Gair-
loch, and Isabella, daugh. of Simon
Mackenzie of Oldney ; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (28th March
1812) ; licen. by Presb. of Lochcarron 1st
April 1817; ord. missionary at Glen-
moriston 13th May 1818 ; trans, to Rogart
17th Sept. 1823; pres. by Mackenzie of
Newhall ; trans, and adm. 28th Sept. 1843 ;
died 19th Sept. 1870. He marr. 6th June
1826, Mary (died 20th May 1855), , daugh.
of Colin Mackenzie, min. of Stornoway,
and had issue— Duncan Simon, min. of
Gairloch, born 19th Sept. 1827; Colin, min.
of Ardclach, born 2nd Aug. 1828 ; Simon,
born 26th March 1830 ; Alexander Roderick,
student of divinity, born 13th Nov. 1831,
died 16th Aug. 1853 ; Roderick, surgeon,
H.E.I.C.S., born llth Dec. 1833, died at
Bombay 25th May 1857; Jane, born 27th
Nov. 1835, died 2nd Jan. 1853; Ninian
Francis, born 2nd May 1839, died 1st April
1856. Publications— Speaking the Truth
in Love, a sermon (Edin., 1847) ; Account
of Rogart (New Stat. Ace., xv.).
ROBERT GUMMING MAC-
1871 DOUGALL, born 13th April 1839,
son of James M., schoolmaster, Moy,
and Mary Gumming ; educated at Raigbeg
and Grantown Schools, King's College,
Aberdeen, and Univs. of Aberdeen and
Glasgow, 1860-4; became missionary at
Campbeltown, Oct. 1865, at North Knap-
dale, March 1866; ord. Royal Bounty
missionary at Tayvallich (Inveraray), 18th
Dec. that year ; adm. to Fort Augustus in
1867 ; assistant at Kilmonivaig, 1868-70 ;
pres. by J. A. Shaw Mackenzie of Newhall
6th Jan., and adm. 30th March 1871 ;
died 1st Aug. 1911. He was immersed in
the lore of the Puritans and filled with
the spirit of the Covenanters, a strong
opponent of all innovations in Church
worship and an earnest upholder of the
Protestant faith, a good classical scholar
and an eloquent speaker and preacher.
He marr. 26th April 1876, Jean Maclean
(died 27th June 1882), daugh. of James
Paterson, farmer, Thurso, and Betsy
Mackay, and had issue — James, engineer,
Hudson Bay Company, born 4th Feb. 1877 ;
Donald Joseph, born 29th Oct., and died
18th Nov. 1878; Bessie Paterson (twin),
born 29th Oct. 1878 ; Mary Gumming, born
17th, and died 28th Oct. 1879. Publica
tions — Memoir of the Rev. Hector Mac-
phail, minister of Resolis. Contributions
to periodical literature chiefly on local and
Church history.
CHANONRY] RESOLIS— CULLICUDDEN— ROSEMARKIE
21
ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, M.A. ;
1912 trans- and a,dm. from Lairg 18th
Jan. 1912; trans, to Kiltearn 14th
Oct. 1920.
RODERICK MACKENZIE, born
Kishorn, 16th Dec. 1864, son of
L Donald M. and Isabella Mackenzie ;
educated at Old Aberdeen Grammar School,
Univ. of Glasgow, and Assembly's College,
Belfast ; licen. by Northern Presb. of the
Free Presbyterian Church Jan. 1895 ; ord.
to Free Presbyterian Church, Portree, 25th
Jan. 1895 ; adm. to Kintail 16th March
1898 ; trans, to Urquhart (Inverness) 26th
Nov. 1908 ; trans, and adm. 8th March
1921. Marr. (1) 20th Feb. 1896, Annie
(died 15th Feb. 1911), daugh. of Samuel
Campbell and Marion Maclean, and has
issue— Morag Campbell, born 8th March
1897; Isabella Flora, M.B., Ch.B., born
16th Sept. 1898 (marr. llth June 1924,
Victor Edmond Milne, M.B., Ch.B., D.Ph.,
Birmingham); Duncan Archibald, marine
engineer, born 19th Sept. 1901 : (2) 30th
April 1913, Annie Jane, daugh. of John
Macdonald and Marjorie Douglas.
CULLICUDDEN.
DAVID DUNBAR, held this charge
1560 Before ^e Deformation, when he
conformed to Protestantism. In
1557 he witnessed a charter by David,
Bishop of Ross ; in 1571 as parson he
granted a discharge to William Ross of
Priesthill, and in 1580 gave a tack of the
teind sheaves to Robert Graham; died in
1580. — [Charter of 1557 at Killearnan ;
Munro of Allan Writs; Cromartie Writs.]
1580
WILLIAM MUNRO of Coul, son of
Hugh M. of Ferrytown of Obsdale,
latterly of Coul; was reader, 1574-8;
pres. to the parsonage by James VI. in
1580 ; still min. in 1608. He marr. Isobel,
daugh. of Donald Thornton of Balgary,
and had issue — Robert of Coul, min.
of Farr ; Hector, min. of Edderton ;
Alexander ; Hugh of Ardullie ; Christian
(marr. Andrew Munro of Lemlair). —
[Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 553; Hist, of
the Munros, 383.]
THOMAS PAPE, born Ross-shire,
younger brother of William P., min.
of Dornoch ; adm. to Rogart in 1590 ;
was a member of Assembly in 1610 ;
trans, and adm. in 1614 ; still min. 29th
May 1634.— [Orig. Charter Antiq. Museum;
Orig. Charter at Killearnan; Mackay's
Presb. of Dingwall, 249 ; Reg. Mag. Sig.t
vi., 799.]
CHARLES PAPE, probably son of
preceding ; adrn. before 2nd Nov.
1 1638 ; was clerk of Presb. ; still in
the charge 28th Aug. 1655. The parish
was vacant in 1662. — [Mackay's Presb. of
Dingwall, 270.]
ROSEMARKIE.
[The chancellor of the diocese of Ross
held the prebend of Rosemarkie in the
Cathedral of Fortrose. Its parish church
was dedicated to St Peter. At Rosemarkie
St Curadan was buried, and there his relics
were shown to pilgrims, as were also those
of St Moluoc. Rosemarkie had a Well of
St Peter, and kept a fair in his honour.]
GEORGE DUNBAR, probably brother
of David D., min. of Cullicudden ;
1 vicar from 1560 to 1566, having been
pres. by Queen Mary in 1549, and had
evidently conformed at Reformation. —
[Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 567.]
JOHN ROBERTSON, min. in 1574,
1574 having Chanonry in conjunction.
ALEXANDER HEPBURN, Bishop of
1576 Ross, min. in 1576.
1576 WILLIAM HAY, reader in 1576.
GEORGE MUNRO, chancellor in
1586 1586.
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ROSEMARKIE
[PRESB. OF
ANDREW CROMBIE, trans, to
Kilmuir - Wester in 1596 or 1597;
1596 returned in 1599.
GEORGE MUNRO, trans, from Suddie
1697 in 1597 ; trans, to Chanonry in 1599.
ANDREW CROMBIE, above men
tioned ; min. in 1599, with Kilmuir-
Wester also in his charge. He was
app. by the Assembly in 1600 to visit the
bounds of Moray, and had the appoint
ment renewed the next year. He was
Dean of Ross in 1607, and still min. 8th
Feb. 1630.— [Orig. Charter Antiq. Museum;
Orig. Charter Bishop of Ross at Kil-
learnan.']
PATRICK DURHAM, min. in 1633
1Q88 and dean of Ross in 1636.— [Orig.
Charter Bishop of Ross at Kil-
learnan.]
1635
JAMES AINSLIE, educated at Univ.
of Edinburgh; M.A. (25th July
1624) ; adm. before llth Feb. 1635 ;
was one of the few who read Archbishop
Laud's Service-Book as appointed by the
bishop in 1637 ; was still min. 2nd Nov.
1638.— [Reg. Mag. Sig., ix., 355.]
GEORGE MUNRO of Pitlundie, son
1642 °^ ^eor£e ^-> m^n- °f Suddie ; had
a gift of the chaplaincy of St
Laurence, called the chaplaincy of Elgin,
in the Cathedral of Moray, from James VI.
in 1616, for his support and maintenance
at the schools ; adm. before 4th Oct. 1642.
On 22nd Dec. 1646 he renounced his adher
ence to Seaforth's Remonstrance against
the National Covenant and acknowledged
his " frailty " in putting his hand to that
" perfidious Bond." In the " references " of
the Commission of the Assembly appointed
in 1649 for visiting the Kirk of Ross, " the
furder tryall of G. M., minister at Rose-
markie, is referred to a commission to sit
at Aldearne ad hunc actum only, the firsl
tuesday of November next till appoynt
witnesses thereanent to be cited be the
>resbrie of Chanonrie, and that the said
resbrie have a care of the said Mr George
lis chairge." He was one of the signatories
;o a letter of the Presb. to the Commission
f Assembly, 8th May 1651, approving of
their proceedings ; died before 21st Sept.
1686. He marr. Barbara, daugh. of James
Forbes of Tolmads, and Agnes, daugh. of
John Forbes of Campbell, and had issue
— John, writer, Edinburgh ; Agnes (marr.
1643, Captain James, son of Duncan
Forbes of Culloden) ; Janet (marr. (1)
Alexander Ross of Nether Pitkerrie, min.
of Fearn : (2) Duncan Davidson); Margaret
(marr. John, son of Colonel John Munro
of Lemlair). — [Ing. Req. Ross, 98, 145;
Lumsden's House of Forbes, 25 ; Hist, of
the Munros, 309.]
DAVID ANGUS, schoolmaster of
Nairn ; passed trials before the
Presb. of Forres and was recom
mended for licence 2nd Nov. 1675 ; adm.
before 1689 ; deprived for not praying for
King William and Queen Mary ; removed
to Fortrose and was charged before the
Privy Council, 22nd May 1693, with having
publicly preached and exercised the minis
terial function within his own house and
parish and elsewhere without qualifying
himself by signing the Oath of Allegiance,
and his deprivation was confirmed and he
was further prohibited from preaching or
exercising any ministerial function. He
went to Edinburgh, and died in the Canon-
gate in 1717. — [Chambers's Dom. Ann. ;
Services of Heirs.}
HUGH ANDERSON, ord. before 29th
March 1694 ; trans, to Drainie 17th
Aug. 1698.
GEORGE GORDON, adm. 25th April
1700; trans, to Cromarty 1st April
1707.
ROBERT FINLAY, son of William F.
in Tarves; educated at Univ. of
Edinburgh ; M.A. (8th March 1699) ;
served heir to his father 20th Dec. 1700;
licen.by Presb. of Dalkeith 25th Dec. 1704;
called by the Presb. jure devoluto 27th
CIIANONRY]
ROSEMARKIE
23
July, and ord. 23rd Sept. 1708; died 4th
Dec. 1733. He has been described as "a
pious and sincere pastor, assiduous and
faithful in his sacred office." He marr.
(pro. 30th July 1709) Katherine, daugh.
of David Denoon, bailie of the Canon-
gate ; she was recommended by the
Assembly, 21st May 1736, to the Synods
of Ross, Sutherland, Caithness and
Moray for charity.— [Services of Heirs ;
Tombst.}
JOHN WOOD, born 1701 ; chaplain to
1?S4 Sir William Gordon of Invergordon ;
licen. by Presb. of Tain 22nd March
1732; called 4th July, and ord. llth Aug.
1734; died 10th Nov. 1775. Under his
ministrations a revival of religion took
place in 1744 and he was then "waiting
in the expectation of still greater things."
He gives an account of this awakening in
a letter recorded in Gillies's Historical
Collections, 455. He marr. (1) 5th April
1739, Anne (died 27th April 1745), daugh.
of Collector Ogilvie, Banff, and had issue —
a child who died young : (2) 17th June
1747, Sophia (died 28th May 1803), daugh.
of Alexander Irvine, min. of Elgin, and
had issue — Alexander, min. of this parish ;
Anne, born 4th Oct. 1749 ; John, born
25th July, and died Oct. 1752 ; John, born
24th Nov. 1753; Mary, born 24th Feb.
1755 ; Sophia, born 8th Jan. 1758 ; Charles,
min. of Wiston, born 27th Dec. 1759 ;
William, born 15th Dec. 1761 ; James,
commander Racer, cutter, Bristol Channel,
born 12th March 1764, died 16th Nov.
1817; George, born 12th March 1766;
David, born 25th June 1767 ; Joseph, went
to Jamaica, born 29th July 1770, died
21st Feb. 1811 ; Andrew, major in army,
born 26th June 1772, died 20th July 1834.
Publication — Letter on the Revival in
Parish of Rosemarkie (Robe's Monthly
History, 1744). — [Religious Life in Ross,
252.]
ALEXANDER WOOD (primus), born
-,_,__ 9th Oct. 1748, son of preceding ;
educated at King's College, Aber
deen ; M.A. (2nd April 1765); licen. by
Presb. of Chanonry 12th Dec. 1769 ; pres.
by George III. 27th Feb., and ord. (assistant
and successor) 19th Sept. 1770 ; died
22nd Aug. 1808. He marr. 4th Dec. 1773,
Janet (died 6th Dec. 1829), daugh. of
Alexander Houston, provost of Fortrose,
and grandson of James Houston, min. of
Kirkmichael (Ross), and had issue — Sophia,
born 4th Oct. 1775 (marr. 29th Dec. 1792,
James Fowler of Grange, Jamaica) ; John,
born 25th Aug. 1776; Janet, born 28th
Aug. 1779 (marr. 2nd March 1805, James
Dallas, min. of Contin) ; Anne Baillie, born
19th June 1782 (marr. 6th Nov. 1805, John
Watson, Jamaica); Charlotte, born 29th
June 1783 ; Alexander, min. of this parish ;
William Abraham, born 16th May 1786;
Henrietta Georgina Jacobina, born 23rd
Oct. 1787 ; George Urquhart, born 28th
April 1789 ; Jemima, born 7th April
1792. Publication— Account of the Parish
(Sinclair's Stat. Ace., xi.). — [Memorabilia
Domestica, 281 ; Tombst.]
ALEXANDER WOOD (secundus\ born
1816 10tk April 1785, son of preceding;
educated at King's College, Aber
deen ; M.A. (28th March 1803) ; licen. by
Presb. of Chanonry 14th July 1807 ; pres.
by George III. Oct. 1809. A tedious law
suit regarding the patronage was instituted
by the Hon. Maria Hay Mackenzie of
Cromartie, who presented William Ander
son, licentiate. The case was decided in
her favour by the Court of Session and
affirmed by the House of Lords July
1814. Anderson withdrew acceptance
having been settled at Kippen, whereupon
Mrs Mackenzie pres. A. W. Jan. 1815,
and he was ord. 16th Feb. 1816 ; died 8th
Jan. 1874. The Woods were mins. of this
parish for 140 years, one of the longest family
successions in the history of the Church.
He marr. 18th Dec. 1821, Agnes (died 27th
March 1861), daugh. of Adam Walker of
Muirhouselaw, Roxburghshire, and had
issue— Alexander, born 5th Dec. 1822, died
at Lancefield near Melbourne, Australia,
3rd March 1858 ; Katherine Gairdner, born
24th Sept. 1824 (marr. 23rd April 1845,
24
ROSEMARKIE
[PRESB. OF CHANONKY
Donald M. Kose) ; died 1st Aug. 1851 ;
Janetta Fowler, born 20th May 1826, died
July 1831. Publication— Account of the
Parish (New Stat. Ace., x\\.).— [Religious
Life in Boss, 253.]
JAMES M'DOWALL, born Glenluce,
1861 Wigtownshire, 1833, eldest son of
James M., fisher ; educated at Glen-
luce, Campbeltown Grammar School, and
Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Glas
gow; assistant in Low Church, Kilmarnock,
Kinross, and in this parish ; pres. by Queen
Victoria 18th Feb., and ord. (assistant and
successor) 9th May 1861 ; died unmarr. 2nd
Aug. 1910.
ROBERT SHAW MASTERTON,
1908 k°rn Tillietudlem, Lesmahagow, 6ih
March 1877, son of James Boe M.
and Agnes Shaw ; educated at Hamilton
Academy and Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A.
(1899); licen. by Presb. of Kintyre in
1902 ; assistant at Buenos Aires, Dumfries,
Shettleston, and in this parish ; ord.
(assistant and successor) 20th Aug. 1908.
Marr. 30th Sept. 1913, Helen M'Kean,
daugh. of Peter Craig, Glasgow, and Helen
M'Kean.
PEESBYTERY OF DINGWALL
[We have no evidence of the existence of this Court before 21st November 1638. The
Register of the Presbytery begins at 19th June 1649. There are gaps in its record from
30th March to 19th May 1663, from 12th April 1688 to 13th September 1716, and from
7th April 1762 to 13th July 1774.]
1560
ALNESS.
[Alness was a prebend of the Cathedral
of Fortrose. There were chapels in this
parish at Fyrish and Culcraigie. Another
stood at Kildermorie (Celtair Mhuiri = the
Shrine of Mary). There were also Wells of
St Mary and St Columba.]
THOMAS ROSS, son of Nicolas R.,
provost of the Collegiate Church of
Tain (who was present in Parliament
in 1560 and voted for the suppression of
Popery); parson of Alness in 1560; suc
ceeded his father as Abbot (titular) of
Fearn in 1566; died 4th Feb. 1595. He
marr. Isobel (died 1603), daugh. of Alex
ander Kinnaird of Culbin, and had issue —
Walter of Morangie ; William ; Andrew,
burgesses of Tain ; Barbara (marr. Andrew
Morrison). — [JJalnayowan Writs ; Reid's
Geneal. of Rosses, 55 ; Tain Sheriff-Court
Writs; Taylor's Hist, of Tain, 51, 59;
Bain's Hist, of Ross, 126 ; Religious Life
in Ross, 113.]
JOHN DAVIDSON, called vicar in
1560 1560.
JOHN WATSON, was charged in the
1565 Assembly, 28th June 1565, with "leav
ing his vocation," and was ordered
to return "under pain of disobedience
to the kirk."— [Booke of the Kirk.}
ALEXANDER MORISON, exhorter in
1571 1571 ; reader in 1574.
ROBERT ROSS of Kinloch, second son
1588 of Donald Ross of Shandwick ; min.
in 1588 ; was a member of Assembly
in 1610. He built the manse, west end of
church and bell-house in 1625. In 1630
he dem. in favour of Thomas Ross, min.
of Fearn, whose translation does not seem
to have taken place, R. R. being still min.
in 1636 ; died in 1648. He marr., and had
issue — William of Shandwick, min. of
Fearn ; John ; Thomas, min. of this parish ;
Andrew, min. of Gorton; David, min. of
Logie-Easter ; Esther (marr. Hugh, son of
Hector Munro of Fyrish) ; Catherine (marr.
Farquhar Munro of Teanoird).— [Calder-
wood's Hist, vii., 105 ; M'Crie's Sketches, i.,
149 ; Orig. Charter Antiq. Museum ; Balna-
gowan Writs ; Charter by Hishop of Ross
at Killearnan ; Reg. Mag. Sig., ix., 380.]
THOMAS ROSS, born about 1613, son
of preceding; educated at King's
' College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1634);
min. in 1635 ; dep. in 1648, which sentence
was approved by the Assembly on 24th
July 1649. The Assembly recommended
his reponement, which was given effect to
by the Presb. 9th Oct. that year.—
[Mackay's Records of Dingwall Presb.,
153 ; Charter by Bishop of Ross at
Killearnan.}
JOHN MUNRO, of Culcraigie, son of
Alexander M., min. of Durness ; adm.
7th July 1649. On 20th Aug. 1650 he
informed the Presb. that he was denied
admission to his manse, Thomas Ross, the
preceding min., being still in possession, and
R. was ordered to remove ; app. chaplain to
the Laird of Thornton's regiment ; died in
1662. "He was a man of great readiness
and considerable learning." He marr.
26
ALNESS
[PRESB. OF
Catherine Abernethy, and had issue —
William ; John ; George ; Andrew ; Isa
bella (marr. Robert Munro of Findon
family) ; Christian (marr. Andrew Munro,
min. of Thurso). — [Mackay's Presb. of
Dingwall, 192.]
WALTER ROSS, son of David R. of
Balnagowan ; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (27th April
1659); adm. in 1664; was clerk to Synod
in 1671 ; died after 1690. He marr., and
had issue— Hugh. — [Scot. Antiq., v., 158 ;
Mackay's Presb. of Dingwall, 371.]
1687
JOHN M'KILLICAN of Alness ; licen.
ky tne Presb. of Aberdeen and
received by that of Forres 28th
March 1655 ; adm. to Fodderty 26th Feb.
1656; deprived by Act of Parliament llth
June and Decreet of Privy Council 1st Oct.
1662 ; dep. May 1663. Complaints were
lodged against him in 1667 for holding
conventicles with Thomas Hog of Kiltearn.
In 1668 complaints were lodged against
him by the bishop, in consequence of which
he was imprisoned in the Tolbooth of
Forres. After his release he returned to
Alness, and another prosecution followed
in 1674, when he was obliged to go into
concealment, but in Sept. 1675 he dispensed
the Lord's Supper in the house of the
Dowager Lady Munro of Fowlis at Obsdale.
For this he was carried prisoner to Fortrose,
Nairn, and Edinburgh, sent to the Bass in
the end of 1677 till the indemnity granted
llth July 1679, when he was liberated.
He was again summoned before the Privy
Council 18th Jan. 1683, and fined £277,
to remain in prison till paid. After six
months' imprisonment at Edinburgh he
was sent to the Bass, but released on
account of his health, and under bond 27th
July 1686, and went to Alness. After
Toleration had been given to the Presby
terians, 5th July 1687, he built a meeting
house on his own property with the money
he received for the damage done to his
property by the party of soldiers sent by
Sir Roderick Mackenzie of Findon in 1675
to prevent the celebration of the communion
at Obsdale. He received a call from Elgin
which he declined, and accepted a call to
Inverness, but he was not settled there ;
died 8th June 1689. He marr. (1) Catherine,
daugh. of John Munro of Balchraggan, and
had issue— John, min. of Lochalsh ; Daniel,
min. of this parish ; Janet (marr. Alexander
Munro of Kilchoan), and four others : (2)
Margaret, third daugh. of Donald Mackenzie
of Meddat, who survived him.— [Wodrow's
Hist., iii., 435; The Bass Rock, 235-59;
Inq. Ret. Ross, 151.]
JOHN FRASER of Pitcalzean; during
1695 the reign of Charles II. suffered
great hardships on account of the
stand he took against the Episcopal govern
ment of the Church. He was imprisoned
at Newgate and was afterwards sent to
Dunnottar Castle. In Sept. 1685 he was
banished by the Scottish Privy Council to
the American Plantations, where after a
voyage of seventeen weeks he landed at
New Jersey ; licen. to preach in New
England, and took charge of a congregation
at Woodbury, Conn. ; he returned to Scot
land at the Revolution and was ord. to
Glencorse 23rd Dec. 1691. As a Gaelic
speaker he was app. by the General
Assembly to supply in Ross, Sutherland,
and Caithness, and trans, and adm. here
6th Nov. 1695 ; died 7th Nov. 1711, aged
about 53. He marr. in America, Jean,
daugh. of James Moffat, farmer, Nether-
barngs (on the Selkirkshire side of the
Tweed, opposite Abbotsford). She had
suffered persecution like himself, survived
him and marr. (2) George Gordon, min.
of Cromarty), and had issue— John, a youth
of high promise, died 9th June 1712 ; James,
min. of this parish ; Catherine (marr. John
M'Arthur, min. of Logie-Easter); Isobel.
Publication— Letter to Hugh Rose of Kil-
ravock regarding Sabbath Profanation
(Family of Kilravock).— [Heriot Sess. Reg. ;
Fraser on Sanctification (Life) ; Family of
Kilravock ; Bass Rock, 168 ; Wodrow's
Hist., iv., 332 ; Services of Heirs ; Inverness
Sas., viii., 419 ; Cloud of Witnesses, 531 ;
Torwoodlee MSS.; Stewart's Covenanters of
Teviotdale, 198-211 (gives a full account of
Jean Moffat's sufferings) ; Briggs' American
Presbyterianism, 122 ; Tombst.~\
DINGWALL]
ALNESS
27
DANIEL M'KILLICAN, son of John
M., min. of this parish; licen. by
: Presb. of Dunfermline 30th April
1701; ord. to Kilmuir-Easter 25th Sept.
1701 ; called by the Presb. jure devoluto
27th Jan. and 22nd July 1713 ; trans, and
adm. 24th Sept. 1714. During the Kising
of 1715 he encouraged his parishioners to
support the Government, and accompanied
as chaplain Sir Robert Munro's (Fowlis)
detachment on their way to join the army
under the Duke of Argyll. In resentment,
the rebels under Seaforth took possession
of the village of Alness, "spulzied and
carried off the Presbyterial library of
Dingwall with two parochial libraries
which were lodged in the manse, with all
M.'s own manuscripts, books, moveables,
household plenishing, and body clothes
to the value of 4000 merks." The manse
itself was so dilapidated that his family
were obliged to reside elsewhere from the
beginning of Sept. 1715 to March 1716.
His case was recommended to the Lord
High Commissioner (Earl of Rothes) by
the Assembly, 27th May 1718, when the
Procurator and Agent were appointed, 16th
May 1720, to concur in a "process of
spulzie" at the public expense. He died
in June or July 1723. He marr. (pro.
25th June 1715) Christian, daugh. of
William Stuart, min. of Kiltearn, and
had issue.— [Acts of Assembly, 1718, 1720 ;
Bain's Hist, of Ross, 267, 270; Religious
Life in Ross, 44.]
JAMES FRASER of Pitcalzean, Nigg,
1726 k°rn 1695> youngest son of John F.,
min. of this parish; educated at
King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (llth April
1715); licen. by Presb. of Chanonry 6th
Nov. 1723 ; called, llth June, by the Presb.
jure devoluto, and ord. 17th Feb. 1726 ; died
5th Oct. 1769. A certain section of the
congregation (Episcopalian) opposed his
settlement. On the day of his ordination,
the Presb. found the doors of the church
barred, and the service was held in the
churchyard, where F. was obliged to preach
for several Sundays. In a short time the
opposition ceased, and he became one of the
most popular ministers in the North. He
was a correspondent of Robert Wodrow, to
whom he suggested the writing of a treatise
on witchcraft. He marr. 24th April 1735,
Jean (died 13th March 1778), daugh. of
Captain Donald Macleod of Geanies.
Publications — The Scripture Doctrine of
Sanctification (an exposition from the
Calvinistic standpoint, which had an
immense circulation all over Europe and
America) (Edinburgh 1774) ; Letter to Robert
Wodrow, min. of Eastwood (Law's Mem.,
Pref.).— [Acts of Assembly, 1719; Religious
Life in Ross, 45; Diet. Nat. Biog.;
Memorabilia Domestica, 317.]
ANGUS BETHUNE, born 27th June
1742, son of John B., min. of Glen-
L shiel; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen ; M.A. (2nd April 1764) and Univ.
of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of Gairloch
8th Oct. 1766 ; ord. 23rd Aug. and adm. to
Harris 28th Sept. 1768 ; pres. by George III.
in 1770 ; trans, and adm. 25th Sept. 1771 ;
died 19th Oct. 1801. He was chaplain of
the 71st Foot. He marr. (1) 25th July 1772,
Catherine, daugh. of Colonel Andrew Munro
of Lemlair, and had issue— Janet, born
10th Jan. 1773 ; John in Berbice, born 2nd
Oct. 1774, died 18th April 1819 ; Christian,
born 12th Sept. 1778, died 1869 ; Rose, born
12th March 1780 (marr. Donald Ross, min.
of Loth); Harry Munro, born 12th July
1781, died 12th March 1784 ; Hector, min.
of Dingwall, born 12th Aug. 1782 ; Duncan,
born 3rd May 1785, died 1790 ; Anne, born
16th Dec. 1786 (marr. 4th April 1820,
Roderick Reach, solicitor, Inverness, some
time proprietor of the Inverness Courier,
and was mother of Angus Bethune R.
(1821-56), author of Clement Lorimer, The
Natural History of Bores, and other works);
Hugh Munro, born 22nd Nov. 1789;
Catherine, born 10th Aug. 1792 (marr. 8th
Feb. 1820, John Maclennan of Lynedale
in Skye) : (2) 21st Sept. 1796,. Janet Mary
(died 7th March 1846), daugh. of Joseph
Munro, min. of Edderton. Publication-
Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat.
Ace., xix.).— [Diet. Nat. Biog. for Angus B.
Reach.}
28
ALNESS— CARNOCH
[PRESB. OF
HECTOR BETHUNE, born 12th Aug.
1802 1^82' son °^ Preceding; Pres. by the
Hon. Mrs Maria Hay Mackenzie of
Cromartie in April, and ord. 28th Sept. 1802 ;
trans, to Dingwall 31st July 1820.
ALEXANDER FLYTER, bom Elgin,
1820 1>782' son °^ James F-, builder, and
Elizabeth Robertson ; educated at
King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (29th
March 1805) ; became schoolmaster of
Fearn ; licen. by Presb. of Tain 28th
March 1810 ; ord. to Chapel - of - Ease,
Rothesay, 23rd March 1811 ; pres. by the
Hon. Mrs Maria Hay Mackenzie of
Cromartie in Aug., trans, and adm. 12th
Oct. 1820. Joined the Free Church in
1843; min. of Free Church, Alness, 1843-66 ;
died 6th Jan. 1866. Tall and erect, with a
snow-white head, a thoughtful brow, and
an expression of finely blended firmness
and gentleness, he was a conspicuous figure
wherever he went— a man greatly beloved.
He marr. 6th July 1814, Elizabeth (died
1863), daugh. of Ronald Bayne, D.D., min.
of Kiltarlity, and had issue — Eliza, born
llth Sept. 1817 (marr. Andrew David
son Mackenzie, min. of Free Church,
Beauly) ; James, born 8th Oct. 1819, died
in early manhood ; Maria Hay Mackenzie,
born 5th Dec. 1820 (marr. 22nd Dec. 1842,
John Murray Mitchell, LL.D., Indian
missionary) ; Isabella Bently, born 10th
July 1822 (marr. Charles Ross, min. of Free
Church, Tobermory); Ronalda Catherine,
born 1st May 1825 ; Margaret Bayne, born
llth May 1828.— [Disruption Worthies of
the Highlands (portrait), 37-44 ; Annals of
the Disruption, 93.]
JAMES MORRISON, born Croy about
1848 181I? ' educated at King's College,
Aberdeen; M.A. (March 1836); be
came schoolmaster of Dores ; licen. by Presb.
of Dingwall in 1841 ; pres. by the Hon.
Mrs Maria Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie,
and ord. 6th Dec. 1843; died 30th Oct.
1881. He marr. 30th May 1844, Margaret
(died 3rd July 1885), eldest daugh. of
Alexander Cormick, Collector of Excise,
Inverness, and had issue — James, born 3rd
April 1845; Jane Isabella, born 9th Dec.
1846 ; Mary Margaret, born 1st May 1851 ;
Alexander Cormick, born 27th Nov. 1853 ;
Julia Corbet, born 22nd Nov. 1856.
JAMES MACHARDY, adm. (assistant
1872 an<^ successor) 20th March 1872 ;
trans, to Latheron 5th July 1880.
WILLIAM LESLIE WALLACE
1881 BROWN, born Starr, Kennoway,
Fife, 2nd June 1848, son of Robert
B., feuar, and Agnes Scott; educated at
Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (1874) ; licen.
by Presb. of Edinburgh 16th May 1877 ;
assistant at St John's, Dundee, 1880-1 ; ord.
(assistant and successor) 6th Jan. 1881 ;
died 17th March 1918. He marr. 26th
Nov. 1889, Glorianna (born 1837), daugh. of
William Colville Livingston Learmonth
of Craigend and Glorianna Mackenzie,
and widow of Maxwell Gordon, Kenmure
Cottage, Portobello. Publications — Letters
from Sunny Shores (Inverness, 1896);
Sundays in the Highlands (Inverness,
1896). '
JOHN MARTIN, born Glasgow, 18th
1918 Feb. 1881, son of Hugh M. and
Catherine Maclnnes ; educated at
High School and Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A.
(1903) ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow in 1906;
assistant at Kelvinside ; ord. to Calderbank
28th Sept. 1910; trans, and adm. 19th
Sept. 1918.
CARNOCH (Q.S.).
[A parliamentary church was built in
Strathconan in 1830. The parish of Car-
noch was disjoined from Contin on 16th
March 1864.]
JOHN MACKENZIE, born Gairloch,
183Q 1799; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen ; became schoolmaster of
Kiltearn ; licen. by Presb. of Dingwall 5th
March 1828; ord. missionary at Strath
conan 25th Nov. 1829; pres. by William
IV. 23rd July, and adm. 28th Sept. 1830.
Joined the Free Church in 1843; min. of
DINGWALL]
CARNOCH
29
Free Church, Lochgilphead 1843-64; died
at Edinburgh 8th Nov. 1864. He marr.
27th April 1835, Georgiana Robertson
(died 30th Nov. 1874) daugh. of Angus
Kennedy, min. of Dornoch, and had issue
—Donald, born 13th Aug. 1836, went to
Canada ; Ann, born 27th July 1838 (marr.
19th Nov. 1866, Murdoch Macdonald, D.D.,
min. of Free Church, Nairn, and Melbourne,
author of The Covenanters in Ross and
Moray) ; Murdoch, died in infancy ; Anne,
born 9th Feb. 1842 ; Margaret Parker, died
young ; Isabella, born 20th July 1846 (marr.
2nd Nov. 1869, William Mackenzie of
Bowenfels, New South Wales).
PETER MACINTYRE, born 1816, son
1844 of Donald M-i farmer, Kilchrenan,
Argyll; educated at Univ. of Glas
gow; M. A. (1827); pres. by Queen Victoria;
ord. 1st May 1844 ; died 7th May 1847.
ALEXANDER MACNAUGHTON,
licen. by Presb. of Selkirk ; mission
ary at Killin, Perthshire; pres. by
Queen Victoria; ord. 8th March 1848;
died 1st June 1852.
WILLIAM CHARLES MIDDLETON
GRANT, pres. by Queen Victoria
18th Oct. 1852; ord. 3rd March
1853 ; trans, to Durness 6th Aug. 1856.
JAMES CAMERON LEES, pres. by
Queen Victoria 17th Sept., and ord.
27th Nov. 1856; trans, to Second
Charge, Paisley Abbey 1st Sept. 1859. He
preached at Carnoch on the occasion of
his jubilee as an ordained minister (cf.
Vol. I., 62). Additional Publications—
An Election Sermon, from the Liberal
Point of View (Paisley, 1868) (replied
to by James Dodds with an Election
Sermon from the Conservative Point of
View) ; Biographical Sermon on John
Keble (Paisley, 1870); Leaves from My Log
or a Sail to Scandinavia (Paisley, 1874)
Rollicking Tour in Ireland (Paisley, 1877)
Tour in the Land of the Gael (Paisley, 1878)
M'Stottie's Tour [Rev. Rory M'Rory] (Edin
burgh, 1880); Heathen Scotland to the
Introduction of Christianity (St Gile
Lectures, 1st ser.) (Edinburgh, 1881)
VIohammedanism (ibid., 2nd ser.) (Edin-
mrgh, 1882); Bishop Ewing (ibid., 3rd
er.) (Edinburgh, 1883) ; The Greek Church
ibid., 4th ser.) (Edinburgh,' 1884) ; St Giles'
Prayer Book (Edinburgh, n.d.) ; joint editor
)f Guild Text Books ; many sermons and
addresses on various occasions.— [Maclean's
Life of James Cameron Lees, 72-96.]
JAMES SKINNER MACKENZIE,
M.A. ; pres. by Queen Victoria 15th
Nov. 1859; adm. 31st Jan. 1860;
,rans. to Little Dunkeld 5th July 1866.
JOHN MACDOUGALL, born Argyll-
18QQ shire ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ;
ord. missionary at Fort Augustus in
1864; pres. by Queen Victoria 21st July,
and adm. 26th Sept. 1866; suspended for
nefficiency 27th May 1897 ; died 21st Jan.
1910. — [Life of James Cameron Lees, 92.]
JOHN MACLEAN, ord. 28th Sept. 1897;
1897 trans, to Lochalsh 19th April 1910.
CHARLES HEUGHAN, M.A., ord. 4th
Sept. 1910 ; trans, to Newcraighall 8th
Nov. 1912 ; trans, to Hutchesontown,
Glasgow, 29th March 1917 ; trans, to Con-
dorrat 7th Dec. 1921; trans, to Carntyne 16th
Sept. 1926 ; trans, to Forth 3rd June 1927.
JOHN SELLAR, M.A. ; ord. 1st May
1913 ; trans, to Urquhart and Logie-
' Wester 4th Oct. 1918.
ROBERT BARR M'VICAR, born
Coupar-Angus 16th May 1874, son
of Peter M., min. of Original Seces
sion Church, Dundee, and Charlotte Barr ;
educated at Harris Academy, Dundee, and
Univ. of St Andrews ; licen. by Original
Secession Presb. of Perth and Aberdeen
30th July 1902 ; ord. to Original Secession
Church, Aberdeen, 6th May 1903 ; trans, to
Free Church, Glenlyon, 27th Feb. 1908;
trans, to Free Church, Dumfries, 19th Aug.
1916; trans, and adm. 14th March 1919;
trans, to Carmylie 22nd Sept. 1926. Marr.
14th Feb. 1908, Ina, daugh. of Allan Boath
and MaryLawson, and has issue — Charlotte,
born 8th Dec. 1909; Margaret, born 5th
March 1911; Peter, born 8th Feb. 1913;
Robert Barr, born 26th June 1914.
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CONTIN AND STRATHGARVE
[PRESB. OF
CONTIN AND STRATHGARVE.
[These parishes were united in the
sixteenth century.
Contin. — The church of Contin was
founded by St Malrubh. Contin was a
prebend of the Cathedral of Fortrose.
Contin church stands, with its manse
and glebe, on an island in the river
Abhuinn Dubh (" Black Water "), called of
old the Rasa. The site is very ancient,
and was probably chosen for a burial place
secure from wild beasts. The access cannot
have been easy in early times. From the
Strath Conan side it must always have
been very difficult. St Malrubh's Well
was beside the church. A famous tryst,
called Feill Mhalruibh (St Malrubh's Fair),
was long held at Contin. Near Coul,
within sight of the church, is the ancient
graveyard of Precis Maree (St Malrubh's
Grove), now the burial ground of the Mac-
kenzies of Coul.
Strathgarve.—The church of Strathgarve
was dedicated to St Finn.]
DONALD ADAMSON, min. in
1574 1574.
1576 JOHN GLAS, reader, 1576 to 1591.
EGBERT BURNETT, vicar at the
Reformation, appears on record as
vicar of Contin and canon of Ross
in 1587.— [Orig. Paroch, Scot., ii., 505.]
ALEXANDER MACKENZIE, son of
Roderick, son of Rory Mor M. of
Achilty, was min. in 1614, still min.
8th Feb. 1630. He marr. Margaret Aber-
nethy.— [Orig. Charter Antiq. Museum.'}
MURDOCH MACKENZIE, adm. in
1636 ; trans, to First Charge, Inver
ness, 3rd Sept. 1640.
COLIN MACKENZIE, trans, from
Abernethy and adm. 12th May 1641 ;
1641 dep. by Commission of Assembly
22nd May 1647 for preaching and praying
before the excommunicated Earl of Seaf orth
and eating and drinkiiig with him. He
had also subscribed the Remonstrance.
He was required by the Presb. to make his
repentance in the churches of Dingwall and
Contin; reponed shortly thereafter and
adm. to Killearnan in 1651.
DONALD ROSS, educated at King's
College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1619);
adm. to Lochbroom before 2nd Feb.
1636; suspended for malignancy and
immorality, the sentence being approved
by the Assembly in July 1649 ; reponed by
the Presb. 3rd Dec. 1650 ; trans, and adm.
22nd July 1651 ; still min. 16th June 1674.
—[P. C. Reg., 2nd ser., vi., 182.]
JOHN MACKENZIE, M.A. ; adm. in
1674 ; trans, to Lochbroom before
4th Sept. 1683.
ANDREW ROSS, adm. in 1684 ; trans,
to Urquhart and Logie-Wester 24th
Sept. 1685.
AENEAS MORRISON, son of John M.
of Bragar, judge of the Lewis ; edu
cated at King's College, Aberdeen,
1679, and Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (28th
March 1683) ; adm. before 1689. He refused
to conform to Presbyterianism and gave
much trouble to the Presb. by his irreverent
conduct and defiance of that authority;
dep. 12th June 1716, "for sundry atrocious
practices, and for joining in a wicked and
ungodly rebellion for the subversion of the
Protestant religion and introducing Popery
by endeavouring to set a popish pretender
on the throne." Notwithstanding his de
position he continued to discharge his
duties in the parish and is last mentioned
22nd Aug. 1739, as officiating within a mile
of his former charge; died at Castle
Leod, in Strathpeffer, shortly thereafter.
Known as " Black Angus," he was noted for
his generosity and good fellowship. Many
stories are told of his sayings and doings.
He was also a composer of Gaelic verse in
a, light vein, some of which scarcely befit
his character as a clergyman. He marr.
Anne, daugh. of Donald Mackenzie of
Logie, in Lochbroom, through whom the
small property of Doirenamuc in that
parish came to him, and had issue-
Donald ; a daugh. (Mrs St Glair), who left
£80 to the poor of the parish.— [Pittenweem
Gounc. Reg.]
DINGWALL]
CONTIN AND STRATHGARVE
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DONALD MACLEOD, M.A. ; called by
the Presb. jure devoluto 12th April,
and ord. 13th May 1720; trans, to
Lochalsh 3rd July 1727.
1780
JOHN KOBERTSON, called by the
Presb> Jure aevoiuto 14tl1 Oct' 1>729 >
ord. 24th March 1730; trans, to
Killearnan 1st July 1731.
MURDOCH MACKENZIE, M.A. ;
called March, and ord. 20th Sept.
' 1732; trans, to Dingwall 30th July
1741.
1742
JOHN MACLENNAN, educated at
the Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A.
(6th May 1725) ; licen. by Presb. of
Chanonry 22nd April 1735; became
missionary at Strathglass; called 22nd
July and ord. 27th Sept. 1742; died 28th
April 1775, aged about 70. He marr. 7th
Feb. 1752, Helen Grant, who died 3rd
March 1804, and had issue— John, born 4th
April 1753, died llth Nov. 1764; Alexander,
M.D., born 7th May 1754 ; Janet, born 8th
Dec. 1756 ; Margaret, born 17th Jan. 1758 ;
Louis, born 27th Jan. 1760; George, born
28th June 1761 ; Isabel, born 17th Oct.
1762, died 22nd Dec. 1763 ; Elizabeth, born
llth Oct. 1764 (marr. 23rd Feb. 1804,
William Tulloch, Calcutta), died 25th Nov.
1815; John, born 5th Jan. 1766; James,
born llth Aug. 1769. — [Macaulay's St
Kilda; Tombst.]
RODERICK MACKENZIE, M.A. ;
called 12th June, and ord. 18th Sept.
1776 ; trans, to Kilmuir- Wester and
Suddie llth May 1791.
JAMES DALLAS, born 1753; licen.
1793 by Presb< of Nairn lst Aug< 1786;
was schoolmaster and missionary at
Stornoway Feb. 1787 ; afterwards school
master at Kincardine ; pres. by George III
9th March and 8th June 1791; but not
ord. till 13th Aug. 1793, owing to a charge
of simony for which the Assembly, 24th
May 1793, believed there was no foundation
died 18th Sept. 1825, and was described as
"a straightforward, honest man." Ht
marr. (1) Margaret, sister of James Clark
1776
bailie of Inverness : (2) 2nd March 1805,
Fanet, second daugh. of Alexander Wood,
min. of Rosemarkie, and had issue— Alex-
nder, born 23rd Jan. 1806; Margaret
Forbes, born 13th Dec. 1813.— [Family of
Dallas, 474 ; Religious Life in Ross, 56.]
CHARLES DOWNIE, born 1804, son of
1826 Alexander D..D.D., min. of Lochalsh;
educated at King's College, Aberdeen,
1818-22; licen. by Presb. of Lochcarron 29th
Nov. 1825; pres. by George IV. 12th Dec.
that year; ord. 26th Aug. 1826; died llth
Jan. 1852. He marr. 16th Nov. 1831, Flora
;died 19th March 1846), daugh. of Kenneth
Mackenzie of Inverinate, W.S., and sister
of Thomas M. of Applecross, and had issue
— Jane Catherine Mackenzie, born 15th
Dec. 1832, died 10th April 1849; Janet,
born 18th May 1834 ; Alexander, born 4th
May 1836, died 5th March 1846 ; Charlotte
(marr. Alexander Mackenzie) ; Kenneth
Mackenzie, surgeon in Australia. Publica
tion — Account of the Parish (New Stat.
Ace., xiv.).
COLIN MACKENZIE, born 13th Sept.
carron ; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen; M.A. (April 1830); became
schoolmaster of Knockbain ; adm. to Petty
26th Oct. 1843 ; pres. by Queen Victoria
19th April, trans, and adm. 12th Aug. 1852 ;
died 12th Nov. 1862. He marr. llth Dec.
1850, Eliza Sophia (died 13th July 1893),
daugh. of Captain Henry Walker of Castle
Stuart, Inverness, and Wilhelmina, daugh.
of William Chalmers, M.D., Professor of
Medicine, King's College, Aberdeen, and
had issue— Elizabeth Fairburn, born 6th
Oct. 1853, died 16th Sept. 1872 ; Wilhelmina
Chalmers, born 17th April 1855, died
23rd March 1927 ; Henrietta Walker, born
4th March 1858, died 25th June 1876.—
[Aberdeen Geneal., 8.]
JOHN WILLIAM TOLMIE, born
Uiginish 22nd May 1831, second son
of John T., tacksman, of Uiginish,
Skye, and factor for Macleod of Macleod,
and Margaret Hope, daugh. of Dr Donald
Maccaskill, Eigg ; educated privately and at
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CONTIN AND STRATHGARVE— DINGWALL [PRESB. OF
Marischal College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (1850) ;
became missionary at Fort Augustus in 1853 ;
ord. to Strontian 12th Sept. 1854 ; trans, to
Bracadale 28th Feb. 1856 ; pres. by Queen
Victoria 16th March, trans, and adm. 1st
July 1863; died in Edinburgh 25th July
1886. He marr. 16th Dec. 1858, Christina
Mary (died 6th July 1917), daugh. of
Alexander Macdonald of Vallay, and Flora,
daugh. of Captain Duncan Macrae of
Inverinate, and had issue — John in H.M.
Register House, Edinburgh, born 14th Oct.
1859, died 15th June 1923; Alexander
Macdonald Cornfute, min. of Southend,
born 7th April 1861 ; Margaret Hope, born
10th Jan. 1863 (marr. Archibald Macdonald,
D.D., min. of Kiltarlity); Mary Macrae,
born 17th Sept. 1864 (marr. 12th June 1901,
Robert Macgregor Smith, Insurance official,
Edinburgh) ; Flora Macdonald, born 4th
July 1866 (marr. 1888, Charles Hoffmann
Gore Weatherall, M.R.C.V.S., Allahabad),
died in Bombay March 1914; Hugh
Maccaskill, born 20th June 1868, died 13th
Nov. 1908; Gregory, born 23rd Jan. 1871,
went to New Zealand ; Catherine Mac
donald, born 15th, died 29th May 1873;
Anne Milne, born 6th June 1874, died
16th March 1875 ; Alexandrina Williamina,
born 10th May 1876.
JAMES DUNCAN MACRAE, son of
Alexander M., schoolmaster of Loch-
carron, and Catherine Macpherson ;
educated at Univ. of Aberdeen; became
schoolmaster of Knoydart ; licen. by Presb.
of Lochcarron 27th July 1876; ord. to
Burghead 2nd May 1877 ; trans, to Clyne
12th Sept. 1878 ; trans, and adm. (assistant
and successor) 24th Dec. 1884; died 7th
Sept. 1905. He marr. 29th March 1883,
Christina, daugh. of Peter Robertson,
Abernethy, and had issue — Catherine Mac
pherson, born 15th Jan. 1884 ; James Peter
Robertson, born 26th Aug. 1887, died in
Buenos Aires, 3rd Aug. 1918.
ANDREW COLQUHOUN MACLEAN,
born Ballygroggan, Campbeltown,
26th Dec. 1873, son of Neil M., and
Margaret Colville; educated at Glenbarr
and Killean Schools and Univ. of Glasgow ;
licen. by Presb. of Kintyre 27th April 1898 ;
ord. to Lochranza 30th June that year ; trans.
and adm. 24th Jan. 1906. Marr. 25th March
1913, Catherine Ada Mary, younger daugh.
of Henry Ross, Brisbane, Queensland, and
Georgina Fanny Alicia Hillcoat, and has
issue— Nigel Ross, born llth Aug. 1914;
Cairina Ross, born 26th June 1916 ; Sheila
Ross, born 26th March 1918 ; Henry Ross
Colquhoun, born 28th Nov. 1922. Publica
tions — Notes on Contin Church (1914);
Until the Day Break (A Book of Prayer)
(Dingwall, 1916).
DINGWALL.
[The church of Dingwall was dedicated
to St Colin. It belonged to the Priory of
Pluscarden. There were within the bounds
chapels of St Laurence and St Clement.
A fair of St Malrubh was transferred from
Contin to Dingwall.]
WILLIAM MUNRO, son of Sir William
1561 M. of Fowlis, and Ann, daugh. of
Lachlan Og Maclean of Duart ; was
pres. by Queen Mary in 1551 to the
chaplainry of St Monan, Balconie ; min.
1561 to 1566 : died before 1569.— [Orig.
Paroch. Scot., ii., 484; Hist, of the
Munros, 33.]
ROBERT MUNRO of Creichmor, min.
of Urquhart and Logie- Wester ; had
charge here in 1574.
1574 WALTER ROSS, reader in 1574.
DONALD ADAMSON, trans, from
Urray. In 1569 James VI. pres.
Donald Adamson, an instructor and
teacher of the youth within the church of
Dingwall, to the chaplainries of St Laurence
in Dingwall, and Artafallie in Killearnan.
In that year he was exhorter at Dingwall.
He returned to Urray in 1585.
ROBERT PHILIP, pres. to the vicarage
1579 in 1579.— [Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 484.]
WILLIAM MACQUEEN, pres. by
James VI. to the parsonage and
1585 vicarage in 1585. — [Orig. Paroch.
Scot., ii., 484.]
DINGWALL]
DINGWALL
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JOHN MACKENZIE of Tollie, son of
Murdoch M. of Fairburn ; educated
at Univ. of St Andrews; M. A. (1582);
adm. about 1591 ; pres. by James VI. in
1594; was one of the four nominated by
the General Assembly, 25th June 1595, to
act with the Presb. of Inverness, "because
of their weakness"; pres. by James VI.
to Glenelg, Snizort, Kilmuir, Kihnartin,
Kilmore in Sleat, Kilchrist, Kilmaluag in
Trotternish, and to the parsonage and
vicarage of Lemlair ; died at Dingwall,
22nd April 1620, aged about 58. He
acquired the lands of Tollie. He marr. (1)
Margaret (died 27th Oct. 1601), daugh. of
Patrick Grant of Ballindalloch, and had
issue— Murdoch of Tollie, died 8th Sept.
1626 : (2) a daugh. of Thomas Fraser of
Struy, and had issue— Koderick of Tollie ;
Kenneth, killed at Battle of Worcester, 3rd
Sept. 1651 ; Alexander, a min. ; Catherine
(marr. Colin Mackenzie of Kincraig); a
daugh. (marr. Murdoch Mackenzie of Pit-
glassie) ; a daugh. (marr. Thomas Dingwall
of Knockshirlie) ; a daugh. (marr. Alexander
Grant, min. of Urquhart) ; Annabella (marr.
Duncan Mackenziein Tarbat. — [Edin.Tests.;
Booke of the Kirk ; Hist, of the Mackenzies,
513 ; Ing. Ret. Ross, 139 ; Gener., 6290.]
MUEDOCH MACKENZIE, educated
at Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (25th
1620 July 1612) ; nominated .one of a Com
mission for the Maintenance of Church
Discipline 21st Oct. 1634, and in 1637 he
was one of the few who introduced Laud's
Service-book to their parishioners. Not
submitting to the authority of the Glasgow
Assembly of 1638 he was dep. in 1639.
An Act was passed by the Assembly, llth
Aug. 1648, "declaring him incapable for
ever of the ministry." The Commission
of Assembly in 1649 ordered that before
he be absolved he must acknowledge not
only in word but also in writing his
"manifold prevarications," and particularly
the equity of the sentence of the Assembly
and their Commission at Auldearn. He
refused to subscribe a declaration in these
terms drawn up by the Presb., whereupon
they resolved to excommunicate him.
After prolonged negotiations he submitted,
VOL. VII.
made public acknowledgment of his guilt
and repentance in the churches of Rose-
markie, Killearnan, and Alness, and was
absolved in the church of Dingwall June
1650. He was alive in 1657, but does not
appear to have occupied a charge. He
marr. Annabel Mackenzie, and had issue —
Alexander, joined Montrose's campaign :
William, 2nd Jan. 1655, craved supply from
the stipend of Fodderty, but the Presb.
refused as his father was able to maintain
him at college ; Elizabeth. — [ Maitland
Miscell, ii. ; Acts of Assembly, 1648;
Baillie's Letters ; Ardintoul MS. ; Hist, of
the Mackenzies.]
JOHN MACRAE, born 13th March
1614, son of Farquhar M.. min.
} of Kintail; educated at Grammar
School, Fortrose, and Univ. of St Andrews,
M.A. (where his rival for honours was the
Earl, afterwards Duke of Lauderdale), and
Aberdeen ; pres. by George, Earl of Sea-
forth, and adm. in 1640. He became a
bitter opponent of Presbyterianism, and in
1658 was rebuked for his " litigiousness,
needless contention and untractableness, his
stubbornness, selfishness, his tediousness,
misapplication of scripture, seeking pas
sages savouring of much bitterness and
disaffection, and his pertinacity and
loquaciousness." After 1660 the minute of
censure was deleted and characterised on
the margin "as shameless lying and the
spirit of lying and malice." He died Aug.
1673. He marr. (1) Agnes, daugh. of Colin
Mackenzie of Kincraig, and had issue —
Alexander of Conchra; Duncan, bailie of
Dingwall; Catherine (marr. Donald Ross
of Knoekcartie) ; Isabel (marr. Lauchlan
Mackinnon of Corry, Skye) : (2) Florence
Innes, heiress of Balnain in Urray, and
had issue— John ; James, who succeeded
in right of his mother to Balnain.— [Ardin
toul MS. ; Hist, of Macraes, 142 ; Inq. Ret.
Gen., 6315 ; Macrae's Dingwall, 299.]
JOHN MACRAE, son of Alexander
M. of Inverinate ; educated at
1674 Aberdeen; M.A. (12th July 1660);
became schoolmaster of Dingwall; recom
mended for licence by Presb. of Dingwall
4th March 1665 ; ord. to Kilmorack in 1667 ;
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DING WALL
[PRESS. OF
pres. by Kenneth, Earl of Seaforth, and
inst. 1st Feb. 1674. Under the Episcopal
government of the Church he was Treasurer
of Ross ; continued without conforming to
Presbyterianism ; died Jan. 1704, and was
buried in Dingwall. He left a MS. History
of the Mackenzies, known as the Ardintoul
MS., and a MS. History and Genealogy
of the Macraes. He marr. before 21st
July 1673, Janet Bayne of Knockbain, and
had issue— Alexander, became a Roman
Catholic priest in Strathglass, and founder
of the mission still carried on at Dornie
in Kintail, died at Scots College, Douai ;
John ; Christopher, born 1682 ; Roderick,
born 1692 ; Mary (marr. Roderick Dingwall
of Ussie); Janet (marr. John Tuach of
Logie) ; Agnes (marr., cont. 9th Dec. 1687,
John Mackenzie, brother of Alexander M.
of Applecross). — [Services of Heirs ; Hist,
of the Macraes, 70 ; Ardintoul MS. ;
Tombst.]
[DONALD BAYNE, son of Sir Donald
B., fifth of Tulloch, and a daugh. of
Mackenzie of Applecross ; became chaplain
in Lieut. - General Murray's regiment in
Flanders ; called 14th July 1708, but not
settled. Such was the opposition on the
part of the Episcopalians that no Presby
terian min. could be settled in the parish
for twelve years after the death of last
incumbent. When the min. of Kiltearn
went there early in 1704 to declare the
church vacant, the service was interrupted
by a company of armed men, one of whom
presented a pistol at the min. in the pulpit
and commanded him to be gone. B. con
tinued in the army and was chaplain to
Colonel John Lamy's regiment at the
Bosch Nov. 1736. — [Macrae's Dingwall,
112.]]
JOHN BAYNE, born about 1690, son
of John B., Dingwall, descended
1716 from the Tulloch family; educated
at Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb
of Earlston 31st May 1715 ; called by the
Presb. jure devoluto 28th Aug., and ord
20th Sept. 1716; died 3rd Feb. 1737. On
24th June 1733 the church was totally
destroyed by an accidental fire raised by
Kenneth Bayne, writer, Dingwall, shooting
at a pigeon. He marr. Ann (who survived
lira and marr. (2) Robert Munro of Miltown
of Katewell), daugh. of Peter Bethune of
Culnaskiach and Jane, daugh. of Sir Robert
Munro of Fowlis, and had issue— John,
born 2nd March 1720; Ann, born 22nd
March 1721; Christian (marr. Gilbert
Robertson, min. of Kincardine) ; Jean
(marr. 14th Oct. 1766, Captain William
Douglas of the Marines).— [Kiltearn Sess.
Rec.; MS. Account of the Baynes of
Tulloch; Allangrange Writs; Macrae's
Dingwall, 112, 302, 334.]
MURDOCH MACKENZIE, trans, from
Contin; called 23rd July 1740;
adm. 30th July 1741, his settlement
being so strongly opposed by his co-presby
ters that it was proposed in the Commission
of Assembly to have them rebuked at the
bar at their next meeting ; trans, to Third
Charge, Inverness, 13th July 1742.
ADAM ROSE, born 1713 ; educated at
King's College, Aberdeen; M.A.
1 (30th March 1733) ; licen. by Presb.
of Tain 3rd Dec. 1741 ; called 8th Feb., and
ord. 27th April 1743 ; died 21st March 1780.
He marr. 4th Oct. 1744, Isobel (died llth
Sept. 1781), daugh. of Daniel Beton, min.
of Rosskeen, and had issue— Grissel, born
13th July 1745 ; Janet, born 16th Aug.
1753, died 16th June 1767; Daniel, min.
of this parish ; Adam, born 20th Oct. 1757 ;
Isabel, born 20th Nov. 1760; Margaret,
born 8th May 1762, died 30th June 1767.—
[Geneal. of the Bethunes.]
DANIEL ROSE, born 6th Jan. 1755,
eldest son of preceding ; educated at
17 Marischal College, Aberdeen ; M.A.
(1771); licen. by Presb. of Dingwall 16th
Oct. 1776 ; pres. by George III. 8th July,
and ord. 21st Sept. 1780. He was an
eloquent preacher. He visited France and
was present when the Bastile was invested
and taken by a revolutionary mob on 14th
July 1789; died 7th Jan. 1805. Publica
tion _ Account of the Parish (Sinclair's
Stat. Ace., iii.).— [Macrae's Dingwall, 334 ;
Tombst.]
DINGWALL]
DlNGWALL
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ALEXANDER STEWART, trans, from
Moulin ; pres. by George III. 8th
June, and adm. 26th Sept. 1805; trans,
to Canongate, Edinburgh, 13th July 1820.
HECTOR BETHUNE, born 12th Aug.
182O 1782, son of Angus B., min. of Alness ;
educated at King's College, Aber
deen ; M.A. (27th March 1800); licen. by
Presb. of Dingwall 31st March 1802 ; ord.
to Alness 28th Sept. that year; pres.
by George IV. 24th Aug., trans, and adm.
31st July 1820 ; died 31st Dec. 1849. He
marr. 26th May 1807, Jane (died 5th July
1878, aged 90), daugh. of Kenneth Mac
kenzie of Millbank, third son of Sir Alex
ander M., Bart., of Gairloch, and had issue
—Anne, born 26th March 1808 (marr.
George Cranston Mackidd, M.A., Dingwall);
Catherine Munro, born 2nd Feb. 1810,
(marr. Captain Thomas Powrie Ellis,
H.E.I.C.S) ; Angus, rector of Seaham,
born 8th March 1811 ; Kenneth, born 4th
Sept. 1812, died at Wellington, New
Zealand ; Duncan Munro, lieut. - colonel
9th Foot, Order of Medjedieh, born 29th
Jan. 1815 ; Jane, born 26th Jan. 1817
(marr. Frank Harper, farmer, Torgorm) ;
Alexander Mackenzie, born 2nd Nov. 1821,
died 1st Nov. 1823 ; Janet Munro, born
24th May 1824; Alexander Mackenzie
(twin), secretary P. & O. Company, born
24th May 1824; John Hugh, born 19th
March 1827, went to New Zealand ; Hector
Roderick, born 6th Feb. 1831, died at Aber
deen 16th Oct. 1853.
WILLIAM SUTHERLAND, born Dor-
18go noch, 1822, son of John S., merchant,
and Christina Mackay ; educated at
King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (March
1840); missionary at Fort Augustus in
1843; ord. to Harris 20th Sept. 1844;
trans, to Laggan 24th Sept. 1846; pres. by
Queen Victoria 23rd March, trans, and
adm. 17th Oct. 1850; died 9th Jan. 1867.
He marr. 26th Dec. 1844, Isabella Clark,
who died 12th Nov. 1896.
JAMES ERASER, pres. by Queen Vic-
1867 tor*a ^tn March 1867; trans, from
Tarbert and adm. 25th Oct. that
year; trans, to Logierait 12th Sept. 1872.
RONALD MACALISTER, eldest son of
j 78 Ronald M., farmer, Kilchrenan ;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; ord.
to Gaelic Church, Paisley, 4th Aug. 1864 ;
trans, to Cromdale 1st May 1869 ; pres. by
Queen Victoria 19th Feb., trans, and adm.
1st May 1873 ; died at Manse of Advie 1st
July 1901. He marr. at Rosneath, 2nd Nov.
1869, Euphemia (died 10th Jan. 1911),
daugh. of Thomas Edleston, merchant,
Liverpool, and had issue— Euphemia Eliza
Norah, born 3rd Dec. 1870 (marr. John
Liddell, min. of Advie).
JAMES ROSE MACPHERSON, born
Old Aberdeen, 7th Jan. 1853,
youngest son of Robert M., D.D.,
Professor of Divinity, Aberdeen ; educated
at Gymnasium, Old Aberdeen, and Univ. of
Aberdeen; M.A. (1872), B.D. (1875); licen.
by Presb. of Aberdeen 6th Jan. 1875 ;
assistant at High Church, Inverness, and
Sandyford, Glasgow ; ord. to Kinnaird 1st
July 1879; trans, and adm. (assistant and
successor) 5th Jan. 1899; died 29th June
1921. He was well known for his wide
sympathy with all Evangelical movements,
was a regular speaker at the Keswick
Convention and a missioner of the Church
of Scotland, carrying on this work chiefly
in rural parishes. He was also Lecturer to
the Palestine Exploration Fund. He marr.
16th March 1880, Marjorie Louise, eldest
daugh. of John Carmichael, Glasgow, and
Jane Ann Brown, and had issue — Jane
Ann, born 9th Feb. 1881 (marr. 16th July
1921, John Marshall, Belfast and Egypt) ;
Anne Mearns, born 25th April 1882, died 8th
Feb. 1883; Marjory Louisa, born 1st Feb.
1884, died 13th Dec. 1893 ; Robert Duncan
Mearns, M.B., 2nd lieut. 7th Seaforths, born
19th Nov. 1885, killed at Loos 25th Sept.
1915 ; John Carmichael, banker, Richard,
Sask., served in Canadian Expeditionary
Force, wounded at St Eloi, March 1916,
born 24th Dec. 1886; Audrey Primrose,
born 27th March 1889; George William
Kinnaird, M.A., D.D., born 13th April 1891,
ord. to Carstairs 23rd Nov. 1923, served as
captain 4th Seaforth Highlanders in Euro
pean War, trans, to Jedburgh 22nd Sept. 1927,
marr. 5th Feb. 1924, Irene, fifth daugh. of
FODDERTY, KINETTAS, AND GLEN USSIE [PRKSB. OF
1921
Kobert C. Buchanan, bailie, Edinburgh.
Publications—" Arculfus >; and " Fetellvs"
translated and annotated for the Palestine
Pilgrims' Text Society (1889); The Church of
the Resurrection (Eng. Hist.Review) (1892).
DAVID YOUNG ROBERTSON, born
Duns, Berwickshire, 9th March 1884,
son of Adam R. and Magdalen
Young ; educated at Morrison's Academy,
Crieff, and Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A. (1907) ;
licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 28th May 1910 ;
assistant at Alexandria (Dunbarton) and
Maxwell, Glasgow ; ord. to Bargeddie 23rd
Jan. 1913; app. chaplain to 63rd Royal
Naval Division in European War in 1917 ;
trans, to Inverallan 15th May that year;
trans, and adm. 15th Dec. 1921. Marr. 20th
Aug. 1914, Janet, daugh. of James Veitch
and Jane Emma Kidd.
FODDERTY, KINETTAS, AND
GLEN USSIE.
[These three parishes were united about
1600.
Fodderty.— In the parish of Fodderty there
was a chapel of St Mary at Innis Ruaraidh
Kinettas.— The prebend of Kinettas in
the Cathedral of Fortrose was held by
the Chancellor of the diocese of Ross.
Glen Ussie — The ancient church of Glen
Ussie stood at the village of Tollie. It
site is now under water, Loch Ussie havin
been much enlarged to supply water t
Dingwall.]
WILLIAM HAY, pres. by James VI
to the vicarage in 1572, then vacan
by simoniacal paction between Joh
Smyth, last vicar, and William Chalmer.—
[Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 498.]
ALEXANDER ANTON, pres. by Jame
VI. in 1574 ; still in charge in 158
—[Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 498.]
ROBERT GRAHAM, archdeacon of th
diocese ; had charge here in con
junction with Killearnan.
IVER M'lVER, pres. to the vicarage b
James VI. 24th Jan. 1582; adm. abo
1 1586 ; still in charge in 1601. -
Paroch. Scot., ii., 498.]
1574
1585
WILLIAM M'CULLOCH, son
of Duncan M. of Park ; adm. before
619 12th March 1619 , still min. in 1628.
He marr. Marjory, daugh. of Alexander
Mackenzie of Coul.— [Reg. Mag. Sig., 12th
?eb. 1624, viii., 575 ; Inverness Sas., 15th
<Tov. 1630; Coul Writs; Ord Writs; Orig.
Charter Bishop of Ross at Killearnan.]
FARQUHAR MACLENNAN, was a
member of Commission of Assembly
' in 1645; dep. for malignancy in
650. He declared, 13th July 1652, the
awfulness of the Assembly in 1651, and
vas restored to the ministry, 28th Aug.
655, having shown sincere remorse and
humility in reference to the particular
cause of his deposition. Afterwards adm.
o Lochbroom 6th April 1656.— [P. C. Reg.,
3rd ser., i., 184.]
JOHN M'KILLICAN, adm. 26th
Feb. 1656 ; deprived by the Privy
$ Council 1st Oct. 1662 ; dep. May 1663
ror Presbyterianism [afterwards min. of
Alness].
JOHN MACKENZIE, born about 1613,
son of William M. of Tarrel, min. of
1662 Tarbat ; educated at Marischal and
King's Colleges, Aberdeen ; M.A. (1631);
adm. to Urray in 1636 ; dep. in 1639 for
opposing the Covenant and obliged to flee
to England and afterwards to Ireland ; re-
poned and settled in Suddie in 1644 ; trans,
to Tarbat in 1645 ; deprived between 1st
Dec. 1649 and 19th Feb. 1650 ; reponed in
1660 and adm. here in 1662 by John,
Bishop of Ross, "inasmuch as he has
suffered deprivation and banishment for
his loyalty." He was archdeacon of Ross.
At a visitation by the Bishop on 9th Aug.
1665, it was stated that the communion
had not been observed " these twelve years
bygone," that the people were not wholly
examined, but that Roderick (son of min.)
did sometimes preach and catechise. M.
was probably in ill-health as he died at
Tarrel in 1666 and was buried at Tarbat.
He marr. Christian, daugh. of Baillie of
Dunain, and had issue— Roderick, min. of
Avoch; a daugh. (marr. Roderick Mac
kenzie of Park).— [Mackay's Presb. of Ding-
iHN<avAU,] FODDERTY, KINETTAS, AND GLEN USSIE
37
1727
JOHN MACKENZIE, Archdeacon of
Ross ; adm. to Kilmorack Sept. 1665 ;
trans, and adm. soon after 28th
Aug. 1666 ; died July 1721. He marr. and
had issue. — [Mackay's Presb. of Dingwall,
345.]
HECTOR MACKENZIE, born 1700,
son of Charles M. of Letterewe
and Anne, daugh. of John Mackenzie
of Applecross ; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen; M.A. (29th March 1720);
librarian to King's College in 1721, and
assistant in Grammar School ; licen. by
Presb. of Aberdeen 1st Dec. 1725 ; called
by the Presb. jure devoluto 2nd May and
12th Oct. 1726 ; ord. 10th Jan. 1727 ; died
27th Feb. 1734. He marr. Jean Baillie,
who died 27th June 1796, and had issue—
a daugh. (marr. Rorie Mackenzie of Park). —
[Mackenzie's Hist, of the Mackenzies, 454.]
COLIN MACKENZIE of Glack, born
1707, son of Roderick M. of Brae
and Longcroft, chamberlain of the
Lewis, and a daugh. of William Munro
of Ardullie ; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen ; M.A. (1728) ; licen. by Presb. of
Dalkeith 7th Nov. 1733 ; pres. by George,
Earl of Cromartie, 31st July 1734 ; ord.
(after a reference to the Assembly) 28th
Aug. 1735 ; app. chaplain to 73rd Regiment,
or Macleod's Highlanders, 13th June 1778 ;
died 8th March 1801. He inherited the
Castle of Dingwall, the seat of the Earls
of Ross, and the lands attached thereto,
through his mother, which, with Longcroft,
he sold, and purchased the estate of Glack
in Aberdeenshire in 1765. He was instru
mental in keeping his chief, Lord Fortrose,
from going out in 1745. He was the first to
recognise the medicinal properties of the
Strathpeffer mineral springs. He marr.
(1) Margaret (died 22nd Sept. 1746), daugh.
of Hugh Rose of Clava, and had issue —
Margaret, died 22nd Sept. 1748 : (2) 23rd
Feb. 1754, Mary (died 9th Feb. 1828, aged
91), daugh. of Donald Mackenzie, Balna-
been, and had issue— Anne, born 19th May
1756 (marr. Hector Mackenzie, bailie,
Dingwall) ; Una, born 26th June 1758 ;
Isobel, born 24th Sept. 1759 (marr. (1) her
father's coachman, (2) John Gray of Drum-
allan) ; Roderick of Glack, born 9th Feb.
1761, died 1842 ; Johanna, born 15th June
1762 (marr. Dr Miller, Stornoway) ; Mary,
born 19th March 1764 (marr. Captain John
Mackenzie of Kincraig); John, born 4th Nov.
1765, died 8th Oct. 1787 ; Beatrice, born 13th
May 1767 (marr. Peter Hay, bailie, Ding-
wall) ; Donald, min. of this parish ; Forbes,
major Ross-shire Militia, and a noted agricul
turist (whose daugh. marr. John Kennedy,
D.D., Dingwall), born 29th Dec. 1769 ; Jean,
born 28th Nov. 1771 (marr. Colin Mac
kenzie, min. of Stornoway). — [Macrae's
Dingwall, 59; Mackenzie's Survey of Ross
and Cromarty ; Scots Mag., xl. ; Tombst.']
DONALD MACKENZIE, born 20th
I78g Oct. 1768, son of preceding; edu
cated at Marischal College, Aber
deen, 1781-5 ; licen. by Presb. of Dingwall
5th Dec. 1787 ; pres. by John, Lord Macleod,
Sept. 1788; ord. (assistant and successor)
27th May 1789. He accidentally fell while
reaching a book from steps in his library,
and died in a few days, 25th Feb. 1826.
He was for some time chaplain to the 71st
Foot, and took a considerable share in the
business of the Church. He marr. (1) 12th
June 1790, Mary (died 16th Sept. 1796),
daugh. of John Mackenzie of Brae, and had
issue— Beatrix, born 16th May 1791 (marr.
1812, Thomas Stewart, Lieut., R.N.); Mary,
born 19th Aug. 1792, died llth Nov. 1812;
Colin, Colonel R.E., born 19th March 1794 ;
died 1869 ; John of Glack, born 17th March
1796, died 3rd Nov. 1882; Elizabeth (marr.
Lieut. Stewart) : (2) 28th Dec. 1798, Mary
(died 26th March 1828), daugh. of Thomas
Fyers, overseer of the King's Works. Publica
tion—Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat.
Ace., vu.).—[Hist. of the Mackenzies, 378.]
CHARLES JOHN BAYNE of Ard-
meanach in the Black Isle, born 3rd
' Nov. 1797, son of Ronald B., D.D.,
min. of Kiltarlity; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen; M.A. (March 1817);
licen. by Presb. of Inverness 5th Dec. 1820 ;
app. missionary at Berriedale, July 1821 ;
assistant at Croy, March 1822; ord. mis
sionary at Fort William 26th Nov. 1823;
pres. by the Hon. Mrs Maria Hay Mac
kenzie of Cromartie in April, trans, and
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FODDERTY— KINETTAS— KILMORACK
[PRESS. OF
adm. 13th Sept. 1826; died llth Oct. 1832.
He marr. 17th July 1828 Isabella Jane
Duguid, who died 16th Feb. 1850, and had
issue— Ronald of Ardmeanach, born 29th
April 1829 ; Peter, M.A., LL.D., journalist,
author of Life and Letters of Hugh Miller
and other works, born 19th Oct. 1830, died
at Norwood, London, 10th Feb. 1896;
Charles John, born 9th Oct. 1832.— [Diet.
Nat. Biog. for Peter B.]
JOHN NOBLE, born Inverness 1806;
educated at King's College, Aber-
deen; MA. (March 1826); became
rector of Koyal Academy, Tain, in 1830;
licen. by Presb. of Tain 24th Nov. that
year ; pres. by the Hon. Mrs Maria Hay
Mackenzie of Cromartie in Jan., and ord.
25th Sept. 1833. Joined Free Church in
1843; min. of Free Church, Contin and
Fodderty 1843-6, of Free Gaelic Chapel,
Duke Street, Glasgow, 30th April 1846;
died 19th April 1849. He marr. 14th Feb.
1835, Elizabeth Forbes, daugh. of Neil
Kennedy, min. of Logie - Easter, and had
issue— Anne Downie, born 7th Nov. 1836 ;
William, born 15th June 1837; Isabella
Kennedy, born 20th Jan. 1840 (marr. 29th
July 1862, John Macgregor, min. of
Kinlochluichart).— [Smith's Scottish Clergy,
ii., 314.]
JOHN MENZIES, born 1804, son of
John M., farmer, and Ann Cameron ;
educated at Univ. of St Andrews ;
licen. by Presb. of Dunkeld ; pres. by the
Hon. Mrs Maria Hay Mackenzie of
Cromartie; ord. 16th Nov. 1843; died at
Cause wayhead, Stirling, 9th March 1890.
He marr. 17th Feb. 1857, Jane Russell,
who died 24th Sept. 1919, and had issue-
Ann Cameron, born 26th Nov. 1857 ; John,
born 14th March 1859; Isabella Russell,
born 19th Nov. 1861 ; Margaret Emily, born
7th Feb. 1864, died 28th Jan. 1865 ; Alex
ander Russell, born 24th July 1871, died
at Causewayhead 15th March 1920.
WILLIAM THOMPSON, born Fort
William about 1859; educated at
' Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (1879),
B.D. (1882); ord. to Gaelic Church,
Greenock, 2nd Nov. 1882 ; trans, and adm.
(assistant and successor) 15th July 1885 ;
dem. 18th May 1896 ; died 19th March 1912.
He marr. 2nd June 1898, Anne C. Kempt.
JOHN M'GILCHRIST, B.A., B.D. ;
trans, from Glengarry and adm. 28th
Oct. 1896 ; trans, to Skelmorlie 14th
Nov. 1899.
JOHN GUNN NICOLSON, born
Durness 25th March 1873, son of
Torquil N., schoolmaster, and
Margaret Gunn ; educated at Durness
School and Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A.
(1895), B.D. (1899); licen. by Presb. of
Dingwall in 1900 ; ord. 14th March 1900.
Marr. 23rd Dec. 1902, Catherine May,
daugh. of David Brown, St Andrews, and
Christina Carstairs, and has issue— Chris
tine Gunn, born 29th June 1904 ; Margaret
Gunn, born 14th Aug. 1905 ; Iain Torcul,
born 16th May 1912, died 3rd March 1916 ;
Alastair David, born 13th March 1913.
KINETTAS.
[It has long been suppressed and annexed
to Fodderty.]
ALEXANDER BAYNE, younger, min.
1674 1574 to 1578.
JOHN MUNRO [WILLIAMSON],
1579 reader, 1579-80.
JOHN MUNRO, min. in 1586 ; probably
1586 same as preceding.
KILMORACK.
[The church of this parish was dedicated
to St Moroc. The Priory of St John the
Baptist at Beauly, within the bounds, be
longed to the Order of the Val de Choux.
It was founded by John Bisset of Lovat in
1230. Its ruins include a fine church with
a large aisle of St Katherine. A side
chapel recently re-roofed is the burying-
place of the Mackenzies of Gairloch. A
fair of St Muireach was held at.Kilmorack,
and at Beauly there were four yearly trysts
held at Roodmas, Lammas, Michaelmas, and
Hallowmas. There is now a mission church
of St Columba at Beauly.]
DINGWALL]
KILMORACK
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SIR JOHN NICOLSON, vicar in
1560 1560.
DONALD FRASER, called "Donald
Dubh " or Black Donald ; pres. by
James VI. to the vicarage in 1573 ;
still min. in 1590, having Wardlaw (Kirk-
hill) also in his charge. — [Orig. Paroch.
Scot., ii., 508 ; Belladrum Writs.]
JOHN MALCOLMSON, min. in 1618.
1618 —[Belladrum Writs.}
WILLIAM MACKENZIE, min. in 1624
1624 and 1631 [afterwards of Killearnan].
WILLIAM FRASER of Phopachy, adm.
in 1633; trans, to Killearnan in
1640.
DONALD FRASER, adm. in 1641;
trans, to Urquhart and Logie-Wester,
1641
Jan 1665.
JOHN MACKENZIE, adm. Sept. 1665 ;
1666 trans, to Fodderty in 1666.
JOHN MACRAE, pres. by John, Bishop
of Ross, 20th Sept. 1666; ord. in
1667
1674.
1667; trans, to Dingwall 1st Feb.
1674
WILLIAM FRASER of Fanellan, born
about 1634, son of Donald F., min.
of Urquhart and Logie - Wester ;
educated at King's College, Aberdeen ;
M.A. (19th July 1666); became school
master at Boyndie ; passed trials before
Presb. of Fordyce and had a testimonial
for licen. 30th July 1673; adm. 12th April
1674 ; died May 1710. He marr. Jean
Baillie, and had issue — William, M.D.,
served heir to his father in Fanellan in
1735 ; Donald.— [Inq. Ret. Gen., 6658.]
THOMAS CHISHOLM, born 14th Dec.
1680, son of Alexander C. of Teawig ;
licen. by Presb. of Inverness 7th July
1709 ; called by the Presb. jure devoluto
26th Sept. 1710. When the Presb. met for
his ordination, 22nd March 1711, entrance
to the church was prevented by a rabble
of men and women who surrounded every
part of the building. The Court having
adjourned to the manse, stones were cast
through the windows and the proceedings
were so interrupted that it was impossible
to continue. Clods and other missiles were
thrown at the ministers as they left. The
ordination took place at Kiltearn the
following day. For two years afterwards,
Fraser's widow refused to give up the
manse, and C. was continually obstructed
in his work, two-thirds of the parishioners
being Roman Catholics under the charge
of a resident priest (Peter Macdonald),
while many were Episcopalians. In the
course of time the animosity died down
and C. remained min. of the parish for
fifty-seven years. He died 6th Jan. 1768.
He marr. a lady who predeceased him, and
had issue— Robert, died abroad Aug. 1745 ;
James, tacksman of Platchaick ; David,
min. of this parish ; John ; Thomas ;
Primrose; Katherine (marr. John Robert
son, min. of Killearnan).
DAVID CHISHOLM, born 1723, son
of preceding; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (1st April
1741); licen. by Presb. of Dingwall 19th
June 1750 ; called July 1753 ; ord. (assist
ant and successor) 27th Feb. 1754; died
13th April 1768. He marr. 28th May 1753,
Jean Inglis, who died 1st Nov. 1799, and
had issue— Robert, born 26th Aug. 1756;
John, born 18th Dec. 1761 ; Alexander,
born 9th June 1764 ; Jean Wardlaw (twin),
born 9th June 1764 ; Christian, born 7th
Dec. 1766.
JOHN FRASER, born Inverness, 1746,
son of Simon F. ; educated at King's
* College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (2nd April
1764) ; licen. by Presb. of Inverness 6th
March 1767; ord. 3rd March 1769; died
4th April 1804. He marr. 26th Aug. 1775,
Margaret Nicolson, who died 1st Feb.
1828, and had issue— Catherine Bristow,
born 8th June 1776; Mary Honyman,
born 28th Aug. 1777; Simon, born 29th
May 1780; Alexander, lieut. 37th Regi
ment, born 29th July 1781 ; Malcolm, born
17th July 1791. Publication— Account of
the parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., xx.).
SIMON FRASER, bom 1765, school
master of Avoch; educated at
' King's College, Aberdeen; M.A.
(29th March 1793); licen. by Presb. of
Chanonry 23rd July 1799; pres. by the
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KILMORACK— KILTEARN AND LEMLAIR [PRESB. OF
Hon. Archibald Campbell Fraser of Lovat
Aug. 1804 ; ord. (after appeal to the
Assembly) 9th July 1806 ; died 26th Sept.
1845. He marr. (l>6th Jan. 1800, Margaret
Aird, who died 22nd Sept. 1806, and had
issue— Anne, born 26th May 1805 (marr.
Hugh Mackenzie, min. of Gaelic Chapel,
Aberdeen) : (2) 4th Feb. 1807, Mary Fraser,
who died 20th July 1854, and had issue-
Simon, min. of this parish ; Catherine, born
1st Sept. 1810; William, born llth March
1812; Mary, born 2nd July 1814; Alex
ander James, born 13th Feb. 1820; Roderick,
min. of Uig, born 7th March 1824.
SIMON FRASER, born 25th Feb. 1808,
son of preceding ; educated at King's
College. Aberdeen, 1826-30; adm.
to Ardersier 4th Jan. 1844; trans, and
adm. 14th May 1846; died 17th Feb.
1862. He marr. 22nd June 1841, Catherine
(died 5th March 1900), daugh. of Roderick
Noble and Ann Robertson, and had issue —
Mary Ann Robertson, born 2nd April 1842 ;
Catherine, born 4th Oct. 1844 ; Margaret
Hannah, born 23rd March 1850; Simon
Peter, born 28th May 1852 ; William John,
born 14th Feb. 1854.
DONALD CAMERON, born Kilmalie,
1819; educated at King's College,
" Aberdeen ; M.A. (March 1843) ; ord.
to Free Church, Ardersier, 1849 ; trans, to
Free Church, Kirkrnichael, 1853; adm. as
a licentiate of the Church of Scotland by
the General Assembly 25th May 1861;
pres. by Mrs Webster of Flemington, and
adm. llth Sept. 1862; died 16th Dec.
1873. He marr. (1) 12th Feb. 1856, Cassilis
Jane Shaw, who died 17th June 1863 : (2)
15th Oct. 1873, Jemima Smith Japp ; she
survived him and marr. (2) 7th Dec. 1876.
PETER ROBERTSON, trans, from
Gaelic Church, Inverness, and adm.
19th May 1874; trans, to Kilbride,
Arran, 21st March 1883.
ALEXANDER JOSEPH MAC-
QUARRIE, trans, from Duncans-
burgh and adm. 21st Sept. 1883;
trans, to Urquhart and Logie-Wester 19th
May 1891.
EWEN ARCHIBALD RANKIN, born
Kilcalmonell, Kintyre, 27th July
1864, son of William R. and Margaret
Sillars ; educated at Kilcalmonell School,
High School, and Univ. of Glasgow ; MA.
1886), B.D. (1888); licen. by Presb. of
Kintyre 16th May 1888 ; assistant at
Ardgour and St Columba's, Glasgow ; ord.
24th Sept. 1891 ; D.D. (Glasgow, 25th June
1919). Marr. 12th Sept. 1898, Elizabeth,
daugh. of Walter George Jackson, Bendigo,
Australia, and Mary Rankin, and has
issue_William Eric, M.A., B.D., born 17th
Aug. 1899, served as 2nd lieut. 13th Black
Watch during European War, ord. to Cock-
burnspath, 28th Sept. 1926 ; Archibald Kil-
morack, M.B., Ch.B. (1924), born 8th Feb.
1901 ; Mary Elizabeth, born 19th Aug. 1902.
Publications — " Survival of Judaism "
(Theological Monthly, 1890); The Pro-
gressiveness of our Knowledge of Christian
Truths (1904); God's Hierarchy (1916);
" The Star in the East !; in The Interpreter
(1918). — [Maclean's Typographia Scoto-
Gadelica, 91 ; Parochial and Presbyterial
Libraries in Ross-shire in 1707.]
KILTEARN AND LEMLAIR.
[These parishes were united about 1618.
Kiltearn. — The church was dedicated to
Our Lord, whence comes its name, Gill
Thighearn, or the Lord's Church. There
were within the bounds four chapels. Two
of these were at Balconie, St Monans, and
St Ninians. One stood at Culnasgiach, and
the other at Wester-Fowlis. There was
also in this parish a Well of St Colmog.
Lemlair.— Lemlair was a prebend of the
Cathedral of Fortrose. Its church was
dedicated to St Mary, but there had been
an older dedication to St Bride. At
Kilchoan, in this parish, there was a
chapel of St Coan.]
DONALD MUNRO, son of Alexander
M. of Kiltearn, first appears as
vicar of Snizort and Raasay in 1526 ;
was Archdeacon of the Isles in 1549, when
he made a systematic tour through the
western islands, of which he left an
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KILTEARN AND LEMLAIR
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interesting account along with a compila
tion on the " Genealogies of the Chief Clans
of the Isles." George Buchanan, who made
use of the first of these manuscripts for
the geographical part of his History of
Scotland, acknowledges indebtedness to its
author as "a pious, diligent, and learned
man, who travelled over all these islands
and viewed them correctly." Conforming
to Protestantism at the Reformation he
was adm. to this charge soon after 1560.
On 26th June 1563, he was app. by the
General Assembly a commissioner to plant
kirks within the bounds of Ross, and to
assist Robert, Bishop of Caithness. On
27th Dec. following, complaint was made
in the Assembly that he "was not so
apt to teach as his charge required/'
A committee of Assembly was app. to
"try his gifts" and to report. On 5th
July 1570, it was again objected that he
was " not prompt in the Scottish (Gaelic)
tongue." Notwithstanding this, his appoint
ment was renewed in Aug. 1573. About
1574 Lemlair was added to his charge.
Tradition says that having his residence at
Castle Craig on the opposite side of the
Firth, he crossed by boat for his duties at
both churches. He died unmarr. in or
about 1589, and was buried at Kiltearn.
Publications— D escription of the Western
Isles of Scotland, called Hebrides, with
Genealogies of the Chief Clans of the Isles :
now first published from the Manuscript
(Edin., 1773-4; another edition, 1805;
reprinted 1818 in vol. ii. of Miscellanea
Scotica (Glasgow 1884). Two MS. copies
are in the National Library of Scot
land.— [Calderwood's Hist., ii. 224, 245,
iii. 275 ; Miscell. Wodrow Soc., i., 335 ;
Buchanan's Hist, of Scotland (1715), 13, 18 ;
Diet. Nat. Biog.]
ROBERT MUNRO, adm. in 1589;
trans, to Farr before 9th Oct. 1619.
—[Hist, of the Munros, 344; Reg.
Mag. Sig., viii., 245.]
DAVID MUNRO of Kilchoan, son of
Donald M. of Tarlogie, of the family
of Milntown, and Christian Ross ;
educated at Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A.
(21st July 1621) ; adm. to Tarbat in 162— ;
trans, and adm. before 1st May 1627 ; was
a member of the Glasgow Assembly in
1638 and that of 1639; dep. in 1648
" for malignancy and joining in the Engage
ment," which sentence was approved by
the Assembly in 1649; died before 7th
July 1653. He marr. Florence, daugh. of
Andrew Munro of Lemlair, and had issue-
Donald ; Robert; John; Hugh, W.S.,
buried 13th Feb. 1672 ; and several daughs.
— [Reg. Mag. Sig., ix., 2028; Inverness
Sas., v., 240 ; Original Charter Antiq.
Museum ; Peterkin's Records ; Hist, of the
Munros, 302.]
ROBERT MUNRO, adm. before 19th
June 1649; dem. 15th June 1652;
died 1663.
THOMAS HOG, born Tain, 1628, "of
honest parents, native highlanders
somewhat above the vulgar rank " ;
educated at Grammar School, Tain, and
Marischal College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (1650) ;
became chaplain at Dunrobin to John, Earl
of Sutherland; licen. in 1654; had calls
from Golspie and other parishes ; ord. 24th
Oct. that year. He joined the Protesters ;
dep. by the Synod July 1661 ; deprived by
Act of Parliament and Decreet of Privy
Council 1st Oct. 1662. He retired to the
farmhouse of Knockoudie in Auldearn,
where he continued to preach and dispense
the sacraments, and memorable communions
were observed in a sheltered hollow of
the Hills of the Arstill, known as " Hog's
Strype." In 1668 a complaint was made
to the Privy Council by Murdoch, Bishop
of Moray, whereupon H. was imprisoned
in Forres, but after some months was
liberated unconditionally through the
intervention of the Earl of Tweeddale.
Orders were again given for his imprison
ment in June 1674, and Letters of Inter-
communing were issued against him on
6th Aug. 1675, forbidding all persons to
harbour or assist him in any way. In
Jan. 1677 he voluntarily surrendered to
the Earl of Moray, was removed to Edin
burgh Tolbooth and sent to the Bass
Rock, where he became seriously ill. An
Edinburgh physician who was called to
see him, petitioned the Council for his
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KILTEARN AND LEMLAIR
[PRESB. OF
release, to which some of the members
were disposed, but Archbishop Sharp stated
" the prisoner did and was in a capacity to
do more hurt to their interests sitting in
his elbow chair than twenty others could,
and if the justice of God was pursuing him
to take him off the stage, the clemency of
the Government should not interpose to
hinder it." He was accordingly confined
more closely than before. On hearing his
sentence he exclaimed in bed, "It was as
severe as if Satan himself had penned it."
On 9th Oct. that year he was brought back
to the Tolbooth, but was again returned to
the Bass until set at liberty with others in
July 1679, giving bond for 10,000 merks to
appear before the Council when called.
He remained unmolested till 8th Nov. 1683
when he was fined £277 and committed
prisoner at Edinburgh till the fine was
paid. Having decided to quit the country
he petitioned to that effect and was
enjoined to depart within forty-eight hours.
He lived for a year in Berwick-upon-Tweed
and in 1685 found his way to London,
intending to sail to Carolina, but he was
apprehended on suspicion of beingconcerned
in the Rebellion of the Duke of Monmouth.
On being freed he fled to Holland, where
he became chaplain to William, Prince of
Orange. He returned to Scotland early
in 1688, and being restored by Act of
Parliament, 25th April 1690, was a member
of Assembly that year. He was appointed
one of the King's chaplains and was
preparing to remove to London, but died
after a long and painful sickness, 4th Jan.
1692. He was buried by his own request
in the doorway of the parish church, where
may be seen the following inscription on
his tomb — "This stone shall bear witness
against the parishioners of Kiltearn if they
bring ane ungodly minister in here." A
commemorative slab was placed in the
parish church and the Hog Memorial
Church was erected in the village of
Evanton. He marr. after 12th April 1656,
the sister of John Hay of Inshock and
Park, cadet of Errol (she died s.p.).
Publication — Memoirs of His Life (Andrew
Stevenson, Edinburgh, 1756).— [Edin. Chr.
Inst., xxv.; Brodie's Diary; Wodrow's
Corres., L, 166; The Bass Rock, 174-98;
Kirkton's Hist,, 330 ; Wodrow's Hist., ii.
112 et seq. ; iv. 511-13, and Anal., ii., 162 ;
Reg. Gen. Assembly, 1690; Memoirs of
Catherine Collace ; Scenes in the Life of
James Hog ; Crichton's Memoir of Black-
ader ; King's Covenanters in the North, 365 ;
Covenanters in Moray and Ross, 79 et
seq. ; Hugh Miller's Scenes and Legends,
112 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. ; Tombst.]
JOHN GORDON, educated at King's
College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (13th July
! 1658); adm. before 15th Nov. 1664;
deprived by Act of Parliament, 25th April
1690, restoring Presbyterianism. After his
settlement he had to contend with great
opposition, even Sir John Munro of Fowlis,
a principal heritor, refusing to pay him
stipend till compelled by law.
1690 THOMAS HOG, above mentioned.
WILLIAM STUART, assistant at
Inverness ; was recommended by
Hog as his successor and was adm.
in 1693. When sent by the Presb. to
preach at Dingwall in Jan. 1704 he was
threatened in the pulpit there by followers
of the Earl of Seaforth from Kintail, with
loaded pistols ; trans, to Third Charge,
Inverness, after 9th April 1705 ; trans, to
First Charge, Inverness, 26th Jan. 1720 ;
called by the Presb. jure devoluto 9th Oct.
1722 and again 9th Nov. 1725; re-trans,
and adm. 8th Nov. 1726; died 10th Oct.
1729. He marr. and had issue— Christian
(marr. Daniel M'Killican, min. of Alness).
Publications — Account of Mr Macbean of
Inverness (Wodrow's Hist., iv., 524);
A Letter from a Jurant to a Non-
Jurant in 1712 in MS '.— {Religious Life
in Ross, 79.]
HUGH CAMPBELL, trans, from
Ardersier ; called 29th April and
adm. 7th May 1708; trans, to
Kilmuir-Wester 4th April 1721.
WILLIAM STUART, before
1726 mentioned.
DINGWALL]
KILTEARN AND LEMLAIR
43
ANDREW ROBERTSON, son of Hugh
R., Balconie, in the parish, of the
family of Kindeace ; licen. by Presb.
of Tongue 19th May 1725 j called by the
Presb. jure devoluto 9th Jan., and ord. to
Farr 21st March 1727; trans, and adm.
27th July 1731 ; died 6th July 1769. In
1742-3 a revival of religion grew to such
an extent in the parish that Kiltearn was
called "The Holy Land." He marr. 15th
Nov. 1730, Mary (died 29th Jan. 1787),
daugh. of George Oswald, min. of Dunnet,
and had issue — Mary Barbara; Harry,
merchant, Glasgow ; Margaret, born 20th
Nov. 1740 (marr. Bailie Miller, Tain).—
{Religious Life in Ross, 81.]
GEORGE WATSON, trans, from Fort
w Augustus; pres. by George III. and
adm. 20th Sept. 1770; trans, to
Third Charge, Inverness, 20th Dec. 1775.
He was one of the first mins. in the Presb.
to wear a pulpit gown ; the parishioners
objected to the garb, and a coolness spring
ing up between them is said to have been
the cause of his removal.
HARRY ROBERTSON, born 2nd Nov.
1748, son of Gilbert R., min. of
1 Kincardine; educated at Univ. of
Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of Tain 28th
June 1770 ; ord. to Clyne 8th May 1771 ;
pres. by George III. in Feb., trans, and
adm. 9th May 1776; D.D. (Marischal
College, Aberdeen, Nov. 1802) ; died 12th
July 1815. He marr. 23rd April 1772, Anne
Forbes (died 13th July 1826), daugh. of
William Forbes, tacksman of Coulmaillie,
Golspie, and had issue — William, born
1st Feb. 1773, died in London 1837;
Gilbert, born 28th Aug. 1774, died unmarr.
in Edinburgh on his return from Demerara
10th Sept. 1839; Harry, born 19th July
1776, drowned off Demerara in 1795 ;
Anne, born 17th March 1778, died at
Woodlands, Liverpool, 9th Nov. 1854;
Hector, born 19th April, died 15th Oct.
1779 ; Elizabeth, born 14th Dec. 1782 (marr.
15th Dec. 1802, Samuel Sandbach of Wood
lands, Liverpool), died 26th Sept. 1859;
Rose, born 6th Jan. 1785, died 6th Aug.
1795 ; Hugh Munro, born 24th April 1787,
wrecked off the coast of Ireland 16th
Dec. 1819 ; George Duncan (twin), born
24th April 1787, died 2nd March 1788;
Christian, born 30th Dec. 1788 (marr. (1)
6th June 1800, James Watson of Crantit,
Orkney, factor for Lord Dundas : (2) 26th
July 1811, Thomas Stewart Traill of Tirlot,
M.D., Professor of Medical Jurisprudence
in Univ. of Edinburgh), died 7th May
1842. Publications — Evangelical Discourses
(London, 1779); The Scottish Minister's
Assistant (Inverness, 1802) ; Account of the
Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., L).
THOMAS MUNRO, born Sutherland,
1773; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen; M.A. (1798); became
schoolmaster of Alness ; licen. by Presb. of
Dingwall 5th May 1802 ; ord. missionary at
Rosehall 27th Nov. 1810 ; pres. by George,
Prince Regent, Nov. 1815 ; adm. (after an
appeal to the Assembly) 27th June 1816,
which led to the erection by the opposition
of a United Secession Church ; died 16th
May 1841. He marr. 6th July 1827, Janet
Isobel (died 29th Sept. 1858), daugh. of
James Smith, min. of Avoch, and had
issue — Alexandrina, born 8th March 1829 ;
James Smith Brodie, born 20th July 1830 ;
Anne, born 7th Dec. 1832 ; Thomas Robert,
superintendent of jetties, Calcutta, born
20th Aug. 1835 ; Catherine Janet Isabel,
born 15th Dec. 1838. Publication— Account
of the Parish (New Stat. Ace., xiv.).— [Scots
Mag., Ixxviii.]
DUNCAN CAMPBELL, born Glenlyon,
1842
1796, son of Duncan C., farmer, and
Ellen Campbell, and brother of
David C., min. of Gaelic Church, Inverness ;
licen. by Presb. of Dunkeld 1st March 1832 ;
ord. to Lawers Mission 23rd Jan. 1834 ;
adm. to Innerwick in Glenlyon 25th April
1837; trans, and adm. 17th March 1842.
Joined the Free Church in 1843; min. of
Free Church, Kiltearn, 1843-73 ; died 21st
Oct. 1873. He marr. 21st May 1835,
Margaret Henderson (died 22nd Jan. 1874),
daugh. of John Macdonald, D.D., min. of
Urquhart and Logie-Wester, and had issue
— Georgina, born 26th June 1836 ; Duncan,
born 2nd June 1839.
44
KILTEARN AND LEMLA1R
[PRESB. OF
JAMES MUNN, licen. by Presb. of
Ig43 Edinburgh ; pres. by Queen Victoria
15th Aug. 1843; ord. 27th Sept.
that year ; died 2nd Sept. 1845.
ALEXANDER MACLEAN, born
Rothesay, 31st Aug. 1793, son of
Alexander M. and brother of Duncan
M.,* min. of Kilmodan ; educated at Univ.
of Glasgow ; ord. by Presb. of Glasgow to
Greenock Church, St Andrews, New Bruns
wick, 1st May 1824 ; returned home and was
chaplain to Morningside Asylum, Edin
burgh ; D.D. (Glasgow 1842); pres. by Queen
Victoria 12th Dec. 1845; adm. 26th Feb. 1846;
died 16th Sept. 1874. He marr. 19th July
1827, Margaret Janet Davidson (died 5th Aug.
1889), daugh. of John Cassilis, U.P. min.,
New Brunswick, and Mary Macpherson,
and had issue — Catherine, born 16th March
1828 (marr. Alexander MacCalman, Kil-
berry), died 23rd March 1919 ; Mary, born
2nd July 1829, died 27th Aug. 1831 ; Mary
Janet, born 7th March 1831 (marr. John
Rose, min. of Rosskeen) ; John, born 23rd
Feb. 1833, died 8th Feb. 1848 ; Alexander,
min. of Halkirk, born 24th Jan. 1835 ;
Duncan, born 5th Dec. 1836, died 28th Aug.
1851 ; Archibald, born 1st Jan. 1839, died
12th March 1871; George, M.B., C.M.,
Inspector-General Royal Navy, born 18th
June 1841 ; Henry, born 24th Feb. 1844,
died 2nd Feb. 1849 ; Charles, M.B., C.M.,
British Columbia, born 29th Jan. 1846 ;
Mary, born 20th Feb. 1848, died unmarr. ;
Surgeon Rear-Admiral John Cassilis Birk-
myre, C.B. (1917), Inspector-General of
Fleets and Hospitals, present at bombard
ment of Alexandria and in Egyptian
campaign, born 28th Aug. 1849, died at
Devonport Dec. 1925 ; Susan Isabella, born
* Duncan Maclean, min. of Kilmodan (cf. Vol. IV., 82)
had issue- Grace Campbell, born 1835 (marr. 1S5T, James
M'Gregor, D.D., Professor of Systematic Theology, New
College, Edinburgh, afterwards min. of Oamaru, New
Zealand), died 1909 ; Catherine; Eliza, died 1901 ; George
Campbell, insurance secretary, Edinburgh, born 2:
Feb. 1840; Alexander, born 80th May 1841, died 7th
Feb. 1876; Charlotte Brodie, born 1842 (marr. Charles
M'Combie), died 1921; Susan, born 1844, died 1800
Duncan ; Mary, born 1848, died 1892 ; Georgina Campbell
born 1850, died 1922.
19th Oct. 1853 (marr. - - Galbraith) ;
Duncan Henry, born 13th July 1856, died
9th Feb. 1874 ; James Dymock, born 15th
Aug. 1858, deceased. Publication— Editor
of Missionary Record of the Church of
Scotland, 1844-6. — [Gregg's Hist, of
the Presbyterian Church in Canada,
267-303.]
WILLIAM WATSON, born 8th March
1843, son of David W., min. of Uig ;
' educated at Univ. of Edinburgh,
where he was assistant to Professor of
Mathematics; licen. by Presb. of Edin
burgh ; assistant at May field, Edinburgh ;
ord. 23rd Sept. 1875 ; died 13th July 1914.
He marr. 22nd April 1886, Isabella, daugh.
of Alexander Allan, tacksman of Drum-
mond, and had issue — Allan, captain
R.A.M.C., D.S.O., M.D., born 27th March
1887, died at Tembura, Northern Sudan,
18th Jan. 1920 ; Margaret Janet, born 9th
June 1888 ; William Norman, M.B., C.M.,
M.C., captain R.A.M.C., 6th K.O.S.B.,
killed in France 29th May 1916 ; Stanley,
D.S.O., B.Sc., M.C., acting lieut.-colonel
12th Cheshire Regiment, manufacturing
chemist, Manchester, born 25th Feb.
1891.
ALEXANDER FORBES BLACK, M.A.,
B.D. ; ord. 7th Jan. 1915; trans.
' to Rosebank, Dundee, 17th May
1920.
ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, born Kil-
1920 donan' Ei&g> 15tn Jan< 1883> son of
James C. and Jessie Campbell ;
educated at Eigg and Kingussie Schools
and Inverness Royal Academy and Univ.
of Glasgow ; M.A. (1904) ; licen. by Presb.
of Skye April 1907 ; assistant at Beauly ;
ord. to Lairg 1st Sept. 1908; trans, to
Resolis 18th Jan. 1912; trans, and adm.
14th Oct. 1920. Marr. 17th Nov. 1908,
Isabel, daugh. of Hugh Macdonald, Sea-
view, Uig, and Helen Mackay, and has
issue _ James Archibald Uisdean, born
28th Aug. 1910 ; Helen Mairi Iseabel, born
2nd Oct. 1913.
DINGWALL]
LEMLAIR— KINLOCHLUICHART
45
LEMLAIR.
[The church was dedicated to St Mary.
The parish was united to Kiltearn in the
first half of the seventeenth century.]
HENRY KINCAID, was parson of
Lemlair at the Reformation, and
retained the temporalities ; was still
parson in 1584, and disposed of certain
teinds to Munro of Fowlis in 1607. There
is no evidence that he conformed to Pro
testantism.
DONALD MUNRO, min. of Kiltearn;
1574 held this charge in conjunction.
JOHN MACKENZIE, min. of Dingwall ;
pres. to the parsonage and vicarage
' by James VI. 1st July 1609. In 1614
Dingwall was also in his charge ; still min.
in 1618.
KINLOCHLUICHART (Q.S.).
[In 1825 a parliamentary chapel was
built at the upper end of Loch Luichart.
On 16th March 1864 the parish of Kinloch-
luichart was disjoined from Contin, Fod-
derty, and Urray.]
DAVID TULLOCH, born Thurso,
brother of John Tulloch, LL.D.,
Professor of Mathematics, King's
College, Aberdeen; educated at Univ. of
Edinburgh ; app. schoolmaster of Kil-
learnan in 1816 ; licen. by Presb. of
Chanonry 30th Sept. 1823 ; pres. by George
IV. 15th June, and ord. 27th Sept. 1827 .
died 20th April 1841. He marr. and left a
widow.— [Tombst.]
ALEXANDER ANDERSON, born
Elgin, 1802, son of Alexander A.
1842 baker, and Ann Falconer ; educatec
at Univ. of Edinburgh ; pres. by Queer
Victoria 9th Oct. 1841; adm. 16th Feb
1842. Joined the Free Church in 1843
min. of Gaelic Free Church, Rothesay
1844-66; died 1st Dec. 1866. He marr
1845, Margaret Maclean, who died 18th
Oct. 1889, aged 62.
DAVID WILLIAMSON, pres. by Queen
844 Victoria 25tl1 N°V- 1843J °rd- 21st
March 1844; trans, to Assynt 12th
Dec. 1848.
DUNCAN SIMON MACKENZIE, pres.
by Queen Victoria, and ord. 30th
Aug. 1849 ; trans, to Gairloch 26th
Sept. 1850.
GREGOR STUART, pres. by Queen
Victoria 3rd March, and ord. 13th
861 May 1851 ; trans, to Rogart 3rd May
1854.
CHARLES MACLEAN, pres. by Queen
Victoria 28th June, and ord. 27th
1 Sept. 1854; trans, to Ullapool 24th
June 1856.
EVAN MACKENZIE MASSON, pres.
by Queen Victoria 17th Sept. 1856;
1857 ord. 8th Jan. 1857; trans, to Dull
28th Feb. 1861.
JOHN MACGREGOR, missionary at
Strathglass; pres. by Queen Victoria
9th April, and ord. 13th May 1861 ;
trans, to Knockbain 24th Dec. 1868.
ALEXANDER JOHN MACKICHAN,
born 31st Dec. 1835, son of Dugald
' M., min. of Daviot ; educated at
Univ. of St Andrews ; licen. by Presb. of
Inverness; pres. by Queen Victoria 29th
Jan., and adm. 6th May 1869 ; dem. 18th
June 1874 ; adm. to Barney's River, Nova
Scotia, 22nd Sept. 1874. He marr. 25th
Aug. 1869, Christina Munro, daugh. of
James Reid, min. of Auldearn, and had
jssue — James Archibald, born 13th Sept.
1870 ; Isabella Christina, born 9th Jan.
1872; Mary Skene, born 31st Jan. 1873;
Amelia Stirling, born 21st April 1874.
KENNETH MACKENZIE, trans, from
Kinlochbervie and adm. 6th Jan.
1 1876; trans, to Eddrachillis 5th
March 1879.
SIMON HALLY, born 1837, son of
George H., writer, and Rebecca
Murray ; educated at Univ. of Glas
gow; M.A. (1871); ord. a min. in Presb.
46
KINLOCHLUICHART— URQUHART
[PRESB. OF
of St John, New Brunswick, 1873 ;
missionary at Carnwath in 1875 ; adm.
to Kinlochbervie 18th April 1877; trans,
and adm. 18th July 1879 ; died 30th Oct.
1880. He marr. 4th June 1877, Mary Anne
Taylor (died 12th April 1878), daugh. of
James Steele, rope maker, and Janet
Neill, and had issue — Mary Catherine
Margaret, born 12th April 1878.
DAVID FERGUSON, born 4th Feb.
1835, eldest son of Thomas F.,
farmer, Barr, Ayrshire ; educated at
Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Ayr
3rd Oct. 1860 ; assistant at Bunkle ; adm.
29th March 1881 ; dem. 5th Oct. 1904 ; died
unmarr. at Alness Manse, 25th Jan. 1912.
JOHN CAMPBELL McNAUGHT,
M.A.,B.D.; ord. 19th Jan. 1905; trans.
1881
1905
to Kilmuir-Easter 21st July 1914.
GEORGE BRUCE, born Errol, Perth
shire, 12th March 1863, son of George
B. and Eliza Rollo; educated at
Errol and Dundee High Schools and Univ.
of Edinburgh; MA. (1887); licen. by
Presb. of Perth 15th May 1890; assistant
at Fauldhouse ; ord. as missionary professor
in the Scottish Churches' College at
Calcutta 24th May 1891; adm. here
27th Oct. 1914. Marr. 6th Oct. 1893,
Margaret Christina, daugh. of Thomas
Learmonth and Janet Middlemas, and has
issue — Theodora Janet Middlemas, nurse,
born 23rd Aug. 1894 ; George Macdonald,
lieut. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders,
born 18th Nov. 1897, died in Belgium 17th
Feb. 1919 ; Marion Eliza Rollo, born 10th
Sept. 1899, died in India 30th April 1903 ;
James Douglas Ferrier, cadet, Henderson
Line S.S., born 1st Oct. 1905.
URQUHART, OR LOGAIDH
FRAOICH, OR LOGIE-WESTER.
[These two parishes were united in the
latter half of the fifteenth century.
Urquhart. — The prebend of Urquhart
was held by the Treasurer of the Cathedral
of Fortrose. The church was dedicated to
St Malrubh, who was murdered by pirates
at Ferintosh in 722. At Bridge of Conan,
in this parish, there is a mission church.]
1574
JOHN ROBERTSON, was charged in
the Assembly, 28th June 1565, with
leaving his vocation and required to
return thereto under pain of disobedience
to the Kirk ; was app. by the Assembly,
5th June 1570, to assist the commissioner of
Ross, who was not conversant with Gaelic ;
was again commissioned to visit Caithness
and Sutherland ; died 1597. — [Booke of the
Kirk ; Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 551.]
ROBERT MUNRO of Creichmor, third
son of John M. of Coul and
Katherine, daugh. of John Vass of
Lochslinn ; pres. by James VI. to the
vicarage in 1560; conformed to Protestantism
before 1569, and was app. reader and ex-
horter ; was min. in 1574 when Dingwall
was added to the charge. He was pres. to
the Treasury of Ross by James VI., 16th
June 1597, and after being omitted in the
assignations from 1588, he was restored
in 1599. He granted a lease as vicar of
Urquhart of the chanter's manse in the
Chanonry of Ross in favour of Andrew
Munro of Novar in 1604; was still min.
24th Feb. 1638. He marr. Christian
Munro, and had issue — Margaret (marr.
John, son of John Munro of Fyrish).—
[Hist, of the Munros, 344 ; Orig. Paroch.
Scot., ii., 551 ; Inverness Sas., i. 54, vi. 109.]
GEORGE MUNRO, adm. before 4th
Oct. 1642 ; trans, to Snizort before
1642
15th April 1656.
ROBERT ROSS of Logie-Easter, MA. ;
adm. Nov. 1657 ; trans, to Tain
r before 18th April 1665.
DONALD FRASER, born about 1620,
son of William F., min. of Kiltarlity ;
5 educated at King's College, Aber
deen; M.A. (1637); adm. to Kilmorack
in 1641 ; pres. by John, Bishop of Ross,
Dec. 1664 ; coll. 15th, and inst. Jan. 1665 ;
died 8th Oct. 1684. He marr. (cont. 20th
Nov. 1646), Katherine (died 17th Oct.
1672), daugh. of Hugh Fraser of Belladrum,
and widow of Hector MAlister vie Eachan
of Buntait, and had issue — William, min.
of Kilmorack ; a daugh. (marr. Hugh Fraser
of Aigas).— [Ing. Ret. Gen., 6658; Bella-
drum Writs.]
DINGWALL]
URQUHART
47
ANDREW ROSS, educated at King's
and Marischal Colleges, Aberdeen ;
1 adm. to Contin in 1684; pres. by
James, Bishop of Ross, 2nd, and inst.
24th Sept. 1685; died Nov. 1712. He
marr. Anna Gumming, and had issue —
Andrew, served heir, 19th Aug. 1718. —
[Deed of Inst. by Bishop of Ross at Kil-
learnan ; Scot. Antiquary, v., 156 ; Services
of Heirs.]
ALEXANDER FRASER, trans, from
Croy and pres. by John, Earl of
1715 Cromartie, 1714; adm. 21st April
1715 ; trans, to Second Charge, Inverness,
4th April 1727.
ALEXANDER FALCONER, born about
1686; educated at King's College,
* Aberdeen; M.A. (2nd May 1706);
became schoolmaster of Cromarty ; licen.
by Presb. of Chanonry; ord. to Ardersier
10th June 1718; called 30th Sept. 1728;
trans, and adm. 21st Jan. 1729 ; died 8th
April 1756. He marr. (1) and had issue
—William ; Elizabeth : (2) 6th July 1742,
Jean Houston, who died 5th Jan. 1778,
and had issue — Henrietta, born llth April
1743 ; Alexander, born 6th April 1745 ;
Duncan, born 1746.
DONALD FRASER, born 1706, son
of William F., tacksman in Petty ;
educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ;
became teacher in Grammar School of
Inverness; app. schoolmaster of Killearnan,
10th Nov. 1728, and of Alness ; licen. by
Presb. of Dingwall 15th Oct. 1734; app.
missionary in Strathglass ; tutor to Master
of Lovat in 1739 ; ord. to Killearnan
27th March 1744; summoned to London,
Feb. 1747, to attend the trial of Simon,
Lord Lovat, but not called to give evidence ;
pres. by John Forbes of Culloden 31st July
1756 ; trans, and adm. 2nd June 1757 ;
died 7th April 1773. He was a noted
expositor of the Scriptures. There is a
tradition which has been handed down
that he left the parish of Killearnan
through witchcraft. He marr. 8th June
1747, Jean (died 19th March 1791), daugh.
of Alexander Fraser, min. of Inverness
and had issue — Simon, born 4th April 1748
went to India, and died in Calcutta in
1770; Alexander, min. of Kirkhill, born
14th July 1749 ; Isabella, born 14th Jan.
1751 (marr. 15th March 1784, Alexander
Sage, min. of Kildonan) ; Marjory, born
2nd April 1752 (marr. John Fraser, min.
of Kiltarlity); Donald, born 10th Oct.
1756 ; Jane Forbes (Mrs Fraser), born
June 1757— [Tombst.]
CHARLES CALDER, born 1st Dec.
1748, son of James C., min. of Croy ;
1774 educated at King's College, Aber
deen ; M.A. (30th March 1767) ; licen. by
Presb. of Inverness 28th Sept. 1773 ; ord.
12th May 1774; died 1st Oct. 1812. He
marr. 8th July 1779, Margaret (died at
Tain, 3rd March 1820, aged 77), daugh. of
James Brodie of Spynie, advocate, and had
issue — Emilia, born 19th May 1780 (marr.
Alexander Stewart, D.D., min. of the
Canongate, Edinburgh) ; Anne, born llth
March 1781 (marr. Angus Mackintosh,
D.D., min. of Tain); James, born 23rd
Aug. 1784, went to India, died at sea in
1833. Publication— Account of the Parish
(Sinclair's Stat. Ace., v.).— [Ross Tests.;
Findlater's Memoir of Findlater ; Stewart's
Sermons ; Religious Life in Ross, 90-2.]
JOHN MACDONALD, born Balnabein,
Reay, 12th Nov. 1779, son of James
1818 M., or MacAdie, catechist, originally
a weaver ; educated at Reay School and
King's College, Aberdeen, where he was the
most distinguished mathematical scholar of
his time ; M.A. (30th March 1801) ; licen.
by Presb. of Caithness 2nd July 1805;
assistant at Kingussie ; ord. missionary at
Berriedale 16th Sept. 1806 ; adm. to Gaelic
Chapel, Edinburgh, 29th Jan. 1807 ; pres.
by Duncan Forbes' of Culloden in 1812 ;
trans, and adm. 1st Sept. 1813 ; D.D. (Univ.
of New York, U.S.A., 1842). Joined the
Free Church in 1843 ; min. of Free Church,
Ferintosh, 1843-9 ; Joint (Gaelic) Moderator
of the Free Church Assembly in 1845; died
16th April 1849. He was known all over
the Church as " The Apostle of the North,"
and was the most popular Gaelic preacher
in the Highlands. He was so fond of
itinerating that his conduct was at length
brought before the General Assembly,
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[PRESB. OF
which, 30th May 1818, issued a declara
tion " that the conduct of any minister of
the Church who exercises his pastoral
functions in a vagrant manner, preaching
during his journeys from place to place in
the open air in other parishes than his
own, or officiating in any meeting for
religious exercises without the special
invitation of the minister within whose
parish it shall be held, is disorderly and
unbecoming the character of a minister of
this Church." He marr. (1) 6th Jan. 1806,
Georgina (died 18th Aug. 1814), daugh. of
Simon Ross of Gledfield, and had issue —
John, missionary of the Church of Scot
land in India, born 16th Feb. 1807, died
1837; Simon, born 23rd Sept. 1808, died
abroad ; Margaret Henderson, born 12th
Aug. 1810 (marr. Duncan Campbell, min.
of Kiltearn) : (2) llth May 1818, Jessie (died
22nd June 1868), daugh. of Kenneth Mac
kenzie of Millbank, and had issue — Anne,
born 28th Aug. 1820; Agnes, born llth
Aug. 1821 (marr. Alexander Falconer,
Sheriff -substitute of Nairn), died 19th
Jan. 1914 ; James, born 25th Aug. 1822 ;
Kenneth, born 25th Sept. 1823 ; Divie
Bethune, born 20th Oct. 1824 ; Duncan G.
Forbes, born 9th Sept. 1825 ; Alexander,
born 1st Nov. 1826, died 14th March 1827.
Publications — The Righteousness of God
manifested for the Justification of Sinners,
a sermon (Edinburgh, 1825) ; Journal of
his Visits to St Kilda in 1822, 1825, 1827,
and 1830 ; Marbhrann air Maighster Eoin
Robeson (Inverness, 1829); Daoine air an
Comhairleachadh an Aghaidh bhi deanadh
cron orra fein (the cholera sermon) (Inver
ness, 1832); Dan Spioradail a rinneadh
air Criosdaidh Araidh (Edinburgh, 1838) ;
Marbhrann a rinneadh air Diadhairibh
urramach nach mairionn (Edinburgh, 1848,
1858, 1868, 1890) ; Elegies on Eminent
Ministers of the Church in Gaelic (Edin
burgh, 1848) ; Speech in the General Assembly
in the Case of Rev. Roderick Macleod (Edin
burgh, 1869).— [Kay's Portraits, ii., 331;
Edin. Christ. Inst. ; Scot. Mag., Ixxi.;
The Apostle of the North, by John Kennedy,
D.D. (Edin., 1886); Elegy on Dr Mac-
donald (Glasgow, 1862) ; Typographia Scoto-
Gadelica, 196-9 ; Diet. Nat. Jiiog.]
PETER MACKENZIE, born 30th Nov.
1844 1818' son °^ J°nn M., min. of Loch-
carron, and brother of Kenneth M.,
LL.D., min. of Kingussie ; educated at
King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (March
1828) ; licen. by Presb. of Lochcarron ;
ord. to Tongue 26th Sept. 1843; pres. by
Arthur Forbes of Culloden ; trans, and
adm. 29th March 1844; D.D. (Aberdeen,
March 1875); elected Moderator of the
General Assembly 22nd May 1884 ; died
12th Oct. 1913, "a cultured, shrewd, gentle
manly man." He marr. 9th Jan. 1845,
Margaret Mackintosh (died 13th Oct. 1913),
daugh. of James Grant, min. of Nairn. —
[Life of Dr Cameron Lees, 76.]
ALEXANDER JOSEPH MAC-
1891 QUARRIE, born 1843, son of John
M., Stornoway ; educated at Univ.
of Edinburgh, M.A. (1871); ord. to Dun-
cansburgh 14th Nov. 1879 ; trans, to Kil-
morack 21st Sept. 1883; trans, and adm.
19th May 1891 ; D.D. (Edinburgh, 1916) ;
died at Aspatria, Cumberland, 4th May
1923. He marr. 1st Aug. 1871, Elizabeth
Addison, who died 1st June 1922, and had
issue— John, M.B., C.M., Carlisle, captain
Royal Army Medical Corps ; Donald, died
abroad.
JOHN SELLAR,born Newtonmore 31st
1918 July 1884) son of Rol:)ert S- and
Barbara Riach ; educated at Kin
gussie School and Univ. of Edinburgh ;
M.A. (1908) ; licen. by Presb. of Abernethy
in 1910 ; assistant at Riccarton, Kilmar-
nock ; ord. to Carnoch 1st May 1913;
trans, and adm. (assistant and successor)
1st Oct. 1918. Marr. 29th July 1913,
Isabelle Fisher, daugh. of George Mac-
donald, Glasgow, and Charlotte Hamilton,
and has issue — Isabel Mary, born 28th Aug.
1915 ; Andrew Gray, born 4th Jan. 1919.
URRAY AND TARRADALE.
[These parishes were united about 1600.
Urray.— The church of Urray was dedi
cated to St Constantine. The prebend of
Urray was held by the subchantor of the
Cathedral of Fortrose.
DINGWALL]
URRAY AND TARRADALE
49
Tarradale. — The old church of Tarradale,
long a ruin, was re-roofed about fifty years
ago. Like that of Kiltearn, it was dedicated
to Our Lord. Therefore it is always called
Gill Chriosd (the Church of Christ).]
ALEXANDER PEDDER, vicar at the
1660 Reformation> but probably did not
conform ; died 1569.
ALEXANDER GRIERSON, pres. by
James VI. in 1569; died that year.
—\Qrig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 518.]
DAVID ADAMSON, exhorter in 1567;
pres. to the vicarage by James VI.
in 1569 ; in that year the king pres.
him, then an " instructer and teichar of
the youth within the burgh of Dingwall,"
to the chaplainries of St Lawrence in
Dingwall and Artafallie in Killearnan ;
pres. to the parsonage in 1573 ; Contin,
Kilchrist and Fodderty were in the charge
in 1574; dem. in 1579; died 1591.— [Orig.
Paroch. Scot., ii., 518.]
WILLIAM RITCHIE, pres. to the
vicarage by James VI. in 1579.—
[Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 518.]
JOHN MACKENZIE, min. in 1593;
was denounced rebel 25th Dec. 1595
1 for not appearing to answer a charge
at the instance of Alexander Bayne of
Tulloch and Alexander Bayne of Logie
" for his insolencies, oppin and manifest
oppressions committed upon thame, as
namelie by resett and huirding within his
house of Johnne M'Gillichallum Rasa, ane
commoun and notorious theiff and lymmair
... in the month of May last," John
Macleod of Raasay had, it is alleged, come
on set purpose to murder Hugh and Duncan,
sons of the above-mentioned persons, aided
and abetted by the minister, who after
wards laid waste the complainer's lands of
Urray. He was still min. in 1601.— [Pit-
cairn's Grim. Trials, i.]
JOHN MALCOLM [MACGILLIE-
CALLUM], min. in 1605, was sub-
' chantor of Ross in 1608, and was a
burgess of Dingwall ; was still min. 6th
Feb. 1635. He marr., and had issue— Isa
bel (marr. Alexander, natural son to
Kenneth Mackenzie of Kilchrist).— [Orig.
Charter in Antiq. Museum ; Orig. Charters
by Bishops of Ross at Killearnan, 1605,
1608, 1635.]
JOHN MACKENZIE, M.A. ; adm. in
1636 ; dep. in 1639 for malignancy
(opposition to the Covenant) and
obliged to flee to England and latterly to
Ireland, which he was compelled to leave
on account of the rebellion. He was re-
poned by the Synod in April 1643 and was
adm. to Suddie in 1644.
DONALD MACRAE, adm. before 21st
Jan. 1645; app. chaplain to the
' regiment raised by the Earl of
Seaforth for King Charles I.; was a
member of Assembly in 1651 ; trans, to
Kintail 20th July 1656.
GEORGE CUMMING, born about 1627,
son of Alexander C. of Tomnamoon,
J and brother of Michael C., min. of
Drainie ; educated at King's College, Aber
deen; M.A. (1647); became schoolmaster
of Elgin, where he was obtruded on the
Grammar School without consulting the
Presb. 19th July 1649 ; licen. by Presb. of
Elgin 9th Oct. 1655; adm. 13th April 1658;
died in 1705. In 1703 there is a sasine to
him and Janet Dunbar his wife of the lands
of Culbo and Badgrenan.— [Allangrange
Writs; Reg. of Deeds, Mack., 22nd Sept.
1710.]
JOHN MORISON, son of John M. of
Bragar, judge of the Lewis; licen.
by Presb. of Argyll (Inveraray) 30th
June 1698; ord. to Glenelg, Sept. 1699;
trans, to Boleskine 3rd Dec. 1706; trans,
to Gairloch in 1711 ; called by the Presb.
jure devoluto 29th Sept. 1716; trans, and
adm. 16th Jan. 1717; died 1st July 1747.
Being opposed by the heritors and the great
majority of the parishioners, many of whom
were Roman Catholics and Episcopalians,
he had "no peace or satisfaction" during
the whole of his incumbency. He marr.
(1) Mary, daugh. of John Mackenzie of
Gruinard and Christian Mackenzie, and
had issue — Norman, min. of Uig; John,
min. of Petty : (2) Christian (died 18th
March 1770), daugh. of Alexander Munro
VOL. VII.
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[PRESB. OF
of Kilchoan, and had issue— Alexander ;
Christina. Publication — A Description of
the Lewis (Spottiswoode Miscellany, II.).—
{Religious Life in Ross, 98 ; Tombst.}
PATRICK GBANT, born 1706; licen.
by Presb. of Haddington 5th March
1734 ; ord. to Cawdor 7th July 1735 ;
called 14th March 1748; trans, and adm.
27th May 1749 ; D.D. (King's College, Aber
deen, 27th Sept. 1774) ; elected Moderator of
the General Assembly 21st May 1778 ; died
14th April 1787. He marr. 10th March
1738, Anne Spence, who died at Forres
9th Sept. 1793. Publication— The Spirit
of Moderation in Religion recommended, a
sermon (Edinburgh, 1779).— [Tombst.]
JOHN DOWNIE, born Aberdeen 1727 ;
educated at King's College, Aber-
deen ; M.A. (2nd April 1752) ; ord.
to Gairloch 27th Sept. 1758; trans, to
Stornoway 22nd July 1773; chaplain to
78th Highlanders 6th June 1778; pres.
by John, Lord Macleod, in Sept. 1787;
trans, and adm. 25th Sept. 1788 ; died 3rd
Oct. 1811. He marr. 1st Jan. 1762,
Charlotte (died 14th Sept. 1815), daugh.
of Alexander Mackenzie of Tollie, provost
of Dingwall, and Annabella, eldest daugh.
of Sir Donald Bayne of Tulloch, and had
issue _ Margaret, born 26th Sept. 1762 ;
Annabel, born 16th Feb. 1764; Alexander,
min. of Lochalsh, born 6th July 1765;
Donald, born 4th, and died 9th Oct. 1766 ;
Catherine, born 29th Aug. 1767; Murdoch,
born 7th Nov. 1768; Donald, born 25th
Dec. 1769, died 4th March 1770; Charles,
born 22nd Nov. 1770 ; Jean, born 8th Aug
1772 ; Ann, born 15th Sept. 1774, died 12th
Feb. 1775; John, bom 22nd Sept. 1775:
Anne, born 27th Nov. 1776 (marr. Neil
Kennedy, min. of Logie-Easter) ; Hector
born 19th Jan. 1778 ; George (twin), born
19th Jan. 1778; Charlotte, born 30th
July 1779; Mary, born 7th May 1781
Hector, born 4th April 1783. Publications
— The Substance of a Speech addressed tc
the Very Rev. the Synod of Ross (Inverness
1810) ; Lash to the Old Seceder, merited bj
his Remarks (Inverness, 1812); Account o
the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., viii.).—
[Macrae's Dingivall, 110; Tombst.]
DONALD MACDONALD, born 1756;
licen. by Presb. of Lochcarron 10th
8 July 1784 ; ord. missionary at
'orridon, and Kishorn, Applecross, April
785 ; adm. to Barvas 6th May 1790 ; pres.
»y the Hon. Maria Hay Mackenzie of
Oromartie in Jan., trans, and adm. 16th
April 1812; died 17th Dec. 1835. He
narr. 23rd Aug. 1794, Anne Macdonald,
who died 27th Oct. 1838, and had issue —
Margaret, born 5th Oct. 1795 (marr. 8th
Oct. 1821, Alexander Mackenzie of Kinna-
haird); Donald, born 5th March 1798;
Mary, born 15th Nov. 1799 ; Anne, born
th April 1802 ; Johanna Simpson, born
14th Sept. 1803 ; James, min. of this parish ;
Janet, born 20th May 1806 ; Francis Proby,
born 20th Oct. 1807; Williamina, born
Aug. 1814. Publication — Account of Barvas
(Sinclair's Stat. Ace., xix.).
JAMES MACDONALD, born 1st Oct.
1804, son of preceding; educated
at King's College, Aberdeen, 1821-5 ;
licen. by Presb. of Dingwall 15th Dec. 1829 ;
pres. by the Hon. Mrs Maria Hay Mackenzie
of Cromartie in Sept., and ord. (assistant
and successor) 18th Nov. 1830. Joined the
Free Church in 1843 ; min. of Free Church,
Urray, 1843-82; died 14th Feb. 1882. He
took a leading part in the Skye revival,
1841-2. He marr. 23rd April 1840, Mary (died
1st Sept. 1885), daugh. of John Kennedy,
min. of Killearnan, and had issue— John
Kennedy, born llth Jan. 1841; Donald,
born 13th June 1842; Janet, died 17th
May 1917 ; Kenneth Mackenzie, born 1847,
died 8th Dec. 1923.
DONALD MACINTOSH, trans, from
1844 Pictou' Nova Scotia; pres. by the
: Hon. Mrs Maria Hay Mackenzie of
Cromartie ; adm. 29th Feb. 1844 ; trans, to
Edderton 23rd Nov. 1854.
WILLIAM MACDONALD, born Urray,
1823; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen, 1840-6; licen. by Presb.
of Abertarff; app. missionary at Fort
Augustus in 1854 ; pres. by the Hon. Mrs
Maria Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie ; adm.
1st May 1856 ; died 15th Oct. 1860.
DINGWALL] URRAY AND TARRADALE— MARYBURGH
f.I
JOHN ADAM MACFARLANE, born
1861 Glas&ow> 3rd Feb' 1832> second son
of Andrew M., wright, and Jean Mac-
Ewan ; educated at Univs. of Glasgow and
St Andrews ; licen. by Presb. of Skye in
1856; ord. to Kinlochbervie 4th Sept.
1856 ; trans, and adm. 8th Aug. 1861 ;
died 3rd Oct. 1915. He marr. 28th Oct.
1873, Agnes Goodsir (died 8th May 1923),
daugh. of James Macfarlane, D.D., min.
of Duddingston, and had issue— Agnes
Jane, born 10th Aug. 1874 ; Andrew, D.D.,
D.S.O., chaplain 42nd Highlanders, senior
chaplain Bombay, born 28th Oct. 1875;
Helen Muriel, born 31st Jan. 1877 ; James,
superintending engineer, born 23rd Feb.
1878; Eliza Alexandra, born 28th May
1879; John Adam, born 14th Feb. 1883;
Walter Malcolm, born 18th Nov. 1885;
Margaret Alice, born 28th Oct. 1887 (marr.
llth Sept. 1917, Cyril Ernest Barber, of
H.M. Customs) ; Mary Christie (marr. 5th
March 1918, Thomas Cheeseborough, H.M.
Customs).
SAMUEL KNOX JOHNSTON, born
Magherafelt, co. Derry, 4th Feb.
1875, son of James J., J.P., and
Sarah Davidson; educated at Queen's
College, Belfast, and Royal University of
Ireland ; B.A. (1896), and Univ. of Edin
burgh ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh in
1899 ; assistant at Rosemount, Aberdeen,
Ayr, and Dean Parish, Edinburgh ; ord. to
Stromness llth Jan. 1906 ; trans, and adm.
18th May 1916. Marr. 13th Sept. 1907,
Margaret Mary, daugh. of John Geddie,
sub- editor of Scotsman, Edinburgh, and
Isabella Young, and has issue— Isabella
Hulda, born 20th March 1909.
TARRADALE OR CILL CHRIOSD
(KILCHRIST).
ALEXANDER MACKENZIE, reader at
1669 Kilchrist and at Killearnan in 1569.
DONALD ADAMSON, min. in 1574.—
1674 [Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 523.]
DONALD DOW FRASER, min. in 1579,
1579
with other churches in his charge ;
still min. in 1589.
MARYBURGH.
[A church built here in 1841 was retained
by the Free Church in 1843.]
GEORGE M'LEOD, born Latheron 10th
June 1803, son of Neil M., farmer,
and Janet Mitchell ; was engaged in
business until his twenty-eighth year, when
coming under strong religious influences,
he resolved to study for the ministry;
educated at Univ. of Edinburgh, during
which period he was employed as an agent
of the City Mission; licen. by Presb. of
Dunoon Nov. 1839; ord. in 1841. Joined
the Free Church in 1843; min. of Free
Church, Maryburgh, that year; adm. to
Free Church, Lochbroom, 18th July 1844 ;
died at his son's manse, Newport, Fife,
2nd May 1871. During Disruption times
he travelled upwards of 9000 miles mostly
in open boats. He marr. Janet M'Leod,
and had issue— Neil, D.D., min. of Free
Church, Newport, born 1827, died 1895.
— [Disruption Worthies of the Highlands
(portrait), 187-95.]
PEESBYTERY OF TAIN
[This Court was erected by the General Assembly on llth Dec. 1706. The Presbytery
Register begins at 31st Dec. 1706. There is a gap in its record from 28th Sept. 1785
to 15th April 1786.]
CROICK (Q.S.).
[A parliamentary church was built here
in 1827. The parish of Croick was disjoined
from Kincardine on 4th March 1846.]
EGBERT WILLIAMSON, pres. by
1828 GeorSe IV- 9tl1 April, and ord. 25th
Sept. 1828 ; trans, to St Andrew's
Church, Pictou, Nova Scotia, and adm. 24th
Sept. 1840 ; returned to Scotland and adm.
to Knockbain 14th Dec. 1843.
GUSTAVUS AIRD, born 29th June
1813, son of Gustavus A., tacksman
of Heathfield, Kilmuir-Easter, and
Anne, daugh. of John Grant, tacksman of
Polnicol ; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen ; M.A. (April 1830) ; Keen, by
Presb. of Tain 27th Jan. 1841. Joined the
Free Church in 1843 ; min. of Free Church,
Croick, that year; trans, to Free Church,
Creich, 16th Aug. 1843; D.D. (Aberdeen
1885) ; elected Moderator of the Free Church
General Assembly held at Inverness, May
1888 ; dem. 1896 ; died at Sale, Manchester,
20th Dec. 1898. He was one of the best
known of Highland ministers. He collected
much valuable material bearing upon
religious life in the counties of Ross and
Sutherland, part of which has been pub
lished. He marr. 16th Jan. 1861, Mary,
daugh. of William Sim, Scotsburn. Publi
cations — Searmon a rinneadh leis an ure
(Glasgow, 1889); Farewell Gaelic and
English Sermons preached in Creich Free
Church, 15th Nov. 1896 (portrait) (Inver
ness, 1897) ; Sermon (Dingwall, n.d.) ;
Sermon (Edinburgh, 1916) ; Bondage and
Liberty (Edinburgh, 1917).— [Macrae's Life
of Gustavus Aird, D.D. (Stirling, 1907);
MacNeilPs An-t-urr Gustavus Aird (Glas
gow, 1896) ; Beaton's Bibliography of
Gaelic Books, 7.]
JOHN MACDONALD, ord. 23rd July
1844 1844 ; trans, to Rogart 29th Jan. 1858.
ALEXANDER MACLEAN, pres. by
1858 Queen Victoria 23rd April, and adm.
14th May 1858; trans, to Halkirk
1st June 1865.
JOHN WALKER MACINTYRE, pres.
1865 ky Queen Victoria 3rd July, and ord.
28th Sept. 1865 ; trans, to Kinloch-
Rannoch 15th April 1869.
ALEXANDER EDWARD MURRAY
1869 McCONNACHIE, born 31st May
1835, son of Donald M., min. of
Glen Urquhart ; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen ; app. missionary at Tighna-
bruaich ; pres. by Queen Victoria 23rd
April, and adm. 28th Sept. 1869; dem.
16th May 1871.
JAMES BARNETT, born Resolis, 1825,
1871 son °^ James B., farmer, and Ann
Logan ; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen ; pres. by Queen Victoria 24th
June, and ord. 21st Sept. 1871; died
unmarr. 25th Aug. 1888.
JOHN CAMPBELL MACKINNON,
born Cape Breton, Canada, 1848, son
of Donald M., schoolmaster, and
Christina Campbell ; educated at Univs. of
Glasgow and Edinburgh ; adm. to Knoydart
2nd May 1883; trans, and adm. 9th May
1889 ; died unmarr. 5th Nov. 1897.
PRESB. OF TAINj
CROICK— EDDERTON
53
JAMES WALLACE MACDONALD, ,
1898
'
Durness 7th May 1918.
JOHN COUTTS, born Nigg, Kincardine-
1919 shire' 2nd Aug> 1856) S0n °f William
C. and Margaret Grassick ; educated
at Grammar School and Univ. of Aberdeen ;
M.A. (1889) ; licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen in
1902 ; assistant at Turriff, Keith, Markinch,
Culsalmond, and Alvah ; ord. 28th Jan.
1919; B.Sc., D.Sc. (1923).
EDDERTON.
[The incumbent was formerly sub-dean
of Ross.]
SIR JOHN ROSS, vicar in 1550, but
there is no evidence that he con-
1560
formed at the Reformation.
FARQUHAR REID, exhorter in
1567 1567.
WILLIAM STRACHAN, vicar in 1568 ;
1568 died in 1583.
DONALD SIMSON, reader, 1576 to
1580; pres. by James VI. 26th Oct.
1583.— [Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 414.]
ROBERT MUNRO, min. in 1607.—
1607 [Munro of Allan Writs.]
HECTOR MUNRO of Daan, second
son of William M., min. of Culli-
cudden; educated at Univ. of St
Andrews; M.A. (1610); adm. in 1614;
was a member of the Glasgow Assembly
in 1638; still min. 28th Aug. 1655; died
before 10th Feb. 1665. He acquired the
estate of Meikle Daan in 1626. He marr.
(1) Euphemia, daugh. of William Ross of
Invercharron, son of Sir David R. of
Balnagowan, and had issue — William,
died unmarr. in London ; Alexander of
Meikle Daan ; John : (2) Isabel, daugh. of
James Davidson, provost of Dundee, and
widow of Thomas M'Culloch of Kindeace.—
\Geneal. of the Mackenzies ; Hist, of the
Munros, 384 ; Scot. Antiquary, xii., 171 ;
P. C. Reg., 3rd ser., ii., 24.]
WILLIAM ROSS, educated at Univ. of
1665 St Andrews J M-A- (13th Mav 1653) >
licen. by Presb. of Forres 14th Nov.
1657 ; adm. in 1665 ; proposed for Auld-
earn in 1671 and Stirling in 1676; died
April 1679, aged about 46. He marr. (cont.
30th June 1660), Isobel, daugh. of Andrew
M'Culloch of Glastullich (she marr. (2)
Hugh Ross, writer, Inverness).
ARTHUR SUTHERLAND, educated
at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A.
(14th July 1674) ; adm. about 1680 ;
died April 1708, aged about 54. He marr.
Janet (died 17th April 1748), daugh. of
Alexander Ross of Easterfearn, and had
issue — John, min. of Tain ; David ;
William, dyer in Ord ; Robert, square-
wright, Tain ; Mary.— [Services of Heirs ;
Reg. of Deeds, Mack., clxxxv., pt. i., 18th
March 1759.]
HECTOR FRASER, licen. by Presb. of
Linlithgow ; ord. to Kincardine 25th
April 1699; called 17th Oct. 1708;
trans, and adm. 4th May 1709 ; died 17th
May 1729. He marr. Margaret Ross (died
1752), widow of John Robertson, min. of
Lairg.
ROBERT ROBERTSON, born 1692, son
of Colin R. of Kindeace and Rebecca,
daugh. of Sir Robert Munro, Bart.,
of Fowlis ; educated at Univ. of Edin
burgh ; M.A. (13th April 1710); licen. by
Presb. of Peebles 16th March 1720 ; ord.
to Loth 10th May 1721 ; trans, and .adm.
29th July 1730; died 18th Dec. 1740.—
[Macdonald's MS. Diary; Douglasses of
Mulderg.]
JOSEPH MUNRO, born 1714, son of
Robert M., min. of Kincardine ; edu
cated at Univ. of St Andrews ; licen.
by Presb. of Haddington 5th March 1739 ;
pres. by George, Earl of Cromartie, 2nd
June 1741, but not ord. till 16th Sept. 1742,
in consequence of a competing call. A con
siderable number of parishioners opposed
to his settlement, seceded and joined a
Secession congregation at Nigg ; died 16th
March 1785. He marr. 20th Nov. 1746,
Barbara (died 17th Aug. 1789, aged 71),
1730
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EDDERTON
[PRESB. OF
daugh. of Walter Boss, D.D., min. of
Tongue, and had issue — Annabella Stewart,
born 16th Nov. 1747 (marr. George Douglas,
min. of Tain); Walter Koss, born 23rd
Oct. 1748 ; Elizabeth, born 26th Oct. 1749 ;
Kobert, born 30th Jan. 1750 ; Joseph Drew,
born 24th Jan. 1752 ; Janet Mary, born
13th May 1753 (marr. Angus Bethune,
min. of Alness) ; Helen Lilias, born 25th
Sept. 1754, died 15th April 1755 ; Barbara
Margaret, born 23rd Feb. 1756 (marr.
John Bethune, min. of Dornoch) ; Matthew
William Charles, born 23rd March 1760.—
[Hist, of the Munros.]
ALEXANDEK MUNKO, born
. Ferintosh, 1756 ; educated at King's
' College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (31st March
1777) ; licen. by Presb. of Dingwall 29th
Sept. 1784 ; pres. by John, Lord Macleod,
in July, and ord. 28th Sept. 1785; died
30th Oct. 1820. He encountered consider
able opposition from the majority of his
parishioners, being inducted without their
concurrence, but a high character for piety,
amiability, and diligence eventually secured
for him their affection and esteem. He
marr. 22nd June 1781, Margaret Cooper,
who died 24th July 1797, and had issue-
Hugh, merchant, Lisbon, born 10th Aug.
1782; Mary: (2) 24th Oct. 1798, Simona
(died 9th Dec. 1834), daugh. of Simon
Mackenzie of Scotsburn, and had issue —
Margaret Mackenzie, born 6th Aug. 1799 ;
John, born 18th Sept. 1804 ; Vere Menzies,
medical practitioner, born 15th Dec. 1806.
Publication — Account of the Parish
(Sinclair's Stat. Ace., xi.).
ALEXANDER CAMERON, born
Ardersier, 1793; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen; M.A. (25th
March 1814) ; app. rector of Tain Academy
llth May 1817 ; licen. by Presb. of Tain
12th Aug. 1818 ; pres. by the Hon. Mrs
Maria Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie ; ord.
13th Sept. 1821 ; died 5th Sept. 1835. He
was an able preacher and much loved by
his parishioners. He marr. 4th Aug. 1819,
Katherine (died Nov. 1843), daugh. of
Robert Irvine, merchant, London, and had
issue — Martha Isabella, born 8th Sept.
1820 (marr. William Cameron, min. of
Lochbroom) ; Isabella, born 16th Nov
1821 ; William, born 3rd June 1823 ; Alex
ander Robert Irvine, born 17th Oct. 1827,
died 24th March 1830.
DONALD GORDON, born Strathaven,
1796; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen ; M.A. (March 1819), and
Univ. of Glasgow ; became schoolmaster
of Farr 14th May 1817 ; licen. by Presb. of
Tongue 28th Nov. 1822 ; ord. (assistant) to
Eddrachilis same day ; trans, to Stoer
2nd Sept. 1829; pres. by the Hon. Mrs
Maria Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie 5th
Dec. 1835 ; trans, and adm. 7th April 1836.
Joined the Free Church in 1843; min. of
Free Church, Edderton, that year; died
30th Aug. 1847. He marr. 24th Sept. 1833,
Donaldina Ross, Scourie, who died 7th
Feb. 1902, and had issue— John, born 20th
Sept. 1834 ; Charles, born llth July 1836 ;
Mary, born 21st Dec. 1837 ; Janet Helen,
born 15th Dec. 1839 ; Donella, born 12th
Feb. 1843.
JOHN CAMERON, born Inverness-
shire, 1799; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen; M.A. (March
1818); licen. by Presb. of Inverness 1st
July 1823; ord. to Stornoway 18th Aug.
1825; trans, and adm. 28th March 1844;
died 30th May 1854. He marr. 26th Oct.
1825, Margaret Bruce, Dumfries, who died
29th Sept. 1888, and had issue — James
Bruce, born 20th Dec. 1827; Margaret
Bruce, born 7th Sept. 1829 (marr. Adam
Smith, Ballarat, Victoria); Emily Mac
kenzie, born 19th Feb. 1832 ; Eliza, born
22nd March 1835; Alexander, born 12th
May 1837 ; Joanna, born 20th April 1839 ;
John William, born 8th July 1841, died 7th
Dec. 1854; Murdo, born 12th Sept. 1845.
Publication — Account of the Parish of
Stornoway (New Stat. Ace., xiv.).
DONALD MACINTOSH, born 1800,
son of Alexander M., farmer, Killear-
nan, and Isabel Noble ; educated at
King's College, Aberdeen, 1817-25 ; ord. by
Presb. of Lochcarron to West River, Pictou,
Nova Scotia, 1833; trans, to Urray 29th
Feb. 1844; trans, and adm. 23rd Nov.
TAIN]
EDDERTON— FEARN
55
1854 ; died 2nd July 1859. He raarr. 10th
April 1839, Jane Lydiard, who died 22nd
Feb. 1896, and had issue — Lydiard, born
3rd May 1840, died 9th April 1849 ; Edward,
engineer, Burmah, born 6th May 1843;
Howard Lydiard, born 15th June 1845 ;
Flora Downie, born 6th Oct. 1846 ; Mary
Charlotte, born 19th July 1848; Lydiard,
born 20th May 1850 ; Charles Downie, born
25th Sept. 1852.— [Gregg's Hist, of the
Presbyterian Church in Canada, 335.]
JAMES MAXWELL JOASS, M.A. ;
adm. from Brae Lochaber Mission
24th Nov. 1859; trans, to Golspie
25th Oct. 1866.
EWEN MACE WEN, born near Loch-
1867
earnhead, 1822, son of John M.,
farmer, and Janet Maclaren; edu
cated at Univ. of St Andrews ; ord.
missionary at Amulree 28th March 1854;
trans, to Kenmore (assistant) Jan. 1862 ;
trans, and adm. 18th April 1867 ; died 14th
June 1889. He marr. Ellen (died at Forres,
19th Jan. 1924, aged 99), daugh. of Owen
Elliot, farmer, and Helen Brydon.
NEIL MACLEOD, ord. 24th Oct. 1889 ;
188g dem. 6th Dec. 1901 [afterwards min.
of Lochranza].
DONALD MACRAE, born Aviemore,
1002 10tn Jan> 1864) son of Donald M-
' and Helen Riddock ; educated at
Raining's School, Inverness, and Univs. of
St Andrews, M.A. (1887), and Aberdeen,
B.D. (1890) ; licen. by Presb. of Dornoch ;
missionary at Ardgour ; ord. to Lairg 29th
Sept. 1890 ; trans, and adm. 18th Feb.
1902; clerk of Presb., 1915-23; died at
Inverness, 5th Sept. 1923. He marr. (1)
15th Jan. 1891, Anne, daugh. of William
Stephen, farmer, Culrain, and Annie
Stephen, and had issue — Donald Alastair,
lieut. 5th Seaforths and Machine Gun
Corps, born 26th Oct. 1891, died of pneu
monia at Tournai, 16th Nov. 1918 ; Ronald
Stephen Bruce, Toronto, born 15th March
1893 ; Colin Frederick, lance-corporal 4th
Seaforths, born 19th Feb. 1895, died at St
Omer, 21st Dec. 1914 ; Charles Eric, lieut.
4th Seaforths and R.A.F., born 16th Feb.
1897, killed in air fight at St Omer, 10th
Nov. 1916 ; James Douglas, wireless tele
graph officer, H.M.S. Salient, born 3rd July
1899 ; William Edwin, born 26th Feb. 1902 ;
Isabel Helen, born 1st June 1903 (marr.
Peter Robertson of Castlecraig, Nigg) : (2)
23rd Nov. 1916, Margaret, daugh. of Dun
can Cameron, banker, Tain, and Barbara
Mathieson. Publications — Notes on the
History of the Parish of Lairg (Wick,
1898) ; Latin Articles in Latin Journals
Vox Urbis and Alma Roma, 1895-1922.
FINLAY McNICOL McKINNON,M.A.;
trans, from Weem (q.v.} and adm.
1924
14th Feb. 1924.
FEARN,
on SGIR NA MANACHAINN
(" The Parish of the Monastery ")
[The parish of Fearn was disjoined from
that of Tarbat in or about 1628, but
the erection of the new parish was not
carried through until 1640. Within the
bounds assigned to it stood the disused
Premonstratensian Abbey of St Ninian at
Fearn, and the Abbey Church was restored
for the use of the parish. The monastery
of Fearn had been first founded in 1227 by
Farquhar, first Earl of Ross, at Fearn in
Edderton. Patrick Hamilton, Abbot of
Fearn, who was burned as a heretic at St
Andrews on 28th Feb. 1527, was Superior
of this monastery. He was not, however, a
monk, but held the Abbey in commendam.
On 10th October 1742, during service,
the church was struck by lightning,
the roof of the ancient Abbey gave way
and fell in upon the worshippers. Forty-
two were killed and many were badly
injured. James Robertson, min. of Loch-
broom, the preacher that day, placed his
shoulder under the lintel of one of the
doors which was giving way, and so helped
to prevent its fall till the greater number of
the people escaped. He was known there
after as An ministear ladair — " the strong
minister." The fine fabric was much
damaged. It has been but partially re
stored. There is a Well of Our Lady at
Fearn.]
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FEARN
1590
GEORGE MUNRO, min. of Fearn and
Tarbat in 1590; trans, to Suddie
about 1594, but still min. in 1616.
THOMAS ROSS, min. of Fearn ; was
recommended in 1630 by Robert
Ross, min. of Alness, as his successor,
but he was not settled there.
WILLIAM ROSS of Shandwick, born
1593, son of Robert R. of Kinloch,
min. of Alness ; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen, 1614; adm. to Kincar
dine before 1624 ; trans, to Nigg 13th April
1633 ; pres. by Presb. of Tain ; trans, and
adm. in 1644 ; suspended and the sentence
approved by the General Assembly in July
1649, but he was still in the charge 3rd
April 1660 ; died at Shandwick 20th April
1663. He marr. (1) Elizabeth, daugh. of
William Campbell of Delnies, Nairn, and
had issue — David, murdered at Invereshie
in 1651 ; Andrew, sixth of Shandwick, died
Oct. 1675 ; Alexander ; Katherine (marr.
Jarues Fraser of Pitcalzean) : (2) (cont.
llth Nov. 1639) Isobel, daugh. of Hector
Douglas of Mulderg (she marr. (2) Andrew
Fraser, portioner of Pitcalzean), and had
issue— Janet, marr. (cont. 7th Nov. 1666)
Donald Ross, Dean of Guild and merchant,
Tain ; Isobel (marr. 1680, Alexander Munro
of Teannaird) ; Elizabeth, marr. (cont. 8th
Dec. 1680) William Ross in Shandwick.—
[Dingwall Presb. Reg. ; Reid's Geneal. of
the
ALEXANDER ROSS of Nether Pit-
167o kerrie, son of Thomas R., min. of
Kincardine ; adm. about 1670 ; died
before 4th Oct. 1700, when his widow had
sasine of part of Pitkerrie. He marr. Janet,
daugh. of George Munro of Pitlundie (she
marr. (2) Duncan Davidson), and had issue
— Alexander of Nether Pitkerrie ; Charles.
DONALD MACLENNAN, son of Allan
1677 M., min. of Glenelg; pres. by John,
Bishop of Ross, and inst. in 1677 ;
had escheat of his father from the King 1st
Aug. 1683 ; died March 1689.
KENNETH MACKENZIE of
Ranitries ; educated at King's Col
lege, Aberdeen; M.A. (4th July
1682); adm. to Kincardine before 21st
Aug. 1686; trans, and adm. in 1689; dep.
for " quarrelling " in 1691 ; was alive in 1701.
He marr. Jean, daugh. of Donald Mac
kenzie of Meddat, and had issue — George ;
Isobel.
HUGH DUFF, born Ross-shire, recom
mended by the General Assembly
18th Jan. 1697 to pass trials before
Presb. of Dalkeith by which he was licen.
13th July that year; sent north by the
Assembly to supply vacant churches ; called
in May, and ord. 29th Dec. 1698 ; died 3rd
July 1739. "He displayed great energy and
zeal in the discharge of his duties." He
marr., and had issue — William, Professor
of Philosophy, Marischal College, Aberdeen,
1727-38 ; Hugh, farmer, Fearn.
DONALD ROSS, born 1692 ; licen. by
1742
Presb. of St Andrews 24th Oct. 1730 ;
ord. to Lochbroom llth Aug. 1731 ;
trans, and adm. 27th March 1742. He was
seriously injured by the falling of the
Abbey roof (see above) but recovered ; died
2nd Sept. 1775. He marr. 6th Oct. 1733,
Elizabeth Ross of Glend field, who died in
1783, and had issue— Ann, born 27th July
1734 (marr. John Sutherland, min. of
Tain).
JOHN URQUHART of Mounteagle;
17?1 educated at Marischal College, Aber
deen ; pres. by George III. in April,
and ord. (assistant and successor) 12th June
1771 ; died 27th Sept. 1800. He marr. 2nd
Jan. 1779, Katherine (died 24th Feb. 1836),
daugh. of Alexander Houston, provost of
Fortrose, and had issue — John, born llth
May 1783 ; Alexander, born 21st May 1784 ;
Janet, born 14th July 1785, died 26th June
1816; Elizabeth Baillie, born 10th July
1786; Mary, born 28th June 1787;
Katherine, born 16th June 1788; George
Roderick, lieut. 33rd Foot, born 26th May
1790; Charles Farquharson, major 54th
Bengal Light Infantry, born 10th Aug.
1792, died 17th Feb, 1856; Alexandrina
Sophia, born 8th Sept. 1793; Christina,
born 27th Sept. 1794, died 24th Nov. 1854 ;
Joan, born 14th July 1798. Publication-
Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat.
Ace., iv.).
TAIN]
FEARN
57
WILLIAM SIMPSON, born Ross-shire
1802 ab°ut 1>761 ; educated at King's
' College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (27th March
1783); licen. by Presb. of Chanonry 4th May
1784; assistant at Kilmuir - Wester ; ord.
missionary at Kincardine and Creich 23rd
Nov. 1790 ; trans, to Gaelic Chapel, Paisley,
in 1796 ; pres. by George III. Dec. 1800, but
owing to opposition to his settlement not
admitted till 7th July 1802 ; died 17th Aug.
1808. He marr. 17th Sept. 1798, Katherine
(died 4th Sept. 1801), daugh. of Alexander
Baillie of Little Tarrel, and had issue—
Katherine, born 4th Aug. 1800 (marr. Lewis
Rose, min. of Tain) ; Jean, born 2nd Sept.
1801.
HUGH ROSS, born 1760, son of Robert
R. in Tarbat ; educated at Marischal
College, Aberdeen; M.A. (28th March
1782); licen. by Presb. of Tain 22nd May
1788; ord. missionary at Fort Augustus
July 1799; trans, to Gaelic Chapel, Cromarty,
13th April 1800 ; pres. by George III. 24th
Aug. 1808 ; trans, and adm. 13th April
1809. A determined spirit of opposition
followed his ministry throughout, the great
bulk of his parishioners refusing to accept
his services. He died 30th April 1844. He
marr. 6th Feb. 1818, Ann (died 4th Aug.
1846), daugh. of Hugh Ross of Tarlogie,
and had issue — Catherine, born 3rd Nov.
1821 (marr. Hugh Macleod, min. of Logie-
Easter). Publications— Accounts of Evie
and of Fearn [with William Mackenzie,
min. of Tongue] (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., iii. ;
New Stat. Ace., xiv.).
DONALD MACKINNON, pres. by
Queen Victoria 20th Oct. 1844 ; ord.
' 7th Aug. 1845 ; trans, to Strath 12th
Aug. 1856.
DONALD FRASER, born 1822, son of
James F., teacher, and Sarah Scott ;
educated at King's College, Aber
deen; app. missionary at Glengarry in
1855; pres. by Queen Victoria 5th Nov.
1856 ; adm. 12th March 1857 ; died 4th
Feb. 1869. He marr. 7th June 1857, Sophia
(died 2nd Feb. 1900), daugh. of George
Gillanders, Inspector of Poor, and Sophia
M'Kid, and had issue— James Alexander,
born 29th Dec. 1864.
HUGH FRASER, born 1835, son of
Thomas F., caretaker of the Bridge
of Oich, and Jessie Robertson ; edu
cated at King's College, Aberdeen ; ord. in
1860 ; adm. to Berriedale 31st March 1864 ;
pres. by Queen Victoria 1st June, trans, and
adm. 23rd Sept. 1869; died 22nd Nov.
1894. He marr. 15th June 1865, Mary
M'Nab (died 29th Oct. 1912), daugh. of
Hugh M'Calman, min. of Latheron, and
had issue — Hugh, born 2nd Aug. 1866;
Alexander M'Calman, born 27th Nov.
1867; Ursula Gilmour, born 1st April
1869; Janet Isabella, born 29th June
1871 ; Julia Gilmour, born 9th Aug. 1872 ;
John M'Calman, born 26th April 1874;
Andrew Robertson, born 6th Oct. 1879.
CHARLES ROBERTSON, born Kirk-
michael, Perthshire, 1st July 1856,
' son of Charles R., and Jane Robert
son ; educated at Kirkmichael and Black
burn schools and Univ. of Edinburgh ;
M.A. (1874), B.D. (1884) ; was for sometime
a teacher ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh,
April 1884; assistant at St Andrew's Church,
Buenos Aires, and at Govan ; missionary
at Winchburgh llth July 1886 to Dec.
1888 ; ord. to Assynt 3rd Jan. 1889 ; trans,
and adm. 5th Nov. 1895; died 15th Jan.
1925. He took an active interest in edu
cational affairs and was chairman of County
Education Authority. He marr. 17th June
1915, Agnes Shaw Cameron, s.p., daugh. of
Finlay Munro of Rockfield and Elizabeth
Durie.
JACKSON LOUDON M'FADDEN,
born llth Nov. 1890, son of Jackson
' M., min. of Badony Presbyterian
Church, Newton Stewart, Ireland; edu
cated at Royal Academical Institution,
Belfast; Trinity College, Dublin; B.A.
(1912), M.A. (1919) and Univ. of St
Andrews ; licen. by Presb. of Perth in 1917 ;
assistant at St Michael's, Dumfries, and
Greenside, Edinburgh ; ord. to Kirkmaiden
7th April 1921; trans, and adm. 2nd
June 1925.
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KILMUIR-EASTER
[PRESB. OF
1585
KILMUIR-EASTER.
[The church of this parish was dedicated
to St Mary. There was a. prebend of Kil-
muir in the Chapter of Fortrose Cathedral.
At Delny in the parish there was a chapel
of St Mary. At Balnagowan also there
was a chapel.]
1560 GEORGE DUNBAE, vicar in 1560.
WILLIAM ROSS, pres. by James VI. in
1S^ 1569, dem. in 1575. — [Orig. Paroch.
Scot., ii., 459.]
1572 DONALD REID, reader in 1572.
NEIL MUNRO, reader in 1574; pres.
1576 by James VI. in 1575 ; dep. in 1585
for non-residence and not serving
the cure.— [Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 459.]
JOHN MUNRO of Pitlundie, pres. by
James VI. in 1585. He marr.
Finguala, daugh. of Alexander Ross
of Cuilich, and had issue— Hugh ; Alex
ander; John, min. of Reay : David, rain,
of Latheron ; Hector of Nonikill.
JOHN ROSS of Little Tarrel, trans.
158g from Logie-Easter ; was a member
of Assembly 10th May 1 586 ; returned
to Logie-Easter before 1604.
ALEXANDER HOSSACK, adin. before
1618 1618 ; still min. in 1639. He marr.
Isobel Ross, and had issue— William;
David. — [Orig. Charter Antiq. Museum ;
Reg. of Deeds ( Warrants') 6th Jan. 1647 ;
Scot. Antiquary, v., 156.]
JAMES MACCULLOCH, educated at
1658 Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A. (1628) ;
adm. before 15th Dec. 1653; still min.
25th Jan. 1671.— [Logie-Easter Sess. Record.]
WILLIAM DENOON, min. 5th May
1684 1684' w^en ke witnessed a deed at
Tarbat by Sir George Mackenzie,
afterwards Earl of Cromartie.
DONALD FORBES, educated at King's
1687 College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (llth July
1676) ; passed trials before the Presb.
of Dingwall and had a testimonial for licence
6th April 1686; adm. about 1687; dep. by
the Presb., June 1700, for immorality,
sabbath-breaking "to a most scandalous
degree," and other misdemeanours, which
sentence was confirmed by the Commission
of Assembly at Tain 19th July 1700. He
appears as a bailie in a sasine, July 1702.
DANIEL M'KILLICAN, called 21st
1701 Julv> an<* ord- 25tn Sept. 1701.
Owing to differences with his .heritors
as to the temporalities, he accepted a call
to Alness, and was admitted there 24th
Sept. 1714.
WALTER ROSS, born 1678, son of
1715 Alexander R. of Torranlish, sheriff-
clerk of Ross ; educated at Maris-
chal College, Aberdeen ; licen. by Presb. of
Aberdeen 14th Dec. 1714 ; called by the
Presb. jure devoluto 29th March, and ord.
15th Sept. 1715 ; died 29th Dec. 1733. He
found the parish in a rude and unruly state,
but by a severe discipline and his own firm
example he reduced it in a large degree to
order and decorum. He marr. 14th Aug.
1726, Catherine, daugh. of James Wilson,
Edinburgh (she marr. (2) Daniel Bethune,
min. of Rosskeen.— [Scot. Antiquary, iv.,
1733.]
JOHN PORTEOUS, born Inverness,
1704, said to be a relative of Beilby P.,
Bishop of London, and a grandson
of one of Cromwell's English soldiers who
settled in Inverness, and brother of William
P., min. of Rafford ; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen; M.A. (29th March
1720); licen. by Presb. of Elgin 24th Oct.
1727 ; pres. to Daviot and Dunlichity in
1729, but when he went to preach his trial
sermon at Dunlichity he was stoned and
driven out of the parish by a band of
women ; called 8th Aug., and adm. 27th
Nov. 1734 ; he was compelled to reside at
Halmadary in Kildonan owing to his
Hanoverian sympathies, during the rebel
lion of 1745-6; died 7th Jan. 1775. He
was eminently popular, was reckoned a
preacher of great eloquence and power and
a man of deep piety. His personal appear
ance was striking, unusually tall and erect
in his figure, light in his step, he was very
unlike the picture a southron would be dis
posed to draw of the highland ministers of
that period. He marr. Jane Innes, who died
llth Dec. , aged ^.—[The Days of the
Fathers in Ross-shire (1895), 39-45 ; Tombst.]
TAIN]
KILMUIR-EASTER
59
1814
JOHN MATHESON, born Strathpeffer,
1 747 ; became schoolmaster of the
1 parish ; licen. by Presb. of Tain 9th
Aug. 1769; ord. missionary at Kincardine
and Creich 2nd Oct. 1771 ; pres. by
George III. in May, and adm. 22nd Sept.
1775 ; died 19th April 1814. He marr.
20th Aug. 1778, Anne (died 12th June 1823),
daugh. of John Montgomery, merchant in
Milntown, and had issue— Margaret, born
4th Jan. 1785; Charles Koss, min. of this
parish ; Anne Helen, born 13th Dec. 1790 ;
Joanna, born 22nd Feb., died 28th Sept.
1793; John, born 8th March 1794; David,
born 1st June 1795 ; Magdalene, born 23rd
Feb. 1798. Publication — Account of the
Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., vi.).
CHARLES BOSS MATHESON, born
22nd Sept. 1786, son of preceding;
educated at King's College, Aberdeen;
M.A. (30th March 1804); licen. by Presb.
of Tain 18th May 1809 ; ord. (assistant) here
5th Feb. 1812; adm. to Gaelic and English
Chapel, Edinburgh, 29th July 1813; pres.
by the Hon. Maria Hay Mackenzie of
Cromartie in July, trans, and adm. 22nd
Sept. 1814. Joined the Free Church in
1843 ; min. of Free Church, Kilmuir,
1843-66; died 14th May 1866. He marr.
19th Aug. 1817, Caroline (died 22nd Aug.
1830), daugh. of Colin Shaw of Culblair,
and had issue— Jean, born 6th June 1818;
John, rain, of Free Church, Forgue and
at Hampstead, London, born 3rd Sept. 1819,
died 1893; Colin Shaw, born 13th March
1821 ; Charles Shaw, born 19th Sept. 1822,
died 2nd June 1825 ; William Francis, born
25th Feb. 1824 ; Edward Hay Mackenzie,
banker, Tain, born 19th Oct. 1825 ; Anne
Montgomerie, born 2nd Feb. 1827 (marr.
Hector Fraser, min. of Free Church,
Halkirk) ; George, born 16th Aug. 1829.
DANIEL MACBPJDE, adm. 21st Sept.
1843. He marr. 18th Sept. 1845,
Anna, daugh. of Donald Stewart,
Balure, Argyllshire (c/. Vol. IV., 159);
trans, to Little Dunkeld 27th Feb. 1851.
WILLIAM MACPHERSON, born 1822,
1851 S°n °f JameS M"> farmer> Kirk'
michael, Banff, and Penuel Grant ;
educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A.
1843
(March 1845); ord. llth Sept. 1851; died
1st Jan. 1866. He marr. 5th June 1854,
Catherine (died llth July 1904), daugh. of
John Duncan, solicitor, London, and grand-
daugh. of Captain David Ross of Milncraig
and Shandwick, and had issue — Sir Duncan
James, C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, born
14th May 1855 ; John Ross, born 15th Aug.
1856, died -- ; Major-General Sir William
Grant, Deputy Director General, Medical
Staff, European War, K.C.M.G.,C.B.,LL.D.,
editor of The Official Medical History of the
War, author of other works on military
medical subjects, born 27th Jan. 1858, died
15th Oct. 1927 ; Charles Edward Walker,
C.A., Collector of Ministers' Widows' Fund,
born 19th April 1860 ; Katherine Penuel,
born 26th May 1863.
DONALD STUART, born Cromdale,
1840, son of Robert S., educated at
' Univ. of Aberdeen; M.A. (1861);
licen. by Presb. of Abernethy; pres. by
Duchess of Sutherland ; ord. 20th Sept.
1866 ; dem. 25th Jan. 1900 ; died 7th Jan.
1914. He marr. 6th April 1869, Elizabeth
(died 2nd July 1916), youngest daugh. of
James Macdonald, Aberdeen, and had issue —
William Laing,born 16th June 1871 ; Robert
James, born 13th Aug. 1872 ; Elizabeth Jane,
born 12th June 1874, died 26th July 1875 ;
John Macdonald, born 19th May 1877.
HENRY REID CHALMERS, trans.
1900 ; trans, to Duffus 4th Jan. 1907.
DUGALD M'CALLUM, M.A., ord. 14th
May 1907; trans, to First Charge,
Campbeltown, 13th Feb. 1914.
JOHN CAMPBELL McNAUGHT,
born Glasgow, 29th Jan. 1871, son of
James M., D.D., min. of Abbotsford,
Glasgow ; educated at High School and
Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A. (1892), B.D. (1895) ;
licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 6th Nov. 1895 ;
missionary at Brae Lochaber, Ford of
Lochawe, and Kiltinan ; ord. to Kinloch-
luichart 19th Jan. 1905 ; trans, and adm.
21st July 1914. Publication— The Celtic
Church and the See of Peter (Oxford,
1927.)
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KINCARDINE
[PRESB. OP
KINCARDINE.
[The church of Kincardine was dedicated
to St Columba. In the Chapter of Fortrose
Cathedral there was a prebend of Kin
cardine. Within the bounds was a Well
of St Mary.]
FARQUHAR REID, exhorter in
1567 1567.
ALEXANDER LESLIE, pres. to the
1578 vicarage before 1566 by Queen Mary ;
became parson before 1573.— [Orig.
Paroch. Scot., ii., 411; M 'Gill's Old fioss-
shire, 20.]
HUGH ROSS, reader at Rosskeen in
15?8 1576; adm. in 1578; still min. in
1607.
JAMES ROSS, adm. in 1616.— [Orig.
1616 Charter Soc. of Antiq.]
WILLIAM ROSS, adm. before 1624;
1624 trans, to Nigg 18th April 1633.
HECTOR MUNRO, educated at Univ.
1634 °^ Glasgow ; adm. in 1634 ; was a
member of Assembly in 1638 ; dep.
for malignancy in 1651. In 1652 he received
help for himself and "his poore indigent
familie" from the stipend of Lochbroom ;
re-adm. in 1662; died 18th March 1670,
aged about 59.
THOMAS ROSS of Nether Pitkerrie,
1655 born about 1614, son of George R.
of Nether Pitkerrie ; adm. before
28th Aug. 1655; deprived by Act of
Parliament and Decreet of Privy Council
1st Oct. 1662, and went to Tain, where he
made himself useful in the work of the
Gospel. He was in Moray in 1669 where
he was accused of keeping conventicles,
and was imprisoned in 1675 in the Tolbooth
of Nairn. In 1676 he was removed to the
prison of Tain and confined till 9th Oct.
1677, when he was liberated on finding
caution for 2000 merks to appear when
called upon. He died in his own house in
Tain 13th Jan. 1679. James Fraser of
Brea dedicated his Memoirs to him as a
"singularly pious minister." He marr.
Lilias Dunbar, and had issue — Alexander
of Nether Pitkerrie, min. of Fearn ; George,
min. of this parish. — [Wodrow's Hist.,'\. 324,
iii. 437 ; The Bass Rock, 97, 105 ; Brodie's
Diary ; Crichton's Life of Blackader ;
Memoirs of Mrs Boss, 33.]
HECTOR MUNRO, above men-
1662 tioned.
GEORGE ROSS, son of Thomas R.,
1fil71 min. of this parish ; educated at
King's College, Aberdeen; MA.
(19th July 1666) ; adm. about 1671 ; died
Feb. 1683, aged about 47. He marr.
Katherine Ross, and had issue — David,
min. of Tarbat. — [Scot. Antiquary, iv., 105.]
KENNETH MACKENZIE, MA. ; adm.
1686 kef°re 21st Aug. 1686 ; trans, to
Fearn in 1689.
WALTER ROSS, born Ross-shire about
16 1657 ; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen; MA. (13th July 1675);
adm. before the Revolution. Refusing to
take the Oath of Allegiance, he dem. 26th
Sept. 1695. He was summoned by the
Presb., 28th July 1700, for intrusion and
baptising irregularly ; died before 12th
April 1705. He marr. Ellen (died before
1704), daugh. of William Munro of
Culcraggie, and had fourteen children,
for whom charitable contributions were
recommended in the Synods of Lothian
and Tweeddale, Glasgow and Ayr, and
Fife, by the General Assembly, 30th March
1704.— [Scot. Antiquary, v., 156.]
HECTOR FRASER, ord. 25th April
1699; trans, to Edderton 4th May
1709.
ROBERT MUNRO, third son of George
1711 ^'' sheriff-depute and commissary
of Ross, and brother of Hugh M.,
min. of Tain ; educated at Univ. of St
Andrews ; recommended by the Assembly,
13th April 1706, to the Synod of Fife for a
bursary ; Keen, by the Presb. of Tain
1st Dec. 1708 ; called 31st Oct. 1709, but
(from difficulties regarding a sufficient
stipend) not ord. till 29th March 1711;
died 10th Feb. 1741. He marr. Janet
(died 5th Jan. 1771), daugh. of Robert
Pirrie, merchant, Glasgow, and had issue
— Joseph, min. of Edderton ; William,
student at Edinburgh Univ.
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DAVID ROSS, born about 1711, nephew
of David R., min. of Tarbat ; educated
at Marischal College, Aberdeen ; had
a bursary from the Synod of Fife 26th Sept.
1728 ; was schoolmaster at Nigg and Tarbat ;
licen. by the Presb. of Tain 2nd July 1740;
pres. by George, Earl of Cromartie, 6th Aug.
1741 ; ord. 7th April 1742 ; died llth May
that year, having survived his ordination
four weeks.
GILBERT ROBERTSON, born 15th
1742 Sept. 1>702> son °f George R., farmer,
Balconie, Kiltearn, and grandson of
Gilbert R. of Kindeace ; became tutor to
Sir Harry Munro of Fowlis, whom he
accompanied to the academy of Dr Philip
Doddridge at Northampton, under whom
he studied theology ; licen. by the classis
of Presbyterian dissenters in that place
22nd Aug. 1737; ord. 7th June 1739;
called to Dingwall by the Presb. jure
devoluto in 1740, but the Commission of
Assembly reversed the appointment ; called
to Edderton in 1741, but the Synod
preferred another, 7th April 1742. On a
petition by the whole parish, he was pres.
by George, Earl of Cromartie, 10th July,
and adm. 31st Aug. 1742 ; called to
Tarbat in 1750, which was not sustained.
He was obliged to leave his parish in the
spring of 1746 on account of the number
of Jacobites encamping near his manse.
To disguise himself he donned the
Highland garb, and during this period
preached under cover of the high broom
then growing in profusion between Ardgay
and Bonar Bridge. He died at Creich
Manse 17th March 1774, "one of the
most faithful of Highland ministers." He
marr. 13th Oct. 1747, Christian (died 12th
Sept. 1767), daugh. of John Bayne, min.
of Dingwall, and had issue— Harry, min. of
Kiltearn, born 2nd Nov. 1748 ; Anne, born
2nd March 1750 (marr. 12th Nov. 1772,
George Rainy, min. of Creich) ; John, born
24th Nov. 1751, died in Tobago ; George,
born 16th Nov. 1756, died in Demerara 1799.
ANDREW GALLIE, born Tarbat about
.,_,_. 1730 ; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen; M.A. (3rd April 1750);
licen. by Presb. of Tain 28th Nov. 1753;
ord. missionary at Fort Augustus 27th July
1756; trans, to Laggan 6th Sept. 1758;
pres. by George III. in Aug., trans, and
adm. llth Sept. 1774; died 15th May
1803. He was an intimate friend of James
Macpherson and his defender during the
Ossian Controversy. lie marr. 19th Jan.
1760, Christian, daugh. of Thomas Ross of
Calrossie, and had issue— Isobel, born 27th
July 1762 (marr. James Ross, merchant,
Tain), died in London 7th July 1845 ;
Katherine, born 24th April 1766 ; Barbara,
born 24th Dec. 1767 ; Alexandrina, born
1st June 1769 (marr. Donald Mackenzie,
officer of Excise, (Panbride) ; Gordon, born
25th Nov. 1770; Elizabeth, born 25th April
1772; Helen, born 26th March 1775; John
Lockhart, born llth Jan. 1781 ; Alexander,
born 10th Oct. 1783. Publication — Account
of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., iii.).
ALEXANDER MACBEAN, born
18Q4 Inverness, 1774, son of Alexander
M. ; educated at Marischal College,
Aberdeen, 1790-4; was schoolmaster at
Fearn and Cromarty ; licen. by Presb.
of Chanonry 1st Oct. 1799; pres. by the
Hon. Maria Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie
May 1803 ; ord. 25th April 1804 ; died 21st
Aug. 1820. He marr. (1) Margaret Ross,
who died 23rd Nov. 1816, and had issue —
William, writer, Edinburgh, born 9th July
1794 ; Charles Munro, born llth June 1797,
went to South America : (2) 8th May 1817.
Helen (marr. (2) 2nd Aug. 1822), daugh. of
William Murray, banker, Tain, and had
issue — Alexander, born 4th March 1818;
Christina, born 28th Feb. 1819 ; Margaret,
born 14th Aug. 1820.
HECTOR ALLAN, born Alness, 1790,
son of Donald A., land steward to
Sir Hector Munro of Novar; edu
cated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A.
(30th March 1810) ; ord. missionary at Fort
William 15th June 1819; pres. by the Hon.
Maria Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie in Feb.,
trans, and adm. 12th April 1821. Joined
the Free Church in 1843; min. of Free
Church, Kincardine, 1843-53; died 9th Dec.
1853. He marr. 8th Aug. 1821, Catherine
(died 13th Jan. 1836), daugh. of Alexander
Stewart, D.D., min. of the Canongate,
1821
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KING ARDINE— LOGIE-E A STER
[PRESB. OF
1843
Edinburgh, and had issue — Alexander
Stewart, major-general H.E.I.C.S., author
of Statistical Accounts of Kincardine and
Edderton, born 19th Aug. 1822 ; Catherine
Louisa, born 24th Dec. 1835.
LEWIS ROSE, trans, from Gaelic
Chapel, Duke Street, Glasgow, and
adm. 20th Sept. 1843 ; trans, to Tain
llth April 1844.
DONALD M'INTYRE, born 1814, third
son of John M., farmer, Kilmalie ;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; ord.
missionary in Lochaber in 1839 ; assistant
at Creich ; adm. here 28th Aug. 1844 ; died
21st Dec. 1869. He marr. 28th Nov. 1844,
Catherine (died 7th Oct. 1873), daugh. of
Alexander Clark, C.E., Corpach, Fort
William, and had issue — Catherine Mar
garet, born 20th June 1846 ; John Dugald,
born 6th May 1848 ; Alexander Clark, born
26th Oct. 1851 ; Jessie Macdonald, born 25th
June 1853; Donald Archibald, born 24th Feb.
1855 ; Thomas Clark, born 10th July 1857.
ALEXANDER MACLEOD, born
Gildermory, Alness, 22nd April 1829,
} son of Roderick M. and Catherine
Macdonald ; educated at Kincardine Parish
School and Univ. of Glasgow ; became tutor
in the family of Norman Macleod, D.D. ;
Keen, by Presb. of Glasgow in 1866 ; assist
ant at Monkton and Newton-upon-Ayr, and
missionary at St John's, Perth ; pres. by
Anne, Duchess of Sutherland ; ord. 28th
Aug. 1870 ; died 16th Jan. 1920. He marr.
5th Oct. 1876, Margaret (died 17th June
1919), daugh. of John Mitchell and Christian
Walker, and had issue — John Roderick,
private London Scottish, born llth May
1881, killed in action at Bullecourt, France,
29th Aug. 1918 ; Ada Catherine, born 13th
Dec. 1885.
HUGH FRASER M'NEILL, born
19ig Tongue, Sutherland, 15th Dec. 1861,
son of Archibald M., schoolmaster,
and Mary Fraser; educated at Tongue
School and Univs. of St Andrews and
Aberdeen ; licen. by Presb. of Inverness in
1890 j assistant at Stroma, Canisbay, and
Blair Atholl ; ord. to Foss 28th June 1899 ;
trans, and adm. (assistant and successor)
17th Dec. 1919.
LOGIE-EASTER.
[In the Chapter of Fortrose Cathedral
there was a prebend of Logie-Easter.]
1560 SIR THOMAS HAY, rector in 1560.
SIR DONALD REID, vicar before the
15?2 Reformation ; conformed and was
reader 1572 to 1586.
JOHN ROSS of Little Tarrel, son of
1581 Alexander R. of Little Tarrel and
Sarah, daugh. of Thomas Ross of
Greenhill ; was min. of Kilmuir- Wester in
1573; trans, to Tain in 1580; pres. by
James VI. 25th April 1581. He was
appointed by the General Assembly in that
month as one " who best knew the bounds
of the country" for selecting the number
of Presbyteries, with the kirks of each, for
Ross ; was trans, to Kilmuir- Wester before
1585, but returned here about 1589, and
was appointed by the Assembly in 1606
constant Moderator of the Presbytery, who
were charged by the Privy Council, 17th
Jan. 1607, to receive him as such within
twenty-four hours after notice under pain
of rebellion; died 22nd Oct. 1616. He
marr. Christian, daugh. of Hugh Monro of
Assynt in Easter Ross, and had issue-
Hugh, fourth of Little Tarrel, served heir
21st Jan. 1617; Marion (marr. David
Munro of Allan) ; David ; Alexander, first
of Pitkerrie, died 1st Feb. 1649; George
of Nether Pitkerrie; Nicolas, burgess of
Tain; William.— [Booke of the Kirk; Feme
MSS. ; Inq. Ret. Ross, 46 ; Orig. Paroch.
Scot., ii., 466.]
DAVID ROSS, born about 1591, son of
1624 R°kert R-> nain. of Alness ; educated
at Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (27th
July 1609) ; called min. in 1624 ; signed a
charter of the Bishop of Ross, 6th Feb.
1633, as min. of Logie; was a member of
Assembly in 1639, and still in the charge
28th Aug. 1655. He marr. (1) before 1638,
Margaret Morrison, and had issue— Robert,
min. of Tain; Andrew; Margaret (marr.
John Munro of Logie); Ellen (marr.
William Munro of Culcraggie) : (2) (cont.
18th April 1655), Janet, daugh. of Andrew
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LOGIE-EASTER
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Munro of Lemlair, and widow of Alexander
Boss of Pitkerrie.— [Reid's Geneal. of the
Rosses ; Hist, of the Munros, 485 ; Reg.
Ma</. Sig., ix., 1943.]
A. DUNDAS, adm. before 8th Feb.
1630; still min. in 1634.— [Charter
1680 ly David, Bishop of Ross, at Kil-
learnan ; Orig. Charter Antiq. Museum.]
KENNETH MACKENZIE, brother of
j^- David M. of Meddat ; pres. by Sir
George Mackenzie of Tarbat, and
adm. 19th Feb. 1665. He had an adjudica
tion of the lands of Dunskeath and Cubine,
26th March 1680, and his name appears on
the list of heritors in Ross in 1685 as of
Little Reynie. He sought admission to
the Presbyterian Church in 1708, but was
found unqualified by a committee appointed
to examine him; died 20th March 1715.
He marr. Katherine Douglas, and had
issue — John, farmer, Achoylie, Kilmuir-
Easter [father of William M., min. of
Tongue] ; Daniel, min. of Third Charge,
Inverness ; George. - — [Inverness Sas., vi.
481, vii. 94.]
JOHN BALFOUR, called by the Presb.
1716 Jure aevo^uto 13th Sept., and adm.
27th Nov. 1716 ; trans, to Nigg 26th
March 1729.
JOHN M'ARTHUR, licen. by Presb. of
1730 ^nanonry 16tn Dec. 1718; ord. to
Killearnan 26th March 1719 ; pres.
by George, Lord Tarbat, Sept. 1729, and
by the Presb. jure devoluto 14th Jan., trans.
and adm. 25th March 1730; died 23rd
March 1744. He marr. Katherine (died
3rd Jan. 1785), daugh. of John Fraser of
Pitcalzean, min. of Alness. After her
husband's death she resided at Pitcalzean.
PATRICK GRANT, educated at King's
1744 College, Aberdeen, 1728-32 ; licen.
by Presb. of Abertarff 12th April
1738 ; ord. missionary at Fort Augustus
and Glenmoriston 1st Aug. 1739 ; pres. by
George, Earl of Cromartie, 3rd July, and
adm. 25th Sept. 1744 ; died 19th July
1778. He marr. 30th Oct. 1746, Anne
(died 3rd Sept. 1799), daugh. of Colonel
Lewis Grant, fifth son of Ludovic Grant
of Grant, and had issue — Margaret, born
17th Sept. 1747 (marr. William Mac
kenzie, min. of Assynt) ; Anne, born 25th
Sept. 1748; Ludovic, born 3rd Dec. 1749,
died 24th April 1750 ; Christina, born 12th
Jan. 1750, died 27th March 1751 ; Christina,
born 18th Feb., died 26th May 1752;
James, born 20th Aug. 1753 ; John, born
6th Jan. 1755 ; Marion, born 24th Sept.
1761 (marr. George Goldie, Cromarty).
JOHN ROSS, pres. by George III. in
77 March, and adm. 22nd Sept. 1779;
trans, to Rosskeen 16th June 1813.
NEIL KENNEDY, born Sept. 1778,
son of Donald K., farmer, Kishorn,
Lochcarron, and Mary Matheson, and
brother of John K., min. of Killearnan ;
educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen,
1793-7 ; became tutor in the family of Mac
kenzie of Dundonnell, and schoolmaster
of Contin ; licen. by Presb. of Lochcarron
23rd Dec. 1800; ord. by Presb. of Ding-
wall as missionary at Strathconan 23rd
Dec. 1801 ; adm. min. of Gaelic Chapel,
Aberdeen, 20th Dec. 1804 ; locum tenens
at Killearnan in 1811 ; pres. by the Hon.
Maria Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie in
July, and adm. 19th Aug. 1813; died 29th
April 1836. He was one of the best known
ministers in the North, a man of great
pulpit power and apostolic zeal. He marr.
15th July 1806, Anne (died 17th June
1832), daugh. of John Downie, min. of
Urray, and had issue — Charles Downie,
born 19th May 1807, died 10th Oct. 1814 ;
Donald, born 16th May 1808, min. of this
parish ; Elizabeth Forbes, born 1st Nov.
1809 (marr. John Noble, min. of Fodderty) ;
John Downie, missionary at Rosehall,
1834-43, and min. of the Free Church
there (father of Neil John Downie K.,
K.C., LL.D., Lord K., chairman of the
Scottish Land Court), born 7th Jan. 1811,
died 1873; George, born 20th July 1812;
Mary (twin), born 20th July 1812 ; Charlotte
Downie, born 4th April 1814 ; Cnarles
Downie, born 23rd Aug. 1815, died 10th
May 1816 ; Anne Isabella, bora 16th Dec.
1817. Publication— Account of the Parish
{New Stat. Ace., xiv.).
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LOGIE-EASTER
[PRESB. OF
DONALD KENNEDY, born 16th May
1836 1808) son °^ Preceding; educated
at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A.
(March 1825); licen. by Presb. of Tain
2nd Sept. 1829; ord. to Helmsdale in
1835 ; pres. by the Hon. Maria Hay
Mackenzie of Cromartie in July, and
adm. 22nd Sept. 1836; dep. 30th Nov.
1836, for an alleged " heinous crime
committed with his sister," of which
he was afterwards found to be inno
cent. He went to America and died in
1840.
HUGH MACLEOD, born Tongue, 23rd
1839 April 1803; educated at Tongue
School and King's College, Aber
deen ; M.A. (3rd March 1826) ; app. school
master of Tongue in 1827 ; licen. by Presb.
there 30th Nov. 1831 ; ord. missionary at
Melness and Eriboll 28th Nov. 1833 ; adm.
to Gaelic Chapel, Edinburgh, 10th Nov.
1837 ; trans, and adm. 19th Sept. 1839.
Joined the Free Church in 1843; min, of
Free Chxirch, Logie-Easter, 1843-50; visited
Canada in 1845 and 1848, as deputy of
the Free Church, chiefly to the highland
settlers in the Eastern Province; adm.
min. of Free Church, Mira Ferry (now
Albert Bridge), Cape Breton, 2nd Oct.
1850; D.D. (1857); Moderator of the
Presbyterian Church of Canada in 1877;
died 23rd Jan. 1894. His congregation
covered half the county of Cape Breton,
and he did more for the advancement of
his people, spiritually and materially,
than anyone who could be named in the
whole history of the Canadian Church.
He marr. 6th April 1841, Catherine, daugh.
of Hugh Ross, min. of Fearn, and had issue
—Hugh, born 18th Nov. 1842 ; Barbara,
born 19th Oct. 1844, died 30th June 1847 ;
George, born 5th Oct. 1846 ; Anne, born
10th Nov. 1849 ; Barbara, born at Sydney,
Cape Breton, 21st Oct. 1851; William
Mackenzie, born 4th July 1854 ; Anne,
born 10th May 1857 ; Catherine, born 6th
Jan. I860.— [Murray's Hist, of the Presby
terian Church in Cape Breton (portrait),
68-70; The Presbyterian Witness, 27th
Jan. 1894.]
ALEXANDER MACKENZIE, born
1843 1809> son of Alexander M., farmer,
and Margaret Morrison ; educated
at King's College, Aberdeen ; licen. by
Presb. of Tain ; pres. by the Hon. John
Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie ; ord. 21st
Sept. 1843; M.A. (King's College, Aber
deen, 1859) ; died 7th June 1880. He marr.
2nd March 1852, Helen (died 30th May
1891), daugh. of Andrew Scott, Kildary,
factor on the Cromartie estates, and had
issue — Alexander William (M.A.) 1874,
M.B., C.M. (1876), lieut.-colonel I.M.S.
(Bengal), born 23rd Oct. 1853; Helen
Graham, born 6th Feb. 1856; Andrew,
born 2nd June 1857 ; Mary, born 13th June
1859 ; John Hay, born 2nd June 1860 ;
George, born 27th Oct. 1862.
ARCHIBALD MACDONALD, trans.
1881 ^rom Stornoway and adm. 4th
March 1881 ; trans, to Gaelic parish,
Greenock, 19th Nov. 1885.
JAMES MUNRO, son of Alexander M.,
1886 sh°emaker, and Isabella Mackie;
educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ;
M.A. (1880) ; ord. missionary at Glen-
moriston in 1883 ; trans, and adm. 19th
April 1886; died 9th Sept. 1915. He
marr. 10th April 1895, Christina (died at
Inverness, 8th Dec. 1924), eldest daugh.
of George Millie, St Mary's, Cupar, Fife,
and had issue — Alexander, private 4th
Seaforth Highlanders, born 13th Aug. 1896,
killed in action at Arras, 7th Sept. 1917;
Mary Christina, born 25th Oct. 1898 ;
George Millie, born 24th March 1900 ;
James.
DUGALD MACDONALD, born Car-
Igl6 noch, Glencoe, 29th May 1864, son of
James M. and Christina Macdonald ;
educated at Ballachulish School and Univ. of
St Andrews ; licen. by Presb. of St Andrews
6th May 1903; ord. to Poolewe 16th Sept.
that year; trans, to Lochcarron 20th Jan.
1911; trans, and adm. 22nd Feb. 1916; died
3rd March 1924. He marr. 3rd Nov. 1904,
Isabel, daugh. of Alexander Eunson and
Isabel Eunson, and had issue — Elizabeth,
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born 20th July 1905, died llth March 1909 ;
Christina (twin), born 20th July 1905 ;
Isabel, born 3rd May 1911.
JOHN ROBERTSON FORBES, born
1924 Belting, Shetland, 28th Oct. 1875,
son of James F., min. of St Mary's,
South Ronaldshay, and Mary Tough ; edu
cated at Academy, St Margaret's Hope,
Banff Academy, and Univ. of Aberdeen ;
licen. by Presb. of Kirkwall 12th April
1898; ord. to Deerness 27th Dec. that
year ; trans, to Canisbay 26th Feb. 1902 ;
trans, and adm. 30th July 1924. Marr.
4th March 1910, Alice Margaret, daugh.
of the Rev. William Duffus, Swatow, China,
and Margaret Webster, and has issue —
Margaret Robertson, born 5th April 1911 ;
Mary Elizabeth, born 4th Aug. 1914 ; John
Seivwright, born llth Dec. 1915.
NIGG.
[The church of Nigg was a men sal kirk
of the Bishop of Ross. In the parish there
were chapels at Culliss and Shandwick.
Also within the bounds were two holy
Wells, Tobar Chormaig and Tobar Eoin
Bhaiste, dedicated respectively to St Cormac
and St John the Baptist. Nigg Cross is
considered the best specimen of the ancient
sculptured stones of Scotland.]
FINLAY MANSON, son of Sir Alex
ander M., a priest; app. reader at
Nigg, Beltein, 1568; pres. to chap
laincy of Tollie by James VI. 19th June
1569 ; became exhorter in Nov. that year ;
pres. to vicarage there by James VI. 31st
Dec. that year ; reader at Kincardine ;
adm. to Tain in 1574 ; trans, and adm. in
1578; died at Nigg 1612. He marr. a
daugh. of William Munro of Allan. — \0rig.
Paroch. Scot., ii. 454 ; Booke of the Kirk.']
WILLIAM PAPE [or POPE], brother of
1613
Charles P. of Meikle Reny ; educated
at Univ. of St Andrews; M.A. (1587) ;
app. schoolmaster of Dornoch in 1585 ; adm.
to Dornoch in 1588; was commissioner
for Sutherland from 1593-99; pres. by
James VI. to Chantory of Caithness
22nd Nov. 1599 ; app. by the General
VOL. VII.
1614
1653
Assembly constant Moderator of Presbytery
in 1606. In endeavouring to quell a riot
with his two younger brothers in June 1607,
he and Thomas P., min. of Rogart, were
badly wounded, while Charles P., sheriff-
clerk of Sutherland, was killed; was a
member of Assembly in 1610; trans, and
adm. about 1613. He marr. Christian
Mony penny.— [P. C. Reg., viii., 189; Reg.
Mag. Sig. ix., 1967 ; Gordon's Hist, of
House of Sutherland, 256, 257.]
GEORGE CORBET, educated at Univ.
of St Andrews ; M.A. (1610) ; adm.
in 1614 ; died in 1633.— [Reg. Mag.
Sig., vii., 1786.]
WILLIAM ROSS, trans, from Kin-
1633 cardine and inst. 13th April 1633;
trans, to Fearn in 1644.
WILLIAM HOSACK, min. about
1650 1650.
JAMES MACKENZIE, born about 1630,
fourth son of John M. of Inverlaul,
Archdeacon of Ross and min. of
Killearnan ; adm. before 1653 ; died in
April 1701. He marr. about 1670, Jean,
daugh. of John Rose of Braidley, a cadet
of Kilravock, and is said to have had
twenty children—Kenneth in government
service ; Thomas, writer ; Alexander in
Captain Conyngham's regiment; William,
lieutenant in army ; George of Beechhill,
chamberlain to the Earl of Cromartie ;
James, army chaplain in Flanders ; Henry,
lieutenant in Edinburgh Castle, and others.
Among his descendants were Hugh Miller,
Cromarty, Henry Mackenzie, " The Man of
Feeling," and Joshua Henry Mackenzie,
senator of the College of Justice.— [Geneal.
of the Mackenzies ; Family of Kilravock ;
Inverness Sas., v., 534 ; G. R. Sas., 2nd ser.,
xv., 406.]
GEORGE MUNRO of Culcraggie, second
son of William M. of Culcraggie and
Ellen, daugh. of David Ross, min. of
Logie-Easter ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh
in 1704; app. by Assembly that year to go
to Sutherland ; adm. here in 1706 ; declined
a presentation by John, Earl of Cromartie,
to Suddie 25th Oct. 1714 ; died at Edin
burgh in 1728. He succeeded his father
in Culcraggie. He marr. (1) July 1706,
1706
NIGG
[PRESB. OF
Catherine, daugh. of Alexander Burnet,
Tain, and had issue — William of Culcraggie,
merchant, Glasgow : (2) Katherine, daugh.
of Robert Munro of Pittonachy, and had
issue — Anna (marr. John Ross, Tain);
Catherine (marr. 16th Sept. 1730, John
More, coal-viewer, Prestonpans). He is
represented in the male line by Sir Thomas
Munro of Lindertis, Bart. — \Edin. Tests. ;
Hist, of the Munros, 364.]
JOHN BALFOUR, licen. by Presb. of
1729
Caithness 2nd Nov. 1715 ; ord. to
Logie-Easter 27th Nov. 1716 ; called
30th Dec. 1728 ; trans, and adm. 26th
March 1729. In 1739-41 a remarkable
revival took place under his ministry. He
was a singularly notable minister and was
known as Maighstir Balfour Mor. A
number of his sermons are extant in MS.
He died 6th Feb. 1752. He marr. 17th July
1714, Isabella Dow, who died 1st Feb. 1754,
and had issue — George, min. of Tarbat :
Christian; Jean; Elizabeth, born 17th
Jan. 1730 (marr. Hector Macphail, min.
of Resolis); John, bapt. 16th Nov. 1731.
Publication— Sermon (on Mai. iii., 16). He
left in MS. " A Treatise on the Scriptural
Authority for, and the advantage arising
from, Christian Conference." — [Macfarlane
on Revivals; Gillies's Historical Collections,
453 ; Religious Life in Ross, 163.]
PATRICK GRANT, born Cromdale, about
1756 1715, son of James G. ; ord. to Duthil
3rd Dec. 1740; pres. by George II.
13th May 1752, but his settlement being
opposed he was inducted only after four
years' tedious litigation on 27th July 1756.
The parishioners seceded in a body and
joined the Antiburger denomination, a
congregation now represented by Nigg
United Free Church. He died 19th Jan.
1788. He marr. (1) 27th Dec. 1740, Isabella
(died 27th June 1745), daugh. of Andrew
Ker, min. of Rathven, and had issue —
Elizabeth, born 1st Jan. 1742 ; Andrew,
born 27th Feb. 1743, died 27th Aug. 1762 ;
John, born 27th June 1744 : (2) 3rd April
1753, Ann (born 14th March 1729, died
29th Dec. 1771), daugh. of George Grant,
min. of Kirkmichael, and had issue —
James, born 19th April 1756 ; Jean, born
14th March 1758; Anne, born 9th Aug.
1759; Isobel, born 10th April 1762 (marr.
William Keith, min. of Golspie); Sophia,
born 3rd Nov. 1763 (marr. 15th Dec. 1780,
John Forsyth of Deanhaugh, merchant,
Elgin) ; William, lieut. H.E.I.C.S., Madras,
born 21st March 1765 ; Lewis, born 19th
March 1766 ; Patrick, born 19th Oct. 1767,
died 19th Feb. 1768 ; Margaret, born 10th
Feb. 1769, died 30th April 1784; Grizel,
born 17th Oct. 1771, died Aug. 1830; a
daugh. (marr. 12th Jan. 1784, William
Forsyth, merchant, Cromarty). Publica
tion — A Pastoral Apology for a Flock in
Ross-shire (1757).
ALEXANDER MACADAM, born 1749,
11788 son of William M., farmer, Auldearn ;
educated at King's College, Aber
deen ; M.A. (30th March 1769) ; became
schoolmaster of Cromarty ; licen. by Presb.
of Chanonry 4th May 1779 ; supplied the
Little Kirk, Elgin ; app. to Gaelic Chapel,
Cromarty, 25th Sept. 1782 ; pres. by George
III. 13th Feb., trans, and adm. 23rd Oct.
1788; died 8th June 1817. He was a
learned theologian. He marr. Isobel (died
16th Aug. 1802), daugh. of John Macleod,
merchant, Cromarty, and had issue —
Elizabeth, born 5th Dec. 1784; Margaret,
born 30th June 1786, died 5th Sept. 1811 ;
William, H.M. Attorney, Tobago. Publica
tion — Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat.
Ace., xiii.).— [Tombst.]
LEWIS ROSE, pres. by George, Prince
1818 Regent, 4th July, and adm. 24th Sept.
1818 ; trans, to Gaelic Chapel, Duke
Street, Glasgow, 21st Jan. 1836.
JOHN MACALISTER, born Kilpatrick,
1837
Arran, 1789, fourth son of Donald
M., farmer, and Isabella M'Kinnon ;
educated at Kilmarnock and Univ. of
Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow in
1824; assistant at Anderston ; ord. to
Glenlyon 9th Sept. 1824 ; trans, to Gaelic
Church, Edinburgh, 1st Dec. 1831 ; pres.
by William IV. 3rd Feb., trans, and adm.
20th April 1837. Joined the Free Church
in 1843 ; min. of Free Church, Nigg, 1843-4 ;
adm. to Free Church, Brodick, 29th May
1844 ; died at Glasgow from the effects of
a gig accident at Inveraray, 17th Dec. that
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year, and was buried at Shiskine. He marr.
9th Dec. 1829, Margaret (died 2nd July 1873),
eldest daugh. of John Cuthbertson of Over
Carswell, Neilston, merchant in Glasgow,
and had issue — John Cuthbertson, born
17th Aug. 1830 ; Donald Mackinnon, min.
of Buccleuch Free Church, Edinburgh, born
28th Aug. 1832, died 23rd Sept. 1909.
Publication — Gaelic and English Sermons,
with Memoir (portrait) (Inverness, 1896). —
[Disruption Worthies, 169.]
DAVID FRASER, born Moulin, 25th
1844 Sept. 1^94, son of Peter F., carpenter,
and Elizabeth Munro ; educated at
King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (31st
March 1815); licen. by Presb. of Nairn
17th July 1820 ; ord. to Rothesay Chapel
16th Oct. 1821 ; trans, to Dores 25th Sept.
1823; pres. by Queen Victoria 10th Jan.,
trans, and adm. 29th March 1844 ; died
8th June 1865. He marr. 17th Aug. 1824,
Katherine (died 25th March 1863), third
daugh. of James Stormonth, min. of Airlie,
and had issue — Isabella Wedderburn, born
6th Jan. 1828 ; John of Parkburn, Kilsyth,
M.D., born 7th April 1831 ; Peter James,
Glasgow, born 17th Oct. 1833, died 22nd
Aug. 1892 ; David, died March 1843.
JOHN FRASER, born Kiltarlity ; edu-
1865 cated at King's College, Aberdeen,
1840-4 ; became schoolmaster of
Kiltarlity; pres. by Queen Victoria 19th
June, and ord. 19th Oct. 1865 ; died 10th
Dec. 1900. He marr. 19th April 1866,
Anne Mackay (died 6th Nov. 1909), and
had issue— Simona Annie, born 15th May
1867 ; Barbara Alice, born 23rd Aug. 1868
(marr. John Ross, tacksman of Pitcalnie).
NORMAN DONALD MACKAY, born
1901 Cross, Lewis, 28th Dec. 1871, son of
Donald M., min. of Knock ; educated
at Garnethill School and Univ. of Glasgow ;
licen. by Presb. of Lewis in 1899 ; assistant
at Acharacle and Newtonmore ; ord. 4th
April 1 901. Marr. 24th Oct. 1912, Gertrude,
daugh. of Jabez Garsed, Elland, Yorkshire,
and Mary Alice Noble, and has issue —
Mary Flora Macdonald, born 3rd Sept.
1913 ; Eileen Gertrude, born 14th April
1917 ; Catherine Yvonne (twin), born 14th
April 1917.
ROSSKEEN.
[The church was dedicated to St Ninian
and was a prebend in the Chapter of
Fortrose Cathedral.]
JAMES HERING, pres. to the parsonage
1672 and vicarage, but not settled.
WILLIAM ROSS, son of Thomas R.
1572 °^ Logiej was exhorter at Logie-
Easter and Kilmuir in 1567 ; pres. to
the parsonage and vicarage by James VI.
14th March 1572. In 1574 Newynkill, Kin
cardine, Kilmuir-Easter, and Logie-Easter
were also in the charge; died Nov. 1592.
He marr. Margaret Munro, and had issue —
Alexander of Logie ; Elizabeth (marr. John
Munro of Aldie).— [Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii.,
469 ; Scot. Antiquary, iv., 172.]
JOHN FRASER, eldest brother of
William F., min. of Kiltarlity ; min.
' in 1595; died in 1606. He marr.
Catherine Finlayson— [ Wardlaw MS., 120 ;
M'Gill's Old Church Times, 32.]
DAVID MUNRO, son of John M. of
17 Coul and Katherine, daugh. of John
Vass of Lochslinn ; pres. by James
VI., 7th Feb. 1607 ; died in 1614.— [Hist.
of the Munros, 347.]
ROBERT MUNRO, son of Hector M.
the charge in 1655. He marr., and
had issue— Hector ; Robert.— [Charter of
John, Bishop of Ross, at Killearnan ; Orig.
Charter Antiq. Museum ; P. C. Reg., viii.,
750.]
WILLIAM MACKENZIE, son of
. Murdoch M. of Kildun ; adm. before
' 9th Aug. 1665 ; died 14th March 1714.
He marr. 1665, Elspet, daugh. of Hugh
Fraser of Belladrum, and had issue —
John ; Colin, farmer, Achintoul, Rosskeen.
— [Geneal.ofthe Mackenzie?, ; Inverness Sas.,
iv., 359.]
DANIEL BETHUNE, known as Am
Beutanach Beag, born 1679, eldest
son of Kenneth B. of Skeabost;
educated at Grammar School and Mariscbal
College, Aberdeen, 1703-7 ; licen. by Presb.
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ROSSKEEN
[PIIESB. OF
of Aberdeen 1711 ; ord. to Ardersier 24th
Sept. 1713 ; called by the Presb. jure devoluto
24th Jan., trans, and adm. 25th April 1717 ;
found dead in his bed at Newmore while on
a visit 15th March 1754. He succeeded in
putting an end to shinty playing on Sunday
by making the leader of the shinty players
an elder. In 1742 and 1743 a remarkable
revival of religion occurred in the parish.
He marr. (1) Grizell (died 28th Nov. 1732),
daugh. of James Eussell, chamberlain to
the Earl of Moray, and had issue—
Isobel (marr. Adam Rose, min. of
Dingwall) ; Anne (marr. Thomas Whyte,
min. of Liberton); Janet (marr. (1) John
Bethune, min. of this parish : (2) David
Denoon, min. of Killearnan) ; Margaret ;
James; Peter; James; William; Eliza
beth ; Kenneth, which last seven all died
before 1732 : (2) llth May 1735 Katherine
(died 13th Dec. 1757), daugh. of James
Wilson, merchant, Edinburgh, and widow
of Walter Ross, min. of Kilmuir-Easter. —
[GeneaL of the Bethunes, 21 ; Tombst.]
JOHN BETHUNE, born 1725, son of
1754 Farquhar B., min. of Croy, and
nephew of preceding; educated at
Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1738-42,
and Univs. of St Andrews and Edin
burgh ; became tutor in the family of
Carruthers of Holmains, Dumfriesshire; licen.
by Presb. of Lochmaben 6th March 1750;
called 18th Sept., and ord. 2nd Oct. 1754;
D.D., F.R.S.; died 15th April 1774. He
marr. 16th Dec. 1755, his cousin Janet,
daugh. of Daniel Bethune, min. of this
parish, and had issue— Grizell ; Margaret;
Mary, who all predeceased their father.
Publications — A Short View of the Human
Faculties and Passions (1766, 2nd ed. 1771) ;
Essays and Dissertations on various Subjects
relating to Human Life and Happiness, 2
vols. (London, 1771) ; Discourses and Poems.
—[GeneaL of the Bethunes, 17 ; Tombst.}
JOHN CALDER, born 25th Nov. 1743,
1775 eldest son of James C., min. of Croy ;
educated at King's College, Aberdeen;
M.A. (2nd April 1764) ; licen. by Presb. of
Ellon 23rd Feb. 1757 ; ord. to Weem 26th
June 1770 ; pres. by George III. Oct. 1774 ;
trans, and adm. 21st Sept. 1775 ; died on
Sunday morning, 1st June 1783. He marr.
8th May 1773, Marjory (died 18th Dec.
1835), daugh. of William Shaw of Craig-
field, Culblair, and had issue— James, born
3rd March 1774, died at Nassau, New
Providence, 27th Feb. 1818 ; William, born
12th May 1777 ; Mary, born 9th Feb. 1781 ;
John, born 27th June 1783.— [Diary of
Lady Glenorchy.}
THOMAS URQUHART, born 16th Dec.
1?84 1752, second son of Thomas U. of Kin-
beachie, Resolis, and Isobel Macleod ;
educated at King's College, Aberdeen;
M.A. (Feb. 1775); ord. by Presb. of Tain
missionary at Kincardine and' Creich 3rd
May 1780 ; pres. by George III. 13th June
1783 ; adm. 1st Sept. 1784 ; died 16th May
1812. His settlement was much opposed
but he proved himself a faithful and
zealous minister. He marr. 3rd Nov. 1777.
Johanna (died 17th Jan. 1837, aged 78),
daugh. of John Clunes, tacksman of Crakaig,
and had issue— Thomas, born 7th July 1781 ;
Isabella Macleod, born 23rd: Aug. 1782
(marr. John M'Innes of Auchenfroe) ; John
Clunes, went to Dominique, born 17th Jan.
1784, died 1st Sept. 1799 ; Crawford, born
31st March 1785, died 20th March 1786;
Crawford, born 4th Aug. 1786, died 20th
March 1787 ; Gordon, lieut. 96th Regiment,
born 23rd Feb. 1788, died at St Croix,
West Indies, 5th Sept. 1808 ; Donald, born
16th March 1789 ; Colin, born 19th March
1793 ; James, went to Grenada, born 18th
Aug. 1794, died 8th April 1823 ; Alexander,
min. of Newburn, born 28th May 1797; Janet
(marr. (1) 2nd April 1812, John Maclean of
Carriacou) : (2) Captain Field. Publication
— Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat.
Ace., xiv.).
JOHN ROSS, born 1750, son of Alex-
1813 anc^er R-> burgess of Tain, and Helen
Ross ; licen. by Presb. of North Isles
28th Oct. 1772; ord. (assistant) at Lady;
app. missionary at Kincardine and Creich
in 1776; adm. to Logie-Easter 22nd Sept.
1779; pres. by the Hon. Mrs Maria Hay
Mackenzie of Cromartie Aug. 1812 ; trans,
and adm. 16th June 1813; died 8th Feb.
1824. He marr. Margaret, daugh. of William
Smith, tacksman of Brugh, Westray, and
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had issue— Sibilla, born 9th Jan. 1771, died
30th July 1808 ; Alexander, born llth
May 1772; Helen, born 31st May 1775;
Katherine, born 27th April 1777, died 14th
April 1795; Elizabeth, born 25th April
1779; David, lieut. Royal Marines, born
27th Dec. 1780, died in London, 14th Oct.
1809; Marjory, born llth Oct. 1782, died
in Gibraltar, 1813; John, captain Grenadier
Company Portuguese Infantry, born 23rd
July 1784, killed on Heights of Mayo, 31st
Aug. 1830 ; Margaret, born 26th Jan.
1787. Publication — Account of the Parish
(Sinclair's Stat. Ace., iv.).
DAVID GARMENT, born Keiss, 28th
Sept. 1772, son of James C., school
master (a native of Irongray, where
his father was baptised in the hills by
John Welsh, the Covenanter) ; educated at
Canisbay School and King's College, Aber
deen ; M.A. (1745) ; became tutor in the
family of George Monro, min. of South
Uist, 1792 • was schoolmaster of Strath,
Skye, 1795-9 ; licen. by Presb. of Skye 4th
April 1799; became tutor in the family of
Macdonald, tacksman of Scalpa ; assistant
at Croy, 1803-10; ord. by Presb. of Nairn
27th Feb., and adm. to Gaelic Chapel,
Duke Street, Glasgow, 25th April 1810;
pres. by the Hon. Maria Hay Mackenzie
of Cromartie llth Dec. 1821 ; trans, and
adm. (assistant and successor) 14th March
1822. Joined the Free Church in 1843;
min. of Free Church, Rosskeen, 1843-56 ;
died 26th May 1856. He was a ready,
frequent, and humorous speaker in Church
courts — a man of large bodily presence
and of almost herculean strength. He
marr. 30th May 1815, Margaret (died 24th
Oct. 1874), daugh. of James Stormonth of
Kinclune, min. of Airlie, and had issue —
James, min. of Comrie, born 23rd March
1816 ; John, LL.D., S.S.C., Edinburgh, born
5th Aug. 1817, died 10th Dec. 1901 ; David,
born 19th March 1819, died 12th June
1839; Isabella, born 28th Jan. 1821, died
9th March 1835 ; Elizabeth, born 21st
Sept. 1823, died 21st Dec. 1873; Samuel,
born 10th Aug. 1825, died 8th Feb. 1834;
Malcolm, born 22nd Dec. 1827, died 29th
Sept. 1842 ; Margaret, born 25th May 1830,
died 13th April 1834; Joseph, born 23rd
Jan. 1832 ; Jane, .born 27th July 1834.
Publications — The Fiery Cross (Edinburgh,
1 842) ; Moderatism and Evanyelicism Con
trasted ; Sermon CV. (Free Church Pulpit) ;
Account of the Parish (New Stat. Ace.,
xiv.). — {The Wedderburn Book, i., 324;
Disruption Worthies in the Highlands
(portrait) 31-6.]
JOHN MACKENZIE, educated at
King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A.
1 (March 1822); licen. by Presb. of
Ding wall 27th Aug. 1828; ord. to the
Gaelic Chapel, Cromarty, 25th Dec. 1833 ;
pres. by John Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie ;
adm. 19th Sept. 1843 ; died 25th Feb. 1845.
JOHN ROSE, born 1815, son of Hugh
R., farmer, and Jane Macnishie ;
' pres. by John Hay Mackenzie of
Cromartie ; ord. 26th Dec. 1845 ; died 9th
July 1869. He marr. 29th April 1864,
Margaret Janet (died 30th Dec. 1886),
daugh. of Alexander Maclean, D.D., min. of
Kiltearn, and had issue — Janet, born 27th
May 1865 ; Margaret Cassilis, born 7th
Nov. 1866 ; Mary Mackenzie, born 27th
Jan. 1868; Christina, born 10th April
1869.
GEORGE MACDONALD, born Crom-
dale, 25th Jan. 1838, son of Donald
1870 M. and Margaret Grant; educated
at Cromdale Grammar School and Univ.
of Aberdeen; M.A. (1861), B.D. (1870);
licen. in 1867 ; ord. to Eddrachillis 15th
Jan. 1868 ; trans, and adm. 9th Aug. 1870 ;
died 8th Oct. 1919. He marr. 1st Oct.
1878, Catherine, daugh. of William Rae of
Gateslack and Catherine Kinnear, and had
issue — William Rae, C.A., Edinburgh, born
llth Sept. 1880; Margaret Grant, born 17th
May 1882 ; Katherine Kinnear, born 22nd
April 1883 ; Margaret Grant, born 13th June
1884 (marr. John Robertson, bank-agent,
Invergordon); George, M.B., Ch.B., London,
captain R.A.M.C., born 14th Dec. 1885;
Mary Brown, born 15th Feb. 1888 ; Donald
James, farmer, New Zealand, trooper 9th
Squadron Wellington Mounted Rifles, born
25th July 1889.
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[PRESB. OF
DUGALD M'CALLUM, born Killean,
1918 Kintyre, 15th Feb. 1875, son of
Donald M. and Janet Stewart ;
educated at Hutcheson's Grammar School
and Univ. of Glasgow ; MA. (1904) ; licen.
by Presb. of Lewis 2nd May 1906 ; assistant
at Beauly; ord. to Kilmuir-Easter 14th
May 1907 ; trans, to Campbeltown 13th
Feb. 1914 ; trans, and adm. (assistant and
successor) 1st March 1918. Marr. 19th
Aug. 1914, Mary Gillies, daugh. of Captain
Archibald Baxter and Catherine Cameron,
and has issue— Catriona Cameron, born 4th
Oct. 1915 ; Aenea Janet, born 15th June
1918.
TAIN AND MORINNIS.
[These two parishes were united before
the end of the sixteenth century.
Tain.— The church of Tain, which has
been well restored, and is kept with worthy
care, was dedicated to St Duthac. In it
the Saint's relics were kept, and thither
many pilgrims came to see them. Hence
comes the Gaelic name of the place, Baile
Dhudich (Dnthac's town). A collegiate
foundation was given to this parish, on
12th September 1487, by Thomas, Bishop
of Ross. In the Cathedral Chapter at
Fortrose there was a prebend of Tain, held
by the sub-chantor of the Cathedral. Tain
was a highly privileged sanctuary, and to
it many refugees fled. Thus, when an
English army laid siege to Kildrummy
Castle, Queen Isobel, the wife of Robert I.,
eluded the English forces, and came, with
her young daughter Marjorie, to Tain.
The sacred place, however, failed to save
them. They were taken from the sanctuary
by William, Earl of Ross, and were sent
prisoners to England. Many visitors also
were drawn to Tain by the fame of St
Duthac's relics. To see them, James IV.
made repeated pilgrimages. His last visit
was in 1513, when he was about to set
forth on his fatal invasion of England.
In 1527 James V. too came as a pilgrim
to Tain. At Tarlogie, in this parish, there
was a chapel of St Talorgan. Fairs were
held at Tain at Midsummer, Lammas, and
Michaelmas, as well as on the feasts of
St Duthac, St Berchan, and St Cor mac.
Near the church was a Well of Our Lady.
Morinnis.—Iu. the Chapter of Fortrose
Cathedral there was a prebend of Morinnis.]
NICOLAS ROSS, provost of the collegiate
1560 church, who voted in Parliament for
the abolition of Popery and the
adoption of the Protestant confession, was
probably the first Protestant min. of the
parish ; died 1 1th Sept. 1569. He purchased
the estate of Geanies from Balnagowan for
his three sons, for whom he obtained letters
of legitimation.— [Taylor's Tain, 80.]
THOMAS FERGUSON, reader from
1568 1568 to 1574.
FINLAY MANSON, reader at Kin-
1574 car(*ineJ promoted to Tain, with
Edderton, Nigg, and Tarbat in the
charge ; trans, to Nigg in 1578.
WILLIAM MACQUEEN, of Corry-
brough, parson of Assynt; pres. to
the sub-deanery of Ross by James
VI. 8th Jan. 1577-8 ; dep. 2nd Oct. 1594 by
Synodical Assembly of Ross for plurality
of livings and adultery. He marr. Margaret
Gourlay.— [Munro of Allan Writs.]
JOHN ROSS of Little Tarrel; trans,
from Kilmuir-Wester in 1580; was
a member of Assembly in 1581 ;
trans, to Logie-Easter in 1581.
WALTER ROSS, raised a process against
Alexander Ross of Balnagowan for
payment of stipend Dec. 1582. —
[Balnagowan Writs.]
JAMES ROBERTSON, min. in 1586,
having Edderton also in charge,
was a member of Assembly 6th
Aug. 1588, and on the leet for Moderator ;
in that year he was commissioner of the
Kirks of Ross; died in 1597, when the
stipend for that year was assigned to his
wife and bairns. — \_Excheq. Book.']
JOHN MUNRO, born about 1569, third
son of Hugh M. of Assynt and
nephew of Robert Mor Munro, first
Protestant baron of Fowlis; educated at
1580
1586
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Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A. (1590) ; adm.
early in 1599 ; was a member of Assembly
in March that year. As sub-dean of Boss
he was one of nineteen ministers who
constituted a General Assembly at Aberdeen
in 1605, contrary to the King's wish, and
was on a leet of three for the Moderatorship.
When summoned before the Privy Council
he (with six others) maintained that the
said Assembly was a "very lawful" one.
He was accordingly sentenced to banish
ment and was imprisoned within Doune
Castle, Perthshire, his ultimate destination
being a remote part of Kintyre. From
Doune he escaped with the connivance of
the constable of the Castle, and finding
his way back to his parish resumed his
ministry, his stipend, paid through the
Crown authorities, being withheld. A
Privy Council letter, 24th May 1610,
ordered the magistrates to "keep him
prisoner in some chalmer of your toune
quhil he purge himself of his rebellion."
What followed does not appear, no burgh
records of the period being extant. He
died shortly after 1st June 1630. He marr.
Helen, eighth daugh. of Andrew Monro of
Milntown, but had no issue.— [Taylor's
Tain, 69 ; Laing's Original Letters, i., 425 ;
Hist, of the Munros, 466.]
GILBERT MURRAY, educated at Univ.
of St Andrews; M.A. (28th July
' 1610) ; adra. before Sept. 1622 ; was
a member of the Glasgow Assembly in
1638 and that of 1639; died 29th Nov.
1644, aged about 54. He marr. and had
issue— a daugh. (marr. Alexander Munro of
Daan).— [Orig. Charters Antiq. Museum ;
Bannatyne Miscell., iii. ; Feme MSS.]
JOHN DALLAS of Budzet; adm.
before 4th July 1649, when he was a
member of Commission of Assembly;
trans, to Ardersier before 18th April 1665.
ANDREW ROSS, educated at Univ. of
Glasgow ; M.A. (1654) ; deprived by
' Act of Parliament, llth June, and
Decreet of Privy Council, 1st Oct. 1662, for
refusing to conform, and attending Dio
cesan Synod.— [Wodrow's Hist., i., 329.]
JAMES MACKENZIE, a native of
Aberdeenshire ; educated at King's
' College in 1660; adra. before 19th
Feb. 1665.
ROBERT ROSS of Ballon, son of David
R., min. of Logie-Easter ; educated
' at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A.
(1652) ; adm. to Urquhart and Logie-Wester
in 1657 ; trans, and adm. before 18th April
1665 ; dep. by the Presb., 28th June 1699,
for refusing to acknowledge its authority,
etc. He marr. Barbara, daugh. of George
Munro, chancellor of Ross, and had issue-
Robert, writer, Edinburgh ; James ; Alex
ander, merchant, Tain ; Jean (marr. Walter
Ross, town clerk and provost of Dornoch) ;
Hannah (marr. Andrew Munro of Lemlair
family).— [G. R. Inhib., 9th March 1663.]
HUGH MUNRO, son of Andrew M. of
Teanaird ; educated at Univ. of St
Andrews; M.A. (19th Nov. 1695);
ord. to Tarbat 27th April 1699 ; trans, and
adm. 27th Aug. 1701 ; died 16th May 1744,
aged about 69. He marr. (1) Jean, daugh.
of James Thomson, merchant, Inverness,
and had issue— Jean : (2) 19th April 1715,
Christina (died 1st Jan. 1770), daugh.
of John Ross of Achnacloich, sheriff of
Ross, and had issue— Alexander ; Robert ;
Christina, marr. (pro. 9th June 1751),
James Tait, mason, Edinburgh; Mary;
John, born April 1721, died in infancy;
John, born 20th Sept. 1722 ; Anna, born
23rd Sept. 1723; Andrew, born 7th Dec.
1724 ; Hugh, born 8th July 1726 ; Margaret
(marr. Alexander Ross of Aldie, sheriff-
clerk of Ross) ; Janet (marr. William Munro
of Teanaird) ; Duncan. His widow became
the first annuitant on the Ministers'
Widows' Fund.— {Beg. of Deeds, Dal., 27th
Nov. 1728.]
DANIEL MUNRO, educated at Mari-
schal College, Aberdeen; licen. by
' Presb. of Edinburgh 20th March
1734 ; ord. to Auldearn 23rd Sept. 1736 ;
called 12th Dec. 1744; trans, and adm.
13th June 1745 ; died 10th Nov. 1748. He
marr. 7th Nov. 1739, Margaret Spence, and
had issue — Anne, born 27th Aug. 1740;
Andrew, born 31st Jan. 1742 ; James, born
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5th Dec. 1743 ; Katherine, born 4th May
1745 ; Eobert, born 8th March 1747, died
2nd March 1748 ; John, merchant, Glasgow,
born 17th Sept. 1748.
JOHN SUTHERLAND, son of Arthur
S., min. of Edderton ; ord. to Golspie
J 30th April 1731 ; called 22nd April,
trans, and adm. 29th July 1752 ; died 25th
Nov. 1769. He encouraged opposition to
the settlement of ministers who had not
the popular voice in their favour, and gave
ordinances to such as withdrew from their
regular pastors. For disobeying the in
structions of the General Assembly in
reference to the settlement at Nigg, he and
four others were rebuked at the bar of the
Assembly, 27th May 1756. In the pulpit
he used considerable freedom of speech and
stories are still related of some of his sallies.
He marr. (1) 7th May 1734, Christina Ross
(died 26th Oct. 1752), and had issue —
Elizabeth, born 3rd Jan. 1735 (marr. John
Sutherland, min. of Dornoch); Margaret
Janet, born 14th May 1736 (marr. Hugh
MacCulloch, writer, Dornoch); William,
min. of Wick, born 27th Jan. 1738 ; David,
born llth May 1742 ; John, born 21st April
1744, died 30th July 1745; Walter, born
1st Nov. 1746, died 12th Oct. 1755: (2)
26th Dec. 1755, Ann (died 14th March
1780), daugh. of Donald Ross, min. of
Fearn, and had issue— Sybilla, born 30th
Nov. 1756; Donald, born 3rd May 1758;
Janet, born 16th Feb. 1763; George, born
31st Jan. 1765 ; Simon, born llth Jan., died
28th April 1767 ; Anne, born 26th July 1768.
HUGH ROSE, born Easter Ross, 1730 ;
1770 educated at Univ. of St Andrews ;
M.A. (1750) ; schoolmaster at Inver-
gordon ; licen. by Presb. of Tain 10th July
1754 ; ord. missionary at Fort William 15th
April 1757 ; removed to mission at Creich
and Kincardine May 1758 ; adm. to Creich
26th Sept. 1759 ; pres. by George III. in
Feb., trans, and adm. 27th June 1770;
died 23rd Sept. 1774. His people were
deeply attached to him for his general
character and pulpit gifts. He marr. 22nd
June 1758, Mary (died 17th Dec. 1793),
daugh. of David M'Culloch of Glastullich,
and had issue — George Mackay, born 24th
Aug. 1759 ; David, born 7th Dec. 1761 ;
James, writer and depute-clerk of Session,
Edinburgh, born 29th Dec. 1763, died
25th Jan. 1821 ; Roderick, born 13th Nov.
1766 ; Hugh (made a fortune in the
West Indies, purchased the estates of Cal-
rossie, Glastullich, Arabella, Tarlogie, Mor-
angie, and others in Easter Ross, succeeded
to the Cromarty estates on his marriage
with Miss Munro of Culcairn, and was
represented by Brig.-General Sir Walter
Charteris Ross of Cromarty), born 31st Oct.
1767; Christian Macleod, born 13th Oct.
1768, died 18th Nov. 1770 ; William Baillie,
afterwards of Rhynie,born 7th Oct. 1771.—
[Weekly Mag., xxvi., etc. ; Tombst.]
GEORGE DOUGLAS, born 1740, son
w of Robert D. of Balconie, Kiltearn ;
' ord. to Second Charge, Kirkwall, 5th
April 1769 ; pres. by George III. in March,
trans, and adm. 6th Sept. 1775 ; died 3rd
Oct. 1794. He marr. 19th Feb. 1779, Anna-
bella Stewart (died 12th Oct. 1823), daugh.
of Joseph Munro, min. of Edderton, and had
issue — Barbara, born 6th May 1780 ; Janet,
born 13th Sept. 1781 ; Elizabeth, born 30th
Oct. 1782 (marr. 22nd July 1802, Joseph
Julian Labalmondiere) ; Annabella, born
5th Dec. 1783; Robert, born 26th April
1786, died 5th April 1826 ; Mary, born 16th
March 1789, died 9th May 1864 ; Joseph,
barrister, London, born 18th Jan. 1790,
died 1849. Publication — Account of the
Parish (Sinclair's Stat. ylcc.,iii.).— [Tombst.]
ANGUS MACKINTOSH, born
Strathdearn, 1763 ; educated at
Fortrose Academy and King's Col
lege, Aberdeen ; M.A. (1784) ; became
tutor at Balnagowan .and Scotsburn, and
schoolmaster at Alness ; licen. by Presb.
of Tain 23rd Sept. 1789; ord. to Gaelic
Chapel-of-Ease, Glasgow, 18th Oct. 1792;
pres. (after a dispute as to right of patronage
between the Crown and Mackenzie of
Cromartie) by both ; trans, and adm. llth
May 1797 ; D.D. (King's College, Aberdeen,
19th April 1823); died 3rd Oct. 1831. He
was one of. the originators and secretary to
the Northern Missionary Society. A man
of eminence in the Church in the North,
he was a powerful and eloquent preacher ;
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his voice was like the sound of a silver
trumpet arresting the^attention and holding
spell-bound his immense audiences in the
church and in the open air. One of his
sermons continued for decades to be spoken of
as Bord na trocair (" The table of mercy ;;).
He marr. 6th June 1800, Anne (died 23rd
Jan. 1857), daugh. of Charles Calder, min.
of Ferintosh (Urquhart), and had issue-
Margaret Isabella, born 8th March 1801,
died 2nd April 1810; James, born 1st
Sept. 1802, died in Calcutta 15th Aug.
1829; Elizabeth Baillie, born 12th July
1804 (marr. John Dallas) ; Charles Calder,
min. of this parish; Alexander Brodie,
born 27th July 1809 ; Margaret Isabella,
born 6th Sept. 1811 (marr. Simon Fraser
M'Lauchlan, min. of Cawdor) ; Angus,
born 1st Feb. 1814 ; Jemima Calder, born
24th Jan. 1818; John, born 26th Feb.
1822. Publications — The Importance of
Christian Knowledge, a sermon (London
1815).— [Findlater's Memoir of Findlater.]
CHARLES CALDER MACKINTOSH,
born 5th Oct. 1828, son of preceding ;
educated at Tain Academy and Univ.
of Aberdeen ; licen. by Presb. of Tain 28th
Nov. 1827; pres. by the Hon. Mrs Hay
Mackenzie of Cromartie ; ord. (assistant
and successor) 19th June 1828. Joined
the Free Church in 1843 ; min. of Free
Church, Tain, 1843-54 ; D.D. (Union Col
lege, Shenactady, Sept. 1850) ; min. of Free
Church, Dunoon, 1854-68; died at Pau,
France, 24th Nov. 1868. He marr. 8th
Sept. 1847, Anne (died 9th July 1899),
daugh. of Robert Brown, min. of Free
Church, Fairlie, Ayrshire, and had issue —
Anne, born 25th June 1848 ; Jane Brown,
born 18th May 1850 (marr. - - Miller,
Glasgow) ; Jemima Helen, born 13th Aug.
1852; Elizabeth Gordon, born 16tb Oct.
1853 (marr. Dr Bannerman, Glasgow) ;
Eneas, min., born 13th Dec. 1855 ; Robert,
Congregational min. in Dumfriesshire, born
23rd May 1858; Alexandra, born 20th
March 1863 (marr. 1890, Robert Stephenson
Simpson, D.D., min. of Free High Church,
Edinburgh).— [Memorials of the Life and
Ministry by Rev. William Taylor, M.A.,
Stirling (Edinburgh 1870).]
1844
LEWIS ROSE, born 10th Dec. 1791, son
of Alexander R., tacksman, Auld-
earn, and Janet M'Adam ; educated
at Nairn School and King's College, Aber
deen ; M.A. (30th March 1810) ; became
schoolmaster of Pencaitland in 1812 ; licen.
by Presb. of Haddington 20th Dec. 1814;
ord. missionary at Kincardine and Creich
26th Feb. 1817 ; trans, to Nigg 24th Sept.
1818 ; trans, to Gaelic Chapel, Duke Street,
Glasgow, 21st Jan. 1835; trans, to Kin
cardine 20th Sept. 1843; trans, and adm.
llth April 1844 ; died 6th Nov. 1876. He
marr. 15th May 1820, Katherine (died 29th
Jan. 1877), daugh. of William Simpson,
min. of Fearn, and had issue — William
Simpson, born 5th March 1821, died
abroad; Alexander M'Adam, born 15th
June, died 17th Dec. 1822; Lewis, born
23rd June 1823, went to America; Hugh,
born 2nd Oct. 1824, died 19th Oct. 1825 ;
Katherine, born 3rd March 1826, died in
Inverness; Mary, born 27th Oct. 1827,
died young ; David, min. of Ferryport-on-
Craig, born 5th Aug. 1829; Janetta, born
5th May 1831 (marr. 2nd Oct. 1856,
William Moffat, procurator fiscal, Dingwall),
died 10th Feb. 1885; Margaret Baillie,
born 18th July 1833 (marr. 31st July 1861,
Donald Archibald Macleod, C.E., Ding-
wall), died in Australia ; Baillie, born 6th
Sept. 1834, died 7th Jan. 1835 ; John, born
7th June 1836, died young; George Duff,
born 23rd June 1843. Publications— Two
Synodical Sermons (Glasgow, 1838, Edin
burgh, 1845); A Humble Attempt to put an
End to the Present Divisions of the Church
of Scotland and to Promote her Usefulness
(Glasgow, 1840); Account of Nigg (New
Stat. Ace., xiv.).
LACHLAN MACLACHLAN, trans,
from Third Charge, Inverness, and
adm. 20th July 1877; trans, to St
Columba's, Glasgow, 5th Oct. 1882.
COLIN MACNAUGHTON, born
Knocksapplebeg, Southend, Argyll,
14th Sept. 1838, son of Neil M.,
farmer, and Mary Macmillan ; educated at
Southend School, Campbeltown Grammar
School, and Univ. of Glasgow; licen. by
Presb. of Kin tyre 26th Sept. 1867 ; assistant
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[PEESB. OF
at Lochgilphead and West St Giles's,
Edinburgh; ord. to Killearn 16th March
1871 ; trans, and adm. 25th April 1883 ;
clerk of Presb. 1899-1915; died 6th
Dec. 1924. He marr. llth Aug. 1886,
Mary, daugh. of William Robertson, ship
owner, Stornoway, and Elizabeth Lindsay,
and had issue — Ethel Mary, born 3rd
June 1887 (niarr. 31st March 1916, H.
M'Ewen Grant, captain R.G.A.); Clare,
born 9th March 1890 (marr. 30th Dec.
— , Arnold Welby); Ian Alister, lieut.
R.N.R., born 2nd Jan. 1892 ; Blanche Jane,
born 3rd Nov. 1894 (marr. 14th May 1918,
Henry Mordaunt of Barings, London);
Colin, born 23rd June 1903. Publication —
Church Life in Ross and Sutherland,
1688-1914 (Inverness, 1915).
GEORGE THOMAS THOMSON, born
1920 Edinburgh, 8th March 1887, son of
James T., C.E., and Jane Haswell
Smith ; educated at Daniel Stewart's
College and Univs. of Edinburgh, M.A.
(1909), B.D. (1915), and Oxford, BA. (1912) ;
licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh Nov. 1915 ;
assistant at South Leith and Peebles ; ord.
25th March 1920; trans, to St Boswells,
llth June 1924; served as captain in the
Royal Scots in France and as interpreter
in Arabic in Palestine in European War;
app. to Chair of Systematic Theology, Aber
deen, Jan. 1928. Marr. 4th July 1918, Chris
tian Isabel, daugh. of Thomas Martin, D.D.,
min. of Peebles, and has issue— Hugh
Haldane, born 30th May 1920.
JOHN MACECHERN, born 28th Aug.
1924 1869> son of Charles M., min. of
Third Charge, Inverness; educated
at schools in Canada, High School, and
Raining's School, Inverness, and Univ. of
Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of Inverness
in 1892 ; assistant at Kilberry, Dalwhinnie,
Beauly, and Dingwall, locum tenens Kinloss
in 1897; ord. to Bower llth May 1899;
trans, to Kinloss 12th Feb. 1908 ; trans, to
Moy and Dalarossie 26th March 1915 ;
trans, and adm. 18th Dec. 1924 ; chaplain
1st Vol. Batt. Cameron Highlanders ; Huts
Superintendent in France, Belgium, and
Germany in European War. Marr. 3rd
Dec. 1910, Margaret, fourth daugh. of
Gilbert Black, Tiretigan, Kilberry, and has
issue— Margaret Lorna, born 17th Oct. 1912 ;
Charles Gilbert, born 12th Jan. 1916.
Publication—" With the Scottish Churches'
Huts Overseas " (The Sword of the North,
113-125) (Inverness, 1923).
TARBAT.
[The vicarage of Tarbat belonged to the
Abbey of Fearn. The parish church was
dedicated to St Colmog. Not far from it
were Wells of St Colmog and St Mary.
Near the church too is the harbour of
Portmahomack (Port Mo Cholmoig = St
Colmog's Haven). At Alltansallach stood
a chapel of St Bride. Other chapels and
shrines in this parish were dedicated to St
Colmog, St Kiaran, St Finn Barr, and St
John the Baptist.]
ALEXANDER URQUHART, entered
1572 at Beltein in 1572 [afterwards min.
of Kilmuir- Wester].
GEORGE MUNRO, trans, from Suddie,
1590 W^ Fearn also in the charge in
1590; was chancellor of Ross in
1586. On 25th April 1593 he was ap
pointed with others to visit the Presb. of
Moray ; trans, to Suddie about 1594.
JOHN MUNRO of Feme, son of Andrew
1593 M. of Newmore, "of convenient age
to enter on the study of gramer,"
was pres. to chaplaincy of St Monan at
Balconie, Kiltearn, for seven years, by King
James VI. 30th July 1577, and also to
parsonage and vicarage of Tarbat, March
1593. He was several times a member of
Assembly and in that of 25th June 1595,
was appointed one of four "because of their
weakness to proceed with the Presb. of
Inverness." In 1602 he had a conversion
of his stipend ratified. In July 1624 the
Privy Council wrote to Patrick, Bishop of
Ross, requesting him to admonish M. " for
his contemptuous rebellion and disobedi
ence and failing his purging himself of the
scandal he has given to the Church, to sus
pend him from the ministry." He died
18th March 1626. He marr. Isabel, daugh.
of Lachlan M6r Mackintosh of that ilk,
widow of George Ross of Balnagowan,
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and had issue — Christian (marr. Malcolm
Mackintosh of Brin).— [Reg. Mag. Sig., vi.
1115, viii. 613 et. seq. ; Feme MSS. Test.
Reg.; Mackintoshes and Clan Chattan, 191.]
1627 DAVID MUNIIO, adm. before 1627.
THOMAS MACKENZIE, adm. in 1633 ;
1683 was a mem^er °f ^e Court of High
Commission 21st Oct. 1634. His
parishioners having opposed his setting
up of the Liturgy, he deserted his charge in
1635 and went to Ireland. He was adm.
to Killearnan in 1638.
WILLIAM MACKENZIE, son of Hector
1638 ^'' son °^ R0"6 M°r M. of Achiltie ;
educated at King's College, Aber
deen ; M.A. ; adm. to Kilmorack about
1624 ; trans, to Killearnan in 1633 ; trans,
and adm. before 21st Nov. 1638 ; was
a member of Assembly that year; died
29th Sept. 1642. He marr. a daugh. of
Murdoch Mackenzie of Redcastle, and had
issue— Alexander, died in Skye, Oct. 1669 ;
John, min. of Fodderty ; Margaret (marr.
Peter, son of John Grant of Corrimony),
died Feb. 1664 ; Mary (marr. John, son of
Hector Munro, min. of Edderton). — [Hist,
of the Mackenzies, 537 ; Feme MSS. ;
Douglas's Baronage; Tombst.]
JOHN MACKENZIE, trans, from
1645 Buddie and adm. in 1645. He
declared before the Presb., June
1646, that he would not intimate to his
congregation the declaration made by the
Commission of Assembly, Dec. 1645, against
the Remonstrance, unless the Assembly
ordered him, the said declaration being
against his Chief, George, Earl of Seaforth.
He was dep. between 1st Dec. 1649 and
19th Feb. 1650 for immoral conduct,
but was reponed in 1660 ; was awarded
£166, 3s. 4d. as damages, and became min.
of Fodderty.
ANDREW ROSS, son of Alexander R.
of Pitkerrie; educated at King's
J College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1647);
adm. Oct. 1652; died in 1692, aged about
65. He marr. Elizabeth Bruce, widow of
Gilbert Anderson, min. of Cromarty, and
had issue— Alexander ; Benjamin, third of
Pitkerrie.— [Scot. Antiquary, iv., 104.]
JOHN MACKENZIE, formerly of Inver-
chaolain ; was summoned before the
Presb. of Ross 26th Sept. 1695 to
answer for his intrusion to the vacant parish
of Tarbat, and not appearing, was enjoined
not to preach any more in the church there.
He became min. of Kingussie.
HUGH MUNRO, M.A. ; ord. 27th April
1699 1699 ; trans, to Tain 27th Aug. 1701.
DAVID ROSS, born 1673, son of George
17 7 R., min. of Kincardine ; educated at
Univ. of St Andrews; M.A. (22nd
July 1693) ; became schoolmaster of Tain ;
ord. 25th Sept. 1707; died 18th Oct. 1748.
He marr. Margaret (died llth Jan. 1730),
daugh. of Alexander Ross of Pitkerrie. —
[Tombst.]
GEORGE BALFOUR, born 1724, son of
1?K) John B., min. of Nigg ; educated at
Marischal College, Aberdeen ; was
apprenticed to William Tod, merchant,
Edinburgh, May 1741 ; Keen, by Presb. of
Tain 1st Aug. 1749 ; called 18th Jan., and
ord. 16th Sept. 1750 ; died 18th Oct. 1798.
He marr. 20th June 1770, Barbara (died
21st March 1806), daugh. of William Rose,
min. of Loth, and had issue — Chalmers,
born 12th. Jan. 1772; Isobel, born 25th
July 1773, died 4th Nov. 1822 ; John, born
1st Oct. 1775 ; Jean, born 3rd Aug. 1777
(marr. the Rev. John Mackechnie, Glasgow) ;
Katherine, born 8th April 1779 (marr.
George Mackenzie Ross of Aldie). Pub
lication—Account of the Parish (Sinclair's
Stat. Ace., vi.).
WILLIAM FORBES, born Avoch, 1767,
1800 son °^ William F., factor for Sir
Roderick Mackenzie, Bart., of Scat-
well ; educated at Fortrose Academy and
Univs. of Edinburgh and Aberdeen ; be
came tutor in the family of Rose of Kil-
ravock ; licen. by Presb. of Nairn 29th
Aug. 1791 ; assistant at Croy and Strachur ;
ord. to Gaelic Chapel, Aberdeen, 5th Nov.
1798 ; pres. by Mrs Henrietta Gordon of
Newhall (on a unanimous petition by the
congregation) ; adm. 24th April 1800 ; died
12th May 1838. He marr. 26th Nov. 1813,
Jane (died at Edinburgh 29th Dec. 1852),
daugh. of Alexander Sage, min. of Kildonan,
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and had issue — William, born 14th Feb.
1815, died while a student at King's
College, Aberdeen; Alexander, born 1816,
died while a student at King's College,
Aberdeen; Isabella, born 4th May 1818;
Jane, born 16th Aug. 1820; Margaret
Macleod, born 30th July 1823; Elizabeth
Hose, born 30th Oct. 1824.
DAVID CAMPBELL, born Glenlyon,
1838 1^99' son °^ Duncan C., farmer, and
Ellen Campbell ; educated at Univ.
of Edinburgh ; ord. to Glenlyon 24th July
1832; trans, to East Church, Inverness,
17th Nov. 1836; pres. by Queen Victoria
29th May, trans, and adm. 20th Sept. 1838.
There was a revival in the parish in 1840.
Joined the Free Church in 1843 ; min. of
Free Church at Tarbat 1843-55, of the
Free Church at Lawers 1855-77; died
25th Jan. 1877. He marr. 20th Nov. 1833,
Margaret, daugh. of D. Macbean, Kilmalie.
GEORGE CAMPBELL, born 1815, son
°^ James ^-' farmer ', 01>d- to Cawdor
21st Dec. 1843; trans, and adm.
1st May 1845 ; dem. 23rd Dec. 1884 ; died
at Perth 5th Dec. 1888. He marr. 18th
Dec. 1843, Isabella Clark, Leuchars, Fife,
who died 1st Jan. 1891, and had issue
—Isabella, born 27th Aug. 1845 (marr. P.
M. Campbell, brewer, Greenock), died at
Moffat, June 1880 ; Georgina Murray, born
1st Sept. 1851 ; Margaret, born 4th June
1855 (marr. Alexander Patrick Munro of
Rockfield) ; James, born 21st Aug. 1856 ;
William, born 1st May 1859.
DONALD MACLEOD, born Cromore,
Lewis, 9th Oct. 1855 ; son of Murdo
M., and Annabella Smith ; educated
at Cromore School and Glasgow Normal
1845
College and Univ. of Glasgow ; licen.
by Presb. of Kintyre in 1884 ; assistant
at Greenock ; ord. to Gaelic Chapel,
Cromarty, 30th April 1885 ; trans, and
adm. (assistant and successor) 19th May
1885. Marr. 23rd July 1885, Kate, daugh.
of John Rodger and Jean Isles, and has
issue — Murdo Smith, born 30th May
1886, died 6th April 1890 ; Jean Annabella,
born 17th Feb. 1888; Katherine Mary,
born 13th Jan. 1890 (marr. 22nd April
1916, Archibald Kenneth Maclean, lieut.
South African Rifles, Windhoek, South
Africa) ; Donald Stanley (twin) lieut. R.N.,
born 13th Jan. 1890; Murdo, officer,
mercantile marine, born 24th Feb. 1891,
wounded at Gallipoli ; Lizzie, born 19th
Feb. 1893; Hector Ian, South African
Scottish, born 16th Jan. 1895, killed in
action at Butte de Warlencourt, Oct. 1916 ;
Isabella, born 10th Nov. 1896; Barabel,
born 9th July 1898, died 7th Nov. 1923 ;
Norman, student in medicine, born 10th
Jan. 1900, wounded in France, May 1918 ;
Margaret (twin), born 10th Jan. 1900;
Roderick Callum, engineer, born 30th
Aug. 1902.
JAMES MACMORLAND, M.A., B.D. ;
1920 trans- from Kirkmaiden (q.v.) and
adm. (assistant and successor) llth
Nov. 1920; trans, to Cowdenbeath 24th
March 1927. He has issue (cf. Vol. II.,
342)— Marion Paton Inglis, born 5th May
1916 ; Agnes Bethia, born 14th July
1923.
MURDO MACLEOD, trans, (assistant
^ and successor) from Uig (q.v.) 20th
1 July 1927.
SYNOD OF SUTHERLAND AND CAITHNESS
THIS Court was not fully organised till towards the middle of the seventeenth
century. On 15th June 1646 the General Assembly annexed the Presbytery
of Orkney and Shetland to this Synod. In 1725 the parishes of Orkney
were incorporated as a separate Synod. Those of Shetland had been severed
from Sutherland and Caithness in 1715. After that date they were several
times transferred from one jurisdiction to another. It was only in 1830
that the Synod of Shetland was erected. The Eegister of the Synod of
Sutherland and Caithness begins at 6th August 1656. This Court now
holds its meetings at Wick.
PKESBYTERY OF DOENOCH
[As early as 1581 the General Assembly had in view the erection of a local Church
Court at Dornoch. We do not, however, come upon any mention of the actual existence
of this Presbytery until 21st November 1638. From 1690 to 1726 the Presbytery of
Dornoch was under the jurisdiction of the Synod of Eoss. On llth May 1726 this
Presbytery was again assigned to the Synod of Sutherland and Caithness. The
Presbytery Kegister begins in 1707. There is a blank between 16th April 1719 and
28th Aug. 1732.]
ASSYNT (LOCHINVER).
[In the Cathedral of Dornoch there was
a prebend of Assynt. When the Presb.
of Tongue was founded, llth May 1726,
this parish was taken from the Presb. of
Dornoch and annexed to the new Court
at Tongue. On 19th May 1736 the parish
of Assynt was disjoined from the Presb.
of Tongue and placed again under the
jurisdiction of the Presb. of Dornoch.
The old church stood at Inchnadamph,
east end of Loch Assynt.]
WILLIAM GRAY, removed from Rogart
1576 in 1576, having that parish, Lairg
and Kilmalie also in his charge ;
still min. in 1589. — \0rig. Paroch. Scot.,
ii., 693.]
ALEXANDER ROSS, mentioned as
1599 min. in 1599.
1618
1638
RODERICK MACLEOD, brother to
Angus M. ; had his stipend assigned
by the commissioners 5th June 1618 ;
trans, to Alvie after 1627.
JAMES THOMSON, min. of Lairg 6th
May 1627; trans, to Loth before
1635 ; trans, and adm. about 1638, in
which year he intromitted with the vacant
stipend ; petitioned the Synod, 22nd Oct.
1662, for extracts of his deposition by
Presb. of Sutherland.
JOHN GRAY, ord. 8th Oct. 1668 ; dep.
1668 ky the bishop and Synod before 7th
June 1676. — [Inverness Pres. JReg.]
ALEXANDER GRAY, a native of the
district ; educated at Marischal Col
lege, Aberdeen ; being an eminent
classical scholar and linguist, was selected
as tutor to John, Lord Strathnaver, and
made a tour of Europe with him ; adm.
1682
78
ASSYNT
[PRESB. OF
before 13th July 1682. At a visitation of
the parish on 7th Aug. 1718, the Presb.
required him to give in his demission,
"seeing by reason of his age and indis
position of body he is rendered incapable
to go about his duties." This he undertook
to do (chiefly at the solicitation of John
Mackay, min. of Lairg) at Martinmas that
year, provided the Presb. gave him security
for 300 merks payable Martinmas 1719.
When about to sign the agreement, he
was forcibly prevented by his wife and
children, who refused to allow him to do
so. The only duties he performed latterly
were solemnizing marriages and baptising
in bed. He died after 18th May 1727. He
marr. and had issue— Christian died aged
100 or upwards ; and others.— [Macrae's
Lairg, 22.]
WILLIAM SCOBIE, licen. by Presb. of
1728 Strathbogie 22nd Feb. 1727; app.
missionary in the parish ; called by
Presb. of Dornoch jure devoluto 7th Aug.,
and ord. 12th Sept. 1728 ; died 24th Nov.
1763. He marr. 3rd March 1731, Jane (died
19th Feb. 1762), fifth daugh. of John Mackay
of Kirtomy, and had issue — Kenneth of
Achimore, born 17th April 1732; John of
Melness, major Reay Fencibles, born 26th
Nov. 1733; James, min. of Wick, born
25th Sept. 1735 ; Elizabeth, born 13th Oct.
1738 ; Janet, born 23rd Nov. 1740 ; William,
born 1st May 1744, died 9th June 1745;
Katherine, born 2nd Aug., died 1st Nov.
1745 ; George, born 2nd May 1747, died
4th March 1748.— [Book of Mackay, 319.]
WILLIAM MACKENZIE, born 1734 ;
17Q5 M.A. (Marischal College, Aberdeen,
1755); was schoolmaster of Storno-
way ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 13th
Aug. 1761, and preached his first sermon in
the pulpit of Hugh Blair, D.D. ; ord. to
Harris 13th Aug. 1762 ; pres. by William,
Earl of Sutherland, in May 1764 ; trans,
and adm. 13th Feb. 1765 ; died 27th Nov.
1816. He marr. 19th June 1765, Margaret
(died 29th May 1785), daugh. of Patrick
Grant, min. of Logie-Easter, and had issue
— Wilhelmina Maxwell, born 2nd Aug. 1766
(marr. 20th Jan 1788, Eoderick Mackenzie,
tacksman of Ledmore, Assynt) ; Anna,
born 16th March 1768, died 15th May 1769 ;
John, born 8th June 1769, died 8th Sept.
1770; Patrick, born 8th Dec. 1771, died
8th May 1799 ; Eobson, born 12th March
1773 ; John, born 4th June 1775, died 12th
June 1778 ; Alexander, born 10th Oct. 1778 ;
Jean Young (twin), born 10th Oct. 1778
(marr. 25th April 1812, John Campbell in
Balnoe, Creich) ; Elizabeth, born llth Feb.
1782, died 27th April 1806; Colin, born
2nd July 1783, died llth March 1805;
Joseph, born 9th May 1785. Publication —
Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace.,
xvi.). — [Memorabilia Domestica, 52.]
DUNCAN M'GILLIVRAY, M.A. ; pres.
1818 kv George, Marquess, and Elizabeth,
Marchioness of Stafford, 28th April,
and adm. (assistant and successor) 24th
Aug. 1813. The people desired the appoint
ment of John Kennedy [afterwards min. of
Killearnan], then assistant in the parish.
At M.'s settlement there was a riot and
assault for which three parishioners were
tried before the Circuit Court of Justiciary
at Inverness 17th Sept 1813, and sent to
prison for nine months ; trans, to Lairg
12th Aug. 1817.
HUGH MACKENZIE, M.A. ; pres. by
1817 George, Marquess, and Elizabeth,
Marchioness of Stafford, in Aug.,
trans, from Eriboll and adm. 24th Sept.
1817 ; trans, to Clyne 3rd Aug. 1825.
CHARLES GORDON, born 24th July
1825 1799> son of George G., min. of
Loth ; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen, 1815-19, and Univ. of Edinburgh;
licen. by Presb. of Dornoch 25th Nov. 1823 ;
pres. by George, Marquess, and Elizabeth,
Marchioness of Stafford; ord. 22nd Sept.
1825. Joined the Free Church in 1843;
min. of Free Church, Assynt, 1843-73 ; died
26th Sept. 1873. He marr. 6th Sept. 1826,
Sarah (died 5th Sept. 1843), daugh. of David
Tyre, farmer, Newton, Edinkillie, and had
issue— George, born 23rd July 1827 ; David
Tyre, born 8th May 1829 ; John, born 2nd
Feb. 1831 ; Isabella Margaret, born 18th
Jan. 1834; Sarah Rose, born llth April
1838 ; Hugh William, M.A., licentiate of
the Church of Scotland, ord. min. of Bolton
Presbyterian Church, Lancashire, 13th June
DORNOCH]
ASSYNT— CLYNE
79
1872, born 6th Feb. 1843, died 6th July 1873.
Publication — Account of the Parish (New
Stat. Ace., xv.).
DUNCAN ST GLAIR, adm. 18th Jan.
1844 1844 ; trans, to Loth 14th March 1848.
DAVID WILLIAMSON, born 1799, son
1848 of Robert W., farmer, and Lilias
Ross ; ord. to Kinlochluichart 21st
March 1844 ; trans, and adm. 12th Dec.
1848 ; dem. 16th. May 1888 ; died unmarr.
at Tain 24th Sept. that year.
CHARLES ROBERTSON, M.A., B.D. ;
1889 ord> 3rd Jan< 1889 > trans> to Fearn
5th Nov. 1895.
PETER MACGREGOR, M.A.; trans,
from Glencoe, and adm. 16th April
1896; trans, to Tobermory 17th
March 1898.
JOHN RUGGAN, M.A. ; ord. 8th June
. 1898; trans, to Logie-Colstone 7th
' March 1902.
JOHN MACCALLUM, ord. 23rd July
1902; trans, to Kintail 10th May
1902
1917.
DONALD MACASKILL BEGBIE,
1917 trans, from the Free Church, Lairg,
and adm. 5th Sept. 1917; trans, to
Freuchie 4th April 1919.
DONALD MACKINNON, ord. to
1919 Stornoway 14th July 1897; trans,
to Glengarry 30th Sept. 1903 ; trans,
to Kilninian and Kilmore 6th July 1909;
trans, to Milton, Glasgow, 18th May 1914 ;
trans, and adm. 13th Aug. 1919.
CLYNE.
[Clyne.— The church at Clyne was dedi
cated to St Aloyne. A prebend of Clyne
in the Cathedral of Dornoch was held by
the Dean of Caithness. In this parish
there were at least four chapels : St
Columba's, at Killcholumkill on the east
side of Loch Brora ; St Machan's, at Kill-
machain near Doll ; St John the Evangelist's,
at Killiain ; and St Peter's at Kilpheadair.
At Inverbrora, near the church, various
fairs were held. They included trysts of
St Aloyne and St Peter, a Lady Day Fair
in December, a Lammas Fair, and one at
Michaelmas. There is a mission chapel in
this parish at Inverbrora.]
WILLIAM HEPBURN, dean of Caith
ness in 1557 ; died after 1562. —
[Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 617.]
GAVIN BORTHWICK, son of Michael
1566 B. of Glengelt, Channelkirk ; coll.
by the bishop to the deanery 1st
June 1566 ; res. about 1607.— [Orig. Paroch.
Scot., ii., 617 ; Craven's Diocese of Caith
ness, 28.]
ANDREW ANDERSON, exhorter at
1574 Loth in 1567, min. here in 1574, with
Loth and Kildonan also in his
charge ; returned to Loth in 1590.
JOHN GRAY, third son of Gilbert G. of
1608 Suardell aQd Christian, daugh. of
Robert Munro of Foulis; pres. to
the deanery by James VI. 15th Jan. 1608 ;
trans, to Dornoch before 1614 ; min. again
about 1621.
JAMES GRAY, trans, from Creich in
1614 1614, but probably not settled.
JOHN GRAY, above noticed ; re-trans.
1621 ^rom Dornoch about 1621 ; died 21st
Jan. 1638. He marr. (1) Barbara,
daugh. of John Keith of Ludquharn, min.
of Duffus, and had issue — Robert of
Auchinloynge, provost of Dornoch ; Gilbert ;
Christian (marr. Patrick Dunbar of Sidera) :
(2) Elizabeth, daugh. of Douglas of Spynie,
widow of Patrick Dunbar, min. of Duffus.
— [Gordon's Hist, of Sutherland ; Inq. Ret.
Sutherland, 8 ; Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 617 ;
Reg. of Deeds, dxxx., 24th July 1641.]
WILLIAM GRAY, son of James G.,
1638 min. of Lairg ; adm. before 21st
Nov. 1638; still min. in 1673. He
marr. (cont. 3rd April 1640) Catherine,
daugh. of Oliver Gordon of Drumoy, and
had issue— James.— {Reg. of Deeds, dxli.,
44; Inverness Sas., iv., 200; Orig. Paroch.
Scot., ii., 622.]
80
CLYNE
[PRESB. OF
JAMES GRAY, M.A. (St Andrews, 27th
July 1667); adm. before 13th July
1 1682 ; dep. after 4th July 1688 for
charming and swearing. He marr. Christian
M'lvor, and had issue— Catherine, marr.
(cont. 9th May 1705) George, son to James
Hay, min. of Kildonan).— [G. R. Inhib.,
xxxix., 31st Jan. 1706.]
EYE MACKAY of Pettifine, eldest son
of William M., min. of Rogart, passed
part of his trials before Presb. of
Moray ; licen. by Presb. of Ross 18th Nov.
1696; called in Feb., and ord. 18th Aug.
1697; dep. for adultery and incest 3rd
Sept. 1701. He marr. (cont. 6th July 1693,
Katherine, daugh. of Patrick Dunbar of
Ledderlay (1 Sidera), and had issue— Hugh,
sergeant in Lord Balgonie's Company in
General Handyside's Regiment of Foot in
Flanders ; Patrick, served heir to his father
and grandfather 14th Jan. 1730; Helen
(marr. Captain- Patrick Mackay of Borley).
— [Edin. Test., 16th March 1747 ; Inverness
Sas., vi., 241.]
ROBERT THOMSON, called by the
Presb. jure devoluto 10th, and ord.
1 24th Sept. 1713; trans, to Kirkhill
22nd April 1717.
FRANCIS ROBERTSON, son of
Francis R. in Balcony and Helen,
daugh. of Hugh Ross of Easter
Fearn ; educated at Univ. of St Andrews ;
M.A. (3rd May 1710) ; became schoolmaster
of Tain ; licen. by Presb. of Dornoch 17th
Dec. 1718 ; pres. by the Presb. jure devoluto
20th Jan., and ord. 7th May 1719. Having
suffered serious losses from fire and expenses
of law-suits, a contribution on his behalf
was recommended by the General Assembly,
23rd May 1737, to be made in all the
parishes of Scotland. He died 14th May
1763. He marr. Jan. 1723, Jane (died
14th May 1776), daugh. of Sutherland of
Gills, and had issue — Francis, died in
England June 1749; Gilbert, born 1727;
Charles, licentiate, died 15th June 1752 ;
James, born 26th July 1733, died 10th Jan.
1749; Margaret, born 15th March 1738;
Mary, born 17th April 1740 (marr. John
Thomson, min. of Durness) ; Janet, bore
8th Aug. 1742 ; Jean, born 13th June 1744
(marr. Captain George Sutherland of Mid-
gartly) ; Henrietta, born 22nd Sept. 1748.
GEORGE GORDON, son of George G.,
Gartly, spent all his patrimony on
his education and at college; was
recommended by Presb. of Tongue, 30th
July 1759, to the Synod for supply ; licen.
by that Presb. 7th July 1763; pres. by
William, Earl of Sutherland, Nov. that
year ; ord. 10th April 1764, died 2nd Sept.
1770. He marr. 18th May 1764, Eliza
beth (died June 1784), daugh. of George
Graham of Drynie, and had issue— Anne,
born 24th May 1765, died 19th May 1768;
Robert, born 3rd April 1767 ; Anne, born
1st Feb. 1769.
HARRY ROBERTSON, M.A. ; pres. by
the tutors of Elizabeth, Countess of
Sutherland, Oct. 1770 ; ord. 8th May
1771 ; trans, to Kiltearn 9th May 1776.
WALTER ROSS, M.A. (Marischal
College, Aberdeen, 1771); licen. by
Presb. of Tain 1st May 1776 ; pres.
by the tutors of Elizabeth, Countess of
Sutherland, Oct. 1776. The presentation
was so unpopular it is stated, 9th Feb.
1777, that "he probably would have been
murdered, had he not been protected and
rescued by the gentlemen, as even the elders
instigated and countenanced it"; ord. 7th
May 1777 ; died 14th May 1825, aged about
74. He marr. 16th Feb. 1787, Elizabeth
(died 30th June 1804), daugh. of Captain
John Sutherland, tenant of Clyneleish,
and had issue— William Baillie, physician,
Tain, born 21st Feb. 1790; Janet, born
27th May, died 15th July 1793. Publica
tion—Account of the Parish (Sinclair's
StaL Ace., x.).— [Memorabilia Domestica,
54, 109, 138.]
HUGH MACKENZIE, M.A. ; trans.
from Assynt; pres. by George,
' Marquess, and Elizabeth, Marchioness
of Stafford, in June, and adm. 3rd Aug.
1825; trans, to Killin 26th June 1828.
DORNOCH]
CLYNE— CREICH
GEORGE MACKAY, born 1796, son of
1828 Alexander M., Reay ; appointed
schoolmaster of Loth in 1819;
educated at King's College, Aberdeen ;
licen. by Presb. of Dornoch 5th April
1825 ; assistant at Tain Nov. 1827 ; pros,
by Elizabeth, Marchioness, and George,
Marquess of Stafford, in April, and ord.
3rd Sept. 1828. Joined the Free Church in
1843; min. .of Free Church, Clyne, 1843-5;
min. of Free North Church, Inverness,
1845-86 ; D.D. (Aberdeen 1878) ; died 27th
June 1886. He marr. (1) 28th April 1831,
Louisa (died 1845), daugh. of Gabriel Reid,
Gordonbush, and had issue— Gabriel, born
12th May 1832 ; Alexander, born 24th Dec.
1833; Alexandrina, born 22nd Oct. 1835,
died 24th May 1837; George, born 23rd
Oct. 1837: (2) 9th Oct. 1847, Catherine
(died 6th Feb. 1885), daugh. of Thomas
Fraser, min. at Inverness. — [Disruption
Worthies of the Highlands (portrait),
238-53.]
HECTOR MACKENZIE, adm. 7th Dec.
1843; trans, to Moy 25th July
1844.
DUGALD M'KELLAR, only son of
1844 ^ugald M., Argyllshire; educated
at Univ. of Glasgow; adm. 18th
Sept. 1844; dep. 28th May 1863; died at
Glasgow 16th Nov. 1878.
PETER CALDER, born 1829, son of
1864 J°nn C-i farmer, and Janet Fergu
son; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen; M.A.(Marchl854); schoolmaster
of Grantown ; ord. to Fort Augustus in 1860;
adm. to Kinlochbervie 10th April 1862 ;
trans, and adm. 14th Jan. 1864; died 30th
Sept. 1870. He marr. 2nd June 1857, Jessie
M'Gregor, who died 25th Nov. 1877, and
had issue — James M'Gregor, born 21st
Aug. 1858 ; Jessie Louisa, born 4th March
1860 ; John Gregor, born 24th Oct. 1861 ;
Margaret Ann, born 12th May 1863 ;
Partick, born 26th Aug. 1865, died 3rd
July 1870.
ANDREW MELDRUM, ord. 20th June
1871 18^ > trans- to Logierait 7th Nov.
1876.
VOL. VII.
DONALD GRANT, ord. 22nd March
^ 1877; trans, to Dornoch 30th Jan.
1878.
JAMES DUNCAN MACRAE, trans.
18?8 from Burghead and adm. 12th Sept.
1 878 ; trans, to Contin 24th Dec. 1884.
ROBERT LAMONT RITCHIE, ord.
1st July 1885 ; trans, to Creich 19th
' Oct. 1887.
JOHN SPARK, born Montrose 26th
1880 Jan. 1849, son of Archibald S. and
Barbara Reith ; educated at Ythan
Wells School, Old Grammar School, Aber
deen, and Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A. (1874) ;
licen. by Presb. of Glasgow May 1876;
assistant at Airth ; ord. to St James's,
Kirkcaldy, 18th Oct. 1877; trans, and
adm. 13th Aug. 1889 ; died 1st July 1926.
He marr. 4th Feb. 1890, Christina, youngest
daugh. of Charles Fyfe, Glasgow, and had
issue — John Archibald, lieut. 19th Punjabis,
Indian Army, born 31st Jan. 1891 ; Christina
Mary, born 5th April 1892 ; Anna Caroline,
nurse, born 2nd Aug. 1894 (marr. 10th June
1924, Sydney Brown, London) ; Charles
Frederick, engineer, R.A.F., born 24th
March 1896; Barbara Wilhelmina, student
of medicine, born 29th Dec. 1898 ; Alexander
EdwardRonald,engineer,born6thSept.l901.
JOHN FAULDS, trans, from Milton of
1926 Balgonie (q.v.) 1926; trans, to Sea-
field, 18th May 1927.
HECTOR WILLIAM MACKAY, M.A.,
l 2? B.D., trans, from Snizort, 23rd Nov.
1927.
CREICH.
[The church of Creich was dedicated to
St Deavanach. A prebend of Creich was
held by the Chantor of the Cathedral of
Dornoch. There were chapels in this
parish at Knockan and Achness. A
mission chapel within the bounds was
built at Rosehall in 1891.]
WILLIAM GRAY, min. of Dornoch, had
1569 charge also here.
DONALD LOGAN, reader here and in
1688 the Gaelic tongue at Moy in 1569;
adm. chantor of Caithness about
1583; still min. in 1597.— [Orig. Paroch.
Scot, ii., 618.]
CREICH
[PRESB. OF
JAMES GRAY, trans, from Lairg in | WALTER ROSS, ord. 14th Jan. 1714;
1607 1607 ; trans, to Clyne in 1614. 1714 trans, to Tongue llth June 1730.
ALEXANDER DUFF, adm. before 28th
Nov. 1616 ; dem. 13th Aug. 1623
through not having the Gaelic tongue,
and adm. to Kilmalie [Golspie]," where there
are some who have the Scottish tongue."
ROBERT MONRO [alias M'FER-
SOUN] of Creich, son of Hugh M.
of Assynt, and grandson of Robert M.
of Foulis ; min. of Dornoch and Creich in
1623. He had issue— Christian (marr.
Donald Mackay of Borley).— [Macfarlane's
Geog. Coll., i., 203 ; Mackenzie's Hist, of
the Munros, 469.]
JOHN HOSACK, M.A. (King's
_ College, Aberdeen 1619) ; suspended
by General Assembly in July 1649 ;
dep. before 16th Aug. 1656 when parish
was declared vacant. He continued to
marry and baptise notwithstanding. —
[Macfarlane's Geog. Coll., i., 203.]
JOHN DEMPSTER, adm. before 20th
1664 April 1664 > trans, to Lairg before
7th Oct. 1668.
JOHN ALEXANDER, licen. by George,
Bishop of Edinburgh, 21st May 1666 ;
ord. 16th Jan. 1668; trans, to Kil-
drummy 28th May 1682.
HUGH ROSE, son of Alexander R.,
Morayshire ; adm. before 13th July
1682 ; was summoned before Privy
Council, 7th Nov. 1689, for not reading the
Proclamation of the Estates, etc., but the
charge was not proceeded with ; afterwards
dep. but continued to preach, celebrate
marriages and baptisms, for which he was
highly censured by the Presb. in 1699 ;
died at an advanced age after 1726. He
marr. Margaret Sutherland, Pronsie, and
had issue — Angus, miller at Invershin. —
[Macfarlane's Geog. Coll., i.. 203.]
ANDREW MUNRO, son of John M.,
17 ^ Lemlair; licen. by Presb. of St
Andrews llth Oct. 1704; ord. 6th
May 1707 ; died 1712.— [Macfarlane's Geog.
Coll., i., 203.]
JAMES SMITH, born 1684 ; licen. by
Presb. of Haddington 20th Oct. 1 7 19 ;
ord. (at Dingwall) to Gairloch llth
May 1721 ; trans, and adm. 29th April
1731 ; died 17th Nov. 1758. He marr.
25th Feb. 1724, Katherine Munro, who
died llth Dec. 1758, and had issue —
Christian ; Katherine ; George, born 20th
April 1729; John, born 18th Feb. 1733;
Elizabeth, born 28th Nov. 1735; Isobel,
born 17th April 1737.
HUGH ROSE, M.A. ; pres. by George
II. llth April, and adm. '26th Sept.
1759 ; trans, to Tain 27th June 1770.
GEORGE RAINY, born Aberdeen-
1771 shire, 1734, son of John R. (originally
Rennie),farmer,Turriff (a Hanoverian
who suffered for his anti-Jacobitism during
the '45) ; educated at Univ. of Aberdeen ;
licen. by Presb. of Chanonry 19th July
1763 ; ord. by Presb. of Tain as mission
ary in Creich and Kincardine 8th May
1766; pres. by George III. 14th Feb.
and 20th Nov. 1770, and by tutors of
Elizabeth, Countess of Sutherland ; adm.
2nd April 1771 ; died 23rd Oct. 1810.
He marr. 17th Nov. 1772, Anne (died
13th Aug. 1833), daugh. of Gilbert Robert
son, min. of Kincardine, and had issue —
Margaret and two others who all died
young ; Margaret, born 16th April 1774
(marr. 7th Dec. 1797 Charles Stewart
Parker of Blochairn), died 17th Jan. 1844 ;
Christina, born 13th June 1776 (marr. 9th
Nov. 1804, Hugh Tennant of Wellpark,
manufacturer, Glasgow) ; Isabella, born 18th
Dec. 1780 (marr. Angus Kennedy, min. of
Dornoch); Gilbert, born 14th Oct. 1782,
died of fever at Demerara, June 1808 ;
Anne, born 17th March 1787 (marr. 30th
March 1820, Robert Brown of Fairlie,
merchant, Glasgow), died 1872 ; George of
Raasay, merchant, Demerara, born 6th
June 1790, died 9th June 1863 ; Harry, M.D.,
professor of Forensic Medicine, Glasgow
(father of Robert R., D.D., LL.D., Principal
of the U.F. College, Edinburgh), born 21st
Oct. 1792, died 6th Aug. 1876. Publication
DORNOCH]
CREICH— DORNOCH
83
— Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat.
Ace., viii.). — [The Life of Principal Rainy,
i., 4, 13; Memorabilia Domestica, 51,
124.]
MURDOCH CAMERON, born Ross-
shire ; educated at King's College,
L Aberdeen ; M.A. (29th March 1787) ;
licen. by Presb. of Chanonry 2nd July
1799; ord. missionary at Strathglass
2nd Sept. 1799; res. 1st May 1805;
assistant in this parish till May 1810;
assistant at Croy Aug. that year ; pres.
by George, Prince Regent, and Elizabeth,
Marchioness of Stafford, 15th Feb., and
adm. 25th Sept. 1811 (under protection of
the military, when a riot ensued in which
Captain Kenneth Mackay of Torboll, who
commanded, had his sword shivered to
pieces by stones thrown at him by an
old woman of seventy); died unmarr.,13th
Dec. 1853. Publication— Account of the
Parish (New Stat. Ace., xv.). — [Memorabilia
Domestica, 206.]
NEIL MACKINNON, born about 1819,
1855 son °^ ^r Farquhar M., Kyleakin ;
educated at King's College, Aber
deen, 1831-5 ; ord. to Bracadale 22nd Sept.
1843 ; pres. by Queen Victoria 19th June,
trans, and adm. 27th Sept. 1855 ; died 27th
Oct. 1886. He marr. 30th April 1850,
Elizabeth Flora Ann (died 20th Nov. 1896),
daugh. of James Thomas Macdonald of
Balranald, and had issue— Catherine, born
10th Feb. 1851 (marr. James Ross of Polio,
Ross-shire); Farquhar, born 31st May 1853;
Jane, born 31st Oct. 1855 ; Jemima Alex-
andrina, born 4th July 1859 (marr. James
Ross, distiller, Easter Ross); James Donald,
born 25th Nov. 1861 ; Christina, born 5th
Dec. 1863.
ROBERT LAMONT RITCHIE, born
Tobermory, 13th March 1859, son
of Captain George R., lona, and
Mary Lamont ; educated at Parish School,
Ayr Academy, and Univ. of Glasgow ;
licen. by Presb. of Kintyre 13th May
1884 ; assistant at Killearn ; ord. to Clyne
1st July 1885; trans, and adm. 19th
Oct. 1887. Publication— Some Unpublished
Gaelic Songs by Angus Lamont, Bard of
Mull (Inverness, p.p., 1899). — [Trans.
Gaelic Soc. Inverness, xxiv., 66.]
DORNOCH.
[The ancient parish church of Dornoch
was dedicated to St Finn Barr. In Dornoch
stood also St Gilbert's, the Cathedral
church of Caithness. In the later years
of the sixteenth century St Gilbert's was
made the church of the parish. It took
its name from St Gilbert, Bishop of Caith
ness, its founder. He was buried in the
Cathedral in 1245. There was within it a
chapel of St James. St Gilbert's Cathedral
was burned down in 1570. In 1605 it was
greatly ruined by a very violent storm.
In 1835 the restoration of the venerable
building was begun by Elizabeth, Duchess
of Sutherland, and the work went on for
a number of years. In 1924 on the occasion
of the Septcentenary of the founding of
Dornoch Cathedral, a mural tablet was
erected in memory of St Gilbert. A
convent of the Red Friars was founded at
Dornoch in 1271. Fairs of St Finn Barr
and St Gilbert were held in the town.]
WILLIAM GRAY, exhorter in the
156g Gaelic language in 1567, and in 1569
supplied Creich by ministration of
the sacraments ; trans, to Lairg in 1580.
WILLIAM PAPE [or POPE], M.A.,
min. in 1588 ; trans, to Nigg about
! 1613. [In the Dunrobin Museum
there is an old stone with coat-of-arms and
initials, M. W. P. and C. M., probably those
of P. and his wife (see p. 65).].— {Illustration
in jBentinck's "Dornoch,'1 174.]
JOHN GRAY, trans, from Clyne before
1614 1614 ; re-trans, to Clyne about 1621.
ROBERT MONRO, called min. of Creich
I62g and Dornoch in 1623.— [Reg. of Deeds,
ccc., Ixi., sup. 333.]
JOHN GRAY, app. Justice of the Peace
168. in 1634.— [P. C. Reg., 2nd ser., v.,
388.]
84
DORNOCH
[PRESB. OF
1648
ALEXANDER MONRO, son of John
M. of Pittonachy; min. of Golspie 18th
1639 Sept. 1634 ; trans, and adm. in 1639 ;
was a member of Assembly that year ; had
a gift of 300 merks yearly from Charles I.,
12th Nov. 1641, and of 800 merks or eight
chalders of victual in augmentation of his
stipend, on condition of giving 300 merks
yearly to uphold the Church and 200 merks
to the master of the Grammar School ; this
was ratified by Parliament 17th Nov. that
year. He was dep. for intemperance and
the sentence approved by the Assembly
July 1649. He marr. a 'daugh. of Alex
ander Ross of Balblair. — [Reg. Sec. Sig.;
Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 616.]
GEORGE GRAY, son of James G.,
min. of Lairg; educated at Univ.
of St Andrews; M.A. (1646); was
a member of Commission of Assembly
llth Aug. 1648 ; obtained a warrant from
English commissioners at -Leith, July 1655,
for drawing his bygone stipend ; died 18th
April 1662, aged about 36. He marr.
Elspeth Monypenny, and had issue —
Robert, apprenticed to George Child,
saddler, Edinburgh, 23rd Sept. 1668.—
[Lament's Diary, 90, 148 ;. Feme MSS.~]
JOHN ROSS, a native of Moray ; edu
cated at King's College, Aberdeen ;
M.A. (27th April 1663); adm. to
Latheron before 5th Feb. 1668 ; trans, and
adm. in 1680 ; summoned before the Privy
Council, 7th Nov. 1689, for not reading the
Proclamation of the Estates and not pray
ing in terms thereof, but having shown
that he had no scruple to read it and had
prayed for William and Mary, he was
acquitted ; dem. in 1691.
WILLIAM MACKAY, entered at
Martinmas 1690 ; trans, to Crom-
90 dale after 17th April 1694.
[HUGH DUFF had calls to Dornoch
and Fearn, but, 23rd Dec. 1698, declared
" he could not think of settling in Dornoch
without violence to his conscience."—
[Bentick's Dornoch, 249.] ]
ARCHIBALD BOWIE, ord. in 1702
17Q2 after a vacancy of eight years ; trans
to Monzie 7th Sept. 1710.
1680
ROBERT KIRK, born about 1690, son
of Robert K., min. of Aberfoyle ;
718 educated at Univ. of Edinburgh;
M.A. (15th June 1710); licen. by Presb.
f Haddington 27th May 1712 ; pres. to
VIorham Sept. that year, but was called
;o this parish by Presb. of Dornoch jure
ievoluto 28th July, and ord. 23rd Sept.
1713; died 27th Feb. 1758. He lodged
lohn, Earl of Loudoun, during the Rebel-
ion in 1745-6, was noted for his piety,
diligence, and zeal, and is stated to have
Deen "an Israelite indeed, in whom was
10 guile." He marr. (1) 3rd Dec. 1714,
Lilias (died 19th May 1746), daugh. of
Alexander Sutherland of Pronsie, and had
issue — Christian (marr. llth Feb. 1738,
Hugh Macdonald, sheriff-clerk of Suther
land); Margaret; Robert, M.A. (1747), died
19th Aug. 1750 ; Alexander, born 19th
Sept. 1731 : (2) 9th April 1747, Jean (died
14th July 1800), daugh. of George Ross
of Pitkerrie, and had issue— George, born
1st Aug. 1751, died Oct. 1752; Ann,
born 21st July 1753 ; Jean, born 6th
Dec. 1754 (marr. 1782, Colonel Duncan
Munro of Culcairn). — [Reid's Earls of
Ross, 40.]
JOHN SUTHERLAND, born Dornoch,
1731, son of William S. ; educated
at Univ. of St Andrews; M.A.
(1752) ; licen. by Presb. of Perth 28th Jan.
1756; ord. as missionary at Moidart 18th
Nov. that year ; trans, to Kilmalie llth May
1758 ; pres. by William, Earl of Sutherland,
Nov. that year ; trans, and adm. 22nd Feb.
1759 ; died 10th Sept. 1777. He marr.
22nd March 1759, Elizabeth (died 3rd May
1812), daugh. of John Sutherland, min. of
Tain, and had issue — William, born llth
Oct. 1760 ; Maxwell, born 24th April 1762 ;
James Colquhoun, born 22nd Sept. 1763,
died 22nd March 1764 ; Christian, born 4th
Jan. 1765 (marr. Sheriff Hugh MacCulloch) ;
John, born 12th April 1767, died 17th May
1768; Mary Macdonald, born 18th Feb.
1770 ; yEneas, born 24th Aug. 1772 ; Eliza
beth Wemyss Matilda, born 10th Aug.
1775 ; John, lieut. 85th Foot, born 24th
April 1778, died in Jamaica llth Oct.
1806.
DORNOCH]
DORNOCH
85
JOHN BETHUNE, born 1746, son of
John B., min. of Glenshiel ; educated
at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A.
(2nd April 1764); licen. by Presb. of
Gairloch 4th April 1770 ; ord. to Harris
13th May 1772; pres. by the trustees and
tutors of Elizabeth, Countess of Suther
land, in March, trans, and adm. 16th Sept.
1778; D.D. (Aberdeen, 15th Aug. 1812);
died 8th Oct. 1816. He was an eloquent
classical scholar, and has been described as
"one of the most finished gentlemen" of
his time. He had piercing black eyes and a
cocked nose which gave a strong expression
of good humour to his face. He marr.
19th Feb. 1779, Barbara Margaret (died 7th
March 1835), daugh. of Joseph Monro, min.
of Edderton, and had issue — Christina,
born 16th May 1780 (marr. 7th Nov. 1801,
Captain Robert Sutherland of the Royal
Invalids, Tower of London) ; Joseph,
captain 78th Foot, born 21st Dec. 1781 ;
John, born 17th Aug. 1783, died at Berbice,
5th July 1804; Barbara, born llth Aug.
1785 (marr. 7th June 1817, Lieut.-Colonel
John Ross of Strathgarvie, 2nd West
Indian Regiment) ; Walter, born 6th Nov.
1787, died 6th March 1838; Janet, born
1st June 1789, died unmarr. at Inverness ;
Matthew Townsend, surgeon, Inverness,
born 26th Feb. 1792, died 1820; Walter
Angus of Dunrobin, Tasmania, born 22nd
July 1795; Robert, farmer in the Black
Isle, and afterwards in America, born 16th
Dec. 1796. Publication— Account of the
Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., viii.).— [Memor
abilia Domestica, 52, 115, 120.]
ANGUS KENNEDY, born Lochcarron,
1817 1769, son of Donald K., farmer,
Kishorn, Applecross, Ross-shire, and
Mary, daugh. of ^Eneas Sage ; educated at
King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (29th
March, 1798); schoolmaster at Lochalsh ;
licen. by Presb. of Lochcarron 18th June
1801 ; assistant at Lairg that year ; ord.
(assistant and successor) to Lairg 23rd
Nov. 1802 ; pres. by George, Marquess, and
Elizabeth, Marchioness of Stafford, in May,
trans, and adm. 3rd July 1817. Joined the
Free Church in 1843 ; min. of Free Church,
Dornoch, 1843-55 ; died 22nd June 1855.
He marr. 16th Jan. 1806, Isabella (died
22nd Jan. 1860), daugh. of George Rainy,
min. of Creich, and had issue — Georgiana
Robertson, born 15th April 1807 (marr.
29th April 1835, John Mackenzie, min. of
Carnoch) ; Donald, born 9th March 1811,
died 10th March 1829 ; George Rainy, min.
of this parish ; yEneas Sage, went to Canada,
born 12th Feb. 1815; Charles Stewart
Parker, merchant, Kingston, Canada, born
18th April 1819, died before 1865 ; John
Alexander, born 8th July 1823, died 19th
Feb. 1825. Publication— Account of the
Parish (New Stat. Ace., xv.)— [Memorabilia
Domestica, 13, 213.]
GEORGE RAINY KENNEDY, born 3rd
1Ro»7 Nov. 1812, second son of preceding ;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; licen.
by Presb. of Dornoch 26th Nov. 1834;
assistant at Kildonan ; pres. by Elizabeth,
Duchess of Sutherland, in Oct., and ord.
(assistant and successor) 23rd Nov. 1837.
Joined the Free Church in 1843; min. of
Free Church, Dornoch, 1843-80 ; died 29th
June 1899. He marr. 1848, Ann Eliza
(died 12th Aug. 1865), daugh. of Hugh
Tennant of Wellpark, Glasgow, s.p. : (2)
Aug. 1865, Mary Margaret (daugh. of
Hugh M'Intyre, and had issue — Harry
Angus Alexander, D.D., D.Sc., professor of
New Testament language, literature, and
theology, New College, Edinburgh, born 4th
July 1866 ; George Rainy born 15th Dec. 1867.
ALEXANDER M'lVER, born 1801,
1848 son °^ Colin M., min. of Glenelg ;
educated at King's College, Aber
deen ; M.A. (30th March 1816); app.
schoolmaster of Glenelg 29th May 1816;
licen. by Presb. of Lochcarron 21st July
1820; ord. missionary at Arnisdale and
Knoydart llth Dec. 1821 ; missionary at
Glenmoriston, 1824-6 ; adm. to Sleat 26th
April 1826 ; trans, and adm. 22nd Nov.
1843 ; died 5th Aug. 1852. He marr. 20th
Nov. 1833, Alexa Hume (died 26th Sept.
1875), daugh. of Kenneth Campbell of
Stroud, Harris, and had issue- — Anne Mary,
born 28th Aug. 1834 (marr. Thomas Stephen,
min. of Kinloss) ; Kenneth, born 16th Oct.
1836. Publication — Account of Parish of
Sleat (New Stat. Ace., xiv.).
86
DORNOCH— GOLSPIE
[PEESB. OF
WILLIAM FORSYTE, M.A. ; trans.
1853 from Ardersier, and adm. 27th April
1853 ; trans, to Abernethy and Kin
cardine 24th April 1863.
DONALD MACLEOD, pres. by Duke
of Sutherland, and adm. 14th Aug.
1863 ; trans, to Greyfriars' Church,
Dumfries, 1st Feb. 1866.
DUNCAN STEWART, trans, from
Golspie, and adm. 19th June 1866;
trans, to Elgin 21st Aug. 1873.
CHARLES M'GREGOR, trans, from
Ardoch, and adm. 12th March 1874 ;
trans, to East Church, Aberdeen,
9th Aug. 1877.
DONALD GRANT, born 1848, son
1878 of Donald G., clothier, and Jane
Rattray ; educated at Univ. of Edin
burgh ; licen. by Presb. of Abernethy 8th
June 1875 ; ord. to Clyne 22nd March
1877; trans, and adm. 30th Jan. 1878;
D.D. (St Andrews 1903) ; died 20th Nov.
1906. He marr. 14th Feb. 1889, Henrietta
Phillipina, daugh. of James Hall of Evelix,
formerly of Jamaica, and had issue — Mary
Georgina Jane, born 26th Nov. 1893 (marr.
19th Feb. 1919, George Hunter Morrison,
captain Canadian Forestry Corps) ; Donald
James, M.C., captain A. & S. Highlanders,
born 2nd April 1896. Publication— Dornoch
in the Eighteenth Century (Trans. Inver
ness Field Club, iv., 339-55).
CHARLES DONALD BENTINCK,
1907 k°rn Kingussie, 24th Jan. 1866, son
of John Henry B. and Flora Wilson ;
educated at Kingussie School, George
Watson's College, Edinburgh, and Univs.
of Edinburgh, M.A. (1886), and St Andrews,
B.D. (1888) ; licen. by Presb. of Abernethy
June 1888 ; assistant at St Columba's
Church, Glasgow; ord. to Kirkhill llth
July 1889 ; trans, and adm. 7th June 1907 ;
D.D. (St Andrews, 26th June 1925). Marr.
15th Sept. 1891, Helen Green, daugh. of
James Fraser, min. of Erchless, and has
issue — Henry James Fraser, lieut. Sea-
forth Highlanders), born 4th Oct. 1892;
George Alexander, M.C., captain 9th Royal
Scots, born 19th Sept. 1893 ; Flora Eliza
beth, born 2nd Oct. 1894 (marr. 2nd Oct.
1917, Finlay William Nugent Finlayson,
lieut. Gordon Highlanders) ; Catherine
Frances Letitia, born 25th April 1898
(marr. 2nd Oct. 1918, Major W. Eric Hugh
Gardner, 129th Canadian Forestry Corps) ;
Marjory Isabel Elspeth, born 16th Feb.
1902 (marr. 25th Jan. 1921, Robert Balfour
Kerr, Barney Mains, Haddington shire) ;
Charles Macpherson, born 26th Dec. 1905 ;
Evelyn Helen, born 14th July 1907 ; Eliza
beth Hoyes, born 3rd Sept. 1910 ; Gilbert
Evan, born 7th June 1913. Publications —
"Wardlaw Church and Clergy" (Trans.
Gael. Soc. Inverness, xxv., 273-96), " Letters
of a Jacobite Chief [Simon, Lord Lovat]
and a Loyalist Lady" (Trans. Gael. Soc.
Inverness, xxvi., 157-82) ; " The Bishops and
Clergy of the Diocese of Caithness " (Trans.
Gael. Soc. Inverness) ; Dornoch Cathedral
and Parish (Inverness, 1926).
GOLSPIE, OF OLD KILMALIE.
[The ancient church of this parish, which
stood at Kilmalie, was dedicated to St
Maliew. It belonged to the Bishop of
Caithness. That church having fallen out
of repair, the parish church was removed
from Kilmalie to the chapel of St Andrew
at Golspie, in another part of the parish,
and St Andrew's was fitted up of new for
that purpose. At Golspie a fair of St
Andrew was held. At Dunrobin, within
the bounds, there was a Well of St John.]
ROBERT FERNE, a curate under the
Roman Church in 1546 ; exhorter
and reader from 1567 to 1585.—
[Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 649.]
WILLIAM GRAY, min. of Assynt ; had
1574 charge here in 1574.
ALEXANDER DUFF, adm. to Creich
1628 before 28th Nov. 1616; dem. 13th
Aug. 1623, and adm. here ; ratified
his promise, 19th April 1626, to marry
Jean, daugh. of John Douglas, burgess of
Elgin, but in 1626 for failing to implement
the same, his horse was seized and he was
ordered to be warded if found within Elgin.
— [The Book of the Duffs, ii., 532 ; Reg. of
Deeds, dl., 374 ; Elgin Sess. Rec.~]
1567
DORNOCH]
GOLSPIE
87
1656
1682
1690
ALEXANDER MONRO, min. here 18th
Sept. 1634, when he was app. a
Justice of the Peace for Sutherland ;
trans, to Dornoch before 12th Aug. 1639.
JOHN MACCULLOCH, born Ross-
shire, son of John M., educated at
King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A.
(1652); adm. before 16th Aug. 1656; died
before llth Dec. 1671. He marr. Beatrix
Gray, who survived him, and had issue —
John, student, King's College, Aberdeen,
1676 ; George ; Barbara. — [G. R. Homings,
13th Dec. 1678 and 12th July 1687 ; G. R.
Inhib., llth Dec. 1671.]
HUGH ROSE, M.A. (King's College,
Aberdeen, 1670); adm. before 13th
July 1682 ; dem. before 1689.
WALTER DENUNE, M.A. (King's Col
lege, Aberdeen, 1650) ; app. by
Bishop of Ross to enter on trials
before Presb. of Dingwall 21st Nov. 1677;
entered on ministry between llth April
and 13th July 1678 ; was accused of keeping
conventicles in Culbin with Lemlair's
widow, though prohibited by the Earl of
Seaforth and complained against to Bishop
Paterson. He was arrested, 12th Feb.
1679, and ordered to be taken to the Tol-
booth of Edinburgh, but was rescued at the
South Ferry of Dundee, preached at Dup-
plin Mill, 30th May that year, and con
tinued to hold conventicles, but no further
proceedings taken against him. He was
adm. here about 1690 and died March 1729,
aged about 100. By his will, dated llth Nov.
1725, he left 1000 merks Scots to provide a
bursary in the New College of Aberdeen
for a relative or other student. — [Brodie's
Diary ; Wodrow's Hist., iii., 38 ; Anal.,
iv., 4 ; Arbroath Sess. Reg.'}
JOHN SUTHERLAND, ord. 30th April
1731 1731 ; trans, to Tain 29th July 1752.
MARTIN MACPHERSON, born 1723,
son of John M., schoolmaster at
Orbost ; Keen, by Presb. of Skye 2nd
March 1748; assistant at Rothesay and
missionary at Badenoch and Lochaber ;
adm. to Glenelg 18th Dec. 1751 ; pres. by
commissioners for William, Earl of Suther
land, 5th and 22nd Jan., trans, and adm.
1754
1st May 1754 ; died 10th Sept. 1773. He
marr. 3rd Nov. 1755, Elizabeth (died 3rd
May 1807), daugh. of Hugh Gordon of
Carrol, and had issue— Lucy, born 16th
Dec. 1756 ; Jean, born 3rd Feb. 1758 ;
Margaret, born 30th June 1759 ; Ann, born
15th March 1761 ; Barbara, born 23rd May
1762 ; John, born 27th Nov. 1763, died 5th
May 1771 ; Elizabeth, born 15th June 1765 ;
Hugh, M.D., Sub-Principal, Professor of
Greek, and sometime Professor of Hebrew,
King's College, Aberdeen, born 12th Aug.
1767, died 12th March 1854 ; William, born
17th July 1769 ; John, born 30th April
1771; Norman, born 20th July 1772;
Martina, born 14th May 1774. Publication
— " A Letter to the Author of the Treatise
on the Second Sight " (Miscell. Scot., iii.).—
[Anderson's King's College, 43.]
JOHN CAMPBELL, licen. by Presb. of
Dunkeld in 1772 ; pres. by tutors
of Elizabeth, Countess of Suther
land; ord. 27th Sept. 1774; dem. 14th
Dec. 1775 and lived in retirement at
Dunkeld.
WILLIAM GUNN, son of Adam G.,
tacksman of Milbuie, Dunbeath ;
educated at King's College, Aber
deen; M.A. (28th March 1771); school
master of Tongue ; licen. by Presb. of
Tongue 25th Oct. 1774; pres. by tutors
of Elizabeth, Countess of Sutherland, in
Feb., and ord. 15th Aug. 1776 ; died 28th
Dec. 1785, aged about 34, one of the most
popular preachers in the North. He marr.
9th July 1779, Anne (died senior annuitant
of Ministers' Widows' Fund 3rd July 1841),
daugh. of David Henderson of Stemster,
and had issue — Cecilia, born 16th June
1780, died 14th Nov. 1785; Adam, born
18th Jan. 1782 ; Mary, born 14th Nov.
1784.
WILLIAM KEITH, born Easter Ross,
1741 ; educated at Univs. of Aber
deen and Edinburgh ; licen. by
Presb. of Tain 6th May 1767; became
schoolmaster of Creich and afterwards tutor
in family of Mrs Rose at Daan ; assistant at
Fearn ; ord. (assistant) to Kilbrandon 9th
Feb. 1773 ; trans, to Kildonan 23rd April
88
GOLSPIE
[PRESS. OF
1776; pres. by Elizabeth, Countess of
Sutherland, and her husband, June 1786 ;
trans, and adm. 5th April 1787 ; died llth
June 1816. He marr. 13th Feb. 1779, Isa
bella (died 5th June 1811), daugh. of
Patrick Grant, min. of Nigg, and had issue
—Patrick, born 27th June 1780, died at
Berbice 10th Aug. 1805; Margaret, born
9th March 1783 (marr. 14th Nov. 1814,
Evan Evelyn Arthur, merchant, London),
died 25th May 1845 ; William, born 26th
July 1784, died in Bengal 24th Aug. 1803 ;
Sutherland, born 19th Jan. 1787 ; George,
born 3rd Sept. 1788, died 6th May 1808 :
Elizabeth Forsyth, born 21st Sept. 1792
(marr. 16th Sept. 1815, Charles Sutherland,
merchant, Golspie) ; Anne, bom 25th April,
died 25th Oct. 1793 ; James, born 14th Feb.
1795 ; Sophia, born 27th Nov. 1798 ; Lewis,
born 5th July 1802. Publication— Account
of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace. ix., xxi).
—[Memorabilia Domestica, 53.]
ALEXANDEK MACPHERSON, born
Gairloch, 1782, son of Kenneth M.,
1 farmer, and Christian Ross ; educated
at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (28th
March 1803) ; licen. by Presb. of Fordoun
25th March 1812 ; became rector of
Tain Academy in 1814; pres. by George,
Marquess, and Elizabeth, Marchioness of
Stafford, Nov. 1816; ord. 5th March 1817
Seized with melancholy and conceiving he
had offended his patrons and could no1
fulfil the duties of his charge, he resigned
23rd Nov. 1819, but on steps being taker
to fill the vacancy, he withdrew his resigna
tion, and the Presbytery refusing to ac
quiesce, he appealed to the General As
sembly, which on 23rd May 1820, declared
him to be still minister. D.D. (King's Col
lege, Aberdeen, 10th Feb. 1849) ; died 6th
Aug. 1861. He marr. (1) 26th July 1814
Harriet (died 1816), second daugh. o
Captain Donald Matheson of Shinness, an<
had issue — Christina, born 13th July 181
(marr. 14th Sept. 1837, Hugh Mathesor
merchant, Liverpool) : (2) 7th July 182J
Agnes (died 30th Jan. 1870), daugh. c
Robert Young, writer, Edinburgh, and ha
issue_Agnes, born 6th June 1824 (mar:
19th Aug. 1852, Patrick Plenderleath, so
f Patrick Sellar of Ardtornish) ; Catherine
Uexandrina, born 26th March 1826 ; Jane,
orn 26th Feb. 1828 ; Kenneth Hector, born
3rd March, died April 1830; Robert
leorge, born 27th July 1832; Kenneth
Donald, born 27th Oct. 1834, died at Tacna,
'eru, 17th Feb. 1858. Publications— On
he Perspicuity, Perfection, and Power of
he Holy Scriptures, a sermon (Edinburgh,
.836); Account of the Parish (New Stat.
Ace., xv.). — [Memorabilia Domestica, 206.]
[DONALD ROSS, M.A. ; min. of Kil-
muir, Skye; pres. by George, Marquess,
ind Elizabeth, Marchioness of Stafford,
n Jan., and adm. 26th April 1820, but
this was annulled by General Assembly
J3rd May that year, as above mentioned.]
DUNCAN STEWART, B.A.; trans,
from Third Charge, Inverness, and
1862 adm. 20th March 1862; trans, to
Dornoch 19th June 1866.
JAMES MAXWELL JOASS, born Tain,
8th April 1830, son of John J., guard
1866 of mail coach between Aberdeen and
Inverness; educated at Inverness Royal
Academy, Grammar School, and King's
College, Aberdeen; M.A. (March 1850);
tutor in family of Mr Scott, Tullich, Loch-
carron ; app. missionary at Kilmonivaig
(Brae Lochaber) in 1855 ; ord. to Edderton
24th Nov. 1859 ; pres. by Duchess of
Sutherland; trans, and adm. 25th Oct. 1866;
(LL.D., Aberdeen, 1875); died unmarr.
8th June 1914. Publications— Two Days'
Diggings in Sutherland (Proc. Soc. Antiq.
Scot., v., 242-7, Edinburgh, 1865); Notes
on Ancient Dwellings in Sutherland
(Anthropological Review, ii., iii., London) ;
Notice of a Cist in Edderton (ibid., v.,
311-15, Edinburgh, 1865) ; Notes of various
objects of Antiquity in Strathnaver (ibid.,
v., 357-60, Edinburgh, 1865); Notes of
Various Antiquities in Koss and Sutherland
(ibid., vi., 327, Edinburgh, 1868) ; Notes on
Some Northern Antiquities (ibid., vi.,
386-8, Edinburgh, 1868); Notice of the
Discovery of Cists ... a* Torran Dubh,
near Tain (ibid., vi., 418-19, Edinburgh
1868) ; Notes on the Sutherland Goldfield
(Quart. Journ. Geol. Science, xxv., 314-26,
DORNOCIl]
GOLSPIE— KILDONAN
89
1913
London, 1869) ; Note of Five Kists found
iiinlcr a '/''tiii) H/ it* on the Glebe of Edderton,
fioss (Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., vii., 268-9,
Edinburgh, 1870) ; Notes of the Discovery
of a Necklace of Beads, etc. . . . at Torrish
Kildonan (ibid., viii., 408-11, Edinburgh,
1871) ; The Brochs or Pictish Towers of
Ginn-Trolla, Carn-Liath, and Craig Carrel
in Sutherland (Archcelog. Scotica, v., 95-130,
Edinburgh, 1874 : Inverness Scientific Soc.
and Field Club, llth Dec. 1917); Note
on Cup-marked Stones in Sutherlandshire
(Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., v., 240-1, Edin
burgh, 1881); Notes on the Curach and
Ammir in Ross-shire (ibid., xv., 179-80,
Edinburgh, 1881); Dunrobin (Old Lore
Misc., ii., 199-201, London, 1909).— [Nichol
son's Golspie and its Folk-lore (London,
1897).]
DAVID LYNEDOCH CATTANACH,
born 22nd June 1882, son of Peter
Lorimer C., advocate, Edinburgh,
and Jane Bladworth Hardie, and brother
of Joseph Hardie C., min. of Kirkurd ;
educated at George Watson's College and
Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (1904); licen.
by Presb. of Edinburgh in 1911 ; assistant
at Park Parish, Glasgow; ord. (assistant
and successor) 20th June 1913; served as
a gunner and as 2nd lieut. R.F.A. in
European War; trans, to Hobkirk 8th
March 1922. Marr. 29th April 1914,
Dorothy Agnes, youngest daugh. of John
A. Leechman, Edinburgh, and has issue—
Isobel Mary Lorimer, born 29th May 1915 ;
Dorothy Joan, born 4th May 1921.
JOHN" TAYLOR, born Glasgow, 22nd
1922 June 1891) son °f JoJin T' and
Margaret Wallace ; educated at John
Street Higher Grade and Albert Schools,
and Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A. (1916) ; licen.
by Presb. of Glasgow 25th June 1919;
assistant at Peebles ; ord. 20th June 1922 ;
trans, to Collessie 10th Dec. 1925. Marr.
22nd Aug. 1922, Margaret, only daugh. of
Joseph Strathern, schoolhouse, Edderton,
and has issue — a child born 7th Dec. 1927.
DAVID HEDLEY GILL AN, born
- Meerut, India, 20th Dec. 1869, son
of George Green G., D.D., min. of
Carmunnock ; educated at Ayr Academy and
Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A. (1890), B.D. (1893) ;
licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 7th Sept. 1892 ;
assistant at Hamilton ; ord. to Indian
chaplaincy 14th July 1897; app. chaplain
Royal Air Force (Cranwell) 1st April 1920 ;
adm. here 7th April 1926. Marr. 20th Jan.
1906, Helen, daugh. of James Drummond
and Christina Cameron, and has issue—
John Woodburn, born 4th July 1907; Agnes
Christian, born 20th July 1908; David
Hedley Drummond, born 23rd Jan. 1912.
KILDONAN (HELMSDALE).
[The church of Kildonan was dedicated
to St Donan. In the Cathedral of Dornoch
there was a prebend of Kildonan. When
the Presb. of Tongue was erected, on llth
May 1726, the parish of Kildonan was
taken from the jurisdiction of Dornoch,
and assigned to that of Tongue. On 18th
May 1727, the General Assembly again
annexed Kildonan to the Presb. of Dor
noch. There were two chapels within the
bounds, St Peter's at Kilpheadair, and
St Mary's at Kilmuir. A fair of St Donan
was held at Kildonan. There was in the
parish a Well of St John the Baptist.
There are two mission chapels in this
parish, that of St Donan at the Kirkton
of Kildonan in Strathuilie, and the other
at Kinbrace. At the time of the Sutherland
Clearances many Kildonan people emigrated
to the Selkirk colony at Manitoba, where
they named their settlement Kildonan, and
erected a church, a replica of that in
which they had worshipped at home. [See
" Kildonan in Manitoba," by W. S. Crockett,
Life and Work, Dec. 1909.]]
ANDREW BAIN, reader.— [Orir/.
1567 Paroch. Scot., ii., 736.]
ANDREW ANDERSON, min. of Clyne ;
1674 had charge here in 1574.
PHILIP ANDERSON, reader in
1574 1574.
GEORGE RUTHVEN, pres. to parson-
ivrj age and vicarage by James VI. in
1577, but probably not settled.
90
KILDONAN
[PRESB. OF
WILLIAM LIVINGSTON, pres. by
1584 James VI. 28th Dec. 1584.
WALTER ANDERSON, rain, in 1602
1602 and 28th May 1615.—[0rt0r. Paroch.
' Scot., ii., 736 ; P. C. Reg., viii., 700.]
GABRIEL MAXWELL, min. in 1641.—
1641 [G. R. So*., I, 97.]
ANDREW ANDERSON, M.A.
1656 ^ Andrews 1621); adm. before
6th Aug. 1656, then sick and unable
to travel ; still min. 20th April 1664.
JAMES HAY, a native of Moray ; edu-
1673 cated at King's College, Aberdeen ;
M.A. (19th July 1666); ord. 22nd
Oct. 1673; died Aug. 1705. He marr., and
had issue — George.— [Thurso Sess. Reg. ;
G. R. Inhib., Ixxxix., 30th Jan. 1706.]
ALEXANDER BRODIE, called 21st
1712 July> and ord< 18tt Sept> 1712>
trans, to Reay 14th May 1723.
WILLIAM ROSE, ord. 31st March 1725 ;
1725 trans, to Loth 5th Sept. 1739.
HUGH SUTHERLAND, pres. by
1740 William> Earl of Sutherland, Oct.
1739; ord. 23rd April 1740; trans,
to Rogart 12th Sept. 1753.
HUGH ROSS, born about 1720, son
1755 °^ J°hn R-5 overseer in Craigroy,
Edderton; educated at Marischal
College, Aberdeen; M.A. (April 1736);
licen. by Presb. of Tain 21st March 1744 ;
pres. by commissioners for William, Earl
of Sutherland, 7th Feb. 1754; ord. 28th
May 1755; died 2nd Feb. 1761. He marr.
18th Aug. 1759, Ann, daugh of Hugh
Houstoun in Ferrytown, Dornoch, and had
issue— Elizabeth Kerr, born Oct. 1760. His
widow marr. (2) 8th Oct. 1779.
JOHN ROSS, born 1733, son of James
1761 R., Mill of Hole, and nephew of
Walter R., min. of Tongue; became
schoolmaster of Drummond ; licen. by
Presb. of Dingwall 26th March 1755; ord.
missionary at Farr 26th Sept. 1759; pres.
by William, Earl of Sutherland, in July,
and adm. 18th Nov. 1761 ; died 28th March
1775. He marr. 7th Sept. 1770, Ann (died
28th Feb. 1793), daugh. of William Rose,
min. of Loth, and widow of Captain
Alexander Gunn, tacksman of Badenloch,
and had issue — David, a soldier and after
wards miller, Cloggan, Strathbeg, born 12th
June 1771 ; Katherine, born 12th June 1773
(marr. David Gunn), died 1827.
WILLIAM KEITH, adm. from Kil-
i 77ft brandon ; pres. by tutors of Elizabeth,
Countess of Sutherland, in 1775 ;
adm. 23rd April 1776; trans, to Golspie
5th April 1787.
ALEXANDER SAGE, born 2nd July
178? 1753, youngest son of ^Eneas S., min.
of Lochcarron ; educated at Cromarty
School (where his teacher was John Russel
— the " Black Russel " of Burns [afterwards
min. of Stirling]) and King's College, Aber
deen ; M.A. (31st March 1772); became
schoolmaster of Tongue; licen. by Presb.
of Tongue 2nd April 1779; assistant at
Reay, 1779-82; ord. missionary at Dirlot
and officiated in the higher parts of
Latheron and Halkirk, 1784-7; pres. by
Elizabeth, Countess of Sutherland, and
George, Lord Gower, in April, and adm.
10th May 1787 ; died 14th April 1824. He
marr. (1) 19th March 1784, Isabella (born
14th Jan. 1751, died 27th Nov. 1792), eldest
daugh. of Donald Fraser, min. of Urquhart,
and had issue— Elizabeth, born 7th Dec.
1785 (marr. Finlay Cook, min. of Reay);
Jane, born 21st March 1787 (marr. William
Forbes, min. of Tarbat) ; ^Eneas, born 31st
Aug. 1788 ; Donald, min. of Resolis, born
20th Oct. 1789 ; and two others died young :
(2) llth Dec. 1794, Jean (died s.p. 25th
June 1819), third daugh. of Major George
Sutherland of Mid Garty, second son of
Sutherland of Langwell. Publications —
Ossianic Fragments (known as the Sage-
Pope Collections) ; in Reliquiae Celticce, i.,
371-99 [edited by Alexander Cameron,
LL.D.'J (Inverness, 1892-4) ; Account of
the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., iii., xxi.).
—[Memorabilia Domestica, 23, 42, 77 et
seq. ; Beaton's Bibliography of Gaelic Books
of Caithness and Sutherland, 10.]
DORNOCH]
KILDONAN
91
JAMES CAMPBELL, born Creich 1782,
tutor in family of Mr Munro of Tigh-
na-aonich, Alness ; licen. by Presb. of
Dingwall 10th Feb. 1819; assistant at
Rogart ; pres. by Elizabeth, Marchioness,
and George, Marquess of Stafford; ord.
15th Sept. 1824; dem. 18th June 1845;
died at Pictou, Nova Scotia, 7th June
1859. He marr. 22nd March 1821, Johanna
Poison, youngest daugh. of Alexander
Urquhart, min. of Rogart, and had issue —
Alexandria, born 21st March 1822 ; Isabella,
bom 27th Sept. 1825 ; George, born 5th May
1827 ; a daugh., marr. Sutherland.
WILLIAM M'KILLICAN, born Banff,
about 1802 ; educated at King's
' College, Aberdeen; M.A. (March
1822); licen. by Presb. of Nairn; ord. to
West Gwillimburg, Canada, 1834; trans,
to St Thomas in 1840; dem. in 1842;
adm. here 24th Sept. 1845; died 24th
June 1847. He marr. 21st May 1834,
Margaret Anderson, Nairn (died 19th
March 1855), and had issue— William, born
27th April 1839, died 8th Aug. 1854.
ALEXANDER MACDONALD, born
Mull, 6th Feb. 1814, son of John M.
and Mary Macf arlane ; educated at
Univ. of St Andrews ; licen. by Presb. of
Inveraray in 1844 ; assistant at Lochgilp-
head; ord. 7th Sept. 1848, died 28th Jan.
1866. He marr. 2nd July 1844, Jessie
(died 1st March 1908), daugh. of John
M'Vean, Ardrishaig, and had issue— John,
min. of Bucklyvie, born 15th Aug. 1845 ;
Norman, Episcopal clergyman, Auchter-
muchty, born 31st July 1847 ; Mary Alice,
born 15th Aug. 1849 (marr. Peter Strang,
Sydney, Australia) ; Alexander, merchant,
Winnipeg, born 20th May 1851 ; Flora
Margaret, born 9th July 1853 (marr. Robert
Barr Dickson, min. of Stair); George
William, born 24th Nov. 1855, died 29th
April 1863; Eliza Ellen, born 13th July
1858, died 22nd Oct. 1867; Jessie, born
25th June 1861 (marr. William Moncrieff
Taylor, min. of Aberfoyle) ; Georgina, born
10th July 1863, died 23rd Feb. 1915.
JAMES MACPHERSON, trans, from
Lybster, and adm. 6th Sept. 1866;
trans, to Canisbay llth July 1867.
PATRICK THOMAS CLARK, trans,
from Tighnabruaich, and adm. 3rd
Oct. 1867 ; trans, to Gamrie 2nd
Sept. 1875.
DANIEL ERASER, bornNairn,1818;edu-
cated at King's College, Aberdeen;
' M.A. (1838); ord. to Free Church,
Scone, 1844; trans, to Free Church, Ler-
wick, 1846. Joined the Church of Scotland
in 1872 ; missionary in Strathglass ; adm.
to this parish 30th Dec. 1875; died at
Southampton, 3rd Sept. 1900. He marr.
5th April 1849, Margaret Affleck (died 12th
Jan. 1897, aged 76), daugh. of James
Bain, Lerwick, and had issue— Gilberta
Wilhelmina, born 24th Nov. 1850 (marr.
Alexander Dallas, M.D., Bayonne, New
Jersey), died 20th April 1898 ; Daniel, born
9th Dec. 1851 ; Robert Bain, born 1st July
1853 ; Donald Ballantyne, born llth Sept.
1854 ; George Charles Hay, born 10th Dec.
1855; William Goodsman, born 2nd Jan.
1857; James Bain, born 8th April 1858;
Margaret Affleck, born 1st June 1859, died
23rd May 1875 ; Whampo, born 23rd Nov.
1860; Philadelphia Bain, born 13th Jan.
1862 ; Isabella Bain, born 24th Dec. 1866
(marr. J. D. Basset, Southampton), died
12th April 1918.
ARCHIBALD BLACK SCOTT, born
Turriff, 21st Dec. 1864, son of Alex
ander Milne S., and Mary, daugh.
of Archibald Black, merchant, Glasgow;
educated at Turriff School and Univ. of
Glasgow ; M.A. (1889) ; B.D. (1892) ; licen.
by Presb. of Glasgow 18th July 1892;
assistant at St Mungo's, Glasgow; ord.
(assistant and successor) 5th April 1894 ;
chaplain colonel 5th Seaforth Highlanders,
brigade chaplain to the Forces, 1914-19, T.D.
Publications— Rdgnvald, Earl of Orkney
(Celtic Monthly, x., 1902); Nynia in
Northern Pictland (Scot. Hist. Review, ii;,
1905); Saint Donnan the Great and his
Muinntir (Aberdeen, 1906); Saint Maol-
rubha (Scot. Hist. Review, vi., 3, 1909);
92
LAIRG
[PRESS. OF
Saint Moluag of Bangor and Lismore :
His Work and Influence (Aberdeen, 1912) ;
The Pictish Nation : Its People and Its
Church (Edinburgh, 1918) ; Saint Ninian,
Apostle of the Britons and Picts: a Research
Study of the First Founding of the Church
in Britain (London, 1916, 1918)] Saint
Columba (Columcille) the Gaidheal : His
Relations with the Picts (Trans, of Gaelic
Society of Inverness, xxviii., 1918); The
Celtic Monastery and Roman Abbey of
Fearn, Ross (ibid.); Salute the Sacred
Dead, a sermon preached at Dundee on day
of public intercession (Dundee, 1918) ;
Columbanus of Luxenil and Bobbio (Trans,
of Gaelic Society of Inverness, xxix., 1920) ;
numerous articles on educational, historical,
and literary subjects in newspapers and
periodicals.
LAIRG.
[The church of Lairg was dedicated to
St Malrubh, and a fair of St Malrubh was
held beside it. A prebend of Lairg was
held by the treasurer of the Cathedral of
Dornoch.]
DONALD WILLIAMSON, reader in
1565; died Nov. 1568.— [Acts and
' Dec., xxxiv., 236.]
1574 HEW POLSON, reader in 1574.
THOMAS MURRAY, reader from 1578
1578 to 1580.
WILLIAM GRAY, son of Thomas G.,
1574 sub-chantor of Ross; exhorter at
Dornoch in 1567 ; min. here in 1574,
with Rogart and Kilmalie (Golspie) also
in the charge; pres. by James VI. 29th
July 1580; dem. before 16th June 1606
on appointment to Creich, but apparently
did not go there, being still min. here
in 1615. He marr. Elizabeth, co-heiress
of John Wishart, indweller in Kirkwall,
she survived him, and had issue — James,
his successor. — [Excheq. Book ; Orig.
Paroch. Scot., ii., 620; Reg. Mag. Sig.,
x., 602.]
JAMES GRAY, son of preceding ; pres.
1607 by James VI- 16th June 1607 > trans-
to Creich that year, also to Clyne
in 1614, but probably not settled. He was
min. here and treasurer of Caithness in
1625 and 1638; still min. in 1649; died
about 1652. He marr. (1) Janet M'Culloch,
and had issue — George, min. of Dornoch ;
William, min. of Clyne ; John ; Janet
(marr. Thomas Manson, provost of Dornoch);
Barbara (marr. David Munro, min. of this
parish) ; Margaret (marr. John Dempster
of Bishopfield, burgess of Dornoch) : (2)
Isabella M'Gill.— [Inverness Sas., iii., 119,
9th April 1649; Reg. of Deeds, dxxvii.,
310.]
JAMES THOMSON, min. at 6th May
1627; trans, to Loth before 18th
Sept. 1634.
[Parish vacant 1652-8.]
ROBERT ROSS, M.A.; adm. before
16th June 1658; trans, to Logie-
1658 _
Easter.
DAVID MUNRO, fourth son of John M.
of Pitlundie ; min. of Kilmuir-
Easter; adm. to Latheron before
18th Sept. 1634; dep. in 1649 for sub
scribing Montrose's articles ; petitioned the
Synod, 21st Oct. 1662, to be recommended
to some place in the diocese ; adm. here
before 7th May 1663. He marr. (cont. 7th
June 1638, Barbara, daugh. of James Gray,
min. of Lairg.— [Hist, of the Munros, 506 ;
Reg. of Deeds, dxxvii., 310.]
WILLIAM MACKAY of Golvall, eldest
son of Eye M. of Golvall and
Margaret Gordon; adm. to Rogart
before 21st Oct. 1662; trans, and adm.
before 7th Oct. 1668. He marr. Margaret,
daugh. of David Sutherland of Morvich,
and had issue— Eye, min. of Clyne; David
of Pitfure ; William of Forsinain, died
1720; Jane (marr. (1) Alexander Suther
land of Morvich : (2) Alexander Suther
land of Braegrudie); Angus; Mary.— [The
Book of Mackay, 309.]
DORNOCH]
LAIRG
93
JOHN DEMPSTER, adm. to Creich
before 20th April 1664 ; trans, and
adm. before 7th Oct. 1668 ; deprived
by Privy Council 7th Nov. 1689 for not
reading the Proclamation of the Estates
and for praying for King James, but he
continued minister ; died about 1705.
JOHN ROBERTSON, app. by the
17Q6 General Assembly 4th April 1705 to
supply vacancies in Sutherland for
one year, settled here in 1706 ; clerk of
Presb. in 1707; died between 2nd July, when
he had gone to Peterhead Well, and 2nd
Sept. 1712. He marr. Margaret Ross, (who
survived him and marr. (2) Hector Fraser
of Edderton) and had issue — William,
student of divinity at Aberdeen.— [Macrae's
Lairg, 24-33.]
[THOMAS CHISHOLM, min. of Kil-
morack; was called llth Feb. 1713, but
after consultation with the Synod, the
Presb. decided that he "be not trans
ported," 30th May 1713.]
JOHN MACKAY, born 1680, second
1714 son of CaPtain William M- of Borley
of the Scourie family, and Elizabeth
Corbet; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh
M.A. (13th March 1701) and at Utrecht;
licen. in 1706; ord. to Durness 14th March
1707 ; called by the Presb. of Dornoch jure
devoluto (the people petitioning in his
favour) 28th July 1713 ; trans, and adm.
2nd March 1714; died 23rd Feb. 1753.
He possessed a herculean bodily frame and
corresponding vigour of mind which gained
for him the name of Am Ministear Laidir,
and enabled him to reform the parish from
the disorderly habits and immorality pre
vailing on his coming thereto. He was
given authority by John, Earl of Suther
land, as sheriff, to inflict corporal punish
ment wherever necessary. He marr. (cont.
29th Aug. 1709) Catherine (died 1724), eldest
daugh. of John Mackay of Kirtomy (de
scended from Lady Jean Mackay of Farr,
daugh. of Alexander, eleventh Earl of
Sutherland), and had issue— Thomas, min.
of this parish ; John, died young ; Eliza
beth, born 20th Sept. 1710 (marr., cout. 19th
July 1728, jEneas Sage, min. of Lochcarron);
Janet (marr. John Poison of Navidale) ;
Barbara (marr. George Munro, min. of
Farr).— [Book of Mackay, 294 ; Memorabilia
Domestica, 7, 9 ; Macrae's Lairg, 36-67 ;
Tombst.]
1749
THOMAS MACKAY, born 2nd Aug.
1717, son of preceding; educated at
Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1735-9
licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen in 1744 ; called
12th Dec. 1748; ord. (assistant and suc
cessor) 15th Nov. 1749 ; died 28th Aug.
1803. Father and son had thus been 96 years
ministers, 89 of these in this parish. He
marr. 10th June 1758, his cousin Margaret
(died 9th Nov. 1773), daugh. of John
Montgomery, mason, Drummond, Kiltearn,
and had issue — Katherine, born 27th March
1759, died 7th April 1760 ; Katherine, born
7th June 1760 (marr. 13th June 1783,
Captain Donald Matheson of Shinness,
and was mother of Sir James M., Bart., of
The Lewis) ; John of Rockfield, one of the
clerks to the Commissioners of Affairs in
India and author of Life of Lieut. -General
Hugh Mackay of Scoury, born 7th Oct.
1761, died at Edinburgh 8th April 1841
[he left £400 to the parish, part being used
for the support of needy blind persons, the
donor himself having lost his sight] ; Hugh,
captain 4th Regt. Madras Native Cavalry,
born 27th Sept. 1763, killed at Assaye 23rd
Sept. 1803 [he left £500 for the poor of the
parish] ; Joseph, born 21st Oct. 1764, died
24th April 1765 ; William, born 15th Nov.,
died 7th Dec. 1765; Harriet, born 29th
Nov. 1766 (marr. 29th Oct. 1798, George
Gordon, min. of Loth); Anna, born 21st
Dec. 1767, died young; a daugh. born
1st Oct. 1769, died in infancy ; William,
H.E.I.C.S., second officer of the Juno,
author of a " Narrative of the Wreck (1795)
of the Juno on the coast of Aracan "
(London, 1798) [used by Byron in depict
ing a scene in Don Juan], born 6th Feb.
1771, died at Calcutta 27th March 1804.
— [Hook of Mackay, 295 ; Memorabilia
Domestica, 8, 50; Macrae's Lairg, 67-70;
" A Monument in a Highland Churchyard "
(in reprint (Edin. 1892) of Narrative of the
" Juno '') ; Tombst.]
94
LAIRG
1804
ANGUS KENNEDY, M.A. ; ord.
assistant 23rd N°V- 1802> PreS< by
George, Marquess, and Elizabeth,
Marchioness of Stafford, in March, and
adm. 24th April 1804 j trans, to Dornoch
3rd July 1817.
1817
DUNCAN MACGILLIVRAY, born
Banchor Uan Strathdearns, May
1764, son of Finlay M. and Elizabeth
Mackintosh of Kyllachie family ; educated
at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (27th
March 1795) ; licen. by Presb. of Tain 7th
May 1800 ; ord. missionary at Achness 2nd
April 1801 ; transferred to Berriedale in
1807, returning to Achness in six months ;
adm. to Assynt 24th Aug. 1813; pres. by
George, Marquess, and Elizabeth, Mar
chioness of Stafford, in July, trans, and
adm. 12th Aug. 1817. Joined the Free
Church in 1843; min. of Free Church,
Lairg, 1843-9; died llth Feb. 1849. He
marr. 14th May 1802, Jean (died 31st Aug.
1816), daugh. of Robert Gordon, farmer,
Achness, and Elizabeth, granddaugh. of
John Mackay of Kirtomy, and had issue-
Elizabeth, born 22nd April 1803; Angus
Mackintosh, min. of Dairsie, born 8th Jan.
1805 ; Christian, born 16th June 1806 (marr.
Dr Henderson, Dingwall), died 1860 ;
Philip, born 9th Sept. 1809, went to
Jamaica, died 1850; Robert, licentiate of
the Church of Scotland, born 27th Aug.
1811, died 1839 ; Janet, born 5th March
1813 (marr. Duncan Macpherson, Tasmania),
died 1879 ; Alexander Gordon, D.D., min.
of Roseburn Free Church, Edinburgh, born
18th Dec. 1814, died llth May 1889 ; Jean,
born 9th Aug. 1816, died 1860. Publica
tion—Account of the Parish (New Stat.
Ace., xv.). — [Memorabilia Domestica, 193 ;
Wreck of the " Juno " (1892) 71-95.]
FARQUHAR MATHESON, born 1810,
third son of John M. of Attadale and
18 Margaret, daugh. of Captain Donald
Matheson of Shinness ; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen, 1824-8 ; ord. 31st Aug.
1843 ; dem. 16th May 1888 ; died unmarr.
at Inverness 20th March 1894.— [Hist, of
the Mathesons, 69.]
ROBERT ROBERTSON, born 1845, son
of John R., farmer, and Ann Paton ;
ord. to Mossgreen 2nd June 1870;
dem. 23rd Aug. 1876 ; adm. (assistant and
successor) 15th Jan. 1879; died 13th July
1883. He marr. Mary Simpson.
DAVID MACKENZIE, born 1836, son
of Donald M., saw-miller; ord. to
St Kiaran's, Govan, 22nd Aug. 1872 ;
trans, to Gaelic Church, Cromarty, 12th
May 1875 ; trans, and adm. (assistant and
successor) 23rd Jan. 1884; died 3rd March
1888. He marr. Elizabeth Grant, and had
issue — a son, Inspector of Poor, Fort-
William.
JOHN MACNAUGHTON, born 28th
1888 Jan- 1858) SOD of Alexander M-'
farmer, Remony, Kenmore ; educated
at Grammar School and Univs. of Aberdeen
M.A. (1881), Cambridge, Heidelberg and
Berlin ; assistant at Spott ; ord. 25th Sept.
1888 ; dem. 16th May 1890 ; app. Professor
of Greek, Kingston College, Canada, 1889 ;
Professor of Classics, M'Gill University,
Canada, 1903. Marr. Jean Reikie.
DONALD MACRAE, M.A., B.D. ; ord.
29th Sept. 1890; trans, to Edderton
18th Feb. 1902.
JOHN KENNETH MACLEAN, M.A.,
1902 trans- from Farr, and adm. 24th June
' 1902 ; trans, to Morven 14th April
1908.
ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, M.A., adm.
1Qn_ 1st Sept. 1908 ; trans, to Resolis 18th
Jan. 1912.
JOHN MACKECHNIE, trans, from
Stronsay, and adm. 2nd Aug. 1912 ;
4 trans, to Edrom 22nd May 1916.
WALTER SHAW, adm. from Robertson
Mission Church, Edinburgh, 23rd
Aug. 1916; trans, to Barrowfield,
Glasgow, 8th Jan. 1919.
JOHN CUNNINGHAM MOORE,
born Donagheady, Co. Tyrone, 4th
June 1857, son of Turbitt M. and
Dorcas Pollock ; educated at Sandville
School and Magee College; licen. by
Presb. of Glendermott 5th May 1891 ;
DORNOCH]
LOTH
95
ord. at Virginia, Co. Cavan, 8th July
1891 ; adm. min. of Scone Free Church,
1905-14; adm. to South Yell 16th Feb.
1915; trans, to Delting 1st Feb. 1916;
trans, and adm. 3rd July 1919. He marr.
2nd Aug. 1893, Marguerite Maxwell Lowry,
daugh. of Hugh Hunter Patterson and
Esther Lowry, and has issue — Cora Muriel
Cunningham, born 4th Aug. 1894 (marr. (1)
8th Jan. 1920, Major Andrew Mowat, M.B.,
Ch.B., R.A.M.C. : (2) 1st Feb. 1928, E. D. R.
Maconachie, M.B., F.R.C.S., Edin.) ; Louis
Lowry Patterson Cunningham, fruit farmer,
West Australia, born 8th Jan. 1896 ; Bille
Esther Dorcas Althea Cunningham, born
26th Aug. 1897 ; Irene Marguerite Edgar
Macgregor Cunningham, born 20th Oct.
1898; Kenneth Hugh Turbitt Cunningham,
clerical assistant, Chief Engineer's Depart
ment, London County Council, born 15th
April 1900 ; Stephen Maxwell Cunningham,
clerk, London, born 17th Jan. 1906.
LOTH.
[The church of Loth was dedicated to
St Curadan. It belonged to the Bishop
of Caithness. At Helemsdale, in the north
end of the parish, there was a Hospital of
St John the Baptist. Within the bounds
there were at least three chapels, St
Tridwal's at Kintradwell, St Inan's at
Easter Garty, and the chapel at Navidale,
which was probably dedicated to St
Naomhan. A fair of St Curadan was
held at Loth. In 1927 Loth was sup
pressed as a separate charge and united
with Kildonan and Clyne.]
ANDREW ANDERSON, exhorter in
15_,_ 1567, which office he afterwards held
with Clyne ; was min. here in 1574,
with Clyne and Kildonan in the charge ;
returned here in 1590 ; pres. to the vicarage
by James VI. in 1595 ; still min. in 1618,
when he signed a deed with his mark, as
"I cannot wreitt myself," probably from
age.
WILLIAM CUMMING, M.A. (King's
1627 College Aberdeen 1622), was com
plained against to the Synod of
Moray, 13th April 1624, for marrying a
couple irregularly at Inverness; min.
here 12th May 1627.— [Taxations Miscell.
Papers, 1606-1714.]
JAMES THOMSON, trans, from Lairg
1634 ab°ut 1634, when he was app. a
Justice of the Peace for Sutherland ;
trans, to Assynt about 1638. — [Inverness
Sas., vi., 70.]
HECTOR MUNRO,son of Hector M. of
1640 Milntown of Katewell, and Margaret
Baillie, and grandson of Hugh M. of
Ferrytown of Obsdale, min. here about
1640. He marr. Margaret, daugh. of Sir
Hector Munro of Foulis, and had issue —
Lieut. Hector, killed at Philiphaugh, 13th
Sept. 1645 ; John, min. of Lochgoilhead and
Rothesay. — [Douglas's JSaronage, 84 ; Hist.
of the Munros, 390.]
JOHN ROSE, M.A. (King's College,
165Q Aberdeen, 1638); adm. before 6th
Aug. 1656 ; still min. 20th April 1664.
GEORGE GRAY, ord. 7th April 1669 ;
1Qeg died before 1674. He marr. 1670,
Katherine, daugh. of John Murray
of Pennyland. She marr. (2) William
Cuming, min. of Falkirk.
HECTOR PAIP [POPE], educated at
1682 Marischal College, Aberdeen; M.A.
(1672) ; adm. before 13th July 1682 ;
died 15th Jan. 1719. He was the last parish
min. who appeared in the pulpit clothed in a
surplice. He marr., and had issue — Alex
ander, min. of Reay.
ROBERT ROBERTSON, ord. 10th May
1721 1721 ; trans, to Edderton 29th July
1730. During his ministry the last
witch from this parish was burnt at
Dornoch.
JAMES GILCHRIST, trans, from
1*732 Kilmalie ; called by the Presb. jure
devoluto and adm. 10th Feb. 1732;
trans, to Thurso 8th Aug. 1738.
WILLIAM HOSE,-licen. by Presb. of
17 Aberdeen 6th March 1723; ord. to
Kildonan 31st March 1725; called
5th June, trans, and adm. 5th Sept. 1739;
96
LOTH
[PKESB. OF
died 12th Feb. 1755. He marr. 6th June
1727, Jean Anderson, who died 2nd Oct.
1778, and had issue — Catherine, born 5th
June 1730; Ann, born 12th Sept. 1733
(marr. (1) Captain Alexander Gunn, tacks-
man of Badenloch : (2) John Ross, min.
of Kildonan) ; Jean, born 8th March
1736, died 6th Aug. 1745; Barbara, born
14th May 1738 (marr. George Balfour,
min. of Tarbat); William, born 27th
Aug. 1740.
GEORGE M'CULLOCH, born about
1728, a native of the Black Isle,
Ross-shire ; educated at Marischal
College, Aberdeen, 1744-8 ; became school
master of Golspie ; licen. by Presb. of
Dornoch 26th May 1754 ; pres. by the
commissioners for William, Earl of Suther
land, 2nd July 1755 ; ord. 19th May 1756 ;
was for some years chaplain to 2nd
Sutherland Fencibles; died 27th Dec.
1800. His sermons were intensely con
troversial ; " his Calvinistic antagonist
stood continually in his mind's eye like
a phantom." He marr. 16th Nov. 1758,
Elizabeth (died 5th April 1814), daugh.
of William Forbes, gardener to the Earl
of Sutherland at Dunrobin, and had issue
—Anne, born 15th Sept. 1759; William,
born 21st March 1761, died 28th April
1763; Isobel, born 29th March 1763;
Elizabeth, bom 4th Jan. 1765; Katherine,
born 13th May, died 22nd Aug. 1766;
William, born 7th May 1767, died llth
Sept. 1769 ; Grizel, born 15th June, died
22nd Dec. 1769 ; George, surgeon, Berwick
shire Militia, born 27th Oct. 1770 ; David,
born 30th April 1772 ; Thomas, born 1st
June 1774; Duncan, born 29th May 1776,
died 16th March 1790; Susannah, born
18th June 1778; William, born 24th Jan.
1780. Publication — Account of the Parish
(Sinclair's Stat. Ace,, vi.).— [Memorabilia
Domestica, 54, 98.]
GEORGE GORDON, eldest son
1802 of Adara G-> tacksman of Binavie,
Strathnaver, and nephew of Charles
G.of Pulrossie; tutor in the family of Gordon
of Carroll ; licen. by Presb. of Tongue ; ord.
by Presb. of Tongue, 30th Nov. 1796, as
missionary at Achness ; assistant at Lairg,
Oct. 1797 ; pres. by Elizabeth, Countess
of Sutherland, 1801 ; adm. 9th Feb. 1802 ;
died 27th Oct. 1822. He marr. 12th Oct.
1798, Harriet (died 30th Nov. 1848), daugh.
of Thomas Mackay, min. of Lairg, and had
issue— Charles, min. of Assynt, born 24th
July 1799 ; Margaret (twin), born 24th July,
died 8th Sept. 1799; Adam, born 15th Dec.
1800, died 28th March 1811 ; John, lieut.
Madras Infantry, born 16th Jan. 1802;
Margaret, born 5th Nov. 1803 (marr. 24th
July 1821, James Anderson, surgeon,
Brora); Isabella, born 5th March 1806;
Thomas, born 5th Jan. 1808.— [The House
of Mackay, 566 ; Memorabilia Domestica,
105, 150; Tombst.]
DONALD ROSS, M.A. (King's College,
Aberdeen, 30th March 1801 ) ; licen. by
1828 Presb. of Dingwall 1st May 1805 ; ord.
assistant at Dyke 16th April 1807; trans,
and adm. to Kilmuir 12th July 1809; trans,
to Golspie (q.v.) 26th April 1820, but settle
ment set aside by the General Assembly
23rd May that year ; trans, to Rogart 7th
May 1822; pres. by Elizabeth, Countess
of Sutherland, in March, and adm. 18th
June 1823; died 12th Nov. 1847. He marr.
24th Aug. 1810, Rose (died 31st Aug. 1850),
daugh. of Angus Bethune, min. of Alness,
and had issue— Angus Bethune, born 10th
Dec. 1811; Andrew, born 28th July 1813;
Catherine Monro, born 27th Aug. 1814
(marr. 20th Aug. 1834, William Ross, Isle
of Grenada); Duncan Monro, born llth
Sept. 1815 ; Alexander Macleod ; Helen
(marr. 21st Feb. 1845, William Donaldson,
Nairn).
DUNCAN ST GLAIR, born 1814, eldest
son of Archibald St C., Argyllshire;
1848 educated at Univ. of Glasgow;
ord. to Assynt 18th Jan. 1844 ; trans, and
adm. 14th March 1848; died 29th Dec.
1860. He marr. 7th Oct. 1844, Susan,
third daugh. of Captain John Young,
Montrose, and had issue— John Suther
land Campbell, born 9th Nov. 1845; Archi
bald William Alexander, born 18th July
1848; William Wallace, born 26th June
1850, died 4th July 1852; Rachel Jane,
DORNOCH]
LOTH— ROGART
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born 6th March 1852; Henry Eobert
Young, born 30th Nov. 1853; Anne Stafford,
born 3rd Nov. 1855 ; Duncan Charles Colin
Campbell, born 1st Feb. 1858.
GILBERT MACMILLAN, born 1826,
son of John M., blacksmith, Kil-
1861 muir and Mary M'Intyre ; educated
at Univ. of Glasgow; ord. to Berriedale
26th Sept. 1850 ; trans, and adm. 29th Aug.
1861 ; dem. 1st Oct. 1902 ; died at Hunter's
Quay, 28th Sept. 1908.' He marr. 19th Oct.
1858, Agnes (died 12th March 1912), daugh.
of John Macfarlane, farmer, Dunoon, and
Janet Forrester. Publications — Reminis
cences of the North; Kildonan; Donald
Mbhr ; The Stag Fight ; The Apparition ;
Ignis-fatuus ; The Electric Cloud; "The
Men " ; Sandy Gair (Inverness, 1905).
JAMES SINCLAIR M'lVOR MOWAT,
born 9th June 1870, son of Alex-
1903 ander M. and Violet Bruce M'lvor ;
educated at Pulteneytown Academy and
Univs. of Aberdeen and Edinburgh ; licen.
by Presb. of Edinburgh 27th Sept. 1899 ;
assistant at Trinity Parish, Edinburgh,
Wallacetown, Dundee, and Canongate ;
ord. 24th Feb. 1903; died 8th July 1921.
He marr. 27th Feb. 1903, Mary Knox,
second daugh. of James Philip, Invergarry,
and had issue— Mary Violet Katherine, born
20th Nov. 1903 ; Alastair M'lvor, born 10th
April 1906 ; James Philip, born 2nd Sept.
1907 ; Josephine Farquharson, born 27th
Sept. 1910 ; Ian M'lvor, born 23rd Jan. 1914.
ROBERT LAMOND MACNIE, born
23rd Nov. 1869, son of Alexander
1922 and Camilla M. ; educated at High
School and Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A. (1890),
B.D. (1894) ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow
in 1892 ; assistant at Rutherglen and
Paisley Abbey ; ord. to St Mary's, British
Guiana, 20th Dec. 1896; trans, to St
Andrew's there, 27th Oct. 1909; trans,
and adm. 29th March 1922 ; trans, and
adm. to Lundie and Fowlis 1st Dec. 1926.
Marr. 19th Jan. 1897, Susan, daugh. of
William H. Carswell, and has issue —
William Alexander, officer British Guiana
VOL. VII.
Police, born 2nd April 1899 ; Mona Hardie,
born 23rd Nov. 1900; Donald Lamond,
born 28th July 1906.
[Parish suppressed in 1927 and divided
between Kildonan and Clyne.]
ROGART.
[The church of Rogart was dedicated to
St Colin. There was a prebend of Rogart
in the Cathedral Chapter of Dornoch. A
fair of St Colin was held at Rogart.]
WILLIAM GRAY (elder), exhorter at
Creich in the Irish tongue in 1567,
1568 and in this parish in 1568 ; min. here
in 1574, with Lairg and Kilmalie also
in the charge ; removed to Assynt in
1576.
GEORGE SINCLAIR of Mey, third
son of George, fourth Earl of Caith-
1572 ness ; app. Chancellor of Caithness
in 1572; "being charged for the whole
fruits of the Chancellarie for non-residence
upon allegeance of deidlie feid," obtained
decreet of absolvitor in 1574 ; was accused
at the Assembly, Aug. 1575, of not serving
his cure ; still min. in 1585 ; died in
1616. He marr. before 1583, Margaret,
sixth daugh. of William, seventh Lord
Forbes, and had issue — Sir William of
Mey, who as a boy attending the High
School of Edinburgh shot John M'Moran,
one of the bailies of Edinburgh, during a
disturbance among the scholars 15th Sept.
1595 ; Sir John of Geanies and Dunbeatb,
Bart. ; James, died young ; Alexander of
Latheron, ancestor of the Sinclairs of
Barrock and Brabster ; Janet (marr.
Walter Innes of Inverbrakie ; Margaret
(marr. 1608, Alexander Sinclair of Forss) ;
Barbara (marr. 1610, Alexander Keith of
Pittendrum); Elizabeth (marr. William
Dunbar of Hempriggs); Anne.— [Steven's
High School, 23; Pitcairn's Grim. Trials,
L, 349 ; Scots Peerage, ii., 351 ; Henderson's
Caithness Families, 60.]
THOMAS POPE [or PAPE], min. in
1590 ; trans, to Cullicudden about
1614.
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ROGART
[PRESB. OF
JOHN SUTHERLAND, son of James
S., min. ; adm. about 1614 ; still min.
1614 in 1634. He marr. Margaret Munro.
—{Reg. of Deeds, Hay, 14th Aug. 1638, dliv.,
198.]
GEORGE SUTHERLAND, member of
Assembly 12th Aug. 1639 [possibly a
' mistake for preceding].— [Peterkin's
Records.]
THOMAS ROSS, M.A. (King's College,
Aberdeen, 1651); adm. before 6th
J Aug. 1656 ; dem. or died before 16th
June 1658.
WILLIAM MACKAY, adm. 21st Oct.
1662 : trans, to Lairg before 7th Oct.
1662 1668.
WALTER ROSE, born Ross-shire, about
1661 ; educated at King's College,
1683 Aberdeen • M.A. (1681) ; adm. before
llth July 1683; summoned before the Privy
Council, 7th Nov. 1689, for not reading the
Proclamation of Estates and still praying
for King James, but case not proceeded
with; died in or after 1720. He marr.
and had issue — William of Kintraid ;
Katherine (marr. John, son of Thomas
Sutherland of Brora). — {Services of Heirs ;
Reg. of Deeds, Mack., 28th Aug. 1751.]
JOHN MONRO, son of Hugh M. ; ord.
21st April 1725; died 3rd Feb. 1753.
1725 He marr. llth Dec. 1729, Elizabeth
(died 3rd Feb. 1756), daugh. of George
Monro of Culrain, "a very wicked woman
and thorn in his side," and had issue — Ann,
born 1st Nov. 1730; George, born 13th
Nov. 1734; Gustavus, born 13th Oct. 1735.
—{Hist, of the Munros, 382.]
HUGH SUTHERLAND, born Rogart,
of the family of Braegrudie ; Keen.
{ by Presb. of Dornoch 17th April
1734 ; ord. to Kildonan 23rd April 1740 ;
pres. by commissioners for William, Earl
of Sutherland, in July, trans, and adm.
12th Sept. 1753; died 8th April 1773. He
marr. 23rd April 1740, Janet Maclean, who
died 6th March 1783, and had issue-
Lieut. William, born 6th Aug. 1741 ; Alex
ander, born 28th Nov. 1743.
ANGUS MACLEOD, born about 1744.
son of Norman M. ("Tormaid Ban "),
1 author of the song " Cabar Feidh "
and other pieces, and brother of Hugh M..
D.D., Professor of Church History, Univ.
of Glasgow ; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen ; M.A. (2nd April 1764) ; licen.
by Presb. of Caithness 3rd Oct. 1769 ; pres.
by tutors of Elizabeth, Countess of Suther
land, Aug. 1773 ; ord. 4th May 1774 ; was
sometime chaplain to 2nd Batt. 73rd Foot ;
died 18th May 1794. A man of consider
able erudition and brilliant parts. He
was an intimate of the poet Rob Donn,
from whose recital he prepared the manu
script for the edition of the poems edited
in 1829 by Dr Mackay. He marr. 21st
April 1780, Jane (died 19th Dec. 1838),
daugh. of William Mackay at Morvich,
and had issue — Donald Crawford, born
5th March 1781; William, born 22nd Oct.
1782; Esther, born 15th May 1784; Jane
Forbes, born 19th Jan. 1786 ; Hugh, born
8th Sept. 1787; James, born 30th Sept.
1789; Elizabeth Baillie, born 1st Aug.
1791 ; Wemyss, born 2nd April 1793. Pub
lication—Account of the Parish (Sinclair's
Stat. Ace., iii.). — {Memorabilia Domestica,
51 ; Celtic Monthly, xiii., 178.]
ALEXANDER URQUHART,
1>7g5 born about 1750; M.A. (Marischal
College, Aberdeen, 1771) ; became
schoolmaster of Tarbat ; licen. by Presb.
of Tain 6th March 1776; ord. missionary
at Farr 12th June 1781 ; pres. by Eliza
beth, Countess of Sutherland, Aug. 1794 ;
adm. llth June 1795 ; died 27th Aug. 1812.
He marr. 29th March 1786, Wilhelmina
(died 2nd Feb. 1838), daugh. of John
Poison, tacksrnan of Navidale, and had
issue— Janet Katherine, born 14th June
1787 ; George, min. of this parish ; Alice
Gregory, born 16th March 1792 ; Johanna
Poison, born 28th Oct. 1793, died young ;
Elizabeth Sutherland, born 4th Aug. 1795 ;
Johanna Poison, born 7th March 1801 (marr.
James Campbell, min. of Kildonan.)
GEORGE URQUHART, born 20th Nov.
1813 ^90) son °^ Precec^ng > educated at
Marischal College, Aberdeen ; M.A.
(1st April 1809) ; pres. by George, Marquess,
DORNOCH]
ROGART— STOER
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and Elizabeth, Marchioness of Stafford, in
Feb., and ord. 22nd Sept. 1813; died in
Florence, where he had gone for the benefit
of his health, 3rd May 1821.
DONALD ROSS, M.A. ; trans, from Kil-
1822 muir' Skve; Pres> by George, Mar
quess, and Elizabeth, Marchioness of
Stafford, Nov. 1821 ; adm. 7th May 1822 ;
trans, to Loth 18th June 1823.
JOHN MACKENZIE, M.A. ; pres. by
George, Marquess, and Elizabeth,
Marchioness of Stafford, in July,
and adm. 17th Sept. 1823 ; trans, to Resolis
28th Sept. 1843.
DUNCAN M'ARTHUR, ord. 8th May
1844 1844> died 24th Augl 1853- He
marr. 8th May 1838, Janet (died 30th
April 1865), daugh. of William Mitchell,
Gordonhall, Kingussie, and had issue —
Alexander, born 8th May 1840; William,
born 16th Sept. 1841 ; Peter, born 13th
Jan. 1843; James, Inveran, born 7th Dec.
1845, died 22nd Aug. 1919.
GKEGOR STUART, trans, from
1854 Kinlochluichart, and adm. 3rd May
1854 ; trans, to Kingussie 24th Sept.
1857.
JOHN MACDONALD, born Inverness-
185 shire, 1802, son of Donald M., tenant,
and Jane Mackay; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1826); ord. to
Croick 23rd July 1844 ; trans, and adm.
25th Feb. 1858; died unmarr. 23rd Oct.
1872.
COLIN MACDONALD, born 1845,
1878 son of Murdo M., schoolmaster, and
Anne Mackenzie ; ord. to Knock 7th
Sept. 1870; trans, and adm. 24th July
1873 ; died 6th Nov. 1918. He marr. 30th
March 1875, Isabella Janet (died 25th
Nov. 1877), only daugh. of Andrew Hall
of Calrossie, Ross-shire, and had issue-
Andrew Hall, born 16th Dec. 1876. Publi
cation — The Chronicles of Stratheden, a
Highland Parish of To-day [by A Resident]
(Edinburgh, 1881).
ALLAN MACKENZIE, born Poolewe,
1919 16t^ Feb. 1857 ; son of Alexander
M. and Margaret Mackenzie ; edu
cated at Free Church School, Inverasdale,
New College and Univ. of Edinburgh ;
licen. by Free Presbyterian Presb. 14th
Aug. 1893 ; ord. to Free Presbyterian
Church, Inverness, 22nd Nov. 1898; adm.
by the General Assembly as an ordained
min. May 1900 ; adm. min. of Fraser Street
Church, Inverness, that year ; adm. to Uig
7th Feb. 1906 ; trans, and adm. 17th July
1919; trans, to Tiree 16th Sept. 1925;
died at Uig Manse 15th June 1926. He
marr. (1) 17th Oct. 1883, May (died 13th
April 1915), daugh. of Donald Fraser, and
had issue— John Kennedy, min. of Storno-
way : (2) 17th Aug. 1916, Catherine, daugh.
of Kenneth Macleod, Stornoway, and had
issue — Allan Kenneth, born 29th March
1919 ; Alasdair Ian, born 20th Jan. 1921.
Publications — Church and State Question
(Inverness, 1896) ; Sabbath Question (Inver
ness, 1897) ; Patrick Hamilton, Martyr ;
Development of Education in the Lewis.
WILLIAM CAIRD TAYLOR, born
1926 CuPar-Fife> 3rd May 1882> son of
John T. and Williamina Dorothy
Leighton ; educated at Bell-Baxter School,
Cupar, and Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A.
(1903), B.D. (1907); licen. by Presb. of
St Andrews in 1907 ; assistant at Bothwell,
Dundee, Alloway 1912, and Dalwhinnie
1913; ord. to Berriedale 5th April 1917;
trans, and adm. 13th May 1926. Marr. 10th
July 1924, Catherine Bruce, daugh. of Angus
Bruce Georgeson and Williamina Farquhar,
schoolhouse, Berriedale, and has issue —
Williamina Dorothy, born 29th April 1925 ;
Elizabeth Caird, born 4th Jan. 1927. Publi
cations — " Scottish Students in Heidelberg,"
1386-1662 (Scot. Hist. Review, Oct. 1907).
Contributions to Review of Theology and
Philosophy, viii. No. 6, ix. No. 2.
STOER (Q.S.\
[There was of old a chapel at Stoer,
which was then in the parish of Assynt.
A parliamentary chapel was built here in
1829. The parish of Stoer was disjoined
from Assynt 18th March 1878.]
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STOER
[PRESB. OF DORNOCH
DONALD GORDON, M.A. ; pres. by
1829 George IV. 21st April, trans, from
Eddrachillis, and adm. 2nd Sept.
1829 ; trans, to Edderton 7th April 1836.
PETER DAVIDSON, born 1788, second
„ son of John D., farmer, Glenrosa,
Kilbride, Arran ; educated at Univ.
of Glasgow; missionary at St Kilda, 1829,
ord. by Presb. of Caithness as missionary
at Achrennie or Dirlot in 1830; pres. by
William IV. 6th July 1836 ; adm. 18th April
1837. Joined the Free Church in 1843 ; min.
of Free Church, Shiskine, Arran, 1845-52,
and Free Church, Kilbride, 1852-75; died
at Lamlash 15th April 1875. He marr.
1824, Margaret Fullarton. Publication-
Poems on various Religious Subjects (Glas
gow, 1877). — [Cameron's Church in Arran,
137, 143; Marbh-Roinn (Glasgow, 1877),
contains an Elegy on P. D.]
DONALD TOLMIE MASSON, M.D.;
ord. 4th May 1852 ; trans, to Gaelic
' Church, Edinburgh, 21st Feb. 1854.
DONALD MACKAY, pres. by Queen
Victoria 1st July, and ord. 1854;
dem. in 1876 and went to Canada
[afterwards min. of St Columba's, Paisley
(q.v.}].
ALEXANDER GRANT, born Tomin-
7? toul, June 1842, son of Charles
G. ; educated at Tomintoul School
and Univ. of Aberdeen ; schoolmaster of
Alvie ; licen. by Presb. of Dornoch ; ord.
4th May 1877 ; dem. in 1917. Marr. 15th
Jan. 1879, Barbara, daugh. of Peter Grant,
schoolmaster of Alvie, and has issue —
Anne Jane, born 7th Jan. 1880 (marr. 19th
Nov. 1914, Thomas Thomson, town-clerk,
Airdrie); Helen Elizabeth Gumming, born
3rd Jan. 1881 (marr. Kennedy Adams,
min. of Harthill); Charles Peter, min.
of Wellpark, Greenock, born 3rd Jan.
1882; Alexander George Macpherson,
medical superintendent of the Manchester
Sanatorium, Abergele, born 5th Aug.
1884.
THOMAS HENRY HENDERSON,
M.A. ; assistant at St Margaret's,
Edinburgh, elected min. in 1919, but
died from a motor accident near Lochinver,
31st March 1919, the day before that fixed
for his ordination.
WILLIAM JOHN MACKENZIE, born
Portree, llth May 1876, son of John M.
and Jane M. ; educated at Portree
School ; licen. by Presb. of Dornoch 12th
Sept. 1919 ; Royal Bounty missionary,
Rosehall; ord. 25th Sept. 1919. Marr. 19th
Nov. 1907, Margaret, daugh. of Donald
Smith and Christina Mackay, s.p.
PKESBYTERY OF TONGUE
[This Court was set up by the General Assembly on llth May 1726. Of the seven
parishes then united to form it, Eddrachillis, Durness, Fair and Reay were taken from
the Presbytery of Caithness. To these were added Assynt and Kildonan, which had
belonged to Dornoch, and the new parish of Tongue erected at that meeting of Assembly
in 1726. Kildonan, however, was given back to the Presbytery of Dornoch on 18th May
1727, and, on 19th May 1736, Assynt also was put again under the jurisdiction of the
latter Court. The Register of the Presbytery of Tongue begins at 15th Oct. 1726.
There is a gap in its Record from 7th July 1763 to 17th Aug. 1774.]
DURNESS, OF OLD ARDURNESS.
[Durness was a prebend of the Cathedral
of Dornoch.]
JOHN REID, exhorter after 1560 to his
1560 death.
FARQUHAR REID, min. in 1574,
with Farr and Reay in the charge.
— [Wodrow Miscel., 332.]
GEORGE MERNIS, pres. to the vicarage
by James VI. 21st Dec. 1576 ; dem.
before 8th March 1580 ; still styled
min., however, in 1585. — [Reg. Assig.]
WILLIAM MERNIS, pres. to the
vicarage by James VI. 8th March
1580.
ROBERT MUNRO, min. in 1603 ; with
16Q3 his wife he resigned half davoch of
Culmellochie in favour of his son
2nd April 1623 ; still min. 26th April 1632.
He marr. Elspet Munro, and had issue —
Hector. — [Scot. Antiquary, v., 155 ; Inverness
Sas., iii. 236, v. 62, 269 ; Reid's Earls of
Ross, 82 ; Reay Charter Chest.]
ALLAN MACLORGANE, min. at 15th
1618 Feb. 1613.— [Clan Donald, iii., 649.]
ALEXANDER MUNRO, born about
1605, son of Hector M. of Milntown of
Katewell, dyer, Inverness ; originally
a teacher in Strathnaver, was converted
1674
1576
1580
under the ministry of Robert Bruce, Edin
burgh, while the latter was confined to
Inverness. Soon after, M. imagined he
heard a voice from heaven imploring his
service in the ministry and informing him
of his settlement here. This being several
times repeated, he studied at the Univ. of
Aberdeen, was entered on trials, and licen.
and ord. in 1634. At his entry the people
are stated to have been almost heathen, but
his labours met with much success. He
translated many passages of Scripture into
Gaelic verse, which were known and learned
oracularly as " Sandy Munro's Verses." Of
these only two specimens are known to
be extant, consisting of 108 lines in the
Fernaig Manuscript. He died before 22nd
Dec. 1653. He marr. Janet Cumming, and
had issue— Hew, his successor ; John, min.
of Alness ; Donald, schoolmaster, Alness ;
Hector; Agnes (marr. David Munro of
Katewell) ; Christian (marr. (1) John, eldest
son of Murdoch Mackay of Achness : (2)
Robert Munro of Milntown of Katewell).
— [Wodrow's Anal., i., 267; Hist, of the
Munros, 391 ; Mackay 's House of Mackay,
558 ; Inverness Sas., v., 293 ; Sutherland and
the Reay Country, 333 ; Reliquice Celticce,
ii., 19 ; Trans. Gaelic Soc. Inverness, xi.,
329; The Fernaig Manuscript (Dun
dee, 1924) ; Beaton's Bibliography of
Gaelic Books of Caithness and Suther
land, 11.]
102
DURNESS
[PRESB. OF
HEW MUNRO, son of preceding, born
about 1637; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1657);
ord. (at Watten) 20th Jan. 1663; coll.
before 2nd March 1664 ; was censured 6th
June 1666, notwithstanding his excuse of
distance of place and tediousness of journey,
for non-attendance at Presb. He did not
take the Test in 1681, but on petitioning
Privy Council, 16th March 1682, was allowed
to do so; died between 2nd July 1701 and
2nd June 1703, aged about 59. He marr.
and had issue — Isabella (marr. Robert
Mackay of Achness).— [Mackay's House of
Mackay, 559 ; Wodrow's Anal., i., 267 ;
P. C. 'Reg., 3rd ser., vii., 364 ; Sutherland
and the Reay Country, 344 ; Hist, of the
Munros, 391.]
[The Parish vacant 1698-1707.]
JOHN MACKAY, M.A. ; ord. 14th
March 1707, when he had a promise
from George, Lord Reay, that the
parish should be divided, but this not being
fulfilled, he personally pursued a disjunc
tion before the Lords of Session but was
unsuccessful ; trans, to Lairg 2nd March
1714.
GEORGE BRODIE, called by the Presb.
jure devoluto 14th Aug., and ord. (at
' Reay) 22nd Sept. 1715; trans, to
Eddrachillis on its erection 15th July 1724.
MURDOCH MACDONALD, born
Durness, 3rd May 1696, son of
' Donald M., and nephew of Walter
Ross, min. of Tongue ; educated at Fearn
School and Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A.
(9th May 1722) ; licen. by the Presb. there
15th Sept. 1725 ; became tutor in family of
Mackay of Rhenovie ; pres. by the Presb.
jure devoluto 24th Aug., and ord. 28th
Sept. 1726 ; sometime clerk of Presb. ; died
23rd Aug. 1763. He was an accomplished
musician, "a most melodious and powerful
singer," and composed many Gaelic airs.
He took a lively interest in the controversy
in the Synod of Caithness and Sutherland
for the curtailment of the number of days
observed at the dispensation of the Sacra
ment of the Lord's Supper. Rob Donn
composed a beautiful elegy in Gaelic on him.
He marr. 23rd May 1728, Anna (died 18th
Jan. 1784), daugh. of Patrick Couper, min.
of Pittenweem, and had issue — Patrick,
min. of Kilmore, born 22nd April 1729;
Mary, born 9th Oct. 1730 ; Margaret, born
21st Oct. 1731, died Feb. 1756; Donald,
born 21st Nov. 1732, died Sept. 1751;
Florence, born 23rd Sept. 1736 (marr. John
Touch, D.D., min. of St Cuthbert's Chapel-
of-Ease (Buccleuch), Edinburgh) ; Annabel,
born 22nd May 1737 ; Joseph, born 26th
Feb. 1739 ; John ; Marion ; Jenny ; Jean
(marr.). He left an MS. Diary in eight
octavo vols. extending to over 4000 pages of
very small but legible writing. It is chiefly
a record of the diarist's spiritual experi
ences. Portions were published in Trans.
Gaelic Soc. Inverness, xi., 293-310 (1884-5).
— [Sutherland and the Reay Country,
351.]
JOHN THOMSON, born Avoch, 6th
Nov. 1735 ; was schoolmaster of
Golspie; licen. by Presb. of Dornoch
13th Sept. 1763 ; called by the Presb.
jure devoluto; ord. (at Tongue) 1st Nov.
1764; died 12th June 1811. He marr.
(1) 20th May 1765, Mary (born 17th April
1740, died 13th Sept. 1768), daugh. of
Francis Robertson, min. of Clyne, and
had issue — Janet, born 13th Feb. 1766,
died 7th April 1785 ; Kenneth, born 29th
Dec. 1766, died in Kingston, Jamaica, 24th
July 1794 ; Francis, born 29th Aug., died
24th Nov. 1768 : (2) 28th Sept. 1770, Margaret
(born 8th June 1741, died 19th July 1772),
daugh. of John Clunes of Neils town, and
had issue— Margaret Gordon, born 7th July,
died 3rd Dec. 1771 ; Robertson, born 27th
June 1772, died 3rd Sept. 1773: (3) 5th
Nov. 1776, Christian (born Aug. 1753, died
2nd April 1804), daugh. of Kenneth Mac
kenzie, tacksman of Inchdaff, and had
issue— Sibella, born 21st Sept. 1777 (marr.
12th Sept. 1801, Lieut. Donald Mackay in
Clashneach); Elizabeth, born 23rd Sept.
1779; Ann Helen, born 17th May 1781,
died 4th March 1783 ; Georgina, born 8th
Feb. 1783; Mackay, born llth Dec. 1784,
died in Jamaica, spring 1803; Mary, born
28th Sept. 1790 (marr. William Findlater,
TONGUE]
DURNESS
103
min. of this parish) ; Elizabeth Fairly, born
10th June 1794. Publication — Account
of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., iii.).—
[Memorabilia Domestica, 30.]
WILLIAM FINDLATEE, born 10th
1812 May 1784, eldest son of Eobert F.,
dyer, Drummond,Kiltearn, and Helen
M'Rae ; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ;
licen. by Presb. of Dingwall 26th Nov. 1806 ;
app. missionary at Eriboll 28th May 1807 ;
ord. there 6th April 1808 ; pres. by George,
Prince Regent, 21st Oct. 1811 ; adm. 30th
April 1812. Joined the Free Church in 1843;
min. of Free Church, Durness, 1843-65 :
died at Tain 29th June 1869. He was a
retiring man whose piety, stores of informa
tion, cheerfulness, quiet playfulness and
wit, made him a general and delightful
companion. He marr. 15th March 1810,
Mary, fourth surviving daugh. of John
Thomson, min. of this parish, and had
issue — Eric John, min. of Ardentinny,
born 5th April 1813; Helen, born 26th
Nov. 1816 ; Robert, born 22nd Aug., died
1st Sept. 1818 ; Robert Buchanan, born
8th June 1820, died 17th Sept. 1840 ; Janet
Thomson, born 26th April 1822 ; Christian,
born 6th May 1828; Kenneth M'Kay
Thomson, medical student, born 16th June
1830, died at Edinburgh 23rd Feb. 1851 ;
Robina, born 2nd July 1833. Publications
—Memoir of the Rev. Robert Findlater of
Inverness (Glasgow, 1830); Gaelic Elegies
(Edinburgh, 1850) ; Parting Exhortations
(Edinburgh, 1856) ; Account of the Parish
(New Stat. Ace., xv.). — [Beaton's Biblio
graphy of Gaelic Books of Caithness and
Sutherland, 23 ; Memorabilia Domestica,
205 ; Disruption Worthies of the Highlands
(portrait), 61-5.]
ALEXANDER M'COLL, son of
1845 Donald M., farmer, and Catherine
Campbell ; pres. by Queen Victoria
16th Dec. 1844; adm. 17th April 1845;
died unmarr. 29th March 1856.
WILLIAM CHARLES MIDDLETON
185Q GRANT, born Kirkmichael, 22nd
Nov. 1825, son of G. and
Penuel Middleton ; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen; M.A. (March 1848);
tutor in family of the Rev. Z. M. Hamilton,
D.D., min. of Bressay ; ord. to Carnoch in
1853 ; pres. by Queen Victoria 2nd May,
trans, and adm. 6th Aug. 1856 ; died 16th
April 1900. He marr. 6th Jan. 1858, Penuel
(died 15th June 1902), daugh. of James
Macpherson, farmer, Kirkmichael, Banff,
and Penuel Grant, and had issue — Penuel,
born 10th June 1859, died 19th April 1868 ;
Anne, born 24th Oct. 1860 (marr. 7th Jan.
1897, William Hannay Shand,L.R.C.P.&S.);
John, St Andrews, born 23rd March 1862 ;
James in New Zealand, born 19th May
1863; William Charles Middleton, born
15th Nov. 1864, died at Johannesburg, 15th
July 1918 ; Alexander Donald Mackenzie,
M.B., Johannesburg, born 29th Jan. 1866 ;
Wilhelmina Catherine Macpherson, born
llth June 1867, died 3rd July 1919 ; Penuel,
born 16th Sept. 1868, died 30th Oct. 1897 ;
Isabella Elizabeth, born 4th Feb. 1870
(marr. John Elliot Scott, Board of
Agriculture) ; Catherine Jane, born 12th
Sept. 1871 (marr. William Fraser, sur
veyor) ; Sophia Mary, born 27th Sept.
1874.
JAMES DUFF MACDONALD, born
190Q Kinlochbervie, 4th Sept. 1872, son
of Peter M., schoolmaster, and Jane
Mackenzie ; educated at Raining's School,
Inverness, and Univs. of Edinburgh, M.A.
(1912), and Glasgow; licen. by Presb. of
Greenock April 1898 ; assistant at Gaelic
Church, Greenock and Strachur ; ord. 28th
Nov. 1900 ; trans, to St Oran's, Edinburgh,
8th June 1917.
JAMES WALLACE MACDONALD,
1918 born Tullymet> Perthshire, 26th
May 1856, son of James M. and
Janet Wallace ; educated at Logierait
School and Univs. of Edinburgh, M.A.
(1887), and Glasgow, B.D. (1892) ; licen.'by
Presb. of Weem in 1892 ; assistant at Ford
of Lochawe ; ord. to Croick 22nd Feb.
1898 ; trans, and adm. 7th May 1918. Marr.
26th Dec. 1918, Helen, daugh. of George
Poison, Tillycairn, Cluny, Aberdeenshire,
and widow of Robert Fairburn.
104
EDDRACHILLIS
[PRESB. OF
EDDRACHILLIS.
[On 16th May 1724 the General Assembly
appointed a collection to be taken for
building a church at Eddrachillis. In the
same year, the Lords Commissioners of
Teinds disjoined the parish of Eddrachillis
from those of Lairg and Durness.]
GEORGE BRODIE, Keen, by Presb. of
1724 Inverness 15th Sept. 1714 ; ord. to
Durness 22nd Sept. 1715; became
min. of this parish on its erection 15th July
1724 ; adm. before 5th Oct. 1726 ; died 1st
March 1740. He marr. Barbara, only
daugh. of Alexander Mackay, and had issue
—William ; Henrietta (marr. William Gor
don, Langdale); Margaret (marr. Alexander
Oliphant, min. of Bower) ; Christian, cele
brated for her beauty and virtue by the
bard Rob Bonn (marr. John Mackay, Auld-
anrine) ; a daugh. (marr. George Mackay,
min. of this parish).— [Mackay's House of
Mackay, 253; P. R. Sas., Inverness, 20th
Sept. 1762, x., 97; Trans. Gaelic Soc.
Inverness, xi., 300.]
GEORGE MACKAY, born about 1713,
1741 eldest son °f J°nn M. of the family
of Achness ; licen. by Presb. of
Tongue 31st July 1738 ; called jure devoluto
9th, and ord. 23rd April 1741 ; died 18th
June that year. His illness and death
were popularly believed to have been
brought about by a reputed witch, whose
daughter he had severely rebuked. He
marr. 1741, a daugh. of George Brodie,
min. of this parish, but had no issue.—
[Trans. Gaelic Soc. Inverness, xi., 300;
House of Mackay, 559.]
WILLIAM HENDERSON, born 1705,
1742 son °^ J°hn H., schoolmaster at
Knockbreck, Durness ; educated at
Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1725-9 ; licen.
by Presb. of Tongue 16th Nov. 1732 ; ord.
by Presb. of Dornoch 24th Aug. 1736, as a
missionary within their bounds ; called by
the Presb. jure devoluto llth, and adm.
18th Aug. 1742 ; died unmarr. after long
illness 19th May 1743.
JOHN MUNRO, born Uist, about
1708. son of Captain Robert M. of
Erribol, of Dunbarton's Regiment,
and Christian, daugh. of Hugh Fraser of
Aigas; educated at King's College, Aber
deen ; MA. (1728) ; was chaplain in the
family of George, Lord Reay ; licen. by
Presb. of Tongue 8th Aug. 1732 ; ord.
to South Uist, 14th Jan. 1737 ; called by
the Presb. jure devoluto 7th March, trans,
and adm. 21st June 1744 ; died 13th
Feb. 1755. He marr. 13th July 1741,
Christian (died 9th March 1795), daugh.
of William Macleod of Obe and Waterstein,
and widow of Kenneth Bethune, min. of
Kilmuir, and had issue— Katherine, born
12th Aug. 1742; George, min. of South
Uist, born 3rd July 1743; Robert, born
22nd June 1744, died 19th July 1745;
Alexander, born 13th May, died 28th July
1745 ; Mary, born 6th April 1746 ; Hugh,
min. of Uig, born 16th April 1747; Christian,
born 10th May 1748 ; Robert, born 7th June
1750. — [Geneal.ofthe Bethunes; Mackenzie's
Hist, of the Munros, 354.]
JOHN M'KAY, ord. (at Tongue) 1st Jan.
1756 1756 ; trans, to Tongue 27th May
1762.
ALEXANDER FALCONER, born
.,_„_ Inverness, 1730; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (3rd April
1750); licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith 19th
Aug. 1757; ord. missionary at Fort Augustus
13th June 1758 ; called by the Presb. jure
devoluto 5th, and adm. 7th July 1763. In an
action at his instance, the Court of Session
found, 14th Nov. 1781, that a minister had
no right to the sea ware upon the shore
of his glebe, except for the purpose of
manuring his land and feeding his cattle.
He died 14th May 1802. He marr. 23rd
Aug. 1764, Mary (died 26th May 1827),
sister of George M'Intosh of Dunchattan,
and had issue— Helen, born 23rd May 1765
(marr. Captain Alexander Mackay of Duart-
beg); Fairly, born 23rd May 1769; Barbara,
born 14th Feb. 1771 ; Joanna, born 16th
Nov. 1773; Mary, born 1st Sept. 1775;
Anne, born 6th Nov. 1777 ; John, born 15th
Nov. 1779; James, born 27th Oct. 1781,
TONGUE]
EDDRACHILLIS
105
1881
died 1785; Alexander, born 20th March
1784 ; James, born 26th June 1786 ; George,
born 7th July 1788, died 1798; Lachlan,
bprn 18th Sept. 1790. Publication-
Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat.
Ace., vi.).
JOHN MACKENZIE, born 1759 ;
licen. by Presb. of Tain 2nd May
1792 ; ord. missionary at Kincardine
and Creich 4th May 1797 ; pres. by George
III. 16th Sept. 1802 ; adm. 6th April 1803 ;
died 14th March 1837.
DiONALD GORDON, M.A. ; ord.
(assistant) 28th Nov. 1822 ; adm. to
' Stoer 2nd Sept. 1829.
GEORGE TULLOCH, born 1799, son
of James T. in Skaill, Reay ;
educated at King's College, Aber
deen; licen. by Presb. of Caithness 22nd
July 1825; ord. as missionary at Eriboll
2nd April 1829 ; pres. by William IV. ;
adm. (assistant and successor) 13th Oct.
1831. Joined the Free Church in 1843;
min. of Free Church, Eddrachillis, 1843-80 ;
died 27th Jan. 1880. He marr. 29th Jan.
1835, Mary M'Intosh Clarke, who died 15th
Feb. 1897, and had issue— James, born 8th
Jan. 1836 ; Johanna Clarke, born 28th Sept.
1837 ; Ann Swanson, born 26th May 1839 ;
John, born 9th and died 27th Nov. 1840 ;
David Robert, M.D., Helmsdale, Winnipeg,
born 1st Jan. 1842 ; John Thomas, student
at Marischal College, 1859, born 12th Sept.
1843, went to British Columbia ; Hughina,
born 14th Dec. 1845 ; Alexa, born 17th June
1847 ; Alexander, born 2nd May 1849, died
8th Aug. 1850: Mary Bayne, born 7th
March 1851; Alexandrina Clarke, born
14th March 1853.
JAMES STEWART, born 1780, son of
John S., farmer, and Catherine
Stewart; ord. to Ardgour in 1816;
became missionary at Fort Augustus, 1829 ;
pres. by Queen Victoria 12th March, and
adm. 2nd May 1844 ; died 28th Aug. 1867.
He marr. 18th Dec. 1830, Christina Mac-
donald, Fort Augustus, who died 22nd June
1880, and had issue— John Allan, born 24th
Feb. 1832, died young ; Ann Catherine, born
6th June 1834 ; John Allan, min. of North
Parish, Paisley, born 2nd Jan. 1836 ;
Christina, born 26th June 1837; James
Angus, born 20th July 1842 ; Duncan, born
28th July 1846.
GEORGE MACDONALD, pres. by
Queen Victoria 12th Sept. 1867;
ord. 15th Jan. 1868; trans, to
Rosskeen 9th Aug. 1870.
DONALD MACAULAY, pres. by Queen
Victoria 27th Dec. 1870 ; trans, from
Hallin-in-Waternish, and adm. llth
May 1871 ; trans, to Reay 6th June 1878.
KENNETH MACKENZIE, born 1828,
son of Alexander M., farmer, and
Ann Lyon; educated at Univ. of
Edinburgh ; ord. in 1863 ; adm. to Kinloch-
bervie 29th Dec. 1864 ; trans, to Kinloch-
luichart 6th Jan. 1876 ; trans, and adm. 5th
March 1879; dem. 25th Nov. 1903; died
6th Feb. 1915. He marr. 8th Nov. 1861,
Anne, daugh. of James Macpherson, farmer,
Kirkmichael, and Penuel Grant.
GEORGE HENDERSON, born 1866,
1001 son of George H>' Seneral merchant,
and Elizabeth Fraser ; educated at
Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (13th April 1898) ;
B.Litt. (Oxon); Ph.D. (Vienna); licen.
by Presb. of Edinburgh in 1900; ord.
(assistant and successor) 19th June 1901 ;
app. lecturer in Celtic in Univ. of Glas
gow in 1906; dem. 15th May 1911;
died at Rutherglen 26th June 1912. He
marr. Agnes D. Niebuhr. Publications
— Dain Iain Gobha ; The Poems of
John Morrison, the Songsmith of Harris,
edited with Memoir, 2 vols. (Glasgow,
1893-6); The Book of the Glens, with
Zimmer on Pictish Matriarchy (Edinburgh.
1898); Symphonia Gadelica (Inverness,
1899); Fled Bricrend : The Feast of
Bricriu [Irish Texts Soc.] (London, 1899) ;
The Gaelic Classics, No. 1 (Edinburgh,
1901) ; Memoirs of a Highland Gentleman
(Edinburgh, 1905) ; The Norse Influence on
Celtic Scotland (Glasgow, 1910) ; Survivals
in Belief among the Celts (Glasgow, 1911);
"The Geste of Fraoch and the Dragon"
[Campbell's The Gaelic Dragon Myth}
(Edinburgh, 1911); Arthurian Motifs in
Gadhelic Literature (Halle, 1912); "The
106
EDDRACHILLIS— FARR
[PRESB. OF
Fionn Saga " (Celtic Review, i., 193 et seq.) ;
"A Manuscript from Ratisbon" (Trans.
Gael. Sac. Inverness, xxvi., 87) ; " Oenghus
Nan Aoir" (ibid., xxvi., 458); " Lamb-
Sgriobhainnean Mhic Neacail " (ibid.,
xxvii., 340-409). — [Beaton's Bibliography of
Gaelic Books of Caithness and Sutherland,
28, 74 ; Celtic Review, viii., 245-9 (portrait)].
ALEXANDER CLARK, adm. 27th
1912 March 1912; trans- to Unst 4tn
Nov. that year.
WILLIAM JOHN LUNDIE, born llth
1913 March 1882, son of David L., min.
of Tongue; educated at Miller
Institution, Thurso, and Univ. of St
Andrews ; licen. by Presb. of Tongue April
1913; assistant at Golspie ; ord. 6th May
that year.
FARR.
[The church of Farr was a commune kirk
of the Cathedral of Dornoch. There is
within the bounds a mission chapel in
Strathnaver.]
1567 DONALD REID, reader in 1567.
ARCHIBALD DAVIDSON, son of
72 Adam D., Thurso; pres. by James
' VI. 28th April 1572, but not known
if settled.
FARQUHAR REID, min. in 1574, with
Reay and Ardurness also in his
charge; still min. in 1580.
WALTER ANDERSON, reader at Clyne
1586 an(^ koth from 1574 to 1580; min.
' in 1585 ; was still in the charge 20th
Dec. 1603.— [Reg. Assig. ; Wodrow Miscell.,
333 ; Craven's Diocese, 48.]
DONALD REOCH, min. in 1588; still
1588 min. in 1595.
WILLIAM ROSS, min. in 1596, with
Kirkibole and Ardurness in his
charge; still min. in 1599.— [Reg.
Assig.]
WILLIAM DAVIDSON, M.A. (St
Andrews 1595) ; pres. by James VI.
10th May 1584 ; adm. to Reay about
1601 ; trans, and adm. before 16th June
1603; still min. in 1608; had charter of
a tenement in Thurso from James Sinclair
of Murkle in 1618. He marr. Agnes
Blackadder.— [Reg. Mag. Sig., vi., 1467;
Reg. Assig. ; G. R. Sas., ii., 178.]
ROBERT MUNRO of Coul, eldest son
1619 of william M-> min- of Cullicudden,
and Isobel Thornton; adm. to
Kiltearn in 1589; trans, and adm. before
9th Oct. 1619; still min. 13th Aug. 1635.
He marr. Elizabeth, daugh. of Robert
Munro of Foulis, and had issue — Hector
of Coul ; John, major in army ; Elizabeth
(marr. David Dunbar, merchant, Inver
ness) ; Margaret (marr.). — [Mackenzie's
Hist, of the Munros, 385 ; Reg. Mag. Sig.,
viii., 118, 245 ; Inverness Sas., vi., 15 ; Reg.
of Deeds, dxliv., 377 ; P. C. Reg., 2nd ser.,
vi., 222.]
JOHN MUNRO, son of Major Hector
1663 ^" °^ ^OU^ an(* Jsabella Ross, and
grandson of preceding; app. (col
league and successor) by Patrick, Bishop
of Caithness 14th May 1663; coll. before
2nd March 1664. He marr. Isobel Ander
son, and had issue — William ; Thomas ;
David, min. of Reay.— [Laing Charters,
2603, 2815; Mackenzie's Hist, of the
Munros, 386; The Sutherland Book, ii.,
185.]
DONALD M'INTOSH, ord. 15th July
1674 1674 ; received into communion by
the committee appointed by the
Assembly for the north of Tay, July 1694 ;
trans, to Duthil in 1695.
JOHN MACPHERSON, born 1656 ; a
1697 Preachin§ deacon under Episcopacy
and schoolmaster of Thurso, was
referred by the Assembly 8th Jan. 1697 to
the Presb. of Edinburgh in order to his
being licensed ; ord. in 1697 ; died 28th
Jan. 1726. He marr., and had issue —
Isobel (marr., cont. 22nd April 1714, William
Munro of Achany. — [Inverness Sas., vii.,
395; Tombst.]
ANDREW ROBERTSON, called by the
1727 -Pres^- Jure devoluto 9th Jan. and
ord. 21st March 1727 ; trans, to
Kiltearn 27th July 1731.
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FARR
107
JOHN SKELDOCH, a native of Lorn ;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; ord.
to Kilmonivaig 5th May 1725 ; called
28th Oct. 1732 ; trans, and adm. 18th July
1734 ; died 25th June 1753. He was con
stantly warned and rebuked by the Presb.
for his worldliness and inattention to his
pastoral duties. He bought and sold
cattle to such an extent that the people
regarded him more as a drover than a
minister. In 1748 he was suspended by
the Synod, a motion for deposition being
lost by a small majority. Page after page
of the Presb. Register is taken up with his
case. He marr. 8th June 1725, Jane Thrift,
who died 5th July 1794, aged 100.— [Suther
land and the Reay Country, 355 ; Old Lore
MiscelL, vii. pt. 4, 164, viii. pt. 3, 111-15 ;
Trans. Gael. Soc. Inverness, xi., 308.]
GEORGE MUNRO, born Dunrobin
1705, son of George M., farmer, and
grandson of George Squair, min. of
Eddrachillis ; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen, 1736-40; licen. by Presb. of
Tain 19th Feb. 1752 ; pres. by trustees of
William, Earl of Sutherland, in March;
ord. 24th May 1754; died 1st May 1779,
" a man of marked piety." He marr. 16th
Dec. 1754, Barbara (died 3rd Feb. 1792),
daugh. of John Mackay, min. of Lairg, and
had issue — Katherine, born 5th Nov. 1755,
died 16th Feb. 1762 ; Mary Menzies, born
llth July 1760.— [Sutherland and the Reay
Country, 356.]
JAMES DINGWALL, born 26th May
1743, third son of Alexander D.,
tenant of Seafield, Tarbat ; app.
schoolmaster of Tarbat ; educated at
King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1766);
licen. by Presb. of Tain 4th Oct. 1769;
ord. missionary at Achness 30th Oct. 1772 ;
pres. by Elizabeth, Countess of Sutherland,
and her curators, 9th July 1779 ; adm. 30th
March 1780; died 16th Sept. 1814. He
was of weak bodily constitution and though
latterly unable to stand in the pulpit, was
never absent from preaching to the last
Sunday of his life. He marr. 14th July
1767, Christian Dow, who died 24th June
1827, and had issue— George Balfour, born
20th Sept. 1771 ; Alexander, born 23rd
Feb. 1780; Christian, born 15th March
1786. Publications — Sermons on several
interesting subjects, with a lecture on the
Seventy-third Psalm (Edinburgh, 1816);
Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat.
Ace., in.).— [Memorabilia Domestica, 181.]
1815
DAVID MACKENZIE, born 20th Sept.
1783; son of Hugh M., tacksman at
Pulrossie, Sutherland [who died at
the age of 102 years, elder and catechist,
and a descendant of Row the Reformer],
and brother of Hugh, min. of Tongue;
wrought in early life in the factory at
Spinningdale ; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen; M.A. (30th March 1810) ; school
master of Tongue; became tutor in the
family of M'Leod of Dalvey ; licen. by
Presb. of Forres 2nd Aug. 1813; ord.
missionary at Achness 25th Nov. 1813 ;
pres. by George, Marquess, and Elizabeth,
Marchioness of Stafford, in 1814 ; adm. 3rd
May 1815. Joined the Free Church in
1843 ; min. of Free Church, Farr, 1843-68 ;
died 24th Feb. 1868. During his ministry
the " Sutherland Clearances " at Strath -
naver and other parts of his parish were
carried out. He was asked to give his con
currence but resolutely refused. He was a
most conscientious minister and a man of
sound judgment. On the occasion of his
jubilee he was presented with a handsome
sum of money by his many friends through
out Caithness and Sutherland. He marr.
30th Nov. 1815, his cousin, Barbara Grace
(died 6th Sept. 1841), only daugh. of Robert
Gordon, tacksman of Langdale, and had
issue — Hugh, born 23rd May 1817, died at
Georgetown, Demerara, June 1844 ; Grizel,
born'ISth Feb. 1819 (marr. John Macdonald,
General Treasurer of Free Church, Edin
burgh) ; Helen, born 9th Oct. 1820, died
4th May 1851 ; William, born 28th Sept.,
died 14th Nov. 1822 ; John (twin) born
28th Sept., died llth Nov. 1822 ; William
John, born 5th Dec. 1823, died at Otago,
New Zealand, 23rd March 1861 ; Christian,
born 25th May 1826 (marr. 17th June 1845,
William Denoon Young, Edinburgh), died
7th Aug. 1849 ; Robert, born 7th Feb. 1828 ;
Donald, born 24th April 1830, died 14th
Jan. 1850; Marion Macleod, born 24th
108
FARR— KINLOCHBERVIE
[PRESB. OF
July 1832, died 20th Aug. 1857; David,
born 22nd June 1840, died 2nd July 1841.
Publication — Account of the Parish (New
Stat. Ace., xv.) — [Disruption Worthies of
the Highlands (portrait), 89-96; Memor
abilia Domestica, 204.]
DAVID SUTHERLAND, born Ach-
1844 scorrieclett) Halkirk, 1799, son of
Robert S., crofter, and Ann Mackay;
educated at King's College, Aberdeen, 1830-4;
ord. to Lybster 16th Sept. 1841 ; trans, to
Strathy in 1842 ; trans, and adm. 18th
April 1844; died 13th July 1880. He
marr. (1) 17th Nov. 1836, Jessie Hughina
Duncan, who died 3rd Feb. 1853, and had
issue — Christian Gunn, born 29th Sept.
1837 (marr. John Mackay), died in Glasgow
15th Feb. 1924; Roberta, born 4th June 1839
(marr. Hector Swanson, Rispond); Ann
Mackay, born 13th June 1841 ; John,
born 2nd May 1846, died 9th Jan. 1848;
Helen Jane, born 9th Jan. 1852, died 19th
June 1853 : (2) 19th Sept. 1854, Christian
Macleod (died 22nd Feb. 1899), and had
issue— Robert John, born 17th Feb. 1856,
died 29th May 1860; Jessie Duncan, born
15th March 1861 ; Christian Mackay, born
4th Nov. 1863 ; Andrewina Sutherland,
born 28th Feb. 1865.
JOHN MACNAB MACGREGOR, trans.
1881 from Lismore and adm. 31st March
1881 ; trans, to Kilmore 17th Sept.
1891.
JOHN KENNETH MACLEAN, trans.
1892 ^rom Hallin-in-Waternish. and adm.
10th May 1892 ; trans, to Lairg 24th
June 1902.
DUGALD CARMICHAEL, adm. 26th
1902 Nov< 1902 ' trans- to Reav 23rd SePt-
' 1909.
MALCOLM MACKINNON, trans, from
lglo Kinlochspelvie, and adm. 4th May
1910; trans, to Brodick 5th June
1919.
JOHN DEAS LOGIE, born Buckhaven,
192Q 13th Dec. 1868, son of James L. and
Elizabeth Deas ; educated at Buck-
haven Higher Grade School, Univ. of
Edinburgh, and Free Church College ; licen.
by Free Church Presb. of Edinburgh, Aug.
1896 ; assistant at Leith, Paisley, Falkirk
and West Calder; ord. to Free Church,
Kinglassie, 1905 ; trans, to Free Church,
Kirkcaldy, March 1914 ; trans, to Rousay
15th Dec. 1916 ; trans, and adm. 15th June
1920; trans, to Glenisla 15th Sept. 1926;
trans, to Stanley 8th Sept. 1927. Marr.
6th Sept. 1905, Frances Glen (died s.p.
10th Feb. 1918), daugh. of John Mitchell
and Agnes Benson. Publications — The
Coming of May (London 1907); The
Church and the Open Door, Proposed
Social Service League Organisation, General
Principles and Sketch of Scheme (Edinburgh,
1920) ; The Churchiand the Closed Door, or
Ecclesiasticism in its Dotage (Edinburgh,
1922) ; The Church of Scotland and Com
mission of General Assembly and the Future
Church (Edinburgh, 1923) ; Model Method
for Presbyterian General Assemblies and
their Order of Business and Rearrange
ment of Committees (Edinburgh, 1923) ;
Presbyterian Reunion in Scotland (Edin
burgh, 1926).
NORMAN MORRISON, trans, from
1927 Bernera 15th Sept. 1927.
KINLOCHBERVIE (Q.S.).
[The parish of Kinlochbervie was disjoined
from Eddrachillis on 4th Feb. 1846.]
DAVID MACKENZIE, born Caithness,
1829 1800> educated at King's College,
Aberdeen, 1817-21; app. school
master of Reay in 1821 ; pres. by George
IV. 24th April, and ord. 20th Aug. 1829 ;
dep. 19th Sept. 1833 for contumacy, and
emigrated to America. He received a call
to St Thomas's Church, Presb. of York,
Canada. He marr. Ann Dodds.
ROBERT CLARK, born Sutherland,
1834 1^84' son °^ R°bert C., farmer, and
Margaret Clark; schoolmaster of
Eddrachillis and Tongue; educated at
King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (25th
March 1814) ; licen. by Presb. of Tongue
7th April, and ord. as missionary at Eriboll
24th Nov. 1819 ; adm. to Gaelic Chapel,
Aberdeen, 20th June 1822 ; adm. to Gaelic
Church, Duke Street, Glasgow, 8th May
1823; pres. by William IV. 3rd Dec.
1833 ; trans, and adm. 24th April 1834 ;
died 15th April 1856.
TONGUE]
KINLOCHBERVIE— STRATHY— TONGUE
109
JOHN ADAM MACFARLANE, pres.
by Queen Victoria 30th June, and
ord. 4th Sept. 1856; trans, to
Urray 8th Aug. 1861.
PETER CALDER, missionary at Fort
Augustus; pres. by Queen Victoria
' 8th Nov. 1861 ; adm. 10th April
1862 ; trans, to Clyne 14th Jan. 1864.
KENNETH MACKENZIE, pres. by
Queen Victoria 17th Sept., and
adm. 29th Dec. 1864; trans, to
Kinlochluichart 6th Jan. 1876.
SIMON HALLY, adm. 18th April 1877 ;
trans, to Kinlochluichart 18th July
1877
1879.
DAVID LUNDIE, adm. 31st March
1880; trans, to Tongue 27th March
1889.
ALEXANDER CRERAR, born Drum-
188g charry, Fortingall, 12th Nov. 1836,
son of John C. and Janet Robert
son ; educated at Kenmore and Fortingall
Schools, Grammar School and Univ. of
Aberdeen ; M.A. (1859) ; licen. by Presb.
of Weem in 1869 ; min. of New Presby
terian Congregation, Southport, Lanca
shire ; assistant at Ardchattan ; ord. Royal
Bounty missionary in the Glens, adm. to
Royal Bounty Mission, Dalavich in 1874;
adm. to this charge llth Sept. 1889.
STRATHY (Q.S.).
[The parish of Strathy was disjoined from
Farr on 4th Feb. 1846.]
ANGUS MACKINTOSH M'GIL-
LIVRAY, pres. by George IV. 9th
April, and ord. 25th Sept. 1828;
trans, to Dairsie 10th Sept. 1841.
DAVID SUTHERLAND, pres. by
1842 Queen Victoria 18th Jan., and trans,
from Lybster in 1842 ; trans, to Farr
18th April 1844.
KENNETH MACKENZIE, born 1820,
laso son °^ Kenneth M., shoemaker, and
Mary M'Lennan; educated at Univ.
of Edinburgh; ord. 9th May 1850; died
8th Feb. 1890. He marr. 25th April 1884,
Mary Hamilton (died 12th May 1905),
daugh. of John Sinclair, Inland Revenue,
Armadale, and had issue — John Kenneth,
born 3rd July 1886; Maggie Anne, born
1st Sept. 1887.
ANGUS MACPHERSON, born 1832,
son of James M., farmer, and
Christina Murray; ord. in 1863;
missionary at Stroma in 1883 ; adm. 23rd
July 1890 ; died unmarr. 6th Dec. 1908.
ALEXANDER YOUNGSON, born
Pitsligo, 26th Dec. 1841, son of
Alexander Y., baker, Rosehearty ,
educated at Univ. of Aberdeen ; M.A.
(1861); schoolmaster of Skene, 1862-77;
licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen 4th Sept.
1877; ord. to Newmill 4th Sept. 1877;
dem. 1st June 1896 ; app. to Stroma Mission
in 1899 ; adm. 21st July 1909. Marr. 27th
Dec. 1870, Elizabeth Catherine, daugh. of
Captain William Young, and has issue-
Helen Agnes, born 1871 ; Emilie Russell,
born 1873 (marr. John Begg); Mary Murray,
born 1874; Alice Eliza, born 1875; Alex
ander William, chief engineer, Transport
Service, born 1876; Elizabeth Catherine,
born 1878 (marr. Thomas M. Martin).
TONGUE.
[On 16th May 1724, the General Assembly
appointed a collection to be made for build
ing a church at Tongue. On llth May
1726, the parish of Tongue was disjoined
from that of Durness by the Lords Com
missioners of Teinds. There was a chapel
of St Columba within the bounds on
Eilean Chaluim, an island in the Kyle of
Tongue. There is a mission chapel at
Melness, in this parish.]
WILLIAM MACKAY, third son of
1727 Alexander M. of the family of Ach-
ness, and daugh. of Andrew Fearn
of Pitcalzean, the Covenanter ; became
tutor to Donald, Master of Reay ; licen.
by Presb. of Caithness 8th March 1727;
called by the Presb. jure devoluto 21st, and
ord. 26th April 1727 ; died 21st Oct. 1728.
—[House of Mackai/, 385.]
110
TONGUE
[PRESB. OF
WALTER ROSS, uncle of Murdoch
Macdonald, min. of Durness ; licen.
by Presb. of Dalkeith 17th Aug.
1713; ord. to Creich 14th Jan. 1714;
called by the Presb. jure devoluto 6th Jan.,
trans, and adm. llth June 1730; dem.,
being unable from ill-health to exercise his
duties, 8th Nov. 1761 ; died at Manse of
Edderton 9th Sept. 1762. His "reserved
manners and secluded habits were not
calculated to gain upon the rough, frank
Highlander." His nephew in his diary
remarks freely on R.'s worldliness and
parsimony. He marr. 7th June 1714,
Annabella (died 19th Feb. 1762), daugh. of
Matthew Stewart of Newton, and had
issue— an only child, Barbara (marr. Joseph
Munro, min. of Edderton. Publication —
An Address to the General Assembly. —
[P. R. Sets., 10th Aug. 1743; Canongate
Marr. Reg. ; Inverness Sas., March 1721 ;
Trans. Gael. Soc. Inverness, xi., 306 ; Old
Lore Miscellany, viii., pt. 3, 105.]
JOHN M'KAY, licen. by Presb. of
I7e_ Edinburgh 22nd Oct. 1755 ; ord. to
J Eddrachillis 1st Jan. 1756; called
by the Presb. jure devoluto 13th, trans, and
adm. (when a quorum was got together
with difficulty) 27th May 1762 ; died 9th
Dec. 1768. He was of a weak and sickly
constitution, and unable to labour efficiently
in the parish. He marr. 24th Sept. 1759,
Isobel Dewar, who survived him. — [Trans.
Gael. Soc. Inverness, xi., 307.]
WILLIAM MACKENZIE, born 1738,
1?Q9 son of John M., farmer, Kilmuir-
Easter, and Grace Crombie; edu
cated at King's College, Aberdeen, 1754-8 ;
licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 28th April
1762 ; ord. by the Presb. missionary at
Achness 28th Oct. 1767; called 4th, and
adm. 7th Dec. 1769; died 5th Jan. 1834.
At his entrance to the parish, there was
much apathy to religion, but he succeeded
in making a marked change in the religious
conduct of his people. He marr. Jean
(died 5th Feb. 1814, aged 70), daugh. of
William Porteous, min. of Rafford, and had
issue— Grizel, born 26th Sept. 1769 (marr.
Lieut. Robert Gordon, tacksman of Lang-
dale), died 25th July 1797 ; Hugh M'Kay,
min. of this parish ; William, born 30th
July 1773, died 1774 ; Helen, born 2nd Jan.
1775 (marr. 29th Sept. 1815, Hugh Mac
kenzie, M.D., min. of Killin) ; Anne Suther
land, born 13th Feb. 1778, died 13th June
1798 ; John, surgeon, Jamaica, born 28th
June 1781, died March 1809 ; Jean, born
llth Feb., died 27th May 1783. Publica
tion—Account of the Parish [jointly with
William Ross] (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., xv.).—
[Sutherland and the Reay Country, 357-61 ;
Memorabilia Domestica, 31, 180.]
HUGH M'KAY MACKENZIE, born
180Q 13th May 1771, son of preceding;
educated at Marischal College, Aber
deen, 1784-8 ; licen. by Presb. of Tongue
30th Nov. 1792; ord. (by Presb. of Caith
ness) chaplain to the Reay Fencibles in
1796, and afterwards chaplain to the
Fraser Fencibles in Ireland, until they
were disbanded in 1802 ; assistant at Dyke,
1802-6 ; adm. (assistant and successor)
26th Nov. 1806. Joined the Free Church
in 1843; min. of Free Church, Tongue,
1843-5; died 30th June 1845. One who
knew him intimately wrote : " I never
knew any minister so loved and admired
by his people. We were all proud of him,
and as we counted ' Ben Loyal ' nobler and
more beautiful than any other mountain,
so we counted 'Mr Hugh' the loveliest
and noblest of men." He marr. 15th July
1813, his cousin, Grace Mackenzie or
Russel, who died at Trinity, Edinburgh,
12th April 1866, aged 93, and had issue-
William (only child), min. of this parish.
Publication — Account of the Parish (New
Stat. Ace., xv.).— [Disruption Worthies of
the Highlands (portrait), 233-7 ; Memoir of
Thomas Guthrie, D.D., ii., 92 [gives an
affecting account of the last days of father
and son] ; Memorabilia Domestica, 205.]
WILLIAM MACKENZIE, born 21st
June 1816, son of preceding ; edu
cated at King's College, Aberdeen,
and Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb.
of Tongue in 1839 ; assistant at Tain ; ord.
(assistant and successor) Feb. 1843. Joined
the Free Church in 1843 ; colleague min.
TONGUE]
TONGUE
111
of Free Church, Tongue, 1843-5 ; died
unmarr. 28tb July 1845. — [Disruption
Worthies of the Highlands, 235.]
PETER MACKENZIE, M.A. ; pres. by
1843 Queen Victoria 15th Aug., and adm.
26th Sept. 1843 ; trans, to Urquhart
29th March 1844.
HUGH ROSS MACKENZIE, pres. by
1844 Queen Victoria 24th July, and adm.
llth Sept. 1844 ; dem. 21st Oct. 1847,
on appointment to Gaelic Church, Cromarty
[afterwards min. of Third Charge, Inver
ness].
ANGUS LOGAN, born 1814, son of
1848 J°nn k., collector of taxes, Argyll ;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; ord.
to Berriedale 17th July 1844 ; pres. by
Queen Victoria 24th Feb., trans, and adm.
24th Aug. 1848 ; died unmarr. 12th Dec.
1874.
THOMSON MACKAY, M.A., B.D.;
1875 trans, from Ulva, and adm. 30th
Dec. 1875; trans, to Strath 15th
Aug. 1888.
DAVID LUNDIE, born Rhidorach,
Glenshee, 23rd Nov. 1846, son of
John L. and Elspeth Lamond ; edu
cated at Perth Academy and Univ. of St
Andrews; M.A. (10th April 1869); licen.
by Presb. of St Andrews 8th May 1872 ;
assistant at Boarhills Nov. 1872 ; ord. to
Kinlochbervie 31st March 1880 ; trans, and
adm. 27th March 1889. Marr. 22nd June
1881, Elspeth Fleming, second daugh. of
William Aitken Butter, farmer, Upper
Kenley, St Andrews, and has issue —
William John, min. of Eddrachillis, born
llth March 1882; Lamont Duncan, born
6th Feb. 1883; James David, 2nd lieut.
5th Seaforth Highlanders, born llth Aug.
1892.
PRESBYTERY OF CAITHNESS
[A local Church Court for the district of Caithness was erected at some time between
1581 and 1593. On 12th Jan. 1697, for the reorganising of the government of the Church
in the North, the General Assembly remitted to its Commission to set up a Presbytery
of Caithness so soon as a competent body of ministers should be settled in the parishes
there. As a temporary arrangement, the Court thus formed was attached to the Synod
of Orkney. On 15th May 1725 this Presbytery of Caithness was severed from Orkney,
and placed under the jurisdiction of the Synod of Ross. This change, however, lasted for
a year only. On llth May 1726 Caithness was taken from the Synod of Ross, and was
annexed, as of old, to that of Sutherland. The Register of the Presbytery of Caithness
begins at 6th April 1709. There is a gap in its Record from 17th Aug. 1773 to 8th Jan.
1799. Written evidence shows that there was an earlier volume of Minutes reaching from
5th Oct. 1654 to 7th Oct. 1668, but of its existence nothing more is known.]
BERRIEDALE (Q.S.).
[A parliamentary church was built here
in 1826. The parish of Berriedale was dis
joined from Latheron on 9th Dec. 1846.
There is a mission chapel in this parish at
Ramscraigs.]
A mission was maintained at Berriedale
and Bruan by the S.P.C.K., and was
served by the following licentiates: —
WILLIAM MACKINTOSH, ord. 2nd Dec.
1795 ; adm. to Thurso 29th Aug. 1805.
JOHN MACDONALD, app. July 1805 ; ord.
16th Sept. 1806; trans, to Gaelic Church,
Edinburgh, 31st Jan. 1807.
DUNCAN M'GILLIVKAY, 1807; returned to
Achness same year [afterwards min. of
Assynt].
DONALD MACGILLIVRAY, missionary at
Fort William ; adm. 1811 [afterwards min.
of Kilmallie].
WILLIAM SUTHERLAND, licen. by Presb.
of Caithness 20th Jan. 1813; ord. 16th
Sept. 1814; deserted his charge and went
to America before 16th Sept. 1818.
112
GEORGE DAVIDSON, ord. 30th March 1819;
trans, to Latheron 15th June 1820.
CHARLES JOHN BAYNE, app. July 1821
[afterwards of Fodderty].
ARCHIBALD COOK, app. 15th Jan. 1823;
trans, to North Church, Inverness, 31st
Aug. 1827.
DONALD MACLACHLAN, pres. by
George IV. 19th Sept., and ord. 27th
1 Dec. 1827; trans, to North Knapdale
27th Sept. 1836.
SAMUEL CAMPBELL, born North
Knapdale, 1790, second son of
Dugald C., farmer, Kilmichael-
Glassary ; educated at Univs. of Edin
burgh and Glasgow; became tutor in the
family of Hamilton of Kames, Bute; licen.
by Presb. of Dunoon llth Oct. 1831;
assistant at Glenorchy and North Knap
dale ; afterwards missionary at Perth ;
pres. by William IV. 19th Dec. 1836 ; ord.
12th April 1837. Joined the Free Church
in 1843 ; min. of Free Church, Berriedale,
1843-68; died unmarr. 15th Dec. 1868.
He had studied medicine and dispensed
medical advice among the poor of his
charge. — [Brown's Annals of Disruption^
185, 214.]
1837
CAITHNESS]
BERRIED ALE— BOWER
113
ANGUS LOGAN, pres. by Queen
Victoria 31st Jan., and ord. 17th
1 July 1844; trans, to Tongue 24th
Aug. 1848.
GILBERT MACMILLAN, ord. 26th
Sept. 1850; trans, to Loth 29th
} Aug. 1861.
HUGH FRASER, pres. by Queen
Victoria 6th Jan., and ord. 13th
5 March 1862 ; trans, to Macduff 26th
Nov. 1863.
HUGH FRASER, pres. by Queen
Victoria 10th Dec. 1863; adm. 31st
1 March 1864; trans, to Fearn 23rd
Sept. 1869.
ALEXANDER STEWART, born 1815.
1870 son °^ Donald S., spirit merchant,
and Catherine Macdiarmid ; pres. by
Queen Victoria 9th Feb., and ord. llth May
1870; died unmarr. in Edinburgh, 14th June
1886.
DANIEL MACDOUGALL, born 1831,
1876
son of Alexander M., teacher, and
Margaret Macdonald; educated at
Univ. of Edinburgh ; missionary at Buch-
lyvie in 1858 ; ord. 1864 for service in
Canada (q.v.); adm. (assistant and suc
cessor) 28th Dec. 1876; dem. 23rd May
1904; died at Stirling, 22nd April 1909.
He marr. Margaret Isabella (born 22nd
July 1846, died at Stirling, 21st Oct. 1918),
daugh. of Andrew Milroy and Susannah
Sawers Nixon.
JAMES GRIEVE, trans, from North
1904 Ronaldshay and adm. 15th Nov.
1904 ; trans, to Logiealmond 14th
Sept. 1916.
WILLIAM CAIRO TAYLOR, M.A.,
Igl7 B.D. ; ord. 5th April 1917; trans,
to Rogart 13th May 1926.
ALEXANDER SCOTT BERRIE, born
192? Earlston, Berwickshire, 2nd July
1866, second son of Morrison Scott
B., schoolmaster, and Mary Dickson Scott ;
educated at Earlston School, Univ. of Edin
burgh, and U.P. Theological Hall; licen.
by U.P. Presb. of Melrose in 1891 ; ord. to
U.P. Church, Firth, Orkney, 27th Sept. 1893 ;
trans, to Arthur's Hill (Presbyterian Church
of England), Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 8th Feb.
1897 ; dem. that charge [afterwards min.
of Keiss U.F. Church and Broughton U.F.
Church] ; adm. to Abbey St Bathan's
Parish, 19th Sept. 1918; trans, and adm.
8th April 1927. Marr. 24th Nov. 1909
Ella Cormack, M.A., Keiss (s.p.).-[Smairs
Hist, of U.P. Gongs., ii., 509.]
BOWER.
[Bower was a prebend of the Cathedral
of Dornoch, held by the Archdeacon of
Caithness. There were chapels in the
parish at Scarmclet and Lyth.]
JOHN ANDERSON, reader from Nov.
1570 1570 to 1580.
JOHN WATSON [or WOBSTAR],
16?2 min. of Canisbay; had Bower in
his charge at this date.
ROBERT INNES of Thursater, son of
isao William I. of Thursater and Bryms ;
adm. to Clatt in 1579 ; pres. by
James VI. 4th May 1580; app. commissioner
for Caithness Feb. 1587, Aug. 1588, and
1589; died before 2nd Sept. 1608. He
marr. Margaret Sinclair, daugh. of John,
Master of Caithness, and had issue— John
of Thursater ; Robert of Owst ; George of
Skaill ; Alexander of Borrowstoun ; James
in Watten. — [Calderwood's Hist., iv., 672,
688 ; Booke of the Kirk ; " Inneses of
Caithness" in Northern Ensign, 1902.]
ZACHARY PONT, younger son (by his
1608 ^rst w^e) °f Robert P., min. of St
Cuthbert's, Edinburgh, one of the
Lords of Session, and brother of Timothy
P., the topographer; educated at Univ.
of St Andrews ; M.A. (about 1583) ; app.
chief printer to His Majesty 28th Oct.
1590 ; pres. by James VI. 2nd Sept. 1608 ;
died before 20th Jan. 1619, aged about 55.
He marr. before 13th Nov. 1599, Margaret,
second daugh. of John Knox, the Reformer,
and Margaret Stewart, and had issue —
Robert ; Samuel, bapt. at Prestonpans,
26th Oct. 1609. Mr Pont, min. of Ramelton
VOL. VII.
114
BOWER
[PRESB. OF
in Ireland, was probably a son or descendant.
He fled to Scotland, and died before May
1641.— [Lee's Additional Memorial, App.
ix., 13 ; Reg. of Deeds, xxvi. ; Reid's Ire
land, i., 228 ; M'Crie's Knox, vi., Ixxi. ;
Prestonpans Sess. Reg.]
RICHARD MERCHISTON, M.A.
(Edinburgh, 1595); elected janitor
1612 to the Univ. in 1595; adm. to
Edzell in 1597; trans, by the Synod of
Angus and Mearns 3rd April 1611 ; adm.
in 1612 ; app. a J.P. for the county that
year ; D.D. (29th Jan. 1619) ; after a life
of much trouble with his parishioners, he
was drowned in the Water of Wick by the
Roman Catholic adherents in the parish
before 26th March 1633, in revenge for
mutilating the statue of St Fergus, the
patron saint of Wick. He marr. and had
issue — David, min. of Ormiston, ancestor of
Thomas Chalmers, D.D. ; Thomas, appren
ticed to Thomas Leslie, tailor, Edinburgh,
8th June 1631, died Dec. 1636. — [Edin.
Retours, 718; Edin. Tests.; Crawfurd's
Hist, of Univ. of Edin. ; Bannatyne Miscell.,
iii. ; The Northern Ensign, 22nd Dec. 1908
and 5th Jan. 1909 ; Hanna's Chalmers,
i., 2; Rec. Sec. Sig., xiii., 350; Calder's
Caithness, 219 ; Beaton's Caithness, 180.]
GEORGE LESLY, M.A. (King's College,
Aberdeen, 1609) ; min. in 1637 ; was
a member of Glasgow Assembly 21st
Nov. 1638 and 12th Aug. 1639 ; died before
1664. He marr. and had issue — Harry,
who had sasine of lands of Stainterwick in
1664.— [G. R. Sas., xlvi., 10; Peterkin's
Records]
WILLIAM CAMPBELL, M.A. ; min. in
1641 ; trans, to Alves 16th Aug
1649.
WILLIAM SMYTH, M.A. (St Andrews
1645) ; min. in. 1649 ; was the only
min. in the Presb. who did not
adhere to Montrose, by whose adherents
he is said to have been carried to Thurso
ordered to be towed to a boat in the
harbour, dragged through the sea to
Scrabster roads, a distance of two miles
and then laid in irons on board ship, where
he lay till the execution of the Marquess
1641
1659
when he was liberated ; on 29th July 1650
,he Commission of Assembly recommended
lim for the " vacant stipends " of Bower ;
deprived by Act of Parliament llth June
nd Decreet of Privy Council 1st Oct. 1662.
Se retired to Thurso, where he died before
L669. He marr. Sara Davidson, who was
buried in Greyfriars, Edinburgh, 5th March
1690, and had issue— Elizabeth, buried in
reyfriars 18th Sept. 1673. — [Mackay's
House of Mackay, 340 ; Nicoll's Diary ;
7. R. Inhib., 14th Dec. 1669; Peterkin's
Records ; Calder's Caithness, 172 ; Craven's
Diocese of Caithness, 113; Gen. Ass. Com.
Records, iii., 8.]
ALEXANDER GIBSON, born about
1630, son of John G., Edinburgh,
and brother of John G., min. of
Holm, and Adam G., min. of St Andrews
and Deerness ; educated at Univ. of Edin
burgh ; M.A. (15th April 1652); licen. by
Presb. of Orkney 20th Jan. 1658 ; adm. 8th
March 1659 ; was alive in 1692, but probably
died soon afterwards. He marr. Katherine,
eldest daugh. of John Sinclair of Assery.
and had issue — Alexander, min. of Canisbay ;
John, min. of Evie ; Archibald of Hemisgar;
George, schoolmaster, Stromness ; Elizabeth
(marr. Francis Sinclair in Brabsterdorran).
—{Caithness Sas., ii., 65 ; Ing. Ret. Gen.,
6400 ; Henderson's Caithness Fam., 304 ;
Craven's Diocese of Caithness, 194.]
HUGH CORSE, born 1676; studied
theology at Univ. of Glasgow ; licen.
' by Presb. of Hamilton 21st June
1700; ord. 25th Sept. 1701; died 6th July
1738. He marr. Nov. 1702, Janet (died
April 1748), daugh. of Andrew Munro, min.
of Thurso, and had issue — John, D.D., min.
of Tron, Glasgow ; Isobella (marr. James
Brodie, min. of Canisbay).— [Macfarlane's
Geog. Coll., i., 178.]
ALEXANDER OLIPHANT, born about
1710, eldest son of James O., min. of
Wick; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen ; M.A. (1st April 1730) ; licen. by
Presb. of Caithness 10th Feb. 1738; pres.
by the Presb. jure devoluto [John Corse,
son of preceding, was presented by Sir
James Sinclair of Dunbeath, but the General
CAITHNESS]
BOWER
115
Assembly sustained the Presbytery's ap
pointment] ; ord. 5th Sept. 1739 ; died 2nd
Nov. 1779. Hemarr.l7thOct.l740,Margaret
(died 12th Oct. 1784), daugh. of George
Brodie, min. of Eddrachillis, and had issue
— Katherine, born 18th Oct. 1742, died llth
Jan. 1747; Marjory, born 29th Nov. 1743 ;
Barbara, born 27th June 1746; James,
min. of this parish; John, born llth June
1749; Katherine, born 22nd Feb. 1751;
Elizabeth, born 28th March 1753 ; George,
born 6th June 1755, died at Grenada June
1773; Mary, born 27th April 1757 (marr.
John Clunie, min. of Borthwick); Anna,
born 7th Aug. 1764, died 27th Aug. 1767.—
[Morren's Annals, i., 10, 346 ; Reg, of Deeds,
ccccxx., 585.]
JAMES OLIPHANT, born 4th Nov.
1>780 1747, son of preceding ; educated at
King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A.
(31st March 1766); became schoolmaster
of Wick 18th Oct. 1768 ; licen. by Presb. of
Caithness 22nd Oct. 1771 ; ord. 5th July
1780 ; died unmarr. 7th May 1788.
WILLIAM SMITH, born 4th April
1?89 1768, son of Alexander S., min. of
Olrig, and brother of James S., min.
of Canisbay; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen; M.A. (30th March 1785); licen.
by Presb. of Caithness 9th Sept. 1788 ; ord.
6th May 1789; died 3rd June 1846. He
was noted for his eccentricities. He marr.
16th Jan. 1813, Ann Longmore, whom he had
baptized (died 4th Sept. 1856), third daugh.
of John Sinclair of Barrock, and had issue
—Alexander Sinclair, born 27th Oct. 1814,
died 22nd April 1829 ; Anna Maria, born
12th April 1817, died 31st Jan. 1833;
Thomas, born 13th May 1819; Elizabeth
Sinclair, born 12th Feb. 1823 (marr. James
Bisset, min. of Bourtrie); William, born
30th May 1824; Robert, schoolmaster of
Dunnet in 1841, afterwards surveyor of
taxes, Edinburgh, born 30th July 1825;
Margaret, born 18th Dec. 1826 (marr.
William Paul, D.D., min. of Banchory-
Devenick); James, born 26th June 1828,
died 7th June 1831 ; Jane Sinclair, born
3rd Sept. 1831 (marr. John Clark, min. of
Knockando); Janet Sinclair, born 24th
Aug. 1833, died 2nd Jan. 1835; Maria
Catherine Sutherland, born 13th Dec. 1836,
died 23rd Aug. 1840. Publications— A
Sermon on the Coming of Jesus (London,
1804) ; The Apostolic Commission (London,
1804 and 1810) ; Sacred Lessons and Exer
cises, in English and Gaelic (Edinburgh,
1810) ; Reflections and Considerations on
Celebrating the Communion (Edinburgh,
1819); On the Christian's Pursuit and
Preference for Heavenly and Eternal Objects,
a sermon (Wick, 1835) ; Accounts of the
Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., vii., and New
Stat. Ace., xv.).— [Beaton's Eccles. Hist, of
Caithness, 185; Calder's Caithness, 235;
Memorabilia Domestica, 159, 163, 309 ;
Beaton's Bibliography of Gaelic Books
for the Counties of Caithness and Suther
land, 70.]
JOHN FERGUS, born Dunfermline,
1847 1805' son °^ ^enrv F-> U.P. minister,
and Anne Paterson ; educated at
Univ. of Edinburgh; ord. llth May 1847;
died 7th March 1898. He marr. 6th Nov.
1851, Agnes (died 29th March 1891), daugh.
of Andrew Robertson, min. of Inverkeithing.
ANDREW BULLOCK WATSON, born
Leamington, Warwickshire, 23rd
' March 1849, son of William W.
and Christina Lawrence ; educated at
Leamington School and Univ. of Edin
burgh ; M.A. (1871); B.D. (1874); app.
army chaplain, Meerut, India ; ord. in 1875 ;
ind. here 22nd Sept. 1898 ; dem. 27th Dec.
that year ; died 9th May 1915. He marr.
27th April 1875, Maria Hamilton (died 13th
March 1926), daugh. of John Johnston,
and had issue — Jean Austin Gordon, born
20th Feb. 1876 (marr. 3rd Sept. 1903,
Robert George Jamieson, min. of Dunkeld) ;
William, born 27th Oct. 1877; Christina
Laurence, born 15th Oct. 1879; John
Laurence, born 13th Feb. 1883; Andrew
Gordon Johnston, born 23rd Sept. 1888.
JOHN MACECHERN, ord. llth May
1899 1899; trans- to Kinloss 12th Feb.
DUGALD MACECHERN, born Edin-
1908 burgh, 25th Oct. 1867, son of Charles
M., min. of St Mary's (Gaelic),
Inverness, and brother of preceding ; edu
cated at Tiverton and Sangeen Schools,
116
BOWER— CANISBAY
[PRESB. OF
Canada, Edinburgh and Glasgow Schools,
Raining's School, Inverness, and Univ. of
Edinburgh; M.A. (1887), B.D. (1890);
licen. by Presb. of Inverness May 1890 ;
assistant at Birsay, Acharacle and Kyle-
akin ; min. at Lochranza in 1891 ; ord. to
Coll 20th April 1898 ; trans, and adm. 13th
May 1908 ; bard to the Gaelic Society of
Inverness, on nine occasions he won the
Highland Mod prizes for Gaelic poetry ;
lieut. 5th Seaforth Highlanders, on special
service under the Admiralty, and railway
military officer on lines of communication,
1914-17. Marr. 3rd Oct. 1917, Margaret
Louttit, only daugh. of John Baikie, Loch-
view, Bower. Publications — Poems and
Sketches (Inverness, 1905); Coll of the
Waves (n.p. 1907) ; Clarsach-nan-Gaidheal
(" Harp of the Gael "), with English Trans
lation (Inverness, 1911); Poems, English
and Gaelic in The Celtic Monthly; The
Angels of Mons (Stirling, 1915) ; The Sword
of the North (Inverness, 1923); Place-
Names of Coll (Trans. Gael. Soc. of Inver
ness, xxix., 314).— [The Sword of the North
(portraits), 503; Mitchell's Look of Highland
Verse, 349.]
CANISBAY.
[The church of Canisbay was dedicated to
St Anne. Canisbay was a prebend of the
Cathedral of Dornoch. There were in this
parish at least six chapels, that of St John
the Evangelist at the Dun of Mey near St
John's Head, St Modan's at Freswick, St
Drostan's at Brabster, the Lady Kirk of
St Mary at Duncansby, St Irchard's, and
two on the island of Stroma, where now
there is a mission chapel.]
ALEXANDER PATRICK GRAHAM-
1567 SON, exhorter, entered at Nov. 1567.
JOHN WATSON [or WOBSTAR], pres.
1572 by James VI. 23rd July 1572, with
Dunnet and Bower also in his charge
in 1574 ; feued the manse and croft in July
1573 to Alexander Lovell of Pitgrudy and
his spouse ; accused by the Assembly of
dilapidating the benefice in Aug. 1575 ;
1577
dem. before 8th Dec. 1577.— [Orig. Paroch.
Scot, ii., 792 ; Booke of the Kirk ; Feu
Charters of Kirklands, v., 318.]
1572 ANDREW RAG, reader in 1572.
JOHN DUNNET, rector; was min. of
Bower and Dunnet in 1576 till 1580
when Bower was excluded ; pres. by
James V. 8th Dec. 1577 ; still min. in 1599.
— [Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 792.]
ANDREW OGSTON, born 1568, a
1601 natiye °f Buchan ; became school
master of Turriff, where he had as
a pupil, Thomas Dempster, author of
Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Scotorum
(1627); pres. by Patrick Mouat of Bal-
quholly about 1601 ; was a member of
Assembly in 1610 ; complained to the
Assembly of 1639 that Sir William Sinclair
of Mey had used his influence to keep the
parishioners of Canisbay from observing the
fast appointed to supplicate a blessing on
the preceding Glasgow Assembly ; died
31st March 1650. Publication— Poemata
varia, lib. i.— [Macfarlane's Geog. Coll., i.,
155 ; Calderwood's Hist., vii., 104 ; Booke
of the Kirk ; Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 792 ;
Irving's Scottish Writers; Collect. Aberdeen
and Banff, i., 461 ; Craven's Diocese of
Caithness, 49 ; Calder's Caithness, 164.]
WILLIAM DAVIDSON, sometime a
min. in Ireland ; began his ministry
here 21st March 1652; adm. 17th
Feb. 1655 ; app. dean of Caithness 7th
May 1663 ; trans, to Birsay 18th Oct. 1666.
JAMES INNES, born 1638, descended
1Q&7 of the family of Blackhills in Moray ;
educated at Marischal College, Aber
deen ; M.A. (llth June 1666) ; entered 22nd
Dec. 1667; did not conform to Presby-
terianism in 1690, but was allowed to remain
in the charge till his death on 24th Dec. 1704.
He marr. Jean Munro, who died before 1725,
and had issue — Theodore, merchant, Edin
burgh ; James, settled in South Carolina,
who left £80 to the poor of the parish ;
Barbara, marr. (cont. 19th Aug. 1732)
John Sutherland, merchant, Thurso. —
[Caithness Sas., i., 441 ; Services of Heirs ;
Macfarlane's Geog. Coll., i,, 155 ; TomlstJ]
CAITHNESS]
CANISBAY
117
ALEXANDEK GIBSON, born 1674,
son of Alexander G., min. of Bower ;
licen. by Presb. of Orkney 7th Sept.
1704; ord. 29th Aug. 1705; declined a
presentation to Wick in 1727 ; died 1st
May 1745. He marr. Feb. 1709, Margaret
(died 4th Feb. 1762), daugh. of John Sinclair
of Ratter, and widow of Alexander Sinclair
of Brabster, and had issue— John, sheriff-
substitute of Caithness ; George, merchant,
Thurso. — [Henderson's Caithness Fam.,
306 ; Macfarlane's Geog. Coll., i., 155.]
JAMES BRODIE, born 1708, a native
1747 °^ ^e countv > M. A. (King's College,
Aberdeen, 1728); became school
master of Auldearn ; licen. by Presb. of
Tongue llth April 1736; pres. by William
Sinclair of Freswick in 1745 ; ord. 22nd
Sept. 1747 ; died 5th Dec. 1779. He marr.
15th Sept. 1748, Isabella (died 5th June
1789), daugh. of Hugh Corse, min. of
Bower, and had issue — William, sheriff-
substitute of Caithness, born 5th Nov.
1749, died 13th May 1808; Henrietta,
born 2nd Oct. 1752, died 1753.
JOHN MORISON,born 18th Sept. 1746,
178Q son of George M., farmer, Whitehill,
parish of Cairney, and Isobel, daugh.
of John Robertson, farmer, Newtack, Cair
ney ; educated at Ruthven School (Cairney)
and King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (28th
March 1771); was tutor at Greenland,
Dunnet, and in 1770 tutor in the family
of Williamson of Banniskirk, Halkirk ;
schoolmaster at Thurso, where he formed
a close intimacy with John Logan [after
wards min. of South Leith, then tutor at
Thurso Castle] ; licen. by Presb. of Caithness
in 1773 ; went to Edinburgh for a further
period of study (chiefly classics) in 1774,
and became tutor in the family of Colonel
Sutherland of Uppat, near Golspie ; pres.
by John Sinclair of Freswick, and ord.
26th Sept. 1780; was a member of Assembly
the following year, when, on 26th May, he
was app. member of a committee engaged
in revising theTranslations and Paraphrases;
D.D. (Edinburgh, 3rd Aug. 1792); died of
consumption 17th June 1798 [his tomb
stone says 12th, but this is wrong]. He
was an accomplished classical scholar and
an eloquent preacher. His chief claim to
remembrance rests on his work as author
of some of the best known of the Scottish
Paraphrases. The Scottish collection of
1781 (still in use) contains at least seven
from his pen — xix., xxi., xxvii., xxviii.,
xxix., xxx., and xxxv. While these were
in the main by Morison, emendations on
the originals were perhaps suggested by
John Logan and William Cameron, min.
of Kirknewton. Regarding xxxv. see under
William Archibald, Unst. He marr. 13th
Nov. 1786, Catherine (died 1830), daugh.
of James Black, tacksman of Daach,
Cairney, local factor for the Duke of
Gordon (she marr. (2) James Leslie, school
master of Canisbay, afterwards min. of
Enzie), and had issue— Mary, born 10th
March 1790; Anne, born 21st March
1792, both living at Fochabers in 1867;
Catherine, died before 1798; a son died
in infancy. Publications [under the
pseudonym " Musseus "] — " Ophelia : or
Innocence Betrayed " (1772) ; "An Universal
Prayer" (1772); "Elegy on the Death of a
Friend" (1773); "Cheerfulness": an Ode
(1773); "A Paraphrase of the Eighth
Psalm" (1773) ; "Mediocrity: a Dialogue
betwixt Musaeus and Eugenis" (1774);
"Retirement": an Ode (1774); "Epithal-
amium on the Marriage of Eliza" (1776);
"On the Approach of Winter" (1776);
"Lexina Indisposed" (1777); "An Ode
on the Countess of Sutherland's Birthday "
(1778); "A Convivial Ode" (1778) (Ruddi-
man's Edinburgh Weekly Mag., xxxiii.,
xxxv., xl.) ; " Elegy on the Death of
James Sinclair" (first published in John 0'
Groat Journal, 30th July 1847); Account
of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., viii.).
He collected the topographical history of
Caithness for George Chalmers's Caledonia,
and made a translation of Herodian's
History from the Greek, but this was
not published.— [Orkney and Zetland Old
Lore, Oct. 1912; Maclagan's Scottish
Paraphrases, 42 et. seq. ; Julian's Diet, of
Hymnology, 1033 ; Beaton's The Rev. John
Morison, D.D. [portrait] (London, 1913);
Edin, Christian Instructor, xxvi. ; Calder's
Caithness, 232 ; Memorabilia Domestica
118
CANISBAY— DUNNET
(1889), 55; Diet. Nat. Biog.; Tablet in
Cairney Church ; Portrait in General
Assembly Hall ; Tombst.']
JAMES SMITH, born 22nd June 1775,
son of Alexander S., min. of Olrig ;
educated at King's College, Aber
deen ; M.A. (28th March 1794) ; pres. by
William Sinclair of Fresvrick 23rd Nov.
1798 ; ord. 24th April 1799 ; died 31st Jan.
1826. His sermons were written with
great care after the style of Hugh Blair,
D.D. He marr. 24th Dec. 1808, Jean
M'Beath, who died 15th March 1826.—
[Calder's Caithness, 237.]
WILLIAM MILNE, born Banffshire,
1769 ; educated at King's College,
1 Aberdeen; M.A. (20th Feb. 1789);
became schoolmaster of this parish, and
afterwards of Wick; pres. by William
Sinclair of Freswick 5th July 1826;
objections were lodged by a number of
parishioners on account of his age, but
were withdrawn in the General Assembly
25th May 1827 ; ord. 28th June that year ;
died 6th June 1832. He marr. 12th Oct.
1816, Jane (died at Edinburgh, 13th Jan.
1855), daugh. of William Sutherland, min.
of Wick, and had issue— Catherine Ander
son, born 31st Jan. 1819, died young;
William, born 17th June 1820, died young ;
Johanna, born 12th March 1826 (marr. 23rd
Feb. 1855, James Loutit, M.R.C.S., London).
— [Memorabilia Domestica, 422 ; Auld's
Ministers and Men in the Far North, 41.]
PETEE JOLLY, pres. by William
Sinclair of Freswick 22nd Oct. 1832 ;
ord. 18th April 1833; trans, to
Dunnet 21st May 1845.
ALEXANDER WHYTE, born about
1804, son of George W., farmer, New
( Deer ; educated at Marischal College,
Aberdeen ; M.A. (1823) ; schoolmaster at
Gamrie, 1824-44 ; licen. by Presb. of Turriff
30th July 1828 ; ord. to Burghead 26th Dec.
1844; trans, and adm. 28th Feb. 1846;
died 17th Dec. 1866. He marr. 3rd June
1845, Georgina Mackie (died 13th Oct.
1895), and had issue— Catherine Elizabeth,
born 15th Oct. 1847 ; Matilda Erica, born
14th July 1850.
JAMES MACPHERSON, born Aber-
lour-on-Spey 1836, youngest son of
James M., farmer, Kirkmichael,
Banff, and Penuel Grant; educated at
King's College, Aberdeen ; app. missionary
at Lybster in 1862 ; ord. to Kildonan 6th
Sept. 1866; trans, and adm. llth July
1867 ; died at Bothwell, llth March 1904.
He marr. 27th June 1861, Catherine Camp
bell (died 4th November 1912), and had
issue— William Grant, M.B., C.M., born
2nd April 1862, died at Bothwell, 31st
March 1916; James Fraser, M.B., Ch.B.,
late of Basingstoke, born 25th Oct. 1863.
JOHN ROBERTSON FORBES, trans,
from Deerness, and adm. (assistant
' and successor) 26th Feb. 1902 ; trans,
to Logie -Easter 30th July 1924.
ROBERT WILSON MERRY, born
Barnsoul, Irongray, 19th Dec. 1882,
son of William M. and Mary Wilson ;
educated at Nithsdale Academy, Dum
fries, and Univ. of Edinburgh; licen. by
Presb. of Edinburgh 30th March 1921;
assistant at St Paul's, Leith ; ord. 10th Dec.
1924; trans, to Hillside, Montrose, 24th
Feb. 1927. Marr. 3rd July 1925, Dr Jean
MacMurray, daugh. of Hugh Crawford,
21 Stafford Street, Edinburgh, and Jessie
Hayna Crawford.
DUNNET.
[Dunnet was a prebend of the Cathedral
of Dornoch. Its parish church was dedi
cated to St Faelchu. There was a chapel
of St John the Evangelist at St John's
Loch, at Reaster, Ham, Scarfs Kerry, and
another chapel on Dwarick Head. A fair
of St Fumach was held at Dunnet, and
also a fair of St Luke in October. At
Reaster, in this parish, there was a tryst on
Lady Day in Harvest.]
JOHN PROUTHOCK, exhorter at
1569 Lammas 1569.
JOHN WATSON [or WOBSTAR],
had charge of this parish and of
1574 ~ . n
Canisbay.
THOMAS DUNNET, reader in
1574 1574.
CAITHNESS]
DUNNET
119
JOHN DUNNET, min. in 1576, with
Bower also in the charge ; pres. to
Canisbay 8th Dec. 1577.
TIMOTHY PONT, born about 1560,
1601 e^er son °f Robert P., min. of St
Cuthbert's, Edinburgh, one of the
Lords of Session ; had a charter of certain
church lands in parish of Strathmartin and
of Pentempler from his father, 10th July
1574, to enable him to prosecute his
studies, which waa confirmed 18th April
1583 ; educated at St Leonard's College and
Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A. (1583) ; adm.
about 1601. He made a tour of Scotland
in 1608 to explore "the most barbarous
parts of the country." He had a royal
grant of two thousand acres in Ulster on
25th July 1609, at the price of £400, in
connection with a scheme for the colonisa
tion of that province. He was a profound
mathematician and the first projector of a
Scottish atlas, for which he personally
surveyed all the counties and islands of
the kingdom, noting all their antiquities.
He died between 1625 and 1630 before his
collections were finished. The original maps,
now preserved in the Scottish National
Library, are minutely and elegantly penned,
and show wonderful accuracy for the time.
After nearly being destroyed through the
carelessness of his representatives, by the
exertions of Sir John Scott of Scotstarvet,
they were revised and corrected by Robert
Gordon of Straloch, and afterwards by his
son, James Gordon, min. of Rothiemay,
in 1654. and were published in Bleau's
Atlas Major, v. and vi. (Amsterdam, 1654
and 1662). Publications — A New Descrip
tion of the Schyres Lothian and Linlithgoiv
(Amsterdam, 1630 and 1631); "Observa
tions of Dyverse Parts of the Highlands
and Islands of Scotland" (Macfarlane's
Geog. Coll., ii., 509); De Vestigiis Valli
Agricolce ; "Topographical Account of the
District of Cunninghame, Ayrshire " (Glas
gow [Maitland Club], 1858), reprinted as
Cunninghame Topographised with Continu
ations and Illustrative Notices, by James
Dobie [edited by his son, John Shedden D.]
(Glasgow, 1876). — [Chalmer's Caledonia,
ii. ; Reg. Sec. Sig., viii., 330 ; M'Crie's
1654
Melville, ii. ; Wodrow's Biog., \. ; Orig.
Paroch. Scot., ii., 789; Die. Nat. Biog.}
WILLIAM SMITH, M.A. (St Andrews,
1607) ; min. in 1614 ; dep. in 1650
with other mins. of the Presb. except
one, for their association with James, Mar
quess of Montrose. He petitioned the
Synod 21st Oct. 1662 "to get his mouth
opened." He marr. Margaret, daugh. of
John Sinclair of Reaster and Rattar, and
had issue — John ; Barbara (marr. 1657,
Walter Bruce of Ham). — [Reg. Assig. ;
Forres Presb. Reg. ; Craven's Diocese of
Caithness, 131 ; P. C. Reg., 2nd ser., iii.,
168; Tombst.]
ALEXANDER MUNRO, entered
student at King's College, Aberdeen,
in 1644 ; adm. before 5th Oct. 1654 ;
complained to the Synod, 6th Aug. 1656,
that the former incumbent retained the
manse, and that the heritors would not pay
his stipend. He was in possession of the
manse 18th June 1657, and was at the
point of death 21st Nov. 1659. He marr.
Catherine Rose, who survived him.
JOHN SMART, min. of Wick before
1634, when he was a J.P. for the
166 county ; member of Glasgow As
sembly 21st Nov. 1638; dep. for his com
pliance with James, Marquess of Montrose,
about 1650, but reponed, on the Synod's
instructions, 4th Oct. 1659; called 16th
Feb. 1661, but Lord Chancellor Glencairn
was appointed by Parliament, 15th March, to
write the Presb. to stay his admission [the
letter was not laid before the Presb. until
20th April]; adm. 28th March that year;
had a grant of 1000 merks from Parlia
ment for his sufferings 12th July 1661 ;
died Aug. 1668. He marr. Janet Sinclair
(marr. (2) David Bruce, portioner of Lyth,
min. of Olrig), and had issue— John, appren
ticed to Robert Penman, writer, Edinburgh,
19th Oct. 1664 ; Elizabeth (marr. James
Dundas in Canisbay).— [Acts of Parl., vii.,
25, 84; Macfarlane's Geog. Coll., i., 162;
G. R. Sas., xlvi., 10.]
NEIL BETHUNE, M.A.; adm. before
5th June 1670; trans, to Latheron
1670 in 1679.
120
DUNNET
[PKESB. OF
JAMES FULLARTON, adm. before 7th
1Q79 Sept. 1679; trans, to St Ninians
12th April 1684.
JAMES MUNRO, adm. 19th Aug. 1685 ;
1685 deserted his charge in 1689, or
.was obliged to abscond on account
of immoral and flagitious conduct; was
charged before the Presb. 6th Jan. 1698
with adultery but failed to appear.
GEORGE OSWALD, born 1664, son
169I? of James O., bailie of Wick, and
Barbara Coghill ; educated at Univ.
of Edinburgh ; M.A. (18th July 1692) ; ord.
by Presb. of Edinburgh by appointment of
the General Assembly in 1697 ; died 25th
Jan. 1725. He marr. Margaret (died 17th
May 1747), daugh. of Richard Murray of
Scotscalder, and had issue— James, D.D.,
min. of Methven ; Richard of Auchincruive,
born 1704, died 1785; Jean (marr. David
Manson, merchant, Thurso) ; Elizabeth
(marr. William Anderson, merchant, Wick);
Mary (marr. Andrew Robertson, min. of
Kiltearn). — [Henderson's Caithness Fam.,
235; Mackay's House of Mackay, 517;
Tombst.]
JAMES OSWALD, son of preceding;
1726 Pres' kv the Presb- jure devoluto 14th
June, and ord. 30th Aug. 1726 ; trans,
to Methven 12th Dec. 1750.
GEORGE TRAILL of Hobbister, born
1751 1723, son of George T. of Hobbister
and Isobel Louttit of Lyking ; licen.
by Presb. of North Isles 28th March 1743 ;
pres. by George Sinclair of Ulbster. Dec.
1750 ; ord. 1st May 1751 ; succeeded his
brother James in the estate 20th Jan.
1756; D.D. (Aberdeen, 23rd Jan. 1773);
died 9th April 1785. He marr. 1st Dec.
1753, Jean (died 17th May 1810), daugh. of
James Murray of Clairden, and had issue —
Margaret, born 17th Sept. 1754, died un-
marr. 7th Oct. 1827 ; George, born 4th July
1756, died llth March 1775 ; James of
Hobbister and Rattar, advocate, sheriff of
Caithness, born 2nd June 1758, died 19th
July 1843; Isobel, born 13th Feb. 1760,
died 14th Nov. 1761; Barbara Isobel,
born 1st March 1764, died unmarr.—
[Henderson's Caithness Fam., 230.]
THOMAS JOLLY, born 24th Jan. 1754,
1784 son of William J., farmer, Glenbervie,
and Janet Peter ; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen; M.A. (30th March
1775); licen. by Presb. of Caithness; pres.
by Sir John Sinclair, Bart. ; ord. (assistant
and successor) 10th Aug. 1784; died 2nd
Dec. 1844, the oldest officiating min. in the
Church. He was a distinguished classical
scholar and declined the offer of a Pro
fessorship of Humanity in America. He
marr. 8th Jan. 1791, Christian Swanson,
who died 27th Dec. 1855, and had issue —
William, M.D., Wick, born 18th Nov. 1791,
died 6th March 1837; Janet, born 29th
April, died 7th May 1793; James Traill,
(twin), born 29th April 1793, died 4th May
1851 ; Thomas, min. of Bowden, born 9th
Dec. 1795 ; George Traill, born 15th Dec.
1797 ; died 30th April 1831 ; Peter, min. of
this parish ; Daniel, born 13th Dec. 1804,
died 16th Dec. 1824 ; John Traill, surgeon,
born 20th Oct. 1808, died at Dunnet 10th
June 1839. Publications — Oxen as substi
tute for Horses (Highland Socy. Essays,
1799) ; The Redeemed from the Earth in
a Future State, a sermon (Edinburgh,
1822); Accounts of the Parish (Sinclair's
Stat. Ace., xi. ; New Stat. Ace., xv.). He
left in MS. a Treatise on Justification
(unpublished). — [Calder's Caithness, 230 ;
Memorabilia Domestica, 307.]
PETER JOLLY, born 26th Jan. 1800,
1845 son °^ Precec*ing ; educated at Univ.
of Edinburgh ; became schoolmaster
of this parish in 1818 ; licen. by Presb. of
Caithness 25th Nov. 1829 ; ord. to Canisbay
18th April 1833 ; trans, and adm. 21st May
1845; died 15th Dec. 1875. He marr. 2nd
Oct. 1833, Isabella (died 4th Dec. 1873),
daugh. of John Sinclair of Barrock, and
had issue — Jessie, born llth July 1834,
died 5th June 1894 ; Christian, born llth
July 1836, died 25th May 1845; Isabella,
born 18th Sept. 1839 (marr. 13th Oct. 1859,
James Purves, farmer, Lochend, Caith
ness), died 4th Nov. 1916 ; Christian,
born 29th March 1846, died young.
Publication — Account of Canisbay (New
Stat. Ace., xv.).— [The Wheat and the
Chaff, 99.]
CAITHNESS] DUNNET— HALKIRK, SKINNET, AND SPITTAL
121
ARCHIBALD JOLLY, born 22nd April
1840; son of Thomas J., min. of
Bowden, grandson of above Thomas,
and nephew of preceding ; educated at
Univs. of Glasgow and Edinburgh, Free
Church College, Glasgow, and New College,
Edinburgh; ord. to Free Church, Walls,
Shetland, 1st Aug. 1869. Joined the Church
of Scotland and adm. by Presb. of Olnafirth
29th March 1876 ; adm. to this parish 8th
June that year; died 22nd May 1889.
[The Jollys were thus mins. of the parish
for 105 years.] He marr. 15th July 1874,
Agnes, daugh. of John Dunlop Paxton,
min. of Free Church, Musselburgh, and
Isabella Black, and had issue — Isobell
Edith, born 7th May 1875, died llth Feb.
1876; Elizabeth Katherine, born 23rd Jan.
1877 (marr. Edward Hutchison, C.A.,
Glasgow, Major 17th H.L.I.); Agnes
Gertrude, born 5th Oct. 1878; Joanna
Dunlop, born 12th Jan. 1880 (marr. Charles
Macleod, tea-planter, Assam) ; Catherine
Robertson Ramsay, born 29th Aug. 1882;
Mary, born llth Oct. 1884 (marr. 25th Nov.
1920, Frederick Hope Mackay, captain
Cheshire Regiment). — [John 0' Groat
Journal, 15th June, 1876.]
WILLIAM JAMES STUART
188g FALCONER, born Forres, 3rd Nov.
1845, son of William F. ; educated
at Univ. of Aberdeen ; M.A. (1868), B.D.
(1878); assistant at Portobello ; ord. 7th
Nov. 1889 ; died at Forres 9th May 1901.
He marr. 22nd Feb. 1893, Matilda Rose (s.p.),
elder daugh. of Alexander Elmslie,Warthill.
JOHN GORDON STEVENSON, born
1901 18t^ ^Une 1866' son °^ R°bert James
S., min. of Dolphinton ; educated
at Dolphinton School and Univ. of Edin
burgh ; licen. by Presb. of Biggar May
1895 ; assistant at Lady Glenorchy's Parish,
Edinburgh, and Boarhills ; ord. 26th Sept.
1901 ; dem. 12th Oct. 1915 ; died at Porto
bello 16th May 1924. He marr. 2nd June
1903, Elizabeth (s.p.), daugh. of John
Stroyan of Kirkchrist, Wigtown.
DAVID SCOTT, born North Ronalds-
hay, 6th July 1868, son of David S. and
Mary Thomson ; educated at North
Ronaldshay School, Grammar School, Old
Aberdeen, and Univs. of Aberdeen and
Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh
10th May 1910 ; assistant at Woodside
Parish, Aberdeen ; ord. to Mid and South
Yell 5th Dec. 1910 ; trans, to Lybster 22nd
Oct. 1914; trans, and adm. 15th Feb. 1916.
HALKIRK, SKINNET, AND
SPITTAL.
[These three parishes were united in the
sixteenth century.
HalkirL— Halkirk was a prebend of the
Cathedral of Dornoch. Its parish church
was dedicated to St Fergus. There were
chapels of St Peter at Olgrinbeg, St
Columba at Dirlot, St Kiaran in Strath-
more, St Drostan at Westfield, and another
chapel of St Drostan at Westerdale, at
Sibster, Gerston, Banniskirk, Dorrery
(Gavin's Kirk), and Olgrinmore.
Skinnet — Skinnet or Sken was a com
mune kirk of the Cathedral of Dornoch.
Its parish and church was dedicated to
St Thomas.
Spittal. — There was here an ancient
hospital, from which the parish got its
name. Both the hospital and the parish
church were dedicated to St Magnus.
There was also within the bounds, at
Banniskirk, a chapel of St Magnus, and
one of St David at Dorrerie. Other three
chapels stood at Dale, Gerston, and Achar-
dale.]
1567 JAMES SCOTT, reader in 1567.
THOMAS BRADIE [or BRYDIE],
prebendary of Helmsdale in 1574,
: formerly a Romish priest, conformed
and became exhorter at Watten Nov. 1569 ;
adm. here about 1574, with Skenand and
Watten also in his charge; still min. in
1585, and again in 1588.— [Orig. Paroch.
Scot., ii., 781 ; Wodrow Miscell.]
MATTHEW MURRAY, reader at
Watten from 1574 to 1585; adm.
' about 1585 ; became reader at
Skenand from 1588 to 1594.— [Wodrow
Miscell.]
122
HALKIRK, SKINNET, AND SPITTAL
[PRESB. OF
THOMAS BRADIE, above mentioned,
1588 aSa^n m^n- *n 1588' w^^ Spittal
and Skenand also in his charge in
1590 ; still min. in 1593.
MATTHEW MURRAY, above
mentioned ; returned before 1594 ;
still min. in 1601.
1614 DAVID BRUCE, min. in 1614.
ALEXANDER CUMING, min. in 1624 ;
probably dep. in 1650; petitioned
1 Presb. for support 3rd Jan. 1656.
He marr., and had issue — Jasper,
apprenticed to John Kinross, merchant,
Edinburgh, 19th Jan. 1648. — [Inverness
Sas., iii., 171 ; P.O. Reg., 2nd ser., iii., 75,
191.]
GEORGE ANDERSON, M.A. (King's
College, Aberdeen, 1628); was a
' student of divinity or preacher at
Halkirk and Reay in 1654 ; called 15th
Aug., and ord. 4th Dec. 1655 ; died before
15th May 1683. He marr. Isabel, daugh.
of James Sinclair of Wester Brims, and
had issue — James, served heir 15th May
1683.— [Thurso Sess. Reg. ; Inq. Ret. Gen.,
6478; Tombst.]
WILLIAM CUMING, a native of
Moray ; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen; M.A. (1661); ord. to
Dores in 1663 ; trans, to ... after 4th
Oct. 1664; inst. llth March 1677; still
min. 4th July 1688 ; suspended in 1698.
He marr. 1674, Katherine, daugh. of John
Murray of Pennyland, and widow of George
Gray, min. of Loth, and had issue — Patrick ;
Jean (marr. Sept. 1724, William Cuming of
Craigmiln) ; a daugh. (marr. Bruce) :
Barbara, marr. (cont. 23rd April 1703)
Patrick Sinclair of Brabsterdorran ; Eliza
beth, marr. George Sinclair, founder of the
family of Barrock. — [Caithness Sas., i., 9
357 ; Douglas's Baronage, 254 ; Henderson's
Caithness Fam., 192.]
JOHN MUNRO, son of Robert M., of
the Lemlair family ; adm. before
2nd Aug. 1706; died 18th Apri
1743. He marr. Janet, only child o
Greorge Gun of Braemore, and had issue —
ohn Gun of Braemore ; Sir George of
'oyntzfield, died 9th Jan. 1785 ; Henry ;
Robert ; David ; Janet. — [Caithness Sas.,
i., 270.]
JOHN SUTHERLAND, son of
Andrew S., one of the Ross-shire
" Men " ; licen. by dissenting mins.
n and about London ; ord. by Presb. of
Dornoch as min. of the Presbyterian con
gregation at Staines, Middlesex, 28th July
1741 ; called unanimously 30th May, and
adm. 27th Nov. 1745 ; dep. in 1753, on what
was afterwards found to be a false charge
of immorality, and went abroad. He marr.
1) 23rd July 1745, Mary Preston, and had
ssue — William, born 31st Dec. 1746, died
llth Feb. 1748 ; Hugh, born 5th May 1750 ;
Solomon, born 2nd Aug. 1752, died 1753 :
(2) Elizabeth, fourth daugh. of John
Mackay of Kirtomy. — [Mackay's House
of Mackay, 573; Book of Mackay, 319;
Ministers and Men in the Far North,
14, 51.]
JAMES NICOLSON, born 13th April
1739, son of Patrick N., min. of
Kiltarlity ; educated at King's Col
lege, Aberdeen ; M.A. (25th April 1759) ;
licen. by Presb. of Caithness 24th Nov.
1761; ord. to Duirinish 12th May 1762;
pres. by George Sinclair of Ulbster, trans.
and adm. 24th Sept. 1766; drowned 25th
Sept. 1768.
JOHN CAMERON, born Ferintosh,
1734 ; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen ; M.A. (30th March 1767) ;
licen. by Presb. of Tain 4th Sept. 1766;
was schoolmaster at Tain ; pres. by George
Sinclair of Ulbster 2nd Feb., and ord. 19th
Sept. 1769 ; died 9th Dec. 1821. He had
a strong vein of poetry, chiefly of a satirical
character. He marr. 20th Dec. 1782, Mary
Lee, governess in the patron's family (she
died 5th Jan. 1784), and had issue— Sarah,
born 5th Dec. 1783 (marr. James Dunbar of
Scrabster), died 9th April 1810. Publica
tion—Account of the Parish (Stat. Ace.,
xix.).— [Ye Book of Halkirk, 19 ; Memor
abilia Domestica, 21, 41.]
CAITHNESS]
HALKIRK, SKINNET, AND SPITTAL
123
JOHN MUNRO, born 28th Oct. 1768,
son of Alexander M., Kiltearn, and
1822 Janet Munro ; became a carpenter in
Aberdeen; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen ; MA. (30th March 1801) ; was
schoolmaster at Resolis and Tarbat ; licen.
by Presb. of Tain 7th May 1806; ord.
missionary at Strathmore and Strath-
halladale 13th Aug. 1806 ; adm. to Gaelic
Chapel, Edinburgh, 14th Dec. 1815; pres.
by Sir James Colquhoun of Luss, Bart.,
21st Jan., trans, and adm. 4th July 1822.
Joined the Free Church in 1843 ; min. of
Free Church, Halkirk, 1843-7; died 1st
April 1847. He marr. 16th Sept. 1807,
Isabella (died 16th Oct. 1848), daugh. of
William Forbes, factor to ScatwelL Publica
tion—Account of the Parish (New Stat.
Ace., xv.).— [Memorabilia Domestica, 308.]
NEIL MACLEAN, born 1797, son of
Charles M., farmer, Morven, and
1844 Isabella Campbell; educated at
Univ. of Glasgow; licen. by Presb. of
Mull 8th April 1822 ; ord. missionary at
Ulva 15th March 1826; adm. to that
parish 26th Aug. 1828; trans, and adm.
6th Feb. 1844 ; died 8th Dec. 1864. He
marr. 8th Dec. 1840, Clementina (died 23rd
Oct. 1880), sister of Francis William Clark
of Ulva, and had issue— Agnes Wright,
born 25th Jan. 1842, died 1860; Clementina
Anderson, born 5th June 1843, died at
Edinburgh, 28th April 1878 ; Charles, min.
of Matale District, Ceylon (1875-97), born
6th Jan. 1845, died 19th Nov. 1897 ; Isabella
Campbell, born 12th June 1846; Neil,
third officer s.s. Tennassarim, born 6th
June 1848, died at sea, 7th June 1878;
Francis William Clark, Caledonian Insur
ance Co., Edinburgh, born 19th Nov. 1849,
died 1885 ; John Anderson, solicitor and
banker, Forfar, born 1st March 1853, died
21st April 1912. Publication— Translated
into Gaelic the Rev. John Barr's Baptismal
Catechism (Glasgow, 1836 and 1839).-
[Clan Gillean, 488.]
ALEXANDER MACLEAN, born 24th
Jan. 1835, son of Alexander M.,
865 D.D., min. of Kiltearn; educated
at King's College, Aberdeen ; MA. (1852) ;
ord. to Croick 14th May 1857 ; trans, and
adm. 1st June 1865; died in Edinburgh,
13th Nov. 1887. He marr. 15th June
1865, Isabella Maclean (died 2nd April
1927), daugh. of Hugh M'Calman, min. of
Latheron, and had issue— Margaret Ursula,
born 1st June 1866 ; Alexander, born 10th
Jan. 1868.
WILLIAM M'BEATH, born Olrig, 8th
Aug. 1858, son of John M., min. of
1888 Free Church, Bower [afterwards
United Original Secession min. at Castleton,
Olrig] ; educated at Univ. of Aberdeen ;
M.A. (1880) ; ord. min. of United Original
Secession Church, Castleton, 1883. Joined
the Church of Scotland and adm. by General
Assembly May 1887; adm. (assistant and
successor) to • Strathmiglo in 1887 ; trans,
and adm. 18th July 1888; dem. 7th Aug.
1903, and went to Sydney, Australia. He
marr. 20th Sept. 1883, Jessie Somerville
(died at Winnipeg, 17th Sept. 1922), daugh.
of Professor Aitken, Mains Street Original
Secession Church, Glasgow, and had issue
—John, born 26th May 1884; William
Arthur (twin), born 26th May 1884 ; James
Welsh, born 10th April 1887; George
Riddell, born 22nd Sept. 1888; Hannah
Sutherland, born 27th April 1890 ; Arthur
Groat, born 24th June 1891 ; David Arthur,
born 3rd July 1892.
JOHN RITCHIE, born Edinburgh, 8th
Dec. 1852, son of James R. and
1903 Christian Johnston; educated at
Moray House Training College and Univ.
of Edinburgh; M.A. (1890); became a
teacher at Inverurie and Drumblade,
thereafter farmer in Manitoba; licen. by
Presb. of Edinburgh May 1894; assistant
at Tolbooth Parish ; app. to Ardwall
Chapel, Stoneykirk, 1897 ; ord. to Robert
son Memorial Church, Grassmarket, Edin
burgh, 15th Jan. 1902; trans, and adm.
31st Dec. 1903 ; died at Port Elphinstone,
Inverurie, 4th March 1924. He marr. 17th
Jan. 1878, Jean Singer, daugh. of William
Bisset, farmer.
JOHN LAMB, born Lenzie, 29th June
1893, son of John Cameron L. and
1924 Elspeth Stretton Young ; educated
at Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (1920);
124
KEISS
[PRESB. OF
student missionary at Lochmaddy, North
Uist, 1922 ; Keen, by Presb. of Edinburgh
Dec. 1922 ; served in France and held
commission as lieut. in Cameron High
landers; afterwards lieut. R.N.V.R. (H.M.S.
Riviera) in Black Sea and Levant, and
captain in Lovat Scouts ; ord. to Sand-
wick, Shetland, 24th Feb. 1922; trans,
and adm. 30th July 1924. Marr. 1st Oct.
1915, Jean Mary, daugh. of David Paton
Duguid and Alexandrina MacGregor, and
has issue — Lyston Morven, born 9th July
1917 ; John Kevan MacGregor, born 3rd
March 1920; lona Mara Stretton, born
6th May 1925.
KEISS (Q.S.).
[There was of old a chapel at Keiss. In
1827 a parliamentary church was built
here. The parish of Keiss was disjoined
from Wick and Canisbay on 4th March
1846.]
THOMAS JOLLY, pres. by George IV.
19th Sept., and ord. 31st Dec. 1827 ;
1827 trans, to Bowden 20th Aug. 1829.
THOMAS GUNN, born llth Oct. 1800,
son of Robert G., min. of Latheron ;
1829 educated at King's College, Aber
deen, M.A. (March 1818) and Univ. of Edin
burgh; elected schoolmaster of Latheron in
1819; licen. by Presb. of Caithness 19th
July 1827 ; pres. by George IV. 13th July,
and ord. 29th Sept. 1829. Joined the Free
Church in 1843; min. of Free Church,
Madderty, 21st Aug. 1844-86; died 8th
March 1886. He marr. llth Jan. 1830,
Helen S. Innes Gunn, and had issue —
Robert, born 31st Aug. 1833; Helen Innes,
born 15th April 1843.
ROBERT STOBIE, born Abernethy,
Perthshire, May 1797, son of James S.
and Ramsay ; educated at Univ.
of Edinburgh ; assistant at Stockbridge (St
Bernard's); pres. by Queen Victoria SthNov.,
and adm. 21st Dec. 1843; died 21st Oct.
1 885. He marr. Lillias, daugh. of William
Thomson, R.N., and had issue— Robert,
physician and surgeon, Edinburgh, born
14th Feb. 1840 ; William Crichton, indigo-
planter, India, born 9th Sept. 1841 ; James,
Lawyer, born 1st May 1843 ; John, banker,
born 22nd Sept. 1845; Charles, min. of
Whalsay, born 26th Dec. 1847 ; Margaret,
born 28th March 1850.
JOHN SCOTT, ord. (assistant and
1881 successor) 28tn April 1881 ; trans,
to Glenbuchat 6th July same year.
HUGH MAIR, born llth Feb. 1838, son
of the Rev. James M., M.A., school-
1881 master, Savoch of Deer, and Christian
Johnston, and brother of William M., D.D.,
min. of Earlston ; educated at 'Savoch of
Deer Parish School, Grammar School, and
Marischal College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (1859) ;
became schoolmaster at Tullynessle and
Forbes, and Macduff; teacher in England ;
licen. by Presb. of Turriff in 1871 ; assistant
at Fyvie ; ord. to Colonial Mission, Ceylon,
28th Sept. 1876 ; missionary in North Isles,
Orkney ; adm. (assistant and successor) 6th
Oct. 1881; dem. 30th Sept. 1909; died
unmarr. at Aberdeen, 5th Jan. 1922.
ROBERT WILSON, trans, and
adm. from North Ronaldshay 6th
April 1910; trans, to Lybster 6th
Nov. 1919.
GEORGE WALSH, born Bo'ness, 12th
May 1876, son of George W.,
master mariner, and Elizabeth
Nimmo Gerrie ; educated at Carriden
School, Daniel Stewart's College, and
Univ. of Edinburgh, 1894-1901 ; licen. by
Presb. of Linlithgow 27th Nov. 1901 ;
assistant at Dalrymple Nov. 1901 to April
1902 ; missionary at Rusness, Orkney,
Sept. 1902 to May 1903, Elchies Aug. 1903
to Feb. 1905, Milton of Campsie Feb. 1905
to Oct. 1906 ; ord. to Unst 5th Oct. 1906 ;
dem. his charge and status as a min. 28th
May 1911 ; went to Canada ; reponed by
the General Assembly May 1920 ; adm. to
this charge 1st Dec. 1920. Marr. (1) llth
Dec. 1902, Agnes (died at Bo'ness, 12th Oct.
1908), younger daugh. of Allan Duncan,
South Craig, Ayrshire, and Agnes Kil-
patrick : (2) 6th April 1909, Ann Watson,
CAITHNESS]
LATHERON AND DUNBEATH
125
only daugh. of George Burnett, Aberdeen,
and Annie Watson, and has issue — Rupert
Andrew, born 30th Jan. died 6th Feb.
1910 ; Manuel George Patrick Watson,
born 4th Jan. 1911 ; Kenneth William
Nimmo Gerrie, born 19th Sept. 1913;
Samuel, born 29th, died 30th Nov. 1915;
Elizabeth May Annie Burnett, born 31st
March 1917.]
LATHERON AND DUNBEATH.
[These two parishes were united in the
sixteenth century. Latheron was a prebend
in the Cathedral of Dornoch belonging
to the Bishop of Caithness. There were
chapels at Braemore, Braenaheglish, Bal-
achly near Rangag ; Mid Clyth, Dunbeath
and Strath.]
RICHARD THOMSON, reader
1567 in 1567.
ANDREW PHILIP, min. in 1574.-
1674 [Wodrow Miscell., 333.]
WILLIAM SINCLAIR, reader in 1574,
1574 Probably the former vicar.— [Orig.
Paroch. Scot., ii., 763.]
JOHN PRUNTO [or PROUTHOCK],
1676 exhorter at Dunnet, Lammas 1569;
adm. in 1576, with Wick also in the
charge ; trans, to Wick in 1580.
ALEXANDER PATRICK GRAHAM-
1680 SON) exllorter at Canisbay Nov.
1567; was reader at Olrig in 1574;
min. here in 1580. — [Wodrow Miscell., 333.]
GEORGE MYLNE, min. in 1593-4.-
1698 [Reg. Assig.]
GILBERT ANDERSON, min. in 1599 ;
still min. in 1637. He had issue —
William. — [Inverness Sas., iii,, 119
1625 ; G. R. Sas., 2nd ser., xv., 27.]
1599
DAVID MUNRO, adm. before 18th
1634 Sept. 1634 > dep. ln 1649 f°r suk
scribing Montrose's Articles ; adm
to Lairg before 7th May 1663.
ALEXANDER CLERK, M.A. ; adm.
in 1651 ; trans, to Second Charge,
Inverness, before 12th August 1663.
He marr. (1) 1653, Esther, probably daugh.
of Robert Elliot of Reidheuch.— [G. R. Sas.,
2nd ser., v., 7.
JOHN ROSS, M.A.; adm. before 5th
Feb. 1668; trans, to Dornoch in
1668
1680.
NEIL BETHUNE [or BEATON],
M.A. (Marischal College, Aberdeen,
1660) ; session -clerk and school
master of Thurso ; adm. to Dunnet before
5th June 1670 ; was clerk of Synod ; trans,
and adm. in 1681 ; did not conform to
Presbyterianism but allowed to remain in
his charge ; died March 1715. He marr.
and had issue— a daugh., who marr., (cont.
llth Feb. 1710), William, eldest son of
Robert Henderson, portioner of Wester-
dale).— [Macfarlane's Geog. Coll., i., 169;
Craven's Diocese of Caithness, 142 et seg. ;
Beaton's Ecdes. Hist, of Caithness, 228.]
[The parish was vacant two years.]
ANDREW SUTHERLAND, born about
1717 1690, son of John S., tailor burgess
of Dornoch ; became schoolmaster of
Wick; licen. by Presb. of Caithness 4th
Jan. 1714 ; ord. 27th Aug. 1717 ; died Jan.
1732. He marr. (cont. 27th Nov. 1718)
Beatrix, daugh. of John Mackay of Kirtomy,
and had issue — John ; James ; George ;
Robert ; William ; Elizabeth. — [Services of
Heirs, 13th Feb. 1747; D. Murray Rose in
Northern Chronicle, 1st March 1911.]
JAMES BRODIE, born 1707, son of
? Alexander B., min. of Reay ; edu
cated at King's College, Aberdeen ;
M.A. (1728) ; licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen ;
called 10th Dec. 1733 ; ord. 7th May 1734 ;
died at Aberdeen, 6th Nov. 1774. He
marr. 6th Dec. 1735, Anne (died 3rd March
1776), daugh. of James Murray of Clairden,
and had issue— Samuel, born 1st Sept. 1736,
died young ; James, born 28th Nov. 1737,
died young ; Margaret, born 8th June 1739,
(marr. 17th Dec. 1757, John Grant, excise
officer, Dunbeath) ; Patrick, born 21st Feb.
1743 ; Alexander, min. of Carnbee, born
i
126
LATHERON AND DUNBEATH
[PRESB. OF
30th June 1745 ; George, born 1st Dec.
1747, died young ; Richard, M.D., born 6th
Nov. 1752, died in East Indies. — [Cowan
Fed. Tables ; Henderson's Caithness Fam.,
308.]
ROBERT GUNN, born 1750, son of
1>JtJ5 Adam G., tacksman of Mulbuie,
Dunbeath ; was tutor in the family
of Sinclair of Dunbeath; licen. by Presb.
of Caithness 27th Feb. 1775; ord. 27th
Sept. that year ; died 29th Nov. 1819.
He marr. (1) 6th June 1778, Mary (died 8th
Nov. 1784), daugh. of David Henderson of
Stemster, and had issue — Cecilia, born 28th
July 1780, died 26th Feb. 1811 ; Adam,
born llth May, died 5th Aug. 1783 ; David,
born 19th Aug. 1784, died 5th Feb. 1785 : (2)
1st Sept. 1787, Louisa (died 22nd May 1794),
daugh. of Colonel Clunes, Crakaig, and had
issue — Mary, born 30th Sept. 1788 ; Gordon,
born 26th Dec. 1789, died 4th March 1790 ;
William, born 30th Dec. 1790 ; Gordon, born
8th May 1792 ; John Hugh, born 14th March
1794 : (3) 31st Aug. 1798, Elizabeth Gun,
Forres, who died at Dunbarton, 6th Nov.
1843, and had issue — Thomas, min. of
Keiss, born llth Oct. 1800; Adam, min.
of Hope Street Gaelic Church, Glasgow,
born 7th Aug. 1802 ; Louisa, born 26th Oct.
1803, died at Greenock, 27th Dec. 1854;
Margaret, born 2nd April 1805; Robert,
born 5th April 1806, died 27th Feb. 1818;
James, born 29th Aug. 1807 ; Cecilia, born
8th March 1811 ; Eliza, born 2nd July 1813;
William Gordon, born 14th April 1815;
John Arthur, born llth Nov. 1816, died 7th
March 1869. Publication — Account of the
Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., xvii.).
GEORGE DAVIDSON, born 15th Jan.
1791, fifth son of John D., Buckies,
Caithness, and Elizabeth, eldest
daugh. of Simon Ross of Gledfield, Ross ;
educated at King's College, Aberdeen ;
M.A. (31st March 1809); licen. by Presb.
of Caithness 22nd Nov. 1814 ; ord. mission
ary at Berriedale 30th March 1819 ; pres.
by Sir James Colquhoun of Luss, Bart.,
22nd Feb., and adm. 15th June 1820.
Joined the Free Church in 1843 ; min.
of Latheron Free Church, 1843-73; died
14th Aug. 1873. He marr. (1) 27th Feb.
1823, Maria Serina (died 3rd Nov. 1827),
daugh. of James Robertson of Pitstrumie,
M.D., R.N., and had issue — Harriet Gordon
Sage, born 30th Sept. 1824 (marr. 1843,
James Mill, surgeon, Thurso), died 28th
May 1911 ; John Henry Hall, farmer, Old
Watten, born 30th April 1826, died 18th
Nov. 1923; Maria Serina, born 28th Oct.
1827 (marr. 15th Sept. 1847, Robert Mac-
lachlan, sheriff-clerk of Caithness), died
March 1910 : (2) 21st Sept. 1844, Angelica
Chisholm (died 1st Aug. 1851), youngest
daugh. of William Murray of Pitcalzean,
banker, Tain, and Christian Rose, and had
issue— Christian Elizabeth, born 8th July
1845, died 2nd Aug. 1847 ; Anne Isabella,
born 12th April 1847 (marr. 1870 James
Duff M'Culloch, D.D., Principal of the Free
Church College, Edinburgh). Publication —
Account of the Parish (New Stat. Ace.,
xv.). — [The Disruption in Caithness (Parker
MS.) ; Life and Times of Rev. George
Davidson, by Alexander Mackay, LL.D.
(Edinburgh, 1875) ; Free Church Assembly
Blue Book, 1861 ; Northern Ensign, 25th
Aug. 1903 ; Brown's Annals, 50 ; Memorials
of the Life of James Mill.]
HUGH M'CALMAN, born Barmore,
1848 '
M., merchant, Tarbert, Argyll ;
educated at parish school of Tarbert and
Univ. of Glasgow; ord. (at Colonsay) in
1834, and had charge of the Seamen's
Mission, Glasgow (supported by various
Churches) ; adm. here 5th Dec. 1843 ; died
30th Dec. 1879. He joined the Free Church
in 1843, but withdrew his adherence 22nd
July that year, regretting that for so short
a period he should " ever have fallen into
the sin of schism." He marr. 21st Nov.
1836, Ursula (died 2nd March 1903), daugh.
of Robert Gilmour, Paisley, and had issue —
John, born 29th Dec. 1837, min. of Inch ;
Julia Gilmour, born 19th June 1839, died
17th Aug. 1856; Mary M'Nab, born 9th
April 1841 (marr. Hugh Fraser, min. of
Fearn) ; Isabella MacLean, born 28th Nov.
1842 (marr. Alexander MacLean, min. of
Halkirk) ; Helen Gilmour, born 23rd Jan.
1845; Robert Gilmour, M.D., born 13th
CAITHNESS] LATHERON AND DUNBEATH— LYBSTER
127
June 1846; Anne Campbell, born Feb.
1848; Hugh, M.D., lieut. -colonel I.M.S.,
born 5th Nov. 1849.— [The Wheat and the
Chaff, 111; John 0' Groat Journal, 27th
Oct. 1843.]
JAMES M'HARDY, born Shiangarn,
1880 Inveraven> 15th Nov. 1840, son of
George M. and Margaret Grant;
educated at Inveraven School and Univ.
of Aberdeen ; licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen ;
ord. 20th March 1872 (assistant and suc
cessor) at Alness ; trans, and adm. llth Aug.
1880; died at Edinburgh 29th May 1910.
He marr. 13th Aug. 1872, Elizabeth Jane
daugh. of John Sim, accountant, North of
Scotland Bank, Aberdeen, and had issue —
Janie Reid, born llth Sept. 1873 (marr. 19th
Oct. 1917, Arthur Fraser, min.of Edgerston);
John Sim, born 12th Nov. 1874 ; Margaret,
born 24th Nov. 1879; George Innes, born
10th Nov. 1882 ; Elizabeth, born 10th July
1885.
WILLIAM JOHN FORBES, M.A.,
lglo B.D. ; ord. 5th Oct. 1910 ; trans, to
Second Charge, Haddington, 22nd
July 1913.
CHARLES JAMES DONALDSON,
M.A., B.D.; ord. 24th Sept. 1913;
trans, to Battlefield, Glasgow, 12th
Dec. 1918 ; trans, to Riccarton, Kilmarnock,
24th Nov. 1926.
ALEXANDER GILFILLAN, born
Londonderry, 19th Oct. 1878, son
of William Bond G. and Margaret
Long Mitchell; educated at Academical
Institution and Magee College, London
derry ; licen. by Free Church Presb. of
Glasgow 12th July 1904 ; assistant at Hope
Street Free Church, Glasgow ; ord. to Free
Church, Kirkcaldy, 5th July 1905 ; trans.
to Free Church, Olrig, 30th Sept. 1908;
trans, to Lybster llth May 1916; trans,
and adm. 18th June 1919. Marr. 5th
Nov. 1908, Margaret Smeaton, daugh. of
Archibald MacNeilage, Glasgow, editor of
The Scottish Farmer, and has issue —
Kathleen Mary Smeaton, born 13th June
1912 ; Eileen Margaret Mitchell, born 31st
May 1914.
LYBSTER (Q.S.).
[Of old there was at Lybster a chapel
of St Mary, and near it was St Mary's
Well. Within the bounds also lies the site
of a chapel at Clyth. At Lybster a
parliamentary chapel was built in 1836.
The parish of Lybster was disjoined from
Latheron 14th March 1887.]
JAMES NOBLE, elected 17th Oct. 1838 ;
ord. 2nd Jan. 1839 ; trans, to Gaelic
Church, Edinburgh, 1st Sept. 1840.
DAVID SUTHERLAND, ord. 16th
1841 Sept. 1841 ; trans, to Strathy in
1842.
ROBERT WAUGH, ord. in 1844 [after-
1844 wards assistant at Dunsyre].
JOHN DANGERFIELD, app. in 1854
1854 [afterwards min. of Lady, Orkney].
1856 J. MACLAREN.
JAMES RODDICK, born 28th May
185? 1832, son of James R., min. of
Gretna, and cousin of Robert
Murray M'Cheyne, min. of St Peter's,
Dundee (at whose house he was resident
at the time of M.'s death); educated at
Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of
Annan; app. in 1857; went to South
Australia in 1864 ; min. at Mount Crawford
that year and at Mount Pleasant in 1865 ;
died there 29th Nov. 1872. He marr. 29th
Dec. 1863, Margaret (died 26th Oct. 1920),
daugh. of James Reid, min. of Kirkinner,
and had issue — James Reid, banker, London,
born 7th Jan. 1865, died 13th Sept. 1905 ;
Robert Murray M'Cheyne, actuary and
manager Life Association of Scotland, born
21st June 1867 ; Mary Davidson, born 28th
Sept. 1868 (marr. 27th Dec. 1898, William
Murray Gerrard, banker, Bangalore) ; Elliot
William Davidson, British Linen Bank,
born 25th Feb. 1871, died 4th May 1913;
Annie Effie, born 21st May 1873 (marr.
30th June 1896, Lockhart Dobbie Corson,
S.S.C.).— [The South Australian Register,
3rd Dec. 1872.]
128
LYBSTER— OLRIG
[PRESB. OF
JAMES MACPHERSON, adm.
missionary in 1862 ; trans, to Kil-
' donan 6th Sept. 1866.
WILLIAM GUELPH M'FIE, B.A. ;
ord. 27th Feb. 1867; trans, to
Burray in 1872.
JAMES FORBES, M.A., formerly of
Gardenstown ; adm. in 1871 ; ord.
' to St Mary's, South Ronaldsay,
20th July 1880.
JAMES MARTIN AGNEW, app. in
1875; afterwards missionary at
' Auchmithie, North Walls, and
other stations ; died 2nd Nov. 1912.
DUFF MACDONALD [afterwards of
1876 Pulteneytown].
1877 GEORGE KEITH.
CHARLES DUNN, born Wester
Leochel, 30th June 1843, son of
Alexander D. and Barbara Ritchie ;
educated at Grammar School and Univ. of
Aberdeen ; licen. by Presb. of Alford 27th
Oct. 1869 ; assistant at Fraserburgh ; ord.
(by Presb. of Deer) to Stellarton and West-
ville, Canada, 21st Dec. 1870; trans, and
adm. 15th Nov. 1887; dem. llth Nov.
1900; died at Aberdeen 10th Jan. 1925.
He marr. (1) 2nd Jan. 1871, Mary, daugh.
of Samuel Stewart, and had issue — Alex-
andrina Barbara, born 10th Sept. 1871,
died 10th June 1881; Mary Stewart, born
20th Jan. 1874 (marr. 26th July 1900,
Donald Robert Morrison, bookseller,
Lerwick) ; Samuel, born 15th Dec. 1876 ;
Charles, born llth March 1879, died 6th
May 1881 ; Lexie, born 23rd July 1882 ;
Peter Alexander, min. of Greenside, Edin
burgh, born 24th Nov. 1884 ; James John,
corporal 106th Nova Scotia Rifles, born 3rd
Jan. 1887 : (2) 19th Sept. 1922, Tina Ann
Duncan.
DONALD MACLEOD, ord. 23rd April
1001 1901 ; trans, to Glencoe 27th Aug.
1908.
WILLIAM NEIL, trans, from White-
19og ness, and adm. 17th Feb. 1909 ;
trans, to Newburn 17th June 1914.
Publication — The Cleghorn Papers : A Foot
note to History (London, 1927).
DAVID SCOTT, trans, from Mid and
South Yell, and adm. 22nd Oct.
: 1914; trans, to Dunnet 15th Feb.
1916.
ALEXANDER GILFILLAN, trans.
1916 from Free Cllurcb> Olri8' and adm-
llth May 1916 ; trans, to Latheron
18th June 1919.
ROBERT WILSON, born Dreghorn,
Ayrshire, 18th June 1866, son of
David W. and Jean Gilchrist ; edu
cated at Dreghorn and Springside Schools,
Irvine Academy, and Univ. of Glasgow ;
licen. by Presb. of Irvine 7th May 1895 ;
assistant at Whiting Bay, Newton (Cam-
buslang), Anderston (Glasgow), and Airdrie;
ord. to North Ronaldsay 10th May 1905 ;
trans, to Keiss 6th April 1910 ; trans, and
adm. 6th Nov. 1919 ; clerk of Presb. 1919.
OLRIG.
[The church was dedicated to St Trothan.
In the Cathedral of Dornoch there was
a prebend of Olrig. At Coomskirk in this
parish stood a chapel of St Columba. It
has been overblown with sand, which now
covers its site.]
FRANCIS WRIGHT, exhorter at Nov.
1570 1570.
ALEXANDER URQUHART, pres. by
1572 James VI. 12th Jan. 1572, with
Thurso and Braenaheglish also in the
charge, he sustaining a reader (Alexander
Patrick Grahamson) here; accused at the
Assembly, Aug. 1575, of dilapidating his
benefice and not waiting on his charge;
dem. before 1st Jan. 1576. — [Wodrow
Miscell. ; Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 787.]
THOMAS KEIR, min. of Wick in 1576 ;
15,_e pres. to the vicarage by James VI.
1st Jan. 1576.— [Feu Charters of
KirUands, ii., 274.]
DAVID CARMICHAEL, pres. to Canis-
1585 bay by James VI- 18tl1 APril 1572>
but apparently not settled ; min.
here in 1585.— [Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii.,
787.]
CAITHNESS]
OLRIG
129
JOHN HUTCHESON, min. in 1588 and
1588 1595.— {Reg. Assig.]
SAUL BRUCE, of the Stanstill family,
15gg min. of Reay in 1591 ; trans, in
1599 ; was app. Constant Moderator
of Presb. in absence of the bishop by the
General Assembly in 1606.— [P. C. Reg.,
vii., 301, 413 ; Calderwood's Hist, vi., 622 ;
Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 747 ; Craven's
Diocese of Caithness, 44.]
DAVID BRUCE, son of Saul B.,
portioner of Lyth ; min. in 1625 ;
' died in 1633. He marr. Janet
Sinclair, widow of John Smart, min. of
Wick, but had no issue.— [Inverness Sas.,
iii. 119, v. 234; G. R. Sets., xxxiv. 333,
xlix. 68; Reg. of Deeds, dxxx., 406;
Henderson's Caithness Fam., 271 ; P. C.
Reg., 2nd ser., vii., 344.]
DAVID ALLARDYCE, adm. before
1686 22nd June 1 636 > Probablv. deP' about
1650 for compliance with James,
Marquess of Montrose ; was restored to
the ministry and called to Dron, but not
settled ; app. clerk of Presb. 20th May 1656.
On 12th Aug. 1663, he was apparently in
destitute circumstances, and asked aid from
the Presb. which was granted, "everyone
of the Presb. condescending to give him a
boll of victual." He marr., and had issue
— David, apprenticed to Alexander Charles,
merchant, Aberdeen, 16th Sept. 1653; a
daugh. (marr. William Campbell, min. of
this parish). — [Macfarlane's Geog. Coll., i.,
175 ; Craven's Diocese of Caithness, 141.]
JAMES ADAM, M.A. ; called 15th
1656 APri1' and adrn' before 19th June
1656 ; trans, to Cortachy before 30th
Oct. 1659.
WILLIAM CAMPBELL, M.A. ; trans.
from Alves ; called 13th Sept. 1659 ;
adm. 2nd Jan. 1661 ; trans, to Watten
about 1668.
ROBERT TARRES, born about 1640,
son of Robert T., min. of St Andrews-
Lhanbryd ; educated at King's Col
lege, Aberdeen; M.A. (12th July 1660);
adm. before 20th Sept. 1668 ; did not
conform to Presbyterianism in 1689 ; died
in 1694. He marr., and had issue — James ;
Jean (marr. Alexander Calder in East
Thurso ; Margaret ; Katherine. — [Mac
farlane's Geog. Coll., i., 175; Craven's
Diocese, 177.]
WILLIAM MACKBETH, born 1676;
ord. 22nd Sept. 1699 ; died in June
or July 1734. He marr. Isobel,
daugh. of John Forbes of Torrisdale, Strath-
naver, and had issue — John ; James ;
Margaret (marr. cont. 4th Feb. 1725, John
Monro of Kilchoan) ; Jean, served heir 26th
Dec. 1738. — [Inverness Sas., viii. 249 ; ix.
250 ; Services of Heirs ; Macfarlane's Geog.
Coll., i., 175 ; Tombst.]
DAVID DUNBAR, born about 1716,
g third son of John D. of Kincorth ;
licen. by Presb. of Biggar 17th Aug.
1732 ; pres. by Sir James Sinclair of
Dunbeath, Bart., in 1734; ord. 22nd April
1735 ; pres. to Wick 21st Feb. but died 13th
July 1761. He marr. 25th Nov. 1736, Mary
(died 28th Dec. 1780), daugh. of Sir Robert
Dunbar of Northfield, Bart., and had issue
—Mary, born 20th Sept. 1737 (marr. Francis
Mackay, Bruan) ; Marjory, born 28th May
1742; Margaret, born 26th Sept. 1743; John,
born 28th Feb. 1747, died young.
ALEXANDER SMITH, born 1737 ;
(perhaps the A. S. from Aberlutlmot,
who graduated M.A., King's College,
Aberdeen, 9th April 1753); pres. by Colonel
John Scott 13th April 1761 ; ord. 23rd Feb.
1762 ; died 19th Dec. 1784. He marr. 2nd
April 1767, Elizabeth Sinclair, who died
at Thurso, 15th Oct. 1831, aged 88, and
had issue — William, min. of Bower, born
4th April 1768 ; John, born 14th Aug.
1769 ; Jean, .born 23rd April 1771 ; Thomas,
born 3rd Feb. 1773, died 31st July 1774;
James, min. of Canisbay, born 22nd June
1775; Margaret, born 17th Feb. 1778;
Alexander, born 4th Jan. 1783.
GEORGE MACKENZIE, born about
1750, third son of Alexander M. of
Ardloch ; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen; M.A. (29th March 1770); adm.
schoolmaster of Bower 20th Aug. 1770 ; ord.
6th April 1778 as deputy chaplain to Lord
Seaforth's Regiment ; adm. to this parish
VOL. VII.
130
OLRIG
[PRESB. OF
20th Sept. 1785 ; died 21st Jan. 1825. He
marr. (1) 28th Feb. 1787, Jean Oswald (died
12th Sept. 1802), daugh. of Peter (Patrick)
Brodie, son of James B., min. of Latheron,
and had issue— Jean, born 10th Aug. 1791
(marr. Thomas Adie, Forres and London) ;
Patrick, officer in West India Kegiment,
born 31st Oct. 1792 ; William, min. of this
parish ; David, a sailor, born 7th July
1796; Isabella Ann, born 13th Oct. 1797
(marr. 8th March 1823, Alexander Waters,
lieut. 92nd Foot); George Morrison in
G.P.O., born 6th June 1800 ; Janet Brodie,
born 8th Jan. 1801 (marr. Donald Coghill,
merchant, Castleton) : (2) 18th Oct. 1806
Abigail Cheesborough M'Lennan, Forres
(died Sept. 1816), and had issue— Joanna
Sinclair Traill, born 14th Aug. 1810 (marr.
24th March 1835, James Lumsden, mis
sionary to Canada); Margaret Elizabeth,
born 31st Jan. 1813, died 20th Nov. 1850.
Publication— Account of the Parish (Sin
clair's Stat. Ace., xii.). — [Hist, of th
Mackenzies, 565.]
WILLIAM MACKENZIE, born 8th
June 1795, son of preceding; licen.
by Presb. of Caithness 1st Oct.
1816; ord. 21st July 1819 min. of Park
Chapel, Monkwearmouth ; dem. 29th Dec.
1822 (when he was presented by his con
gregation with a silver snuff-box) and
became assistant to his father; pres. by
Sir James Colquhoun of Luss, Bart., 13th
June, and adm. 4th Aug. 1825. Joined
the Free Church in 1843; min. of Free
Church, Olrig, 1843-57; died 20th June
1857. He marr. 15th Dec. 1825, Catherine
Sinclair Brodie, who died 10th July 1884.
Publication— Account of the Parish (New
Stat. Ace., xv.).— [A Short Hist, of Presby
ter ianism in Sunderland, 45.]
WILLIAM PHIN, born Craigsford,
Earlston, 19th Oct. 1815; son of
' William P. (or Thin), farmer, and
Janet Broomfield ; educated at Earlston
School and Univ.of Edinburgh; schoolmaster
at Gateside, Fife, in 1833 ; licen. by Presb.
of Dunfermline in March, and ord. 14th Dec.
1843 ; sometime clerk of Synod ; died 1st
Oct. 1876. He took a deep interest in edu
cational matters and instituted a library
1825
and reading-room in connection with the
Trail Public Hall, of which he was a chief
promoter. He marr. 10th Jan. 1850, Mary
Ann (died 28th Oct. 1902), only daugh. of
Alexander Adam, banker, Wick, and had
issue— Jane Adam, born 2nd Nov. 1851 ;
Mary Ann, born 27th Dec. 1852 (marr.
Archibald Hamilton Gillieson, min. of this
parish); William, born 3rd April 1854;
Alexander Adam, born 19th June 1855;
Janet Dodds, born 16th Oct. 1856 ; Thomas
Adam, born 30th April 1858 ; James Adam,
born 26th March 1860; Kenneth Macleay,
born 24th May 1862; John Fergus, born
18th April 1866, died at Melbourne 7th
June 1891 ; George Trail, born 16th May
1869 ; Margaret Trail Dodds, born 4th Oct.
1&W— [Tablet in Church; The Southern
Reporter, 14th Dec. 1876.]
ARCHIBALD HAMILTON GILLIE-
SON, born Broomslea, Wamphray,
29th Sept. 1847 ; son of Thomas G.
and Joan Hamilton and cousin of Archibald
Hamilton Charteris, D.D., LL.D. ; educated
at Wamphray Parish School, Univs. of Edin
burgh M.A. (1869), B.D. (1872) and Leipzig ;
icen. by Presb. of Edinburgh in 1873;
assistant to preceding; pres. by the trustees
of Sir James Colquhoun, Bart.; ord. (assist
ant and successor) 24th Sept. 1874; clerk
of Presb., 1876-1919 ; dem. 16th May 1919,
died at Moffat 7th Jan. 1924. He marr.
1874
(1) 24th July 1877, Mary Ann (died 12th
Dec. 1909), daugh. of William Phin, min.
of this parish, and had issue — Thomas,
born 9th April 1878, died 19th Aug. 1879 ;
William Phin, min. of First Charge, Ayr,
born 25th June 1879; Margaret Adam Phin,
born 5th Aug. 1880 ; Joan Hamilton, born
10th Nov. 1881 (marr. Duncan MacLaren,
min. of Turriff); Thomas, min. of St Bride's,
Edinburgh, born llth Dec. 1882; Susan
Smith Jane Collie, born 21st Jan. 1884
(marr. 14th Nov. 1917, George Mowat,
accountant, Banff); Margaret Theodora,
born 25th Dec. 1885 ; Catherine Anderson
Charteris, born 15th May 1888 (marr. 5th
June 1917, William Hunter Mackenzie,
Turriff); Isabella Dodds, born 4th May
1890 : (2) 18th Nov. 1915, Jane, daugh. of
John Murray, Claremont, Moffat.
CAITHNESS]
OLRIG— PULTENEYTOWN
131
WILLIAM ROBERTSON, trans, from
1920 Shapinsay and adm. 12th May 1920 ;
trans, to Dallas 26th Feb. 1925.
WILLIAM M'NUTT, born Burnfoot,
1925 Londonderry, 9th Aug. 1881, son of
John M. and Margaret Whan ; edu
cated at Foyle College and Magee College.
Londonderry, Presbyterian College, Belfast,
New College, Edinburgh, and Royal Univ.
of Ireland; B.A. (1903); licen. by Presb.
of Derry, May 1906; assistant at Trinity
Church, Cork ; ord. to Drumachose, Co.
Derry, 12th Nov. 1907 ; trans, and adm.
llth June 1925; trans, to Olrig 1928.
Marr. 1st Jan. 1918, Louise, daugh. of
William Campbell, Sibmister, Caithness,
and has issue — Margaret Rosemary, born
7th March 1923 ; a son born 6th May 1927.
Publication— The Call to Heroism (Belfast,
1917).
PULTENEYTOWN
[The parish of Pulteneytown was disjoined
from Wick on 18th March 1878.]
DAVID MITCHELL, born Madderty,
1839 1^9^' S0n °^ David M., farmer> an(i
Jane Neilson ; educated at Univ.
of Edinburgh ; adm. in 1839. Joined the
Free Church in 1843; min. of St Luke's
Free Church, Glasgow, 1843-82 ; died 1882.
He marr. (1) 13th Dec. 1843, Elizabeth,
daugh. of James Young, merchant, Crieff :
(2) 12th Jan. 1859, Marion, daugh. of
William Wilson, banker, and Anna Sinclair.
Publications — Valedictory Sermon preached
to the Congregation of the New Church,
Pulteneytown (1843) ; Christian Fidelity
in the House of Mourning ; Prophetical
Utterances and their Accomplishment.
ARCHIBALD MILLIGAN, ord. in
1852 1852 ' *nc*' to ^usse^town Flats
(Presb. of Montreal), Canada, 13th
June 1853 ; died at Montreal 7th Feb. 1855.
JAMES GEMMEL, app. in 1854; ord.
20th Aug. 1855; trans, to Watten
' 19th Aug. 1860.
WILLIAM SMITH [afterwards min. of
1861 Unst].
1863 ALEXANDER MAC HARDY.
ALEXANDER CHALMERS
1865 SOUTTER, app. in 1865.
DAVID RAIT JACK, ord. 21st March
1867 1867 ; trans, to Holm 8th Feb. 1872.
ROBERT WALKER,app. in 1872; trans,
to St Mary's, South Ronaldsay, Feb.
1872
1874.
WILLIAM LAING REID, M.A., B.D. ;
7 ord. 24th Dec. 1874 ; trans, to Watten
! 16th Sept. 1875.
DUFF MACDONALD, ord. 22nd March
1877 ; app. missionary at Blantyre,
Nyasaland, in 1878 [afterwards min.
of South Dalziel] (cf. Vol. III., 250);
D.D. (Aberdeen, 1923). Publication— The
Revised Catechism (revised edition) (Aber
deen, 1923).
WILLIAM HARLEY ANDERSON,
son of John A., schoolmaster; edu
cated at Dalgety School, Church of
Scotland Normal Training College, Univ.
of Edinburgh, M.A. (1871), and U.P.
Theological Hall; licen. by U.P. Presb.
of Edinburgh; assistant at St John's
U.P. Church, Glasgow; ord. in 1877;
adm. 16th May 1878 ; dem. 6th Dec. 1893 ;
died 6th July 1900. He marr. 4th June
1872, Mary, daugh. of William Benvie, jute
manufacturer, Dundee, and had issue —
Isabella Robertson, born 26th Sept. 1873 ;
Jessie Philip, born 28th May 1875; John
Golland, born 14th April 1877, died 24th
May 1878 ; Mary Benvie, born 22nd Feb.
1879, died; William Benvie, born 14th
March 1881; Harley Christian Erskine,
born 3rd Feb. 1884 ; Amelia Jane Golland,
born 22nd Feb. 1889, died. Publication —
A Lecture on Disestablishment (Wick, n.d.).
ALEXANDER ROSS, born Aberdeen
18g4 4th Dec. 1858; son of David R.
and Violet Crowe ; educated at
Grammar School and Univ. of Aberdeen ;
M.A. (1879); B.D. (1882); licen. by Presb.
of Strathbogie llth May 1882; assistant
at Huntly and St George's-in-the-West,
Aberdeen ; ord. 14th May 1894.
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REAY
[PRESB. OF
REAY.
[The old church of Reay, dedicated to
St Colman, stood at the village of Reay
near the sea-shore. The prebend of Keay,
in the Cathedral of Dornoch, belonged to the
Bishop of Caithness. There were at least
four chapels in this parish, St Mary's and
St Peter's, both at Lybster in Reay, St
Magnus' at Shebster, and chapels at Skaill
and Baillie. A fair of St Colman was held
at Reay in December.]
FARQUHAR REID, min. in 1574, with
1574 Farr and Durness in the charge.
ANDREW MACPHILIP, reader in
1574 1574.
HEW POILSOUN [POLSON], reader
1576 in 1576.
SAUL BRUCE, min. in 1591 ; trans, to
1591 Olrig in 1599.
WILLIAM DAVIDSON, M.A.; min.
in 1601 ; trans, to Farr before 15th
June 1603.
GEORGE OLIVER, min. in 1607;
ieo7 obtained a decree for stipend in
1621 ; died in 1622.— [Reg. Assig. ;
Macfarlane's Geog. Coll., i., 185.]
JOHN MUNRO, third son of John M.
of Pitlundie, min. of Kilmuir-
$ Easter ; educated at Univ. of St
Andrews ; M.A. (1619) ; adm. about 1623 ;
dep. about 1650 for compliance with James,
Marquess of Montrose ; petitioned the
Synod for reponement 6th Aug. 1656 " that
he might assist his son in preaching."—
[Mackenzie's Hist, of the Munros, 504 ;
Inverness Sas., vi., 61 ; P. C. Beg., 3rd ser.,
i., 195.]
DAVID MUNRO, son of John M., min.
of Farr ; adm. 3rd June 1657 ; still
min. llth July 1683; died before
1694. He marr. Margaret, daugh. of Robert
Munro, Findon, and had issue — John,
min. of this parish ; Robert ; Hector ;
Elizabeth (marr. James Mackay of Borgie-
more ; Florence (marr. William Innes of
Isauld). — [Thurso Sess. Reg. ; Macfarlane's
Geog. Coll., i., 185 ; Book of Mackay, 318 ;
Mackenzie's Hist, of Munros, 505 ; Innes of
Caithness (Northern Ensign, 29th Sept.
1903) ; Laing Charters, 2603, 2815 ; Caith
ness Sas., i. 212, 241, 242, ii. 365.]
JOHN MUNRO of Craigston, born
about 1660, eldest son of preceding ;
educated at King's College, Aber
deen ; M.A. (3rd July 1679) ; intruded in
1697, but was received into communion by
the committee at Edinburgh before 6th
June 1704; died July 1722. He marr.
22nd Aug. 1710, Janet, daugh. of David
Barclay of Touch, and had issue — John,
served heir 4th Dec. 1751 ; David of Craig
ston.— [Macfarlane's Geog. Coll., i., 185 ;
Services of Heirs ; Mackenzie's Hist, of
Munros, 506; Caithness Sas., i. 242,
ii. 83.]
ALEXANDER BRODIE, educated at
King's College, Aberdeen, 1697-1701 ;
schoolmaster of Kingussie ; licen. by
Presb. of Abernethy 17th Oct. 1711 ; ord.
to Kildonan 18th Sept. 1712; called 10th
Feb. and by Presb. jure devoluto ; adm.
14th May 1723 ; died between llth Nov.
1729 and 6th Jan. 1730. He marr., and
had issue— James, min. of Latheron. —
[Henderson's Caithness Fam., 308.]
ALEXANDER POPE, born about 1706,
son of Hector P., min. of Loth;
educated at King's College, Aber
deen, a contribution being recommended
for him by the Synod in 1720 to enable
him to prosecute his studies for the Church ;
M.A. (15th April 1725); became school
master of this parish shortly afterwards, as
appears from an instruction given by the
Presb. of Caithness to their commissioner
to the General Assembly of 1721, who bore
with him a recommendation for "the
encouragement of Alexander Pope, school
master of Reay, a hopeful young man
having the Irish language " ; elected session-
clerk and precentor at Dornoch 28th July
1730. In the summer of 1732 he rode his
pony from Dornoch to Twickenham to
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133
visit his namesake, Alexander Pope, the
poet, who presented him with a copy of the
subscription edition of his Odyssey in five
quarto volumes, along with the Abbot de
Vertol's History of the Roman Republic,
and an ornamental snuff-box, all which
mementoes have been preserved. He was
licen. by Presb. of Dornoch 19th Feb.,
called unanimously 2nd April, and ord. 5th
Sept. 1734 ; pres. to Halkirk 26th Sept.
1743, but withdrew his acceptance Jan.
1744 ; died 2nd March 1782, having been
sometime afflicted with paralysis, which
compelled him to be carried to the pulpit
in a sort of litter. At his admission here
the parish was in a state of semi-barbarism.
Donald Sage says, "they were not only
ignorant, but flagrantly vicious— Episco
palians in name but heathens in reality.
P. soon discovered that they required a
very rough mode of treatment, and being
from his strength furnished with a sufficient
capacity to administer any needful chastise
ment, he failed not vigorously to exercise
it. He usually carried about with him a
short thick cudgel, which, from the use he
was compelled to make of it, as well as
from a sort of delegated constabulary
authority he had from Sinclair of Ulbster,
the sheriff of the county, was known as
' the bailie.' " Sage relates several incidents
in which "the bailie" figured prominently.
In course of time the habits of the people
changed for the better, the parish gradually
conforming to the arts of civilised life. A
man of considerable literary talent and
much intellectual vigour, P. was a popular
preacher and a learned archaeologist. He
marr. (1) 3rd July 1735, Margaret (died
22nd Dec. 1744), daugh. of Andrew Suther
land of Pitgrudy, and had issue— William,
born 5th April 1736; Alexander, born 7th
Nov. 1737 ; Harry, born 9th Jan. 1739 : (2)
2nd Dec. 1745, Janet Ross, who died 13th
Feb. 1793, and had issue — Abigail, born 7th
June 1747 (marr. James Campbell); Thomas,
born 20th Nov. 1749 ; John, born 14th Dec.
1750, died 9th Jan. 1752 ; James (twin), his
assistant and successor ; Charles, born 14th
Aug. 1752. Publications — Ancient History
of Orkney, Caithness, and the North, by
Thormodus Torfaeus, translated with
copious notes (Wick, 1866). [This transla
tion of Torfseus's Orcades sen rerum
Orcadensium Historic [Havniae, 1697 and
1715] was prepared by Pope for the press in
1780, but owing to his death its publication
was delayed. After a lapse of sixty years
the MS. was printed in instalments in the
John 0' Groat Journal. When it was
nearly completed, the transcriber died.
The remainder of the copy, along with a
biographical sketch of the author, by
Donald Sage, minister of Resolis, went
amissing. Failure to find the lost portion
resulted in the sheets already in type being
then bound together and issued as above
in 1866. In 1905 the original MS. was dis
covered in a London bookseller's catalogue,
by John Mowat, compiler of A Bibliography
of Caithness, and purchased for Wick Free
Library, where it now is.] " The Description
of the Dune of Dornadilla" (Archceologia,
v., 216) ; Appendix V. (Pennant's Tour
in Scotland) [deals with statistics and
antiquities of Caithness, Strathnaver, and
Sutherland]. He made the first Albano-
Gaelic collection of Ossianic literature
about 1739. Found in a drawer in the
Advocates' Library in 1872, it was printed
in Leabhar na Feinne, vol. i., edited by
John Francis Campbell (London, 1872).
See also Reliquiae Celticce, i., 393. He
gave much interesting information to
Bishop Pocock for his Tours in Scotland. —
[Beaton's The Rev. Alexander Pope [Viking
Club] (Coventry, 1910) [has facsimile of
Pope's MS. of Torfaeus]; Sage's Memorabilia
Domestica (1899), 32-36 ; Proc. Soc. Antiq.
Scot. (1855), 19 and 21 ; Acts of Assembly,
1727 ; Trans. Gael. Soc. Inverness, xxii., 288 ;
Diet. Nat. Bioy. ; Cordiner's Antiquities ;
Mackay's Memories of our Parish (Reay),
1-22 ; Northern Ensign, 6th and 13th May
1902 ; Calder's Caithness, 192 ; Memorial
Slab at Reay ; Sinclair's Caithness Events,
128-37.]
JAMES POPE, born 14th Dec. 1750,
son of preceding ; educated at
1779 Marischal College, Aberdeen ; M.A.
(8th Feb. 1773) ; pres. by George III. 15th
June 1779 ; ord. (assistant and successor)
soon after. He died before his father.
134
REAY
[PRESB. OF
DAVID MACKAY, born 1752, son of
George M., ferryman, Bonar; edu
cated at King's College, Aberdeen ;
MA. (28th March 1776); licen. by Presb.
of Dornoch 3rd May 1780; pres. by George
III. 2nd July 1782 ; ord. 8th April 1783 ;
died 10th Jan. 1835. He marr. 24th July
1787, Jane MTherson, who died 12th
July 1840, and had issue— Elizabeth, born
14th Dec. 1788 (marr. 2nd July 1810,
William Sutherland, merchant, Thurso) ;
George, D.D., min. of Kafford, born 6th Nov.
1791. Publication— Account of the Parish
(Sinclair's Stat. Ace., vii.).
FINLAY COOK, born 1778, third son
of Charles C., farmer, Kilmory,
' Arran, and brother of Archibald C.,
min. of Free Church, Daviot ; educated at
Univ. of Glasgow; employed by Kobert
Owen in summer as a catechist at the
Lanark cotton mills ; licen. by Presb. of
Lanark 21st Aug. 1816 ; ord. missionary at
Halsary, Achreny, and Halladale; adm. to
Cross 29th July 1829; trans, to East
Church, Inverness, Nov. 1833; pres. (on
the petition of the parishioners) by William
IV. 10th Feb., trans, and adm. 19th Aug.
1835. Joined the Free Church in 1843 ;
min. of Free Church, Eeay, 1843-58 ; died
12th June 1858. In personal appearance
he was about the middle height, of dark
complexion, and of manly gait and air.
He had a remarkable eye, black and
brilliant, giving unmistakable evidence of
intelligence and thought. He had a great
reputation all over the North, and was one
of the most saintly of men. He marr. 5th
June 1819, Elizabeth (died 14th Oct. 1838,
aged 53), daugh. of Alexander Sage, min.
of Kildonan, and had issue — Alexander,
min. of Free Church, Stratherrick, born 1st
Nov. 1823, died 25th Oct. 1861 ; two others
who died in infancy. Publication — Account
of the Parish (New Stat. Ace., xv.). —
[Memoirs and Letters of Revs. Finlay and
Archibald Cook (Inverness, 1895) ; Disrup
tion Worthies of the Highlands, 97-105 ;
Memorabilia Domestica, 212, 294; Memories
of our Parish (Reay), 38-55 ; Crowe's The
Fathers of Caithness (Glasgow, 1896);
Tombst.]
JAMES MURRAY, born 1802, son of
1844 J°hn M., merchant, and Isabella
Conacher; pres. by Queen Victoria
3rd Nov. 1843 ; ord. 7th Feb. 1844 ; died
27th Oct. 1877. He marr. 29th Feb. 1860,
Catherine Munro Mackay (died 23rd May
1897). — [Mackay's Memories of our Parish
(Reay\ 73-6.]
DONALD MACAULAY, born North
isvs uist> 1833> son of Zacnary M- and
Margaret Christison; educated at
Univ. of Glasgow ; ord. missionary at
Locharkaig March 1868; adm. to Hallin-
in-Waternish 3rd Feb. 1870; trans, to
Eddrachillis llth May 1871; trans, and
adm. 6th June 1878 ; died 12th April 1909.
He marr. 16th April 1872, Jane (died 21st
Dec. 1918), eldest daugh. of James Robert
son, Hazelrigg, Chatton, Northumberland,
and had issue— Alice Hall, born 22nd Feb.
1873; Margaret Christie, born 2nd July
1874 (marr. 29th April 1896, Hugh A. C.
Davidson, L.R.C.P. & S., Coupar-Angus) ;
Jane Robertson, born 22nd Oct. 1875
(marr. Norman Maclean, D.D., min. of St
Cuthbert's, Edinburgh), died 2nd May 1927;
Alexa Mary, born 12th Sept. 1877 (marr.
John Kenneth Maclean, min. of Morven) ;
Agnes Macmillan, born 16th Feb. 1880
(marr. Dugald Carmichael, min. of this
parish) ; Helen Black, born 7th June 1883
(marr. 5th March 1910, Donald Begg,
farmer, Brims, Caithness; Charlotte, born
28th Nov. 1884 (marr. Alexander Mac-
donald, min. of Stevenston). — [Mackay's
Memories of our Parish (Reay), 77-84.]
DUGALD CARMICHAEL, born Lis-
more, 1st Jan. 1874, son of Hugh
C. and Mary Campbell; educated
at Baligrundle, Lismore, Benderloch, and
Greenock Schools, and Univ. of Glasgow ;
licen. by Presb. of Lorn in 1901 ; ord. to
Farr 26th Nov. 1902 ; trans, and adm. 23rd
Sept. 1909. Marr. 14th Sept 1905, Agnes
Macmillan, daugh. of Donald Macaulay,
min. of this parish, and has issue— Hugh,
born 10th Nov. 1906; Donald Macaulay,
born 22nd May 1908; John, born 3rd
May 1910; Dugald Lome, born 2nd Oct.
1914.
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SHURRERY— THURSO
135
SHURRERY (Q.S.).
[Of old there was at Shurrery a chapel
of St Benet. In 1838 William Innes of
Sandside built a church and manse here.
The parish of Shurrery, disjoined from
Keay, Halkirk, and Thurso on 7th March
1902, was endowed by Mr Pilkington of
Sandside as a memorial of Lieut. T. D.
Pilkington, who fell at Nitrals Nek, South
Africa, llth July 1901.]
ALEXANDER CAMERON, born
Tullochgarban, Speyside, 1821, son
1880 Of j)uncan Q } farmer, Tullochgarban,
and Isabella Macintosh; a licentiate of
the Free Church; app. in 1880; died
unmarr. 22nd Feb. 1896, and was buried
at Reay. He was extremely eccentric but
much liked by the people of his mission.—
[Mackay's Memories of our Parish (Reay\
85-90.]
CHARLES MACDONALD, ord. first
min. of this parish 17th April 1902 ;
! trans, to Appin 13th Oct. 1903 ; trans,
to Enzie in 1926.
JOHN KERR, ord. 28th Feb. 1904;
1904 trans, to Harris 14th Sept. 1910.
WILLIAM CANDLISH, born 1857,
son of William C., loom weaver,
1911 and Sarah Houston; educated at
Univs. of St Andrews and Cambridge ;
B.A. ; assistant at Unst, Rapness, Stroma,
Techmuiry, Dull, Blackridge, Aviemore,
and Benholme ; ord. 23rd Feb. 1911 ; died
unmarr. 25th May that year.
WILLIAM FRASER, born 1864, son of
Alexander F., newspaper sub-editor,
1911 and Margaret Knowles Donald; edu
cated at Univs. of Aberdeen and Glasgow ;
licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen in 1897;
assistant at Old Machar and St George's-in-
the-West, Aberdeen; ord. to St Stephen's,
Inverness, 2nd May 1905 ; trans, and adm.
5th Sept. 1911 ; dem. 10th Oct. 1916; died
unmarr. at Aberdeen, 26th April 1920.
HENRY DODD, L.R.C.P.(Edin.),
7 F.P. & S.(Glasg.) ; adm. 19th April
1917 ; trans, to Downfield, Dundee,
4th June 1919.
EDMUND EDWARD WILLIAMSON,
born Elgin, 16th Sept. 1867, son of
1920 Robert Ross W., draper, and Helen
Bannerman ; educated at Elgin Academy
and Univs. of Aberdeen, M.A. (1889), and
Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of Elgin in
1893 ; assistant at Craigellachie, 1898, and
St Mary's, Dundee, 1902 ; ord. to Chascomus,
Argentina, 25th June 1903 ; adm. to South
Yell 8th May 1916 ; res. Nov. 1919 ; adm.
here 15th April 1920; D.Litt. (Lincoln-
Jefferson Univ., Illinois, U.S.A., Sept. 1922).
Publication — Natural Scenery in an Argen
tine Lake District (Buenos Aires, 1908).
THURSO.
[The church of Thurso was dedicated to
St Peter. It belonged to the Bishop of
Caithness. The ancient fabric was rebuilt
in the earlier part of the seventeenth
century and was then made the Cathedral
of the restored See of Caithness. Its ruins
still stand. Like other churches of its
time, it is cruciform, and is a quaintly
interesting example of the curiously mixed
architecture then in vogue. There was in
this parish a chapel of the Holy Rood,
known as the Cross Kirk. Other chapels
stood at Pennyland, Brims, and Murkle.
There was another chapel, Kirk Ebb, which
stood on the sea-shore, but all vestiges of
it have been swept away by the sea. There
was also a chapel between Stainland and
Bleachfield . Thurso held fairs on Petermas,
Georgemas, and Marymas.]
WALTER INNES, vicar and min. in
1561.— [Compt. of Collector of Thirds,
1561
vi., 95 ; Reg. of Deeds, viii., 373.]
JOHN RAG, min. in 1567.— [Orig.
1567 Paroch. Scot, ii., 748.]
ALEXANDER URQUHART, min. of
1574 Olrig ; also min. here in 1574.
1574 JOHN DAVIDSON, reader in 1574.
ANDREW PHILP, pres. to vicarage
1576 of Wick 25th Nov. 1567; trans,
about 1576, with Olrig also in his
charge ; still min. in 1588.— [Reg. Assiy.]
136
THURSO
[PRESB. OF
ALLAN HUTTON, adm. in 1589;
trans, to Westray between 1591 and
1593.
DAVID COLVILL, adm. in 1593;
1593 still min. in l6QS.—[Reg. Assig.]
JOHN BRODIE, M.A. (St Andrews,
1614 28th July 1610) ; min. in 1614.
WILLIAM ABERNETHY, son of John
A., Bishop of Caithness ; adm. before
1 10th Feb. 1622; was waylaid after
preaching in the church of Halkirk, by
Mahan Ryan, at the river below the Castle
of Brawl, who, on account of A.'s having
exercised church discipline towards him for
immoral conduct, tumbled him from his
horse into the river, then bruised and
almost suffocated him, so that he was
carried home nearly dead; dep. in 1650
for compliance with James, Marquess of
Montrose; had a testimonial from the
Presb. 12th April 1659; died May 1662.
He marr. before 1st June 1635, Henrietta,
daugh. of John Sinclair of Ulbster and
Jean Chisholm (she survived him), and had
issue— William.— [Inverness Sat., Hi., 100,
318; Caithness Tests.; Macfarlane's Geog.
Coll., i., 174; G. R. Sas., xli. 482, liii.
144 ; Henderson's Caithness Fam. Hist. 69.]
ANDREW MUNRO of Coull, son of
Hector M. of Coull, Ross-shire ; edu-
' cated at King's College, Aberdeen ;
M.A. (1650); called 14th Feb., and ord. 4th
Nov. 1655; retired before 13th Dec. 1662,
" upon some grounds and reasons known to
himself " ; again min. in 1664 ; deprived in
1681 for refusing to take the Test ; restored
by Act of Parliament 25th April 1690 ;
died Dec. 1693, aged about 65. He marr.
1662, Christian, daugh. of John Munro of
Culcraggie, min. of Alness, and had issue—
Dr John of Coull; Robert, writer, Edin
burgh ; George ; William, bookseller ;
Isabel (marr. (1) James Fullarton, min. of
Dunnet and St Ninian's : (2) Barr) ;
Mary; Janet (marr. Hugh Corse, min. of
Bower) ; Margaret (marr., cont. 17th July
1702, Arthur, son of Duncan Taylor,
merchant, Thurso). — [Caithness Sas., i.,
104, 243, 259, 342 ; Mackenzie's Hist, of the
Munros, 360, 386 ; Macfarlane's Geog. Coll.,
> 174.]
JOHN WOOD, a native of Kincardine-
shire ; M.A. (King's College, Aber-
' deen, 1670); adm. prior to 10th
Sept. 1682 ; deprived by Act of Parliament
25th April 1690. He had no knowledge of
Gaelic.— [Craven's Diocese of Caithness, 166.]
ANDREW MUNRO, M.A., above
1690 mentioned.
WILLIAM INNES, born 1670; licen.
by united Presb. of Chirnside and
' Duns 13th Oct. 1692 ; ord. to Car-
nock 18th Oct. 1693 ; trans, and adm. May
1696 ; died 1st April 1737. He marr. 10th
Sept. 1696, Mary (died llth July 1729),
daugh. of George Spence in St Andrews
Fife, and had issue— Jean.— [Caithness Sas.,
i., 376 ; Edin. Marr. Reg. ; Law's Memorial,
Macfarlane's Geog. Coll., i., 174 ; Auld's Min
isters and Men in the Far North ; Tombst.}
JAMES GILCHRIST, son of John
M'Gilchrist, writer in Kilmichael-
1788 Glassary ; educated at Univ. of Glas
gow ; ord. to Kilmallie 15th April 1724; app-
by the Assembly to supply the garrison of
Fort William as frequently as possible 16th
May 1726 ; trans, to Loth 10th Feb. 1732 ;
app. by William, Earl of Sutherland, sheriff-
depute within his own parish in 1734, but
the Presb. discharged him from exercising
said office either by himself or a substitute
in the capacity of a civil judge 9th Feb.
1735 ; called unanimously 9th, pres. by the
Presb. jure devoluto 10th May, trans, and
adm. 8th Aug. 1738 ; in 1745 he had to leave
his parish on account of the strong Jacobite
feeling in the place; died 14th Dec. 1751. He
marr. 4th Sept. 1725, Susanna Myles, who
died 14th Sept. 1766, and had issue— Daniel,
lieut. 63rd Regiment, born 18th March
1727; Margaret, born 23rd Nov. 1728
(marr. Thomas Baikie, merchant, Thurso) ;
Sarah, born 19th Feb. 1732 ; William, born
16th March 1734; George, born 6th Nov.
1738 ; James, born 14th May 1746, died
23rd July 1748 ; Jean, born 17th Jan. 1749 ;
Dougal, born April, died May 1751.—
[Trans. Gaelic Soc. Inverness, xi., 304.]
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137
ALEXANDER NICOLSON, born 1724,
son of Patrick N., min. of Kiltarlity ;
' educated at King's College, Aber
deen ; M.A. (27th March 1740)] licen. by
Presb. of Garioch 24th June 1747 ; pres. by
George Sinclair of Ulbster in June, and
ord. 2nd Sept. 1752 ; died 28th Aug. 1785.
He marr. (1) 6th July 1754, Mary Dunbar,
who died 1st May 1759, and had issue-
Margaret, born 14th April 1755; Patrick,
his successor ; James, M.D., born 16th Jan.
1759 : (2) 15th Feb. 1765, Mary (died at
Edinburgh, 5th Nov. 1817, aged 89), daugh.
of Patrick Honyman of Graemesay, and
had issue — Janet, born 27th Sept. 1769
(marr. (1) Alexander Macleod of Lynegar :
(2) William Sinclair, writer, Thurso). —
[Henderson's Caithness Fam. Hist., 317.]
PATRICK NICOLSON, born 14th
April 1757, son of preceding ; edu
cated at King's College, Aberdeen ;
M.A. (28th March 1776); ord. 3rd May
1786 ; died 17th Jan. 1805. He marr. 29th
Dec. 1787, Mary Maxwell (died at Rose-
markie, 30th Jan. 1806), second daugh. of
Captain Thomas Dunbar of Westtield, and
had issue — Alexander, born 29th Nov.
1788 ; Janet Dunbar, born 12th March
1790 ; Thomas, born 22nd Oct. 1791 ;
Malcolm, major in army, born 5th Dec.
1792 ; Mary, born 14th April 1794 ; William,
born 18th Nov. 1795 ; Isabella, born 9th
Jan. 1797 ; Margaret, born 24th April
1798 ; Elizabeth Moodie, born 4th Oct.
1799, died 18th July 1800.— [Memorabilia
Domestica, 40 ; Henderson's Caithness
Fam. Hist., 318 ; Lives of Robert and
James Haldane, 177.]
WILLIAM MACKINTOSH, born
Inverness - shire 1764 ; licen. by
' Presb. of Inverness 2nd Dec. 1795 ;
ord. missionary at Bruan and Berriedale
that year ; pres. to this parish by Sir
John Sinclair of Ulbster, Bart., 12th June,
and adm. 29th Aug. 1805 ; died while on
a visit to Strathpeffer 18th July 1830,
and was buried at Cullicudden, Resolis.
He was an eloquent preacher and an
indefatigable parish minister. He marr.
22nd Aug. 1805, Christian (died at Edin
burgh, 29th April 1856), second daugh. of
William Sutherland, min. of Wick, and had
issue — Catherine, born 20th July 1806
(marr. 14th Aug. 1823, John Sutherland,
captain 3rd Foot) ; Elizabeth, born 13th
Oct. 1807 (marr. Donald Sage, min. of
Resolis); William, born 26th March, died
25th April 1810 ; Christian, born 14th Jan.
1813; John Sinclair, born 26th July, died
llth Oct. 1814; James Sutherland, born
23rd April 1816 ; Camilla Manners, born
6th June 1819.— [Memorabilia Domestica,
290.]
WALTER ROSS TAYLOR, born
Cromarty, llth Nov. 1805, eldest
son of James T., sheriff-clerk of
Cromarty, and Flora Ross of Nigg, sister
and heiress of Colonel Walter Ross of
Nigg ; educated at Cromarty School (where
Hugh Miller was his companion), King's
College, Aberdeen; M.A. (March 1823),
and Univ. of Glasgow; licen. by Presb.
of Chanonry 14th Oct. 1828; ord. 23rd
Oct. 1829, min. of the Scots Church,
Chadwell Street, London; pres. by Sir
John Sinclair of Ulbster, Bart., with con
sent of his trustees, llth and 12th Nov.
1830 ; adm. 14th April 1831. Joined the
Free Church in 1843 ; min. of Free Church,
Thurso, 1843-96; D.D. (Aberdeen, 1879);
elected Moderator of Free Church General
Assembly 22nd May 1884 ; died 5th Oct.
1896. He was considered one of the ablest
theologians of his day. He marr. (1) 9th
May 1833, Isobel (died March 1884), second
daugh. of William Murray of Pitcalzean,
Ross, and sister of William M. of Geanies,
and had issue— Christina Barbara Ross,
born 28th July 1834 (marr. 1857, Alexander
Auld, min. of Free Church, Olrig) ; Flora
Ross, born 14th May 1836 (marr. F. R.
Johnstone); Walter Ross, D.D., min. of
Kelvinside United Free Church, Glasgow,
Moderator of the Free Church General
Assembly in 1900, born llth April 1838,
died 6th Dec. 1907 ; Esther Murray, born
13th June 1841 (marr. Alexander Middleton,
Rose Farm, Invergordon) ; Jemima Alexa,
born llth March 1843 (marr. Provost
William Mackay, Thurso) : (2) 23rd March
1887, Isabella (born 25th Oct. 1843, died 6th
138
THURSO— WATTEN
[PRESS. OF
April 1928), daugh. of William Macdonald,
Pennyland, Thurso. Publications — The
Reception of the Gospel and a Conversation
becoming It, a sermon (London, 1830) ; Last
Sermon Preached in the Old Church of
Thurso (Thurso, 1832, 1833, and 1841);
Assembly Addresses (p.p., n.p., 1884) ; Sermon
on Psalm LXXXV., 10 (p.p.); Account of
the Parish (New Stat. Ace., xv.) ; Sermon
XLIV. (Free Church Pulpit, i.) ; Sermons
and Assembly Addresses in Memorials of
Caithness Ministers. — [Memorabilia Domes-
tica, 325 ; Auld's Memorials of Caithness
Ministers, 1-68 (Edinburgh, 1911).]
WILLIAM DALZIEL, born Shotts,
1848 1^90' son °^ Walter D., farmer, and
Catherine Clark ; educated at Univ.
of Edinburgh ; licen. by Old Light Burgher
Presb. of Edinburgh 30th Nov. 1813; ord.
to Dunfermline llth Oct. 1815. Joined
the Church of Scotland in 1839 ; pres. by
Sir George Sinclair of Ulbster in 1843 ;
adm. 27th Sept. that year; died 10th
Oct. 1859. He marr. 20th May 1817, Jane
Manuel (died 8th July 1883), and bad
issue — Walter, born 22nd April 1818 ;
James, born 15th May 1820, died 16th
Nov. 1846 ; William, born 27th May 1822 ;
John, born 30th June 1824, died 23rd March
1827; Elizabeth, born 16th Oct. 1826;
Eobert, born 5th March 1829; Christina,
born 27th May 1831; George, born 30th
Jan. 1834, died 20th Jan. 1841; Janet
Manuel, born 31st July 1837. — [Scott's
Annals of Original Secession Church, 316,
487.]
JOHN STEWART MILLER, born Edin-
1860 burgh, 14th Sept. 1829, son of John
M. and Catherine Stewart ; educated
at Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of
Edinburgh 28th July 1858; assistant at
Stewarton ; ord. 7th June 1860 ; died 31st
May 1910. He marr. 23rd Aug. 1860,
Alison (died s.p. 16th Feb. 1863), daugh.
of Robert Clark, solicitor, Edinburgh.
GEORGE ROBERT MACLENNAN,
1910 k°rn Urray, 2nd Oct. 1864, son of
John M. and Isabella Harvy ; edu
cated at Grammar School and Univs. of
Aberdeen M.A. (1888) and Glasgow ; licen.
by Presb. of Kintyre April 1891 ; assistant
at Campbeltown and Aberfoyle ; ord. to
Coll 9th Dec. 1895 ; trans, to St Oran's,
Edinburgh, 8th Dec. 1897 ; trans, and adm.
llth Nov. 1910. He marr. (1) 20th April
1893, Barbara, daugh. of Robert Johnston,
and had issue — Ian Douglas, Seaforth
Highlanders, born 16th April 1894, killed
in action 15th Jan. 1915 ; Serla J , born
6th April 1896 : (2) 20th Dec. 1904, Annie,
daugh. of Donald Mackenzie.
WATTEN.
[The church of Watten was dedicated to
St Magnus. A prebend of Watten, in the
Chapter of Dornoch Cathedral, belonged
to the Archdeacon of Caithness. There
were chapels in this parish at North Dun
and Scowthal. At Watten were held fairs
of St Magnus and St Fumach, and a Rood
fair on Roodmas Day.]
1574 THOMAS BRYDIE, min. in 1574.
MATTHEW MURRAY, reader in
1574 1574.
[WILLIAM CAMPBELL, min. of
Alves ; called 2nd Dec. 1656, but not
settled, infra."]
JAMES DUNBAR, called 6th July 1658 ;
1659 ac*m' 9t^ March 1659 J ha(* sasine
of St Katherine's Manse in Moray
in 1667 ; trans, to Mertoun, and coll. 21st
Jan. 1667.
WILLIAM CAMPBELL, a native of
1668 Moray ; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen ; M.A. (1633) ; adm. to
Bower in 1641 ; was a member of Com
missions of Assembly in 1644 and 1646;
trans, to Alves 16th Aug. 1649 ; called here
2nd Dec. 1656, but not settled ; trans, to
Olrig 2nd Jan. 1661 ; trans, and adm.
about 1668. He marr. (1) a daugh. of David
Allardyce, min. of Olrig : (2) Christian
Waill, and had issue — John ; William ;
Jean ; Elizabeth (marr., cont. 13th July
1682, John Shilpes, min. of St Andrew's,
Orkney). — [Macfarlane's Geog. Coll., i.,
181 ; Alves Sess. Record, 7th Dec. 1652.]
CAITHNESS]
WATTEN
139
JAMES OSWALD, born 26th Jan. 1654,
son of James O., bailie of Wick, and
1 Barbara Coghill ; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (14th July 1674) ;
session-clerk and teacher, Thurso, 7th Sept.
1679 ; called 28th Dec. 1682 ; adm. before
llth July 1683; died 4th Nov. 1698. He
marr. 1683, Mary (died 29th June 1738),
daugh. of Kichard Murray of Scotscalder,
and had issue — Richard of Scotstoun,
merchant, Glasgow, born 1687, died 1763 ;
Alexander, merchant, Glasgow, born 1694,
died 1766; Margaret (marr. James Baird
of Chesterhall, W.S.) ; Isabella (marr.
James Campbell of Lochend).— [Caithness
Sas., i., 383 ; Henderson's Caithness Fam.,
232 ; Calder's Caithness, 270-1.]
HECTOR MUNRO, M.A. (King's
College, Aberdeen, 21st June 1694) ;
ord. 24th Sept. 1701 ; died Jan.
1731, aged about 57. He marr. and had
issue— Elizabeth (marr. James Ferme, min.
of Wick) ; Margaret (marr. Robert Baikie,
merchant, Kirkwall).— [Caithness Sas., ii.
364 ; Macfarlane's Geog. Coll., i., 181.]
1733
JOHN SINCLAIR, born about 1706,
son of John S. of Forse, and
Barbara, daugh. of John Sinclair of
Rattar ; licen. by Presb. of Caithness 9th
March 1731 ; pres. by John Sinclair of
Ulbster July that year. On 19th Oct.
1731, he was suspended for alleged breach
of a marriage engagement " to a young
gentlewoman in this county whom he was
for a long time in suit of"; called again
by heritors and others in March and 5th
April 1732; ord. (by a committee of
Synod) 4th Jan. 1733 ; died llth May 1753.
He marr. 6th March 1741, Esther (died
28th June 1782), daugh. of Alexander
Sinclair of Olrig, and had issue— Alex
ander, born 3rd Sept. 1743. — [Beaton's
Eccles. Hist, of Caithness, 293.]
JAMES TAYLOR, M.A. (Marischal Col-
^ lege, Aberdeen, 1742); licen. by
Presb. of Garioch 18th July 1744;
became chaplain in Lady Sinclair of
Ulbster's family ; pres. by George Sinclair
of Ulbster 27th Sept. 1750; ord. 12th June
1754 ; died 10th Aug. 1778, aged about 57.
He marr. 16th June 1756, Emilia Clark,
who died 22nd Dec. 1794.
JOSEPH TAYLOR, ord. 21st April
1779 ; trans, to Carnbee 2nd Aug.
' 1805.
ALEXANDER GUNN (primus), born
Lochend of Watten, 1773; eldest
' son of John G., tacksman of Hesti-
grow, Bower, and Jane Home; educated
at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (1797) ;
licen. by Presb. of Caithness 6th April
1801 ; ord. assistant at Orphir 21st Dec.
1803 ; pres. by Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster,
Bart., 16th July, and adm. 26th Sept. 1805;
died 28th Aug. 1836. He was a preacher of
eminent ability. He marr. 25th June 1806,
Elizabeth (died 16th June 1841), daugh. of
Robert Arthur, min. of Resolis, and had
issue — Mary Ann Monro, born 3rd March,
died 13th Sept. 1807 ; Alexander, his suc
cessor ; Jean, born 21st Dec. 1810, died 18th
May 1811 ; Elizabeth, born 6th June 1812
(marr. Eric Sinclair, M.D., Wick), died 2nd
Sept. 1834; Robert John, M.D., Wentby,
Ontario, born 17th Feb. 1814; Thomas
Arthur, born 28th Dec. 1815 ; James, born
13th Jan. 1817 ; George Monro, born 16th
Dec. 1818, went to Canada ; William, born
26th Sept. 1820 ; Charles, born 30th July
1823; Sinclair Manners, born 5th June
1825.— [Auld's Ministers and Men in the
Far North, 21 ; Beaton's Eccles. Hist, of
Caithness, 294 ; Hist, of the Munros, 550.]
ALEXANDER GUNN (secundus), born
24th May 1809 ; son of preceding ;
educated at Univs. of Edinburgh
and Aberdeen ; licen. by Presb. of Caith
ness, 22nd Nov. 1831 ; assistant at Trinity
Parish, Aberdeen, 1834-6; pres. by Sir
James Colquhoun of Luss, Bart., 5th Dec.
1836; ord. 6th April 1837. Joined the
Free Church in 1843 ; min. of Watten
Free Church, 1843-92; died 14th Dec.
1892. He marr., 3rd Oct. 1837, Alison,
daugh. of Joseph Murdoch, fish-curer,
Wick, and had issue— Elizabeth Arthur,
born 16th July 1838; Alexander James,
Singapore, born 30th June 1840; Janet
Brown, born 28th April 1843 (marr.
William Nicholson, factor, Watten);
140
WATTEN— WICK
[PRESB. OF
1843
Patrick Joseph, died in infancy; Alice, born
13th Jan. 1847 ; Robert John, in Java, born
8th July 1848,died 1908; James in Sumatra;
Mary (marr. 1885, John Ross Macneill,
min. of Free Church, Tongue). Publica
tion — Letter to the Parishioners of Watten
(Wick, 1842). He left a History of the
Gunns in MS. — [Auld's Memorials of
Caithness Ministers, 278-81 ; Hist, of the
Munros, 550.]
GEORGE MOIR DAVIDSON, born
about 1796, son of Captain John D.
of Gothenburg and Janet, daugh.
of George Moir, min. of Peterhead ; edu
cated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A.
(30th March 1816); ord. to South Yell in
1841 ; trans, and adm. 28th Sept. 1843 ;
died at Edinburgh 13th Jan. 1890. He
marr. 16th July 1835, Isabella (died 23rd
July 1895), daugh. of William Grant, min.
of Cross and Burness, and had issue-
George William, Professor of Anatomy,
Veterinary College, Edinburgh, born 5th
June 1836 ; Isabella Louisa, born 16th
Dec. 1838, died 13th Sept. 1844; John
Kerr, M.D., Blackburn, born 29th May
1840; Janet, born 1st Jan. 1842, died
1844 ; Patrick Moir, M.D., Congleton, born
3rd Feb. 1844 ; James Andrew, born 22nd
May 1845 ; Robert, born 30th April 1848 ;
David Charles, surgeon, Indian Army, born
5th Aug. 1850.
DONALD M'CAIG (cf. Vol. IV., 101) ;
1858 educated at Univ. of St Andrews ;
assistant at St Columba's, Glasgow ;
adm. (assistant and successor) 23rd Nov.
1858 ; trans, to Muckairn 28th Sept. 1859.
JAMES GEMMEL, born 1818, son of
Alexander G., joiner, Kirkoswald,
Ayrshire; educated at Univ. of
Glasgow ; adm. to Pulteneytown 20th Aug
1855 ; trans, and adm. (assistant and suc
cessor) 19th Aug. 1860 ; died 8th Sept. 1874.
WILLIAM LAING REID, born Fetter-
near, Chapel - of - Garioch, 1st Dec
1836, son of Alexander R. and Mary
Laing; educated at Kemnay School anc
King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1855)
B.D. (1870) ; licen. by Presb. of Garioch
in 1863 ; assistant at St Mary's, Dumfries
and Udny ; ord. to Pulteneytown 24th
1860
1875
Dec. 1874; trans, and adm. (assistant and
successor) 16th Sept. 1875 ; died 22nd Oct.
891. He marr. 7th Oct. 1875, Annie, daugh.
of Donald Sutherland, and had issue —
George Alexander, engineer, born 18th July
1876 ; Jane Miller, born llth May 1878,
died 1900 ; Donald Sutherland, born 3rd
May 1880, killed in action 27th Oct. 1914;
William Laing, born 4th March 1882, died
1912 ; Mary Patricia, born 30th Jan. 1884,
died 1900; Anna Henderson, born 20th
Oct. 1888.
DAVID LILLIE, born 19th Oct. 1854, son
of William L., D.D., min. of Wick;
' educated at Pulteneytown Academy,
Wick Parish School, and Univ. of Aberdeen ;
M.A. (1874), B.D. (1877); licen. by Presb.
of Aberdeen 2nd May 1877 ; assistant at
Mortlach, Ruthrieston, Dalziel, and Bower;
ord. to Eday 25th Sept. 1889 ; trans, and
adm. 16th May 1892. Marr. 1st Nov.
1889, Frances Margaret, daugh. of George
Brown, Watten Mains, and has issue-
Helen Lillie, M.A., M.B., Ch.B., born 31st
Aug. 1890 (marr. 22nd Dec. 1925, John
Garrett, M.A., Professor in Murray Col
lege, Sialkot, India) ; Isobel Milne, M.A.,
B.Sc., born 12th April 1892 ; Mary Purves,
M.A., .born 18th May 1893 ; Adziel, born
31st Oct. 1894; William, M.A., Professor
in Murray College, Sialkot, India, born
15th Sept. 1899.
WICK.
[The church of Wick was dedicated to
St Fergus. It belonged to the Bishop of
Caithness. In this parish there were at
least eight chapels— St Mary's, on the north
side of the Water of Wick ; St Ninian's, at
the Head of Wick Bay; St Martin's, at
Ulbster; St Cuthbert's, at Hauster ; St
Duthac's, at the Kirk of Moss ; and the
chapels at Thrumster, Ackergill (St Tears),
and Strubster. Fairs of St Fergus and St
Margaret were held at Wick. There is
now within the bounds a mission chapel
at Thrumster.]
ANDREW GRAHAM, vicar before the
Reformation ; retained possession of
1560 the benefice till Aug. 1574.— [P. C.
Reg., ii., 381 ; Orig. Paroch, Scot., ii., 771.]
CAITHNESS]
WICK
141
ANDREW PHILP, pres. to the vicar
age by James VI. 25th Nov. 1567 ;
1667 had Latheron also in the charge in
1574 ; trans, to Thurso before 1576.
THOMAS KETE, min. in 1576; trans.
1576 to Olrig before 1580.
JOHN PRUNTO, trans, from Latheron
in 1580 ; still min. in 1595 and 1601.
1580
—[Reg. Assig.]
JOHN INNES, min. in 1607; excom
municated for divers crimes and
•607 slanders committed by him; was
imprisoned in Edinburgh Tolbooth before
17th May 1615. He marr. and had issue —
John.— [P. C. Reg., x. 328, xii. 614 ; Caith
ness Sas., v., 112.]
THOMAS ANNAND, son of John A.,
burgess of Elgin ; pres. to parsonage
1614 of Moy by James VI. 15th May 1584 ;
probably trans, to Keith in 1599, and
hither in 1614; died before 1634.— [Mac-
farlane's Geog. Coll., i., 162 ; Bannatyne
Miscell.]
JOHN SMART, min. in 1634, and J.P.
for Caithness that year ; dep. about
1684 1650 for compliance with James,
Marquess of Montrose I [afterwards min. of
Dunnet].
[HARRY FORBES, M.A. ; officiated for
three or four years, but was not settled ;
adm. min. of Auldearn 10th Oct. 1655.]
WILLIAM GEDDES, a native of
Moray ; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen; M.A. (1650); app. school
master of Keith 13th Nov. 1650 ; was tutor
to Hugh Rose of Kilravock in 1652 ; called
13th Sept., and ord. 23rd Nov. 1659 ; trans,
to Urquhart (Moray) 3rd June 1677 ; dem.
on account of the Test in 1682; re-adm.
here in 1692 ; died in 1694, aged about 64.
He marr. before 1st June 1664, Katherine,
daugh. of John Dunbar of Hempriggs.
[His marriage was celebrated without pro
clamation, for which he was censured and
James Dunbar, min. of Watten, rebuked.]
Publications — Memoriale Historicum, or
An Historical Memorial concerning the
Most Remarkable Occurrences and Periods
of the Histories of Scripture ; the Universal
Histories of the Four Monarchs ; the Scottish,
English, French, and Turkish Histories
[no copy is known ; it is possible the book
was not published]; The Saint's Recreation,
third part, upon the Estate of Grace [a
curious volume of hymns and spiritual
songs adapted to old ballad tunes] (Edin
burgh, 1683; Glasgow, 1753) [edited by
George Park]. He represented to the
Privy Council that he had also prepared
other works for the press— Geographical
and Arithmetical Memorials; Memoriale
Hebraicum for facilitating the Hebrew
Language ; Vocabidarium Latino- Hebrai
cum in Hexameter Verse, and Families
Famigeratce — all of which were recom
mended to be printed, but though G.
acknowledged having received " the price "
for these books, they do not seem to have
been published. — [Shaw's Moray, iii., 390 ;
Fain, of Kilravock, 349 ; Macfarlane's
Geog. Coll., i., 162 ; Wick Burgh Records
(1660) ; Brodie's Diary, 491 ; P. C. Reg.,
iii., ser. viii., 93; Craven's Diocese, 121-6;
Diet. Nat. Biog. [where his age is given
as about 94].]
PATRICK CLUNIES, a native of Ross ;
M.A. (King's College, Aberdeen, 17th
' July 1662) ; adm. before 1st March
1682 ; died in 1691, aged about 49.— [Mac
farlane's Geog. Coll., i., 162.]
WILLIAM GEDDES, M.A. ; above
1692 mentioned.
CHARLES KEITH, licen. by Presb. of
Caithness 2nd, called unanimously
j 1701 20th July, and ord. 3rd Sept. 1701 ;
I died 14th June 1705.— [Macfarlane's Geog.
Coll., i., 162; Beaton's Secies. Hist, of
Caithness, 299.]
JAMES OLIPHANT, licen. by Presb.
of Linlithgow 26th Feb., called
1707 unanimously 14th, and ord. 25th
Sept. 1707 ; died between 30th Aug. and
19th Oct. 1726. He marr. Mary Dunbar,
who survived him, and had issue — Alex
ander, min. of Bower, and others. — [Mac
farlane's Geog. Coll., i., 162 ; Reg. of Deeds,
ccccxx., 585.]
142
WICK
[PRESB. OF
1727
JAMES FERME, ord. 27th Nov. 1727 ;
died 9th Oct. 1760. He marr. (1)
12th Dec. 1738, Elizabeth (died in
winter 1744), eldest daugh. of Hector
Munro, min. of Watten : (2) 3rd Sept. 1747,
Margaret Dunbar, who died 10th Nov. 1788.
— [Caithness Sas., ii., 364.]
[DAVID DUNBAR, min. of Olrig;
pres. by Lieut.-Colonel John Scott, 3rd
Foot Guards, 21st Feb. 1761, but died
13th July same year.]
JAMES SCOBIE, born 25th Sept. 1735,
son of William S., min. of Assynt ;
1762 educated at Marischal College, Aber
deen ; M.A. (1754); licen. by Presb. of
Haddington 7th April 1761 ; pres. by
commissioner for Lieut. - Colonel John
Scott, 7th Jan., and ord. 4th May 1762;
died 3rd July 1764. He marr. 10th Nov.
1762, Elizabeth Calder, who died 20th
Dec. 1766.
WILLIAM SUTHERLAND, born 27th
Jan. 1738, eldest son of John S.,
65 min. of Tain ; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen; M.A. (27th April 1758);
pres. by Sir William Dunbar of Hempriggs,
Bart., 4th Oct. 1764; ord. 1st May 1765;
died 23rd June 1816. He marr. 25th May
1767, Catherine Anderson, who died 3rd
Oct. 1813, and had issue— William, born
14th May 1768; John, linen manufacturer,
Dunfermline, born 25th Jan. 1770; George.
born 9th March 1771, died March 1773;
James, born llth April 1772, died 24th
April 1789; Elizabeth, born llth Oct.
1773 (marr. 19th Sept. 1801, James Miller,
merchant, Leith and St Petersburg), died
25th May 1862 ; Christian, born 26th Feb.
1775 (marr. William Mackintosh, min.
of Thurso); David, born llth May 1776,
died 3rd Oct. 1779; Richard, born 19th
July 1777 ; Ramsay, born 19th Nov. 1778 ;
Jane, born 27th July 1780 (marr. William
Milne, min. of Canisbay) ; Alexander, born
26th Oct. 1781, died 15th June 1786;
George, born 12th Feb. 1783; Catherine,
born 5th Oct. 1784; Benjamin, born 12th
Feb. 1786, died 18th June 1796 ; Johanna
Alexandrina, born 5th Oct. 1787 ; Mary,
born 23rd Dec. 1788, died 20th Jan. 1867 ;
James, judge in India, born 1st June 1790;
Margaret, born 22nd April 1792, died 1st
Oct. 1855. Publication— Account of the
Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., x.). — [Memora
bilia Domestica, 318.]
ROBERT PHIN [originally pronounced
and spelt THIN], born Earlston,
1778, son of William P.; educated
at Associate Burgher Divinity Hall (1797)
and Univ. of Aberdeen. Joined the Church
of Scotland as a student ; objections were
made to his passing trials as a preacher
on the ground that he had entered the
army as a lieutenant of Volunteers, but
the General Assembly, 24th May 1805,
ordered the Presb. to proceed ; licen. 7th
Feb. 1809 ; pres. by Sir Benjamin Dunbar
of Hempriggs, Bart., 22nd Dec. 1812; ord.
(assistant and successor) 13th March 1813 ;
died 22nd March 1840. He marr. 3rd
March 1815, Margaret Elizabeth (died 7th
Sept. 1822), second daugh. of William
M'Leay, provost of Wick, and had issue
— Kenneth M'Leay, D.D., min. of Gala-
shiels, born 23rd April 1816; Barbara
Rose, born 3rd Sept. 1817, died 8th Sept.
1820.
CHARLES THOMSON, born Calnor,
184Q Dalserf, 1795, third son of William
T., farmer, Lesmahagow ; educated
at Univs. of Edinburgh and Glasgow ; ord.
to Presbyterian Church, North Shields,
1823; trans, and adm. 17th Sept. 1840.
Joined the Free Church in 1843; min. of
Free Church, Wick, 1843-71; died 26th
April 1871. Of a commanding presence,
endowed with a powerful mind, possessed
of great and ready powers of utterance,
combining uncommon force of character
with an equally uncommon generosity of
nature, he proved himself a most valuable
leader on all questions relating to ecclesi
astical and public matters, and was a tower
of strength throughout the North. He
took a considerable share in the Apocrypha
controversy along with Dr Andrew Thomson
and his supporters. He marr. 27th April
1825, Janet Ballantyne, Hawick (died 21st
Feb. 1892), and had issue — Frances Ballan
tyne, born 3rd Feb., died 6th Aug. 1826;
James Prentice,born 28th May 1827,died 17th
April 1851 ; Isabella, born 27th June 1828
CAITHNESS]
WICK
143
(marr. 19th April 1853, the Kev. William
Henderson,Australia);MargaretBallantyne,
born 16th Sept. 1831, died 14th April 1842 ;
Janet Brown, born 20th Sept. 1833, died
12th Feb. 1842 ; Thomasina Grace, born
30th June 1835, died 8th Aug. 1844;
Francis Ballantyne, born 19th April 1837 ;
Caroline Frances, born 13th Aug. 1839;
Barbara Henderson, born 18th Dec. 1841,
died 9th April 1842; Charles Ebenezer,
born 6th Feb. 1843; George, born 15th
Dec. 1845. Publications — Notices of the
Martyrs and Confessors of Lesmahagow
(1832) ; Letters and Life of Samuel Ruther
ford ivith an Introduction, 2 vols. (London,
1836); Pastoral Letters to the Wick F.C.
Congregation (Wick, 1862-67). — {Disrup
tion Worthies of the Highlands (portrait),
137-44.]
WILLIAM LILLIE, born New Pitsligo,
1844 13tl1 °Ct- 1801' S°n °f Jolln L'' feUar'
Crossgight ; educated at King's Col
lege, Aberdeen ; M.A. (March 1820) ; school
master at Ellon in 1824 ; licen. by Presb. of
Ellon 4th April 1827; Murray Lecturer,
Aberdeen, 1828-9; ord. 14th Feb. 1844;
D.D. (Aberdeen, 21st Nov. 1857); died at
Lybster 1st Oct. 1875. He marr. 5th April
1831, Isabel (died llth Dec. 1858, aged 51),
daugh. of Thomas Milne, Ellon, and had
issue — William, born 22nd Jan. 1832,
died at Greenland 1st April 1852; Ann,
born 30th July 1833, died 5th Sept. 1838;
Sophia, born 4th May 1835, died 30th June
1836 ; Thomas, born 3rd Nov. 1836, died at
San Francisco 15th March 1893; John,
born 15th Aug. 1838, died in California,
1878; Alexander, born 12th July 1840,
died 27th May 1875; James, min. of
Castle Douglas, afterwards Indian chaplain
(q.v.), born 24th April 1842, died at sea
30th Aug. 1891 ; Eobert Innes, Honolulu,
born 15th Feb. 1845 ; Mary Jane, born
22nd Dec. 1847 (marr. James Mowat,
Lybster), died 16th May 1916; George,
inspector of poor, Latheron, born 5th Dec.
1849 ; Adamina, born 4th Nov. 1851, died
5th March 1852; David, born 19th Oct
1854, min. of Watten . Publications — Lectern
on the Reasonableness of Christianity (Aber
deen, 1830) ; The Fireside ; A Homily for
Single and Married (Wick, 1863) ; Letter
o Members and Adherents of Wick Parish
Church (Wick, 1866); The Alternate:
National Religion or National Ruin (Wick,
1871). Editor of Aberdeen Magazine.
ALEXANDER CLARK, born 1832, fifth
1876
educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A.
(1856); ord. missionary to Gyah, India,
1859 ; afterwards of Madras ; dem. in 1873 ;
adm. to this parish 9th March 1876; res.
his status as a min. 26th Oct. 1900; died
at Glasgow 27th Nov. 1908. He marr.
15th Feb. 1870, Gertrude Eliza Anstey
(died 21st May 1895), and had issue —
Eliza Gertrude, born 1st Jan. 1871 ; George
Alexander, born llth Aug. 1873; Edith
Julia Aird, born 7th Sept. 1874, died at
Kilsyth 18th Aug. 1925; Helen Maria,
born 16th April 1879; Edward Anstey
(twin), born 16th April 1879, died 24th
July 1894 ; Mary Louisa, born 24th Dec.
1881 ; Julia Stuart, born 15th April 1887.
Publications — The Church of Scotland, an
address (Wick, 1885); Molecular Forces
and Newtonian Laws (Glasgow, 1905).
JOHN M'AUSLAND DICKIE, M.A.,
B.D. ; ord. 3rd May 1901; trans.
' to New Parish, Rothesay, 18th May
1911.
GUY STEEL PEEBLES, M.A., B.D. ;
trans, from South Parish, Aberdeen,
and adm. 8th Sept. 1911 ; trans, to
Uddingston 4th July 1918.
JOHN M'DOUGALL, born Glasgow,
1918 7th Oct. 1887, son of John M. and
Agnes Keir ; educated at Abbotsford
School, Bellahouston Academy, and Univ.
of Glasgow; M.A. (1909), B.D. (1913);
licen. by Presb. of Paisley May 1913;
missionary at Giffnock March that year to
Dec. 1914; assistant at Shettleston Jan.
1915 ; ord. to Cross and Burness 21st July
that year; trans, and adm. llth Dec. 1918.
Marr. 10th Oct. 1916, Rose Adelaide,
daugh. of John Sullivan, London, and
Ann Bailey, and has issue — Margaret
Adelaide, born 19th Sept. 1919. Publica
tion — The Modern Conflict (Light from
the Epistle of St James} (London, 1922).
SYNOD OF GLENELG
THE Synod of Glenelg was disjoined from that of Argyll and erected by the
General Assembly 19th May 1724. The Kegister begins 7th July 1725.
The Synod now meets at Kyle of Lochalsh.
PRESBYTERY OF LOCHCARRON
[This Presbytery was erected by the General Assembly on 19th May 1724 as the
Presbytery of Gairloch. The name was changed to that of Lochcarron 5th June 1775.
The Eegister begins 13th Aug. 1724, but there is a blank from 14th Aug. 1724 to January
1726. The Presbytery of Kinlochewe is mentioned llth April 1671. Its bounds may
have been nearly the same, but none of its records are known to be in existence. All the
parishes now included in the present Presbytery, with the exception of Glenelg, which
was in the Presbytery of Lorn, belonged in the seventeenth century to the Presbytery
of Dingwall.]
his hearers." He died 15th Jan. 1760. He
marr. 28th Sept. 1743, May Macleod, who
survived him, and had issue — Donald, born
29th Sept. 1745 ; Marion, born 30th Aug.
1746, died llth Dec. 1747 ; Katherine, born
17th March 1748; Ebenezer, born 30th April
1749, died young ; Murdo, born 19th May
1750; Marion, born 25th July 1751 ; Janet
born 28th June 1752 ; Donald, born 17tb
May 1754 ; Ebenezer, born 6th July 1755 ;
William, born 28th July 1756 ; John, born
20th Sept. 1757 ; ^Eneas, born 10th Dec.
1759.
COLIN M'FARQUHAR,bornKillearnan
about 1733 ; educated at Marischal
College, Aberdeen, 1749-53; licen.
by Presb. of Chanonry in 1756 ; ord. to Fort
Augustus in 1759; called 25th Dec. 1760;
adm. 1st April 1761. He petitioned the
Presb. 6th April 1774, for leave to go to
America to fix a settlement there for him
self and others who wished to emigrate.
The Presb. agreed to his request, "com
mending his public spirit and enterprising
turn." They further put on record that,
APPLECROSS OR ABERCROSSAN,
OF OLD COMARAICH.
[The church of Applecross was dedicated
to St Malrubh. It was a commune kirk
of the Cathedral of Ross. The great
monastery of Applecross was founded in
673 by St Malrubh, who remained its
first abbot until his death in 722. Apple-
cross was long a great resort of pilgrims.
On 30th Dec. 1726, the lands of Torridon
and Kishorn were taken from the parish
of Lochcarron and added to Applecross.]
MURDO JOHNSTON, reader from
1574 to 1578; min. in 1579; still
min. in 1590.— [Orig. Paroch. Scot.,
ii., 404.]
AENEAS MACAULAY, born 1704, son
of Daniel M., min. of Bracadale ;
called by the Presb. jure devoluto 4th
Nov. 1730 and adm. 17th Feb. 1731. He
displeased the Synod of Glenelg in 1759
by some improper and obscure expressions
used in a sermon and was recommended by
them " not to preach above the capacity of
1761
" since inoculation from smallpox had been
introduced the country had become far
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145
1776
1777
more populous than it was before, and yet
no trade, manufacture, or branch of industry
had opened to employ the supernumerary
hands. They stated that the land rents
all over the Highlands had been raised so
high that to all appearance farming would
become a distressful occupation and poverty
was likely to be considerably on the in
crease." M. having settled in Pennsylvania,
dem. his charge here 17th May 1775.
He marr. 15th May 1764, Betty, daugh. of
Ninian Jeffry, overseer of a manufacturing
station at Lochcarron, and had issue —
Ninian, born 24th April 1765 ; Mary, born
9th Jan. 1767 ; Anne, born 3rd Sept. 1768 ;
Janet, born 3rd Dec. 1772 ; Betty, born 1st
Aug. 1774.
ALEXANDER STRONACH, pres. by
George III. 14th July 1775 ; ord.
(at Lochcarron) 2nd April 1776:
trans, to Lochbroom 31st July 1776.
JOHN MACQUEEN, born 1750, son of
Donald M., min. of Kilmuir, Skye ;
educated at King's College, Aber
deen ; licen. by Presb. of Skye ; called 1st
Aug., and ord. (at Lochcarron) 13th Aug.
1777 ; declined a presentation to Gairloch
20th March 1802; died 30th July 1831.
He marr. 8th Feb. 1781, Jane (died 6th
March 1847), daugh. of Farquhar Macrae
of Inverinate, and had issue — Jane ;
Donald; John, major 74th Highlanders;
and others. Publication — Account of the
Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., ill.).
RODERICK MACRAE, born Dingwall
1762, son of James M., farmer ; edu
cated at Marischal College, Aberdeen,
1784-8 ; licen. by Presb. of Lochcarron 20th
Sept. 1792 ; became schoolmaster of Loch-
alsh ; ord. 1st July 1793 as missionary at
Applecross, Kinlochewe and Torridon ;
adm. to Shieldaig 21st Aug. 1827 ; pres. by
William IV. 16th Dec. 1831 ; trans, and
adm. 4th April 1832 ; died unmarr. 6th
Nov. 1843. In early manhood he assisted
on his father's farm, in the evenings he
applied himself to diligent reading of the
classics, in which he was greatly aided and
encouraged by Daniel Rose, the parish
schoolmaster. His favourite study in later
life was church history, Professor David
VOL. VII.
Welsh declaring that he had "never met
his equal in the knowledge of the Fathers. "
He was the chief means of procuring the
General Assembly's deliverance in favour
of ministers of parliamentary churches
having representation in ecclesiastical
courts. He took an active part in obtain
ing from the Government an increased
provision for religious instruction in the
Highlands and Islands. Publications —
Accounts of Lochbroom and Applecross
(Sinclair's Stat. Ace., xi., xxii ; New Stat.
Ace., xiv.); An Essay on Miracles (Inver
ness, 1803) ; Observations on a Letter from
the Rev. Thomas Ross, LL.D. [Lochbroom],
regarding the Parliamentary Churches in
the Highlands and Islands (Inverness, 1830).
JOHN REID, pres. by Queen Victoria
18M 4th May, and adm. 25th July 1844 ;
trans, to Barvas 18th Dec. 1856.
RODERICK HAY NICOLSON, born
1857 Stor noway, 1830, fourth son of
Roderick N., merchant and ship
owner ; educated at High School and
Univ. of Glasgow ; ord. to Shieldaig 14th
May 1856 ; pres. by Queen Victoria 7th
Jan., trans, and adm. 8th April 1857 ; dem.
14th June 1876; was afterwards Scottish
chaplain in the Brigade of Guards, London ;
retired and died at Ravenswood, Tighna-
bruaich, 4th May 1907. He marr. 1st Nov.
1860, Ann Mackenzie (died 23rd Feb.
1921), daugh. of James Gibson, min. of
Avoch.
DUNCAN DEWAR, born 1839, son of
John Archibald D. and Christina
Haggart ; educated at Univ. of Edin
burgh ; ord. to Innerwick in Glenlyon 13th
Aug. 1863 ; trans, to Appin 20th Aug. 1868 ;
trans, and adm. 29th Nov. 1876; died
26th Jan. 1916. He marr. 9th Nov. 1871,
Margaret Janet (died s.p. at Dingwall 20th
Oct. 1925, aged 87), daugh. of Charles Gib
son, Pitlochry.
ALEXANDER ERASER, M.A. ; trans.
from Salen and adm. 1st Aug. 1916 ;
' trans, to Glenshiel 21st March 1917.
MALCOLM LAING, M.A. ; ord. 3rd
Sept. 1917; trans, to South Uist
31st March 1926.
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GAIRLOCH
[PKESB. OF
GAIRLOCH.
[The old church of Gairloch stood at
Kinlochewe. It was dedicated to St
Malrubh, and was a commune kirk of the
Cathedral of Ross. Within the bounds
lies Loch Maree, named after the patron
saint of the parish. At Innis Mhalruibh,
an island in the Loch, are the remains of
St Malrubh's chapel, whither pilgrims
came in large numbers to see his relics.]
ALEXANDER MACKENZIE. On
llth Jan. 1582 Letters of Presenta
tion under the Privy Seal were
addressed to John Robertson, commissioner
of the diocese of Ross, in favour of A. M.,
first to make trial of his qualifications, and
if found qualified, to admit him to the
parsonage and vicarage. He was coll. 1st
April 1583 ; is mentioned in a contract of
amity between Kenneth Mackenzie of Kin-
tail and the Bayn.es of Tulloch in 1599
when he was still in this charge.— [Charter
Chest of Gairloch ; Seaforth Papers.]
FARQUHAR MACRAE, was selected
by the Bishop of Ross as "the
properest man to be min. of Gairloch
that he might thereby serve the colony of
English which Sir George Hay of Airdry
afterwards Chancellor of Scotland, kept at
Letterewe making iron and casting cannon.''
In 1610 he went on a mission with Kenneth
Lord Mackenzie of Kintail, to the island of
Lewis, and was translated to Kintail in
1618.— [Dixon's Gairloch, 395.]
FARQUHAR MACKENZIE, educated
at Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (31s1
July 1606) ; adm. in 1608 ; trans, tc
Kintail in 1618.
MURDO M'LENNAN, min. in 1636
app. a Justice of the Peace 2nd Feb
16 that year.-[P. C. Reg., 2nd ser.
vii., 182.]
RODERICK MACKENZIE, third son
of Roderick M. of Knockbackste
* and Giles Bayne ; adm. before 8th
Aug. 1649 ; died March 1710. On 6th Aug
1678 he informed the Presb. that he hac
summoned for that day " Hector Mackenzi
n Mellan in the parish, and John, Murdoch,
nd Duncan, sons, and Kenneth, grandson
o the said Hector, for sacrificing a bull in
ane heathenish manner in the island of
St Ruffus, for the recovering of the health
)f Cristan Mackenzie, spouse to the said
Hector." He marr. (cont. 18th Dec. 1643),
Lsobel,daugh. of Alexander Bayne of Knock -
3ain, and had issue— Kenneth, served heir
21st July 1724; Rory; Murdoch of Kernsary.
—[Hist, of the Mackenzies, 517 ; Case of
Greenshields ; Index of Services ; Dixon's
Gairloch, 65, 411, 416 ; Inverness Sas., iv.
462, v. 605 ; Reg. of Deeds, dxxxiv., 135.]
JOHN MORRISON, trans, from Bole-
skine. A call in his favour by
several heritors was given in to
the Presb. Nov. 1710. His translation to
Gairloch was agreed to by the Presb. of
Inverness early in Feb. of the following
year. The united Presb. of Dingwall
and Chanonry, in whose bounds Gairloch
was then situated, appointed Thomas
Chisholm, Kilmorack, to serve the edict,
but access to the church of Gairloch was
denied him. He reported to the Presb.
that after he had come near the church
he was seized upon by a party of men and
carried back six miles to Kinlochewe, where
he was detained a prisoner. He, however,
contrived to read the edict before six or
seven persons in a house there, Kinlochewe
being one of the preaching places of the
parish. The admission of M. took place
at Kiltearn 1st March 1711, largely no
doubt from fear of facing the Gairloch
rabble, but ostensibly on account of the
great distance from the parish and the
inclemency of the weather. At a meeting
of the Presb. on 4th April, M. reported that
he could find no access to his parish. He
wras then sent to supply vacancies in the
bounds of Sutherland. A complaint was
made to the General Assembly, and the
Lord Advocate was recommended to raise
criminal letters against Sir John Mac
kenzie of Coull and his tenants in Gairloch
in order to prosecute them for the " mal
treatment given by them to John Morrison
and Thomas Chisholm in their bounds."
Mackenzie's brother Colin now gave
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147
an undertaking that Sir John Mackenzie
would "give all countenance in planting
vacancies in the bounds wherein lie is
concerned," but when a deputation from
the Presb. waited on him and chased him
from house to house, he insolently threw
down the document they handed to him
and left them, saying he would have nothing
to do with the Presb. of Dingwall. M. now
reported that, " after two days' sojourn in
going to preach, he was interrupted at
Kinlochewe by the tenants of Sir John
Mackenzie of Coull, who laid violent hands
on him and his servant, rent his clothes,
made prisoners of them, and kept them
three days under guard in a cottage full of
cattle and dung, without meat or bedding
the first two days, the tenants relieving one
another in turn by a fresh supply every
day. When the fifth day came, he was
carried to Sir John's house, who declared
"no Presbyterian should be settled in any
place where his influence extended, unless
Her Majesty's forces did it by the strong
hand." On 23rd Oct. 1711 he gave to the
Presb. a representation of his grievances,
requesting an act of transportation, and
stated, 12th Nov., " that having no glebe,
manse, or legal maintenance, he was obliged
to take a tack of land, and that for three
or four years successively his crops were
destroyed by cattle ; that, in the time of
the Rebellion, the best of his cattle were
taken away by the rebels, and very lately
his house plundered of all provisions to the
value of 400 merks." His request was
granted, and he was trans, to Urray 14th
Nov. 1716.— [Acts of Ass., 1711; Wodrow's
Corresp., i., 216.]
JAMES SMITH, called by the Presb.
1721 Jure devoluto 25th April and ord.
(at Dingwall) llth May 1721. On
petitioning the Assembly a sum of £1000
was allowed him, and the heritors provided
a manse, garden, and glebe. He was a man
of energy, and effected much in the way of
reforming the morals of the people and
spreading religion among them. In 1725
he had a missionary catechist at work, and
he established a presbyterial library ; trans,
to Creich, Sutherland, 29th April 1731.
AENEAS MACAULAY, born 1704;
,» educated at King's College, Aber-
' deen ; M.A. (31st March 1726); called
in 1731 ; ord. 7th June 1732 ; died 1st Feb.
1758. He marr. 30th Jan. 1747, Lilias
(died 25th Feb. 1789), daugh. of John
Mackenzie of Gruinard, and had issue —
Donald, born 6th Nov. 1747, died 27th
Sept. 1748; Donald, born Feb. 1749;
Alexander, born March 1752 ; Katherine,
born April 1753.
JOHN DOWNIE, called by the Presb.
jure devoluto 23rd Aug., and ord.
27th Sept. 1758 ; trans, to Stornoway
22nd July 1773. Pennant, in the course of
his Tour in 1772, visited Gairloch and
stayed a night with D., of whom he speaks
in high terms.
DANIEL MACKINTOSH, born 1735,
177g educated at King's College, Aber
deen, 1749-53 ; missionary in Strath-
glass ; pres. by George III. in July, and
adm. 28th Oct. 1773; died 8th Jan. 1802.
He was greatly assisted in his parochial
work by Sir Hector Mackenzie of Gairloch,
Bart., and his wife. He marr. 3rd June
1775, Katherine (died 24th March 1802),
daugh. of William Mackenzie of Gruinard,
and had issue— Lilias, born 21st July 1777 ;
Annabella, born 20th Oct. 1779 (marr.
Murdoch Macrae, Shiel House) ; Christian,
born 17th July 1781 (marr. George Mac
kenzie) ; Simona, born 12th April 1783 ;
William, born 27th March 1785 ; Alexand-
rina, born 10th July 1786 (marr. 22nd Sept.
1807, John Elder, merchant, Glasgow).
Publication— Account of the Parish (Sin
clair's Stat. Ace., iii.).— [Dixon's Gairloch,
68, 417 ; Hist, of the Mackenzies, 618.]
[JOHN MACQUEEN, min. of Apple-
cross; pres. by George III. 20th
' March 1802, but declined accept
ance.]
JAMES RUSSELL, born 12th Feb.
1761, son of James R., tacksman
of Cotes of Innes and Cardon, and
factor for the Earl of Fife; educated
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[PRESB. OF
at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (15th
Jan. 1787); licen. by Presb. of Dingwall
21st Sept. 1796 ; pres. by George III. 12th
May, and ord. 16th Sept. 1802. Objection
was made to the appointment on account
of his imperfect knowledge of Gaelic, which
had not been his native tongue. Many
ludicrous mistakes made by him both in
the pulpit and out of it are still repeated
among the people. In 1825, the Presb.,
having instructed him to deal with one of
his parishioners charged with immorality,
and finding that he was too remiss in
dealing with the case, suspended him from
the office of the ministry. On appeal to
the General Assembly he was reinstated,
and the Presb. were admonished to exercise
its jurisdiction over the brethren "with
prudence, forbearance, and brotherly kind
ness." He died 12th Jan. 1844. He marr.
llth Jan. 1811, Isabella Munro (died 23rd
April 1853), daugh. of Alexander Fraser
of Bught, shipowner, Inverness, and had
issue— Annabella, born 8th Dec. 1811 (marr.
llth Aug. 1830, Colonel Roderick Matheson,
Perth, Canada), died 10th Nov. 1854 ; Eliza
Jean, born 29th March 1813 (marr. 28th
Nov. 1832, Alexander Allan, Evanton), died
2nd June 1886 ; Alexander Fraser Russell,
born 24th Oct. 1814 [educated at King's
College, Aberdeen; M.A. (March 1831);
licen. by Presb. of Lochcarron in 1835 ;
assistant to his father, 1836-43. joined the
Free Church in 1843 ; ord. min. of Kil-
modan and South Hall Free Church 5th
Dec. 1844 ; died 10th Nov. 1892. He marr.
2nd July 1845, Madeline Rose (born
7th May 1815, died 3rd April 1899),
eldest daugh. of Donald Munro, excise
officer, Skye, and had issue— Sir James
Alexander Russell, M.D., Lord Provost of
Edinburgh]; Jessie, born 21st Nov. 1816
(marr. Donald Macrae, min. of Poolewe);
James, born 16th April 1818, drowned at
Hamilton, Ontario, 22nd Nov. 1854 ; John,
writer, Inverness, born 23rd Nov. 1820,
died 3rd Nov. 1850 ; William Fraser, born
28th Sept. 1822, died at Rothesay, 18th
March 1897. Publication — Gaelic Sch.
fieport.—[Dixoris Gairloch, 68, 114, 118.
(Information from D. K. C. Russell, C.E.,
grandson.)]
JOHN CAMPBELL, pres. by Queen
Victoria 5th March 1844 ; ord. 24th
' Sept. 1845; dep. by the General
Assembly 3rd June 1850 [afterwards
reponed and adm. min. of lona in 1876
DUNCAN SIMON MACKENZIE,
born 19th Sept. 1827, son of John
' M., min. of Resolis ; educated at
King's College, Aberdeen, 1846-50; licen.
by Presb. of Chanonry ; ord. to Kinloch-
luichart 30th Aug. 1849 ; pres. by Queen
Victoria 10th July, trans, and adm. 26th
Sept. 1850 ; died at Inverness, 31st Dec.
1908. He marr. llth Oct. 1853, Catherine
Mary (died 25th June 1910), daugh. of
William Brown, D.D., Professor of Divinity,
St Andrews, and had issue— John Alexander,
M.D., born 28th Aug. 1854, died at Bombay,
25th Sept. 1904; William Brown, born 22nd
June 1856 ; Elsie Innes, born 3rd July
1858 ; Roderick Ninian, born 16th Dec.
1860 ; Colin, born 8th April 1862, died 7th
Nov. 1893; Mary Jane, born 26th Aug.
1864.
DUGALD MACLEAN, trans, from
Hylipol and adm. (assistant and
successor) 16th May 1906 ; trans, to
Alvie 15th Jan. 1914.
DONALD MACLEOD, born Achilti-
buie, Coigach, 20th Jan. 1868, son
of John M. and Margaret Matheson ;
educated at Raining's School, Inverness,
Grammar School and Univ. of Aberdeen ;
licen. by Presb. of Lochcarron 27th April
1898; assistant at Kilmonivaig that year
and at Duthil in 1900 ; ord. to Lybster 24th
April 1901; trans, to Glencoe 27th Aug.
1908; trans, and adm. 13th May 1914.
Marr. 14th April 1905, Amelia, daugh. of
John Gunn and Anne Gunn, and has issue
_ Margaret Florence, born 7th Feb. 1907 ;
John Gunn, born 9th March 1908 ; Donald
Alexander, born 6th July 1910; Anne
Cameron, born 6th May 1913 ; Marjory
Mackenzie, born 27th July 1914 ; Roderick,
born 19th May 1917; William Campbell,
born 28th May 1918; Amilius J., born
19th Dec. 1920.
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GLENELG.
[The church of Glenelg was dedicated
to St Cuimen. On 1st May 1650 this
parish was severed from the Presb. of
Lorn and incorporated in that of Skye.
This arrangement lasted but a short time,
and Glenelg was given back to the Presb.
of Lorn. On 19th May 1724 the Presb. of
Gairloch, now called Lochcarron, and the
Synod of Glenelg were both erected. To
these new Courts this parish was then
joined. Glenelg was at the same time
made the seat of the Synod. There are
mission chapels within the bounds at
Arnisdale and Lochhournhead.]
ALAN CLERK, educated at Univ. of
St Andrews; M.A. (llth May 1637) ;
pres. by John Macleod of Dunvegan ;
ord. before 6th May 1641. He was enjoined
by the Synod, 26th May 1642, to serve
Knoydart, and was allowed that benefice
pro tempore. He petitioned the Synod,
10th Oct.' 1649, to have his parish united
to Presb. of Skye, which was granted at
next meeting of Synod. He was exempted
by the Synod in 1670 from attending
meetings of Presb. during winter, and
app. 7th June 1671 "to keep them once
a year." The Synod in 1680 enjoined him
to attend twice at Kilmore. He probably
died before 1689, when the parish was
vacant. He marr. a daugh. of Murdoch
Mackenzie of Pitglassie. — {Hist, of the
Mackenzies, 508.]
ALLAN MACLENNAN, called min. in
1665 and 1688. He marr. and had
1665 issue— Rorie ; Donald, min. of Fearn ;
Isobel (marr. Donald Macleod of the Gesto
family).
JOHN MORRISON, ord. Sept. 1699;
1699 trans, to Boleskine 3rd Dec. 1706.
MURDOCH MACLEOD, born about
1678; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen; M.A. (4th July 1695);
licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen 22nd Sept.
1703 ; ord. 12th Sept. 1707 ; dem. from
old age and infirmity, 29th May 1755, but
was afterwards dep. by the Presb. for
immorality on his own written confession
1756
3rd Oct. that year. He marr. (1) 13th
March 1723, Marion Macleod, who died
Aug. 1749, and had issue— Isobel ; John ;
Mary: (2) 8th Sept. 1757, Mary Mac-
donald, who died 15th June 1761, and had
issue — Norman. — [Isles Tests., vi., 222.]
MARTIN MACPHERSON, missionary
751 at Badenoch and Lochaber; called
4th Nov., and adm. (assistant and
successor) 18th Dec. 1751 ; trans, to
Golspie 1st May 1754.
DONALD MACLEOD, born about
1729 ; schoolmaster of Sleat ; licen.
by Presb. of Skye 16th Jan. 1754 ;
pres. by Norman Macleod of Macleod in
1755; ord. 6th May 1756; died llth July
1781. He marr. 3rd Nov. 1761, Margaret
(died 10th May 1825), daugh. of John
Beaton, min. of Glenshiel, and had issue —
Christina, born 16th Aug. 1762; John,
min. of Lerwick, born 30th Nov. 1763;
Anne, born 20th Dec. 1764 ; Roderick, born
19th May 1766 ; Peggie, born 20th June
1767; Donald, born 10th Sept. 1769;
Anne, born 28th Aug. 1771 ; Norman,
born 28th Feb. 1776 ; Catherine, born 12th
April 1778; Alexander, born 7th Nov.
1779. Publications— Two Letters (Treatises
on the Second Sight) ; Letter to Dr Blair
on the Ossianic Controversy (1764). —
[Miscell. Scot., iii.]
COLIN MACIVER, born 1759, son of
John M., merchant, Stornoway ;
1782 educated at King's College, Aber
deen ; M.A. (30th March 1779); licen. by
Presb. of Lochcarron 22nd Nov. 1781 ;
pres. by the commissioner .for Norman
Macleod of Macleod Dec. that year ; ord.
27th March 1782; died 16th Dec. 1829.
He marr. 2nd Jan. 1785, Anne (died 19th
May 1833), second daugh. of Donald Mac
leod of Drynoch, and had issue— Janet,
born 8th Oct. 1786, died 1865; Donald,
born 4th Jan. 1787, died young; Mar
garet, born 17th Dec. 1787, died 1873;
John, min. of Kilmuir, born 27th Dec.
1788; Donald, lieut. 70th Foot, born 1st
June 1790, died 1844; Norman Macleod,
lieut. 8th West Indian Regiment, born 7th
Sept. 1792; Mary, born 21st April 1794
(marr. Eweu Cameron, Tallisker) ; George
150
GLENELG— GLENSHIEL
[PRESB. OF
Evander, captain 42nd Highlanders, born
23rd July 1795, died 1847 ; Alexander, min.
of Dornoch ; Colin, planter in India, died
1837 ; Katherine (marr. Farquhar Robertson
of Scalasaig) ; Alexandrina (marr. Lachlan
Chisholra in Queensland). Publication-
Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat.
Ace., xvi.).
ALEXANDER BE IT H, trans, from
Kilbrandon ; pres. by Charles Grant
1880 of Glenelg in June, and adm. 24th
Sept. 1830; trans, to Stirling 26th Sept.1839.
JOHN MACRAE, born 22nd Nov. 1799,
son of John M., min. of Glenshiel ;
1840 educated at King's College, Aberdeen,
1814-18 ; ord. to Glenshiel 8th April 1824 ;
trans, and adm. 27th Feb. 1840; clerk of
Presb. of Lochcarron 1836-75, and of Synod
of Glenelg 1854-75; died 7th July 1875.
He marr. 1st March 1826, Jamesina Eraser
(died 27th July 1851), daugh. of Norman
Macleod of Drynoch, and had issue—
Alexandrina Jessie, born 4th June 1827
(marr. 4th Feb. 1847, Hugh Bogle, mer
chant, Glasgow); Forbes Johanna, born
15th April 1829; John Kenneth, deputy
commissioner of Rangoon, born 17th April
1831; Madeline Charlotte, born 1st Feb.
1835 (marr. Colin Campbell, min. of Lyne
and Megget); Catherine Christina, born
5th Nov. 1838, died at Edinburgh llth
Jan. 1919 ; James Norman, missionary at
Madras, born 25th Dec. 1842. Publication
— Account of the Parish (New Stat. Ace.,
xiv.).—[Hist. of the Macleods, 226 ; Hist, of
the Macraes, 107.]
JAMES MACDONALD, born Perth
shire, 1825, son of Peter M., farmer,
1876 and Janet Scrimgeour ; educated at
Univ. of Edinburgh ; ord. to Knock in 1861 ;
dem. 20th June 1864 ; app. to Fort Augustus
Mission in 1868; adm. to' Oban llth Nov.
1869; trans, and adm. 1st Feb. 1876; died
28th April 1890. He marr. 20th Aug. 1868,
Isabella (died 22nd Oct. 1900), daugh. of
John Macrae, min. of Stornoway, and had
issue _ Patrick, M.A. (Aberdeen 1900),
M.B., C.M. (1894), Acomb, Yorkshire, born
16th April 1870 ; John Macrae, physician,
born 20th May 1872 ; Elizabeth, born 26th
Dec. 1873 (marr. Lyon Scott, banker, India).
ALEXANDER MACTAGGART, born
Bowmore, Islay, 27th Oct. 1864, son
) of Archibald M. and Betsy Macnab ;
educated at Bowmore School, Royal High
School, and Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A.
(1886) ; Keen, by Presb. of Islay 15th May
1889 ; missionary at Knoydart June to
Sept. 1889, and Kilbride Mission, Kilfinan,
Oct. 1889 to Sept. 1890 ; ord. 25th Sept.
1890 ; app. clerk of Presb. in 1897, and of
Synod of Glenelg in 1911. Marr. 17th
Dec. 1896, Mary, daugh. of John Robertson,
Boharm, and Jane Sellar, and has issue-
Murdoch Islay, tea-planter in India, born
12th Oct. 1897 ; Alastair Archibald Ian,
sheep-farmer in Argentine, born 4th July
1901 ; Elizabeth Jane Flora, born Nov.
1905.
GLENSHIEL.
[The parish of Glenshiel was disjoined
from Kintail by the Lords Commissioners
of Teinds on 30th Dec. 1826. At Cill
Chaonteart in Glenshiel there stood of old
a chapel of St Kentigerna. At Cill Irch-
aird also there was a chapel of St Irchard.]
JOHN BEATON [or BETHUNE],
eldest son. of Angus B. of Dounel-
1780 riach and Florence Macleod of Gesto
family ; educated at Marischal College in
1713, and King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A.
(1723) ; licen. by Presb. of Kincardine
O'Neil 17th Sept. 1729 ; called by the Presb.
jure devoluto 8th April, and ord. (at Loch-
alsh) 16th June 1730; died at Alness,
20th Aug. 1781. He marr. 18th Jan.
1739, Christian (died 6th Feb. 1759), eldest
daugh. of Donald Macleod, min. of Loch-
alsh, and had issue— Margaret, born 22nd
Feb. 1741 (marr. Donald Macleod, min.
of Glenelg) ; Angus, min. of Alness, born
27th June 1742 ; Norman, born 12th
Oct. 1743, died 4th Nov. 1744; Duncan,
born 6th Jan. 1745, died 4th Jan. 1746;
Colin, born 28th Feb. 1746; Jean, born
25th April 1748, died 15th June 1749;
Patrick, born 17th April 1750, died 18th
Feb. 1753; Flora, born 27th Feb. 1752;
Anne, born 10th Dec. 1756, died 27th
Dec. 1759 ; John, min. of Dornoch.— [MS.
Geneal. of the Bethunes, 29.]
LOCHCAKRON]
GLENSHIEL— KINTAIL
151
JOHN MACRAE, born Boss-shire,
777 1748; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen ; M.A. (31st March 1772) ;
pres. by George III. 14th April, and ord.
(assistant and successor) 16th Dec. 1777 ;
died llth May 1823. He marr. 27th June
1782, Madeline (died 21st Jan. 1837), daugh.
of Farquhar Macrae of Inverinate, and had
issue— Alexander, born 29th June 1783,
died 29th May 1784; Mary, born 15th
March 1785 (marr. Donald Munro), died
1844 ; Isobel, born 15th May 1786 (marr.
John Campbell, farmer, Duntulm), died
1849 ; Beatrice, born 5th April 1790
(marr. Alexander Campbell, min. of Croy);
Farquhar, born 27th May 1792, died 27th
April 1793; Anne, born 14th May 1794,
died 12th April 1795 ; Duncan, born 16th
April 1796, died in Florida; Christina,
born 19th Sept. 1797 (marr. Farquhar
Macrae, lieut. 78th Foot) ; John, min. of
Glenelg, born 22nd Nov. 1799 ; Kenneth,
born 20tb Nov. 1802, died in Florida;
Florence (marr. Duncan Macrae). — [Hist,
of the Macraes, 105.]
JOHN MACBAE, son of preceding;
pres. by George IV. 10th July 1823 ;
ord. 8th April 1824; trans, to
Glenelg 27th Feb. 1840.
FABQUHAB MACIVEB, born
Boss-shire, 1792, son of John M.,
J schoolmaster, and Margaret Kemp ;
educated at King's College, Aberdeen ;
M.A. (31st July 1815) ; app. missionary at
Glenmoriston in 1828 ; pres. by Queen
Victoria 5th May, and adm. 28th Sept.
1840 ; died 20th Sept. 1863. He marr. 12th
June 1844, Lillias (died 19th Aug. 1877),
daugh. of Boderick Mori son, min. of Kintail.
ALEXANDEB MATHIESON, born
1833, son of Farquhar M., farmer,
1864 and Catherine Mathieson ; educated
at Univ. of Edinburgh ; pres. by Queen
Victoria 25th Nov. 1863 ; ord. 3rd May
1864; clerk of Presb., 1875-90; died
unmarr. 3rd Jan. 1890.
DUNCAN MACBAE, born Glenshiel,
1837, son of Duncan M., farmer,
Liachachan, and Mary Maclennan ;
ord. to Skipness, Kintyre, 30th June 1880
trans, and adm. 9th June 1891 ; died
unmarr. 13th Aug. 1916.
ALEXANDEB FBASEB, born Strath-
peffer, llth Nov. 1863, son of Alex,
ander F., Achnadarroch, Lochalsh,
and Catherine Macdonald ; educated at
Plockton School, Grammar School, Aber
deen, and Univs. of Glasgow and Princeton,
U.S.A., M.A. (1897); licen. by Presb. of
Toronto 10th June 1897 ; ord. to Mosa,
Ontario, 7th July that year ; adm. min. of
United Free Church, Strath, 1903; adm.
to Small Isles 9th June 1909; trans, to
Salen llth July 1911; trans, to Apple-
cross 1st Aug. 1916 ; trans, and adm. 21st
March 1917.
KINTAIL,
on CILL DHUTHAICH.
[The church of Kintail was dedicated to
St Duthac. It was a commune kirk of
the Cathedral of Boss. Within the bounds
were a chapel of St Fillan at Gill Fhaolain,
and a chapel of St Donan at Eilean
Dhonain, near the head of Loch Alsh. At
Dornie, in this parish, there is a mission
chapel.
The parish is known as Cro-Chinntaile.]
JOHN MUBCHISON, a Bomish priest
who conformed at, or soon after, the
Beforrnation, and became reader in
this parish ; pres. to the parsonage and
vicarage 25th Nov. 1574. There is a
contract between him and Kenneth Mac
kenzie of Kintail in 1597. He marr. Janet
Grant, and had issue — Murdoch, min. of
this parish. — [Cromartie Muniments.]
DONALD MUBCHISON, pres. to the
parsonage and vicarage 16th Dec.
1 1582.
MUBDOCH MUBCHISON of Ochter-
tyre, son of John M., min. of this
parish ; pres. to the vicarage of
Lochalsh 19th July 1582 ; trans, and adm.
before 1614; died in 1618. He was
Constable of Eilean - Donan Castle for
152
KINTAIL
[PRESB. OF
Mackenzie of Kintail. He marr. and had
issue — Mary (marr. Murdoch Mackenzie
of Hilton); a daugh. (marr. William,
son of John Mackenzie of Gairloch) ;
a daugh. (marr. Christopher Macrae). —
[Douglas's Baronage, 395 ; Hist, of the
MacTcenzies, 418.]
FARQUHAR MACRAE, born 1580, son
of Christopher M., Constable of
J Eilean-Donan Castle; educated at
Grammar School, Perth, and Univ. of
Edinburgh, where he greatly distinguished
himself; was master of the Grammar
School of Fortrose for fifteen months. In
1610 he went on a mission with Kenneth,
Lord Mackenzie of Kintail, to Macleod of
Lewis, where he remained for some time
organising Church services ; adm. to Gair
loch in 1608 ; trans, and adm. in 1618, and
became Constable of Eilean-Donan at same
time. Many suggested that he had become
too secular, but he was reckoned "a sound,
eloquent, and grave preacher." Bishop
Maxwell of Ross said of him that he was
"a man of great gifts but unfortunately
lost in the Highlands." He died Jan. 1662.
He marr. 1st Dec. 1611, Christian, daugh.
of Duncan M'Culloch of Park, and had
issue— Alexander of Inverinate ; John, min.
of Dingwall ; Donald, min. of this parish ;
Miles; Murdoch; Christopher; Thomas;
Isabel (marr. (1) Malcolm Macrae, killed
at the Battle of Auldearn : (2) William
Mackenzie) ; Helen.— [Hist, of the Macraes,
52 ; Inq. Ret. Gen., 7747-9.]
DONALD MACRAE, son of preceding;
adm. to Urray before 21st Jan. 1645 ;
1656 pres. by the Presb. 24th June, trans.
and adm. (assistant and successor) 20th
July 1656 ; died about 1681. He marr.
Isobel, daugh. of Murdoch Mackenzie of
Hilton, and had issue— Alexander, tacks-
man of Druidaig; John; Colin; Mary
(marr. John Matheson of Bennetsfield). —
[Hist, of the Macraes, 160; Douglas's
Baronage, 395.]
DONALD MACLENNAN, adm.
(probably assistant) after 21st July
1674 1674.
DONALD MACRAE, born about 1656,
fourth son of Alexander M. of Inver-
1681 inate and Mary Mackenzie ; became
schoolmaster of Fortrose ; adm. prior to
7th July 1681 ; still in the charge in 1716,
though he refused to conform to Presby-
terianism. An ardent Jacobite, he and
his family took a prominent part in the
Jacobite Rising of 1715, and also in
the Attempt of 1719, which resulted in
the defeat of the Jacobites under Seaforth
at Glenshiel. His church was burned
down by the crew of one of the ships of
war which sailed into Loch Duich at that
time. He died shortly afterwards. He
marr. Catherine, daugh. of John Grant of
Glenmoriston, and had issue — Alexander,
lived at Ruroch in Kintail ; John, died
1741 ; Duncan ; Colin, killed at Sheriff-
muir in 1716 ; Christopher, killed at
Sheriffmuir ; John Og, joined the Roman
Catholic Mission in Kintail ; Mary ; Isa
bella (marr. John Macrae of Conchra);
Katherine (marr. Donald Macrae of Torly-
sich) ; Christina (marr. Donald Macrae of
Morvich). — [Hist, of the Macraes, 76.]
JOHN MACLEAN, educated at
Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1714;
1780 called by the Presb. jure devoluto
8th April, and ord. (at Lochalsh) 16th
June 1730. After the Battle of Culloden,
the Hanoverian troops under Lord George
Sackville entered the parish, driving cattle
and plundering. To protect his parishioners,
then loyal subjects, the minister appeared
before him, but from the simplicity of his
dress Sackville took him for an impostor,
drew a loaded pistol and ordered him to
bring his library forthwith. This M. did
and brought a volume of Poole's Annota
tions, which was deemed satisfactory. He
died 3rd Feb. 1774. He marr. 10th Sept.
1734, Sybilla (died 8th Dec. 1747), daugh.
of Roderick Mackenzie of Applecross, and
had issue— Alexander, born 7th Feb. 1739 :
Evan, born 25th March 1740; Kenneth,
born 6th Oct. 1742 ; Anne, born 22nd Dec.
1743; John, born 13th Aug. 1745, died
1746 ; Margaret, born 2nd June 1747, died
26th March 1755.— [Douglas's Baronage,
403.]
LOCIICARRON]
KINTAIL
153
DONALD MACLENNAN, pres. by
George III. 31st Jan., and ord.
1774 21st Sept. 1774 ; died 4th July
1780.
RODERICK MORRISON, born 1750,
a native of Strathglass ; educated
1781 at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A.
(1773); became schoolmaster of Killearnan;
licen. by Presb. of Chanonry 13th May
1777 ; ord. as missionary at Strathglass
23rd Sept. 1778 ; pres. by the Presb. jure
devohito 18th Jan., and adm. 2nd May
1781 ; died 14th April 1826. He marr. 27th
May 1786, Jean (died 29th Jan. 1830), third
daugh. of Colonel Alexander Eraser of Cul-
duthil, and had issue— Alexander, lieut.
78th Highlanders, born 24th April 1787,
died in the island of Java, 29th July 1812 ;
Mary, born IGth Nov. 1788 (marr. Alex
ander Mackenzie of Kernsary); William,
born 10th Aug. 1790, died in Demerara,
15th May 1814 ; Millicent, born 25th May
1792, died 3rd March 1879; Grizell, born
16th April 1796, died 9th Jan. 1881; James,
min. of this parish ; Lillias, born 7th June
1801 (marr. Farquhar Macrae, min. of
Glenshiel); Roderick, farmer, Aigas, born
14th May 1804, died 6th May 1870. Publi
cation — Account of the Parish (Sinclair's
Stat. Ace., vi.).
JAMES MORRISON, born 24th May
1798, son of preceding ; educated
1825 at King's College, Aberdeen, M.A.
(March 1817), and Univ. of Edinburgh ;
licen. by Presb. of Lochcarron 4th April
1822; pres. by George IV. in Jan., and
ord. (assistant and successor) 5th May 1825;
died 19th Jan. 1882. He marr. 27th Sept.
1838, Johanna, daugh. of Lachlan Mac-
kinnon of Letterfearn, and had issue-
Roderick, min. of this parish ; Anne
Catherine, born 3rd Sept. 1842 (marr.
William Dick), died llth March 1916;
Alexander William, born 14th Aug. 1844,
died 4th Jan. 1851 ; Jane Eraser, born
20th March 1847, died unmarr. Publica
tion — Account of the Parish (Neio Stat.
Ace.., xiv.).
RODERICK MORRISON, born 31st
1878 July 1839' son of Precedin&; edu"
cated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; ord.
to Bracadale 18th Feb. 1864; trans, to
Tarbert 17th Dec. 1874 ; trans, and adm.
(assistant and successor) 14th March 1878 ;
clerk of Presb. 1890-7; died llth June
1897. [The Morrisons were thus ministers
of the parish for 116 years.] He marr. 7th
Sept. 1886, Janet (died 25th Dec. 1916),
daugh. of Joseph Alexander, Broxburn
Hall, West Lothian.
RODERICK MACKENZIE, min. of
Free Presbyterian Church, Portree ;
J adm. 9th March 1898; trans, to
Glenurquhart 26th Nov. 1908.
1909
PETER JOHN MACIVER, ord. 17th
March 1909; trans, to Orphir 13th
Oct. 1916.
JOHN MACCALLUM, trans, from
Assynt 10th May 1917; trans, to
St Kiaran's, Glasgow, 2nd Dec. 1919 ;
trans, to Dores llth April 1924.
DUNCAN MACRAE MACLENNAN,
born Kingussie, 4th May 1860, son
1920 of Alexander M. and Helen Macrae ;
educated at Kingussie School, Royal High
School and Univ. of Edinburgh, M.A,
(1880), and New College, Edinburgh ; licen.
by Free Church Presb. of Nairn in 1886 ;
assistant at Nairn and Inverness ; ord. to
Free Church, Glenelg, 7th July 1887 ; dem.
in 1903 and went to New Zealand ; min.
at Waipu, Auckland, 1903-6 ; Chalmers's
Church, Dunedin, 1906-9; Edendale, South
land, 1909-14 ; adm. to Church of Scotland
by the General Assembly in 1915; adm.
24th Sept. 1920. Marr. 29th Jan. 1893,
Isabella Margaret (died at Inverness, 18th
March 1927), daugh. of Donald Mac-
pherson, factor, Eigg, and Mary Macrae,
and has issue —Norman Macpherson, M.D.,
Kenya, born 24th Sept. 1895; Roderick
Diarmid, M.A., licentiate, lecturer in
Philosophy, Univ. of Edinburgh, born 13th
Oct. 1898.
154
KNOYDART— LOCHALSH
[PRESB. OF
KNOYDART (Q.S.).
[Knoydart is an ancient parish. Its
church was dedicated to St Coan. In
the sixteenth century this parish was
united to Glenelg. It remained so until
20th May 1863, when Knoydart was dis
joined from Glenelg as a parish quoad
sacra.}
ALEXANDER M'lVER, ord. llth Dec.
1821 ; removed to Glenmoriston
1821 [afterwards min. of Sleat].
ALEXANDER SIMSON; M.A.
(King's College, Aberdeen, March
1817) ; missionary at Carloway,
Lewis, 1820-6.
DONALD MACDONALD [afterwards
1827 min. of Trumisgarry],
DUGALD CAMPBELL, removed to
1831 Benbecula in 1834.
GEORGE CORBETT, born Cromarty,
1804; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen, 1822-6; ord. in 1836.
Joined the Free Church in 1843 ; mission
ary at Arnisdale; died at Inverness,
19th Sept. 1863. He marr. 1840, Mary
Finlayson.
JOHN HAGGART, ord. 29th July
1863 ; trans, to Lochcarron 10th May
' 1867.
JOHN MACLEAN, ord. 25th July
1867 ; trans, to Bracadale 4th Jan.
1867
1876.
MALCOLM MACCALLUM, ord. 19th
, Dec. 1876; trans, to Strontian 15th
$ Sept. 1882.
JOHN CAMPBELL MACKINNON
ord. 2nd May 1883 ; trans, to Croick
1883 9th May 1889.
JOHN FORBES MENZIES, born
Aberfeldy, 24th July 1864, son of
1890 Robert M. and Christina Forbes
educated at Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A
(1884); licen. by Presb. of Mull in 1887
missionary at Connel Ferry in 1887; ord
9th Jan. 1890; dem. 16th May 1903 ; died at
ttoemfontein, South Africa, 17th Sept. 1914.
He marr. 8th Oct. 1890, Charlotte Kerr,
augh. of Donald Stewart Macphail, Ach-
nashie, Oban, and Janet Smith Kerr, and
lad issue — Alistair Forbes, D.S.O., B.A.
Manitoba Univ.), captain Royal Fusiliers,
>orn 1st June 1893, killed in action 4th
VI ay 1918 ; Donald Robert, banker, born
.4th Oct. 1894, lieut. Cameron High-
anders, wounded in European War ; Violet
Christina Margaret, born 28th Sept. 1899
marr. 1921) ; Ian Malcolm Kerr, born 21st
March, and died 23rd Aug. 1901.
DUNCAN MACARTHUR, ord. 27th
Oct. 1903; trans, to Kilninver and
Kilmelfort 2nd March 1911.
JAMES CAMERON CAMPBELL,
M.A. ; ord. 27th Feb. 1913 ; trans.
1913 to Tibbermore llth Aug. 1916.
JOHN MACKAY, born Smithtown,
Culloden, 16th March 1854, son of
Hugh M. and Elizabeth M Alpine ;
educated at Culloden School, High School,
Inverness, and Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen.
by Presb. of Inverness 18th May 1894 ;
ord. by Presb. of Dunoon to Gaelic Church,
Rothesay, 12th May 1898 ; adm. to Cross,
Lewis, 16th Jan. 1900 ; trans, to Plockton
4th April 1905 ; trans, and adm. 28th Nov.
1916; dem. 15th June 1926. Marr. 18th
April 1895, Grace, daugh. of Alexander
Mackay and Margaret Munro, and has
issue — Margaret Hughina, born 24th Nov.
1896; Elizabeth Catherine Louisa, born
31st Jan. 1899.
LOCHALSH.
[St Fillan built the earliest church here
about the year 600. He dedicated it to
his uncle St Coan. The church of Lochalsh
was a commune kirk of the Cathedral of
Ross. There is a mission chapel in this
parish at Kyle of Lochalsh.]
ALEXANDER FRASER, pres. to the
parsonage and vicarage by James
1569 yj 24th June 1569 . rea(jer here and
at Lochcarron in 1574 ; still min. in 1580.
LOCHCARRON]
LOCHALSH
155
MURDOCH MURCHISON, pres. to
the vicarage of Lochalsh and Loch-
' carron by James VI. 19th July and
29th Dec. 1582 ; trans, to Kin tail before
1614.
DONALD CLARK, educated at Univ.
of Edinburgh ; M.A. (31st July 1606);
1614 adm. before 1614; still min. 18th
Sept. 1634. He marr. a daugh. of John
Mackenzie of Ord, and had issue — Rorie,
a student at St Andrews Univ. in 1642;
Christian (marr., cont. 27th April 1631,
Matthew Matheson in Balmacara).— [P. C.
Reg., 2nd ser., v., 388.]
JOHN MACKENZIE, M.A. ; min. in
1622 ; trans, to Lochbroom about
1 1630.
DONALD MACRAE, born about 1636,
son of Farquhar M. ; educated at
1663 King's College, Aberdeen; M.A.
(1653); adm. before llth Aug. 1663, said
to have been still min. in March 1710. He
marr. Annabel, daugh. of William Mac
kenzie of Shieldaig, and had issue— John ;
Donald; Duncan; Farquhar; Maurice;
Christopher.— [Hist, of the Macraes, 189.J
FINLAY MACRAE, son of Donald
M., chamberlain of Kintail; edu-
1695 cated at Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A.
(24th July 1679) ; said to have been min. in
Cumbrae, and to have left at the Revolu
tion; intruded here on a presentation
from Frances, Countess of Seaforth, but
never having taken the oaths prescribed
by Government, and having incited his
parishioners' to take up arms under William,
Earl of Seaforth, in 1715, he was deposed
for his Jacobitism after 21st Sept. 1716.
He was a philosopher, a clear preacher, of
dignified appearance, and much given to
hospitality and charity. He marr. Mar
garet, daugh. of Duncan Macrae of Inver-
inate, and had issue— John, served heir 15th
Oct. 1728 ; Hector, tacksman of Ardelve ;
Donald ; Marion (marr. John Matheson
of Achtaytoralan) ; Isabel (marr. Duncan,
son of Alexander Macrae of Conclira). —
[Hist, of the .Macraes, 46.]
JOHN M'KILLICAN of Alness, son
of John M., min. of Alness ; resided
1(719 sometime in the parish of Newbattle ;
educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; was
taken on trials by Presb. of Dalkeith and
licen. by Presb. of Ross 15th July 1696 ;
called by the Presb. jure devoluto 7th Jan.,
and ord. (at Dingwall on account of remote
ness of parish from the Presb. seat) 17th
April 1719 ; died 1st April 1725. He does
not seem to have ever resided in the parish.
The Presb. calling him to account for this,
appointed a visitation of the parish to be
held on 16th Sept. 1724, but the brethren
were " rabbled " and the meeting was not
held. He marr. Margaret Mackenzie, who
survived him, and had issue — David, served
heir 14th Nov. 1728 ; Robert ; Andrew ;
Isabel ; Ann.— [Inverness Sas., viii., 387 ;
Seaforth Papers.]
DONALD MACLEOD, born Skye,
about 1695 ; educated at King's
1727 College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (12th April
1715) ; licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen 12th
Aug. 1719 ; ord. to Contin 13th May 1720 ;
called by the Presb. jure devoluto 27th Oct.
1726 ; adm. 3rd July 1727 ; died 18th Aug.
1769. He marr. 21st Oct. 1721, Rebecca
Beaton, who died 12th Jan. 1772, and had
issue — Christian, born 4th March 1723
(marr. John Beaton, min. of Glenshiel) ;
Robert, born 5th July 1725; Ann, born
llth April 1731.
MURDOCH MACIVER, born 1743,
son of Donald M., tacksman of
1770 Tolsta, Stornoway; educated at
King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (30th
March 1763); app. missionary at Harris;
pres. by George III. 19th Jan., and adm.
2nd July 1770 ; drowned going by sea from
Lochalsh to Gruinard 2nd Feb. 1790. He
marr. (1) llth March 1775, Mary, daugh.
of John Mackenzie of Hilton, and had
issue_Helen, born 10th Dec. 1775 ; Isobel,
born 4th Dec. 1776 ; Donald, merchant,
New York, born 1st Nov. 1778, died in
Bermuda : (2) 21st July 1789, Sybilla (died
10th Aug. 1824), daugh. of William Fraser
of Bught, town-clerk of Inverness.
156
LOCHALSH— LOCHBROOM
[PRESB. OF
ALEXANDER DOWNIE, born 6th July
1765, son of John D., min. of Urray;
educated at King's College, Aber
deen ; M.A. (30th March 1784); licen. by
Presb. of Lewis 6th Nov. 1787 ; pres. by
the Presb. jure devoluto 5th, and by Geoi'ge
III. 23rd July, and ord. 21st Sept. 1791 ;
chaplain to the 1st Batt. 78th Highlanders
8th March 1793 ; was an active supporter
of the Gaelic School Society ; D.D. (Aber
deen, 15th Aug. 1812); died 31st May
1820. He marr. 19th Oct. 1795, Janet
(died 9th June 1846), daugh. of Charles
Mackinnon of Corrichatachan, and had
issue— John, born 4th May 1797, died 1820;
Anne, born 28th June 1798 ; Flora, born
16th Nov. 1799 (marr. 1826, Alexander
Kenneth Mackinnon of Corry, factor for
Lord Macdonald); Margaret, born 13th
Nov. 1800 ; Charlotte, born 4th Dec. 1802
(marr. 19th June 1821, Alexander Allan
Mackenzie) ; Charles, min. of Contin, born
1804 ; Annabella (marr. Charles Macleod
(Drynoch), tacksman of Scottus) ; Sir
Alexander Mackenzie, M.D., born 1810, died
1852. Publication — Account of the Parish
(Sinclair's Stat. Ace., xi.).—[The Family
of Mackinnon, 6.]
HECTOR MACLEAN, born 3rd June
1786, son of Donald M., min. of
1821 Small Isles ; licen. by Presb. of Mull
2nd May 1820; pres. by George IV. 17th
Aug. that year ; ord. 4th April 1821 ; died
5th Feb. 1869.
NEIL MACINTYRE, eldest son of
John M., Saddell, Argyll; educated
1869 at Univ. of Glasgow ; ord to Rothie-
murchus 18th July 1855; pres. by Queen
Victoria 8th May, trans, and adm. 12th
Aug. 1869 ; died 7th July 1874. He marr.,
19th Dec. 1871, Amelia Maria Cooper (died
9th Feb.
JAMES BAIN, trans, from Kilfman
24th Nov. 1875 ; trans, to Duthil
1875 30th Aug. 1877.
JOHN BARNETT, trans, from the
Gaelic Parish, Greenock, 13th March
1878 18^8 . tranSi t0 Kilchoman 15th Jan.
1885.
JAMES MACKINTOSH DAVIDSON,
born May 1833, son of Donald D.,
586 farmer, and Ellen Macintosh; edu
cated at King's College, Aberdeen, and
Univ. of St Andrews ; ord. to Glencoe in
1876 ; trans, to Stenscholl 14th Feb. 1882 ;
trans, and adm. 5th May 1886 ; dem. 13th
Oct. 1909 ; died unmarr. at Fodderty, 7th
July 1916.
JOHN MACLEAN, born North Uist,
24th Feb. 1870, son of Donald
1910 M., schoolmaster, and Isabella Mac-
lennan ; educated at Bayhead School and
Univs. of Glasgow and Aberdeen; licen.
by Presb. of Uist in 1895 ; assistant at
Dalavich ; ord. to Carnoch 28th Sept.
1897 ; trans, and adm. 19th April 1910.
LOCHBROOM.
[The church of Lochbroom was dedicated
to St Donan. It was a commune kirk of the
Cathedral of Ross. At Little Lochbroom
in this parish, there was a chapel, of St
Donan.]
SIR JOHN MUNRO, son of Donald M. ;
formerly a priest; was vicar and
reader Nov. 1569. He marr., and
had issue— John, slain by the Mackenzies,
1573-4.— {Reg. of Deeds, xiii., 459.]
DONALD FARQUHARSON
[Farquharson being the patronymic,
: probably a Macrae] ; reader in 1574 ;
pres. to the parsonage and vicarage by
James VI. 25th Nov. 1574; still in the
charge in 1593. — [Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii.,
408.]
DONALD CLARK, called min. 22nd
June 1579; still min. in 1613.—
1 [Mackenzie of Ord Papers; Reg.
Mag. Sig., v., 665.]
JOHN MACKENZIE, born about 1598,
son of Kenneth M. of Davoch-
' maluag, and Christian Ross of
Balnagowan; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen; M.A. (1616); ord. to Lochalsh
LOCIICAUUON]
LOCHBROOM
157
about 1622 ; trans, and adm. about 1630.
He marr. his cousin, a daugh. of Hector,
son of Alexander Mackenzie of Davoch-
maluag (she marr. (2) Hector Mackenzie
of Melan), and had issue — William ;
Kenneth. — [Douglas's Baronage, 403 ; Hist,
of the Mackenzie*, 500.]
DONALD EOSS, M.A. ; adm. before
2nd Feb. 1636, when he was app. a
Justice of the Peace. A woman of
loose character having accused him of
being the father of one of her illegitimate
children, he was suspended andjthe sentence
was confirmed by the Commission of
Assembly at Auldearn in 1649, which found
" much imprudence in not goeing solemnlie
and wyslie about his own cleiring quhen
this scandell broke out." The sentence was
recalled by the Presb. 31st Dec. 1650 ; trans,
to Contin 22nd July 1651.
FARQUHAR MACLENNAN, adm.
after 22nd July 1651 and before 6th
April 1656.
FARQUHAR MACLENNAN, son of
preceding; formerly of Fodderty ;
called by the parishioners ; pres. by
the Presb. to be conjunct with his father
and adm. 6th April 1656 ; dem. before 9th
June 1663 [afterwards min. of Strath in
1675].
MURDOCH MACKENZIE, son of
Roderick M. of Knockbaxter ; adm.
before 9th June 1663; on llth April
1665 he regrets that he is constrained to
leave his ministry for want of maintenance ;
still min. 7th July 1681. Marr. a daugh.
of MacCulloch of Park. — [Hist, of the
Mackenzie*, 517 ; Mackay's Inverness and
Dingwall Presb. fiecords, 309.]
JOHN MACKENZIE, educated at
King's College, Aberdeen; M.A.
(1670); adm. to Contin in 1674;
trans, and adm. before 4th Sept. 1683;
still min. March 1716. He marr. Isabel,
daugh. of Roderick Mackenzie of Davoch-
maluag, and had issue — Alexander.—
[Douglas's Baronage, 404 ; Inverness Sas.,
v. 328, viii. 153.]
ARCHIBALD BANNATYNE, recom-
1725 mended by the Assembly 26th May
1724 for a Presbytery bursary and
by Royal Bounty Committee 26th May
1725 ; catechist in parish of Kilmallie ;
licen. by Presb. of Abertarff 5th July that
year ; called by the Presb. jure devoluto
13th July, and ord. 14th Sept. same year ;
trans, to Ardchattan 9th June 1730.
DONALD ROSS, called by the Presb.
jure devoluto 6th April, and ord.
'llth Aug. 1731; trans, to Fearn
27th March 1742.
[RODERICK MACKENZIE, born about
1718, son of John M., in the parish of
Gairloch ; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen ; M.A. (1st April 1736) ; licen.
by Presb. of Lochcarron in 1738 ; ord.
min. of a congregation at Staines,
Middlesex, 20th June 1739 ; called by the
Presb. jure devoluto 19th Jan., and adm.
9th Feb. 1743, but the settlement was
reversed by General Assembly, the time
for moderating the call not having been
intimated to the patron and principal
heritor. M. was app. missionary within
the bounds 2nd Sept. 1744, but afterwards
became min. in England, whence he came
and preached at the admission of Thomas
Boston, younger, formerly of Oxnam, to
the dissenting congregation at Jedburgh
9th Feb. 1757, which led in 1761 to the
formation of the Presbytery of Relief. In
1758 he was settled at Nigg as min. of
an independent chapel, but resigned in
1761 and again returned to England, where
he held a charge.]— Publications — Reading
No Preaching (London, 1744) ; A Letter
showing the Consequence of the Present
Pul2)it Langiiage (London, 1751); The
Extreme Cruelty and Danger of Intro
ducing Natural Plans of Supposed
Happiness in room of the Scheme of Jesus
(1788).— [Scots. Mag., xix. ; Mackelvie's
Annals, 255 ; Tait's Border Church Life,
i., 269 ; Ullapool and Lochlroom, 26.]
JAMES ROBERTSON, born about
1701, son of John R. of Arnhall,
1 45 farmer, Quay in Atholl, of the family
of Lude; educated at Marischul College,
158
LOCHBROOM
[PRESS. OF
Aberdeen, 1726, and Univ. of St Andrews ;
licen. by Presb. of Dunkeld 5th Nov. 1734 ;
assistant in this parish, 1734-40; pres. by
George, Earl of Cromartie, 1744 ; ord. 8th
May 1745 ; died March 1776. He was
known as "Am Ministeir Laidir" or the
" Strong Minister," on account of his many
feats of physical strength, particularly the
incident in connection with the collapse of
the roof of Fearn church, mentioned under
that parish. Many of his parishioners, dis
regarding his remonstrances, were involved
in the Kising of 1745. After Culloden he
waited on the Duke of Cumberland at
Inverness, and was thanked for his services
to the Earl of Loudoun in his difficult march
to the Highlands. Cumberland made him
a present of twelve stand of arms, to be
put into such hands as he might think
proper to entrust them with, and a regular
correspondence followed between R. and
the Duke. These letters, uniformly signed
"Everard Faulkener," were carefully pre
served, but disappeared after R.'s death.
In 1746 he greatly exerted himself in the
interest of the captive prisoners at London,
travelling thither at his own expense, and
interceding with the Government. On one
occasion he pleaded with the Duke of
Newcastle for the life of Hector Mackenzie
who had been condemned to death. The
Duke, either stimulated by a sincere desire
to save the man's life, or to get rid of E.'s
importunity, held out his hand as a token
of assurance of mercy, whereupon, in his
ecstasy of joy, the minister gave it so
powerful a grip that, in evident pain, his
Grace cried out, " Yes ! yes ! for God's sake
let go my hand ; you shall have him, you
shall have him!"— a promise faithfully
kept. On returning to his parish he was
received with demonstrations of gratitude.
He marr. 26th March 1752, Anne, second
daugh. of Murdoch Mackenzie of Letterewe,
Gairloch, and Catherine, daugh. of Simon
Mackenzie of Torridon, and had issue-
John, born 4th March 1753, died 1776;
Alexander, captain in army, born 19th Dec.
1754, died in Nova Scotia; James, collector
of Customs, Stornoway, who printed a
Memoir of his father, born 13th Nov.
1756, died 31st Aug. 1840 ; Janet, born 4th
June 1758 (marr. Alexander Mackenzie of
Badachro) ; Katherine, born 8th July 1760,
died 10th April 1762 ; Charles, born 27th
Jan. 1763; Hector, born llth Feb. 1765;
Mary, born 26th May 1767; Murdoch,
officer in navy ; Margaret (marr. John
Fisher, Rothesay).— [Burke's Landed Gentry
(1845), 1130 ; Ullapool and Lochbroom,
26-34 ; Hist, of the Mackenzies, 455.]
ALEXANDER STRONACH, born
Ross-shire, about 1746 ; educated
1776 at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A.
(2nd April 1764) ; licen. by Presb. of Tain
14th Feb. 1770; ord. to Applecross 2nd
April 1776 ; pres. by George III. in May,
trans, and adm. 31st July same year ; was
under suspension, 1798-1802, when John
Kennedy [afterwards min. of Killearnan]
was locum tenens ; died 21st June 1807.
He marr. 20th Dec. 1770, Margaret (died
Nov. 1819), daugh. of Alexander Mac
kenzie of Ballone, and Katherine, daugh.
of George Mackenzie of Gruinard, and had
issue— Alexander, born 21st Sept. 1771 ;
Katherine (twin) born 21st Sept. 1771. ;
Margaret, born 4th June 1773 (marr. John
Mackenzie of Atachol) ; Henry, born 16th
Aug. 1775; Barbara, born 12th Nov. 1777
(marr. George Black, Ullapool).— [Ullapool
and Lochbroom, 34.]
THOMAS ROSS, born Creich, Suther
land, 1768, son of Alexander R., farm
1808 grieve ; educated at Univ. of Edin
burgh; was tutor in the family of John
Kemp, D.D., min. of Tolbooth Parish, Edin
burgh ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 10th
Feb. 1802; ord. by that Presb. one of
the mins. of the Scots Church, Rotter
dam, 14th April that year; returned to
Scotland in a few months on account
of his health and was employed by the
S.P.C.K. in superintending the publication
of a second edition of their Gaelic Bible ;
pres. by the Hon. Mrs Maria Hay Mackenzie
of Cromartie 12th Nov. 1807 ; LL.D. (Glas
gow 1807) ; adm. 25th May 1808 ; died 25th
July 1843. His name was given in by his
family as joining the Free Church in 1843,
but though he lived two months after the
Secession, he never signed the Deed of De
mission. He assisted Sir David Brewster
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LOCHBROOM— LOCHCARRON
159
with the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia. He
marr. 10th Jan. 1810, Jane (died at Cromarty,
13th July 1840), daugh. of George Mackenzie
of Dundonnell, and had issue— Abigail, born
20th June 1812 ; Alexander Mackenzie,
born 26th Nov. 1813 ; Georgina, born 21st
March 1815 ; Lily, born 28th July 1816 ;
Captain Kenneth, born 4th Sept. 1817 ;
Thomas, born 16th May 1820 ; George,
born 17th Nov. 1821 ; Jane, born 2nd Aug.
1823; Catherine, born llth June 1825;
Anne, born 7th March 1827; Elizabeth,
born 19th Sept. 1828 (marr. William Sin
clair, min. of Free Church, Plockton) ;
Patrick Campbell, Ullapool, born 18th
June 1831 ; Donald, died in New York,
8th Jan. 1853. Publications— Letter to the
Rev. John Campbell, Edinburgh, on the
Subject of a False Report (Edinburgh,
1807); An Amended Translation of Mac-
farlan's Psalter (Edinburgh, 1807) ; Poems
of Ossian in Original Gaelic (Highland
Society of London, 1807) ; A New Spelling
Book in Gaelic (Edinburgh, 1815); The
Shorter Catechism in Gaelic (Edinburgh,
1820 ; Glasgow, n.d. ; Glasgow, 1842) ;
Letters and other Documents on the Subject
of a Neiv Translation of the Scriptures into
Gaelic (Edinburgh, 1821); A Letter to
" Inverness Journal " on the Act of Parlia
ment for Building Additional Places of
Worship in the Highlands and Islands
(Inverness, 1830) ; Account of the Parish
(New Stat. Ace., xiv.); Compendious System
of Geography in connection with Astronomy
and illustrated by the iise of Globes. — [Mac
lean's Typographia Scoto-Gadelica, 79, 300 ;
Steven's Scots Church in Rotterdam, 243 ;
Brown's Annals, 96, 104, 140; Beaton's
Bibliography of Gaelic Books for Suther
land and Caithness, 66-70.]
[JOHN MACLEOD, min. of Morven ;
was pres. by John Hay Mackenzie of
Cromartie, but after preaching at Loch-
broom was so disappointed with the
congregation that he returned his presenta
tion.]
WILLIAM CAMERON, born Ferintosh
1844 about 1806; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen; became school
master at Loth, Sutherland ; ord. 8th May
1844; died llth Feb. 1895. He marr. 1st
Nov. 1844, Martha Isabella, daugh. of
Alexander Cameron, min. of Edderton,
and had issue — Alexander, min. of Sleat,
born 14th Oct. 1845 ; Katherine, born 20th
Nov. 1847, died at Edinburgh 28th July
1925; John, born 1st Nov. 1849, died 10th
May 1850; Elizabeth Mary Anne, born
25th July 1851 ; Isabella, born 13th May
1853, died 16th Jan. 1925; William, born
7th Oct. 1855, died at Guisachan, Kilowara,
British Columbia; Harriet Grace Urquhart,
born 21st July 1857 ; John Hay Mackenzie,
born 21st Jan. 1859.
WILLIAM SUTHERLAND, born
1895 Stornoway Dec. 1854, son of William
S. and Ann Brown ; educated at
Strathy School and Univ. of St Andrews ;
M.A. (1884); licen. by Presb. of St
Andrews ; ord. to Glencoe that year ;
trans, to Tobermory 14th Jan. 1890;
trans, and adm. 29th Aug. 1895; died
6th March 1927. He marr. llth Jan. 1894,
Catherine Margaret, daugh. of Francis
William Clark of Ulva, sheriff of Lanark
shire, and had issue — Malvina, born 4th
Dec. 1894 (marr. 20th April 1919, Donald
Macaskill Begbie, min. of St John's, Leith) ;
William Francis, born 23rd May 1897;
Annie Isabella, born 13th May 1899;
Dugald MacLachlan, born 5th April 1903 ;
Hugh Brown, born 21st July 1907, died
16th Feb. 1919.
DUNCAN MACARTHUR, trans, from
1927 Gaelic Church, Greenock, 28th Sept.
1927 (q.v.).
LOCHCARRON.
[The church, dedicated to St Maelrubh,
was a common kirk of the Canons of Ross
and the parish was erected by the Court
of Teinds 30th Dec. 1726. The lands of
Torridon and Kishorn were then joined
to the parish of Applecross. At Seipal
Dhonain, within the bounds, there was
of old a chapel of St Donan.]
MURDOCH MACKENZIE, min. in
1587 1587.
160
LOCHCARRON
[PRESB. OF
ALEXANDEE MACKENZIE, son of
Hector M., chamberlain of Loch-
1686 carron ; educated at Marischal Col
lege, Aberdeen, 1624; adm. before 2nd
Feb. 1636, when he was app. a Justice of
the Peace ; died before 7th July 1681. At
a meeting of Presb. held at Applecross
5th Sept. 1656, he declares "some of his
parochiners to be superstitious, especiallie
in sacrificeing at certaine tymes at the
Loch of Mourie (Maelrubha)." At a later
meeting on 9th Sept. he is ordained by the
Presb. " to cause summond Murdo M'Conill
vie Wurchie vie Conill vie Allister in
Torritan and Donald Smyth in Applecross
for sacrificeing of beasts upon ye 25
August, as also in poureing of milk upon
hills as oblationes." He marr. a daugh.
of Hector Mackenzie of Fairburn, and had
issue— Alexander, min. of this parish;
Eoderick.— [Dingivall Fresh. Rec.; Hist,
of the Mackenzies, 514 ; Pro. Soc. Antiq.
Scot., iv. ; G. R. Homings, 10th Aug. 16771;
P. C. Reg., 2nd ser., vi., 182.]
WILLIAM MACKENZIE, called min.
1664 in 1664.— [Chisholm Writs.}
ALEXANDER MACKENZIE, son of
above Alexander M. ; educated at
' Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1674;
adm. before 18th Oct. 1686; died Feb.
1721. He marr. a daugh. of Kenneth
Mackenzie of the Lochslinn family.—
[Dingwall Pres. Rec.; Geneal. of the
Mackenzies.]
vENEAS SAGE, born Chapelton
Killearnan, 12th March 1694, son o
1726 Murdoch S., farmer and messenger
at-arms in Chapelton [who was shot and
mortally wounded by Donald Mackenzie
of Kilcoy in the act of serving a summons
on him for debt], and a daugh. of Angui
Macdonald of Ardnaf uaran ; entered King'
College, Aberdeen, 1715, and was presen
early next year at the ebullition o
Jacobitism at that College gate. Accom
panied by others he carried a picture o
the Duke of Brunswick fixed behind th
muzzle and rammer of his gun, which wa
then committed to the flames. For thi
he had to appear before the Colleg
uthorities, was fined 50 merks and
xpelled. Became schoolmaster of Logie-
Easter in 1719 and of Cromarty in 1722 ;
icen. by Presb. of Tain 18th Aug. 1725;
oon afterwards he was app. missionary in
he parishes of Lochcarron, Applecross,
,nd Gairloch ; called by the Presb. jure
devohdo 7th Jan., and ord. 10th Feb. 1726 ;
died 17th July 1774. At the time of his
ettlement the parishioners were in a very
Barbarous state. An attempt was made on
lis life by firing the barn in which he slept
on the evening before his ordination. He
caught the incendiary, but instead of
handing him over to punishment he set
meat and drink before him, saying, "Go
and tell your neighbours how the Whig
ministers avenge their wrongs." He was
frequently offered personal violence in the
performance of his duties and found it
necessary to carry arms in self-defence.
Being a man of gigantic size and great
strength, he held more than his own in
his encounters with his unruly parishioners.
Persevering in his duty, his resolution and
firmness in the enforcement of Church
Discipline, he struck the vicious with terror,
while his prudence in composing differences,
his benevolence and hospitality gradually
conciliated and gained the goodwill of his
people. Having accused a co-presbyter of
heterodox opinions, he was enjoined by the
General Assembly, 29th May 1759, "not to
be over-ready to fish out heresies without
very good and justifiable reasons." He
marr. 29th Aug. 1728, Elizabeth (died 10th
Feb. 1780, aged 74), daugh. of John Mackay,
min. of Lairg, and had issue — Katherine,
born 26th Oct. 1729 (marr. 1749 Charles
Gordon of Pulrossie, Sutherland); Anne,
born 29th Sept. 1731, died 15th March
1739; Mary, born 6th Feb. 1734 (marr.
Donald Kennedy, farmer, Kishorn); Flora,
born 22nd Aug. 1736, died 22nd March
1737 ; John, born 19th Aug. 1740, died 7th
Feb. 1753; Margaret, born 20th Sept.
1742, died 22nd May 1744; Murdo, born
10th June 1744, died 8th Oct. 1745;
William, born 15th Dec. 1746, died a
student about 1760; George, born 27th
Nov. 1748, died 27th Dec. 1752 ; Thomas,
born 12th Feb. 1750, died 16th Dec. 1752 ;
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LOCITCARRON
161
Alexander, min. of Kildonan, born 2nd July
1753.— [Memorabilia Domestica (2nd ed.,
1899), 1-22 ; Acts of Ass., 1722, 1723, 1759 ;
Mackay's Book of Mackay, 180, 295 ; Hist.
Papers relating to Jacobite Period ; Trans.
Inverness Field Club, iv., 234 ; Beaton's
Bibliography of Gaelic Books for Caithness
aud Sutherland, 10.]
DONALD MUNKO, son of Colin M.,
farmer, Contin ; educated at King's
1775 College, Aberdeen; M.A. (20th
March 1770) ; pres. by George III. in
1774; ord. 10th May 1775; died 6th Aug.
1781. He is spoken of as "an agreeable
person, who preached the gospel in its
purity."— [Tombst.]
1782
LACHLAN MACKENZIE, born 1754,
son of Donald M., Urray ; educated
at Marischal College, Aberdeen,
1772-6 ; became schoolmaster of Apple-
cross and afterwards of this parish ; licen.
by Presb. of Lochcarron 4th Oct. 1780 ;
pres. by George III. 23rd Sept. 1781 ; ord.
4th April 1782. He stated in 1811 that 231
of his parishioners could read English, only
two were capable of reading Gaelic, while
no fewer than 645, exclusive of children,
could read neither language. He died
unmarr. 20th April 1819. A man of sincere
and deep piety, his manners were primitive,
and his habits were often highly eccentric.
He was one of the most widely followed
preachers in the North. Dr John Kennedy
of Dingwall said of him that " owing to his
genius, his peculiar Christian experience,
and his great acceptance as a preacher, he
retained a firmer hold of the memories of
the people than any other besides." Publi
cations — Redemption and Other Poems;
Christ, the Rock; An-t-uisge fleo[" Living
Water"], a sermon (Edinburgh, 1830 and
1831 ; London, n.d. ; Edinburgh, n.d.) ;
Gleanings in Gaelic and English, from the
Sayings and Writings of the Rev. L. M.
(Inverness, 1877); Sermons and Verses
(Glasgow, 1896) ; Ros o Sharon [" Rose of
Sharon"], a sermon (Glasgow, 1897);
Sermon on Prayer (Inverness, 1899) ; Ceit
Mhor agus Mr Lachlainn [" Big Kate '']
VOL. VII.
(n.p., n.d.) ; Account of the Parish [ending
in verse] (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., xiii.). —
[Gaelic School Report, 1811; Ross Tests.;
Memorabilia Domestica, 187 ; Maclean's
Typographia Scoto-Gadelica, 252 ; Tombst.]
JOHN MACKENZIE, born 1773, son
of Colin M., Contin, a natural son
1819 of Rorie M. of Kilchulladrum ; edu
cated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A.
(30th March 1797). He was nick-named
" Potato John " from a thoughtless and
foolish trick. When going to College with
several others and halting for refreshment
by the way, one of them offered up a long
and tedious blessing which so tired the
others that M. is said to have whispered
to Duncan M'Gillivray [afterwards min.
of Lairg] to put a hot potato into the hand
of the student who was praying. This he
did and the grace came to a speedy close.
When M. applied for licence to the Presb.
of Tain some of the members opposed his
application and brought the case before the
General Assemblies of 1802 and 1803. The
Assembly found the proceedings "irregular
and injurious to him," and instructed the
Presb., 24th May 1803, to license him at
next meeting, and to enjoin the attendance
of the four dissentient ministers who were
to remain till the proceedings were over.
Francis [afterwards Lord] Jeffrey made his
first appearance in the Assembly as Counsel
for the Presb. in this case 20th May 1803.
M. was licen. 22nd June that year; ord.
missionary at Strathconon 15th Jan. 1806 ;
pres. by George, Prince Regent, 10th May,
and ord. 22nd Sept. 1819 ; died 6th Dec.
1861. He marr. 20th Jan. 1809, Eliza
(died June 1853), daugh. of Peter Fairbairn,
secretary to Lord Seaforth at Berbice, and
had issue— Colin, born 20th, and died 26th
Nov. 1809 ; Peter, D.D., min. of Urquhart
(Ferintosh); Margaret, born 20th Sept.
1812; Colin, min. of Contin, born 13th
Sept. 1814 ; James, C.E., born 14th June
1816 ; Kenneth, born 14th Aug. 1818, died
7th Nov. 1828 ; John, C.E., born 23rd
July 1820 ; Jane, born 8th June 1822, died
25th Sept. 1840 ; Frances Eliza, born 9th
Aug. 1826 ; Kenneth Alexander, LL.D.,
min.' of Kingussie, born 19th July 1829 ;
162
LOCHCARRON— PLOCKTON
[PRESB. OF
Eliza Isabella, born 15th May 1831 (marr.
Colin Mackenzie, min. of Ardclach.) —
[Acts of Ass., 1802, 1803; Gaelic School
Report, 1825 ; Cockburn's Life of Jeffrey.]
KENNETH ALEXANDER MAC
KENZIE, son of preceding; ord.
1856 (assistant and successor) 2nd April
1856 ; trans, to Kingussie 7th March 1867.
JOHN HAGGART, born Aberfeldy,
1833, son of James H., dyer; educated
1867 at Marischal College, Aberdeen;
ord. to Knoydart 29th July 1863; trans,
and adm. 10th May 1867 ; clerk of
Synod, 1875-1910; D.D. (St Andrews
1908); died 27th June 1910. He marr
15th March 1866, Mary (died 2nd Apri
1867), daugh. of Angus Campbell, Amis
dale, and had issue — Mary Campbell, born
26th March 1867.
DUGALD MACDONALD, trans, from
Poolewe and adm. 20th Jan. 1911
' trans, to Logie - Easter 22nd Feb
1916.
JAMES MACGILLIVRAY, bor
Glencoe, 5th April 1889, son of Joh
1916 M. and Louisa Robertson ; educatec
at Ballachulish and Kingussie Schools anc
Univs. of Glasgow and Edinburgh, M.A.
(1915); licen. by Presb. of Lorn in 1914;
assistant at St Paul's, Leith ; ord. 27th
Sept. 1916 ; dem. 19th June 1918 ; became
chaplain to the Forces, 1918-22; adm. to
Calderbank 4th July 1923 ; died 3rd Dec.
1924. He marr. 27th Dec. 1917, Mary,
daugh. of John Forbes White Youngson,
D.D., missionary of the Panjab, India, and
had issue— Ailidh Margaret, born 8th Oct.
1918; Liusi Robertson, born 20th Sept.
1920.
JOHN MACLACHLAN, born Kil-
finichen, Mull, 5th Dec. 1864, son of
1919 Alexander M. and Sarah Maclntyre ;
educated at High School and Univ. of
Glasgow ; M.A. (1889) ; licen. by Presb. of
Mull May 1890 ; assistant at Kincardine-
on-Spey in 1890; ord. to Kilmeny 17th
Sept. 1891 ; trans, to Kilmodan 19th Sept.
1901 ; trans, to St Kiaran's, Govan, 22nd
April 1909; trans, and adm. 20th Feb.
919 ; trans, to Glenaray 4th Jan. 1923 ;
ied at Glasgow 17th Oct. 1927. Marr. (1)
1st Oct. 1901, Elizabeth (died 17th March
903), youngest daugh. of Alexander Mac-
achlan, Carleith, Old Kilpatrick, and had
ssue — Elizabeth Margaret Morris, born
2nd March 1903 : (2) 23rd Dec. 1909, Julia
Crawford, L.L.A., M.B., Ch.B., youngest
daugh. of Adam White, advocate, Glasgow.
DONALD MACPHAIL, born Cornaig,
Tiree, 8th Aug. 1894, son of Hugh
128 M. and Elizabeth Macdougall ; edu
cated at Kingussie School and Univ. of
Glasgow ; M.A. (1917) ; licen. by Presb. of
Glasgow March 1919 ; assistant at Buenos
Aires; ord. to Benbecula 29th March 1922;
trans, and adm. 4th Sept. 1923. Marr. 16th
Nov. 1926, May, daugh. of D. F. Fleming,
Gollanhead, Rosemarkie.
PLOCKTON (Q.&).
[A parliamentary church was erected
here in 1828. The parish of Plockton was
disjoined from Lochalsh by the Court of
Teinds 19th Feb. 1897. There is a mission
chapel at Strome.]
ALEXANDER MACDONALD, born
Claiseach, Halkirk, 16th May 1791,
elder son of George M. and Marsali
Douglas ; educated at Thurso and Halkirk
Schools, King's College, M.A. (March 1819),
and Marischal College, Aberdeen ; became
tutor in the family of John Macdonald,
D.D., min. of Ferintosh, 1816-23; licen.
by Presb. of Dingwall 3rd Aug. 1823;
ord. Royal Bounty missionary at Strath-
conon and Strathgarve 3rd Nov. 1824;
pres. by George IV. 15th June, and adm.
28th Sept. 1827. Joined the Free Church
in 1843; min. of Free Church, Plockton,
1843-4; of Urquhart and Glenmoriston
Free Church 25th Dec. 1844; died 15th
Aug. 1864. He was one of the most popular
preachers on the west coast of Ross and
Inverness -shire. He had a fine presence,
tall and dignified, with a good countenance,
his hair silvered with grey, a pair of dark-
blue eyes that shone with intelligence and
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163
intense earnestness as he warmed up in
course of preaching. He was a good scholar,
a man of wide reading and was very helpful
to young men studying for the ministry.
He marr. (1) llth Dec. 1828, Frances Julia
(died 17th May 1831), daugh. of James
Robertson, M.D., Pitstrunie, Aberdeenshire:
(2) 10th Nov. 1846, Jane, daugh. of
John Elder, Sleat, Skye. — [Disruption
Worthies of the Highlands, 106-14.]
JOHN STEWART, born 1805, son of
William S., farmer, and Jessie
Kennedy ; ord. 8th July 1847 ; died
unmarr. 21st Feb. 1883.
DONALD MACHARDY, born Dale-
vorar, Braemar, 28th Sept. 1819, son
of a farmer ; | educated at Dundee
High School and Univs. of Aberdeen
and Edinburgh ; became tutor in the
family of Forbes-Leith of Whitehaugh,
Aberdeenshire ; afterwards schoolmaster
of Keig and New Machar ; licen. by Presb.
of Aberdeen ; was a farmer at Tullybraecat,
Forfarshire, for some time ; app. to Royal
Bounty Mission at Kincardine-on-Spey ;
ord. to this parish 13th May 1884; died
26th May 1904. He marr. Oct. 1867,
Christina Coutts, and had issue — Helen
Jane Christina, born Dec. 1869 ; Charlotte
Georgina, born Oct. 1871.
JOHN MACKAY, trans, from Cross,
Lewis, and adm. 4th April 1905 ;
trans, to Knoydart 28th Nov. 1916.
SAMUEL NICOLSON, born Durine,
1918 Durness> 29tl1 Nov- 1874> Son °f
Torquil N., schoolmaster, and Mar
garet Gunn ; educated at Durine School,
Madras College, and Univ. of St Andrews ;
licen. by Presb. of St Andrews 1st May
1901 ; assistant at Oatlands, Glasgow,
and Newtonmore ; ord. to Gaelic Chapel,
Rothesay, 15th April 1903 ; trans, to Shiel-
daig 30tb Nov. 1904; trans, and adm. 21st
Feb. 1918. Marr. 1st Nov. 1907, Annabella
Mary, daugh. of Eoghan Matheson, Plock-
ton, and has issue — Torquil, born 23rd April
1910 ; Eoghan Matheson, born llth Sept.
1911 ; Margaret Macrae Gunn, born 29th
April 1914.
POOLEWE (Q.S.).
[A parliamentary church was built here
in 1828 and the district declared a quoad
sacra parish by Act of Assembly 25th May
1833. The parish of Poolewe was disjoined
from Gairloch by the Court of Teinds on
3rd Dec. 1851. There is a mission chapel
within the bounds at Aultbea.]
WILLIAM MACKENZIE, pres.
1828 by George IV. llth Dec. 1828.
DONALD MACRAE, born 12th Jan.
1830 1801> son °f Donald M., Achintee,
Lochcarron ; educated at King's Col
lege, Aberdeen; M.A. (March 1823); app.
schoolmaster of Applecross in 1824 ; licen.
by Presb. of Lochcarron in 1828 ; ord. by
Presb. of Uist, 23rd Dec. 1829, as mission
ary at Benbecula and Carinish ; pres. by
George IV. 9th Sept. 1829, and adm. 13th
May 1830. Joined the Free Church in
1843 ; min. of Free Church, Tarbert, Loch-
fyne, 1843-5, and of Kilmory, Arran,
1845-68; died 6th Aug. 1868. He marr.
2nd Aug. 1834, Jessie (died 18th Dec.
1883), daugh. of James Russell, min. of
Gairloch, and had issue — Mary Johanna,
born 2nd Sept. 1836 (marr. 15th Aug.
1855, John Stewart, min. of Free Church,
Moulin) ; Donald, medical practitioner,
Iowa, U.S.A., born 3rd Oct. 1839 ; Isobella,
died 1855 ; Jessie Russell (marr. 1871,
John Teed Maclean, min. of St Columba's
Free Church, Govan), died 1888; James
Russell, farmer, near Council Bluffs, U.S.A.;
John Farquhar, min. of Free Church,
Cockpen [afterwards at Toorak, Mel
bourne], born 1852 ; Duncan, min. at
Woodburn, London ; Finlay Alexander,
grain merchant, Wood Green, London,
born 18th Nov. 1858. Publication -
Account of the Parish of Gairloch (New
Stat. Ace., xiv.). — [Hist, of the Macraes,
231 ; Dixon's Gairloch, 403.]
HUGH FERGUSON MACDONALD,
ord. 30th April 1846; trans, to
Strachur 27th April 1848.
JOHN SUTHERLAND MACKAY,
born Golspie, 1816, son of Roderick
M., farmer, and Marion Sutherland ;
educated at King's College, Aberdeen ;
1846
1849
164
POOLEWE— SHIELDAIG
[PRESB. OF
M.A. (March. 1840) ; ord. to Lochgilphead
20th Dec. 1844 ; trans, to Gaelic Chapel,
Duke Street, Glasgow, 1847; trans, and
adm. llth Jan. 1849 ; died 3rd Dec. 1888.
He marr. (1) 18th Oct. 1849, Mary Ann
Macgillivray,daugh. of James Loban, Airds
House : (2) Jessie Fraser.
WILLIAM GEORGE GREEN
M'LEAN, ord. 6th Aug. 1884;
trans, to Boddam llth March 1886.
WILLIAM CAMERON, born Lochalsh,
19th. Nov. 1857, son of John C. ;
1889 educated at Univ. of Aberdeen ;
M.A. (1883) ; licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen ;
ord. to Gaelic Chapel, Cromarty, 10th Dec.
1885 ; became assistant in this parish. Sept.
1888 ; adm. 20th Feb. 1889 ; dem. 18th May
1903, and went to Pendennis, Manitoba,
Canada. Marr. 19th Dec. 1889, Elizabeth
Florence, eldest daugh. of Robert Ogilvy,
London, and has issue— Ruby Margaret
Noble, born 22nd March 1891 ; Constance
Marianne, born 12th March 1892; Evan
William Houldsworth, born 7th June 1893.
DUGALD MACDONALD, ord, 16th
Sept. 1903; trans, to Lochcarron
20th July 1911.
JOHN MACLEAN, an ordained min
without a charge ; adm. 19th July
' 1911; trans, to Trumisgarry 13th
Feb. 1913.
JOHN CAMERON, M.A., B.D. ; ord.
23rd Sept. 1914 ; trans, to Ladhope,
1 Galashiels, 5th April 1917 ; trans, to
Glassary 2nd March 1922.
DONALD CAMPBELL MACK
INTOSH, born Culloden, Inverness,
1918 1866, son of John M. and Isabella
Campbell ; educated at Inverness Academy,
Univ. of Aberdeen, and New College,
Edinburgh; licen. by U.F. Presb. of
Inverness; ord. to United Free Church,
Rogart, 1897 ; trans, to Ardeonaig in 1907 ;
trans, to St Luke's U.F. Church, Glasgow,
1912; trans, and adm. 17th July 1918;
died 18th August 1919. He marr. 18th
Dec. 1901, Elizabeth Margaret, daugh. of
William Fraser and Isabella M'Dougall, and
had issue— John James Fraser, electrica]
engineer, born 20th Oct. 1902; Wilfrid
Campbell, student, born 13th Sept. 1907.
EDMOND STEUART RUSSELL, born
16th Jan. 1868, son of John R., min.
} of Grange, Banffshire; educated at
Milne's Institution, Fochabers, Old Aber
deen Grammar School, and Univs. of
Aberdeen and Edinburgh; M.A. (1888);
licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh in 1891 ;
assistant at Dalziel, Dreghorn, Dumfries,
and Boarhills ; ord. to Scots Kirk, Kandy,
Ceylon, 15th March 1903; dem. in 1909.
adm. to this parish 12th Jan. 1920 ; trans,
to Arisaig 29th March 1926 ; trans, to Inver-
keithny 12th Aug. 1926. Marr. 13th April
1922, Penelope Ann, daugh. of James
Summers, Aberdeen, and Barbara Edward.
SHIELDAIG (Q.S.).
[The first of the parliamentary churches,
was declared a quoad sacra parish by the
General Assembly, 25th May 1833, and was
disjoined from Applecross and Lochcarron
by the Court of Teinds 19th Feb. 1897.]
RODERICK MACRAE, pres. by
William IV. 15th June, and adm.
1 21st Aug. 1827 ; trans, to Applecross
4th April 1832.
COLIN MACKENZIE, born 17th July
1795, son of Colin M., min. of
' Stornoway; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen; M.A. (31st March
1815); licen. by Presb. of Dingwall 5th
May 1819 ; ord. missionary at Lyndale 6th
April 1831 ; pres. by William IV. 12th April,
and adm. 12th Sept. 1832. Joined the
Free Church in 1843 ; min. of Free Church,
Arrochar, 1844-82; died 8th Dec. 1882.—
[Brown's Annals of the Disruption, 180.]
DONALD MURRAY, born Drumcuddin,
Resolis, 1795, son of Donald M.,
farmer, and Ann Murray ; educated
at King's College, Aberdeen; ord. 26th
Sept. 1845; died 16th Dec. 1855. He
marr. Christina Macdonald (born Lewis
1796, died 1872) and had issue— Donald,
secretary of the Liberal Club, London,
born 14th Feb. 1850, died llth Oct. 1912 ;
Christina Ann, Egham, Surrey, born 1851 ;
James Macdonald, Railway Clearing House,
London, born 1852, died 17th July 1886;
1845
LOCHCARRON]
SHIELDAIG— ULLAPOOL
165
Annie Jane (Mrs Ross, London), born 19th
July 1854. — [Bronze Medallion to his son
Donald in National Liberal Club, London.]
RODERICK NICOLSON, pres. by
Queen Victoria 4th April, and ord.
14th May 1856 ; trans, to Applecross,
8th April 1857.
JOHN BARNETT, pres. by Queen
1857 Victoria 17th Sept. 1857 ; ord. 30th
Dec. that year ; trans, to Kilbrandon
16th May 1861.
ALEXANDER AENEAS RANALDSON
MACDONELL MACINTYRE, born
5th Oct. 1832, son of John M., LL.D.,
min. of Kilmonivaig; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen; M.A. (March 1852);
sometime merchant in South America ;
pres. by Queen Victoria 24th July, and
ord. 27th Nov. 1861 ; dem. 18th May 1904 ;
died 30th Jan. 1909. He marr. Mary
Herbertson who predeceased him, s.p.
SAMUEL NICOLSON, trans, from
Gaelic Chapel, Rothesay, 30th Nov.
1904; trans, to Plockton 22nd Feb.
1918.
JOHN CURRIE, born Cullipool, Lairg,
19th April 1868, son of Donald C.,
and Elizabeth Fleming; educated
at Lairg School and Dunoon Theological
College ; lay missionary at Lochmaddy :
licen. by Presb. of Lochcarron 24th Sept.
1919 ; ord. (under Act IX., Ass. 1917) 24th
Sept. 1919. Marr. 24th Dec. 1908, Matilda,
daugh. of John MacGibbon and Matilda
Wallace, and has issue— Susan Campbell,
born 14th June 1910 ; Donald, born 22nd
Feb. 1913.
ULLAPOOL (Q.S.).
[A parliamentary church was erected
here in 1828 and declared a parish quoad
sacra by Act of Assembly 25th May 1833.
The parish of Ullapool was erected by the
Court of Teinds and disjoined from Loch-
broom 16th March 1859.]
ALEXANDER ROSS, born Inverness,
1798; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen ; M.A. (26th April 1813) ;
licen. by Presb. of Inverness 25th June
1818 ; ord. missionary here in 1819 ; pres.
by George IV. 14th May, and adrn. 16th
Sept. 1829 ; died 22nd Dec. 1855.
CHARLES MACLEAN, pres. by Queen
1856 Victoria 4th April, trans, and ad in.
from Kinlochluichart 24th June
1856; trans, to Harris 24th Sept. 1868.
PETER ROBERTSON, pres. by Queen
1869
Victoria 29th
'J and ord- 21st
April 1869 ; trans, to Gaelic Church,
Inverness, 9th Feb. 1871.
JAMES GRANT, pres. by Queen
18^1 Victoria 21st March, trans, from
Glencoe and adm. 28th April 1871 ;
trans, to Kilmuir, Skye, 4th April 1878.
JOSEPH M'INNES, born about 1835,
18I78 son of Daniel M., agent, Skye ; edu
cated at Univ. of Glasgow ; app.
missionary at Ardrishaig in 1857 ; adm.
min. of Rothesay Gaelic Chapel, 1862; assist
ant at Portree, 1862 ; ord. missionary at
Arisaig, 1870 ; trans, and adm. 19th Sept.
1 878 ; died at Dingwall 18th Oct. 1883. He
marr. Jane (died at Dunoon 25th Nov.
1903), daugh. of George Graham, excise
officer, and Jane Shearer.
ANGUS MACDONALD, ord. 18th June
1884 1884 ' trans> to Killearnan 27th Nov.
1890.
ANGUS MACDONALD, ord. 2nd Sept.
1891 ; trans, to Small Isles 13th
May 1913.
JAMES ALEXANDER DONALD
1918 JOHN MACDONALD, adm. 20th
Aug. 1913 ; trans, to Arisaig 24th
Sept. 1919 ; dem. that charge 18th May 1925.
WILLIAM URQUHART MACNAB,
1920 born Uig, Skye, 17th March 1885,
son of John M., schoolmaster, Kil
muir, and Evangeline Mackay ; educated
at Kilmuir and Kingussie Schools and
Univs. of Edinburgh and Glasgow ; M.A.
(1911); licen. by Presb. of Skye Sept.
1918; ord. 28th Sept. 1920; served in
Royal Navy in European War. Marr. 6th
Feb. 1925, Mary, daugh. of William
Bannatyne, Ledaig Farm, Oban.
PRESBYTERY OF SKYE
to 4th Dec. 1786, 1809 to 1823.]
BRACADALE.
[The old church of Bracadale was dedi
cated to St Malrubha. It had an ancient
stone font, finely carved. This is now in
Edinburgh, in the Museum of the Society
of Antiquaries of Scotland. At Carbost, in
this parish, there is a mission chapel.]
JOHN M'COLGAN, min. in 1614.—
1614 [Nat. MSS., pt. U., 84.]
JOHN MACKINNON, educated at
Univ. of Glasgow; M.A. (1630);
1682 pres. by John Leslie, Bishop of the
Isles, in 1632.— [Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii.,
357.]
LACHLAN FRASER, son of Alexander
F., min. of Petty ; educated at Univ.
1641 of St Andrews ; M.A. (1631) ; adm.
before 7th Oct. 1641 ; still min. 7th Oct.
1648. The Presb. were ordered by the
General Assembly, 12th Aug. 1648, to pro
ceed with excommunication against him ;
became min. of Kilmallie before 2nd June
1669.
JOHN BETHUNE, born about 1642
son of Angus B., one of the
1689 physicians of the Isles; educated
at Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (31st Julj
1662); adm. before 1689; was received into
Presbyterian Church at or before 21st Maj
1692; died 12th Jan. 1708. He was "a
learned divine and an able physician," an<
the first in the Island, it is said, who dis
>ensed the communion in the Presbyterian
orm. He marr. Marion, daugh. of John
Macleod of Drynoch, and had issue —
Farquhar of Kilellan, died 1762 ; Kenneth,
min. of Kilmuir; and two daughs., one
marr. Neil M'Eacharn of Kilellan, Kintyre,
;he other M'Leod of Gesto.— [Genealogy of
\he Bethunes, 33 ; Isles Tests.]
DANIEL M AC AUL AY, born about
1674, son of Donald M. and grand-
1708 son of Angus M. of Braenish, who
fell at Auldearn in 1643 ; educated at Univ.
of Edinburgh; M.A. (12th April 1692); ord.
to Kilmuir in Trotternish 22nd Feb. 1700 ;
trans, and adm. in 1708 ; died 3rd March
1748. He marr. Aug. 1702, Katherine
Macqueen, who died 26th July 1774, and
had issue — ^Eneas, min. of Applecross ;
Donald ; Archibald ; Alice.
WILLIAM MACLEOD, pres. by
Norman Macleod of Macleod : trans.
1749 and adm. from Barra 4th May 1749 ;
trans, to Campbeltown 28th Jan. 1767.
RODERICK MACLEOD, licen. by
Presb. of Skye 1st May 1763; ord.
1768 to Harris 14th May 1765 ; trans, and
adm. 6th Oct. 1768 ; died 8th Nov. 1812,
having been "eminently zealous in the
work of his Master." He marr. llth April
1771, Janet (died Jan. 1817), daugh. of
Donald Macqueen, min. of Kilmuir, and
had issue — Christina; Margaret; Janet.
Publication— Account of the Parish (Sin
clair's Stat. Ace., iii.).
PRESB. OF SKYE]
BRACADALE
167
JOHN SHAW, born 29th Feb. 1784,
third son of William S. of Dalnaglar
1818 and Margaret, daugh. of John
Kobertson of Cray ; educated at Univ. of
Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of Dunkeld
7th Oct. 1805 ; ord. to Duirinish 21st Sept.
1811 ; pres. by John Norman Macleod of
Macleod in April, trans, and adm. 26th
Aug. 1813 ; died 16th Jan. 1823. He marr.
14th July 1818, Mary (died at Edinburgh,
22nd July 1866), daugh. of Malcolm Colqu-
houn, min. of the Gaelic Chapel, Dundee,
and had issue — Margaret, missionary of
the Church of Scotland, Bombay (marr.
James Mitchell, missionary of Free Church,
Poona); Agnes (marr. 1846, William Brown,
Free Church min. at Cray) ; Joanna Mary,
born 1st Aug. 1823 (marr. 1846, Alexander
Garden Fraser, D.D., Principal of the
Parses College, Bombay, India).
RODERICK MACLEOD, pres. by John
Norman Macleod of Macleod in June,
J and adm. 24th Sept. 1823. Having
refused or delayed to administer baptism
to a child on account, as he alleged, of the
ignorance and immoral conduct of the
parent, the matter was brought before the
Presb. when he was ordered to baptise the
child, and this on appeal was confirmed by
the General Assembly 29th May 1824.
Disobeying these instructions he was sus
pended from the ministry 5th May till 18th
July 1826, which sentence was confirmed
by the Assembly 23rd May same year;
trans, to Snizort 9th Feb. 1838.
JOHN ROBERTSON GLASS, born
1804, eldest son of Robert G., mer-
1888 chant, Greenock, and Rebecca, daugh.
of John Robertson, min. of Kingussie ;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow; licen. by
Presb. of Forres ; ord. to Insh, Kingussie,
25th June 1829 ; trans, to Duirinish 22nd
June 1836 ; trans, and adm. 27th June
1838. Joined the Free Church in 1843 ;
min. of Free Church, Musselburgh, llth
July 1843-55; died 29th Dec. 1855. He
marr. 6th Oct. 1830, Louisa (died 15th
Aug. 1881), daugh. of Donald Macnab,
Kingussie, and had issue — Donald Macnab;
James George Henry, C.I.E., secretary to
Government of Bengal, born 1st Feb.
1843, died 21st April 1911 ; Catherine
Shepherd; Henrietta Jane (marr. David
Brown, Penang).
NEIL MACKINNON, ord. 22nd Sept.
1843; trans, to Creich 27th Sept.
1843
1855.
JOHN WILLIAM TOLMIE, M.A. ;
trans, and adm. from Strontian 28th
1856 Feb. 1856 ; trans, to Contin 1st July
1863.
RODERICK MORISON, pres. by Mac
leod of Macleod; ord. 18th Feb.
: 1864 ; trans, to Tarbert, Inveraray,
17th Dec. 1874.
JOHN MACLEAN, born 1841, son of
John M., tacksman of Greentote,
North Uist, and Annabella Mac-
donald ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ;
licen. in 1863 ; ord. to Knoydart 25th July
1867 ; trans, and adm. 4th Jan. 1876 ; died
16th March 1904. He marr. 7th Sept.
1880, Barbara Dickie (died 6th Sept. 1920),
daugh. of Robert Cruickshanks, grocer,
Kirkcudbright, and Margaret Osborne, and
had issue— Mary Ann Osborne, born llth
Aug. 1881 ; Annabella Macdonald, born
7th Jan. 1883, died 27th Nov. 1900; John
Ewen, born 30th Sept. 1889, died 2nd Jan.
1900; Ewen Kenneth, M.D., U.S. Army,
born 24th May 1892 ; Malcolm Alexander,
2nd lieut. Cameron Highlanders, born 9th
May 1896, killed in action in France 13th
Oct. 1915; John, Eastern Telegraph Co.,
Cape de Verde Islands, born 22nd May
1898; Barbara Arnot Cruickshanks, born
10th March 1902.
KENNETH ROSS, ord. 28th Sept. 1904 ;
1904 trans, to Sleat 21st April 1915.
DUGALD BELL, adm. 4th May 1916 ;
1916 trans, to South Uist 30th July 1919.
HUGH BLACK, born Colonsay 5th Oct.
1888, son of Alexander B., min. of
} Portree ; educated at Portree School,
Dingwall Academy, and Univ. of Glasgow ;
M.A. (1910) ; licen. by Presb. of Skye in
1920 ; served in Royal Navy in European
War ; ord. 13th May 1920.
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DUIRINISH
[PRESB. OF
DUIKINISH.
[The church of Duirinish was dedicated
to St Mary. Within the bounds there
were two chapels, St Coan's at Glendale,
and St Mary's at Dunvegan. At Glendale
there is a Well of St Coan.]
MALCOLM MACPHERSON, received
a grant or presentation from Archi-
1566 bald, Earl of Argyll, in 1566 ; was
coll. by John Carswell, Superintendent of
Argyll and the Isles, which was confirmed
by Queen Mary in I5&l.—[0rig. Paroch.
Scot, ii., 358.]
ALAN O'COLGAN, min. in 1609;
witnessed a contract of friendship
' between Donald Gorm Macdonald
of Sleat and Rory Mor Macleod of
Dunvegan, 24th Aug. 1609, and a contract
of marriage between John Macdonald of
Clanranald and Marion, daugh. of Rory
Macleod of Dunvegan 15th Feb. 1613;
was min. of Kilchoan 9th Nov. 1626.—
[Dunvegan Charter Chest ; Collect, de Reb.
Alban., 205 ; Inverness Sets., iii., 306.]
EWEN MACQUEEN, min. in 1626;
still in the charge 7th Oct. 1643.
1 He had issue — Archibald, min. of
Snizort ; Angus, min. of South Uist. — [Col
lect, de Reb. Alban. ; Nat. MSS.,ii., No. 84.]
MARTIN MACPHERSON, formerly of
South Uist. Having been obliged
' to leave that parish in 1658 under
fear of assassination, he found a refuge at
Dunvegan ; pres. by John Macleod of
Dunvegan, and adm. before 25th June
1661. He petitioned parliament that year,
narrating his sufferings and losses in South
Uist, and obtained Letters of Horning
against John Macdonald of Clanranald for
payment of the decree against him ; at the
same time he received a grant of £150
sterling out of the vacant stipends in the
Presb. of Skye and Uist; died in 1662.
He marr. a daugh. of Kenneth Macqueen
of Orinsay, North Uist, and had issue—
Dugald, min. of this parish ; and two
daughs. — [Playfair's Bart., ii. ; Acts of
Parl., vii., 282, App. 79 ; Lord Macdonald's
Charter Chest.]
DUGALD MACPHERSON, born about
1641, only son of preceding; edu
cated at Univ. of Glasgow; M.A.
(1661) ; adm. before 1684. He was received
into Presbyterian communion by the Synod
of Argyll at or before 21st May 1692 ; died
16th March 1717. During his incumbency
his corn, while drying on the kiln, was
twice consumed by fire, notwithstanding
his precautions, and a warning by a servant
claiming to be gifted with the second
sight. He strenuously opposed the progress
of Popery, was a friend of the Earl of
Islay, had a fine poetical vein and was
exemplary in the discharge of his official
duties. He marr. (1) Christian Berry,
Edinburgh, and had issue — Martin, min. of
Strath ; John, schoolmaster of Orbost, and
others : (2) Margaret (died 1715), daugh. of
Alexander Macleod of Drynoch.— [Martin's
Western Isles.]
NORMAN MACLEOD, born Ose,
Bracadale, brother of Donald M.,
min. of Strath; licen. by Presb. of
Skye 25th April 1712 ; ord. to Strath 4th
Feb. 1715 ; pres. by the Tutor of Macleod ;
trans, and adm. llth Dec. 1717 ; drowned
crossing the Minch between Skye and
Barra before March 1739. He marr., and
had a son— Roderick.— [Miscell. Scot., iii.]
JOHN MACLEOD, educated at King's
College, Aberdeen; M.A. (29th
March 1722) ; ord. to Uig 30th Aug.
1726; trans, and adm. 21st July 1741;
died 29th Dec. 1752. He claimed possession
of the second sight and was reckoned
a man of ability and piety. He marr.
17th July 1732, Elizabeth Macleod, and
had issue— Roderick ; John; Alexander;
Peggy.
DONALD MACLEOD of Grishernish,
born about 1698, son of Norman M.
of Grishernish and great grandson of
Sir Rory Mor M. of Dunvegan; educated
at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (9th
April 1718) ; was missionary in Benbecula ;
ord. to South Uist 8th Oct. 1725 ; trans, to
North Uist 4th May 1736 ; called 2nd Jan.,
trans, and adm. 13th Aug. 1754 ; died after
having been warned by a notable woman
seer 27th Dec. 1759. An obituary notice
1741
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169
in the Scots Magazine describes him as
"a gentleman who adorned his profession
not so much by a literary merit, of which
he possessed a considerable share, as by
the constant practice of the most useful
and exalted virtues. To do good was the
ruling passion of his heart." He composed
many Gaelic poems ; one of the best,
Beannachadh Baird, to his newly wedded
bride begins
" Mile ante dhuit le d'bhreid,
Fad do re gu'n robh thu slan;
Moran laithean dhuit le sith,
Le d'mhaitheas 's le d'ni 'bhi fas."
He marr. 6th Sept. 1728, Anne Maclean,
who died 25th Dec. 1774, and had issue —
Norman, fourth of Grishernish ; Alexander,
colonel Madras army, died 1805 ; Catherine
(marr. Alexander Macdonald of Balranald ;
Mary (marr. Hector Maclean of Trumpan) ;
Alexandrina (marr. Donald Macleod of
Bernera). — [Scots Mag., xxii., 106 ; Lord
Macdonald's Charter Chest.]
JAMES NICOLSON, pres. by the
Presb. jure devoluto 9th April, and
J ord. 12th May 1762; trans, to
Halkirk 24th Sept. 1766.
WILLIAM BETHUNE, born 1738, son
1767
of Kenneth B., min. of Kilmuir;
licen. by Presb. of Gairloch 8th Oct.
1766 ; ord. 30th Sept. 1767 ; died 13th May
1814. He marr. llth April 1777, Janet
Mackinnon, who died at Waterstein 18th
Jan. 1821, and had issue — Kenneth ;
Christina (marr. Captain Duncan Macrae,
Inverinate). Publication — Account of the
Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., iv.).
JOHN SHAW, pres. by John Norman
1811 Macleod of Macleod Dec. 1810 ; ord.
21st Sept., and adm. by a committee
of the Presb. 3rd Oct. 1811; trans, to
Bracadale 26th Aug. 1813.
JOHN MACGREGOR SOUTER, born
Aberdeen about 1785 ; educated at
King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A.
(29th March 1805); licen. by Presb. of
Lochcarron 3rd April 1811 ; pres. by John
Norman Macleod of Macleod in April, and
ord. 6th Sept. 1814. He was sometime
factor on the Macleod estates and died
unmarr. 8th March 1839. His knowledge
1840
of Gaelic, which was acquired, was so
deficient that he often committed the most
ludicrous mistakes in the pulpit and his
hearers were frequently at a loss to know
which language he was speaking. This is
given expression to by a local rhymster,
thus—
" Nuair theid thu do'n chubaid,
Ni thu urnuigh bhios gleusta ;
Bidh cuid dhith 'na Gaidhlig,
Is pairt dhith 'na Beurla ;
Bidh cuid dhith 'na Fraingis ;
'Na Laidinn 's na Greugais,
'S a chuid nach tuig each dhith,
Bheir e gair air Fear Gheueto."
JOHN ROBERTSON GLASS, trans,
from Inch, Kingussie, and adm.
(assistant and successor) 22nd June
1836 ; trans, to Bracadale 27th June 1838.
ARCHIBALD CLERK, trans, from
Acharacle, and adm. 20th March
1840; trans, to Ardnamurchan 25th
Nov. 1841. Publication— Account of the
Parish (New Stat. Ace., xiv.).
ANGUS MARTIN, ord. 5th May 1842 ;
1842 trans, to Snizort 18th Jan. 1844.
DUNCAN MACCALLUM, born Ardno,
1808, third son of Colin M., farmer,
Argyllshire ; educated at Univ. of
Glasgow; M.A. (1827); licen. by Presb. of
Dunoon in 1836; assistant at Greenock ;
ord. missionary at Raasay 12th July that
year; adm. 9th April 1844; died llth
June 1888. He marr. 10th Dec. 1856,
Catherine (died 13th March 1916), youngest
daugh. of Thomas Heweit, solicitor and
provost of Lanark, and had issue — Colin,
M.B., C.M., born 15th Oct. 1857, died 6th
Dec. 1891 ; Henry Vary, solicitor, Inver
ness, born 29th Oct. 1859, died 9th Feb.
1917; Edward Duncan, born 18th Aug.
1861 ; Thomas Heweit, born 10th June
1863, died at Edinburgh 30th Oct. 1918 ;
Richard Vary, born 14th Aug. 1865, died
at Liverpool 8th Nov. 1917; John Vary
(twin), born 14th Aug. 1865; Margaret
Isabella Anne, born 19th May 1868 ; James
George Hunter, born 8th March 1872.
DONALD MACLEAN, born Greenock,
20th March 1856 ; educated at Tiree
School and Univ. of Glasgow ; licen.
by Presb. of Mull; ord. 14th Feb. 1889;
1844
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[PRESB. OF
died at Glasgow, 24th Dec. 1917. The large
Gaelic library which he had collected was
purchased in 1910 by the Marquess of Bute.
He marr. 4th June 1896, Harriet (born 20th
March 1870), daugh. of Joseph Hopkins, and
had issue — Donald, medical practitioner,
born 20th April 1897 ; Jane, born 29th April
1898 ; Harriet, born 24th July 1901 ; Alex
ander Hector, medical officer in Uganda,
born 17th Sept. 1902 ; George, born 27th
May 1905, died 16th March 1906 ; Francis
Hopkins, born 7th Feb. 1907, died 12th Oct.
1918 ; Evelyn Maud, born 18th Nov. 1909.
Publication — Typographic, Scoto-Gadelica.
Books printed in the Gaelic of Scotland,
1567-1914 (Edinburgh, 1915).
ALEXANDER MACKENZIE, born
Glasgow, 1st Sept. 1888, son of
1918 Malcolm M. and Marion M'Donald;
educated at Kingussie and Univ. of
Glasgow; MA. (1911); Keen, by Presb.
of Edinburgh May 1915 ; assistant at St
Oran's, Edinburgh ; lieut. in Anti- Aircraft
Battery, R.A., in European War ; ord. 28th
Sept. 1918; trans, to Kilmartin llth April
1923 ; trans, to North Bute 25th Nov. 1927.
HALLIN-IN-WATERNISH.
[A parliamentary church built here in
1828, was constituted a parish quoad sacra
by the General Assembly 25th May 1833.
The parish was disjoined from Duirinish
by the Court of Teinds on 14th July 1847.]
RODERICK REID, pres. by George
IV. 14th May, and adm. 28th Sept.
1829; trans, to Lochs 18th April
1844.
JOHN LAMONT, born Glasgow, 1802,
son of Duncan L., tailor, educated
' at Univ. of Glasgow ; missionary at
Lochaber, 1835-8, and Amulree, 1838-41;
assistant in various charges, 1841-5 ; pres.
by Queen Victoria 16th Dec. 1844; adm.
17th April 1845; died 21st May 1869.
He marr. Jean (died 20th Feb. 1882),
daugh. of Adam MacEwan, master tailor,
Glasgow, and Annabell Hewet, and widow
of Andrew Macfarlane, wright, Glasgow,
and had issue— Annabella Victoria, born
1837 (marr. Peter Macdonald, schoolmaster,
Kinlochbervie), died 4th March 1928;
1890
Christina Jane (marr. James Duxberry),
died 20th April 1927 ; Mary Helen (marr.
Angus M'Innes, Coorg, Madras), died 23rd
April 1919 ; Jeannie Duncan (marr. 24th
Feb. 1880, John Jackson Tweedie, Polmont),
died 21st March 1919; Emily Andrina,
died at Limoges, France, 26th Aug. 1917 ;
Joanna Elizabeth.
DONALD MACAULAY, pres. by Queen
Victoria 12th Nov. 1869 ; adm. 3rd
1870 Feb. 1870; trans, to Eddrachillis
llth May 1871.
DAVID JOHNSTONS, pres. by Queen
Victoria 5th Aug., and ord. 9th Nov.
1871 1871 . trans, to St Columba's Gaelic
Church, Paisley, 4th July 1883.
DONALD MACCALLUM, adm. 5th
March 1884 ; trans, to Hylipol 22nd
1884 Dec. 1887.
JOHN KENNETH MACLEAN, MA. ;
ord. 16th July 1890 ; trans, to Farr
10th May 1892.
NORMAN MACLEAN, M.A., brother of
preceding; ord. 7th Sept. 1892 ; trans.
192 to Glengarry 10th Feb. 1897 (cf.
Vol. III., 471) ; app. chaplain to the King
24th Aug. 1926; elected Moderator of
General Assemby 24th May 1927. His wife
died 1st May 1927. Publications (addi
tional)— The Message of Bethlehem (London,
1926) ; Be of Good Cheer ; Life Stronger
than Death (Assembly Closing Address)
(Edin. 1927); The Future Life (London,
1927).
GEORGE MURDOCH MACLEAN,
brother of preceding ; ord. 7th July
1897 1897 . trans> to Duncansburgh 28th
June 1899.
NEIL ROSS, M.A., B.D. ; ord. 27th Sept.
1899 1899 ; trans, to Glencoe 6th Aug. 1902.
DONALD MACDONALD LAMONT,
trans, from Gaelic Church, Rothesay,
1902 and adm. 10th Dec. 1902 ; trans, to
Strath 20th July 1904.
ALEXANDER MACDONALD, born
10th March 1870, son of Archibald
1904 M. and Catherine Macinnes ; edu
cated at Univ. of Glasgow; licen. by
Presb. of Mull 7th May 1901; assistant
at Strachur; ord. 16th Nov. 1904; died
unmarr. 14th May 1922.
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JOHN STEWAET, trans, from Tiree
and adm. 20th Oct. 1922; trans, to
1922 Kilmuir 9th May 1923.
RODERICK MACINNES, born Broad-
ford, Skye, 1st March 1884, son of
1924 John M. and Mary Anderson; edu
cated at Royal Academy, Inverness, Free
Church College, and Univ. of Edinburgh ;
licen. by Presb. of Skye 25th June 1924 ;
ord. 9th July that year. Marr. 30th April
1925, Marion, daugh. of Alexander Mac-
Askill, Kirkibost, North Uist, and Christy
MacCorquodale.
KILMUIR-IN-TROTTERNISH,
OF OLD KILMALUA1G.
[The old church of this parish was dedi
cated to St Luag. In or near 1600 the
parish church was taken from Kilmaluaig
to Kilmuir, where it replaced an ancient
chapel. Within the bounds are the remains
of two small monastic houses. One of
these was at Monkstad, called of old
Mugstad. The other was St Columba's
Monastery of Kilcholmkill. It was built
on an island in Loch Cholmkill, a sheet of
water now drained away. There were a
number of chapels in this parish, including
that of St Mary at Kilmuir, one of St Bride,
and two dedicated to St Columba, one of
them on the island of Troda, and the
other standing on the more distant island
of Fladda Chuain.]
FARQUHAR M'LENNAN, formerly of
1662 Fodderty.
DONALD NICOLSON, adm. about
1663 ; deserted his charge (probably
outed) in 1696 ; died 1697. Hemarr.
(1) Miss Robertson : (2) Margaret Morrison,
Lewis, and had issue — Margaret (marr.
her cousin, William Nicolson in England) ;
Malcolm, served heir to him 7th July 1702 ;
Donald ; Alexander, intruded here in 1715 ;
Patrick, min. of Kiltarlity, born 1692 ;
George ; James ; Jane (marr. Lachlan
Mackinnon of Corry); Rachel (marr. 1716
John Macdonald of Culnacnock); Mary
(marr. Alexander Macqueen, tacksman of
Brunistat) ; Neil ; Margaret (marr. Norman
1670
1700
Macdonald of Totscor); Donald "of Sten-
scholl " ; Margaret (marr. Donald Macdonald
f Scuddiborro) ; a daugh. (marr. Alexander
Macdonald, Balranald) ; John, died young ;
ind others.— [Martin's Western Isles; Ser
vices of Heirs ; P. C. 4cte,13tli July 1697.]
DUGALD MACPHERSON, styled min.
10th May 1670.— [P. C. Reg., 3rd ser.,
iii., 648.]
DANIEL MACAULAY, M.A.; called
in 1699 ; ord. 22nd Feb. 1700 ; trans,
to Bracadale in 1708.
ALEXANDER NICOLSON, son of
Donald N., min. of this parish;
' Episcopal min. of Stenscholl ; in
truded here in 1715. He became tacks
man of Aird in Sleat. He marr. Florence
Macdonald, widow of Edmund Macqueen,
min. of Sleat, and was the grandfather of
Alexander N., min. of Barra in 1813.
KENNETH BETHUNE, born about
1693, son of John B., min. of Braca-
1718 dale ; licen. by Presb. of Skye 23rd
June 1714; pres. by the Presb. jure
devoluto 16th Nov. 1716; ord. 7th Feb.
1718; died 1739. He marr. Christian,
daugh. of William Macleod of Oze and
Waterstein (she marr. (2) John Munro,
min. of Eddrachillis), and had issue— John;
William, min. of Duirinish.— [Geneal. of the
Bethunes.~\
DONALD MACQUEEN, son of Archi
bald M., min. of Snizort; licen. by
Presb. of Skye 4th June 1737 ; ord.
9th May 1740; died suddenly at Raasay
1st Feb. 1785. He was probably the best
known and most distinguished minister
in the Highlands in his time. Thomas
Pennant, who had a previous correspond
ence with him, visited him during his tour
in Skye in 1772, and to the English traveller
he gave much of the valuable information
used by him in his Tour in Scotland (1772).
In 1773 when Dr Johnson and Boswell
made their tour of the island they were
accompanied by M. Boswell writing from
Armadale says, "Being informed that the
Rev. Mr D. M. was the most intelligent
man in Skye, and having been favoured
with a letter of introduction to him by
172
KILMUIR-IN-TROTTERNISH
[PRESB. OF
the learned Sir James Foulis, I sent it to
him by express and requested him to meet
us at Kaasay." The minister informed
Boswell that he had " Macgillechalum's
carriage, made in Norway, ready to bring
the party thither." He afterwards joined
heartily in the chorus of a Gaelic song,
raised by the rowers, composed on the
Rising of the '15. Johnson had the highest
opinion of his ability. " This is a critical
man, Sir," he said, "there must be great
vigour of mind to make him cultivate
learning so much in the Isle of Skye where
he might do without it." He held his own
in the discussion with Johnson over the
Ossianic controversy. M. supported the
Evangelical party in the Church and is
mentioned with honour by Dr John Erskine
in his Sketches of Church History. He was
employed by the General Assembly in
translating the Pentateuch into Gaelic. In
connection with this work he wrote learned
and interesting papers on the customs
of primitive nations. He was admitted
a Corresponding Member of the Society
of Antiquaries on 13th Feb. 1781, and
contributed to the Transactions of that
Society. There is a beautiful Gaelic elegy
composed to his memory in which his
attractive personality, his social qualities,
his mental attainments and accomplish
ments are enlarged upon. He marr. (1)
25th July 1744, Betsy, daugh. of John
Martin of Flodigarry, chamberlain of
Trotternish, and widow of James Mac
donald of Cuidrach, and had issue— Isabel .
Jane (marr. Roderick Macleod, min. of
Bracadale) ; Betsy : (2) 13th June 1749, Ann
(died Dec. 1756), daugh. of Alexander Mac
donald of Glentaltin, and had issue— John
min. of Applecross; Archibald, tacksmar
in Skye (died 17th April 1786) ; Donald
Christian; Mary. Publications— Disserta
tion on the Government of the Peopl
in the Western Isles (Pennant's Tour ii
Scotland) (1772) ; Letters on Hume's His
tory ; Letter to the Author of a Treatise 01
the Second Sight in 1756.— [MiscelL Scot
iii. ; Pennant's Tour ; Lord Macdonald
Charter Chest ; Boswell's Johnson, i., 605
Johnson's Tour to the Western Islands q
Scotland ; Boswell's Tour in the Hebrides.'
DONALD MARTIN, pres. by George
III. 20th April, and ord. 5th Oct.
' 1785 ; trans, to East Church, Inver-
less, 2nd Oct. 1808.
DONALD ROSS, M.A.; pres. by George
III. in March, and adm. 12th July
' 1809; trans, to Golspie 26th April
820, but settlement annulled by General
Assembly 23rd May that year on the
ground there was no vacancy there ; trans.
o Rogart 7th May 1822.
ROBERT MACGREGOR, educated at
Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb.
J of Dunkeld 4th Sept. 1798; ord.
missionary at Tullich, Glenmuick and
Glengairn 2nd July 1799 ; pres. by George
IV. ; adm. 27th Sept. 1822 ; died 24th July
1846. He marr. 18th Dec. 1804, Janet
Menzies, and had issue— Alexander, min.
of Second Charge, Inverness, born 26th
May 1806.
ALEXANDER MACGREGOR, son of
preceding; ord. (assistant and suc-
1 cessor) 23rd April 1844; trans, to
aelic Church, Edinburgh, 28th Aug. 1850.
JOHN MACIVER, born 27th Dec. 1788,
son of Colin M., min. of Glenelg ;
851 educated at King's College, Aber
deen ; licen. by Presb. of Lochcarron 14th
April 1829 ; ord. to Harris 3rd May 1832 ;
trans, to Sleat 8th May 1844; pres. by
Queen Victoria 18th Sept. 1850 ; trans, and
adm. 28th Jan. 1851 ; died 2nd Sept. 1869.
He marr. 1st Oct. 1840, Jane Finlayson
(died 21st Feb. 1898), youngest daugh. of
Dr Alexander Macleod, Ballone, North
Uist, the well-known "Dotair Ban," and
had issue— Colin John, born 1843, died
2nd Dec. 1855 ; Mary, born 1846, died 17th
March 1855; Anne Mary (marr. 1871, the
Rev. Allan R. Andrew, rector of Milne's
Institute, Fochabers) ; Alexander, indigo
planter, India ; Somerled ; Fergus ; Ewen ;
Donald, born 1861, died 1863; Margaret;
Jessie; Alexandrina ; Anne Jean. Publi
cation — Account of Harris (New Stat.
Ace., xiv.).— [Hist, of the Macleods, 394.]
JOHN FRANCIS MACKENZIE,
missionary at Kyleakin ; ord. 28th
} Sept. 1870; trans, to Gigha 2nd
Aug. 1877.
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JAMES GRANT, born Abernethy, 1837,
son of Donald G., clothier, and Jane
Rattray ; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen ; M.A. (1858) ; ord. to Glencoe
in 1870; trans, to Ullapool 28th April
1871; trans, and adm. 4th April 1878;
died unmarr. 10th May 1906.
NEIL MACPHAIL, ord. 25th Sept.
1906; trans, to Cumlodden 4th
1906
June 1914.
JOHN MACLEAN, born Ardow,
Kilninian, Mull, 27th April 1876, son
of John M. and Sarah Macmillan ;
educated at Tobermory School and Univ.
of Glasgow ; M.A., B.D. ; licen. by Presb. of
High River, Canada, 14th July 1908 ; adm.
to Poolewe 19th July 1911 ; trans, to
Trumisgarry 13th Feb. 1913; trans, to
Kilfinichen 5th Nov. 1914 ; trans, and adm.
31st Oct. 1916 ; trans, to St Luke's, British
Guiana, 10th July 1922 ; trans, to Strontian
2nd Sept. 1924 ; trans, to Appin 1927. He
marr. 16th Aug. 1915, Betsy, daugh. of
John Campbell, Bunessan Hotel, and Sarah
Campbell.
JOHN STEWART, formerly of
Tiree (q.v.); trans, from Hallin-in-
' Waternish, and adm. 9th May 1923 ;
trans, to Small Isles 21st April 1926.
PORTREE, OF OLD KILTAR-
LAGAIN, AND RAASAY.
[These two parishes were united in the
sixteenth century. For a time this union
included also Snizort and Uig. They were
disjoined again by the Court of Teinds on
26th February 1726. In that year too the
parish church was taken from Kiltarlagain
to Portree.
Portree.— The old church at Kiltarlagain
was dedicated to St Tarlagan. At Portree,
where the parish church now stands, there
was of old a chapel of St Malrubha, and
there the Saint's Fair (Feill Mhalridbh)
was held. There are mission chapels
within the bounds at Sconser and the
Braes.
Raasay. — The church of Raasay was
dedicated to St Moluag. The ancient
building, now ruined, is nearly fifty feet
long. There was of old a chapel in the
island of Rona.]
HUGH MACDONALD, born 1703, son
of Hugh M. of Glenmore and Glen-
haltin and Katherine Macdonald,
and grandson of Sir James Macdonald,
Bart., of Sleat ; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen; M.A. (2nd April 1719); called
21st Nov. 1726; ord. 18th Jan. 1727; died
17th Feb. 1756. He marr. llth April 1729,
Elizabeth (died 23rd July 1767), daugh.
of John Macdonald of Balconie Castle,
Kiltearn, and had issue — Major Alexander
of Courthill, Lochcarron ; James ; John,
went to North Carolina ; Janet ; Alice,
marr. (cont. 2nd Dec. 1787) Alexander Grant
of Corrimony ; Margaret, and other nine
children who died young. — [Clan Donald,
iii., 524 ; Lord Macdonald's Charter Chest.]
JOHN NICOLSON, born 1707; edu-
17_6 cated at King's College, Aberdeen,
1726-31 ; licen. by Presb. of Skye 16th
July 1743 ; ord. by Presb. of Abertarff
missionary in Lochaber 14th June 1751 ;
adm. here 7th Dec. 1756; died 9th May
1799. He was a man of primitive manners
and exemplary life. He left £140 for the
poor of the parish.
ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, born 1770
son of John C. of Carnlaroch, Skye ;
educated at King's College, Aber
deen ; M.A. (29th March 1788) ; appointed
schoolmaster of Portree 17th May 1791 ;
licen. by Presb. of Skye 15th Aug. 1792;
ord. catechist 20th May 1795 ; pres. by
George III. 26th June, and adm. 20th Nov.
1799; killed by a fall from the top of .his
stair 15th Feb. 1811. He was a learned
divine and conscientious pastor, much loved
by his parishioners who lamented his tragic
end. He marr. 4th Oct. 1803, Margaret
(marr. (2) 6th Dec. 1816), daugh. of William
Macleod of Luskentyre in Harris, and had
issue— John, officer in Indian army, born
21st July 1805; William; Alexandrina;
Isabella. Publications— "Lamentation for
a Son, and a Love Song " [trans, from the
Gaelic] (Scots Mag., Ixxxi.); Account of
the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., xvi.).—
[Scots Mag., Ixxiii.]
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PORTREE— SLEAT
[PRESB. OF
COLL MACDONALD, born 1773, son
of Archibald M., Grianan, North
1811 Uist (of the Macdonalds of Eigg and
Balvicquean) ; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen ; M.A. (30th March 1797) ; licen.
by Presb. of Uist 15th July 1803; ord.
by Presb. of Lochcarron .as missionary at
Strontian 15th Feb. 1804 ; pres. by George,
Prince Kegent, 16th April, and adm. 13th
Nov. 1811 ; died 3rd Nov. 1854. He was
a man of sterling integrity, of clear and
discriminating mind, and of a most friendly
and amiable disposition. By his exertions
schools were erected, one in the parish and
another at Snizort. He marr. (1) 5th Jan.
1814, Margaret (died 2nd July 1840), daugh.
of Captain Norman Macleod of Bernisdale,
and had issue— Margaret : (2) 2nd Nov.
1847, Barbara Macdonald, Stornoway, who
died 6th April 1895. Publication— Account
of the Parish (New Stat. Ace., xiv.).— [Clan
Donald, iii., 515.]
HUGH MACARTHUR, born 1815, son
of Peter M., manufacturer, and Mary
1854 M'phedrine ; adm. (assistant and suc-
cessor).17th May 1854; died 27th Nov. 1866.
He marr. 23rd July 1857, Mary Macgregor.
JOHN DARROCH, born Jura, 1829,
son of Neil D., Largiebreck; went
1867 to Virginia, U.S.A.; educated at
Princeton Univ., M.A. (1854), Columbian
Theological Seminary (1856-7), Princeton
Theological Univ. (1857-9) ; ord. by Presb.
of Luzerne to Withesley, Pennsylvania,
1859; trans, to Lochiel, Glengarry, Canada,
1861; dem. in 1867; pres. by Queen
Victoria 16th Jan., and adm. 2nd April
that year ; dem. 19th July 1893, died at
Musselburgh, 17th Sept. 1916. He marr.
2nd Nov. 1871, Mary Jessie (died 20th
Sept. 1876), daugh. of Donald Jackson,
min. of Kilmartin, and had issue— Neil
Donald, M.A., teacher, born 27th June
1873, died at Glasgow, 29th May 1920;
Campbell Lament (daugh.), born llth June
1874 ; John Alastair, born 24th Aug. 1876
Publications — Discourse on the Life of the
late Rev. Norman Macleod, D.D. ; A Sermon
on the occasion of the lamented death of Mrs
Boss of the Royal Hotel, Portree (1878).
ALEXANDER BLACK, born Ardluss,
Bunessan, Mull, 6th Jan. 1855, son
1894 of John B. and Lucy Lament ; edu
cated at Bunessan School and Univ. of
Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Islay in 1892 ;
missionary at Lawers, Perthshire ; ord. 4th
Jan. 1894. Marr. 3rd Nov. 1887, Margaret,
daugh. of Ronald Macdougall, and has issue
—Hugh, min. of Bracadale, born 5th Oct.
1888 ; John Lament, electrical engineer,
born 21st June 1890 ; Anne, teacher of
domestic science, born 15th Dec. 1891 ;
Isabella M'Phie, born 1st June 1893 ; Alex
ander Ronald, medical student, born 31st
Jan. 1895; Donald Archibald, medical
student, born 24th Nov. 1896.
SLEAT.
[The church of Sleat was -dedicated to St
Mary. About 1662 the parishes of Sleat
and Strathswordale or Strath were united.
They were severed again on 16th Feb. 1726.
At Isle Ornsay in the parish of Sleat there
is a mission chapel.]
KENNETH MACKENZIE of Torridon,
pres. and adm. by Andrew, Bishop of
1609 the Isles, including Trotternish and
Small Isles. A question was raised before
the Court of Session alleging that the
benefice had been conferred on another,
but the Lords, 4th July 1627, preferred him,
he being long in possession. On 19th of
that month he " gave his grite and solemne
oathe that he sail treulie according to his
knowledge, gif up to the Clerk of Counsell
the names of all the Papists whom he knew
within the Isles." He marr. , daugh.
of Roderick, son of Kenneth Mackenzie of
Kilchrist, and had issue — Mary (marr.
Colin, second son of Alexander Mackenzie
of Davochmaluag.— [Durie and Morison's
Dec., xvii. ; Collect, de Reb. Alban. ; Hist,
of the Mackenzies, 523; P. C. Reg., 2nd
ser., ii., 20.]
NEIL MACKINNON, nephew of Sir
Lachlan M. of Strath; educated at
1633 Univ. of Glasgow; M.A. (1626);
adm. to Strath about 1627; trans, and
adm. before 4th Aug. 1633, when he
entered into a contract of fosterage with
John Macleod of Dunvegan ; still min.
29th May 1661. He marr. Janet Mac-
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175
leod, and had issue — Lauchlan of Torrin ;
Donald, min. of Strath; Hector of Borreraig;
John, captain in France ; Neil, tacksman of
Borreraig.— [Macleod Charter Chest; Reg.
of Deeds, ccccvii., Mack., xvii., 605 ;
Lament's Strath, 72; Collect, de Reb.
Allan. ; P. C. Reg., 2nd ser., v., 421.]
ANGUS MACQUEEN, son of Archibald
M., min. of Snizort ; min. before 1669 ;
he was deprived by the visitors of
the Synod, 1694; was still in the charge
19th May 1709. He marr. and had issue —
Edmund, min. of this parish ; Donald, min.
of Small Isles; Margaret (marr. Roderick
Macleod of Gesto) ; Mary (marr. Alexander
Macleod of Greshornish) ; James.
EDMUND MACQUEEN, son of pre
ceding; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen ; M.A. (2nd April 1719) ;
adm. before 6th July 1726; died before
1742. He marr. Florence Macdonald (who
marr. (2) Alexander Nicolson, min. of
Kilmuir) and had issue.
JOHN MACPHERSON, born 1st Nov.
1713, son of Martin M., min. of
' Strath ; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen ; M.A. (1728) ; licen. by Presb. of
Uist 12th May 1734 ; ord. to Barra 28th Sept.
that year; trans, and adm. 14th Jan. 1742;
D.D. (King's College, Aberdeen, 20th Nov.
1761); died 5th April 1765. He was dis
tinguished above all his contemporaries in
the Highlands as a man of talent and
learning. His son, in his preface.to Critical
Dissertations, says of him : "Excluded by
the peculiar situation of the place of his
residence from the society of the learned,
he indulged his singular passion for litera
ture among a few good books. Being master
of the Celtic in all its branches, he took
pleasure in tracing other languages to that
general source of all the ancient and modern
tongues of Europe." He composed several
pieces of Latin poetry. Of one of these Dr
Samuel Johnson in the course of his tour
in the Isle of Skye said, "It does him
honour, he has a great deal of Latin and
very good Latin." He was a stout defender
of the authenticity of Ossian and wrote
many letters on the subject to Dr Hugh
Blair. He marr. 25th Feb. 1740, Janet
1765
(died 1748), daugh. of Donald Macleod of
Bernei-a, and had issue — John, Governor-
General of India, 1785-6, created a Baronet
10th June 1786, born 1744, died 12th Jan.
1821 ; Martin, min. of this parish ; Isabel
(marr. John Macpherson of Uvia,Badenoch).
Publications — Critical Dissertations on the
Origin, Antiquities, Languages, Government,
Manners, and Religion of the Ancient Cale
donians, their Posterity, the Picts, and the
British and Irish Scots (London, 1768);
Latin Ode to the Memory of Norman Mac
leod, min. of Duirinish (Scots Mag., 1739) ;
The Song of Moses paraphrased in Latin
verses (Scots Mag., 1747) ; Letter to the
Author of a Treatise on the Second Sight
in 1759 (Miscell. Scot., iii.).— [Scots Mag.,
xxvii. ; Macnicol's Remarks on Johnson's
Journey ; Report on Authenticity of the
Poems of Ossian ; Diet. Nat. Biog. ; Hist,
of the Macleods, 251 ; Tombst.].
MARTIN MACPHERSON, born 12th
Sept. 1743, son of preceding; edu
cated at King's College, Aberdeen,
M.A. (2nd April 1764), and Univ. of Edin
burgh ; licen. by Presb. of Skye 7th Aug.,
pres. by George III. 1st Sept., and ord.
9th Oct. 1765 ; D.D. (King's College, Aber
deen, 27th April 1803); died 25th April
1812. He was spoken of as a man of
ability and culture. He entertained Dr
Johnson and Boswell in 1773. He marr.
19th Nov. 1766, Mary (died s.p. 26th Dec.
1808), daugh. of Lachlan Mackinnon of
Corry. Publication — Account of the Parish
(Sinclair's Stat. Ace., xvi.).
JOHN MACKINNON, M.A. ; pres. by
George, Prince Regent, 14th May,
and ord. 3rd Dec. 1812; trans, to
Strath 19th Oct. 1825.
ALEXANDER M'lVER, adm.
26th April 1826 ; trans, to Dornoch
22nd Nov. 1843.
JOHN MACIVER, pres. by Queen
Victoria 16th Dec. 1843 ; trans, from
Harris, and adm. 8th May 1844;
trans, to Kilmuir 28th Jan. 1851.
JOHN FORBES, born Strathglass, 1818 ;
educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ;
licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh ;
became schoolmaster of Fort Augustus in
1812
1851
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SLEAT— SMALL ISLES
[PEESB. OF
1843; one of the masters of the Normal
Institution, Edinburgh, 1848; assistant at
St Stephen's, Edinburgh, 1849-51 ; pres. by
Queen Victoria 13th March, and ord. 14th
May 1851 ; died 21st Jan. 1863. He was
among the best Gaelic scholars of his time
and made many translations into Gaelic.
He marr. Jane Smith (died at Edinburgh
1st Aug. 1874), daugh. of Kobert Thomson,
M.D., and Elizabeth Overing Thomson,
and had issue — Alexander Robert, assist
ant-keeper of the Court of Session Minute-
Book, Edinburgh, author of Gaelic Names
of Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Insects, Reptiles,
etc. (Edinburgh, 1905), The Place-Names
of Skye and Adjacent Islands (Edinburgh,
1923), died 4th June 1924. Publications
— A Double Grammar of English and
Gaelic (Edinburgh, 1843); The Principles
of Gaelic Grammar (Edinburgh, 1848);
The White Ship (Gaelic), a spiritual poem
(Edinburgh, n.d.) ; An Lochran, The Lamp
(Edinburgh, n.d.) ; The Clergyman on the
See-saw (Glasgow, 1853)-; Catechism on
Baptism (Gaelic) (Edinburgh, 1857); The
Two Servants (1858) ; " Comhradh nan
Cnoc, no Fead air na Fithich :' [a retalia
tory poem] (n.d.). He translated into
Gaelic Blakeney's Protestant Catechism
(Edin. 1859), Baxter's The Saint's Ever
lasting Rest (Edinburgh, 1862), and into
English Dugald Buchanan's " Laoidhe
Spioradail " [Spiritual Hymns] (1844). He
left in MS. a translation of Ossian into
Gaelic.
DONALD MACDONALD, born North
Uist, 1830, son of Donald M. ; edu
cated at Univ. of Edinburgh and
Queen's College, Canada ; min. of Lochiel,
Canada, Sept. 1856-9 ; adm. to Trumisgarry
15th Sept. 1859 ; pres. by Queen Victoria
4th April, trans, and adm. 6th Aug. 1863 ;
dem. 30th Sept. 1869 and returned to
Canada; died 28th Oct. 1878. He marr.
Harriet Ann Macpherson, who died 23rd
Sept. 1910, and had issue — Lowther ;
Donald Ewen ; William.
ARCHIBALD MACNEILL, born
Inverness-shire about 1836, son of
Archibald M., farmer, Gigha, and
Margaret Macdonald ; educated at Univ.
of Glasgow ; missionary at Kilbride, Kil-
finan; pres. by Queen Victoria 10th Dec.
.869; ord. 4th May 1870; died unmarr.
.st Nov. 1880.
ALEXANDER CAMERON, born 14th
Oct. 1845, son of William C., min. of
Lochbroom ; ord. to Glengarry llth
May 1871 ; trans, and adm. 27th Sept.
1881 ; dem. 2nd Dec. 1914; died at Perth
24th July 1923. He marr. 17th April 1884,
Grace Macleod (died at Perth, 13th Feb.
1927), daugh. of Archibald Clerk, LL.D.,
min. of Kilmallie, and had issue — William,
army officer, born 30th May 1891, died
of wounds in European War 27th Oct.
1915 ; Jessie Sophia Macleod, born 17th
July 1892 ; Mabel Grace, born 18th March
1894 (marr. 19th April 1921, Thomas David
son, captain R.A.F.
KENNETH ROSS, born Gairloch
1st May 1870, son of Angus R.
' and Anne Macgregor ; educated at
Auchtercairn School and Univs. of Glasgow
and Aberdeen ; licen. by Presb. of Aber
deen 1902; assistant at Duthil; ord. to
Bracadale 28th Sept. 1904 ; trans, and adm.
21st April 1915. Marr. 1st June 1906,
Margaret, daugh. of James Macfarlane,
Partick, and Margaret Inglis.
SMALL ISLES, OR EIGG AND
CANNA.
[In the sixteenth century the three
parishes of Strathswordale, Eigg, and
Canna were united. On 16th Feb. 1720
the Court of Teinds severed from the
two others the parish of Strathswordale,
called also Strath. There are still parish
churches in both Eigg and Canna.
Eigg.— In early times the island of Eigg
became the seat of St Donan's teaching.
There he and his missionary comrades
were murdered about the year 617. To
St Donan the later church of Eigg was
dedicated. The island of Muc [or Muck]
forms part of this parish. In Eigg there
are Wells of St Donan, St Coluinba, and
St Katherine.
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177
Canna. — The church of Canna was dedi
cated to St Columba. Having fallen into
ruin, it lay waste for generations, but of
late years it has been beautifully restored
by Mr Alan G. Thorn of Canna. In its
churchyard stands an ancient cross of
carved stone, about seven feet high. The
islands of Canna and Rum together make
up this parish.]
DONALD MACQUEEN, M.A. ; pres.
by the Presb. jure devoluto 16th
' March, and ord. 19th April 1727;
trans, to North Uist 29th Sept. 1755.
MALCOLM MACASKILL, born
1,75.7 1723, son of M. of Rhuandunan,
Skye ; educated at Univ. of Edin
burgh; app. to Duncansburgh in 1744; ord.
to Kilmallie 7th Aug. 1751 ; trans, and adm.
14th Jan. 1757; died 15th April 1787.
He was reputed to have been a man of
splendid physique and great strength ;
was called Am Ministear Laidir ("The
strong minister") and wore a shepherd
tartan kilt. He marr. (1) Anne Macleod,
and had issue — Kenneth ; John ; Jean :
(2) 21st July 1761, Mary Maclean, Coll,
and had issue — Hugh, born 2nd July 1762,
died 18th March 1763 ; Donald, M.D., born
4th Dec. 1763, drowned crossing from
Arisaig to Eigg 28th Oct. 1817 ; Allan of
Calgary, Mull, captain of an East India-
man, born 14th Dec. 1765 ; Hugh, born
10th June 1767, died 30th Aug. 1798;
Janet, born 5th July 1769, died 25th March
1771 ; Christian, born 22nd April 1771
(marr. Ronald Macdonald of Laig); Mary,
born 9th March 1775, died 1868; Marion,
born 15th Sept. 1776, died 3rd May 1812;
John Donald, born llth May 1779 ; Hector,
officer on East Indiaman, born llth April
1781. Publication— Letter to the Author
of a Treatise on the Second Sight in 1763
(Miscell. Scot., iii.).
DONALD MACLEAN, born 12th May
1752, son of Neil M. of Crossapool
and Julia Stewart; educated at
King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (29th
March 1773); licen. by Presb. of Mull
18th Dec. 1779; ord. missionary at Salen
and Kilfinichen ; pres. by George III.
VOL. VII.
5th June, and adm. 3rd Oct. 1787; app.
chaplain to Reay Fencibles and Deputy-
Lieutenant for Inverness-shire. He was
a man of sincere and unaffected piety.
He marr. 25th Sept. 1777, Lilias (died 1st
July 1814), daugh. of Alexander Maclean
of Gott, Tiree, and had issue — Margaret,
born 16th July 1780; Alexander, surgeon
64th Foot, born 19th Aug. 1782, died 5th
March 1818 ; Neil, min. of Tiree, born llth
July 1784 ; Hector, min. of Lochalsh, born
3rd June 1786 ; Julia, born 5th May 1788.
Publication — Account of the Parish (Sin
clair's Stat. Ace., xvii.). — [James Mac-
donald's Hebrides ; Scots Mag., Ixxiii. ;
Clan Gillean, 390.]
NEIL MACLEAN, M.A. ; pres. by
1811 George, Prince Regent, 13th Feb.,
and adm. 20th June 1811 ; trans, to
Tiree 7th March 1817.
WILLIAM FRASER, born 1754, son
of John F., farmer, Kiltarlity ; edu
cated at King's College, Aberdeen,
1768-72 ; licen. by Presb. of Mull 18th Dec.
1779 ; ord. missionary in Mull, afterwards
in Moidart and Arisaig ; pres. by George,
Prince Regent, and adm. 13th Sept. 1816.
He (with Dr Donald MacCaskill of the
island of Eigg) was drowned on their way
from Arisaig to Eigg by the sinking of
the boat, 28th Oct. 1817. — [Scots Mag.,
1m.]
DONALD MACLEAN, born 1793, third
1818 S°n °f Allan M>> farmer> Kinloch-
Scrisort, and Margaret Macdonald ;
educated at King's College, Aberdeen;
M.A. (1790) ; licen. by Presb. of Skye 25th
July 1817 ; ord. missionary in Rum and
Canna 16th Sept. 1818; pres. by George,
Prince Regent, 17th, and adm. 28th Nov.
1818; app. Deputy-Lieutenant for Inver
ness-shire in 1824; dep. by the Commission
of Assembly for intemperance 21st Nov.
1838; died on steamer between Greenock
and Glasgow 6th Oct. 1839. He marr. 5th
Feb. 1822, Isabella (died 13th May 1881),
daugh. of Charles Maclean of Gallanach,
and had issue— Charles Donald, born 1826,
died 23rd Nov. 1846; Allan; Lachlan ;
Margaret; Breadalbane' ; Marion, went to
M
178
SMALL ISLES
[PRESB. OF
Melbourne. Publication— Account of the
Parish (New Stat. Ace., xiv.). — [CVcm
Gillean, 396.]
JOHN SWANSON, born Gravesend,
Kent, 10th May 1804, son of William
1889 S., captain of the Hero, a vessel
plying between London and the North, and
Isabella Gallic ; his parents, both Scottish,
removed to Cromarty in 1809; educated at
school there [Hugh Miller being a fellow-
pupil], Tain Academy, and King's College,
Aberdeen, 1824; had for two years a
grocer's business in Cromarty but gave
it up; became schoolmaster of Nigg;
licen. by Presb. of Tain in 1833; ord.
missionary at Fort William in 1835 ; pres
by Queen Victoria 26th March, and adm
27th Aug. 1 839. Joined the Free Church in
1843 ; min. of Free Church, Small Isles
1843-7 ; min. of Free Church, Nigg, 1847-74
died 14th Jan. 1874. He marr. 1839
Isabella Smith, who died 8th Aug. 1887
and had issue— a son and daugh. Pubh
cations— A Leisure Hour in the Floating
Manse (Edinburgh, 1844); Aideachadh a
Chreidimh Chatholaich agus diultadh
Teagasg-Phapa [Popery Kejected] Inverness
IS43),— [Disruption Worthies of the High
lands (portrait), 127-36; Miller's Cruise o
the "Betsey."}
HENKY BEATSON, pres. by Quee
Victoria 29th July, trans, from
1843 Stenscholl and adm. 28th Sept.
1843 ; trans, to Barra 6th May 1847.
PETER GEANT, born 1796, son of
George G., writer, and Christine
1848 Roy; schoolmaster at Glenlivet ;
pres by Queen Victoria 12th Oct. 1847 ;
adm 20th April 1848 ; died 4th June 1864.
He marr. Isabella Smith, who died 16th
Nov 1865 aged 54, and had issue— William,
CE born 1841, died 28th Oct. 1894;
Christian, born 1837, died 17th Nov. 1922 ;
George, brigade surgeon, heut.-colonel in
the Indian Medical Service ; Isabella (marr,
John Grant Robertson, I.C.S.).
JOHN SINCLAIR, born 1825, third son
of Patrick S., merchant, Kilninver
1864 educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; ord
to Muckairn 18th Aug. 1852; dem. 31st
uly 1859 on app. to Roger's Hill and Cape
John, Nova Scotia ; pres. by Queen Victoria
9th July, and adm. 1st Nov. 1864 ; died
5th Nov. 1908. He marr. 1st June 1865,
Sarah, daugh. of Dugald Campbell, mm.
of Glassary, and had issue— Sarah, born
6th March 1866; Patrick Campbell, min.
of Urquhart (Elgin), born 16th March 1868 ;
Johanna Margaret, born 1st Sept. 1870,
died unmarr.
ALEXANDER FRASER, M.A.; adm.
9th June 1909 ; trans, to Salen llth
' July 1911.
ANGUS MACDONALD, born 1865,
son of Donald M., lona, and Mary
1913 Macgregor; educated at Univ. of
Glasgow; MA. (1887); ord. to Ullapool
2nd Sept. 1891 ; trans, and adm. 13th May
1913 ; died at Glasgow 9th June 1917. He
marr. llth Dec. 1894, Jessie, daugh. of
James Murdie, shepherd, and Jessie
Sutherland, and had issue— Mary Jessie,
born 6th Sept. 1895; Muriel lona, born
23rd Sept. 1896; Selina, born 9th June
1899 ; James Donald, born 9th April 1902.
[Parish vacant three years.]
GEORGE MACKENZIE, MA, B.D ;
ord. 10th May 1920 ; trans, to Kil-
) coman 8th Sept. 1921; trans, to
Kilmore and Kilbride 28th Sept. 1923.
HECTOR CAMERON, born Tiree, 10th
March 1893, son of Archibald C. and
1923 Euphemia Mackinnon ; educated at
Cornaig School, privately, and Univ. of
Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 20th
Dec 1922 ; ord. 7th May 1923 ; trans, to
South Knapdale 12th Nov. 1925. Marr.
6th Nov. 1925, Mary, daugh. of John Mac
Kinnon, Tiree, and Annie MacLean.
JOHN STEWART, trans, from Kilmuir
and adm. 21st April 1926. He has
1926 issue-Euphemia, born 22nd April
1893 • Margaret, born 12th Jan. 1895, died
6th March 1919 ; John, born 23rd Dec. 1897,
died 12th March 1901 ; Agnes (twin) born
23rd Dec. 1897 ; Janet, born 21st Oct. 1900.
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179
SNIZORT AND UIG.
[These parishes were united in the
sixteenth century. For a time this union
took in also both Raasay and Kiltarlagain,
now called Portree. In 1726 the two latter
were again severed from Snizort and Uig.
Snizort. — The old parish church was
dedicated to St Columba. It was built
upon an island in the Eiver Snizort, a
large building, the ruins of which still
remain in the centre of a burial-ground.
At Skeabost, within the bounds, are the
remains of a monastic house of small size.
Uig. — At Uig, where the parish church
was of old, there is now a mission chapel.]
ARCHIBALD MACQUEEN, son of
Ewen M., min. of Duirinish; edu-
J cated at Univ. of Glasgow; M.A.
(1636) ; was prohibited by the Presb. 12th
May 1642 from proceeding any further in
collation and institution "till he have it
from the Presb., as the due and lawful
patron " ; adm. before 7th Oct. that year ;
dep. for marrying Macdonald of Clanranald
who had been excommunicated, but reponed
before 28th Oct. 1657 ; still min. in 1660.
He had issue — Donald, min. of this parish.
—[Clanranald Charter Chest.]
GEORGE MUNRO, adm. to Urquhart
and Logie-Wester before 4th Oct.
1 1642; trans, and adm. before 15th
April 1656; died before 18th April 1657.
He marr. Christian Munro, who applied
for the vacant stipend of his former parish,
and had issue — a daugh. (marr. John
Mackenzie, Sand, grandson of John M. of
Gairloch.— [Hist, of the Mackenzies, 416.]
ARCHIBALD MACQUEEN, above
1657 mentioned.
DONALD MACQUEEN, son of pre-
1684 ceding; educated at Univ. of Edin
burgh ; M.A. (27th July 1663) ; adm.
archdeacon before 3rd Dec. 1684 ; deprived
for non-jurancy but in the Case of Green-
shields he is stated to be still in possession
of the benefice in March 1710. He marr.
Margaret, daugh. of Hugh Macdonald of
Glenmore, son of Sir James M. of Sleat, and
had issue— Archibald, min. of this parish.
ARCHIBALD MACQUEEN, born 1671,
1706 son °^ Prece(ling > educated at Univ.
of Edinburgh ; M.A. (6th July 1699);
ord. 17th March 1706; died 24th Sept.
1754. He " was a person of uncommon
abilities, distinguished as well by his
erudition and extensive knowledge as by
his piety, zeal, and other virtues." He
marr. a daugh. (died 5th Feb. 1718) of
Alexander Mackenzie of Applecross, and
had issue— Donald, min. of Kilmuir : (2)
3rd Oct. 1719, Florence (died 13th April
1791), daugh. of William Macdonald of Aird,
Tutor of Macdonald, son of Sir Donald M.,
Bart., of Sleat, and Catherine, daugh. of Sir
Ewen Cameron of Lochiel, and had issue —
William, min. of this parish ; Alexander,
tacksman of Brunistat ; Angus ; John,
officer in army ; Murdoch ; Archibald ;
Kenneth ; Margaret (marr. Donald Nicol-
son of Aird, Sleat).— [Miscell. Scot., iii.]
WILLIAM MACQUEEN, born 1718,
175g son of preceding ; educated at Univ.
of Edinburgh ; Keen. by Presb. of
Skye 3rd Sept. 1746; app. assistant to
his father in June that year ; pres. by
Norman Macleod of Macleod ; ord. (assist
ant and successor) llth April 1753 ; died
17th Sept. 1787. [The Macqueens of four
generations were thus mins. of the parish for
144 years.] He was an excellent classical
scholar versed in all branches of learning
and greatly beloved by his parishioners. He
marr. 2nd May 1753. Alice Macaulay, who
died 15th July 1795, and had issue — Archi
bald ; Donald ; James, min. of North Uist ;
Kenneth ; Alexander ; Angus ; Florence ;
Catherine ; Mary ; a daugh. (marr. Alex
ander Macleod of Bay). Publication —
Letter to the Author of a Treatise on
the Second Sight in 1762.— [Miscell. Scot.,
iii. ; Notes and Queries, 10th ser., x., 389.]
MALCOLM MACLEOD, born about
1788 )
and Janet Macleod ; educated at
King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1779);
pres. by Norman Macleod of Macleod and
by George III. 15th Jan., and ord. 7th May
180
SNIZORT AND UIG
1788; died 17th Nov. 1832. He marr.
Mary (died 2nd Feb. 1821), daugh. of
Donald Macleod, tacksman of Swordale,
and had issue— Malcolm, in army, died
young in India; John, captain _ 27th
Regiment, afterwards a police magistrate
in Ireland, where he was assassinated 29th
Jan. 1845; Christian; Donald, officer in
R.N., perished at sea; Charles, surgeon
H.E.I.C.S. ; Roderick, min. of this parish ;
Anne (marr. M. Cordoniere) ; Janet;
Christian ; Isabella Margaret (marr. John
Finlayson, min. of Free Church, Braca-
dale). Publication— Account of the Parish
(Sinclair's Stat. Ace., xviii.).— [Edin. Christ.
Inst., ii. ; Mackay's Memorials of R. Mac
leod ; Hist, of the Macleods, 374.]
SIMON FRASER M'LAUCHLAN,
pres. by William IV. 15th Feb., and
1883 ord. 26th Sept. 1833; trans, to
Cawdor 28th July 1837.
RODERICK MACLEOD, born 18th
March 1795, son of Malcolm M.,
1888 min. of this parish; educated at
King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (31st
March 1815); Keen, by Presb. of Skye
16th Sept. 1818; ord. missionary at Lyn-
dale and Arnisort 13th April 1819 ; while
here a decided change took place in his
religious views through reading Bellamy's
Christian Religion Delineated; adm. to
Bracadale 24th Sept. 1823 ; pres. by Queen
Victoria 8th Sept. 1837 ; trans, and adm.
9th Feb. 1838. Joined the Free Church
in 1843 ; min. of Free Church, Snizort,
1843-68 ; elected Moderator of Free Church
General Assembly 21st May 1863 ; died 20th
March 1868. He marr. 18th Oct. 1823,
Anne Robertson (died 19th June 1854),
daugh. of Donald Macdonald of Skeabost
and had issue— Donald ; Malcolm ; Lilling
ston; Roderick; James; John; Mary
Margaret ; Anne ; Susan ; Christian ; Jessie
Publication— Account of Bracadale (New
Stat. Ace., xiv.).— [Mackay's Memorials
Hist, of the Macleods, 274. [" Cuid do nithe
air an toirt fanear ma'n breith a thug Arc
Bhoinneamh Eaglais na h-Alba ann ai
cuis an Urramaich Ruaridh Mhie Leoid
ministeir Bhracadail "—Disruption Worthi
of the Highlands, 25-30.]
ANGUS MARTIN, son of John M. of
Marishadder and Mary Nicolson ;
educated at Univ. of Edinburgh;
ord. to Duirinish 5th May 1842; pres.
by Queen Victoria 19th Oct. 1843 ; trans,
and adm. 18th Jan. 1844 ; died at Husa-
bost 15th Oct. 1887. He marr. 18th Jan.
1844, Margaret (who predeceased ^him),
daugh. of Alexander Nicolson, min. of
Barra, and had issue— Alexander George,
born 13th Sept. 1845, died 20th Oct. 1907 ;
John Lachlan, born 10th March 1847, died
in India ; Susan Nicolson, born 20th Nov.
1848 ; Samuel Macdonald, went to Australia,
born llth Nov. 1850; Martin, born 3rd
Sept. 1853, died in India; Donald Archi
bald, went to British Columbia, born 3rd
Aug. 1855 ; Mary Isabella, born llth April
1857 ; Margaret Grace, born 7th Oct. 1859 ;
Nicol of Glendale and Husabost in which
he succeeded his uncle, officer in Lovat
Scouts, born 26th July 1861. - [Clan
Donald, iii., 569.]
JOHN MACRURY, born 2nd May 1843,
son of Norman M., Torlum, Ben-
5 becula, and Catherine Macpherson ;
educated as Benbecula School and Univs.
of Glasgow and Edinburgh ; licen. by
Presb. of Islay and Jura in 1877 ; assistant
at Islay, 1877-9; ord. to Hylipol 4th
Aug. 1879; trans, and adm. (assistant
and successor) 30th Nov. 1886 ; died 23rd
April 1907. He marr. 16th Feb. 1881,
Flora Elizabeth, daugh. of Colin Brown
and Catherine Cromarty, and had issue-
Catherine Macpherson, born 31st Jan.
1882 (marr. 1908, Francis Macleod); Mary
Ann Brown, born 25th Jan. 1884 (marr.
1908, Robert Maclnnes) ; Colina Brown,
teacher, born 5th May 1887; Norman,
born 9th Aug. 1890, killed in action at
Gallipoli 4th June 1915; Johanna, born
5th June 1893; John Brown, Eastern
Telegraphs, Aden, born 29th Sept. 1895;
Mairi, born 13th Oct. 1900 ; Donald Archi
bald, ord. assistant Buenos Ayres 1927, born
29th Dec. 1902. Publications— Uachdraidh
Beatha Chriosd ann am briathran a'
Bhiobhuill (Glasgow, 1893) ; " Sgeulachdan
Arabianach" (Tales from the Arabian
Nights} (Inverness, 1897) ; translated into
SKYE]
SNIZORT AND UIG— STENSCHOLL
181
Gaelic The Church of Scotland (by
William Mair, D.D.) (Edinburgh, 1902);
Robinson Crusoe (in Gaelic) (Inverness).
A Collection of unpublished Gaelic Poetry
(Trans. Gael. Soc. Inverness, xv., 140-51) ;
Old Gaelic Songs, ivith Historical Notes
and Traditions (ibid., xvi., 98-116, 1891).
Many contributions to MacTalla, a Gaelic
journal published in Cape Breton. Edited
the Gaelic Supplement to Life and Work
1887-1907.— [Maclean's Typographia Scoto-
Gadelica, 285.]
JOHN STEWART, trans, from Ben-
1907 becula; adm. 6th Nov. 1907; trans,
to Ulva 19th Dec. 1913.
HECTOR WILLIAM MACKAY, born
1916 Melness, Tongue, 16th June 1873;
son of Hugh M. and Ann Mackay ;
educated at Kingussie and Royal High
Schools, Edinburgh, and Univ. of Glasgow ;
M.A. (1899), B.D. (1901) ; licen. by Presb.
of Glasgow 1st May 1901 ; assistant at
St Columba's, Glasgow ; ord. to Coll 31st
Aug. 1908 ; trans, and adm. 5th April
1916; app. clerk of Presb. 1920-7; trans,
to Clyne 23rd Nov. 1927.
STENSCHOLL (Q.S.).
[The old parish church was dedicated to
St Martin. In the sixteenth century the
parishes of Stenscholl and Kilmaluag, now
called Kilmuir, were united. A parlia
mentary church was erected here in 1828,
and the district comprising the old parish
of Kilmartin was constituted a quoad sacra
parish by the General Assembly on 25th
May 1833. The parish was disjoined from
Kilmuir and Snizort by the Court of
Teinds, 14th July 1847.]
JOHN NICOLSON, born 1780, son
of Alexander N., Kylerhea ; educated
* at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A.
(30th March 1810) ; licen. by Presb. of Skye
5th April 1815 ; app. 6th March 1816, and
ord. as missionary at Minginish 17th April
1817 ; pres. by George IV. 1st April, trans.
and adm. 23rd Sept. 1829; died 4th Jan.
1837.
1844
1886
HENRY BEATSON, pres. by William
1838 IV' 7th Feb> 1837 > adm' 29th March
1838; trans, to Small Isles 28th
Sept. 1843.
DONALD MACDONALD, born 1800,
son of James M., Torlum, Benbecula,
and Christina Macdonald ; educated
at King's College, Aberdeen ; pres. by
Queen Victoria 20th Jan., and adm. 24th
April 1844 ; died unmarr. 5th July 1855.
ALEXANDER MACDONALD, born
1816, son of John M., Benbecula;
J pres. by Queen Victoria 8th Feb.,
and ord. 30th April 1856; died unmarr.
17th June 1881.
JAMES MACKINTOSH DAVIDSON,
trans, from Glencoe and adm. 14th
5 Feb. 1882; trans, to Lochalsh 5th
May 1886.
NEIL BRODIE, born 1832, son of Peter
B., merchant, Lochgilphead ; edu
cated at Univ. of Glasgow, 1853-7 ;
probationer in Glasgow in 1861 ; app. by
Colonial Committee ord. missionary in Cape
Breton 1863 ; adm. min. of Gairloch, Nova
Scotia, Sept. 1868 ; min. at Lochiel, Ontario,
1874 ; adm. to this charge 14th Sept. 1886 ;
dem. his status as min. 31st Dec. 1890 ; died
21st April 1907.
DUNCAN MACKENZIE, born 1850,
son of Alexander M., fisherman, and
Janet Murchison ; ord. 13th May
1891 ; dem. 7th July 1909 ; died unmarr. at
Lochcarron, 27th Feb. 1910.
JOHN MACAULAY, born Shawbost,
Lewis, 1857, son of Angus M., mer
chant, and Margaret Macleod; edu
cated at Univs. of Glasgow and Aberdeen;
missionary at Carinish, North Uist, Melness,
Isle Ornsay, Carradale, and Birnam; ord.
to Rapness 24th July 1907 ; adm. 8th June
1910; died 2nd Jan. 1913. He marr. (1)
Sarah Campbell : (2) 25th Sept. 1912, Jane
Maria (died 30th March 1922), elder daugh.
of James S. Sheirir, Orphir, Orkney.
CAMERON MACKAY, born Helms-
dale, 4th May 1853, son of Alexander
1 M. and Isabella Campbell; edu
cated at Free Church Training College
1891
182
STENSCHOLL— STRATH
[PRESB. OF
and Univ. of Edinburgh; was a school
teacher for twenty years ; ord. min. of
Reformed Presbyterian Church, Penpont,
1895-1907 ; adm. to Church of Scotland in
1908; adm. 24th Sept. 1913; dem. 16th
May 1922. Marr. 23rd Aug. 1904, Caroline,
daugh. of James Macfarlane and Margaret
Inglis. Publication — Fifteen Bible Nuts
opened and proved Sound (Glasgow, 1904) ;
The Dismissal of a Free Church Teacher
(Anon.). Edited Letters of Joseph Mackay,
John Grant, and Alexander Gair (n.d.).
NORMAN LAING, born Knockin-
torran, North Uist, 6th July 1865,
1924 son of Malcolm L. and Catherine
Macdonald; educated at Univ. of Glasgow;
licen. by Presb. of Uist in 1898; ord. to
Trumisgarry 3rd May 1904; trans, to
Barvas 2nd May 1912; trans, and adm.
14th May 1924.
STRATH, OR STRATH-
SWORDALE.
[In earlier times this parish was called
Strathswordale, and often Strath Mhic
Fhibnyhainn (" Mackinnon's Valley "). This
latter name it got from the Chief of the
Clan Fiongan, to whom most of its area
belonged. For the last 150 years it has
been usual to style it Strath. The parisl
church stood of old at Cill Chriosd, and
was dedicated to Christ. Within the
bounds stood various chapels. These in
cluded St Coan's at Boreraig, St Malrubh's
near the ferry at Cill Aiseag, St Bride's
at Cill Bhride, St Mary's at Cill Mhairi,
St Francis' at Teampul Fhrangaig in the
island of Scalpa and the chapel on the
island of Pabbay. There were also three
holy Wells, St Coan's at Boreraig, St
Clement's at Tobar Chleamain, and St
Malrubh's at Cill Aiseag. There are
mission chapels at Kyleakin, Breakish,
Strathaird, Dunan, and Elgoll.]
NEIL MACKINNON, M.A. ; min. in
1627 ; " gave his grite and solemn
1627 oathe," 19th July same year, "that
he sail treulie according to his knowledge
gif up to the Clerk of Counsell the names of
all the Papists whom he knew within the
Isles "; trans, to Sleat before 4th Aug. 1633.
FARQUHAR M'LENNAN, son of
Farquhar M., min. of Lochbroom ;
J adm. to Fodderty before 1645 ; dep.
for malignancy in 1650 ; adm. to Loch-
broom 6th April 1656; adm. to Kilmuir
before 1662 ; trans, before 1663 ; was Arch
deacon of the Isles ; died Feb. 1675. He
marr. Margaret Mackenzie, and had issue —
Anna (marr. James, brother to John Mac
kenzie of Ord).
DONALD MACKINNON, son of Neil
M., min. of Sleat ; educated at Univ.
' of Glasgow; M.A. (1664); pres. by
Charles II. (there being no Bishop of the
Isles) 7th July 1675, with Sleat also in the
charge. He does not appear in the list of
ministers in 1689.
MARTIN MACPHERSON, born about
1672, son of Dugald M., min. of
1698 Duirinish ; educated at Univ. of
Edinburgh ; M.A. (8th March 1693) ; licen.
by Presb. of Dunoon 7th Jan. 1696 ; ord.
that year ; died 10th Sept. 1712. He was
a good scholar, an able minister, and a
mild, good-natured, well-bred gentleman.
He marr. Mary, daugh. of Lachlan Mac-
kinnon of Corry, and had issue— John,
min. of Sleat.
NORMAN MACLEOD, pres. by the
Presb. jure devoluto 30th Dec. 1714 ;
1 ord. 4th Feb. 1715; trans, to
Duirinish llth Dec. 1717.
[Parish apparently vacant for twelve years.]
DONALD MACLEOD, born Ose, Skye,
1703 ; brother of John M., min. of
' Duirinish; educated at King's Col
lege, Aberdeen ; M.A. (25th March 1723) ;
recommended by the General Assembly for
a bursary 26th May 1724 ; became mission
ary at Barra; adm. here 17th Sept. 1729 ;
died 12th July 1749.
DONALD NICOLSON, licen.
by Presb. of Inverness 15th Sept.
1750 1738; pres. by the Presb. jure
devoluto 23rd Jan., and adm. 8th Feb.
1750; died unmarr. 4th Jan. 1779. "A
man of uncommon probity and goodness/'
He was tacksman of Torrin, Kinlochslapin
and Kilchrist, and other lands, and a notable
sportsman.— [Jardine's Nat. Library, xxvi. ;
Lament's Strath, 92.]
SKYE]
STRATH
183
1779
DONALD MACKINNON, born 1732,
son of Lachlan M. of Ceann Uach-
daracli, Strath ; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (2nd April 1764) ;
became missionary at Benbecula ; ord.
missionary at Strontian 4th July 1770;
pres. by George III. 24th April, and adm.
17th Sept. 1779 ; died 23rd Oct. 1831. He
marr. 14th Feb. 1780, Catherine, daugh.
of John Maclean, and had issue — Konald ;
John, min. of this parish ; Flora ; Isobel.—
[Lament's Strath, 93.]
JOHN MACKINNON, born 26th Aug.
1825 ll786' son °^ Preceding; educated
at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A.
(2nd April 1804); ord. to Sleat 3rd Dec.
1812 ; trans, and adm. (assistant and
successor) 19th Oct. 1825 ; clerk of Presb.
to 1834; clerk of Synod to 1855; died
16th Feb. 1856. Sir Archibald Geikie
described him as "the best example of a
Highland clergyman I ever knew." He
marr. 28th April 1815, Anne (died 12th
Dec. 1868), daugh. of Lachlan Mackinnon
of Corry and Letterfearn, and Anne, daugh.
of Farquhar Macrae of Inverinate, and
had issue — Donald, min. of this parish ;
Lauchlan of Melbourne, latterly of Duis-
dale House, Skye, and Elfordleigh, Devon,
born 1817, died 1888 ; John Murray Mac-
gregor' of Ostaig House, Skye, born 1818,
died 1887 ; Charles Farquhar, Melbourne.
Australia, born 1820; Anne Susan, born
1822, died llth Dec. 1838; Mary Jane,
born 1824, died 1840 ; Catherine Charlotte,
born 1825 ; Louisa Hopetoun, born 1826
(marr. 27th Dec. 1851, John Henry Lydiard),
died 24th Jan. 1915 ; Sir William Alexander,
born 27th June 1830, K.C.B. (1891) LL.D.
(Glasgow 1891), Director-General, Army
Medical Department 1889-96, Hon. Surgeon
to Queen Victoria 1893, founder of the
Mackinnon Scholarship, Univ. of Glasgow,
served with distinction in Turkey, the
Crimea, Indian Mutiny, Maori War, New
Zealand, and the Ashanti, died at London
28th Oct. 1887 ; Flora Downie, of Duisdale
House, died 1901 ; Colin Macrae, student at
King's College,Aberdeen (1846-9), born 1831,
died at Elfordleigh, Devon, 6th May 1882 ;
Godfrey Bosville, Melbourne, born 1834.
Publication — Account of the Parish (New
Stat. Ace., xiv.). — [Family of Mackinnon,
7 ; Geikie's 'Scottish Reminiscences, 53-7 ;
Lament's Strath, 95.]
DONALD MACKINNON, born 1816,
son of preceding ; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (March
1834) ; licen. by Presb. of Skye in 1839 ;
assistant at Melbourne, Australia, 1840-5 ;
ord. to Fearn 7th Aug. 1845 ; pres. by Queen
Victoria 27th Feb., trans, and adm. 10th
July 1856; D.D. (Aberdeen, 6th March
1886); died 3rd Jan. 1888. The Mac-
kinnons were thus mins. of the parish
for 109 years. The Mackinnon Memorial
Hospital at Liveras was erected in memory
of Dr Donald M. He marr. (1) 10th June
1846, Flora (died s.p.), daugh. of Dr
Farquhar Mackinnon of Kyle : (2) 18th
Feb. 1858, Emma Flora (died 15th Nov.
1890), daugh. of Colonel William Macleod
of the Madras Army, and had issue — John,
planter, born 8th Nov. 1858, died 17th Oct.
1907; William Macleod, C.E., born 30th
Nov. 1859, died 10th Jan. 1901 ; Lauchlan
Kenneth, solicitor, born 25th Dec. 1861 ;
Donald Lewis, born 3rd March 1863, died
in Calcutta 12th Feb. 1888 ; Charles John
in Ehodesia Civil Service, born 27th March
1864; Major Archibald Donald, M.D.
(Aberdeen 1892), C.M.G. (1900), O.B.E.
(1919), medical officer, Uganda Protectorate,
1894-7, Director of Transport, 1898-9
(twin), born 27th March 1864; Godfrey
William Wentworth, mining engineer, born
5th March 1866; Emma Flora, born 4th.Oct.
1867; Anne, born and died 1868; Anne
Emily, born llth Oct. 1870 (marr. 1900,
Elphinstone Cleland. — [Lament's Strath
(portrait), 96 ; Family of Mackinnon, 7.]
THOMSON MACKAY, born Durness,
1888 19th April 1848' S°n °f Donald M' >
educated at Univ. of Aberdeen ;
M.A. (1871), B.D. (1875) ; ord. to Ulva 4th
May 1875; trans, to Tongue 30th Dec.
that year ; trans, and adm. 15th Aug.
1888 ; died unmarr. at Kilbride House
5th Feb. 1904.— [Lament's Strath (por
trait), 104.]
184
STRATH
[PRESB. OF SKYE
DONALD MACDONALD LAMONT,
trans, from Hallin - in - Waternish,
1 and adm. 20th July 1904; trans.
to North Knapdale 24th Feb. 1914 (cf.
Vol. IV., 17); min. at Charlottetown,
Prince Edward Island, 1925. Publications—
Seven Great Questions (Inverness, 1904,
1921); Strath in Isle of Skye (Glasgow,
1912, 1913) ; Our Friends after Death.
HECTOE MACLEAN, bom Tiree,
L Argyllshire, 10th July 1877, son of
: Hugh M. and Christina MacLean ;
educated at Kingussie Public School, Glas
gow High School, and Univ. of Glasgow;
M.A. (1901) ; licen. by Presb. of Islay and
Jura, 10th May 1904; assistant at Dal-
whinnie ; ord. to Kilfinichen and Kilvickeon
28th Sept. 1904; trans, and adm. 9th July
1914. Marr. 26th Feb. 1908, Alice May
M.A., daugh. of William Ewan, M.A.,
min. of U.F. Church, Fyvie, and Elizabeth
Morrison Kamsay, and has issue— Elizabeth
Kamsay, born 4th Jan. 1909; Hugh, born
27th Nov. 1910 ; William Ewan, born 2nd
Dec. 1912; Alastair Donald, born 3rd March
1916; Ena Mairi Ishbel, born 15th Feb.
1919 ; Mairi Matilda Ewan, born 3rd Dec.
1921 ; James Curdie Kussell, born 7th Dec.
1924.
PRESBYTERY OF UIST
[The General Assembly severed the Presbytery of Uist from that of Lewis on 8th May
1742. The Register of this Presbytery begins at 17th February 1768. The records of its
twenty-six earlier years were sent off to the bookbinder in 1768, but they did not reach
the mainland, the boat which carried them upset, and all on board being lost. The
ordinary meetings of the Presbytery of Uist are held at Lochmaddy.]
BARRA.
[Barra was annexed to South Uist,
Kilpheatair, and Benbecula in the latter
half of the seventeenth century, the reason
being that there were hardly any Protestants
in it to minister to, and the great body of
the parishioners still adhere to the Roman
Catholic Church. The parish was disjoined
from South Uist and erected by the
Commissioners of Teinds 14th Feb. 1733.
The church was dedicated to St Barr.
Beside it lay St Barr's Well. On the
island of Barra there were chapels of
St Breandan at Borve and St Mary at
Kilmorie.]
JOHN M'NEILL, parson and min. of
16O9 Barra, was slain by Ranald M'Allan
vie Ean or Macdonald of Caisteal
Bhuirigh, in Benbecula, brother of Clan-
ranald, in June 1609. — {Indictment in
Argyll Charter Chest, 5th Oct. 1631.]
JOHN MACPHERSON, M.A. ; ord.
28th Sept. 1734; trans, to Sleat
14th Jan. 1742.
WILLIAM MACLEOD, pres. by George
II. 8th April, and ord. 12th June
1 1742; trans, to Bracadale 4th May
1749.
LACHLAN MACLEAN, born 1722;
1750 li°en- kv Presb. of Uist ; became
missionary at Laggan ; adm. to this
parish 3rd May 1750 ; died 24th June 1760.
He marr. llth June 1751, Marjory Macneill,
who died 16th Feb. 1816.
1771
JOHN MACAULAY, M.A. ; ord. 19th
Sept. 1763; trans, to South Uist
' 16th April 1772.
ANGUS MACNEILL, born 1727, son of
Donald M. of Vatersay and grandson
of Roderick M. of Barra; educated
at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (2nd
April 1747) ; ord. to South Uist 8th March
1756 ; pres. by the Presb. jure devoluto
25th July, trans, and adm. 9th Aug. 1771 ;
died 7th April 1773. He confessed himself
"half convert to the notion of the second
sight." There is a letter from him to
Dr Hugh Blair on the authenticity of
Macpherson's Ossian, dated 23rd Dec. 1763.
He marr. 17th Dec. 1764, Anne (died 26th
March 1838), daugh. of William Macleod,
min. of Cam pbel town, and had issue —
Marion, born 18th Sept. 1765 (marr. John
Murray of Greshornish) ; Isobel, born 5th
Sept. 1766, died unmarr. ; Donald, Deputy
Inspector General of Army Hospitals, 1794-
1820, born 9th Nov. 1767, died at Jersey,
1824 ; Anne (marr. John Maclntyre, Inland
Revenue officer), died 1853.—[Miscell. Scot.,
iii; Clanranald Charter Chest; Clan
Macneill, 96.]
EDMUND MACQUEEN, born 1742,
son of Donald M., min. of North
Uist; educated at Univ. of Edin
burgh ; licen. by Presb. of Uist 17th Dec.
1769 ; pres. by the Presb. jure devoluto 30th
March, and ord. 18th June 1774; died 15th
June 1812. James Hall represents him
as "having an easy life and not having
half-a-dozen hearers on Sunday." Kenneth
1774
186
BARRA— BENBECULA
[PRESB. OF
Macaulay, author of History of St Kilda,
says that M. kept a school at Portree and
was a "lively young man." He marr.
21st Aug. 1788, Mary, daugh. of Maclean
of Borera, and had issue — Marion, born
13th June 1791 (marr. Murdoch Macleod,
M.D.) ; Donald, surgeon, Jamaica, born 3rd
Jan. 1794 ; Ewen, born 13th Sept. 1795 :
(2) 20th May 1801, Isabella (died 26th Nov.
1832), daugh. of Charles Maclean of Scour,
and had issue— Charles, born 1803. Publi
cation—Account of the Parish (Sinclair's
Stat. Ace., xiii.).— [Hall's Travels, ii. ; Clan
Gillean, 321.]
ALEXANDER NICOLSON, son of
Donald N. of Aird and Margaret Mac-
queen, and great-grandson of Donald
N., min. of Kilmuir ; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen; M.A. (30th March
1790) ; licen. by Presb. of Skye 31st May
1794; ord. 19th Dec. 1796 as missionary
at Benbecula ; pres. by the Presb. jure
devoluto 6th Jan. [Donald MacGillivray,
missionary at Strathfillan, afterwards min.
of Kilmallie, was pres. by George, Prince
Eegent, 21st Dec. 1812, and hurried in the
depth of winter to attend the Presb. to
lodge his presentation, but only arrived in
the afternoon to find the meeting had
dissolved after a presentation had been
given]; adm. 9th April 1813; died 6th
April 1846. He marr. 6th June 1820,
Susan (died 31st Jan. 1877), daugh. of
Donald Nicolson of Scorrybreck and Mar
garet Macdonald, and had issue — Margaret,
born 20th July 1821 (marr. Angus Martin
min. of Snizort) ; Donald Norman, born
28th Nov. 1822; Janet, born 3rd Feb
1825; Archibald, born 2nd July 1826;
Susanna, born 24th Oct. 1829; William
born 26th Feb. 1831. Publication— Account
of the Parish (Neiv Stat. Ace., xiv.).—
[Morren's Annals, i., 92.]
HENRY BEATSON, born Greenock
1811, eldest son of Henry Dundas B.
captain R.N. (and uncle of Sii
George Stewart B., K.C.B., M.D.) and
Margaret, daugh. of Roger Stewart, Green
ock ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; licen
by Presb. of Kintyre 22nd Oct. 1834 ; ord
to Stenscholl 29th March 1838; trans. t<
mall Isles 28th Sept. 1843; pres. by
Jueen Victoria 22nd May 1846 ; trans, and
dm. 6th May 1847 ; died at Glasgow 20th
larch 1889. He marr. 29th April 1842,
Christina, eldest daugh. of Hugh Mac-
.onald, factor to Colonel Macneill of Barra,
ind had issue— Hugh Colin, died young;
lenry Dundas, died young ; Margaret
Stewart ; Elizabeth Catherine. — [Family
yf Beatson, 25.]
ARCHIBALD MACDONALD, born
1843, son of Archibald M., tacksman
of Allasdale, Barra, and Catherine
VTacdonald ; educated at Barra School
and Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of
Uist 14th June 1865 ; ord. to mission
at Boisdale, South Uist, 19th June 1867 ;
adm. (assistant and successor) 3rd May
1871. He marr. (I) 5th July 1899, Mary
Boyd, who died 26th July 1899 : (2) 25th
June 1901, Catherine, daugh. of William
Macaulay, tacksman of Trumisgarry and
Olachan, and Wilhelmina Lauder, and has
issue— Archibald John, mercantile marine,
born 19th April 1902; William, farmer,
born 6th Oct. 1903; James Donald, born
10th Sept. 1906 ; Angus Roderick, born 9th
July 1908.
BENBECULA (Q.S.).
[The ancient parish of Benbecula was
united to South Uist, Kilpheatair, and
Barra in or before the sixteenth century.
The church of Benbecula, known as
Teampull Chaluimchille, was dedicated to
St Columba. Its remains were almost
entire fifty years ago and stood on an islet
at Balvanich called Loch-na-cille. It is
said to have been built and endowed by
Amie MacRuari, proprietrix of North and
South Uist, and wife of the Good John of
Isla, Lord of the Isles, in the middle of
the fourteenth century. It is of a very
early type, built of undressed stones. Its
total length of fifty-six feet includes a
chancel added to the older nave, but
not bonded into its walls. The very low
doorway of the church has a flat lintel,
and the jambs slant towards one another,
growing closer as they go up. A similar
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BENBECULA
187
1724
doorway forms the entrance 'to the chancel.
On Benbecula are the remains of a nunnery
of Benedictines or Black Nuns at Nunton.
The island, formerly a mission station
under the Royal Bounty, was erected a
parish and disjoined from South Uist by
the Court of Teinds 31st May 1895. The
present church was built in 1888.]
DONALD MACLEOD, missionary in
1724; ord. to South Uist 8th Oct.
1725.
DONALD MACKINNON, removed to
1767 Strontian.
ALLAN MACQUEEN, ord. 29th March
1769; trans, to North Uist 28th
Sept. 1770.
GEORGE MUNRO, ord. in 1771 ; trans.
1771 to South Uist 2nd April 1773.
JOHN MACLEOD, adm. about 1773;
1773 trans, to Harris 10th April 1779.
ALEXANDER NICOLSON, ord. 19th
Dec. 1796; adm. to Barra 9th April
1769
1796
1813.
RODERICK MACLEAN, app. in 1813 ;
1818 adm. to South Uist llth April 1816.
CHARLES MACALISTER, ord. 7th
Sept. 1819 ; trans, to Gaelic Chapel,
Dundee, June 1822.
DUNCAN MACLEAN, ord. 2nd May
1828 1823 ; trans, to Salen 4th Sept. 1828.
DONALD MACRAE, ord. 23rd Dec.
1829 ; trans, to Poolewe 13th May
1830.
1882 WILLIAM BETHUNE.
DUGALD CAMPBELL, adm. from
1884 Knoydart 1834.
DONALD MACDONALD, app.
in 1837 ; ord. to Trumisgarry in
1829
1837
1844.
HUGH MACDONALD, ord. in 1848
1848 trans, to Bernera 1st April 1852.
DONALD MACKAY [afterwards min
1853 of Steer].
JAMES MACDONALD [afterwards
1855 min. of Daviot].
EWEN CAMPBELL, ord. in 1857;
1857 trans, to Knock 28th Sept. 1864
DUNCAN CLARKE, son of Robert C.,
medical practitioner, Harris ; edu-
' cated at Univ. of Glasgow; app.
n 1865 ; died in Australia.
JOHN MACPHAIL, ord. 27th Nov.
1884 1889 ; trans, to Uig 22nd April 1890.
1890 HECTOR MACAULAY.
LACHLAN MACKINNON, app.
in 1891 ; ord. to Barvas 13th April
1891 1893.
1892 RODERICK MACLEAN.
1893 JOHN MACKENZIE.
MURDO MACPHAIL, born Shawbost,
30th June 1851, son of Malcolm M.
' and Ann Macleod ; educated at
Univ. of Glasgow ; licentiate of the Free
Church; ord. 25th Sept. 1895; died 31st
July 1905. He marr. 21st Nov. 1900,
Johanna Christina, daugh. of Norman
Morison, postmaster, Stornoway, and Isa
bella Macdonald, and had issue — Ann,
born 25th March 1902; Norman, born
17th March 1904.
JOHN STEWART, adm. 15th Feb.
1906; trans, to Snizort 6th Nov.
1907.
[Parish vacant seven years.]
DUNCAN MACGILLIVRAY, born
Tullich, Dunlichity, 22nd Aug. 1864,
son of Archibald M. and Barbara
Macpherson; educated at Dunmaglass
School and Univs. of Glasgow and Edin
burgh ; licen. by Free Church Presb. of
Edinburgh 4th July 1907; assistant at
Govan; ord. to Free Church, Tobermory,
24th March 1909; trans, and adm. 25th
March 1914; trans, to Hutchesontown,
Glasgow, 19th May 1921. Marr. (1) 28th
Aug. 1894, Margaret (died 22nd July 1900),
daugh. of John Parlane, and had issue-
John Archibald, engineer, born 9th March
1897; Ebenezer Duncan, engineer, born
22nd Dec. 1898: (2) 5th July 1907, Isa
bella, daugh. of Thomas Alexander Webster,
1906
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BENBECULA— BERNERA— HARRIS
[PRESB. OF
and has issue— Isabella, born 12th May
1908; Mary, born 20th May 1909; Alex
ander (twin), born 20th May 1909 ; Barbara,
born 7th Feb. 1911 ; George, born 7th Feb.
1913 ; Christina, born llth June 1917.
DONALD MACPHAIL, M.A. ; ord.
29th March 1922; trans, to Loch-
' carron 4th Sept. 1923.
DONALD MACDONALD, born Illeray,
North Uist, llth Sept. 1890, son of
1 Donald M. and Mary Campbell;
educated at Kingussie School and Univ.
of Glasgow ; M.A. (1913) ; licen. by Presb.
of Uist 3rd May 1916; assistant at
Scots Church, Buenos Aires; ord. 12th
Dec. 1923; trans, to Killean 29th Dec.
1926 ; died 13th Feb. 1928. Marr. 18th July
1924, Rachel, daugh. of Gilbert Mackinnon
and Margaret M'Nab, and has issue— a son.
BERNERA (Q.S.).
[The island of Bernera formerly a part
of the parish of Harris was erected into
a parliamentary charge in 1827, declared
to be a quoad sacra parish by the Act of
Assembly, 25th May 1833, and erected by
the Court of Teinds llth June 1845. On
the island of Bernera there were of old
chapels of St Columba and St Asaph.]
JOHN BETHUNE, born Inverness-
shire, 1725; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (30th March
1816) ; licen. by Presb. of Uist 15th Jan.
1820 ; ord. (by Presb. of Skye) missionary
at Rum and Canna 4th April 1821 ; app. to
mission at Tarbert, Harris, 7th Oct. 1831
pres. by George IV. 27th April, trans, and
adm. 4th Sept. 1829 ; died 26th June 1851
He marr. Janet Graham, daugh. of Alex
ander Simpson, min. of Lochs, and hac
issue — Alexander Simpson, min. of Knock
HUGH MACDONALD, pres. by Queen
Victoria 2nd Dec. 1851 ; adm. Is
1852 April 1852; trans, to Trumisgarrj
14th May 1878.
DUGALD GILLIES, born 1830, eldest
son of John G., farmer, Kilmartin,
878 Argyllshire; educated at Univ. of
Grlasgow ; ord. missionary at Glens, Ard-
chattan, 1855; trans, to Gaelic Chapel,
Rothesay, 1864 ; trans, and adm. 19th Sept.
1878 ; died unmarr. 28th Dec. 1894.
JOHN MACNIVEN, ord. 19th Sept.
1895; trans, to St Columba's, Paisley,
1895 21st Oct. 1903.
ALEXANDER GRANT, trans, from
Trumisgarry 9th Feb. 1904; trans.
1904 to Hylipol 20th March 1913.
NORMAN MORRISON, born Braenish,
Uig, Lewis, 14th Jan. 1874, son of
1917 Ewen M. and Christian Morrison;
educated at Braenish School, Glasgow
High School, and Church of Scotland
Training Institute, Edinburgh ; missionary
at Obbe, Trumisgarry, and Bernera for ten
years ; licen. by Presb. of Uist 13th Aug.
1917 ; ord. 21st Sept. 1917 ; trans, to Farr
15th Sept. 1927. Marr. 1st Feb. 1917,
Annabella, daugh. of John Macdonald and
Jemima Thomson, and has issue— Jemima,
born 4th April 1918 ; Christina, born 2nd
Dec. 1920; Joheon, born 8th May 1923;
Moragann, born 24th Aug. 1924.
HARRIS, OR NA HEARADH,
AND HIRT.
[These two parishes were united not later
than the sixteenth century, but most likely
before that.
Harris.— The church of this parish was
dedicated to St Bride, and of old was
known as Kilbride. At Rodel there was
an Augustinian Priory, dependent on the
Abbey of Holyrood. Of its buildings no
trace now remains. Its church, dedicated
to St Clement, still remains entire, with
a square tower sixty feet high, known
locally as Tur Mor Chliamain, of much
older date than the church itself. It was
restored in the end of last century by the
late Earl of Dunmore, and divine service is
held in it occasionally. It contains fine
old carved monuments, and was of old the
burial place of the Macleods of Dunvegan.
UIST]
HARRIS
189
There are still in the parish traces of the
old chapels of St Luag, on the shore of
Loch Seaforth, of St Taran and St Keith
on the island of Taransay, and of St Luag
and St Mary in the island of Pabbay.]
MALCOLM MACPHERSON, granted
1566 by Archibald> Earl of Argyn' in
1566, the parsonage and vicarage of
St Bride in Harris for life, which was
confirmed by Queen Mary in 1567 ; coll.
by Bishop John Carswell, Abbot of lona,
and styled parson of Harris in 1568. —
{Collect, de Reb. Alban, 144.]
JOHN MACPHERSON, adm. about
1625; dep. 28th May 1656 for
1625 scandalous carriage and unchristian
conversation, but was apparently reponed
as he was still min. 27th May 1657 ; was
alive 29th May 1661, when he was again
under suspension for similar offences, and
is stated to have been " a man inattentive
to his character and duty/'— [Collect, de
Reb. Alban., 144 ; Scots Mag., xxviii.]
JOHN CAMPBELL, is styled min. of
St Clement's in Harris, 13th May
1670 1670) and according to Martin held
Barra in conjunction with this parish. —
[P. C. Reg., 3rd ser., iii., 648.]
JOHN CAMPBELL, born 1655, son of
preceding; probably educated at
' Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A. (20th July
1675); adm. before 1689; died Oct. 1707 —
[Martin's Western Isles, 39; Macaulay's
St Kilda.]
AULAY MACAULAY, born about
1673, son of Dugald M. of Braenish,
1713 Lewis ; educated at Univ. of Edin
burgh ; M.A. (1693); ord. to Tiree and
Coll 24th July 1704; called July 1712;
trans, and adm. llth Jan. 1713 ; died 20th
April 1758. He marr. Margaret (died 7th
March 1771), daugh. of Kenneth Morrison,
min. of Stornoway, and had issue — ^Eneas :
John, min. of Cardross, born 1720; Kenneth,
min. of Cawdor, born 1723.
KENNETH MACAULAY, M.A., son of
preceding ; ord. (assistant and suc-
1751 cessor) 20th Nov. 1751 ; trans, to
Ardnamurchan 15th July 1761.
WILLIAM MACKENZIE, M.A. ; ord.
13th Aug. 1762 ; trans, to Assynt
1762 13th Feb. 1765.
RODERICK MACLEOD, ord. 14th May
1765 ; trans, to Bracadale 6th Oct.
1765
1768.
1768
ANGUS BETHUNE, M.A. ; ord. (by
Presb. of Gairloch, there being no
quorum in the Presb. of Uist) 28th
Aug., and adm. 28th Sept. 1768; trans.
to Alness 25th Sept. 1771.
JOHN BETHUNE, brother of preced
ing ; M.A. ; pres. by Macleod of
1772 Macleod in March, and ord. 13th
May 1772; trans, to Dornoch 16th Sept.
1778.
JOHN MACLEOD, M.A.; pres. by
commissioner for Norman Macleod
1779 of Macleod 24th Feb., and trans,
from Benbecula 10th April 1779; D.D.
(Aberdeen, 18th May 1795); trans, to
Kilmodan 16th April 1806.
ALEXANDER BETHUNE, born Elgin,
1766, son of Neil B. of Orbost, and
1806 Janet Macleod ; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen, M.A. (30th March 1785);
licen. by Presb. of Skye 9th July 1789;
ord. missionary at Duirinish 2nd Feb.
1790 ; pres. by Alexander Macleod of
Harris in Aug., and adm. 26th Dec. 1806.
He stated, 1st April 1811, that "in the
parish there is a population of three
thousand and among them there are not
two hundred that can read English, and
none capable of reading Gaelic alone." He
died 26th June 1831. He marr. 4th Nov.
1802, Isobel, daugh. of Sheriff Macdonald,
Gres'hornish, who died 31st March 1858,
and had issue — Neil, born 13th Oct.
1803; William, born 20th Dec. 1804;
Isabella, born 17th March 1806; Helen,
born 22nd July 1808; Donald; Janet,
died unmarr.
JOHN MACIVER, pres. by Alexander
Norman Macleod of Harris 7th Oct.
1 1831 ; ord. 3rd May 1832 ; trans, to
Sleat 8th May 1844.
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HARRIS— NORTH UIST
[PRESB. OF
WILLIAM SUTHERLAND, adm. 20th
Sept. 1844; trans, to Laggan 24th
Sept. 1846.
RODERICK MACDONALD, pres. by
Tutor of the Earl of Dunmore ; ord.
16th April 1847; trans, to South
Uist 28th Dec. 1854.
JOHN NORMAN MACDONALD, born
Benbecula, 1830, third son of Roderick
' M., Cunambuintag, Benbecula, and
Catherine Ferguson ; educated at Univ. of
Glasgow; licen. by Presb. of Kintyre in
1854; pres. by the Tutor for the Earl of
Dunmore 9th Feb. 1855; ord. 10th May
that year ; died 14th March 1868. A man
of outstanding ability and culture, an
earnest preacher and faithful pastor, he
devoted much of his spare time, both in his
student days and afterwards, in collecting
the floating traditions and poetry of his
native Uist.
CHARLES MACLEAN, born Coll, 18th
Jan. 1830, son of Donald M. and
Catherine Macphail; educated at
King's College, Aberdeen ; MA. (March
1850) ; licen. by Presb. of Mull 27th Dec.
1853 ; ord. to Kinlochluichart 27th Sept.
1854 ; trans, to Ullapool 24th June 1856 ;
trans, and adm. 24th Sept. 1868 ; died 4th
June 1880. He marr. 16th July 1857,
Catherine Robertson (died 21st July 1900),
daugh. of Alexander Mackenzie, merchant,
Ullapool, and had issue — Alexander Mac
kenzie ; Lachlan, died in infancy ; Isabella
Mackenzie (marr. Donald Campbell, mer
chant, Tarbert); Lillias Catherine Mac
phail; Margaret Symona Mackenzie, died
28th July 1921 ; John Mackenzie, died in
infancy ; Mary Macrae ; Charlotte ; John
Lachlan, assistant cashier, National Liberal
Club, London, died 26th May 1912 ; Donald,
died while a student of divinity ; Thomasina
Mackenzie, died in infancy.
DONALD MACLEAN, born Tiree ;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow; ord.
to Trumisgarry 13th May 1869;
trans, to Colonsay 5th March 1873 ; trans,
and adm. 4th Jan. 1881; dem. 7th Dec.
1909 ; died 4th Sept. 1914.
JOHN KERR, born Harris, 25th Oct.
1855, son of Roderick K. and
Christina Kerr ; educated at Borve
School and Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by
Presb. of Dunoon July 1892; assistant at
Greenock; ord. to Shurrery 28th Feb.
1904 ; trans, and adm. 14th Sept. 1910.
Marr. 30th April 1918, Adele, daugh. of
Elie Le Couvey, s.p.
NORTH UIST, OF OLD
KILMORIE IN UIST.
[When Donald Monro, Dean of the Isles,
visited North Uist prior to 1549 the island
was divided into two parishes, that known
locally as Kilmorie and the district of
Sand where there was of old a Columban
Establishment. At the Reformation the
parish of Sand was united to Kilmorie.
It is now included in the parish of Trumis
garry. The church, in which worship
continued to be held, was dedicated to
St Columba. The church of Kilmorie was
dedicated to the Virgin Mary. At Carinish,
in the south of this parish, stand the ruins
of an ancient Chapel of the Holy Trinity
still bearing the name of Teampull na
Trianaid. It is nearly sixty-five feet in
length, and the traces of other buildings
set about it point plainly to its importance
in times past. Teampull na Trianaid was
founded, according to MacVurich, the
historian of Clanranald, by Beathag,
daugh. of Somerled, Lord of the Isles, first
Prioress of lona. There were also within
the bounds chapels of St Martin at Baile
Mhartain, St Olaf at Kilaulay, St Ultan
on the island of Vallay, St Clement's at
Hosta, St Peter's at Balelone, and Teampull
Chriosd at Balishare. There are mission
chapels in North Uist at Balishare and
Carinish. Of the ministers, if any, who
served in this parish during the latter
half of the sixteenth century there is no
trace.]
DONALD MACMILLAN. Bishop
1626 Tllomas Knox refers to him in his
' report on his diocese in 1626, as
" ane verie auld man," then serving in both
UIST]
NORTH UIST
191
North and South Uist. The population of
South Uist being almost entirely Koman
Catholic the minister had his residence in
North Uist, which was entirely Protestant.
There is no further reference to him.—
[Collectanea de Rebus A Ibanicis ; Craven's
Diocese of Argyll and the Isles, 49.]
ANGUS MACQUEEN, adm. before
1642 26th May 1642> tranS- t0 S°Utl1
' Uist in 1662.
DONALD MACLEAN, born 1638, son
of Neil M. of Borera; educated at
King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A.
(1656); adm. about 1662; still min. in
1673.— [Lord Macdonald's Writs.]
ALAN MORRISON, adm. in 1688, was
accused of simony and outed in or
before 1692. He returned to Lewis
and succeeded his father as min. of Barvas.
ALEXANDER COOPER, passed trials
before the Presb. of Long Island;
' licen. by Archibald, Bishop of the
Isles; called 17th June 1690; ord. by
James, Bishop of Ross and three presbyters
(Marr, late of Bathgate, Farquhar, late of
Edinburgh, and Ramsay, late of Preston-
pans), 16th July 1692 ; intruded that year ;
submitted to Presbyterianism 12th June
1699 ; drowned Aug. 1706.— [Argyll Synod
Reg. ; Lord Macdonald's Charter Chest.]
JOHN MACLEAN, son of John M. of
17Q8 Borera; ord. April 1708; died in
1735. He marr. Mary, daugh. of
Alexander Macdonald of Morar, and had
issue— John, bookbinder, Glasgow ; Alex
ander. — [Scots Mag., Ixxx. ; Lord M
donald's Charter Chest.]
DONALD MACLEOD, trans, from
South Uist 4th May 1736; trans.
to Duirinish 13th Aug. 1754.
DONALD MACQUEEN, born about
1755 1700, son of Angus M., min. of
' Sleat; educated at King's College:
Aberdeen; M.A. (2nd April 1719); ord
to Small Isles 19th April 1727 ; trans, and
adm. 29th Sept. 1755. He was a believer in
second sight, declaring he had known s
many incidents of it that " I have no manne
of doubt of the existence of such visions.
He died 28th March 1770. He marr. 13th
Oct. 1736, Marjory (died 13th Feb. 1801),
daugh. of Lachlan Maclean of Torrestan,
;adet of Coll, and had issue — Allan, min.
of this parish ; Edmund, min. of Barra.
Publication— Letter to the Author of a
Treatise on the Second Sight, Theophilus
[nsulanus (pseudonym of Macleod of
Hamera (1763).— [Miscell. Scot., iii ; Clan
illean, 412 ; Lord Macdonald's Charter
hest.]
ALLAN MACQUEEN, born l742,tSon
of preceding; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (2nd April
1764); licen. by Presb. of Uist 9th Dec.
1768; ord. missionary at Benbecula 29th
March 1769 ; pres. by George III. in Aug.,
and adm. 28th Sept. 1770 ; died at Tigheary
8th Dec. 1801. He was a man of ability
and deep piety, and was much loved and
respected. The friend of John Codrum
(1710-1779), the North Uist bard, it was on
the occasion of his induction that the bard
composed the felicitous lines, " Faillte do'n
Chleir." He marr. 15th Feb. 1783, Mary
(died 19th April 1833), daugh. of William
Macdonald of Vallay, and had issue — Mary,
born 19th Dec. 1783 (she was the subject
of the popular song, "Mairi Bhoidheach,"
by Alexander Stewart, joint editor of
Stewart's Collection of Gaelic Poetry) ;
Donald, captain in the Royal Scots, 1814,
born 23rd Dec. 1784. Publication— Account
of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., xiii.).
— [Clan Gillean, 412; Lord Macdonald's
Charter Chest.]
JAMES MACQUEEN, born 1762, son
of William M., min. of Snizort ;
' educated at King's College, Aber
deen ; M.A. (30th March 1782); ord. 19th
Dec. 1792 as missionary in Harris ; pres. by
George III. 21st Jan., and adm. 22nd Sept.
1802 ; died 10th March 1815. He marr.
15th Oct. 1796, Susanna (died 28th March
1851), daugh. of William Macdonald of
Vallay, and had issue — William, min. of
Trumisgarry, born 23rd Sept. 1797 ; Alice,
born 13th Feb. 1801 (marr. Captain Alex
ander Maclean of Hosta, 79th Highlanders) ;
Alexander, officer of the Macqueen, East
Indiaman, born llth Aug. 1802.
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NORTH UIST— ST KILDA
[PRESB. OF
WILLIAM ARBUCKLE, born 1774,
son of John A., farmer, Baleloch,
5 and Mary, daugh. of Donald Mac-
aulay, Baleloch ; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen ; M.A. (28th March 1794) ; licen.
by Presb. of Uist 17th Aug. 1798 ; became
schoolmaster of Stornoway ; ord. missionary
at Sand and Sollas in 1806 ; trans, to South
Uist 23rd Sept. 1813; pres. by George,
Prince Eegent, 2nd May ; trans, and adm.
14th Sept. 1815 ; died 27th Jan. 1818. He
marr. 18th Aug. 1797, Flora (died llth
June 1852), daugh. of Dr Murdoch MacLeod
of Kilpheder, North Uist, and sister of the
well-known Dr Ban MacLeod, and had issue
—John, born 1st Aug. 1798 ; Marion, born
18th Jan. 1800; Mary, born 24th June
1801 ; Neil, born 1st Aug. 1803 ; Norman,
born 31st July 1806; Murdoch, school
master of North Uist, born 12th Dec. 1808 ;
Alexander, born 1st July 1810; Donald,
born 14th Sept. 1812 ; Harriet Julia, born
9th April 1817 (marr. Archibald Maclellan,
merchant, Tigheary).
FINLAY MACRAE, born 1792, son of
Donald M., Achintee, Lochcarron,
1818 and Mary Macrae; educated at
King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (12th
March 1812) ; licen. by Presb. of Uist 8th
April 1815; ord. missionary at Sand and
Sollas 23rd Nov. that year; pres. by
George, Prince Regent, 2nd June, and adm.
24th Sept. 1818 ; sometime clerk of Presb. ;
app. J.P. (13th May 1831). He was accused
of maintaining erroneous opinions in a
sermon preached at the opening of the
Synod of Glenelg, but was acquitted by
the General Assembly 31st May 1841 ; died
15th May 1858. He marr. 16th July 1824
Isabella Maria (died 15th Sept. 1882)
daugh. of Colonel Alexander Macdonald
of Lynedale and Balranald, and had issue
—Donald, tacksman of Luskintyre, Harris
born 23rd Aug. 1825, died 1893 ; Alexander
M.D., surgeon in army, born 3rd May 1828
died May 1862; Duncan, born 16th Nov
1829, went to Australia, died 1866; Johr
Alexander, min. of this parish; Jame
Andrew, major, Inverness-shire Militia
and tacksman of Vallay, born 4th Jun
1834, died 1873; Jane Anne Elizabeth
)orn 13th Feb. 1837 (marr. Captain
Edward William Hawes, R.N.), died 1916 ;
Godfrey Alexander, M.B., C.M. (Aberdeen,
864), born 1st Oct. 1840, died 20th May
884. Publication — Account of the Parish
New Stat. Ace., xiv.). — [Hist, of the
Yacraes, 226.]
JOHN ALEXANDER MACRAE, born
Vallay, 27th March 1832, son of
' preceding; educated privately and
it Marischal College, Aberdeen, and Univ.
of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Uist ; ord.
to Trumisgarry 19th April 1855 ; pres. by
Queen Victoria 26th Oct. 1858 ; trans, and
adm. 3rd Feb. 1859 ; dem. 1 1th Nov. 1886 ;
died at Manse of Logierait 30th Dec. 1896.
—[Hist, of the Macraes, 228.]
DONALD MACDONALD, born 9th
Feb. 1855, son of Alexander M., and
Catherine Macdonald,Knockintorran,
North Uist ; educated at General Assembly
School, Bayhead, and Univ. of Glasgow;
licen. by Presb. of Mull 5th May 1885;
assistant at Tiree, 1885-7; ord. (assistant
and successor) 30th March 1887; D.D. (Glas
gow, 1923) ; app. clerk of Presb. in 1900.
ST KILDA, OR HIRT.
[The island of Hirt lies fully sixty miles
west of any part of the coast of Harris.
Its parish church, which exists no longer,
was dedicated to Christ, and was known
as Gill Chriosd of Hirta. A writer, who
visited this island in the middle of the
eighteenth century, tells us that the church
was " twenty-four feet long, built of stone
without any cement, and covered with
thatch." In Hirt there were of old
chapels of St Columba and St Breandan.
In 1710 a mission chapel was built on the
island. It was formerly a part of the
parish of Harris. It belonged to the parish
of North Uist, and was one of the charges
originally constituting the Presb. of Long
Island erected in 1724. The island was
visited in 1697 by John Campbell, min.
of Harris, accompanied by Martin Martin
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who, in 1698, published A Late Voyage to
St Kilda. A catechist was proposed to be
sent there by the General Assembly, March
1703 and March 1704, supported by private
contribution. In 1733 Alexander Macleod,
advocate, lodged in the hands of the
S.P.C.K. £333, 6s. 8d., the annual interest
of which was to be employed in support of
the minister, catechist, or missionary. The
directors of the Society in 1739 increased
the yearly sum to £25, the patronage to
be vested in Macleod of Harris and his
heirs male. In consideration of the Society
doubling the yearly payment, John Norman
Macleod of Macleod relinquished his right
of patronage to the Society in 1821, they
" having still a special regard to persons of
the name of Macleod in terms of the original
mortification." In 1843 the congregation
joined the Free Church, and the succession
of missionaries labouring there have been
supported by that Church, and by the
United Free Church since 1900. The first
minister of whom there is any record was
a member of this Presb. The name of St
Kilda is of eighteenth century origin and
is not that of any saint, and its meaning
is quite uncertain.]
1710
ALEXANDER BUCHAN, a native of
the Gaelic district of Aberdeenshire,
and described as "an old veteran,
who had spent his time in the army from
the Restoration to the Peace of Utrecht,
a poor stranger, who had been reduced to
frailty and want, and suffered much for his
good affection to the Church and State " ;
licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh and sent as
catechist by the Commission of Assembly in
1705. In the following year the Assembly
allowed him 400 merks out of the public
money, and a letter was ordered to be
written to Macleod of Macleod to give
him due encouragement. The Presb. of
Edinburgh, 24th March 1708, recommended
" that a contribution be made for his
encouragement in propagating the know
ledge of Christ and rooting out the pagan
and popish superstitious customs so much
yet in use among that people"; ord. by
that Presb. 15th March 1710; died of a
fever in the beginning of 1730, having
VOL. VII.
established a kirk-session and on several
occasions dispensed the communion. He
had a reputation for deep piety, and being a
strict disciplinarian and Sabbatarian. In
a letter of llth June 1711 he describes the
state of the people, and complains bitterly
of the oppression of the ground officer who
was reckoned a rich man in St Kilda, but
according to the minister "a godless man
anywhere." He had his revenge in fining
the officer's wife two merks, and causing her
"stand in sack-cloth for inducing two women
to sell a dog on the Lord's Day." " When
any one breaks the Sabbath," he relates, "I
cause them stand in sack-cloth dipped in
the filthiest gutter in the toun." He marr.
Katherine Campbell who survived him, and
who being in destitute circumstances, con
tributions were made from time to time for
her support. They had issue — Helen (marr.,
pro. 25th Nov. 1753, Henry Derby, soldier
in City Guard, Edinburgh) ; Margaret ;
Jean ; and ten others. Publication — A
Description of St Kilda, the most remote
Western Isle in Scotland (Edinburgh,
1727, 1732) [reprinted by his daughter Jean
(1774)].— [Miscell. Scot., ii. (Glasgow, 1818);
Macaulay's History of St Kilda; Society
Sermons (1822); Monro's Description of the
Western Isles (Edinburgh, 1774); Glasgow
Council Min., 19th Oct. 1719.]
RODERICK M'LENNAN, educated at
King's College, Aberdeen, M.A. (2nd
April 1719), and Univ. of Edinburgh;
ord. after May 1730. During her stay
on the island to which she was forcibly
abducted, Rachel Erskine, wife of Lord
Grange, experienced much kindness from
both M. and his wife, which "helped to
preserve her life and make it comfortable."
She describes M. as "a serious and devout
man and very painfull in the discharge
of his duties." He was app. missionary
in the Presb. of Tongue Feb. 1743.— [Epistle
from Lady Grange (London, 1798).]
ALEXANDER MACLEOD, a native of
Skye ; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen ; app. in 1743 ; died about
1755. He marr. Barbara Macpherson, who
died at Greenock, 21st July 1817, aged 97,
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[PRESB. OF
and had issue— Colonel Donald of Achna-
goyle and St Kilda, died 22nd April 1813
[father of Sir John M., K.C.S.I., and Major-
Generals Donald and Alexander M. of the
Madras Cavalry].
ALEXANDER MACLEOD, catechist
1755 in 1755.
DONALD MACLEOD, a native of
1?74 Skye ; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen ; catechist in 1774.
ANGUS MACLEOD (known as Mac-
1780 Dhonil Oig), son of Donald Oig M.,
Bracadale; studied law in Inver
ness, and was afterwards a small farmer in
South Uist; app. catechist in South Uist
in 1768 ; transferred to be missionary in
St Kilda before Dec. 1780. In 1785 he
petitioned the Presb. that owing to his
decline in health, old age, and infirmities,
his position might be taken into serious con
sideration. The Presb. recommended the
appointment of his son Lauchlan. He died
shortly thereafter, probably in 1788. He
marr. Margaret Mackinnon of Glasnakill in
Strathaird, Skye, and had issue— Alexander
in Royal Navy, and present at the Battle
of Copenhagen ; Lauchlan, his successor.
LAUCHLAN MACLEOD, born St
1788 Kilda, 1762, son of preceding ; edu
cated at a parish school in Skye,
but never attended a University ; licen. by
Presb. of Skye ; ord. Dec. 1788 ; dem. 1830
and resided at Bernera, where he died in
1832. He marr. Marion (died at St Kilda,
1821), daugh. of Neil Maclean, tacksman of
Kinloch, Dun vegan, and had issue— Angus,
admiral R.N., born 1797, died!837 ; Donald,
born 1798, died 1813; Norman, born 14th
Feb. 1800, died 30th March 1877; Flora,
died young ; Roderick, died young ; Alex
ander, died in San Domingo; Roderick,
disappeared from a ship at Liverpool in
1836 and never heard of again.
PETER DAVIDSON, app. in 1829 ; ord.
182g missionary at Dirlot in 1830 [after
wards min. of Stoer (g.v.)].
NEIL MACKENZIE, ord. in 1830;
Ig30 trans, to Duror in 1844. Publica
tion — Episode in the Life of N. M. at
St. Kilda. [Edited by his son, p.p., 1911.]
SOUTH UIST.
[South Uist included of old the parishes
of Kilpheder, Howmore, and Benbecula.
Kilpheder embraced the district known
in old charters as Kendess and extended
northwards to Locheynort. Its church was
dedicated to St Peter. Within the bounds
were at least two chapels, St Bride's on
Loch Boisdale, and St Donan's at Gill
Donain. There are mission chapels at Loch
Boisdale and lochdar.
Howmore extended northwards from
Locheynort to lochdar and the South
Ford. It appears as Skirhough in old
records. In the old burial ground are the
remains of two churches, Teampull Dhiar-
maid dedicated to St Columba, and Team-
pull Mhuire dedicated to St Mary. There
were also chapels of St Kenneth at Kil-
choinnich, St Michael near Aird Mhicheil,
and others at Kilvandin, Kilaulay, Kilbride,
and Kildonan.
Benbecula was disjoined from South Uist
on 31st May 1895.
The present parish church was built in
1854. Previous to that date there had been
none for many years, the population being
largely Roman Catholics. There is no
trace of a resident Protestant minister in
this parish for many years after the
Reformation.]
JOHN MACKINNON, rector on 3rd
1683 June 1633. — [G. R. Sas., xxxvi.,
352.]
MARTIN MACPHERSON, only sur-
1642 viying son °f John Bain M. (a
renowned warrior in his time, who
fell defending Macdonald of Sleat in an
attack by the Macleods, near the Castle
of Ruaigh in Sleat); educated at Univ.
of Glasgow ; M.A. (1632) ; adm. before 6th
May 1642. In 1644 the men of South Uist
at the instigation of their chief Clanranald
raided his lands and carried off fifty-four
cows, sixty sheep, twenty-eight lambs and
thirteen horses. He was obliged to seek
refuge at Dunvegan under protection of
Macleod. An action was raised against
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the raiders before Sir James Macdonald
of Sleat, the sheriff of the Western Isles,
and John Maclean of Borera, sheriff-
depute, and on 22nd July 1658, judgment
was given in favour of the minister.
During his incumbency he gave shelter
to General, afterwards Earl Middleton,
while in concealment in the Isles in 1655,
after the Glencairn Rising; adm. to
Duirinish in 1661.
ANGUS MACQUEEN, son of Hugh
1662 ^'' m*n> Duirinish; adm. to
North Uist before 26th May 1642 ;
trans, and adm. 22nd Aug. 1662 ; dep. after
1668. On 9th May and again on 16th Oct.
1649, the Synod of Argyll resolved to
have the Shorter Catechism translated into
Gaelic and printed. M. completed a trans
lation before 19th May 1652, which was
referred by the Synod to a committee to
compare with the originals. An edition is
believed to have been printed at Glasgow
about 1652, but no copy has been dis
covered. — [Maclean's Typographic^ Scoto-
Gadelica, 69.]
ANGUS MACDONALD, son of John
16gg M. of Griminish, North Uist, and
Flora, daugh. of Kanald Macdonald
of Benbecula; educated at Univ. of
Glasgow; M.A. (1674); ord. to Killean,
Kintyre, with Gigha also in that charge,
some time before the Revolution ; adm.
min. here in 1689 without being translated ;
died at Campbeltown in Kintyre, 1724, while
on a visit to his friends at Largie. He was
known on account of his great bodily
strength as Am Ministear Laidir, or the
" Strong Minister," and tradition tells how
he had frequently to make use of the
strong arm. A man of talent and great
force of character, he was both respected
and feared and left behind him a fragrant
memory. He marr. a daugh. of Angus
Macdonald of Largie, and had issue —
Archibald of Dunskellor, factor in North
Uist for Sir Alexander Macdonald of
Sleat; Allan; Marion (marr. (1) Ranald
Macdonald, tacksman of Milton, and was
mother of the celebrated Flora Macdonald :
(2) Hugh Macdonald of Armadale) ; Mary,
died unmarr. in North Uist 1765.— [Charter
Chests of Clanranald and Lord Mac
donald ; Diet. Nat. Bioy. ; Clan Donald,
iii., 281.]
DONALD MACLEOD, ord. 8th Oct.
7 1725 ; trans, to North Uist 4th May
1736.
1737
JOHN MUNRO, ord. 14th Jan. 1737;
trans, to Eddrachillis 21st June
1743.
JOHN MACAULAY, M.A. ; called by
the Presb. jure devoluto and ord.
' before 9th May 1745. The General
Assembly reversed the settlement, but he
was re-adm. in 1746. From a petition to
the Assembly in April 1745, by the con
gregation (headed by Mrs Macdonald of
Clanranald, her husband being a Roman
Catholic), it is stated that the Presb. had
"thrust upon them their favourite J. M.,
contrary to the inclination of the heritors,
elders and people, notwithstanding a royal
presentation," dated 21st Aug. 1744, "in
favour of Neil Macleod, the chosen of the
congregation. This," the petition says, "will
render M.'s ministry useless and perhaps
his life uneasy." They prayed the Assembly
to settle Neil Macleod among them who
had already laboured as Royal Bounty
missionary for six years within the bounds.
The Presb. found him unqualified although
they had annually certified his qualifications
as a missionary. Further, they evaded
Macleod's presentation by a measure most
people would have considered not very
correct by holding their meeting at a
different time and place from usual, so that
the presentee was not able to find them.
M. rendered himself highly unpopular by
his persistent efforts to betray Prince
Charles when the latter was in hiding in
South Uist; trans, to Lismore 30th July
1755.
ANGUS MACNEILL, M.A. ; ord. 8th
, March 1756; trans, to Barra 9th
$ Aug. 1771.
JOHN MACAULAY, born 1737, son of
1772 J°bn M-> tacksman of Baleloch ;
educated at King's College, Aber
deen, 1754-8 ; licen. by Presb. of Uist ; ord.
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SOUTH UIST
[PRESB. OF
to Barra 19th Sept. 1763; trans, and adm.
16th April 1772 ; dem. 7th Aug. that year ;
went to America ; died 29th July 1776.
He marr. 3rd Sept. 1771, Mary (died 5th
Dec. 1830), daugh. of Alexander Macdonald
of Balranald, and had issue — Margaret. —
[Lord Macdonald's Charter Chest.]
GEORGE MUNRO, born 3rd July 1743,
son of John M., min. of this parish
(1737) ; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen; M.A. (30th March 1767); licen.
by Presb. of Uist ; ord. missionary at
Benbecula in 1771 ; pres. by George III.
17th Nov. 1772; adm. 2nd April 1773;
suspended llth April 1780, but sentence
removed 16th Dec. that year; app. J.P.
in 1818; died 5th Nov. 1832. He marr.
28th Nov. 1778, Marion, daugh. of Angus
Macdonald of Milton, and had issue —
Penelope, born 29th Sept. 1777; John,
born 25th Nov. 1778; Alexander, lieut.-
colonel 16th Foot, died at Edinburgh, 1863 ;
Angus ; Marion (marr. John MacEachen),
Publication — Account of the Parish (Sin
clair's Stat. Ace., xiii.). — [Hist, of the
Munros, 354 ; Tombst.]
WILLIAM ARBUCKLE, M.A. ; pres.
1813 by GeorSe> Prince Regent, 2nd May,
and adm. (assistant and successor)
23rd Sept. 1813 ; trans, to North Uist 14th
Sept. 1815.
RODERICK MACLEAN, born Skye,
1772; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen, M.A. (30th March 1797),
and Univ. of Edinburgh ; app. schoolmaster
of Portree 15th Oct. 1800 ; licen. by Presb.
of Skye 2nd Dec. 1801 ; ord. missionary at
Hallin-in-Waternish 8th April 1807; re
moved to Carinish, North Uist, about
1810; pres. by George, Prince Regent, in
March, and adm. (assistant and successor)
llth April 1816; app. J.P. in 1818; D.L.
in 1831 ; died at Drimisdale, 4th June 1854.
He marr. Elizabeth, daugh. of Captain
Norman Macleod (Cyprus), and had issue
— Donald, born 5th Sept. 1810; a child,
born 13th March 1812 ; Norman, bom llth
Oct. 1814, died in Australia ; Alexandrina,
born 19th May 1816 (marr. Alexander Mac
donald, Peninirin); Charles, tacksman of
Milton, born 2nd Feb. 1818; Roderick,
medical officer of the parish, born 7th Oct.
1819; Jessie, born 19th June 1822 (marr.
Norman Macdonald, tacksman of Nunton
and Vallay), died at Broadmeadows, New
South Wales, 16th March 1924, aged 102 ;
Margaret, born 27th May 1824 ; Flora, born
4th April 1826 ; Marion, born 1st July 1827
(marr. Roderick Macdonald, min. of this
parish; Christina, born llth Feb. 1836
(marr. Archibald Pearson, M.D., Govan),
died 17th March 1919. Publication —
Account of the Parish (New Stat. Ace.,
xiv.).
RODERICK MACDONALD, born
Vallay, 1820, son of Archibald M.,
tacksman of Kirkibost, North Uist,
and Susan Mackinnon ; educated at North
Uist School and Univ. of Glasgow; licen.
by Presb. of Uist ; ord. to Harris 16th
April 1847 ; pres. by Queen Victoria 25th
July, trans, and adm. 28th Dec. 1854 ; died
31st March 1900. A man of high attain
ments and of varied culture, he excelled
as a preacher in Gaelic and in English. He
marr.30th Oct. 1851, Marion (died 13th March
1914), daugh. of Roderick Maclean, min. of
this parish, and had issue — Archibald,
D.D., min. of Kiltarlity ; Elizabeth Pringle,
born 7th Aug. 1855 ; Roderick, died while
a student at Glasgow, Aug. 1871 ; Alastair,
farmer, born 4th Oct. 1859 ; Susan, born
4th Feb. 1861 (marr. Archibald Maclachlan,
M.B., C.M.) ; Flora Alexandra, born 16th
May 1863 (marr. Roderick Maclean of
Gometra) ; Harriet Christina, born 26th
May 1867.— [Clan Donald, Hi., 373, 506.]
DAVID DUNCAN, ord. 17th Oct.
1900 1900; trans- to St Thomas's Parish,
Glasgow, llth Aug. 1908.
ALEXANDER BOYD, ord. 16th Dec.
1908; trans, to Glencoe 22nd Nov.
1908
1916.
DUGALD BELL, born Glenorchy, 15th
1919 Sept. 1873, son of Dugald B. and
Margaret Sinclair; educated at Loch-
nell School and Univ. of Glasgow ; licen.
by Presb. of Winnipeg, Canada, 21st April
1899 ; ord. to Fairmede, Canada, 31st Oct.
that year ; adm. to Bracadale 4th May
1916 ; trans, and adm. 28th Aug. 1919 ;
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t r;n is. to Kilninver and Kilmelfort 30th
July 1925. Marr. llth Dec. 1902, Emily,
daugh. of John Soulby Sykes.
MALCOLM LAING, born North Uist,
7th May 1888, son of Eonald L.
J and Anne Macdonald ; educated at
Kingussie School and Univ. of Glasgow ;
M.A. (1912) ; licen. by Presb. of Uist Jan.
1917; ord. to Applecross 3rd Sept. 1917;
served in 14th Argyll and Sutherland High
landers in European War, trans, and adm.
31st March 1926.
TRUMISGARRY, OF OLD SAND
(Q.S.).
[In or before the sixteenth century the
ancient parish of Sand was united to North
Uist. Its church was dedicated to St
Columba. In 1828 a parliamentary church
for the district of Sand was built at
Trumisgarry. On llth June 1845 this
parish was again disjoined quoad sacra
from North Uist. From the site of its
modern church, it was then named Trumis
garry. There is a mission chapel within
the bounds at Lochmaddy.]
WILLIAM AKBUCKLE, ord. missionary
in 1806; trans, to South Uist 23rd
J Sept. 1813.
FINLAY MACRAE, ord. missionary
23rd Nov. 1815; trans, to North
1815
Uist 24th Sept. 1818.
JOHN LEES, app. missionary in 1819
1819 [afterwards min. of Stornoway].
WILLIAM MACQUEEN, born 23rd
Sept. 1797, son of James M., min.
1 of North Uist ; licen. by Presb. of
Uist 27th Dec. 1812 ; ord. 15th Dec. 1824 ;
pres. by George IV. 21st April, and adm.
2nd Sept. 1829 ; app. J.P. in 1831 ; died
29th May 1834. He left a widow.
NORMAN M'LEOD, born 5th Dec.
1801, son of Kenneth M. of Ebost,
' Skye, and Margaret, daugh. of Dr
Murdoch Macleod of Eyre ; educated
privately and at Univ. of Glasgow ; licen.
by Presb. of Skye in 1833 ; missionary at
Saltcoats, 1833-5; pres. by William IV.
16th July 1834; ord. 27th March 1835.
Joined the Free Church in 1843 ; min. of
Free Church, Paible, North Uist, 1843-81 ;
died 5th March 1881. He marr. 21st Feb.
1838, Julia (died llth June 1901), daugh.
of Dr Alexander Macleod, chamberlain for
Lord Macdonald in Skye, known as An
Dotair Ban, and had issue — Margaret
Anne, born 30th Nov. 1838, died unmarr.
at Tenby, Pembrokeshire, 20th Aug. 1900 ;
Kenneth, M.A. (Marischal College 1857),
M.D. (Edinburgh 1861), LL.D. (Aberdeen
1892), colonel R.A.M.C., Professor of
Anatomy at Calcutta Medical College, Hon.
Physician to King George V., born 23rd
July 1840, died 17th Dec. 1923; Mary
Anne, born 1st April 1842, died unmarr.
at Appin, 12th April 1892; Alexander
Norman, born 18th March 1844, died 13th
Feb. 1910; Annie Christina, born 25th
Feb. 1846, died in infancy ; Malcolm, born
8th July 1848, killed by accident at Sydney,
N.S.W., 25th Sept. 1882; Ann Campbell,
born 24th Sept. 1850 (marr. 17th Sept. 1872,
Duncan Campbell Ross, M.A., niin. of the
U.F. Church, Appin); Murdoch Donald,
M.D., medical superintendent, East Riding
Asylum, Beverley, Yorkshire, born 31st
Aug. 1851, died 3rd March 1908 ; Donald
Murdoch, Edinburgh, born 12th Nov. 1853 ;
Jessie, born 15th Jan. 1856 (marr. 15th Oct.
1884, William Large Laurie, Appin), died
at Oban, llth Nov. 1900; Sir Charles
Campbell of Fairfields, Cobham, Surrey,
born 19th June 1858, knighted 4th May
1917, created a baronet 22nd Jan. 1925;
Norman, major 7th Cameron Highlanders,
born 29th Nov. 1860.
DONALD MACDONALD, pres. by
Queen Victoria 30th Jan., and adm.
1 2nd May 1844 ; trans, to Alvie 29th
Nov. 1854.
JOHN ALEXANDER MACRAE, pres.
by Queen Victoria 15th Jan., and ord.
' 19th April 1855; trans, to North
Uist 3rd Feb. 1858.
DONALD MACDONALD, pres. by
Queen Victoria 19th March, and adm.
15th Sept. 1859 ; trans, to Sleat 6th
1859
Aug. 1863.
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TRUMISGARRY
[PRESB. OF UIST
NEIL JOHN MACQUARRIE, born
South Uist, 1823, son of Donald M.,
1864 teacher, and Catherine Black ; edu
cated at Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb.
of Uist in 1858 ; ord. to Carinish Mission
25th Nov. that year; pres. by Queen
Victoria 20th Nov. 1863 ; adm. 18th Feb.
1864 ; died unmarr. 20th Nov. 1868.
DONALD MACLEAN, pres. by Queen
Victoria 17th Feb., and ord. 13th
1869 May 1869; trans, to Colonsay 5th
March 1873.
WILLIAM MACKINTOSH, M.A., pres.
by Queen Victoria 8th Sept., and ord.
1873 26th Nov. 1873 ; trans, to Skipness
19th Sept. 1877; afterwards of Torosay;
died llth June 1927.
HUGH MACDONALD, born Ben-
becula, 1822, son of John M., Torlum;
1878 educated at Univ. of Glasgow;
became schoolmaster of Barra; licen. by
Presb. of Uist 8th Dec. 1847; ord. to
Boisdale Mission 5th May 1848 ; trans, to
Bernera 1st April 1852 ; trans, and adm.
14th May 1878; died unmarr. 31st Jan.
1888.
FARQUHAR MACRAE, ord. 26th Sept.
1888 ; trans, to Glengarry 30th Dec.
1 1889.
ALEXANDER GRANT, ord. 10th Sept.
1890; trans, to Bernera 9th Feb.
1904.
NORMAN LAING, ord. 3rd May 1904 ;
1904 trans, to Barvas 2nd May 1912.
JOHN MACLEAN, trans, from Poolewe
and adm. 13th Feb. 1913 ; trans, to
1913 Kilfinichen 5th Nov. 1914.
[Parish vacant since 1914.]
1890
PKESBYTEKY OF LEWIS, OF OLD THE LONG ISLAND
At sundry times during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries we find the
Ecclesiastical Courts striving after some reform in the disordered religious life of the
Outer Hebrides. For long these efforts were attended with little success. It was not until
the eighteenth century that efficient Church government could be set up in these islands.
For the better ordering of the civil administration, King James VI. granted a Charter
to a company of adventurers, hailing mostly from Fife, giving them power to found a
settlement in Lewis by force of arms, after the fashion of the Spanish Colonies beyond
the seas. These "Undertakers," as they were called, set forth on their expedition in
Oct. 1598, and Eobert Durie, minister of Anstruther, was commissioned to go with
them as a religious teacher. This first attempt of theirs to seize the island proved
a signal failure. Many of the invaders lost their lives, and Durie, sharing their
defeat, escaped alive with difficulty, and returned to Fife.
When the same company again took in hand an invasion of Lewis, the minister of
Anstruther was once more found willing to join it. A petition was therefore laid before
the Presbytery of St Andrews craving that he be again set free to go to that island
" to plant ane kirk." To this that Court agreed on 2nd April 1601. In December of the
same year the Lewismen routed the Undertakers with great slaughter, and their minister
was glad to get safely back to his own parish of Anstruther.
In 1610 Farquhar Macrae, minister of Gairloch, was sent on a special mission to
Lewis. From his report we learn that he found the people there very ignorant and
•' strangers to the Gospel." Few of them, he tells us, who were over forty years of age ,
had even been baptised.
On 19th May 1724 the General Assembly severed from the Presbytery of Skye the
whole district of the Outer Islands reaching from the Butt of Lewis on the north to
Barra Head on the south. Of this insular region a new jurisdiction was then formed,
called the Presbytery of The Long Island, or of Innis Fada. On 8th May 1742, Harris
and the islands lying to the south of it were disjoined from Lewis and erected as the
Presbytery of Uist. The remaining territory to the north has since then been known
as the Presbytery of Lewis.
The Kegister of this Presbytery begins in July 1742. There are gaps in the Kecord
from 16th March 1766 to 15th July 1767, from 22nd Nov. 1768 to 18th Aug. 1772, and
from 14th March to 27th Nov. 1804. The Presbytery holds its ordinary meetings at
Stornoway.]
; Barvas and Ness, now named Cross, were
BARVAS, OF OLD AN CLADACH j long united, but Cross was severed again
(" THE SHORE "). I Vuoad sacra in 1857-1
[The church of Barvas was dedicated to
SIR PATRICK M'MASTER MARTIN,
parson in 156Q.— [Highland Papers,
St Mary. There were a number of chapels » u D an Charter Che»t.]
in this parish. Among these were bt
Bride's at Borve, St Peter's at Shadair,
St Kiaran's at Lionashadair, and St John
the Baptist's at Bragar. The parishes of
MURDOCH M'H U I S T O N [or
MORRISON], adm. before 26th
May 1642.— [Argyll Synod Reg.]
200
BARVAS
[PKESB. OF
DONALD MORRISON, of the Brieves
family (judges in the Lewis) ; edu
cated at Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A.
(1640); adm. before llth Feb. 1643; still
min. 28th May 1656. He marr., and
had issue— Kenneth, min. of Stornoway ;
Donald.— [Book of the Lews, 164.]
DONALD MORRISON, son of
preceding; adm. before 1684; died
in 1699. He marr. Jean Lauder,
and had issue— Alan, min. of this parish ;
a daugh. (marr. George, son of Murdoch
Mackenzie, chamberlain of the Lewis).—
[Geneal. of the Mackenzie^ ; Inverness Sas.,
vi., 45, 2nd Dec. 1695; Martin's Western
Isles.]
ALAN MORRISON, son of preceding ;
educated at Marischal College, Aber-
J deen ; M.A. (1677) ; adm. to North
Uist in 1688, but outed in 1692 ; intruded
here that year during his father's ministry.
He denied Uig to be part of his charge,
24th July 1707, and stated, 31st Aug. 1716,
that he "never undertook the charge of
that parish, nor the Isle of Bernera, though
he preached there, and that the latter is
distant from his residence at Ness twenty-
four miles and the former twenty-six.'
On submitting to Presbyterianism, he was
referred to the Presb. by the Synod 17th
July, and received into communion 18th
Sept. 1722; died 5th July 1723.
MURDOCH MORRISON, born Lewis
about 1700 ; educated at King's Col
lege, Aberdeen; M.A. (24th Feb. 1718)
ord. 3rd Sept. 1726 ; died 3rd Feb. 1767
He marr. 1st Nov. 1736, Margaret (die<
7th Sept. 1772), daugh. of John Mackenzi
of Gruinard and Catherine Mackenzie, an<
had issue— Allan ; Donald; John; Kenneth
Katherine; Margaret; Colin; George
born 5th Nov. 1745 ; Baby, born 2nd Apr'
1747; Roderick, born 4th Dec. 1748
Marion, born 30th June 1750; Norman
born 31st July 1752.
ALEXANDER MACKAY, born 1732
licen. by Presb. of Dingwall 19t
1 June 1750 ; ord. missionary at Strath
glass 25th March 1755 ; adm. to Loch
15th Feb. 1760 ; pres. by George III. 6t
une, trans, and adm. 29th Oct. 1767 ;
ied 12th Sept. 1789. He was totally blind
or eight years before his death. He marr.
7th July 1760, Magdalen (died 3rd Dec.
830), daugh. of Alexander Mackenzie of
Davochmaluag.
DONALD MACDONALD, adm. 6th
May 1790; trans, to Urray 16th
} April 1812.
WILLIAM MACRAE, born in the
Black Isle, 1776, son of Alexander
$ M., farmer, and Elizabeth Mackay ;
educated at King's College, Aberdeen;
M.A. (26th March 1796); licen. by Presb.
of Lochcarron 7th April 1801; ord.
missionary at Fort Augustus 25th Aug.
that year ; pres. to Killearnan in 1808, but
patronage was found after much litigation
to belong to Mackenzie of Cromartie ; pres.
to this parish by George, Prince Regent,
24th Nov. 1812 ; trans, and adm. 12th May
1813 ; died 9th July 1856. He was much
interested in education and encouraged the
establishment of Gaelic schools in the
parish. He marr. 29th March 1809, Mary
Macdonald, who died 21st Jan. 1869, and
had issue— Margaret, born 10th Nov. 1811
(marr. Evander M'lver); Elizabeth, born
6th March 1816 (marr. 3rd June 1834, John
Mackenzie of Tirhoot, Bengal, and of
Melbourne, Canada), died 13th Dec. 1915 ;
Charles Mackenzie, medical practitioner,
Stornoway, born 17th Feb. 1818, died 3rd
May 1909; Mary, born 14th Nov. 1819;
John, born 28th Sept. 1820; Jean, born
llth Sept. 1823; Anne, born 20th July
1825 ; Janet, born 9th Sept. 1827 ; William,
born 7th Nov. 1828, died 4th March 1850 ;
Alexander, born 22nd July 1832. Publica
tion—Account of the Parish (New Stat.
Ace., xiv.).
JOHN REID, born Ross-shire, 1811, son
of Donald R., shoemaker, and
Christina Macdonald ; educated at
King's College, Aberdeen, 1824-8 ; ord. to
Applecross 25th July 1844 ; pres. by Queen
Victoria 9th Oct., trans, and adm. 18th
Dec. 1856; died 26th March 1858. He
marr. 18th Jan. 1849, Matilda (died 20th
Nov. 1897), daugh. of Alexander Maclver,
M.D., Stornoway.
LEWIS]
BARVAS— CROSS
201
JAMES STRACHAN, born Cromarty,
1827, eldest son of James S., .ship-
captain, and Ann Sutherland ; edu
cated at Grammar School, Inverness, and
Univ. of Glasgow; MA. (1850); licen. by
Presb. of Aberdeen ; pres. by Queen
Victoria 27th April, and ord. 15th July
1858; died 22nd Sept. 1892. He marr.
15th July 1856, Christina (died 16th April
1920), daugh. of Roderick Reid, min. of
Lochs, and had issue— Jemima Margaret,
born 23rd May 1857 (marr. Charles Mac-
quarrie); Annie Mary, born 15th May
1859 ; Christina Jane, born 23rd Jan. 1861
(marr. Alexander Macdonald, H.M. Inspector
of Schools) ; James, born 15th Oct. 1862 ;
Helen, born 16th Oct. 1864; Roderick
Reid, MA. (Glasgow), assistant Inspector
of Schools, born 14th Jan. 1867, died 4th
Sept. 1902 ; Catherine Alice, born 26th Sept.
1869 (marr. Donald MacGillivray, min. of
Petty); Peter Donald, M.D., born 5th
July 1872; Joan Agnes (twin), born 5th
July 1872 ; William, born 26th Jan. 1874.
LACHLAN MACKINNON, ord. 13th
April 1893 ; trans, to Lismore 20th
July 1911 ; died 10th Sept. 1927.
NORMAN LAING, trans, from Trumis-
garry ; adm. 2nd May 1912 ; trans.
' to Stenscholl 14th May 1924.
CROSS, OF OLD NESS
[The ancient parish of Ness was united
to Barvas in the sixteenth century, or
probably as early as the fifteenth. Its
old church was dedicated to St Peter. It
seems to have been a building of some
dignity, and its ruined fabric is well over
sixty feet in length. The modern church
is on another site, near the remains of an
old chapel of the Holy Rood, whence is
derived the name of Cross now given to
the parish. A parliamentary church for
the district of Ness was built in 1828.
The parish of Cross was again disjoined
from Barvas on 27th May 1857. In various
parts of this parish there were chapels in
times gone by. Two of these stood at
Eorabie, near the north end of Lewis.
One of them was dedicated to St Malrubh
and the other to St Ronan. Near the
latter was St Ronan's Well. In the same
part of the island were St Peter's Chapel
at Suainabost, St Thomas's at Habost, and
St Clement's at Dail. On the eastern
shore of this parish, at Dun Othail, about
ten miles from the Butt of Lewis, are the
ruins of a chapel seventeen feet long, built
in a very primitive style, of dry stone,
without any kind of mortar. Of the same
early type, but even ruder in form, are the
dry built hermitages that still stand on
lonely rocks lying off the coasts of this
part of The Long Island. Such a place
of solitary devotion is to be seen on the
bare isle of North Rona, sixty miles beyond
the furthest point of Northern Lewis, and
forty miles west of Cape Wrath. The chapel
of St Ronan there is perched upon the
rock that rises up from the sea to a height
of 350 feet. It is entered by a low doorway
with a flat lintel, and, to get in, one must
creep on all -fours. Thus the nave is
entered, and, by another similar low open
ing, the tiny chancel is reached. In the
small burial-ground around this hermitage
chapel are several, quite plain, standing
crosses, the highest of which rises only
about two feet and a half above the ground.
On the solitary rock of Sula Sgeir, ten
miles west of North Rona, stands another
hermitage of the same old-world type.
Moreover, there is in this parish yet a
third fabric of the kind. Its site is on
the north-east side of Lewis, on Ealean
Mor, the largest of the Flannan Isles. This
hermitage is called Teampidl Bheannachaidk
(" The Temple of Blessing.")]
FINLAY COOK, pres. by George IV.
21st April, and adm. 29th July
' 1829 ; trans, to East Church, Inver
ness, Nov. 1833.
JOHN MACRAE, pres. by William IV.
12th July, and ord. in 1833 ; trans.
1833 to Knockbain 26th Sept. 1839.
202
CROSS— KNOCK
[PRESB. OF
JOHN FINLAYSON, born Mugare,
Portree, about 1814, son of John F.
1840 and Marion Finlayson ; educated at
Univ. of Edinburgh ; pres. by Queen Victoria
llth Dec. 1839 ; ord. in 1840. Joined Free
Church in 1843; min. of Bracadale F.C.
19th Dec. 1843 ; died from effects of an
accident 17th Sept. 1844. He marr. 1840,
Isabella Margaret, daugh. of Malcolm
Macleod, min. of Snizort.
JAMES GUNN, ord. 5th May 1853;
1858 trans, to Uig 25th March 1857.
RODERICK FRASER, pres. by Queen
Victoria 14th Aug., and ord. 23rd
Sept. 1857; trans, to Uig 3rd Feb.
1859.
JAMES BAIN, pres. by Queen Victoria
10th June, and ord. 27th Sept. 1859 ;
1859 trans, to Kilfman 2nd Sept. 1860.
DONALD MACKAY, pres. by Queen
Victoria 18th Feb., and ord. 8th
' May 1861 ; trans, to Knock 7th Aug.
1878.
GODFREY WILLIAM BOSVILLE
M'RAE, born 1854, son of John M.,
schoolmaster of Sleat, and Catherine
Macrae; educated at Univ. of Glasgow;
licen. by Presb. of Glasgow ; ord. 24th Sept.
1879 ; dep. 16th Nov. 1887 ; sentence recalled
by General Assembly 28th May 1888 ; dem.
10th March 1889 ; died at Edinburgh, 10th
Feb. 1914.— [Dr Mair's My Life, 150.]
JOHN MACKAY, trans, from Gaelic
Chapel, Rothesay, and adm. 16th
1900 Jan. 1900; trans, to Plockton 4th
April 1905.
JOHN M'PHAIL, born South Shaw-
bost, Lewis, 25th Sept. 1843, son
1905 of Malcolm M. and Anne Macleod ;
educated at Shawbost School and Univ.
of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Uist 30th
Nov. 1887 ; ord. to Benbecula 27th Nov.
1889; trans, to Uig 22nd April 1890; trans,
and adm. 5th Oct. 1905.
KNOCK, OF OLD KILCHOLUIM-
CILL (Q.S.).
[In the sixteenth century the five
parishes of Stornoway, Gress, Ey, Lochs,
and Uig were all united. The church of
Ey, now roofless, was dedicated to St
Columba. About the year 1828 a parlia
mentary church for the district of Ey was
built at Knock. On 27th May 1857 this
ancient parish was again disjoined quoad
sacra from Stornoway, Lochs, and Gress.
The name of Knock was given it from the
site of its modern church. At Garrabost,
ithin the bounds, there was a chapel of
St Constantine, and beside it lay St
Constantino's Well.]
ROBERT FINLAYSON, pres. by
29 GeorSe IV- 21st APril) and ord> 23rd
Sept. 1829 ; trans, to Lochs 15th
June 1831.
DUNCAN MATHESON, born Plockton,
1793, son of John M., farmer ; edu
cated at Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by
Presb. of Dornoch 23rd Nov. 1830; pres.
by William IV. 15th Aug., and ord. 27th
Sept. 1831. Joined the Free Church in
1843 ; min. of Free Church, Knock, 1843-4 ;
min. of Free Church, Gairloch, 24th July
1844-73; died 12th Dec. 1873. He marr.
1832, Annabella Mackenzie, and had issue
— Ebenezer, student of divinity, died 1857 ;
John, banker, Madras ; Mary ; Katherine ;
Anne; Annabell (marr. Finlay Graham,
min. of Free Church, Sleat); Margaret
(marr. Speirs). Publication— Sermons
(p.p., 1912).— [Hist, of the Mathesons, 79;
Disruption Worthies of the Highlands
(portrait), 69-78.]
ALEXANDER SIMPSON BETHUNE,
son of John B., min. of Bernera;
educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ;
ord. 19th April 1849 ; died 14th Nov. 1860.
JAMES MACDONALD, ord. 26th Sept.
1861; dem. 20th June 1864, and
' went abroad [afterwards min. of
Glenelg, q.v.].
LEWIS]
KNOCK— LOCHS
203
1870
1874
EWEN CAMPBELL, prcs. by Queen
Victoria 23rd July, trans, and adm.
from Benbecula 28th Sept. 1864;
trans, to Lochs 18th Jan. 1870.
COLIN MACDONALD, pres. by Queen
Victoria 15th June, and ord. 7th
Sept. 1870; trans, to Rogart 24th
July 1873.
ALEXANDEE CARMICHAEL, pres.
by Queen Victoria 3rd Dec. 1873;
ord. 2nd April 1874 ; trans, to Foss
19th Nov. that year.
JOHN GILLIES, ord. 28th Sept. 1875 ;
1875 trans, to Appin 21st Aug. 1877.
DONALD MACKAY, born 1st Feb.
1811, eldest son of Hugh M., farmer,
' Druimliath, Bonar Bridge ; educated
at Univ. of Glasgow ; ord. to Tarbert
Mission, Harris, 1850; trans, to Cross 8th
May 1861 ; trans, and adm. 7th Aug. 1878 ;
dem. 1st Oct. 1891 ; died at Stornoway
6th July 1893. He marr. 21st Feb. 1859,
Mary (died at Nigg Manse, 7th Sept. 1925),
daugh. of Roderick Macdonald, Cuna-
buntag, Benbecula, and had issue —
Catherine Hughina, born llth Feb. 1860
(marr. William Robertson, naval engineer) ;
Jessie, born llth Jan. 1862 (marr. -
Newall, tacksman of Aignish, Lewis);
Jemima, born 24th May 1864 (marr.
Kenneth Mackenzie, Provost of Storno
way) ; Roderick John, medical practitioner,
Halifax, born 3rd Oct. 1866; Norman
Donald, min. of Nigg, Ross-shire, born 28th
Dec. 1871 ; Elizabeth Isabella Mary, born
23rd Dec. 1877.— [Clan Donald, iii., 389.]
ARCHIBALD M'CALLUM, born Glas
gow, 1853; educated at Univ. of
J Glasgow and Free Church College
there; ord. to Free Church, Rousay, 1880;
dem. 1889; adm. to this parish llth May
1892; dep. 1st June 1895, and went to
America.
ANGUS MACLEOD, born Swainbost,
Ness, July 1850, son of Kenneth M.
' and Henrietta Campbell; educated
at Cross School and Univ. of Glasgow;
licen. by Presb. of Halifax, Nova Scotia,
27th April 1892; ord. 19th Sept. 1895;
died 17th Feb. 1926. He marr. 15th Jan.
1878, Mary, daugh. of John Matheson, Aird,
Uig, and had issue— John Matheson, inin.
of Erchless, born 18th May 1880 ; William
Campbell, engineer, born 26th April 1882 ;
Henrietta, born 15th Jan. 1884 (marr.
Peter Smith, engineer); Christina (twin)
born 15th Jan. 1884 (marr. James Coull,
surveyor) ; Anne Stuart, teacher, born 23rd
Feb. 1887 ; Peggie, born 8th June 1890,
died 15th Nov. 1892; Coinneach Bard,
lieut. R.G.A., born 12th Dec. 1894.
LOCHS, OR LOCHAN.
[The church of Lochs was dedicated to
St Columba. In the sixteenth century
the parishes of Stornoway, Gress, Ey,
Lochs, and Uig were all united in one
charge. On 19th Dec. 1722 the Lords
Commissioners of Teinds disjoined the
Parish of Lochs from Stornoway, Gress,
and Ey. On Eilean.Chaluimchille, an island
in Loch Erisort, there was a chapel of St
Columba. At Carloway in this parish there
is now a mission chapel.]
COLIN MACKENZIE, schoolmaster at
Dunvegan; ord. 22nd Jan. 1724;
1724 died 5th July 1759. He marr. and
had issue—Anne ; Annabel ; Daniel.
ALEXANDER MACKAY, adm. 15th
Feb. 1760; trans, to Barvas 29th
1760 Oct. 1767.
JAMES WILSON, pres. by George III.
14th Jan., and adm. llth Aug. 1768 ;
trans, to Crathie and Braemar 4th
Aug. 1784.
JOHN FRASER, born Inverness-shire,
1752 ; educated at King's College,
1784 Aberdeen ; M.A. (31st March 1772) ;
licen. by Presb. of Chanonry 28th Nov.
1781 ; ord missionary at Stornoway 13th
Oct. 1784 ; pres. by George III., and adm.
1st Dec. that year; died unmarr. 22nd
Sept. 1792.
ALEXANDER SIMPSON, born Ferin-
tosh, 1761 ; educated at King's Col
lege, Aberdeen ; M.A. (30th March
178U); licen by Presb. of Dingwall 30th
Aug. 1786; ord. assistant in this parish
204
LOCHS
[PRESS. OF
28th March 1789; pres. by George III.
in Jan., and adm. 12th March 1793; died
23rd June 1830. He marr. 15th Nov.
1786, Janet Graham, and had issue-
Colin Graham, born 30th Aug. 1787 ; John,
born 23rd May 1789; Anne, born 21st
Jan. 1791 ; George Munro, born 21st June
1793; Alexander, born 30th April 1795;
Janet Graham, born 13th Aug. 1796 (marr.
John Bethune, min. of Bernera) ; Jess
Graham (marr. 4th Oct. 1824, Duncan
MacCuaig, clothier, Edinburgh). Publica
tion — Account of the Parish (Sinclair's
Stat. Ace., xix.).
ROBERT FINLAYSON, born Clyth,
Latheron, 1793, son of Robert F.,
1831 schoolmaster; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen, 1816-21 ; became school
master at Lybster and Dunbeath ; licen.
by Presb. of Caithness May 1826; mis
sionary in the East Parish, Aberdeen;
assistant in the Gaelic Chapel there ; ord.
to Knock 23rd Sept. 1829; pres. by William
IV. 29th July 1830 ; trans, and adm. 15th
June 1831. Joined the Free Church in
1843; min. of Free Church, Lochs, 1843-56,
and Free Church, Helmsdale, 8th Oct.
1856-61; died 23rd July 1861. His tall
portly figure with brown hair, fair com
plexion, large features, and meek eyes
his sonorous voice, deep at first, as if it
almost came out of the ground, but which
rose by and by to tones of silvery sweet
ness ; the smiles of joy which played on
his features, the words he uttered, and the
vast audiences he was accustomed to
address, bespoke a personality of singular
attractiveness and strength. He was a
master of allegory and was known as the
"John Bunyan of the Highlands." He
marr. 28th June 1813, Lilias Macaulay,
who died 30th July 1887, and had issue-
Donald, born 28th Sept. 1832, drowned in
1849, while fishing in the loch in front
of the manse; Robert, born 22nd Nov.
1835, drowned with his brother in 1849 ;
Catherine, born 6th Sept. 1837 ; Margaret,
born 5th Nov. 1840 ; John, born 5th Dec.
1842. Publication— Account of the Parish
(Neu> Stat. Ace.,™.).— \_DisruptionWorthies
of the Highlands (portrait), 145-52 ; Brief
Sketch of the Life of Rev. R. F., by Rev. J.
Macpherson, Lochalsh (1870).]
RODERICK REID, born Ross-shire,
1785, son of Donald R., shoemaker,
1844 and Christine Macdonald ; educated
at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (25th
March 1808); became tutor in the family
of Clark of Glendow ; licen. by Presb. of
Tongue 3rd March 1813 ; ord. missionary
at Lynedale 8th Dec. 1813 ; adm. to Hallin-
in-Waternish 28th Sept. 1829; pres. by
Queen Victoria 2nd Jan., trans, and adm.
18th April 1844 ; died 27th July 1869. He
marr. 26th Jan. 1832, Jemima, daugh.
of John Nicolson, merchant, Stein, Skye
(died 24th Aug. 1878), and had issue-
Christina, born 16th Jan. 1833 (marr. James
Strachan, min. of Barvas) ; Margaret Mac-
leod, born 16th Oct. 1834 ; Donald, born
2nd March 1836, died in infancy ; Donald,
born 13th April 1837 ; Jessie Macleod, born
31st Dec. 1839 ; John Nicolson, born 27th
Jan. 1841 ; Mary Simpson, born 20th Nov.
1842; Norah Nicolson, born 30th March
1844; Roderick, born 5th March 1846;
Malcolm Nicolson, born 15th March 1848 ;
Alice, born 2nd Feb. 1850 ; James Charles,
born 3rd May 1852; Agnes, born 19th
Jan. 1854.
EWEN CAMPBELL, born 1830, eldest
son of Archibald C., farmer in Nova,
1870 Scotia ; educated at Univ. of Glas
gow ; ord. missionary at Benbecula in
1857; trans, to Knock 28th Sept. 1864;
pres. by Queen Victoria 3rd Nov. 1869;
trans, and adm. 18th Jan. 1870; died
unmarr. 9th Feb. 1889. A man of high intel
lectual attainments and goodness of heart.
In Benbecula his name is to this day a
household word.
DONALD MACCALLUM, born
Baravulin, Craignish, 9th Oct. 1849,
son of Malcolm M. and Mary Mac-
farlane ; educated at Craignish School and
Univ. of Glasgow; licen. by Presb. of
Lochcarron in 1880 ; assistant at Morven ;
ord. missionary at Arisaig 22nd May 1882;
adm. to Hallin-in-Waternish 5th March
1884; trans, to Hylipol 22nd Dec. 1887;
trans, and adm. 14th Aug. 1889; dem.
29th Sept. 1920. He marr. 14th Aug. 1894,
LEWIS]
LOCHS— STORNOWAY AND GRESS
205
1921
Mary, daugh. of Dr Angus Macaulay, and
Flora MacEachen. Publications — " Sop as
gach seid" (Edinburgh, 1883); An Dara
Boitean (Edinburgh, 1884) ; Highland
Patriots (1909) ; " An Tur Laidir " (1910) ;
The Tiree and Lewis Crofters (1911) ;
Poems, (Oban, 1913); Odes (Oban, 1913).
DUNCAN MATHESON, born Storno-
way, 24th Dec. 1866, son of John
M. and Barbara Macleod ; educated
at High School, Free Church College, and
Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by United Free
Church Presb. of Lewis 2nd Sept. 1902 ;
assistant at Carloway Mission ; went to
Canada and Australia, where he preached
in Presbyterian churches ; adm. to Church
of Scotland by General Assembly May
1920; ord. llth May 1921. Marr. 26th
Oct. 1923, Mary (died s.p. 12th Dec. 1924),
daugh. of John Mackay.
STORNOWAY AND GRESS.
[In the sixteenth century the parishes of
Gress, Ey, Lochs, and Uig were all joined
to the charge of Stornoway. Since then
all of them except Gress have been severed
again.
Stornoway. — The church of Stornoway
was dedicated to St Adarnnan.
Gress. — The church of Gress, now ruinous,
was dedicated to St Olaf. At Tolsta in
this parish stood a chapel of St Michael.]
EGBERT DURIE, min. of Anstruther,
accompanied an Association of Fife
Adventurers to the Lewis Oct. 1598,
and was a second time app. by Presb.
of St Andrews, 2nd April 1601, at the
request of the Society of Gentlemen going
to the Lewis, "to plant ane kirk." On
their extrusion and slaughter in Dec. that
year, he made his escape and returned to
his parish.
FARQUHAR M'RAE, min. of Gairloch ;
went on a mission to Lewis, " as its
inhabitants were strangers to the
Gospel," few under the age of forty Jiaving
been baptised till that time.— [Mackenzie's
The Kook of the Lews, 55-68 ; P. C. Reg.,
2nd ser., vii., 13.]
1610
1642
1689
FARQUHAR CLERK, educated at
Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A. (1626) ;
adm. before 26th May 1642; still
min. 7th Oct. 1643. He marr. Jean
Lauder.
DONALD MORRISON, trans, from
Ness and adm. before 16th Oct.
1 1649; still min. in 1676.— [Reg. of
Deeds, Mack., 25th March 1679, 18th June
1688.]
KENNETH MORRISON, born about
1647, son of Donald M., min. of
Barvas ; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen; M.A. (2nd July 1667); adm.
before 1689; died before 26th Nov. 1720.
He is described as a highly gifted man.
and well suited to repress the turmoils in
Lewis between Papists and Protestants,
He carried a sword by his side when
walking from his manse at Tong to the
church on Sundays, and the church door
was guarded by two men with drawn
swords. After he had administered baptism
to a child, a woman dipped her hand into
the water which remained in the vessel,
and threw as much as she could lift in her
hand on the face of a female servant to
prevent her seeing visions. He had some
reputation as a Gaelic versifier. He marr.
and had issue — Alexander ; Murdoch,
merchant, Stornoway ; Margaret (marr.
Aulay Macaulay, min. of Harris). — [Martin's
Western Isles ; Services of Heirs ; Thomas's
Traditions of the Morrisons.'}
DANIEL [or DONALD] MORRISON,
born 1678, son of Donald M. Mac
1724 Angus Mhic Allan Mhic a Bhrei-
theamh ; educated at Univ. of St Andrews ;
ord. to Kilbrandon and Kilchattan 19th Sept.
1705 ; pres. by William, Earl of Seaforth, and
called in 1721 ; trans, and adm. 5th Jan.
1724; died 23rd April 1746. At a visita
tion of the parish 3rd Aug. 1743, "the heads
of families showed an entire regard and
love to their minister, but regretted very
much his low condition in the world, and
the economy of his family, and that his
wife was an habitual drunkard." She
became a changed woman, and "strove
daily to add to the comfort of her husband
206
STORNOWAY AND GRESS
and family." He marr. 4th May 1708,
Christian Morison, who died 17th Feb.
1750 and had issue-Isobel ; Anne (marr.
Donald Mackenzie of Loggie).-[Thomas s
Traditions of the Morrisons; Proc. boc.
Antiq., xii., 524.]
JOHN CLARK, born Inverness-shire,
1713 • educated at King's College,
1747 Aberdeen ; M.A. (29th March 1732);
ord. missionary at Strathglass; adm. to
this parish 19th Feb. 1747; died 10th
Aug. 1772. He was tacksman of a large
farm' in the parish. He marr. (1) a lady, who
died before his admission, and had issue
-Alexander, born 27th Dec. 1746: (2) 28th
Jan. 1754, Anne (died Jan. 1789), daugh. of
John M'Intosh, bailie of Inverness, and
had issue— James, born 29th Nov. 1754;
Christian, born 16th June 1756 ; Margaret,
born 21st April 1759; John, born 22nd
Aug. 1762, died 10th Aug. 1772.
JOHN DOWNIE, trans, from Gairloch
and pres. by George III. 2nd Oct.
1773 1772. adm- 22nd July 1773; app
chaplain to 78th Seaforth Highlanders 6th
June 1778; trans, to Urray 25th Sept
1788.
COLIN MACKENZIE, born 1750
licen. by Presb. of Dingwall 28th
1789 Jan 1775; ord. missionary a
Sconser, Skye, 4th Sept. 1784; removed
to Strathconan Mission ; pres. by Georg
III 12th March, trans, and adm. 27th Aug
1789 ; died 7th Feb. 1815. He stated, 9th
May 1811, that his parish was very desti
tute both of religious and secular instruc
tion; that out of about three thousanc
five 'hundred of a population only abou
seven hundred can read English and abou
thirty Gaelic, while the remainder can reac
neither Gaelic nor English. He marr. 21s
Aug. 1794, Jean (died 25th May 1866
daugh. of Colin Mackenzie, min.of Foddert
and 'had issue— Colin, min. of Shieldai
born llth July 1795 ; Mary, born 3rd Jul
1797 (marr. John Mackenzie, min.
Resells) ; Elizabeth, born 2nd Oct. 1799
Alexander, born 21st June 1801; Joh
born 27th Nov. 1804; Ninian Macfarquha
born 24th Feb. 1807; Una, born 18
marr. 19th March 1835, Francis Edmond,
dvocate, Aberdeen), died 29th May 1876.
[Gaelic School Report, 1811 ; Tombst.]
SIMON FRASER, born Ross-shire, 1773,
son of Thomas F. ; educated at
815 Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1790-4;
cen. by Presb. of Chanonry 23rd July
799 ; app. missionary at Glenmoriston in
799 ; pres. by George, Prince Regent, 6th
May/ and adm. 20th Sept. 1815; drowned
hile crossing the Minch Nov. 1824. He
marr 9th Feb. 1816, Mary (died at Penryn,
Cornwall, 30th July 1868), daugh. of Dr
ohn Millar, Stornoway, and had issue-
ohn, born llth Jan. 1819; Elizabeth, born
Oth Aug. 1820; Donald, born 21st May
822 ; Simona Johanna, born 29th Aug. 1824.
JOHN CAMERON, M.A. ; pres. by
George IV. 7th Jan., and ord. 18th
825 Aug. 1825 ; trans, to Edderton 28th
March 1844.
JOHN LEES, born Stornoway, 1793,
son of James L. (whose forebears had
1844 come to Lewis with the Fife Adven
turers in the reign of James VI.); educated
at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (25th
March 1814) ; missionary at Sand, North
Uist, 1819, and Carinish in 1822; app.
schoolmaster to the Caledonian Asylum,
London [a school for the education of the
sons of Scottish soldiers and sailors], 28th
Nov. 1822, and entered on his duties Feb.
1823; app. secretary to the Asylum 6th
May 1824 ; was Gaelic lecturer in London,
and chaplain to the Highland Society;
pres. by Queen Victoria 16th April, and
adm. here 21st Aug. 1844 ; died 17th Nov.
1846. " If there was one virtue more than
another that my father possessed," says his
son, Dr Cameron Lees, "it was the precious
one of charity. He would never allow an
unkind word to be spoken of those who
differed from him. ... His favourite
theme was that tbe whole gospel is compre
hended in the word love. When he died,
he was lamented by the whole island.
Free Church ministers have said to me
when a young man, ' Be like your father :
he was a good man.' " He marr. 1833, Mary
Isabella (died at Oban, 3rd March 1885,
LEWIS]
STORNOWAY AND GRESS— UIG
207
1847
aged 84), second daugh. of Captain Allan
Cameron, Lochmaddy (afterwards in Mull)
factor for Lord Macdonald of the Isles
in North Uist, and great-grandson of Sir
Ewen Cameron of Lochiel, who took part in
the wars of Montrose and in the Kising of
1715, and styled by Macaulay the "Ulysses
of the Highlands," and had issue — James
Cameron, K.C.V.O., D.D., LL.D., min. of
St Giles, Edinburgh, born in above Asylum,
24th July 1834 ; Colin, born at London ;
John, in New Zealand ; Allan Cameron, in
New Zealand ; Donald.- — [Maclean's Life of
James Cameron Lees (Glasgow, 1922), 1-29.]
JOHN MACRAE, born 1802, son of
Donald M., farmer, and Isabella
Young ; ord. 1827 min. of East River,
Pictou, Nova Scotia ; adm. to Killearnan
5th Feb. 1845 ; trans, and adm. 30th Sept.
1847 ; died 10th Nov. 1877. He marr. (1)
10th July 1829, Julia MacDougall, and had
issue — Isabella William, born 19th March
1832 (marr. James Macdonald, min. of
Glenelg); Donald, D.D., born 26th Nov. 1833,
M.A. (King's College, Aberdeen, March
1851), min. of St Stephen's, St John's, New
Brunswick (q.v.) ; Archibald MacDougall,
born 3rd June 1835 ; Alexander, born 25th
July 1837; John, born 18th July 1839;
William, M.A., Madras, born llth May
1841 ; Elizabeth Anne Campbell, born llth
Feb. 1843: (2) 20th Aug. 1868, Elizabeth
Swanston (died 27th Feb. 1889), daugh. of
Robert Forsyth, Juniper Bank, Thurso.
Publication — The Two Churches are One
after all (1860).
ARCHIBALD MACDONALD, trans,
from Hylipol, Tiree, and adm. 27th
Sept. 1878; trans, to Logie-Easter
4th March 1881.
ALEXANDER STUART, ord. 17th
Aug. 1881 ; trans, to Daviot 18th
May 1894.
HECTOR MACKINNON, M.A. ; trans,
from Tiree and adm. 21st Sept.
fc 1894; trans, to Campbeltown 13th
March 1897.
DONALD MACKINNON, ord. 14th
1897 ^y 1897 > trans- to Glengarry 30th
Sept. 1903.
1881
JOHN STEWART M'CALLUM, trans,
from Kilchoman and adm. 29th Jan.
fc 1904; trans, to Gaelic Church,
Greenock, 16th May 1913.
JOHN MENZIES MENZIES, trans,
from Skipness and adm. 29th Oct.
1913 ; trans, to Tobermory 4th Nov.
1913
1919.
MURDO MACLEOD, ord. 4th May
1921 1921; trans, to Uig 18th Jan. 1922.
ALEXANDER ROSS, M.A.; ord. 9th
May 1922 ; dem. on being app. as
army chaplain (q.v.) llth July 1924.
JOHN KENNEDY MACKENZIE,
1924 k°rn Edinburgh, 18th Aug. 1885,
son of Allan M., min. of Rogart ;
educated at Inverness High School and
Royal Academy and Univ. of Edinburgh ;
M.A. (1913) ; licen/ by Presb. of Lewis in
1913 ; assistant at Dean Parish, Edinburgh,
1914, and West St Giles, Edinburgh,
1919-20; ord. to Cranshaws 20th Feb. 1920;
trans, and adm. 20th Nov. 1924. Marr.
22nd April 1920, Murilla, daugh. of John
Kennedy Cameron, M.A., Professor of
Systematic Theology, Free Church College,
Edinburgh, and Catherine M'lvor, and
has issue — Alan Cameron, born 9th Aug.
1921 ; Katherine May, born 20th Aug.
1922 ; Etta, born 27th April 1924.
UIG.
[The church of Uig was dedicated to St
Christopher. In the sixteenth century the
parishes of Stornoway, Gress, Ey, Lochs,
and Uig were all joined in one charge. On
19th Dec. 1722, the Lords Commissioners
of Teinds severed Uig again from the other
four. On Gallon Head, within the bounds,
there stands, somewhat ruined, a chapel of
very ancient form, built of dry undressed
stone . It bears the name of Tigh Bhean-
nachaidh ("The House of Blessing"). At
Kirvig there was a chapel of St Michael,
and on the island of Great Bernera stood
chapels of St Donan and St Michael.
There are now four mission chapels in
the parish of Uig. One stands on Great
Bernera and the others are at Voltos,
the Aird, and Braenish.]
208
UIG
[PRESB. OF
KONALD ANGUSON, adm. before 3rd
June 1572 ; subscribed an obligation
1572 from Roderick Macleod of Lewis to
John, Bishop of the Isles, 16th April 1573,
at command of the said Roderick, "because
he could not writt himself/''— [Collect, de
Rebus Alban., 7; Highland Papers, ii.]
JOHN MACLEOD, M.A. ; ord. 30th
Au». 1726 ; trans, to Duirinish 21st
1726 July 1741.
NORMAN MORISON, born about
1707, son of John M., min. of Urray;
1742 educated at King's College, Aber
deen, M.A. (1728), and Univ. of St Andrews;
licen. by Presb. of St Andrews 21st Feb.
1740; called 2nd Nov., and ord. 1st Dec.
1742; died llth Feb. 1777. He marr. (1)
12th April 1746, Agnes, daugh. of William
M'Vey, merchant, Edinburgh, and widow
of William Hart, merchant, Edinburgh, and
had issue — William, born 23rd July 1748,
apprenticed to a W.S., 1774 ; Theodore,
born 5th Aug. 1750 ; Ann M'Vey (twin),
born 5th Aug. 1750, died 9th Sept. 1772 ;
Agnes (marr., pro. 19th April 1767, Neill
Carmichael, merchant, Edinburgh) : (2)
2nd Jan. 1773, Jean Mackenzie, who died
25th May 1802. Publication— Contributed
to Treatise on Second Sight (1763).—
\_Miscell. Scot., in.]
HUGH MUNRO, born 16th April 1747,
son of John M., min. of South Uist ;
1774 educated at King's College, Aber
deen ; M.A. (30th March 1767) ; licen. by
Presb. of Uist 23rd Aug. 1773 ; ord. mis
sionary at Tarbert, Harris ; pres. by George
III. 16th April, and adm. 3rd July 1774 ;
died 1st May 1823. He marr. 27th Nov.
1778, Janet, daugh. of - - MacAskill of
Rhuandunan, Skye, and had issue— Cather
ine, born 5th Sept. 1779 ; John, lieutenant
78th Regiment, born 6th March 1781, was
present at Battle of Maida, and with Sir
Ralph Abercromby in Egypt, killed at the
taking of Batavia, 1811 ; Christina, born
8th July 1785 (marr. John Mackenzie
sheriff-substitute of the Lewis); Marion
born 26th Oct. 1786. Publication —
Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat
Ace. xix.).
ALEXANDER MACLEOD, born Stoer,
Sutherlandshire, 1786 ; educated at
!24 King's College, Aberdeen, 1808-12;
licen. by Presb. of Tongue 26th Nov. 1818 ;
ord. to Gaelic Chapel, Dundee, 16th Dec.
1819; trans, to Gaelic Chapel, Cromarty,
17th Sept. 1821; pres. 5th Sept. 1823;
trans, and adm. 21st April 1824. Joined
the Free Church ; min. of Free Church,
Uig, May to Dec. 1843; min. of Free
Church, Rogart, May 1846 to 1869; died
13th Nov. 1869. He was an indefatigable
pastor, possessed much shrewdness and
tact, and was greatly beloved. He marr.
Margaret Macleod, who died 4th July 1879.
Publication— Account of the Parish (New
Stat. Ace., xiv.).— [Disruption Worthies of
the Highlands (portrait), 221-32 ; Old Lore,
viii., 95 ; Diary and Sermons, with Memoir
by Rev. D. Beaton, Wick (1925).]
DAVID WATSON, born Croy, 1806,
son of William W. ; educated at
1845 King's College, Aberdeen ; ord. 26th
March 1845; died llth -May 1856. He
marr. 1841, Margaret (died 27th May 1885),
daugh. of William Mackay, Edderton, and
Janet Helen Gordon, and had issue-
William, min. of Kiltearn, born 8th March
1843; David, born 1846; Alexander Henry
Nugent, physician, born 1851 ; Jessie Helen
Gordon, born 22nd Feb. 1855.
JAMES GUNN, born Halkirk, 1829,
fourth son of Alexander G., farmer ;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow; ord.
to Cross, Lewis, 5th May 1853; pres. by
Queen Victoria 12th Feb., trans, and adm.
25th March 1857; died 20th July 1858.
He marr. 9th June 1857, Margaret Neaves
(marr. (2) 26th Sept. 1878), eldest daugh. of
James MacLaren, parochial teacher, Reay,
and had issue— Mary Greenlaw Maclaren,
born 23rd March 1858.
RODERICK FRASER, born 7th March
1824, son of Simon F., min. of Kil-
1859 morack ; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen, 1840-6 ; ord. to Cross, Lewis,
23rd Sept. 1857 ; pres. by Queen Victoria
5th Oct. 1858; trans, and adm. 3rd Feb.
1859 ; dep. 31st May 1875 ; died 15th May
1880. He marr. 17th July 1860, Elizabeth
Macpherson, who died 30th July 1905.
LEWIS]
urn
1876
ANGUS MACIVER, born Ross-shire,
1832, son of Angus M., catechist,
and Anne M'Leod ; educated at
Univ. of Glasgow and Free Church College
there ; ord. to Macdonald Free Church,
Glasgow, 1872. Joined Church of Scot
land in 1875; adm. here llth Jan. 1876;
dem. 20th Oct. 1889, and became min. of
Free Church, Strathconan ; died at Bal-
allan, Lewis, 20th Oct. 1915. He marr.
21st April 1875, Margaret, daugh. of
Robert Bannatyne, fishery officer, and
Eliza Umphray.
JOHN M'PHAIL, adm. 22nd April
1890; trans, to Cross 5th Oct.
1890 1905.
1906
200
ALLAN MACKENZIE, adm. 7th Feb.
1906; trans, to Rogart 17th July
1919.
MURDO MACLEOD, born Valtos, Uig,
17th March 1893, son of Donald
1922 M. and Anne Matheson ; educated
at Nicolson Institute, Stornoway, and
Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (1920), B.D.
(1921); licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh in
March, and ord. to Stornoway 4th May
1921 ; app. clerk of Presb. that year ; trans,
and adm. 18th Jan. 1922 ; trans, to Tarbat
20th July 1927. Marr. 10th Aug. 1922,
Mary, daugh. of Alexander Montgomery,
and has issue — Murdo, born 28th June
1923.
VOL. VII.
SYNOD OF ORKNEY
UNTIL near the middle of the seventeenth century this Court was made up
of the two Presbyteries of Orkney or Kirkwall and Shetland or Lerwick.
On 15th June 1646 the General Assembly united this Synod to that
of Sutherland and Caithness. The union thus formed lasted until 15th
May 1725, when the Synod of Orkney was again made an independent
jurisdiction. It was then divided into the four Presbyteries of Kirkwall,
Cairston, the North Isles, and Shetland or Lerwick. On 31st May 1830
Shetland was severed from Orkney and became a Synod by itself.
PRESBYTERY OF KIRKWALL, OF OLD ORKNEY
[Prior to 15th May 1725 all the parishes of Orkney were under the authority of this
Court. At that date the two Presbyteries of Cairston and the North Isles were taken
out of that of Kirkwall.]
was prebendary of the Holy Cross in
Sanday, and was probably the first Protes
tant min. there ; is called min. of St
Andrews, Deerness, and Holm in 1574 ;
was alive in 1590.— [Craven's Orkney (1558-
1662), 48 [where his signature is reproduced],
50, 57.]
ST ANDREWS, OR TANKERNESS,
AND DEERNESS.
[The church was dedicated to St Andrew.]
GAVIN WATT, a pre-Reformation
priest, who conformed and was reader
in 1566 [afterwards at Nesting].
1566
1574
DONALD BRUCE, min. in 1567 ; died
1567 at Kirkwall Oct. 1573.
JOHN HOUSTON, a pre-Reformation
priest, who conformed and became
reader in 1574 ; was prebendary of
St Peter, Kirkwall, until 26th Feb. 1595,
when he demitted.— [Craven's Orkney (1558-
1662), 83, 137 ; Tankerness Charters.]
WILLIAM PIERSON, M.A. ; a pre-
Reformation priest who is mentioned
1 as early as 1532 ; on 28th Oct. 1544
he is designated " Presbyter of Orkney
diocese and notary public"; in 1560 he
PATRICK WATERSTON (primus),
M.A. ; trans, from Benvie and adm.
in 1591 ; trans, to Orphir before
1616.
1591
JAMES WILSON, born about 1600,
son of James W., min. of Kinglassie;
1 adm. before Oct. 1624; on 25th June
1627, at a visitation by Bishop Grahame,
the communicants at St Andrews numbered
325, and those at Deerness 268 ; died Aug.
1632. He marr. Elspeth Sinclair, and had
issue — Thomas, apprenticed to Samuel
Livingstone, merchant, Edinburgh, 7th
Sept. 1642.— [MS. Receipts for Stipend;
Orkney Tests. ; Peterkin's Rentals.]
PRESB. OF KIKKWALL] ST ANDREWS AND DEERNESS
211
PATRICK WATERSTON (secundus),
M.A. ; pres. by George, Bishop of
1 Orkney, and adm. before 5th April
1634 ; exchanged charges with James
Haigie, min. of Rousay, and adm. before
12th April 1639.
JAMES HAIGIE, educated at Univ. of
Edinburgh ; M.A. (28th July 1627) ;
' inst. at Rousay and Egilsay 31st
Jan. 1636; trans, and adm. before llth
April 1639 ; was admonished "to take back
an part of his glebe," and threatened with
deposition ; dep. by the General Assembly
in 1650 for subscribing a loyal address to
James, Marquess of Montrose ; is believed
to have accompanied Montrose's army as
a chaplain, when his name disappears from
Orkney Records. Possibly afterwards min.
of Fetlar. — [Lament's Diary, 26 ; Craven's
Orkney (1558-1662), 213.]
ADAM GIBSON, M.A. ; called Nov.
1656 ; ord. 6th May 1657 ; trans, to
J Shapinsay 14th Sept. 1665.
DAVID KENNEDY, born about 1620,
son of Quintin K., writer, Edin-
! burgh; educated at Univ. of Edin
burgh; M.A. (17th April 1639); was a
candidate for the Chair of Humanity there
in 1644 ; sent along with John Gibson to
supply vacancies in Orkney in 1650 ; ord.
(by Presb. of Edinburgh, at Newhaven) to
Birsay and Harray 10th May 1654 ; con
formed to Episcopacy and inst. before
17th April 1666 ; pres. by Alexander
Douglas of Spynie, and inst. here 24th
Sept. that year ; held the Archdeaconry of
Orkney ; dem. in 1671 ; died at Shapinsay
9th Feb. 1676. He marr. Katherine, daugh.
of Henry Smyth, min. of Shapinsay, and
had issue — George ; Quintin. — [Orkney
Tests. ; Edin. Bur. Reg. ; Inq. Ret. Gen.,
7162 ; Orkney Ret., 156 ; Craven's Orkney
(1558-1662),' 218 [gives full extract of
ordination at Newhaven].]
ARTHUR MILLER, bapt. 26th March
1672 1638, son of Alexander M., Ferryport-
on-Craig ; educated at Univ. of St
Andrews; M.A. (28th July 1656); app.
schoolmaster of Ferryport-on-Craig, and
was session-clerk at Crail 8th March 1668 ;
1674
recommended for licence 18th Nov. that
year; adm. to Second Charge, Kirkwall,
before 13th Oct. 1669 ; trans, to Evie and
Rendall in 1671 ; trans, and adm. before
21st April 1672; died 21st April 1674.—
[Kirkwall (Deaths) Reg.}
JOHN HEGGIE, born 1643; educated
at Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A. (25th
July 1663) ; had a presentation to
Fetlar, Shetland, May 1670, and a grant of
its vacant stipend to " transport him to
that remote place"; adm. there that year;
pres. by Andrew, Bishop of Orkney, and
inst. 14th July 1674; died in 1683. His
wife (name unrecorded) died 23rd Dec.
1682, and he left issue— two sons and three
daughs., "whom the Kirk-Session think
fit should be accommodated, James (called
eldest son) with John Shilpes, min. of this
Parish ; Katherine, with Thomas Mac
kenzie, min. of Shapinsay ; Margaret, with
John Hendrie, min. of Orphir; James
(called youngest son) and Barbara (called
youngest daugh.) with James Mason, the
kirk officer"; Anna (marr. 2nd Aug. 1702.
Thomas Hanna, Edinburgh). — [Craven's
Orkney (1662-8), 57 [gives the bishop's
presentation and collation].]
JOHN SHILPES, a native of Moray ;
educated at King's College, Aber-
1 deen ; M.A. (19th July 1666) ; app.
schoolmaster of Kirkwall 1st June 1681 ;
ord. 24th, and inst. (at Deerness) 29th
April 1683; died between 5th June and
6th Sept. 1698. He marr. (cont. 13th July
1682), Elizabeth, daugh. of William Camp
bell, min. of Watten, and had issue— a son
(name unrecorded) ; Margaret ; Elizabeth ;
Isobel (marr. 29th April 1717, Gilbert
Alexander, tailor, Edinburgh).
PATRICK GUTHRIE, adm. and inst.
as an intruder (at St Andrews) 9th
May 1695 ; inhibited by the Presb.
10th June, and received into communion by
the Commission for Visitation of Orkney
14th June 1698; adm. to Lady 13th Sept.
that year.
JOHN COBB, M.A. ; adm. to Harray and
Birsay about 1686 ; trans, to Second
Charge, Kirkwall, 2nd July 1689;
intruded at Stronsay and Eday 2nd April
1695
1700
212
ST ANDREWS AND DEERNESS
f PRESS. OF
1696; called 28th May, trans, and adm.
23rd July 1700; died Dec. 1718 or Jan.
1719. He marr. (1) Barbara Monteith, and
had issue — James : (2) Beatrix Stewart, who
survived him.— [Acts of Ass., 1721.]
THOMAS GALLOWAY, pres. by
Robert, Earl of Morton, in May,
1 and ord. 25th Sept. 1723 ; died 15th
Aug. 1751. He marr. Jean Kennedy, who
died 7th April 1771.— [
MATTHEW CLEGHORN, trans, from
Rousay and Egilsay ; pres. by
James, Earl of Morton, in Jan., and
adm. 15th Nov. 1752 ; trans, to Dryfesdale
18th July 1765 (cf. Vol. II., 204). He
marr. 24th Jan 1749.
JOHN SCOLLAY, born 1715, son of
John S., min. of Stronsay and Eday;
1767 educated at Univ. of Edinburgh;
M.A. (24th May 1736); licen. by Presb.
of Kirkwall 7th Feb. 1738 ; ord. to Second
Charge, Kirkwall, 1st Sept. 1742; trans.
to Cross and Burness llth Dec. 1747;
pres. by James, Earl of Morton, Jan. 1766 ;
trans, and adm. 8th Jan. 1767 ; died 25th
Feb. 1788. He marr. 18th Jan. 1743,
Margaret (died 19th Feb. 1763), daugh. of
Hugh Baillie, collector of Customs at Kirk
wall, and had issue — Marion, born 17th Nov.
1752, died 29th May 1765 ; Malcolm, born
30th April 1755, died 22nd May 1762;
Margaret, died 24th June 1765; Hugh,
died 23rd June 1763 ; Rebekah, born 26th
June 1757; John, born 14th June 1759,
died 4th Jan. 1766; Martin, born 29th Aug.
1760.
1788
CHARLES ALISON, born 1766, son
of James A., min. of Holm; edu
cated at Univ. of St Andrews ;
licen. by Presb. of Kirkwall 8th Aug.
1787 ; pres. by Sir Thomas Dundas in
Aug., and ord. 25th Sept. 1788; died 27th
June 1804. He marr. (1) Margaret (died
22nd Nov. 1798, aged 37), daugh. of James
Mouat, merchant, Kirkwall : (2) 21st Nov.
1800, Jean (died 5th Jan. 1805) third
daugh. of Hugh Stalker, min. of Second
Charge, Kirkwall, and had issue — Margaret,
died in Kirkwall, 8th July 1857.
JAMES SMELLIE, born Lanarkshire,
' 1774, son of George S. ; educated at
' Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb.
of Kirkwall 19th Aug. 1802 ; pres. by
Thomas, Lord Dundas, 7th Nov. 1804 ;
ord. 2nd May 1805. Joined the Free
Church in 1843 ; min. of St Andrews Free
Church, 1843-52; died 22nd Dec. 1852.
He marr. (1) 5th Nov. 1805, Margaret
Spence, and had issue— George, D.D., min.
of Lady [afterwards of Fergus, Canada];
Thomas Stewart Traill, mate of the
Henrietta of Liverpool, drowned with all
on board in 1837 ; Andrew, min. of Grey-
friars Free Church, Edinburgh, born 1820,
died 5th March 1851 ; Archibald, min. of
the Free Church of this parish, born 1826,
died 10th May 1886; James, Demerara,
died 1883: (2) 3rd May 1831, Helen
Spence (died 19th Jan. 1855), and had
issue — Elizabeth Erskine, died 31st Jan.
1833; Grizel, died 15th Sept. 1836; Mar
garet, died 18th Dec. 1836; Mary, died
15th Jan. 1837.
GAVIN LOCHORE, born Glasgow,
1802, fourth son of Robert L., shoe
maker, and brother of Alexander
L., D.D., min. of Drymen ; educated at
Grammar School (Dux 1816 and 1817) and
Univ. of Glasgow; licen. by Presb. of
Glasgow ; min. at Bewcastle, Cumberland,
1832-8 ; min. at St John's, South Shields,
1839-43; adm. here 21st Sept. 1843; died
at Edinburgh, 17th June 1871. He marr.
(1) 8th Nov. 1836, Sarah (died llth Oct.
1860), daugh. of Herbert Wilkin, farmer,
and Sarah Nixon), and had issue — Sarah
Jane, born 12th Sept. 1837, died 13th Nov.
1839 ; Robert, born 5th, and died 15th
Oct. 1838; Margaret Harriet, born llth
Dec. 1840 (marr. James Cathie Scarth) ;
Isabella, born 9th Nov. 1842; Herbert
Wilkin, born 29th Oct. 1844; Gavin Robert
Hiddleston, born 23rd Sept. 1846; Selina
Catherine, born 3rd Sept. 1849; William
Brodie, in Melbourne, born 2nd April 1851 :
(2) 21st March 1867, Margaret (died 30th
April 1904), daugh. of Dr George Mure.
Publications — Divine Supremacy in the
World and in the Church (Edinburgh,
1845); Poetical Recreations (Glasgow, 1870).
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213
1907
OLIVER SCOTT, born Kirkwall, 1830,
son of John S., merchant, Bridge
1871 Street, Kirkwall ; educated at Kirk-
wall School and Univ. of Edinburgh ;
ord. to Holm 27th March 1856 ; trans, and
adm. 2nd Nov. 1871 ; died 7th Aug. 1907.
He marr. 14th April 1857, Ada Victoria
(died 1904), daugh. of Mowbray Stenhouse,
Portobello, and had issue— Ada, born 25th
April 1858, died 10th July 1871 ; Catherine
Anne Seton, born 12th Nov. 1861 (marr.
19th Oct. 1882, Alexander Leslie, min. of
Evie) ; John, born 8th May 1865.
JOHN M'TAVISH RAMSAY, born
Dundee, 16th Jan. 1867, son of John
R. and Jessie M'Tavish; educated
at Dundee High School and Univ. of St
Andrews ; licen. by Presb. of Dundee in
1896 ; assistant at Balmaghie and at
Earlston ; ord. to Deerness 18th July 1902 ;
trans, to Birsay 18th July 1906 ; trans, and
adm. llth Nov. 1907 ; died suddenly 7th
March 1928.
BURRAY (Q.S.).
[Burray was one of the prebends of the
Cathedral of Kirkwall. Its church was
dedicated to St Laurence. In the six
teenth century Burray was united with
St Peter's and St Mary's, the two parishes
of the island of Ronaldsay. On 4th
March 1894 Burray was disjoined quoad
sacra from St Peter's.]
WILLIAM GUELPH MACFIE, born
1820 [said to be son of William
M., Glasgow, but believed to be a
natural son of King George IV.] ; educated
at Univ. of Glasgow ; B.A. (1845) ; licen.
by Free Church Presb. of Ayr. Joined
the Church of Scotland in 1864; ord. to
Lybster 27th Feb. 1867 ; trans, and adm.
in 1872 ; dem. in 1877 ; assistant at Smail-
holm ; retired to Edinburgh, where he died
unmarr. March 1899. Publication — The
Sabbath of the Lord : an Essay on its
Perpetual and Universal Obligation (Edin
burgh, 1883).
1872
JAMES THOMSON CRAIGIE, born
1824, second son of Robert C.,
1879 merchant, Stirling; educated at
Univ. of Glasgow ; assistant at Glendevon
and Cowdenbeath ; app. in 1879 ; dem. in
1892 ; died at Causewayhead, Stirling, 22nd
March 1909. He marr. Catherine Cameron,
Fort William, who died 1910, and had issue
—Robert ; James ; Alexander, born 1866,
died 1920 ; John ; Donald ; Mary ; Isobella ;
Catherine, nurse; Janet; Flora, teacher,
born 1874, died in Glasgow 1893.
HENRY SMITH, M.A., B.D. ; ord. 8th
Sept. 1896 ; adm. first min. of this
! parish 22nd April 1904; trans, to
Lady 17th Sept. 1919.
ROBERT FORSYTE MACGARRITY,
formerly min. of Carfin Chapel
1922 (cf. Vol. III., 265); trans, to St
Thomas's, Leith, 19th May 1919; trans.
and adm. 24th Oct. 1922.
DEERNESS (Q.£).
[The church of Deerness was dedicated
to St Mary. In the sixteenth century
this parish was united to St Andrews or
Tankerness. Before the middle of the
nineteenth century a parliamentary chapel
was built here. On llth June 1845 Deer-
ness was severed again quoad sacra from
St Andrews.]
THOMAS WAUGH, born Langholm
1773; educated at Univ. of Edin-
burgh ; licen. by Presb. of Langholm
10th Jan. 1804 ; ord. by same Presb. min. of
the Presbyterian congregation at Thorney-
ford, Northumberland, 8th Dec. 1807 ; pres.
by George IV. 25th Jan., trans, and adm.
6th May 1830 ; adm. a member of the Presb.
21st Aug. 1833; died unmarr. at Langholm,
28th March 1854.
ROBERT HIDDLESTON, app.
ordained assistant in 1844 ; trans.
fc to Orphir 13th Aug. 1846.
ROBERT WATSON, adm. (assistant) in
1847 ; trans, to Hoy and Graemsay
1830
1847
19th Sept. 1850.
214
DEERNESS— EVIE AND KENDALL
[PRESB. OF
1851
MATTHEW FISHER, missionary at
Eday; adm. (assistant and successor)
[to Thomas Waugh] 16th Jan. 1851 ;
trans, to Cross and Burness 19th July
1866.
DAVID STOTT, born 1826, son of
John S., leather merchant, and
Christina Fife ; educated at Univ.
of St Andrews ; app. by Colonial Com
mittee and was min. at Woodstock, New
Brunswick, 1856-8 ; afterwards missionary
at Brantford, Ontario ; missionary at
Stenness in 1865 ; pres. by Queen Victoria
31st July, and adm. here 18th Oct. 1866 ;
dem. 3rd June 1898 ; died at Hill of
Fearn, Ross-shire, 8th Dec. that year. He
marr. (1) 24th Dec. 1857, Elizabeth Jane
Dibble, New Brunswick, who died 30th
Aug. 1886, and had issue — Ellen, born 6th
Dec. 1859 (marr. 9th Aug. 1893, Thomas
Kyle, Stranraer), died 7th May 1898;
John, born 23rd June 1862 ; Henry, born
13th May 1866 : (2) 6th June 1889, Chris
tina (died 4th April 1919), eldest daugh.
of George Gordon, merchant, Fearn.
JOHN ROBERTSON FORBES, ord.
20th Sept. 1898 ; trans, to Canisbay
J 27th Feb. 1902.
JOHN M'TAVISH RAMSAY, ord.
18th July 1902; trans, to Birsay
! 18th July 1906.
.ENEAS NELSON CRAIG, M.A.; ord.
7th Nov. 1906 ; trans, to Sinclair-
town, Fife, 26th Sept. 1918.
1906
THOMAS EDMUND HILL JONES,
born Moybrick, Dromara, Co. Down,
24th Feb. 1869, son of Arthur J.
and Agnes Hamilton ; educated at Queen's
College, Belfast (Royal Univ of Ireland),
B.A. (1896); ord. to Kellymarris, Co.
Antrim, 24th May 1898; adm. here 28th
Feb. 1919; dem. llth Oct. 1920; assistant
at Kirkcaldy in 1926; trans, to Portsoy
1st Sept. same year. Marr. Annie Matthews
Milling, whom he divorced for desertion
20th March 1920. Publication — The
World's Greatest Need (London, 1923).
GEORGE ARTHUR EVERETT
1921 WALKER, adm. from Westray
U.F. Church 26th May 1921 ; trans,
to Corgarff 12th Dec. 1923.
SYDNEY MELROSE M'EWEN, born
Glasgow, 24th March 1881, son of
1 James M., min. of Sydney Place U.F.
Church, and Margaret Melrose ; educated
at High School and Whitehill School
Glasgow, and Univs. of Glasgow, M.A.
(1903) and Aberdeen ; licen. by Presb. of
Aberdeen Jan. 1921 ; assistant at Rubislaw
and New Deer ; ord. to St Mary's, South
Ronaldshay, 27th June 1922 ; trans, and
adm. 30th June 1924 ; clerk of Presb. same
year; trans, to Millbrex 9th Feb. 1927.
Marr. 18th June 1910, Elizabeth Gunn,
daugh. of John Macdonald, and has issue- —
Margaret Melrose, born 29th May 1911 ;
Eirene May Cant, born 30th Jan. 1916 ;
Sheila Elizabeth, born 8th March 1918, died
28th March 1920 ; Ronald Macdonald, born
18th May 1922.
EVIE AND KENDALL.
[Evie was a prebend of Kirk wall. Its
church was dedicated to St Mary. In the
sixteenth century the parishes of Evie and
Rendall were united. Rendall was severed
again quoad sacra on 15th March 1894.]
JOHN STEWART, reader in 1566,
and probably earlier ; according to
Craven he became reader at Kirk-
wall in 1567, but this is perhaps a mistake
for 1576, when his name appears in the
Buik of Assignations. He was reader at
Holm Nov. 1570 and at Deerness.
ARCHIBALD REID, reader Nov. 1570
1570 to 1580.
THOMAS STEVENSON, min. in 1580;
1580 removed to Orphir that year.
ROBERT BLACK, reader at Rousay,
Egilsay, Wyr, and Enhallow, 1574-6 ;
pres. to the vicarage of Evie, with
the prebend of Wanwick in the Cathedral
of Orkney 8th Sept. 1580; he was charged
before Presb. of Edinburgh, 6th Dec. 1597,
at the instance of Robert Pont and others,
1580
KIKKWALL]
EVIE AND KENDALL
215
1608
1621
but was still here in 1607 ; is styled reader
only at Evie, Enhallow, and Kendall in
1608, and held that office in 1625, but
died soon afterwards. He marr., and
had issue— Elspet (marr. Henry Swinton,
min. of this parish). — [Craven's Orkney
(1558-1662), 142.]
HENRY [or HARRY] SWINTON, son
of Thomas S., min. of Birsay and
Harray ; adm. in 1608 ; died Nov.
1618. He marr. Elspet, daugh. of Robert
Black, min. of this parish; she survived
him and had issue— Thomas ; Katherine.
{Orkney Tests. ; Craven's Orkney (1558-
1662), 142.]
JAMES MORISON, son of Walter M.,
min. of Garvock; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1616);
inst. soon after 27th Sept. 1621. On 4th
June 1627 at a Visitation by Bishop
Grahame, the communicants at Evie
numbered 320, those at Rendall 180;
there was no school in either parish and
the parishioners were described as " ignor
ant and altogether unlearned " ; in 1644 he
was under censure for disobedience to the
Presb., and finding no evidence of his
willingness to amend, "but by the contrair
of his wilful and obstinat disobedience,"
he was dep. 13th Nov. 1645. He dis
regarded the sentence and continued to
perform his duties ; in June 1646 he was
reponed by the Assembly, and had an Act
of Parliament in his favour in 1650. Having
escaped the fate of those who signed the
Address to Montrose he was an active agent
in the re-establishment of Presbyterianism
in Orkney, and was elected Moderator of
the new Presb. which met at Rendall 4th
July 1654. He conformed at the Restora
tion but took no share in the work of the
Church. On 19th June 1666 he appeared
before the Sheriff-Court of Orkney and
" charged himself with grievous crymes "
[immorality], and on 21st June, having
again confessed his guilt, he was dep. He
went to Edinburgh, where he was adm.
as burgess 1st July 1668 ; died Jan. 1675.
aged about 79. He marr. (1) Annas Horrie,
who died Sept. 1634, and had issue —
Margaret ; William, burgess of Edinburgh,
died before 1665 : (2) Margaret Scollay,
who died 27th July 1658, and had issue-
Harry ; Walter ; Mary ; Euphemia, served
heir 22nd Oct. 1687 : (3) Elizabeth Ogilvy,
who survived him, and against whom
Patrick Reid, preacher, brought an action
of adherence in 1696. Publication — The
Everlasting Gospel (1668).— [Orkney Tests. ;
Acts of Part., vi., pt. ii., 565, 569 ;
Peterkin's Rentals; Inq. Ret. Gen., 6871;
Craven's Orkney (1662-88), 33; Index to
Services ; Edin. Christ. Remembrancer,
xxvi., 120.]
JOHN INNES, educated at Univ. of
Edinburgh ; M.A. (15th April 1645) ;
J ord. by Bishop Honyman 8th Aug.
1666; died (buried in Kirk wall Cathedral)
20th July 1670, aged about 45. He marr.
Elizabeth Keith, described as "an old
sickly woman living in Morayshire" in 1683,
and had issue — James ; Janet. — {Orkney
Tests. ; Kirkivall (Deaths} Reg.~\
ARTHUR MILLER, M.A. ; trans, from
Second Charge, Kirkwall, and adm.
• between 22nd Feb. and 24th Nov.
1671 ;, trans, to St Andrews and Deerness
before 21st April 1672.
JAMES GRAHAME, adm. in 1673 (or
1674); trans, to Holm 29th Feb.
1673
1688.
1688
JAMES LESLIE, son of Thomas L.
of Uresland in Shetland, and Anna,
daugh. of John Gauden, min. of
Tingwall ; licen. to preach in the diocese
June 1683 ; ord. Deacon to assist William
Davidson, min. of Birsay 2nd April 1684 ;
afterwards went to a charge in Shetland ;
adm. here in 1688 ; dem. 14th June 1698,
having been accused before the Commis
sioners for the Visitation of Orkney of
neglecting his ministerial duty, drunken
ness, and other offences ; dep. by the Synod
for opprobrious speeches, etc., 8th Aug.
1706. He marr. 17th Jan. 1693, Marjory
Ritchie.
JOHN GIBSON, son of Alexander G.,
min. of Bower, and Archdeacon of
11700 Caithness; recommended while a
student of divinity by the General As
sembly 8th Jan. 1697 ; called 19th March,
216
EVIE AND KENDALL
[PRESB. OF
1725
and ord. 8th May 1700 ; died between 1st
July and llth Nov. 1724. He marr. Jean,
daugh. of Francis Sinclair of Stirkoke, she
survived him, and had issue — John ; Alex
ander, overseer of Ackerness ; William ;
Charles; Katherine (marr. 1729, William
Watt, merchant, Kirkwall) [their son John
Gibson Watt, surgeon, London, was founder
of Watt's Hospital there].— [Acts of Ass.,
1697 ; Kirkwall (Marr.) Reg. ; Index to
Services ; Hossack's Kirkivall, 176.]
HUGH MOWAT, tutor to family of Mon-
teith of Auldcathie, and afterwards
Dalyell of Binns ; educated at Univ.
of Edinburgh ; M. A. (7th April 1718) ; licen.
by Presb. of Linlithgow 10th June 1724;
pres. by Robert, Earl of Morton, in April,
and ord. llth Aug. 1725; died 30th Nov.
1781. He marr. Elizabeth, daugh. of Thomas
Baikie, min. of Kirkwall, and had issue
—Hugh, died young ; Thomas ; Hugh ;
Alexander ; John of Orkney Hall, Jamaica,
planter, died 1800 ; James ; Elizabeth ;
Magdalen ; Jean (marr. 1756, William
Watt, merchant, Kirkwall); Elizabeth.—
[Hossack's Kirkwall, 175, 288.]
WILLIAM ANDERSON, M.A. ; pres.
by Sir Laurence Dundas of Kerse,
1780 Bart., Dec. 1779; ord. at Rendall
(assistant and successor) 5th April 1«780 ;
trans, to Holm 31st May 1798.
JOHN DUGUID, born Fyvie, 1761,
son of William D. ; educated at
1 Marischal College, Aberdeen ; M.A.
(Feb. 1779) ; schoolmaster at Fraserburgh
and Bo'ness ; licen. by Presb. of Deer 14th
Dec. 1785 ; pres. by Thomas, Lord Dundas,
Nov. 1798 ; ord. 10th May 1799 ; died 16th
May 1827. He was an early exponent of
the virtue of vaccination, to which he
induced his parishioners to submit with
marked success. An artful and mischievous
attempt on the part of two young women
to mislead a farmer in his district to believe
he was being subjected to the influence of
evil spirits, was detected by D., and publicly
denounced from the pulpit in order that
such superstitious notions might not be
come general. He marr. 9th May 1799,
Jean Bremner, who died 25th May 1834,
and had issue — James, licentiate of the
Church of Scotland, born 1801, died at
Edinburgh, 15th Aug. 1824 ; Mary Ann
(marr. Andrew Smith, min. of Holm); Jane
(marr. 10th Dec. 1844, Andrew Crichton,
LL.D., biographer and historian, author of
the Life of the Rev. John Blackadder, and
other works) ; Alexander, physician, Kirk
wall, an authority on the fauna and flora
of Orkney, died 1872 ; Thomas.— [Tombst.]
PETER BALFOUR, pres. by Laurence,
Lord Dundas, 20th Nov. 1827 ; ord.
1828 8th May 1828; trans, to Tealing
22nd April 1830.
DAVID PITCAIRN,born llth Dec. 1788 ;
educated at Univ. of St Andrews ;
1830 licen. by Presb. of Kirkcaldy 6th
Oct. 1824 ; pres. to North Ronaldsay
by George IV., but declined acceptance ;
pres. by Laurence, Lord Dundas, in Feb.,
and ord. 13th May 1830 ; dem. (from ill-
health) 29th Sept. 1846 ; D.D. (Edinburgh,
24th April 1867); died at Torquay, 4th
Jan. 1870. He marr. 30th Oct. 1845, Mary
Jane (died 16th Feb. 1886), daugh. of
Arthur Guinness of Beaumont, and had
issue— Arthur Alexander, born 25th Oct.
1846 ; David Lee, born 30th June 1848 ;
Mary Guinness, born 21st Feb. 1852. Pub
lications — The Young Disciple (London,
1820) ; Ten Pastoral Letters and Four
Sermons (Edinburgh, 1840) ; Perfect Peace
(London, 1844) ; Christ our Rest (London,
1844) ; The Doubts and Fears of Believers
(London, 1844) ; The Anointed Saviour
(London, 1846) ; Pastoral Letters (London,
1847); Zion's King (London, 1851); Account
of the Parish (New Stat. Ace., xv.).
ADAM RETTIE, born Monquhitter,
1801, son of Adam R., farmer, and
Ann Mann ; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen, 1815-19, M.A. (15th
July 1856), and Univ. of Edinburgh ; ord.
(assistant and successor) in 1841. Joined
the Free Church in 1843 ; min. of Free
Church, Evie and Rendall, 1843-75 ; died
12th April 1875. He marr. (1) 1841,
Catherine Wares : (2) 1870, Jane Troup.
WILLIAM ANDERSON, ord. (assistant
and successor) in 1843 ; trans, to
' Walls and Flotta 9th May 1844.
KIRKWALL] EVIE AND RENDALL-HAM AND PAPLAY
217
WILLIAM BEATTIE, born Bervie,
1806, son of John B., blacksmith;
1844 educated at Marischal College, Aber
deen ; M.A. (1824); pres. by Thomas, Earl of
Zetland, and ord. (assistant and successor)
24th Nov. 1844 ; died 31st Aug. 1871. He
marr. 7th Sept. 1835, Isabella (died 8th
June 1903, daugh. of James Kankin, and
had issue — Margaret Taylor, born 28th
July 1839, died 29th June 1852; Anne
Mary, born 15th Aug. 1841 (marr. 18th
Oct. 1886, William Martin, LL.D., Pro
fessor of Moral Philosophy, Univ. of
Aberdeen); John, merchant, Montreal,
born 24th March 1844, died 3rd April
1926 ; William James Kankin, born 7th
June 1847 ; Isabella, born 28th Dec. 1848.
ALEXANDEK LESLIE, born about
1831, son of Thomas L., farmer,
Lonmay; educated at 'Marischal
College, Aberdeen, 1847-51; M.A. (1851);
licen. in 1856; pres. by Thomas, Earl
of Zetland, and ord. 19th Dec. 1871 ;
dem. (from ill-health) 7th Oct. 1902;
died 27th March 1906. He marr. 19th
Oct. 1882, Catherine Ann Seton, daugh.
of Oliver Scott, min. of St Andrews,
Orkney, and had issue — Ernest Elphin-
stone, in Bengal, born llth March 1885;
Ada Katherine Seton, born 18th Sept. 1887
(marr. 18th Sept. 1915, Edward Kusack,
Commercial Bank, Kirkcaldy) ; Dorothy
Aberdein, born 20th May 1891, died 29th
July 1892. — [Smith's Church in Orkney, 98.]
ALEXANDER WILLIAM WATT,
trans, from Holm and adm. 23rd
' Dec. 1902 ; trans, to Clatt 19th May
1922.
JOHN RODERICK MACPHERSON,
born Glasgow, 12th March 1892, son
J of James Watson M. and Mary Flora
Bannerman ; educated at Hutcheson's
School and Univ. of Glasgow; M.A. (1919);
licen. by Presb. of Glasgow in 1921 ; assist
ant at Maxwell Parish ; ord. 6th Sept.
1922 ; trans, to St Cuthbert's, Glasgow,
9th Dec. 1924 ; trans, to Greenknowe 27th
March 1928. Marr. 4th Dec. 1922, Martha
Morrison, daugh. of William Roderick
Dawson and Sara Moody, and has issue-
Eric Dawson, born 25th June 1925.
DONALD ALLAN CAMERON, born
TallLsker, Skye, 10th Oct. 1864,
' youngest son of Duncan C. and
Barbara MacLerman; educated at Raining's
School, Inverness, and Univ. of Glasgow ;
licen. by Presb. of Abernethy in 1895;
assistant at Aberfoyle, Abernethy and
Kincardine ; ord. to South Knapdale 9th
Sept. 1896; trans, to Westray 10th May
1922; trans, and adm. 16th June 1925; app.
clerk of Presb. 17th Jan. 1927; trans, to
Rayne 2nd Sept. 1927. Marr. Isobel Jane,
youngest daugh. of Robert Russell Macnee,
merchant, Glasgow, and Georgina Mac-
Lachlan, and has issue — Ewen ; Donald
Allan ; Violet, missionary nurse ; Barbara
(marr. Thomas King) ; Isobel Jane, nurse ;
Catherine Annie ; Ena Macnee.
HAM, OR HOLM, AND PAPLAY.
[The old name of this parish is Ham and
in common speech it is so called. Ham
is however a frequent place name. In the
Northern Counties it is the old common
term for a haven. Therefore, to aid identifi
cation, there has arisen a custom of writing
this local name Holm. The church of Ham
was dedicated to St Nicholas. There was
a chapel in the parish at Paplay.]
JOHN STEWART, reader, with Deer-
1570 ness, Nov. 1570 to 1576.
WILLIAM PIERSON, min. of St
Andrews, Deerness, and Holm in
1574
1574.
1580
JOHN MURRAY, a pre-Kefonnation
priest who had been curate of
Bressay in Shetland in 1547; con
formed and was reader from 1580 to 1589.
GILBERT BODY, may be the student
of that name who appears on the
roll of the English College at Douay,
France, 1583-5 ; and if so, he must have
changed his views ; adm. in 1590 ; was
charged with others at the instance of
Robert Pont, min. of St Cuthbert's, Edin
burgh, to compear before the Presb. of
Edinburgh, 6th Dec. 1597, but nothing
further is on record, and Font's charges are
218
HAM AND PAPLAY
[PKESB. OF
1614
unknown. B. was a member of Assembly
held at Dundee, 7th March 1598, and
"boldly led the ring" (his name being called
first) in favour of a proposal that " the
ministers as one of the three estates, ought
to have a vote in Parliament." This was
carried by a majority of ten. James
Melvill described B. as "a drunken Orkney
asse." He was drowned in a loch in the
parish June 1606. He marr. Sibella
Stewart, who survived him. James, his
brother, was served heir to him 30th July
1608. — [Grub's Hist., ii., 275; Melvill's
Diary, 440 ; Calderwood's Hist., i., 695.]
JOHN SWINTON, trans, from Birsay
and Harray and adm. before 1607 ;
'60*7 trans, to Firth and Stenness after
1608 and before 1611.
ROBEKT STEWART, reader at Birsay
and Harray, 1567-95 ; trans, to Hoy
and Graemsay between 1601 and
1607 ; was a member of Glasgow Assembly
8th June 1610; trans, and adm. before
1st Nov. 1614 ; in June 1627 the com
municants numbered about 200 ; died Feb.
1633, and was buried in the kirk of
Holm, where his tombstone is still seen :
" A light which shone in many dark places."
He marr. Margaret Stewart, who died in
childbed, and had issue— Anna, born 13th
Feb. 1601 ; Charles, born 27th Dec. 1602 ;
Robert, alive in 1630 ; James, served heir
8th Nov. 1642.— [Orkney Tests. ; Inq. Ret.
Gen., 2758 ; Peterkin's Rentals ; Craven's
Orkney (1558-1662), 118, 162; Reg. Mag.
Sig., viii., 141, 1389 ; P. C. Reg., ix., 164,
648.]
PATRICK GRAHAME of Rothiesholm
and Graemeshall, born 1610, second
1 son of George G., Bishop of Orkney ;
educated at Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A.
(1630) ; pres. by his father 5th April 1634 ;
dep. by the General Assembly July 1649 ;
died 16th Jan. 1675. He marr. (1) (cont.
26th Jan. 1638), Annas (died March 1657),
daugh. of William Stewart of Mains, and
had issue — Barbara ; Margaret ; Katherine ;
Jean (marr. 1665, David Craigie of Over-
sanday); Ann (marr. 17th Dec. 1683,
Thomas Traill of Westove) ; Christian
(mavr. David Drummond), died 3rd March
1681 : (2) Margaret Sinclair, who died
14th Feb. 1681), and had issue — James
of Graemeshall ; Henry.— [Ork ney Tests. ;
Peterkin's Rentals ; Ing. Ret. Gen., 3060 ;
Craven's Orkney (1558-1662), 168, 176.]
JOHN GIBSON, born 1623, son of John
1654 ^'' Edinburgh, and brother of Adam
G., min. of Shapinsay; educated at
Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (July 1643) ;
sent by the Commission of Assembly to
preach in Orkney in 1650 ; adm. before
4th July 1654, on which date the new Presb.
of Orkney was established ; died 8th Aug.
1681. He marr. 15th Oct. 1656, Barbara,
daugh. of Patrick Smyth of Braco. She
survived him. — [Orkney Tests. ; Inq. Ret.
Gen., 6400; Peterkin's Rentals; Craven's
Orkney (1558-1662), 218.]
GEORGE TOD, son of Robert T., min.
of Urquhart, Moray ; educated at
1681 King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (2nd
April 1668) ; ord. to Firth and Stenness
27th Feb., and inst. 3rd March 1678 ; trans,
and inst. 10th Nov. 1681 ; was sick of fever
from 16th Jan. 1686 ; died 3rd Nov. 1687,
aged about 39. He marr. 10th April 1678,
Barbara Scollay, and had issue— Charles,
an Episcopalian min., and bailie-depute to
Graemeshall in Holm ; Robert ; Jacobina
(marr. John Keith, min. of Walls and Flotta);
Janet ; Lilias ; Marjorie (marr. Andrew
Sinclair, shipmaster, Shetland) ; a daugh.
(marr. Alexander Cheyne, Huntly). — [Index
to Services; Craven's Orkney (1662-88),
97, 108 ; Craven's Moray, 347 ; Craven's
Episcopal Church in Orkney, 91.]
JAMES GRAHAME, fifth son of James
G. of Breckness ; min. of Evie and
' Rendall in 1673; trans, and inst.
26th Feb. 1688 ; conformed to Presby-
terianism and was received by the General
Assembly 4th Jan. 1696; died 8th Jan.
1721. He marr. 15th Sept. 1673, Elizabeth,
daugh. of Patrick Craigie, Provost of Kirk-
wall, and had issue (she survived her hus
band, and was latterly in reduced circum
stances).— Thomas, died at Kirkwall 1716 ;
George ; Andrew, min. of Firth and Sten
ness ; Margaret ; Francisca ; Mungo; Geillis;
Elizabeth (marr. George Clerk, litster,
Stromness). — [Peterkin's Rentals.]
KIRKWALL]
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219
1694 NICOL CRAIGIE, reader in 1694.
WILLIAM MAIR, born about 1700, -son
of Alexander M., min. of Hoy and
1724 Graemsay ; educated at King's Col
lege, Aberdeen; MA. (9th April 1718);
licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen 7th Nov. 1722 J
called 22nd Oct. 1723 ; ord. 15th Jan. 1724;
died 18th May 1760. He marr. (1) 1748,
Helen Reid, and had issue— Alexander ;
William; Charles; Patrick; Mary: (2)
Elizabeth (died 31st Oct. 1803), daugh. of
William Baikie of Hoy, and had issue-
Margaret ; Isobel ; Jean.
JAMES ALISON; licen. by Presb. of
Kirkwall 28th March 1753; ord. to
' Bressay 29th March 1759 ; pres. by
James, Earl of Morton, 8th Oct. 1760,
but not trans, and adm. till 28th Aug.
1762 ; died 14th Dec. 1796. He marr. 29th
Jan. 1764, Margaret Graham, who died 2nd
July 1824, and had issue— Charles, min.
of St Andrews. Publication— Account of
the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., v.).
WILLIAM ANDERSON, MA.; pres.
by Thomas, Lord Dundas, April
1798 j ^g . trans f rom ]£vie an(j Renclall
and adm. 31st May that year ; trans, to
St Fergus 15th Nov. 1798.
ANDREW SMITH, licen. by Presb. of
Dundee 1st Dec 1790; pres. by
1799 Thomas, Lord Dun(jaS) in April, and
ord. 2nd May 1799; died 25th Aug. 1855.
He marr. (1) name not recorded : (2) 22nd
Dec. 1835, Mary Ann (died 25th Feb. 1865),
daugh. of John Duguid, min. of Evie and
Rendall, and had issue— one son. Publica
tion — Account of the Parish (New Stat.
Ace., xv.).
OLIVER SCOTT, ord. 27th March 1856 ;
trans, to St Andrews, Orkney, 2nd
1 Nov. 1871.
DAVID RAIT JACK, bom 1831, son of
William J., farmer, Backmuir of Liff ;
1872 educated at Univ. of St Andrews;
ord. to Pulteneytown 21st March 1867 ;
trans, and adm. 8th Feb. 1872 ; died
unmarr. 30th June 1882.
WILLIAM JAMES STEELE DICKEY,
B.A., M.A. ; trans, from Birsay and
1882 adm. 24th Oct. 1882; trans, to
Harray 15th April 1895.
ANDREW LANG, born June 1863, son
of James L., farmer, and Helen
Lang Gilmour ; educated at Univ.
of Glasgow; M.A. (1890); assistant at
Wallacetown, Ayr; ord. 5th Sept. 1895;
died 28th July 1901. He marr. 21st Nov.
1895, Elizabeth Key, second daugh. of
John Balsillie, Pittenweem, and had issue
— Marjorie Moncrieff Matthew, born 25th
Feb. 1897 ; Andrew, R.F.C., born llth July
1899, killed in action 1st April 1918.
ALEXANDER WILLIAM WATT, ord.
10th Dec. 1901 ; trans, to Evie 23rd
Dec. 1902.
JOHN GREENLAW, ord. 6th May
1903; trans, to Buckie 13th Feb.
1903
1908.
THOMAS MURRAY INGLIS (cf. Vol.
III., 485); adm. 25th June 1908;
1908 dem. 9th Aug. 1915 ; adm. to Twechar
Chapel in 1917 ; trans, to Quarter 14th Sept.
1920.
ALBERT JAMES LAING, M.A. ;
ord. 16th Dec. 1915 ; res. 24th June
1915 1919; dem. status as a minister of the
Church by authority of the General As
sembly, 26th May 1921, and became a
Congregationalist.
ALEXANDER COLIN HENDERSON,
born Glasgow, 12th April 1857,
* eldest son of Adam Currie H.,
publisher and shipowner, and Hannah
Broughton, daugh. of John Colin Wilson,
W.S., and great-grandson of John W.,
D.D., min. of Second Charge, Lesmahagow,
1796 ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A.
(1878), B.D. (1882); licen. by U.P. Presb.
of Glasgow in 1882; ord. to U.P. Church,
Newburgh, Fife, 16th April 1884; res.
9th Feb. 1892, and became assistant to
David Macrae, Gilfillan Memorial Church,
Dundee ; was called to Australia and
was min. of a Unitarian congregation in
Melbourne ; returned and was some
time lecturer under the M'Quaker Trust;
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HAM AND PAPLAY— KIRKWALL AND ST OLA [PKESB. OF
assistant at Clark's Lane Congregational
Church, Kilmarnock, 1900 ; adm. to Church
of Scotland 27th May 1902 ; missionary
at Rusness, Sanday ; app. to Tradeston
Mission, Glasgow, Sept. 1902 ; app. to
Thorn wood Mission, Both well, May 1903 ;
adm. to Belting 13th April 1904, and res.
15th May 1907 ; adm. to Whalsay 8th Sept.
1910 ; assistant at St Michael's, Edinburgh ;
adm. to Buckhaven 18th June 1908 ; dem.
25th May 1915 ; assistant at Rosskeen,
Forfar, and other parishes ; adm. here 23rd
Dec. 1919; dem. Oct. 1924; died 1st July
1925. He was elected a Fellow of the
Royal Astronomical Society Nov. 1905. He
marr. 4th Oct. 1898, Emma, daugh. of
William Garden, Aberdeen, and Emma
Tyson, and widow of William Shennan,
wine merchant. Publication — A Popular
Introduction to Astronomy (Lerwick, 1905 ;
2nd ed., 1911). — [Small's Hist, of U.P.
Gongs., i., 198.]
WILLIAM BROOMFIELD URE, born
Glasgow 1890, son of Robert U., wine
merchant, and Catherine Maclntyre ;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; Keen, by
Presb. of Glasgow in 1923 ; ord. to Gardens-
town 18th July 1923; trans, and adm. 2nd
April 1925 ; died from effects of a burning
accident 10th Aug. 1925. He marr. Mary
Scott Jones, daugh. of John Percy, and
had issue— Robert Broomfield, born 21st
April 1920 ; John Percy, born 18th July
1922 ; William Grant M'Intyre, born 24th
Dec. 1923.
KIRKWALL AND ST OLA.
[These two parishes were united towards
the end of the sixteenth century.
Kirkwall. — The great church of St
Magnus, now belonging to this parish,
was of old the Cathedral of the diocese of
Orkney. St Olaf's, a building of small
size, still fairly complete, was then the
parish church of Kirkwall. The town was
increasing, and the parochial area was of
wide extent. Therefore, some years after
1560, a second parish, called St Magnus',
was set up, having the Cathedral church
for its place of worship. The parochial
district assigned to it took in nearly all
the Royal Burgh, but included a mere
fraction of the large landward area. Kirk-
wall had thus two parishes, St Magnus'
for the town, and St Olaf's to be used by
the rural people. In Kirkwall, as else-
wherej those were times of stress and
strain in Church affairs. Hence it came
about, before the end of the sixteenth
century, that the parishes of St Magnus
and St Olaf had to be again joined in one,
with the Cathedral as their parish church.
In or about 1636, the situation was some
what relieved by the foundation of a
Second Charge. This lasted until 1922,
when the revenues of the suppressed
Second Charge were added to the ordinary
parochial endowment. St Magnus, Earl of
Orkney, after whom the parish is named,
was treacherously murdered in the island
of Egilsay in 1104. St Ronald, his nephew,
having recovered possession of the earldom,
began the building of the Cathedral church
at Kirkwall in 1137. Both St Magnus and
St Ronald are buried here.
In the Cathedral there were of old
various chapels and altars. Among these
were dedications to St John the Baptist,
St Christopher, St Barbara, St Nicholas,
and St Augustine. This beautiful church is
now being worthily restored, ample funds
for that end having been left by George
Hunter MacThomas Thorns of Aberlemno,
Sheriff of Orkney and Shetland. At
Pickaquoy, within the burgh of Kirkwall,
there was a chapel of St Duthac. Fairs
were held in the town on St Magnus' Day,
Palm Sunday, Lammas, and Martinmas.
St Ola.— This was the original parish
of Kirkwall. Its church was dedicated to
St Olaf the King, Patron Saint of Norway.
From this church, in early times, the
adjacent harbour got the Norse name of
Kirkju-vdgr ("The Bay of the Church").
The town, which grew up, was called by
that name. St Olaf's was a prebend of
Kirkwall Cathedral]
KIRKWALL]
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FIKST CHARGE.
GILBEET FOWLZIE [or FOWLIE],
1561
religious houses within the diocese
of Aberdeen. He probably came north
with Adam Bothwell (parson of Ashkirk
in 1552, and Canon of Glasgow, who was
preferred to the See of Orkney in 1559) ;
conformed to Protestantism and app. to
the prebend of St John the Evangelist in
the Cathedral of St Magnus 28th Jan.
1561 ; subsequently promoted Archdean
of Orkney, having charge also of Birsay
and Harray ; was a commissioner for
Orkney and Shetland, 1574-80. He took
a leading part in the ecclesiastical affairs
of the Island ; was a member of the Glasgow
Assembly in 1578 ; died before 1595. Part
of his income was derived from the Isle
of Damsay which was held in feu of him,
and he had lands in Deerness. He rebuilt
and restored the property now known as
Tankerness House (opposite the Cathedral),
the old gateway of which bears the arms
of himself and his wife with the date 1574.
He marr. before 1566, Elizabeth Kinnaird
of the Inchture family, and had issue —
James, buried in the church at Westness,
Rousay, where his tombstone was dis
covered some time ago, and is preserved in
the vestibule of Rousay church [his wife's
name was Margaret Carmichael] ; Margaret,
died unmarr. ; Ursulla (marr. Edward
Sinclair of Essenquoy, M.P., and Provost
of Kirkwall), alive in 1634 ; Marjorie (marr.
John Guthrie, burgess of Thurso and tacks-
man of lands in Rousay.— [Craven's Hist.
of the Church in Orkney (1558-1662), 1, 10
[for deed of presentation to prebendary of
St John], 38, et seq. ; Peterkin's Rentals ;
Hossack's Kirkwall, 185, 228.]
JOHN STEWART, formerly reader at
Evie, Holm, and Deerness ; appears
as reader (according to Craven) in
1567, but this is perhaps a mistake for 1576.
He had the "curate's chalmer and seller
in the new werk of Kirkwall, besides
the third of the vicarage of St Olaf, and
other perquisites " ; was present at the
execution of Alison Balfour for witchcraft,
16th Dec. 1594, and in 1611 styles himself
"vicar of St Olave, and scoller of the
Subdeanrie of Orkney." He was alive in
1615, but disappears from the record soon
afterwards.— [Craven's Orkney (1558-1662),
38, 108.]
THOMAS SWENTON [or SWINTON],
min. of Kirkwall in 1585 ; app.
Archdeacon of Orkney, and trans, to
Birsay and Harray before 8th Feb. 1616.
JOHN HOUSTON, reader at St
15gg Andrews (q.v.} ; held the prebend of
St Peter, and by Bishop Reid's con
stitution was also master of the Grammar
School. This he held from 1554 until his
demission, probably from old age, 26th
Feb. 1595, when Andrew Dishington was
appointed.— [Craven's Orkney (1558-1662),
48, 83.]
ANDREW DISHINGTON, prebend of
St Peter. — See under Walls and
1595
Flotta.
DAVID WATSON, styled vicar of St
Olaf's in 1615 [afterwards min. of
Westray]. — [Deed in Skaill Charter
Chest.}
PATRICK INGLIS, M.A.; min. 16th
1617 Sept. 1617, and held the prebend
of St John and St Peter, being also
master of the Grammar School, 1617-34;
trans, to Birsay and Harray in 1635.
JAMES HEIND [or HYND], educated
at Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A.
(1629) ; adm. before llth Feb. 1639 ;
was unable to preach early in Jan., and
died 21st Jan. 1641, aged 32. He marr.
Agnes Young, who survived him. — [Orkney
Tests ; Peterkin's Rentals.]
GEORGE JOHNSTONE, trans, from
1642 Sanquhar ; pres. by the Presb. jure
devoluto, and by Charles I. 22nd
Sept. 1641 ; adm. 4th Sept. 1642 ; trans.
to Orphir after 7th Nov. 1647.
JAMES DOUGLAS, second son of
1647 James D., min. of Glenbervie in
1590, by a daugh. of Irvine of Beltie ;
M.A. [cf. Vol. III., 289, 300] ; formerly min.
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KIRKWALL AND ST OLA
[PKESB. OF
at Douglas and Carnwath ; coll. and adm.
5th Dec. 1647 ; pres. to prebend of St John
19th Aug., and inst. thereto 9th Nov. 1648 ;
dep. by the General Assembly July 1650,
with most of the mins. of Orkney, for sub
scribing a loyal address to James, Marquess
of Montrose ; reponed by the Presb., 7th
Sept. 1659, and adm. to Lady ; re-trans,
here ; adm. by Thomas Sydserff, Bishop of
Orkney, llth July, and inst. Nov. 1662 ;
dem. (from infirmity and old age) July 1671 ;
died 27th Aug. 1678. He marr. (1) Christian
Leslie, alive in 1652 : (2) Barbara (died 1st
March 1679), daugh. of Edward Scollay of
Strynie.— [Acts of ParL, vii., 24, App. 5,
6, 78; Peterkin's Rentals.]
THOMAS BAIKIE, assisted here in
16g8 place of James Douglas. The Presb.
considered his " entry disorderly and
unhanesome." He apologised and ceased
preaching [afterwards min. of Rousay].
ALEXANDER LENNOX, educated at
1659 Univ. of Glasgow; MA. (1646);
licen. by Presb. of Kirkwall 7th
Sept., and ord. 21st Oct. 1659 ; deprived
in 1661 on the restoration of Episcopacy ;
for holding conventicles a decreet was
passed against him, with others, 16th July
1671. He retired to Edinburgh and died
there soon afterwards. [Wodrow's Hist.,
i., 329; Kirkton's Hist., 349.]
JAMES DOUGLAS, above mentioned ;
1662 returned in 1662.
JAMES WALLACE, born 1642, a native
1672 of Banffshire ; educated at King's
J College, Aberdeen ; MA. (27th April
1659); became schoolmaster of Fortrose ;
inst. to Lady 25th Nov. 1668 ; pres. by
Andrew, Bishop of Orkney, 23rd Sept.,
called by the magistrates and town council
4th, trans, and adm. 16th Nov. 1672 ; coll.
to the prebend of St John 16th Oct. 1678 ;
died of fever 18th Sept. 1688. He was the
first historian of Orkney. His Description
of the Mands was undertaken at the
instance of Sir Robert Sibbald, Geographer
Royal for Scotland, with whom he kept
up a constant correspondence, furnishing
Sibbald with information also as to
Shetland. He was a man of great industry
and scholarship and left in MS., "besides
sermons, and many miscellaneous pieces, a
' Harmonie of the Evangelists ' in folio ; two
large quartos of ' Common Places ' extracted
(with his observations) from what he
collected in his reading ; a ' Treatise of the
Ancient and Modern Discipline ' ; and was
writing a ' Refutation of some Popish tenets'
when his last sickness seized him." He
left 100 merks to the church, the Kirk-
Session applying this sum in the purchase
of two communion cups inscribed with
Wallace's name. A house in Albert Street,
Kirkwall, distinguished by a quaint porch-
like doorway with the words "Welcome,
Welcome," and a double heart above the
entrance, belonged to Wallace and was
sold by his sons in 1694. An arm-chair,
originally his property, and bearing his
initials and those of his wife, with date
1672, is still extant at Birsay, and many
volumes from his library have been pre
served. He marr. Elizabeth Cuthbert,
probably of the Inverness-shire family of
that name, who died 14th July 1685, and
had issue— James, M.D., F.R.S., in East
India Company's Service, author of The
History of the Kingdom of Scotland, From
Fergus, the First King, to the Commence
ment of the Union . . . to which is added
An Account of the Rebellion in Scotland
in the year 1715, etc. (Dublin 1724), and
" A Part of a Journal kept from Scotland
to New Caledonia in Darien [which he
visited] with a Short Account of that
Country " (Trans. Phil. Soc., 1700, 536-43),
born about 1673, died 1724; Andrew, bapt.
llth Aug. 1675; Alexander, died young;
Jean, died young. Publications — A Descrip
tion of the Isles of Orkney . . . to which is
added An Essay concerning the Thule of the
Ancients [probably by Sir Robert Sibbald]
(Edinburgh, 1693) [now a very rare volume],
reprinted with notes, edited by John Small,
MA. (Edinburgh, 1883). His son, James,
published under his own name, An Account
of the Islands of Orkney (London, 1710 ;
reprinted Edinburgh, 1883. [This volume,
which has no reference to his father's work,
consists of the Desc^rtion of 1693 with
some omissions and additions— a list of
KIRKWALL]
KIRKWALL AND ST OLA
223
Orkney plants and shells, and an extract
giving an account of the ancient Earls of
Orkney from a MS. belonging to Bishop
Norie of Dundee.] — [Craven's Orkney
(1662-88), 97, 104, 130-7 [has a Biblio
graphical Note on the Description} ; Small's
reprint ; Notes and Queries, 2nd ser., v. 89,
vi. 533; also 30th Jan. 1858; Nicolson's
Scottish Historical Library (1702), 20, 53
[in which it is stated that "An Account
from Orkney " larger than the printed copy,
was sent to Sibbald] ; Diet. Nat. Biog. ;
Old Lore Misc., iii., 70 ; Smith's Church in
Orkney, 56-60 ; Tombst.]
JOHN WILSON, born Elgin about 1654;
educated at King's College, Aberdeen;
M.A. (9th July 1672) ; passed trials
before Presb. of Aberdeen, and licen. 24th
Jan. 1677 ; became schoolmaster at Elgin
and chaplain to Lord Duffus, had testi
monials from Murdoch and James, late
Bishops of Moray, and from Patrick,
Bishop of Aberdeen, and having officiated
from May 1683 was adm. to Second Charge
16th Jan. 1684 with consent of the patron,
Murdoch, Bishop of Moray ; trans, to
Stronsay and Eday 7th May that year ; re-
trans, to Second Charge and adm. 20th Dec.
1687 ; trans, to First Charge and inst. before
17th June 1689; was ordered, 25th Oct.
1690, by Robert Elphinston of Lopness to
" cist from preaching the Word, and for so
doing still, God in His own time will visit
him with some signal judgment." He con
tinued preaching but was deprived by the
Privy Council June 1694 ; lived some time
in Shapinsay, and returning to Kirk wall,
opened, on 21st Feb. 1703, an Episcopal
meeting-house which was largely attended
[see under Thomas Baikie] ; was officiating
in Toddrick's Wynd meeting-house, Edin
burgh, 1706-7, and subsequently min. of
the Episcopal congregation, Poldrate,
Haddington ; died about 1719. He marr.
(1) llth March 1684, Isobel Traill (died
before 7th Dec. 1702), widow of James Fea
of Clestran, Stronsay, and had issue —
a daugh. (marr. William Fea of Miln field) :
(2) a lady who was alive and in Kirkwall in
1721. Publications— David's Distress and
Deliverance (Edinburgh, 1696); Lamenta
tion for Church Divisions [a Poem] (Edin
burgh, 1702) ; Love and Unity Recommended
(Edinburgh, 1702) ; Warnings to Scotland
(Edinburgh, 1706) ; Address to the Church
(Edinburgh, 1706) ; An Essay on Govern
ment (Edinburgh, 1706) ; An Essay on
Enthusiasm (Edinburgh, 1706) ; Spiritual
Chymistrie [a sermon on Romans viii. 28]
(Edinburgh, 1706); .4 Catechism Plain and
Easie (Edinburgh, 1708) ; On the Doxology
(Edinburgh, 1712) ; A Family Catechism
(Edinburgh, 1712).— [Craven's Hist, of
Episcopal Church in Orkney (1688-1882),
33-53; Acts of Assembly, 1703; Peterkin's
Rentals.}
1697
THOMAS BAIKIE, bapt. 15th July
1672, son of James B. of Burness and
Sibella, daugh. of Hew Halcro of
that Ilk ; educated at Univ. of St Andrews ;
M.A. (1691) ; called in 1696 ; recommended
by the General Assembly to Presb. of Aber
deen for ordination 12th Jan. 1697; ord. (at
Cullen) 7th April, and adm. 12th May that
year, and approved by the Presb. 28th
June following; died June or July 1740.
He was a man of power in his day, and an
uncompromising opponent of Episcopacy,
being obliged on 7th June 1698 to complain
to the Commission of Assembly that he
had been assailed by "reproachful rhymes"
and maliciously slandered because of his
opinions. On 3rd Jan. 1703 he was ill and
in bed, with no supply provided for his
pulpit. The Cathedral bell began to ring,
and his wife observed the congregation
assembling and streaming into the building.
She hastily assisted her husband to dress,
and the pair proceeded to the church to find
John Wilson, the deprived min. in the act of
officiating. Mrs B. is said to have mounted
the pulpit steps and to have dragged him
out, while B. dismissed the congregation
and had the doors locked. David Slater,
the beadle, was removed from his office for
having rung the bell without B.'s order.
His defence was that Wilson still believed
himself to be the min. of the parish, and
to have right to "at least one-half of the
pulpit." At the instigation of Captain
Moodie of Melsetter, a charge of irreligion
and blasphemy uttered in sermons preached
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[PRESB. OF
in March 1712 was raised against B. but
was ultimately departed from, the accusa
tion being regarded as an act of revenge, the
Kirk-Session and Presb. having dealt with
Moodie for immoral conduct. He marr. (1)
14th Sept. 1697, Elizabeth, daugh. of James
Fea of Whitehall, Stronsay, and had .issue
—Barbara, bapt. 24th Sept. 1700 ; Thomas
of Burness, bapt. 31st Aug. 1704, died
1738; Anna, bapt. 19th Feb. 1705 (marr.
James Traill of Quendale) ; Patrick, bapt.
9th April 1706; Elizabeth, bapt. 16th Aug.
1707 (marr. Hugh Mowat, min. of Evie) ;
William, bapt. 28th July 1708; Eobert
of Pabdale, bapt. 25th Oct. 1709; Jean,
bapt. 3rd March 1711 ; James, bapt. 24th
April 1713 ; Charles, bapt. 25th Jan.
1715 : (2) (cont. 4th Oct. 1720) Elizabeth,
daugh. of John Nisbet of Swannay, and
had issue — John, bapt. 30th Sept. 1721 ;
Marjorie, bapt. 18th Nov. 1722; Sibella,
bapt. 26th Oct. 1723 (inarr. Robert Scollay
of Odsness): (3) (cont. 14th Sept. 1726)
Elizabeth (died 28th March 1783, aged 95),
daugh. of David Traill of Saba, and had
issue — Christina, bapt. 27th Oct. 1727
(marr. John Yule, min. of this charge).
—[Smith's Church in Orkney, 61-4; Acts
of Ass., 1697; Hossack's Kirkwall, 238;
Wodrow's Anal., ii., 72 ; Lyon's Account of
Episcopacy. ,]
EDWAED IRVINE, M.A. ; .trans, from
Second Charge, pres. by the Magis
trates and Town Council and by
James, Earl of Morton, called 21st Oct.,
and adm. 2nd Dec. 1741 ; trans, to Walls
and Flotta 17th June 1747.
JOHN YULE, educated at Marischal
College, Aberdeen, 1720-4; became
1747 schoolmaster of Rhynie, 1725-40;
licen. by Presb. of Strathbogie 19th June
1734 ; app. missionary at Portsoy May 1742 ;
declined a presentation to Walls and Flotta
12th Nov. 1746; pres. by the Magistrates and
Town Council and by the commissioner for
James, Earl of Morton, 8th, and ord. 28th
July 1747 ; died 9th June 1792. He marr.
(1) 16th June 1748, Christina (died 1755),
youngest daugh. of Thomas Baikie, min.
of this charge, and had issue — John, born
13th Jan. 1749, died young ; Anne, born
1741
1789
17th March 1750; Janet, born 21st July
1753; Thomas, born 8th Oct. 1755 ; (2) 2nd
Nov. 1756, Barbara (died 17th Nov. 1809),
daugh. of Thomas Traill of Hobbister, min.
of Lady, and had issue — Robert, min. of this
charge ; John, born 31st Oct. 1765 ; Sibella
(marr. George Barry, min. of Shapinsay). —
[Peterkin's Rentals ; Hossack's Kirkwall,
383.]
ROBERT YULE, born 21st July 1761,
son of preceding; educated at
Marischal College, Aberdeen ; M.A.
(Feb. 1779) ; licen. by Presb. of Kirkwall
10th March 1784 ; pres. by the Magistrates
and Town Council in 1788 and ord. (assist
ant and successor) 15th July 1789 ; died
7th June 1824. His grandfather, his father,
and he were thus mins. of Kirkwall in suc
cession for 120 years. He marr. 24th Dec.
1788, Anne (died 20th June 1835), daugh.
of Thomas Traill of Tirlet and Marjorie
Blaw.— [Hossack's Kirkwall, 386 ; Tombst.]
WILLIAM LOGIE, born Kirkwall, 23rd
1824 ^e^' ^8G, son of Alexander L.,
merchant ; educated at Kirkwall
School and Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen.
by Presb. of Kirkwall 14th Sept. 1809;
ord. to Lady 25th April 1811 ; pres. by
the Magistrates and Town Council 22nd.
and by George IV. 30th June, trans, and
adm. 25th Nov. 1824; D.D. (Edinburgh,
25th March 1854); died 5th Sept. 1856.
He was an accomplished scholar, an
eloquent preacher, and a model parish
minister. He marr. 22nd March 1814,
Elizabeth (died 6th Jan. 1862, aged 69),
second daugh. of James Scarth, mer
chant, Kirkwall, and had issue — Margaret
Lendrum, born 7th May 1815 (marr. 19th
June 1843, George Smellie, D.D., min. of
Lady, afterwards of St Fergus, Canada),
died llth March 1904 ; Alexander, born
7th Nov. 1816; Barbara, born 9th July
1818 (marr. 4th March 1852, William Watt
Graham Watt of Breckness) ; James Scarth
Spence, M.D., Kirkwall, born llth May
1820, died 17th July 1920 ; Isabella Leask,
born 8th Jan. 1822 ; William, D.D., min. of
Dirleton, born 19th March 1824; Harriet,
born 1829 (marr. James Robertson, sheriff-
substitute, Kirkwall), died 28th Aug. 1924);
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225
Helen Elizabeth, born 3rd Jan. 1833;
Alexina Isabella, born 19th June 1835
(marr. James Scarth Spence, banker, Kirk-
wall), died llth Nov. 1923. Publications
— God Sending and Withdrawing the
Pestilence, a sermon (Edinburgh, 1832) ;
Representation to the Heritors of St Ola
and ^Magistrates of Kirkwall [with Peter
Petrie] (Kirk wall, 1832); Strictures on a
Pamphlet lately published re The So-called
Additional Church (Kirkwall, 1843); Ser
mons and Services of the Church [edited
with a Memoir by his son William] (Edin
burgh, 1857) ; Account of the Parish (New
Stat. Ace., xv.). — [Memoir in Sermons ;
Hossack's Kirkwall, 383.]
WILLIAM SPARK, born Westruther,
1856 Berwickshire, 1817, son of James S.,
f armer , and Mary Hymers ; educated
at Westruther School and Univ. of Edin
burgh ; pres. by the Magistrates and Town
Council ; ord. to Second Charge, Kirkwall,
14th Dec. 1843; trans, to First Charge,
25th Nov. 1856 ; died 7th Feb. 1884. He
marr. 4th Sept. 1845, Helen (died 29th May
1882), daugh. of James Spence, banker,
Kirkwall, and had issue — Margaret, born
27th June 1846 (marr. John Bicket, min.
of North Yell) ; John, born 28th Nov. 1847 ;
James Spence, born 25th Nov. 1849 ; Mary
Hymers, born 20th Oct. 1851 ; Helen, born
27th June 1853,died at Ministers' Daughters'
College,Edinburgh,12th May 1871; William,
born 19th May 1855; Robert Alexander,
born 16th May 1857 ; Edward Spottiswoode
Gordon, born 16th Dec. 1858, died 7th
June 1860; Jane Agnes, born 24th April
1861 ; Albert Edward, born 6th May 1863 ;
Anne Bruce Cunningham, born 25th April
1868 ; Norman Henry, born 4th Dec. 1873.
Publications — Letters on Disestablishment
(Kirkwall, 1875) ; Death gain to the People
of Christ (Kirkwall, 1875); Disestablish
ment and Disendowment (Kirkwall, 1882).
JOHN RUTHERFORD, born 1846, son
1884 °^ Alexander Gumming R., min. of
North Richmond Street U.P. Church,
Edinburgh, and Jessie Rankin, and brother
of Thomas Rankin R., min. of Dunkeld
[died llth June 1926]; educated at Univ.
of Edinburgh, M.A. (1866), B.D. (1868), and
VOL. VII.
U.P. Theological Hall, Edinburgh; licen.
by U.P. Presb. of Edinburgh in 1868 ; ord.
to St Nicholas U.P. Church, Aberdeen,
llth Nov. that year; min. of Presbyterian
Church, Leicester, 1875-81. Joined the
Church of Scotland and adm. as an ordained
min. by General Assembly 3rd June 1882 ;
assistant to preceding ; adm. to this charge
28th April 1884; dem. 1st Oct. 1919; died
22nd Jan. 1922. He marr. 1st Feb. 1871,
Jane Spowart (died at Harrogate 16th Feb.
1924), daugh. of William Carter, banker,
Ayton, Berwickshire, and had issue-
William Carter, S.S.C., Edinburgh, born
llth Nov. 1871 ; Jessie Rankin, born 26th
April 1874; Alexander Peden, born 13th
June 1877. Publication — Saint Magnus
and the Planting of Christianity in Orkney
(Kirkwall, 1889).— [Small's Hist, of U.P.
Gongs., i., 14, 477.]
WILLIAM BARCLAY, born Dalserf,
Igl9 Lanarkshire, 19th Jan. 1888, only
son of John B., and Jessie M'Dougall;
educated at Dalserf School, Larkhall
Academy, and Univ. of Glasgow; M.A.
(1915); licen. by Presb. of Hamilton 24th
April 1917 ; served in European War as an
officer in Royal Field Artillery ; ord. to
Second Charge, Kirkwall, 12th Feb. 1919;
adm. to First Charge, 24th Dec. 1919.
Marr. 28th Dec. 1921, Doreen (M.A.), daugh.
of Robert Garden, Kirkwall, and Margaret
Jolly, and has issue — a child born 1st Nov.
1927.
SECOND CHARGE.
GEORGE MOODIE, natural son of
Adam M. of Breckness, parson of
Walls and Flotta ; educated at Univ.
of St Andrews; M.A. (1612); in 1620 he
is styled " present actuale reader and taker
of the psalms within the Cathedral Kirk
of Orkney in Kirkwall"; schoolmaster of
Kirkwall in 1626 ; reader and vicar of
St Ola that year ; had a presentation from
Charles I. to the prebend of St Augustine
in Sanday, 20th Nov. 1629, " which was of
auld foundit and providit for the use and
benefit of ane person meit and abile to
instruct the youth in musick within the
brughe of Kirkwall " ; adm. to this charge
226
KIRKWALL AND ST OLA
[PEESB. OF
before April 1639, but called reader in
1660 ; died before 1661, when mention
is made of "William, son lawful to the
deceased G. M., reader in Kirkwall "-
[Craven's Orkney (1558-1662), 155, 157
[where the deed of presentation to pre
bendary is given in full] ; Peterkin's
Rentals.']
JAMES KEID, M.A. ; called 12th Aug.,
and adm. 8th Nov. 1660; trans, to
North Leith in 1663.
ARTHUR MILLER, M.A. ; min. in
1669; trans, to Evie and Rendall
in 1671.
JAMES KAY, M.A.; ord. 4th, and
adm. llth May 1681; trans, to
1681
Dunrossness in 1682.
1685
1687
JOHN WILSON, M.A. ; officiated here
1684 from May 1683; adm> 16tl1 Jan*
1684, with consent of the patron,
Murdoch, Bishop of Orkney; trans, to
Stronsay and Eday 7th May 1684, preaching
his farewell sermon from 2 Thess. iii. 17 ;
was min. again in 1687.
THOMAS PATERSON, M.A. ; adm.
10th March 1685 ; trans, to Stronsay
and Eday in 1687.
JOHN WILSON, M.A.,abovementioned;
re-trans, from Stronsay and Eday,
and adm. 20th Dec. 1687 ; trans, to
First Charge, and inst. before 17th June
1689.
JOHN COBB, M.A. ; trans, from Birsay
and Harray, and adm. 2nd July 1689
[probably the last settlement under
Episcopacy] ; trans, to Stronsay 2nd April
1696.
JAMES YOUNG, called by "magis
trates, heritors, and inhabitants,"
' 19th Sept. 1692, and intruded till
Sept. 1694, when he became a naval
chaplain.
ALEXANDER MATE, called 15th Oct.
1694, and intruded, remaining till
July 1697. He then petitioned to
be received as a Presbyterian min., and
having been rebuked by Commission of
Assembly for his irregular ordination, was
adm. into communion by the Committee
of Visitation 9th June 1698 ; became min.
at Hoy and Graemsay 26th July 1698.
ALEXANDER YOUNGSON, born
about 1670, son of Alexander Y.,
min. of Rhynie ; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen (where he was a com
petitor for a bursary in 1683) ; licen. by
Presb. of Turriff; called 5th, and ord.
22nd Sept. 1698; is said to have left his
charge " as his health would not allow him
to stay in Orkney from the hurtfulness of
the air of the Isles," the parish being
declared vacant by a committee of Com
mission of Assembly along with the Presb.
23rd April 1700. He was subsequently
dep. by Presb. of Kincardine O:Neil, 6th
Oct. 1709, for intemperance. Reduced to
poverty, he had assistance from the Kirk-
Sessions of Cramond, Saltoun, Scoonie, and
others ; he afterwards resided at Broomhall,
in Rhynie, where he probably died.— [Peter-
kin's Rentals ; Session Registers of Parishes
mentioned.]
ALEXANDER NISBET, called 8th Dec.
1703 1702 ' ord> 14th May 1703 ' trans' t0
Shapinsay 4th Dec. that year, " being
obliged to leave for want of maintenance."
ANDREW KER, trans, from Walls and
1704 Flotta-: called 4th Jan-> and adm>
6th July 1704 ; re-trans, to aforesaid
charge 5th March 1706, but not settled ;
trans, to Rathven 20th Feb. 1723. His
intimacy with James Lyon, the Episco
palian min. at Kirkwall, called forth deep
resentment on the part of the Presbyterians,
so much so that, in 1708, the town council
advised an exchange of benefices between
him and the mins. of Shapinsay or Stron
say. On 17th June 1709, he was " sharply
rebuked " by the Synod at Thurso for such
intimacy. His ministry was passed in a
period of religious ferment, and he was
frequently in trouble from his outspoken
ness. Many anecdotes have been handed
down as to his sayings and actions. He
marr. Elizabeth Ker, and had issue —
William, bapt. 12th Sept. 1707 ; Andrew,
bapt. 17th March 1709; George, bapt.
8th Jan. 1712.— [Hossack's Kirkwall, 312]
[contains account of proceedings at Thurso].
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227
WILLIAM SCOTT, licen. by Presb. of
1728 Bi&gar 3rd April 1700; pres. by
Robert, Earl of Morton, and by the
Magistrates and Town Council ; ord. 24th
Sept. 1723 ; died 18th Feb. 1737. He marr.
Katherine, daugh. of John Gilchrist, inin.
of Keith, and had issue — Sarah ; Katherine,
bapt. 27th Dec. 1727 (marr., pro. 28th
March 1756, Robert Middlemist, journey
man mason, Edinburgh) ; John, bapt. 5th
March 1729 ; William, bapt. 2nd Sept. 1730.
1788
EDWARD IRVINE, M.A.; pres. by the
Magistrates and Town Council in
Aug., and by George, Earl of Morton,
1737 ; ord. 1st Feb. 1738 ; trans, to First
Charge 2nd Dec. 1741.
JOHN SCOLLAY, M.A.; pres. by the
1742 Magistrates and Town Council in
May, and ord. 1st Sept. 1742 ; trans,
to Cross and Burness llth Dec. 1747.
ALEXANDER RUDDACH, born
1740 Grange, 1718; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen; M.A. (29th
March 1738); pres. by Presb. jure devoluto
4th May 1748; ord. 1st Feb. 1749; died
4th Dec. 1763. He marr. 7th April 1752,
Cecilia Stewart, and had issue — Thomas,
born 30th June 1754 ; Charles, born 4th
Jan. 1758; Alexander, born 24th Dec.
1758.
HUGH SUTHERLAND, pres. by James,
1764 Earl of Morton, 7th May, and by the
Magistrates and Town Council 16th
May, and ord. 19th Sept. 1764; trans, to
Cross and Burness 5th April 1768.
GEORGE DOUGLAS, pres. by
1.700 Laurence Dundas of Kerse and by
the Magistrates and Town Council
Sept. 1768 ; ord. 5th April 1769 ; trans, to
Tain 6th Sept. 1775.
THOMAS TRAILL of Tirlet, born 1750,
1776 son of Thomas T. of Tirlet ; edu
cated at Marischal College, Aberdeen,
1767-71 ; pres. by the Magistrates and
Town Council 21st Dec. 1775; ord. 29th
May 1776; died 1st Jan. 1782. He marr.
5th Dec. 1780, Lucia (marr. (2) 2nd July
1786 Spence), daugh. of James Traill,
Westray, and had issue — Thomas Stewart,
M.D., Professor of Medical Jurisprudence,
Univ. of Edinburgh, editor of eighth
edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica,
born 29th Oct. 1781, died 30th July 1862.
— [Hossack's Kirkwall, 197; Diet. Nat.
Biog. [for Prof. T. S. T.].
GEORGE BARRY, pres. by the Magis-
1782 ^ra^es and Town Council in Aug.,
and ord. 18th Sept. 1782 ; trans, to
Shapinsay 12th Sept. 1793.
HUGH STALKER, born 1744 ; educated
1794 at Univ. of St Andrews ; licen. by
Presb. of Linlithgow 20th April
1774 ; pres. by the Magistrates and Town
Council 16th Sept. 1793; ord. 19th June
1794 ; died 2nd April 1815. He marr., and
had issue — Mary (marr. William Watson,
min. of Fetlar) ; Jean (marr. Charles Alison,
min. of St Andrews and Deerness).
JOHN DUNN, born 1787, son of Peter
1815 ^)>' -^orth Hill, Laurencekirk ; edu
cated at Marischal College, Aberdeen;
M.A. (28th March 1805) ; sometime school
master of Dunnet ; licen. by Presb. of
Caithness 30th March 1813 ; schoolmaster
in Sanday ; declined app. as schoolmaster
of Kirkwall in 1814 ; pres. by the Magis
trates and Town Council 9th June, and
ord. 21st Sept. 1815; died 24th Dec. 1830.
He marr. 26th Oct. 1815, Ann (died 25th
Aug. 1842), daugh. of James Gordon of
Little Folia, Aberdeenshire. — [Hossack's
Kirkwall, 274.]
PETER PETRIE, born Holm, Orkney,
1881 1^98 > educated at Associate Burgher
Hall and Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A.
(12th March 1824); licen. by Presb. of
Haddington 28th Sept. 1825; ord. to St
John's Chapel, Leith, 18th Sept. 1828;
pres. by the Magistrates and Town Council
at the desire of the congregation 22nd
March, trans, and adm. 21st July 1831.
Joined the Free Church in 1843; min. of
Free Church, Kirkwall, 1843-4; min. of
Free Church, Govan, 1844-50; died 28th
Jan. 1850. He marr. 20th Dec. 1830, Janet
(died 23rd Dec. 1890), daugh. of William
228
K1RKWALL AND ST OLA— KENDALL
[PRESB. OF
Laurie, and had issue — Peter, born
1831 ; David, born 3rd April 1832 ; Janet
Dewar, born 12th June 1833; Archibald,
born 23rd Nov. 1834 ; William Laurie, born
26th March 1838; Ann Pottinger (marr.
James Douglas Lawrie, stockbroker, Edin
burgh). Publication— Narrative respecting
the Neiv Place of Worship lately erected in
Kirkwall (Edinburgh, 1842). — [Hossack's
Kirkivall, 455.]
WILLIAM SPAEK, ord. 14th Dec.
1843 ; trans, to First Charge 25th
' Nov. 1856.
WILLIAM GOEDON, ord. 19th March
1857; trans, to Ruthwell 13th May
1859.
1857
JAMES WALKER, born Dunfermline,
29th Jan. 1825, son of George W.,
linen manufacturer, and Elspet
Kirkland ; educated at Dunfermline School
and Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb.
of Edinburgh; assistant at St Bernard's,
Edinburgh, and Kirkwall ; ord. 8th Sept.
1859 ; dem. 15th Oct. 1903 ; died 17th May
1904. He marr. 5th Aug. 1862, Margaret
(died 16th Oct. 1892), daugh. of James
Spence, banker, Kirkwall, and Margaret
Davidson, and had issue— George, D.D.,
min. of East Parish, Aberdeen, born 30th
April 1863 ; James Spence, born 6th Dec.
1864, died 25th Nov. 1866 ; Margaret, born
3rd Feb. 1866, died in infancy ; Alice, born
20th Sept. 1867; Amelia, born 15th Dec.
1868, died 7th March 1884; Wilhelmina,
born 19th June 1871.— [Smith's Church in
Orkney, 86.]
WALTER LAMB, M.A., B.D. ; ord. 12th
May 1904; trans, to Lauder 10th
: March 1905.
WILLIAM PITCAIRN CRAIG, M.A.;
ord. 3rd Aug. 1905 ; trans, to Torry-
' burn and Crombie 7th March 1918.
WILLIAM BARCLAY, M.A. ; ord. 12th
Feb. 1919; app. to First Charge
1919 24th Dec. 1919 (q.v.).
KENDALL (Q.S.)
[The parish of Rendall was united to Evie
towards the end of the sixteenth century.
It was severed again quoad sacra on 15th
March 1894.]
WILLIAM BEAT TIE [see under
1844 Evie.]
JAMES STORMONTH, app. in 1870 ;
1870 dem. Nov. 1874 [afterwards at Sten-
ness.]
ALEXANDER LESLIE [see under
1871 Evie].
ROBERT BURGESS, ord. 14th June
1876 1876 [afterwards at Stenness].
W. G. ROGERSON, licen. by Presb. of
1881 Edinburgh 31st July 1878; app. 1881.
GEORGE GRANT, app. 1882 ; ord. to
1882 North Ronaldsay 26th Aug. 1884.
JOHN MOFFAT, born 8th Feb. 1831,
son of Robert M., U.P. min., New-
' castle, and Margaret Scott ; educated
at Univ. of Glasgow ; app. by Colonial
Committee and adm. to La Prairie and
Longueuil, Canada, 18th Nov. 1858; dem.
in 1869 ; returned to Britain and officiated
at- Hexham'; returned to Canada and was
min. at Woodstock, New Brunswick, 1871-2
and at Bayfield, 1877-8; adm. here 27th
Nov. 1885 ; died at North Ronaldsay 27th
Dec. 1885.
JAMES FORBES, app. missionary
in 1880; ord. to St Mary's, South
Ronaldsay, 20th July 1880.
GEORGE CAMPBELL, a native of
Glassary; adm. to Newcastle-on-Tyne
in 1879 ; app. here in 1886 ; dem. in
1892, and went to U.S.A. ; became min. at
Salisbury Mills, Orange County, N.Y., and
died there Sept. 1893.
PETER MELVILLE, born 1839, son of
Charles M., farmer and landed pro
prietor, and Anne Falconer; educated
at Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A. (1865), B.D.
(1869) ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow ;
parish missionary at Rothesay in 1869;
KIRKWALL] KENDALL— SOUTH RONALDSAY AND BURRAY 229
ord. there 1870; went to Canada and
was assistant min. at Frederickton, New
Brunswick, 1870-1 ; adm. to Georgetown,
Prince Edward Island, 4th Oct. 1871 ;
rain, at New Kincardine, New Brunswick,
1876-9 ; min. at Stanley and Nashwark,
New Brunswick, 1879-81 ; min. at Hope-
well, Nova Scotia, 1881-91 ; returned to
Scotland and adm. here 1st July 1892 ;
inducted first min. of this parish 8th May
1895 ; dem. 5th Oct. 1909 ; died at Leith
5th March 1912. He marr. (1) 12th Nov.
1878, Jessie Melvina, Frederickton, New
Brunswick, and had issue— Charles Young
(only child), born 27th March 1880, died
13th Feb. 188] : (2) 15th Dec. 1911, Jane
A. (died 8th May 1912), daugh. of Peter
Forbes, land steward, and Elizabeth Mac-
donald or Clarke. Publication — Shorter
Catechism.
JAMES HIGGINS, ord. 9th Feb. 1910 ;
1910 trans, to Orphir 23rd Sept. 1919.
JOHN LIVINGSTONE MACPHEE,
1920 born APPin> Argy11' 31st Oct« 1861>
son of William M. and Ann Living
stone; educated at Appin School and
Univ. of Glasgow ; missionary in Isle of
Skye ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 3rd
May 1916 ; locum tenens at Poolewe, St
Fillan's, Tyndrum, etc. ; ord. 20th Sept.
1920. Marr. 13th Nov. 1894, Katherine,
daugh. of Alexander Macdonald, Portree,
Skye, and has issue — Alexander, born 16th
Sept. 1895; Ann, born 29th May 1899;
Katherine Ann, born 10th June 1901.
SOUTH RONALDSAY AND
BURRAY.
[This parish forms the northern part of
the Island of Ronaldsay. Its church was
dedicated to St Peter. St Peter's was a
prebend of KirkWall. In the sixteenth
century the parishes of St Mary and
Burray were united to St Peter's. St
Mary's was severed again in 1875, and
Burray in 1904. Within the bounds were
the following chapels : St Mary's at Halcro,
St Margaret's at St Margaret's Hope, St
Ninian's at Stow, St Columba's at Burwick,
and St Andrew's at Windwick. There is
now a mission chapel at Herston.
SIE THOMAS RAT TRAY, vicar,
1561 1561-2 ; went to Shapinsay in 1566.
DUNCAN RAMSAY, pre-Reformation
1566 chaplain of the Cathedral, Kirkwall,
conformed and was reader in 1566
till his death Nov. 1570.
WILLIAM MOODIE of Breckness, adm.
157o Nov. 1570 ; trans, to Hoy and Graem-
say before 1574.
ALEXANDER DICK, said to be son
15,_. of James D., merchant burgess of
Arbroath ; was dean or provost of
Orkney before 1560, conformed and became
min. here in 1574 ; died before 1st Dec.
1584. All that is known of him is that he
" abundantly dilapidated his benefice." His
son John acquired considerable wealth by
trading with Denmark, and was father of
Sir William D. (1580-1655), Lord Provost
of Edinburgh, well known for his riches
and misfortunes. Sir William's son, John,
was sheriff of Orkney in 1628.— [Craven's
South Ronaldshay, 3 ; Hossack's Kirkwall,
226 ; Pitcairn's Grim. Trials, i., 413 ;
0. and Z. Records, 266 ; Zetland Family
Histories, 54.]
EDWARD INGSETTER [or
1574 INKSTER], reader in 1574; alive
in 1607, when Earl Patrick ordered
Adam Cromartie, tacksman of the island,
to see that all arrears of I.'s stipend were
paid. — [Craven's Orkney (1558-1662), 48,
71.]
ALEXANDER CALLENDAR, a native
1584 °^ ^e west °^ Scotland, appears
first under Balfron in 1560; adm.
to Killearn Nov. 1572 ; was min. at Largs,
1574-84 (cf. Vol. III., 214) ; pres. by Robert,
Earl of Orkney to the provostry of Orkney
and to this charge in 1584 ; was probably
dead in 1589, when his name disappears
from record. He drew up a "Rentall of
230
SOUTH RONALDSAY AND BURRAY
[PRESB. OF
the Provostrie of Orkney, A.D. 1584," which
has been preserved and printed privately.
He had at least three sons, Daniel, min.
of this parish ; Thomas ; Elias ; and
probably Walter of Bordue, witness to a
deed in 1592.
NINIAN HALCRO, M.A., of Aikers
and Cava, natural son of Malcolm
H. of that Ilk, Archdeacon of Shet
land (mentioned 1530-45, and died before
1562) ; pres. to Rousay and Egilsay in
1585 ; trans, to this charge and to the
provostry in 1590 ; was one of those
summoned to appear at Edinburgh in
answer to Robert Font's charges, June
1597 ; still in office at 13th Feb. 1605, at
the time of James Law's appointment to
the Bishopric of Orkney. He marr.
Margaret Bruce.— [Craven's Orkney (1558-
1662), 75, 101.]
[WILLIAM HALCRO of Aikers (in the
parish) and of Brugh and Cava, son
1590 Q£ jo^n jj_ (who is mentioned as
deceased in 1544-5, and one of heirs of
entail of the estate of the Halcros of that
Ilk) ; said to have been min. here in 1590,
and holding the deanery of Orkney ; died in
1597. He marr. (1) Margaret, daugh. of
James Craggy [Craigie] of Brugh, and had
issue — Hugh of Aikers (now represented by
Halcro of Hogarth, Rendall) ; Robert of
Cava and Houton (now represented by,
Johnston of Coubister, Orphir) ; Patrick
in Wyre, ancestor of Henry and Ebenezer
Erskine: (2) Margaret Bruce, and had
issue — David of Instabillie ; Barbara ;
Agnes; a daugh. (marr. Captain Henry
Black, Kirkwall) ; a daugh. (marr. Bernard
Stewart, brother of the Laird of Barscube,
Renfrew.] [There is confusion with respect
to the foregoing names— Ninian and William
Halcro. Both appear as holding the same
benefice in 1590. Ninian witnessed a deed
as " provost of Orkney " on Sept. 1592, and
was still in the charge in 1605. It is
probable that the name William has been
misread for Ninian, and that William was
not a minister at all. Dr Craven has no
mention of William.— See Edinburgh Town
Council Charters, Bishopric Papers, No. 6.]
DANIEL CALLENDAR, M.A. ; being
recommended to the Bishop by James
Douglas, gentleman of the bed
chamber to James VI., was pres. and adm.
before 6th Jan. 1609 when, as provost, he
witnessed a tack by Adam Bothwell to
Thomas Barclay of Coplahillis of the
" altarage and chaplainry " at Sandwick ;
at a visitation of the parish on 17th June
1627 the communicants at South Ronaldshay
numbered between five and six hundred,
and those at Burray about one hundred ;
adm. to Birsay and Harray Dec. 1640.
WALTER STEWART, son of the Laird
of Culbeg, said to be descended from
family of Grantully ; educated at
Univ. of St Andrews ; had a certificate
from that Presb. 28th July 1630 ; ord. soon
afterwards and pres. by Bishop Grahame
to Rousay and Egilsay before 21st Feb.
1635 ; pres. to Aberdour, Fife, 18th March
that year ; coll. 26th April 1636 ; pres. by
Charles I. to the Deanery of Orkney, 22nd
June, and inst. here Aug. that year ; signed
the National Covenant and conformed to
Presbyterianism in 1638, and as a member
of the Glasgow Assembly was (with David
Watson, min. of Walls and Flotta) one of
the chief accusers of Bishop Grahame ; was
petitioned for as one of the mins. of Kirk-
wall in 1641 ; was a member of Commission
of Assemblies, 1643, 1644, and 1646 ; died
8th Jan. 1652. He marr. (1) 30th April
1635, Helen Sinclair, who died 16th April
1645, " a thrys worthie dame who in seven
yeiris, sax children sweet brought forth,
concert the sevent, alas died in the birth,"
and had issue — James, died abroad in 1661 ;
William of Newark ; Harry, apprenticed to
James Kinross, merchant, Edinburgh, 22nd
Sept. 1658 ; Walter, apprenticed to William
Calderwood, apothecary, Edinburgh, 19th
March 1662, and others: (2) (cont.
16th Sept. 1645), Margaret (marr. Archi
bald M'Culloch, burgess of Kirkwall and
merchant in St Margaret's Hope), eldest
daugh. of Matthew Mowbray, skipper
burgess of Kirkwall, chamberlain of Orkney,
and widow of Patrick Scollay of Knockhall,
Birsay, and had issue — Alexander of
Massiter, apprenticed to James Finlayson,
KIRKWALL]
SOUTH KONALDSAY AND BURUAY
231
merchant, Edinburgh, 9th Aug. 1665, died
1722; Helen (marr. (1) William Cochrane,
min. of Cross, Sanday : (2) llth April 1674,
Captain Peter Winchester : (3) 6th March
1679, John Traill of Elsness) ; Elizabeth.
—[Craven's Orkney (1558-1662), 184, 207,
215 ; Craven's South Ronaldthay, 7, 9; Ing.
Ret. Orkney, 96; Gordon's Scots Affairs,
ii., 138 ; Index to Services ; Orkney Tests. ;
Peterkin's Records.']
[The parish vacant five years.]
EDWARD RICHARDSON (cf. Vol. IV.,
211), belonged to Edinburgh and
was probably connected with the
family of Robert R., Master of the Mint
and treasurer to Queen Mary ; educated
at Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (1624) ; ord.
by Archbishop Spottiswood prior to his
institution at Forteviot in 1635. After his
deposition there in 1649, his wife petitioned
the Presb. of Perth (in respect of the hard
condition she and her family were in) " that
the whole stipend of the year 1649 may be
given to her, R. having served a great part
of that year, and that she might have some
allowance of the next year, in respect that
her husband paid, at his entry, to the widow
and executors of his predecessor." The
Commission of Assembly decided in her
favour. Called 15th April 1657 ; produced,
on 22nd July, an " ample testimoniall from
the Presb. of Perth, also ane testimoniall
of the heritors and elders of Forteviot, all
witnessing to his soundness of doctrine and
good conversation " ; adm. (at Peterkirk)
19th Aug. that year ; accepted Episcopacy
in 1661, became dean and provost of
Orkney and preached at Kirkwall, 12th
Nov. 1662, at the inauguration of the
Diocesan Synod ; died after 1st April 1670.
His ministry was uneventful. Though
frequently absent from his parish on
ecclesiastical affairs, his duties were dis
charged with exactness and fidelity, and
many improvements were effected in the
educational and moral life of the com
munity. Craven's Church Life in South
Ronaldshay and Burray in the Seventeenth
Century (Kirkwall, 1911) furnishes copious
extracts from the Session Records, all in
R.'s handwriting, and kept with great
care and regularity from the beginning of
his ministry until 21st March 1669. His
Register of Marriages and Baptisms has
been fully transcribed. He marr. Margaret
Reichie, and had issue— a daugh. (marr. John
Maule); and perhaps others.— [Craven's
South Ronaldshay, 18 et seq., 75 ; Peterkin's
Rentals ; Reg. of Deeds, Dal., vii., 775.]
ALEXANDER PITCAIRN, born St
Andrews. Fife; educated at Univ.
' of St Andrews; M.A. (23rd July
1658); passed trials before Presb. of St
Andrews and recommended for licence
27th July 1664 ; ord. by Bishop Honyman
and inst. to Sandwick and Stromuess 24th
April 1666 ; adm. here in 1672, and became
dean and provost of Orkney ; presided at
the institution of Murdo Mackenzie as
Bishop of Orkney, 5th Sept. 1676 ; dep. for
Episcopacy 22nd June 1698, and deprived
by Privy Council in 1699 ; died at Kirkwall
in 1715. He marr. (1) Elizabeth (died
5th Sept. 1681), eldest daugh. of John
Anderson, Dean of Guild, St Andrews,
Fife, and had issue— John, min. at Hoy and
Graemsay ; Elizabeth ; Margaret (marr.
William Halcro of Crook) ; Isobel ; Helen ;
Christian ; Anna (marr. Donald Calder,
periwig maker, Kirkwall) : (2) Alison
Douglas, and had issue — Alexander,
merchant, Lerwick ; George of Muness. —
[Craven's South Ronaldshay, 60-74, 113 ;
Gen. Reg. Sas., 18th April 1705 ; Orkney
Tests. ; Old Lore Misc., iii., 98.]
ALEXANDER GRANT (cf. Vol. I., 318),
16gg formerly min. of Fala and Soutra ;
after his deprivation in 1689 went to
England and joined the Presbyterians, from
whom he brought testimonials to the Synod
of Glasgow and Ayr and was received into
communion; called 14th Aug., and adm.
21st Sept. 1699; died llth May 1707. He
marr. (cont. May 1708) Barbara, daugh. of
James Baikie of Burness. She survived
him, and had issue — Robert, merchant,
Kirkwall ; Cecilia ; Alexander ; Thomas ;
James ; Edward ; Sibella (marr. Thomas
Traill of Hobister, min. of Lady). His
232
SOUTH RONALDSAY AND BURRAY
. or
widow was recommended by the Presb. to
the patron for half a year's stipend as a
reimbursement of £300 which her husband
had expended on his manse.— [Peterkin's
Rentals; Kirkwall (Marr.} Beg.}
RICHARD MEIN, a native of Edin-
71 burgh ; educated at Univ. of
Edinburgh ; M.A. (1676); ord. to
Cross and Burness 10th July 1683; was
accused of neglect of ministerial duty and
of having taken part in a play at a feast in
Stove, the allegation being that he stood
upon a chair with his eyes, mouth, and
nose blackened crying, "Gape and gloure
who would have or kiss me now1?" [this
was probably a mere game at an evening
party] ; the charges were dismissed ; on the
recommendation of the General Assembly,
20th Feb. 1700, he was unanimously received
into communion by their commission and
the Presb. 23rd April that year ; trans, to
Stronsay and Eday 13th May 1703 ; pres.
by Robert, Earl of Morton, in 1718 ; trans,
and adm. here 6th May 1719 ; died in 1733,
aged about 76. He marr. 4th July 1683,
Christian Hossack, servatrix to Bishop
Mackenzie. [His wife's tombstone on the
outside wall of St Peter's Church is
practically illegible.] — [Craven's South
Ronaldshay, 118.]
JOHN BALLANTYNE, pres. by George,
1735 Earl of Morton, in 1734, and ord.
20th March 1735 ; trans, to Fetteresso
1st May 1760.
JAMES WETR, licen. by Presb. of
1761 Cairston 8tn May 1>745 > missionary
at Kirkwall ; ord. to Rousay and
Egilsay 25th July 1753 ; pres. by James,
Earl of Morton, 8th Oct. 1760 ; trans, and
adm. 18th March 1761 ; died 10th Dec. 1785.
JAMES WATSON, M.A. ; pres. by Sir
Thomas Dundas, Bart., in June, and
adm. 27th July 1786 ; trans, to
Whitburn 13th July 1809.
WILLIAM INGRAM, M.A. ; pres. by
Thomas, Lord Dundas, in 1809, and
ord. 10th May 1810 ; trans, to Echt
16th March 1815.
1786
1810
JOHN GERARD, born 12th Sept. 1765,
son of John G., farmer, Midmar and
Crossley, Fetteresso, by his second
wife, Jane Jamieson, and cousin of the Rev.
Alexander G., LL.D., mathematical master,
Gordon's Hospital, Aberdeen ; educated at
King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (30th
March 1781) ; taught for twenty-four years
in the parish schools of Durris, Peter-
culter, Banchory-Ternan, and Arbuthnott ;
licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen 8th April
1800; assistant at West Parish, Aber
deen; ord. (assistant) at Lady 3rd Sept.
1806; adm. here 28th Sept. 1815; died
2nd Oct. 1850. He was an admirable
specimen of the old type of country minister.
Many stories are still related of his eccen
tricities and of his humorous sayings and
snatches of rhyme. He made abundant
use of the vernacular. A considerable
number of his letters are extant, and afford
interesting glimpses of the life and manners
of the period. His son preached for him
on one occasion, and on the following Sun
day the father took the same text, saying
to a friend, " I wanted to clear up the truth
by sweeping away the fog that he threw
over the text." He marr. 1795, Jane
(died 30th Jan. 1837, aged 73), sister of
Peter Craig, M.D., Aberdeen, and had
issue — John, licentiate of the Church
of Scotland (1822), born 21st April 1799,
died at Stromness, 12th May 1865; Jane,
born 1800 (marr. 4th Jan. 1825, David
Sutherland, farmer, Farewell); Sophia, deaf
and dumb ; Mary (marr. William Ballenden,
medical practitioner, South Ronaldsay and
Stromness) ; Susan (marr. James Ander
son, min. of Orphir). — [Around the Orkney
Peat Fires, 13-44 ; Goodfellow's Two Old
Pulpit Worthies of Orkney, 1-122 (Strom-
ness, 1925); Menzies Fergusson's Gambles
in the Far North, 107 ; Smith's Genealogies
of an Aberdeen Family, 109; Tombst.]
PATRICK GORTHY GILRUTH, born
1817, son of James G., farmer, and
851 Janet Buick ; educated at Univ. of
St Andrews ; pres. by Thomas, Earl of
Zetland, and ord. 3rd July 1851; dem.
23rd Nov. 1895 ; died unmarr. at Alyth,
2nd June 1909.
KIRKWALL] SOUTH RONALDSAY AND BURRAY-ST MARY'S
233
1875
JAMES STEWART WATT IRVINE,
born Sandwick, Orkney, 24th July
1839) gon of Nicol j and Margaret
Clouston ; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ;
app. assistant 24th Dec. 1871 ; ord. (assist
ant) to preceding 8th Feb. 1872; adm.
(assistant and successor) 16th Sept 1875 ;
died 4th Aug. 1925. During his ministry
two portions of the parish were erected
into quoad sacra parishes, and halls built.
He marr. 30th April 1877, Isabella Gordon
(born 23rd March 1841, died 23rd March
1926), youngest daugh. of Alexander Mor
timer, Aberdeen, and Margaret Spring, and
had issue — James Stewart Watt, min.
of Auchtertool, born 17th Dec. 1878;
George Spring Mortimer, farmer, Sandwick,
Orkney, born 14th April 1880; Margaret
Spring, artist, born 9th Jan. 1882.
JAMES CAMERON STEEN, born
1927 Dairy, Ayrshire, 23rd May 1896, son
of James S. and Mary Clugston ;
educated at Camphill H. G. School, Paisley,
and Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of
Paisley llth May 1924; assistant at Oat-
lands, Middle Parish, Paisley, and Cadzow ;
ord. to South Yell llth May 1925 ; trans.
and adm. 5th March 1927. Marr. 18th April
1924 Isabella (died 1925), daugh. of William
Lennox, and has issue— Elizabeth Cameron,
born 1925.
ST MARY'S, OR THE LADY KIRK
OF RONALDSAY (Q.S.~).
[St Mary's in Ronaldsay was a prebend
belonging to the Dean of Kirkwall. Within
the bounds were the following chapels :
St Columba's at Grimness, The Holy Rood
at Sandwick, St Columba's at Hopey, and
St Olaf's at Widewall. The parish of St
Mary was united to St Peter's and Burray
in the sixteenth century. It was disjoined
again from them quoad sacra on 24th May
1875. There is now a mission chapel in the
parish in the island of Swona.]
1873 C. G. MACDONALD.
ROBERT WALKER, born New Deer,
1833, son of William W. ; educated
1875 at Univs. of St Andrews, B.A. (1859)
and Aberdeen, B.D. (1871); licen. by Presb.
of Aberdeen ; missionary at Pulteneytown
in 1872 ; app. Feb. 1874 ; adm. 22nd July
1875 ; died 15th Jan. 1880. He marr. 10th
Sept. 1863, Margaret Marr, and had issue-
Margaret, born 24th June 1864; George
William, born 12th Jan. 1866; Robert,
born 5th Jan. 1868 ; John Falconer, born
13th Jan. 1870 ; Frederick James Cooper,
born 12th April 1871 ; Isabella Duthie,
born 10th Jan. 1874; Ernest, born 2nd Feb.
1876.
JAMES FORBES, born Clatt, 14th Feb.
1840, son of John F., farmer, and
1880 Barbara Shand ; educated at Univ.
of Aberdeen ; M.A. (1861) ; licen. by Presb.
of Fordyce ; assistant at Gardenstown and
Lybster ; missionary at Rendall ; ord. 20th
July 1880 ; died 2nd Dec. 1921. He marr.
17th Aug. 1870, Mary, daugh. of Alexander
Tough and Elizabeth Smith, and had issue
— Mary Jeannie Shand, born 22nd July
1871, died 4th Jan. 1907 ; James Maclaren,
mining engineer, born 25th July 1873 ;
John Robertson, min. of Logie-Easter, born
28th Oct. 1875 ; Robert Wilson, died 28th
March 1879 ; Caroline Elizabeth, born 30th
Nov. 1879 ; Gertrude Nellie Davidson,
born 5th June 1882 (marr. 22nd March
1915, James Palmer, Glasgow); Grace
Turnbull Stewart, born 1st April 1885
(marr. 19th Aug. 1924, John Ballanden
Allan of Burwick, farmer) ; Robert Wilson,
min. of Methlick, born 26th April 1887;
Charles Gordon Downie, assistant factor,
born llth Oct. 1889.
SYDNEY MELROSE M'EWEN, M.A. ;
ord. 27th June 1922 ; trans, to Deer-
1922 ness 30th June 1924.
THOMAS DONALDSON, born Carri-
den, 1st April 1894, son of Thomas
1925 D. and Elizabeth Stewart Currie ;
educated at Bo'ness Academy and Univ.
of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of Linlith-
govv in 1920 ; missionary at Blackridge,
Armadale ; ord. 5th May 1925.
PRESBYTERY OF CAIRSTON
[The General Assembly erected the Presbytery of Cairston out of that of Kirkwall
on 15th May 1725. Its Register begins at 21st July 1725. There is a gap in the Record
from 28th March 1764 to 3rd April 1782. The Presbytery now holds its ordinary
meetings at Stromness.]
BIRSAY (Q.S.).
[Birsay was a prebend of Kirkwall
Cathedral. At an early date the church
of Birsay was dedicated to St Columba.
There is, however, reason to think that,
in later times, the dedication may have
been changed, perhaps more than once.
The chief residence of the Earls of Orkney,
in the early Norse times, was at Birsay.
There too the first Orcadian Bishops had
their seat. The headland at the Brough of
Birsay was strongly fortified, and within
its lines there was a chapel of St Peter.
In the sixteenth century this parish was
united to Harray. It was severed again
quoad omnia on 17th July 1876.]
ALEXANDER LESLIE [afterwards of
1856 Evie].
JAMES M'MASTER [afterwards of
1864 Possil Park, Glasgow].
JAMES STRUTHERS DOUGLAS,
„ M.D. [afterwards min. of North
Yell].
JAMES MILLAR KILLEN, M.A. ;
ord. first min. of this parish 25th
J Sept. 1877 ; trans, to Bellshill 10th
Oct. 1878.
WILLIAM JAMES STEELE DICKEY,
187g B.A., M.A. ; app. 29th Nov. 1878;
ord. 2nd Jan. 1879 ; trans, to Holm
24th Oct. 1882.
HENRY DODD, L.R.C.P.&S.(Edin.);
1883 trans, from St Stephen's Chapel,
Perth, and adm. 9th March 1883;
dem. 20th Nov. 1899; min. of Downfield,
Dundee, 4th June 1919 (q.v.). — [Birsay
Church History, 97.]
JOSEPH M'KENZIE M'PHERSON,
1QOO M.A., B.D.; ord. llth May 1900;
trans, to Newmill 8th Feb. 1906. —
[Birsay Church History, 98.]
JOHN M'TAVISH RAMSAY, trans.
lgoe from Deerness and adm. 18th July
1906; trans, to St Andrews (Kirk
wall) llth Nov. 1907.
ROBERT MAITLAND SOUTER, born
1908 Slains, Aberdeenshire, 15th Feb.
1874, son of James Reid S. and
Martha Johnston ; educated at Grammar
School and Univ. of Aberdeen ; M.A.
(1897), B.D. (1900); licen. by Presb. of
Aberdeen in 1900; assistant at Ellon, St
George's-in-the- West, Aberdeen, and Govan ;
ord. 10th March 1908.
PRESB. OF CAIRSTON] FIRTH AND STENNESS
235
FIRTH AND STENNESS.
[The three parishes of Firth, Stenness,
and Orphir were united in the sixteenth
century. Some few years after 1600,
Orphir was severed from the two others.
On 18th Feb. 1878 Stenness was disjoined
quoad omnia from Firth. On the island of
Damsay, within the bounds, there stood a
chapel. From the name of the place it
has been thought that it was dedicated to
St Adamnan. Damsay, however, seems
rather to point to St Adam, Bishop of
Caithness, as the patron.]
WILLIAM MUREHEAD, reader at or
1560 soon after the Reformation.
THOMAS STEVENSON, had charge of
156? Firth, Stenness, and Orphir soon
after the Reformation ; removed to
Orphir before 1574.
JOHN SWINTON, son of Thomas S.,
1611 archdeacon of Orkney and min. of
Birsay and Harray; min. at Birsay
and Harray in 1599 ; trans, to Holm in
1607 ; trans, and adm. before 1611, and still
in the charge at 18th June 1627, when
Bishop Grahame made his visitation of the
parish at which date the communicants of
Firth numbered 200, and those of Stenness
140; trans, to Fetlar in 1630.
JOHN STEWART, educated at Univ.
of St Andrews ; M.A. (1622) ; adm.
before 1st Aug. 1630. Nothing
further is known of him.
ROBERT PEIRSON, born 1607, son of
1 Alexander P. of Balmadie ; educated
' at Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A. (1625);
adm. before 7th Nov. 1635. On 2nd Aug.
1639 he requested the Presb. to supplicate
the General Assembly for his translation
" unto a more competent place " on account
of his meagre stipend ; this was granted
on 27th Aug., but he was dep. with other
mins. in Orkney, in July 1650, for having
subscribed a document in support of the
Marquess of Montrose ; died April 1653.
He marr. (1) (cont. 13th Oct. 1634), Beatrix,
daugh. of Robert Henryson of Holland :
(2) Eupham Halcro, who died 27th May
1642 : (3) Isabel Collace. — [Edin. and
Orkney Tests ; Peterkin's Rentals ; Inq.
Ret. Gen., 3677.]
JOHN HENDRIE, M.A. ; called in
July, and ord. 17th Oct. 1654 ; trans.
[ to Orphir 19th Dec. 1660.
JOHN COLLIER, M.A.; pres. by
1662 Tllomas' Bishop of Orkney; adm.
' in 1662; trans, to Carrington 23rd
March 1663; again pres. by aforesaid
bishop jure devoluto 9th July following,
but did not accept.
WILLIAM WATSON, educated at
King's College, Aberdeen; M.A.
(1625); adm. to Walls and Flotta
before 1638; trans, to Hoy and Graemsay
about 1647 ; pres. by the laird of Spainzie
Aug. 1663 ; inst. 10th July 1666 ; died 14th
Nov. 1677, aged about ^.—[Kirkwall Reg.
of Deaths ; P. C. Reg., 3rd ser., iii., 642.]
1678
GEORGE TOD, M.A. ; ord. 27th Feb.
and inst. 3rd March 1678 ; trans, to
Holm 10th Nov. 1681.
GEORGE SPENCE, M.A. ; ord. (at
Kirkwall) 8th June 1682; is said
' to have deserted his charge (probably
outed) ; intruded at Birsay and Harray 10th
July 1692.
ANDREW BURNET, min. of Aber-
crombie and St Monan's in 1682;
' deprived by Privy Council 26th
Sept. 1689 for not reading the Proclamation
of the Estates, etc. ; intruded here about
March 1695 ; inhibited by Presb. 10th June
1698, when he had a testimonial to the
Commission for Visitation of Orkney
certifying to his conformity, exemplariness,
and diligence in the charge.
JOHN PITCAIRN, M.A. ; called 18th
,_nl March, and ord. 9th Sept. 1701;
' trans, to Hoy and Graemsay 6th
May 1714.
236
FIRTH AND STENNESS
PRESB. OF
JAMES WEIR, M.A. ; ord. at Stenness
1715 4th May 1715; declined a call to
Holm in 1722, and a presentation to
Rousay and Egilsay Nov. 1724 ; dep. (for
immorality) 26th Aug. 1729; reponed 12th
May 1731, and became min. of Orphir.
ANDREW GRAHAME, born 1688, son
1732 of James G-i min. of Holm; edu
cated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A.
(25th March 1707); licen. by Presb. of
Kirkwall 16th June 1714; pres. to Deer-
ness June 1719, but not settled; ord. to
Rousay and Egilsay 15th Sept. 1725 ; pres.
by George, Earl of Morton, 1731 ; trans,
and adm. 31st July 1732; died llth Sept.
1746. He marr. 29th March 1726, Christian
Flett, who died 16th Nov. 1772, and had
issue — James, housewright, in Boston,
U.SA. ; Janet; Elizabeth, all above 16
in 1746; Cecilia, born 4th Jan. 1734.
WILLIAM NISBET, born 1721, son of
1747 Alexander N., min. of Shapinsay ;
educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ;
licen. by Presb. of North Isles 27th March
1745 ; pres. by the commissioner for James,
Earl of Morton, 22nd Jan. and ord. 9th
Sept. 1747. In 1765 he was tried at the
Spring Session of the Assize Court at
Inverness on a charge of adultery with
Margaret, daugh. of Sir James Agnew of
Lochnaw, Bart., and wife of John Agnew,
Supervisor of Excise at Arbroath. She
was sister-in-law of his brother James at
Kirkwall. Having been found guilty, he
was sentenced to two months' imprisonment
in the Inverness Tolbooth, and to be fed on
bread and water only, thereafter to be
banished to the American Plantations. On
his confession he was dep. 8th July 1766.
He probably acquired property in Jamaica,
for soon afterwards members of his family
from Kirkwall emigrated to that island.
He marr. 12th Jan. 1764, Elizabeth Ritch,
a near relative, who, on 1st June 1767
petitioned the General Assembly for
support, when a collection was ordered to
be made for her throughout the Synods
of the North.— [Hossack's Kirkwall, 293
[contains an account of the trial at Inver
ness] ; Smith's Church in Orkney, 189-91 ;
Scots Mag., xxviii., xxix. ; Acts of Ass.,
1767, 1768; Morren's Anal., ii., 362, 365.]
ROBERT SMITH, licen. by Presb. of
1767 North Isles 24th Nov. 1762; ord.
4th March 1767; died 22nd Jan.
1770. He marr. 6th Sept. 1767, Helen
Flett, who died 1st April 1820, and had
issue— Mary, born 7th Jan. 1769.
EDWARD IRVINE, born 1710; edu-
1770 cated at Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A.
(28th March 1729); licen. by Presb.
of Cairston 21st May 1735 ; ord. to Second
Charge, Kirkwall, 1st Feb. 1738; trans, to
First Charge 2nd Dec. 1741 ; trans, to
Walls and Flotta 17th June 1747; trans,
and adm. 16th Oct. 1770; died 3rd Aug.
1785. He marr. (pro. 20th May 1738),
Grisell (died 1st June 1792), daugh. of
William Sinclair, tailor and kirk treasurer
of the Canongate, Edinburgh, and had
issue— Margaret, bapt. 2nd Sept. 1740;
Katherine, born llth July 1741, died 2nd
April 1749 ; William, born 30th Nov. 1743 ;
Grisell, born 17th Dec. 1744 ; Cecilia, bapt.
21st May 1746; Elizabeth, bapt. 26th May
1747, died 2nd Dec. 1750;. Marjory, born
19th Aug. 1750; Edward, born 30th Nov.
1751, died 30th Jan. 1753.
JOHN MALCOLM, born Aberdeenshire,
1785 about 1755; educated at King's Col
lege, Aberdeen; M.A. (30th March
1775); assistant at Rousay and Egilsay,
1780-1; pres. by Sir Thomas Dundas of
Kerse, Bart., 27th Sept., and ord. 23rd Nov.
1785 ; died 10th Jan. 1807. He marr. 10th
March 1780, Catherine Sinclair (died 8th
April 1844, aged 92), and had issue-
Margaret, born 18th April 1782; William,
min. of this parish ; Barbara, born 28th
Feb. 1787; Anna, born 24th June 1789;
Lieut. John, author of The Buccaneer and
other poems (Edin. 1824), and editor of the
Scots Magazine, born 16th Nov. 1792, died
1835.— Publication— Account of the Parish
(Sinclair's Stat. Ace., xiv.).— [Poems, Tales,
and Sketches, by his son, John M. (Kirkwall
1905).]
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237
WILLIAM MALCOLM, born 8th Oct.
180? 1784, son of preceding ; educated at
Marischal College, Aberdeen ; M.A.
(1804) ; licen. by Presb. of North Isles 27th
Nov. 1806 ; pres. by Thomas, Lord Dundas,
8th July, and ord. 24th Sept. 1807. Joined
the Free Church in 1843 ; min. of Free
Church, Firth, 1843-57 ; died 1st Dec. 1857.
He marr. 4th Aug. 1817, Anne Barry, who
died 25th March 1857.
GEORGE BROWN SCOTT, ord. 19th
1844 Sept- 1844> dem> 13th Jan> 1847'
died 28th March 1860. He marr.
Sarah A. Farquharson, who died 3rd Jan.
1910.
WILLIAM LOGIE, trans, from
184*7 Buchanan ; pres. by Thomas, Earl of
Zetland, and adm. 13th May 1847.
In 1860 he was pres. by Queen Victoria to
the parish of Scoonie ; objections were taken
by a considerable body of parishioners there,
but the General Assembly, 23rd May, ordered
his admission. L. however did not push
his claim and returned to Firth, when he
was presented with an address of sympathy
and esteem ; trans, to Fintry, Stirlingshire,
12th Sept. 1861.
WILLIAM SMITH, ord. 28th Nov.
1861; trans, to Unst 22nd April
1869.
DAVID THOMSON, born Balcormo,
1869 Carnlbee> Fife> 1833> son °f James T.,
farmer, and Mary Murdoch ; edu
cated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; assistant at
Earlston ; pres. by Thomas, Earl of Zetland ;
ord. 12th Aug. 1869 ; dem. 12th Nov. 1894 ;
died unmarr. at Bridge of Allan 16th March
1901.
DAVID WILLIAM YAIR,born Eckford,
1878 28th Aug. 1840, son of Joseph Y.,
min. of Eckford ; educated at Eck
ford School and Univs. of Glasgow and
Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of Jedburgh
in 1862 ; assistant at Cathcart and Bunkle,
and to preceding min. ; ord. (assistant and
successor) 9th May 1878 ; dem. 15th May
1918; died 9th April 1923. He was a
considerable florist and horticulturist and
his assortment of Alpine plants was said to
be unsurpassed in the north of Scotland.
He wrote many melodious verses. He
marr. 7th June 1881, Joanna Catherine
Stuart, daugh. of Dr Durtlop, Dunbar, and
had issue — Joseph Colquhoun Stuart, born
21st April 1882; Isobel Hulda, born 9th
Aug. 1884 (marr. 1915 Hugh Buchanan);
Helen Blair M'Dougall, born 19th Oct.
1886, died 8th Feb. 1887.— [Smith's Church
in Orkney, 195 ; Edwards's Modern Scottish
Poets, vii., 247.]
PETER BARR REID, born 22nd July
1918 1860> son °f J°nn Parker R. and
Susan Barr ; educated at Hutchesons'
School, High School and Univ. of Glasgow;
M.A. (1882); licen. by Presb. of Glasgow
10th June 1885 ; assistant at Hutcheson-
town ; ord. to Eday and Faray 23rd Aug.
1892 ; trans, and adm. 20th Dec. 1918 ;
dem. 1928. Marr. 19th June 1906, Letitia,
daugh. of Joseph Caskey, min. of Stronsay.
FLOTTA (Q.S.)
[The parishes of Walls and Flotta were
united in the sixteenth century. Flotta
was severed again quoad sacra from Walls
on 17th July 1882. There is a mission
chapel in this parish on the island of South
Pharay.]
GORDON URQUHART MACKIN-
1839 TOSH [afterwards of Unst].
JAMES SINCLAIR, born 1782;
educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ;
teacher at Dunfermline ; licen. by
Presb. of Dunfermline about 1817 ; teacher
Royal Naval Academy, London, Bristol,
Hereford, and Edinburgh ; assistant at
Marykirk ; app. in 1846 ; died 31st Oct.
1878. Publication— A Sea Sermon (Keith,
n.d.)
JAMES GEEKIE [afterwards mis-
I 1880 sionary at Olnatirth 1882-90].
238
FLOTTA— HARRAY AND BIRSAY
[PRESB. OF
ALEXANDER ARNOT MITCHELL,
born Brechin 1858, son of William M.,
1 shoemaker, and brother of William
Arnot M., sometime min. of Presbyterian
Church, Durham, and of U.P. Church,
Muirton, Forfarshire ; educated at Univs.
of St Andrews and Aberdeen; elected to
Delting and to this charge, but ord. here
first min. of the parish 27th Feb. 1884;
dem. 9th May 1923; died at Aberdeen,
16th Dec. 1924. He marr. 23rd Aug. 1899,
Elizabeth Amy (died 4th Aug. 1923, aged
53), youngest daugh. of James Wilson, M.D.,
Firth, and had issue— Mary Arnot, born 10th
Sept. 1900; Norma Amy Alexandra, born
26th Aug. 1901 ; William Arnot, divinity
student, born 7th Jan. 1903; Charles
Stewart, born 31st March 1905.
WILFRID SCOTT GOODERE, born
Wakefield 13th May 1888, son of
Albert G. and Elizabeth Scott ; edu
cated at Lincoln Cathedral Choir School
and Univ. of Glasgow; licen. by Presb.
of Lanark Dec. 1923; assistant at St
Michael's, Dumfries ; ord. 30th March 1924 ;
trans, to Tomintoul 24th Jan. 1927.
Marr. 7th Aug. 1924, Minnie Mitchell,
daugh. of James Arthur Gray, min. of
Abbey Green U.F. Church, Lesmahagow,
and Henrietta Bryce.
HARRAY AND BIRSAY.
[The church of Harray was dedicated to
St Mary. The parishes of Harray and
Birsay were united in the sixteenth cen
tury. Their union was annulled quoad
omnia on 17th July 1876.]
DONALD WALKER, reader in 1567;
1567 adm. to Dyce before 26th Jan. 1597.
ROBERT STEWART, reader, 1567 to
1567 1595 ; trans, to Orphir about 1599.
ROBERT FOULZIE, archdeacon before
9th Sept. 1570.— [0. and Z. Records,
1570 204.]
JOHN SWINTON, min. in 1599 ; trans.
1599 to Holm after 1601 and before 1607.
THOMAS SWENTON [or SWINTON]
[father of preceding ; one of the
1616 few instances in which a father suc
ceeded his son as min. of the same parish],
born at Perth in 1545, perhaps son of John
S., " uptaker of the psalm in the Kirk, and
master of the Sang School " ; was probably
present (attached to the church as a
chorister or acolyte) when John Knox
preached his memorable sermon there in
1559 (the origin of the Reformation move
ment in Scotland) ; became reader at Perth
before 1576, under John Row ; parson of
Tullibole in 1578, and of Muckhart in
1583 ; min. of Kirkwall in 1585, being at
the same time app. Commissioner for
Orkney and Shetland, which office he
held till 1591 ; app. by the Secret Council
6th March 1589, one of the Commissioners
for the maintenance and defence of true
religion within that sheriffdom. By the
Assembly of 25th April 1593 he was again
chosen as Commissioner for Shetland, in
which he continued till 1601. He was
one of the Orkney mins. summoned before
the Presb. of Edinburgh, June 1597, at the
instance of Robert Pont (employed by
Act of Assembly in a visitation of Orkney),
but Font's charges are not specified and
nothing further appears; in 1606 he was
app. constant Moderator of the Presb. in
absence of the bishop and at his expense,
the Presb. being ordered to receive him
as such within twenty-four hours after
notice underlain of rebellion; app. Arch
deacon of Orkney and trans, to Birsay and
Harray before 8th Feb. 1616, when, for the
first time, his name is appended to docu
ments as min. of this charge ; at a visita
tion of Birsay, 4th July 1627, Bishop
Grahame reported that S. was a "man
of great age, four scoir twa yeiris, feble,
and unabil for travell," and advised him
to procure an assistant. He probably died
soon afterwards. In 1627 he had among
his emoluments "ane little piece land
called Bigquoy, not far distant from the
kirk." There was then a manse but no
school, " and yet there is a greit necessity
for one." The number of communicants
was 800. He marr. Anna Hepburn, and
had issue— Robert, died 1612; Janet (inarr.,
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239
cont. 15th April 1614, Hew Sinclair of
Damsay, son of Robert S. of Campstone);
Elspeth (man-., cont. 16th Nov. 1614,
Patrick Murray of Garth) ; John, min. of
this parish ; Thomas, licentiate of the
Church and assistant to his father ; Harry,
min. of Evie; Robert, min. of Walls
and Sandness, Shetland; Patrick, notary
public, Kirkwall.— [Orkney Tests. ; Peter-
kin's Rentals ; Orkney Sas., 88 ; -I/.S.
Receipts for Stipend ; Goodfellow's Birsay
Church History, 53 ; Hossack's Kirkwall,
329; Reg. Mag. Sig.,v., 1897; Prot.-Book
David Heart, N.F., 134 ; Craven's Church
in Orkney (1558-1662), 111 et seq.}
FRANCIS LIDDELL, born about 1600,
1627 y°unoer son °f John L. of Halkerston;
educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ;
M.A. (27th July 1616); adm. (assistant
and successor) after 4th July 1627 ; died
31st May 1635. He was spoken of as " a
man of good reputation, both in life, con
versation, and doctrine." He was the first
of the name in Orkney. He marr. after
17th May 1631, Isabel, daugh. of Magnus
Sinclair in Burwick, and Marion Irving of
Saba (marr. (2) John Sinclair of Hammer,
Bressay, and her funeral dues were paid
llth Oct. 1679), and had issue— George of
Hammer, died 1681 ; Thomas; Margaret. —
[Liddell's Case ; Peterkin's Rentals ; Orkney
Tests. ; Prot.-Book David Heart, 270.]
PATRICK INGLIS, born 1577, son of
16S5 Cornelius I., Eastbarns, and grandson
of James I., shipowner, Leith ; edu
cated at Univ. of St Andrews; M.A. (1597) ;
min. of Kirkwall in 1617 ; pres. by George,
Bishop of Orkney, in July, trans, and inst.
8th Nov. 1635 ; was Moderator of Presb.
for twenty-three years ; died 14th March
1639. He marr. Helen Blakerton, who
survived him, and had issue — an only son,
George, who inherited property at the head
of Broad Street, Kirkwall, known as the
"Chaplain's Chambers," and was alive in
1659. Publication — The Ifonourableness of
Marriage [Heb. xiii., 4].— [Hossack's Kirk
wall, 245 ; Smith's Church in Orkney, 51 ;
Goodfellow's Birsay Church Hist., 55.]
DANIEL CALLENDAR, born about
1579, son of Alexander C., min. of
South Ronaldsay ; educated at Univ.
of St Andrews ; M.A. (1599) ; adm. to South
Ronaldsay before 6th Jan. 1609. He came
under the displeasure of Bishop Grahame,
and was "bitterly rebuked" because
of a quarrel with the laird of Burray.
Like a prisoner he was taken to Kirkwall
in the custody of a bailie and officers of
the law to be publicly censured in the
Cathedral, having confessed to his indis
cretion. He was suspended for giving
ordinances to persons under discipline, and
subsequently dep., but was allowed to
preach in Shetland, and afterwards reponed;
on 8th Aug. 1638, he had a testimonial in
his favour from the Presb. ; app. to this
charge by the Synod 4th April 1639 ;
elected 8th Oct., an Act. of Assembly
being passed in his favour ; pres. by the
Presb. jure devoluto, and adm. Dec. 1640 ;
died 15th May 1641. He marr. Barbara
Halcro, who survived him, and had issue —
James ; Francis ; Marion ; Janet, of whom
nothing is known.— [Orkney Tests. ; Craven's
Orkney (1558-1662), 29, 141 ; JEccl. Letters
James VI., i., 322.]
JAMES AITKIN, M.A. ; adm. 26th June
1642 1642 > dep> by tte General Assembly
July 1649 [afterwards Bishop of
Galloway (q.v.)']. A register of all the
children baptised in Birsay during his
ministry is in H.M. General Register House,
Edinburgh.
DAVID KENNEDY, M.A. ; ord. (by
1654 Presb. of Edinburgh) 10th May 1654;
conforming to Episcopacy he was
inst. before 17th April 1666 ; trans, to St
Andrews and Deerness, and inst. 24th Sept.
that year.
WILLIAM DAVIDSON, said to have
1666 keen a native of Ireland, and ord. to
a charge there ; during the massacre
of 1641 he fled to England and afterwards
to Scotland, when he was invited in 1652
to undertake work in Caithness ; began
his ministry at Canisbay 21st March 1652 ;
adin. 17th Feb. 1655 ; trans, and adm.
240
HARRAY AND BIRSAY
[PRESB. OF
18th Oct. 1666 ; was stated to be blind
25th May 1673; took the Test in 1681;
died after 9th Sept. 1690. At a visitation
by Bishop Mackenzie in 1678, D. was
described as " vigilant and faithful in all
the duties of the ministry, preaching plainly
and soundly, frequently visiting the sick,
catechising diligently, celebrating the Holy
Communion yearly, and as to his deport
ment, a man spotless and unblameable."
He marr. (1) Katherine Boyd, who died
10th Nov. 1680 : (2) 1st July 1683, Marion
Monteath : (3) 13th Sept. 1686, Mary, only
daugh. of John Nisbett of Swannay, and
had issue— Mary (marr. 15th April 1665,
Kobert Drummond, sheriff and commissary
clerk of Orkney).— [Orkney Tests.]
JOHN COBB, M.A.; ord. (assistant)
about 1686 ; trans, to Second Charge,
' Kirkwall, 2nd July 1689.
GEORGE SPENCE, born 1657, son of
George S. of Overscapa (of a family
' who originally came from Fife to
assist Earl Robert in the building of his
Palace) ; educated at Univ. of St Andrews ;
MA. (28th July 1677) ; ord. to Firth and
Stenness 8th June 1682; probably outed
in 1690, and intruded here 10th July 1692 ;
dem. 14th June 1698, the Committee
of Visitation having charged him with
immorality and other offences, and declared
him an intruder. He retired to Kirkwall
and is not heard of again till 1715, when
he and James Lyon, Kirkwall, stood at
the Market Cross in their preaching gowns,
proclaimed King James VIII., and drank
his health ; dep. llth Jan. 1717 ; died in
1720. He marr. 24th July 1684, Mary,
eldest daugh. of George Ritchie, Chamber
lain of Orkney, and had issue— Peter;
Catherine, alive in 1777 and in poverty;
Margaret (marr. Thomas Hay, min. of
Yell). — [Hossack's Kirkwall, 249; Good-
fellow's Birsay Church History, 65.]
JAMES SANDS, born about 1673, son
of William S. [said to be son of
' Patrick S., Edinburgh, by Lady
Elizabeth Douglas, daugh. of the Earl of
Morton] ; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ;
M.A. (3rd July 1693) ; licen. by Presb. of
Linlithgow 4th Oct. 1699 ; called (at
Harray) 25th June, and ord. 10th Sept.
1701 ; about 1711 he was accused of sheep-
stealing, but the case was not proceeded
with, the charge being unfounded; died
28th Feb. 1723. He marr. 1710, Jean,
daugh. of John Keith, min. of Walls, she
survived him, arid had issue— Robert, min.
of Hoy, born 14th Feb. 1712; Peter or
Patrick. Publication — A Letter for Mr
James Lyon in Kirkwall (1710) [with an
Answer by James Lyon.] — [Peterkin's
Rentals ; Lyon's Account of Episcopacy.'}
ANDREW GILES, licen. by Presb. of
Duns 8th March 1720; pres. by
: Robert, Earl of Morton in Jan., and
ord. llth March 1724; dep. for immorality
8th Nov. 1727 ; reponed 16th April 1729.
Nothing further is known of him.
GEORGE COPLAND, licen. by Presb.
of Edinburgh 27th June 1722 ; called
' llth Sept. 1729 ; ord. 21st Jan. 1730 ;
died 9th Aug. 1735.
ALEXANDER GEDDES, born Keith,
about 1709 ; educated at King's Col
lege, Aberdeen; M.A. (7th April
1727); licen. by Presb. of Kirkwall (his
trials having been transferred from Presb.
of Strathbogie), 2nd Jan. 1734; pres. by
George, Earl of Morton, 19th Dec. 1735 ;
ord. 1st June 1736 ; recommended for
Kirkwall by the Magistrates, 4th Feb.
1741, but continued here ; died 23rd April
1751. He marr. 1st Dec. 1736, Elizabeth
Fea, who died 15th Sept. 1775, and had
issue— Margaret, born 30th March 1740,
died 10th Jan. 1745.
THOMAS HEPBURN, pres. by James,
Earl of Morton, in 1751; ord. 8th
J July 1752; had a presentation to
Aberlady from George III., June 1768, but
continued here; trans, to Athelstaneford
20th June 1771 (cf. Vol. I., 355). He had
further issue — Margaret, born 26th Jan.
1769; Mary, born 29th Dec. 1769.
HUGH SUTHERLAND, educated at
MarischalCollege, Aberdeen, 1759-63;
J licen. by Presb. of Cairston 18th
Jan. 1764; ord. to Second Charge, Kirk-
CAIRSTON]
HARRAY AND BIRSAY
241
wall, 19th Sept. that year ; trans, to Cross
and Burness 5th April 1768; pres. by Sir
Laurence Dundas of Kerse, Bart. ; trans,
and adm. 15th July 1772; died 20th
May 1774. He marr. 27th July 1773,
Margaret (died 20th Feb. 1788), daugh.
of John Traill of Elsness, and had issue—
Sibella (posthumous), born 21st July 1774
(marr. 9th March 1790, John Traill of
Woodwick).
1774
GEOEGE LOW, bapt. 29th March 1747,
on'y S0n °^ J°nn L , farmer and
beadle at Edzell [whose ancestors
had long occupied the farm of Meikle
Tallo] and Isabella Coupar; educated at
Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1762-6, and
Univ. of St Andrews ; tutor in the family
of Kobert Graham, merchant, Stromness,
1768; licen. by Presb. of Cairston in 1771 ;
pres. by Sir Laurence Dundas, Bart., and
ord. 14th Dec. 1774 ; died 13th March 1795,
and was buried beneath the pulpit in
Birsay Church. His whole life in Orkney
was devoted to the study of its natural
history and antiquities. He specialised
as a microscopist, constructing a water-
microscope (still extant at Skaill), and
commencing in 1769 a series of "Micro
scopical Observations," adorning his work
with beautiful Indian-ink illustrations. In
1770 he began an exhaustive History of
the Orkneys, initiating his labour by a
translation of Torfseus's History. In 1772
he formed the acquaintance of Sir Joseph
Banks, then visiting Orkney on his return
from Iceland with Dr Daniel Solander and
Dr James Lind. By them he was intro
duced to the notice of Thomas Pennant,
who gave him much encouragement. In
1774, at Pennant's expense, he made an
extended tour of the southern Orkneys
and the whole of the Shetland Islands,
furnishing Pennant with valuable data for
the concluding volume of his Tour in
Scotland. In 1778 he visited the northern
Orkneys, of which he wrote an account.
His manuscript was purchased at an Edin
burgh book sale in 1899 by Sir Arthur
Mitchell, and has been edited by Gilbert
Goudie for the Viking Society (London,
VOL. VII.
1915). The holograph is now in the Library
of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
In 1782 he was elected a corresponding
member of the Society of Antiquaries of
Scotland. Failure to get his writings
published, though their value was repeatedly
acknowledged, filled him with bitterness
and despondency. A form of ophthalmia
(the result of his incessant microscopic
work) attacked him in 1790, and in three
years he was almost totally blind. He
solaced himself with music, preached with
a new fervency, and pursued his studies as
far as he was able, but increasing weakness
soon shattered his never robust constitu
tion, and when he died, the sorrow of his
people was profound and genuine. He
marr. 27th Aug. 1775, Helen (died in child
bed 2nd Dec. 1776), only daugh. of James
Tyrie, min. of Sandwick and Stromness.
Publications — Most of L.'s MSS. came into
the possession of his early friend, George
Pa ton, Edinburgh. The Fauna Orcadensis
was published by William Elford Leach,
M.D. (Edinburgh, 1813). The History is
owned by the representatives of Dr Omond.
The Tour of 1774 was edited by Joseph
Anderson, LL.D., with an appendix of
ancient documents and an Introduction
containing extracts from Low's correspond
ence (Kirkwall, 1879), and the MS. is in
the library of the Univ. of Edinburgh. A
Specimen of the Norse Language was edited
by David Laing, LL.D. (Edinburgh, 1861).
A commonplace book entitled A Cabinet of
Curiosities, and dated 1766, written while
a student, is also extant in manuscript.
The MS. of the Flora Orcadensis cannot be
traced. Some of his books and papers
are at Skaill. — [Diet. Nat. Biog. ; Birsay
Church Hist., 71-6; Memoir in Fauna
Orcadensis ; Edin. New Philos. Journ., xvi.,
390; Tudor's The Orkneys and Shetland,
85 ; Literary Life of Thomas Pennant ;
Introduction to Tour (1879).
JAMES THOMSON, pres. by Thomas,
Lord Dundas, 21st Aug. 1795;
adm. 12th May 1796; trans, to
Kingsbarns, Fife, 15th Oct. same year.
242
HARRAY AND BIRSAY
[PRESB. OF
ANDREW ANDERSON, born Moray,
1797 1763; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen; M.A. (28th March 1789);
licen. by Presb. of Kirkwall 14th April
1794 ; pres. by Thomas, Lord Dundas,
in Feb., and ord. 27th April 1797; died
unmarr. 21st Sept. 1835. — [Goodfellow's
Church Hist., 77.]
THOMAS BLYTH, born Falkland;
1836 educated at Univ. of St Andrews ;
licen. by Presb. of Cupar 27th June
1815 ; assistant at Tron Parish, Glasgow,
1815-17 [to Thomas Chalmers, D.D.] ; ord.
assistant at Shapinsay 8th June 1832 ;
app. assistant in this parish ; pres. by
Laurence, Lord Dundas, 21st Jan., and
adm. 26th April 1836 ; died unmarr. 15th
May 1844. He was much esteemed by
his parishioners. He established a parish
library, and had one of the most flourishing
Sunday Schools in Orkney. Publication —
Account of the Parish (New Stat. Ace., xv.).
—[Goodfellow's Birsay Church Hist., 79-81.]
[JOHN GARSON, born Bea, Sandwick,
Orkney, 25th Nov. 1813, son of John
G., farmer; educated at Univ. of Edin
burgh ; licen. by Presb. of Cairston in
1841 ; assistant in this parish, 1841-3.
Joined the Free Church in 1843 ; min. of
the Free Church, Birsay, 1843-84; died
at Edinburgh 25th April 1884. He marr.
1852, Elizabeth, daugh. of Alexander Main,
factor, Midlothian, and had issue— John
George, physician, London ; Alexander,
died 1869; William Robert James, phy
sician, Bebington, Birkenhead ; George,
C.E., Water Commissioner, Victoria, Aus
tralia, died 12th June 1911 ; Patrick
Clason (twin), physician, Huntly ; Martha
Elizabeth Mary (marr. 13th April 1898,
William Smith, W.S., Edinburgh).]
- [Goodfellow's Birsay Church Hist.,
127.]
SAMUEL TRAIL, D.D., LL.D. ; trans.
1844 from Arbuthnott and adm. 7th
Nov. 1844 ; app. Professor of
Systematic Theology, Univ. of Aberdeen
(q.v.), and res. 8th May 1868.
DAVID JOHNSTON, M.A., D.D. ;
1868 pres. by Earl of Zetland 25th May,
trans, from Unst, and adm. 24th
Sept. 1868 ; app. Professor of Divinity
and Biblical Criticism, Univ. of Aberdeen
(q.v.), and dem. 12th Nov. 1894.
WILLIAM JAMES STEELE DICKEY,
1895 k°rn Carnowen, Donegal, 7th April
1851, son of John Porter D., min. of
Carnowen, and grandson of William D.,
min. of Carnowen, and Anne Jane, daugh.
of James Steele, D.D., min. at Stranorlar,
Ireland ; educated at Belfast and Queen's
Univ., Dublin ; B.A., M.A. ; licen. by Presb.
of Raphoe 8th May 1877 ; adm. to Church
of Scotland as a licentiate by Presb. of
Cairston in terms of Act of Assembly 26th
Oct. 1878; ord. to Birsay 2nd Jan. 1879;
trans, to Holm 24th Oct. 1882 ; adm. here
15th April 1895; D.D. (Belfast 1902)
(T.D.); died 15th May 1922. He marr.
13th Nov. 1878, Elizabeth Rachel, eldest
daugh. of David Ferguson, min. at Portlaw,
Co. Waterford, and had issue — John David
Ferguson, secretary, born 17th Aug. 1879 ;
Robert James Steele, born 31st Oct. 1882,
min. of Cambuslang West ; Josiah Leslie
Porter, marine engineer, U.S.A., born 13th
Jan. 1885 ; Charles CoopenLeslie, financial
secretary U.S. A., born 25th Dec. 1886 ; Mabel
Elizabeth Annie, born 27th May 1888 (marr.
Samuel Hazlett Brown Allison, M.B., Ch.B.,
Londonderry); Hester Victoria Wilma. born
29th Oct. 1891 (marr. 21st July 1920, Robert
Scarth of Binscarth). — [Goodfellow's Birsay
Church Hist., 96.]
GEORGE FREDERICK COX, born
1922 Aberdeen, 19th Dec. 1887, son of
Henry William C. and Margaret
Taylor ; educated at Grammar School, and
Univs. of Aberdeen, M.A. (1910), and St
Andrews, B.D. (1914); licen. by Presb. of
Aberdeen in 1915 ; assistant to Professor
of Greek, Univ. of Aberdeen ; assistant to
Professor of Hebrew, Univ. of St Andrews ;
assistant at Govan, Newlands ( Peeblesshire),
and St Andrew's, Edinburgh ; ord. locum
tenens at Gourock June 1918 ; adm. here
27th Sept. 1922. Marr. 8th Nov. 1922, Ann
Marr, daugh. of John Richard Secular,
min. of Cupar-Fife.
CAIRSTON]
HOY AND GRAEMSAY
243
HOY AND GRAEMSAY.
[These two parishes were united in the
sixteenth century. In 1615 Walls also was
joined with them. It was, however, severed
again from them in 1635. Each of the two
united parishes still has its own church.
Hoy. — Hoy was a prebend and commune
kirk of Kirk wall Cathedral. This parish
includes only the northern part of the
island of Hoy.
Graemsay. — The church of Graemsay is
now in use as a mission chapel.]
THOMAS FLEMING, reader, 1570 to
1570 1580.
WILLIAM MOODIE of Breckness;
trans, from South Ronaldsay in 1574,
Walls and Flotta being also in his
charge ; went to Walls about 1580.
1585
THOMAS FLEMING, above reader,
became min. about 1585 ; trans, to
Stromness in 1594, but returned
after 1598, and was again trans, to Strom-
ness after 13th Feb. 1605. — [Craven's
Hist, of the Church in Orkney (1558-1662),
101.]
ROBERT STEWART, trans, from
Orphir before 1607 ; was a member
of the Assembly 8th June 1610;
trans, to Holm before 1st Nov. 1614.
ANDREW DISHINGTON, min. of
1614 Walls and Flotta; called "min. of
Hoy" in a lease granted by his
widow in 1614.— [See under Walls and
Flotta.]
HENRY SMYTH, M.A. ; adm. in 1621.
1621 ^ t^ie visitation by Bishop Grahame
on 12th June 1627 the communicants
at Hoy numbered 338, and at Walls, which
S. had in his charge, 1628-32, the number
was 453 ; trans, to Shapinsay 17th May
1632.
PATRICK WEMYSS, M.A. ; app. 17th
1632 May 1632 ; trans, to Lady in 1647.
1647
WILLIAM WATSON, M.A. ; trans.
from Walls and Flotta about 1647 ;
dep. "with the maist part of the
mins. of Orkney," 10th July 1651, for having
presented the Marquess of Montrose with
a loyal address ; was reponed by the Presb.
7th Sept. 1659 ; trans, to Firth and Stenness
in 1663.
JOHN BALVAIRD, born 1609, nephew
of David Martin, min. of Auchtertool;
educated at Univ. of St Andrews ;
M.A. (1629) ; app. schoolmaster of Auchter-
tool 30th April 1630; was on the Exercise
at Kirkcaldy 25th Nov. 1631 ; had a testi
monial from Presb. of Kirkcaldy "as he is
going to Orkney" 18th May 1637; ord. to
Rousay and Egilsay 14th Sept. 1645; dep.
by the General Assembly, 10th July 1651, as
one of the signatories to a loyal address
presented to James, Marquess of Montrose ;
was reponed, 22nd July 1658, and allowed
to preach at Rousay "till the parish be
planted " ; called in Sept., and adm. (at
Kirkwall) 3rd Oct. 1663 ; died April 1668.
He marr. his1 cousin Margaret, daugh. of
David Martin, min. of Auchtertool, and
had issue — James, apprenticed to Robert
Chisholm, saddler, Edinburgh, 10th Aug.
1664; and six others.— [Craven's Orkney,
29 ; Stevenson's Auchtertool, 116 ; Orkney
Tests. ; Peterkin's Rentals ; Grub's Hist.,
iii., 146; Lament's Diary, 26; Pres.
Revieiv, iv. ; P. C. Reg., 3rd ser., viii., 525.]
JAMES SHANKS, born Banffshire,
about 1635; educated at King's
' College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1655);
schoolmaster of Mortlach, 1658-60; licen.
by Presb. of Fordyce 12th Oct. 1659;
servitor to the Master of Banff in 1661 ;
adm. about 1672 ; died before 3rd Aug.
1683. At a visitation of the parish by
Bishop Mackenzie in July 1678, S. was
reported to " be powerful and laborious in
the duties of his calling, a man sober and
peaceable in his outer deportment." He
marr. Margaret Walker, who survived him,
and had issue — Euphemia ; Jane —
[Craven's Orkney (1662-68), 78, 104 ; Orkney
Tests.}
244
HOY AND GRAEMSAY
[PRESB. OF
JAMES STRACHAN, a native of Forfar-
shire ; passed trials before Presb. of
Forfar and recommended for licence
7th March 1666 ; adm. to Cross and Burness
before 5th July 1676 ; trans, and adm. 4th,
and inst. 15th July 1683 ; dem. 3rd Dec.
1696. He marr. a lady, who received
assistance from the Presb. on account of her
indigent circumstances 21st June 1727.
ALEXANDER MAIR, passed trials
1698 kef°re Presb. of Mearns in 1686,
and licen. by Arthur, Archbishop of
St Andrews; ord. by William, Bishop
of Moray; called to Second Charge,
Kirkwall, 15th Oct. 1694, and intruded
there till July 1697, when he petitioned
to be received as a Presbyterian min. ;
went to Edinburgh and having been ad
monished by the Commission of Assembly
" for his irregular ordination " was adm.
into communion 9th Jan. 1698 ; called to
this charge, 20th June, and adm. 26th July
that year. Being asked on one occasion
how he came to abjure Episcopacy, he
replied, " What will a man not do for his
bannock?" He died between 30th July and
3rd Dec. 1712. He marr. Ann Moodie,
and had issue— William, min. of Holm ;
she survived him, with seven children
(four by a former marriage) who were
recommended for charitable supply to the
Southern Synods by the General Assembly
18th May 1727.— [Acts of Ass., 1725, 1727.]
JOHN PITCAIRN, born 1668, son
of Alexander P., min. of South
: Ronaldsay ; educated at Univ. of St
Andrews ; M.A. (1688) ; ord. to Firth and
Stenness 9th Sept. 1701 ; pres. by James,
Earl of Morton, in April, trans, and adm.
6th May 1714; died before 20th Feb. 1740.
He marr. Ann, daugh. of John Keith, min.
of Walls and Flotta, she survived him " in
poor circumstances," and had issue — Alex
ander, min. of Shapinsay.
ROBERT SANDS, born 14th Feb. 1712,
son of James S., min. of Birsay ;
educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ;
M.A. (28th March 1729); licen. by Presb.
of Cairston 13th July 1737 ; pres. by
James, Earl of Morton, 22nd June 1741 ;
ord. 7th April 1742 ; died FATHER OF THE
SYNOD 13th Feb. 1796. He marr. 16th
Oct. 1744, Jean (died 1788), daugh. of
George Stewart of Masseter and Jean
Orem, and had issue — James, min. of
Tingwall, born 28th Sept. 1745; Jean, born
7th Aug. 1749; Walter, born llth May
1752; William of Swanbister, born 22nd
Nov. 1753 ; Stewart, born 19th Dec. 1754
(marr. 25th Jan. 1778, James Yeaman,
preacher), died 7th Nov. 1782 ; Thomas,
born 20th Dec. 1756, died 3rd Aug. 1772;
Helen, born 16th Jan. 1758, died 2nd
May 1784; Robert, born 4th April 1759;
Alexander, born 13th Aug. 1760, died
16th Aug. 1761; Cecilia, born 15th Aug.
1763, died 5th July 1764; George, born
llth Nov. 1766, died 22nd Nov. 1767;
Margaret, born 7th March 1768, died 9th
Jan. 1782 ; George, born 14th March 1769 ;
Elizabeth, born 19th April 1771, died 10th
July 1798 ; Grace ; Barbara ; Wilhelmina.
[It has been stated that he had twenty-two
children, but the above are the only names
recorded in the Separate Register.] Publi
cation—Account of the Parish (Sinclair's
Stat. Ace., xvi.). — [0ld Lore Miscell.,
iii., 95.]
GAVIN HAMILTON, born Lesmaha-
1796 g°W> 26fcl1 July 1762' son of William
H. of Auldtown and Margaret
M'Ghie ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ;
licen. by Presb. of Dunbarton 2nd Dec.
1788 ; ord. (by that Presb.) 9th Aug. 1796 ;
pres. by Thomas, Lord Duudas, in July,
and adm. 26th Sept. that year ; died 10th
June 1849. He marr. 16th Aug. 1796,
Penelope (died 24th Sept. 1805, aged 37),
daugh. of John Macaulay, min. of Cardross,
and had issue— William, fleet-surgeon R.N.,
born 8th Jan. 1798, died 1832 ; John Mac
aulay, M.D., born 28th Nov. 1799, went
to Canada ; Thomas Babington, born 19th
Aug. 1801, died 1832; Colin Macaulay,
bom 25th April 1803, died 1832 ; Zachary
Macaulay, D.D., min. of Bressay, Burra,
and Quarff, born 12th Jan. 1805. Publica
tion — Account of the Parish (New Stat.
Ace., xv.). — [Zetland Family Hist., 117.]
CAIRSTON]
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245
ROBERT WATSON, born Alloa, 1797,
son of Thomas W., farmer, and
} Charlotte M'Farlane ; educated at
Univ. of St Andrews ; assistant at Alloa ;
ord. (assistant and successor) to Deerness
in 1847 ; trans, and adm. 19th Sept. 1850 ;
died unmarr. at Church Road, Alloa, 22nd
Sept. 1884.
JOHN LOW BROWN, missionary at
Ferguslie and Kilmany ; ord. (assist-
1 ant and successor) 10th Sept. 1877;
trans, to Dallas 22nd Jan. 1880.
WILLIAM JOHN THOMPSON,
formerly min. of the Presbyterian
) Church, Portglenone, Presb. of Aho-
ghill, Ireland ; adm. (assistant and suc
cessor) 27th Aug. 1880; dem. 17th Aug.
1883. [Following the death of Robert
Watson, T. made application to the Presb.
to have his resignation withdrawn, and to
be restored to the full status of min. of
the parish. This was refused, as the case
had been foreclosed by his resignation.
The General Assembly upheld the decision
of the Presb.] Went to U.S.A., where he
became a min. in California.
JAMES PILLANS MACDOUGALL,
educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ;
5 assistant at Arbroath, 1860-77 ;
missionary at Rapness ; ord. 7th April
1885; died 30th Oct. 1887. He marr.
Robina (died at Dunfermline, 30th Sept.
1921), daugh. of Bailie Hood, Cupar. Publi
cation— Sermons (Cupar, 1890).— [Tablet in
Church.]
JAMES PATERSON, born Tough, 12th
June 1857, son of James P.; edu-
J cated at Univ. of Aberdeen ; M.A.
(1879), B.D. (1881); licen. by Presb. of
Alford; missionary at Ollaberry, Shetland;
ord. 18th July 1888; dep. 1st Oct. 1894
for desertion of his charge, having gone to
the Assembly in May and never returned ;
died in America. He marr. and had issue.
All attempts -to trace his widow for her
Widows' Fund Annuity failed.
1895
JAMES DUNCAN ANDERSON, born
Aberdeen, 1st Feb. 1860, son of
James A. and Margaret Duncan ;
educated at Grammar School and Univ. of
Aberdeen ; licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen in
1891; assistant at Aberlemno and Macduff;
missionary at Rusness in Sanday ; ord.
18th Feb. 1895. Marr. 4th March 1895,
Janet Anne (died 21st April 1917), daugh.
of James Hall and Janet Gait, and has
issue — Eric Duncan, [farmer in Australia,
served in European War, born 4th March
GRAEMSA Y MISSION.
JAMES BICKET, born Kilmarnock, son
1888 °^ J°hn B- and Elizabeth Vallance ;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; app.
1888; ord. 1894; dem. 1907; died in
Chalmers Hospital, Edinburgh, 31st Dec.
1912. [Thereafter this station was supplied
by the following lay missionaries : CHARLES
M'KENZIE FRASER, 1907 (died at Aber
deen); JOHN M'GowAN, 1909 [afterwards
of Carronshore Mission, Larbert] ; JOHN
SCOTT, 1912 [afterwards of Y.M.C.A.];
WILLIAM DUNNETT, 1916 (died here 30th
March 1924); JOHN OLIVER TAYBURN,
formerly of Edinburgh City Mission, app.
15th April 1924.]
ORPHIR.
[Orphir was a prebend held by the
Chantor of Kirkwall Cathedral. Its old
church, round in form and now much
ruined, was built about the year 1100. It
was dedicated to St Nicholas. Near this
round church are some ruins of an ancient
residence of the Earls of Orkney.— [See
Old Lore Miscell., iii., 197 ; Saga-Book, iii.,
184].]
MAGNUS HALCRO of Brugh, son of
156Q Andrew H., who is mentioned as
deceased in 1544-5 ; Chantor of
Orkney and parson here from 1555; con
tinued to hold that office at the Reformation.
Having been excommunicated for various
offences, he referred his case to Douglas,
titular Archbishop of St Andrews, and was
246
ORPHIR
[PRESB. OF
"absolved"; banished in 1575 by Lord
Robert Stewart and compelled to discharge
his heritage. He marr. Margaret, daugh.
and heiress of Sir James Sinclair of
Sanday, and had issue— Janet (marr. (1)
Ronald Elphinston : (2) William Sinclair
of Ethay) ; a natural son, Henry.— [Calder-
wood's Hist., iii., 303 ; Ronald St Glair's
MS. on Orkney, 1909-10 ; Craven's Orkney
(1558-1662), 20.]
THOMAS STEVENSON", had a "dona-
74 tion, collation, and disposition " of
this benefice in place of preceding
in 1574, from Adam Bothwell, Bishop of
Orkney, Firth and Stenness being also
under his charge ; he removed to Evie and
Rendall in 1580, but returned here that
year ; died Nov. 1585. He marr. Sibella
Stewart, and had issue — Henry ; Abraham.
— [Reg. Assig.; Craven's Orkney (1558-1662),
111 ; P.C.Reg.,^ 164.]
HENRY COLVILL, youngest son of
Robert C. of Cleish and Francisca,
daugh. of Patrick Colquhoun of
Drumsheath, and cousin of William, Abbot
of Culross ; had a presentation to the
parsonage and vicarage of Muckhart by
James VI. 24th Oct. 1577, and 28th Aug.
1579, also to the provostry of the Cathedral
of Kirkwall llth Jan. 1579, but declining
acceptance of either, was pres. to this
parish by James VI. 6th June 1580. On
9th July 1596, he was murdered on
the Noup of Nesting, tradition says, by
four brothers of the name of Sinclair, whom
in some way he had defrauded of their
inheritance. That he had " sett the teinds
grit and small, to his wife and bairns with
consent of the Bishop and Chapter" is
hardly likely to be the reason. Gilbert
Pacok, servitor to the Master of Orkney,
was " dilatit airt and pairt of the slaughter "
before the Justice-Depute 7th Aug. follow
ing, and sentenced " to be tane to the
Mercat Croce of Edinburgh and his heid
to be strikin fra his body." John Stewart,
Master of Orkney, appears to have insti
gated the crime, and was duly summoned
to appear before the High Court of
Justiciary on 14th Oct. Failing to appear,
he was " adjugit to be denouncit our
sovereign lord's rebel and put to the horn."
This sentence was soon taken off, as on the
margin of the record is written " This Act,
ordanit be his Majesty's Warrand to be
extinct and deleit." On 26th Oct. Sir
Patrick Bannatyne of Stenhouse appears
to have been summoned, whilst William
Bannatyne of Gairsay and James Lokie,
writer in Edinburgh, were tried for being
" airt and pairt " in the murder, and were
acquitted. He marr., and had issue —
William. James Colvill of Huip, grandson
of the min., was served his heir 8th Aug.
1638.— [Scots Peerage, ii., 570 ; Inq. Ret.
Orkney, 26 ; Pitcairn's Grim. Trials, i.,
393; Booke of the Kirk; Tudor's The
Orkneys and Shetland, 544 ; Brand's Orkney,
116; P. C.Reg.,ix., 468.]
ROBERT STEWART, trans, from
15gg Harray and Birsay in 1599 ; trans, to
Hoy and Graemsay between 1601 and
1607.
PATRICK WATERSTON, a native of
1616 Orkney, son of Michael W. ; edu
cated at Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A.
(1586) ; was min. of Benvie in 1590 ; adm.
to Deerness in 1591 ; was charged at the
instance of Robert Pont and other com
missioners of the General Assembly, for
trial of the mins. of Orkney before the
Presb. of Edinburgh 6th Dec. 1597 ; was a
member of Assembly in 1610; trans, and
adm. before July 1616; in 1627 there
were about 300 communicants in the
parish ; died in or about 1646, aged over
80. He marr. Barbara, daugh. of Robert
Henryson of Holland, and had issue-
Patrick, min. of Rousay and Egilsay ;
Ellen (marr. 1643, Edward Halcro of
Houton). — [Houton Papers ; Peterkin's
Rentals; Craven's Orkney (1558-1662), 171;
Orkney Sas., 16.]
GEORGE JOHNSTONE, son of George
J., min. of Ancrum; was min. of
Westerkirk in 1625 ; pres. to West
Linton 15th Nov. 1634 ; trans, to Sanquhar
after 7th March 1639; trans. to First Charge,
Kirkwall, and adm. 4th Sept. 1642 ; trans.
and adm. here after 7th Nov. 1647 ; dep. by
CAIRSTON]
ORPHIR
247
the General Assembly, July 1650, for sub
scribing an Address supporting James,
Marquess of Montrose ; reponed 29th July
1658 ; was declared capable of a call and
authorised to preach llth Nov. following
until the charge was filled ; died Dec. that
year. He marr. (1) Euphan, daugh. of
David Lindsay, min. of South Leith : (2)
Katherine Nisbet (died Oct. 1644), widow
of Robert Monteith of Egilsay : (3) Anna
Black, who died 3rd Oct. 1674. He left
two daughs. — Margaret ; Elizabeth. —
\Edin. and Orkney Tests. ; Lament's
Diary ; G. R. Sas., vi. 21, xix. 163 ; Acts
of Parl., vii., App. 84; Morrison's Dec.,
xviii. ; P. C. Reg., 3rd ser., i. 701, ii. 266.]
JOHN HENDRIE, M.A. (Edinburgh
I860 29th Jllly 1626^ ' °rd> t0 Firth aUd
Stenness 17th Oct. 1654 ; trans, and
adm. 19th Dec. 1660; died before 28th
June 1697, aged about 90. He marr.
Helen Watson, who survived him. —
[Smith's Church in Orkney, 213 ; Peterkin's
Rentals ; Presb. Review, iv.]
EDWARD IRVINE [or IRVING],
1698 licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith 31st
May 1697 ; called in June, and ord.
28th July 1698; died between llth March
and 12th Aug. 1724. He marr. (1) Eliza
beth Munro, proprietrix of houses in the
" Laverock " of Kirkwall : (2) 9th Feb.
1720, Margaret Higgins of Papdale, and
had issue— Jean (marr. Robert Halcro of
Houton) ; Robert. — [Ilouton Papers ;
Records of Sas., iii., 190.]
THOMAS TRAILL, M.A. ; called 29th
1727 Nov> 1726; ord' 10th May 1727;
trans, to Lady 5th Sept. 1733.
JAMES WEIR, born about 1687, son of
James W. ; educated at Univ. of
Edinburgh; M.A. (llth May 1704);
schoolmaster of Stromness ; licen. by Presb.
of Cairston 5th March 1712 ; ord. to Firth
and Stenness 4th May 1715 ; had a call
to Holm in 1722 and a presentation to
Rousay and Egilsay, Nov. 1724, but
remained at Firth " as a better encourage
ment "; dep. for immorality 26th Aug. 1729;
became schoolmaster of Birsay, and was
reponed 12th May 1731 ; pres. by George,
Earl of Morton, and adm. 9th Oct. 1734 ;
died 14th Sept. 1744. He marr. Catherine
Coventrie, and had issue — John ; Robert ;
Mary ; James ; Catharine, all above the
age of 16 in 1746; a daugh. (marr. —
Gibson).
JOHN REID, a native of Garioch ;
1746 educated at King's College, Aber
deen, 1723-7 ; schoolmaster of Birsay ;
licen. by Presb. of Cairston 20th Oct. 1742 ;
pres. by the commissioners for James, Earl
of Morton, 6th Dec. 1744, but not ord.
until 7th May 1746, on account of opposi
tion from the parishioners, the church
being barricaded and access prevented to
the Presb. on the day originally fixed for
his settlement in Aug. of the previous
year. Then also a party of soldiers had
been brought from Caithness, and in the
riot which ensued a woman was killed
and several persons wounded ; died 19th
Jan. 1776. He marr. Elizabeth Ogilvie,
who died 6th March 1779, and had issue — -
Ann, born 14th Sept. 1741, died 24th June
1748; Mary, born llth Dec. 1743; John,
born 7th Feb. 1746, died 20th July 1747 ;
Margaret, born 27th Dec. 1747 ; John, born
17th June 1750, died 10th March 1771.
FRANCIS LIDDELL, born 1750, great-
grandson of Francis L., min. of
Birsay in 1627 ; educated at Univ.
of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of North
Isles 1st Jan. 1772; ord. 25th Sept. 1776 ;
on 30th May 1788, he was rebuked at the
bar of the General Assembly [Archibald
Davidson, D.D., Moderator] for unfounded
charges tending to injure the moral
character of a brother minister ; libelled
for drunkenness and for an irregular
marriage with his housekeeper, he was
dep. by the Presb., the sentence being
affirmed by the Synod, but unanimously
reversed by the Assembly 1st June 1807.
[The mins. of Kirkwall to whom L. had
applied for marriage, declined to perform
the ceremony, and having protested before
a notary, he was declared married by that
official.] He agreed to the appointment
of an ordained assistant and was suspended
sine die; retired to Edinburgh, where he
248
ORPHIR
[PKESB. OF
died llth April 1834. He marr. 3rd July
1804, Helen Walls, who died 26th July 1845,
and had issue— Frances Hope, born 10th
Aug. 1805 ; Andrew, surgeon-apothecary to
Koyal Infirmary, Edinburgh. Publications
— The Melancholy Case of Francis Liddell,
together ivith his Last Speech and Dying
Words to the General Assembly 1807 (Edin
burgh, 1808) ; Two Petitions of the Rev. F.
Liddell to the General Assembly 1819 and
1824 (with Appendix) (Edinburgh, 1824);
An Address to the Inhabitants of Great
Britain, setting forth his Lamentable Case
(Edinburgh, 1824). — [Acts of Assembly,
1788, 1807 ; Scots Mag., 1., Ixix. ; Smith's
Church in Orkney, 215.]
AENEAS GUNN, ord. (assistant) 26th
1803 •DeC< 18°3 > left Aug- 1805 > °f Park
Chapel, Sunderland, and afterwards
in Demerara (q.v.).
JAMES ANDERSON, born Rafford,
1818 Morayshire, 1773, son of Thomas A. ;
educated at Marischal College, Aber
deen ; M.A. (1794) ; Master of the Grammar
School, Kirkwall, 1799-1807; licen. by
Presb. of North Isles 26th March 1801 ;
ord. (assistant) 24th Sept. 1807 ; pres. by
Thomas, Lord Dundas, Nov. 1816; adm.
(assistant and successor) 23rd April 1818
[the Presb. having doubts as to the consent
of Liddell]; died 10th July 1845. In 1843,
a considerable part of the congregation
joined the Free Church. He marr. 18th Oct. j
1827, Susan (died 8th March 1885), daugh. i
of John Gerard, min. of South Ronaldsay, j
and had issue — Jane, born 31st July 1828 j
(marr. 13th June 1850, Andrew Craig, j
parochial teacher); Margaret, born 7th Nov. !
1829 ; James, born 6th Aug. 1831, died 7th !
July 1852; Susan Gerard, born 13th Dec. !
1832, died 18th May 1853 ; Jessie Suther
land, born 16th Aug. 1834 ; John Gerard,
M.A. (King's College, Aberdeen, March
1854), I.S.O. (1903), Under - Secretary
Department of Public Instruction, Queens
land (1878), born 12th Feb. 1836, died 17th |
Oct. 1911. Publication— Account of the
Parish (Neiv Stat. Ace., xv.). — [Hossack's j
Kirkwall, 273 ; Genealogies of (in Aberdeen \
Family, 110; The Orcadian, Oct. 1911;
Tombst.]
ROBERT HIDDLESTON, born Dum-
1846 friessnire> 1805> son °f Robert H.,
farmer, and Agnes Crosby ; educated
at Univ. of Edinburgh ; ord. to Scots
Church, Brampton, Cumberland, 1831; app.
ordained assistant at Deerness in 1844 ;
pres. by Earl of Zetland, and adm. 13th
Aug. 1846; died 1st Jan. 1875. He
marr. 8th Oct. 1849, Isabella Stewart of
Houton (born 1st Sept. 1811, died s.p. at
Stromness, 10th Aug. 1889), daugh. of
Thomas Sands of Swanbister, and widow of
Hector Moncrieff of Houton. She left the
estate of Houton to the Indigent Gentle
women's Fund. — [Old Lore Miscell., iii.,
97; Tombst.}
WILLIAM CASKEY, born 27th Sept.
,075 1850, only son of Joseph C., min.
of Stronsay ; educated at Univ. of
Aberdeen ; M.A. (1872), B.D. (1874) ; licen.
by Presb. of North Isles 17th June 1874 ;
elected 30th March 1875 ; ord. 5th Aug.
that year ; died 17th May 1909. He marr.
4th Aug. 1881, Margaret (born 10th March
1860, died 17th May 1891), daugh. of
Charles Halbard and Robina Sands, and
grand-niece of Mrs Hiddleston of Houton,
and had issue — Isabel Stewart Sands, born
15th May 1882 ; Josephine Margaret, born
5th May 1883, died 2nd July 1924 ; Grace
Turnbull Stewart, born 9th Nov. 1884,
died 16th Aug. 1902 ; Adelaide Maud Mary,
born 21st April 1886, died 8th Dec. 1923 ;
William Victor, sea captain, born llth May
1887, died April 1924; Eleanor Balfour,
born 8th Aug. 1888.— [Smith's Church in
', 217.]
1909
JAMES ALEXANDER STEPHEN,
born Nethy Bridge, Inverness-shire,
31st Oct. 1883, son of John Lobban
S. and Jessie King ; educated at Robert
Gordon's College, Aberdeen, and Univs. of
Glasgow and Aberdeen ; licen. by Presb. of
Aberdeen May 1909; assistant at St
George's, Aberdeen ; ord. 6th Oct. 1909 ;
trans, to Fala and Soutra 19th May 1916.
Marr. llth March 1910, Alice, daugh. of
John Milner Ross, and has issue — James
Alexander, born 6th Jan. 1911; John
Lobban, born 13th March 1915. Publica
tion— The Book of Orphir (Kirkwall, 1910).
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249
PETER JOHN MACIVER, trans, from
1916 Kintail, and adm. 13th Oct. 1916;
trans, to Cross and Burness 7th May
1919.
JAMES HIGGINS, born Milngavie,
1919 14t^ ^OV' 18>71' son °^ Francis H.
and Agnes Mathie ; educated at
Milngavie School, High School, and Univ.
of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Dunbarton
in 1896 ; assistant at Auchinleck (Darn-
conner); ord. to Kendall 9th Feb. 1910;
trans, and adm. 23rd Sept. 1919 ; trans,
to Amulree 10th June 1926. Marr. 21st
April 1910, Grace Johnston, daugh. of
William Girvan, and has issue — Janet
Davidson, born 4th April 1911 ; Agnes
Mathie, born 22nd April 1913 ; Francis,
born 16th April 1914; William Girvan,
born 4th March 1916.
JAMES SABISTON, ord. 30th August
1927 1927.
SANDWICK.
[The church of Sandwick was dedicated
to St Peter. In the sixteenth century the
parish of Stromness was united to Sand-
wick, but their union was dissolved in
1832. There was a chapel within the
bounds at Yeskenaby.]
CHARLES CLOUSTON, born 15th
Feb. 1800, son of William C., min.
of Stromness and Sandwick; edu
cated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; L.R.C.S.
(1819); licen. by Presb. of Cairston 5th
Sept. 1821 ; ord. assistant to his father
27th June 1826 ; pres. by Laurence, Lord
Dundas, in Feb., and adm. (assistant and
successor) 26th April 1832; LL.D. (St
Andrews 1868); died 10th Nov. 1884.
During his student days he was attracted
to a study of the then young science of
meteorology, and in Orkney his observa
tions and investigations thereanent gave
him considerable distinction. He was also
a learned botanist. The chapter on the
Natural History of Orkney in his Guide,
contains the names of 156 plants not
previously known in the islands ; one was
new to Britain, whilst another, Laminasia
Cloustone, was new to the world. He
marr. 25th May 1837, his cousin Margaret
(died 29th Oct. 1894), daugh. of Edward
Clouston of Smoogro and Anne Rose,
daugh. of Balfour Stewart of Burness, and
had issue — Anne Rose Stewart, born 17th
April 1838, died llth July 1858; William,
C.E., India, born 22nd Dec. 1839, died in
India, 9th May 1869; Isabella Traill, born
8th Aug. 1841 (marr. James Donald,
banker, Kirkwall) ; Edward, born 6th June
1843, died 1889; Charles Stewart, M.D.,
born 28th May 1847, died 1883; Caroline
Margaret, born 1st July 1852, died un-
marr. 1909 ; Robert Stewart, artist, born
10th April 1857, died 25th April 1911.
Publications — The Church in Orkney
(Edinburgh, 1845) ; Address to Orkneymen
(Edinburgh, 1845) ; Meteorological Observa
tions taken at Orkney (London, 1861) ;
Guide to the Orkney Islands (Edinburgh
1862); An Explanation of the Popular
Weather Prognostics of Scotland (Edin
burgh 1867) ; Account of Sandwick (New
Stat. Ace. xv.) ; " General Observations on
the County of Orkney" (ibid.); "Register
of the Weather and Climate of Orkney "
(Edin. New Phil. Journ., xxxii. (1842), 193).
— [Information from J. Storer Clouston.]
JAMES ROBERTSON ANDERSON,
1885 k°rn Ardlaw, Pitsligo, 26th Aug.
1839, son of George A., farmer;
educated at Rathen School, Grammar
School and Univ. of Aberdeen ; M.A.
(1860); licen. by Presb. of Dornoch 17th
May 1882 ; schoolmaster at Oyne, Aber-
deenshire, 1860-78 ; missionary at Rosehall,
Creich, Sutherland : ord. there 21st Feb.
1883 ; app. assistant to preceding in 1884 ;
adm. 8th July 1885 ; dem. 15th June 1904 ;
died 29th Nov. 1914. He marr. (1) 5th
Sept. 1872, Susan Bartlet (died 18th April
1897), daugh. of John Taylor, Forglen,
and Harriet Chalmers, and had issue-
James Robertson, M.B., C.M. (Edin.),
major R.A.M.C., Rotherham, Yorks,
born 5th Oct. 1875 ; George Bartlet,
Resident Magistrate, Mlanje, East Africa,
born 3rd May 1880 ; William Beveridge,
M.B., Ch.B., born 2nd May 1890: (2)
20th Dec. 1898, Mary Towers, daugh. of
Thomas Isbister, Stromness, and Margaret
Towers, s.p.
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SANDWICK— STENNESS
[PRESB. OF
JAMES RAE MURDOCH, born Edin-
1904 burgh, 1st Nov. 1864, son of John
M., cashier, City Chamberlain's
Office, and Isabella Smith Thomson ; edu
cated at High School and Univ. of Edin
burgh ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh llth
May 1897 ; assistant at Cambusnethan,
1897-9, St Paul's, Glasgow, 1899-1902,
and at St Paul's, Leith, 1902-4; ord.
21st Dec. 1904. Marr. (1) 26th Dec. 1905,
Mary, daugh. of James Corrigall, farmer,
Sandwick, and Jeanie Harcus, and has
issue — Isa, born 31st Dec. 1906; James
Rae, born 19th Aug. 1909 : (2) 13th Aug.
1918, Georgina Cecilia, daugh. of John
Russell, min. of Leslie, Aberdeenshire.
STENNESS (Q.S.).
[The parishes of Firth and Stenness were
united in the sixteenth century. On 18th
Feb. 1878 the parish of Stenness was dis
joined quoad omnia from Firth and partly
from Sandwick.]
KENNETH M'KENZIE MURRAY,
was missionary here ; ord. 23rd Nov.
( 1863 ; dem. 1865.
DAVID STOTT, app. in 1865 ; adm. to
1865 Deerness 18th Oct. 1866.
GEORGE BRUCE WATSON
formerly min. of Mansion Nook (cf.
1867
Vol. IV., 224) ; app. llth June 1867 ;
removed to New Brompton in 1869.
1869 P. B. OGILVIE.
JAMES STORMONTH, son of Alex-
18?4 ander S., M.D., Broughty Ferry,
educated at Marischal College, Aber
deen, 1831-5 ; app. missionary at Rendall in
1870 ; removed here Nov. 1874 ; dem. Dec.
1875 ; died at Edinburgh, 12th Feb. 1882.
He marr., and had issue. Publications—
Etymological and Pronouncing Dictionary
of the English Language (Edinburgh, 1871,
and other editions) ; Handy English Word
Book (Edinburgh) ; A Manual of Scientific
Terms (Edinburgh, 1879).
JAMES FORBES, app. missionary in
1876 1876.
1878
ROBERT BURGESS, born Kirk-
michael, Banffshire, 1834 ; educated
at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A.
(March 1854) ; missionary at Burray and
Stenness in 1872 ; ord. to Rendall 14th
June 1876 ; elected 2nd April, and adm.
first min. of the parish 7th May 1878 ;
dem. (from ill-health) 14th Dec. 1888, and
removed to Kirkmichael, where he died
unmarr. 28th Aug. 1889.
GEORGE RAYMOND MURISON,
18gg born Brucklay, New Deer, llth Oct.
1854, son of Alexander and Elspeth
M., and brother of Alexander Falconer M.,
LL.D., Professor of Roman Law, Univ.
of London ; educated at Grammar School
and Univ. of Aberdeen; M.A. (1875);
licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen in 1878 ;
assistant at Laigh Kirk, Kilmarnock, and
St John's, Glasgow ; ord. 26th April 1889;
clerk of Synod of Orkney in 1906 ; clerk of
Presbs. of Cairston in 1909 and North Isles
in 1919 ; D.D. (Aberdeen, 1st April 1925) ;
Chairman of the Education Authority of
Orkney. Marr. 9th Sept. 1890, Jeannie Moir,
third daugh. of Francis Irvine of Scatters-
quey, Stenness, and Jane Moir, and has
issue — Jeannie Moir, born 13th June 1891
(marr. 25th July 1912, John Donald Mac-
pherson Shearer, Kirkwall), died 30th July
1924 ; Frank Irvine, farmer, Transvaal, born
4th June 1894 ; Mary Irvine, born 29th April
1900 (marr. 4th Aug. 1920, Alexander Pater-
son, Edinburgh) ; Margaret Irvine, born
3rd Feb. 1902 (marr. 3rd Jan. 1924, George
Clouston, Ontario, Canada); Isabella Heriot
Gordon, born 15th Sept. 1904 ; Elspeth Alex
ander, born 14th Sept. 1907. Publications—^
Plea for Equality of Opportunity (Kirkwall,
1913) ; The Rural School (Kirkwall, 1913).
SANDWICK AND STROMNESS.
[In the sixteenth century the parishes of
Sandwick and Stromness were united. In
1814 the parish church of Stromness was
rebuilt. This parish was severed again
from Sandwick in 1832. There was a
chapel within the bounds at Breckness.]
JOHN DUNCANSON, called vicar-
1561 Pensionarv and min., 1561-2. —
[Comptar's BuikJ]
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JEKOME TULLOCH, belonged to a
family who held considerable pro-
! perty in the Orkneys after the
Reformation. He was sub-chantor in the
un-Reformed Church,and conformed in 1560
or soon afterwards. He had charge (with
readers) of a wide district which included
Sandwick, Rousay, Egilsay, Wyre, and
Enhallow. He owed his position to friend
ship with Earl Robert, and had his resi
dence at Quholme near Stromness (granted
him by a charter of 1584), where stood of
old a chapel of St Mary. In 1588 he had
the lands of Dale "in the Outertown of
Stromness." He died before 1594. He
marr. Alison Lindsay (marr. (2) Alexander
Muir), and had issue — Jerome, " an honest
and discreet man " who, in 1624, had a
charter and sasine of Quholme from Bishop
Grahame.— [Craven's Orkney (1558-1662),
29, 46, 57, 152 ; Peterkin's Rentals.'}
WILLIAM SMYTH, reader here and at
1567 Sandwick in 1567.
THOMAS FLEMING, reader at Hoy
and Graemsay, Nov. 1570-80 ; became
min. there before 1585 ; trans, to
Stromness in 1594 ; was one of those
summoned to appear at Edinburgh in
answer to charge, by Robert Pont, 6th Dec.
1597 ; re-trans, to Hoy and Graemsay after
1598, and again trans, to this charge
after 13th Feb. 1605. On 6th Aug. 1611
be signed, with nine others, a Resignation
of the Dignities in Orkney in favour of
Bishop Law, but as no designation is
appended to his name, he was probably
then retired.— [Craven's Orkney (1558-1662),
109.]
ANDREW DISHINGTON, min. in
1599 ; trans, to Rousay and Egilsay
* in 1601.
THOMAS FLEMING, above
1605 mentioned.
JOHN GARDYNE, treasurer of Orkney
1624 before 3rd ^ov' 1617 > min' alt)OUt
1624, when he wrote out the will of
Magnus Cromartie 28th Dec. that year;
died 17th April 1631. He had neither
manse nor glebe during all the period of his
service. There was then no school in the
1594
parish. At a visitation by Bishop Grahame
on 18th and 19th June 1627, the number
of communicants at Sandwick was 700
and at Stromness 480. G. marr. Katherine
(died Jan. 1653), sister of Isabel Gordon,
wife of Edward Sinclair of Ness. —
[Peterkin's Document* relative to the
bishopric of Orkney, 50-4 ; Orkney Tests ;
Orkney Sat., 16.]
GEORGE GRAHAME, M.A.; adm.
1685 before 7tn Nov- 1635 > tad a Slebe
designed by the Bishop soon after
his settlement ; dep. by the General
Assembly, July 1651, along with other mins.
in Orkney, for their presentation of a loyal
address to James, Marquess of Montrose.
He afterwards intruded, and was reponed
by Presb. of Orkney 28th July 1658,
the parish being declared vacant before
2nd March 1659 ; preached in the vacant
charges of Orphir, and Hoy and Graemsay,
and had a call to the latter, 10th Nov.
1659, which the Presb. disregarded; adm.
to Stronsay 12th Sept. 1660.
JAMES GUILD, called 3rd Aug. 1659,
I860 J°nn Graeme of Breckness having
desired that G. might be heard by
the congregations of both Sandwick and
Stromness ; called again unanimously 10th
Nov. following, the previous min. protesting
against his admission until payment had
been made to him for building a manse at
Sandwick and purchasing glebes for both
parishes ; ord. 22nd May 1660 ; received
a testimonial from the Presb. 10th July
1663, and trans, to Stracathro between 8th
Oct. and 5th Nov. following (q.v.).
ALEXANDER PITCAIRN, M.A. ; pres.
1666 ky Andrew, Bishop of Orkney, 5th
Oct. 1665; ord. 24th April 1666;
trans, to South Ronaldsay about 1671.
[There is a long gap in the Presb. Record
from 15th May 1667 to 5th July 1678.]
GEORGE HONYMAN, M.A., brother
1673 °^ Bishop H. An Edict served at
Kirkwall, 15th May 1672, shows that
he had a presentation to that parish but
was not settled ; adm. here before 8th June
1673 ; trans, to Livingston in 1675 (cf.
Vol. I., 220).
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SAND WICK AND STROMNESS
[PRESB. OF
JAMES NISBET, born 1654, son of
1676 J°nn -N". of Swannay and Katharine
Cursiter (descended from the first
of the Orkney Nisbets, gardener to Earl
Kobert Stewart, at the Palace, Birsay);
educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A.
(1670) ; ord. (at St Andrews) by Archbishop
Sharp 10th May 1676 "to serve the cure
until the bishop is appointed and maks
known his will " ; afterwards pres. and
coll. by Murdoch, Bishop of Orkney ; took
the Test in 1681, and was app. to offer the
same to Davidson, "being infirm and unable
to come from Birsay " [i.e. to Kirkwall].
In Oct. 1684 he was suspended by the
Presb. for disobedience to the Bishop,
having objected to the appointment of
Thomas Fullerton as schoolmaster of Kirk-
wall, but was restored, promising amend
ment; died after the Revolution. He
marr. 12th July 1682, Isabella, daugh. of
John Graeme of Breckness and granddaugh.
of Bishop Grahame, and had issue — John,
min. of this parish. — [Smith's Church in
Orkney, 150; Craven's Orkney (1662-88),
62, 98, 110.]
ALEXANDER KEITH, educated at
1698 Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (2nd July
1667); inst. to Wiston and Roberton
in 1674; trans, to Tillicoultry 17th Feb.
1676. In a letter to the Committee of Com
mission of the General Assembly and Presb.
of Orkney, he says : " At the time of the
Revolution,! being minister at Tillicoultry,
some few people in that parish took a
prejudice against me for my preaching
Prelacy, and threatened to rabble me from
my charge. And blessed be God, I was not
afraid to byd tryall as to my life and con
versation, yet, finding that my ministry was
not like to be acceptable, I chused rather to
remove than stand in the way of any other
that might be more acceptable. Therefore I
willingly gave in demission of my ministry,
and having lived for some time a retired
life, it pleased the Lord in his Providence
that I happened very accidentally to be
acquainted with Sir William Craigie of
Gairsay, who prevailed on me to come to
Orkney"; called March 1693, but not
regularly ad in. to the charge ; continued
to preach for more than five years, when,
10th June 1698, he was inhibited by the
Presb. from preaching or exercising any
other functions of the ministry in Orkney.
On 13th June it being reported that his
successor at Tillicoultry [Robert Gourlaw]
had testified that " he was one of the best
of that way, a good, harmless man, and
had no hand in the persecution of his
parishioners," he was unanimously received
into communion, was rebuked for his com
pliance with Prelacy, taking the Test,
and intruding here ; called 27th June, and
adm. (at Stromness) 27th July 1698; died
before 3rd Dec. 1712, aged about 65. He
marr. 15th June 1676, Anna Hamilton
(alive in 1736, when she was recommended
by the Commission of Assembly for
charitable aid), and had issue— John, min.
of Walls and Flotta ; Thomas, min. of
Lady; Margaret; Jane; Anna; Mary;
Elizabeth.
JOHN NISBET, born about 1690, son
1715 °^ James N"., min- in 1676 ; educated
' at Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (20th
April 1706) ; licen. by Presb. of Orkney 1st
April 1713; pres. by James, Earl of
Morton, before 6th Oct. 1714; ord. (at
Stromness) 16th May 1715 ; died 9th Oct.
1746. He marr. (1) 13th Sept. 1716, Ann
(died before 1725), daugh. of William Traill,
bailie of Kirkwall, and Sibella Mackenzie :
(2) 6th Jan. 1725, Sibella (died 3rd March
1748), daugh. of Thomas Mackenzie, min.
of Shapinsay, and had issue — James ;
Mary ; Thomas ; all over 16 in 1746.
JAMES TYRIE, born 1708, son of David
1747 ^' °^ Dunnideer, Aberdeenshire
[descended from Walter Tyrie, son
of the Lady Egidia Stuart, daugh. of
Walter S., Earl of Atholl, who was son to
King Robert II., and uncle of James I.
of Scotland], and Anna Menzies ; became a
student in the Scots College at Rome,
where he was educated for the priesthood
[his parents being staunch Catholics and
Jacobites]; returned to Scotland as a
"secular priest," carrying on missionary
work in the district of Enzie. Through the
instrumentality of Patrick Gordon [after
wards min. of Rhynie] he renounced
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253
Popery, and was received by the Synod of
Moray in 1734. He signed the Confession
of Faith and the Formula, and was com
mended to the Commission of Assembly as
an itinerant preacher in the Highlands ;
became catechist at Bellie and Kathven,
and in 1736 was appointed to labour at
Fort William. On 19th Feb. 1742 he was
ordered to go to Orkney, and in a letter
to the Presb. of Cairston, of 28th Aug.
that year, the Committee of the Royal
Bounty " desires and expects that you
will receive him as a brother, and give him
all due countenance, and recommend him
as such to ministers and people in your
country, and thereby encourage others to
do as he has done, especially seeing that
his popish relations and others show much
ill-will against him." It was stated also
that his removal from Fort William was
" owing to his want of the Irish (Gaelic)
language." He was accordingly received, and
gave service in various parishes till he was
adm. to Cross and Burness 21st August
1746; pres. by the Earl of Morton 18th
March, trans, to this charge, and adm.
(amidst scenes of violent opposition) 23rd
June 1747 ; died 3rd Aug. 1778. He marr.
1746, Helen (died 5th Oct. 1796, aged 76),
daugh. of David Traill of Elsness and
Elizabeth Baikie, and widow of Charles
Graham of Hourston, and had issue —
Cumberland, born 4th March 1747, died
28th Oct. 1750; Helen, born 13th Jan.
1749 (marr. 27th Aug. 1775, George Low,
min. of Birsay and Harray); John, born
25th June 1750 ; David, born 9th Oct. 1753 ;
Thomas, born llth Dec. 1754; James, born
llth March 1756; Frederick Nassau
William, born 5th, and died 19th June
1757.— [Goodfellow:s Sanday Church Hist.,
JOHN FALCONER, born 1742, a native
1(-__ of Moray ; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1762);
licen. by Presb. of Elgin 31st March 1767 ;
ord. for service abroad 25th March 1777,
but did not proceed ; adm. here 17th Feb.
1779 ; died 23rd Oct. 1792. He marr. 8th
Dec. 1774, Clementina (died 28th Oct. 1831),
daugh. of James Gordon, merchant, Gar-
mouth, and had issue — James, born 18th
Sept. 1775 ; Alexander, min. of Glenrinnes,
born 17th March 1777 ; Captain Patrick or
Peter, Indian Army, born 16th July 1779 ;
Charles, born 15th March 1781 ; John, born
12th April 1784.
WILLIAM CLOUSTON of Kings-
1794 h°use> born 1747, son of Captain
Edward C. of Kingshouse, Stromness,
and Christian Smith of the Tormiston
family, and grandson of Nicol C. of
Clouston ; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ;
licen. in 1771 ; ord. to Cross and Burness
27th 'April 1773; pres. by Sir Thomas
Dundas, Bart. ; trans, and adm. 2nd Jan.
1794 ; died 20th Aug. 1832. He marr. 4th
Dec. 1786, Isabella (died 25th Nov. 1826,
aged 64), daugh. of Thomas Traill, fifth of
Holland, and Anne, daugh. of Archibald
Stewart of Brugh, and had issue — Edward
of Kingshouse, planter, Jamaica, born 27th
Sept. 1787, died 1866: Thomas, born 16th
Feb. 1790 ; William, born 16th March 1792,
died young; Anne, born 7th June 1793,
died 1849; Jane, born 10th Oct. 1795
(marr. William, son of Balfour Stewart of
Burness), died 1841 ; Robert of Bally-
magarvie, Ireland, and Northdyke, Sanday,
born 9th Jan. 1798, died 1882; Charles,
LL.D., min. of Sandwick ; Margaret, born
5th Oct. 1803 (marr. Peter Learmonth, min.
of Stromness). Publications— "Accounts of
Stromness and Sandwick, and of Cross and
Burness " (New Stat. Ace., xv. — [Goodfellow's
Sanday Church Hist., 24, 78 ; Saint-Glair's
Orcadian Families ; Tombst. at Stromness ;
Information from J. Storer Clouston.]
[Sandwick and Stromness now became
separate parishes in terms of the Decreet
of Declarator of the Commissioners of
Teinds 3rd Dec. 1823.]
PETER LEARMONTH, born Port-
1888 moak, 1801, third son of Peter L.,
farmer, Falkirk ; educated at Univ.
of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Linlithgow
25th April 1827 ; pres. by Laurence, Lord
Dundas, Nov. 1832; ord. 2nd May 1833.
Joined the Free Church in 1843; min. of
Free Church, Stromness, 1843-58; died
21st Oct. 1858. He marr. 5th Nov. 1835,
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[PKESB. OF
Margaret (died 14th Oct. 1886), daugh. of
William Clouston, min. of Sandwick, and
had issue. Publication — Account of the
Parish (New Stat. Ace., xv.).
DAVID KAMSAY, born 1801, son of
1843 J°hn R-> farmer j educated at Univ.
of St Andrews; schoolmaster of
Arbirlot ; assistant at Arbirlot ; licen. by
Presb. of Arbroath ; pres. by Thomas, Earl
of Zetland, 27th Sept 1843 ; ord. 14th Dec.
that year ; clerk of Presb. 27th March 1844
to 3rd May 1848 ; died 2nd Oct. 1864. He
marr. 16th Dec. 1839, Agnes Scott, Arbirlot,
Forfarshire, who died 14th March 1906, and
had issue— Alexander Russell, born 3rd Oct.
1840; William Scott, born 30th Dec. 1841,
died at Dundee 15th Aug. 1859; David Scott,
born 6th Sept. 1843; Edward Clouston,
born 14th Jan. 1845 ; James Scott, born
29th May 1846; Agnes, born 1st Sept.
1847 ; Eliza, born 13th Aug. 1849, died 5th
Nov. 1852; Sophia Louisa, born llth Aug.
1850, died 5th Nov. 1852; Amelia, born
17th June 1853; Anne Lawrie, born 22nd
Sept. 1855.
THOMAS. DANIEL WING ATE, born
x Glasgow 18th May 1825, eldest son
of Robert W., merchant, Liverpool,
and Mary Anne Murray ; educated at High
School and Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by
Presb. of Glasgow, Nov. 1850; assistant at
Dunoon and St Stephen's, Edinburgh ;
ord. (assistant and successor) at Sandwick,
Shetland, 18th Jan. 1859; pres. by com
missioner for Earl of Zetland 9th Nov.
1864 ; trans, and adm. 3rd March 1865 ;
died 6th Dec. 1900. He was a noted
evangelist and temperance reformer. He
marr. 22nd Aug. 1859, Elizabeth Helen
(died 14th June 1916), daugh. of John
Bruce of Sumburgh, and Mary, daugh. of
John William Nelson, Portsmouth, and
had issue — Mary Anne, born 3rd Sept.
1860, died 25th Nov. 1917 ; Elizabeth
Bruce, born 24th April 1862 ; Jane, born
24th Nov. 1864, died 1st May 1890 ; Helen
Murray, born 18th Aug. 1867 ; John Bruce,
I.C.S., born 8th Aug. 1869 ; Robert (twin),
born 8th Aug. 1869, died 20th Sept. 1894 ;
Thomas Daniel, born 1st June 1871, died
at Aberdeen, 25th Feb. 1900 ; Anna Maria
Bruce, author of Wordsworth and Tolstoi
(p.p., Edinburgh, 1922), born 18th June
1873 (marr. 2nd Nov. 1904, Patrick Alex
ander Guthrie), died 28th March 1921 ;
James Park, born 23rd April 1875, died
27th Feb. 1904. Publications — Assurance
of Salvation (Kirkwall, n.d.) ; Pre-Com-
munion Sermons (Kirkwall, 1893) ; other
pamphlets and addresses.— [Smith's Church
in Orkney, 145 ; Zetland Family Histories,
25.]
ROBERT HAMILTON PRYDE, ord.
1901 24t^ April 1901 ; trans, to Lasswade
14th Sept. 1905.
SAMUEL KNOX JOHNSTON, B.A. ;
1906 elected 29th Nov. 1905, and ord. llth
Jan. 1906 ; trans, to Urray and
Kilchrist 18th May 1916.
KENNETH JOHN CAMERON, M.A. ;
191Q trans, from Free Church, Aberfeldy,
and adm. 21st Sept. 1916; trans.
to Newmill 13th Aug. 1924.
JOHN MAIR HUTCHEON, M.A.;
1925 W- V°L IIL' 430) [where Muir
should be Mair] ; trans, from Planta
tion, Glasgow, and adm. 7th Jan. 1925.
WALLS AND FLOTTA.
[The church of Walls was dedicated to
St Columba. Walls was a commune kirk
of Kirkwall Cathedral. In the sixteenth
century the parishes of Walls and Flotta
were united. Flotta was severed again on
17th July 1882.]
1564 MAGNUS MURRAY, vicar in 1564.
1567 JOHN MOLYSON, reader in 1567.
JEROME TULLOCH, min. in 1570;
sub-chantor before 9th Sept. 1576.—
[0. and Z. Sec., 204.]
ADAM MOODIE of Breckness, son
1577 of William M. of Breckness and
Catherine Sinclair; pres. to the
parsonage by James VI. 9th Aug. 1577 ;
trans, to Sandwick, Shetland, before 1580;
again returned here, when he witnessed a
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1585
deed as parson of Walls, 9th Sept. 1592;
summoned to compear at Edinburgh with
other Orkney mins., at the instance of
Robert Pont, 6th Dec. 1597; died before
llth June 1627. He inarr. before 1603,
Christian Stewart, who survived him, and
was alive in 1611, and had issue — James;
Francis of Breckness ; Adam ; he had a
natural son Robert.
WILLIAM HOODIE of Breckness and
Melsetter (°f a famity wl10 came
originally from Caithness, descended
from or related to William M., bishop of
that diocese, who died in 1460); adm. to
South Ronaldsay 17th Nov. 1570; trans.
to Hoy and Graemsay in 1574; min.
here in 1585; he set his benefice "in
long takis" to his son and successor in
this parish, with consent of the bishop ;
died before July 1614. He marr. Catherine
Sinclair, and had issue — Adam, min. of
this parish; George, M.A. (natural son)
prebendary of St Augustine, Kirkwall. —
[Craven's Orkney (1558-1662), 21.]
ADAM MOODIE of Melsetter, above
1592 mentioned, returned in or about 1592.
ANDREW DISHINGTON, son of John
l 17 D., sheriff of Orkney (said to be
descended from the Dishingtons of
Ardross, near Elie, Fife, the first of whom
was son of Sir William D. and Elizabeth,
sister of King Robert the Bruce) ; appears
as schoolmaster of Dunbar in 1594; pres.
by Earl Robert to the prebendary of St
Peter 26th Feb. 1595 ; app. master of the
Grammar School of Kirkwall ; min. of
Stromness in 1599 ; trans, to Rousay and
Egilsay in 1601 ; attended the Glasgow
Assembly of 1610 ; was afterwards min.
of Hoy (probably about 1614), being so
designated in a lease of "the sax-penny
land benorth the burne in Hoy" granted
by his widow ; adm. to this charge before
1617; died before llth June 1627. He
had a manse and glebe from George, Bishop
of Orkney, which he possessed during his
incumbency, though these are stated to
have been withheld from his successor. He
marr. (1) Elizabeth Tulloch, and had issue
— John, app. master of the Grammar
School of Kirkwall, and prebendary of St
Peter in 1648, served heir 22nd Oct. 1644,
died 1681 ; Thomas, precentor and session-
clerk at Kirkwall, died 2nd June 1682 :
(2) Margaret, daugh. of John Elphinston
of Lopness.— [Peterkin's Rentals, App., 50 ;
Ing. Ret. Orkney, 43; M'Crie's Melville,
ii., 502 ; Orkney Sas., 29 ; Acts Parl. Scot.,
iii., 489 ; Craven's Orkney (1558-1662), 103 ;
Smith's Church in Orkney, 220 ; Hossack's
Kirkwall, 165.]
ALEXANDER SOMERVILLE, M.A. ;
1684 adm. before 16th July 1634; was
admonished by the Synod to wait
better on his cure ; trans, to Stronsay and
Eday in 1635.
WILLIAM WATSON, M.A. ; adm. in
1638; trans, to Hoy and Graemsay
about 1647.
WILLIAM DALGARNOCK, educated
at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A.
(1651) ; officiated here for two
years ; was called as min., and adm.
(at Peterkirk, South Ronaldsay) 19th
Aug. 1657 ; at a visitation of the parish
in the summer of 1684, he was reported
" weak and infirm," and " the Holy Sacra
ment had not been administered." D.'s
defence was that the "parishioners were
not qualified for receiving that holy ordin
ance." The Moderator answered that, " if
ten, twentie, or thirtie were qualified, it
ought not to be omitted " ; dem. 28th Oct.
1699, when he speaks of himself as "an
old dying minister ;>; was alive in 1700.
He marr. Katherine Watson.— [Peterkin's
Rentals.']
ANDREW KER, M.A. ; called unani-
17Q1 mously in 1701 ; ord. 2nd April that
year; trans, to Second Charge,
Kirkwall, 6th July 1704.
JOHN KEITH, bapt. 27th March 1677.
1707 eldest son of Alexander K., min.
of Sandwick and Stromness, and
brother of Thomas K., min. of Lady ; edu
cated at Univ. of Edinburgh; licen. by
Presb. of Orkney 5th May 1703; called
2nd Sept. 1706; ord. 25th June 1707. He
complained to the Presb., 9th April 1728,
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WALLS AND FLOTTA
[PRESB. OF
that Christina Crawford, Lady of Mel-
setter, had refused payment of stipend for
crop and year 1727. She had " encroached
on the town of Fea, one-third of which
was glebe, and chiefly the property of the
Crown, and under the tacksman of the
bishop, intending to have three dwellings
built there without acknowledging either,
as her son's property. She came in person
with her bailie, and locked up the school-
house door, built by the session and parish,
and carried away the key, not allowing the
schoolmaster to enter, but had given it
to her wright as a workshop, though the
Presb. had written earnestly to her to
encourage a school in her bounds, and were
ultimately obliged to apply to the steward
of the county." She had also "fined the
miller in £10 Scots for grinding victual
to any family in an enclosed island where
I can never beg nor borrow many times
any sort of victual, were my family to
starve for want of bread. Lest the world
should know such barbarity she has dis
charged her tenants and ferrymen to
transport any letter to me, and to catch
[intercept] all letters direct for me where-
ever they can find them, and carry them
to her or her bailie to be stopt and de
stroyed." The matter was referred to the
General Assembly, the Presb. considering
it to be " without a parellel in this Church."
Ultimately, after a visitation of the parish,
8th Sept. 1730, concessions were made and
an amicable settlement arranged by both
sides. K. died 18th April 1746. He marr.
6th Nov. 1703, Jacobina (died 1764), daugh.
of George Tod, min. of Holm, and had
issue — Barbara ; John ; Ann (marr. John
Pitcairn, min. of Hoy and Graemsay) ;
Edward ; Jacobina (probably marr. Nicol
Speuce, min. of Westray) ; Mary ; Susan ;
Jean (marr. James Sands, min. of Birsay
and Harray), all over the age of 16 in
1744.— [Sanday Church Hist., 119; Acts
of Ass., 1723, 1728.]
EDWARD IRVINE, M.A. ; trans, from
Kirkwall, called unanimously jure
1747 devoluto 8th April, and adm. 17th
June 1747 ; trans, to Firth and Stenness
16th Oct. 1770.
JAMES BREMNER, born 1740;
educated at Marischal College, Aber-
1 deen; MA. (1766); tutor in the
family of Moodie of Melsetter; pres. by
Sir Laurence Dundas 21st Feb., and by
Major James Moodie of Melsetter with his
curators, 28th and 30th March 1771 ; ord.
llth March -1772; retired to Edinburgh
in 1814; died 8th Jan. 1836. He had
considerable mechanical genius and was
inventor of a lock for guns in the Navy,
and of a system of signals by telegraph.
He marr. 12th April 1783, Isabella, daugh.
of William Mowat, and had issue — James,
M.D., Kirkwall ; Thomas, min. of this
parish. Publications — The Mystery of
Magnetism fully discovered by Experiments,
p.p. (London, n.d.) ; Account of the Parish
(Sinclair's Stat. Ace., xvii.). — [Liddell's
Case ; Acts of Ass., 1828.]
THOMAS BREMNER, son of preced
ing, born 1790 ; educated at Univ.
of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of
Cairston 7th April 1813 ; pres. by Thomas,
Lord Dundas, and also by James Moodie
of Melsetter, and ord. (assistant and suc
cessor) 13th Oct. 1814 ; died (suicide) 23rd
Aug. 1827.— [Acts of Ass., 1828.]
WALTER WEIR, pres. by the commis
sioner for Laurence, Lord Dundas,
4th May, and ord. 19th July 1837 ;
trans, to Longformacus 25th Jan. 1844.
[His son, Robert Walter W., D.D. (cf. Vol.
II., 270), died 23rd Sept. 1925.]
WILLIAM ANDERSON (cf. Vol. I., 278,
where he is called David in error),
born 1st Feb. 1799, son of David
A., min. of Kirkurd ; educated at Univ.
of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of Peebles ;
ord. assistant at Evie and Rendall in 1843 ;
adm. 9th May 1844; died 6th June 1865.
He marr. 17th July 1845, Lucy Hay (died
20th April 1865), daugh. of David Murray,
min. of Dysart, Fife, and had issue —
Margaret, born 16th Dec. 1846 (marr.
Robert Wright, min. of Dairsie) ; Janet
Burn, born 31st Oct. 1848 ; Davina Lucy
Murray, born 19th July 1850 (marr. Gerald
Affleck Scott, physician in Australia) ;
David, born 4th Sept. 1852; Wilhelmina
1837
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Jane, born 9th June 1855 (marr. 23rd Nov.
1892, John Arbuthnott Trail, W.S., LL.D.),
died 12th Jan. 1920; William, born 14th
Feb. 1 859 ; Joanna Murray, born 24th
Dec. 1860, died 2nd June 1865 ; Marion,
born 17th May 1863, died 22nd May 1865.
JOHN KEILLOR, born Musselburgh,
1809, son of John K., watchmaker
J and Katherine Archibald ; educated
at Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of
Dalkeith ; ord. to North Ronaldsay 16th
April 1847; pres. by Thomas, Earl of
Zetland, trans, and adm. 22nd Feb. 1866 ;
died 19th March 1877, and was buried at
Musselburgh. He marr. (1) llth June
1851, Elizabeth Leitch (died 19th June
1873), and had issue— John, born 7th Sept.
1852; William, born 25th June 1854;
Elizabeth, born 6th May 1856; James
Archibald, born 28th March 1859 ; Thomas,
born 4th May 1860 ; Archibald John, born
12th March 1862 ; Alexander Coldwells,
born 4th Oct. 1864 ; Frederic Adam, born
2nd Feb. 1867 ; Christina Jessie, born 14th
Nov. 1868; Mary (twin), born 14th Nov.
1868, died same day : (2) 20th April 1875,
Janet Malcolm Watt, Stromness, who died
1st May 1921.
JAMES RUSSELL, born Elgin, 1837,
son of John R., contractor, and
r Elizabeth Gordon; educated at
King's College, Aberdeen, 1852-7; teacher
at Sandwick, Shetland ; licen. by Presb.
of Olnafirth 6th Feb. 1867; ord. 13th
Aug. 1877; died 12th Nov. 1905. He
marr. 17th Dec. 1861, Elizabeth Helen
(died July 1883), daugh. of John Johnson,
merchant, Sandwick, Shetland, and Cather
ine Halcrow, and had issue — John, M.D.
(Aberdeen, 1888), Arbroath, born 10th May
1863, died 1st Oct. 1901 ; George Robert
Clair, M.B., C.M., Kirkwall, born 12th Jan.
1865; Catherine Agnes, born 28th Jan.
1867; William Alexander Gordon, M.A.,
M.B., C.M., Wingate, Durham, born 23rd
Oct. 1868; Elizabeth Gordon, born 25th
Oct. 1870, died Feb. 1892; Edward Back
house, born 19th Nov. 1873, died 23rd
March 1901 ; Maggie Maria, born 22nd
May 1875 ; James Colin Gordon, born 23rd
Feb. 1878 ; Alexander, born and died same
VOL. VII.
1918
day 1879; Bertie Ronald Gordon, M.D.,
Ilford, born 6th Oct. 1880, died 22nd Dec.
1924.
ARNOLD LOW KEMP, M.A. ; ord.
23rd April 1906 ; trans, to Millbrex
} 9th July 1915 ; trans, to Birsay 8th
Oct. 1926.
FINLAY MACCULLOCH, M.A., B.D. ;
ord. 9th March 1916 ; dem. 1st Oct.
1917 ; adm. to St Cuthbert's, Glas
gow, 2nd April 1919 ; dem. that charge May
1924 (cf. Vol. III., 438).
LOUIS CLARENCE DUNCAN
DOUGLAS, born Morningside,
Edinburgh, 22nd March 1867, son
of Timothy Green D. and Annie Clark ;
educated at Collegiate School and Univ.
of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of Edin
burgh in 1895 ; assistant at St Andrews,
Dundee, and Elgin ; ord. to Scots Church,
Brussels, 19th Aug. 1908 ; adm. to this charge
8th April 1918 ; officiating chaplain to
Royal Navy at Scapa Flow, 1918 ; dem.
15th Nov. 1926, and became assistant at
Rutherglen; adm. to Murthly 17th Feb.
1928.
ST JOHN'S CHAPEL, NORTH
WALLS.
[A mission station was begun here about
1870. A church was built in 1883.]
ALEXANDER RONALD SIMPSON,
1881 k°rn Glasgow, 1832 ; adm. from Free
Church in 1877 ; app. missionary at
Olnafirth in 1878 ; app. in 1881 ; died 23rd
Nov. 1885, and was buried at Glasgow.
He left a widow.
JAMES MARTIN AGNEW, second son
1885 °^ Thomas A., farmer, Kirkcolm ;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow;
missionary at Auchmithie in 1881 ; app.
in 1885 ; died 2nd Nov. 1912.
[HAROLD FISHER, born 20th July
1854, son of Matthew F., min. of Cross and
Burness, and brother of Robert Howie F.,
D.D., min. of St Cuthbert's, Edinburgh;
certificated lay missionary in 1927.]
PRESBYTERY OF THE NORTH ISLES
[The General Assembly erected the Presbytery of the North Isles out of that of
Kirkwall on 17th April 1707. The Presbytery Register begins at 30th July 1707.]
CROSS AND BURNESS
(SAND AY).
[The three parishes of Cross, Burness,
and Ringansay were united in the sixteenth
century. Ringansay was severed from the
two others on 2nd June 1847.
Cross. — Cross, or The Cross Kirk of
Sanday, was a prebend of Kirkwall. Its
church was dedicated to the Holy Rood.
Burness. — The church of Burness was
dedicated to St Columba. Burness was
a prebend of Kirkwall.]
WILLIAM PIERSON, M.A.; was
1560 Pr°bably the first Protestant min.
here ; min. of St Andrews, Deerness,
and Holm, in 1574.— [See under St Andrews
and Deerness.]
ANDREW EDMONDSTON, probably
16Q5 min. of Mid and South Yell in 1599 ;
said to be min. here at the time of
James Law's appointment to the Bishopric
of Orkney, 13th Feb. 1605. — [Craven's
Orkney (1558-1662), 101.]
THOMAS COCK, M.A. ; adm. before
1624 22nd July 1624. In 1627 there were
210 communicants in Burness and
260 in Cross, when Bishop George Grahame
held his visitation in Cross Kirk, on which
occasion C. and his father (min. of Lady)
took the Oath of Allegiance ; trans, to Lady
before 27th Nov. 1635.— [See " The Awber
Flytin' " in W. T. Dennison's Sketch Book.}
JAMES HAIGIE, min. of Burness before
1635 21st Feb. 1635.— [P. C. Reg., 2nd
ser., v., 660.]
THOMAS ABERCROMBIE, adm.
163g before 4th July 1639; died 17th
March 1656. He was one of nine
mins. who petitioned the General Assembly
against Bishop Grahame in 1638. He
marr. Elizabeth Henryson or Henderson,
who died April 1663, and had issue —
Andrew, died before 1663 ; Robert ; Walter ;
Alexander; Barbara; Jane, died before
1663.— [Orkney Tests. ; Beg. Mag. Sig., ix.,
1624.]
WILLIAM COCHRANE, educated at
1657 Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (17th
April 1639) ; assistant at Dysart and
app. schoolmaster there in 1651 ; called
in Jan., and ord. (at St Andrews) 6th
May 1657. He conformed to Episcopacy,
and was inst. Sept. 1666, and had an
appraisement of the lands of Paplay 14th
Nov. 1670; died 20th Oct. 1674. He
marr. Helen, daugh. of Walter Stewart,
min. of South Ronaldsay, and had issue
— Sibella. His widow marr. (2) llth April
1676, Captain Peter Winchester [who
shortly after his marriage was drowned,
with fifteen others, near Fraserburgh] : (3)
6th March 1679, John Traill, fiar of Elsness.
— [Muir's Dysart; Peterkin's Rentals;
Presb. Review, iv. ; Edin. Christian In
structor^ 4th ser., i. ; Smith's Church in
Orkney, 251 ; Goodfellow's Sanday Church
Hist., 54.]
JAMES STRACHAN, adm. before 5th
1676 July 1676; trans, to Hoy and
Graemsay, and inst. 15th July 1683.
RICHARD MEIN, M.A, ; ord. 10th July
1688 1683; trans, to Stronsay and Eday
13th May 1703.
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259
MURDOCH MACKENZIE, educated
17O4 a^ Ding's College, Aberdeen ; M.A.
(4th April 1700) ; licen. by Presb. of
Orkney 3rd June 1703; called 26th Oct.
following, and ord. 12th April 1704 ; dem.
17th Oct. 1710, having resolved to go to
New England. (Nothing further is known
of him.)
THOMAS COVINGTRIE of Newark,
1711 kaPt- 15tn June 1685> son °f David
C. of Enhallow, Chamberlain to
Bishop Mackenzie [descended from William
C. who settled in Orkney in 1613], by his
first wife, Nicolla Traill ; educated at
Univs. of Edinburgh, M.A. (2nd April
1705). and Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of
Kirkwall 7th March 1711 ; called 2nd May,
and ord. 21st Sept. that year ; died 2nd
Sept. 1744. He marr. 8th Sept. 1719 (1)
Elspeth, daugh. of Thomas Loutitt of
Lyking, provost of Kirkwall, and had
issue — Elizabeth (marr. John Balfour of
Trenabie) : (2) Margaret Elphinston (who
marr. (2) 20th Jan. 1747 Robert Suther
land, bailie of Kirkwall). — [Sanday Church
Hist., 61-3.]
JAMES TYRIE, adm. 21st Aug. 1746 ;
174 trans, to Sandwick and Stromness
23rd June 1747.
JOHN SCOLLAY, M.A. ; pres. by
1747 James' -Eai>l °f Morton, llth July
1747; trans, from Second Charge,
Kirkwall, and adm. llth Dec. that year ;
trans, to St Andrews and Deerness 8th
June 1767.
1768
HUGH SUTHERLAND, pres. by Sir
Laurence Dundas of Kerse, Bart.,
June 1767 ; trans, from Second
Charge, Kirkwall, and adm. 5th April
1768 ; trans, to Birsay and Harray 15th
July 1772.
WILLIAM CLOUSTON, pres. by Sir
1778 Laurence Dundas of Kerse, Bart.,
and ord. 27th April 1773 ; trans, to
Sandwick and Stromness 2nd Jan. 1794.
WILLIAM GRANT, born Aberlour,
1794 1758, son of James G. ; educated at
Marischal College, Aberdeen ; M.A.
(Feb. 1779); licen. by Presb. of Kirkwall
7th Dec. 1791 ; pres. by Sir Thomas
Dundas of Kerse, Bart., 30th Jan., and ord.
(at Burness) 20th Aug. 1794; died 14th
July 1848. He marr. (1) 18th July 1791,
Isabella, daugh. of Patrick Haggart, Crown
Chamberlain of Orkney, and had issue —
Patrick, naval surgeon, born 1st Sept. 1792 ;
Robert Laing, born 29th April 1794, died
at St Anne's, Jamaica, 17th July 1824 ;
William, born 3rd May 1796, died in
infancy ; William, born 21st Dec. 1797,
died in Jamaica, 1819; Janet, born 8th Nov.
1799 ; Mary, born 22nd Aug. 1802 ; James,
born 28th Aug. 1804, died of fever in
Jamaica; Isabella, born 25th July 1806,
died in infancy ; Isabella, born 22nd Feb.
1808 (marr. George Moir Davidson, min. of
Watten); Hay Haggart (daugh.), born 23rd
June 1810: (2) 7th Dec. 1847, Harriet
(died 14th Sept. 1881, aged 81), daugh. of
Captain Smith, and widow of Thomas
Skae.— [Sanday Church Hist., 79-82.]
THOMAS AITCHISON, ord. (assistant
184_ and successor) 9th Dec. 1845 ; died
17th July 1854. A female member
of his church joined the Free Church but
after a time desired to re-connect herself
with the parish church. She appeared
before the Kirk-Session and was questioned
and admonished thus : " Do you renounce
all Dissent as of the devil 1 " "I do " was
the emphatic answer, along with a quick
curtsy. " And do you know that the first
Dissenter was the devil himself ? " "I do,"
with another curtsy. Thereafter the min.
summed up the proceedings, " So it has
happened to you according to the true
proverb, ' The dog is turned to his own
vomit again, and the sow that was washed
to her wallowing in the mire.'" A. was
somewhat eccentric. On the communion
cups he had engraven after his name the
letters, " P. P." i.e., Parish Priest, and many
of the session minutes and other documents
are similarly signed. He marr. 31st Oct. 1848,
Agnes Home Patterson, who died s.p. 27th
March 1872.— [Sanday Church Hist., 82-4.]
260
CROSS AND BURNESS
[PEESB. OF
ARCHIBALD FAIRLIE, born Dun-
1854 bartonshire, 1798, fourth son of
Walter F., merchant ; educated at
Univ. of Glasgow ; app. when a licentiate,
schoolmaster of Tweedsmuir in 1831 ; pres.
by Thomas, Earl of Zetland, and ord. 1st
Dec. 1854 ; died 16th March 1866. He marr.
(1) Mary Paterson, Hawkshaw, Tweedsmuir,
who died 12th June 1846, aged 44, buried at
Tweedsmuir, and had issue — Walter (only
son), student of medicine, Glasgow, 1859-65 :
(2) 7th Oct. 1858, Stewart (died 5th April
1872), daugh. of George Gibson, Corse, Kirk-
wall. — [Sanday Church Hist., 84 ; Tombst.}
MATTHEW FISHER, born Riccarton,
Ayrshire, 24th May 1819, only son of
Adam F. and Agnes Neil ; educated
at Kilmarnock School, and Univs. of Glas
gow, Edinburgh and St Andrews ; ord. to
Eday Mission in 1847 ; trans, to Deerness
(assistant and successor) 16th Jan. 1851 ;
trans, and adm. 19th July 1866 ; died at his
son's manse at Jedburgh 26th Sept. 1891,
and was buried at Cross. He was greatly
beloved by his parishioners, and was
accounted the model of a parish minister.
He marr. (1) 1st June 1848, Anne Lauder
(died 7th Nov. 1855), daugh. of Thomas
Hutchison, and had issue — Anna Christina,
born 5th April, 1849; Adam born 15th
June 1850; Thomas born 22nd Jan. 1852;
Harold, missionary at Walls, born 20th
July 1854; John Hutchison, born 7th
Oct. 1855: (2) 29th Dec. 1858, Elizabeth
Cunningham (died 23rd Nov. 1910, aged
89), daugh. of George Chalmers, Kil
marnock, and had issue — Robert Howie,
D.D., min. of St Cuthbert's, Edinburgh,
born 27th April 1861 ; George, M.B., C.M.,
Millport, born 1st March 1863, died 25th
April 1886.
ALEXANDER MORRISON, born Perth-
shire, 1866; educated at Univ. of
' Edinburgh; M.A. (1887); B.D.
(1891) ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh in
1891 ; assistant to preceding ; ord. 3rd Feb.
1892 ; clerk of Presb. 1895-1901 ; dep. (for
immorality) 19th March 1901. He went to
South Africa, and was unmarr. — [Sanday
Church Hist., 88.]
HORACE JAMES DICK, trans, from
1901 Wellwood Chapel (now Wilton
Parish, Glasgow), and adm. 31st Aug.
1901 ; trans, to Blythswood, Glasgow,
24th March 1915. His daugh. Ella marr.
10th Dec. 1920, Walter Brotherston, analy
tical chemist, Edinburgh.— [Sanday Ch^lrch
Hist, (portrait), 89-91.]
JOHN MACDOUGALL, M.A., B.D. ;
1915 ord. 21st July 1915 ; trans, to Wick
llth Dec. 1918.
PETER JOHN MACIVER, born Ness,
lglg Lewis, son of Roderick M. and
Christina Morrison; educated at
Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen, and
Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Skye
5th Dec. 1906 ; assistant at St Columba's,
Glasgow ; ord. to Kintail 17th March
1909; trans, to Orphir 13th Oct. 1916;
trans, and adm. 7th May 1919 ; trans,
to Craigneuk 10th Dec. 1924; trans, to
Inchture 17th Feb. 1928. Marr. 27th
Aug. 1913, Olive Helen, daugh. of Donald
Murray, secretary, National Liberal Club,
London, and has issue — Donald Roderick,
born 14th June 1914 ; Christina Morrison,
born 1st Dec. 1915 ; Frederick Alexander,
born 5th Jan. 1919; Patrick Iain, born
30th Aug. 1923.
DAVID WILSON BAIRD, born Port-
1925 Glasgow, 6tn June 1871, son of
Alexander B., min. of Free Church,
Port-Glasgow, and Agnes Miller ; educated
at Greenock Academy, Univ. and New
College, Edinburgh ; licen. by Free Presb.
of Greenock ; assistant at Stirling ; ord.
to Wolfelee Free Church 6th Dec. 1898 ;
trans, to St Andrew's (Dundee) Presby
terian Church, Ramsbottom, Lancashire,
15th June 1909 ; trans, to St James's
Presbyterian Church, Sunderland, 26th
Nov. 1912 ; adm. to Augustine Parish,
Greenock, 15th Dec. 1920 ; trans, to White
ness and Weisdale, Shetland, 7th Feb.
1923; trans, and adm. 2nd Sept. 1925.
Marr. 13th Sept. 1905, Minnie Anna
M'Knight, daugh. of William James Knox,
and has issue— Anna Frances, born 1st
Sept. 1906; Agnes Alexandra, born 9th
Jan. 1910.
THE NORTH ISLES]
EDAY AND FARAY— LADY
261
EDAY AND FARAY (Q.S.).
[The three parishes of Stronsay, St
Mary's, St Peter's, St Nicholas, and the
Parish of Eday were all united in the
sixteenth century. Eday was severed
quoad sacra from the three others on llth
Nov. 1882. The mission was supplied by
licentiates and missionaries of the Koyal
Bounty Committee. A new church was
opened in 1895.]
DAVID RINTOUL, missionary in
1834 1834 [afterwards in Canada, q.v.].
ROBERT STOBIE [afterwards min. of
1888 Keiss].
WILLIAM TELFER, ord. in 1845;
1845 adm. to South Yell in 1845.
MATTHEW FISHER, ord. in 1847;
1847 trans, to Deerness 16th Jan. 1851.
1852 DAVID STEVENSON.
WALTER BROCK, formerly min. of
1856 the North Parish, Paisley (cf. Vol.
III., 180); missionary, 1856-64;
afterwards chaplain of H.M. Prison, Glas
gow [father of William Paterson B., min.
of Forth, Lanark].
THOMAS KAY, ord. 13th April 1865 ;
. trans, to North Ronaldshay 4th
' May 1866.
JAMES SPENCE SMITH, born Kelso,
1866 1st Jan. 1826, son of John Spence S.
and Mary Miller ; educated at Univ.
of Edinburgh ; B.A. (1856) ; ord. (by Presb.
of Edinburgh) to a Presbyterian congrega
tion at Alexandroffsky near St Peters
burg [Leningrad], Russia, 15th Dec. 1862;
app. in 1866 ; adm. first min. of this parish
27th Feb. 1883; died at Portobello 4th
July 1911. He marr. llth Nov. 1859,
Euphemia (died 12th Aug. 1919), daugh.
of William Finlayson Rintoul and Mary
Duncan, and had issue — Mary Isabella,
born 1860 (marr. 1898, the Rev. John
Menzies Gray) ; William Henry Gray, min.
of Fogo [cf. Vol. II., 17, his widow died 17th
Feb. 1926] ; Margaret Elizabeth Ormiston,
born 1864 ; Arnold [Spence] Gray, min. of
Prinlaws; Arthur Eric, born 27th July
1868, died 6th Aug. 1885; Louisa Lucy
Hester, born llth Feb. 1872 (marr. Jan.
1909, John Edmond Lynch, North Nigeria).
DAVID LILLIE, M.A., B.D. ; ord.
1889 (assistant and successor) 25th Sept.
1889; trans, to Watten 16th May
1892.
PETER BARR REID, M.A. ; ord.
1892 (assistant and successor) '23rd Aug.
1892 ; trans, to Firth 20th Dec. 1918.
DAVID SUTHERLAND, born
1920 Tormore, Dunbeath, Caithness, 13th
Oct. 1854, son of Benjamin S. and
Christina Gunn ; educated at Aberdeen
Grammar School and Univs. of Aberdeen
M.A. (1882) and Edinburgh ; licen. by
presb. of Caithness 14th June 1887 ; assist
ant at Beauly ; chaplain at Peterhead
Convict Prison 1891-1919 ; adm. here, and
ord. 21st Jan. 1920; dem. 3rd Oct. 1921.
Marr. 25th July 1899, Edith Jane, daugh.
of Alexander M'Eachran and Jane Suther
land, and has issue— Enid May, M.A.,
teacher, born llth July 1900.
LADY, OR THE LADY KIRK
OF SANDAY.
[The Lady Kirk of Sanday was a prebend
pertaining to the Chancellor of the Diocese
of Orkney. Its church was dedicated to
St Mary. Within the bounds were St
Peter's Chapel, on the Bay of Otterswick,
and that of St Magdalene at Overbister.
Other chapels stood at Cleatt, Tressness,
and Coliness. There is now a mission
chapel at Rusness.]
JAMES ANNAND, app. Chancellor of
Orkney by Bishop Bothwell, and
' held the benefice of Lady shortly
before the Reformation ; min. of Westray
in 1567 ; still Chancellor Sept. 1572.—
[0. and Z. Rec., 192.]
WILLIAM BROWN, a Romish priest,
who conformed at the Reformation
and became reader here and at
Westray, 1561-2. — [Craven's Orkney (1558-
1662), 9, 36.]
262
LADY
[PRESB. OF
JOHN GEAHAM, signs as a notary
1567 public llth March 1563; called
rector of Lady in 1567.— [Craven's
Orkney (1558-1662), 28; Balfour Charters;
0. and Z. Rec., 178.]
LAURENCE YOUNG, reader here and
1574 at Westray in 1574.
1576
ANDREW STEVEN, reader here and
at North Ronaldsay in 1576. —
[Craven's Orkney (1558-1662), 36.]
1585
ALEXANDER CHEYNE, M.A.; is said
to have demitted this charge before
llth Dec. 1586. At a Synodal As
sembly held at Kirkwall, 17th Aug. 1592,
among cases inquired into and disposed of
was that of Alexander C. (probably this
min.), who pretended right to the " Arch-
deanery of Zetland," but was deprived of
his office and benefices because he and
others had been " notoriouslie known and
provin to be non-residentis." — [Craven's
Orkney (1558-1662), 77.]
1585
JAMES COCK, of a family of that
name residing at Rinnaclet in the
parish ; inst. and coll. to this charge
in 1585, but had been adm. earlier, "having
been provided of auld to the vicarage " ;
pres. to the Chancellory by Earl Robert
in 1591, which was ratified by a letter
from James VI., 14th Sept. 1594 ; was
one of those charged to appear before the
Presb. of Edinburgh, 6th Dec. 1597, at the
instance of Robert Pont and others. On
6th Jan. 1609 he signed, as Chancellor, a
deed now preserved at Skaill ; gave his
"dutiful submission" to Bishop Law on
the restoration of Episcopacy in 1610, and
was still in the charge, 26th June 1627,
when Bishop Grahame carried out his visi
tation. The communicants then numbered
320, and there was no school. The date of
his death is not known. He marr. (name
unrecorded), and had issue— Thomas, min.
of this parish ; Oliver ; Edward ; James.
—[Craven's Orkney (1558-1662), 29, 74, 101,
109, 150: Laing Charters, 1837; Orkney
Sas., 20.]'
JAMES STUART, pres. to the Chancel
lory of Orkney by James VI. llth
1 Dec. 1586.
THOMAS COCK, born about 1592,
son of James C., min. of this parish ;
1635 educated at Univ. of Edinburgh;
M.A. (1612) ; min. of Cross and Burness
before 22nd July 1624 ; trans, and adm.
before 7th Nov. 1635 ; pres. to one
hundred merks of stipend by Bishop
Grahame from his former charge of
Cross, to the prejudice of Thomas Aber-
crombie, then min., and to the vicarage of
Sanday ; died 28th Jan. 1646. He marr.
Janet Andrew, who survived hirn, and had
issue — John ; Edward ; Patrick, served
heir 21st Dec. 1656, and on 29th Aug. 1677
had 24 shillings from the Kirk-Session of
Holm, "being indigent"; Jemima (marr.
1662, John Elphinston of Lopness) ; Jean
(marr. 1668, James Traill of Westove). —
[Orkney Tests.; Ing. Ret. Orkney, 78;
Goodfellow's Sanday Church Hist., 51,
258; Craven's Orkney (1558-1662), 150, 186,
208; Hossack's Kirkwall, 185; Traill
Genealogy, 37 ; Tombst.]
PATRICK WEMYSS, born 1585; edu-
1647 cated at Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A.
(1605) ; adm. to Hoy and Graemsay ;
app. 17th May 1632; pres. by William,
Earl of Morton, March 1646; trans, and
adm. in 1647 ; dep. with other Orkney
mins. by General Assembly in 1651 for
subscribing an address of welcome to
James, Marquess of Montrose. He retired
to Edinburgh, had assistance given to him,
8th March 1660, being " old, infirm, and in
a state of indigence." Parliament also
voted him a grant of £2000, 15th May
1661, on account of his sufferings. In 1662
he was again presented to this parish but
was unable to take up duty ; died June
1663, and was buried in the Canon-
gate Churchyard, Edinburgh. He marr.
Christian, daugh. of Archbishop George
Gledstanes of St Andrews. She received
from Archbishop Sharp two dollars on 2nd
Oct. 1663.— [Lamont's Diary ; P. C. Reg.,
3rd ser., iii., 178, 603; Acts ofParl., vii., 202 ;
Morrison's Dec., xxiii. ; Canongate (Bur.)
Reg. ; Craven's Orkney (1558-1662), 168.]
THE NORTH ISLES]
LADY
263
JAMES DOUGLAS, M.A. ; formerly
165g inin. of Kirkwall, who had been dep.
with other Orkney mins. July 1651 ; |
was reponed 7th Sept. 1659, and adm. to j
this charge. He served eight months,
being obliged to demit, " in regaird there
was no manse nor gleib." By Act of Parlia
ment, 29th Jan. 1661, he was given "ane
two parte of the year's stipend " ; he again
became min. of Kirkwall in 1662.
ARTHUR MURRAY, born about 1634 ;
166O educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ;
M.A. (15th April 1652); called in
Sept., and ord. (at Kirkwall) 8th Nov.
1660 ; deprived by Act of Parliament llth
June, and Decreet of the Privy Council 1st
Oct. 1662. Leaving the island towards
! the end of that year, he settled in Bristo
Street, Edinburgh. In Dec. 1666, when
General Dalyell's (Binns) soldiers marched
through this street on their return from
searching for persons believed to have been
engaged at the Battle of Pentland, M.
opened his window to discover the cause
of the commotion, and seeing their banners
displayed and hearing the triumphant
shouts of the military, he was so over
powered that he took to bed immediately
and died in a day or two. John M., son of
Robert Murray, W.S., was his apparent
heir.— [Wodrow's Hist., i., 255; M'Crie's
Veitch, 38; Brand's Orkney; Peterkin's
Rentals; Presb. Review, iv.]
PATRICK WEMYSS, M.A., above-
1662 mentioned.
ROBERT BIRRELL, M.A. (cf. Vol.
1664 II., 426) ; pres. by William, Earl of
Morton, and adm. in 1664 ; dem.
Sept. 1665 ; adm. to Tongland and Balna-
cross between 29th April and 5th Oct.
ALEXANDER REID, born Montrose ;
1666 educated at King's College, Aber
deen ; M.A. (31st March 1662) ; min.
of Kirkmabreck in 1664 ; adm. here in 1666,
and disappears from the record the follow
ing year.
JAMES WALLACE, M.A. ; pres. by
1668 Bishop Honyman, and inst. 25th
Nov. 1668; trans, to Kirkwall 16th
Nov. 1672.
THOMAS LYALL, born Montrose, 1646;
16?5 educated at King's College, Aber
deen, 1661 ; adm. before 27th April
1675. On 3rd Aug. 1687, he was charged
by Robert Stewart of Brugh, with " wof ull
evils, grosse miscarriage, and sinful
practices." L. challenged inquiry, and a
Commission reported that while Stewart
gave them " little satisfaction," the min.
was "very patient and meek." On 6th
June 1688, Stewart declared he is "very
sorie and grieved for the process, and craves
pardon of the Presbytery, also of the
partie " ; died 17th July 1698. He marr. (at
Holyrood) 27th April 1675, Rebecca, daugh.
of James Ker of Redden, and had issue. —
[Edin. (Marr.) Reg. ; Craven's Orkney
(1662-88), 56, 118, 122.]
PATRICK GUTHRIE, passed trials
1698 Before Presb. of Dalkeith, and had
a testimonial for licence 1st April
1686 ; ord. by James Ramsay, Bishop of
Ross, in 1692 ; adm. as an intruder at St
Andrews and Deerness 9th May 1695 ; was
received into communion 14th June, and
adm. here 13th Sept. 1698 ; died Dec.
1703, or Jan. 1704, leaving a widow. —
[Hossack's Kirkwall, 286; Goodfellow's
Sanday Church Hist., 117.]
THOMAS KEITH, bapt. 12th April
1706 16>78> son °f Alexander K., min. of
Sandwick; educated at Univ. of
Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of Orkney
5th Aug. 1702 ; called in 1705 ; ord. 1st
May 1706; died Sept. 1730. He marr.
Margaret Ponton, who survived him, and
in consideration of her husband having
died within a few days of Michaelmas and
being thus deprived of the stipend then
due was recommended to the patron for a
gift of the same. She removed to Aber
deen, where she resided in June 1731, and
on the recommendation of the Assembly
had assistance given her, 27th June 1738,
264
LADY
[PRESB. OF
" to enable her to carry away two of her
children, yet in the country, that she may
get them some way disposed of." — [Acts
of Ass., 1737.]
THOMAS TRAILL of Hobbister, born
1733 &bout 1700, son of George T. of
Hobbister, Orphir ; educated at Univ.
of Edinburgh; M.A. (25th Feb. 1719);
licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh; ord. to
Orphir 10th May 1727 ; pres. by George,
Earl of Morton, in 1732 ; trans, and adm.
5th Sept. 1733; died 2nd March 1753.
He marr. 13th Jan. 1730, Sibella (died 28th
April 1761), daugh. of Alexander Grant,
min. of South Ronaldsay and Burray, and
had issue— Barbara, born 8th Jan. 1731
(marr. John Yule, min. of Kirkwall) ; Ann,
born 26th Feb. 1734 (marr. (1) William
Mowat : (2) George Jamieson) ; Isobel,
born 2nd Jan. 1736 (marr. William Tate,
Boston, U.S.A.), died 17th May 1792;
Alexander, born 4th Jan. 1737, died 29th
March 1746; Sibella, born 2nd Feb. 1738;
Robert, Philadelphia, born 29th April 1744,
died 31st July 1816; George, born 25th
April 1746, died in Grenada, West Indies,
1774; Thomas, St Vincent, West Indies,
born 16th April 1749; John, born 16th
Sept. 1752.— (Traill Genealogy, 64.]
THOMAS LYELL, resided chiefly at St
1(__ . Andrews from his infancy ; educated
at Univ. of St Andrews ; tutor in
the family of Sir Philip Anstruther of
Balcaskie ; licen. by Presb. of St Andrews
24th July 1751 (where his trials had been
prolonged and himself censured for defam
ing George Haddow, Professor of Hebrew) ;
pres. by James, Earl of Morton, 15th Aug.
1753 ; ord. 1st May 1754 ; dep. by the General
Assembly, 28th May 1768, for various im
moralities, and left the country. — [Acts of
Ass., 1765-8 ; Scots. Mag., xxvi.-xxx. ;
Morren's Annals, ii., 347, 369; Sanday
Church Hist., 121.]
GEORGE DENNISON, son of Jerome
1769 ^' °^ Noltland, in the parish, and
brother of John D. of Noltland;
licen. by Presb. of Kirkwall 23rd Sept.
1768; pres. by Sir Laurence Dundas of
Kerse, Bart., in Jan., and ord. 27th April
1769 ; in 1772 he left the parish for a con
siderable period and was ordered (March
1773) to return on pain of deposition ; was
suspended 29th Aug. 1777, "being incapable
of discharging any of the ministerial offices
with propriety " ; died 18th Nov. 1790. For
thirteen years ordained assistants carried on
the work of the parish. He left his library
to his successors in office and the bulk of it
is still extant at the Manse. He marr.
Barbara Strang, Lopness, in the parish.
WALTER TRAILL of Westove,
17gl Burness (which he inherited from
his brother John in 1810), born
Sanday 1767, third son of Thomas T. of
Westove, and Marion, daugh. of Archibald
Stewart of Brugh ; educated at Univ. of
Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of Kirkwall 5th
Feb. 1789 ; ord. to Bressay, Burray, and
Quarff 16th Sept. 1790; dem. 31st July
1791, on a presentation to this charge
by Sir Thomas Dundas of Kerse, Bart.,
21st March preceding; adm. here 14th
Sept. that year; dem. 31st Oct. 1810
and resided at Saville House for fourteen
years ; was again pres. by Laurence, Lord
Dundas, 10th Jan., and re-adm. 22nd
March 1825 ; died 16th Jan. 1846, having
given the address to Thomas Aitchison, min.
of Cross, at his ordination the week previous.
He was a man of much benevolence and
kindness of disposition, and many stories
are related of him. He marr. (1) 1789,
Margaret MacBeath, sister of George
M., merchant, Kirkwall, and had issue-
Thomas, of Westove, born June 1793,
died 21st June 1859; Janet, born 29th
Oct. 1795 ; James, surgeon, H.E.I.C.S., born
23rd April 1797, died at Mysore 1829: (2)
28th Aug. 1825, Catherine Watt, who died
21st June 1868. Publications— Vindication
of Orkney in Answer to Notes by Alexander
Peterkin (Edinburgh, 1823) ; Proceedings
at the Instance of North Isles and
Synod of Orkney relative to the Rev. W.
Traill (Edinburgh, 1838); Discourses on
the Characteristics of Genuine Christianity
(Edinburgh, 1839) ; Account of the Parish
(New Stat. Ace., xv.).— [Sanday Church
Hist., 24-8; Hossack's Kirkwall, 208,
338.]
THE NORTH ISLES]
LADY
265
WILLIAM LOGIE, pres. by Thomas,
1811 Lord Dundas' 23rd Nov> 1810) and
ord. 25th April 1811 ; trans, to First
Charge, Kirkwall, 25th Nov. 1824.
WALTER TRAILL of Westove [see
1825 above].
GEORGE SMELLIE, born 14th June
183g 1811, son of James S., min. of St
Andrews and Deerness ; educated at
Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of
Kirkwall; ord. (assistant and successor)
27th June 1839. Joined the Free Church
in 1843 ; emigrated to Canada and became
min. of Melville Church, Fergus, Ontario,
1843 ; D.D. (Queen's University, Kingston,
1885) ; died 22nd Nov. 1896. He revisited
Sanday in 1864, 1877, and 1886. He marr.
19th June 1843, Margaret Lendrum (died
at Fergus, llth March 1904, aged 89),
daugh. of William Logie, D.D., min. of
Kirkwall, and had issue — James, M.D.,
M.P.P., Fort William, Ontario ; Elizabeth
Logie (marr. 1868, Daniel James Mac-
donnell, min., St Andrews, Toronto), died
23rd March 1894, and others. Publications
— Memoir of John Bayne (Toronto, 1871).
—[Sanday Church Hist, (portrait), 134.]
JOHN ANDERSON, born 1795,
1845 son of John A., farmer, and Mary
Murin ; was tutor to Sir James
Graham, the Parliamentary leader ; assist
ant at Birsay and Harray ; pres. by
Thomas, Earl of Zetland, and ord. 30th
July 1845 ; dem. in Aug., and died
unmarr. at Edinburgh, 20th Oct. 1873.—
[Goodfellow's Sanday Church Hist., 138 ;
Goodfellow's Birsay Church Hist., 176.]
JOHN DANGERFIELD, born 1822, son
1863 °^ J°un -D. and Elizabeth Gibson ;
educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ;
assistant at Burray and Stenness ; ord.
(assistant and successor) 29th Oct. 1863;
dem. 15th May 1891; died unmarr. at
Portobello, 9th July 1904.— [Goodfellow's
Sanday Church Hist., 139 ; Smith's Church
in Orkney, 277.]
JOHN McARA, born Clash, Monzie, 14th
July 1841, fourth son of Robert M.,
farmer ; educated at Univ. of Glas
gow ; went to Queensland ; ord. to Spring-
sure 29th Jan. 1866 ; Moderator of Presby
terian Church of Queensland in 1871 ;
min. at Stanthorpe and Dalby in 1873 ;
missionary at Rusness, 1889-91 ; adm. here
23rd Sept. 1891; dem. in 1899; died
unmarr. at Brae of Monzie 29th Oct. that
year. — [Goodfellow's Sanday Church Hist.
(portrait), 140.]
JAMES HARDIE PEARSON, born St
Andrews, Fife, 23rd Oct. 1853, son
of David P. and Maria Hardie ; edu
cated at St Andrews schools and Univ. of
Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh
15th May 1893 ; assistant at St Andrews
and Buccleuch, Edinburgh ; ord. to Rus
ness Mission in 1898 ; adm. here 27th March
1900 ; app. clerk of Presb. in 1908 ; died
17th Jan. 1916. He marr. 30th Oct.
1876, Mary, daugh. of Robert M'Crirrick,
Sanquhar, and Martha Purdie, and had
issue— Jessie Maria, born 20th Aug. 1877
(marr. 20th July 1905, George Muir,
farmer) ; Martha Purdie, born 19th Sept.
1879 (marr. 30th March 1915, Walter
Allan, bank clerk); David, clerk, born
13th Feb. 1882, died at Leith, 6th Aug.
1923 ; Robert, in lighthouse service, born
9th May 1885. — [Goodfellow's Sanday
Church Hist., 141.]
JOHN LEISHMAN NELSON, ord. 5th
July 1916; trans, to Premnay 7th
June 1918.
HENRY SMITH, born Logie-Colstone,
29th Oct. 1859, son of Henry S. and
Elizabeth Stewart; educated at
Tarland and Migvie Schools, Old and New
Grammar Schools, and Univ. of Aberdeen ;
M.A. (1886) ; B.D. (1890) ; licen. by Presb.
of Aberdeen 7th May 1889 ; assistant at
Ollaberry and Northroe, Shetland ; ord. to
Burray Mission 8th Sept. 1896 ; adm. first
min. of that parish 22nd April 1904 ; trans,
and adm. 17th Sept. 1919. Marr. (1) 14th
Sept. 1894, Maria Clara Watt (died 14th
May 1907), and had issue — Jane Mary
266
RINGANSAY
[PRESB. OF
Cruickshank, born 5th Feb. 1897 ; Harriet
Stewart, born 15th May 1899 (marr. 12th
Jan. 1919, James Duncan), died 15th Feb.
1927 ; Catherine Watt Ethel, born 8th June
1904, died 8th Jan. 1910: (2) 29th Dec.
1909, Margaret Jean (died 23rd June 1923),
elder daugh. of Thomas Anderson, farmer,
Langskaill, Orkney, and has issue— Thomas
Anderson, born 14th Oct. 1910 ; James,
born 19th Jan. 1912; Harry Horatio,
born 12th Jan. 1914 ; Alexander Hercules,
born 16th Jan. 1915; Isabella Smith, born
17th Nov. 1917; Cecilia, born 7th Feb.
1919 ; Magnus (twin), born 7th Feb. 1919 :
(3) 27th Oct. 1924, Florette Portello.
RINGANSAY (Q.S.) [NORTH
RONALDSAY].
[Often wrongly styled North Eonaldsay.
The church of Eingansay was dedicated to
St Ninian. In the sixteenth century the
three parishes of Cross, Burness, and
Ringansay were united. In 1830 a
parliamentary chapel was built on Ring
ansay. The parish was severed quoad
sacra from Cross and Burness on 2nd June
1847. Within the bounds there was a
chapel of St Bride.]
ANDREW STEVEN, reader here and at
1576 Lady in 1576.
JOHN BONAR, M.A. (St Andrews
1593 1582); mentioned as min., 1593-4.
He may be the J. B., min. at Abbot-
rule, Hassendean, Girthon, and Galston.
1681 MAGNUS PAPLAY, reader in 1681.
JAMES OSWELL [or OSWALD], reader
1683 in 1683.
PATRICK FAIRBAIRN, pres. by
1830 George IV. 27th March, and ord.
28th July 1830 ; trans, to Bridgeton,
Glasgow, 16th March 1837.
ADAM WHITE, born Strachur, Argyll-
1837 shire, 6th Dec. 1808, son of William
W., farm manager, and May Brown ;
educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A.
(31st March 1827); licen. by Presb. of
Dumfries 19th Oct. 1830 ; sometime a tutor
in Orkney ; pres. by William IV. 27th Feb.,
and ord. 20th April 1837. Joined the Free
Church in 1843 ; adm. min. of Free Church,
Harray and Sandwick, 21st Dec. that year ;
died 16th Aug. 1873. He marr., 1848, Sarah
Sloan (died s.p.\ daugh. of a teacher in
Haddington. Publication — Account of
North Ronaldshay (New Stat. Ace., xv.). —
[Goodfellow's Birsay Church Hist., 254-7 ;
Tombst.]
ROBERT WAUGH, pres. by Queen
1844 Victoria 1st Nov. 1843; ord. 27th
March 1844; dem. 9th Sept., and
trans, to Lybster in 1846.
JOHN KEILLOR, pres. by Queen
1847
Victoria 23rd Nov- l84^ ; adm. first
min. of this parish 16th April 1847 ;
trans, to Walls and Flotta 22nd Feb. 1866.
THOMAS KAY, missionary at Eday ;
1866 Pres> ky Queen Victoria 12th March
1866 ; adm. here 4th May that year ;
trans, to Ladyburn, Greenock, 17th May
1876.
DUNCAN McOWAN, born 1826, son of
1877 Duncan M., farmer, and Catherine
Brough ; educated at U.P. Synod
Hall, Edinburgh, 1849; ord. to U.P.
Church, Ramsey, Isle of Man, 3rd Dec.
1856 ; adm. 31st Jan. 1877 ; died 4th May
1884. He marr. Helen Stewart Alexander,
who died 27th Oct. 1899.
GEORGE GRANT, B.A.; ord. 26th
Aug. 1884 ; trans, to Ord, Banffshire,
18th April 1898 (c/. Vol. VI., 291);
D.D. (Aberdeen 1925).
JAMES GRIEVE, adm. 9th Aug. 1898 ;
1898 trans, to Berriedale 15th Nov. 1904.
ROBERT WILSON, ord. 10th May 1905 ;
1905 trans, to Keiss 6th April 1910.
WILLIAM AUGUSTUS FORBES,
1B10 M.A., B.D.; ord. 7th Sept. 1910;
trans, to Murroes 24th Sept. 1919.
WILLIAM RICHMOND SCOTT, trans.
from Auchengray and Tarbrax Chapel
(c/. Vol. III., 292), and adm. llth
Dec. 1920.
THE NORTH ISLES]
ROUSAY AND EGILSAY
267
ROUSAY AND EGILSAY.
[These parishes were united in the six
teenth century.
Rousay. — The old church of Rousay still
stands roofless at Swendro. At Cobberow,
on the island of Weira and in this parish,
is the ancient chapel of St Peter, now
without a roof. On the larger island of
Enhallow (Eyin Helga = " The Holy Isle ")
there remain considerable ruins of a small
Cistercian abbey founded about 1140.
Egilsay. — The very ancient church of
Egilsay is still fairly complete, though its
roof is gone. It was dedicated to St
Magnus, who was murdered in Egilsay
in 1104. This building is about 30 feet
long. It has a chancel and a very remark
able round tower rising from the west end
of the nave.]
LAURENCE YOUNG, a priest origin
ally from the diocese of Aberdeen ;
conformed and appears in the
Comptar's Book as vicar - pensionary of
Rousay, 1561-2; reader at Westray in
1574.
ROBERT BLACK, reader here and at
Wyre and Enhallow about 1574
1661
1574
[afterwards at Evie].
1578
CUTHBERT HENDERSON, reader
in 1578 ; trans, to Stronsay and
Eday before 1585.
NINIAN HALCRO, M.A.; min. in
1585; trans, to South Ronaldsay
and Bur ray in 1590.
JAMES TULLOCH, a relative of
Jerome T., sub-chantor of Orkney ;
adm. in 1590, and still in the charge
in 1600.— [Reg. Assig.]
ANDREW DISHINGTON, trans, from
Stromness and adm. here in 1601 ;
trans, to Walls and Flotta after 1613.
JAMES BRAND, min. of Stronsay and
Eday in 1599; min. about 1620;
1620 still in the charge at 22nd July
1624, as appears from a receipt for stipend
1585
1590
1601
still extant. He had a son James, alive
Nov. 1626, when he borrowed 40 merks
from James Fea, younger, of Clestrain.
DAVID WATSON, M.A. ; adm. before
8th Nov. 1626; trans, to Westray
1626 before 1635. On 12th June 1627
the communicants numbered 400; there
was neither manse nor glebe and no school,
"so that without the education of the
young, the travell of the minister upon the
elder sort is lost."
WALTER STEWART, ord. in 1630;
app. dean of Orkney and inst. at
1680 South Ronaldsay Aug. 1636.
JAMES HAIGIE, M.A. ; inst. 31st Jan.
1636; trans, to St Andrews and
Deerness before llth April 1639.
PATRICK WATERSTON, M.A. ;
formerly min. of St Andrews and
1639 Deerness before llth April 1639;
was called as colleague to his father, min.
of Orphir, 3rd April 1644, but continued
here; trans, to Stronsay and Eday 20th
July 1645.
JOHN BALVAIRD, M.A.; pres. by
William, Earl of Morton, in June,
1645 coll. 3rd, and ord. 14th Sept. 1645;
dep. 10th July 1651 for having signed the
Address to James, Marquess of Montrose ;
min. of Hoy and Graemsay in 1663.
THOMAS BAIKIE of the Tankerness
family; assistant, Second Charge,
Kirkwall (q.v.) ; dep. before 16th
June 1658 and ceased preaching there 3rd
March 1659 ; reponed and adm. here 26th
Oct. that year; declined a presentation
to Lady by Douglas of Spynie in 1663 ;
died 14th April 1665, aged 42. He marr.
Margaret Stewart. [Arthur Baikie, mer
chant, Kirkwall (probably his brother), had
a gift of his escheit from the Crown 8th
Jan. 1667.]— [Peterkin's Rentals; Tombst.]
JOHN GRAHAM, educated at King's
1fl__ College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1650);
ord. 12th Dec. 1666; outed at the
Revolution; died 4th July 1697.— [Craven's
Orkney (1662-88), 76, 137.]
268
ROUSAY AND EGILSAY
[PRESB. OF
HENRY ANDERSON, licen. by Presb.
of Kirkcaldy 18th June 1695 ; called
19th Sept. 1699; ord. 30th April
1700; died in 1723.
ANDREW GRAHAME, M.A. ; pres. by
1725 Robert, Earl of Morton, and ord.
15th Sept. 1725 ; trans, to Firth and
Stenness 31st July 1732.
JAMES JAMESON, licen. by Presb. of
Biggar 17th Dec. 1718; pres. by
George, Earl of Morton, Oct. 1732 ;
ord. 10th Sept. 1733; died 18th Oct. 1746.
He marr. Marion Ritchie, who died 26th
Nov. 1760.
MATTHEW CLEGHORN, pres. by the
1747 commissioners for James, Earl of
Morton, in May, and ord. (at Egilsay)
16th Sept. 1747 ; trans, to St Andrews and
Deerness 15th Nov. 1752.
JAMES WEIR, pres. by James, Earl of
1753 Morton, Dec. 1752; ord. 25th July
1753 ; trans, to South Ronaldsay
and Burray 18th March 1761.
JAMES LESLIE, born 1734; educated
1762 at Marischal College, Aberdeen,
1755-9; pres. by James, Earl of
Morton, in Feb., and ord. 28th April 1762 ;
died 22nd Aug. 1797. He marr. (1) 28th
July 1763, Elizabeth (died Aug. 1789), sister
of Colonel Maclean : (2) 22nd Nov. 1793,
Anne Sinclair (died 3rd Dec. 1799).
Publication— Account of the Parish (Sin
clair's Stat. Ace., vii.).
JAMES PATERSON, born 1763;
1798 pres' kv Thomas, Lord Dundas, 29th
Jan., and ord. (at Egilsay) 7th May
1798; died 2nd Feb. 1837.
GEORGE RITCHIE, born Glasgow,
1837 1798, eldest son of John R., min. ;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A.
(1817) ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow ; ord.
to Westray 25th June 1834 ; pres. by
Laurence, Lord Dundas, in April, trans,
and adm. 24th Aug. 1837. Joined the Free
Church in 1843; min. of Free Church,
Rousay, 1843-58 ; died 23rd Oct. 1858. He
marr. 6th Oct. 1840, Isabella Anderson
(died 3rd Jan. 1892), and had issue— John,
born 29th Dec. 1842; Isabella Peat, born
22nd June 1844; James Anderson, born
15th March 1846.
JAMES GARDNER, born Mussel-
1843 kurgh, 1803> son °f Robert G., farmer
and Agnes Davie, and nephew of
James G., min. of Tweedsmuir; educated
at Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of
Dalkeith; ord. 19th Dec. 1843; died 28th
March 1885. He marr. 2nd July 1851,
Harriet (died 4th Sept. 1880, aged 52),
daugh. of William Corsie, farmer, Skaill,
Rousay, and Janet Louttit, and had issue
—Agnes Davie, born 22nd Aug. 1852 (marr.
— Archibald) ; Mary, born 30th April
1854, died young ; Harriet Helen, born
1st Feb. 1857 (marr. William Stevenson,
farmer, Rousay).
ALEXANDER SPARK, born Montrose,
1885 5th Feb. 1845, son of Archibald S.,
and Barbara Reith ; educated at
Univ. of Aberdeen; licen. by Presb. of
Aberdeen; ord. to Boddam Chapel 17th
Oct. 1877 ; trans, and adm. 22nd Sept.
1885; dem. 22nd May 1916; died at Meth-
lick 22nd Aug. 1923. He marr. (1) 17th
Oct. 1878, Jane Livingstone, daugh. of
John Oatt, teacher, Glasgow, and had
issue — Anita Elizabeth Hill, born 16th
Sept. 1879 ; Hilda Reith, born 8th March
1882 (marr. 13th March 1900, John Carroll,
schoolmaster, Eday) ; Alexander, min. of
St Matthew's - Blythswood, Glasgow, born
29th May 1883 ; James William Oatt, born
17th Nov. 1884; Veira Lickly, R.R.C.,
born 1st July 1886; Archibald Graham,
M.C., captain King's Own Yorkshire and
Leicester Infantry, and author of Experi
ences on the Somme, born 14th June 1888,
killed in action 9th April 1917; Edith
Ada Aiton, born 25th March 1890;
Murray Arthur Macdonald, born 13th June
1895 ; Robert Glencairn Gordon, born 30th
Oct., died 8th Dec. 1897 : (2) 9th July 1910,
Jane Hannah, youngest daugh. of Provost
Reid, Arbroath.
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269
JOHN DBAS LOGIE, formerly min.
lgle of Free Church, Kirkcaldy ; adm.
here 19th Dec. 1916 ; trans, to Farr
15th June 1920.
JOHN WILLIAMSON, born Greenock,
1Q21 8th Oct. 1886, son of Joseph W.
and Janet M'lllhagga ; educated at
Bible Training Institute, Glasgow, Univs.
of Glasgow and Edinburgh, and Free Church
College, Edinburgh ; assistant at Newhall,
Glasgow, 1914-15 ; on War Service (Ministry
of Munitions) 1915-17 ; ord. to Free Church,
Culter, Lanarkshire, 21st May 1917 ; trans,
and adm. 8th Feb. 1921 ; trans, to Kirk-
fieldbank, Lanark, 5th Dec. 1922. Marr.
5th Aug. 1912, Mary Cecilia Cummings,
Blairmore, Argyll (born 23rd April 1888),
and has issue— Mary Cecilia Janet, born
22nd Nov. 1913 ; John Alexander, born
20th Feb. 1920; Charles Kerr, born 1st
June 1924.
RODERICK FRASER, born Edinburgh,
1928 5th Sept. 1894, son of James F.,
F.C. Manse, Carnoch, and Isabella
Clouston ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ;
Keen, by Presb. of Glasgow 20th Dec. 1922 ;
assistant at Alloa ; ord. here 21st Sept.
1923 ; trans, to Lintrathen 30th Sept. 1925.
Marr. 8th Feb. 1924, Annie, daugh. of
Dugald Macneill, Dunchoan, Carnbaan.
SHAPINSAY.
[The church of Shapinsay was dedicated
to St Mary. At Linton, within this parish,
are the ruins of a chapel of St Katherine.]
THOMAS RATTRAY, a Romish priest
1566 who conformed to Protestantism.
In 1561-2 he is called Sir Thomas R.,
" vicar-pensionare " of Burray and South
Ronaldsay, and vicar of Shapinsay in
1566 ; reader here in 1567, and min. about
1570; still in the charge in 1590. A
daugh. marr. Ingram Mowat in Melsetter.
—[Craven's Church in Orkney, ii., 15, 48.]
WILLIAM HAIR of How, in the
1591 parish ; min. in 1591 ; was a member
of Glasgow Assembly in 1610 ; still
in the charge at 23rd June 1627, when the
communicants numbered 250. There was
then no school, " because the people are puir
laboreris of the ground, and thairfoir are
content that thair bairns be brocht up to
labor with them." He died after 1636, as
appears from an action brought by him
against Robert Irvine of Gairstan. His
tombstone, illegible save for the initials
W.H., is in the parish churchyard. He
presented a silver chalice to the church.
It bore the inscription Hoc Poculum est
Novum Testamentum on the bottom and on
the side W.ff. pro Shapinsha. Extant in
1758, it has now disappeared. He marr.
Katherine Thomson, and had issue — Mar
garet, marr. his successor in the charge.—
[Smith's Chtirch in Orkney, 290 ; Peter-
kin's Rentals; Calderwood's Hist., vii., 104 ;
Craven's Orkney (1558-1662), 103, 109; Sal-
four Charters; Reg. Mag. Sig., vii., 1312; P.C.
Reg., ix., 648 ; Orkney Sas., 27th Nov. 1609.]
HENRY SMYTH, probably of the Braco
1Q32 family, born 1597 ; educated at Univ.
of St Andrews, M.A. (1614); adm.
to the Exercise at Perth 12th Aug. 1618 ;
min. of Hoy and Graemsay in 1621, with
Walls and Flotta also in the charge for
about four years; trans, and adm. Nov.
1632; was still here at the end of 1664.
He marr. Margaret Hair (died Feb. 1665),
daugh. of his predecessor, and had issue —
George, min. of this parish; Katherine,
served heiress to her father, 12th July
1698 (marr. David Kennedy, min. of St
Andrew's, Orkney). A panel in the pulpit
of Hoy church bears his monogram and date
1624. Along with David Watson he con
tested the lawfulness of wearing the crucifix
and surplice.— [Orkney Tests; Ing. Ret.
Orkney, 156; Peterkin's Rentals; Craven's
Orkney (1558-1662), 143, 181.]
GEORGE SMYTH, son of preceding,
1658 born about 1626; called 3rd June
1657, and ord. 2nd June 1658 ; died
unmarr. Jan. 1665. He left £200 for a
school in the island and for his gravestone
a sum of £32 was " laid out."
270
SHAPINSAY
ADAM GIBSON, born about 1633, son
1665 of Andrew G., burgess, Edinburgh,
brother of John G., min. of Holm,
and of Archibald G., Writer to the Signet ;
educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; MA. (15th
July 1650) ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh
8th April 1656; ord. to St Andrews and
Deerness 6th May 1657 ; trans, and adm.
14th Sept. 1665 ; died 21st Feb. 1678. The
last entry of his in the Kirk-Session
record is his New Year's gift of a "rix-
dollar for the poor." He marr. (1) 18th
Nov. 1658, Helen (died Oct. 1661), daugh.
of Thomas Sinclair of Caithston, and had
issue — Barbara : (2) Agnes, only daugh.
of William M'Lellan of Newton, and had
issue — John, served heir to his father, 28th
March 1684 ; Beatrix ; Barbara (marr. 14th
April 1687, Robert Scollay, wright, Kirk-
wall) : (3) 16th Nov. 1669, Marjory Irving)
who died 18th Dec. 1677.— [Orkney Tests \
Inq. Ret. Gen., 5069; Orkney, 134; Craven's
Orkney (1662-88), 19, 68 ; G. JR. Inhib., 8th
Nov. 1662.]
THOMAS MACKENZIE, born about
1678 1652, son of Murdoch, Bishop of
Orkney ; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen; M.A. (9th July 1672); passed
trials before Presb. of Elgin and recom
mended for licence 29th March 1677 ; ord.
(at Kirkwall) 2nd, and inst. 5th May 1678 ;
died 7th Feb. 1688. On 3rd April 1681 he
celebrated the Communion after an interval
of twenty years. He marr. 2nd May ] 679,
Elspeth, eldest daugh. of James Baikie of
Burness and Sibella Halcro, and had issue
— Murdoch [supposed in Diet. Nat. Biog. to
be M. M. the hydrographer, but this is
impossible, the latter's death taking place
in 1797 while the min. of Shapinsay died
109 years before] ; James, physician,
Worcester, author of The History of Health
and the Art of Preserving It (Edinburgh,
1758) and other works, born 1682, died at
Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire, 7th Aug.
1761 ; Alexander ; Thomas ; Sibella (marr.
(1) William Traill, bailie of Kirkwall, son of
George T. of Quendale : (2) John Nisbet,
min.of Sandwick); Margaret; Anna. — [Kirk
wall Registers ; Craven's Orkney (1662-88),
95, 118; Diet. Nat. Biog. for Dr J. M. ;
Traill Genealogy.]
JAMES HEART, born about 1620,
probably son of David H. of Rusland,
a notary public, Kirkwall ; ord. to
Westray 3rd June 1656 ; trans, and inst.
3rd May 1689 ; consented and subscribed
to the call of his successor 2nd Dec. 1703,
when he was over 83 years of age. He
marr. 28th June 1658, Catherine Prince,
and had issue — David ; Robert, surgeon,
Portsmouth ; Jean. — [Index to Services ;
Acts of Ass., 1703 ; Kirkwall Marr. Reg. ;
Craven's Orkney (1662-88), 125.]
ALEXANDER NISBET, born 3rd,
17og April 1681, son of a Borderer, who
came north as gardener at the palace
of Birsay ; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ;
M.A. (30th April 1700) ; licen. by Presb. of
Kirkwall 19th Nov. 1702 ; ord. to Second
Charge, Kirkwall 14th May 1703; called
27th July, trans, and adm. (assistant and
successor) 4th Dec. that year; died 18th
Feb. 1758. He marr. llth Jan. 1711, Marion
Graham (died 17th June 1762), and had
issue — William, min. of Firth and Sten-
ness; James; Harry; Cecilia; Mary;
John; Janet.— [Tombst.]
ALEXANDER PITCAIRN, born 1714,
son of John P., min. of Hoy and
Graemsay ; educated at Univ. of St
Andrews ; licen. by Presb. of Cairston 5th
July 1738 ; ord. missionary at the Fair Isle,
Foula and Skerries, 1st Jan. 1752 ; pres. to
Fetlar 29th Dec. that year, but not settled ;
pres. by James, Earl of Morton, and adm.
1st Nov. 1758 ; died 15th Nov. 1792. He
marr. (1) 8th July 1759, Margaret (died
Jan. 19th 1790), daugh. of George Pitcairn,
merchant, Lerwick : (2) 6th March 1790,
Margaret Ross (died 27th Sept. 1802,
aged 86).— [Scots Mag., lii.]
GEORGE BARRY, born Berwickshire,
1793 * 748; educated at Univ- of Edinburgh ;
licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh ; some
time tutor in a private family; ord. to Second
Charge, Kirkwall, 18th Sept. 1782 ; pres. by
Sir Thomas Dundas of Kerse, Bart., 30th
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271
March, trans, and adm. 12th Sept. 1793 ;
D.D. (Edinburgh, 23rd May 1804); died
llth May. 1805. He marr. 12th Aug. 1780,
Sibella (died 18th Jan. 1812), daugh. of
John Yule, min. of First Charge, Kirkwall,
and had issue — John, min. of this parish ;
Robert, born 29th March 1786; Margaret,
born 5th May 1788 ; James, born 12th July
1790; Ann, born 12th April 1792; George,
born 29th Sept. 1795; Mary, born 8th
April 1799 ; Sibella, born 7th April 1801 ;
Barbara. Publications— The History of the
Orkney Islands, p.p. (Edinburgh, 1805 ; ibid.
[edited by James Headrick, min. of Dun-
nichen] (London, 1808); ibid., with Pre
fatory Account of the Islands (Kirkwall,
1867) ; Accounts of Kirkwall and Shapin-
say (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., vii., xvii.).— [£)ict.
Nat. Biog. ; Leach's Introduction to Low's
Fauna Orcadensis (1813); Joseph Ander
son's Introduction to Low's Tour through
the Islands of Orkney and Shetland in 1774
(Kirkwall, 1879).]
JOHN BARRY, born 3rd Nov. 1783,
1805 son of preceding ; educated at Univ.
of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of
Kirkwall 18th April 1805 ; pres. by Thomas,
Lord Dundas, in July, and ord. 18th Sept.
that year; died at Edinburgh 30th Dec.
1853. He practised sometime in Kirkwall
as a surgeon. He marr. 5th Nov. 1810, Mary
(died 20th May 1870, aged 90), youngest
daugh. of Alexander Stewart of Massiter,
and had issue— Robert, lieut. R.N. Publi
cation—Account of the Parish (New Stat.
Ace., xv.). — [Case of Francis LiddellJ]
THOMAS SCOTT, born 1801, son of
1846 J°hn S., farmer, and Elizabeth
Halley ; assistant in this parish ;
pres. by Thomas, Earl of Zetland, and ord.
(assistant and successor) 14th April 1846;
died at Edinburgh 8th April 1871.
ROBERT ROBERTSON RANNIE,
1871 b°rn WallS) Shetland> 1836> son of
John R., schoolmaster ; educated at
Univ. of Aberdeen ; M.A. (1869) ; licen. by
Presb. of Forres ; assistant at St Paul's,
Glasgow, and Campsie ; ord. 21st July
1871 ; clerk of Presb. 1889-95 ; died 18th
Sept. 1895. He marr. 13th Oct. 1875, Jane
Jessie (died 13th Dec. 1893), eldest daugh.
of Robert Scarth of Binscarth, and had
issue— Christian Agnes, born 30th May
1877 ; Robert Scarth, born 29th Jan. 1879.
ALEXANDER GORDON MITCHELL,
1896 called 21st Jan., and ord. 13th Feb.
1896; trans, to Killearn 17th May
1898. His wife (cf. Vol. III., 350) died
7th Nov. 1926.
DUNCAN COLQUHOUN KERR, born
1898 ^k ^an< 1^57, son °f Robert K., engine
fitter, and Ann Stewart ; educated at
Univ. of Glasgow; licen. by Presb. of
Glasgow 1893 ; ord. to Robertson Mission,
Grassmarket, Edinburgh, 28th April 1897 ;
elected 4th July, and adm. 2nd Sept. 1898 ;
was clerk of Presb. 1901-8; died 17th Jan.
1908. He had considerable knowledge of
Church Law and was frequently consulted
on the subject. He marr. 15th Feb. 1883,
Charlotte, daugh. of James Grandison,
last maker, Glasgow, and Ellena Reid, and
had issue — James, born 27th May 1884;
Norah, born 28th July 1886 ; Robert, born
25th July 1888 ; Charlotte, born 6th June
1891 ; Anna Victoria, born 4th Dec. 1897;
Cecil Grandison, born 8th Aug. 1899.
WILLIAM ROBERTSON, M.A. ; ord.
19Q8 12th June 1908 ; trans, to Olrig 12th
May 1920.
ROBERT HILL RICHMOND, born
192Q Glasgow, 9th Nov. 1879, son of
William R. and Janet Miller ; edu
cated at Bellahouston Academy and Univ.
of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of i Linlithgow
March 1920; assistant at Kilchrenan and
Dalavich, and Polmont ; ord. here 8th
Nov. 1920 ; trans, to Kirkmaiden 29th Oct.
1925. Marr. 8th April 1908, Mary Forsyth,
daugh. of Archibald Roddan, and has issue
—William, born 31st July 1909; Mary
Wallace Forsyth, born 17th June 1911 ;
Archibald Johnston, born 10th Feb. 1914 ;
Janet Miller, born 21st Dec. 1919 ; Robert
Hill, born 16th Sept. 1921.
[Parish vacant 1926.]
272
STRONSAY
[PRESB. OF
STRONSAY, OR THE LADY KIRK
OF STRONSAY, ST PETER'S,
AND ST NICHOLAS'.
[In the sixteenth century these three
parishes and that of Eday were all united.
In 1882 Eday was severed from the three
others.
The Lady Kirk of Stronsay.— The church
of this parish was dedicated to St Mary.
Within the bounds there was a chapel of
St Margaret.
St Peter's. — On the island of Papa
Stronsay, in this parish, there were chapels
of St Nicholas and St Bride.
St Nicholas'. — St Nicholas' in Stronsay
was a prebend of Kirkwall.]
FRANCIS BOTHWELL, M.A. ; called
parson in 1560 ; treasurer of Orkney
1560 before 9th Sept. 1570.— \Compt.-Book
of Haill Thirds of Benefices.}
JAMES MAXWELL, M.A.; vicar before
the Reformation and still holding
1569 that office with the treasurership of
the diocese and the prebend of St Katherine
in 1561. He conformed and was reader
Nov. 1569-77 ; was compelled to leave the
country because he refused to set his
benefice in tack to Robert Stewart, Abbot
of Holyrood and Earl of Orkney, natural
son of James V.— [Craven's Hist, of the
Church in Orkney (1558-1662), 9, 13, 47,
WILLIAM HENRYSON [or HENDER
SON], pres. by James VI. 24th Sept.
1578 ; was treasurer of Orkney ;
died 19th Dec. 1582, and was buried in
Kirkwall Cathedral, where his tombstone
is still to be seen. He marr. Margaret
Bonar.— [Craven's Orkney (1558-1662), 47 ;
Tombst.]
CUTHBERT HENRYSON [or
HENDERSON], probably brother
1588 of preceding; a pre-Reformation
priest who conformed and became reader
at Rousay in 1578 ; pres. to treasury, and
vicar of North Ronaldsay 20th Sept.
1586; adm. here before 1588; one of the
commissioners for Orkney in 1617, when
he is described as an "old and godly gentle
man," and an opponent of the Service-
Book ; died before 28th June 1627. He
marr. Ursilla Brown, and had issue —
Robert of Holland, North Ronaldsay,
who was Chancellor of the jury at the
trial of Robert Stewart, son of Patrick,
Earl of Orkney, in 1615.— [Craven's Orkney,
100, 180; Pitcairn's Grim. Trials, iii., 273 ;
Privy Seal Reg., liv., 55, 91.]
JAMES BRAND, mentioned in 1599;
still in the charge in 1608; min. at
Rousay about 1620.
JOHN GARDYNE, thought to be son
of John G., min. of Sandwick, but
161>7 this is not quite certain [he had a
brother George, and another, Thomas of
Craigstone]; educated at Univ. of St
Andrews; M.A. (29th July 1609); adm.
in 1617. On 24th June 1627, at a visita
tion by Bishop Grahame, the number of
communicants in the parish was 637, and
there was then no school. He dem. his
charge 7th Nov. 1635, "though the most
notable congregation in the land, where-
unto many strangers did resort." He was
allowed by Bishop Grahame to arrange
for his successor, but at the same time,
was given liberty "to set an tack for six
years of the greatest part of his stipend,"
to the considerable disadvantage of the
new incumbent. He probably went to
Ireland, as on 17th June 1642, his widow,
Anna Halyburton, in consideration of her
present distress, appealed for aid from " the
first of the contributions for the distressed
people fled from Ireland :! [at the time of
the massacre of the Protestants in 1641].
The Presb. ordered the collector to give
her £40. He had issue— John.— [Peter-
kin's Rentals ; MS. Receipts for Stipend ;
Craven's Orkney, 29, 133, 141, 150, 161 ;
Laing Charters, 2052.]
ALEXANDER SOMERVILLE, born
about 1608; educated at Univ. of
' Edinburgh; M.A. (27th July 1628);
adm. to Walls and Flotta before 16th July
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273
1634, where he was admonished by the
Synod to " wait better on his charge " ;
trans, and adm. in 1635, having made an
arrangement with preceding min., Bishop
Grahame stipulating that the vicarage
teinds of his own lands in the parish
should be given him ; died Feb. 1644, " a
quiet person." He was served heir to his
paternal uncle, Alexander S., 4th June
1642. He marr. Janet Andrew, and had
issue— William, merchant, Edinburgh, his
heir, 2nd July 1646.— [Ing. Ret. JSdin.,
887, 960 ; Craven's Orkney, 207 ; Reg, of
Deeds, 28th Aug. 1663 ; A. Guthrie's Prot.-
Book, viii., 3.]
PATRICK WATERSTON (secundus),
born about 1606, son of Patrick W.,
' min. of Orphir; educated at Univ.
of Edinburgh ; M.A. (24th July 1624) ;
adm. to St Andrews and Deerness before
5th April 1634 when, as a witness, he
signed the presentation to Patrick Grahame
to Holm ; pres. by Charles I. to Birsay
and Harray in 1635, but the bishop objected,
on the ground that such' appointments
lay in his hands, the Synod unanimously
upholding the bishop's claim, W.'s father
being one of those present. W. appealed
to the Archbishop, the Lords of Session,
and Court of High Commission, and twice
went south to prosecute the matter, and
proposed to make another journey when
the bishop reminded him that " if he took
this thyrd it would be over many in one
year." He was frequently absent from his
charge and in trouble with co-Presbyters
and parishioners. Bishop Grahame publicly
called him a "swindger," and he was more
than once admonished. In Feb. 1637, he
expressed regret for his actions, begging
that he " be not altogether put from the
calling of the ministry," but allowed " to
live amongst you in such place to the glorie
of God and the welfare of the people."
After 1638 he was a zealous Covenanter,
and latterly adopted Brownist or Independ
ent notions. In 1639 he exchanged charges
with James Haigie, min. of Rpusay and
Egilsay ; was called as colleague to his
father at Orphir, 7th April 1644, but con
tinued at Rousay ; pres. to this parish by
VOL. VII.
William, Earl of Morton, coll. 30th April,
and adm. 20th July 1645 ; dep. (by a
Committee of Presb.) 23rd March 1660, for
"contempt, separating from the Church,
and often deserting his charge." He took
up residence in Kirkwall, but was removed
to the Tolbooth there, Aug. 1660, for
treasonable speeches, and on a complaint
from the Commisioners of Trade to Parlia
ment, authority was given, 25th Jan. 1661,
for him to be " sent south from sheriff to
sheriff till he reaches Edinburgh, there to
be incarcerate." He afterwards went to
Holland, where he died in 1662. He marr.
and had issue — Isobel (marr. Edward
Brown, Stronsay.)— [Acts of Parl., vi. pt. ii.
569, vii. App. 5 ; Presb. Review, iv. ; Craven's
Orkney (1558-1662), 1 1 1, 168, 221 ; Peterkhrs
Orkney Papers, App. 55 ; Hossack's Kirk-
wall, 82, 164.]
GEORGE GRAHAME, said to be
a cousin of Bishop G. ; educated at
Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A. (1630) ;
adm. to Sandwick and Stromness before
7th Nov. 1635, when a glebe was designed,
there having been none previously; dep.
with most of the mins. in Orkney by the
General Assembly, July 1651, for subscribing
an address of welcome to James, Marquess
of Montrose ; afterwards reponed and adm.
here 12th Sept. 1660 ; died Dec. 1683. He
inarr. (1) Catherine, daugh. of Henry
Aitken, sheriff of Orkney ; (2) Helen Fea,
widow of Edward Colvill, bailie of the
island, she survived him, and had issue —
George of Spurquoy, min. of Lochmaben ;
James, apprenticed to Robert Graham,
merchant, Edinburgh, llth May 1664.—
[Orkney Tests. ; Peterkin's Rentals ; Presb.
Review, iv.]
JOHN WILSON, M.A. ; trans, from
Second Charge, Kirkwall, and adm.
(at Kirkwall) 7th May 1684; inst.
soon after ; re-trans, to Second Charge,
Kirkwall, 20th Dec. 1687.
THOMAS PATERSON, a native
of Inverness; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (14th July
1674) ; passed trials before Presb. of Inver
ness ; licen. by Colin, Bishop of Moray;
274
STRONSAY
[PKESB. OF
ord. to Second Charge, Kirkwall, 10th
March 1685 ; trans, and adm. in 1687 ; died
after 1688. — [Craven's Orkney (1662-88),
113; Brand's Orkney.]
JOHN COBB, M.A. ; formerly min. of
Second Charge, Kirkwall ; intruded
here in 1696, but was received into
communion and re-ord. to this charge (by
Presb. of Glasgow) 2nd April that year;
trans, to St Andrews and Deerness 23rd
July 1700.
RICHARD MEIN, M.A. ; trans, from
1708 Cross anc* Burness ; called 10th Sept.
1700; adm. 13th May 1703; trans.
to South Ronaldsay and Burray 6th May
1719.
1719
JOHN SCOLLAY, born Kirkwall,
son of Malcolm S. of Hunton and
Barbara Elphinston ; educated at
Marischal College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (1708) ;
Master of the Grammar School of Kirk
wall 1711-19: licen. by Presb. of Kirkwall
7th May 1718; pres. by Robert, Earl
of Morton, July, and ord. 23rd Sept.
1719 ; died May 1741. He marr. 13th Dec.
1713, Helen, daugh. of William Orem,
town-clerk of Kirkwall, and Jean Black,
and had issue — John, min. of Kirkwall ;
Robert, min. of this parish ; Barbara ;
David.— [Hossack's Kirkwall, 269, 282.]
ROBERT SCOLLAY, born about 1716,
1748 son °^ Preceding > educated at Univ.
of Edinburgh; M.A. (15th April
1737); first licentiate of the Presb. 27th
July 1739 ; pres. by James, Earl of Morton,
2nd Dec. 1741; ord. 5th May 1743; died
18th Feb. 1763. He marr. (1) Margaret
Traill (died 23rd July 1752) : (2) 4th Sept.
1753, Jean (died at Kirkwall, 12th Nov.
1829, in her 99th year), daugh. of Archibald
Stewart of Brugh, and Isobel Balfour, and
had issue— John, born 9th Oct. 1757, died
5th March 1763 ; Marion, born 21st Oct.
1759, died 21st June 1763 ; Archibald, born
29th July 1760, died 24th Feb. 1762 ; Anna,
born 24th Nov. 1761 (marr. (1) Captain
Wemyss of Carrieston : (2) James Set on of
Drummond, surgeon, Kennoway).
ROBERT TYTLER, born Midmar, 12th
1764 ^an> 1^32' son °^ James T., farmer,
Milton of Corsindae, Aberdeen-
shire ; educated at Marischal College, 1747,
and King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (2nd
April 1752); pres. by James, Earl of
Morton, 1763 ; ord. (by Presb. of Deer) 15th
Feb., and adm. llth July 1764; became
insane and died, 23rd Jan. 1779. He marr.
27th June 1765, Barbara Tytler, who died
27th Feb. 1811, and had issue— George,
born 29th March 1767.
ANDREW DISHINGTON, ord. (assist-
1768 ant) 6th April 1768.— [See infra.]
JOHN ANDERSON, educated at
1?79 Marischal College, Aberdeen ; M.A.
(1756) ; master of the Grammar
School, Kirkwall, May 1769-77; licen.
by Presb. of Kirkwall 3rd Dec. 1777;
assistant in this parish ; pres. by Sir
Laurence Dundas of Kerse, Bart., 14th
June, and ord. 1st Sept. 1779 ; died 23rd Jan.
1804. He marr. 14th July 1789, Margaret
(died at Edinburgh, 18th Jan. 1814), daugh.
of James Izat, hat-maker in the Canongate,
Edinburgh, and had issue — James, born
18th April 1790; Margaret, born 8th
March 1793; Elizabeth, born llth June
1797, died 29th Dec. 1812 ; John, born 18th
Jan. 1799 ; Izat (son) born 7th Dec- 1802.;
William Wemyss (twin), born 7th Dec. 1802.
— [Morrison's Dec., xvii. ; Hossack's Kirk
wall, 271 ; Smith's Church in Orkney, 240.]
ANDREW DISHINGTON, bapt. 8th
Sept. 1744, son of Thomas D., barber
and wig-maker, Kirkwall, and
Barbara Scollay ; educated at Univ. of
Edinburgh ; ord. assistant to Robert Tytler,
min. of this parish, 6th April 1768 ; was
recommended to the patron by the Presb.
for the vacancy at Lady that year, but it
having been discovered that he had made
an irregular marriage, the matter proceeded
no further. He acknowledged his fault
and was severely rebuked; adm. to Mid
and South Yell 30th April 1788 ; declined
a presentation to Birsay and Harray 12th
July 1795 ; pres. by Thomas, Lord Dundas,
in April, trans, and adm. 20th July 1804 ;
died 13th Nov. 1819. He marr. April 1768,
THE NORTH ISLES]
STRONSAY
275
a lady who predeceased him, and had
issue — Catherine, born 22nd Dec. 1768
(marr. James Ross, schoolmaster, Lerwick);
Barbara, born 27th Feb. 1770 (marr. Gilbert
Smith, merchant, Fetlar); Thomas, born
31st Aug. 1771, died 26th March 1772;
Elizabeth, born 8th March 1773; William,
born 24th Aug. 1776; Ann, born 15th
March 1779 (marr. Hector Sutherland,
schoolmaster, Dingwall) ; Thomas, school
master of this parish and a licentiate,
fell into a state of mental imbecility;
Grace (marr. James Sutherland, merchant,
Lerwick) ; Jean, and Margaret (one of
whom had a testimonial from the Presb.,
1st Feb. 1821, representing the destitute
circumstances of the family in order that
assistance might be given by the Aberdeen
Society for relieving the destitute children
of ministers). Publication — Account of the
parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., ii.). — [Hossack's
Kirkwall, 165 ; Smith's Church in Orkney,
242-6.]
JOHN SIMPSON, born Banffshire ;
1820 educated at King's College, Aber
deen ; M.A. (1796) ; licen. by Presb.
of Caithness 6th April 1802; sometime
a private teacher at Kirkwall, and master
of the Grammar School there, 1807-11;
ord. assistant at Sandwick, Orkney, in
1805 ; trans, to Delting 31st March 1819 ;
pres. by Thomas, Lord Dundas, 15th Feb. ;
trans, and adm. 8th Sept. 1820; died at
Kirkwall 5th April 1859. He marr. 30th
Nov. 1816, Margaret (born 23rd Nov. 1770,
died 1st Aug. 1856), daugh. of Thomas
Traill of Holland and Ann Stewart.
JOSEPH CASKEY, born Macausquin,
1847 ^°' Derry, 1819> second son °f Paul
C., farmer, and Jane Crawford ; edu
cated at Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by
Presb. of Glasgow in 1843 ; assistant in this
parish, 1843-5; pres. by Thomas, Earl of Zet
land, and ord. (assistant and successor) 2nd
April 1847; died at Kirkwall 18th May 1904.
He marr. 29th Feb. 1848, Margaret Ann
(died 22nd Dec. 1894), daugh. of William
Black and Margaret Kennedy, and had issue
—William, min. of Orphir ; Margaret Jane,
born 8th Dec. 1851 (marr. James Fraser,
min. of Erchless) ; Isabella, born 8th March
1853, died 9th Oct. 1918 ; Elizabeth, born
16th Aug. 1855; Mary, born 16th Jan.
1857; Letitia, born 13th Nov. 1858 (marr.
Peter Barr Reid, min. of Firth) ; Eleanor
Balfour, born 31st July 1860, died 1st July
1914.
1901
WILLIAM ELMSLIE WILKIE
BROWN DEMPSTER, born Ban-
nockburn, 23rd March 1865, son of
William D., schoolmaster, and Mary Barrie ;
educated at Slamannan School and Univ.
of Edinburgh ; M.A. (1890) ; licen. by Presb.
of Linlithgow 8th May 1890 ; assistant at
St Ninian's ; app. to St John's Chapel,
Haddington, 1893, and ord. there 9th Feb.
1897 ; adm. here (assistant and successor)
llth April 1901 ; dem. 19th May 1919.
Marr. llth Oct. 1898, Isabella Sarah,
daugh. of Robert Fullerton, farmer, Hoard-
wee], Berwickshire, and Isabella Cockburn,
and has issue — Lily Isabella Cockburn,
born 5th Oct. 1899 (marr. 23rd Aug. 1922,
James Alexander Menteith Thomson, C.A.).
Publications— Redburn [by Henry Ochil-
tree], a novel (Paisley, 1895) ; Out of Her
Shroud, a novel (London, 1896).
ROBERT GIBSON, ord. (assist-
1902 ant) under Belhaven Act 26th Nov.
1902 ; res. 1905 [afterwards of Foyers
Mission in 1907].
WALTER JOHN MATHAMS, app.
1005 ordained assistant under Belhaven
Act 19th April 1905 ; adm. to Mallaig
Mission 19th May 1909.
JOHN MACKECHNIE, formerly of
i *7 Buckhaven ; adm. (assistant and
successor) 17th Dec. 1907 ; trans,
to Lairg 2nd Aug. 1912.
GEORGE CAMPBELL, M.A. ; trans.
1918 ^rom Annbank, and adm. (assistant
and successor) 6th Feb. 1913 ; trans,
to Cartsburn, Greenock, 9th May 1916 (cf.
Vol. III., 198) ; adm. to Charteris Memorial,
Edinburgh, 1920 ; trans, to Cranshaws 9th
April 1925.
WILLIAM GREIG STRACHAN,
1920 M--A- ; or(l- 8th May 1920 ; trans, to
Tullynessle 5th June 1924.
276
STRONSAY— WESTRAY
[PRESB. OF
DAVID GRANT MILNE, born Blan-
tyre, 23rd Sept. 1871 [corrected from
Vol. V., 108], son of James M'Vicar
M. and Janet Grant ; educated at St John's
School, Hamilton, and Univ. of Glasgow ;
licen. by Presb. of Hamilton in 1908;
assistant at Abbotshall, Kirkcaldy ; ord. to
Whiteness and Weisdale llth Aug. 1909;
trans, to St James's, Kirkcaldy, 20th Sept.
1918; trans, and adm. 12th Feb. 1925;
trans, to Fisherton 20th April 1928.
WESTRAY, OR THE LADY KIRK
OF WESTRAY, AND THE
CROSS KIRK OF WESTRAY.
[These two parishes were united in the
sixteenth century.
The Lady Kirk of Westray. — This parish
is the northern part of the island of
Westray. Its church, built on the Bay of
Pierowal, was dedicated to St Mary. On
the island of Pa pa- Westray, in this parish,
there was a chapel of St Curadan, known
as the Kirk of How. On that island also
were chapels of St Tridwal and St Nicholas.
The Cross Kirk of Westray. — The ruins
of the Cross Kirk of Westray still stand on
the Bay of Tuquoy. As its name implies,
it was dedicated to the Holy Rood. At
Rapness, within this parish, there is now
a mission chapel.]
WILLIAM BROWN, a Romish priest
who conformed and became reader
here and at Lady, 1561 to 1562.]
JAMES ANNAND, perhaps the student
,_ of that name of whom mention is
made at a visitation of King's College,
Aberdeen, in 1549, and he may be " Dominus
James A." who witnessed a deed relating
to the Dempster family, in 1547, as recorded
in the Register of the Diocese of Brechin ;
belonged to the family of Annand of
Auchterellon, Aberdeenshire ; was a priest
in the Romish Church holding the prebend
of St John at Kirkwall previous to 1560 ;
became chancellor of Orkney and had the
benefices of Lady and Cross in Sanday,
St Mary's in Westray, Papa-Westray, and
North Ronaldsay. Conforming to Protest
antism he was app. by the General Assembly
in 1576 co - commissioner with Gilbert
Foulzie for the planting of churches
wherever necessary. He resided in Kirk-
wall in what of old was known as the
' Laverock " [now Victoria Street], and was
alive in 1605. He was pioneer of the
Reformed Church in Orkney. — [Craven's
Hist, of the Church in Orkney (1558-1662),
35, 111 ; Hossack's Kirkwall, 229 ; Peterkin's
Notes, App., 58.]
LAURENCE YOUNG, reader here and
1574 at Lady in 1574.
ANDREW PITCAIRN, min. in 1585
158g and still in the charge in 1591. He
never celebrated the Communion,
and his name seldom occurs in the Record.
ALLAN BUTTON [or HUTON], min.
1598 of Thurso in 1589; trans, and adm.
about 1593; died Sept. 1635. In
1627 the number of communicants in the
island was 430, and in Papa-Westray 64.
He was then aged and infirm, with " ane
impotencie in his sight," and "if anything
be inorderly done" it was to be "excuissit
in respect of the infirmitie of our pastour."
He marr. Jean Gibb, who survived him.—
[MS. Receipts for Stipend; Peterkin's
Rentals; Orkney Tests.; P. C. Reg., ix.,
845.]
DAVID WATSON, born 1603 ; educated
1635 at Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A. (1618);
appears first as servitor to Bishop
Grahame ; was schoolmaster of Kirkwall in
1622; also reader there and called "vicar
of St Ola" in a deed which he witnessed
18th Aug. 1624 ; adm. to Rousay and
Egilsay before 8th Nov. 1626; pres. by
Charles I. 18th Aug. 1635 ; trans, and adm.
soon after ; opposed the wearing of the
crucifix and surplice as enjoined by Bishop
Grahame ; was a member of the Glasgow
Assembly of 1638 when he was one of the two
chief accusers of the Bishop ; probably dep.
with other Orkney mins. for signing a loyal
address to James, Marquess of Montrose ;
died about 1655. He took an active part
in the witchcraft prosecutions of the period.
— A son, Henry, was served heir 17th Feb.
THE NORTH ISLES ]
WESTRAY
277
1687.— [Orkney Tests. ; Inq. Ret. Gen., 6807 ;
SkaiH Charters ; Hossack's Kirkwall, 47 ;
Craven's Orkney (1558-1662), 181, 184, 225 ;
P. C. Reg., 2nd ser., vii., 635.]
JAMES HEART, called Nov. 1656;
1657 adm. (at Shapinsay) 3rd June 1657 ;
trans, to Shapinsay in 1689.
THOMAS FULLERTON of Kinnaber,
1689 k°rn ! 663> son °f John F. of Kinnaber,
Montrose; educated at King's Col
lege, Aberdeen; MA. (20th Aug. 1680);
app. schoolmaster at Kirkwall 4th July
1684, whilst still a student of divinity ;
ord. (at Kirkwall) before 4th Jan. 1688,
when he preached his first sermon in St
Magnus Kirk (Colossians, iv. 3) ; pres. by
Andrew, Bishop of Orkney, and inst. May
1689 ; accused of " negligence, insufficiency,
of being an enemy to Church and State,
and making reproachful rhymes against
the present ministry''; dem. 22nd June
1698. He probably retired to his estate
of Kinnaber ; was alive in 1730, assisting
Bishop Gadderer of Aberdeen at an ordina
tion service, and described as " an old man
sometime minister in the Orkneys." He
was a popular figure during his residence
in Kirkwall, encouraging school games, and
procuring an order from the Kirk-Session
that there is "none in toun or paroch that
marries but shall pay a foot ball to the
scholars of the Grammar School " [this " ba'
money " was regularly paid, being included
in the Registrar's fees, down to the passing
of the Registration Act 1st Jan. 1853.] In
Oct. 1699, he was admitted "a free burgess
and guild - brother of Kirkwall as being
old schoolmaster of this Brugh." He marr.
2nd Jan. 1690, Catherine, daugh. of Gordon
of Cairston, and widow of John Spence,
min. of Firth. — [Hossack's Kirkwall, 267 ;
Kirkivall Marr. Reg.~\
WILLIAM BLAW, born 1673, son or
16gg grandson of Edward B., notary
public, Kirkwall (first of the family
in Orkney); ord. 23rd Sept. 1699; died
between 26th March and 30th April 1734.
A story (giving origin to the song " The
Cameronian Cat") that he hanged his cat
for killing a mouse on the Sunday is no
doubt groundless. He marr. Mary, daugh.
of George Traill of Holland, and had issue
—James [father of Dr B., a well-known
physician in Kirkwall] ; Janet (marr. 22nd
Nov. 1741, James Spence, town-clerk of
Kirkwall), died aged 93 ; Elizabeth (marr.
Thomas Mackenzie, merchant, Kirkwall) ;
Jane (marr. 21st Jan. 1737, Andrew Cowan,
min. of this parish) ; Marjory (inarr. 9th
Nov. 1742, Thomas Traill of Tirlot).—
[Hogg's Jacobite Relics, i., 37 ; Peterkin's
Rentals, iii., 36 ; Hossack's Kirkwall, 198 ;
Traill Genealogy, 27 ; Tombst.]
ANDREW COWAN, Keen, by Presb. of
1785 Dunbar 3rd June 1719 ; assistant at
Westray ; pres. by George, Earl of
Morton, Nov. 1734 ; ord. 27th June 1735 ;
died 28th July 1760. He marr. 21st Jan.
1735, Jane (died 5th May 1785), daugh. of
William Blaw, min. of this parish, and had
issue— David, died 24th June 1746'; Jean,
born 10th March 1747 ; Archibald, died
21st Aug. 1749 ; Mary, died 29th Aug.
1749; Archibald, born 17th Sept. 1750,
died 3rd May 1751.
NICOL SPENCE, born Kirkwall ; licen.
1761 by Presl:)- of Kirkwall 4th June 1740 ;
ord. min. of a Presbyterian congre
gation at Ramsgate, Kent, 6th May 1742 ;
pres. by James, Earl of Morton, in Jan.,
and adm. 22nd July 1761 ; died 25th April
1783. He marr. Jacobina Keith, who died
17th July 1784, probably daugh. of John
Keith, min. of Walls, and had issue — John,
born 29th March 1744, died 16th March
1765 ; George, died 4th Oct. 1761 ; Jean,
born 17th May 1749, died 12th April 1765 ;
Elizabeth, born 10th Sept. 1751 ; Anna,
born 6th March 1753, died 3rd June 1767 ;
Margaret, born 6th June 1755 ; Catherine,
born 24th Oct. 1757 ; George, born 3rd May
1762, died 16th Nov. 1763; David (twin),
born 3rd May 1762.
JAMES IZAT, pres. by Sir Thomas
1784 Dundas of Kerse, Bart., 28th Aug.
1783; ord. 15th April 1784; died
19th May 1805. He marr. 1st Jan. 1797,
Mary (died 12th July 1821), daugh. of
Archibald Stewart of Brugh and Isobel
Balfour. Publication — Account of the
Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., xvi.).
278
WESTRAY [PRESB. OF THE NOKTH ISLES
JOHN ARMIT of Polduff, Fife, born
1805 1767, son of A. of Polduff; edu
cated at Grammar School and Univ.
of St Andrews ; licen. by that Presb. 31st
Aug. 1796; ord. (assistant) to preceding
min. 19th Nov. 1804 ; adm. min. of this
parish 19th July 1805 ; died at Polduff 12th
Oct. 1841. He marr. 5th Aug. 1806, Jean
(died 25th May 1838), daugh. of Spence
Oliphant, min. of Largo, and had issue-
Robert, farmer, Weyland, Kirkwall, born
12th June 1810, died in Kirkwall ; a daugh.
(marr. John Bruce, Kirkwall), died about
1870 ; Fotheringham, born 5th May 1808 ;
Catherine Spence, born 13th July 1818;
John Oliphant, born 17th April 1821 ;
Christian Rankin, born 2nd July 1823.
Publication— Account of the Parish (New
Stat. Ace., xv.).
1834
GEORGE RITCHIE, M.A.; pres. by
Laurence, Lord Dundas, 9th April,
and ord. (assistant and successor)
25th June 1834; trans, to Rousay and
Egilsay 24th Aug. 1837.
JAMES BROTCHIE, born Kirkwall,
Ig38 1813, son of B., and brother of
Robert B. of Swannay, Birsay ; edu
cated at Grammar School, Kirkwall, King's
College, Aberdeen, 1827-31, and Univ. of
Edinburgh ; app. schoolmaster of Rousay
in 1832 ; licen. by Presb. of North Isles
in 1835 ; pres. by Laurence, Lord Dundas,
4th Dec. 1837 ; ord. (assistant and successor)
21st April 1838 ; died unmarr. at Leith,
14th Feb. 1872. Publications— The Church
and Dissenters, a lecture (n.p., n.d.) ; Signs
of the Second Coming of the Son of Man,
a discourse (Edinburgh, 1846).
GEORGE SMITH, born 1824, son of
1872 George S., farmer, New Byth ; edu
cated at Marischal College, Aber
deen ; M.A. 1845 ; ord. to Clova 26th Feb.
1857 ; trans, and adm. 26th Sept. 1872 ;
dem. 12th May 1892 ; went to Canada and
died 28th April 1910. He marr. 6th Oct.
1857, Jessie Lindsay, who died 13th Nov.
1911, and had issue — George Arbuthnott,
born 10th July 1858 ; Andrew Lindsay,
born 12th July 1860 ; Jessie Amelia, born
17th Jan. 1864; William Strahan, born
12th June 1867. — [Smith's Church in
Orkney, 308.J
ALEXANDER PATERSON, M.A. ;
1892 Orc^ (assistant and successor) 28th
J Sept. 1892 ; trans, to New Byth 27th
Dec. 1918.
ALEXANDER CAMERON, born
1920 Greenock 186l?' son °f James 0. and
Mary M'Dougal; educated at Univ.
of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Greenock ;
assistant at Campbeltown ; ord. to Ann-
bank 26th April 1900; trans, to Inver-
chaolain 3rd Aug. 1910; dem. 16th Oct.
1917 ; adm. here 21st April 1920; dem. 3rd
Oct. 1921, and went to Grenada (q.v.) ; died
there 23rd Feb. 1923. He marr. 25th Dec.
1911, Annie Stewart, daugh. of John
Kimmet, and had issue — Mary Murdoch,
born 24th June 1912 ; Christina Murdoch,
born 19th June 1915 ; Dorothy Murdoch,
born 1st May 1922.— [Tombst. at Grenada.]
DONALD ALLAN CAMERON, trans,
from South Knapdale and adm.
' 10th May 1922 ; trans, to Evie 16th
June 1925.
[Parish vacant 1926.]
SYNOD OF SHETLAND
THE General Assembly erected this Court on 31st May 1830. Until 1848
the Synod contained only the two Presbyteries of Lerwick and Burravoe.
The meetings of Synod are held at Lerwick.
PRESBYTERY OF LERWICK, CALLED OF OLD SHETLAND,
AND LATER SCALLOWAY
[On 15th June 1646 this Court, then styled the Presbytery of Shetland, was annexed
to the Synod of Sutherland and Caithness. The settlement thus arrived at was of but
short duration. On 9th August 1648 the Presbytery was taken out of that Northern
Synod, and made directly subject to the authority of the General Assembly without any
Synodal oversight. On 23rd March 1704 this Presbytery of Shetland or Scalloway was
joined a second time to the Synod of Sutherland and Caithness. It so remained until
13th May 1715, when it was brought once more under the direct control of the General
Assembly as a single, separate Presbytery. On 31st May 1830 the Synod of Shetland
was set up, and this local Court was incorporated in it. The Presbytery Register
commences on 14th June 1700.]
BRESSAY, BURRA AND QUARFF
[The church of Bressay was dedicated to
St Mary. In the sixteenth century, the
three parishes of Bressay, Quarff, and
Burra were united. In 1833, Quarff and
Burra were severed again from Bressay,
and became a united parish quoad sacra
apart from it. In Bressay were the follow
ing three chapels : St John's at Kirkabister,
St Olaf 's at Gunnista, and the Kirk of Noss.
The finely carved monument, known as the
Bressay Stone, now in the Museum of the
Society of Antiquaries in Edinburgh, was
brought from the ancient burial-ground of
this parish at Kolbeinsbroch. Dr Zachary
M. Hamilton, minister of Bressay, found it
there, beside the ruined church of St Mary,
in 1864. It is a cross slab of Pictish design,
with an inscription in ogham writing.]
JOHN MAKQUHAILL [MACKAIL],
1567 reader in 1567.
ALEXANDER PORTEOUS, reader in
1576 1576.
WILLIAM UMPHRAY, min. in 1581.
1581 *n ^e year 163^' ^av^n8 " served the
cure for fifty-four years or thereby
and through the long vacancies before his
entry," because of " the meanness and want
of competent maintenance for serving the
cure of the same," he bequeathed, for the
maintenance of a reader and other pious
purposes, the interest of £100 Scots and the
rent of four merks land in Bressay, and on
18th March 1637, he further bequeathed for
the same purposes the interest of £120
Scots and the rent of eight merks udal land
in Meall in Burra. He had a brother
David.
280
BRESSAY, BURRA AND QUARFF
[PKESB. OF
WILLIAM UMPHRAY, probably son
of preceding ; educated at Marischal
College, Aberdeen, 1632 ; acknow
ledged receipt of the Covenant " by ticket "
to James Heind, min. of Kirkwall, about
1639 ; died after 18th Jan. 1668. He marr.
Janet, daugh. of John Umphray of Asta,
and had issue— William, who went abroad;
Laurence, min. of Walls ; Theodore, min.
of Nesting; Katherine, born 1622 (marr.
Gilbert Neven of Scousburgh), died March
1691; Janet (marr. Andrew Umphray of
Berry) ; Barbara. — [Original Dispositions,
dated 1661.]
HUGH LEIGH, a native of Moray;
iffjo educated at Univ. and King's College,
Aberdeen; M.A. (19th July 1666);
adm. to this parish in 1670. After diligent
inquiry, he conformed to Presbyterianism,
and petitioned the General Assembly, with
five others, Jan. 1698, that he might be
received into Presbyterian communion, on
which he was adm. 23rd June following.
He was suspended in 1702 for beating his
wife, but reponed by a committee of
Synod Aug. 1704; died Jan. 1714, aged
about 68. He marr. (1) (cont. 28th Sept.
1670) Marjorie, daugh. of Robert Gifford
of Busta, and had issue— Robert, died at
Kirkwall, 8th Oct. 1683 ; John : (2) Eliza
beth, daugh. of Laurence Williamson, ship
master, Bressay, and had issue— Elizabeth
(marr. Robert Craigie, merchant, Lerwick).
—[Kirkivall Sess. Reg. ; Inq. Ret. Orkney,
143 ; Reg. of Deeds, Durie, 9th July 1672.
Zetland Family Hist., 84.]
JOHN DUNCAN, born Aberdeen, 4th
Oct. 1676, son of Alexander D.,
merchant, and town sergeant, Aber
deen ; educated at Marischal College, Aber
deen ; M.A. (1699); licen. by Presb. of
Aberdeen 1st Aug. 1705 ; called in Feb.,
and ord. (at Culbinsburgh) 23rd March
1715 ; died 1st March 1736. He marr.
(1) 29th April 1717, Katherine, daugh.
of Thomas Robertson of Lochbank, and
had issue — Alexander, merchant, Aber
deen ; James, wright in Edinburgh, born
1718; John, born 1720; Elizabeth, born
1725 ; Ann, born 1727 (marr. (1) Mr Home,
and (2) Harry Spens, min. of Wemyss),
died 1799 ; Christian (marr. 4th June 1749,
Patrick Somerville, lint dresser in Edin
burgh) : (2) (pro. 19th July 1730) Margaret,
daugh. of Robert Jackson of Lochhouses,
and had issue — Jane ; Gideon, born 1733,
went to Algiers. — [Duncan's Life of Dimcan;
Index to Services ; Edin. Marr. Reg. ; Reg.
of Deeds, Dal., clxvi., 9th Oct. 1749.]
MATTHEW MONCREIFF (cf. Vol.
1787 V., 126), licen. by Presb. of Edin
burgh 24th June 1730; ord. by a
committee of the Commission of Assembly
at Auchtermuchty, 19th April 1734, whose
settlement was reversed by the succeeding
Assembly. Called to this parish 21st
July, and adm. 14th Sept. 1737 ; dep. 8th
May 1754 for deserting his charge, but
reponed by the Assembly 2nd June after ;
he dem. same day, which was accepted,
and was officiating as minister at Etal,
Northumberland (q.v.), 1st Oct. following. —
[The Priests of Etal, 41; Acts of Ass., 1734,
1752, 1755, etc.]
FRANCIS GILBERT, born 1724 ; licen.
by Presb. of Linlithgow 9th Sept.
1747; called 30th July, and ord.
(assistant and successor) 27th Sept. 1752;
died on a voyage from Leith to Shetland
2nd May 1758. He marr. 31st July 1754,
Helen Hutchison, who survived him only
twenty-eight days, and had issue — Dorothea
Ann, born 2nd Aug. 1755 ; Katherine, born
8th Sept. 1756.
JAMES ALISON, pres. by James, Earl
of Morton, Oct. 1758 ; ord. 29th
1759 March 1759 ; trans, to Holm 25th
Aug. 1762.
PATRICK MAIR, born 1735; licen. by
Presb. of Cairston 26th Nov. 1760;
1768 ord. (assistant) at Sand wick 16th
Sept. 1762; pres. by James, Earl of Morton,
16th Aug. that year, and adm. 12th June
1763; died llth April 1790. He marr.
6th Dec. 1768, Grizel, daugh. of James Bolt
of Cruister, and had issue— William, born
23rd March 1770, died 1777 ; Peter, born
25th Aug. 1771 ; Janet, born 1st May 1773 ;
Grizel, born 16th May 1774, died 14th
1752
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BRESSAY, BURRA AND QUARFF
281
March 1775; James, born 27th April 177(5;
Andrew, born 29th July 1777; Thomas,
born 10th Dec. 1778; Elizabeth, born 10th
June 1780.
WALTER TRAILL of Westove, pres.
by Sir Thomas Dundas, Bart., in
1790 Aug., and ord. 16th Sept. 1790;
pres. to Ladykirk in Sanday, and dem.
31st July 1791.
JOHN MENZIES, pres. by Sir Thomas
Dundas in March, and ord. 9th May
' 1792; trans, to Lerwick 28th Feb.
1799.
THOMAS MACFARLANE, M.A.;
pres. by Thomas, Lord Dundas, in
Aug., and adm. 5th Sept. 1799;
adm. to Edinkillie 1st Oct. 1807.
JOHN FLEMING, called 6th Aug.,
and ord. 22nd Sept. 1808 ; dem. 28th
Nov. 1810 ; adm. to Flisk 18th April
1811.
GEORGE MARSHALL, trans, from
Houndwood ; pres. by Thomas, Lord
Dundas, in Feb., and adm. 14th May
1811 ; trans, to Flisk 7th June 1833.
ZACHARY MACAULAY HAMILTON,
born Hoy, 12th Jan. 1805, fifth son
of Gavin H., min. of Hoy and
Graemsay, and Penelope Macaulay; licen.
by Presb. of Cairston 27th June 1826; ord.
assistant at Walls and Flotta 15th Oct.
1828 ; pres. by Laurence, Lord Dundas, in
May, and adm. 30th Aug. 1833 ; elected
clerk of Synod 24th April 1834 and again in
1845 ; app. clerk of Presb. in 1859 ; D.D.
(Edinburgh, 1864); died 17th July 1876.
He marr. (1) 1832, Ann Irvine (died 28th
Nov. 1839, aged 26), daugh. of Robert
Crookshank,Stromness, and Barbara Strang,
and had issue — Wilhelmina, born 3rd Jan.
1833, died young; Gavin, died young;
Anne Helen, bom 21st May 1835 (marr.
12th May 1868 Charles Hay, banker, Edin
burgh), died 17th June 1921 ; Sir Robert
George Crookshank, K.C.B., LL.D., Under
secretary for Ireland, 1882, Governor of
Tasmania, 1886, Chairman of Board of
Customs, 1894, born 30th Aug. 1836, died
22nd April 1895 ; Margaret Lendrum Logie,
born 3rd April 1838 (marr. 6th Oct. 1862,
David Charles Edmondston of Buness),
died 2nd Dec. 1871 ; Penelope, born 4th
April 1839 (marr. Sept. 1871, Laurence
Edmondston of Halligarth, M.D.), died
25th Sept. 1888 : (2) 14th April 1846, Eliza
(died 8th March 1898), daugh. of Captain
William Mouat Cameron of Annsbrae and
Margaret Mouat of Garth, and had issue-
William Cameron, in Vancouver Island,
born 27th Nov. 1847 ; Wilhelmina Margaret
Anne, born 2nd May 1849 (marr. Sept. 1888,
Robert Donald, M.D., London, died at
Barnes 15th Feb. 1924); Thomas Mouat
Cameron, born 6th Jan. 1851, died 14th
April 1864 ; Zachary Macaulay, factor on
Garth estates, born 3rd April 1855, died
23rd Dec. 1905.— {Zetland Family Hist.,
117.]
JAMES KIDD, born 8th Feb. 1826, only
_ son of James K., beadle, New Deer,
and Joan Henderson ; was sometime
teacher at New Byth ; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (1851) ; licen. by
Presb. of Turriff 30th June 1858 ; ord. to
Richmond, New Brunswick, 10th Dec.
1861 ; was in a charge in Ontario in 1869 ;
returned home and became assistant at
Largs; adm. 1st March 1877; died 17th
May 1894. He marr. 23rd Aug. 1872,
Elizabeth Lillian Neal, Richmond, New
Brunswick (died 26th May 1926), and had
issue— James William, born 6th Aug. 1873 ;
Samuel Neal Theodore, born 16th May
1878.
ROBERT LITTLEJOHN BARR, ord.
20th Sept. 1894; trans, to Kinellar
: 17th May 1899.
GAVIN WARNOCK, M.A.,B.D. ; trans,
from Toward Chapel 14th Sept.
1899; trans, to Bellshill 5th June
1901.
JOHN MORRISON, M.A., B.D. ; ord.
20th Sept. 1901 ; trans, to Edinkillie
16th July 1909.
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DUNROSSNESS AND FAIR ISLE
[PRESB. OF
DAVID CRAWFORD, ord. 27th Oct.
1909 1909 ' trans- to Mid mar 5th July
1917; trans, to Cortachy 24th Aug.
1927.
WILLIAM SCOTT, born 24th Sept.
1917 1882, son of Robert S., D.D., min.
of Craig ; educated at Craig School,
Montrose Academy, Univs. of Edinburgh,
MA. (1902), LL.B. (1905), and St Andrews,
B.D. (1917) ; licen. by Presb. of St Andrews
in 1917 ; assistant at Strathyre ; ord. 25th
Sept. 1917; trans, to Ednam 17th April
1925. Marr. 4th March 1918, Mary Douglas,
daugh. of Robert Archibald, solicitor,
Hamilton.
DAVID DUTHIE M'LAREN, M.A.,
1925 B.D., formerly min. of Monifieth (cf.
Vol. V., 364); trans, from Delting
and adm. here 12th Aug. 1925; trans, to
Kennethmont 10th March 1927.
DUNROSSNESS AND FAIR ISLE.
[These parishes were united in the six
teenth century. In 1600, or very soon
after that, Sandwick and Cunningsburgh
were joined with them, making a union
of four parishes. The united parishes
of Sandwick and Cunningsburgh were
severed again quoad sacra from Dunross-
ness and Fair Isle 24th Oct. 1870.
Dunrossness. — There has been much
controversy as to the patron saint of Dun
rossness. The likeliest account seems to
be that which states that the parish church
was dedicated to St Matthew. At St
Ninian's Isle, on the western coast of
Dunrossness, there stood a chapel of St
Ninian. In its burial ground, in 1875,
Gilbert Goudie discovered several stones
inscribed in ogham writing. At Clumlie,
also in this parish, there was a chapel of
St Columba. At Bigton now stands a
mission chapel.
Fair Isle.— The old church of this parish
was dedicated to the Holy Rood. The
church of Fair is now in use as a mission
chapel.]
JOHN CRABB, reader from 1567 till
1567 his death Nov. 1571.
JOHN KINGSONE [or KINGSTOUN],
157l entered Nov. 1571, having Cunnings
burgh and Sandwick also in his
charge ; removed to Sandwick before 1574.
— [Reg. Min.]
MALCOLM SINCLAIR of Quendale,
IS75 reader, born 1545, probably son of
James S. of Brew ; pres. to the
vicarage by James VI. 29th Dec. 1575, and
continued in 1601 : was ordered by the Privy
Council to find security for £1000 Scots,
6th June 1597 ; app. a Commissioner of
Peace 28th June 1609, and to apprehend
rebels who may proceed to Zetland on 10th
August 1614; died 6th Jan. 1618, and
was buried in Cross Kirkyard. He marr.
Margaret, daugh. of Sutherland of Forse, and
had issue — James of Quendale ; William ;
George of Craigends and Rapness in Ork
ney; Malcolm; Michael; Elizabeth (marr.
Patrick Forbes) ; Margaret (marr. 1593,
Michael Balf our of Garth, Orkney) ; Isabel
(marr. Duncan Scollay of Hermansgarth) ;
Helen (marr. Robert Swinton, min. of
Walls); Janet (marr. John Neven of Scous-
burgh). — [Reg. Assig.; Zetland Family
Hist., 292.]
LAURENCE SINCLAIR, reader at
1610 Cross Kirk and Fair Isle in 1575;
pres. to the vicarage in 1610; was
probably a brother of preceding.
WILLIAM MOFFAT, first mentioned
1Q13 as min. in 1613 ; still in the charge
10th Nov. 1624. He had issue-
William.— [Shet. Sas.]
NICOL WHYTE, educated at Univ. of
1625 Edinburgh; M.A. (27th July 1616);
adm. in 1625; still min. 9th March
1656. He marr. Euphan Cranston, who
died 6th June 1640, and had issue —
William ; James ; John, alive in 1671 ;
Katherine ; Barbara ; Isabel ; Euphan. —
[Orkney Pres. ; Shetland Tests, and Sas.]
JAMES FORBES, MA. (St Andrews,
1662 25th July 1657) ; had sasine of the
lands of Browabreck on disposition,
by Adam Sinclair of Brew, 12th June 1678.
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283
His widow bequeathed certain lands for the
benefit of widows in this parish. — [Syn.
(Orkney Presb.) Reg. ; Shetland Sas. ; Mill's
Diary.]
JAMES KAY, born about 1656, son of
John K., bailie of Kirkvvall ; edu
cated at Univ. of St Andrews ;
M.A. (26th July 1673) ; became chaplain
to Archibald Stewart of Burray in 1676 ;
ord. to Second Charge, Kirk wall, 4th May
1681 ; trans, and adm. in 1682. He
petitioned the General Assembly, with five
others, Jan. 1698, to be admitted into
communion, and having disclaimed Epis
copacy, and stated that he never had any
hand in the late persecutions, he was
received 23rd June following ; died 15th
Sept. 1716. He left a manuscript account
of the parish. He marr. Barbara, daugh.
of William Bruce of Sumburgh, and had
issue — Barbara (marr. Thomas Waldie,
min. of Lerwick) ; Elizabeth (marr. (1)
Laurence Craigie of Stebbiegrind : (2)
John Graham, min. of Fetlar).— [Zetland
Family Hist., 23.]
WALTER HUGENS, M.A. ; pres. by
Robert, Earl of Morton, 5th Dec.
1717 ; ord. (in the kirkyard of Sand-
wick for lack of a building) 4th Aug. 1720 ;
trans, to Sandsting 21st Nov. 1733.
WILLIAM MAXWELL, M.A. ; called
17S5 in April, and adm. 14th May 1735.
He complained to the General As
sembly, 13th May 1740, of the ruinous
state of the kirk, want of manse, glebe,
grass, and non-payment of stipend ; trans,
to Rutherglen 19th Aug. 1742.
JOHN MILL [originally MILNE], born
23rd Feb. 1712, son of James M.,
min. of Lerwick ; educated at
Marischal College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1732);
schoolmaster at Cullen for seven years ;
licen. by Presb. of Fordyce 14th Nov. 1739 ;
assistant at Pitsligo for sixteen months ;
pres. by James, Earl of Morton, and called
19th Oct. 1742 ; ord. 27th April 1743 ; died
13th Feb. 1805, the last survivor of the
original contributors to the Ministers'
Widows' Fund [commenced 25th March
1744]. He left a curious and interesting
1720
1743
diary, published by the Scottish History
Society in 1889. In July 1799, James
Haldane preached at Dunrossness, and
after service M. stood up [he was then
88 years of age], and in a commanding
tone warned the people " to take heed to
the words they had heard, more especially
as this visit was a new and unheard-of
occurrence in their history." It is said
that as M. went up to the pulpit and
Haldane came down, "the two men met
upon the stairs and embraced each other
affectionately with many tears, and that
this sight produced a profound impres
sion upon the congregation." During the
delivery of his discourse, Haldane broke
one of the brackets of the book-board by
a vigorous blow, and M. refused to allow
it to be mended that it might remain as
a memorial of the great evangelist's visit.
He marr. (1) 2nd Oct. 1754, Elizabeth
(died 9th Feb. 1758, and buried at Lerwick),
third daugh. of Bailie Andrew Thomson,
Edinburgh, and had issue— Helen, born
5th Aug. 1755 (marr. 20th Nov. 1777,
George Tocher, merchant, Aberdeen) ;
Bell, born 23rd Feb. 1757, died unmarr.
27th April 1798 : (2) 29th June 1765, Ann
(died at Prestonpans, 29th June 1816),
daugh. of Robert Young, portioner at the
Water of Leith. Publication— The Holy
Catholic Church of Christ delineated in
her Faith and Practice, agreeable to the
Word of God and Sound Reason, or a View
of the Leading Doctrines and Duties of
Christianity digested under proper heads
with a Sacred Hymn annexed to each
article (Anon.), "by a Minister of the
Established Church" (John Reid, Edin
burgh, 1772) [only one copy is known to
be extant— formerly in the possession of
Gilbert Goudie] ; Account of the Parish
(Sinclair's Stat. Ace., vii.).— [Mill's Diary
[edited by Gilbert Goudie] (Scot. Hist.
Soc., Edinburgh, 1889) ; Willcock's A Shet
land Minister of the Eighteenth Century
(Kirkwall, 1897).]
JOHN DUNCAN, born in parish of
Cruden, 1777; educated at King's
' College, Aberdeen ; licen. by Presb.
of Lerwick 7th June 1798 ; ord. (assistant
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DUNROSSNESS AND FAIR ISLE
[PRESB. OF
and successor) in parish of Bressay 21st
April 1802 ; pres. by Thomas, Lord Dundas,
and adm. 27th June 1805; drowned in the
wreck of the Doris at Cruden Bay on her
passage to Shetland, 22nd Feb. 1813, and
buried at Cruden. He marr. 8th Oct. 1807,
Elspeth (died 24th Oct. 1810), daugh. of
Patrick Barclay, min. of Sandsting, and had
issue — Isabel Barclay, born 3rd Oct. 1808,
died 15th Sept. 1854; Wilhelmina Jean,
born 9th July 1810.— [Jervise's Epitaphs,
i., 316; Tombst.}
JAMES DENOON, M.A. ; pres. by
Thomas, Lord Dundas, in July, and
ord. 22nd Sept. 1813 ; trans, to
Kingarth 25th April 1822.
1813
THOMAS BARCLAY, M.A. ; pres. by
Laurence, Lord Dundas, and ord.
! 12th Sept. 1822 ; trans, to Lerwick
13th Dec. 1827.
1828
DAVID THOMSON, bapt. 12th Aug.
1759, son of John T. in Auchter-
muchty ; studied divinity at Univ.
of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of Cupar ;
ord. to Walls and Sandness 18th April
1787 ; pres. by Laurence, Lord Dundas,
1st Feb., and adm. 1st May 1828 ; died 5th
Oct. 1841. He marr. 29th May 1791, Eliza
beth (died 4th Dec. 1849), youngest daugh.
of Arthur Nicolson of Lochend, and had
issue — John, purser R.N., born 2nd April
1792 ; Margaret, born 21st June 1793 ;
Janet, born 22nd Nov. 1795, died llth
June 1827 ; Arthur, born 25th Dec. 1797 ;
Grizel, born 22nd Sept. 1801 ; Elizabeth
Dempster, born 14th Feb. 1805; Thomas
James, born 14th Aug. 1807 ; David, in
army, born 28th Sept. 1811. Publications
— Accounts of Walls and Sandness, and of
Dunrossness (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., xx., and
New Stat. Ace., xv.).— [Tombst.]
JOHN CHARTERIS, born 1792, son of
John C., farmer, and Jane Bryden ;
became a missionary in 1837 ; ord.
(assistant and successor) 16th Sept. 1841 ;
died at Fair Isle 16th June 1858.
JAMES PROPHIT, M.A. ; pres. by
Thomas, Earl of Zetland, and ord.
30th Sept. 1858 ; trans, to St Mungo,
Dumfriesshire, 30th Oct. 1868.
WILLIAM BRAND, born 28th Jan.
1835, son of William B., Old Mill
of Fearn, Forfarshire ; educated at
King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (March
1854); licen. by Presb. of Kincardine O'Neil
in 1859; ord. (assistant and successor) to
Sandwick 16th June 1865 ; pres. by Thomas,
Earl of Zetland, and adm. 25th Feb. 1869 ;
died at Darlington, 7th Jan. 1915. He
marr. (1) 29th June 1865, Mary (died 21st
Feb. 1900), daugh. of Robert Machray,
advocate, Aberdeen, and had issue — Mary,
born 20th Sept. 1866 ; Jane Amelia, born
2nd June 1870 (marr. 25th June 1901,
George Leslie of Laxfirth) ; William, born
19th Sept. 1872 : (2) 25th Aug. 1904, Mary
M'Kinnell (died 18th Feb. 1923), eldest
daugh. of Thomas Crichton Taylor, surgeon,
Newcastleton.
ROBERT LOGAN, elected (assistant
lgll and successor) 14th Aug. 1911; trans.
from Hallside and adm. 13th Oct.
that year ; trans, to Trinity, Aberdeen, 4th
Jan. 1923.
DONALD CAMPBELL BRYCE
1923 GORDON, formerly min. of Milton,
Glasgow (q.v.) ; adm. 8th May 1923 ;
Ph.D. (Edinburgh, 1925); trans, to Fraser-
burgh, 24th Nov. 1926. Marr. 28th April
1923, Sarah Kirk, youngest daugh. of
William Ballantyne, Edinburgh and Bo'ness,
and has issue — John Macllrick Kirk
Ballintine, born 18th March 1924 ; Isabella
Kirk, born 2nd Nov. 1925.
MILLAR OGILVIE, born Leith, 6th
1927 March 1895, son of James O. and J.
M'K. M'L. Robertson ; educated at
Leith Academy and Univ. of Edinburgh,
M.A. (1925); licen. by Presb. of Lerwick
May 1927 ; assistant at Tron Church, Edin
burgh ; ord. 12th May 1927. Marr. 7th May
1927, Catherine, daugh. of James Wa
and Margaret Robertson.
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FAIR ISLE, FOULA AND
SKERRIES.
[These islands, all lying remote from
each other as well as from the mainland
of Shetland, were erected into a ministerial
charge under an itinerating missionary
of the Koyal Bounty about 1730. The
charge, which was quite unworkable, was
finally abolished in 1794. On 17th Sept.
1588, the El Gran Grifon, one of the ships
of the Spanish Armada, was wrecked in
Sivars Geo, in Fair Isle.]
JAMES WILLIAMSON, appointed
„ previous to 1731 ; had sasine of
the lands of Haggersta to himself
and his wife in 1744. He marr. Margaret
Leslie, and had issue — Thomas; Margaret,
bapt. 14th July 1731 ; Barbara ; Christian
(marr., pro. 28th Aug. 1768, James Walker,
wright, Edinburgh).
GEORGE REID, ord. 16th Nov. 1743;
1743 pres. to Nesting 4th April 1750.
ALEXANDER PITCAIRN, ord. 1st Jan.
1752 1752 ; pres. to Shapinsay in 1758.
JOHN SHEPHERD, formerly
1758 missionary at Braemar.
ARCHIBALD GRAY, M.A. ; ord. 14th
I7g4 March 1794; trans, to Unst 7th
Aug. that year.
LERWICK.
[There appears to have been a church
erected in Lerwick some time before 1685.
It was under repair in 1688. A sort of
irregular ministry seems to have continued
until 1701. The parish was disjoined from
Tingwall shortly after 6th March 1701 with
a stipend of 800 merks Scots (£44, 8s. 10?5d.),
500 being granted from the bishop's rents
by the King and 300 from the town. A
further disjunctionof Sound and Gulberwick
was made in 1722 and added to this charge.
The present church was opened on 22nd
March 1829.]
ROBERT RAMSAY, called "preacher
in Lerwick " at 6th Jan. 1685, when
Henry Smyth, dyer, petitioned R.
and " remanest members of the Session
for ane competent room in the church of
Lerwick for erecting and building ane desk
[seat]." He became min. of Mid Yell in
1689.
JOHN CARNEGIE [afterwards at
1699 Fetlar].
JOHN CRAIGIE, called "late min. of
1(_ol Lerwick " in a sasine register, Sept.
1701. He marr. a daugh. of Laurence
Sinclair, Hoversta.
JAMES MILL [originally MILNE],
1704 educated at Marischal College, Aber
deen, 1682-6; was called in 1703;
ord. 6th April 1704 ; died Feb. 1718. He
marr. 2nd Jan. 1707, Isabel Bruce, who
died 12th Nov. 1771, aged 83, and had issue
— James, died in infancy; Andrew, in Civil
Service, died in London after 1771 ; John,
min. of Dunrossness ; James, died in the
East Indies ; Laurence, died in the West
Indies ; Isobel (eldest daugh.), died young ;
Margaret, born 1713 (marr. John David
son, merchant, Lerwick) ; Elizabeth, died
July 1782 (marr. William Farquhar, pilot,
Lerwick) ; another daugh. whose name is
unrecorded. — [Mill's Diary ; Willcock's A
Shetland Minister of the Eighteenth
Century.]
THOMAS WALDIE, born 1697, a
1721 native of Roxburghshire ; educated
at Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (12th
April 1715); licen. by Presb. of Jedburgh
12th Feb. 1718 ; called 8th Nov. 1720 ; ord.
27th April 1721; died 24th March 1739.
He marr. Barbara, daugh. of James Kay,
min. of Dunrossness, and granddaugh. of
William Bruce of Sumburgh, but had no
issue. — [Crawford's Parish of Lerwick, 21 ;
Original Call in possession of Kirk-Session."}
THOMAS MILLER, born 1699, son to
1740 Thomas M., notary public, Alyth ;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A.
(4th Feb. 1722) ; licen. by Presb. of Meigle
13th July 1726; called 7th Nov. 1739; ord.
30th April 1740; died 25th Oct. 1766. He
marr. 9th June 1746, Beatrix (died 13th
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LERWICK
[PRESB. OF
April 1808), daugh. of William Colquhoun,
merchant, Glasgow, and had issue — Ann,
born 22nd April 1747, died 17th Sept. 1766 ;
Janet, born 13th Nov. 1748 (marr., pro. 2nd
Jan. 1778, Laurence Strong, shipmaster);
Thomas, born 15th Nov. 1750, died 5th
April 1751 ; Elizabeth, born 15th Feb. 1752;
William, born 2nd March 1754, died 6th
Sept. 1761 ; Thomas, born 5th Feb. 1756,
apprenticed to Francis Strachan, W.S.,
1771 ; Margaret, born llth Sept. 1758, died
30th Dec. 1766 ; Mary, born 15th July 1761,
died 14th Feb. 1762 ; Mary, born 1st May
1763, died 1766; William, born 7th March
1767, went to Spanish Town, Jamaica ;
Margaret (marr., pro. 2nd June 1790, Thomas
Miller, writer, Edinburgh).— [Tombst.]
JAMES SANDS, pres. by Sir Laurence
^ Dundas of Kerse 25th April, and
ord. 9th Sept 1767 ; trans, to Ting-
wall 14th Feb. 1793.— [Crawford's Lerwick,
29-39.]
JOHN MACLEOD, born 30th Nov. 1763,
1793 son °^ Donald M., min. of Glenelg ;
educated at King's College, Aber
deen ; M.A. (April 1782) ; ord. by Presb. of
Lochcarron, 31st July 1786, as missionary
at Knoydart and Morar ; pres. to Lochalsh
7th Aug. 1790, but resigned his presentation;
pres. by Sir Thomas Dundas of Kerse in
April, and adm. 14th May 1793 ; dep. 19th
Aug. 1797 for drunkenness and went
subsequently to America.
JOHN MENZIES, born 1754, became
170Q schoolmaster of Leslie, Fife; licen,
by Presb. of Kirkcaldy 15th Jan.
1783 ; ord. 9th May 1792 to Bressay, Burra,
and Quarff; pres. by Thomas, Lord
Dundas, Dec. 1798 ; trans, and adm. 28th
Feb. 1799 ; died 17th May 1827. He marr.
21st Aug. 1794, Elizabeth (who predeceased
him), daugh. of John Bruce of Sumburgh,
but had no issue. His portrait is in the
Town Hall, Lerwick. During his ministry
a new church was ordered to be built, after
an appeal to the Court of Session. Publica
tions—^ Sermon preached before the Zetland
Auxiliary of the Bible Society (Edinburgh,
1819); Account of Bressay, Burra, and
Quarff (Sinclair's Stat.Acc.,-*..).— [Crawford's
Lerwick (portrait), 41-6.]
THOMAS BARCLAY, M.A. ; trans.
1827 from Dunrossness; pres. by Laurence,
Lord Dundas, Oct., and adm. 13th
Dec. 1827 ; elected clerk of Synod 27th April
1831 ; trans, to Peterculter 14th Sept. 1843.
— [Crawford's Lerwick (portrait), 51.]
JOHN MORGAN, born Aberdeenshire,
1844 1804' son °^ George M., farmer, and
Anne Murray ; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (31st March
1826) ; licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen in
1833 ; app. Murray Lecturer in Univ. of
Aberdeen 2nd April 1841 ; pres. by Thomas,
Earl of Zetland ; ord. 13th May 1844 ; app.
clerk of Presb. in 1848 ; trans, to Second
Charge, St Andrew's Church, Georgetown,
Demerara, 10th April 1858 ; res. 15th May
1864 ; returned to Scotland in that year ;
died at Lerwick 28th March 1865. During
his ministry a manse was erected in 1852,
after an appeal to the Court of Session. —
[Crawford's Lerwick (portrait), 54.]
ALEXANDER REID SAUNDERS,
1858 born Portsoy, 18th May 1832,
youngest son of John S., merchant ;
educated at King's College, Aberdeen;
M.A. (March 1852); licen. by Presb. of
Aberdeen ; assistant at Rothiemay ; locum
tenens in this parish Feb. to May 1858;
pres. by Thomas, Earl of Zetland, in July,
and ord. 16th Sept. that year ; app. clerk
of Presb. in 1876 ; res. that office in 1891 ;
died 26th Dec. 1892. He marr. 29th Dec.
1859, Christina (died at Dumfries, 17th
Nov. 1896), fourth daugh. of William
Merrylees, Lerwick, and had issue — Alex
ander Christian William, min. of Braemar,
born 12th Sept. 1869 ; Agnes, born 5th Sept.
1871 (marr. 3rd April 1914, Allan Manson
Nelson, chaplain in India).— [Crawford's
Lerwick (portrait), 57 ; Tombst.]
JAMES MONTGOMERY CRAW-
1893 FORD> ord- 8tn June 1893; trans-
to Church Extension Charge of
Scotstoun, Dunbartonshire, 3rd Oct. 1901 ;
died while conducting a funeral service at
Glasgow Necropolis 27th Dec. 1926.
LK It WICK]
LERWICK— QUARFF AND BURR A
287
ANDREW JAMES CAMPBELL, B.A. ;
1902 ord. 21st March 1902; trans, to St
John's, Glasgow, 18th Nov. 1909 ; his
wife died 8th Jan. 1924. Marr. (2) 7th
March 1927, Anne May, M.A., daugh. of
William Robertson, Lerwick.
WILLIAM MARSHALL TAIT, born
1910 Saltcoats> 1st March 1878, son of
George T., schoolmaster, Saltcoats,
and Helen Marshall ; educated at Univ. of
Glasgow; M.A. (1900), B.D. (1903); student
missionary at Glencreran in 1901, Ardlui
and Elder Park, Govan, in 1902; Keen,
by Presb. of Dunbarton April 1903 ; ord.
Jewish missionary at Alexandria, Egypt, by
Presb. of Glasgow 7th Sept. that year; trans
ferred to Salonica in 1905, returned home
in 1909 ; elected to this parish 18th March,
and adm. 27th April 1910 ; dem. his charge
and status as a minister of the Church,
30th Sept. 1913, on taking orders in
Scottish Episcopal Church, and became
curate of St James's Episcopal Church,
Edinburgh, St Andrew's, Sharrow, 1920 ;
vicar of Curbar, Sheffield, 1925. Marr.
14th Aug. 1905, Mary (died 30th June
1917), daugh. of Daniel Lewis, Tanyoallt,
Ystalyfera, Wales, and has issue— Isobel
Mary, born 14th Oct. 1907; George
Herbert, born 31st March 1909; a child,
born 18th Jan. 1916.
ROBERT PAUL FAIRLIE, M.A. • ord.
1914 4th Feb. 1914 ; trans, to New Parish,
Ardrossan, 4th Oct. 1917 ; trans, to
St Mary's, Dumfries, 14th Jan. 1926.
ARCHIBALD MACINTYRE, born llth
1918 March 1870, son of John M., school
master, Coatbridge, and Annie Craig;
educated at High School and Univ. of
Glasgow; M.A. (1890); licen. by Presb.
of Hamilton May 1894; assistant at
Methil and High Church, Paisley ; ord. to
St Fittick's, Aberdeen, 17th July 1900;
trans, to Tingwall 30th April 1908; app.
clerk of Presb. 27th April 1910; trans,
and adm. 15th May 1918. Marr. 14th Oct.
1908, Dorothy Margaret, daugh. of Alex
ander Garden Strachan, Aberdeen, and
Ruby Crombie, and has issue— Ruby, born
25th Oct. 1909; Ian Craig Ewing, born
13th Aug. 1913; Dorothy Margaret, born
21st Nov. 1916.
QUARFF AND BURRA (Q.S.).
[The three 'parishes of Bressay, Quarff,
and Burra were united in the sixteenth
century. A parliamentary church was
built at Quarff about 1826. On 24th Oct.
1870, the united parishes of Quarff and
Burra were disjoined quoad sacra from
Bressay by the Teind Court.
Burra.— The church of Burra was dedi
cated to St Laurence. It had a round
tower similar to that of St Magnus' church
in Egilsay. The present church was erected
in 1815. In its churchyard at Papil was
found, in 1877, the ancient monumental
stone, called the Burra Stone, now in the
Museum of the Society of Antiquaries in
Edinburgh— a carved cross slab of Pictish
type. A missionary was maintained in Burra
by the S.P.C.K.]
JAMES GARDNER, born Dysart,
1830 1^95' son °^ Thomas G., manu
facturer Edinburgh ; educated at
Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (5th April
1823) ; licen. by Presb. of Kirkcaldy 3rd
July 1821 ; assistant at Bressay ; pres. by
William IV. 23rd July, and ord. 10th
Sept. 1830 ; again adm. as min. in terms
of Act of Assembly 28th June 1833.
Joined the Free Church 30th June 1843;
min. of Free Church here, 1843-50; died'
at Kirkcaldy, 23rd Jan. 1867. He marr.
17th Feb. 1831, Jane Esther, daugh. of
George Marshall, min. of Bressay, and had
issue— Jane Lauriston Marshall, born 6th
April 1832; Christina Bonello, born 14th
Dec. 1833; John, born 17th May 1835;
George Marshall, born llth April 1837;
James Bonello, born 12th Jan. 1839 ; Helen
Marshall, born 20th Jan. 1841 ; Elizabeth
Graham (marr. Duncan Anderson), died
at Stirling 8th March 1925.
288 QUARFF AND BURRA— SANDWICK IN SHETLAND [PRESS. OF
ALEXANDER WEBSTER, born Old
Deer, 19th Dec. 1798, son of James
' W., wool-dyer, and Mary Henry;
educated at King's College, Aberdeen;
pres. by Queen Victoria 29th July, and
ord. 27th Sept. 1843; died at Old Deer,
6th Oct. 1887. He inarr. Mary, daugh.
of John Scott of Scalloway, and widow
of John Scott of Melby, and had issue
— Clementina Mary, born 8th July
1835.
DAVID JOHNSTONE, born Gatehouse
of Fleet, Kirkcudbright, 3rd Nov.
1 1842, son of Robert J. ; educated
at Airedale Congregational College, York
shire ; min. of Congregational Church,
Elie, Fife, May 1868-77 ; licen. by Presb.
of St Andrews 31st Oct. 1877 ; app. Royal
Bounty missionary at Cairndow that year;
transferred to Whiteness in 1880; ord.
thereto by this Presb. 4th Aug. 1881 ; adm.
here (assistant and successor) 22nd June
1882 ; app. clerk of Presb. 26th Aug. 1891,
and of Synod of Shetland 24th April 1907 ;
died 5th April 1910. He marr. 30th
June 1868, Elizabeth (died 20th Feb. 1906),
daugh. of John Reed, Winlaton, Durham,
and had issue— Gertrude, born 20th Aug.
1873 (marr. 27th Sept. 1911, John Morrison,
min. of Edinkillie) ; John Reed, electrical
engineer, London and N.W. Railway, born
19th Feb. 1876; David, in Union Bank
of Scotland, born 13th April 1883; and
several children died young.
JOHN LOVE, born Glasgow, 28th Aug.
1852, son of Archibald L. ; educated
1910 at Univ. of Glasgow; licen. by
Presb. of Greenock June 1883 ; assistant at
Dunoon and Kilmun, July 1883 to July
1885 ; ord. to Mid and South Yell 8th April
1886 ; elected 13th June, trans, and adm.
27th July 1910; res. 30th Sept. 1916.
Resident in Liverpool in 1927. He marr.
8th Feb. 1887, Margaret (died 14th May
1892, aged 23), daugh. of John Anderson,
schoolmaster, Annat, and has issue— Mar
garet Miller, born 10th May 1888 (marr.
llth Jan. 1921, William H. Nisbet, officer
Mercantile Marine).
CHARLES DAVIDSON, born 18th Dec.
1917 1857' son of Carles E- D- and
Margaret Ralston ; educated at
Lochwinnoch School, Glasgow Athenaeum,
and Univ. of Glasgow ; min. of Congrega
tional Church, Sullom, 1899. Joined the
Church of Scotland ; licen. by Presb. of
Lerwick in 1917; assistant in Canongate ;
ord. 24th April 1917 ; dem. 10th Oct. 1926.
Marr. 20th April 1900, Sarah Lindsay,
daugh. of Samuel Neil, M.A., F.E.I.S.,
Edinburgh. Publications — Faith (Drum-
mond's Tract Depot, 1889). Contributions
to British Weekly, and other newspapers.
[Parish since 1926 in charge of United
Free Church.]
SANDWICK IN SHETLAND
AND CUNNINGSBURGH (Q.S.).
[Early in the seventeenth century, the
four parishes of Dunrossness, Fair Isle,
Sandwick, and Cunningsburgh were all
united. About 1826 a parliamentary church
was built at Sandwick. On 24th Oct.
1870 the united parishes of Sandwick and
Cunningsburgh were severed quoad sacra
from Dunrossness and Fair Isle.
Sandwick. — The church of Sandwick was
dedicated to St Magnus. At Levanwick,
within the bounds, there was a chapel of
St Levan.
Cunningsburgh.— The church of Cun
ningsburgh was dedicated to St Columba.
Its place is now occupied by a mission
chapel.]
JOHN K1NGSTOUN, removed from
Dunrossness, having Dunrossness
Fair Isle, Bressay, and Burra also in
the charge ; died in 1575. — [Reg. Assig.]
ADAM MOODIE, trans, from Walls and
Flotta, having also charge of Balista
and Cross Kirk of Dunrossness
[probably afterwards in Walls and Flotta].
— [Reg. Assig.]
LERWICK]
SAND WICK
289
LAUEENCE SINCLAIR, reader at
1585 Dunrossness, etc., from 1576 to
1580; min. in 1585.— [Reg. Assig.]
LAURENCE YOUNG, exhorter at
1588 Rousay, Egilsay, Wyre, and En-
hallow in Orkney, from 1574 to 1594 ;
adm. 1588, continued in 1591. He appears
also as reader at the kirk of Westray [may
be a mistake for above Sinclair].— [Reg.
Assig.]
LAURENCE SINCLAIR, resumed prior
1593 to 1593; continued in 1608.— [Reg.
Assig.]
ALEXANDER STARK, born 2nd
1830 ^ek- 1^86' eldest son of Alexander
S., Kilsyth; educated at Glasgow
Univ., M.A. (1819), and Burgher Divinity
Hall ; licen. by Original Secession Presb. of
Glasgow 1st Dec. 1807; ord. 10th Aug.
1808 min. of the Old Light or Original
Burgher Congregation at Falkirk ; dem.
29th April 1817. After attending the
Divinity Hall in the Univ. of Edinburgh
for four years, he was licen. by the Presb.
there 26th March 1823 ; assistant at Ler-
wick in 1824; pres. by William IV.
23rd July, and re-ord. 17th Sept. 1830.
Retaining his original principles, he was
active in propagating them in Shetland.
Joined the Free Church in 1843; min. of
Free Church, Cunningsburgh, 1843 - 4 ;
trans, to Free Church, Closeburn, Dum
friesshire, 1844; dem. 21st Nov. 1849
(owing to trouble over the erection of his
manse) ; died unmarr. at Tighnabruaich,
12th Aug. 1881, and was buried in the
Southern Necropolis, Glasgow. At his
death he was said to be the oldest min.
in Scotland. He greatly resembled Dr
Thomas Chalmers, for whom he was often
mistaken. — [Scott's Annals of Original
Secession, 333, 483 ; Memoir, p.p. (1882).]
ALEXANDER WATSON SHAND,
1844 M-A- ) Pres- by Queen Victoria; ord.'
20th April 1844; trans, to Nesting
6th May 1847.
VOL. VII.
JOHN RIDDOCH SCARTH,born 1806,
1847 son of James S., merchant, Kirkwall,
and Margaret Lendrum, and brother
of Robert S., of Binscarth, Orkney; app.
Royal Bounty Missionary at Whiteness,
1845; pres. by Queen Victoria 12th July, and
adm. 25th Nov. 1847 ; was suspended by
the Presb. 19th Nov. 1856; died at Kirk-
wall 5th Oct. 1871. He marr. 27th Nov.
1849, Helen Gordon (died 8th April 1851,
aged 28), daugh. of Francis Heddell of
Uresland.
WILLIAM LEVIE, M.A. ; ord. (assist-
186^ ant. and successor) in 1857 ; trans, to
Nesting 13th May 1858.
THOMAS DANIEL WINGATE, ord.
1859 (assistant and successor) 18th Jan.
1859; trans, to Stromness 2nd Feb.
1865.
WILLIAM BRAND, M.A. ; ord. (assist-
1865 ant and successor) 16th June 1865;
trans, to Dunrossness 25th Feb. 1869.
JOHN CRAIG, born Irvine, 1800, son of
1869 RoDert C-i merchant, and Catherine
Urquhart ; ord. min. of Relief
Church, Newlands, Peeblesshire, 12th July
1832; trans, to Provost Wynd Relief
Church, Cupar-Fife, 20th Sept. 1846 ; D.D.
(St Andrews 1846) ; dissented from Union
of Relief and Secession Churches in 1847.
Joined the Church of Scotland in 1849;
became assistant at Town Church, St
Andrews; missionary at St Andrews,
Orkney, Westray, Fair Isle and Lunna;
adm. (assistant and successor) 23rd Dec.
1869; died 7th Oct. 1893. He marr. 9th
April 1874, Christina Jane Muir (died
llth Dec. 1892), daugh. of Adam Paterson,
LL.D., writer, Glasgow, and had issue-
Robert. Publications — Relief Principles ;
Warning Voice of Providence; Apostolic
Succession (1845) ; Infant Baptism (Edin
burgh, 1880.)
CHARLES NAIRNE BALDIE, born
,85 Dundee, 3rd Dec. 1 849, son of Thomas
Powrie B. ; educated at Univ. of
Glasgow; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow in
290
TINGWALL, WHITENESS AND WEISDALE [PRESB. OF
1883 ; assistant at Bearsden that year, and
Dairy, Ayrshire ; ord. (assistant and suc
cessor) 8th April 1885; dem. 29th Sept.
1921 ; died at Glasgow 7th Oct. 1924.
He marr. 5th July 1893, Elizabeth, only
surviving daugh. of Archibald Powrie,
Dundee, and had issue — Elizabeth Cameron,
born 3rd Feb. 1895 ; Charles Cameron
Nairne, served in K.F.A. in Egypt and
Palestine Expedition, ,born 1st April 1898 ;
Gertrude Isabella Cameron, born 19th Sept.
1899.
JOHN LAMB, M.A.; ord. 24th Feb. 1922 ;
1922 trans, to Halkirk 30th July 1924.
THEODORE ANDREW, MA. ; ord.
1924 4th DeC' 1924 > trans' to Walls and
Sandness 8th April 1926.
TINGWALL, WHITENESS
AND WEISDALE.
[Tingwall was a prebend held by the
Archdeacon of Zetland. The church of
Tingwall, which had an ancient round
tower and was dedicated to St Magnus,
was demolished in 1788 when the present
edifice was erected. The vault or " Quire "
of the old church used by the family of
Mitchell of Westshore as a burial place
still stands in the churchyard. There are
mission churches at Scalloway and Girlsta.]
JEROME CHEYNE, son of Sir Patrick
1561 ^' °^ Esslemont, rain, in 1561 ; dem.
the benefice in favour of his son 16th
March 1571-2, but was still min. in 1580;
was reappointed Archdeacon in 1582 ; died
in 1584. His nephew, Patrick, had a grant
of the Archdeaconry lands in consideration
of his zeal in propagating the Gospel, by
Crown Charter 29th April 1587.— [Reg. Min.
Assig. ; Acts of Part., iii., 616 ; Reg. Mag.
Sig. ; Coll. Gen. of Thirds, 1561, 97.]
THOMAS CHEYNE, son of preceding ;
pres. by James VI. 31st March 1572.
' In 1574 he had also charge of White
ness, Weisdale, Nesting, Whalsay, and
Skerries. His presentation and collation
were confirmed by James VI. in 1584. —
[Reg. Assig. ~\
ROBERT CHEYNE, mentioned as
reader. Probably Robert Cheyne
of Urie, ancestor of the Vaila family.
[Zetland Fam. Hist., 47.]
WILLIAM HAY, son of George H. in
. Frenchnie ; pres. by James VI. 9th
Sept. 1584, and also by Robert, Earl of
Orkney, and ratified by the King 16th March
1585-6; dem. in favour of his successor
17th June 1628 through age and infirmity ;
died July 1647. He marr. Eupham Futhie,
who survived him, and had issue — James,
alive in 1625 but apparently predeceased
his father. — [Reg. Assig.; Reg. Sec. Sig., li.
23, liii. 138; Shetland Tests.; Acts of
Parl., v., 633 ; Zet. Sas.]
JOHN MITCHELL, born about 1586,
1629 son °^ James M. of Bandeath,
Stirlingshire ; educated at Univ. of
Edinburgh ; MA. (22nd Feb. 1602) : having
served several years after 12th Nov. 1617 as
assistant, he was pres. by Charles I. 21st
Nov. 1629. He is styled "late minister"
3rd Aug. 1641, but was probably only under
suspension. He died before Feb. 1662 when
his son was served heir. He marr. Margaret,
eldest daugh. of Robert Forrester of Queens-
haugh, and had issue — John of Berry and
Westshore, whose son John was created a
baronet in 1724 ; Andrew in Meilles, died
April 1648.— [Acts of Parl., v., 633; Douglas's
Baron., 427 ; Inq. Reg. Gen., 4456 ; Zetland
Fam. Hist., 174 ; Tudor's The Orkneys and
Shetland, 465 ; Tombst.]
JAMES NICOLSON, son of James
N., advocate, Commissary of Brechin,
and grandson of James N., Bishop
of Dunkeld ; educated at Univ. of St
Andrews; MA. (16th June 1652); became
schoolmaster of Dysart in 1660, but resigned
in the following year ; pres. in 1662 ; died
before 1675. He marr. Anne, daugh. of
Arthur Grassmuller of Outnabreck, and
had issue — Arthur of Lochend ; John of
Gilsbreck ; Grizel (marr. 1696, Robert
LKRWICK] TINGWALL, WHITENESS AND WEISDALE
291
Bruce of Chalester).— [Muir's Records and
Gleanings of Dysart ; Syn. (Orkney Pres.) ;
Brechin Sess. Rec.; Zetland Fam. Hist.,
216.]
JOHN GOWDIE [GAUDEN], born
1676 1650> son of Thomas G. and Mary
Stewart of Campston ; educated at
Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (1668); ind.
18th April 1675; died 25th May 1688.
He marr. Margaret (was alive in 1694,
and marr. (2) Andrew Bruce of Muness),
daugh. of John Sinclair of Quendale, and
had issue — John of Swinister; Barbara
(marr. Alexander Pitcairn, brother to
George P. of Muness). [Craven states
that John G., D.D., Principal of Edinburgh
Univ., is said to have been a son, but this is
not so.] — [Sess. and Holm Sess. Reg. ;
Zetland Fam. Hist., 78 ; G. R. Sas., 27th
Nov. 1702; Craven's Orkney (1662-88)
144; Tombst.]
ANDREW LIDDELL, probably brother
1689 of John L-> min- of Hobkirk ; edu
cated at Univ of Glasgow; M.A.
(3rd July 1682) ; passed trials before Presb.
of Jedburgh and was recommended for
licence 4th March 1685; adm. 31st May 1689.
— [Sess. and Jedburgh Presb. Reg. ; Ting-
wall Sess. Reg. ; Reg. of Deeds, Mack., 13th
Nov. 1690.]
WILLIAM BINNING, a native of
1694 Buchan ; educated at King's Col
lege, Aberdeen; M.A. (15th July
1686); Keen, by the Presb. in 1689;
app. schoolmaster at Scalloway that year ;
called to Tingwall, Whiteness, Weisdale
and Gulberwick, where he continued two
years, when he got another living (un
identified) ; was ord. by "one of the late
pretended bishops" and inst. 1st April
1694. He petitioned the General Assembly,
with five others, Jan. 1698, to be admitted
into Presbyterian communion, and was
received (because of the paucity of ministers)
by a committee of the Commission, 23rd
June, and adm. 7th Aug. that year ;
died Sept. 1703, aged about 37. He marr.
Barbara (marr. (2) John Scott of Scarpo),
daugh. of John Mitchell of Berry, and had
issue — Grizel (marr. David Spence of
Gardie). — [Acts of Ass., 1698 ; Zetland
Fam. Hist., 176, 257, 305.]
JAMES GRIERSON, educated at Univ.
1706 °f Edinburgh; M.A. (7th April 1696);
licen. by Presb. of Stirling 12th Nov.
1701; called 28th April, and ord. 18th Sept.
1706; died 3rd Aug. 1747, aged about 71.
He marr. (1) 8th Aug. 1708, Elizabeth,
daugh. of Daniel Macpherson, merchant
burgess, Edinburgh, and had issue— James ;
Helen, bapt. 28th June 1709 ; Andrew,
bapt. 31st Aug. 1712; William, in West
Indies, died about 1765 : (2) Barbara,
daugh. of John Scott of Scottshall : (3)
18th Jan. 1732, Elizabeth, daugh. of
Andrew Greig, merchant in Scalloway,
and had issue — John, bapt. 14th April
1733 ; Andrew John, merchant, Lerwick,
bapt. 14th April 1734, ancestor of Quendale
family ; George, born 20th Aug. 1735 ;
Janet, born 10th Sept. 1736 (marr. 12th
Feb. 1755, James Malcolmson, sheriff-clerk
of Zetland); Elizabeth (marr. Laurence
Kelday) ; Margaret : (4) 9th Jan. 1739,
Agnes (died 19th Dec. 1749), daugh. of
William Greig of Vassay.— [Zetland Fam.
Hist., Ill ; Edin. Mar. Reg.}
[JOHN FISKEN, min. of Delting ; pres.
1748 to ^is parish, but drowned before
induction 14th May 1748.— (See under
Delting.)]
WILLIAM MITCHELL, born 1720, son
1749 of James M., Strathbogie ; educated
at Marischal College, Aberdeen ;
licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 27th June
1744; pres. by James, Earl of Morton,
2nd Sept. 1748; ord. 13th April 1749.
He is said in 1765 to have constructed
an instrument resembling Halley's quad
rant for taking the longitude at sea by
celestial observations. It was furnished
with reflecting telescope glasses by which
the emersion and eclipses of Jupiter and
her moons could be taken with great exact
ness. In 1786, he raised a process before
the Court of Teinds, for augmentation of
stipend, which had been fixed in 1722 ; the
292
TINGWALL, WHITENESS AND WEISDALE [PRESB. OF
crave was dismissed 21st Feb. and 4th July
1787, chiefly on the ground that the stipend
had been augmented since the Union in
1707. An appeal to the House of Lords,
22nd May 1789, was upheld and an
augmentation obtained. He had also a
process for the erection of a new church,
when the Supreme Court found, 22nd June
1787, "that the heritors were obliged to
build a church capable of containing two-
thirds of the examinable persons above
twelve years of age." From 1774 to the
end of bis incumbency, he inoculated
against smallpox no fewer than 950 indi
viduals. He died 10th July 1792. He
marr. 17th April 1751, Mary (died 4th
June 1796), daugh. of William Dick,
merchant, Dalkeith, and had issue — Grizel,
born 27th May, and died 4th Sept. 1754;
Jean, born 13th June 1755, died 26th Dec.
1778; George, born 9th Aug. 1756;
Andrew, born 5th May 1758, died 25th
May 1784; Mary, born 1st Feb. 1760;
Helen, born 2nd Feb. 1762, died 14th
April 1785; Hay (daugh.), 'born 24th May
1764 ; Elizabeth Jane, born llth Dec. 1767
(marr. Kobert Boss, of Sound). Publication
— Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat.
Ace., xx.).— [Scots Mag., xxvii., li. ; Morri
son's Dec. and Digest. ; Connell on Tithes ;
Tombst.]
JAMES SANDS, born 28th Sept. 1745,
son of Robert S., min. of Hoy and
Graemsay ; licen. by Presb. of Cair-
ston ; ord. to Lerwick 9th Sept. 1767 ; pres.
by Sir Thomas Dundas Nov. 1792; adm.
14th Feb. 1793 ; died 28th Dec. 1805. He
marr. 26th Feb. 1769, Elizabeth (died 5th
March 1826), daugh. of James Craigie. of
Stebbiegrind, merchant, Lerwick, and had
issue — Robert, bapt. 27th Nov. 1770, died
27th July 1773 ; Grizel, bapt. 18th Feb. 1771
(marr., pro. 15th Feb. 1790, James Innes
mariner) ; Jean, born 6th July 1774
James, born 5th May 1776, died April 1779
Walter, born 27th April 1778, died July
1779; Margaret, born 5th June 1780
Walter, bapt. 25th Sept. 1782; Barbara
Catherine, bapt. 14th Nov. 1783, died 1834
John, bapt. 16th April 1786; Wilhelminr
(marr. John Turnbull, min. of this parish)
Dublications— Accounts of Lerwick and of
Tingwall (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., iii., xxi.). —
Tombst.}
JOHN TURNBULL, born Ancrum,
26th May 1775 ; tutor to the family
J of John Scott of Scalloway; licen.
oy the Presb. 5th March 1800 ; ord. assist
ant at Bressay 26th July 1805; pres. by
Thomas, Lord Dundas, in July, and adm.
llth Sept. 1806 ; died 19th Feb. 1867. He
voyaged with Sir Walter Scott in the
Lighthouse Yacht from Leith to Shetland
in July 1814. On 7th Aug. Scott break
fasted at Tingwall Manse and attended
church. In his Diary under that date he
wrote as follows : " I have reason to be
proud of my countryman. He is doing
his best with great patience and judgment,
to set a good example both in temporals
and spirituals, and is generally beloved and
respected by all classes. His glebe is in
far the best order of any ground I saw in
Zetland. He gave us an excellent discourse
and remarkably good prayers. The congre
gation were numerous, decent, clean, and
well dressed." He marr. 26th Dec. 1811,
Wilhelmina Sands, daugh. of his pre
decessor (she was drowned on Christmas
Day 1838, with two of her children and a
maid servant, by the ice giving way in the
loch of Tingwall, which they were crossing
as the nearest way home), and had issue-
William, M.D., 94th Regt., born 15th July
1813, died at sea, 14th Oct. 1846 ; Elizabeth,
born 14th Nov. 1816 (marr. 12th March
1840, William Paterson, min. of Cockburns-
path) ; Jean Sands, born 26th March 1818 ;
James Sands, born 23rd Aug. 1819 ; Grace
Margaret, who succeeded to the estate of
Massiter in Orkney and assumed name of
Stewart, born 12th April 1823, died 16th
Nov. 1907 ; Robert Cranston, born 10th
April 1825; Barbara Catherine, born 22nd
Aug. 1827, and John, the last two being
drowned as above mentioned. Publica
tions — Reply to Observations of Mr Samuel
Dunn (Edinburgh, 1825) ; Account of the
Parish (New Stat. Ace., xv.). — [Lockhart's
Life of Scott [Edinburgh Edition], iv., 160,
186; Tudor's The Orkneys and Shetland,
468; Old Lore Miscell., i., 235 ; Tombst.]
LERWICK] TING WALL, WHITENESS AND WEISDALE
293
ALEXANDER BAYNE, born 6th Nov.
1828, third son of .lames ]}., teacher
5 of music, Glasgow ; educated at
Univ. of Glasgow 1847-55 ; licen. by Presb.
of Glasgow 7th Jan. 1857 ; assistant at
Dalmcllington, Campsie 1858, Larbert,
and Dunipace 1860 ; pres. by Thomas,
Earl of Zetland, and ord. 17th Sept. 1868 ;
app. clerk of Synod in 1891 ; D.D. (Glasgow,
18th April 1905); dem. 24th April 1907;
died 26th Oct. that year. He marr. 5th
June 1873, May (died 21st April 1926),
daugh. of Henry M'Culloch of Glenquicken,
Galloway.
ARCHIBALD MACINTYRE, M.A. ;
trans, from St Fittick's, Aberdeen,
J and adm. 30th April 1908; trans.
to Lerwick 15th May 1918.
WILLIAM BROWNE, born Bally-
nenagh House, Moneymore, Co.
' Derry, 28th Dec. 1886, son of John
B. and Jane Eckin ; educated at Maghera-
felt School, Co. Derry, and Univs. of
Belfast, B.A. (1908), and Aberdeen, B.D.
(1911); licen. by Presb. of Inverness May
1911; assistant at Arbroath ; ord. to
Portsoy 31st Jan. 1913; trans, to Trinity,
Aberdeen, 19th April 1917; trans, and
adm. here 30th Jan. 1919 ; trans, to Cold-
stream 3rd Aug. 1923. Marr. 15th Jan.
1919, Annie, daugh. of William Ewing,
and has issue — Margaret Emily, born 31st
March 1920; Dorothy Ewing, born llth
Sept. 1925. Publication— The Children's
Service- Book,
DAVID ALBERT MURDOCH, born
1924 Dundee, 8th Nov. 1891, son of
David Benter M. and Euphemia
Crighton; educated at Dundee High School
and Univ. of St Andrews; M.A. (1914),
B.D. (1920) ; licen. by Presb. of Dundee in
1920 ; assistant at Eastwood ; ord. 17th
Jan. 1924. Marr. 2nd Jan. 1924, Dorothy
Mabel, daugh. of William Stewart, Shaw-
lands, Glasgow, and Margaret Lyle, and
has issue— David Crighton, born 2nd July
1925.
WHITENESS AND WEIS
DALE (Q.S.).
[In the sixteenth century, the four
parishes of Tingwall, Scalloway, Whiteness
and Weisdale were all united. Whiteness
and Weisdale together were severed quoad
sacra from the other two on 15th March
1899.
Whiteness. — The church of Whiteness
was dedicated to St Olaf.
Weisdale.— The church of Weisdale was
dedicated to St Mary.]
WILLIAM PATERSON, app. in 1834 ;
1884 ac*m> to Whalsay in 1843 [afterwards
min. of Cockburnspath].
JOHN RIDDOCH SCARTH, app. in
1845 [afterwards min. of Sand wick,
' Shetland].
JOHN SLOANE, born 1799, eldest son
1847 °^ William S., Kirkmichael, Ayr
shire ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow;
M.A. (1829) ; licen. by Presb. of Hadding-
ton ; app. in 1847 ; pres. to Sandsting 18th
July 1855, but not settled ; died 1st Jan.
1879. He marr. 1st Aug. 1856, Ann (died
15th May 1879, aged 46), daugh. of William
Bryden, Canada, and had issue — John
William, died 19th May 1876; Mary A.,
born 1860, died at Kilbirnie 17th May
1909 ; Nellie, born 5th Dec. 1863, died Jan.
1882 ; Janet (marr. March 1886, Thomas
Rutherford, M.D.) ; Louisa ; Alice ; James.
DAVID JOHNSTONS, app. in 1880
1880 [afterwards min. of Quarff].
WILLIAM GORDON, born Cairnie,
1882 20t^ June 1839> son °f Alexander
G. ; educated at Univs. of Aber
deen, M.A. (1867), and Edinburgh, B.D.
(1872); app. in 1882; dem. in 1892; ord.
missionary of Presbyterian Church of
Canada by Presb. of Edinburgh in 1893 ;
294
WHITENESS AND WEISDALE [PKESB. OF LERWICK
missionary at Olnafirth 1899, and Black-
ridge 1904 ; died at Edinburgh, 30th Oct.
1922. He marr., and had issue.
JOSEPH WILLIAM MACLEAN, born
1892 1851) son °^ J°sePh M--> solicitor,
Dunblane ; educated at Univ. of
Edinburgh ; app. in 1892 ; dem. in 1899 ;
missionary at Cunningsburgh 1900, and
Saughtree 1902 ; died there from effects of
an accident, 16th May 1903.
WILLIAM NEIL, ord. first, min. of this
parish 9th Nov. 1899; trans, to
Lybster 17th Feb. 1909.
DAVID GRANT MILNE, ord. llth
190g Aug. 1909; dem. 26th Feb., and
adm. to St James's, Kirkcaldy, 1st
May 1918.
ROBERT MACKIE, educated at Univ.
of Glasgow ; M.A. (1913) ; Keen, by
Presb. of Glasgow in 1916; ord. llth
March 1919; dem. 29th Sept. 1922. Resi
dent in Glasgow 1927.
DAVID WILSON BAIRD, trans, from
Augustine Church, Greenock, and
adm. 7th Feb. 1923 ; trans, to Cross
and Burness 2nd Sept. 1925.
CHARLES LEYS, born Crathie, 23rd
Aug. 1870, son of Alexander L. and
Mary Gordon; educated at Crathie
School and Univ. of Aberdeen ; M.A. (1893);
licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen in 1906 ; became
a teacher in Canada ; assistant at St
George's, Aberdeen ; ord. 29th Jan. 1926.
Marr. 8th July 1914, Elsie, daugh. of Charles
Selfe and Eliza Burton.
PKESBYTERY OF BURRAVOE
[This Court was erected on 31st May 1830.
meeting is at Burravoe in South Yell.]
The Presbytery's ordinary place of
FETLAR AND NORTH YELL.
[These parishes were united into- one
charge at the Reformation. In 1689 it
was annexed to Yell by the Commissioners
of Teinds but disjoined and re-erected by
them 9th Feb. 1709. The church of Fetlar
was formerly known as Cross Kirk. There
was in ancient times a chapel dedicated to
St Hillary near Feal, another called Old
Kirk at Fetchie, and the remains of eight
pre-Reformation chapels still exist, includ
ing one at Kirkhouse and others at Tofts
and Odsta. The present church was built
in 1790. North Yell was disjoined and
erected into a parish quoad sacra 15th July
1868.]
WILLIAM LAUDER, chamberlain to
1563 Adam, Bishop of Orkney; pres. to
the vicarage of Fetlar by the Bishop
30th April 1563; dem. on being pres. to
that of Yell before 14th Oct. 1574. In that
year he had also charge of Sandwick and
Baliasta in Unst, and Hamnavoe and
Reafirthness in Yell. He had issue— James,
who in 1592 was boarded with John Heriot,
baxter burgess of Edinburgh.— {Reg. Sec.
Sig., Hi., 76 ; Reg. of Deeds, Ixii., 49.]
JAMES LAUDER, probably son of
1595 preceding ; was min. in 1595, having
also Yell in charge. He removed
in that or following year to Yell, still
having Fetlar in his ministry.
PETER MAXWELL, trans, from Walls
1599 and Sandness before 1599 ; still min.
in 1601.
PATRICK HOG, adm. before 15th Aug.
1603 1603 ; trans, to Belting in 1615.
ANDREW EDMONDSTON, min. of
1621 ^e^ ' kad a^so charge of Fetlar. —
[Reg. of Deeds, ccclviii., 3].
JOHN SWINTON, son of Thomas S.,
1680 min. of Birsay ; adm. to Birsay and
Harray in 1599 ; trans, to Holm in
1607; trans, to Firth between 1608 and
1615 ; trans, and adm. about 1630 and was
still min. here 22nd Oct. 1640. He marr.
Margaret, daugh. of James Pitcairn, min.
of Northmavine, and had issue — Thomas
(eldest son) ; Margaret (marr. William
Tyrie of Busbreck).
JOHN HEGGIE, probably formerly
167o min. of St Andrews, Orkney ; pres.
by Andrew, Bishop of Orkney ;
petitioned Privy Council for the vacant
stipends of 1668 and 1669, and was granted
same 12th May 1670; was witness to a
sasine in favour of Christian Wilson 26th
Dec. 1671.— [Zetland Sas.].
WILLIAM CAMPBELL, educated at
7 Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1667 ;
' adm. about 1675; died March 1686.
He marr. Bess Ross, probably daugh. of
John Ross, merchant, Uyeasound, who
survived him and succeeded to all his
property under his will of llth March
1686.
ROBERT MOWAT, son of Gilbert M.,
1684 m*n> °^ Northmavine ; educated at
Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (July
1643) ; adm. to Mid and South Yell about
1655 ; trans, and adm. about 1684 ; died
unmarr, before 1694.
FETLAR AND NORTH YELL
296
m Pitorrow,
Bart., bapt. at Montrose 27th Jan.
1694 1673, fourth son of Sir David 0,
first baronet of Pitarrow, and Catherine
Primrose; educated at Manschal College
Seen (under care of Gilbert Burnet,
Bishop o* Salisbury) ; M.A. (1689) ; adm o
this parish about 1694; continued 27th
March 1698 ; probably preacher in Lerwick
Chapel in 1699; became factor on his
father's estates and succeeded him in 1708
as second baronet ; died 3rd April 1729. H
marr 2nd Oct. 1712, Mary (died 5th Jui
H54 j, second daugh. of Sir Thomas Burnett
of Leys, and had issue-Sir James third
barone", but for attainder Earl of Southesk
died 30th April 1765 ; Margaret bapt. 30 1.
July 1713, died unmarr. ; Mary bapt. 12th
Aug. 1714 (marr. (1) 1748, Colonel John
Scott of Comiston: (2) Mr Forbes); John,
bapt 10th Oct. 1716, died 1733; David
bapt. 23rd Dec. 1717; Helen bapt. 17th
April 1719 (marr. Alexander Aberdeen of
Cairnbulg); Jean, bapt. 13th Sept. 1 20
(marr. Robert Taylor of Kirktonhill) ,
Alexander, bapt. 26th April 1722 died in
Jamaica ; Elizabeth, bapt. 30th Nov. 1724
died unmarr. 1798; Henry midshipman
E.I.C.S., bapt. 31st Aug. 1725, drowned 1747
George of Charleton, bapt. 19th Nov. 1726,
d fed 12th April 1799H*«* P«™9<> ™"
80 ; Tingwall Sess. Reg.}
JAMES GRAHAM, called Oct. 1717;
ord. at (Lerwick) 1st May 1718;
1718 died 18th March 1728. He marr
Elizabeth, daugh. of James Kay mm
Dunrossness, and widow of Laurence
Craigie of Stebbiegrmd.
[PRESB. OF
JOHN BONAR, born 25th July 1696,
son of John B., min. of Torphichen ;
1729 educated at Univ. of Edinburgh;
M.A. (1st April 1714); distinguished him
self by his attainments in classical and
oriental literature ; became chaplain in th
family of Colonel Bruce of Kennet ; hcen.
by Presb. of Stirling 7th Oct. 1724 ; pres
by Robert, Earl of Morton, 4th April,
called 18th June, and ord. 13th Aug 1/2!
died 22nd April 1752. He marr. 13th Oct.
1720 Jean (born 1695, died 1737), daugh.
of William Smith in Alloa, Clackmannan,
and had issue-John, min. of West Church,
Perth born 4th Nov. 1721; Gnzel born
12th Sept. 1724, died 5th Jan. 1726 ; Gnzel,
born 14th April 1726, died 13th Dec. 1727 ;
William, born 18th Aug. 1727 went to
Charleston, S.C, America, entered the army
there, and died 7th July 1767; James,
born 10th Dec. 1728, studied medicine
went to Montego Bay, Jamaica and no
heard of after 1752; Janet born 2
Anril 1730 (marr. Dr Scott, Alloa); Jean,
born 19th Oct. 1731, died 29th Oct. 1740;
Ebenezer, born 19th and died 21st Aug.
1732; Andrew of Craigleith, schoolmaster,
born 12th March 1734, died 1st Aug.
1803; Thomas, born 7th June died 2nd
Nov 1735. Publications - Messiah, a
Priest on His Throne, a sermon (JSdin.
Christ /*.«., Vol. iii., No. l)j TwoEUgte*
(pp). Volumes of his MS. Sermons are
1 UU extant.-[^s of ,!«, 1724; Bonars
Sermon,, ii. j Bonar Family Tree; Old
Lore Miscell., vi, 166.]
JAMES GORDON, born Gartly, 1726
educated at King's College, Aber-
1754 deen ; M.A. (2nd April 1747) ; hcen.
by the Presb. 28th Sept. 1752 ; called 12th
July 1753; ord. 12th June 1754 ; drowned
on passage between Lerwick and Fetlar
26th Jan. 1803. He marr. 16th Nov 1755,
Ann (died 1st July 1797, aged 71), daugh.
of William Bruce of Urie, and had issue-
George, born 2nd and died 9th June 1756
Geo fe William, born 8th June 1757, died
I 4th Dec. 1771 ; John, born 22nd Feb. 1/59,
' did 30th Dec. 1760; Katherme, born 21st
Sept, died 28th Nov. 1760 ; Marjory born
5th Oct 1762; Katherine, born 10th Jan.
764 ; Andrew, born 10th Nov. 1765 ; Ann
born llth Sept. 1766, died 24th July 1767 ,
Robert! born%4th May died 3rd June
1767 ; Margaret, bapt. 5th April 1771.
JAMES INGRAM, M.A. ; pres by
Thomas, Lord Dundas, in June,
1803 and ord. 4th Aug. 1803; trans, to
| Unst 14th Sept. 1821.
1822 Kippo, Fife; educated at Univ. of
St Andrews ; licen. by Presb. of St Andrews
22nd Oct. 1817 ; ord. (assistant) at Nesting
BURRAVOE]
FETLAR AND NORTH YELL— UNST
297
25th June 1818 ; pres. by Laurence, Lord
Dundas, in Jan., and adm. 17th June 1822 ;
died unmarr. 9th Oct. 1829.— [Kimjulxints
Sess. lu'j. |
WILLIAM WATSON, born 1770, son of
1830 William W. and Christina Hender
son ; licen. by Presb. of Arbroath
20th Aug. 1794 ; became schoolmaster of
Kennoway; ord. to Northmavine 10th Aug.
1809 ; pres. by Laurence, Lord Dundas, in
March, and adm. 17th June 1830; app.
clerk of Presb. in 1844 ; died 23rd Sept.
1856. He marr. Mary (died 28th Nov.
1827), daugh. of Hugh Stalker, min. of
Kirkwall, and had issue — Eliza, born 19th
Aug. 1804, died 4th June 1825 ; Isabella,
born 3rd April 1806, died 22nd Sept. 1832 ;
Margaret Bruce, born 10th June 1809, died
llth Oct. 1818 ; Christian, born 6th May
1811 (marr. David Webster, min. of this
parish) ; Grace Jane, born 27th April 1813,
died 17th March 1906; Mary, born 2nd
Sept. 1820, died 28th Oct. 1841 ; Walter
William, born 30th Oct. 1825, died 14th
Aug. 1826 ; Eliza Margaret Bruce, born 28th
Nov. 1827 (marr. 19th Feb. 1852, Captain
Andrew Cheyne, and was mother of Sir
William Watson Cheyne, Bart., M.P., LL.D.,
F.R.S., the eminent surgeon), died 25th July
1856. Publication— Account of the Parish
(New Stat. Ace., xv.).
DAVID WEBSTER, born Fearn, 1816,
1852 son of David W. ; educated at
King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A.
(March 1845) ; licen. by Presb. of Aber
deen ; assistant in South Church, Aberdeen ;
missionary at North Yell 20th Jan. 1850 ;
ord. (assistant and successor) 5th Aug.
1852; died 13th May 1881. He marr. (1)
15th April 1847, Isabella Jane M'Kesser,
Aberdeen, who died 2nd May 1848, and
had issue— John M'Kesser, min. of Row,
born 27th April 1848 : (2) 21st Aug. 1851,
Christian (died 15th Dec. 1883), daugh. of
William Watson, his predecessor.
JAMES ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL,
1881 born in parish of Braddan, Isle of
Man, 15th Jan. 1845, son of John C.,
Douglas ; educated at Univ. of Aberdeen ;
M.A. (1865); licen. by Presb. of Lerwick
8th July 1868; assistant at Huntly 1869-71,
Banff, Feb. to July 1872 ; ord. to Quarter
Chapel 10th Oct. 1872 ; trans, and adm. 27th
Sept. 1881 ; died 9th May 1922. He was in
terested in most scientific matters and was
a skilful amateur mechanic. He made his
own microscope, both instrument and the
objectives and eye-pieces, also a fine dioptric
telescope, calculating, grinding, and polish
ing the object-glass and eye-pieces. He in
vented the Campbell differential screw fine
adjustment for microscopes. He marr. at
Banff 13th Jan. 1875, Eliza Wallace, daugh.
of James Hunter, and had issue — John
Archibald, master mariner, born 25th Dec.
1875 ; Grace Craig Hunter, born 20th Sept.
1877 (marr. David Crawford, min. of Mid-
mar) ; James, M.B., C.M., lieut. R.A.M.C.,
born 24th Oct. 1879 ; Jane Menzies, born
23rd Dec. 1881 (marr. 29th Nov. 1904, Robert
B. Turnbull, M.B., Ch.B., New Zealand) ;
Elizabeth Hunter, born 22nd Nov. 1883;
Lilias Anne Turnbull, born 17th March
1886; Nelson, Sumatra, born 1st Sept.
1890, lieut. R.A.F., Egypt and Palestine
Expedition.
WILLIAM GRAHAM CARSON, born
1922 1891' son °^ James C., schoolmaster,
and Jessie Grant ; M.A. ; licen. by
Presb. of Glasgow in 1921 ; assistant at
St Paul's, Glasgow; ord. 25th Sept. 1922.
Marr. 30th June 1923, Jane Houston,
daugh. of Alexander Hill, writer, Glasgow,
and Annie Park.
UNST, OH NORWICK,
BALIASTA AND LUND.
[The island of Unst formed of old three
separate parishes. They were united in the
sixteenth century.
Norwich. — The north of Unst forms the
parish of Norwick. Its church was dedicated
to St John the Baptist. Within the bounds
were a good many chapels — St Bartholo
mew's near Norwick, the chapel of the
Holy Rood at Haraldswick, that of St
John the Evaneglist also at Haraldswick
and Clibberswick Chapel.
Baliasta, — Baliasta is the central parish
of Unst. Its church was dedicated to St
John the Evangelist. Within the bounds
298
UNST, BALI AST A AND LUND
1591
were a chapel on the island of Balta, dedi
cated to St Sunnifa of Bergen, in Norway,
a chapel of St John at Colvidale, and others.
Lund. — The parish of Lund contains
all the south of Unst. Its church was
dedicated to St Olaf. There were chapels
in this parish at Uyea, Sandwick, and else
where. The present parish church was built
at Baltasound in 1825.]
WILLIAM TAYLOR, reader from 1567
1567 to 1574.
FKANCIS BOTHWELL, treasurer of
1668 Orkney; vicar in 1568.
JAMES HAY, reader, son of George
15?4 H. of Frenchnie ; pres. to the
vicarage by James VI. 31st Oct.
1574 ; still min. in 1591.
JAMES NILTAE, reader; had a
designation of a glebe of 4 acres
from lands of Voesgarth circa 1591.
—\Melby Charters.]
MAGNUS NORSK, is said to have
1593 gone to Norway to learn the Norse
language in order to qualify himself
for preaching to the Zetlanders, who at
that time understood no other. He
probably was a Norwegian himself, judging
from his name. He became min. of Yell
before 1586; trans, to this parish before
1593, and acquired the lands of North
Sandel, Norwick, and Hugea. He died
May 1632. His lands, it is said, he designed
giving to his eldest son, but the youngest,
supposing his father might become depend
ent in old age, required a share else he
would not contribute to his support. To
obviate his objection, the lands in North
Sandel, Norwick, Unst, were given to him,
and those of Hugea to the eldest. His
second son continued to reside with him,
and when an attempt was made to oust his
father from the living, he endeavoured
to keep possession until extruded by a
military force, when he escaped at a back
window and fled to his brother in Hugea,
who also came to render assistance, but
found the soldiers had gone. N. marr.
Dorothie Thomasdaughter, who survived
him, and had issue — Thomas Magnusson in
Virss, eldest son ; Eobert, went abroad ;
Patrick of Sandel; Olaf; Magnus.—
[Zetland Tests. ; Zetland Fam. Hist., 226.]
THOMAS FRASER, educated at King's
1632 ColleSe> Aberdeen; M.A. (1618);
min. in 1632 ; appears to have dem.
before 1637. — \_Syn. (Orkney Presb.) Reg.']
PATRICK OLIPHANT, son of
1637 Laurence O. of Gask, by a sister of
Bishop Grahame ; educated at Univ.
of St Andrews ; M.A. (1632) ; being at the
New College there, was certified for pro
bationary trials to the Presb. of Perth 29th
Jan. 1634 ; adm. to this parish before 1637 ;
dem. before 30th May 1655 ; died before
3rd July 1675. He marr. Margaret, daugh.
of James Mowat of Ure, and had issue —
James of Ure ; William ; Thomas, a sailor
on board the Unicorn, belonging to the
Company of Scotland trading to Africa and
the Indies (or The Darien Company) ;
Gilbert ; Lilias, who in 1708 was resident
at Lutterburn in Strathearn ; Katherine
(marr. William Oliphant, portioner of
Easter-Craig of Madderty, her cousin).—
[Perth Presb. and Test. Reg.; Wodrow
MSS. ; Peterkin's Records ; Hist, of Ass.,
1638; Zetland Sas.]
THOMAS FRASER, probably the
1661 above-mentioned; styled min. 22nd
Aug. 1661 and 1665.— [Zetland Sas.]
ALEXANDER CRAIG, educated at
168S King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A.
(1669); passed trials before Presb.
of St Andrews, and got a testimonial, 3rd
May 1 676, to the Archbishop for ordination,
the See of Caithness being then vacant.
He became schoolmaster at Scalloway
before 1675 ; adm. to this parish about
1683, but deserted (probably outed) his
charge about 1697 ; resided at Fraserburgh
May 1702 ; intruded there in 1708, and was
accused, 6th March 1716, of having in
truded successively at Aberdour, Tyrie,
and Fraserburgh. He had two sons, one
of whom fell from a high cliff in Unst in
attempting to catch a shrub growing there,
whilst his brother was holding him by the
arm from the top, but lost his hold;
and a daugh. who was carried on board a
BURKAVOE]
UNST, BALIASTA AND LUND
299
French frigate in the Bay of Norwick, 29th
Aug. 1695, by a boat's crew, who came in
search of petty plunder. She was soon
afterwards liberated.—^ Andrews Presb.;
Tiny wall Ses*. Rec.]
JOHN CATANACH, a native of Aber-
1698 ^een > educated at Marischal College,
Aberdeen; M.A. (1691); became
tutor to a boy in Shetland, and was licen.
after passing trials before the Presb. there
during Episcopacy. Having testimonials
from heritors and parishioners of Unst, he
proceeded to Edinburgh, was recommended
to the Commission for visitation of Orkney,
and received into Presbyterian communion.
He was licen. again by Presb. of Orkney,
15th June 1698 and afterwards formally
called ; ord. by a committee of the Com
mission and by Presb. of Kirkwall, 23rd
Aug. that year; died May 1717, aged
about 43. He marr. (1) Barbara, daugh.
of Laurence Stewart of Bigtoun, and widow
of Robert Bruce of Sumburgh, and had
issue — John, eldest son ; Ann (marr. (1)
Andrew Bruce of Urie, and (2) Laurence
Bruce of Sumburgh) : (2) before 1702,
Janet, daugh. of James Scott of Voesgarth
(she survived him and marr. (2) John
Henderson of Midgarth), and had issue—
Margaret.— [Orkney Presb. Reg. ; MS. Re
ceipts/or Stipend ; Zetland Fam. Hist., 23.]
[JOHN MELDBUM, M.A. ; called
May 1718, but became so melancholy and
disturbed in mind that the Presb., 16th
April 1719, refused to proceed with his
settlement, and prohibited him from preach
ing in all time coming.]
JOHN HAY, born Kilsyth, brother of
1720 Thomas H., min. of Yell; called
Nov. 1719 ; ord. at Baliasta 5th May
1720 ; died 3rd Feb. 1734. He marr. Helen
(died 1st July 1761), daugh. of Robert Bruce
of Chalester, and had issue — William, his
heir; Grizel (marr. James Craigieof Stebbie-
grind). — [Services of Heirs; Zetland Fam.
Hist., 122.]
WILLIAM ARCHIBALD, born 1702,
1785 son of William A., schoolmaster of
Earlston, Berwickshire, and a licen
tiate ; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ;
licen. by Presb. of Earlston 2nd July
1734 ; called in May, and ord. at Baliasta
14th May 1735 ; died 7th March 1785. He
marr. 30th Sept. 1728, Mary Sanderson
(born 1710, died 29th March 1798), a native
of Earlston, and sister to Thomas Sanderson
of Buness, and had issue — William, born
24th Aug. 1730, died an infant ; Janet, born
10th Oct. 1731 ; Agnes, born 7th Dec. 1732
(marr. 10th Feb. 1757, William Spence of
Gardie) ; William, born 2nd Dec. 1734, died
an infant; John, born 19th Jan. 1737;
William, born 24th Jan. 1739; Elizabeth,
born 20th Dec. 1739 (marr. James Spence
of Uyea); Sholto, born 10th Dec. 1741;
Charles, born 29th Jan. 1743; James, born
18th Oct. 1744 ; John Thomas, born 18th
Nov. 1746 ; Joseph, born 15th Dec. 1747,
died 7th March 1752; Mary, born 22nd
Oct. 1748; Ursula, born 26th March 1750
(marr. James Barclay, min. of this parish).
He is said to have been the real author of
the 35th Paraphrase, having translated it
from a Latin hymn by Andreas Ellinger. —
[Bonar's Notes to Free Church Hymn
Book (1882) ; Zetland Fam. Hist., 6, 134,
305, 306; Julian's Diet, of Hymnology,
1189 ; Aberdeen Journal Notes and Queries,
v., 51.]
JAMES BARCLAY, born Clatt, 1745 ;
1775 educated at King's College, Aber
deen ; ord. (assistant and successor)
llth Oct. 1775; died 24th Dec. 1793. He
marr. 16th Nov. 1775, Ursula (died 28th
Jan. 1832), daugh. of William Archibald, his
predecessor, and had issue — Mary, born
25th Oct. 1776 (marr. James Ingram, min.
of this parish) ; John, surgeon in Unst,
born llth July 1778 ; Christian, born
llth Aug. 1780, died 25th Dec. 1785;
William, captain of a privateer, born 26th
Jan. 1783; Alexander, born 18th Jan. 1785,
died 27th May 1786; Archibald, LL.D.,
secretary to Hudson's Bay Company, born
10th Nov. 1786; Spence, purser R.N.,
born 23rd Dec. 1787 ; James, captain
West Indiaman, born 8th Feb. 1790;
Thomas, min. of Dunrossness, born 14th
June 1792. Publication — Account of the
Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., v.).— [Zetland
Fam. Hist., 6.]
300
UNST, BALIASTA AND LUND
[PRESB. OF
ARCHIBALD GRAY, born Forres,
1794 1^64 > educated at King's College,
Aberdeen ; ord. by the Presb. as
missionary at Fair Isle, etc., 14th March
1794 ; pres. to this parish by the Presb.
jure devoluto 26th June, and adm. 7th
Aug. that year. After his settlement the
Presb. brought an action before the Court
of Session to declare their presentation
effectual. The Court, 15th May 1795,
were of opinion that as the presentation
to another had been executed a full month
before the time limited, the patron should
not be deprived of his right, because from
unavoidable accident (a contrary wind
having detained the vessel, which was in
sight during the time the Presb. was met,
and the presentation actually lodged with
their Moderator on the evening of that
day) it had arrived after the lapse of the
six months, and found the patron entitled
to retain the stipend till his presentee be
settled. G. therefore dem. 18th Dec. 1795 ;
was called to St Matthew's, Halifax, 3rd
Oct. 1796; D.D. (King's College, Aberdeen,
15th March 1804); died after a long ill
ness (paralysis), 16th Sept. 1826. He marr.
14th Dec. 1802, Ann, daugh. of Dr Michael
Head, physician, and had issue — Archibald,
who took orders in the Episcopal Church ;
four other sons and two daughs. — [Connell's
Parochial Law ; Buchanan's Ten Years'
Conflict, ii. ; Morrison's Dec., xii. ; Gregg's
Hist.ofPresbyterianChurch inCanada, 125.]
JOHN NICOLSON, born 1749; edu
cated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; Keen.
1 by Presb. of Auchterarder 16th Oct.
1781 ; pres. by Thomas, Lord Dundas,
23rd May 1794 ; ord. 13th May 1796. He
left to " go to Scotland 5th Feb., but in
returning from Leith the vessel was seized
by the French, and he was carried prisoner
to Bergen in Norway, where he was set
at liberty and returned in Aug. 1799." He
died unmarr. 6th March 1821. Publication
— Sermons (Glasgow, 1792). — [Haldane's
Memoir ; Morrison's Dec., xii.]
JAMES INGRAM, born 3rd April 1776,
son of John I., farmer, Donough-
8 more, Logie-Colstone [who lived to
the age of 100, and his father to the age
of 105], and Jean Reid; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (1796); licen. by
Presb. 26th June 1800; ord. to Fetlar
4th Aug. 1803 ; *pres. by Laurence, Lord
Dundas, in Aug., and adm. 14th Sept.
1821. Joined the Free Church in 1843
(though he had formerly seconded a motion
in the Synod for the removal of the Veto
Act); min. of Free Church, Unst, 1843-79;
D.D. (Glasgow, 12th Feb. 1864) ; died 3rd
March -1879, aged 103. He marr. 18th
Sept. 1803, Mary (died 9th Feb. 1859),
daugh. of James Barclay, min. of this
parish, and had issue— Christian, born
27th April 1805 (marr. Gilbert Spence of
Hammer); Charlotte Barclay, born 20th
April 1806 (marr. Andrew Smith of Smith-
field, Fetlar); John, min. of this parish;
Jean, born 4th Nov. 1809 (marr. James
Smith of Clivocast, M.D.) ; Margaret, born
22nd Oct. 1812, died unmarr.; William
Barclay, born 1st March 1815, died abroad.
—[Zetland Fam. Hist., 166 ; Brown's Annals
of the Disruption, 458.]
JOHN INGRAM, son of preceding, born
1838 9th Feb. 1807 ; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen, 1825-9 ; licen.
by the Presb. 9th July 1834 ; app. school
master of the parish in 1835 ; pres. by
Laurence, Lord Dundas, 16th April ; ord.
(assistant and successor) 14th June 1838.
Joined the Free Church in 1843 ; min. of
Free Church, Unst, 1843-92; died 15th
Nov. 1892. He marr. (1) 5th Sept. 1837,
Margaret Blair Hutchison, who died 7th
Jan. 1858, and had issue — James
William, born 1st July 1838, died young;
Barbara, born 28th Oct. 1840 ; (marr.
Robert Shepherd of British Linen Bank,
Dundee); Mary, born 16th Nov. 1842
(marr. Peter Macgregor, Free Church min.
at Uyeasound,-Unst) ; Margaret- (twin) born
16th Nov. 1842 (marr. James Y. Thirde, U.P.
min. at Muirton, Laurencekirk [afterwards
at Huntsville, Ontario, Canada]) : (2) 1st
June 1860, Frances Duff Hepburn Wisdom
(died at Hillside, Baltasound, 20th Dec.
1925, aged 94), and had issue — James
William, in Canada, born 29th Aug. 1862;
Francis Charles, in Canada, born 1863 ;
Caroline Augusta, born 7th Sept. 1864
BURRAVOE] UNST, BALIASTA AND LUND— MID YELL
301
(marr. David Morice Pittendreigh) ; Isobel
Margaret, born 8th April 1866, died Feb.
1882 ; John Archibald, born 1868 ; Frances
Charlotte Jean, born 31st March 1870 (marr.
20th Dec. 1898, Donald Alexander Mac-
donald, U.F. min. of Kilmuir, Skye); Louisa
Ann, born 13th March 1872 (marr. Laurence
Jamieson). — [Zetland Fam. Hist., 166.]
GORDON URQUHART MAC-
1843 1NTOSH, born 1792, son of Colin
M., butler, and Elizabeth Munro;
ord. missionary at Flotta in 1839 ; pres.
by Thomas, Earl of Zetland; adm. 9th
Nov. 1843; died unmarr. 17th Oct. 1864.
DAVID JOHNSTON, M.A.,B.D.; pres.
1865 ky Thomas, Earl of Zetland ; ord.
6th April 1865 ; trans, to Harray
and Birsay 24th Sept. 1868.
WILLIAM SMITH, born Bowmore,
186Q Islay, 21st Jan. 1837, son of Thomas
S., collector of Inland Revenue,
and Mary Leitch ; educated at Univs. of
Aberdeen, Edinburgh, and St Andrews;
licen. in 1859 ; assistant at Fauldhouse,
Pultencytown and St Mary's, South
Ronaldsay ; ord. to Firth and Stenness
28th Nov. 1861 ; pres. by Thomas, Earl of
Zetland, and adm. 22nd April 1869 ; app.
clerk of Presb. in 1870 ; died at West Kil-
bride, 10th Nov. 1913. He marr. 9th June
1862, Helen Sarah (died 15th Dec. 1914,
aged 70), daugh. of Peter McGuffie, min.
of U.P. Church, Lerwick, and had issue-
James Cromarty, min. of Coatdyke, born
27th Oct. 1863 ; Thomas, in Canada, born
llth Feb. 1865 ; John, born 27th Sept.
1866, died 1st May 1898 ; William, mayor
of Lumsden, Canada, born 7th Feb. 1868 ;
Charles Cromarty, born 31st Jan. 1870,
died 31st Dec. 1875 ; Edmondston, in
Canada, born 16th Sept. 1871 ; Laurence
Dundas, in Canada, born 6th July 1873 ;
Helen Jessie Agnes, born 5th Sept. 1875,
died 2nd Feb. 1876 ; Theodora Mary, born
19th April 1877 (marr. Edwin James
Brechin, min. of Avoch) ; Jessie Jane
Peckover, born 22nd July 1879, died 8th
April 1899 ; Jonathan Peckover, born 18th
Feb. 1882, killed in a motor accident in
Canada in 1923.
1902
WILLIAM STEVENSON BROWN-
igoo LEE, M.A., B.D. ; ord. (assistant and
successor) 18th Oct. 1900 ; trans, to
St James's Clydebank, 26th Dec. 1901.
JOHN DALZIEL DYKES, ord. (assist
ant and successor) 6th June 1902,
clerk of Presb. 1904-5 ; trans, to
Holytown 5th June 1906.
GEORGE WALSH, ord. (assistant and
1906 successor) 5tn Oct. 1906 ; dem. his
charge and status as a minister 28th
May 1911 [afterwards min. of Keiss].
ALEXANDER CLARK, trans, from
1912 Eddrachillis, and adm. (assistant
and successor) 4th Nov. 1912 ; trans,
to Dunnichen 14th Dec. 1916.
JAMES MONTGOMERY BINNIE,
1917 k°rn Partick, 27th Jan. 1867, son of
James B., sub-inspector of schools,
Scottish Education Department, and Jane
Boag ; educated at High School and Univ.
of Glasgow ; M.A. (1890) ; licen. by Presb.
of Greenock in 1893 ; assistant at Shettle-
ston, Gartsherrie, 1896, Hamilton Palace
Mission 1899, South Parish, Paisley, 1900,
West Church, Greenock, 1902 ; ord. to St
James's, Wakenaam, British Guiana, 26th
Oct. 1906 ; adm. to this charge 25th Sept.
1917 ; trans, to Leochel-Cushnie 9th Nov.
1927. Marr. 28th April 1911, Jenny, daugh.
of Thomas Pollok and Jessie M'Laurin.
MID YELL, OK REAFIRTH.
[The church of Mid Yell at Reafirth was
dedicated to St John. In the sixteenth
century this parish and South Yell were
united. To them Fetlar and North Yell
were joined near the close of the seven
teenth century. This union of four parishes
was broken up in 1709, when Fetlar and
North Yell were severed from the other
two. In 1880 South Yell was disjoined
quoad sacra from Mid Yell. There are
now mission chapels in this parish at West
Sandwick and East Yell.]
JOHN FALLOWSDAILL, vicar and
reader from 1562 to 1574.— [Coll.
' Gen. of Thirds, 102.]
302
MID YELL
[PRESB. OF
WILLIAM LAUDER, min. in 1575;
trans, from Fetlar prior to that year ;
min. at Hamnavoe ; mentioned in
proceedings against Laurence Bruce of
Cultinalindie as vicar in 1575. He had
issue— James.
MAGNUS NORSK, min. in 1586 ; trans.
1586 to Unst before 1593.
JAMES LAUDER, probably son of
above William L. ; removed from
Fetlar in 1596, having that parish
also in his charge ; still min. in 1597. —
[Oppress, of Orkney ; Reg. of Deeds, Ixii.,
49.]
ANDREW EDMONDSTON,born 1559;
followed the profession of a notary
and as such was witness to a charter
dated at Montquhany, near Crail, 7th
April 1590 ; went to Shetland shortly after
wards, and was witness to a charter at
Scalloway 26th Sept. 1592 ; adm. min. of
this parish before 24th Nov. 1597 ; acquired
the lands of Hascosay and Gravaland ; had
also charge of Fetlar in 1621 ; died before
1632. He marr. Margaret, sister to James
Kintore in Scalloway, and had issue-
James of Hascosay, ancestor of Buness
family ; John of Gravaland, his successor ;
Thomas ; Ursilla (marr. Ninian Neven of
Windhouse) ; Christian, died April 1650
(marr. William Spence of Houlland) ;
Agnes (marr. 1635, Walter, second son of
Hosea Scott of Reafirth).— [Zetland Tests. ;
Zetland Sas. ; Zetland Fam. Hist., 64;
Reg. of Deeds, ccclviii., 13 ; P. C. Reg., xiv.,
750.]
JOHN EDMONDSTON of Gravaland,
second son of preceding ; was jointly
min. with his father in 1617. He
is said to be one of the persons who drew
up and presented to the Privy Council
the document dealing with the charges
of oppression against Norman Neven of
Windhouse as may be learned from the
supplication to Parliament by James Mowat
of Ollaberry and said Ninian Neven in
1641, where he is referred to as being
lawfully suspended for his gross mis
carriages ; adm. burgess of Aberdeen in
1625 ; died before 14th Feb. 1658, having
marr. Margaret Pitcairn, and had issue—
Gaspert of Gravaland; John. — [Zetland
Fam. Hist., 65; G. R. Homings, 13th
June 1642 ; P. C. Reg., xiv., 750.]
ROBERT MOWAT, M.A. ; adm. about
1655 1655 ; trans, to Fetlar about 1684.
ROBERT RAMSAY, educated at Univ.
16g4 of Edinburgh ; M.A. (7th April 1675);
adm. to this parish before 5th June
1684 ; called preacher in Lerwick chapel in
1685 ; was received into communion by the
Commission of Assembly June 1700 ; died
10th Jan. 1716, aged about 61. He marr.
Margaret, daugh. of Hercules Sinclair, min.
of Northmavine, and had issue — Hercules ;
Hugh ; Elizabeth, only daugh. (marr.
Robert Mowat, merchant, Burravoe.)—
[Zetland Sasines ; Reg. of Deeds, Dal., 19th
Feb. 1684.]
THOMAS HAY, schoolmaster at Kilsyth,
brother of John Hay, min. of Unst ;
was licen. at London (by William
Tong, James Anderson, William Harris,
etc.) 10th March 1709; called 18th Sept.
1716 ; ord. (at Hamnavoe) 14th March
1717; died 28th Jan. 1745. He marr. (1)
(cont. 5th June 1704), Prudence (died 26th
June 1730, daugh. of Patrick M'Dougal,
writer in Kelso) : (2) 6th Feb. 1732, Margaret
(died 5th March 1755), daugh. of George
Spence, min. of Birsay, Orkney. — [Acts
Ass., 1718; Zetland Fam. Hist., 122;
Tombst.]
ROBERT ANDERSON, a native of
Moray ; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen ; M.A. (29th March 1732) ;
chaplain to Thomas Gifford of Busta;
licen. by the Presb. 9th Jan. 1745 ; pres. by
James, Earl of Morton, in Oct. that year ;
ord. (at Mid Yell) 19th June 1746; died
18th Sept. 1777. He marr. 4th June 1747,
Ann Barbara (born 23rd April 1726, died
1st Oct. 1806), daugh. of Charles Neven of
Windhouse, and had issue— David, born
2nd March 1749, died young; Margaret,
born 20th Jan. 1750; Ellison, born 12th
April 1751 ; Margaret, born 10th June
1752, died young ; Charles, born 26th Dec.
1753, died 21st May 1754 ; Barbara, born
3rd April 1755 (marr. 21st April 1782
BUKRAVOE]
MID YELL
303
Patrick Mowat) ; Elizabeth (twin), born
3rd April 1755 ; William John, born 5th
Jan. 1757; David, born 16th July 1760,
died 22nd April 1773; Isobel, born 27th
May 1762; Charlotte Catherine, born 2nd
Nov. 1763 (marr., pro. 21st Jan. 1795,
Henry Sinclair, merchant, Edinburgh) ;
Mary (twin), born 2nd Nov. 1763, died
5th May 1773; Janet, born 2nd March
1765, died 25th Jan. 1766.
ANDREW DISHINGTON, pres. by Sir
17178 Laurence Dundas, Bart., in March
(on the solicitation of Sir Hew
Dalrymple of North Berwick and H.R.H.
the Princess Amelia who had heard him
preach in Edinburgh). He was in danger
of not getting the document forwarded in
consequence of the difficulties of communi
cation in the depth of winter, when,
fortunately, the packet for Zetland put
into Papa Sound and enabled him to
transmit it. He was adm. 30th April 1778 ;
declined a presentation to Birsay and
Harray 12th July 1795 ; trans, to Stronsay
and Eday 20th Julyl 1804.— [Kirkwall Sess. \
Reg. ; Smith's Church in Orkney, 242 [where
Dalrymple's letter to the patron is given
in full].]
JOHN FINLAYSON, born 1758, fourth
180g son of Matthew F., farmer in parish
of Dunblane; educated at Univ. of
Glasgow; licen. by Presb. of Lanark 30th
March 1785; pres. by Thomas, Lord
Dundas, in March, and ord. 2nd May 1805 ;
dep. by the Presb. 17th Feb. 1813, but the
sentence not having been supported by
evidence was reversed by the General
Assembly 24th May that year. As, how
ever, F. had been guilty of great impropriety
of conduct, he was admonished by the
Assembly and recommended to be more
circumspect in future. He procured an
appointment in Presb. of Biggar, "but
was soon reduced to such straits, through
luxury, that he was obliged to apply for
collections for support." He died 15th Feb.
1829. He marr. 21st Jan. 1812, Lilias
Thomasson in Lusater, who died 4th May
1883, and had issue — Matthew, in Com
mercial Bank, Edinburgh, born 12th Sept. j
1812 ; William, went to Cape Coast Castle,
born 26th Aug. 1814, died 7th June 1849 ;
John, born 1st April 1816; Robina Mary,
born 15th Jan. 1818 (marr. Colonel A.
Morrison, Royal Marines) ; Thomas, C.E.,
London, born 1st Feb. 1820, died 31st July
1905 ; Henry, born 7th April 1822, died in
London 18th Feb. 1910.— [Acts of Ass.,
1813, 1824, etc. ; Mill's Diary.]
JOHN MACGOWAN, pres. by Laurence,
Lord Dundas, 28th July, and ord.
' (assistant and successor) 20th Oct.
1825 ; trans, to Nesting 16th Aug. 1827.
JAMES ROBERTSON, schoolmaster
at Moorfield, Delting ; pres. by
5 Laurence, Lord Dundas, 1st Feb.,
and ord. (assistant and successor) 8th May
1828 ; trans, to St Fergus 8th Feb. 1844.
JAMES BARCLAY, born 16th Dec.
1844 1803) son °^ J°hn B., surgeon, Unst ;
educated at King's College, Aber
deen ; pres. by Thomas, Earl of Zetland, and
ord. 26th April 1844 ; died 29th Sept. 1885.
He marr. 22nd Oct. 1839, Anne Jane (died
6th March 1892, aged 80), daugh. of Captain
James Nicolson of Aith, and had issue —
John Forbes, born 31st Aug. 1840, died
23rd Oct. 1854 ; Anne Catherine, born 10th
April 1842, died 17th July 1852; James
Nicolson of Gardiesting, born 17th April
1843, died 24th Aug. 1924 ; Charles John
Thomas, born 12th May 1845, died at Clare-
mont, West Australia, 12th Oct. 1924;
Arthur Robert, born 13th April 1847, died in
Australia, Jan. 1924 ; Mary Isabella Buist,
born 20th June 1849 (marr. George Houston,
Mid Yell); William David, born 13th
June 1851, died 14th April 1852 ; Frederick
Dundas, born 21st Feb. 1853, died at
Menzies, West Australia, 8th Sept. 1924.
JOHN LOVE, ord. 8th April 1886;
app. clerk of Presb. 16th July 1906 ;
( trans, to Quarff 27th July 1910.
DAVID SCOTT, elected Nov. 1910;
orcl. 5th Dec. 1910; trans, to Lybster
1910
22nd Oct. 1914.
DUNCAN M'CORKINDALE, M.A.,
B.D. ; ord. 3rd May 1915 ; trans, to
' Gardenstown llth Oct. 1916.
304
MID YELL— NORTH YELL
[PRESB. OF
GORDON ALBYN DOUGLAS
LAURIE, born Dundee, 5th May
1918 1885, son of Alexander L., Dundee,
and Henrietta Nicoll ; educated at Dundee
High School and Univ. of St Andrews ;
M.A. '(1906), B.D. (1910); licen. by Presb.
of Dundee 5th May 1909 ; assistant at
Irvine and Dunblane ; served in Meso
potamia in European War in 1915 ; ord.
27th March 1918.
NORTH YELL
[The old church of North Yell stands
roofless, but very complete, near the Voe
of Papil. It was dedicated to St Olaf.
In the sixteenth century this parish was
joined to Fetlar. Some years before 1700
these two were both joined to Mid Yell and
South Yell. These latter two were severed
from them on 9th Feb. 1709. North Yell
was disjoined quoad sacra from Fetlar 15th
July 1868.
There were several pre - Reformation
chapels in this parish — at West-a-firth,
Gloup, St Olaf's at Ness, near Tofts, Down
Herra, Kellister, St John's at Gutcher, and
Kirkabister.]
JOHN WILSON, app. 23rd Dec. 1845 ;
ord. 7th May 1846; died at Helens-
' burgh, 17th Sept. 1881, aged 79.
JAMES LESLIE, app. 13th Aug.
1848 1848.
DAVID WEBSTER, app. 20th Jan.
1850 1850; ord. to Fetlar 5th Aug. 1852.
JAMES CRABB, born Kincardineshire,
1801 ; educated at King's College,
J Aberdeen ; M.A. (March 1825) ; app.
to this mission 19th Nov. 1852 ; app. clerk
of Presb. in 1853 ; ord. in 1854 ; became
first min. of this parish on its erection
15th July 1868 ; died 18th Feb. 1877.
JAMES STRUTHERS DOUGLAS,
M.D., born 1818, son of John D.,
blacksmith, and Mary Turner; ord. in
1858 inin. of St Andrews Church, Peter
borough, Canada ; res. in 1864 ; became
ord. missionary to Presb. of Toronto in
1864-7 ; app. to Birsay in 1870 ; inducted
to this parish 21st June 1877 ; died 18th
June 1884. He marr. at London, 2nd Jan.
1856, Anna M'Crate, who died 12th April
1917, and had issue — Annie Maria, born
27th Dec. 1856 ; Thomas Fortye, born 23rd
Feb. 1859; George Alexander, born 1st Dec.
1860 ; Arthur Pringle, born 20th Nov. 1862 ;
Clara Newcombe, born 10th April 1865;
Edith Emma, born 15th Aug. 1867 ; Mary
Alison, born 18th Jan. 1870 ; Catherine
Elizabeth, born 18th March 1872 ; James
Robert, born 20th April 1874; John
Frederick, born 17th Sept. 1875; David
Henry Webster, born 27th Feb. 1878;
Christian Caroline Maud, born 6th Nov.
1880.
JOHN BICKET, born 12th July 1846,
son of John B., Kilmarnock, and
Elizabeth Vallance ; educated at
Univ. of Glasgow; licen. by Presb. of
Irvine in 1875 ; assistant at Hutcheson-
town, Glasgow, 1875, St Paul's, Glasgow,
1876-9, Riccarton 1879, Stornoway 1882,
and North Isles, Orkney, 1883 ; ord. to this
parish 4th Nov. 1884; died 17th Dec. 1921.
He marr. 26th Jan. 1885, Margaret (died
s.p. 3rd Nov. 1921), daugh. of William
Spark, min. of Kirkwall.
JAMES RAE, born Campbel town, Argyll,
1922 - '
Catherine Gordon ; educated at
Grammar School, Campbeltown, and Univ.
of Glasgow; M.A. (1882); licen. by Presb.
of Kintyre 12th May 1885; assistant at
Assynt ; missionary at Beallachantuie, Kin-
tyre ; app. to St Vincent, Grenada, 27th
July 1888 ; trans, to St James's, Essequibo,
1893 ; trans, to St Saviour's, Berbice, 1895,
ind. 4th Sept. 1922 ; dem. 14th June 1926 ;
trans, to Milton of Balgonie 7th July 1927.
Marr. 5th March 1889, Agnes Dykes, daugh.
of John and Margaret Somerville, and has
issue — William, engineer, born 24th Dec.
1889, died 2nd Nov. 1918 ; Margaret Dykes
Somerville, born 14th Sept. 1892 (marr. 6th
June 1918) ; Gordon, born 28th May 1894,
died 12th Nov. 1917.
BURRAVOE]
SOUTH YELL
305
SOUTH YELL, OR HAM-
NAVOE (Q.S.).
[The church of South Yell at Hamnavoe
was dedicated to St Magnus. Mid Yell
and South Yell were united in the six
teenth century. Near the end of the seven
teenth they were both joined to Fetlar and
North Yell. On 9th Feb. 1709, Mid Yell
and South Yell were severed from Fetlar
and North Yell. South Yell was disjoined
quoad sacra from Mid Yell on 19th July
1880.]
JOHN ELDER, app. in 1832; ord. to
1832 Walls 1st Jan. 1841.
GEORGE MOIR DAVIDSON, app. in
1841 1841; trans, to Watten 28th Sept.
1843.
WILLIAM TELFER, formerly of
1845 Eday; app. in 1845.
OLIVER FORBES, born 1822, son of
1858 Simon F., merchant, Aberdeen ; edu
cated at King's College, Aberdeen,
MA. (1842) ; app. in 1858. He marr. Janet
(died 25th Oct. 1900), daugh. of George
Henderson of Pettister, and had issue —
William ; Barbara ; Emily Henderson.
JOHN HUTCHISON, M.A.; ord. in
1872 1872.
JOHN WATSON, born Hillhead,
1876 Mauchline, 19th Aug. 1844, son of
Hugh W. ; educated at Univs. of
Glasgow, MA. (1871), and Edinburgh, B.D.
(1874); licen. by Presb. of Ayr 4th Dec.
1872 ; ord. 8th June 1876, and became first
min. of the parish on its erection ; app.
clerk of Presb. in 1900; res. that office
1904; dem. 1914; died at Chadwick
Heath, Essex, 31st May 1921. He marr.
llth July 1876, Grace, youngest daugh. of
William Reid, factor, Gilmilnscroft, Sorn,
and had issue — Hamilton, L.R.C.P.E.,
L.R.C.S.E., L.F.P.S., born 28th Aug. 1877
(marr. 27th April 1907, Herbert Alfred
Grigsby, Southsea) ; Hugh, born 14th Feb.
1879 ; Jane Drummond, born 8th Aug.
1880 (marr. 5th Oct. 1910, Robert A.
Sinclair Aitken) ; William Reid, born 28th
Sept. 1882 ; Robert John, born 16th Jan.
1885.
JOHN CUNNINGHAM MOORE, adm.
1915 16th Feb. 1915; trans, to Delting
1st Feb. 1916.
EDMUND EDWARD WILLIAMSON,
1916 MA.; adm. 8th May 1916; dem.
6th Oct. 1919 [afterwards min. of
Shurrery].
ANDREW NOBLE SCOTT, born 1859,
1920 son of William S., Victoria
Bridge, Montrose ; educated at
Montrose Academy, Univ. of St Andrews
and Congregational Theological Hall,
Edinburgh ; ord. to Congregational Church,
Cumnock, in 1882 ; min. of Richmond Con
gregational Church, Edinburgh, 1884-91,
at Sullom, Shetland, 1891-8 ; at Ruther-
glen, 1899; went to Australia, returned
home and was missionary at Boat of Garten
in 1915 ; adm. as licentiate by General
Assembly May 1916; ord, 1st May 1920;
died 8th April 1924. He marr. (1) and
had issue — a son : (2) Jessie A . N.
Macmanus.
JAMES CAMERON STEEN, ord. llth
1925 May 1925 ; trans, to South Ronald-
say, 8th March 1927.
VOL. VII.
PRESBYTERY OF OLNAFIRTH
[This Court was set up by the General Assembly on 29th May 1848. It had at first
only four parishes, of which Sandsting and Walls were taken from the Presbytery of
Lerwick, and Delting and Nesting from that of Burravoe. About a year later,
Northmavine also was transferred from Burravoe to Olnafirth.]
DELTING, OLNAFIRTH, AND
LAXAVOE.
[These three parishes were united in the
sixteenth century.
Delting.— The church of Delting was
dedicated to St Paul.
Olnafirth.— -The church of Olnafirth was
dedicated to St Olaf. There is now a
mission chapel within the bounds, at the
village of Olnafirth.
Laxavoe. — The church of Laxavoe was
dedicated to St Magnus.]
MATTHEW LITSTAR, reader in
1567 1567.
JOHN DENOON, pres. to the vicarage
1573 by James YL 23rd March 1573> and
also to the vicarage of Dunrossness
5th April 1574. In 1574 Scatstay, Foula,
Walls, Sandness and Papa were also in the
charge with. £80 Scots of stipend for up
holding a reader; still min. in 1588. — [Wod-
row Miscell. ; Oppress, of Orkney.]
JOHN EDIE, mentioned in 1593, and
1593 still min. in 1601.
GILBERT MO WAT, M.A. ; adm. before
28th July 1605 ; dem. 10th April
1615, in favour of his successor;
trans, to Northmavine soon afterwards.
PATRICK HOG, son of Archibald H.,
min. of Durris ; adm. to Fetlar
before 1603 ; trans, in 1615 ; died
between 12th Jan. 1622 and 1st Sept. 1624.
He had issue — Thomas, min. of South
Leith.— [Test. Reg. Shet.~\
ROBERT MURRAY of Stonewall and
Swinister ; M.A., is first mentioned
1624 as min. 2nd Sept. 1624 in the pro
ceedings before the Privy Council against
Ninian Neven of Windhouse ; on 16th July
1664 had a charter from Alexander Douglas
of Spynie, commissioner of the Earldom
of Orkney, of the five merks land of
Swinister. He died before 12th Oct. 1667.
He marr. Lilias Crichton, and had issue-
John in Deall ; George ; Patrick ; Janet
(marr. Andrew Sinclair of Swining.) —
[Privy Council Reg., xiv., 737, 3rd ser. ii.,
661 ; Shetland Sas.~\
ALEXANDER DUNBARof Weathersta,
M.A., born 1623, son of James D.
of Churchill (Kirkhill), second son
of Thomas D. of Grange, min. of Auldearn ;
schoolmaster of Auldearn 1662-5 ; passed
trials before Presb. of Forres and was
recommended to the bishop for licence 3rd
Dec. 1665; ord. to Inveraven before 2nd
April 1667 ; trans, before 7th April 1668 ;
was Moderator of Presb. for thirteen years ;
received into communion by Commission
of Assembly which visited Shetland in
June 1700 ; dem. on account of infirmity
March 1706; died 10th Sept. 1708. He
mortified on 26th May 1707, two hundred
merks for behoof of the poor. He marr.
Mary, daugh. of Andrew Mowat of Ness,
and had issue — Patrick, eldest son, left
Shetland; James of Weathersta, M.D.,
mortified one hundred merks for the poor ;
Anna (marr. Charles Sinclair of Brew);
Margaret (marr. John Hendry of Forat-
watt).— [Zetland Fam. Hist., 60 ; Pitcairn's
Grim. Trials, iii., 602 ; Greig's Delting, 92 ;
Tombst.]
PRESB. OF OLNAFIRTH] BELTING, OLNAFIRTH, AND LAXAVOE 307
ANDREW FISKEN of Southerhouse ;
1§ro9 studied at St Leonard's College ;
M.A. (St Andrews, 17th July 1702) ;
licen. by Presb. of Kirkcaldy 8th May 1707 ;
called 20th Oct. that year ; ord. (at North
Delting) llth May 1709; dem. 9th Jan.
1751 ; died 14th Feb. 1750. He marr.
Ann, daugh. of John Gifford of Busta, and
had issue— Andrew ; John, assistant to his
father; Elizabeth, born 2nd Feb. 1714
(marr. 16th April 1738, John Rintoul, town
officer, Edinburgh, and went to Carolina).
— [Acts of Ass., 1715, 1726, 1747; Zetland
Fam. Hist., 85.]
JOHN FISKEN, born 1711, second son
1745 °^ Preceding ; Hcen. by Presb. of
' Linlithgow 18th Oct. 1738 ; tutor to
his cousins, the children of Thomas Gifford
of Busta ; ord. assistant to his father, and
enrolled a member of Presb. 2nd Sept. 1745;
pres. to Tingwall, but was drowned with
four of his cousins [John, Robert, William,
and Hay Gifford], crossing Busta Voe,
when returning from a visit to their uncle,
Andrew Gifford of Wethersta on Saturday
night, 14th May 1748. He was unmarr. —
[Acts of Ass., 1747 ; Scots Mag., x. ; Greig's
Annals of a Shetland Parish, 38-42.]
JOHN BARCLAY, born 1705, son of
1751 Patrick B., Mill of Towie, and
Barbara Wilson ; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen; M.A. (29th March
1722) ; became schoolmaster of Rothiemay,
1722-9; licen. by Presb. of Turriff 28th
Oct. 1730 ; ord. 14th Nov. 1744 (assistant)
at Forgue ; pres. by James, Earl of Morton,
in July, and adm. (at Olnafirth) 10th Oct.
1751 ; died 18th April 1781. He marr.
16th Jan. 1755, Grizel (died 23rd Oct.
1767), daugh. of Robert Bruce of Symbister,
and had issue — Margaret, born 3rd July
1756, died 5th May 1760; Patrick, min.
of Sandsting ; Lieut.-Colonel Sir Robert,
K.C.B., born 17th Jan. 1759, died 6th
March 1829 ; John, M.D., London, born 4th
Aug. 1760.— [New Stat. Ace., xv. ; Zetland
Fam. Hist., 31.]
JOHN MORISON, born 1754, son of
1782 George M. of Balquhally; educated
at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A.
(31st March 1772) ; called 17th March, and
adm. (at Olnafirth) 24th April 1782 ; took
the most resolute part in asserting the right
of the Presb. jure devoluto to the settlement
at Unst in 1794 ; died 6th Sept. 1818. He
marr. 9th May 1784, Ann (died 14th Oct.
1798), daugh. of Arthur Nicolson of Lochend,
and had issue — John, R.N., born 17th
April 1785, died 13th Jan. 1811 ; Margaret,
born 27th July 1786 (marr. 1st April 1817,
James Pottinger, purser, R.N.) ; Jane, born
30th Oct. 1788 (marr. 1st Jan. 1817, Alex
ander Riach, purser, R.N.) ; Arthur, colonel
Royal Marines, born 9th June 1790;
William, in Inland Revenue, born 5th June
1795 ; Gideon Gifford, born 26th Nov. 1796,
died 24th March 1798. Publication —
Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace.,
i.).— [Zetland Fam. Hist., 218.]
JOHN SIMPSON, M.A.; pres. by
181g Thomas, Lord Dundas, in Feb., and
adm. 31st March 1819 ; trans, to
Stronsay and Eday 8th Sept. 1820.
JOHN PATON, born at Portsburgh,
1762, son of Ninian P., schoolmaster,
Cramond ; educated at Univ. of
Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of Abertarff
30th Nov. 1791; pres. by Thomas, Lord
Dundas, Nov. 1820; ord. llth Jan. 1821;
died unmarr. 30th Jan. 1847. He left a
sum of money for the education of the poor
of the parish.— [Scot. Jurist, xv.]
JOHN DUNCAN M'INTYRE, born
1846 29th July 1801, son of Archibald M.,
engraver, afterwards teacher of
languages, Edinburgh; educated at High
School, Edinburgh, and St Andrews Univ.;
became a teacher of classics ; licen. by
Presb. of Edinburgh 30th Dec. 1840;
assistant at Gilmerton, St David's, Kirk-
intilloch, and in Orkney; ord. (assistant
and successor) 3rd Sept. 1846. On the
ground that his manse was uninhabitable,
he deserted his charge in July 1866, and
was proceeded against by the Presb., but
died at Edinburgh 23rd Sept. 1869. He
marr. 10th Oct. 1849, Eliza (died 5th Jan.
1907, aged 84), second daugh. of Andrew
Brown, accountant of Ministers' Widows'
Fund, and had issue — John Archibald,
M.B., C.M., Edinburgh, died 1902 ; Helen
Margaret (marr. Theophilus Greenway,
308
DELTING, OLNAFIRTH, AND LAXAVOE [PRESB. OP
postmaster, Richmond, Cape Colony), died
7th June 1923 ; Elizabeth Harrison ;
Henrietta (marr. Percy W. Kidwell, farmer,
Rhodesia) ; Andrienne Alexandra.
WILLIAM GOLDIE BOAG, born
Widdrington, Northumberland, 15th
Oct. 1834, son of George B., min. of
Uphall ; educated privately and at Univ.
of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of Linlith-
gow 30th June 1857 ; assistant at Carriden
July 1859 to Feb. 1860, at Keir Sept. 1861
to Dec. 1862 ; missionary at Blackbraes
July 1863 to March 1870; pres. by Thomas,
Earl of Zetland, 4th Nov. 1869 ; ord. 3rd
March 1870 ; app. clerk of Presb. 17th
March 1886 ; dem. 30th Sept. 1903 ; died at
Bonnyrigg 23rd June 1920. . He marr. 1st
Nov. 1864, Margaret Rae (died 5th Dec.
1893), daugh. of George Gibb, min. of
Glenisla, and had issue — William Goldie,
min. of Tenandry, born 19th Sept. 1868 ;
Georgina, born 25th Dec. 1865 (marr.
23rd Dec. 1902, Hugh Macmaster, min. of
Dunnichen), died 6th Feb. 1910.
[ALEXANDER ARNOT MITCHELL,
1908 min. of Flotta ; elected 30th and 31st
Dec. 1903, but declined.]
ALEXANDER COLIN HENDERSON,
19Q4 M.A., B.D. ; elected 17th and 18th
March 1904 ; ind. 13th April there
after ; dem. 15th May 1907 [afterwards
min. of Whalsay and of Holm (q.v.)].
JOHN DALGLISH CARMICHAEL,
1907 elected 28th and 29th Aug. 1907;
trans, from Nesting 10th Oct. 1907 ;
app. clerk of Presb. in 1904 ; trans, to
Kininmonth 21st March 1912.
WALTER KILGOUR BLACK, adm.
1912 ^rom Dudhope Free Church, Dundee,
29th Aug. 1912; trans, to South
Kirriemuir 17th May 1915.
JOHN CUNNINGHAM MOORE,
1916 trans- from South Yell and adm.
1st Feb. 1916; trans, to Lairg 3rd
July 1919.
KENNETH ALEXANDER M ACLEAY,
1920 M.A., B.D. ; formerly min. of Carts-
burn, Greenock (q.v.) ; adm. 27th
Sept. 1920 ; dem. 20th July 1922 ; assist
ant at Barrowfield in 1927. He obtained
decree of divorce against his wife, 22nd
Nov. 1924, on ground of desertion.
DAVID DUTHIE M'LAREN, M.A.,
1923 ^'^' > f°rmerly min- °f Monifieth
(q.v.) and at Belize; adm. 29th
March 1923 ; trans, to Bressay 12th Aug.
1925.
JOHN M'LAREN WILSON, born
1926 Nairn> 25th AuS- 1887> son of George
W. and Isabella M'Laren ; educated
at Church Street School, Nairn, Rose's
Academical Institution, and Univ. of Aber
deen ; M.A. (1910) ; licen. by U.F. Presb. of
Edinburgh Aug. 1914 ; assistant at Junction
Road U.F. Church, Leith, New Deer, and
New Maud, 1916-18 ; ord. to Lumsden U.F.
Church 13th July 1918 ; app. by the Presb.
15th July, and adm. 28th Sept. 1926. Marr.
2nd Aug. 1916, Annie Craighead, daugh.
of George and Jane Stepani, and has issue
—George M'Laren, born 8th Aug. 1917 ;
John M'Laren, born 29th April 1919, died
19th March 1920 ; Alexander Anderson,
born 23rd Sept. 1920 ; Disney Charles
Craighead, born 15th April 1923.
OLNAFIRTH.
[Home Mission station.]
ANDREW ALLAN, app. 13th Dec.
1 1865 1865.
JAMES FORBES [afterwards of St
1874 Mary's, South Ronaldsay].
ALEXANDER RONALD
7 SIMPSON [afterwards of St John's
Chapel, North Walls].
JAMES GEIKIE, formerly of Toward
1882 (q.v.).
JOSEPH JAMES LORRAINE, app.
1890 1890 [afterwards of Townhill].
WILLIAM GORDON, M.A., B.D.,
1899 f°rmcrly of Whiteness (q.v.) ; app.
1899 ; dem. 1904.
OLNAFIUTir]
NESTING AND LUNNASTING
309
NESTING AND LUNNASTING.
[In the sixteenth century the parishes of
Nesting, Lunnasting, and Whalsay were all
united. Whalsay was severed from the
others 15th July 1868.
Nesting.— The church was dedicated to
St Ola. The present church was built in
1794.
Lunnasting. — The church was dedicated
to St Margaret. There is now a mission
chapel at Lunna.]
1567 SIR GEORGE STRANG, vicar.
1567 GEORGE DUFF, reader, 1567-78.
GAVIN WATT, reader in 1567 [after-
1567 wards of St Andrews and Deerness].
ALEXANDER SPITTALL.son of Alex-
1567 ander S. of Blairlogie and Elizabeth
Hay; pres. to vicarage by Adam
Bothwell, Bishop of Orkney, 20th May
1567 ; died after 9th Feb. 1600.
PETER SIMSON, reader here from
j 7 1579 to 1589, to which Lunnasting
was added from 1590 to 1595 ; pres.
by Patrick, Earl of Orkney, to vicarage
before 10th July 1601 on death of Alex
ander Spittall. He had a son Arthur. —
[Orkney Tests.; Lerwick Sheriff -Court
Records; Acts and Dec., cxc., 6.]
JOHN ADAMSON, son of John A.,
1624 burgess of Linlithgow ; M.A. (St
Andrews 1621) ; adm. to this parish
before 2nd Sept. 1624, when he 'was an as
sessor at the trial of Ninian Neven ; made
a burgess of Linlithgow in 1628 ; appointed
J.P. 18th Sept. 1634; died after 17th
July 1652 and before 2nd Nov. 1653, when
his son Harry died at Edinburgh. He
marr. Elizabeth Blaw, and had issue
Harry, apprenticed to Patrick Hepburn,
apothecary, Edinburgh, 12th March 1645 ;
John. — [Privy Council Reg., xiv., 737;
Edin. Apprentice Reg. ; Shetland Sas. :
Test. Reg. ; Linlithgow Inhib., ix., 201 ;
Prot.-Book Andrew Kerr, 101.]
THEODORE UMPHRAY, born 1630,
1657 younSCHti H0n °f William U., min.
of Bressay, Burra, and Quarff ; edu
cated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A.
(1651); adm. before 22nd July 1657, and
acquired considerable landed estate in the
islands. He petitioned the General As
sembly, Jan. 1698, with five others, that
he might be received into Presbyterian
Communion, stating " that since he sub
scribed the Solemn League and Covenant
to maintain Presbyterian government the
world could not say he had wavered, that
under the unhappy government of bishops
they had never persuaded him to take the
canonical oath, that he was commissioned
by the bishop to moderate in Shetland,
but did not, and never had a hand in
setting up any Episcopal man." Notwith
standing this, it was found that he took
the Test, and complied with the late
defections; he therefore dem. 6th March
1701, and took up residence in Leith,
depending on voluntary contributions, as
recommended by the Assembly and some
Synods. He registered arms in the Lyon
Office about 1672. He died 9th April 1711.
He niarr. before 22nd Sept. 1668, Janet,
daugh. of Thomas Couper, min. of Montrose,
and had issue — William, min. of Sandsting ;
Charles. — [Orkney Presb. and Syn. Reg.;
S. Leith Bur. ; Brechin Test. Reg. ; Acts
of Ass. ; Zetland Fam. Hist., 332.]
ROBERT GRAY, was a student in the
1703 fourth class at the Univ. of Glasgow
in 1694 ; licen. by Presb. of Hamilton
20th June 1700, afterwards passing trials
there in prospect of a charge in New
Jersey ; called to this parish in March,
and ord. 29th July 1703 ; died 18th Nov.
1749. He marr. (1) Margaret, daugh. of
Edward Sinclair of Toft : (2) 17th July
1735, Anna (died 19th April 1762), daugh.
of John Spence of Gardie, and had issue —
James ; Thomas, dyer in Edinburgh ; Robert
in Bulliester ; Margaret in Fraserburgh ;
Christian (marr. (1) Edward Sinclair of
Toft, and (2) Thomas Auchinleck) ; Grizel in
Lerwick ; Elizabeth (marr. Adam Simpson);
Barbara (marr. James Greig in Vassay).—
[Zetland Fam. Hist., 332.]
310
NESTING AND LUNNASTING
[PRESB. OF
GEORGE REID, app. master of
1752 Grammar School, Kirkwall, 1727,
and continued till 1734, when he
was " being found fault with for immoder
ately chastising and cruelly treating the
children under his care ;' ; licen. by Presb.
of Kirkwall 7th Aug. 1734, and returned
to his post as schoolmaster ; proposed, 4th
March 1737, for the Second Charge of
Kirkwall ; ord. 16th Nov. 1743, as mission
ary at Fair Isle, and enrolled a member
of the Presb. 6th June 1744; pres. to this
parish by James, Earl of Morton, 4th April
1750; adm. 16th April 1752; died 4th
April 1770. He marr. 25th April 1730,
Isobel, daugh. of Patrick Traill, bailie of
Kirkwall, and granddaugh. of George Traill
of Holland, and had issue— Jean, born
24th Aug. 1731 (marr. pro. 3rd July 1768,
William Rae, sailor) ; Helen, born 12th Sept.
1732 (marr. Robert Omond of Fair Isle);
Ann, born 19th Oct 1734; Isobel, born
2nd Sept. 1736, died 19th Oct. 1761 ; Rosa,
born llth Jan. 1744; Robert, born 22nd
Dec. 1745; John, born 25th Nov. 1746;
Margaret, born 18th Nov. 1747; Mary,
born 18th Nov. 1747 ; Elizabeth, born 18th
Nov. 1747 (triplets).— [Kirkwall and Evie
Sess. Reg. ; Acts of Ass., 1747 ; Peterkin's
Mentals; Hossack's Kirkwall, 193, 270.]
DAVID M'ROBERT, licen. by Presb. of
1771 Chirnside 12th March 1769 ; pres. by
Sir Laurence Dundas of Kerse, Nov.
1770; ord. 13th March 1771; died 28th
May 1785.
JOHN INCHES, born 1743 ; educated
at Univ. of St Andrews ; ord. to
' Walls and Sandness 15th Sept. 1779 ;
trans, and adm. 28th June 1786; died 18th
Oct. 1826. He marr. 12th March 1780,
Catherine (died 15th March 1842, aged 102),
daugh. of Robert Hunter of Lunna, and had
issue— Ursula Bruce, born 20th Oct. 1783,
died 26th Nov. 1825 ; Euphemia, born 16th
Jan. 1786.— [Zetland Fam. Hist., 163.]
JOHN MACGOWAN, born Kirkcud
bright 1786; ord. assistant and suc
cessor at Mid Yell 20th Oct. 1825 ;
pres. by Laurence, Lord Dundas in May
and adm. 16th Aug. 1827 ; died 26th Aug.
1846. Publication— Account of the Parish
(New Stat. Ace., xv.).
ALEXANDER WATSON SHAND,
eldest son of James S., rector of
Grammar School, Forres'; educated
at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (13th
Feb. 1837) ; studied divinity and medicine,
became surgeon on a whaling vessel, was
master of the Sessional School of Edin
burgh, and afterwards of Kirknewton
School ; ord. to Sandwick 20th April 1844 ;
pres. by Thomas, Earl of Zetland ; adm. to
this parish 6th May 1847 ; app. clerk of
Presb. in 1848, which office he resigned
18th July 1855 ; died (after a long illness)
19th Sept. 1857. He marr. 3rd Oct. 1850,
Helen Bruce (died 22nd Oct. 1880), daugh.
of John Glendinning Bryden, min. of Sand-
sting, and had issue— James, agent Union
Bank, Dundee, born 1851. Publication —
Outlines of Ancient and Modern Geography
(Edinburgh, 1833).
WILLIAM LEVIE, born 1832, son of
Robert L., shoemaker, Aberdeen ;
educated at Marischal College, Aber
deen ; M.A. (1851) ; ord. (assistant and
successor) to Sandwick, Shetland, 1857 ;
pres. by Thomas, Earl of Zetland, 3rd Nov.
that year; adm. 13th May 1858 ; died 27th
Jan. 1901. He marr. (1) 26th Nov. 1857,
Eliza (died 24th Dec. 1886), only daugh. of
William Pole of Greenbank, and had issue-
Robert, M.R.C.V.S., born 8th Feb. 1859,
died 14th March 1909 ; Ann, born 27th
June 1860, died 14th Sept. 1883; Eliza
Ramsay, born 26th Dec. 1861, died 2nd
May 1895 (marr. 31st Aug. 1893, Hugh
Mitchell Jamieson, min. of Auchterarder) ;
William, born 20th Oct. 1863, died 27th
March 1879 ; Alexander, M.R.C.V.S., Thorn-
hill, born 30th Aug. 1865; Wilhelmina,
born 6th July 1867, died 1st Aug. 1894;
Millicent Walker, born 6th June 1869
(marr. 4th Aug. 1902, Peter Mouat Sandison,
merchant, Cullivoe) ; Harriet Agnes, born
15th Feb. 1871 (marr. 14th June 1900,
James John Spence, merchant, Lerwick) ;
Thomas, chemist, born 17th Dec. 1872;
Margaret Isabella, born 8th Aug. 1875 : (2)
OLNAFIRTH] NESTING AND LUNNASTING— LUNNA CHAPEL 311
28th Jan. 1890, Helen Joanna (died 14th
Oct. 1912, aged 77), daugh. of Andrew
Anderson, schoolmaster, Queness, Lunna-
sting.
JOHN DALGLISH CARMICHAEL,
1901 e^ecte(i 19tb June> and ord. 7th Aug.
1901; trans, to Delting 10th Oct.
1907.
GEORGE BREWSTER, born Kenneth-
1908 mont' Aberdeenshire, 30th Jan. 1853,
son of James B. ; educated at Univ.
of Glasgow ; M.A. (28th April 1882) ; Keen,
by Presb. of Edinburgh 17th June 1884;
ord. (by Presb. of Edinburgh) to Wolfen-
dahl Church, Ceylon, 25th Sept. 1888;
called to Scots Church, Albany, West
Australia, 1895 ; Moderator of General
Assembly of Presbyterian Church of West
Australia, 1904-5 ; returned home June
1906 ; assistant at St Mark's, Dundee ; adm.
12th March 1908 ; died 21st March 1924.
He marr. 20th Dec. 1889, Annie Watson,
Oxford, who died 1st April 1923, and had
issue— George Basil, medical practitioner,
born 24th June 1891.
JOHN HENDERSON MACKENZIE,
1924 born Edinburgh' 2nd July 1871» son
of Donald M., Invergordon, and
Margaret Henderson ; educated at Kil-
muir-Easter School, Upper Tullich, Harley
College, London, and Univ. of Edinburgh ;
ord. a min. of Congregational Church, Oct.
1904 ; went to New Zealand in 1905 ;
min. at Naungatursto ; trans, to Onehunga
in 1909 ; returned May 1914 ; assistant
at St Cuthbert's, Edinburgh, Bonnington
Chapel, June 1915 to May 1916, St
Margaret's, Edinburgh, 1916, and Robertson
Mission, Grassmarket, June that year;
adm. to Church of Scotland by General
Assembly May 1917 ; licen. by Presb. of
Edinburgh Nov. that year ; ord. to Robert
son Mission, Grassmarket, 17th Jan. 1918;
adm. to Scots Church, Newcastle-upon-
Tyne, 31st July that year; trans, and
adm. 16th Sept. 1924 ; trans, to St Andrew's
Church, Benvick, 4th Aug. 1927. Marr.
Agnes, daugh. of David Masterton, Forfar,
and Agnes Petrie, and has issue — David
James Masterton, student in medicine,
born 23rd July 1905 ; Margaret Henderson,
born 9th April 1911 ; John Chalmers, born
8th June 191 7. Publication— Editor of New
Zealand Congregational Union Year Book
(1910-14).
LUNNA CHAPEL.
ROBERT MACLAURIN [afterwards of
1856 Sandsting in 1856].
JOHN CRAIG, D.D., [afterwards of
1864 Sandwick in Shetland].
1873 JOHN BONTHRON.
GEORGE CHRISTIE, educated at
1877 Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (1867) ;
app. in 1877 ; ord. 12th Aug. 1885 ;
died 9th March 1899. He marr. Jane
Manson (died 4th Nov. 1896, aged 42), and
had issue— Kate Robina Hunter, born 9th
March 1888; David William Anderson,
born 16th Dec. 1889 ; Margaret Helen
Manson, born 10th May 1891 (marr. 15th
June 1921, John Waddell, Shanghai) ;
Agnes Isabella, born 1st Aug. 1893 ; John
Peter George, born 7th April 1895, died
April 1899 ; Georgina, born Nov. 1896, died
in infancy.
WILLIAM STABLES SMITH, born
igoo Redcliff, Whittingehame, 26th March
1852, son of Charles S., factor, and
Christian Cant; educated at Whittingehame
and East Linton Schools, Granto wn Grammar
School, Edinburgh Institution, and Univs.
of Aberdeen and Edinburgh ; licen. by
Presb. of Dunbar in 1886 ; assistant at
Buccleuch Parish, Edinburgh, 1888-91 ; ord.
for service in Canada in 1891 ; served for
one year in Vancouver Island and for four
years in all Provinces of Canada ; returned
to Scotland and was missionary at Aithsting
1897, assistant at Sandsting 1898, adm. to
this charge in 1900 ; dem. 1918 ; took charge
of Milton of Campsie Mission 1st Jan. 1918
to 1st Jan. 1920; retired 1922. Publication
— Perilous Adventures in Canada, 1891-6
(London, 1918).
ALFRED ERNEST ADAMSON, app.
1919 in 1919 ; ord. to Belize, 1st July 1927.
312
NORTHMAVINE AND OLLABERRY
[PEESB. OF
NORTHMAVINE AND
OLLABERRY.
[These parishes were united in the six
teenth century.
Northmavine, — The church of North-
mavine was dedicated to St Gregory. In
this parish there were chapels of St
Columba and St Olaf. At Eshaness
there is now a mission chapel.
Ollaberry.— The church of Ollaberry was
dedicated to St Magnus. There was a
chapel in the parish at Northroe, where
is now a mission chapel. At the village
of Ollaberry also there is a mission chapel.]
JOHN GIFFORD, said to have been a
1567 son of John G. of Sheriff-hall, Mid
lothian, originally a Roman Catholic
and perhaps a priest ; was reader in 1567,
with the third of the vicarage. In 1574,
for serving St Colm's Kirk, Cross Kirk
and Ollaberry, he had the same stipend
together with a barrel of butter out of the
umboth duties or bishops' rents of the
parish. He is designed min. in 1574, and
died before 10th July 1577. He marr.
Margaret, daugh. of Thomas Ballenden of
Auchinoull, and had issue — Andrew of
Weathersta [purchased in 1583], ancestor of
the Busta family ; Gilbert. — [Zetland
Fam. Hist., 81 ; Tudor's The Orkneys and
Shetland, 412.]
PETER MAXWELL, min. in 1578;
1578 trans, to Sandsting in 1579.
JAMES PITCAIRN, said to be son of
Pitcairn of Huitbauch, and Gallo-
wayskild ;• was a student at St
Mary's College, St Andrews, 1575 ; became
reader, and was pres. to the vicarage by
James VI. 10th June and 19th Nov. 1578 ;
adm. in 1579; appeared before the Privy
Council, 2nd July 1589, at the instance of
his parishioners and of John Mowat, son of
Andrew M. of Hugoland, to answer to a
complaint "in troubling and oppressing
them through his avaricious and indecent
behaviour, evil lyffe and conversation " ; was
nominated Constant Moderator of Presb.
1579
by the General Assembly in 1606, the Presb.
being charged by the Privy Council, 17th
Jan. following, to receive him as such, within
twenty-four hours after notice under pain
of rebellion. He rebuked Patrick, Earl of
Orkney, for the oppression he had used to
the Shetlanders in compelling them to
supply forced labour for the erection of
Scalloway Castle, and is said to have been
imprisoned until he composed an inscrip
tion (now undecipherable) over the door ;
died March 1612. He marr. Ursula,
daugh. of Laurence Sinclair of Sandes,
burgess of Kirkwall, and had issue — Mar
garet (marr. John Swinton, min. of Fetlar);
Janet (marr. Gilbert Mowat .his successor) ;
Martha (marr. James Neven of Scous-
burgh) ; Christian ; Agnes (marr. James
Mowat of UK.— [Privy Council Reg., iv.,
400; Tudor's The Orkneys and Shetland,
464; Gifford's Zetland, 8; Calderwood's
7/tsi.,vi.,622 ; Orkney Tests. ; Brand's Orkney
and Zetland^; Zetland Family Hist.,288.]
GILBERT MOWAT of Garth, born
1579, fourth son of Andrew M. of
1615 Hugoland; educated at Univ. of
Edinburgh; MA. (30th July 1601); adm.
min. of Delting before 28th July 1605 ;
trans, and adm. in 1615 ; was alleged to
have been guilty in connection with Ninian
Neven of Windhouse of many " Oppres-
siounes, Tirranies, and Falceties upon the
poor inhabitants of the County of Zetland";
Moderator of Presb. in 1634; still min.
in 1642. He marr. (1) Janet, daugh. of
James Pitcairn, his predecessor, and had
issue — James of Ollaberry ; Andrew ;
Thomas, ancestor of the Garth family ;
Robert, min. of Yell; Rodger; Ursula
(marr. Andrew Bruce of Muness) : (2)
Margaret Forbes, who survived him. —
[Orkney Presb. Reg. ; Orkney Tests. ; Zet
land Fam. Hist., 195 ; Privy Council Reg.,
xiv., 762 ; G. R. Inhib., xiv., 178, 31st Jan.
1621.]
HERCULES SINCLAIR, M.A. (St
Andrews, 25th July 1657) ; min. in
1662. His only child Margaret marr.
Robert Ramsay, min. of Yell. — [Orkney
Presb. and Syn. Reg. ; Brand's Orkney
and Zetland.]
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313
1(5
[LAURENCE SINCLAIR, brother of
preceding; went one Sabbath to
preach at Ollaberry, where he died
and was buried.'}— {Information from the
Rev. J. R. Sutherland.]
JAMES ROSE, brother of Andrew R.,
burgess of Aberdeen ; adm. before
' 1681 ; died in 1690. He marr., and
had issue — Andrew; James; Elizabeth
(marr. Andrew Bruce, tutor of Muness).
—[Reg. of Deeds, Dal., 19th Feb. 1684;
Zetland Sas.~\
JAMES BUCHAN, born 1659 ; educated
at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A.
(1696) ; licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith
23rd Jan. 1700, called 4th Aug. and ord.
(at Lerwick) 29th Sept. that year. In 1706
he resigned from conscientious scruples as
to his acceptability but his resignation was
not accepted. He died 27th Jan. 1727, be
queathing £25 sterling, the interest of which
was to be bestowed on those reduced in
circumstances, who were formerly in a more
affluent state than the ordinary poor. He
marr. April 1702, Jean, daugh. of Andrew
Young, W.S., and widow of Major John
Guthrie, Edinburgh, and had issue — -James,
min. of Walls ; Mary (marr. Patrick Cheyne
of Tangwick) ; Helen (marr. Andrew Bolt,
merchant, Lerwick) ; Jean (marr. George
Dunbar of Hogsetter); Elizabeth (marr.
Robert Neven, Galligarth). — [Edin. Reg.
Mar. ; Acts of Ass., 1706, 1716 ; Services of
Heirs ; Sinclair's Stat. Ace., xii.]
WILLIAM GIFFORD, son of John G.
,72^ of Busta, and Anna, daugh. of
Thomas Leslie of Ustaness ; licen.
by Presb. of Linlithgow 28th Jan. 1728 ;
called Sept. following and ord. (at Ollaberry)
6th March 1729; died 27th March 1767.
He marr. 18th June 1730, Betty (died llth
Aug. 1776), daugh. of John Leslie, merchant,
Edinburgh.— [Acts of Ass., 1727 ; Edin. Mar.
Reg. ; Zetland Fam. Hist., 85.]
WILLIAM JACK, born Inverness, 1730;
^ educated at King's College, Aber-
* deen ; M.A. (2nd April 1752) ; licen.
by Presb. 29th Nov. 1758 ; called 23rd May
and ord. assistant and successor (at Hills-
wick) 25th July 1765 ; pres. by Sir Laurence
Dundas, Sept. 1767 ; D.D. (King's College,
1848
Aberdeen), 27th April 1803 ; died 28th Nov.
1808. He marr. 8th Feb. 1767, Margaret
(died 10th Oct. 1812), daugh. of Robert
Bruce of Symbister, and had issue-
William, M.D., principal of Aberdeen
University, born 12th May 1768, died 9th
Feb. 1854 ; Colonel Robert, born 8th Oct.
1770 ; Margaret Elizabeth, bora 18th Jan.
1773, died Oct. 1780.
WILLIAM WATSON, pres. by Thomas,
Lord Dundas, in June, and ord. 10th
Aug. 1809 ; trans, to Fetlar 17th June
1830.
WILLIAM STEVENSON, pres. by
Laurence, Lord Dundas, in Aug.,
and ord. 23rd Sept. 1830; trans, to
Bothkennar 18th July 1848.
JAMES ROSE SUTHERLAND, born
17th March 1811, son of George S.
in Birnie, and Margaret Rose ; edu
cated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A.
(1840) ; schoolmaster of Drainie ; licen. by
Presb. of Elgin in 1844 ; ord. to Woodside,
Aberdeen, 4th Oct. 1846 ; pres. by Thomas,
Earl of Zetland, 19th Sept., trans, and adm.
18th Nov. 1848 ; app. clerk of Presb. 18th
July 1855 ; res. that office 17th March 1886 ;
died at Carnoustie 16th Feb. 1891. He
marr. at Aberdeen, 14th June 1855,
Catherine (born 2nd May 1821, died 22nd
March 1888), daugh. of William Walker,
wine merchant, Aberdeen, and had issue-
Amelia Duthie Rose, born 4th Jan. 1859
(marr. John Low Brown, inin. of Dallas),
died 4th Sept. 1901 ; Margaret Rose, born
13th April 1861 (marr. James Ballantyne,
insurance manager, London), died 29th
Sept. 1891.
JOHN MACDONALD, born 5th March
1889 1861) son of David M>> farmer>
Strathdon; educated at Univ. of
Aberdeen; M.A. (1882); licen. by Presb.
of Alford in 1887 ; assistant at Sanday
1887 ; ord. (assistant and successor) 27th
Nov. 1889; died 29th Feb. 1908. He
marr. 18th July 1900, Mary Armstrong,
elder daugh. of Charles Mitchell Peck,
master mariner, Burntisland, and had
issue — Mabel, born 26th April 1901 ; Mary,
born 3rd Nov. 1904; Margaret, born 3rd
Aug. 1907.
314 NORTHROE CHAPEL— SANDSTING AND AITHSTING [PEESB. OF
ARCHIBALD JOHN DARLING
1908 SCOTT, born 3rd Jan. 1868, son of
George John Chalmers S., min. of
Wallacetown, Ayr ; educated at Ayr
Academy and Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A.
(1888); licen. by Presb. of Ayr 6th May
1891; assistant at Kelvinside 1901, Bar-
grennan 1905, Closeburn 1907 ; ord. 27th
Aug. 1908 ; trans, to Clova 14th July 1926.
Marr. 26th Feb. 1909, Annie Barclay Car-
michael, Symington, and has issue — George
Barclay, born 25th Dec. 1913.
OLLABERRY AND NORTHROE
CHAPEL.
WILLIAM ROSE, app. June 1863 ; ord.
1868 to Sandsting 27th Sept. 1864.
GEORGE CHRISTIE WATT, M.A.,
18Q4 B.D., app. 3rd Nov. 1864; res. 31st
Jan. 1866 [afterwards of Edinkillie].1
WILLIAM EWART WHITE, educated
at Univ. of Edinburgh; ord. 19th
Sept. 1867.
PETER ANTON, afterwards of Kil-
1872 syth. His widow died 3rd July 1927.
GEORGE BIRRELL, missionary at
1881 Cairndow 1880-1 ; app. in 1881.
JAMES PATERSON, M.A., B.D. ; app.
1887 in 1887 [afterwards of Hoy 1888].
JAMES ATKEN, app. 1889, ord. in
1889 1890.
WILLIAM ANDREW, missionary at
1893 Ollaberry in 1893> Twatt 1903, Kil-
winning 1907 ; residing in Irvine
1928.
JOHN G. EDWARD, son of Richard
1893 E., 34 Warrender Park Road, Edin
burgh; app. in 1893 ; dem. in 1900;
missionary at Cairndow, 1901-6.
SANDSTING AND AITHSTING.
[These parishes were united in the six
teenth century.
Sandsting. — The church' of Sandsting
was dedicated to St Mary. There were
chapels within the bounds at Skeld and
Gruting. The present church was erected
in 1780.
Aithsting. — There is now a mission chapel
in this parish at Twatt.]
WILLIAM WATSON, reader in 1567 ;
1567 still in the charge in 1578.
PETER MAXWELL, trans, from North-
1579 mavine in 1579; trans, to Sandness
before 1585.
JOHN SUTHERLAND, min. in 1585;
1585 was &fterwards reader, and con
tinued in that office in 1608. He
was alive in 1642. He marr. Sara Arm
strong, and had issue — Robert.— [Zetland
Sas., 5th April 1642.]
GEORGE HENDRIE, called reader in
1633 1633.
HUGH SUTHERLAND, probably a
16 son of John S. before mentioned.—
[Sinclair's Stat. Ace., vii., 590.]
JAMES STRACHAN, mentioned as
1653 witness to a charter 1st Feb. 1653 ;
had- a charter of 12 merks land in
Reawick from Thomas Cheyne of Vaila on
llth Aug. 1664; drowned while crossing a
small ferry off Forehead in a boat carrying
his tithes about 1666. He marr. Marie
Bruce, who survived him.— [8yn. (Orkney
Presb.) Reg. ; Sinclair's Stat. Ace., vii., 590 ;
P. C. Reg., 3rd ser., ii., 661.]
CORNELIUS BARRON, educated at
1667 ^ Salvator's College and Univ. of
St Andrews ; M.A. (23rd July 1659) ;
was Presbytery-bursar at St Andrews in
1664 ; passed trials before the Presb. there
and had a testimonial 17th Oct. 1666 for
licence; because of his mean condition
nothing was taken for the Library or his
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315
trials before them. He was called to
Orkney and got a certificate 27th Aug.
1667 for ordination ; adm. here that year.
He petitioned the General Assembly, with
five others, Jan. 1698, to be received into
communion, but was dep. by the Commission
of Assembly for inefficiency and negligence
after having been thirty-two years a minister.
In the language of one of his successors,
" he was deposed very unjustly, as it is said
Barron had conformed ; but they sought
after and pretended other causes for setting
him aside. It will perhaps hardly be be
lieved nowadays, that bodily infirmity
and affliction from the hand of Providence
were his greatest crimes." He, however,
received sympathy from the Presb., each of
the brethren agreeing, 28th March 1705,
to give £6 Scots yearly to supply his
necessity. He marr. Isobel Strachan,
probably a daugh. of his predecessor, and
had issue — John.— [Elie and Abercromhie
Sess. Reg. ; Acts of Ass., 1698 ; Sinclair's
Stat. Ace., vii., 590 ; Zetland Sas.]
WILLIAM UMPHRAY, M.A., son of
1*700 Theodore U., min of Nesting; edu
cated at Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A.
(28th July 1678) ; ord. to Walls in 1695 ;
called Sept., and adm. Oct. 1700, died Dec.
that year, aged about 42. He marr. Mar
garet, daugh. of Robert Hunter of Lunna,
and had issue— Benjamin ; George, eldest
in 1704 ; Charles. His widow did not get
the Ann and intending to commence a
process for obtaining it, she applied to the
General Assembly 26th May 1724, when the
procurator and agent were appointed to give
her their assistance, while a public collection
was made in the Assembly for her present
supply.— [Reg. and Acts of Ass., 1724;
Beg. of Deeds, 29th March 1706.]
JOHN GUMMING, called 9th Nov.
1701 ; ord. (at Lerwick) 5th, and
1702 adm. 8th Nov. 1702 ; he fell under
censure but was reponed by the Synod
7th June 1704; died 21st May 1731. He
marr. (1) Christian, daugh. of Robert
Hunter of Lunna : (2) Lilias (died 1771),
daugh. of John Umphray of Asta, and
had issue— John of Garderhouse ; George ;
William; Daniel; Isobel (marr. Robert
1770
Farquhar, merchant, Lerwick). — [Acts of
Ass., 1704 ; Neiv Stat. Ace., xv. ; Zetland
Fam. Hist., 327.]
WALTER HUGENS, born 1686, son of
John H. at Shaw in Wauchopedale ;
1733 educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ;
M.A. (20th Feb. 1710); licen. by Presb.
of Jedburgh 1st Dec. 1714 ; ord. to Dun-
rossness 4th Aug. 1720 ; called 20th Sept.,
and adm. at Sand 21st Nov. 1733; died
28th Aug. 1769. He marr. 3rd March 1712,
Margaret (died Nov. 1748), third daugh.
of Charles Scott of Palace Hill, Mickledale,
parish of Ewes [second son of Sir John
Scott of Ancrum, first baronet, and Eliza
beth, daugh. of Francis Scott of Mangerton
and Margaret, sister of John, fifth Lord
Rutherford], and had issue— fourteen sons
and six daughs., of whom Elizabeth, born
12th Sept. 1715, marr. John Tait.
JAMES FINLAYSON, pres. by Sir
Laurence Dundas in March, and ord.
8th Aug. 1770 ; pres. to Symington,
Lanarkshire, and dem. 26th March 1783.
PATRICK BARCLAY, born 6th Jan.
1781 1757' son of Jolin B<> min< °f Delt"
ing; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen ; M.A. (1775) ; ord. (assistant and
successor) 16th Aug. 1781 ; dem. 30th Dec.
1812. He retired to Elgin, and died 12th
June 1844. He marr. 26th April 1783, his
cousin Isobel, daugh. of James Barclay in
Knockleith, Auchterless, Aberdeenshire,
and had issue— Johanna Mitchell, born
2nd Feb. 1784; Elspeth, born 18th Nov.
1786 (marr. 8th Oct. 1807, John Duncan,
min. of Dunrossness) ; Grizel, born 26th
Feb. 1788; Elizabeth Bruce, born 19th
Feb. 1791 (marr. 9th Oct. 1822, Dr Theodore
Gordon, physician to the Forces), died
1885 ; Barbara, born 3rd Feb. 1794. Publi
cation — Account of the Parish (Sinclair's
Stat. Ace., vii.).
JOHN GLENDINNING BRYDEN,
born Tinwald, Dumfriesshire, 1787 ;
educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ;
went to Shetland as tutor in the family of
Bruce of Symbister ; licen. by Presb. of
Lerwick 6th March 1811 ; pres. by Thomas,
Lord Dundas, in May, and ord. (at Sym
bister) 18th Aug. 1813; app. clerk of Presb.;
316
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[PRESB. OF
died 14th April 1855. He marr. 19th July
1819, Janet (died 8th Jan. 1888), daugh. of
Robert Creighton, farmer in Carse, New
Abbey, and had issue— Jane, born 13th
May 1820 (marr. James Johnson, master
mariner, Hestinsetter) ; Jessie Creighton,
born 15th Sept. 1821 (marr. Adam White,
master mariner); Helen Bruce, born 9th
Dec. 1823 (marr. Alexander Watson Shand,
min. of Nesting), died 22nd Oct. 1880 ;
Robert Creighton, born 19th May 1825,
died in East Indies; Catherine Inches,
born 15th April 1827 (marr. 10th July 1856,
John T. Duncan, Wesleyan minister) ;
Mary Ann, born 17th Nov. 1828 (marr.
Gilbert Williamson, parish schoolmaster),
died 29th June 1887. Publication-
Account of the Parish (New Stat. Ace., xv.).
[JOHN SLOANE, M.A. ; missionary at
1855 Whiteness ; pres. by Thomas, Earl
of Zetland, 18th July 1855. The
presentation being opposed by the parish
ioners, he withdrew 13th Dec. 1855.]
ROBERT MACLAURIN, born Ber-
1856 wick-upon-Tweed 3rd Nov. 1819,
son of Robert M., min. of the
Secession congregation, Coldingham, and
Catherine Cockburn ; educated at Univ. of
Glasgow and United Secession Hall ; ord.
to West Calder U.P. Church 6th Aug.
1846; res. 19th Nov. 1850. Joined the
Church of Scotland in 1850 ; missionary at
Lunna Nov. 1855 ; pres. by Thomas, Earl
of Zetland, 18th Jan., and ord. 8th May
1856 ; on 4th Sept. 1863 was found guilty
of immorality, and dep. by the Presb. 27th
May 1864. He became station-master at
Lindean, near Selkirk, and afterwards went
to Alexandra, New Zealand, where he died
17th Nov. 1890. He marr. Martha Joan
(died 15th Nov. 1895, aged 64), daugh. of
William Spence, M.D., of Greenfield, and
had issue — Robert (deceased) ; Jane Grace
(marr. Thomas Goodfellow) ; Catherine
Cockburn (marr. Edward Waddington) ;
Jessie Patterson ; William Gilbert, farmer,
New Zealand ; James Scott, government
analyst, Wellington ; Edward Thomas
Wroodford, collector of Customs ; Mar
garet (marr. Henry Rudall); Richard Cock-
burn, Professor of Mathematics, Wellington.
New Zealand ; Elizabeth Ann Philothea
(marr. William Ball) ; Kenneth Campbell,
teacher. — [Small's Hist, of U.P. Gongs.,
i., 618.]
WILLIAM ROSE, bom Rothiemay, 18th
1864 ^ay 1832) son °^ James R-> farmer,
Rothiemay, afterwards at Ordiqu-
hill; educated at King's College, Aber
deen ; licen. by Presb. 2nd May 1862 ;
app. missionary at Ollaberry, June 1863 ;
pres. by Thomas, Earl of Zetland, llth
June, and ord. 27th Sept. 1864 ; retired
29th Dec. 1908; died at Niggly, Evie,
Orkney, 4th Nov. 1910. He marr. 24th
Aug. 1865, Anne Innes (died in London
29th Jan. 1913), daugh. of Thomas Mount-
ford Adie, merchant, Voe, and had issue —
James, W.S., depute town clerk, Rothesay,
born 9th June 1866 ; Williamina Adie,
born llth Aug. 1867; Thomas Mount-
ford Adie, born 6th March 1868 ; William
born 22nd Feb. 1871, died 7th Jan. 1872 ;
William John, born 21st Feb. 1873 ; Elsie
Taylor, born 14th Aug. 1874, died 9th Jan.
1878; Arthur Ernest, born 14th March 1876,
died 1st Oct. 1876 ; Norman Macleod, born
6th Nov. 1877; Maggie Eliza, born 25th Aug.
1879, died 19th March 1881 ; Alfred Ernest,
born 17th Jan. 1882.
JOHN MACLEAN, born Irvine, llth May
1861, son of John M., iron-founder,
and Catherine M'Whinnie ; educated
at Fullarton Public School and Univ. of
Glasgow ; M.A. (1884) ; licen. by Presb. of
Ayr July 1887; missionary at Shiskine,
Arran, in 1890 ; assistant at Burnbank
Dec. 1898 ; app. to St John's Church,
Haddington, 9th May 1903 ; ord. by Presb.
of Haddington 16th May 1905 ; ind. to this
parish llth May 1909 ; app. clerk of Presb.
1st March 1912. Marr. 14th July 1904,
Jessie Lindsay, daugh. of Alexander Arm
strong, and has issue — Ian Alexander
Armstrong, born 20th April 1905 ; Donald,
James Andrew, born 8th Sept. 1906;
Charles George Lindsay, born llth June
1908; Hugo Baillie, born 29th Dec. 1909;
Alan Douglas Rutherford, born llth June
1911 ; Jessie Lindsay Armstrong, born 26th
March 1913; Herbert Stewart, born 9th
June 1914.
OLNAFIRTH] WALLS, SANDNESS, PAPA STOUR AND FOULA 817
WALLS, SANDNESS, PAPA
STOUR AND FOULA.
[These four parishes were united in the
sixteenth century.
\Yutls.— The church of Walls was dedi
cated to St Paul.
Sandness. — The church of Sandness was
dedicated to St Margaret. The church of
Sandness is now in use as a mission chapel.
Papa Stour. — The church of Papa Stour
is now in use as a mission chapel.
Foula. — There is a mission chapel at
Foula.]
MAGNUS MUERAY, vicar in 1564.-
1564 [Treas. Ace., xi., 325.]
WILLIAM PHILP, reader in 1567,
1567 who probably continued in 1574.
PETER MAXWELL, trans, from Sand-
1585 sting, having charge of Sandness,
Papa, Foula and Walls; trans, to
Fetlar prior to 1599.
ROBERT SWINTON, son of Thomas
1607 ^'' Archdean °f Orkney, having also
in charge Papa and Foula; died
June 1612. He marr. Helen (survived him
and marr. (2) Patrick Umphray of Sand),
daugh. of Malcolm Sinclair of Quendale,
and had issue — Malcolm ; Thomas; James ;
Robert.— [Shetland Tests.]
THOMAS HENDRIE of Whitsness,
1616 born 1585> brotller of GilbertHendrie,
merchant burgess of Aberdeen ; edu
cated at Univ. of Aberdeen ; M.A. (1605) ;
adm. before 8th July 1616 ; acquired
the lands of Whiteness in Walls, from
Walter Scott and Breta Spence, his spouse,
on 5th Nov. 1622. He died after May
1639. He marr. (1) Mary, daugh. of James
Strang of Voesgarth, and had issue— Gilbert
of Whiteness ; James ; Janet (marr. Alex
ander Gifford): (2) Ellen Sinclair- [Test.
Reg. Shetland; Inq. Ret. Gen., 2668;
Zetland Fam. Hist., 149; P. C. Reg., xiv.,
751.]
WILLIAM HAY, educated at Marischal
1640 ^ollege> Aberdeen ; M.A. (1623) ;
adm. about 1640; died 28th Oct.
1647. He had a sister Barbara, who marr.
George Wilson, merchant, Peterhead. —
[Shetland Tests.]
LAURENCE UMPHRAY of Whitsness,
1655 second son of William U., min. of
Bressay ; educated at Marischal Col
lege, Aberdeen, 1638; studied theology
under Dr Sharp in the Univ. of Edinburgh ;
became chaplain to Lady Hangingshaw, for
which he got authority from the Presb.
of Dalkeith 3rd June 1647 ; was admitted
to the Exercise there 3rd June following ;
ord. to this parish before 30th May 1655.
He acquired the lands of Whitsness from
Gilbert Hendrie, burgess of Aberdeen 22rid
Nov. 1666; died before 1674. He marr.
and had issue— William, Elizabeth (marr.
Andrew Mowat, who became proprietor of
Garth in her right).— [Sinclair's Stat. Ace.,
xx. ; Syn. (Orkney Presb.) Reg. ; Dalkeith
Presb. Reg. ; Zetland Family Hist., 336.]
JOHN UMPHRAY, died before 3rd
166— ^ay ^ 6^lj wnen his son Laurence was
apprentice to John Law, job smith,
Edinburgh.— [Edin. Guild Reg.'] [Possibly
John is a mistake for above Laurence.]
JAMES OGILVY, a native of Banff;
1672 educated at King's College, Aberdeen ;
M.A. (17th Sept. 1662) ; adm. to this
parish in 1672 ; died 1695, aged about 53.
He marr. Janet Gregory, and had issue
— Laurence and Thomas.— [Zetland SasJ]
WILLIAM UMPHRAY, M.A.; was
1695 intruded and ord. in 1695 (by Kay of
Dunrossness, Leigh of Bressay,
Barren of Sandsting, Binning of Tingwall,
and Umphray of Nesting). He petitioned
the General Assembly, with five others,
Jan. 1698, to be received into communion
23rd June following; trans, to Saudsting
Oct. 1700.
GEORGE DUNCAN of Huxter, said to
1701 be descended from the family of
Charteris of Amisfield ; educated at
King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1683);
passed trials before Presb. of Ellon, who
318 WALLS, SANDNESS, PAPA STOUR, AND FOULA [PRESB. OF
recommended him 22nd May 1689 for
licence ; called 3rd Aug., and ord. (at
Lerwick) 25th Sept. 1701 ; died 27th April
1734, aged about 66. He marr. Barbara
Cheyne, probably daugh. of Magnus Cheyne
of Hogsetter, and had issue-? Alexander,
merchant, Aberdeen; Margaret (marr.
George Greig, merchant, Papa Stour. —
[Duncan's Memoir of II. Duncan.]
JA.MES BUCHAN, son of James B.,
min. of Northmavine ; previously
schoolmaster in Bressay; licen. by
this Presb. 5th Sept. 1733 ; called in Feb.,
and ord. 7th May 1735 ; died 5th Oct. 1778.
He left 40 shillings per annum to the parish
school in Walls, as an addition to the
legal salary. He marr. (1) 19th Aug. 1736,
Margaret, daugh. of Andrew Bruce, tutor
of Muness, and widow of Thomas Hendrie
of Foratwatt: (2) (pro. 19th May 1776),
Agatha (died 10th Nov. 1810), daugh. of
John Gumming of Garderhouse — [Sinclair's
Stat. Ace., xx. ; Acts of Ass., 1733.]
JOHN INCHES, ord. 15th Sept. 1779 ;
1779 trans, to Nesting 28th June 1786.
DAVID THOMSON, ord. 18th April
1787 ; trans, to Dunrossness 1st May
1787
1828.
COLIN BOGLE, probably fifth son of
1828 J°nn B-, farmer, Lanarkshire ; edu
cated at Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by
Presb. of Glasgow 4th July 1810; pres.
by Laurence, Lord Dundas, in Aug., and
ord. 25th Sept. 1828 ; died 16th Jan. 1833.
He marr. 18th Aug. 1831, Ann Wyse (she
survived him, and marr. (2) July 1842),
and had issue — Colina, born 29th Dec.
1832 ; Jessie (twin), born 29th Dec. 1832.
ARCHIBALD SINCLAIR, born
183g Edinburgh, 30th Jan. 1803, son of
Malcolm S., cabinetmaker ; educated
at Univ. of Edinburgh ; came to Shetland
as tutor in the family of John Scott of
Scalloway ; licen. by Presb. of Lerwick ;
assistant at Tingwall ; pres. by Laurence,
Lord Dundas, 26th Feb., and ord. 27th
June 1833; dem. 2nd Oct. 1840. He
retired to Edinburgh, and was elected
Morning Lecturer in the Tron Church there
soon after. Joined the Free Church in
1843; went to Canada; was min. of St
Andrew's Church, St John's, Newfoundland,
1847-8 ; returned to Edinburgh, and died
there 20th Jan. 1867. He marr. 21st May
1833, Jessie (died 4th Dec. 1881), daugh. of
Arthur Gifford of Busta, and had issue-
Jane Nicolson, born 19th Sept. 1838,
died at Corstorphine 1921. Publication-
Account of the Parish (New Stat. Ace., xv.).
JOHN ELDER, born Tealing, 1783, son
of David E., farmer, and Elizabeth
1841 Strachan ; educated at Univ. of
Edinburgh; missionary at South Yell in
1832; pres. by Thomas, Earl of Zetland,
and ord. 1st Jan. 1841. Joined the Free
Church in 1843; min. of Free Church,
Walls, 1843-58; died 4th Feb. 1860. He
marr. 19th April 1842, Julia Richardson,
who died 28th Oct. 1911, and had issue-
Elizabeth Helen, born 20th July 1843
(marr. George Macdonald, min. of High
U.F. Church, Aberdeen) ; Ann Bonar, born
7th Oct. 1846 ; John Julius, born 6th Feb.
1848.
ARCHIBALD NICHOL, born 1798;
ord. to Coll in 1836; pres. by
1843 Thomas, Earl of Zetland, trans,
and adm. 7th Dec. 1843; died 24th Feb.
1884. He marr. 6th June 1844, Eliza Gore,
Backaskail, Sanday, and had issue — Archi
bald John, born 17th April 1849, died at
Dunedin, New Zealand, 3rd May 1906;
Jessie Gore, born 7th July 1845 (marr. 27th
June 1874, Charles W. Aitken, Lerwick),
died at Edinburgh, 6th Nov. 1922 ; Eliza
beth Thomson, died at Finstown, Orkney,
19th Dec. 1916.
ROBERT ANDREW, born Paisley, 14th
Feb. 1856, son of Alexander A. and
Janet Muir; educated at Neilson
Institution, Paisley, and Univ. of Glasgow ;
M.A. (1877) ; licen. by Presb. of Paisley in
1882; assistant at Clarkston 1883, and
Auchterderran 1884 ; app. by the Presb.
jure devoluto 26th Nov. 1884; ord. 1st
April 1885; dem. 30th Sept. 1925. Marr.
10th April 1890, Martha, daugh. of John
Stuart, New Deer, and Elizabeth Cassie,
OLNAFIRTHJ
WHALSAY AND SKERRIES
319
and has issue— Robert, lieut. A. & S. High
landers, born 17th Jan. 1893, killed in
Macedonia, 9th May 1917; Alfred, miner
in Canada, born 26th Jan. 1896, served in
Australian Forces in France; Theodore,
min. of this parish ; Vaila, born 3rd May
1904; Elizabeth, born 20th March 1906;
Martha, born 18th Aug. 1908.
THEODORE ANDREW, born Walls,
1926 14th Feb. 1898, son of preceding;
educated at Scots College, Sydney,
N.S.W., Skerry's College, and Univ. of
Glasgow ; M.A. (1923) ; served with Aus
tralian Forces in European War ; licen. by
Presb. of Glasgow 25th June 1924 ; assistant
at Baillieston ; ord. to Sandwick 4th Dec.
that year ; trans, and adm. 8th April 1926.
Marr. 2nd Jan. 1925, Isabella Elizabeth,
daugh. of Alexander James Simpson, min.
of U.F. Church, Dunrossness, and has issue
—Robert Alexander, born 13th Aug. 1926.
WHALSAY AND SKERRIES
[The church of Whalsay was dedicated to
the Holy Rood. In the sixteenth century
the three parishes of Nesting, Lunnasting,
and Whalsay were united. On 15th July
1868 Whalsay was disjoined quoad sacra
from Nesting and Lunnasting. There was
within the bounds a chapel of St Nicholas
at the Housay Skerries. There are now
mission chapels at Isbister and the
Whalsay Skerries.]
WILLIAM PATERSON, afterwards
1843 min. of Cockburnspath.
ANDREW MACFARLANE, adm. 25th
1854 Sept. 1854.
1861 JOHN BROWN.
ANGUS WILLINS, born Peebles,
1864 1830' son °f J°nn W., merchant ;
educated at Peebles Grammar School
and Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb.
of Peebles 28th June 1854 ; assistant at
Coldstream ; ord. 7th Sept. 1864 ; died
suddenly when passing from one room to
another in the manse 27th June 1872. He
marr. June 1863, Sarah Middleton (died
1899), daugh. of William Goldie, min. of
Crawfordjohn, and had issue — Katherine
Campbell, died at Dunbar, 8th Nov. 1920 ;
two sons and a daugh. died in infancy.
His widow marr. (2) Thomas Smail, and
died 10th May 1899. Publications — Inner-
leithen and Traquair, Past and Present
(Innerleithen, 1st ed. 1862, 4th ed. 1874);
Laurence Gillmore, and other works. —
[Preface to Innerleithen and Traquair
(1874).]
JOHN RUSSELL, M.A. ; ord. 10th April
, ,__ 1873 ; trans, to Leslie, Aberdeenshire,
' 17th May 1876.
CHARLES STOBIE, born Keiss, 26th
18I7Q Dec. 1847, fifth son of Robert S., min.
of Keiss ; educated at Univ. of Edin
burgh ; licen. by Presb. of Lanark 10th May
1874; ord. assistant at Firth, Orkney,
20th July 1876 ; elected 5th and ind. 27th
Sept. that year ; dem. on app. as chaplain
to Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen, 17th May
1910. Marr. 6th Jan. 1881, Isabel Anne
(died at Aberdeen 21st May 1923), daugh.
of John Walker, Edinburgh, and had issue
—Mary Lilias, born 12th Jan. 1882 ; Charles
Walker, min. of Forgue, born 15th May 1886;
John Francis Robert, born 13th July 1894.
ALEXANDER COLIN HENDERSON,
1910 M.A., B.D. ; trans, and adm. from
Buckhaven 8th Sept. 1910; dem.
25th May 1915 ; adm. to Holm 24th Dec.
1919.
JULIUS M'CALLUM, adm. 26th Oct.
1915 1915 > trans- to Melville, Montrose,
' 2nd May 1917.
MATTHEW DON, born Crieff, 28th
1917 Dec> 1862> son of william Shaw L\,
feuar, and Jean Drummond ; edu
cated at Taylor's Institution, Crieff, and
Univs. of Edinburgh and St Andrews ;
L.A. (Edinburgh 1887) ; licen. by Presb. of
St Andrews in 1901 ; assistant at Canon-
gate, Edinburgh, Kilberry, and St John's
(Cross), Dundee ; ord. to Tweedmouth 28th
Nov. 1906 ; trans, and adm. 25th April
1917; dem. 17th May 1921. Marr. 20th
April 1894, Annie Sutherland, daugh. of
Donald Logan, schoolmaster, Broadford,
Skye, and Anne Macintosh, and has issue —
WHALSAY AND SKERRIES [PRESB. OF OLNAFIRTII
William Shaw, born 26th Feb. 1895, died
3rd July 1906 ; Alexander Logan, born 21st
April 1897, died 5th Sept. 1915; Louis
Drummond, Seaforth Highlanders, born 4th
July 1899, killed in action at the Scarpe,
France, 27th Aug. 1918.
JOHN WOOD, born Glasgow, 3rd Dec.
1921 1874' son of William W- and Mar"
garet Boag ; educated at Camphill
Higher Grade School, Paisley, Univ. of
Glasgow, and U.F. Church College, Glas
gow ; licen. by U.F. Church Presb. of Paisley
7th June 1904 ; assistant at Trinity U.F.
Church, Greenock ; ord. by Presb. of Man
chester to Salford Presbyterian Church
20th July 1906 ; trans, to Guthrie U.F.
Church, Cowdenbeath, 26th Feb. 1908;
dem. 31st Dec. 1917 ; engaged in war
work in London, 1917-18; assistant at St
Columba's, London, March 1918 ; adm. to
Church of Scotland by General Assembly
as an ordained min. 22nd May 1919; adm.
to this charge 26th Sept. 1921 ; trans, to
Lowick, Northumberland, 4th Aug. 1925.
Marr. 9th April 1917, Elizabeth Addison,
daugh. of the Kev. William Kutherford and
Elizabeth Mill Henderson. Publications—
Remember the Children (London, 1914);
One Hundred More Talks with Boys and
Girls (London, 1916); Fifty Talks to
Children (London, 1922).
ANGUS MACK AY, born Bombay,
1927 10th May 1898, son of 'James Hutton
Mackay, Indian Chaplain, and
Caroline Noble Luxmore ; educated at
Milne's Institution, Fochabers, Royal
Military Academy, Univs. of St Andrews
and Aberdeen ; served in European War ;
M.C. ; licen. by Presb. of Strathbogie in
1926 ; assistant at Dunblane ; app. by
Presb. jure devoluto 27th Jan., and ord.
25th March 1927.
PARISH UNKNOWN.
WILLIAM KEID, trans, to Durris
. before 12th Oct. 1656.— [Echt. Sess.
JAMES LESLIE, son of Thomas L.
of Uresland, commissary of Zetland ;
' trans, to Evie and Kendall in 1686 —
[Tine/wall Sess. Rec.}
AECHBISHOPS
GLASGOW.
JOHN PORTERFIELD (cf. Vol. III., 5);
min. of Kilmaronock in 1567, and
1 of Ayr in 1580 ; called " Archbishop
of Glasgow" in 1571, but only titular;
continued till 1572.— [Keith's Scot. Bishops,
260.]
1573
JAMES BOYD of Trochrig, second son
of Adam B. of Pinkhill ; was present
with his chief on the side of Queen
Mary at Langside 13th May 1568. After
passing his course of philosophy, he went
to France and studied law under the cele
brated Cujacius ; returning at the Reforma
tion he embraced the new doctrines and
was a tower of strength to their cause;
became min. of Kirkoswald about 1572 ;
promoted to Archbishopric of Glasgow ;
licen. for election 30th Sept. 1573 and
warrant for consecration from James VI.,
3rd Nov. following ; had charge of The
Barony Parish but was min. of Kirkoswald
again in 1577, which he held along with
his See ; is styled Bishop at meeting of
Assembly, 6th March 1574, and was one of
those appointed to draw up the Second
Book of Discipline ; elected Moderator of
Assembly 7th March 1574 ; died 21st June
1581. He marr. Margaret, daugh. of James
Chalmer of Gadgirth, and had issue —
Robert, Principal of Edinburgh Univ. and
min. of Paisley (q.v.) ; Margaret (marr.
David Pollock, min. of Old Luce).— [Keith's
Scot. Bishops, 261.]
1581
ROBERT MONTGOMERY, formerly
min. of Stirling ; app. to See in 1581,
but dep. by General Assembly, 28th
April 1582, for negligence and corruption
VOL. VII.
1585
in doctrine, and though inhibited by Privy
Council, became min. of Symington, Ayr,
Feb. 1587 [afterwards min. of Stewarton
(cf. Vol. III., 124)].
WILLIAM ERSKINE, son of James E.
of Little Sauchie ; was parson of
Campsie in 1575, and late Commen-
dator of Paisley ; app. by James VI., 21st
Dec. 1585, and adm. with consent of Presb. ;
soon afterwards removed by the King in
1587 ; was called parson of Campsie 30th
March 1588, and still designed Bishop 8th
June 1594.— [Scot. Antiquary, xii., 123.]
WALTER STEWART, M.A., Commen-
dator of Blantyre ; app. about 1587,
with power to feu the lands per
taining to the benefice. Having done so,
he was removed and became min. of Old
Kilpatrick (cf. Vol. III., 353).
JAMES BEATON, born 1517, second
159g son of John B. of Auchmuty, and
nephew of Cardinal B. ; consecrated
pre-Reformation Archbishop in 1552, and
deprived 19th Sept. 1560. He became
Scottish ambassador at the Court of France,
corresponded with Queen Mary, who first
wrote to him about Darnley's murder. B.
replied that the only way to demonstrate
her innocence was to trace and punish the
assassins. By Act of Parliament, 29th June
1598, he was restored to all his former
offices, including this Archbishopric, as a
reward for his " great services done to his
Majesty and the country." He died at
Paris. 25th April 1603, and was buried in
the church of St Jean de Lateran, within
whose precincts he had lived for 43 years.
In a funeral doge he was called "unique
Phoenix de la nation ecossaise en qualite de
prelat." — [Diet. Nat. Bio<j.~\
322
ARCHBISHOPS
[GLASGOW
JOHN SPOTTISWOOD, formerly
1603 min. of Calder-Comitis [Mid-Calder];
app. 20th July 1603; pres. before
2nd Jan. 1605 ; repaired the Cathedral and
Palace and first began the leaden roof of
the former; trans, to See of St Andrews
30th May 1615.
JAMES LAW, born about 1561, son of
1615 J°hn k. of Spittal, portioner of
Lathrisk, Fife, and Margaret Strang
of the Balcaskie family, and brother of
Andrew L., min. of Neilston ; educated at
Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A. (1581) ; ord. to
Kirkliston in 1585 [during his ministry here
John Spottiswood (afterwards Archbishop),
then min. of Calder, and L. were rebuked
by the Synod of Lothian for playing foot
ball on Sunday] ; app. a royal chaplain in
1601 ; promoted to See of Orkney 28th
Feb. 1605, but not consecrated till 1611 ;
Moderator of Assembly 26th July 1608;
app. to Archbishopric of Glasgow 20th July,
and installed Aug. or Sept. 1615 ; died 12th
Nov. 1632, and buried in his Cathedral,
where a monument was erected by his
widow. Monteith's translation of inscrip
tion says :
"Archbishop Law, here in a homely dress,
Was truly more than what words can express :
Witness his acts at Orkney : and beside
His grand memoirs left on banks of Clyde,
The college rents, the schools, the hospitals,
The leaden covert 'bove the church's walls,
Of this great man such monuments fair be,
As will forbid his noble name to die :
A good and spotless age did him attend
Worthy a prelate to his blessed end."
He marr. (1) (cont. 20th July 1587), Marion,
daugh. of James Dundas of Newliston, and
had issue — Margaret (marr. Jan. 1612,
Patrick Turner, min. of Dalkeith) : (2)
Grizel (died July 1618), daugh. of Sir John
Boswell of Balmuto, and had issue —
James of Brunton, served heir 9th July
1634 ; Thomas, min. of Inchinnan ; George,
M.A., adm. burgess of Glasgow 24th Sept.
1631 ; Isabella, bapt. 21st Jan. 1614 ;
John; Jean (marr. cont. 23rd and 28th
March 1626, Walter Heriot, younger, of
Ramornie) : (3) (cont. 1st Sept. 1620),
Marion (died Nov. 1636), daugh. of John
Boyle of Kelburne, and widow of Matthew
Ross of Hanyng Ross. Publication—
(Twenty-three) Letters and Information
to His Majesty (Original Letters).— [G. R.
Sas., xxxv., 75 ; Reg. of Deeds, ccccxxxiv.,
5th March 1635 ; Craven's Orkney (1558-
1662), 87-112 ; Scots Worthies, 6-10 ;' Canon-
gate Reg. of Bapt. ; Diet. Nat. Biog. ;
Law's Memorialls ; Lauriston Castle, 61.]
PATRICK LINDSAY of Kirktoun, born
1633 1566, son of Alexander L., portioner
of Monikie, and Jean, daugh. of
Alexander Guthrie, fiar of that Ilk [he is
called son of John L. in Diet. Nat. Biog., but
this is an error] ; educated at Univ. of St
Andrews ; M.A. (1587) ; min. of Guthrie in
1588 ; trans, to St Vigeans between 1591
and 1593 ; was a member of many General
Assemblies, and in 1608 on a leet for the
Moderatorship ; a member of the Court of
High Commission in 1610, 1615, and 1634;
consecrated to See of Ross 1st Dec. 1613 ;
D.D. (St Andrews) ; sworn a member of
the Scottish Privy Council 31st March
1615 ; trans, to Archbishopric of Glasgow
and installed after 16th April 1633 ; took an
active share in the promotion of the Service
Book, and was dep. and excommunicated
by the Glasgow Assembly 13th Dec. 1638.
He went to England and died at York, in
destitution, June 1644, being buried at the
expense of the governor. He marr. Helen,
daugh. of Patrick Whitelaw of Newgrange,
and had issue — Patrick, dead in 1627 ;
James, M.A., of Leckaway ; David of
Blackerstone, who had a gift of the
monastery or priory of St Bathans from
the King 23rd July 1617 ; a daugh. (marr.
the laird of Robertson); Helen (marr.,
cont. 12th June 1637, James, eldest son of
James Muirhead of Lauchope); Margaret
(marr. 16th July 1663, James Corbet of
Towcross) ; Agnes (marr. Thomas Mortimer
of Flemington). Publication—^ Letter to
James VI. (Original Letters).— [G. R.
Sas., xxxvi., 105 ; Baillie's Letters, i. 424,
ii. 213 ; Reg. Mag. Sig., xi., 705 ; Reg.
of Deeds, xxxviii. 64, cccxciv. 342, dxviii.
282.]
GLASGOW]
ARCHBISHOPS
323
ANDREW FAIRFOUL, born Dun-
1Q61 fermline (bapt.) 14th Dec. 1606,
son of John F., min. of Anstruther-
Wester ; educated at Univ. of St Andrews ;
M.A. (1623) ; became chaplain to the Earl
of Rothes ; adm. to Leslie in Fife, before
10th April 1632; trans, to North Leith
in 1636; pres. there by Charles I. 25th
Sept. 1641 ; trans, to Duns llth May
1652 ; nominated Archbishop by Charles II.
14th Nov., and consecrated (at London)
15th Dec. 1661 ; died at Edinburgh 2nd
Nov. 1663, and buried at Holyrood. He
inarr. 26th Dec. 1644, Janet Speir, who
survived him, and had issue — David, served
heir 19th Feb. 1673; Andrew; Colin,
governor of Doune Castle.
ALEXANDER BURNETT, trans, from
1664 ^ee °^ -Aberdeen and installed llth
April 1664 ; returned here in 1674.
ROBERT LEIGHTON, D.D., formerly
1671 min. of Newbattle (cf. Vol. I., 332) ;
Principal and Professor of Divinity,
Univ. of Edinburgh, 1653-61; went to
London, where he was re-ord. and con
secrated (on his own choice) as Bishop of
Dunblane 15th Dec. 1661 ; pres. by Charles
II. 7th June 1662 ; held Archbishopric of
Glasgow in commendam, but app. to the
See by Charles II. 20th Nov. 1671 ; res.
in 1672 (having failed to bring about his
proposed " accomodation " between the
upholders of Episcopacy and Presbytery),
but not accepted till Aug. 1674, when he
returned to Edinburgh, and soon after
wards removed to Broadhurst, Horsted
Keynes, Sussex, the home of his sister,
widow of Edward Lightmaker. On 22nd
June 1684, he journeyed to London for an
interview with the Earl of Perth, the
Scottish Chancellor, and died of pleurisy
at the Bell Inn, Warwick Lane, three days
afterwards. He had frequently expressed
the wish to die in an inn. He was aged
73, unmarr., and was buried in Horsted
Keynes church, beside his brother, Sir
Elisha. He was the great peacemaker of
the Church of Scotland, a man of singular
toleration and goodwill, fervent in his
piety, abundant in his charity. His
character has everywhere called forth the
most sincere encomiums. He founded a
bursary in Edinburgh Univ. in 1663, and
bequeathed another in divinity, besides
funds for the support of two bursars
in Univ. of Glasgow, 1677 and 1684,
and for the support of two poor men
in the Bishop's Hospital there. His
library he left to the clergy of Dunblane,
where 1200 volumes are still preserved.
Thirty-one volumes are also in the manse
of Newbattle. Publications — Sermons
(London, 1692); A Practical Commentary
upon two First Chapters of the First
Epistle General of St Peter, 2 vols. (York,
1693-4; London, 1701, 1849); Prcelectiones
theologicce in auditorio publico Academice
Edinburgence [edited by James Fall, D.D.]
(London, 1693), new edition by J. Schole-
field (Cambridge, 1828-37), translated into
English (London, 1763) ; An Exposition of
the Creed, Lord's Prayer, and Ten Com
mandments (London, 1701); Tracts (London,
1708); Select Works (Edinburgh, 1746);
The Expository Works, with other Remains,
2 vols. (Edinburgh, 1798) ; Genuine Works
[edited by Erasmus Middleton], 4 vols.
(London, 1822) ; The Whole Works of . . .
R. L. . . . to which is prefixed a Life of the
Author [by John Norman Pearson], 4 vols.
(London, 1825); The Works of R. L., to
which is prefixed a Life of the Author
[James Aikman] (London, 1859); The
Whole Works (as yet recovered) of . . .
R. L. . . . to which is prefixed a Life of
the Author and of his Father [William
West] [has a Bibliography], 6 vols., ii.-vi.
(vol. i. not published) (London, 1869-70) ;
Counsels of Perfection, or Rules and
Instructions for Spiritual Exercises. —
[Butler's The Life and Letters (portrait)
(London, 1903), authoritative and minute,
contains fresh material; Airy's The Lauder-
dale Correspondence, chaps, xi. and xii. ;
St Giles' Lectures Series (Edinburgh, 1883) ;
The Evangelical Succession, 207 ; Proc.
Soc. Antiq. Scot., iv., 459-89; Secretan's
Troubled Times and Holy Life of Arch
bishop Leighton; Dr Walter Smith's The
Bishop't Walk ; Archbishop Leighton, by
William Blair, D.D. (Edinburgh, 1883);
Irving's Lives of Scottish Writers, ii.,
324
ARCHBISHOPS
[GLASGOW
120-44; "A Scottish Presbytery in the
Seventeenth Century " (British and Foreign
Evangelical Revieiv (1869), 22-40); " Scottish
Prelacy after the Keformation " (ibid.,
331-50); "Archbishop Leighton " (U.P.
Magazine (1865), 397, 493, and (1866), 15);
" The Bishop of Dunblane " (U.P. Magazine
(1869), 304, 355, 400, 498); Diet. Nat.
ALEXANDER BURNETT, above men-
1674 tioned ; trans, to See of St Andrews
28th Oct. 1679.
ARTHUR ROSE, promoted from See
167g of Galloway; app.-23rd, and installed
(at St Andrews) 28th Oct. 1679;
trans, to See of St Andrews 31st Oct.
1684 (q.v.).
ALEXANDER CAIRNCROSS, born
about 1637, son of George C., litster
burgess of the Canongate, Edinburgh
(of the family of Colmslie, Roxburgh
shire), and Christian Ogilvie ; educated at
Univ. of Edinburgh, M.A. (26th July 1657);
licen. by George, Bishop of Edinburgh, 31st
Oct. 1662; elected to Second Charge,
Trinity Parish, Edinburgh, 29th April 1663;
pres. to Ayton 13th Oct. 1664, but did not
remove; trans, to Dumfries before 30th
Aug. 1668; app. Bishop of Brechin 5th
June 1684 ; trans, to this See, had letters
patent 18th, and installed (at St Andrews)
25th Dec. that year ; removed from his See
at the instance of the Lord Chancellor, the
Earl of Perth, whom he had offended, Jan.
1687 ; became Bishop of Raphoe, Ireland,
16th May 1693; died unmarr. there, 14th
May 1701.— [Nisbet's Heraldic Plates, 123 ;
Ware's Works, i., 277.]
JOHN PATERSON, born 1632, eldest
son of John P., Bishop of Ross;
educated at King's College, Aber
deen ; became a student of theology at St
Andrews, 13th March 1655 ; regent 3rd
Feb. 1658; called to Ellon (in succes
sion to his father) 6th Nov. 1659 ; adm.
before 15th July 1660; trans, to Tron
Parish, Edinburgh, 4th Jan. 1663 ; app.
chaplain to the King 6th May 1668 ;
promoted Dean of Edinburgh, 12th July
1672 ; adm. a burgess of the city 13th
Nov. 1673 ; app. to See of Galloway 20th
Oct. 1674 ; consecrated May 1675 ; app. a
Privy Councillor 27th Sept. 1678; trans,
to See of Edinburgh 15th Sept. 1679 ;
nominated to Archbishopric of Glasgow
21st Jan. 1687 ; installed (at St Andrews)
1st May following ; dep. at the Revolution
llth April 1689; was living in London,
1695-6, during which period he kept a
Journal [among the papers of the Earl of
Rosslyn at Dysart House] in which he
records various interviews in an endeavour
to be allowed to return to Scotland. He
was in Edinburgh soon afterwards, and
in 1702 he exerted himself greatly in the
interests of the dispossessed Episcopalian
clergy, making a journey to London and
personally soliciting Queen Anne's sym
pathy. On 25th Jan. 1705 he assisted at the
consecration, in his own house, of! Bishops
Fullarton and Sage; died at Edinburgh, 9th
Dec. 1708, and was buried at Holyrood.
He marr. (1) Mary Foulis : (2) 28th Oct.
1658, Margaret (died before 1696, in which
year he records in his Diary an offer of
marriage from Lady Warner), only daugh.
of Henry Wemyss of Couland, and had
issue — Alice, bapt. 4th March 1664 (marr.
Sir Alex. Dalmahoy of that Ilk); Jean,
bapt. 26th April 1666 ; Anna, bapt. 3rd
Jan. 1668 ; James, bapt. 29th Dec. 1669 ;
Andrew, bapt. llth July 1671 ; Agnes
(twin), bapt. llth July 1671; Charles,
bapt. 27th Feb. 1673; John of Preston-
hall, bapt. 23rd Oct. 1674; Alexander,
bapt. 23rd Feb. 1676; Helen, bapt. 16th
June 1677; Elizabeth, bapt. 23rd June
1678 (marr. Colonel the Hon. Alexander
Mackenzie), died 3rd March 1764 ; Cather
ine, bapt. 6th Sept. 1679 (marr. John
Skene); Isabel, bapt. llth May 1682;
Margaret, bapt. 23rd Sept. 1683. — [Foun-
tainhall's Diary, 204 et seq. ; Grub's Hist.,
iii., 249 ; Hist. MSS. Com. (1871), 2nd
Report, 192; Kirkton's Hist., 182-5;
Collection of Letters relating to the Church
in Scotland, edited by W. Nelson Clarke
(Edinburgh, 1848) ; Lauderdale Papers
(1885), iii., 46, 199 ; Diet. Nat.
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ST ANDREWS.
JOHN DOUGLAS, Principalof StMary's
1671 College, St Andrews ; pres. by James
VI. 6th Aug. 1571 ; consecrated 10th
Feb. 1572; died Oct. 1576. He was the
first to hold a Protestant Episcopate .in
Scotland. (See page 417.)
PATRICK ADAMSON, born Perth,
1576 PrODably on 15th March 1536-37,
son of Patrick A., baker; educated
at Grammar School of Perth and Univ.
of St Andrews ; M.A. 1558 (under the
name of Constyne, Constean, Coustane, or
Constant) ; declared qualified to preach by
General Assembly of 1560, and adm. min.
of Ceres (cf. Vol. V., 130); dem. some
years later and travelled as a tutor on the
Continent, where he was imprisoned for
six months, having published a poem (in
thanksgiving for the birth of a son to
Queen Mary) which gave offence to the
French Government. On being released
he found his way to Geneva, where he
studied divinity under Theodore Beza. In
1567-8 he was again in Paris, but finding it
in the throes of civil war he fled to Bourges
where, disguised, he hid in an inn for seven
months, during which period he translated
the Book of Job into Latin verse, composed
a tragedy on the subject of Herod, and
rendered the Confession of Faith into
Latin. Having returned to Scotland he
became min. of Paisley, Aug. 1572, and
resumed his name of Adamson ; was chap
lain to the Regent Morton, and nominated
Archbishop of St Andrews 14th, and re
ceived the Royal confirmation 21st Sept.
1576, with a command for his consecration.
Almost immediately he came into conflict
with the Presbyterian party, various charges
being brought against him, and threats
made which forced him to shut himself up
within the castle of St Andrews, where he
was seized with an illness that baffled the
skill of his physicians, but yielded to the
treatment of a woman, Alison Pearson,
through whom he made a complete re
covery. [Though escaping for a time, Alison
was ultimately tried before the Court of
Justiciary and burned as a witch.] In 1583
he went to London, where he preached to
large crowds and gained the friendship of
many English churchmen. In May 1584
he was back in Scotland, but found himself
increasingly detested by the people, who, on
one occasion during his sermon in St Giles,
left the church almost in a body. At a
meeting of the Synod of Fife, April 1586,
following a violent attack on his character
and conduct by James Melvill, he was ex
communicated, but immediately restored by
the Assembly. In June 1587 and May 1590
other charges were preferred against him,
amongst them that he had solemnised the
marriage of the Earl of Huntly with the
daughter of the Duke of Lennox, and had
defaced and mutilated entries in the
Assembly's Registers. The case was re
ferred to the Presb. of Edinburgh by whom
he was excommunicated, the Assembly
concurring. He died 19th Feb. 1592, worn
out with vexation and worry, weighed down
by sickness and poverty. According to
Spottiswood [Hist., vi., 385], he was "a
man of great learning, and a most per
suasive preacher, but an ill administrator
of the Church patrimony." James Melvill
characterised him as a " man of many great
gifts who especially excelled in the tongue
and pen." He marr. Elizabeth, daugh. of
William Arthur of Cairns, and had issue —
James, died before 10th Oct. 1593 ; Andrew ;
Violet (marr. Thomas Wilson, advocate, was
contracted in marriage in 1584 to James
Wemyss, apparent of Lathockar, but
marriage did not take place); Margaret
(marr. (1) cont. 15th Sept. 1588, David
Orme of Mugdrum : (2) Andrew Leitch,
min. of Maryton); Patrick, served heir of
his brother James; Elizabeth. Publica
tions— De papistarum superstitiosis ineptiis
(Edinburgh, 1564); Genethliacon Jacobi VI
Carmine (Paris, 1566); Cateckismus Latino
Carmine redditus et in iibros quattuor
digestus (St Andrews, 1572) ; Confessio
Fidei et Doctrince per Ecclesiam Reforma-
tam Scotiae recepta (1572); A Declaration
of the King's Majesty's Intention in the
late Acts of Parliament (Edinburgh, 1585);
The Recantation of Maister Patrick Adam-
sone (1598) ; Reverendissimi in Christo
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Patris P . . . A . . . pcemata sacra,
cum aliis opusculis [ed. by Tho. Voluseni]
(London, 1619) ; De Sacro Pastoris Munere
Tractatus (London, 1619); Sermons (1623).
Jobi, Threnorumque sen Lamentationem
Jeremice, ac Decalogi, paraphrasis poetica
(1739). He left several works which were
not published.— [Calderwood's Hist., ii., iii.,
iv., passim ; Life, by T. Wilson ; Reg. Mag.
Sig., v., 1642 ; Melvin's Poemata (1620) ;
Diet. Nat. Biog. ; Edin. Commissariat
Decreets, 21st Dec. 1592, 18 ; G. R. Inhib.,
xxx., 97; Fife Inhib., 22nd Jan. 1593-4;
Reg. of Deeds, xvii. 191, xxiii. 8, xlv. 233;
Pitcairn's Grim. Trials, i., 165.]
GEORGE GLEDSTANES, born about
1604 1563> S0n °^ Herbert &i c^er^ an<*
bailie of Dundee ; educated at
Grammar School there and Univ. of St
Andrews ; M.A. (1580) ; became a teacher
of languages at Montrose and reader in the
Second Charge, 1586-7 ; ord. to Ecclesgreig
[St Cyrus] before 23rd July 1587 ; trans, to
Arbirlot May 1592 ; trans, to St Andrews
19th July 1597 ; app. Bishop of Caithness
1st Nov. 1600 (retaining his parochial
charge) ; adm. a Privy Councillor 24th Nov.
1602 ; was a commissioner for the Union in
1604 ; promoted by James VI. to this See
12th Oct. that year, but fearing the dis
pleasure of his co-Presbyters did not inform
them of his appointment until 10th Jan.
1605 ; refrained also for a time from
assuming the title of Archbishop, and was
not consecrated until 13th Jan. 1611. He
attended the Conference at Hampton Court
in 1606, and on his return was app. constant
Moderator of Presb. and Synod, against
the wishes of the members, who declared
that they " would rather abide the horning
and all that follows thereupon, than lose
the liberty of the kirk." [The leading
opponents were imprisoned and one was
outlawed.] He was mainly instrumental
in having the Court of High Commission
established in Scotland, and much of his
time was spent in Edinburgh on Privy
Council and parliamentary affairs; died
2nd May 1616. He marr. Christian (died
1617), daugh. of John Durie, min. of
Montrose, and had issue — Alexander, D.D.,
min. of St Andrews; Margaret; Elspeth
(marr., cont. 13th April 16 — , Sir John
Wemyss of Craigton, Commissary of St
Andrews) [said also to have marr. Dr George
Haliburton, father of Bishop of Aberdeen] ;
Christian (marr. Patrick Wemyss, min. of
Hoy); Euphame (marr. Dec. 1610, John
Lyon of Auldbar, whom she divorced 16th
July 1622) ; a daugh (marr. Fullar-
ton). Publications— Letters [Orig. Letters]
(Bannatyne Club) and Wodrow's Lives
Maitland Club, i.).— [Calderwood's Hist., iv.
660, v. vi. vii. passim ; Melvill's Diary ;
Gordon's Eccles. Chron. (1867), i., 339-59 ;
Charity Roll, 1685-92 ; Reg. of Deeds, clxxx.
354, ccxxi. 13 ; Diet. Nat. Biog.]
JOHN SPOTTISWOOD, M.A.,
formerly min. of Calder-Comitis
' [Mid-Calder] (cf. Vol. I., 176) ; trans,
from Archbishopric of Glasgow and installed
6th Aug. 1615 ; died at London 26th Nov.
1639. His son, Sir John of Dairsie, died in
1679; Sir Robert, Lord President of the
Court of Session, born 1596, was beheaded
at St Andrews 20th Jan. 1646 ; a daugh.
marr. George Simpson, bailie of Dysart.
Further Publications— Refutatio Libelli de
RegimineEcclesice Scoticance (London, 1620);
Sermon preached to the General Assembly at
Perth in 1618 (Lindsay's True Narration) ;
"Forty-eightLetters and Twelve jointly with
others " (Orig. Letters, Bannatyne Club). —
[Treasury Reg., v., 223.]
JAMES SHARP, born Banff Castle,
4th May 1618 [not 1613 as in Diet.
Nat. £iog.], son of William S.,
provost and sheriff-clerk of Banffshire, and
Isobel, daugh. of John Leslie of Kininvie,
and grandson of David S., merchant,
Aberdeen, by a daughter of Haliburton
of Pitcur ; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen ; M.A. (1637) ; studied divinity
under Drs John Forbes of Corse and Robert
Baron ; proceeded to Oxford where he was
an intimate of Jeremy Taylor ; became Pro
fessor of Philosophy, Univ. of St Andrews,
1643 ; ord. to Grail 27th Jan. 1648 ; elected
one of the mins. of Edinburgh in 1650, the
General Assembly sustaining his call against
the refusal of the Presb., but the invasion
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under Cromwell intervened and prevented
his acceptance. In 1G51 he became leader
of the Resolutioners ; on 28th Aug. that
year he was made prisoner by Cromwell's
forces at Alyth, and taken to London, where
he lay in the Tower until 10th April 1652
when he was released on giving his bond
not to remove from the city ; on 17th June
he was allowed to return to Scotland, and
later he was given full liberty. In 1657 he
went to London to interview Cromwell on
behalf of the Resolutioners, but did not
succeed. In 1659 he identified himself
with the programme of General Monk,
and penned the Declaration which, in
Monk's name, was widely circulated, and
led to the Restoration. In 1660 he was
one of the deputation of six ministers sent
to London to represent the views of the
Resolutioners, and in May he had an inter
view with Charles II. at Breda ; app. a royal
chaplain, and had the Chair of Divinity
at St Andrews, 12th Jan. 1661 ; nominated
Archbishop of St Andrews and consecrated
(at London) 15th Dec. following; app. a
Privy Councillor in 1664. On 9th July 1668
he narrowly escaped a pistol shot in the
High Street of Edinburgh by James
Mitchell [Bishop Honyman of Orkney (q.v.),
his companion, was wounded, and never
fully recovered ; the assailant was executed
in 1678]. On 3rd May 1679, at Magus
Moor, near St Andrews, he met his death
at the hands of John Balfour of Burleigh,
and others, whose intention was the captur
ing or slaying of the sheriff-substitute of
the shire, the chief offender in the persecu
tion of the local Covenanters. He was
buried in the parish church of St Andrews,
where an ornate marble monument was
erected by his son. His portrait, by
Lely, is in the Scottish National Portrait
Gallery. By the Presbyterians, Sharp was
execrated as a traitor, bent on his own
aggrandisement and advancement, sharing
and abetting the King's duplicity. Episco
palian opinion has regarded him as the
victim of circumstance, who yielded only
when he found that Presbyterianism could
no longer be maintained. Recent research
has not altered the first of these judgments.
The editor of the Lauderdale Papers
(Osmund Airy) [vol. i., p. x.] declares that
" a careful perusal of the whole series will
save any future biographer from the
temptation of endeavouring to palliate a
life of petty meanness such as has seldom
been exceeded in history. In the most
comprehensive sense of the word Sharp
was a knave, pur sang, and one who, to
retain the price of his knavery, eagerly
submitted to be cajoled, threatened, bullied,
or ignored, by bolder men as served their
turn." He marr. 6th April 1653, Helen,
daugh. of William Moncrieff of Randerston,
and had issue — Sir William of Scotscraig,
created a Baronet 1683, died Jan. 1712;
John, bapt. Feb. 1665; Isabella (marr.,
cont. 18th Dec. 1679, John Cunningham
of Barns ; Catherine ; Margaret, born 8th
Dec. 1664 (marr. llth Oct. 1683, William,
Lord Saltoun), died 1734 ; Penelope
(marr. John Dubh Mackinnon of that
Ilk) ; Agnes, buried March 1666 ; Robert,
sheriff-clerk of Banff. Publications— Ten
Letters to Baillie (Baillie's Letters and
Journals, iii.) ; Letter to Mr Robert
Douglas with other Correspondence
(Wodrow's Hist., i., Introduction, i., 1-55) ;
Letter to the Earl of Middleton (Archceol.
Scot., ii.) ; Letters to Mr Robert Douglas
and others (Stephen's Life and Times of
Archbishop Sharp (1839)) ; Letters to
Patrick Drummond (North Brit. Review,
No. xcii.). — [Some Account of the Horrid
Murder committed on the late Lord Arch
bishop of St Andrews (1679) ; True Account
of the Life of James Sharp (1723) ; Diet.
Nat. Biog.; Scott's Old Mortality;
Stephen's Life (1839); Lauderdale Corre
spondence [Misc. Scot. Hist. Soc., 1893] ;
Reg. of Deeds, Mack., 19th Feb. 1704 ; P. C.
Reg., 3rd ser., ix., 121 ; Clan Fingon.]
ALEXANDER BURNET [or BUR-
167g NETT], bapt. 6th Aug. 1615, son of
James B., min. of Jedburgh ; edu
cated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (22nd
June 1633) ; became chaplain to his kins
man, John, Earl of Traquair; pres. to
Coldingham, but not settled ; went to
England where he took orders, and was
inst. rector of Burmarsh, Kent, 15th April
1641, from which he was ejected in 1650 ;
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went abroad, where he acquired information
beneficial to Charles II. ; returned to
England and coll. rector of Ivychurch in
1660; became chaplain to his father's
cousin, General Lord Eutherford, Earl of
Teviot, governor of Dunkirk, and to the
English garrison there ; app. Bishop of
Aberdeen 4th May and consecrated (at St
Andrews) by James Sharp 18th Sept. 1663 ;
app. to Archbishopric of Glasgow 6th Jan.
1664, and installed llth April following;
was made a Privy Councillor 29th April,
and an Extraordinary Lord of Session 29th
Nov. same year ; res. 24th Dec. 1669, having
incurred the displeasure of the Duke of
Lauderdale through opposition of his
conciliatory policy with respect to the
Covenanters; lived four years in retire
ment until his restoration to the See, 29th
Sept. 1674, and to his Privy Councillorship
3rd Dec. following ; trans, to Archbishop
ric of St Andrews, and installed 28th Oct.
1679; died there 24th Aug. 1684, and
was buried 2nd Sept. in St Salvator's
Church. He marr. Elizabeth, daugh. of
George Fleming of Kilconquhar, and had
issue— a son who died v.p. ; Anna (marr. (1)
10th Sept. 1667, Alexander, Lord Elphin-
stone : (2) cont. 20th Aug. 1674, Patrick,
Lord Elibank); Margaret (marr. 28th April
1674, Roderick Mackenzie of Prestonhall,
Lord Justice-Clerk). Publication — The
Blessedness of the Dead who die in
the Lord, a sermon (Glasgow, 1673) ; see
his Letters in Osmund Airy's Lauderdale
Papers (Camden Society). — [Diet. If at.
Biog. ; Sheldon MSS. in Bodleian Library ;
Lament's Diary, 200, 204 ; Fountain hall's
Diary, 99.]
ARTHUR ROSE, born 1634, younger
son of John R., min. of Birse ; edu
cated at Marischal College, Aber
deen ; M.A. (9th July 1652); Keen, by
Presb. of Garioch 5th April 1655 ; adm. to
Kinairney before 6th May 1656 ; trans, to
Old Deer before 27th Oct. 1663; elected
Rector of Marischal College 18th Oct.
1664; trans, to St Mungo's, Glasgow, 15th
Dec. that year ; consecrated Bishop of
Argyll May 1675 ; trans, to See of Gallo
way 5th Sept. 1679; app. Archbishop of
Glasgow 23rd, and installed (at St
Andrews) 28th Oct. that year; promoted
to this See 31st Oct., and installed 25th
Dec. 1684; deprived by Parliament on the
disestablishment of Episcopacy, and retired
into private life ; died at Edinburgh, 13th
June 1704, and was buried at Restalrig.
He marr. Barbara, daugh. of Adam Barclay,
min. of Alford, and had issue — John,
taken prisoner at Sheriffmuir in 1715 ;
Alexander, died v.p. ; James ; Anne (marr.
2nd June 1687, John, fourth Lord Bal-
merino), died 10th Nov. 1702 ; Barbara
(marr., cont. 2nd Oct. 1684, Lieut.-Colonel
John Balfour of Fernie). Publications —
The Certainty of Death and Judgment,
a funeral sermon ; A Sermon preached
before the Privy Council (Glasgow, 1684).
BISHOPS
[Following the Concordat of Leith in 1572, the Tulchan Bishops came into prominence.
Their Episcopal character was only a butt for popular ridicule. The first actual Episcopal
period after the Reformation lasted from 1610 to the Glasgow Assembly of 1638, the second
period from 1661 to the Revolution. The Archbishoprics were those of Glasgow and
St Andrews. There were fourteen Bishoprics.]
Court of High Commission, 1610 and
1615 ; died after a long illness, 14th June
1616, and buried in St Nicholas' Church.
He was distinguished for his scholarship,
and, though zealous for Episcopacy, for his
efforts to conciliate the Presbyterian ele
ment in the Church. His residence at
Aberdeen was a house in the Guestrow,
still containing much of artistic interest,
and possessing many historical associations.
He marr. Isobel, daugh. of George Johnston
of that Ilk and Caskieben, and Christian,
daugh. of Lord Forbes, and sister of Arthur
Johnston, the Latin poet and correspondent
of Laud, and had issue — Peter in Dyce,
served heir 17th July 1616; William,
portioner of Endowie ; Janet (marr. (1)
Archibald Rait, min. of Kintore : (2)
Robert Anderson in Kintore) ; Archibald,
min. of Aberdeen ; Margaret (marr., cont.
4th Jan. 1617, Andrew Adie, Principal of
Marischal College) ; Christian (marr. after
llth Sept. 1607, Abraham Sibbald, parson
of Deer) ; Elspet ; Isobel. Publication —
A Treatise against James Gordon, the
Jesuit (untraced).— [Reg. Mag. Sig. ; Aber
deen Sheriff-Court Records, i. 164, ii. 73;
G. R. Inhib., 15th May 1624; Aberdeen
Sas. Sec. Reg., i. 33, vi. 213; Wodrow's
Biog. Coll., 66-79; Records of Old Aber
deen, 196 ; Aberdeen Sas., i. 89, iii. 85, v. 71,
242 ; Craven's Scots Worthies, 25-7.]
ABERDEEN.
DAVID CUNYNGHAME [CUNNING
HAM (cf. Vol. III., 372), formerly
r min. of Gadder ; app. 5th Oct. and
consecrated (at St Nicholas' Church) llth
Nov. 1577, holding the East Parish in con
junction, and in 1596 that of St Nicholas ;
app. by the General Assembly Commis
sioner for Aberdeen and Banff; founded
the Grammar School of Banff in 1585 ; was
accused of scandal in 1586; cleared at
Assembly of 1587, even though the process
was departed from at the King's instance ;
died 3rd Aug. 1600, and buried in the
Cathedral. On 30th Aug. 1594 he baptised
Prince Henry Frederick. He marr. (cont.
20th Dec. 1569) Katherine Wallace, s.p.,
who marr. (2) (cont. 20th Aug. 1602) Robert
of Tillicortrie, second son of William
Udny of that Ilk, s.p— [Reg. of Homings,
25th Jan. 1570-1 ; Reg. of Deeds, iii., 234;
Aberdeen Sas. Sec. Reg., iii., 126, 249 ; Selec
tions from Wodrow's Biog. Collections [ed.
by Robert Lippe] (Aberdeen, 1890), 57-65 ;
Calderwood's Hist., iv. 550, 618, v. 343.]
PETER BLACKBURN, said to be a
native of the east of Scotland, and a
student at Univ. of St Andrews ;
became a regent in Univ. of Glasgow in
1574, where he remained till 1582, during
which time he is called Professor of Physics
and Astronomy ; adm. to West Church,
Aberdeen, 14th Sept. 1582 ; trans, to East
or Second Charge 14th Sept. 1596;
Moderator of Assembly, 7th March 1597-8;
Chancellor of King's College in 1600;
app. to this See 2nd Sept. that year, retain
ing his parochial charge, and consecrated
(at Brechin) April 1611 ; was Constant
Moderator of Presb. and member of the
1600
1616
ALEXANDER FORBES, born 1564,
son of John F. of Ardmurdo, parish
of Kinkell (of the Brux branch of
that family), by his second wife, Helen
Graham of Morphie ; educated at Univ. of
St Andrews ; M.A. (1585) ; min. of Fetter-
cairn in 1588 ; app. Bishop of Caithness
(but retaining his parochial charge) 12th
Nov. 1606; was one of the bishops who
"clothed in silk and velvet" rode in the
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procession of peers at the opening of the
Parliament that year [his predecessor
Blackburn "thought it not becoming the
simplicity of a minister to ride that way in
pomp," and went on foot, thus offending the
other prelates]; app. Constant Moderator
of Presb. of Caithness in 1607 ; was a
member of Assembly, 1608 and 1610 [when
Episcopacy was fully ratified] ; member
of the Court of High Commission, 1610 and
1615 ; consecrated (at Brechin, April 1616) ;
trans, to this See 16th July, and installed
(at St Andrews) 23rd Feb. 1617 ; Chan
cellor of King's College that year ; died
at Leith 24th Nov. same year. He marr.
Christian Straton of Crigie, and had issue
— William, served heir, 14th July 1623 ;
Colonel Alexander; John, parson of Auchter-
less ; Robert ; Captain Arthur ; George ;
Bernard ; Margaret or Marjory (marr.
Andrew Straton of Warburton ; Isobel
(marr. George Forbes of Allathan); Jean
(marr. Robert Leighton, son to L. of
Usan). Publication— Seven Letters (Orig.
Letts.).— [G. R. Sas., xlviii., 384; Mac-
farlane's Gen. Coll., ii., 242 ; Records of Old
Aberdeen, 197 ; Aberdeen Journal Notes and
Queries, vi., 68 ; Lumsden's Fam. of
Forbes ; Keith's Scot. Bishops, 131 ; Calder-
wood's Hist., v., 609 ; Die. Nat. £iog.]
PATRICK FORBES of Corse (to which
161g he succeeded in 1598), born Corse,
24th Aug. 1564, eldest son of William
F. of Corse and Elizabeth Strachan of
Thornton, and brother of John F., min.
of Alford ; educated at Grammar School of
Stirling (by Thomas Buchanan, nephew of
George the historian), and at Univs. of
Glasgow, St Andrews, and Oxford ; after
occasionally officiating at Alford and other
parishes, he was ord. min. of Keith in 1612 ;
elected one of the mins. of Edinburgh 25th
Jan. 1617; pres. to this See 27th Jan.,
consecrated (at St Andrews) and installed
26th May 1618 ; Chancellor of King's Col
lege same year ; was struck with paralysis
in 1632, but did not relax his labours,
being carried to church meetings, and
preaching as zealously as ever, until his
disease increased ; died on Easter Eve,
28th March 1635, and was buried in Bishop
Dunbar's aisle, St Machar's Cathedral.
Archbishop Spottiswood said of him: "So
wyse, judicious, so grave and graceful a
pastor I have not known in all my time,
in any church." He marr. 25th June 1589,
Lucretia, daugh. of David Spens of Wormis-
ton, Fife, and had issue — William of Corse,
died 1625 ; John of Corse, D.D., first
Professor of Divinity, King's College, Aber
deen (q.v.) ; Robert ; a daugh. (marr. the
laird of Kinstair) ; a daugh. (marr. Bailie
Irving); James. Publications — An Learned
Commentarie upon the Revelation of Saint
John (London, 1613; Middelburg, 1614);
A Treatise on the Validity of the Vocation
of the Clergy in the Reformed Churches
(Middelburg, 1614); A Defence of the
Lawful Calling of the Ministers of the
Reformed Church against the Cavillations
of the Romanists (Middelburg, 1614) ; A
Letter to a Romish Recusant, on the
Antiquity of the Doctrines of the Reformed
Churches (Calderwood's Hist., iv.); Eubulus,
or a Dialogue, wherein CatholicTc Questions
to the Protestants are confuted (Aberdeen,
1627) ; " Letters to James Melvill (Calder
wood's Hist., iv., 381), to the King (Mac-
farlane, ii., 259), to the Archbishop of
St Andrews, and to Mr Thomas Melvill,
minister at lJdny"(Orig. Letts.).— [Records
of Old Aberdeen, 197 ; G. R. Sas., xliii., 6 ;
Aberdeen Sas., 16th June 1681, iii., 126,
158 ; Forbes's Funeralls (Aberdeen, 1635 ;
Edinburgh, 1845); Wodrow's Biog. Coll.
(portrait), 80-105.]
ADAM BELLENDEN of Kilconquhar,
born about 1570, second son of Sir
John B. of Auchinoul, Lord Justice-
Clerk, and Barbara, daugh. of Sir Hew
Kennedy of Girvan Mains, and brother of
Sir Lewis B, (who succeeded his father as
Lord Justice-Clerk in 1578) ; educated at
Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (1st Aug. 1590) ;
had a testimonial for ordination 12th June,
and ord. to Falkirk 19th July 1593 ; member
of Assembly in 1602, and one of the brethren
who met at Linlithgow, 10th Jan. 1606, to
confer with the imprisoned ministers who
had refused to recognise the Royal authority
in matters spiritual. In 1609 he attended
the Convention at Falkland; was suspended
ABERDEEN]
BISHOPS
331
16th Nov. 1614, but reponed 18th June
following, and dem. his charge July 1616 ;
app. Bishop of Dunblane (notwithstanding
his former opposition to Episcopacy and
signature of a protest, with forty-two others,
against its introduction, 1st July 1606)
23rd Sept., and adm. 14th April 1617;
was Dean of the Chapel Royal ; D.D. (St
Andrews 29th July 1617) ; member of the
Perth Assembly in 1618, and voted for
the ratification of the Perth Articles in the
Parliament of 1621 ; pres. to this See
19th May 1635 ; app. Chancellor of King's
College that year; dep. and excommuni
cated by the Glasgow Assembly 13th Dec.
1638 ; left Aberdeen 27th March 1639, and
went to England, where he was adm. to the
rectory of Porlock, Somerset, 13th July
1642 ; died (buried) 4th March 1648. He
marr., 17th Feb. 1595, Jean (died before
19th Oct. 1639), daugh. of Henry Aber-
cromby of Kersie, St Ninians, and had issue
—James, born 1600, died before 30th Nov.
1630; Robert; William, born 1601, buried
in Holyrood Dec. 1634; Elizabeth, born
1604; Alexander, born 1605 ; Adam, buried
in Holyrood May 1634; David, min. of Kin
cardine O'Neil, eldest in 1635 ; John, who
accompanied his father to England ; Jean,
born 1609, buried in Holyrood Feb. 1628 ;
Margaret, only surviving daugh. in 1631.
Publications— Letters to His Majesty, to
John, Earl of Annandale (Orig. Letts., ii.),
and to George Bruce of Culross (The Search
by Currie).— [Scots Peerage, ii., 66 ; Scot.
Hist. Review, xix., 107 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. ;
Laing Charters, 2124 ; Wodrow's Biog.
Coll., 106-23 ; Reg. of Deeds, ccccxxxviii.,
527 ; G. R. Sas., xlviii., 371 ; Dowden's
Bishops, 399.]
DAVID MITCHELL, born about 1591,
son of a Garvock farmer ; educated
' at Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A. (July
1612); adm. to Garvock before 6th April
1619 ; trans, to Second Charge, Old Kirk,
Edinburgh, before 9th April 1628; trans,
to First Charge in 1634 ; dep. by Glasgow
Assembly 13th Dec. 1638, and went to
Holland, where he supported himself as
a clock and watch maker ; returned to
England and became Prebendary of West
minster 25th July 1660 ; D.D. (Oxford, 9th
July 1661) ; app. to this See 18th Jan. 1662;
consecrated (at St Andrews) 3rd June
following ; Chancellor of King's College
in 1662; died unmarr. 29th Jan. 1663
(buried 10th Feb.). Under his auspices
Spottiswood's History of the Church of
Scotland was issued (London, 1655). —
[Grub's Hist., iii., 198, 212 ; Dowden's
Bishops, 399.]
ALEXANDER BURNETT, M.A. ;
formerly in orders in England ;
consecrated (at St Andrews) 18th
Sept. 1663 ; trans, to See of Glasgow 6th
Jan. and installed llth April 1664 [after
wards Archbishop of St Andrews (q.v.)].
PATRICK SCOUGAL, born 1607, son
of Sir John S. of Scougal, Hadding-
ton shire ; educated at Univ. of Edin
burgh; M.A. (1624); ord. to Dairsie in
1636 ; trans, to Leuchars March 1645 ; to
Saltoun 29th Jan. 1659 ; app. to this See
by Charles II. 25th Feb. and consecrated (at
St Andrews) on Easter Monday llth April
1664 ; Chancellor of King's College same
year ; died of asthma, in the Chanonry, Old
Aberdeen, 16th Feb. 1682. An Aberdeen-
shire tradition describes him as "big eyed,
grey haired, tall, and stooping, and of a very
fearful aspect." He made benefactions to
St Machar's Cathedral, the library of
King's College, and the Public Hospital
of Old Aberdeen. He marr. (1) before
1654, Jean Wemyss : (2) 6th Jan. 1660,
Anne Congalton (afterwards Lady Guns-
green, died Dec. 1696), and had issue-
John, Commissary and Provost of Old
Aberdeen ; Henry, Professor of Divinity,
King's College, born June 1650; James,
Lord (Whitehill) of Session, died 23rd Dec.
1702; Katherine (marr. (1) 10th Nov. 1665,
William Scrogie, Bishop of Argyll : (2)
Patrick Forbes, Bishop of Caithness : (3)
Roderick Mackenzie of Kinchullardrum) ;
Joanna or Jane (marr. Patrick Sibbald,
D.D., Professor of Divinity in Marischal
College).— [Dowden's Bishops, 402 ; Mon-
teith's Theatre of Mortality, 128 ; Lauder-
dale Papers, i., 198 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. ;
Tombst.]
332
BISHOPS
[ATCGYLL
GEORGE HALIBURTON, born 1627,
1682 son °^ ^r George H. and Elspeth,
daugh. of Archbishop Gledstanes
(but said also to be a son of William H.,
min. of Collace); educated at Univ. of St
Andrews ; M.A. (1646) ; ord. to Coupar-
Angus before 10th Oct. 1648 ; Archdeacon
of Duukeld in 1664: D.D. (St Andrews,
1673) ; app. to See of Brechin 16th May
and consecrated (at St Andrews) 13th June
1678; trans, to this See 5th July 1682;
Chancellor of King's College same year;
dep. at the Revolution llth April 1689;
intruded at Halton, parish of Newtyle,
from 8th May 1698 to 28th May 1710 ; died
at his house of Denhead, Coupar-Angus,
29th Sept. 1715. He marr. (1) Agnes
Campbell, Keithock, widow of David
Haliburton of Pitcur : (2) Rutherford,
who died 15th June 1738, and had issue-
Patrick ; John, civilist at King's College,
1687-9 ; James of Wattriebutts ; Margaret,
born 2nd Jan. 1665 (marr. 22nd June 1686,
John Lindsay of Wormiston, advocate),
died 27th Feb. 1751.— [Dowden's Bishops,
403 ; Hunter's Dunkeld, L, 303 ; Diet. Nat.
Slog.}
ARGYLL.
JAMES HAMILTON, natural son of
1560 James) Earl of Arran, and brother of
James, Duke of Chatellerault ; was
reader of Petty, and afterwards rector of
Spott; postulated to the See of Glasgow
in 1547, but does not appear to have been
consecrated; provided to Lismore, 14th
July 1553, had dispensation on account of
his birth ; app. in 1558 and had sub- Deanery
of Glasgow in commendam. Joined the
Reformers, and sat as Bishop of Argyll, 1st
Aug. 1560, in the Parliament which ratified
the Confession of Faith ; died at Monkland
6th Jan. 1579-80. He marr. Janet Murray,
who died before 1st Oct. 1572, and had
issue — William, burgess of the Canongate
and Glasgow ; Gavin ; Paul of Coats,
captain of Arran.— [Acts and Dec., ccxxxiv.,
86 ; Reg. of Deeds, ccccxcv., 364 ; Canon-
gate Court-Book.]
NEIL CAMPBELL, parson of Kilrnartin
15go and chantor of Argyll in 1574 (cf.
Vol. IV., 13) ; promoted to Bishopric
(but retained parochial charge) in 1580 [not
1606 as in Vol. IV.] ; resigned in favour of
his son John in 1608 ; died before 21st July
1627.— [Calderwood's Hist., vii., 1-3, 107;
Craven's Records of Argyll and the Isles,
27-31 ; Clan Campbell, vi'., 207, 217.]
JOHN CAMPBELL, born Kilmartin,
1608 eldest son of preceding; app. 1st
June 1608 ; died of cancer in the face,
Jan. 1613. He marr. (1) M'Dougal of
Raray family, and had issue : (2) Margaret
daugh. of Gavin Hamilton, Bishop of
Galloway (who marr. (2) James Dunlop of
that Ilk, and (3) James Alderston, min. of
Kilmaurs), and had issue— Alexander, min.,
served heir 21st July 1627.— [Calderwood's
Hist., vii., 176 ; Craven's Records of Argyll
and the Isles, 31 ; Acts of Parl., iv., 518 ;
Clan Campbell, vi., 257 ; Books of Council,
new series, xd., 24th Nov. 1635, dxvii.,
15th Dec. 1638; G. R. Inhib., 2nd sen,
viii., 242.]
ANDREW BOYD, born 1567, natural
1613 son °^ R°bert, Lord Boyd ; educated
at Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A. (1584) ;
adm. to Eaglesham 18th Nov. 1589 (cf. Vol.
III., 386) ; promoted to this See 4th March
1613; died 22nd Dec. 1636 and was buried
in Dunoon Church, "a good man, and did
much good in his diocese, where he always
resided." He had some reputation as a
Latin poet. He marr. Bessie, daugh. of
Adam Cunningham of Auchenharvie and
widow of Thomas Boyd of Pilton, and
had issue — Thomas, min. of Eaglesham ;
Andrew, Archdeacon of Argyll and min. of
Lochgoilhead ; George ; James of Rachrie,
who joined with Montrose and was ex
communicated in 1646 ; Adam, died at
Glasgow May 1649 ; Hugh, alive 15th Feb.
1633 ; Elizabeth (marr. Andrew Hamilton,
min. of Kilbarchan). Publication — Four
Letters (Orig. Letters) ; Ad augustissimum
monarchum Carolun [Latin poem] (Edin
burgh, 1633).— [Craven's Records of Argyll
and the Isles, 50-77 [contains account of B.'s
unpublished MSS, in the Wodrow Collec-
ARGYLL]
BISHOPS
333
tion, Univ. of Glasgow Library] ; Glasgow
Tests. ; Inq. Ret. Lanark, 274 ; Reg. of
Deeds, cxcviii., 241 ; G. JR. Sas., xxxvi., 293.]
JAMES FAIRLIE, M.A., formerly min.
1637 °^ Grreyfriars) Edinburgh ; app. 10th
July, and consecrated 8th Aug. 1637;
dep. by General Assembly 13th Dec. 1638>
but submitting to the change in Church
government the Assembly in 1643 issued
a recommendation in his favour and he was
adm. min. of Lasswade 26th Dec. 1644 (cf.
Vol. I., 329).— [Row's Hist., 410; Craven's
Records of Argyll and the Isles, 92-6.]
DAVID FLETCHER, born about 1605,
second son of Andrew F., merchant,
1 Dundee [of the Fletchers of Inner-
peffer], and brother of Sir John F., Lord
Advocate ; educated at Univ. of St An
drews ; M.A. (1625); adm. to St Giles,
Edinburgh, 22nd May 1635 ; dep. by Com
mission of Assembly, 1st Jan. 1639, for
declining the Glasgow Assembly of 1638,
and reading and defending the Service-
Book ; reponed 27th Aug. 1639 ; adm. to
Melrose 4th -Feb. 1641 ; promoted to this
See (retaining his parochial charge) ; app.
by Charles II. 18th Jan., pres. 3rd June
1662, and consecrated (at Glasgow) in the
end of same month ; died March 1665, and
wasburied in Melrose Abbey. He was greatly
esteemed, and gave much attention to the
education of his parishioners, a school at
Melrose being built from funds bequeathed
by him. He marr. Elizabeth (who sur
vived him), daugh. of John Strang, D.D.,
Principal of Univ. of Glasgow, and had
issue— Christian, bapt. 3rd Dec. 1648 (marr.,
cont. 29th Aug. 1671, Henry Home of
Kames) ; Janet, bapt. 3rd Dec. 1652 (marr.
9th Sept. 1673, Thomas Gordon, W.S.), died
4th May 1693 ; Archibald, bapt. 17th July
1656; Elizabeth, bapt. 17th July 1657
(marr. 29th April 1685, James Leslie,
advocate) ; William of Cranstoun, advocate
(1676), died June 1685. [He erected a
memorial tablet to his father at Melrose,
which is now almost illegible]. — [Craven's
Records of Argyll and the Isles, 102-7 ;
Bower's Description of Abbey of Melrose
(1813), 56; Wade's Melrose Abbey, 55;
G. R. Sas., 2nd ser., v. 391, x. 8.]
JOHN YOUNG, Professor of Divinity,
Univ. of Glasgow (q.v.); elected in
1665 ; died unconsecrated June that
year.
WILLIAM SCROGIE, born about 1618,
second son of Alex. S., D.D., min.
J of Old Machar ; M.A. (King's Col
lege, Aberdeen, 31st July 1638) ; ord. to
Rathven 18th April 1649; was rector of
King's College, 1663-6 ; promoted to
Bishopric and consecrated 14th Jan. 1666 ;
sat frequently in Parliament, and in that
of 1670 entered a protest against an Act
in favour of the Earl of Argyll; died of
fever at Dunbarton, 27th Jan. 1675, and
was buried there. He marr. (1) a lady who
was buried 22nd Feb. 1653 : (2) 30th Nov.
1665, Katherine (marr. (2) Patrick Forbes,
Bishop of Caithness), eldest daugh. of
Patrick Scougal, Bishop of Aberdeen, and
had issue— Mary (marr. 10th July 1683,
James Moir of Stoneywood ; a daugh. (marr.
James Chalmers, min. of Paisley Abbey).
Publication — Mirabilia Dei, a sermon
(Edinburgh, 1660). — [Craven's Records of
Argyll and the Isles, 122-9; Gordon's Scots
Affairs, iii., 227 ; Acts of Parl., vii., 548,
App. 107; Monteith's Mort., 244; G. R.
Homings, 3rd April 1686.]
ARTHUR ROSE, M.A. ; promoted from
High Church, Glasgow; elected in
' March, pres. by Charles II. 15th
and 28th April, and consecrated May 1675 ;
trans, to See of Galloway in 1679 (q.v.).
COLIN FALCONAR, M.A. ; promoted
from Forres ; elected by Dean and
' Chapter in May, pres. 5th Sept.,
app. 8th, and consecrated 28th Oct. 1679 ;
trans, to See of Moray in 1680 (q.v.).
HECTOR M'LAINE, born 1605, son of
Angus M. of Knock, min. of Morven
[of the family of Lochbuie] ; M.A.
(Glasgow, 1628) ; became min. of Morven
before 1639 ; trans, to Dunoon in 1666 ;
re-adm. to Morven 1668 ; trans, to East
wood 1679; elected by the Chapter in
May, and app. 29th June 1680; died in
1687. He marr. Jean (died April 1704),
daugh. of Thomas Boyd, min. of Eaglesham,
and had issue— Captain Andrew of Knock,
334
BISHOPS
[BRECHIN
Gaelic poet ; ^Eneas, min. of Kilfinan ; Sir
Alexander of Otter, Commissary of Argyll,
and afterwards lieut.-colonel in French
service, died abroad ; John, lieut. in Earl
of Portmore's Kegiment, killed at Kaizers-
werth about 1702; Janet (marr. Lachlan
Oig Maclean) ; a daugh. (marr. William
Campbell of Wester Kames). — [Clan
Gillean, 303 ; Isles Tests. ; Craven's Records
of Argyll and the Isles, 137-44.]
ALEXANDER MONRO, D.D. (cf. Vol.
L, 66), Principal of Edinburgh Uni
versity ; pres. by James VII. 24th
Oct. 1688, but not consecrated.— [Craven's
Records of Argyll and the Isles, 154-6;
Craven's Scots Worthies, 134-7.]
BRECHIN.
ALEXANDER CAMPBELL of Carco,
in Kinclaven, and of Monboy, born
about 1550, son of Sir John C. of
Ardkinglass, Argyllshire (cadet of Argyll),
and younger brother of James C. of
Ardkinglass (Comptroller of Scotland in
the minority of James VI.); had a grant
from King Henry and Queen Mary of the
revenues of the See of Brechin, 6th May
1566, while still a boy, and became in effect
the Bishop, but was never consecrated, and
made no attempt to exercise Episcopal
functions. On 7th May 1567 he had a
licence from Queen Mary to go abroad for
seven years, but in 1569 he was present at
the Convention of Perth. In 1573-4 he
is mentioned as being at the schools at
Geneva, and on his return to Scotland is
said to have exercised the office of pastor
at Brechin without discharging any of the
particular duties of the Bishopric. He was
present at the General Assemblies of 1575
and 1576. In 1580 he was ordered to
answer charges before the General Assembly
of having alienated and dilapidated the
lands of the benefice, and in 1582 he was
directed by the Assembly to appear before
the Presb. of Dundee on various counts of
negligence. Though the process against
him came before the Assembly of 1583,
nothing further appears in the record. He
sat as Bishop in many Parliaments, and
dem. his charge before 23rd April 1607 ;
died at Carco, Feb. 1608 [not 1606 as usually
given]. He marr. (1) Margaret, daugh. of
Bethune of Criclet : (2) Helen Clephane,
who survived him, and had issue — Jean
(marr. Sir John Hamilton of Lettrick and
had issue — John, first Lord Bargeny) ;
Marjory (marr., cont. 20th March 1604,
Alexander Menzies of Weem). — \_Reg. of
Deeds, 153; Baptismal Reg., vi., 50 ; Keith's
History, 507, and App., p. 181 ; Keith's
Catalogue of Scottish Bishops, 98; Registrum
Episcopatus de Brechin [where the deed of
his appointment is printed] (Bannatyne
Club, 1850) ; Records of Edinburgh Com
missary Court ; Black's Brechin, 314 ;
Stephen's Hist, of the Church of Scotland,
i., 157 ; Diet. Nat. Biog.]
ANDREW LAMB of South Tarrie, min.
of the Second Charge, South Leith
(cf. Vol. I., 165), and chaplain to the
King ; app. 22nd April 1607 ; consecrated
(at London) 20th Oct. 1610; trans, to
Bishopric of Galloway (q.v.) 4th Aug. 1619.
He presented in 1615 the beautiful brass
chandelier still in the Cathedral.
DAVID LINDSAY, M.A., min. of
Dundee in 1606 ; elected on a licence
from the King, by the Dean and
Chapter, 10th April, and consecrated (at
St Andrews), 23rd Nov. 1619 ; trans, to
Bishopric of Edinburgh (q.v.) 29th July
1634.
THOMAS SYDSERFF, M.A., promoted
1684 from tlie Deanerv of Edinburgh (cf.
' Vol. I., 56) and consecrated 29th
July 1634 ; trans, to Bishopric of Galloway
30th Aug. 1635 [afterwards Bishop of
Orkney (q.v.)].
WALTER WHITFORD, son of Adam
W. of Milton; regent in Univ. of
' Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Paisley
10th May 1604; pres. to Kilmarnock 3rd
Dec. 1608 ; trans, to Moffat before 8th June
1610 ; constituted min. of the monastery
of Failford, Ayrshire, by James VI., 30th
Aug. 1619; D.D. (March 1620); pres. to
sub-Deanery of Glasgow with the living^of
Monkland (where he carried on his duties
by deputy) by the King 9th Dec. 1628;
BRECIIIN]
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335
but still min. of Moffat 28th Nov. 1630;
promoted to Bishopric, but retaining sub-
Deanery in commendam ; app. by Charles I.
15th Sept., and consecrated 7th Dec. 1635 ;
adm. burgess of Arbroath 13th April 1636 ;
dep. and excommunicated by Glasgow
Assembly 13th Dec. 1638 ; fled to England ;
pres. to rectory of Waldegrave, North
amptonshire, by Charles I., and inst. 5th
May 1642, but he was soon dispossessed ;
died in 1647, buried at St Margaret's,
Westminster. He marr., cont. 25th March
1613, Anna, daugh. of Sir Hugh Carmichael
of that Ilk; she survived him, and had
issue— John, a min., had sasine of lands in
Annandale Oct. 1667 ; Adam, a soldier ;
David, D.D., chaplain to the King ; Colonel
Walter ; Kachel (marr., cont. 5th Oct. 1633,
James Johnston of Corehead) ; Christian
(marr., cont. 31st May 1648, William Burnett
of Barns, Treasurer's Clerk). — [Reg. of Deeds,
ccxvi., 327 ; G. R. Sas., ix. 95, xxxviii. 96 ;
Reg. of Deeds, Mack., 1st June 1674;
Budge's Northamptonshire, i., 284.]
DAVID STEACHAN, born about 1601 ;
1662 y°un§est son °f James S. of Mon-
boddo ; educated at Univ. of Edin
burgh ; M.A. (27th July 1622); pres. to
Fettercairn 2nd Aug. 1630; petitioned
Parliament for payment of his losses, 4th
Feb. 1646, and for his maintenance ; pres.
to Bishopric by Charles II., 3rd, conse
crated at St Andrews 7th May, and entered
3rd Aug. 1662. He gave a clock to the
steeple of the church in 1665 ; died 9th Oct.
1671, and was buried in the Cathedral in
front of the pulpit. He marr. (1) Margaret
Henderson, and had issue — David, parson
of Montrose, born 1640 ; James, apprentice
to Andrew Kamsay, merchant, Edinburgh,
10th Aug. 1642, Commissary of Brechin,
died April 1685 ; John, apprentice to
George Brown, merchant, Edinburgh, 1st
Sept. 1647; Christian (marr. Mr Kobert
— ) ; Mary (marr. John Mathie) ; Beatrix
(marr. John Strachan, min. of Strachan) ;
Margaret; (2) cont. 21st May 1649, Anne,
daugh. of David Barclay of Mathers, and
widow of John Douglas of Tilliquhilly.—
[Hist, of Fettercairn, 193 ; Black's Brechin,
318 ; Reg. of Deeds, dlxi., 13, 7th June 1649.]
EGBERT LAWEIE (cf. Vol. I., 59, 126,
16?2 127, 135), born about 1606, son of
Joseph L., min. of Perth; educated
at Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A. (1636) ;
was on the Exercise 10th Oct. 1638; ord.
to Second Charge, Perth, llth May 1641;
pres. to the Deanery of Edinburgh 23rd
Sept. 1642 ; app. to the Bishopric of
Brechin (which he held in conjunction with
his Deanery) llth July, and consecrated (at
Holyrood House) 14th July 1672; died
March 1678. He marr. Catherine (buried
9th Oct. 1667), youngest daugh. of John
Drummond of Colquhalzie, and had issue —
James, bapt. 5th Nov. 1644; David, bapt.
9th June 1646 ; Bethia (marr. 15th Sept.
1668, David Eollo, merchant burgess,
Edinburgh); Jean (marr. 5th Nov. 1663,
Colin Mackenzie, grandson of George, Earl
of Seaforth). Publication — A Sermon
(Edinburgh, 1668).— [Black's Brechin, 318.]
GEOEGE HALIBUETON, D.D., min. at
1678 Coupar- Angus ; elected 7th, app. by
Charles II. 16th May, and conse
crated (at St Andrews) 13th June 1678 ;
trans, to See of Aberdeen 25th July 1682
EOBEET DOUGLAS, promoted from
1682 Deanery of Glasgow; elected 1st
June, pres. by Charles II. 15th,
and consecrated (at St Andrews) 25th July
1682 ; adm. burgess of Brechin 1st Aug.
that year ; trans, to See of Dunblane 10th
Aug. 1684 (q.v.).
ALEXANDER CAIENCEOSS, min. of
1684 Dumfries; elected 5th June, and
consecrated (at St Andrews) 10th
Aug. 1684; trans, to See of Glasgow 18th
Dec. that year (q.v.}.
JAMES DEUMMOND, born 1629, third
1684 son °^ James D. of Deanston
(parish of Kilmadock), min. of Foulis-
Wester, and nearly related to the Drum
mond (Earls of Perth) family ; educated at
Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A. (1645) ; ord.
to Auchterarder about 1650 ; trans, to
Muthill in 1655; D.D. (St Andrews, Oct.
1682) ; app. to Bishopric of Brechin, holding
also his parochial charge till 1686 ; con
secrated (at Holyrood House) 25th Dec.
336
BISHOPS
[CAITHNESS
1684 ; had a pension of £100 sterling from
James VII. 9th Dec. 1685 ; deprived at the
Revolution, and preached his last sermon
at Brechin 14th April 1689 (Romans xii. 1).
He took lip residence with John, Earl of
Errol, at Slains Castle, Cruden, who had
married his relative, Lady Anne Drum-
mond ; died of dropsy 13th April 1695, and
was buried in Cruden Church, the exact spot
not being known. He greatly interested him
self in the welfare of the parish of Cruden,
and was a tower of strength to its minister.
He presented two silver communion cups,
which are still in use, and built a bridge (a
single arch of red standstone) over a burn
near the church, known as the " Bishop's
Bridge." He was a man of wide culture,
and his Library he bequeathed to the Earl
of Errol [consisting of 360 vols. chiefly in
Latin and Greek, and representative of
some of the best presses in Europe; this
Library was sold to the Library Committee
of Glasgow Corporation March 1918]. He
was unmarr. — [Mackay's Three Scots
Bishops, 15-21; Grub's' Ecclesiastical Hist.,
Hi., 284 ; Black's Brechin, 321 ; Aberdeen
Journal Notes and Queries, iv., 238 ; Kellas
Johnstone's " Notes on the Library of the
Earl of Errol" (Aberdeen Univ. Bulletin,
April 1917).]
CAITHNESS.
ROBERT STEWART, born about 1523,
second son of John, third Earl of
Lennox; educated for the Church,
and became Provost of Collegiate Church
of Dunbarton and Canon of Canterbury;
app. Bishop by Pope Paul III. 27th Jan.
1541-2, and appears " elect and confirmed "
in 1544. Before he could enter into holy
orders he became involved in the feuds
between his brother Matthew, Earl of
Lennox (father of Darnley), and the party
who supported the Earl of Arran. He
incurred forfeiture in 1545 along with his
brother, and was compelled to live in exile
till 1563, when he returned to Scotland.
Joined the Reformers, and assumed the
Bishopric but was never consecrated. He
had a grant of the Priory of St Andrews,
during Lennox's Regency following the
1563
assassination of the Regent Moray. On
25th June 1563 he had a commission (re
newed 5th July 1568) to plant kirks within
his diocese, and was thanked for his services
by the Assembly of 1570. He was a
member of Assembly in June 1563, 1568,
and March 1573. He was created Earl of
Lennox and Lord Darnley 16th June
1578, which titles he resigned and received
in exchange that of Earl of March 5th
March 1579-80, and still held his office as
Bishop, the patrimony of which he " greatly
dilapidated"; died at St Andrews, 29th
Aug. 1586, and was buried in the old
chapel of St Leonard's College, where
his monument may still be seen. His
age is there given as 63. Two Latin
lines from his epitaph have been thus
rendered : " Here I leave behind both the
honours and troubles of the world ; take
example from me and withdraw from its
vanities." He marr. 6th Jan. 1578-9,
Elizabeth, eldest daugh. of John, Earl of
Atholl, and widow of Hugh, sixth Lord
Lovat. She died Jan. 1586, having
divorced him for impotency, 19th May
1581, and marr. (2) 6th July 1581, Captain
James Stewart, Earl of Arran. Bishop
Stewart is said to have had a natural
daugh. Margaret, who marr. Robert Algie of
Easter Walkinshaw. — [Scots Peerage, v., 355;
Lawson's Episcopal Church in Scotland, i.,
55 ; Reg. Mag. Sig., iv., 2578, 2874 ; Lyon's
Hist, of St Andrews, i. 382, ii. 207 ; Mel-
vill's Diary, 126; Craven's Hist, of
Church in Caithness, 24-9 ; Dowden'i
Bishops, 249 ; Orig. Paroch. Scot., ii., 608,
615.]
[ROBERT PONT, min. of St Cuthbert'
Edinburgh; pres. by James VI. in 1591
He referred the matter to the Assembly,
offering "to act as minister of Dornoch
and to accept the office of Visitor only, at th<
command of the Church." The Assembly
acknowledged the King's letter thus : " We
praise God that your Majesty hath a g(
opinion and estimation of such a per:
as we judge Robert Pont to be, whom w<
acknowledge indeed to be already a Bisho
according to the doctrine of St Paul. . .
But as to the corrupt state or office of thei
CAITHNESS]
BISHOPS
337
who have been termed Bishops heretofore,
they would have none of it." P., however,
appears to have assumed the office of
Visitor or Commissioner.] — [Grub's Hist.,
250 ; Craven's Orkney, ii., 74.]
GEOKGE GLEDSTANES, M.A., min.
1600 of St Andrews J aPP- lst> and Pres-
by James VI. 5th Nov. 1600 ; conse
crated (at St Andrews) and trans, to Arch
bishopric of St Andrews (q.v.) 12th Oct.
1604, but not consecrated as such till 30th
Dec. 1610.
ALEXANDER FORBES, M.A., min. of
ieo4 Fettercairn ; nominated Bishop of
Caithness 22nd Nov. 1604 (retain
ing his parochial charge) ; app. Constant
Moderator of Presb. by the Assembly of
1606 ; consecrated (at Brechin) before 3rd
May 1611 ; nominated to See of Aberdeen
(q.v.) 21st July 1616; elected 29th July,
but still mentioned as Bishop of Caithness
on 23rd Nov. 1617.
JOHN ABERNETHY, D.D., min. of
IBIS Jedburgk; app- 7tl1 Dec- 1616' and
still retained his parochial charge
(c/. Vol. II., 125) ; deprived in 1638.
ROBERT HAMILTON, D.D., min. of
Glasford (c/. Vol. III., 253); nomi
nated Bishop of Caithness in 1638.
This office he received as a reward for his
services as Procurator for the Episcopate
of Scotland in presenting its "Declinature "
of the Presbyterian jurisdiction in 1638 ;
styled Bishop-Elect 6th Aug. 1639, but was
never consecrated. He retired to England,
where he died before 1st Nov. 1649.—
[Craven's Hist, of Church in Caithness, 94.]
PATRICK FORBES, born about 1610,
1662 third son of John F., min. of Alford,
and nephew of Patrick F., Bishop of
Aberdeen ; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen ; M. A. (1631) ; became a preacher
to the army in Holland ; is said to have
been present at the Glasgow Assembly 29th
Nov. 1638 and one of the first who signed
the National Covenant [the accounts vary
— one mentioning a Patrick, the other a
John F.] ; min. to the Scots congregation at
VOL. VII.
Delft, Holland, 1641-3, and chaplain to a
Republican regiment there ; became chap
lain at Dunkirk in 1658 to the Governor
General, Andrew Rutherford, Earl of
Teviot ; was afterwards chaplain to Alex
ander, first Earl of Balcarres, who died in
exile at Breda in 1659, attended in his last
moments by his chaplain P. F., described
as "an honest-hearted and holy man";
returned to England in 1662; app. to
Bishopric of Caithness by Charles II. llth,
ord. 19th March, and consecrated (at Holy-
rood) 7th May 1662 ; died in 1679, and was
buried in Kirkwall Cathedral. He marr.
in Holland (1) a daugh. of Colonel Erskine :
(2) Katherine, daugh. of Patrick Scougal,
Bishop of Aberdeen, and widow of William
Scrogie, Bishop of Argyll, and had issue —
John, Commissary of Caithness, died at
Craigievar, Aberdeenshire, 25th Oct. 1668,
and buried at Leochel ; Jacobina Henrietta
or Hendrina (marr. (1) 1672, William
Buchanan of Russland, (2) 13th Dec. 1700,
James Fea of Whitehall, Orkney), died
Sept. 1703; a daugh. (name unknown)
(marr. Alexander Skene, D.D., min. of the
Second Charge, Perth, afterwards Provost
of St Salvator's College, St Andrews).—
[Craven's Hist, of Church in Caithness,
146-57; G. R. Homings, 5th July 1678;
G. JR. Sas., 6th March 1701.]
ANDREW WOOD, min. of Dunbar (c/.
Vol. I., 407) ; consecrated to the See
of the Isles May 1675; trans, to
Bishopric of Caithness by Royal letters
patent 17th April 1680, having been elected
26th Feb. preceding ; installed before June
1681, and continued till the Revolution,
when he was deprived 19th July 1689 ;
died at Dunbar in 1695. He marr. Janet
Carmichael, sister to Henry C. of Edrom.
She in 1712, being in great distress, was
allowed " four crowns more than her share "
of the Episcopal charity fund at Edinburgh,
and had issue — Harry (eldest son); Eliza
beth, mentioned in 1719 as a recipient of
charity ; David, Commissary of Sutherland
in 1685. — [Craven's Hist, of Church in
Caithness, 159-79 ; Register of Charities in
Episcopal Chest, Edinburgh; P. R. Sas.
Berwick, iii., 180.]
338
BISHOPS
[DUNBLANE
DUNBLANE.
ANDREW GRAHAME, said to be
1575 vounSest son °f William, first Earl
of Montrose ; was sometime Vicar
of Wick ; consecrated after 17th May 1575;
dep., 24th July 1594, for being non-resident
and "having at na tyme preachet God's
Word, ministrat the Sacraments, nor execut
discipline [at Dunblane] the space of
seven yeiris bygane " ; dem. prior to Feb.
1603. He marr. Jane, daugh. of Walter
Bisset of Easter Kinneff.— [Scots Peerage,
vi., 226.]
GEORGE GRAHAME, M.A. ; promoted
from Scone Feb. 1603 ; trans, to See
of Orkney 26th Aug. 1615.
ADAM BELLENDEN of Kilconquhar ;
promoted from Falkirk ; app. 23rd
' Sept. 1615, and consecrated before 3rd
April 1616 ; adm. 14th April 1617 ; trans, to
See of Aberdeen before 22nd Aug. 1635.
JAMES WEDDERBURN, born Dundee,
1585, second son of John W.,
mariner and shipowner, and Margaret
Lindsay ; educated at Univ. of St Andrews,
M.A. (1608), and at an English Univ.,
probably Cambridge (his name does not
appear in the Oxford registers); became
tutor in the family of Isaac Casaubon ;
took Episcopalian orders and was rector
of Harston in 1615 ; app. Professor of
Divinity, St Mary's College, St Andrews,
1617; D.D. before 1623; pres. to the
vicarage of Mildenhall, diocese of Ely,
12th Sept. 1628 ; app. Prebendary of White-
church, diocese of Bath and Wells, 26th
May 1631 ; Dean of the Chapel Royal,
Stirling, Oct. 1635 ; promoted to this See
llth Feb. 1636; deprived and excommuni
cated by the Glasgow Assembly 13th Dec
1638, because he " had been the confidential
correspondent and agent of Archbishop
Laud in introducing the new liturgy and
popish ceremonies " ; he went to England
died unmarr. at Canterbury, 23rd Sept
1639, and was buried in that Cathedral.
Publication — A Treatise on Reconciliation.
—[The Wedderburn Book (portrait), i., 28;
Burney MSS. in British Museum ; Rogers's
Chapel Royal, 190; Gardiner's Hist, of
England, vii. 290, viii. 311 ; Diet. Nat.
Biog.; Tombst.]
ROBERT LEIGHTON, D.D., promoted
1661 ^rom Principalship °f Edinburgh
Univ. ; re-ord. and consecrated (at
London) 5th Dec. 1661; pres. by Charles
II. 7th June 1662 ; trans, to Archbishopric
of Glasgow and dem. in 1671.
JAMES RAMSAY, promoted from
parish of Hamilton 22nd July, app.
18th Aug., and consecrated 4th Sept.
1673; promoted to See of the Isles 16th
July 1674, but re-called by Privy Council
27th April 1675 ; trans, to See of Ross 14th
April 1684.
1684
ROBERT DOUGLAS, son of Robert
D. of Nether Kilmonth (son of James
D. of Glenbervie), and Margaret
Sibbald ; educated at King's College, Aber
deen ; M.A. (1647) ; adm. min. of Laurence-
kirk before Jan. 1657 ; trans, to Bothwell
before 20th Sept. 1665 ; trans, to Renfrew
15th March 1669; trans, to Hamilton and
Deanery of Glasgow in 1675; consecrated
Bishop of Brechin in 1682; trans, and
installed 10th Aug. 1684 ; signed an address
to James VII. 3rd Nov. 1688 ; deprived at
the abolition of Episcopacy llth April
1689 ; had a yearly pension of £1200 ; died
at Dundee 22nd April 1716. He marr. (1)
a daugh. of Irvine of Drum, and had issue
—Robert, min. of Bothwell : (2) cont. 9th
July 1661, Elizabeth, daugh. of Sylvester
Lammy, min. of Glamis, and had issue-
Sylvester of Whiteriggs in Mearns; William,
Provost of Forfar, born 1666, died 1746;
George ; James ; Katherine (marr., cont.
17th July 1713, George Reid, physician,
Dundee) ; Susanna (marr. Charles White,
merchant, Dundee) ; a daugh. (marr. Provost
Dean of Forfar); Margaret.— [G. R. Sas.,
xi., 74 ; Forfar Sas., xii., 362.]
DUNKELD]
BISHOPS
339
DUNKELD.
JAMES PATON of Middle Ballilisk,
1572 Pai>isn °f Muckhart, born about
1520; min. of Muckhart 10th Jan.
1565-6; elected to this See Feb. 1571 -2, as
appears from a letter issued to the Dean
and Chapter by James VI. in Sept. that
year ; consecrated after 20th July 1572 ; was
accused, 2nd Dec. 1580, of " treasonable as
sistance made and given by him to George,
Earl of Huntly, Archibald, Earl of Argyll,
and divers other conspirators against the
King, in erecting and setting up another
authority nor his Highness"; died 20th
July 1596, and was buried at Muckhart.
He marr. and had issue — Archibald ;
Andrew ; John ; Alexander. — [Muckkart,
the Parish and its Churches, 17 ; Tombst.]
PETER BOLLOCK [or HOLLO] of
1585 Pilton, son of Andrew R. of Dun-
crubb and Marion, daugh. and heiress
of David Rollo of Menmuir ; educated for
the law both at home and on the Continent,
and passed as advocate before 1573; a
licence for his election to this See was
granted to the Dean and Chapter 26th
March 1585; app. 2nd April following.
In 1586 the General Assembly appointed
a commission of mins. to take trial of his
character and doctrine, and in the following
year the Assembly ordered the commission
"to proceed in their work"; adm. Extra
ordinary Lord of Session 19th May 1596,
and an Ordinary Lord 14th Dec. 1598. In
1603 he accompanied James VI. to England
and became Comptroller of the Household ;
returned to Scotland in March 1605, and
dem. his Bishopric Feb. 1607 ; deprived of
his office as Extraordinary Lord 20th Dec.
1609, but was restored 5th April 1610 and
held office till 1620 when he resigned. On
21st Sept. 1611 an attempt was made on
his life by two sons of Matthew Finlayson
of Killeith, with whom he had a lawsuit.
While he was returning from Restalrig to
Pilton they waylaid him, shooting with their
pistols which missed fire. He died 30th
June 1632. He marr. (1) circa 1594, Christian
Cant, widow of Colonel Henry Balfour and
Captain John Balfour : (2) after 1st Sept.
1607, Elizabeth Weston (died s.p. Oct.
1621), widow of John Fairlie of Bruntisfield.
He had a natural son, Walter. — [Scots
Peerage, vii., 191 ; Reg. Mag. Sig., viii.,
2006 ; Booke of the Kirk, 666, 690 ; Edin.
Tests. ; Reg. Sec. Sig., ix., 260 ; Acts and
Dec., cccxxvi., 123; Perth Sas. Sec. Reg.,
i., 127-9.]
JAMES NICOLSON, born 1557, son of
1607 Thomas N., burgess of Cupar-Fife,
and Margaret Philip; pres. to Cor-
tachy 7th May 1580 ; pres. to Meigle 27th
Feb. 1583 ; Moderator of General Assembly
24th June 1595 and 10th Dec. 1606 ;
became collegiate min. of the King's
House 12th Feb. 1602 ; app. Constant
Moderator of Presb. of Meigle 17th Jan.
1607 ; promoted to this See 23rd April
1607 ; died of " a heavy melancholy " 17th
Aug. that year. He marr. Jane, daugh. of
George Ramsay of Bamff (she marr. (2)
cont. 14th and 22nd July 1609, John
Lindsay of Dowhill, min. of Muckersie),
and had issue — James, advocate 1631,
Commissary of Brechin, died Aug. 1680,
ancestor of the family of N. of Lochend
Baronets ; Margaret (marr. James Lindsay,
fiar of Dowhill) ; Bessie.— [Cupar Burgh
Sas., iv., 1 ; Reg. of Deeds, cxciii., 170 ;
Perth Sas., i. 413, iii. 297; G. R. Sas.,
xvii., 27 ; Edin. Tests., 4th June 1608.]
ALEXANDER LINDSAY of Evelick,
law M.A. ; min. of St Madoes (q.v.) ; pro
moted to this See 21st Dec. 1607
(retaining his parochial charge) ; dep. by the
Glasgow Assembly 13th Dec. 1638 but
allowed, on making his repentance, to
continue his ministry in his parish ; died
Oct. 1639.
GEORGE HALIBURTON, born 1617,
son of George H., min. of Glenisla;
educated at King's College, Aber
deen ; M.A. (1636); passed trials before
Presb. of Meigle ; pres. by John, Viscount
Dudhope, to the parsonage of Dundee, but
withdrew his presentation at the desire of
the town; served as army chaplain 1640-1;
adm. to Menmuir 15th Nov. 1642; attended
340
BISHOPS
[DUNKELD
the army at Newcastle in 1643 ; trans, to
Second Charge, Perth, 4th Aug. 1644 ; dep.
for " conversing, eating, drinking, and ask
ing grace at dinner" with Marquess of
Montrose, 27th Nov. 1644, but acknowledg
ing his offence he was reponed 16th May
1645 ; adm. to First Charge, Perth, after
July 1649 (cf. Vol. IV., 230) ; promoted to
this See 18th Jan., pres. by Charles II. 24th
April and consecrated (at Holyrood) 7th
May 1662 ; died 5th April 1665. He marr.
(cont. 8th Nov. 1643) Catherine (died
before Dec. 1669), daugh. of David Lindsay
of Dunkenny, Bishop of Edinburgh, and
had issue— James of Wattriebutts, served
heir 24th Nov. 1665, died before llth April
1699; Alexander; George, writer, Edin
burgh ; Jean (marr., cont. 24th Jan. 1665,
Thomas Menzies of Carse).— [Perth Sas.,
ii., 677 ; Hunter's Dunkeld, L, 78-161 ;
Perth Sas., ciii., 94 ; Kirkton's Hist., 136 ;
Diet. Nat. Kiog.}
HENRY GUTHRIE, born 1600, son of
Henry G., min. of Bendochy ; edu
cated at Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A.
(16th July 1620) ; tutor and chaplain in
the family of the Earl of Mar; became
min. of Guthrie in 1625 ; trans, to Stirling
13th May 1632 ; dep. by Commission of
Assembly, 14th Nov. 1648, for malignancy,
but reponed by the Synod 12th July 1655 ;
adm. to Kilspindie 7th April 1656; app.
to this See 29th June, and consecrated 24th
Aug. 1665 ; died before 20th Dec. 1676.
Publication — Memoirs of Scottish Affairs,
Civil and Ecclesiastical (London, 1702,
2nd ed., with Life, Glasgow, 1748). —
[Hunter's Dunkeld, 101 ; Baillie's Letters,
L, 248-58; Guthrie's Memoirs, 77; Diet.
Nat. Biog.]
1677
WILLIAM LINDSAY, born 1638,
second son of James L. of Dowhil
and Margaret, daugh. of Bishop
James Nicolson ; educated at Univ. of St
Andrews ; M.A. (28th July 1656) ; went to
England and was ord. by Gilbert, Bishop
of Chichester, Sept. 1660 ; pres. to Auchter-
derran, adm. before 12th July 1663 ; trans
to Perth 9th April 1668 ; promoted to this
See, and consecrated 26th May 1677 ; dem.
his parochial charge Oct. 1678 ; died April
1679. He marr. 1666, Catherine, daugh.
of Sir Andrew Skene of Hallyards (she
marr. (2) Oct. or Nov. 1683, David For man
of Spinkstoune, writer, Edinburgh, and
died in parish of Kinghorn in 1690), and
tiad issue — James of Dowhill ; John, died
before 1701 ; Barbara (marr. Henry Balfour
of Raith) ; Margaret (marr. James Moyes,
writer, Kirkcaldy) ; Jean (marr. (1) her
cousin, James Lindsay of Dowhill: (2)
17th June 1703, Laurence Mercer of Pit-
teuchar, min. of Findo Gask) ; Lilias ;
Annas, died before 1701.— [P. G. Dec. 13th
March 1684; Fife Sheriff -Court Deeds,
27th Nov. 1701 ; Reg. of Deeds, Mack.,
16th June 1708 ; G. R. Sas., Ixxvi., 400 ;
P. C. Reg., 3rd ser., viii., 409; Hunter's
Dunkeld, 202.]
ANDREW BRUCE, D.D., Professor
of Divinity, St Mary's College. St
Andrews ; adm. min. of St Andrews
21st Jan. 1673; app. to this See, and
consecrated (at St Andrews) 28th Oct.
1679 ; trans, to See of Orkney in 1688.
JOHN HAMILTON, born about 1636,
son of John H. of Blair and Barbara
Elphinston, daugh. of James, Lord
Balmerino ; educated at Univ. of St
Andrews; M.A. (4th Feb. 1653); app.
Regent in St Leonard's College, St Andrews,
22nd June 1660 ; adm. to Cramond before
31st July 1663 ; trans, to South Leith 10th
Sept. that year ; app. sub-dean of the
Chapel Royal 31st May 1681 ; pres. to Tol-
booth Parish, Edinburgh, 23rd Nov. 1681 ;
app. to this See 19th Oct., and consecrated
(at St Andrews) 4th Nov 1686 ; signed an
address to James VII. 3rd Nov. 1688 ; died
at Edinburgh before 1st Dec. 1690. He marr.
(1) (cont. 4th Feb. 1664) Magdalene, daugh.
of Alexander Halyburton of Innerleith,
through whom he entered burgess and
guild brother of Edinburgh 5th Feb. 1665 :
(2) Elizabeth (died 1694), daugh. of Sir
John Urry, Montrose's General. — \_Reg.
Mag. Sig.; Paper Reg., x., 10; Fife Sas.,
xv., 252; Moray Writs, xxxvi., 90; Hunter's
Dunkeld, 240.]
EDINBURGH]
BISHOPS
341
EDINBURGH.
WILLIAM FORBES, born Aberdeen,
1634 1585) son °^ Thomas F., burgess of
Aberdeen (of the Corsindae family),
by Janet, sister of Dr James Cargill, the
botanist, and brother of Thomas F., writer,
Aberdeen ; educated at schools in Aber
deen, and at Marischal College ; M.A.
(1601) ; app. Professor of Logic in that
College, but res. after four years in order
to study in Helmstedt and other Continental
Univs., where he became intimate with
Grotius, Scaliger, and Vossius, and other
scholars ; returning to England, he had the
offer of the Chair of Hebrew at Oxford,
but for the sake of his health he repaired
to his native shire, and was adm. to
Alford about 1614; trans, to Monymusk
27th Oct. 1615 ; app. by the General
Assembly min. of Third Charge, Aberdeen,
29th Oct. 1616; D.D. St Andrews (1617);
adm. Principal of Marischal College 1st
March 1620 ; re-trans, to Third Charge,
Aberdeen, that year ; trans, to St Giles,
Edinburgh, 21st March 1622, and to Old
Kirk Parish 27th Jan. 1626 ; preached before
the King at Holyrood, and elected first
Bishop of Edinburgh 1st Dec. 1633; received
his patent from Charles I. 26th, and conse
crated (at Holyrood) 28th Jan. 1634 ; died
12th April following, and was buried in
the New Kirk of Edinburgh. He was
a man of considerable learning and of
undisputed piety. He marr. Elizabeth,
sister of John Forbes of Corsindae, and
had issue— William, burgess of Aberdeen,
4th Sept. 1669 ; Andrew (or Arthur), Pro
fessor of Humanity at St Jean d'Angel,
near La Rochelle ; Patrick, died before 16th
April 1656 ; Thomas, burgess of Aberdeen,
10th Dec. 1633. Publication — Considera-
tiones modestce, et pacificce Controversiarum
de Justification, Purgatorio, Invocatione
Sanctorum, Christo Mediatore et Eucharista
(London, 1658; Helmstedt, 1704; Frank-
fort-on-the-Main, 1707 ; Oxford, 1856). He
left in MS. Animadversions on the Works
of Bellarmine, but this was probably lost.
His portrait by Jamesone is in the Univ.
of Aberdeen.— [Diet. Nat. Biog. ; Life
prefixed to Consider ationes ; Maitland's
Hist, of Edinburgh ; Keith's Scot. />'/*// o/>.s
[Russell's edition] (1824), 44-61 (gives
account of the erection of this See on 29th
Sept. 1633] ; Works of Dr John Forbes
(1702-3) ; Wodrow's Biog. Coll. (portrait),
245-69 ; Canongate Register ; G. R. Sas., li.,
471 ; Services of HeirsJ]
DAVID LINDSAY of Dunkenny, born
about 1575, son of Colonel John L.
of Edzell ; educated at Univ. of St
Andrews ; M.A. (1593) ; became master of
the Grammar School of Montrose, and in
1597 master of Dundee Grammar School ;
min. of Guthrie in 1599 ; trans, to Dundee
before 1605 ; was a member of Assembly in
1616 ; supported the Perth Articles in 1618 ;
elected to Bishopric of Brechin and con
secrated 23rd Nov. 1619 ; crowned Charles I.
at Holyrood 18th June 1633 ; trans, to this
See and installed 29th July 1634; was
considerably maltreated by the populace
after service in St Giles, on Sunday, 23rd
July 1637, when the new liturgy was intro
duced, and with difficulty reached his
lodgings at Holyrood ; dep. by the Glasgow
Assembly, and excommunicated 13th Dec.
1638. He went to England and died
Dec. 1641. He marr. (1) before 1603,
Christian Rutherfurd, widow of Thomas
Ramsay, master of the Grammar School
of Dundee : (2) Katherine, daugh. of
Gilbert Ramsay of Bamff, Perthshire, who
survived him, and had issue — John of Dun
kenny ; Helen (marr. David Carnegie of
Craigo, min. of Farnell); Jean (marr. (1)
James Duncan, min. of Montrose, (2)
Patrick Aire, burgess of Dundee) ; Isabel ;
Agnes ; Catherine (marr. George Hali-
burton, Bishop of Dunkeld). Publications —
The Reasons of a Pastor's Resolution : touch
ing the reverend receiving of the Holy
Communion (London, 1619) [replied to by
Calderwood in Solution of Doctor Lindsay's
Resolution (London, 1619)]; A True Narra
tion of the Proceedings in the General
Assembly, holden at Perth, 25th Aiig.
1618 ; together with a just defence of
the Articles therein concluded, against a
Seditious Pamphlet [Calderwood's Nullity
of Perth Assembly (London, 1621).— \Wod-
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[EDINBURGH
row's Biog. Coll., 165 - 78 ; Lives of the
Lindsays,' \. 435, ii. 28; Jervise's Land of
the Lindsays, 202, 314, 356; Diet. Nat.
Biog. ; Reg. of Deeds, cccciv., 5th Feb. 1628 ;
Perth Sas., x., 394 ; G. R. Sas., Ivi., 471.]
GEORGE WISHART, born East
Lothian, 1599, younger son of John
' W. of Logie-Wishart, Forfarshire
[son of Sir John W. of that Ilk] ; educated
at Univ. of Edinburgh, M.A., and perhaps
also at St Andrews and on the Continent ;
pres. to Monifieth 26th Aug. 1624 ; trans,
to Second Charge, St Andrews, before 18th
April 1626 (where he became intimate with
James Grahame, afterwards Marquess of
Montrose, then a student there); D.D.
(St Andrews, before 21st Oct. 1634); fled
to England in 1637 on Presbyterianism
becoming ascendant; dep. in 1639 for
desertion of his charge and alleged im
morality ; app. lecturer in All Saints,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 19th Oct. that year ;
and in St Nicholas Church, 1640, but was
ejected in 1642. At the taking of New
castle, 19th Oct. 1644, he was made prisoner
and confined to the Thieves' Hole in the
Edinburgh Tolbooth until Aug. 1645, when
he was released after Montrose's victory
at Kilsyth. He accompanied Montrose
as chaplain both at home and abroad,
and was afterwards chaplain to a Scots
regiment in the service of the United
Provinces ; in 1650 he was min. to the
Scots congregation at Schiedam, and is
said (on scant evidence) to have been
chaplain to Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia.
Following the Restoration, he returned
to England and became lecturer at St
Andrews, Newcastle, holding also his former
post as lecturer at St Nicholas. In April
1661 Parliament granted him £200 from
vacant stipends as some compensation for
his sufferings ; app. to this See (patent 18th
Jan. 1662), and consecrated (at St Andrews)
3rd June that year; died July (buried
29th) 1671, in Holyrood Chapel. He
marr. in early life, Margaret Ogilvie, who
survived him, and had issue— Jean (marr.
William Walker, min. of North Berwick) ;
Hugo ; James ; Captain Patrick ; Robert ;
Margaret ; three others died young. Publi
cations — ,7[acobus] (r[raemus] De rebus
auspiciis serenissimi et potentissimi Caroli,
Dei gratia, Magnae Britannice Regis, etc.,
sub imperio illustrissimi Jacobi Montis-
rosariim Marchionis, etc*., 1644, et diiobus
sequentibus, prceclare gestis Commentarius
(Hague, 1647) [written at The Hague, the
first Latin edition may have been published
there, but there is no certainty] (Paris,
1648, 1649, and others). An English trans
lation was issued in London in 1652, under
the title Montrose Redivivus. A new
translation appeared in 1720, and a revised
version was published by Ruddiman, Edin
burgh, 1756, and reprinted by Constable in
1819 ; Anniversary Poem on the Death of
Montrose (1651). An MS. vol. of his
sermons is in the Bodleian Library.— [G. R.
Sas., 6th March 1701 ; Murdoch and Simp
son's The Memoirs of James, Marquis of
Montrose, translated with Introductions,
etc., and the original Latin (London, 1893) ;
Wodrow's Hist., i., 236 ; Lyon's St Andrews,
ii., 13 ; Hist. MSS. Com., 13th Report, IV.,
507 ; John Buchan's Marqids of Montrose,
295; Diet. Nat. Biog.; Tombst.]
ALEXANDER YOUNG, promoted from
St Andrews, app. llth, and conse-
1672 crated (at Holyroodhouse) 14th July
1672 ; trans, to See of Ross 29th March 1679.
JOHN PATERSON, trans, from See of
Galloway in 1679 ; trans, to See of
1679 Glasgow 26th April 1687.
ALEXANDER ROSE, born 1646, second
(not third) son of Alexander R.,
1688 min. of Monymusk ; educated at
King's College, Aberdeen, M.A. (2nd July
1667), and Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by
Presb. of Glasgow 20th April 1670; ord.
to Second Charge, Perth, 14th Dec. 1672;
trans, to First Charge in 1678 ; app. Pro
fessor of Divinity, Univ. of Glasgow, 9th
Oct. 1682 ; dem. his charge 7th May 1683 ;
Principal of St Mary's College, St Andrews,
22nd Oct. 1686; consecrated Bishop of
Moray (at St Andrews) 1st May 1687;
D.D. (1687) ; trans, to this See 21st Jan.
1688 ; deprived on the abolition of Episco
pacy llth April 1689; min. of St Paul's,
Carrubber's Close, Edinburgh; became
Primus of the Scots Episcopal Church in
GALLOWAY]
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1704 ; died of apoplexy in his sister's house
in the Canongate, Edinburgh, 20th March
1720, and was buried at Restalrig Church
in Lord Balmerino's vault. He marr. (at
Kilspindie) 27th April 1676, Euphame (died
18th April 1724), daugh. of Sir Patrick
Threipland of Fingask, and had issue-
Patrick, born at Perth, 31st Dec. 1677;
Alexander, born 2nd Jan 1679; Arthur,
born 22nd Sept. 1681, died 8th April
1700; Euphame, born 4th Dec. 1683;
Barbara, born Feb. 1685 ; John, born 30th
April 1687, was a prisoner at Rose Castle,
Carlisle, 1715-16, died in Ross-shire in
1730; Anna, born 9th May 1689; James,
born 29th Feb. 1692, went to East Indies
in 1709; David, born 2nd March 1694;
Alexander, born 19th April 1696 ; Charles,
born 4th Oct. 1698. Publications—^ Sermon
preached before the Privy Council at
Glasgoiv 1684 [very rare ; a copy is in the
Scottish National Library in a volume of
pamphlets, marked F.F., 7, 10]; Letter in
Keith's Scottish Bishops [Russell's edition],
65-72 (Edinburgh, 1824).— [Hunter's Dun-
keld, 380 ; Prayer Book of Bishop Rose in
Mackintosh Library, Dunkeld ; Aberdeen
Journal, 4th July 1925 ; Lawson's Hist,
of Scottish Episcopal Church (Edinburgh,
1843), ii., 220 ; The Threiplands of Fingask,
16 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. ; Ingram's A Jacobite
Stronghold of the Church, 9-12.]
GALLOWAY.
ALEXANDER GORDON, born about
1516, second son of John, Master
J of Huntly, and Jane Stewart, natural
daugh. of James IV. and Margaret Drum-
mond, and brother of George, fourth Earl
of Huntly ; brought up at Court as a
companion to the young King, James V.,
with whom he was a special favourite ;
appears in public life for the first time
in 1544 as administrator of the diocese
of Caithness, whilst Robert Stewart, the
Bishop-Elect, was in England under for
feiture for treason. In 1547 he was nomi
nated Archbishop of Glasgow by the Dean
and Chapter, but the election being disputed
by the Regent Arran, James Beaton was
appointed in 1551, Pope Julius III. con
ferring on G., as a compensation, the titular
Archbishopric of Athens ; app. Bishop of
the Isles 26th Nov. 1553, but it is doubtful
if he was ever consecrated, no evidence
being found to that effect ; trans, to this
See Sept. 1558, holding in commendam the
Abbeys of Tongland and Inchaffray. In
1560 he identified himself with the Re
formers and voted in Parliament, 1st Aug.,
for the Acts establishing the new doctrines,
and on 17th Jan. 1561 he subscribed the
First Book of Discipline with this stipula
tion, that existing prelates should possess
their revenues for life on condition of
embracing the Reformation, and making
provision for the ministry within their
dioceses. [Both Knox and Wodrow refer
to him as the only Bishop who joined the
Reformers, but that is an error]; app. a
Privy Councillor 3rd Nov. 1565, and an
Extraordinary Lord of Session 26th Nov.
following. In 1567 he was accused of
not having visited the kirks within his
charge for three years, of having haunted
the Court too much, and of holding offices
incompatible with his sacred calling. He
pled guilty, but his commission was con
tinued, with an admonition to be more
diligent and exemplary. On 4th Jan. 1568
he resigned his See in favour of his son
John, and thereafter much of his life was
concerned with the cause of Queen Mary,
whom he served with fidelity, though she
had told Knox, in an interview at Loch-
leven in 1563, that G. was "a dangerous
man." On 8th May 1568 he signed the
bond for the Queen's restoration after her
escape from Lochleven, whereupon the
Assembly cautioned him as to his conduct,
and in the following year inhibited him
from "any function in the kirk." He
continued to pray for Queen Mary, and
on 17th June 1571 preached in St Giles
(Knox having found it necessary to retire
from Edinburgh), saying in the course of
his sermon that "na inferior subject has
power to deprive or depose their lawfull
magistrat, he or she whatsumever, albeit
they commit whoredome, murther, incest,
or ony uther cryme, being anes by God
just and lawful prince or princess to reign
above you, not chosen as the imperiall
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BISHOPS
[GALLOWAY
magistrals are." In Aug. 1572 he was
charged by the Assembly with intruding
into the ministry at Edinburgh and acknow
ledging the Queen's authority, and in the
following year he was ordered to do
public penance in sackcloth on three suc
cessive Sundays, a sentence which, March
1574, was reduced to one day's penance
without sackcloth. He attended the As
sembly which opened on 6th Aug. 1575 ;
died on llth Nov. that year at Clary,
Penninghame. He marr. Barbara Logie
of Ennis (she survived him and marr. (2)
Alexander Gordon of Grange of Barquhill),
daugh. of - - Logie of that Ilk, and
had issue — John, his successor as Bishop
of Galloway ; Alexander, died young ;
Laurence, Commendator of Glenluce, died
1611; George, Bishop of Galloway; Kobert,
in the service of Queen Margaret of France
(slain in a duel) ; William, probably died
young ; Barbara of Clary (marr. Anthony
Stewart, rector of Penninghame). Publica
tion — Sermon preached in Edinburgh, 17th
June 1571 (Bannatyne's Journal, 181). —
[Scots Peerage, iv., 533; Knox's Hist., 345
et seq. ; Laing's Hist, of Scotland, i. 76,
ii. 94, 162 ; Murray's Literary Hist, of
Galloway, 36-41 ; Diet. Nat. Biog.}
JOHN GORDON, bora 1st Sept. 1544,
son of preceding ; educated at Univ.
of St Andrews, and at Paris and
Orleans (when he had a yearly pension from
Queen Mary out of her French revenues).
On 4th Jan. 1568 the temporalities of this
Diocese were resigned in his favour and
confirmed by James VI. He was then in
France in the service of Prince Louis of
Conde, but returned to England and engaged
under Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, attending
him at the Conferences held at York and
Westminster to consider the question of
Queen Mary's guilt. When Norfolk was
sent to the Tower of London in Oct. 1569,
G. attached himself to the service of Mary
herself until Jan. 1572 when she was
deprived of her Household. At her recom
mendation he returned to France and
became a gentleman of the bed-chamber
to Charles IX., Henry III., and Henry IV.
He is said to have rescued a number of
Scots and English at the massacre of St
Bartholomew ; is mentioned as Bishop of
Galloway in 1583 but his connection was
nominal, the revenues going to his father
and his brother George. At the age of 59
he was recalled from abroad by James
VI., and taking orders in the Church of
England, was app. Dean of Salisbury Oct.
1603; D.D. (Oxford, 13th Aug. 1605),
" because he was to dispute before the King,
his kinsman." He preached frequently at
Court,and was held in high esteem by James,
who spoke of him as " a man well travailled
in the ancients." In 1611, at his brother's
death, the Barony of Glenluce was bestowed
upon him by Royal charter; died at Lewston
House, Dorsetshire (while on a triennial
visitation), 3rd Sept. 1619, and was buried
in Salisbury Cathedral, where an inscribed
stone marks his grave. He marr. (1) 1576,
Antoinette (died 1591), daugh. of Rene de
Marolles (by whom he acquired an estate
which gave him the title of Sieur de
Longorme), and had issue — Armand Claude,
died on his way to Scotland ; George, died
a student at Beauvais ; two daughs. died
young : (2) 1594, Genevieve (died at
Gordonstoun, Morayshire, 6th Dec. 1643,
aged 83, and was buried at Ogston, Drainie),
daugh. of Gideon Petau, Sieur de Maule,
and President of the Parliament of Brittany,
and had issue — Lucie (only child), born
20th Dec. 1597 (marr. 16th Feb. 1613, Sir
Robert Gordon, historian of the House of
Sutherland), died Sept. 1680. Publica
tions — Panegyrique de Congratulation (La
Rochelle, 1603, also [in English] London,
1603), and under the title The Union of
Great Britain (London, 1604); Assertiones
Theologicce pro vera Verce Ecclesice Nota
quce est solius Dei adoratio (Rochelle,
1603) ; Echo. Dialogus de Institutione
Principis [elegiacs] (Paris, 1603); Elizabethan
Regince Manes (London, 1604); England's
and Scotland's Hajipine&s (London, 1604);
EI/WTIKOC, a Sermon on the Union of Great
Britain (London, 1604) ; Papa-Cacus, sive
Elegia Hortativa (London, 1610); Anti-
tortobellarminus [a reply to Cardinal
Bellarmin who wrote as Matthseus Tortus]
(London, 1610) ; Orthodoxo - Jacobus : et
Papa Apostaticus (London, 1611); Anti-
GALLOWAY]
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Bellarmino - tortor, sive Tortus Retortus
rt. Juliana Pajtismns (London, 1012) ;
'Eipi)i>oKoivui>ia. — the Peace of the Communion
of the Church of Enyland (London, 1612) ;
HapaffKev/i, sive Prceparatio ad . . . decisionem
controversiarum de . . . cultu (London 1612);
The Sacred Doctrine of Divinitie gathered
out of the Word of God, 2 vols. (London,
1613 ; Letter to King James (Orig. Letters,
i.). Possibly also a Latin defence of
Queen Mary's Rights (1571) [mentioned by
John Strype]. — [Hist, and Antiquities of
Cathedral Church of Salisbury (1723), 99
et seq.; Records of the Bruces and the Cumyns
(1870), 482 ; Gordon's Concise Hist, of the
House of Gordon, i., 360; Murray's Literary
Hist, of Galloway, 41 ; Delitice Poetarum
Scotorum, ii., 174 ; Anderson's Scottish
Nation, ii., 329 ; Life of Melville, ii., 224 ;
Theological Revieiv (Oct. 1874), 539 [contains
letter of Lucie Gordon] ; Diet. Nat. £iog.]
ROGER GORDON, min. of Whithorn
(cf. Vol. II., 379) ; had letters issued
in his favour, 16th Jan. 1577, and
a warrant for his consecration to this
See 17th Sept. 1578, but nothing further
appears.
GEORGE GORDON, son of Alexander,
Bishop of Galloway; Commendator
J of Tongland 1st June 1587 ; had a
gift of this See from James VI. 8th July
1586, but his consecration was not carried
out, though he is styled Bishop 4th June
1588. He marr. Margaret M'Kie.— [Reg.
Sec. Sig., lv., 92.]
GAVIN HAMILTON, born about 1561 ;
second son of John H. of Orbiston,
Lanarkshire (who fell at Langside
fighting for Queen Mary) and Margaret
Hamilton ; educated at Univ. of St
Andrews; M.A. (1584); when servitor to
the Lord Chancellor he usurped, without
collation, the vicarage, of Lanark ; became
min. of the Second Charge, Hamilton, in
1590 ; trans, to Bothwell after 1594 ; trans,
to First Charge, Hamilton, about 1604 ;
app. by James VI. 3rd March 1605 to the
temporalities of this See with the Priory of
Whithorn, and the Abbeys of Glenluce and
Dundrennan ; Dean of the Chapel Royal
in 1606, and Constant Moderator of Presb.
1610
of Kirkcudbright ; consecrated to this See
(at London), 21st Oct. 1610, but not re-
ordained (Presbyterian ordination being
then recognised by the Church of England) ;
died Feb. 1612. He marr. Alison, eldest
daugh. of James Hamilton of Bothwell-
haugh, and had issue — John, of Inchgot-
nick, Abbot and Commendator of Saulseat,
and min. of Craigie ; Gavin ; Elizabeth
(marr. 1623, James Mowbray, min. of
Wauchope); Jean (marr. Alexander Dun-
lop of that Ilk); Margaret (marr. (1)
John Campbell, Bishop of Argyll, (2)
James Dunlop of that Ilk, (3) James
Alderston, min. of Kilmaurs). — [Calder-
wood's Hist., vii., 150, 158, 179 ; Anderson's
House of Hamilton ; Diet. Nat. Biog. ;
Murray's Galloway, 43; Spottiswood's Hist.,
458, 514.]
WILLIAM COUPER [or COWPER],
born 1568, son of John C., merchant
tailor, Edinburgh (who early abjured
Romanism and brought up his family in
the principles of Protestantism), and Marion
Duncan, and brother of John C., min. of
St Mungo's, Glasgow; educated at Edin
burgh .and Dunbar Schools, and Univ. of
St Andrews ; M.A. (1584) ; went to Eng
land, and taught in a school at Hoddesdon,
Herts, and was afterwards in the service of
Hugh Broughton, rabbinical scholar; re
turned to Edinburgh and received licence
early in 1588 ; adm. to Bothkennar soon
afterwards ; trans, to Second Charge,
Perth, 5th Oct. 1595 ; was a member of six
of nine General Assemblies from 1596 to
1608, and one of forty-two ministers who
signed a Protest to Parliament against the
introduction of Episcopacy 1st July 1606 ;
nominated to this See 31st July 1612 ; con
secrated (at Glasgow) 4th Oct. following,
but did not dem. his Perth charge till 26th
April 1614 ; was Dean of the Chapel Royal ;
died at Edinburgh, 15th Feb. 1619, and
was buried in Greyfriars Churchyard. He
marr. (1) 3rd Feb. 1591, Elizabeth Duncan-
son, and had issue — William ; James ; Sara ;
Margaret (marr. (1) cont. 12th Dec. 1615,
John M'Clellan of Borgue, (2) before 21st
July 1621, John M'Culloch of Ardwall);
Cecil ; (2) (cont. 12th June 1611), Grizel,
346
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[GALLOWAY
daugh. of Robert Anderson, merchant
burgess of Perth, who survived him, and
had issue— Elizabeth, bapt. 31st May 1616 ;
John, bapt. 21st March 1619, died before
1650 ; Andrew, apprenticed to James Wil
son, W.S., 21st Dec. 1629; Lilias, died
before 1630 ; a daugh. (marr. John Craw
ford of Skeldon). Publications — Heaven
Opened (London, 1611) ; The Anatomy of a
Christian Man (London, 1611); Three
Treatises Concerning Christ (London,
1612) ; A Holy Alphabet jor Sion's Scholars
(London, 1613) ; Good News from Canaan
(London, 1613) ; A Mirror of Mercy (London,
1614) ; The^Bishope of Galloway, his Dikai-
ologie, containing a just defence of his former
Apology against the Imputations of Mr
David Hume (London, 1614); A Most
Heavenly and Fruitful Sermon (London.
1616) ; Two Sermons (London, 1618) ;
Pathmos, or a Commentary on the Revela
tion of St John (London, 1619); Works
[with account of his Life written by him
self] (London, 1623, 1629, 1726); The
Triumph of the Christian (Edinburgh,
1632); "Fourteen Letters to Mr David
Hume of Godscroft, Mr John Murray of
Lochmaben, Mr Patrick Symsoun, minister
of Stirling, and King James " (Orig. Letts.).
—[Murray's Galloway, 44-53 ; Spottiswood's
Hist., 530 ; Calder wood's Hist., vi. 820, vii.
349 ; Life of Melville, ii., 316 ; Diet. Nat.
Biog. ; Reg. of Deeds, cccxxii. 274, ccccxii.
138, cccclxxxv. 341 ; G. R. Sas., xlii., 96 ;
Edin. Com. Dec., 25th May 1608.]
1619
ANDREW LAMB of South Tarrie, said
to be a son or relative of Andrew L.,
Leith ; a lay member of the General
Assembly of 1560 ; min. of Burntisland in
1593 ; trans, to Arbroath about 1596 ;
trans, to South Leith and adm. 22nd July
1600 ; app. chaplain to the Royal Household
in 1602 ; app. Commendator of Abbacy of
Coupar 24th March 1603 ; app. Bishop of
Brechin 22nd April 1607; elected to this
See 10th April, and trans. 4th Aug. 1619;
died blind in 1634. He marr. (1) Isobel
Hering, and had issue— a daugh. (marr.
Alexander Lennox of Gaily, Galloway); a
daugh. (marr. George Murray of Broughton,
Galloway) ; Nicolas (marr., cont. 27th Feb.
1619, John Tennent, min. of Mid-Calder) :
(2) cont. Feb. 1615, Isobel, daugh. of
William Cunningham of Wester Polmais,
and had issue — James, served heir 14th
April 1635 ; Margaret (marr., cont. 6th
Sept. 16:21, William Gordon of Kirkconnell);
— (? Sara) (marr. Alexander Hepburn, a
regent of Edinburgh College). On 15th Oct.
1626, Isobel Cunningham, adulterous spouse
of Bishop of Galloway, had a daugh.
Isobel, bapt. [Edin. Reg.]. Publications —
"Letters to John, Archbishop of St
Andrews, and John, Viscount Annand "
(Orig. Letts., ii.). — [Delitice Poetarum Scot.,
i., 622 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. ; Black's Brechin,
316 ; Reg. of Deeds, cccxxxii. 74, ccclii. 71,
ccclxi. 47, cccxci. 248, dxxiii. 150, dxxv. 162.]
THOMAS SYDSERFF, promoted from
See of Brechin ; app. 30th Aug., and
' installed 19th Nov. 1635; dep. and
excommunicated by Glasgow Assembly
13th Dec. 1638 [afterwards Bishop of
Orkney (q.v.)~\.
JAMES HAMILTON of Broomhill, born
Aug. 1610, second son of Sir James
H. of Broomhill and Margaret, daugh.
of William Hamilton of Udston, and
brother of John, first Lord Belhaven ;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow; M.A.
(1628) ; ord. to Cambusnethan Dec. 1635 ;
dep. for contumacy, 14th April 1639, but
professing repentance was reponed by the
General Assembly 28th Aug. same year ; in
1648 he supported the Engagement, and
was a*chaplain in army raised on behalf of
the King ; app. to this See 14th Aug., pres.
14th Nov., and consecrated (at London)
15th Dec. 1661; again pres. 19th March
1662 ; died 14th Aug. 1674. He marr. 26th
Aug. 1635, Margaret (died 16th April 1667,
only daugh. of Alexander Thomson, min.
of St Giles, Edinburgh, and had issue
—James of Broomhill, advocate, bapt.
20th Sept. 1636, died 5th June 1674 ; John,
born 2nd Feb. 1639 ; Alexander, born 18th
April 1641 ; Margaret, born 28th Oct. 1642
(marr. John Burns, merchant and provost
of Glasgow); Alexander, born 19th Feb.
1645 ; William, born 26th April 1646 ; Jean,
born 12th Aug. 1647 ; Anna, born 9th Feb.
1650; Jean, born 29th Feb. 1652 (marr. John
GALLOWAY]
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347
Birnie of Broomhill, min. of Caerlaverock),
died llth Dec. 1716; Tsobel, born 24th
April 1654 (marr. John Alexander, min. of
Durisdeer); Anna, born 26th Dec. 1656
(marr. Alexander Milne, min. of Glasgow) ;
John of Broomhill, born 28th April 1659 ;
Thomas, born 2nd Oct. 1661 ; Mary, born
3rd Jan. 1663.— [Laing Papers (Hist. J/.S',V.
Com.) ', Birnie's Fam. of Broomhill ; Diet.
Nat. Biog. ; Burnet's Own Times, i., 190.]
JOHN PATERSON, promoted from
16?5 High Church, Edinburgh, and conse
crated May 1675 ; trans, to See of
Edinburgh 27th March 1679 (q.v.).
ARTHUR ROSE, trans, from Argyll 5th
Sept. 1679 ; trans, to See of Glasgow
15th, and inst. 28th Oct. same year
(q.v.).
JAMES AITKEN [or ATKINE], born
lego Kirkwall, 1613, third son of Henry
A., commissary and sheriff of Orkney
and Shetland, and Elizabeth Buchanan ;
educated at Kirkwall Grammar School and
Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (23rd July 1636);
studied divinity at Oxford, 1637-8 ; chaplain
to James, Marquess of Hamilton, H.M.
Commissioner to the Glasgow Assembly
of 1638 ; adm. to Harray and Birsay 26th
June 1642 ; drew up and supported, along
with his Presb., a loyal address to James,
Marquess of Montrose, on the occasion
of his visit to the North in 1650, for
which he and all the Presb. were dep.
by the General Assembly of 1651, A. being
further excommunicated for having had a
conference with Montrose ; an order being
issued for his apprehension he fled into
Holland, where' he remained till 1653, and
returning to Scotland, resided in Edinburgh
until the Restoration ; pres. to the rectory
of Winfrith, Dorset, 1661 ; elected Bishop
of Moray 1st Nov. 1676, but not consecrated
till 28th Oct. 1679 ; trans, to this See 6th
Feb. 1680, and obtained a dispensation to
reside in Edinburgh, because it was thought
"unreasonable to oblige a prelate of his
years to live among such a rebellious and
turbulent people as those of his diocese
were, the effect of whose fiery zeal hath too
frequently appeared in affronting, beating,
robbing, wounding, and sometimes murder
ing the curates"; died of apoplexy 28th
Oct. 1687. He marr. Alison (died March
1692), daugh. of Thomas Rutherfurd of
Hunthill, and had issue — Lilias (marr.
1666, Patrick Smyth of Rapness, advocate),
died Oct. 1710 ; Marion (marr., cont. Sept.
1678, William Smyth, min. of Moneydie) ;
Alison (marr. Duncan Robertson, sheriff-
clerk of Argyll). — [5^. of Deeds, Dal.,
20th March 1693, 9th Nov. 1693 ; Wood's
Athemoe Oxon., ii., 685; Edin. Tests.
(Inglis), Ixviii., March 1656; Diet. Nat.
Biog. [under Atkine].]
JOHN GORDON, born 1644, son of
John G. of Coldwells, parish of
Ellon; educated in England; be
came chaplain in navy (serving in America)
and to the King ; had a conge d'elire 3rd
Dec. 1687, patent 4th Feb. 1688, and conse
crated at Glasgow soon after ; followed
James VII. to Ireland and was app. Chan
cellor of Dublin; subsequently went to
France, residing at the Court of St Ger-
mains, where he read the English Liturgy
in his lodgings to such Protestants as
attended him. About 1702 he went to
Rome, where he took orders (his Episcopal
orders being considered invalid, 17th April
1704), receiving the tonsure from Pope
Clement XI., and taking the additional
name of Clement. He received a pension
from the Pope with the honorary title of
Abate Clemente. Died at Rome in 1726,
the last survivor of the deprived Bishops
of Scotland. Publication— Pax vobis, or
Gospel Liberty. — [Michel's Les Ecossais en
France, ii., 274; The Tablet (2nd April
1853), 212 ; Le Quien's Nidlite des Ordina-
tiones Anglicanes, ii., 312, App. p. Ixviii.]
THE ISLES.
PATRICK M'LAINE, pres. to the
temporality of the Bishopric and
Abbey of Icolmkill in 1547; dem.
on account of his inability in 1565 in favour
of John Carswell, who became bound to
grant him a yearly pension.
348
BISHOPS
[THE ISLES
JOHN CARSWELL, born in Argyllshire
1566 a^out 152°J educated at Univ. of
St Andrews about 1548 ; became a
brother of the Abbey of Icolmkill ; rector
of Kilmartin, 1553-64; was Prebendary and
Chancellor of the Chapel Royal of Stirling ;
pres. to Southwick and Kingarth in 1558.
He embraced the reformed doctrines and
was nominated by a Committee of Parlia
ment, 19th July 1560, Superintendent of
Argyll and the Isles ; pres. by Queen Mary
24th March 1566; signed the Bond for
defence of the Queen on her escape from
Loch Leven, 8th May 1568, and attended
the Convention at Perth, 28th July 1569, to
consider proposals for her return to Scot
land ; died between 10th July and 20th
Sept. 1572. He had considerable poetical
gifts, was a man of vast influence through
out the Western Highlands, and numerous
traditions still gather about his name. He
marr. (1) a daugh. of Hamilton of Hallcraig,
and had issue — Archibald of Canasery :
(2) Margaret Campbell, who survived him.
Publications — Foirm na Nurrnuidheadh
(Edinburgh, 1567) [being a translation of
John Knox's Liturgy and the first work
printed in Gaelic, only three imperfect
copies of which are known to exist, British
Museum, Edinburgh Univ., and Duke of
Argyll's Libraries]; Letter to Robert Camp
bell of Kynnynduich (Wodrow Miscell.}. —
[Wodrow's Lives, i. 133, ii. 471 ; MacLauch-
lan's Preface to Carswell's Liturgy (Edin
burgh, 1873) ; Craven's Records of Argyll
and the Isles, 7-11 ; Maclean's Typographia
Scoto-Gadelica, 66.]
JOHN CAMPBELL, second son of Sir
1W_ John C. of Cawdor and Muriel,
J daugh. of John Calder of that Ilk ;
Commendator of Icolmkill and Prior of Ard-
chattan ; elected in 1558 ; sat in Parliament
which ratified the Confession of Faith, 1st
Aug. 1560 ; had licence to Dean and Chapter,
20th Sept. 1572, for his election ; confirmed
by James VI. 22nd Jan. 1573 ; died before
12th Feb. 1605, and is said to have dilapi
dated the benefice in favour of his relatives.
He marr. (1) Margaret Campbell : (2) 1575
Isobel, daugh. of Duncan Lament of Inner-
yne, and had issue — Colin of Ardachie and
Inverresegan ; John of Eriska ; Margaret ;
and another daugh. He had two natural
sons, Alexander of Ardchattan, min. of
Kilninverand Kilmelford; Duncan. — [Clan
Campbell, vi., 20, 28, 541 ; Thanes of Cawdor,
183 ; Craven's Records of Argyll and the
Isles, 18-27 ; G. R. Inhib., 26th Jan. 1616.]
ANDREW KNOX, second son of John
16Q5 K. of Ranfurly and Euphemia Gal-
braith ; educated at Univ. of Glas
gow; M. A. (1579); was min. of Lochwinnoch
in 1581 ; trans, to Paisley about 1585. In
1592, at the head of a party, he attacked
and dislodged a small company of Spaniards
who had landed at Ailsa Craig to assist in
re-establishing the Roman religion in Scot
land. He was suspended by' the Presb., 4th
Oct. 1604, on his own confession, for having
struck George Stewart, burgess of Paisley,
on the head with a key, but on 19th Nov.,
he having given public satisfaction in the
Kirk of Paisley, was reponed ; promoted
to this See, inst. 12th Feb. and 2nd
April 1605, had Priory of Ardchattan and
Abbey of Icolmkill annexed, llth Aug.
1615 ; trans, to Bishopric of Raphoe in
Ireland 26th June 1611, holding this in
conjunction till he dem. between 25th
Aug. 1618 and 8th Jan. 1619. He carried
with him two of the principal bells
from lona and placed them in some
churches in Raphoe, but these Charles I.
ordered Leslie, his successor, to return.
He died 7th Nov. [another date given is
25th March] 1632, aged about 74. He marr.
his cousin Bessie, daugh. of William (or
John) Knox, merchant, Ayr, and had issue
— Thomas, his successor; Andrew of Rath-
mullen; Claud, administrator to his father;
John, min. of Ballygonnah, Donegal, died
31st March 1643 ; Margaret (marr., cont.
28th Jan. 1611, John Cunningham of
Southhead, son of James, Earl of Glen-
cairn) ; a daugh. (marr. John Hamilton of
Woodhall.— [G. R. Inhib., 7th Dec. 1622;
Reg. of Deeds, cclxxviii., 231 ; Craven's
Records of Argyll and the Isles, 35-43;
Reid's Ireland, i.', 112 ; P. C. Reg., x., 356;
Lees's Paisley Abbey, 245 ; Knox Genealogy,
11-13; Calderwood's Hist., vii., 251;
Burke's Landed Gentry, Ireland.]
TIIK ISLES]
BISHOPS
349
THOMAS KNOX, born about 1588, son
1619 °* PrecedinS j educated at Univ. of
Glasgow; M.A. (1608); became min.
of Sorobie in Tiree, 1618 ; app. Dean of the
Isles 4th Aug. 1617 ; promoted to Bishopric;
licence for his election given to the
Dean and Chapter 8th Jan., and confirmed
24th Feb. 1619 ; was non-resident rector
of Clonderadoch, Diocese of Raphoe, 1622 ;
B.D. (Ireland) ; died in 1626. He marr.
(1) Margaret, daugh. of Colonel Bartelmo
Balfour of Reidhouse, and had issue —
Andrew, bapt. 15th March 1621 : (2) Dec.
1625, Prudence (died s.p.}, daugh. of Peter
Benson of Shragmore, Derry.— [Craven's
Argyll and the Isles, 43-5 ; Burke's Landed
Gentry, Ireland ; Edin. Reg. of Bapt. ;
G. R.Inkib., 1st June 1620.]
JOHN LESLIE of Glaslough, Co.
1628 Monaghan, born 14th Oct. 1571,
eldest son of George L. of Crichie
(of the family of Balquhairn), and Marjorie,
daugh. of John Leslie of Kincraigie ; edu
cated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A.
(1608); travelled for twenty-two years
through France, Spain, Italy, and Germany,
acquiring their languages, and so perfecting
himself in Latin, that the Spaniards said
"solus Lesleius Latine loquitur." Return
ing to England, he became rector of St
Martin's-in-the-Vintry, London, and had
also the rectorship of Hartlebury from
James VI. 28th Nov. 1624 ; licence for his
election to this See was given to the
Dean and Chapter 22nd July, and con
firmed by Charles 1. 17th Aug. 1628 ; trans,
to Bishopric of Raphoe, Ireland, 1633, but
deprived during the Civil War, 1641-2 ;
became Bishop of Clogher 17th June 1661 ;
died 8th Sept. 1671, aged almost 100, and
was buried in the Church of St Saviour,
Castle - Leslie, which he had founded.
Known as the " Fighting Bishop," he
strenuously exerted himself on the Royalist
side during the conflict in Ireland, took
his share as a soldier, raised a company of
foot, and conveyed ammunition and food
supplies through the most disturbed dis
tricts from Dublin to Londonderry, whose
defenders were reduced to a few barrels
of powder and in danger of starvation.
In high favour as a courtier, James VI.
made him a Privy Councillor of Scotland,
and Charles I. bestowed the like honour in
Ireland. He is called D.D. and LL.D. on
his tombstone, but Wood, the celebrated
Oxford antiquary, considered these dis
tinctions doubtful. He wrote a treatise
on Memory which was not published, his
manuscripts and library having perished
in the war. Some relics are preserved at
Glaslough, including his copy of Rabelais.
He marr. (when in his 69th year) Catherine
(then aged 18), daugh. of Alexander
Cunningham of Glaslough. Dean of Raphoe,
and had issue— John, born 19th June 1639,
died 18th June 1641 ; Alexander, born 19th
Feb. 1643, died 28th Dec. 1645; John of
Glaslough, D.D., Dean of Dromore, born
5th Jan. 1645, died s.p. ; George, born 22nd
Dec. 1647, died 18th- May 1656; Albert,
born 23rd April 1649, died 21st May 1650 ;
Charles of Glaslough, M.A., Chancellor of
Connor, author of A Short and Easy Method
with the Deists and numerous controversial
works, born at Dublin 17th July 1650,
died at Glaslough 13th April 1722 ; Mary,
born 15th, and died 19th Aug. 1651 ; Jane,
born 9th Oct. 1655 (marr. Captain Robert
Sanderson) ; and two others, died young. —
[Fam. of Leslie, iii., 325 ; Life and Times,
by R. J. Leslie (London, 1885); Craven's
Records of Argyll and the Isles, 80-8 ; Diet.
Nat. JBiog.]
NEIL CAMPBELL of Ederline, born
1684 a^out 1590' son °f Neil C., Bishop
of Argyll ; educated at Univ. of
Glasgow; M.A. (1607); pres. to Glassary
in 1616 ; promoted to this See ; licence to
the Dean and Chapter for his election
17th Oct. 1633 ; confirmed by Charles I.
21st Jan. 1634; dep. by the General
Assembly, 13th Dec. 1638, but having
subscribed the Covenant and abjured
Episcopacy, was declared by the Synod,
1st Oct. 1640, capable of the ministry ;
pres. to Campbeltown 10th Nov. 1642, but
probably not adm. ; died between 7th Oct.
1643 and 29th April 1647. He marr. (cont.
llth and 28th Feb., and 6th March 1620)
Jean, daugh. of Adam Boyd, son of Thomas,
Lord Boyd, and had issue — Duncan of
350
BISHOPS
[MOEAY
Ederline.— [G. R. Sas., xliv., 181 ; Argyll
Sas., 1st ser.,i., 112; Reg. of Deeds, cdxlv.,
13th Dec. 1631 ; Craven's Records of Argyll
and the Isles,
ROBERT WALLACE, born 1614, son
of Michael W., min. of Kilmarnock ;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A.
(1631); adm. to Barnweil in 1640; took
the side of the Public Resolutioners in
1651 : promoted to Bishopric 2nd, and con
secrated (at Holyroodhouse) 7th May 1663,
but had no knowledge of Gaelic; died at
Glasgow, 16th May 1669, and was buried
at Rothesay. He marr. Anna, second
daugh. of John Cunningham of Cambus-
keith, and had issue— Hugh, advocate, 1670;
John, captain in army; Elizabeth, marr.
(cont. 14th April and 15th May 1660) John
M'Kerrell of Hillhouse ; Margaret ; Agnes,
or Anna, died unmarr.— [G. R. Homings,
7th April 1685 ; Wodrow's Hist., i., 102 ;
Craven's Argyll and the Isles, 107 ; Hewi-
son's Bute, ii., 290 ; Tombst.]
JAMES RAMSAY, Bishop of Dunblane,
1674 provided 19th ^p1- 1672; had
letters patent 14th April ; app. by
Charles II. 16th July 1674 to be trans., but
recalled by Privy Council 27th April 1676.
ANDREW WOOD, promoted from
Dunbar; had patent from Charles
II. 1st Feb. 1677 ; trans, to See of
Caithness after 17th April 1680.
ARCHIBALD GRAHAM [alias
M'lLVERNOCK], of the family of
Obb, born 1644 ; educated at Univ.
of Glasgow ; M.A. ; adm. to Rothesay in
1667 ; promoted to this See (holding the
parish in conjunction), patent dated 22nd
June 1680 from the King ; pres. to Kin-
garth 30th Aug. 1682 (holding that charge
also in conjunction) ; signed address to
James VII. 3rd Nov. 1688; deprived by
Act of Parliament abolishing Episcopacy
llth April 1690; died of fever at Edin
burgh, 28th June 1702. He bequeathed his
library to the parish of Rothesay and part
still remains there, a portion having been
sold for behoof of the poor in 1715. He
marr. (1) Grizel, daugh. of Sir Dugald
Campbell of Auchenbreck and widow of Sir
James Stewart of Bute, and had issue —
Helen, buried in the Canongate, Edinburgh,
31st Jan. 1739 : (2) 28th Oct. 1680, Mar
garet, daugh. of Sir John Coupar of Gogar,
she survived him, and had issue — Eliza
beth (marr., cont. 8th March 1703, Walter
Graham of Kilmardinny) ; Margaret.— [Reg.
of Deeds, Dal., 3rd Aug. 1708; Reg. of Deeds,
Mack., 7th March 1709 ; Craven's Records
of ' Argyll and the Isles, 113-21 [has a list of
Bishop's Library] ; Edin. Bur. Reg. ; Acts
ofParL, ix., 448 ; Hewison's Bute, ii., 289.]
MORAY.
GEORGE DOUGLAS, natural son of
lg(78 Archibald, sixth Earl of Angus;
legitimated under the Great Seal
14th March 1542-3. After the assassination
of Cardinal Beaton, the Abbacy of Arbroath
was conferred upon him by the governor, but
there is no record of any confirmation among
the Vatican papers, and in John Knox's
History (1584) he is still called " Postulate
of Arbroath." On 2nd May 1572 he appears
as Commendator of Arbroath ; is said to
have taken a leading part in the murder of
Riccio ; elected Bishop 23rd Dec. 1573, and
consecrated after 5th Feb. 1574 ; was de
lated in the General Assembly 6th March
following on a charge of immorality com
mitted with Agnes Scott, widow of Thomas
Dishington of Ardross, and ordered "to
purge himself before the Assembly," which
he seems to have succeeded in doing ; was
under process of horning in April 1576 on
an unrecorded charge ; died 28th Dec. 1589,
and was buried at Holyrood. He had a
natural son, Andrew, student in Stirling,
who died before 1st April 1586.— [Scots
Peerage, i., 192 ; Reg. Sec. Sig., liii., 152 ;
Calderwood's Hist., iii., 297, 330 ; Dowden's
Bishops, 413.]
ALEXANDER DOUGLAS, born 1561,
1602 son of Alexander D., provost of
Elgin, and Agnes Leslie ; reader at
Essil in 1574 ; pres. to the vicarage of
Alves by James VI. 4th Sept., and to
MORAY]
BISHOPS
351
vicarage of Spynie 27th Oct. 1574 ; min. of
Keith in 1580 ; trans, to Elgin in 1581 ;
app. by the Assembly a Commissioner for
Moray Aug. 1588 ; became titular Bishop
in 1600, taking his seat as a spiritual peer
in the Scottish Parliament before he had
been consecrated ; app. 30th Nov. 1602
(retaining his parochial charge); app. Com-
uiendator of the Priory of Beauly 1st Feb.
1606, and in the same year was named
Constant Moderator of Presb. of Elgin,
whose members were ordered by the Privy
Council, 17th Jan. 1607, to receive him as
such within twenty-four hours under pain
of rebellion ; consecrated (at Edinburgh)
15th March 1611 ; died at Elgin llth May
1623, and was buried in St Giles' Church,
Elgin. He marr. (1) Margaret Guthrie :
(2) Mary, third daugh. of Robert Innes of
Innes, and Elizabeth, daugh. of Robert,
third Lord Elphinston (she marr. (2)
before 1638, William Hay of Fetterletter),
and had issue — Alexander of Spynie, factor
for Earldom of Orkney ; Mary. Publica
tion — " Fourteen Letters and Petitions "
(Orig. Letts., Bannatyne Club, i., 265,
306-8).— [Dowden's Bishops, 415; Young's
Parish of Spynie, 321 ; Monument in
Elgin Cathedral.}
JOHN GUTHRIE of Guthrie, born
1623 1577> son of Patrick G-> goldsmith,
St Andrews, and Margaret Hart ;
educated at Univ. of St Andrews; M.A.
(1597) ; reader at Arbroath that year ; min.
of Kinnell in 1599, of Arbirlot 1603, and
of Second Charge, Perth, 1617; elected
to St Giles, Edinburgh, 26th March 1620,
but declined to leave Perth ; was again
called there and adm. 15th June 1621 (at
the solicitation of James VI.) ; app. to
Bishopric of Moray 28th June, elected by
the Dean and Chapter in Aug., and app.
by the King 16th Aug. 1623 ; consecrated
between 26th Aug. and 13th Oct. that year.
On 15th June 1633, he rode in the procession
on the occasion of the visit of Charles I. to
Edinburgh; on 18th June he supported the
King on the left when he made his oblation,
and on 25th June he preached before Charles
in St Giles. On 3rd Oct. 1637 he desired
the mins. of the Synod of Moray to purchase
and use the Service-Book according to the
Royal command ; dep. by the Glasgow
Assembly llth Dec. 1638, and ordered to
be excommunicated "if he continue ob
stinate," which sentence was carried out by
Henry Rollock in St Giles, Edinburgh, before
1 1th July 1639. He continued to occupy the
Episcopal residence at Spynie Castle until
16th July 1640, when he was driven out by
Major - General Robert Munro of Foulis
with an armed force, and taken a prisoner
to Edinburgh in Sept. following. He re
mained in the Tolbooth for fourteen months,
having vainly petitioned the General As
sembly that "his situation might be kept
for him a little time"; was eventually
released 16th Nov. 1641, on condition that
he would not return to his diocese. He
retired to Guthrie (which he had purchased
from his cousin Patrick), where he died 23rd
Aug. 1649, and was buried in the aisle of
the old church of Guthrie. He marr.
Nicolas Wood (died 2nd July 1645) and
had issue — John, min. of Duffus ; Patrick,
burgess of Aberdeen, 3rd Dec. 1635 ;
Andrew, M.A., taken prisoner at Philip-
haugh and beheaded at St Andrews ;
Bethia, succeeded to Guthrie (marr. 4th
May 1647, her cousin Francis Guthrie of
Gaigie) ; Nicolas (marr. Joseph Brodie,
min. of Forres); Lucretia (marr. David
Collace, min. of Kinedar). — [Craven's Hist,
of Episcopal Church in Moray, 56 ; Spald-
ing's Troubles, i., 24, 26, 239 ; Diet. Nat.
Biog.; Gordon's Scots Affairs, ii., 138;
Archibald's Historic Episcopate in the
Diocese of Moray, 121-34 ; Elgin Sas.,
iv., 22.]
MURDOCH MACKENZIE, min. of
1662 Elgin ; provided to See of Moray
by letters patent 18th Jan. 1661 ;
pres. by Charles II. 16th April, and conse
crated (at Holyroodhouse) 7th May 1662 ;
trans, to Bishopric of Orkney 14th Feb.
1677 (q.v.).
JAMES AITKEN, D.D. ; elected 1st
1677 Nov. 1676; had letters patent 5th
June 1677 ; consecrated (at St
Andrews) 28th Oct. 1679; trans, to Bishopric
of Galloway 6th Feb. 1680.
352
BISHOPS
[OKKNEY
1680
COLIN FALCONAR, born 1623, son of
William F. of Dunduff and Beatrix
Dunbar ; educated at St Leonard's
College, St Andrews ; ord. to Essil 2nd
Oct. 1651 ; trans, to Forres 24th March
1658 ; promoted to Bishopric of Argyll 5th
Sept. 1679 ; trans. 7th Feb. 1680 ; app. to
Bishopric of Moray 15th April and installed
5th Sept. 1680 ; sat in the Parliaments of
1681, 1685, 1686; died at Spynie Castle
llth Nov. 1686, and was buried in St Giles
Church, Elgin. His portrait is at Eden
Court, Inverness. He marr. 24th July 1648,
Lilias (died at Elgin 6th May 1688), daugh.
of William Rose of Clava, and had issue —
William, min. of Dyke ; Alexander, appren
ticed to Andrew Home, merchant, Edin
burgh, llth Feb. 1674 ; Isobel ; Jean (marr.
15th Aug. 1678, Beroald Innes, min. of
Alves) ; Hugh, commissary clerk of Inver
ness.— [Scots Peerage, v., 245 ; Dowden's
Bishops, 420; G. R. Homings, 13th Feb.
1688 ; Reg. of Deeds, Durie, 14th Oct. 1681.]
ALEXANDER ROSE, D.D., Principal
1687 of St Mary's College, St Andrews;
recommended by the King 17th Dec.
1686; had letters patent 7th April, and
consecrated at St Andrews 1st [not llth as
usually stated] May 1687 ; app. to Bishopric
of Edinburgh 21st Jan. 1688 (q.v.).
WILLIAM HAY, born 17th Feb.
1688 164>7' son °^ William H., master of
the Music School, Old Aberdeen
(descended of the family of Park); educated
at Univ. of Aberdeen ; licen. and ord. by
Patrick, Bishop of Aberdeen ; adm. min. of
Kilconquhar 19th Nov. 1673; D.D. (St
Andrews 2nd May 1687) ; trans, to Perth
March 1684 ; had conge" d'elire 3rd, Royal
Warrant for consecration 4th, and promoted
29th Feb. 1688; consecrated (at St Andrews)
llth May that year; he preached in St Giles,
Edinburgh, on Sunday 31st March 1689,
one of his hearers being the Lord President,
Sir George Lockhart, who was assassinated
on his way home from church ; dep. 22nd
July 1689 on the abolition of Episcopacy ;
retired to Inverness and died at Castlehill
(the house of his son-in-law), 19th March
1707. He marr. Margaret, daugh. of
Robert Wemyss of Cuttlehill, and had
issue— Sophia ; Jean (marr. John Cuthbert
of Castlehill).— [Dowden's Bishops, 421;
Spalding Club MiscelL, ii., 297 ; Craven's
Moray, 70 ; Archibald's Historic Episcopate
in the Diocese of Moray, 158, 161 ; Birth
Brief Lyon Office ; Tablet in Cathedral at
Inverness ; Fife Sheriff-Court Deeds, 20th
June 1640.]
ORKNEY.
ADAM BOTHWELL, born about 1527,
155g second son of Francis B., Provost of
Edinburgh, and one of the original
fifteen senators of the College of Justice,
founded by James V. in 1532, and Katherine,
aunt of Sir John Bellenden of Auchinoull ;
educated at Univ. of St Andrews and in
France ; became rector of Ashkirk in 1552
and a Canon of Glasgow; app. by Pope
Paul IV. to the Bishopric of Orkney 2nd
Aug., and adm. to the temporality 14th
Oct. 1558-9 ; consecrated before 30th June
1559-60 ; he conformed at the Reformation,
became an Extraordinary Lord of Session
14th June 1563-64, and an Ordinary Lord
13th Nov. 1565, and was a Privy Councillor.
He celebrated the marriage between Queen
Mary and James Hepburn, Earl of Both-
well, 15th May 1567, for which he was
delated by the General Assembly and
deprived of all ministerial functions, but
was restored to the same, 10th July 1568,
though the superintendency of his diocese
was not renewed. On 29th July 1567 he
crowned the infant James VI. at Stirling.
On 27th and 30th Sept. 1568 he exchanged
the temporalities of the See with Robert
Stewart, natural brother of Queen Mary,
and Abbot of Holyrood, and thus became
Commendator of Holyrood, yet still styling
himself Bishop of Orkney. In 1578 he was
imprisoned in Stirling Castle, having come
into conflict with the policy of the Regent
Morton, but upon the fall of the latter he
was quickly liberated and became one of
twelve who constituted themselves into the
provisional government overthrown on 10th
June. By Oct. 1582 he had ceased from
the exercise of the ministry, when the
Assembly app. a commission [Andrew
Melville and Thomas Smeaton] to confer
ORKNEY]
BISHOPS
353
with him on the matter. He was one of
the Lords of the Articles in the Parliament
of May 1584 which re-enforced Episcopacy.
He is said to have only twice visited his
See, and on the second occasion when in
pursuit of the fugitive Earl of Bothwell,
his ship, the Unicorn, was wrecked on a
rock in the Sound of Bressay in Shetland.
He died 23rd Aug. 1593, and was buried
close to the high altar of the Chapel Royal
at Holyrood. He marr. Margaret (died
Sept. 1608), daugh. of John Murray of
Touchadam, and had issue — John, created
Baron Holyroodhouse 20th Dec. 1607 ;
Francis of Stewarton, Peeblesshire, killed
at Tantallon, 24th July 1614; Captain
George; William, died before 18th Jan.
1609 ; Jean (marr. Sir William Sandilands
of St Monans), died 10th Feb. 1625 ; James,
died before 10th Oct. 1611 ; Adam, died
before 5th May 1620 ; Helenor, died
unmarr. before 14th July 1599. — [Calder-
wood's Hist., ii., 374, 531 ; Burton's Hist,
of Scotland, iv., 391 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. ;
Scot. Notes and Queries, vii., 132.]
JAMES LAW, min. of Kirkliston ; app.
1Q05 to Bishopric of Orkney 13th, and
had confirmation of same 28th Feb.
1605 ; trans, to Archbishopric of Glasgow
20th July 1615 (q.v.\
GEORGE GRAHAME, born 1565,
second son of George G. of Inch-
braikie and Marjorie, daugh. of
Andrew Rollo of Duncrub ; educated at
Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A. (1587) ; ord. to
Clunie in 1589 ; trans, to Auchtergaven
before 1595 ; trans, to Scone in 1601 ; pro
moted Bishop of Dunblane Feb. 1603 (retain
ing the living of Scone) ; app. to Bishopric
of Orkney 26th Aug. 1615 ; installed Oct.
1616; dep. by Glasgow Assembly llth
Dec. 1638, but disclaimed Episcopacy llth
Feb. following, thereby saving his estate
of Gorthie in Perthshire and others in
Orkney ; retired to Edinburgh, and died
before 19th Dec. 1643, the place and exact
date being unknown. He marr. before
29th Jan. 1594-5, Marion (died 10th April
1632), daugh. of Sir Robert Crichton of
Eliock, Sanquhar, and had issue — David
of Gorthie, served heir 17th June 1647 ;
VOL. VII.
Patrick of Rothiesholm and Grsemeshall,
min. of Holm ; Mungo, apprenticed to
David Murray, merchant, Edinburgh, 18th
June 1634, died 1645 ; Henry, writer ;
Catherine (marr., cont. 24th June 1618,
Patrick Smyth of Braco), died 13th Oct.
1637; Elspet; Agnes (marr. Adam Bellen-
den of Stennis) ; Jean, born 1609, died
1623 ; John of Breckness ; James, mer
chant, Edinburgh, apprenticed to David
Graham, merchant, Edinburgh, 15th Aug.
1638 ; Marjory (marr. (1) George Drummond
of Blair : (2) George Drummond of Balloch :
(3) Major James Stewart of Banchory) ;
Margaret, or Marion (marr. 1630, William
Henryson of Holland, North Ronaldsay);
George, alive in 1654 ; Elizabeth (marr.
James Scrimgeour of 'Kirkton). — [Orkney
Sat., vi., 292; Perth Sas., i. 267, iv. 110;
Prot. Book of T. Wichton, fol. 102 ; Orig.
Eccles. Letters, James VI., ii., 224 ; Craven's
Hist, of the Church in Orkney (1558-1662),
119-200.]
ROBERT BARRON, D.D., Professor of
I6sg Divinity, Marischal College, Aber
deen (q.v.); elected Bishop in 1639,
but not consecrated ; died at Berwick-
upon-Tweed, 19th Aug. 1639.
THOMAS SYDSERFF, born 1581,
1662 e^est son °f James S., merchant,
' Edinburgh (of the Ruchlaw family) ;
educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A.
(22nd Feb. 1602) ; ord. by Archbishop of St
Andrews to St Giles, Edinburgh, 30th May
1611 ; trans, to Trinity Parish 26th Jan. 1626;
pres. to Deanery of Edinburgh 18th June
1634 ; consecrated Bishop of Brechin 29th
July that year ; trans, to See of Galloway
19th Nov. 1635 ; dep. and excommunicated
by Glasgow Assembly 13th Dec. 1638 ;
went to Paris, where he exercised his
Episcopal office in the chapel of Sir
Richard Browne, the Ambassador, ordain
ing many to the priesthood, among them
John Tillotson, afterwards Archbishop of
Canterbury. At the Restoration he pro
ceeded to London, offered his services to
the King, and was app. to the See of
Orkney 19th March 1662. Unable from
age to visit his diocese, he took up resi
dence at Wrightshouses, Edinburgh, where
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BISHOPS
[ORKNEY
he died 29th Sept. 1663. He marr. 27th
April 1615, Rachel, daugh. of John Byres,
magistrate of Edinburgh, and had issue —
Margaret, bapt. 16th March 1619 (marr.,
cont. 27th March and 1st April 1637, Alex
ander Fergusson of Kilkerran) ; Elspeth,
bapt. 5th Oct. 1620 ; John, physician, Edin
burgh, one of the founders of the College
of Physicians, bapt. 25th Nov. 1621 ; Sir
Thomas, follower of Montrose, translator of
Entertainments of the Court (1658), compiler
of Mercurius Caledonius (1661) [the first
newspaper printed in Scotland], and author
of the comedy Tarugo's Wiles, or The Coffee
House (1668), bapt. 8th Oct. 1624; Alex
ander, bapt. 4th Dec. 1625; Agnes, bapt.
4th Sept. 1627 ; Marion, bapt. 25th Oct.
1628 (marr. Nathaniel Fyfe, advocate).—
[Craven's Orkney (1662-88), 9-16 ; Gen. Reg.
Sas., xlv., 303 ; Diet. Nat. JSiog.]
ANDREW HONYMAN, born 1619, son
of David H. of Pitairchney, baker in
1 St Andrews, and brother of Robert
H., D.D., min. of St Andrews ; edu
cated at Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A.
(1635); adm. assistant at Ferry-Port-on-
Craig before 6th Oct. 1640; trans, to
Second Charge, St Andrews, 24th Nov.
1642; trans, to First Charge 2nd Oct.
1662 ; promoted from Archdeaconry of St
Andrews, app. to this See 14th Jan. and
7th March, and consecrated (at St Andrews)
llth April 1664. While in Edinburgh, and
in company of Archbishop Sharp, on the
evening of llth July 1668, and stepping
into a coach at the top of Blackfriars
Wynd, he was shot with a poisoned bullet
intended for the Archbishop, by James
Mitchell, which ultimately caused his
death; died at Kirkwall 21st Feb. 1676.
He marr. Sept. 1642, Euphan (died 27th
March 1668), daugh. of Samuel Cunning
ham, min. of Ferry-Port-on-Craig, and had
issue — John ; Robert, ancestor of the
Honyman Baronets of Armadale, died 9th
Dec. 1679; Euphan (marr. 8th April 1669,
Harry Graham of Breckness), died 17th
Oct. 1686; Ann; Margaret (marr. 27th
Nov. 1673, William Craigie of Gairsay).
Publications— The Seasonable Case of Sub
mission to the Church Government as now
1677
re-established by Law (Edinburgh, 1662) ;
A Survey of the Insolent and Infamous
Libel entitled " Naphtali" 2 parts (Edin
burgh, 1668-9) ; Bourignonism displayed in
a Discovery and Brief Refutation of . . .
Errors maintained by Antonia Bourignon
[anon.] (Aberdeen, 1710).— [Craven's Scots
Worthies, 127 ; Catalog. Edinburgh Univ.
Library, ii., 411.]
MURDOCH MACKENZIE, born 1600,
second son of John M. of the Gair-
loch family ; educated at Marischal
College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1618); ord. in
1633; was chaplain to Lord Reay's Regi
ment in the Army of Gustavus Adolphus ;
adm. min. of Contin in 1636 ; trans, to
First Charge, Inverness, 3rd Sept. 1640 ;
trans, to Elgin 17th April 1645 ; con
secrated Bishop of Moray 7th May 1662 ;
conge d'elire 12th Aug., and elected to this
See 26th Sept. 1676; app. 4th April, and
installed 5th Sept. 1677; died 17th Feb.
1688. He marr. Margaret (died May 1676),
only daugh. of Donald M'Ley, bailie of
Fortrose, and had issue — Sir Alexander
of Broomhill, apprenticed to Sir Robert
Farquhar of Mounie, 12th Aug. 1655,
Commissary of Inverness ; George of Pit-
arrow ; William, Commissary of Orkney ;
Thomas, min. of Shapinsay ; James of
Sound, captain of Dragoons ; David, died
before 1676; Jean (marr. 15th May 1678,
John Kennedy of Kermucks) ; Mary (marr.
4th April 1678, George Balfour of Pharay) ;
Katherine (marr., cont. 5th July 1666,
James Dunbar of Mochbroch) ; Jacobina,
settled in Dundee.— [G. R. Sas., xv., 125 ;
Orkney Homings, xiii., 165.]
ANDREW BRUCE, born about
1688 1630, second son of William B.
of Balquharg, Commissary of St
Andrews; educated at Univ. of St Andrews;
M.A. (23rd July 1658); app. Master of
Humanity, St Andrews Univ., Dec. 1660 ;
Regent in St Salvator's College ; passed
trials before the Presb., and got a testi
monial 10th, and ord. 26th May 1665 ;
adm. to Kilrenny 14th June that year ;
app. Professor of Divinity at St Andrews
before 30th Aug. 1671 ; app. Rector of
that Univ. 1674-7, 1679, and 1680; adm.
ROSS]
BISHOPS
355
min. of St Andrews 21st Jan. 1673; app.
one of the chaplains to King Charles II.
31st July 1675 ; promoted to Bishopric of
Dunkeld 5th Sept., and consecrated 28th
Oct. 1679 ; trans, to See of Orkney; elected
4th July, and app. 17th Aug. 1688 ; signed
address to James VII. ; dep. on abolition
of Episcopacy llth April 1689 ; retired to
Kilrenny, where he died 18th March 1699.
He marr. Elizabeth, youngest daugh. of
John Bethune of Balfour, and had issue—
a son.— [Hunter's Dunkeld, 217; Craven's
Orkney (1662-88), 67, 122, 130, 137.]
ROSS.
ALEXANDER HEPBURN, min. of
1676 Little Dunkeld in 1574; licen. for
election 14th May 1574, and his
trials approved by the General Assembly
14th March 1575 ; had temporality restored
to him by James VI. 3rd Nov. that year ;
consecrated at Holyroodhouse prior to 24th
April 1576; died 22nd Sept. 1578. He
marr. Christian, sister of David Scrimgeour
of Fordie, and had issue— James.— [Reg.
Sec. Sig., xlvi., 53 ; Reg. of Deeds, xx.,
pt. ii., 311; xlv. 113; Ixviii. 336.]
DAVID LINDSAY, min. of South
1600 Leith in 1560 (cf. Vol. I., 160); app.
1st Nov. 1600 ; consecrated at Leith
24th Feb. 1611 (retaining his parochial
charge) ; died 14th Aug. 1613, aged 82. [A
letter in the Lyon in Mourning (p. 3017),
mentions the discovery of incontestable
proof of a much doubted and disputed fact
that L. was in Holy Orders before em
bracing the Reformed doctrines.]
PATRICK LINDSAY, promoted from
St Vigeans 27th Oct., and con
secrated (at St Andrews) 1st Dec.
1613; trans, to Archbishopric of Glasgow
16th April 1633.
JOHN MAXWELL, born 1591, son of
1688 J°nn M. of Cavens in Nithsdale ;
educated at Univ. of St Andrews;
M.A. (29th July 1611) ; adm. to Mortlach
in 1615 ; trans, to High Kirk, Edinburgh,
18th July 1622, afterwards to Trinity
Parish, Edinburgh ; app. 25th Nov. 1625 ;
trans, to Second Charge, Old Kirk,
1618
Edinburgh, 27th Nov. 1626 ; trans, to
First Charge that year ; pres. by Charles I.
23rd April, and consecrated between 15th
June and 18th July 1633 ; had a grant
of the Priory of Beauly 20th Oct. 1634.
An intimate friend of Archbishop Laud,
through whose interest he was made a
Privy Councillor and Extraordinary Lord of
Session 4th Dec. 1633. He was one of the
authors and actively promoted the use of the
Service Book of 1637, and of the proposed
Book of Canons. He introduced the Service
Book into the Cathedral, but after having
been used two years, the books were stolen,
torn to pieces and flung into the Moray
Firth. Following the Glasgow Assembly of
1638, he fled to England for protection from
the King, March 1639, but never returned ;
was dep., excommunicated and accused
before Parliament of treason against the
State. He retained the King's favour ; had
D.D. from Univ. of Dublin ; promoted to
See of Killala and Achenry 12th Oct. 1640.
During the Irish Rebellion in 1641, he
was seized, stript naked and left for dead,
and probably would have died had not a
nobleman in passing rescued him and got
him carried to Dublin. After remaining
there for some time, he proceeded to Oxford
and informed His Majesty of the determined
hatred borne against the Protestants by the
South ; app. Archbishop of Tuam, 30th
Aug. 1645, and returned to Ireland. The
disasters which overtook the King so dis
tressed his mind, that he retired to his
closet and was found dead on his knees, at
Dublin 14th Feb. 1647. He marr. Eliza
beth Innes, and had issue — John ; David ;
James; Robert; Anne, bapt. 28th Oct. 1625;
Janet, bapt. 4th Jan. 1627 ; Elizabeth ;
Rachel; Bethia (marr. Thomas Macpherson,
min. of Alvie). Publications — E2nscopacy
not abjured in His Majesty's 'Realm of
Scotland (1641) ; An Answer to a Gentle
man ivho desired of a Divine some Reasons
by which it might appear how inconsistent
Presbyterian Government is with Monarchy
(1644) ; Sacra Sancta Regum Majestas
(Oxford, 1644) [answered by Rutherford's
Lex Rex (London, 1644)]; The Burden of
Issacher (London, 1644) [which called forth
An Historical Vindication of the Church
356
BISHOPS
[KOSS
of Scotland by Kobert Baillie (London,
1644). He also had a considerable share
in compiling the Canons and Constitution
Ecclesiastical (Aberdeen, 1636); Tyrannical
Powers and Practices of the Presbyterian
Government in Scotland (1646). — [Diet. Nat.
Biog, ; Mant's Church in Ireland, i., 563,
584 ; Grub's Eccl. Hist, of Scotland, ii. 338
et seq., iii. 32 et seq. ; G. R. Horning s, 7th
Feb. 1687 ; Adair's True Narrative, 33 ;
Parliamentary Papers, 2nd July 1661 ;
Keid's Ireland, i., 134, 270; Stratford's
Letters, ii., 369.]
JOHN PATERSON, born about 1604,
1Q62 son of Alex. P., min. of Logic Durno ;
educated at King's College, Aber
deen ; M.A. (1624) ; adm. to Foveran 29th
Nov. 1632 ; fled south to the King with
other mins. unfriendly to the Covenant of
1638, but returned 2nd June 1639, and was
censured and reponed on public confession
by the General Assembly in 1640 ; app. a
Visitor to Univ. of Aberdeen, 27th March
1647 and 31st July 1649, by Parliament;
trans, to Ellon 9th Sept. 1649 ; trans, to
Aberdeen 16th Aug. 1659 ; app. to this See
18th Jan., pres. 15th April, and consecrated
(at Holyroodhouse) 7th May 1662; died
Jan. 1679. He marr. before 29th Nov.
1642, Elizabeth Eamsay, and had issue-
John, Archbishop of Glasgow (q.v .) ; George
of Seafield, M.A. (Marischal College, 1656),
Commissary ; Sir William of Granton, M.A.
(Marischal College, 1663), Bart. (1687), clerk
to the Privy Council, died 29th Sept. 1709 ;
Thomas, M.A. (Marischal College, 1658),
regent; Robert, Principal of Marischal
College, Aberdeen (q.v.) ; Isabella (marr.
Major Kenneth Mackenzie of Suddie) ;
James, M.A. (Marischal College, 1671).
Publications — A Sermon preached before
Parliament (Edinburgh, 1661); Poems.—
[Aberdeen Sheriff-Court Records, iii., 33 ;
Reg. Mag. Sig., xi., 877, 9th Feb. 1666.]
ALEXANDER YOUNG, D.D., ord. to
1679 Dalmeny 28th Nov. 1663 ; trans, to
Cramond in 1664 ; trans, to Arch-
deanery of St Andrews, and adm. 28th
Sept. 1665; promoted to Bishopric of
Edinburgh llth July 1672; trans, to this
See 29th March 1679; patent 12th April
that year ; died at Paris (after operation for
stone) Sept. 1683, aged 55. He marr. (1)
July 1664, Margaret Monteath, Edinburgh,
who died March 1668, and had issue —
Agnes : (2) Helen Auchmoutie, and had
issue — Elizabeth, bapt. 5th Feb. 1674
(marr. Gilbert Keith of Auquhorsk, min. of
Dunnottar); John, bapt. 27th April 1675;
George, bapt. 15th June 1682; Helen
(marr., 'cont. 23rd Sept. 1703, Charles
Chalmers, W.S.).
JAMES RAMSAY, born about 1624,
1684 son °^ R°kert R-> min- °f tne High
Kirk, Glasgow, and Principal of that
Univ. ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ;
M.A. (1647); ord. to Kirkintilloch 19th
Feb. 1653 ; trans, to Linlithgow 14th Sept,
1655 ; trans, to Hamilton and Deanery of
Glasgow in 1664 ; Rector of Univ. of
Glasgow, 1665-7; headed a list of sub
scribers to the Oath of Allegiance to Episco
pacy 6th Jan. 1666 ; was instrumental
in protecting the Duke of Hamilton from
injury at the skirmish at Pentland 28th
Nov. 1666 ; promoted to Bishopric of
Dunblane 22nd July 1673 ; app. to See of
the Isles after 16th July 1674, but appoint
ment recalled by the Privy Council, Sept.
1675, consequent upon an angry quarrel
between R. and Archbishop Sharp ; trans, to
this See 23rd May, and installed 10th Aug.
1684; opposed repeal of statutes against
Roman Catholics in 1686, and signed the
Bishops' letter of allegiance to James VII. ;
deprived at the Revolution ; died in great
poverty at Edinburgh, 22nd Oct. 1696, and
was buried in Canongate Churchyard. He
marr. Mary Gartshore, and had issue —
Robert, min. of Prestonpans ; Patrick ;
James, student at Glasgow Univ. in 1675 ;
David ; Andrew ; Captain John, denounced
by the Privy Council as a Jacobite, 8th
Nov. 1692 ; Alexander ; George ; Susanna ;
Anna ; Margaret. Publication — Moses
returned from Midian, or God's Kindness
to a Banished King [sermon preached at
Linlithgow in 1660].— [Diet. Nat. Biog.;
Keith's Scottish Bishops, 183, 204 ; Baillie's
Letts., 313, 487 ; Law's Memorialls, 20 ;
Hist. MSS. Com., 2nd Report, p. 205;
P. C. Beg., 3rd ser., xii., 482 ; G. R. Sets.,
2nd ser., vi. 269, viii. 22.]
UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN
MARISCHAL COLLEGE
(Founded by George Keith, fifth Earl Marischal, in 1593)
PRINCIPALS.
ROBERT HOWIE, min. of Third
15y3 Charge, Aberdeen ; app. Principal
in 1593; trans, to Dundee before
26th Sept. 1598 [afterwards Principal of
St Mary's College, St Andrews (q.v.)].
GILBERT GRAY, born Aberdeen, 1576,
1508 son of Gilbert G., bailie, and nephew
of Alexander Rutherford, provost of
Aberdeen; educated at Univ. of Edin
burgh, M.A. (1592), King's College, Aber
deen, and Heidelberg; app. in 1598; died
(buried) 29th Dec. 1614. He marr. Marjorie
Menzies, who survived him, and had issue
—Thomas and William, burgesses of Aber
deen. Publications — Oratio funebris in
memoriam Duncani Liddelii (Edinburgh,
1614) ; Oratio de illustribus Scotiae scrip-
toribus (Aberdeen, 1623) [no copy is known
of Raban's 1623 print— reprinted in 1708 in
Mackenzie's Lives of Scots Writers, i., xxi.]
— [Records of Marischal College, ii., 27; Diet.
Nat. Biog.; Sheriff -Court Records of
Aberdeen, ii., 216; Anderson's Scot. Nation,
ii., 374; Aberdeen Journal Notes and
Queries, iv., 279; Bruce's Eminent Men
of Aberdeen, 81-7.]
ANDREW ADIE, student at Dantzig ;
1616 adm. before 15th March 1616 ; dem.
in 1619. He marr. (cont. 4th Jan.
1617) Margaret, daugh. of Peter Blackburn,
Bishop of Aberdeen. Publications— Andrece
Aidii Aberdonensis Scoti Pastoria in decem
distributa eclogas (Dantex, 1610) ; Tractatus
de noctuambulonum ingenio (Dantex, 1612);
Clavisj)hilosophiaemoralis (Oppenh., 1614);
a Marischal College Thesis [title unknown]
(Edinburgh, 1616).— [G. R. Inhib., 15th May
1624; Irving's Li ves of Scottish} Vriters, ii., 3.]
WILLIAM FORBES, D.D., min. of
1620 Aberdeen; app. in 1620; dem. in
1621 [afterwards first Bishop of
Edinburgh (q.v.)].
PATRICK DUN of Ferryhill, born 1580,
1621 son °^ Andrew D>; burgess of Aber
deen ; educated at Basle ; M.D. 1601,
and at Helmstedt 1603-4; was "a very
famous professor in Germany"; app. pro
fessor of physic in King's College, Aberdeen,
and rector in 1619 ; Principal in 1621 ; died
circa 1649. Publications — Themata medico,
de dolor e colico (Basle, 1607) ; edited Duncan
Liddel's Ars conservandi sanitatem (Aber
deen, 1651). (His portrait by Jamesone, in
possession of Grammar School, Aberdeen).
— [Records of Marischal College, i. 120, ii.
28; Stuart's A Sketch of the Life of Dr
Duncan Liddel (1790) ; Kennedy's Annals
of Aberdeen, ii., 130 ; Irving's Lives of
Scottish Writers, i., 285.]
WILLIAM MOIR of Scotstoun, M.A.
1649 (Marischal College 1616), eldest son
of William M. of Scotstoun, treasurer
of Aberdeen, and Janet Rae; bailie of
Aberdeen ; app. Professor of Mathematics
13th Jan. 1641; app. Principal in conjunction
1649; res. both offices in 1661. He marr.
Jean, daugh. of Gilbert Gordon of Gordon's
Mill, and had issue — Dr William of Scots
toun ; Patrick of Spittal ; Jean (marr.
John Campbell of Moy, sheriff - clerk,
Aberdeen). Publications — He wrote on
Geometry and mechanical part of Mathe
matics. (Portrait in possession of Uni
versity.)— {Sheriff-Court Records of Aber
deen, iii., 90 ; Aberdeen Journal Notes and
Queries, iii., 263.]
358
MARISCHAL COLLEGE, ABERDEEN [PRINCIPALS
1661
JAMES LESLIE, physician, son of
Thomas L., burgess, Aberdeen;
Bajan at University in 1636 ; M.D. ;
was town physician of Aberdeen ; app. in
1661 ; died 1678. He marr. (1) Elizabeth
Lumsden, Ruthrieston, who died 7th June
1663, and had issue — John ; Marjory (marr.
Robert Bruce); Anne (marr. John Forbes,
son of the Laird of Corse) : (2) a daugh. or
sister of Provost Gray, Aberdeen, and had
issue— Elizabeth (marr. George Peacock);
Catherine; Magdalen: (3) Margaret Bennet.
Publication — 0 'Ao-r^p 'Op9piv6s 'A*-oX4/«re<
(Aberdeen, \6Ql.—[Fam. of Leslie, iii..
409.]
ROBERT PATERSON, son of John P.
Bishop of Ross ; app. regent in 1667
1 teacher of Bajan class in 1671 ; app
librarian 30th Oct. 1673; Principal 21sl
Nov. 1678 ; ejected for Jacobitism ; diec
1717. He marr. Agnes, daugh. of Davic
Carnegie of Craigo, min. of Farnell, and
had issue—David; Robert; Elizabeth
Margaret; Agnes; Mary; Isobell; Catherine
(Portrait in possession of University.) —
[Records of Marischal College, i., 204
Aberdeen Poll-Book.]
THOMAS BLACKWELL (primus), bor
1660, said to be son of Thomas B
1717 calenderer, Glasgow, and Janet Knox
educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; Keen, b
Presb. there 23rd Feb. 1693 ; ord. to Paisle
28th Aug. 1694 ; trans, to Second Charg
Aberdeen, 7th Nov. 1700 ; called to Grey
friars' Church 3rd May 1711; D.D. ; ap
Professor of Divinity (which he held i
conjunction) 18th Dec. same year; adm
Principal 30th Sept. 1717; died 3rd Oc
1728. He was a leader in the counsels
the Church, and along with Principal Ca
stares was sent to London to represent
William III. the views of the Church o
lay Patronage and the Toleration Act. t
marr. Christian (died 22nd May 1749
daugh of John Johnston, M.D., Glasgo
and had issue-Thomas, LL.D., Princip
of Marischal College (q.v.); George, m
of Bathgate; Alexander, physician, wh
after being tortured, was beheaded
ockholm for high treason in plotting to
erturn the constitution of Sweden and
ange the succession to the throne of that
ngdom; Janet; Christian (marr. 1749,
ohn French, advocate, Aberdeen), died
ug. 1784. Publications — Ratio sacra
Edinburgh, 1710, Aberdeen, 1841) ; Schema
acra (Edinburgh, 1710); Methodus
angelica (London, 1712, Aberdeen, 1842) ;
epresentation against the Bill for
estoring Patronages in 1712 (London,
770) ; Forma sacra (Boston, 1774). (Por-
rait in possession of Incorporated Trades
f Aberdeen.)— [.Ow*. Nat. Biog.]
JOHN OSBORNE, born 1690;
educated at Marischal College;
728 M.A. (1708); licen. by Presb. of
Aberdeen 4th Feb. 1713; ord. to Third
Charge, Aberdeen, 26th April 1716; app.
Principal in conjunction 8th June 1728;
D.D.; died 19th Aug. 1748. He marr.
28th Aug. 1718, Margaret Mitchell, who
died 9th May 1752, aged 51, and had
issue— Alexander, comptroller of Customs,
Aberdeen, born 1724, died 6th Jan. 1785 ;
Jane (marr. William Mowat, provost of
Aberdeen), died 17 th March 1786. (Portrait
in possession of Incorporated Trades of
Aberdeen.)— [Scot. Notes and Queries, m.,
22; Tombst.]
THOMAS BLACKWELL (secundus),
born 4th Aug. 1701, son of Thomas
1748 B., D.D., Principal above mentioned ;
educated at Grammar School and Marischal
College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (1718) ; app. Pro
fessor of Greek in same college 28th Nov.
1723; app. Principal in conjunction 9th
Nov 1748 and was the first layman to
hold this office; LL.D. (King's College,
1752) ; fell into consumption and died at
Edinburgh on his way to London 8th March
1757. He marr. 1749, Barbara Black (died
23rd' Oct. 1793), daugh. of an Aberdeen
merchant, but had no issue. His widow
bequeathed her estates to the College to
endow a Chair of Chemistry and found the
Blackwell Essay Prize. B. was called by the
students "Ratio profano," and was spoken
of as the restorer of Greek literature m the
PRINCIPALS]
MARISCHAL COLLEGE, ABERDEEN
359
north of Scotland. Publications — An En-
</t<! ri/ i n.to the. Life and Writings of Hornet-
[anon.] (London, 1735, 2nd ed., 1736, Glas
gow, 1761); Proofs of the Enquiry into
Homer's Life and Writings translated into
English ; being a Key to the Enquiry [anon.]
(London, 1747); Letters concerning Myth
ology [anon.] (London, 1748, 2nd ed. 1757) ;
Memoirs of the Court of Augustus, 3 vols.
[vol. iii. continued and completed by John
Mills] (Edinburgh, 1758-63), translated into
French, 3 vols. (Paris, 1781); An Account
of the Erection of the Marischal College
and University (n.p., n.d.) [answered by
Thomas Gordon in An Examination of
. . . (1786).— [Diet. Nat. £iog. ; Bruce's
Eminent Men of Aberdeen, 303.]
EGBERT POLLOCK, born 1709 ; edu-
175,_ cated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A.
(18th May 1725) ; licen. by Presb. of
Stirling 1st Nov. 1732; ord. to Duddingston
13th March 1744; trans, to Greyfriars
(Aberdeen), 31st July 1745, and Chair of
Divinity, Marischal College, 28th Aug.
1745 ; Almoner to the King, May 1749 ;
D.D. (Marischal College, 1753); app.
Principal in conjunction 19th April 1757 ;
died 18th May 1759. He marr. llth Nov.
1747, Elizabeth (died 27th Nov. 1753, aged
25), eldest daugh. of Alexander Robertson
of Glasgowego, provost of Aberdeen, and
had issue — Alexander, surgeon, born 14th
Sept. 1748 ; Jane, born 21st Dec. 1749 (marr.
Dec. 1775 Alexander Duthie, advocate,
Aberdeen), died 18th May 1840; James,
born 18th March 1751, died 17th April
1752; Margaret, born 8th Sept. 1752
(marr. 1st June 1778, Alexander Dauney,
advocate, Aberdeen), died 29th July 1831 ;
Walter, born 23rd Aug. 1753. (Portraits
of P. and his wife in possession of Uni
versity.)
GEORGE CAMPBELL, born Aberdeen,
11759 25th Dec. 1719 ; son of Colin C., min.
of First Charge, Aberdeen ; educated
at the Grammar School, Aberdeen, and
King's College; M.A. (1738); was ap
prenticed to George Turnbull, W.S.,
Edinburgh, in 1741, but changing his
views, entered the Divinity Hall of Edin
burgh and afterwards that of Aberdeen ;
licen. by the Presb. there llth June 1746;
ord. to Banchory-Ternan 2nd June 1748 ;
trans, to Second Charge, Aberdeen, 23rd
June 1757 ; app. Principal in conjunction in
Aug. 1759; D.D. (King's College, 1st Oct.
1764) ; app. Professor of Divinity 7th Aug.
1771, and trans, to Greyfriars (Aberdeen)
that day, which he held in conjunction ;
dem. Chair 2nd June 1795, Principal-
ship 18th Jan. 1796, and died 6th
April that year. He marr. 26th June
1755, Grace (died s.p. 16th Feb. 1792),
daugh. of Harry Farquharson of White-
house and Mary Ross. (Portrait in
possession of Incorporated Trades of
Aberdeen.) Publications — The Character of
a Minister of the Gospel [Synod Sermon]
(Aberdeen, 1752); A Dissertation on
Miracles (Edinburgh, 1762, 1797, 1812,
1815; Utrecht, 1765); The Spirit of the
Gospel neither a Spirit of Superstition,
nor of Enthusiasm [answered in Remarks
by Abernethy Drummond] (Edinburgh,
1771); The Philosophy of Rhetoric, 2 vols.
(London, 1776, 1823; Edinburgh, 1816,
1841, 1850) ; Nature, extent, and import
ance of the duty of Allegiance, a sermon
(Aberdeen, 1777) ; The Success of the First
Publishers of the Gospel (Edinburgh, 1777);
The Happy Influence of Religion (Edin
burgh, 1779) ; An Address upon the Alarms
in regard to Popery (Aberdeen, 1779) ;
Translation of the Gospels, 2 vols. (London,
1789, 7th ed.,1834); Lectures on Ecclesiastical
History, 2 vols. (London, 1800, 1824 ; Aber
deen, 1815) [by G. S. Keith with account
(portrait) of the author] ; The Four Gospels,
translated from the Greek, 4 vols. (Aber
deen, 1803); Lectures on Systematic Theology
and Pulpit Eloquence (London, 1807) ;
Lectures on the Pastoral Character [edited
by James Fraser, Drumoak] (London, 1811);
The Life of our Lord and Saviour Jesus
Christ [from C.'s Translation of the Gosjiels,
with Notes by W. Angus] (Glasgow, 1814);
Translation of The New Testament [with
others] (London, 1818) ; Remarks on Dr
Paterson's Will (Aberdeen, n.d.). — [An
Aberdeen Principal of Last Century,
by James Valentine (Aberdeen, 1896) ;
Diet. Nat. Biog.}
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[PRINCIPALS
WILLIAM LAURENCE BROWN, born
1796 Utrecht, 7th Jan. 1755, second son of
William B., D.D., min. at Utrecht,
and Professor of Church History, Univ. of
St Andrews ; educated at Grammar School
and Univ. of St Andrews, M.A. (1772), and
at Utrecht; licen. 'by Presb. of St Andrews
29th Oct. 1777 ; ord. by that Presb. to the
Scots Congregation at Utrecht (in succes
sion to his uncle, Robert Brown, D.D.), 7th
Jan. 1778 ; D.D. (St Andrews, 1784) ; D.D.
(Utrecht, 1784); app. Professor of Moral
Philosophy and Law of Nations in Univ.
of Utrecht 1788, and Rector in 1790;
declined the Chair of Greek at St Andrews.
On the threatened invasion of Holland by
the French in 1795, he >and his family fled
to Scotland ; adm. to Greyfriars (Aberdeen)
and Chair of Divinity, 12th Aug. 1795,
and to Principalship in conjunction 26th
Jan. 1796; app. one of the Chaplains-in-
Ordinary to the King, 4th March 1800;
app. Dean of the Thistle and Chapel Royal
4th Oct. 1803; died llth May 1830. He
marr. 29th May 1786, his cousin, Anne Eliza
beth (born llth June 1764, died 2nd Sept.
1842), daugh. of Robert Brown, D.D., min.
at Utrecht, and had issue — William Robert,
vicar of Little Clacton, Essex, born 13th April
1787, died at Portsmouth 1859 ; Laurence
George, M.A., agent for the Seignory of
Beauharnois,born 23rd July 1788; Catherine
Mary Ann, born 23rd May 1790; Joanna
Elizabeth (Janet), born 1st May 1791; Robert
James, D.D., Professor of Greek, and min.
of Drumblade (q.v.\ born 23rd Dec. 1792 ;
Ann Elizabeth (Nancy), born 2nd Feb.
1795 (raarr. 16th Dec. 1828, James Conacher,
writer, Dunkeld), died 19th Nov. 1847;
John Moore, physician, Aberdeen, born 3rd
Nov. 1797; Helen Jane (twin), born 3rd
Nov. 1797, died 1st Oct. 1848; George
Gilbert, M.D., Inspector-General of Hospi
tals, born 9th Feb. 1800, died 24th March
1873. Publications— " The History of St
Rule's Chapel" [in vol. v. of Bibliotheca
Topographica Britannica~\ (London, 1780);
Disputatio de Fabrica Mundi, in quo Mala
insunt, Naturae Dei perfectissimce hand
repugnante (Leyden, 1783); An Essay on
the Folly of Scepticism (London, 1788);
Oratio de Religionis et Philosophies
Societate et Concordia Maxime Salutari
(Trajecti ad Rhenum, 1788); Oratio de
Imaginatione in Vitce Institutione regenda
(Trajecti ad Rhenum, 1790); An Essay on
Sensibility (London, 1791) ; The Spirit of
the Times considered, a sermon preached
at Utrecht (London, 1793) ; An Essay on
the Natural Equality of Man (Edinburgh,
1793, London, 1794) ; The Influence of Divine
Judgments (1794) ; A View of the Present
Times (London, 1795); Sermon on the Death
of Principal Campbell (Aberdeen, 1796);
The Influence of Religion on National Pros
perity (Aberdeen, 1796) ; The Proper Method
of defending Religious Truth in Times of
Infidelity [Synod Sermon] (Aberdeen, 1796);
The Death of the Righteous (Aberdeen, 1796);
An Examination of the Causes and Conduct
of the Present War with France, and of the
most Effectual Means of obtaining Peace
[anon.] (London, 1798); The Salutary Effect
of the British Constitution (Aberdeen,
1799) ; Substance of a Speech in the General
Assembly on the Settlement at Kingsbarns
of the Rev. Dr Robert Arnot (Edinburgh,
1800) ; Beneficence the immediate Source of
Happiness (Aberdeen, 1800) ; Letters to the
Rev. Dr George Hill (Aberdeen, 1801);
The Nature, the Causes, and the Effects of
Indifference with regard to Religion, a
sermon (Aberdeen, 1802); Sermons (Edin
burgh, 1803)|; The Advantage of Early
Piety (Aberdeen, 1806); Remarks on Cer
tain Passages of "An Examination of Mr
Dugald Stewart's Pamphlet, by one of the
Ministers of Edinburgh " (Aberdeen, 1806) ;
On the True Excellence of the Female Char
acter (Aberdeen, 1807); A Letter to Principal
Hill (Edinburgh, 1807); Philemon, or the
Progress of Virtue, a poem, 2 vols. (Edin
burgh, 1809) ; On the Character and Influ
ence of a Virtuous King, a sermon (Aber
deen, 1810); An Attempt towards a New
Historical and Political Explanation of the
Revelation (1812); An Essay on the Existence
of a Supreme Creator, 2 vols. (Aberdeen,
1816) [for which he was adjudged John
Burnett's first prize of £1250] ; Nobillisimi
vive Georgii Marchionis de Huntly with
Oratio ad virum nobilissimum Marchionem
de Huntly (Aberdeen, 1816); A Comparative
View of Christianity and of the other Forms
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of Religion with regard to their Moral
Tendency, 2 vols. (Edinburgh, 1826); Lec
ture Introductory to the Course on Practical
Religion (Aberdeen, 1826) ; Librorum
Societas (Aberdeen, 1830). Edited Leland's
Deistical Writers, 2 vols. (London, 1798).
—[Encyclop. Brit. (7th ed.) ; Anderson's
Scottish Biography, 135 ; Martin's Eminent
Divines in Aberdeen and the North, 191.]
DANIEL DEWAK, born Glen Dochart,
1788; educated at Univ. of Glas-
1832 gow and at Homerton Independent
Academy, Hackney, London ; M.A. (Edin
burgh, 13th Nov. 1815); LL.D. (Glasgow,
1815) ; licen. by Presb. of Mull 10th Nov.
1812 ; ord. missionary at Strontian 24th
Sept. 1813 ; elected to Greyfriars (Aberdeen)
7th March, and adm. 13th July 1814 ; adm.
to Chair of Moral Philosophy in King's Col
lege, 4th June 1817, which he held in con
junction ; trans, to Tron Church, Glasgow,
19th Aug. 1819 ; dem. 18th Nov. 1832 on
appointment as Principal 12th April that
year; D.D. (Glasgow, 1832); app. Pro
fessor of Church History in conjunction
18th June 1833; dem. both offices on
amalgamation of Colleges in 1860; pur
chased the estate of Over Durdie, Kilspindie;
died 28th May 1867. He was spoken of as
the most eloquent preacher in Aberdeenshire.
He took a prominent part in the movement
which led to the Secession of 1843, but
declined to sign the Protest. He marr.
8th Sept. 1821, Susan (died 17th March
1876), youngest daugh. of Edward Place
of Skelton Grange, Yorks, and had issue
— Anne Gordon, born 4th Sept. 1822
(marr. John M'Cunn, Ardhallow, Dunoon);
Katherine Mary, born 16th March 1824
(marr. 2nd June 1858, James Clerk Max
well of Glenlair, first Professor of Experi
mental Physics, Univ. of Cambridge);
Susan Place, born 31st Oct. 1825 ; Edward
Place, min. of Auchtergaven, born 19th
Oct. 1827 ; William Gordon, born 6th
Dec. 1829; Donald, min. of Ellon, born
17th Sept. 1831 ; John (twin), born 17th
Sept. 1831, died llth July 1849. Publica
tions — Observations on the Character,
Customs, and Superstitions of the Irish
(London, 1812) ; The Natural State of Man
(Aberdeen, 1816); A Letter to Sir James
M. Riddle, Bart. (Edinburgh, 1819); The
Glories of Christ's Kingdom (London, 1820);
The Nature and Obligations of Personal
and Family Religion (Glasgow, 1821); God,
the Chief Good and Chief End of Man,
a sermon .(Edinburgh, 1821) ; Elements of
Moral Philosophy and of Christian Ethics,
2 vols. (London, 1826) ; The Gaelic Preacher
and Scripture Interpreter (Glasgow, 1829) ;
A Dictionary of the Gaelic Language [with
Norman Macleod, D.D.] (Glasgow, 1831 and
1866) ; The Reformation of the Church of
Ireland (Edinburgh, 1835); An Essay on
the Inspiration of the Scriptures (Glasgow,
1837) ; A Body of Divinity (Glasgow, 1843) ;
The Church : or a Comprehensive View of
the Doctrines, Constitution . . . of the
Church (Glasgow, 1845); A Sermon for
the Times (Aberdeen, 1846); The Evidences
of Divine Revelation (Aberdeen, 1849,
London, 1854) ; Elements of Systematic
Divinity, 3 vols. Glasgow, 1867).— [Catalog.
Edin. Univ. Lib., i., 1010 ; Martin's Eminent
Divines in Aberdeen and the North, 223-6;
The Wheat and the Chaff, 83.]
DIVINITY (FOUNDED 1616).
ROBERT BARRON, younger son of
John B. of Kinnaird, and brother of
' John B., D.D. ; educated at Univ. of
St Andrews ; M. A. (1613) being regent in
Old College, St Andrews ; ord. to Keith
1619 ; trans, and app. 21st Dec. 1625
(holding Greyfriars Church in conjunction) ;
D.D. (King's College, 1627) ; took an active
part in opposing the subscription of the
Covenant by the citizens in 1638, and pro
ceeded to London on 28th March 1639
with the intention of interviewing King
Charles I., who nominated him to the
vacant Bishopric of Orkney. Returning
to Scotland he died at Berwick-upon-Tweed,
19th Aug. 1639, before receiving consecra
tion, aged 43. He was one of the six
"Aberdeen Doctors/' He marr. a lady
who returned with her children after his
death to her native Strathisla, but was
brought to Aberdeen by armed soldiery
at the command of the Covenanters and
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[DIVINITY
obliged to deliver the key of her husband's
library that his manuscripts and letters
might be ransacked, as if he had been
charged with treason. They were allowed
by Parliament, 21st June 1661, £200 out of
vacant stipends in consideration of their
great sufferings. She had issue — Jean (marr.
Alexander Strachan, min. of Birse); and
others. Publications — Philosophia Theo-
logice Ancillans (Andreapoli, 1621; Oxon,
1641 ; Amsterdam, 1649 ; London, 1658) ;
Disputatio Theologica De formali objecto
Fidei Hoc est De Sacrce Scriptures Divina
et Canonica Authoritate (Aberdeen, 1627);
[printed by Edward Eaban — an exceed
ingly scarce work] ; Theses Theologicce
(Aberdeen, 1630); Ad Georgii Turnebulli
Tetragonismum Pseudogruphum Apodixis
Catholica (Aberdeen, 1631) ; Disputatio
Theologica, de vero discrimine peccati
mortalis et venealis deque impossibilitate
implendi legem Dei ob quotidianam pecca-
torum venealium incursionem (Aberdeen,
1633; Amstelodami, 1649; Oxonii, 1658);
On the Arrival of King Charles in Scot
land (Aberdeen, 1633) ; A Sermon preached
at the Funeral of Bishop Forbes (Forbes's
Fun. Sermons, 1-58) (Aberdeen, 1635);
Theologi ac Philosophi celeberrimi (Lugd.
Batav., 1654) ; An Epitaph, or Consola-
torie Epistle, upon the Death of a Young
Man (Aberdeen, n.d.) ; Metaphysica gener-
alis, ad usum theologice (Lugd., 1654,
1658, 1685) ; Metaphysica generalis ac-
cedunt . . . quce supersunt ex parte speciali
(Lugd., 1657; Camb.,1685). Various articles
against the Covenant, and several works
in MS. are preserved in the Library of
Univ. of Aberdeen. — [Macmillan's Aber
deen Doctors, 234-45; Diet. Nat. Biog.;
Gordon's Scots Affairs, iii., 89, 235, et seq. ;
Grub's Eccles. Hist., ii. 372 ; iii. 8, 56, 64 ;
Rait's Hist, of Univ. of Aberdeen, 274;
Craven's Hist, of the Church in Orkney
(1558-1662), 202 ; Catalog. Edin. Univ. Lib.,
[., 248.]
JOHN MENZIES, born 1624, eldest son
1649 °^ Gilbert M-> burgess of Aberdeen ;
regent in Marischal College ; adm. to
Second Charge, Aberdeen, 1649 ; trans.
and adm. to Greyfriars (Aberdeen), holding
Chair in conjunction 6th June that year;
joined the Protesters in 1651 and was one
of their leaders. He was called to London
by Cromwell with others, in May 1654, and
named by the Council of England one of
those for sanctioning admission to the
ministry in those parts north of Angus in
Aug. that year. Although accused of
seditious behaviour, 13th Nov. 1662, and
summoned to appear before the Privy
Council 9th Dec. he was several times
spoken of for a Bishopric ; removed to
Chair of Divinity in King's College 18th
Oct. 1678 ; re-adm. in 1681 ; refused the Test
that year but took it in 1682 ; died 1st Feb.
1684, and was buried in St Nicholas'
Churchyard. He marr. Margaret, eldest
daugh. of Sir William Forbes of Craigievar ;
she survived him, and had issue — John,
born 1664, died 20th Aug. 1682. Publica
tions— Britannia rediviva (Aberdeen, 1660);
Papismus Lucifugus (Aberdeen, 1668);
Positiones aliquot theologicce de objecto
cultus religiosi, quas . . . in Academia
Regia A berdonensi propugnabit H. Scougal
[Aberdeen] (1674); Roma Mendax (London,
1675) ; Funeral Sermon on Dr Alexander
Fraser of Doores, Physician to1 the King of
Great Britain (Edinburgh, 1681).— [Wod-
row's Hist., i. 315, iii. 310 ; Wodrow's Anal.,
iii., 10, 122-5 ; Monteith's Mort., 139.]
PATRICK SIBBALD, descended of the
16g4 family of Kair, born Aberdeen 1641 ;
adm. to First Charge, Aberdeen, 24th
May 1666; forfeited his charge in 1681 by
not taking the Test, but having afterwards
done so in presence of the Bishop, was
allowed by the Privy Council to return ;
D.D. (1684) ; trans, to Greyfriars' Church,
and to Chair of Divinity 4th June 1684;
deprived at the Revolution for not taking
the Oaths to William and Mary ; died 14th
Nov. 1697. He marr. Joanna, daugh. of
Patrick Scougal, Bishop of Aberdeen.
She survived him but had no issue.
(Portrait in possession of University.)—
[Monteith's Mort., 140 ; Tombst.]
JAMES OSBURNE, educated at Univ.
1697 of Glasgow ; became chaplain to Sir
William Douglas of Cavers, but not
submitting to the Bishop's authority was
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denounced, and put to the horn 3rd Aug.
1676 ; was a preacher at conventicles about
1681 ; ord. to Second Charge, Kilmarnock,
9th Aug. 1688; trans, to First Charge,
Aberdeen, 18th Dec. 1695 ; pres. to Grey-
friars (Aberdeen), 23rd Aug. 1697, and app.
to Chair in conjunction 22nd Dec. that year ;
died April 1711. He marr., and had issue
—James ; Alexander, merchant and bailie,
Aberdeen; William, min. of Fintray.
— [Wodrow's Analecta, i., 329 ; Wodrow's
Hist., ii., 333 ; Stewart's Covenanters of
Teviotdale, 104.]
THOMAS BLACKWELL, app. 18th
Dec. 1711, and to Principalship in
1711
conjunction 30th Sept. 1717 (q.v.).
JAMES CHALMERS, born 1686, fourth
son of Hugh C., min. of Marnoch;
educated at Marischal College, Aber
deen ; M.A. (1705); licen. by Presb. of
Strathbogie 13th April 1709 ; ord. to Dyke
14th Sept. that year; trans, to Second
Charge, Aberdeen, 21st April 1726 ; pres. to
Greyfriars (Aberdeen), 18th June, and to
Chair in conjunction 8th Aug. 1728 ; died
6th Oct. 1744. He marr. (1) 29th Aug. 1710,
his cousin Jean, daugh. of George Chalmers,
min. of Drumblade, and had issue— George,
born 1711, died in infancy ; James [who
changed the name from Chalmer to
Chalmers], printer and founder of the
Aberdeen Journal, born 1713, died 1764;
Hugh, born 1714 ; Alexander, died in
infancy ; John ; Lewis, apprenticed to
George Cooper, goldsmith, 14th Aug. 1738 ;
Anne : (2) Katherine Scott, who died llth
March 1753. — [Chalmers and Trail An
cestry, 27, 29, 139.]
ROBERT POLLOCK, M.A., D.D. ; app.
28th Aug. 1745, and to Principalship
in conjunction 19th April 1757 (q.v.).
ALEXANDER GERARD, D.D. ; app.
llth June 1760; trans, to Chair of
Divinity, King's College, 19th June
1771 (q.v.).
GEORGE CAMPBELL, app. 7th Aug.
1771, holding Principalship in con
junction (q.v.) ; dem. Chair 2nd June
1795.
WILLIAM LAURENCE BROWN, app.
12th Aug. 1795 ; app. Principal in
' conjunction 26th Jan. 1796 (q.v.).
ALEXANDER BLACK, born Aberdeen,
1789, son of Alexander B. ; educated
at Marischal College; M.A. (1st
April 1807) ; licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen
9th Feb. 1814; ord. to Tarves 1st April
1818 ; D.D. (Marischal College, May 1824) ;
app. to Chair 20th Oct. 1831 ; lecturer on
Practical Religion 18th Nov. that year ;
dem. on joining the Free Church 14th
June 1843 ; Professor of New Testament
Exegesis, New College, Edinburgh, 1844-56 ;
died 27th June 1864. He was a member
of the Deputation of Inquiry to the Jews
in 1839, and was a versatile linguist, who,
it is said, could converse in nineteen
languages and correspond in twelve. He
marr. 9th Nov. 1826, Rachel, daugh. of
Alexander Booth, merchant, Aberdeen,
and had issue — Alexander, born 20th Nov.
1827 ; George Hamilton Gordon, born 21st
Nov. 1829; Helen Forsyth, born 26th
April 1831. Publication — On the Pro
gressive Diffusion of Divine Knowledge
(Aberdeen, 1824) ; Address at Annual
Examination of Merton's English Classes
(Aberdeen, 1838).
WILLIAM ROBINSON PIRIE, D.D.,
app. 30th Dec. 1843; lecturer on
Practical Religion 6th Jan 1844;
dem. on Union of Colleges in 1860, and
became Professor of Church History (q.v.).
CHURCH HISTORY.
DANIEL DEWAR, D.D., Principal;
1883 app. 18th June 1833, in conjunction.
[See PRINCIPALS.]
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KING'S COLLEGE, ABERDEEN
[PRINCIPALS
KING'S COLLEGE.
(FOUNDED 1494)
PRINCIPALS.
ALEXANDER ARBUTHNOTT, born
1538, third son of Andrew A. in
Pitcarles, descended from the family
of Arbuthnot, and Elizabeth, daugh. of
Alexander Strachan of Thornton ; studied
language and philosophy at Univ. of
St Andrews, and civil law at Bourges
under Cujacius, where he took orders in
the Church. Embracing the Reformed
doctrines, he returned home as a zealous
champion of those principles, was declared
apt and able to teach by the first General
Assembly 20th Dec. 1560; pres. to the
parsonage and vicarage of Logie-Buchan
by James VI. 15th July 1568; app.
Principal 23rd July 1569 ; trans, to Forvie,
still holding Logie-Buchan in conjunction,
but seems also to have been pres. to
Arbuthnott 25th July that year; elected
Moderator of the General Assembly 6th
Aug. 1573, and again on 1st April 1577 ;
trans, to Old Machar before 1574, still
holding the Principalship in conjunction.
In Nov. 1582, when a commission was
appointed to visit the College, he is said
to be about to be removed to the City oi
St Andrews. He died unmarr. 10th Oct
1583, and was buried in the Parish Church
of Aberdeen " afor the pulpit." He was
a zealous patron of learning, a poet anc
mathematician, and greatly assisted in
promoting a taste for literature among hi;
countrymen, while he strenuously supporte<
the interest and views of Reformers, s<
much so that the King forbade his bein,.
absent from the University, a circumstanc
which not improbably accelerated his death
Andrew Melville wrote his epitaph. Publi
cations — Orationes de Origine et Dignitat
Juris (Edinburgh, 1572) [no copy is know
to be extant]. Several of his poems preserve
i the Maitland MSS. have been printed
y Irving and M'Crie ; see also Pinkerton's
indent Scottish Poems. He left in MS.
, Latin History of the Arbuthnott Family,
till in the library of Lord Arbuthnott. —
M'Crie's Melville ; Melvill's Autob., 53, 55,
; Irving's Scot. Poets, ii., 121, 125, 139;
Orem's Old Aberdeen ; Spalding Club
Miscell., ii., 56; Reg. Sec. Sig., xl., 18;
Memories of the Arbuthnotts, 43 ; Delitice
Poetarum Scotorum, ii., 120 ; Calderwood's
flist., ii. 46, 396, 433 ; iii. 304, et seq. ; Diet.
Nat. Biog.]
WALTER STEWART, born 1558 ; sub-
1584 Principal in King's College in 1572 ;
was pres. by James VI. 1st March
1582, and 26th April 1583, to parsonage of
Methlick (cf. Vol. VI., 198) ; app. Principal
in 1584, with .this parish in conjunction ;
died 1593.
DAVID RAIT, app. sub-Principal in
1583, and Principal 1592; adm.
' to Old Machar before 20th Oct.
1598, holding that parish in conjunction ;
was a member of the General Assembly,
1602, 1605, 1610, and preached as Moder
ator of Synod, in place of the previous
Moderator of Assembly, at the opening of
that at Aberdeen, 2nd July 1605, but
was not summoned before the Privy
Council for so doing, as the rest of the
mins. were ; D.D. (King's College, 1620) ;
died 1632. He marr. Dec. 1592, Eliza
beth, da\Tgh. of John Allardice of that
Ilk, and had issue— Andrew ; James, ap
prenticed to James Gardiner, litster, 20th
March 1622.— [Records of Old Aberdeen,
205; Aberdeen Sheriff-Court Records, ii.,
325.]
PRINCIPALS]
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WILLIAM LESLIE of the Aikenway
1632 faniily> only son of Alexander L.,
min. of Rothes ; humanist in 1603 ;
regent, 1617 ; app. sub-Principal 1623 ;
D.D. (King's College, after 1627) ; adm. 5th
Nov. 1632 ; dem. for refusing the Covenant
July 1640 ; died unmarr. at Spynie (where
he resided with his kinsman, Alexander
Douglas, son of Bishop of Moray) about
1654. He was one of the six "Aberdeen
Doctors." Sir Thomas Urquhart calls him
"one of the most profound and universal
scholars of his time." Publications—
Propositions et Problemata Philosophica
(Aberdeen, 1625) ; Vindicice theologicce pro
perseverantia sanctorum (Aberdeen, 1627) ;
Two Latin Elegies in Forbes' Funeralls ;
Scriptorum Cassiodori accuratior Nomen-
clatura (Gardner's Life of Dr John Forbes).
— [Family of Leslie ; Garden's Opera Joanni
Forbesia ; Spalding's Troubles, i., 172 ;
Macmillan's Aberdeen Doctors, 256-61 ; Gor
don's Scots Affairs, iii., 231 ; Urquhart's
Tracts, 123; Irving's Lives of the Scottish
Poets, i., 136 ; Diet. Nat. Biog.}
WILLIAM GUILD, born 1586, only
1640 son °^ Matthew G., armourer and
hammerman, Aberdeen, and Marion
Robertson ; educated at Marischal College ;
M.A. (before 1605) ; was a licentiate in
Aberdeen 10th May 1605; ord. to Kin-
edward in 1608; app. chaplain to Charles I.,
and had degree of D.D. (circa 1634) (then
almost unknown in Scotland) conferred on
him. He signed a Protestation to Parlia
ment, with fifty-four others, in support of
the Liberties of the Kirk 27th June 1617 ;
elected to Second Charge, Aberdeen, 12th
Jan. 1631 ; app. by the Synod, July 1632,
as their Commissioner to the Privy Council
regarding the return of exiled Papists;
was a member of Assembly in 1638 and
1639. When disturbance reigned in the
country, he went to Holland, but speedily
returned, and celebrated the communion
according to the Presbyterian form 3rd
Nov. that year ; adm. Principal 18th
Aug. 1640 ; rector 16th Nov. 1640-5 ; dis
missed by Cromwell's Military Commis
sioners in 1651 ; died 26th July 1657.
Deeply interested in the welfare of his
native town, he purchased the ancient
convent of the Trinity Friars, and liberally
endowed it as a hospital for the reception
of indigent workmen. He gifted a house
in Castle Street for the maintenance of
three poor students as bursars of Marischal
College and he bequeathed 7000 merks in
behalf of orphan children. He left his
library to the Univ. of St Andrews, and a
valuable manuscript (believed to be the
original letter of the States of Bohemia
and Moravia to the Council of Constance
in 1415, relative to John Huss and Jerome
of Prague) to the Univ. of Edinburgh.
His widow made various benefactions for
students in Aberdeen, and placed a monu
ment to her husband on the west wall
of St Nicholas' Church. He marr. 1610,
Katherine (died s.p. 25th Dec. 1659), daugh.
of John Rolland of Disblair. (His portrait
is in the Trinity Hall, Aberdeen.) Publica
tions— Young Man's Inquisition (1608); The
New Sacrifice of Christian Incense,or the True
Entrie to the Tree of Life and the Gracious
Gate of Glorious Paradise (London, 1608) ;
The Only Way to Salvation, or the Life
and Soul of True Religion (London, 1608) ;
Levi : His Complaint (Edinburgh, 1617);
Moses Unvailed (London, 1618, 1620, 1623,
1626; 1658; Glasgow, 1701, Edinburgh, 1755;
1839) ; The Harmony of all the Prophets
(1619); Issacher's Asse Braying (Aberdeen,
1622) ; Three Bare Monuments of Antiquitie
(Aberdeen, 1624) ; Annex to the Treatise of
Purgatory (1625) ; Ignis Fatuus, or the
Elf -fire of Purgatorie (London, 1625);
Popish Glorying in Antiquitie turned to
their Shame (Aberdeen [Raban Press, very
rare] 1626) ; A Compend of the Controversies
of Religion (Aberdeen, 1627) ; Limbo's
Batterie (Aberdeen, 1630); The Humble
A ddresse for a Just Redresse of the Uniting
of Churches (Aberdeen, 1633); Sermon at
the Funeral of Bishop Forbes (1635) ;
Truth Triumphant (Aberdeen, 1637) ; A
Short Treatise against the Prophanation
of 'he Lord's Day (Aberdeen, 1637); An
Antidote agaynst Poperie (Aberdeen, 1639) ;
A Friendly and Faithful Advice to the
Nobility, Gentry, and Others (Aberdeen,
1639) ; The Christian's Passover (Aberdeen,
I 1639); The Old Roman Catholik as at first
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[PEINCIPALS
he was taught by Paul (Aberdeen, 1649) ;
Isagoge Catechetica (Aberdeen, 1649) ; The
Sealed Book Opened [an explanation of the
Apocalypse] (Aberdeen, 1656) ; The Noveltie
of Poperie Discovered (Aberdeen, 1656) ;
An Answer to a Popish Pamphlet called
" The Touchstone of the Reformed Gospel "
(Aberdeen, 1656) ; Love's Entercours be
tween the Lamb and his Bride (London,
1658) ; The Throne of David, or an Uxjwsi-
tion of the Second Book of Samuel (Oxford,
1659).— [Shirefs Life of G. (1798); Scot.
Notes and Queries, ii., 137 ; Diet. Nat. Biog.]
JOHN EOW, born 1598, second son of
1652 J°hn R-' m^n< °f Carnock, and
grandson of John the Reformer ;
educated at Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A.
(1617); elected schoolmaster of Kirkcaldy
2nd Nov. 1619 ; res. before 25th Nov. 1628;
licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith 29th Sept.
1631 ; was tutor to George Hay, afterwards
second Earl of Kinnoul, by whose father,
the Lord Chancellor's recommendation, he
was app. master of the Grammar School of
Perth June 1632; ord. to Third Charge,
Aberdeen, 14th Dec. 1641 ; app. 23rd Nov.
1642 lecturer on Hebrew in Marischal
College ; was so actively engaged in support
of the Covenanting party that on the
approach of Montrose to Aberdeen in 1646 he
was compelled to take refuge in Dunnottar
Castle ; app. by General Assembly in 1647
to revise the new version of the Psalms
from XC. to CXX. ; was a member of the
Commission of Assembly in 1648, and of
Commission for visiting the Univ. of
Aberdeen 31st July 1649. Joined the
Independents and was adm. to a church
of that persuasion in Edinburgh ; promoted
to Principalship Sept. 1652; res. in 1661,
and thereafter kept a school in Aberdeen ;
died at Manse of Kinellar Oct. 1672 and
was buried at Kinellar. He marr., and
had issue — John, min. of Dalgety ; Lilias
(marr. John Mercer, min. of Kinellar) ;
Grizel (marr. - - Anderson); Margaret,
died 4th June 1672. Publications— Hebrew
Linguae Institutiones (Glasgow, 1634, 1644);
XtXias Hebraica (Glasgow, 1644); Eucharistia
Basilike (Aberdeen, 1660); Supplement to
the Historic of the Kirk of Scotland, 1637-9
[a continuation of his father's work]
[Wodrow Soc. and Maitland Club] (Edin
burgh, 1842). — [Laing's Notices (Row's
Hist.); Scott's Reformers ; Baillie's Letters ;
Lament's Diary, 47 ; Nisbet's Heraldic
Plates, 121 ; Diet. Nat. Biog.}
WILLIAM RAIT, trans, from Brechin
1661 in 1661 ; trans, to Dundee in 1662.
ALEXANDER MIDDLETON, born
1662 a^out 1610> son °f Robert M. of
Cauldhame and Catherine Strachan ;
educated at King's College, Aberdeen ;
M.A. (1630); app. sub-Principal of King's
College, Aberdeen, 10th March 1641 ; ord.
to Rayne 14th Nov. 1655; trans, to Old
Machar 12th Nov. 1661 ; trans, to Newhills
with Principalship in conjunction in 1662;
died 5th Dec. 1686. He marr. 17th Jan.
1643, Margaret (buried 26th July 1686),
daugh. of Thomas Gordon, Keithock's Mill,
and had issue — George, D.D., his successor ;
John; Thomas. — [Scots Peerage, vi., 176;
Beg. of Deeds, Mack., 20th Dec. 1686;
Prot. Book of A. Forbes, 40.]
GEORGE MIDDLETON, born 14th
1684 ^e^g 1645) son °^ Prece(^mg; educated
at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A.
(17th July 1662) ; recommended 9th Jan.
for ordination and adm. to Glamis 5th
June 1667 ; app. regent in said College
1671 ; dem. parochial charge in 1673 ; adm.
sub-Principal 21st Oct. 1679; D.D. (St
Andrews, 31st Dec. 1683) ; returned to
Glamis before 27th July 1684; adm.
Principal 27th Oct. that year ; again dem.
his parochial charge and preached his
farewell sermon llth Jan. 1685; died 26th
March 1726. He marr. 15th Feb. 1671,
Janet (bapt. 28th March 1652, died 15th
Jan. 1753, aged 101), daugh. of James
Gordon of Seaton, and had issue.— Alex
ander, Comptroller of Customs, bapt. 8th
May 1676, died 26th Oct. 1751; John of
Seaton, writer, Edinburgh, afterwards
Brigadier - General in army 1735, M.P.,
Aberdeen, 1713-39, born 27th Sept. 1678,
died 4th April 1739; Patrick, born 8th
March 1680, died at Cracow, Poland, 1771 ;
Charles, bapt. 10th Dec. 1681 ; George,
bapt. 15th June 1683 ; William, bapt. 10th
I'UINCIPALS]
KING'S COLLEGE, ABERDEEN
367
June 1687 ; Robert, Collector of Customs,
Inverness, Dundee, and Bo'ness, bapt. 16th
Feb. 1693 ; Janet ; seven other sons and
three daughs. Publication — Theses Philo
sophic^ (Aberdeen, 1675). — [Scots Peerage,
vi., 177.]
GEORGE CHALMERS, born 1671,
1717 e'dest son °f William C., ruin, of
(Partly ; licen. by United Presb. of
Stirling and Dunblane 6th May 1695 ;
became chaplain to Lady Mar ; ord. to
Kilwinning 2nd Sept. 1696 ; trans, and
adm. 22nd Nov. 1717 ; adm. to First
Charge, Old Machar, 1729, which he held
in conjunction ; died 5th May 1746. He
marr. (1) (pro. 27th Oct. 1696), Christian
(died Feb. 1729, aged 68), daugh. of George
Campbell, Professor of Divinity, Edinburgh,
and had issue — an only child, Anne (marr.
22nd June 1719, Dr James Gregory (primus),
Professor of Medicine, King's College), died
1770 : (2) Jean Wardlaw, who died s.p.
5th July 1762.— [Aberdeen Tests.; Edin.
Marr. Reg. ; Wodrow's Anal., ii. 333, iii.
484, iv. 127 ; Chalmers and Trail Ancestry,
32; Tombst.]
JOHN CHALMERS of Sclattie, born
1746 1>712' e^est son °f Alexander C.,
min. of Marnoch ; regent in 1740 ;
adm. (in succession to his cousin) 27th May
1746; D.D. (eo die}] died at Sclattie 7th
May 1800. On 25th Dec. 1745 at the
Skirmish at Inverurie he was taken prisoner
by the rebels under Lord Lewis Gordon, but
made his escape after a month's captivity.
He subsequently petitioned the King for
clemency in favour of James Farquharson
of Balmoral, by whom he had been carried
off. He marr. (1) Isabel (died 28th May
1785), daugh. of John Innes of Tillyfour,
and had issue— Anna (marr. Archibald Scott
of Usan) : (2) Sophia Chalmers, who died
18th July 1811. Publication— Answer to a
Defence of the conduct of Marischal College
(1786).— [Chalmers and Trail Ancestry, 30,
139 ; Kay's Portraits, i., 78.]
RODERICK MACLEOD, born 1727,
1800 third son of Donald M., third of
Tallisker, Skye, and Christina,
daugh. of John Macleod of Contullich ;
educated at King's College, Aberdeen ;
M.A. (1746); D.D. (King's College, 8th
Jan. 1793) ; app. Professor of Philosophy,
King's College, 1749 ; sub-Principal 5th
Nov. 1764; adm. 28th April 1800; died
llth Sept. 1815. He marr. 6th June 1780,
Isobel (died 12th Feb. 1832, aged 72), daugh.
of Dr Christie of Baberton, and had issue —
Archibald, died in infancy ; Ann, died un-
marr. ; Christian (marr. Hugh Macpherson,
Professor of Greek, King's College) ; Isa
bella (marr. 7th Jan. 1805, Colonel Arthur
Forbes, son of Sir Arthur F. of Craigievar) ;
Donald, captain Bengal Artillery, died at
sea off Mauritius ; Janet, died young ; John,
captain Bombay Engineers, died at Bushire
in 1824 ; Roderick, M.D. London, born in
1795, died 7th Dec. 1852; Janet; Margaret
Katherine (marr. 15th Oct. 1821, Colonel
George Thomas Gordon, H.E.I.C.S.).—
[Hist, of the Macleods, 232.]
WILLIAM JACK, born 12th May 1768,
lgls son of William J., min. of North-
mavine ; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen; M.A. (30th March 1785); studied
medicine at Edinburgh and adm. M.D.,
^King's College, 3rd April 1788 ; app. regent
llth April 1794; app. sub-Principal 10th
June 1800 ; adm. Principal 7th Oct. 1815 ;
D.D. (Marischal College, 23rd Aug. 1816,
and King's College, 24th Nov. 1849) ; died
9th Feb. 1854, having held college office for
sixty years. He marr. 29th April 1794,
Grace (died 27th April 1850, aged 76),
daugh. of Andrew Bolt, merchant, Lerwick,
and had issue — William, born 29th Jan.
1795,'diedat Bencoolen, Sumatra, 15th Sept.
1822 ; Charles, born 18th June 1797 ; Eliza
Jane, born 12th Aug. 1799 (marr. 27th April
1820, Arthur Nicolson of Lochend) ; Mar
garet, born 20th Oct. 1801, died 4th Oct.
1828 ; Robert, born 18th Aug. 1803 ; Alex
ander, born 19th Oct. 1805, killed at Cawn-
pore June 1857 ; Grace, born 21st June
1808, died at Clifton 24th June 1828;
Margaret Janet, born 2nd May 1810 (marr.
19th Oct. 1838, James Hay, London), died
18th April 1895 ; Andrew Thomas William,
born 20th Nov. 1822, killed at Cawnpore,
15th June 1857.
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KING'S COLLEGE, ABERDEEN
[HEBREW
HEBREW (FOUNDED 1673).
PATRICK GORDON, born 1613, son
of Alexander G. of Keithock's Mill
1678 and Isabella Hervie; educated at
King's College, 1628-32; app. regent 8th
Oct. 1640; turned out by the English in
1650 ; civilist, 1661-9 ; humanist, 1669-95.
Having acquired the Hebrew language
from a Jew who happened to come to
the country, he was app. Professor 22nd
Aug. 1673; died 1706. He marr. 22nd
June 1650, Marie Hervie, and had issue
— John, min. at Wilmington, U.S.A., died
1705; Patrick, rector of Abberley, Wor
cester ; Alexander, min. of Logie-Buchan,
born 27th Oct. 1665 ; George, his successor
as Professor of Hebrew; Thomas, nomi
nated colleague to his father 9th Jan. 1693 ;
Mary; Helen (marr. William Baxter).—
[Records of King's College, 48.]
GEORGE GORDON, born 23rd May
1673, son of preceding; app 1st
1693 March 1693 ; pres. 27th April 1698 ;
had a grant out of revenues of the
Bishopric of Aberdeen from the King, 1st
March 1699, as a yearly fee and salary;
died 1730. He marr. 12th Sept. 1705,,
Margaret (died 20th Nov. 1753), daugh. of
George Fraser, and had issue— George, his
successor as Professor of Hebrew ; Thomas,
Professor of Greek (1796), born 1714, died
llth March 1797; Francis, buried 12th
March 1716.
GEORGE GORDON, born 23rd Dec.
1711, son of preceding; pres. by
George II. 3rd, and adm. 28th Dec.
1730 ; died 5th Feb. 1767. He marr. 18th
Sept. 1741, Elizabeth, daugh. of William
Forbes of Disblair, and had issue— Alex
ander, min. of Kintore.
JOHN ROSS, tutor to Lord Deskford,
son of the Earl of Findlater; app.
25th May 1767 ; dem. in 1790.
ALEXANDER BELL, born about 1768,
son of William B., Cochlarachy ; edu
cated at Marischal College, 1784-8 ;
app. 2lst June 1790; died unmarr. llth
April 1793.
HUGH MACPHERSON of Eigg, born
179g 12th Aug. 1767, son of Martin M.,
min. of Golspie ; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen; M.A. (29th March
1788); M.D. (Edinburgh, 1794); app. to
this Chair 8th Aug. 1793; app. to Chair
of Greek 8th April 1797 ; sub-Principal
17th May 1817; died 12th March 1854.
He marr. (1) 6th Oct. 1803, Ann Maria
(born 17th March 1784, died 4th Aug. 1807),
daugh. of Samuel Charters, and had issue
—Martin, born 15th Nov. 1804, died 16th
Jan. 1860 ; Samuel Charters, C.B., political
agent in India, born 7th Jan. 1806, died
15th April 1860: (2) 25th Sept. 1809,
Christian (born 13th Sept. 1785, died 17th
Aug. I860), daugh. of Roderick MacLeod,
Principal of Univ. of Aberdeen, and had
issue — Isabella ; William, M.A., barrister,
Master of Equity in the Supreme Court in
Calcutta, 1848-59, editor of the Quarterly
Review, 1860-7, and eminent legal author,
born 19th July 1812, died 20th April 1893 ;
John, M.D., Inspector of Army Hospitals,
Bengal, born 1817, died 17th March 1890
[father of Sir John Molesworth M.,
secretary of the Legislative Council of
Governor - General, India]; Ann Maria;
Elizabeth ; Christian (marr. 17th Feb.
1846, Michael Pakenham Edwards, Bengal
C.S.); Jessie (marr. Lieut.-Colonel James
Young) ; Hugh Martin, Inspector-General
of Army Hospitals; Margaret; Roderick
Donald, Major-General ; Norman, LL.D.
(Aberdeen 1865), advocate, Professor of
Scots Law, Edinburgh (1865-87), born 13th
June 1825, died 2nd Aug. 1914 ; Sir Arthur
George, K.C.I.E., secretary to the Judicial
Department of the Government of India;
Lucy Jane (marr. Lieut.-General James
John Macleod Innes, V.C., C.B.).— [Hist.
of the MacLeods, 233 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. [for
John, Samuel C., and William].]
JAMES BENTLEY, born 1773, son of
James B., merchant, Aberdeen ; edu-
cated at Marischal College; M.A.
(1791) ; app. 21st Sept. 1798 ; died 7th Aug.
1846. He marr. 26th Oct. 1809, Isabella
(died 16th July 1852), daugh. of Arthur
Dingwall Fordyce of Culsh, advocate,
Aberdeen, and had issue— Janet (marr.
DIVINITY]
KING'S COLLEGE, ABERDEEN
369
William Littlejohn of Camphill); Ruth
(marr. Thomas Dymock, min. of Car-
noustie).
ANDREW SCOTT, born Burnmouth,
1846 Castleton, Roxburghshire, 8th Nov.
1800, third son of William S., school
master (author of Border Exploits), and
Isabella Veitch (cousin of William, LL.D.,
known as " Greek Veitch ") ; educated at
Newcastleton School and Univ. of Edin
burgh ; MA. (30th March 1826) ; interim
rector of Tain Academy in 1829, and a
private tutor at Hallcraig, Lanarkshire,
1830 ; became a naval instructor chiefly on
board the ships of the Mediterranean fleet,
1831-5 ; classical master at Dollar Institu
tion, 1835-41; emigrated to Canada and
taught in the school at Brockville, 1841-4 ;
returned to Scotland and app. schoolmaster
of Pulteneytown, 1845; app. to this Chair
28th Dec. 1846; became Professor of
Oriental Languages in the Univ. on Union
of Colleges in 1860 ; died unmarr. at Leven
10th Oct. 1870. His collection of Oriental
Manuscripts, sold at his death, is in the
Library of Cambridge University.— [A urora
Borealis Academica (portrait), 132-49.]
JOHN FORBES, born Boharm, 16th
1870 Nov. 1802, son of Patrick F., D.D.,
min. of Second Charge, St Machar ;
educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen ;
MA. (1819) ; was house governor and head
master of Donaldson's Hospital, Edinburgh,
7th March 1850-70 ; LL.D. (King's College
1837) ; D.D. (Edinburgh 1873) ; app. to this
Chair 10th Dec. 1870 ; res. 15th Sept. 1887 ;
died 30th Jan. 1899, senior graduate of
the Univs. of Scotland. Publications — The
Symmetrical Structure of Scripture (Edin
burgh, 1854); Analytical Commentary on
the Epistle to the Romans (Edinburgh,
1868) ; Address at Supper in celebration
of the Anniversary of the Aberdeen Senate
(Aberdeen, 1873) ; The Servant of the Lord
in Isaiah (Aberdeen, 1873, Edinburgh, 1890);
Predestination and Free- Will (Edinburgh,
1878); Studies on the Book of Psalms
(Edinburgh, 1888).— [Aurora Borealis Acad
emica (portrait), 150-4.]
VOL. VII.
ARCHIBALD ROBERT STIRLING
188? KENNEDY, D.D. ; app. 10th Dec.
1887; trans, to Chair of Hebrew,
Univ. of Edinburgh, 12th Jan. 1895 (q.v.).
JAMES GILROY, born Aberdeen, 27th
1895 April 1859, eldest son of James G.
and Jane Mackenzie ; educated at
Grammar School, Old Aberdeen, Univs. of
Aberdeen, MA. (1880), B.D. (1890), and
Berlin ; taught in secondary schools, 1880-7 ;
app. missionary at Beauly in 1892 ; app. llth
Feb. 1895; ord. to this Chair 25th Nov.
1895; D.D. (Aberdeen, 1907). Marr. 6th
Aug. 1896, Margaret Jessie, only daugh. of
James Russell, superintending inspector of
taxes, Edinburgh. Publications — Contri
butions to Expository Times ; Critical Re
view ; Review of Theology and Philosophy ;
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible; Sub
Corona (edited by Dr James Hastings and
Prof. Cowan) ; Aberdeen University Review.
DIVINITY (FOUNDED 1616).
JOHN FORBES of Corse, adm. 27th
162Q April 1620 ; trans, to Third Charge,
Aberdeen, 1634. [See under 1635.]
ANDREW STRACHAN, regent in
1634 King's College, 1628 ; min. of
Logie-Durno ; adm. to Chair 30th
Dec. 1634 ; D.D. (same day) ; died before
7th March 1635.— [Inq. Ret. de Tut., 642 ;
Fam. of Leslie, iii., 92.]
JOHN FORBES of Corse, born 2nd
1635 May 1593, second son of Patrick F.,
Bishop of Aberdeen, by his wife
Lucretia, daugh. of David Spens of
Wormiston ; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen, and on the Continent, at Heidel
berg, Sedan, and other Univs. ; ord. 4th
April 1619 by his uncle, John F., min. of
Alford, then preacher to the English factory
at Heidelberg ; returned home and adm.
first occupant of this Chair 27th April
1620; D.D. (King's College 1620); trans,
to Third Charge, Aberdeen, 1634; suc
ceeded to Corse 1635 [his elder brother
having died in 1625]; in 1639 he was min.
of Greyfriars (Aberdeen), holding his Chair
in conjunction. As one of the "six
Doctors " he became principal protagonist
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KING'S COLLEGE, ABERDEEN
[DIVINITY
on the Episcopal side in the controversy
which followed the Perth Articles of 1618,
and it was in this defence that he published
his Irenicum in 1629. He declined to sign
the National Covenant (1638), and in 1640
was cited to appear before the Assembly
at Aberdeen, his case being remitted to the
Presb. of Edinburgh, but still refusing to
yield, he was deprived 20th April 1641. To
escape persecution after the sanctioning of
the Solemn League and Covenant, and the
subscription demanded by all, he sailed for
Campvere, 5th April 1644, with his son
George, visited the chief towns in the Nether
lands, making his headquarters at Amster
dam, preaching frequently in the Scots and
English churches, and producing his monu
mental work Instructiones Historico-Theo-
logicce. In July 1646 he returned to Corse,
where he died 29th April 1648, and was
buried in the Churchyard of Leochel, the
Presb. of Aberdeen having refused per
mission for his remains to be laid beside
those of his father and wife in the
Cathedral Church. No monument marks
his tomb. In personal intercourse he is
described as a man of great charm. " His
portrait, with its broad forehead, long nose,
and firm, quiet mouth, all the features well
cut and well proportioned, betrays a man
of race and intellect ; and his eyes are full
of the understanding which comes when
knowledge is subject to charity. He was
sociable and hospitable, but his main
characteristics were his deep spirituality,
his sensitive conscientiousness, simple faith,
the genuineness, reverence and unabashed
resolve of one who stood or fell to God
not to men. His learning and theological
insight gained for him a widely honoured
renown." Hemarr. before 1619,a Dutch lady,
Soete Koosboom (" Sweet rose-tree,") she
died 19th Jan. 1640, and had issue — Henry,
died August 1623 ; George ; and seven
others who all died young. Publications —
Disputationes theologicce duce (Edinburgh,
1620) ; Ireniciim amatoribus veritatis et
pads in Ecclesia Scoticana (Aberdeen,
1629, 1636) [a revised edition, ready for press,
was discovered at Leyden by Wetstein, and
published in the Omnia Opera, Amster
dam, 1703] ; Gemitus Ecclesice Scoticance
(Aberdeen, 1631) ; Theologia Moralis Libri
Decem (Aberdeen, 1632) ; Sermo in
Psalmum CX. (Aberdeen, 1635); Dis-
sertatio de visions, Beatifica [Bishop Forbes's
Funeralls] (Aberdeen, 1635, and Edinburgh,
1845); A Peaceable Warning to the Sub
jects in Scotland (Aberdeen, 1638) [answered
in An answer to . . . ibid. (n.p. 1638)] ;
Instructiones Historico-Theologicce (Amster
dam, 1645; Geneva, 1680; abbreviated
edition under title Forbesius contractus,
Amsterdam, 1663) ; De Cura et Residentia
Pastorali (Aberdeen, 1646) ; Vita Interior,
sive Exercitia Spiritualia. [His Diary,
written in English, is preserved in MS. at
Fintray House, Aberdeenshire. Under the
above title, a Latin version appears in Vol. I.
of Forbes's Omnia Opera, 2 vols., with Life
edited by Professor Gurtler of Deventer
and George Garden, D.D. (Amsterdam,
1702-3).].— {The First Book of the "Ireni
cum? by Edward Gordon Selwyn (Cam
bridge, 1923) ; The True Catholic Doctrine
of the Holy Eucharist [Memoir and por
trait] by William Leslie Low, D.D. (Edin
burgh, n.d.) ; Diet. Nat. Biogj\
WILLIAM DOUGLAS, educated at
King's College, Aberdeen ; MA.
(1619) ; adm. to Forgue, 1628 ; was a
member of ithe General Assembly 1638, and
of Commission 1643 ; app. to the Chair by
the General Assembly in 1643, died 30th
Jan. 1666. He was app. in 1650 one of the
mins. to reprove Charles II. who, when
in Aberdeen, had been observed using
familiarities with a female friend who
attended him. After rebuking the King,
he concluded by exhorting him to be more
careful in shutting his windows, a remark
which was never forgotten by His Majesty.
He marr. (1) a daugh. of Alexander Scrogie,
min. of Old Machar : (2) Elizabeth Ross, who
died 27th Aug. 1663, and had issue— Eliza
beth (marr. Ludovic Dunlop, min. of Skene.)
Publications — Vindicice Veritatis (Aber
deen, 1655) ; Vindicice Psalmodice Ecclesi-
astico-divinos (Aberdeen, 1657); Academi-
arum Vindicice (Aberdeen, 1659) ; The
Stable Trueths of the Kirk (Aberdeen, 1660) ;
Oratio Panegyrica (on the Restoration of
Charles II.) (Edinburgh, 1660).— [Thanage
DIVINITY]
KING'S COLLEGE, ABERDEEN
371
of Fermartyn, 169 ; Aberdeen Sas., ix., 237,
12th June 1633.]
HENRY SCOUGAL, born probably at
1Q74 Leuchars, June 1650, son of Patrick
S., min. of Leuchars, afterwards
Bishop of Aberdeen ; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1668); app.
regent in that College, 25th May 1669, and
Professor of Philosophy, 1669-72 ; passed
trials before Presb. of Haddington, and
recommended for licence 26th Sept. 1672 ;
ord. to Auchterless in 1673; adm. to this
Chair llth Aug. 1674 ; died of consumption,
unmarr., 13th June 1678, and was buried
in the Univ. Chapel of King's College.
His integrity of life, deep spiritual insight,
and early death, have enrolled him among
the saints of the Scottish Church, and his
Life of God in the Soul of Man is a
religious classic. To it George Whitefield
ascribed "his first conviction of that
doctrine of free salvation which he after
wards made it the great object of his
life to teach." Publications — De Objecto
Cultus Eeligiosi (Aberdeen, 1674); The
Life of God in the Soul of Man (London,
1677) edited by [Bishop] Gilbert Burnet,
1691, 1707, 1742, 1751, 1753, other editions,
and a French translation in 1727 ; also
edition (with portrait and Life) by James
Cooper, D.D., Aberdeen, 1892) ; Reflections
and Meditations (Aberdeen, 1740); Essays,
Moral and Divine (Aberdeen, 1740) ;
Sermons (Glasgow, 1751) ; Sermons (Aber
deen, 1773). He is said to have left in
manuscript three Latin tractates — "A
Short System of Ethics," " A Preservative
against the Artifices of Roman Mission
aries," and the first chapter of " The
Pastoral Care," but these were not printed,
and the MSS. have disappeared.— {Reg.
of Deeds, Durie, cvii., 28th Dec. 1705;
Butler's Henry Scougal and the Oxford
Methodists (Edinburgh, 1899); Orem's
Hist, of Aberdeen, 178 ; Works (Aberdeen,
1759, 1765, 1773; London, 1818; Glasgow,
1830).— [Diet. Nat. Biog.]
JOHN MENZIES, adm. from Chair of
1678 Divinity in Marischal College 10th
Oct. 1678 ; re- trans, there 1681.
JAMES GARDEN, born about 1646,
1680 son °^ Alexander G., min. of Forgue ;
educated at King's College ; M.A.
(17th July 1662); adm. to New Machar
before 25th July 1672 ; trans, to Maryculter
between 18th May and 8th June 1675;
trans, to Balmerino 6th Sept. 1678 ; adm.
to this Chair 14th Oct. 1680 ; D.D. (King's
College, 2nd Feb. 1681) ; dep. by a Parlia
mentary Commission 25th Jan. 1697 ;
died at Old Aberdeen 8th April 1726, and
was buried in St Machar's Churchyard.
Publication — Theses theologicce de gratice
efficacia (Aberdeen, 1681) ; Comparative
Theology (Glasgow, 1752).
[CHARLES GORDON, min. of Ashkirk;
1697 app. 20th May 1697, but refused
to obey the General Assembly's Act
translating him.]
GEORGE ANDERSON, M.A. (King's
1704 College 1655) ; passed trials before
Presb. of Ellon 26th Aug., and ord.
to Methlick 22nd Nov. 1663; declined to
take the Test in 1681, and forfeited his
charge, but having afterwards taken the
Test, was re-adm. in 1682 ; trans, to Tarves
17th May 1683 ; received into com
munion by a Committee of the General
Assembly 2nd July 1694 ; trans, and adm.
to Chair 14th Dec. 1704; D.D. (that
day) ; died about 1710, aged about 75.
He marr., and had issue — James, student
of divinity ; Robert ; William ; Gilbert ;
Margaret ; Ann ; Elspet. Publication —
Propositiones non nullce theologicce (Aber
deen, 1704).— [Aberdeen Poll-Book.']
DAVID ANDERSON, born 25th March
1711 1673, son of James A., glazier, Aber
deen, and Jean Cushny ; educated
at Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1688-92 ;
ord. to Foveran llth May 1699 ; trans, and
adm. to Chair 7th Feb. 1711 ; D.D. (that
day); died 13th Feb. 1733. He marr.
(cont. 8th April 1700) Katherine, daugh.
of Thomas Mitchell, bailie of Aberdeen,
and had issue— Katherine, born 1701 (marr.
William Dyce, min. of Belhelvie). Publi
cation — Dissertatio theologia inauguralis
(Aberdeen, 1711).
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[DIVINITY
JOHN LUMSDEN, born about 1696,
I7g5 son of Alexander L. of Auchenlett ;
schoolmaster of Chapel-of-Garioch ;
ord. to Keith Hall and Kinkell 12th July
1721; trans, to Banchory-Devenick 28th Feb.
1728 ; app. one of the Deans of the Chapel
Koyal in 1734; adra. to Chair 10th Oct.
1735 ; Moderator of the General Assembly,
1746 ; died 2nd July 1770. He marr. 20th
Nov. 1723, Jean Leslie of Pitcaple, who
died 20th May 1764, and had issue— Jean ;
Agnes, born 1727, died 29th Nov. 1807;
Henrietta (marr. Patrick Duff, min. of
Old Machar) ; Alexander ; Teresa, born
1731, died 21st April 1819. — [Henderson's
Hist, of Banchory-DevenicTc, 52.]
ALEXANDER GERARD, born 22nd
1771 Feb. 1728, elder son of Gilbert G.,
min. of Chapel-of-Garioch ; educated
at Aberdeen Grammar School and Marischal
College; M.A. (1744); licen. in 1748; app.
Professor of Moral Philosophy in Maris
chal College 21st Aug. 1753 ; adm. min. of
Greyfriars Church (Aberdeen) and to Chair
of Divinity in Marischal College llth June
1760; D.D. (King's College, 1st Oct. 1761);
elected Moderator of the General Assembly
24th May 1764 ; trans, and adm. to Chair
here 19th June 1771 ; chaplain to the King ;
died 22nd June 1795. He marr. 14th June
1757, Jane (died Oct. 1818), eldest daugh.
and co-heiress of Dr John Wight of Colnae,
and had issue— Marjory, born 18th April
1759 (marr. 26th April 1791, Patrick Cruick-
shank of Stracathro) ; Gilbert, his successor
in the Chair ; Alexander, born 3rd May
1763, died 24th Sept. 1812; John of
Rochsoles, Lanarkshire, born 16th Aug.
1764, died 17th April 1824; Jane, born
30th Sept. 1765, died 17th Dec. 1832;
Margaret Helen, born 2nd Oct. 1770
(marr. 25th June 1792, James Cruick-
shank of Langley Park). Publications—
Plan of Education in Marischal College
(Aberdeen, 1755) [translated into German]
(Riga, 1770); An Essay on Taste [prize
essay, Philosophical Society, Edinburgh]
(London, 1759, Edinburgh, 1764, 1780);
The Influence of the Pastoral Office on the
Character examined, with a view especially
to Mr Hume's Representation of the Spirit
of that Office (Aberdeen, 1760) ; The Influ
ence of Piety on the Public Good (Edin
burgh, 1761) ; Dissertations on Subjects
relating to the Genius and Evidences of
Christianity (Edinburgh, 1766) ; An Essay
on Genius (London, 1774) ; Liberty, the
Cloke of Maliciousness, as shown both in
the American Rebellion and in the Manners
of the Times (Aberdeen, 1778) ; Sermons,
2 vols. (2nd ed., London, 1780-2); The
Corruption of Christianity (Edinburgh,
1792) ; Leerreedenen (Haarlem, 1793) ; The
Pastoral Care (posthumous) (London,
1799).— [Diet. Nat. Biog.; Aberdeen Univ.
Review, x., 114-129.]
GILBERT GERARD, born Aberdeen,
1?95 llth Aug. 1760, son of preceding;
educated at King's College, Aber
deen, M.A. (31st March 1777), and Univ. of
Edinburgh ; ord. min. of the Scots Church,
Amsterdam, 1782; D.D. (King's College,
12th May 1788); app. Professor of Greek
King's College, 21st June 1790 ; res. his
Dutch charge 3rd April 1791 ; chaplain to
the King ; trans, and adm. to this Chair 9th
July 1795 ; elected Moderator of General
Assembly 19th May 1803; adm. to Second
Charge, Old Machar (which he held in
conjunction) 19th Sept. 1811 ; died 28th
Sept. 1815. He marr. 3rd Oct. 1787, Helen
(died llth March 1838, aged 73), daugh. of
John Duncan of Moss town, thrice provost
of Aberdeen, and Margaret Wight, and had
issue— John Duncan, surgeon, H.E.I.C.S.,
born 7th July 1788, died 21st Aug. 1821;
William, min. of Stracathro, born Sept.
1791 ; Jane ; Alexander, captain Indian
army and Himalayan explorer, born 19th
Feb. 1792, died 15th Dec. 1839; James
Gilbert, M.D., Bengal, born 13th Feb. 1793,
died at Subathu 31st March 1835 ; Patrick,
captain Indian army and writer on
geographical subjects, born llth June 1794,
died at Simla 4th Oct. 1848; Margaret
Helen, born 2nd July 1795, died unmarr.
10th April 1849 ; Marjory Cruickshanks,
born 8th July 1796, died unmarr. 9th Dec.
1878 ; Euphemia Elizabeth, born 9th May
1799, died unmarr. ; Helen Jane, born 25th
June 1800, died unmarr. 28th April 1883.
Publications — On Indijfert
DIVINITY]
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373
Religious Truth, a, sermon (Aberdeen, 1797);
Institutes of Biblical Criticism (2nd ed.,
Edinburgh, 1808); A Compendious View of
the Evidences of Natural and Revealed
Religion [jointly with his father] (London,
1828). Edited The Pastoral Care [by his
father] (London, 1799).— [Funeral Sermon,
by G. Skene Ogilvy (Aberdeen, 1815);
Stevens' Rotterdam, 280 ; Diet. Nat. Biog.]
DUNCAN MEARNS, born 28th Aug.
1816 1>779, son °^ Alexander M., min. of
Cluny; educated at Marischal Col
lege; M.A. (1795); licen. by Presb. of
Kincardine O'Neil 27th June 1799; ord.
to Tarves 13th Nov. same year ; trans, and
adm. to Chair 7th Dec. 1816; elected
Moderator of General Assembly 17th May
1821; app. chaplain to George IV. in
1823; Murray Lecturer, 1824-5; died 2nd
March 1852. He marr. llth Aug. 1808,
Elizabeth (died 16th Sept. 1830), daugh.
of William Forsyth, Huntly, and had issue
— Anne, born 29th April 1809 (marr. Eobert
Macpherson, D.D., her father's successor) ;
Jane, born 24th Aug. 1810 (marr. 12th May
1829, Hercules Scott, LL.D., Professor of
Moral Philosophy, King's College, Aberdeen),
died 9th July 1845; Alexander, born 16th Jan.
1812 ; Isobel, born 13th June 1813, died 28th
April 1814 ; William, D.D., min. of Kinneff,
born 21st July 1814 ; Isobella, born 13th Feb.
1816 (marr. William Ross, min. of Kintore);
Marianne, born 15th Nov. 1817, died 8th
June 1818; Margaret, born 12th March
1820, died 19th Oct. 1846; Elizabeth, born
3rd March 1822 (marr. 17th Oct. 1854,
Malcolm Munro Ross, min. of Woodside
and Indian chaplain) ; Marianne, born 29th
March 1826 (marr. 7th Nov. 1844, John
Yeats of Kincorth, advocate, Aberdeen),
died 15th Nov. 1853. Publications—
Principles of Christian Evidence Illustrated
(Edinburgh, 1818); On the Knowledge
requisite for the Attainment of Eternal
Life [Murray Lecture] (Aberdeen, 1825) ;
Institutes of Biblical Criticism ; Report
of Speech in the Synod of Aberdeen 9th
April 1834, 07i the Overtures to the Assembly
regarding the Settlement of Ministers
(Aberdeen, 1834, 1840); On the Stability
of Christ's Church (Aberdeen, 1834);
Reasons for Suspending, not the Ministers
of the Church, but the Agitation, etc. (Aber
deen, 1840); Lectures on Scripture Char
acters [edited by William Mearns], 2 vols.
[Murtle Lecture] (Edinburgh, 1853). — [Diet.
Nat. Biog.]
ROBERT MACPHERSON, born
1852 Montrose 9th Jan. 1806, son of
James M., merchant, and Margaret
Burnett ; educated at King's College, Aber
deen ; M.A. (31st March 1827) ; licen. by
Presb. of Aberdeen 5th Aug. 1834; ord.
chaplain at Fort George 3rd Nov. 1835;
adm. to Forres 6th Sept. 1843; adm. to
this Chair 25th June 1852; D.D. (Aberdeen,
1st July 1852) ; died 23rd Jan. 1867, having
lectured to his students as usual on the
previous day. He marr. 4th April 1836,
Anne (died 29th April 1885), daugh. of
Duncan Mearns, Professor of Divinity,
King's College, Aberdeen, and had issue-
Duncan, D.D., Indian chaplain, born 17th
May 1837, died 6th Aug. 1881 ; George
Morison, M.A., LL.D. (Aberdeen, 1887),
Indian Civil Service, Bombay, born 13th
April 1840 ; William Mearns, D.D., min. of
Monymusk, born 13th April 1842 ; Eliza,
born 16th Nov. 1843 (marr. Samuel Trail,
D.D., LL.D., Professor of Systematic
Theology, Univ. of Aberdeen); Isabella,
born 6th July 1846 (marr. 16th Feb. 1871,
William Barron, captain Bengal Staff
Corps); Anne, born 24th Feb. and died
15th March 1848 ; Anne, born 26th March
1849, died 19th May 1858; Robert, D.D.,
min. of Elgin, born 2nd Nov. 1850, died at
Helensburgh 27th April 1926; James Rose,
min. of Dingwall, born 7th Jan. 1853. Publi
cations— The Perpetual Obligation of the
Revealed Moral Law, and of a Day of Holy
Rest (Edinburgh, 1866); The Resurrection of
Jesus Christ [in refutation of Strauss] (Edin
burgh, 1867).— [Aurora Borealis Academica
(portrait), 155.]
SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY.
SAMUEL TRAIL, born Udny, 31st
1868 May 1806) son of a farmer; edu
cated at Udny School and King's
College, Aberdeen; M.A. (March 1825);
tutor to the family of Lord Arbuthnott;
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licen. by Presb. of Fordoun ; ord. (assistant
and successor) to Arbuthnott 5th Aug.
1841 ; trans, to Birsay and Harray 7th
Nov. 1844; LL.D. (King's College, 6th
March 1847) ; D.D. (1st July 1852) ; trans,
and adm. to Chair 5th Aug. 1868 ; elected
Moderator of General Assembly 21st May
1874 ; was five years provost of Old Aber
deen ; died at Aberdeen, 1st May 1887.
He marr. (1) 17th Aug. 1841, Helen (died
1st July 1875), youngest daugh. of James
Scott, min. of Benholme, and had issue —
Hercules Scott, born and died 25th March
1842 ; Anne (twin), born and died 25th
March 1842; Hercules, born llth May
1843 ; Isabella Anne, born 16th April 1845
(marr. 12th Sept. 1877, Andrew Jamieson,
C.E., Eastern Telegraph Co.); John Arbuth
nott, M.A., LL.B., LL.D. (Aberdeen, 1902),
W.S., Edinburgh, secretary of the Jewish
Mission Committee of the Church of
Scotland, born 23rd June 1846, died llth
June 1920; Samuel Thomas, born 27th
May 1848, died in Australia, March 1902 ;
James William Helenus, M.D., F.R.S.,
Professor of Botany, Univ. of Aberdeen
(1877), born 4th March 1851, died 18th
Sept. 1919: (2) 18th April 1882, Eliza
(died s.p. 2nd April 1912), elder daugh. of
Robert Macpherson, D.D., his predecessor).
Publications— The Parting Request (Aber
deen, 1845); Examination of the Pentateuch
(Aberdeen, 1863); On Freedom of Thought
(Aberdeen, 1875). — [Chalmers and Trail
Ancestry, 39 ; Goodfellow's Birsay Church
Hist., 81 ; Aurora Borealis Academica
(portrait), 161-8.]
ALEXANDER STEWART, D.D., min.
of Mains and Strathmartine ; app.
1887 4th Nov. 1887 ; trans, to Principalship
of St Mary's College, St Andrews, 18th
July 1894 (q.v.).
WILLIAM PATERSON PATERSON
D.D., min. of Crieff ; app. 27th Oct
1894 1894. trang to chair of Divinity
Univ. of Edinburgh, 13th Sept. 1903 (q.v.).
WILLIAM ALEXANDER CURTIS
M.A., B.D. ; adm. 29th Sept., and
1908 ord. 23rd Nov. 1903 ; trans, to Chai
of Biblical Criticism, Univ. of Edinburgh
13th Sept. 1915 (q.v.).
WILLIAM FULTON, born Glasgow,
18th Dec. 1876, eldest son of David
1 F., formerly headmaster of Golfhill
School, Glasgow ; educated at Glasgow
ligh School and Univs. of Glasgow, M.A.
1898), B.Sc. (1900), B.D. (1902), Marburg,
and Berlin ; Black Theological Fellowship
1902-3) ; assistant at St Cuthbert's, Edin-
ixirgh ; ord. to Wigtown 18th Jan. 1906 ;
rans. to Second Charge, Paisley Abbey,
21st July 1909 ; trans, and adm. to Chair
22nd Oct. 1915; D.D. (Glasgow, 1920);
Alexander Robertson Lecturer, Glasgow
1926); trans, to Chair of Divinity, Glas
gow, 1927. Marr. 18th Oct. 1913, Annie
[da Sutherland, daugh. of James Strachan,
Glasgow, and granddaughter of Robert
Sutherland of Southbar, Renfrewshire, and
aas issue— David Robert Sutherland, born
3rd Sept. 1914 ; Frederick Haslehurst, born
28th Dec. 1915 ; Elizabeth Hope Suther-
,and, born 9th Sept. 1917 ; William Francis
Menteith, born 12th Dec. 1919 ; Rosamund
May Hamilton, born 15th April 1922;
Anne Sutherland, born 9th May 1925.
Publications— Edited Prof. Hastie's Croall
Lecture, The Theology of the Reformed
Church in its Fundamental Principles
(Edinburgh, 1904) ; Nature and God (Edin
burgh, 1928); Articles on "Teleology,"
" Theodicy," " Trinity," " Tritheism," " Val
idity '; in Basting's Encyclopaedia of Religion
and Ethics (1921); assistant editor Ex-
Year Book, 1926, 1927.
GEORGE THOMAS THOMSON,
M.A., B.A., B.D., min. of St Bos-
wells ; app. Jan. 1928 ; formerly min.
of Tain (cf. Vol. VII., 74).
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CHURCH HISTORY. (1843.)
WILLIAM ROBINSON PIRIE, M.A. ;
min. of Dyce ; app. 30th Dec. 1843 ;
on Union of Colleges became pro
fessor in Univ. 15th Sept. 1860 ; trans, to
Principalship llth March 1877 (q.v.).
JOHN CHRISTIE, born Kildrummy,
31st Dec. 1823 ; son of William C.,
M.A., schoolmaster; educated at
King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (March
1842); schoolmaster of Auchindoir 1844-9;
ord. to Kildrummy 13th Sept. 1849 ; trans.
ORIENTAL LANGUAGES] KING'S COLLEGE, ABERDEEN
375
to Kilrenny 29th Nov. 1872 ; D.D. (Aber
deen 1870); app. to this Chair 16th July
1877 ; Baird Lecturer 1880 ; died 24th May
1889. He marr. (1) 13th Sept. 1851, Mary
(died 16th Nov. 1854, aged 25), daugh. of
Alexander Eeid, min. of Kildrummy, and
had issue — Margaret, missionary at Blan-
tyre, Africa, born 12th Feb. 1852 : (2) 29th
Sept. 1857, Isobel Mearns Scott (died 13th
Nov. 1909), and had issue — Mary, born
3rd June 1858 ; William, born 23rd Oct.
1859, died 9th Feb. 1861 ; John, M.A., M.B.,
C.M., born 30th June 1861, died at Mel
bourne 24th Jan. 1886 ; Isabella, born 24th
Nov. 1862 ; Florence, born 19th April 1864 ;
Elizabeth, L.R.A.M., born 12th Oct. 1865
(marr. 5th April 1922, W. G. Brown Milver-
ton, Dundee) ; Jane, born 29th June 1867 ;
Robert William, born 28th Sept. 1870, died
27th May 1872. Publication— Historical
Development of Supernatural Religion
[Baird Lecture] (Aberdeen, 1890).— [Aurora
Borealis Academica (portrait) 176-80.]
HENRY COWAN, born Ayr, 17th Sept.
1889 1844) son °^ P^rick C., solicitor
and bank agent ; educated at Ayr
Academy and Univ. of Edinburgh, M.A.
(1864); B.D. (1867), Bonn, Halle, and
Tubingen ; D.D. (Aberdeen 1888), D.C.L.
(Durham 1910) ; D.Th. (Geneva 1910) ;
ord. assistant and successor to West Parish,
Aberdeen, 15th April 1869; trans, to
Ferry hill llth Dec. 1873 ; trans, to Rubis-
law 6th June. 1875 ; trans, to New Grey-
friars, Edinburgh, 27th Sept. 1882 ; app. to
this Chair 2nd Nov. 1889 ; Baird Lecturer
1895 ; Convener of Endowment Scheme
1908-20 ; res. 30th Sept. 1924 ; LL.D. (Aber
deen 1st April 1925). Marr. 22nd July
1874 Jane (died 15th Sept. 1923), daugh.
of Francis Ogston, M.D., LL.D., Professor
of Medical Logic and Jurisprudence,
Aberdeen, and has issue — Francis Ogston,
born 24th Feb. 1877; Henry Hargreave,
lieut. R.F.A., born 5th May 1879 ; Helen
Amelia Mary, born 31st March 1881, died
15th March 1928. Publications— The Cry of
the Church for Labourers (Aberdeen, 1873) ;
Landmarks of Church History [Guild Text
Books] (Edinburgh, 1894) ; The Influence of
the Scottish Church in Christendom [Baird
Lecture] (London, 1896) ; Life of John
1924
1782
Knox (London, 1905) ; Bishop William
Elphinstone [Aberdeen Quatercentenary
Studies, 1-20] (Aberdeen, 1906).— [Joint-
Editor Sub Corona (Aberdeen, 1915) ;
Aberdeen Quatercentenary Record (for his
sermon at Univ. Celebrations) 61-5.]
GEORGE DAVID HENDERSON,
M.A., B.D., min. of East Parish,
Greenock (cf. Vol. III., 200); trans.
to St Mary's, Partick, 30th Nov. 1922 ; app.
to this Chair 1st Oct. 1924. Marr. 5th Aug.
1924, Jenny Holmes M'Culloch, daugh. of
Thomas Smith and Rachel Weir M'Culloch.
ORIENTAL LANGUAGES.
[Chair founded in 1727 by the Rev.
Gilbert Ramsay, Barbados.]
JAMES DONALDSON, son of Robert
^' anc* ^sa^e^ daugh. of Robert
Irvine of Cults ; physician in Aber
deen ; Bajan in 1713 ; app. 23rd Oct. 1732 ;
dem. 2nd Dec. 1754.
ALEXANDER DONALDSON, son of
1764 Prece(ling ; app. 24th Dec. 1754 ;
app. Professor of Medicine in con
junction in 1755 ; died 19th May 1793.
JAMES KIDD, born near Loughbrick-
17g4 land, Co. Down, 6th Nov. 1761,
youngest son of William K. (who
died soon afterwards, the mother remov
ing to her native place, Broughshane, Co.
Antrim, where he was brought up); received
his education after many difficulties through
poverty ; began teaching at the farm town
of Elginy. Through the assistance of a
Cameronian minister he learned the Latin
Grammar and by extreme saving acquired
such a knowledge of English as enabled
him to establish a school at Kildownie
where he taught four years. He sailed for
Philadelphia in April 1784 where he en
gaged as a tutor and afterwards as a
schoolmaster. He opened a Classical
Academy and was elected usher in the
College of Pennsylvania, where he was later
enrolled as a student. He became a printer's
reader, when he had his first acquaint
ance with Hebrew characters, and received
lessons in that language from a Portuguese
Jew, and by attending a synagogue learned
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to read fluently and came into contact with
Jewish ceremonials. He returned to Scot
land with the intention of studying under
John Brown of Haddington, but found that
Brown had died, and thereupon he con
nected himself with the Church of Scot
land ; studied at Univ. of Edinburgh in
medicine and divinity and opened classes
as a teacher of Oriental Literature ; app.
to this Chair llth Jan. 1794, and completed
his theological curriculum in King's and
Marischal Colleges ; licen. by Presb. of
Aberdeen 3rd Feb. 1796, and app. Evening
Lecturer in Trinity Chapel that year;
called 18th May and ord. to Gilcomston
15th June 1801; D.D. (College of New
Jersey, U.S.A., Sept. 1818); died 24th
Dec. 1834. His powerful preaching and
his somewhat eccentric mannerisms gained
for him an extraordinary popularity. He
lectured on vaccination from the pulpit,
and employed a medical man to vaccinate
his converts and latterly vaccinated
hundreds in his own manse. He marr.
1784, Jean (died 4th June 1829, aged 62),
daugh. of Robert Boyd, farmer, Carnlea,
near Ballymena, and had issue — Agnes,
born 18th Jan. 1785 (marr. 14th Feb.
1814, James Oswald, shipmaster) ; Janet,
born 20th Jan. 1791, died 18th Sept. 1794;
William Campbell, M.A., min. in London,
went to Richmond, Virginia, born 2nd Oct.
1795, died 1st Aug. 1825 ; Benjamin Rush,
M.A., surgeon, born 31st Dec. 1799, died
at Aberdeen, 1840 ; Jane Allan, born 17th
June 1802, died llth Aug. 1824; James
Little, born 15th Nov. 1804, died 16th
Sept. 1805 ; Christiana Little, born 12th
Sept. 1806 (marr. 12th July 1830, George
Thomson, M.P. and Lord Provost of Aber
deen), died 17th Jan. 1874. Publications—
A Course of Sermons explaining the Good
ness of God (Aberdeen, 1808, 1827); An
Essay on the Doctrine of the Trinity
(Aberdeen, 1815); A Short Treatise on
Infant Baptism (Aberdeen, 1822); A
Dissertation on the Eternal Son ship of
Christ (Aberdeen, 1822, London, 2nd ed.
1872) ; A Catechism for assisting the Young
preparing to approach the Lord's Table for
the first time (Aberdeen, 1831, 1832, 1836);
Sermons and Skeletons of Sermons (Aber
deen, 1835) ; A Farewell Address [Recollec
tions] (Aberdeen, 1835). He edited Park's
Rights and Liberties of the Church Asserted
(Aberdeen, 1834).— [Diet. Nat. Biog. ; Scot.
Notes and Queries, hi., 170; Stark s Dr
Kidd of Aberdeen [portrait] (Aberdeen,
1892); Aberdeen Journal Notes and
Queries, ii., 195; Masson's Memories of
Two Cities, 201-33.]
ROBERT SIMPSON, M.A., D.D. ; app.
1832 (assistant and successor) 6th March
1832; Murray Lecturer, 1831-2; ord.
min. of Kintore 18th Sept. 1833 (q.v.) ;
dem. Chair 21st Jan. 1837.
GEORGE GORDON M'LEAN, born
Nairn about 1794 ; educated at King's
' College, Aberdeen ; M. A. (28th March
1812); M.D.(30th Oct. 1819); app. Murray
Lecturer 8th April 1826 ; app. to this Chair
7th Feb. 1835; retired on Union of Colleges
in 1860; died 14th Sept. 1868. He marr.
Frances Helen Angus. Publication — Three
[Murray] Lectures (Aberdeen, 1827).—
[Scot. Notes and Queries, v., 9.]
BIBLICAL CRITICISM
(FOUNDED 1860).
WILLIAM MILLIGAN, born Edin
burgh, 15th March 1821, eldest son
} of George M., D.D., min. of Elie ;
educated at Kilconquhar School, High
School of Edinburgh and Univs. of St
Andrews, M.A. (1839), and Edinburgh;
licen. by Presb. of St Andrews 14th July
1843 ; tutor in family of Sir George Suttie of
Prestongrange ; assistant at Abercrombie ;
ord. to Cameron 30th May 1844. In 1845
on account of his health he obtained a
year's leave of absence, which he spent
in Germany, studying at Halle; trans, to
Kilconquhar 18th Oct. 1850 ; app. to Chair
&th Dec. 1860 ; D.D. (St Andrews that year) ;
dem. his parish 17th July 1861 ; joined in
1870 the committee formed for the revision
of the English New Testament; in 1872
was representative [with John Marshall
Lang, D.D.] from the Church of Scotland
to the Assembly of the Presbyterian Church
of the United States; elected depute- clerk
of Assembly 1875, and principal clerk 1876;
BIBLICAL CRITICISM] KING'S COLLEGE, ABERDEEN
377
Moderator of the General Assembly 25th
May 1882; was one of the founders of the
Scottish Church Society in 1892, and its
first President ; res. 28th July 1893 ; died
llth Dec. that year. In 1898 an altar-table
was erected to his memory in the College
Chapel, Old Aberdeen, and a portrait by Sir
George Reid, P.R.S.A., is in King's College.
He marr. 15th Dec. 1859, Anne Mary (born
24th Feb. 1840, died 4th Nov. 1914), daugh.
of David Macbeth Moir ("Delta"), M.D.,
Musselburgh, and Katherine Elizabeth Bell,
Leith,and had issue— George, D.D., D.C.L.,
Professor of Biblical Criticism, Univ.
of Glasgow, born 2nd April 1860 ; David
Macbeth Moir of Findrack, M.A., advocate,
Aberdeen, born 2nd June 1861, died 20th
Nov. 1924 ; Katherine Elizabeth, born 12th
Dec. 1862 (marr.5th Aug.l884,James William
Helenus Trail, M.D., F.R.S., Professor of
Botany, Univ. of Aberdeen) ; Sir William,
Kt.,LL.D.,M.D.,Manchester, born 24th Aug.
1864 ; Janet, born 18th April 1866 ; Anne
Mary, born 1st July 1868 ; Frederick Patter
son, M.A., W.S., clerk of Ministers' Widows'
Fund, born 14th Aug. 1870; Wyndham
Anstruther, M.A., M.D., London, born 30th
Dec. 1871 ; Emily Moir, born 18th July
1873 (marr. 15th June 1905, Ralph Hill
Stewart, F.F.A., Edinburgh) ; Agnes Char
lotte, born 25th Dec. 1875 (marr. 2nd
Aug. 1900, Godfrey Mohun Carey, M.A.,
Oxon.) ; Oswald Bell, M.C., B.D., min. of
Corstorphine, born 10th Feb. 1879. Publi
cations—A series of papers to Kitto's
Journal of Sacred Literature (London,
1855) ; Letter to Duke of Argyll on the
Present Aspect of the Education Question
(Edinburgh, 1857); Suggestions for the
Better Working of the Benefices Act (Edin
burgh, 1864); The Decalogue and the Lord's
Day (Edinburgh, 1866) ; The Words of the
New Testament [with Alexander Roberts,
D.D.] (Edinburgh, 1873) ; Christ Our Life,
and Death Our Gain (Aberdeen; 1877);
Higher Education of Women (Aberdeen,
1877) ; Epistle to the Ephesians (Encyclo
paedia Britannica, 1878) ; A Popular Com
mentary on the Gospel of St John [with
William Fletcher Moulton, D.D.] (Edin
burgh, 1880); The Resurrection of Our Lord
[Croall Lecture] (London, 1881); Present
Position of the Church of Scotland (Edin
burgh, 1882) ; Commentary on the Revela
tion (London, 1883); Discussions on the
Apocalypse (1883); The Revelation of St
John [Baird Lecture, 1885] (London, 1886) ;
Elijah, his Life and Times (London, 1887) ;
Continuation and Technical Classes (Aber
deen, 1888) ; Aims of the Scottish Church
Society [Presidential Address] (Edinburgh,
1892) ; The Resurrection of the Dead (Edin
burgh, 1894) ; The Ascension and Heavenly
Priesthood of Our Lord [Baird Lecture,
1891] (London, 1901); Letters from the
General Assembly (Edinburgh, n.d.). Many
contributions to periodicals. — {Aurora
Borealis Academica (portrait), 185-8 ; Diet.
Nat. Biog.]
DAVID JOHNSTON, born Sunder-
land, 9th Jan. 1836, son of Charles J.,
1893 min. of Hamilton Street Secession
Church, Monkwearmouth ; educated at
Univs. of St Andrews, Aberdeen, Glasgow,
B.A. (1856), B.D. (1881), Edinburgh U.P.
Theological Hall, and Oxford, B.A. (1856) ;
ord. (by Presb. of Edinburgh) and adm.
to Unst. 6th April 1865 ; trans, to Harray
and Birsay,24thSept. 1868, D.D. (Edinburgh
1888) ; clerk of Presb. of Cairston 1869-93 ;
adm. to this Chair 30th Sept. 1893. His
unmethodical system of teaching and lack
of discipline led the University Court to
conduct an inquiry which resulted in
recommending his retiral, but as the Privy
Council stipulated that his retiring allow
ance must be taken from funds other than
the emoluments of the Chair, J. remained in
possession, though no students attended his
lectures. He was an accomplished Semitic
scholar, an assiduous pastor, and, apart
from his great eccentricity, his life was full
of piety and activity. He died unmarr.
7th Aug. 1899. Publications — A Treatise
on the Authorship of Ecclesiastes [anon.]
(1880); The Chief Qualification for the
Christian Ministry (Kirkwall, 1874) ; Census
Sermons (Kirkwall, 1881,1891); Examina
tion of Dr Plumtre's Commentary on
Ecclesiastes (1885); Address to Christians
(1888); The School of Christ [Poems]);
Alphabetical Psalms and Psalms with His
toric Titles (Kirkwall, 1892); The Scope of
378
KING'S COLLEGE, ABERDEEN [BIBLICAL CRITICISM
Biblical Criticism (Aberdeen, 1894) ;
Pneuma and Diatlieke (1897) ; The Aber
deen University Case of Biblical Criticism
in 1897 ; A Discourse to Medical Students
(Edinburgh, 1899).— [Birsay Church Hist.,
85-95, 323.]
THOMAS NICOL, born Castleton of
Kincardine, Auchinblae, Fordoun,
21st Oct. 1846, son of Thomas N. ;
educated at Fettercairn School, White's
School, Montrose (where he was a pupil
teacher) and Univs. of Aberdeen, M.A.
(1868), and Edinburgh, B.D. (1871), and
Tubingen ; licen. by Presb. of Fordoun ;
assistant at St Stephen's, Edinburgh ; ord.
to Kells 30th Jan. 1873 ; trans, to Tolbooth
Parish, Edinburgh, 30th Jan. 1879; D.D.
(Edinburgh 1893) ; Convener of the General
Assembly's Jewish Mission Scheme, 1896-
1911 ; Examiner in Theology and conducted
the class of Biblical Criticism in Edinburgh
University for two years during illness
of Professor Charteris ; Croall Lecturer,
1897-8 ; adm. to this Chair 30th Sept. 1899 ;
Baird Lecturer, 1906-7 ; Elected Moderator
of the General Assembly 19th May 1914;
died at Skelmorlie Manse 7th Aug. 1916.
He marr. 10th April 1878, Ann, daugh. of
John Underwood, min. of Kirkcudbright,
and had issue— Thomas, M.B., Ch.B., born
17th July 1880, died 10th Jan. 1922 ;
Margaret Melville, born 1st July 1881 ;
John Underwood, actuary ; David Bruce,
min. of St Mark's, Dundee, born 22nd Feb.
1886; Christian Dorothy, born 4th Dec.
1894. Publications — Contributor to Pro
fessor Charteris's Canonicity (Edinburgh,
1880) ; Joint translator [with James Alex
ander M'Clymont, D.D.] of Beck's Pastoral
Theology of the New Testament (Edinburgh,
1885). Edited Grade I. of the General
Assembly's Sabbath School Teachers' Book
(Edinburgh, 1885); A Sketch of Recent
1919
Explorations in Bible Lands [supplement
to Dr Robert Young's Concordance] (Edin
burgh, 1896) ; Recent Archaeology, and the
Bible [Croall Lecture] (Edinburgh, 1899) ;
The Present Position and Prospects of
Biblical Sources (Edinburgh, 1899); The
Four Gospels in the Earliest Church
History [Baird Lecture] (Edinburgh, 1908) ;
New Testament Learning in the Univer
sities [Aberdeen Quatercentenary Studies,
201-34] (Aberdeen, 1906). Editor of Home,
and Foreign Missionary Record, 1886. —
[Cameron's Hist, of Fettercairn, 238 ; Aber
deen University Review (portrait), Nov. 1916.]
ANDREW GUMMING BAIRD, born
Old Monkland, 31st May 1883, son
of Robert Tennant B., Ardnagare,
Helensburgh, and Janet Gillies ; educated
at Airdrie Academy and Univs. of Glas
gow; M.A. (1903), B.Sc. (1905), B.D.
(1908) ; and Berlin ; Black Theological
Fellow (1908) [Lectures on Civilisation of
Ancient Babylon and Assyria] ; assistant to
Professor of Hebrew that year ; licen. by
Presb. of Dunbarton in 1908 ; assistant at
West Church, Greenock ; ord. to Anderston
26th Sept. 1911 ; Examiner in Hebrew
and Biblical Criticism, Univ. of Glasgow,
1914-19 ; app. to this Chair 1st Oct. 1919 ;
D.D. (Glasgow 1926). Marr. 4th June 1918,
Mary Macfarlane, M.A., daugh. of Archibald
Sinclair, Tarbert, Argyll, and has issue —
Agnes Irene, born llth March, 1920;
Robert Sholto Cumming, born 28th March
1923. Publications — The Faith of the
Church, Notes for Bible Classes (Edinburgh,
1922) ; The Acts of the Apostles [Primers
for Teachers and Bible Class Students]
(Edinburgh, 1924, Welsh edition, Wrex-
ham, 1924) ; Christian Fundamentals : A
Modern Apology for the Apostles' Creed
(Edinburgh, 1926) ; The Faith of the Church
(Edinburgh, 1927).
PRINCIPALS, UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN.
[In 1860 King's College and Marischal College were united to form the University of Aberdeen.]
PETER COLIN CAMPBELL, born 21st
1855 ^an- 1810' son °^ George C., min. of
Ardchattan ; educated at Univ. of
Edinburgh ; M.A. (14th Feb. 1829) ; ord.
by Presb. of Inveraray as min. of St John's
Presbyterian Church, Brookville, Canada,
15th Sept. 1835, and adm. there in 1836 ;
app. Professor of Classical Literature at
PRINCIPALS]
UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN
379
Queen's College, Kingston, Canada, 22nd
May 1840 ; returned to Scotland and adm.
to Caputh 25th Sept. 1845 ; was a candidate
for the Greek Chair, Univ. of Edinburgh
in 1852 [see copy of his Testimonials in
Univ. Library] ; M.A. (King's College, 10th
June 1854) ; app. Professor of Greek, King's
College, Aberdeen, 14th July, and res. 26th
Dec. 1854 ; app. Principal of King's College,
1st Oct. 1855 ; D.D. (Edinburgh, 24th Nov.
1855, and King's College same year); app.
first Principal of the Univ. of Aberdeen
15th Sept. 1860; died 12th Dec. 1876. He
marr. 3rd Jan. 1838, Janet or Jessie (died
28th April 1891), daugh. of the Hon. James
Wylie, M.L.C., Canada, and had issue —
Jane Macdiarmid, born 27th Sept. 1838
(marr. 26th June 1860, Kobert Smith
M.D., Sedgefield, Durham); Mary Hamil
ton, born 24th Sept. 1840 (marr. 1867,
Alexander Cochrane of Balfour) ; George
M'lver, M.D., assistant surgeon 88th Foot,
born 16th April 1842, died 6th Dec. 1868 ;
James Wylie, born 26th July 1844; died
31st Dec. 1845 ; Peter Colin, born 20th July
1845, died 3rd June 1846 ; Margaret Eliza
beth Graham, born 4th Oct. 1846 (marr.
1872 Granville Troup Nicolas, R.N.);
Donald Daniel M'lver, Bengal Civil
Service, born 22nd Jan. 1849, died at
Gansi, India, 5th Feb. 1878; Jessie
Hamilton, born 13th Aug. 1850, died 12th
Jan. 1856 ; William Macdonald M'lver,
born 3rd March 1852, died at Melbourne
13th Dec. 1882; Grace Alexander, born
9th Feb. 1854; Colin M'lver, M.D.,
medical superintendent, Murthly Asylum,
born 5th Oct. 1855, died 20th June 1896;
Matilda Augusta, born 4th March and
died 21st May 1859. Publications— Christ
our Advocate [Murray Lecture] (Aberdeen,
1856); The Theory of Ruling Eldership
(Edinburgh, 1866); Account of the Clan
Iver [anon.] (Aberdeen, p.p., 1873); Idol
atry and Christianity ; Obedience the Way
to Faith and Knowledge ; What to desire
and expect from the Divine Goodness ;
Watchfulness [Murray Lectures] (Aber
deen, 1860). — [Records of King's Col
lege, 81; Sermon, by William Milligan,
on death of P. C. C. (Aberdeen,
1877).]
WILLIAM ROBINSON PIRIE, born
187(7 26th July 1804, second son of George
P., D.D., min. of Slains ; educated
at King's College, Aberdeen, 1817-21;
spent some time in a lawyer's office, but
yielding to his father;s wish attended
divinity classes, 1821-25; licen. by Presb.
of Ellon 30th Nov. 1825; ord. to Dyce
28th April 1830 ; app. Professor of Divinity,
Marischal College, 30th Dec. 1843; M.A.
(Marischal College 1844) ; D.D. (Marischal
College, 26th Oct. 1844 ; D.D. (King's Col
lege, 4th Nov. 1844) ; trans, to Greyfriars
(Aberdeen) 17th Sept. 1846 ; dem. 27th Oct.
1847 ; app. Professor of Church History,
Univ. of Aberdeen, in 1860 ; elected
Moderator of General Assembly 19th May
1864 ; app. Principal of Univ. in 1877 ; died
3rd Nov. 1885. He was mainly instru
mental in securing the abolition of
Patronage by vote in the General Assembly
of 1869 and .by the Parliamentary Act of
1874. He marr. 24th March 1842, Margaret
Chalmers (born 14th July 1821, died 18th
April 1900), daugh. of Lewis William
Forbes, D.D., min. of Boharm, and had
issue— George William, M.A., LL.D. (St
Andrews 1897), Professor of Mathematics,
Aberdeen, 1878-1904, born 19th July 1843,
died 21st Aug. 1904 ; Penelope Elizabeth ;
May Forbes, born 1846 (marr. 21st Dec.
1874, Kobert B. Thomson, P.W.D., India),
died Dec. 1906; Margaret Forbes (marr.
30th Oct. 1871, Thomas Alexander William
Andrew Youngson of Blackshiel, advocate,
Aberdeen), died at Cults 31st Oct. 1923;
Lewis James, born 29th Nov. 1849, died
at King William's Town, South Africa, 24th
Sept. 1889; William Robinson, D.D., min.
of Nairn ; Charles Lockhart, born 1853, died
1854 ; Charlotte Lockhart Baird, born 1855,
died in South Africa 1860 ; Benjamin Aber-
nethy Gordon, born 1858, died 1859 ; Annie
Abernethy (marr. Edward Querell, Egypt
ologist), died 26th Dec. 1927. Publications —
The Independent ^irisdiction of the Church
vindicated (Aberdeen, 1838) ; Letter [with
James Paul] in explanation of the present
position of Parties in the Church . . . more
especially with reference to the Veto Act and
the Non- Intrusion of Ministers (Aberdeen,
1840) ; Some Notice of the Rev, Andrew
380
UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN
[PEINCIPALS
Gray (1840) ; An Inquiry into the Constitu
tion, Powers, and Processes of the Hitman
Mind (Aberdeen, 1858); The Position,
Principles, and Duties of the Church of
Scotland [Assembly Address] (Edinburgh,
1864) ; Natural Theology : An Inquiry into
the Fundamental Principles of Religious,
Moral, and Political Science (Edinburgh,
1867) ; Speech on the use of Instrumental
Music in Church Worship (Edinburgh,
1871); High Churchism (Aberdeen, 1872);
ibid., A Reply to Lord Forbes (Aberdeen,
1873) ; The God of Reason and Revelation
(Aberdeen, 1892) ; Account of Dyce [with
James Paul] (New Stat. Ace., xii.).— [In
Memoriam, W. R. Pirie (Aberdeen, 1889) ;
Aberdeen Journal, 4th Nov., 9th Nov.,
and 16th Dec. 1885; Life and Work, Dec.
1885 ; Diet, Nat. Biog. ; Aurora Borealis
Academica (portrait), 169-75.]
1900
JOHN MARSHALL LANG, born 14th
May 1834, second son of Gavin L.,
min. of Glasford ; educated at High
School and Univ. of Glasgow; licen. by
Presb. of Hamilton ; assistant at Dunoon ;
ord. to East Parish, Aberdeen, 26th June
1856; trans, to Fyvie 5th Aug. 1858 ; trans.
to Anderston, Glasgow, 12th Jan. 1865;
trans, to Morningside, Edinburgh, 25th
June 1868 ; deputy in 1872 [with Professor
William Milligan, D.D.] from the Church
of Scotland to the General Assembly of
the Presbyterian Church of America; trans,
to The Barony, Glasgow, 9th Jan. 1873;
D.D. (Glasgow 1873). He was instru
mental in raising £28,000 for the rebuilding
of the church and took an active interest
in educational, social, and other matters in
the city of Glasgow. He instituted daily
services in his church, and was Convener
of the General Assembly's Committee on
correspondence with foreign Reformed
Churches. In 1887 he went to Australia
and officiated for four months in the Scots
Church, Melbourne ; was Convener of the
General Assembly's Commission to inquire
into the religious condition of the people
of Scotland, 1890-6; LL.D. (Glasgow
1901) ; elected Moderator of the General
Assembly 18th May 1893 ; Duff Lecturer in
1897; President of the Pan-Presbyterian
Alliance at the Washington Meeting of
1899 ; adm. Principal of Univ. of Aber
deen 31st March 1900 ; Baird Lecturer at
Glasgow 1901. By his energy he largely
helped to complete the New Marischal
College, which was opened by King Edward
and Queen Alexandra in Sept. 1906, on
which occasion he was created C.V.O. ;
died at Aberdeen, 2nd May 1909, and was
buried in the ruined transept of Aberdeen
Cathedral. He marr. 10th April 1861,
Hannah Agnes (died 4th Jan. 1921, aged
80), daugh. of Peter Hay Keith, D.D.,
min. of Hamilton, and had issue— Gavin
Douglas, .born 21st March 1862; Patrick
Keith, C.B.E., Egypt, born 20th June 1863 ;
William Cosmo Gordon, D.D., D.C.L.,
LL.D., D.Litt., Archbishop of York (1908),
born 31st Oct. 1864 ; John Douglas
Hamilton, secretary East Rand Proprietary
Mines, Johannesburg, born 1866 ; Marshall
Buchanan, min. of Whittingehame, born
1st April 1868; Norman Macleod, D.D.,
Bishop Suffragan of Leicester (1913), born
23rd April 1875 ; Hannah Buchanan (marr.
Robert Barclay, min. of West Parish,
Greenock); David Marshall, Dunning, died
at Edinburgh, 16th June 1925. Publica
tions — The Assembling of Ourselves-together,
a sermon (Aberdeen, 1858); The Church,
its Liberty and Duty (Aberdeen, 1860) ;
Heaven and Home, a Book for the Fireside
(1880); The Last Supper of Our Lord
(Edinburgh, 1881); Ancient Religions of
Central America (Edinburgh, 1882) ; Life :
is it worth living ? (London, 1883) ; The
Anglican C hurch (Edinburgh, 1884); Homi-
letics on St Luke's Gospel (1889); Gideon,
a Study, Practical and Historical (1890) ;
Evangelical Faith (Aberdeen, 1890); The
Expansion of the Christian Life [Duff
Lecture] (Edinburgh, 1897); The Church
and its Social Mission [Baird Lecture]
(Edinburgh, 1902). — [Memories of John
Marshall Lang, by his widow (p.p., Edin
burgh, 1910); Kerr's The Renascence of
Worship ; Portrait Medallion in The
Barony Church ; Diet. Nat. Biog.~\
Sm GEORGE ADAM SMITH, Knight
19Q9 (1916); D.D.,LL.D.,Litt.D.,F.B.A.;
app. 9th Nov. 1909.
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY
(FOUNDED 1583)
PRINCIPALS.
EGBERT ROLLOCK, min. of Old
lfi_- Greyfriars (cf. Vol. I., 37) ; adm. 9th
' Feb. 1585-6 ; died 8th Jan. 1599.
HENRY CHARTERIS, M.A. ; adm.
15g8 14th Feb. 1598-9; res. 20th March
1620, and became min. of North
Leith (cf. Vol. I., 154). His daugh. Eliza
beth marr. George Leslie, min. of Canon-
gate, Edinburgh.
PATRICK SANDS, M.A. ; min. of Old
Greyfriars (cf. Vol. I., 44); adm.
20th March 1620 ; res. Aug. 1622.
ROBERT BOYD of Trochrig, M.A. ;
1622 m*n' °^ ®^ Greyfriars ; adm. 18th
" Oct. 1622; removed 31st Jan. 1623
[afterwards min. of Paisley (cf. Vol. I., 45,
III., 162)].
JOHN ADAMSON, M.A. ; min. of
Liberton (cf. Vol. I., 170); adm.
21st Nov. 1623; died 1651. The
correct title of his book published in 1627
should be Srotxetwo-ts Eloquiorum Dei.
WILLIAM COLVILLE, M.A. ; min. of
Tron Parish, Edinburgh (cf. Vol. I.,
134); elected 23rd April 1652, but
having been imprisoned in the Castle by
the Cromwellians, his office was declared
vacant 17th Jan. 1653.
ROBERT LEIGHTON, M.A.; min. of
1Q53 Newbattle (cf. Vol. I., 332); adm.
17th Jan. 1653 ; res. in 1662, having
been consecrated Bishop of Dunblane (q.v.)
15th Dec. 1661.
WILLIAM COLVILLE, M.A., above
1662 mentioned ; re-adm. in 1662 ; died
(buried 3rd June) 1675. Publication —
Philosophia, Moralis Christiana ("Ethices
Christianas ") (1670).
1652
ANDREW CANT, M.A. ; min. of
„ Trinity Parish, Edinburgh, and after-
' wards of St Giles (cf. Vol. I., 65);
adm. 29th Sept. 1675 ; died 4th Dec. 1685.
ALEXANDER MONRO, D.D. ; min. of
1685 St GUeS' EdinburSh (°f- VoL L' 66) >
promoted from Chair of Divinity
at St Andrews 9th Nov. 1685; pres. to
Bishropic of Argyll by James VII., 24th
Oct. 1688, but not consecrated ; removed
for not taking the Oath to William and
Mary ; died 1698.
GILBERT RULE, M.D. ; min. of Old
1690 Greyfriars (c/- VoL L 39> VIL 504) >
adm. 26th Sept. 1690 ; died 7th June
1701.
WILLIAM CARSTARES, min. of Old
Greyfriars (cf. Vol. I., 66); adm.
12th May 1703 ; died 28th Dec. 1715.
WILLIAM WISHART, M.A. ; min. of
Tron Parish, Edinburgh (cf. Vol. L,
136); adm. 6th June 1716; died
llth June 1729.
WILLIAM HAMILTON (cf. Vol. I.,
146); promoted from Chair of
' Divinity 16th Feb., and adm. 8th
Aug. 1732 ; died 12th Nov. 1732.
JAMES SMITH, min. of New North
1738 Parisll> Edinburgh (cf. Vol. I., 143) ;
promoted from Chair of Divinity
18th July 1733; died 14th Aug. 1736.
WILLIAM WISHART (secundus), min.
of Tron Parish, Edinburgh (cf. Vol. I.,
140); adm. 20th Nov. 1737; died
12th May 1753.
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EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY
[PRINCIPALS
JOHN GOWDIE, born 1682, son of
i»7K4. J°nn G., min. of Sprouston ; edu
cated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A.
(30th April 1700); licen. by Presb. of
Kelso 27th Jan. 1702; ord. to Earlston
9th Aug. 1704 ; trans, to Lady Tester's,
Edinburgh, 1 23rd July 1730; trans, to New
North Parish, Edinburgh, 14th Dec. 1732 ;
elected Moderator of General Assembly
3rd May 1733 ; app. Professor of Divinity,
Univ. of Edinburgh, 18th July 1733 ; D.D.
(Edinburgh, 13th March 1750); promoted
to Principalship 6th Feb. 1754; died
19th Feb. 1762. By his casting vote as
Moderator, the Commission of Assembly
virtually dep. Ebenezer Erskine and his
three associates, 16th Nov. 1733. He marr.
(1) 3rd Jan. 1706, Jean (died 16th May
1736), daugh. of Alexander Daes or Deas,
merchant burgess, Edinburgh (son of James
D., min. of Earlston), and had issue —
John, min. of Earlston, bapt. 27th July
1707; Elizabeth (marr. John Hill, min. of
St Andrews) : (2) Ann (died 21st April 1764),
eldest daugh. of Walter Ker of Littledean,
and had issue— Jean (marr. pro. 30th Aug.
1767, Alexander Myles, brewer, Edin
burgh). Publications — Sermon preached at
the Opening of the General Assembly (Edin
burgh, 1734) ; The Propagation of the
Gospel and the Blessed Effects thereof (Edin
burgh, 1735) ; The Salvation of Souls, the
Desire and Endeavour of every Faithful
Minister of the Gospel, two sermons (Edin
burgh, 1736).
WILLIAM ROBERTSON, D.D. ; min.
of Old Greyfriars (cf. Vol. I., 41);
' adm. 10th March 1762; died llth
June 1793.
GEORGE HUSBAND BAIRD, D.D.
(cf. Vol. I., 68); promoted from
Chair of Hebrew 3rd July 1793;
died 14th Jan. 1840.
JOHN LEE, M.D., D.D., LL.D.; min. of
Old Kirk (cf. Vol. I., 73) ; app. 12th
March and adm. 26th Oct. 1840;
adm. to Chair of Divinity 14th June 1844
(which he held in conjunction); died 2nd
May 1859.
The Office of Principal was thereafter
held by the following laymen :
SIR DAVID BREWSTER, a licentiate
of the Church of Scotland (cf. Vol.
II., 90) ; adm. 28th Oct. 1859 ; died
10th Feb. 1868.
SIR ALEXANDER GRANT of Dalvey,
Bart,, LL.D. ; adm. 2nd Nov. 1868;
died 30th Nov. 1884.
SIR WILLIAM MUIR, K.C.I.E., LL.D.,
D.C.L. ; adm. 21st Feb. 1885; res.
' 21st June 1903 ; died 16th July 1905.
SIR WILLIAM TURNER, M.D., LL.D.,
F.R.S.; adm. 31st Jan. 1903; died
15th Feb. 1916.
SIR JAMES ALFRED EWING, K.C.B.,
1916 M.A., D.Sc., LL.D. ; adm. 31st May
1916.
DIVINITY (FOUNDED 1620).
ANDREW RAMSAY, M.A.; min. of Old
Kirk Parish, Edinburgh (cf. Vol. I.,
70) ; adm. 20th March 1620 ; res. 8th
March 1626 and was again min. of Old
Kirk.
HENRY CHARTERIS, M.A. ; min. of
,_.,_ North Leith (cf. Vol. I., 154); adm.
19th April 1627 ; died July 1628.
JAMES FAIRLIE, M.A.; min. of South
Leith (cf. Vol. I., 329); adm. 24th
July 1629 ; res. Aug. 1630 ; adm.
min. of Old Greyfriars 17th Nov. 1630;
[afterwards Bishop of Argyll and min. of
Lasswade].
JOHN SHARP, M.A. ; formerly min. of
1630 Kilmany (cf. Vol. V., 160) and
Professor in Univ. of Die; adm.
17th Nov. 1630; died 1647.
[ALEXANDER COLVILLE, Professor
of Hebrew, Univ. of St Andrews ;
app. 23rd June 1648 but not admitted,
the General Assembly refusing his transla
tion.]
DIVINITY]
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383
[SAMUEL RUTHERFORD, Professor
164g of Divinity, St Andrews; app. 27th
June 1649, but did not accept.]
DAVID DICKSON of Busby, M.A.,
i860 ^ Vol> *•> 64)> formerly Professor
of Divinity, Univ. of Glasgow ; min
of St Giles ; adm. 14th Jan. 1650 ; deprive
in 1662 ; died 28th Dec. same year.
[PATRICK SCOUGAL, M.A. ; min. of
1662 Saltoun J aPP- 5th Dec. 1662, but did
not accept [afterwards Bishop of
Aberdeen (q.v.)].]
WILLIAM KEITH, M.A. (Marischal
1664 College, 1643); min. of St Cuthbert's,
Edinburgh (cf. Vol. I., 101); adm.
27th Jan. 1664 j died 18th Nov. 1675.
LAURENCE CHARTERIS, M.A. (cf.
1675 Vol. I., 360); adm. 19th Nov. 1675;
dem. on account of the Test in 1681,
and became min. of Dirleton.
[JOHN MENZIES, M.A. (cf. Vol. I., 246);
1682 m*n> °f Caerlaverock ; app. 21st
June 1682, but did not accept [after
wards min. of Coulter].]
JOHN STRACHAN, D.D., son of
1683 wmiam S., min. of St Machar's,
Aberdeen; min. of Tron Parish,
Edinburgh (cf. Vol. I., 139); adm. 21st
March 1683 ; dep. for not taking the Oath
to William and Mary 25th Sept. 1690.
GEORGE CAMPBELL, M.A. ; min. of
1690 Old Kirk Parish, Edinburgh (cf. Vol.
L, 75) ; adm. 26th Sept. 1690 ; died
3rd July 1701.
GEORGE MELDRUM, M.A.; min. of
1701 Tron Parish, Edinburgh (cf. Vol. L,
139); adm. 24th Dec. 1701; died
18th Feb. 1709.
WILLIAM HAMILTON, min. of New
1709 Nortla Parish, Edinburgh ; elected
17th Aug. 1709; app. Principal 16th
Feb. 1730 (q.v.).
JAMES SMITH, min. of New North
1782 Parish, Edinburgh (cf. Vol. L, 143) ;
adm. 16th Feb. 1732; app. Principal
16th July, and adm. 12th Oct. 1733.
JOHN GOWDIE, D.D.; min. of New
1783 North Parish, Edinburgh ; adm. 18th
July 1733; app. Principal 6th Feb.
1754 (q.v.).
ROBERT HAMILTON, D.D. (cf. Vol. L,
1754 46); min. of Old Greyfriars, Edin
burgh; adm. 6th Feb. 1754; died
3rd April 1787.
ANDREW HUNTER of Barjarg; D.D.
1779 (cf. Vol. I., 137) ; min. of New Grey-
friars, Edinburgh ; adm. Conjoint
Professor 10th Sept. 1779; died 21st April
1809.
WILLIAM RITCHIE, D.D. (cf. Vol. L,
180g 61); min. of St Giles, Edinburgh;
adm. 10th May 1809 ; died 29th Jan.
1830.
THOMAS CHALMERS, D.D., D.C.L.,
1828 ^' Vol> III-> 446) > trans- from Chair
of Moral Philosophy, Univ. of St
Andrews, and adm. 6th Nov. 1828; res.
6th June 1843.
JOHN LEE, M.D., D.D., LL.D. (cf.
1844 VoL I-» 73) » min- of Old Kirk Parish,
Edinburgh, and Principal; adm.
14th June 1844 ; died 2nd May 1859.
THOMAS JACKSON CRAWFORD,
186g born St Andrews, 13th Feb. 1812,
youngest son of William C., D.D.,
min. of Straiton and Professor of Moral
Philosophy in Univ. of St Andrews ; edu
cated at Edinburgh High School and Univ.
of St Andrews; M.A. (1831); licen. by
Presb. there 16th April 1834; ord. to
Cults, Fife, 13th June that year; trans,
to Glamis 20th Sept. 1838; D.D. (St
Andrews, 9th March 1844); trans, to St
Andrew's Parish, Edinburgh, 16th Aug.
1844 ; Convener of General Assembly's
Committee on Psalmody in 1845 ; Con
vener of Jewish Mission 27th May 1850
to 22nd May 1854; Convener of Home
Mission Committee 28th May 1858; adm.
;o this Chair 13th Sept. 1859 ; app. Chap-
ain to Queen Victoria in 1861 ; elected
Moderator of General Assembly 23rd
May 1867; Baird Lecturer 1874; died at
Genoa llth Oct. 1875. Of his sermons it
was said they were " all shirt and no frill,"
384
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[DIVINITY
contrasted with those of another eminent
city minister which were " all frill and no
shirt." He marr. (1) 23rd Aug. 1848, Mary
(died 17th Sept. 1853), daugh. of Robert
Rankine, merchant, Liverpool, and had issue
—a child, born 9th Sept. 1853, died aged a
few days : (2) 25th Sept. 1855, Elizabeth
(died 3rd Nov. 1908), second daugh. of
William Robertson of Island of Malta, and
had issue— William Thomas,M.D.,Worksop,
died 1st April 1925; George, divinity
student. Publications — Reasons for Ad
herence to the Church of Scotland (Cupar,
1843) ; An Argument for Jewish Missions, a
sermon (Edinburgh, 1847) ; Presbyterianism
defended against the exclusive claims of
Prelacy as urged by Romanists and
Tractarians (Edinburgh, 1853) ; Presbytery
or Prelacy, which is the more conformable
to the pattern of the Apostolic Churches'!
(Edinburgh, 1853, 2nd ed., London, 1867) ;
The Constraining Love of Christ, a sermon
(Edinburgh, 1855); The Fatherhood of
God considered in its General and Special
Aspects (Edinburgh, 1866; 2nd ed., 1867;
3rd. ed., 1869) ; Address delivered at the
close of the General Assembly, 3rd June
1867 (Edinburgh, 1867); The Doctrine of
Holy Scripture respecting the Atonement
(Edinburgh, 1871; 2nd ed., 1874); The
Mysteries of Christianity [Baird Lecture]
(Edinburgh, 1874) ; The Preaching of the
Cross and other Sermons (Edinburgh, 1876);
Account of Cults (New Stat. Ace., ix.). —
[Diet. Nat. Biog.; Porter's Cults and its
Ministers, 85-7.]
ROBERT FLINT, born Greenburn, Sib-
1876 baldbie, Dumfriesshire, 14th March
1834 [according to his biographer,
but F. himself gave the year as 1838],
son of Robert F., and Grace, daugh. of
Robert Paterson, Dormont, Johnstone in
Annandale ; educated at Evan Water and
Moffat Schools, and Univ. of Glasgow;
became a missionary of the Glasgow Elders'
Association in 1857 ; licen. by Presb. of
Glasgow 24th June 1858 ; assistant [to
Norman Macleod, D.D.] at The Barony,
Glasgow; ord. to East Parish, Aberdeen,
3rd March 1859 ; trans, to Kilconquhar 2nd
Jan. 1862 ; app. to Chair of Moral Phil
osophy and Political Economy, Univ. of
St Andrews, 14th Oct., and adm. 16th Nov.
1864 ; dem. parochial charge 28th June 1865 ;
elected to this Chair 7th Feb., trans, and
adm. 28th July 1876; LL.D. (Glasgow 1876);
D.D. (Edinburgh 1876); Baird Lecturer,
1876-7 ; Stone Lecturer, Princeton Univ.,
U.S.A., 1880 ; declined Professorship of
Philosophy, Johns Hopkins Univ., U.S.A.,
1881 ; declined Principalship of Theological
College of the Presbyterian Church of
Victoria in 1882 ; Croall Lecturer, 1887-8 ;
awarded Diploma of the Royal Academy of
Sciences, Letters, and Fine Arts of Palermo
in 1889 ; elected Corresponding Member of
the French Academy in 1890 ; declined
Moderatorship of General Assembly in
1895 ; D.D. (Princeton 1896) ; D.D.
(Glasgow 1901); LL.D. (Yale 1901);
F.B.A. (1901); declined Glasgow Gifford
Lectureship in 1902 ; res. Chair 13th July
1903; LL.D. (Edinburgh 1904); D.D.
(Aberdeen 1906); app. Edinburgh Gifford
Lecturer in 1906, but his health failing, he
never lectured ; died unmarr. at Edinburgh
25th Nov. 1910, and was buried at Liberton.
The most outstanding figure in the Church
of Scotland of his time, his reputation as
scholar and philosophic theologian was
world-wide. Among European Universities
his name was held in high honour, and
several of his works have been translated
into foreign languages. As a Professor
he was greatly beloved by his numerous
students, many of whom belonged to various
nationalities, attracted to Edinburgh by the
spell of his learning and renown. His
character for reverence and humility, his
passion for truth and honour, and his un
affected piety, were elements that gave
him an assured place in the heart of the
Scottish people. From a shepherd's cottage
he rose to a position of commanding dis
tinction, only equalled by that of his
predecessor, Dr Thomas Chalmers. (His
Portrait by Sir George Reid is in Edinburgh
University.) Publications— The Earth is the
£ord's[sermon before the British Association
Meeting at Aberdeen] (Aberdeen 1859); The
Duty of Divinity Students, a sermon (Aber
deen 1861); Introductory Lecture delivered at
the opening of the Class of Moral Philosophy
DIVINITY]
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY
385
(Edinburgh, 1864) ; Christ's Kingdom upon
Earth (Edinburgh, 1865) ; The Philosophy
of History in France and Germany (Edin
burgh, 1874) [translated into French bj
Professor Ludovic Carrau of Besangon]
Christian Unity, &sermon(Edinb\iTgh,18>7'7)
Theism [Baird Lecture] (Edinburgh, 187?!
12th ed., 1903); Anti-theistic Theories [Baird
Lecture] (Edinburgh, 1879, 8th ed., 1903) ; A
Sermon[on Rev. i. 5] (Edinburgh, 1881); The
Covenant 1660 to 1690 [St Giles Lectures.
First Series] (Edinburgh, 1881); Chris
tianity in relation to other Religions (Edin
burgh, 1882); The Duties of the People of
Scotland to the Church of Scotland (Edin
burgh, 1882) ; Norman Macleod, D.D. [St
Giles Lectures, Third Series] (Edinburgh,
1883) ; Vico (critical biography of Giovanni
Battista Vico] (Edinburgh, 1884) [translated
into Italian]; The Claims of Divine Wisdom
on Young Men (Edinburgh, 1885); Biographi
cal Notice of Professor James Lorimer,
in Studies National and International
(Edinburgh, 1890) ; The Church Question in
Scotland (Edinburgh, 1891) ; History of the
Philosophy of History[&rstsection, Historical
Philosophy in France, French Belgium, and
Switzerland] (Edinburgh, 1893); Socialism
(London, 1895, 2nd ed., 1908); Hindu
Pantheism (Edinburgh, 1897); Sermons and
Addresses (Edinburgh, 1899); Agnosticism
[Croall Lecture] (Edinburgh, 1903) ; Phil
osophy as Scientia Scientiarum (Edin
burgh, 1904); On Theological, Biblical,
and other Subjects (Edinburgh, 1905);
Articles "Theism" and "Theology" in
Encyclopaedia Britannica. Contributions
to Chambers's Encyclopaedia, to vol. iii. of
Schaff-Herzog Encyclopaedia, to Mind, and
many British and American journals. —
[Diet. Nat. Biog., 2nd Sup. ; Life (port
raits) by Donald Macmillan, D.D. (London
1914).]
WILLIAM PATERSON PATERSON,
1903 born Skirling Mains, Peeblesshire,
25th Oct. 1860, eldest son of John
P., farmer, and Mary, daugh. of John
Waugh of St John's Kirk; educated at
Skirling School, Royal High School, and
Univs. of Edinburgh, M.A. (1880), B.D.
and Pitt Scholar (1883), Leipzig, Erlangen,
VOL. VII.
and Berlin ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh
10th June 1885; assistant at Galashiels and
St Columba's, London ; ord. to Crieff 27th
Sept. 1887; app. to Chair of Systematic
Theology at Aberdeen 27th Oct. 1894;
D.D. (Edinburgh 1897); trans, to this Chair
10th Oct. 1903; Baird Lecturer, 1905-6;
LL.D. (Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1905);
visited Australia as preacher in Scots
Church, Melbourne, 1912; app. Chaplain-in-
Ordinary to King George in 1916 ; elected
Moderator of the General Assembly 20th
May 1919; D.D. (Dublin 1920); Gifford Lec
turer, Univ. of Glasgow, 1924-6; LL.D. (Glas
gow 1926). During the Great War he took
charge of St George's, Edinburgh, 1916-18,
and of Whitekirk, 1918-19, and acted on
Scottish Committee on War Savings. His
portrait by Fiddes Watt is in 22 Queen
Street, Edinburgh. Marr. 17th April 1888,
Jane (died 16th Jan. 1928), daugh. of
Robert Sanderson, Knowepark, Galashiels,
and Elizabeth Cochrane, and has issue —
Elizabeth Cochrane, M.A., born 2nd April
1890; John Clyde, captain R.E., served
in Gallipoli, France, and Mesopotamia,
born 17th Dec. 1891 ; Robert Sanderson,
2nd lieutenant, R.F.A., born 8th Sept. 1893,
killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, France,
llth March 1915; William Paterson, captain
3rd K.O.S.B., born 24th June 1895, killed in
action at Delville Wood, France, 30th July
1916; Mary Waugh, born 12th Nov. 1897
(marr. 22nd Jan. 1919, John Robert Dale,
Auldhame, North Berwick) ; Arthur Spencer,
B.A. Oxon., born 22nd Feb. 1900; Violet
Reid, born 9th Jan. 1904. Publications—
St Paul's Teaching (Edinburgh, 1903, 1919) ;
The Positionand Prospects of Theology (Edin
burgh, 1903); Sermon at the Annual Meeting
of the Glasgow Society of Sons of Ministers
of the Church of Scotland (1906) ; Outline
?f the History of Dogmatic Theology (Edin
burgh, 1906); Life on its Solemn Side
Melbourne, 1912); The Rule of Faith
_Baird Lecture] (London, 1912, 3rd ed.,
.913) ; In the Day of the Muster (sermons
n time of war) (London, 1914) ; " Professor
Flint's Doctrinal System " (Macmillan's Life
of Professor Flint, London, 1914) ; German
Culture (edited) (Edinburgh, 1915) ; In the
Day of the Ordeal (sermons, 2nd ed., Edin-
2 B
386
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY
[HEBREW
burgh, 1917) ; Social Evils and Problems
[with David Watson, D.D.] (Edinburgh,
1918) ; Recent History and the Call to
Brotherhood [Moderatorial Closing Address]
(Edinburgh, 1919) ; The Power of Prayer
[with David Russell] (London, 1920) ; The
Nature of Religion [Gifford Lectures] (Lon
don, 1925); "Sermon at Bicentenary of
Faculty of Medicine " (Univ. qfEdin. Journ.,
iii., 1926) ; Articles in Hastings's Dictionary
of the Bible on "Marriage " and " Sacrifice" ;
in Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics on
"War," and "Jesus Christ" in Hastings's
One - Volume Dictionary. — [Church of
Scotland Year-Book (portrait), 1920.]
HEBREW AND SEMITIC
LANGUAGES.
(FOUNDED 1642.)
JULIUS CONRADUS OTTO, of Jewish
nationality ; app. by Town Council
J and adm. 26th Jan. 1642. Nothing
is known of his history except that he held
the Chair till 1656. Publication— Gali
razia occultorum detactio (Noribergae, 1605).
ALEXANDER DICKSON, son of David
D., Professor of Divinity, Edinburgh ;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow ;
M.A. (1644); ord. to Newbattle 7th Oct.
1653; trans, and adm. to this Chair llth
Sept. 1656 ; deprived in 1679.
ALEXANDER AMEDEUS
79 (FLORENTINUS), adm. 16th April
1679; removed in 1681.— [Grant's
Story of Univ. of Edinburgh, i., 215.]
ALEXANDER DOUGLAS, elected
1681 30tl1 Septt 1681 ' dePrived bv Com"
mittee of Visitation at the Revolu
tion ; died 1692. He left a legacy of books
and 225 raerks Scots to the University.
PATRICK SINCLAIR, son of John S.,
min. of Ormiston; elected 18th May
' 1692.
ALEXANDER RULE, son of Gilbert
R., D.D., Principal of Univ. of
Edinburgh; adm. 2nd Feb. 1694;
res. 26th Dec. 1701.
JOHN GOODALL, adm. 6th Nov. 1702 ;
1702 died 1719.
1656
JAMES CRAUFURD, M.D., a pupil of
Boerhaave at Univ. of Leyden ;
Professor of Chemistry and Medicine,
Univ. of Edinburgh, 1713-26; adm. to this
Chair (which he held conjointly) 21st Aug.
1719; died Feb. 1732.— [Grant's Story of
Univ. of Edinburgh, ii., 392.]
WILLIAM DAWSON, min. at
Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; adm. 26th
J July 1732; died 15th Dec. 1753.
JAMES ROBERTSON, studied at
1751 Leyden under Schultens, then the
greatest Oriental scholar in Europe,
and at Oxford under Professor Hunt ; app.
conjunct and adm. 26th June 1751 ; app.
librarian 22nd Jan. 1763 and prepared
Catalogue of Library ; died 26th Nov.
1795. He was known as "The Rabbi."
Dr Johnson visited him in the Library
in 1773 and was " much pleased with his
conversation." Publications — Grammatica
linguae Hebrcece (Edinburgh, 1758, 1783) ;
Clavis Pentateuchi (Edinburgh, 1770,
another edition, ex recensione J. Kinghorn,
etc., Norvici, 1824).— [Bos well's Johnson,
chap, xxxiii. ; Grant's Story of Univ. of
Edinburgh, ii., 290.]
GEORGE HUSBAND BAIRD, D.D. ;
adm. joint-Professor 14th Nov. 1792;
1792 trans, to Principalship 3rd July
1793 (q.v.).
WILLIAM MOODIE, D.D. (cf. Vol. I.,
88), min. of St Andrews, Edinburgh ;
adm. llth Sept. 1793 ; died llth June
1812.
ALEXANDER MURRAY, D.D. (cf.
Vol. II., 306), min. of Urr ; adm. 8th
2 July 1812; died 15th April 1813.
His widow died 29th April 1824.
ALEXANDER BRUNTON, D.D. (cf.
Vol. I., 137), min. of Tron Parish,
1813 Edinburgh; adm. 19th May 1813;
res. 27th Aug. 1847 ; died 9th Feb. 1854.
[CHARLES M'DOWALL, app. 12th
Oct. 1847, but not inducted, being
1847 a Free Churchman who did not
acknowledge the authority of the Church
of Scotland.— [Grant's Story of the Univ.
of Edinburgh, ii., 75.]
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY
387
DAVID LISTON, born 10th Oct. 1799,
1848 S°n °f Henrv L-> min- °f Eccles-
machan ; educated at Univ. of Edin
burgh ; went to India and was astronomer
to the King of Oude ; adm. 2nd Nov.
1848 ; res. 31st July 1880 ; died 26th Jan.
1881. He marr. 1st Sept. 1852, his cousin
Esther Wallace (died 15th Dec. 1896),
daugh. of Thomas Listen, Linlithgow,
and had issue— Henry, surgeon.— [M'Call's
Some Old Families, 105.]
DAVID LAIRD ADAMS, born Wood-
1880 Side' Blairg°wrie> 18th Feb. 1837;
educated at Univ. of Edinburgh;
M.A. (1870), B.D. (1870); was sometime
a schoolmaster; adm. to Monimail 23rd
Sept. 1875 ; trans, and adm. to this Chair
17th Nov. 1880 : died 2nd Aug. 1892. He
marr. Sarah Emma Child Sneezum (born
23rd Nov. 1842, died 1st Jan. 1899), and
had issue — William David, M.A., M.B.,
C.M. (Edinburgh 1899), died at Kenning-
hall, Norfolk, 28th Aug. 1927; Charles
Walter; Edward Francis, born 25th July
1877, died 6th Feb. 1878 ; Herbert Frederick
Wilfred, M.B., Ch.B., D.P.H., Medical
Officer of Health, East Gloucestershire
United Districts; Euphemia Laird, died
2nd June 1916; Louisa Emma (marr. 1905
Sir George Washington Browne, P R S A
LL.D., H.R.A.).
JOHN DOBIE, born Musselburgh, 10th
1892 Jan' 1859) son of WiUiam D., min.
of Ladykirk ; educated at Univ. of
Edinburgh; M.A. (1878), B.D. (1882); licen.
by Presb. of Chirnside ; assistant at The
Park Church, Glasgow; was secretary of
Committee on Christian Life and Work ;
spent some time in Oriental research at
Paris and Leipzig; app. Indian Chaplain
at Secunderabad in 1888; Wilson Lec
turer on Comparative Philology of the
Semitic Languages, Bombay Univ., 1892;
member of the Royal Asiatic Society; app.
to this Chair and adm. 5th Dec. 1892;
killed in a railway accident at Newton-
more Station, while travelling North for
his summer holiday, 2nd Aug. 1894, and
was buried at Ladykirk. He was unmarr.
A competent Arabic scholar he was well
versed also in Hindustani and Persian. On
one of his furloughs he joined a caravan
of Arab pilgrims proceeding to Yemen in
Arabia, his hope being to make personal
investigation of the Himyarite remains and
increase his knowledge of the literature of
the Yemenite Jews. At the instigation of
some fanatical Arabs he was arrested and
imprisoned, and was only released by
intervention of the British Government,
the affair coming before the House of
Commons. Publication— He left in MS.
[in Edinburgh Univ. Library] materials for
a translation of the New Testament into
Ethiopic.— [The Border Almanac, 1895.]
ARCHIBALD ROBERT STIRLING
1895 KENNEDY, born Whitehills, Banff-
shire, 21st Dec. 1859, son of Duff
K. and Isabella Stirling; educated at
Fordyce School, Univs. of Aberdeen, M.A
(1880), and Glasgow, B.D. (1883), and at
Gottingen and Berlin (1883-5) ; Black Theo
logical Fellowship (Glasgow Univ. 1885-7) ;
licen. by Presb. of Paisley in 1885 ; adm'
to Chair of Oriental Languages, Univ of
Aberdeen, 10th Dec. 1887 ; ord. by Presb
of Aberdeen 15th Feb. 1889 ; D.D. (Glasgow
1893); trans, and adm. to this Chair
12th Jan. 1895; D.D. (St Andrews 1911);
Croall Lecturer, 1914-15; Convener of
Jewish Committee, 1916-22; secretary Post
graduate School of Theology, Edinburgh
Univ. Marr. 14th Oct. 1890, Jane Isabella,
daugh. of Samuel Cowan, Litt.D., of the
Perthshire Advertiser, and Jane Gemmel
Jack, and has issue-Archibald Cowan,
min. of Arbirlot, born 2nd March 1892;
Violet Annie, missionary nurse, Church of
Scotland Mission, Kenya Colony, born 19th
June 1894; Margaret Cecilia, born 26th
Dec. 1905, died 4th Jan. 1910; May Stirling,
born 25th May 1908. Publications— Trans
lated H. L. Strack's Hebrew Grammar
[Porta Linguarum Orientalium] (Berlin
1885) ; Eberhard Nestle's Syriac Grammar
with Bibliography, etc. [Porta Linguarum
Orientalium] (Berlin, 1889); Friedrich
Dehtzsch's Assyrian Grammar [Porta
Linguariim Orientalium} (Berlin, 1889);
Albert Socin's Arabic Grammar [Porta
Linguarum Orientaliitm] (Berlin, 1895 • re
printed 1927). Edited "Exodus," "Joshua
388
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY [BIBLICAL CRITICISM
1847
and Judges " in the Temple Bible (London,
1901, 1902); "Samuel," "Leviticus and
Numbers" in the Century Bible (Edin
burgh, 1905, 1910). Contributions to Hast-
ings's Dictionary of the Bible, his smaller
Dictionary (1909), and his Encyclopaedia of
Religion and Ethics ; to Encyclopaedia
Biblica, and to eleventh edition of Encyclo
paedia Britannica ; The Book of Ruth, a first
Hebrew Reader (London, 1928).]
BIBLICAL CRITICISM.
(FOUNDED 1846.)
ROBERT LEE, D.D. (cf. Vol. I., 42);
min. of Old Greyfriars; adm. 20th
Jan. 1847 ; died 14th March 1868.
ARCHIBALD HAMILTON
CHARTERIS, born Wamphray,
Dumfriesshire, 13th Dec. 1835,
eldest son of John C., parish schoolmaster,
and Jean, daugh. of Archibald 'Hamilton,
farmer, Broomhills ; educated at Wamphray
School and Univ. of Edinburgh ; B.A.
(1852), M.A. (1854); licen. by Presb. of
Edinburgh 24th Feb. 1858 ; ord. (assistant
and successor) to St Quivox 27th June
that year ; trans, to New Abbey 21st July
1859 (where he initiated a movement for
the preservation of the ruins of Sweetheart
Abbey) ; trans, to The Park Parish, Glasgow,
25th June 1863 ; adm. to this Chair 4th
Nov. 1868 ; app. chaplain to Queen Victoria,
1869, and to King Edward VII., 1901;
D.D. (Edinburgh 1868) ; elected Moderator
of the General Assembly 19th May 1892; res.
Chair 31st May 1898 ; LL.D. (Edinburgh
1898); D.D. (Aberdeen 1906); died at
Edinburgh, 24th April 1908, and was buried
at Wamphray. He was mainly responsible
for a marked revival of practical Christian
effort in the Church of Scotland ; was
Convener of the Life and Work Committee
from 1869-94, founded Life and Work
Magazine (1879), and originated the Young
Men's (1881) and Woman's Guilds (1887) ;
Croall Lecturer, 1882; Baird Lecturer,
1887. He revived the Order of Deaconesses,
took a lead in founding the Deaconess
Institution (1887), Training Home and
Deaconess Hospital (1894). He was Vice-
Convener of the Committee on the Abolition
of Patronage, of the Endowment Com
mittee, and Joint-Convener of Committee on
Union with other churches, in which project
he was an early pioneer. He laboured
assiduously amongst the Edinburgh poor,
initiated many schemes of social reform,
and devoted much of his time to the
cause of foreign missions. The Charteris
Memorial Church, Edinburgh (St Ninian's
Mission), was erected to his memory in
1912, at a cost of £10,900, and the Hospital
at Kalimpong Mission Church, India, bears
his name. He marr. 24th Nov. 1863,
Catherine Morice (died 18th Nov. 1918),
daugh. of Sir Alexander Anderson of
Blelock, Lord Provost of Aberdeen, but had
no issue. Publications— The Life of James
Robertson, D.D. (Edinburgh, 1863), abridged
as A faithful Churchman [Guild Library]
(Edinburgh) ; Speech on Patronage and
Union in the Commission of Assembly
(Edinburgh, 1870); The Church of Scotland
and Spiritual Independence (Edinburgh,
1874); Ella [Memoir of Elizabeth Orr
Ewing] (p.p., 1878) ; Canonicity ; a Collec
tion of Early Testimonies to the Canonical
Books of the New Testament (Edinburgh,
1880); The Church of the Nineteenth
Century to 1843 [St Giles' Lecture] (Edin
burgh, 1881) ; The New Testament Scrip
tures : their Claims, History, and Authority
[Croall Lecture] (London, 1882); TheChurch
of Scotland : Her Sacred Foundation, etc.
(Edinburgh, 1892) ; Some Types of Student
Life (Edinburgh, 1892) ; The Present State
of Biblical Criticism as regards the New
Testament (Edinburgh, 1897) ; TheChurch of
Christ : Its Life and Work [Baird Lecture]
(London, 1905); David Clement Ruffelle
Scott (Edinburgh, 1907) ; On some Present-
Day Attacks on Christian Doctrine; Helps
in the Study of the Paschal Controversy in
the Early Church ; The Unique Claim of
the Bible to be a Direct Revelation from
God [Present Day Tract Series] (London,
n.d.). Edited Life and Work (1879-1902),
Advance, and Guild Text-Book Series. He
was author of the hymn " Believing fathers
oft have told" [Guild Hymn] (Church
Revised Hymnary, No. 521].— {Diet. Nat.
CHURCH HISTORY]
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY
389
Biog., 2nd Sup. ; Life by Arthur Gordo
(London, 1912); In Memoriam (1908)
Memoir by Kenneth D. M'Laren (London
1914).]
JOHN PATEICK, born Lochwinnoch
1898 15t^ Sept. 1850, son of John P. am
Jean Paton ; educated at Loch
winnoch School, Univs. of Glasgow, M.A
(1875), Edinburgh, B.D. (1877), and Heidel
berg ; licen. by Presb.. of Paisley 4th Julj
1877; assistant at High Church, Kilmar
nock, 1877-9 ; ord. (assistant and successor
there 17th April 1879 ; trans, to Monktor
and Prestwick 13th May 1880; trans
to Greenside, Edinburgh, 28th Dec. 1887
Convener of Committee on Admission oJ
Mins. of other Churches, 1892-8; Con
vener of Education Committee, 1893-1 903 ,
D.D. (Edinburgh 1895); pres. by Queen
Victoria 30th July, and adm. to this Chair
15th Oct. 1898 ; Croall Lecturer, 1899-1900 ;
Dean of the Faculty of Divinity, 1899-
1912 ; res. 30th Sept. 1915 ; LL.D. (Edin
burgh 1916). Publications— The Apology of
Origen in reply to Celsus (Edinburgh,
1892); Translation of Origen 's Comment
ary on Matthew (Edinburgh, 1897); The
Conservative Reaction in New Testament
Criticism (Edinburgh, 1898); Clement of
Alexandria [Croall Lecture] (Edinburgh
1914).
WILLIAM ALEXANDER CURTIS,
1915 born Thurso, 17th March 1876, eldest
son of John Green C. of the Inland
Revenue, and Jane Green; educated at
George Watson's College, and. Univs. of
Edinburgh, M.A. (1897), B.D. (1901), Heidel
berg, Leipzig, and Oxford ; licen. by Presb.
of Edinburgh April 1901 ; app. to Chair
of Systematic Theology, Aberdeen, 29th
Sept. 1903 ; ord. 23rd Nov. 1903 ; D. Litt.
(Edinburgh 1911); D.D. (Edinburgh 1914);
trans, and adm. to this Chair 13th Sept.
1915 ; Convener of Continental Committee
of Presbyterian Alliance (Eastern Section) ;
app. Convener of Committee on Corres
pondence with other Reformed Churches
May 1925. Marr. 6th April 1905, Florence,
third daugh. of Robert Campbell Malseed,
Edendale, Londonderry, and Elizabeth
Hannah, and has issue— Arthur Herbert,
born 23rd July 1908 ; William Edgar, born
6th March 1914. Publications— Religion :
Yesterday, To-day, To-morrow [Inaugural
Lecture at Aberdeen] (Edinburgh, 1903); A
History of Creeds and Confessions of Faith
in Christendom and Eeyond (Edinburgh,
1911).
CHURCH HISTORY.
(FOUNDED 1694.)
JOHN GUMMING, son of John C., min.
1702 of ^ullen> and grandson of John C.
of Relugas; adm. 10th Nov. 1702;
died 1714.
WILLIAM DUNLOP, born 1692, son of
J7J5 William D., Principal of Univ. of
Glasgow, and nephew of Principal
Carstares ; educated at Univs. of Glasgow,
M.A., and Edinburgh, and at Utrecht,
where he studied Civil Law; licen. by
Presb. of Edinburgh 1714 ; adm. 4th March
1715; died unmarr. 1720. Publications—
4. Collection of Confessions of Faith
.London, 1719); A Full Account of the
Several ends and uses of Confessions of
Faith (London, 1720, Edinburgh, 1775);
Sermons preached on Several Subjects, 2
vols. [Memoir] (Edinburgh, 1722).— [Verses
to his Memory [Edinburgh] (1720) ; Grant's
Hist., ii., 307 ; Diet. Nat. Jti
MATTHEW CRAUFORD, born 1683,
21 son of Matthew C., min. of East
wood; educated at Univ. of Glas
gow ; licen. by Presb. of Paisley 13th Nov.
"706; ord. to Inchinnan llth May 1710;
>res. 16th June, trans, and adm. 15th Nov.
721 ; died 4th June 1736. He marr. (cont.
th June 1716) Christian, youngest daugh.
>f George Houston of Johnstone, and had
ssue— Euphemia (marr., pro. 21st July
765, Robert Gray, merchant, Edinburgh) ;
]lizabeth (marr., pro. 13th June 1742,
George Ogilvie,min. of Banchory-Devenick).
—[Beg. of Deeds, Dal., 12th Nov. 1747 ;
rant's Hist., ii., 308.]
PATRICK GUMMING of Relugas, D.D.
787 &• Vo1- *•> 76); min- of High
Church, Edinburgh ; adm. 7th Dec.
F37 ; res. 18th June 1762 ; died 1st April
776.
390
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY
[CHURCH HISTOKY
EGBERT GUMMING, son of preced-
1762 ing ; pres. by George III. 21st May,
and adm. 30th June 1762 ; died llth
June 1788. According to Bower, he never
delivered any lectures, and the Chair was
reduced to an absolute sinecure.— [Bower's
Hist. Univ. of Edinburgh, ii., 320.]
THOMAS HARDY of Navitie, D.D. ;
11788 min. of New North Church, Edin
burgh (cf. Vol. I., 147); app. by
George III., 4th, and adm. 31st July 1788 ;
died 21st Nov. 1798.
HUGH MEIKLEJOHN, D.D. ; min. of
I7gg Abercorn (cf. Vol. I., 190) ; app. 26th
Dec. 1798; adm. 21st Jan. 1799;
died llth June 1831.
DAVID WELSH, born Ericstane,
1831 Moffat, llth Dec. 1793, youngest
son of David W. of Earlshaugh and
Tweedshaws, Tweedsmuir, and Margaret,
daugh. of Alexander Welsh, Patervan ;
educated at Moffat School, High School,
and Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb.
of Lochmaben 7th May 1816 ; ord. to
Crossmichael 22nd March 1821 ; trans, to
St David's, Glasgow, 4th Oct. 1827 ; app. to
this Chair 27th Sept. 1831 ; D.D. (Glasgow
1831) ; app. Secretary to the Bible Board
1839 ; elected Moderator of the General
Assembly 19th May 1842. At opening of
the Assembly, 18th May 1843, after preach
ing the sermon, instead of proceeding
with the ordinary business, he read the
well-known Protest, placed it on the table
and headed a procession to Tanfield to
form the Free Church; res. his Chair 24th
June 1843; collected in two months
£20,000 towards building the New College
in Edinburgh ; app. librarian in same and
Professor of Church History in 1844 ; died at
Camis Eskin on the Clyde, 24th April 1845.
He marr. 1st June 1830 Mary (born llth
May 1797, died 17th July 1873), daugh. of
John Hamilton of North park, Glasgow, Lord
Provost of Glasgow, and had issue — David
James, major-general, Bengal Artillery, born
1832, died at Dawlish, Devonshire, 18th
April 1890; John Hamilton, born 1833,
died 22nd Nov. 1867 ; Margaret Mary, born
1837 (marr. William A. Porter, secretary to
Maharajah of Mysore), died at Madras 29th
Dec. 1879; George Robert, born March
1842, died 3rd Nov. 1844. Publications—
Account of the Life and Writings of Thomas
Brown, M.D. (Edinburgh, 1825); Sermons
on Practical Subjects (Edinburgh, 1834,
2nd ed., 1844); Letter to the Author of a
Tract entitled, "State of the Edinburgh
Churches" (Edinburgh, 1835); The Limits
and Extent of the Right of Private Judg
ment (Edinburgh, 1843); Elements of
Church History, A.D. 1-300, vol. i. only
(Edinburgh, 1844) ; projected and was first
editor of North British Review (1844) ;
Sermons (portrait) [with Memoir by Alex
ander Dunlop] (Edinburgh, 1846). Edited
[with Memoir] Lectures on the Philosophy of
the Human Mind, by Thomas Brown, M.D.
(Edinburgh, 1828,nineteenth edition, 1851) ;
Articles " Jesus " and " Jews " in Encyclo
paedia Britannica (seventh edition).— {Diet.
Nat. Biog. ; Memorial Brass in Tweedsmuir
Church ; Dunlop's Memoir ; Welsh Pedigree
MS. ; Grant's Story of Univ. of Edinburgh,
ii., 310; Edinburgh Academic Annual (1840);
Masson's Memories of Two Cities, 96-107.]
JAMES ROBERTSON, D.D., min. of
1844 Ellon (cf. Vol. VI., 191); pres. by
Queen Victoria 20th Oct. 1843 ; adm.
2nd March 1844 ; died 1st Dec. 1860.
WILLIAM STEVENSON, born Bar-
1861 ^Or(*' Lochwinnoch, 26th Oct. 1805,
second son of Hugh S., farmer;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by
Presb. of Paisley 5th May 1831 ; ord.
(assistant and successor) to Arbroath 17th
Oct. 1833 ; trans, to South Leith 10th May
1844; D.D. (Edinburgh, 9th April 1849);
Convener of Colonial Committee 28th May
1859 ; Convener of General Assembly's
Committee on British Guiana 30th May
1859; pres. by Queen Victoria 25th Feb.,
and adm. 25th May 1861 ; res. 27th Nov.
1872; died 14th June 1873. He was a
considerable bibliophile, and an accom
plished antiquary. He marr. (1) 25th
April 1837, Mary Henderson (died 1st April
1843), daugh. of John Aberdein, Montrose,
and had issue — Jane Renny, born 27th
March 1839 (marr. Major R. C. Dudgeon,
CHURCH HISTORY]
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY
391
61st Foot); Hugh William, born 14th April
1841, died 6th Sept. 1842 : (2) 10th June
1845, Isabella (died 25th March 1897),
daugh. of James Duncan, Leith, and widow
of David Webster, and had issue— James,
born 13th Nov. 1846 ; Mary Aberdein, born
12th Feb. 1848, died 13th Oct. 1852;
William, born 25th Oct. 1849 ; John Aber
dein, born 2nd March 1851 ; Isabella
Duncan, born 4th Oct. 1852; Elizabeth
Foggo, born 30th March 1855, died 20th
Oct. 1861 ; Edith Ann, born 4th Dec. 1856.
Publications— Christianity and Drunken
ness (Edinburgh, 1851) ; Sermon IV. (Church
of Scotland Pulpit, i.) ; The Legends and
Commemorative Celebrations of St Kenti-
gern, his Friends and Disciples (Edin
burgh, 1872, 1874).— [Obituary Notice, Proc.
fi.S.E., viii., 314.]
ROBERT WALLACE, D.D. ; min. of
Old Greyfriars, Edinburgh (<•/. Vol.
I., 43) ; pres. by Queen Victoria 23rd
Dec. 1872 ; adm. 25th Jan. 1873 ; res. 1st
Aug. 1876.
MALCOLM CAMPBELL TAYLOR,
born Dalinlongard, Argyllshire, 1832,
son of John T., schoolmaster, Kil-
arrow, Islay ; educated at Bowmore School,
Univs. of Glasgow, St Andrews, Heidel
berg, and Tubingen ; licen. 1860 ; ord. to
Greyfriars, Dumfries, 18th Dec. 1862;
trans, to First Charge, Montrose, 28th
Sept. 1865; D.D. (Glasgow 1866); trans,
to Crathie 6th June 1867; app. Extra
Chaplain to Queen Victoria in 1873 ; trans,
to Morningside 27th Nov. 1873; pres. by
Queen Victoria Oct. 1877; adm. to this
Chair 15th May 1877 ; secretary of Univer
sity Court, 1892-1915 ; res. Chair 31st Aug.
1908 ; LL.D. (Edinburgh 1909) ; died 10th
March 1922. He marr. 19th Sept. 1865,
Jessie (died 18th March 1928), daugh. of
James Sproat, Landis, New Abbey, and
had issue — James Sproat (assumed name
of Cameron), advocate, major 9th Royal
Scots, born 28th June 1866; Malcolm
Campbell, born 20th May 1868; Arthur,
major Scottish Rifles ; Jessie, born 2nd
Sept. 1869 (marr. Colin Campbell, D.D.,
min. of St Mary's, Dundee); Beatrice
Mary, born 22nd June 1871 ; Anna Weir,
born 18th Jan. 1873. Publications— " Last
Century in Braemar" (Good Words, xiv.,
834) ; John Knox [St Giles Lectures, Third
Series] (Edinburgh, 1883).
JAMES MACKINNON, born Ard-
1908 middle, Turriff, 15th July 1860, son
of Alexander M., land steward, Ard-
middle Estate, and Barbara Hay, daugh. of
John Black, farmer, Arnhead, Auchterless;
educated at Ardmiddle Public School,
Turriff Parish School (pupil teacher in the
former), and Univs. of Edinburgh, M.A.
(1889), Bonn, and Heidelberg, Ph.D. (1891) ;
graduate in Arts and Divinity of the
Theological College of the Dutch Reformed
Church, Stellenbosch, where for health
reasons he spent three years (1881-4); for a
short time ministered to the Presbyterian
Congregations at Newcastle and Dundee,
Natal ; licen. by Presb. of Turriff April
1886 ; locum lenens in St Andrew's Parish,
Dundee, 1886, and in the Abbey Parish,
Edinburgh, 1886-8 ; Lecturer in History
Queen Margaret College, Glasgow, and in
the Athenaeum, Glasgow, 1890-5 ; Exten
sion Lecturer in History, Univs. of Edin
burgh and St Andrews ; Examiner for
degrees in History, Univ. of Edinburgh,
1893-6;. app. First Lecturer in History,
Univ. of St Andrews, and held that office
till 1908, when he was app. by the Crown
to this Chair ; lectured in German at
the Berlin Congress (1908) and also at
the Brussels Congress; Director of the
Royal Blind Asylum and School, Edin
burgh, since 1910; Governor of StielFs
Educational Trust ; member for a number
of years of the Edinburgh Provincial
Committee for the Training of Teachers ;
F.R.S. (Edinburgh 1911); D.D. (St An
drews 1912) ; President of a section of
the International Historical Congress at
London (1913) and at Brussels (1923).
Marr. 9th Dec. 1886, Pauline, daugh. of
F. Klein, Cologne, and has issue— James
Alexander Rudolf, M.A., LL.B., advocate,
Examiner in Civil Law, General Juris
prudence, and International Law, Univ.
of Edinburgh (1924-8), born llth April
1888. Publications— South African Traits
392
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY
[CHURCH HISTORY
(London, 1888) ; Culture in Early Scotland
(London, 1892); The Union of England and
Scotland (London, 1896, 1907) ; The History
of Edivard III. (London, 1900) ; The Growth
and Decline of the French Monarchy (Lon
don, 1902) ; A History of Modern Liberty,
I. and II. (1906) [translated into German
and French], III. (1908); The British
Journalists in Germany (Aberdeen, 1907) ;
"Scholasticism and the record of Classic
Culture in Italy in opposition to it " (Proc.
Royal Phil. Soc., Glasgow, 1912); The
Social and Industrial History of Scotland
from Early Times to the Union (Glasgow,
1920) ; The Social and Industrial History
of Scotland from the Union to the Present
Time (London, 1921); The Constitutional
History of Scotland from Early Times to
the Reformation [in collaboration with his
son James] (London, 1924); Luther and
the Reformation, vol. i. (London, 1925),
vol. ii. (London, 1928).
GLASGOW UNIVERSITY
(FOUNDED 1450.)
PRINCIPALS.
ANDREW MELVILLE, min. of Govan ;
1574 app. in 1574 ; trans, to Principalship
of St Mary's College, St Andrews,
Oct. 1580.
THOMAS SMEATON, min. of Govan ;
1680 app. by James VI. 3rd Jan. 1580,
with parish of Govan (q.v.) in
conjunction.
PATRICK SHARPE, pres. by James
1586 VI. 10th Jan. 1585-6, holding parish
of Govan (q.v.) in conjunction.
ROBERT BO YD of Trochrig ; pres. by
1615 James VI. 25th Jan. 1615, holding
parish of Govan in conjunction ',
trans, to Greyfriars, Edinburgh, and
Principalship of Univ. of Edinburgh 18th
Oct. 1622.
JOHN CAMERON, born in Salt-
1622 mar^et °f Glasgow about 1579, son of
Thomas C. [the statement that he was
son of John C., min. of Dunoon, seems an
error] ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow (entered
1595), where he taught Greek for a year;
M.A. (1599); went abroad and was app.
teacher of Classical Languages in the
College of Bergerac, Bordeaux, 1600 ; pres.
by the Duke de Bouillon to Chair of
Philosophy in Univ. of Sedan, 1602 ; res.
1604, when he was nominated one of the
students of divinity maintained by the
Protestant Church of Bordeaux to prosecute
their studies for four years, of which he
spent one year at Paris, two at Geneva,
and one at Heidelberg, acting at the same
time as tutor to the two sons of Calignon,
Chancellor to Henry of Navarre. In 1608 he
was ord. colleague of Gilbert Primrose in the
Church of Begles, a suburb of Bordeaux,
where he remained till 1616; app. Professor
of Divinity in the Univ. of Saumur June
1618, and was elected Principal there 13th
Jan. 1621 ; owing to civil troubles he sought
refuge in England in 1620, and at London
read private lectures in divinity to French
refugees and others ; pres. to the Principal-
ship of Univ. of Glasgow Jan. 1622, but,
as Calderwood says, "he was so misliked
by the people that he was forced not long
after to remove out of Glasco." He
returned to Saumur, but re-instatement in
his professorship was refused owing to the
opposition of the King; app. Professor
of Divinity at Montauban in 1624, where
his doctrine of passive obedience was so
unpopular he was on the night of 13th
May 1625 so severely assaulted in the
streets that his health was permanently
impaired ; died at Montauban 27th Nov.
1625. He was, says Sir Thomas Urquhart,
from his universal reading known as " The
Walking Library." He marr. (1) 1611,
Suzanne Bernardin of Tonneins, on the
Garonne, who died llth March 1624, aged
30, and had issue — Joanna ; Elizabeth ;
Susannah ; and a son born 10th May 1622,
died aged 2 : (2) 26th Feb. 1625, Jeanne,
daugh. of Jacques de Thomas, avocat,
and widow of Jean Gautier, M.D. ; she
survived him s.p. Publications — Discours
apologetique pour ceux de la Religion Re-
forme"e au jugement de Dieu (Bergerac,
1614); Santangelus, sive Steliteuticus in
Eliam Santangelum causidicum (La Roch-
elle, 1616) ; Traicte auquel sont examinez les
prejugez de ceux de I'Eglis Romaine contre
la Religion Reformee (La Rochelle, 1617),
translated into English as An Examination
of those Plausible Appearances which seem
most to commend the Romish Church and
to prejudice the Reformed (Oxford, 1626) ;
Theses de Gratia et Libero Arbitrio (Saumur,
394
GLASGOW UNIVERSITY
[PRINCIPALS
1618) ; Theses XLII. Theologies de Necessi
tate Satisfactions Christi pro Peccatis
(Saumur, 1620) ; Arnica Collatio de gratice
ft voluntatis humance concursa in vocatione
et quibus dam annexis (Leyden, 1622) ; Sept
Sermons sur le cap. VI de VEvangile de
St Jean (Saumur, 1624) ; Defensio Sen-
tentice de gratia et libero arbitris (Saumur,
1624); John Cameronis, S. Theologice in
Academia Salmuriensi nuper Professoris,
Praelectiones in selectiora qucedam N.T.
loca Salmurii habitae (Saumur, 1626-8) ;
Myro-thecium Evangelicum in quo aliquot
loca Novi Testamenti explicantur: una
cum Spicilegio Ludovici Cappelli de eodem
argumento cum que 2 Diatribis in Matth.
XV. 5 de Voto Jephtce (Geneva, 1632;
Saumur, 1677); Joannis Cameronis, Scoto
Britanni Theologi eximii, TO. aw^^^va.
sive Opera partim ab auctore ipso edita,
partim post ejus obitum vulgata, partim
nusquam hactenus publicata, vel e Gallico
idiomate nunc primum in Latinam linguam
translata : in unum collecta, et variis
indicibus instructa (Geneva, 1642), with
Memoir of Author. — [Diet. Nat. JBiog. ;
Eeid's Divinity Principals, 170-251 [has a
Bibliography for the Life of John Cameron];
Haag's La France Protestante, iii. (1881);
Scottish Hist. Review, vii., 325-45 ; John
Cameron, Non-Juror, his Ancestors and
Descendants, by George Henry Cameron,
M.A., Archdeacon of Johannesburg (p.p.,
1919); Cat. Edin. Univ. Lib., i., 660.]
JOHN STRANG, born 1584, son of
William S., min. of Irvine ; educated
at Grammar School of Kilmarnock
and Univ. of St Andrews; M.A. (1600);
became regent in St Leonard's College, St
Andrews ; licen. by Presb. there ; ord. to
Errol 10th April 1614 ; D.D. (St Andrews,
29th July 1616); member of the Perth
Assembly of 1618, but did not vote for
the Five Articles which it was resolved
should be observed ; app. member of the
High Commission 15th June 1619 ; adm.
to Principalship 21st Feb. 1626. In 1637,
during the Covenanting struggle, he took
a middle course which pleased neither
party, but he opposed the introduction of the
new liturgy, and was largely instrumental
in securing its rejection. He drew up,
with others, in 1638, protests to the
Glasgow Assembly against elders sitting
in that Court or voting in Presbyteries at
the election of clerical members, but his
supporters withdrew and the Covenanting
party threatening to treat him as an open
enemy he gave up his opposition. Shortly
afterwards he was charged with teaching
heretical doctrines to the students, and the
matter was referred to a committee of the
most learned men in the Church who
reported in favour of his orthodoxy in Aug.
1647. Further charges having been made,
he resigned in April 1650 on a pension.
He died while on a visit to Edinburgh, 20th
June 1654, and was buried in Grey friars
Churchyard there. He marr. (1) Janet
(died Feb. 1627), daugh. of William Hay
of Barra, and widow of James Smyth, min.
of Errol, and had issue— Helen (marr. (1)
James Elliot, D.D., min. of Trinity Parish,
Edinburgh : (2) Robert Baillie, Principal of
Univ. of Glasgow) ; Elizabeth (marr. David
Fletcher, Bishop of Argyll): (2) Agnes
Fleming, who died Jan. 1641, and had issue
—William, died 1651, aged 22; Margaret,
(marr. William Ferguson of Caitloch) ;
Nicolas, buried in Greyfriars Churchyard,
Edinburgh, 17th Aug. 1676; Agnes: (3)
Anna Stewart, who died June 1649. Publi
cations — De Voluntate et Actionibus Dei
circa Peccatum (Amsterdam, 1657) ; De
Interpretatione et Perfectione Scripturce,
una cum opusculis de Sabbato (Rotterdam,
1663).— [G. R. Inhib., 4th July 1615, 20th
Oct. 1665; G. R. Homings, 27th Nov.
1669; Perth Homings, 28th April 1627;
Aryyll Sas., i., 22nd July 1676, 154;
Reg. of Deeds, cccclxvi., 193 ; Diet. Nat.
Biog. ; Calderwood's Hist., vii., 222 ; Reid's
Divinity Principals, 252-301 ; Life [by Robert
Baillie] prefixed to De Interpretatione.]
1651
ROBERT RAMSAY, born about 1598;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow;
M.A. (1618); became schoolmaster
of Irvine ; adm. to Dundonald in 1625 ;
trans, to Blackfriars, Glasgow, 13th Dec.
1640 ; trans, to St Mungo's, Glasgow, 16th
April -1647; elected Rector of the Univ.
16th June 1648 ; app. Principal 28th Aug.
PRINCIPALS]
GLASGOW UNIVERSITY
395
1651 ; died 4th Sept. that year. He marr.
(1) Marion Mure of Airdhill, granddaugh.
and heiress of William Mure, burgess of
Irvine : (2) Janet, daugh. of Hugh Campbell
of Hullerhurst, and had issue— James, min.
of Hamilton and Bishop of Dunblane (q.v.) ;
Margaret (marr. Alexander Mylne,merchant
burgess of Linlithgow). — [Reg. Mag. Sig.,
viii., 945 ; Laing Charters, 2045 ; Lower
Ward Sas., vii., 418 ; G. R. Sas., xxiii., 183 ;
Baillie's Letters ; Nicol's Diary.}
PATEICK GILLESPIE, min. of East
Parish, Glasgow (cf. Vol. III., 462) ;
app. 14th April 1653, which he held
in conjunction; deprived in 1660.
EGBERT BAILLIE, born in Saltmarket
16QO of Glasgow, 30th April 1602 (as
appears from one of his college note
books), eldest son of James B., merchant,
Glasgow; educated at High School and
Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A. (1620) ; licen. by
Archbishop Law ; became a regent of
Philosophy in the Univ., and tutor to the
son of the Earl of Eglinton ; ord. to Kil-
winning 25th May 1631 ; adm. burgess of
Glasgow 6th July 1631 ; was a member of
Glasgow Assembly for Presb. of Irvine
1638 ; in 1640 was app. by the Covenanters
to draw up an accusation against Arch
bishop Laud. He was app. chaplain to
Lord Eglinton's Eegiment in 1639 and
attended the army under Leslie at Duns
Law, and next year was again in arms
with the Covenanters and went to London ;
trans, to Tron, Glasgow, llth Aug. 1642,
holding the Chair of Divinity in conjunc
tion with David Dickson. He was one of
the delegates to the Westminster Assembly,
1643-6, and presented to the General As
sembly the completed Confession of Faith,
and the version of the Psalms in metre
Jan. 1647. On the accession of Charles
II. in 1649 he was app. by the General
Assembly one of the divines to wait upon
the King at the Hague, and on 27th March
1649 addressed His Majesty in a remark
able speech. At the Restoration he was
app. Principal, but died end of Aug. 1662.
He marr. (1) 1631, Lilias Fleming of the
family of Cardarroch, parish of Gadder,
who died 7th June 1653, and had issue —
Lilias (marr., cont. 7th and 16th Jan. 1657,
William Eccles, min. of Ayr); Helen, bapt.
20th Jan. 1644 ; Elizabeth, bapt. 23rd Oct.
1647 ; other three children : (2) 1656, Helen
(died Feb. 1679), daugh. of John Strang,
D.D., Principal of the Univ., and widow
of James Elliot, D.D., min. of Trinity
Parish,Edinburgh,and had issue— Margaret,
bapt. 21st July 1657 (marr. John Walkin-
shaw of Barrowfield and Camlachie, and
was ancestress of Clementina Mary Sophia
W., mistress of Prince Charles Edward).
Publications — Ladensium auTOKaraKpicns : the
Canterburian's Self -Conviction, An Evident
Demonstration of the Avowed Arminianisme,
Poperie, and Tyrannic of the Faction, by
their owne Confessions ; with a Postcript to
the Personal Jesuite Lysimachus Nicanor,
a prime Canterburian [anon.] (Amsterdam,
1640, 3rd ed., London, 1641) ; A Parallel or
Brief e Comparison of the Liturgie with the
Masse-Book, the Breviarie, the Ceremoniall,
and other Romish Ritualls (London, 1641);
An Antidote against Arminianisme (Lon
don, 1641); The Unlawfulness and Danger
of Limited Episcopacie [in support of Alex
ander Henderson's Tract on the "Unlaw
fulness and Danger of Limited Prelacie);]
[anon.] (1641) ; Satan the Leader -in-Chief to
all who resist the Reparation of Sion ; as it
was cleared in a Sermon to the Honourable
House of Commons at their late Solemn
Fast, 28th Feb. 1643 (London, 1643);
Errours and Induration are the great Sins
and the great Judgments of the Time;
preached in a Sermon before the Right
Honourable the House of Peers in the
Abbey Church of Westminster, 30th July
1645 (London, 1645) ; A Dissuasive from
the Errours of the Time ; wherein the Tenets
of the Principall Sects, especially of the
Independents, are drawn together in a Map
(London, 1645); An Historical Vindication
of the Government of the Church of Scot
land from the manifold base Calumnies
which the most malignant of the Prelates
did invent of old, and now lately have
been published with great industry in two
pamphlets at London; the one intituled
" Issachar's Burden," etc., written and pub
lished at Oxford by John Maxwell, a
Scottish Prelate, etc. (London, 1646) ; Ana-
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baptisme, the True Fountaine of Independ
ency, Broivnisme, Antinomy, Familisme,
etc., or a Second Part of the Dissuasive
from the Errours of the Time (London,
1647) ; A Review of Dr Bramble [Bram-
hall], late Bishop of Londonderry, his Faire
Warning against the Scotes Disciplin
(Delf, 1649); Appendix Practica adJoannis
Buxtorsii Epitomen Grammaticce Hebrcece
[anon.] (Edinburgh, 1653); Catachesis
Elenetica Errorum qui hodie vexant Ec-
clesiam (London, 1654) ; The Dissuasive
from the Errours of the i Time, vindicated
from the Exceptions of Mr Cotton and Mr
Tombes (London, 1655); Operis Historei et
Chronologei Libri Duo (Amsterdam, 1 663) ;
Letters and Journals, 1637-1662, 2 vols.
(Edinburgh, 1775) [edited by David Laing],
3 vols. (Bannatyne Club, Edinburgh, 1841-2).
MSS. of Baillie are preserved in Glasgow
and Edinburgh Univ. Libraries, and in the
National Library of Scotland.— [Carlyle's
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, ix.,
217-52 ; Catalogue Edin. Univ. Lib., i.,
216; Glasgow Burgess Roll; G. R. Sas.,
xlii., 360; Scot. Antiq., vii., 134; Reid's
Divinity Professors, 75-126 [has a Biblio
graphy] ; Memoir by David Laing in
Letters and Journals ; Anderson's The
Scottish Nation, i., 174 et seq. ; James
Reid's Memoirs of Westminster Divines ;
Irving's Lives, ii., 55-70 ; Diet. Nat. £iog.]
EDWARD WRIGHT of Kersie, son of
William W., merchant ; educated at
1 Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (22nd July
1620); pres. to Clackmannan 16th Sept.
1626 ; trans, to High Kirk, Glasgow, 25th
April 1641 ; elected Professor of Divinity
at Aberdeen, but the Assembly refused
translation 2nd Aug. that year; trans, to
Falkirk 25th Nov. 1646 ; pres. 20th Sept.,
and adm. to Principalship llth Dec. 1662 ;
died 1683. He marr. Margaret Brown, and
had issue — James ; Edward. — [Stirling
Tests.]
JAMES FALL, educated at Univ. of
1688 Edinburgh ; M.A. (1665) ; adm. 29th
Sept. 1683; deprived 26th Sept.
1690 ; went to England and became a
prebend of York. — [Munimenta Univ. of
Glasgoiv, iii., 589.]
WILLIAM DUNLOP, born 1654, eldest
1690 son °^ Alexander D-3 min. of Paisley ;
became tutor in the family of Lord
Cochrane ; was employed to carry to the
army of the Duke of Buccleuch and Mon-
mouth a declaration of the complaints and
aims of the more moderate Presbyterians.
In 1684 he emigrated with others to
Carolina in America, where he became
major in a militia regiment and its chaplain.
After the Revolution he returned home
and was called to Ochiltree and Paisley, but
declined ; app. Principal llth Dec. 1690,
and did much to restore the dilapidated
condition of the University ; was a Director
of the Darien Company ; ord. as a min. in
Glasgow without charge, and in 1694 was
commissioned by the General Assembly
along with Patrick Gumming, min. of
Ormiston, to congratulate King William on
his return from the Continent, and in
1695 to prepare an Address to the King on
the death of the Queen; app. Historio
grapher for Scotland in 1693; died 8th
March 1700. He marr. Sarah, daugh. of
John Carstairs, min. of St Mungo, Glasgow,
and had issue — Alexander, professor of
Greek, Glasgow, born 1684, died 27th
April 1747 ; William, professor of Church
History, Edinburgh, born 1692, died 1720.
—[Diet. Nat. Biog.1
JOHN STIRLING, bapt. 18th Aug.
I7ol 1654, son of John S., min. of Kil-
barchan ; educated at Univ. of
Glasgow; licen. by Presb. there 12th Feb.
1690; ord. to Inchinnan 7th May 1691;
trans, to Greenock llth Sept. 1694; app.
Principal 8th May, and adm. 18th Sept.
1701 ; Moderator of General Assembly, 5th
April 1707; died 29th Sept. 1727. He
marr. Elizabeth Stewart, who was buried
28th Dec. 1738.
NEIL CAMPBELL, born 1678, son of
1728 Major John C., of the denary
family ; educated by his uncle,
Patrick C., min. of Glenaray; licen. by
Presb. of Argyll 21st June 1701; ord. to
Kilmallie 9th Sept. 1702; trans, to Ros-
neath 15th July 1709 ; trans, to Renfrew
18th July 1716; adm. Principal 17th Jan.
1728; died 22nd June 1761. He marr.
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7th June 1705, Henrietta, second daugh.
of Patrick Campbell of Kildusklan, and
had issue — Ann, born 16th Feb. 1712
(marr. John Somerville, Glasgow) ; Patrick,
surgeon, born 6th Dec. 1713, died in Jamaica,
16th Nov. 1739; Archibald, captain 26th
Marines, born 5th Jan. 1716, died unmarr. ;
Isabella, born 6th and died 9th Sept.
1717; Colin, min. of Kenfrew, born 16th
July 1718 ; Neil, clerk in Ordnance Survey,
born 24th March 1721 ; Mary, born 2nd
June 1723 (marr. 13th Sept. 1748, Kichard
Betham, LL.D.) ; Duncan of Adelphi, born
5th Jan. 1726; Margaret, born 9th Sept.
1727, died 13th July 1732; Warburton,
born 28th April 1732, died 13th Feb. 1735 ;
John, born 27th June 1734, died 7th June
1740.— [Scot. Hist. Review, iv., 106, 234.]
WILLIAM LEECHMAN [or LEISH-
1761 MAN [his original signature] of
Auchen cairn, Gadder, born 1706, son
of William L., farmer, Roberton, Dolphin -
ton, Lanarkshire [who, when a youth, had
taken down the part of the body [a leg]
of Robert Baillie of Jerviswood, which had
been exposed on Lanark Tolbooth, and in
gratitude for which act the Baillie family
helped the younger L.] ; educated at
Dolphinton School and Univ. of Edin
burgh; M.A. (1724); became tutor to
James Geddes of Kirkurd, author of The
Composition of the Antients (1748), and
afterwards to William Mure of Caldwell ;
licen. by Presb. of Paisley 13th Oct. 1731 ;
ord. to Beith 30th Sept. 1736; app. to
Chair of Divinity 3rd Jan. 1744; D.D.
(Glasgow 1754). The Presb. refused to
induct him, alleging he had made heretical
statements in a sermon published in 1743,
on the subject of Prayer, but the Synod
reversed the judgment, this finding being
confirmed by the General Assembly;
elected Moderator of the General Assembly
May 1757 ; purchased Auchencairn in
1758 ; trans, and adm. to Principalship
26th Aug. 1761 ; died 3rd Dec. 1785. He
marr. 26th June 1743, Bridget (died s.p.
20th Oct. 1792), daugh. of James Balfour
of Pilrig. Publications— On the Temper,
Character, and Duty of a Minister of the
Gospel, a sermon (Glasgow, 1740), several
editions ; On the Nature, Reasonableness,
and Advantages of Prayer (Glasgow, 1743) ;
Memoir of Francis Hutcheson prefaced to
A System of Moral Philosophy, 2 vols.
(London, 1755); The Wisdom 'of God in
the Christian Revelation (Edinburgh, 1758) ;
Sermon [Life by James Wodrow], 2 vols.
(London, 1789).— [Dwt. Nat. Biog.; "The
College Principal " (portrait) in J. F.
Leishman's A Son of Knox, 65-87 (Glasgow,
1909).]
ARCHIBALD DAVIDSON, born about
1732, son of Robert D., min. of
Crawfordjohn ; educated at Univ.
of Glasgow ; M.A. (1752) ; ord. to Second
Charge, Paisley Abbey, 7th Sept. 1758;
trans, to Inchinnan 20th Oct. 1761 ; D.D.
(Glasgow 1786); app. Principal 25th Oct.
1786; elected Moderator of General As
sembly in 1788; app. Dean of the Thistle
31st March 1792; died 7th July 1803.
He marr. Grizel, daugh. of Peter Scott,
min. of Paisley, and had issue— Robert,
LL.B., advocate, Professor of Law, Univ.
of Glasgow, born 29th March 1768, died
24th July 1842 ; Andrew, major 15th Foot,
born 21st Nov. 1773.
WILLIAM TAYLOR, D.D., min. of St
1803 Mungo's, Glasgow (cf. Vol. III., 458) ;
app. in 1803, holding his parish in
conjunction ; died 29th March 1823.
DUNCAN MACFARLAN, D.D., min.
of St Mungo's, Glasgow (cf. Vol. III.,
458) ; app. 17th April 1823, holding
his parish in conjunction ; died 25th Nov.
1857.
THOMAS BARCLAY, D.D., min. of
Currie (cf. Vol. I., 16) ; pres. 13th
Feb., and adm. 15th May 1858 ; died
23rd Feb. 1873. His widow died 18th Jan.
1881.
JOHN CAIRO, born Greenock, 15th
78 Dec. 1820, son of John C., engineer,
and Janet Young, Port-Glasgow ;
educated at Greenock Grammar School;
entered his father's business at the age of
fifteen, and worked his way through several
of the foundry's departments, the intention
aeing that he should ultimately succeed
to the business. In 1837 he entered the
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Univ. of Glasgow, returning at the close
of the session to his post at the foundry,
but the death of his father decided his
future career, and he became again a
student, one of the most distinguished of
his time ; M.A. (1845) ; missionary at
Ardentinny ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow
in 1845 ; ord. to Newton-upon-Ayr 18th
Sept. 1845 ; trans, to Lady Tester's, Edin
burgh, 6th May 1847; trans, to Errol 13th
July 1849 ; app. one of the Chaplains-in-
Ordinary to the Queen 7th Dec. 1857;
trans, to The Park, Glasgow, 24th Dec.
that year; D.D. (Glasgow 1860); app.
to Chair of Divinity Nov. 1862; app.
Principal 7th, trans, and adm. 20th March
1873; Croall Lecturer 1878-9; LL.D. (St
Andrews 1883) ; D.D. (Edinburgh 1884) ;
res. Royal chaplaincy in 1888; Gifford
Lecturer 1890-1; died at Greenock, 30th
July 1898. " He was in the world, but
not of it ; thinking, teaching, and preach
ing, he lived in a calm, pure region of his
own, unaffected by the strife and enmities
of his generation, and in communion with
all things fair and immortal. To this day
the name of John Caird casts a spell, an
elusive glamour, over Scotland. Those
who heard him preach, reckon that as
among the greatest privileges which life
afforded them, and to those who never
did, the tradition remains still green of
the wonderful and unparalleled reverence
in which his nation held him." He marr.
15th June 1858, Isabella Riddle (died 8th
Sept. 1913), daugh. of William Glover,
D.D., min. of Greenside, but had no issue.
Publications — Religion in Common Life
[preached at Crathie 14th Oct. 1855] (Edin
burgh, 1855, many editions) ; Sermons
(Edinburgh, 1858); Sermon Essays [re
printed from Good Words] (Edinburgh,
1863) ; Christian Manliness, a sermon
(Glasgow, 1871) ; What is Religion ? a
sermon (Glasgow, 1871) ; Two sermons in
Scotch Sermons (London, 1880 ) ; An Intro
duction to the Philosophy of Religion
[Croall Lecture] (Glasgow, 1880; 2nd ed.,
1900) ; Spinoza [Blackwood's Philosophical
Classics] (Edinburgh, 1888) ; University
Addresses (Glasgow, 1898) ; University
Sermons (Glasgow, 1899) ; The Fundamental
Ideas of Christianity, 2 vols. [Gifford
Lecture], with Memoir by his brother
Edward, Master of Balliol (Glasgow, 1899).
— [Diet. Nat. Biog.; Warr's Principal Caird
(Edinburgh, 1926) ; Sir Henry Jones's
Principal Caird (Glasgow, 1898).]
ROBERT HERBERT STORY, born
Rosneath, 28th Jan. 1835, only sur-
1898 viving son of Robert S., min. of
Rosneath ; educated at Rosneath School
and Univs. of Edinburgh, Heidelberg, and
St Andrews ; licen. by Presb. of Dun-
barton 2nd Nov. 1858 ; assistant at St
Andrew's Church, Montreal, Canada, 12th
March to 20th Nov. 1859, being ord. (by
Presb. of Montreal) 20th Sept. that year ;
adm. to Rosneath 23rd Feb. 1860. On 31st
Jan. 1865, with two others, he founded the
Church Service Society ; D.D. (Edinburgh
1874); app. First Lee Lecturer in 1886 ; app.
junior clerk of General Assembly May
1886; app. Chaplain-in-Ordinary to Queen
Victoria, 22nd Sept. that year, and to King
Edward ; app. to Chair of Church History,
Univ. of Glasgow, 9th Nov. 1886; LL.D.
(Michigan Univ. 1887) ; elected Moderator
of General Assembly 24th May 1894 ; app.
principal clerk May 1895 ; Baird Lecturer in
1897 ; app. Principal and Vice-Chancellor
1st Aug. 1898 ; LL.D. (St Andrews 1900) ;
died 13th Jan. 1907. In the General
Assembly he was the most notable figure of
his time, tall and handsome, courtly and
somewhat reserved in his manner, incisive
in debate, shrewd, sagacious, with a large
following who respected his opinions and
regarded him as leader of the Church.
He marr. 21st Oct. 1863, Janet Leith (died
llth Sept. 1926), author of Charlie Nugent ;
Early Reminiscences (Glasgow, 1911), Later
Reminiscences (Glasgow, 1913), daugh. of
Captain Philip Maughan, H.E.I.C.S., and
Margaret Arnott, and had issue — Robert,
born 1864, died in infancy; Elizabeth Maria
Margaret Arnott, born 17th Sept. 1866;
Helen Constance Herbert, born 13th May
1871. Publications — Poems by a Parson
[anon.] (1854) ; Memoir of the Rev. Robert
Story (Cambridge, 1862) ; The New Law
or the Old (Glasgow, 1865) ; Christ the Con
soler, a Selection of Scriptures, Hymns, and
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Prayers for Times of Trouble aiid Sorrow
(Edinburgh, 1865) ; The Life and Remains
of Robert Lee, D.D. (London, 1870) ; William
Carstares, a Character and Career of tht
Revolutionary Epoch, 1649-1715 (London
1874) ; Creed and Conduct, a collection oi
sermons (Glasgow, 1878 ; 2 vols., 1883) ; St
Modan of Rosneath, a Fragment of Scottish
Hagiology (Paisley, 1878) ; Health Haunts
of the Riviera and South- West of France
(1881) ; The Reformed Ritual in Scotland
[Lee Lecture] (Edinburgh, 1886) ; The
Apostolic Ministry in the Scottish Church
[Baird Lecture] (Glasgow, 1897); Inaugural
Address to University of Glasgow (Glasgow,
1898) ; Sermon at the Annual Meeting of
Glasgow Society of Sons of Ministers of
the Church of Scotland (Glasgow, 1905);
Nugai Ecclesiastical [Moses Peerie] (Edin.,
1884). Edited The Scottish Church after
wards The Scots Magazine (1885-9); The
Church of Scotland, Past and Present, 5
vols. (London, 1890-1).— [Memoir (portraits)
by his daughters (Glasgow, 1909); Diet
Nat. Biog.]
SIR DONALD MACALISTER, Bart,
1907 K-C-R> M-D-> LL.D., D.C.L., D.SC.,
D.Phil. ; app. in 1907.
DIVINITY (FOUNDED 1640).
DAVID DICKSON, min. of Irvine;
1640 app> 30th Jan> 164°; trans- to S*
Giles and Chair of Divinity, Univ.
of Edinburgh, 14th Jan. 1650 (q.v.).
ROBERT BAILLIE, min. of Kilwin-
1642 ning; app> 30th Jan< 1640> but not
ind. till 6th July 1642, holding the
parish of Tron in conjunction; trans, to
Principalship after 13th April 1649 (q.v.).
JOHN YOUNG, born 1624 ; app. 15th
1652 Oct'5 and adm< 3rd Nov- 1652;
elected Dean of Faculty July 1653 ;
elected Bishop of Argyll in 1665, but died
unconsecrated June that year. He marr.
(1) Barbara Roberton : (2) (cont. 3rd Feb.
1660), Marion, daugh. of Colin Campbell of
Blythswood.— [G. R. Sas., 2nd ser., ix., 193 ;
Glasgow Tests., 23rd Jan. 1668, llth Aug.
1691 ; Munimenta Univ. of Glasgow, i., 399.]
GILBERT BURNET, M.A. (cf. Vol. I.,
1669 392)> formerly min. of Saltoun ;
trans, and adm. 2nd Dec. 1669 ; res.
10th Sept. 1674 ; was afterwards Bishop of
Salisbury.
DAVID LIDDELL,born Aberdeen, 1621
1674 ^Sa*d t0 ^e °f a family who were
benefactors of and Professors in
Marischal College]; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen; M.A. (31st July 1638);
was probably a chaplain in Scottish
army, and taken prisoner at the Battle of
Worcester in 1650; ord. to Channelkirk
30th May 1650; trans, to Barony Parish
after 25th Sept. 1662; elected Dean of
Faculty in Univ. 27th Nov. 1665 ; app. to
this Chair 21st Oct. 1674; died probably
unmarr. about 1682. — [Allan's Hist, of
Channelkirk, 159-76.]
ALEXANDER ROSE, min. of Perth ;
1682 elected 27th Sept- 1682; app. to
Principalship of St Mary's College,
St Andrews, 22nd Oct. 1686 (q.v.).
JAMES WEMYSS, D.D., Regent of St
1687 Andrews; ord- to Kirkliston, 31st
July 1663; elected 29th Oct. 1687.
Marr. Helen Stirling. — [Reg. of Deeds,
Mack., xvii., 473.]
JAMES WODROW, born 2nd Jan. 1637,
;92 fourth son of Robert W. in Hill of
Eaglesham, chamberlain to the Earl
of Eglinton ; educated at Eaglesham School
>nder John Tran, afterwards Professor of
Philosophy, Univ. of Glasgow], Grammar
School, and Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A. (31st
Oct. 1659) ; licen. privately at Glasgow by
line Presbyterian mins. 24th Feb. 1673;
Decame preacher at conventicles in 1674 ;
mtor to the Duke of Hamilton's children
Nov. 1675; denounced in 1676 for not
obeying the citation of the Privy Council ;
app. to the Markdaylay Meeting-house
'South Quarter, Glasgow), 21st Aug. 1688 ;
trans, to Outer High Church in 1689 ; trans,
and adm. to this Chair 22nd Feb. 1692;
died 25th Sept. 1707. He marr. (1) 1673 the
widow (died Sept. 1688) of Hugh Dunlop,
bailie of Glasgow.and had issue— Alexander,
min. of Tron, Glasgow, born 1674 ; Robert,
scclesiastical historian, min. of Eastwood
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[DIVINITY
(q.v.) : (2) 1692, Janet, eldest daugh. of John
Luke, sugar refiner, Glasgow, and had issue
—a child, died young; a son, physician,
Glasgow. He left in MS. an unfinished
work, entitled Compendium Meletematum
de Vulgaribus in Doctrina Scholastica
Erroribus. — [Wodrow's Anal., iii., 116;
Keid's Divinity Professors, 171-203 ; Life
by his son Robert (Edinburgh, 1828).]
JOHN SIMSON, born 13th July 1667,
17Q8 eldest son of Patrick S., min. of
Renfrew ; educated at Univs. of
Edinburgh, M.A. (18th July 1692), and
Glasgow; librarian to Univ. of Glasgow
April 1696 ; went to Leyden, Holland, in
1696; licen. by Presb. of Paisley 13th
July 1698 ; again went to Holland in Sept.
that year, as tutor to John, eldest son of
Francis Montgomerie of Giffen, and studied
divinity under John Marckius, author of
the Medulla ; returned Aug. 1700 ; became
assistant to his father; ord. to Troqueer
20th Sept. 1705; app. to this Chair 7th
July, trans, and adm. 21st Sept. 1708;
died 2nd Feb. 1740. He was the first
notable heretic within the Scottish Church,
the first to strike a blow that woke her
from the lethargy of centuries. From
1714 to 1717 he was libelled on charges
of Arminianism, and from 1721 to 1729 his
alleged Arian beliefs were challenged by
the General Assembly. He was finally pro
hibited from all ecclesiastical function, 13th
May 1729, though retaining the emolu
ments of his Chair and his title of Pro
fessor. His supposed heterodox views
included a belief that the moon was
inhabited, that happiness here and hereafter
was the chief aim of the Gospel, that the
heathen could be saved even without the
knowledge of Christ, God having declared
Himself to man also by way of natural
revelation, and that all baptized infants
went immediately to glory at their death.
He marr. 31st Oct. 1710, Jean (died 27th
Nov. 1782), daugh. of James Stirling, min.
of The Barony, Glasgow, and niece of
Principal John S., and had issue — Patrick,
born 16th March 1712, died 2nd Sept. 1716 ;
James, born 1st Dec. 1713, died 17th April
1716; Margaret, born 9th Aug. 1715, died
3rd Nov. 1725 ; Joanna, born 23rd March
1719, died 12th April 1731; Anna, born
15th Aug. 1720 (marr. Matthew Morthland
of Rindmuir), died llth March 1802;
Sarah, born 7th March 1722, died 15th
Feb. 1723; John, born 29th June 1723,
died 18th Feb. 1730 ; Elizabeth, born 12th
Nov. 1724 ; Patrick, born 16th May 1727,
died 2nd Feb. 1733; James, born 29th
April 1729, died in London 26th May
1777 ; Margaret, born 31st Jan. 1731, died
2nd Feb. 1733; Sarah, born 4th July
1732 died 19th Aug. 1735; Jean, born
5th July 1735 (marr. 1757, John Moore,
M.D., author of Zeluco, and was mother
of Lieut. - General Sir John M., hero of
Corunna), died in London 25th March 1820.
Publications— The Case (Glasgow, 1715);
Continuations of the Case (Edinburgh,
1727-9). — [Henderson's Religious Contro
versies of Scotland, 4-19 ; An Enquiry into
Mr Simson's Sentiments by Principal James
Hadow (Edinburgh, 1730) ; Mathieson's
Scotland and the Union (1905), 224, et seq. ;
Wodrow's Anal., iii. 183, 207, iv. 54 ; Diet.
Nat. Biog. ; Cunningham's Church Hist.
(1882), 246, 264-75 ; John Flint's Examen
Doctrines D. Johannis Simson (1717);
Williamson's Remarks on Mr Simson's Case
(1727); Dundas's State of the Processes
(1728); Proceedings of the Committee of
1727 (Edinburgh, 1729); Reid's Divinity
Professors, 204-40 [has a full Bibliography] ;
Cat. Edin. Univ. Lib., iii., 647.]
MICHAEL POTTER, of Easter Livi-
1740 lands, born 1670, son of Michael P.,
min. of Dunblane ; educated at Univ.
of Edinburgh ; M.A. (9th July 1694) ; licen.
by Presb. of Dunblane 2nd May 1699; ord.
to Kippen 7th May 1700 ; trans, and adm.
(amidst much opposition, he being then
in his 70th year) 4th Dec. 1740; Dean of
Faculty in 1742; died 23rd Nov. 1743.
He marr. 26th April 1706, Elizabeth
Hamilton, who survived him, and had
issue — Michael, born 1709 ; Margaret
(marr. James Baine, min. of High Kirk
Parish, Paisley), died aged 90.— [Coutt's
Hist, of Univ. of Glasgow, 236.]
WILLIAM LEECHMAN [or LEISH-
MAN], min. of Beith ; app. 3rd Jan.
1744 ; trans, to Principalship 26th
Aug. 1761 (q.v.}.
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ROBERT TRAIL, born 1720, second soi
1761 of William T., min. of Benholme
educated at Univ. of Edinburgh
licen. by Presb. of Brechin 1st Aug. 1744
ord. to Kettins 22nd Jan. 1746; trans. t<
Banff 20th Dec. 1753; D.D. (St Andrews
18th Feb. 1760); adm. Professor o,
Oriental Languages in this Univ. 15th
July 1761 ; trans, to Chair of Divinity, anc
adm. 16th Oct. that year; Moderator ol
General Assembly 20th May 1762; diec
17th Oct. 1775. He marr. 5th Nov. 1747
Christian, daugh. of Thomas Thomson, mia
of Auchtermuchty.— [Coutt's Hist., 240, 275
et seq. ; Chalmers and Trail Ancestry, 40.]
JAMES BATLLIE, born Crichton about
1775 1723> eldest son of Matthew B.,
schoolmaster; educated at Univ. of
Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith
27th April 1749; ord. to Shotts 7th Nov.
1754; trans, to Bothwell 2nd Sept. 1762;
trans, to Second Charge, Hamilton, 23rd
Oct. 1766; D.D. (Glasgow 1772); trans,
and adm. 19th Dec. 1775; died 28th April
1778. He marr. 1758, Dorothea (born 26th
Jan. 1721, died 29th Sept. 1805), fourth
daugh. of John Hunter of Long Calder-
wood and Agnes Paul, sister of John and
William H. the anatomists, and had issue-
William, born 1759, died 1760; Agnes,
born 24th Sept. 1760, died 27th April 1861 ;
Matthew, M.D., F.R.S., morbid anatomist,
born 27th Oct. 1761, died 23rd Sept. 1823;
Joanna, Scottish poetess and dramatist,
born llth Sept. 1762, died 13th Feb.
1851.— [Diet. Nat. Biog. [for Matthew
and Joanna]; Reid's Divinity Professors
(portrait), 266 ; Coutt's Hist., 326.]
WILLIAM WIGHT, born Brampton,
1778 Cumberland, 22nd Dec. 1730, son
of Robert W., min. of St Michael's,
Dumfries ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ;
ord. to Mary Abbey Presbyterian Church,
Dublin, 9th Aug. 1753; trans, to Chair
of Ecclesiastical History 12th Aug. 1762;
D.D. (Edinburgh 1763); trans, and adm.
to this Chair 12th June 1778 ; died unmarr.
29th July 1782. He was an intimate of
^Jupiter" Carlyle, who speaks of him as
"one of the most agreeable men I have
ever seen."— [Carlyle's Autob., 433, 445.]
VOL VII.
ROBERT FINDLAY of Waxford, born
1788 23rd May 1721, son of William F.,
merchant, Kilmarnock, and Barbara,
daugh. of Robert Hodgirt, surgeon apothe
cary, Kilmarnock ; educated at. Univ. of
Glasgow; M.A. (1737); licen. by Presb.
of Irvine 5th Oct. 1743 ; ord. to Steven-
ston 23rd Aug. 1744; trans, to Galston
6th June 1745; trans, to Laigh Church,
Paisley, 21st March 1754; trans, to St
David's, Glasgow, 25th March 1756; D.D.
(Glasgow 1776); trans, and adm. in 1783;
died 15th June 1814. He marr. 24th April
1745, Annabella (born 31st March 1723,
died llth Jan. 1797), daugh. of Robert
Paterson of Braehead, Ayrshire, town
clerk of Kilmarnock, and had issue
Barbara, born 12th Aug. 1746, died 17th
Jan. 1750; Robert of Easterhill, Dean of
Guild, Glasgow, born 17th Jan. 1748, died
31st March 1802 ; William, born 7th Aug.
1749, buried 29th June 1756. Publications
—A Vindication of the Sacred Books and
of Josephus, especially the former, from
various Misrepresentations and Cavils of
the Celebrated M. de Voltaire (Glasgow,
1770); The Divine Inspiration of the
Jewish Scriptures (London, 1803).— [Reid's
Divinity Professors (portrait), 270-84;
^outt's Hist., 354.]
STEVENSON M 'GILL, born Port-
1814 Glasgow 19th Jan. 1765, son of
Thomas M., shipbuilder, Glasgow
who was a Wesleyan Methodist all his
ife), and Frances, daugh. of George Welsh
:>f Lochharet ; educated at Port-Glasgow
School and Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A. (1781) ;
>ecame tutor in the families of George
Vanburgh Brown of Knockmarloch, and
;he Hon. Henry Erskine of Almondell ;
icen. by Presb. of Paisley in 1790; ord.
o Eastwood 8th Sept. 1791; trans, to
>on, Glasgow, 12th Oct. 1797 ; D.D.
Aberdeen, 23rd Aug. 1803); app. to this
^hair 8th Sept. 1814; elected Moderator
f the General Assembly 22nd May 1828 ;
pp. one of H.M. Chaplains-in-Ordinary
a 1834, and one of the Deans of the
Jhapel Royal in 1835 ; sometime Convener
f Jewish Mission, and Joint-Convener of
Committee on Psalmody ; died at Bowling
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[DIVINITY
18th Aug. 1840. He advocated many
reforms in the administration of prisons,
infirmaries, and lunatic asylums, took deep
interest in the cause of Education, and
was an enthusiastic upholder of Foreign
Missions. His Letters to a Young Clergy
man is regarded as one of the best of
Pastoral Theology manuals. Publications
— The Student's Dream [anon.] (Macnab's
Collection, 1790) ; The Spirit of the Times
[anon.] (Glasgow, 1792) ; Remarks on
Prisons (Glasgow, 1809); Considerations
addressed to a Young Clergyman (Glasgow,
1809, 2nd ed. [as Letters addressed], 1820) ;
On Lunatic Asylums (Glasgow, 1810) ; Dis
course on Elementary Education (Glasgow,
1811); A Collection of Sacred Translations,
Paraphrases, and Hymns (Glasgow, 1813) ;
Discourses and Essays on Subjects of Public
Interest (Edinburgh, 1819); On the Con
nection of Situation with Character (1820) ;
A Sermon preached before the S.P.C.K.
(Edinburgh, 1824) ; A Sermon preached in
behalf of the Church Accommodation Society
(Glasgow, 1834) ; Lectures on Rhetoric
and Criticism (Edinburgh, 1838, Glasgow,
1852); Sermons (portrait) (Glasgow, 1839);
Discourses [with Memoir] (Glasgow, 1844) ;
Evidences of Christianity [Memoir by his
brother Francis] (1852).— [Diet. Nat. Biog.;
Memoir by Robert Burns, D.D. (Edin
burgh, 1842); Reid's Divinity Professors
(portrait), 285-309; Tombst.]
ALEXANDER HILL, born 19th July
1840 1785' S°n °f GeorSe Hl> D-D>>
Principal of Univ. of St Andrews;
educated at Univ. of St Andrews; M.A
(1804); licen. by the Presb. there 24th
Sept. 1806 ; travelled nine years in England
and abroad, partly as a tutor, and student
of the classics; ord. to Colmonell 13th
July 1815; trans, to Dailly 27th June
1816 ; D.D. (St Andrews, 8th March 1828) ;
proposed as Moderator of the General
Assembly in 1840, but defeated ; trans, and
adm. to this Chair 12th Nov. that year ;
elected Moderator of the General Assembly
22nd May 1845 ; res. Chair 1st Nov. 1862 ;
died at Ayr, 27th Jan. 1867. He marr.
22nd April 1817, Margaret (died 7th Nov.
1874), only daugh. of Major Moris Craw
ford of Newfield, H.E.I.C.S., and had
issue— George, born 31st Aug. 1819, died
9th March 1837 ; Margaret, born 16th
April 1822 (marr. 17th Oct. 1845, William
Cooper of Failford, W.S.), died 26th
March 1898 ; Crawford, advocate, sheriff-
substitute, Dingwall, born llth Feb. 1824,
died 29th June 1900; Harriet, born 24th
June 1825 (marr. James Macnair, min. of
Canongate, Edinburgh) ; Alexander, D.D.,
min. of St Andrews, born 28th Jan. 1826 ;
Robert, W.S., born 9th April 1831, died
15th April 1898; Elizabeth, born 2nd
May 1833 ; Madeline, born 15th Feb. 1835
(marr. 1866, James Adam M'Kerrell Brown,
C.A.), died 20th Nov. 1921 ; Henry David,
min. of Eaglesham, born 14th June 1837.
Publications— The Practice in the several
Judicatories of the Church of Scotland (Edin
burgh, 1830, 1837, 1840, 1851, 1859); A Book of
Family Prayers (Edinburgh, 1837) ; Christ
the Head of the Church [Assembly sermon]
(Edinburgh, 1846) ; Practical Hints to a
Young Minister (n.d.) ; Remarks on Recent
Proceedings and Speeches anent Innova
tions (Glasgow, 1865) ; What is to come
next? a Solemn Appeal (Edinburgh, 1866) ;
Account of the Parish of Dailly (New Stat.
Ace., v.). Edited Lectures in Divinity, by
his father (3 vols., Edinburgh, 1821 ; 2 vols.,
1837, 1854), also his A View of the Constitu
tion of the Church of Scotland (Edinburgh,
1835), and Counsels respecting the Duties
of the Pastoral Office (Edinburgh, 1862).—
[Diet. Nat. Biog. ; Reid's Divinity Pro
fessors (portrait), 310-17.]
JOHN CAIRD, trans, from Park Parish,
Glasgow, Nov. 1862; trans, to Prin-
! cipalship 20th March 1873.
WILLIAM PURDIE DICKSON, born
1873 Pettinain, 22nd Oct. 1823, son of
George D., min. of Kilrenny ; edu
cated at Lanark School and Univ. of St
Andrews ; licen. by Presb. of Linlithgow
9th May 1845 ; app. missionary at Grange-
mouth ; ord. to Cameron 9th Sept. 1851 ;
trans, to Chair of Biblical Criticism 2nd
Oct. 1863; D.D. (St Andrews 1865); trans,
and adm. to this Chair 28th April 1873;
LL.D. (Edinburgh 1885); D.D. (Glasgow
1895) ; was Curator of Glasgow University
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Library; res. 1st Oct. 1895; died 9th March
1901. He marr. 7th Dec. 1853, Tassie Ward-
law (died 30th Aug. 1902), daugh. of John
Small, LL.D., librarian, Univ. of Edinburgh,
and had issue— Margaret, born 15th Oct.
1854, died 3rd Nov. 1921 ; Mary, born 18th
Aug. 1856, died 19th Oct. 1874; George, M.D.,
Elgin, born 14th Feb. 1859. Publications—
Introductory Lecture (Glasgow, 1873) ; The
Theological Chairs in the Scottish Univer
sities (Glasgow, 1883) ; Address to Library
Association (n.p., 1888); The Glasgow
University Library (Glasgow, 1888); The
Methods of the Higher Criticism illustrated
in an Examination of Professor Pfteiderer's
Theory of the Resurrection (Glasgow, 1890);
Translator of Mommsen's History of Rome,
4 vols. (London, 1862-6). Edited [with
Frederick Crombie, D.D.] Heinrich Mayer's
Commentary on the New Testament, 20
vols. (Edinburgh, 1873-82) ; St Paul's use
of the terms " Flesh " and " Spirit " [Baird
Lecture] (Glasgow, 1883).— [Galbraith's The
Curator of Glasgow University Library
(Glasgow, 1909).]
WILLIAM HASTIE, born Wanlock-
iggs head, 7th July 1842, third son of
James H., manager lead mines, and
Catherine Weir; educated at Wanlock-
head School, became teacher of Enterkin-
foot School (1856-9), studied at Univs. of
Edinburgh, M.A. (1867), B.D. (1869), and
Glasgow, and among the leading Conti
nental Univs. in Germany, Holland, and
Switzerland (1870-8); licen. by Presb. of
Edinburgh 29th Dec. 1875 ; missionary at
Ford-Lochawe in 1876; locum tenens at
Hoddam 1877; assistant at Galashiels 1st
Oct. 1877-8 ; ord. (by Presb. of Edinburgh)
as Principal of the Church of Scotland
College [General Assembly's Institution] at
Calcutta 16th Oct. 1878, and left for India
22nd Nov. following. Owing to complaints
as to the discipline of the College, the
Foreign Mission Committee relieved him
of his office, Nov. 1883, which was confirmed
by the General Assembly 29th May 1884.
He took to literature and translated from
German, Italian, and French, works on
Theology, Philosophy, and.Law ; app. Croall
Lecturer in 1892; D.D. (Edinburgh, 13th
April 1894); app. to this Chair 1st Oct.
1895; died (suddenly) unmarr. at Edin
burgh, 31st Aug. 1903. He was regarded
as one of the most learned men in Great
Britain, a profound scholar and linguist,
and an eloquent preacher. During the
absence of Professors he taught various
classes in the Faculties of Divinity and
Law, and he had an intimate knowledge of
medicine and physiology. A Lectureship
was founded in his memory in Glasgow
University. Publications -Translated The
Romance of Romanism : A Discovery and
a Criticism, and The Reality of Romanism;
A Survey and an Elucidation [Jakob
Frohschammer] (Edinburgh, 1878); The
Moral Order, a sermon (Calcutta, 1880) ;
Jubilee Celebration, 13th July 1880, at
General Assembly's Institution, Calcutta
(Calcutta, 1880); The Elements of Phil
osophy (Edinburgh, 1881) ; Hindoos as they
are : Note to Shib Chunder Bose (London,
1881); The Perpetuity of the Faith as our
Ground of Hope, a sermon (Calcutta, 1881);
The Maunbhoom Mission Scheme (Calcutta,
1881) ; The Examples of the Past as Guides
to the Young Anglo - Indian (Calcutta,
1882); Survey of Protestant Missions to
the Heathen [Theodor Christlieb, Th.D.]
(Calcutta, 1882); 'Hindu Idolatry and
English Enlightenment (Calcutta, 1883) ;
The Philosophy of Art [Hegel and Michelet]
(Edinburgh, 1886); History of the Christian
Philosophy of Religion from the Reforma
tion to Kant [Bernard Piinjer] [Preface by
Robert Flint, D.D., LL.D.] (Edinburgh,
1887) ; Outlines of the Science of Jurispru
dence (Edinburgh, 1887); The Philosophy
of Law [Immanuel Kant] (Edinburgh,
1887) ; Hymns and Thoughts on Religion
[Novalis] (Edinburgh, 1888) ; The Soiirces
of the Law of England [Brunner] (Edin
burgh, 1888) ; History of Christian Ethics
before the Reformation [Luthardt] (Edin
burgh, 1889) ; History of German Theology
in the Nineteenth Century [Lichtenberger]
(Edinburgh, 1889); Christmas Eve [Schleier-
macher] (Edinburgh, 1890); The Philosophy
of Right [Diodato Lioy], 2 vols. (London,
1891); Principles of Politics [Kant] (Edin
burgh, 1891); The Philosophy and Develop
ment of Religion [Pfleiderer's Edinburgh
404
GLASGOW UNIVERSITY [BIBLICAL CRITICISM
Gifford Lectures], 2 vols. (Edinburgh, 1894) ;
Theology as Science, and its Present Position
and Prospects in the Reformed Church
(Glasgow, 1899) ; Institutio Christiana?
Religionis [John Calvin] (Edinburgh, 1896);
La Vita Mia : a Sonnet Chain in Links of
Life and Thought (Edinburgh, 1896) ; The
Vision of God, as represented in Rilckert's
Fragments in English Rhyme (Glasgow,
1898) ; Biblical Commentary on the Pro-
2?hecies of Isaiah [Delitzsch] (Edinburgh,
1892) ; Ideal of Humanity [Krause] (Edin
burgh, 1900) ; Kant's Cosmogony (Glasgow,
1900) ; The Rock of Peter and the Primacy
of the Pope [Frohschammer] (Edinburgh,
1901-2); The Festival of Spring : From "The
Divan " of Jeldleddin, rendered in English
Gazels after Riickert's Versions ; with an In
troduction and a Criticism of theRubdiydt of
Omar Khayyam (Glasgow, 1903); The Glory
of Nature in the Land of Lorn, a Sonnet
Sequence (Edinburgh, 1903) ; Outlines of
Pastoral Theology for Young Ministers and
Students (Edinburgh, 1904) ; The Theology
of the Reformed Church in its Funda
mental Principles [Croall Lecture] [edited
by William Fulton] (Edinburgh, 1904.)—
[The Life of Professor Hastie (portrait),
by Donald Macmillan, D.D. (Paisley, 1926);
ThePigott Case ; Assembly Papers; Memoir
in The Aberdeen Doctors, by Donald Mac
millan (London, 1909) [Hastie Lectures],
1-34, 223-5 ; Diet. Nat. Biog.~\
HENRY MARTYN BECKWITH REID,
1908 b°rn Glasg°w> 22nd Marcn 1856>
son of Alexander F. R., chaplain to
H.M. Prison (q.v.), and Elizabeth Jane,
daugh. of the Rev. James Beckwith ;
educated at High School, Dundee, and
St Andrews Univ.; M.A. (1876), B.D.
(1879) ; assistant to Professor of Humanity
at St Andrews 1878-9 ; licen. by Presb.
of St Andrews in 1879 ; assistant at
Anderston and St Mungo, Glasgow ; ord.
to Balmaghie 26th Jan. 1882; D.D. (St
Andrews 1900); adm. 19th Nov. 1903 ; dem.
1927; died 18th Oct. 1927. Publications
— Songs for the use of St Andrews Students
(St Andrews, 1876) ; About Galloway Folk,
by a Galloivay Herd (Castle-Douglas, 1889,
1901) ; The Kirk above Dee Water (Castle-
Douglas, 1895) ; Lost Habits of the Religious
Life (Edinburgh, 1896); Books that help
the Religious Life (Edinburgh, 1897) ; The
Progress of Church Service in Galloway ;
A Cameronian Apostle (Paisley, 1897) ;
One of King William's Men (Edin., 1898) ;
Historic Significance of Episcopacy in
Scotland [Lee Lecture] (Edinburgh, 1899) ;
A Scottish School of Theology [Inaugural
Lecture] (Glasgow, 1904) ; Movements of
Theological Thought, with a Plea for
Calvinism [Opening Lecture] (1907-8); A
Country Parish (Studies in Pastoral The
ology and Church Law} (Glasgow, 1908) ;
The Professor's Wallet : Essays Theological
and Historical (Edinburgh, 1910); The
Divinity Principals in the University of
Glasgow, 1545-1654 (Glasgow, 1917); A
Text - book of Dogmatics (1919) ; The
Divinity Professors in the. University of
Glasgow, 1640-1903 (Glasgow, 1923); The
Holy Spirit and the Mystics [Croall Lecture]
(London, 1925). Edited the Layman's Book
oftheGeneralAssemblyCEdinbargh,lQOO-ll}.
WILLIAM FULTON, M.A., B.Sc., D.D.,
trans, from Chair of Systematic The
ology, Aberdeen, and adm. Jan. 1927.
1927
1873
BIBLICAL CRITICISM.
(FOUNDED 1861.)
WILLIAM PURDIE DICKSON, D.D. ;
trans, from Cameron 28th April, and
adm. 2nd Oct. 1863 ; trans, to Chair
of Divinity 28th April 1873 (q.v.}.
WILLIAM STEWART, born Annan,
15th Aug. 1835, eldest son of William
S., hosier, and Registrar of Births,
etc., Dalbeattie ; educated at Dalbea.ttie
School and Univ. of Glasgow ; B.A. (1861) ;
M.A. (1862); B.D. (1867); taught class
of Moral Philosophy in Univ. of Glasgow,
1864-6, during the illness of Professor
Fleming ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow in
1867 ; Examiner in Mental Philosophy,
1867-70 ; ord. to St George's-in-the-Fields,
Glasgow, 9th July 1868 ; adm. to this
Chair 23rd Sept. 1873 ; D.D. (1874) ; Clerk
of Senate, 1876-1911 ; res. 30th Sept. 1910;
LL.D. (Glasgow 1911) ; Dean of Faculties
1911 ; died llth Sept. 1919. He marr.
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1st Sept. 1868, Jane Richardson (die
20th Aug. 1921), and had issue— thre
sons. Publications— The Plan of St Luke
<;»*rel (1873). Editor of The Univ. of Gla
<jow, Old and New (Glasgow 1891) [a re-issu
of Memorial volume of 1870].— [The Ga
lovidian (portrait), vol. xv., No. 59 (1913).]
GEORGE MILLIGAN, born Kil
1910 conQihar, 2nd April 1860, son o
William M., D.D., Professor o
Biblical Criticism, Univ. of Aberdeen
educated at Chanonry House School, anc
Univs. of Aberdeen, M.A. (1879), B.D
(1883), Edinburgh, Gottingen, and Bonn
licen. in 1886 ; assistant at Morningside
ord. to St Matthew's Chapel there 24th
Feb. 1887; trans, to Caputh 15th Feb
1894; D.D. (Aberdeen 1904); trans, anc
adm. to this Chair 5th Oct. 1910
Croall Lecturer 1912; Convener of Com
mittee on the Religious Instruction of
Youth 1913-24; President of the Oxford
Society of Historical Theology 1915-16;
D.C.L. (Durham 1919) ; elected Moderator
of the General Assembly 22nd May 1923.
Marr. (1) 29th April 1891, Janet (died 16th
Dec. 1898), daugh. of John Rankine, D.D.,
inin. of Sorn, and has issue — William
Rankine, born 12th Dec. 1898: (2) llth
Feb. 1902, Margaret Catherine, daugh. of
William Ellis Gloag (Lord Kincairney), and
has issue— George Burn, born 6th Nov.
1904. Publications— The English Bible:
A Sketch of its History [Guild Text-Books]
(London, 1895); The Lord's Prayer (Edin
burgh, 1895) ; The Theology of the Epistle
to the Hebrews (Edinburgh, 1899) ; Golden
Nails (Edinburgh, 1903); The Twelve
Apostles [Temple Bible Handbooks] (Lon
don, 1904) ; St Paul's Epistles to the Thessa-
lonians (London, 1908) ; Selections from the
Greek Papyri (Cambridge, 1910) ; The
Vocabulary of the Greek Testament, illus
trated from the Papyri and other non-
literary sources, pts. i. and ii. [with James
Hope Moulton, D.D.] (London, 1914-15),
pt. iii. (1919), pt. iv. (1922), pt. v. (1925),'
pt. vi. (1926); The New Testament Docu
ments, their Origin and Early History
[Croall Lecture] (London, 1915) ; The
Expository Value of the Revised Version
(Edinburgh, 1916) ; Here and There among
the Papyri (London, 1922); The Church
and the New Testament [Assembly Closing
Address] (Edinburgh, 1923). Sometime
editor of Morning Rays.—" Notes on the
Ewing Collection of Bibles in Glasgow
University Library" (Records of Glasgow
Bibliographical Society, iv., 38-53) ; Cata
logue of an Exhibition of Bibles in Com
memoration of the Four Hund^ll//
Anniversary of the Publication of Tindal's
first printed New Testament (Glasgow,
1925).— [Church of Scotland Year -Book
(portrait) 1924.]
HEBREW AND ORIENTAL
LANGUAGES.
(FOUNDED 1709.)
CHARLES MORTHLAND, app. 12th
1709 Jan- 1709; died 4th SePt- 1744.
He marr. Robina, daugh. of Matthew
Brisbane, physician, Glasgow, and had
issue -Matthew of Rindmuir, W.S., born
1713, died 15th Oct. 1787.
ALEXANDER DUNLOP, born about
174S 1717> son of Alexander D., Professor
of Greek, and grandson of Principal
William D. ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow;
M.A. (1734); library keeper to Univ.i
1739-42; app. to this Chair in 1745; died
4th Sept. 1750. He marr. Mary Leitch
died 29th May 1783), and had issue—
oseph, student at Glasgow, 1742. [Glas
gow 2Jests., 26th Dec. 1750.]
WILLIAM ROWAT [or RUAT], app.
750 31st Oct. 1750; trans, to Chair of
Ecclesiastical History in 1752 (q.v.}.
GEORGE MUIRHEAD, born 24th
753 June 1715> second son of John M.
of Teggetsheugh, Stirlingshire ; edu-
ated at Univs. of Glasgow and Edinburgh,
M.A. (1742) ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh
8th Dec. 1743, after some opposition on
he ground of being unsound in doctrine;
rd. to Monigaff 4th Dec. 1746; trans,
o Dysart 28th Jan. 1748; dem. 26th Dec.
.752; app. to this Chair in 1753; trans,
o Chair of Humanity 2nd Dec. 1754 ; Dean
f Faculties 1764-6; died 31st Aug. 1773.
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GLASGOW UNIVERSITY
[HEBREW
Publications— Superintended [jointly with
Professor James Moor] the edition of
Homer, printed by Robert and Andrew
Foulis (Glasgow, 1747) ; The Iliad (1756) ;
Odyssey with the Hymns and Fragments
(1758) and Virgil (Glasgow, 1760). The
Muirhead Prizes in the Humanity Class
were founded in his memory in 1776 by
his brothers, John M. of Teggetsheugh and
Patrick M., D.D., min. of Dysart.
JOHN ANDERSON, born 1726, son of
James A., min. of Rosneath; edu-
5 cated at Stirling and Univ. of
Glasgow ; M.A. (1745) ; was an officer in
a corps raised to resist the Jacobites in
1745; app. to this Chair in 1755; trans,
to Chair of Natural Philosophy in 1757 ;
planned fortifications raised to defend
Greenock against Thurot in 1759. He
sympathised with the French Revolution,
and presented the National Convention
(having offered it unsuccessfully to the
British Government) with a cannon in
which the recoil was counteracted by the
condensation of air in the carriage. In
1791 he went to Paris where his actings
and principles (amongst others his scheme
for smuggling French newspapers into
Germany by means of small balloons) in
curred the displeasure of his brother pro
fessors, with whom he was involved in a
legal action. He died 13th Jan. 1796,
leaving all his apparatus, library, etc., for
the foundation of an educational institution
in Glasgow, known as the Andersonian
College. Publications — Institutes of Physics
(London, 1786, five editions) ; Observations
upon Roman Antiquities lately discovered
(Appendix to Roy's Military Antiquities
(London, 1793, 1800). See Process of
Declarator concerning the Management of
the Revenue of Glasgow College (Glas
gow, 1778).— [D»c«. Nat. Biog.; Glasgow
Mechanics' Magazine, ii. 412, iii. pp. v.
to ix. 215.]
JAMES BUCHANAN, born about 1727,
probably son of Moses B., merchant,
Glasgow ; educated at Univ. of
Glasgow ; M.A. (1744) ; app. in 1757 ; died
21st June 1761.
1757
ROBERT TRAIL, app. Aug. 1761;
trans, to Chair of Divinity 16th
1761
Oct. 1761 (q.v.).
1761
1832
PATRICK CTJMING, born llth Oct.
1741, third son of Patrick C., min. of
High Church, Edinburgh ; educated
at Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (1760) ; app.
in 1761 ; LL.D. (Glasgow 1803) ; res. 1814 ;
died 27th Oct. 1820. He marr. Rachel
Baird, who died 18th March 1831, and
had issue— Patrick, born 15th June 1781 ;
William, M.A., M.D., Professor of Botany,
Andersonian College (1819), Professor of
Midwifery, Univ. of Glasgow (1834-40), born
7th Nov. 1784, died at Bath, 17th Jan. 1854.
GAVIN GIBB, D.D. ; min. of St
Andrew's Parish, Glasgow (cf. Vol.
: III., 433) ; app. (assistant and suc
cessor) in 1814 ; died 9th June 1831.
WILLIAM FLEMING, D.D. ; min. of
Old Kilpatrick (cf. Vol. III., 354) ;
app. in 1832 ; trans, to Chair of
Moral Philosophy, Univ. of Glasgow, 10th
Oct. 1839 ; died 3rd March 1866.
GEORGE GRAY, D.D.,min.of Maybole
(cf. Vol. III., 53); app. 22nd Nov.
1839 183Q . adm lgt July 184Q . died un_
marr. 23rd June 1850.
DUNCAN BARENESS WEIR, born
Greenock, 30th Nov. 1822, eldest son
1850 of Archibald W., merchant, Greenock ;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow; M.A. (1840);
ord. to Gourock in 1845 ; trans, to Scots
Church, Manchester, 1849 ; app. to this
Chair 1st Nov. 1850; clerk to Senatus of
Univ. 1855-76 ; D.D. (Glasgow 1864) ; died
at Southport, 24th Nov. 1876. He marr.
7th Aug. 1856, Rachel Ann Spence, who
died 23rd Dec. 1899, and had issue —
Archibald, in West Australia ; Charles
Spence, Glasgow ; Thomas Hunter, M.A.,
B.D., missionary at Kingairloch 1889-91,
Lecturer on Arabic, Univ. of Glasgow, 1893,
D.D. (Aberdeen 1924) author of Arabic
Prose Composition (Cambridge, 1910); The
Shaikhs of Morocco in the Sixteenth Cen
tury (Edinburgh, 1904) ; A Short History
of the Hebrew Text of the Old Testament
(London, 1907) ; The Variants in the Gospel
Reports (Paisley, 1920).
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY] GLASGOW UNIVERSITY
407
1877
JAMES ROBERTSON, born Alyth, 2nd
March 1840, son of William R. and
Marjorie Mitchell ; educated at Alyth
School, Grammar School, Aberdeen, King's
College, M.A. (1859), and Univ. of St
Andrews ; licen. by Presb. of St Andrews ;
ord. missionary of the Church of Scotland
at Constantinople in 1862 ; missionary at
Beyrout, Syria, 1864-7 ; adm. min. of May-
field, Edinburgh, 1875 ; app. to this Chair
9th Aug. 1877; D.D. (Aberdeen 1880);
Baird Lecturer in 1889; Croall Lecturer
1893-4 ; LL.D. (St Andrews 1907) ; res.
30th Sept. 1907 ; died at Edinburgh, 23rd
Dec. 1920. He marr. 30th Aug. 1864,
Catherine, daugh. of John Martin, manu
facturer, Dundee, and Camilla M'Hardy,
and had issue — William, M.D., Medical
Officer of Health for Edinburgh, born
8th Sept. 1865 ; Margaret Whitson, born
31st March 1869 (marr. 8th Sept. 1892,
Neil Cluny Macpherson, manufacturer,
Glasgow); Lilias, born 26th Sept. 1872
(marr. 12th June 1895, Laurence Glen, ship
owner, Glasgow). Publications — Transla
tion of Muller's Outlines of Hebrew Syntax
(Glasgow, 1882); The Early Religion of
Israel [Baird Lecture] (Edinburgh, 1892) ;
The Old Testament and its Contents (London,
1893 ; enlarged edition, 1896) ; The Poetry
and Religion of the Psalms [Croall Lecture]
(Edinburgh, 1898) ; The First and Second
Booksof Kings [Temple Bible] (London, n.d.).
WILLIAM BARRON STEVENSON,
1907 born 12th Aug. 1869, son of Robert
S., min. of Forfar ; educated at Univ.
of Edinburgh; M.A. (1890), B.D. (1894);
assistant to Professor of Hebrew, Univ.
of Edinburgh, 1894-5, and Professor of
Hebrew and Old Testament Exegesis at
Bala Theological College, Wales, 1898-1907 ;
licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh in 1895;
adm. to this Chair 10th Oct. 1907 ; ord.
(by Presb. of Glasgow) Oct. 1908 ; D.Litt.
(1908); D.D. (Edinburgh 1921). Marr.
28th Dec. 1907, Margaret Bell, youngest
daugh. of David Kerr, Clonim, King's
County, and Margaret Arnot, and had
issue— Robert Barren Kerr, born 16th July
1913. Publications — Translator of Dill-
mann's Genesis Critically and Exegetically
Expounded, 2 vols. (Edinburgh, 1897);
" Index Lexicons to the Old and New
Testaments, with a list of Scriptural Proper
Names" (Young's Analytical Concordance
to the Bible, seventh edition, Edinburgh,
1900) ; Wisdom and the Jewish Apocryphal
Writings [Temple Bible] (London, 1903);
A Hebrew Grammar for Beginners (Edin
burgh, 1904) ; The Crusaders in the East :
A Brief History of the Wars of Islam with
the Latins in Syria during the Twelfth and
Thirteenth Centuries (Cambridge, 1907) ;
Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel ; their Lives and
Books [Guild Text-Books] (London, 1920) ;
A Grammar of Palestinian Jewish Aramaic
(Oxford, 1924). Contributions to Hastings's
Dictionaries.
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY
(FOUNDED 1716.)
WILLIAM ANDERSON, son of John
1721 A., min. of Drymen ; educated at
Univ. of Glasgow ; app. in 1721 ;
buried 25th April 1752. He marr. (1) Janet
(buried 23rd May 1739), daugh. of Robert
Cross, merchant and bailie of Glasgow, and
widow of Francis Smith, M.P., merchant,
and of William Hamilton, rector of the
Grammar School, Glasgow : (2) Katherine
Hamilton, who died 14th Feb. 1783.
WILLIAM ROWAT [RUAT], born
17S2 about 1720, son of James R., min.
of Jedburgh ; app. to Chair of
Oriental Languages 31st Oct. 1750; trans,
and adm. 1752; res. in 1762; died 4th
June 1785. He marr. 9th June 1768,
Louisa White, who died 20th March 1813,
and had issue — Louisa, born 27th Dec.
1774 ; Agnes Muir, born 14th June 1776.
WILLIAM WRIGHT, app. 12th Aug.
1762; trans, to Chair of Divinity
' 12th June 1778 (q.v.).
HUGH MACLEOD, born 27th Dec.
1730, son of Norman M., Ross-shire ;
educated at King's College, Aber
deen; M.A. (30th April 1755); app.
librarian there 1756-9; app. to this Chair
22nd Aug. 1778; D.D. (King's College
1780) ; died 22nd May 1809.
408
GLASGOW UNIVERSITY
[ECCLESIASTICAL
WILLIAM M'TURK of Craigmaddie,
born about 1779, second son of
1807 Alexander M., merchant, Glasgow ;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow; M.A.
(1797) ; app. librarian to Univ., 1794-5 ;
app. assistant professor to preceding 6th
March 1797 ; college chaplain, 1799-1809 ;
D.D. (Glasgow 1806) ; adm. to Chair 1807 ;
Vice-Rector of Univ. in 1814 ; died unmarr.
10th March 1841.
JAMES SEATON REID, born Lurgan,
Armagh, 19th Dec. 1798, third son
1841 (and twenty-first child) of Forrest
R., master of Grammar School, Lurgan,
and Mary Weir; educated at Univ. of
Glasgow; M.A. (April 1816); licen. by
Presb. of Letterkenny in 1818; ord. to
Donegore 20th July 1819; trans. toCarrick-
f ergus 19th Aug. 1823 ; Moderator of Synod
of Ulster 1827 ; clerk of Synod 1830; D.D.
(Glasgow 1833); member of the Royal
Irish Academy 1836 ; Professor of Ecclesi
astical History, Church Government, and
Pastoral Theology, in Royal Belfast College,
1838-41 ; pres. to this Chair by Queen
Victoria 2nd April, and adm. 5th May
1841 ; clerk of Senatus ; died at Belmont,
Edinburgh, 26th March 1851, and interred
at Sighthill Cemetery, Glasgow. He marr
1826, Elizabeth (died 1st April 1871), daugh
of Samuel Arrott, surgeon, Belfast, and had
issue— James Seaton, B.A., M.A., licentiate
of the Church, born 28th Jan. 1831, died
at Glasgow, 9th Feb. 1856 ; David, Glasgow
born 25th Jan. 1833 ; Edward, M.D., R.N.
born 10th April 1835, died at Belfast, lOtl
Nov. 1859; Samuel Arrott, born 5th Jan
1836; Mary, died 21st Dec. 1919; six
others who died young. Publications—
A Brief 'Account of the Irish Presbyterian
Church in the form of Question and Answer
(1824); History of the Presbyterian Church
in Ireland, 3 vols. (Edinburgh, 1834, 1837,
1853) [continuation by W. D. ^Killen];
Seven Letters to Dr Elrington [in vindi
cation of his History} (Glasgow, 1849).
Edited Murdock's translation of Mosheim's
Ecclesiastical History (Glasgow, 1848);
The Sabbath (Glasgow, 1848). — [Killen's
Hist, of Presbyterian Congs. in Ireland
(portrait) 260-2 ; Diet. Nat. Biog.}
THOMAS THOMSON JACKSON, born
26th Sept. 1798, son of William J.,
ensign in army, and Margaret Lock-
lart ; became amanuensis to Dugald
Stewart; app. to Chair of Biblical Criti
cism and Church History, St Andrews,
26th April 1836 ; pres. by Queen Victoria
16th April, trans, and adm. 19th May 1851;
D.D. (St Andrews, 26th April 1851) ; res.
20th Oct. 1874 ; died at St Andrews, 24th
Dec. 1878. He was irreverently known as
the "Holy Ghost." The only sermon he is
known to have preached was at the ordina
tion of the Rev. Hew Scott in 1829. He
marr. 16th June 1840, Mary Hay (died 16th
Dec. 1876), daugh. of A. Jackson, Edinburgh,
but had no issue.— [Macmillan's Life of
Professor Flint, 39.]
WILLIAM LEE, born 6th Nov. 1817,
son of John L., M.D., D.D., LL.D.,
: Principal of Univ. of Edinburgh;
educated at Royal High School and Univ.
of Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of St Andrews
9th May 1839 ; assistant at Beith, Ayrshire ;
ord. to Roxburgh 22nd June 1843; D.D.
(Edinburgh 1868) ; trans, and adm. to this
Chair 10th Dec. 1874; died 10th Oct.
1886. He marr. (1) 28th April 1853,
Margaret Mary (died 10th Oct. 1860),
daugh. of William Rutherford, Jedburgh,
and had issue — John Elliot, born 1854,
died in infancy ; William John, barrister-
at-law, born 30th April 1856; Thomas
Somerville Charters, chevalier of the Legion
of Honour, born 16th Feb. 1858, died 1st
Nov. 1926 ; John, C.E., L.M.S. Railway,
born 14th Feb. 1860 : (2) 10th April 1863,
Emily, daugh. of Patrick Chiene, East
India merchant, Edinburgh, and had issue
— Bremner Patrick, M.A., advocate, sheriff-
substitute of Forfar, 1897-1912, Lanark
shire, 1912-24, born 1st April 1864; Walter
Edward, D.D., min. of St John's, Perth, born
18th May 1865 ; Alexander William Henry,
lieut.-colonel Indian Army, born 17th Oct.
1867 ; Emily Mary Rose, born 22nd July
1869 (marr. 1897, Brigadier-General William
Crawfurd Walton, C.B., C.M.G., Indian
Army). Publications — National Educa
tion in Scotland (Edinburgh, 1848 and
1851); The Increase of Faith (Edinburgh,
HISTORY]
GLASGOW UNIVERSITY
409
1867 and 1868) ; The Disciples of Our Lord
during the Personal Ministry (Edinburgh,
1869) ; The Duties of Elders in the Church
of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1871) ; The Days
of the Son of Man: A History of the Church
in the Time of Our Lord (Edinburgh,
1872). Edited Dr John's Lee's Lectures on
the History of the Church of Scotland,
2 vols. (Edinburgh, 1860) ; Thomas Somer-
ville's My Own Life and Times (Edin
burgh, 1861). Contributions to The Bible
Educator ; The Schaff-IIerzog Encyclo-
pcedia, etc.
ROBERT HERBERT STORY, D.D. ;
1886 ap?' 25tl1 N°V' 1886; tranS> t0
Principalship 1st Aug. 1898 (q.v.}.
JAMES COOPER, born Elgin, 13th Feb.
1898 1846' e^est surviying son of John
Alexander C., merchant, Elgin, and
Ann, daugh. of James Stephen of Old Keith
by Mary, daugh. of John Stuart of Birken-
burn. Through his grandmother, the wife
of the Rev. James Cooper, M.A., school
master of Urquhart, he was descended
from Alexander Gaderar, min. of Girvan,
brother of Bishop James Gaderar ; edu
cated at Elgin Academy and Univs. of
Aberdeen, M.A. (1867) and Heidelberg;
licen. by Presb. of Elgin 10th May 1871 ;
assistant at Banchory-Ternan, East Church,
Stirling, and Elgin ; ord. to St Stephen's,
Broughty - Ferry, 9th April 1873.; trans,
to East Parish, Aberdeen, 17th May
1881, where he revived a daily service
in St Mary's Chapel, which was restored
later on its 400th anniversary. In 1886
he founded the Aberdeen Ecclesiological
Society [merged with similar Societies in
Edinburgh and Glasgow into the Scottish
Ecclesiological Society in 1903], and in 1892
(with others) the Scottish Church Society ;
D.D. (Aberdeen 1892) ; pres. to this Chair
by Queen Victoria 8th Sept., trans, and
adm. in 1898; Litt.D. (Hon.) (Trinity
College, Dublin, 1909); D.C.L. (Durham,
1910); Croall Lecturer, 1916; elected
Moderator of the General Assembly 22nd
May 1917; Serbian Order of St Sava 4th
Class (1919); Olaus Petri Lecturer at
Univ. of Upsala, Sweden, Sept. 1919 ;
D.D. (Oxford 24th June 1920); Member
of Ancient Monuments Commission for
Scotland ; res. Chair 30th Sept. 1922 ;
LL.D. (Glasgow 1922) ; died at Elgin,
27th Dec. 1922. His sincerity as a church
man, his devout and simple life, courteous
bearing, and his passion for orderliness in
forms of worship, gained him much reverence
and affection. His anxious advocacy of a
wider union with the Reformed Churches
won him many friendships in England and
abroad. A learned ecclesiologist, he opened
and dedicated more churches than any other
man of his generation. His chief happi
ness he found in the pulpit, and he was a
diligent and indefatigable parish minister.
He marr. 4th Jan. 1912, Margaret, eldest
daugh. of George Williamson, farmer,
Shempston, Morayshire, and Elsie Morri
son. Publications — Scotland's Gains from
the Revolution of 1688 (Aberdeen, 1888) ;
Chartulary of the Church of St Nicholas,
Aberdeen, 2 vols. (New Spalding Club,
Aberdeen, 1888-92) ; Bethlehem, a Series of
Advent Sermons (Aberdeen, 1889) ; Easter
Communions (Aberdeen, 1889) ; John Henry
Newman, a sermon (Aberdeen, 1890) ;
Scottish Presbyterian Reunion (Aberdeen,
1891) ; Family Prayers for a Week [with
James Cromarty Smith] (n.d.) ; Testa-
mentium Domini [translated from the
Syriac] [with Bishop Maclean] (Edinburgh,
1902) ; The Scottish Liturgy of 1637
[Church Service Society] (Edinburgh, 1904) ;
A Royal Abbey (Dunfermline, 1905);
Confessions of Faith and Formulas of
Subscription (Glasgow, 1907) ; Australian
Reunion (p.p. 1908) ; Sonnets on Scottish
Cathedrals and Universities (Glasgow,
1911); Catalogue of Glasgcnv Historical
Exhibition (Historical Portraits') (Glasgow,
1911); The Soldiers of the Bible [Guild Text-
Books] (London, 1915) ; The Church of
Scotland, Lectures delivered at Upsala Uni
versity [has been translated into Swedish]
(1919); Kindness to the Dead, Sermon
preached at Ladykirk 9th Sept. 1913
(Glasgow, 1913); Historical Side of Reunion
Question (Dublin, 1914) ; The Doctrine of
the Holy and Undivided Trinity as revealed
in Scripture and confessed in the Church
of God [Croall Lecture] (left in MS.)
410
GLASGOW UNIVERSITY [ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY
(1916); General Assembly Prayers (Glasgow,
1917); Our Sacred Heritage [Moderator's
Closing Address] (Edinburgh, 1917); Re
union, A Voice from Scotland [Addresses
delivered at King's College, London, and St
Paul's Cathedral (London, 1918); Towards
Christian Unity (1918) ; Memorandum
agreed upon at an Informal Conference in
Aberdeen by Representatives of the Church
of Scotland, U.F. Church, and Scottish
Episcopal Church (1918) ; Ecclesiastical
Titles and Designations, with Notices of
Modes of Address in the Church of
Scotland (Edinburgh, n.d.) ; Divine Service
in Dryburgh Abbey, \&th May 1918, on
Occasion of the Gift of the Abbey to the
Nation by Lord Glenconner (1918) ; Kind
ness to the Dead and other Discourses
(London, 1924). Edited Transactions of
Aberdeen and Scottish Ecclesiological
Society, 1887-1919 ; Scougal's Life of God
in the Soul of Man (Aberdeen, 1892). Many
Sermons, Pamphlets, Orders of Divine
Service on various occasions, Biographies
in Diet. Nat. Biog., etc. At the time of
his death he was engaged on his Auto
biography, and on a Memoir of George
Washington Sprott, D.D.— [James Cooper, a
Memoir (portrait) by H. J. Wotherspoon,
D.D. (London, 1926); Catalogue of Local
Collections, Aberdeen Public Library, 130.]
AKCHIBALD MAIN, born Partick,
1922 17th Dec. 1876, son of Archibald M.
and Janet Kirkpatrick ; educated at
Garnethill School and Univ. of Glasgow,
M.A. (1899), and Oxford, B.A. (1903) (Snell
Exhibitioner) ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow
in 1903; ord. to St Madoes 28th April
1904; trans, to Old Kilpatrick 9th May
1912; D. Litt. (Glasgow 1912); adm.
to Chair of Ecclesiastical History, St
Andrews, llth Oct. 1915 ; Chaplain to 52nd
Division in European War, 1918 - 19 ;
D.D. (Glasgow, 30th June 1921); trans,
and adm. to this Chair 5th Oct. 1922;
app. Convener of Committee on Life and
Work in 1924 ; app. Chaplain-in-Ordinary
to the King in Scotland May 1925 ; Cunning
ham Lecturer U.F. Church 1925-6. Marr.
25th June 1907, Mary Jardine, daugh. of
Andrew Giffen, Glasgow, and has issue—
a daugh. Publications — The Emperor
Sigismund (Oxford, 1903). Contributions
to Hastings's Dictionaries ; Review of The
ology and Philosophy; Scottish Historical
Revieiv ; The Outline of Christianity, iii.,
etc. Editor of The Man's Own Paper, 1926.
UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS
ST SALVATOR'S
(FOUNDED BY BISHOP JAMES KENNEDY IN 1455.)
1560
1578
PROVOSTS.
JOHN RUTHERFORD, min. of Cults
(q.v.); adm. 1560; was one of the
first elders app. by the Kirk-Session
of St Andrews in 1561 ; res. Provostship
31st Aug. 1577.
JAMES MARTIN, min. of Cults (q.v.) ;
app. to the Provostship and church
of Cults the same day 1578.
GEORGE MARTIN, only son of John
M., bailie of St Andrews, and
Catherine Clephane ; educated at
Univ. of St Andrews ; D.D. (1616) ; app.
regent in St Salvator's, then third master
and second master ; app. Provost in 1624 ;
died Oct. 1645. He marr. 1608, Catherine,
youngest daugh. of Patrick Schevez of
Kemback, and Elizabeth, daugh. of David
Balf our of Pitcullo, and had issue— William ;
James, min. of Cults; George, min. of
Dundee; Thomas, merchant ; John, master
of Grammar School of Dundee; David,
died at Auchtermuchty, aged 26; Grizel,
born Nov. 1612 (marr. John Barren, min.
of Kemback) ; Eupham (marr. James
Winchester of Kinglassie), died 1637.—
[Macfarlane's Geneal. Coll., ii., 194.]
JOHN BARRON, D.D., min. of Kem-
1646 back (q.v.) ; res. in 1649.
JAMES WOOD, min. of Dunino
1657 (q.v.).
GEORGE WEMYSS, son of Sir James
W. of Bogie and Margaret Durie ;
1 app. Principal of St Leonard's
College 22nd June 1647 ; trans, and adm.
1st Nov. 1664. He marr. Magdalen Lundin,
who died 4th March 1666. — [Lamont's
Diary, 109, 174, 185; Scots Peerage, viii.,
495.]
GEORGE PATTULLO, min. of Kings-
barns (q.v.) ; app. 4th April 1677 ;
died Nov. 1679.
1677
ALEXANDER SKENE, regent in St
Leonard's College; min. of Cults
} and Perth (q.v.) ; app. rector of the
Univ. 24th Nov. 1680 and three times after
wards ; trans, and app. 2nd March 1680 ;
outed in 1690 ; died at Edinburgh 1707,
aged about 68.
ALEXANDER PITCAIRN, min. of
Dron (q.v.) ; app. in 1691 ; trans.
1691 to Principalship of St Mary's College
1693.
1694
ALEXANDER MONRO, writer, Edin
burgh ; app. regent and Professor of
Philosophy 15th Jan. 1691 ; app.
16th Jan. 1694; app. Vice-Chancellor of
the Univ. 2nd Sept. 1697 ; died unmarr.
Dec. 1697.— [St Andrews Tests.]
ROBERT RAMSAY, app. regent and
Professor of Philosophy 15th Jan.
1691; app. in 1698; died before
30th Dec. 1734. — [St Andrews Tests.}
WILLIAM YOUNG, app. regent and
Professor of Philosophy 15th Jan.
1733 1691; app. 2nd, and adm. 20th
April 1733; died 24th Nov. 1746. He
marr. 1695, and had issue — David, Professor
of Philosophy, St Andrews; Robert;
John ; Margaret.— [$£ Andrews Tests.]
412
ST LEONARD'S
[PRINCIPALS
ST LEONARD'S
(FOUNDED IN 1512.)
PRINCIPALS.
JOHN DUNCANSON, Canon of the
Priory of St Andrews; licenciate in
1552 theology ; app. before Martinmas
1552; conformed to Protestantism at the
Reformation; died 20th Dec. 1566. Among
his books was a copy of Calvin's Opuscula
(Geneva, 1552).— [John Scott's Prot.-Book,
1564-75.]
GEORGE BUCHANAN, the historian
and poet ; app. in 1568 ; res. in
1568 1578. (See Moderators of Assembly.)
1570
JAMES WILKIE, born 1512, regent in
the College ; vicar of Ecclesgreig ;
was one of those whom the first
General Assembly, 20th Dec. 1560, thought
qualified "for ministreing and teaching."
The Assembly of Dec. 1562 nominated him
for leets to kirks destitute of a minister;
app. Principal 15th April 1570; adm. min.
of St Leonard's in conjunction in 1578 ;
prior of St Serf's Inch in Lochleven 1582 ;
died 13th Aug. 1590. He left legacies to
Robert, his brother ; Daniel W., his brother's
son; Thomas Biggar, his eldest sister's son;
William Merck, his friend, and Helen,
daugh. to Thomas Biggar; the sister of
Daniel W. ; John W., messenger, his
brother's son, and William W., his brother.
— [St Andrews Tests. ; Wodrow's Biog., i.;
Melville's Autob., 26, 290 ; Lyon's Monu
ments of St Andreivs.]
ROBERT WILKIE, born 1548, nephew
of preceding ; regent in St Leonard's
1591 College; adm. to First Charge, St
Andrews, 29th June 1586; trans, to St
Leonard's with Principalship in conjunc
tion 14th Oct. 1591 ; was a member
of Assemblies April 1594, June 1595,
March 1596, March and May 1597, March
1598, 18th March 1600 (when he was
elected Moderator), 1601, 1602, 1608, 1610 ;
was app. Constant Moderator of the
Presb. in 1606; pres. to the church and
parish of St Leonard's by James VI. 20th
Jan. 1610 ; named a member of the Court
of High Commission 15th Feb. 1611 ; died
26th June that year. He left 4200 merks
for the maintenance of six bursars.— [Mel
ville's Autob., 293, 308, 386, 549, 643, 724,
788 ; Menteith's Mort., 167.]
1611
PETER BRUCE, M.A. ; regent of St
Leonard's College ; was on the Ex
ercise 13th Nov. 1602; pres. to St
Leonard's 22nd July 1611; adm. to Principal-
ship in conjunction 24th June 1611 ; D.D.
(St Andrews, 29th July 1616); was a
member of the Assembly at Perth in 1618,
and supported the Court in establishing
the Five Articles, and also of the Court of
High Commission, though not an original
member of 1610 and 15th June 1619 ; he
res. the charge between 6th Oct. 1629 and
18th Oct. 1630 ; died before 7th May 1635.
He marr. 1612, Elizabeth, daugh. of Alex
ander Wedderburn of Kingennie, and had
issue— Helen, died before 7th May 1635 ;
Elspeth'; 'Rachel; Elizabeth (marr., cont.
2nd, 10th, and 15th May 1634, Simon Mac
kenzie of Lochslin). — [Reg. of Deeds,
ccclxxxvii. 274, dxxxvi. 230 ; Perth Sas.,
ix., 308 ; G. R. Sas., xlv., 141 ; Rosehaugh
Inventory.]
ANDREW BRUCE, M.A. ; regent in
the College; app. to Principalship
1630 in conjunction 8th, and adm. llth
June 1630; pres. by Charles I. to the
deanery of the chapter and kirk of St
Leonard's 18th Oct. that year; D.D. (St
PRINCIPALS]
ST LEONARDO
413
Andrews 1632 or 1633); nom. a member
of the Commission for the Maintainence
of Church Discipline (High Commission)
21st Oct. 1632; died of the plague May
1647, aged 52. He marr. Margaret (marr.
(2) Alexander Forrester in Innerpeffer),
daugh. of William Wedderburn, min. of
Dundee, and had issue — David, a cele
brated physician ; Andrew ; Margaret.—
{Wedderburn Book, i., 48; St Andrews
Tests.]
GEORGE WEMYSS, M.A. ; regent in
the College ; app. 15th, and adm.
1 22nd June 1647 ; app. Principal of
St Salvator's, 1st Nov. 1664.
JAMES WEMYSS, son of the laird of
1662 CraiSton; M.A. ; regent in the
College ; adm. to St Leonard's with
Principalship in conjunction 21st Dec.
1662 ; pres. to the deanery by Charles II.
17th Feb. 1664 ; D.D. (St Andrews, before
4th March 1682) ; deprived by the Privy
Council, 4th Sept. 1689, for not reading
the Proclamation of the Estates, and not
praying for William and Mary ; died Oct.
1696. He marr. 30th July 1661, Helen
Stirling (buried in Grey friars, Edinburgh,
23rd Dec. 1691), widow of Alexander
Haliburton of Enderlith, burgess of Edin
burgh.—^^, of Deeds, Mack., 26th March
1674 ; St Andrews Tests. ; Brechin Tests. ;
Lament's Diary, 4, 97, 138, 147, 158.]
WILLIAM TULLIDELPH, M.A.;
regent in Old College, St Andrews ;
adm. to Dunbog 30th July 1657;
deprived by Act of Parliament llth June
1662 ; indulged by Privy Council at Kil-
birnie 1st Jan. 1670 ; deprived 27th Nov.
1684, and imprisoned ; adm. to Wemyss in
1688 ; trans, to St Leonard's with Principal-
ship in conjunction 1691 ; died Sept. 1695.
He marr. Helen Tailyeour, and had issue —
John, min. of Dunbarney ; Patrick, min.
of Ferryport-on-Craig ; Isabel (marr. James
Hadow, Principal of St Mary's College).—
\G. R. Inhib., 14th Sept. 1666 ; Fife Sas.,
xiv. 471, xix. 188.].
GEORGE HAMILTON, trans, and adm.
from Newburn to St Leonard's, 26th
Feb. 1696, with Principalship (pres.
16th Dec. 1695) in conjunction; trans, to
High Kirk, Edinburgh, after 27th Jan.1697.
JOHN ANDERSON, son of Alexander
16g7 A., min. of Auchtergaven ; educated
at Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (26th
July 1649); adm. (assistant) at Auchter
gaven between 6th Jan. 1656, and 13th
Oct. 1657; deprived llth June 1662; was
min. at Glenarm in Ireland, 1671-85, and
at Antrim, 1685-8 ; returned to Auchter
gaven 25th April 1690 ; app. min. at Perth
in 1690, but trans, to Leslie 30th June
1691 ; trans, to St Leonard's 3rd Aug.
with Principalship in conjunction 1st Sept.
1697 ; died Feb. 1708, aged about 78. He
marr. Anna Waugh, who died 1726, and
had issue— George, died abroad; Alex
ander, min. of St Andrews ; Jean ; Anne
(marr. James Nairne, min. of Anstruther
Easter) ; Mary (marr. James Greig, min.
of Second Charge, Cupar) ; Margaret. —
\Edin. and St Andrews Tests.; Wood's
East Neuk of Fife, 201.]
JOSEPH DREW, M.A.; licen. by Presb.
1708 of Glasgow 12th Feb. 1690 ; app. 4th
June that year to go to Stirling to
preach to the inhabitants of Glasgow who
had been driven there by the troubled state
of the kingdom; ord. to New Monkland
15th April 1691 ; trans, to Markinch 30th
April 1701 ; trans, to St Leonard's with
Principalship in conjunction 6th Oct. 1708 ;
died 13th Sept. 1738. He marr. Jean,
daugh. of John Carstairs, min. of Glasgow,
and had issue— John ; Ann, born 1701
(marr. John M'Cormick, min. of St
Andrews) ; Margaret. — [Feme's Life of
Carstairs.]
THOMAS TULLIDELPH, trans, from
i »7ao Chair of Divinity in St Mary's College
to St Leonard's with Principalship
in conjunction ; adm. 2nd Aug. 1739 ;
became Principal of United College on
amalgamation of St Leonard's and St
Salvator's Colleges 24th June 1747.
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[PRINCIPALS
UNITED COLLEGE OF ST LEONARD AND
ST SALVATOE
[United by Act of Parliament 24th Juno 1747.]
PRINCIPALS.
THOMAS TULLIDELPH, son of John
1747 ^'' m*n> °^ Dunbarney; Ord. to
Dron 2nd Nov. 1727 ; trans, to
Markinch 7th Oct. 1731 ; app. Professor
of Divinity in St Mary's College 17th Oct.
1734; trans, to St Leonard's with Principal-
ship in conjunction 1st Aug., and adm.
13th Sept. 1739 ; app. Chaplain-in-Ordinary
to George II. June 1744; app. Principal
of United College on amalgamation 24th
June 1747; died 14th Nov. 1777. He
left in MS. a valuable paraphrase and
notes on the New Testament. He was an
eloquent speaker and in appearance was
tall and thin. He marr. 31st Oct. 1722,
Alison Richardson, who died 16th June
1758, and had issue — Margaret (marr.
David Thomson, min. of Airlie); Helen
(marr. James Jobson, min. of Errol) ; Cecily
(marr. Andrew Hutton, min. of Kilmany) ;
Robert ; Alison, born 1735 (marr. David
Thomson, min. of Kingoldrum) ; Elizabeth ;
John, born 8th Sept. 1738; Mary, born
26th April 1741 (marr. Thomas Bisset, min.
of Logierait).
ROBERT WATSON, born about 1730,
1778 son °^ an apothecary and brewer in
St Andrews ; educated at Univs. of
St Andrews, Glasgow, and Edinburgh;
app. Professor of Logic, Rhetoric, and
Metaphysics in Univ. of St Andrews 18th
June 1756 ; app. Principal 9th Jan. 1778 ;
ord. to St Leonard's 24th Sept. that
year; died 1st April 1781. He marr.
29th June 1757, Margaret Shaw, and had
issue — Elizabeth, born 26th April 1758 ;
Jane, born 27th June 1760 (marr., pro. 29th
July 1782, Thomas Wright, Edinburgh);
1781
Margaret, born 18th April 1762 ; Catherine,
born 9th July 1764; Anne Halkett, born
1st March 1766, each of whom had a pension
of £100 a year from George III. 19th
March 1782. Publications— The History of
the Reign of Philip 21., King of Spain,
2 vols. (London, 1777 ; 7th ed., 3 vols.
London, 1839), French translation (Amster
dam, 1777), Dutch (Rotterdam, 1778) ; The
History of the Reign of Philip III., King
of Spain [completed by William Thomson]
(London, 1783; 2nd ed., London, 1839).—
{Diet. Nat. Biog. ; Conolly's Eminent Men
of Fife ; Anderson's Scottish Nation.}
JOSEPH M'CORMICK, born 22nd June
1733, son of John M., min. of St
Andrews ; educated at Univ. of St
Andrews ; M.A. (1750) ; became tutor in
the family of Hepburn of Clerkington;
licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh (that of
Dalkeith having declined to proceed to his
trials as he had attended the theatre) 30th
March 1757 ; ord. to Kilmany 17th April
1760; trans, to Temple 21st Nov. that
year; D.D. (St Andrews, 10th May 1766;
trans, to Prestonpans 10th Jan. 1771 ;
adm. Principal 18th July 1781; elected
Moderator of the General Assembly 23rd
May 1782; trans, to St Leonard's with
Principalship in conjunction 12th Sept. that
year ; app. one of the Deans of the Chapel
Royal 19th July 1788 ; died 17th June 1799.
Carlyle of Inveresk says "he was rather a
merry-andrew than a wit, but left many
good sayings." He marr. 7th May 1770,
Mary (died at Kilconquhar 5th Sept. 1822),
daugh. of Joseph Simson, merchant, Bristol,
and had issue — Mary, born 21st July
1772 (marr. Captain Alexander Woodcock) ;
Joseph of Mountville, advocate, born 2nd
Jan. 1774, died 25th June 1806; Ann, born
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415
18th Dec. 1774 (marr. at Madras, 12th Aug.
1805, Kirkby Dalrymple, son of Hew D. of
Nunraw); Margaret Isabella, born 30th
Dec. 1776, died 28th Feb. 1785 ; Elizabeth,
born 25th May 1780 (marr. William Ferrie,
D.D., min. of Kilconquhar) ; John, born
23rd April 1783, died April 1784. Publica
tions — State Papers and Letters, addressed
to William Carstares, to which is prefixed
the Life (Edinburgh, 1774) ; Account of the
Parish of St Leonard's (Sinclair's Stat. Ace.,
xiii.). — [Diet. Nat. Biog.~\
JAMES PLAYFAIR, born 7th Dec.
I7gg 1736, second son of George P., farmer
of Knowhead of Bendochy, and Jean
Roger ; educated at Univ. of St Andrews ;
ord. to Newtyle 1st Nov. 1770 ; trans, to
Meigle 10th Oct. 1777 ; D.D. (St Andrews,
3rd July 1779); app. Principal 7th, and
adm. 12th Dec. 1799 ; adm. to St Leonard's
in conjunction 9th Oct. 1800 ; Historio
grapher to the Prince of Wales ; died at
Dalmarnock 26th May 1819. He marr. 30th
Sept. 1773, Margaret (died 4th Nov. 1831),
third daugh. of George Lyon, min. of Long-
forgan, and had issue— Margaret, born 28th
Oct. 1775, died Aug. 1810 ; Jean, born 18th
April 1777 (marr. 4th Feb. 1802, Patrick
Playfair of Dalmarnock, Glasgow), died
24th Nov. 1852 ; Janet, born 24th Aug. 1778
(marr. James Macdonald, min. of Anstruther-
Wester), died 20th Oct. 1864; Maria Lyon,
born 3rd April 1780 (marr. 14th May
1808, General David Campbell of William-
ston, Perth), died 1810; George, M.D.,
Deputy Inspector - General of Hospitals
H.E.I.C.S., father of Lyon, Baron Playfair,
born 4th Jan. 1782, died 26th Nov. 1846 ;
William Davidson, lieut.-colonel Indian
Army, born 3rd Sept. 1783, died 31st
Jan. 1852; Elizabeth, born 18th April
1785 (marr. 23rd Jan. 1810, Samuel Caw,
merchant, Glasgow); Sir Hugh Lyon,
LL.D., Lieut.-Col. H.E.I.C.S., Provost of St
Andrews, born 18th Nov. 1786, died 21st
Jan. 1861 ; James Lyon, born 8th Feb.
1789, died in infancy; James, merchant,
Glasgow, born 12th Aug. 1791, died
1866. Publications— A System of Chron
ology (Edinburgh, 1784); A Complete
System of Geography, Ancient and Modern,
6 vols. (Edinburgh, 1808-14); A New
General Atlas, Ancient and Modern
(London, 1814) ; A Geographical and
Statistical Description of Scotland, 2 vols.
(Edinburgh, 1819) ; Accounts of Meigle,
and of Eassie and Nevay (Sinclair's Stat.
Ace., i., xvi., xxi.). — [Four Perthshire
Families, 65 ; Lyons of Cossins, 110 ;
Memoirs of Sir H. L. P. (St Andrews,
1861); Diet. Nat. Biog.}
FRANCIS NICOLL, born 1771, third
son of John N., merchant, Lossie-
mouth ; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen; M.A. (1789); licen. by Presb.
of Elgin 12th Sept. 1793 ; became tutor in
the family of Sir James Grant of Grant,
Bart. ; ord. to Auchtertool 21st Sept. 1797 ;
trans, to Mains and Strathmartine 19th
Sept. 1799; D.D. (St Andrews 1807);
elected Moderator of the General Assembly
18th May 1809; app. Principal 16th Nov.
1819 ; adm. to St Leonard's in conjunction
20th July 1820 ; res. the charge 15th Sept.
1824 ; died 8th Oct. 1835. He marr. 25th
Oct. 1814, Anne Ramsay, Edinburgh, who
died 23rd Nov. 1842, and had issue— Anne
Grace, born 2nd Aug. 1819, died 18th Feb.
1836; Francis Patrick, born 16th Dec.
1823 ; Isabella, born 17th Oct. 1825. Pub
lication — Substance of a Speech on an Over
ture for the Increase of the Widows' Fund
(Edinburgh, 1813).
JOHN HUNTER, LL.D. [a layman];
adm. Professor of Humanity 4th Dec.
1775 ; trans, and adm. to Principal-
ship 12th Dec. 1835 ; died 18th Jan. 1837,
aged 92.— [Diet. Nat. £iog.]
JOHN LEE, M.D., D.D., LL.D. ; min.
of Old Kirk, Edinburgh (q.v.) ; adm.
12th June 1837 ; res. 30th Nov. that
year; afterwards Principal of Edinburgh
Univ. 12th March 1840.
SIR DAVID BREWSTER, adm. 3rd
1888 Marcl1 1838> res' 26tl1 Nov' 1859
on appointment to the Principalship
of Edinburgh Univ.
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JAMES DAVID FOEBES, LL.D., adm.
10th Dec. 1859 ; res. llth Nov. 186S ;
1859 died 31st Dec. that year. [See Life
and Letters (London, 1873).]
JOHN CAMPBELL SHAIEP, M.A.,
LL.D. ; adm. 14th Dec. 1868 ; died
1868 18th Sept. 1885. [See Knight's
Principal Shairp and his Friends (London,
1888).]
SIB JAMES DONALDSON, M.A.,
LL.D., D.D. ; adm. 10th April 1886 ;
1886 died 9th March 1915.
SIE JOHN HEEKLESS, born Glasgow,
9th Aug. 1855, youngest son of
1 William H., engineer, and Janet,
daugh. of William Eobertson ; educated
at High School and Univs. of Glasgow
and Jena; became assistant Lecturer in
English Literature in Queen Margaret's
College, Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Glas
gow ; assistant at St Matthew's, Glasgow,
1881 • ord. to Tannadice 15th June 1883;
app to Chair of Ecclesiastical History in
Univ. of St Andrews 18th July 1894 ; D.D.
(Glasgow 1898) ; app. to Principalship 7th
April and adm. 14th May 1915 ; knighted
in 1917 ; Provost of St Andrews 1911-13 ;
LL.D. (Glasgow 1919); died llth June
1920. He marr. (1) 19th June 1883, Isa
bella Christina (died 1884), second daugh.
of Peter Macleod, writer, Glasgow : (2) 9th
June 1886, Harriet Sidley, daugh. of James
Johnston Caie, Chatham, New Brunswick.
Publications— Cardinal Beaton, Priest and
Politician (Edinburgh, 1891); Richard
Cameron [Famous Scots Series] Edin
burgh, 1896); The Church of Scotland
(Our Churches and Why we belong to them)
(London, 1898) ; Francis and Dominic and
the Mendicant Orders (Edinburgh, 1901);
Introduction and Notes to Hebrews, etc.
[Temple Bible] (London, 1902) ; The Early
Christian Martyrs [Temple Bible Hand
books] (London, 1904) ; The College of St
Leonard [with Eobert Kerr Hannay]
(Edinburgh, 1905) ; The Archbishops of St
Andrews, 5 vols [with E. K. Hannay] (Edin
burgh, 1907-15); The Robert Lee Lecture
(Edinburgh, 1913).
SIE JAMES COLQUHOUN IEVINE,
C.B.E., Ph.D., D.Sc., LL.D., F.E.S. ;
1921 app. Professor of Chemistry in Univ.
6th Oct. 1909 ; app. Principal 3rd, and adm.
llth Jan. 1921 ; knighted 1925.
ST MARY'S COLLEGE
[At its foundation in 1537 St Mary's was intended to be a College for instruction
Divinity, or first Master.]
1589
PRINCIPALS.
EOBEET BANNEEMAN, matriculated
as magister in 1513 ; received into
the Faculty of Arts as a regent of
the Paedagogium 14th Feb. 1514; suc
ceeded James Melville as principal regent
sometime after 1524; Principal of St
Mary's in 1539; res. 13th July 1546 on
account of age and infirmities.
AECHIBALD HAY, matriculated as
magister in 1545 or 1546, as " rector
1546 ecclesice de Colles philosophic
summus amator, nationis Albania?";^ re
ceived letters of collation to the Principal-
ship from James Stuart, commendator, and
John Winram, sub-prior, as vicar-general,
the See being vacant on the day of
Bannerman's resignation ; pres. by Queen
Mary with consent of James, Earl of Arran,
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417
1547
and installed in the collegiate church in
the College 17th July 1546; died before
1st Oct. 1547. Publications— Ad Reveren-
dissimum in Christo pair em D. Jacobum
fietoun, S. Andrece Archiprcesulem Oratio
(Paris, 1538) [only one copy is known] ;
Ad illustris. D. Davidem Betoun . . . de
foelici accessione dignitatis Cardinalitice
gratulatorius panegyricus (Paris, 1540) (re
issued in facsimile).
JOHN DOUGLAS, graduated at Univ.
of Paris, where he was a fellow-
student of Archibald Hay in Mon
tague College ; probably the " magister
Johannes Douglas," who matriculated from
the Psedagogium on 25th June 1523; app.
by Queen Mary prior to 1st Oct. 1547,
on which date the commendator and sub-
prior gave notice of the appointment to
the vicar of Tynninghame and the curates
of Inchbryok and Tannadice, with instruc
tions to announce it in their respective
churches, the revenues of these churches
being-part of the endowment of the College ;
was rector of the Univ., 1551-73; con
secrated Archbishop of St Andrews 10th
Feb. 1572; died Oct. 1576.
ROBERT HAMILTON, min. of St
- ^ Andrews (q.v.) ; deprived after 7th
July 1579.
ANDREW MELVILL, born Baldovie,
15go 1st Aug. 1545, youngest son of Richard
M. of Baldovie and Geills, daugh.
of Thomas A-bercrombie of Montrose ; edu
cated at Grammar School, Montrose, and
Univ. of St Andrews ; went to France
in 1564, studied law at Poitiers; became
regent in the College of Marceon, and took
part in the defence of Poitiers against the
Huguenots ; proceeded to Geneva, where
he was app. Professor of Humanity ;
returned to Scotland in 1574; app. Principal
of the Univ. of Glasgow in autumn of
that year. He did much to establish the
Univ. on a proper footing and founded
four Chairs in Languages, Science and
Philosophy ; adm. min. of Govan in con
junction 13th July 1577 ; elected Moderator
of the General Assembly 24th April 1578.
He opposed the Episcopal tendency in
VOL. VII.
the Church, and did much to establish
the Presbyterian form of government. He
further did much to remodel the Scottish
Univs., especially St Andrews, St Mary's
thereafter being devoted to Divinity, M.
being app. Principal thereof Nov. 1580 ;
again elected Moderator of the General
Assembly 24th April and 27th June 1582,
and 20th June 1587. In the Assembly of
Oct. 1581, he took an active part in the
libel against Robert Montgomery, Bishop
of Glasgow, for simoniacal practices. M.
was app. on a commission to wait upon
James VI. in 1582, with a remonstrance
and petition which, notwithstanding the
entreaties of his friends, he presented. On
15th Feb. 1584 he was summoned before
the Privy Council for alleged treason in a
sermon preached at St Andrews the June
previous, and ordered to be imprisoned at
Blackness, but his friends assisted him to
escape to England. On Arran's fall he
returned to Scotland and was restored by
Parliament at Linlithgow Dec. 1585. In
1590 he became rector of the Univ. of St
Andrews, which office he held until 1597,
and at the coronation of the Queen, 17th May
1590, he recited a Latin poem ; was again
app. Moderator of the General Assembly,
7th May 1594, but on a visitation of the
Univ. by the King in June 1597, he was
deprived of his rectorship; attended the
General Assembly at Dundee, March 1598,
but was ordered to withdraw by the King.
In 1599 he was app. Dean of the Faculty
of Theology. He caused the Synod of
Fife in 1599 to censure certain propositions
in the Basilicon Doron by the King. At
the Assembly at Montrose in March 1600
he unsuccessfully claimed his right to sit,
but was successful in that at Burntisland
May 1601. He took part in that held at
Aberdeen in 1605 and offered, with others,
a protest to Parliament at Perth in 1606
in favour of the right of free Assembly.
For this he was summoned with others to
London, where he was cited before the
English Privy Council for writing a bitter
Latin epigram against the accessories of
Anglican worship and placed under the
custody of John Overal, D.D., Dean of
St Paul's, and afterwards of Bilson, Bishop
2 D
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[PRINCIPALS
of Winchester. Again brought before the
Privy Council, he broke into a violent
tirade against that Court and was com
mitted to solitary confinement in the Tower.
Henri de la Tour, Due de Bouillon, having
obtained his release, app. him to the Chair
of Biblical Theology in the Univ. of Sedan,
and M. embarked for France 19th April
1611 ; died unmarr. after a series of ill
nesses at Sedan in 1622. Publications—
Carmen Mosis (Basel, 1573), reprinted in
Delitice Poetarum Scotorum (Amsterdam,
1637); Julii Ccesaris Scaligeri Pcemata
(Geneva, 1575) ; ZreQavifficiov, Ad Scotice
Regem, habitum in Coronations Reyince,
etc. (Edinburgh, 1590); Carmina Sacra
duo, etc. (Geneva, 1590); Principis Scoti-
Britannorum Natalia, etc. (Edinburgh,
1594; Hague, 1594); Theses Theologicce de
Libero Arbitrio (Edinburgh, 1597) ; Schol-
astica Diatriba de Rebus Divinis (Edin
burgh, 1599) ; Inscriptions Historicce
Regum Scotorum . . . Joh. Jonston . . .
Authore . . . Prcefixus est Gathelus, sive
de Gentis Origine Fragmentum, Andrea}
Melvini (Amsterdam, 1602) ; several poems
In Obitum Johannis Wallasii (Leyden,
1603) ; Pro supplici Evangelicorum Minis-
trorum in Anglia . . . Apologia, sive Anti-
Tami-Cami-Categoria (?1604; reprinted
in Parasynagma Perthense by Calderwood,
Edinburgh, 1620, and in Altare Damas-
cenum, 1623) ; Four Letters in Lusus Poetici
by David Hume (Edinburgh, 1605) ; Sidera
Veteris JZvi, by John Johnston [contains
two poems by Melvill] (Saumur, 1611) ;
Comment, in Apost. Acta M. Johannis
Malcolmi [verses by M. prefixed] (Middel-
burg, 1615); Duellum Poeticum contendenti-
bus G. Eglisemmio et G. Buchanano (London,
1618; prints,M.'s Cavillum in Aram Regiam,
the Epigram on the Chapel Royal) ; three
Epigrams in Sir James Sempill's Sacriledge
Sacredly Handled (London, 1619) ; Viri
clarissimi A. Melvini Musce [the appended
Life of Adamson, etc., not by Melvill]
(Edinburgh, 1620); De Adiaphoris, Scoti
rov TVXOVTOS, Aphorismi (1622); Epitaph on
James Melvill in his Ad Serenissimum
Jacobum Primum . . . Libellus Supplex
(London, 1645); Andrece Melvini Scotice
Topographia in Blaeu's Atlas Major
(Amsterdam, 1662) ; Five poems in Koll-
man's De Diebus Festis (Utrecht, 1693) ;
Commentarius in Divinam Pauli Epistolam
ad Romanos (Wodrow Society, Edinburgh,
1850). There are many Letters and Papers
of Melvill in the National and Church of
Scotland Libraries.— [M'Crie's Life; Diet.
Nat. Biog.]
ROBERT HOWIE, born 1568, in or
1607
near Aberdeen, son of Robert H.,
burgess of Aberdeen ; educated at
King's College, Aberdeen, Herborn, and
Basel ; app. min. of St Nicholas (Third
Charge), Aberdeen, 1591 ; app. first
Principal of Marischal College, Aberdeen,
1594 ; trans, to Dundee before 26th Sept.
1598 ; deprived by the Privy Council, 23rd
July 1605, from exercising the ministry
or residing in the Burgh of Dundee, for
having acted seditiously against the Provost,
Magistrates, and Town Council; adm. to
Keith in 1606; app. Principal here 27th
July 1607; D.D. (St Andrews 1616) ; held
a commission for visiting the Univ. of
Aberdeen in 1619 ; died between 1645
and 1647. He marr., and had issue-
Margaret (marr. Andrew Lament, min. of
Markinch. Publications— Sphaera Georgii
Buchanani Scoti [edited by R. H., while
a student at Herborn Univ.] (Herborn,
1586 ; reprinted 1587) ; Theses philosophies
(Herborn, 1587); Problema (Basel, 1588;
reprinted 1591); Disputatio de arbitrii
libertate (Easel, 1589); Theses (Basel, 1589);
Didascalia, etc. (Basel, 1589) ; Theorema ;
Christus est omnia in omnibus (Basel, 1589);
De communione Jidelium cum Christo dida-
scalia (Basel, 1590); De justification hominis
coram Deo (Basel, 1590); De reconciliation
hominis cum Deo (Basel, 1591) ; De aeterna
Dei prcedestinatione (Basel, 1591) ; De
ratification. — [Marischal College Records,
ii., 27 ; St Andrews Tests.]
SAMUEL RUTHERFORD [more
1647 correctly RUTHERFURD], born
at Nisbet (now part of Crailing),
Roxburghshire, about 1600. Nothing
certain is known as to his parentage, but
he belonged to the Hunthill family (from
whom Sir Walter Scott was descended)
and his father is believed to have been a
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farmer or miller. A brother was school
master of Kirkcudbright, and Reader there,
and another brother was an officer in
the Dutch service ; educated at Jedburgh
Grammar School and Univ. of Edinburgh ;
M.A. (1621); app. regent of Humanity at
Edinburgh in 1623 ; dem. that office in
1626, because of immoral conduct with
Euphame Hamilton (afterwards his wife)
(Minutes of Edinburgh Town Council, 3rd
Feb. 1626); adm. to Anwoth in 1627,
probably without Episcopal sanction. In
1630 he was summoned before the Court
of High Commission, but the charge of
non - conformity was not persisted in.
Mainly for his publication of a work
against Arminianism he was again accused
in 1636 by Bishop Sydserff, and after pro
ceedings at Wigtown, was cited before the
Commission and prohibited, 27th July, from
exercising ministerial office, and ordered
to reside in Aberdeen during the King's
pleasure. During this period he wrote
most of his well-known Letters. In Feb.
1638 he returned to Anwoth and attended
the Glasgow Assembly that year as one of
two commissioners from his Presb. Shortly
afterwards he was elected one of the mins.
of Edinburgh, but the Commission of
Assembly appointed him, in preference,
Professor of Divinity at St Andrews, which
office he only accepted on condition that he
should be allowed to act as colleague with
Robert Blair, one of the mins. of St Andrews,
7th Jan. 1639. He was a member of succeed
ing Assemblies and consistently supported
the Covenanting Party therein. In 1643 he
was appointed one of the Commissioners
of the Church of Scotland to the West
minster Assembly and preached several
times before Parliament, remaining in
London for four years ; app. to Principal-
ship in 1647 ; was offered in 1648 a Divinity
Professorship at Harderwyck in Holland,
in 1649 the Chair at Edinburgh, and in
1651 he was twice elected to a Professorship
at Utrecht, but all these he declined. In
1643, 1644, 1650, and 1651 he was elected
rector of the Univ., and in 1650 on Charles
II.'s visit to St Andrews, he made a Latin
speech to him on the duty of Kings, and
in 1651 he joined the Protesters. After the
Restoration he was one of the first marked
out for persecution, his work Lex Rex was
ordered by the Committee of Estates to
be burnt at the Crosses of Edinburgh and
St Andrews, and he was deprived of his
office of Principal. Further, he was cited
to appear before Parliament on a charge
of treason, but he died 29th March 1661
[the date— 20th— on his tombstone is an
error]. One of the classical figures of the
Church of Scotland, his influence during
his lifetime, as scholar, preacher, and
writer, was profound and wide, and after
his death his name received a popular
canonisation which it retains to this day.
Some forty editions of his Letters have
been reprinted (Bonar's edition contains
365), and innumerable anecdotes of his
sayings and doings are enshrined in, and
constitute no inconsiderable part of the
Scottish tradition. Among his last words
were : " Glory shines in Immanuel's Land,"
on which Mrs Anne Ross Cousin founded
her hymn, " The Sands of Time are sinking."
He was buried in the churchyard of St
Regulus. In 1842, a massive granite
obelisk to his memory was erected at
Anwoth, where the site of his manse —
Bush-o'-beild — and "Rutherford's Walk"
and " Witnesses " are still pointed out. His
church stands ruinous in the churchyard.
Hemarr. (1) 1626, Euphame Hamilton, who
died June 1630, and had issue— Marie, bapt.
14th April 1628 : (2) 24th March 1640, Jean
M'Math, buried in Greyfriars Churchyard
15th May 1675, and had issue — Agnes
(marr. William Chiesley, W.S.), died 29th
July 1694, and six others who predeceased
him. Publications — Christ and the Dove's
Heavenly Salutations (n.p., 1630) ; Christ's
Napkin (n.p., 1633) ; Exercitationes Apolo-
geticcB pro Divina Gratia (Amsterdam,
1636) ; A Peaceable and Temperate Plea for
Paul's Presbyterie in Scotland (London,
1642) ; Lex Rex, a Political Treatise (Lon
don, 1644); Due Right of Presbyteries
(1644) ; A Sermon preached to the House
of Commons, 3Ist January 1643 (London,
1644; Edinburgh, 1709) ; A Sermon preached
before the House of Lords, 25th June 1645
(London, 1645; Edinburgh, 1709); The
Trial and Triumph of Faith (London,
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1646 ; Glasgow, 1743 ; Edinburgh, 1845) ;
The Divine Sight of Church Government
(London, 1646) ; Christ dying and drawing
Sinners to ffimselfe (London, 1647) ; A
Survey of the Spirituall Anti-Christ (Lon
don, 1648) ; A Free Disputation against
Pretended Liberty of Conscience (London,
1648, 1649); The Last and Heavenly Speeches
and Glorious Departure of John, Viscount
Kenmure (Edinburgh, 1649, 1827) [edited by
Thomas Murray]; Disputatio Scholastica De
Divina Providentia (Edinburgh, 1649, 1650);
The Covenant of Life Opened (Edinburgh,
1655) ; A Treatise of Civil Policy (London,
1657) ; A Survey of the Survey of Church
Discipline of New England (London,
1658) ; Influences of the Life of Grace
(London, 1659) ; A Testimony to the Truth
of Jesus Christ, or the Doctrine, Worship,
Discipline and Government of the Kirk of
Scotland against the Errors and Heresies
of the Times [with others] (Edinburgh,
1660, 1703) ; Joshua Redivivus, or Mr
JKutherfoord's Letters divided into two Parts
(n.p., 1664); ExamenArminianismi (Utrecht,
1668) ; A Catechism (in Mitchell's Collection
of Catechisms). — [Gilmour's Samuel Ruther
ford (portrait), Edinburgh, 1904 ; Cat. Edin.
Univ. Lib., iii. 426; Whyte's Samuel
Rutherford and some of his Correspondents
(Edinburgh, 1894); Murray's Life (Edin
burgh, 1828) and Literary History of
Galloway, 76-95 (Edinburgh, 1832); St
Giles* Lectures, 3rd ser., 73-108 (Edinburgh,
1883; Life, by Andrew Thomson, D.D.
(Edinburgh, 1884); Andrew A. Bonar's
edition of the Letters (Edinburgh, 1891);
Philip's The Devotional Literature of Scot
land, 116-25 (London, 1925); Diet. Nat.
Biog. ; St Andrews Tests.]
ALEXANDEE COLVILLE of Wester
Comrie, D.D., eldest son of John C.
1662 of Wester Comrie, commendator of
Culross, and Elizabeth, daugh. of Sir James
Melville of Halhill; educated for the
ministry ; app. Professor of Theology and
Hebrew in the Univ. of Sedan ; app. to
Chair of Divinity in 1647 ; offered Chair
of Divinity at Edinburgh in 1650, but the
General Assembly refused translation ; app.
Principal of St Mary's in 1662 ; died Jan.
1666, aged 70. He was de jure Lord
Colville of Culross, but did not claim the
title. He marr. at Sedan, Anne le Blanc,
who survived him, and had issue— John,
min. of Mid-Calder; Abraham, Professor
of Hebrew and Mathematics, Sedan, died
before 29th Jan. 1681 ; Sarah ; a son and
daugh., died at St Andrews, 5th and 6th June
1664. — [Scots Peerage, ii., 550 ; Lament's
Diary, 184 ; G. R. Sas., 2nd Sept. 1643.]
WALTER COMRIE, M.A. ; regent in
the College ; adm. to St Leonard's
J 23rd May 1644; trans, to Dunkeld
Aug. 1647, but not settled ; app. to Pro
fessorship of Divinity 9th Feb. 1662 ; to
Principalship 23rd Oct. 1666 ; died Aug.
1686, aged about 74. He marr. (1) April
1650, Anna Hallyburton, and had issue-
John, Professor of Philosophy, whose will
was registered in 1675 : (2) Cecil Lear-
month.— \G. R. Inhib., 7th March 1663;
Lament's Diary, 16, 150, 185, 193; Si
Andrews Tests.]
ALEXANDER ROSE, app. 22nd Oct.
1686; trans, to Bishopric of Moray
1st May 1687.
JAMES LORIMER, educated at
16g7 Marischal College, Aberdeen; app.
regent there 16th Jan. 1679 ; adm. to
Kelso 17th April 1683; D.D. (St Andrews,
29th July 1686) ; pres. to Professorship of
Divinity 22nd May 1686 ; promoted to
Principalship 3rd Aug. 1687 ; died before
16th Oct. 1690. He marr. a daugh. of
John Rose of Insch, min. of Foveran.— [St
Andrews Tests.]
WILLIAM VILANT, youngest son of
Nicholas V., who came over from
France with John, Earl of Strath-
more, as his chamberlain ; educated at
Univ. of St Andrews; M.A. (26th July
1649); was a probationer there 1st May
1655 ; ord. to Ferryport - on - Craig 21st
May 1656 ; deprived by Act of Parliament
llth June 1662 ; suspended 5th April 1664 ;
dep. 6th April 1665, for refusing to submit
to Episcopacy ; indulged at Cambusnethan
by the Privy Council 27th July 1669;
deprived 17th July 1684, for not informing
on some Presbyterians who had passed his
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church on a Sunday evening the previous
June ; returned on indulgence before 6th
Sept. 1687 ; trans, to Ferryport-on-Craig
12th June 1690 ; was a member of Assembly
that year ; app. to Principalship 13th Nov.
same year ; adm. 10th July 1691 ; died
before 25th Nov. 1693. He marr. Isobel
Aird, who survived him, and had issue —
William, min. of Ferryport-on-Craig. —
[Blair's Autob. ; Lanark Inhib., 15th Oct.
1677; P. C. Dec., 23rd Nov. 1693.]
ALEXANDER PITCAIRN,min.of Dron
(q.v.}-} pres. 23rd Dec. 1692; trans.
from Principalship of St Salvator's
and adm. in 1693 ; died Sept. 1695.
THOMAS FORRESTER, eldest son of
David F. of Little Dinoven ; licen.
by George, Bishop of Edinburgh,
25th Feb. 1663; ord. to Alva and adm.
after 13th Jan. 1664. Having adopted
principles adverse to Episcopacy, he joined
the Presbyterians and preached at Con
venticles, for which he was taken prisoner
by the magistrates of Stirling and sent to
Edinburgh, but liberated by the Indemnity
in March 1674; dep. 29th of that month,
the sentence being ratified by the Bishop
4th April 1675. He was proclaimed fugitive
5th May 1684 ; adm. to Killearn in 1688 ;
was a member of Assembly in 1690 ; trans,
to First Charge, St Andrews, May 1692 ;
pres. 30th Nov. 1697 ; trans, to Principal-
ship 26th Jan. 1698 ; died Nov. 1706. He
marr. (cont. 26th April 1667) Anne, daugh.
of John Govan, min. of Muckhart, and had
issue— Thomas of Dinoven; John, min.
of Campsie ; Archibald ; Robert ; Mary
(marr. George Park, min. of Killearn) ;
Helen (marr. John Henry, min. of King-
horn) ; Barbara (marr. John Craigie, min.
of Abercrombie). Publications — Rectius
Instruendum (1684) ; A Vindication and
Assertion of Calvin (1692); The Hier
archical Bishop's Claim to a Divine Right
tried at the Scripture Bar (1699); Causa
Episcopatus Ilierarchici Lucifuga (1706). — •
[Fife Sas., xv., 226 ; Treas. Reg., v., 426 ;
G. R. Inhib., 22nd March 1671.]
JAMES HADOW, born Douglas, about
.t-Q^ 1670 ; ord. to Second Charge, Cupar-
Fife, before 31st July 1692 ; trans.
to First Charge 30th Oct. 1694; trans, to
Chair of Divinity in St Mary's College
5th April 1699 ; trans, to Principalship 8th
Sept. 1707; died 4th May 1747. He was
involved in many public controversies in
the Church. In 1720 he took a leading
part in the "Marrow" controversy. He
marr. Isabel (died 15th Feb. 1758), daugh.
of William Tullidelph, Principal of St
Leonard's College, and had issue — George,
Professor of Hebrew, St Mary's College;
Barbara (marr. Thomas Ayton, min. of Kil-
conquhar). Publications— Remarks upon
the Case of the Episcopal Clergy and those
of the Episcopal Persuasion considered as
to granting them a Toleration and an
Indulgence, anon. (1703); A Survey of the
Case of the Episcopal Clergy and of those of
the Episcopal Persuasion; The Doctrine
and Practice of the Church of Scotland
anent the Sacrament of Baptism vindicated
from the charge of gross error exhibited in
a print called " The Practice and Doctrine
of the Presbyterian Preachers about the
Sacrament examined^ anon. (1704); The
Record of God and Duty of Faith, a
sermon preached before the Synod of
Fife at St Andrews, 7th April 1719 ; The
Antinomianism of the Marrow of Modern
Divinity detected, wherein the Letter to a
Private Christian about Believers receiving
the Law as the Law of Christ is specially
considered (1721); An Inquiry into Mr
Simson's Sentiments about the Trinity from
his Papers in Process (1730); A Vindication
of the Learned and Honourable Author of
the History of the Apostles' Creed from the
False Sentiment which Mr Simson has in
juriously imputed to him (1731). — [Diet.
Nat. fi'iog. ; Fife Sheriff-Court Book, 6th
July 1697 ; St Andrews Tests.]
JAMES MURISON, son of James M.,
min. of Garvock ; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (7th April
1721) ; licen. by Presb. of Fordoun 3rd
May 1727 ; ord. to Edzell 17th Sept. 1729 ;
trans, to Kinnell 13th Oct. 1743; trans.
and adm. 22nd July 1747; D.D.; Moderator
of General Assembly 21st May 1767 ; died
31st July 1779. He marr. 7th Nov. 1744,
Annabella Trent, who died 22nd Nov. 1761.
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[PKINCIPALS
JAMES GILLESPIE, born 1722, son of
James G., min. of Arngask ; licen.
} by Presb. of Perth 28th Aug. 1745 ;
became chaplain at Melvill ; ord. to Abdie
18th March 1747; trans, to Dunbarney
21st March 1751 ; trans, to Second Charge,
St Andrews, 3rd Nov. 1757; trans, to
First Charge 12th June 1765; D.D. (St
Andrews, 3rd Nov. 1768); elected Moder
ator of the General Assembly 20th May
1779 ; trans, and adm. 14th Sept. 1779 ;
app. one of His Majesty's Chaplains 30th
Jan. 1786 ; died 2nd June 1791. He marr.
(1) 30th Dec. 1748, Isabel (died 7th Jan.
1770), daugh. of William Dick, min. of
Cupar, and had issue— James, born 15th
Oct. ' 1749; Jane, born 10th April 1751
(marr. William Duncan, min. of Abernethy);
Isobel, born 28th Oct. 1752 (marr., pro.
llth April 1793, John Birrell, manufacturer,
Pitlessie); William, born 8th July 1754;
Laurence, born 22nd May 1756; David,
born 4th March 1758 ; Anna, born 13th Sept.
1759; Alexander, born 20th June, died
23rd Dec. 1762 ; Alexander, born 15th
Oct. 1764 ; Janet, born 26th Nov. 1765,
died 13th July 1783 ; Elizabeth, born 30th
Sept. 1767 (marr., pro. 23rd April 1790,
Thomas Blaquiere, student of philosophy) :
(2) 10th Sept. 1772, Jean Fortoun (died
30th Dec. 1810), and had issue — Eupham,
born 25th Aug. 1773 ; Margaret Maitland,
born 2nd Jan. 1775, died 14th Jan. 1850 ;
Robert Gillespie Smyth of Gibleston, W.S.,
born 4th Feb. 1777, died llth Nov. 1855 ;
George James, born 15th Jan. 1779.
Publication— Sermons, edited by George
Hill, D.D. (Perth, 1796.)
GEOEGE HILL, born 22nd May 1750,
son of John H., min. of St Andrews ;
1 educated at Grammar School and
Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A. (1765) ; was for
four years tutor in family of Pryse Campbell,
M.P.; studied Divinity at Edinburgh;
app. Professor of Greek in Univ. of St
Andrews 21st May 1772 ; licen. by Presb.
of Haddington in 1775; assistant at St
Leonard's ; ord. in 1778 ; adm. to Second
Charge, St Andrews, 22nd June 1780;
app. Dean of the Thistle 1st May 1787;
D.D. (St Andrews, 7th May 1787); app.
to Chair of Divinity and Biblical Criticism
2nd Jan. 1788 ; elected Moderator of the
General Assembly 21st May 1789 ; adm. to
Principalship 27th July 1791 ; app. one of
H.M. Chaplains-in-Ordinary 5th July that
year, and one of the Deans of the Chapel
Royal July 1799 ; trans, to First Charge,
with Principalship in conjunction, 30th
Nov. 1808; died 19th Dec. 1819. He
took a prominent part in the deliberations
of the General Assembly of which he was
leader. He marr. 7th June 1782, Harriet
(died llth July 1825), daugh. of Alexander
Scott, merchant, Edinburgh, and Elizabeth,
daugh. of David Doig, Provost of Brechin,
and had issue— John, born 1st Jan. 1783,
died in Jamaica 1800 ; Elizabeth, born 30th
May 1784 (marr. 2nd July 1803, her cousin,
John Cook, D.D., Professor of Hebrew, St
Andrews); Alexander, Professor of Divinity,
Glasgow, born 19th July 1785 ; David, chief
secretary H.E.I.C.S., Madras, born 17th Oct.
1786, died 1866; Joseph, born 14th Nov. 1787,
died at Madras llth Nov. 1811 ; George, born
8th March 1789, died 3rd Nov. 1803 ; Jean,
born 20th May 1790 (marr. 13th Oct. 1818,
Robert MacNair, D.D.,min. of Ballantrae) ;
Henry David, W.S., born 22nd June 1791,
died 25th July 1858; Matilda, born 2nd Dec.
1792, died 8th Dec. 1803 ; Madeline, born
8th Sept. 1796, died 13th March 1881;
Thomas, min. of Logie-Pert, born llth Aug.
1798; Harriet, born 26th Oct. 1800 (marr.
20th Nov. 1821, Mark Sprot of Garnkirk,
advocate), died 1865. Publications— The
Present Happiness of Great Britain, a
sermon (Edinburgh, 1792); Illustrations
afforded by the Present War, a sermon
(Edinburgh, 1793); The Prayer of Jacob
for his Descendants, a sermon (Edinburgh,
1794); Sermons (London, 1796); Theological
Institutes (Edinburgh, 1803); Lectures upon
Portions of the Old Testament (Edinburgh,
1812) ; A View of the Constitution of the
Church of Scotland [which formed Part II.
of the Theological Institutes} (Edinburgh,
1817) ; Substance of a Speech in the General
Assembly on the Test. Lectures in Divinity,
3 vols. (Edinburgh, 1821 ; 6th ed., in 1 vol.,
1854) ; Extract from a Sermon preached at
Kilrenny (Beat's Sermons}.— [Biography by
Charles G. M'Crie in British and Foreign
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Evangelical Review, xxxiii., G69-719 (Lon
don, 1884) ; A Book of Remembrance— the
Descendants of G. II. (Glasgow, 1913).]
ROBERT HALDANE, born 27th Jan.
1820 1772) eldest S0n °f J°hn H<5 farmer'
Overtown, Lecropt ; educated at
Dunblane School and Univ. of Glasgow ;
became tutor in family of Robison of
Leddrie Green, Strathblane, and afterwards
in that of Moray of Abercairney ; licen.
by Presb. of Auchterarder 5th Dec. 1797 ;
ord. to Drumelzier 19th March 1807 ;
adm. to Chair of Mathematics, St Andrews,
14th Oct. that year; D.D. (St Andrews,
14th June 1815); adm. to Principalship
21st July, and to First Charge, St Andrews,
in conjunction 28th Sept. 1820; elected
Moderator of the General Assembly 17th
May 1827 ; died 9th March 1854. On the
Secession in 1843 he was called to the
Moderator's Chair ad interim. He was the
first Moderator who invited ladies to his
breakfasts. Publication — Remarks on a
Report by a Committee appointed by the
Town Council of St Andrews to inquire into
the condition of the poor in that city (Cupar,
1841).— [Diet. Nat. Biog.]
JOHN [GRANT] TULLOCH, born Dron,
1st June 1823, son of William Weir
T., min. of Tibbermore ; educated at
Perth Grammar School, Madras College,
and Univs. of St Andrews and Edinburgh ;
licen. by Presb. of Perth 27th March 1844 ;
assistant at St Paul's, Dundee ; ord. to St
Paul's 4th March 1845; trans, to Kettins
20th Sept. 1849 ; trans, and adm. to
Principalship 9th Nov. 1854; D.D. (St
Andrews 1854). In July 1858 he went
to Paris by appointment of the General
Assembly and established a Presbyterian
Church for the Scottish residents ; app. one
of H.M. Chaplains-in-Ordinary 22nd July
1859 ; app. depute-clerk of Assembly in
1862 ; a Scottish Commissioner under the
Education Act 1872, and in 1874 he spent
the long vacation lecturing in Canada
and the United States; Croall Lecturer
1876. He was app. principal clerk of
the General Assembly in 1875 ; elected
Moderator of the General Assembly 23rd
May 1878. On 30th Nov. 1878, under
the auspices of Dean Stanley, he con
ducted service in Westminster Abbey.
LL.D. (Glasgow 1879); Dean of the
Thistle 4th June 1882. The Disestablish
ment Agitation of that period found
in him a redoubtable opponent, and he
delivered many important speeches in
defence of the Church. LL.D. (Edinburgh
1884) ; was St Giles Lecturer, 1884-5 ; died
at Torquay, 13th Feb. 1886, and was buried
in the Cathedral burying ground, St
Andrews. The most distinguished church
man of his time, none was more trusted
in the Councils of the General Assembly.
His fine presence, resonant voice, natural
eloquence, kindly demeanour, frank inde
pendence, and abundant common - sense
gave him a universal popularity. To him
is due much of the modern prosperity of
the Church of Scotland, in its legislation,
and initiation of important progressive
movements of thought and action. On
questions of University reform he was a
shrewd and wise exponent. His portrait,
presented at the General Assembly of 1880,
is in St Andrew's University. Another (by
Sir George Reid, P.R.S.A.) was painted at
the order of Queen Victoria, with whom
Tulloch was a special favourite and con
fidant. He marr. 17th July 1845, Jane
Anne Sophia (died 27th March 1887),
daugh. of J. H. Hindmarsh, Professor of
Elocution, St Heliers, Jersey, and had issue —
William Weir, D.D., min. of Maxwell Parish,
Glasgow, born 22nd Sept. 1846; Sarah
Elizabeth, born 18th April 1848; Isobel
Frances, born 19th March 1850; John
Marshall, born 20th Nov. 1851 ; Antonetta,
born 1st Dec. 1853 ; Maude Janet Ann,
born 20th Aug. 1855; Francis, Glasgow,
born 27th Feb. 1857 ; Charles James, born
7th March, and died 17th Aug. 1858;
Frederick Ferrier Rose, born 27th March,
and died 1st Sept. 1859 ; Agnes Amy, born
9th Feb. 1861 ; Edith Rose, born 7th June
1862; Margaret Blanche Oliphant, born
16th Sept. 1869 (marr. Sir Charles Stewart
Wilson, K.C.I.E). Publications— Theism :
the Witness of Reason and Nature to an
All-wise and Beneficent Creator [Burnett
Prize Essay] (Edinburgh, 1855) ; Theological
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[PKINCIPALS
Tendencies of the Age [Inaugural Address]
(Edinburgh, 1865) ; The Theological Facul
ties of the Scottish Universities in connection
with University Reform (Edinburgh, 1858) ;
Luther and other Leaders of the Refor
mation (Edinburgh, 1859 ; 3rd ed., 1883) ;
English Puritanism and its Leaders (Edin
burgh, 1861); Beginning Life: chapters for
Young Men on Religion, Study, and Business
(Edinburgh, 1862; 15th thousand 1877);
The Christ of the Gospels and the Christ of
Modern Criticism : Lectures on M. Kenans
" Vie de Jesus " (London, 1864); Introductory
Lecture delivered at the Opening of St Mary's
College, St Andrews, 2lst November 1864
(Edinburgh, 1864); Theological Controversy,
or the Function of Debate in Theology (Edin
burgh, 1865) ; Some Facts of Religion and
of Life: Sermons preached before Her
Majesty the Queen in Scotland (1866-76)
(Edinburgh, 1877) ; Rational Theology and
Christian Philosophy in England in the
Seventeenth Century, 2 vols. (Edinburgh,
1872 ; 2nd ed., 1874) ; Religion and Theology
(Edinburgh, 1875) ; The Christian Doctrine
of Sin [Croall Lecture] (Edinburgh, 1876) ;
Pascal (Blackwood's Foreign Classics ^ for
English Readers, Edinburgh, 1878); Position
and Prospects of the Church of Scotland
[Assembly Closing Address] (Edinburgh,
1878) ; A Few Remarks on Educational
Progress and University Reform (Edinburgh,
1882) ; Modern Theories in Philosophy and
Religion (Edinburgh, 1884) ; Movements of
Religious Thought in Britain during the
Nineteenth Century [St Giles Lectures,
5th ser.] (Edinburgh, 1885); Sundays at
Balmoral (London, 1887) ; " Historical anc
Descriptive Account of St Andrews'
(Ballingall's The Shores o/ Fife, 11-17
Edinburgh, 1872) ; " Notice of Three
Silver Vessels belonging to St Mary's
College" (Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., xvii.
141-3, Edinburgh, 1883). Many contri
butions to North British Review, British
Quarterly Review, Blackwood's Magazine
The Contemporary Review, The Nineteenth
Century, Good Words, Fraser's Magazine
and the Edinburgh Review. Articles in
ninth edition Encylopcedia Britannica
Editor of Fraser's Magazine, 1879 - 81
Missionary Record. — [Memoir, by Mrs
Oliphant (portrait) (Edinburgh, 1889);
Blackwood's Magazine, vol. cxxxix., 415-41
Edinburgh, 1886); Scottish Review, vol.
:iii., 44-69 (Paisley, 1889) ; Diet. Nat. Biog.]
JOHN CUNNINGHAM, born Paisley,
9th May 1819, son of Daniel C.,
ironmonger; educated at Grammar
School, Paisley, and Univs. of Glasgow
and Edinburgh, where he gained Professor
Wilson's prize for a poem The Hearth and the
Altar ; licen. by Presb. of Paisley in 1845 ;
assistant at Lanark ; ord. to Crieff 22nd
Aug. 1845 ; D.D. (Edinburgh 1860) ; elected
Moderator of the General Assembly 20th May
1886 ; trans, and adm. to the Principalship
6th Nov. that year ; LL.D. (Glasgow 1886);
LL.D. (Trinity College, Dublin, 1887); died
at St Andrews, 1st Sept. 1893. He took
an active part in carrying through the
legislation which opens appointments in the
Church to members of other Presbyterian
bodies, and also in promoting the use of
instrumental music in Church Services,
the "Crieff Organ Case" of 1867 creating
considerable excitement and controversy.
He marr. 23rd Dec. 1846, Susan Porteous
(died 29th Nov. 1902), only daugh. of
William Murray, banker, Crieff, and Susan
Porteous, and had issue— William Murray,
writer, Glasgow, born 18th Oct. 1847 ;
Jane, born 15th Jan. 1849, died 31st May
1882 ; Daniel John, M.D., LL.D., D.C.L.,
Professor of Anatomy, Univ. of Edin
burgh, born 15th April 1850, died 23rd
June 1909 ; Susan Porteous Murray, born
17th Sept. 1852 (marr. Robert Davidson,
min. of St Cyrus); Eliza Yeats, born
30th June 1854, died 23rd March 1855;
Margaret, born 8th April 1856, died at
Edinburgh 19th Jan. 1921; John, born
llth Aug. 1857, died 14th June 1858.
Publications — Popery and Scotch Episco
pacy compared (Edinburgh, 1849) ; Church
History of Scotland, 2 vols. (Edinburgh,
1859; 2nd ed., 1882); The Quakers: an
International History (Edinburgh, 1868;
2nd ed., 1897); New Theory of Knowing
and Known (Edinburgh, 1874); "Home
Spun Religion" and "The Religion of
Love" in Scotch Sermons (London, 1880);
The Growth of the Church [Croall Lecture]
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425
( London, 1886).— [Porteous' Crieff (portrait);
Brown's Paisley Poets, ii., 117; Diet. Nat.
Biog., Suppl. xxii., 521.]
ALEXANDER STEWART, born
Liverpool, 27th Jan. 1847, son of
Alexander S. and Isabella Marshall ;
educated at Queen's College, Liverpool,
and Univ. of St Andrews; M.A. (1868);
licen. by Presb. of St Andrews ; assistant
at St Cyrus, Montrose, and East Parish,
Aberdeen ; ord. to Mains and Strathrnartine
18th Sept. 1873 ; app. to Chair of System
atic Theology, Aberdeen, 4th Nov. 1887 ;
trans, and adm. 18th July 1894 ; D.D.
(St Andrews 1888, Glasgow 1901, Aber
deen 1906) ; Croall Lecturer 1902 ; elected
Moderator of the General Assembly 23rd
May 1911 ; died 21st July 1915. He marr.
8th July 1874, Isabella (died 3rd May
1907), daugh. of James Meston, C.A.,
Aberdeen, and had issue — Isabella Forbes,
born 17th Feb. 1877 ; Alexander Marshall,
born 7th Nov. 1878 ; Annie Meston, born
14th April 1880 (marr. June 1904, Thomas
John Jehu, M.D., Professor of Geology,
Edinburgh) Diana Louisa Meston, born
3rd April 1882 ; James Meston, C.E., born
21st Aug. 1883 ; John Elphinstone, estate
agent, born 8th Oct. 1887. Publications — •
Handbook of Christian Evidences [Guild
Text Book] (London, 1892, 1895, 1899, 1900);
Life of Christ [Temple Bible Handbooks]
(London, 1906) ; The Religious Use of Im
agination : Address to the General Assembly
(Edinburgh, 1911); In War Time: An
Address and a Sermon (Edinburgh, 1914) ;
Creeds and Churches, edited by John
Morrison, D.D., with a Memoir of the
author [Croall Lecture] (London, 1916).
Contributions to Hastings's Dictionary of
the Bible and various publications.
GEORGE GALLOWAY, born llth
1915 Nov. 1861, elder son of John G.,
Stenton, Fife ; educated at Madras
College and Univs. of St Andrews, M.A.
(1884), D.Phil. (1905), Edinburgh, B.D.
and Pitt Scholar (1887), Gottingen, and
Berlin ; licen. by Presb. of Cupar 17th
April 1888 ; assistant at St Columba's,
London, 1889-90, and Corstorphine, 1890-1 ;
ord. to Kelton 5th Nov. 1891 ; Examiner
in Philosophy at St Andrews, 1897-9 and
1910-11; D.D. (Edinburgh, 1911); app.
Principal and Primarius Professor of Divinity
13th Sept. and adm. llth Oct. 1915 ; Baird
Lecturer, 1916-17 ; Officier de 1'Instruction
publique, 1919 ; Cambridge Theological
Tripos, 1925-6. Marr. 12th Aug. 1916,
Lucy Lockhart, daugh. of William M'Millan
Black, min. of Anwoth. Publications—
Studies in the Philosophy of Religion (Edin
burgh, 1904) ; The Principles of Religious
Development (London, 1909) ; Theological
Doctrines and Philosophical Thought (Glas
gow, 1911); The Philosophy of Religion
(Edinburgh, 1914); The Idea of Immor
tality : its Development and Value [Baird
Lecture] (Edinburgh, 1919) ; Religion and
Modern Thought (Edinburgh, 1922) ; Faith
and Reason in Religion (London, 1927).
Contributions to Mind, Review of Theology
and Philosophy, Hibbert Journal, and
American Journal of Theology.
HEBREW (FOURTH MASTERS).
[The teaching of Hebrew and cognate
languages was provided for in the new
foundation of 1579 by one or other of the
Professors of Divinity. In 1668 a separate
Chair of Hebrew and Oriental Languages
was endowed by King .Charles II., but
remained unoccupied for twenty years. The
first Professor was appointed 9th April 1688.]
PATRICK GORDON, app. to Chair
9th April 1688, and is described
1688 in the Album as " Reverendus vir
Magister Patricius Gordon, presbyter";
B.D. (St Andrews, 7th April 1690). He
continued to end of Sept. 1690, and also
acted as Second Master during a vacancy.
JOHN SYME, student of Divinity;
app. by King William and Queen
Mary 28th Dec. 1695, and ratified
by Queen Anne 20th Nov. 1707. His
occupancy of the Chair was a troubled one.
He acted as CEconomus of the College
and apparently got into difficulties with his
accounts. He was also frequently absent,
and probably did little teaching after 1718.
[Chair vacant to 14th Dec. 1720 and also
24th Nov. 1721. Thomas Hadow recom
mended for it but no appointment made.]
1695
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ST MARY'S COLLEGE
[HEBREW
GABRIEL JOHNSTONS, son of Samuel
1722 ^ "> m^n- °f Dundee ; educated at
Univs. of Edinburgh and St An
drews ; M.A. (23rd Feb. 1720, per supplica-
tionem) ; received as student of Theology
21st Feb. 1718; adm. to Chair 7th June
1722; dem. in 1728 and went to America,
where he was app. Governor of the Province
of North Carolina in 1733 ; died in 1752.
HUGH WARRENDER, M.A.- (Edin
burgh, 20th June 1728); app. 8th
' May, and adm. 28th June 1728;
had leave of absence with permission to
appoint a substitute 3rd April 1738 ;
applied himself to study of Civil and
Canon Law; LL.D. (St Andrews, 22nd
Feb. 1743).
THOMAS CRAIGIE, son of James C.,
min.of St Monans; app. 10th March,
and adm. 10th April 1741 ; trans, to
Chair of Moral Philosophy, Glasgow, 1746 ;
died at Lisbon, 27th Nov. 1751. He marr.
25th 'Aug. 1742, and had issue — Thomas,
born llth Aug. 1743.
GEORGE HADOW, son of James H.,
Principal of St Mary's College;
educated at Univ. of St Andrews ;
M.A. (4th May 1731), M.D. (20th June
1740); adm. 8th Nov. 1748; died llth
Sept. 1780. He marr. 30th Dec. 1754,
Susan Scott (died Dec. 1780), and had issue
—Janet, born 25th Nov. 1755; James, born
30th Jan. 1757 ; Margaret, born 30th April
1758; Archibald, born 13th July 1759;
Elizabeth, born 19th Dec. 1760; George,
born 9th Jan. 1763 ; Susan, born 28th July
1764, died May 1766; David, born 14th
Oct. 1766; Patrick, born 1st Sept. 1768.—
[St Andrews Tests.]
CHARLES WILSON, D.D., min. of
17go Scone; adm. 7th Dec. 1780; res.
19th Nov. 1793 on appointment to
Chair of Ecclesiastical History.
JOHN TROTTER, D.D., min. of Preston-
pans ; adm. 30th April 1794 ; res. 1st
: May 1802 on appointment to Chair
of Ecclesiastical History.
JOHN COOK, min. of Kilmany ; adm.
5th May 1802 ; res. 27th Sept. 1808
' on appointment to Chair of Biblical
Criticism.
DANIEL ROBERTSON, born 26th
1808 Aug> 1755' nePhew of James R.,
D.D., Professor of Hebrew, Univ. of
Edinburgh; educated at Univ. of Edin
burgh; M.A. (27th Feb. 1786); became
tutor to Patrick Murray of Simprim and
Meigle; licen. by Presb. of Meigle llth
Sept. 1800 ; ord. to Meigle 14th May 1801 ;
app. to Chair 2nd Aug., and adrn. 22nd
Oct. 1808; D.D. (St Andrews, 6th Oct.
1810); died 10th Jan. 1817. He marr.
18th Sept. 1806, Isabel (died 15th Oct.
1811), daugh. of Alexander Small, D.D.,
min. of Kilconquhar, and had issue —
Patrick Francis, merchant, London, M.P.
(Hastings, 1852-68), born 24th Aug. 1807;'
Mary Wortley, born 31st Oct. 1808 (marr.
- Kay of Drumpark) ; James Roderick,
born 8th March 1810.
GEORGE BUIST, D.D., min. of Second
Charge, St Andrews; adm. 25th
June 1817; res. 14th Oct. 1823 on
appointment to Chair of Ecclesiastical
History.
ARCHIBALD BAIRD, studied for the
1828 ministry but was never licensed ; app.
16th June, and adm. 4th Nov. 1823 ;
died at Edinburgh, 12th Oct. 1832.
DAVID SCOTT, M.D., min. of Corstor-
phine (q.v.) ; adm. 1st July 1833 ; died
; 17th Sept. 1834. He marr. Helen
Haigh, who died 18th Aug. 1870.
WILLIAM TENN ANT, born Anstruther,
15th May 1784, son of Alexander T.,
merchant, and Ann Hatson; edu
cated at Anstruther School and Univ.
of St Andrews ; became clerk to his
brother, a corn - factor in Glasgow, but
the business having failed, T. was
incarcerated for debt. He returned to
Anstruther and published a poem called
Anster Fair, which attracted the notice of
Lord Woodhouselee. In 1813 he became
schoolmaster of Dunino, of Lasswade 1816,
DIVINITY, ETC.]
ST MARY'S COLLEGE
427
and classical master in Dollar Academy
1819; adm. to Chair 14th Jan. 1835; LL.D.
(Marischal College, Aberdeen, 15th Jan.
1848) ; died unmarr. at Devon Grove,
Dollar, 14th Oct. 1848. Having lost the
power of both his feet in infancy, he had
to use crutches all his life. He was
a distinguished linguist. Publications —
AnsterFair (Edinburgh, 1812, and frequently
reprinted) ; The Thane of Fife, a poem
(Edinburgh, 1822) ; Cardinal Beaton : A
Tragedy (Edinburgh, 1823); John Baliol
[a historical drama] (Edinburgh, 1825) ;
Papistry Storm'd, or the Dingin* Doun o'
the Cathedral [a poem] (Edinburgh, 1827) ;
Synopsis of Syriac and Chaldee Grammar
(London, 1840); Hebrew Dramas Founded
on Incidents of Bible History (Edinburgh,
1845). Edited The Poems of Allan Ramsay
with a prefatory biography (Edinburgh,
1869). — [Life and Writings by M. F.
Conolly (London, 1861) ; Conolly's Fifeshire
Biography, 463; Tombst.; Scottish Christian
Herald, 1836-7 ; Moir's Lectures on Poetical
Literature ; Blackivood's Magazine, i. 303,
xii. 382, xiv. 44 ; Nodes Ambrosiance, i.
101; Notes and Queries, 6th ser., v. 282,
312, 357 ; Diet. Nat. Biog.]
ALEXANDER TERRIER MITCHELL,
min. of Dunnichen ; pres. by Queen
Victoria llth, and adm. 19th Dec.
1848 ; res. 21st Nov. 1868 on appointment
to Chair of Ecclesiastical History.
JOHN M'GILL, born 21st Dec. 1832,
eldest son of John M., joiner, Old
J Luce ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow;
ord. to Sauchie 14th July 1859; pres. by
Queen Victoria 30th Oct., trans, and adm.
21st Nov. 1868; LL.D. (Glasgow 1869); died
16th March 1871.
JOHN BIRRELL, born Drumeldrie,
Newburn, 21st Oct. 1836, son of
Hugh B. and Margaret Smith ;
educated at Newburn and Univs. of St
Andrews, M.A. (1856), and Halle ; licen. by
Presb. of St Andrews 14th Aug. 1862;
assistant at St Mungo's, Glasgow ; ord. to
Dunino 30th 'June 1864 ; pres. by Queen
Victoria 7th June, trans, and adm. 4th Nov.
1871 ; D.D. (Edinburgh 1878) ; died 31st
1848
1871
Dec. 1901. He was a member of the Old
Testament Revision Committee, examiner
of Secondary Schools, and organiser of
local examinations. He marr. 3rd June
1874, Elizabeth, daugh. of James Wallace,
farmer, Brake, Fife, and had issue — Hugh,
Indian Civil Service, born 4th April 1875 ;
Agnes, born 14th Dec. 1876, died in London,
22nd Aug. 1926; James Wallace, captain
Highland Cyclist Batt., born 16th June
1879; John, captain llth Black Watch,
born 22nd Nov. 1882; Elizabeth (twin),
born 22nd Nov. 1882 (marr. Norman
Hunter).— [Diet. Nat. Biog., 2nd Suppl.]
DAVID MILLER KAY, born Cumber
land, 9th July 1866, son of Peter
' K., Balloch, Crieff; educated at
Morrison's Academy, Crieff, and Univs. of
St Andrews, M.A., B.Sc. (1890), Edin
burgh, B.D. (1893), Leipzig, and Berlin;
assistant to Professor of Hebrew, Edin
burgh, 1895-7 ; Head of Church of Scot
land Mission in Constantinople, 1898-1902 ;
app. to Chair 13th Sept., and adm. 14th
Oct. 1902 ; D.D. (Edinburgh 1907) ; served
as chaplain in France 1914-15, Gallipoli
1915, as senior Presbyterian chaplain,
Salonika, 1916-18, with Army of the Black
Sea 1918-19; D.S.O. 1917; Croall Lecturer
1923. Marr. 8th Sept. 1921, Hilda Helen
Halliday, daugh. of James Gillies, D.D.,
min. of Lesmahagow. Publications — Trans
lations of The Apology of Aristides the
Philosopher from the Greek and from the
Syriac Version [in the additional volume of
The Ante-Nicene Christian Library] (Edin
burgh, 1897), of Dalman's Die Werke Jesu
(Edinburgh, 1902), and of The History of
Susanna [in The Apocrypha of the Old
Testament} (Oxford, 1913); The Semitic
Religions [Croall Lecture] (Edinburgh,
1923).
DIVINITY AND BIBLICAL
CRITICISM (SECOND MASTERS).
[Regarding the earlier Professors of
Divinity little information can be gleaned
from the College records, but the following
names occur. Whether these were second
or third Masters is uncertain.]
JOHN ROBERTSON, 1579-93.
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ST MARY'S COLLEGE
[DIVINITY AND
JAMES MELVILLE, 1580-6; afterwards
min. of Kilrenny (q.v.).
PATRICK MELVILLE, teaching, but
not yet admitted, 16th April 1588. Still a
Master on 5th July 1599.
JAMES ROBERTSON, 1583-6; after
wards min. of the South Church, Dundee
(q.v.).
JOHN CALDCLEUCH, 1583-93; after
wards min. of Abdie (q.v.).
JOHN JOHNSTON, a member of the
Aberdeenshire family of Caskieben
or Crimond, was born in or near
Aberdeen circa 1565; received his early
education under Robert Mercer, min. of
Banchory, and at the Aberdeen Grammar
School ; graduated at King's College, Aber
deen ; continued his studies on the continent,
attending the Univs. of Rostock (with
Robert Howie) in 1584, Helmstedt in 1585
and 1588-9, Heidelberg in 1587; said to
have been resident in Geneva in 1591.
Returned to Scotland in 1593, succeeding
John Robertson as Second Master in St
Mary's College, holding this position unti
his death on 20th Oct. 1611. He was an
eminent Latin poet and scholar, and was
on friendly terms with all the great con
temporary scholars and theologians; in
Andrew Melville's words, he was " a godly,
honest and learned man." Publications—
De dementis theses physiologicae (Heidel
berg, 1588) ; De cruenta morte Archibaldi
Hunteri (Edinburgh, 1590); Inscriptions
historical regum Scotorum (Amsterdam,
1602), reprinted in Delitice Poetarum
Scotorum, i. 648-80; A treuue description
of the nobill race of the Stewards (1603) ;
Heroes ex omni historia Scotica (Leyden,
1603) ; Consolatio Christiana sub cruce
(Leyden, 1609); Cantica sacra novi Testa-
menti lyrico carmine reddita (Saumur,
1611); Sidera veteris cevi (Saumur, 1611);
Iambi sacri (Saumur, 1611) ; Icones regum
ludce et Israelis (Leyden, 1612) ; Epigrams
on Scottish Towns in Camden's Britannia ;
selections from an unpublished book of
Latin poems on English and Scottish
Martyrs and Confessors, printed in Thomas
M'Crie's Life of John Knox. Many of
us letters are extant, printed and un-
printed ; a collection of them will be
published by Professor Baxter.
JAMES WEDDERBURN, D.D. ; app.
1617; became Bishop of Dunblane
1636.
PATRICK PANTER, born Fife about
1600 ; educated at Univ. of St
Andrews; M.A. (1617); probably
assistant in Dundee and on leet for an
Edinburgh Charge 13th Jan. 1626 ; min. of
Dundee that year ; app. to Chair in 1627 ;
called preceptor and regent 1628 ; Dean of
the Faculty of Theology pro. temp. 1634 ;
D.D. (1634) ; went to England and became
rector of Holgate, Shropshire.
SAMUEL RUTHERFORD, app. Nov.
1639 ; incorporated as such in 1640 ;
' promoted to Principalship in 1647.
ALEXANDER COLVILLE, Professor
of Divinity at Sedan ; app. in 1647 ;
promoted to Principalship in 1662.
WALTER COMRIE, min. of St
, Leonard's; app. 9th Feb. 1662;
' promoted to Principalship 23rd Oct.
1666.
JAMES TYRIE, regent in St Leonard's
in 1664 ; adm. second master of New
r College Oct. 1666.— [Lament's Diary,
185, 193.]
ANDREW BRUCE, min. of Kilrenny;
app. in 1671 ; trans, to First Charge,
1671 St Andrews, 21st Jan. 1673 ; after
wards Bishop of Dunkeld.
DAVID FALCONER, D.D.; adm. regent
of St Leonard's 4th Dec. 1662 ; min.
1 of Cramond in 1666 ; adm. in 1675 ;
died before 15th March 1682. He marr.
20th June 1666, Margaret, daugh. of
Andrew Braydday, St Andrews, and had
issue — John, min. of Carnbee — [Lament's
Diary, 157, 190.]
ALEXANDER MONRO, min. of
Wemyss; app. 15th March 1682;
' trans, to Principalship of Univ. of
Edinburgh 9th Dec. 1685.
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JAMES LORIMER, min. of Kelso;
1686 pres- 22nd Mav 1686; Promoted to
Principalship 3rd Aug. 1687.
[Vacant 1688 to 8th May 1699.]
JAMES HA DOW, min. of Cupar ; app.
1Q99 5th April 1699; promoted to Principal-
ship 8th Sept. 1707.
THOMAS HALYBUETON, born 25th
1710 Dec. 1674, son of George H., min.
of Aberdalgie ; educated at Erasmus
School, Rotterdam [his mother having re
moved there on her husband's death to
escape persecution], and at Univ. of St
Andrews ; M.A. (24th July 1696) ; licen. by
Presb. of Kirkcaldy 22nd June 1699 ; ord.
to Ceres 1st May 1700; styled chaplain of
Wemyss in 1707 ; adm. to Chair 26th April
1710; died 23rd Sept. 1712. Halyburton's
Memoirs, a record of the wanderings and
struggles of his heart (written by himself
some years before his death) long exercised
a potent influence over Scottish and English
religious life. It profoundly affected the
spiritual history of both Whiten" eld and
Wesley, who in 1728-9 issued An Abstract,
the former contributing a recommendary
epistle and the latter a preface. He marr.
1701, Janet Watson, and had issue — Mar
garet ; Elizabeth ; David ; George ; Janet ;
Euphemia. Publications— Natural Religion
Insufficient (Edinburgh, 1714); Memoirs
[edited by his wife] (Edinburgh, 1715;
Glasgow, 1730 ; Edinburgh, 1848; and many
other editions); The Great Concern of
Salvation (Edinburgh, 1721); Works, with
an Essay on his Life and Writings by
Robert Burns, D.D. (Glasgow, 1833).—
[Reg. of Deeds, Mack., 3rd Oct. 1707;
Diet. Nat. Biog.]
ALEXANDER SCRIMGEOUR, Pro-
1718 fessor of Philosophy in the Old
College of St Andrews; pres. by
Queen Anne 31st Jan., and adm. 23rd April
1713 ; D.D. (King's College, Aberdeen, 19th
Oct. 1713). The Presb. objected to his
appointment he being a layman, and raised
a case against him which lasted in the
Church Courts till his death in 1731 or
1732.
THOMAS TULLIDELPH, min. of Mark-
1734 inch; app. 17th Oct. 1734; trans.
to Principalship of St Leonard's
College 13th Sept. 1739.
ANDREW SHAW, eldest son of Alex-
1789 ander S., min. of Edinkillie ; became
tutor in the family of Balmanno ;
ord. to St Madoes 20th Feb. 1729; app. to
Chair 30th Aug. 1739; died 27th Nov.
1779. He marr. 19th Aug. 1730, Eliza
beth, daugh. of James Bannatyne, min. of
Trinity Parish, Edinburgh, and had issue —
Catherine; Margaret; James; Alexander,
born 7th Feb. 1738; Hugh, born 10th Oct.
1739, died 31st May 1762 ; Andrew, min.
of Craigie, born 26th April 1741 ; George,
born 3rd Feb. 1747 ; Robert, born 1st Aug.
1748 ; Elizabeth, born 9th June 1750.
HARRY SPENS, born 1714, son of
177g James S. of Kirkton of Alves, writer,
Edinburgh ; educated at King's Col
lege, Aberdeen; M.A. (1st April 1730);
licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith 3rd Oct. 1738 ;
ord. to Wemyss 8th Nov. 1744; adm. to
Chair 29th Dec. 1779; elected Moderator
of the General Assembly 25th May 1780;
D.D. (King's College, 1st Oct. 1781) ; died
27th Nov. 1787. He marr. 29th Oct. 1765,
Anne Duncan, widow of Captain Home,
R.N., and had issue — James, born 1st
and died 19th Oct. 1771. Publication-
Made first translation into English of
Plato's Republic (Glasgow, 1763 ; London,
1906).
GEORGE HILL, Professor of Greek;
1788 adm. to Chair 2nd Jan. 1788; res.
27th July 1791 on appointment as
Principal of St Mary's College.
ROBERT ARNOT, min. of Kingsbarns
1791
July 1808.
Oct- 1791 >
JOHN COOK, bom 24th Nov. 1771,
1808 eldest son of John C., Professor
of Moral Philosophy, St Andrews ;
educated at Univ. of St Andrews; M.A.
(1788) ; licen. by the Presb. there 19th Sept.
1792 ; ord. to Kilmany 9th May 1793 ; app.
to Chair of Hebrew in Univ. of St Andrews
5th May 1802; D.D. (St Andrews, 3rd
430
ST MARY'S COLLEGE
[DIVINITY, ETC.
Sept. 1808); trans, to this Chair 27th
Sept. that year ; elected Moderator of the
General Assembly 16th May 1816 ; died
28th Nov. 1824. He marr. 2nd July 1803,
Elizabeth (died 12th Sept. 1848), daugh. of
George Hill, D.D., Principal of St Mary's
College, and had issue— Harriet, died 1805 ;
Alexander, born 1804, died 1839 ; Janet,
born llth Jan. 1806, died 20th May 1842;
John, D.D., professor of Church History, St
Andrews, born 1st Sept. 1807 ; George, min.
of Kincardine O'Neil, born 27th March 1809 ;
Elizabeth, born 15th Aug. 1812, died at Rome
1878 ; Walter, lieut. Madras Infantry, born
19th Jan. 1815, died 1838 ; Alexander, born
1st May 1821. Publication — Inquiry into the
Authenticity of the Books of the New Testa
ment (Edinburgh, 1821).
JOHN MITCHELL, born Cupar-Fife,
1772 ; licen. by Presb. of Greenock
17th Dec. 1793 ; studied medicine at
Univ. of Edinburgh; M.D. (1801); ord.
to Largs 22nd April 1802; adm. to Chair
15th Dec. 1825; D.D. (St Andrews, 20th
Jan. 1827); died 14th Nov. 1835. He marr.
5th Sept. 1803, Mary Carstairs, who died
9th Nov. 1874.
THOMAS THOMSON JACKSON;
18S6 adm. 26th April 1836 ; res. 14th June
1851 ; trans, to Chair of Church
History, Univ. of Glasgow, 19th May 1851.
WILLIAM BEOWN, born Leuchars,
1851 180°j educated at Grammar School
and Univs. of St Andrews and King's
College, Aberdeen; M.A. (March 1818);
schoolmaster of Maryton and held a tutor
ship in Banffshire ; licen. by Presb. of
Fordyce ; was min. at Buenos Aires,
1826-50; D.D. (St Andrews, 14th May
1842) ; adm. to this Chair 14th June 1851 ;
died 19th July 1868. He marr. Eley Innes,
who died 2nd Nov. 1861, and had issue-
William Andrew, advocate, Procurator-
Fiscal, Glasgow, born 24th May 1836,
died 9th June 1906; Agnes (marr. Alex
ander John Murray, min. of Eddleston) ;
Catherine Mary (marr. Duncan Simon
Mackenzie, min. of Gairloch).
FREDERICK CROMBIE, born 19th
1868 June 1827; educated at Dollar
Academy and Univs. of St Andrews,
M.A. (1846) and Edinburgh ; app. to Scots
Church, Paris, in 1858; adm. to Penpont
25th June 1863 ; adm. to Chair 27th Nov.
1868; D.D. (Edinburgh 1869); Baird Lec
turer 1878 ; died 19th June 1889. Founded
the Crombie Scholarship in Biblical Criti
cism. He marr. (1) 7th Oct. 1864, Annie
Gordon (died 14th June 1870) : (2) 7th Oct.
1874, Frances (died 28th May 1919), eldest
daugh. of Alexander Kyd Lindesay of
Balmungo. Publications — Contributions
to Encyclopaedia Britannica (9th ed.).
ALLAN MENZIES, born Edinburgh,
188g 23rd Jan. 1845, third son of Allan
Menzies, W.S., Professor of Con
veyancing, Edinburgh, and Helen, daugh.
of Alexander Cowan of Valley field, Penicuik,
and grandson of William M., min. of Lanark ;
educated at Stuttgart Gymnasium, Germany,
Edinburgh Academy, Univs. of St Andrews,
M.A. (1865) [where Andrew Lang was one
of his closest friends], and Edinburgh, B.D.
(1869), and Erlanger ; became a tutor at
Ascog, Bute, and licen. by Presb. of Dunoon
in 1870 ; missionary in the Havannah
district, Glasgow ; assistant at Athelstane-
ford 1870-72 ; and at Carluke 1872-3 ; ord.
to Abernyte 13th May 1873 ; D.D. (Glasgow
1889) ; pres. by Queen Victoria 14th Sept.,
and adm. llth Nov. 1889 ; died at Innellan
6th May 1916 and buried at St Andrews.
He marr. 31st July 1878, Mary Elizabeth
(died 2nd Oct. 1916), daugh. of John
Adamson Honey, D.D., min. of Inchture,
and had issue— Helen Margaret, born 24th
June 1879 (marr. P. F. M'Farlane, Pro
curator Fiscal, Stirling) ; Frederica Lucy
Anne, born 4th May 1882, authoress of St
Columba of lona (London, 1923), St Mar
garet, Queen of Scotland (London, 1923);
and other works. Publications — Transla
tion of Baur's The Apostle Paul (Edinburgh,
1876); First Three Centuries of the Christian
Church (Edinburgh, 1878-9) ; Services for
Sunday Schools, and Home Prayers [with
ProfessorWilliamKnight](Edinburgh,1879);
" The Successors of the Great Physician "
and " The Christian Priesthood " in Scotch
CHUECH HISTORY]
ST MARY^S COLLEGE
431
Sermons (London, 1880); Pfleiderer's Phil
osophy of Religion (Edinburgh, 1886-8] ;
Wellhausen's Prolegomena to the History of
Israel [with J. Sutherland Black] (Edin
burgh, 1885); National Religion (Paisley,
1888); Critical Study of the New Testament
(Edinburgh, 1890) ; History of Religion
(London, 1895; revised ed., 1911); The
Earliest Gospel (London, 1901); The
Religions of India — Brahmanism and
Buddhism, [Temple Bible Handbooks]
(London, 1902) ; The Christ of the Fourth
Gospel (London, 1909) ; Second Epistle to
the Corinthians (London, 1912) ; A Study
of Calvin and other Papers (London, 1918).
Editor of supplementary issue of the
Ante-Nicene Church Fathers (Edinburgh,
1897) ; Review of Theology and Philosophy
(Edinburgh, 1905-15). Contributions to
Dictionary of the £ible, v., 338-43; the
Interpreter ; Hastings's Encyclopedia of
Religion and Ethics, viii., 823-7 ; Mind,
and other periodicals. — [Cowan Family
Pedigrees, 31; Memoir, by his daughter, in
A Study of Calvin.}
GEOEGE SIMPSON DUNCAN, born
lglg 8th March 1884, elder surviving son
of Alexander D., Forfar; educated
at Forfar Academy, Univ. of Edinburgh ;
M.A., (1906) [Rhind Classical Scholarship,
C.B. Black Scholarship in Hellenistic Greek,
B.D. (1913), Pitt Club Theological Scholar
ship] Trinity College, Cambridge, Exhi
bitioner and Sizar, B.A., First - Class
Classical Tripos, also at Univs. of St
Andrews, Marburg, Jena, and Heidelberg ;
licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh in 1914 ;
ord. Chaplain to the Forces 29th Aug.
1915 ; chaplain to General Headquarters
of British Armies in France during the
European War, 1915-19 ; mentioned in
dispatches ; O.B.E., Military Division ;
Hon. Chaplain to the Forces; app. to
this Chair 31st July, and adiu. llth Oct.
1919. Marr. 18th July 1923, Amy Hay
(died 23rd Feb. 1924), daugh. of James
Thomson, min. of Gartly, and widow of
J. H. Norden. Publications • — Contribu
tions to Encyclopedia Britannica (supple
mentary volumes) ; The New Standard
Bible Dictionary, and theological journals.
CHURCH HISTORY (THIRD
MASTERS).
[In 1707 the third Mastership, which
had frequently been in abeyance from lack
of funds, was revived and re-endowed as a
professorship of Ecclesiastical History by
Queen Anne, who provided a salary for the
professor by suppressing six Exchequer
bursaries founded by King William III.
in 1693.]
PATRICK HALDANE, born 1683,
„ 7 second son of John H. of Gleneagles,
M.P. ; entered St Salvator's College,
St Andrews, in 1698; M.A. (llth July
1701); Professor of Greek in said College
1705-7; trans, to St Mary's College as
professor of Church History on 28th
April 1707 ; adm. 23rd Nov. 1708; res. in
1718 ; on removing to Edinburgh, adm.
advocate 18th Jan. 1715. He has been
described as " an active, able, and bustling
politician"; was M.P. for Perth Burghs
(which then included St Andrews) 1715-22 ;
Provost of St Andrews 1716-20; Solicitor-
General, etc. He succeeded to the estate
of Gleneagles on the death of his elder
brother, Mungo, in 1759 ; died at Dudding-
ston 10th Jan. 1769. He marr. (cont.
5th Aug. 1720) Margaret, third daugh. of
William, Lord Forrester.
JAMES HALDANE, a kinsman of
jiyjo Patrick Haldane, being a younger
son of Patrick H., the first proprietor
of Lanrick, at one time part of the Glen
eagles estate ; M.A. (Edinburgh, 29th
April 1701) ; adm. Professor of Greek in
St Salvator's College, St Andrews, 17th
Nov. 1707 ; appointed by King George I.
to the Chair of Ecclesiastical History in St
Mary's College, 14th Aug. 1718, but does
not appear to have been admitted until 25th
April 1721. He was burned to death in
his room in the college 17th Jan. 1727.
ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, licen. by
17go Presb. of Edinburgh 26th June 1717 ;
ord. to Larbert 19th March 1718 ;
pres. by George II. 19th Nov., and adm.
17th Dec. 1730; D.D. (King's College,
Aberdeen, 10th July 1738); died at Boar-
432
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[CHURCH HISTORY
hills, 24th April 1756. He marr. 9th April
1723, Christian (died 25th April 1776),
daugh. of John Watson, merchant, Edin
burgh, and had issue — Archibald ; Lewisa ;
Christina, died at Dundee 29th Aug. 1774 ;
Mary, born llth May 1730 (marr. George
Lawrie, D.D., min. of Loudoun) ; Janet,
born 24th July 1732, died at Edinburgh
7th Feb. 1777 ; Margaret, born llth June
1733 ; John, born 30th Jan. 1735 ; Hay,
born 12th June 1737 ; Barbara, born 27th
March 1739; Elizabeth, born 27th June
1740; George, born 1st Aug. 1742.
WILLIAM BROWN, born 1719, son of
Laurence B., min. of Lintrathen ;
ord. to Cortachy 17th July 1746;
dem. 29th June 1748 on account of "the
odium of the disaffected, the prejudices
of the people, and his life being attacked
by a ruffian." He became chaplain to a
regiment in the British Army in Flanders,
and afterwards min. of the English con
gregation at Utrecht ; adm. to Chair 28th
Feb. 1757 ; died 10th Jan. 1791. He marr.
15th July 1747, Janet (died May 1813),
daugh. of George Ogilvy, min. of Kirriemuir,
and had issue — Elizabeth, born 22nd May
1748 ; William Laurence, D.D., Principal of
Marischal College, born 7th Jan. 1755;
Susan, born 4th Feb. 1757, died Oct. 1819 ;
Robert, born 3rd April 1759, died 22nd
Jan. 1784 ; George, born 28th March 1760 ;
Jean, born 22nd Aug. 1761, died 18th April
1848; Janet, born llth Nov. 1762, died
25th Feb. 1822.
CHARLES WILSON, born 1736 ; licen.
by Presb. of Paisley 7th July 1762 ;
1 ord. to Auchtermuchty 6th Feb.
1766 ; trans, to Scone 29th Oct. 1777 ; adm.
to Chair of Hebrew 7th Dec. 1780 ; D.D.
(St Andrews, 12th Nov. 1783) ; trans, to
Chair of Church History 19th Nov. 1793 ;
died 5th Sept. 1801. He marr. 26th April
1771, Elizabeth (died 10th Feb. 1807),
daugh. of Thomas Stark of Ballindean,
min. of Balmerino, and had issue — Helen,
born 7th March 1772 (marr. 2nd Nov. 1795,
James Robertson, Balgonie), died 20th
Jan. 1796; Jane, born 22nd Sept. 1773
(marr. 31st Aug. 1797, James Hunter,
Professor of Logic and min. of St Leonard's);
David, born 15th Feb. 1775, died 21st Aug.
1785 ; Catherine, born 9th Nov. 1777 ;
Ann, born 23rd Jan. 1778, died 16th Jan.
1781 ; Thomas, lieut.-general Bengal Army,
born 13th March 1779, died 1856 ; Margaret,
born 23rd March 1782; Henrietta, born
17th Aug. 1784 ; David, lieut.-colonel,
resident at Bushire, born 21st May 1788.
JOHN TROTTER, bapt. 9th Dec. 1766,
18Q2 son of James T., farmer, Kerchesters,
Sprouston, and Jean Hood ; ord. to
Preston pans 16th Jan. 1783; D.D. (St
Andrews, 5th July 1799) ; app. to Chair
of Hebrew 30th April 1794; app. to this
Chair 9th Jan., and adm. 1st May 1802;
died unmarr. 10th Nov. 1811.
JOHN LEE, M.D., LL.D., D.D. ;
1812 aC*m' 8tk April 1812 > res" 4th Jan->
and adm. to Canongate, Edinburgh,
21st March 1823 [afterwards Principal of
the Univ. of Edinburgh].
GEORGE BUIST, born Kettle, 20th
March 1779, son of George B., farmer,
Kettle; educated at Univs. of St
Andrews and Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb.
of Cupar 7th July 1801 ; ord. to Falkland
28th Sept. 1802 ; trans, to Second Charge,
St Andrews, 1st Sept. 1813; D.D. (St
Andrews, 16th May 1814) ; adm. to Chair of
Hebrew 25th June 1817 ; trans, and adm.
to this Chair 14th Oct. 1823; elected
Moderator of the General Assembly 18th
May 1848; died llth April 1860. He
marr. 21st March 1805, Margaret (died 15th
Nov. 1854, aged 71), daugh. of William
Fernie of Tillywhanland, and had issue-
George, lieut. 10th Bengal Native Cavalry,
born 2nd Aug. 1807, died at Jelallabad 29th
July 1842; Jean, born 9th March 1809,
died 3rd Feb. 1817 ; William Fernie, born
22nd Nov. 1810, died 8th Dec. 1816;
William Fernie, born 4th Aug. 1818, died
9th April 1860; Henry, born 12th Jan.
1820, died 17th April 1840 ; Jean, born 10th
Jan. 1822, died 29th April 1881 ; Margaret,
born 30th March 1825, died 15th March
1826. Publications — Expository Lectures on
Chaps. X V.-XIX. of the Acts of the Apostles
(Edinburgh, 1857) ; Accounts of St Andrews
and St Leonard's (New Stat. Ace., ix.).
CHURCH HISTORY]
ST MARY'S COLLEGE
433
JOHN COOK, born 1st Sept. 1807, son of
John C., D.D., Professor of Biblical
} Criticism, Univ. of St Andrews;
educated at Univ. there; M.A. (1823);
app. factor to St Mary's College in 1824 ;
licen. by Presb. of Fordoun 13th Aug. 1828;
ord. to Laurencekirk 3rd Sept. 1829 ; trans,
to St Leonard's 2nd Oct. 1845 ; D.D. (St
Andrews, 9th Dec. 1848); app. Convener
of General Assembly's Committee on Edu
cation 4th June 1849, of that for Improving
the Condition of Parish Schoolmasters 3rd
June 1850, of that on Aids to Devotion
1st June 1857, of that for Army and Navy
Chaplains 1859, and of that on Impressions
of the Scriptures, Catechisms, etc., 3rd June
1861 ; elected Moderator of the General
Assembly 19th May 1859 ; assessor for the
Council of the Univ. on University Court
that year; pres. by Queen Victoria 17th
May, and adm. to this Chair 15th June
1860 ; app. one of the Deans of the Chapel
Eoyal 1863; dem. 30th July 1868; died
17th April 1869. A memorial window to
him was erected by the parishioners in
the College Church. He marr. 9th May
1837, Rachel Susan (born 15th June 1812,
died 25th June 1894), daugh. of William
Farquhar, London, and had issue — Eliza
beth, born 13th May 1838 (marr. (1) John
Robertson, D.D., min. of St Mungo's,
Glasgow : (2) Matthew Rodger, D.D., min.
of St Leonard's) ; Isabella Farquhar, born
14th March 1841, died 21st May 1894;
Harriett, born 6th June 1843, died 19th
May 1869 ; Madeline, born 17th Dec. 1845,
(marr. Duncan Maclennan), died 17th June
1869; Rachel Susan, born 1st Feb. 1848
(marr. 20th May 1874, Charles Prestwick
Scott, editor of the Manchester Guardian),
died Nov. 1905; Marcia Sophia(marr. Andrew
Stewart). Publications — Evidence on Church
Patronage, being a Digest of Evidence given
before the House of Commons (Edinburgh,
1838); A Letter on Church Defence Associa
tions (Montrose, 1841); A Brief View of
the Scottish System for Relief of the Poor
(Edinburgh, 1841); Substance of a Speech
delivered at a Meeting called by a Depu
tation from the Convocation (Edinburgh,
1843) ; A Catechism of Christian Instruc
tion (Edinburgh, 1845); A Fareivell Sermon
VOL. VII.
(Edinburgh, 1845); Six Lectures on Christian
Evidences (Edinburgh, 1852); A Letter to a
Member of Parliament on the Parochial
Schools of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1854);
Parish School Statistics (Edinburgh, 1854) ;
Speech on the Lord Advocate's Education
Bill (Edinburgh, 1855); Statement of Facts
regarding the Parochial Schools of Scotland
(London, 1855) ; Address at Opening of the
St Andrews Graduates' Association (Cupar,
1858) ; Account of the Parish of Laurence-
kirk (New Stat. Ace., xi.) ; Sermon XVI.
(Church of Scotland Pulpit, \.}.—[Dict. Nat.
Biog.]
ALEXANDER FERRIER MITCHELL,
born Brechin, 10th Sept. 1822, son
of David M., Convener of the Local
Guilds, and Elizabeth, daugh. of James
Ferrier of Broadmyre; educated at Brechin
Grammar School and Univ. of St Andrews;
M.A. (1841); licen. by Presb. of Brechin
1844 ; assistant at Meigle and Dundee ;
ord. to Dunnichen 8th Nov. 1847 ; adm.
to Chair of Hebrew 19th Dec. 1848;
D.D. (St Andrews 1862); pres. by Queen
Victoria 30th Oct., and adm. to this Chair
21st Nov. 1868; Convener of General
Assembly's Jewish Mission Committee,
1856-75; Baird Lecturer, 1882; elected
Moderator of General Assembly 21st
May 1885; LL.D. (Glasgow 1892); res.
31st March 1894; died at St Andrews,
22nd March 1899, and buried at Brechin
Cathedral Churchyard. He marr. 8th Dec.
1852, Margaret Tweedie (died 7th Nov.
1900), eldest daugh. of Michael Johnstone
of Bodsbeck, and had issue — Robert Hal-
dane, born 17th Oct. 1853 ; Christina, born
18th March 1855 ; Johnstone, born 14th
March 1857 ; Alexander, born 8th Oct.
1859 ; James, born 30th Dec. 1862 ; Eliza
beth Margaret, born 5th Feb. 1865, died
29th Nov. 1919. Publications— The West
minster Confessionof Faith (Edinburgh, 1866;
3rd ed., 1867) ; The Wedderburns and their
Work (Edinburgh, 1867) ; Minutes of the
Westminster Assembly [with John Struthers,
LL.D.] (Edinburgh, 1874); The Westminster
Assembly [Baird Lecture] (London, 1883;
new ed., Philadelphia, 1895); Catechisms
of the Second Reformation (London, 1886) ;
2 E
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ST MARY'S COLLEGE
[CHURCH HISTORY
The Scottish Reformation, edited by David
Hay Fleming, LL.D. [with biographical
sketch by James Christie, D.D.] (Edinburgh,
1900). He edited for the Scottish Text
Society, The Richt Vay to the Kingdom
of Heuine, by John Gau (Edinburgh,
1888) ; Gude and Godlie Ballates, from the
1567 Version (Edinburgh, 1897). [With
James Christie, D.D.] for the Scottish
History Society, The Records of the
Commissions of the General Assembly,
1646-50; 2 vols. (Edinburgh, 1892, 1896).
He also published an edition of Arch
bishop Hamilton's Catechism (Edinburgh,
1882), St Giles Lectures, 1st ser. 4, 4th
ser. 1, 6th ser. 8; " St Andrews in
Covenanting Times " (The Scottish Church,
Nov. 1886); and numerous contribu
tions to periodical literature and en
cyclopaedias. — {Diet. Nat. Biog., Suppl.
1049.]
JOHN HERKLESS, D.D., min. of
1894 Tannadice ; pres. by Queen Victoria
27th March, and adm. 18th July
1894 ; trans, to Principalship of United
Colleges 7th April, and adm. 14th May
1915.
1922
ARCHIBALD MAIN,M.A., D.Litt.,min.
1915 of Old Kilpatrick; adm. llth Oct.
1915 ; trans, to Chair of Ecclesiastical
History, Univ. of Glasgow, 1st Oct. 1922.
JAMES HOUSTON BAXTER, born
Glasgow, 23rd Feb. 1894, younger
son of James B., Canonbie ; edu
cated at Whitehill School and Univs. of
Glasgow, M.A. (1918) [George A. Clarke
Scholar in Classics, Faulds Fellow in Arts],
and Aberdeen, B.D. (1920) ; assistant in
Humanity, 1918-20; licen. by Presb. of
Aberdeen 21st June 1920; assistant at
St George's-in-the-West, Aberdeen, 1920-1 ;
ord. to Ballantrae 21st July 1921 ; app.
to this Chair 29th Sept., and adm. 10th
Nov. 1922. Marr. 29th March 1919, Helen,
daugh. of Alexander K. Robertson, Kil-
marnock, and has issue — James Davidson,
born 6th June 1922. Publications — Con
tributor to Journal of Theological Studies,
Classical Review, Theology, Muse'e Beige,
etc. Co-editor of Archiuum Latinitatis
Medii Aeui; A Bibliography of St Andrews
(St Andrews, 1926) ; Marcus Wagner in
Scotland (1927); The Wolfenbiittel St
Andrews Music Manuscript (1927) ; St
Andrews University before the Reformation
(St Andrews, 1927).
THE MODERATORS OF THE CHURCH
OF SCOTLAND
MODERATORS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[Moderators of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland from 1560 to 1928,
with the dates of Assembly over which they presided, and places where the Assembly
convened. The names of those who presided over the first four Assemblies have not
been recorded. It is probable that John Knox constituted these meetings, but the first
reference to his doing so does not occur until the fifth Assembly. When a Moderator
held that office more than once, this is indicated by numbers at the end of his name.]
1560, 20th December. At Edinburgh. The
first General Assembly of the Reformed
Church met in the Magdalene Chapel,
in the Cowgate. It consisted of forty-
two members, of whom six only were
ministers. They sat as " the ministers
and commissioners of the particular
kirks in Scotland, convened upon the
things which are to set forward God's
glory, and the weal of His Kirk in this
realm." The chief business of this
Assembly was to give approval to a
number of persons who were recom
mended as Eeaders, Ministers, and
Superintendents. Acts were also
passed in regard to the laws of con
sanguinity, the election of ministers,
elders, and deacons, the confirmation
of testaments, and ordaining that those
who had held office in the Popish
Church, and were of honest conversa
tion, should be supported with the
alms of the Kirk, as other poor : that
the Parliament should be petitioned
to admit none to public offices but
such as were of the Eeformed religion,
and to punish sharply all sayers and
hearers of Mass. This Assembly seems
to have continued its sittings during
seven days, when it adjourned to meet
on the 15th of January 1561.
1561, 15th January. Assembly appointed
to meet on this date ; if it met, there
is no record.
1561, 27th May. At Edinburgh.
1561, 15th December. At Edinburgh.
1562, 29th June. At Edinburgh.
1562, 25th December. At Edinburgh. JOHN
KNOX, min. of St Giles, opened, " call
ing upon God's name for the assistance
of His Holy Spirit."- [Booke of the
Universall KirTc of Scotland [Peterkin],
18.]
1563, 25th June. At Perth. JOHN WILLOCK,
opened with prayer.
1563, 25th December. At Edinburgh. "It
was proponed be the haill Assemblie
that ane Moderator should be ap
pointed, for avoiding confusion in
reasoning. The Lords of the Secret
Council, with the haill brethren of
the Assemblie, appointed Mr John
Willock, Superintendent of the West
(c/. Vol. I., 50), Moderator during this
Assemblie." — [Booke of the Kirk, 17.]
1564,25th June. At Edinburgh. JOHN
WILLOCK (2).
1564, 25th December. At Edinburgh. Sir
JOHN ERSKINE of Dun, Superintendent
of Angus and Mearns (c/. Vol. V., 387).
1565, 25th June. At Edinburgh. JOHN
WILLOCK (3).
1565, 25th December. At Edinburgh. Sir
JOHN ERSKINE of Dun (2).
1566, 25th June. At Edinburgh. Sir JOHN
EESKINE of Dun (3).
1566, 25th December. At Edinburgh. Sir
JOHN EKSKINE of Dun (4).
MODERATORS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
437
1567, 25th June. At Edinburgh. GEORGE
BUCHANAN, born at Middle Ledlewan,
or The Moss, Dumgoyne, Killearn,
Stirlingshire, about 1st Feb. 1506,
fifth [not third, as in Diet. Nat. Biog.\
son of Thomas B. [son of Robert B.
of Drumikil, an insolvent laird] and
Agnes Heriot, said (on slight authority)
to have been a daugh. of Heriot of
Trabroun; educated first at Killearn
School and, as appears probable (from
a Letter of Robert Baillie, iii., 402)
at the Grammar School of Glasgow.
In 1520, having shown remarkable
promise of scholarship, he was sent
by his uncle James Heriot to Paris,
where he gave himself chiefly to the
study of Latin composition. His
uncle died, and his widowed mother
being too poor to maintain his resi
dence abroad, he returned home ;
served with the French troops brought
by John, Duke of Albany, to Scotland,
and was present at the siege of Wark-
upon-Tweed in 1523. In 1524 he
became (with his brother Patrick) a
student at St Andrews under John
Mair, or Major, and graduated B.A.
3rd Oct. 1525. The summer following
he entered the Scots College at Paris,
and was M.A. in March 1528 ; taught
grammar in the College of St Barbe
and tutor to Gilbert Kennedy, Earl
of Cassilis, 1531-6. He returned to
Scotland in 1536, when James V.
appointed him tutor to his natural
son, Lord James Stewart, afterwards
Abbot of Kelso. Being prosecuted
for the writing of two Satires against
the Franciscan friars, he fled to France
in 1539, spent two years at Bordeaux
as Latin Professor in the College of
Guienne, and had Montaigne as one
of his pupils. In 1547 he went with
the Portuguese, Andre de Gouvea, to
teach in his newly-established seminary
at Coimbra. When in prison in 1551
charged at the instance of the Inquisi
tion as a heretic and anti-Romanist
he solaced himself with translations
of the Psalms into Latin verse. In
1552 he escaped to England but soon
returned to France, where he became
tutor in the family of Mare"chal de
Brissac, a post which he held for five
years. Returning to Scotland about
1560, he became a favourite at Court
and was classical reader to Queen Mary,
from whom he received a grant of the
temporalities of Crossraguel Abbey.
He openly embraced the Reformed
doctrines, took an active share in the
government of the Church, was a
member of several General Assemblies,
and was elected Moderator [not as a
layman, as commonly represented, but
in virtue of his office as Principal of
St Leonard's College, St Andrews (to
which he was app. in 1566) min. of the
parish and Professor of Divinity] 25th
June 1567. In 1568 he was one of
the commissioners sent to England to
defend the Scottish nobles for having
deposed and imprisoned their Queen.
He believed her guilty of the murder
of Darnley, and penned his memorable
Detectio Marice Reginoe (1571) in which
the proofs against Mary were assembled
with remorseless skill. In 1570 he
was named tutor to the young King,
James VI., and resigned his Prin-
cipalship ; was made Director of
Chancery and Keeper of the Privy
Seal, with a seat in Parliament and
in the Privy Council. In 1578 he was
one of a Government Commission to
examine a work on the " Policy of
the Kirk," and the General Assembly
placed under his revision (with others)
Adamson's Latin version of the Book
of Job. In 1579 he published De
Jure Regni apud Scotos, the most
important of his political writings,
and in 1582 his Rerum Scoticarum
Historia, the work of twenty years,
dying within a month thereafter in
Kennedy's Close, High Street, Edin
burgh, on 28th Sept. His grave in the
Greyfriars Churchyard is unknown.
To his memory David Laing, the
antiquary, erected a cenotaph (with
bust) in the churchyard. Old Grey-
friars Church contains a fine memorial
window. An obelisk, 103 feet in
438
MODERATORS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
height, was erected at Killearn, in
1788. Buchanan's reputed skull is in
the Anatomical Museum of Edinburgh
University. In honour of the 400th
anniversary of his birth, an academic
Celebration of great interest and bril
liancy was held at St Andrews in July
1906. A similar Celebration took
place at Glasgow. Publications — Opera
Omnia, 2 vols. [ed. by Thomas Ruddi-
man] (Edinburgh, 1715) ; The Works
of Mr George Buchanan in the Scottish
Language (Edinburgh, 1823) ; Vernac
ular Writings of George Buchanan
[Scot. Text Soc.], ed. by P. Hume
Brown (Edinburgh, 1892). [See
Murray's Bibliography for Separate
Works — Dramas, Histories, Poems,
Political Writings, Psalms, Tragedies,
Translations.] — [Memoir of the Life
and Writings of George Buchanan, by
David Irving (Edinburgh, 1807, 1817) ;
George Buchanan, Humanist and Re
former, by P. Hume Brown (Edin
burgh, 1 890) ; Strathendrick, by John
Guthrie Smith (Glasgow, 1896);
George Buchanan, by Eobert Wallace
[Famous Scots Series] (Edinburgh,
1899); George Buchanan, by Donald
Macmillan, D.D. (Edinburgh, 1906);
George Buchanan : A Memorial [Illus
trations] [ed. by D. A. Millar] (St
Andrews, 1907) ; George Buchanan :
Glasgow Quatercentenary Studies [por
traits] [contains full Bibliography by
David Murray, LL.D.] (Glasgow,
1907) ; Cat. Edin. Univ. Lib., i., 578 ;
Diet. Nat. Biog^\
1567, 21st July. At Edinburgh. JOHN
Row, LL.D., min. of Perth (cf. Vol.
IV., 229).
1567, 25th December. At Edinburgh. JOHN
Row, LL.D. (2).
1568, 1st July. At Edinburgh. JOHN
WlLLOCK (4).
1568, 25th December. At Edinburgh. JOHN
KNOX opened with prayer. "No
mention of ane Moderator." " In
respect of the stormie weather, and
the bruite of the plague, verie few
conveened. Therefore, they continued
the Assemblie till the 25th of Februar."
— [Calderwood's Hist., ii., 470 ; Booke
of the Kirk, 105.]
1569, 25th February. At Edinburgh. DAVID
LINDSAY, min. of Leith (cf. Vol. I.,
160).
1569, 5th July. At Edinburgh. WILLIAM
CHRISTISON, min. of Dundee (cf. Vol.
V., 315).
1570, 25th February. At Stirling. "The
General Assemblie, which should have
been holdin in Stirline was continued
till the first of March because none
were conveened but three or foure,
by reason of the troublesome time."—
[Calderwood's Hist., ii., 529.]
1570, 1st March. At Edinburgh. JOHN
CRAIG, min. of St Giles, Edinburgh,
[afterwards of Aberdeen] (cf. Vols. I.
52, VI. 35). "He who is Moderator
in the last Assembly, shall make the
prayer and exhortation in the As
sembly thereafter following, whilk
endit, the Kirk proceed to the choosing
of a new Moderator, who shall continue
to make prayers and exhortations, as
said is, and so forth, from Assembly
to Assembly."— {Booke of the Kirk,
117.]
1570, 5th July. At Edinburgh. ROBERT
PONT, min. of St Cuthbert's, Edin
burgh (cf. Vol. I., 93).
1571, 5th March. At Edinburgh. GEORGE
HAY, min. of Rathven (cf. Vol. VI.,
294).
1571, 6th August. At Stirling. GILBERT
GARDEN, min. of Fordyce (cf. Vol. VI.,
287).
1572, 6th March. At St Andrews. ROBERT
HAMILTON, min. of St Andrews (cf.
Vol. V., 231).
1572, 6th August. At Perth. Sir JOHN
ERSKINE of Dun (5).
1573, 6th March. At Edinburgh. DAVID
FERGUSON, min. of Dunfermline (cf.
Vol. V., 26).
1573, 6th August. At Edinburgh. ALEX
ANDER ARBUTHNOTT, Principal of
King's College, Aberdeen (cf. Vol.
VII., 364).
1574, 6th March. At Edinburgh. ANDREW
HAY, min. of Renfrew (cf. Vol. III.,
185).
MODERATORS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
439
1574, 7th August. At Edinburgh. JOHN
DUNCANSON, min. of the King's House
(cf. Vol. IV., 17).
1575, 7th March. At Edinburgh. JAMES
BOYD, Archbishop of Glasgow (cf. Vol.
VIL, 321).
1575, 6th August. At Edinburgh. ROBERT
PONT, called " Provost of the Trinity
College " (2).
1576, 24th April. At Edinburgh. JOHN
Row, LL.D. (3).
1576, 24th October. At Edinburgh. JOHN
CRAIG, min. of Aberdeen (2).
1577, 1st April. At Edinburgh. ALEX
ANDER ARBUTHNOTT (2).
1577, 25th October. At Edinburgh. DAVID
LINDSAY (2).
1578, 24th April. At Edinburgh. ANDREW
MELVILL, then Principal of Univ. of
Glasgow (cf. Vol. VII., 417).
1578, llth June. At Stirling. JOHN Row,
LL.D. (4).
1578, 24th October. At Edinburgh. DAVID
FERGUSON (2).
1579, 7th July. At Edinburgh. THOMAS
SMEATON, Principal of Univ. of Glas
gow (cf. Vol. III., 410).
1580, 12th July. At Dundee. JAMES
LAWSON, min. of St Giles, Edinburgh,
(cf. Vol. I, 51).
1580, 20th October. At Edinburgh. ANDREW
HAY (2).
1581, 24th April. At Glasgow. ROBERT
PONT (3).
1581, 17th October. At Edinburgh. JOHN
CRAIG (3).
1582, 24th April. At St Andrews. ANDREW
MELVILL (2).
1582, 27th June. At Edinburgh. ANDREW
MELVILL (3).
1582, 9th October. At Edinburgh. DAVID
LINDSAY (3).
1583, 24th April. At Edinburgh. THOMAS
SMEATON (2).
1583, 10th October. At Edinburgh. ROBERT
PONT (4).
1586, 10th May. At Edinburgh. DAVID
LINDSAY (4.)
1587, 20th June. At Edinburgh. ANDREW
MELVILL (4).
1588, 6th February. At Edinburgh. ROBERT
BRUCE, min. of St Giles, Edinburgh (cf
Vol. I., 54).
1588, 6th August. At Edinburgh. THOMAS
BUCHANAN, min. of Ceres (cf. Vol. V.,
130).
1589, 6th February. At Edinburgh. JAMES
MELVILLE, min. of Anstruther (cf.
Vol. V., 212).
1589, 17th June. At Edinburgh. JAMES
MELVILLE (2).
1590, 3rd March. At Edinburgh. JAMES
MELVILLE (3).
1590, 4th August. At Edinburgh. PATRICK
GALLOWAY, min. of the King's House
(cf. Vol. I., 53).
1591, 2nd July. At Edinburgh. NICOL
DALGLEISH, min. of St Cuthbert's,
Edinburgh [afterwards of Pittenweem]
(cf. Vol. V., 226).
1592, 21st May. At Edinburgh. ROBERT
BRUCE (2).
1593, 24th April. At Dundee. DAVID
LINDSAY (5).
1594, 7th May. At Edinburgh. ANDREW
MELVILL (5).
1595, 24th June. At Montrose. JAMES
NICOLSON, min. of Meigle [after
wards Bishop of Dunkeld] (cf. Vol
VIL, 339).
1596, 24th March. At Edinburgh. ROBERT
PONT (5).
1597, 1st March. At Perth. DAVID LIND
SAY (6). "Exhortation there was
none." No Moderator was chosen,
but "one suborned by Court, D. L.
intrused [intruded] himself; whereof
proceeded confusion and unaccustomed
immoderat behaviour." — [Calder-
wood's Hist., v., 622].
1597, 27th April. At Edinburgh. ROBERT
PONT (6).
1597, 10th May. At Dundee. ROBERT
ROLLOCK, M.A., Principal of Univ.
of Edinburgh (cf. Vol. I., 64).
1598, 7th March. At Dundee. PETER
BLACKBURN, min. of Aberdeen [after
wards Bishop of Aberdeen] (cf. Vol.
VIL, 329).
1600, 18th March. At Montrose. ROBERT
WILKIE, Principal of St Leonard's
College, St Andrews (cf. Vol. VIL, 412).
440
MODERATORS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1601,12th May. At Burntisland. JOHN
HALL, min. of St Giles, Edinburgh (cf.
Vol. I. 55).
1602, 10th December. At Holyrood.
PATRICK GALLOWAY (2).
1605, 2nd July. At Aberdeen. JOHN
FOKBES, M.A., min. of Alford (cf.
Vol. VI., 117).
1606, 10th December. At Linlithgow.
JAMES NICOLSON (2).
1608, 26th July. At Linlithgow. JAMES
LAW, M.A. Bishop of Orkney [after
wards Archbishop of Glasgow] (cf.
Vol. VII., 322).
1610, 8th June. At Glasgow. JOHN
SPOTTISWOOD, M.A., Archbishop of
Glasgow [afterwards of St Andrews]
(cf. Vol. I., 176).
1616, 13th August. At Aberdeen. JOHN
SPOTTISWOOD (2).
1617, 25th November. At St Andrews.
JOHN SPOTTISWOOD (3).
1618, 25th August. At Perth. JOHN SPOT
TISWOOD (4). [The "Five Articles"
Assembly.]
[The six preceding Assemblies were
declared by the General Assembly of
1638 and 1639 to have been " unfree
unlawful, and null, and never to have
had, nor hereafter to have, any ecclesi
astical authority, and their conclusions
to have been and to be of no force,
vigour, or efficacie." — \Booke of the
Kirk, 533.] After 1618 King James
VI. did not allow the General Assembly
to meet.]
1638, 21st November. At Glasgow. [JoHN
BELL, M.A., min. of Tron Church,
Glasgow, acted as retiring Moderator]
(cf. Vol. Ill, 473).
1638, 21st November. At Glasgow. ALEX
ANDER HENDERSON, M.A., min. of
Leuchars [afterwards of St Giles,
Edinburgh] (cf. Vol. I., 57).
1639, 12th August. At Edinburgh. DAVID
DICKSON, M.A., min. of Irvine [after
wards of St Giles, Edinburgh] (cf.
Vol. I., 64).
1640, 29th July. At Aberdeen. ANDREW
EAMSAY, M.A., min. of Old Kirk
Parish, Edinburgh (cf. Vol. I., 70).
1641, 20th July. At St Andrews. ALEX
ANDER HENDERSON, M.A. (2).
1642, 27th July. At St Andrews. EGBERT
DOUGLAS, M.A., min. of Tolbooth
Church, Edinburgh [afterwards of
Pencaitland] (cf. Vol. I., 385).
1643, 2nd August. At Edinburgh. ALEX
ANDER HENDERSON, M.A. (3).
1644, 29th May. At Edinburgh. JAMES
BONAR, M.A., min. of Maybole (cf. Vol.
III., 52).
1645, 22nd January. At Edinburgh. EGBERT
DOUGLAS, MA. (2).
1646, 3rd June. At Edinburgh. EGBERT
BLAIR, M.A., min. of St Andrews (cf.
Vol. V., 232).
1647, 4th August. At Edinburgh. EGBERT
DOUGLAS, M.A. (3).
1648, 12th July. At Edinburgh. GEORGE
GILLESPIE, M.A., min. of St Giles,
Edinburgh (cf. Vol. I., 58).
1649, 4th July. At Edinburgh. EGBERT
DOUGLAS, M.A. (4).
1650, 10th July. At Edinburgh. ANDREW
CANT, M.A., min. of St Nicholas'
Church, Aberdeen (cf. Vol. VI.,
37).
1651, 16th July. At Edinburgh. EGBERT
DOUGLAS, M.A. (5).
1652, 21st July. At Edinburgh. DAVID
DICKSON, MA. (2). [On 20th July
1653, Oliver Cromwell forbade all
meetings of Assembly, Colonel Cot-
terel entering the Church where the
members were convened and bidding
them begone. The Assembly did not
meet again until after the Eevolution.
From 1690, the General Assembly has
met in Edinburgh annually, except
in 1691 and 1693. In the nineteenth
century the only instance of a minister
having been Moderator more than
once, was that of Principal Macfarlan
in 1819 and 1843. From 1714, the
General Assembly has met in May,
except in 1926, when, though opening
on 18th May it immediately adjourned
until 1st June, in consequence of
the General Strike then prevailing,
many members being unable to travel,
and practically no printing being
possible.]
MODERATORS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
441
1690, 16th October. HUGH KENNEDY, M.A.,
min. of Trinity Church, Edinburgh
(cf. Vol. I, 127).
1692, 15th January. WILLIAM CRICHTON,
M.A., min. of Tron Church. Edinburgh
(cf. Vol. I., 136).
1694, 29th March.? JOHN LAW, M.A., min.
of St Giles, Edinburgh (cf. Vol. I., 66).
1695, 17th December. PATRICK SIMSON,
min. of Renfrew (cf. Vol. III., 186).
1696, . PATRICK SIMSON (2).
1697,2nd January. WILLIAM CRICHTON,
M.A. (2).
1698, llth January. GEORGE MELDRUM,
M.A., min. of Tron Church,"£Edin-
burgh, and Professor of Divinity,
Univ. of Edinburgh (cf. Vol. I., 139).
1699, 20th January. GEORGE HAMILTON,
min. of St Giles, Edinburgh (cf. Vol.
L, 60).
1700, 2nd February. DAVID BLAIR, M.A.,
min. of Old Kirk, Edinburgh (cf. Vol.
I, 71).
1701, 19th February. THOMAS WILKIE,
M.A., min. of Canongate, Edinburgh
(cf. Vol. I., 25).
1702, 6th March. DAVID WILLIAMSON, M. A.,
min. of St Cuthbert's, Edinburgh (cf.
Vol. I., 96).
1703, 10th March. GEORGE MELDRUM, M.A.
(2).
1704, 16th March. THOMAS WILKIE, M.A. (2).
1705, 29th March. WILLIAM CARSTARES,
M.A., 'Principal of Univ. of Edin
burgh (cf. Vol. L, 66).
1706, 4th April. WILLIAM WISHART, D.D.,
min. of South Leith (cf. Vol. I., 136).
1707, 8th April. JOHN STIRLING, Principal
of Glasgow Univ. (cf. Vol. VII., 396).
1708, 15th April. WILLIAM CARSTARES (2).
1709, 14th April. JOHN CURRIE, min. of
Haddington (cf. Vol. I., 370).
1710, 26th April. WILLIAM MITCHELL, min.
of St Giles, Edinburgh (cf. Vol. I., 67).
1711, 10th May. WILLIAM CARSTARES,
M.A. (3).
1712, 1st May. WILLIAM HAMILTON, D.D.
Professor of Divinity, Edinburgh Univ.
(cf. Vol. L, 146).
1713, 30th April. WILLIAM WISHART, D.D.
(2).
1714, 6th May. WILLIAM MITCHELL (2).
1715, 4th May. WILLIAM CARSTARES, M.A.
(4).
1716, 3rd May. WILLIAM HAMILTON, D.D.
(2).
1717, 2nd May. WILLIAM MITCHELL (3).
1718, 14th May. WILLIAM WISHART, D.D.
(3).
1719, 14th May. JAMES GRIERSON, min. of
Trinity Parish, Edinburgh (cf. Vol. I.,
133).
1720, 12th May. WILLIAM HAMILTON, D.D.
(3).
1721, llth May. THOMAS BLACK, min. of
Perth (cf. Vol. IV., 231).
1722, 10th May. WILLIAM MITCHELL (4).
1723, 9th May. JAMES SMITH, min. of
Cramond [afterwards Principal of
Univ. of Edinburgh] (cf. Vol. L, 143).
1724, 14th May. WILLIAM WISHART, D.D.
(4).
1725, 6th May. JAMES ALSTON, M.A., min.
of Dirleton (cf. Vol. I., 360).
1726, 5th May. WILLIAM MITCHELL (5).
1727, 4th May. WILLIAM HAMILTON, D.D.
(4).
1728, 2nd May. WILLIAM WISHART, D.D.
(5).
1729, 1st May. JAMES ALSTON, M.A. (2)
1730, 14th May. WILLIAM HAMILTON,
D.D. (5).
1731, 6th May. JAMES SMITH (2)
1732, 4th May. NEIL CAMPBELL, D.D.,
Principal of Glasgow Univ. (cf. Vol.
VII., 396).
1733, 3rd May. JOHN GOWDIE, D.D.,
Principal of Univ. of Edinburgh (cf.
Vol. VII., 382).
1734, 2nd May. JAMES GORDON, M.A.,
min. of Alford (cf. Vol. IV., 292).
1735, 8th May. ALEXANDER ANDERSON,
M.A., min. of St Andrews [afterwards
of Alloa] (cf. Vol. V., 235).
1736, 13th May. LAUCHLAN M'!NTOSH,
M.A., min. of Errol (cf. Vol. IV.,
207).
1737, 12th May. NEIL CAMPBELL, D.D.
'(2).
1738, llth May. JAMES RAMSAY, M.A.,
min. of Kelso (cf. Vol. II., 72).
1739, 10th May. JAMES BANNATINE, min.
of Trinity Parish, Edinburgh (cf. Vol.
I., 128).
442
MODERATORS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1740, 8th May. GEORGE LOGAK, M.A.,
min. of Trinity Parish, Edinburgh
(cf. Vol. I., 133).
1741, 14th May. JAMES KAMSAY, M.A. (2).
1742, 6th May. THOMAS TULLIDELPH,
Principal of St Leonard's College, St
Andrews (cf. Vol. VII., 414).
1743, 12th May. EGBERT WALLACE, D.D.,
min. of New North Church, Edin
burgh (cf. Vol. I., 144).
1744, 10th May. JOHN ADAMS, M.A., min.
of Dalrymple [afterwards of Falkirk]
(cf. Vol. I., 207).
1745, 9th May. WILLIAM WISHART, D.D.
(secundus), Principal of Univ. of Edin
burgh (cf. Vol. I., 140).
1746, 8th May. JOHN LUMSDEN, Professor
of Divinity, King's College, Aberdeen
(cf. Vol. VIL, 374).
1747, 7th May. ROBERT KINLOCH, M.A.,
min. of St Giles, Edinburgh (cf. Vol.
I., 67).
1748, 12th May. GEORGE WISHART, D.D.,
min. of the Tron Parish, Edinburgh
(cf. Vol. I., 136).
1749, llth May. PATRICK CUMING, D.D.,
Professor of Church History, Univ.
of Edinburgh (cf. Vol. I., 76).
1750, 10th May. ROBERT PATON, M.A., min.
of Renfrew (cf. Vol. III., 187).
1751, 9th May. JAMES MACKIE, M.A., min.
of St Ninians (cf. Vol. I., 102).
1752, 14th May. PATRICK CUMING, D.D.
(2).
1753, 24th May. ALEXANDER WEBSTER,
D.D., min. of Tolbooth Church, Edin
burgh (cf. Vol. I., 119).
1754, 23rd May. ROBERT HAMILTON, D.D.,
Professor of Divinity, Univ. of Edin
burgh (cf. Vol. I., 46).
1755, 22nd May. GEORGE REID, M.A.,
min. of St Quivox (cf. Vol. III., 66).
1756, 20th May. PATRICK CUMING, D.D. (3).
1757, 19th May. WILLIAM LEECHMAN or
LEISHMAN,D.D., Professor of Divinity
[afterwards Principal of Univ. of
Glasgow] (cf. Vol. VII., 397).
1758, 25th May. THOMAS TURNBULL, min.
of Borthwick (cf. Vol. I., 303).
1759, 24th May. GEORGE KAY, D.D., min.
of Old Greyfriars, Edinburgh (cf.
Vol. I., 47).
1760, 15th May. ROBERT HAMILTON, D.D.
(2).
1761, 21st May. JOHN HYNDMAN, D.D.,
min. of St Cuthbert's, Edinburgh
(cf. Vol. I, 82).
1762, 20th May. ROBERT TRAIL, D.D.,
Professor of Divinity, Univ. of
Glasgow (cf. Vol. VII., 401).
1763, 26th May. WILLIAM ROBERTSON,
D.D., min. of Old Greyfriars, and
Principal of Univ. of Edinburgh (cf.
Vol. I., 41).
1764, 24th May. ALEXANDER GERARD,
D.D., Professor of Divinity, Marischal
College and King's College, Aberdeen
(cf. Vol. VIL, 374).
1765, 23rd May. JAMES OSWALD, D.D.,
min. of Methven (cf. Vol. IV., 223).
1766, 22nd May. JOHN HAMILTON, D.D.,
min. of St Mungo's Church, Glasgow,
(cf. Vol. III., 458).
1767, 21st May. JAMES MURISON, D.D.,
Principal of the New College, St
Andrews (cf. Vol. VIL, 421).
1768, 19th May. GILBERT HAMILTON, D.D.,
min. of Cramond (cf. Vol. L, 12).
1769, 18th May. JAMES MACKNIGHT, D.D.,
min. of Maybole [afterwards of Old
Kirk Parish, Edinburgh] (cf. Vol. L,
72).
1770, 24th May. ALEXANDER CARLYLE,
D.D., min. of Inveresk (cf. Vol. L,
326).
1771, 23rd May. ROBERT WALKER, min.
of St Giles, Edinburgh (cf. Vol. L,
60).
1772, 21st May. ADAM FERGUSSON, min.
of Moulin (cf. Vol. IV., 169).
1773, 20th May. JOHN DRYSDALE, D.D.,
min. of Tron Parish, Edinburgh (cf.
Vol. L, 141).
1774, 19th May. ROBERT HENRY, D.D.,
min. of New Greyfriars, Edinburgh
(cf. Vol. L, 76).
1775, 25th May. DAVID SHAW, D.D., min.
of Coylton (cf. Vol. III., 21, where
1776 should be 1775).
1776, 23rd May. JOHN KER, D.D., min. of
Forfar (cf. Vol. V., 286).
1777, 22nd May. JAMES BROWN, M.A.,
min. of New North Church, Edin
burgh (cf. Vol. L, 146).
MODERATORS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
443
1778, 21st May. PATRICK GRANT, D.D.,
min. of Urray (cf. Vol. VIL, 50).
1779, 20th May. JAMES GILLESPIE, D.D.,
Principal of St Mary's College, St
Andrews (cf. Vol. VIL, 422).
1780, 25th May. HARRY SPENS, D.D., min.
of Weinyss [afterwards Professor of
Biblical Criticism, Univ. of St
Andrews] (cf. Vol. VIL, 429).
1781, 24th May. WILLIAM DALRYMPLE,
D.D., min. of Ayr (cf. Vol. III., 10).
1782, 23rd May. JOSEPH M'CORMICK, D.D.,
min. of Prestonpans [afterwards
Principal of St Leonard's College,
St Andrews] (cf. Vol. VIL, 414).
1783, 22nd May. HENRY GRIEVE, D.D.,
min. of Dalkeith (cf. Vol. I., 77).
1784, 20th May. JOHN DRYSDALE, D.D.
(2).
1785, 19th May. Sir HENRY MONCREIFF
WELLWOOD, Bart., min. of St Cuth-
bert's, Edinburgh (cf. Vol. I., 98).
1786, 18th May. DUNCAN SHAW, D.D.,
min. of North or Third Charge, Aber
deen (cf. Vol. VI., 15).
1787, 17th May. ROBERT LISTON, min. of
Aberdour (cf. Vol. V., 3).
1788, 22nd May. ARCHIBALD DAVIDSON,
D.D., Principal of Univ. of Glasgow
(cf. Vol. VIL, 397)
1789, 21st May. GEORGE HILL, D.D.,
Principal of St Mary's College, St
Andrews (cf. Vol. VIL, 422).
1790, 20th May. JOHN WALKER, M.D.,
D.D., min. of Colinton (cf. Vol.
I, 4).
1791, 19th May. ROBERT SMALL, D.D.,
min. of Dundee (cf. Vol. V., 316).
1792, 17th May. ANDREW HUNTER, D.D.,
min. of the Tron Parish, and Professor
of Divinity, Univ. of Edinburgh (cf.
Vol. L, 137).
1793, 16th May. THOMAS HARDY, D.D ,
min of New North Church, Edin
burgh, and Professor of Church
History, Univ. of Edinburgh (cf. Vol.
L, 147).
1794, 15th May. ROBERT ARNOT, D.D.,
Professor of Divinity, Univ. of St
Andrews (cf. Vol. VIL, 429).
1795, 21st May. JAMES MEEK, D.D., min.
of Cambuslang (cf. Vol. III., 238).
1796, 19th May. WILLIAM GREENFIELD,
D.D., min. of St Giles, Edinburgh
(cf. Vol. L, 60).
1797, 18th May. JOHN ADAMSON, D.D.,
min. of St Andrews (cf. Vol. V., 235).
1798, 17th May. WILLIAM TAYLOR, D.D.,
Principal of Univ. of Glasgow (cf.
Vol. III. 58, VIL 397)
1799, 23rd May. WILLIAM MOODIE, D.D.,
min. of St Andrew's, Edinburgh, and
Professor of Hebrew, Univ. of Edin
burgh (cf. Vol. L, 88).
1800, 22nd May. GEORGE HUSBAND BAIRD,
D.D., Principal of Univ. of Edinburgh
(cf. Vol. L, 68).
1801, 21st May. WILLIAM RITCHIE, D.D.,
min. of Kilwinning [afterwards of
St Giles, Edinburgh] (cf. Vol. L, 61).
1802, 20th May. JAMES FINLAYSON, D.D.,
min. of St Giles, Edinburgh, and
Professor of Logic, Univ. of Edin
burgh (cf. Vol. L, 61).
1803, 19th May. GILBERT GERARD, D.D.,
Professor of Divinity, King's College,
Aberdeen (cf. Vol. VIL, 374).
1804, 17th May. JOHN INGLIS, D.D., min.
of Old Greyfriars, Edinburgh (cf.
Vol. L, 42).
1805, 16th May. GEORGE HAMILTON, D.D.,
min. of Gladsmuir (cf. Vol. L, 367).
1806, 22nd May. WILLIAM TAYLOR, D.D.,
min. of St Enoch's, Glasgow (cf. Vol.
III., 441).
1807, 21st May. JAMES SHERIFFS, D.D.,
min. of St Nicholas' Church, Aber
deen (cf. Vol. VL, 39).
1808, 19th May. ANDREW GRANT, D.D.,
min. of Kilmarnock [afterwards of
St Andrew's, Edinburgh] (cf. Vol. L,
89).
1809, 18th May. FRANCIS NICOLL, D.D.,
min. of Mains and Strathmartine
[afterwards Principal of St Leonard's
and St Salvator's College, St Andrews]
(cf. Vol. VIL, 415).
1810, 17th May. HUGH MEIKLEJOHN, D.D.,
min. of Abercorn and Professor of
Church History, Univ. of Edinburgh
(cf. Vol. L, 190).
1811, 16th May. ALEXANDER RANKEN
D.D., min. of St David's, Glasgow (cf.
Vol. III., 439).
444
MODERATORS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1812, 21st May. WILLIAM
D.D., min. of Caerlaverock (cf. Vol.
II., 259).
1813, 20th May. ANDREW BROWN, D.D.,
min. of Old Kirk, Edinburgh (cf. Vol.
I., 72).
1814, 19th May. DAVID RITCHIE, min. of
St Andrew's, Edinburgh, and Pro
fessor of Logic, Univ. of Edinburgh
(cf. Vol. L, 90).
1815, 18th May. LEWIS GORDON, D.D.,
min. of Drainie [afterwards of Elgin]
(cf. Vol. VI., 395).
1816, 16th May. JOHN COOK, D.D., Pro
fessor of Divinity, St Andrews (cf.
Vol. VII., 429).
1817, 22nd May. GAVIN GIBB, D.D., min.
of St Andrew's, Glasgow, and Pro
fessor of Hebrew, Univ. of Glasgow
(cf. Vol. III., 433).
1818, 21st May. JOHN CAMPBELL, D.D.,
min. of the Tolbooth Church, Edin
burgh (cf. Vol. I., 124).
1819, 20th May. DUNCAN MACFAKLAN,
D.D., min. of Drymen [afterwards
Principal of Univ. of Glasgow] (cf.
Vol. III., 458).
1820, 18th May. THOMAS MACKNIGHT,
D.D., min. of Old Kirk Parish, Edin
burgh (cf. Vol. L, 77).
1821, 17th May. DUNCAN MEARNS, D.D.,
Professor of Divinity, King's College,
Aberdeen (cf. Vol. VIL, 375).
1822, 16th May. DAVID LAMONT, D.D.,
min. of Kirkpatrick- Durham (cf. Vol.
II., 285).
1823, 22nd May. ALEXANDER BRUNTON,
D.D., min. of The Tron Parish, Edin
burgh, and Professor of Oriental
Languages, Univ. of Edinburgh (cf.
Vol. I., 137).
1824, 20th May. ANDREW DUNCAN, D.D.,
min. of Ratho (cf. Vol. L, 183).
1825, 19th May. GEORGE COOK, D.D., min
of Laurencekirk (cf. Vol. VI.,
477).
1826, 18th May. THOMAS TAYLOR, D.D.
min. of Tibbermore (cf. Vol. IV.
255).
1827, 17th May. ROBERT HALDANE, D.D.
Principal of St Mary's College, St
Andrews (cf. Vol. VIL, 423).
.828, 22nd May. STEVENSON M'GiLL, D.D.,
Professor of Divinity, Univ. of
Glasgow (cf. Vol. VIL, 401).
1829, 21st May. PATRICK FORBES, D.D.,
min. of Old Machar, Professor of
Humanity and Chemistry, King's
College, Aberdeen (cf. Vol. VI., 23).
1830, 20th May. WILLIAM SINGER, D.D.,
min. of Kirkpatrick-Juxta (cf. Vol.
II., 211).
1831, 19th May. JAMES WALLACE, D.D.,
min. of Whitekirk (cf. Vol. L, 424).
1832, 17th May. THOMAS CHALMERS, D.D.,
D.C.L., Professor of Divinity, Univ.
of Edinburgh (cf. Vol. III., 446).
1833, 16th May. JOHN STIRLING, D.D.,
min. of Craigie (cf. Vol. III., 23).
1834, 22nd May. PATRICK M'FARLAN,
D.D., min. of Greenock (cf. Vol. III.,
207).
1835, 21st May. WILLIAM AIRD THOMSON,
D.D., min. of Perth (cf. Vol. IV., 237).
1836, 19th May. NORMAN MACLEOD, D.D.,
min. of St Columba's, Glasgow (cf.
Vol. III., 437).
1837, 18th May. MATTHEW GARDINER,
D.D., min. of Both well (cf. Vol. III.,
232).
1838, 17th May. WILLIAM MUIR, D.D.,
LL.D., min. of St Stephen's, Edin
burgh (cf. Vol. L, 115).
1839, 16th May. HENRY DUNCAN, D.D.,
min. of Ruthwell (cf. Vol. II., 255).
1840, 21st May. ANGUS MAKELLAR, D.D.,
min. of Pencaitland (cf. Vol. L, 387).
1841, 20th May. ROBERT GORDON, D.D.,
min. of St Giles, Edinburgh (cf. Vol.
L, 61).
1842, 19th May. DAVID WELSH, D.D.,
Professor of Ecclesiastical History,
Univ. of Edinburgh (cf. Vol. VIL,
390).
1843, 18th May. DUNCAN MACFARLAN,
D.D. (2).
1844, 16th May. JOHN LEE, M.D., D.D.,
LL.D., Principal of Univ. of Edin
burgh (cf. Vol. L, 73).
1845, 22nd May. ALEXANDER HILL, D.D.,
Professor of Divinity, Univ. of
Glasgow (cf. Vol. VIL, 402).
1846, 21st May. JAMES PAULL, D.D., min.
of Tullynessle (cf. Vol. VI., 145).
MODERATORS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
445
1847, 20th May. JOHN PAUL, D.D., min. of
StCuthbert's,Edinburgh(c/.Vol.I.,98).
1848, 18th May. GEORGE BUIST, D.D.,
Professor of Ecclesiastical History,
Univ. of St Andrews (cf. Vol.
VII., 432).
1849, 24th May. ALEXANDER LOCKHART
SIMPSON, D.D., min. of Kirknewton
(cf. Vol. I., 152).
1850, 23rd May. JOHN GRAHAM, D.D.,
min. of Killearn (cf. Vol. III., 349).
1851, 22nd May. JOHN MACLEOD, D.D.,
min. of Morven (cf. Vol. IV., 118).
1852, 20th May. LEWIS WILLIAM FORBES,
D.D., min. of Boharm (cf. Vol. VI., 338).
1853, 19th May. JAMES BARR, D.D., min.
of St Enoch's, Glasgow (cf. Vol. III.,
442).
1854, 18th May. JAMES GRANT, D.D.,
D.C.L., min. of St Mary's, Edinburgh,
(cf. Vol. I, 113).
1855, 24th May. ANDREW BELL, D.D.,
min. of Linlithgow (cf. Vol. I., 217).
1856, 22nd May. JOHN CROMBIE, D.D.,
min. of Scone (cf. Vol. IV., 253).
1857, 21st May. JAMES ROBERTSON, D.D.,
Professor of Ecclesiastical History,
Univ. of Edinburgh, formerly min. of
Ellon (cf. Vol. VI., 191, where 1856
should be 1857).
1858, 20th May. MATTHEW LEISHMAN,
D.D., min. of Govan (cf. Vol. III.,
413). — [See Matthew Leishman of
Govan and The Middle Party of 1843,
by J. F. Leishman, min. of Linton
(Paisley, 1921).]
1859, 19th May. JOHN COOK, D.D., Pro- |
fessor of Ecclesiastical History, Univ.
of St Andrews (cf. Vol. VII., 433).
1860, 17th May. JAMES MAITLAND, D.D.,
min. of Kells (cf. Vol. II., 413).
1861, 23rd May. COLIN SMITH, D.D., min.
of Inveraray (cf. Vol. IV., 10).
1862, 22nd May. JAMES BISSET, D.D.,
min. of Bourtie (cf. Vol. VI., 150).
1863, 21st May. JAMES CRAIK, D.D., min.
of St George's, Glasgow (cf. Vol. III.,
443). Sir Henry, Bart., his son, died
17th March 1927.
1864, 19th May. WILLIAM ROBINSON PIRIE,
D.D., Principal of Univ. of Aberdeen
(cf. Vol. VII., 368).
1865, 18th May. JAMES MACFARLANE,
D.D., min. of Duddingston (cf. Vol.
I., 20).
1866, 24th May. JOHN COOK, D.D., min.
of Haddington (cf. Vol. I., 370).
1867, 23rd May. THOMAS JACKSON CRAW
FORD, D.D., Professor of Divinity,
Univ. of Edinburgh (cf. Vol. VII.
383).
1868, 2lst May. JAMES STRACHAN BARTY,
D.D., min. of Bendochy (cf. Vol. V.,
254).
1869, 20th May. NORMAN MACLEOD, D.D.,
min. of The Barony, Glasgow (cf.
Vol. III., 394).
1870, 19th May. GEORGE RITCHIE, D.D.,
min. of Jedburgh (cf. Vol. II., 129).
1871, 18th May. ROBERT HORNE STEVEN-
SOU, D.D., min. of St George's, Edin
burgh (cf. Vol. I., 107).
1872, 23rd May. ROBERT JAMIESON, D.D.,
min. of St Paul's, Glasgow (cf. Vol.
III., 464).
1873, 22nd May. ROBERT GILLAN, D.D.,
min. of Inchinnan (cf. Vol. III., 145).
1874, 21st May. SAMUEL TRAIL, D.D.,
LL.D., Professor of Divinity, Univ.
of Aberdeen (cf. Vol. VII., 376).
1875,20th May. JAMES SELLAR, D.D.,
min. of Aberlour (cf. Vol. VI., 336).
1876, 18th May. GEORGE COOK, D.D., min.
of Borgue (cf. Vol. II., 397.)
1877, 24th May. KENNETH MACLEAY PHIN,
D.D., Convener of Home Mission
Committee, formerly min. of Gala-
shiels (cf. Vol. II., 178).
1878, 23rd May. JOHN TULLOCH, D.D.,
LL.D., Principal of St Mary's College,
St Andrews (cf. Vol. VII., 423).
1879, 22nd May. JAMES CHRYSTAL, D.D.,
LL.D., min. of Auchinleck (cf. Vol.
III., 4).
1880, 20th May. ARCHIBALD WATSON,
D.D., min. of Dundee (cf. Vol. V.,
317).
1881, 19th May. JAMES SMITH, D.D., min.
of Cathcart (cf. Vol. III., 383).
1882, 25th May. WILLIAM MILLIOAN, D.D.,
Professor of Biblical Criticism, Univ.
of Aberdeen (cf. Vol. VII., 378).
1883, 24th May. JOHN RANKIN, D.D., min.
of Sorn (cf. Vol. III., 69).
446
MODERATORS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1884, 22nd May. PETER McKENZiE, D.D.,
min. of Urquhart (Ferintosh) (cf.
Vol. VII., 48).
1885, 21st May. ALEXANDER FERRIER
MITCHELL, D.D., Professor of Ecclesi
astical History, Univ. of St Andrews
(cf. Vol. VII., 433).
1886, 20th May. JOHN CUNNINGHAM, D.D.,
LL.D., Principal of St Mary's College,
St Andrews (cf. Vol. VII., 424).
1887, 19th May. GEORGE HUTCHISON,
D.D., min. of Banchory-Ternan (cf.
Vol. VI., 81).
1888, 24th May. WILLIAM HENRY GRAY,
D.D.,'min. of Liberton (cf. Vol. I., 174)
1889, 23rd| May. PATON JAMES GLOAG,
D.D., LL.D., min. of Galashiels (cf.
Vol. II., 179).
1890, 22nd May. ANDREW KENNEDY
HUTCHISON BOYD, D.D., LL.D., min.
of St Andrews (cf. Vol. V., 236).
1891, 21st May. JAMES MACGREGOR, D.D.,
min. of St Cuthbert's, Edinburgh (cf.
Vol. I., 99).
1892, 19th May. ARCHIBALD HAMILTON
CHARTERIS, D.D., LL.D., Professor
of Biblical Criticism, Univ. of Edin
burgh (cf. Vol. VII., 388).
1893, 18th May. JOHN MARSHALL LANG,
C.V.O., D.D., LL.D., min. of The
Barony,lGlasgow [afterwards Principal
of Univ. of Aberdeen] (cf. Vol. VII.,
369).
1894, 24th May. EGBERT HERBERT STORY,
D.D., LL.D., Principal of Univ. of
Glasgow (cf. Vol. VII., 398).
1895, 23rd May. DONALD MACLEOD, D.D.,
min. of The Park Church, Glasgow
(cf. Vol. III., 471). — [See Donald
Macleod of Glasgow (portrait), by
Sydney Smith (London, 1926).]
1896, 21st May. ARCHIBALD SCOTT, D.D.,
min. of St George's, Edinburgh (cf.
Vol. I., 107).— [See Dr Archibald Scott
and his Times (portraits), by the Hon.
Lord Sands, LL.D. (Edinburgh, 1919).]
1897, 20th May. WILLIAM MAIR, D.D.,
min. of Earlston (cf. Vol. II., 150) :
died 26th Jan. 1920.— [See Dr Mair
of Earlston (portrait), by W. S.
Crockett (Aberdeen, 1920) ; Diet. Nat.
Biog. (1927), 366.]
1898, 19th May. THOMAS LEISHMAN, D.D.,
min. of Linton (cf. Vol. II., 77).
1899, 18th May. JOHN PAGAN, D.D., min.
of Bothwell (cf. Vol. III., 232).
1900, 24th May NORMAN MACLEOD, D.D.,
min. of Inverness (cf. Vol. VI., 459).
1901, 21st May. JAMES MITCHELL, D.D.,
min. of South Leith (cf. Vol. I., 164).
1902, 20th May. JAMES CURDIE RUSSELL,
D.D., min. of Campbeltown ; died
FATHER OF THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND
18th March 1925 (cf. Vol. IV., 51).
1903, 19th May. JOHN GILLESPIE, LL.D.,
min. of Mouswald (cf. Vol. II., 220).
1904, 24th May. JOHN M'MURTRIE, D.D.,
formerly min. of St Bernard's, Edin
burgh (cf. Vol. I., 92).
1905, 23rd May. ANDREW JAMIESON
MILNE, LL.D., min. of Fyvie (cf. Vol.
VI., 258).
1906, 22nd May. THOMAS BROWN WILLIAM
NIVEN, D.D., min of Pollokshields
(cf. Vol. III., 430).
1907, 21st May. JAMES ROBERT MITFORD
MITCHELL, D.D., formerly min. of St
Nicholas' (West) Church, Aberdeen
(cf. Vol. VI., 40).
1908, 19th May. THEODORE MARSHALL,
D.D., formerly min. of Caputh (cf.
Vol. IV., 148).
1909, 18th May. JAMES ROBERTSON, D.D.,
min. of Whittingehame, died in Edin
burgh 27th May 1920 (cf. Vol. I., 427).
—[See Lady Blanche Half our [ bio
graphical notice of Dr R. by Archibald
Fleming, D.D.] (London, 1926).]
1910, 24th May. PEARSON M'ADAM MUIR,
D.D., min. of St Mungo's, Glasgow;
died 13th July 1924 (cf. Vol. III., 459).
— [See Dr M'Adam Muir's Ministry of
Labours in the High Church Parish,
1896-1915 (portrait), by John Hender
son (p. 1925).]
1911, 23rd May. ALEXANDER STEWART,
D.D., Principal of St Mary's College,
St Andrews (cf. Vol. VII., 425).
1912,21st May. SAMUEL MARCUS DILL,
D.D., min. of Alloway, died at Edin
burgh, 23rd Jan. 1924 (cf. Vol. III.,
1).
1913, 20th May. ANDREW WALLACE
WILLIAMSON, C.V.O., D.D., min. of
MODERATORS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
447
St Giles, Edinburgh ; dem. his charge
of St Giles in 1925 ; created K.C.V.O.
1926; died 10th July 1926 (cf. Vol. I.,
63).
1914, 19th May, THOMAS NICOL, D.D., Pro
fessor of Biblical Criticism, Univ. of
Aberdeen (cf. Vol. VII., 380). Publi
cation (additional) — Efficiency in the
Church [Assembly Closing Address]
(Edinburgh, 1914).
1915, 18th May. DAVID PAUL, D.D., LL.D.,
min. of Robertson Memorial Church,
Grange, Edinburgh ; dem. office as
Principal Clerk of Assembly in 1926
(cf. Vol. I., 88).
1916, 23rd May. JOHN BROWN, D.D., min.
of Bellahouston, Glasgow (cf. Vol. III.,
396).
1917, 22nd May. JAMES COOPEK, D.D.,
D.C.L., D.Litt., LL.D., Professor of
Church History, Univ. of Glasgow
(cf. Vol. VII., 409).
1918, 21st May. JAMES NICOLL OGILVIE,
D.D., min. of New Greyfriars, Edin
burgh (cf. Vols. I. 36, VII. 579).
1919, 20th May. WILLIAM PATERSON PATER-
SON, D.D., LL.D., Professor of Divinity,
Univ. of Edinburgh (cf. Vol. VII., 385).
1920, 18th May. THOMAS MARTIN, D.D.,
min. of Peebles. He dem. his parish in
1925 (cf. Vol. I., 289). Publication—
The Outlook of the Church [Assembly
Closing Address] (Edinburgh, 1920).
1921,24th May. JAMES ALEXANDER
M'CLYMONT, C.B.E., D.D., formerly
min. of Holburn, Aberdeen (cf. Vol.
VI., 10) ; died 19th Sept. 1927. [See
Life and Work (portrait), Nov. 1927.]
1922, 23rd May. JOHN SMITH, D.D., min.
of Partick ; died (while engaged in
conversation in a Glasgow office) 9th
June 1927. His wife died in 1926
(cf. Vol. III., 429). Publication (ad
ditional)— The Church and Her Place
in Education [Assembly Closing
Address] (Edinburgh, 1922).
1923, 22nd May. GEORGE MILLIGAN, D.D.,
D.C.L., Professor of Divinity and
Biblical Criticism, Univ. of Glasgow
(cf. Vol. VII., 405).
1924, 20th May. DAVID CATHELS, D.D.
(Edinburgh, 1923), min. of Hawick ;
died 16th June 1925 (cf. Vol. II., 116).
Publication (additional)— The Per
manent and the Transitory [Assembly
Closing Address] (Edinburgh, 1924).
1925, 19th May. JOHN WHITE, D.D., min.
of The Barony, Glasgow. Convener
of Church and Nation Committee;
app. Chaplain-in-Ordinary to King
George V., 4th Aug. 1924 (cf. Vol.
III., 395). Publication (additional)—
Efficiency [Assembly Closing Address]
(Edinburgh, 1925).
1926, 18th May. JOHN DONALDSON
M'CALLUM, D.D., min. of Larkhall
(cf. Vol. III., 270). Publication
(additional) — The Present Opportunity
of the Church [Assembly Closing
Address] (Edinburgh, 1926).
1927, 24th May. NORMAN MACLEAN, D.D.,
min. of St Cuthbert's, Edinburgh,
formerly min. of The Park, Glasgow
(cf. Vol. III. 471, VII. 170). Publica
tion (additional) — Victory out of Ruin
(London, 1922).
1928, 19th May. JOHN MONTGOMERIE
CAMPBELL, D.D., min. of Dumfries
and Convener of Home Missions
Committee (cf. Vol. II., 268).
ARMY AND NAVY CHAPLAINS
[Following the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny, in which several ministers of
the Church of Scotland served as chaplains, a Committee on Army and Navy Chaplains
(now Chaplains to His Majesty's Forces) was appointed by the General Assembly in
1860, with John Cook, D.D., St Andrews, as Convener. He was succeeded in 1863
by Kenneth Macleay Phin, D.D., minister of Galashiels. In 1878 the Committee became a
Sub-Committee of the Colonial Committee. In 1900, under the Convenership of Theodore
Marshall, D.D., it again became a separate Committee, James Alexander M'Clymont,
C.B.E., D.D., being Convener from 1909 to his death on 19th Sept. 1927. During the
European War (1914-18) a large number of ministers were engaged on chaplaincy work
abroad and at home. As far as possible their periods of field service have been noted at their
respective parishes. In 1928 the complement of commissioned Presbyterian chaplains
in the Kegular Army was twelve, of whom nine held permanent and three temporary
commissions. Six of these appointments were held by ministers of the Church of
Scotland. Three ministers were exclusively occupied as officiating chaplains at London,
Caterham, Dover, and Hythe. Seventeen held appointments at military stations in
or near their home parishes. A large number of ministers were chaplains of the
Territorial Army. In the Royal Air Force there were three chaplains. In the Royal
Navy the Church of Scotland was represented by one commissioned chaplain and an
officiating chaplain at Portsmouth. Nineteen parish ministers acted as officiating
chaplains to the Presbyterians on H.M. ships stationed in their neighbourhood.]
WILLIAM ANDERSON, ord. in 1858 ;
served at Chatham ; went to Canada with
troops 1861 ; dem. 1863.
WILLIAM FORREST ARCHIBALD,
M.A., V.D. (See Indian Chaplains.)
JOHN ARMSTRONG, app. in 1877;
res. from ill-health 1880.
DAVID ARTHUR, educated at Univ.
of St Andrews ; ord. in 1858 ; served at
Aldershot (First Class 1878) ; senior chap
lain, Nile Expedition, 1882-4; retired in
1891 ; went to Mosman, New South Wales,
1892, where he is mentioned as an elder of
the church there. — [Centenary Hist. Presb.
Ch., N.S. W., ii., 343.]
GEORGE ROY BADENOCH, LL.D.
(source and date unknown), born 26th
March 1830, eldest son of Charles B.,
Glasgow; educated at Univ. of Glasgow;
licentiate of the Free Church; adm. to
Church of Scotland; app. in 1899; dem.
1905; died March 1912. Publication-
Editor of Asiatic Quarterly Review.
WILLIAM BARNHILL, M.A., B.D.
(cf. Vol. III., 225) ; app. in 1878 ; dem. 1879
[afterwards of St Clement's, British Guiana
(q.v.)l
ANDREW JAMES BURT BAXTER
(cf. Vol. IV., 253), app. in 1865; adm. to
New Brompton 9th Aug. 1866. (See
Chaplains to Prisons.)
PATRICK BEATON, ord. 1851 ; served
at London, and in New Zealand, 1863 ;
returned home 1866; First Class 1870;
dem. in 1875 [afterwards of the Scots
Church, Paris]. (See Continental Chap
laincies.)
JOHN TURNBULL BIRD, M.A. (cf.
Vol. IV., 174); formerly min. of Aberfeldy;
app. acting chaplain 31st Jan. 1891 ; app.
ARMY AND NAVY CHAPLAINS
449
chaplain 26th July 1893; served at London,
Curragh, Dublin, Salisbury Plain, Alder-
shot, South Africa, Mullingar, Glasgow,
France, Aldershot ; War service : South
Africa, 1899-1902; Queen's Medal (three
clasps), King's Medal (two clasps), British
Expeditionary Force, 1914 - 19, twice
mentioned in despatches ; created C.M.G.
(1917), 1914 Star, British War Medal,
Victory Medal; retired 1st Jan. 1921;
resident at Glasgow 1928. Publication —
Christianity and Nature (London, 1927).
JAMES BLACK, MA. (cf. Vol. III., 330);
formerly min. of Balfron, and of Scots
Church, Simla, India; O.B.E. ; chaplain
(honorary) R.A.F., Uxbridge, 1928.
JAMES CAMPBELL (cf. Vol. V., 130),
ord. chaplain to Highland Brigade in
Crimea 22nd March 1854 [afterwards min.
of Balinerino].
JOHN CAMPBELL, born St Andrews,
Fife, 16th Aug. 1870, son of John C. and
Grace Mathieson M'Rae ; educated at
Dollar Academy ; licen. by Free Church
Presb. of Stirling April 1896 ; missionary
at Palace Colliery, Bothwell ; app. chaplain
to the Forces 10th Oct. 1903; ord. (by Presb.
of Hamilton) 17th Sept. that year; served in
South Africa, Aldershot, London, France
(1914-19), Glasgow ; War service : British
Expeditionary Force, 1914-19, mentioned
in despatches, 1914 Star with clasp, British
War Medal, Victory Medal; retired 1st
Jan. 1920; resident at Southville, Dollar,
1928. Marr. 12th Sept. 1907, Jeanie Innes,
only daugh. of Henry Morgan, Brenthain,
Pollokshields, and has issue — John (Ian),
born 1st Aug. 1908; Barbara M'Intosh,
born 17th Jan. 1911 ; Grace Mathieson
M'Rae, born 17th Nov. 1912 ; Jean Morgan,
born 16th Dec. 1914.
FRANCIS CANNAN, formerly min. of
Lintrathen (cf. Vol. V., 269); app. 18th
May 1855 ; served in Crimea ; dem. 1875 ;
died 7th May 1883.
SAMUEL GILFILLAN CAR-
MICHAEL, M.A., B.D. (cf. Vol. II., 328) ;
ord. chaplain to the Forces in South Africa
5th Jan. 1902 ; adm. to Tynron 8th June
1906.
VOL. VII.
THOMAS HENDERSON CHAPMAN,
born Forgan, 14th Sept. 1859 ; educated
at Univs. of St Andrews, M.A. (1880),
and Edinburgh, B.D. (1886); licen. by
Presb. of Edinburgh 17th June 1884;
assistant at Inveresk ; app. acting chap
lain 13th May 1888 ; app. chaplain
1 1th June 1893 ; served at Shorncliffe,
London, Aldershot, Dublin, Malta, Crete,
Curragh ; selected for duty with troops
proceeding to Australia for inauguration
of the Commonwealth 1900 ; died 8th Jan.
1911.
JAMES CHRISTIE, M.A., app. to Park-
hurst in 1882 ; dem. 1884 ; adm. to Auch-
mithie 18th May 1886 (cf. Vol. V., 429).
WILLIAM COWAN, app. in 1884.
ALAN MUNRO DAVIDSON, born
Kingston, Jamaica, 20th Oct. 1894, son of
Donald D., min. of Invergowrie ; educated
at High School, Dundee, and Univ. of
Edinburgh ; M.A. (1915) ; licen. by Presb.
of Edinburgh in 1920; served as captain,
R.A.F., in European War ; ord. chaplain to
the Forces 9th Dec. 1920 ; commissioned
29th Dec. that year ; War service : France
and Flanders, 19th Nov. 1915 to 3rd July
1917, and April 1918 to llth Oct. 1918;
M.C. ; 1914-15 Star. Marr. 9th Jan. 1924,
Helen Mary, daugh. of Hamilton Coffey
and Norah Grandage.
JOHN DICK (cf. Vol. I., 297), ord.
chaplain to Forces at Dublin 1st Dec. 1858 ;
dem. 1860 [afterwards min. of Tweedsmuir].
His daugh., Mary Gibson, died at Edin
burgh 23rd March 1915.
PETER DONALDSON, M.A., B.D. ;
Jewish missionary at Alexandria, and
acting chaplain to the Forces there, 1884-5.
[See Jewish Missionaries.]
HUGH DRENNAN, born Tarbolton,
1828 ; educated at Linlithgow Burgh School
and Univ. of St Andrews ; licen. by
Presb. of Linlithgow ; assistant at South
Leith; ord. (by Presb. of Edinburgh)
chaplain to the Forces in the Crimea, and
on 18th Oct. 1854 sailed for the East,
where he served in the hospitals at Scutari
till Aug. 1855; was with the Highland
Division until the end of the war ; returned
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450
ARMY AND NAVY CHAPLAINS
to England July 1856 ; app. chaplain to
the troops in India 20th Sept. 1857,
served throughout the Mutiny, and re
mained till 1871 ; app. chaplain at Shoe-
buryness Jan. 1876 ; retired 1897 ; died
27th Jan 1909. Though he had over thirty-
five years of active army service he received
no pension, notwithstanding numerous
representations to the War Office. He
marr. Mary Walker. — [The Border Maga
zine (portrait), vol. xii., No. 136 (April
1907).]
JAMES DUNCAN, born Alvah, 1831,
educated at Grammar School and King's
College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (March 1850) ;
schoolmaster of Alvab, and thereafter
attended divinity classes ; app. chaplain at
Caterham and served for thirty-nine years ;
retired 1915 ; died at Kelmscott, Cater
ham, 4th Sept. 1921. — [Aberdeen Uni
versity Review, ix., 90.]
G. A. DUNLOP, app. to Shoeburyness
in 1900 ; dem. 1901.
HENRY FARQUHAE, M.A., B.D. (cf.
Vol. I., 318); formerly min. of Dalkeith
(West) ', app. officiating chaplain at Dover
and Hythe 1910 ; M.B.E. (1919).
JAMES FERRIER, app. in 1885 ; dem.
1886.
CHARLES GRANT FORRESTER,
app. chaplain at Parkhurst, Isle of Wight,
1870 ; adm. to Boarhills in 1871 [afterwards
in South Africa (q.v.)].
PETER GALBRAITH, app. chaplain to
Netley in 1865 ; dem. 1873 [afterwards in
Nova Scotia (q.v.)].
ROGER HALL, formerly min. at Hurst,
Berks ; app. in 1865 ; dem. 1867 and joined
Church of England.
JAMES MUIR HAMILTON, ord. 1884 ;
app. in 1897; dem. 1900. (See Foreign
Missionaries.)
JAMES HENDERSON, M.A. ; formerly
Indian chaplain (q.v.). ; app. to Gosport in
1905 ; died 5th Oct. 1925.
JAMES HUSKIE, formerly of St
Saviour's, British Guiana (q.v.) ; app.
chaplain in 1884 and 1887-9.
ALEXANDER IRON SIDE, born
Auchterless, 24th Nov. 1845, son of Robert
I. ; educated at Univ. of Aberdeen ; M.A.
(1867) ; several years a teacher in Scotland
and England ; min. of the English (Scots)
Reformed Church, Amsterdam, 1882-94;
officiating chaplain at Shorncliffe and Hythe
1898; died 3rd Nov. 1915.
WILLIAM STEVENSON JAFFRAY,
born 30th March 1867, son of Colonel
William Stevenson J., Greystones, Aber-
deenshire, and Ann, daugh. of Canon
Callins ; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ;
Keen, by Presb. of Stirling, 1891; app. acting
chaplain 21st Dec. 1891 ; app. chaplain
19th Jan. 1897; served at Shorncliffe,
Aldershot, South Africa, Egypt, Salisbury
Plain, London, Malta, France, Salonica,
Black Sea Force; principal chaplain for
England and Ireland ; deputy Chaplain
General War Office, London ; War service :
South Africa, 1899 - 1901 (mentioned in
despatches, promoted for distinguished
conduct in the Field, Queen's Medal and
six clasps); British Expeditionary Force,
1914-1919 ; senior chaplain, 7th Division ;
assistant principal chaplain, 5th Army ;
principal chaplain (Brigadier - General),
British Salonica and Black Sea Forces ;
four times mentioned in despatches; created
C.M.G. (1915), C.B.E. (1919); Knight
Commander of St Sava, Serbia (2nd Class) ;
1914 Star with clasp, British War Medal,
Victory Medal; D.D. (Edinburgh 1921);
hon. chaplain to the King 17th May 1921 ;
retired as principal chaplain in 1925;
resident in London 1928. Marr. 21st Aug.
1901, Ethel Annie Duncan, daugh. of
Major James Law, R.E., Lauriston, Tor-
phins, Aberdeenshire (s.p.).
GEORGE HOPE JAMIE, M.A. (cf. Vol.
III., 201) ; formerly min. of Ladyburn ;
app. to naval chaplaincy in 1920 ; adm. to
Craigrownie 31st Aug. 1926.
JAMES KEAN, M.A., B.D.; min. of St
Andrew's, Berwick-upon-Tweed (q.v.); app.
chaplain to the Forces there in 1878.
GEORGE KIRKWOOD, born Mussel-
burgh, 19th Feb. 1836, son of William
K. and Isabella Cockburn ; educated at
ARMY AND NAVY CHAPLAINS
451
Univ. of Edinburgh ; ord. by Presb. of
London to Shorncliffe 22nd Aug. 1865;
app. acting chaplain to the Forces 22nd
Nov. 1873 ; app. chaplain to the Forces
3rd Dec. that year ; served at Col
chester, London, Cyprus, 1878, Cape of
Good Hope, Shorncliffe, Glasgow, Edin
burgh, Aldershot ; War service : Ashanti ;
South Africa (medal and clasp); retired
31st Dec. 1901; died 1st Feb. 1910. He
marr. Elizabeth Brown (from Trowbridge),
and had issue — Beatrice Elizabeth, born
18th Aug. 1872 ; William Brown, born 9th
Oct. 1874 ; Violet Isabel, born 1878, died in
infancy ; Isabel Mackenzie, born 1880, died
1915 ; a son (twin) born 1880, died in
infancy; Walter Scott, born 1882, died
22nd Dec. 1914.
JAMES KIRKWOOD, ord. in 1831;
served at Shorncliffe, 1863-5.
JAMES FLEMING LEISHMAN (cf.
Vol. II., 77) ; app. chaplain at Colchester 1st
July 1893 ; adm. to Linton 7th March 1895.
Publications (additional) — Matthew Leish-
man of Govan and the Middle Party of
1843 (Paisley, 1921). — " John Baird of
Yetholm " (Hist, of Berwickshire Natural
ists' Club, xxiii., 379-85; "Scott and the
Ballantynes " (ibid., xxv., 115-28); "The
Kelso Glovers' Book " (ibid., xxv., 504-14).
CHARLES M'ARTHUR, B.A., M.A. (cf.
Vol. VI., 261), formerly min. of Gardens-
town ; app. to naval chaplaincy in 1925.
JOHN NELSON MACDONALD, app.
to Chatham in 1902 ; dem. 1903.
WILLIAM MACFARLANE, M.A. ;
formerly min. at Amsterdam (q.v.) ; app.
chaplain at Portsmouth in 1882 ; dem.
1905 ; died 8th March that year.
ARCHIBALD M'HARDY, educated at
Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (1911) ; licen.
by Presb. of Edinburgh in 1914; assistant
at Tron Parish, Edinburgh ; on active
service, 1914-17 ; ord. chaplain to the
Forces in 1917 ; M.C. ; on service, R.A.F.,
Iraq, 1927.
WILLIAM MACKAY, M.A. (cf. Vol.
III., 436) ; formerly min. of St Clement's,
Glasgow ; app. in 1884 ; dem. 1886 and
went to Canada.
MURDO MACLEOD, born Tarbert,
Harris, 10th April 1901 ; son of Roderick
M. and Marion Morrison ; educated at
Kingussie H. G. School and Univ. of
Edinburgh, M.A. (1923) licen. by Presb.
of Edinburgh 6th May 1925 ; assistant at
St Paul's, Leith; ord. army chaplain 6th
Nov. 1925.
ALEXANDER MACPHAIL, app. in
1873 to Colchester and Warley ; dem. June
1874.
ALEXANDER MACRAE, formerly min.
of Crown Court, London (q.v.) ; app.
officiating chaplain to the Forces in London
Area in 1917.
JOHN MACTAGGART, born 1834, son
of Duncan M., Inland Revenue Officer,
Campbeltown ; educated at Univ. of Edin
burgh ; app. in 1865 ; chaplain at Gosport
and Portsmouth ; served in Nile Expedi
tion 1882 ; app. chaplain (3rd class) 1885 ;
dem. June 1898 ; died 8th Jan. 1910.
ALEXANDER JAMES MARSHALL,
M.A., app. to Gillingham in 1901 ; dem.
1st Jan. 1902 [afterwards min. of Moni-
mail (q.v.y] ; died 3rd Dec. 1927.
WALTER JOHN MATHAMS (cf. Vol.
IV., 128), app. chaplain to the Forces in
Egypt, 1901-3 [afterwards min. at Mallaig],
His wife died 13th April 1924.
PETER MATHESON, app. in 1871;
dem. 1876, and became missionary at
Madras. [See Foreign Missionaries.]
WILLIAM METCALFE, M.A., B.D.,
formerly min. of Ficksburg, South Africa
(q.v.); app. officiating chaplain to the Forces
at Caterham 1912 ; adm. to Cawdor 9th
Feb. 1928.
JAMES M. MILLER, M.A.; ord. by
Presb. of London army chaplain, Dover,
22nd Aug. 1865; served in African War
1880-81 ; retired 26th July 1893.
JOHN MILNE, born Banchory-Ternan,
1831, son of Alexander M. ; educated at
Marischal College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (1851) ;
ord. chaplain to the Forces in 1864 ; served
at London, Aldershot, Shorncliffe, Dublin,
Edinburgh, Egypt ; died at Cairo Nov. 1888.
452
ARMY AND NAVY CHAPLAINS
HENRY LUMSDEN MITCHELL,
M.A.; formerly of Ceylon (q.v.); app.
acting chaplain at Chatham, 1894; dem.
1886 ; died 1900.
WILLIAM MOFFAT, M.A., B.D. (cf.
Vol. VI., 395); formerly min. of Junior
Charge, Elgin ; app. staff chaplain Head
Quarters, Royal Air Force, Inland Area,
1925.
JOHN MORISON, formerly of Australia;
app. to Colchester in 1876 ; dem. 1894 ; died
24th Feb. 1897.
CHARLES MORRISON, M.A., chaplain
to 79th Highlanders in India and the East,
1857-71 ; adm. to Laurencekirk 27th Nov.
1872 (cf. Vol. V., 478).
DANIEL ANTON MORRISON, M.A,
(cf Vol. V., 252); ord. chaplain to the
Forces (4th class) 8th Jan. 1905; served
at Aldershot, Chatham, Malta, France
Fort George; War service: British Ex
peditionary Force, 1914-19; 1914 Star with
clasp British War Medal, Victory Medal ,
retired 1st Jan. 1920; adm. to Ardler 21st
Sept. 1921.
JOHN SCOTT MORRISON, M.A.
min of St Andrew's, Berwick-upon-Tweed
(q.v.) ; app. chaplain to the Forces there in
1921.
JOHN PATON MURRAY, M.A. (cf
Vol VI 85); formerly min. of Birse
app'. chaplain to the Forces 1st June 1926
He has issue-Alison Elizabeth, born 4tl
Dec. 1925.
RODERICK HAY NICOLSON
formerly min. of Applecross (cf. Vol. VII
145); app. chaplain in 1878; dem. 1883
died 4th May 1907.
JOHN DAVID PALM, ord. in 1839
officiating chaplain, Winchester, 1868-70
min of the Scots Church, Rotterdam
1870-85; app. chaplain to the Forces a
Parkhurst, 1885 ; died 30th Jan. 1909.
JOHN PATON (cf. Vol. IL, 268), or
chaplain to the Forces 8th April 18*
[afterwards of St Michael's, Dumfries].
JOHN ROBBINS, D.D., ord. in 1898;
haplain at Shoeburyness, 1905-11 [after-
ards min. of St Stephen's, Watford (?.«.)]•
JAMES ROBERTS, ord. Aug. 1863;
erved at Aldershot to 1867 [afterwards
ndian chaplain (q.v.)].
JAMES ROBERTSON, D.D. (cf. Vol.
V., 221); app. acting chaplain to the
forces 18th April 1884; app. chaplain 21st
)ec. 1886; served at Dover, London, Egypt,
Dublin, Edinburgh, Aldershot; War service :
Sudan, 1885-7 (Medal and Star); South
Africa, 1899-1902, twice mentioned in
despatches, D.S.O. (Queen's Medal and five
lasps, King's Medal), promoted for dis-
inguished service in the Field ; adm. min.
of Methven 30th Aug. 1904.
ALEXANDER ROSS, born Glendale,
Skye, 23rd Dec. 1891, son of Kenneth R.
and Margaret Macleod; educated at the
Nicolson Institute, Stornoway, and Univ.
of Edinburgh; M.A. (1919); served in
France and Flanders, 1915-19; licen. by
Presb. of Edinburgh 12th Oct. 1921;
assistant at St Stephen's, Edinburgh ; ord.
to Stornoway 9th May 1922 ; app. to army
chaplaincy 17th July 1924. Marr. 29th
Aug. 1925, Lillian, daugh. of George
Macleod and Lillias Maciver.
WILLIAM ROSS, ord. by Presb. of
Greenock chaplain to the Forces ; served
in Crimea with 42nd Highlanders (Black
Watch) in Indian Mutiny and in Abyssinia
[afterwards min. of Haddington (cf. Vol. I.,
371)].
WILLIAM ROSS, M.A., Ph.D.; formerly
in Australia (q.v.) ; returned to Scotland ;
was app. temporary chaplain, 1895-7 ; died
Aug. 1899.
ROBERT RUTHVEN, app. in 1873;
dem. 1874.
ROBERT BALDOCK SCOTT, B.A. (cf.
Vol. L, 377); app. garrison chaplain at
Edinburgh in 1904; dem. 1905; ord. to
Humbie 18th Jan. that year; trans, to
Row 9th Nov. 1922; died 7th May 1924.
WALTER SCOTT, MA., ord. chaplain
at Colchester and Warley 3rd May 1876 ;
[afterwards min. of Cromarty (q.v.}].
ARMY AND NAVY CHAPLAINS
453
GEORGE ALEXANDER SELBIE,
M.A. ; formerly niin. of Clatt (cf. Vol. VI.,
125); app. to Gillingbam and to military
chaplaincy 23rd March 1910 ; dem. 31st
Dec. 1919.
GEORGE DOUGLAS SEMPILL, born
Stirling, 25th Nov. 1890, son of John
Douglas S. and Mary Hall; educated at
Stirling High School and Univ. of St
Andrews ; M.A. (1913) ; licen. by Presb.
of Stirling 28th Sept. 1920 ; served in
European War as captain K.O.S.B. ; ord.
army chaplain by Presb. of Stirling 19th
Dec. 1920. Marr. 4th Dec. 1918, Katharine,
daugh. of Edwin Batchellor, and has issue
—Jock Douglas, born 14th June 1925.
ALEXANDER CHALMERS
SOUTTAR, min. of Swallow Street, Lon
don (q.v.) ; app. chaplain to the Forces in
1862 ; served at Gosport ; dem. 1865 ; adm.
to Pulteneytown 1865 [afterwards in New
Zealand (q.v.y].
CHARLES STEPHEN, M.A. ; acting
chaplain to the Forces at Aldershot, 1903-7
[afterwards in Grenada (q.v.)].
GEORGE FORBES STEVEN, ord. in
1872; app. 1876; served at Netley and
Winchester ; dem. 1905.
ROBERT HORNE STEVENSON,
M.A. ; formerly Indian chaplain (q.v.) ; app.
to chaplaincy at Shoeburyness 1911 ; dem.
March 1912 ; died at Dollar, 25th Jan. 1926.
FRANK WHITE STEWART, born
Perth, 23rd Sept. 1867, son of John S. and
Isabella Whytock ; educated at Perth
Academy and Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A.
(1888) ; licen. by Presb. of Perth in 1892 ;
assistant at St Michael's, Dumfries ; ord.
acting chaplain to the Forces 18th May
1902; chaplain llth April 1903; served at
Crete, Malta, Dublin, Edinburgh, France,
Army of the Rhine, Salisbury Plain,
Ireland, Glasgow ; War service : British
Expeditionary Force, France and Flanders,
1914-18, 19th Brigade; deputy assistant
principal chaplain 15th Corps; assistant
principal chaplain 5th Army ; four times
mentioned in despatches; created C.B.E.
(3rd June 1919); 1914 Star; retired 1st
Jan. 1925. Marr. 15th Oct. 1904 ; Maggie
Josephine, daugh. of Joseph Murray.
JOHN TAYLOR, M.A., B.D. ; formerly
Indian chaplain (q.v.) ; app. military and
naval chaplain at Dover in 1903 ; dem. 1912.
WILLIAM THOMSON, M.A.,' B.D. (cf.
Vol. IV., 27) ; formerly Indian chaplain
(q.v.) and min. of Toward Chapel ; app.
officiating chaplain at Portsmouth 1921.
JOHN MACWILLIAM VALLANCE,
M.A. ; min. of Caledonian Church, Hollo-
way, London (q.v.) ; app. in 1917 ; dem. and
joined the Church of England.
GEORGE WALKER, formerly of Dun
dee ; app. to Chatham llth Jan. 1864 ; dem.
1864.
JOHN BROWN WILSON, app. chap
lain at London 1863, Chatham 1869,
Dublin 1870 ; disappears from Committee's
Record after 1875.
ALEXANDER ROSS YEOMAN, born
Edinburgh, 15th Oct. 1874, youngest son of
Alexander Ross Y., M.A., Inland Revenue,
and Barbara Louden Chapman ; educated
at King Edward VI. Grammar School,
Louth, George Watson's College, and Univ.
of Edinburgh; M.A. (1894); licen. by
Presb. of Edinburgh 1898; assistant at
St Giles, Edinburgh ; ord. chaplain to the
Forces 24th July 1903; served at Aldershot,
South Africa, Shorncliffe, France, Curragh,
Edinburgh, Egypt ; War service : British
Expeditionary Force, 1914-18, army inter
preter in High Dutch and Cape Dutch
1914. wounded 26th April 1915, twice
mentioned in despatches ; created C.M.G.
(1st Nov. 1916) (1914 Star with clasp,
British War Medal, Victory Medal); deputy
assistant principal chaplain 1917 ; assistant
chaplain general 24th Nov. 1926. Marr.
16th July 1915, Margherita, second daugh.
of Joseph Agnew, min. of Abbey U.F.
Church, Dunbar, and has issue— Margaret
Patricia, and twin sons died in infancy.
JAMES YOUNG, B.A. • ord. in 1855;
formerly min. of Mossgreen (cf. Vol. V.,
48) ; app. in 1855 to Shorncliffe ; died at
Shorncliffe before 29th April 1862.
454
CHAPLAINS TO INFIRMARIES, AND OTHERS
CHAPLAINS TO INFIRMARIES, AND OTHERS
ROBERT BOYD, M.A. (cf. Vol. III.,
322); ord. 23rd April 1901 chaplain to
Glasgow Infirmaries; adm. to Wiston and
Roberton 22nd June 1907.
JAMES CLELAND, M.A. (cf. Vol. III.,
370); formerly min. of Yoker ; res. on
appointment as chaplain to lodging-houses,
Glasgow, 17th May 1909; died 27th June
1916.
WILLIAM NICHOL DODDS, born
Jedburgh, 1829, son of James D., black
smith, and Elizabeth Nichol ; educated at
Univ. of Edinburgh ; assistant at St
Michael's, Dumfries ; chaplain to Crichton
Royal Institution, 1874-91; afterwards
chaplain to Dumfries Infirmary, Poor
House, and Prison ; ord. by Presb. of
Dumfries ; died unmarr. at Dumfries 6th
Jan. 1900, and was buried at Caerlaverock.
He was an enthusiastic book collector and
gifted 2000 volumes to the Mechanics'
Institute, Dumfries.
ALEXANDER FERGUSON, formerly
of St Luke's, British Guiana ; app. chaplain
to Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen ; emigrated to
New Zealand, where he died 1913 or 1914.
WILLIAM CRAWFORD FRASER,
born Crawford, Lanarkshire, 17th March
1855, son of James F. and Margaret
Thomson ; educated at Crawford School
and Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb.
of Edinburgh 18th May 1883 ; assistant at
Kirkcaldy, Prestonpans, and Selkirk; ord. to
Scots Church, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1888 ;
assistant at Glenmuick, Ballater, 1897-8;
missionary at Straloch (Moulin) 1899-1904 ;
app. chaplain of Queensberry House, Edin
burgh, 1904. Publications— Prestonpans
Tracts in Church Defence (1885); The
Whaups of Durley, a novel (London, 1895) ;
Craivford (Edinburgh, 1909); "Liturgical
Bibliography " in The Power of Prayer
(London, 1919). Contributions to Scots
Magazine, Rymour Club Miscellanea, the
Beacon, and other periodicals.
CHARLES GILES, formerly min. of
Forglen (cf. Vol. VL, 253) ; app. chaplain
to Royal Infirmary and Mental Hospital,
Aberdeen, Sept. 1927. His son, Andrew,
M.M., ord. min. of New Machar 24th Nov.
1927.
WILLIAM INGLIS, born Newmains,
Lanarkshire, 27th April 1879, son of John
I. and Elizabeth Crawford ; educated at
Newmains School, Allan Glen's School,
Glasgow ; missionary at Burnbank, Lanark
shire ; ord. to Retirement, Jamaica, 9th
July 1916 ; app. to Church of Scotland
Lodging-House Mission chaplaincy, Glas
gow, 19th Oct. 1921. Marr. 31st Oct. 1916,
Agnes, daugh. of Thomas Dalton.
JOHN KNOX, born Busby, Renfrew
shire, 28th Oct. 1862, son of James K.
and Elizabeth Jones ; educated at March
Grammar School, Cambridge, Firth Col
lege, Sheffield, United Yorkshire Theo
logical College, 1885-8; A.Th.S (188
licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh in 1909 ; ord.
by Presb. of Edinburgh 27th Sept. 1911, and
app. Scottish Secretary of Religious Tract
Society, London. Marr. 1st Dec. 1890,
Eleanor, daugh. of Thomas Simister John
son and Anna Anne Mellor, and has issue —
Florence Ida, born 7th Nov. 1891 ; John,
B.Sc. (Edin.), H.M. Geological Survey of
Great Britain, lieut. R.G.A., 1916-18, born
20th Dec. 1898.
ROBERT LIPPE, born Kennethmont,
18th June 1833, son of Robert L., mill
wright; educated at Marischal College,
Aberdeen, 1851-6; M.A. (1862); school
master of Forgue, 1862-79 ; licen. by Presb.
of Turriff 1868 ; app. chaplain to Royal
Infirmary and Lunatic Asylum, Aberdeen,
1879; LL.D. (Aberdeen 1895); died 28th
Jan. 1913. He was an enthusiastic
mountaineer, a founder of the Cairngorm
Club, and a noted archaeologist and liturgi-
ologist. He marr. 29th Dec. 1862, Mary
(died 20th Dec. 1903), daugh. of John
M'Condach, builder, and Mary Thomson,
CHAPLAINS TO PRISONS
455
and had issue — Margaret Elizabeth, L.L. A.;
Robert, died in childhood ; Mary, L.L.A.,
Principal of Queen's Gate School, Aber
deen ; Charles, M.A. (Aberdeen 1888),
LL.B. (Edinburgh 1895), K.C., advocate,
born 29th April 1868, died 6th June
1919; Anna Stuart. Publications— (Ed.)
Selections from Wodrow's Biographical
Collections : Divines of the North-East of
Scotland (Aberdeen [New Spalding Club]
1890) ; Missale Romanum Mediolani 1474
[edited for the Bradshaw Society, 1899];
Ibid., A Collation with other editions
printed before 1570 [ibid., 1907]. Contribu
tions to the Cairngorm Journal. [See
Catalogue of his books (Aberdeen, 1913),
and of his Collection of Liturgical Works
(London, 1913).]
WALTER GRAY M'LAREN, adm.
from Presbyterian Church of Otago by
General Assembly in 1904; chaplain to
Infirmaries, Glasgow ; died 20th Feb. 1916,
aged 58.
DAVID ALEXANDER MILLAR,
chaplain to lodging - houses, Glasgow,
1916-19; adm. to St Margaret's, Tollcross,
13th May 1919 (cf. Vol. III., 491).
DAVID PATERSON, born Perth, 1845 ;
educated at Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A.
(1874); B.D. (1877); licen. by Presb. of
Perth 26th June 1878 ; missionary at
Straloch (Moulin) ; app. chaplain in Queens-
berry House, Edinburgh ; died 7th Dec.
1903.
JOHN THOMAS PATTERSON (cf. Vol.
II., 295), formerly min. of Southwick ; app.
chaplain to City Hospitals, Glasgow.
CHARLES STOBIE (cf. Vol. VII., 319),
formerly min. of Whalsay ; app. chaplain
to Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen, 1910 ; dem.
1927.
GEORGE WAUGH, M.A., B.D. (cf.
Vol. VII., 710) ; formerly missionary in
India; app. chaplain to Infirmaries,
Glasgow, 1917.
CHAPLAINS TO PRISONS
[On 1st April 1878, the Prison Commission for Scotland was set up in terms
of the Prisons (Scotland) Act 1877. The following list of former Whole-time Chaplains
has been prepared with the assistance of the Secretary of the Prison Commission.
Thirteen parish ministers now act as Chaplains.]
JOHN ALEXANDER, M.A. (cf. Vol.
I. 262, IV. 27) ; formerly min. of Syming
ton, Lanarkshire ; chaplain at Duke Street
Prison, Glasgow, 16th June 1891 to 31st
Jan. 1916 ; afterwards missionary at Kames,
Muirkirk ; app. to Toward Chapel in 1922 ;
died 29th April 1926.
ANDREW JAMES BURT BAXTER
(cf. Vol. IV., 253), formerly missionary at
Stanley, Perthshire ; adm. army chaplain
at New Brompton, Kent, 9th Aug. 1866 ;
chaplain at Perth Prison 1st July 1869 to
30th Sept. 1895 ; died 5th Aug. 1924.
DANIEL BAXTER, born Crieff, 1799,
son of Andrew B. and Lilias M'Ainsh ;
educated at Crieff School and Univ. of
Edinburgh ; sometime chaplain at Perth
Prison ; chaplain at Aberdeen Prison 24th
Oct. 1849 to 31st Dec. 1878; died 22nd
Oct. 1886. He marr. Beatrix (born 1803,
died 26th June 1889), daugh. of Alexander
Burt, Arngask, and Isabella Low, and had
issue — Andrew James Burt, chaplain at
Perth Prison ; Alexander Burt, banker,
born 13th May 1837, died 2nd Dec. 1906 ;
Isabella Low, born Sept. 1839 (marr. Thomas
Best, Portadown) ; William Lang, D.D.,
min. of Cameron ; Margaret Henderson,
born 1842 ; Daniel, banker, bora 25th Jan.
1845, died 24th Jan. 1913; Lilias, born
1st Dec. 1847.
456
CHAPLAINS TO PRISONS
LINDSAY BELL, born Cardiff, son of
James B., lieut, K.N., and Christina Wright;
educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; sometime
classical master in Oliphant's Institution
there; assistant at Middle Church, Perth,
Canongate and Abbey Churches, Edin
burgh; chaplain at Duke Street Prison,
Glasgow, 1st Nov. 1882 to llth March
1891 ; died at London, aged 75. He marr.
Jane Liddle Gow, Dryden Mains, Koslin,
and had issue— James ; Christina ; Char
lotte Lindsay (marr. James Milroy); Oswald,
min. of Muiravonside ; Marion Alison Jane
(marr. Paul Van der Lippe, Christiania
[Oslo]) ; Jemima ; Alfred, M.A. (Edinburgh,
1884), licentiate of Church of Scotland, died j
1890, aged 24; William Wilson, min. of
Monzievaird ; Catherine.
WALTER BROCK (cf. Vol. III., 180),
formerly min. of North Parish, Paisley;
app. chaplain at Duke Street Prison,
Glasgow, 1st April 1878 ; died 27th June
1882.
WILLIAM BROWN, M.A. ; ord. (by
Presb. of Perth) chaplain to Prison 14th
Dec. 1864.
HUGH MACKENZIE CAMPBELL,
M.A. (cf. Vol. IV., 127) ; chaplain at Edin
burgh Prison 16th May 1892 to 31st Jan.
1900 ; afterwards missionary at Arisaig.
JAMES MARKLAND FLEMING, born
17th Nov. 1824; son of Hugh F., farmer,
and Janet Skeach ; educated at Univ. of
Edinburgh ; app. chaplain at Stirling Prison
26th Feb. 1865; app. chaplain at Edin
burgh Prison 8th Sept. 1879; res. 29th
Feb. 1892 ; died at Mount Ceres, Broomie-
knowe, Bonnyrigg, 14th Jan. 1901. He
marr. Elizabeth Christie.
WILLIAM GIBB, born Dunfermline,
6th Sept. 1817, son of Andrew G., lawyer,
and brother of. George G., rector of
Hambleton, Rutlandshire ; educated at
Marischal College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (1851) ;
sometime a teacher; app. chaplain at
Cupar Prison 15th Oct. 1863; transferred
to Stirling Prison 16th Nov. 1879; app.
chaplain at Barlinnie Prison 15th Aug.
1882 ; res. 31st Dec. 1887 ; died at Glasgow,
4th April 1889.
ALEXANDER FERGUSON REID,
educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; chaplain
at Dundee Prison 22nd Aug. 1863 to 23rd
Dec. 1884 ; died -. He marr. Elizabeth
Jane, daugh. of James Beckwith, min. of
Wesleyan Methodist Church, and had issue
—Henry Martyn Beckwith, D.D., Professor
of Divinity, Univ. of Glasgow (q.v.) ;
William James Beckwith, shipbroker, Glas
gow ; Catherine Agnes Beckwith (marr.
John Henry Macfarlan) ; Clementina Emily
Beckwith (marr. William Bell) ; Jane Gum
ming Beckwith, London ; and others.
WILLIAM RUSSELL, educated
at Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (20th April
1836) ; chaplain at Edinburgh Prison 17th
May 1854 to 31st Aug. 1879; died at
Edinburgh 29th Oct. 1896.
JOHN PATRICK SINCLAIR [ST
CLAIR] (cf. Vol. IV., 240), formerly min.
of the Gaelic Chapel, Perth ; chaplain at
Aberdeen Prison 26th Aug. 1879 to 28th
June 1888.
WILLIAM SMITH STORIE,
born Culsalmond, 4th Feb. 1861, son of
Archibald S., min. of Insch ; educated at
Univ. of Aberdeen; M.A. (1880); licen.
by Presb. of Garioch in 1883 ; assistant at
Falkirk; sometime min. at Kingscavil ;
app. chaplain at Barlinnie Prison, Glasgow,
22nd Jan. 1888; res. 10th Nov. 1890 and
went into commercial life. He marr.
Christina, daugh. of James Potter, Falkirk,
and Mary Bow, daugh. of James Wordie,
D.D., min. of Cupar, Fife [cf. Vol. V., 147,
and delete S.'s marriage there, which is an
error.]
DAVID SUTHERLAND, M.A., app.
chaplain at Peterhead Prison 7th Feb. 1891 ;
res. 13th Oct. 1919 ; adm. to Eday, Orkney,
21st Jan. 1921.
JOHN TURNBULL, born 14th Feb.
1852 ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 18th
May 1886; resident at Glencaple, Dum
friesshire, before joining Prison Service;
chaplain at Peterhead Prison 5th July
to 9th Nov. 1890 ; transferred to Barlinnie
Prison, Glasgow, 10th Nov. 1890 to 26th
Feb. 1901, when he resigned ; died at
Portobello, 19th Nov. 1907.
SYNOD OF THE SCOTTISH CHURCH IN
ENGLAND
[On 4th May 1836, by recommendation of the General Assembly, the Presbyteries of
Lancashire and North- West of England, under whose jurisdiction were congregations
connected with the Church of Scotland, met at Manchester and agreed to constitute
themselves into a Synod with the designation of the " Presbyterian Church in England
in connection with the Church of Scotland." In 1839 they were joined by the Presbyteries
of London and Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; in 1840 by the Presbytery of Berwick-upon-Tweed ;
and in 1842 by those of Northumberland and North-West of Northumberland. In 1843
the Synod became identified with the Free Church, and the latter part of its designation
was dropped. For some years the eighteen scattered congregations which adhered to the
Church of Scotland (the Presbytery of London excepted) carried on their work mostly as
independent units. In 1850 these were again united into Presbyteries, and a Synod was
constituted in 1851 as "The Scottish Synod in England in connection with the Church
3f Scotland." On 28th May 1927, the General Assembly enacted and ordained "that
with the concurrence of the Scottish Synod in England, the congregations embraced in
that Synod shall be attached to such Presbyteries of the Church of Scotland as may be
determined by the General Assembly," having " the same status as that which belongs
to other congregations in each such Presbytery," such incorporation to take effect when
the necessary financial and other implications have been mutually agreed upon by the
General Assembly and the Scottish Synod in England, and finally approved by the
General Assembly. In 1928 the Synod comprised three Presbyteries, consisting of
ten congregations.]
PKESBYTEKY OF NORTH OF ENGLAND
BERWICK-UPON-TWEED.
[JOHN EOUGH, a pre-Reformation
priest who conformed to Protestantism, was
the earliest Presbyterian preacher in the
town of Berwick-upon-Tweed. Appointed
by Lord Protector Somerset in 1547, he
removed soon afterwards to Newcastle and
Hull, and ten years later suffered martyr
dom at Smithfield. In 1549, JOHN KNOX
followed Rough at Berwick, where he
exercised a remarkable influence on the
morals and manners of the people. JAMES
MELVILLE was at Berwick from 1610 till
his death on 13th Jan. 1613. A monu
ment commemorating his ministry has been
erected in the parish church. JOHN WELSH,
min. of Ayr, lived in exile at Berwick,
preaching sometimes on the frozen surface
of the Tweed to avoid the ecclesiastical
penalties of both countries. In 1648 JOHN
OXENBRIDGE was min. of Berwick when
a new parish church was built. He was
succeeded in 1653 by NICHOLAS WRESSEL
(afterwards ejected) who had for colleagues
LUKE OGLE (cf. Vol. II., 21) and GILBERT
RULE (cf. Vol. I., 39), ejected min. of
Alnwick, afterwards Principal of Edinburgh
Univ. PATRICK WARNER assisted at Ber
wick and Tweedmouth till his admission
to Irvine in 1688. GILBERT LAURIE of
Crossrig (cf. Vol. II., 52) was colleague
to Luke Ogle till his admission to Hutton
and Fishwick 19th Dec. 1693.
458
BERWICK-UPON-TWEED
[PRESS. OF
In the first half of the eighteenth century
there were at Berwick three congregations
of Presbyterians, known as the Low, the
High, and Middle Meetings, corresponding
to their localities in the town. The Low
and High Meetings continued in connection
with the Church of Scotland and were
united in 1879 to form St Andrew's Church
in Hide Hill. The Middle Meeting was
erected in 1756, soon after the foundation
of that congregation. The first min. joined
the Belief Synod on resigning his Berwick
charge, and on the accession of the third
min. the congregation was received into the
same communion and became Chapel Street
Secession Church.]
THE Low MEETING, BERWICK.
WILLIAM FORSTER, licentiate of
Church of Scotland ; min. 1696 to 1715.
JOHN TURNER, M.A. (Edinburgh,
25th June 1697); licentiate of Church of
Scotland ; ord. to Ireshopeburn, Weardale,
about 1700; adm. to dual charge of Ires
hopeburn and Garrigill (or Alston Moor)
in 1712 ; trans, to this charge before 7th
April 1715 ; died 8th June 1760.— [Scott's
Berwick-upon-Tweed, 369.]
ADAM MURRAY (cf. Vol. II., 14), ord.
(colleague) 10th May 1756; trans, to Abbey
St Bathans 10th May 1759.
WILLIAM CAMPBELL (cf. Vol. II.,
183), ord. 4th July 1759 ; adm. to Lillies-
leaf 16th Oct. 1760. — [Carre's Border
Memories, 236.]
JOHN GARDNER (said to be from
Inchkeith) ; min. 1760 to 1778.
JAMES AITCHISON, adm. in 1778;
removed by the trustees on a point of
discipline in 1797.
JAMES SMITH (cf. Vol. II., 46), ord.
29th Aug. 1797; adm. to Eyemouth 6th
May 1802.
ROBERT YOUNG, adm. May 1802;
adm. to London Wall Church, London, 31st
Aug. 1803 (q.v.).
JOHN BROWN (cf. Vol. II., 147) ; adm.
June 1806, but apparently not ord. till 9th
Nov. 1808 ; adm. to Channelkirk 26th July
1809.
THOMAS JOHNSTONE (cf. Vol. III.,
86), called 9th July, and ord. 15th Sept.
1809; adm. to Dairy, Ayrshire, 28th June
1821.
JAMES HENDERSON (cf. Vol. III.,
441) ; ord. 4th Sept. 1821 ; trans, to St
Bernard's, Edinburgh, 27th Nov. 1823;
adm. to St Enoch's, Glasgow, 29th Nov.
1832.
JOHN CRAMBE, a native of Leith;
educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; adm.
April 1824 ; was chaplain to Black Watch
at Berwick in 1833 ; died 1836. The Com
munion tokens bore his initials.
ALEXANDER MURDOCH, born
Gatehouse-of -Fleet 14th April 1804; edu
cated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; ord. (by
Presb. of Kelso) 16th June 1836. Joined
the English Presbyterian Synod in 1840,
when he declared that his congregation
would never be severed from the Church
of Scotland. But in 1843 he was convener
of a deputation from that Synod to the
General Assembly with instructions that if
a Secession took place, their powers would
cease; deprived of his status as a min. of
the Church of Scotland (by Presb. of
Dumfries) 5th Aug. 1845. He retained
possession of the Low Meeting House,
when a protracted litigation followed,
party spirit running high, M. being brought
upon one occasion handcuffed before the
magistrates. Judgment in favour of the
Church of Scotland was given by Vice-
Chancellor Wigram 7th Nov. 1849, and
confirmed on appeal 23rd Jan. 1852. M.
became min. of a congregation which met
in an empty Secession Church at Bankhill ;
retired 25th Aug. 1857 ; died at Dumfries,
15th Jan. 1885. He was clerk of Synod in
1841 and Moderator in 1843.— [Law Journ.
Report, xix., Chanc. 3 ; Hare's Reports,
vol. vii.]
JOHN COLVIN (cf. Vol. II., 369), ord.
llth.Nov. 1852 ; trans, to Maryhill, Glasgow,
23rd Feb. 1854.
NORTH OF ENGLAND] BERWICK-UPON-TWEED
459
WILLIAM GRAY (said to be from
Girvan, Ayrshire) ; min. in 1854 ; died 27th
May 1859, aged 36, and was buried in
Berwick Cemetery where the congregation
erected a memorial stone. Publication —
The True Rest for Humanity (Berwick,
1856).
JAMES PITT EDGAR (c/. Vol. V., 151),
ord. Nov. 1859 ; trans, to Dunbog 10th July
1863.
JAMES FORBES (cf. Vol. V., 141), ord.
22nd Jan. 1864 ; adm. to Milton of Balgonie
in 1873.
JAMES KEAN, M.A., B.D. (See under
St Andrews.)
THE HIGH MEETING.
JOHN SOMERVILLE, min. in 1724;
died 17th Oct. 1756, aged 75. His tomb
stone says he was " forty-three years min.
in Berwick." This is probably la mistake
for thirty-three, but he may have been a
min. in the town before the High Meeting
was formed. He marr. Ann Kerr, who died
1st or 7th Jan. 1791, aged 73.— [Altar
Tombst. (almost obliterated) in Parish
Churchyard}, Ridpath's Diary [Scot. Hist.
Soc.\ (Edin. 1922), 33, 35.]
ROBERT GILLAN, ord. (colleague) 5th
July 1753; adm. to St Boswells 22nd April
1754 (cf. Vol. II., 192).
JOHN GOLDIE, M.A. (cf. Vol. I., 349);
ord. 30th Aug. 1754 ; trans, to Penicuik
15th July 1760 ; adm. to Temple 18th Oct.
1771.
ROBERT HENRY, D.D. (cf. Vol. I., 76) ;
trans, from Carlisle and adm. 13th Aug.
1760; trans, to New Greyfriars, Edin
burgh, 24th May 1768.
JAMES WILLIAMSON (cf. Vol. I.,
423); ord. 17th Nov. 1768; trans, to Eye-
mouth 16th Aug. 1776 [afterwards of
Whitekirk].
JOHN KELLOCK [CUNNINGHAME]
(cf. Vol. I., 313) ; ord. 4th Dec. 1776 ; adm.
to Crichton 4th Dec. 1801.
GEORGE TOUGH (cf. Vol. II., 32);
ord. 17th March 1802 ; adm. to Ayton 13th
Oct. 1814.
WILLIAM JOHNSTONE, licentiate of
Church of Scotland ; ord. to Cheviot Street
Church, Wooler, 1793; trans, to Spittal
in 1798; elected to this charge 3rd Sept.
1812; died 3rd Aug. 1823, aged 57, and
buried at Wooler. His son, Robert John,
was min. of Logie, Stirlingshire (q.v.).
JAMES REID BROWN (cf. Vol. III.,
202) ; ord. 10th Feb. 1824 ; trans, to Scots
Church, Swallow Street, London, 18th Nov.
1831 [afterwards min. of Middle Parish,
Greenock].
ROBERT COWE, M.A. (cf. Vol. II.,
65) ; ord. 19th April 1832 ; trans, to Whit-
some 28th March 1839.
GEORGE CRICHTON, min. in 1839;
res. 1844 ; died at Chirnside, 29th June
1860.
[STEPHEN BELL (cf. Vol. II., 46),
assistant to preceding [afterwards min. of
Eyemouth].
JAMES AITCHISON MILLER, born
Printonan, Berwickshire, 1802, son of
William M. and Helen Aitchison ; edu
cated at Swinton School and Univ. of
Edinburgh ; licen. in 1834 ; ord. to Relief
Church, Clackmannan, 25th Dec. that year.
Joined the Church of Scotland and adm.
here in 1845; died 8th Aug. 1874. He
marr. 26th Jan. 1836, Jane Wilson, daugh.
of Alexander Lorimer and Jane Weir, and
had issue — William Lorimer, banker, born
17th June 1838, died 29th Dec. 1905 ; Jane
Weir, born 6th Jan. 1840, died 7th May
1893 ; Alexander Lorimer, auctioneer, born
29th Nov. 1844, died 26th Nov. 1920;
Helen Aitchison, born 21st Aug. 1846 (marr.
1883, John Jackson), died May 1921; Jessie
Elizabeth Brodie, born 8th Sept. 1852;
Agnes Isabella, born 19th June 1855 (marr.
26th Aug. 1875, Henry Gourlay M'Creath) ;
Margaret Augusta, born 1st June 1857
(marr. 26th Feb. 1904, Thomas Marshall
Morrison). — [Tombst. in Berwick Cemetery.}
ROBERT SMITH, ord. to Melville,
Montrose, 23rd Dec. 1852, and min. of
St Clement's, Dundee (cf. Vol. V., 323);
adm. to Wood Green, London, Nov. 1871 ;
460
ST ANDREWS— TWEEDMOUTH
[PRESB. OF
adm. here llth Feb. 1875 ; res. Oct. 1877 ;
died 13th July 1886. His daugh. Mabel
Margaret Eliza, born 5th July 1873, died in
Edinburgh, 17th Oct. 1921.
[The High Meeting was closed 7th Dec.
1879, the congregation uniting with the
Low Meeting to form St Andrews. For
Middle Meeting see under England.]
ST ANDREWS.
JAMES KEAN, born Dublin, 15th Aug.
1845, son of James K. (related to Edmund
K. the actor); educated at Univ. of St
Andrews ; M.A. (1864), B.D. (1867) ; licen.
by Presb. of St Andrews; assistant at
Markinch ; ord. 9th April 1874 ; res. (from
ill-health) 1905; died at Elie, 2nd May
1908. A man of strong character, original,
unconventional, kind, courteous, scholarly,
high-minded, chivalrous. He marr. 27th
Aug. 1880, Jessie Dun, s.p., a native of
Sydney, New South Wales. Publications —
Among the Holy Places (London, 1893);
Both Worlds Barred (a novel) [Sydney
Kean] (London, 1894). He left a completed
MS. on " Pagan Testimony to the Necessity
of Christ."
JOHN SCOTT MOKEISON,
born Kirkintilloch, 10th Feb. 1869, son
of Thomas M. and Helen Todd ; educated
at Oswald School, Kirkintilloch, and Univ.
of Glasgow ; M.A. (1893) ; licen. by Presb.
of Glasgow 6th May 1896 ; assistant at the
Abbey, Paisley, and Inveresk ; ord. (assist
ant and successor) 16th Nov. 1905 ; trans,
to Houndwood 5th Aug. 1926.
JOHN HENDERSON MACKENZIE,
trans, from Nesting (q.v.) and adm. 4th
Aug. 1927.
TWEEDMOUTH.
[Robert Lee, D.D., min. of Old Grey-
friars, Edinburgh, was brought up in this
congregation. John Mackay Wilson, com
piler of the Tales of the Borders, baptized
in the church, is buried in its graveyard.]
WILLIAM MEIN, M.A, styled
" intruder " in Holy Island Registers ; ord.
28th Feb. 1659 ; trans, to Lochrutton 19th
Feb. 1661 (cf. Vol. II.,' 291).
PATRICK WARNER of Ardeer, M.A.
(cf. Vol. III., 99) ; min. in 1682 [afterwards
of Irvine].
GEORGE TODD [TOD] (cf. Vol. II., 55);
adm. 16th May 1783; trans, to Eyemouth
15th Sept. 1785 [afterwards of Ladykirk].
WILLIAM HALL, born 1756, eldest son
of Alexander H., farmer, Billy, Co. Antrim ;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow; M.A. (1775);
adm. in 1786 ; died 3rd Feb. 1814.
JAMES LAURIE (cf. Vol. IV., 309);
ord. June 1814 ; adm. to Gargunnock 26th
Aug. 1830.
JAMES KIRKLAND CAMPBELL, min.
1830 to 1833, when he went to America,
where he died.
WILLIAM GRANT, ord. 1838. Joined
the English Synod in 1839; app. Church
of Scotland missionary to Madras in 1844,
and served till 1858.
DAVID MUNRO (cf. Vol. II., 39) ; ord.
17th April 1845 ; trans, to Coldingham 5th
Nov. 1847.
DAVID DRUMMOND (cf. Vol. II., 50),
adm. 29th March 1848 ; trans, to Hound-
wood 14th Oct. 1851.
EDWARD BAYNES RODGERS, ord.
to Fort Augustus in 1849 ; adm. here 1852 ;
went to Canada in 1870 (q.v.).
JAMES OLIVER, M.A. (cf. Vol. I., 21) ;
ord. 3rd Feb. 1870; adm. to St James's,
Portobello, 14th Dec. 1880.
WILLIAM FOTHERINGHAM
CAMERON, born Tillicoultry, 25th Dec.
1845, son of William C. ; educated at Univ.
of Aberdeen ; M.A. (1866) ; licen. by Presb.
of Brechin 6th Dec. 1870; sometime mis
sionary at Addiewell ; ord. 29th July 1879 ;
died in Edinburgh 1908. He marr. Jessie,
daugh. of John Young Scott, Hawick, and
had issue— John.
MATTHEW DON (cf. Vol. VII., 319) ;
ord. (assistant and successor) 28th Nov.
1906 [afterwards min. of Whalsay 25th
Sept. 1917].
NOKTH OF ENGLAND]
LOWICK
461
WILLIAM WILSON BELL (cf. Vol. II.
3, IV. 284) ; ord. 24th Oct. 1907 ; trans, to
Abbey St Bathans 12th May 1910 [after
wards min. of Monzievaird].
ANDREW BRYSON (cf. Vol. III., 467) ;
ord. 6th Oct. 1910 ; trans, to St Thomas's,
Glasgow, 2nd March 1920.
JAMES DUNN BOWMAN, born 2nd
Aug. 1867, son of Thomas B.; educated at
High School and Univ. of Glasgow ; licen.
by Presb. of Glasgow ; missionary at New
Lanark, 1915-17 (q.v.) ; assistant at Lar-
bert, 1917-20; ord. 29th July 1920.
LOWICK.
JOHN FORSYTH, ejected min. in 1662;
continued to preach at conventicles up to
1677, and probably assisted in the formation
of Presbyterian congregation here.
LUKE OGLE of Bowsden, M.A. (cf.
Vol. II., 21), conducted services at
Bowsden (near Lowick) and Barmoor, out
of which grew the congregation of Lowick.
On the Indulgence of 1687 he returned to
Berwick where he ministered to large
congregations, but continued to preach at
Bowsden, above one of whose windows [now
Bowsden Hall farm] is a stone inscribed
L.O.M. 1692 (Luke Ogle, Minister).
WILLIAM BIRD, a native of Berwick
shire, born 1645, a licentiate of Church
of Scotland who, to avoid the persecution,
crossed over into Northumberland ; ord.
colleague to preceding in 1672 in a meeting
house at Barmoor, the site of which is now
the lawn in front of Barmoor Castle ; died
12th Dec. 1712 and buried at Lowick, where
the inscription on his tombstone (almost
illegible in 1927) reads :
Among ministers the best
Of which his labours can attest :
While passing by you here do see
The tombstone of that godly seer,
O stop and drop a tear with me
For one so worthy of a tear.
He marr. a daugh. of the laird (Isaacson) of
Fenton. He was an intimate of Thomas
Boston of Ettrick. — [Boston's Memoirs
(Morrison's edition) 176.]
EDWARD ARTHUR, nephew of pre
ceding, belonged to the family of North
Middleton ; ord. in 1713. He had a farm
at Barmoor and was factor for Barmoor,
Holborn, and Fenham estates ; kept a pack
of hounds and spent a great part of his
time in the hunting-field to the annoy
ance of his congregation and ultimate
financial embarrassment of himself ; trans,
to Etal in 1743, Swalwell Jan. 1753 ; dem.
June 1760. The date of his death is
unknown. Publication — Sermons on Various
Subjects (Newcastle, 1783).— [M'Guffie's The
Priests of Etal (Edinburgh, n.d.), 34-40.]
EDWARD HALL, born 1710, second
son of Edward H. of Whitelee, Redesdale,
and Elizabeth Young, Fairnham, on Coquet
Water, and brother-in-law of John Oliver,
min. of Southdean ; educated at Univ. of
Edinburgh ; min. from 1743 to his death
12th July 1780. During his ministry the
meeting-house at Barmoor gave place to
a new church (1746) at Lowick (no longer
used as a church). He marr. Jane, daugh.
of Nathanael Yelloly, Alnwick, and had
issue.
GAVIN WALLACE (cf. Vol. II., 85);
ord. 14th March 1781 ; adm. to Nenthorn
19th Sept. 1793.
ISRAEL CRAIG, born Outerston,
Temple, Midlothian, 4th Nov. 1763, son of
William C., farmer, and Jean Lawson ;
educated at High School and Univ. of
Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith
8th Dec. 1791 ; assistant at Kelso ; called
in Oct. and ord. 5th Dec. 1793; died
13th Oct. 1843. On 20th Dec. 1820 a new
church was opened and a manse built.
The title-deeds provide for their use only
by a minister of the Church of Scotland. —
Publication— History of the Presbyterian
Church of Jlarmoor and Lowick (Berwick,
1824).— [Tablet in Church ; Tombst. ; Hist.
of Presbyterian Church of tfarmoor and
Lowick, 17-30.]
THOMAS DICKSON NICHOLSON,
born Dumfriesshire, 1818 ; educated at
Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of
Dumfries; ord. to Scots Church, Workington,
1840; adm. 31st Jan. 1844. Joined the
462
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE
. OF
Free Church in 1847 ; dem. 14th Sept. that
year ; went to New Zealand and was min.
at Nelson, 1848-57, Renvvick, Blenheim,
1857-64; died 16th July 1864. He was
the first min. of the Presbyterian Church
of New Zealand in South Island. He
marr. Alison (died 30th July 1856) daugh.
of John M'Whir, min. of Urr ; with issue
—John Wickliffe M'Whir Daly, born 1848,
and others.— [Hist, of New Zealand Presby
terian Church (portrait), 109-24, 482.]
WILLIAM HOWNAM, born Kelso, 1818,
son of Thomas H. and Eleanor Atkin ;
educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; ord. 7th
July 1848 ; died 25th Feb. 1867, and was
buried at Cornhill. He marr. Isabella
Hillston (died at Duns 28th Aug. 1881,
aged 62), and had issue— Christiana, died
at Duns 20th July 1878, aged 25.
JAMES WILSON (cf. Vol. II., 290),
formerly min. of Kirkpatrick-Irongray ;
reponed to ministry and adm. here 7th
June 1867 ; res. 1870 and retired to Edin
burgh. — [Hogg's Life of Dr Wightman of
Kirkmahoe.]
JOHN MACKINTOSH, M.A., B.D. (cf.
Vol. III., 282) ; ord. May 1871 ; adm. to
Uddingston 8th May 1874 ; died at Edin
burgh 15th June 1921.
WILLIAM DUNNETT, M.A. (cf. Vol.
III., 107) ; ord. Aug. 1874 ; trans, to Second
Charge, Kilmarnock, 9th Oct. 1879.
WILLIAM DARGIE, born Forfar, llth
Oct. 1842, son of William D., builder;
educated at Forfar School, Univs. of
Aberdeen and Edinburgh, M.A. (1871),
and Congregational Theological Hall; min.
of Congregational Church, Alexandria,
1872-5 ; assistant at Haddington. Joined
the Church of Scotland and was adm. to
this charge 20th April 1880; died 12th
April 1898. He marr. 13th April 1888.—
[Tombst.~]
JAMES GELLATLY (cf. Vol. III., 250)
ord. 28th Oct. 1898 ; app. to Dalziel Chapel
Oct. 1904; admitted to St Andrews, Dalziel,
4th Dec. 1909.
ALEXANDER BLACK, M.A. (cf. Vol.
VI., 212) ; ord. Feb. 1905 ; adm. to Black-
hill, Aberdeenshire, 27th Sept. 1910.
GEORGE TAIT, born Walkerburn, 14th
Sept. 1866, son of George T., Innerleithen,
and Agnes Tait ; educated at Innerleithen
School and Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen.
by Presb. of Peebles 12th Nov. 1890;
assistant at Keith, Sandy ford, Glasgow,
and Dalziel ; ord. 3rd Feb. 1911 ; res. 1924.
JOHN WOOD (cf. Vol. VII., 320) ; trans,
from Whalsay, Shetland, and adm. 4th Aug.
1925 ; trans, to Forglen 22nd Feb. 1928.
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE.
[The succession of this congregation dates
from 1732. Its first temporary place of
worship, fitted up for the purpose by
Scottish residents in Sandgate, was a house
in Sommerville's Entry, otherwise Ebenezer
Entry and Meeting House Entry. A new
church known as Wall Knoll, was opened
18th Oct. 1764, the site being bought from
Christopher Gray, merchant, who stipulated
that "the building cannot be devoted
legally to any other purpose than that of
a place of worship for Protestant Dissenters
of the Church of Scotland, and no preacher
can be called except a licentiate of that
Church." Because of disagreement amongst
the congregation, the galleries were set
up one side sloping, the other level. From
1842-92 the congregation leased the Cale
donian Church in Argyll Street from the
North Eastern Railway Company, at a
rental of £40 annually. In 1892, services
were held in the Geographical Hall, St
Mary's Place, Barras Bridge. A fifth
church (that in use) was erected opposite
Benton Terrace, Sandyford Road, in 1905.]
GEORGE BRUCE, M.A. (cf. Vol. L, 408);
ord. to Sandgate 13th Aug. 1734 ; adm. to
Minto 6th Feb. 1745; trans, to Dunbar
4th July 1766.
JOHN MURRAY (cf. Vol. L, 323) ; ord.
to Sandgate 1st Aug. 1746 ; adm. to Heriot
7th May 1756.
NORTH OF ENGLAND] NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE
463
JAMES RICHARDSON (cf. Vol. II
79); ord. to Sandgate 10th Aug. 1756
adm. to Makerstoun 14th June 1785
During his ministry Sandgate becami
inadequate, and Wall Knoll Chapel wa
erected.
ALEXANDER GIBSON, born 1742
eldest son of James G., Blackford, Perth
shire ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow
adm. to Wall Knoll in 1780 ; clerk of Presb
1781-6 ; died 20th April 1786 and buried in
a graveyard at the back of Percy Street
now entirely built over and the name
changed. Described as "a man of no
ordinary eloquence, piety, and benevolence.
He gave four silver communion cups anc
two plated flagons to the congregation.
HUGH COULTER, born 1758, eldest
son of Hugh C., Kilwinning ; educated at
Univ. of Glasgow; M.A. (1774); adm. to
Wall Knoll 6th Sept. 1786 ; died 5th Nov.
1800 and buried in Ballast Hills graveyard
(long disused and amongst squalid sur
roundings close to the Ouseburn and the
Tyne).
ANDREW ROBSON, adm. to Wall
Knoll April 1801 ; clerk of Presb. 1805-27 ;
dem. 16th Sept. 1828 and died (after long
ill-health) that year.
[WILLIAM NIXON, assistant to pre
ceding [afterwards of St John's Chapel,
Montrose] (cf. Vol. V., 416).]
JOHN GRAHAM, Ph.D. ; born Hill of
Ruthven, Arbroath, 1802; educated at
Univ. of St Andrews; originally min. of
a Methodist congregation at Arbroath
and afterwards of an independent chapel
there, to which he gave the name of Relief
Methodist ; was proceeding to London on
a begging excursion in behalf of its funds,
when incidentally he preached in the
Wall Knoll Church and received a call ;
adm. in 1828; on 12th Aug. 1835 he and
his congregation joined the Kelso Presb. of
the Relief denomination ; adm. to Black-
friars Relief Church, Glasgow, 21st Sept.
1837; trans, to Duke St. Relief Church
25th Nov. 1841 ; declared to be no longer
a min. or member of the United Secession
Church Sept. 1845, having declined the
Presbytery's authority in a process against
him by libel ; continued to preach in a
hall, and afterwards in Barrack Street
Independent Secession Church ; died 26th
Sept. 1862, aged 60.— [Small's Hist, of U.P.
Congs., i. 103, ii. 30, 69, 98; Primrose's
Mother Anti-Burgher Church of Glasaow
68.]
WILLIAM GRAHAM (cf. Vol. Ill, 154),
elected 22nd May, trans, from South Shields
and adm. to Wall Knoll 26th June 1838 ;
restored the congregation to the Church of
Scotland, and had a new church (Caledonian
Church) opened for worship 5th Aug. 1842 ;
declined a presentation to Mid Parish,
Greenock, 4th Aug. 1843; adm. to Loch-
winnoch 7th Sept. that year.— [Portrait in
Museum Presb. Hist. Soc. of England.]
WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, born Dro-
mara, Ireland, 1st June 1814, son of Samuel
B. and Agnes M'Crory; educated at Belfast;
licen. by Presb. of Dromore, 8th Aug.. 1834;
ord. to Holywood, Ireland, 17th Feb. 1835 ;
res. Feb. 1844; adm. here 29th Feb. that
year. Joined the Free Church (followed by
the majority of his congregation) and be
came min. of Trinity Church, Newcastle, 2nd
Oct. 1845; Moderator of English Presby
terian Synod in 1846 ; emigrated to U.S.A.
in 1850, and held a charge in Philadelphia ;
D.D., LL.D.; died 13th Nov. 1893. He marr.
and had issue. Publication— Historical
Introduction to Richard Webster's History
of the Presbyterian Church in America
Philadelphia, 1858).— [Portraits in Trinity
Church and Gallery of Presb. Hist. Soc. of
England.]
ANDREW BROOM, born Abernethy,
erthshire, 1800; educated at Univ. of
St Andrews ; ord. to North Sunderland 9th
April 1834; suspended from his charge
>ver a dispute with his congregation 9th
une 1838 ; became min. of the Independent
Presbyterian congregation at Alexandria,
843-5 ; min. here, 1845-62 ; died 1st March
882. [Small's Hist, of U.P. Congs, i., 238.]
ROBERT THOMSON (cf. Vol. III.,
:06), trans, from Mossgreen in 1862 ; dem.
868 [afterwards of Ladywell 19th June
873].
464
CARLISLE
[PRESB. OF
GEOKGE CHEISTIE WATT, M.A. ;
ord. 5th March 1868; trans, to Burghead
29th Dec. 1878; trans, to Edinkillie 20th
Oct. 1881 (cf. Vol. VI., 420).
GEOEGE CAMPBELL (c/.Vol. VII., 228),
adm. May 1879 ; res. 1st July 1880 [after
wards at Kendall, Orkney (q.v.)].
DANIEL HEZEKIAH COGSWELL,
M.A. ; ord. 2nd Dec. 1880 ; res. 18th Sept.
1883, and joined the Church of England.
WILLIAM COCHEAN MALCOLM
(cf. Vol. IV., 254) ; ord. 4th Nov. 1883 ; res.
7th Fab. 1887 ; adm. to Stanley, Perthshire,
14th Sept. 1888.
WILLIAM BOE, M.A. (cf. Vol. VI.,
274) ; ord. in 1887 ; adm. to Ythan Wells
13th Dec. that year.
WILLIAM CEAWFOED FEASEE,
ord. 3rd. Feb. 1888 ; res. llth Dec. 1896
[afterwards chaplain at Queensberry House,
Edinburgh.] (See under Chaplains, page
454.)
ALEXANDEE COSKEEY, B.A (cf.
Vol. IV., 258) ; adm. 4th July 1897 ; res.
Jan. 1904; adm. to Ardoch 4th March
following.
JAMES STOEEY BAEEOWMAN,
M.A. (cf. Vol. III., 405); trans, from
Buckhaven and adm. 28th Oct. 1904 ; res.
30th Jan. 1910 ; adm. to Carntyne 2nd Feb.
following. During his ministry a new
church was built in 1905.
JOHN AITKEN SPENCE (cf. Vol. III.,
38), ord. 30th June 1910 ; res. 10th March
and adm. to Fisherton, Ayr, 21st March
1918 ; trans, to Norrieston 1927.
JOHN HENDEESON MACKENZIE
(cf. Vol. VII., 311), adm. 31st July 1918;
adm. to Nesting 16th Sept. 1924; trans.
to St Andrews, Berwick-upon-Tweed, 4th
Aug. 1927.
GEOEGE EDDIE THOMSON, M.A.,
B.D. (cf. Vol. IV., 170) ; formerly min. of
Murthly ; dem. that charge 13th Jan. 1925
and adm. here.
PRESBYTERY OF WEST OF ENGLAND
CARLISLE.
JOHN PAEK (cf. Vol. IV., 249), ord. in
1833; adm. to St Martin's and Cambus-
michael 22nd Feb. 1844.
DAVID EOBE LOUSON, born
Arbroath, 1806 ; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen, M.A. (March 1823), and Univ. of
Edinburgh ; assistant at Campsie ; app.
missionary at Wigan, Lancashire, Sept. 1841;
ord. to National Scots Church, Carlisle, 12th
May 1844; died unmarr. at Bolton Place,
Carlisle, 30th Jan. 1880.— [Shaw's Story of
Presbyterianismin Wigan( portrait), 126-36;
Carlisle Journal, 31st January 1880.]
JAMES MACKIE, M.A., formerly min.
of St Mary's, Dumfries (cf. Vol. II., 271) ;
adm. llth July 1880 ; dem. 30th Oct. 1881.
EOBEET WOODSIDE, ord. 15th Feb.
1882 ; adm. to Burghead 5th Nov. 1885 (cf.
Vol. VI., 381).
ALEXANDEE ANDEESON, educated
at Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A. (1880) ; licen.
by Presb. of Stirling 7th July 1885 ; ord.
9th March 1886 ; dem. 1896.
JOHN MACKINTOSH, M.A. ; adm. in
1897; dem. 29th Oct. 1905; adm. min. of
Buccleuch, Glasgow, 24th Jan. 1912 (cf.
Vol. III., 404).
CHAELES WATSON, born Brechin,
1865, son of James W. and Ann Langlands,
Belford ; educated at Brechin High School
and Univ. of St Andrews ; licen. by Presb.
of St Andrews ; assistant at Alva and
Peebles; ord. 26th April 1906; adm. to
Fauldhouse 29th Oct. 1919. Marr. 9th
WEST or ENGLAND]
LIVERPOOL
465
Aug. 1906, Annie Horsburgh Young, daugh
of John Williamson, schoolmaster, Green
law, and Mary Ann Conacher, s.p.
EGBERT TROUP SIVEWRTGHT
born Huntly, Aberdeenshire, 13th Dec
1878, son of Alexander S. and Catherin
Constable Bruce; educated at Gordor
Schools. Huntly, Gordon's College, and
Univ. of Aberdeen, M.A. (1901), and al
Yorkshire United College, Bradford; ord
a min. of the Congregational Church Aug
1904 ; was two years a theological tutor in
South Africa; adm. to Crieff Congregational
Church Dec. 1907; adm. to Castle Street
Congregational Church, Dundee, Apri]
1914; adm. to Church of Scotland by
General Assembly May 1916 ; locum tenens
at Largs and Skelmorlie ; ord. as locum
tenens at Alexandria 17th April 1918 ; adm.
here 18th March 1920. Marr. 26th Dec.
1908, Elizabeth, daugh. of James and Anne
Mitchell, and has issue— Muriel Mitchell,
born 6th Aug. 1910; Winifred Gardner,
born 22nd May 1914.
LIVERPOOL.
ST ANDREW'S, RODNEY STREET.
[In 1823 a section of the congregation of
Oldham Street, unfavourable to the min.
then elected, severed connection with that
place of worship, and organised a congrega
tion which met for the first time on 23rd
March in the Music Hall, Bold Street. On
3rd Dec. 1824 a new church was opened by
Edward Irving.]
DAVID THOM, born Glasgow, 1795, son
of John T., merchant; educated at Univ.
of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow ;
ord. (by Presb. of Glasgow) 7th May 1823 ;
dep. (by Presb. of Glasgow) for erroneous
doctrine 21st Sept. 1825 ; became min. of
Bold Street Chapel, Liverpool ; D.D. (Jena)
and Ph.D. (Heidelberg); died 27th Feb.
1862. Publication — " Scotch Kirks and
Congregations in Liverpool" (Trans. Lan
cashire and Cheshire Historical Soc., vol.
ii., 1849-50). (See Bibliography.)
ANDREW WILSON, M.A. ; app.
colleague to preceding in 1823 ; died March
1831.
JOHN PARK (cf. Vol. V., 236); ord.
27th June 1831 ; trans, to Glencairn 24th
Aug. 1843 [afterwards of First Charge,
St Andrews]. — [Bust in Church Porch;
Portrait in Gallery of Presb. Hist. Soc.
England.']
JOHN TOD BROWN (cf. Vol. V., 35),
formerly min. of Second Charge, Dunferm-
line; adm. in 1844; trans, to Caledonian
Church, London, 1847. During his Liver
pool ministry Free Church sympathisers
in the congregation seceded and formed St
George's Church.
DAVID BROWN (cf. Vol. III., 442);
adm. Dec. 1848; trans, to St Bernard's,
Edinburgh, llth March 1852.
JOHN ORR (cf. Vol. Ill, 476), trans,
from St Stephen's, Glasgow, and adm. in
1852 ; trans, to Tron Parish, Glasgow, 5th
Dec. 1872.
WILLIAM EWEN BULL GUNN (cf.
Vol. V., 412), formerly min. of First Charge,
Montrose; adm. in 1873; res. 1877. [In
Vol. Ill, 15, 390, Bell should be Bull.]
JOHN MILLAR DARLING, educated
at Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (1873);
missionary at St James's, Portobello ; ord.
?5th July 1878 ; res. 1886.
WILLIAM MACLOY (cf. Vol. Ill, 147),
.rans. from New Rothesay and adm. 18th
Hay 1886; adm. to Johnstone, Renfrew-
hire, 7th Feb. 1889.
JAMES HAMILTON, born Whitburn,
863, educated at Univs. of Edinburgh,
VI.A. (1886), and Glasgow ; licen. by Presb.
f Glasgow ; assistant at Kinnoull and
Berwick; ord. in 1889. Marr. Barbara,
augh. of Robert Robertson, Lerwick, and
as issue — Barbara Rodney, born 1890 ;
ames Erik, M.S.Sc., F.Z.S, F.R.G.S, in
Colonial Service (sometime in Falkland
slands), born 1891.
VOL. VII.
2 G
466
CALEDONIAN CHURCH, HOLLOW AY [PRESB. OF
PRESBYTERY OF LONDON
CALEDONIAN CHURCH,
HOLLOWAY.
[In Oct. 1846 the Presb. of London
purchased from the Congregationalists a
building previously known as Holloway
Chapel, under "a conviction of its suita
bility " as a place of worship for the Scots
Presbyterians of the district. It was
opened as such on 21st Jan. 1847.]
JOHN TOD BKOWN (cf. Vol. V., 35),
formerly min. of Second Charge, Dunferm-
line; trans, from Liverpool, and adm. in
1847 ; dem. 1848 [afterwards in Church of
England].
DAVID MAGILL, born Drumlee, County
Down, Ireland ; ord. to St Andrew's Pres
byterian Church, Bolton, Lancashire, Nov.
1844; res. 1849 (having given offence by
preaching as a candidate at St Mary's,
Dumfries); app. "to officiate as pastor"
here 9th April that year, but was probably
not adm. to full charge ; res. 4th Feb. 1853 ;
was afterwards in Boston and Philadelphia,
U.S.A. ; adm. to First Congregation, Bally-
waiter, Ireland, 19th Feb. 1862; LL.D.
(U.S.A.); died 19th Aug. 1894, aged 73.
He marr. Annie Engleheart (died llth Aug.
1871) sister of Sir Philip Engleheart.—
[Portrait in Museum Presb. Hist. Soc. of
England.]
WILLIAM KEW PRATT, born Peter-
culter, about 1830 ; educated at King's Col
lege Aberdeen ; M.A. (March 1848) ; licen.
by Presb. of Aberdeen; ord. in 1853; sus
pended (under grave scandal) 8th Nov. 1855;
res. 14th Jan. 1856; thereafter studied
medicine ; M.D. (Liege 1864); died "a highly
respected practitioner" in Wales 1882. —
[Black's Scots Churches in England, 284.]
JAMES STIRLING MUIR (cf. Vol. IV.,
26) ; missionary at Toward ; adm. 14th
Feb. 1856; res. and went to Australia,
(q.v.).
JOSEPH ANDERSON, adm. 1864 ; was
clerk of Presb. ; res. Oct. 1869 and went
;o Australia.
ROBERT WALKER MACKERSY (cf.
Vol. I., 9); ord. April 1870; app. to
raiglockhart 20th Nov. 1880.
JAMES SHEPHERD FORSYTH, born
Old Meldrum, 21st Aug. 1826, son of
William F. and Margaret Grant ; educated
at Grammar School and King's College,
Aberdeen; M.A. (March 1846); held
scholastic appointments at Turriff, Dyke,
Inverness, and Leith, from 1846-77 ; licen.
by Presb. of Inverness in 1874 ; ord. to
this charge April 1877 ; D.D. (Heidelberg,
Ohio, U.S.A., 21st June 1894); died
5th Jan. 1898. He marr. (1) 9th Nov.
1849, Elizabeth Young, daugh. of William
Paterson and Anne Gray, and had issue —
Williamina Margaret, born 21st Aug. 1850 ;
William Paterson, born 6th March 1852,
died 23rd Feb. 1923 ; Anne Gray, bom llth
March 1854 ; Jamesina Elizabeth, born 1st
Sept. 1856, died 17th Nov. 1907; James
George, born 20th Nov. 1858, died llth
Nov. 1904; Alexander M'Gregor, born
23rd June 1861 ; Catherine M'Gregor, born
15th March 1863; Margaret Grant, born
12th June 1866, died 23rd May 1923 : (2)
6th July 1875, Isabella, daugh. of George
and Isabella Esslemont, and had issue-
Charles Edwin Percy, M.B., Ch.B. (Aber
deen 1899), born 23rd May 1876; Ernest
Henry, M.A. (Aberdeen 1898), classical
master, High Schools, Oban and Dundee,
born 15th June 1878, died 12th Sept. 1914 ;
Lilias Finlayson, born 4th Aug. 1880 ;
Alexis Mackie, born 8th Nov. 1882, died
31st March 1914; Erasmus Wilson, born
5th April 1885, Augusta Marie, born 29th
Sept. 1887, died 16th Feb. 1891 ; Helen
Denny, born 24th Oct. 1890. Publications
— Forms of Church Service (London, 1894) ;
Bible Exercises fon the Young (London,
1894) ; Communion Addresses (London,
1895) ; Life of Galileo (London, 1895) ; The
Women of the Bible (London,
LONDON]
CROWN COURT, COVENT GARDEN
467
JOHN NELSON MACDONALD (cf.
Vol. III., 426) ; ord. 29th Nov. 1898 ; trans,
to New Brompton 26th Feb. 1902.
JAMES MILNE, M.A., formerly min. in
Australia and New Zealand (q.v.) ; adm. to
Church of Scotland by General Assembly
1901 ; adm. here 5th Nov. 1902 ; dem.
1906 and returned to New Zealand.
WILLIAM DUNLOP (cf. Vol. V., 80) ;
ord. 18th Oct. 1906; adm. to Buckhaven
23rd March 1911 ; adm. to Braes of
Eannoch 22nd Feb. 1926.
JOHN MAC WILLIAM VALLANCE,
educated at Univ. of St Andrews, M.A.
(1905) ; licen. by Presb. of St Andrews in
1907 ; assistant at St Mary's, Dundee, and
St Columba's, London, 1910 ; ord. 22nd May
1911; became chaplain to the Forces and
afterwards joined the Church of England ;
deacon 1922, priest 1923; curate of St
Ann and St Agnes, London, 1922, incum
bent of English Church, Dinard, France,
1925.
DONALD CAMPBELL BRYCE
GORDON, M.A. (cf. Vol. III., 426),
formerly min. of Milton, Glasgow; adm.
7th June 1917 ; dem. 8th Oct. 1918 ; adm.
to Dunrossness, Shetland, 1923 (q.v.) ;
trans, to Fraserburgh 24th Nov. 1926 •
Ph.D. (1926).
WILLIAM THOMSON, born Menmuir,
Forfarshire, 7th May 1885, son of James
Laing T., min. of that parish ; educated at
Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen, and
Univs. of Aberdeen, M.A. (1908), B.D.
(1911), Jena, Cambridge, and Glasgow;
M.B., Ch.B. (1914); licen. by Presb. of
Aberdeen in 1910 ; assistant at St Thomas's
and St Stephen's, Glasgow ; ord. 30th Dec.
1918. Marr. 22nd June 1911, Georgina,
daugh. of James Jolly, Aberdeen, and
Jane Ann Garden, and has issue— Eva
Constance, born 13th July 1912 ; Gertrude
Cordelia, born 17th Feb. 1916; William
Raymond, born 21st Oct. 1917; Margaret
Laing, born 1st July 1920 ; James Laing
Gordon, born llth Sept. 1922.
CROWN COURT, COVENT
GARDEN.
[This congregation is first found in 1711
as one of two which worshipped together
in St Peter's Court, St Martin's Lane (in
a two-storied building erected over the
archway through which entry was had to
the court from the lane), under the
pastoral care of George Gordon and Patrick
Russell. The tradition that one of those
congregations had worshipped in the chapel
of the Scottish Embassy (Scotland Yard),
destroyed by fire in 1697, is probably
correct. The building in St Peter's Court,
vacated in 1719, was afterwards used as a
studio by Rubilliac, the famous sculptor,
and the Academy for the Improvement of
Painters and Sculptors which he founded,
precursor of the Royal Academy of 1768.
On 24th March 1719, a new church in
Crown Court, Russell Street, Covent Garden,
was completed at a cost of £611, 10s. lid.,
and " the Most Noble the Peeres of North
Britain, by Mr Russell's interest, did con
tribute to him for the building of the
chapel,'' afterwards known as the Scottish
National Church. It was rebuilt in 1777
and in 1847, and again in 1909. (See
Black's Scots Churches in England, 75-111).]
PATRICK RUSSEL or RUSSELL,
M.A. (Edinburgh, 13th July 1695) (cf.
Vol. I., 269) ; formerly min. of Drumelzier.
Went to London, where he was associated
with George Gordon in the pastoral care
of the two congregations worshipping in St
Peter's Court, St Martin's Lane, 1711-14. On
Gordon's death, both congregations resolved
that they will have "only one minister
in time to come, and they unanimously did
make choice of Russel." He removed with
his congregation to the new chapel erected
in Crown Court 24th March 1719, and
ministered till his death 27th Nov. 1746 ;
buried in Bunhill Fields. Walter Wilson
says of him that he " enforced with serious
earnestness the uncorrupted doctrine of
the Gospel . . . preaching but the Sunday
preceding his death." He marr. and had
issue— Thomas, bapt. 3rd Sept. 1711 (as
appears from the earliest of the church
468
CROWN COURT, COVENT GARDEN
[PRESB. OF
records); Patrick, stationer, Old Bailey,
London, bapt. 10th Feb. ' 1713.— [Jones's
Bunhill Memorials, 249 ; Wilson's Dissent
ing Churches, iv., 5.]
JOHN FREELAND, a native of Dun
bartonshire ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ;
licentiate of Church of Scotland; went
to England about 1740 and became min. at
Broomsgrove, Worcestershire; was called to
Worcester but remained at Broomsgrove ;
called here 24th May and adm. 2nd
Sept. 1747 ; went to Broomsgrove for the
recovery of his health March 1751 and
died there unmar. 4th Dec. following.
THOMAS OSWALD of Dryburgh,
Denny (cf. Vol. IV., 302) ; called in March
and ord. 8th April 1752 ; res. 1773 ; adm.
to Clackmannan 1st Sept. 1778.— [Portrait
in Crown Court Vestry.]
WILLIAM CRUDEN, M.A. (cf. Vol. V.,
404); formerly min. of Logie-Pert; adm.
April 1774 ; died 5th Nov. 1785.— [Portrait
in Crown Court Vestry; Jones's Bunhill
Memorials, 36.]
JAMES STEVEN (cf. Vol. III., 118),
called 14th June and ord. 1st Nov. 1787 ;
adm. to Kilwinning 24th March 1803.—
[Portrait in Crown Court Vestry.]
[DAVID DAVIDSON, min. of Second
Charge, Dundee, declined call Aug. 1803.]
GEORGE GREIG, born Edinburgh, 1 778;
educated at Univ. of St Andrews ; assistant
to Greville Ewing, at the Tabernacle, Glas
gow ; resident at Kirkintilloch in 1805 :
supplied the pulpit while on holiday in
London; called 26th Aug. 1805 (after a
vacancy of two and a half years) ; ord. 23rd
Oct. that year ; intimated his intention to
demit the charge Jan. 1831 but died 18th
Nov. 1830. He instituted the first Sunday
School at Crown Court (1814). He left a
widow who resided at Gravesend. In early
life he and his wife offered for foreign service
under the London Missionary Society, and
were captured by a French privateer which
landed them in South America. With
great difficulty they succeeded in returning
to Scotland.— [Portrait in Crown Court
Vestry; Jones's Bunhill Memorials, 69.]
JOHN MACNAUGHTAN, M.A. (cf.
Vol. III., 173); called 26th June and ord.
by Presb. of Paisley) 21st July, and adm.
5th Aug. 1831 ; adm. to High Kirk, Paisley,
14th May 1832.
JOHN CUMMING, born Fintray, Aber-
deenshire, 10th Nov. 1807, eldest son of John
!. and Anne Mutch, Foveran ; educated at
Jrammar School and King's College, Aber
deen ; M.A. (March 1826) ; Keen, by Presb.
of Aberdeen 3rd May 1832 ; was a tutor at
Kensington, London ; having preached as
supply at Crown Court (his fourth sermon)
he received a call 12th Aug. and was ord.
27th Sept. 1832; declined calls to St
George's, Edinburgh, and other charges in
Scotland ; preached several times before
Queen Victoria; D.D. (Edinburgh, 8th
July 1843) ; dem. his charge 21st July 1879
(when a sum of £3000 was raised as a
testimonial); died at Chiswick 5th July
1881 and buried in Kensal Green. He was
one of the most popular preachers in
London, attracting great congregations and
rebuilding his church with sittings for a
thousand worshippers. He took keen
interest in many philanthropic schemes,
became prominent as a controversialist, a
champion of the Establishment principle,
and a determined opponent of the Papacy,
his public discussion at Hammersmith in
1839 with Daniel French, a Roman Catholic
lawyer, creating much excitement ^ and
winning him wide admiration. The printed
Report was extensively circulated. In
1863 he lectured against Bishop Colenso.
He was the first to hold services in Exeter
Hall, his Sunday audiences numbering over
4000. He established Ragged day and
Sunday Schools, attended up to 1879 by
16,250 children. His interpretations of
prophecy gave him wide celebrity, and he
clung stoutly to the view that the "last
vial ;) of the Book of Revelation was to be
poured out from 1848 to 1867. The Times
described him as a "luminary blazing in
the mid-heavens, and outshining the light
of day." He was a voluminous author, and
his works had a wide vogue. He marr. 1833,
Elizabeth (died 1st Sept. 1879), daugh. of
James Nicholson, London, and had issue—
LONDON]
CROWN COURT, CO VENT GARDEN
469
Lettice Anne, born 18th July 1834 (marr.
Colonel Francis Lean), died 1891; John, born
6th Sept. 1835, died 22nd July 1885 ; Fanny,
born 20th June 1837, died 14th Aug. 1839 ;
Louisa Finch, born 23rd Nov. 1838, died 5th
July 1898 ; Nicholson, born 8th May 1840,
died at Kimberley 1880; Elizabeth, born
llth Feb. 1842, died 22nd Feb. 1842;
Francis, born 24th Dec. 1842, died in Aus
tralia 27th Nov 1908 ; Martin Luther, born
13th April 1843, died 7th April 1911 ; James,
born 1st Sept. 1844, died in California ;
Hugh M'Neile, born 30th Oct. 1845,
died 14th March 1820; Edward Bishop
Elliot, born 21st Sept. 1848, died 30th
March 1849. Publications— The Stabliad
and other Poems (Aberdeen, 1825); An
Apology for the Church of Scotland
(London, 1837); The Hammersmith Pro
testant Discussion (London, 1839, 1848);
Present Divisions in the Church of Scotland
(London, 1840); Present State of the Church
of Scotland (London, 1843); Lectures for
the Times, or an Exposition of Tridentine
and Tractarian Popery (London, 1844);
Occasional Discourses (London, 1844) ; The
Baptismal Font (London, 1845) ; The True
Succession (London, 1846) ; A Message from
God, or Thoughts on Religion for Thinking
Men (London, 1846) ; Is Christianity from
God? (London, 1847; llth ed., 1871);
Apocalyptic Sketches [three series] (London,
1848-50); The Communion Table (London,
1849); Prophetic Studies, or Lectures on the
Book of Daniel (London, 1850); Foreshadows
(London, 1851); Voices of the Day (London,
1851) ; Voices of the Night (London, 1852) ;
Voices of the Dead (London, 1852) ; Signs
of the Times, or Present, Past and Future
(London, 1854); The End, or the Proximate
Signs of the Close of this Dispensation
(London, 1855) ; The Great Tribulation, or
Things coming on the Earth (London, 1859);
Lectures to Young Men (London, 1859);
Ruth: a Chapter on Providence (London,
1859); Redemption Draweth Nigh (London,
1859); Popular Lectures on the "Essays
and Reviews " (London, 1861); The Millenial
Rest, or the World as it Will Be (London,
1862) ; Sabbath Morning Readings (London,
1862) ; Sabbath Evening Readings (London,
1862); Things Hard to be Understood
(London, 1863) ; Moses Right and Bishop
Colenso Wrong (London, 1863) ; Driftwood,
Seaweed, and Fallen Leaves (2 vols. of
Essays) (London, 1863); The Destiny of
the Nations (London, 1864) ; Bee-Keeping
(London, 1864) ; Ritualism, the Highway to
Rome (London, 1867) ; The Sounding of the
Last Trumpet, or the Last Woe (London,
1867); The Seventh Vial, or the Time of
Trouble Begun (London, 1870) ; The Fall
of Babylon (London, 1870) ; Bible Revision
and Translation (London, 1875). Edited
John Knox's Book of Common Order
(London, 1840); Fox's Book of Martyrs,
3 vols. (London, 1844); Andrew Willet's
Synopsis Papismi, 24 vols. (London, 1852),
and other works. — [/«, Memoriam, J. C.
(portrait) (pp., n.d.) [contains a full list of
over a hundred of his Publications] ; Davie's
Unorthodox London (1873), 201-17 ; West
minster Review, new ser., viii., 436-62 (1855);
Essays by George Eliot (1884), 145-99;
Black's Scottish Churches in England,
89-107; Diet. Nat. JBiog.~]
DONALD MACLEOD, D.D., formerly
min. of Jedburgh; trans, and adm. 17th
May 1881 ; removed to St Columba's,
London, 1884 (q.v.).
ALFRED MORRISON PHILIP, M.A.,
B.D. (<•/. Vol. VII., 3) ; ord. in 1885 ; adm.
to Avoch, Ross-shire, llth May 1892.
ALEXANDER MACRAE, born Kin-
gussie, March 1863, son of Donald M. and
Anne Macpherson; educated at Kingussie
School and Univ. of St Andrews; licen.
by Presb. of Lochcarron in 1885 ; assistant
at Connel Ferry and Killin ; ord. to Green-
gairs 24th July 1888; res. 19th Nov. and
adm. here 30th Dec. 1892; chaplain to
Rt)yal Scottish Corporation and Royal
Caledonian Asylum ; clerk to Scottish
Synod in England ; chaplain to 2nd Batt.
Scots Guards in European War, 1915-17
despatches); res. this charge 26th Feb.
1917, and app. officiating chaplain to Forces
n London.
JOSEPH MOFFETT, BA. (cf. Vol. I.,
L49), formerly min. of Gilmerton; adm.
lere 3rd Nov. 1917; clerk to Presb. of
London ; clerk to Scottish Synod in Eng-
470
ST JAMES'S — ST COLUMBA'S [PRESB. OF LONDON
land ; chaplain and governor, Eoyal Scottish
Corporation ; was on active service in
European War Sept. 1915 to Sept. 1916,
mainly with the 9th (Scottish) Division.
Marr. 7th March 1916, Kate Hunter, daugh.
of John Panton and Elizabeth Kinmont,
and has issue— Patrick Johnston, born
21st March 1920; Jean Elizabeth, born 7th
Sept. 1921. Publication— " The Book of
the Congregation" (Crown Court Church
Magazine, Sept. 1920-8).
ST JAMES'S, EAST DULWICH.
[Proposed Nov. 1881, and constituted as
a charge of the Church of Scotland in
1884. A church was.built in 1896, services
having been conducted in a hall previous
to that date.]
AECHIBALD ALISON MACKENZIE,
ord. to Law, Carluke, 18th July 1883 ; adm.
here 14th March 1884 ; res. 1885.
JAMES NIBLOCK-STUART, B.A. (cf.
Vol. V., 412); adm. 4th Feb. 1886; adm.
to North Church, Stirling, 17th Jan. 1889 ;
adm. to First Charge, Montrose, 12th July
1894.
PATRICK HENDERSON AITKEN,
born Nottingham, 1859, son of Gordon A. ;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A.
(1881), B.D. (1884), B.Sc. (1889), D.Litt.
(Glasgow 1907) ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow
4th June 1884 ; assistant at Milton, Glasgow;
ord. 8th Nov. 1888 ; res. 1898 ; became chap
lain at Gartnavel Asylum, and engaged in
bibliographical work at Glasgow and Oxford;
died in Glasgow, 26th April 1916. Publica
tions — A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in
the Library of the Hunterian Museum in
the University of Glasgow (Glasgow, 1908) ;
Thomas Logan's Biological Physics, Physic,
and Metaphysics : Studies and Essays [with
Quintin M'Lennan] 3 vols. (London, 1910) ;
History of the Hammermen of Glasgow [with
Harry Lumsden] (Paisley, 1912).
GEORGE GORDON STOTT, M.A.,
B.D. (cf. Vol. I., 14) ; ord. 15th Dec. 1898 ;
trans, to Northesk 24th Sept. 1906; adm.
to Cramond 10th June 1910; D.D. (St
Andrews, 1920).
EDWIN JAMES BRECHIN, M.A.,
B.D. ; trans, from Scots Church, Paris,
and adm. 7th Feb. 1907 ; adm. to Avoch
4th Dec. 1914 (q.v.).
PERCIVAL MACKENZIE, born
Stornoway, 28th April 1885, son of Major
George M. and Margaret Mackenzie, and
brother of George M., min. of Kirkhope ;
educated at Royal Academy, Inverness,
and Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (1907);
licen. by Presb. of Inverness ; assistant at
Rubislaw, Aberdeen, Buenos Aires, and
Inveresk; ord. 22nd April 1915. Marr.
1st Jan. 1918, Frances Marguerite Elliot,
daugh. of Robert Elliot Lamb and Margaret
Hay Aitken, and has issue—Bruce Percival,
born llth Jan. 1919; Edwin Arnold, born
16th Jan. 1920; Ian George Elliot, born
15th Jan. 1923.
ST COLUMBA'S, PONT STREET.
[Originated by Donald Macleod, D.D.,
in 1883. Foundation stone laid by Earl of
Aberdeen, Lord High Commissioner, 2nd
May 1883, and church opened in 1884.]
DONALD MACLEOD, born 21st July
1839, son of John M., min. of Laggan ;
educated at Laggan School and King's
College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (March 1858) ;
licen. by Presb. of Abertarff 27th Nov.
1861 ; ord. missionary at Fort Augustus
6th Nov. 1862; trans, to Dornoch 14th
Aug. 1863, Greyfriars, Dumfries, 1st Feb.
1866, First Charge, Montrose, 15th Nov.
1867, St Mark's, Dundee, 16th June 1870,
Jedburgh 3rd May 1877, Crown Court,
London, and adm. 17th May 1881 ; removed
to St Columba's in 1884; D.D. (Aberdeen
1887) ; chaplain Royal Scottish Corporation
and London Scottish Rifle Volunteers;
dem. 1901 ; died at Edinburgh, 17th Dec.
1911. He marr. (1) 24th July 1866, Minnie
d'Esterre (died 28th Aug. 1898), daugh.
of William d'Esterre Roberts, Gleanacre,
Innellan, and Christina Brown, and had
issue — Christina, born 28th June 1867 ;
John, born 14th July 1868 ; Agnes Balmain,
born 13th Jan. 1870 (marr. Dugald M'Lean,
min. of Alvie) ; Minnie d'Esterre Roberts,
CHARGES IN ENGLAND
471
born 23rd April 1871 (marr. David Young,
min. of Renfrew) ; Norman, min. of Bel-
haven ; Jane Lilias, born 6th Aug. 1874,
died 1st June 1876 ; Donald, born 22nd
April 1876, died 29th April 1877 ; William
d'Esterre Roberts, min. of St Margaret's,
Arbroath ; Sara Clara Roberts, born 25th
Sept. 1879; Mary Stanley, born 1st Sept.
1881 (marr. 1st July 1913, Harold George
Hill Sprott, M.A., LL.B.) ; Kenneth Gordon,
born 1900, died 1912 : (2) 1st April 1907,
Caroline (marr. (2) James Ferguson, min. of
Corstorphine, who died llth Sept. .1926),
daugh. of John Potter, shipowner, London,
and Caroline, daugh. of William Manuel,
D.D., London.
ARCHIBALD FLEMING, born Perth,
27th Dec. 1863, eldest son of Archibald F.
of Inchyra, min. of St Paul's, Perth ; edu
cated at Perth Academy and Univ. of
Edinburgh ; M.A. (1883) ; licen. by Presb.
of Perth in 1887 ; assistant at St Cuthbert's,
Edinburgh ; ord. to Newton 25th Sept.
1888; trans, to Tron Parish, Edinburgh,
18th May 1897 ; acting chaplain 9th V.B.
(Highlanders) the Royal Scots, 1898-1902,
and London Scottish, 1903-22 (T.D.)
(H.C.F.) ; trans, and adm. 31st Jan. 1902 ;
D.D. (Edinburgh 1906); Grand Chaplain,
Grand Lodge of Freemasons, Scotland ;
chaplain to Lord High Commissioner,
1918-20, also' in 1927 ; Serbian Order of St
Sava (1919). Marr. 14th Sept. 1898, Agnes
Jane, daugh. of Robert Cecil Williamson,
Moray Place, Edinburgh, and has issue —
Archibald Robert Cecil, B.A. (Oxon.), born
1899; William Hamilton Dalrymple, B.A.
(Cantab)., born 1901 ; Christian Isobel,
born 1903 ; Roberta Cecilia Helen, born
1909. Publications'— Editor of Life and
Work, 1898-1902, and of St Columba's
Magazine; The Memory of King Robert
Bruce [A Speech to Grand Lodge] (p.p.,
1899). Contributions to Scots Observer,
National Observer, and other journals.
CHAEGES IN ENGLAND, NOW EXTINCT, OR MERGED
WITH OTHER CONGREGATIONS
[Ministers connected with the Church of Scotland who have served
Charges in England, now extinct, or merged with other congregations.]
[The Restoration of Charles II. in 1660 proved a calamitous event in the history of
English Presbyterianism. On 19th May 1662, there was passed the Act of Uniformity
by which Episcopacy obtained complete ascendency and Presbyterianism was rent
asunder. Re-ordination by Bishops was made compulsory on all ministers whose
previous ordination had been other than Episcopal. Abjuration of the Scottish League
and Covenant became obligatory, and the unlawfulness of taking up arms against
the King, no matter the provocation, had to be acknowledged. The time limit of three
months expired on St Bartholomew's Day, 24th August 1662, when over 2000 ministers
of the Church of England, mainly Presbyterian in their convictions, were driven with
their families from their churches and homes. The Conventicle Act forbade any
religious gathering of more than five persons unless they were Episcopalian. The Five
Mile Act prohibited ejected ministers from entering the towns and burghs. The Oxford
Act debarred all save Episcopalians from the Universities. Breaches of any of these Acts
were punished with severe fines or by long periods of imprisonment. Many Presbyterian
causes in Northumberland and elsewhere are traceable to this dark, obnoxious time.
The Revolution of 1688 and the arrival of a Presbyterian ruler, William of Orange,
brought relief to the stricken Presbyterians, who, however, were only " tolerated " by the
472
BERKSHIRE— BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
[CHARGES IN
Episcopal party. They were allowed to build their own " meeting-houses," but anything
in the nature of Presbyterian organisation was banned. No Presbytery or Synod was
possible. The result was that many Presbyterians adopted a purely independent position
and became, for all practical purposes, Congregationalists. The teaching of the pulpit
also and the conduct of divine service, which was subject to no control, succumbed not
seldom to the unorthodox tendencies of the times. Arianism and Unitarianism replaced
evangelical Christianity, and were often regarded as only another name for Presby terianism.
With the advent of the eighteenth century there came a revival of Presbyterianism,
mainly brought about by the influx of Scots immigrants to the northern and central
districts of England and into London, where a Scots congregation had existed since 1672,
and a Presbytery in connection with the Church of Scotland was established in 1760.
Not a few congregations were created also by those who adhered to the Secession and
Belief Churches in Scotland. With one or other of these bodies, the surviving English
Presbyterian congregations largely associated themselves, but that the Scottish influence
prevailed is seen in the designations of the two Presbyterian groups when they came to
constitute themselves into a broader organisation. In 1836 there was formed the Synod
of the Presbyterian Church in England in connection with the Church of Scotland. In
1843 the latter part of this designation was omitted [see under Scottish Church in
England]. On 13th June 1876, a Union effected between the Presbyterian Church
in England and the English U.P. Synod resulted in the reconstituted Presbyterian Church
of England.]
BERKSHIRE
HURST.
[In 1858 the Presb. of London added to
its roll a Scots congregation at Hurst,
which seems to have ceased about April
1868 on expiry of the lease of the building
used for worship.]
ROGER HALL, M.A. ; ord. Jan. 1859 ;
left in 1861 ; afterwards army chaplain.
JOHN DAVID PALM, min. 1861 to
1868; afterwards army chaplain. (See
under Chaplains.)
READING.
[In 1860 Church of Scotland services
were begun at Reading, but discontinued
after a year or so. In 1875 St Andrew's
Church was opened by the Presbyterian
Church of England.]
WINDSOR.
JAMES CULLEN, M.A. (cf. Vol. II.,
384) ; military chaplain at Windsor ; app.
by London Presb. to take charge of "an
Irish Church at Windsor," which became
connected with the Presb. in 1860 [after
wards min. of Wigtown].
JOHN LINDSAY ADAMSON (cf. Vol.
V., 341); officiated here by appointment
of London Presb., 1861-2 ; ord to Wallace-
town, Dundee, 20th March 1862.
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
WYCOMBE.
ARCHIBALD HAMILTON, M.A. (cf. Vol. I., 7); ord. to a Presbyterian
congregation at Wycombe in 1688 ; adm. to Corstorphine in 1692.
ENGLAND] CAMBRIDGESHIRE— CHESHIRE— CUMBERLAND 473
CAMBRIDGESHIRE
WISBECH.
WILLIAM CROMBIE, M.A. (cf. Vol. I., 419); ord. to a Presbyterian congregation
at Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, 6th Aug. 1761 [afterwards min. of Spott].
CHESHIRE
BIRKENHEAD (ST ANDREWS).
[Founded in 1838 ; first service held on 13th May ; church built 1839-1840.]
ALEXANDER RENNISON, M.A. (cf.
Vol. III., 177) [afterwards of Risley and
St George's, Paisley].
JOHN GARDNER, born Glasgow,
17th April 1808, third son of William G. ;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by
Presb. of Glasgow 13th March 1836; ord.
26th Aug. 1840 ; dem. 23rd May 1849. He
emigrated to Australia, and was adm. min.
of Chalmers Church, Adelaide, 6th July
1851 ; adm. to Launceston, Tasmania, 28th
Dec. 1868 ; adm. to Queenscliff, Victoria,
24th Nov. 1874 ; Moderator of Presbyterian
Church of Australia 12th Nov. 1883;
retired 2nd July 1888; died llth May
1899. He marr. 12th Feb. 1844, Catherine,
daugh.of John Alexander Forrest, merchant,
Liverpool, and had issue — William, M.D. ;
Gavin Forrest, stockbroker ; George Aber-
crombie ; Catherine Adamson. — [Portrait
in Presbyterian Hist. Soc. of England
Museum ; Tablet in Church.]
ROBERT HENRY LUNDIE, M.A.
(Edinburgh 1848), D.D. (Edinburgh 1890),
son of Robert L., min. of Kelso (cf. Vol. II.,
73); ord. 24th Sept. 1850 [afterwards of
Fairfield, Liverpool] ; died 20th Jan.
1895.
CUMBERLAND
BEWCASTLE.
[Founded in 1788.]
WILLIAM LAUDER, born Auchin-
baingie, Dumfriesshire, 30th March 1762,
son of James L. ; educated at Univ. of
Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of Annan 1st
Feb. 1786 ; assistant at St Michael's, Dum
fries 30th Jan. 1787 to 4th May 1788 ; ord.
(by Presb. of Penpont) 7th and adm. 23rd
May 1788; trans, to Hardbottle 9th July
1799 ; re-trans, here 25th July 1809 ; died
28th June 1832. He marr. 29th Jan. 1785
Jane Hastings, Carsphairn, who died 23rd
Aug. 1808, aged 47, and had issue— James,
bern 23rd Oct. 1785 ; John, born 2nd Oct.
1787; William, born 2nd March 1790;
Thomas Dixon, born 22nd April 1792 ;
Joseph, born 14th May 1794 ; Jane, born
27th April 1797.— [Hutchinson's Cumber
land, ii., 563.]
JOHN WRIGHT, min. 1801 to 1802.
ALEXANDER ANDERSON (cf. Vol.
II., 3); trans, from Kirkley and adm. in
1802 ; trans, to Wigton, Cumberland, 1809 ;
adm. to Abbey St Bathans 3rd Aug. 1813.
WILLIAM LAUDER, above mentioned,
re-trans. 25th July 1809.
GAVIN LOCHORE (cf. Vol. VII., 212),
ord. Oct. 1832 ; trans, to St John's, South
Shields, 1838 [afterwards min. at Deerness,
Orkney].
474
CUMBERLAND
[CHARGES IN
JAMES LAJDLAW (cf. Vol. II., 329),
ord. 13th June 1839; adm. to Fisherton,
Ayr, 26th Dec. 1844; app. to Wanlock-
head 26th May 1848.
WILLIAM TWEEDIE, a native of
Ireland ; ord. 3rd Dec. 1844 ; deposed 8th
March 1868.
[Ministers thereafter belonged to English
Presbyterian Church.]
BLENNERHASSET.
JACOB DICKSON [DIXON], ord. min.
of Presbyterian Congregation at Blenner-
hasset Aug. 1770; adm. to Mouswald 17th
Dec. 1772 (cf. Vol. II., 219).
BRAMPTON.
[Presbyterianism in Brampton originated
with Nathaniel Burnand, M.A., the ejected
vicar of 1662. The first documentary
evidence of the existence of a Presbyterian
congregation is in the Indulgence Book of
Charles II., in the Public Record Office,
in which are lists of persons licensed as
teachers or ministers, and their permitted
meeting-places. On 5th Sept. 1672, a
licence was granted to Burnand to hold
services in the house of William Atkinson
at Brampton. Atkinson appears to have
been a glover there till his death in 1684.
Calamy says that Burnand removed to
Harwich, thence to London, where he died
in poverty. — [Nonconformist Memorial
(Palmer's edition), i., 296.]
JAMES NOBLE, M.A. (cf. Vol. II., 110
[where Branton should be Brampton]) ;
ord. in 1688 ; adm. to Yetholm before 16th
Oct. 1690; trans, to Eckford 4th April
1694.
JOHN KINCAID, M.A. (cf. Vol. II., 296);
outed from Terregles in 1690; adm. to
Brampton that year ; died 1708. He marr.
Ann or Agnes, daugh. of David Bell of
Broom Hill, Denton. — [Penf old's Early
Brampton Presbyterianism, 1662 - 1780
(Kendal, 1903).]
JAMES CAMPBELL, M.A. (cf. Vol. II.,
156 [where Branton should be Brampton]) ;
ord. at Brampton 10th Aug. 1709 ; adm. to
Legerwood 8th Nov. 1711.
ROBERT WIGHT, M.A. (cf. Vol. II.,
266); ord. 20th Aug. 1712; trans, to Tor-
thorwald 22nd Oct. 1724; re-called 30th
May 1725 ; re-adm. at Brampton 13th April
1726; trans, to St Michael's, Dumfries,
30th Nov. 1732. His son William, D.D.,
bapt. 27th Nov. 1730 [not as in Vol. II.,
born 22nd Dec.]. — [Penf old's Early
Brampton Presbyterianism, 1662 - 1780
(Kendal, 1903); M'Dowall's Memorials of
St Michael's, Dumfries, 363.]
JOHN HERRIES, a native of Dum
friesshire ; educated at Univ. of Edin
burgh ; styled " preacher of the Gospel at
Dumfries" when called here 1st Aug.
1733; ord. 10th April 1734; removed in
1736, but subsequent history unknown.
ISRAEL BENNETT, min. of a Presby
terian congregation at Keswick in 1729 ;
adm. in 1736 ; trans, to Fisher Street, Car
lisle 29th July 1745, where he figured
prominently during Prince Charles's occu
pation of that city; died 12th Dec. 1746.—
[Mounsey's Carlisle in 1745, 62, 86.]
JOHN ALLAN (cf. Vol. II., 273), from
Dumfries, appears as min. in 1745, but
not ord. (at Penrith) till 1746; adm. to
Dunscore 7th May 1752. — [Whitehead's
Brampton in 1745 ; Penf old's Brampton
and District, 30.]
JOHN JOHNSTON (cf. Vol. II., 313),
ord. llth April 1753; adm. to Durisdeer
20th July 1758.
SIMON CURRIE, min. at Haltwhistle,
1748 to 1758; adm. in 1758; died 1759;
George C., min. here in 1781, was probably
a son.
ROBERT POTTS (cf. Vol. II., 175), ord.
16th Oct. 1759 ; adm. to Ettrick 9th Dec.
1772 [afterwards of Penruddock, Cumber
land (q.v.y].
ROBERT HOOD, born Cromarty, 1749,
son of Thomas H. ; educated at Marischal
College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1767); called
22nd Nov. 1772 ; adm. in 1773 ; trans, to
ENGLAND]
CUMBERLAND
475
Hanover Square Church, Newcastle-upon
Tyne [a Unitarian congregation now rcpro
sented by the Church of the Divine Unity],
1781; D.D. (Edinburgh, 6th March 1781),
died 17th June 1782. Publications— A Dis
course on the Nature of Christ's Kingdom ;
Sermons.
GEOEGE CURRIE, probably son of
above Simon C. ; ord. in 1781 ; died 1783.
JOHN WIGHTMAN, ord. in 1784; died
1819.
JAMES LAURIE, adm. in 1819; dem.
1831.
ROBERT HIDDLESTON (cf. Vol. VII.,
248), ord. in 1831 ; adm. ord. assistant at
Deerness 1844 ; trans, to Orphir 13th Aug
1846.
CARLISLE (FISHER STREET).
[Fisher Street congregation, Carlisle [now
English Presbyterian] originated with
deprived ministers from Scotland who fled
into Cumberland after 1662. Among them
were John Welch of Irongray, John Scott
of Hawick, Gabriel Semple of Kirkpatrick-
Durham, and Samuel Arnot of Tongland.
They carried on the Presbyterian ministry
in the house of Edward James, in the Black
Friars, until 1707, when a meeting-house
was erected. In 1737 a church was built
in Fisher Street.]
DANIEL JACKSON, min. about 1689,
disappears from the record shortly after
wards.
JOHN MENZIES, M.A. (cf. Vol. I., 246);
formerly of Caerlaverock and deprived
min. of Coulter; min. after 1690. His
name does not occur in the record after 6th
July 1703.
ISRAEL BENNETT, min in 1745 ; died
12th Dec. 1746. (See under Brampton.)
ISAAC ROBINSON, min. in 1746;
trans, to North Shields 1767 ; died 1782. '
ROBERT HENRY, M.A. (cf. Vol. I., 76);
ord. 4th Nov. 1748; collegiate min. of
Fisher Street congregation ; trans, to High
Meeting, Berwick-upon-Tweed 13th Aug.
1760 [afterwards min. of Old Kirk, or
South-East Parish, Edinburgh].
ROBERT MYLNE, M.A. ; ord. colleague
[to Isaac Robinson] in 1760 ; became sole
min. in 1767 ; died 30th May 1800.
JAMES CHAMBERS, M.A. ; collegiate
min. 1782 to 1790. (See under Thropton
and Rothbury.)
THOMAS KENNEDY, M.A. (cf. Vol.
IV., 247) ; ord. colleague [to Robert Mylne]
in 1790; adm. to Moseley Street, Man
chester, 1792, St Madoes 2nd April 1795.
JAMES KYLE, born Glasgow, 1770, eldest
son of John K., Associate min. at Kinross ;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow; ord. to
Associate Congregation, Kirkintilloch,
21st March 1793 ; res. 25th July 1797 ; adm.
here Sept. 1800; drowned himself in the
Eden 18th June 1809. On 26th June
following, the congregation joined the
Secession Church.— [Small's Hist, of U.P.
Gongs., ii., 151 ; Mackelvie's Annals, 121.]
HOLYWELL.
[Holywell church, in parish of Stapleton,
was built in 1837.]
WALTER NICOL, M.A. ; min. in 1827 ;
trans, to Longtown 1833 (q.v.).
ANDREW M'EWEN, min. here 1839 to
1840 ; trans, to Longtown 1840 (q.v.).
KESWICK.
JAMES BIGGAR, min. of a Presbyterian
congregation at Keswick in 1730 ; presented
to Kirkpatrick-Irongray in 1756, but not
settled; min. at Penruddock, 1757-60;
returned here in 1760, where he lived at
Stone in Naddle; died 24th July 1784. —
'Crotthwaite Registers.]
LONGTOWN.
JAMES CHAMBERS, M.A. ; min. here
n 1805, when a church was erected ; trans.
;o Rothbury 1807 (q.v.).
ROBERT LAURIE, min. in 1807;
Tans, to Hexham 1812.
ALEXANDER M'FARLANE (cf. Vol.
VI., 93) ; trans, from Sunderland and adm.
une 1813; trans, to Crathie 26th Sept.
822.
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CUMBERLAND
[CHARGES IN
JAMES PATON, only son of George P.,
farmer, Ayrshire ; educated at Univ. of
Glasgow ; min. 1822 to 1833.
[THOMAS WILSON (cf. Vol. V., 436),
assistant Middle Parish, Paisley; declined
a call in 1833; ord. to Friockheim 16th
Feb. 1837.]
WALTER NICOL, M.A. (cf. Vol. IV.,
358) ; adm. from Holywell in 1833 ; adm.
to Norrieston 4th June 1840.
ANDREW M'EWEN (cf. Vol. III., 151),
trans, from Holywell and adm, in 1840;
adm. to Levern 5th Oct. 1843.
JOHN INVERARITY,born Forfarshire;
educated at King's College, Aberdeen ;
ord. in 1844, and subsequent history
untraced.
WILLIAM LYTTEIL [LITTLE], M.A.
(cf. Vol. III., 143) ; ord. 23rd June 1880 ;
dem. 1887 [afterwards in U.S.A.].
RICHARD ROBB, M.A., B.D. (cf. Vol.
VI., 148) ; ord. 25th Nov. 1889 ; trans, to
Blairdaff 16th March 1890.
WILLIAM BOE, M.A. (cf. Vol. VI., 274);
adm. from Ythan Wells in 1890; dem.
1897, when the church was discontinued.
MARYPORT.
[Founded in 1773.]
JOHN DUNN, born 1750, fourth son of
Alexander D., Denny, Stirlingshire; edu
cated at Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb.
of Stirling; ord. in 1777; died after llth
March 1818, on which date he handed over
the Registers to his successor.
ROBERT WALLACE (cf. Vol. II., 267) ;
ord. 4th March 1818 ; adm. to Kirkpatrick-
Durham 19th April 1821; min. of St
Michael's, Dumfries, 21st Oct. 1830.
ROBERT CARR (cf. Vol. III., 360), ord.
7th Feb. 1821 ; res. 2nd Sept. and adm. to
Luss 6th Dec. that year. His election to
Maryport gave origin to Crosby Street
Secession congregation there, now English
Presbyterian.— [Mackelvie's Annals of U.P,
Church, 122.]
WILLIAM RINTOUL, M.A. ; ord. (by
Presb. of Dunblane) in 1821 ; app. first
min. of St Andrew's Church, York (now
Toronto), 29th Sept. 1830. [See Canada.]
ROBERT COURT (cf. Vol. I., 324), ord.
th April 1831 ; adm. to Heriot 18th Nov.
1834.
WILLIAM STIRLING BLACKWOOD
(cf. Vol. I., 181) ; ord. to Maryport in 1835 ;
adm. to Portobello 7th March 1844.
PENRITH.
[From 1751 to about 1798 the ministers of
this congregation belonged to the Church
of Scotland. Penrith afterwards joined
the Presb. of Selkirk, in connection with
the Burgher Synod.]
EDWARD BUNGLE, M.A. (cf. Vol. II.,
283), formerly min. of Kirkmahoe, which
he dem. 15th May 1749 ; called to Penrith
Nov. 1751 [omitted in above Vol.]; was
min. there till 1772, when he retired to
Heuk [Hewke] in Annandale, where he
died 17th Aug. 1777.— [Colligan's Hist, of
Penrith Presbyterian Church, 14.]
JOHN HONYMAN, born llth Dec.
1745, son of James H., min. of Kinneff;
educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen ;
M.A. (1763) ; licen. by Presb. of Fordoun ;
assistant at Penruddock, Cumberland ; ord.
to Penrith 19th Aug. 1772 ; died after 4th
Feb. 1783, his last entry in the Session
Register.
JAMES BRADFUTE, born 1st July
1762, son of John B., min. of Dunsyre ;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow; M.A. (1781);
licen. by Presb. of Biggar ; called in May
and ord. to Penrith Presbyterian congrega
tion Sept. 1783; died at Market Deeping,
Lincolnshire, 18th June 1789.
RICHARD PAXTON (cf. Vol. II., 223),
ord. min. at Huddlescleugh, Cumberland,
Aug. 1785 ; removed soon after to Penrith,
where he served six years ; adm. to Tunder-
garth 8th Sept. 1791.
GAVIN HENDERSON, licentiate of
Church of Scotland; mentioned as min.
in 1792.
ENGLAND]
CUMBERLAND
477
JAMES M'CONOCHIE, resident in
Dumfries in 1793, when he was called in
Feb. and ord. (by Presb. of Kirkcudbright
March following. In 1798 he left Penrith
for Liverpool, taking with him the earliest
Register of the congregation (1752-96), which
was only recovered after George Relph, t
trustee of the church, had handed over
a sum of money for the same.
PENRUDDOCK.
[Penruddock congregation was founded
by John Noble, a considerable landowner
there. A meeting-house was built in 1712.
The ministers up to 1756 were mostly
English-trained men.]
JAMES BIGGAR, trans, from Keswick
to Penruddock in 1757; returned to Kes
wick in 1760 (q.v.).
TIMOTHY NELSON, born 16th Sept.
1737, second son of Thomas N., Great
Salkeld; educated at Univ. of Glasgow;
M.A. (1758); licen. by Presb. of North
umberland in 1760; min. at Penruddock,
1761-3; min. at Redwing in Garrigill, near
Alston, Aug. 1763-1800; removed to Great
Salkeld and Plumpton in 1801 ; died
1830 and buried at Great Salkeld.— [Mac-
kelvie's Annals, 124.]
THOMAS SMITH, min. in 1763 [after
wards of Haltwhistle] (q.v.).
MATTHEW MONCREIFF, min. 1764
to June 1771. (See under Etal.)
JOHN HONYMAN, M.A, assistant min.
1771 to 1772; ord. to Penrith (q.v.).
DAVID JOHNSTON, born Banffshire,
1750, son of Andrew J. ; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen, 1764-72; min. 1773 to
1778; returned to Scotland in ill-health,
and did not hold another charge.
THOMAS MORESBY, min. 1778 to 1780.
ROBERT POTTS, formerly min of
Ettrick (cf. Vol. II, 175); adm. to Pen
ruddock in 1781; died 1st Jan. 1806.
During his ministry at Ettrick, the father
of James Hogg was ord. to the eldership.
JOHN COCKBURN, min. 1806 to 1807,
of whom nothing further is known.
JOHN BEATTIE, app. missionary under
the London Missionary Society to the South
Seas, and sailed 19th Dec. 1799, in the Duff.
After exciting adventures through being
captured by a French privateer, he and
about thirty other missionaries returned to
England 13th Oct. 1800, having been sent
back from Montevideo; sometime min. here,
but left, having adopted Baptist views.
ANDREW RATTRAY, educated at
Univ. of Edinburgh and at the Academy of
the Haldanes, founders of Scottish Con
gregationalism ; sometime preacher at
Annan; min. from 1812 to his death in
1829, when the congregation joined the
United Associate Presb. of Annan and
Carlisle.
WHITEHAVEN.
WALTER FAIRLIE (cf. Vol. I, 148),
ord. (by Presb. of Glasgow) 1st Dec. 1819 ;
left in 1837, and adm. to Gilmerton 16th
Aug. I838.~[Portrait in Museum Presb.
Hist. Soc. of England.]
ALEXANDER SIMPSON PATTER
SON (Cf. Vol. Ill, 416), ord. 3rd May 1837;
adm. to Hutchesontown, Glasgow, 25th
April 1839.
WILLIAM WILSON (cf. Vol. II, 390),
ord. in 1839; trans, to Scots Church
Douglas, Isle of Man, 14th Oct. 1841 ; adm!
to Balmaclellan 21st March 1844.
MATTHEW GRAHAM (cf. Vol. Ill
226), ord. 2nd Dec. 1841 ; adm. to Baillies^
ton 1st Feb. 1844.
[ALEXANDER SUTHERLAND, ord. to
i Secession congregation, Whitehaven, 28th
Jan. 1834; res. 18th Feb. 1845. Joined the
Church of Scotland and adm. to Strath-
bungo (cf. Vol. Ill, 471) 6th Feb. 1848
Publications — Echoes of Grace; The
f'heatre; Revivals; Presbytery and In-
lej)endence.]
478
CUMBERLAND— DEVONSHIRE— DURHAM [CHARGES IN
WIGTON.
ALEXANDEK ANDERSON (cf. Vol.
II., 3); trans, from Bewcastle and adm.
to Wigton, Cumberland, 1809; adm. to
Abbey St Bathans 3rd Aug. 1813, when
the church was closed, but afterwards
occupied by a Secession congregation.
WORKINGTON.
HENRY MUSCHET (cf. Vol. III., 490) ;
ord. (by Presb. of Stirling) to Scots Church,
Workington, 19th Jan. 1785 ; adm. to
Shettleston after 19th June 1788.
JOHN SELKIRK [or SELKRIG],
licentiate of Church of Scotland ; ord. in
1789 ; died llth June 1829, aged 79. " Well
assured of his piety and fitness " he was
called to be min. of Relief congregation at
Waterbeck in 1790, but Presb. of Dumfries
refused to sustain the call till he made
application to be received as a min. of
their body. This he declined to do, and
the matter dropped.— [Mackelvie's Annals,
72.]
COLL TURNER, born 1794, third son
of Coll T., Luss, Dunbartonshire ; educated
at Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of
Dunbarton 7th Oct. 1828; min. here 1829
to 1842 ; died 12th Feb. 1842. He marr.
Mrs Carr, a widow, whose daughter's
Memoir he wrote. Publication — Memoir
of Mrs J. D. Hetherington [wife of Irving
H., min. of Scots Church, Melbourne (q.v.)]
(London, 1838).
THOMAS DICKSON NICHOLSON,
ord. in 1842; trans, to Lowick 31st Jan.
1844 (q.v.).
DEVONSHIRE
WHITBY.
JOHN BERTRAM of Millhall, Polmont, min. of a Presbyterian congregation at
Whitby ; adm. to Muiravonside 8th June 1768 (cf. Vol. I., 223).
DUEHAM
DARLINGTON.
JAMES THORBURN (cf. Vol. III.,
35); ord. to Birdhopecraig in 1760; adm.
to Scots Church, Darlington, 1762; adm.
to Kingarth, Bute, 24th Dec. 1766.
JAMES TOUGH, licentiate of Church
of Scotland ; min. at Darlington 1767 to
1797. He marr. 1772, Polly Yellowley,
"a most acceptable young lady with a
handsome fortune."— [Longstaff's History of
Darlington.]
DURHAM.
JAMES HART, born 1739, son of Walter
H., min. of Bunkle and Preston ; educated
at Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen. by North
umberland Classis and approved by Presb.
of Chirnside ; ord. to Doncaster 19th March
1765 ; trans, to Claypath Meeting, Durham,
1766, where he also acted as prison chaplain;
died 1781 and buried in St Oswald's Church
yard. He marr. Isobel, daugh. of Patrick
Hepburn, min. of Ayton. [A descend
ant was Thomas Whitelaw, D.D., min. of
U.P. Church, Kilmarnock, and Moderator
of U.P. Synod]. — [Tablet in Mile End
Road Church, South Shields ; Presbyterian
Church, Durham (Durham, 1922).]
JOHN MACKIE, licen. by Presb. of St
Andrews; ord. 16th April 1782; was
regularly present at all meetings of the
Presb. up to 3rd Sept. 1788, after which his
name disappears.
ENGLAND]
DURHAM
479
GATESHEAD.
ALLAN CORNFOOT, educated at Univ.
of Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of Edin
burgh; ord. to Relief Church, Kilsyth,
16th April 1778 ; dep. (for an irregularity
in his marriage) 4th Jan. 1779; reponed
1st March 1780; was a preacher within
Glasgow Relief Presb., 1780-2; adm. min.
at High Bridge Church, Newcastle-upon-
Tyne, 1782. Having marr. a widow with
twelve children, he incurred the displeasure
of his Session ; res. 1785 and crossed the
Tyne to Gateshead where he formed a con
gregation in Mirk Lane, a church being
opened 1st Jan. 1786; dem. 1792; refused
re-admission into Relief communion by
Edinburgh Relief Presb. 2nd Feb. that
year ; returned to England and died there.
—[Small's Hist, of U.P. Congs., i., 685.]
WILLIAM M'CONNELL, born Linlith-
gow, 1768 ; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh;
licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh ; ord. in 1792 ;
died 1814. "An adept] in various branches
of Natural Philosophy." A daugh. marr.
Hamilton Murray (infra) — [Mackenzie's
Hist, of Newcastle.]
JAMES SIEVWRIGHT, MA. (cf. Vol.
V., 114); ord. (by Presb. of Edinburgh)
25th Jan. 1815; adm. to Markinch, Fife,
17th April 1818.
HAMILTON MURRAY, born Dailly,
1789, son of Robert M.; educated at Univs!
of Edinburgh and Glasgow ; licen. by Presb.
of Haddington ; ord. 13th Jan. 1818 ; died
21st Jan. 1844 and buried in St Edmund's
Churchyard beside his father-in-law. During
the cholera year, 1831, regardless of himself,
he exhibited the greatest self-sacrifice in
his incessant ministrations to the sick and
dying. He marr. Isabella, a daugh. of his
predecessor, William M'Connell.— [Portrait
in Museum Presb. Hist. Soc. of England.]
ADAM BLACK DOUGLAS (cf. Vol.
V., 12), ord. (assistant and successor) in
1839 ; adm. [not ord. as in above Vol.] to
Carnock, Fife, 12th Oct. 1843.
THOMAS KNOX ANDERSON, from
Newtonards, Ireland ; ord. Jan. 1844 ; dem.
1856, when the congregation joined the
Presbyterian Church of England.
1RESHOPEBURN.
MATTHEW MONCREIFF, min. at
Ireshopeburn 1759 to 1764. (See under
Etal.)
JAMES SOMERVILLE, born Glasgow,
perhaps son of William S., writer ; educated
at Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of
Thurso ; assistant at Lochmaben ; ord.
here in 1764 ; trans, to Swalwell 1765 ; res.
1774, "beggared in health, purse, and repu
tation."
ROBERT SOMERVILLE, born 1735,
brother of preceding ; educated at Univ. of
Glasgow ; ord. in 1765 ; died (buried) 9th
March 1803. He marr. 28th March 1793,
Hannah (died 22nd Nov. 1827), youngest
child of John Walton, Allendale, North
umberland. He was an inveterate snuffer,
constantly stopping in the middle of his
sermon, taking a pinch, and snapping the
lid to, with the exclamation, "Noo for it
again ! "—[Parish Registers of Stanhope,
Garrogill, Allendale.]
JOHN SCOTT, licentiate of Church of
Scotland ; min. 1803 to 1827.
SOUTH SHIELDS.
WILLIAM TROTTER (cf. Vol. II., 195),
ord. to Scots Church, South Shields, 15th
Sept. 1749; adm. to Selkirk 23rd July
1754.
JAMES DOBIE, ord. to South Shields
1756 [omitted in Vol. I., 217]; adm. [not
ord.] to Mid-Calder 27th July 1773 [after
wards min. of Linlithgow]. His age given
in Vol I. as 81 should be 91.
WILLIAM GILLESPIE, min. 1773 to
1782; returned to Scotland but does not
appear in any parochial charge.
ADAM LAIDLAW (cf. Vol. II., 130),
ord. to South Shields 15th Nov. 1782 ;
trans, to St James's Church, Silver Street,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Feb.1784 [afterwards
min. of Kirkton].
JAMES MITCHELL (cf. Vol. V., 414),
ord. 22nd June 1784; adm. to Second
Charge, Montrose, 22nd June 1786.
480
DURHAM
[CHAEGES IN
CHARLES TOSHACH, born Alva, 13th
May 1751, son of Thomas T. ; educated at
Univ. of Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of
Stirling, 9th June 1784 ; ord. 5th Dec. 1786 ;
became senior min. in 1842, when Saville
Street congregation re-united to form St
John's Church; died 7th Nov. 1847. He
marr. 7th July 1789, Sarah, daugh. of
Robert Cummin of Westae, South Shields,
and had issue — John, M.D., Mayor of
South Shields, born 23rd Feb. 1791, died
14th March 1869; Thomas Andrew, born
26th May 1793; Charles, born 2nd March
1795 ; George, born 27th Oct. 1796 ; James,
born 24th June 1797; Henry, born 9th
Dec. 1799; Sophia, born 21st Dec. 1802;
William, born 1st, and died 22nd Nov. 1803;
Mary Ann, born 25th Nov. 1804 ; William
Frederick, born 7th Oct. 1806, died 29th
Sept. 1885; Sarah, born 29th Dec. 1807,
died 8th Jan. 1808.
WILLIAM GRAHAM, app. assistant to
preceding in 1830 ; on a dispute in 1833, he
and his supporters founded a church in
Saville Street 7th June ; called 16th, and
ord. (by Presb. of Lanark) 26th June that
year ; trans, to Newcastle-upon-Tyne 26th
June 1838 (q.v.) ; adm. to Lochwinnoch 7th
Sept. 1843 (cf. Vol. III., 154).
ROBERT GILLAN, trans, from Stam-
fordham and adm. (assistant and successor)
31st May 1833 ; trans, to Holytown 26th
Oct. 1837 [afterwards at Inchinnan (cf. Vol.
III., 145)].
GORDON MITCHELL, M.A.; ord.
(assistant and successor) 18th Jan. 1838 ;
adm. to Kilmadock 14th June that year
(cf. Vol. IV., 347).
GAVIN LOCHORE (cf. Vol. VII., 212),
trans, from Bewcastle and adm. (assistant
and successor [to Charles Toshach] 7th
June 1839 [afterwards min. of St Andrews,
Orkney].
JOHN STORIE, ord. to North Sunder-
land English Presbyterian congregation in
1838 ; adm. to this charge 21st Feb. 1844 ;
res. 8th Sept. 1857 [afterwards in Tasmania
(*».)]•
[WILLIAM DINWIDDIE, B.A., LL.B. ;
adm. min. of this charge in Presbyterian
Church of England, 25th March 1858 ; after
wards of Caledonian Road, London, and
of St Andrews, Christchurch, New Zea
land ; died 7th July 1887.]
JOHN GRAY MURRAY, born Edin
burgh, 26th Nov. 1820 ; educated at Univ.
of Edinburgh ; licentiate of Church of Scot
land. Joined the Free Church and ord. to
Auchencairn Free Church 25th Jan. 1844 ;
min. here 12th May 1863 to 1868; adm.
min. at Cheltenham 19th Nov. 1868 ; retired
12th March 1872 ; D.D. (U.S.A., 1870) ; died
16th Feb. 1881. He marr. 1849, Joanna
Anderson, and had issue— a son and four
daughters.
JAMES MACKENZIE, M.A. ; min.
1869 to 1892; died 1898.
WILLIAM WILSON BOYLE, B.A.
(cf. Vol. V., 65) ; ord. 22nd Feb. 1893 ; res.
29th Nov. 1904 ; adm. to Church of Scot
land May 1905 [afterwards of Fossoway].
STOCKTON-ON-TEES.
THOMAS HARVIE, M.A. (cf. Vol. II.,
121) ; min. at Stockton 1678 to 1687 [after
wards at Abbotrule].
ANDREW BLACKIE, licentiate
of Church of Scotland ; ord. at Branton,
Northumberland, 1749 ; trans, to Stockton
in 1753; died 1785.
ROBERT MARR, licentiate of Church
of Scotland ; ord. 1792 ; left in 1803.
SAMUEL KENNEDY (cf. Vol. II.,
346), formerly min. of New Luce ; reponed
and adm. here after 1803 ; res. 1817, and
joined the Church of England.
SUNDERLAND.
COKN MARKET CHAPEL.
[In 1711 a chapel was built in the Corn
Market, Sunderland, for a congregation of
" Protestant Dissenters whose worship and
government were identical with those of
the Church of Scotland/'']
RICHARD LAURIE (cf. Vol. III., 356),
formerly min. of New Kilpatrick ; forced
to go to North of England after 25th April
1665 ; was a Presbyterian min. in Sunder
land until 1672.
ENGLAND]
DURHAM
481
JAMES RICHARDSON (cf. Vol. II.,
81); ord. 15th April 1762, as assistant to
Lemuel Letham, M.D. (died 1764), min. of
this Presbyterian congregation at Sunder
land ; adm. to Oxnam 8th Feb. 1764 ; adm
to Morebattle 6th July 1786 — [Bain's
Sketch.}
WILLIAM LEE, ord. assistant to Dr
Letham after Sept. 1761 ; dem. before 20th
Aug. 1771.
WILLIAM YOUNG, licen. by Presb. of
St Andrews ; ord. successor to Lemuel
Letham, M.D., 20th Aug. 1771, and con
tinued min. until 1772, when he returned
to Scotland.
WILLIAM FRANCIS PLATT, born
London, 1st Aug. 1758 ; passed his earlier
years in the county of Lincoln ; educated
at the Countess of Huntingdon's College,
Trevecca; preached his first sermon 10th
Nov. 1779, and was stationed at Helmsley,
Yorkshire, Aug. 1781-2 ; licen. by Presb. of
Newcastle 16th Dec. 1782; ord. to this
charge 14th Jan. 1783; res. April 1788,
and removed to London, where he supplied
Spafields Chapel ; was sometime a preacher
in Gloucester; adm. to Holy well Mount
Chapel, London (Countess of Huntingdon's
Connection), Sept. 1789; res. 1828; died
1st Aug. 1831, and buried in Bunhill Fields.
He was one of the Founders and first
Director of the London Missionary Society.
From a MS. text-book found among his
papers, the number of sermons preached
by him in the course of his ministry
numbered 10,476. His wife predeceased
him, with their only son, who died 1810,
aged 28, and an only daugh., who died 1821.'
— [Jones's Bunhill Memorials, 209-211.]
MALING'S RIGG CHURCH.
JOHN BAILLIE, born 1741; one of
nine students in the Associate (Burgher)
Divinity Hall in 1765 ; ord. to Sallyport-
gate Secession Church, Newcastle-upon-
Tyne 1769; suspended in 1784, and thereafter
taught schools in Newcastle; adm. here
Aug. 1791; returned to Newcastle June
1796, where he organised a congregation
and had a church at the Old Postern Gate ;
VOL. VII.
died at Gateshead, 12th Dec. 1806. He
marr. and had issue— Frances, who kept a
school at Newcastle, born 1778, died 1801,
and probably others. Publications — The
Nature and Influence of Popery on Civil
Society, The Glorious Milennium (New
castle, 1784); The Divinity of Jesus
Christ Vindicated (1789); Funeral Dis
courses on Death of Papacy (Newcastle,
1798); The Time, Manner, and Means
of the Restoration of the Jews ; An
Impartial History of Newcastle [anon.]
(Newcastle, 1801); Funeral Sermon
occasioned by the Death of his Daughter
Frances (1801); History of the French
War from 1791 to 1802 (1802) ; A His
tory of Egypt ; A Thanksgiving Discourse
on account of the Abundant Harvest.
— [Hyslop's Chapel in Maling's Rigg,
17; Mackelvie's Annals, 526; Mackenzie's
Newcastle, i., 394; Richardson's Local
Historian's Table Book (Historical Division)
iii., 69 ; Syke's Local Records, 227 ; Diet.
Nat. Biog.]
NEWTON OGLE BLYTHE, born 1770,
third son of John B., min. at Kirkley,
Northumberland; educated at Univ. of
Glasgow; M.A. (1792); adm. Dec. 1796
(when the congregation was officially recog
nised by Church of Scotland); trans, to
Branton Feb. 1809; died 1853. He marr.
and had issue— James, his successor at
Branton, born 1809, died 27th Feb. 1894;
and others.
JOHN DRYSDALE, born Edinburgh;
educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; ord.
13th April 1809 ; suspended 31st Dec. 1822;
left in 1826 ; on his petition he was re-adm.
as a licentiate llth Dec. that year, and
adm. to Ponteland in 1827. He marr.
Elizabeth Waugh, Bishopwearmouth, prob
ably grand-daugh. of James W., first min.
of Spring Garden Lane Chapel, Sunderland.
JOHN LIVINGSTON, licen. by Presb.
of Dundee 5th Dec. 1821 ; ord. Sept. 1824
md adm. 17th Dec.; adm. to Spring
harden Lane Secession Chapel, Sunder-
and, 6th Dec. 1825; [in consequence of
,his action, having called a min. from the
Church of Scotland, the Spring Garden
iane congregation was excommunicated
2 H
482
DURHAM
[CHARGES IN
from the Associate Presb. of Newcastle];
dem. 14th April 1827 for Ponteland.—
[Middlemiss and Hyslop's Short Hist, of
Presbyterianism in Sunderland, 27-30.]
JOHN PEAKS, M.A. ; licen. by Presb.
of Kirkcaldy llth Nov. 1818; assistant at
South Shields ; ord. 26th Dec. 1825 ; app.
by Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
to Scots Church, Glen Lynden, Baviaan's
River, South Africa, and dem. 28th Oct.
1828. (See under South Africa.)
JOHN ANDERSON, ord. (by Presb. of
Dunblane) Dec. 1828 ; res. 13th Aug. 1833,
and is probably the John Anderson min. at
Lower Hawkesbury, Australia, 1835 to 1838.
JOHN GREENSHIELDS SCOULAR
(cf. Vol. III. 38, IV. 35) ; ord. (by Presb. of
Lanark) llth June 1834; left in 1843;
adm. to Fullarton, Ayrshire, 1845, Kingarth
15th Feb. 1872. In Feb. 1844 the con
gregation severed its connection with the
Church of Scotland and joined the Secession
Church. — [Hyslop's Making's Rigg, 26.]
ROPE WALK CHAPEL, PARK CHAPEL,
AND NORTH BRIDGE STREET SCOTS
CHURCH.
JAMES HOPE, adm. to Rope Walk
Chapel 7th June 1778 ; died 1st Oct. 1785.
JOHN HENDERSON (cf. Vol. II., 329),
ord. to Rope Walk Chapel 6th June 1786;
adm. to Flushing, Holland, 16th July 1797 ;
adm. to Wanlockhead in 1812.
WILLIAM STODART, ord. to Rope
Walk Chapel 26th July 1797; adm. to
Scots Church, Amsterdam, Holland, 1803
(q.v.}.
ALEXANDER MACFARLANE (cf.
Vol. VI., 93), ord. to Rope Walk Chapel
28th June 1803; trans, to Longtown,
Cumberland, June 1813 [not 1819 as in
above Vol.] ; adm. to Crathie and Braemar
26th Sept. 1822.
JOHN ABERNETHY (cf. Vol. I., 358),
adm. to Park Chapel 2nd Sept. 1813, Bolton,
Haddingtonshire, 14th May 1816.
JOHN FRAZER (cf. Vol. III., 26), adm.
to Park Chapel 30th May 1816; trans, to
Old Cumnock 13th May 1819.
WILLIAM MACKENZIE (cf. Vol. VIT,
130), ord. (by Presb. of Caithness) 20th
July and adm. to Park Chapel 22nd Aug.
1819 ; adm. to Olrig 4th Aug. 1825.
AENEAS GUNN, formerly ord. assistant
at Orphir, Orkney; adm. to Park Chapel
18th May 1823 ; left for Demerara 1st June
1825 (q.v.) ; died there 1830.
JOHN WOOD, M.A. (cf. Vol. VI., 311),
adm. to Park Chapel 7th July 1825 [on 12th
July the congregation removed to Scots
Church, North Bridge Street] ; LL.D.
(Glasgow, 28th Feb. 1833); adm. to
Broughty Ferry 4th April 1844.
ROBINSON'S LANE.
RALPH LAZENBY, min. at Hexham
about 1710; adm. to Robinson's Lane in
1730 ; left 1736. Nothing further is known
of him.
JOHN BROWN, licentiate of Church of
Scotland ; adm. in 1737 ; died at Sunder-
land 1765, described as "a faithful and
laborious minister."
JOHN SOMERVILLE, son of John S.,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; educated at Univ.
of Edinburgh ; licentiate of Church of
Scotland ; min. at Swalwell 1761 to 1765 ;
adm. here 29th Aug. 1765 ; died March
1801.
JAMES RICHARDSON (cf. Vol. II.,
320), ord. 1st Sept. 1801 ; adm. to Kirk-
connel 15th Sept. 1803.
WILLIAM GARDINER, licen. by Presb.
of Edinburgh; ord. 21st Dec. 1803; died
June 1816, aged 48.
MARK AITKEN (cf. Vol. VI., 417), ord.
12th Sept. 1816; adm. to Dyke and Moy
30th Aug. 1821.
JOHN THORNVILLE PATERSON,
born 21st Nov. 1792, eldest son of John P.,
farmer, Evandale, Lanarkshire ; educat
at Univ. of Glasgow; licen. by Presb.
Glasgow 10th Nov. 1819 ; ord. (by Presb. of
Glasgow) and adm. 25th Nov. 1821; removed
from Robinson's Lane to St George's, Villiers
Street, Sunderland, 13th Nov. 1825 ; D.D.
(Glasgow 1830); Moderator of Synod in
ENGLAND] DURHAM— GLOUCESTERSHIRE— HAMPSHIRE
483
1842. Joined the Free Church in 1843;
res. 1866; died 13th May 1868.— [Middle-
miss and Hyslop's Short Hist, of Presby-
terianism in Sunderland, 5-10 ; Tombst. ;
Portrait in Museum Presb. Hist. Soc. of
England.'}
SWALWELL.
EDWARD ARTHUR, trans, from
Lowick (q.v.) and adm. in 1753 ; dem. 1760 ;
died 1780. Publication — Sermons.
JOHN SOMERVILLE, licen. by
"ministers in and about London"; ord.
17th Sept. 1761 ; trans, to Robinson's Lane,
Sunderland, 29th Aug. 1765 (q.v.).
JAMES SOMERVILLE, educated
at Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of
Thurso ; assistant at Lochmaben ; ord. to
Ireshopeburn in 1764; trans, here 1765;
left 1774.
JOHN RUTHERFORD, born Shill-
moor, Upper Coquetdale; licentiate of
Church of Scotland ; ord. 19th Nov. 1774 ;
res. 1779.
ROBERT HISLOP, born Wooler;
licentiate of Church of Scotland; ord.
1779; dem. 1795; died 1818.
ARCHIBALD NELSON, licentiate of
Church of Scotland; min. 1796 to 1800.
Publication— Wings of the Morning (New
castle, 1798).
UPPER WEARDALE
(STANHOPE).
JOHN TURNER, MA. ; licentiate of
Church of Scotland ; ord. to Ireshopeburn
about 1688; had charge also of Garrigill
Church, six miles distant, 1712; trans, to
Low Meeting, Berwick -upon-Tweed, before
7th April 1715 (q.v.).
ADAM WILSON, a native of Galashiels,
educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; licentiate
of Church of Scotland ; min. of Alston
Moor and Weardale 1716 to 1739 ; died
1739. His wife was buried 13th March
1725.
JAMES RICHIE, educated at Univ. of
Glasgow ; licentiate of Church of Scotland ;
assistant at Troqueer; adm. to Raven-
stonedale, Westmorland, 1735, Garrigill
and Weardale in 1740, M.D. (Glasgow
1740), Great Salkeld, Cumberland, 1752,
Mixenden, Halifax, Yorks, 1753; died
there Oct. 1763, aged 65. Publications—
A Criticism upon Modern Notions of
Sacrifices, being an Examination of Dr
Taylor's Scripture-doctrine of Atonement
Examined [anon.] (London, 1761) ; Peculiar
Sacrifices : the Rationale of them (London,
1764). — {Monthly Eeview, Sept. 1761 ;
Tombst.']
THOMAS SMITH (cf. Vol. II., 244);
ord. (at Penrith) to Ireshopeburn, Alston
Moor, 8th Aug. 1753; adm. to Cummer-
trees 28th Feb. 1760.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE
GLOUCESTER.
WILLIAM BLACK, licentiate of Church of Scotland employed by Home Mission
Committee of English Presbyterian Church to take charge of the Extension Cause at
Gloucester ; left in 1867.
HAMPSHIRE
PORTSMOUTH (ST
ANDREW'S).
PETER PENNYCOOK, MA. (cf. Vol.
V., 12); ord. in 1863; adm. to Carnock,
Fife, 20th Sept. 1866.
GILMOUR NEILL, born Londonderry,
31st Dec. 1880, son of Matthew N., min. of
Urney and Sion, Co. Tyrone, and Christina
Kennedy; educated at Raphoe Royal
School, Magee College, and Royal Univ.
of Ireland; MA. (1903); B.D. (1918);
licen. by Presb. of Strabane 12th May
1905; assistant at First Charge, Bangor
and May Street, Belfast ; locum tenens at
First Church, Lisburn ; ord. to Hillhall,
484
HAMPSHIRE— HERTFORDSHIRE
[CHARGES IN
Lisburn, 8th May 1907; adm. to St
Andrew's, Portsmouth, 18th June 1913;
app. chaplain to Forces at Portsmouth,
and to 5th Army during European War
(wounded). 12th Sept. 1914; adm. by
General Assembly 26th May 1921 ; trans,
to MofFat 28th Dec. that year ; owing to
ill-health, an assistant and successor [John
L. Farquhar, min. of Kingston, Glasgow,
was adm. 5th March 1926]; resided at
Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal, 1928. Marr.
July 1907, Helen Maude, daugh. of Alex
ander Patton, D.D., min. of Presbyterian
Church, Bangor, and has issue — Helen
Christine, born 8th June 1908. Publica
tions — The Delectable Mountains (Belfast,
1911); To-Day and To-Morrow (Ports
mouth, 1915) ; In Memory of Anzac
(Portsmouth, 1916) ; Presbyterianism in
Portsmouth (Portsmouth, 1916); Into the
Fighting Line (Portsmouth, 1921).— {Pres
byterianism in Portsmouth, 28-31.]
HEMEL HEMPSTEAD.
JOHN SHEPHERD, ord. to a Presby
terian congregation at Hemel Hempstead
20th Oct. 1772 [afterwards of Muirkirk in
Kyle] (cf. Vol. III., 59).
HERTFORDSHIRE
THEOBALD'S-IN-CHESHUNT.
WILLIAM CAESTARES, D.D. (cf.
Vol. L, 66). An extant certificate, dated
9th June 1681, signed by eight London
Presbyterian mins., refers to Carstares as
"a lawfully ordained min. of the Gospel."
The place of his ordination has not been
mentioned, but it is certain that he was
sometime min. at Theobald's-in-Cheshunt.
On two occasions he is described as the
" Scots conventicle preacher to a numerous
assembly at Theobald's." In a series of
letters to his sister he refers to his con
gregation there and of their kindness to
him, and the certificate of his marriage
(1682) speaks of him as "of Cheshunt
Parish."
WARE.
JOHN FORRESTER, M.D. ; ord. (by
London Presb.) to Presbyterian congrega
tion at Ware 18th Nov. 1687; adm. to
Second Charge, Stirling, 3rd Dec. 1696 (cf.
Vol. IV., 324).
WATFORD (ST STEPHEN'S).
[A Scots church was opened here on 29th
June 1896. In 1920, on the recommendation
of the Committee on Correspondence with
the Church of Scotland in England, the
congregation joined the Presbyterian
Church of England.]
JOHN ROBBINS, D.D., min. of the
Wesleyan Methodist (1875) and after
wards of the Presbyterian Church of
Canada (1885) ; adm. (by Presb. of London)
20th July 1896, but was re-ord. upon
instruction of General Assembly, the case
having been investigated by a Special
Committee ; res. 1903, and charge declared
vacant 12th June. — {Historical Sketch of St
Stephen's (portrait) ; MS. Register of Gen.
Ass., 1897-98, p. 232.]
ANDREW THOMSON, born Greenock,
30th July 1857, son of Robert T. and
Agnes Orr, and twin brother of John
Colquhoun T., min. of Greenknowe (died
27th May 1927) and brother of Robert T.,
D.D., min. of Rubislaw ; educated at Univ.
of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow
in 1878 ; served at Haywood, Lanarkshire,
1878-84; was afterwards assistant at St
Paul's, Perth ; adm. to Innerwick-in-Glen-
lyon 21st March 1888; elected 4th Nov.,
trans, and adm. 19th Dec. 1903 ; was
chaplain to the Royal Caledonian Schools,
ten years clerk to Presb. of London, and
four years clerk to Scottish Synod in
England ; res. Dec. 1919 ; died 6th Aug.
1921. He had considerable skill in science
ENGLAND]
KENT
485
and mechanics, and equipped his church at
Inncru'iek with an installation of electric
light, obtaining the necessary power by
utilising the local water supply. He inarr.
Emily Jane (died at Edinburgh Gth May
1926 s.p.), eldest daugh. of John Thomas,
sheriff-clerk of Perthshire. — [Historical
Sketch of St Stephen's (portrait); Crown
Court Church Magazine, vol. iii., Sept.
1921.]
KENT
DEAL.
JAMES RUTHERFORD, ord. to Presby
terian Church, Deal, 22nd Sept. 1773 ; adm.
to Hownam 30th March 1775 (cf. Vol II
123).
GILLINGHAM (NEW
BROMPTON).
GEORGE WALKER, licen. by Presb. of
St Andrews; app. chaplain at Chatham
llth Jan. 1864 ; reported to have "deserted
his post " 27th Oct. that year.
ANDREW JAMES BURT BAXTER,
ord. 9th Aug. 1866 ; app. chaplain at Perth
Penitentiary 1st July 1869. (See under
Prison Chaplains.)
GEORGE BRUCE WATSON (cf. Vol.
IV., 224), adm. from Firth and Stenness llth
Oct. 1869 ; dem. (from ill-health) 26th Nov.
1894 ; died 31st March 1898.
HENRY LUMSDEN MITCHELL,
born 9th Sept. 1838, son of Henry M., min.
of Monquhitter; educated at Marischal
College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1857); chaplain
of the Dutch Reformed Church, Galle,
Ceylon (q.v.) ; officiating chaplain to Forces
at Chatham and adm. to this charge 24th
April 1895 ; died 3rd May 1900.
ALEXANDER JAMES MARSHALL,
M.A. (cf. Vol. V., 168); formerly min. of
Toward; adm. 7th Nov. 1900; res. 13th
Jan. 1902; adm. to Monimail, Fife, 27th
Sept. 1905 ; died 3rd Dec. 1927.
JOHN NELSON MACDONALD (cf.
Vol. III., 426), trans, from Caledonian
Church, London, and adm. 26th Feb. 1902 ;
res. 1st Dec. that year on appointment to
Newhall, Glasgow, 17th Dec. 1903. Publi
cation— The Pilgrim's Law (Glasgow, 1925).
JAMES DONALD MITCHELL, M.A.,
B.D. ; ord. 23rd March 1904 ; res. 8th Jan.
| 1906 on appointment as Indian chaplain
DANIEL ANTON MORRISON, M.A.
(cf. Vol. V., 252); conducted services in
1906 in addition to his military duties at
Chatham Barracks.
GEORGE ALEXANDER SELBIE,
M.A. (cf. Vol. VI., 125) ; formerly min. of
Clatt; adm. 23rd March 1910; res. 5th
Jan. 1920 ; adm. to Coll 14th Dec. 1927.
[In May 1924 the Synod removed Gilling-
ham from the list of charges under its
care.]
HARDEN.
MATTHIAS SIMSON, M.A.; ord. to
Marden (by Presb. of Skrey) 2nd Jan.
1648 ; trans, to Kirkandrews, Cumberland,
[afterwards min. of Stirling] (cf. Vol. IV.,
319).
RAMSGATE.
NICOL SPENCE, ord. to a Presbyterian
congregation at Ramsgate 6th May 1742;
adm. to Westray, Orkney, 22nd July 1761
(cf. Vol. VII., 277).
486
LANCASHIRE
[CHARGES IN
LANCASHIRE
BOLTON.
EGBERT SIMPSON, born Milnathort,
15th Feb. 1746 ; educated at Univ. of
St Andrews and at Heckmondwike under
James Scott [born Berwickshire 1710;
educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; licentiate
of Church of Scotland ; min. at Stainton in
1739, Horton-in-Craven 1741, Tockholes,
near Blackburn, 1750, Heckmondwike 1754,
where he founded a theological academy,
many of his students becoming eminent
preachers ; died llth Jan. 1783. By means
of his careful training he did much to stem
the wave of Socinianism which swept
across northern England in the eighteenth
century. The Heckmondwike Academy
was precursor of Rotherham and Airedale
Colleges, Yorkshire] ; licentiate of Church
of Scotland ; ord. min. at Dukes Abbey
Church, Bolton 2nd Oct. 1782; res. 1791
and became tutor at Hoxton Academy ;
D.D. (Glasgow 1812) ; died 21st Dec. 1817,
aged 72, and buried in Bunhill Fields,
London. — [Nightingale's Lancashire Non
conformity (portrait) i. 89, iii. 207.]
JAMES CLELAND [or CLELLAND]
(cf. Vol. III., 127), formerly min. of
Stewarton ; adm. to Bolton 1st July 1840 ;
trans, to Douglas, Isle of Man, 18th May
1844 ; min. at Risley 1865 to 1881 (q.v.).
DAVID MAGILL, LL.D.; ord. Nov.
1844 ; res. 1849 ; officiated at Caledonian
Church, Holloway, London, 1849-53 (q.'o.);
adm. to Ballywalter, Ireland, 19th Feb. 1802.
ALEXANDER KEMP, ord. 20th Jan.
1851; dem. 21st Nov. 1854. Joined the
Free Church ; went to Canada and had
a charge in Montreal ; died 1884.
HUGH WILLIAM MACKAY
GORDON, born 6th Feb. 1843, son of
Charles G., min. of Assynt ; educated at
Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (1865); licen.
by Presb. of Edinburgh ; ord. 13th June
1872 ; died 6th July 1873, " a gentle and
beautiful spirit." — [Tombst. in Tonye
Cemetery^}
LIVERPOOL.
OLDHAM STREET.
[Begun in 1792 as an offshoot from
Newington Chapel, Liverpool. Among its
founders were John Gladstone (afterwards
Baronet) and William Ewart, the father and
name-father of William Ewart Gladstone,
who went as a boy to Oldham Street
Church. Following the vacancy of 1907
the congregation dispersed and the church
itself was afterwards demolished.]
WILLIAM KIRKPATRICK, a native of
Dumfriesshire ; D.D. (St Andrews, 3rd May
1811); min. 1793 to 1815 ; res. from ill-health ;
died at Torthorwald about 1830. [Over the
question of his successor the Gladstones
left the church and connected themselves
with St Andrew's Episcopal Church in
Renshaw Street. In 1808 secessionists
from Oldham Street joined the Associate
Burgher Synod and formed what is now
Mount Pleasant Presbyterian congregation.]
Publication — Pious Meditations (1805).
JAMES BARR, D.D. (of. Vol. III., 442) ;
ord. 5th July 1815 ; trans, to Port-Glasgow
13th Feb. 1823 [afterwards min. of St
Enoch's, Glasgow.]
[In 1823, a second secession from Oldham
Street resulted in the formation of Rodney
Street Church (q.v).]
JOHN STEWART, M.A. (cf. Vol. I.,
173) ; ord. llth April 1823 ; trans, to Sorn
llth March 1824, and to Liberton 28th
Sept. 1843.
HUGH RALPH, M.A., LL.D. (cf. Vol.
V., 24) ; adm. to Oldham Street in 1824 ;
Moderator of English Presbyterian Synod
1836 ; trans, to Aberdour, Fife, 24th Feb.
1842, and to Dalgety 7th March 1844.—
[Portrait in Museum of Presb. Hist. Soc.
of England.}
JOSEPH RODGER WELSH,
born 1818, eldest son of Robert W.,
merchant, Greenock ; educated at Univ.
of Glasgow; M.A. (1837); assistant at
Largs ; ord. to Oldham Street 3rd Nov.
ENGLAND]
LANCASHIRE
487
1842. Joined the Free Church and became
min. of Canning Street Church (opened
10th May 1846 by Thomas Guthrie, D.D.) ;
Moderator of English Synod in 1849;
entered the Union of 1876 ; died 21st Oct.
1878 (having preached twice the day before)
and buried in Toxteth Park Cemetery.
JOHN REID (cf. Vol. III., 146), formerly
min. of Johnstone, Paisley ; adm. 9th April
1845 ; went to Australia in 1852 (q.v.).
CORNELIUS GIFFEN (cf. Vol. I., 114);
ord. 29th March 1852; trans, to Dailly
13th Sept. 1855 [afterwards min. of St
Mary's, Edinburgh]. [In Vol. I. the date
given for the death of his wife should be
that of his daugh. Annie.]
PATRICK THOMSON FORFAR, born
Milnathort, 24th May 1829 ; educated at
Orwell School and Univ. of St Andrews ;
assistant at Kilwinning ; ord. 2nd Dec.
1855 ; died 12th Oct. 1890. He marr. 27th
Feb. 1856, Mary M'Gregor Ireland (born
at Leslie 3rd May 1831, died 6th Nov.
1906), and had issue — Alan Monro, solicitor,
Liverpool ; Douglas ; Sydney Maxwell, in
Buenos Aires ; Mary Patricia ; Alice ; and
others deceased.
DONALD FRASER, born Rosskeen,
3rd Feb. 1864, son of Alexander F. ; edu
cated at Univ. of Aberdeen ; M.A. (1886) ;
licen. by Presb. of Inverness in 1889;
assistant at Ballachulish ; min. 1891 to
1893 ; went to New South Wales and was
min. of " The Australian Church " [founded
by Charles Strong, D.D. (q.v.)] ; min. of the
Church of the New Thought, Sydney, 1904.
DAVID DUTHIE McLAREN, M.A.,
B.D. (cf. Vol. V., 364); formerly min. of
Downfield Chapel, Dundee; adm. to Old-
ham Street 5th Nov. 1893, Monifieth 12th
April 1900; adm. min. of Kennethmont
10th March 1927.
GEORGE HUNTER, MA. (cf. Vol. V.,
6) ; formerly min. of Kelty, Fife ; adm.
here 19th June 1903 ; res. 1905 ; died 13th
Feb. 1909, aged 52.
DONALD MACPHERSON, ord. 7th
May 1906; trans, to Heylipol 13th May
1907 [afterwards min. of Tiree] (cf. Vol. IV.,
122).
ST PETER'S.
[Opened 21st May 1843 at a cost of
£7000, to provide a Presbyterian church
for the North End of Liverpool. In Sept.
following (the church being vacant) the
congregation joined the Free Church and
attempted to retain the building, but on a
threatened litigation St Peter's was sold,
15th July 1847, to the Liverpool and Bury
Railway Company for £5510.]
JOHN FERRIES (cf. Vol. V., 127);
sometime missionary in the district ; adm.
min. (by Presb. of Lancashire) 14th Sept.
1842 ; adm. [not ord.] to Torryburn, Fife,
28th Sept. 1843 ; trans, to Auchtermuchty
27th Sept. 1844.
TOXTETH (NOW PARK ROAD
UNITARIAN CHAPEL).
HUGH ANDERSON, born Galloway,
1746; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh;
licentiate of Church of Scotland : ord. 1st
Oct. 1777 ; dem. 1827 ; died 6th April 1832.
His wife Mary died 29th Sept. 1816 aged
47. — [Tombst. at Toxteth.]
MANCHESTER.
MOSELEY STREET.
[Formed by secessionists from Cross
Street and Canon Street churches "on
the common ground of their desirability
of Presbyterian discipline."]
THOMAS KENNEDY, M.A. (cf. Vol.
IV., 247), formerly min. of Fisher Street
Church, Carlisle; adm. min. of Moseley
Street congregation, Manchester, 1792 ;
adm. to St Madoes 2nd April 1795.
ST PETER'S SQUARE.
ALEXANDER MUNRO, born Paisley,
1796, eldest son of Alexander M., weaver;
taught in an elementary school ; educated
at Univ. of Glasgow; was tutor to the
Duke of Argyll, and gave evidence in the
case of John Macleod Campbell, min. of
Row ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow ; ord.
(by Presb. of Edinburgh) to National
Scotch Church, St Peter's Square, Man
chester, 1832 ; one of twelve ministers and
two elders who constituted the first Synod
of the Presbyterian Church in England 4th
488
LANCASHIRE
[CHARGES IN
May 1836 ; Moderator in 1841. Joined the
Free Church in 1843; founded Grosvenor
Square Church, Manchester, 12th Sept.
1849 ; D.D. (New York 1855) ; Moderator of
thirty-third Synod in 1869 ; died during his
year of office 1st Nov. that year, and buried
in Ardwick Cemetery. He marr. 5th Feb.
1857, Elizabeth (died s.p. 14th Oct. 1893),
daugh. of John Forster, corn merchant,
Berwick-upon-Tweed. Publications — A
Catechism on Presbyterian Government and
Order [trans, into Dutch]. — [Manchester
Courier, 6th Nov. 1869; Tombst.]
DUNCAN BARENESS WEIR, M.A.,
min. 1849-50 [afterwards Professor of
Oriental Languages, Univ. of Glasgow,
(q.v.)].
HENRY WILLIAM DUNIPACE, ord.
to Newark in 1849 ; dem. 1851 ; sometime
min. here and res. 1858 ; went to America
(cf. Vol. III., 217).
WILLIAM WHITE, ord. in 1853;
formerly Church of Scotland missionary at
Calcutta ; adm. in 1859.
JAMES MACKIE, formerly of St Mary's,
Dumfries (cf. Vol. II., 271) ; adm. in 1877 ;
died 6th March 1906.
RAMSBOTTOM.
[In 1832 St Andrew's Church, "in con
nection with the Established Church of
Scotland," was erected by William Grant
of Springside — - the elder of Dickens's
" Cheeryble Brothers "—a native of Elchies,
Morayshire, along with an endowment of
£4000. In 1871 William Grant, of Nuttal
Hall, nephew of the donor, conveyed St
Andrew's with its endowment to the Episco
palians. A new St Andrew's was opened
in 1873.]
THOMAS NELSON, educated at Univ.
of Edinburgh; min. from 1811 to 1814
[afterwards min. of Auchtergaven] (cf. Vol.
IV., 142). Publication — Sermon on the
Return of Peace (Bury, 1814).
[From 1818 to 1829 Dundee Church,
Ramsbottom, was connected with the
Associate Synod under the ministry of
George Brown, LL.D.]
ANDREW MACLEAN, born Glasgow,
1st Jan. 1799, fourth son of Malcolm M. ;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow; M.A.
(1819); licen. by Presb. of Glasgow; ord.
(by Presb. of Glasgow) to Dundee Church,
Ramsbottom, Jan. 1830; D.D. (U.S.A.
1859); Moderator of the Presbyterian
Church in England in 1863 ; died at Bar-
wood Mount 22nd Oct. 1869, and buried at
Dundee Church. He marr. (1) Elizabeth
(died 16th April 1848, aged 39), daugh. of
James Grant, Glasgow, and niece of William
Grant of Springside : (2) Jane Houtson,
who died 18th Dec. 1901, aged 80. Publi
cation — Sermon on the Death of William
Grant (1842).— [Hume Elliot's The Country
and Church of the Cheeryble Brothers
(portrait), 302 [contains a full account of
above transference of church] ; Tombst. ;
Portrait in Museum Presb. Hist. Soc. of
England.]
RISLEY.
ALEXANDER RENNISON, M.A. (cf.
Vol. III., 177), ord. 6th Feb. 1839 ; adm.
to St George's, Paisley, 23rd Feb. 1844.
JAMES CLELAND [or CLELLAND]
(cf. Vol. III., 127), formerly min. of New
Chapel, Original Secession, Stewarton ;
adm. to Bolton, Lancashire, 1st July 1840 ;
trans, to Douglas, Isle of Man, 18th May
1844 ; min. at Risley 1865 to 1881 ; retired
in 1881 ; died, FATHER OF THE PRESBY
TERIAN CHURCH OF ENGLAND, 29th Jan.
1888. He marr. Mary, daugb. of John
Skeoch, Corsehillmill, and had issue — John
Skeoch, min. of Lugar.
TUNLEY.
WILLIAM DINWIDDIE. (See under
Wigan).
WIGAN.
WILLIAM DINWIDDIE, born Dum
fries, 1761 ; educated at Univ. of Edin
burgh ; ord. (by Presb. of Dumfries) to
Presbyterian congregation, Wigan, 7th
ENGLAND]
LONDON AND MIDDLESEX
489
July I795;adm. to Tunley in 1798, serving
both Wigan and Tunley ; res. 1832 ; died
unmarr. 18th Nov. 1834. Thomas Chalmers,
D.D., preached his first sermon in Din-
widdie's pulpit at Wigan 25th Aug. 1799.—
\Tombst. at Tunley; Shaw's Story of Presby-
terianism in Wigan, 81-102 ; Craig's Sketch
of Wigan; Hanna's Life of Chalmers,
i., 37.]
JOHN MACKENZIE, licen. by Presb.
of Glasgow ; ord. 18th Oct. 1832 ; dep. 17th
Feb. 1841. — [Shaw's Presbyterianism in
ll'/va/t, 103-2(5.]
DAVID ROBE LOUSON, M.A., app.
missionary at Wigan Sept. 1841 [afterwards
of Scots Church, Carlisle (q.v.)]. — [Shaw's
Wigan (portrait) 120-36.]
LONDON AND MIDDLESEX
FOUNDERS1 HALL.
[Walter Wilson speaks of this congrega
tion as having been " collected in the reign
of Charles the Second." Tradition has
given the year as 1672, a date confirmed
from a search of the Minutes of the
Founders' Company. In 1764 the congrega
tion moved to a new church to which was
given the name of London Wall. In 1843
minister and congregation joined the Free
Church. In 1857 another transfer took
place to the district then called De Beauvoir
Town, but now known as Canonbury,
where the congregation of Canonbury
Presbyterian Church of England represents
in unbroken succession the earliest of
London Presbyterian foundations.]
ALEXANDER CARMICHAEL, M.A.
(c/.Vol. III., 319) ; formerly min.of Pettinain.
In March 1672 the Scottish Privy Council
ordered the Earl of Linlithgow "to transport
the person of Alexander Carmichael guarded
by four musketeers " from the Tolbooth of
Edinburgh to the Tolbooth of Burntisland,
whence he was deported by ship on 1st
April. On reaching London, he was chosen
to preach to a number of his own country
men "who formed themselves into a
Society upon the model of the Church of
Scotland/' thus establishing, at the Hall of
the Founders' Company, off Lothbury
(behind the Bank of England), the earliest
congregation of Scots Presbyterians in
England, of which he was minister till his
death in July 1677.
JEREMIAH MARSDEN, born 1626,
second son of Ralph M., Puritan min. at
West Kirby, Cheshire ; educated at Univ.
of Cambridge; became a school teacher
and occasional preacher; pensioner of
Christ's College, Cambridge, 1647-8. He
suffered much persecution as an itinerant
preacher from 1654 onwards, travelling ail
over the north of England (under the name
of Ralpham) and in parts of Ireland, and
was frequently imprisoned. In 1676 he
became min. at Founders' Hall. He was
unjustly suspected of political plotting and
ordered to desist from preaching; on his
refusal he was committed to Newgate
Prison, where he died in 1684. Publication
— He left a MS. autobiography Contemplatio
vitae Miserabilis, and several Treatises un
named.— [Diet. Nat. £iog.]
NICHOLAS BLAKIE, M.A. (cf. Vol.
III., 323); formerly rnin. of Roberton,
Lanarkshire ; transported to London where
he had a meeting-house somewhere ; adm.
to Founders' Hall in 1684, probably from
Blackfriars, where he was licen. 2nd April
1672 (given liberty to preach in his own
house); returned to Roberton about 8th
July 1690; died in London before 17th
Dec. 1698.
ROBERT FLEMING, born 1660, son of
Robert F., min. of Cambuslang ; educated
by his uncle, John Sinclair, min. of
Ormiston, and later, at Univs. of Leyden
and Utrecht. At the age of 13 he signed
490
LONDON AND MIDDLESEX
[CHAKGES IN
a Covenant of Dedication to the ministry ;
was privately ord. in Holland 9th Feb.
1687-8 without entering on a charge ;
spent four years in England as a tutor and
became min. of the English Presbyterian
Church at Leyden in 1692 ; succeeded
his father as min. of the Scots Church,
Rotterdam, 1694. In 1698 the congregation
of Founders' Hall invited him to become
their minister, an application strongly
supported by King William III. and
Principal Carstares, both of whom had
known Fleming in Holland and desired
his aid in arranging the Presbyterian basis
of the Church of Scotland. On 19th June
1698 he was settled in London, where his
abundant labours greatly influenced the
prospects of the Church, and gave him
wide celebrity and esteem. He was one
of the six Merchant Lecturers at Salters'
Hall and assisted as a leader of the three
denominations in presenting a congratu
latory address to Queen Anne at her
accession in 1707 ; declined Principalship
of Univ. of Glasgow offered by his kinsman,
Lord Carmichael ; died 21st May 1716. A
ripe scholar, he lived up to his motto libere
sed modeste, and had "no liking for the
observation, censure, and talk of this noisy,
troublesome, and tumultuous world." He
left a widow and several children. Pub
lications — Mirror of Divine Love [Poetical
Paraphrase of the Song of Solomon]
(1691) ; Miscellaneous Poems (1691) ; Apoca
lyptical Key : an Extraordinary Discourse
on the Rise and Fall of Papacy (London,
1701, 1793, 1794; Edinburgh, 1809, 1841
[with Memoir]) ; Discourses on Several
Subjects (portrait) (London, 1701); The
Rod or the Sword (1702) ; Practical Dis
course on the Death of King William (1703);
Christology, 3 vols. (London, 1705-8) ; The
First Resurrection (London, 1708); The
History of Hereditary Right, wherein its
Indefeasibleness and all such Doctrines con
cerning the Absolute Power of Princes . . .
are determined by the Scripture Standard
of Divine Right [anon.] (London, c. 1711). —
[Wilson's Dissenting Churches, ii., 482;
Black's Scots Churches in England, 46 ;
Diet. Nat. Biog. ; Steven's Rotterdam,
114-37.]
JOHN GUMMING, born in Ulster of
Scots parentage, 1685; educated at Univ.
of Glasgow ; M.A. (1705); went to England
and held a charge at Cambridge ; removed
to London June 1716 as successor to
preceding, Fleming himself having made
the nomination; D.D. (Edinburgh, 8th
Nov. 1728); died 1729. He was an able
and diligent divine, took a prominent part
in the Salters' Hall controversy of 1719,
and in the discussions which followed.
His sincerity and staunch Protestantism
gave him an assured place in the hearts of
his English Presbyterian brethren. He
marr. his cousin, daugh. of John Gumming,
min. of the Presbyterian congregation at
Shepton Mallet. Publications — The General
Corruptions and Defection of the Present
Times ; The Conspiracies of Evil Designing;
Remarks upon a Sermon on Popery
(London, 1715) [answered in Reflections on
the Scandalous Aspersions cast on the
Clergy by the Author of "Remarks," etc.
(London, 1717)]. — [Wilson's Dissenting
Churches, ii., 487-94].
WILLIAM WISHAET, D.D. (cf. Vol. I.
33, 140, III. 474); formerly inin. of Tron
Parish, Glasgow ; adm. to Founders' Hall in
1730 ; adm. to New Grey friars, Edinburgh,
and to Principalship of Univ. of Edinburgh
in 1737.
JOHN PARTINGTON, a native of
Scotland ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ;
M.A. (2nd July 1719) ; licentiate of Church
of Scotland but went to England and
became min. at North wich, Cheshire,
before a meeting-place had been opened
there. At a meeting of the Cheshire
Classis, 2nd Aug. 1720, he was "examined,
approved, and allowed to preach as a
candidate," and ord. 4th Sept. 1722 ; min.
at Knutsford 1722-4, Great Meeting,
Coventry, 1724-32, Hampstead 1732-8, and
Founders' Hall 20th March 1738, till his
death in 1749. — [Wilson's Dissenting
Churches in London, ii., 496 ; Sibree's Non
conformity in Warwickshire ; Journ. Pres
byterian Hist. Soc. England, i., 94.]
WILLIAM STEELE (cf. Vol. III., 68),
formerly min. of Sorn ; called to Founders'
Hall Oct. 1751 ; died April 1752.
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ROBERT LAWSON, born 1721, son of
John L., min. of Closeburn ; educated at
Univ. of Glasgow; M.A. (1739); .licen. by
Presb. of Penpont; went to London May
1752; ord. at Founders' Hall 29th July
that year; removed to London Wall
Church in 1764; died 24th April 1771 and
buried in Bunhill Fields.— [Wilson's Dis
senting Churches, ii., 498 ; George Wilson's
Memorials of Old Ministers (London, 1882);
Jones's Bunhill Memorials, 150; Journ.
Presb. Hist. Soc. England, vol., i., 117;
Portrait in Museum Presb. Hist. Soc. of
England.]
HENRY HUNTER, D.D. (cf. Vol. I.,
167); formerly min. of Second Charge,
South Leith ; adm. to Scots Churcb,
London Wall, llth Aug. 1771, having
previously declined a call to Swallow Street
Church ; was chaplain to the Scottish
Corporation and an early supporter of
the London Missionary Society ; died at
Bristol 27th Oct. 1802, and buried in
Bunhill Fields, where an epitaph of thirty-
two lines commemorates his work and
virtues.— [Jones's Bunhill Memorials, 91 ;
Portrait in Museum Presb. Hist. Soc. of
England.]
ROBERT YOUNG, born Dalkeith, 1777,
son of Robert Y. ; educated at the Academy
of Alexander Christison [afterwards Pro
fessor of Humanity, Univ. of Edinburgh]
and at Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen. by
Presb. of Dalkeith ; min. of Low Meeting,
Berwick -upon -Tweed; elected min. of
London Wall and adm. 31st Aug. 1803,
after a vacancy of ten months ; D.D.
(Edinburgh 1804) ; chaplain ;to Regiment
of Loyal North Britons, before whom he
preached at a Thanksgiving Service for
the victory of Trafalgar 5th Dec. 1805 ;
died at Cheltenham 8th Oct. 1813, and
buried in Bunhill Fields. On his admission
to London Wall a division took place in
the congregation, a number favouring
David Brichan, who had supplied during
the vacancy, and connecting themselves
with the charge at Artillery Street (q.v.).
He left in MS. an uncompleted History
of the Scots Church, Founders' Hall,
and two volumes of an Autobiography. —
[Wilson's Dissenting Churches, ii., 512 ;
Jones's Bunhill Memorials, 335.]
[THOMAS CHALMERS, min. of Kil-
many; declined a call in 1813.]
WILLIAM MANUEL, born 18th July
1785, eldest son of James M., farmer, Airth,
and Margaret Burden, widow of Andrew
Ritchie ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ;
elected 7th Dec. 1814; adm. here 22nd
Feb. 1815; D.D. (Glasgow 1818); retired
1826 [the entry in the treasurer's cash-
book being " self -dismissed 21st June
1826 "] ; was afterwards at Dunsyre (under
Belhaven Act), 1839-48 ; died 4th Nov. 1859.
He marr. 1825, Mary, daugh. of James
Perrain, sugar-refiner, London, and Anne
Clark, and had issue— Mary Anne (marr.
Alexander James Scrutton, stockbroker,
London), died 1900 ; Margaret (marr.
George Heaton) ; Martha (marr. Alfred
Patrick Ryan, timber merchant, Croydon) ;
William, died in infancy; Caroline, born
27th Jan. 1835 (marr. John Potter, ship
owner, London), died 9th July 1919.
HUGH BAILLIE MACLEAN, born
Dundonald, fifth son of Daniel M., farmer ;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow; ord. to
London Wall in 1827 (when the charge to
the min. was given by Edward Irving);
pres. to Dreghorn in 1829, but not adm.
His heretical opinions brought him before
the Church Courts, and, refusing to give
a sufficient explanation, his licence was
suspended in 1831. He was one of Irving's
intimates and held his views.— [Oliphant's
Life of Irving, 283; Story's Memoir cf
fiobert Story, 186; Hanna's Chalmers, ii.,
chap. 15.]
FERGUS JARDINE (cf. Vol. V., 95);
ord. to London Wall 2nd Dec. 1830 ; adm.
to Kinghorn 22nd Dec. 1831.
WILLIAM KING TWEEDIE (cf. Vol.
I. 121, VI. 31) ; ord. to London Wall 26th
July 1832; trans, to South Parish, Aber
deen, 1st Sept. 1836 [afterwards min. of
Tolbooth Parish, Edinburgh]. His daugh.,
Margaret Bell, died at Elie, 19th July 1927.
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JAMES CHALMERS BURNS, born
29th March 1809, second son of James B.,
min. of Brechin ; educated at Univ. of
Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Brechin ; ord.
to London Wall in 1837; Moderator of
English Presbyterian Synod 1840. Joined
the Free Church along with his congrega
tion in 1843 ; min. of Free Church, Kirklis
ton, 1843 to 1892 ; D.D. (Queen's College,
Kingston, Canada, 1879); Moderator of
Free Church General Assembly 22nd May
1879; died at Edinburgh 30th Nov. 1892.
He marr. 1838, Anne (died 17th Oct.
1884), daugh. of Thomas Robertson, Com
mander R.N., and Susan Barr, and had
issue — Susan Robertson, born 7th Aug.
1839, died at Edinburgh 24th Aug. 1914 ;
Christina Chalmers, born 1843 (marr. her
cousin, James Guthrie of Pitforthie, banker,
Brechin, son of Thomas Guthrie, D.D.), died
14th Dec. 1923 ; Anne Jemima Guthrie, born
19th June 1845 (marr. her cousin, Charles
John Guthrie, K.C., LL.D., Senator of the
College of Justice [Lord Guthrie], also son of
Thomas Guthrie, D.D.), died 28th May 1927 ;
Alice Mary, born 1850, died at Edinburgh
25th Feb. 1927 ; James Thomas, born 14th
March 1852, died 30th July 1881 ; William
Charles Mansfield, born llth July 1860, died
7th June 1864. Publications— Christian
and Ecclesiastical Unity (London, 1841) ;
Memorial of James Maitland Hog of New-
liston (Edinburgh, 1858) ; How the Spirit
of God may be Quenched (Edinburgh, 1859) ;
Addresses in General Assembly (Edinburgh,
1879) ; " London Reminiscences 1843 "
(Brown's Annals of the Disruption, 529-43)
(Edinburgh, 1892) ; edited Select Remains
of Professor Islay Burns, D.D. (London,
1874). — [Chalmers and Trail Ancestry
(portraits), 25, 79, 144.]
WILLIAM NICOLSON, M.A. (cf. Vol.
V., 262) ; formerly min. of Ferryport-on-
Craig. Joined the Free Church in 1843
and became min. at London Wall 2nd Oct.
1844.
ARTILLERY STREET.
[Founded by secessionists from London
Wall Church, during the ministry of Robert
Young. In 1809 the congregation re-united
with London Wall.]
JAMES YOUNG. In Sept. 1798 the
Presb. of London instructed J. Y. to
"supply the pulpit as often as he could."
ROBERT SIMPSON, D.D., of Hoxton
Academy ; had a call to this charge, but the
Presb. refused to take any steps until S.
laid before them an extract of his licence
as a preacher "from some Presb. of the
Church of Scotland." (See under Bolton.)
DAVID BRICHAN, D.D. (cf. Vol. VI.,
417); ord. 28th Sept. 1803; pres. to Dyke
and re-ord. there 9th June 1808.
CALEDONIAN CHURCH, CROSS
STREET, AND NATIONAL
SCOTS CHURCH, REGENT
SQUARE.
[On 28th May 1778, twenty-five High
landers in London instituted the Highland
Society of London, having for one of its
objects the establishment of systematic
Gaelic preaching in the metropolis. In
1812 a chapel in Cross Street, Hatton
Garden, was purchased for £4150 from a
body of Swedenborgians, and, controlled
by the Directors of the Caledonian
Asylum, steps were taken to form a Gaelic
congregation, the building to be known as
the Caledonian Church. On 19th May
1823 a scheme was launched for a National
Scots Church in London, and a freehold
site was acquired in Regent Square for
£1500. The foundation stone was laid by
John, Earl of Breadalbane, on 1st July
1824, in the absence, through illness, of
H.R.H. the Duke of Clarence, afterwards
King William IV. On llth May 1827
opening services were conducted by Dr
Chalmers, the total cost of the building
being over £21,000. At the Secession of
1843, minister and people joined the Free
Church. Regent Square is now one of
the historic congregations within the
Presbyterian Church of England.]
JAMES BOYD (cf. Vol. III., 476), ord.
to Caledonian Church 18th Jan. 1818;
adm. to Auchinleck 6th May 1819 [after
wards of Tron Parish, Glasgow].
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ALLAN MACNAUGHTON (cf. Vol.
III., 316); ord. to Caledonian Church
2nd March and adm. 27th Oct. 1819; adm.
to Second Charge, Campbeltown, 2nd May
1821 [afterwards of Lesmahagow].
EDWARD IRVING, born Annan, 4th
Aug. 1792, second son of Gavin I., tanner,
and Mary Lowther (from Dornock); edu
cated at Annan Academy and Univ. of
Edinburgh ; M.A. (10th April 1809); master
in the mathematical school, Haddington,
1810-12 (where Jane Welsh, afterwards
wife of Thomas Carlyle, was one of his
pupils); master of Kirkcaldy Academy
1812-18; licen. by Presb. of Kirkcaldy
June 1815; had thoughts of going to
Persia as a missionary, "labouring after
the Apostolic fashion," but having been
invited to officiate in St George's Church,
Edinburgh, Thomas Chalmers, D.D., being
one of his hearers, he became assistant to
the latter at St John's, Glasgow, Oct. 1819.
Preached a trial sermon at Caledonian
Church, London, before George, Duke of
York, President of the Caledonian Asylum,
on Christmas Sunday 1821; was invited
to Become min. but difficulties (afterwards
adjusted) emerged on account of his ignor
ance of Gaelic (then necessary under the
trust-deed of the Asylum) and did not enter
on the charge until 16th Oct. 1822, having
been ord. by Presb. cf Annan in July
preceding. A reference by George Canning
in the House of Commons to Irving as a
preacher assisted his growing reputation,
which speedily developed into fame. Crowds
from all classes flocked to hear him,
admission by ticket was instituted, and on
llth May 1827, a new church in Regent
Square was opened for worship. Attracted
to the study of prophecy through the work
of the Spanish Jesuit, Manuel Lacunza,
Irving developed various fantastic theories
on the near imminence of the second
advent, the gift of tongues, and the doctrine
of baptismal regeneration, on which he
published considerably and lectured widely
both in England and Scotland. In Dec.
1830 he withdrew from the jurisdiction of
the London Presbytery on an attempt to
prosecute him for unsound doctrine. On
12th March 1832 the trustees of his church
originated proceedings before the Presb.
and he was removed from his charge 26th
April following, but 800 communicants
accompanied him to a new place of
worship where they assumed the name of
the Holy Catholic Apostolic Church. On
a charge of heresy as to the sinlessness of
Jesus, he was deposed by the Presb. of
Annan, 13th March 1833, a circumstance
which broke his heart. He died of con
sumption at Glasgow, 7th Dec. 1834, his
last words being, "If I die, I die unto the
Lord." He was buried in the crypt of
Glasgow Cathedral. An orator of the
pulpit, peerless in his generation, spoken
of as "the greatest preacher the world
has seen since Apostolic times," Edward
Irving was the most striking and the
most tragic figure of Scottish ecclesiastical
history. With all his faults there was
about him a sublimity as of the old
prophets. His confident estimate of his
own powers and of the role he was fitted
to fulfil, carried him forward to vast
successes, but he was always humble, and
his personal life was that of a saint. The
genuineness of his beliefs in the " unknown
tongues" (first heard on 28th March 1830
from Mary Campbell, at Fernicarry, on
the Gareloch, and continued by others
at private prayer-meetings, and in the
public services at Regent Square) has never
been questioned. A statue of Irving [by
J. W. Dods, sculptor, Dumfries] was
unveiled at Annan by Professor Archibald
H. Charteris, D.D., on 4th Aug. 1892, the
centenary of Irving's birth. He marr. 13th
Oct. 1823, Isobel (died before 1862), elder
daugh. of John Martin, D.D., min. of
Kirkcaldy, and had issue— Edward, born
22nd July 1824, died at Kirkcaldy, llth
Oct. 1825 ; Margaret, born 2nd Oct. 1825,
died about 1854; Mary, born 22nd Feb.,
and died 14th Dec. 1827; Samuel, born
1828, died 6th July 1830; Gavin, born
and died 28th July 1829; Martin Howy,
professor at Melbourne, Australia, born
21st Feb. 1831; Ebenezer, born 1832.
died 21st April 1833; Isabella, born 1834
(marr. 1856, Samuel Rawson Gardiner,
LL.D., D.C.L., the historian), died 1878.
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Publications — For the Oracles of God,
Four Orations, For Judgment to Come :
An Argument in Nine Parts (London,
1824) ; For Missionaries after the Apostolic
School ; A Series of Orations in Four
Parts (London, 1824); Babylon and
Infidelity Foredoomed : A Discourse on the
Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse,
2 vols. (Glasgow, 1826); The Coming of
Messiah in Glory and Majesty [trans, from
the Spanish of Manuel Lacunza] (London,
1827); Sermons on the Trinity (London,
1828) ; A Letter to the King on the Repeal
of the Test and Corporation Laivs as it
affects our Christian Monarchy (London,
1828); " A Tale of the Times of the Martyrs "
(The Anniversary, London 1828) ; Sermons,
Lectures, and Occasional Discourses, 3 vols.
(London, 1828) ; Homilies on Baptism
(London, 1828); The Last Days: A Dis
course on the Evil Character of these Our
Times (London, 1828 ; 2nd ed. 1850, with
Preface by Horatius Bonar, D.D.); An
Apology for the Ancient Fulness and Purity
of the Doctrine of the Kirk of Scotland
(London, 1828) ; Sermons on the Incarna
tion (London, 1829) ; The Signs of the Times
[anon.] (London, 1829); The Church and
State Responsible to Christ and to One
Another (London, 1829); The Orthodox
Catholic Doctrine of Our Lord's Human
Nature Set Forth (London, 1830) ; Exposi
tion of the Book of Revelation, 4 vols.
(London, 1831) ; The Collected Writings of
E. I- [edited by Gavin Carlyle, M.A.],
5 vols. (London, 1864-5); The Prophetical
Works of E. I. [ibid.], 2 vols. (London,
1867-70); Selections from the Collected
Writings of E. I. [ibid.] (Paisley, 1915).—
[Life (portrait), by Mrs M. O. W. Oliphant,
2 vols. (London, 1862) ; David Ker's
Observations on foregoing (Edinburgh,
1863); Wilk's Edward Irving (London,
1854); Jones's Biographical Sketch (London
1835) ; Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle :
Carlyle's Reminiscences, i., 69-338; Hair's
Regent Square, 27-131 (London, 1898):
Black's Scots Churches in England, 120-40 :
Henry Drummond's Candid Examination
of Controversy between Messrs Irving, A
Thomson, and J. Haldane, etc. (London
1829 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. ; Monument in
Regent Square Church ; Advocates' Library
Catalogue, iv., 161, for books of criticism
f E. I.]
PETER MACMORLAND (cf. Vol. I.,
382); called to Regent Square Church
19th Feb. 1835 ; adm. 17th April following;
adm. to St Matthew's, Glasgow, 4th June
1839 [afterwards min. of North Berwick].
JAMES HAMILTON, D.D. (cf. Vol. I.,
187) ; formerly min. of Roxburgh Place
Church, Edinburgh ; adm. to Regent Square
22nd July 1841. Joined the Free Church
in 1843, and with his congregation became
associated with the Presbyterian Church
in England. — [Painting in Museum of
Presb. Hist. Soc. of England]
CAMBERWELL.
WILLIAM SMITH, educated at
Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1762-6, and
Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (21st Aug.
1771); licentiate of Church of Scotland;
went to London about 1772 as lecturer at
Silver Street Church, Cripplegate (an
English congregation founded in 1672 by
Lazarus Seaman, D.D., ejected from All
Hallows, Bread Street, where John Milton
was baptized), and continued there till
about 1789, when he removed to Camber-
well, where he had built a meeting-house
(1773-4) adjoining his own dwelling of
Mansion House Cottage, in which he con
ducted a flourishing academy. His name
appears as a member of the Scots Presb. in
the oldest minute extant (5th Aug. 1772).
In 1775 he was suggested for a vacancy in
the Scottish Church at Rotterdam. He
retired in 1799, and died in London about
1829. Publication— The Domestic Altar:
A Six Weeks' Course of Morning and
Evening Prayers (London, 181 7). — [Bennett's
Life of Dr Bogue ; Steven's Rotterdam,
205.]
DAVID BOGUE, born Hallydown,
Coldingham, 18th Feb. 1750, fourth son of
John B. of Hallydown, farmer, and
Margaret Swanston ; educated at Eyemouth
School and Univ. of Edinburgh ; licentiate
of Church of Scotland ; after an unsuccess
ful attempt had been made to procure for
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him a presentation to a parish he went to
London in 1771 ; became teacher in an
academy at Edmonton, Hampstead, and
afterwards at Mansion House Cottage,
Camberwell, where he also assisted William
Smith in his ministerial work ; ord. in 1771
to an Independent chapel at Gosport ; was
on different occasions recommended for
vacant Scots churches in the Netherlands,
preaching as a candidate at Amsterdam
in 1776 ; founded the London Mission
ary Society in 1795, and took a leading
share in the inauguration of the British
and Foreign Bible Society and Religious
Tract Society. In 1796 he offered his
services as a missionary to India, but the
East India Company declined to sanction
the scheme, whose chief inspirer was Robert
Haldane of Airthrey, who sold his family
estate to provide the necessary funds ;
D.D. (Yale, Conn., U.S.A., 1815); died at
Brighton (while on an annual tour on behalf
of the London Missionary Society) 25th
Oct. 1825. Publications— Reasons for Seek
ing a Repeal of the Test Acts (London,
1790); An Essay on the Divine Authority
of the New Testament (London, 1801) [trans
lated into French, German, Italian, Spanish] ;
Catechism for the Use of all the Churches in
the French Empire (London, 1807) ; History
of Dissenters from the Revolution in 1688
to the Year 1808 [with James Bennett,
D.D.], 4 vols. (London, 1808-12 ; 2nd ed.,
2 vols., 1833); Sermon Preached before
the Promoters of the Protestant Dissenters'
Grammar School, Mill Hill (London, 1808).
Edited Sermons by Benjamin Grosvenor
(London, 1809).— [Bennett's Memoirs of Dr
Bogue; Lives of the Haldanes ; Jubilee
History of Religious Tract Society ; Diet.
Nat. Biog. ; Steven's Rotterdam, 219.]
WILLIAM VASSIE, M.A. (cf. Vol. III.,
129); licentiate of Church of Scotland;
assistant at Camberwell Academy and
Mansion House Meeting, 1779-1813; ord.
to Thropton, Northumberland, 16th April
1813; adm. to West Kilbride 20th March
1823.
JOHN BOUTCH INNES, may be John
Innes, a native of Caithness and a student
at King's College, Aberdeen, 1808-12 ; licen
tiate of Church of Scotland ; min. at
Camberwell 1813-24 ; went to Weymouth,
and was afterwards at Norwich, where he
died in 1837, aged 54.
CHADWELL STREET AND
ISLINGTON.
[Begun in 1827, when pulpit supply was
furnished by ordained ministers of the
Church of Scotland. In 1828 the congrega
tion was recognised by the London
Presbytery as the Scots Church, Chadwell
Street, Pentonville. After 1831, a new
church was built in Colebrooke Row,
Islington, now Presbyterian Church of
England.]
WALTER ROSS TAYLOR (cf. Vol.
VII., 137); ord. min. at Chadwell Street
23rd Oct. 1829 ; adm. to Thurso 14th April
1831.
JOHN MACDONALD, M.A. ; ord. 17th
March 1831; app. Church of Scotland
missionary at Calcutta in 1837. (See under
Missionaries.)
[PETER LORIMER, born Edinburgh,
1812, eldest son of John L., builder; edu
cated at High School, George Heriot's
Hospital, and Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen.
by Presb. of Edinburgh ; ord. to this charge
Sept. 1837. Joined the Free Church with
his congregation in 1843 ; app. Professor of
Theology, English Presbyterian College,
London, 1844 ; Moderator of English Pres
byterian Synod in 1851 ; D.D. (New Jersey,
U.S.A., June 1857) ; app. Principal in 1878 ;
died at Whitehaven, Cumberland, 29th July
1879, and buried in Grange Cemetery.
Edinburgh. He marr. 1840, Hannah Fox
(born 1817, died 1884), Whitehaven, and
had issue— John Archibald, surgeon, Farn-
ham, Surrey ; Ann (marr. James Austin,
barrister). Publications — Healthy Religion
Exemplified in the Life of Andrew Jack of
Edinburgh (Edinburgh, 1852) ; Precursors
of Knox (Edinburgh, 1857) [see also
J. A. Wylie's Tercentenary of the Scottish
Reformation (Edinburgh, I860)]; The
Scottish Reformation, a Historical Sketch
(London, 1860) ; The Function of the Four
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Gospels viewed in connection with Recent
Criticism (London, 1869); A Good and
Faithful Servant [Memoir of the Kev.
Alexander Jack, South Shields] (Edin
burgh, 1871) ; The Evidential Value of the
Early Epistles of St Paul (London, 1874) ;
John Knox and the Church of England
(London, 1875) ; The Evidence to Christi
anity arising from its adaptation to all the
deeper wants of the Human Heart (London,
1875, and in Series Three of Christian
Evidence Society's Lectures, 1880). Trans
lations from the German of G. V. Lechler's
John Wiclif and his English Precursors,
2 vols. (London, 1878, 1881, 1884). Edited,
with Notes, M. Stuart's Critical History of
the Old Testament Canon (1849); Intro
duction to Thomas Cartwright's Directory
of Church Government (London, 1872).—
[Diet. Nat. Biog. ; The Times, 31st July
1879 ; Edinburgh Courant, 1st Aug. 1879 ;
Portrait in Museum of Presb. Hist. Soc. of
England,]
CRISPIN STREET,
SPITALFIELDS.
JOHN LOVE (cf. Vol. III., 389), called
July 1787 ; ord. 22nd Aug. 1788 ; res. July
1798; adm. to Anderston, Glasgow, llth
July 1800.
DRURY LANE.
ABRAHAM HUME, born Berwickshire
about 1616; educated at Univ. of St
Andrews ; M.A. (1636) ; was a licentiate
of Church of Scotland ; became chaplain to
Mary Button, first Countess of Home, with
whom he went to London ; accoin panied John
Maitland (afterwards Duke of Lauderdale)
on his Continental travels, and on his
return acted as chaplain at Thirlestane
Castle, Lauder. In 1643 he attended
Maitland when a commissioner to the
Westminster Assembly ; app. vicar of Long
Benton, Northumberland, and ord. 20th
April 1647, by members of the fourth London
Presbytery. His politics and ecclesiastical
connection were obnoxious to Sir Arthur
Hazlerigg, who procured his banishment
from England ; he retired to Scotland till
1653 when he was adm. to Whittingham,
Northumberland, but ejected by the Uni
formity Act of 1662. He became chaplain
to Lauderdale, and declining to take the
Oxford oath, was deprived by the Five
Mile Act of 1665. In 1669 he travelled in
France, returned to London, and became
chaplain to Alderman Plampkin, upon
whose death he was elected minister of a
Presbyterian congregation in Bishopsgate
Street Without. The congregation was
broken up, and he preached privately at
Theobald's-in-Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, till
1687, when he was called to a Presbyterian
congregation in Drury Lane ; died 29th
Jan. 1707, and buried in Bunhill Fields.
His funeral sermon was preached by Robert
Fleming (secundus) (London, 1707).— [Wil
son's Dissenting Churches of London, i.,
398 ; Jones's Bunhill Memorials, 90 ; Diet.
Nat. Biog.'}
GOODMAN'S FIELDS,
WHITECHAPEL.
[A congregation which originated at
Whitechapel early in 1842 had a place of
worship opened in Church Street June
1843. When the Presb. met, 13th June
(in the Scots Church, Woolwich), to arrange
for the admission of James Ferguson, the
minister appointed, a majority of their
number declined to induct him in connec
tion with the Church of Scotland, their
sympathies being now with the Free
Church. They further carried a motion
declaring "that that portion of this
Presbytery's immemorial designation, to wit,
'in connection with the Established
Church of Scotland,3 shall henceforth be
renounced, discontinued, and annulled."
Protest was made by eight of the minority
—four ministers (Samuel Blair, Dudley;
James Reid Brown, D.D., Swallow Street ;
John Cumming, Crown Court ; Alexander
M'Glashan, St Andrew's, Stepney), with
four elders, who forthwith left the meeting
and "at a convenient place did resume
procedure as the Scots Presbytery in London
in connection with the Established Church
of Scotland." Mr Ferguson, a licentiate of
Presb. of Strathbogie, was adm. 29th June
1843, " with the verbal alterations necessary
in consequence of recent events." See
Black's Scots Churches in England, 347-52,
for extracts of Minutes of both Presbs.]
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GREENWICH.
[In Jan. 1842 a congregation, founded
in 1834 and connected with the United
Associate Presb. of London, applied for
admission to the Scots Presb. Joined the
Free Church in 1843.]
JOHN MILLAR (<•/. Vol. V., 220),
preacher here in 1842-3 [afterwards min.
of Largoward].
ADAM ROXBURGH, born 9th Jan.
1810, son of John R., min. of Kilmaurs ;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow; ord. min.
of Scots Church, Greenwich, April 1843.
Joined the Free Church along with his
congregation in 1843; died at Torquay
17th Oct. 1866.
HALKIN STREET.
[In Aug. 1846 a Scottish Mission to the
Jews was inaugurated at Halkin Street,
Belgrave Square, and maintained in associa
tion with the Presb. of London, supported
by a grant from the Jewish Committee
of the Church of Scotland. After con
siderable success the Mission came to an
end with the sale of the building in 1866.
The congregation of Belgrave Presbyterian
Church of England (now worshipping in
a new church built in 1882) represents the
old Halkin Street congregation.]
HENRY DOUGLAS, M.A.; ord. in 1846.
LAWRENCE M'BETH, son of Lawrence
M., Glasgow ; educated at Univ. of Glas
gow ; ord. in 1851 ; adm. to Halkin Street
1853 ; D.D. (Glasgow 1864) ; dismissed in
1866 ; died 8th Sept. that year.— [Black's
Scots Churches in England, 285.]
HAMMERSMITH.
DAVID MILLAR, M.A. ; adm. in 1731 •
died 1757, and buried in Bunhill Fields!
1 ubhcation— The Assembly's Shorter Cate
chism received from its late Reviewer and
Vindicator [James Strong] (London, 1738).
VOL. VII.
GEORGE TURNBULL, educated at
Univ. of Edinburgh; LL.D. (Edinburgh
1732). His name occurs frequently in the
Register of London Presb., beginning
with the earliest extant Minute (5th Aug.
1772) and there are several references to
Presb. meetings at his house in Hammer
smith ; died 13th June 1783, aged 73,
and buried in Bunhill Fields. Publica
tion— Moral and Christian Philosophy,
2 vols. (London, 1740).— [Jones's Bunhill
Memorials, 290.]
HANOVER STREET.
JOHN LEE, M.A., M.D. (c/. Vol. I., 73) ;
ord. (by Presb. of Edinburgh) to Hanover
Street Presbyterian Church, Long Acre,
London, 1804 ; adm. to Peebles 7th April
1808 [afterwards Principal of Univ. of
Edinburgh].
HIGHGATE.
ALEXANDER CROMBIE of Phesdo
and Thornton, Fordoun, Kincardineshire,
born Aberdeen, 1762, son of Thomas C. ;
educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen ;
M.A. (1778) ; licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen ;
became a teacher ; LL.D. (Marischal Col
lege 1794) ; removing to London, he opened
an academy in Highgate and officiated in
the Presbyterian meeting-house in South-
wood Lane, 1796-8. He settled afterwards
in Greenwich as Principal of an educational
institution in a large mansion purchased
from Sir Walter James; succeeded to
Phesdo on the death of his cousin, Alex
ander Crombie, advocate in Aberdeen;
died llth June 1840. He was a notable
scholar and critic and was F.R.S. He marr.
and had issue— Alexander of Phesdo ; and
other two sons. Publications— 4 Defence
of Philosophic Necessity (London, 1793);
The Etymology and Syntax of the English
Language Explained (London, 1802, 1809,
1829, 1836) ; Gymnasium sive Symbola
Critica, 2 vols. (London, 1812, 1834, 1836) ;
Letters on the Present State of the Agri
cultural Interest (London, 1816) ; A Letter to
D. Eicardo containing an Analysis of his
Pamphlet on the Depreciation of Bank Notes
2 I
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(1817) ; Cursory Observations in Reply to the
" Strictures " of Rev, Mr Gilchrist (London,
1817) ; Letters from Dr James Gregory of
Edinburgh in defence of his Essay on the
difference of the relation between Motion
and Action, and that of Cause and Effect in
Physic, with Replies by Rev. A. C., LL.D.
(London, 1819) ; Clavis Gymnasii sive Exer-
citationes in Symbolam Criticam (London,
1828) ; Natural Theology, or Essays on the
Existence of Deity and Providence, etc., 2
vols. (London, 1829) ; Letter to Lieut.-Col.
Torrens, M.P. (London, 1832) ; The Strike,
or a Dialogue between John Treadle and
Andrew Ploughman (1834); Letter to G.
Grote on the Ballot (London, 1838) ; Letter
to H. W. Tancred on the Ballot (London,
1839). Many anonymous pamphlets and
contributions to Analytical Review and
Edinburgh Review— [The Times, 16th June
1840; Diet. Nat. Biog.; Molyson's For-
doun, 250.]
LAMBETH (VERULAM SCOTS
CHURCH).
JAMES MILLAK, born Glasgow, 31st
Jan. 1799, eldest son of Kobert M.; educated
at Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of
Glasgow 21st March 1821 ; ord. 6th April
1826 ; res. Dec. 1842 (when the congregation
disbanded); min. of New Street Church,
Canongate, Edinburgh, 1846 to 1850 [omitted
in Vol. I., 186] ; chaplain at Edinburgh
Castle, 1850-75 ; died at 5 Ann Street, Edin
burgh, 7th May 1875. He marr. 6th April
1829, Emma, daugh. of Charles Chubb,
London, and had issue— Emma; Mary,
born 1839, died 1st Dec. 1924.
LISLE STREET.
[In 1734 a section of the congregation of
Swallow Street Church migrated under
the leadership of James Anderson, D.D.,
to a meeting-house in Lisle Street, Leicester
Square, and later to Peter Street, Golden
Square, Soho, where they leased a building.
A church was erected in 1755 on the refusal
of the proprietor to renew the lease to
"Dissenters." After the death of Dr
Duncan the reliable history of the con
gregation seems to cease.]
JAMES ANDERSON, D.D. (See under
Swallow Street.)
JOHN PATRICK, born 1706 ; educated
at Univ. of St Andrews; M.A. (1724);
removed to London and adm. here in 1740 ;
D.D. (St Andrews) ; died 30th July 1791.
DAVID TOD [or TODD], M.A. (cf.
Vol. II., 7) ; assistant to preceding in 1788 ;
ord. (assistant and successor) 3rd Feb.
1790; res. 1794 [afterwards min. of Cran-
shaws].
JOHN DUNCAN, a native of Scotland,
whose father was a fugitive to Holland
after 1715 ; came to London and was
one of the earliest members of the Royal
Society (F.R.S.) ; LL.D. ; min. successively
at Maidstone (Kent), Tadley (Hants), and
Wimborne (Dorset); adm. to Peter Street
in 1797 ; died 20th Jan. 1814, aged 73, and
buried in Bunhill Fields. He has been
claimed (erroneously) as author of the
hymn "All Hail the Power of Jesus'
Name." His daugh. Eliza marr. Thomas
Brown, D.D., min. of St John's, Glasgow
(cf. Vol. III., 447).— [Jones's Bunhill Me
morials, 39 ; Julian's Diet, of Hymnology,
42 ; John Dobell's New Selection of Hymns
(1806).]
LITTLE ST HELEN'S, BISHOPS-
GATE STREET.
GEORGE STEPHEN, a native of
Gartly, born about 1737; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen; M.A. (2nd May 1754);
licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen ; min. of an
English Presbyterian meeting-house here,
but was a member of the Presb. ; recom
mended for the Scots Church, Rotterdam,
1775 ; died 1781. He had "the misfortune
to be blind of an eye."— [Steven's Rotterdam,
205 ; Black's Scots Churches in England,
10, 236.]
MONKWELL STREET.
JAMES FORDYCE, D.D. (cf. Vol. IV.,
293); formerly min. of Alloa; adm. to a
Presbyterian congregation, Monkwell Street,
18th June 1760; died 1st Oct. 1796.—
[Bogue's and Bennett's Hist, of Dissenters,
ii., 606-9.]
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SOUTHWARK, PROSPECT
PLACE.
[A Scots congregation originated here in
1822. On 24th Dec. 1823 the London
Presb. received a memorial appealing for
recognition and assistance. Nothing was
done until June 1824, when a place of
worship having been acquired, a licentiate
was appointed as missionary.]
ARCHIBALD MILLAR, born 1800,
second son of Archibald M., surgeon, East
Indies; educated at Univ. of Glasgow;
assistant at Dailly ; app. missionary to a
congregation formed in 1840 which met in
a schoolroom rented from the British and
Foreign School Society. His subsequent
history has not been traced.
[WILLIAM CHALMERS BURNS, born
1st April 1815, son of William Hamilton
B., D.D., min. of Kilsyth ; educated at
Marischal College, Aberdeen; licen. by
Presb. of Glasgow in 1839 [afterwards the
well-known apostolic missionary to China];
was called to this charge in 1843, but
declined ; died at Nieu-chawang 4th April
1868.]
JOHN THOMSON, ord. 28th March
1844 [omitted in Vol. VI., 363] ; afterwards
min. of Inverallan.
SWALLOW STREET,
PICCADILLY.
[The date of this foundation is not known
with certainty, but it was formed apparently
soon after the Revolution. A meeting
house in Glasshouse Street was the first
place of worship. In 1710 the congregation
purchased the lease of a chapel (afterwards
reconstructed) in Swallow Street, built on
Crown land about 1692 by a body of French
Protestants, and about this period the
cause was greatly strengthened by an
accession of English Presbyterians worship
ping at a meeting-house close by, which had
originally been that of Richard Baxter after
his ejection from Oxendon Chapel. In 1734
Dr Anderson and a section of his congrega
tion quitted Swallow Street and established
a separate place of worship at Lisle Street
(q.v.). In 1880 the long, chequered career of
Swallow Street was brought to a close, the
building sold, many of its members con
necting themselves with Crown Court,
and Marylebone Presbyterian Church of
England.]
JAMES ANDERSON, born Aberdeen
about 1690, son of John A., Mudehouse, and
brother of Adam A., historian of commerce
[see Diet. Nat. £io<j.]; educated at
Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1705 - 9 ;
licentiate probably of Presb. of Aberdeen.
In 1709 or 1710, he removed to London,
where he "collected a congregation from
amongst persons of the Scottish nation
who resided about Westminster," and
opened a preaching - place in Glasshouse
Street, removing soon afterwards to the
French Protestant chapel in Swallow Street.
In consequence of a difference with his
people he migrated with a portion of the
congregation to Lisle Street, Leicester
Square (q.v.) ; died 28th May 1739. He
had some reputation as a preacher, was
known as " Bishop Anderson/' a voluminous
author, and an ardent Freemason. He
marr. a lady who brought him a consider
able fortune, most of which was lost in the
South Sea Bubble of 1720. He left a son,
and a daugh. who marr. an officer in the
army. Publications— No King-Killers, a
sermon preached in 1715 on the anniversary
of the execution of Charles I. (London,
1715) ; Unity and Trinity : A Dissertation
establishing that Doctrine against the Anti-
Trinitarians (London, 1723); Sermon on
the Death of the Rev. William Lorimer
(London, 1723); The Constitutions of the
Freemasons (London, 1723, and other
editions ; New York, 1855 ; translated into
German) [reprinted in Cox's Old Constitu
tions belonging to the Freemasons of England
and Ireland (1871), and in Kenning's
Masonic Archceol. Library, vol. i. (1878)] ;
Royal Genealogies : or the Genealogical
Tables of Emperors, Kings, and Princes
from Adam to these Times (London, 1732) ;
A Defence of Masonry occasioned by
a Pamphlet called "Masonry Dissected"
(London, 1738) [trans, into German and
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reprinted in Oliver's Golden Remains of the
Early Masonic Writers (London, 1847)] ;
News from Elysium, or Dialogues of the
Dead betiveen Leopold, Roman Emperor,
and Louis XIV., King of France (London,
1739) ; A Genealogical History of the House
of Yvery, vol. i. (1759); vol. ii. [from
another pen]. [This work was suppressed
on account of some disparaging remarks
on the English peerage, but was re-issued
without the offending passages in 1742.
Much of it has been considered mythical.]
— [Gentleman's Magazine, liii., 41-2 ; Notes
and Queries, 1st ser., iv., 158; Letters of
Horace Walpole (1857), i. 107, ii. 145 ;
Entick's edition of the Constitutions (1747),
194 et seq. ; Kloss's Bibliographic der
Freimaurerei (1844); Wilson's Dissenting
Churches in England, iv. ; Diet. Nat. BiogJ\
WILLIAM CROOKSHANK, born
Aberdeen about 1712, son of George C.,
merchant ; educated at Marischal College,
Aberdeen, 1732-5; Hon. M.A. (1736); ord.
23rd Jan. 1735 ; D.D. (Marischal College,
Aberdeen, 25th April 1763); "dismissed
from his office as pastor and excluded the
communion of the Church." He retired
to the country in 1768 and died, it is
said, of a broken heart, 28th July 1769.
Publications — The History of the State and
Sufferings of the Church of Scotland from
the Restoration to the Revolution, 2 vols.
(Edinburgh, 1749, 1751, 1762; Glasgow,
1787, 1812; Perth, 1846) [edited by
J. R. Omond] ; Dutch version (Rotterdam,
1752-3); Sermons (London, 1743); Sermon
Preached on Thanksgiving Day [9th Oct.
1745] /or Extinguishing the late unnatural
Rebellion, with an Appendix relating to the
Sufferings of the Presbyterians in Scotland
(London, 1745). Translation into English
of Hermann Witsius on The Economy of the
Covenants between God and Man, 2 vols.
(Edinburgh, 1803). — [Wilson's Dissenting
Churches, iv., 46 ; Memoir of James Young
(1861), App. X., p. 2.]
JAMES MURRAY, born Dunkeld, 1702;
educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen,
1731-6; licentiate of Church of Scotland;
declined a charge in Scotland and went to
London, where he became assistant to pre
ceding ; ord. (colleague) in 1767 ; res. 1769
and became chaplain to the Duke of Atholl ;
died 1785. Publication — Aletheia, or A
System of Moral Truths, 2 vols. (London,
1747).— [Diet. Nat. Biog. ; Wilson's Dis
senting Churches, iv., 48; New and Gen.
'. Diet. (1798), xi., 142.]
JOHN TROTTER, D.D. (cf. Vol. V.,
132) ; formerly min. of Ceres ; adm. to
Swallow Street Dec. 1769 ; died 14th Sept.
1808.— [Portrait in Museum of Presb. Hist.
Soc. of England.]
[THOMAS STOLLERIE, assistant to
preceding ; was refused the joint-pastorate,
and formed a new church in Chapel Street,
Soho.]
WILLIAM NICOL, born Roberton,
Lanarkshire, 1761, third son of James N. ;
educated at Roberton School, Hamilton
Grammar School, and Univ. of Glasgow ;
licen. by Presb. of Hamilton; assistant
at Laigh Church, Paisley, Middle Church,
Greenock, and College Church, Glasgow ;
ord. (colleague and successor) to John
Trotter, D.D., 23rd Nov. 1796; D.D.
(Marischal College, Aberdeen, 13th Oct.
1809) ; was a director of London Mission
ary Society, chaplain to the Corporation
of Scottish Hospital, and Founder of the
Protestant Union ; died 9th Feb. 1821, and
buried in Bunhill Fields. The Presb.
of London obituary Minute says that
" seldom has the Church of Christ lost a
brighter ornament, seldom has society
been bereft of a more valuable member."
He marr. Susanna (died 1838), daugh.
of John Gumming, Port - Glasgow, and
had issue— James, min. of Leslie in Fife ;
and three daughs. Publication — Sermons
(London, 1801). — [Jones's Bunhill Mem
orials, 190-4 ; Portrait in Museum of Presb.
Hist. Soc. of England.}
JOHN MARSHALL (cf Vol. IV., 327,
330) ; ord. 28th June 1821 ; trans, to Third
Charge, Stirling, If.th Sept. 1825. The
Presb. of London protested to Presb. of
Stirling that the call had not been trans
mitted to them. "It is in some measure
the interest even of the Church of Scotland
rather to cherish the Presb. of London than
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to rend and weaken it by withdrawing
without courtesy or form her most faith
ful and approved ministers." — [Black's Scots
Church ex in England, 225.]
WILLIAM WODROW (cf. Vol. III., 89) ;
ord. 20th April 1826; adm. to Dreghorn
3rd Nov. 1831.
JAMES REID BROWN, M.A. (Edin
burgh 1820), D.D. (cf. Vol. III., 202) ; trans,
from High Meeting, Berwick-upon-Tweed,
and adm. 18th Nov. 1831 ; adm. to Middle
Parish, Greenock, 26th Oct. 1843.— [Portrait
in Museum of Presb. Hist. Soc. of England.]
JAMES M'NAUGHT FISHER, M.A.
(Edinburgh, 9th April 1821); ord. 1844;
dem. Dec. 1852. He marr. 5th June 1843,
Elizabeth Goldie, daugh. of Robert Colvin,
D.D., nun. of Johnstone in Annandale.
RANALD MACPHERSON (cf. Vol. I.,
Ill), ord. in 1853 ; trans, to St Luke's, Edin
burgh, 7th Oct. 1861. His daugh. Jean
died 23rd Feb. 1926.
ALEXANDER CHALMERS SOUTAR,
born Coupar-Angus, 1838, eldest son of
Robert S. ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ;
assistant teacher at Dingwall, 1859-61 ;
licen. by Presb. of Dingwall ; ord. in 1862 ;
res. 1864 ; app. to Pulteneytown 1865 ;
sometime military chaplain at Gosport ;
went to New Zealand, and adm. to Pictou
29th June 1868, Blenheim in 1869.
SIMON SOMERVILLE STOBBS (cf.
Vol. I., 107), min. 1864 to 1867; adm. to
Lugar in 1867 [afterwards min. of St
James's, Edinburgh].
JAMES MORRISON CROMBIE, D.D.
(cf. Vol. VI., 86); formerly min. of Braemar ;
adm. 12th Nov. 1869 ; died 12th May 1906.
UXBRIDGE.
WILLIAM RUTHERFORD, M.A.,
D.D. ; ord. min. of a Presbyterian con
gregation at Uxbridge about 1773 [after
wards min. of Muirkirk of Kyle] (cf. Vol.
III., 59).
WAPPING.
[The origin of this congregation dates
back to the period between the Ejectment
(1662) and the Indulgence (1672), when there
were three licensed teachers [ministers] and
five licensed houses in Wapping in the
names of English Presbyterians, the Meeting
itself having various designations associated
with the locality. Later notices are
occasional references in the Register of the
old Scots Presbytery in London with which
the Wapping congregation was subsequently
connected. There it is alluded to as (a)
Mr Muir's Meeting-House, (6) Broad Street,
Wapping, (c) Broad Street, St George's,
Middlesex, and (d) Shakespeare's Walk.
Prior to 1843 the charge was known as
St Andrew's National Scottish Church,
and, later, St Andrew's, Stepney. In 1890
the building was sold to the Mildmay
Mission to the Jews, when minister and
congregation joined the Presbyterian Church
of England, the majority being absorbed
into John Knox Church, Stepney.]
DAVID MUIR, min. from 1740 till his
death 22nd Aug. 1780, aged 72 ; buried
in Bunhill Fields. — [Jones's Bunhill
Memorials, 178 ; Bennett's Life of David
Bogue.~\
THOMAS RUTLEDGE, a member of
the Scots Presb. in London 1772 ; adm.
here 22nd Dec. 1780 ; was one of the most
prominent Scottish ministers in London ;
D.D. (Edinburgh, 28th March 1799) ; died
26th Nov. 1818, aged 73, "having preached
the very Sabbath before his death " ; buried
in Bunhill Fields. "In innocency of manners
and simplicity of life rarely equalled."
Publication — Sermons (London, 1794). —
[Jones's Bunhill Memorials, 248.]
JOHN GEDDES CROSBIE (cf. Vol.
III., 95), licen. by Presb. of Dumfries ; min.
at Old (English) Presbyterian Meeting at
Walthamstow 1816 as successor to Eleazer
Cogan ; min. at Wapping 1819-24 ; adm. to
Scots Church, Birmingham, 8th June 1825 ;
adm. to Fenwick 19th March 1829.— [East
London Observer, 24th Aug. 1912.]
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JOHN CROMBIE, D.D. (cf. Vol. IV.,
252) ; ord. at St Andrew's Scottish Church
Jan. 1824 [not 1819 as in Vol. IV.] ; trans.
to Aberlemno 9th Sept. 1841 [afterwards
min. of Scone].
ALEXANDER M'GLASHAN (cf. Vol.
III., 309) ; ord. 6th May 1842 ; was one of
five members of the Scots Presb. of London
who adhered to the Church of Scotland in
1843 ; adm. to Lanark 8th Jan. 1846.
ARCHIBALD POLLOCK BLACK,
MA. ; ord. Aug. 1846, with this declara
tion, "I promise that I shall follow no
divisive course from the Establishment in
the Church," etc.
ALEXANDER SETON (cf. Vol. V.,
436); min. in 1868; adm. to Friockheim
14th Nov. 1877.
WILLIAM CADELL MACDONALD
MA.; ord. Oct. 1872; went to Victoria
Australia, 1876 (q.v.).
HENRY B. C. BAZELEY, B.A., B.C.L.
ord. April 1877, when the congregation was
reported to be in difficulties and the build
ing dilapidated [afterwards at Oxford
(q.v.)].
ROBERT RUTHVEN, missionary in
charge in 1878, when the Presb. reported
the cause at St Andrews as " hopeless."
MANSFIELD COLLIER SOUTTAR
M.R.C.S.E., D.D. ; ord. 1st Dec. 1880
died 28th July 1892, aged 49.
WOOD GREEN (ST JAMES'S).
[Founded in 1871, as the result of
cleavage from Lordship Lane Congrega
tional church. In June 1875, this con
gregation was declared to be no longe
connected with the Church of Scotlan
having joined the Presbyterian Church o
England.]
ROBERT SMITH, adm. Nov. 1871 ; le
Dec. 1874 for the High Meeting, Berwick
upon-Tweed (q.v.).
WOOLWICH.
DANIEL TURNER, born Glasgow,
748, second son of Gavin T. ; educated at
Univ. of Glasgow ; MA. (1766) ; sometime
choolmaster at Greenock ; became min. of
Presbyterian congregation at Lowestoft ;
min. at Woolwich 1775 to 1796. Joined
he Scots Presb. of London in 1792 ; D.D.
St Andrews, 15th Oct. 1792); died 10th
Oct. 1796. He marr. 1776, Elizabeth Gild-
ng authoress of Breathings of Genius
London, 1776), born 1752, died 21st Feb.
1786. Publications — The Fashionable
Daughter (London, 1774); The Value of
Masonic Secrets (London, 1777), and other
works.
JOHN BLYTHE, born 1767, eldest son
of John B., min. at Kirkley, Northumber
land • educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; MA.
(1782); min. at Woolwich 1795 to 1829;
D.D. (Glasgow 1822); died 24th Sept. 1829.
He had a son, John David, surgeon R.N.,
and medical practitioner, Hexham.
ALEXANDER JOHN SCOTT, born
26th March 1805, son of John S., D.D.,
min. of Middle Parish, Greenock; edu
cated at Greenock Grammar School and
Univ. of Glasgow ; MA. (1824) ; studied
medicine at Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen. by
Presb. of Paisley ; preached his first sermon
in Row Church for John M'Leod Campbell,
who heard him "with very peculiar de
light"; assistant to Edward Irving at
Regent Square, London. In 1829 he again
conducted services at Row, where his ser
mons on " spiritual gifts " (1 Corinthians,
xii.), led to the manifestation of " tongues "
which influenced all the future of Irving,
though Scott himself was not convinced of
their genuineness; called to this charge
in 1831 and accepted, but afterwards with
drew, declaring his inability to sign the
Confession of Faith. On 27th May 1831,
he was charged with heresy by Presb. of
Paisley and deprived of his licence, a
sentence confirmed by the Commission
of Assembly in Sept. following. He con
tinued to preach in Providence Chapel,
Woolwich, to which he was followed by a
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numerous company of adherents ; app. Pro
fessor of English Language and Literature,
University College, London, Nov. 1848;
app. Professor of Hebrew, Owens College,
Manchester, 1850-60 ; first Principal of that
College 1850-7 ; died at Veytaux, Switzer
land, 12th Jan. 1866. He was buried in
the cemetery at Clarens. An engaging and
inspiring lecturer, whose faultless English
captivated his hearers; a man of strong
and gracious personality,he was the intimate
of many of the noblest thinkers of his time,
Thomas Erskine of Linlathen characterising
him as "in point of intellect one of the
first, if not the first man I have known."
George Macdonald dedicated his novel
of Robert Falconer to him, and penned
two poems in his honour (Poetical Works
(1893), i., 271, 280). Frederick D. Maurice
inscribed his Mediaeval Philosophy to him,
and J. Baldwin Brown his Divine Life in
Man. He marr. Dec. 1830, Ann Ker,
Greenock, who died Dec. 1888, and had
issue— John Alexander, B.A., barrister-at-
law, died 9th Jan. 1894, aged 48 ; Susan
Fisher, died at Manchester 1925. Publica
tions — Lectures, Expository and Practical,
on the Epistle to the Romans (London,
1838); On the Academical Study of a
Vernacular Language (London,' 1848);
Two Discourses — The Kingdom of the
Truth, The Range of Christianity (London,
1848); Suggestions on Female Education
(London, 1849) ; Notes of Four Lectures on
the Literature and Philosophy of the Middle
Ages (p.p., Edinburgh, 1857); Discourses
(London, 1866).— [Recollections of A. J. S.
(Greenock, 1878); Letters of Erskine of
Linlathen (1878); Memorials of John
M'Leod Campbell ; Life of F. D. Maurice
(1884), i. 199, ii. 403 ; Memoir of Robert
•SVo/v/ (1862); Owens College Magazine,
xiii., xxii. ; Life of Edward Irving, ii.,
103, et seq. ; National Review, Oct. 1862 ;
Shaw's Manchester Old and New, ii., 93 ;
Bust at Owens College ; Diet. Nat. Biog.~]
WILLIAM MARTIN THOMPSON,
born Ayton, Berwickshire, 1st Sept. 1809 ;
educated at Ayton School and Univ. of
Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of Duns ;
assistant at Duns; ord. to Woolwich 9th
Aug. 1838; app. chaplain to the troops
there. Joined the Free Church in 1843;
declared no longer a licentiate of the
Church of Scotland by Presb. of Duns 5th
Feb. 1844; min. of New Road Church
Woolwich ; accepted a call to Pilrig Free
Church, Edinburgh, but remained at Wool
wich ; Moderator of Synod in 1857 ; died
llth July 1895, and buried at Charlton
Cemetery. He marr. Elizabeth (died 24th
Jan. 1890), daugh. of William Hodgson of
Houton, Cumberland, and had issue —
William Robert, sometime missionary in
China, and min. at Shrewsbury; John
Martin, Public Record Office,' author of a
biography of his father ; Annie.— [Cairns's
John Hawkes and his Successors (Wool
wich, 1913), 22-5 ; Portrait in Museum of
Presb. Hist. Soc. of England.]
STAINES.
JOHN SUTHERLAND, ord. (by Presb.
of Dornoch) to a Presbyterian congrega
tion at Staines, Middlesex, 28th July 1741 ;
adm. to Halkirk 27th Nov. 1745 (<•/. Vol.
VII., 122).
NORFOLK
JAMES KIRKPATRICK, ord. to a Presbyterian congregation at Oulton, Norfolk,
1th Aug. 1773 ; adm. to Caerlaverock 19th Sept. 1776 (cf. Vol. II., 259).
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NORTHUMBERLAND
ALNWICK.
GILBERT EULE, M.D. (cf. Vol. I. 39,
415, II. 24), probably son of George E.,
min. of Longformacus ; ord. perpetual
curate of St Michael's, Alnwick, 1656 ;
ejected in 1662 ; went abroad, but returned
and preached in North of England from
Alnwick to Berwick-upon-Tweed [after
wards Principal of Univ. of Edinburgh].
Publications (additional)— A True Repre
sentation of Presbyterian Government by a
Friend to that Interest (Edinburgh, 1690)
[an unauthorised issue "licensed 18th April
1690"], ibid. (Edinburgh, 1690). [In the
preface, dated 26th April 1690, the author,
who signs himself "G. E.," complains of
the unauthorised and imperfect issue " this
week."]
ST JAMES'S.
[Congregation originated about 1689. A
Collection Plate, still extant, bears that
date.]
JONATHAN HAELE (primus), a native
of Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; licen. in 1688 ;
ord. to Morpeth 21st Feb. 1693; M.D.
(Edinburgh, 28th Dec. 1710) ; had charge
of Morpeth and Alnwick from 1694 to
1708; died at Alnwick 24th Dec. 1729.
He had some reputation as a poet. Publi
cations — An Historical Essay on the State
of Physick in the Old and New Testament
(London, 1729) ; A Collection of Spiritual
Songs.— [Memoir by John Hodgson (New
castle, 1831).]
JONATHAN HAELE (secundus\ son of
preceding ; educated at Univ. of Edin
burgh ; min. 1729 till his death in 1743.
JOHN WAUGH (cf. Vol. II., 64), ord. ir
1743 ; adm. to Whitsome and Hilton 16th
May 1755.
ALEXANDEE FEEEIEE, M.A. (cf
Vol. V., 322) ; ord. 5th Nov. 1755 ; adm. t(
Oxnam 21st Sept. 1758 [afterwards o:
South Church, Dundee].
JOHN CALDEE, M.A. ; min. here 1759
o 1769 [afterwards at Croydon (q.v.)].
WILLIAM BUEN [or BUENS] (cf. Vol.
I.. 133) ; adm. in 1769 ; adm. to Minto 6th
April 1774.
EOBEET EOBEETSON (cf. Vol. II.,
69), ord. in 1774; adm. to Ednam 15th
March 1796.
WILLIAM GOLDIE, ord. in 1796 ; died
1834.
GEOEGE ANDEESON, ord. (colleague)
m 1828; adm. to full charge in 1834;
res. 1837 ; app. by Colonial Committee for
service in Australia (q.v.).— [Hist, of Presby
terian Church in New South Wales, ii.,
404.]
JAMES SCOTT (cf. Vol. VI., 81) ; ord.
in 1837; adm. to Banchory-Ternan 20th
Sept. 1843.
GEOEGE GOEDON PITTENDEIGH
(cf. Vol. I., 104), ord. in 1843 ; adm. to St
David's, Edinburgh, 26th Dec. 1844.
JOHN THOMSON (cf. Vol. VI., 363),
ord. to St George's Presbyterian Church,
Southwark, London, 28th March 1844;
adm. to St James's, Alnwick, 15th Oct.
1845; dem. 10th Oct. 1848 [omitted in
above Vol.]; went to New Brunswick;
returned to Scotland and was afterwards
min. of Inverallan.
BONDGATE.
JOHN SAYEES [or SAWERS], edu
cated at Univ. of Glasgow; licentiate of
Church of Scotland ; first min. of Bondgate
Church, Alnwick, 1731 ; built a church in
1736; became blind about 1761, when
James Murray [afterwards of High Bridge,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne] (q.v.), was his assist
ant ; died before 1770.
THOMAS MONTEITH, M.A.; formerly
min. of the Middle Meeting, Berwick-
upon-Tweed (q.v.) ; adm. Dec. 1770 ; died
12th May 1786.
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505
DAVID PYPER (cf. Vol. I., 386), ord. to
Bondgate Church, Alnwick, 23rd June
1790; adm. to Pencaitland 12th Dec.
1793.
BELFORD.
DAVID WATERS, a native of south oi
Scotland ; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh
licentiate of Church of Scotland; adm
here in 1777 until about 1790.
[JOHN POOLE, licentiate of Church
of Scotland ; became min. of a second
congregation at Belford, originated through
a dispute over election of preceding ; trans,
to Hexham in 1786 when this congregation
joined tho Secession Church.]
JOHN WALKER, licentiate of Church
of Scotland; ord. about 1790; died 1809.
MARCUS DODS, born near Gifford,
7th Dec. 1786; educated at Univ. of
Edinburgh; ord. here in 1811; died 29th
Sept. 1838. The inscription on his tomb
stone at Belford (from the pen of Professor
James Maclagan, D.D., Aberdeen) has been
described as the noblest memorial notice in
the English language: "A man of noble
powers, nobly used, in whom memory and
judgment, vigour and gentleness, gravity
and wit, each singly excellent, were all
happily combined, and ever devoted with
equal promptitude and perseverance to the
labours of Christian godliness and the
deeds of human kindness. The delight
of his household, the father of his flock,
the helper of the poor, he captivated his
friends by his rich converse, and edified the
Church by his learned and eloquent pen.
The earthly preferment which he deserved
but did not covet the earth neglected to
bestow, but living to advance and defend,
he died in full hope to inherit, the ever
lasting kingdom of Christ Jesus, Our
Lord." He marr. Sarah Palliser, who died
1859, and had issue— Marcus, D.D., Principal
of New College, Edinburgh, born llth
April 1834, died 26th April 1909, and six
others. Publications — Anglicanus Scotched
[Reply to Letters on the Edinburgh Bible
Society] (Edinburgh, 1828) ; On the Incar
nation of the Eternal Word (London, 1831,
1845). Pamphlets on the Apocryphal
Controversy, and others. Sometime editor
of the Edinburgh Christian Instructor. —
{Diet. Nat. Biog. ; Mrs Oliphant's Edward
I i'i'i ii<i ; Edinburgh Christian, //!.-<?/•//<•//>,•
(Jan. 1830) ; Letters of Marcus Dods, D.D.
(London, 1910).]
JOHN WATSON, perhaps son of John
W., merchant, Paisley; educated at Univ.
of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow ;
assistant at Kelso in 1832 ; was a tutor
there, 1833-5 ; app. assistant to preceding
in 1835 ; ord. to this charge 1839 ; died 5th
Oct. 1849, aged 52.— [Tombst. at Belford.]
WILLIAM WALLACE of Solsgirth,
born 1827, eldest son of James W., merchant,
Kilsyth; educated at Univ. of Glasgow;
licentiate of Church of Scotland; ord. in
1853; dem. 1855; became a coalmaster;
died at Solsgirth, Kirkintilloch, 14th Aug.
1884.
WILLIAM ETTERSHANKS, M.A.;
ord. in 1850; dem. 1851.
ROBERT BOAG, ord. in 1851; dem.
1852, and went to Australia (q.v.).
JOHN ELLIS RAE (cf. Vol. III., 344,
403) ; ord. in 1857 ; trans, to Port-Dundas
Church, Glasgow, 13th Jan. 1870 [afterwards
min. of Duntocher].
ELIAS HENDERSON, born 1832, eldest
son of Alexander H., schoolmaster, Maybole ;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by
Presb. of Ayr 1st July 1857 ; ord. in 1870 ;
died 23rd Jan. 1898, and buried at Glasgow.
GEORGE WILLIAM LOWE, educated
at Univ. of St Andrews ; licen. by Presb.
of Glasgow llth June 1890; ord. 23rd June
1898; dem. in 1901 when the church was
discontinued.
BELSAY.
JOHN BRYMER [or BREMNER], M.A.
(cf. Vol. V., 479) ; ord. to Belsay 30th Nov.
1768 ; adm. to Marykirk 3rd July 1771.
JA.MES DOBIE (cf. Vol. I., 178, 217),
ord. in 1771 ; adm. [not ord.] to Mid-Calder
27th July 1773 ; trans, to Linlithgow 15th
June 1792.
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JAMES GILLIES (<•/. Vol. V., 408), ord.
in 1773; adm. [not ord.] to Menmuir 23rd
Dec. 1779.
JOHN DALLAS, is said to have combined
the occupation of innkeeper at Bolam, and
min. of the Presbyterian congregation at
Belsay, and, according to local tradition,
was the last of the Church of Scotland mins.
there, 1779-1803. — [Tomlinson's North
umberland, 268.]
BERWICK-UPON-TWEED.
MIDDLE MEETING.
[Known as the Middle Meeting to dis
tinguish it from the Low and High
Meetings. The first mention of a con
gregation occurs on 6th April 1754, when
the house of Thomas Shotton was certified
as "set apart for Protestant Dissenters
commonly called Presbyterians." In 1756
a new place of worship was opened in
Shaw's or Gam's Lane, afterwards Chapel
Street. In 1778 the congregation joined
the Relief Church.]
THOMAS MONTEITH, M.A. (Edin
burgh, 18th Dec. 1749); app. usher of the
Grammar School at Berwick in 1749 and
taught an independent Latin School
1749-51 ; licentiate of Church of Scotland ;
ord. first min. of this charge in 1756.
Joined the Relief Synod and adm. to Relief
congregation, Duns, 9th July 1767; adm.
to Bondgate Presbyterian Church, Alnwick
[in succession to Michael Boston] Dec.
1770 ; died 12th May 1786. Publication— 4
Reply to Paine's " Age of Reason."— [Small's
Hist, of U.P. Congs., i., 401; Douglas's
Hist, of Berwick Grammar School, 20.]
JAMES CRUICKSHANKS, a native of
Aberdeenshire ; educated at Marischa
College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (1758) ; licentiate
of Church of Scotland ; ord. to Longfram
lington in 1763 ; trans, to Middle Meeting
in 1767 ; res. 1777 ; is said to have died in
poverty in London. He has been confusec
(by Mackelvie and others) with William C.
D.D., min. of Swallow Street Church
London, who died under similar circum
stances.
[ANDREW THOMSON, adm. in 1778,
when the congregation joined the Relief
Church ; died 1813, aged 63.]
BIRDHOPECRAIG.
[MATTHEW ANDERSON, M.A.;
ejected rector of Elsdon, continued to
preach in his parish, and probably founded
;he Presbyterian congregation here. Its
>ldest church building (now a garage)
contains a stone with this inscription,
' M. A. M. H., 1682."]
JAMES BELL, ord. in 1688; trans, to
Harbottle in 1713.
JOSEPH TAIT, min. in 1713 ; died 9th
Nov. 1720, aged 41, and buried at Byrness,
where his tombstone has this epitaph : —
Marble to thee we trust his name,
For grateful Eedesdale will proclaim
His worth jn words of endless fame :
While solid virtues without stain
And real Piety obtain—
Thy Tait remembered shall remain :
Stranger, if passing this, thou see,
Think what a minister should be,
O then conclude that such was he.
[HODGSON'S Northumberland, vi., 148.]
JOHN CHISHOLM, ord. (by Presb. of
Northumberland) 29th Aug. 1722; dem.
1758; died at Clennell, Harbottle, 2nd
June 1768, aged 81. His wife, Judy C.,
died 7th Sept. 1771, aged 72, and had
issue— Hannah, died 31st July 1730, aged 2 ;
Eleanor, died 22nd April 1732, aged 4;
Barbara, died 28th Dec. 1735, aged 4;
Isabel, died 22nd Oct. 1746, aged 13;
George, in Clennell, died 5th May 1796,
aged 69.— [Newlands's Sketch of the Hist,
of Birdhopecraig Cong. (Morpeth, 1896).]
JAMES THORBURN (cf. Vol. IV., 35),
ord. in 1759 ; was afterwards at Darlington ;
adm. to Kingarth 24th Dec. 1766.
JOHN OCHILTREE, ord. in 1761 ; dep.
1772. He settled at Seaton Delaval, where
he taught a school and preached occasion
ally ; died after 1808.
DAVID JOLLY, ord. in 1773 ; dem. 1779 ;
became a missionary in the West Indies,
where he died. His wife Hannah and
their son Henry both died at Birdhope
craig, Oct. 1776,
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THOMAS HOPE, licentiate of Church
of Scotland from Roxburghshire ; called
20th June 1779; died 8th Sept. 1827,
aged 7G. His wife Jane died 6th Nov.
1835, aged 76, and a dau«h. Mary died
unmarr. 10th Jan. 1880, aged 90.
GEORGE MACFIE, M.A. ; ord. 2nd July
1828; dem. llth June 1837, and went to
Australia. (See Australia.)
JAMES M'CLYMONT, born Dalmelling-
ton, 1809, youngest son of Andrew M. ; edu
cated at Univ. of Glasgow; assistant in
Ayrshire; ord. 28th July 1837. Joined
the Free Church; called to Carsphairn
and Dalmellington Free Church, but not
settled ; trans, to New Hampstead, London,
1846; trans, to Free Church, Denholm,
1847; died at Edinburgh llth Dec. 1886.
He was thrice marr. By his second wife,
Mary Roxburgh, he had issue— James Rox
burgh, M.A., author of Metrical Romances
and Ballads (London, 1902), and other
works.
KERR JOHNSTON, born Greenock,
about 1823, sixth son of William J., printer ;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow; licen. by
Presb. of Glasgow ; ord. after March 1846 ;
dem. 12th March 1848, having adopted
Baptist views.
WILLIAM MENZIES WHYTE, born
Crieff, 16th April 1820, son of John W.
and Grace Bain; educated at Univ. of
Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh ;
ord. 9th Jan. 1849 ; died of consumption
at Kilmun, 21st July 1854, the last min.
of the Church of Scotland in this charge.
He marr. Agnes, daugh. of Samuel Graham,
Edinburgh. She marr. (2) 12th Aug. 1880,
Samuel Cathcart, D.D., min. at Harbottle,
and died 28th June 1901. Publication—
Pre-millenialism, a Delusion (1851).
BLYTH.
JOHN BLYTHE, a native of Scotland,
educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; licentiate
of Church of Scotland ; ord. to Kirkley,
Northumberland, 1763; min. here from
1794 till he retired in 1803 ; died at Ponte-
land in 1810, leaving issue — John B., D.D.,
min. at Woolwich ; James, surgeon R.N. ;
and Newton Ogle, min. at Sunderland and
Branton. Publications — The Nature of
Saving Faith (Newcastle, 1770); An Ex
position of the Thirty-Nine Articles, 2 vols.
(Newcastle, 1778); The Lord's Supper
(Newcastle, 1792); On the Reading of
Scripture (Newcastle, 1792) ; Conference
between a Minister and Two Friends (New
castle, 1792).
CHARLES WHITEFIELD, trans, from
Swalwell and adm. in 1803 ; trans, to
Rothbury 1804 (q.v.).
WILLIAM ROBERTSON, born New-
castle-upon-Tyne 1764; ord. at Blyth in
1805 ; died 1st June 1846.
ALEXANDER HERON, licentiate of
Church of Scotland; ord. (colleague and
successor) 22nd Aug. 1833; left in 1844.
He marr. a daugh. of his immediate
BRANTON.
JAMES AIRD, M.A. (cf. Vol. V., 53);
ord. to Ingram near Branton, 1649 or 1650 ;
ejected by Act of Uniformity 24th Aug.
1662; adm. to Torryburn, Fife, 15th July
1668.
JAMES SOMERVILLE, born Pilmuir,
Lauder, Berwickshire, 1743, son of James S.;
educated at Univ. of Edinburgh, 1762-71 ;
licen. by Presb. of Lauder (now Earlston)
3rd Dec. 1771 ; ord. to Stainton, Westmor
land, Oct. 1772; trans, to Ravenstonedale
27th Sept. 1775 ; trans, to Branton in
1784 ; died 8th July 1808.— [Nightingale's
Lancashire Nonconformity, i., 295 ; Evan
gelical Magazine (1809), 45.]
NEWTON OGLE BLYTHE, born 1770,
third son of John B., min. at Blyth ; edu
cated at Univ. of Glasgow; M.A. (1792);
trans, from Maling's Rigg, Sunderland, and
adm. Feb. 1809 ; died 1853, and buried at
Ingram.
JAMES BLYTHE, born 1809, eldest
son of preceding; educated at Univ. of
Glasgow; B.A. (1826), M.A. (1827); licen.
in 1832 ; ord. 19th Feb. 1835 ; Moderator
of English Synod in 1861 ; retired 1891 ;
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died 27th Feb. 1894. In April 1827,
Archibald M'Kerrell, student of medicine,
was admonished " for giving a challenge to
James Blythe, a student in the Natural
Philosophy Class, to fight a duel, and, upon
the very proper non-acceptance of this
challenge by Blythe, posting him up in the
College as a coward." Publication —
Historical Account of the Presbyterian
Church at Branton, with his Farewell
Sermon (portrait) (Alnwick, 1891).—
[Addison's Matriculations , 322.]
CORNHILL.
HENRY ERSKLNE, M.A. (c/. Vol. II.,
34) • min. at Cornhill, but ejected by Act
of Uniformity 24th Aug. 1662 [afterwards
min. of Chirnside].
THOMAS BLAIR, M.A. (c/. Vol. II., 41);
formerly min. of Coldstream, but deprived
by the Privy Council 26th Sept. 1689. In
1713 he was in charge of Cornhill, and in
1728 was instituted to the united curacies
of Cornhill and Branxton ; died at Preston,
Northumberland, 23rd Aug. 1736. A
suggested epitaph is still quoted in the
district : —
Here lies the Rev. Thomas Blair,
A man of worth and merit ;
He preached for fifty years and mair,
According to the spirit.
He preached off book to shun offence
And what is still more rare-
He never spuke a word of sense,
So preached Tommy Blair.
CROOKHAM.
ISAAC WOOD, min. 1743 to 1778. (See
under Etal.)
JOHN WOOD, son of preceding ; ord.
(colleague and successor) about 1769;
drowned himself in the Till. He marr.
16th July 1784, Mary, daugh. of Cornelius
Lundie, min. of Kelso.— [Hall's Northumber
land, ii., 471.]
WILLIAM SAWYERS [or SAWERS],
born Kilbride, 1755, son of William S. ;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; licentiate
of Church of Scotland; ord. about 1778;
dismissed by his congregation about 1808,
" because he went over often to Scotland."
THOMAS HALL, born Swindon,
Northumberland, cousin of Marcus Dods
the elder ; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ;
icen. by Northumberland Presb. 18th April
L808 ; ord. to Thropton that year ; trans, to
Drookhamin 1809; had a colleague appointed
m 1845 ; removed to Alnwick in 1847, where
he died unmarr. 1853, having preached
on the previous Sunday. He was the
original of William Wilson's [min. at Etal
1850-2, and brother of Mrs Oliphant]
"Matthew Paxton," in his novel of that
title of which only two copies are known
to be extant, one in the congregational
library at Crookham, the other in Library
of Presb. Hist. Soc. of England, London.
—{Letters of Marcus Dods, D.D. (1910),
p. 12.]
ETAL.
JAMES SCOTT, M.A. (c/. Vol. II., 100);
formerly min. of Tongland ; inst. to Ford,
llth Dec. 1660; returned to Scotland and
inst. to Ancrum 6th Nov. 1665.
GABRIEL SEMPLE (c/. Vol. II., 126),
formerly min. of Kirkpatrick-Durham ;
officiated sometime at Ford; returned to
Scotland after the Revolution and adm.
to Jedburgh 29th Oct. 1690.
AARON WOOD, M.A., belonged to
Staffordshire, and was a min. there ; adm.
to Etal about 1693, his meeting-house
being at Heatherslaw ; died 29th Sept.
1730 and buried at Ford. He marr. and
had issue— Dorothy, bapt. 1697 (marr. John
Lithgow, succeeding min.); William, bapt.
1698; Aaron, bapt. 1700; Isaac, min. in
1740.— [Tombst.]
JOHN LITHGOW, born Newhouses,
Lauderdale, 1677, son of Andrew L. in
Threepwood and Janet Somervell, and
grand-nephew of John L., min. of Ewes ;
educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A.
(llth May 1701) ; was a teacher at Wooler ;
adm. here in 1730; retired 1740; died
(buried) 15th Oct. 1746. He marr. Dorothy,
daugh. of preceding min., and had issue-
Robert, a min. ; Aaron, a min., ancestor of
Surgeon - Major - General Stewart Aaron
Lithgow, C.B., D.S.O., M.D.
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ISAAC WOOD, born Heatherslaw, 1702,
youngest son of above Aaron W. ; educated
at Northampton Academy under Philip
Doddridge; ord. here in 1740; evicted
from his church and manse on account of
a dispute with Sir William Carr, lord of
the manor, in 1743 ; preached in the open
air on the Crookham side of the Till, and
had a church erected, of which he was min.
till his death at Twizel Castle, 14th May
1778. His son John became his successor
at Crookham (q.v.). — [M'Guffie's Priests of
Etal, 25-33; Wilson's Matthew Paxton.]
EDWAKD ARTHUR, min. 1743 to 1752.
(See under Lowick.)
MATTHEW MONCREIFF (cf. Vol. V.
126, VII. 280), ord. to Auchtermuchty 19th
April 1734, but settlement reversed by
General Assembly 10th May following;
was afterwards min. of Bressay, Shetland,
and dep. for deserting his parish 8th May
1754; reponed in June and officiated here
from 1st Oct. 1754 to 1759 ; at Ireshopeburn,
Weardale, 1759, Penruddock 1764; retired
to Scotland in 1771, where he died soon
after.— [M'Guffie's Priests of Etal, 41.]
JAMES THOMSON, ord. in 1760 ; left
in 1765.
ROBERT CRAMOND, D.D. (cf. Vol.
II., 197); ord. 22nd May 1765; adm. to
Yarrow 12th June 1776.
ADAM LANDELLS (cf. Vol. II., 64),
ord. 10th Oct. 1776 ; adm. to Hutton 19th
March 1789; trans, to Whitsome and
Hilton 8th Feb. 1821.
DAVID AITKEN, born Nisbet,
of Crailing, 19th Feb. 1763; educated at
Grammar School, Jedburgh, and Univ. of
Edinburgh ; was tutor in family of Charles
Scott of Crailing (uncle of Sir Walter
Scott) ; licen. by Presb. of Northumberland
in 1788; assistant at Ancrum ; ord. to
Etal 1789; died unmarr. 12th Oct. 1851
and buried at Ford. His nephew, Mark
A., was min. of Dyke.
EMBLETON.
[Formed in 1832, but discontinued as a
Church of Scotland charge in 1843.]
ROBERT WATSON (cf. Vol. IV., 327),
min. from 1834 to 1838 [afterwards of West
Church, Stirling].
HENRY RUTHERFORD (cf. Vol. I.,
22), min. from 1838 to 1839 [afterwards of
Buccleuch Parish, Edinburgh].
FALSTONE.
JOHN DEANE [or DEANS] son of
Leonard D., lawyer, Brampton ; adm. here
before 1709 ; died 1734. A son, Adam, was
Presbyterian min. at Huddlesceugh, Cumber
land, now Parhead, Kirkoswald.
JAMES DRYDEN, adm. in 1734 ; trans,
to Stamfordham in 1742 (q.v.).
ADAM WEATHERSTON (cf. Vol. I.,
194), ord. in 1742 ; trans, to Great Bavington
in 1751 ; adm. to Bathgate 13th July 1757.
JAMES MURRAY, ord. in 1752; died
23rd Aug. 1783, aged 68.— [Tombst.]
JAMES WOOD (cf. Vol. III., 404), edu
cated at Univ. of Glasgow ; ord. in 1783 ;
adm. to Calton Chapel, Glasgow, 23rd June
1802 ; re-called to Falstone and re-adm.
12th Aug. 1803; died 12th Sept. 1815.
His son William, M.D., Jedburgh, died at
Falstone.— [Tombst. at Falstone.']
JOHN COCHRANE (cf. Vol. II., 115),
ord. in 1816 ; trans, to North Shields 29th
May 1817; adm. to Hawick 12th Sept.
1823.
JOHN GRAY, licentiate of Church of
Scotland; ord. in 1817 ; died (at the farm
house of Otterstonlea, on his way home
after preaching at Kielder) 19th Sept. 1828,
aged 47. — [Tombst.]
HUGH MILLER, born 1790, perhaps
third son of John M., farmer, Newmilns,
Ayrshire ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ;
licen. (by Presb. of Lorn) 17th Dec. 1828 ;
ord. 8th Jan. 1829 ; died (as his predecessor)
at the farmhouse of Otterstonlea, on his
way home after preaching at Bewcastle)
20th June 1837. He left a widow.— [Camp
bell's Hist. Sketch of Falstone, 8 ; Tombst.~]
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[CHARGES IN
GEORGE OLIVER MOFFAT (cf. Vol.
III., 218), ord. 25th Oct. 1837 ; adm. to
Port-Glasgow 20th June 1844.
HUGH MARSHALL, licen. by Presb.
of Armagh ; adm. 16th Jan. 1845 ; dep. 13th
June 1849 and went to U.S.A.
GLANTON.
[Congregation originated with dissentients
from Branton on the election there of James
Somerville.]
DAVID YOUNG, M.A. (cf. Vol. II., 48) ;
ord. 12th May 1784 ; adm. to Foulden 23rd
March 1786.
JAMES YOUNG (cf. Vol. II., 157),
trans, from Kirkley and adm. 12th June
1786; adm. to Legerwood 6th Dec. 1797.
Publication — Christian Education (New
castle, 1794).
JAMES KIRTON, educated at
Associate (Burgher) Hall, Joined the
Church of Scotland as a licentiate; ord. in
1800 ; died at Edinburgh in 1834, and was
buried at Whittingham, Northumberland.
He had a favourite sermon entitled "The
New Jerusalem," which he preached on
many occasions, with its familiar conclusion,
"Ah, Heaven must be a grand place, for
the very streets are paved wi' gold!"-
[M'Guffie's Priests of Etal, 58 ; Tombst]
WILLIAM KIRTON (cf. Vol. V., 106),
nephew of preceding; ord. in 1834; adm.
to Pathhead, Kirkcaldy, 12th Dec. 1844.
DUNCAN LENNIE, licentiate of
Church of Scotland ; min. at Tobago, West
Indies, 1837-44 (q.v.) ; adm. here in 1844
died 12th Dec. 1858, and was buried at
Bolton, Northumberland.— [Tombst]
GREAT BAVINGTON.
JAMES CROZIER, min. from 1723 til
his death in 1751.
ADAM WEATHERSTON (cf. Vol. I.
194), ord. to Falstone, Northumberland
1742 ; trans, to Great Bavington in 1751
adm. to Bathgate 13th July 1757.
JAMES RUTHERFORD, min. 1758 till
lis death in 1801. Publication— A Dissertat
ion on Bible Principles (Newcastle, 1794).
ALEXANDER TROTTER, M.A. ; ord.
.823, died 1852.
HALTWHISTLE.
JOHN WARDEN, M.A. ; ord. to Halt-
whistle in 1744 ; trans, to Cotherstone
;Wolsingham) 1748 (q.v.).
SIMON CURRIE, adm. about 1748;
trans, to Brampton in 1758 (q.v.).
JAMES M'MILLAN, licentiate of
Jhurch of Scotland ; ord. at Great Salkeld
in 1754; trans, here 1759; trans, to a
charge in Yorkshire in 1767.
THOMAS SMITH, probably son of
Thomas S., Lanark ; educated at Univ. of
Glasgow ; M.A. (1749) ; min. at Penruddock
in 1763 ; min. here 1767 to 1812.
JAMES STEVENSON, perhaps son of
James S., Neilston ; educated at Univ. of
Glasgow; licentiate of Church of Scot
land ; ord. in 1812 ; died 1862, aged 84.—
[Hodgson's Northumberland.]
HARBOTTLE.
JAMES BELL, ord. to Birdhopecraig in
1688; trans, here in 1713; died 1st May
1736, and buried at Alwinton.
THOMAS SCOTT, ord. to Harbottle in
1736; trans, to Hallbank, Hexham, 24th
Nov. 1755 (q.v.).
ROBERT TROTTER, ord. to Harbottle
in 1756 ; trans, to Morpeth 1759 (q.v.).
ANDREW MADDER [MATHER],
licentiate of Church of Scotland; min. at
Harbottle from 1759 to 1768, when his
name disappears from the Register.
JAMES MURRAY, ord. 17th Aug. 1768 ;
died 21st Sept. 1798, aged 57.
WILLIAM LAUDER, trans, from Bew-
castle 9th July 1799 ; re-adm. at Bewcastle
25th July 1809 (q.v.).
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511
GAVIN JAMES HAMILTON (cf. Vol.
II., 170), ord. 15th Nov. 1809; adm. to
Ashkirk 7th Aug. 1811.
JAMES PATERSON, licentiate of
Church of Scotland; min. from 1811 till
his death in 1846.
HEBBURN-UPON-TYNE.
GAVIN MALCOLM, licentiate of Church
of Scotland ; ord. to Benburb, Ireland, 26th
Aug. 1874 ; adm. to St Andrew's Church,
Hebburn-upon-Tyne, 27th April 1876 ; went
to New South Wales ; min. at Carcoar
1878-80, at Condobolin 1880-6, at Walcha
1886-8 ; removed to Queensland, his health
having broken down.
HEXHAM.
JOHN POOLE, trans, from Second
Scots congregation at Belford and adm.
here in 1786 ; died 1806.
WILLIAM SINCLAIR, licentiate of
Church of Scotland ; min. 1806 to 1812.
ROBERT LAURIE, trans, from Long-
town in 1812; returned to Scotland next
year.
JOHN WILSON (cf. Vol. IV., 323), ord.
to Scots Church, Hexham, 14th April 1813 ;
trans, to Irvine 22nd June 1820 [afterwards
of East Parish, Stirling].
JAMES RICHARDSON, born Kelso,
1790; min. 1825 to 1830; died llth Dec.
1830, aged 40. He marr. Catherine Camp
bell, Musselburgb, who died 5th April 1828.
WILLIAM NIXON (cf. Vol. V., 416),
ord. (by Presb. of Chirnside) 14th June
1831 ; adm. to St John's Chapel, Montrose,
27th June 1833.
ROBERT CARS WELL, licen. by Presb.
of Dunoon 30th May 1831 ; ord. 4th Sept.
1833 ; trans. 3rd Sept. 1838 to Saville Street,
South Shields; dep. 18th Jan. 1842.
JAMES BLAIR (cf. Vol. III., 137), licen.
by Presb. of Dunbarton 21st March 1839 ;
ord. 4th April that year ; adm. to Elderslie,
Paisley, IDth Jan. 1844.
JOSEPH GORDON, a native of Co.
Down ; educated at Belfast College ; after
licence (by Presb. of Down) sent to south
of Ireland for home mission service ; ord.
min. here 14th Aug. 1844 ; died July 1855,
leaving a widow and child.
JOHN LOCKHART, M.A. (cf. Vol. VI.,
222); formerly min. of Fraserburgh; min.
1855-9.
JAMES BRECKONRIDGE MUIR,
B.A., licen. by Presb. of Ayr 3rd April 1863 ;
ord. that year ; went to Canada (q.v.).
ANDREW IRVING, ord. 19th July
1865; trans, to Thornton 17th Nov. 1869
[afterwards of Gartmore (cf. Vol. IV., 346)].
JOHN MOFFAT, formerly of Canada ;
adm. 26th Nov. 1869 ; dem. 1871 [afterwards
min. of Rendall (q.v.)].
JAMES PATTERSON, adm. 5th July
1876.
JOHN ALEXANDER RAINY
BROTCHIE, ord. 14th July 1881; dem.
1883, and went to Australia (q.v.).
HALLBANK CHURCH.
THOMAS WARDROBE (cf. Vol. I.,
194), min. of Hallbank Church, Hexham,
1740-50 ; adm. to Bathgate 4th April 1750.
PATRICK KERR (cf. Vol. II., 140),
licentiate of Church of Scotland; min. of
Hallbank Church, Hexham, 1750-5 ; became
min. of Teviothead in 1757.
THOMAS SCOTT, born 1723, a native
of Wilton, Hawick ; licentiate of Church of
Scotland ; ord. to Harbottle in 1736 ; adm.
min. of Hallbank Church, Hexham, 24th
Nov. 1756 ; adm. to Auchtermuchty West
Relief congregation llth Aug. 1763; died
17th Feb. 1792, and buried in Canongate
Churchyard, Edinburgh. He marr. April
1770, the widow of John Warden, first
Relief min. of Blairlogie ; she died at Edin
burgh 1810, aged 85.— [Small's Hist, of U.P.
Congs., i., 165.]
JAMES LIDDLE, ord. 4th March 1764 ;
died 1806.
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[CHARGES IN
HOLY ISLAND.
[John Knox preached in Holy Island in
1550, during his residence at Berwick.
The vicar was Sir John Arnsby, an up
holder of the Reformed faith. (See Zurich
Letters, 1551.)]
ALEXANDER HEWAT, min. in 1632 ;
died 26th Nov. 1662 and buried at Holy
Island.
JOHN UDNEY, MA. ; said to be a
min. from the North of Scotland; min.
1664-93; died 17th March 1693, aged
55. His first wife Margaret died 17th
March 1664, aged 51. He marr. (2) 21st
April 1678, Elizabeth Smith (died 3rd May
1729, aged 77), and had issue— Jean, born
7th Nov. 1680.— [Parish Registers; Tombst.]
JAMES COOPER, min. in 1695; died
1701.
ALEXANDER NICOLSON, MA. (cf.
Vol. II., 4); formerly min. of Bunkle
and Preston ; adm. 20th Aug. 1701 ; died
31st Aug. 1711, aged 65.
JAMES [or JOHN] ROBERTSON
formerly curate at Belford; ord. in 1711
buried 4th Oct. 1738.
ALEXANDER MOODY - STUART
MA. (cf. Vol. I., 110) ; missionary in Holy
Island, 1831-5 [afterwards min. of St
Luke's, Edinburgh].
[The charge was thereafter held by
licentiates and mins. of the U.P. Church
Robert Forsyth M'Garrity, afterwards mm
of Burray, Orkney (q.v.), was missionary
1894-5.]
KIRKLEY AND THORNEYFORD
JOHN RAMSAY (<•/. Vol. VI., Ill), ord
14th April 1762 ; adm. to Strachan, Aber
deenshire, 27th July 1763.
JOHN BLYTHE, licentiate of Church o
Scotland ; ord. 6th Oct. 1763 ; removed i
1794 to Blyth (q.v.).
GEORGE TODD (cf. Vol. II., 55), on
10th Aug. 1775; adm. to Ladykirk 17t
Sept. 1801.
JAMES YOUNG (cf. Vol. II., 157);
rd. 28th Aug. 1782 ; trans, to Glanton 12th
une 1786; adm. to Legerwood 6th Dec.
r97.
ALEXANDER ANDERSON (cf. Vol.
I., 3) ; ord. Aug. 1790 ; trans, to Bewcastle
n 1802; adm. to Abbey St Bathans 3rd
Aug. 1813.
GEORGE ATKIN, ord. in 1804 ; trans,
o Morpeth 1807.
THOMAS WAUGH (cf. Vol. VII., 213) ;
ord. (by Presb. of Langholm) to Kirkley
and Thorneyford 8th Dec. 1807; left in
1812 ; adm. to Deerness, Orkney, 6th May
1830.
ROBERT CLARK, ord. 27th April 1814.
Joined the Church of Scotland when a
licentiate of Associate (Burgher) Church ;
died 12th Dec. 1817, aged 39.
JAMES FERGUSON, min. 1817 to 1853.
LONGFRAMLINGTON.
WILLIAM ARCHIBALD, mentioned as
min. in 1689 to about 1717 ; was resident in
extreme old age " at Warkworth in 1748.
THOMAS LAIK [LAKE or LECK]
(cf. Vol. II., 139), pres. to Southdean in
1716, but not settled ; adm. here in 1717 ;
buried 3rd Oct. 1730.
RICHARD CHORLEY, min. 1730 to his
death in 1740.
JAMES OLIVER, ord. (successor) in
1736; res. 1756.
ROBERT RUTHERFORD, MA. (cf.
Vol. II., 231) ; ord. 17th Nov. 1756 ; adm.
to Castl'eton 28th July 1763.
JAMES CRUICKSHANKS, MA. ; ord.
at Longframlington in 1763; trans, to
Middle Meeting, Berwick - upon - Tweed,
1767 (q.v.).
JOHN TODD (cf. Vol. II., 16), ord. Nov.
1767 ; adm. to Fogo 21st Sept. 1785.
ANTHONY HEDLEY, ord. in 1785;
buried 6th June 1817, aged 64.
ANDREW RICHARDSON, licentiate of
Church of Scotland; ord. in 1818; died
1844.
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513
MORPETH.
JONATHAN HARLE, M.D. ; ord. 21st
Feb. 1693, having Alnwick in conjunction
until 1708. (See under Alnwick.)
JOHN HOESLEY, said to have been
born at Pinkie House, Inveresk, 1685 (for
which there is some evidence), but also
claimed as a native of Newcastle-upon-
Tyne and son of Charles H., tailor there ;
educated at Newcastle Grammar School
and Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (29th April
1701); became min. at Morpeth in 1708,
where he kept a school, lectured on natural
science, and made extensive researches into
the history of Koman Britain, his great
work, Britannia Romana, being published
shortly after his death; F.K.S. (23rd
April 1730); died 12th Jan. 1731-2 and
buried at Morpeth. He marr. (name
unrecorded) and had issue. [Wood's Parish
of Cramond says she was Anne, daugh. of
William Hamilton, min. of Cramond, after
wards Principal of Edinburgh Univ., but
this is an error, her husband being another
John Horsley, father of Samuel, Bishop
of St Asaph.] Publications — Vows in
Trouble (1729); The Vanity of Man
[Funeral Sermon for Jonathan Harle,
M.D.](1730); A Brief and General Account
of the . . . Principles of Statics, Mechanics,
Hydrostatics, and Pneumatics (Newcastle,
1731); Britannia Romana, or the Roman
Antiquities of Britain (London, 1732) ; A
Map of Northumberland [continued by
George Mark] (Edinburgh, 1753); "Materials
for the History of Northumberland"
(In edited Contributions to the History of
Northumberland, 1869); "Calculations of
the Rainfall at Widdrington " (Phil. Trans.,
xxxii., 328).- — [Hutchinson's Northumber
land, i., 202 et seq. ; Newcastle Magazine
(March 1821), 426 ; Hodgson's Memoir
(Newcastle, 1831); Hodgson's Hist, of
Northumberland (1832), ii., pt. 2, 443 et
seq.; Diet. Nat. Biog.; Wood's Cramond, 4.]
WILLIAM RICHARDSON, min. in
1732.
JAMES SIMPSON, min. before 1739.
VOL. VII.
JOHN AITCHISON (cf. Vol. I., 207),
ord. to Morpeth in 1739; adm. to Falkirk
6th Oct. 1759.
ROBERT TROTTER, a native of Mel-
rose, probably son of Robert T. and Mar
garet Maben, born 15th July 1731 ; trans.
from Harbottle and adm. in 1759 ; died
1807. He marr., and had issue.
GEORGE ATKIN, trans, from Kirkley
and adm. here 25th March 1807 ; clerk of
Presb. ; died 19th June 1828, aged 49. —
[Tombst.]
MATTHEW BROWN (cf. Vol. VI., 102),
ord. in 1829 ; adm. to Kincardine O'Neil
19th Oct. 1843.
JAMES ANDERSON, D.D. •(<-/. Vol. VI.,
241) ; formerly min. of St Fergus. Joined
the Free Church in 1843; adm. here 18th
Sept. 1845 ; died 17th May 1882.
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE.
HIGH BRIDGE.
JAMES MURRAY, born Fans, Earl-
ston, Berwickshire, 1732, son of John M. ;
educated at Earlston School and Univ.
of Edinburgh (the certificate of his last
session in divinity being dated 28th April
1760) ; licen. in 1760 ; went as tutor to
the family of William Weddell of Mouson,
Belford, Northumberland, and became
assistant to the min. of Bondgate Church,
Alnwick, in 1761 ; left over a dispute, and
with a section of the congregation founded
Bailiffgate Square Chapel of which he was
min. until 1764, when he removed to New-
castle-upon-Tyne and became first min. of
High Bridge Church ; died 28th Jan. 1782.
Thomas Bewick, the engraver, styles him " a
most cheerful, facetious, sensible, pleasant
man, a most agreeable companion, full of
anecdote and information, keen in his
remarks, though he carefully refrained from
hurting the feelings of any of the company."
He took considerable interest in all the
affairs of the town, preached to crowded
audiences, and lectured extensively on
religious and political subjects, attacking
Popery with great vehemence, opposing the
American War, and condemning the admini
stration of Lord North. His many
published writings were circulated in
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[CHARGES IN
numerous editions. He is best known by
his satirical Sermons to Asses. He marr.
Sarah of Mouson (died 18th March 1798),
daugh. of above William Weddell, and had
issue — John, M.D., died at Newcastle, llth
Sept. 1833, aged 63; Isabella (marr. 30th
April 1827 her cousin, James Murray,
North Shields); William, in Manchester;
Jane (marr. Charles Hay, Newcastle) ;
Sarah, died young. Publications — The
History of Religion, Particularly of the
Principal Denominations of Christians,
4 vols. (London, 1764); Select Discourses
(Newcastle, 1765, 2nd ed. 1768); An Essay
on Redemption by Jesus Christ (Newcastle,
1768); Sermons to Asses [anon.] (London,
1768, London, 1817 (portrait and biography)
[ed. by William Hone]) ; Sermons to Doctors
in Divinity (London, 1768, Paisley, 1798) ;
Sermons to Men, Women, and Children
(Newcastle, 1768); Rudiments of the English
Tongue, or the Principles of English Gram
mar (Newcastle, 1771) ; A History of the
Churches in England and Scotland from
the Reformation to this Present Time [by a
clergyman] 3 vols. (Newcastle, 1771-72);
New Sermons to Asses (London, 1773 and
1796); The Travels of the Imagination
(London, 1773, 2nd ed. 1828); EIKOON
BASIAIKH, or the Character of Eglon,
King of Moab, wherein is Demonstrated
the Advantage of Christianity in the Exer
cise of Civil Government (Newcastle, 1773) ;
Lectures to Lords Spiritual (London, 1774) ;
A Grave Answer to Mr [John] Wesley's
" Calm Address to our American Colonies "
(Newcastle, 1775) ; An Old Fox Tarred and
Feathered (London, 1775) ; Lectures upon
the Most Remarkable Characters and Trans
actions Recorded in the Book of Genesis,
2 vols. (Newcastle, 1777); The Magazine of
Ants, or Pismire Journal (Newcastle, 1777) ;
Lectures upon the Book of the Revelation
of St John the Divine, 2 vols. (Newcastle,
1778); The New Maid of the Oaks, a
Tragedy, as Lately Acted near Saratoga
(London, 1778); An Impartial History of
the Present War in America, 2 vols. (New
castle, 1778-80); Sermons to Ministers of
State (Newcastle, 1781) ; Sermons for the
General Fast Day (London, 1781); The
Fast, a Poem (London, 1781); News from
the Pope to the Devil (Newcastle, 1781);
Popery Not Christianity (Newcastle, 1781) ;
An Alarm without Cause (Newcastle, n.d.).
He left in MSS., A Course of Lectures on
the Philosophy of the Human Mind;
Lectures on the Book of Job ; A Journey
through Cumberland and the Lakes ; and
A Journey to Edinburgh, Glasgow, etc.
Edited the Freeman's Magazine, or the Con
stitutional Repository (Newcastle, 1774);
The Protestant Packet, or British Monitor
(Newcastle, 1780).— [Memoir (portrait) in
Travels of the Imagination (London, 1828) ;
Mackenzie's Newcastle-upon-Tyne, i., 387) ;
Notes and Queries, 2nd ser. xii., 292; 3rd
ser. vii., 479 ; Scots Magazine (1782) p. Ill ;
Tombst. ; Diet. Nat. Biog.]
ALLAN COKNFOOT, min. 1782 to Jan.
1785 ; became min. of a congregation at
Gateshead (q.v.).
GEOKGE LOGAN (cf. Vol. III., 136),
ord. 27th April and adm. here 22nd Aug.
1785 ; adm. to Ardoch 18th July 1793
[afterwards of Eastwood].
JOHN HUTTON, ord. 16th April 1794 ;
clerk of Presb. 1801-5; dem. 24th Sept.
1805 ; was under suspension 1805-8 ; died
in Scotland.
THOMAS LOCKEEBY (cf. Vol. III.,
374) ; ord. 7th Aug. 1808 ; adm. to Chryston
Chapel 25th April 1811 [afterwards of
Gadder].
EGBERT FEEGUS, born 1772, fifth son
of Andrew F., farmer, Kirkintilloch ; edu
cated at Univ. of Glasgow ; ord. 12th Nov.
1811 ; died 7th Dec. 1834, and buried in
St Andrew's Churchyard, Newcastle. He
had a son, Andrew, M.D. (Glasgow 1866).
PETEE MOEEISON (cf. Vol. V., 51).
Joined the Church of Scotland while
a student at United Secession Hall;
licen. by Presb. of Glasgow ; ord. (assistant
and successor) 31st July 1834 ; assistant at
Auchterarder, 1839-43 ; adm. to Saline 4th
Aug. 1843.
PETEE EUSSELL SAWEES (cf. Vol.
III., 310), formerly min. at Lanark ; adm.
10th March 1840; dem. 10th Oct. 1843.
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515
Joined the Free Church in 1843 ; min. of
Free Church, Gargunnock, 1843-73; dep.
1873 ; died 19th June 1885.
[Church vacant, 1843-6.]
JOSIAS LESLIE POETER, born 4th
Oct. 1823, youngest son of William P.,
farmer, Carrowan, Burt, Co. Donegal, and
Margaret, daugh. of Andrew Leslie, Drum-
gowan, in same parish ; educated at
Londonderry School and Univs. of Glasgow,
B.A. (1841), M.A. (1842), and Edinburgh,
and New College, Edinburgh ; licen. by
Presb. of Derry 20th Nov. 1844; ord.
25th Feb. 1846; became a missionary to
the Jews at Damascus under Irish Presby
terian Church in 1849; app. Professor of
Biblical Criticism, Presbyterian College,
Belfast, July 1860 ; LL.D. (Glasgow 1864) ;
D.D. (Edinburgh 1864); Secretary of
College Faculty 1867 ; Moderator of Irish
General Assembly 1875 ; res. Professorship
1878 on appointment as assistant- commis
sioner to Board of Education for Ireland ;
President of Queen's College, Belfast, 1879 ;
D.Litt. (Royal Univ. of Ireland 1881) ; died
at Belfast, 16th March 1889, and buried
in Malone Cemetery. He made extensive
and adventurous journeys through all parts
of Syria and Palestine, was a profound
Hebrew and Arabic scholar, and a proficient
artist. He marr 1849, Margaret Rainey,
daugh. of Henry Cooke, D.D., LL.D.,
Belfast, and had issue. Publications — Five
Years in Damascus, 2 vols. (London, 1855) ;
Handbook for Travellers in Syria and
Palestine (London, 1858, 2nd ed. 1875);
Bishop Colenso on the Pentateuch, reviewed
(Belfast, 1863); The Pentateuch and the
Gosjjels (London, 1864); The Giant Cities
of Bashan and Syria's Holy Places (London,
1865); The Life and Times of Henry
Cooke, D.D. (London, 1871, and other
editions) ; Pew and Study Bible (London,
1876) ; Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Bethany,
Galilee and the Jordan (London, 1885).
Contributions to Kitto's Cyclopaedia of
Biblical Literature, 1862, and Pictorial
Bible ; Smith's Dictionary of the Bible,
Encyclopaedia Britannica and Bibliotheca
Sacra (New York). — [Diet. Nat. Biog.;
Various Obituary Notices.]
[The congregation dispersed in 1852, and
the building, taken over by the Church of
Scotland, was afterwards sold.]
BLACKETT STREET.
[In 1821 a second Church of Scotland
foundation came into existence to supply
the needs of the western portion of the
growing town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. A
church was built in Blackett Street on the
site now (1928) occupied by Emmerson's
Buildings. Soon after 1843 the congre
gation was dissolved and the building sold
to the U.P. denomination.]
JAMES SMELLIE, min. 1821 until his
death 29th December 1825.
JOHN LOCKHART, D.D. (cf. Vol. VI.,
222); ord. (by Presb. of Glasgow) 2nd
March 1826 ; dem. 20th Aug. 1843, preach
ing his farewell sermon to a few people in
a private room, the church being sold
immediately before his demission ; adm. to
Fraserburgh in 1846.
CASTLEGARTH.
[Formed in 1702 by secessionists from
Close Gate Meeting during the incumbency
of Richard Gilpin, M.D. A church was
built in 1705 near the Castle Gate. The
building was sold in 1814 to a Relief con
gregation.]
THOMAS BRADBURY, assistant to
Richard Gilpin, M.D., and to his successor,
Benjamin Bennett, 1699-1702. Disappointed
in his expectation of the co-pastorate, he
caused a split in the congregation and
originated Castlegarth, where he ministered
for a brief period, removing to London in
1703 ; ord. min. of an independent congre
gation in New Street, Fetter Lane, 10th
July 1707 ; was afterwards min. of a
Presbyterian meeting-house in Lincoln's Inn
Fields; died 9th Sept. 1759, aged 62, and
buried in Bunhill Fields.— [Diet. Nat. Biog.
[contains notices of his many publications] ;
Jones's Bunhill Memorials, 10-13.]
- LOWES, min. about 1704-9.
EDWARD DAVIDSON, min. 1709 to
1736.
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[CHARGES IN
EDWARD AITKEN, adm. 1736; died
about 1771. His daugh. Jane marr. William
Davidson (infra).
JAMES BURNS, M.A., licen. by Presb.
of Kirkcaldy 27th April 1759; ord. (assistant)
30th Sept. 1760 ; died 30th March 1761.
WILLIAM DAVIDSON, son of above
Edward D., ord. assistant and successor to
Edward Aitken, 10th Nov. 1762; adm. to
Mordington 14th May 1801 (cf. Vol. II., 58).
DAVID GELLATLY, ord. first Relief
min. at Haddington 1792; dep. 1794; be
came leader of "The First Constituted
Presb. of Relief"; adm. to this charge in
1801 ; was chaplain to the Ayrshire Militia
quartered at Newcastle; removed in 1811
to Shiprow Relief congregation, Aberdeen ;
died at Peterculter 20th Aug. 1821, aged 58.
Publications — The History and Principles
of the First Constituted Presbytery of Re
lief ; Wars and Rumours of' Wars; The
Cross of Christ, the Tree of Liberty. —
[Small's Hist, of U. P. Congregations, i., 11,
521, 537 [gives full account of Gellatly's
stormy career at Haddington] ; Tombst. ;
Mackelvie's Annals, 218.]
JAMES CHAMBERS, min. 1811 to
1814. (See under Rothbury.)
GROAT MARKET.
[Congregation probably formed at the
Toleration ; identified with the Free Church
in 1843.]
WILLIAM ARTHUR [earliest name
recorded]; min. before 1716 to about 1758.
ANDREW OGILVIE (cf. Vol. II., 77),
called 10th July and ord. 14th Oct. 1759;
adm. to Linton in Teviotdale 31st July
1781.
DAVID GRANT (cf. Vol. III., 62), ord.
14th Nov. 1781 ; trans, to Ettrick 4th May
1786 [afterwards of Ochiltree].
JOHN ANDERSON, ord. 12th Sept.
1786 [afterwards of St Paul's, Dundee (cf.
Vol. V., 332).
DAVID M'INDOE, born Glasgow 1759,
eldest son of Hugh M. ; educated at Univ.
of Glasgow [expelled in 1785 and his name
ordered to be erased. The General Assembly
of that year found it incompetent for the
Presb. to take him on trials for licence till
sentence of expulsion removed, which was
done on 21st Nov. same year] ; ord. 29th Sept.
1790 ; died 17th April 1826. Publication—
Sermons (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1823).
ROBERT KIRK, born Glasgow, 1793,
third son of John K., publisher ; educated
at Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of
Glasgow ; ord. (by Presb. of Chirnside)
llth, and adm. 18th Aug. 1826; dem. in
1839 ; became assistant at St Clement's,
Dundee ; app. chaplain to the Town's
Hospital, Glasgow ; died at Card well Bay,
Gourock, 24th Oct. 1857.
ARCHIBALD HUNTER (cf. Vol. II.,
251), ord. 13th June 1839; adm. to
Kirkpatrick-Fleming 27th Sept. 1843.
PATRICK LESLIE MILLER, formerly
rnin.of Wallacetown, Dundee (cf. Vol. V., 341);
adm. 25th March 1847 ; Moderator of Synod
1860; died 16th April 1 866.— [Portrait in
Museum Presb. Hist. Soc. of England.}
SALLYPORTGATE AND OLD
POSTERN GATE.
ROBERT MAIR, first min., was buried
in Sidegate burial-ground, Newcastle.
THOMAS SOMERVILLE, licentiate of
Church of Scotland; ord. in 1743. Joined
the Associate Presb. with his congregation,
the first min. in England to do so, and for
many years the only Secession min. in
England. In 1753 he was cited before the
Associate (Burgher) Synod on an accusa
tion by his session, but not compearing, his
name was removed from the Synod's roll.—
[Mackelvie's Annals, 526.]
JOHN BA1LLIE. (See Maling's Rigg,
Sunderland.)
SILVER STREET AND BLACKETT STREET
(Srr JAMES'S).
[In 1744, a malting-house in Silver Street
was converted into St James's Church in
connection with the Church of Scotland.
In 1825 the congregation migrated to St
James's, Blackett Street.]
GEORGE OGILVIE, a native of Aboyne;
educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A.
(1st April 1730); min. of Silver Street
church in 1744; died 21st April 1765,
aged 57.
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NORTHUMBERLAND
517
JAMES SHIELD, trans, from Cother-
stone (q.v.) and adm. to Silver Street, July
1765 ; drowned in 1784.
ADAM LAIDLAW, trans, from South
Shields and adm. to Silver Street, Feb.
1784 ; adm. to Kirkton, Hawick, 28th Aug.
1818 (cf. Vol. II., 130).
WILLIAM BEATTIE SMITH, educated
at Univ. of Edinburgh, M.A. (17th Jan.
1818; ord. to Silver Street, 31st Aug. 1818 ;
removed to St James's, Blackett Street in
1825 ; dem. 4th Sept. 1828.
THOMAS THOMSON, preacher in
charge, 8th Oct. 1828 to 14th April 1829.
(See under Australia).
WILLIAM ANDERSON, ord. 24th June
and adm. 24th July 1829; res. 7th Feb.
1831, when the church was closed in conse
quence of inability to maintain a minister.
WEST GATE.
[Founded by secessionists from Close
Gate Meeting.]
RICHARD ROGERSON, died 6th Sept.
1760. He was first Moderator of New
castle Presb. in connection with the Church
of Scotland.
SAMUEL LOWTHIAN, min. in 1760;
died 17th Nov. 1780, aged 57.
NORTH SHIELDS.
JOHN RICCALTOUN (cf. Vol. II., 119),
ord. 17th May 1755 ; left in 1759 ; adm. to
Hobkirk 4th Dec. 1765.
JAMES RAE, born about 1723, third son
of Robert R. in Little Govan ; educated at
Univ. of Glasgow; ord. 15th June 1759;
died 20th June 1803.
WALTER KNOX, a native of Lilliesleaf ;
educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; ord. 22nd
April 1801 ; died 13th Jan. 1817.
JOHN COCHRANE (cf. Vol. II., 115),
nephew of preceding ; trans, from Falstone
and adm. 29th May 1817 ; adm. to Hawick
12th Sept. 1823. His induction at North
Shields was the cause of a secession in the
congregation, a minority erecting a church
known as St Andrew's with JOHN WILSON,
M.A., as min.
CHARLES THOMSON (cf. Vol. VII.,
142), ord. in 1823 ; clerk of Presb. 1827-40 ;
Moderator of Synod 1826 and 1839 ; trans,
to Wick 17th Sept. 1840. — [Portrait in
Museum Presb. Hist. Soc. of England.]
CHARLES FORBES BUCHAN, M.A.
(cf. Vol. V., 468) ; ord. in 1840 ; trans, to
High Church, Paisley, 10th May 1844
[afterwards min. of Fordoun].
GEORGE JOHN CRAIG DUNCAN
(cf. Vol. II., 286), formerly min. of
Kirkpatrick-Durham ; adm. min. here
(Free Church) 23rd May 1844; Moderator
of Synod 1850.— [Portrait in Museum Presb.
Hist. Soc. of England.]
NORTH SUNDERLAND.
GEORGE JAMIESON, licentiate of
Church of Scotland ; ord. in 1797. Joined
the Baptist denomination and was min. of
Whitehaven Baptist Church till 1811 when
he left for Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where he
opened a place of worship for Scots Baptists
and engaged in a pamphlet controversy
with a Mrs Briggs on Antinomianism.
ANDREW BROOM, licentiate of
Secession Church ; ord. to North Sunder-
land 9th April 1834 ; suspended from office
19th June 1838 and subsequently dep.
[afterwards min. of Church of Scotland
in Newcastle-upon-Tyne (q.v.)].
JOHN STORIE, ord. to North Sunder-
land in 1838; trans, in 1848 to St John's,
South Shields ; dem. in 1858 and was after
wards in Tasmania (q.v.).
DAVID MUNRO, licentiate of Church
of Scotland ; ord. in 1847 and continued till
1865.
SPITTAL.
[During the Rising of 1745, the South
or English Gate of Berwick was shut on
Sunday mornings too long to allow the
Presbyterians from outside reaching the
town churches in time for service. For
their relief, supply of sermon was provided,
and in 1752 a congregation was formed.]
JAMES THOMSON, M.A. (cf. Vol. V.,
266) : ord. 8th April 1752 ; adm. to Kin-
goldrum 23rd Nov. 1758.
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NORTHUMBERLAND
[CHARGES IN
WILLIAM KIDD, licentiate of Church
of Scotland ; min. 1758 to 1784.
[JOHN LAWSON, licentiate of Church
of Scotland; adm. (colleague) in 1782.
Joined the Relief Synod along with his
congregation (where a secession took place
on account of his wearing gown and bands
in the pulpit); was afterwards min. of
Relief Church, Dumfries, and New Inn
Entry Relief Church, Dundee; died at
Temple, Midlothian, 21st Oct. 1836, aged
83.— [Small's Hist, of U.P. Churches, i.,
HENRY CANT, ord. in 1790 (having
stipulated that his ordination should be
by the Church of Scotland Presb.); died
1807.— [Fuller's Hist, of Berwick.]
WILLIAM JOHNSTONS, trans, from
Cheviot Street Church, Wooler, 1808;
trans, to High Meeting, Berwick-upon-
Tweed, 1812 (q.v.).
WILLIAM WHITEHOUSE, ord. to
Thropton 27th June 1811 ; trans, to Spittal
in 1813; died 13th Oct. 1857.— [Mackelvie's
Annals, 98.]
JAMES FALCONER, eldest son of John
F., barber, Glasgow ; educated at Univ.
of Glasgow ; licentiate of U.P. Church ;
ord. to Gatehouse Secession Church 5th
April 1842; res. 20th April 1847; adm.
here llth July 1848 as colleague to preceding
min. The congregation joined the Secession
Church and he dem. 10th Oct. 1849 ; died
at Glasgow, 20th April 1851, aged 36.
STAMFORDHAM.
JOHN OWEN [or OWENS], M.A. (cf.
Vol. II., 122); min. at Stamfordham in
1622; adm. to Hownam in 1691. — [Tait's
Border Church Life, i., 29.]
JOHN DYSART, M.A. (cf. Vol. II., 38) ;
min. of a meeting-house at Dalton, Stam
fordham, 1686-91 ; adm. to Coldingham
24th July 1694.
ALEXANDER GRANT, M.A. (cf. Vol. I.
318, VII. 231) ; formerly min. of Fala and
Soutra ; min. at Stamfordham 1691 - 9
[afterwards at South Ronaldshay].
ROBERT YOULL [or YOOLL], M.A.
(Edinburgh, 9th April 1707); min. at
Stamfordham 1699-1715. Publication —
Nature and Extent of the Covenant of
Grace (Newcastle, 1713).
JAMES HALL, M.A. (cf. Vol. II., 2), a
native of Stamfordham, and nearly related
to the well-known Robert Hall of Bristol ;
ord. here in 1715; adm. to Abbey St
Bathans 28th July 1719.— [Hall Warren's
The Hall Family (1910).]
JAMES DRYDEN, educated at Univ.
of Edinburgh; licentiate of Church of
Scotland ; adm. to Falstone in 1734 ; trans.
to Stamfordham in 1742 ; died 1788. He
conducted a theological seminary at Stam
fordham in which Robert Hall of Arnesby
(father of above mentioned Robert Hall)
received his training for the ministry.
JOHN ORR, born 1755, eldest son of
John O., Lochwinnoch ; educated at Univ.
of Glasgow and Secession Theological Hall.
Joined the Church of Scotland and ord.
here in 1788 ; died 1824.
JAMES BRYCE (cf. Vol. VI, 7) ; ord.
(by Presb. of Stirling) 18th May 1824;
trans, to Wooler July 1830; adm. to
Gilcomston, Aberdeen, 2nd July 1835.
ROBERT GILLAN (cf. Vol. III., 145),
ord. 27th Oct. 1830 ; trans, to South Shields
in 1833 [afterwards min. of Inchinnan].
ROBERT ORANGE BROMFIELD (cf.
Vol. II., 91), ord. 21st Sept. 1833; adm.
to Larkhall 26th July 1838; adm. to
Sprouston 21st Sept. 1843.
DUNCAN MACINTYRE, M.A. (cf. Vol.
III., 137); ord. 24th Sept. 1838; adm. to
Eastwood 7th Dec. 1843. Last Church of
Scotland min. at Stamfordham.
THROPTON AND ROTHBURY.
[Thropton congregation founded 1799,
Rothbury founded 1804. They were united
in 1812.]
JAMES ROBERTSON, licentiate of
Church of Scotland ; min. 1799 to 1808.
THOMAS HALL, ord. in 1808 ; trans, to
Crookham in 1809 (q.v.).
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519
WILLIAM WHITEHOUSE, ord. 27th
June 1811 ; traps, to Spittal in 1813 (q.v.}.
WILLIAM VASSIE, M.A. (cf. Vol. III.,
129), ord. 16th April 1813; adm. to West
Kilbride 20th March 1823.
GEORGE GIBB, born Coldstream (cf.
Vol. V., 262), ord. 1st July 1823 [not 1828] ;
adm. to Glenisla, Forfarshire, llth May
1849. He was uncle of Sir George Steg-
mann G., Chairman of the Road Board,
and of John G., D.D., Professor of Ecclesi
astical History, Westminster College, Cam
bridge.
ROTHBURY.
CHARLES WHITEFIELD, min. at
Swalwell 1802-3 ; trans, to Blyth in 1803 ;
min. here 1804-6 ; is said to have removed
to Aberdeen but his name does not occur
in any Aberdeenshire parish. As he was
originally a teacher, he may have held a
school in the North.
JAMES CHAMBERS, born Glasgow,
1752, eldest son of Alexander C. ; educated
at Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A. (1777) ; min.
at Fisher Street, Carlisle, 1782, Enfield
1793; went to America and became head
of the State College, Philadelphia; returned
to England in 1805 ; min. at Longtown
1805-7 ; trans, to Rothbury in 1807 ; was
at Castlegarth Church, Newcastle-upon-
Tyne, 1811-14 ; retired and died at the house
of his son, a surgeon in Newcastle, 17th
Nov. 1841.
WARENFORD.
JAMES FORD, M.A. (cf. Vol. II., 154) ;
ord. 31st July 1751 ; adm. to Lauder 27th
Sept. 1753.
WILLIAM WRIGHT, licentiate of
Church of Scotland (Newcastle Presb.) 7th
Aug. 1751 ; ord. in 1754; died 1782.
ROBERT NICHOL, licentiate of
Church of Scotland; ord. in 1782; died
1798. He marr. 25th Aug. 1789, Miss
Farrer, Alnwick.
PETER ROSS, licentiate of Church of
Scotland ; ord. in 1798 and continued till
1814.
ANDREW HUTCHESON, born West
Green, Dundee, 1779 ; educated at Univ.
of St Andrews ; licen. by Presb. of Dundee ;
sometime a tutor ; ord. in 1816 ; D.D.
(Glasgow 1842); died 2nd Dec. 1851, and
buried at Lucker. He restored the church
and manse, largely at his own cost, and
established a school and post office.
Publications — The Apocalypse its own
Interpreter: or A Guide to the Study of
the Book of Revelation (Alnwick, 1828,
1834); A Theological Discovery, or an
Exposition of the Cherubim of Glory
(Alnwick, 1845).
WARK-ON-TYNE.
JOHN SLATE [SLADE or SLEIGHT],
min. at Wark-on-Tyne 1788-1837 ; died 1837.
THOMAS JOHNSTONE, licentiate
of Irish Presbyterian Church ; app. June
1845 and ord. 25th March 1846; dem.
3rd April 1851 without notice, when his
credentials were withheld by Presb.
ANDREW WILSON, born Montrose,
4th May 1834, fifth son of Andrew W., min.
of the Secession Church, Montrose; edu
cated at Montrose Academy and Univs. of
Edinburgh and Glasgow ; licentiate of
Church of Scotland ; ord. to Wark-on-Tyne
in 1862; retired 1879; died at Edinburgh
24th Jan. 1910.
ADAM THOMSON LANDRETH, born
6th March 1855, son of Peter L. and
brother of James L., min. of Logie-Pert
(cf. Vol. V., 405); educated at Univ. of
Edinburgh; licentiate of U.P. Church;
ord. to Wark-on-Tyne 21st Sept. 1880;
res. 1885. Joined the Church of Scotland,
but did not hold a charge ; resident at
Logie-Pert in 1928. Publications— Con
tributions to contemporary journalism.
[Succeeding ministers belonged to Presby
terian Church of England.]
WARKWORTH.
THOMAS M'KANE, mentioned as min.
of a Scots Presbyterian Meeting here, 1786-
1827. Nothing is known of him, except
that he was a native of Newcastle-upon-
Tyne and a communicant of Wall Knoll
Church. After his death the congregation
became connected with the United Associate
Presb. of Newcastle.— [Mackelvie's Annals,
539.]
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NORTHUMBERLAND
[CHAKGES IN
WIDDRINGTON.
ALEXANDER STEVENSON, min.
1761 to 1783.
JAMES HERON (cf. Vol. II., 280), ord.
to Scots Church, Widdrington, 5th Feb.
1784; adm. to Kirkgunzeon 8th June 1786.
JAMES LANDELL, M.A. (cf. Vol. II.,
38), ord. to Scots Church, Widdrington, 8th
March 1787; adm. to Coldingham 13th
Aug. 1793.
ALLAN CORNFOOT, min. from 1793
to 1804. [See under Gateshead.]
ROBERT MARR, min. 1804 to 1807.
DANIEL HUNTER, min. 1807 to 1828.
GEORGE BOAG (cf. Vol. I., 235), ord.
to Scots Church, Widdrington, 10th July
1828 ; adm. to Uphall 2nd Aug. 1839.
WILLIAM BREWSTER (cf. Vol. VI.,
192), ord. 24th Dec. 1839; adm. to Ellon
20th June 1844.
[Succeeding mins. belonged to English
Presbyterian Church.]
WOOLER.
CHEVIOT STREET.
JOHN LOMAX, M.D., Presbyterian
vicar ; ejected in 1662 [afterwards first
min. of Presbyterian Church, North Shields
(q.v.)]. Services were held here by Luke
Ogle and other Scottish mins. from 1662.
JOHN BONE, died at Wooler in 1721.
DANIEL ATKIN, ord. (colleague) in
1719 [afterwards at Penruddock till 1734].
ALEXANDER WILSON, licentiate of
Church of Scotland ; ord. Nov. 1734 ; died
1776.
WILLIAM WILSON, son of preceding •
licentiate of Church of Scotland; ord.
Jan. 1776 ; min. till 1783. Nothing further
is known of his career.
THOMAS MURRAY (primus), a native
of Chirnside ; ord. (by Presb. of Chirnside)
21st Sept. 1784; extruded by a legal
decision which upheld the right of the
majority to determine the choice of a
min.
THOMAS MURRAY of Heriotshall
(secundus) (cf. Vol. II., 147), ord. 2nd Sept.
1785 ; adm. to Channelkirk 26th Feb. 1793.
WILLIAM JOHNSTONS, ord. in 1793 ;
trans, to Spittal in 1807 ; min. of High
Meeting, Berwick, 1813 (q.v.}. [In 1807
this congregation joined the Relief Synod.]
WESTER MEETING-HOUSE.
[Congregation originated in 1729, and
was probably an offshoot from Cheviot
Street Church.]
ARCHIBALD WALLACE, son
of Archibald W. [so named in remembrance
of an incident in which his parents, pro
prietors near Bowden, Roxburghshire, and
zealous Covenanters, preserved the life
of Archibald Campbell, Marquess of Argyle,
by concealing him in a dry-well of their
garden] ; said to have been settled here in
1732 ; died in his pulpit on Sunday pre
ceding 14th June 1755, on which day he
was buried. A MS. volume of his sermons,
dated Wooler 1744, is still preserved. His
widow, Margaret Wallace, Wooler, was
buried 23rd June 1777. They had issue —
Gavin, min. of Nenthorn, born 25th Feb.
1750, and two daughs., one of whom kept
a Ladies' Boarding School in London, and
wrote on Education.
PATRICK CRICHTON [or CREIGH-
TON], son of the Rev. Alexander C., adm.
13th July 1755 ; died 1776. A son, William,
born 9th Dec. 1765, died 1776.— [Tombst.]
GEORGE GRIEVE, adm. early in 1777.
He almost immediately adopted Baptist
views ; became a member of the Baptist
congregation in Edinburgh 1780; studied
medicine, and settled in the North of
England. — [Hist, of the Baptists in Scot
land (Glasgow, 1926), 49.]
JAMES KENNEDY, born Jedburgb,
1747, son of George and Ann K. ; educated
at Univ. of Edinburgh; licen. by North
umberland Classis in 1774 ; sometime a
tutor near Embleton and resident at
Alnwick when called here, 27th April 1777 ;
adm. soon afterwards ; died 14th Oct. 1807.
He marr. 8th March 1779, Margaret (died
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OXFORDSHIRE— STAFFORDSHIRE
521
6th March 1794, aged 38), second daugh. of
Andrew Abercrombie, Alnwick, and had
issue — Phoebe, born 1st Jan. 1780 (marr.
George Bolton) ; Anne (marr. George
Wilkie), died at Fernieflat, near Berwick,
1829.— [Memoir in Evangelical Magazine,
Nov. 1820; Tombst.]
JAMES MITCHELL (cf. Vol. V., 414) ;
born Strageath, Perthshire, 31st Oct. 1759
[not 1763 as in above volume]; educated
at Univs. of St Andrews, Glasgow, and
Edinburgh ; ord. to South Shields 22nd
June 1784 ; acini, to Second Charge, Mont-
rose, 22nd June 1786 ; after demission in
1804 resided in Edinburgh as a tutor until
adm. here 3rd July 1808; died 20th Oct.
1835. His son James, surgeon on board
a convict ship, was sunstroked in a voyage
to Tasmania, and permanently disabled;
his daugh. Jean, author of The Missionary
Excursion, Mary Hume, and other works,
died at Edinburgh of fever caught while
visiting a sick Sunday School scholar. He
had also issue — Ebenezer, born 21st Oct.
1809, spent much of his life in India, and
died at Edinburgh. Publication — The
Christian Sabbath (1802). — [Gregory's
Story of the West Church, Wooler, 25-44 ;
Tombst.]
JAMES BRYCE (cf. Vol. VI., 7), trans,
from Stamfordham ; called July 1830 and
adm. (colleague) soon after; adm. to Gil-
comston, Aberdeen, 2nd July 1835. His
daughter's name was Charlotte [not Acolette,
as in above volume].
THOMAS GRAY, son of William G.,
Aberdeen ; M.A. (Marischal College 1823) ;
(cf. Vol. I., 278) ; licen. by Presb. of Aber
deen ; elected 23rd Aug. 1835 ; ord. (by
Presb. of Aberdeen) 6th Oct. that year;
adm. to Kirkurd 2nd Sept. 1843; died in
London, 2nd Aug. 1874.
[Succeeding mins. belonged to English
Presbyterian Church.]
OXFORDSHIRE
OXFORD.
HENRY C. B. BAZELY, born 4th Sept.
1842, son of Thomas Tyssen B., rector of
All Saints, Poplar, London ; educated at
Radley College and Univ. of Oxford, B.A.
(1865), B.C.L. (27th Feb. 1868), where one
of his intimates was David Johnston, then
min. of Unst, and a student at Brasenose.
Largely influenced by this friendship Bazely
visited Scotland in 1866 to study the
working of the Presbyterian system, and
after sessions at Aberdeen and Edinburgh
he was licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 29th
Dec. 1869; returned to Oxford where he
carried on social and evangelistic work ;
ord. by Presb. of London to St Andrew's
Church, Stepney, 18th April 1877, serving
for two years and refusing all remuneration.
In 1879 he went again to Oxford, purchased
a site in Nelson Street, and built at his
own cost a church for Church of Scotland
services, where he ministered till his death
1st March 1883. The charge was dis
continued in 1885, the Scottish Synod in
England not having encouraged Bazely's
widow to implement her husband's wish in
handing over the buildings to their care. —
[Life by E. L. Hicks [rector of Fenny
Compton] (London, 1885) ; Menzies Fergus-
son's Quiet Folk, 110-25 ; M. Taine's Notes
on England.]
STAFFORDSHIRE
STAFFORD.
ALEXANDER MACDONALD. (See under Birmingham.)
HENRY PROCTOR, min. 1789 to his death in 1808.
JAMES WILSON, M.A., ord. to a Presbyterian congregation in Stafford 15th April
1784; was afterwards at Stockport ; adm. to Falkirk 2nd May 1794 (cf. Vol. I., 207).
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[CHARGES IN
SURREY
CROYDON.
JOHN CALDER, born Aberdeen, 1733,
son of Robert C., merchant; educated at
Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1746-50;
(Rolland bursar); Hon. M.A. (1750); licen.
by Presb. of Aberdeen ; ord. to St James's
Church, Alnwick, 1759; became secretary
and librarian at Alnwick Castle ; accom
panied the Duke of Northumberland to
London in 1770 in a similar capacity, and
succeeded Dr Price as min. of Poor Jewry
Lane Meeting-house, near the Tower ; was
sometime in charge of the Library be
queathed by Daniel Williams, D.D., for
the use of non-conformist clergy ; app.
editor of a new edition of Ephraim
Chambers's Cyclopcedia, to which he con
tributed several articles, one of which
brought him into conflict with Dr Johnson,
and ended in losing his editorship; D.D.
(Marischal College, 21st Sept. 1771). In
1776 he projected a periodical called The
Selector, and another The Foreign Intel
ligencer. A friendship at Alnwick with
Thomas Percy (afterwards Bishop of
Dromore) led him to assist the latter in
preparing new editions of the Tatler,
Spectator, and Guardian, and Percy's
materials falling into his hands, were
utilised in various editions of these works
issued by John Nichols, especially a six-
volume edition of the Tatler (1786) in
which Calder's contributions are signed
"Annotator." In 1789 he produced a
translation, with Memoir, of P. F. le
Courayer's Declaration of his Last Senti
ments on the different Doctrines of Religion.
For the Encyclopaedia Britannica, he wrote
a lengthy notice of the Courten family.
Removing to Croydon he became min. of
the Presbyterian Meeting; Assessor at
Marischal College, 1809-15 ; died at Lisson
Grove, Paddington, 10th June 1815, and
buried at Sanderstead, Surrey. He was an
excellent classical scholar, a numismatist
of note, and left his fine collection of Greek
and Roman coins to Marischal College.
He marr. (1) at Alnwick, a lady said to be
" of considerable fortune " : (2) 24th Jan.
1789, Martha Huddlestone Green (died s.p.
1st April 1819, aged 77), sister of John G.,
Croydon.— [Gentleman's Mag., Ixxxv. (1815),
564 ; Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, ix., 805
et seq. ; Nichols's Illustrations of Literary
Hist., iv., 799-848 ; Diet. Nat. £iog.]
JAMES BONTHORNE, M.A., formerly
Jewish missionary (q.v.)-, held services at
Croydon, in connection with Church of Scot
land, 1865-7 [afterwards in Australia (g.v.)].
WARWICKSHIRE
BIRMINGHAM.
[In 1823 an enterprising builder erected
a spacious and elegant chapel in Graham
Street, Birmingham, without any definite
intention by whom it was to be used as a
place of worship. The building was taken
over by Edward Irving, at the instance of
the Presb. of London, and opened by him
March 1824. It proved too large and
expensive, and a more modest structure
was erected in Newhall Street and opened,
again by Irving, Jan. 1826. This in turn
was sold in 1835 and a small church
acquired in Broad Street. The present
edifice, built 1848-9, is now in connection
with the Presbyterian Church of England.]
JOHN GEDDES CROSBIE, M.A.
(cf. Vol. III., 95); licentiate of Presb. of
Dumfries; min. of the Scots Church,
Walthamstow, 1815-19, John Knox Church,
Stepney, 1820, and, on the recommendation
of Edward Irving, app. preacher here
March 1824 ; called 30th Nov. following
but not ord. (by Presb. of Glasgow) till 8th
June 1825; res. 9th Oct. 1826; adm. to
Fenwick 19th March 1829.
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523
ALEXANDER MACDONALD, born
Perth, 1803 ; educated at Univ. of Edin
burgh ; ord. (by Presb. of Perth) 15th March
1827 "without Presbyterial call or con
currence," an irregularity for which he
expressed regret to Presb. of London, by
whom he was ind. here llth April, and
formally received as a member of that
court, of which he was moderator in 1829 ;
res. 1830; adm. to Presbyterian congre
gation, Stafford, same year ; died there
1834 and buried in St Mary's Churchyard.
Describing one of Irving's preaching visits
to Birmingham in 1828, Mrs Oliphant
tells of Irving's getting down from the
coach on a wild, wet night, a gigantic and
picturesque figure in a long cloak, with his
bag slung over his shoulder on his gold-
headed cane, the other hand grasping a
folio under the shelter of the cloak : con
voyed by a ragged urchin of the streets who
" knew " where Mr Macdonald lived, but only
to find on arrival that this Mr Macdonald
was the Roman Catholic priest : and Irving's
return through the storm to the coaching-
house. — [Life of Edivard Irving, 260.]
WALTER MACLEAN, ord. by (Presb.
of London) in 1830 ; trans, to Douglas, Isle
of Man, 19th Sept. 1833 (q.v.).
ROBERT WALLACE, born Ayrshire,
1797, son of Edward W., farmer; edu
cated at Univ. of Glasgow ; licentiate of
Church of Scotland; ord. Feb. 1835;
Moderator of English Synod in 1844 ; res.
1845 on the question of infant baptism ;
was many years pastor of Tottenham
Baptist Church; died 1892. He marr.
and had issue.
JOHN ROBERTSON MACKENZIE,
D.D. (cf. Vol. II., 271); formerly min. of
St Mary's, Dumfries; adm. 16th April
1847 ; res. 4th Nov. 1873 ; died at Inverness,
2nd March 1877.— {Portrait in Museum of
Presb. Hist. Soc. of England.]
LITTLE HARBOROUGH.
DAVID SAVILE, M.A. ord. (by Presb.
of Cupar) to a Presbyterian congregation
at Little Harborough 10th July 1798 [after
wards of New Street Chapel, Edinburgh]
(cf. Vol. I., 186).
WESTMORLAND
RAVENSTONEDALE.
WILLIAM SCOTT, licen. by Newcastle
Presb. 27th Oct. 1761 ; ord. 6th Oct. 1762 ;
adm. to Abbotrule 26th Dec. 1764, and to
Southdean 5th Jan. 1785 (cf. Vol. IT.,
139).
JAMES SOMERVILLE, adm. here 27th
Sept. 1775 ; trans, to Branton 1784 (q.v.).
WILTSHIRE
HORNINGSHAM.
A constant tradition affirms that a
number of Scots workmen engaged in the
erection of Longleat House, near Horning-
sham, for Sir John Thynne, declined to
attend worship at the parish church, and
built a meeting-place for themselves, with
a piece of land attached for a graveyard.
This building is still in existence, thatched
as of old, and is now used as a Congrega
tional Chapel. Though unquestionably
dating back to 1566, as appears from a
stone in the end wall, there is no sub
stantial evidence of its original construction
as a Scots Presbyterian Church. See Journ.
Presb. Hist. Soc. of England, Vol. I., 73,
79, for a full account, with list of its
Presbyterian (English) mins. from 1650.
524 WORCESTERSHIRE— YORKSHIRE— ISLE OF MAN [CHARGES IN
WORCESTERSHIRE
DUDLEY.
SAMUEL BLAIR (cf. Vol. II., 409) ; ord.
to Scots Church, Dudley, 8th July 1841 ; i
declined to follow the Secession in London i
Presb. in 1843 ; adm. to Wallacetown, Ayr, |
13th June 1844; [afterwards of Dairy,
Galloway]. — [Black's Scots Churches in
England, 251.]
[The ministers thereafter belonged to the
English Presbyterian Church.]
YORKSHIRE
COTHERSTONE (WOLSING-
HAM).
JOHN WARDEN, educated at Univ. of
Glasgow ; M.A. (1733) ; licentiate of Church
of Scotland ; ord. to Haltwhistle in 1744 ;
trans, to Cotherstone 1748; became first
min. of the Secession congregation at Blair-
logie, Stirlingshire, 16th June 1762; died
29th Dec. 1768. His widow marr. April
1770, Thomas Scott, min. of Relief Church,
Auchtermuchty. — [Mackelvie's Annals, 642;
Small's Hist, of U.P. Gongs, ii., 695.]
SELBY ORD (cf. Vol. II., 25), min. at
Cotherstone in 1762; trans, to Cocker-
mouth 1764 ; adm. to Longformacus and
Ellem 25th July 1777.
JAMES SHIELD, educated at Univ. of
of Edinburgh; licen. by Northumberland
Presb. ; ord. 1st July 1764 ; trans, to Silver
Street Church, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1765 ;
drowned on a voyage from Sunderland in
1784.
KEIGHLEY AND THORNTON.
THOMAS MUSCHET, sometime min. of
Presbyterian congregations at Keighley and
Thornton ; adm. to Tweedsmuir 22nd Oct.
1761 (c.f. Vol. L, 296).
WHITBY (FLOWERGATE).
WILLIAM WOOD, born Alnwick; edu
cated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (13th
March 1718) ; M.D. (1726) ; ord. to Darling
ton 17th July 1728; min. at Whitby, 1764-9;
died 1773. Publication — Britain's Joshua
(Newcastle, 1746).
THOMAS WATSON, licentiate of
Church of Scotland ; min. at Whitby,
1769-1820.
JAMES RUTHERFORD (cf. Vol. II.,
147), assistant to preceding, 1816-20; ord.
to Whitby 14th March 1820 ; adm. to
Channelkirk 16th Dec. 1828.
[Since occupied by Unitarians.]
ISLE OF MAN
DOUGLAS.
[Founded 20th March 1825 by James
M'Crone of Ballaquinney, Crown Agent,
and Commissioner for the Duke of Atholl
in Isle of Man (died 24th May 1840).]
DAVID BARCLAY MELLIS, was
sometime Presbyterian chaplain in Paris;
ord. 25th Aug. 1830 ; returned to Scotland
in 1833; adm. to Tealing 5th Nov. 1835
(cf. Vol. V., 372).
WALTER MACLEAN, born Port of
Menteith, 1798, second son of John M. ;
educated at Parish School and Univ. of
Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow ;
ord. (by Presb. of London) to Scots Church,
ENGLAND]
ISLE OF MAN
525
Birmingham (</.v.), 1830; trans, to Douglas,
Isle of Man, 19th Sept. 1833; dep. (by
Presb. of Lancashire) 5th May 1841 ;
died at Glasgow, 3rd Oct. 1843.— [The First
Century of Presbyterianism in Douglas,
Isle of Man (portrait) (Douglas, 1925).]
WILLIAM WILSON (cf. Vol. II., 390),
trans, from Whitehaven and adm. 14th Oct.
1841 ; adm. to Balmaclellan 21st March
1844.
JAMES CLELAND [or CLELLAND],
(cf. Vol. III., 127), formerly min. of Stewar-
ton, Ayrshire ; trans, from St Andrew's
Church, Bolton, Lancashire, and adm. 18th
May 1844 ; trans, to Risley, near War-
rington, Lancashire, 1865. (See under
Bolton.)
[The ministers thereafter belonged to the
English Presbyterian Church.]
IRELAND
[Ministers connected with the Church of Scotland who have held charges
in Ireland from 1613.]
[Presbyterianism in Ireland owes its origin to Scottish colonisation and to the
religious persecution in Scotland during the reigns of James VI. and Charles I. The
collapse of the Irish Rebellion and flight of the Earls of Tyrconnell and Tyrone in 1607,
placed at the disposal of the Crown nearly 4,000,000 acres of forfeited territory in the
North of Ireland. Thither a steady stream of immigration passed from Scotland, until
in a short period the whole of Ulster became prevailingly Scottish. The paucity of
Irish Episcopal ministers being insufficient to cope with the new population, ministers
from Scotland were happily and providentially found, as a result of the triumph of
Episcopacy in 1613. They were welcomed by Archbishop Ussher and his colleagues, and
settled in Episcopal charges, yet allowed to retain their Presbyterianism. Amongst these
were Edward Bryce [or Brice], Robert Blair, James Hamilton, Josias Welch, John
Livingstone (infra), who had all suffered for conscience sake. But their successes in the
fresh field led to embitterment on the part of the Bishops, until, in 1636, the Presbyterian
ministers were ejected from their livings and driven from the country. On 23rd Oct.
1641, the Irish Insurrection broke out, when vast numbers of Protestants were massacred
by the native Irish. A relief force of 10,000 men was despatched from Scotland under
Major-General Robert Monro, who quelled the Rebellion and remained to quieten the
country. To this was due the re-introduction of Presbyterianism through the regimental
chaplains who were now the only ministers, the Bishops having fled and most of their
clergy slain. On 10th June 1642, there was formed the first Irish Presbytery, that of
Carrickfergus. From the Church of Scotland help was immediately forthcoming, and a
revived Presbyterianism was soon in ample evidence until in 1660, there were in Ulster
80 congregations, 70 ministers, 5 Presbyteries, and 100,000 communicants. The Restora
tion of 1660 brought an abrupt, unwelcome check to the progress of the Church, and
inaugurated a period of persecution which lasted for over a century. In 1661, sixty-
four ministers chose ejection rather than submit to prelatic re-ordination (Latimer's
Hist., 129). Better times came with King William. At his death in 1702, there were
9 Presbyteries, 3 Sub-Synods, and a General Annual Synod. Later, the Irish Presby
terian Church became a centre of keen doctrinal dissension. A body of " New Lights,"
opposed to the Westminster Confession, and organised in 1725 as the Non-Subscribing
Presbytery of Antrim, became excluded from the Synod in 1726. In 1741 the Secession
Church of Scotland began a mission in Ireland, and on 12th April 1750, the first
Associate Presbytery was instituted at Artikelly, near Limavady. In 1829 the Synod of
Ulster became divided on the Arian Controversy, when seventeen ministers, who espoused
those views, formed themselves into the Remonstrant Presbytery of Ulster. Their
separation prepared the way for a junction between the Ulster Synod and the Seceders.
This Union was consummated on 10th July 1840, when ministers and people thus
incorporated, assumed the designation of "The General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church in Ireland." In 1854, the isolated congregations in the South and East, which
comprised the Synod of Munster, joined in, giving to the Church at last a position and
a power in the land, which, but for her great oppressions, should have been hers long
years before.]
CHARGES IN IRELAND
527
CHARGES IN IRELAND SINCE 1613
ADAIR, PATRICK, son of William A.,
min. of Ayr ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ;
ord. to Cairncastle 7th May 1646 ; removed
to Belfast 13th Oct. 1674 ; died 1694. He
marr. his cousin, a daugh. of Sir Robert
Adair of Ballymena, ancestor of Lord
Waveney. He left in MS. A True Narrative
of the Rise and Progress of the Presbyterian
Church in Ireland [ed. by W. D. Killen,
D.D.] (1866).
AIRTH, DAVID, M A. ; min. at
Ballinderry or Glenavy Jan. 1683; was
probably ord. between 1675 and preceding
date ; adm. to Portpatrick, Wigtownshire,
about 1687 (cf. Vol. II., 350, where "became
min. " should be " was min.'') ; died before
5th June 1697.
ANDERSON, JAMES ALEXANDER,
D.C.L. ; ord. to Ballywalter 23rd Feb. 1886 ;
adm. to West Calder 1st Nov. 1894 ; died
27th Jan. 1927.
ANDERSON, JOHN, MA. (cf. Vol. IV.,
141 ; VII., 413) ; formerly min. of Auchter-
gaven ; min. at Glenarm 1671 to 1685,
Antrim 1685 to 1688 ; returned to Auchter-
gaven in 1690.
ARCHIBALD, FRANCIS, a native of
Scotland and licentiate of the Church of
Scotland ; ord. to Newtonards 5th Aug.
1777 ; left Aug. 1780.
BIGGAR, JAMES, licentiate of the
Church of Scotland ; ord. to Newtonards
13th April 1785; removed to Scotland in
1797, but does not seem to have held a
charge.
BIGGAR, WILLIAM (cf. Vol. II., 337),
min. at Limerick in 1698 ; adm. to Bangor
1st March 1704; dem. March 1728; returned
to Scotland and adm. to Inch and Saulseat,
Galloway, 2nd July 1729.
BLAIR, ROBERT, MA. (cf. Vol. V.,
232); ord. to Bangor in 1623; dep. 1632;
returned to Scotland and adm. to Ayr
1638 ; min. of St Andrews in 1639.
BROWN, DAVID, MA. ; licen. by Presb.
of Stirling ; ord. to Urney in 1677 ; fled to
Derry in 1688, and died during the siege.
BRUCE, ALEXANDER, MA. ;
formerly min. of Kirkurd (cf. Vol. I., 277) ;
min. at Donaghadee in 1694 ; at Vinecash
1697 ; died 16th April 1704.
BRUCE, JAMES, MA. (cf. Vol. IV.,
287), probably min. of Trinity-Gask and
Kinkell; min. at Killyleagh in 1685;
removed to Scotland at the Revolution,
but returned to Ireland in 1691 ; died 17th
Feb. 1730. His son Patrick (infra)
succeeded him at Killyleagh in 1730.
BRUCE, MICHAEL, MA. (cf. Vol. II.,
386) ; ord. to Killinchy, Co. Down, 1657 ;
dep. at the Restoration ; returned to Scot
land and adm. to Anwoth in 1689.
BRUCE, PATRICK cf. Vol. III., 142) ;
ord. to Drumbo 12th June 1717 ; res. in
1728; adm. to Killellan 15th Feb. 1729;
returned to Ireland and adm. to Killyleagh
14th Oct. 1730 ; died 9th April 1732.
BRYCE [or BRICE], EDWARD, M.A.
(cf. Vol. III., 339); formerly min. of
Drymen, Stirlingshire ; adm. to Bally carry
or Broadisland in 1613 ; dep. for non
conformity in 1636 ; died that year.
BRYDON, GEORGE, a native of
Lauderdale ; educated at Univ. of Edin
burgh ; licen. by Presb. of Earlston ; ord.
(by same Presb.) to Kirkcubbin in 1778;
died 6th Sept. 1817.
CALVERT [or CULWORT], HENRY,
min. at- Killead, 1630-6 [afterwards of
Paisley] (cf. Vol. III., 163).
CAMPBELL, JOHN (cf. Vol. III., 120) ;
ord. to Cairncastle 2nd May 1677 ; adm.
to Loudoun, Ayrshire, before 8th Oct. 1685.
CAMPBELL, LAUCHLAN (cf. Vol. IV.,
50), formerly min. of Campbeltown ; adm
to Mary's Abbey, Capel Street, Dublin,
10th Sept. 1707; died 6th Oct. 1708.
CAMPBELL, ROBERT, ord. at Ray
Co. Donegal, 1671 ; fled to Scotland, and
adm. at Rosneath 3rd Dec. 1689 (cf. Vol.
III., 363) ; returned to Ray in 1691 ; died
5th Oct. 1722. A daugh., Sarah, marr.
Samuel Delap, min. at Letterkenny.
528
CHARGES IN IRELAND
CARLILE, WARRAND, born Paisley,
12th Nov. 1796, fourth son of James C.,
artificer ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ;
licen. by Presb. of Glasgow ; ord. to
Carlow 26th May 1837 ; res. 1st Nov. 1842
and became a missionary of the Scottish
Missionary Society at Brownsville, Hanover,
Jamaica ; died there 25th Aug. 1881. His
son, James Edward C., min. of Free Church,
Brechin, and at Bombay, Berlin, and Pieter-
inaritzburg, died in London 1893, aged 72.
CHARLTON, HARCOURT PETER,
B.A. (cf. Vol. II., 357) ; ord. to Tassagh,
Armagh, 1856; adm. to Burt 19th Oct.
1858 ; dem. 3rd Nov. 1875 [afterwards min.
of Stranraer].
CLELAND, JOSEPH, M.A.; formerly
min. of Dalserf (cf. Vol. III., 246) ; min. at
Ahoghill before 1701.
COBHAM, THOMAS, ord. to Dun-
donald, Ireland, 1678; was in Scotland
during the troubles in Ireland, 1687-8 ;
returned to Ireland, and died at Holywood,
24th June 1706.
GOLDEN, ALEXANDER, M.A. ; min.
at Enniscorthy ; adm. to Oxnam 8th May
1700 (cf. Vol. II., 136).
COLQUHOUN, JAMES, M.A.;
formerly min. of Penninghame (cf. Vol.
II., 374) ; went to a charge in Ireland ;
died before 30th July 1731.
COLVILLE, ALEXANDER, M.D., son
of Alexander C., min. of Dromore ; edu
cated at Univ. of St Andrews ; licen. by
Presb. of Cupar ; called to succeed his
father at Drumore, but refusing to sign
the Confession of Faith, the Presb. declined
to ordain him. He went to London, was
ord. in Dr Calamy's church, and having
returned to Ireland, was irregularly adm.
at Dromore by the Synod of Munster. For
this he was suspended by the Synod of
Ulster in 1725.
CRAIGHEAD [or CRAGHEAD],
ROBERT, M.A.; ord. to Donoughmore,
Co. Donegal, 1658 ; min. of Blackfriars,
Glasgow, 1698 (cf. Vol. III. 398) ; returned
to Ireland, and was min. at Derry in 1700 ;
died 22nd Aug. 1711.
CRAUFURD, HUGH, M.A. (cf. Vol. III.,
27, 64) ; formerly min. of New Cumnock ;
min. at Glenarm 1685 to 1688 ; returned
to Scotland and re-ad m. at New Cumnock ;
died 1692.
CUMIN, PATRICK, min. of a Presby
terian congregation in Dublin ; adm. to
Ormiston 25th Feb. 1690 (cf. Vol. L, 341).
CUNNINGHAM, DAVID, ord. to
Connor 27th March 1672 ; was in Scotland
on account of the troubles in Ireland from
1689 to 1691; died at Connor 21st May 1697.
CUNNINGHAM, HUGH, M.A. ; min.
at Ray in 1647 ; adm. to Erskine in 1651
(cf. Vol. III., 192) ; returned to Ray about
1659 ; died about 1663. He marr. Rebecca
Hamilton, who died (s.p.~).
CUNNINGHAM, JOHN, ord. to Tully-
lish in 1670; returned to Scotland in 1688
— [Reid's Ireland, iii., 18.]
CUNNINGHAM, ROBERT, chaplain to
Earl of Buccleuch's regiment in Holland ;
adm. to Holywood, Ireland, 9th Nov. 1615 ;
dep. for non-conformity in 1636; fled to
Scotland and died at Irvine in 1637. His
widow, Janet Kennedy, marr. William
Adair, min. of Ayr (cf. Vol. III., 9).—
[Tombst.]
DARROCH, JOHN (cf. Vol. IV., 3, 58),
formerly min. of Kilcalmonell and Kilberry;
min. at Glenarm after 1681 ; returned to
Kilcalmonell in 1687; was min. of Craig-
nish in 1692.
DAVIDSON, PATRICK, licentiate of
Church of Scotland; adm. to Monreagh,
Co. Donegal, 9th Jan. 1776 ; returned to
Scotland Oct. 1786.
DICKIE, MATTHEW, ord. (by Presb.
of Paisley) ; min. at Limerick 4th Nov.
1828 [afterwards at Dunlop, Ayrshire (cf.
Vol. III., 92).
DILL, SAMUEL MARCUS, M.A. (cf.
Vol. III., 1) ; ord. to Cumber, Co. London
derry, 5th May 1868 ; trans, to Ballymena,
Co. Antrim, 7th May 1874 ; adm. to
Alloway, Ayrshire, 5th May 1881 ; died
23rd Jan. 1924.— [Church of Scotland Year-
Book, 1913 ; The Dill Worthies, by James
Reid Dill.l
CHARGES IN IRELAND
529
DIXON, ARCHIBALD, licen. by Presb.
of Hamilton ; ord. to Saintfield 19th April
1709 ; died March 1739.
DOUGALL, THOMAS, ord. to Vinecash
29th Nov. 1824 ; went to Tasmania (q.v.).
DRUMMOND, SETH, born 1670, son of
Thomas D., min. at Ramelton ; educated at
Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of
Edinburgh ; ord. to Ramelton, Ireland,
16th Dec. 1696 ; died 4th Sept. 1740.
DUNBAR, GEORGE, formerly min. of
Ayr (cf. Vol. I. 176, III. 7), adm. to Bally-
mena about 1624 ; removed to Inver, near
Larne, 1624-36; dep. by Bishop of Down
and Connor in 1637 ; returned to Scotland
and adm. to Midcalder in 1638; died Dec.
1641.
DUNLOP, PATRICK (cf. Vol. II., 362),
ord. to Kirkcowan 27th May 1693; returned
to Ireland and adm. to Stonebridge about
1700; dem. 1704; died 1710.
DYALL, WILLIAM, ord. by Presb. of
Dunfermline in 1615 ; went to Ireland and
was settled as Episcopal min. at Donog-
henry (Stewartstown) without re-ordination.
— [Latimer's Hist, of Irish Presbyterians,
47.]
ELDER, THOMAS, M.A. (cf. Vol. II.,
343); ord. to Ballyrashane 5th Oct. 1700;
dem. 1704; adm. to Whithorn 5th Sept.
that year; returned to Ireland and was
settled at Kilmore, Co. Down, 14th June
1716 [afterwards min. of Portpatrick and of
Leswalt].
FERGUSON, ALEXANDER, M.A. (cf.
Vol. II., 376) ; formerly min. of Sorbie ;
adm. to Killyleagh, Co. Down, 1670; died
1684, aged 53.
FERGUSON, ANDREW, licentiate of
Church of Scotland in 1689 ; adm. to Burt
in 1690; died 18th July 1725. He was
succeeded by his son Andrew, who died
30th Jan. 1787.
FERGUSON, ARCHIBALD, ord. to
Antrim about April 1645 ; min. at Dreghorn
in 1652 (cf. Vol. III., 87) ; returned to his
Irish charge and died in 1654.
FERRIE, JOHN, born 1794, eldest son
of John F., artificer, Glasgow ; educated
VOL. VII.
at Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of
Glasgow ; chaplain to Univ. of Glasgow,
1822-28 ; Professor of Moral Philosophy,
Belfast Academical Institution ; died at
Holy wood, Belfast, 20th July 1872. He
marr., and had issue.
FLEMING, JAMES, licentiate of
Church of Scotland ; ord. to Glenarm June
1658; ejected on the re-establishment of
Episcopacy in 1661, but afterwards con
formed.
FREELAND, JAMES, licen. by a Presb.
in Scotland ; ord. to Killead in 1675 ; died
12th March 1716.
FREELAND, WILLIAM (cf. Vol. II.,
394), ord. to Kingstown 1st June 1828;
adm. to Ballygawley 16th April 1838 ; dem.
8th July 1841 ; adm. [not ord.] to Airdrie
(East) llth Jan. 1844; min. of Balmaghie,
Galloway, 1847.
FULLERTON, JAMES, ord. to Benburb
2nd Dec. 1836 ; went to Australia (q.v.).
GARDNER, JAMES, born 1780, second
son of James G., merchant, Edinburgh ;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; ord. to
Newtonards 4th Nov. 1801 ; died Jan.
1812. He marr. Magdalene Frazer, a lineal
descendant of Ralph Erskine.
GEMMEL, JOHN, M.A. (cf. Vol. III.,
195); ord. to Newtown Crommelin 23rd June
1835 ; dem. 18th April 1837 ; adm. to
Fairlie, Ayrshire, 27th April following.
GEMMILL, DAVID, M.A. ; held a
charge in Ireland ; adm. to Mearns 10th
Sept. 1650 (cf. Vol. III., 155).
GLAS, ALEXANDER, M.A. (cf. Vol.
IV., 161) ; ord. to Dunmurry before Jan.
1683 ; returned to Scotland Feb. follow
ing, and was min. of Kinclaven in 1700.
GLENDINNING, JAMES, M.A. ; min.
of Coole or Carmoney in 1621 ; afterwards
at Kilbarchan and at Row (cf. Vol. III., 149,
365). — [Latimer's Hist, of Irish Presby
terians, 54.]
GORDON, JAMES, M.A., (cf. Vol. III.,
335, VI., 89) ; min. at Glendermot after
1679; took an active part in the Siege
of Derry ; returned to Scotland at the
Revolution and adm. to Cardross in 1690.
2 L
530
CHARGES IN IRELAND
HALL, THOMAS, MA. ; ord. to Larne
Aug. 1646 ; min. of Kilmacolm in 1651 (cf.
Vol. III., 211).
HALLIDAY, SAMUEL, M.A. (cf. Vol.
I., 143) ; min. at Omagh in 1662 ; went to
Scotland at the Revolution and was min.
at Dryfesdale and New North Church,
Edinburgh ; returned to Ireland and adm.
min. at Ardstraw ; died Feb. 1724.
HALTRIDGE, JOHN, chaplain to Sir
William Cunningham of Cunninghamhead ;
cited before Court of High Commission in
1664, and forbidden to preach ; went to
Ireland and ord. 8th May 1672 min. at
Island-Magee ; died 1697.
HAMILTON, ARCHIBALD, D.D. ;
min. of Paisley (cf. Vol. III., 162) ; app.
Archbishop of Cashel 20th April 1630.
HAMILTON, ARCHIBALD (cf. Vol.
II., 383), formerly min. of Wigtown ; adm.
to Bangor, Ireland, 1672 ; returned to
Scotland and re-adm. at Wigtown in 1689 ;
died there 29th June 1695.
HAMILTON, HENRY, M.A. (cf. Vol. I.,
15), formerly min. of Currie ; trans, to
Donaghadee 6th Nov. 1700: adm. Feb.
1701 ; died Aug. 1730.
HAMILTON, JAMES (cf. Vol. L, 74) ;
ord. to Ballywalter, Co. Down, 3rd March
1626 ; adm. to Dumfries in 1638 [afterwards
of Old Kirk Parish, Edinburgh].
HAMILTON, JAMES BUCHANAN
(cf. Vol. III., 107): ord. to Clontibret 1st
Sept. 1836 ; adm. to First Charge, Kilmar-
nock, 9th Nov. 1843.
HAMILTON, JOHN, M.A. (cf. Vol. I.,
46) ; min. at Comber, Co. Down, about
1679; returned to Scotland and adm. to
Cramond in 1689 ; min. of Old Greyfriars,
Edinburgh, 1693.
HAMILTON, ROBERT, M.A. ; min. at
Killyleagh, Co. Down ; adm. to Ballantrae
2nd Nov. 1642 (cf. Vol. II., 331).
HART, JOHN (cf. Vol. III., 262),
formerly min. of Second Charge, Hamilton;
min. at Taughboyne, Co. Donegal, 1656;
died before 1689.
HARVEY [or HARVIE], JOHN (cf.
Vol. II., 294), formerly min. of New Abbey ;
adm. to Glendermot March 1696 ; died
29th Aug. 1739. His son David was ord.
his assistant and successor 23rd March
1731.
HARVIE, THOMAS, M.A. ; ord. to
Ballyrashane in 1673 ; went to Scotland
and adm. to Abbotrule in 1687. In May
1690 he signified his willingness to return
to his Irish charge, and probably did so.
HEMPTON, WILLIAM, licen. by Presb.
of Deer ; ord. to Burt Sept. 1673 ; returned
to Scotland at the Revolution.
HENDRY, ROBERT, M.A. (cf. Vol. II.,
348) ; ord. to Carrickfergus 22nd April
1674 ; called to Ayr in 1688 but disallowed
by the Presb. ; adm. to Glenluce, Galloway,
14th May 1689; returned to Ireland and
became min. of Capel Street Church,
Dublin, 1692; died 1699.
HERON, GEORGE (cf. Vol. II., 296);
licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen ; ord. to
Island-Magee, Co. Antrim, 8th Aug. 1747 ;
returned to*Scotland and adm. to Terregles
18th Aug. 1752.
HOLMES, JOHN, licen. by Presb. of
Lanark ; ord. to Donegal 27th Sept. 1715 ;
trans, to Glendermot 19th April 1744 ; died
15th May 1773.
HUNTER, JOHN (cf. Vol. III., 20), is
said to have been min. at Magherally in
1672, and to have fled to Scotland in 1689,
becoming min. of Coylton in 1692.
JACQUE, GIDEON, M.A. ; formerly
min. of Liberton (cf. Vol. I., 172) ; returned
to Ireland in 1695.
JAMIESON, ROBERT, min. at
Belturbet ; res. 8th Jan. 1856, and went to
British Columbia (q.v.).
KELSO, SAMUEL (cf. Vol. II., 380),
min. at Killeshandra in 1688 ; returned to
Scotland and adm. to Whithorn in 1689;
returned to Ireland and settled at Donnoch-
clonny, Co. Down ; died April 1695.
CHARGES IN IRELAND
531
KENNEDY, CHARLES WILLIAM,
ord. to Hill Street Church, Lurgan, 17th
Nov. 1874 ; adm. to Dalmarnock 22nd Nov.
1900 (cf. Vol. III., 407) ; died 8th March 1927.
KENNEDY, GILBERT, formerly min.
of Girvan (cf. Vol. III.. 41) ; min. at Dun-
donald, Ireland, 1673 ; died 6th Feb. 1688.
His daugh. Catherine marr. 15th May |
1702, William Tennent, min. at Neshaminy,
Penn., U.S.A., founder of the famous Log
College, and Father of Presbyterian Col
leges in America ; she died 7th May 1753,
aged 70.— [Webster's Hist, of Presbyterian
Church in America, 364.]
KENNEDY, GILBERT ALEXANDER,
M.A. [descended from Thomas K., min. at
Carland about 1662] ; min. at Garland in
1888; at Aghadoey in 1890; adm. to
Cambusnethan 27th Dec. 1900 (cf. Vol. III.,
241).
KENNEDY, THOMAS, M.A. (cf. Vol.
II., 342, III., 454); min. at Leswalt in
1654 ; deprived in 1662 and went to Ireland;
min. at Carland, Co. Tyrone, about 1662,
and of Newtonards before 1671 ; fled to
Scotland at the Revolution ; returned to
Carland in 1693 ; died 9th Feb. 1716, aged
89.— [Latimer's Hist, of Irish Presbyterians,
134, 292.]
KILPATRICK, HUGH (cf. Vol. III.,
25), min. at Lurgan in 1686; returned to
Scotland at the Revolution and adm. to
Old Cumnock ; returned to Ireland and
adm. to Ballymoney in 1695 ; died 1712.
KING, JOHN, licen. by Presb. of St
Andrews ; received by Synod of Ulster in
1719 ; ord. to Dromara 14th Dec. 1726 ;
died 9th Nov. 1762.
LANDESS, ROBERT, of Robroyston
(cf. Vol. III., 228) ; ord. by Presb. of Route
Jan. 1674 ; was min. at Garvagh ; returned
to Scotland at the Revolution and adm. to
Blantyre 12th Aug. 1690.
LAURIE, JOHN, M.A. (cf. Vol. III., 3) ;
min. at Macosquin, Coleraine, 1688 ; re
turned to Scotland and adm. to Auchinleck
29th Dec. 1692.
LEGGAT, WILLIAM, M.A. (cf. Vol.
III., 165); ord. to Dromore, Co. Down,
1670; fled to Scotland at the Revolution
and adm. to Paisley 22nd Aug. 1689 ; re
turned to Dromore in 1691 and died about
1697.
LESLIE, THOMAS, licentiate of Church
of Scotland ; ord. to Kilraughts 29th Dec.
1830; res. 27th Jan. 1835 and went to
Jamaica as a missionary under the Scottish
Missionary Society ; died at Greenisland
18th May that year.
LIVINGSTON, JOHN, M.A. (cf. Vol.
II., 99); ord. to Killinchy in 1630; returned
to Scotland and was min. of Ancrum in 1648.
M'BRIDE, JOHN, M.A. ; formerly min.
of Borgue (cf. Vol. II., 396) ; adm. to Rose
mary Church, Belfast, 3rd Oct. 1694; at
Blackfriars, Glasgow, 1705-9 (cf. Vol. III.,
399); returned to Belfast, where he died
21st July 1718.
M'CLEAVE, JOHN, licen. by Presb. of
Glasgow ; ord. to Cookstown 5th Feb.
1701 ; died 17th June 1749.
M'CLENAGHAN, WILLIAM, born
1791, youngest son of William M., farmer,
Desirtoghill, Co. Derry ; educated at Univ.
of Glasgow ; M.A. (1810) ; licen. by Presb.
of Glasgow ; ord. to Moville 19th Dec.
1820 ; died Jan. 1824.
M'CORKLE, ROBERT, born Glasgow,
1806, second son of Archibald M. ; educated
at Grammar School, Glasgow (dux 1818-20),
and Univ. of Glasgow; M.A. (1825);
licentiate of Church of Scotland, and was
sometime agent of the Glasgow Association
for promoting the interests of the Church
of Scotland ; ord. to Limerick Jan. 1837.
Joined the Free Church in 1844; min. of
Free Church, St Ninians, 1844 to 1883;
died 18th April 1883. He marr. Mary
Bannatyne. Publication — Edited The
Scottish Guardian.
MACCULLOCH, HUGH, ord. to Mil-
ford, Co. Donegal, 1st Oct. 1873 ; trans, to
Buncrana 25th Jan. 1881 [afterwards at
Greenlaw, Berwickshire] (cf. Vol. II., 20).
532
CHARGES IN IRELAND
MACLAINE, ARCHIBALD (cf. Vol.
IV., 56), formerly min. of Kilbride in
Arran ; adm. to Markethill 1700; died
20th July 1734. His son Thomas, min. at
Monaghan, died llth Nov. 1740.
MACLOY, WILLIAM (cf. Vol. III., 147),
ord. to Wellington Street, Ballymena, 31st
March 1863; dem. 9th Aug. 1881 [after
wards min. of Johnstone (Paisley)].
M'LEAN, JOHN, M.A., formerly min.
of Kilmorie in Arran (cf. Vol. IV., 62);
min. at Coleraine after 1688.
M'TAGGAET, DAVID, M.A. (cf. Vol.
III., 446) ; ord. to Carlow 8th March 1843 ;
dem. 26th June 1848 [afterwards min. of
St James's, Glasgow].
MAGILL, DAVID, LL.D. ; formerly in
charge of Caledonian Church, Holloway,
London (q.v.); adm. to Bally waiter 19th
Feb. 1862.
MAIN, HENRY, M.A. (cf. Vol. III., 139);
ord. to Island-Magee July 1649; adm. to
Houston and Killellan (temporarily) 10th
Sept. 1650; died Oct. 1651.
MAIR, JOHN, min. at Loughbrickland
about 1687 [afterwards at Coylton (cf. Vol.
Ill, 20)].
MASTERTON, CHARLES, licen. by
Presb. of Linlithgow; ord. to Connor 17th
May 1704; trans, to Rosemary Street,
Belfast, Feb. 1723; died 15th July 1750.
MONRO, JOHN (cf. Vol. IV, 37, 40),
formerly min. of Lochgoilhead; min. at Car-
money, Co. Antrim, 1685 to 1688 ; re-adm.
to Lochgoilhead in 1689 ; trans, to Rothesay
in 1691 (q.v.). ; died March 1696.
MUIRCROFT [MOORCRAFT],
WILLIAM, M.A. ; formerly min. of Cath-
cart (cf. Vol. Ill, 381) ; min. at Newtown-
Stewart (Presb. of Lagan), 1654 ; deprived
in 1661.
NIBLOCK-STUART, JAMES, B.A. (cf.
Vol. V, 412) ; ord. to Newry 30th March
1869 ; trans, to Comber (Second) 17th June
1873 [afterwards min. of Montrose in 1894].
ORR, PETER, M.A. (cf. Vol. Ill, 114),
ord. to Clough, Co. Antrim, Jan. 1673;
fled to Scotland at the Revolution and
officiated at Kilmaurs, but returned to
Clough. where he died, 27th Dec. 1706.
PEACOCK, PATRICK, M.A. • formerly
min. of Kirkmabreck ; became chaplain at
Killyleagh Castle and preacher at Killy-
leagh ; returned to Kirkmabreck in 1690.
PEEBLES, THOMAS, licentiate of
Church of Scotland ; went to Ireland as
chaplain to Lord Eglinton's regiment in
1642; ord. to Dundonald, Ireland, 1645;
died, "after various vicissitudes," 1670.
PITCAIRN, JAMES (cf. Vol. V, 159),
min. at Ballymena in 1676; returned to
Scotland and adm. to Burntisland in 1688 ;
min. of Kettle in 1691.
RADCLIFFE, JOHN, ord. to Castle-
dawson 23rd June 1841 ; dem. 15th Aug.
1848 and went to Kingston, Jamaica (q.v.).
RAMSAY, GILBERT, licentiate
of Church of Scotland ; ord. to Bangor in
1646 ; deprived in 1661 ; died Aug. 1670.
REID, JAMES SEATON, D.D, ord. to
Donegore 20th July 1819 ; trans, to Carrick-
fergus in 1823; res. 6th Nov. 1838 on
appointment as Professor of Ecclesiastical
History at Belfast [afterwards Professor in
Univ. of Glasgow (q.v.)~\.
RENTOUL, JOHN LAURENCE, M.A.
(cf. Vol. Ill, 241); ord. to Lisburn 17th
Oct. 1872; adm. to Cambusnethan 21st
Jan. 1892.
ROSS, ARCHIBALD, licen. by Presb.
of Irvine ; min. at Carrickfergus in 1694 ;
died 1700.
RULE, ROBERT (cf. Vol. IV, 320);
min. at Londonderry, 1672 to 1688 ; fled to
Scotland and adm. min. of Kirkcaldy 24th
July 1688 [afterwards at East Church,
Stirling].
SEMPLE, WILLIAM, M.A. ; ord. to
Letterkenny in 1647; adm. to Neilston
1st Nov. 1649 (cf. Vol. Ill, 157).
SHAW, ANTHONY, M.A. ; ord. to a
congregation in Belfast, Sept. 1646 [after
wards of Loudoun] (cf. Vol. Ill, 120).
CHARGES IN IRELAND
533
SIBBALD, JAMES of Kair, D.D. ;
formerly min. of St Nicholas' Church'
Aberdeen ; held a charge in Dublin ; died
after 1647 (rf. Vol. VI, 36).
SI.MSOX, JAMES, M.A.; min. of a
congregation, perhaps in Newry, Ulster,
adm. at Airth before 24th Dec. 1650 (cf.
Vol. IV, 289).
SMITH, JAMES, M.A. ; ord. to West-
port, Connaught, 4th June 1837 ; adm. to
Ellon 27th Nov. 1862 (cf. Vol. VI, 192).
STEWART, HANS, licen. by' Presb. of
Lmhthgow; min. at Boveva in 1701 ; died
6th May 1737.
STIRLING, ROBERT, M.A. (cf. Vol.
HI, 123); min. at Derry - Keichan or
Dervock, Ireland; fled to Scotland in
1688; adm. to Stevenston, Ayrshire, 1689 •
returned to Dervock, where he died in
1699. He was succeeded at Dervock by
his son Thomas [ord. 22nd June 1703,
died 20th Nov. 1718].
STUART, JAMES, licen. and ord. in
Scotland ; adm. to Macosquin, Coleraine
19th Aug. 1701 ; dem. 1708 and became'
mm. at Cushendall ; died 22nd March
1719.
THOM, JOHN, born Aberdeen 1776, son
of John T.; educated at King's College
Aberdeen; M.A. (29th March 1798); licen.
by Presb. of Auchterarder ; ord. to Newry
5th Aug. 1800 ; died 18th July 1808.
THOMPSON, WILLIAM, ord. to Mon-
reagh, Co. Donegal, 27th May 1874 ; dem
Nov. 1882 and adm. to Kinglassie 19th
April 1883 (cf. Vol. V., 98).
TRAIL, WILLIAM, M.A. (cf. Vol. I,
12); ord. min. at Ballindreat (Lifford) in
1671 [afterwards min. at Borthwick in 1690].
WATT, JOHN, B.A. (cf. Vol. Ill, 417) •
mm. at Limavady in 1906 [afterwards at
Buchlyvie] ; trans, to Hollywood, Dumfries
shire, 1928.
WEIR, WILLIAM, M.A. (cf. Vol. I, 215,
216); min. at Coleraine 1674 to 1687;
returned to Scotland and adm. to Linlith-
gow in 1691 ; died 1st July 1695.
WELSH [or WELCH], JOSIAS, son of
John W., min. of Ayr, by Elizabeth, youngest
daugh. of John Knox the Reformer;
educated at Geneva; app. Professor of
Humanity, Univ. of Glasgow; went to
Ireland and ord. (by his kinsman Bishop
Knox of Raphoe) at Templepatrick in 1626 ;
died of consumption in 1634. He was
known as the « Cock of the Conscience."
WIGHT, WILLIAM, ord. to Mary's
Abbey, Capel Street, Dublin, 9th Aug. 1753
[afterwards Professor of Divinity, Univ of
Glasgow (q.v.)].
WILSON, HUGH (cf. Vol. II. 336)
formerly min. of Inch, Galloway ; min. at
Castlereagh; dep. by Bishop Taylor in
1661, but continued to preach till he
removed to Scotland in 1690; re-adm at
Inch in 1692.
WILSON, JOHN (cf. Vol. Ill, 215),
mm. at Dunboe in 1684 ; returned to Scot
land and was min. of Largs in 1691.
WILSON, THOMAS, licen. by Presb. of
Kirkcaldy; ord. to Ballyclare 27th Feb
1711; dep. in 1757.
WILSON, WILLIAM, ord. to Spa, 5th
May 1874; adm. to Wellpark, Glasgow
18th July 1879 (cf. Vol. Ill, 205).
WINSLEY, THOMAS, licen. by Presb.
of Edinburgh; went to Ireland in 1698;
ord. to Donagheady 18th Jan. 1699; died
28th Oct. 1736.
YOUNG, ARCHIBALD, M.A.; ord. to
Downpatrick, Co. Down, Jan. 1673 ; fled to
Scotland at the Revolution and adm. to
Hamilton 21st Dec. 1688 (cf. Vol. Ill, 260)-
died before 1700.
THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND OVERSEAS
CONTINENT OF EUROPE
[On the Continent of Europe the Church of Scotland conducts regular services at
Brussels, Geneva, Paris, and Venice. A chaplaincy at Brussels was begun in 1830, but
was discontinued on account of the national troubles in Holland. Temporary appoint
ments followed at a later period. In 1908 a permanent chaplaincy was instituted, and a
place of worship erected at 181 Chaussee de Vleurgat, near Avenue Louise. At Geneva
(associated with the work of John Knox in earlier days, and, in modern times, as head
quarters of the League of Nations, upwards of forty International Societies having also
their offices there) summer services were inaugurated in August 1867 by Alexander Mitchell,
D.D., Professor in the University of St Andrews, and continued yearly by ministers of
the Church of Scotland. In 1926 a permanent chaplain was appointed. Worship is held
in the beautiful Chapel of the Maccabees in the Cathedral of St Pierre. The chaplaincy
at Paris dates from 1858, when the congregation worshipped in the dome of the Oratoire.
A church situated at 17 Rue Bayard, Avenue Montaigne, near Avenue des Champs
Elysees, was purchased in 1884 for £5000, and opened 1st Nov. 1885. In 1900 the
Chaplaincy at Venice became connected with the Church of Scotland. Services were
conducted at Dresden for many years previous to 1914, when they were suspended. In
1884 a church and manse were purchased. At Homburg also summer services have been
discontinued since 1914.]
BELGIUM
BRUSSELS.
DUNN, ALEXANDER, born Leochel-
Cushnie, 29th Dec. 1859, son of Peter D. ;
educated at Univ. of Aberdeen ; M.A.
(1882); licen. by Presb. of Alford April
1885 ; assistant at East Parish (St Nicholas),
Aberdeen, and West St Giles', Edinburgh ;
ord. to St Andrew's Church, Colombo, Dec.
1893; dem. 1911; app. to Scots Church,
Brussels, 1912 ; died 23rd March 1917. He
marr. Catherine (died at Edinburgh, 3rd
Feb. 1927), younger daugh. of W. T. K.
Beveridge, Assistant Clerk of Session.
DOUGLAS,LOUIS CLARENCE
DUNCAN (cf. Vol. VII., 257), ord. min.
of Scots Church, Brussels, 19th Aug. 1908 ;
adm. to Walls, Orkney, 8th April 1918.
MACFARLANE, JOHN, M.A., B.D.,
formerly min. of Pollokshaws (cf. Vol. III.,
184) ; app. 1927.
ROCHE, GEORGE RALPH MAL-
VERN, born 1870, son of Samuel Edward
R., West Indian Civil Service ; educated
at Rothesay Academy and Campbeltown
Grammar School ; qualified as an architect
in London ; spent two years in Australia ;
sometime engaged in Y.M.C.A. work in
Bombay Presidency, India ; app. acting
army chaplain with Argyll and Sutherland
Highlanders at Nowshera Dec. 1895 ; with
Tochi Field Force (medal and clasp) 1897 ;
ord. in 1899 (under instructions of General
Assembly) by Presb. of Northern India ;
served as Colonial chaplain, 1899-1920 ;
BRUSSELS— PARIS
535
app. to Belize, British Honduras, 1920-21 ;
a|>]>. to this rh;iri;v in l!)21 ; dem. 19^7; l<>,-ii,ii
tenens Tighnabruaich, 1928. Marr. Evelyn
Mary (died at Brussels 1st Dec. 1922,
aged 41), daugh. of Major G. M. Mercer,
and has issue — Ian Aird, captain Indian
Army, born 1900 ; George Douglas, medical
student ; Evelyn ; Kathleen Margaret.
SIVERIGHT [or SEVERIGHT],
CHARLES, born Aberdeen about 1803;
educated at King's College, Aberdeen,
1817-21 ; app. by Presb. of London to
preach to Scots residents in Brussels, and
opened a church there, 30th May 1830, with
the sanction of the Dutch Government,
though it would grant no pecuniary aid.
Dr Steven says that, " owing to the tumults
which, on the occasion of the late Belgian
Revolution [1832], disgraced the city, the
Scots Congregation which was rapidly
increasing in numbers and respectability,
was entirely dispersed." — [Steven's Scots
Church in Rotterdam, 287.]
FRANCE
PARIS.
BEATON, PATRICK, born Lethenty
farm, Fyvie, 8th June 1825 ; son of William
B. and Margaret Cowieson ; educated at
Methlick School, King's College, Aberdeen ;
M.A. (March 1844), and Marischal College,
1846-50; app. first min. of the Church of
Scotland in Mauritius 1851, where he
founded St Andrew's Church, Port Louis,
1856, at a cost of £4500 ; app. chaplain to
the Forces (Scots Guards) 1858, and served
in London for eleven years ; senior chaplain
in New Zealand during the Maori War
(promoted Colonel and decorated for valour
in the field); chaplain to Gordon High
landers at Edinburgh ; retired from the
army and became min. of the Scots con
gregation, Paris, 1st Dec. 1882, where he
was mainly instrumental in securing the
purchase of the present place of worship in
Rue Bayard ; dem. 1897 ; died at Brighton
llth Oct. 1904, and was buried at Fyvie.
He gifted a Communion table to Millbrex
Church in memory of his parents. He
marr. 19th July 1853, Anne Dorothea (died
at Harrogate 27th Aug. 1910, aged 77, s.p.),
fourth daugh. of William MacGillivray,LL.D.
Professor of Civil and Natural History,
Marischal College, Aberdeen, and Marion
McCaskill. Publications — The Jews in the
East [from the German of Ludwig A.
Frankl] 2 vols. (London, 1859); Creoles
and Coolies, or Five Years in Mauritius
(London, 1859); Six Months in Reunion,
2 vols. (London, 1860); Marion Leslie, a
novel, 3 vols. (London, 1863) ; Essays from
Fraser's Magazine (London, 1866); Our
British Soldiers and the Victoria Cross
(London, 1867) ; Life of Savonarola [from
the Italian]; many contributions to Good
Words and other periodical literature. —
[Pratt's Buchan, 411; Tombst.]
BRECHIN, EDWIN JAMES, O.B.E.,
M.A., B.D. (cf. Vol. VII., 3); ord. 18th
May 1902 ; adm. to East Dulwich, London,
7th Feb. 1907; adm. to Avoch 4th Dec.
1914.
CAMPBELL, DUNCAN, M.A., B.D.
(cf. Vol. I., 114); app. chaplain at Paris in
1880; app. to Rosemount, Aberdeen, llth
May 1882 [afterwards min. of St Matthew's,
Edinburgh].
CATTANACH, JOSEPH HARDIE,
born Edinburgh, 5th Jan. 1877, son of
Peter Lorimer C., advocate, and Jane
Bladworth Hardie, and brother of David
Lynedoch C., min. of Hobkirk ; educated
at Edinburgh Academy, George Watson's
College, and Univs. of Edinburgh, M.A.
(1899), Oxford, and Marburg; licen. by
Presb. of Edinburgh in 1905 ; ord. to Scots
Church, Paris, 5th June 1907; app. to
Scots Church, Cairo, 1910-11 ; thereafter
engaged in University work, 1912-14 ;
served in R.A.M.C. and Scottish Churches'
Huts in France, 1915-17 ; assistant at St
Columba's, London, Bellahouston, and
locum tenens East Parish, Greenock ; adm.
to Kirkurd 7th May 1920. Marr. 30th
Nov. 1920, Mary Diamond, daugh. of
Michael Joseph Sullivan and Janet Armet,
and has issue— Kenneth Diamond Hardie
born 25th Jan. 1922.
536
PARIS— DRESDEN
CROMBIE, FREDERICK, M.A.,app.to
Scots Church, Paris, 1858 [afterwards Pro
fessor of Biblical Criticism, Univ. of St
Andrews (q.v.y\.
EDIE, WILLIAM HENRY (cf. Vol. VI.,
426) ; ord. consular chaplain at Paris 9th,
Dec. 1862 ; adm. to Kinloss 20th Sept.
1877.
RESTING, AUGUST JOHN, M.A.,
B.D. (cf. Vol. V., 48); mip. of Scots Church,
Paris. Jan. 1911 to Aug. 1918; adm. to
Mossgreen llth Sept. 1918; trans, to Fort
Augustus 12th Nov. 1925.
MELLIS, DAVID BARCLAY, sometime
Presbyterian chaplain in Paris [afterwards
at Tealing] (cf. Vol. V., 372).
MILNE, JAMES ALEXANDER, M.A.
(cf. Vol. I., 14); ord. to Scots Church, Paris,
25th Oct. 1897 ; adm. to Lyne and Megget
6th Dec. 1901 [afterwards min. of Cramond].
PATERSON, CHARLES EDWARD
M.A., B.D. (cf. Vol. II., 203); formerly
min. of Dalton ; app. in 1875 ; died at Paris
29th April 1880.
ROBERTSON, WILLIAM COWPER,
M.A., formerly min. of Cleish (cf. Vol. V.,
62); app. in 1927.
WRIGHT, THOMAS HENRY, born
Oundle, Northants, 9th Nov. 1857, son of
Henry W. and Hannah Smith ; educated at
Oundle School, Victoria Univ., Manchester,
and Lancashire College; adm. from Congre
gational Church in 1904; licen. by Presb.
of Edinburgh 8th June that year ; assistant
at Alloway, Cruden, Haddington, and
Tolbooth, Edinburgh ; ord. to Scots Church,
Dresden, Saxony, 26th July 1908 ; app.
here Sept. 1918 ; adm. to Oathlaw 12th May
1927. Marr. (1) 15th Sept. 1886, Anna
(accidentally killed in Paris 27th Dec.
1918), daugh. of William Gilchrist, and has
issue— William Gilchrist, forest engineer,
Canada, born llth June 1887; Helen
Mary, private secretary, born 28th March
1893 : (2) 14th April 1920, Finella, daugh.
of James Guthrie, Brechin. Publications—
The Finger of God; Studies in the Miracles
of Jesus (London, 1903); The Shrine of
Faith, Our Lords Human Experience
(London, 1905); Christian Science in the
Light of Christianity (Edinburgh, 1912);
Open Roads of Thought in the Bible and in
Poetry (Edinburgh, 1914) ; Francis Thomp
son and his Poetry (London, 1927) ; The
Sermon on the Mount for To-day (Edin
burgh, 1927). Contributions to Hastings's
Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels and
The Biblical Review (New York, 1913-27).
GERMANY
DRESDEN.
FOGO, GEORGE LAURIE, M.A. (cf.
Vol. II., 301) ; ord. 21st Sept. 1871 ; adm.
to Torthorwald 30th Oct. 1883.
BOWDEN, JOHN DAVIS, born 1839 ;
educated at U.P. Theological Hall, Edin
burgh ; ord. to Princes Road Presbyterian
Congregation, Liverpool, 12th Oct. 1868 ;
adm. to London Road U.P. Church, Edin
burgh, 29th May 1873 ; res. 6th Nov. 1883 ;
adm. to Church of Scotland 2nd June 1884 ;
app. to Dresden in 1885 ; died llth May
1909. He marr. Barbara Lee, who died 12th
Jan. 1913, and had issue — Mary Lee (marr.
James Alexander Milne, min. of Cramond) ;
William Douglas, Provincial Commissioner,
Sierra Leone. — [Small's Hist, of U.P. Congs.,
i., 490.]
SCOTT, WILLIAM FRANK (cf. Vol.
VI., 198), min. here 1883-5 [afterwards of
Logie-Buchan].
WRIGHT, THOMAS HENRY, ord. 26th
July 1908; app. to Scots Church, Paris
(q.v.\ Sept. 1918.
AMSTERDAM
537
HOLLAND
[Ministers of the Church of Scotland and others who have served in Scottish
Churches in Holland.]
AMSTERDAM.
[The Scottish Church at Amsterdam was
built about the year 1400. Originally a
Chapel connected with the ancient order
of nuns known as Baguines, who lived in
the Bagynenhof (Baguines' Court) nearby,
it was assigned in 1607 by the municipal
authorities as a meeting-place for a con
gregation of refugees from Scotland and
England, of whom, during the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries, large numbers fled to
Holland, and of British merchants attracted
to Amsterdam, then one of the busiest marts
of the world. The founding of the congre
gation is thus described in the Church
Records : " In the yeare of our Lord and
Saviour 1607, the third day of the moneth
commonly called February, about four of
the cloke in the afternone is the Church in
the Round Bagijnhof opened and in pres
ence of Mijnheer de Schout and D. Petrus
Plancius, minister of the Reformed Dutch
Church in Amstelredamme is the praeching-
stoel brought in that same Church and set
up for the English - people dwelling at
Amstelredamme in Holland. The next
day following being the Lord's day about
nyn of the clocke in the forenoon after
prayer and thancksgeiving unto God hath
D. Johannes Pagetius (infra) of the English
Church praecht the first sermon in that
foresaide Church, and the text was, Create
in me a claene hart, O God, psalm 51,
verse 10." While the first ministers came
from England, since the middle of the
eighteenth century they have been called
from the Church of Scotland. In 1709 a
Second Charge was instituted, which con
tinued to 1863. Till a century ago there
was also a special visitor of the sick, the
Ziekentrooster, and Deaconesses were ap
pointed, with short intervals from 1665 to
1861. The Act of Uniformity in 1662 sent
many English clergymen to Holland, who
became identified with the congregation
and were its most learned and zealous
workers. An enlargement of the church
took place in 1665 when many families
sought refuge in Amsterdam after the
Restoration of Charles II. In 1727 the
building was practically reconstructed. It
contains many beautiful memorials, and
gifts, the brass desk on the pulpit with
lion, monogram "W.M.R.R., Anno 1689,"
and lion's claw, together with two candle
sticks, having been presented by William of
Orange and his Queen. The Tercentenary
of the congregation was celebrated on 1st
Feb. 1907, when the delegate from the
Church of Scotland was James Robert
Mitford Mitchell, D.D., then Moderator-
Designate.]
JOHN PAGET, M.A., was in 1598 rector
of Nantwich, Cheshire, but ejected from
his charge for Puritanism, took refuge in
Holland ; accepted the Dutch Confession
of Faith 18th Jan. 1605, and was app.
chaplain to the English troops in the
service of the States General. On 3rd
Feb. 1607 he preached his first sermon in
the church at Amsterdam ; adm. to the
charge (by John Douglas, chaplain to a
Scots regiment at Utrecht, assisted by
three members of the Presb. of Amsterdam)
29th April following ; died 18th Aug. 1638.
His son Thomas was collegiate min. here
in 1639. Publication — Defence of Church
Government (1646).
THOMAS POTTS, M.A. (primus), a
Scotsman ; min. at Flushing before 1610 ;
trans, (colleague) here 1617 ; died 1635.
He marr. at Flushing (betrothed 2nd Jan.
1610, name unknown), and had issue —
Thomas, min. at Utrecht and Flushing
JOHN RULITIUS or RULICE (from
London), min. 1636 to 1637.
538
AMSTERDAM
JULIUS HERRING, Puritan min. at
St Alkmund's, Shrewsbury ; min. in 1637 ;
died 1645.
THOMAS PAGET, M.A., son of above
John P., collegiate min. 1639 to 1646 ; was
afterwards Presbyterian Rector of Stockport,
Cheshire.
RICHARD MADEN, adm. to Utrecht
5th Jan. 1645; trans, here in 1647; emeritus
in 1669 ; died June 1680. In September
1666, after the Great Fire of London,
having prayed for its restoration and
prosperity, he was enjoined by the burgo
masters to absent himself from public
worship until further orders. He was
restored on its being shown that he was
accustomed also "to implore the blessing
of Heaven on the land and sea forces of the
States." — [Wagenaar's Hist, of Amsterdam,
v., 278.]
WILLIAM PRICE, min. (colleague)
1648 to his death in 1668. A son John was
min. at The Hague (q.v.).
RICHARD WOODWARD, min. 1660 to
his death in 1669.
ALEXANDER HODGE [or HODGES],
M.A., Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford ;
ejected min. of St Thomas's, Exeter, in
1662, fled to Holland and became assistant
at Amsterdam ; was returning to England
when a violent storm drove the vessel
back to the harbour, and, resolving not to
re-expose himself to the peril of the sea,
was adm. to Delft 8th April 1668; trans,
to Amsterdam in 1669; died Dec. 1689.
He marr and had issue.— [Calamy's Non
conformist's Memorial, ii., 37.]
ADRIAN VAN OOSTRUM, min. 1691
to 1692.
HUGO FITTS, min. at Flushing in
1689; adm. here 1700; emeritus 1741.
DANIEL RAINEY, min. in 1711; retired
1739.
DAVID LONGUEVILLE [LONGO-
VIEL], educated at Univ. of Edinburgh;
M.A. (15th April 1730); adm. from Exeter,
1740; died 1776. He was an intimate of
Philip Doddridge, D.D.— [Steven's Rotter
dam, 279.]
DAVID THOMSON (cf. Vol. IV., 314) ;
ord. here Nov. 1742 ; trans, to Gargunnock
llth May 1758 ; afterwards of St Ninians.
JAMES BLINSHALL, D.D. (cf. Vol. V.,
332); adm. in 1758; trans, to Third Charge,
Dundee, 6th Sept. 1764.
WILLIAM GRIERSON (cf. Vol. II.,
315) ; trans, from Dordrecht and adm. in
1765 ; adm. to Glencairn 3rd Nov. 1774.
CHARLES NICOLSON, min. in 1775 ;
dem. 1781, having refused to introduce
into public worship an obsolete form of
prayer, prescribed by the States of Holland
in the event of war with Great Britain ;
took orders in the Church of England and
became chaplain to the British embassy at
Constantinople, where he died. — [Steven's
Rotterdam, 276.]
THOMAS PEIRSON, educated at
Univs. of St Andrews and Edinburgh ;
app. chaplain to the Scottish Brigade in
Holland; elected to this charge Dec. 1776
and adm. (colleague) in 1777 ; declined a
pressing call to Rotterdam 10th Sept. 1779;
became senior min. here in 1781 ; D.D.
(Edinburgh, 26th July 1791); dismissed
from office in 1796 having refused to take
the oath of allegiance to the House of
Brunswick; fled to England, and died at
Chelsea 12th July 1820. He was a great
book collector, the larger part of his library
being sold by public auction in London.
The Catalogue Raisonne', which he drew up
himself, contains many items of note for
bibliographers.— [Steven's Rotterdam, 219,
276 ; Bibliotheca Peirsoniana.]
GILBERT GERARD, D.D.; min.
1782 to 1791 ; dem. 3rd April 1791 on app. to
Professorship of Greek, King's College,
Aberdeen [afterwards Professor of Divinity
there (q.v.)].
RICHARD BUCHANAN, adm. in 1791;
D.D. (Edinburgh, 20th Nov. 1793); died
1794.
ROBERT WATT, born Kirkintilloch,
1773, second son of John W., physician;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by
Presb. of Glasgow; ord. in 1795; died
1800.
AMSTERDAM
539
CHARLES HUNTER, educated at
Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A. (1784); adin. to
Dordrecht in 1792 ; trans, here 1797 ; died
1800.
JAMES LOW, born Aberdeen, 8th March
1759, eldest son of Deacon John L. ; edu
cated at Aberdeen Grammar School ; at
the age of 18 he became tutor to the family
of James Martin, merchant, Rotterdam ;
was in 1779 a private teacher of English at
Utrecht and a student at Utrecht Univ. ;
licen. in 1783 ; ord. min. of the Scots Church,
Flushing, 19th Oct. that year; trans, to
Middelburg 26th June 1796; trans, to
this charge in autumn of 1797 ; trans, to
Amsterdam March 1801 ; died 20th Nov.
1817. He marr. at Utrecht in 1780, Miss
Pool, from Whitehaven, Cumberland (she
died in 1810), and had issue — John
Christopher, Ph.D., an able classical scholar
and mathematician, born 1785; died 1st Feb.
1811 ; Catherine Isabella (marr. J. C. Teding
Van Berkhout, advocate, Amsterdam), died
1822 ; and another died young. Publica
tions — The Winter Evening, or a Collection
of English Prose and Verse, 2 vols.
(Utrecht, 1781) ; Six Practical Discourses,
rendered from various English Authors into
Dutch (Utrecht, 1785); The Nature of
True Thanksgiving [a sermon preached at
Flushing on the recovery of George III.]
(Flushing [in Dutch and English] 1789);
The Uncertainty of Life Considered (Flush
ing, 1 790) ; A Solemn Appeal to the Under
standing of Christians in favour of Revealed
Religion (Rotterdam, 1799); On the Divinity
of the Christian Religion, translated from
the Dutch Original of Professor Klinken-
burg (Amsterdam, 1801). — [Steven's Rotter
dam, 232-4.]
WILLIAM STODART, formerly min.
of Rope Walk Chapel, Sunderland ; adm.
in 1803 ; dem. 1807 and went to America ;
died in Scotland 1812.
[WILLIAM MACPHAIL, min.
at Rotterdam ; declined a call, thrice
repeated.]
ALEXANDER M'INTOSH, born
Nairnshire, about 1780 ; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen; M.A. (30th March
1797); assistant at Rotterdam, 1804-6;
adm. collegiate min. there llth May 1806 ;
called 27th June, trans, and adm. 23rd
Aug. 1807; D.D. (King's College, Aberdeen,
15th Feb. 1814) ; died 15th Sept. 1838.
WILLIAM BROWN NIVISON (cf.
Vol. II., 252); ord. (colleague) 26th June
1818 ; res. 1823 ; adm. to Kirtle 24th July
1838.
ALEXANDER BERRY MACKEY,
born Aberdeenshire about 1794 ; educated
at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (25th
March 1814) ; called 7th Aug., and ord. 30th
Nov. 1823 ; had leave of absence for ill-
health 14th Dec. 1834 ; died 5th Jan. 1835
on his way back to Rotterdam.
[WILLIAM STEVEN, M.A., min. at
Rotterdam j called in 1835 but declined.]
JAMES INGRAM, M.A. (cf. Vol. IV.,
344); called 8th, and ord. (by Presb. of
Kincardine O'Neil) 20th Oct. 1835 [not
1834, as in Vol. IV.]; adm. 6th Dec.
following ; trans, to Fala and Soutra 9th
May 1844 [afterwards min. of Dunblane].
ALEXANDER MURDOCH (cf. Vol.
VI., 338 ; ord. (by Presb. of Fordyce) 21st
June, and adm. llth July 1841 ; res. 30th
Jan. 1854 ; adm. to Boharm 4th May that
year.
ALEXANDER BISSET, born Ardlaw,
Pitsligo, 1814, son of James B., farmer;
educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen ;
M.A. (1832); elected to Second Charge
18th Nov. 1844 ; ord. (by Presb. of Aber
deen) Dec. following ; adm. 22nd June 1845 ;
app. to First Charge in 1862 ; was on sick-
leave in Scotland Jan. to Sept. that year ;
became minister-emeritus 1st July 1863 ;
died 4th Feb. 1864.
JOHN M'lLRAITH (cf. Vol. III., 195),
formerly min. of Greenhead, Glasgow ;
elected as second min. 6th Sept., and adm.
24th Dec. 1854; adm. to Erskine 21st
Dec. 1871.
WILLIAM MACFARLANE, born
Boharm, 9th Sept. 1839, son of Mungo
M. and Margaret Christie ; educated at
Fochabers School and King's College,
540
AMSTERDAM— CAMPVERE
Aberdeen; M.A. (March 1858); licen. by
Presb. of Aberlour ; schoolmaster of Insch ;
assistant at Glasgow; elected 4th April
1872, and ord. soon afterwards ; dem. 31st
Jan. 1881 ; app. naval chaplain at Ports
mouth in 1882 ; died at Southsea, 8th
March 1905. He marr. 13th Feb. 1879,
H. M. Van de Stadt, daugh. of Nicolaas
Van de Stadt, and had issue— Daisy, born
21st June 1880 (marr. E. J. C. Crone);
William Nicolaas, M.A. (Oxon.) St Helen's
College, Portsmouth, born 30th Nov. 1881.
Publications — Translations from Dutch
into English.
ALEXANDER IRONSIDE, born
Auchterless, 24th Nov. 1845, son of Robert
I. ; educated at Univ. of Aberdeen ; M.A.
(1867) ; licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen 1870 ;
missionary at Elchies 1870-5 ; sometime a
teacher in Scotland and England; ord. to
Law 27th Sept. 1882; min. of the Scots
Church, Amsterdam, 1882-94 ; app. chap
lain to the troops at Shorncliffe and Hythe
1898; died at Aberdeen 3rd Nov. 1915.
WILLIAM THOMSON, born Leslie,
Aberdeenshire, 19th April 1862, son of
John T. and Mary Emslie ; educated at
Grammar School, Old Aberdeen, and Univ.
of Aberdeen; M.A. (1885); B.D. (1892);
licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen May 1890;
assistant at Holborn Parish ; ord. (by Presb.
of Aberdeen) to this charge 12th Nov. 1894;
adm. by Classis of Amsterdam 28th April
1895; D.D. (Ursinus Univ., Philadelphia,
U.S.A., 1920). Marr. 10th July 1906,
Everdina, daugh. of Albert Kummer,
Publications — A Short Historical Sketch of
the JSnglish Reformed Church, Amsterdam
(Amsterdam, 1907); "Holland" (Christen
dom at the beginning of the Twentieth
Century) (U.S.A.).
CAMPVERE, ou VEERE.
[Campvere was an important seaport of
Holland in the island of Walcheren and
was originally known as Kamperveer, from
the veer, or ferry for Kamper, on a neigh
bouring island. After the submersion of
that island the name Kamper was dropped
and the place is now known only as Veere.
From as early as the year 1644, and for
upwards of three centuries and a half, there
existed between Scotland and this ancient
town (in 1928 a mere village with a popu
lation of 890) an almost uninterrupted
commercial intercourse. It was the Staple
Port for the whole of Scotland. The
Scottish Staple was an organisation of
merchants of the Royal Burghs for the
monopoly of foreign trade, with the Con
vention of Burghs as governing body.
Business abroad was carried on by " factors ;)
who disposed of the imported merchandise
upon commission, returning to the owners
the proceeds of the sale. Of the early
church history of Campvere little is known.
In a contract of 1541 it was stipulated that
the Scots should have "the choice and
option of a suitable place in the collegiate
church, with a chaplain>o as it shall please
the said nation." According to the Dutch
chronicler, Ermerins, John Dawson held
that position in 1552. There was, however,
no regular minister or church for the next
sixty-two years, notwithstanding repeated
recommendations by the Convention of
Burghs. In 1613 Andrew Ramsay (infra)
declined appointment as minister, when
Alexander MacDuff (infra) accepted the
charge. In 1642 the congregation became
connected with the Presbytery of Edin
burgh, the first instance of any foreign
congregation having a direct official com
munion with the Church of Scotland. In
a letter to William Spang, Archibald
Thomson, the Clerk of Assembly, wrote :
"We conceave that your presence may be
behoofful for that correspondence which
our Church intendes, God willing, to keep
with our brethren abroad." Commissioners
were also invited to the Synod of Lothian
and Tweeddale, and to the General Assembly,
but this was frequently omitted because of
distance and expense. On 29th May 1644
the Solemn League and Covenant was
signed by all the members. From 1792 to
1799 this kirk suffered greatly from the
Revolutionary troubles of the time, the
antagonism of the civil authorities, and,
during its last stages, from disharmony (on
political grounds) with the Classis of the
Dutch Church. The complete collapse of
CAMPVERE
541
trade and the hostility of the State com
bined to reduce the congregation to poverty.
Finally, on llth Oct. 1799 the Dutch Re-
public issued a decree by which the Staple
Contract was annulled, the minister, James
Likly (infra), preaching his farewell sermon
on Sunday 24th Nov. The Records of the
church, extant from 1630, are preserved in
the Stadhuis at Veere. A set of four
communion cups of Campvere Church
(presented by the factors in 1620) were
bought, as old silver, by Lord Egerton of
Tatton from a firm of London jewellers,
23rd July 1875, and presented by him to
Manchester Cathedral, where they still are.
In 1894, Arthur Wellesley Frater (infra),
minister at Middelburg and Flushing, ap
peared at the bar of the General Assembly
in support of a commission in his favour
from "the kirk-session of the remanent
congregation of the Scotch Church at Camp
vere, presently worshipping in Middelburg."
The Assembly refused to sustain the com
mission, but at a subsequent session, by a
majority of two, resolved " that the Church
of Campvere remain on the Roll of As
sembly."— See " The Church at Campvere,"
in Davidson and Gray's The Scottish Staple
at Veere, 270-336 (London, 1909) ; Dr Mair's
Digest of Church Laws, 4th edition, 368-75
(Edinburgh, 1923) ; Steven's History of the
Scottish Church, Rotterdam, 288-94 (Edin
burgh, 1835); and Bibliography appended
to the present volume.]
JOHN DAWSON, priest or chaplain to
the Scottish merchants at Campvere in
1552. — [Davidson's The Scottish Staple at
Veere, 270.]
[ANDREW RAMSAY, declined election
in 1613; afterwards Professor of Divinity,
Univ. of Edinburgh.]
ALEXANDER MACDUFF, M.A. (cf.
Vol. V., 170); formerly min. of Newburgh ;
app. (by Convention of Scottish Burghs)
first min. of this charge 14th July 1613 ;
died Sept. 1625.
THOMAS EWING, reader in 1614.
GEORGE SYDSERFF (cf. Vol. I., 403);
app. (by Convention of Burghs) in 1625;
returned to Scotland and pres.to Cockburns-
path 22nd May 1627.
JOHN FORRETT [or FORRET], M.A. ;
(cf. Vol. V., 223); formerly min. of New-
burn, Fife ; app. (by Convention of Burghs)
4th July and dem. before 3rd Oct. 1628 ;
died Sept. 1629. He marr. Helen Ramsay,
who "was left verie indigent with the
burden of manie poor children."— [The
Scottish Staple at Veere, 278.]
WILLIAM SPANG, M.A. ; app. min.
here 27th Jan. 1630 ; trans, to Middelburg
10th Nov. 1652 (q.v.), but did not leave till
4th May 1653.
ROBERT BROWNE, app. to officiate
temporarily, 1653-4.
GEORGE ROBERTSON, M.A. (St
Andrews 1645); elected 17th Dec. 1657;
ord. (by Presb. of Edinburgh) shortly after
wards ; dem. 1660, and his further history
is unknown.
THOMAS MOWBRAY, M.A. (cf. Vol.
I., 7), adm. 26th Sept. 1660 ; dem. July 1664,
when he preached his farewell sermon;
returned to Scotland and adm. to Cor-
storphine 13th March 1665.— [The Scottish
Staple at Veere, 302.]
ANDREW SNYPE, educated at Univ.
of Glasgow ; M.A. (1641) ; licen. by Presb.
of Glasgow llth June 1645 ; ord. to Rotter
dam in 1649 ; adm. here 1664 ; died 1686,
aged about 65. He marr. Christian, daugh.
of Alexander Petrie (primus), min. at
Rotterdam.— [Yair's Account of the Scotch
Trade in the Netherlands, 276.]
CHARLES GORDON, M.A. (cf. Vol
I. 241, II. 169); ord. 24th March 1686;
returned to Scotland and adm. to Dalmeny
23rd Sept. 1691 [afterwards min. of Ashkirk].
In May 1689 he sailed to Scotland in order
to be married, but was captured by a
French ship and kept a prisoner at Dunkirk
for seven months. During his ministry
here the church was destroyed by fire 25th
May 1686. Services thereafter were held
in the Poor's House until a new church was
rebuilt in 1699.
THOMAS HOOG, trans, for Delft and
adm. Feb. 1694 ; trans', to Rotterdam 10th
May 1698 (q.v.).
542
CAMPVERE— DELFT
JOHN CHALMER [CHALMERS], born
1673, son of William C., min. of Kinedward,
and brother of George C., D.D., Principal
of King's College, Aberdeen; educated at
Marischal College, Aberdeen; Keen, by
Presb. of Strathbogie ; assistant at Rotter
dam in 1698 ; adm. here Oct. 1699 ; trans,
to Duffus 12th May 1722, but not settled,
the General Assembly at his own request
continuing him in this charge 16th May
1723; declined a call to Middelburg in
1724; died 18th Sept. 1729. He marr.
Anna Catherine Durelaer (born 1687, died
1771), whose descendants in the female line,
the Van Visoliet family of Middelburg,
held many important positions in Holland.
— [Wodrow's Corresp., i. 232, 391, iii. 395 ;
Acts of Assembly, 1704, 1722, 1723 ; Yair's
Scotch Trade; Davidson's The Scottish
Staple at Veere, 308-12 ; Chalmers and
Trail Ancestry, 32, 139.]
CHARLES JERVEY, born 1701 ; edu
cated at Univ. of Glasgow; M.A. (28th
June 1722) ; licen. by Presb. of Irvine 12th
Feb. 1729; ord. (at Rotterdam) 20th, and
adm. 29th Oct. 1730 ; died 13th Aug. 1738.
An entry in the church records during the
ministry of Jervey is of interest in con
nection with the Porteous Mob. On llth
Jan. 1738, the minister informed his session
that George Robertson "some time ago
tryed and sentenced to death by the Lords
of Justiciary in Scotland for crimes libelled
and proved against him, having escaped
from justice and settled himself in this
place, desired to have his child baptized,
which extraordinary and straitening case
he referred to the Consistory for advice."
The Consistory unanimously found that
" the said George Robertson being actually
under sentence of death, could by no means
be permitted to present his child to baptism,
that being such a scandal as no church
could purge, far less overlook. But that
the child be not deprived of the privilege
of baptism for the father's crimes, do allow
Helen Purves, lawful wife, and mother of
the child, to present the same, and to take
on the vows, they knowing nothing against
her character and conduct.31 Robertson's
name further appears on 9th May 1757,
when relief was given to him, being then in
"great poverty."— [Wodrow's Anal., iv. ;
Davidson's The Scottish Staple at Veere,
318.]
JAMES YAIR (cf. Vol. I., 199) ; licen.
by Presb. of Shetland 2nd March 1732;
ord. to Carriden 18th Sept. 1735; called
21st Dec. 1738 ; trans. 18th April, and adm.
4th Oct. 1739 ; called to Dalzielbut transla
tion refused 30th March 1743; died 22nd
April 1784, "good, learned, and pious."
Publication — An Account of the Scotch
Trade in the Netherlands, and of the Staple
Port in Campvere (London, 1776).— [The
Scottish Staple at Veere, 320-26.]
ALEXANDER WILSON, born 2nd Jan.
1742, third son of James W., min. of Gamrie;
educated at Univ. of St Andrews; M.A.
(1770) ; licen. by Presb. of Turriff ; adm. to
Dordrecht in 1776; trans, and adm. 7th
Nov. 1784 ; died 3rd May 1789. He marr.
17th Aug. 1785, Sarah, daugh. of John
French, advocate, Aberdeen, and had issue
—Sarah ; Christina. — [The Scottish Staple
at Veere, 327.]
JOHN LIKLY, M.A. (cf. Vol. VI., 174) ;
adm. 25th April 1790; obliged to leave
Holland in 1799 with many of his con
gregation during the Napoleonic invasion ;
adm. to Meldrum (his native parish) 18th
March 1801.— [The Scottish Staple at Veere,
327-36.]
DELFT.
[An English Staple and market existed
at Delft from 1621 to 1635. In that year
the Staple was removed to Rotterdam, but
the manufacturers and tradesmen who
remained were not deprived of their place
of worship, the town continuing its grant
of 500 guilders for a resident minister.
The earliest Register extant commences
Dec. 1645. On 31st Dec. 1706 the Town
Council resolved to discontinue the church
in the event of a vacancy.]
JOHN FORBES (cf. Vol. VI., 117),
formerly min. of Alford ; min. at Middel
burg, 1611 to 1621 ; min. here in 1621 ; died
1634. His daugh. Katherine (died s.p. 1639)
DELFT— DORDRECHT
543
marr. John Oswald, min. of Dort, after
wards of Pencaitland and Prestonpans (cf.
Vol. I., 389). Her epitaph at Pencaitland
by her "sad, loving husband," says : —
" Happie in Birth Match Comely feature,
And evrie \Yrtue graceing Nature,
In not hiii'; rross'd but barren wombe.
All that was flesh rests in this tombe
Of her, whose inward sprightlie gifts
Them match'd whom Grace to Glory lifts.
These Life conjoynd, Death separate,
Each lies what either aimed at ;
Earth with respect its own possesses,
And Heav'ne its due all men confesses."
—[Steven's Rotterdam, 294 ; M'Crie's Mel
ville, ii., 310.]
ROBERT PARKER, M.A., min. in 1636;
dem. 1640, and probably settled in England.
PATRICK FORBES, M.A. ; min. from
1641 to 1643.
EDWARD RICHARDSON, D.D., min.
in 1643 [afterwards of the Scots Church,
Leyden, 1670 to 1674 (q.v.)].
ALEXANDER PETRIE (secundus), born
about 1622, son of Alexander P., min. at
Rotterdam ; educated at Univ. of St
Andrews ; M.A. (1642) ; adm. in 1645. On
8th April 1668 he preached a farewell
sermon, having been appointed to a parish
in Scotland, but not being settled he re
turned to Holland, and on the translation
of his successor was again re-adm. Feb.
1669 ; died 2nd June 1683. He marr. 1647
Margaret Witz. He presented two silver
communion cups in memory of his relative,
Sir John Gordon of Smidars, Bart., who
died at Delft in 1648.— [Steven's Rotterdam,
21, 295.]
ALEXANDER HODGE [or HODGES],
M.A. ; min. of St Thomas's, Exeter ; adm.
8th April 1668; trans, to Amsterdam in
1669 (q.v.).
JOHN SINCLAIR (cf. Vol. I., 340),
formerly min. of Ormiston ; adm. 30th July
1684; died 24th March 1687.— [Steven's
Rotterdam, 295; "Elegy" in Fleming's
Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1691).]
THOMAS HOOG, M.A.; adm. 27th
Sept. 1689 ; trans, to Campvere Feb. 1694,
Rotterdam 10th May 1699 (q.v.).
WILLIAM VAN SHIE (Dutch), min.
1694 till his death in 1724, when the
church was suppressed by resolution of the
Town Council of Delft, " in consequence of
there being very few members, and that
those few were perfectly acquainted with
the Dutch language." — [Steven's Rotterdam,
DORDRECHT, 011 DORT.
[Before 1618, the year of the famous
Synod of Dordrecht, or Dort, many Scots
people had settled in that town. Preachers
of the national churches of Scotland and
England conducted frequent services during
their five months' stay in 1618, and thus
paved the way for the institution of a
Presbyterian congregation. After their
departure supply was given by the military
chaplain at Gorcum, and in 1623 a church
was erected and incorporated with the
Classis or Presbytery.]
JOHN OSWALD, M.A. (cf. Vol. I., 389
[where the year of his birth should be 1600,
not 1660]); ord. here in 1623; dem. 1625,
and became min. of the Second Charge,
Montrose, 1626 [afterwards min. of Preston-
pans]. (See under John Forbes, Delft.)
JOHN VINCENT, min. in 1625; died
1635.
FRANCIS DIBBETS, min. in 1635;
trans, to a charge probably in England
in 1637.
ROBERT PAGET, M.A., son of John P.,
min. at Amsterdam, bom about 1612 ; min.
from 1638 till his death in 1684. " A man
of considerable Biblical knowledge, but of
extreme modesty." — [Steven's Rotterdam,
74.]
SAMUEL MEGAPOLENSIS, M.D.
(Dutch) ; min. at Flushing in 1677 ; trans,
here in 1685; became minister-emeritus 1700.
SAMUEL MASSON, son of a persecuted
French pastor who took refuge at Dordrecht
after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes,
and brother of John M., M.A., rector of
Aswarby, Lincolnshire ; adm. July 1700
and was min. for 42 years; died 1742. —
^Steven's Rotterdam. 299.]
544
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SAMUEL JAY, min. in. 1742; died
1753. His only son Samuel, M.D., marr.
Mary, daugh. of John Enslie, min. at
Eotterdam.
JAMES AFFLECK, M.A. ; ord. in 1753;
trans, to Middelburg 22nd Nov. 1761.
WILLIAM GRIERSON, ord. 4th Aug.
1763 ; trans, to Amsterdam in 1765 (q.v.~).
ALEXANDER LAYAL, M.A., adm. 15th
June 1766 ; trans, to Rotterdam 19th Aug.
1770 (q.v.\
THOMAS STEEL, born Edinburgh,
1740 ; educated at King's College, Aber
deen; M.A. (25th April 1759); min. at
Portsoy in 1765 (cf. Vol. VI., 293); min.
in 1770; died 1771.
JAMES MILNE, min. in 1771; died
1776.
ALEXANDER WILSON, M.A. ; min.
in 1776 ; trans, to Cam pv ere 7th Nov.
1784 (q.v.\
WILLIAM GREIG, M.A. (cf. Vol. VI.,
227) ; ord. 29th Dec. 1784 ; trans, to Rothie-
may 9th Dec. 1789 [afterwards min. of
Longsidej.
JOHN GLENNIE, M.A. (cf. Vol. V.,
460) ; ord. in 1790 ; adm. to Garvock 26th
July 1804 [afterwards min. of Dunnottar],
CHARLES HUNTER, M.A. ; adm. in
1792 ; trans, to Amsterdam 1797 (q.v.).
MAURICE RITCHIE, M.A.; ord. in
1797 ; trans, to Rotterdam 19th July 1801
(q.v.).
JAMES ANDERSON, ord. (by Presb.
of Auchterarder) 8th Dec. 1801 ; trans, to
Rotterdam 22nd Nov. 1807 (q.v.).
[The church was vacant for eleven years
on account of the national troubles. Upon
the restoration of the Orange regime the
Consistory was granted permission to call
another minister.]
JAMES MORGAN, born Arbuthnott,
Kincardineshire, 1783, son of James M.,
farmer; educated at Marischal College,
Aberdeen ; M.A. (1802) ; schoolmaster at
Maryculter and Bervie ; adrn. here in 1818 ;
dem. about 1840; resided at Stonehaven;
died unmarr. 15th Aug. 1869 [according to
tombstone, but in the Register of Fetter-
esso, the date is 31st July]. He was an
accomplished geologist. He left his col
lection of specimens to Montrose Museum,
and a sum of money to Aberdeen Infirmary.
— [Jervise's Epitaphs, ii., 204.]
FLUSHING.
[In 1586 the States of Holland gave 4000
guilders towards the erection of a place of
worship for the troops sent by Queen
Elizabeth under the command of the Earl
of Leicester. In 1616 the regiments were
withdrawn by order of James VI., but the
church was continued, and in 1645 was
incorporated with the Classis or Presbytery.
On 27th June 1815 the church at Middel
burg was united to Flushing by royal
decree.]
THOMAS POTTS, M.A., min. to the
English army and residents before 1610 ;
continued to preach in the garrison church
to the British merchants after the departure
of the troops ; trans, to Amsterdam in
1617 (q.v.\
JOHN WING, ord. 19th June 1620;
trans, to The Hague llth May 1627 (q.v.).
MAXIMILIAN TEELINCK, son of
William T., Dutch Reformed min. at
Middelburg [the most popular preacher
and voluminous writer among the Dutch
divines of his day]; min. 1627 to 1628. —
[Steven's Rotterdam, 303.]
JOHN ROW, sometime min. at
Zwolle ; adm. in 1628 ; was apparently
trans, to another charge in 1645. — [Steven's
Rotterdam, 306, 344.]
JOHN POTTS (secundus), min. here in
1646; trans, to Utrecht 14th Feb. 1651
ARN VAN LAREN (Dutch), min. 1651
to his death in 1676.
SAMUEL MEGAPOLENSIS, M.D. ;
min. here in 1677 ; trans, to Dordrecht
1685.
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545
HUGO FITTS, min. in 1689 ; trans. t<
Amsterdam 1700.
SIMON VAN DER PYL (Dutch), min
from 1700 to his death in 1732.
ANGUS [or ./ENEAS] BEATON, s
native of Skye ; M. A. (King's College, Aber
deen, 7th April 1721); min. from 1733 tc
his death in 1735.
DAVID RUTHERFORD, M.A.; min.
from 1736 to his death in 1758.
ARCHIBALD LAIDLIE, M.A. ; lecturer
at Edinburgh ; adm. 2nd Sept. 1759 ; left
13th Nov. 1763 and became min. of the
Dutch Reformed Church, New York ; D.D.
(U.S.A.) ; died, of yellow fever, during the
American War.— [Steven's Rotterdam, 193.]
JUSTUS TJEENK (Dutch), min. from
1765 to his death in 1783.
JAMES LOW, M.A.; ord. 19th Oct.
1783; trans, to Middelburg 26th June 1796.
JOHN HENDERSON (cf. Vol. II., 329),
formerly min. of Monkwearmouth ; adm.
here 16th July 1797 and continued till the
evacuation of the town by the British
troops in 1809 ; adm. to Wanlockhead 1812.
SANDER VAN DER HOEK (Dutch),
min. at Middelburg 1807 and here in 1815
to his death the following year.
GEORGE MORISON, born Glassaugh,
Fordyce, 1768, son of George M. ; edu
cated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A.
(30th March 1791); adm. min. here with
Middelburg in conjunction, 1818 ; died
23rd July 1853.
ARTHUR WELLESLEY FRATER,
M.A. (See under Middelburg.)
THE HAGUE.
[As early as 1595 services in English
were conducted for British residents at
The Hague. On 28th Nov. 1626, permission
was granted for the appointment of a
Presbyterian minister, whose annual sti
pend, by decree of the States of Holland,
VOL. VII.
17th Aug. 1628, was fixed at five hundred
pounds Flemish, and augmented in 1661 to
eight hundred. Mary, Consort of William,
Prince of Orange, was a member of this
congregation, and a considerable benefactor.
The earliest record is entitled " A Register
for the Church consisting of the subjects
of the King of Great Britain resident in
The Hague. Begun in the yeare 1627."
Three other volumes (complete) deal with
Kirk-Session affairs. Following the death
of William Carp, D.D., the church was
suppressed, by royal decree, 8th Jan. 1822.]
JOHN WING, was originally a min.
at Sandwich, Kent, became chaplain to " the
Merchant Adventurers of England, resident
at Hamburg " [where he was succeeded by
Thomas Young, tutor to John Milton];
adm. to Flushing 19th June 1620; trans,
and adm. here by John Forbes (min. at
Delft) llth May 1627; died 1629. Publi
cations — The Crowne Conjugall or the
Spouse Royall (Middelburg, 1620); Jacob's
Staff to beare up the Faithful, and to beate
down the Profane (Flushing, 1621); Abel's
Offering (Flushing, 1621).— [Steven's Rotter
dam, 302, 308 ; Masson's Life of Milton
i., 72.]
SAMUEL BALMFORT, min. 1630 to
1650.
GEORGE BEAUMONT, formerly at
Heusden ; min. 1651 to 1660, when he left
"or Ireland.
JOHN PRICE, min. in 1661; removed
o Guineam in 1676.
PHILIP MACDONALD BOWIE,
Phil.D., son of Walter Macdonald B.,
chaplain to Scottish regiments in Holland
and min. at Utrecht [descended of James
Macdonald B., third son of Macdonald of
Slate] min. of the Church of England con
gregation at Dordrecht, 1672-6; min. here
in 1676 to his death 1715.— [Lyon Register,
1672 ; Steven's Rotterdam, 309.]
DAVID BLAIR, M.A. (cf. Vol. I., 71);
then residing at Leyden ; adm. collegiate
min., 20th June 1688, with the proviso that
"whereas he was rooted into the Presby
terian Church of Scotland, and that among
them no minister was bound to observe the
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festival days, or to use the forms, that
therefore he might (if possible) be dispensed
of the same, and that the words in the act
of the Call or Election relating thereto, be
left out"; returned to Scotland and adm.
to the Old Kirk, or South-East Parish,
Edinburgh, 9th Aug. 1691. — [Steven's
Rotterdam, 308.]
EGBERT MILLING, probably brother
of John M., min. at Leyden; trans, from
Leyden and adm. in 1716 ; died 1749.
ARCHIBALD M ACL AINE, born
Monaghan, Ireland, 1722, elder son of
Thomas M., min. of the Presbyterian con
gregation there (son of Archibald M., min.
at Markethill, and formerly min. of Kil-
bride in Arran), and Elizabeth, daugh. of
James Milling [his brother James Maclaine
was "the gentleman highwayman." See
Diet. Nat. Biog., where the father's name
is wrongly given as Lauchlan], and nephew
of preceding ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ;
M.A. (1746); became assistant to his uncle
in 1746 ; adm. second or collegiate min. in
1747; D.D. (Glasgow 1767); was seized
with apoplexy 2nd Oct. 1795 ; dem. 28th
June 1796 ; died at Bath, 25th Nov. 1804,
and buried in the Abbey Church. He had
considerable popularity in Holland as
scholar and divine, and was sometime tutor
to the Prince of Orange. Publications — A
Translation with Notes of Mosheim's Ecclesi
astical History, 2 vols. (London, 1765),
reprinted in 1768 in 5 vols, and in 1782,
1806, 1810, 1825, in 6 vols.). Translated
Jean Jacob Vernet's Dialogues on Some
Important Subjects drawn up after the
Manner of Socrates (London, 1753) ; A
Series of Letters addressed to Soame Jenyns
on the occasion of his " View of the Internal
Evidence of the Christian Religion''1
(London, 1777, 2nd ed., 1778).— [Steven's
Rotterdam, 309-11 ; George III., his Court
and Family (1821), ii., 78-80; Aa's Bio-
graphisch Woordenboek der Nederlanden,
xii., 37 ; Tombst.]
WILLIAM CARP, (Dutch), adm.
in 1803; D.D. (Marischal College, Aber
deen, 1st March 1819); died 27th June
1821.
LEYDEN.
[The popularity of the Univ. of Leyden,
founded in 1575, attracted so many Scots
students that in 1609 the States of Hol
land and magistrates of Leyden instituted
and endowed a Scots kirk in that town.
During the eighteenth century 2000 British
students studied medicine there under the
celebrated Boerhaave. The rise of the
Edinburgh school of medicine brought
about the decay of Leyden as a centre of
medical learning, and the church, suffering
accordingly, was suppressed in 1805.]
ROBERT DURIE (cf. Vol. IV., 182),
formerly min. of Anstruther-Wester ; first
min. of this congregation, 1609-16 ; died
Sept. 1616.
HUGH GOUDGIER [GOODYEAR or
GOODEAR], min. 1617 to his death in
1661.
MATTHEW NEWCOMEN, born 1610,
a native of Colchester, second son of
Stephen N. ; educated at Univ. of Cam
bridge ; B.A. (St John's College 1629),
M.A, (1633) , became lecturer at Dedham
and leader of the church reform party in
Essex; was one of the Westminster
Assembly of divines, and preached the
opening sermon before the Assembly and
both Houses of Parliament 7th July 1643 ;
town lecturer at Ipswich in 1655; D.D.
(10th Oct. 1661) ; declined appointment as
chaplain to Charles II. ; preached his last
sermon at Dedham, 20th Aug. 1662, when
he urged those "unable to enjoy public
helps for sanctifying the Lord's Day at
home, to travel to other congregations, or
to redouble their fervour in secret and
family devotion"; became min. at Leyden
in 1662 ; died of the plague 1st Sept.
1669. He marr. 1640, Hannah, daugh. of
Robert Snelling, M.P. for Ipswich (and
sister of Mary S., first wife of Edmund
Calamy, and widow of Gilbert Rany, rector
of St Mary Stoke, Ipswich), and had
issue— Stephen, student at Leyden in 1663,
bapt. 17th Sept. 1645 ; Hannah, bapt. 9th
March 1647; Martha, bapt. 30th March
1651 ; Alice, bapt. 25th July 1652 ; Sarah,
bapt. 26th Aug. 1655, all born at Dedham ;
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547
three sons and three daughs. died young
and buried there. Publications— One of
the authors of An Answer to a Book [by
Bishop Hall] entituled "An Humble Re
monstrance in which the Oriyinall of
Liturgy, Episcopacy, is discussed, by
Smecti/mnuus" [i.e. Stephen Marshall,
Edmund Calamy, Thomas Young, Matthew
Newcomen, W. Spurstowe] (London, 1641) ;
A Sermon before Parliament (London,
1643) ; Ultimum Vale, or the Last Farewell
of a Minister of the Gospel to a Beloved
People (London, 1663), and six other
sermons published separately.— [Calamy's
Nonconformist's Memorial, ii., 195; Neal's
Hist, of the Puritans, iv., 389 ; Mitchell's
Westminster Assembly, 138, 296, 304 et seq. ;
Steven's Rotterdam, 315; Davids's Non
conformity in Essex, 203, 227, 380-3; Trans.
Essex Archceol. Soc., new ser., iv. pt. ii. 11;
Diet. Nat. Biog.}
EDWARD RICHARDSON, D.D., min.
at Delft in 1643 ; was afterwards at Ripon,
Yorkshire, which he left in 1660, and
became min. of a chapel at Haarlem,
Holland, 1665-70; min. of this charge,
1670-4; died at Amsterdam about 1677.
His first wife, Dorcas, daugh. of Julius
Herring, died at Ripon, 31st Aug. 1651, and
had issue — Edward, bapt. 3rd July 1644.
He marr. (2) a daugh. of Mr Allison, York.
Publication— Anglo- Belgica, or the English
and Dutch Academy (Amsterdam, 1677). —
[Calamy's Nonconformist's Memorial, iii.,
445 ; De Koning's Tafereel der stad Haarlem,
33-4 ; Dale's Yorkshire Puritanism, 123.]
HENRY HICKMAN, M.A. ; min. in
1675; died 1691.
WILLIAM CARSTARES, M.A. (cf. Vol.
I., 66); elected colleague to preceding in
1688; returned to Scotland in 1689 and was
afterwards Principal of Univ. of Edinburgh.
ROBERT FLEMING, M.A. (secundus} ;
app. min. in 1692; trans, to Rotterdam
30th Jan. 1695 (q.v.}.
JOHN MILLING, educated at Univ. of
Edinburgh; M.A. (30th June 1690); min.
1696 to 1702 ; adm. to Mary's Abbey, Dub
lin, 23rd June 1702 ; died 17th June 1705.
ROBERT MILLING, adm. in 1702;
trans, to The Hague in 1716 (q.v.).
THOMAS GOWAN, educated at Univ.
of Edinburgh ; M.A. (18th Feb. 1701); ord.
to Drumbo, Ireland, 29th March 1706 ;
min. from 1716 to his death in 1758.
WILLIAM MITCHELL, born 1728,
eldest son of James M., min. of St Machar's,
Aberdeen; educated at King's College'
Aberdeen; M.A. (27th March 1745); licen.by
Presb. of Aberdeen ; master of the Scottish
School at Rotterdam 1752 ; adm. colleague
to preceding in 1753 ; suspended from office,
having refused to take the oath against the
House of Orange, 14th July 1796; re
instated 12th Sept. 1801; declared minister-
emeritus in 1805; died Sept. 1807. He
marr. and had issue. A grandson was Pro
fessor Bake, Leyden.— [Steven's Rotterdam,
314, 349 ; Van Mieris, i., 102.]
MIDDELBURG IN
WALCHEREN.
[A church for British residents was
erected here in 1622, mainly through the
efforts of William Teelinck, min. of the
Dutch Reformed Church, who died 8th
April 1629, aged 50. The minutes of Kirk-
Session are complete from 1622.]
JOHN FORBES (cf. Vol. VI., 117),
formerly min. of Alford, founded the Scots
Church at Middelburg about 1611, and was
min. till his translation to Delft in 1621.
JOHN DRAKE, adm. 3rd Sept. 1623;
died 17th Feb. 1642, aged 60.
PETER GRIBIUS (German), adm. 23rd
Nov. 1642 ; became min. of the German
congregation at Amsterdam in 1652.
WILLIAM SPANG, born Glasgow, 1607,
son of Andrew S., merchant burgess, a
cousin of Principal Robert Baillie; edu
cated at Univs. of Glasgow, M.A. (1625),
and Edinburgh ; app. classical master in
High School, Edinburgh, 1625 ; app. min.
at Campvere 25th May 1630 ; trans, to this
charge 10th Nov. 1652, but did not leave
until 4th May 1653 ; died 17th June 1664.
He marr. (1) a lady who died in 1647 :
(-2) Anna Meese, and had issue — William,
min. here in 1682 ; Andrew ; and three
daughs. Publications — Brevis et fidelis
Narratio in Regno et ecclesia Scotica
548
MIDDELBURG
(Dantisci 1640, republished as Rerum nuper
in regno Scotice gestarum historia, Dantisci
1641) ; Motuum Britannicorum Verax Cushi
ex ipsis Joabi et oculati testis prototypis totus
translatus (Rotterdam, 1647). Edited Dr
Arthur Johnston's Latin Poems (Middel-
burg, 1642). — [Steven's Hist. Edin. High
School, app. vi., 83 ; Baillie's Letters, i. p. ex. ;
The Scottish Staple at Veere, 278-300.]
DAVID ANDERSON, a Scotsman; min.
of a congregation at Walton-on-Thames,
and residing at Middelburg in 1664; was
adm. here that year; died 27th March
1667.— [Steven's Rotterdam, 319.]
JOSEPH HILL, born Bramley, York
shire, Oct. 1625, son of Joshua H., min.
at Bramley Chapel ; educated at St John's
College, Cambridge; B.A. (1647), M.A.
(1649) ; Fellow of Magdalen College ; B.D.
(1660) ; declined to conform in 1662 ;
retired to London and was a preacher at
All Hallows, Barking. On 29th March 1664,
he enrolled as a student in Leyden Univ. ;
elected to this charge 19th June, and adm.
7th Aug. 1667. In April 1673 he published
an offending political pamphlet (in Dutch
and English, see below) in which he
advocated the English Alliance and vindi
cated Charles II. from suspicion of Popery.
On 19th Aug. following, he was ordered to
quit Holland, with permission to return
at the close of the war. He went to
London, where Charles gave him a sinecure
office with £80 a year, and he had the offer
of a Bishopric. On 13th Jan. 1678, he was
again on the Continent and installed second
nun. of the English Presbyterian con
gregation on the Haringvliet, Rotterdam ;
died 5th Nov. 1707. [He is sometimes
confused with another Joseph Hill, min.
of the English congregation, Rotterdam,
1699-1718.] Publications — The Interest of
the United Provinces, being a Defence
of the Icelanders' Choice (Amsterdam,
1673) ; A Sermon on Moderation (London,
1677) ; Funeral Sermon for Mary Reeve
(Rotterdam, 1685); Antiquities of Temples
(London, 1696); Artificial Churches
(London, 1698); edited revised edition of
Schrevelius's Greek-Latin Lexicon (London,
1663) [to which he added 8000 words].—
LSteven's Rotterdam, 319 ; Wilson's Dis
senting Churches, iii., 110 et seq. ; Calamy's
Own Life, i. 140, 348, ii. 522; Diet. Nat.
Biog. ; Cat. Edin. Univ. Lib., ii., 358.]
NICHOLAS SHEPHEARD, Ph.D., min.
from 1674 to his death Sept. 1680.
JOHN QUICK, born Plymouth, 1636 ;
studied at Exeter College, Oxford ; (B.A.)
(1657); ord. 2nd Feb. 1659, and held the
living of Kingsbridge cum Churchstow,
Devonshire, from which he was probably
ejected at the Restoration. In 1662 he held
the perpetual curacy of Brixton, and though
excommunicated, continued to preach till,
on Sunday 13th Dec. 1663, he was arrested
during morning service and sent to Exeter
jail, where he lay for three months. In
1679 he was in Holland ; elected by the
Kirk-Session min. of this charge 16th Oct.
1680; adm. 5th Jan. 1681. Refusing to
observe the Dutch forms in baptism he
came into conflict with the Consistory and
returned to London 22nd July 1681 ;
became min. of a Presbyterian meeting
house in Middlesex Court, Bartholomew
Close, Smithfield; died 29th April 1706.
Publications—//^ Opened, or the Infernal
Sin of Murder Punished (London, 1676) ;
The Young Man's Claim to . . . the Lord's
Supper (London, 1691) ; Synodicon in
Gallia Reformata (portrait), 2 vols. (London,
1692) [history of French Protestantism to
1685] ; A Serious Inquiry into that Weighty
Case of Conscience whether a Man may
Lawfully Marry his Deceased Wife's Sister
(London, 1703). His Icones Sacrce, in
three folio manuscript vols. (unpublished)
containing biographies of fifty French and
twenty English divines, is in Dr Williams's
Library, Gordon Square, London.— [Steven's
Rotterdam, 319-20 ; Wilson's Dissenting
Churches, iii., 369-77 ; Diet. Nat. Biog}
WILLIAM SPANG, M.A. (secundus),
born about 1658, son of above William S. ;
ord. in 1682 ; died 1683.
ROBERT TORRY, min. 1683 to his
death in 1691.
JOHN LEASK, educated at King's
College, Aberdeen, 1667-71 ; min. 1692 to
his death in 1697.
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549
CORNELIUS COORNE, min. from
1698 to his death in 1724.
MARTIN VAN DER WIND (Dutch),
min. in 1725; emeritus 26th April 1759;
died upwards of 80.
[GEORGE HUGHES WORSLEY, ord.
5th Aug. 1759; was discovered to be an
adventurer who had forged 'his certificates
(apparently signed by eminent English
mins.) and feigned himself a Presbyterian
preacher; call and ordination declared
null and void Oct. 1760, when he left for
London. The Presb. however, "approved
and ratified the solemnity of baptism,
marriage, investiture of clergymen, elders
and deacons, and admission of members,
performed by Worsley in name of the Con
sistory."].— [Steven's Rotterdam, 321.]
JAMES AFFLECK, M.A. ; trans, from
Dordrecht and adm. 22nd Nov. 1761 ;
emeritus 1774.
PATRICK STEWART, ord. (assistant)
by Presb. of Kincardine O'Neil, 20th May
1772 [afterwards at Kinneff] (cf. Vol. V., 474).
SAMUEL WILCOCK, M.D., min. in
1775; emeritus 1796.
JAMES LOW, M.A.; trans, from
Flushing and adm. 26th June 1796 ; trans,
to Rotterdam in 1797 [afterwards at
Amsterdam (q.v.)].
WILLIAM JOHNSTON, ord. 4th April
1798 [afterwards of Chapelshade, Dundee]
(cf. Vol. V., 324).
SANDER VAN DER HOEK, min. in
1807, and at Flushing, united in 1816.
GEORGE MORISON, M.A. (See
under Flushing.)
BERNARD HENDRIK CARP (Dutch),
min. at Middelburg and Flushing 1854 to
1880.
ARTHUR WELLESLEY FRATER,
born Aberdeen, 20th Oct. 1852, son of
James F., accountant, and Mary Lowe ;
educated at Trades School, Grammar
School, and Univ. of Aberdeen; M.A.
(1875); English Master, Educational Insti
tute, Chatham, 1876; licen. by Presb. of
Aberdeen, 1877 ; assistant at Abbey Parish,
Dunfermline, 1877-9 ; Auchindoir, 1880-1 ;
Kilbirnie, 1882; Strathmiglo, 1882-3; Fin-
tray, 1883-4 ; ord. (by Presb. of Aberdeen)
to Middelburg and Flushing, 6th May
1884, and adm. 23rd Nov. following ; trans.
to British Presbyterian Church, Courtrai-
Roulen, Belgium, 1901 ; recalled to Middel
burg and Flushing in 1915, but declined ;
conducted services there during the War,
1915-19, and returned toCourtrai; Chevalier
in the Order of Leopold, 1926. Marr. 27th
May 1886, Johanna Catherina Jacoba,
daugh. of above Bernard Hendrik Carp,
and has issue— James William, artist, born
19th June 1887; Mary Jullia, born 16th
Oct. 1888; Bernard Hendrik, clerk in
Admiralty, born 26th July 1892. Publica
tions— " History of Presbyterian Church,
Middelburg and Flushing " (Our Magazine,
Rotterdam); editor of De Brief drager
(Flemish), and Le Facteur (French). —
[Records of the Arts Glass (1870-4), 65
(Aberdeen, 1896).]
JAMES HUTTON MACKAY, M.A.,
formerly Indian Chaplain (q.v.), min. at
Middelburg and Flushing 1902 to 1908.
HEIKO TIBERIUS OBERMAN, born
Ommen, 3rd Nov. 1883, son of Foppe O.,
min. of Ommen ; educated at Univ. of
Leyden, and in England (where he was
greatly influenced by John Henry Jowett,
D.D., and Professor Rendel Harris) and at
Rome; app. to Middelburg and Flushing,
17th Jan. 1909; Th.D. (6th April 1911);
min. of the Dutch Reformed Church,
Heemstede, 17th Sept. 1915; min. of the
Dutch Reformed Church, Rotterdam, 4th
July 1920 ; died 31st August 1924.
ROTTERDAM.
[The Scottish Church at Rotterdam is
one of the most interesting on the Conti
nent. It was founded on 13th Sept. 1643
with Alexander Petrie (infra) for its first
minister, and, placed officially under the
care of the Dutch Classis was accorded all
the privileges of the Dutch Church, with
full liberty to observe Scottish use and
wont for worship. It v/as the central place
550
ROTTERDAM
of worship for the Scottish Brigade, con
sisting of three regiments, raised in 1572
for service in the Netherlands under the
Earl of Leicester, and left by him there
when he returned to England. For over
two centuries these regiments aided the
States General in their wars with Spain
and France. They were always recruited
from Scotland, and in 1688, as the earliest
standing army in Europe, they formed the
nucleus of William the Third's forces. The
regimental chaplains were associated with
the ministers of this congregation, and,
until 1815, the church supported in Rotter
dam, the Scottish Poorhouse, on the
Schotsche dijk (now Schiedamsche dijk),
for the education of orphan children of
soldiers, and as a means of dispensing
charity to invalided pensioners. The first
meeting-place was a house in the Wynstraat,
granted by the magistrates. In 1662 the
congregation had the use of the ancient
chapel of St Sebastian (demolished in 1910)
in the Lombardstraat. Here ordination
services, forbidden at home, were held by
the banished Presbyters during the days
of the Covenant. Amongst others, Richard
Cameron was set apart to the ministry by
Brown of Wamphray (q.v.) and Robert
Mac Ward (infra) who (with his hand still
upon Cameron's head) is said to have
uttered the prophecy, fulfilled within a
year : " Here is the head of a faithful
minister and servant of Jesus Christ, who
shall lose the same for his Master's interest."
Colonel Wallace, the leader of the Pentland
Rising, was an elder for a considerable time,
and Sir Robert Hamilton, leader at Bothwell
Bridge, was a communicant. On 13th Dec.
1695, there was laid the foundation of a
new church, which was opened in Oct.
1697 by Robert Fleming the younger
(infra). All the stone-work was brought
from Pittenweem and Queensferry. In
1894 this building underwent a complete
renovation. It contains many interesting
memorials, and has some valuable com
munion plate. The ancient pulpit of St
Sebastian's has been preserved. The early
records of the congregation are extant.]
ALEXANDER PETRIE (primus), M.A.
(cf. Vol. IV., 243) ; formerly min. of Rhynd ;
trans, to this charge 29th March 1643 ;
preached his first sermon at Rotterdam
2nd Aug. following, and adm. 30th Aug.
He died 6th (not 16th) Sept. 1662. His
Compendious History of the Catholick
Church contains copious extracts from the
Records of the General Assembly of the
Church of Scotland, which were destroyed
by a fire in the Lawnmarket, Edinburgh,
1701.
ALEXANDER PETRIE (tecundus), son
of preceding ; app. reader in 1644 [after
wards min. at Delft (q.v.)].
JOHN HOG [HOGG or HOOG], M.A.
(cf. Vol. I., 162) ; formerly min. of South
Leith; adm. 31st Dec. 1662 ; dem. 1st July
1689; died April 1692. His portrait is
preserved at Rotterdam. — [Steven's Hotter-
dam, 22 et seq., 104 ; Crookshank's Hist.,
ii., 215.]
ROBERT MACWARD [spelled also
M'CUARD and M'VAIRD] (cf. Vol. III.,
465), M.A. ; formerly collegiate min. of the
Outer High or East (St Paul's) Church,
Glasgow ; a native of Glenluce, Galloway ;
was a favourite student of Samuel Ruther
ford, whom he accompanied to London as
amanuensis during Rutherford's visit as one
of the Scottish Commissioners to the West
minster Assembly; adm. collegiate min.
23rd Jan. 1676 ; was obliged to remove by
order of the States General 27th Feb. 1677 ;
died Dec. 1681. His portrait is preserved
at Rotterdam. Publications (additional) —
De WeJcker der Leeraaren in tyden van
Verval [" Solemn Appeal to Preachers in
the Times of Spiritual Declension "] (3rd ed.,
Rotterdam, 1733). [No copy is known in
English.] He was the first to give to the
world the Religious Letters of Samuel
Rutherford (Rotterdam, 1664).— [Murray's
Literary Hist, of Galloway, 107 ; Murray's
Life of Samuel Rutherford, 233, 334;
Steven's Rotterdam, 350-5.]
ROBERT FLEMING, M.A. (primus)
(cf. Vol. III., 236) ; formerly min. of Cam-
buslang; adm. collegiate min. 30th Dec.
1677; became senior min. in 1689; died
25th July 1694.
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[WILLIAM CARSTARES (cf. Vol. I.,
66), declined a call in 1689, "as he was on
the eve of proceeding to England upon
important business with which he had been
charged by King William."]
[DAVID BLAIR (cf. Vol. I., 71), then
min. of the English congregation at The
Hague ; declined a call 28th Nov. 1689.]
JAMES BROWN, ord. in 1660 to a
charge in England, and had served also on
the Continent ; was pastor of a congrega
tion at North Ferriby, Yorkshire, 1677 ; he
appears as chaplain to the British popula
tion at Konigsberg, East Prussia, 1683;
removed to Rotterdam in 1689, where he
preached during the vacancy following
Hoog's demission ; adm. min. 2nd Sept.
1691 ; declared minister-emeritus July
1713 ; died unmarr. 22nd Nov. that year,
aged 79. — [Steven's Rotterdam, 107, 145.]
ROBERT FLEMING, MA. (secundus),
son of above Robert F., formerly min. of
the Scots Church, Leyden ; adm. (colleague)
30th Jan. 1695 ; became min. at Founders'
Hall, London, 19th June 1698 (q.v.).
JOHN SMITH (cf. Vol. IV., 349);
assistant to above James Brown Sept.
1712 to July 1714; returned to Scotland
and adm. to Kincardine-in-Menteith.
[ROBERT BAILLIE, min. of Inverness ;
called 1st Jan. 1714. His translation being
vigorously opposed, the General Assembly,
8th May following, continued him in his
Inverness charge.]
THOMAS HOOG, born Aug. 1655, son
of Thomas H., min. of Larbert and Duni-
pace, and nephew of above John H. ;
educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; MA.
(21st July 1673); was apprenticed to a
W.S. in Edinburgh and had charge of
several processes before the Court of
Session ; forsook the study of law for
divinity, and was licen. 7th March 1678 ;
privately ord. the same year and supplied
various pulpits in Scotland. On account
of the unsettled condition of affairs he
went to Holland and took up residence at
Rotterdam, 1st April 1679, where he
preached in rotation with his uncle, whose
colleague (Robert Fleming, primus) had
been detained as a prisoner when on a
visit to Edinburgh. After the Battle of
Bothwell Bridge he ventured back to Scot
land on an invitation from Glasgow, but
was prevented by the Episcopal persecution
from settling in a charge. In 1681 he
returned to Holland, made himself proficient
in the Dutch language, and became rector
of the Latin school at Tergoes, South
Beveland, Zealand, 7th Oct. 1686; adm.
min. at Delft 27th Sept. 1689; trans, to
Campvere Feb. 1694; declined calls to
Clackmannan and Ayr in 1697, and to
Culross, as successor to James Fraser of
Brea ; trans, to this charge 10th May 1699.
In June 1701 he was invited to the Chair
of Divinity, King's College, Aberdeen, and
had also the offer of a theological professor
ship in one of the Dutch Univs., but
preferred to remain at Rotterdam, where
he died 6th Jan. 1723. He marr. 1688,
Johanna van Stryen, or Broedelet, a widow,
and had issue — Martha Marjory (marr.
William Scott, Rotterdam), died at Edin
burgh Dec. 1755; Marinus, born at Delft
8th April 1690, died emeritus-minister of
Schoonhoven 21st Jan. 1766 ; Thomas and
James, who died young; John, min. of
Brouwershaven in Zealand, born at Camp
vere 10th Jan. 1697, died 15th Oct. 1726 ;
William, merchant, Rotterdam, born 28th
March 1699, died 13th July 1768; Cornelius,
min. at Ooltensplaat in the island of
Over Flakee, born 31st Aug. 1701, died
30th Oct. 1739.— [Steven's Rotterdam, 140,
356-67.]
PATRICK PAISLEY, MA. (cf. Vol.
III., 106); assistant to Thomas Hoog in
1722 ; continued his services to the con
gregation in 1723 ; returned to Scotland and
was afterwards min. of First Charge,
Kilmarnock.
[JOHN GUNTER, a Presbyterian min.
:rom Woodstock, Oxford ; was assistant
tiere from 1723 ; ord. at Rotterdam 20th
Oct. 1730; died 18th April 1736 and buried
in the Prince's Kirk, Rotterdam. He did
not hold a permanent charge in Holland.]
[ROBERT BAILLIE, min. of Inverness ;
called a second time in 1724, but positively
refused to leave Scotland.]
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ROTTERDAM
ROBERT BLACK, M.A. (cf. Vol. III.,
316); formerly min. of Lesmahagow ; trans,
to Rotterdam by Act of Assembly llth
May 1714 ; adm. 10th Aug. 1715 ; died at
Aix-la-Chapelle 27th May 1735.
JOHN ENSLIE (cf. Vol. II., 386),
formerly min. of Anwoth ; trans, (after
appeal to Assembly) llth Nov. 1724 ; adm.
10th June 1725 ; died 4th April 1766.
[HENRY LINDSAY (cf. Vol. IV., 231),
min. of Bothkennar ; elected 26th Jan
1736, but call set aside by the Burgomasters
[afterwards min. of East Church, Perth].]
— [Steven's Rotterdam, 161-4 (contains
account of accusations made against him).]
[THOMAS MAIR (cf. Vol. V., 71), min.
of Orwell ; elected 21st Aug. 1736, but not
settled, the Burgomasters disapproving of
his call.— [Steven's Rotterdam, 164-9.]]
HUGH KENNEDY, D.D. (cf. Vol. II.,
106) ; formerly min. of Cavers ; trans. 25th
May and adm. (colleague) 18th Aug. 1737 ;
declined calls to succeed Ralph Erskine at
Dunfermline in 1742, and to Dalkeith in
1746 ; died 3rd Nov. 1764. His portrait is
in possession of the Consistory at Rotter
dam. Publications (additional) — Preface
to Dutch translation [by John Ross] of
Halyburton's Great Concern of Salvation ;
Preface to Dutch translations of Awakening
at Cambuslang and Kilsyth in 1741 and
1742 (various editions) ; A Short Account
of the Rise and Continuing Progress of a
Remarkable Work of Grace in the United
Netherlands (London, 1752) [contains at
p. 33 an account of Kennedy's manuscripts],
— [Steven's Rotterdam, 173-201.]
ARCHIBALD SMITH (cf. Vol. V., 66),
formerly min. of Fintry, Dunbartonshire ;
trans, llth Oct. and adm. 24th Nov. 1765 ;
trans, to Strathblane 10th May 1770, Kinross
29th June 1784 ; died 13th April 1803.
ALEXANDER LAYAL, born Melrose,
12th April 1741, probably son of John L.
and Isobel Gill ; educated at Univ. of
Edinburgh [where he was the favourite
student of James Robertson, Professor of
Hebrew] ; ord. min. at Dordrecht 15th
June 1766 ; trans, and adm. 19th Aug.
1770; died 19th July 1796. He was a
noted Hebraist, and excelled as a musician.
He marr. 1785, Elizabeth Hardie, widow
of Alexander Livingston, Provost of Aber
deen, and had issue. Publication — The
Downfall of the Turkish Dynasty.
WILLIAM WALKER (cf. Vol. III., 57),
formerly min. of Monkton and Prestwick ;
trans, and adm. 28th May 1760 ; died 6th
March 1774.
JAMES SOMERVILLE (cf. Vol. IV.,
321), ord. (collegiate min.) 10th May and
adm. 16th July 1775; trans, to Whitburn
18th Nov. 1779 [afterwards min. of East
or First Charge, Stirling].
[THOMAS PEIRSON, min. of the Scots
Church, Amsterdam (q.v.) ; elected 2nd
Sept. 1779, but declined.]
ALEXANDER SCOTT [or SCOT] (cf.
Vol. II., 267) ; ord. 27th June 1780 ; trans,
to Greyfriars, Dumfries, 5th March 1795
[afterwards min. of Dumfries].
JAMES LOW, trans, from Middelburg
and adm. in autumn of 1797 ; trans, to
Amsterdam March 1801 (q.v.).
MAURICE RITCHIE, born Perth,
1765 ; educated at Univ. of St Andrews ;
ord. to Scots Church, Dordrecht, 3rd
Sept. 1797 ; trans, and adm. 19th July
1801 ; died unmarr. 15th Oct. that year,
having in perfect health dispensed the
communion on llth Oct. — [Rotterdam
Boekzaal ; Steven's Rotterdam, 234.]
THOMAS ROSS (cf. Vol. VII., 158) ; ord.
(by Presb. of Edinburgh) 14th April and
adm. 27th June 1802 ; left for Scotland for
the recovery of his health April 1803 ; dem.
4th April 1806 [afterwards min. of Loch-
broom].
WILLIAM MACPHAIL, born 1771, son
of Hector M., min. of Kirkmichael and
Cullicudden [Resolis] ; educated at Univ.
of Edinburgh ; assistant at Greyfriars,
Edinburgh ; ord. (by Presb. of Edinburgh)
15th Dec. 1802 ; adm. (collegiate min.) 30th
Jan. 1803; called thrice to Amsterdam,
but declined ; died (date unknown). Publi
cation — The Great Things which the Lord
hath done for Us [Sermon of Thanksgiving
for Peace] (Rotterdam, 1814). — [Steven's
Rotterdam, 243, 246, 253.]
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A L K X A N I) E E MACINTOSH,
M.A. ; ord. (by Presb. of Dornoch) as
assistant to Thomas Ross Sept. 1804, and
entered on his duties 16th Dec. following ;
adm. (collegiate min.) llth May 180G; trans.
to Amsterdam 23rd Aug. 1807 (q.v.).
JAMES ANDERSON, rector of the
Grammar School of Crieff ; ord. (by Presb.
of Auchterarder) to Dordrecht 8th Dec.
1801 ; trans, and adm. 22nd Nov. 1807 ;
(D.D.) ; retired in 1828 ; died 1829.
WILLIAM STEVEN, D.D. (cf. Vol. I.,
129); ord. (assistant) 9th April 1826;
adm. min., collegiate min., and latterly
sole min. 8th March 1829 ; returned to
Scotland and adm. to Trinity Parish,
Edinburgh, 28th Dec. 1843.
ROBERT FAIRWEATHER (cf. Vol.
VI., 70); ord. Aug. 1839; returned to
Scotland and adm. to Nigg, Aberdeenshire,
7th Dec. 1843.
JOHN MACDONALD BROWN, born
Aberdeen ; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen ; M.A. (March 1820) ; min. 1844
to 1870 ; died 1885.
JOHN DAVID PALM, born 1816;
educated at Univs. of Edinburgh and
Utrecht; ord. in 1839; min. at Hurst,
Berks, 1861-8; min. here 1870 to 1885
[afterwards acting chaplain to the Forces
at Parkhurst (q.v.)] ; died FATHER OF THE
CHURCH OF SCOTLAND 30th Jan. 1909. He
marr., and had issue — a son, medical mis
sionary in Japan, and others.
[FREDERICK HUGH GEORGESON,
M.A. ; ord. (by Free Church Presb. of
Caithness) for service at Rotterdam, 1885-6
[afterwards min. of U.F. Church Fortin-
gall].
JOHN IRWIN BROWN, born
Limavady, Co. Derry, Ireland, 3rd Oct.
1858, son of Nathaniel M'Auley B., D.D.,
LL.D., min. of the Irish Presbyterian
Congregation at Drumachose, and Isabella
Irwin; educated at Coleraine Academical
Institution and Queen's Univ., Ireland,
Queen's Colleges, Galway and Belfast,
M.A. (1882), and Irish Presbyterian Theo
logical College, B.D. (1893); headmaster
of Lisburn Academy, 1881-2 ; assistant to
Professor of Ancient Classics, Magee Col
lege, Londonderry, 1884-5 ; licen. by Presb.
of Belfast May 1886; ord. to this charge
Jan. 1887 ; D.D. (Presbyterian Theological
Faculty, Ireland, 1916); chaplain to Scots
Presbyterians, interned Naval Brigade,
Groningen, 1914-16 ; deputed to visit U.S.A.
in connection with Pilgrim Fathers Cele
brations, 1920. Marr. 2nd Aug. 1888, Mar-
garetha, daugh. of Pieter van Oordt and
Adriana Hengeveldt, and has issue— Joan
Adriana, lecturer on English, Volks
Universiteit, Rotterdam, born 8th Dec.
1889; Norman William Nathaniel, some
time lecturer in French, Beirut College,
Syria, served in European War, 1914-18,
wounded at Dardanelles, liaison officer,
Salonica, captain Intelligence Service, Cairo,
H.M.I.S., Northern Ireland, born 19th Dec.
1890; Aileen Ethel Isabel, born 13th April
1892 (marr. Jonkheer Schorer, Amsterdam),
Pieter, artist, London, born 4th April
1903. Publications — Jesus, Carpenter,
Teacher, Physician, sermons (Rotterdam,
1893) ; 25Qth Anniversary of Scots Church,
Rotterdam (Rotterdam, 1894); The Vast-
ness of the Universe, and other Sermons
(Rotterdam, 1898); Guide for Young Bible
Readers, New Testament (Rotterdam, 1900);
Guide for Young Bible Readers, Old Testa
ment (Rotterdam, 1901); Historical Sketch,
Scots Church, Rotterdam (Rotterdam, 1903,
1915) ; An Irishman's Difficulties in Speak
ing Dutch (Rotterdam, 1910, 8th ed.,
1923); Ireland: Its Humour and Pathos
(Rotterdam, 1911); Further Adventures
of O'Neill (Rotterdam, 1912, 3rd ed.,
1923); The Pilgrim Fathers in Holland
(Leyden, 1920) ; Scots Humour and Heroism
(Rotterdam, 1923). Editor of Our Magazine.
UTRECHT.
[Founded in 1622, the oldest records of
this congregation are missing. The existing
Register commences 2nd Nov. 1657, and
ends 12th Dec. 1779. The Registers of
Baptisms and Marriages (deposited in the
Stadthouse) date respectively 16th June
1700 to 12th Nov. 1794, and 27th Feb. 1701
to 17th Sept. 1794.]
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UTRECHT
THOMAS SCOTT, B.D.; bad been
rector of St Saviour's, Norwich, " minister
of the Word " at St Clement's, Ipswich, and
chaplain to James I. (VI.). After the
publication of his Vox Populi (purporting
the discovery of a Spanish plot for the
overthrow of England— a pure fabrication),
he fled to Holland and became chaplain to
the English garrison at Gorcum ; called
here and adm. by English and Scottish
mins. (John Forbes presiding) 20th May
1622; assassinated in the open street by
John Lambert, a private soldier, whilst on
his way to church, 8th June 1626.— [Steven's
Rotterdam, 338 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. (contains
account of his many political writings).]
[ANDREW HUNTER (cf. Vol. V., 223),
formerly min. of Newburn, Fife ; chaplain
to a Scots regiment; assisted in the ministry
at Utrecht.]
JEREMIAH ELBOROUGH, formerly
garrison chaplain at Montfort ; adm. (John
Forbes presiding) llth Jan. 1627 ; trans, to
Hamburg in 1629.
ALEXANDER LEIGHTON, born
probably at Usan, Craig, Forfarshire, about
1568 ; educated at Univ. of St Andrews ;
M.A. (1587) ; is said to have been Professor
of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh, but there
is lack of evidence for this; became' a
preacher in Northumberland and Durham ;
began study of medicine in Holland 9th
Sept. 1617 ; M.D. (Leyden about 1619) ;
practised in London in defiance of the
College of Physicians ; ord. here 22nd
March 1629 ; res. within three months,
having refused to recognise Christmas and
the Festival days which the English Puritans
of the Netherlands were accustomed to
observe. He returned to England, was
seized, 17th Feb. 1630, while leaving
worship in Blackfriars Church, London,
and lay in Newgate for fifteen weeks ; on
4th June he was tried before the Court
of Star Chamber, his Plea against Prelacie
(the tract had aroused Laud's bitter ani
mosity) the chief indictment. A sentence
of extreme barbarity was passed, but before
that could be carried out he escaped
from prison 9th Nov. [by the aid of two
Scotsmen, Livingston and Anderson, with
whom he exchanged clothes]. A fortnight
later he was captured in Bedfordshire, and
on 26th Nov. he endured the first part of
his sentence, "receiving thirty-six stripes
upon his naked back with a threefold cord,
his hands tied to a stake, standing almost
two hours in the pillory in the frost and
snow, branded in the face, his nose slit, and
his ear cut off." After spending ten years
in prison he was released by order of
Parliament in 1640, which declared, 21st
April 1641, the illegality of the Star
Chamber's proceedings, cancelled his fine
of £10,000, voted him £6000 in compensa
tion for his losses and inhuman treatment,
and in 1642, appointed him Keeper of
Lambeth House, then turned into a State
prison. He died in 1649. Portrait in
British Museum. The name of his first
wife (mother of Robert, Archbishop of
Glasgow) is unknown. He marr. (2) a
daugh. of Sir William Musgrave, Cumber
land. Besides Robert, he had three other
sons-James; Sir Elisha, LL.D., F.R.S.,
died 9th Jan. 1685; Caleb; and two
daughs., Elizabeth and Sapphira. Publica
tions — Speculum, Belli Sacri, or the Looking
Glass of the Holy War (1624) ; A Short
Treatise against Stage Playes [anon.]
(London, 1625); An Appeal to Parliament ;
or, Sion's Plea against the Prelacie [anon.]
(printed Oct. 1628, Edinburgh, 1842).—
[Rushworth's Historical Collections, ii., 45-7;
Row's Hist., 301, 351 ; Gardiner's Hist, of
England, vii., 151, n. ; Butler's Life and
Letters of Robert Leighton, 15-47 ; Laud's
Diary (1695), 65 ; Steven's Rotterdam, 339 ;
Diet. Nat. Biog.}
RAPHAEL CLAYTON, min. for four
months in 1629.
ISAAC FORTERIE [or FORTER-
INUS], chaplain to the garrison at
Utrecht; min. in 1630; dem. 29th June
1637 and returned to England.
PAUL AMYRAUT, born in Germany ;
army chaplain at Breda ; adm. 12th Nov.
' 1637 ; " designedly omitted taking his seat
in the Classis " [Presbytery] and dem. Aug.
1638 ; vicar of East Deerham, Norfolk,
1648 ; rector of Mundesley in 1660, when
ejected. Publication— The Triumphs of a
UTRECHT— VENICE
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Good Conscience. — [Calamy's Noncon
formist's Memorial, iii., 7.]
JOHN HERRING, assistant here;
elected to the charge 14th Jan. 1639 ; dem.
Aug. 1642.
MALACHI HARRIS, adm. in 1643;
app. (by the Prince of Orange) chaplain to
the Princess Royal of Britain May 1644.
RICHARD MADEN, adm. 5th Jan.
1645 ; trans, to Amsterdam in 1647.
WALTER MACDONALD BOWIE,
chaplain to the Scots Regiment at
Gorcum ; adm. Nov. 1647 ; died 1650.
THOMAS POTTS (secundus], son of
Thomas P., min. of the Scots Church,
Amsterdam; min. at Flushing, 1646 to 1651 ;
adm. to this charge 14th Feb. 1651;
returned to Flushing in 1654, when he
was placed over the German congregation
but became in 1655 one of the Dutch
Reformed mins. of that town; died July
1689. He marr. a daugh. of Admiral de
Ruyter.— [Vrolikhert's Vlissingsche Kerk-
hemel, 133-9.]
JOHN BEST, min. from 1655 to his
death in 1696.
JAMES DE LA FAYE, M.D., D.D.,
min. from 1697 to his death in 1748.
WILLIAM BROWN, D.D. (cf. Vol. V.,
280) ; formerly min. of Cortachy ; chaplain
to the British Army in Flanders March to
July 1748; adm. 17th Nov. that year ; app.
to Chair of Divinity and Ecclesiastical
History, Univ. of St Andrews (q.v.) and
adm. 28th Feb. 1757.— [Steven's Rotterdam,
341.]
ROBERT BROWN, born 9th Dec. 1728,
second son of Laurence B., min. of
Lintrathen, and brother of preceding;
educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen,
1747-51 ; licen. by Presb. of Meigle :
assistant in this charge ; ord. (by Presb. of
Meigle) and adm. 20th Nov. 1757 ; died 5th
Jan. 1777. He marr. Catherine, daugh. of
Sir James Kinloch of Gilmerton, Bart., by
his second wife, Anne Marguerite, daugh.
of Rudolphe Wilde, Berne, Switzerland,
and had issue — Anne Elizabeth (marr. her
cousin, William Laurence Brown, D.D.,
Principal of Marischal College, Aberdeen).
WILLIAM LAURENCE BROWN,
D.D., nephew of preceding; adm. 22nd
March 1778 ; on the threatened invasion by
the French in 1795 he and his family fled
to Scotland ; app. Principal of Marischal
College, Aberdeen, 1796 (qv.). He was the
last min. of this congregation.
VENICE.
ITALY
ROBERTSON, ALEXANDER, born
Edinburgh, 30th Nov. 1846, second son of
James R. and Elizabeth Fairley ; educated
at Free Church Normal School, High
School, and Univ. of Edinburgh; ord. to
South Ronaldshay U.P. Church 7th Dec.
1875 ; dem. 18th Oct. 1881 ; min. at San
Remo, Liguria, 1882 (where he built a
church, obtaining from King Humbert a
royal decree regarding it) ; app. to Venice
in 1888; D.D. (M'Gill College, Montreal)
1894 ; created Cavaliere of the Order of S.S.
Maurizio and Lazzaro in 1898. At the
General Assembly, May 1900, he petitioned
to have his station at Venice recognised as
belonging to the Church of Scotland with
himself as its minister, and was admitted.
Marr. (1) 15th March 1875, Helen, daugh.
of James Stevenson, Falkirk : (2) 30th
Sept. 1885, Julia (died s.p., 7th March 1922,
aged 80), daugh. of William Alfred Dawson,
M.A., vicar of Flitwick, Bedfordshire. Pub
lications— Count Campello and Catholic
Reform in Italy (London, 1891) ; Fra Paolo
Sarpi, the Greatest of the Venetians
(London, 1894; 3rd ed., 1911); Through
the Dolomites, from Venice to Toblach
(London, 1896); The Bible of St Mark:
The Altar and Throne of Venice (London,
1898); The Roman Catholic Church in
Italy (London, 1903, and other editions);
Venetian Sermons (London, 1905); The
Papal Conquest (London, 1909) ; King
Victor Emanuel (London, 1925) Con
tributions to contemporary journalism
and special correspondent to the Scotsman.
—[Small's Hist of U.P. Gongs., ii., 501.]
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GENEVA— GIBRALTAR— MALTA-CYPRUS
SWITZERLAND
GENEVA.
WATT, THOMAS MEIKLE, born
Aberdeen, llth April 1877, son of James
M. and Jane Rust ; educated at Grammar
School and Univ. of Aberdeen, M.A. (1898),
and at Oxford, M.A. (1907); adm. by
General Assembly as a licentiate 22nd May
1919 ; assistant at St Michael's, Dumfries,
1920-1 ; ord. to St Modan's, Falkirk, 15th
June 1921; app. Hastie Lecturer, Glas
gow, 1924 ; app. permanent chaplain at
Geneva 18th June 1926. Marr. 22nd July
1914, Edith May Jackson, daugh. of Isaac
Bryant and Elizabeth Snow, and has issue
—Raymond Ian Gordon, born 23rd April
1917 ; Alison Jean, born 14th Sept. 1919 ;
Edith Frances, born 24th Feb. 1923.
THE MEDITERRANEAN
GIBRALTAR.
[Gibraltar was ceded to Great Britain
under the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. That
a Presbyterian congregation existed there
as early as 1823 is shown from the inscrip
tion on a pulpit Bible, which bears to have
been " presented by the Rev. James Pringle
of Newcastle-upon-Tyne to the Presbyterian
congregation in Gibraltar, 10th January
1823." In 1841 William Strauchan (infra)
was sent out by the Church of Scotland
chiefly with the view of ministering to the
troops. He formed a congregation, but
joined the Free Church, 14th June 1843,
formal recognition not being given until
March 1849. From that date ministers of
the Free Church were sent out in succes
sion. A church was opened 28th May 1854,
and in 1855 Andrew Sutherland, formerly
minister of St Andrew's, Dunfermline (cf.
Vol. V., 38) was settled as permanent
pastor.]
STRAUCHAN, WILLIAM, laboured
gratuitously among soldiers and Scottish
residents at Gibraltar ; was recognised by
the Colonial Committee of the Church of
Scotland, who, in 1841, allowed him an
annual grant. Joined the Free Church in
1843 and became a missionary at Con
stantinople.
MALTA.
[The Island of Malta was annexed to the
British Crown by the Treaty of Paris in
1814. A Presbyterian congregation was
organised at Valetta in 1841 by James
Julius Wood (infra). Work is now carried
on under the United Free Church of
Scotland. A church and manse were built
during the ministry of George Wisely, D.D.]
M'KAIL, JOHN, born Coylton, Ayr
shire, 4th Sept. 1810, son of Hugh M.,
farmer; educated at Univ. of Glasgow;
M.A. (1837) ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow ;
locum tenens at Gretna ; min. of the Scots
Church, Malta, and chaplain to 42nd High
landers (Black Watch), 1843-6. Joined the
Free Church and became min. of an English
congregation at Calcutta in 1846; retired
(from ill -health) 1852 and returned to
Scotland ; died at Ayr, 9th May 1884. He
marr. 1846, Louisa Irving Carson.
WOOD, JAMES JULIUS, M.A. ;
min. of New Greyfriars, Edinburgh (q.v.) ;
while on leave of absence (through ill-
health) acted as chaplain to 42nd High
landers (Black Watch) stationed at Malta,
1841-3, and organised a Scots congregation
there.
CYPRUS.
[The Island of Cyprus which formed
part of the Ottoman Empire from 1571 was
annexed to the British Empire on 5th Nov.
1914. In 1878 Great Britain joined with
the Sultan in defending his Asiatic posses
sions against Russia, and Cyprus was then
occupied "in order to enable Britain to
make necessary provision for executing her
engagements." A Scots Church was erected
at Limasol in 1878.]
FERGUSON, WILLIAM, min. 1878 to
1899. (See under Foreign Missionaries.)
CONTINENT OF AFRICA
EGYPT
[When Turkey entered into the War of 1914-18, Egypt was set free from Turkish
suzerainty and placed under British Protectorate. This has since been cancelled, and
Egypt— not including the Sudan— is now an independent sovereign state, but in special
relations with the British Government.]
ALEXANDRIA-(ST ANDREW'S).
[Erected in 1867, and first service held on
15th Dec. Its gilt weathercock, formerly
a familiar landmark, was destroyed during
the bombardment of 1881. Extensive im
provements were made in 1914.]
[See also under JEWISH MISSIONARIES.]
COWAN, WILLIAM (cf. Vol. L, 104),
ord. 1st March 1891 ; dem. 1901 j adm. to
Charteris Memorial (St Ninian's), Edin
burgh, 24th May 1912; died 9th June
1917.
MACKIE, GEORGE MONRO, born
Banchory-Ternan, 27th Oct. 1853, son of
James M., min. of Buckie ; educated at
Fordyce School, Univs. of Aberdeen M.A.
(1875) and Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of
Edinburgh 15th May 1879 ; assistant at
Tolbooth ; ord. missionary at Beyrout 22nd
April 1880 ; min. of Anglo-American Con
gregation there; D.D. Aberdeen (1901);
app. here 1910; died at Edinburgh, 29th
July 1922. He was an eminent Biblical
and Oriental scholar, an accomplished
student of folk-lore, and had considerable
ability as an artist. He marr. 13th May
1880, Louisa, daugh. of Lewis and Isabella
Ross, and had issue — Caroline Macduff,
born 23rd Nov. 1881 (marr. 4th March
1905, Alfred Patch, Professor, American
Univ. of Beyrout); Margaret Macgregor,
born 12th Jan. 1883 (marr. 23rd March
1908, George Scheres, American Mission,
Beyrout) ; James Douglas Gordon, in
London, born 10th March 1885 ; Nathalie
Louise, born 2nd Sept. 1888, died at
Aberdeen 9th Sept. 1895. Publications—
Bible Manners and Customs [Guild Library]
(London, 1898); "Oriental Lesson Lights"
(American Sunday School Times, 1905-15) ;
Contributions to Hastings's Dictionary of
the Bible and Expository Times.
MITCHELL, DAVID RUSSELL,
born Belfast, 25th Jan. 1872, son of the
Rev. Deane Knox M. and Isabella Mac-
arthur Russell ; educated at Belfast Royal
Academy and Magee College, London
derry ; licen. by Presb. of Belfast in 1902 ;
assistant at Trinity Presbyterian Church,
Cork ; ord. to Broughshane 4th April 1905 ;
app. here 2nd Sept. 1919 ; dem. ; assistant
at St Columba's, London, 1923; adm.
to Aberfeldy 27th Aug. 1926. Marr. 21st
Sept. 1920, Catherine, daugh. of the Rev.
Charles and Agnes Dunkley.
REID, HUGH PARK, M.A. (cf. Vol.
II., 66) ; ord. 1st Sept. 1901 ; dem. 1910 ;
adm. to Whitsome 9th June 1911.
ROBERTSON, CHRISTIAN
ARTHUR, M.A., B.D. (cf. Vol. III., 347);
formerly min. of Garelochhead ; adm. 19th
Aug. 1924. , .
SCOTT, JAMES, M.A., B.D. ; assistant
at Old Machar; ord. (assistant) 1st Jan.
1911 ; served in European War (M.C.),
killed in action 10th March 1918.
CAIRO.
[St Andrew's Church, Cairo, was erected
in 1909, the memorial stone having been laid
by Sir Eldon Gorst on 2nd Jan. Services
(begun several years previously in a tem
porary building) are conducted by ministers
appointed periodically from home parishes.]
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KENYA COLONY
NAIROBI.
[St Andrew's Church, Nairobi, was opened
in 1912. The foundation-stone of St
Columba's Church, Nyeri, 100 miles from
Nairobi, was laid by James Nicoll Ogilvie,
D.D., on 3rd Oct. 1920. The Presbytery
of Kenya Colony was formed on 14th
September 1920.]
ORE, JAMES FLEMING GORDON,
born Glasgow, 3rd July 1873, son of James
O. and Eliza Hamilton Fleming ; educated
at Glasgow Academy and Univs. of Glas
gow, M.A. (1906), and Edinburgh; B.D.
(London 1908) ; adm. from Presbyterian
Church of New Zealand in 1910 ; licen. by
Presb. of Glasgow ; min. of St Margaret's,
Barnhill (cf. Vol. V., 369) ; app. to Nairobi
3rd Feb. 1921. Marr. 31st March 1897,
Grace Ellen, daugh. of R. Cowan Mann,
C.A., and has issue— Mabel Evelyn, born
1900. Publication— The Indian Problem
in British East Africa (1923).
SOUTTER, JAMES TINDAL, born
1st Jan. 1885, son of Andrew S., min. of
Echt; educated at Aberdeen Grammar
School and Univ. of Aberdeen; M.A.
(1910) ; licen. by Presb. of Kincardine
O'Neil ; assistant at St Machar ; ord. to
Nairobi 19th Oct. 1913; dem. 1916; locum
tenens at Dunbar 1916 ; adm. to Whitekirk
and Tynninghame 8th March 1917. Marr.
28th Oct. 1913, Amy Verena Carson, daugh.
of William Kendall Burnett, advocate,
Aberdeen, and has issue— John Forrest,
born 1st Aug. 1914 ; Mary Verena, born
20th June 1916 ; Felicity Eileen, born 28th
July 1921.
YOUNGSON, JAMES, born Sialkot,
India, 29th Jan. 1887, son of John Forbes
White Y., D.D., missionary there ; edu
cated at Grammar School and Univ. of
Aberdeen; M.A. (1907), B.D. (1911); licen.
by Presb. of Aberdeen in 1911 ; assistant at
Cadzow that year ; ord. to Church of Scot
land Mission, Kikuyu, British East Africa,
April same year, and served till 1915 ;
min. of St Andrew's Church, Nairobi, Dec.
1917-20 ; dem. and went to Canada ; adm.
to Presbyterian Church, Grand Forks,
British Columbia, Oct. 1925. Marr. 30th
June 1917, Jessie Kerr, daugh. of Robert
Stephen, M.A., schoolmaster, St Andrews-
Lhanbryd.
MADEIRA
FUNCHAL
JOHN MORRISON WHITELAW, ord. (by Presb. of Chirnside) to Presbyterian
Church, Funchal, Madeira, 21st June 1842 [afterwards min. of Athelstaneford] (cf.
Vol. I., 355).
[Now under Colonial Mission of U.F. Church.]
MAURITIUS
[The Island of Mauritius, discovered by the Portuguese in 1505, was neglected by
them for ninety-three years. In 1598 it was annexed by the Dutch who named it after
their Stadtholder. From 1715 to 1810 it was a French possession, called by them the He
de France. In 1810 it was captured by the British, and had its Dutch name restored.
French law, French language, and the Roman Catholic religion are predominant. A
mission was begun by the Church of Scotland in 1851. At Port Louis there are two
Scots Churches, St Andrew's and St John's.]
ANDERSON, JAMES FORRESTER,
born Port Louis, Mauritius, 26th Jan. 1852,
son of John A., Glasgow, and Marie
Euphemie Elie ; educated at Mauritius
Royal College and Univ. of Paris ; B.A.,
B.Sc. (Honoris causa 1896), B.D. (1902);
ord. at Passy Reformed Church, Paris, 3rd
May 1903; app. to St John's, Mauritius,
MAURITIUS
559
24th May that year ; died 13th July 1926.
He marr. 27th May 1875, Sarah, daugh.
of James Wilson, and had issue— Judson
Wilson Honeyman, born 18th Jan. 1877 ;
Lilian Bertha Mary, born 8th March
1879 ; Daisy Euphemia, born 28th May
1882 ; Albert John Gordon, M.A. (Oxon.),
solicitor, born 30th Aug. 1885 ; James
Bushman Kalph, B.A. (Oxon.), Middle
Temple, London, born 14th March 1889.
Publication — Esquisse de I'Histoire de
Protestantismes Maurice, 1502-1902 (Paris,
1903).
ANDERSON, SAMUEL HONYMAN,
born Port Louis, Mauritius, 9th Jan. 1845,
son of John A., Glasgow, and brother of
preceding ; educated at Mauritius Royal
College, Bedford and Cheshunt Colleges,
England, and at Paris; ord. to Mauritius,
27th June 1870, where his pastorate ex
tended to nineteen chapels and out-stations
throughout the island ; adm, by General
Assembly 4th June 1877 ; dem. Aug. 1883 ;
became min. of the English Congregational
Church, Paris, 1884; was an indefatigable
worker in the M'Call and Paris City
Missions, and Secretary to the latter ;
died 8th Aug. 1923. He marr. 29th June
1870, Althea Mathews, daugh. of William
Satchell, Wesleyan missionary, Africa and
West Indies, and Agnes Forrester Anderson,
and had issue — Agnes Miriam, born March
1872 ; Esther Jane, born Sept. 1877 ; Mary
Althea, missionary, American Methodist
Episcopal Church, Algiers, born March
1879; Ellen Ithiel, born June 1880, died
June 1918. Publications — He translated
the greater part of the New Testament
into Creole for an Indian congregation
originated by him in Mauritius ; and com
piled Vie de Jesus, a chronological story in
the words of the four Gospels.
ANDERSON, WILLIAM, born Tilli-
coultry, 19th June 1884, son of Peter A.
and Elizabeth Wilson ; educated at Alva
Academy and Univs. of Edinburgh, M.A.
(1908), and St Andrews ; licen. by Presb.
of Dunblane in 1913 ; assistant at Logic,
Bridge of Allan ; ord. to St Andrew's
Church 30th July 1913; dem. 1920; resident
at Alva in 1928.
BEATON, PATRICK, M.A. ; app. min.
of St Andrew's Church in 1851 [afterwards
of Scots Church, Paris, 1883 (q.v.)].
CRUICKSHANK, JOHN, M.A. ; app.
min. at St Louis in 1894 ; dem. 1895 [after
wards of St James's, Demerara, 15th Dec.
1905 (q.v.y].
DAVID, LOUIS STEPHEN, born St
Louis, Mauritius, 24th Aug. 1894, son of
Francois Stephen D. and Louise Nunn ;
educated at Royal College of Mauritius and
Univ. of Edinburgh ; ord. (by Presb. of
Edinburgh) [under special decision of
General Assembly] 29th June 1894 as
assistant and successor at St John's,
Mauritius. Marr. 21st April 1926, Elsie
(born 16th May 1903), daugh. of Captain
Alfred Newby and Maria Johana Hilda
Anderson Blackburn, and has issue —
Louise Elsie, born 4th Feb. 1927.
KILBURN, JOHN ROBERT DE
LINGEN M.A., B.D. (cf. Vol. VI., 362),
formerly min. of Insh, Abernethy ; app. to
St Andrew's Church, Port Louis, 1920;
dem. 1926 ; app. Principal of Government
Training College, Mauritius. Publication
— Songs to Eurydice (Port Louis, 1926).
LE BRUN, JOHN JOSEPH, min. for
nine churches and four preaching stations ;
adm. by General Assembly 4th June 1877 ;
died 1909.
M'IRVINE, GEORGE, born Glass,
Aberdeenshire, 3rd April 1830, son of
William M. and Janet Dawson ; educated
at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (March
1849); schoolmaster of Aboyne; licen. by
Presb. of Kincardine O'Neil; Murray
Lecturer 1855 ; app. min. of St Andrew's
Church, Port Louis, 1856; died 19th Aug.
1911. He marr. 25th Dec. 1856, Isabella
Garioch (born 17th Nov. 1836), daugh. of
James Ferguson, advocate, Aberdeen, and
Jane Birnie, and had issue — Jane Birnie,
born 1st July 1858 (marr. 19th May 1886,
Hamilton Stein, merchant, Mauritius) ;
Isabella Janetta, born 16th March 1860;
William, in Mauritius Civil Service, born
18th May 1862, died 10th June 1921;
Harriet Johnston, born 26th Feb. 1865,
died 26th May 1866 ; George Maurice, born
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19th Sept. 1866, died 21st Jan. 1867;
Mary Wales, born 13th Aug. 1869 (marr.
Jan. 1888, Captain Alfred Ernest Haynes,
E.E., who was killed in the Matabele War
in 1896); Charles Grant, bank manager,
Mauritius, born 14th July 1871 ; Arthur,
merchant, Mauritius, born 19th Oct.
1872. Publication— Christ, the Light of
the World [Murray Lecture] (Aberdeen,
1856).
McKELVIE, GEORGE, educated at
Univ. of Glasgow; M.A. (1886); and
Presbyterian College, Montreal ; became
missionary (supported by St Paul's Church,
Montreal) at Ujjain and Mhow, India ;
res. in 1891 and app. as chaplain to the
Forces at Mhow ; app. min. at Port Louis
in 1895 [afterwards chaplain at Meerut,
India (q.v.)] ; died llth Aug. 1904.
NEILL, WILLIAM NOTMAN, M.A.,
B.D. (cf. Vol. III., 265); ord. 1910; dem.
1914 [afterwards min. of Carfin Chapel] ;
died from a cycling accident 7th Oct. 1925.
He was a good historical student, a con
tributor to the Scottish Historical Review
and other journals.
ROGER, WILLIAM M., a min. of the
Canadian Presbyterian Church ; app. to
Port Louis in 1899 ; dem. 1902 ; went to
Canada, where he is said to have been
drowned while on a fishing expedition.
WILSON, AUGUSTUS FORBES, ord.
(by Presb. of Deer) to Mauritius 10th Aug.
1865 [afterwards in British Guiana (q.v.)].
SOUTH AFRICA
[From 1652, when the earliest Dutch colonists landed at Table Bay, the Dutch
Reformed Church has been the leading Presbyterian denomination in South Africa. In
1806 Cape Colony came under British rule. Prior to that date there had been formed
at Cape Town the first Scottish Presbyterian congregation in the colony composed chiefly
of men belonging to the Sutherland Fencibles raised in 1793 and enrolled as the 93rd
Regiment in 1800. Their minister was George Thorn, D.D. (infra) "who performed
divine service according to the ritual of the Church of Scotland." In 1821 Dr Thorn
was commissioned by Lord Charles Henry Somerset, Governor of the Cape, to proceed to
Scotland for a supply of ministers and teachers connected with the Church of Scotland.
He secured twelve men [Andrew Murray, Alexander Smith, William Ritchie Thomson,
Henry Sutherland, Colin Fraser, George Morgan, ministers (infra), and, as teachers,
James Rose Innes (afterwards Superintendent-General of Education), William Robertson
(infra), Archibald Brown, William Dawson, James Rattray, Robert Blair] whose careers,
however, are rather with the history of the Dutch Reformed Church, which, in 1928,
comprised the vast majority of the white Presbyterian population in South Africa.
The first Presbytery in South Africa, apart from the Dutch Reformed Church, was
constituted in Kaffraria in 1824 by missionaries of different churches working under the
Glasgow Missionary Society, an independent organisation unconnected with any denomi
nation in the homeland. In Dec. 1837 this Presbytery became divided on the Voluntary
Controversy, one section [Bennie, Laing, Ross] (infra) adhering to the Church of Scotland,
the others [William Chalmers and Robert Niven] (originally of the Relief Church) taking
sides with the Secessionists. For some time thereafter they continued to meet as one
Presbytery and never alluded to the points on which they differed. On 30th Aug. 1843
the Presbytery of Kaffraria unanimously allied itself with the Free Church.
In 1892 there was formed at Kimberley a Federal Council representative of various
scattered congregations and small Presbyteries of English-speaking (as distinguished from
the taal, or Cape Dutch-speaking) Presbyterians throughout the colony, and on 17th Sept.
1897 the Presbyterian Church of South Africa was constituted. In 1928 there were
80 congregations, with over 13,000 members and 60,000 adherents.]
ADAMSON, JAMES, born 22nd Jan.
1797, son of Laurence A., D.D., min.
of Cupar, Fife, and cousin of Thomas
Chalmers, D.D. ; educated at Univ. of
St Andrews ; licen. by Presb. of Cupar ;
ord. (by Presb. of Edinburgh) 28th Feb.
SOUTH AFRICA
561
1827 rain, of the Scots Church, Cape Town
[the oldest Presbyterian congregation in
South Africa]; D.D. ; res. 1841 and app,
a Professor in the South African College,
Cape Town ; died 1875.
BARRIE, WILLIAM DUNLOP, ord.
(by Presb. of Hamilton) to Richmond 18th
Sept. 1881 ; dem. and went to Australia^.).
BECK, JOHN JAMES, born 1810,
eldest son of John B., merchant, Cape
Town ; educated at Univs. of Glasgow and
St Andrews ; M.A. ; ord. by Presb. of
Belfast; app. min. at Tygerberg (now
Durbanville) in 1833; died 1886.
BENNIE, JOHN, born 1796, probably
eldest son of James B., merchant, Hadding-
ton ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; app.
by Glasgow Missionary Society as lay mis
sionary to Kaffraria, and "set apart" in
North Albion Street Chapel, Glasgow, 23rd
Jan. 1821; took part as an elder in the
formation of the first Presb. of Kaffraria
1st Jan. 1824; ord. by the Presb. thus
formed ; adhered to the Church of Scotland
in 1837 on the separation of the Glasgow
Missionary Society ; min. from 1850 at
Middlesburgh to a large native congrega
tion ; died 9th Feb. 1869. He was a fine
Kaffir scholar and indefatigable missionary.
BIGG AR, MATTHEW, M. A., B. D. ; ord.
Colonial Chaplain to Mills and Steamers,
Calcutta, 1913 ; adm. to Malvern and
Denver, Johannesburg, 10th Dec. 1920 ;
dem. 31st Oct. 1924.
CASSIE, JOHN, educated at King's
College, Aberdeen; M.A. (29th March
1805); ord. by Presb. of Arbroath March
1827 ; app. to the Dutch Church at Caledon,
1828 ; returned to Scotland in 1850.
COLVILLE, JOHN, M.A., B.D. (cf.
Vol. IV., 64) ; min. at Richmond in 1897 ;
returned to Scotland and adm. to Loch-
ranza in 1911.
COX, WALTER PERCY, M.A, B.D.
(cf. Vol. V., 447) ; ord. for service in South
Africa 12th Nov. 1902 ; app. to Ladysmith
in 1903, returned to Scotland and adm.
to Lunan 3rd May 1907.
CRAIG, JAMES, born Dairy, Ayrshire,
1st July 1863, son of James C. and Margaret
VOL. VII.
Craig; educated at Dairy School and
Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A., B.D. ; licen. by
Presb. of Glasgow June 1888; assistant
at St George's-in-the-Fields, Glasgow; min.
of Whitburn (cf. Vol. I., 236); adm. to
Beaconsfield Feb. 1898 ; trans, to Bloem-
fontein April 1899 ; Moderator of General
Assembly of 'Presbyterian Church of
South Africa in 1913; trans, to Salisbury,
Rhodesia, March 1917; trans, to Frere
Road, Durban, Oct. 1925. Marr. 15th
June 1899, Janet M'Nair, daugh. of Thomas
Crawford, Mount Florida, Glasgow, and
Janet Somerville, and has issue — Robert
Crawford, died in infancy 1900.
CRAWFORD, OLIVER, M.A. ; app. by
Colonial Committee ; ord. 24th July 1902 ;
min. at Roodeport, Transvaal ; adm. to
Second Charge, Culross, 14th Feb. 1912
(cf. Vol. V, 20).
EDGAR, JAMES, born Erskine,
Renfrewshire, 1794, second son of Maxwell
E. ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A.
(1816); student of medicine there, 1826-7;
ord. (by Presb. of Glasgow) 28th March
1827 ; app. to Tygerberg (now Durban
ville), near Cape Town ; trans, to Somerset
West; died 1848.
EDWARD, JAMES, born Dundee, 1855;
educated at Univs. of St Andrews,
M.A. (1879), and Edinburgh, B.Sc. ; ord.
(by Presb. of Dundee), and app. Professor
of Mathematics, Victoria College, Stellen-
bosch, 1886; M.A. (Cape Univ. 1887);
returned to Scotland in 1887 and engaged in
teaching in Edinburgh; died about 1906.
FORRESTER, CHARLES GRANT (cf.
Vol. V., 185); was chaplain to the Scottish
troops at Parkhurst, Isle of Wight; min.
at Boarhills, St Andrews, 1871 ; went on
account of his health to South Africa, and
was min. at Port Elizabeth in 1872; died
1875. Publication— Sermons [Preface by
John Tulloch, D.D.] (1876).
FRASER, COLIN MACKENZIE, born
Ross-shire, 1801 ; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen, 1816-22 ; ord. (by Presb.
of Chanonry) in 1824; app. to the Dutch
Reformed Church at Beaufort West ; died
.870. His son, Sir John George F, LL.D.
Aberdeen, 1910), M.P. and Leader of the
2 N
562
SOUTH AFRICA
Opposition, O.R.C. Parliament, born 1840,
died at Bloemfontein, 22nd June 1927.
GALLOWAY, JAMES JOHN, edu
cated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (1887),
B.D. (1890) ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh
14th May 1890 ; assistant at North Church,
Aberdeen ; ord. for service in South Africa
llth June 1903; adm. to Krugersdorp,
Transvaal, 4th May 1904; res. 15th Nov.
that year.
GOVAN, WILLIAM, born Paisley, 8th
Feb. 1804, eldest son of William G. ;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow; was
sometime town-clerk of Dunbarton and
classical master in Dunbarton High School;
licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 16th June 1840 ;
ord. (by same Presb.) 21st July following
as a missionary to Kaffraria, where he
founded (1841) the Educational Institution
at Lovedale [transferred to Free Church in
1844, and now under U.F. Church], of which
he was Principal for thirty years. Joined
the Free Church in 1843 ; returned to Scot
land in 1870; died at Dunoon, 4th Nov
1875._[Wells's Stewart of Lovedale, 105.]
HAMILTON, SAMUEL JOHN, B.A
(cf. Vol. III., 232); min. at Clifton,
Johannesburg, 1897-1906; superintendent
of Church Extension in the Transvaal,
1904-6 ; res. 16th June 1908 and returned
to Scotland; adm. min. of Bothwell 24th
June 1910 ; died from a cycling accident
while on holiday at Elie 3rd Sept. 1926.
JONES, THOMAS HENRY, born
Massachusetts, U.S.A. [not Canada as in
Vol. L], 25th Sept. 1863, son of Josiah
Frederick J. and Julia Cooper ; M.A. ;
min. of Addiewell (cf. Vol I., 2) ; became
min. successively at Bulawayo, Rhodesia,
1898 ; Beaconsfield, near Kimberley, 1906 ;
served as chaplain with Colonial troops
in German South-West Africa, 1914-16;
D.S.O. (1916); min. at Dundee, Natal,
1918 ; Moderator of General Assembly of
Presbyterian Church in South Africa 1919.
LAING, JAMES, born Durisdeer, 1803 ;
educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; app. by
Glasgow Missionary Society and ord., 31st
Aug. 1830, as missionary to Kaffraria, and
stationed at Burnshill [named in honour
of John Burns, D.D., min. of The Barony,
Glasgow] ; adhered to the Church of Scot-
and Dec. 1837, on the separation of the
Glasgow Missionary Society. Joined the
Free Church in 1843, and superintendent
at Lovedale, 1843-55, when he returned to
Burnshill ; died 28th Jan. 1872. Publica
tion.— Tkwezi [i.e. " Morning Star "] (1844).
LIDDLE, WILLIAM, M.A., B.D. (cf.
Vol. I., 110); ord. to Grahamstown 28th
Dec. 1896 ; returned to Scotland and adm.
to St Leonard's, Edinburgh, 10th April
1913.
MENZIES, JOHN FORBES, M.A. (cf.
Vol. VII., 154) ; formerly min. of Knoydart ;
supplied at Potchefstroom, Transvaal, 21st
July to 20th Oct. 1903.
METCALFE, WILLIAM, born Paisley,
21st June 1870, son of William Musham
M., D.D., min. of South Parish ; educated
at Univ. of Glasgow; M.A. (1891), B.D.
(1892) ; licen. by Presb. of Paisley 4th May
1892 ; assistant at St Mary's, Dundee; ord.
(by Presb. of Paisley) 14th May 1902 ; adm.
to Ladybrand and District, Orange Free
State, July that year ; trans, to Ficksburg ;
res. 1904 and returned to Scotland ; assist
ant at Huntly, St-George's-in-the-West,
Aberdeen, and Closeburn ; chaplain to the
Forces at Plymouth, May 1915-19 ; officiat
ing chaplain at Caterham 30th May 1920 ;
adm. to Cawdor 8th Feb. 1928. Marr. 25th
June 1913, Alice Mary, daugh. of James
Mann, Dundee. Publications— The Great
Palace of Constantinople [trans, from
modern Greek of Dr A. G. Paspates]
(Paisley, 1893); Origen, the Teacher (London,
1907) [reissued as Gregory's Address to
Origen]; The Seven Princesses [from French
of Maurice Maeterlinck] (London, 1909);
Between Heaven and Earth [from German
of Otto Ludwig] (London, 1911); Seven
Legends [from German of Gottfried Keller]
(Glasgow, 1911).
MILNE, PETER, M.A., B.D. ; adm. to
Beaconsfield April 1899; trans, to Standard-
ton, Transvaal, Aug. 1905 ; trans, to Ficks
burg Dec. 1906 ; app. to Dooars Mission,
India (q.v.) April 1907.
MORGAN, GEORGE, a native of Aber-
deenshire ; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen, 1815-19; ord. (by Presb. of
Lochcarron) in 1824; app. to the Dutch
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Church at Somerset East, Cape Colony;
trans, to the Scots Church, Cape Town,
1841 ; retired in 1871 ; died 1880.
MURRAY, ANDREW, born 26th May
1794, youngest son of Andrew M., Mill of
Clatt, Aberdeenshire. and Isobel Milne,
and brother of John M., D.D., min. of
North Church, Aberdeen ; educated at
Marischal College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (1816) ;
licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen ; offered for
service in South Africa (on the appeal of
George Thorn, D.D.) and ord. by Presb. of
Aberdeen in 1821 ; went to Holland for
ten months to acquire a knowledge of
Dutch ; sailed for Africa and arrived (after
a perilous and adventurous voyage of
seventeen weeks) at Table Bay 2nd July
1822 ; app. min. of the Dutch Reformed
Church at Graaff-Reinet, Cape Colony,
where he served for forty-five years ; died
1866. He was a man of deep piety and
founded many new congregations. The
town of Murraysburg was named after him.
He marr. 1824, Maria Susanna (died 1889,
aged 81), daugh. of Johan Gotlob Stegmann
and Jacomina Sophia Hoppe, and had
issue — John, Professor at Stellenbosch,
born 15th Sept. 1826, died 1882 ; Andrew,
D.D. (Aberdeen 1898), Litt.D. (Cape Town
1907), distinguished evangelical leader,
author of Abide in Christ and 240 other
Works in English and Dutch, born 9th
May 1828, died 18th Jan. 1917; William,
min. of Dutch Reformed Church, Worcester,
born 1829, died 1899 ; Maria, born 1831
(marr. the Rev. Johannes Henoch Neeth-
ling), died 5th Dec. 1913; Charles, min. of
Dutch Reformed Church, born 1833, died
1904 ; Jemima, born 1836 (marr. 1855, the
Rev. Andries Adriaan Louw), died 3rd
Jan. 1904 ; Isabella, born 1839 (marr. the
Rev. Jan Hendrik Hofmeyer), died 14th
June 1927; James, born 1843; George,
min. of Dutch Reformed Church, born
1845, died 1921 ; Helen, Principal of Mid
land Seminary, Graaff-Reinet, born 1849 ;
Eliza, born 1855 (marr. 1875, the Rev!
Hendrik Ludolph Neethling), died 1917.
Du Plessis' Life of Andrew Murray [son]
(portrait), 12-33 (London, 1919); Unto
Children's Children [by his daughter
Maria, p.p.]
M'FARLANE, DAVID, assistant ;it lv,>t
Church, Perth ; ord. (by Presb. of Perth) in
1891 ; adm. to Newcastle, Natal, 30th Sept.
that year ; res. 4th Dec. 1904 to go to
Australia.
MACKENZIE, HUGH SKINNER,
M.A., B.D. (<•/. Vol. II., 220); ord. to
Naauwpoort, Cape Colony, 8th Oct. 1905,
and adm. there 3rd Nov. following; returned
to Scotland in 1910; assistant at Mouswald
and adm. to Mouswald 7th May 1912;
trans, to Stenton 16th May 1916; Ph.D.
(Edinburgh 1925).
PAGAN, JOHN HAMILTON, born
19th July 1871, son of John P., D.D., min.
of Bothwell ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow;
M.A. (1891), B.D. (1894); licen. by Presb.
of Hamilton in 1894; assistant at Ayr;
went to South Africa on account of weak
health ; ord. in 1900 ; adm. to Naauwpoort
16th April 1902; trans, to Ladybrand in
1905; trans, to Kimberley in 1907; died at
De Aar 14th Sept. 1913. The General
Assembly of the South African Church
declared that "no minister of this church
has been more widely and more deeply
beloved." He marr. 3rd April 1906, Agnes
Elizabeth, daugh. of Robert Cargil Leslie
Blair of Lynedoch, Ayr. Publications—
Annals of Ayr in the Olden Time (Ayr
1897) ; The Flower of the Hidden Crown
(Edinburgh, 1913). Contributions in The
Presbyterian Churchman.
PEARS, JOHN, educated at Univ. of
Edinburgh (Hon. M.A., King's College,
Aberdeen, 30th Jan. 1819) ; licen. by Presb.
of Kirkcaldy ; ord. min. of a Presbyterian
congregation at Sunderland, 20th Dec. 1825 ;
app. min. to the Scottish settlers and others
at Glen Lynden in the Eastern Province,
but finding on his arrival, May 1829, that
most of these settlers had gone to reside in
other parts of the country, and that a large
proportion of the community was Dutch,
he joined the Dutch Reformed Church;
was a professor in the South African
College, Cape Town, 1830-4; min. at
Albany, 1834-41 ; trans, to Somerset East
in 1841 ; died 1866. He took an active part
in founding the Gill College. He was an
intimate of Edward Irving, with whom he
had a considerable correspondence. The
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town of Pearston was named after him. —
[P. J. Anderson's Roll of Alumni in Arts,
Univ. and King's College, Aberdeen, 199.]
KEID, THOMAS, app. to the Dutch
Reformed Church, Colesberg, Cape Colony,
1836 ; died 1863.
ROBERTSON, WILLIAM, a native of
Moray ; educated at King's College, Aber
deen ; M.A. (March 1828) ; ord. (by Presb.
of Edinburgh) Jan. 1831, and became a
min. of the Dutch Reformed Church in
South Africa ; was min. successively at
Clanwilliam, Swellendam, and Cape Town ;
D.D. (King's College, Aberdeen, 6th Oct.
1840); died 1879. He rendered outstanding
service to the Church and was Moderator
of Synod 1842 and 1852. The district of
Robertson was named after him. — [Du
Plessis' Christian Missions in South Africa,
251 ; Journals of David Livingstone.]
ROSS, JOHN, born Glasgow, 28th June
1799, second son of Richard R., cotton-
weaver (a native of Sutherland) ; educated
at Univ. of Glasgow; M.A. (1819); licen.
by Presb. of Hamilton ; app. a missionary
to Kaffraria by Glasgow Missionary Society
and ord. (by above Presb.) 3rd March 1823 ;
occupied the mission station at Pirie from
1831. Joined the Free Church in 1843;
died at King William's Town 7th June
1878. In 1824 he established the original
mission station of Lovedale, named in
honour of John Love, D.D., min. of
Anderston, Glasgow, and secretary of the
Glasgow Missionary Society. After the
war of 1835 the situation was found
inconvenient, and a second Lovedale (the
well-known U.F. Missionary Institution)
was erected on the banks of the Chumie.
He marr. Helen Blair (a native of Ayrshire),
and had issue— Bryce, D.D., missionary at
Pirie, born 1825, died 1899; Richard,
missionary at Cunningham, South Africa,
born 1828, died 1902.— [A Missionary
Family by Brownlee J. R. [grandson]
(Edinburgh, 1926) ; Hunter's Hist, of F.C.
Missions, 345 et seq. ; Stewart's Lovedale,
Past and Present.]
SHAND, ROBERT, a native of
Aberdeenshire; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen, 1819-23; Hon. M.A. (King's
College, Aberdeen, 2nd Nov. 1840) ; ord.
in 1834 to the Dutch Reformed Church at
Tulbagh in the Western Province ; died
21st Nov. 1876.
SMITH, ALEXANDER, ord. by Presb. of
Edinburgh in 1822 ; app. to Dutch Church,
Uitenhage, near Port Elizabeth ; died 1866.
SMITH, JAMES (cf. Vol. III., 329),
formerly min. of Baldernock ; adm.;to New
castle, Natal, Nov. 1884; died 7th Jan. 1891.
SMITH, JOHN GOULD (cf. Vol. III.,
81), assistant at Tolbooth, Edinburgh;
formerly min. of North Church, Saltcoats ;
adru. to First Church, Pietermaritzburg,
Natal, 18th July 1877; res. 29th Feb.
1908; died 21st Feb. 1913. He marr. a
daugh. of Alexander Grey, M.R.C.V.S.,
Edinburgh, and sister of Madame Annie
Grey, the singer. He rendered valuable ser
vices to the cause of Education in the colony.
SNADDEN, ANDREW MITCHELL,
born Sauchie ; educated at Univ. of St
Andrews ; M.A. (1886), B.D. (1889) ; assist
ant at Foss ; ord. to Foss 9th March 1892 ;
trans, to Redgorton 17th Feb. 1898 ; trans,
to John Knox Parish, Aberdeen, 8th Dec.
1909 ; res. 30th Sept. 1913 on appoint
ment to St George's Church, Johannesburg,
and adm. there 10th Oct. following ; res.
31st March 1917; returned to Scotland
and adm. to Gilmerton 3rd May 1918 ;
trans, to St Columba's, Blackball, 31st
July 1922. Publication— Through Eastern
Lands (Paisley 1904).
STRUTHERS, WILLIAM, born Glas
gow, 31st May 1863, son of James S. and
Agnes Bryce Walker ; educated at High
School, Hutcheson's School, and Univ. of
Glasgow; M.A. (1887); licen. by Presb. of
Glasgow in 1887 ; assistant at St James's,
Glasgow, Lenzie, Brechin, and Arbroath ;
left for South Africa in ill-health and was
sometime engaged in business in Cape
Town ; received as a licentiate by Presb.
of Cape Town in 1898; ord. to St An
drews, East London, April that year ;
trans, to Clifton, Johannesburg, June 1905 ;
trans, to Cambridge, East London, July
1907 ; trans, to Adelaide, Cape Provinces,
July 1909 ; trans, to Vryhead, Natal, Feb.
1921. Marr. 16th Nov. 1898, Annette
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565
Hutlcr, daugh. of William Lawrence, Kim-
berley, and Jemima Matheson, and has
issue — James William Lawrence, clerk,
born 12th Sept. 1899 ; Margaret Annette,
teacher, born 27th Dec. 1901 ; Mary Anna-
bella, telephonist, born 9th Dec. 1905 ;
Mona Matheson, student, born 18th Sept.
1908 ; Norman Colin Clark, born 27th May
1911; Agnes Blanche, born 17th April 1916.
SUTHERLAND, HENRY, born Paisley,
third son of Henry S. ; educated at Univ.
of Glasgow; ord. (by Presb. of Glasgow)
in 1823, and app. to the Dutch Reformed
Church, Worcester, Cape Colony ; died
18th Feb. 1879.
TAYLOR, JOHN, M.A. ; ord. (in
London, along with Robert Moffat and
others) 30th Sept. 1816 ; app. min. of Dutch
Reformed Church, Beaufort West, 1818 ;
min . at Cradock, 1 828-44 ; died 21st May 1 860.
THOM, GEORGE, ord. in 1812 by a
Presb. of the Church of Scotland (as
appears in a letter from Lord Charles
Somerset to Earl Bathurst Dec. 1818) ; had
been accepted as a missionary of the
London Missionary Society ; app. to India
and was on his way there when at Cape
Town he was persuaded to remain in the
colony and devote himself to work amongst
the soldiers ; formed a Presbyterian congre
gation there 6th May 1813. He became
superintendent of the L.M.S.'s operations
and in 1818 accepted the pastorate of the
Dutch Reformed Church at Caledon. In
1820 he returned to Scotland at the request
of the Cape Government and succeeded
in obtaining a number of ministers and
teachers, all of whom exercised a deep
influence on South Africa ; D.D. (Glasgow
1821); was afterwards min. of the Dutch
Church at Tulbagh ; died 1842. — [Du
Plessis' Hist, of Christian Missions in South
Africa, 139, 182.]
THOMSON, SAMUEL, born Newmilns,
Ayrshire, 30th Oct. 1861, son of Gilbert T.
and Elizabeth Wilson ; educated at
Uddingston and Glasgow Schools and
Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of
Glasgow 29th June 1889 ; assistant at
Galston ; ord. (by Presb. of Ayr) for
Colonial service 26th Jan. 1904; adm.
to Glen Road, Bloemfontein, March that
year ; trans, to St Columba's, Port Elizabeth,
Feb. 1910 ; served in Egypt and France as
chaplain to the "South African Scottish"
Aug. 1915-16. Marr. 29th June 1896, Mary
Levey, daugh. of James Arthur, min.
of Springburn, and has issue — Gilbert,
merchant, born 15th March 1897 ; James
Arthur, wool trader, born 22nd June 1901.
THOMSON, WILLIAM RITCHIE, son
of the schoolmaster of Tarbolton, Ayrshire ;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow; went to
London and engaged in business. Having
listened to a sermon on the death of the
famous Dutch missionary Vanderkemp,
he resolved to give himself to missionary
service and resumed theological studies
at Glasgow ; was app. by the Glasgow
Missionary Society to proceed to the Cape
as pastor to a small colony of Scottish
emigrants about to sail from the Clyde.
[Their vessel, the Abeona, which had
preceded his own voyage, was burned in
mid-ocean, the greater part of its passengers
perishing in the flames or in the sea.]
On 23rd Jan. 1821 he was "set apart" in
North Albion Street Chapel, Glasgow, as
first missionary to Kaffraria of the Glasgow
Missionary Society, and was afterwards
ordained in London ; sailed 29th April
1821 and arrived at the Chumie 15th Nov.
following. In 1829, on the instructions of
Sir Lowry Cole, a settlement of Hottentots
was established at Stockenstrom (now
Balfour) on the Kat River, where T.
founded a congregation, which, in 1832,
joined the Dutch Reformed Church; died
1891. His son, William Rodger T., educated
at Univ. of Glasgow, journalist and M.P.,
died 1867.— [Du Plessis' C hristian Missions
in South Africa, 183, 247, 254; Hunter's
Hist, of the Missions of the Free Church,
343 ; Edinburgh Christian Instructor, xx.
(1821), 765.]
WELSH, ALEXANDER, educated at
Univ. of St Andrews ; ord. (by Presb.
of St Andrews) in 1832 ; app. to the Dutch
Reformed Church at Glen Lynden in 1833,
where he did a great work for that con
gregation ; died 1856.
CONTINENT OF ASIA
BURMA
RANGOON.
[The Church at Rangoon is attached to
the London Presbytery of the Presbyterian
Church of England, but the great majority
of its members belong to the Church of
Scotland and United Free Church.]
MUDGE, JAMES, born Larkhall, 24th
Sept. 1891, son of Thomas M. and Agnes
Gold ; educated at Larkhall Academy and
Univ. of Glasgow; M.A. (1914); licen. by
Presb. of Hamilton in 1919 ; assistant at
Eastwood April to Nov. that year; Secretary
to Young Men's Guild of the Church of
Scotland Nov. 1919 to May 1921 ; assistant
at Kirkintilloch May 1921 to July 1922;
ord. to Dundyvan 26th July 1922 ; app. to
Rangoon Feb. 1926. Marr. 4th Nov. 1924,
Eva Ritchie, daugh. of James and Mary
Lyon, and has issue— Eva Lyon, born 1st
Jan. 1926.
SLOAN, JOHN, M.A. (cf. Vol. III., 188);
ord. 19th March 1878 ; returned to Scotland
and adm. to Shawlands 1st Sept. 1882.
[In Vol. III. the name Rankin should read
Bankier.]
CEYLON
[The Island of Ceylon has been a British possession since 1815. In 1830, John
Gibson Mac Vicar (infra) was ordained first Presbyterian chaplain. During his ministry
a church was built at Colombo in 1841. The Presbytery of Ceylon was instituted on
15th April 1863. According to its constitution only ordained ministers or licentiates of
the Church of Scotland could be admitted as members. In July 1878 Samuel Lindsay
(infra), minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, Wolfendahl, brought a proposal from
his Consistory for the admission of Presbyterian ministers of all the churches, and,
being approved by the Colonial Committee, this was adopted by the Presbytery. In
August 1882 the Scottish and Dutch churches were united under one Presbytery, the
terms of union being that all matters before the Presbytery should be decided according
to the laws and usages of the denomination in which the matter originated. In 1900,
churches and stations in connection with the Church of Scotland were — St Andrew's,
Colombo (new church built in 1906), Scots Kirk, Kandy (built in 1855), and the Kandian
Planting District Chaplaincy, Matara and Galle (Dutch). In 1927 Colombo and Kandy
only appear.]
BREWSTER, GEORGE, M.A. (cf. Vol.
VII., 311) ; ord. by Presb. of Edinburgh to
Wolfendahl 25th Sept. 1888; returned to
Scotland and was afterwards min. of
Nesting.
BROTCHIE, JAMES RAINY, born
Kintore, 27th March 1843, son of John B.,
schoolmaster ; educated at Kintore School,
Grammar Schools, Aberdeen and Old Aber
deen, and Univ. of Aberdeen ; M.A. (1863) ;
licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen; ord. by
said Presb. to Badula in 1869 ; trans, to
Wolfendahl 1871 ; dem. 1876 and returned
home ; drowned in the Don, near Aber
deen, 10th Feb. 1878. He marr. Ann (marr.
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(2) Turner) daugh. of James Watson,
schoolmaster of Rafford, and Ann Logie,
and had issue — James, died young ;
Theodore, curator Art Gallery, Kelvingrove,
Glasgow, author of History of Govan, The
Battlefields of Scotland, and other works.
BURNET, JOSEPH; ord. to Matale
16th Feb. 1864; trans, to St Andrew's,
Colombo, 1874; died 27th Dec. 1892. He
marr. Mary Janet (died at Edinburgh, 26th
July 1924), daugh. of Robert Kirke, D.D.,
min. of Hutton and Fishwick.
CHREE, WILLIAM, M.A., B.D. ; app.
to Wolfendahl Oct. 1893 ; ord. March 1894 ;
dem. Oct. that year and became chaplain
in India and Principal of Madras Christian
College. [See under Missionaries.]
COLQUHOUN, J. M., app. to Jaffna
in 1870 ; dem. 1872.
CRAWFORD, JOHN, M.A., B.D., ord.
to Dimbula in 1872 ; at Galle 1876-8 [after
wards Indian chaplain (q.v.)].
DUNN, ALEXANDER, M.A.; ord. to
St Andrew's Church, Ceylon, Dec. 1893;
was clerk of Presb. ; dem. 1911 [afterwards
min. of Scots Church, Brussels (q.v.)].
FAULDS, JOHN (cf. Vol. V., 116) ; ord.
to Kandy 12th Sept. 1909; dem. 1920;
adm. to Milton of Balgonie 25th Aug. 1921 ;
trans, to Clyne 15th Dec. 1926.
FLEMING, JAMES, min. at Wolfendahl,
1899-1900.
FLEMING, W. C., min. at Bamba-
lapitiya and Maligakande in 1900.
FRANKE, GEORGE ROOSMALE
COCQ, licen. Dec. 1890; ord. by Presb.
of Ceylon Aug. 1891 ; min. at Galle and
Matara, Ceylon, 1893-1916.
HOGG, ROBERT, educated at Univ. of
Glasgow, B.A. (1851), M.A. (1852), and
Theological Hall, Queen's College, Belfast ;
ord. to Horsham, North Melbourne, 14th
Jan. 1858 ; dem. on appointment by
Colonial Committee to Ceylon in 1866
[afterwards min. at Clones, Ireland] ; died
4th April 1891.
LINDSAY, SAMUEL, min. at
Wolfendahl, 1877-99.
MACARA, JOHN, M.A, B.D. (cf. Vol. V.,
51), formerly min. of Saline ; app. to Kandy
in 1927.
MACBEAN, JOHN, M.A.; formerly min.
in New Brunswick (q.v.) and in Australia ;
app. in 1854 ; dem. on account of illness
and returned to Australia in 1862.
MACECHERN, CHRISTIAN VICTOR
AENEAS, M.A. (cf. Vol. IV., 54) ; formerly
min. of Second or Lowland Charge, Camp-
beltown; app. to Colombo Aug. 1922.—
[The Sword of the North (portrait) 127, 508.]
MACKENZIE, CHARLES GORDON,
M.A., B.D. (cf. Vol. VI, 200); formerly
min. of Methlick; app. to Kandy 24th
June 1924 ; dem. 1927 ; adm. to Crieff West
24th Feb. 1928.
MACLEAN, CHARLES, born 6th Jan.
1845, son of Neil M., min. of Halkirk ;
educated at Univ. of Aberdeen ; ord. by
Presb. of Stirling 18th Feb. 1875 ; min. at
Matara, Rangala, etc. ; died 19th Nov. 1897.
MACMICHAEL, DAVID COLVILLE,
born 25th Nov. 1866, son of Neil M., min.
of Craignish, and brother of Duncan M,
min. of Largo ; educated at Royal High
School and Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A.
(1887), B.D. (1891); licen. by Presb. of
Inveraray in 1891 ; assistant at Ardgour
and St Columba's, Glasgow ; ord. to Gaelic
Parish, Greenock, 27th Sept. 1892 ; app. to
St Andrew's Church, Colombo, 30th Sept.
1912; returned to Scotland and adm. to
Duncansburgh (Fort William) 15th Dec.
1922. Marr. 27th June 1893, Jean Grace
Marion, daugh. of William Govan.
MACVICAR, JOHN GIBSON, D.D.
(cf. Vol. II, 217) ; ord. chaplain at Ceylon
25th Dec. 1830 ; min. of St Andrew's
Church, Colombo, 1839-53 ; adm. to Moffat
29th July 1853.
MAIR, HUGH (cf. Vol. VII, 124) ; ord.
to Dimbula 28th Sept. 1876; dem. 1881
[afterwards min. of Keiss].
MERSON, CHARLES, born Elgin 1820;
educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A.
(March 1840); ord. assistant at Arbroath
28th Jan. 1845 ; app. to St Andrew's Church,
Colombo, 1859 ; died 1869.
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CEYLON— INDIAN CHAPLAINS
MIDDLETON, GERARD, MA. ; ord.
to Badulla in 1865 ; trans, to Gampola
in 1870; adm. to Moonzie 1871 (cf. Vol. V.,
170).
MITCHELL, HENRY LUMSDEN,
born 9th Sept. 1838, son of Henry M.,
min. of Monquhitter ; educated at Maris-
chal College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (1853) ; ord.
to Galle in 1862 ; clerk to Presb. of Ceylon,
Gampola ; dem. 1870 ; became min. of
Scots Church, New Brompton, and acting-
chaplain to Forces at Chatham 1895 ; died
3rd May 1900.
NEILL, WILLIAM, app. to Colombo
in 1921 ; dem. 1922.
PATERSON, JAMES, at Badulla 1871.
PATERSON, ROBERT, assistant at
St Bernard's, Edinburgh, and Linlithgow ;
ord. to Jaffna 12th Dec. 1865.
RULACH, GEORGE BERNARD, licen.
and ord. by Presb. of Ceylon ; at Matara
1872, Wolfendahl 1874, Jaffna 1877-81.
RUSSELL, EDMOND STEUART,M.A.
(cf. Vol. VII., 164) ; ord. to Scots Church,
Kandy, 15th March 1903 ; dem. 1909 [after
wards min. of Poolewe] ; trans, to Arisaig
29th March 1926 ; trans, to Inverkeithny
12th Aug. that year.
SMITH, JAMES, app. to Colombo in
1846 ; dem. 1850.
SMITH, ROBERT, formerly min. of
Melville Church, Montrose (cf. Vol. V., 416),
adm. to Kandy 1856 ; res. 1857 [afterwards
of St Clement's, Dundee] (cf. Vol. V., 323),
and at High Meeting, Berwick-upon-Tweed
(q.v.)
SPROTT, GEORGE WASHINGTON
(cf. Vol. I., 383) ; app. to Kandy in 1857 ;
dem. 1865 [afterwards min. of North
Berwick].
STRAATEN, J. D. VANDER, D.D. •
ord. to Wolfendahl in 1868; dem. 1874.
TWEED, DAVID, Keen." by Presb. of
Route, Ireland ; ord. by Presb. of Ceylon,
16th Feb. 1899 ; min. at Wolfendahl, 1900-3.
WALL, CHARLES WILFRED
VANDER, ord. to Matara in 1869 ; trans,
to Jaffna 1872 ; returned to Matara 1874 ;
dem. 1881.
WATT, JOHN, born East Kilbride, 1831,
son of James W., farmer ; educated at
Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of
Linlithgow 1856 ; min. at St Vincent, West
Indies, 1858-61 ; ord. (by Presb. of Lin
lithgow) Oct. 1861 ; adm. to Kandy in
1862 ; clerk to Presb. of Ceylon ; dem.
1901 ; died 31st Dec. 1908.
YOUNG, ALEXANDER (cf. Vol. VI.,
153); ord. to Wolfendahl in 1859, Kandy
1865; trans, to Colombo in 1870; dem.
1874 ; adm. min. of Chapel of Garioch 15th
Jan. that year.
INDIA
[Alphabetical list of ordained Chaplains of the Church of Scotland on
the Indian Ecclesiastical Establishment, and in connection with Colonial
Committee.]
INDIAN CHAPLAINS.
[Previous to 1813 the Scottish population
in India was dependent for religious minis
trations on the Anglican Establishment
maintained by the East India Company.
In 1813, when the Company sought a
renewal of their Charter from the British
Government, opportunity was taken to
secure new concessions favourable to the
progress of Christianity in the East. Of
these the most important was the free
permission granted to missionaries to labour
in India "for the religious and moral im
provement of the people." But of more
immediate interest to the Church at that
period was the establishment by the East
India Company, for the benefit of their
Scottish employees, of three Chaplaincies
of the Church of Scotland, one at each of
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the Presidency towns of Calcutta, Madras,
and Bombay. l)r James Bryce arrived in
November 1814, as the first Chaplain, and
proceeded to organise a congregation of his
Scottish fellow-countrymen at Calcutta.
In 1815 John Allan, M.D., D.D. (infra)
was appointed to Madras, and James
Clow (infra) to Bombay. In 1822 three
additional chaplains were appointed, and
the Presidency towns were constituted
collegiate charges. In 1859 the number
was increased to thirteen, as a result of
numerous petitions representing the needs
of Scotsmen in the Mofussil or rural dis
tricts of India. In 1928 the total number of
chaplains serving with the Forces through
out India was eighteen. All these chaplains
were in the service of the Government.
Generally, seven were occupied in minister
ing to Scottish regiments; seven were in
charge of Scots congregations at important
towns, while four were on furlough. To
meet the needs of Presbyterian communities
at other centres, seven chaplains were pro
vided by the Overseas Committee of the
Church.]
ALLAN, JOHN (nothing is known of
his earlier career, except that he was a
min. before graduation in medicine), M.D.
(Glasgow 1808) ; app. by Court of Directors
H.E.I.C. (Madras), 1815; D.D. (Glasgow,
April 1815); died llth Dec. 1822.— [Addi-
son's Roll of Glasgow Graduates, 13.]
ANDERSON, JOHN, held a temporary
appointment as Indian chaplain, 1819-23,
vice James Bryce, D.D. (may be the J. A.,
min. at Lower Hawkesbury, New South
Wales, and afterwards in Grenada.)
ARCHIBALD, WILLIAM FORREST,
born New Monkland, 13th Aug. 1853, only
son of Robert A., min. of that parish;
educated at Airdrie Academy and Univ.
of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Hamilton ;
assistant at St John's, Glasgow ; app. to
Indian chaplaincy (Madras), 15th Nov.
1878 ; served with Black Mountain Ex
pedition ; senior Presidency chaplain in
1896 ; chaplain to Scottish troops at Khar
toum, Egypt ; retired 7th Oct. 1900 ; held
chaplaincy appointments at Shoeburyness,
Aldershot, and Colchester, 1902-20; died
llth Dec. 1920. He marr. (1) 17th Sept.
1879, Jeanie Proudfoot (born 1st July 1852,
died 15th June 1883), widow of Captain
Cookson, and had issue— Robert George,
army surgeon, born 4th July 1880 ; William
Forrest, army surgeon, born 10th July 1882,
died 22nd June 1911 : (2) 8th April 1914,
Lilian (s.p.~), daugh. of Edward Thompson-
Smith, Mayor of Colchester.
BELL, AUGUSTUS CLIFFORD, born
Kennoway, Fife, 12th April 1832, son of
David B., min. of that parish ; educated at
Kennoway School and Univ. St Andrews ;
licen. by Presb. of Kirkcaldy ; assistant
at St Michael's, Dumfries ; ord. to Indian
chaplaincy (Madras), 8th March 1860 ; died
21st April 1874. He marr. (1) 30th June
1860, Margaret Affleck Thomson (born 1st
Aug. 1835, died 3rd Nov. 1864), and had
issue— Eliza Campbell, born 28th June.
1861 (marr. 17th July 1885, Robert William
Bisset Creeke), died 28th Oct. 1918 ; David,
born 26th June 1863, died 16th July 1864 :
(2) 18th Jan. 1870, Florence Minette Green
wood (bora 23rd Aug. 1849, died 26th May
1923), daugh. of Lieut.-Colonel Thomas
Thiselton-Dyer, and had issue— Clifford
Thiselton, M.B., C.M., born 31st Oct.
1870, died 2nd Feb. 1919; Rosa Beatrice
Williams, born 26th May 1872 (marr. 14th
July 1897, Alexander Yule Curr); Sarah
Scott, born 9th April 1874.
BELL, JOHN (cf. Vol. VI., 239), M.A.,
LL.B. ; ord. to Indian chaplaincy 23rd May
1920 ; adm. to Rathen 10th Sept. 1925.
BIGGAR, MATTHEW, M.A., B.D. ; ord.
chaplain to Mills and Steamers, Calcutta
(Colonial Mission) ; dem. 1919 and went
to South Africa (q.v.).
BLACK, JAMES, M.A., O.B.E. (cf. Vol.
III., 330) ; formerly min. of Balfron ; dem.
that charge 6th July 1912 and app. to
Scots Church, Simla.
BOWIE, MATTHEW, M.A. (cf. Vol. V ,
95); app. junior chaplain on Indian Estab
lishment and ord. 29th June 1831; promoted
chaplain in 1838; dem. 1848 and adm. to
Kinghorn llth May that year.
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BOYLE, WILLIAM WILSON, B.A.
(cf. Vol. V., 62) ; chaplain at Secunderabad
Dec. 1904 to March 1908 ; adm. to Duncans-
burgh 9th May 1912 ; trans, to Fossoway
19th Dec. 1918.
BROWN, JAMES, born Aberdeen, 1797,
son of William B., bookseller ; educated at
Marischal College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (1815)
[he is also said to have been born at Annan
1786, educated at Univ. of Edinburgh,
M.A. (1st Feb. 1815), but Marischal College
record is as above] ; tutor in the family of
William Elliot-Lockhart of Borthwickbrae,
M.P. ; licen. by Presb. of Selkirk 9th July
1816 ; app. to Indian chaplaincy 16th Dec.
1821 and ord. (by Presb. of Lanark) 31st
July 1822 ; D.D. (Marischal College, Aber
deen, 14th April 1826); died off Malacca
23rd Sept. 1830.
BRYCE, JAMES, D.D. (cf. Vol. VI.,
112 ); formerly min. of Strachan ; app.
first chaplain to India on the Bengal
Establishment, H.E.I.C., llth April 1814 ;
dem. 1836. He took a deep interest in
all matters affecting the religious life of
India, was the constitutional champion of
the rights of the Church of Scotland there,
and it was in response to his memorial to
the General Assembly of 1824 that the first
Foreign Mission Committee of the Church
was formed — a step which eventually led
to the sending out of Alexander Duff to
Calcutta.
CAMERON, JOHN, born 18th Sept.
1865, son of John C., D.D., min. of Dunoon ;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow; M.A. (1887),
B.D. (1888); licen. by Presb. of Dunoon
May 1888 ; assistant at St George's, Edin
burgh, 1888-92 ; app. to Indian chaplaincy
(Bengal) and ord. (by Presb. of Edinburgh)
6th Oct. 1892; served with Tochi Field
Force July 1897 (medal and despatches) ;
Presidency senior chaplain at Bombay from
1905 ; died in Bombay 15th May 1913.
CAMERON, SAMUEL WOOD, born
Aberdeen, 17th Feb. 1888, son of James C.
and Helen Wood ; educated at Central
School and Univ. of Aberdeen ; M.A. (1911);
B.D. (1916); licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen
in 1916 ; assistant at Old Machar, Forfar,
and Morningside, Edinburgh, Sept. 1921 ;
ord. to Kells 30th March 1922; app. to
Indian chaplaincy (probationary) 29th Oct.
1925. Marr. 5th Oct. 1927, Flora Katharine,
M.A., daugh. of J. Findlater, Edinburgh.
CANT, ALAN, born Kampti, India, 27th
Dec. 1870, son of David C., major 79th
(Cameron) Highlanders, and Mary Suttie ;
educated at Madras College, St Andrews,
and Univ. of St Andrews; M.A. (1891).
B.D. (1893), B.Sc. (1893); licen. by Presb.
of St Andrews 3rd May 1893; assistant
to Professor of Hebrew, Univ. of St
Andrews, and at East Parish, Aberdeen ;
ord. to Indian chaplaincy 28th Oct. 1897 ;
adm. min. of Creich, Fife, 12th Aug. 1925,
Marr. 4th Nov. 1898, Mary Leggat Watson,
daugh. of James Bryce and Mary Leggat,
and has issue — Marjorie Stuart, born 3rd
April 1905 ; Alan Graham, born 19th May
1907; Ronald Gordon, born 16th Dec. 1908.
CHARLES, JAMES, D.D. (cf. Vol. II.,
363) ; ord. to Indian chaplaincy (Bengal)
25th April 1832 and served till 1847 ; adm.
to Kirkcowan 29th Nov. 1849.
CHREE, GEORGE JOHNSTONE,
M.A., B.D. (cf. Vol. V., 298-9); ord. to
Indian chaplaincy (at Rawal Pindi and
Murree under Colonial Committee) 3rd
July 1889; app. chaplain on the Bengal
Establishment 17th March 1892, and served
till 1913; adm. to Kirriemuir 14th May
1913. Publications— Editor of The Hand
book of the Church of Scotland in India
and Ceylon (1899-1900); sometime editor
of Saint Andrew Magazine.
CLOW, JAMES, born Ardoch, 1790;
educated at Univ. of St Andrews ; licen.
by Presb. of Kirkcaldy 21st July 1813;
app. chaplain at Bombay by the Court of
Directors H.E.I.C. 8th Dec. 1814, and ord.
(by Presb. of Kirkcaldy) 5th April 1815.
He arrived in Bombay 8th Nov. 1815, and
on 15th Dec. attended a meeting called by
Government to select a site and consider
plans for a church ; held his first meeting
of kirk-session llth Feb. 1816 ; returned to
Scotland on account of ill-health Oct. 1817;
was back in India 10th March 1819 and
opened St Andrew's church (then com-
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571
pleted) 25th April following; was frequently
for long periods on sick leave and retired
from the service 10th Oct. 1833. On 25th
Dec. 1837 he settled in Melbourne (then
Port Phillip) and was the pioneer of
Presbyterianism in New South Wales. ^ He
preached and laboured among the colonists,
taking no salary, and occupying no stated
pastorate, and was the inspirer and founder
of the Scots Church erected in Collins
Street; elected first Moderator of the
General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church of Victoria 7th April 1859; died
1861, FATHER OF THE CHURCH IN VICTORIA.
His portrait is in St Andrew's vestry,
Bombay. He marr. 13th April 1819,
Margaret Morison, and had issue — James
Maxwell, born 13th Jan. 1820; Mary
Elizabeth, born 27th June 1821, died a
child; Helen Johanna, born 24th Oct.
1822; Margaret Jessie, born 28th Jan.
1824; Mary Elizabeth, born 1st March
1825; Jane, born 3rd and died 8th July
1828 ; Jane, born 4th March 1830 ; Henry
Moncreiff, born 30th March 1832, and
another daugh. His five daughters (identi
fications unknown) married Archibald
Campbell of the Murray, Dr Robertson,
Queenscliff and Kew, James Forbes, min.
of the Scots Church, Melbourne, William
Hamilton, min. at Mortlake, and Dr Wilkie,
Melbourne.— [Hamilton's Jubilee Hist, of
the Presbyterian Church of Victoria, 8,
195; Campbell's Fifty Years of Presby
terianism in Victoria, 23; Matthew's Story
of St Andrew's Church, Bombay, 24 et seq.]
COLVIN, EGBERT FRANCIS (cf.
Vol. II., 142), formerly min. of Johnstone
in Annandale; adm. to Indian chaplaincy
(Bombay) 1854, and served till 1858 ; adra.
to Teviothead 5th Sept. 1884.
COOK, GEORGE, M.A. (cf. Vol. II.,
397) ; ord. to Indian chaplaincy (Bombay)
17th Oct. 1841 ; retired July 1859 ; adm. to
Bathgate 9th Nov. 1861 [afterwards min. of
Borgue.]
CRAIK, DAVID, M.A., B.D. ; licen. by
Presb. of Forres in 1912 ; ord. chaplain at
Lahore, India, 8th Sept. that year; dem.
1915.
CRAWFORD, JOHN, born 15th Jan.
1842, son of John C., min. of Crichton ;
educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; B.A.
(1860); M.A. (1863); B.D. (1865); licen.
by Presb. of Dalkeith 1865; assistant at
Broughty Ferry 1866-7, Caputh 1867 ;
missionary at Walkerburn 1868; assistant
West Parish, Perth, 1868-70, St Andrews,
Glasgow, 1870; missionary at Parkhead,
1870-2 ; ord. (by Presb. of Glasgow) chap
lain at Dimbula, Ceylon, 1872-6; acting-
chaplain at Galle, Ceylon, 1876-8 ; assistant
at Tolbooth Parish, Edinburgh, 1878-9;
missionary at Beauly and Guisachan,
1879-81 ; acting chaplain to Forces at
Aldershot 1881 ; min. of Ruthrieston,
Aberdeen, 1881-2 ; app. chaplain at Meerut,
India, 20th April 1882 ; died 30th June
1903. He marr. Harriet Crawford, D.C.S.,
who died at Cambridge, 12th Sept. 1922,
and had issue — a son. Publications—
Buddhism at Home ; Chastity in the British
Army.
DAVIES, WILLIAM LEWYS, born
Llansadum, Carmarthenshire, 20th Dec.
1872, son of David and Anne D., educated
at Carmarthen and Palgorth Schools, and
Univs. of Wales and Chicago ; B.D. (1918) ;
licen. by Presb. of London 1899 ; ord. to
Prestatyn 1900 ; trans, to Australia 1906 ;
adm. to U.F. Church, Saline, Fife, 1917 ;
adm. to chaplaincy at Cawnpore 13th Jan.
1920 ; afterwards assistant at South Leith ;
adm. to Sorn 12th March 1925 ; trans, to
Auchindoir 1928. Marr. 1899, Ada, daugh.
of John and Ann Richards of Langlare, and
has issue — John Alan Lewys, bank clerk,
born 9th Dec. 1902.
DAWSON, JOHN (cf. Vol. II., 79),
formerly min. of Stobhill ; adm. chaplain at
Umballa, Bengal, 29th Dec. 1859 ; adm. to
Dunnichen 6th Dec. 1866 [afterwards min.
of Makerstoun].
DEANS, WILLIAM, app. to Cawnpore
(Colonial) 1916. (See Foreign Missionaries).
DOBIE, JOHN, M.A., B.D.; ord.
to Madras 14th Dec. 1887 [afterwards Pro
fessor of Hebrew and Oriental Languages,
Univ. of Edinburgh (q.v.).]
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INDIAN CHAPLAINS
DODD, GEORGE EDWARD, born
Birsay, Orkney, 21st March 1884, son of
Henry D., L.R.C.P. & S., min. of Downfield,
Dundee ; educated at George Watson's
School and Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A.
(1904), B.D. (1907); licen. by Presb. of
Edinburgh May 1907 ; assistant at Morning-
side, Edinburgh ; ord. to Colonial chap
laincy (India) 25th Dec. 1910 ; app. to
Indian Ecclesiastical Establishment llth
Nov. 1912 ; served with Indian Expedition
ary Force Oct. 1914 ; served with
British Expeditionary Force March 1915
to Dec. 1916 (medals); senior chaplain,
Bengal Presidency, 1925. Marr. llth May
1916, Edith May, daugh. of Joseph Percy
Brierly and Edith Middlemost, and has
issue — Elizabeth Sheila Mary born 15th
Aug. 1917; Ian Alastair Scott born 29th
Aug. 1920. Publication— Editor of Saint
Andrew, 1912-14.
FAIRLIE, JOHN (<>/. Vol. VI., 264), ord.
at St John's, Cawnpore, as chaplain, June
1917; dem. 1918; adm. to Inverkeithny
25th Aug. 1920 [afterwards of St Peter's.
Glasgow].
FERRIER, ALEXANDER, born Aber
deen, 22nd Nov. 1850, son of Charles F.
and Isabella Greig ; educated at Grammar
School and Univ. of Aberdeen ; M.A.
(1877) ; licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen in
1877 ; assistant at Peterhead ; ord. (by
Presb. of Edinburgh) to Indian chaplaincy
(Calcutta) 8th Nov. 1878; retired 1900,
Marr. (1) 30th Jan. 1890, Mary Sophia Sarah
(died 26th April 1894), daugh. of James
Chalmers Herdman, D.D., min. of Melrose,
and has issue — Mary Alexandrina, born
20th Nov. 1890, died at sea 19th March
1891 ; Isabella Sophia, born 10th Jan. 1893
(marr. 9th Jan. 1923, Trefford Owles,
coffee planter, Kenya, Africa) ; Jessie
Christina, born 7th March 1894 (marr. 2nd
Oct. 1922, William Woodcock, B.A., solicitor,
Manchester) : (2) 2nd March 1897, Beatrice,
daugh. of Colonel Hallowes, Shropshire
Light Infantry, and has issue — Alexander
James, in Rangoon, served during European
War as lieut. Shropshire L.I., R.F.C., and
R.A.F., born 3rd Jan. 1898; William
Francis, born 8th April 1899, killed in
France (by crashing of aeroplane) 26th
Aug. 1917 ; Beatrice Louise, hospital
nurse, born 13th Nov. 1900 ; Donald Arthur,
student at Clare College, Cambridge, born
3rd Dec. 1902 ; Richard Hallowes, born 9th
Feb. 1904, accidentally drowned in the
Tweed at Melrose llth April 1906 ; Monica
Grace, born 22nd Feb. 1905 ; Lilian
Kathleen, born 26th May 1906; Sylvia
Hallowes, born 27th April and died 13th
Aug. 1908.
FRASER, IAN RODERICK, born 9th
Nov. 1868, son of James F., min. of Blair-
Atholl ; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ;
M.A. (1890), B.D. (1893); licen. by Presb
of Dunkeld May 1893 ; assistant at Inver
ness Sept. 1893-6 ; ord. to Southwick 16th
April 1896 (cf. Vol. II., 295) ; app. to Indian
chaplaincy 17th April 1900 ; senior chaplain,
St Andrew's, Calcutta, 1905 ; died 16th
Jan. 1913.
GILLAN, DAVID HEDLEY, M.A.
B.D. ; ord. to Indian chaplaincy 14th July
1897; app. chaplain to Royal Air Force
(Cranwell) 1st April 1920; adm. min. of
Golspie 7th April 1926 (q.v.).
GILLAN, GEORGE GREEN, B.A.,
M.A. (cf. Vol. III., 380); app. to Indian
chaplaincy (Bombay) and adm. 24th Oct.
1865; served till 1888; adm. to Carmun-
nock 24th Oct. that year.
GORDON, JAMES DRUMMOND,
born 16th June 1870, son of William G.,
min. of Glenbervie ; educated at Glen-
bervie School, Gordon's College, and Univ.
of Aberdeen; M.A. (1891), B.D. (1894),
B.Sc. (1895) ; licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen
April 1895 ; assistant at St Machar's, Aber
deen, 1895-8, Errol 1898 ; acting-chaplain
to Forces at Aldershot 1900; ord. (by
Presb. of Aberdeen) as Indian chaplain
Feb. 1901 ; Presidency senior chaplain,
Bengal, April 1921; retired in 1923; adm.
min. of Bedrule 28th Sept. that year. Marr.
26th Feb. 1901, Annie Sutherland, daugh.
of John Sutherland Gunn, I.M.S., and
Anne Greig Ferguson, and has issue —
Nannie Drummond, born 3rd Nov. 1903,
died 12th Dec. 1918; William Lindsay
Drummond, born 24th Oct. 1906; John
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573
Gunn Drummond, born 27th April 1909 ;
James Forrest Dummond, born 23rd July
1911.
GREIG, THOMAS HUTCHISON, born
17th Feb. 1842, son of George G., min.
of Tinwald ; educated at Hutton Hall
Academy and Univs. of Edinburgh and
St Andrews ; licen. by Presb. of Dumfries ;
assistant at Biggar and Lesmahagow ; ord.
to Indian chaplaincy (Bombay) 21st Feb.
1873 ; served in Afghanistan under Lord
Roberts ; senior Presidency chaplain in
1883; retired 22nd Aug. 1897; died 26th
March 1916. He marr. llth March 1884,
Alice Renton (born 4th Aug. 1864), daugh.
of James Bapty and Annie llenton, and
had issue — Annie Renton, hospital nurse,
born 22nd Feb. 1885; George, born 15th
July 1887, died 1st Oct. 1889 ; Alice Renton
Bapty,born 17th Sept. 1888; Agnes Rankine
Hutchison, M.B., Ch.B. (Edinburgh 1914),
Dufferin Hospital, Calcutta, born 19th
June 1890 ; Hew Hutchison, engineer, born
21st Sept. 1892 ; James Bapty, fruit farmer,
California, born 18th Jan. 1896; Louis
Thomas Hutchison, merchant, born 26th
June 1905.
HAMILTON, ROBERT KERR, born
Glasgow, 30th June 1810 ; M.A. ; formerly
min. of Saltoun (cf. Vol. I., 394); app.
to Indian chaplaincy (Madras) 22nd Aug.
and adm. 3rd Oct. 1839 (but not gazetted
until 24th Jan. 1840); retired llth Aug.
1858. He marr. and had issue — [omitted
under Saltoun] Robert, born 20th Nov. 1845;
Walter, born 20th March 1851.— \Tablet
in St Andrew's Church, Madras ; Indian
Monumental Inscriptions (Madras), iii., 101.]
HENDERSON, JAMES, born Mon-
quhitter, 9th March 1852, son of James
H. ; educated at Univ. of Aberdeen ;
M.A. (1874); licen. by Presb. of Turriff
1876 ; assistant at New Kilpatrick, 1876-8 ;
ord. (by Presb. of Dunbarton) to Indian
chaplaincy at Bengal (under Colonial Com
mittee) in 1878; app. junior chaplain on
Bombay Ecclesiastical Establishment 27th
Feb. 1882 ; senior chaplain 1892; Presidency
senior chaplain 1899 ; retired 3rd April
1905 ; was afterwards chaplain R.N. and
C.F. at Gosport ; died 5th Oct. 1925. He
served in the Egyptian campaign of 1882,
and was at the Battle of Tel-el-Kebir
(medal with clasp and Star). He marr.
18th Aug. 1891, Marion Hay (born 2nd
July 1861), daugh. of Alexander Mitchell,
D.D., min. of North Parish, Dunfermline,
and had issue — Marion Chalmers, born 28th
Sept. 1892 (marr. 28th June 1917) ; James
Mitchell, born 19th Aug. 1894 ; Alexander
Mitchell, born 19th Oct. 1896.
HENDERSON, ROBERT, son of
Richard H. and Mary Short ; ord. min. of
Newton-upon-Ayr 10th Jan. 1850 (cf.
Vol. III., 14); app. to Indian chaplaincy
(Calcutta) 8th July 1851 ; served under
Sir Colin Campbell and was present at the
Relief of Lucknow (1858) ; was afterwards
in Northern Provinces of India; retired
14th Oct. 1871 ; died at Nice 27th Sept.
1897. His first wife, Margaret Findlay,
who died 26th June 1856, had issue— a
daugh. died in infancy. He marr. (2) 1st
Feb. 1858, Ann Charlotte (died 9th April
1860) daugh. of Samuel Anderson, and had
issue — Major-General Sir Robert Findlay,
K.C.M.G., C.B., M.B., C.M. ; served in
Sudan (1885), Burma, South Africa, and
European War, 1914-17, born llth Dec.
1858, died 5th Oct. 1924; Ann Charlotte
Mary, born 27th March 1860, died llth
May 1923: (3) 20th Dec. 1866, Helen
Christina Palmer Meikle (born 5th Feb.
1837, died 21st June 1907), and had issue —
Helen Edith, born 4th Sept. 1867 (marr.
10th Feb. 1892, Robert Shields- Asluchsen).
HERON, J OHN, born Edinburgh, 13th
Jan. 1862, son of James H. and Elizabeth
Kerr ; educated at George Watson's School
and Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (1881),
B.D. (1885) ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh
17th June 1884 ; assistant at Cadzow that
year, Falkirk 1885; ord. (assistant) at
Falkirk 8th March 1888; app. to Ruthrieston,
Aberdeen, Nov. same year ; app. to Indian
chaplaincy (Madras) 30th March 1893;
Presidency senior chaplain in 1906 ; retired
17th March 1918. Marr. 1st July 1903.
Helen Begg Yuill (born 8th July 1873),
daugh. of Duncan Cameron McVean, min.
of Strontian, and has issue — Margaret
Cameron McVean, born 29th March 1904.
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INDIAN CHAPLAINS
HILL, COLIN CECIL PITCAIRN,
born Glenwood, Leslie, Fife, 17th July
1887, son of James Niven H., min. of
Prinlaws ; educated at Fettes College,
Edinburgh, and Univ. of St Andrews ;
M.A. (1913); on War service 1914-19;
licen. by Presb. of St Andrews 26th March
1919 ; assistant at Prinlaws ; ord. (by
Presb. of Edinburgh) to Indian chaplaincy
15th July 1920 ; adm. min. of Kilbirnie
12th March 1925. Marr. (1) 15th Dec. 1914,
Wilhelmina Berwick (died 5th Aug. 1923),
daugh. of Thomas Ritchie and Catherine
Anderson, and has issue — James Anderson
Pitcairn and Thomas Hatch Pitcairn (twins),
born 26th Dec. 1915 : (2) 5th Oct. 1927,
Rosamond Annie, M.A., daugh. of F. R.
Lumsden, schoolmaster, Newburn, Fife.
HOGARTH, ANDREW PRINGLE
(cf. Vol. V., 170), ord. to Indian chaplaincy
(Bombay) 7th May 1873 ; arrived in India
13th Aug. that year ; chaplain at Karachi ;
promoted senior chaplain 12th Oct. 1878
(while on furlough) and retired soon after
wards ; adm. min. of Moonzie 15th July
1881.
INGRAM, JAMES WILLIAM, born
Glasgow, 10th April 1890, son of Alexander
I. and Elizabeth M'Gill; educated at
Hutcheson's Grammar School and Univ.
of Glasgow; M.A. (1911); B.D. (1914);
licen. by Presb. of Glasgow May 1914 ;
assistant at The Barony, Glasgow; ord.
(assistant there) June 1917 ; adm. to St
David's, Kirkintilloch, llth Oct. 1917 (cf.
Vol. III., 485); app. to Indian chaplaincy
4th June 1919. Marr. llth Oct. 1920,
Edith, daugh. of George Cuthill and
Elizabeth Macadam.
JAMIE, GEORGE HOPE, M.A. ; ord.
to Jhansi, India, 1916 ; res. 1918 ; adm. to
Ladyburn, Greenock, 16th Jan. 1919 (cf.
Vol. III., 201); sometime chaplain R.N. ;
trans, to Craigrownie 31st Aug. 1926.
JAMIESON, ROBERT GEORGE, born
Portobello, 16th July 1874, son of George
Thomas J., D.D., min. of that parish [died
FATHER OF THE CHUKCH OF SCOTLAND 6th
March 1926]; educated at Royal High
School and Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A.
(1894) ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh May
1897 ; assistant at Lochgoilhead May that
year, Coltness, 1897-1900, The Barony,
Glasgow, 1900-3; ord. (by Presb. of Edin
burgh) to Indian chaplaincy 9th July 1903 ;
served in many cantonments in Bengal
Presidency as chaplain of Scots regiments,
St Andrew's Church, Allahabad, 1908-11,
and 1918-19 ; senior chaplain St Andrew's
Church, Calcutta, 26th Oct. 1916 ; Presi
dency senior chaplain (Bombay) Oct. 1922;
adm. min. of Dunkeld 15th Oct. 1926.
Marr. 3rd Sept. 1903, Jean Ainslie Gordon,
daugh. of Andrew Bullock Watson, min. of
Bower, and has issue— George Bryce, born
13th May 1906; Marjorie Hamilton, born
26th Aug. 1908; Robert Ainslie, born 1st
Aug. 1913. Publication— Editor of The
Handbook of the Church of Scotland in
India (Cawnpore 1908, Ajmer 1922).
JANVIER, C. A. N., D.D. ; missionary
of Presbyterian Church of America ; acting
chaplain at Allahabad in 1916.
JOLLIE, JAMES, born Leslie, Fife,
7th April 1844, son of James J. and Helen
Tawse ; educated at High School and
Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of
Edinburgh 13th Feb. 1867; assistant at
Eastwood and at St Cuthbert's, Edinburgh;
ord. to Indian chaplaincy (Madras) 8th
July 1874 ; became senior chaplain ; died
at Madras, 13th July 1889, "respected
as a man, honoured as a Christian minister,
and beloved as a friend." He marr. 10th
March 1880, Jane Steele, daugh. of
Alexander and Jane Smith, and had issue
— James Leslie, in Toronto, Canada, born
20th July 1881 ; Ernest George, banker,
born 3rd Oct. 1883; Margaret Ross,
musician, born 6th July 1885 ; Helen
Tawse, welfare worker, born 20th July
1886.— [Tablet in St Andrew's Church,
Madras ; Indian Monumental Inscriptions
(Madras), iii., 101.]
LANG, JAMES PAISLEY (<-f.
Vol. IV., 323), adm. to Indian chaplaincy
(Madras) 18th Jan. 1875, and served till
1878 ; min. of First Charge, Stirling, 14th
March that year ; (V.D.).
INDIAN CHAPLAINS
575
LAURIE, GEORGE JAMES, D.D. (cf.
Vol. III., 57) ; ord. to junior Indian chap
laincy (Madras) Nov. 1823 ; app. chaplain
in 1830 and served till 1838 ; adm. min. of
Monkton and Prestwick 2nd Nov. 1843.
LAURIE, JOSEPH, D.D. (cf. Vol. V.,
20) ; ord. to Indian chaplaincy (assistant)
10th July 1822 ; app. chaplain at Bombay
in 1833 ; retired 1841 ; adm. to Second
Charge, Culross, 13th Oct. 1843. He had
issue (omitted under Culross)— Robert,
born 26th Sept. 1823; John Joseph, born
16th Jan. 1825 ; Thomas Reid, born 26th
April 1826 ; Frances Margaret Barker, born
29th July 1833, died 5th July 1834.
LEE, ROBERT EWING, M.A., B.D.
(cf. Vol. V., 389) ; formerly min. of Dun ;
app. to Indian chaplaincy (Bombay) and
adm. 23rd Oct. 1913 ; promoted junior
chaplain 23rd Oct. 1916; served with
Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force in 1918 ;
M.C. (1918); senior chaplain Bengal
Presidency. He obtained divorce from his
wife, June 1927.
LILLIE, JAMES, born Ellon, 24th April
1842, son of William L., D.D., min. of
Wick, and brother of David L., min. of
Watten ; educated at Wick Parish School,
Pulteneytown Academy, and Univ. of
Aberdeen; M.A. (1861); licen. by Presb.
of Caithness 8th March 1865 ; assistant at
Lesmahagow and Inverkeithing ; min. of
Castle-Douglas Mission Church, 1866-72 (cf.
Vol. II., 403) ; app. to Indian chaplaincy
(assistant) in 1872 ; senior chaplain at
Bengal 1891; died at sea 31st Aug. that
year. He marr. 16th April 1872, Isabella
Catherine, daugh. of Richard Hewat, Castle-
Douglas, and Jane Johnston, and had issue
—William, M.B., C.M., born 30th Nov.
1873, died 9th Dec. 1909 ; Richard, M.A.,
LL.B, born 10th Feb. 1876 ; Catherine, born
14th Jan. 1882; James, in Canada, born
17th Aug. 1885.
LISTON, WILLIAM ALEXANDER
(cf. Vol. III., 132) ; ord. assistant chaplain
at Madras in 1866 ; retired as senior
chaplain in that Presidency same year;
adm. to Cardonald 17th Feb. 1889.
M'CAUL, MATTHEW WILSON, born
Londonderry, Ireland, 20th Nov. 1882, son
of George Barton M. and Mary Woodburn
Wilson ; educated at Foyle College,
Londonderry, and Univ. of Dublin ; B.A.
(1905) ; licen. by Presb. of Londonderry in
1909 ; assistant at Oatlands, Glasgow ;
ord. at Glasgow 9th June 1914; gazetted
to Indian chaplaincy 30th Sept. that year.
Marr. 7th Nov. 1921, a daugh. of W. J.
Crawford, and has issue — Eleanor Crawford,
born 6th Dec. 1922.
MACDONALD, DONALD, born Killen,
Avoch, 22nd Sept. 1891, son of John M. and
Janet Grigor; educated at Fortrose Academy
and Univ. of Aberdeen ; M.A. (1913) ; B.D.
(1920) ; licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen 29th
Aug. 1916; served in European War, 1916-18;
assistant at St Ninian's, Stirling, 1919-21 ;
ord. to Coltness 21st April 1921 ; app. to
Indian chaplaincy 17th Dec. 1924; pro
bationary chaplain to Cameronians at
Quetta in 1927. Marr. llth April 1922,
Edith, daugh. of George Bisset and Anne
Robb, Aberdeen.
MACEDWARD, LACHLAN, born Insh,
Kingussie, 25th April 1891 ; educated at
Insh and Kingussie Schools and Univ. of
Edinburgh; M.A. (1915); licen. by Presb.
of Edinburgh in 1920; assistant at Tyne-
castle and Selkirk ; app. to Indian chap
laincy (on probation) and ord. (by Presb.
of Edinburgh) 17th Dec. 1925.
MACFARLANE, ANDREW, born
Urray, Ross-shire, 28th Oct. 1875, son of
John Adam M., min. of that parish ; edu
cated at Univ. of Glasgow; M.A. (1897),
B.D. (1900); licen. by Presb. of Dingwall
May 1900; assistant at Carrick Castle,
Lochgoilhead, Largs, St Mungo's, Glasgow;
ord. (by Presb. of Glasgow) to Indian
chaplaincy Sept. 1902; senior chaplain to
Forces in Mesopotamia(at Baghdad) 191 7-1 8,
Alexandria, Egypt, 1919; D.S.O. (1919)
and four times mentioned in despatches ;
senior Presidency chaplain Bengal 1922 ;
retired 1925; D.D. (Glasgow 1925); locum
tenens at Jedburgh, 1925-6. Marr. 21st
Feb. 1922, May, younger daugh. of James
Pendleton, Sydney, New South Wales.
576
INDIAN CHAPLAINS
M'FARLANE, JAMES EUTHVEN,
born Crathie, 8th March 1819, son of
Alexander M., min. of that parish ; educated
at Grammar School and King's College,
Aberdeen; M.A. (March 1833); licen. by
Presb. of Kincardine O'Neil ; app. to
Indian chaplaincy (Madras) 26th March
1849; senior chaplain in 1866; died 6th
March that year. He marr. 29th April
1858, Laura Chase (born 2nd Dec. 1835,
died llth Dec. 1905), and had issue —
Georgiana, born 15th Sept. 1860, died 10th
Oct. 1923 ; Ruthven, born 12th May 1862 ;
Aylmer Alexander, born 26th Jan. 1864;
Morgan Chase (posthumous) born 9th May
1866.
MACKAY, JAMES HUTTON, born
Durris, Kincardineshire, 16th July 1851,
son of Joseph M. and Margaret Hutton;
educated at Glasgow Highland Society's
School and Univs. of Glasgow, M.A. (1874),
St Andrews and Edinburgh; licen. by Presb.
of Dunblane in 1876; assistant at Greyfriars,
Dumfries ; ord. to Indian chaplaincy (Bom-
bay)Sept, 1878; retired 1901; min.atMiddel-
burg and Flushing, Holland, 1902-8. Marr.
24th May 1897, Caroline Noble, daugh. of
Colonel Luxmoore and Virginia Dobbie,
and has issue— Angus, lieut. R.F.A., min.
of Whalsay, born 10th May 1898; James
Noble, Indian Army, Bombay, born 18th
Jan. 1900 ; Coryadon Luxmoore, Indian
Army, Bombay, born 27th Feb. 1901 ; John
Henry, born 1st July 1902; Caroline
Margaret, born 7th Oct. 1903; Virginia
Dobbie, born 21st Nov. 1905 ; Joseph
Hutton, born 21st May 1908 ; Anne Allan,
born 30th March 1912, died in infancy.
Publications — Religious Thought in
Holland during the Nineteenth Century
(London, 1911). Contributions to Revieiu
of Theology and Philosophy [from 1908].
MACKENZIE, DONALD FRANCIS,
born Edinburgh, 31st March 1885, son of
John M. and Margaret Ann Booth; edu
cated at Sciennes School and Univ. of
Edinburgh ; M.A. (1911) ; licen. by Presb.
of Edinburgh 20th May 1915; served in
R.F.A., 1915-19 ; ord. (by Presb. of Edin
burgh) to Indian chaplaincy 4th June 1919.
MACKENZIE, KENNETH, M.A. ;
assistant at Hamilton ; ord. to Indian chap
laincy 1928.
MACKENZIE, W. A., ord. chaplain at
Cawnpore (Colonial Committee) 6th Sept.
1903 ; app. to Bangalore in 1906 ; died 6th
March 1907.
M'LEAN, LAUCHLAN, born Crieff,
18th Feb. 1886, son of James M. and
Janet M'Glashan ; educated at Morrison's
Academy, Crieff, and Univ. of Edinburgh ;
M.A. (1908), B.D. (1911); licen. by Presb.
of Auchterarder 16th May 1911 ; assistant
at St Michael's, Edinburgh, May 1911 to
Jan. 1914; ord. missionary to the Dooars,
India, llth Jan. 1914 ; app. to Indian chap
laincy 28th Feb. 1921.
M'LELLAN, DUNCAN TAIT
HUTCHISON, born Brechin, 29th Nov.
1893, youngest son of Robert M., Garnock
House, Brechin, and Janet Roy Crawford ;
educated at Brechin High School and
Univ. of Aberdeen, M.A. (1916) ; mobilised
as Territorial 4th Aug. 1914 ; served as
private 4th Gordon Highlanders, France,
Feb. to Sept. 1915 ; wounded 2nd June and
25th Sept. 1915; 2nd lieut. 5th Seaforth
Highlanders 25th Jan. 1917; lieut. 2nd
Battalion King's African Rifles March 1917,
East Africa March 1917 to June 1918;
discharged through wounds March 1919;
returned to Univ. to complete divinity
course ; licen. by Presb. of Brechin 29th
June 1920 ; ord. (by Presb. of Brechin) 18th
July 1920; Professor of History, Scottish
Churches' College, Calcutta ; app. to Indian
chaplaincy llth Feb. 1922; civil chaplain
at Poona llth Feb. to 7th March that year ;
junior chaplain at St Andrew's Church,
Bombay, 7th March same year. Marr. llth
Dec. 1923, Mary, younger daugh. of Ernest
Howard, Alexandria.
M'NEILL, JOHN HENRY HORTON,
born Strathbungo, Glasgow, 12th Dec.
1872, son of Alexander M. and Elizabeth
Stevenson Campbell ; educated at Hutche-
son's and High Schools, Glasgow, Madras
College, St Andrews, Univs. of Glasgow,
M.A. (1891), B.D. (Black Fellow 1896), and
Jena ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 4th Nov.
INDIAN CHAPLAINS
577
1896; assistant at St Andrew's Church,
Buenos Aires, 1897-1900 ; ord. (by Presb.
of Glasgow) 16th Sept. 1900 ; assistant at
St Andrew's Church, Calcutta, 1900-2 ;
app. chaplain on Indian Ecclesiastical
Establishment in 1902 ; attached to the
Cameronians that year, the 1st Koyal
Scots Fusiliers 1905, 1st Seaforth High
landers 1906; on active service, Zakkha
Khal and Mohmand Expeditions, 1908 ;
France 1914-15 (1914 Star); wounded 29th
Oct. 1914; Mesopotamia 1916-17; mentioned
in despatches 29th Oct. 1916 and 2nd Nov.
1917; awarded M.B.E. ; officiating Presi
dency senior chaplain, Madras, Nov. 1919 ;
retired 1923 ; officiated at Geneva 1923-4 ;
locum tenens at Second Charge, Brechin,
1925 ; adm. to Gargunnock 12th May 1927.
Marr. 29th June 1911, Lilian Sophie,
daugh. of Ronald Currie, M.D., and has
issue — Lillian Evelyn, born 18th Aug. 1912.
Publication — Orders for Use at Parade
Services, Church of Scotland (Calcutta,
1905, Poona, 1923).
M'OMICK, ROBERT, B.D., of Wilson
College, Bombay; temporary Indian chap
lain 1916 to 1918.
MACPHERSON, DUNCAN, born Fort
George, Ardersier, 17th May 1837, son of
Robert M., D.D., Professor of Divinity,
Univ. of Aberdeen ; educated at Forres
Grammar School and King's College, Aber
deen ; M.A. (March 1855) ; licen. by Presb.
of Aberdeen in 1859 ; assistant at Duffus ;
ord. (by Presb. of Edinburgh) to Indian
chaplaincy Dec. 1859; D.D. (Aberdeen 1880);
senior chaplain at Bombay in 1881 ; died
unmarr. (of cholera caught in the native
city while searching out the waifs and
strays of European and Eurasian descent)
6th Aug. 1881. "His death brought grief
to every heart." — [Tablet in St Andrew's
Church, Bombay.]
MACPHERSON, GEORGE COOK,
born Newton-upon-Ayr, llth March 1880,
son of Robert M., D.D., min. of Elgin ;
educated at Elgin Academy and Univ. of
Aberdeen; M.A. (1900), B.D. (1904); licen.
by Presb. of Elgin 6th May 1904 ; assistant
at West Church, Aberdeen ; ord. (by Presb.
of Elgin) to Indian chaplaincy 17th Aug.
VOL. VII.
1904; served in Afghanistan War 1919;
mentioned in despatches ; O.B.E. (3rd June
1919); promoted Presidency senior chaplain,
and senior chaplain, St Andrew's Church,
Madras, 25th Sept. 1920. Publications—
Jamie, by his Chum (Dinapore, 1906) ; On
Leave and Very Cold (Ajmere, 1917).
MANSON, GEORGE WRIGHT, born
Edinburgh, 16th June 1845, son of George
M. and Janet Steele Reid; educated at
High School and Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A.
(1867), B.D. (1869); licen. by Presb. of
Edinburgh 15th July 1868; assistant at
St Cuthbert's, Edinburgh ; ord. to Indian
chaplaincy (Bengal) 21st July 1870 ; served
in the Afghan War, took part in march to
Kabul under Lord Roberts, and was present
at the Battle of Kandahar (despatches,
medals) ; retired in 1893 ; died unmarr.
at Edinburgh, 9th Oct. 1915. He presented
a spire for the new Dean Parish Church,
Edinburgh (in memory of his old minister,
James Veitch, D.D., St Cuthbert's), along
with a pulpit and elders' pews.
MAR WICK, WILLIAM, born Edinburgh,
2nd Oct. 1863, son of William M., S.S.C.,
and Margaret Corsar ; educated at Arbroath
High School, Univ. of Edinburgh, and U.P.
Theological Hall ; licen. by U.P. Presb. of
Arbroath Sept. 1887; assistant at Lossie-
mouth U.P. Church 1887-8, at Ward Con
gregational Chapel, Dundee, Oct. 1890-1
[ord. assistant there llth Dec. 1890];
missionary of U.P. Church, Old Calabar,
West Africa, 1892-1900; missionary of
U.F. Church, St Andrew's, Falmouth,
Jamaica, 1901-11 ; acting Colonial chaplain,
Church of Scotland, Meerut, India, Oct.
1914 to 31st March 1916, and returned to
Edinburgh. Founded the Ruskin Reading
Guild in 1887. Marr. 5th Dec. 1893,
Elizabeth Jane Hutton, missionary, Old
Calabar, and has issue— William Hutton,
M.A., born 16th Oct. 1894; Margaret
Isabella Hutton, born llth May 1896 (marr.
H. A. Bignold, B.Sc., Alberta, Canada);
George Hall, born 31st Dec. 1899 ; James
David, banker, born 6th July 1901 ; Ger
trude Mary, born 12th Aug. 1903, died 19th
Aug. 1904 ; Mabel Elizabeth Corsar, Minis
try of Labour, Edinburgh, born 6th June
1905. Publications— William and Louisa
2 O
578
INDIAN CHAPLAINS
Anderson of Jamaica, and Old Calabar \
(Edinburgh, 1897) ; Editor of Buskin head
ing Guild Journal and of Saint Andrew
(Church of Scotland, India), 1914-15.
MATTHEW, JOHN CKOMBIE, born
St Martin's, Perthshire, 6th July 1865;
educated at Academy and Univ. of Edin
burgh, M.A. (1886), B.D. (1889), Marburg,
Strasburg, and Berlin ; Keen, by Presb. of
Perth in 1891 ; assistant at Billhead,
Glasgow, 1891-5, and Queen's Park, Glas
gow, 1896-7; app. to Indian chaplaincy llth
Dec. 1897 ; ord. by (Presb. of Edinburgh)
21st Nov. that year ; senior Presidency
chaplain 1917; retired 1st July 1921. Marr.
17th July 1899, Mina Annie Graham Holmes
(born 15th Dec. 1869), and has issue—
Isobel Milicent, born 25th April 1900 (marr
20th June 1925, Major A. Dickson Stirling,
D.S.O., R.A.M.C.); Margaret, born 19th
May 1904, died 19th June 1906; John
Miller, born 28th April 1907. Publication
— The Story of St Andrew's Church,
Bombay (Bombay, 1913).
MEIKLEJOHN, WILLIAM HOPE,
born 5th Aug. 1811, son of Hugh M., D.D.,
min. of Abercorn ; educated at Univ. of
Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of Linlithgow ;
app. to Indian chaplaincy (Calcutta) in
1836; ord. 18th Jan. 1837; D.D. (Edin
burgh, 9th April 1849); died 14th Dec.
1850. He marr. 1840, Margaret Skene,
seventh daugh. of John Campbell of Kin-
loch, Perthshire, and had issue — Hugh
Charles, born 25th Dec. 1842, died in
infancy ; Patricia Maria Campbell, born
28th Jan. 1844, died in infancy ; Major-
General Sir William Hope, K.C.B., C.M.G.,
distinguished Indian officer, born 26th June
1845, died 1st May 1909; David Ogilvy
(assumed the name of Campbell Meikle-
john), I.C.S., barrister-at-law, born 14th
July 1847.
MELDEUM, NEIL, M.A., B.D. (cf.
Vol. IV., 213); ord. Colonial chaplain
at Meerut, India, 12th Sept. 1909; app.
junior chaplain, Ecclesiastical Establish
ment (Madras) April 1911; adm. toForteviot
19th April 1917; trans, to St George's-
in-the-West, Aberdeen, 3rd June 1925;
Ph.D. (Edinburgh 1924) [Thesis — "The
Proceedings of the General Assembly held at
Glasgow 1638"]. Publication— Forteviot :
The History of a Strathearn Parish
(Paisley, 1926.)— [Forteviot, 91.]
MIDDLETON, WILLIAM, born Mid
Strath, Birse, Aberdeenshire, 26th Jan.
1832, son of John M., farmer, and Mary
Harper ; educated at Birse School, Grammar
School, and Marischal College, Aberdeen ;
M.A. (1851); app. teacher to Windlesham
School, Bagshot, Surrey, 1851 ; missionary
at East Parish, Aberdeen, 1855; school
master at Cluny in 1856 ; licen. by Presb.
of Kincardine O'Neil 2nd Aug. 1859 ; app.
to Roslin Chapel-of-Ease in 1860 ; app.
chaplain on Indian Establishment 1861 ;
ord. (by Presb. of Edinburgh) 9th May
1861 ; stationed at Bombay 1861-3, Karachi
1863-71, where he built a church; died
at Hyderabad, Sind, 22nd Nov. 1871. He
marr. 16th July 1861, Jessie (died 20th
Nov. 1899, aged 68), daugh. of James
Middleton, tallow-chandler, Aberdeen, and
Jessie Strachan, and had issue — William
Robert Colvin, M.A., M.D., D.P.H., medical
officer of health, Singapore, born 3rd Aug.
1863, died at Bexhill 8th Dec. 1921 ; John
Connon, banker, British Vice-Consul at
Monterey, Mexico (1893-7), born 23rd Feb.
1865, died at New York 8th Sept. 1918 ;
Alice Mary, secretary, Overseas Nursing
Association, London, born 1867, died 30th
Oct. 1920 ; Charles James, born 1868, died
at Totness 1st Jan. 1916.
MITCHELL, JAMES DONALD, born
Ceylon, 17th Aug. 1875, son of James M.
and Normanna Reid ; educated at Raining's
School, Inverness, High School and Univ.
of Glasgow; M.A. (1896), B.D. (1899);
licen. by Presb. of Dingwall May 1899;
assistant at Reay May to Oct. that year,
Bellahouston Oct. 1899 to June 1901,
Shettleston June 1901 to Oct. 1903, St
Columba's, London, Oct. 1903 to March
1904 ; ord. to Scots Church, Gillingham,
Kent, March 1904 ; app. chaplain at Mhow,
India (under Colonial Committee), Feb. 1906;
Presidency senior chaplain and senior chap
lain, St Andrew's Church, Bombay, 1925.
Marr. 28th Jan. 1908, Constance Maria,
daugh. of Robert Edward and Alice Inman,
INDIAN CHAPLAINS
579
and lias issue — James Edward Constantino,
born 29th Oct. 1908 ; Joan Edith, born 4th
Dec. 1914 ; Irene Normanna, born 5th Oct.
1920, died 10th April 1922.
MORRISON, JOHN DUNCAN, born
29th June 1848; educated at Univ. of
Glasgow ; M.A. (1872) ; licen. by Presb. of
Glasgow ; sometime a teacher in India,
Hong Kong, Chefoo, Yokohama, England
and Transvaal ; app. to Indian chaplaincy
(Madras) 30th June 1881 ; ord. that year ;
died 22nd Jan. 1885, "a devoted and much
esteemed minister.1' He marr. 9th Aug.
1878, Margaret Wylie Vallance (born 29th
Nov. 1853), and had issue— Robert Leech-
man, born llth Dec. 1880; Helen, born
12th and died 28th Feb. 1882; John
Duncan, born 24th April 1884.— [Indian
Monumental Inscriptions (Madras), iii., 102;
Tombst. in St Andrew's Cemetery, Madras.]
NELSON, ALLAN MANSON, born
13th March 1873, son of Gilbert N. and
Mary Manson ; educated at Hutcheson's
Grammar School and Univ. of Glasgow ;
licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 6th May 1 896 ;
assistant at Saddell (Kintyre), Muirkirk,
and St Michael's, Dumfries; ord. (by
Presb. of Dumfries) to Cawnpore, India,
17th Feb. 1901 (under Colonial Committee);
trans, to chaplaincy on Indian Ecclesiastical
Establishment 18th Nov. 1903; senior
chaplain 24th March 1914; served with
Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force 1916;
Presidency senior chaplain, Bombay, and
senior chaplain, St Andrew's Church, Bom
bay, July 1921 ; retired March 1924; adm.
min. of Tundergarth 19th Sept. that year.
Marr. 30th April 1914, Agnes Mary,daugh. of
Alexander Reid Saunders, min. of Lerwick.
OGILVIE, JAMES NICOLL, M.A,
D.D. (cf. Vol. I., 36); assistant at West
Parish, Aberdeen, 1884-5; ord. (by Presb.
of Edinburgh) 21st April 1885; app. to
Indian chaplaincy at Madras 8th June
that year ; Presidency senior chaplain 23rd
Sept. 1904; retired that year; adm. min.
of New Grey friars 26th Sept. 1905 ; Baird
Lecturer 1915; elected Moderator of the
General Assembly 21st May 1918; dem.
1919; Commissioner of the Church of
Scotland to African Mission Fields in 1920,
and to Indian Mission Fields Sept. 1921 to
March 1922; Vice- President of Alliance of
Reformed Churches holding the Presby
terian System, 1921-5, President 1926; Duff
missionary lecturer 1923; elected depute
clerk of the Church of Scotland 1st June
1926; died suddenly at Colinton, on the
closing day of Assembly 9th June that year.
After his retiral from India, missionary
enterprise became the supreme passion of
his life, and all his rich gifts of heart and
mind he gave to it unstintedly. By his
valuable contributions to the literature
of the subject, and his great series of
addresses to the General Assembly, he
deepened in a remarkable degree the in
terest of the Church in Christian Missions,
and provided an inspiration to all who heard
him. He was pre-eminently a missionary
statesman, and a singularly beloved figure
in the Church of Scotland. Publications
(additional)— The Open Window [Farewell
Sermon] (Madras, 1904); The Apostles of
India [Baird Lecture] (London, 1915);
The Church and the Empire [Assembly
Closing Address] (Edinburgh, 1918); Afric's
Sunny Fountains (Edinburgh, 1921); An
Indian Pilgrimage (Edinburgh, 1922); Our
Empire's Debt to Missions [Duff Lecture]
(London, 1924); The Presbyterian Churches
of Christendom, new revised edition
(London, 1925).
PATON, JOHN (cf. Vol. II., 268) ; ord.
a military chaplain 8th April 1859 ; served
in India with the 72nd Regiment till 1865 ;
chaplain on the Ecclesiastical Establish
ment (Bombay) 27th May 1865-74 ; adm.
to St Michael's, Dumfries, 17th Sept. 1874.
PHILIP, JAMES GIBSON, born Glen
garry, Inverness-shire, son of James P. ;
educated at Glengarry School and Univs.
of Aberdeen and Edinburgh ; M.A. (1914) ;
licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh in 1897; assist
ant at Trinity Parish, Edinburgh, 1897-8 ;
ord. (by Presb. of Edinburgh) to Indian
chaplaincy llth Sept. 1898; Presidency
senior chaplain at Madras in 1914 ; served at
Bangalore during War ; retired Nov. 1921.
Marr. 26th Nov. 1908, Bertha Constance,
daugh. of Lionel Steele Dixon, Churchlands,
Bebbington, Cheshire.
580
INDIAN CHAPLAINS
PRESTON, BERRY, M.A., B.D., chap
lain to Jute Mills and Steamers, Calcutta,
1911-12 [afterwards min. of Riccarton] (cf.
Vol. III., 65) ; trans, to Peebles 24th March
1926.
REID, JAMES POTTER, born Johns-
haven, 8th July 1885, son of George R.
and Helen M'Culloch ; educated at Leith
Academy and Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A.
(1907) ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh May
1911 ; assistant at Buccleuch Parish and
West St Giles', Edinburgh ; ord. missionary
to Darjeeling, India, llth Oct. 1914; app.
to Indian chaplaincy (Bengal) 1st Jan. 1923.
RENNIE, JOHN YULE, born Monikie,
10th Dec. 1892, son of William R. and
Helen Henderson ; educated at Montrose
Academy and Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A.
(1915), B.D. (1920), B.Litt. (1920); served
as air mechanic with R.F.C. 2nd March
1916 to 28th Feb. 1919 ; licen. by Presb.
of Fordoun Aug. 1919 ; ord. (by Presb. of
Edinburgh) to Indian chaplaincy 18th July,
and posted to Karachi 9th Dec. 1920. Marr.
8th Oct. 1922, Janet M'Queen, daugh. of
Thomas Johnston and Margaret M'Queen.
ROBERTS, JAMES, educated at Univ.
of St Andrews; ind. (by Presb. of Edin
burgh) Indian chaplain llth June 1867 ;
retired 1869; died at St Andrews, 26th
April 1871.
ROSS, MALCOLM MUNRO, born
Bridge of Allan, 1828, son of Alexander
R. and Agnes Neilson ; educated at Univ.
of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of Garioch
May 1852 ; assistant at Earlston [to David
William Gordon] ; ord. to Woodside, Aber
deen, 1854 ; app. to Indian chaplaincy in
1859 ; died at Manse of Glass, 24th April
1904. He marr. Sept. 1854, Eliza (died
s.p.~), daugh. of Duncan Mearns, D.D.
Professor of Divinity, Univ. of Aberdeen.
RUTLEDGE, JAMES WILLIAM REN
WICK, born Simla, 26th Aug. 1896, son of
Thomas Charles R. and Helen Tweedie Ren
wick, educated at Hutcheson's Grammar
and Queen's Park Schools, and Univ. oJ
Glasgow ; M.A. (1920) ; licen. by Presb. o;
Glasgow 30th April 1924; ord. to Kirk
michael, Perthshire, 28th Jan. 1925; adm
o Indian chaplaincy 15th Dec. 1927. Marr.
7th Feb. 1925, Elizabeth Brown, daugh. of
Ralston B. Hovell, M. J. S., and has issue —
Thomas Charles, born 1st April 1927.
SCOTT, THOMAS, born Old Machar,
27th Jan. 1853, son of Alexander S. ; edu
cated at Grammar School and Univ. of
Aberdeen; M.A. (1872); licen. by Presb.
of Aberdeen 6th July 1875 ; assistant at
Elchies 1875-8, Cullen 1878-9, Coupar-
Angus 1879-81, and Holburn (Ruthrieston)
1881 ; ord. (by Presb. of Aberdeen) chaplain
at Mhow, India, that year, Rawal Pindi
1888 ; app. to Indian chaplaincy, Bengal
Establishment, 1889; served in Chitral
Relief Expedition (despatches) 1895 ; Presi
dency senior chaplain and senior chaplain,
Calcutta, 1900; retired 1907.
SHAW, JAMES, born Dublin, 12th July
1845 (of Scots descent), son of James S. and
Elizabeth Cranwill; was five years a soldier;
served in Abyssinia, and "purchased" himself
out of the army in 1868 ; studied theology
at Bombay and ord. (by Presb. of Lahore)
under American Board of Foreign Missions
in 1872 ; transferred (at request of Colonial
Committee) to Quetta Nov. 1888 ; adm. a
min. of the Church of Scotland by the
General Assembly of 1897, and served till
1920. He was called up for chaplaincy
service (at the age of 73) during the last
seven months of European War and de
mobilised 15th Feb. 1919. Marr. 21st Dec.
1869, Mary Agnes (born 23rd Oct. 1852),
daugh. of Alexander Lester, and has issue
—Kathleen, born 17th Dec. 1870 (marr.
3rd June 1903, G. Frost, O.B.E., Controller
Military Dairy Farms); William Lester,
superintendent of police, Baluchistan, born
29th Jan. 1873 ; Fanny, born 2nd Sept. 1874
(marr. in Kashmere) ; John Clark, assistant
superintendent of police, Baluchistan, born
10th Dec. 1875 ; a daugh., born 4th April
1877, died soon after; Henry Cranwill, in
Australia, born 29th Sept. 1878; Julian
Arthur, Finance Department, India Govern
ment, born 7th Aug. 1880; Alexander
Lester, surgeon - dentist, born 4th Aug.
1882 ; Grace Minnie, born 17th March
1884 (marr. 19th Oct. 1910, E. G. Whittick,
merchant, Bombay); Helen Agnes, born 9th
INDIAN CHAPLAINS
581
Dec. 1888 (marr. 28th Dec. 1910, Dr Arthur
Campbell). Publication— .4 Chapter in the
Life of a Soldier (Karachi, n.d.).
SHORT, GEORGE MURRAY DAVID
SON, M.A. ; formerly min. of Benholme
(cf. Vol. V., 456) ; app. to Indian chaplaincy
(Madras probationary) in 1924 ; posted to
Royal Scots at Aden 1926 ; junior chaplain
at Bangalore 1927. He had further issue-
George Murray, born 15th Aug. 1922.
STEVENSON, JOHN, D.D. (cf. Vol. II.,
55); missionary in Bombay ; adm. to junior
chaplaincy (Bombay) 30th April 1834;
senior chaplain, 1841-54 ; adm. to Ladykirk
5th July 1855.
STEVENSON, ROBERT HORNE, born
London, 12th June 1860, son of Joseph S.,
merchant, Glasgow and Australia, and
Jane Kirkwood ; educated at E.G. Normal
School and Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A. (1884);
licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 9th June 1886 ;
assistant at Strachur and St Stephen's,
Glasgow, 1886-9; ord. (by Presb. of Glasgow)
Indian chaplain 13th Oct. 1889 ; retired
1911 ; died at Dollar, 25th Jan. 1926. His
work was mainly at civil stations in the
Madras Presidency. In 1898 he took part
in the Tirah Campaign (medal with clasp
and mentioned in despatches). He marr.
18th May 1909, a daugh. of Thomas and
Clara Angus, and had issue— Francis Home,
born 5th April 1910.
STILL, ALEXANDER, born Peterhead,
17th Jan. 1865, son of Peter S., rector of
Peterhead Academy, and Joan Murray ;
educated at George Watson's School and
Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (1886), B.D.
(1888) ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 21st
May 1888; assistant at West Coates,
Edinburgh; ord. to Indian chaplaincy
(Allahabad) 24th March 1891; died 30th
May 1892. He marr. 5th Feb. 1891,
Christian Anne (s.p.\ daugh. of David
Greig, F.R.C.S.E.
TAYLOR, JOHN, born Kirkton Farm,
Culross, 17th Aug. 1846, son of David T.
and Janet Gibson ; educated at Bathgate
Parish School and Univs. of Edinburgh
and Glasgow M.A. (1876), B.D. (1879); licen.
by Presb. of Glasgow in 1879 ; assistant at
Lamlash, Arran ; ord. to Indian chaplaincy
in 1880 ; retired as Presidency senior chap
lain for Bengal in 1900 ; acting military
and naval chaplain at Dover, 1903-12 ;
during European War, locum tenens at
Balmaghie, Laurieston, and two years at
Kettins. In 1891 he was chaplain to the
Seaforth Highlanders in the Huzara Ex
pedition (medal); died at Dollar, 16th
April 1927. He was an enthusiastic
naturalist. He marr. 1880, Mary Drysdale.
daugh. of Andrew Spittal and Mary Turcan,
and had issue — Mary Turcan, born 7th
May 1881 ; Janet Ann Gibson, born 6th
Oct. 1882 (marr. Hugh Clarke M'Coll, min.
of Kilbirnie) ; Isabella Drysdale, born 21st
Aug. 1886. Publication — Afforestation
(Chambers'* Journal, Feb. 1921).
THOMSON, JOHN MACALISTER,
MA. (cf. Vol. V., 85); app. to Indian
chaplaincy (Calcutta) 22nd June 1859;
served at Meerut, 1863-7 ; min. of St
Andrew's Church, Calcutta, 1867-9 ; adm.
to Burntisland 18th March 1880. His widow
died 8th May 1928.
THOMSON, WILLIAM, M.A. (cf.
Vol. IV., 27); ord. to Indian chaplaincy
(under Colonial Committee) 10th Jan. 1897 ;
app. on Ecclesiastical Establishment 23rd
Sept. 1897 ; served with Tirah Expedition
(medal) 1898 ; retired 1920 ; min. at Toward
Chapel 1st March that year ; app. to naval
chaplaincy, Portsmouth, 1st Nov. 1921.
WALKER, ALEXANDER (cf. Vol. V.,
303), formerly missionary at Madras ; app.
to Indian chaplaincy (Madras) 30th June,
and adm. 28th Sept. 1859 ; afterwards
senior chaplain, and served till 1880 ; adm.
to Rescobie 19th Oct. that year. His
widow died 4th March 1925.
WATSON, ANDREW BULLOCK,
M.A. (cf. Vol. VII., 115); app. to Indian
chaplaincy (Bombay) 1875; retired 1897;
became min. of Bower 22nd Sept. 1898.
WEBSTER, ALEXANDER, born 1788 ;
licen. by Presb. of St Andrews 9th Nov.
1818; app. by Court of Directors H.E.I.C.
3rd, and ord. (by Presb. of Cupar) to
chaplaincy at Madras 9th April 1822 ; died
25th Oct. 1829. He marr. Jessie
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SIMLA— CHINA— PALESTINE
(surname not recorded) (born 1797, died
4th Aug. 1839), and had issue— William,
born 20th May 1821 ; Janet, born 10th
Aug. 1822, died 25th Jan. 1896 ; Alexander,
born 2nd July 1825 ; Robert, born 14th
Feb. 1827 ; Thomas, born 22nd Nov. 1828.
WILLIAMSON, JAMES, M.A. (cf. Vol.
I., 30); ord. to Indian chaplaincy 22nd
June 1859; adm. to Dean Parish, Edin
burgh, 26th June 1879.
WRIGHT, JAMES JOHNSTONS, bom
Dunning, Perthshire, 18th July 1872, son
of Johnstone W. and Margaret Watson ;
educated at Sharp's Institution, Perth,
and Univs. of Glasgow and St Andrews ;
licen. by Presb. of Auchterarder 28th Nov.
1900 ; assistant at Tranent and St George's,
Paisley ; ord. to Indian chaplaincy llth
Feb. 1903; app. to Calcutta 14th April
that year ; Presidency senior chaplain on
Bengal Establishment in 1925; died at
Rawal Pindi 14th April 1928. He marr. 27th
Feb. 1904, Joanna Campbell, daugh. of John
Riddell and Joanna Parker, and has issue —
Rollo Scott, at R.M. College, Sandhurst,
born 10th Dec. 1904 ; Margaret, born 21st
March 1907 ; Joan, born 19th Sept. 1908.
WRIGHT, STEWART (cf. Vol. III.,
229), app. to Indian chaplaincy (Madras)
in 1858, and served till 1865, Bangalore
1865-71 ; adm. to Blantyre, Lanarkshire,
3rd Aug. 1871.
SIMLA
[St Andrew's Church, Simla, formerly known as Union Church, by desire of a
majority of the congregation was taken over by the Colonial Committee of the Church
of Scotland in 1904. Services were conducted by ministers sent temporarily from home
parishes. From 1912 to 1922 the charge was held by James Black, O.B.E., M.A.,
formerly min. of Balfron (cf. Vol. III., 330). After his demission, the practice of
temporary service has been maintained. A new church was built in 1915.]
CHINA
[See under Foreign Missionaries.]
PALESTINE
JERUSALEM.
[On 12th Dec. 1917, when the news was
announced of General Allenby's entry on
the previous day into Jerusalem, Ninian
Hill (infra) proposed in the Presbytery of
Edinburgh that the event should be com
memorated by the erection of a Scottish
Church in the Holy City. The Presbytery,
on his motion, overtured the General
Assembly of 1918, and in conjunction with
the United Free Church, it was resolved,
in 1919, to erect a Church and Hospice.
The foundation-stone was laid by Field-
Marshal Viscount Allenby on 7th May
1927.]
HILL, NINIAN, born Greenock, 27th
Nov. 1861, son of James Ramsay H. and
Mary Jane Ramsay Grieve ; educated at
Hawtrey's School, Slough, and Univs. of
St Andrews, Geneva, and Edinburgh;
ord. an elder of the Church in 1914 ; licen.
by Presb. of Edinburgh 1922 ; assistant at
Greenside and St Cuthbert's, Edinburgh ;
ord. for service in the Scots Church,
Jerusalem, llth Feb. 1923; resident at
Edinburgh in 1928. Publications — The
Story of the Old West Kirk of Greenock
(Greenock, 1898, 2nd ed. 1911); Child and
Statein Scotland (Edinburgh, 1909); Poland
and the Polish Question (London, 1915) ;
The Story of the Scottish Church from the
Earliest Times (Glasgow, 1919)
COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
AUSTRALIA
[New South Wales. — Australia was discovered in the seventeenth century by the
Dutch, who called it New Holland, but they abandoned it as apparently barren and
unprofitable territory. In 1770 it was rediscovered by Captain James Cook, whose ship
the Endeavour anchored at a place to which, from the variety of new and remarkable
plants, he gave the name of Botany Bay, south of the modern city of Sydney. The entire
eastern part of the country Cook took possession of for Great Britain under the designation
of New South Wales. In 1788 colonisation commenced with a shipload of 850 convicts,
accompanied by 257 soldiers, artisans, agricultural labourers, and others, over whom and
the new Colony Captain Arthur Phillip was appointed Governor. In 1809 the first
Presbyterian Church [Ebenezer Church, still extant] was erected on the banks of the
Hawkesbury River, near Portland Head. Services were conducted for a long period by
James Mein, a catechist. No minister was settled in the Colony until 1823, when John
Dunmore Lang, D.D. (infra) became the pioneer of Australian Presbyterianism. In
1832 there was formed the Presbytery of New South Wales. In 1838 Dr Lang, displeased
with an Act passed by his Presbytery during his absence in Scotland, severed his
connection and along with a number of ministers who had just arrived from home, he
instituted the Synod of New South Wales. In 1840 those two bodies reunited to form
the Synod of Australia in connection with the Church of Scotland. But in 1842 Dr Lang
again seceded and organised a second Synod of New South Wales on the principle of
self-support and the withdrawal of all State aid to religion. In 1846 the Synod of
Australia was again divided, over the question of the Scottish Secession of 1843. Of
twenty-two ministers, sixteen adhered to the Church of Scotland, while six went out-
three to form the Free Synod of Eastern Australia, one to found the Free Presbyterian
Church of Australia Felix (afterwards Victoria), and two who stood aloof and declared
for neutrality and entire independence. On 8th Sept. 1865, after a preliminary union
between the Synod of Australia and the body represented by Dr Lang, a Union was
effected between all the foregoing sections which brought into being the Presbyterian
Church of New South Wales, followed by the establishment in 1867 of St Andrew's
Presbyterian College for the training of ministers connected with the Colony, thus
eliminating the necessity for supply from Scotland and Ireland upon which the earlier
Church had been mainly dependent.
Victoria.— The Church of Victoria originated as an outpost of the Church of New
South Wales by settlers who had emigrated from that Colony to Port Phillip (afterwards
Melbourne). James Clow (infra} was the first minister to hold services, in 1837, followed
by James Forbes (infra) and others. On 7th June 1842, the Church of Scotland
Presbytery of Melbourne was erected. In 1846, Forbes resigned his pastorate of the
Scots Church, Melbourne, and set himself to organise the Free Presbyterian Church of
Australia Felix, with a Synod constituted on 9th June 1847. On 18th Jan. 1850, a
Synod of the United Presbyterian Church of Port Phillip came also into existence, brought
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about mainly through the efforts of Andrew Mitchell "Ramsay, a Relief minister from
Hawick, who had arrived in 1847. Between these three bodies (comprising in all fifty-five
ministers) a union was consummated on 7th April 1859 as the Presbyterian Church of
Victoria, the Port Phillip District having been created a separate Colony in 1851, and
named Victoria in honour of the Queen. In Ormond College (named after its chief
benefactor, Francis Ormond) the Church possesses a great Presbyterian institution for
higher education, with a well-equipped Divinity Hall. This Church's Mission among the
South Sea Islanders has been rendered famous by the apostolic labours of John George
Paton, D.D., a native of Torthorwald, Dumfriesshire.
Queensland. — Originally a part of New South Wales, containing the Moreton Bay
penal settlement (1825-42), Queensland became a separate Colony in 1859. Thomas
Mowbray (infra) was the pioneer of Presbyterianism. On 12th Dec. 1849, he began
services at Brisbane, where a church was opened in May 1851. Ministers of various
denominations from Scotland and Ireland followed, and in 1866 the Synod of the
Presbyterian Church of Queensland was organised, passing in 1869 into the General
Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Queensland.
South Australia.— The Colony of South Australia commenced in 1831 through the
efforts of the South Australian Company founded by George Fife Angus. In 1834 it
became a Crown Colony. The first Presbyterian minister to be settled was Ralph
Drummond from the United Associate Synod, who opened a church at Adelaide in 1839.
The Church of Scotland came upon the field in 1841, when Robert Haining (infra) was
settled in Adelaide. Chalmers Church, Adelaide, in connection with the Free Church,
was begun in 1850 by John Gardner, formerly minister at Birkenhead (q.v.). A Presbytery
of the Free Church was constituted in 1854, and the name assumed of the Free Presbyterian
Church of South Australia. On 10th May 1865, a union of all the foregoing churches
brought into operation the Presbyterian Church of South Australia.
West Australia was founded under the name of the Swan River Settlement by a
private Company in 1829. On the failure of the Company it became a Crown Colony and
a penal settlement, but transportation ceased in 1868. Presbyterianism began with
David Shearer, formerly minister at Gateshead, who opened St Andrew's Church, Perth,
in 1878. In 1892 the Presbytery of West Australia was formed in connection with the
Church of Victoria.
Federal Union.— In 1886 the Churches of New South Wales and Victoria, of South
Australia, Queensland, and Tasmania entered into a Federal Union. In 1901, following
the inauguration of its six States into the Commonwealth of Australia, the Federal
Union became an Organised Union by the formation of the Presbyterian Church of
Australia, with a General Assembly which meets every second year at Melbourne and
Sydney alternately.]
ADAM, JAMES, born Coupar-Angus,
1835, son of James A. and Margaret Paton ;
educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A.
(19th April 1856) ; licen. by Presb. of Edin
burgh in 1858 ; ord. by Presb. of Edinburgh
that year ; arrived in New South Wales
5th March 1859 ; min. at Carcoar that year,
at Penrith 1877; Moderator of General
Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of
New South Wales same year; in Tutorial
Institute at Sydney 1881, at Blayney (part
of his original parish of Carcoar) 1885;
res. 1900; died 7th July 1911. He marr.
4th April 1865, Elizabeth, eldest daugh. of
Thomas Spence and Esther Hyde, and had
issue— Thomas Hyde, born 26th July 1866,
died 1921 ; Margaret Paton, born 26th Aug.
1876 (marr. H. R. M. Pigott, grazier) ; two
others died in infancy.
ADAM, MATTHEW, fourth son of
James A., artificer, Renfrewshire ; edu
cated at Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by
Secession Church; min. at Windsor, New
South Wales, 1839-63; died 15th Jan.
1863.
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585
AITKEN, THOMAS, educated at Univ.
of Glasgow ; M.A. ; licentiate of Church
of Scotland ; from 1865 to 1877 he supplied
various Home Mission Stations in New
South Wales ; died about 1879.
ALLAN, JAMES, licentiate of Church
of Scotland ; arrived in New South Wales
1837 ; min. at Paramatta, 1837-43, when he
joined the Church of England.
ANDERSON, GEORGE, ord. at
Alnwick in 1828 ; app. for service in
Australia and arrived in 1837 ; app. to
Muswellbrook, New South Wales, that
year, and appears as min. at Invermein
(Hunter River) in 1839 (maybe the G. A.
who went to St Catherine's, British Guiana,
1844, and died 1845).
ANDERSON, JOHN, min. at Lower
Hawkesbury, New South Wales, 1835-8
(is probably the J. A. who went to Grenada
in 1838).
ARMOUR, JOHN E. ; app. by Colonial
Committee in 1874; min. at Miner's Rest
and CoghilPs Creek, Victoria, 1875-7 ; min.
at Woodend and Carlsruhe 1878-84.
ATCHISON, CUNNINGHAM,
born Ireland ; licen. by Original Secession
Church 12th June 1832 ; ord. to Original
Secession Church, Alyth, 1833; dem. 1837 ;
became licentiate of Church of Scotland ;
arrived in New South Wales 1838 ; min.
at Paramatta 1839 ; min. at Wollongong,
1841-64, at North Sydney, 1864-9 ; died 1870.
BAIRD, DAVID, born Darvel, Ayrshire,
27th July 1855, son of James B. and
Isabella Mair ; educated at Darvel School
and Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of
Irvine July 1881 ; assistant at Largs ;
arrived in New South Wales 30th June
1882; ord. to Hunter 31st Oct. that
year ; min. at Dungog same year, Esk-
bank 1900, Pitt Town 1906, and still in
that charge in 1928. Marr. 8th May
1882, Margaret Shaw, daugh. of Robert
Kennedy and Agnes M'Lean Russell, and
has issue — Agnes Russell, born 16th April
1883 (marr. T. R. Lawrence) ; David Russell,
born 3rd Jan. 1885, died 22nd Feb. 1913 ;
Randolph Wallace, irrigation farmer, born
16th April 1886; Douglas, sheep farmer,
born 25th April 1888 ; Norman, theological
student, born llth July 1891 ; Margaret
Isabella, born 9th Sept. 1893 ; Eric James,
farmer, Queensland, born 28th Dec. 1896 ;
Keith Kennedy, farmer, Queensland, born
21st Sept. 1898 ; Jean Mary, born 30th
Aug. 1900 (marr. W. T. Startin).
BARRIE, WILLIAM DUNLOP, ord.
by Presb. of Hamilton to Richmond, Natal,
18th Sept. 1881 ; received as an ordained
min. of the Church of Scotland by Presb.
of Brisbane 6th March 1888 ; adm. to
Mackay 14th Oct. that year; dem. 31st
Jan. 1895 ; went to New South Wales
and subsequently to Victoria, did not again
hold a pastoral charge ; died in Melbourne.
He marr. and had issue.
BLAIN, ROBERT, born North of Ire
land, 1796, min. at Maitland, New South
Wales, 1839, at Hinton, New South Wales,
1840-70; died 1870.
BOAG, ROBERT, born Ayrshire, 1813,
youngest son of William B., tailor ; edu
cated at Univ. of Glasgow ; student of
theology there, 1847-50; min. at Belford,
Northumberland, 1851-52 ; taught schools
in Glasgow and at Sydney, New South
Wales, where he was colleague min. in
the Scots Church ; adm. a min. of the
Presbyterian Church of Victoria in 1859 ;
LL.D. (U.S.A.); adm. to Hinton, New
South Wales, 26th Sept. 1866; retired
March 1887; died 1891.
BONTHORNE [or BONTHRONE],
JAMES, min. at East Maitland, New
South Wales, 1871-81; died 13th June
1881. [See under Jewish Missionaries.]
BORLAND, WILLIAM, M.A., B.D. ;
formerly min. of Dunbar (cf. Vol. I., 409) ;
adm. to Scots Church, Melbourne, March
1913; D.D. (Edinburgh 1926). Publica
tions — Australia's Testing [Six Sermons]
(Melbourne, 1915) ; joint-editor of Book of
Common Order of the Presbyterian Church
of Australia, pt. ii. (Sydney, 1921) ; editor
of Scots Church Leaflet.
BOYD, DAVID, licen. by Presb. of
Magherafelt, Ireland, 20th July 1852 ;
arrived Dec. that year ; ord. min. at Heidel
berg, Victoria, 2nd June 1853 ; dem. 1869.
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BREWSTER, GEORGE, M.A.; formerly
min. at Wolfendahl, Ceylon (q.v.) ; min.
of Church of Scotland at Albany, West
Australia, 1895-1906 ; Moderator of General
Assembly of West Australia in 1904 ;
returned to Scotland and adm. to Nesting,
Shetland (cf. Vol. VII., 311).
BROTCHIE, JOHN ALEXANDER
RAINY, born Kintore, 22nd Oct. 1849,
son of John B., schoolmaster; educated
at Kintore School and Univ. of Aberdeen ;
M.A. (1870); ord. to Scots Church, Hexham,
Northumberland, 14th July 1881; arrived in
New South Wales 20th Dec. 1883 ; min. at
Tweed 1884-1901, Carcoar 1901-7, Beecroft-
Thornleigh 1907-8 ; died 2nd Sept. 1908.
BROWN, ROBERT BARRY, born
Calcutta, 26th Aug. 1858, son of Robert B.
and Catherine Rebecca Dunnett ; educated
at Bonnington Park Academy, Peebles, and
Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of
Peebles 10th May 1882 ; assistant at
Ballantrae and Crailing; arrived in New
South Wales 6th Dec. 1883 ; adm. min. at
Lachlan 23rd April 1884 ; min. at Cowra,
1884-7. Joined the Church of England in
1887; rector of Wellington 1892; Rural
Dean 1907 ; Archdeacon of Diocese of
Bathurst 1923. Marr. 9th Oct. 1883,
Jessie, daugh. of Robert Temple and Agnes
Dunbar, and has issue — Robert Temple,
banker, born 7th Aug. 1884; William
Alexander, banker, born 21st June 1886;
Catherine Agnes Irene, born 17th March
1889; Charles Barry, banker, born 4th
June 1891 ; Victoria Louise, born 7th Oct.
1893 ; Laura Jessie, born 6th Feb. 1896.
BROWN, THOMAS, educated at Univ.
of Glasgow ; M.A. (1885) ; assistant at St
John's, Glasgow ; assistant Scots Church,
Melbourne.
BURNETT, WILLIAM, M.A., B.D. (cf.
Vol. I., 87); arrived in New South Wales
21st July 1891; min. at Woolloomooloo,
Sydney, 1891-3; returned to Scotland and
adm. to Restalrig Dec. 1904.
CAIRNS, ADAM, D.D., formerly min.
of Cupar, Fife (cf. Vol. V., 145); min.
at Melbourne, and Professor of Divinity
1853-73; died 30th Jan. 1881.
CALDER, JOHN, M.A. (cf. Vol. L, 110)
[where his mother's name should be Reith
not Keith] ; formerly min. of St Leonard's,
Edinburgh ; arrived in New South Wales
llth Nov. 1912; adm. to Cootamundra
17th Dec. that year, Forbes 22nd July
1914, Wagga Wagga 22nd June 1920,
North Sydney, 31st July 1924; clerk of
Presb. of Lachlan (afterwards Orange),
1915-19 ; clerk of Presb. of Wagga Wagga,
1921-3. He has further issue — Joyce
Lumsden M'Lennan, born 26th Jan. 1913.
CAMERON, CHARLES JOHN, B.A. ;
formerly Church of Scotland missionary in
India (q.v.); adm. to St Andrew's, Geelong,
1870; at Daylesford, 1872-5; returned to
Canada in 1875.
CAMERON, JAMES, M.A. ; ord. to
Rosedale and Walhalla, Victoria, 1872;
dem. 1874.
CARTER, JOHN TUNNADEM, arrived
in 1850 ; min. at Manning River, New South
Wales, 1854 ; died 1st Dec. 1858, aged 38.
CLELAND, JOHN, born Lanarkshire,
1794, eldest son of James C. ; educated at
Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A. (1815) ; arrived in
New South Wales 1831 ; min. at Portland
Head and Pitt Town, 1831-9; died llth
March 1839. He marr. and had issue. —
[Tombst. (in Ebenezer graveyard).]
CLOW, JAMES (see under Indian
Chaplains), arrived at Melbourne 25th Dec. i
1837 ; organised the first Presbyterian
Church in the colony. He did not hold
a charge, but during a period of upwards of
twenty-one years gave great assistance to
Melbourne mins. ; adm. an honorary
member of Presb. of Melbourne 4th Jan.
1854 ; elected first Moderator of General
Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of
Victoria 7th April 1859; died 1861.
COLQUHOUN, MALCOLM, born
Luss, 1806, fourth son of John C. ; edu
cated at Univ. of Glasgow, 1818-30 ; min.
at Brisbane Water (Sydney) 1837.
CORRIE, SAMUEL, from Synod of
Ulster ; arrived 20th Jan. 1853 ; app. to I
Prahran and St Kilda (South Melbourne)
6th April following; trans, to Darlington
and Kilnoorat 2nd Dec. 1857.
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COUTTS, JAMES, born Strathgirnock,
1800; educated at Grammar School and
King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (30th
March 1821); licen. by Presb. of Kincardine
O'Neil ; ord. (by that Presb.) to Paramatta
in 1849 ; min. of St Andrew's, Newcastle,
1861-84; died 1884. He left £2000 to
found a Sailors' Home at Newcastle, New
South Wales, and £1000 for a "Coutts
Scholarship " in St Andrew's College, Univ.
of Sydney. He marr. 1848, Elizabeth (died
1850), daugh. of Lieut. Bundock, R.N., and
had issue— a daugh. who died 1850.
CRAIG, THOMAS, arrived in New
South Wales Sept. 1852; adm. min. at
Belfast, Victoria, 20th Oct. that year ; at
Paramatta 1861, Tamworth 1865, Wagga
Wagga 1867, Penrith and Springwood
1870-1, Ipswich, Queensland, 1872-6.
CULLEN, WILLIAM, formerly in Prince
Edward Island (q.v.); adm. to Bright and
Buckland, Victoria, 1865 ; res. 1866.
DANDIE, ALEXANDER, ord. a min.
of Church of Scotland ; was in Warwick,
Queensland, 1877 ; Moderator of Presby
terian Church of Queensland, 1878-9 ; min.
at Carcoar, New South Wales, 1880-2,
Woodburn 1883-8, Temora 1888-95, Tumut
1895-1900, Windsor 1900; died 17th Dec.
1913.
DODS, GEORGE, M.A., B.D. (of. Vol.
III., 18-19); ord. (assistant) to Scots Church,
Melbourne, 1st Feb. 1883. In 1886, on
complaint, his pulpit teaching came under
review of the Presb. as being "vague,
negative, and unsatisfactory " ; declining to
submit his sermons for inspection, he was
found guilty of contumacy and suspended
from the office of the ministry March 1887,
when the congregation agreed to the
appointment of a Commission in Scotland
to fill the vacant charge ; adm. min. of
Barr, Ayrshire, 20th Feb. 1889.— [Hamilton's
Hist, of Presbyterian Church of Victoria,
471 et seq. ; Campbell's Fifty Years of
Presbyterianism in Victoria, 110.]
DODS, GEORGE NISBET (cf. Vol. III.,
171), formerly min. of Greenlaw, Paisley ;
adm. min. of St Andrew's Church, Perth,
West Australia, 1914; Moderator of the
Presbyterian Church of West Australia,
1915-16; Lecturer in Philosophy in Univ.
of West Australia, 1918-21 ; Government
representative on Education Appeal Board
of West Australia, 1920 - 1 ; died 14th
June 1921. He established the Presbyterian
Ladies' College, and St Giles', Mount
Lawley. He had further issue — George
Nisbet, born 29th July 1911.
DOUGALL, JOHN, born Edinburgh,
1824 ; arrived in New South Wales 1853 ;
min. of St Andrew's, Sydney, 1854, East
Maitland 1869-71 ; died 1871.
DOWNEY, JOHN [originally
DOWNIE], M.A., B.D., born Gourock,
2nd Sept. 1855, son of Daniel Downie and
Christina Downie; educated at Sliddery
School, Arran, Ayr Academy, and Univ. of
Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow May
1881 ; assistant at St Columba's, Glasgow ;
min. of Kilcalmonell and Kilberry, 1885-8
(cf. Vol. IV., 59); arrived in Queensland
June 1889; min. of Maida Hill Presbyterian
Church, Albion, Brisbane [now Scots Church,
Clayfield], 1891-4; arrived in New South
Wales 1895 ; min. of Hunter Street Church,
Newcastle, New South Wales, 1895-1902,
Warragul, Victoria, 1902-11, Swan Hill
1911-15, Darlington 1917-21, Connewarre
1924. Marr. 1st Jan. 1891, Jane Elizabeth
(deceased), daugh. of John Handley and
Elizabeth Johnston, and has issue— Chris
tina Jane, born 7th July 1893; Dorothy
Constance, born 19th Dec. 1898 ; Esther
Elizabeth, born 9th Sept. 1901; Alice
Victoria, born 10th Sept. 1903; Charles
James Macdonald, born 24th March 1905 ;
John Bernard, born 25th Feb. 1908.
EIPPER, CHRISTOPHER, min. at
Braid wood, New South Wales, 1845-6,
Paterson, 1848-51.
FORBES, JAMES, born Leochel-Cushnie,
1814; brother of Charles F., Newbraes (same
parish) ; educated at King's College, Aber
deen ; M.A. (March 1836) ; licen. by Presb.
of Garioch ; ord. (by Presb. of Glasgow)
29th June 1837; arrived at Sydney 3rd
Dec. that year, at Melbourne Jan. 1838. He
continued the work begun by James Clow,
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officiating at first in a building occupied
jointly with the Episcopalians ; called 22nd
June 1838 ; adm. min. of the Scots Church,
without formal induction, on account of
the distance from Sydney, the seat of the
Presb. of New South Wales. Founded the
Scots Church in Collins Street, which was
opened Oct. 1841. Joined the Free Church
in 1844, and was thus founder of the Free
Church of Port Phillip, New South Wales
[after 1851 the Free Church of Victoria,
when Port Phillip was erected into an inde
pendent colony under the royal name] ;
min. of John Knox Free Church, Melbourne,
1844-51 [now extinct]; died 12th Aug.
1851. He was one of the ablest mins. the
Church of Scotland sent to Australia, an
attractive preacher and well versed in the
management of ecclesiastical business. He
marr. a daugh. of James Clow, Indian
chaplain, and had issue. Publication — He
founded and edited The Port Phillip
Christian Herald. — [Hamilton's Hist, of
Presbyterian Church of Victoria, 40 ;
Cameron's Hist, of New South Wales
Church, i., 24 ; Sutherland's Presbyterian
Church of Victoria, 11 et seq.]
FORBES, JAMES LAWSON, born
Kincardine O'Neil, 24th Dec. 1853, son of
James F. and Catherine Lawson ; educated
at Inchmarlo and Torphins Schools, and
Univ. of Aberdeen; M.A. (1877), B.D.
(1881); licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen in
1881 ; assistant at St Andrews-Lhanbryd
that year; arrived in New South Wales
13th Jan. 1882 ; adm. min. at Eden 9th Dec.
1885 ; was clerk of Presb. of Monaro from
1890 ; dem. 30th June 1920. He marr.
1st March 1886, Eliza Jane, daugh. of
Robert Murray and Margaret Greer, and
has issue — Margaret Bertha (only child)
(marr. 31st Aug. 1921, David Robertson).
FORSYTE, WALTER GRANT, born
Stirlingshire, 3rd Nov. 1864, son of John F.
and Isabella Grant ; educated at Blackbraes
School and Univ. of Glasgow ; student
missionary at Elder Park Parish, Glasgow,
1895-7 ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow in
1897 ; ord. to Bellevue Church, Brisbane,
April 1898 ; returned to Scotland and was
assistant at New Kilpatrick July to Dec.
1901; adm. to Wilton, Glasgow, 3rd Dec.
that year (cf. Vol. III., 477) ; res. 1909 ;
arrived in New South Wales that year ; min.
of St Andrew's, Newcastle, 1909-15, Stan-
more 1915-20, Paddington 1920-5, Balmain
1925 ; Director of Studies of Home
Missionaries since 1919. Marr. 6th July
1897, Jane Henderson, daugh. of the Rev.
John Wilson, Ph.D., and Jane Henderson,
and has issue— John Wilson Robertson,
B.E. (Sydney 1921), engineer, born 12th
Feb. 1899 ; Walter James, bank clerk, born
5th June 1906.
FOWLIE, JOHN, born New Deer, 1855 ;
educated at Univ. of St Andrews ; mission
ary at Guisachan ; assistant at Walls and
Sandness ; arrived in New South Wales
18th Aug. 1882; min. at Hawkesbury,
Ebenezer, and Pitt Town, 1883-5 ; returned
to Scotland in 1885; went afterwards to
Gairloch, Nova Scotia, and was min. of the
Church of Scotland there (q.v.). Marr. 6th
June 1882, Agnes Mary Catherine, daugh.
of Robert Thomas Charles Scott of Melby,
Shetland, and Agnes Catherine Watson,
and has issue.
FRASER, DONALD, born Invergordon,
Ross-shire, 3rd Feb. 1864, son of Alexander
F. and Isabella M'Dougall; educated at
Inverness Academy and Univ. of Aber
deen ; M.A. (1886); licen. by Presb. of
Inverness in 1889 ; assistant at Ballachulish,
Ardgour, and Lairg ; ord. to Oldham Street
Church, Liverpool, May 1891; res. 1893;
arrived in New South Wales 26th July
1893 ; min. at Newcastle, New South
Wales, 1894-1904; M.B., Ch.M. (Sydney
1909). Marr. 7th Jan. 1897, Agnes, daugh.
of Archibald Hay and Jane Milliken, and
has issue — Isabel Jean, born 15th Dec.
1897 ; Donald Archibald Strong, physician,
born 25th May 1902.
FRASER, WILLIAM, formerly min. of
Kilchrenan and Dalavich (cf. Vol. IV. 93) ;
min. of Bulla Presbyterian Church, Mel
bourne, 1859 ; died 7th Dec. 1872.
FRASER, WILLIAM FORSYTE,
M.A. (Edinburgh 1871); min. at Lismore,
New South Wales, 1877-86, Murrirundi
1886-97 ; died 8th July 1901,
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FULLERTON, JAMES, youngest son
of Archibald F., min. at Aughadoe, Derry ;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; ord. min.
of Benburb, Ireland, 2nd Dec. 1836;
emigrated to Australia in 1837, and became
first min. of Pitt Street Church, Sydney,
New South Wales, 1838 ; LL.D. (Marischal
College, Aberdeen, 27th Sept. 1841); died
1886. Publication— Ten Lectures (Sydney,
1844).
FULLERTON, THOMAS FRASER,
arrived in New South Wales 1885 ; min.
at Junee, Presb. of Wagga Wagga, 1887-9 ;
returned to Scotland in 1889.
GALLOWAY, DAVID, licentiate of the
Church of Scotland ; min. at Avoca and
Bung Bong 1867, Piggoreet 1868-71.
GARVEN, JOHN HILL, born Kil-
marnock, 1800, eldest son of Andrew G.,
soldier ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ;
M.A. (1819) ; Keen, by Original Secession
Presb. of Glasgow 4th March 1823 ; ord. to
Original Secession Congregation, Lanark,
4th May 1831 ; res. 22nd May 1834 ;
arrived in New South Wales that year ;
min. at Maitland 1835, Shoalhaven 1853-61 ;
died 1881. He marr. 1834, Margaret
Brown, and had issue — four sons and eight
daughs. — [Scott's Annals of Original Seces
sion, 395, 496.]
GIBSON, JAMES, assistant at St
Matthew's, Glasgow ; ord. to West Mel
bourne 16th July 1888.
GILCHRIST, HUGH R., arrived in
New South Wales 1837 ; min. at Campbell-
town, 1837-51 ; died Sept. 1852.
GOW, JOHN, born Glasgow, 1803,
fourth son of Benjamin G., merchant ; edu
cated at Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A. (1826) ;
licen. by Presb. of Glasgow ; ord. to Colac
and Woady-Yallock 3rd Nov. 1847 ; trans,
to Smythsdale and Scarsdale,Victoria; died
at Miner's Rest, 18th- June 1866.— [Hamil
ton's Presbyterian Church of Victoria, 35.]
GRAHAME, ANDREW, an ordained
min. of Presbyterian Church of Ireland ;
adm. min. at Kalkallo, Victoria, 4th Jan.
1854 ; trans, to Longwood 2nd Dec. 1857 ;
died there 1869.
GRANT, WILLIAM, M.A., D.D., son of
Hugh G. and Jane Clark ; formerly min. of
Tenandry (cf. Vol. IV., 173) ; arrived in New
South Wales 1853 ; min. at Shoalhaven 25th
May 1854 ; dem. 1891 ; Moderator of New
South Wales General Assembly, 1869 ; died
9th Aug. 1897. He marr. Margaret Drum-
mond Gentle, and had issue — Margaret
Stirling ; Barbara Jane ; Elizabeth Swan ;
Michael Stirling, bank secretary.
GREGOR, JOHN, arrived in New
South Wales 1831; min. at Maitland in
1840. Joined the Church of England in
1841 ; drowned on holiday whilst bathing
at Brisbane.
GUNN, PETER, born Caithness
about 1816, son of John G. ; educated at
Marischal College, Aberdeen ; ord. by Presb.
of Caithness llth Aug. 1841 ; arrived 29th
Feb. 1842 ; app. specially to minister to
Gaelic-speaking colonists ; min. at Mel
bourne 7th June 1842-3, Bulleen 5th Dec.
1843-5, Campbellfield 8th Sept. 1845-64;
died 5th June 1864.— [Hamilton's Presby
terian Church of Victoria, 15, 207.]
HAINING, ROBERT, born Maxton,
Roxburghshire, 14th Aug. 1802, son of
John H., min. of that parish (cf. Vol. II.,
186) [his brothers James, John, and Alex
ander were respectively a captain in the
army, in the Civil Service, and a surgeon] ;
educated at John Watson's Hospital and
Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of
Edinburgh and ord. in 1841 ; sent to
Australia by the Colonial Committee of
the Church and arrived in Adelaide 20th
Nov. that year; did ministerial duty in
and around Adelaide until 1844, when he
founded St Andrew's Church, where he
served till his retiral 2nd May 1871 ; died
at Glenelg, South Australia, 26th April
1874. He was a man of broad sympathies,
of cultured and well-stored mind, genial
temperament and a warm heart.— [South
Australian Register, 27th April 1874.]
HAMILTON, WILLIAM, born
Kilmarnock, 13th March 1807, son of
Andrew H., min. of the High Church
[Addison's Matriculation Albums (10977)
has a wrong identification]; educated at
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Univ. of Glasgow; M.A. (1827); licen. by
Presb. of Irvine in 1830 ; assistant at Dun-
donald 1833, and West Parish, Greenock,
1835-6 ; arrived in New South Wales 1837 ;
min. at Goulburn 1837-47, Kilnoorat,
Victoria, 1847-57, Mortlake, Victoria,
1857-73; died 1879. He marr. Jan. 1840,
a daugh. of the Rev. James Clow, Melbourne,
and had issue— a daugh. (marr. the Rev. S.
Fraser, Victoria); a daugh. (marr. Principal
Begg, Hamilton Academy, Victoria);
Patrick Macfarlane, who went to Scotland
to study for the ministry but died before
completing his course. His father founded
the "Patrick Macfarlane" scholarship in
his memory. Publication — Sermons (1842).
HASTIE, THOMAS, educated at Univ.
of St Andrews ; ord. (by Presb. of Brechin)
in 1842; app. by Colonial Committee for
work in Van Diemen's Land [Tasmania]
1842. Joined the Free Church in 1847;
min. at Buninyong and the Leigh, Victoria ;
died 1898. Publication — A Voice from the
Bush [sermons].
HAY, JOSEPH, adm. to Bright, Victoria,
1874 ; trans, to Elsternwick, Victoria, 1875;
dem. in 1897 ; died 1921.
HETHERINGTON, IRVING, born
Whaite, Ruthwell, Dumfriesshire, 23rd
July 1809, son of Richard Hetherton,
farmer [his children altered the name ; the
father adhered to the original form] and
Louisa Carruthers ; educated at Parish
School, Clarencefield Academy, and Univ.
of Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of Loch-
maben 3rd Aug. 1835 ; app. missionary at
Portobello 20th Sept. 1836; offered for
service in New South Wales (after reading
an appeal by Dr J. D. Lang); app. by
Glasgow Colonial Society and ord. (by
Presb. of Lochmaben) 25th Feb. 1837;
sailed 24th March and arrived 13th July
that year; min. at Patrick's Plains (now
Singleton) 6th Sept. 1837 to 1847 ; called
16th Feb., and adm. to Scots Church,
Melbourne, Victoria, 13th June 1847 ; clerk
of Victorian Assemby, 1860-75 ; elected
Moderator 9th Nov. 1869; died 5th July
1875. He marr. (1) 24th Feb. 1837, Jessie
Dalton Carr, stepdaugh. of the Rev. Coll
Turner, Workington, Cumberland (she died
of fever on the voyage to New South
Wales 12th May 1837) : (2) 1842 Margaret
M'Allister (died 20th Dec. 1870), daugh.
of Captain Charles M'Allister Shannon,
Mount Keira, Wollongong (formerly of
Levenstrath, Argyll), and had issue. —
[Wilson's Memoir (portrait) (Melbourne,
1876) contains account of early Presby-
terianism in the colony ; Turner's Memoir
of Mrs J. D. Hetherington (London, 1838).]
HILL, JOHN F., educated at Univ. of
St Andrews ; ord. to Rushworth in 1865 ;
min. at Meredith, Lethbridge, and Steiglitz,
1868-71.
HOGG, ROBERT, ord. to Horsham,
Victoria, 14th Jan. 1858 ; app. by Colonial
Committee to Ceylon in 1866 (q.v.).
HUNTER, CHARLES HAY, son of
James H., paper merchant, and Anna Hay,
and brother of Peter Hay H., D.D., min. of
St Andrew's, Edinburgh ; born April 1887 ;
assistant at St Giles, Edinburgh ; went to
Australia and adm. to a charge there.
JOHNSTONE, THOMAS, born Garrell,
Dumfriesshire, llth Jan. 1829, son of William
J. and Elizabeth Renwick ; educated at
Garrell School and Univ. of St Andrews ;
licen. by Presb. of Chanonry; ord. for
Australia by said Presb. in 1856 ; arrived
in New South Wales that year; min. at
Armidale, 1857-1903 (afterwards Emeritus) ;
D.D. (St Andrews 1894); died 3rd Feb.
1909. He marr. 5th July 1866, Eliza Jane,
daugh. of Andrew Glass and Ann Lucas,
and had issue — William Herbert, born
24th May 1867, died 8th June 1923;
Thomas Norman, banker, born 8th Feb.
1869 ; Walter Scott, banker, born 23rd
March 1871 ; Elizabeth Renwick, born 27th
May 1873 ; Annie Marion, born 23rd Jan.
1876, died 10th July 1921 ; Mary Elizabeth,
born 28th Feb. 1879 (marr. Sept. 1903,
Alexander Mitchell); John Lorimer Gib
son, solicitor, born 4th March 1881 ; Frank
Glass, banker, born 1st June 1883.
KEITH, GEORGE, M.A. (cf. Vol. VI.,
148); formerly min. of Blairdaff; arrived
in New South Wales 1889 ; min. at Con-
dobolin and Cudgellico, 1892-1916.
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LAHORE, WILLIAM CAMPBELL,
educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; licen.
by Presb. of Edinburgh in 1891 ; went to
Victoria that year ; ord. to Cobram 1892 ;
trans, to Tirana, N.S.W., 18th Sept. 1924.
LANG, JOHN DUNMORE, born
Greenock, 25th Aug. 1799, eldest son of
William L., farmer proprietor, Largs, and
Mary, daugh. of John Dunmore, Largs ;
educated at Largs School and Univ. of
Glasgow, M.A. (llth April 1820); licen.
by Presb. of Irvine 1st June 1820. Greatly
influenced by the appeal of his brother
George, who had emigrated to New South
Wales, he offered himself for service there ;
was ord. by Presb. of Irvine 30th Sept.
1822, and arrived 23rd May 1823, the first
ordained Presbyterian min. to settle in
Australia. He continued to be the ruling
spirit in all movements of the Church
throughout the early stages of its history ;
made repeated journeys home, disseminating
information on the new colony, engaging
licentiates, teachers, mechanics, and others,
and obtaining Government grants in aid of
his emigration schemes, whereby thousands
of persons were enabled to leave for
Australia ; D.D. (Glasgow, 2nd May 1825).
On 6th Nov. 1835 he assisted in constituting
the first Presb. of Van Diemen's Land. On
llth Dec. 1837, having disagreed with his
Presb. on the subject of settlement and
payment of ministers, he and others con
stituted themselves into a separate body —
the Synod of New South Wales— but on
5th Oct. 1840, a reunion was effected as
" the Synod of Australia in connection with
the Established Church of Scotland." In
1839 he advocated the annexation of New
Zealand to the British Crown, on the
ground that these islands had been in
cluded in the Commission of 1787 to Captain
Arthur Phillip, and in Feb. 1840 they were
so annexed. His frequent absences from
his charge of the Scots Church, Sydney, led
to complaint, when he was admonished by
the Presb. Having declared his intention
of adopting the Voluntary System of Church
government he renounced connection with
the Synod, was suspended from the exercise
of the ministry 7th April 1842, and after
wards deposed, the Presb. of Irvine con
firming the sentence, without examining
the case, or giving the accused an oppor
tunity of defence. An appeal to the General
Assembly was dismissed, whereupon he
instituted proceedings in the Court of
Session, which decided that L. had a
right to prosecute on the ground of an
admitted grievance. The Assembly accord
ingly reversed its previous finding, and
directed the Presb. of Irvine to rescind its
decision, and reinstate L. as an ordained
min. of the Church of Scotland. From
July 1843 to 1846 he was a member of the
Legislative Council for the District of
Port Phillip. In 1846 he was in Britain
for the sixth time, returning in 1850 with
a considerable quota of ministers and
students. On 3rd April 1850 he formed
the Synod of New South Wales on the
Voluntary basis. From 1851 to 1869 he
sat in Parliament, in which he was a
constant and successful advocate of reform ;
Moderator of General Assembly, New South
Wales, 1872 ; died at Sydney 8th August
1878, and was buried first in Devonshire
Street Cemetery (now abolished) and after
wards at Rookwood. His statue was
erected in Wynyard Square, Sydney. His
intellectual powers, literary labours, in
domitable energy, self-sacrificing zeal, his
prodigious efforts for the advancement of
the spiritual and material interests of his
adopted country, his moral courage and
fearless denunciation of unrighteousness,
his enlightened statesmanship, and high-
toned character, have given him an
imperishable name in the annals of the
Southern Hemisphere. He marr. 1831, his
cousin Wilhelmina (died 1891), daugh. of
AVilliam Mackie and Mary Lang, and had
issue — George Dunmore, banker, born 30th
Sept. 1832, died 12th Jan. 1875; William,
bank clerk, born 15th Aug. 1835, died 21st
April 1854 ; Andrew, born 3rd Nov. 1838,
died 21st May 1848; Mary, born 22nd
Dec. 1841, died 13th Dec. 1844 ; Isabella,
born 8th Nov. 1843 (marr. 8th June 1875,
P. F. Mackenzie, min. of Hunter Baillie
Memorial Church, Annandale, New South
Wales); Wilhelmina, born 1st Sept. 1845,
died 18th Oct. 1845; John Capehorn, born
6th Aug. 1846, died 7th Aug. 1849 ; Mary,
born 14th April 1849 ; Wilhelmina, born 1st
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July 1851, died 16th Oct. 1852 ; John
Gavin, born 13th Dec. 1860. Publications
— A Sermon [Haggai, i., 14] preparatory to
the Building of a Scots Church in Sydney
[opened 16th July 1826] (1823) ; Account of
Steps taken in England with a Vieiv to the
Establishment of an Academical Institution
in New South Wales (1831); Emigration:
in Reference to settling throughout New
South Wales a Numerous Agricultural
Population (1833) ; An Historical and
Statistical Account of New South Wales, 2
vols. (London, 1834, 1837, 1852, 4th edition
1875); A View of the Origin and Migrations
of the Polynesian Nation (London, 1834,
second ed. 1877); Sermon preached at the
opening of the Scots Church, Hobart Town
(1835); Transportation and Colonisation
(1837); New Zealand in 1839, or Four
Letters to Earl Durham on the Colonisation
of that Island (1839) ; Religion and Educa
tion in America (1840) ; Specimens of an
Improved Metrical Translation of the
Psalms of David (Philadelphia, 1840);
Cooks Land in North- Eastern Australia,
the Future Cotton Field of Great Britain
(London, 1847); Phillipsland,or Port Phillip,
its Condition and Prospects as a Field for
Emigration (London, 1847); Popery in
Australia (1847) ; Repeal or Revolution; or,
a Glimpse of the Irish Future (1848); The
Australian Emigrants' Manual, or a Guide
to the Gold Colonies (1852); Freedom and
Independence for the Golden Lands of
Australia (1852, second ed. 1857); Three
Lectures on Religious Establishments (1856) ;
Queensland, Australia, a highly eligible
Field for Emigration (London, 1861, 1865) ;
The Coming Event, or Freedom and Inde
pendence for the Seven United Provinces of
Australia (London, 1870) ; Historical
Account of the Separation of Victoria from
New South Wales (London, 1870) ; A Brief
Sketch of my Parliamentary Life (1870) ;
Poems, Sacred and Secular (London, 1873) ;
Reminiscences of my Life and Times in
Australia. — [Barton's Poets of New South
Wales (1866), 33-7; Lang's New South
Wales; Heaton's Australian Diet, of
Dates (1879), 111-13; Cameron's Centenary
History of Presbyterian Church in New
South Wales (portrait) i., 3, et seq. ; Tait's
John Dunmore Lang (Sydney, 1923) ; Cen
tenary of John Dunmore Lang (Sydney,
1923) ; Diet. Nat. lliog.]
LAUGHTON, JAMES BROTHER-
STON, born Denton Hall, Cumberland,
1814, son of James L., merchant ; educated
at Univ. of Glasgow ; B.A. (1831) ; certified
from Presb. of Dumfries, and licen. by
Presb. of Sydney in 1849 ; min. at Carcoar
1849-51, Paterson 1851-4, Bathurst 1854-65,
Paramatta 1866-75, Orange 1877-83;
died 1883. He was clerk of the General
Assembly of New South Wales 1865-74,
and Moderator of Assembly 1870. Publi
cation — Christ the Counsellor.
LAURIE, ALEXANDER, born 1802,
third son of James L., farmer, Bothwell;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by
Relief Presb. of Glasgow in 1824 ; preacher
in Stockbridge Relief Chapel, Edinburgh,
1825-8, Glasgow 1828-31. Joined the
Church of Scotland; ord. by Presb. of
Lanark 29th June 1841 ; arrived 8th Feb.
1842 ; min. at Portland July 1842-3, Port
Fairy 30th Oct. 1843 ; dep. 6th July 1848 ;
returned home and was chaplain to Govan
Poorhouse, 1849-74 ; died at Govan, 4th
Sept. 1874.— [Small's Hist, of U.P. Con
gregations, i., 471 ; Hamilton's Presby
terian Church of Victoria, 15.]
LOVE, ANDREW, ord. by Presb. of
Hamilton 9th Sept. 1839 ; arrived at
Melbourne 9th April 1840; adm. to St
Andrew's, Geelong, 16th April that year;
second Moderator of the Presbyterian
Church of Victoria 31st Oct. 1861; died
1867.— [Hamilton's Presbyterian Church of
Victoria, 12, 254.]
LOW, JAMES, app. by Colonial Com
mittee as an ordained min. for mission
work in Victoria 9th Oct. 1851 ; arrived
20th March 1852 ; called to Belfast, Victoria,
but declined acceptance; missionary at
Forest Creek goldfield 7th July 1852 ; adm.
min. at Castlemaine llth May 1853 ; res.
1859 ; min. at Guildford 1860.
M'ANLIS, THOMAS, born Ireland, 1830;
educated at Glasgow Univ. ; B.A. (1847),
M.A. (1848); adm. min. at Tanaville and
Alberton, Victoria, 4th Jan. 1854; adm.
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to Skipton 19th Aug. 1857 ; died from
the effects of a riding accident 7th Jan.
1858.
MACARA, JOHN (c/. Vol. VII., 265) ;
ord. to Springsure, Queensland, 29th Jan.
1866 ; min. at Stanthorpe in 1873 ; returned
to Scotland in 1888 ; adin. to Lady (Orkney),
22nd Sept. 1891.
MACBEAN, JOHN, born Nairn, 1st
April 1811, son of John M. ; educated at
Nairn School and King's College, Aberdeen;
M.A. (30th March 1832); sometime a
private tutor and subsequently a school
master in Scotland and England ; min.
at Tabusintac and Burnt Church, New
Brunswick, 1841-3 ; min. of St Andrew's
Church, Chatham, New Brunswick, 1843-7 ;
returned to Scotland (from ill-health) and
sent by Colonial Committee to South
Australia ; min. at Inverbrackie in 1850 ;
app. to the Scots Church, Colombo, Ceylon,
1854-62, but was forced to return home
through serious illness ; was again in
Australia 1862, and adm. to his old charge
at Inverbrackie that year ; dem. 27th
March 1884 ; died at North Adelaide, 13th
Aug. 1897. He was an accomplished
classical scholar and remained a student
to the last. He marr. Elizabeth Hilder,
Hornsey, London, who died 1892, and
had issue — Edward, rubber manufacturer,
Glasgow ; Margaret (Mrs Coventry) ; Anna
(Mrs Hughes, Malvern, South Australia) ;
Edith.— [The Adelaide Observer, 21st Aug.
1897.]
M'CULLOCH, COLIN (c/. Vol. VI., 5),
formerly min. of East Church, Aberdeen ;
adm. min. at Warrick, Queensland, 4th
Sept. 1867 ; was min. of Wickham Terrace
Church, Brisbane, Aug. 1871, and of St
Andrew's Church, Brisbane, 1887.
MACDONALD, WILLIAM CADELL,
B.A.; min. at St John's, Sandhurst, Victoria)
1878-82; adm. to Chiltern in 1884; after
wards at Heathcote ; dem. 1903 ; returned
to Edinburgh ; died there 9th June 1927.
M'EWEN, ALEXANDER, born
Auchterarder, 19th May 1829, son of John
M. and Ann Guild ; educated at Auchter-
VOL. VII.
arder School and Univ. of St Andrews;
licen. by Presb. of Cupar in 1853; ord.
by same Presb. that year ; arrived in New
South Wales same year; min. at Western
Goldfields(withHargravesas centre), 1853-8,
Mudgee 1858-60, Hinton 1860-4 ; again
at Mudgee 1864-83; died 18th Aug. 1883.
He marr. 19th May 1859, Catherine, daugh.
of Dr George and Agnes Busby, and had
issue— four sons and seven daughs.
MACFIE, GEORGE, born Barony
Parish, Glasgow, 3rd Oct. 1789, son of
Alexander M. and Mary Sinclair ; educated
at Univ. of Glasgow; M.A. (1808); some
time a teacher ; licen. by Presb. of Brechin
in 1828; assistant at Yetholm ; ord. to
Birdhopecraig (Church of Scotland), North
umberland, 2nd July 1828, and served till
1837; arrived in New South Wales 3rd
Dec. that year; min. at Beza same year,
Portland Head and Pitt Town 1842-67;
died 17th Dec. 1869. He marr. April
1833, Elizabeth (died 22nd June 1899),
youngest daugh. of John Hutcheson of
Fulbar, Renfrew, and Susannah Smith, and
had issue— Susanna Smith, born at Bird
hopecraig 26th March 1834 (marr. George
M'Donald, farmer, Glenmore, Rothbury) ;
Mary Sinclair, born 15th April 1837 (marr.
William Poole, contractor, Sydney), died
13th Oct. 1903; Magdalene Allen, born
29th Aug. 1839, died 19th April 1920;
Catherine, born 21st April 1841, died 14th
July 1915; George Alexander, born 20th
March 1843, died 9th May 1886; John
Hutcheson, bank manager, born 21st March
1847, died 23rd Nov. 1918.
M'GARVIE, JOHN, born Glasgow, 1795,
eldest son of John M. ; educated at Univ.
of Glasgow ; M.A. (1813) ; licen. by Presb.
of Glasgow ; ord. (by same Presb.) in 1826 ;
arrived in New South Wales that year ;
min. at Portland Head and Pitt Town
1826-8, St Andrew's, Sydney, 1828-53;
D.D. (Glasgow 1840); died at Sydney,
12th April 1853.
MACGIBBON, JOHN, adm. first min. at
Woolloomooloo, New South Wales, 1854 ;
LL.D. (Sydney); died June 1882. Publi
cation—He edited The Protestant Standard.
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MACINNES, GEOKGE, M.A., B.D.,
D.D. (cf. Vol. II., 427); formerly min.
of Ton gland ; arrived in New South Wales
2nd July 1880 ; min. of St David's, Ashfield,
1880-1908 ; died 31st May 1908. He was
clerk of the Presb. of Sydney, 1884-1908;
Lecturer in Exegetical Theology of New
Testament, 1898-1908. His son, Ian Gordon,
was killed at Gallipoli 25th April 1901.
Publication — The Death of the Verbal
Theory [Moderatorial Address] (Sydney,
1894).
M'INTYRE, ALLAN, born Kilmonivaig,
1799, second son of Duncan M., farmer ;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow; licen. by
Presb. of Dunoon. Joined the Free Church
in 1843 ; min. of Free Gaelic Church,
Paisley, 1846-54 ; arrived in New South
Wales 1854 ; min. at Clarence River 1861 ;
afterwards at Manning River ; died at Syd
ney (at his brother's house) 28th May 1870.
M'INTYRE, WILLIAM, brother of
preceding, born Kilmonivaig, 1808, fifth
son of Duncan M., farmer ; educated at
Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A. (1829) ; licen. by
Presb. of Dunoon ; arrived in New South
Wales 1837; assistant, Scots Church, Sydney;
that year ; min. at West Maitland 1840-62,
of St George's, Sydney, 1862-70 ; died 12th
July 1870, during his term of office as
Moderator of the Synod of Eastern
Australia. He was married in 1844, at
Pitnacree, near Maitland, "by special
licence," on which the Sydney Colonial
Observer commented thus : " A Presbyterian
minister married by special licence ! Good !
And that minister none of your Moderates
either, but a high flier, a Non-intrusionist,
a Free Churchman, a very ' Pharisee of the
Pharisees, and, as touching the laws of the
Church, blameless ' ! It was a monstrous
irregularity, in our opinion, alike reprehen
sible in the minister who celebrated the
marriage, and in the one in whose case it
was celebrated." Publication — Exposition
of Sermon on the Mount. — [Addison's
Matriculation Albums, Univ. of Glasgoiv,
338.]
MACKAY, MACKINTOSH, LL.D., for
merly min. of Dunoon (cf. Vol. IV., 24);
min. of the Gealic Church, Melbourne,
1854-6, and St George's Church, Sydney,
New South Wales, 1856-61 ; returned to
Scotland; died 17th May 1873.
MACKEE, WILLIAM, licen. by Presb.
of Belfast in 1847; min. at Port Macquarrie,
New South Wales, 1849, Campbelltown,
1853-67.
M'KISSOCK, JOHN BLACK, licentiate
of the Church of Scotland ; sometime
missionary in Shetland ; ord. by Presb. of
Freemantle, West Australia, in 1911 ; min.
at Albany, West Australia, 1911, Kygogle
1913, Mascot 1915, Epping 1916, Berrigan
1919, Balmoral, Victoria, 1923, Tongala,
Victoria, 1925.
MACLAGAN, PETER, arrived April
1853 ; app. to Colac llth May that year ;
dem. and left the colony 29th March 1854.
MACLEAN, JOHN, min. at Castle-
maine, Victoria, 1858.
MACLEAN, ROBERT NORMAN,
licentiate of the Church of Scotland ;
arrived in New South Wales Aug. 1892 ;
ord. to Illawara, Berry, 1893 ; suspended
and loosed from his charge and afterwards
declared no longer a min. of the Church.
M'QUEEN, PETER, born Stirling, 1841;
educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; assistant
at St Clement's, Dundee ; ord. to Thornton,
Fife, 29th April 1875 (cf. Vol. V., 119) ; res.
in 1876, and became min. of the Reformed
Presbyterian Church, St Thomas, West
Indies [was afterwards in South Africa and
Queensland] ; arrived in New South Wales
1889 ; assistant at Armidale in 1892 ; min.
at Minmi 1895-6, Dungog 1900-4; died
1904.
M'VITTIE, THOMAS, born Old Cum-
nock, Ayrshire, 14th May 1886, son of
John M. and Elizabeth Boa ; educated at
Cumnock School and Univ. of Glasgow;
M.A. (1906); licen. by Presb. of Ayr 3rd
May 1911 ; arrived in New South Wales
9th July 1912 ; served under Home Mission,
New South Wales, 1912-14; min. at llozelle,
Sydney, 1914-18 ; chaplain to Australian
Forces, 1916-19 ; adm. to Paddington 2nd
July 1925.
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595
MARKLAND, ROBERT, min. of Moss-
green (rf. Vol. V., 48) ; app. to a charge in
New South Wales, but died on the voyage
out, 20th Dec. 1867.
MARSHALL, ALEXANDER, D.D. (rf.
Vol. I., 327) ; formerly min. of Inveresk ;
adm. min. of Scots Church, Melbourne,
1888 ; res. 31st Dec. 1925 ; died 3rd June
1928. His wife died May 1928. His son,
Crauford Cleland, served as captain in the
War; William Douglas, M.A., ord. to
Noorat, Victoria, 3rd Nov. 1915, trans, to
Sale, Gippsland, Victoria, 22nd June 1921 ;
Norman, D.S.O., M.C., served as lieut.-col.
in the War; Louis, born 1st May 1890,
served as lieutenant in the War (M.C.) ;
Doris Susan Margaret, born 28th Dec. 1893
(marr. Dr Douglas Aitchison). Publications
—Occasional Sermons and Articles.
MARTIN, JOHN (cf. Vol. III., 332),
formerly min. of Bonhill ; received into
Presbyterian Church of Victoria in 1880;
adm. to Berwick and Dandenong 15th Aug.
1881 ; dem. in 1888 ; died 1924.
MATHIE, JAMES, born Lanarkshire,
14th Nov. 1864, son of James M.; edu
cated at Univ. of Glasgow ; student
missionary at Larkhall and Cambuslang
(Newton) ; licen. by Presb. of Hamilton in
1889; assistant at Cambuslang; took a
voyage to Australia on account of ill-health,
returned to Scotland, and again left for
Australia; min. of Rossbridge, Victoria,
1892-9; min. of St Andrew's, Suva, Fiji,
1899 ; laid aside for two years as the result
of an accident while driving to a funeral ;
adm. to St Andrew's, Adelaide, 16th Aug.
1901 ; res. 26th June 1904 ; died at
Melbourne after years of suffering (on the
anniversary of his birth) 14th Nov. 1911.
He marr. 29th Nov. 1897, Frederica, daugh.
of Frederick Thomas and Charlotte Eager.
MAXWELL, DAVID SKINNER (rf.
Vol. V., 167), formerly min. of Monimail ;
adm. to Kew 20th Dec. 1875 ; dem. in 1877
and returned to Scotland (the Presb. re
cording their sense of the great loss
occasioned through his removal) ; returned
to Australia in 1878 and adm. to Kilmore
and Broadford ; adm. to South Yarra 29th
Sept. 1879 ; died 1st May 1914.
MENZIES, PETER SINCLAIR, M.A.
(rf. Vol. III., 445); formerly min. of St
George's - in - the - Fields, Glasgow ; adm.
(colleague), Scots Church, Melbourne, 20th
Aug. 1868; died 23rd Feb. 1874. He was
a singularly gifted minister, and his early
death occasioned universal grief. His
daughter Margaret Evelyn died llth Sept.
1927.— [Hamilton's Hist, of Presbyterian
Church of Victoria, 335.]
MILNE, JAMES, born Ellon, 1799, son
of Thomas M., merchant ; educated at
Ellon School and Marischal College, Aber
deen ; M.A. (1818); licen. by Presb. of
Ellon in 1823; min. of Macduff 1832 (cf.
Vol. VI, 267) ; arrived in New South Wales
1854 ; min. at Port Macquarie that year,
Paddington 1854-85 ; died 1885. He marr.
Jane Baird.
MILNE, JAMES, born Newhills, Aber
deen, 14th Dec. 1865, son of William M.
and Ann Milne ; educated at Stoneywood,
Grammar School Old Aberdeen, and Univ.
of Aberdeen ; M.A. (1887) ; licen. by Presb.
of Aberdeen May 1889 ; assistant at South
Parish, Aberdeen, 1889-90 ; arrived in New
South Wales Oct. 1890 ; ord. to Chalmers
Church, Sydney, 1891 ; min. of St Paul's,
Oamaru, New Zealand, 1896, St Andrew's,
Auckland, 1898-9, Caledonian Church,
Holloway, London, 1901-6, Newbiggin-by-
the-Sea 1 906, St James's, Thames, Auckland,
New Zealand, 1907. Marr. 4th Dec. 1896
Fanny, daugh. of William Nicol and
Margaret Laidlaw, and has issue— Annette
Margaret, born llth Jan. 1900; Francis
William Laidlaw, barrister, born 18th April
1901 ; Grant Raglan, telegraphic engineer,
born 1st Sept. 1904; Maisie, born 14th
Feb. 1906; Mitchell Robert, born 12th
Aug. 1908 ; Jessie Irene, born 24th Dec.
1912. Publications — The Gothenburg
Principle (Sydney, 1916) ; How Britain
Solves the Liquor Question (Auckland,
1918); Problems of the Day (Thames,
1919) ; The Liquor Question in Neiv Zea
land (Auckland, 1920); Present Day
Questions (Auckland, 1920).
596
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MITCHELL, WILLIAM, M.A. : arrived
in New South Wales 1843; min. at Kil-
more, Victoria, 1862-3 ; min. at Shoalhaven,
New South Wales, 1863, Wollongong
1864-6; died 1866.
MORRISON, JOHN, first min. at
Armidale (New England, New South
Wales), 1852 [afterwards at Walcha].
MOWBRAY, THOMAS, born Hamilton,
Lanarkshire, 1812 ; educated at Univ. of
Glasgow ; M.A. (1834) ; licen. by Presb. of
Hamilton in 1835 ; assistant at Hamilton ;
ord. by Presb. of Hamilton to Blackridge
Mission 5th Aug. 1841 [in 1843 the con
gregation of Blackridge joined the Free
Church and retained the building] ; sent
by Church of Scotland to Australia, arriv
ing at Melbourne in Jan. 1842 ; min. at
Campbellfield, Victoria, 7th June 1842-4 ;
trans, to Macquarie Street, Sydney, New
South Wales, 26th Dec. 1844 ; removed (on
the ground of health) to Queensland and
settled at Moreton Bay (now Brisbane),
1847 ; conducted a school there for many
years and gave his services freely in
preaching, but held no stated charge. He
was the pioneer and founder of the Presby
terian Church of Queensland ; Mowbray-
ton, a suburb of Brisbane, was named after
him ; died 24th Dec. 1867, "leaving behind
him a name as a Christian minister and
gentleman that has never been mentioned
but with veneration." He marr. and had
issue — a son, a Police Magistrate, Queens
land ; a daugh. (marr. Dr John Thomson,
Brisbane). — [Hay's Presbyterian Church
of Queensland (portrait), 7, 12.]
MUIR, JAMES STIRLING, born 9th
Aug. 1822, third son of John M., D.D.,
min. of St James's, Glasgow ; educated at
Univ. of Glasgow ; min. of Toward Chapel
1855 (cf. Vol. IV., 26) ; inin. of St Peter's,
North Sydney, New South Wales, 1870-2,
Donnybrook, Victoria, 1872-6, Wickclifte,
etc., Victoria, 1876-80 ; died at Melbourne,
26th Oct. 1910.
NELSON, WILLIAM LAMBIE, born
Kilmarnock, 1814; educated at Univ. of
Edinburgh ; licen. in 1839 ; assistant at
St Stephen's, Edinburgh ; LL.D. (Mont-
pellier, U.S.A., 1842); ord. to Northesk
24th Jan. 1850 (cf. Vol. I., 339) ; res. 19th
April 1853; went to Australia at the
request of the Colonial Committee ; adm.
min. at Ipswich, Queensland, 30th Aug.
1853 ; res. 1860, and was a sheep farmer
for two years ; min. of St Stephen's,
Toowoomba, 1863 to 17th June 1874;
Moderator of Assembly in 1876 ; died 1888.
He was the most outstanding minister of
his time in the colony, leader of the Church,
convener of its chief committees and teacher
of philosophy and pastoral theology in its
first Divinity Hall.— [Hay's Presbyterian
Church of Queensland, 26, 48, 116 (portrait)].
NICOL, JOHN, min. at Rushworth,
Victoria, 1861, Talbot 1864.
NIMMO, JAMES, min. at St Andrew's,
Newcastle, New South Wales, 1853-61;
went to British Columbia and British
Guiana (q.v .).
OGILVIE, JOHN, M.A. (cf. Vol. VI.,
203) ; arrived in New South Wales 1890 ;
min. at Penrith and St Mary's, 1890-3;
returned to Scotland and became min. of
Slains.
PATERSON, JAMES, M.A., formerly
min. of Kirn (cf. Vol. IV., 36) ; adm. to
Ipswich, Queensland, 30th Nov. 1869 ; dem.
5th March 1872 ; min. at West Kempsey,
New South Wales, 1883.
PATERSON, JAMES DYKES, assistant
at Dalmellington ; adm. to St Andrew's,
St John's, Newfoundland, Dec. 1874; arrived
in New South Wales 16th April 1882, and
adm. to Cootamundra; died suddenly that
year.
PATERSON, WILLIAM (c/.Vol. I., 405);
VII., 293. In 1840 he was app. by Colonial
Committee for service in South Australia,
but his name has not been found in any of
the records of the Australian Church ; adm.
min. of Cockburnspath 28th Sept. 1844.
PATTERSON, J., LL.D.; min. at St
George's, Sydney, 1846-8.
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597
PENNYCOOK, ALEXANDER S., born
1817; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh
arrived in New South Wales 1854 ; chaplai.
on Southern goldfields (with Braidwood
and later, Tumut, as centre) that year ; die
at Adelong, 1880.
PURVES, WILLIAM, born Glasgow
26th July 1810, fourth son of William P.
artificer; educated at Univ. of Glasgow
arrived in New South Wales 1840; min. at
Port Macquarie 1840-8, East Maitlanc
1848 - 70 ; Moderator of the Genera!
Assembly of New South Wales in 1866,
died at sea, 25th April 1870. One of his
sons was sometime member of the New
South Wales Parliament.
RAE, FRANCIS, min. at St Andrew's,
Geelong, 1868.
REID, JOHN (cf. Vol. III., 146), formerly
min. of Johnstone, Paisley ; certified by
Colonial Committee 9th Oct. 1851 ; min. of
Queen Street Church, Melbourne, 7th July
1852-3, Essendon, 12th April 1853-6, Hotham,
or North Melbourne, 1856. Joined the
United Presbyterian denomination along
with his congregation in 1857 [was after
wards min. of Mariner's Church, Sydney,
New South Wales] ; died 18th June 1867.
RODDICK, JAMES, min. of Lybster
(q.v.); went to South Australia at the
desire of John Warren, Mount Crawford,
who built a church and manse for him;
min. at Mount Crawford 1862-5, Mount
Pleasant 1865-72; died there 29th Nov.
1872. — [South Australian Register, 3rd
Dec. 1872.]
RORKE, E., B.A., app. by Colonial
Committee in 1878; min. at Footscray ;
adm. to St Andrew's Church, Adelaide,
Dec. 1881, Daylesford 1891, Elsternwick
1898; died there 1910.
ROSS, DUNCAN, born Kennahaird,
Contin, Ross-shire, 5th Feb. 1831 ; son of
Henry R. and Anne M'Kay ; educated at
King's College, Aberdeen, 1847-51 ; licen.by
Presb. of Aberdeen ; arrived in New South
Wales 1856 ; min. at Muswellbrook in 1857,
St Leonards 1873, Walcha 1878-81 ; res.
1881; died 10th Jan. 1901. He. marr.
Mary Anne Hall, and had issue— Henry;
Thomas; Percy; Alison; Grace; Emily;
Horace ; Norman ; Leslie.
ROSS, WILLIAM, born Dornoch, 1803,
son of Dr R., physician; educated at
King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (March
1826) ; licen. by Presb. of Dornoch in 1834 ;
ord. by same Presb. in 1838 for service in
Australia ; arrived in New South Wales that
year ; min. at Paterson 1838-47, Goulburn
1847-69; died 1869, during his year of
office as Moderator of New South Wales
General Assembly. He marr. Anne, daugh.
of Henry Simpson and Sarah Ward, s.p.
Publication—^ Brief Statement of Facts
in connection with an Overland Expedition
from Lake George to Port Phillip in 1824
by Hamilton Hume (Sydney, 1855).
ROSS, WILLIAM, born Huntly, 1820,
son of William R., watchmaker ; educated
at Huntly School (where George Mac-
Donald the novelist was his schoolfellow)
and Marischal College, Aberdeen; M.A.
(1840); licen. by Presb. of Strathbogie in
1845 ; arrived in South Australia 1846 ;
min. at Inverbrackie (Woodside) 1846-52,
Wentworth, New South Wales, 1852-69
when he dem. through ill-health), Tradale
and Freyerstown, Victoria, 1872, Longfield
and Romsey, Victoria, 1880; returned
;o Scotland, where he died Aug. 1899. He
s described as " a good, earnest, scholarly
man, who bravely faced the hardships of
i vast and peculiarly difficult sphere of
abour."— [Hist, of Presbyterian Church
f New South Wales, 305.]
SALMON, ALEXANDER (cf. Vol. III.,
31, 182), formerly min. of Barrhead ;
rrived in New South Wales 1849; min.
t St Stephen's Church, Sydney, 1849-60.
SCOTT, JAMES STEWART,
orn Dairy, Ayrshire, 19th April 1861,
on of John S. and Mary Stewart; edu-
ated at Dairy School and Univ. of
xlasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow
Oth June 1885 ; assistant at Rutherglen ;
rrived in New South Wales 22nd Oct.
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1885; min. at Woodburn 1887-90, Maclean
1890-9, Inverell 1899-1901, Annandale
1901-13, Young 1913-14, Berry 1918-21.
Marr. 5th May 1886, Jessie Watson Hill, and
has issue — Maude Mary, born 25th Sept.
1887 ; George M'Laren, Presbyterian min.,
born 19th Feb. 1889; John Whitelaw,
born 10th June 1891, died 28th March
1894; Alexandra, born 14th Nov. 1892,
died 24th March 1894.
SERVICE, JOHN (cf. Vol. III., 417);
min. at Lower Avoca, 1864-5 ; went to
Tasmania in 1866 (q.v.) [afterwards min. of
Hyndland, Glasgow].
SHANKS, DAVID, min. at Deniliquin
1872-3 ; died 1873.
SMEATON, J., M.A. ; min. at Dayles-
ford 1869-72, Ebenezer Church, Ballarat,
1872-4, Maryborough 1874.
SMITH, ALEXANDER CAMPBELL,
born Paisley, 1823, only son of Alexander
S. ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; ord.
to Free Church, Innellan, 1855 ; went to
Australia in 1863; min. of Rockhamp-
ton (Church of Scotland), 1864-8; there
after colleague min. of the Scots Church,
Sydney ; adm. to John Knox Church,
Melbourne, 4th Oct. 1870-2, Wangaratta
and Oxley 1873-5, Daylesford and Franklin-
ford 1875-85. He marr. 1855, Christina
Jolly. Two of his sons were Professors in
Ormond College, Melbourne.
SMITH, WILLIAM ADAM, M.A.
(cf. Vol. VI., 109), formerly min. of Towie ;
sometime min. at Charters Towers, Queens
land, and later at Southport, Queensland.
SMYTHE, KIRKPATRICK DICK-
SON, born Barscar, Dumfriesshire ; edu
cated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; arrived in
New South Wales 1834 ; min. at Bathurst,
1835-54 ; returned to Scotland and died
in 1863. He marr. a daugh. of General
Stewart, and had issue— a son, medical
practitioner in Victoria; a son, chief
resident engineer of Government Railways,
Valparaiso.
SOMERVILLE, JOHN, licentiate of
Church of Scotland ; ord. to Kenmore,
Queensland, 1st Aug. 1887 ; trans, to Albion
July 1889; dem. June 1891; became a
teacher in the service of the Department
of Public Instruction and died in Queens
land.
STEWART, COLIN, min. at Bowenfels,
New South Wales, 1839-57. He left con
siderable benefactions for the education of
students.
STEWART, ROBERT, born 1812, third
son of Robert S., farmer, Kirkintilloch ;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; arrived in
New South Wales 1838; gaol chaplain of
the colony ; min. at Newcastle 1844 ; died
1872.
STIRTON, THOMAS, born Blackhaugh,
Caputh, Perthshire, 18th Jan. 1827, son of
Thomas S., farmer, and Elizabeth Duncan ;
educated at Univ. of St Andrews ; tutor at
Delvine ; licen. by Presb. of Meigle in
1854 ; ord. (by Presb. of Meigle) for service
in Australia ; arrived in New South Wales
that year; min. at Paterson and Dungog
1855-73, Inverell 1873-98 ; D.D. (St Andrews,
1891); died 14th Aug. 1906. He marr.
Jane Rae Bell, daugh. of Abraham Nivison
and Mary Wightman, and had issue
—Thomas Abraham, grazier, born 17th
Nov. 1860; Alexander Nivison, grazier,
born 13th Nov. 1864 ; Percy Ernest, grazier,
born 24th June 1866 ; Mary Norman Agnes
(marr. Granville Wilshire), died 19th Jan.
1899.— [The Red House [by John Stirton,
D.D., Crathie] (Arbroath 1926), 74.]
STOBBS, JOHN GARROW, born Strom-
ness, 1st July 1840, fourth son of William
S., min. of Secession congregation there,
and Jessie Somerville; educated at Univ.
of Glasgow, M.A. (1864), and U.P.
Theological Hall. Joined the Church of
Scotland in 1862; assistant at Scots
Church, Melbourne; adm. to West Mel--
bourne 29th April 1875; died 10th Aug.
1882.
STRONG, CHARLES (cf. Vol. III.,
390), formerly min. of Anderston, Glasgow;
adm. to Scots Church, Melbourne, 21st I
Sept. 1875. His article in the Victorian
Review was not (as said in Vol. III.) the
cause of his charge being declared vacant.
The Atonement article appeared in 1880.
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599
In 1883 he presided at a lecture in the
Scots Church, by Mr Justice Higinbottom,
a Unitarian, and at the conclusion com
mended rather than dissented from views
which were antagonistic to the beliefs of
Presbyterianism. He res. his charge and
the Assembly declared him to be no longer
a min. of their Church and dissolved the
pastoral tie between him and the Scots
Church congregation. For an account of
the case see Hamilton's Hist, of the
Presbyterian Church of Victoria, 424 et
seq. (Melbourne, 1888).
SUTHERLAND, ROBERT, born Reay,
1817, son of John S., merchant, and Mar
garet Macleod ; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen ; M.A. (March 1838) ; arrived in
Geelong 1st Aug. 1854, and app. to Batesford
and Russel's Bridge ; adm. to Allansford,
Victoria, 1862 ; returned to Scotland 1876 ;
found drowned at Fresgoe, Reay, 31st Aug.
1880. He was unmarr. Publication — The
History of the Presbyterian Church of
Victoria (London, 1877).
TAIT, JOHN, born Moffat, 1809, son of
William T. and Catherine Beattie; educated
at Univ. of Glasgow, 1824-33; assistant
to John James Bonar, D.D., Greenock ;
arrived in New South Wales 1837 ; min. at
Wollongong (Illawarra), 1837-41, Parramatta
1841-51, Geelong, Victoria, 1851-60; died
19th March 1860. He was clerk of the
General Assembly of Presbyterian Church
of Victoria. He marr. 2nd May 1837,
Elizabeth, daugh. of William Blair and
Lillie Greig, and had issue— Lillie (marr.
F. R. M. Wilson, min. at Kew, Victoria,
April 1861) ; William Blair, F.R.A. ; John,
banker ; James, banker, died 1913 ; Bessie ;
Annie Catherine ; Lithgow, M.A., min. at
Coburg, Victoria; George, M.A., min. at
South Yarra, Melbourne, and clerk of
General Assembly.
THOMSON, THOMAS [NAPIER],
born Glasgow, 25th Feb. 1798, fifth son
of Hugh T., West India merchant; edu
cated at a boarding school near Barnet,
London (to which place his parents removed
in 1812), and at Univ. of Glasgow, where he
was a distinguished student, securing the
two highest prizes in the Univ. During
his divinity course he acted as a private
tutor, having been reduced to poverty by
his father's financial losses in 1823 ; licen.
by Presb. of Glasgow ; officiated in many
parts of Scotland as well as in England,
writing regularly for the press and delivering
a series of lectures in Glasgow on the
Philosophy of History ; assistant at Cupar-
Fife, but res. owing to a throat affection
In 1831 he sailed for New South Wales,
having been ordained to a charge at Mait-
land. On his arrival he found there was
no church, manse, and no congregation,
and on 13th July 1832 he set about the
founding of a charge at Bathurst, where he
ministered until 1835 when he returned to
Scotland, devoting the rest of his life to
literature. He is best known by his editions
of Robert Chambers's Biographical Dic
tionary of Eminent Scotsmen and Calder-
wood's History of the Kirk of Scotland
(8 vols., Wodrow Society, Edinburgh, 1842-
49) [transcribing the original MS. in the
British Museum, occupied him close on
five years] ; died at Trinity, Edinburgh, 1st
Feb. 1869. He marr., and had issue.
Publications— ?7ie Immortality of the Soul,
and other Poems (1818) ; Richard Gordon
[a tale] (1820); The Christian Martyr
[a tale] (1823); A Visit to Dalgarnock ;
The City of the Sun; The Pictorial
History of England (London, 1838); British
Naval Biography : Howard to Codrington
(London, 1839, 1854); British Military
Biography : Alfred to Wellington (London,
1840,1854); The Book of the Poets: Chaucer
to Beattie (London, 1842) ; History of Scot
land for Schools (Edinburgh, 1849) ; The
Comprehensive History of England [with
Charles Macfarlane], 4 vols. (Glasgow,
1858-61) ; Biographical Dictionary of
Eminent Scotsmen, 3 vols (Edinburgh,
1869-71). Edited Select Writings of John
Knox, Rutherford, Hog, Guthrie, Veitch,
Fleming, etc. [for a Society of the Free
Church]; Works of the Ettrick Shepherd,
2 vols. (Glasgow, 1865); An Edition of
Milton, and Fleming's Rise and Fall of the
Papacy. — [Memoir in Biographical Diet,
Eminent Scotsmen, 602-5.]
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AUSTRALIA— TASMANIA
THOMSON, WILLIAM, born Inver-
allan, 19th Dec. 1861, son of John Grant T.
and Jane Tait Parker ; educated at
Grantown School and IJnivs. of Aberdeen,
M.A. (1882), and Edinburgh, B.D. (1885) ;
licen. by Presb. of Abernethy in 1885;
assistant at Birnie and Kirknewton ; went
to South Australia and was min. at
Wallaroo, 1889-92, when he resigned on
account of ill-health ; returned to Scotland
and resided at Grantown-on-Spey ; adm. to
Church of Scotland in 1906; took charge
of Dulnain Mission ; died unmarr. 21st
May 1914.
WARDROP, JOHN ROBERT, born
Edinburgh, 1845 ; educated at Univ. of
Edinburgh; M.A. (1867); arrived in New
South Wales 1874 ; min. at Orange 1874-6,
Geelong, Victoria ; returned to New South
Wales in 1889 ; died 1890. He marr. Agnes
Davidson, and had issue — Margaret
Robertson, B.A. (Sydney), born 13th Sept.
1883 (marr. Campbell) ; John Carstairs,
station manager, born 20th April 1885 ;
Robert Davidson, B.E. (Sydney), engineer,
born 21st Feb. 1887.
WATT, DAVID, M.A. ; assistant Trinity
Parish, Edinburgh ; went to Queensland for
the benefit of his health ; ord. by Presb.
of Edinburgh 28th July 1875 ; min. at Esk,
Queensland; died soon afterwards "after
a promising period of service." He left
a widow. — [Hay's Presbyterian Church of
Queensland, 75.]
WHITE, JAMES SMITH, M.A., LL.D.
(Sydney) ; ordained min. at Patrick's Plain
(Singleton), New South Wales, 1847 ;
Moderator of General Assembly in 1892 ;
died 14th June 1902, aged 82.
WILSON, HUGH (cf. Vol. III., 226),
formerly min. of Bellshill ; arrived in
New South Wales 27th Feb. 1901;
min. at Granville, 1903-16 ; died 19th
April 1916. He marr. Margaret Josephine,
daugh. of William Lawrence Taylor and
Margaret Josephine Scott, and had issue —
Henrietta Margaret, born 5th Nov. 1883
(marr. 25th Jan. 1912, Henry Walter
Shephard); Edith Lilian, born 7th July
1886 (marr. 6th June 1908) ; Alys (Alice)
Vaila, born 8th Jan. 1890; Dorothy, born
9th Sept. 1893.
TASMANIA
[Tasmania was originally called Van Diemen's Land in honour of Anthony Van
Diemen, Governor of Batavia, who fitted out the Dutch Expedition which led to its
discovery by Abel Tasman in 1642. In 1803 it became a British Colony, used chiefly for
penal purposes until 1852 when transportation ceased and the name Tasmania was
adopted. Archibald MacArthur, a minister of the United Associate Presbytery of Edin
burgh, was the first Presbyterian minister to be settled at Hobart Town in 1823, where
he continued for twelve years, during which period St Andrew's Church and manse were
built. On 6th Nov. 1835 the Presbytery of Van Diemen's Land was established by
ordinance of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, with John Dunmore Lang,
D.D. (who went with authority from the Presbytery of Sydney) as first Moderator. John
Lillie, D.D. (infra) the first Church of Scotland minister, arrived in 1837. In 1853 there
was formed the Free Presbytery of Tasmania with only three congregations. In 1880
the Presbytery of Van Diemen's Land was divided into North and South, and a Synod
of Tasmania formed by the two Presbyteries of Hobart and Launcestown. In 1896 a
union was effected with the Free Presbytery, and in 1912 the Tasmanian Church linked
herself with the Church of Victoria. In 1927 there were 32 congregations and over 1600
members.]
ANDERSON, JOHN, came from
Scotland with John Dunmore Lang, D.D.,
in 1831 ; settled at St Andrew's Church,
Launceston, 16th June 1832.
BELL, JAMES, ord. (by Presb. of Edin
burgh) 8th Oct. 1839 ; app. by Colonu
Committee and adm. to St John's Chi
Hobart, Tasmania, 1843; died there in 1851.
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601
CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER, app. by
Colonial Committee "for service in Van
Diemen's Land " in 1839.
DOUGALL, THOMAS, ord. to Vine
cash, Ireland, 29th Nov. 1824 ; res. June
1837 ; went to New South Wales ; received
as a min. of the Church of Scotland in
Tasmania 30th Jan. 1839; adm. to Sorel
7th July that year ; retired in 1861.
DOVE, THOMAS, born 1802, third son
of Thomas D., artificer, Glasgow ; educated
at Univ. of Glasgow; M.A. (1824); licen.
by Glasgow Presb. of Original Secession
Church 26th Feb. 1828 ; went to Tasmania
in 1837, and was min. successively at Oat-
lands, Flinders Island, and Swansea ; died
at Swansea, 27th Aug. 1882.— [Scott's
Annals of Original Recession Church,
506.]
EWING, ROBERT, born 1829, fifth son
of Peter E., farmer, Perthshire; educated
at Univ. of Glasgow ; student of theology
there, 1851-2 ; min. at Launceston in 1858 ;
res. and opened a school in South Yarra,
Victoria; was called and adm. to the
charge at Beech worth and Stanley, Victoria,
1874, but his admission was annulled, " not
being a min. of the Presbyterian Church of
Victoria." The Presb. was admonished,
and the case is said to have " agitated the
whole Church."— [Hamilton's Hist, of the
Presbyterian Church of Victoria, 340.]
GARRETT [or GARRAT], JAMES, born
Inch, Galloway, 1797, fourth son of Robert
G., farmer ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ;
licen. by United Associate Presb. of Stran-
raer ; ord. to Secession Congregation, Muir-
kirk, 13th Oct. 1824 ; dem. 1828 ; emigrated
to Tasmania that year ; adm. to Both well
in 1830; min. at West Tamar 1848, and
held other charges; died 1874.— [Small's
Hist, of U.P. Congs., ii., 245.]
GOW, WILLIAM, min. in Tasmania in
1839 (no further information).
HASTIE, THOMAS, app. by Colonial
Committee as colleague to James Anderson,
Scots Church, Launceston. Joined the
Free Church in 1843; went to Australia
in 1847 (q.v.\
HENDERSON, JAMES, born Rosebank
Dalserf, Lanarkshire, 6th Sept. 1829, son
of William H. and Margaret Hamilton ;
educated at Univs. of Edinburgh and
Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of London
in 1858 ; missionary at Port William, Wig
townshire ; ord. 1861, and held charges at
Stawell and Caringham, Victoria, and at
Evandale and Hagley, Tasmania ; returned
to Victoria and was min. at Balmoral and
Harrow, 1864-1907, when he retired ; died
at Melbourne, 18th June 1922.
LILLIE, JOHN, born 1806, fourth son
of David L., merchant, Glasgow ; educated
at Univ. of Glasgow; licen. by Presb. of
Glasgow ; was tutor to the Duke of Argyll ;
app. by Colonial Committee, and received
by Presb. of Van Diemen's Land 4th Oct.
1837 ; min. of St Andrew's Church, Hobart,
1837-58; D.D. (Glasgow 1848); res. on
account of ill-health and went to New Zea
land ; died at Christchurch 1866. He was
a devoted min. and a great power for good
in Tasmania, which he visited in every part,
promoting Church extension.— [Tombst.]
MACCLEAN, ROBERT, born 1794,
eldest son of Hugh M., farmer, Lochgilly,
Co. Armagh, Ireland ; educated at Univ.
of Glasgow ; M.A. (1821) ; min. of Second
Drumbanagher Church, Ireland, for twenty-
nine years; min. of St John's, Hobart,
for thirty-one years ; died about 1886.
M'KENZIE, ALEXANDER (c/. Vol.
IV., 101), formerly min. of Oban ; adm.
to West Tamar, Tasmania, 1843 ; returned
to Scotland and joined the Free Church.
MACKERSY, JOHN, born about 1816,
son of John M., min. of West Calder ;
educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen.
by Presb. of Edinburgh; emigrated to
Australia and was min. at Macquarie
liver, Tasmania, 1829-54, when he res.
jut continued as " travelling preacher " and
clerk to the Tasmanian Church ; died at
Campbell Town 1871.
MACKINTOSH, JAMES GRANT, born
Cawdor 1828 ; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen ; M.A. (March 1848) ; ord. to St
John's Free Church, Leith, 1856 ; min. of
3t Andrew's, Hobart, 1858; returned to
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Scotland in 1861, and was Secretary of the
Colonial and Continental Committees of
the Free Church till 1891 ; died 1895. He
marr. Marion, daugh. of James Lewis, D.I).,
min. of St John's, Leith (cf. Vol. I., 158).
ROBERTSON, JOHN, min. at Bothwell
in 1842.
RUSSELL, ROBERT, educated at
Univ. of St Andrews ; licen. by Presb. of
Kirkcaldy 27th Sept. 1836; adm. to Evan-
dale, Tasmania, 14th Feb. 1839.
SERVICE, JOHN, min. of St John's
Church, Hobart, Tasmania, 1866-9; returned
to Scotland and was adm. to Inch llth
April 1872 [afterwards min. of Hyndland,
Glasgow] (cf. Vol. III., 417).
SIMSON, CHARLES, a native of
Lauder, Berwickshire; educated at Univ.
of Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of Lauder
(now Earlston) 4th Feb. 1834; app. by
Colonial Committee 15th April 1840, and
ord. (by Presb. of Lauder) 14th May
following; adm. to O'Brien's Bridge
(Glenorchy), Tasmania, that year; died
there 1870.
STORIE, JOHN, born Paisley, 1817,
second son of John S. ; educated at Univ.
of Glasgow; formerly min. at South Shields;
emigrated to Australia, and adm. to
Templeton Street Church, Castlemaine,
Victoria, 1st June 1858 ; called to St
Andrew's Church, Hobart, Tasmania, 26th
Sept. 1860 ; died at 8 Gilmour Road, Edin
burgh, 15th Aug. 1901. Publication— The
future as revealed in Prediction (Edin
burgh, 1887).
TURNBULL, ADAM, M.D.; was a
leading office-bearer in the Tasmanian
Church and an official in the Public
Service ; gave up his position to be licensed
for the ministry ; ord. to Campbell Town
and Macquarie River in 1854; died at
Campbell Town 1891. He was a man of
rich scholarship, and a notable figure in
the Island.
FIJI
[In 1874 the Fijian group of Islands were ceded to Great Britain by their leading
Chiefs and converted into a Crown Colony. The Church at Suva, the capital and
principal port, is under the jurisdiction of the Church of Australia from which its
ministers are now drawn. The Committee of the Church of Scotland Overseas contributes
an annual grant.]
GARDNER, WILLIAM, licen. and ord.
by the Presbyterian Church of Victoria
20th Feb. 1888 ; app. (under the jurisdiction
of Melbourne Presb., South) to Suva, Fiji,
that year.
JONES, WILLIAM, min. at Suva,
1897-99.
MATHIE, JAMES, min. of St Andrew's,
Suva, Fiji, 1899-1901 [afterwards min. of
St Andrew's, Adelaide, South Australia
(**)}
RENNISON, LEWIS WILLIAM, born
6th April 1845, son of Alexander R., min.
of St George's, Glasgow ; educated at Univ.
of Glasgow; assistant at Alloa; ord. to
Suva, Fiji, 22nd July 1884; dem. 1887;
died in Australia.
NEW ZEALAND
nism
tend-
[The Colony of New Zealand was established by royal charter in 1840. Presbyteria:
was long represented by two Churches— the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand extend
ing over North Island and the northern half of South Island, and the Presbyterian Church
of Otago and Southland, confined to the southern half of South Island. In 1840 over
150 emigrants landed at Port Nicholson, the southern point of North Island. Amongst
NEW ZEALAND
603
them were many Presbyterians accompanied by John MacFarlan (infra) as their minister.
He was thus the pioneer of Presbyterianism in this Colony. In 1856 there was formed
at Auckland the first Presbytery of the Church, which, at the close of the century,
had on its roll 8 Presbyteries, comprising 88 ministers, 156 congregations, and 8149
communicants.
The Presbyterian Church of Otago and Southland originated with the Free Church
of Scotland whence most of its ministers were drawn. The first of these was Thomas
Burns, D.D. (infra), formerly minister of Monkton, who arrived at Dunedin (then New
Edinburgh) in March 1848 accompanied by 236 Free Church emigrants. In 1854 the
first Presbytery of the Church of Otago was constituted with three ministers and two
elders. By the end of the century these had increased to 78 ministers, 150 congregations,
and 11,000 communicants. A union of the Churches of North and South, though actually
achieved in 1861, was dissolved after a year, difficulties having emerged over the incor
porating Articles. In 1901 this barrier was surmounted, and the first General Assembly
of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand was held at Dunedin. In 1927 the member
ship of the united church was over 50,000, with adherents numbering about 250000
representing one-fourth of the population. Knox College, Dunedin, the seat of' the
Theological Faculty, was erected at a cost of £40,000.]
BURNS, THOMAS, D.D., formerly
min. of Monkton and Prestwick (cf. Vol.
III., 57) ; min. at Otago, New Zealand, and
founder of the Free Church there; died
22nd Jan. 1871.
COMRIE, WILLIAM, educated at
Univ. of St Andrews; died at Auckland
1884.
DICKIE, JOHN, D.D. (cf. Vol. VI., 115);
formerly min. of Tarland ; app. Professor
of Systematic Theology, Knox College,
Dunedin, 1909.
GELLIE, JOHN CAITHNESS, B.A.
(cf. Vol. III., 478); formerly min. of Hoggan-
field ; adm. min. at Lauder, Otago, 1893 ;
dem. 1904 ; died unmarr. 8th Sept. 1922.
GRAY, ANDREW, born 8th Jan. 1865 ;
ord. min. at Hutt 10th Oct. 1893, Gore
1899, Ravensbourne 1912 ; died 23rd April
1922.
HAUXWELL, FRANCIS MARMA-
DUKE, ord. to Malvern 23rd Dec. 1878;
trans, to Papanui and Belfast Jan. 1882;
returned to Scotland and adm. to Carluke
19th April 1888 (cf. Vol. III., 287). His
wife died in 1927. Publication— The Story
of Carluke Kirk (Carluke, 1926).
HAY, PETER SCOTT, born Dufftown,
Banffshire, 12th March 1844, son of John
H. and Catherine Green ; educated at
Grammar School and King's College, Aber
deen ; was sometime master in St Mary's
School, Reading, returning to divinity
studies in Aberdeen; licen. by Presb. of
Aberdeen June 1874; emigrated to New
Zealand and arrived Jan. 1877; min. at
Tauranga 1877-81; afterwards at Duntroon ;
died at Auckland 31st May 1925. He
marr. Margaret (predeceased him), daugh.
of Alexander Ross and Elizabeth Taylor,
and had issue — Catherine Burnett (only
child).— [Proc. of Gen. Ass. Presbyterian
Church of Neiv Zealand (1925), 58 ; Hist,
of New Zealand Presbyterian Church
(portrait), 409.]
HUNTER, ROBERT CONDIE, M.A.
(cf. Vol. III., 2); formerly min. of Annbank ;
adm. min. at Queenstown in 1917 ; dem.
1919; adm. to Leadhills 17th July 1923.
JACKSON, ROBERT WINCHESTER,
born Leith, 28th Dec. 1847, son of Robert
J. and Agnes Todd ; educated at Galashiels
and Univ. of Edinburgh ; min. of St
Modan's Chapel, Falkirk (cf. Vol. I., 209);
adm. min. at Southbridge, Canterbury,
1900-14, Matamata 1917; dem. 1921;
residing at Takapuna, Auckland, 1926. Pub
lication — Edited the Ellesmere Guardian.
JAMIESON, DAVID (cf. Vol. III., 472),
formerly min. at Titwood, Glasgow ; adm.
min. at Akaroa 23rd Nov. 1897 ; dem.
604
NEW ZEALAND
1900. Joined the Church of England and
was re-ord. by Bishop of Duncdin ; at
Waitaki, North Otago, 1926.
KILLEN, JAMES MILLAR (cf. Vol.
III., 226), formerly min. of Bellshill ; adm.
min. at Tauranga 28th June 1882 ; trans,
to Whangarei 17th Oct. 1883; dem. 7th
Dec. 1886 "in order to give his whole
attention to the profession of a barrister
and solicitor, remaining in the district and
giving occasional service when required."
KIRTON, WILLIAM (cf. Vol. V., 106),
formerly min. of Pathhead ; min. at
Wellington in 1850 ; trans, to Kaiapoi and
Rangiora 6th Feb. 1863; died 27th Aug.
1871.
KYD, WILLIAM ANDERSON, born
Dundee, 23rd April 1841, son of David K.
and Margaret Anderson, and brother of
David Russell K., min. of Dowally [died
26th June 1926] ; educated at Univ. of St
Andrews; M.A. (1867); adm. min. at
Dipton, Otago, 1893 ; trans, to Kelso,
Otago, 1895-1904 ; min. at Takaka Mission
1909; returned to Scotland and died at
Glasgow llth Dec. 1916. He marr. Amelia
Atkinson Gall, s.p.
LOTHIAN, JOHN, born Campbeltown,
Argyll, 3rd May 1842, son of James L. ;
educated at Univs. of Glasgow and Edin
burgh; licen. by Presb. of Kintyre 13th
Oct. 1869 ; went to New Zealand in 1877 ;
adm. to Alexandra, New Zealand, 1880;
died 1925. He marr. 17th April 1879,
Louisa, daugh. of the Rev. Thomas Odell
and Ann Bryant, and had issue.
MACFARLANE, JOHN, M.A.; formerly
min. of Martyr's Parish, Paisley; adm.
to first Scottish congregation in New
Zealand 24th Oct. 1839 ; dem. and returned
home in 1844 ; adm. to Lochgilphead (cf.
Vol. IV., 19), 9th Sept. 1847.
MACKELLAR, JAMES, licentiate of
the Church of Scotland ; ord. to Rangiora
2nd Nov. 1885 ; dem. 8th Aug. 1887 ; adm.
to Waikara 5th Nov. 1889; dem. 1892;
went to Otago and died 1895.
MACKENZIE, ALEXANDER, born
Sutherlandshire, 4th June 1842 ; educated
at Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (1871), B.D.
(1874); went to New Zealand and was
min. at Avondale, 1885-7; died at Auckland
8th Oct. 1920. He marr. (1) Jessie Eva
Hort Huxham, "the Princess Trouil of
Denmark, Baroness Maccorquodale of
Loch Tromley," chieftainess of the Clan
Maccorquodale, who died 12th April 1887,
aged 28, and had issue — George Alexander
Hort, died 14th Sept. 1887, aged 13 months;
Torquil : (2) Jane Sophia Field, who died
9th Sept. 1913.— [Tombst.]
MACNICOL, ROBERT FERGUSON,
born March 1838, eldest son of Duncan M.,
sailor, Glasgow ; educated at Univ. of
Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow ;
assistant at St Luke's, Glasgow ; ord. by
Presb. of Lorn 20th June 1845 ; app. by
Colonial Committee and arrived in New
Zealand 23rd Nov. 1865 ; min. at New
Plymouth that year ; trans, to St James's,
Auckland, 3rd Feb. 1869; Moderator of
General Assembly of Presbyterian Church
of New Zealand in 1880 ; dem. 1902 ; died
llth March 1915. He marr. and had issue.
MILNE, JAMES, M.A. ; formerly of
Chalmers Church, Sydney [see Australia] ;
min. of St Paul's, Oamaru, 1896, St
Andrew's, Auckland, 15th March 1898-9;
returned home and adm. to Caledonian
Church, London, 5th Nov. 1902 (q.v.);
returned to New Zealand and adm. to
St James's, Thames, Auckland, 1907.
MORICE, GEORGE, born Edinburgh,
1837 ; son of James M., M.D. ; educated at
Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1854-8; min.
at Taurango 1868-9; died at Cupar, 18th
Dec. 1869. He marr. Williamina, daugh.
of William Barclay, min. of Auldearn.
MUIR, JAMES STIRLING, licen. by
Presb. of Glasgow ; app. by Colonial Com
mittee ; min. at Wellington, New Zealand,
1864-70; went to Sydney, New South Wales.
(See Australia.)
OGG, CHARLES SIMMERS, born
Banchory-Ternan, 10th April 1832, son of
Charles O., min. of Inverallochy ; educated
at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (March
1851); adm. to St Andrew's, Chatham,
NEW ZEALAND
605
New Brunswick, 14th Feb. 1861 ; emigrated
to New Zealand ; adm. min. of St Andrew's
Wellington, 15th Dec. 1872; res. 1903
died unmarr. 21st Aug. 1905.— [Dickson's
Hist, of Neiv Zealand Church, 425.]
PATTULLO, JAMES LEBURN, bor.
Edinburgh, 12th Nov. 1853, son of James
P. and Jane Morrison Leburn ; educated
at Craigmount School and Univ. of Edin
burgh ; ord. to Waiki, New Zealand. Marr
12th Sept. 1883, Morinie, daugh. of Henry
Davidson, and has issue— Jane (marr. Leo
Spratt, Waitu); James Henry, farmer:
Mary (Mrs Noakes); Norman, farmer'
Gladys (Mrs Darrow) ; Eddie, clerk, Auck
land.
KANKIN, WILLIAM PILLANS, born
Glasgow, 18th Sept. 1881, son of John R.
and Agnes Pillans ; educated at Gorbals
School and Univ. of Glasgow; licen. by
Presb. of Manchester in 1907 ; assistant at
Oatlands, Glasgow; ord. 29th Aug. 1907;
adm. min. at Cromwell 1st June 1914.
Marr. 1st March 1909, a daugh. of Thomas
M'Whinnie, and has issue— William, born
24th and died 30th Sept. 1913 ; . Esther,
born 28th June 1915; Arthur William,
born 30th April 1917; Agnes, bora 23rd
Dec. 1919 ; Helen, born 17th Oct 1922.
RITCHIE, WILLIAM, born 1st Oct.
1856, son of William R. and Charlotte
Patton ; educated at Dunoon and Univ. of
Glasgow ; M.A. (1882) ; licen. by Presb. of
Glasgow in 1883 ; assistant at Thornliebank,
Dalmeny, and Saltcoats ; ord. to Carron-
shore Mission (Larbert), 1888 ; emigrated
to New Zealand and adm. min. at Carterton
in 1898 ; trans, to Kaipoi 1901 ; adm. to
Edendale, Southland, 1904; dem. 1908;
residing at North Palmerston 1926. Marr.
14th Nov. 1888, daugh. of Hugh Duncan,
s.p.
RUNCIMAN, DAVID WILLIAMSON,
M.A. (,-f. Vol. V., 110); formerly min. of
Leslie, Fife; adm. min. of St Stephen's,
Ponsonby, Auckland, 14th Feb. 1878 ; dem.
4th June 1889; became registrar of Auck
land University, 1894-1907 ; died 24th June
1910.
SCOTT, THOMAS, ord. to Ngaruawahia,
Auckland, New Zealand, 9th Dec. 1874
[afterwards min. of Half -Morton] (cf. Vol
II., 236).
SIM, GEORGE INNES, formerly min
of Drumoak (cf. Vol. VI., 51); min. at
Easterton, Victoria, 1883 [afterwards Prin
cipal of Queen's College, Auckland, New
Zealand]; died llth Jan. 1913.
SIMPSON, WILLIAM, born Alves,
Elgin, 17th March 1863, son of Charles S. ;
educated at Univs. of Aberdeen, M.A. (1883)
and St Andrews, B.D. (1891); adm. min.
of Clarendon Street Presbyterian Church,
Melbourne; trans, to Sydenham, Christ-
church, 1900; dem. 1904 and returned to
Scotland.
SOUTAR, ALEXANDER CHALMERS,
formerly min. of Swallow Street Church^
London (q.v.) ; went to New Zealand ; min!
at Picton 29th June 1868 ; res. 27th June
1869, and adm. to Blenheim that year.
THOMPSON, WILLIAM, M.A., B.D. ;
adm. to Waipu North (a Gaelic-speaking
charge), June 1898.
WALLACE, JOHN, ord. to North Shore,
New Zealand, 12th March 1866 [afterwards
mm. of Glenbuck] (cf. Vol. III., 43).
WALLIS, JAMES, M.A., L.R.C.S. (cf
Vol. VI., 42) ; formerly min. of Woodside,
Aberdeen, and British Guiana (q.v.) ; app.
to St David's, Auckland, Oct. 1865 • dem
1st July 1868 and went to Matanana
Valley, Wanganui, but returned to Auck
land in September, where he built the
Newton Church, and established an inde
pendent congregation.
WALLS, THOMAS (cf. Vol. Ill, 2),
:ormerly min. of Annbank ; adm. to Wood-
ville in 1893; dem. 23rd Oct. 1894 and
returned to Scotland.
WRIGHT, ALEXANDER MACLEAN,
born Elgin, 7th July 1852, son of George
W. ; educated at Univ. of Aberdeen ; M.A.
'1876), M.A. (New Zealand 1878); min. at
r'almerston North, Wellington, 1879-92;
adm. to Lincoln and Prebbleton, Canter
bury, 1892; died 16th Dec. 1900.
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DOMINION OF CANADA
[Ministers of the Church of Scotland from 1765 to the Union of the
Churches in 1875, with some of later date.]
MARITIME OR EASTERN PROVINCES
CAPE BRETON.
[The Island of Cape Breton has been a
British possession since 1758, when, after
a siege of forty-eight days, the fortified
city of Louisburg (the Gibraltar of North
America) surrendered to General Wolfe.
Eobert Macpherson [educated at Marischal
College, Aberdeen, 1748-52, licentiate of
Church of Scotland, and chaplain to the
Fraser Highlanders] is believed to have
been the first Scottish minister to conduct
services in Cape Breton, in June 1758. In
1798, and again in 1818, James M'Gregor,
D.D., Secession minister at Pictou, made
laborious missionary journeys throughout
the Island. Immigration commenced in
1802, the first vessel arriving on 16th Aug.
with 299 settlers mostly from the Western
Highlands of Scotland. They had no
minister for many years. The first resident
Presbyterian minister was Norman M'Leod,
a native of Stoer, Sutherland (licentiate of
Presbytery of Genesee, U.S.A.) who settled
at St Ann's Harbour, 20th May 1820, where
he remained for upwards of thirty years.
At the age of seventy he left for New
Zealand with a ship-load of his followers.
Donald Macdonald arrived in 1824 and
itinerated for two years, afterwards re
moving to Prince Edward Island (q.v.).
Dugald M'Kichan (infra), first regular
minister of the Church of Scotland, was
settled at River Inhabitants for eight years.
In 1828, Donald A. Fraser of Pictou,
and John M'Lennan of Prince Edward
Island (q.v.) proceeded on a missionary
tour to Cape Breton, exploring and evan
gelising throughout eve/y part of the
Island. (See statement appended to Third
Annual Report of the Glasgow Colonial
Society, April 1829.) In 1830 there was
formed the Edinburgh Ladies' Association
" to help in sending missionaries, catechists,
and teachers to the Island of Cape Breton."
Alexander Farquharson (infra) arrived in
1833. His account of the condition of the
people is almost without parallel in the
annals of Colonial missionary endeavour.
They had built six churches before his
arrival and in the following year ten more
were erected. These he divided into parishes
over which he and three others [John
Stewart, James Fraser, Peter M'Lean
(infra)] were settled. In 1844 all the Cape
Breton ministers joined the Free Church,
yet at the census of 1851 it was found that
over 5000 persons still adhered to the Church
of Scotland. A Presbytery of Cape Breton
in connection with the Church of Scotland
was instituted in '1836. In 1844 it became
a Presbytery of the Free Church of Nova
Scotia. None of its early records have been
preserved.]
FARQUHARSON, ALEXANDER, born
Strathardale, Perthshire, 29th May 1793,
son of John F., farmer ; educated at Univs.
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of Glasgow and St Andrews ; app. by the
Edinburgh Ladies' Association, with the
sanction of Glasgow Colonial Society as a
Gaelic-speaking licentiate of the Church of
Scotland ; ord. by Presb. of New Brunswick,
and arrived at Plaster Cove, Cape Breton,
llth Sept. 1833; itinerated throughout
the whole of the island, and adm. min. at
Middle River and Lake Ainslie 30th Nov.
1834 ; died 25th Jan. 1858. His tombstone
says that " he was the first missionary sent
directly to Cape Breton by the Church of
Scotland, and the first Church of Scotland
minister to spend his whole life here. He
lived a life of eminent usefulness, self-
sacrifice, and self-denial, and he finished
his course with joy." He marr. Ann
Mackenzie, and had issue — Alexander,
min. of Free Church, Sydney, Cape Breton,
born 16th June 1835, died 21st Oct. 1892 ;
and others.— [Murray's Hist, of the Presby
terian Church in Cape Lreton (portrait),
51, 232; Gregg's Hist, of Presbyterian
Church in Canada, 340.]
FRASER, JAMES, born Fodderty, Ross-
shire, 1800; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen, 1816-22, and at Univ. of Edin
burgh ; schoolmaster of Lochinver ; licen.
by Presb. of Dornoch May 1835 ; ord. (by
Presb. of Edinburgh) for missionary work
in Cape Breton; adm. to Boulardarie in
1837; died there 8th April 1874.— [Murray's
Hist, of the Presbyterian Church in Cape
Breton (portrait), 58.]
FRASER, JAMES WILLIAM, M.A. ;
app. by Colonial Committee to River
Inhabitants, Cape Breton, 1866; went to
Nova Scotia in 1870 (q.v.).
GUNN, JOHN, born Farr, Sutherland-
shire, 1806; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen, 1825-30; app. a missionary in
Cape Breton in 1838 ; adm. to Broad Cove
24th Sept. 1840. Joined the Free Church in
1844 (when every member of the Presb. of
Cape Breton withdrew from the Church of
Scotland). In 1860 he declined to enter
the Union between the Free and the
Presbyterian Churches of Nova Scotia, and
shortly afterwards, along with his congre
gation, he attached himself to the Presb. of
Pictou in connection with the Church of
Scotland, of which he remained a member
till his death at Broad Cove, 2nd Nov.
1870.— [Murray's Presbyterian Church in
Cape Breton, 62.]
M'KICHAN,DUGALD(c/.Vol.VI.,449);
removed from Barney's River, Nova Scotia,
to Conso (River Inhabitants), Cape Breton,
1832, where he ministered till his return to
Barney's River in 1840 (q.v.).
M'LEAN, PETER, born Uig, Lewis,
1800 ; was engaged in business in Stornoway
till his twenty-seventh year ; educated at
King's College, Aberdeen ; schoolmaster of
Uig; licen. by Presb. of Lewis in 1836;
app. by Colonial Committee and ord. (by
Presb. of Lewis) as missionary to St
Patrick's Channel and Whycocomagh Bay,
Cape Breton, and arrived 26th Aug. 1837 ;
returned to Scotland in ill-health in 1841.
Joined the Free Church in 1843 ; adm. to
Tobermory Free Church 2nd Aug. that
year ; revisited Cape Breton in 1853 when
he dispensed the Communion in his old
charge, at which over 5000 people were
present from every part of the island;
trans, to Gaelic Free Church, Stornoway,
May 1855; again visited Cape Breton in
1866; died 20th March 1868. From his
stalwart and commanding appearance he
was spoken of "as Patrick mor Maclean/'
He marr. 1843, Flora Campbell.— [Murray's
Presbyterian Church in Cape Breton (por
trait), 60.]
MACLEOD, HUGH, D.D. (cf. Vol. VII.,
64); formerly min. of Logie-Easter ; adm.
min. of Free Church, Mira Ferry (now
Albert Bridge), Cape Breton, 2nd Oct. 1850;
died 23rd Jan. 1894.
M'LEOD, RODERICK, B.D., a native
of Harris ; ord. to Strathlorne, Cape Breton,
26th July 1886 [afterwards min. at Kenyon
and Ripley, Canada]; returned to Scotland
and became min. of the Free Church, Knock,
Lewis, 1910 - 23, and Dunoon in 1928 ;
Moderator of Free Church Assembly 1921.
RANKIN, EDWARD BLACKMORE
cf. Vol. I., 424); adm. min. of Falmouth
Street Church, Sydney, Cape Breton, 26th
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CAPE BRETON— NEW BRUNSWICK
Aug. 1891; was clerk of Presb. ; dem.
15th Aug. 1903 ; returned to Scotland and
adm. to Whitekirk and Tynninghame 23rd
May 1904. He was spoken of as the saint
of the Sydney Presbytery.
STEWAKT, JOHN, adm. at West Bay,
Cape Breton, 19th Oct. 1835; removed to
Nova Scotia in 1838 (q.v.}.
STEWAKT, MURDOCH, born Contin,
Ross-shire, 1809; educated at King's Col
lege, Aberdeen ; M.A. (March 1834); licen.
in 1839 ; sometime a parish schoolmaster ;
app. by Colonial Committee and ord. to
West Bay, Cape Breton, Sept. 1843 ; adm.
to Whycocomagh in 1868 ; died at Pictou,
30th July 1884. — [Murray's Presbyterian
Church in Gape Breton (portrait), 66.]
WILSON, MATTHEW, born Gadder,
Lanarkshire, 1st Jan. 1806, seventh son
of Alexander W., farmer; educated at
Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of
Glasgow 5th Sept. 1838; sometime a
missionary in Glasgow; app. by Colonial
Committee, and ord. (by Presb. of Glasgow)
17th May 1842 for service at Sydney
Mines, Cape Breton; res. in 1883; died
(as the result of a carriage accident while
on his way to make a sick visit) 13th Dec.
1884.— [Murray's Presbyterian Church in
Cape Breton (portrait), 64.]
NEW BRUNSWICK.
[On 30th January 1833 there were five
ministers of the Church of Scotland in the
Province of New Brunswick. At that date
they constituted themselves into the Presby
tery of New Brunswick. This continued
to 12th June 1835 when, their numbers being
doubled, it was erected into a Synod, divided
into the two Presbyteries of St John and
Miramichi. On 17th March 1845 three
(out of thirteen) members of Synod, who
sympathised with the Free Church, organised
the " Synod of New Brunswick adhering to
the Standards of the Westminster Confes
sion." The remaining ten continued their
Synod until 1st July 1868, when they united
with the Synod of Nova Scotia and Prince
Edward Island, the united bodies assuming
the name of the " Synod of the Presbyterian
Church of the Maritime Provinces of British
North America in connection with the Church
of Scotland." In 1845, the same year in
which it was constituted, the Free Synod,
because of the paucity of its members, re
verted to a Presbytery, but in 1854, when
its members had increased, the Presbytery
became again a Synod under the name of
the Presbyterian Church of New Brunswick.
On 2nd July 1866 a union was effected with
the Synod of the Lower Provinces (formed
on 4th Oct. 1860 by a union of the Synod
of Nova Scotia with the Synod of the Free
Church of Nova Scotia), and under that
name it continued until 1875 when, with
131 ministers on its roll, it entered the
general union of the Canadian Churches.]
ANDERSON, JAMES, ord. (by Presb.
of Nairn) June 1865 ; min. at Wallace and
Pugwash, Nova Scotia, 1866-72 ; adm. [not
ord.] to St James's, Newcastle, New Bruns
wick, 1873 ; returned to Scotland and adm.
to Alvie 22nd April 1880 (cf. Vol. VI., 357).
ARCHIBALD, ROBERT (cf. Vol. III.,
272) ; ord. to St Andrew's Church, Chat
ham, New Brunswick, 1834 ; returned to
Scotland and adm. to Kilbarchan 14th
March 1844 [afterwards min. of New
Monkland].
BEGG, WILLIAM PROUDFOOT (cf.
Vol. III., 197); adm. min. of Woodstock,
New Brunswick, Jan. 1872 ; returned to
Scotland and adm. to Augustine Church,
Greenock, 1881.
BERRY, JAMES GARROW, M.A., B.D.,
formerly min. of Leslie, Aberdeenshire (cf.
Vol. VI., 172) ; trans, to Colvend 2nd Aug.
1917 ; dem. on app. to Frederickton, New
Brunswick, 1926.
BIRKMYRE, JOHN, D.D. (cf. Vol. I.,
30) ; app. by Glasgow Colonial Society
and ord. to St Paul's Church, Fredericton,
New Brunswick, 1832; returned to Scot
land in 1841 ; adm. to Dean Parish, Edin
burgh, 2nd May 1844.
BROOKE, JOHN M., born Slamannan,
Stirlingshire, 1801 ; educated at Univ. of
Edinburgh; app. by Colonial Committee
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609
and ord. to New Eichmond, New Bruns
wick, 1839 ; adm. to St Paul's, Fredericton,
New Brunswick, Feb. 1843; D.D. (Univ.
of New Brunswick, 1856) ; was the oldest
min. of the Church of Scotland in the
Maritime Provinces at the Union of 1875 ;
died in 1882.
BURGESS, JAMES, ord. to Andover,
New Brunswick, 17th Nov. 1891 ; adm. to
Beach Mission, Broughty Ferry, 18th May
1905 (cf. Vol. V., 312).
BURNS, GEORGE, D.D. (cf. Vol. I.,
296); ord. 19th Feb. 1816; arrived on
Sunday morning, 25th May 1817, opening
St Andrew;s Church, St John, New
Brunswick, and preaching his first sermon
that same evening ; returned to Scotland
and adm. to Tweedsmuir 3rd Nov. 1831. —
[Jack's Hist, of Saint Andrew's Church
(portraits), 52-87.]
CAIE, GEORGE JOHNSTON, B.A.
(cf. Vol. V., 287); ord. to St Stephen's,
St John, New Brunswick, 6th June 1866;
returned to Scotland and app. assistant
at For far in 1874; adm. (assistant and
successor) there 2nd July 1875.
CAMERON, ROBERT JAMES (cf.
Vol. V., 84) ; app. ordained assistant at St
Andrew's, St John, New Brunswick, 14th
April 1870 ; adm. to that charge 8th June
1871 ; res. 12th June 1876 ; returned to
Scotland and adm. to Burntisland 20th
Sept. 1877. — [Jack's Hist, of Saint Andrew's
Church (portrait), 144-8.]
DAVIDSON, JOHN, adm. to New
Richmond, New Brunswick, 1st Nov. 1851 ;
trans, to North Williamsburgh, Ontario,
April 1858 (q.v.).
DONALD, WILLIAM, born Edingight,
Grange, Banffshire, 6th June 1807, son of
John D., farmer, and Janet M'Hattie;
educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen ;
M.A. (1828); sometime schoolmaster of
Huntly ; licen. by Presb. of Strathbogie ;
app. by Colonial Committee ; ord. (by
Presb. of Strathbogie) April 1849 ; arrived
18th June, and adm. 10th July following
to St Andrew's, St John, New Brunswick ;
VOL. VII.
D.D. (Kingston, April 1861); res. 22nd
Jan., and died 20th Feb. 1871. He marr.
(1) a lady, who died 3rd March 1850, aged
51, and had issue: (2) 29th June 1852,
Louisa Agnes (died 1892, aged 64), daugh.
of Hugh Wilson, Edinburgh, and had issue.
—[Jack's Hist, of St Andreio's Church
(portrait), 117-46.]
FERRIE, WILLIAM, formerly min. of
Anstruther Easter (cf. Vol. V., 181), min.
of St David's, St John, New Brunswick, in
1851.
FOGO, WILLIAM, educated at Univ.
of St Andrews ; app. by Colonial Committee
as a missionary to Nova Scotia and ord. by
Presb. of Perth to Halifax 29th July 1868 ;
adm. to Nashwark and Stanley, New Bruns
wick, 6th June 1871.
FORBES, ALEXANDER, app. by
Colonial Committee as a missionary to
New Brunswick 1854 ; adm. to St John's
Church, Dalhousie, New Brunswick, 1855 ;
trans, to Inverness (Presb. of Quebec) 1859
(q.v.).
FRASER, SIMON (cf. Vol. VII., 9),
app. by Glasgow Colonial Society and ord.
missionary to Black River, Bay du Vin
(Alnwick and Glenelg), and the scattered
Scottish settlements in New Brunswick
16th Jan. 1835 ; returned to Scotland 1840 ;
adm. to Fortrose 10th Feb. 1842.
GALBRAITH, PETER, adm. to
St Luke's, Bathurst, New Brunswick, 10th
Jan. 1874; min. at West Branch of East
River, Pictou, Nova Scotia, 1875 (q.v.).
HALKET [or HALKETT], ANDREW,
assistant at Portobello ; app. by Colonial
ommittee and ord. to St Andrew's, St
John, New Brunswick, 7th Sept. 1843 ; re
turned to Scotland in 1847 and adm. to
Brechin 23rd Sept. that year (cf. Vol. V.,
378). — [Jack's Hist, of St Andrew's Church
portrait), 103, 114.]
HANNAY, JAMES (cf. Vol. III., 361) ;
ird. (by Presb. of Stranraer) July 1833;
min. at Richibucto, New Brunswick,
1833-45 ; returned to Scotland and was
adm. [not ord.] min. of Milngavie 1847.
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NEW BRUNSWICK
HENDERSON, WILLIAM, born
18th Aug. 1800 ; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen ; teacher at Coldstream Academy
for eight years ; licen. by Presb. of Aber
deen ; ord. to Union Church, Aberdeen ;
app. by Colonial Committee to the mission
stations of Salisbury, Moncton, and Shediac,
New Brunswick, Aug. 1841 ; adm. to St
James's Church, Newcastle, New Bruns
wick, 21st Feb. 1844 ; D.D. (Queen's Univ.
1862) ; died 6th June 1868. He marr. 23rd
Sept. 1857, a daugh. of the Rev. Joseph
Purdie of Clydevale, Lanarkshire.
HOME, FREDERICK, min. at St
Luke's, Bathurst, New Brunswick, 1867-73 ;
went to Ontario 1874 (q.v.).
HUNTER, JOHN, app. by Colonial
Committee 1848 ; min. at Woodstock and
Richmond, New Brunswick, 1849-53 ; at
Richmond, 1853-9, "when he ceased to
exercise the functions of the ministry."
JARDINE, ROBERT, M.A., B.D.,
D.Sc., Professor of Logic, Univ. of New
Brunswick [afterwards missionary of the
Church of Scotland in India (q.v.)].
JOHNSTON, WILLIAM G., min. of St
Andrew's, Chatham, New Brunswick,
1830-34.
KEAY, PETER, born Glasgow, 1823, son
of Peter K. ; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen; M.A. (March 1845); app. by
Colonial Committee, and was sometime
missionary at Woodstock and Northamp
ton, New Brunswick ; adm. to Nashwark,
New Brunswick, 1854. [This congrega
tion was organised by Daniel M'Curdy of
the U.P. Church, Nova Scotia, but the
members desired a Church of Scotland
minister to be set over them]; trans, to
Greenock Church, St Andrews, New
Brunswick, Jan. 1868 ; killed while cross
ing the track at a railway station, 29th
Dec. 1873. He marr. and had issue, four
children.
KIDD, JAMES, M.A. (cf. Vol. VII., 281);
app. by Colonial Committee and ord. to
Richmond, New Brunswick, 10th Dec.
1861 ; adm. to a charge in Ontario, 18(
returned to Scotland and adm. to Bressay
1st March 1877.
MACBEAN, JOHN, M.A. ; min. at
Tabusintac and Burnt Church, New Bruns
wick, 1841-3; min. at St Andrew's, Chatham,
New Brunswick, 1843 ; went to Australia,
and was also at Colombo, Ceylon. (See
under Australia.)
MACDONALD, FINLAY ROBERT,
(cf. Vol. V., 259) ; ord. to St James's, New
castle, New Brunswick, 1869 ; res. 28th
March 1873, on account of ill-health and
returned to Scotland ; assistant at The
Barony, Glasgow; adm. [not ord.] to
Martyrs' Church, Paisley, 25th Sept. 1874
[afterwards min. of Coupar-Angus].
MACDONELL, GEORGE, ord. to St
Luke's, Bathurst, New Brunswick, 1840
[afterwards of Fergus, Ontario (q.v.)].
M'INTYRE, PETER, born 1810, third
son of Donald M., farmer, Kilchrenan,
Argyll ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ;
M.A. (1827); app. by Glasgow Colonial
Society in 1833; adm. min. at St James's,
Charlotte Co., New Brunswick, that year ;
died soon afterwards.
M'LARDY, J. H, a native of New
Brunswick ; educated at Univ. of Edin
burgh ; app. by Colonial Committee as
missionary at Woodstock, New Brunswick,
1858 ; min. there, 1862-6 ; res. and became
assistant at Ottawa ; res. his ministerial
status and engaged in teaching ; drowned
while bathing in the River Ottawa in 1873.
MACLEAN, ALEXANDER, D.D. (cf.
Vol. VII., 44) ; ord. first min. of Greenock
Church, St Andrews, New Brunswick,
1st May 1824 [so called from its having
been erected mainly at the expense of
Christopher Scott, a native of Greenock,
merchant in St Andrews] ; returned to
Scotland and adm. to Kiltearn 26th Feb.
1846.
M'LEAN, L. H., M.A., min. at Pictou,
Nova Scotia, 1906 - 10 ; Newcastle, New
Brunswick, 1921.
M'M ASTER, ANGUS, born 1802, seventh
son of Alexander M., farmer, Feorling,
Kilmory, Arran ; educated at Univ. of
Glasgow ; app. by Colonial Committee
and adm. to St Stephen's Church, Black
River, and Kouchibouguac, New Brans-
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611
wick, Dec. 1842 ; withdrew from Church of
Scotland in 1845, and in 1875 was min. at
New Mills in Presb. of Miramichi ; died at
Shedog, Arran, 6th April 1886, and buried
in Clachan churchyard.— [Tombst.]
MACRAE, DONALD, born 26th
Nov. 1833, son of John M., min. at East
River of Pictou, Nova Scotia [afterwards
min. of Stornoway]; educated at Univ.
of Edinburgh and King's College, Aber
deen ; M. A. (March 1851); app. by Colonial
Committee and ord. to East River of
Pictou in 1856 ; trans, to St Andrew's
Church, St John's, Newfoundland, Aug.
1858 ; re-trans, to East River in 1870 ; trans,
to St Stephen's, St John, New Brunswick,
1874 ; (D.D.) ; died 1909.
M'ROBIE, WILLIAM, born Muthill,
Perthshire, 1820, eldest son of John M. ;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; min. at
Gartmore in 1856 (cf. Vol. IV., 346) ; app.
by Colonial Committee; min. at Tabusintac
and Burnt Church, New Brunswick, 18th
June 1857 to Sept. 1860.
MOFFAT, JOHN (cf. Vol. VII., 228);
min. at Woodstock, New Brunswick, Oct.
1871-2. (See Ontario.)
MURRAY, JAMES, min. of St Luke's,
Bathurst, New Brunswick, Nov. 1852-61 ;
min. at Tabusintac, 1861-5; min. of St
John's Church, Dalhousie, New Brunswick,
Nov. 1865-74; adm. to Wallace, Nova
Scotia, 18th Aug. 1874 (q.v.).
MURRAY, JAMES ALLISTER, min.
at St Luke's, Bathurst, New Brunswick,
1861-7; went to Mount Forest, Ontario,
1867 (q.v.).
MURRAY, WILLIAM; app. by
Colonial Committee to Moncton in 1855 ;
min. at Dalhousie, 1859-65 ; became assist
ant at Fredericton ; adm. to St Andrew's
Church, Campbelltown, 1869; returned to
Scotland after 1875; died at Edinburgh,
14th Feb. 1904.
OGG, CHARLES SIMMERS, M.A. ;
adm. to St Andrew's Church, Chatham,
New Brunswick, 14th Feb. 1861 ; emigrated
to New Zealand and became min. at St
Andrew's, Wellington, 15th Dec. 1872 (q.v.).
ROBERTSON, JOHN, educated at
Univs. of Edinburgh and Aberdeen ; app.
by Colonial Committee to Tabusintac and
Burnt Church, New Brunswick, 1868 ; ind.
there in 1871 ; still in the charge 1875.'
ROSS, JOHN, born Cromarty, about
1807, son of Simon R., shoemaker; edu
cated at Marischal College, Aberdeen,
1821-5'; app. by Colonial Committee and
ord. in 1831 ; app. to Yarmouth and Shel-
burne, Nova Scotia, 1836; min. of Greenock
Church, St Andrews, New Brunswick,
1845-67 ; died 9th April 1871.
RUSSELL, SAMUEL, a native of New
Brunswick ; educated at Queen's College,
Kingston ; ord. missionary at Red Bank
and Black Bank in Presb. of Miramichi,
New Brunswick, 1871.
SOUTER, JAMES, M.A. (cf. Vol. I.,
304); app. by Glasgow Colonial Society;
ord. to St James's, Newcastle, New Bruns
wick, llth June, and adm. 19th Sept. 1830;
returned to Scotland in 1843; adm. to
Borthwick 10th May 1844.
STEVEN [or STEVENS], JAMES, born
Galston, Ayrshire, 1801, second son of
James S. ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ;
app. by Glasgow Colonial Society ; ord. (by
Presb. of Stranraer) for missionary service
in New Brunswick 1831 ; arrived at Camp
belltown, at the head of the Bay of
Chaleurs, 24th Oct. that year. He laboured
there for thirty-three years with Campbell-
town and Dalhousie for centres, his minis
trations being extended to vast distances
where roads were unknown, and hardship
and fatigue his constant experience ; died
22nd Jan. 1864.— [Gregg's Hist., 291.]
STEWART, WILLIAM, app. by
Colonial Committee as missionary to New
Brunswick, and ord. 22nd March 1848;
adm. to St Andrew's Church, Chatham,
New Brunswick, 1st March 1849 ; trans, to
Hornby, Ontario, 26th Dec. 1860 (q.v.).
STOTT, DAVID (cf. Vol. VII., 214);
app. by Colonial Committee to Woodstock,
New Brunswick, 1856 ; removed to Ontario
and was sometime missionary and min. at
Brantford ; returned to Scotland and was
adm. to Deerness, Orkney, 18th Oct. 1866.
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NEW BRUNSWICK— NOVA SCOTIA
THOMSON, JOHN, min. of St David's
Church, St John, New Brunswick, 1848-53
[afterwards of Inverallan] (cf. Vol. VI., 363)
[his son, A. S. D., died 9th Sept. 1927].
WELLS, JOHN, born Dumfriesshire,
about 1832, third son of Robert W.; edu
cated at Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A. (1856) ;
assistant at Campbeltown; app. by Colonial
Committee and adm. to New Richmond,
New Brunswick, July 1861; still in the
charge 1875.
WILKINS, WILLIAM T., B.A.; ord.
to Woodstock, New Brunswick, Nov. 1866 ;
trans, to St Paul's Church, Truro, Nova
Scotia, 2nd Sept. 1869 ; trans, to St An
drew's Church, Stratford, Ontario, llth
April 1873 (q.v.\
WILSON, ROBERT, born Glasgow,
13th March 1805, fourth son of Thomas W.,
architect; educated at Glasgow Grammar
School (Dux, 1816, 1817,. 1819) and Univ.
of Glasgow ; M.A. (1826) ; licen. by Presb.
of Glasgow ; ord. by same Presb. to St
Andrew's Church, St John, New Brunswick,
4th Feb. 1832; res. in 1842 and returned
to Scotland. Joined the Free Church ;
min. of Free Church, North Ronaldsay,
1846-94 ; died at 28 Buccleuch Place, Edin
burgh, 5th April 1894. He marr. 21st Oct.
1833, Margaret Elizabeth, eldest daugh. of
John Wilmot, Mayor of St John, New
Brunswick, and sister of Robert Duncan
W., Lieut.-Governor of New Brunswick.
— [Hannay's New Brunswick, 409; Jack's
Hist, of Saint Andrew's Church (portrait)
88-99.]
WILSON, WILLIAM MACKNIGHT,
app. by Colonial Committee to St Andrew's
Church, Campbelltown, New Brunswick,
and ord. 16th Nov. 1865; trans, to Chatham,
New Brunswick, 1868; returned to Scotland
and adm. to North Parish, Aberdeen (cf
Vol. VI., 16).
WISHART, WILLIAM T., min. of St
Stephen's Church, St John, New Bruns
wick, 1842; adopted views on Baptism
contrary to the standards of the Church,
and was deposed.
NOVA SCOTIA.
[The Province of Nova Scotia (then in
cluding New Brunswick), ceded by Louis
XIV. of France to Queen Anne, became a
permanent British possession in 1713 under
the Treaty of Utrecht. New Brunswick
was constituted a separate Province in 1784.
In 1758 Prince Edward Island and Cape
Breton, which had remained in the hands
of the French, passed under British rule,
and were separate Provinces until 1820
when Cape Breton was conjoined with
Nova Scotia. After 1713 British authority
for a long period was exercised only with
the greatest difficulty. The inhabitants of
Nova Scotia, called Acadians, of French
extraction and chiefly Roman Catholics,
refused the Oath of Allegiance and were
constantly in league with the native Indians
and often in armed resistance to the British.
To counteract this disaffection immigrants
were brought from Britain and the Conti
nent of Europe, and the Hon. Edward
Cornwallis (appointed Governor in 1749)
was entrusted with the task of organising
a British colony. He was founder of the
city of Halifax. In 1755 a deportation of
the Acadians became necessary. They were
forcibly removed to the older English colonies
of America, and from those older colonies
settlers were invited to occupy the lands
left vacant by the deportees. A large
number of the newcomers were Presby
terians, and one of their first requests was
for religious ordinances. James Lyon, from
the Presbytery of New Brunswick, in New
Jersey, laboured for a time in Halifax and
elsewhere from 1764. Samuel Kinloch, a
licentiate of the Burgher Synod of Scot
land, arrived in 1766 but returned home in
1769. The first permanent minister, who may
be considered the pioneer of Presbyterianism
in Nova Scotia, was James Murdoch, a
native of County Donegal, who fixed on
Horton as a centre for his missionary
labours. He met his death by drowning in
the Musquodoboit River in 1799. The first
Church of Scotland minister in the Province
was James Fraser, formerly chaplain to the
71st Regiment during the American War.
He became pastor of a Scots congregation at
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Shelburne, to the West of Halifax. In 1783,
Thomas Eussell (infra) became minister of
the Protestant Dissenters' Church (after
wards St Matthew's) organised at Halifax
in 1749.
The first meeting of a Presbytery and the
first ordination of a Presbyterian minister,
in the Dominion of Canada, took place at
Halifax on 3rd July 1770, when Messrs
Lyon and Murdoch, with two Congregational
ministers [Seccombe and Phelps] set apart
an earnest and pious-minded Dutch fisher
man, Bruin Romcas Comingoe, to the office
of the ministry. He laboured at Lunenburg
for fifty years and died in 1820 at the age
of 96. In 1786 there was organised the
Associate or Burgher Presbytery of Truro,
and in 1795 the Anti-Burgher Presbytery of
Pictou. On 3rd July 1817 a union was
effected between those two Presbyteries,
together with several ministers from the
Church of Scotland, the united body assum
ing the name of the Synod of the Presby
terian [Secession] Church of Nova Scotia.
On 30th Aug. 1833, with an increase in the
number of ministers from the Church of
Scotland, there was formed the Synod of
Nova Scotia in connection with the Church
of Scotland. In July 1844 this Synod re
pudiated all connection with the mother
church, and took the name of the Synod of
Nova Scotia adhering to the Westminster :
Standards, altered in 1848 to the Synod of j
the Free Church of Nova Scotia. On 4th
Oct. 1860 these Synods— Secession and Free i
—united to form the Synod of the Presby- |
terian Church of the Lower Provinces of
British North America, to which was joined,
on 2nd July 1866, the Synod of New Bruns
wick [Free]. At the close of 1844 the Church
of Scotland was represented in Nova Scotia
by only two ministers. On 4th July 1854
a Synod in connection with the Church of
Scotland was revived in Nova Scotia and
Prince Edward Island, and retained a
separate existence till 8th July 1868, when,
by union with the kindred Synod of New
Brunswick (1833) [see under that section]
there came into operation the Synod of
the Presbyterian Church of the Maritime
Provinces of British North America in
connection with the Church of Scotland.
In 1875 both Synods entered the larger
union of the Canadian Churches. The
entire Presbytery of Pictou, however [A. W.
Herdman, Pictou ; George Coull, New Glas
gow ; William Stewart, Maclennan's Moun
tain ; A. J. M'Kichan, Barney's River ;
Charles Dunn, Stellarton and Westville ;
William MacMillan, Salt Springs; J. W.
Fraser, Roger's Hill and Cape John •
Robert M'Cunn, River John ; James M'Coll,
Earltown], declined to unite, and retained
their association with the Church of Scot
land. But one by one, at different times, the
survivors of those ministers and their con
gregations passed into the united Church.]
AITKEN, THOMAS, born Bo'ness, 1799,
son of James A., merchant; educated at
Univ. of Glasgow; M.A. (1818); app. by
Glasgow Colonial Society as rector of
Halifax Academy, Nova Scotia, 1828, and
to engage in missionary work.
ANDERSON, JAMES, adm. to Wallace
and Pugwash, Nova Scotia, April 1866 ;
trans, to St James's Church, Newcastle,
New Brunswick, 1873 (q.v.}.
ARMIT, ANDREW (cf. Vol. V., 366),
missionary at Beach Mission, Broughty
Ferry, 1887-92; ord. to Pictou, Nova
Scotia, llth April 1893; adm. to Monikie
18th May 1896.
BOWMAN, ARCHIBALD, formerly
min. of Forglen (cf. Vol. VI., 253) ; min. of
St Andrew's Church, New Glasgow, Nova
Scotia, 1888 ; trans, to St Therese de Blain-
ville, Quebec, 1901 ; died 22nd March 1919.
BOYD, GEORGE, MA. (cf. Vol. I., 87),
min. of St Andrew's, Halifax, 1856; re
turned to Scotland in 1865 ; became min.
of Restalrig in 1870.
BRODIE, NEIL (cf. Vol. VII., 181),
formerly a missionary in Cape Breton ;
adm. to Gairloch, Nova Scotia, Sept. 1868 ;
trans, to Lochiel, Ontario, Oct. 1874 (q.v.).
BROWN, ANDREW, D.D. (cf. Vol. I.,
72) ; ord. to Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1787 ;
returned to Scotland and adm. to Loch-
maben llth Sept. 1795 [afterwards min. of
Old Kirk, or South-East Parish, Edinburgh].
While minister at Halifax he gave much
time and labour to the preparation of a
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History of Nova Scotia. Several of his
manuscripts were afterwards found in a
small shop in Scotland where they were
used as wrapping-paper. Those remaining
were purchased and deposited in the British
Museum. Transcripts were obtained at the
instance of the Nova Scotia Royal Commis
sion. — [See Collections of Nova Scotia
Historical Society, ii., 129.]
BURGESS, EDWIN H., min. at Stel-
larton, Nova Scotia, 1892-1906 [afterwards
at Zion Church, Kingston, Ontario].
CALLAN, JOHN MANN, M.A., min. at
Balwearie, Pictou, Nova Scotia, 1886-8 ;
returned to Scotland and adm. to Annbank
(cf. Vol. III., 2).
CAMPBELL, JAMES FRASER, born
1845, son of the Hon. Charles C., Baddeck,
Cape Breton; educated at Univ. of Glas
gow 1863-71 ; assistant at St Matthew's,
Halifax ; min. at Richmond, North-West
Arm, and Goodwood (in suburbs of Halifax)
1872-5 ; offered for foreign missionary ser
vice and went to Madras, India ; was later
at Mhow and Rutlan; res. 1920; D.D.
Marr. 22nd Feb. 1879, Mary, daugh. of Alex
ander Forrester, min. of Sorbie (cf. Vol. II.,
377).— [Murray's Hist, of Presbyterian
Church in Cape Breton (portrait), 285.]
CAMPBELL, JOHN, a native of Pictou
County ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ;
missionary of the Students' Society there ;
app. by Colonial Committee in 1868 ; ord.
(by Presb. of Ayr) 2nd July 1868; adm.
min. of St Andrew's, Halifax, 1869.
CHRISTIE, JAMES, M.A. ; min. at
Wallace, Nova Scotia, 1859-64 [afterwards
in British Columbia (q.v.)].
COULL, GEORGE, born Rathven,
1831, son of John C. ; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen : M.A. (March 1850) ;
ord. (by Presb. of St Andrews) 1857;
app. missionary to the Jews at Smyrna;
res. through ill-health in 1870; app. by
Colonial Committee ; adm. to St Andrew's
Church, New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, llth
Dec. 1873-8 ; sometime min. at Valleyfield ;
app. Professor of Hebrew and Church His
tory, Morrin College, Quebec, 1881 ; died
Jan. 1882. His death was greatly deplored.
DONALD, ANDREW, born 1813,
second son of Andrew D., farmer, Lanark
shire ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ;
min. at Shelburne, Nova Scotia, 1842 ;
retired 1886; died 1891.
DUFF, JAMES; app. by Colonial
Committee ; adm. to Wallace, Nova Scotia,
1856; returned in ill-health to Scotland
1857.
DUNN, CHARLES (cf. Vol. VII., 128) ;
ord. to Albion Mines [now Stellarton] and
Westville, Nova Scotia, 21st Dec. 1870 ;
declined to join the Union of 1875;
returned to Scotland and adm. to Lybster
15th Nov. 1887.
FITZPATRICK, JAMES, B.A., min. at
Salt Springs, Nova Scotia, 1886 ; retired
1921.
FOWLIE, JOHN, formerly in Australia
(q.v.) ; min. at Gairloch, Nova Scotia,
1888-98.
FRASER, D.ONALD ALLAN, min.
at M'Lennan's Mountain, Nova Scotia,
1816 - 37 ; min. at Lunenburgh 1837 - 42
[afterwards min. of St John's, Newfound
FRASER, JAMES WILLIAM, born
1841, a native of St Paul's, East River of
Pictou, Nova Scotia ; educated at Univ.
of Glasgow ; M.A. (1863) ; licen. and ord.
(by Presb. of Ayr) 25th July 1866; app.
by Colonial Committee ; was a missionary
to Cape Breton 1866-70; adm. to Roger's
Hill and Cape John, Nova Scotia, Dec.
1870 ; declined to join the Union of 1875 ;
his congregation joined the Presbyterian
Church of Canada in 1907, when he res.
and retired to Pictou ; died 2nd Dec. 1913.
GALBRAITH, PETER, formerly
a military chaplain in England ; ord. (by
Presb. of London, England) 5th May 1868 ;
app. by Colonial Committee; adm. to St
Luke's, Bathurst, New Brunswick, 10th
Jan. 1874; min. at West Branch, East
River of Pictou, Nova Scotia, 1875.
GOODWILL, JOHN, min. at Scotsburn
and Hardwood Hill, Nova Scotia, 1864-8
[afterwards of Orwell, Prince Edward
Island (q.v.)'].
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GRANT, CHARLES MARTIN, M.A.,
B.D. (cf. Vol. V., 339) ; ord. 8th Aug., and
adra. to St Andrew's, Halifax, Oct. 1866 ;
res. 1868, and was sometime a missionary
in India ; min. of St Mark's, Dundee, 1877.
GRANT, GEORGE MONRO, M.A. ;
min. at St Matthew's, Halifax, Nova
Scotia, 1863-77 [afterwards Principal of
Queen's College, Kingston]. (See Canada.)
GRAY, ARCHIBALD, D.D. (cf. Vol.
VII., 300); adm. to Unst 7th Aug. 1794,
but dem. 18th Dec. 1795 (his presentation
having been found incompetent); called to
St Matthew's, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 3rd
Oct. 1796 ; died 16th Sept. 1826.
HENRY, DAVID, M.A., app. missionary
in Nova Scotia and ord. (by Presb. of Aber
deen) 1st May 1833 ; pres. to Marnoch in
1837 (cf. Vol. VI., 324).
HERDMAN, ANDREW WALKER,
M.A. (cf. Vol. IV., 172), went to Nova
Scotia 1849; was several years employed
in supplying vacant congregations ; adm. to
St Andrew's Church, Pictou, 1853 ; declined
to join the Union of 1875; returned to
Scotland and adm. to his native parish of
Rattray 28th July 1879. His son, James
Chalmers H., D.D., min. at Calgary (q.v.\
died 2nd June 1910.
IRVING, THOMAS, a native of Nova
Scotia ; min. at Gairloch, Nova Scotia, 1898-
1906 ; died at Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia.
JARDINE, THOMAS (cf. Vol. II., 330) ;
min. at Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1856-62
(colleague with John Scott) ; returned to
Scotland and app. to Arnsheen 15th July
1863.
KERR, COLIN MACKAY, M.A., B.D.,
B.Sc., Ph.D., formerly min. of Kettins and
St George's-in-the-Fields, Glasgow (cf. Vol.
V., 265); min. of St Matthew's, Halifax,
Nova Scotia, in 1926.
KING, ANDREW, M.A., D.D., formerly
min. of St Stephen's, Glasgow (cf. Vol. III.,
466) ; Professor of Theology, Halifax, Nova
Scotia ; died 24th Feb. 1874.
KNOX, ROBERT, M.A. (cf. Vol. VI.,
292) ; ord. (assistant) at St Matthew's,
Halifax, Nova Scotia, 6th July 1820;
returned to Scotland and adm. to Ordiquhill
26th Sept. 1823.
LANG, GAVIN (cf. Vol. III., 255), ord.
to Shelburne, Nova Scotia, 5th May 1829 ;
returned to Scotland and adm. to Glasford
23rd Aug. 1832.
MACCOLL, JAMES (cf. Vol. IV., 74),
formerly min. of Coll ; trans, from De
Sable, Prince Edward Island, and adm. to
Earltown, Nova Scotia, 14th Nov. 1872;
declined to join the Union of 1875 ;
returned to Scotland and adm. to Cum-
lodden 8th July 1879.
M'CONNACHIE, DONALD (cf. Vol.
VI., 483), sometime min. at Rogers Hill
and Cape John, Nova Scotia ; returned to
Scotland and adm. to Third Charge, Inver
ness, 19th Sept. 1844 [afterwards of
Urquhart, Inverness-shire].
M'CUNN, ROBERT, born 1837, second
son of James M., merchant, Greenock;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; B.A. (1856),
M.A. (1857) ; app. by Colonial Committee
and adm. to St George's Church, River
John, Nova Scotia, Sept. 1863 ; declined to
join the Union of 1875 ; died 28th Feb.
1895.
M'GILLIVRAY, ALEXANDER, born
Croy, Inverness - shire, 1867, son of
Alexander M. ; educated at King's Col
lege, Aberdeen, 1821-7; min. at Barney's
River, 1833 -8 ; adm. to M'Lennan:s
Mountain, Nova Scotia, Jan. 1838; D.D.
(Queen's College, Kingston, 1858; died
16th Feb. 1862. He was the only minister
in the eastern part of Nova Scotia who
remained in connection with the Church
of Scotland in 1844.
M'GREGOR, SIMON, M.A. (cf. Vol.
IV., 80); min. at East River of Pictou,
Nova Scotia, 21st Dec. 1860-9; went to
Victoria, British Columbia, 1870 [after
wards min. of Appin, Argyll].
MACINTOSH, DONALD (cf. Vol. VII.,
54); ord. to West River of Pictou, Nova
Scotia, 1833 ; min. at Salt Springs and
Gairloch 1834-44; returned to Scotland
1844, and adm. to Urray 29th Feb. that
year [afterwards min. of Edderton].
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M'INTOSH, JOHN, M.A., min. at Hope-
well, Nova Scotia, 1898-1906.
MACKAY, ALEXANDER, the first
native of Nova Scotia who studied for the
Church of Scotland; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen; M.A. (March 1848);
licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen ; ord. (by
Presb. of Aberdeen) ; adra. to Earltown,
Nova Scotia, 1852 ; trans, to Belfast, Prince
Edward Island, 23rd Aug. 1855; trans, to
Salt Springs, Pictou County, Nova Scotia,
Aug. 1859; rain, at Lochiel, Ontario, 1867
[afterwards min. at Eldon, Ontario (g.v.)].
MACKAY, ANGUS, app. by Colonial
Committee 1861 ; min. at Earltown, Nova
Scotia, 1892-8.
MACKAY, DONALD, min. at Gairloch,
Nova Scotia, 1876-9 ; adm. to Gaelic Parish,
Paisley, 31st March 1880 (cf. Vol. III., 182).
M'KENZIE, HUGH ROSS (cf. Vol. VI.,
466) ; min. at Wallace, Nova Scotia,
1832-40 ; at Lochaber and Antigonish,
Nova Scotia, 1840-4; returned to Scotland
and adm. to Tongue llth Sept. 1844
[afterwards min. of the Gaelic Church,
Inverness].
MACKENZIE, KENNETH JOHN,
born Stornoway, 1799; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen, 1813-20; adm. to St
Andrew's Church, Pictou, Nova Scotia,
1823; died 1838.— [Gregg's Hist., 271;
Canadian Christian Examiner, Jan. 1839.]
MACKICHAN, ALEXANDER JOHN,
formerly min. of Kinlochluichart (cf. Vol.
VII., 45); adm. to Barney's River, Nova
Scotia, 22nd Sept. 1874 ; declined to join
the Union of 1875 ; died 1898.
M'KICHAN, DUGALD (cf. Vol. VI.,
449), min. at Barney's River, Pictou, Nova
Scotia, 1829-32 ; removed to Cape Breton
1832 ; re-adm. to Barney's River 1840 ;
returned to Scotland and adm. to Daviot
and Dunlichity 27th March 1845.
M'LEAN, ALEXANDER, a native of
East River of Pictou, Nova Scotia ; edu
cated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A.
(March 1849) ; app. by Colonial Committee
and adm. to Salt Springs and Gairloch,
Nova Scotia, 1853; res. in 1857; at Pugwash
1857-9; adm. min. at Belfast, Prince
Edward Island, 31st Aug. 1859 ; trans.
to Hopewell, Nova Scotia, 14th Aug. 1877.
M'LEAN, W. G., min. at Pictou, Nova
Scotia, 1888-9.
MACLEOD, GEORGE B., M.A., B.D.,
min. at Westville, Nova Scotia, 1899-1910 ;
unattached min. in Presb. of Toronto in 1921.
M'LEOD, HUGH, min. at Salt Springs
and Gairloch 1822, his work extending
to Rogers Hill and Cape John; left for
Demerara, where he died 1832.
MACLEOD, J. C., M.A., min. at Rose
Bay, Nova Scotia, 1921.
M'MILLAN, JOHN, educated at
Queen's College, Kingston; B.D. ; adm.
to Musquodoboit, Nova Scotia, March 1866 ;
trans, to Truro, Nova Scotia, 1873 [after
wards at Halifax] ; D.D. ; died 1899.
M'MILLAN, WILLIAM, second son of
Finlay M., farmer, Nova Scotia ; educated
at Univ. of Glasgow, 1857-61; adm. to Earl
town, Nova Scotia, 1861 ; adm. to Salt
Springs, Nova Scotia, April 1868; clerk
of Church of Scotland Synod ; did not
join the Union of 1875 ; min. at West
Branch, East River, 1877; died 18th Feb.
1889.
MACRAE, DONALD, M.A., min. at
East River of Pictou, Nova Scotia, 1856-8 ;
trans, to St John's,. Newfoundland, Aug.
1858; re-adm. at East River in 1870;
trans, to St Stephen's, St John, New
Brunswick, 1874 (q.v.\
MACRAE, JOHN (cf. Vol. VII., 207),
min. at East River of Pictou, Nova Scotia,
1827 ; returned to Scotland in 1844, and
adm. to Killearnan 5th Feb. 1845.
MAIR, JAMES, M.A. ; adm. to Barney's
River, Nova Scotia, 17th Feb. 1858; trans, to
Martintown, Ontario, 27th Sept. 1860 (q.v.).
MARTIN, JOHN, born Airdrie, 1790,
son of John M., merchant; educated at
Univ. of Glasgow ; originally connected
with the Reformed Presbyterian Church,
but joined the Church of Scotland ; licen.
by Presb. of Edinburgh ; ord. (by Presb. of
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Hamilton) 31st July 1821,; min. of St
Andrew's, Halifax, 1821-56; dem. and app.
by Colonial Committee Superintendent of
Missions for Nova Scotia ; died at Elms-
dale 22nd Feb. 1865. He edited the
Halifax Guardian and originated the
Monthly Record in 1854. Many of his
letters to the Glasgow Colonial Society (in
the Library of Knox College, Toronto)
throw much light on the rise and growth
of Presbyterianism in the Maritime
Provinces.
MOERISON, JAMES, app. by Glasgow
Colonial Society and adm. to Dartmouth,
Halifax Harbour, Aug. 1829 ; min. of
Lawrencetown 1833; went to Warwick,
Bermuda, 26th Feb. 1839 (q.v.\
MOSS, W. T. D., adm. to St Peter's Road
Church, Georgetown, Prince Edward Island,
21st May 1895 ; min. at Pictou, Nova Scotia,
1898-1906.
MUNRO, JAMES (cf. Vol. VI., 397),
formerly min. of Pluscarden Chapel, Elgin ;
min. at Antigonish, Nova Scotia, 1807-19 ;
died there 17th May 1819, where a memorial
stone was placed over his grave many years
afterwards by ministers of the Church of
Scotland Presb. of Pictou.— [The Presby
terian, 1875 ; Robertson's Hist, of Missions
to Nova Scotia, 60.]
MURRAY, GEORGE, min. at New
Glasgow 1878-88. (See British Columbia.)
MURRAY, JAMES, trans, from Dal-
housie, New Brunswick, and adm. to
Wallace, Nova Scotia, 18th Aug. 1874; at
Stellarton and Westville, Nova Scotia, in
1888.
NAISMITH CHARLES, born 1834,
third son of John N., Rothesay ; educated
at Univ. of Glasgow ; ord. to U.P. Church,
Pitrodie, 27th March 1866 ; res. 9th June
1868 ; became a teacher in Leith 1868-70 ;
emigrated to America and resided in
Boston 1870-3 ; was resident in Liverpool
1873-5; app. by Colonial Committee; went
to Canada and was adm. to Springhill,
Nova Scotia, 8th March 1875. — [Small's
Hist, of U.P. Gongs., ii., 580 ; The Presby
terian (1875), 220.]
NEISH, DAVID, licentiate of the
Church of Scotland; ord. to Musquodoboit,
Nova Scotia, 21st Nov. 1873 ; res. June
1875.
PHILIP, WILLIAM MARSHALL (cf.
Vol. VI., 76), ord. to St Paul's, Truro,
Nova Scotia, 1863; trans, to Albion Mines
[now Stellarton] and Westville, Nova
Scotia, 1865 ; returned to Scotland and
adm. to Skene 22nd Dec. 1870.
POLLOK, ALLAN, born Buckhaven,
Fife, 19th Oct. 1829, son of Robert P.,
LL.D., min. of Kingston, Glasgow ; edu
cated at Univ. of Glasgow; Keen, by Presb.
of Dunoon in 1852 ; app. by Colonial Com
mittee ; adm. to New Glasgow, Nova
Scotia, 1853 ; returned to Scotland in
1873; was assistant at Govan 1873-4;
nominated by Colonial Committee to the
Chair of Ecclesiastical History and Pastoral
Theology, Presbyterian College, Halifax,
1875 ; app. Principal 1894 ; Moderator of
Assembly 1900 ; D.D. (Glasgow 1900) ; res.
1904 ; died 7th July 1918. He marr. 1854,
and had issue — one daugh. He Avas a
learned scholar and theologian. Publica
tion— Studies in Practical Theology (1907).
— [McNeill's Presbyterian Church in
Canada, 49.]
RANKIN, EDWARD BLACKMORE
(cf. Vol. I., 424), ord. to St John's Church,
Stellarton, Nova Scotia, 12th Sept. 1889
[afterwards min. of Falmouth Street Church,
Sydney, Cape Breton (q.v.)].
RENNY, EBENEZER, born Falkirk,
about 1794, son of George R. ; educated at
Univs. of Glasgow and Edinburgh ; M.A.
(1825); ord. (assistant) to St Matthew's,
Halifax, Nova Scotia; returned to Scotland
in 1827.
ROSS, JOHN, app. to Yarmouth and
Shelburne, Nova Scotia, 1836 [afterwards
in New Brunswick (q.v.)].
RUSSELL, THOMAS, born Slamannan,
1760, fifth son of William R., farmer ; edu
cated at Univ. of Glasgow; licen. by Presb.
of Paisley ; emigrated to Nova Scotia and
became min. of the Protestant Dissenting
Congregation [now St Matthew's], Halifax,
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] 783-7 ; resigned and was lost at sea on his
voyage to Scotland. [Originally known as
" Mather's Church " in honour of Cotton
Mather, the New England divine, this con
gregation was founded in 1749 by settlers
from New England. Among its early
ministers were Aaron Cleveland (ancestor
of Grover Cleveland, President of U.S.A.)
and John Sycombe or Seecombe, from
whose time (1769) the Baptismal Register
is complete. As the Scottish element
gradually prevailed, two parties became
formed — the one Dissenting, the other
Church of Scotland. Contentions were
frequent, the New Englanders insisting
on the use of the hymns of Isaac Watts.
About 1815 the name St Matthew's was
adopted.]
SINCLAIR, JOHN (cf. Vol. VII., 178),
formerly min. of Muckairn ; min. at Rogers
Hill and Cape John, Nova Scotia, 1860-4 ;
returned to Scotland and adm. to Small
Isles 1st Nov. 1864.
SPROTT, GEORGE WASHINGTON,
B.A. (cf. Vol. I., 383); ord. assistant at
St Matthew's, Halifax, and St Andrew's,
Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1853-5 [afterwards
min. of North Berwick].
STEWART, JOHN, born Little Dunkeld,
Perthshire, April 1800 ; educated at Perth
Academy and Univ. of Edinburgh ; studied
medicine for two sessions ; licen. by Presb.
of Dunkeld 26th June 1832 ; was a teacher
in St George's Academy, Edinburgh, 1832-4;
app. by Edinburgh Ladies' Association
(with the sanction of Glasgow Colonial
Society) and arrived at Plaster Cove, Cape
Breton, 23rd Aug. 1834 ; ord. by Presb. of
Pictou 6th Oct. following and adm. to
West Bay 19th Oct. 1835; removed to
St Andrew's Church, Eraser's Mountain
(now New Glasgow), Pictou County, Nova
Scotia, June 1838. Joined the Free Church
in 1844 ; min. of Knox Free Church, New
Glasgow, 1844-80 ; died 4th May 1880. He
marr. 1836, Alicia Murray, daugh. of
William Drysdale, jeweller, Edinburgh. —
[Gregg's Hist, of Presbyterian Church in
Canada, 344; Murray's Cape Breton
(portrait), 54-7, 70.]
STEWART, THOMAS, D.D., min. at
Westville, Nova Scotia, 1892-9.
STEWART, WILLIAM, born Foss,
Perthshire, May 1831 ; educated at Foss
School and Univs. of St Andrews and
Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of Weem
1859; assistant at Blair-Atholl 1859-63;
ord. (by Presb. of Dunkeld) May 1863;
adm. to St John's Church, M'Lennan's
Mountain, July following ; did not join the
Union of 1875 ; dem. in 1905 ; died 26th
May 1920.
STRUTHERS, GEORGE, born Sorn,
Ayrshire, 1783, youngest son of John S.,
farmer ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ;
licen. by Presb. of Ayr ; app. by Glasgow
Colonial Society 29th May 1827; adm. to
Horton and Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, Aug.
following; went to St Mark's, British
Guiana, July 1832 ; dem. and returned to
Nova Scotia ; appears as min. of Cornwallis
and Moderator of Synod in 1838 ; died 19th
March 1857. He marr. a daugh. of William
Forsyth, min. at Cornwallis.
SUTHERLAND, JOHN McRAE, born
Pictou County, Nova Scotia, 1842; educated
at Dalhousie College, Halifax (B.A.), and
Univ. of Edinburgh ; ord. Dec. 1872 ; adm.
to Pugwash, Nova Scotia, 16th Sept. 1873;
min. successively at St James's, New
Brunswick, St Andrew's Church, Hamilton,
Bermuda, and in Manitoba ; afterwards at
New Carlisle and Port Daniel (Presb. of
Miramichi) until 31st Dec. 1904; became
Inspector of Protestant Schools in Bona-
venture County, Province of Quebec ; died
at Vancouver, British Columbia, 10th April
1920.
SUTHERLAND, WILLIAM, licen. and
ord. by a Presb. of the Church of Scotland ;
min. of Earltown and West Branch, River-
John, 1836 until 1843, when he confined
his ministry to Earltown ; died in 1848.
THOMPSON, JOHN R., a native of
Prince Edward Island ; educated at Queen's
College, Kingston ; B.A. ; min. of Rich
mond, North West Arm, and Goodwood,
Halifax, 1869-71 ; went to America and
became min. at Olympia, Washington
Territory.
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WILKINS, WILLIAM T., B.A., adm.
first min. of St Paul's, Truro, 2nd Sept.
1869 ; trans, to St Andrew's Church, Strat
ford, Ontario, llth April 1873 (q.v.).
WILLIAMSON, EGBERT, M.A. (c/.
Vol. VII., 16), formerly min. of Croick ;
adm. min. at St Andrew's, Pictou, Nova
Scotia, 24th Sept. 1840 ; returned to Scot
land and adm. to Knockbain 14th Dec.
1843.
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND.
[This Presbytery consists of three con
gregations on Prince Edward Island and one
in Massachusetts, U.S.A. The congregations
on Prince Edward Island were the large
mission field of Donald MacDonald. They
formed part of the Presb. of Egerton, Nova
Scotia, and, later, of the Presb. of Pictou.
When the congregations upon the mainland
joined the Presbyterian Church of Canada,
those on the Island, remaining in the
Presb. of Pictou, changed its name to
the "Presbytery of Prince Edward Island
in connection with the Church of Scotland."
The congregation of Cambridge, Mass.,
composed chiefly of emigrants from Prince
Edward Island, was admitted to the bounds
in 1908. In 1920 the Presb. was incorporated
by Act of Parliament.]
CAMPBELL, DONALD MAC-
DONALD, born Uig, Queen's Co., Prince
Edward Island, 22nd Nov. 1864, son of
Malcolm C. and Janet Murchison ; educated
at Uig School, Prince of Wales College,
Charlottetown ; was sometime a teacher ;
studied theology at Dalhousie Univ. and
Pine Hill Presbyterian College, Halifax,
Nova Scotia ; ord. first min. of Birchhill,
Kinross, and Murray River, Prince Edward
Island, 1898 ; dem. 13th July 1904, when he
went to the western provinces under the
Presbyterian Church of Canada.
CAMPBELL, WILLIAM JAMES, son
of Donald C., Summerside, Prince Edward
Island ; educated in U.S.A.; licen. by Presb.
of Pictou 14th Sept. 1905 ; ord. to Birch-
hill, Kinross, and Murray River, Prince
Edward Island, 26th Sept. following ; dem.
18th Sept. 1906 ; became min. of the
Church of Scotland Congregation at Cam
bridge, Mass, [afterwards min. in the
service of the Congregational Church,
U.S.A.].
CULLEN, WILLIAM, born 1839, third
son of John C., merchant, Lanarkshire;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; assistant at
Lady; ord. (by Presb. of North Isles) for
service in Prince Edward Island 20th April
1863; adm. to St Peter's Road Church,
Georgetown, 2nd Sept. following ; retired in
three months from ill-health and went to
Australia (q.v.).
DUNCAN, THOMAS (c/. Vol. III., 132);
app. by Colonial Committee; ord. to St
James's Church, Charlottetown, Prince
Edward Island, 23rd Oct. 1856 ; Moderator
of Synod of the Maritime Provinces in
connection with the Church of Scotland
at the Union 15th June 1875 ; trans, to St
Andrew's, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1st Nov.
1876; returned to Scotland and became
min. of Bridge of Weir.
GILLIES, JOHN, min. of St Peter's
Road Church, Georgetown, Prince Edward
Island, 1874-5 [afterwards at Eldon, Ontario
GOODWILL, JOHN, born Ashdale, Co.
Antigonish, Nova Scotia, llth Dec. 1831,
son of Thomas G., retired naval officer,
and Elizabeth Graham (a native of Paisley);
educated at St Francis Xavier College,
Antigonish, and Queen's Univ., Ontario ;
ord. to Scotsburn and Hardwood Hill 1864;
res. and studied medicine at Jefferson
College, Philadelphia, U.S.A. ; became a
missionary at Aneitium, New Hebrides,
1870-4, when he was obliged to return to
Nova Scotia from ill-health; adm. to the
charges in Prince Edward Island formerly
held by Donald MacDonald, where he
laboured with great zeal and success till
1895, when his extensive field was divided
into three parishes. He continued to
minister to the parishes known as Coleman,
Cape Traverse, and De Sable until 1903,
when he retired; died 22nd Jan. 1905.
He marr. 7th Sept. 1869, Euphemia Cooper,
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and had issue — Thomas, min. in Coburg,
Ontario; Dr Victor L., Charlottetown, Prince
Edward Island ; and others died young.
GRANT, GEORGE MONRO, M.A.;
adm. to Georgetown, Prince Edward Island,
28th June 1861 ; trans, to St Matthew's
Church, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1863 [after
wards Principal of Queen's College, King
ston]. (See under Canada.)
HARPER, GEORGE, M.A. ; app. by
Colonial Committee, and officiated at
Georgetown, Prince Edward Island, 1855 ;
went to St Clement's, British Guiana, 1857
HUTCHISON, JOHN, min. at Montreal,
East End, 1877 ; at Perth, Ontario, 1881-5 ;
at De Sable, Prince Edward Island, 1885-91.
LAMONT, DONALD M'DONALD (c/.
Vol. IV. 17, VII. 184), formerly min. of
North Knapdale, son of Ewen L. [not
Ewan]; adm: to Lot 48, and Churchill,
Prince Edward Island, 1921. Publications
— (additional) Seven Great Questions, 2nd
ed. (Inverness, 1921) ; Strath in Isle of Skye
(Glasgow, 1912, 1913).
LOCHHEAD, ANDREW, born Paisley
about 1830, second son of Robert L. ; edu
cated at Univ. of Glasgow ; student of
theology at Univ. of St Andrews, 1849-50 ;
app. by Colonial Committee ; adm. to
Georgetown, Prince Edward Island, 1856 ;
returned to Scotland July 1860 ; became
chaplain of the Penitentiary, Paisley;
studied medicine at Glasgow (M.B., C.M.)
1863 ; died 12th Jan. 1864.
MACAULEY, ANGUS; app. by
Colonial Committee 1837; served at George
town and Murray Harbour, Prince Edward
Island. Having incurred the censure of
the Presb. he was dep. ; became a farmer ;
represented Georgetown in the House of
Assembly, and was Speaker of the House ;
alive in 1875.
M'BEAN, JOHN, M.A.; app. by
Colonial Committee to St James's Church,
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, 1847;
res. (from ill-health) after a ministry of
six months ; returned to Scotland and
was afterwards in Australia (q.v.}.
M'COLL, JAMES (<•/. Vol. IV., 4, 74) ;
formerly min. of Coll ; went to Canada,
and adm. min. of Orwell and De Sable,
Prince Edward Island, 26th March 1869 ;
trans, to Earltown, Pictou County, 14th
Nov. 1872 ; returned to Scotland and adm.
to Cumlodden 8th July 1879 [afterwards
at Kilchoman].
M'DONALD, DONALD, born Drum-
castle, Rannoch, Perthshire, 1st Jan. 1783,
son of Donald M. (originally Mackay, who
changed his name to M'Donald or Mac-
Donell after settling on the estate of
Glengarry, following the Battle of Culloden
in which he fought for Prince Charles)
and Christian Stewart ; educated at Univ.
of St Andrews ; licen. by Presb. of St
Andrews ; ord. (by Presb. of Abertarff) 2nd
Aug. 1816; missionary at Glengarry, 1816-24;
emigrated to Canada after 24th June 1824 ;
was for two years a missionary in Cape
Breton, where " with the zeal and heroism
of an Xavier, he braved the wild beasts of
the forest, the almost arctic severity of
the climate, and, above all, the indifference
and degradation of the people. His feet
were covered with untanned moccasins. He
walked on snow-shoes, and blazed his way
through the pathless forest with his hatchet.
He had no home to shelter him, but was
contented with the chance shelter of the
rudest hut and with the coarsest fare. He
carried no scrip, and he had no money in
his purse, nor would he take any reward
for his labours except the primitive
hospitality of the people, who learned to
love and honour him." In 1826 he went
to Prince Edward Island, laboured there
for more than forty years, itinerating from
one settlement to another, and enduring
all manner of hardness. Before his death
he had erected thirteen churches, and had
the spiritual oversight of over five thousand
adherents distinguished for the exemplary
character of their lives. He ordained elders
in every district, united the people of every
nationality, and brought his flock up in
the doctrines and usages of the Church of
Scotland, though he himself was subject to
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no Colonial Presbytery. All his congrega
tions he left to the care of that Church, and
desired a suitable Church min. to be selected
as his successor. His ministry was marked
by outstanding revivals in 1829-30 and
1860-1. A stern Calvinist, he was a 'man
of singular kindness of heart, and had a
keen appreciation of the humorous ; died
unman-. 21st Feb. 1867, and was buried
in the graveyard at Orwell Head, where
a massive marble monument was erected.
Publications — Spiritual Hymns (Charlotte-
town, 1835, 1840); Treatise on Baptism
(Charlottetown, 1845) ; The Subjects of the
Millennium (Charlottetown, 1849); The
Plan of Salvation (Charlottetown, 1874.—
[Rev. Donald McDonald : Glimpses of his
Life and Times, by M. Lament (portrait)
(Charlottetown, 1902); Memoir of Norman
Macleod, D.D., i., 243; Campbell's Hist, of
Prince Edward Island, 189-93.]
MACDOUGALL, EWEN, born Nine
Mile Creek, Queen's County, Prince Edward
Island, 21st Feb. 1873, son of George M.
and Emma Jane Gorvett ; educated at
Bangor,King's County, and Dalhousie Univ.,
Halifax, Nova Scotia ; B.D. ; licen. by
Presb. of Prince Edward Island 21st May
1908 ; ord. (same day) to Birchhill, Kinross,
and Murray River, Prince Edward Island.
Marr. 1917, Edna Augusta, daugh. of
Edward Augustus Lucas and Isabella
MacDonald, and has issue — Doris Isabell,
born 7th May 1918 ; Esther Lucas, born
28th Oct. 1920.
MACDOUGALL, JAMES, born Nine
Mile Creek, Queen's County, Prince Edward
Island, 8th March 1866, son of George M.
and Emma Jane Gorvett ; educated at
Prince of Wales College ; taught twelve
years in the public schools of the Province ;
studied divinity at Dalhousie Univ. and
Pine Hill College, Halifax, Nova Scotia ;
licen. and ord. by Presb. of Egerton (Church
of Scotland) 22nd Sept. 1903 ; adm. to Cape
Traverse, De Sable, and Canoe Cove, that
year; died 25th March 1922. He marr.
1905, Margaret (died 1915), daugh. of John
Compton, Bangor, Prince Edward Island,
and Annabella MacQuarrie, and had issue-
George Artemas, born 1906 ; Emma May,
born 1908 ; James Lorn, born 1910 ; Ada
Margaret, born 1912.
M'INTOSH, JAMES (cf. Vol. V., 84),
born Ross - shire ; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (1818) ; assistant
at Tain ; app. by Glasgow Colonial Com
mittee, and ord. first min. of St James's
Church, Charlottetown, Prince Edward
Island [congregation organised in 1825],
10th Aug. 1830; res. in 1836; returned to
Scotland and adm. to Burntisland 2nd May
1844.
M'INTYRE, ANGUS [or ^NEAS]
(cf. Vol. IV., 115); app. by Colonial Com
mittee ; min. of St James's Church,
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island,
1840-5 ; returned to Scotland and adm. to
Kinlochspelvie 16th Jan. 1845.
M'KAY, ALEXANDER, M.A. ; trans.
from Rogers Hill and Cape John, Nova
Scotia, and adm. to Belfast, Prince Edward
Island, 23rd Aug. 1855 ; trans, to Salt
Springs and Gairloch, Nova Scotia, Aug.
1859 [afterwards min. at Eldon, Ontario
MACKENZIE, MALCOLM, born Brod-
ick, Arran, 1835 ; son of William M. ;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; went to
Canada in 1862, and was min. at Lochiel,
Ontario, Cote St George, Quebec, and
Earltown, Nova Scotia ; afterwards at Rat
Portage (now Kenora), Manitoba ; adm. to
Morden and Mountain City 6th May 1885 ;
min. at Tyne Valley, Prince Edward Island,
1892-6; died 1896. — [McKellar's Presby
terian Pioneer Missionaries (portrait), 30.]
M'LAREN, WILLIAM, licentiate of
Church of Scotland ; min. of St Peter's
and Brackley Road Churches, Georgetown,
Prince Edward Island, Dec. 1857 to 1861.
M'LEAN, ALEXANDER, adm. to
Belfast, Prince Edward Island, 31st Aug.
1859; trans, to Hopewell, Nova Scotia,
14th Aug. 1877. (See Nova Scotia.)
MACLEAN, DANIEL, born Mount
Herbert, Lot 48, Queen's County, Prince
Edward Island, 21st Sept. 1848, son of
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Donald M. and Sarah Currie ; educated at
Prince of Wales College, Charlottetown ;
taught for fifteen years in the public schools
of the Province: studied divinity at Pine
Hill College, Halifax, Nova Scotia ; ord. a
min. of the Church of Scotland llth Oct.
1894 ; adm. to the newly-erected charge of
Lot 48 and Churchill 1910 ; died at Char
lotte town, 13th Oct. 1919. He marr. (1) 19th
March 1879, Emma, daugh. of John Bovyer,
Bunbury, Prince Edward Island, and had
issue — Archibald, at Raymore, Saskatche
wan, born 1882 ; Henry, in Victoria, British
Columbia, born 1884 ; Minnie, born 1886
(marr. James MacFadyen, Bonshaw, Prince
Edward Island) : (2) 6th June 1900, Mary
Jane, daugh. of Neil MacFadyen, Augustine
Cove, Prince Edward Island, and had issue
—Neil, in Charlottetown, born 1901 ; Ruth,
in Toronto, born 1903 ; Muriel, born 1905 ;
Jean, born 1908.
M'LENNAN, JOHN (cf. Vol. IV. 93, VII.
7), born Ross-shire, about 1800 ; educated
at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (March
1818): licen. by Presb. of Abertarff; min.
of St John's Church, Belfast, Prince Edward
Island, 1823-49 ; returned to Scotland and
adm. to Gaelic Church, Cromarty [after
wards at Kilchrenan and Dalavich]. A
daugh. marr. John Jenkins, D.D., min. of
St Paul's. Montreal, and Eliza, marr. Daniel
Miner Gordon, D.D., LL.D., Principal of
Queen's Univ., Kingston, Canada. — [Mac-
leod's Hist, of Presbyterianism on Prince
Edward Island, 105-7.]
MACNAIR, ROBERT, M.A. (cf. Vol.
III., 196), min. of St James's Church,
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island,
1851-2 ; returned to Scotland and adm. to
Gourock in 1854.
M'WILLIAM, ALEXANDER (cf. Vol.
VI., 273), min. at Georgetown, Prince
Edward Island, 29th July 1863 ; dem. 24th
May 1871 ; returned to Scotland and adm.
to Ythan Wells 14th Sept. following.
1871; organised a congregation at Montague
Bridge and erected a church there ; res.
17th Nov. 1875 ; readm. to New Kincar
dine, New Brunswick, 1876-9, at Stanley
and Nashwaak, 1879-81, Hopewell, Nova
Scotia, 1881-91 ; returned to Scotland and
was settled at Rendall, Orkney.
MOFFAT, JOHN, formerly in Ontario
(q.v.); adm. to St Peter's Road Church,
Georgetown, Prince Edward Island, 25th
Sept. 1872; dem. 1874. He was a deter
mined opponent of the Union of 1875 and
published several pamphlets on the subject.
MUIR, WILLIAM BRUCE (cf. Vol. VI.,
33), formerly min. of Trinity Parish, Aber
deen, and at Sherbrooke, Nova Scotia;
adm. to St James's Church, Charlottetown,
Prince Edward Island, 30th Oct. 1925.
ROSS, HUGH, born Inverness-shire,
1797 ; emigrated with his parents to Nova
Scotia in 1813; licen. by Anti-burgher Presb.
of Pictou, 1824 ; ord. for missionary work
in Cape Breton (by same Presb.) ; adm.
to Tatamagouche and New Annan, Nova
Scotia, 1827; res. in 1840. Joined the
Church of Scotland; min. at Georgetown,
Prince Edward Island, 1842-4. Joined the
Free Church in 1844 ; died 1st Dec. 1858.
ROULSTON, ALEXANDER, a min. of
the Reformed Presbyterian Church; adm.
to Murray Harbour, Prince Edward Island,
5th Feb. 1885 ; adm. to Salt Springs, Nova
Scotia, 30th June 1891.
SNODGRASS, WILLIAM, M.A. (cf.
Vol. II., 230), min. of St James's Church,
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island,
1852-6. There being no Presb. to induct
him, he covenanted with the congregation
for a period of three years, when he was
again called and adm. 14th Nov. 1855 ;
trans, to St Paul's, Montreal, 4th Nov.
1856 ; adm. to Canonbie 23rd Nov. 1877.
MELVILLE, PETER, M.A., B.D. (cf. STEWART, GEORGE WILLIAM, min.
Vol. VII., 228 ); adm. to Georgetown and ; at St Peter's Road Church, Georgetown,
Cardigan, Prince Edward Island, 4th Oct. Prince Edward Island, 1864 to 1871.
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WESTERN PROVINCES
ONTARIO AND QUEBEC.
[Ministers of the Church of Scotland in
the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec from
1765 to the Union of the Churches in 1875,
with some of later date.]
[The original Province of Quebec came
into permanent possession of Great Britain
on the capture of the city of Quebec by
General Wolfe in 1759, and the surrender
of Montreal to General Amherst in 1760.
The European population then numbered
about 70,000, almost all Roman Catholic.
In 110 rural parishes there were only nine
teen Protestants. The first Presbyterian
minister to be settled in the Province was
George Henry (infra) who organised a con
gregation in Quebec about 1765, services
being held in a room of the Jesuits' College.
The first Presbyterian minister to be settled
in Montreal was John Betlmne (infra) who
organised a congregation in 1786. In 1791
the Province was divided into the two
Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada—
now Quebec and Ontario. An American Pres
byterian preacher, Jabez Collver, organised a
congregation in 1793 in the county of Nor
folk, where he settled on a tract of land of
a thousand acres granted by the Government.
Robert Dunn (infra) came in 1794, and John
Ludwig Broeffle, a minister of the Dutch
Reformed Church, laboured amongst German
Presbyterians in the counties of Stormont
and Dundas from 1795 to his death in 1815.
The first Presbytery of the Canadas was
constituted at Montreal, 9th July 1818, by
five ministers belonging to the Burgher Synod
of Scotland, who unanimously decided that
the basis of their recognition should be " the
doctrines, discipline, and worship of the
Church of Scotland." On 8th June 1831
there was organised at Kingston the Synod
of the Presbyterian Church of Canada in
connection with the Church of Scotland.
On 17th June following, the Presbyteiy of
the Canadas, which had assumed the name
of the United Presbytery of Upper Canada,
was reconstituted as the United Synod of
Upper Canada. On 3rd July 1840, these
two Synods coalesced to form the Synod of
the Presbyterian Church of Canada in con
nection with the Church of Scotland, with
a membership of 76 ministers, of whom 60
were drawn from the Church of Scotland,
and 16 from the United Synod of Upper
Canada. On 25th Dec. 1834, there had been
formed what was known as the Missionary
Presbytery of the Canadas, a branch of the
United Associate Secession Church in Scot
land, later transformed into a Synod, and in
1847, following the lead of the U.P. Church
at home, it took the name of the United
Presbyterian Church in Canada. In addition
there were the small Presbytery of Stamford
connected with the Associate Synod of North
America, and the Presbytery of Niagara,
unconnected with any Synod, whose mem
bers were drawn from the United States,
and having 25 churches under its care in
1837. With the Scottish Secession of 1843
a similar Secession divided the Canadian
Church into two. At a meeting of Synod
on 9th July 1844, whilst a majority of
56 to 40 favoured the retention of the
words "in connection with the Church of
Scotland," 23 ministers declared for separa
tion and assumed the designation of the
Synod of the Free Presbyterian Church
of Canada. In Sept. 1844 the seceding
ministers (now increased to 26) were declared
to be "no longer ministers of the Presby
terian Church of Canada in connection with
the Church of Scotland, or of the Church
of Scotland in Canada." There were now
(not including Stamford) five distinct self-
governing Presbyterian organisations in the
Provinces. On 6th June 1860 a union was
effected between the Presbyterian Church of
Canada (1840) and the United Presbyterian
Church of Canada (1847) under the title of
the Canadian Presbyterian Church, having
on its roll of members 226 ministers, of
whom 68 had been ministers of the U.P.
Synod and 138 ministers of the Free Presby
terian Church. In 1870 the Synod became
a General Assembly. Negotiations for a
wider union proceeded for the next five
years, and on 15th June 1875 a union was
consummated not only between the Presby
terian Church in Canada in connection with
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the Church of Scotland and the Canada
Presbyterian Church, but also between the
Presbyterian Church of the Lower Provinces
and the Presbyterian Church of the Maritime
Provinces in connection with the Church of
Scotland (q.v.). The Articles of Union
were subscribed by Principal Snodgrass,
Moderator of the Church of Scotland
Synod; Principal William Caven, Moderator
of the Canadian Presbyterian Church;
George Monro (afterwards Principal) Grant,
Moderator of the Synod of the Maritime
Provinces ; and Peter Gordon M'Gregor,
Moderator of the Synod of the Lower
Provinces. John Cook, D.D. (infra), was
elected first Moderator of the reconstructed
Presbyterian Church in Canada. On its
roll were the names of 623 ministers, of
whom 35 were from the Synod of the
Maritime Provinces, 129 from the Synod
of the Lower Provinces, 115 from the
Canada Synod in connection with the
Church of Scotland, and 344 from the
Assembly of the Canada Presbyterian
Church. Twenty-one ministers declined to
enter the Union. Twelve of these held
charges in Ontario and Quebec [Gavin
Lang, Montreal; Robert Dobie, Milton;
Robert Burnet, Hamilton; Thomas Mac-
pherson, Lancaster; David Watson, Thorah;
William Simpson, Lachine, John Macdonald,
Beechridge; John Davidson, Williamsburg;
Neil Brodie, Lochiel ; Peter Watson,
Williamstown • — all Church of Scotland
(infra) with John Ross, Brucefield, and
Lachlan Macpherson, Williams, of the
Canada Presbyterian Church]. One by one,
at different times, their successors and con
gregations joined the Church in Canada,
and in 1908 St Andrew's Church, Montreal,
and Lochiel in Glengarry, were the only
two remaining out. St Andrew's finally
became incorporated with St Paul's, Mon
treal, in 1918.
On 16th June 1925, a still wider Union
was effected between the Presbyterian
Church of Canada and the Methodist and
Congregational Churches, under the desig
nation of the United Church of Canada.
Into this Union a considerable number of
congregations declined to enter, and re
mained as the Continuing Presbyterian
Church of Canada.]
AITKEN, WILLIAM, born Silver Mine,
Torphichen,Linlithgow,28thFeb.l834, eldest
son of Robert A., farmer, and Anne Anderson;
educated at Bathgate Academy and Univ.
of Edinburgh ; app. by Colonial Committee
to Cobourg in 1864 ; adm. to Vaughan 1st
Nov. 1865; still in that charge in 1875;
trans, to St James's, Newcastle, New Bruns
wick, 1880; died 13th Dec. 1913. He marr.
8th May 1867, Jane (died June 1927),
daugh. of Joseph Vaughan Noble and Sarah
M'Quarrie, and had issue— Sarah Noble,
born 1st March 1868 (marr. 15th June 1907
Horatio Walker, M.D.); Annie Anderson,
born 19th April 1870 ; Robert Traven
Donaldson, B.A., LL.B., born 23rd April
1873 ; Joseph Mauns, born 26th Feb. 1878 ;
The Right Hon. William Maxwell, born
25th May 1879, created Knight 1911,
created first Baron Beaverbrook 1916, with
Canadian Expeditionary Force as "Eye-
Witness," 1915, Canadian Government- Re
presentative at the Front 1916, Officer in
charge of Canadian War Records 1917,
author of Canada in Flanders, LL.D.
(New Brunswick, 1921); Arthur Noble,
B.A., M.D., born 26th July 1883; Jean
Noble, born llth Sept. 1885 (marr. 1919,
William Stickney) ; Allan Anderson, born
15th Sept. 1887 ; Laura Katherine, born
24th Feb. 1892 (marr. 9th Dec. 1925,
Douglas Monro Ramsay of Bowland, Stow).
ALEXANDER, THOMAS, born Aber
deen, 1805, son of James A., tailor; educated
at Marischal College, Aberdeen; MA.
(1824) ; licen. by Presb. of Dundee in 1830 ;
app. by Glasgow Colonial Society 2nd June
1834; ord. to Colborne that year; min. at
Cobourg, 1835-44. Joined the Free Church
in 1844 ; min. of Free Church, Cobourg,
1844-60; min. of the Free Church, Percy
and Seymour, 1860-74 ; at Mount Pleasant,
Ontario, 1874-84; died 16th Dec. 1895.
ALLAN, DANIEL, born Ross-shire,
1812; educated at King's College, Aberdeen,
1824-9 ; app. by Glasgow Colonial Society
20th July 1836; ord. to Stratford and
Woodstock 21st Oct. 1838. Joined the Free
Church in 1844 ; min. at North Easthope,
1847-74; died at Goderich Dec. 1884.
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ANDERSON, DUNCAN, born Mony-
musk, 1826; educated at King's College
Aberdeen ; M.A. (March 1848) ; app. by
Colonial Committee and ord. to Point Levi
26th Dec. 1854 ; still in that charge in 1875.
ANDERSON, JAMES, born Cromarty,
1797, son of James A., farmer ; educated at
Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1825-9; app.
by Glasgow Colonial Society 16th July
1834; ord. to Ormstown 15th July 1835;
died there 6th April 1864.
ANDERSON, JOSEPH, born Glasgow,
1790, second son of John A., merchant ;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow; M.A.
(1814) ; ord. min. of the Irish Presby
terian Church, Newtown Crommelin, 8th
Aug. 1826 ; emigrated to Canada and adm.
to South Gower and Mountain. Joined the
Church of Scotland in 1840; retired July
1864 ; died, date unknown.
ANDERSON, WILLIAM, M.A. ; adm.
to Buckingham and Cumberland 20th July,
1869; dem. 10th Jan. 1872; min. at Kin
cardine 10th Oct. 1872-9; died at Toronto,
10th Oct. 1901.
BAIN, JAMES, born Madderty, 1802,
eldest son of Peter B., artificer; educated
at Univ. of Glasgow and Secession Theo
logical Hall ; ord. to Secession (Union
Church) Kirkcaldy, 5th April 1826; res.
16th Aug. 1853 ; emigrated to Canada and
adm. to St Andrew's Church, Scarborough,
10th Oct. 1854; retired in 1874; died at
Markham, Ontario, 9th Dec. 1885.
BAIN, WILLIAM, a native of Nairn ;
emigrated to Canada in 1834 ; educated at
Queen's College, Kingston; M.A. (1840);
ord. to Perth 29th Oct. 1845 ; D.D.
(Kingston, 1847) ; afterwards on the staff
of Queen's Univ. ; died 27th Oct. 1889.
BARCLAY, JAMES, D.D., LL.D. (cf.
Vol. I., 103), formerly min. of St Cuthbert's,
Edinburgh ; adm. to St Paul's, Montreal,
llth Oct. 1883.; declined Principalship of
Queen's Univ., 1902 ; res. 8th Nov. 1910 ;
returned to Scotland and resided at Edin
burgh ; died at Keswick, England, 17th
March 1920.
VOL. VII.
BARCLAY, JOHN, born 9th July 1795,
son of Peter B., min. of Kettle, Fife ; edu
cated at Univ. of Edinburgh; licen. by
Presb. of Cupar ; ord. (by Presb. of Edin
burgh) to Kingston 26th Sept. 1821 ; died
there 29th Sept. 1826.— [Bell's Hints to
Emigrants, 114 ; Life of Dr Machar, 25.]
BARCLAY, JOHN, born Ayrshire, 1812,
eldest son of John B., merchant ; educated
at Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A. (1832) ; ord. to
St Andrew's, Toronto, 6th Dec. 1842 ; D.D.
(Glasgow 1855); dem. 27th Oct. 1870 ; died
at Toronto, 27th Sept. 1887.
BARCLAY, WILLIAM, M.A. B.D.,
formerly min. of Kirkcudbright (cf. Vol. II.,
419) ; min. of Central Presbyterian Church,
Hamilton, Ontaria, 1927.
BARIDON, LOUIS, min. of St John's
[French, in connection with Church of
Scotland], Montreal, 1850-3 ; and again,
1859-61.
BARNHILL, WILLIAM, M.A., B.D.
(cf. Vol. III., 225), formerly min. of East
Strathaven Chapel, Lanarkshire ; app. by
Colonial Committee for missionary service
in Canada 20th Oct. 1874; went to St
Clement's, Berbice, British Guiana, where
he died 22nd Oct. 1883.
BARR, JOHN, born Lanarkshire, 1840,
eldest son of William B., farmer ; educated
at Univ. of Glasgow and Queen's College,
Kingston, 1857-62 ; ord. 1st Aug. 1866 ;
adm. to Laprarie 3rd June 1867 ; died from
effects of an accident when returning from
preaching at a distant part of his charge,
llth Aug. 1870.
BARR, WILLIAM, a native of Strabane,
Ireland; licentiate of Irish Presbyterian
Church ; went to Canada in 1826 ; min.
at Hornby; adm. to Trafalgar in 1847,
Wawanosh 28th Sept. 1849; dem. Sept.
1871 ; died at Brantford, 5th May 1886.
BAYNE, JOHN, D.D., born Greenock,
16th Nov. 1806, son of Kenneth B., min. of
Gaelic Church there ; educated at Univs.
of Glasgow and Edinburgh ; licen. by
Presb. of Dingwall 8th Sept. 1830 ; assistant
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ONTAKIO AND QUEBEC
in Orkney; ord. (by Presb. of Dingwall)
for service in Canada 3rd Sept. 1834 ; app.
by Glasgow Colonial Society 4th Oct.
following, and adm. to Gait in 1835. Joined
the Canadian Free Church in 1844, and
became its leader ; Moderator of Synod
1846 ; died 3rd Nov. 1859.— [Gregg's Hist.,
490 ; Campbell's Hist, of St Gabriel's, 460,
576, 615, 721 ; Smellie's Life of Dr Bayne
Toronto, 1871.]
BELL, ANDREW, born London,
England, 1805, son of William B., min. at
Perth, Canada ; educated at Univ. of
Glasgow ; ord. to Streetsville, Toronto,
15th July 1828 ; min. at Ancester and
Dundas, 1847-52 ; at L'Orignal Oct 1852-6 ;
died there 27th Sept. 1856. He was an
accomplished scholar and a noted geologist.
He marr. Elizabeth Notman, and had issue
—Robert, M.D., D.Sc,, LL.D., I.S.O.,
scientist and explorer, born 3rd June
1841, died 17th June 1917. Publication—
" Letters on Canada " in his father's Hints
to Emigrants (Edinburgh, 1824).— [Gregg's
Hist., 370, 376 ; Hallock's One of Canada's
Explorers (Washington, 1901).]
BELL, GEORGE, son of William B.,
min. at Perth, Ontario; educated at Queen's
College, Kingston; B.A. (1847); LL.D.
(Kingston, 1874) ; ord. to Cumberland 30th
May 1844 ; min. at Simcoe, 1848-57 ; at
Clifton, Niagara, 1857; dem. 22nd July
1873, and adm. to Walkerton 17th March
1874 ; died before 1898.
BELL, WILLIAM, born Airdrie, 1780,
son of William B., weaver, Anderston,
Glasgow ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ;
ord. (by Associate Presb. of Edinburgh)
4th March 1817; min. at Perth, Ontario,
1817-57. Joined the Church of Scotland
along with his congregation 20th Aug. 1835;
died 16th Aug. 1857. He made several
remarkable missionary journeys in the east
of Canada, and endured great privations in
his earlier ministry. Two sons were
Andrew, min. at L'Orignal, and George,
LL.D. (supra). Publication— Hints to Emi
grants (Edinburgh, 1824).— [Gregg's Hist.
196-200.]
BELL, WILLIAM, M.A., a native of
anada; educated at Queen's College,
Kingston, 1852-5, and Univ. of Glasgow ;
ord. to Pittsburgh in 1863 ; dem. 5th Feb.
1868 and returned to Scotland.
BELL, WILLIAM, born 1816, eldest son
of James B., farmer, Drummerin, Co.
Monaghan, Ireland ; educated at Univ. of
Glasgow ; licentiate of Irish Presbyterian
Church ; ord. to Stratford 17th May 1848 ;
min. at North Easthope in 1857 ; died 17th
Dec. 1873.
BENNETT, JOHN, born Kinross-shire ;
educated at Morrin College, Quebec ; ord.
to Three Rivers 29th June 1869 ; adm. to
St Andrew's, Almonte, 17th Sept. 1872;
died at Almonte, 7th Nov. 1888.
BETHUNE, JOHN, born Isle of Skye,
1751 ; educated at King's College, Aber
deen ; emigrated to South Carolina, and
as a licentiate of the Church of Scotland,
became chaplain to a regiment of Royal
Militia, composed of Scottish settlers, on
the breaking out of the revolutionary war.
With many Loyalists he was taken prisoner
and suffered considerable hardships at the
hands of the rebels. On regaining his
liberty he settled in Halifax, Nova Scotia,
where he was largely instrumental in
organising the "Highland Emigrants," a
corps made up mostly of Gaelic-speaking
settlers to whom he was appointed chap
lain, serving with them at the defence of
Quebec and in other engagements. After
the Peace of 1782 he resided in Montreal,
where he exercised great influence with the
British citizens of all creeds. He organised
the first Presbyterian congregation in that
city (St Gabriel Street) and acted as pastor
from 12th March 1786 to 6th May 1787,
when he removed to Glengarry, taking
possession of 3000 acres assigned to him
as a captain's share in the distribution
of land voted by the Government to the
United Empire Loyalists. He carried on
missionary work over a wide district,
and founded flourishing congregations at
Williamstown, Martintown, Cornwall, and
Lancaster; died at Williamstown, 23rd
Sept. 1815. He was a man of great zeal
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and piety. He marr. a Swiss lady, Veronic
Wadden, and had issue- Angus, born 1783
Norman, auctioneer ; John, D.D., Principa
of M'Gill College (1835-46) and Dean o
Montreal, born 1791, died Aug. 1872
James, auctioneer ; Alexander Neil, D.D
D.C.L., Bishop of Toronto, born 28t
Aug. 1800, died 3rd Feb. 1879; Donald
Christie (marr. 2nd Nov. 1817, Kober
Henry, merchant, Montreal); Ann, bor
21st May 1798 (marr. 23rd May 1815
Henry M'Kenzie, Montreal) ; and anothe
daugh.— [Croil's Report, 76; Macmillan'
M'Gill and its Story, 102; Campbell'
Hist, of St Gabriel Street Church (portrait)
25-38 ; Canniff's Hist. Early Settlement of
Upper Canada (Toronto, 1869) ; Tombst. a
Williamsburgh [erected by his six sons].]
BLACK, DAVID, educated at Univ. of
Edinburgh; app. by Colonial Committee
and ord. to Laprarie 19th Oct. 1837 ; min
at St Theresa. Joined the Free Church in
1844 ; resident at Chateauguay in 1868.
BLACK, EDWARD, born 10th Dec. 1793
third son of James B., min. of Penning-
hame, Wigtownshire; educated at Penning-
hame and Monigaff Schools and Univ. of
Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of Wigtown
June 1815 ; assistant to his father 1817-22.
In 1822 he went on a visit to Montreal,
preached in St Gabriel Street Church'
and became collegiate min. Upon the
division which took place in that congre
gation in 1831, he was settled as min. over
the section who formed St Paul's Church ;
D.D. (Edinburgh 1837), being the first
Scottish min. in Montreal to receive that
honour; died 9th May 1845. He was
a man of outstanding ability, of literary
accomplishments, unaffected sincerity, and
goodness of heart. He took a prominent
part in the settlement of the Clergy
Reserves question. In appearance he
strongly resembled the portrait of Martin
Luther. His son, William MacMillan,
became min. of Anwoth (q.v.).
BLACK, JAMES, born Glasgow, 1834,
eldest son of James B. ; educated at
Univ. of Glasgow; M.A. (1855); app.
by Colonial Committee and ord. mission
ary at Point St Charles [afterwards St
Matthew's], Montreal, July 1860; adm.
to Chatham, Quebec, 4th Sept. 1861 ; res.
in 1864 and returned to England; was
Unitarian min. at (1) Stockport, (2) Tod-
morden, (3) Knutsford, and tutor to the
Unitarian Missionary Board, Manchester,
1874-89 ; went to U.S.A., where he became
a missionary and private tutor at Topeka,
Kansas.
BLACK, WILLIAM M'MILLAN (cf.
Vol. II., 387), ord. to St Mark's, Montreal,
llth Aug. 1869; returned to Scotland and
adm. to Anwoth 25th Jan. 1876.
BLAIR, ANDREW CATHCART, born
19th Dec. 1822, son of Thomas B., min. of
Colmonell ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ;
aPP- by Colonial Committee and ord. as a
missionary in Canada 1851 ; lost at sea.
BLAIR, GEORGE, born Perth, Scotland,
1818; educated at Univ. of St Andrews;
M.A. (1835) ; licen. by Presb. of Dunferm-
line 1841 ; app. by Colonial Committee in
1843, and served as Superintendent of
Canadian Schools ; was sometime a mis
sionary to the coal workers in the Alle-
ghanies, U.S.A.; afterwards Principal of
the High School in Bowmanville and at
Prescott, and for twenty years Inspector
of Public Schools ; died Feb. 1897.
BLOOD, WILLIAM, ord. to Carlow,
Ireland, 20th March 1830; res. in 1835;
app. by Colonial Committee and adm. to
La Chute in 1840 ; drowned at sea.
BORTHWICK, HUGH JOHN, M.A ;
min. at Chelsea 1862-4 [afterwards in
Manitoba (q.v.)].
BOYD, ROBERT, born 1791, third son
of Robert B., farmer, Craigs of Ahoghill,
Jo. Antrim ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow;
M.A. (1814); licen. by Presb. of Ballymena;
ord. to Prescott Feb. 1821. Joined the
Church of Scotland in 1840. Joined the
Free Church in 1844; D.D. (1854); died
9th Jan. 1872.
BRODIE, NEIL (cf. Vol. VII., 181), min.
t Lochiel Oct. 1874; declined to enter
ie Union of 1875; was min. at Gairloch
885-6 ; adm. to Stenscholl 14th Sept. 1886.
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BROWN, DAVID, a native of Sanquhar;
educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; app. by
Glasgow Colonial Committee and ord. to
Valcartier in 1833; res. 1837 and returned
to Scotland [probably afterwards rector
of Berwick Academy].
BROWN, JOHN, educated at Univ. of
Edinburgh ; assistant at Tranent, and two
years a missionary in Florida ; app. by
Colonial Committee and aclm. to New
market 30th Aug. 1854; retired 1875; died
28th Oct. 1885.
BROWN, WILLIAM, a native of Ire
land; adm. to Uxbridge 23rd June 1847;
suspended from office in 1850 ; died 1853.
BROWN, WILLIAM DAWSON, born
19th Oct. 1802, son of David B., min. of
Crailing ; licentiate of the Church of Scot
land ; died at Montreal, 1st Sept. 1875.
BRUNTON, WILLIAM, born New-
battle, 1766; ord. to Nether Kirkgate
(Burgher) Congregation, Aberdeen, 22nd
April 1795; dem. 3rd Sept. 1801; became
a teacher in Dundee, and emigrated to
Canada in 1820 ; min. at Lachine 1820-2 ;
min. at La Chute 1831-9 ; died there, 12th
Aug. 1839.— [Small's Hist, of U.P. Gongs.,
i, 2.]
BRYNING, JOHN, a native of Eng
land; ord. to Mount Pleasant 3rd Nov.
1830 ; died there 15th Sept. 1853, aged 84.
BUCHAN, ALEXANDER (cf. Vol. IV.,
298), born Foulis, Perthshire, 1795; edu
cated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen. by
Presb. of Dalkeith ; app. by Colonial Com
mittee ; ord. to Leeds and St Sylvestre
17th Oct. 1842 ; returned to Scotland and
adm. to Stanley 20th March 1851 ; app.
to Bannockburn llth July 1854; had a
renewed commission from Colonial Com
mittee ; adm. to Stirling (Presb. of Kings
ton) 12th Nov. 1856 ; died 18th July 1875.
— [Tombst.]
BUCHANAN, GEORGE, a native of
Perthshire ; min. of Relief Church, Strath-
kinness, 1800-9 ; emigrated to Canada and
adm. to Beckwith Aug. 1822 ; died there
1835.— [Small's Hist, of U.P. Gongs., i.,
205.]
BURNET, JOHN SMITH, born Dum
fries ; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ;
assistant at Dumfries ; app. by Colonial
Committee June 1863 ; ord. assistant to
Hugh Urquhart, D.D., min. at Cornwall,
1866 ; adm. to Martintown 1st July 1868 ;
died 8th March 1908.
BURNET, ROBERT, educated at
Univ. of Edinburgh ; app. by Colonial
Committee ; ord. to St Andrew's, Hamilton,
26th Oct. 1853 ; declined to join the Union
of 1875 ; adm. to Pictou, Nova Scotia, 1881 ;
at Gait 1885-7 and Milton 1887-9; died
13th August 1889.
BURNS, JOHN, born Fenwick, 1774,
eldest son of Thomas B., farmer; edu
cated at Univ. of Glasgow and Secession
Theological Hall ; ord. for service in
America in 1803 ; min. at Stamford 1804 ;
at Niagara 1806. During the war of
1812-15, the town of Niagara was laid in
ashes by the Americans. On the return
of peace, B. resumed his pastoral duties
and conducted the District School ; died
1824. His son, Robert Easton, Judge of
the Court of Queen's Bench, born 26th
Dec. 1805, died at Toronto 12th Jan. 1863.—
[Read's Lives of the Judges (Toronto, 1888.]
BURNS, JOHN, born Denny, second
son of Robert B., farmer; educated at
Univ. of Glasgow; ord. (by Presb. of
Edinburgh) and adm. to St Andrew's,
Montreal, 9th July 1824 ; dem. 10th May
1826 and returned to Scotland, having
succeeded to landed property there.
BURNS, ROBERT, D.D., formerly min.
of St George's, Paisley (cf. Vol. III., 176) ;
min. and Professor, Toronto, 1845-64; died
19th Aug. 1869.
CAIRNS, JAMES, M.D. ; app. a
missionary in Canada. Joined the Free
Church in 1844.
CALHOUN, JAMES, a native of Ire
land ; app. by Colonial Committee ; ord.
for missionary service in Canada in 1846;
dismissed next year.
CAMEL ON, DAVID, a native of
Canada ; educated at Queen's Univ., King
ston, 1853-8 ; ord. to Port Hope 12th Dec.
1859; trans, to Goderich 3rd July 1867
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629
[afterwards in London, Ontario, and at
Vaughan] ; died at Port Hope, 26th Dec.
1892.
CAMERON, ALEXANDER H., ord.
to Mountain and South Gower 12th Nov.
1874.
CAMERON, CHARLES JOHN,
educated at Queen's College, Kingston,
1858-62; M.A. [afterwards Church of Scot
land missionary at Bombay, India (q.v.)}.
CAMERON, HUGH, educated at
Queen's College, Canada, 1856-61 ; ord. to
Ross and Westmeath 8th Oct. 1862 ; trans,
to Kippen 16th Sept. 1873; died at Hallvillo
23rd Feb. 1888.
CAMERON, JOHN (<•/. Vol. IV., 25),
B.A., M.A. ; adm. to Dundee June 1861 ;
returned to Scotland and adm. to Second
Charge, Campbeltown, 22nd March 1865
[afterwards min. of Dunoon].
CAMERON, JOHN J., adm. to North
Easthope 3rd Sept. 1874.
CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER, B.A.,
born Drummond, Ontario, 23rd April 1837,
son of Peter C., and brother of Robert C.,
D.D., Montreal (q.v.); educated at Queen's
College, Kingston ; ord. to Westmeath 9th
Oct. 1873; was a missionary in Manitoba
1875, and became Principal of the High
School at Prince Albert. He marr. 27th
Dec. 1865, Eleanor Woodside, Toronto.
CAMPBELL, CHARLES, educated at
Univs. of Edinburgh and St Andrews;
app. by Colonial Committee; ord. to
Niagara 25th Aug. 1858; still there in
1870; died before 1900.
CAMPBELL, JOHN, educated at
Queen's College, Kingston, 1844-51 ; M.A. ;
ord. to Nottawasaga in 1853; died 22nd
Aug. 1864.
CAMPBELL, JOHN, a native of
Canada; educated in America; ord. to
a charge there in 1854; adm. to Brock
10th Sept. 1856 ; trans, to Markham March
1866; not in the charge after 1870.
CAMPBELL, PETER COLIN, D.D.
(cf. Vol. IV., 148; VII., 368); app. by
Glasgow Colonial Society 30th June 1835 ;
adm. to Brockville in 1836 ; Professor of
Classical Literature, Queen's College, Kings
ton, 1840-5; returned to Scotland, and adm.
to Caputh 25th Sept. 1845 [afterwards
Principal of Univ. of Aberdeen (q.v.)].
CAMPBELL, ROBERT, born
Drummond, Canada, 21st June 1835,
seventh son of Peter C. and Margaret
Campbell; educated at Queen's College,
Kingston, 1853-8 ; B.A. (1856); M.A. (1858);
licen. by Presb. of Bathurst 18th July 1860;
ord. to St Andrew's, Gait, Ontario, 10th
April 1862: trans, to St Gabriel Street,
Montreal, 13th Dec. 1866; Lecturer in
Church History, Queen's College, Kingston,
1880-2; D.D. (Queen's College, 1887);
Lecturer James Robertson Foundation
1914-15 ; died (the result of an accident)
13th March 1921. He took a leading share
in the negotiations for the Union of 1875,
being Convener of the Arrangements Com
mittee ; was clerk of General Assembly
1892-1921 and Moderator in 1907. He marr.
29th Dec. 1863, Margaret, only daugh. of
George Macdonnell, min. of St Andrew's
Church, Fergus, and had issue— Patrick
George, born 22nd July 1865, died 7th
March 1866; Robert Milnes, born 14th
Jan. 1867 ; Eleanor Macdonnell, born 20th
March 1868, died 3rd Aug. 1892; John
Alexander, born 15th July and died 26th
Sept. 1869; Katherine Macdiarmid, born
20th Aug. 1870 ; James Stuart, born 22nd
Nov. 1871, died 20th Feb. 1880 ; Mary
Elizabeth, born 14th Dec. 1873; George
Archibald, B.C.L., K.C., born 26th Sept.
1875 ; Norman Macleod, B.Sc., mining
engineer, born llth May 1878; Donald
Grant, M.D., born 21st April 1883.
Publications— History of St Gabriel Street
Church (Montreal, 1887) ; Relations of the
Christian Churches (Toronto, 1913). Editor
of The Presbyterian, 1866-70.— [Hist, of St
Gabriel Street Church (portrait), 612-17 ; A
Brief Sketch of the Life and Work of
Robert Campbell (Montreal, 1922); In
Memoriam (1921).]
CANNING, WILLIAM T, a native of
Ireland ; ord. to Douglas in 1849 ; min. at
Oxford 10th Oct. 1859 ; still in the charge
in 1871.
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CAREY, STANLEY BUCHANAN,
M.A., formerly min. of Wallacetown, Dun
dee (cf. Vol. V., 342) ; min. of St Andrew's,
Guelph, Ontario, 1927.
CARMICHAEL, JAMES, educated at
Queen's College, Canada, 1854-8, and Univ.
of Glasgow ; ord. to West King, 2nd Oct.
1860 ; still in the charge in 1871.
CARMICHAEL, JAMES M., M.A., a
native of Scotland; went to Canada in
1842; educated at M'Gill and Queen's
Univs. and Morrin College ; ord. to Mark-
ham 10th Nov. 1870; afterwards at Nor
wood, where he died 24th April 1894.
CARRUTHERS, JOHN, app. a catechist
and missionary ; died 1866.
CHAMBERS, ROBERT, B.A. ; licen.
15th June and ord. to East Williams 5th
July 1870 ; became a missionary in Turkish
Armenia about 1879, under American Board
of Missions, and was Principal of American
College in Constantinople ; died at Auburn-
dale, Massachusetts, 2nd April 1917.
CHEYNE, GEORGE, born 1802, son of
William C., farmer, Auchterless ; educated
at Marischal College, Aberdeen; M.A.
(1822); ord. by Presb. of Strathbogie in
1831 "to the office of the ministry in the
British Provinces of North America
wherever Providence may order his lot";
adm. to Amherstburg 1831 ; min. of Salt-
fleet and Binbrooke 1843. Joined the
Free Church in 1844 ; afterwards min. at
Hamilton; died 1st April 1878.
CLARK, DANIEL, born Inverness;
educated at King's College, Aberdeen ;
M.A. (March 1822); licen. by Presb. of
Inverness; app. by Colonial Committee
missionary at Martintown ; adm. to Indian
Lands 28th Aug. 1839. Joined the Free
Church in 1844 ; afterwards min. at Finch.
CLARKE, WILLIAM C., a native of
Scotland ; educated at Queen's College,
Canada, 1852-7; ord. to Middleville -28th
Oct. 1858 ; trans, to Ormstown April 1865 ;
dem. 19th Nov. 1873; went to Manitoba,
and afterwards joined the Church of Eng
land.
CLELAND, JAMES, formerly min. of
the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A.; adm. to
Port Hope 25th Feb. 1874.
CLELAND, WILLIAM, a native of
Ireland, went to America and was four
years min. at Long Island, New York ;
min. at Uxbridge 1850-4; adm. to Church
of Scotland in 1853 ; trans, to Mountain
and South Gower 2nd Aug. 1854 ; trans, to
West Gwillimbury and Innisfil 18th June
1873 ; died 1899.
CLUGSTON, JOHN, born Glasgow,
1796, son of James C., tailor, and brother
of William C., min. of Forfar ; educated at
Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of
Glasgow ; app. by Glasgow Colonial
Society 12th April 1830; ord. (by Presb.
of Forfar) to St John's, Quebec, 15th June
that year. Joined the Free Church in 1844;
died at Free Church manse, Stewarton,
Ayrshire (where his only son James was
min.) 21st Jan. 1877.
COCHRANE, WILLIAM, born about
1830, second son of John C., artificer,
Rothesay ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ;
app. by Colonial Committee as an ordained
missionary in 1863 ; adm. to Elgin, Canada,
18th Sept. 1866 ; trans, to Port Hope 2nd
April 1868; dem. 7th Aug. 1871 ; afterwards
at Middleville ; died 29th May 1879.
COLQUHOUN, ARCHIBALD, app. by
Glasgow Colonial Society 1st May 1832;
ord. 14th July following ; min. at George
town, Chateaugay, 1833-5 ; at Otonabee
1836-8 ; at Otonabee and Dummer 1839-42 ;
suspended by Presb. (for difficulties with
his congregation, ending in a civil lawsuit)
1843 ; re-instated 1847, and app. missionary
of the Presb. 1848-53; min. at Mulinur
1854-61, when he retired and was still on
the Roll in 1872.
CONNELL, ARCHIBALD, born
Kilchoman, Islay, 25th Dec. 1789, second
son of Patrick C., farmer; educated at
Univ. of Glasgow 1816-22 ; ord. (by Presb.
of Glasgow) 24th Nov. 1825, and adm. to
Martintown, Canada ; died there Aug.
1836.— [Tablet in Church.'}
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COOK, JOHN, born Sanquhar, Dum
friesshire, 1 3th April 1805, son of John C.,
artificer ; educated at Univs. of Glasgow
and Edinburgh; assistant atCardross; ord.
(by Presb. of Dunbarton) in 1835 ; adm. to
St Andrew's Church, Quebec, 1836; D.D.
(Glasgow 1838) ; temporary Principal and
Professor of Divinity, Queen's College,
Kingston, 1857-9 ; Principal of Morrin
College, Quebec (which owed its foundation
mainly to his influence), 1861-92 ; took a
prominent share in the Union Movement,
of which he was Convener of Committee ;
elected Moderator of first General Assembly
of Presbyterian Church in Canada 15th
June 1875; LL.D. (Kingston, 1880); res.
his pastorate in 1884 ; died at Quebec, 1st
April 1892. He was described as " the most
distinguished min. that Presbyterianism in
Canada has been able to boast of. He had
a noble presence, tall, broad-shouldered and
handsome. His beaming face once seen
could never be forgotten. He would be
singled out among a thousand for his dis
tinguished bearing." Publication — Sermons
(Montreal, 1888) — [M'NeilPs Presbyterian
Church in Canada, 42 et seq. ; The Presby
terian (portrait), 1875 ; Rose's Cyclo. Can.
Biog. (1888); Morgan's Celebrated Canadians
(Quebec, 1862).]
CREEN, THOMAS, a native of Ireland ;
ord. to Niagara in 1825. Joined the Church
of England and became rector of Niagara ;
died about 1863.
CRUICKSHANK, JOHN, M.A. (cf. Vol.
VI., 273); min. of St Andrew's Church,
Bytown [now Ottawa, the entire population
being then only 1809; the first church was
erected in 1828 by men engaged on the
Rideau Canal construction ; a magnificent
new building has taken its place] 1830-43 ;
at Brockville, 1843-6; at Niagara, 1846-9;
returned to Scotland and adm. to Turriff
19th Sept. 1850.
CURRIE, ARCHIBALD, born Argyll
shire ; educated at Queen's College, Canada,
1856-61; M.A. ; ord. to C6te St George
23rd Oct. 1861 , trans, to Brock llth July
1867.
CUTHBERTSON, SAMUEL; app. a
missionary in 1840. Joined the Free
Church in 1845.
DARROCH, JOHN, M.A. (cf Vol. VII.,
174): min. at Lochiel, Ontario, 1861-7;
returned to Scotland and adm. to Portree,
Skye, 2nd April 1867.
DARROCH, WILLIAM, a native of
Scotland ; educated at Queen's College,
Canada, 1858-61 ; adm. first min. of St
Matthew's Church, Montreal, 24th Dec.
1861 ; died at Montreal, 16th June 1865.
DAVIDSON, JOHN, born Paisley, 1814;
second son of James D ; educated at Univ.
of Glasgow, United Secession and Relief
Theological Halls; min. at La Prairie 1844-9;
adm. to New Richmond, New Brunswick,
1st Nov. 1851 ; adm. to North Williams-
burg April 1858 ; declined to join the
Union of 1875 ; died 2nd Feb. 1890.
DAWSON, ALEXANDER, a native of
Canada; educated at Queen's College,
Kingston; B.A. (1862); ord. to Kincardine
in 1863 ; dem. 29th May 1867.
DICKEY, JOHN, a native of Ireland.
Joined the Church of Scotland in 1840;
adm. to Williamsburg in 1841 ; died there
24th May 1851.
DOBIE, ROBERT, born Stirling, 1826,
eldest son of John D. ; educated at Univs.
of Glasgow and St Andrews (where he
was assistant to Principal Haldane) ; app.
by Colonial Committee as assistant at
Montreal 1852 ; ord. to Osnabriick 7th Oct.
1853 ; at Milton 1872-87 ; declined to .join
the Union of 1875 ; died 28th April 1888.
DOUDIET, CHARLES A., born Geneva,
Switzerland ; went to Canada in 1842 ; ord.
min. of St John's [French] Church of
Scotland, Montreal, 23rd Aug. 1869 ; trans,
to St Matthew's Church, Montreal, 27th
Sept. 1872 ; dem. April 1876 ; app. French
Lecturer, Presbyterian College, Montreal,
1876-7 ; re-adm. to St John's in 1877 ; was
later at Buckingham, Quebec, and Point
St Charles; died 13th June 1913.
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DOUGLAS, JAMES STRUTHERS,
M.D., app. by Colonial Committee ; min.
of St Andrew's, Peterborough, Ontario,
1858-64; missionary to Presb. of Toronto
1864-7 ; returned to Scotland and became
min. of North Yell (cf. Vol. VII., 304).
DOUGLASS, JAMES, born Co.
Monaghan, Ireland, llth June 1792,
youngest son of Robert D., farmer; edu
cated at Univ. of Glasgow; licen. by
Secession Presb. of Down in 1819;
emigrated to America and was a min. at
Lisbon and in Pennsylvania ; went to
Canada in 1829 and laboured in the town
ships of Monaghan, Cavan, and Emily;
adm. to Cavan Sept. 1834; dem. Sept.
1868; died 30th April 1870. His son
Alexander entered the ministry of the
American Presbyterian Church, and died
in early manhood.
DUNBAR, WILLIAM, app. ordained
missionary to Canada by Colonial Com
mittee in 1847; dismissed next year.
DUNCAN, ROBERT, eldest son of
Robert D., farmer, Meigle, Angus ; edu
cated at Univ. of Glasgow; licentiate of
the Church of Scotland ; app. missionary
to Canada in 1832 ; res. 1834. Possibly
" the Rev. R. D. " Whitehill, Dalserf, who
died 25th April 1867.
DUNN, JOHN, born about 1768,
probably son of James D., farmer, Fintray,
Stirlingshire; educated at Univ. of Glas
gow; M.A. (1788); licen. by Presb. of
Glasgow ; sometime a min. in Albany,
U.S.A. ; min. at Niagara before 1st Oct.
1794 (when the Session Records commence);
dem. in 1796; became a merchant in
Niagara; drowned 1803, in the Speedy,
which foundered in Lake Ontario, when
all on board perished.
DURIE, WILLIAM, born Glasgow,
1804, eldest son of William D., merchant,
and Janet Gillespie ; educated at Univ.
of Glasgow and Relief Theological Hall,
Edinburgh; ord. to Relief Church, Earlston,
3rd Dec. 1834; dem. llth May 1843.
Joined the Church of Scotland in 1846;
assistant at Cardross ; app. by Colonial
Committee and adm. to St Andrew's
Church, Bytown (now Ottawa), 14th Jan.
1847 ; died unmarr. (of fever caught while
ministering to Scottish and Irish sick
immigrants) 12th Sept. 1847. — [Tail's
Border Church Life, ii., 137; "A Priest
of the Lord " in Stories and Verses, by Mary
Stewart Durie (Toronto 1913); "A Hero
of Fifty Years Ago" (Trans. Women's
Canadian Hist. Soc., Ottaiva, i., 1901);
Small's Hist, of U.P. Gongs., ii., 438;
Tombst.].
EASTMAN, DANIEL WARD, a native
of Gpshen County, N.Y. ; educated in
America ; licen. by the Morris County
Associated Presb. 17th March 1801; settled
at Stamford and carried on missionary
itinerations throughout a wide district,
organising congregations at Gainsborough,
Pelham, Clinton, Louth, Vienna, and
Grimsby. Joined the Church of Scotland
in 1840. Joined the Free Church in 1844 ;
died 4th Aug. 1865.— [Gregg's Hist., 185-9 ;
Canadian Presbyterian, 8th Nov. 1878, 21st
March 1879 ; Tombst. at Gainsborough.]
EASTON, ROBERT, a native of Eccle-
fechan ; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh
and Associated (Burgher) Hall 1793; ord.
to Secession Congregation, Morpeth, 2nd
Aug. 1798; res. in 1802; emigrated to
Canada and became min. of St Gabriel
Street Church, Montreal, 1804-7; first min.
of St Peter Street Church there, 8th Aug.
1807; dem. in 1824; died May 1831.—
[Campbell's Hist, of St Gabriel Street
Church, 176-82 ; Gregg's Hist., 163.]
EDMISON, HENRY, born Canada, 1839;
educated at Queen's College, Canada, 1860-5;
M.A. ; licen. by Presb. of London 20th
June 1866 ; ord. to Nelson and Waterdown
18th Oct. that year ; trans, to Melbourne,
Canada, 26th May 1873; afterwards at
Richmond, Quebec, and Rothesay, Ontario,
where he laboured for twenty-five years;
retired and went to Brandon, Manitoba;
died at Transcona, Manitoba, 1st April
1924.
ESSON, HENRY, born Balnacraig,
Aboyne, 1793, son of Robert E., farmer;
educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen ;
M.A. (1811); licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen
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633
7th May 1817; ord. (by that Presb.) 15th
May following (assistant and successor)
at St Gabriel Street Church, Montreal.
Joined the Free Church in 1844 ; Professor
of Literature and Philosophy, Knox Col
lege, Toronto, 1844-53; died llth May
1853. He was an accomplished scholar and
metaphysician . Publication — Sermons to St
Andrews Society (Montreal, 1835). Editor
of the Canadian Miscellany.— [Campbell's
Hist, of St Gabriel Street Church, 276-96 ;
Gregg's Hist., 164-6.]
EVANS, DAVID, a native of Ireland
educated at Univ. of Glasgow; ord. in
1815; min. at St Therese 1823-41, at
Richmond 1841-52, at Kitley 1852-62; dem.
July 1862 ; died at Prescott, 9th Aug.
1864, aged 74.
EVANS, JOSEPH, a native of Canada ;
educated at:Queen's College 1852-7 ; M.A. ;
ord. min. at Oxford 3rd Nov. 1858 ; trans,
to Litchfield in 1861 ; trans, to Sherbrooke
27th Oct. 1864.
FAIRBAIRN, JOHN (cf. Vol. II., 20),
min. at Ramsay 1833-42; returned to Scot
land and adm. to West Greenlaw Chapel,
Berwickshire, 9th July 1842.
FAIRLIE, JOHN, assistant at Dun-
barton ; formerly ordained missionary ;
adm. to L'Orignal and Hawkesbury 24th
Feb. 1874, and served in other congrega
tions ; retired 1900 ; died at Kingston 1920.
FERGUSON, GEORGE D., a native of
Canada; educated at Queen's College,
Kingston, 1848-51, B.A., Univ. of Edin-'
burgh, and Halle, Germany ; ord. to Three
Rivers 16th May 1855; trans, to L'Orignal
Sept. 1860 ; Professor of History, Queen's
Univ. ; D.D ; was the oldest min. of the
Presbyterian Church in Canada in 1925,
and then aged 97.
FERGUSON, JOHN, a native of
Canada ; B.A. ; licen. by Presb. of Toronto
19th June 1867 ; ord. to Kincardine (Presb.
of Guelph) 22nd April 1868; dem. 24th
Jan. 1871 ; adm. to Osprey and Dunedin
15th May 1872.
FERGUSON, PETER, a native of
Bridge of Teith ; educated at Univ. of
Glasgow and United Secession Hall 1824 ;
j licen. by United Associated Presb. of Falkirk
] and Stirling in 1830, and immediately pro-
i ceeded to Canada ; ord. to West Williams-
burg April 1831; adm. to Esquesing llth
I April 1832. Joined the Church of Scotland
1834; died 1863.
FERGUSON, WILLIAM, son of John
F., Aberdeen ; educated at Marischal Col
lege, 1817-21 ; app. catechist in Canada by
Colonial Committee ; afterwards Inspector
of Schools, Co. Dundas. Publication—
The Layman's Preservative against Popery
(Aberdeen, 1831).
FINDLATER, ANDREW, born Aber-
dour, Aberdeenshire, 1810, son of Andrew
F. ; educated at Marischal College, Aber
deen ; M.A. (1832) ; app. by Colonial Com
mittee for missionary work in Canada,
but returned home ; engaged in teaching
and was headmaster of Gordon's Hospital,
Aberdeen, 1842-9; LL.D. (Aberdeen 1864);
died at Edinburgh, 1st Jan. 1885. He
marr. a daugh. (died 1879), of Thomas
Barclay, sheriff-clerk of Fife. Publications
— Editor of Chambers^ Encyclopaedia, In
formation for the People (1857), Ety
mological Dictionary, Miscellanies, and
numerous educational manuals . — [Diet.
Nat. Biog.~\
FINLAY, WILLIAM (cf. Vol. IV., 327),
app. by Colonial Committee and ord. to
Sarnia in 1841 ; returned to Scotland and
adm. to Third Charge, Stirling, 18th Jan.
1844.
FLETCHER, ALEXANDER, a native
of Skye, born 1791 ; licen. by Presb. of
Edinburgh; went to Pictou, Nova Scotia,
1816, but dissatisfied with the condition of
Church affairs removed to Canada, where
he engaged in teaching in the county of
Glengarry; ord. to Martintown Oct. 1819;
min. at Williamstown 1822-4; died at
Plantagenet 1836.
FORBES, ALEXANDER, born Old
Machar about 1821, son of Alexander F. ;
educated at King's College, Aberdeen ;
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M.A. (March 1840); licen. by Presb. of
Garioch in 1839; app. by Colonial Com
mittee as a missionary in New Brunswick
1854 ; min. of St John's Church, Dalhousie,
New Brunswick, 1855-8 ; min. at Inverness,
Ontario, 1859 ; retired and was resident in
Ontario 1875.
FORREST, ROBERT, a native of
Dunbar; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh
and Associated Burgher Theological Hall ;
ord. to Burgher congregation, Saltcoats,
27th Feb. 1798 ; dem. 29th April 1802, and
joined a group of ministers sailing for
America under the leadership of John
Mason, D.D., New York ; went to
Montreal and officiated for a time in St
Gabriel Street Church; adm. to Pearl
Street congregation, New York, 26th April
1804 ; min. at Stamford, Delaware, 1810-43;
died 17th March 1846, aged 78. Publication
— A Testimony to the Doctrines of Original
Sin and the Atonement. — [Small's Hist, of
U.P. Gongs., ii., 309.]
FRASER, DONALD, a native of
Canada; educated at Queen's College;
M.A. ; licen. by Presb. of Glengarry 26th
June 1867; ord. to Priceville 15th Aug.
that year ; trans, to Saugeen 21st Jan.
1875 ; afterwards in First Presbyterian
Church, Victoria, British Columbia ; died
9th July 1891.
FRASER, JOSHUA, a native of U.S.A.;
educated at Queen's College, Kingston,
1855-62 ; B.A. ; adm. min. of St Matthew's,
Montreal, 22nd Sept. 1865 ; trans, to
Whitby 4th Jan. 1872 ; dem. 10th March
1875.
FRASER, SIMON CUMMING, edu
cated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A.
(2nd April 1835); app. by Glasgow Colonial
Society and ord. 28th March 1844 ; adm. to
St Charles, Belle Alliance, that year. Joined
the Free Church same year ; min. at Port
Neuf, 1846-7; at MacNab and Horton,
1849-57 ; at MacNab, 1859-68 ; at Thorold,
1871-6 ; retired 1877.
FRASER, THOMAS, born Johnstone,
Renfrewshire, 1791, eldest son of Thomas
F., merchant, Kilbarchan ; educated at
Univ. of Glasgow; ord. to Relief Church,
Dalkeith, 18th May 1819; dem. 9th May
1826; emigrated to Canada and adm. to
Niagara in 1827 ; went to U.S.A. where he
connected himself with the Dutch Reformed
Church ; returned to Canada and adm. to
Lanark 1844; retired 1861; died at
Montreal 15th July 1884.— [Small's Hist,
of U.P. Congs., i., 561.]
GALE, ALEXANDER, born 1802, son
of John G., farmer, Logie - Coldstone,
Aberdeenshire ; educated at Marischal
College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (1819) ; licen. by
Presb. of Kincardine O'Neil ; went to
Canada in 1827 ; min. at Amhertsburgh,
1828-31 ; at Lachine, 1832-3 ; at Hamilton,
1833. Joined the Free Church in 1844 ;
app. Principal of Toronto Academy and
Professor of Classics, Knox College, 1846 ;
Moderator of Synod in 1853 ; died at Logie,
Hamilton, 6th April 1854, a man of great
scholarly attainments. — [Gregg's Hist., 390.]
GALLOWAY, GEORGE, born Peter-
head, 1814, son of James G., shoemaker;
educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen ;
M.A. (1833); app. by Glasgow Colonial
Society as "missionary at large to Upper
Canada " ; ord. to Markham 4th Feb. 1840 ;
died there llth Nov. 1844.
GARDINER [or GARDNER],
ALEXANDER, born Aberdeenshire, 1809;
educated at King's College, Aberdeen;
M.A. (31st March 1827) ; app. by Glasgow
Colonial Society in 1836 ; missionary at
Markham for six months; ord. to Fergus
22nd Feb. 1837; died there 13th Dec. 1841.
GEGGIE, JAMES, born Chirnside, 1793,
son of James G. ; educated at Allanton
School, Univ. of Edinburgh, and Reformed
Presbyterian Theological Hall; licen. by
R.P. Church 2nd Nov. 1824. Joined the
Church of Scotland and ord. for missionary
service in Canada 27th June 1837; adm.
to Valcartier in 1841. Joined the Free
Church in 1844, and held charges at
Edwardsburgh, Dalhousie, and Spencer-
ville ; died 3rd Jan. 1863.
GEMMELL, JOHN, born 1760, second
son of Andrew G., farmer, Dunlop, Ayr
shire ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; ord.
ONTARIO AND QUEBEC
63f.
in 1786; min. of a "Lifter" congregation
at Dairy, Ayrshire ; had a printing estab
lishment at Beith [his name appears on th
title-page of old volumes] ; M.D. (Glasgow
1818) ; emigrated to Canada and was min
at Dalhousie and Lanark, Ontario ; died 1844
—[Small's Hist, of U.P. Gongs., ii., 303.]
GEORGE, JAMES, born 8th Nov. 1800
eldest son of James G., farmer, Muckhart
educated at Dollar Academy and Univs. o
Glasgow and St Andrews; emigrated t<
America while a student in United
Secession Hall; ord. by Associated Re
formed Presb. of New York 21st Sept
1831 ; held charges at Philadelphia, Pa.
and Fort Covington, N.Y., till 1833; min
of St Andrew's Church, Scarboro, Ontario
22nd Aug. 1833-47. Joined the Church of
Scotland 4th Aug. 1834 ; Professor of Syste
matic Theology, Queen's College, Kingston
1846-53; min. at Belleville, 1847-8; re-trans.
to Scarboro, 1848-53; Professor of Mental
and Moral Philosophy, 1853-62 ; Vice-Prin
cipal of that College, 1854-7; D.D. (Glasgow
1855); min. at Stratford, 1862-70; died
there 26th Aug. 1870.— [Gregg's Hist., 448.]
GIBSON, HAMILTON, born Carluke,
Lanarkshire ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow;
licen. by Presb. of Glasgow; assistant at
Tron Church there; app. by Colonial
Committee and was min. at Gait, Ontario,
1850-60.; trans, to Bayfield 21st Nov. 1860 ;'
res. 1877 ; died at Toronto 19th Oct. 1885,
aged 78. His wife died 1875.
GILLIES, JOHN, formerly in Prince
Edward Island (q.v.) ; returned to Scotland
and was adm. to Knock 28th Sept. 1875;
trans, to Appin 21st Aug. 1877 (cf. Vol. IV.|
80); res. 3rd Oct. 1883, and became min.
at Eldon, Ontario.
GLEN, ANDREW, born Lochwinnoch,
1796, youngest son of William G., farmer'
and brother of James G., min. of Benholme ;'
educated at Univ. of Glasgow and Associated
(Burgher) Hall; emigrated to Canada as
a licentiate; ord. assistant at St Peter
Street Church, Montreal, 14th July 1818;
was afterwards at Terrebonne, River Du
Chene, and Richmond ; returned to Scot
land and adm. to Free Church, Glenbervie,
1844; died 1863.
GORDON, DANIEL MINER, born
Pictou, Nova Scotia, 30th Jan. 1845, son of
William G., merchant ; educated at Pictou
Academy, Univ. of Glasgow, M.A. (1863),
B.D. (1866) and Berlin ; licen. by Presb.
of Ayr 25th July 1866 ; app. by Colonial
Committee and ord. (by Presb. of Ayr)
1866 ; min. at Truro, Nova Scotia, 1866-7 ;
adm. to St Andrew's Church, Ottawa,
17th Dec. 1867; min. of Knox Church,
Winnipeg, 1882-7, of St Andrew's Church,
Halifax, 1888-94; Professor of Theology,
Presbyterian College, Halifax, 1894-1902;
D.D. (Glasgow 1895) ; Moderator of Presby
terian Church in Canada, 1896; LL.D.
(St Andrews 1911), LL.D. (Toronto 1913);
created C.M.G. (1915); Vice-Chancellor
and Principal of Queen's Univ., Kingston,
1902-17; app. Principal Emeritus in 1917;
died 1925. He marr. 1869, Eliza (died
1910), daugh. of John Maclennan, min.
of Kilchrenan, Argyll, and had issue.
Publications — Mountain and Prairie, an
Account of a Journey Across Northtrn
British Columbia, the Peace River Country,
and the Western Canadian Prairies
(1880).
GORDON, HENRY, born Edinburgh,
1790, eldest son of Thomas G., W.S. ; edu
cated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; studied law
and adm. W.S. 1st July 1825; app. by
~lasgow Colonial Society 22nd April 1833 ;
min. at Newmarket and King, 1834-7 ;
at Gananoque, 1837-43. Joined the Free
Church in 1844 ; min. of the Free Church,
Grananoque, 1844-69 ; Moderator of Free
Presbyterian Church in Canada 1854 ; min.
without a charge, 1869-80 ; died unmarr.
13th Dec. 1880.— [Gregg's Hist., 482].
GORDON, JAMES, a native of Scot-
and ; educated at Queen's College, King-
ton, 1848-53; M.A. ; ord. to Markham
6th Sept. 1854 ; trans, to North Doncaster
n 1865 ; still on Synod Roll in 1875.
GORDON, JOHN, a native of Nova
icotia; educated at Queen's College,
Kingston, 1858-63 ; B.A. ; ord. to Georgina
1st Feb. 1865; trans, to Ramsay 14th
^.pril 1868; dem. 15th Feb. 1872; adm.
o Paisley (Presb. of Saugeen) 12th Feb.
873.
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GRANT, GEORGE MONRO, born
Albion Mines, Pictou, Nova Scotia, 22nd
Dec. 1835, son of James G., schoolmaster
(from Banffshire), and Mary, daugh. of
George Ross Monro, Inverness, and brother
of Charles Martin G., D.D., min. of St
Mark's, Dundee ; accidentally lost his right
hand at the age of seven ; educated at
Pictou Academy, West River Seminary,
and Univ. of Glasgow ; MA. (1857) ; licen.
by Presb. of Ayr 1860; app. by Colonial
Committee as a missionary to Nova Scotia
and ord. (by Presb. of Glasgow) 28th Nov.
1860 ; was three months at River John,
Nova Scotia, where he organised the first
Scots congregation ; adm. min. at George
town and St Peter's Road, Prince Edward
Island, 28th Jan. 1861 ; min. of St
Matthew's, Halifax, 1863-77 ; app. Principal
and Primarius Professor of Divinity, Queen's
Univ., Kingston, Ontario, 1877 ; D.D. (Glas
gow, 1877); LL.D. (Dalhousie, 1892); five
years Convener of the Board of Home
Missions; Moderator of the Presbyterian
Church in Canada 1889 ; President of the
Royal Society of Canada 1891 ; created
C.M.G. 1901 ; died at Kingston 10th May
1902, and buried in Cataraqui Cemetery.
He was one of the most outstanding figures
in Canadian ecclesiastical and educational
life. In 1883 he refused an invitation from
the Premier [Sir Oliver Mowat] to relin
quish his Principalship and become Minister
of Education. By his personal efforts he
succeeded in raising for Queen's University
a large endowment fund, and the progress
and success of that institution was one of
his dearest ambitions. An ardent imperialist,
but a believer in the future of Canada,
eagerly supporting the federation of the
Provinces in • 1867, a vigorous and fearless
controversialist, but a man of generous and
liberal instincts, he won for himself a pre
eminent position as a publicist, trusted and
esteemed by all parties. A singularly notable
servant of his Church, he was a leading
protagonist of the Union of 1875. [Portrait
in Convocation Hall, Kingston, and bust in
library.] He marr. 7th May 1867, Jessie,
eldest daugh. of William Lawson, Halifax,
Nova Scotia, and had issue — William Law-
son, LL.D., Professor of History, Queen's
Univ., Kingston ; and others deceased.
Publications— New Year Sermons (Halifax,
1865-6; Ocean to Ocean (Toronto, 1873)
[record (as secretary) of preliminary survey
of a route for the Canadian Pacific Railway,
with [Sir] Sandford Fleming [K.C.M.G.]] ;
Our Five Foreign Missions (Kingston, 1887);
Advantages of Imperial Federation (London,
1889); Our National Objects and Aims
(Toronto, 1890); The Religions of the
World [Guild Series] (London, 1894) [trans
lated into European languages and Japanese].
Editor and part author of Picturesque
Canada, 2 vols. (Toronto, 1882). Numerous
contributions to British, Canadian, and
American periodicals. — [Principal Grant
[by his son, W. L. G., and Frederick
Hamilton] portrait (Toronto, 1904) ; Tache's
Men of the Day ; Rose's Cyclo. Canadian
Biog. (1886) ; Morgan's Canadian Men and
Women of the Time (1898) ; Wallace's Diet.
Canadian Biog., 160 (1926); Life of Sir
Sandford Fleming; Diet. Nat. Biog., 2nd
Supp., ii., 147.]
GRIGOR, COLIN, a native of Ross-
shire ; educated at King's College, Aber
deen, 1817-21 ; licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen;
app. by Colonial Committee and ord. to
L'Orignal 5th June 1844 ; adm. to Guelph
Feb. 1848 ; trans, to Plantagenet 1857 ;
died there 9th Jan. 1864.
HAIG, THOMAS, born Glasgow, 1817,
eldest son of Thomas H., lanaici ; educated
at Univ. of Glasgow ; app. by Colonial
Committee and adm. to Brockville Nov.
1848 ; trans, to Beauharnois March 1851 ;
retired 1858; died at Lachine, 23rd May
1866.
HAMILTON, WILLIAM, a native of
Canada; educated at Queen's College,
Kingston, 1858-63 ; ord. to Caledon and
Mono 31st July 1866.
HARKNESS, JAMES, born Sanquhar,
1789, eldest son of James H. ; educated at
Univ. of Glasgow ; assistant at St Quivox ;
ord. to St Andrew's, Quebec, 7th March
1820; D.D. (Glasgow 1821); died there
25th Feb. 1835. He greatly exerted him
self to promote the interests of the Church
of Scotland in Canada.
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637
HAY, JOHN, born Perth, Scotland;
educated at Univs. of Edinburgh and St
Andrews; ord. min. of Stanley Chapel,
Perthshire, 1854-8 ; app. by Colonial Com
mittee as an ordained missionary to Canada
Aug. 1858 ; adm. to Mount Forest 31st
Jan. 1861 ; res. in June 1866 with the
intention of returning to Scotland, but
died at Kincardine, Canada, 31st July,
aged 39.
HENRY, GEORGE, ord. a min. of the
Church of Scotland in 1759 ; was chaplain
to a Scots Regiment at the time of the
conquest of Canada, and present at the
capture of Quebec ; organised the first
Presbyterian Church in Canada in a room
of the Jesuits' Barracks, Quebec, 1765 ;
min. till his death 6th July 1795, aged 86.
— [Quebec Gazette, 9th July 1795; Canadian
Christian Examiner, Sept. 1837.]
HENRY, THOMAS, educated at Univ.
of Edinburgh ; min. at La Chute in 1841.
Joined the Free Church in 1845.
HERALD, JAMES, born Kirriemuir,
about 1830, son of John H. ; educated
at Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1845-9 ;
app. a missionary by Colonial Committee
in 1857; adm. to Dundas 30th June 1858;
still in the charge in 1871 ; afterwards in
Port Arthur; died at Medicine Hat, 5th
March 1896.
HILL, JAMES EDGAR, D.D. (cf. Vol.
V., 333), formerly min. of St Paul's,
Dundee, born 18th Oct. 1842, son of James
A. and Catherine Hunter ; educated at
Hamilton School ; licen. by Presb. of
Edinburgh ; assistant at Lady Yester's,
Edinburgh; adm. to St Andrew's Church,
Montreal, in 1882; died 3rd March 1911.
He marr. Marianne Fletcher (died 19th
Aug. 1915), daugh. of Walter Philip. His
daugh. Catherine Hunter, died 1st May
1908; Walter Henry Philip, physician,
died 23rd July 1921 ; Norman Edgar, born
5th June 1882, died 21st Aug. 1922.
[After Dr Hill's death, St Andrew's united
with St Paul's to form the congregation of
St Paul's and St Andrew's, Montreal. In
1917 George Gordon Dundas Stewart
Duncan, D.D., formerly min. of St
Cuthbert's, Edinburgh (cf. Vol. I., 99),
was min. He returned to Scotland and was
adm. to Govan 13th May 1924. In 1925
George Henry Donald, M. A., D.D. (Montreal,
1927), formerly min. of Galashiels, (cf. Vol.
VI., 41), was adm. to the charge.]
HOGG, JOHN, born Yarrow, Selkirk
shire, 1823, eldest son of Thomas H.,
farmer ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ;
ord. to Relief Church, Dumfries, 8th Jan.
1846; res. 3rd Dec. 1850; adm. min. at
Hamilton, Canada, 13th Aug. 1851 ; min.
at Detroit, U.S.A., 1859. Joined the
Church of Scotland and adm. to Guelph
in 1861 ; D.D. (1871) (source unknown,
probably U.S.A.) ; died 3rd March 1877.—
[Small's Hist, of U.P. Gongs., L, 257.]
HOME, FREDERICK, a native of
Kincardineshire ; educated at Univs. of St
Andrews and Edinburgh ; app. by Colonial
Committee and served as ordained mission
ary at Black River and Red Bank, Mira-
michi; min. at St Luke's, Bathurst, New
Brunswick, Sept. 1867-73 ; min. at Bucking
ham and Cumberland, Ontario, 12th May
1874.
HUNTER, ALEXANDER, a native of
Scotland ; educated at Queen's College,
Kingston, 1858-63; B.A. ; ord. to Leith
and Johnson 27th Oct. 1864 ; died 4th Oct.
1869.
HUTCHESON, SMITH, born 1822,
sixth son of John H., farmer, Renfrewshire ;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow; app. by
Colonial Committee (at age of 49) and adm.
to Mulmur (Presb. of Toronto) 16th Feb.
1871 ; died at Ardagh Manse, Shanty Bay,
Ontario, 7th June 1901.
INGLIS, WILLIAM MAXWELL, born
Forglen ; educated at King's College, Aber
deen, 1851-5; licen. by Presb. of Fordyce
in 1861 ; assistant at New Greyfriars,
Edinburgh, and at St Andrew's, Montreal ;
ord. to Kingston Aug. 1863; dep. (by
Presb. of Kingston) 8th March 1871.
JENKINS, JOHN, D.D., LL.D.,
born Exeter, Devonshire, 5th Dec. 1813 ;
educated at Redford College, Exeter,
and Wesleyan Theological Institute (now
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Eichmond College), Hoxton, London ; ord.
a Wesleyan min. 6th Aug. 1837 ; app. a
missionary to Mysore, India, that year ;
invalided home in 1842 ; ministered to an
English congregation at Malta, 1842-4 ;
to a congregation in Cornwall, 1844-7 ; min.
of St James's Street Methodist Church,
Montreal, 1847-53; min. of Calvary
Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, U.S.A.,
1853-63 ; adm. to St Paul's, Montreal, 17th
June 1865 ; res. 24th Oct. 1881 ; preached
for the last time in St Paul's, 7th Aug.
1887, the day following his jubilee as a
min. ; died at Dulwich, London, 12th
April 1898, and was buried in Norwood
Cemetery. He was one of the most
eloquent preachers connected with the
Church of Scotland, and became a staunch
upholder of the Church in Canada ; was
Moderator of Synod 1869, and of Assembly
1878. He marr. (1) Harriette Shepstone
(died 22nd Aug. 1875, aged 59), and had
issue— John Edward, barrister-at-law, poli
tician, author of Ginx's Baby and other
works, born 28th July 1838, died 4th June
1910; Julia Mary (marr. Sir Henry Sey
mour King, K.C.I.E., M.P.), died 1918 ; and
others : (8) a daugh. of John M'Lennan,
min. of Kilchrenan and Dalavich.— {Diet.
Nat. Biog., supp. ii., for John Edward
Jenkins.]
JOHNSON", THOMAS, born Ahoghill,
Co. Antrim, 1795 ; educated at Univ. of
Glasgow; licen. by Associate Presb. of
Antrim in 1822; went to Canada 1827;
min. at Ernestown that year; adm. to
Chinguacousy in 1834. Joined the Church
of Scotland 4th Aug. 1840 ; res. June 1862 ;
died 30th Aug. 1866, having preached only
four days before. In 1844 the majority of
his congregation joined the Free Church,
but he continued a staunch supporter of
the Church of Scotland.
JOHNSON, WILLIAM, a native of
Canada ; educated at Queen's College,
Kingston; M.A. (1851); min. successively
at Salt Fleet in 1852, L'Orignal 1857,
Arnprior 1860, and Lindsay 1861 ; dem.
from ill-health 19th July 1864 ; died soon
afterwards.
JOHNSTON, JOSEPH, a native of
Ireland and licentiate of Synod of Ulster ;
officiated at Cornwall in 1815, where he
also taught the District School ; min. at
Osnabriick, 1822-8 ; went to America and
died in Texas, where he had acquired
considerable landed property.
KERR, JAMES, educated at Univs. of
Edinburgh, M.A. (28th April 1835) and
St Andrews ; ord. (assistant) at St Andrew's
Church, Montreal, May 1860 ; returned to
Scotland and resided at Bathgate. He and
his wife were drowned at sea on board the
London, which foundered in the Bay of
Biscay on a voyage to Australia, llth Jan.
1866, when 266 other persons perished.
KETCHAN, JAMES, born Dumfries
shire, 1797; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh;
app. by Glasgow Colonial Society 18th
April 1831 ; ord. (by Presb. of Dumfries) to
Belleville June that year ; adm. 6th Nov.
following ; returned to Scotland and joined
the Free Church in 1844 ; min. of the Free
Church, Mordington, Berwickshire, 1844-71;
died 1871.
KING, WILLIAM, educated at Univ. of
Glasgow; licentiate of Synod of Ulster;
min. at Nelson and Waterdown, 1822-52;
died 13th March 1859, aged 69.
KIRKLAND, HUGH, born Market Hill,
Co. Armagh, about 1796, fourth son of
Hugh K. ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow,
M.A. (1815), and General Associate (Anti-
burgher) Hall ; ord. to Lachine 13th July
1818 ; left May 1819 for America.
LAMBIE, JAMES, born Tarbolton,
Ayrshire, 1805, eldest son of James L.,
farmer ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ;
M.A. (1822) ; ord. to Pickering and Whitby
in 1841; died 16th Sept. 1847.— [Tonibst.
at Du/iris Creek.]
LAMONT, HUGH (cf. Vol. IV., 77);
educated at Univ. of Edinburgh and
Queen's College; ord. to Finch 22nd Feb.
1865; dem. 3rd Aug. 1870; returned to
Scotland and adm. to Kilmeny (Islay and
Jura) 28th Sept. following; returned to
Canada and re-adm. to Finch 17th Jan.
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1872; afterwards at Dalhousie Mills, Lake
M( -antic and Little Metis; (D.D.) ; died
26th May 1897.
LANG, GAVIN (c/. Vol. VI., 464),
formerly min. of Glasford ; adm. to St
Andrew's, Montreal, 28th Nov. 1870;
returned to Scotland and adm. to Second
Charge, Inverness, 27th June 1882.
LAPELTRIE, EMILE, ord. to St John's
[French, in connection with Church of
Scotland] congregation, Montreal, 2nd Sept.
1841; returned to France in 1850; died
there soon afterwards.
LAW, GEORGE, born Fetteresso;
educated at King's College, Aberdeen,
1850-5; app. by Colonial Committee as
missionary to Nova Scotia in 1863 ; adm.
to Chinguacousy 18th Nov. 1866.
LEACH, WILLIAM TURNBULL,
D.D., LL.D., D.C.L., born Berwick-
upon-Tweed, 2nd March 1805; educated
at Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (1827) ;
app. by Glasgow Colonial Society 22nd
April 1832; ord. (by Presb. of Had-
dington) June that year ; served as
a missionary in Canada; adm. to St
Andrew's, Toronto, 15th July 1835; trans,
to York Mills in 1842. Joined the Church
of England and dem. 15th Nov. that year.
For this he was libelled and dep. by Presb.
of Toronto 27th Dec. same year; first
rector of St George's Church, Montreal,
1843-61 ; was afterwards rector at Lachine ;
Canon of Montreal 1854 ; Archdeacon 1865 ;
Professor of Classical Literature, M'Gill
College ; Dean of the Faculty of Arts and
Vice-Principal ; Professor of Logic and
English Literature ; died 18th Oct. 1886.
He was an accomplished scholar and an
eloquent preacher. In recognition of his
services to M'Gill College he was presented
with his portrait, now in the Convocation
Hall of the College. He marr. (1) a daugh.
of David Skirving, farmer, East Lothian,
and had issue— David Skirving, advocate,
Montreal : (2) a daugh. of Robert Easton,
min. of St Andrew's Church, Montreal:
(3) Miss Gwilt, Montreal. Publications —
Sermons and Addresses. — [St Andrew's
Church Year Book (1919), 66-8; Macmillan's
M'Gill and its Story (portrait), 187.]
LEATHEM, WILLIAM HARVEY, M.A.,
formerly min. of West Helensburgh (c/. Vol.
1 1 1., 348); min. of St Andrew's, Ottawa, 1927.
Publication (additional)— Life of St Francis
of Assisi (London, 1926).
LEITCH, WILLIAM, D.D., formerly
min. of Monimail (c/. Vol. V., 167); app.
Principal and Primarius Professor of
Divinity, Queen's College, Kingston, 1861 ;
died 9th May 1864.
LEITH, HARRY, of Balcairn (c/ Vol.
VI., 333), ord. to Cornwall 6th June 1822 ;
returned to Scotland and adm. to Rothiemay
23rd Aug. 1827.
LEWIS, ALEXANDER, a native of
Ulster, born 1790 ; min. at St Mary's, Co.
Guysborough, Nova Scotia, 1816-35 ; adm.
to Caledon and Mono in 1837. Joined the
Church of Scotland in 1840 ; dem. 1865 ;
died 4th Dec. 1878.
LEWIS, WILFRID JAMES, B.A., B.D.,
formerly min. of Glenisla (c/. Vol. V., 263) ;
min. of Rosedale Church, Toronto, 1927.
LIDDELL, THOMAS, D.D. (</. Vol.
II., 215); app. first Principal of Queen's
College, Kingston, 27th Oct. 1841; returned
to Scotland and adm. to Lochmaben 29th
March 1850.
LINDSAY, JOHN, a native of Scotland ;
educated at Queen's College, Kingston,
1849-53 ; M.A.; adm. to Litchfield in 1854 ;
died there 13th July 1857.
LINDSAY, PETER, born Paisley, Scot
land ; educated at Queen's College, Kings
ton, 1849-52; B.A. ; min. at Richmond
1853-5, at Cumberland 1855-62, at Arnprior
1862, at Caledon and Mono 7th March
1871 ; adm. to Sherbrooke 29th Oct. 1872.
LINDSAY, ROBERT, app. by Colonial
Committee and was min. at Ayr, Canada.
Joined the Free Church in 1844.
LIVINGSTON, JOHN, a native of
Nova Scotia ; educated at Queen's College,
1853-8; B.A. ; ord. to Dundee Nov. 1859;
died there 15th Aug. 1860, aged 27.
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LIVINGSTON, PETER STRATTON,
B.A. ; ord. to Pittsburgh 17th Aug. 1871 ;
trans, to Russeltown 13th April 1875 ; at
Broadview, Manitoba, 1882; died atBrandon,
Manitoba, 16th Dec. 1885.
LIVINGSTONE, MARTIN WILSON,
born Kilsyth, 30th Dec. 1808, third son
of Robert L., merchant; educated at Univ.
of Glasgow ; min. of Mill Hill Relief and
U.P. Church, Musselburgh, 1837-53 ; went
to Canada, but had no settled charge till
his admission to Simcoe May 1858 ; dem.
1875 ; died 21st March 1887.
LOCHHEAD, JOHN SOMERVILLE,
a native of Canada ; educated at Queen's
College, 1858-64; M.A. ; ord. to Matilda
21st Nov. 1866 ; min. at Elgin and Athel-
stane in 1871.
LYLE, ROBERT, born 1793, second
son of Robert L., farmer, Killcronaghan,
Co. Derry ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ;
M.A. (1812); licen. by Irish Presbyterian
Church in 1 814 ; min. at Osnabriick, 1828-38 ;
adm. to Finch 1838 ; dep. Dec. 1841 ; died
same month.
M'ALLISTER, WILLIAM, born
Glasgow, 1804, third son of William M.,
merchant, Anderston ; educated at Univ.
of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow ;
app. by Glasgow Colonial Society; ord.
by Presb. of Skye 14th Oct. 1829; min.
at Lanark, 1830-42, at Sarnia, 1842-4.
Joined the Free Church in 1844; min.
of Free Church, Woodlands, Metis; died
there 2nd Dec. 1866.
MACAULAY, DUNCAN, born 7th Dec.
1792, son of Aulay M., merchant, Cardross,
and Catherine Leitch ; educated at Univ.
of Glasgow ; app. by Glasgow Colonial
Society March 1833 ; min. at Leeds, 1833-4.
MACAULAY, EWAN, born Inverness-
shire ; educated at Queen's College, Kings
ton, 1860-5 ; B.A. ; ord. to Southwold 3rd
Oct. 1866; adm. to Bolsover 28th Dec.
1871 ; dem. 18th Feb. 1874 ; held charges
at London, Guelph, Puslinch, East Glou
cester, Ontario and Lingwick, Quebec ;
died at Ottawa 17th April 1907.
M'CAUGHEY, SAMUEL, M.A. ; a
native of Ireland ; adm. to Pickering Sept.
1856 ; res. Nov. 1859.
M'CAUL, JAMES, a native of Ireland ;
educated at Queen's College, Kingston ;
B.A. ; ord. to Roslin and Thurlow 24th
Aug. 1864 ; trans, to Melbourne 4th June
1867, at Three Rivers 5th March 1873;
afterwards in charges at Glasgow and
Birmingham ; returned to Canada and was
min. of the Church of the Covenant,
Toronto; died 15th Nov. 1906.
M'CLATCHEY, GEORGE, a native of
Ireland; ord. by Secession Church before
leaving Ireland ; adm. to Clinton and
Grimsby 23rd May 1834. Joined the
Church of Scotland in 1840; dem. from
ill-health 29th Sept. 1852 ; died at London
1857.
M'COLL, ALEXANDER, probably
seventh son of John M., farmer, Inverness-
shire ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; min.
at Aid borough in 1842.
M'CORKINDALE, THOMAS
BAYLEY, formerly min. of Eassie and
Nevay (cf. Vol. V., 261) ; min. at Deseronto,
Ontario, 1924.
M'DERMOT, ROBERT, M.A., formerly
min. of Monquhitter (cf. Vol. VI., 269);
min. at Lucan, Ontario, 1927.
M'DONALD, ALEXANDER, a nath
of Scotland; educated at Queen's Colle£
Canada, 1858-64 ; B.A. ; ord. to Nottaws
saga 31st Jan. 1866.
MACDONALD, DONALD (cf. Vol. VI]
176), min. at Lochiel Sept. 1856-9; returm
to Scotland and adm. to Trumisgarry 15t_
Sept. 1859; afterwards min. of Sleat, but
dem. and returned to Canada where he was
adm. to Saugeen 13th July 1870 ; suspended
sine die 9th May 1871 ; reponed 12th Jan.
1875 ; app. ordained missionary to Presb.
of London 13th Jan. that year ; died 28th
Oct. 1878.
M'DONALD, DUNCAN, a native
Nova Scotia ; educated at Queen's College,
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1856-62; M.A. ; ord. to Litchfield llth
Jan. 1865 ; min. at Purple Hill and Osprey
in 1871.
M'DONALD, JOHN, educated at Univ.
of Glasgow; adm. to Lochiel 28th June
1854 ; trans, to Beechridge Nov. that year ;
declined to join the Union of 1875 ; died
1900, leaving a widow.
_ MACDONELL, DANIEL JAMES, born
Bathurst, New Brunswick, 15th Jan. 1843,
son of George M., min. of St Luke's, Bathurst,
afterwards of Fergus, Ontario ; educated at
Queen's College, Kingston, M.A. (1862), Univ.
of Edinburgh, B.D. (1865), and in Berlin,
Germany ; app. by Colonial Committee and
ord. 2nd Nov. 1866 as a missionary in
Canada; adm. to Peterborough 20th Jan.
1867 ; trans, to St Andrew's, Toronto, 22nd
Dec. 1870 ; died at Fergus 19th Feb. 1896.
He was one of the most brilliant preachers
in Canada. He marr. 1868, Elizabeth
Logie (died 23rd March 1894), daugh. of
George Smellie, D.D., min. of Lady,
Orkney, and of Fergus, Ontario, and had
issue— George, lawyer, Toronto; James,
banker ; Logie, min. in Canada ; Norman ;
and others.— [Sanday Church Hist., 137;
M'Neill's Presbyterian Church in Canada,
204-7, 248 [contains account of heresy case
against D. J. M.] ; Life and Work of D. J. M.
by J. F. M'Curdy (Toronto, 1897).
MACDONELL, GEORGE, born Kirk-
caldy, 1811, son of Daniel M. and father
of above D. J. M. ; educated at Univ. of
Edinburgh, 1830-8; Keen, by Presb. of
Edinburgh; app. by Colonial Committee
and was min. of St Luke's, Bathurst, New
Brunswick, 1840-52 ; at Nelson and Water-
down, Ontario, 1852-5; trans, to Fergus
May 1855; at Milton in 1869; died 25th
April 1871. Publication — Sacramental
Addresses and Prayers.
M'DOUGALL, DANIEL (cf. Vol. VII.,
113); app. by Colonial Committee and
ord. missionary (at stations in the London
Presbytery, Canada) in 1864; returned to
Scotland and adm. to Berriedale 28th Dec
1876.
VOL. VII.
M'DOUGALL, NEIL (cf. Vol. IV., 44),
missionary at Indian Lands, 1864-7 ; adm!
min. at Eldon 19th June 1867; returned
to Scotland and adm. to Coll 24th Sept.
1877 [afterwards min. of Gaelic Chapel,
Rothesay].
M'DOWALL, ROBERT,born in America
of Scottish parents; licen. to preach in
1790; sent to Canada by Dutch Reformed
Church in 1798, where he laboured as a
missionary, organising congregations at
different places between Brockville on the
east and Toronto on the west; adm. to
Fredericksburg in 1800; died 3rd Aug.
1841.— [Gregg's Hist., 169.]
M'EWAN, JAMES, a native of Ireland ;
educated at Queen's College, Kingston,
1849-53; M.A. ; adm. first min. of West
minster Oct. 1854; dem. 2nd Sept. 1874
[afterwards at Welland]; died in London
12th March 1906.
M'EWAN, WILLIAM, M.A. ; ord. a
min. of Irish Presbyterian Church in 1849 ;
app. to Canada and adm. to Belleville 13th
Nov. 1850, and to Dorchester in 1853;
retired 1863.
MACFARLANE, ALFRED, M.A., B.D.,
formerly min. of Bowden (cf. Vol. II., 173) ;
min. at Bayfield, Ontario, 1927.
M'FARLANE, ROBERT (cf. Vol. III.,
282), formerly min. of Wishaw ; app. by
Colonial Committee and adm. to Melbourne
Nov. 1850; dep. (by Presb. of Montreal)
30th March 1852.
McGILL, ROBERT, born Ayr, 21st May
1798, third son of William M., schoolmaster;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by
Presb. of Glasgow ; ord. by same Presb.
15th July 1829; min. at Niagara (then
Newark), 1829-45 ; Moderator of Church of
Scotland Synod 1839, of which he was
app. clerk in 1831; trans, to St Paul's,
Montreal, 5tb Nov. 1845; D.D. (Glasgow
1853) ; died 4th Feb. 1856. Publication-
He founded and edited the Canadian
Christian Examiner, the first monthly
periodical publication of the Church of
Scotland in Canada.
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M'GILLIVRAY, DANIEL, a native of
Nova Scotia ; educated at Queen's College,
Kingston ; B.A. ; licen. by Presb. of Glen
garry 26th June 1867 ; ord. to Brockville
16th July that year.
MACGILVRAY, WALTER, D.D., for
merly min. of Hope Street Gaelic Chapel,
Glasgow (cf. Vol. III., 416) ; min. of Gaelic
Church, Glengarry, 1846-8.
MACHAR, JOHN, born Tannadice,
Forfarshire, bapt. 16th Dec. 1796, youngest
son of John M., farmer and flax-miller ;
educated at Brechin Grammar School,
King's College, Aberdeen, M.A. (25th March
1814), and Univ. of Edinburgh ; tutor in
the family of Captain Allardice of Mur-
lingden ; licen. by Presb. of Brechin Oct.
1819 ; assistant at Montrose and Brechin
Cathedral ; again a tutor to the family of
Sir William Ogilvy of Inverquharity, 1823-5;
assistant at Logie, Stirlingshire, 1825-6;
selected by Presb. of Edinburgh, ord. to
St Andrew's Church, Kingston, Canada,
27th April, sailed in June, arrived at New
York 23rd Aug., and preached for the first
time in St Andrew's, 16th Sept. 1827 ;
acting Principal of Queen's College, Kings
ton, 1846-53; D.D. (Glasgow 1847); died
7th Feb. 1863. He marr. 8th Oct. 1832,
a daugh. of a Church of Scotland min. —
[Memorials of Life and Ministry (portrait)
(Toronto, 1873).]
M'HUTCHESON, WILLIAM, formerly
min. of Banton (cf. Vol.III., 371) ; sometime
min. at Beckwith ; went to New Zealand ;
died 2nd Feb. 1904.
M'INTOSH, ANGUS, app. by Glasgow
Colonial Society 22nd April 1833 ; mis
sionary at Markham in 1836 ; min. at
Thorold, 1836-42. Joined the Free Church
in 1844.
M'ISAAC, JOHN, M.A. (cf. Vol. IV.,
102) ; ord. to Lochiel 30th April, and adm.
16th Aug. 1835; returned to Scotland and
adm. to Oban 8th Jan. 1846.
M'KAY, ALEXANDER, M.A.; trans,
from Salt Springs, Nova Scotia (q.v.), and
adm. to Lochiel, Ontario, 4th Dec. 1867 ;
trans, to Eldon 6th Nov. 1872; trans, to
Summerston, Oct. 1886 ; died at Montreal
29th June 1887.
M'KAY, WILLIAM E., a native of Ire
land; educated at Knox College, Toronto,
and Queen's College, Kingston; M.A.
(1855) ; min. at Camden, 1856-9 ; trans, to
Orangeville July 1859 ; died 2nd June 1885.
M'KEE, WILLIAM, a native of County
Down, Ireland, and a licentiate of Irish
Presbyterian Church; went to Canada in
1855. Joined the Church of Scotland and
adm. to Innisfil and Gwillimbury March
1858, where he laboured seventeen years ;
was Inspector of Schools, South Simcoe,
ten years ; adm. by General Assembly 31st
May 1880 ; died 2nd Sept. 1895, aged 74.
MACKENZIE, D., min. at Lochiel and
Dalhousie 1893-1908.
M'KENZIE, DONALD, born Dores,
Inverness-shire, 2nd Aug. 1798; educated
at King's College, Aberdeen ; ord. (by
Presb. of Dingwall) 1833; adm. to Zorra,
June 1834. Joined the Free Church in
1844 ; min. of the Free Church, Zorra,
1844-72 ; died at Ingersoll, 8th April 1884.
During his thirty-eight years' ministry at
Zorra, thirty-eight mins. were given to the
Church from his congregation.— [Gregg's
Hist., 489; M'Neill's Hist., 230; The
Presbyterian, 30th April 1884.]
M'KENZIE, JOHN, born Fort
Augustus, Scotland, 1790 ; educated at
King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (26th
April 1813); ord. for service in Canada
23rd Dec. 1818 ; adm. to Williamstown
1819; first Moderator of the Church of
Scotland Synod 1831 ; died 21st April
1855.— [Gregg's Hist., 385 ; Bell's Hints to
Emigrants, 94.]
M'KERACHER, MALCOLM, ord.
Tisdale, Saskatchewan, Canada, llth Ji
1906 ; trans, to Lashburn 1914 ; at Hamil
ton, Ontario, 1915; returned to Scot
and adm. to St Columba's, Oban, 17th Jar
1922 (cf. Vol. IV., 103).
MACKERRAS, JOHN HUGH,
Nairn, 1832, son of a schoolmaster wl
emigrated to Canada and taught ii
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Williamstown ; educated at Queen's Col
lege, Kingston ; B.A. (1850) ; M.A. (1852) ;
ord.to Belleville Sept. 1853 ; app. Professor
of Classical Literature, Queen's College,
Kingston, 26th April 1864; died 9th Jan.
1880. He was Clerk of the Presbyterian
Church of Canada (Church of Scotland)
and Joint-Clerk of Assembly after the
Union of 1875.— [M'Neill's Hist. (1925), 47.]
M'KID, ALEXANDER, born Thurso,
1820; educated at King's College, Aber
deen ; M.A. (March 1842) ; app. by Colonial
Committee; min. at St Andrew's Church,
Ottawa (then Bytown), 1844-5 ; trans, to
Hamilton, Ontario, 1845 - 8 ; min. at
Goderich, 1848-66; retired 4th July 1866;
died 1873. His wife died 30th Sept. 1877,
aged 56.
MACKIE, JOHN, M.A., D.D., formerly
min. of Dalbeatie (cf. Vol. II., 263); min.
of St Andrew's, Kingston, Ontario, 1885-
1911.
M'KILLICAN, WILLIAM, M.A. (cf.
Vol. VII., 91); app. by Colonial Com
mittee and ord. to West Gwillimbury 1834 ;
min. at St Thomas, 1840-2; returned to
Scotland and adm. to Kildonan 24th Sept.
1845.
M'LAREN, JOHN, born Balquhidder,
1807, son of Peter M. ; educated at Univ.
of Glasgow ; missionary at St Columba's,
Glasgow ; app. by Colonial Committee and
ord. to Martintown 6th Aug. 1840; died
there 22nd March 1855.
M'LAREN, ROBERT G., a native of
Caithness ; educated at Univ. of St
Andrews ; ord. 1857 ; app. by Colonial
Committee and adm. to Three Rivers 14th
Aug. 1862 ; died (suicide) 6th June 1882.
His widow died at Chatham, Ontario,
10th July 1895.
M'LAURIN, JOHN, a native of Bread-
albane, born 1794 ; educated at Univ. of
St Andrews ; ord. (by Presb. of Edinburgh)
27th Oct. 1819 ; min. at Lochiel, 1819-32 ;
trans, to L'Original 12th July 1832; died
in spring of 1833.
M'LEAN, ALEXANDER, ord. to Pictou
Feb. 1843. Joined the Free Church in
1844; died 3rd April 1877.
M'LEAN, .ENEAS, min. at Cote St
George and Dalhousie Mills in 1847 ; died
at Montreal 10th June 1855.
M'LEAN, DONALD, son of above
./Eneas M., min. at Cote St George ; edu
cated at Queen's College, Kingston, 1852-61 ;
B.A. ; ord. to Kitley llth Feb. 1863 ; trans,
to Middleville and Dalhousie June 1865;
trans, to Arnprior 7th March 1871.
MACLEAN, MATTHEW WOTHER-
SPOON, a native of Canada ; educated at
Queen's College, Kingston, and Princeton,
U.S.A.; licen. by Presb. of Niagara 13th
June 1866; ord. to Paisley (Presb. of
Guelph) 15th Aug. following; trans, to
Port Hope 3rd Jan. 1872 ; trans, to Belle
ville 12th Oct. 1873; retired after 9th
March 1902, the date of his wife's death.
M'LENNAN, ALEXANDER, a native
of Canada ; educated at Queen's College,
Kingston, 1851-61 ; B.A. ; ord. to Tossor-
ontio and Mulmur 2nd July 1862 ; trans,
to Scott and Uxbridge 21st Feb. 1871.
M'LENNAN, KENNETH, a native of
Canada ; educated at Queen's College,
Kingston, 1845-50 ; B.A. ; ord. to Dundas
1853 ; min. at Paisley 1857 and at Whitby
12th Dec. 1860; trans, to Peterborough
23rd Feb. 1871 ; died before 1901.
MACLENNAN, WILLIAM, educated
at Queen's College, Kingston ; M.A. ; ord.
to L'Orignal and Hawkesbury Nov. 1869 ;
died 8th Dec. 1873, aged 29.
MACLEOD, DONALD, formerly min.
of Gourock (cf. Vol. III., 196); min. at
Cobourg 1851-60 ; died at Gourock 19th
May 1868.
MACLEOD, JOHN MATHESON, ord.
to Hampden, Quebec, 28th July 1909 ; adm.
to Salen, Argyll, 10th July 1919 (c/. Vol. IV.,
119); trans, to Erchless 26th Dec. 1923.
M'LEOD, JOHN NEIL MACAULAY
(cf. Vol. III., 384); formerly min. of
Chryston ; received as an ord. missionary
from Presb. of Glasgow 5th Sept. 1865;
adm. to East Williams, Canada, 16th Jan.
1866; adm. to Glencoe 12th Feb. 1868;
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dem. 27th Sept. 1871 ; declared no longer
a min. of this Church June 1872; died
30th Dec. that year.
M'MEEKIN, HENEY, Ph.D., born
County Antrim, 30th June 1831 ; educated
at Belfast Academy and Royal Belfast
College ; emigrated to Canada and became
teacher of Elocution in Knox College,
Toronto; took divinity curriculum there,
and was min. at Pembroke, Ontario; re
turned to Ireland and engaged in missionary
work in Ulster; returned to Canada and
served at Metis, Lancaster, and other
charges ; died at Ottawa 2nd Oct. 1920.
M'MILLAN, DUNCAN, a native of
Islay; licen. 30th Aug. 1830; min. at
Caledon, 1831-9. Joined the Church of
Scotland in 1834 ; min. at East Williams,
1839-44. Joined the Free Church in 1844 ;
min. at Lobo 1867 ; died at London, Ontario,
25th Jan. 1889.
MACMOEINE, JOHN, born Sanquhar,
1799 ; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ;
emigrated to Canada and was assistant at
Quebec in 1837; adm. to Melbourne, Canada,
29th June 1839; res. and taught in the
High School at Quebec, 1844-5 ; adm. to
Ramsay 29th June 1846: D.D. (Queen's
College, 1865); died at Almonte, 22nd
May 1867.
MACMORINE, JOHN KERR, a native
of Canada; educated at Queen's College,
Kingston, 1856-62 ; M.A. ; min. at Douglas,
1864-7. Joined the Church of England
and dep. 1st May 1867, " because of his
heretical views in regard to the Scriptural
authority of Presbyterianism."
MACMORINE, SAMUEL, B.A. ; min.
at Pittsburgh ; adm. to Huntingdon llth
April 1871 ; dem. 2nd Oct. 1873.
MACMURCHY, JOHN, born 1800,
third son of Thomas M., farmer, Killean,
Argyll ; educated at Univs. of Edinburgh
and Glasgow; went to Canada in 1840
and adm. to West Gwillimbury 19th Jan.
1842; trans, to Eldon in 1844; died there
22nd Sept. 1866.
M'NAUGHTON, ALEXANDER (cf.
Vol. VI., 475), app. by Glasgow Colonial
Society, ord. (by Presb. of Paisley) to
Lancaster 19th July, and adm. Dec. 1833 ;
returned to Scotland and adm. to Colonsay
[where in Vol. IV., 69, his name is omitted]
19th Jan. 1842 ; adm. to Kirkhill 21st Sept.
1843.
M'NAUGHTON, PETER, M.A. (cf.
Vol. VI., 451), adm. min. at Vaughan 21st
Aug. 1833 ; returned to Scotland and adm.
to Dores 27th Sept. 1844; returned to
Canada and was again min. at Vaughan,
1847-8; min. at Pickering, 1848-55; res.
all connection with the Church 21st Nov.
1855 ; died 10th May 1878.
M'NEE, DANIEL, formerly min. of
Teviothead (cf. Vol. II., 141), a native of
Perthshire; educated at Univ. of Edin
burgh ; app. by Colonial Committee ; min.
at Hamilton, 1850-3 ; died in Edinburgh
about 1860.
M'NEILL, MALCOLM MACLEAN,
Ph.D., D.D. (cf. Vol. V., 90) ; adm. to
Mount Forrest 14th Aug. 1873 ; returned
to Scotland and adm. to Banton 15th Oct.
1877 [afterwards min. of Second Charge,
Dysart].
M ACNISH, NEIL, born Argyll ; educated
at University College, Toronto, and Univs.
of Glasgow and Edinburgh; B.D. (Edin
burgh, 1867); assistant at St Columba's,
Glasgow; adm. to Cornwall 25th Nov.
1868; LL.D. (Toronto, 1874); dem. 1903;
died llth May 1905. He was a fine Celtic
scholar, a lecturer in Gaelic in the Presby
terian College, Montreal, and Queen's
College, Kingston.
M'PHAIL, DOUGALD NEIL, M.A.,
B.D., M.D., Ph.D.; adm. to St Columba's,
Lochiel, Ontario, 30th April 1910; dem.
1912 [afterwards in St Vincent, West
Indies (q.v.}~\.
MACPHERSON, LACHLAN, min. at
Williams ; declined to enter the Union of
1875; died at Ailsa Craig, Ontario, 29th
March 1886.
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MTHERSON, THOMAS, a native o:
Ross-shire; educated at King's College
Aberdeen ; M.A. (31st March 1827) ; min
at Beechridge, 1836-43 ; trans, to Lancaster
in 1843; declined to join the Union of
1875 ; min. of Cote St George 1877-86.
MACVICAR, PETER (cf. Vol. I., 283)
app. by Colonial Committee and ord. to
Martintown 23rd April 1856 ; res. June
1859 ; returned to Scotland, and after serv
ing in the Mission Station at Cockenzie
was adm. to Manor, Peeblesshire, 31st Oct.
1861.
MAIR, HUGH, born Newmilns, Ayr
shire, 16th July 1797, son of Archibald
M. ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A.
(1818) ; min. of Presbyterian churches at
Fort-Miller and Northumberland, N.Y.,
U.S.A., 1828-30; min. at Johnstown,
N.Y., 1830-48; D.D. (New York 1842);
adm. to Fergus, Canada, 2nd Feb. 1848 ;
died 1st Nov. 1854.— [Tablet in Fergus
Church.]
MAIR, JAMES, born Savoch of Deer,
1832, son of the Rev. James M., M.A.,
schoolmaster, and Christian Johnston, and
brother of William M., D.D., min. of
Earlston ; educated at Savoch and Aber
deen Grammar Schools, Marischal College,
Aberdeen, M.A. (1850), and Univ. of
Glasgow; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow
1856; adm. to Barney's River, Nova Scotia,
17th Feb. 1858; adm. to Martintown,
Ontario, 27th Sept. 1860; dem. 13th May
1868; died at Lake Shetck, Minnesota,
U.S.A., 4th Feb. 1875. He marr. Margaret,
daugh. of David Beveridge, merchant,
Dumfries, and Margaret M'Kinnell, and
had issue— Margaret, born 24th May 1864 ;
James, engineer (Whitworth Scholar), born
14th April 1866, died 15th Aug. 1905;
David Beveridge, M.A. (Edinburgh), Fellow
of Christ's College, Cambridge, Civil Ser
vice Commissioner, born 24th March 1868;
Janette Maria, born 7th July 1870 (marr.
Adam Wightman Fergusson, D.D., min.
of St Mary's, Dundee) ; Robert Beveridge,
engineer, born llth Sept 1872; William,
M.A., B.Sc., M.D., Assistant Director of
Research, Metropolitan Asylums Board,
London, born 30th June 1875 (posthumous).
Publication — Sermon on the Sabbath. —
[Dr Mair's My Life, 6, 29, 50.]
MAIR, WILLIAM, born Glasgow, 1798,
only son of William M., artificer ; educated
at Univ. of Glasgow, 1812-18; licen. by
Presb. of Glasgow in 1821 ; was six years
Sabbath lecturer in Glasgow ; assistant
at Cardross ; app. by Colonial Committee
and ord. to Chatham and Grenville 26th
July 1833 ; died 17th Oct. 1860.
MANN, ALEXANDER, born Aberdeen
about 1800; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen; M.A. (March 1819); app. by
Colonial Committee and ord. (by Presb. of
Aberdeen) in 1840; adm. 16th Feb. 1841
as min. of Fitzroy, Tarbolton, Pakenham,
Macnab, and Horton ; at Pakenham only
in 1851, and still in that charge in 1871 ;
D.D. (Queen's Univ. 1876) ; died 15th Sept.
1884.
MARSHALL, ALEXANDER
PORTER, born Argyll, 1824; eldest son
of Alexander M. ; educated at Univ. of
Glasgow; app. by Colonial Committee as
a missionary to Canada in 1840 ; returned
to Scotland in 1858 and resumed the
study of medicine at Univ. of Glasgow,
1859-62 ; resided in Campbeltown but did
not practise, being of independent means ;
died there 3rd March 1908.
MASSON, WILLIAM (cf. Vol. VI., 387);
rd. as a missionary in Ontario 9th Aug.
1856 ; adm. to St John's, Hamilton, 1858 ;
rans. to Russeltown Flats in 1860 ; trans,
to St Andrew's Church, Gait, 17th Dec.
874 ; returned to Scotland in 1879 ; adm.
o Duffus 7th April 1880.
MATHIESON, ALEXANDER, born
lenton, 1st Oct. 1795, son of George M.,
opperplate printer, Campsie, and Janet
Ewing; educated at Renton and Campsie
Schools and Univ. of Glasgow; M.A. (1814);
en years tutor in the family of Robert
Campbell, Rosneath ; licen. by Presb. of
Dunbarton in 1823; selected (by his pre-
ecessor, John Burns) as min. of St
Andrew's Church, Montreal; ord. (by Presb.
f Dunbarton) 19th Oct. 1826 ; arrived at
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Montreal on Christmas Eve, and began his
ministry on the following Sunday ; Moder
ator of Synod in 1832 and again in 1860;
D.D. (Glasgow 1837) ; died 14th Feb. 1870.
He was a tower of strength to the Church
of Scotland in Canada, and took a leading
part in shaping its policy and directing its
affairs. He marr. 30th July 1840, Catherine
Elizabeth (died 29th Feb. 1856, aged 33),
daugh. of John Mackenzie, Montreal, and
had issue— Nancy Fisher, died 21st March
1847; Janet Ewing, accidentally drowned
at Beechridge 29th July 1868; and four
others.— [Croil's Life of Dr M. (portrait)
(Montreal 1870).]
MELDRUM, WILLIAM, born Aber-
deenshire; min. at Puslinch in 1840. Joined
the Free Church in 1844 [afterwards at
Vaughan and at Harrington] ; died 22nd
Nov. 1889.
MERLIN, 'JOHN, born Derry, Ireland,
1781 ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ;
emigrated to Canada and adm. to Hemming-
ford in 1822. Joined the Church of Scot
land in 1841 ; retired 1856 ; died 2nd Nov.
1866.
MILLER, MATTHEW, born 1806,
second son of James M., merchant, Glas
gow ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A.
(1824) ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow ; app.
by Glasgow Colonial Society and ord. to
Cobourg and Colborne 19th June 1833;
drowned 15th Feb. 1834, through the ice
breaking in the Bay of Quinte. — [Gregg's
Hist., 460-5.]
MILLER, WILLIAM, adm. to Stratford
in 1857; res. 1863; app. ordained mis
sionary to Presb. of Perth, Canada, llth
Sept. 1866; adm. to Lombardy and
Oliver's Ferry 27th Feb. 1868 ; dem. 31st
Dec. 1870.
MILLIGAN, ARCHIBALD (cf. Vol.
VII., 131), formerly min. of Pulteneytown ;
and of East Chapel, Airdrie (cf. Vol. III.,
221); app. by Colonial Committee and adm.
to Russeltown Flats, 13th June 1853 ; died
at Montreal 7th Feb. 1855.
MOFFAT, JOHN (cf Vol. VII., 228),
app. by Colonial Committee and adm. to
La Prairie and Longueuil 18th Nov. 1858 ;
res. 1869; was min. at Woodstock, New
Brunswick, 1871-2; at Bayfield 1877-8;
returned to Scotland and adm. to Rendall,
Orkney, 27th Nov. 1884; died 27th Dec.
1885.
MOODY, DUNCAN, born 1800, fourth
son of William M., Inverness ; educated
at Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of
Ayr in 1831; ord. in 1832; app. by Colonial
Committee and laboured for some time as
a missionary ; adm. to Dundee Dec. 1835 ;
died there 5th Jan. 1855.
MORI SON, DAVID, bom Denny, Stir
lingshire, 1841 ; went to Canada with his
parents in 1846 ; educated at M'Gill Univ.,
Montreal, B.A. (1870), and at Morrin College,
Quebec; adm. to Ormstown, Quebec, 4th
March 1874; D.D. (Queen's Univ., 1903);
dem. 1913; died at Beauharnois 6th Nov.
1924.
MORRISON, DUNCAN, a native of
Scotland ; educated at Queen's College,
Kingston, 1848-50; B.A.; ord. to Beckwith
Oct. 1851 ; trans, to Brockville in 1856 ;
trans, to Owen Sound 10th Oct. 1866 ;
visited Scotland in 1879, when he acted
as locum tenens at Penninghame and St
Ninians, Stirling; D.D. (Montreal, 1890);
died at Owen Sound, 3rd May 1894,
aged 78. Publication— Great Hymns.
MORRISON, THOMAS, educated at
Univ. of Edinburgh ; app. by Colonial
Committee and adm. to Melbourne March
1853 ; res. 1855, and returned to Scot
land.
MOWAT, JOHN BOWER, born Kings
ton, Canada, 1825, youngest son of John
M. and Helen Levack (natives of Caithness),
and brother of Sir Oliver M., Prime Minister
of Ontario; educated at Queen's College,
Kingston (1842-5), B.A. (1845), M.A. (1847),
and Univ. of Edinburgh ; assistant at
St Andrew's Church, Kingston ; ord. to
Niagara in 1850 ; app. Professor of Oriental
Languages and Biblical Criticism, Queen's
College, 1857 ; D.D. (Edinburgh 1885) ; died
15th July 1900. — [M'Neill's Presbyterian
Church in Canada (1925), 87-9.]
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647
MUIR, JAMES BRECKENRIDGE,
B.A., D.D. ; educated at Univs. of Edin
burgh and Glasgow; assistant at Kilbirnie;
ord. at Hexham, Northumberland; arrived
in Canada 1864 ; adm. to Lindsay, Ontario,
31st May 1865 ; trans, to Gait 28th March
1867; trans, to Huntingdon 28th May
1874 ; died before 1899.
MUIR, JAMES CREIGHTON, educated
at Univ. of Edinburgh ; app. by Glasgow
Colonial Society 29th April, and ord. to
Georgetown Sept. 1836; Moderator of
Synod 1849; D.D. (Queen's Univ., 6th Oct.
1858) ; died 1881.
MULL AN, ELIAS, a native of Canada ;
educated at Queen's College ; licen. by
Presb. of Ottawa 17th July 1867 ; ord. to
Richmond 18th Sept. that year; trans, to
Spenserville and Mainsville 8th Feb. 1872 ;
dem. 14th July 1875 ; adm. to Augusta and
Fairfield 16th Nov. that year.
MULLAN, JAMES B., a native of
Canada; educated at Queen's College,
1856-61 ; ord. to Spenserville 23rd July
1862; min. at East Oxford 13th Sept.
1871.
MULLAN, JAMES S., born London
derry, Ireland, 24th Dec. 1830; educated
at Queen's College, 1854-61; B.A. ; ord.
to Newtonville 31st Dec. 1861 ; min. at
Osnabriick 1871 ; died at Stanley, New
Brunswick, 24th Dec. 1917.
MUNRO, DONALD, born 1789, eldest
son of Malcolm M., farmer, Kilmichael-
Glassary; educated at Univs. of Glasgow
and Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of
Inveraray ; was a missionary in Argyll ;
app. by Colonial Committee 1849 ; adm. to
Finch 19th Dec. 1850; retired Aug. 1864;
died at Finch, 15th Feb. 1867.
MURRAY, JAMES ALLISTER, born
Roger's Hill, Pictou, Nova Scotia, 1834;
educated at Nova Scotia ; min. at St
Luke's, Bathurst, New Brunswick, 1861-7;
adm. to Mount Forest, Ontario, 1867 ; trans!
to Lindsay 13th Sept. 1870 ; died 21st Oct.
1894.
MURRAY, JOHN CLARK, born
Paisley, 19th March 1836, second son of
David M., provost of Paisley ; educated at
Grammar School, Paisley, Univs. of Glas
gow, Edinburgh, Heidelberg, and Gottingen;
Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy,
Queen's Univ., Kingston, 1862-92 ; Pro
fessor of Moral Philosophy, M'Gill College,
Montreal, 1892-1903; LL.D. (Glasgow 1873);
died 20th Nov. 1917. He inarr. 1865, Mar
garet, daugh. of William Poison, Paisley,
and had issue. Publications— Outline of
Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy (Lon
don, 1870); The Ballads and Songs of
Scotland (London, 1874); A Memoir of
David Murray (Glasgow, 1880) ; A Hand
book of Psychology (London, 1885); Solomon
Maimon [trans, from the German, with notes
and additions] (London, 1888) ; An Intro
duction to Ethics (Paisley, 1891) ; He that
had received the Five Talents (Montreal,
1904); An Introduction to Psychology
(London, 1904); A Handbook of Christian
Ethics (London, 1908). Contributions to
numerous periodicals. — [See Bibliography
in Proc. Roy. Soc. Canada (1894).]
MYLNE, SOLOMON, a native of
Ireland ; educated at Belfast ; licen. by
Presb. of Belfast; adm. to Smith's Falls
16th Oct. 1850; dem. 1890; died in Cali
fornia June 1910.
NEILL, ROBERT, born Dunipace,
Stirlingshire, 1804, eldest son of Andrew
N.; educated at Univ. of Glasgow; app.
by Glasgow Colonial Society for service in
Canada 1837 ; assistant at St Andrew's,
Montreal, Valcartier, and Kingston [to
John Machar, D.D.]; ord. to Seymour 29th
Jan. 1840; member of the Board of
Trustees, Queen's College, 1848-58, 1871-5 ;
D.D. (Queen's Univ. 1872); dem. 1884;
died 23rd Jan. 1890.— [Memorials of Dr
Machar, 70.]
NICOL, FRANCIS, born Ayrshire, 1823,
second son of Adam N., merchant ; edu
cated at Univ. of Glasgow and Relief
Theological Hall. Joined the Church of
Scotland when a student of theology at
Glasgow, 1845-8; app. by Colonial Com
mittee as a third min. for Halifax, Nova
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Scotia; min. of St Andrew's Church, St
John's, Newfoundland, 1851-8 ; min. at
London, Ontario, 1859 ; died at Toronto,
30th Oct. 1873.
NIMMO; JAMES, app. by Colonial
Committee as missionary at Cobourg in
1866; res. 1st May 1867 [afterwards in
British Columbia and British Guiana (q.v.)].
NIVEN, HUGH (cf. Vol. IV., 346),
formerly min. of Gartmore ; adm. to Salt-
fleet and Binbrook in 1857 ; dem. 4th Dec.
1867.
PAEKER, STUART CRAWFORD,
M.A., B.D., D.D., formerly min. of Dryfes-
dale (cf. Vol. II., 205) and of Belmont,
Glasgow ; adm. min. of St Andrew's,
Toronto, 1923.
PATERSON, JAMES (cf. Vol. IV., 21),
formerly missionary at Ardentinny; app. by
Colonial Committee and adm. to Hemming-
ford Sept. 1858.
PATON, ANDREW (cf. Vol. II., 324),
ord. assistant at St Andrew's, Montreal,
17th Aug. 1865 ; returned to Scotland and
adm. to Penpont 18th Feb. 1870.
PAUL, JAMES T., a native of Scotland ;
educated at Queen's College, Kingston,
1843-4; ord. to St Louis de Gonzaque
5th June 1850 ; dem. in 1865 ; adm. to
Dummer 28th Feb. 1872 ; trans, to Bolsover
30th March 1875.
PEDEN, ROBERT, born Kilmarnock
about 1816, second son of John P. ; edu
cated at Univ. of Glasgow and United
Secession Hall ; adm. to Amherstburg in
1844. Joined the Free Church that year.
PENNEY, ROBERT, born 1st Oct.
1808, fourth son of William P., merchant,
Glasgow ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ;
app. catechist by Colonial Committee in
1846 ; res. 1847 ; returned to Scotland and
was missionary to seamen at Irvine, where
he built a meeting - place at his own
expense; died unmarr. 10th Jan. 1883.
PORTEOUS, GEORGE, born Quebec,
1822 ; educated at Queen's College, Kings
ton, 1854-60; ord. to Wolfe Island 22nd
Aug. 1860; trans, to Matilda 1st March
1871; died 1897.
PORTER, SAMUEL, born Armagh,
Ireland, 1810; educated at Belfast; went
to Canada in 1830; min. at Trafalgar in
1840, at Clarke and Hope 1846 ; dem. 1861 ;
died at Barrie, Ontario, 30th Dec. 1888.
PULLAR, JAMES, born Glasgow 6th
Dec. 1835 ; ord. for city mission work,
Glasgow, 1856 ; went to Canada 1873 ; adm.
to Richwood and Shower's Corners 24th
March 1875 ; held various other charges ;
was in Winnipeg 1897; died 24th March
1911.
PURKIS, ISAAC, a native of Hamp
shire, England ; formerly a min. of the
Independent Church ; adm. to Osnabriick
in 1839. Joined the Church of Scotland
in 1841 ; died 16th Oct. 1852.
RANNIE, JOHN, M.A. (cf. Vol. VII.,
673) ; app. by Colonial Committee and
adm. to Chatham, Ontario, 15th Sept.
1859 [afterwards of All Saint's, British
Guiana (q.v.)].
REID, WILLIAM, born Kildrummy,
Aberdeenshire, 10th Dec. 1816; educated
at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (March
1833); licen. in. 1839; app. by Glasgow
Colonial Society and adm. to Grafton and
Colborne 30th Jan. 1840. Joined the Free
Church in 1844; min. at Picton, Ontario,
1849-53; Moderator of Synod in 1850;
clerk of Assembly ; D.D. (Queen's Univ .
1876) ; Moderator of the General Assembly
in 1879 ; died 21st Jan. 1896. Publication
—Editor of Missionary Record, 1853-75.—
[M'Neill's Presbyterian Church in Canada,
65 ; Campbell's Hist, of St Gabriel's Church,
541, 718-28.]
REID, WILLIAM ALEXANDER, M.A.,
ord. to Port Dalhousie, 1891 [afterwards
min. of Maybole (West) (cf. Vol. III., 55)].
RITCHIE, WILLIAM, min. at
Newmarket in 1838. Joined the Church
of England in 1842. (See under British
Guiana.)
RINTOUL, DAVID, educated at Univ.
of Glasgow; missionary at Eday and
Faray in 1834 ; app. by Colonial Com
mittee ; min. at St Catherine, 1841-5.
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649
RINTOUL, WILLIAM, born Kin-
cardine-in-Menteith, Perthshire, 30th Oct.
1797, second son of Robert R., merchant ;
educated at Univs. of Glasgow and Edin
burgh ; M.A. (13th March 1826) ; ord. (by
Presb. of Dunblane) to Maryport, Cumber
land, 1821 ; app. by Glasgow Colonial
Society as first min. of St Andrew's Church,
York [now Toronto], 29th Sept. 1830 ; adm.
to Streetsville 1835 ; Moderator of Synod
1836. Joined the Free Church in 1844;
min. of Streetsville Free Church, 1844-7 ;
Professor of Hebrew and Biblical Criticism,
Knox College, Toronto, 1848-9 ; clerk of
Synod 1850; adm. min. of St Gabriel
Street Church, Montreal, 3rd July that
year ; died of cholera at Trois Pistoles
(while on his way to fulfil a Presbyterial
engagement at Metis) 13th Sept. 1851 ;
was buried at Riviere du Loup. He
marr. and had issue — David ; and others.
Publications— The Claims of the Colonist
on the Church at Home. Editor of
Missionary Record of the Presbyterian
Church of Canada.— [Campbell's Hist, of
St Gabriel Street Church (portrait), 531-41 ;
Montreal Witness, 29th Sept. 1851 ; St
Andrew's Church Year-Book (1919), 61-6.]
ROACH, WALTER, born Edinburgh
about 1808, son of Walter R. ; educated at
Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of
Edinburgh ; app. by Glasgow Colonial
Society 15th March 1833 ; ord. (at Quebec)
21st Nov. following as first min. at
Beauharnois, St Louis, and Chateauguay ;
clerk of Presb. of Quebec, 1838-41 ; clerk
of Presb. of Montreal, 1842-8; Moderator
of Church of Scotland Synod in 1847 ; died
27th Aug. 1849.— [Gregg's Hist., 474-7.]
ROBB, JOHN, min. at Chatham,
Ontario, 1851-8 ; died there 22nd June
1858.
ROBB, JOHN, min. at Dalhousie Mills ;
died there 1851.
ROBERTSON, WILLIAM, formerly
min. of Banton (cf. Vol. III., 371) ; min. at
Kemmingford, Quebec, 1877 ; died there
4th Jan. 1894.
RODGERS, EDWARD BAYNE,
formerly min. at Tweedmouth 0?.?;.) ; adm.
to Leith and Johnson 19th Oct. 1870;
trans, to Meaford 5th March 1879 [after
wards missionary in Brice Peninsula and
Maintoulin Island] ; died 19th Sept. 1906.
ROGER, JOHN MORRICE, born 14th
Sept. 1807, son of John R., min. of
Kincardine O'Neil ; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (31st March 1827) ;
licen. by Presb. of Kincardine O'Neil ; app.
by Glasgow Colonial Society 20th March
1833; ord. to Peterborough 10th Nov. that
year. Joined the Free Church in 1844;
died 9th Jan. 1878.
ROGERS, JAMES, a native of Ireland ;
received by Brockville Presb. 17th July
1832 ; ord. to Demorestville, Hallowell, and
Hillier 12th June 1833. Joined the Church
of Scotland in 1840. Joined the Free
Church in 1844 ; min. of the Free Church,
Demorestville, 1844-56; dem. and went to
U.S.A.
ROMANES, GEORGE, son of a family
long connected with Berwickshire ; edu
cated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; app. by
Glasgow Colonial Society 15th March 1833;
min. at Smith's Falls, 1834-8 ; at St Francis,
1839-40 ; at Smith's Falls and Elmsley in
1841 ; at Smith's Falls, 1842-6 ; Professor
of Classical Literature and Moral Philo
sophy, Queen's College, Kingston, 1846-9 ;
LL.D. (Queen's College 1866); returned to
England in 1850 and settled in London. He
marr. 12th Sept. 1835, Isabella Gair, daugh.
of Robert Smith, min. of Cromarty, and had
issue— George John, M.A., LL.D. (Aber
deen 1882), eminent biologist and author,
born 20th May 1848, died at Oxford 23rd
May 1894 ; and others.— [Diet. Nat. Biog. ;
Life and Letters of G. J. R. (1896) ; Gregg's
Hist., 477.]
ROSE, ALEXANDER, born Dunoon,
1823, eldest son of Robert R. ; educated at
Univ. of Glasgow; licen. by Presb. of
Glasgow ; app. by Glasgow Colonial Com
mittee for mission service in Canada;
returned to Scotland in 1866 ; died at Irvine
14th May 1871.
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KOSS, ALEXANDER, born Ross-shire,
1794 ; educated at King's College, Aber
deen, 1818-22; app. by Glasgow Colonial
Society 22nd April 1829 ; ord. (by Presb.
of Tain) 30th June following ; min. at
Aldborough, 1830-42 ; at Woolwich, 1843-6;
at Innisfil and Gwillimbury, 1846-55 ; died
at Bradford 14th March 1857.
ROSS, CHARLES BEVERIDGE, bora
17th Jan. 1856, son of Charles R., LL.D.,
min. of Cleish ; educated at Univ. of St
Andrews; M.A. (1875); B.D. (1878); licen.
by Presb. of Kinross ; ord. (by Presb. of
Kinross) to St Andrew's Church, Lancaster,
Ontario, 1879 ; min. at Earl Grey and Gibbs,
Saskatchewan, 1927.
ROSS, DONALD, a native of Nova
Scotia ; educated at Queen's College, King
ston, 1853-8 ; ord. to Vaughan 20th July
1858 ; trans, to Chatham, Quebec, 3rd Oct.
1865 ; trans, to Southwold that year ;
trans, to Dundee 6th March 1866.
ROSS, DONALD, a native of Canada ;
educated at Queen's College, Kingston,
1857-62 ; B.A. ; min. at Lachine ; app. Pro
fessor of Apologetics and New Testament
Criticism, Queen's College, 1883; D.D. ;
app. Principal of Theological College 1912,
retired 1917.
ROSS, JOHN, educated at King's College,
Toronto ; ord. to Brucefield Sept. 1851 ; de
clined to join the Union of 1875 ; died 8th
March 1887.— [Life by Anne Ross in The
Man with the Book (Toronto, 1890).]
ROSS, WALTER, a native of Nova
Scotia ; educated at Queen's College,
1856-61; M.A. ; ord. to Beckwith 15th
Oct. 1862 ; still in that charge 1871.
ROSS, WALTER R., educated at King's
College, Aberdeen, 1848-52; app. by Colonial
Committee and adm. to Pickering 6th Feb.
1861 ; still in that charge 1871.
SCOTT, THOMAS, a native of Ireland ;
app. by Colonial Committee and adm. to
Simcoe 12th Jan. 1844; to Camden 1846;
to Williamsburgh 1852 ; to Matilda 1858 ;
to Plantagenet 1866; still in that charge
1871.
SHAND, ALEXANDER, Ph.D., app. a
missionary in Canada ; min. at North Dor
chester 1877-85.
SHANKS, DAVID, born 1801, eldest
son of William S., Hartloup, New Monk-
land ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ;
emigrated to Canada in 1832 ; missionary
at Montreal ; min. at St Eustache (U.P.
Church), 1833-47. Joined the Church of
Scotland 2nd Jan. 1841 and became min.
at Valcartier May 1847; died 12th Nov.
1871.
SHEED, GEORGE, born Aberdeen,
1790, son of George S. ; educated at
Marischal College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (1807);
licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen ; ord. by same
Presb. in 1827 ; adm. to Ancaster and
Flamborough that year; died 1832.
SIEVERIGHT, JAMES, born Aberdeen,
1832, son of William S., merchant; edu
cated at Marischal College, Aberdeen,
1848-52 ; emigrated to Canada in 1854 and
completed his studies at Queen's College,
Kingston, 1855-6; B.A. (1856); ord. to
Melbourne 13th July 1857 ; trans, to
Ormstown Feb. 1862; trans, to Chelsea
and Ironside March 1865; at Ironside only
in 1867 ; at Goderich in 1869 ; res. in 1880
and became a missionary at Prince Albert,
Manitoba, 1880-3 ; trans, to Scots Church,
Quebec; died (date unknown). He marr.
Aug. 1859, Frances Anne Petrie.
SIMPSON, WILLIAM, born Stirling,
1806; educated at Univ. of St Andrews
and Original Secession Theological Hall ;
licen. by Original Secession Presb. of
Stirling and Falkirk in 1830. Joined the
Church of Scotland in 1839 ; app. by
Colonial Committee for service in Canada
and ord. 16th March 1840 ; adm. to Lachine
March 1844-86 ; declined to join the Union
of 1875.
SINCLAIR, DONALD (cf. Vol. IV.,
84), ord. to Cote St George 1st June 1843 ;
returned to Scotland and adm. to Duror
15th March 1847.
SINCLAIR, JAMES, a native of
Ireland ; ord. a min. of the Associate
Reformed Church, U.S.A., 1840. Joined
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the Church of Scotland and adm. to
Huntly, Canada, Oct. 1855; died 20th
April 1892.
SKINNER, JOHN, born 1804, only son
of William S., merchant, Auchtermuchty,
and grandson of John Fraser, min. of East
Secession Congregation there ; educated
at Univ. of Glasgow ; ord. to Secession
Church, Partick, 10th April 1827 ; res. 10th
Dec. 1839 and emigrated to U.S.A. ; min.
at Lexington, Virginia, 1839-49 ; at Harmony
and Easton, New Jersey, 1849-53 ; at
London, Canada, 1853-5 ; at Nelson and
Waterdown, 1855-7 ; D.D. (Washington
College, Penn., 1846) ; died 24th March
1864. Publications— Ebenezer [Two Ser
mons] (1833); The Scottish Endowment
Question (1838).— [Mackelvie's Annals, 324 ;
Small's Hist, of U.P. Gongs., ii., 115.]
SMART, WILLIAM, born Haddington,
1788, son of Alexander S. (his parents
removed to London while he was still
an infant) ; educated in the Missionary
Seminary at Gosport, Hampshire, with the
intention of proceeding to India; ord. in
the Scots Church, Swallow Street, London,
8th April 1811 ; emigrated to Canada and
adm. to Elizabethtown (now Brockville)
Oct. that year. Joined the Church of
Scotland in 1840; died at Gananoque 9th
Sept. 1876. His son William became Judge
of the County of Hastings. A collection
of S.'s manuscripts in the Library of Knox
College, Toronto, throws considerable light
on the history of early Presbyterianism in
Canada.— [Gregg's Hist., 191-6.]
SMELLIE, GEORGE, D.D. (cf. Vol.
VII., 265) ; formerly min. of Lady, Orkney ;
min. at Fergus in 1843; died 22nd Nov.
1896.
SMITH, ALEXANDER, adm. to Chelsea
23rd June 1874.
SMITH, CHARLES ERITH GORDON,
born Glasgow 14th May 1844 ; educated at
Univ. of Edinburgh; licentiate of Church
of Scotland ; min. at Lancaster, Ontario,
1888-1901; at Demorestville, 1901-1907;
died 6th Dec. 1907. He marr., and had issue
—Charles, editor of The Family Herald
and Weekly Star, Montreal.
SMITH, JAMES, educated at Univ. of
Edinburgh ; ord. to Guelph 9th Feb. 1832.
Joined the Free Church in 1844 ; died at
Puslinch 28th Jan. 1853.
SMITH, JAMES C., a native of Scot
land ; emigrated to Canada and educated
at Queen's College ; MA. ; min. at Cumber
land in 1862; afterwards at Belleville;
trans, to St Paul's, Hamilton, 22nd July
1873 ; died before 1899.
SMITH, JOHN, born 19th Jan. 1801,
son of Robert S., min. of Cromarty ;
educated at King's College, Aberdeen,
1814-19 ; ord. by a Presb. in Scotland ; app.
by Glasgow Colonial Society 27th May and
adm. to Beckwith 3rd Nov. 1833; died
there 18th April 1851.
SMITH, JOHN MALCOLM, MA. (cf.
Vol. III., 346) ; formerly min. of Gareloch-
head ; adm. min. at Gait Nov. 1848 ; app.
Professor of Classical Literature and Moral
Philosophy, Queen's College, 1850 ; died at
Garelochhead 8th Aug. 1856.
SMITH, ROBERT PRIMROSE, born
Aberdeen, 1835, son of David S., ship
master ; educated at Marischal College,
Aberdeen, 1853-7 ; app. by Colonial Com
mittee as missionary in Province of Quebec;
afterwards in New Zealand (q.v.).
SMITH, THOMAS GILLESPIE,
formerly min. at Kintyre, Illinois, U.S.A. ;
adm. to Melbourne, Canada, Oct. 1862 ;
dem. 28th Dec. 1866 on a call from Fond
du Lac, Wisconsin, U.S.A. ; returned to
Canada and adm. to St Andrew's, Kingston,
8th April 1874 ; died 1900.
SNODGRASS, JOHN ALLAN, born
7th Oct. 1853; son of William S., D.D.
(infra) ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ;
ord. to Demorestville 1st May 1888.
SNODGRASS, WILLIAM, D.D. (cf.
Vol. II., 230) ; trans, from Charlottetown,
Prince Edward Island, and adm. to St
Paul's, Montreal, 4th Nov. 1856 ; res. Oct.
1864 on appointment as Principal of
Queen's Univ. and Primarius Professor of
Divinity ; returned to Scotland and adm.
to Canonbie 23rd Nov. 1877.— [The Presby
terian (portrait), 1875.]
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SOMERVILLE, JAMES, born Toll-
cross, Glasgow, 1st April 1775, only son
of William S., merchant; educated at
Univ. of Glasgow ; Keen, by Eelief Presb.
of Glasgow in 1799 ; emigrated to Canada
in 1802 and opened a school in Quebec
for the education of children of the Scot
tish lumber merchants ; ord. to St Gabriel
Street Church, Montreal, 18th Sept. 1803
[the first ordination of a Presbyterian min.
in Upper or Lower Canada]; died 2nd
June 1837. He left £1000 for a manse
for St Gabriel's, endowed a lectureship in
Natural History and made considerable
benefactions to Montreal General Hospital.
He marr. (1) 8th July 1805, Marianne
Veitch, a native of Edinburgh, who died
16th Aug. 1806, and had issue— Marianne,
died 1833: (2) 4th April 1808, Charlotte
Blaney, who died 1st Aug. 1819, and had
issue — Alexander William, student of
medicine, born 2nd Aug. 1814, died 30th
Nov. 1832.— [Campbell's Hist.ofSt Gabriel's
Church, 150-67; Gregg's Hist., 160; Tablet
in Church,]
SPARK, ALEXANDER, born Mary-
kirk, 7th Jan. 1762, son of Alexander S. ;
educated at Grammar School of Montrose
and King's College, Aberdeen, M.A. (28th
March 1776) and at Marischal College;
went to Quebec in 1780 and was a teacher
for three years ; returned to Scotland and
was licen. and ord. by Presb. of Ellon in
1784; became tutor in the family of
Colonel Caldwell of Belmont, Quebec (his
pupil being afterwards Sir John C.) ; min.
of St Andrew's Church, Quebec, 1795-1819;
D.D. (Aberdeen 1804) ; died 7th July 1819,
having preached in the forenoon of that
day and attended a funeral. — [Gregg's
Hist., 147-52 ; Hawkin's Picture of Quebec,
238.]
SPENCE, ALEXANDER, born Huntly,
Aberdeenshire ; educated at King's Col
lege, Aberdeen, 1820-4, and Univ. of Edin
burgh ; ord. (by Presb. of Aberlour) as the
first Presbyterian min. at St Vincent, West
Indies, 22nd Feb. 1841 ; adm. to St An
drew's Church, Ottawa, 27th July 1848;
D.D. (Queen's College, Kingston, 1864) ;
dem. 24th Oct. 1867; returned to Scot
land and died at East Neuk, Elgin, 4th
Sept. 1878.
SPENCER, ADAM, educated at Univ.
of Glasgow ; app. by Colonial Committee ;
app. ordained missionary in Presb. of Toronto
27th June 1866; min. at Darlington 4th
July 1868 ; dem. 1882 ; died 25th June 1892.
STARK, MARK YOUNG, born Cleish
Castle, Kinross, 9th Jan. 1799, son of
Robert S., merchant, Dunfermline : edu
cated at Univ. of Glasgow; MA. (1821);
app. by Glasgow Colonial Society 19th Feb.
1833 and ord. 21st Sept. following; min.
at Dundas and Ancaster, Ontario, 1834-43.
Joined the Free Church in 1844; min. of
Free Church, Dundas and Ancaster, 1844-53,
of Dundas, 1854-63; died 24th Jan. 1866.
STARKE, WILLIAM D., app. by
Colonial Committee for missionary service
in Canada. Joined the Free Church in
1845.
STEELE, R. L., min. at Paisley, Ontario,
1881-5.
STEVENSON, ROBERT, born Kil-
winning, 1828, fifth son of John S., farmer ;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow and Original
Secession Hall, 1847-9, when he joined the
Church of Scotland; adm. to East Williams
in 1855 ; dem. 1865.
STEWART, WILLIAM, min. at Gait,
1832-5 [afterwards of St Mark's, Demerara
STEWART, WILLIAM, born Glasgow,
son of John S., merchant; educated at
Univ. of Glasgow ; app. by Colonial Com
mittee and ord. missionary to Presb. of
St John, New Brunswick, 22nd March 1848;
adm. to St Andrew's Church, Chatham,
New Brunswick, 1st March 1849 ; adm. to
Hornby and Trafalgar 26th Dec. 1860; dem.
1887 ; died in Toronto, 20th June 1892.
STOBBS, SIMON SOMERVILLE (cf.
Vol. I., 108); adm. to St Matthew's Church,
Montreal, 13th March 1876 ; dem. Oct.
1878 ; held a charge in America ; returned
to Scotland and was afterwards min. of
St James's, Edinburgh.
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653
STORY, ROBERT HERBERT, M.A.
(cf. Vol. VII., 398); ord. (assistant) at
St Andrew's, Montreal, 20th Sept. 1859;
returned to Scotland and adm. to Rosneath
23rd Feb. 1860 [afterwards Principal of
Univ. of Glasgow (q.v.)].
STOTT, DAVID (cf. Vol. VII, 214),
min. at Woodstock, New Brunswick, 1856-8 ;
became first missionary, then min., at Brant-
ford, Ontario; returned to Scotland and
adm. to Deerness, Orkney, 18th Oct. 1866.
STUART, JAMES, a native of Ireland ;
ord. missionary at Frampton 1847; adm.
to Markham 1849; trans, to Wawanosh
1854; trans, to Woodstock and Norwich
Oct. 1856 ; retired 1861.
STUART, JAMES, app. by Colonial
Committee missionary for St Matthew's
Church, Montreal, 1860; drowned at sea
on board the s.s. Hungarian, which sailed
from Liverpool in Feb.
SYM, FREDERICK PETRY, born
America, about 1825, eldest son of William
S.; educated at Univ. of Glasgow and
Queen's College, Canada, 1848-51; adm.
to St Andrew's Church, Woodstock and
Norwich, 29th Sept. 1852 ; trans, to Russel-
town Flats 21st Nov. 1855; trans, to
Beauharnois July 1860; trans, to Clifton
23rd Dec. 1873 ; dem. 16th Dec. 1874 ; min.
at Perth, Ontario, 1877.
TANNER, CHARLES A, son of J. E.
Tanner infra ; ord. to Sherbrooke 1869 •
adm. to St John's [French, in connection
with Church of Scotland], Montreal, 4th
Sept. 1874. During his ministry, the Rev.
Charles [Father] Chiniquy visited Montreal'
creating a deep interest in French evangel
isation, and adding many members to St
John's ; afterwards at Scarborough, Levis,
and Windsor Mills ; some years Principal
of _ St Francis College, Richmond, and
Principal of Pointe-aux-Trembles Mission
School; died at Windsor Mills, Quebec
16th Jan. 1910.
TANNER, JOHN E., min. of the Re
formed Church of Switzerland; went to
Canada in 1842 ; missionary at St Therese
and Pointe-aux-Trembles; min. of St John's
Montreal [French, in connection with
Church of Scotland] 1861-7; died 15th
April 1891.
TAWSE, JOHN, born Towie, Aberdeen-
shire, 1801, son of James T., farmer; edu
cated at Marischal College, Aberdeen;
M.A. (1821); app. by Glasgow Colonial
Society 30th July 1836; ord. to King 8th
March 1837 ; dem. 1874 ; died 1877.
TAYLOR, HENRY (cf. Vol. II., 167),
mm. at Missisquoi Bay and La Prairie,
1841-4 ; returned to Scotland and adm. to
Westruther, Berwickshire, 16th Feb. 1844.
TAYLOR, JOHN (cf. Vol. I, 270); ord
to Lachine 16th Oct. 1834; returned to
Scotland and adm. to Drumelzier, Peebles-
shire 22nd Dec. 1843.
TAYLOR, JOHN B, ord. to Lucknow
23rd July 1873 [afterwards at Blyth] ; died
before 1901.
TAYLOR, WILLIAM, born Falkirk,
1775, second son of John T., farmer;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow; ord. to
Burgher congregation, Stonehouse, 4th Dec.
1798 ; res. 28th Jan. 1817 ; emigrated to
Canada and adm. to Osnabriick and
Williamsburg that year; went to U.S.A.
in 1819, where he became min. of the Scots
Church, Waddington, N.Y.; min. of Madrid
Church in the Associate Reformed Presb.
of Washington in 1823 ; died 1837.— [Bell's
Hints to Emigrants, 96; Gregg's Hist.,
THOM, JAMES, born Carnwath,
Lanarkshire, 1797, son of George T.,
farmer ; educated at Univs. of Glasgow and
Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of Peebles in
1827 ; sometime a teacher in High School,
Hamilton ; emigrated to America in 1833
and was a min. for four years in New York
State; removed to Canada in 1843 and adm.
to Three Rivers 1844 ; trans, to Woolwich
1854; died 28th Nov. 1868.
THOMPSON, PETER, educated at
Univ. of Glasgow ; app. by Colonial Com
mittee for missionary service in Canada
1858 ; returned to Scotland.
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THOMSON, GEORGE, born Aber
deen, 1801, son of George T. ; educated at
King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (March
1822) ; adm. to Macnab and Horton 19th
Nov. 1851 ; died at Renfrew, Ontario, 31st
Dec. 1870.
TOPP, ALEXANDER, D.D., formerly
min. of Elgin (cf. Vol. VI., 391); min. of
Knox Church, Toronto, 1858-79; died 5th
Oct. 1879.
URQUHART, HUGH, a native of
Ross-shire, born 1793 ; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (31st March
1815) ; licen. by Presb. of Inverness ; ord.
(by Presb. of Dingwall) 5th Aug. 1822;
arrived in Canada Oct. following, and
until 1827 was a preacher and teacher in
Montreal ; adm. to St John's Church,
Cornwall, 16th Jan. 1827; Professor of
Biblical Criticism and Ecclesiastical
History, Queen's College, Kingston, 1st
Sept. 1846-57; D.D. (Aberdeen 1857);
died 5th Feb. 1871.
WALKER, ARCHIBALD (cf. Vol. IV.,
297), formerly min. at Bannockburn
Chapel ; app. by Colonial Committee
and ord. to St Andrew's Church, Belleville,
10th May 1854; died at Glasgow, 1st
March 1881.
WALKER, THOMAS, B.A. (cf. Vol. II.,
409), app. by Colonial Committee for
missionary service in Canada and ord.
8th March 1865 ; returned to Scotland and
adm. to Dalmellington 1st Feb. 1866
[afterwards min. of Dairy, Galloway].
WALKER, WILLIAM MONT
GOMERY (cf. Vol. III., 62), father of
preceding ; app. by Glasgow Colonial
Society 4th June 1834 ; adm. to Hunting
don 5th Nov. that year; returned to
Scotland and adm. to Ochiltree, Ayrshire,
15th Aug. 1844.
WALLACE, ALEXANDER, a native of
Glasgow; educated at Queen's College,
Canada ; B.A. (1843) ; ord. to Huntingdon
1st Oct. 1845 ; killed by the fall of a
piece of timber from a burning building
4th July 1870.
WATSON, DAVID, educated at Queen's
College, 1847-52; M.A. (1851); ord. to
Thorah (afterwards Beaverton) 31st Aug.
1853 : retired 1898; D.D. ; died Dec. 1903.
He was one of twenty-one mins. of the
Church of Scotland who declined to enter
the Union of 1875.
WATSON, PETER,a native of Inverness-
shire ; educated at Queen's College, 1849-55;
B.A. (1854); ord. to Williamstown 4th
Sept. 1856 ; declined to enter the Union of
1875 ; died 1899.
WEIR, GEORGE, born Aberlour,
1830; educated at King's College, Aber
deen; M.A. (March 1848); LL.D.; licentiate
of the Church of Scotland ; Professor of
Classical Literature, Queen's College, King
ston, 1854-64 ; Professor of Hebrew, Morrin
College, Quebec, 1864-91 ; died 1891.
WHITE, WILLIAM, a native of Co.
Cavan, Ireland ; went to U.S.A. in 1852,
and had a charge near Albany ; removed
to Canada Sept. 1856 ; adm. min. at
Richmond 24th June 1857 ; adm. to Kitley
1st Aug. 1866.
WHYTE, JOHN (cf. Vol. I., 227);
assistant at Maybole ; app. by Colonial
Committee in 1850; ord. to Brockville
6th Aug. 1851; min. at Arthur, 1856-68;
returned to Scotland and adm. to Queens-
ferry 8th Aug. 1872.
WIGHTMAN, THOMAS HENDER
SON, born 1800, fifth son of John W,
merchant, Lisburn, Co. Antrim ; educated
at Univ. of Glasgow; M.A. (1819); ord.
to Camden 1844. Joined the Free Church
in 1844.
WILKIE, DANIEL, born Bothwell,
Lanarkshire, 1777, youngest son of James
W., farmer ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ;
M.A. (1803); a licentiate of the Church
of Scotland ; went to Quebec in 1804,
where he was a classical teacher for forty
years, preaching also, and conducting the
Star newspaper; LL.D. (Glasgow 1837);
died 1851.— [Gregg's Hist., 152; Tombst.
(in Mount Herman Cemetery).}
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655
WILKINS, WILLIAM T., a native of
New Brunswick ; educated at Frederick-
ton and Queen's College; B.A. (1864);
ord. to Woodstock, New Brunswick, Nov.
1866 ; adm. to Truro, Nova Scotia, 2nd
Sept. 1869 ; adm. to Stratford, Ontario,
llth April 1873.
WILLIAMSON, JAMES, a native of
Edinburgh; educated at Univ. of Edin
burgh ; M.A. (1827) ; was tutor to the
family of Charles X. of France at Holyrood
Palace ; licentiate of the Church of Scot
land ; went to Canada and was settled
at Kilsyth and Drumelzie ; app. Professor
of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy,
Queen:s College, Kingston, 26th Oct. 1842 ;
ord. 25th Feb. 1845; LL.D.; died 26th
Sept. 1895, aged 90.
WILLIS, MICHAEL, D.D., formerlymin.
of Renfield (cf. Vol. III., 431) ; Principal and
Professor of Divinity, Knox College, Toronto,
1847-71 ; died 19th Aug. 1879.
WILSON, JAMES, a native of Tyrie,
Aberdeenshire ; educated at King's Col
lege, Aberdeen ; M.A. (1st Dec. 1849) ; app.
by Colonial Committee in 1856 ; was three
years missionary at Musquodoboit, Nova
Scotia ; returned to Scotland and took
charge of Maxwelltown Chapel, Dumfries ;
again returned to Canada and adm. to
St Andrew's, Lanark, Ontario, llth June
1862; died 30th Aug. 1905.
WILSON, THOMAS CLARK (cf. Vol.
IV., 156); ord. to Perth, Canada, 18th Aug.
1830 ; returned to Scotland and adm. to
New Ardrossan 6th May 1845 ; min. of
Dunkeld in 1846.
YOUNG, JOHN, born Beith, Ayrshire,
only son of James Y., schoolmaster; edu
cated at Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by
Presb. of Irvine 29th Nov. 1785 ; emigrated
to America in 1786; ord. to a congregation
in Schenectady and Currie's Bush 14th
Aug. 1788; dem. Dec. 1790; went to
Canada and officiated at St Gabriel Street
Church, Montreal (though not inducted
to the charge) from 1791-1802 ; min. at
Niagara in 1802 ; afterwards at Lunenberg
and Sheet Harbour, Nova Scotia ; died at
Truro, Nova Scotia, 1825.— [Gregg's Hist.,
157 ; MS. Collection of Glasgow Colonial
Society in Knox College, Toronto ; Camp
bell's Hist, of St Gabriel's, 42-62.]
NORTH-WESTERN PROVINCES
MANITOBA, ETC.
[In 1810 Thomas Douglas, fifth Earl of
Selkirk, secured from the Hudson's Bay
Company an immense tract of land, nearly
the size of Great Britain, including the
valleys of the Red River and the Assini-
boine. He undertook to estatlish a Colony
and assumed all the costs. After a long
and tedious journey his company of settlers,
consisting of seventy Highlanders mostly
from Kildonan, Sutherland, reached the Red
River in 1812. Much opposition followed
from half-breeds and the rival North- West
Company. Order was restored only on the
arrival of Lord Selkirk himself in 1817.
The name of the home parish in Scotland
was given to the settlement and a minister
of the Church of Scotland was promised.
Donald Sage, afterwards minister of Resolis,
was appointed, but delayed his departure
for a year to perfect his knowledge of
Gaelic. For some unexplained reason he
never set out, and for nearly forty years the
people had no minister. Services were
conducted by an elder, James Sutherland,
who was given authority to solemnize
marriages and dispense the sacraments.
When he was forcibly removed by the
North- West Company the people had no
alternative but to accept the ministrations
of the Church of England. In 1851, John
Black [born Garwaldshiels, Eskdalemuir,
8th Jan. 1818, son of William B., farmer,
and Margaret Halliday ; educated in U.S.A.
and in Canada ; ord. 31st July 1851 ; D.D.
(Queen's College, Kingston, 1876) ; died llth
Feb. 1882] proceeded to Manitoba and was
thus the first Presbyterian minister in any
part of the great North- West Territories.
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MANITOBA, ETC.
A church was soon erected — the replica
of that at Kildonan — with a graveyard,
spoken of as the " Westminster of Western
Canada," where are buried many of the
missionary pioneers — Dr Black himself ;
James Nisbet, D.D., first Presbyterian
missionary to the Ked Indians, and founder
of the city of Prince Albert ; James Robert
son, D.D., Apostle of Home Missions in the
North-West ; Principal John Mark King,
D.D., and others. In 1870 the Presbytery
of Manitoba was organised. It became a
Synod in 1884. In 1871 a log building was
opened as a college at Kildonan by George
Bryce (infra). Thomas Hart, D.D. (infra),
followed as Professor in 1872. In 1874, as
a more suitable location, a building was
erected on Ellice Avenue, Winnipeg, and
was much enlarged in 1892. The University
of Manitoba was founded in 1877. Within
the Provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan,
and Alberta, there were in 1928 thirty-three
Presbyteries and three Synods.]
BORTHWICK, HUGH JOHN, born
about 1825, son of John B., schoolmaster ;
educated at Univ. of Edinburgh and
Queen's College, Kingston ; M.A. ; ord.
Aug. 1853 ; min. of Chelsea, Quebec, Feb.
1862-4 ; many years missionary in Southern
Manitoba, residing at Calf Mountain ; adm.
to Mountain City, Manitoba, Nov. 1881 ;
died (date unknown). He marr. April
1848, Maria, daugh. of John Taylor, W.S.,
Edinburgh. — [McKellar's Presbyterian
Pioneer Missionaries (portrait), 76.
BRYCE, GEORGE, born Mount
Pleasant, Brantford, Ontario, 22nd April
1844, son of George B. and Katherine
Margaret Henderson (natives of Perth
shire, and early settlers in Brant County,
Ontario) ; educated at Brantford Grammar
School and Univ. of Toronto ; M.A. (1868),
licen. by Presb. of Toronto ; assistant at
Quebec 1871 ; ord. for service in Manitoba
Sept. that year ; founded Manitoba College
same year ; Professor of English Litera
ture there, 1871 - 1909 ; organised Knox
Church, Winnipeg, 1872; LL.B. (1878);
LL.D. (Toronto 1884) ; Moderator of Synod
of Manitoba, 1885 ; Lecturer in Biology
and Geology in Manitoba Univ., 1891-1904 ;
Moderator of the General Assembly of
Presbyterian Church in Canada 1902 ;
D.D. (Knox College 1902); President of
Royal Society of Canada in 1909 ; member
of various Commissions for the advance
ment of education and the development
of Canada ; member of the General
Committee of the British Association;
D.D. (Manitoba Univ. 1921); resident
at Ottawa in 1928. Marr. 17th Sept.
1871, Marion, daugh. of James Samuel,
Broom House, Kirkliston, Scotland, s.p.
Publications— Manitoba : Infancy, Progress,
and Present Condition (London, 1882);
The Apostle of the Red River (Toronto,
1898); The Remarkable History of the
Ihidson's Bay Company (London, 1900) ;
Mackenzie, Selkirk, and Simjison [Makers
of Canada Series] (Toronto, 1906) ; Every
man's Geology of Western Canada (Toronto,
1907) ; The Romantic Settlement of Lord
Selkirk's Colonists (Toronto, 1909); The
Scotsman in Western Canada (London,
1911) ; The Life of Lord Selkirk (Toronto,
1912); A Short History of the Canadian
People (London, 1914). Many articles and
pamphlets on Educational and Scientific
Subjects. See list in Morgan's Who's Who
in Canada. — [McKellar's Presbyterian
Pioneer Missionaries (portrait), 20 ; The
Scotsman in Canada, ii., 297.]
BUCHANAN, JAMES, missionary at
Rawyards, Airdrie ; sent by Colonial Com
mittee for missionary service in Canada
1888; studied theology at Manitoba College;
ord. (by Presb. of Calgary) 1st June 1891 ;
app. to the district between Calgary and
Edmonton ; min. at Innisfail, Alberta ;
afterwards at Richmond, British Columbia,
and North Pelham, Dundalk and Elmvale,
Ontario ; clerk of Presb. of Orangeville ;
Moderator of Synod of Toronto and Kings
ton in 1915. Marr. Catherine Pollock,
Paisley, Scotland. —[McKellar's Presby
terian Pioneer Missionaries, 144-7.]
FERRIES, JOHN, B.A., formerly min.
of Edinkillie (cf. Vol. VI., 420); min.
at Brandon, Manitoba; died 13th June
1903.
MANITOBA— BRITISH COLUMBIA
6f>7
HART, THOMAS, born Paisley, Scot
land, 6th Sept. 1835, son of John H. and
Jean Mason Sernple ; emigrated with his
parents to Perth, Canada, 1842; educated
at Perth School and Queen's Univ., Kings
ton ; B.A. (1860); M.A.(1868); B.D.(1880);
licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 1871 ; app. by
Colonial Committee and ord. for service in
Manitoba 30th July 1872; Professor of
Classics, Manitoba College, Winnipeg,
1872-1909; D.D. (Queen's Univ., Kingston,
1902); died 17th Aug. 1912. He was a
distinguished classical scholar and a lecturer
of rare merit. He marr. 16th Aug. 1872,
Isabella Margaret, daugh. of Judge John
Glass Malloch, and Isabella Margaret Bell,
and had issue— Ethel Hamilton, born 12th
Aug. 1874, died 20th April 1903 ; Beatrice
Isabel, born 29th April 1877, died 1st Sept.
1888; Lieut.-Col. William Malloch, M.C.,
M.D., born 27th April 1881, died 17th April
1923. — [McKellar's Presbyterian Pioneer
Ministers (portrait), 21.]
KING, ROBERT ALEXANDER, M.A.,
B.D., D.D. ; adm. from Presb. of Winnipeg
by General Assembly as licentiate of Church
of Scotland 1900; afterwards Principal of
Christian College and School, Indore,
Central India, in connection with Presby
terian Church of Canada.
MILLAR [MILL ARD], DAVID BRUCE,
M.A., formerly min. of St James's, Kirk-
caldy (cf. Vol. V., 168); min. at Pense,
Regina, 1923.
PRYDE, JAMES JOHNSTONE, M.A.
(cf. Vol. II., 324); ord. for service in
Canada 12th May 1901 ; min. at Hamiota
and Deloraine, Manitoba, 1901-8 ; returned
to Scotland and adm. to Penpont 9th Dec.
1909 ; served as chaplain in France and
Flanders 5th Nov. 1914 to Nov. 1918
(despatches) (dem. Penpont 1917); adm.
to Morebattle 24th April 1919; trans, to
Stichill and Hume 17th Dec. 1926. His
first wife died s.p. 9th Nov. 1920. He marr.
(2) 4th July 1922, Janet Baillie, daugh.
of Alexander Dickson and Christina Ann
Johnston, and has issue— Robert Johnstone,
born 20th May 1923 ; James Christian, bom
12th June 1926.
VOL. VII.
SMITH, WILLIAM STABLES (cf. Vol.
VIL, 311); ord. for missionary service in
Manitoba in 1891 ; returned to Scotland
1897 [afterwards min. at Lunna Chapel,
Shetland, 1900].
BRITISH COLUMBIA.
[Vancouver Island and British Columbia
were separate Provinces until 1866. In
January 1861, John Hall, the first Presby
terian minister in that part of British
North America, commissioned by the
Colonial Committee of the Irish Presby
terian Church, arrived at Victoria, where
he organised the First Presbyterian Church,
still so called. He left for New Zealand
in 1865. A church was erected in 1863,
crowned with the Scottish thistle. It was
destroyed by fire in 1883, and immediately
replaced by the existing edifice. The second
missionary was Robert Jatnieson (infra),
appointed by the Church in Canada in
1862. Daniel Duff laboured from 1864 to
1867, when he returned to Ontario. In
1863 the Church of Scotland sent out its
first missionary, James Nimmo (infra).
After him were Thomas Somerville and
William Clyde (infra). The Presbytery of
British Columbia was instituted on 1st Sept,
1875, when the Church of Scotland occupied
all the chief centres of population, and seven
churches were built. In 1886 the Presbytery
of Columbia was founded by the Canadian
Church, and in 1887 St Andrew's, Victoria,
became connected with that denomination.
With the approval of the Colonial Com-
nittee of the Church of Scotland, the
remaining congregations followed, the last,
that at Wellington, in 1899.]
ANDERSON, ANDREW H., min. of
St Andrew's Church, Nanaimo, British
Columbia, 1882 [afterwards in British
Guiana, (q.v.)].
CHRISTIE, JAMES, born Kildrummy,
4th Oct. 1828, fourth son of William C.,
M.A., schoolmaster, and brother of John C.,
D.D., Professor of Church History; edu
cated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A.
(March 1846) ; licen. by Presb. of Alford ;
2 T
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BRITISH COLUMBIA
app. by Colonial Committee and was min.
at Wallace and Pugwash, Nova Scotia,
1859-64; went to British Columbia and
became missionary at Comox 1887, and
Denman Island ; was afterwards at Wel
lington, British Columbia; dem. in 1889
when his congregation joined the Canadian
Presbyterian Church ; died at Victoria,
British Columbia, 12th Feb. 1902.
CLYDE, WILLIAM, born Glasgow,
1830 ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow; licen.
by Presb. of Glasgow, 6th Dec. 1871 ; min.
of St Andrew's Church, Nanaimo, British
Columbia, 1873 ; went to U.S.A. and held
charges at First Presbyterian Church, Ash
land, Oregon, 1876-85 ; Anaconda, Mont.,
1885-96 ; Logan, Utah, 1896-1902 ; Phoenix,
Oregon, 1902 ; died 1916. He marr.
Jemima Mercer, born 1842, died 1922, and
had issue— a son who died aged 5.
DUNN, ALEXANDER, born Leochel-
Cushnie, Aberdeenshire, 30th March 1843,
son of Peter D. and Jean Ritchie ; educated
at Univs. of Edinburgh and Glasgow ;
licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 9th June 1875 ;
app. by Colonial Committee to British
Columbia and ord. (by Presb. of British
Columbia) at their first meeting 1st Sept.
that year ; missionary at Langley, his work
extending from the mouth of the Fraser
River to Upper Sumas, a distance of 100
miles, and including eight preaching
stations ; res. 1905 ; D.D. (Vancouver,
British Columbia, 1913); died 10th April
1925. He marr. 24th Nov. 1880, Annie,
daugh. of Levi Kern, Norfolk County,
Ontario, s.p. Publications — Presbyterian-
ism in British Columbia (New Westminster,
1913) ; Sermon and Missionary Journeys
(New Westminster, 1925). — [M'Kellar's
Presbyterian Pioneer Missionaries in
Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and
British Columbia (portraits), 206 ; Obituary,
Notice in Synod Minutes, 1925.]
HERDMAN, JAMES CHALMERS,
born Pictou, Nova Scotia, 19th Feb. 1855,
son of Andrew Walker H., min. there
[afterwards of Rattray]; educated at Dal-
housie College and Univ. of Edinburgh;
B.D. (1877) ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh
16th May 1877; ord. to St Andrew's,
Campbelltown, New Brunswick, 1878 ; min.
of Knox Church, Calgary, 1st July 1885 to
June 1902 ; app. Superintendent of Home
Missions in Alberta and British Columbia
1902 ; (D.D., Knox College, Toronto, 1901) ;
died 2nd June 1910. He marr. Miss London,
Chatham, New Brunswick. — [McKellar's
Presbyterian Pioneer Missionaries (portrait)
125-9, 189.]
JAMIESON, ROBERT, a native of
Ireland, born 1830; licen. in 1853; ord. to
Belturbet, Ireland, 28th June 1854; res.
an app. as missionary to Canada, 8th Jan.
1856 ; min. at Dunville, Ontario ; removed
to British Columbia in 1861 ; min. of St
Andrew's Church, New Westminster, 1862-5;
min. at Nanaimo 1865-9 ; returned to New
Westminster 1869 ; retired (from ill-health)
1884 and became chaplain to the Penitentiary
there ; died 1893. He marr. and left issue
— two sons and five daughters. — [Dunn's
Presbyterianism in British Columbia, 24.]
M'ELMON, B. K., a native of Nova
Scotia; app. by Colonial Committee as
missionary at Comox, British Columbia,
1877; went to Washington Territory,
U.S.A. in 1882.
M'GREGOR, SIMON, M.A. (cf. Vol. IV.,
81) ; trans, from Pictou, Nova Scotia, and
adm. to St Andrew's Church, Victoria,
British Columbia, 1870 ; returned to Scot
land and adm. to Fort Augustus in 1881
[afterwards min. of Appin, Argyllshire].
He was founder of the Presb. of British
Columbia in connection with the Church
of Scotland. In 1875 he revisited Scotland
and was instrumental in obtaining four
mins., the Presb. being formed 1st Sept.
that year.
MILLAR, JAMES, last min. of the
Church of Scotland at Nanaimo, British
Columbia, 1887-9 ; went to U.S.A.
MURRAY, GEORGE, educated at
Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A. (1875) ; app.
missionary in Nicola Valley, British
Columbia, 1875 [afterwards min. at New
Glasgow, Nova Scotia, 1878].
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NICHOLSON, ALEXANDER B., ord.
(by Presb. of British Columbia), 1st Sept.
1875 as missionary in the rural districts
around Victoria, British Columbia ; became
Principal of the High School, Victoria,
and afterwards returned to the Eastern
Provinces.
NIMMO, JAMES, min. at Newcastle,
New jSouth Wales, 1853-61; app. by
Colonial Committee first missionary of the
Church of Scotland to British Columbia,
1863-5 [afterwards in British Guiana
SOMERVILLE, THOMAS, M.A. (r/
Vol. III., 400); ord. to First Presbyterian
Church, Victoria, British Columbia, 24th
Feb. 1865 ; founded St Andrew's Church,
Victoria, in 1867 ; returned to Scotland and
adm. to St David's, Kirkintilloch, 4th April
1871 [afterwards min. of Blackfriars, Glas
gow]. His widow died 28th Jan. 1926. His
son Munro, min. of Newhaven, was trans,
to Ballantrae, 5th April 1923.
STEPHEN, ROBERT, assistant at
Saline ; ord. by Presb. of Glasgow ; min. of
St Andrew's Church, Victoria, British
Columbia, 1881-5; returned to Scotland.
NEWFOUNDLAND
ST ANDREW'S CHURCH,
ST JOHN'S.
[The island of Newfoundland has been
a British possession since 1583, and is the
only portion of British North America not
included in the Dominion of Canada.
St Andrew's congregation at St John's was
founded in 1842. In 1848 a second con
gregation was formed by those who sym
pathised with the Free Church, and a
church was built in 1852. In 1876 both
churches were destroyed by fire, when their
congregations reunited in a new building in
1878. That also fell a prey to fire in 1892,
but was replaced by the existing fine
structure.]
FRASER, DONALD ALLAN, born
Torosay, Mull, 24th Nov. 1793, son of
Alexander F., min. of Torosay ; educated
at High School and Univ. of Edinburgh ;
M.A. (1814); licen. by Presb. of Mull 3rd
Nov. 1813; assistant at Tobermory ; ord.
(by Presb. of Edinburgh) 13th March 1814;
officiated sometime in London and studied
medicine, having offered for missionary
service abroad ; arrived at Halifax, Nova
Scotia, 16th Sept. 1817; min. at M'Lennan's
Mountain, 1817-37, at Lunenburg, 1837-42 ;
adm. to St Andrew's Church, St John's,
1842; died 7th Feb. 1845. He marr. 3rd
Oct. 1814, Catherine Isabella (died 8th
March 1877), daugh. of Allan M'Lean of
Crosspool, Coll, and had issue — Alexander
born 20th July 1819, died at Geelong'
Australia, 9th Oct. 1864 ; Hector M'Lean,
born 17th June 1821, died 1904; Allan,
born 7th Jan. 1823, died in Australia 1859 ;
Isabella M'Lean, born 25th Nov. 1824
(marr. Thomas M'Connon), died 12th March
1862 ; James Oliphant, born 2nd Oct. 1826,
died 14th Feb. 1904; James Nutting, born
19th July 1828, died at Charlottetown,
Prince Edward Island, 16th Oct. 1871;
Charles Leonard, born 30th March 1830,
died at East Boston, 4th Nov. 1872 ; John
M'Lean, born 4th Nov. 1831, died 1908;
William, born 6th Aug. 1833, died 22nd
April 1889; Archibald, born 22nd May
1835, died 10th July 1869; Henry M'Lean,
born 27th April 1837, died at Pittsburg,'
5th July 1896. [Upon Mr Eraser's death
the congregation became divided on the
Free Church question, and much strife
ensued regarding the Church property.
The law courts decided in favour of the
Church of Scotland.]
GRAHAM, WILLIAM, ord. to St An
drew's Church in 1886; app. to Kingston,
Jamaica, 1896 (q.v,\
KING, THOMAS, born 1815, eldest son
of Alexander K. ; student of theology,
Univ. of Glasgow, 1844-7 ; ord. (by Presb.
of Dunfermline) 31st Aug. 1849, and adm.
8th Oct. following ; dem. 1850, and subse
quent history untraced.
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MACDOUGALL, DANIEL (</. Vols.
IV. 339, VII. 113), formerly missionary at
Buchlyvie ; app. by Colonial Committee
and adm. to St Andrew's Church in 1871 ;
returned to Scotland in 1874; adm. to
Berriedale 28th Dec. 1876.
MACRAE, DONALD, M.A. ; trans.
from East River of Pictou, Nova Scotia,
and adm. Aug. 1858 ; re-trans, to East
River of Pictou in 1870 ; min. of St
Stephen's, St John, New Brunswick,
1874 (q.v.).
NICOL, FRANCIS, min. 1851-8 [after
wards min. at London, Ontario (q.v.}~\.
PATTERSON, JAMES DYKES, assist
ant at Dalmellington ; app. by Colonial
Committee and adm. Dec. 1874 ; dem.
1882 and went to New South Wales (q.v.).
SINCLAIR, ARCHIBALD (<•/. Vol.
VII., 318), formerly min. of Walls, Shetland,
officiated at St Andrew's Church, 1847-8 ;
returned to Scotland
BERMUDA
[The Scots Congregation [now United Free Church] at Warwick, Bermuda, dates
from the first settlement of the Colony in 1612, and is thus the oldest Presbyterian
Congregation in the British Colonies. The first settlers brought with them in the
Plough, their minister, George Keith, a Scotsman, who was followed two years later
by Lewes Hughes, the ejected minister of Great St Helen's, Bishopsgate, London.
Keith removed to Elizabeth City, Virginia, 1617, and in 1621 Hughes returned to
England and took an important part in the struggle against Prelacy. From 1623
till his death about 1637, George Stirke, a Scottish Puritan, was minister. Services
were conducted on semi-Episcopalian lines, the Prayer-Book being discarded, and
elders appointed, notwithstanding frequent injunctions by the Bishop of London to
conform to the Church of England ritual. In 1644 Patrick Copeland, another Scottish
Puritan, with two other ministers of Bermuda, declared for Independency and renounced
their orders, becoming deacons in a congregation of which Nathaniel White was
chosen pastor. In 1719 a church was opened for regular Presbyterian worship.]
DALZIEL, , licen. by Presb. of
Edinburgh ; min. at Warwick, Bermuda,
1779-80.
DEMING, OLIVER, ord. by Presb. of
New York in 1771 ; min. at Warwick,
Bermuda, 1771-8.
DICKSON, FRANCIS, educated at
Univ. of Edinburgh ; ord. in Scotland, 1st
Jan. 1821, and app. colleague to Enoch
Matson (infra); res. 6th May 1822 and
returned in ill-health to Scotland.
GALLOWAY, GEORGE, born Kirkcud
bright, 1802, son of George G. ; educated
at Univ. of Edinburgh ; app. by Glasgow
Colonial Society in 1832; min. at Warwick,
Bermuda, 1833-4; died of consumption
12th March 1834.— [Tablet in Church.]
GREIG, ARCHIBALD OCHILTREE
(ff. Vol. V., 257), educated at Univ. of
Edinburgh; M.A. (31st March 1827); app.
by Glasgow Colonial Society and adm.
to Warwick, Bermuda, April 1835 ; res.
2nd July 1838 ; returned to Scotland and
adm. to Brown Street Chapel, Blairgowrie,
23rd Oct. 1839 [afterwards min. of Blair
gowrie].
MALTBY, JOHN, a min. of the Presby
terian Church in Synod of New York;
was sometime theological tutor at Nassau
Hall ; min. at Warwick, Bermuda, 1750-68;
went to Charleston, South Carolina, 1770.
MATSON, ENOCH, originally a min.
in the Methodist Episcopal Church in
America ; went to Bermuda for his health ;
received a call to Warwick and was ord.
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by Presb. of Baltimore in 1792; died 13th
Feb. 1831. He was the first min. in
Bermuda to admit coloured people to
membership of the Church. — [Tablet in
Church.]
MORRISON, JAMES, born Glasgow,
1789; educated at Univ. of Glasgow;
formerly prison chaplain at Glasgow and
agent of the City Mission ; app. by Glas
gow Colonial Society and ord. by Presb. of
Glasgow to Dartmouth, Halifax Harbour,
Nova Scotia, Aug. 1829 ; min. at Lawrence-
town, Nova Scotia, 1833; adm. to Warwick,
Bermuda, 26th Feb. 1839; opened St
Andrew's Church, Hamilton, Bermuda,
24th May 1843, and conducted alternate
services there till his death. Joined the
Free Church along with his congregation
llth Feb. 1845; died 16th Aug. 1849.—
[Frith's Reminiscences of an Old Bermuda
Church, 19-33.]
MUIR, JAMES, born 12th April 1757,
son of George M., min. of Old Cumnock
[afterwards of High Kirk Parish, Paisley];
educated at Univ. of Glasgow; M.A.
(1776); licen. by Presb. of Paisley: assist
ant in London ; ord. (by Presb. of London)
and app. to Bermuda ; min. at Warwick
and Principal of an Academy there 1782-7;
min. of the First Presbyterian Church at
Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.A., 1789-1820;
D.D. (Yale 1819); died 8th Aug. 1820.
"With his staid Scotch gravity and dignity,
kind-hearted, studious, Biblical in his
preaching, spotless in reputation, he was
called in reference to his stature as well
as his meekness, 'the little Moses.'" One
of his hearers at Alexandria was George
Washington, whose residence of Mount
Vernon was in the vicinity, and he offici
ated at the President's funeral. He marr.
Elizabeth, daugh. of Captain Samuel
Welman, Bermuda, and Margaret Harvey,
and had issue.— [Gill ett's Hist, of the Pres
byterian Church in U.S.A., i. 338, 468,
ii. 21.]
PAULL, JAMES, probably a native of
Aberdeenshire ; ord. by a Presb. of Church
of Scotland ; min. at Warwick, Bermuda,
1720-50 ; died 1750. In 1748 George White-
field visited Bermuda and preached to
crowded audiences at Warwick for eight
successive Sundays, the pulpit he used
being still preserved. A funeral address
at the grave of the minister's son, who died
aged 24, created a deep impression and was
long remembered.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
[American Presbyterianism owes its origin mainly to the Church of Scotland. On
the persecution which followed the return of the Stuarts in 1660, many Church of Scot
land ministers, with others from Ulster, forced from their homes, found new homes and
new spheres of service beyond the Atlantic. From the Restoration to the Revolution a
steady stream of emigration flowed westward. Settlements were effected in Carolina and
Maryland, but the great majority were drawn to the Middle Colonies, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania, where William Penn gave the Scottish element a specially hearty welcome
Churches were erected in various centres, the first being at Freehold, in New Jersey, in
TT f By, the end of the century upwards of thirty congregations had been formed, one-
half of which were in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. To Francis Makemie, born near
Ramelton, m Ireland, a student of the University of Glasgow (1675-81) and licentiate of
the Ulster Presbytery of Laggan, belongs the honour of being the official founder of the
American Church. In 1683 he was sent by his Presbytery in charge of a company of
colonists to Maryland. After itinerating here and there on preaching expeditions he
settled m 1699 as minister of a congregation at Snowhill, Maryland. In 1704 he went to
London appealing for ministers and funds. Upon his return he took with him John
Hampton and George MacNish (infra), both graduates of Glasgow. In 1706 these three
united with four others -Nathaniel Taylor, a Scot (infra), and Jedediah Andrews ; John
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Wilson and Samuel Davis, missionaries in New England— in forming the Presbytery of
Philadelphia, the first ecclesiastical court in the country, whose earliest recorded meeting
was for the ordination of John Boyd (infra) at Freehold, 29th Dec. that year. Rapid
development followed that step. British Presbyterianism was tapped for men and money
at its chief sources, and met with a generous response. In Scotland, the Synod of Glasgow
took up the appeal, and, mainly through the exertions of Principal John Stirling, a large
number of ministers— students of his own University of Glasgow — were recruited for the
work. In 1716 the one Presbytery had become four, out of which grew the first American
Synod of Philadelphia. In 1775, on the [outbreak of the American Revolution the Synod
had increased to eleven Presbyteries and 132 ministers. In the War, largely guided by John
Witherspoon (infra), almost the whole strength of Presbyterianism went to the Colonial
side, an attachment which brought complete consolidation to the Church and gave her a
place in the hearts of Americans, which she has never lost. In 1789 sixteen Presbyteries
met at Philadelphia, and forming the first General Assembly, settled its Constitution on
the altered lines rendered;1 necessary by the country's Independence. Scottish models were
followed, and the Westminster Confession adopted, " all being conditioned by the declaration
'God alone is Lord of the conscience.'" In 1921 there were 1,772,361 members, 9,979
ministers, and 9,842 congregations, representing about two-thirds of the Presbyterian
community of the United States. For authoritative Histories of the American Church
see Bibliography.]
ANDERSON, JAMES, born 17th Nov.
1678 ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; ord.
(by Presb. of Irvine) 17th Nov. 1708 with
a view to his settlement in Virginia, but
the state of things not warranting his stay
there, he removed to Newcastle Sept. 1709 ;
became the first Presbyterian min. in New
York City, 1717-26 ; trans, to New Donegal
on the Susquehanna 24th Sept. 1726; died
16th July 1740. He marr. 5th Feb. 1712,
Suit Garland, who died Dec. 1736.— [See his
Letters to Principal Stirling in Briggs's
American Presbyterianism, Appendix XX. ;
Webster's Hist, of Presbyterian Church in
America, 326-32; Gillett's Hist, of the
Presbyterian Church in U.S.A., L, 38.]
BEGG, WILLIAM PROUDFOOT, D.D.,
formerly min. of Augustine Parish, Greenock
(cf. Vol. III., 197) ; became min. at Masena,
New York; Parkersburg, Iowa; and Pro
fessor of Philosophy at Tabor College.
BORLAND, FRANCIS (cf. Vol. III.,
254), min. of Lesmahagow ; app. by Com
mission of General Assembly to accompany
the Second Expedition to Darien 21st July
1699; returned to Scotland in 1701 and
was min. of Lesmahagow till his death 24th
Dec. 1722.
BOYD, JOHN, educated at Univ. of
Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow ;
went to America ; ord. (by Presb. of Phila
delphia) to Freehold, New Jersey, 29th
Dec. 1706 ; died 1708.
BRADNER, JOHN, educated at Univ.
of Edinburgh; M.A. (17th April 1712);
licen. March 1714; ord. to Cape May 6th
May 1715 ; removed in 1721 to Goshen,
Orange County, N.Y. ; died before Sept.
1733. A son, Benoni, born 1733, min. of
the Independent Church, Blooming Grove,
died 29th Jan. 1804.
BROWN, DAVID, M.A. (cf. Vol. VI.,
47), formerly min. of Belhelvie ; adm. to
Presb. of Newcastle, Synod of Philadelphia,
May 1748 ; returned to Scotland that year ;
died 10th March 1751.
BROWN, JAMES (cf. Vol. III., 457),
min. at Swansea, Mass. ; returned to Scot
land at the Revolution and adm. to St
Mungo's, Glasgow, 1690. He was an
intimate of Cotton Mather, the American
Puritan pastor, and exerted himself greatly
on behalf of the infant Church in
America.
BROWN, JOHN, min. at Florida, 1852-4;
app. to Canada and adm. to Newmarket,
Ontario, 30th Aug. 1854 (q.v.).
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663
BUIST, GEORGE, educated at Univ.
of Edinburgh ; min. at Charleston, South
Carolina, 1793-1808; D.D. (Edinburgh
27th March 1794); app. Principal of
Charleston College in 1805 ; died 1808, " a
man of original genius, an eminent classical
scholar, and an impressive preacher."
DALGLEISH, ALEXANDER, app
by Commission of General Assembly to
accompany the First Expedition to Darien
6th July 1698 ; died at sea Nov. that year
His child also died at sea and his widow
returned to Scotland.— [Borland's Hist, of
Darien,']
DEANE, JOHN, sent by Synod of
Glasgow as an ordained min. to Carolina
after Oct. 1723 ; died April 1726.
DUNLOP, WILLIAM, emigrated as a
licentiate to America in 1684 ; was chaplain
to a colony of Scots settlers at Port Royal,
South Carolina; returned to Scotland
(the colony being broken up on account
of its unhealthy situation); [afterwards
Principal of Univ. of Glasgow (q.v.)].
ELDER, JOHN, licentiate of the Church
of Scotland in 1732 ; ord. to Paxton and
Pennsburg 22nd Nov. 1738; died July
1792, aged 86. He had often to preach
with a rifle beside him in the pulpit, the
whole district being subject to attacks
from Indians. Associations for defence
were formed ; E. became their captain and
his mounted men were known as the
" Paxtony Boys."- [Webster's Hist., 454.]
FORREST, JOHN, educated at Univ.
of Edinburgh ; M.A. (7th April 1832) ; min.
at Charleston, South Carolina, 1833-77;
D.D. (Edinburgh, 6th Jan. 1855) ; died
(date unknown).
FRASER, JOHN (cf. Vol. VII., 26);
min. at Woodbury, Connecticut, 1685-9;
returned to Scotland at the Revolution
and became min. of Alness.
GILLESPIE, GEORGE, born Glasgow,
1683; educated at Univ. of Glasgow;
licen. by Presb. of Glasgow in 1712 ; went
to New England that year with letters
of recommendation from Principal John
Stirling to Cotton Mather ; ord. to White
Clay Creek 28th May 1713 ; died 2nd Jan.
1760. Publication — A Treatise Against
the Deists or Freethinkers (1735). [No
copy is known to exist.]— Webster's I fist,
of Presbyterian Churches in America, 339.]
GRAHAM, DAVID CUNNINGHAM
(cf. Vol. I., 343) ; formerly min. of Ormiston ;
min. at Manchester, Vermont, 1927.
HEWATT, ALEXANDER, educated at
Univ. of Edinburgh ; min. of the Scots
Church, Charleston, South Carolina, Nov.
1763; returned to Scotland on the out
break of the Revolutionary War, 1776;
D.D. (Edinburgh, 22nd Nov. 1780); died
(date unknown). Publication — History of
South Carolina, 2 vols. (London, 1799). —
[Sprague's Annals, iii., 252.]
HILL, JAMES NIVEN, ord. to Belle
ville, Wisconsin, 1878 ; trans, to Dwight,
Illinois, Oct. that year; adm. to Prinlaws,
Fife, July 1884 (cf. Vol. V., 116).
HONYMAN, JAMES, M.A. (cf. Vol. V.,
474), min. at Newport, Rhode Island; re
turned to Scotland and adm. to Kinneff
17th Aug. 1780.
HONYMAN, ROBERT, M.A., son of
James H., min. of Kinneff, and brother of
preceding; min. at New York 1702.
HUTCHESON, ALEXANDER, born
1696, son of Alexander H., min. at Saint-
field, Co. Down ; bursar of divinity, Univ.
of Glasgow, 28th April 1714; licen. by
Presb. of Glasgow and sent by that Presb.
to America to furnish the help asked of
them by Synod of Philadelphia; ord. to
Bohemia Manor and Broad Creek, Mary
land, 6th June 1723; died Oct. 1766.—
,Briggs's American Presbyterianism, App.
xxiv.].
JAMES, THOMAS (cf. Vol. V., 61),
formerly min. of Cleish; app. by Com
mission of General Assembly to accompany
the First Expedition to Darien 6th July
1698 ; died at sea 23rd Oct. 1698.
JO HNS TONE, GABRIEL, M.A.,
'oniierly Professor of Hebrew, St Mary's
College, St Andrews; dem. in 1728, and
became Governor of North Carolina 1733;
lied 1752.
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
KEITH, JAMES, min. at Bridgewater,
Mass., 1664; died 1719.— [Blaikie's Hist,
of Presbyterianism in New England (1881),
27.]
LAING, ROBERT, received as a
min. from Scotland in 1722 by Synod of
Philadelphia; was suspended Aug. 1723
" for bathing himself upon the Lord's Day,"
and not receiving the sentence in a becom
ing manner, was dep. but restored on the
ground "that he had sought relief under
sickness by a water-cure," and ultimately,
on the Synod's advice, dem. the ministry
in 1726.
LAWSON, ROBERT (cf. Vol. II., 300),
formerly min. of Torthorwald ; educated
at Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (3rd July
1693) ; went to America and received by
Presb. of Philadelphia 15th Sept. 1712 ;
called to Monokin and Wicomico, but died
in Nov. before he could be settled. He
was marr. and left a family who, on 5th
April 1714, had a grant of £8 from the
Presbyterian Fund of London. — [MS.
Minutes of the Presbyterian Fund: Briggs's
American Presbyterianism, 170.]
LIVINGSTON, WILLIAM, educated at
Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (29th April
1701) ; went to Carolina before 9th April
1706 ; rnin. of the Scots Church, Charles
ton in 1707; died 1724. — [Briggs's American
Presbyterianism, 223-5.]
M'COSH, JAMES, D.D., LL.D., D.Litt.,
formerly min. of Brechin (cf. Vol. V., 377) ;
President and Professor, Princeton College,
New Jersey, 1868-91 ; died 16th Nov. 1891.
M'GILL, DANIEL, educated at Univ.
of Edinburgh; M.A. (7th July 1694);
emigrated to America and received by
Presb. of Philadelphia 15th Sept. 1712;
min. at Patuxent in 1714; died 10th Feb.
1724.
M'LEOD, JOHN, a native of Skye,
brother of Roderick M., min. of Bracadale ;
ord. (by Presb. of Edinburgh) 15th Oct.
1735 ; went to America with the Highland
Colony to Darien, Georgia, under the
auspices of the S.P.C.K. The colony be
came involved in the disastrous expedition
against St Augustine and was virtually
destroyed. He removed to Edisto 'Island,
South Carolina, 1742.
M'MILLAN, WILLIAM, educated at
Univ. of Glasgow (entered llth March
1720) ; went to America and licen. 22nd
Sept. 1724, but disappears from record
soon afterwards.
MACNISH, GEORGE, born 1684, a
native of Glasgow ; educated at Univ.
of Glasgow (which he entered 1st March
1698) ; went to America in 1705, being
then an ordained min., and assisted in
forming the Presb. of Philadelphia ; be
came min. at Jamaica, Province of New
York, 1710, and leader of the Puritans
there; died 10th March 1722. — [Briggs's
American Presbyterianism, App. xxi.]
MAXWELL, WILLIAM, M.A., ord. (by
Presb. of Glasgow) to Charleston, South
Carolina, 6th Feb. 1724 ; settled at Edisto
Island ; removed to Barnsted Downs in
1725 ; returned to Scotland and adm. to
Dunrossness 14th May 1735 [afterwards
min. of Rutherglen (cf. Vol. III., 488)].—
[See his letter in Wodrow MSS., Univ. of
Glasgow, xxii., 124.]
MOFFAT, JOHN, ord. to Wallkill,
Orange Co. in 1751 ; dem. and became
a teacher; died at Little Britain, 22nd
April 1788.
MORISON, PHILIP, M.A., ord. (by
Presb. of Edinburgh) min. at Charleston,
South Carolina, 14th Oct. 1756 ; returned to
Scotland and adm. to Dunscore 20th March
1766 [afterwards of Balmaghie (cf. Vol. II.,
394).]
MURRAY, ALEXANDER, D.D.,
formerly min. at Glenlivet (cf. Vol. VI.,
341) ; missionary at Reading, Pennsylvania,
1763 ; died at Philadelphia 14th Sept. 1793.
MUTCH, ANDREW, M.A., D.D. (cf.
Vol. IV., 286); formerly min. of Muthill;
adm. min. at Bryn Mawr Presbyterian
Church, Pennsylvania, 1912.
NISBET, CHARLES, D.D. (cf. Vol. V.,
411); formerly min. of the First Charge,
Montrose ; elected President of Dickinson
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
665
College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1786 ; died
18th Jan. 1804. — [Gillett's Hist, of the
Presbyterian Church in U.S.A., i., 315.]
PATILLO, HENRY, a native of Scot
land ; went to America, where he studied
for the ministry ; licen. by Presb. of
Hanover, "agreeably to the practice of
the Church of Scotland," 29th Sept. 1757 ;
ord. to Willis Creek, Byrd, and Buck
Island, 13th July 1758; was at Grassy
Creek and Nutbush in 1780; died 1801,
aged 75. Publication — Sermons (Wilming
ton, N.C., 1788).
POLLOCK, WILLIAM, educated at
Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (24th June
1699); went to Carolina before 9th April
1706, aided by a grant from the London
Presbyterian Fund, and was settled at
James Island.
RIDDELL, ARCHIBALD, M.A. (cf.
Vol. I., 133), formerly min. of Kippen ;
min. at Woodbridge, New Jersey, 1685-9;
returned to Scotland and adm. to Wemyss
28th Sept. 1691 [afterwards min. of Trinity
Parish, Edinburgh].
SCOTT, ADAM, a native of Roxburgh
shire ; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ;
licen. by Presb. of Jedburgh 14th Aug.
1695 ; app. by Commission of General
Assembly to accompany the First Expedi
tion to Darien 6th July 1698 ; died at sea,
20th Nov. that year.— [Barbour's William
Paterson and the Darien Company, 71 ;
Anal. Scot., i., 360.]
SCOUGAL, JAMES, licen. by Presb. of
Paisley; min. at the Ferry, Worcester
County, Maryland, 1743-6; died 1746.
SHIELDS, ALEXANDER, M.A. (cf.
Vol. V., 239); app. by Commission of
General Assembly to accompany the
Second Expedition to Darien 21st July
1699 ; formed [with Francis Borland and
Archibald Stobo] the Presb. of Caledonia,
the first on the American continent. On
the colony being broken up, he sailed for
Scotland but died at Port Royal, Jamaica,
14th June 1700.
SIMPSON, MACDUFF, ord. to Church-
ville, Virginia, 9th Oct. 1875; at lliclimoml
Church, Philadelphia, 1877-81 [afterwards
min. of Edrom (cf. Vol. II., 44)]; died at
Delgany, County Wicklow, Ireland, llth
July 1925.
SIMSON, DUGALD (cf. Vol. II.,
200) ; min. at Brookhaven, 1685 - 91 ;
returned to Scotland and adm. to Apple-
garth Sept. 1694.
SMITH, GEORGE MURE, ord. to Rocky
Hill, Connecticut, 19th Oct. 1859 [after
wards of West Church, Stirling (cf. Vol.
IV., 327).]
STOBO, ARCHIBALD, educated at
Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (25th June
1697); app. by Commission of General
Assembly to accompany the Second Ex
pedition to Darien 21st July 1699 ; was on
his way back to Scotland when the vessel
in which he sailed was overtaken by storm
in Charleston Harbour, South Carolina,
and greatly damaged. The Puritan con
gregation at Charleston (vacant through
the death of John Cotton, 8th Sept. 1699)
learning that a Scottish min. was on
board, welcomed him amongst them and
gave him a call; removed to Willtown,
Carleton County, in 1707 ; in 1722 he
petitioned the House of Representatives
that the " Established Church of Scotland
should be on the same footing as the Estab
lished Church of England " ; died 1741. He
marr. (only his wife's Christian name, Eliza
beth, is known) and had issue — Jean
(marr. 1729, James Bulloch, from Glasgow,
and was great - great - great - grandmother
of Theodore Roosevelt, President of the
United States).— [Briggs's American Pres-
byterianism, 223 ; Article by W. S. Crockett
in the Glasgow Herald, 19th Dec. 1918.]
TAYLOR, NATHANIEL, probably a
native of Fife; ord. in Scotland 1702 or
1703 ; became min. at Marlborough, on the
Patuxent, where were a number of settlers
from Fife, brought by Colonel Ninian Beall
in 1690; died 1710.— [Webster's Hist, of
Presbyterian Church in America, 318;
Briggs:s American Presbyterianism, App.
xii.]
666 BRITISH WEST INDIES— ANTIGUA— BAHAMA ISLANDS
THAIN, DANIEL, born Aberdeen, 1721,
son of Robert T. ; educated at Marischal
College, Aberdeen, 1738-42 ; ord. to Con
necticut Farms, New Jersey, 29th Aug.
1750 ; died 1763.
TRAIL, WILLIAM, M.A. (cf. Vol I.,
302) ; formerly min. at Lifford, Presb. of
Laggan, Ireland ; min. at Potomac, Mary
land, after 1682 ; returned to Scotland at
the Revolution and adm. to Borthwick
17th Sept. 1690. He presented to the
Library of the Univ. of Edinburgh the
only extant copy of John Eliot's [Apostle
of the Indians] A Christian Covenant
ing Confession [single sheet 4to, n.p.,
c. 1680]. — [Cat. Lib. Edin. Univ., i.,
1169.]
WHITE, WILLIAM, had a charge near
Albany in 1852 ; removed to Canada in
1856 (q.v.).
WITHERSPOON, JOHN, D.D., LL.D.
(cf. Vol., III., 174) ; formerly min. of The
Laigh Kirk, Paisley; app. President of
Princeton College, New Jersey, 9th May
1768 ; died 6th Nov. 1794.
WITHERSPOON, ROBERT, educated
at Univ. of Glasgow (1697) ; licen. by Presb.
of Glasgow and sent to Pennsylvania in
1713; ord. (by Presb. of Philadelphia) to
Appoquinimy 13th May 1714; died May
1718.
YOUNG, JOHN, ord. to a congregation
in Schenectady and Currie's Bush 14th
Aug. 1788 ; went to Canada in 1790 (q.v.).
BRITISH WEST INDIES
ANTIGUA.
[The Island of Antigua, the most im
portant of the Leeward group, was declared
a British possession by the Treaty of Breda
in 1667. The principal town is St John.]
BROWN, ALEXANDER (cf. Vol. IV.,
41), ord. to Scots Church, St John, Antigua,
1842 ; returned to Scotland and adm. to
Rothesay 22nd Sept. 1843.
THE BAHAMA ISLANDS.
NASSAU, NEW PROVIDENCE.
[The Bahama Islands, discovered by
Columbus in 1492, have been a British
possession since 1783. At Nassau, on New
Providence, services were conducted by the
Church of Scotland from 1809 to 1843, when
the congregation became connected with the
Free Church. St Andrew's, Nassau (now
United Free Church) is the sole representa
tive of Presbyterianism in the Bahamas.]
DEWAR, THOMAS, educated at Univ.
of St Andrews; ord. (by Presb. of Edin
burgh) to St Andrew's Church, Nassau, 12th
Oct. 1827 (after a vacancy of four and a
half years) arrived 10th March 1828; died
1830.
ERASER, SIMON, called M.D. [may be
a mistake for M.A.], a native of Inverness-
shire; educated at King's College, Aber
deen ; M.A. (31st March 1806) ; arrived at
Nassau Feb. or March 1821 ; died there
19th Sept. 1823.
M'CLURE, WILLIAM, born St Quivox,
Ayrshire, about 1800, only son of William M.,
schoolmaster ; educated at Univ. of Glas
gow, student of Theology there, 1821-5;
ord. (by Presb. of Glasgow) to St Andrew's,
Nassau (after a vacancy of seven years)
14th Dec. 1836, and arrived 15th April 1837.
Joined the Free Church with his congre
gation in 1843 ; D.D. (New York 28th June
1854); died 10th March 1863. He marr.
and had issue -Allan, M.D., and William
Malcolm Grant, M.D.
MACFARLANE, HUGH, D.D., born
1780 ; son of John M., farmer, St Ninians,
Stirling; educated at Univ. of Glasgow;
M.A. (1797) ; adm. to St Andrew's, Nassau,
4th June 1817, died 19th Sept. that year.
He left a widow.
RAE, JOHN, born 1772, eldest son of
Edward R., St Ninians, Stirling; educated
at Univ. of Glasgow ; ord. min. of Secession
(Burgher) congregation, St Andrews, 29th
BAHAMA ISLANDS— GRENADA
667
Aug. 1797 ; trans, to Miles Lane Presby
terian Church, London, 5th Sept. 1805 ; res.
5th Sept. 1809 ; emigrated to the Bahamas,
and was min. of St Andrew's Church,
Nassau, 1809-16 ; returned to Scotland, and
died at Stirling 26th Feb. 1821. During
his ministry the congregation at Nassau
was received into the Church of Scotland.
—[Small's Hist, of V.P. Congs., i., 174.]
GRENADA.
[The Island of Grenada, a French posses
sion, was restored to Great Britain in 1783.
Roman Catholicism is the predominating
religion. William Haig (infra) was the
first Church of Scotland minister in 1833.
St Andrew's Church, St George's, was opened
14th July that year, the foundation-stone
having been laid by the Governor, Sir
James Campbell, K.C.B., on St Andrew's
Day, 1831.]
ANDERSON, JOHN, probably min. at
Lower Hawkesbury, New South Wales,
1835-8; app. 1838; dem. 1840.
BEATON, WILLIAM, born Longside,
Aberdeenshire ; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen ; M.A. (March 1837) ; min. of the
Scots Kirk, Montrose, St Patrick's, Grenada ;
adm. in 1851 ; dem. from ill-health 1856 ;
returned to Scotland and died of consump
tion at Aberdeen in 1857. His name still
lives in Grenada in a country house called
" Beaton Place."
CAMERON, ALEXANDER, formerly
min. of Westray (cf. Vol. VII., 278); app.
in 1921 ; died 23rd Feb. 1923.— [Tombst.]
COCKBURN, HENRY, born Hadding-
ton 1801 ; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ;
ord. (by Presb. of Edinburgh) and app. in
1838 ; died of cholera 19th July 1854. He
left a widow. — [Tombst.]
COLLIE, THOMAS, a native of Inver
ness ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ;
app. in succession to William Haig, but died
at sea on board the Georgiana 1838.
GIVEN, HUGH S., missionary at
Beallachantuie 1894-1900; assistant at St
Michael's, Dumfries; ord. 17th May 1903;
dem. 1907 ; resident at Edinburgh in 1928.
HAIG, WILLIAM, assistant at George
town, Demerara ; adm. 24th Nov. 1833 ;
trans, to St Luke's, British Guiana, 1837
MACFARLANE, DUNCAN, born Bale-
martine, Tiree, 5th Sept. 1884; son of
Donald M. and Christina Mackinnon ; edu
cated at Balemartine School and St Ninian's
Training Institute, Edinburgh ; missionary
at Benbecula 1903-10; at Salen, Mull,
1910-11; again at Benbecula 1911-14; at
Morven 1914-19 ; Kilbride, Bute 1919-21 ;
Chaplain to Poorhouse, Campbeltown,
1921-22; Keen, by Presb. of Jamaica 14th
Feb. 1923 ; ord. to Medina and Hyde Park
that day; trans, to Grenada April 1926.
Marr. 30th Nov. 1922, Annie, daugh. of
James Laurie, and has issue — Elizabeth
Christina, born 17th Sept. 1923.
McGILL, STEVENSON, ord. to St
George's, Grenada, 10th Aug. 1910; trans.
to St Clement's, Demerara, 1913 (g.v.).
MITCHELL, GEORGE (cf. Vol. IV.,
295), ord. (by Presb. of Kirkcaldy) 7th Jan.
1858; dem. 1870 [afterwards min. of St
Andrew's, Alloa]. He originated the Mission
to East Indians in Grenada. He marr.
[omitted in Vol. IV.] 12th March 1862,
Janet (died 28th July 1900) daugh. of
Walter Strang, Edinburgh, and Jane Cook,
and had issue— Janet, teacher, born 19th
Dec. 1862; Robert, banker, San Francisco,
born 28th Feb. 1865; Elizabeth, teacher,
Alloa, born 4th June 1868 ; Walter, banker,
Kirkcaldy, born 14th January 1874. [M.'s
demission brought with it the loss of £300
a year to the congregation, the Government
Grant being withdrawn, and the Church
was practically closed for the next fourteen
years.]
MUIR, JAMES (cf. Vol. III., 256),
formerly min. of Greengairs ; app. 1st
Sept. 1884 ; trans, to St James's, Wakenaam,
Demerara, 1887. In Grenada the Indian
Mission is his enduring memorial. He con
solidated the work begun by George Mitchell,
built Samaritan Church and provided an
Indian preacher and teacher. The services
are entirely conducted in Hindi.
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BRITISH WEST INDIES—JAMAICA
RAE, JAMES, ord. 27th July 1888; trans,
to St James's, Essequibo, 1893 (q.v.).
ROSS, FRANCIS ALLAN, born Pictou,
Nova Scotia, llth May 1846, son of John
Duncan R., merchant, Pictou [son of
Admiral George R., Castle Craig, Nigg,
Ross-shire, and Isabella, daugh. of George
Mackenzie, Pictou] ; educated at the Presby
terian Seminary, Philadelphia, U.S.A., and
Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen. by Eastern Presb.
of Presbyterian Church, U.S.A., 1873, ord.
(by same Presb.) that year; had charge of
congregations at Amherst, River Hibbert,
and Northport, Nova Scotia, 1873-4 ; app.
by Colonial Committee to St Catherine's,
Berbice, 1876 ; trans, to St Luke's, George
town, Demerara, 1880 ; res. in 1892 and
returned to Scotland; app. to Grenada
1893 ; dem. January 1897, and for the next
three years resided in Nova Scotia without
a charge. In 1900 he went to Scotland,
was app. chaplain to Royal Scots and Scots
Guards 1901, and served in the Boer War
1901-2 ; became organising agent of the
Presbyterian Church of South Africa 1902-5 ;
returned to Nova Scotia and resident at
New Glasgow 1928. Marr. (1) 1876 Eliza
beth MacCormick (died March 1899) daugh.
of Alexander MacGillivray, D.D., min. at
MacLellan's Mountain, Nova Scotia, and
has issue — a son, died in infancy ; Elizabeth
Bell, R.R.C., Superintendent of General
Hospital, Olean, New York State, U.S.A. ;
Mary Wyllie Woodman (marr. 1915 Hugh
Skinner Mackenzie, Ph.D., min. of Stenton) :
(2) 1906 Christina Sutherland, Barney's
River, Nova Scotia, and has issue— Frances
Aileen, born 20th Sept. 1908.
SILVER, DAVID, M.A. (cf. Vol. II., 167);
ord. to St George's, Grenada, 2nd Feb.
1897 ; dem. 1902 ; adm. min. of Westruther
19th May 1904 ; died 30th Nov. 1921.
SMITH, WALLACE, born 1855, son of
William S., drapery warehouseman, and
Margaret Wallace ; educated at Univ. of
Glasgow ; adm. to St Vincent 15th Nov.
1906; dem. 1911; app. here in 1913; dem.
1920; died unmarr. at Cambuslang 22nd
Nov. 1921.
STEPHEN, CHARLES, born Tarves,
22nd June 1854, son of Alexander S. ;
educated at Univ. of Aberdeen ; M.A. (1875) ;
licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 15th May
1879 ; ord. (by Presb. of Calgary, Canada)
1891 ; adm. to Church of Scotland and app.
acting chaplain to the Forces at Aldershot
in 1903 ; app. to Grenada 1907 ; trans,
to St Mary's, British Guiana, 21st Aug.
1910 ; dem. 1920 ; died at Aberdeen, 17th
July 1924.
STIRLING, ARCHIBALD, educated at
Univ. of Edinburgh ; ord. (by Presb. of
Dalkeith) 19th May to united parishes of
St Patrick and St Andrew's, Grenada;
arrived 25th Nov. 1846; res. and was
missionary at Roslin 1851-60 (cf. Vol. I.,
347).
WILSON, JAMES, probably formerly
min. of Edrom (cf. Vol. II., 44); head
master of Grammar School, St George's,
Grenada; officiated at St Andrew's, April
1874 to Jan. 1876.
JAMAICA.
[The Island of Jamaica has been con
tinuously a British Colony since 1665. The
earliest missionaries were Moravians and
Wesleyans in 1732 and 1789. Joseph
Bethune (infra) was the first Presbyterian
missionary. He laboured only for a few
months before his death from a malignant
fever then raging. In 1813 a movement
to obtain a Presbyterian place of worship
resulted in the erection, in 1819, of St
Andrew's Church, Kingston, at a cost of
over £20,000, of which the House of
Assembly granted £8,500 and the Council
of Kingston £2,000. In 1823 the House of
Assembly voted £500 yearly towards pay
ment of stipend. In 1870 the church was
disestablished during the Governorship of
Sir John Peter Grant of Rothiemurchus.
The churches at Falmouth and Montego
Bay joined the Free Church in 1843.]
ANDERSON, JAMES STORIE, ord. to
Retirement 14th Feb. 1923 ; trans, to
Scots Church, Belize, 14th Aug. following
(q.v.).
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BETHUNE, JOSEPH, formerly min.
of Houndwood (cf. Vol. II., 50); app.
missionary in Jamaica (under Scottish
Missionary Society) in 1799 ; died at
Kingston 5th June 1800.
BROWN, JOHN, possibly second son of
Andrew B., Stewarton, Ayr; educated at
Univ. of Glasgow ; ord. (at urgent request
of the Scottish settlers for a minister to
be appointed) by Presb. of Edinburgh to
Kingston 29th July 1818; arrived Jan.
1819 ; died of fever 17th March 1820, aged
35, and was buried at foot of pulpit stairs.
He left a widow.— [Slab in floor of Church.]
[CALLANDER, THOMAS P., licentiate
of the United Secession Church, who had
gone to the island for the sake of his health,
took charge at Kingston for a year and was
ord. by Presb. of Jamaica in 1847, but holding
strongly to the principles of Voluntaryism,
he refused to accept of any grant from
Government. He was a most admirable
min. and his services were attended with
great success. He died 22nd Jan. 1849.—
[M'Kerrow's Hist, of Foreign Missions of
Secession Church, 328-31.]]
CAMPBELL, ROBERT ALLAN, born
Glasgow 20th Nov. 1883 ; son of John C.
and Mary Grove Thomson; educated at
Whitehill School, Glasgow ; licen. by Presb.
of Jamaica 16th Aug. 1926, ord. to Medina
and Hyde Park the same day. Marr. 30th
April 1915, Elizabeth, daugh. of Joseph
Allen and Martha M'Donald, and has issue
—Martha M'Donald, born 17th Nov. 1917 ;
Mary Thomson, born 3rd Jan. 1921.
CARLILE, WARRAND. (See under
Ireland.)
DAVIDSON, DONALD (cf. Vol. V.,
345), ord. (assistant and successor) to
Kingston March 1888 [afterwards min. of
Invergowrie]. His son Donald, Ph.D., was
adm. to Queen's Park, Glasgow, 20th Jan.
1925; trans, to South Leith 28th Feb. 1928.
Author of After Thoughts (Edinburgh, 1928).
DENNISTOUN, JAMES, eldest son of
James D., merchant, Dumfriesshire ; edu
cated at Univ. of Glasgow ; B.A. (1836),
M.A. (1838) ; app. to Montego Bay in 1842.
Joined the Free Church in 1843; F.C.
missionary at Montego Bay, 1843-7 ; F.C.
missionary, Constantinople, 1847-8 ; F.C.
missionary, Malta, 1849-51 ; returned to
Jamaica, and died there after 1890. He
latterly adopted Baptist views.
DEY, WILLIAM DUNBAR (cf. Vol.
VI., 373), adm. to Kingston 3rd Feb. 1881 ;
dem. 21st Aug. 1883 [afterwards min. of
Tomintoul].
DICKSON, ROBERT NICOL, app. to
Retirement in 1908; dem. 1916; in U.F.
Church, Island of Grand Cayman, 1928.
GOLDIE, ALEXANDER, born Mid
lothian 1804 ; educated at Univ. of Edin
burgh ; licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith in
1840; ord. by Presb. of Lanark 19th Aug.
1846, arrived 22nd Nov. that year ; died
22nd July 1847, leaving a widow.— [Tablet
in Church.]
GRAHAM, WILLIAM, born Loch-
maben, 14th May 1859, son of John G.
and Mary White; educated at Lochmaben
School and Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen. by
Presb. of Edinburgh; assistant at Canon-
gate, Edinburgh; ord. to St John's, New
foundland, 1887 ; adm. to Kingston in 1896 ;
died at Edinburgh 1st July 1922. During
his ministry occurred the great earthquake
of 1907, when the church at Kingston was
considerably shattered. He marr. 1st July
1891, Alison, daugh. of Sir Robert Thorburn,
K.C.M.G., Premier of Newfoundland, and
Susannah Milroy, and had issue— Robert,
banker, born 10th Oct. 1893 ; Janetta Marie,
born 3rd May 1895 (marr. Jan. 1921 Lieut.
G. T. W. Home) ; William Allison, planter,
born 7th Nov. 1897; Melville, accountant,
born 22nd Oct. 1899 ; Guy Morrison, planter,
born 12th Nov. 1900, died llth March 1927 ;
Ian Thorburn, solicitor, Jamaica, born 4th
March 1904 ; Cyril Milroy, solicitor, Jamaica
(twin), born 4th March 1904.
GUY, ROBERT CUNNINGHAM, born
Johnstone, Renfrewshire, 24th April 1862;
son of John G., solicitor, Glasgow ; educated
at Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of
Paisley in 1886 ; adm. (assistant and
successor) to Kingston that year; dem.
1888 ; became a journalist and teacher at
Kingston, and Editor of the Daily Post',
died at Glasgow 1916.— [Tablet in Church.]
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HUNT, JAMES MALCOLM, born
Perth, 23rd Feb. 1872, son of James H.,
and Marjory Brough ; educated at Perth
Academy and Univ. of St Andrews ; licen.
by Presb. of Perth in 1896; ord. to St
Ninian's, Arbroath, 12th Aug. that year;
app. to Belize, British Honduras, 16th Nov.
1904 ; dem. 1914 ; served in European War
Jan. 1915 to Dec. 1919; app. to Kingston
May 1923. Marr. 20th July 1923, Erica
Arnot, daugh. of John Blackadder and
Anna Wilson, and has issue— Ann Bridget,
born 18th May 1924 ; John Malcolm, born
3rd Dec. 1926.
INGLIS, WILLIAM, licen. by Presb. of
Jamaica in 1916 ; ord. to Retirement 9th
Feb. that year ; app. to Church of Scot
land Lodging House Chaplaincy, Glasgow,
19th Oct. 1921. (See under Chaplains.)
JARDINE, FERGUS, app. to Kingston
in 1871 ; dem. 1875 and went to Demerara
JOHNSTON, R. V., ord. by Presb. of
British Guiana ; app. to Medina and Hyde
Park; dem. 1888, and went to Canada but
returned to Scotland ; was resident at
Aberdeen in 1899.
KINNISON, JOHN, born 1824; app.
to St Mark's, Demerara, 1856; to All
Saints', Demerara, 1865 ; trans, and adm.
to Accompong and Mount Trinity, Jamaica,
1875 ; trans, to Medina in 1881 ; died on
board R.M.S. Para 24th July 1887.— [Tablet
in Church.]
LEA,WILLIAM SCRIVENER, assistant
at Giddyhall 1894; min. at Retirement;
dem. and became min. of a Congregational
church at First Hill, Jamaica ; still there
in 1928.
LESLIE, THOMAS (see under Ireland).
MACFARLANE, DUNCAN, ord. to
Medina and Hyde Park 14th Feb. 1923;
trans, to Grenada in 1926 (q.v.).
M'TEAR, HUGH, born St Quivox, Ayr
shire, 24th Nov. 1889, son of Hugh M. and
Jane Wilson Balfour; educated at Water
side School, Dalmellington ; licen. by
Presb. of Jamaica 13th Feb. 1924 ; ord. to
Retirement that day. Marr. 21st Sept.
1923, Elizabeth, daugh. of James Skilling
and Mary M'Dowall, and has issue — Hugh
Skilling, born 2nd Dec. 1924.
MAXWELL, JOHN, born 13th March
1857, son of John M. and Margaret Meikle ;
educated at Kilmarnock Academy and
Univs. of Glasgow and Edinburgh ; licen.
by Presb. of Ayr 4th May 1887; ord. by
Presb. of Lochmaben, for service in Jamaica,
20th Dec. 1888; arrived 20th Jan. 1889;
app. to Giddyhall, Cambridge, etc. Marr.
(1) Aug. 1894, Jeanie (died s.p. Dec. 1898),
daugh. of Robert Tarbett, schoolmaster,
Darvel, Ayrshire : (2) Lilian, daugh. of
John Steele, London, and has issue —
Iris Margarita Lily, born 30th Jan. 1900.
MILNE, ANDREW JAMIESON, M.A.
(cf. Vol. VI., 258); ord. assistant at Kingston
July 1855; app. Principal of Collegiate
School, Kingston, 1858; dem. 1874 [after
wards min. of Fyvie].
MORRISON, WILLIAM CHISHOLM,
adm. to Medina in 1903; dem. 1916, and
went to Grand Falls, Newfoundland.
RADCLIFFE, JOHN, born Ireland,
23rd Sept. 1815; ord. to Castle Dawson,
Ireland, 23rd June 1841 ; dem. 15th Aug.
1848 on appointment by Colonial Com
mittee to Kingston ; adm. Nov. that year ;
died 7th Sept. 1892. He marr. (1) Jane
Wilson (born Ireland 1826, died 1856), and
had issue — Elizabeth, died aged 9 months ;
Alice Frances, born 8th Feb. 1851 ; Henry,
died aged five days ; Henry Hendrich, born
30th April 1853, died aged 3 months;
William, born 12th Aug. 1856 : (2) Isabella
Cooke, and had issue— Alexander Hodgson,
born 30th Oct. 1862 ; Norah Jane Horlock,
born 27th June 1864; Leonard M'llroy,
born 24th June 1866; Henry Milne, born
15th June 1868 ; Guy Davidson, born 9th
May 1871 ; Violet Annie, born 17th Oct.
1878.— [Tablet in Church, and Portrait
Bust [by Brock].]
STEELE, JAMES, born 1794, eldest son
of William S., schoolmaster, Dunbarton
shire; educated at Univ. of Glasgow; M.A.
(1814); student of theology there 1815-17;
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671
app. to Kingston and arrived Nov. 1821 ;
died Sept. 1822. During his ministry
Michael Scott, author of Tom Cringle's
Log, was an elder.
STUAKT, JOHN, born Enzie, 18th Aug.
1848, son of James S. ; educated at Univ.
of Aberdeen; M.A. (1871); B.D. (1875);
licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen 28th Sept.
1875 ; ord. (by that Presb.) to Kingston
30th Nov. that year; superintendent of
Missions there, 1885-98 ; retired 1899 ; died
21st March 1928. He marr., 20th June
1879, Marie (died 1920), daugh. of Alex
ander Hosie and Jane Anderson.
THORBURN, ROBERT, educated at
Univ. of Edinburgh ; app. to Falmouth in
1834. Joined the Free Church in 1843;
min. of Warwick Presbyterian (F.C.)
Church, Bermuda.
WORDIE, JAMES (cf. Vol. V., 147),
ord. to Kingston in 1823 ; preached his first
sermon 28th Dec. that year ; opened a
Sunday school, the first in Jamaica, 1824 ;
returned to Scotland on holiday 1842;
res. 1843 ; adm. to Second Charge, Cupar-
Fife, 5th Jan. 1844.
ST VINCENT.
[The Island of St Vincent, temporarily
surrendered to the French in 1779, was
restored to Great Britain in 1796. The first
Church of Scotland minister was Alexander
Spence (infra) in 1841. The charge was
vacant from 1881 to 1897.]
M'CLENAGHEN, A. T., app. in 1877 ;
dem. 1881.
M'LEAN, DANIEL (cf. Vol. V., 382),
formerly min. of East Church, Brechin ;
app. in 1862 ; died at Rothesay 28th May
1876.
M'LUCKIE, JOHN MORRISON (cf.
Vol. I., 84), ord. 13th Jan. 1897; dem.
1900 [afterwards min. of Lady Tester's
Church, Edinburgh, 9th June 1910] ; trans,
to Castleton 7th Feb. 1918 ; died 13th July
1926.
M'PHAIL, DOUGALD NEIL, M.A.,
B.D., B.Litt., M.D., and D.Ph., born
Kintyre, son of James M. and Jean
M'Tavish; educated at Tarbert School;
emigrated at age of fifteen to Canada ;
studied at Taylor Univ., Detroit College
of Medicine and Surgery, College of
Physicians and Surgeons, Boston, Univs.
of Glasgow and London ; assistant Surgical
Department, Boston City (Relief Station)
Hospital; missionary at Kilchoman, Islay
and Saddell, Kintyre ; ord. to Lochiel,
Ontario, 30th April 1910 ; declined to enter
Canadian Presb. Church with his congrega
tion ; app. to this charge by Colonial Com
mittee Jan. 1912.
NEWLANDS, WILLIAM (cf. Vol. V.,
419); ord. 12th Dec. 1900; dem. in 1906
[afterwards min. of Stracathro 12th Aug.
1909].
ROSS, WILLIAM, 1848-56.
SMITH, WALLACE, adm. 15th Nov.
1906; dem. 1911 [afterwards min. at
Grenada] (q.v.~).
SPENCE, ALEXANDER, ord. to St
Vincent (by Presb. of Aberlour) 22nd Feb.
1841 ; went to Canada and was min. of
St Andrew's Church, Ottawa (q.v.).
WATT, JOHN, min. 1858-61 ; went to
Kandy, Ceylon (q.v.}.
TOBAGO.
[The Island of Tobago has been a British
possession since 1763. Scarborough is its
chief town.]
LENNIE, DUNCAN, born 1814, second
son of Robert L., merchant, Glasgow ;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; min. at
Tobago, 1837-44; afterwards min. of the
Scots Church, Glanton, Northumberland;
died there 12th Dec. 1858.
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CENTRAL AMERICA
BRITISH HONDURAS.
BELIZE.
[British Honduras occupies a long strip
of coast facing eastward on the shores of
Central America between Yucatan and
Guatemala. Belize is the chief town. In
1850 a number of Scottish Presbyterians
raised a subscription for the erection of a
church, the Legislative Assembly voting a
sum in aid of the enterprise, with an annual
stipend of £300. The first minister appointed
was David Arthur, formerly min. of New
Chapel, Stewarton (cf. Vol. III., 127), who
arrived in 1851. Following him were
John Jackson (1876-88) and John Mackersie
(1889-90), both connected with the Free
Church. The Church of Scotland (at the
request of this congregation, destitute of a
minister) began services in 1904 under James
Malcolm Hunt (infra).']
ADAMSON, ALFRED ERNEST, born
Helperthorpe, 9th Oct. 1891, son of Mark
A. and Jane Hodgson; educated at Wet-
wang School, and Cliff and Bennett Colleges,
Sheffield; missionary at Lunna, Shetland,
1917-27 ; app. by Colonial Committee, May
1927, and ord. 4th July that year. Marr.
18th Jan. 1915, Edith Annie, daugh. of
Chapman Arguile, and has issue — Alfred
Ronald, born 13th July 1916; Edith May
Jean, born 27th June 1918.
ANDERSON, JAMES STORIE, born
Rhynie, 21st March 1879, son of Alexander
A., min. of Rhynie ; educated at Grammar
School and Univ. of Aberdeen ; app. to
Jamaica by Colonial Committee Sept. 1922;
licen. by Presb. of Jamaica 14th Feb.
1923; ord. to Retirement that day ; trans,
and adm. 14th Aug. 1923 ; died 24th July
1926. He marr. 1st Feb. 1902, Helen Duff
Farquhar, daugh. of John Clarke, and
had issue — Alexander Hamilton Greig,
born 30th Nov. 1902.
HUNT, JAMES MALCOLM, trans.
from St Ninian's Chapel, Arbroath, 16th
Nov. 1904; dem. 1914; adm. to Kingston,
Jamaica, May 1923.
MACLAREN, DAVID DUTHIE, M.A.,
B.D. ; min. of Monifieth (cf. Vol. V., 364) ;
app. May 1921 ; res. July 1922 [afterwards
min. of Bressay] ; trans, to Kennethmont,
Aberdeenshire, 10th March 1927.
ROCHE, GEORGE RALPH MAL-
VERN, app. in 1920; dem. 1921 [after
wards min. at Brussels (q.v.)].
SOUTH AMERICA
BRITISH GUIANA.
[British Guiana has been a British pos
session since 1814, when it was ceded from
the Dutch. In 1826 the counties of Demerara
and Essequibo were divided into parishes, of
which five — St Andrew's, St James's, St
Luke's, St Mark's, and St Mary's, were
allotted to the Church of Scotland. The
Presbytery of British Guiana was established
in 1831. In 1836 Berbice was also divided,
four of its newly - formed parishes — All
Saints', St Catherine's, St Clement's, and
St Saviour's, being allotted to the Church
of Scotland, and included within the Pres
bytery. In all three counties alternate
parishes were allotted to the Church of
England. In 1840, with acquiescence of
the Colonial Committee, the Presbytery
was divided into two— the Presbytery of
Demerara and Essequibo, and the Presbytery
of Berbice. But these were found to be
too small, and without sufficient influence
in the colony, and for administrative pur
poses proved a failure. They maintained a
precarious and stormy existence until about
1858-60, from which time they were not
recognised by the local government as
having control over the Church of Scotland
in the colony, and were unable to exercise any
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673
of the Presbytery's disciplinary functions
In 1869 a new Presbytery of British Guiana
was constituted by the ministers and elden
in ten parishes, upon the recommendatior
of the Colonial Committee, with a member
ship similar to the original Presbytery
and received Government recognition anc
establishment by Ordinance 3, of 1872, the
Ordinance which, with amendments in 1904
and 1917, still governs the Presbytery. As
now constituted the Presbytery consists oi
representatives from the parishes of St
Andrew's, St Thomas's, All Saints', St
Mark's, St Mary's, St James's, St Luke's,
St Saviour's, St Clement's, and St Catherine's!
In 1920, the two last mentioned were joined
under one minister, but each continues to
send a representative elder to Presbytery,
which, therefore, includes nine ministers
and ten elders. The Presbytery carries on
Missions to Aboriginal Indians at Supenaam
Creek and Saxacalli, on the Essequibo River,
and it provides and manages schools in all
its parishes, the colony's educational system
being denominational.]
ALL SAINTS'.
ANDERSON, JOHN, app. in 1835; died
June 1840.
BELL, JOHN, ord. assistant in 1842;
adm. to this charge 4th April 1843 ; left
in 1850 ; afterwards min. of Pettinain (cf.
Vol. III., 320, where the date 1855 should
be deleted).
DALGETY, JAMES BOATH (cf. Vol.
III., 170), joint-minister of St Andrew's,
1865-9 ; trans, to this charge in 1869 ; res.
1876; adm. to Macleod Parish, Glasgow,
6th July that year; adm. to Second
Charge, Paisley, 20th Dec. 1878.
DUFF, ROBERT, born 1810, son of
Robert D., farmer, Milton of Buchromb,
and Elizabeth Gordon ; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen; MA. (March 1828);
schoolmaster of Glass and Rhynie 1835-40 ;
app. assistant at St Andrew's, British
Guiana, 1840; adm. to St Mary's Sept.
1841 ; exchanged charges with Andrew
Easton, St Mark's, Nov. 1845 ; trans, to this
charge in 1854; res. 1869; died at New
Amsterdam 1878. He marr. Catherine,
VOL. VII.
daugh. of James Struthers, D.D., min. of
St Andrew's, British Guiana, and had issue
—Robert Struthers, Immigration Agent
General for the Colony; James; Donald;
William ; Isabella (marr. C. Field) ; Mary ;
Esther; Jane. Publication — British
Guiana : being Notes on a few of its
Natural Productions, Industrial Occupa
tions, and Social Institutions (Glasgow,
1866).— [The Book of the Duffs, ii., 567.]
HENDERSON, THOMAS, min. in
Demerara ; marr. 26th Dec. 1854, Margaret
Dalrymple, daugh. of the Rev. William
Lowe, Forfar.
KINNISON, JOHN, trans, from St
Mark's in 1865 ; went to Jamaica (q.v.).
MACGILL, JOHN WHYTE, MA. (cf.
Vol. VI., 225) ; trans, from St Catherine's,
British Guiana, and adm. 18th Jan. 1904;
returned to Scotland and adm. to Inver-
allochy 26th March 1924 ; trans, to Saugh-
tree 23rd Dec. 1925; trans, to Colvend
27th Jan. 1927.
M'lLRAITH, JOHN, adm. 9th April
1852 ; went on leave 28th Oct. 1853 ; adm.
to Greenhead, Glasgow, soon afterwards :
trans, to Erskine 21st Dec. 1871 (cf. Vol
III., 195).
NICOLL, PETER HILL, M.A.,
B.D. (cf. Vol. V., 426) ; formerly min. of
the Abbey Parish, Arbroath ; adm. to this
charge in 1923; dem. 1927; adm. to
Dalmarnock 22nd Sept. 1927. Marr. 15th
Jan. 1915 Margie Vivien Kenealy, and has
issue— Freda Cecilia Jean, born 23rd Oct.
1916 ; James Michael, born 6th July 1918 ;
Ivan Kenealy, born 14th Jan. 1921. Publi
cation— "Argentine Memories," Blackwood's
Magazine (1917).
RANNIE, JOHN, born Walls, Orkney,
1828, son of John R., M.A., schoolmaster
of Walls, and brother of Robert Robertson
3,., min. of Shapinsay ; educated at King's
College, Aberdeen; M.A. (March 1845);
schoolmaster of Coull ; ord. (by Presb. of
Kincardine O'Neil) 15th Sept. 1857, for
ervice in Canada ; min. at Chatham,
Ontario, 15th Sept. 1859; app. to this
charge in 1876; retired 1904; died at
Moreton, Essex, 1910. A fine classical
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scholar, he was of considerable assistance
to young men in the colony who desired
to proceed to Scottish or English Uni
versities. He marr. and had issue — Arthur,
M.B., C.M. (Aberdeen 1882), born 15th
Sept. 1861, died of yellow fever in
Demerara 24th Jan. 1888 ; a daugh., became
Head of Army Nursing Service in Eng
land ; and others.
STEVENSON, ALEXANDER (cf. Vol.
II., 256), ord. assistant at St Andrew's,
British Guiana, 1837; adm. to All Saints'
in 1840; returned to Scotland Dec. 1842;
adm. to Ruthwell 20th March 1844.
ST ANDREW'S.
BROWNE, ARCHIBALD, born Paisley,
1787, fifth son of Robert B., farmer; edu
cated at Univs. of Glasgow; MA. (1810)
and Edinburgh ; was a tutor in the High
lands ; licen. by Presb. of Dingwall in
1816; arrived in Demerara 18th Sept.
1818; was obliged to go to Scotland for
his health from Oct. 1824 to June 1825 ;
retired 1826 and resided in Edinburgh ;
died 8th Nov. 1843 and was buried in
Calton Cemetery. He was for some years
the only Scots min. in British Guiana. He
travelled all over the colony on preaching
expeditions, the records showing that he
married and baptized, amongst others,
a large number of slaves. During his
ministry an alarming slave rising broke
out on the East Coast, Demerara, 13th
Aug. 1823, when martial law was pro
claimed and remained in force until 19th
Jan. 1824. Most of the ringleaders were
captured or killed, and several were
hanged. He marr. (at Fortrose) 12th Sept.
1826, Martha Fraser or Junor (died llth
April 1857), daugh. of Colin Matheson of
Bennetsfield and the Suddies (chief of the
Clan), and widow of Hugh Junor, a planter
in Essequibo, and had issue— Hugh Junor
(only son), died in Australia [his eldest
daugh. marr. the Hon. Alfred Deakin,
Prime Minister of Australian Common
wealth] ; Grace Isabella, born 1828 (marr.
Captain Kelso, 3rd Madras Coy.), died 4th
April 1856 ; Helen Jane, born 1835 (marr.
18th May 1853, Donald Tolmie Masson,
M.D., min. of the Gaelic Church, Edin
burgh) ; died 8th Oct. 1905. Publications—
On the Duty of Subjects to their Sovereign
and on the Duty of Slaves to their Masters
[Three Sermons] (Georgetown, 1824). —
[Cruickshank's Hist, of St Andrew's Kirk,
Demerara (portrait), 13-18.]
DRAYTON, D. F., had charge of St
Stephen's Chapel, in St Andrew's Parish;
ord. in 1906 ; died 1919.
GRAY, JOHN MEIKLE, born Glasgow,
6th July 1887, son of Robert G. and
Catherine Callen ; educated at Pollok-
shields Academy, Hutcheson's Grammar
School, and Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A.
(1908) ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 2nd
May 191 1 ; assistant at Keith, Middle
Parish, Paisley, and Rutherglen ; served
in European War; ord. to Elderslie 4th
May 1920 ; app. to this charge llth July
1923 ; returned to Scotland and adm. to
East Parish, Brechin, 5th Oct. 1927. Marr.
21st April 1920, Gwendoline Clara, daugh.
of John and Mary Jane Grant, and has
issue— Neil Alexander, born 8th May 1923.
MACNIE, ROBERT LAMOND, M.A.,
B.D. ; adm. here 27th Oct. 1909 ; returned
to Scotland and adm. to Loth, Sutherland,
29th March 1922 (q.v.} ; trans, to Lundie
and Fowlis 1st Dec. 1926.
MORGAN, JOHN, M.A., formerly min.
of Lerwick (cf. Vol. VII., 286); adm. 10th
May 1858 ; res. 15th May 1864 and returned
to Scotland.
MURRAY, ARCHIBALD DOUGLAS,
born Ayrshire, 1826, son of James M., farmer;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by
Presb. of Ayr 18th April 1850 ; arrived 29th
Dec. 1852 as assistant to James Struthers,
D.D. (infra} ; became min. of St Andrew's,
British Guiana, 1857 ; died from effects of
a driving accident 3rd Dec. 1863. He was
a man of winning personality and a helper
of all good causes in the colony. He marr.
llth Aug. 1855, Jessie (died, s.p., at High
Blantyre 10th Jan. 1896), daugh. of James
Smith, drysalter, and Annie M'Isaac. —
[Cruickshank's Hist, (portrait), 22 ; Tombst.]
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675
RITCHIE, WILLIAM BLACKLEY,
M.A., B.D. (cf. Vol. IV., 298), formerly
min. of Bannockburn ; adm. to this charge
10th Oct. 1887; res. 24th Oct. 1909 and
returned to Scotland.— [Cruickshank's 7/wtf.
(portrait), 26.]
SLATER, THOMAS (cf. Vol. III., 444),
formerly min. of St George's-in-the-Fields,
Glasgow ; app. by Colonial Committee and
arrived in the colony 22nd Nov. 1864; res.
(through ill-health) March 1887 ; became
min. of Canadian Free Church, Better Hope,
Demerara; retired to Barbados in 1897,
where he died 24th April 1905, aged 76.
He was described as "a man of striking
personality; taken all round, the most highly
gifted minister the colony had ever seen."
STRUTHERS, JAMES, born Edinburgh,
1800, son of James S., min. of College
Street Relief Church, Edinburgh ; educated
at Univ. of St Andrews; M.A. (1819);
arrived in the colony 14th April 1826;
D.D. (St Andrews 1828); accepted a
presentation to Tweedsmuir 23rd March
1831 but afterwards withdrew in favour
of his brother-in-law (cf. Vol. I., 290);
dem. in 1857 and died at Edinburgh 4th
Aug. 1858. During his incumbency the
Emancipation of the slaves took place in
1834. In 1838, by the advice of the
Colonial Committee, he visited most of
the West Indian Islands with the view
of forming a West Indian Synod of the
Church of Scotland, but nothing came of
the proposal. In 1843 a number of seceders
in the congregation formed a Free Church,
which met with no success. He marr.
and had issue— Catherine (marr. Robert
Duff, min. of All Saints'). Publication—
The Responsibilities of Freedom, a sermon
(1834).— [Tablet in St Andrew's Church;
Cruickshank's Hist, (portrait), 19-21; Duff's
Notes on British Guiana, 337.]
ST CATHERINE'S.
AIKEN, JAMES, M.A. ; ord. in 1904 ;
trans, to St Thomas's, British Guiana, 1914
(q.v.).
ANDERSON, GEORGE, probably min.
at Invermein, Australia, 1839 ; app. in
1844; died 1845.
BELL, THOMAS, brother of John B.,
min. of All Saints', British Guiana, and of
Pettinain ; app. in 1845 ; died 1866, much
lamented by his congregation.
GALBRAITH, JAMES, app. to this
charge in 1880; died in the yellow fever
epidemic of 1883.
HARDIE, ROBERT, born Hawick, 20th
Oct. 1808, second son of John H., farmer ;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow; Professor
of Logic and Rhetoric, Anderson's College,
Glasgow, 1834-7; LL.D. (Glasgow, 10th
Nov. 1837); app. in 1837; died 24th Oct.
that year, his death being presumably
unknown when honorary degree was
granted. He marr. a daugh. of William
Irvine, merchant, Glasgow.
KINNISON, JOHN, trans, from St
Mark's in 1866 ; res. 1874 [was afterwards
in Jamaica (q.v.)].
LEWIS, R. L., app. to this charge in
1880 ; died that year.
M'CUNE, THOMAS, eldest son of
Samuel M., Wigtownshire; educated at
Univ. of Glasgow, B.A. (1836), M.A.
(1837), M.D. (1840) ; app. in 1845 and died
that year.
MACGILL, JOHN WHYTE,M.A.; ord.
(by Presb. of Dalkeith) 6th Jan. 1897;
trans, to All Saints', British Guiana, 18th
Jan. 1904.
M'WHIRTER, WILLIAM, born Belfast,
Ireland, 20th Aug. 1877, son of William
John M. and Margaret Mackay ; educated
at Belfast Model School, Trinity College,
Dublin, Assembly's College, Belfast; B.A
(Dublin Univ. Feb. 1914); M.A. (1917);
licen. by Presb. of Belfast 3rd March 1914 ;
assistant at Belfast ; app. here by Colonial
Committee ; ord. by Presb. of British
Guiana 15th Sept. 1915; dem. 31st May
1917; assistant at St Cuthbert's, Edin
burgh 1917-20 ; adm. an ordained min. by
General Assembly 23rd May 1918 ; adm. to
Broxburn 20th March 1920.
MENZIES, ROBERT, app. to St
Catherine's in 1838; res. 1839; app. to
St Luke's 1840 (q.v.).
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PRINGLE, ALEXANDER, son of
John P., min. of Tarves ; educated at
Univ. of Aberdeen; app. to this charge
in 1884; drowned at sea when returning
from furlough in Scotland 1896.
RIACH,ALEXANDER,app.inl839; res.
1841 ; min. of St Clement's in 1849 (g.v.}.
ROSS, FRANCIS ALLAN, app. in
1876 ; trans, to St Luke's 1880.
YOUNG, JAMES, born Dundee 1800,
son of George Y., weaver, and Mary Young ;
educated at Univ. of St Andrews ; licen.
by Original Secession Presb. of Perth and
Dunfermline 12th April 1831; ord. to
Original Secession congregation, Greenlaw,
3rd June 1834. Joined the Church of Scot
land in 1839 ; min. of West Greenlaw Chapel
1839-41 (cf. Vol. II., 20); app. in 1841.
Joined the Free Church in 1843, the only
Scots min. in the colony who did so; re
turned to Scotland in 1844 and died at
Broughty Ferry 3rd Nov. 1882. He marr.
Susannah Elizabeth Hammond.
ST CLEMENT'S.
BARNHILL, WILLIAM, M.A., B.D.
(cf. Vol. III., 225) ; formerly min. of East
Strathaven Chapel, Avendale ; adm. here
1879 ; died 22nd Oct. 1883.
BUCHANAN, ANDREW, arrived here
in 1839 ; died same year.
CAMPBELL, PATRICK, M.A., app.
missionary at Supenaam in 1842 ; adm. to
this charge Jan. 1845 ; res. 1848 ; adm. to
Killearnan (q.v.) 27th July that year.
COSSOU, MORTIMER ALOYSIUS
a native of the colony ; educated locally
app. catechist at Christianburg in 1910 and
ord. there 1914 ; app. to this charge in 1920
Marr. Gertrude, daugh. of W. P. Phillips
Government officer.
GRAHAM, WILLIAM, came to tin
colony as assistant at St Andrew's Church
in 1832 ; app. to this charge in 1840 ; die '
1842.
HARPER, GEORGE, app. to this charg
in 1857 ; res. 1861.
HUSKIE, JAMES, app. to this charge
in 1861 ; trans, to St Saviour's in 1879 (q.v.).
MACGILL, STEVENSON, trans, from
rrenada to this charge Sept. 1913 ; trans,
o St Saviour's May 1920.
PETRIE, GEORGE, M.A., B.D. (cf.
ol. VI., 226); ord. 31st July, and arrived
sept. 1904; dem. in 1913; returned to
cotland and adm. to Kininmonth, Aber-
eenshire, 29th March 1918.
RIACH, ALEXANDER, app. to this
harge 13th March 1849 ; died 1855.
SPEIRS, JAMES, born Ayrshire, edu-
ated at Univ. of Glasgow ; was sometime
, teacher; ord. in 1884; died 23rd April
904.
ST DAVID'S.
JEFFREY, J. E. A., ord. in 1896.
ST JAMES'S.
BILES, CHARLES ERNEST, born
Gosport, Hants, 22nd Sept. 1883 ; educated
at St Thomas's School, Elnon, and Clayton
Training College, North London. Joined
the Salvation Army, and served at various
centres in the West Indies, 1905 - 21.
Joined the Church of Scotland and served
on probation here Nov. 1921 to May 1922 ;
ord. min. of this parish May 1922.
BINNIE, JAMES MONTGOMERY,
M.A. (cf. Vol. VII., 301) ; ord. 26th Oct.
1906 ; res. in 1917 ; returned to Scotland
and adm. to Unst, Shetland, 25th Sept.
1917.
CRUICKSHANK, JOHN, born 1863;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow; M.A. (1885);
sometime a teacher in Edinburgh; app.
to St Louis, Mauritius, 1894; dem. 1895;
app. here 1896 ; drowned in a boat accident
while crossing to Wakenaam from Great
Troolie Island, 15th Dec. 1905. He marr.
Catherine Pont, Edinburgh, who died in
1923, and had issue— four children.
DYETT, ALFRED E., B.D. ; app. here
in 1918 ; trans, to St Saviour's May 1921.
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677
GRAY, ROBERT [called George in
Duff's Notes], app. to this charge in 1853 ;
left same year.
HARPER, WILLIAM, educated at Univ.
of St Andrews ; M.A. ; ord. April 1868 ;
died 8th Aug. 1887.
M'LELLAN, ALEXANDER, app. to
this charge May 1862 ; died 17th May 1868.
McPHION, PETER, second son of Peter
M., merchant, Glasgow ; educated at Univ.
of Glasgow ; arrived in 1830 ; left in 1852,
and died in England that year.
MATTHEWS, ALEXANDER, educated
at Univ. of St Andrews ; app. to this
charge in 1860 ; died Feb. 1862.
MUIR, JAMES (cf. Vol. III., 256),
formerly min. of Greengairs ; adm. to St
George's, Grenada, 1884 ; trans, to this
charge in 1887 ; died at Georgetown, 5th
Dec. 1892.
RAE, JAMES, adm. here from Grenada
in 1893 ; trans, to St Saviour's in 1895.
WALLIS, JAMES, min. here 1854-9;
trans, to St Mary's in 1860.
ST LUKE'S.
FERGUSSON, ALEXANDER, app. to
this charge in 1856; res. 1868 [afterwards
chaplain to Aberdeen Infirmary (q.v.)].
FORBES, FRANCIS, born 27th Sept.
1804, son of Patrick F., min. of Old Machar ;
educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A.
(30th March 1821) ; trans, from St Saviour's
and adm. here in 1844 ; died 1855.
GUNN, ^NEAS, adm. min. of Park
Chapel, Sunderland, 18th May 1823; arrived
here 1825; died in 1830.
HAIG, WILLIAM, trans, from Grenada
(q.v.) and arrived here in 1837 ; died same
year.
M'LEAN, JOHN (cf. Vol. VII., 173),
formerly min. of Kilmuir, Skye ; adm. 10th
July 1922 ; returned to Scotland and adm.
to Strontian 2nd Sept. 1924.
MENZIES, ROBERT, born about 1799,
son of William M., woodworker, Glasgow ;
educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; arrived here
1837 ; app. to St Catherine's in 1838 ; dem.
1839 ; app. to this charge in 1840 ; died
1844. He marr., and had issue.
MILLAR, JAMES, ord. (by Presb. of
Glasgow) in 1890 ; res. (from ill-health)
1893 and went to British Columbia (q.v.) ;
returned to St Thomas's, British Guiana,
NIMMO, JAMES, educated at Univ. of
St Andrews ; app. by Colonial Committee
and ord. missionary in Canada 1866; app.
to St Luke's in 1868.
RAMSAY, JOHN A., trans, from St
Mark's and adm. in 1922.
RITCHIE, WILLIAM, app. in 1831;
res. 1837 ; became min. at Newmarket,
Canada, 1838. Joined the Church of
England 15th Nov. 1842 ; dep. by Presb. of
Toronto 28th Dec. following; Episcopal
min. at Georgina, Ontario, 1866. Marr.
May 1836, daugh. of Colonel Sibbald of
Whiterig.— [Croil's Report, 40.]
ROSS, FRANCIS ALLAN, trans, from
St Catherine's and adm. in 1880 ; res. 1892
[afterwards at Grenada (q.v.)].
WALLACE, JAMES BELL, born Port-
moak, Kinross-shire, llth April 1858, son
of Alexander W., farmer, and Christina
Greig; educated at Montrose Schools and
Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A. (1883) ; licen.
by Presb. of Meigle in 1889 ; assistant at
Auchinleck; ord. April 1893; died 7th
Aug. 1921. He marr. 2nd Feb. 1894, Eliza
Chrystal, granddaugh. of James Chrystal,
D.D., LL.D., min. of Auchinleck, and had
issue— Moira Greig, born 15th Dec. 1894
(marr. 29th April 1916, Harold Laird
Stirling) ; Ethel Finlay, born 8th Feb. 1896
(marr. 25th April 1918, Frank Alexander
Mackay).
WILSON, AUGUSTUS FORBES, 1879.
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ST MARK'S.
CAMPBELL, JAMES ALLEN, a min.
from the Wesleyan Church who joined the
Church of Scotland; app. in 1891; died 1903.
A man of character and ability and much
interested in education. He rebuilt the
church and school.
COLTART, ROBERT, from Abbotshall,
Kirkcaldy ; educated at Univ. of St
Andrews; adm. 7th Feb. 1839; died 22nd
June 1840. His death was a great blow
to the community amongst whom he had
laboured indefatigably. His widow and
children, left in almost destitute circum
stances, were assisted by contributions from
all the parishes in the colony.— [Mansfield's
St Mark's, 16-19.]
DUFF, ROBERT, M.A. ; min. of St
Mary's ; exchanged charges with Andrew
Easton 2nd Nov. 1845 ; trans, to All Saints'
1854.
EASTON, ANDREW, ord. May 1845 ;
exchanged charges with Robert Duff, St
Mary's, 2nd Nov. that year.
GLADSTONE, WILLIAM, assistant at
St Andrew's, British Guiana; app. to this
charge Oct. 1836 ; died Nov. that year.
[HAMILTON, ROBERT KERR, M.A. ;
app. 27th May 1838, but declined [after
wards min. of Saltoun (q.v.)]].
KENNISON [or KINNISON], JOHN,
app. in 1856 ; trans, to All Saints' Dec.
1865. He rendered noble service during
the cholera epidemic of 1857.
MACKIE, JAMES, M.A., formerly min.
of Buckie (cf. Vol. VI., 281) ; app. in 1875 ;
died of fever 14th April 1876. He was an
elderly man at his appointment. " He was
very persistent and would not be advised
against the habit of walking several miles
in the midday sun. A pious man, but
apparently he thought more of the expense
of keeping a waggon than of his health." —
[Mansfield's St Mark's, 38.]
MAITLAND, DAVID, educated at Univ.
of St Andrews ; app. by Colonial Com
mittee 1st Oct. 1866 ; died 18th Feb. 1875,
after a ministry of great and abundant
usefulness.— [Mansfield's St Mark's, 37.]
MANSFIELD, JOHN, had charge of
St Stephen's Chapel in St Andrew's Parish
for twenty-six years ; ord. 1894 ; app. here
llth Jan. 1904; died 1914. Publication—
St Mark's Parish, British Guiana : Brief
Sketch of its History [with Mildred Mans
field] (Edinburgh, n.d.).
RAMSAY, JOHN A., a native of
Georgetown ; educated for the ministry
and ord. in America; returned to the
colony in 1918 ; adm. here 1919 ; trans, to
St Luke's 1922.
ROBB, GEORGE, app. in 1877; res.
1879.
SIMSON, ALEXANDER, app. first min.
here in Sept. 1826 ; died Sept. 1830, aged 28.
—[Mansfield's St Mark's, 5-ll.J
STEWART, DONALD, arrived 29th
April 1831 ; died in seven months.
STEWART, WILLIAM, born Kenmore;
min. at Gait, Canada, 1832-4; adm. 9th
Dec. 1836 ; died before 27th May 1838.
STRUTHERS, GEORGE, formerly min.
at Horton and Cornwallis, Nova Scotia;
adm. July 1832; returned to Nova Scotia
July 1835 (q.v.}.
TRAIN, JOSEPH, ord. assistant at St
Andrew's, British Guiana; app. to this
charge Sept. 1840; died 28th Aug. 1841.
TROTMAN, THOMAS, trans, from St
Thomas's in 1880 ; went to England on
leave, and died 1891. [At his appointment
the parish was considered too unhealthy
for a white man and he and incumbents
thereafter were all men of colour.]
WATTS, JOHN, from U.S.A.; app.
missionary at Supenaam, Essequibo, 25th
Jan. 1841 ; ord. to this charge 3rd Sept.
that year ; died April 1845.— [Mansfield's
St Mark's, 20-3 ; Tombst.].
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679
ST MARY'S.
DICKSON, J. RICHARDS, formerly
rain, of the Wesleyan Church. Joined the
Church of Scotland and app. to this charge
Nov. 1861 ; died June 1896.
DUFF, ROBERT, M.A. ; app. Sept.
1841 ; exchanged charges with succeeding
min. Nov. 1845.
E ASTON, ANDREW, educated at Univ.
of St Andrews ; app. to St Mark's in 1845,
but exchanged charges with preceding min.
that year ; died Nov. 1859.
LILLIE, GORDON, app. to this charge
in 1861 ; died 1874.
MACNIE, ROBERT LAMOND, ord.
(by Presb. of Paisley) Dec. 1896 ; adm. here
Feb. 1897 ; trans, to St Andrew's Nov.
1909.
M'DONALD, ALEXANDER, educated
at King's College, Aberdeen ; app. to this
charge in 1838 ; died 1841.
M'INTOSH, DONALD, educated
at King's College, Aberdeen ; arrived 1829;
died 1837.
STEPHEN, CHARLES, M.A. ; adm.
21st March 1910 ; dem. 1920. (See under
Grenada.)
WALLIS, JAMES, formerly min. of
Woodside, Aberdeen (cf. Vol. VI., 42, where
St Mark's should be St Mary's) ; trans,
from St James's in 1860; res. Aug. 1861;
went to New Zealand, where he held
charges (q.v.).
(Parish vacant 1927.)
ST SAVIOUR'S.
ANDERSON, ANDREW H., born
Earnbank, Kinkell ; licen. by Presb. of
Glasgow 9th June 1880 ; formerly min. of
St Andrew's Church, Nanaimo, British
Columbia; app. in 1887. During his in
cumbency the parish church, a large and
substantial modern structure, caught fire
at a communion service, and was com
pletely destroyed. No lives were lost,
but A.'s exertions in raising money for
a new building erected within two years
shortened his life. He marr. 23rd Sept.
1925, Elizabeth Kay Brown, M.B., Ch.B.,
only daugh. of John Lockie, Pulachan,
Belnachantery.
BARBOUR, JOHN, app. to this charge
in July, and died Sept. 1861.
DYETT, ALFRED E., born Montserrat,
British West Indies, 3rd Nov. 1871 ; edu
cated at Lincoln College and Yale Univ.,
U.S.A.; B.D. (1912); ord. min. of Sangre
Grande Presbyterian Church, Trinidad,
1912 ; app. to St James's, British Guiana,
1918 ; trans, and adm. May 1921. Marr.
(1) April 1913, Jane Maria Antrobus, who
died 1926 : (2) 1927, Mary Jones.
FORBES, FRANCIS, arrived 1837;
trans, to St Luke's in 1845.
HUSKIE, JAMES, born Carron Hall,
Larbert, 26th Feb. 1826, son of James H.
and Elisabeth Gillon ; educated at High
School and Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen. by
Presb. of Stirling 26th Nov. 1850 ; assistant
at North Leith and West Church, Stirling ;
ord. (by Presb. of Stirling) to St Clement's
in 1861 ; trans, to this charge in 1879 ;
res. 1884 ; died at Moffat 15th Sept. 1905.
He marr. 1861, Mary Elliot Firth, and had
issue— James, M.B., C.M., Blundelsands,
Liverpool, born 9th Jan. 1863; David, M.A.,
M.B., C.M., F.R.C.P., Provost of Moffat,
born 30th March 1864 ; Elisabeth, born 4th
Dec. 1865 (marr. Frank Auguste Mariette
schoolmaster, St Albans, Lyme Regis).
M'CLELLAND, JOHN, missionary at
Supenaam, Essequibo ; app. in 1845 ; left
1847.
M'CULLOCH, GEORGE (cf. Vol. V.,
1 19), formerly min. of Thornton ; arrived
1855; res. 1860; died at Glasgow, 24th
Oct. 1861.
MACGILL, STEVENSON, born 19th
April 1876, son of Henry M., min. of North-
esk, and brother of John Whyte M., min.
of All Saints'; educated privately and at
Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of
Dalkeith 7th May 1909; assistant at
Methil ; app. by Colonial Committee to
Scots Church, Grenada, and ord. (by Presb.
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of Kirkcaldy) 10th Aug. 1910; trans, to
St Clement's Sept. 1913 ; trans, to this
charge May 1920; died at Auchlyne
Manse, Berbice, 31st Jan. 1921. He marr.
Helen (s.p.\ daugh. of Lewis Frederick
Armitage, min. of St Leonard's, Edinburgh.
M'GUFFIE, JOHN (cf. Vol. II., 344),
formerly min. of Sheuchan; adm. here in
1862 ; returned to Scotland and adm. to
Lochryan 13th March 1878.
RAE, JAMES, trans, from St James's
Dec. 1895; res. 1918; adm. to North Yell,
Shetland, 14th Sept. 1922 (q.v.).
SHAW, JOHN G., ord. assistant at
St Andrew's, British Guiana, 1844 ; app.
in 1849 ; died 1853.
ST THOMAS'S.
AIKEN, JAMES, M.A. ; app. to St
Catherine's, Berbice, and adm. 26th June
1904 ; trans, and adm. 1st Dec. 1914 ; adm.
to St James's, Forfar, 8th Feb. 1917 (cf.
Vol. V., 288) ; trans, to Livingstone 1928.
GARDEN, FRANCIS (cf. Vol. VI.,
182), formerly min. of Premnay, Aberdeen-
shire ; adm. here March 1918 ; res. Aug.
that year and went to U.S.A.
JARDINE, FRANCIS, arrived in 1876 ;
died 1877.
MARSHALL, DAVID, arrived Nov.
1921.
MILLAR, JAMES, app. min. of St
Luke's in 1890 ; res. and served some years
in British Columbia ; returned here early
in 1896 ; died 1914, immediately on his
return from a holiday in Scotland. He
marr. (1) a lady who died at Glasgow in
1900: (2) Hannah Gibson Shannon, who
died 1920.
ROBERTSON, WILLIAM (cf. Vol. III.,
371), formerly min. of Elder's Chapel,
Havannah, Glasgow; became assistant at
St Andrew's, Demerara, April 1872; app.
first min. here that year; res. 1875; adm.
to Banton 18th Feb. 1876.
STEPHEN, GEORGE, assistant in
Presb. of Hamilton ; app. in 1880 ; res.
1895 ; died in England.
TROTMAN, THOMAS, formerly min.
of the Wesleyan Church in the colony ;
app. in 1878 ; trans, to St Mark's 1880.
ARGENTINA.
BUENOS AIRES, ETC.
[British merchants established themselves
at Buenos Aires in the early years of the
nineteenth century. While their chief
object was commerce, many of them invested
in large tracts of land, and thus felt a lively
concern in the pastoral and agricultural
interests of the country. In 1825 the inde
pendence of the Argentine Republic was
recognised by Great Britain. An agricultural
colony, projected by John and William
Parish Robertson (natives of Kelso), brought
out a number of settlers from various parts
of Scotland to a place called Monte Grande,
some fifteen miles from Buenos Aires, where
they arrived on 8th August 1825, after
seventy-eight days at sea. They soon took
measures to obtain a minister and school
master. On the recommendation of Thomas
Chalmers, D.D., William Brown (infra) was
ordained by Presb. of Glasgow, and towards
the end of 1826 proceeded to his destina
tion. But within three years the country was
plunged in civil war, the colony collapsed,
and its founders were involved in ruin.
The first Presbyterian minister in Buenos
Aires was a Mr Parvin, agent for the North
American Bible Society. He set up a
printing-press and opened a place of wor
ship, the Scots in his congregation predomi
nating. On 22nd Dec. 1828 the Scottish
Presbyterians met with the view of securing
the permanent services of a minister of the
Church of Scotland. A coalition was
arranged between them and the Monte
Grande congregation, and on 15th March
1829, a temporary chapel was leased, with
William Brown as minister. On 25th
April 1835, St Andrew's, the first Scottish
National Church in South America, was
opened. This was demolished in 1893, and
replaced by the present handsome edifice,
opened 10th April 1896.
ARGENTINA
681
St John's Church, Quilmes, was opened
on 18th Feb. 185"): St Andrew's Church,
Chascomus, built in 1857, was replaced by
a new structure opened 10th Nov. 1872.
Tin iv are Chapels at Jcppener, Barracas,
and Bahia Blanca.]
BARRETT, A. DE, 1915-18.
BELL, ARCHIBALD, M.A., licen.
by Presb. of Edinburgh in 1920 ; app.
assistant Northern Suburbs, Buenos Aires,
1921 ; adm. to Kelvinhaugh, Glasgow, 1st
Nov. 1927.
BROWN, WILLIAM, D.D., was induced
by Thomas Chalmers, D.D., to undertake
a mission to Buenos Aires, with the view of
establishing a Presbyterian church and
colony. He arrived in 1826 and commenced
a small mission scheme in the country dis
tricts. Returned home in 1850 and became
Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criticism
in St Mary's College, St Andrews (q.v.}.
BRUCE, DOUGLAS WILLIAM, M.A.
(c/. Vol. V., 313); formerly min. of St
Stephen's, Broughty Ferry; app. to St
Andrew's Church, Buenos Aires, 1926.
CAMERON, JOHN STUART, M.A.,
B.D., town assistant, 1915-16, and ord.
camp assistant, Buenos Aires, 9th April
1916; dem. 1918; afterwards min. of
St Clement's, Aberdeen (q.v.); trans, to
Springburn, Glasgow, 17th May 1926.
CLARK, JOHN YOUNG, born Cam-
buslang 22nd Dec. 1882, son of Robert C.
and Ann Young ; educated at Kirkhill and
Cambuslang Schools and at Univ. of Glas
gow ; licen. by Presb. of Hamilton in 1920 ;
ord. 12th April that year for camp work ;
town assistant, Buenos Aires, 1921-3 ; adm.
to Laurieston, Glasgow, 3rd June 1924 ;
trans, to Inch, Wigtownshire, 23rd Sept.
1926. Marr. 2nd Oct. 1919, Edith Graham,
daugh. of William Abercrombie and Mar
garet Edith Simms.
FERGUSON, MARTIN PATERSON,
born 16th June 1826, son of John F.,
merchant, Kilmarnock, and Elizabeth Muir;
became missionary at Innellan (cf. Vol. IV.,
25) ; ord. to Chascomus 30th Sept. 1862 ;
died 2nd Sept. 1906. He marr. Margaret
(died 21st Sept. 1869), daugh. of Peter
Mansell Schmidt and Catherine Daws,
and had issue— Elizabeth Muir, born 9th
Oct. 1865 (marr.—— Horrocks); Augusta
Schmidt, born llth Dec. 1867 (marr.
— Clarke).
FLEMING, JAMES WILLIAM, born
Ballindalloch, Inveraven, 28th Aug. 1855,
son of John F. and Ann Gardiner ; educated
at Inveraven School and Univs. of Aber
deen, M.A. (1876), and Edinburgh, B.D.
(1879); licen. by Presb. of Aberlour 15th
June 1879; ord. for service in India 5th
July that year, but did not proceed there ;
assistant, Scots Church, Buenos Aires,
1879-82 ; app. assistant and successor 1st
Nov. 1882; adm. to full charge 1st May
1883; D.D. (Aberdeen 1910), O.B.E. (1st
Jan. 1920); died 14th June 1925. His
powers of organisation and commanding
personality gained for him a foremost place
in the British community of the Argentine.
The Scots school at Buenos Aires, the
St Andrew's Society of the River Plate
and the British Hospital owed much to his
wise guidance. He was described as the
first British citizen in the Republic. He
marr. 29th July 1879, Elizabeth Ann, daugh.
of Hugh M'Diarmid, D.D., rain, of Callander,
and had issue— Ruth Christine M'Diarmid,
born 17th April 1881 ; Hugo John Grant,
born 16th Sept. 1882, died 5th March 1888 ;
Marjorie, born 18th Jan. 1884 (marr. 14th
June 1911, James Francis Dimalow ; Roy
Stewart, born 14th June 1891, died
24th July 1892. Publications— Occasional
Sermons and Lectures.— [Dodd's Records
of the Scottish Settlers on the River Plate
and their Churches (portrait), 401.]
FORBES, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS,
M.A.; town assistant, Buenos Aires, 1906-8
"afterwards min. of Murroes (q.v.)].
GEBBIE, FRANCIS, born Galston,
Ayrshire, 3rd May 1831, fourth son of
John G., farmer, and Ellen Smith; educated
at Kilmarnock Academy and Univ. of
Glasgow; licen. by Presb. of Ayr 13th
Aug. 1856 ; assistant at Kilsyth, 1856-7 ;
ord. to St John's Church, Quilmes, and
adm. 15th Feb. 1857 ; dem. 1883 ; died at
Edinburgh 16th Dec. 1918. He marr. 20th
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July 1869, Helen (died at Edinburgh 13th
July ] 894), daugh. of Thomas Robson, and
had issue— Francis John, B.Sc.(Edin.), C.E.,
born 30th May 1870 ; Frederick St John,
engineer, I.C.S., born 7th Aug. 1871 :
Thomas St John, insurance manager,
Buenos Aires, born 30th Sept. 1872 ; Helen
St John, born llth June 1874 (marr. —
Ewen, Reigate, Surrey); Wilfrid St John,
banker, born June 1876, died at East
London, South Africa, 23rd Jan. 1908;
Oswald St John, born 9th Feb. 1878;
Dora May St John, born 23rd May 1882,
died at Edinburgh 28th Nov. 1889.
GILLESPIE, WILLIAM MURDOCH,
born Girvan, Ayrshire, 26th July 1882, son
of James G. and Margaret Murdoch; edu
cated at Girvan School, Univs. of London
and Chicago; (LL.B., D.C.L.) ; licen.
(by Bishop of London) 20th March 1903 ;
assistant St Andrew's Episcopal Church,
Manchester; ord. there 13th May 1906;
went to South America and joined the
Presbyterian Church; min. of the Scots
Church, Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Professor of
Latin, Mackenzie Univ. there, 1915-20 ;
min. at Chascomus and Bahia Blanca,
Argentina, 1920-7; dem. and resident at
Gretna 1927. Marr. June 1914, Helen,
daugh. of Jeptha Harrison, and has issue-
Donald, born 27th Oct. 1918. Publication
— Editor of The Pathfinder [Magazine of
Southern Scottish Churches in Argentina]
(1921-4). — [Buenos Aires Standard, 15th
June 1927.]
HILL, ALEXANDER TAYLOR (cf.
Vol. II., 350), ord. (by Presb. of Glasgow)
itinerating missionary, Buenos Aires, 22nd
June 1902; dem. 1907; afterwards min. of
Old Luce ; dem. that charge 1926.
HOWELL, ALEXANDER RUTHER
FORD, M.A. ; app. town assistant, Buenos
Aires, 1895-7 [afterwards min. of Second
Charge, Paisley Abbey (q.v.)].
LAING, WILLIAM MACKIE, M.A.,
town assistant, Buenos Aires, 1914-16
[afterwards of Valparaiso (q.v.)].
MACCOLL, NEIL HUGH, born 1883,
son of Angus M., Torloisk, Mull, and Mar
garet M'Lennan ; ord. itinerating chaplain
in Argentina 8th March 1908 ; app. to Pata
gonia in 1912 ; res. 1915; returned to Buenos
Aires and was camp assistant, 1918-19 ;
locum tenens in 1919 ; town assistant,
1923-6 ; locum tenens (during vacancy)
1925-6 ; resident in Glasgow in 1928.
MACDONALD, ALEXANDER, town
assistant, Buenos Aires, 1889 [afterwards
at Otautau, New Zealand].
MACDONALD, DONALD, M.A. ; town
assistant, Buenos Aires, 1916-20; ord. to
Benbecula 12th Dec. 1923 (q.v.) ; trans, to
Killean and Kilchenzie 29th Dec. 1926.
MACDONALD, HECTOR KENNEDY,
born Shurrery, Caithness, 10th Nov. 1900,
son of Charles M., min. of Appin ; educated
at Oban High School and Univ. of Edin
burgh ; M.A. (1921); licen. by Presb. of
Edinburgh 7th May 1924; assistant at
St George's, Edinburgh ; ord. for service in
Argentina 5th April 1925 ; app. camp
assistant, Buenos Aires, 7th May that year.
MACINNES, ALISDAIR ROBERT
ELLIS, born 1898, son of Alexander M.,
B.D., Ph.D., min. of U.F. Church, Kirk
liston ; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ;
served in army ; licen. by U.F. Presb. of
Bathgate, 12th April 1926 ; assistant Larbert
and Buenos Aires 1927 ; adm. licentiate
26th May 1927.
M'INTYRE, J., app. to Bahia Blanca
1897.
MACKENZIE, CHARLES GORDON,
M.A., B.D. ; town assistant, Buenos Aires,
1899-1902 [afterwardsmin.of Methlick(?.v.)]
MACKENZIE, PERCIVAL, town
assistant, Buenos Aires, 1911-12 [afterwards
of Dulwich, London (q.v.)].
MACNEILL, JOHN HENRY
HORTON, M.A., B.D.; app. town assistant,
Buenos Aires, 1897-9 [afterwards chaplain
in India (q.v.)].
M'NEILL, LACHLAN (cf. Vol. III.,
182), formerly min. of St Columba's Gaelic
Church, Paisley, born 22nd April 1834,
ARGENTINA
683
third son of Lachlan M., farmer, Kilmun,
and Jane Black; educated at Univs. of
Glasgow and St Andrews ; became mission
ary among Scottish settlers on the Banda
Oriental, Republic of Uruguay, 1866-77;
adm. min. of St John's, Florencio, Varela,
Quilmes, and Jeppener churches, Buenos
Aires, 1883 ; died at Bournemouth, 18th
Dec. 1917. He marr. llth Aug. 1869,
Emma Agnes Gordon, who died 3rd Dec.
1907, and had issue — Hilda Gordon ; a son
died 1877.— [Dodd's Records of the Scottish
Settlers on the River Plate and their
Churches (portrait), 340-6 [contains an
account of his work in Uruguay].
MACPHAIL, DONALD, M.A. ; app.
town assistant, Buenos Aires, 1919-21
[afterwards min. of Lochcarron (q.v.)].
MACPHERSON, PETER, M.A. ; town
assistant, Buenos Aires, 1919-20; camp
assistant, 1920-1 [afterwards in South
Africa].
M'RURY, DONALD ARCHIBALD,
born 29th December 1902, son of John M.,
min. of Snizort ; educated at George
Watson's College and Univ. of Edinburgh ;
M.A. (1924) ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh
May 1927; ordained (by that Presb.) 10th
July 1927 for service in Argentina and
app. assistant Scots Church, Buenos Aires.
MARTIN, ROBERT JOHN VICTOR,
M.A., B.D. ; min. of Alvah ; camp assistant,
Buenos Aires, 1924-5.
MASTERTON, ROBERT SHAW, M.A.;
town assistant, Buenos Aires, 1902-4 [after
wards min. of Rosemarkie (q.v.)].
MENTEITH, WILLIAM NEVE, B.A.,
B.D. ; town assistant, Buenos Aires, 1904-6
[afterwards min. of Elie (q.v.)].
NICOL, DAVID BRUCE, M.C., M.A.,
B.D.; town assistant, Buenos Aires, 1908-10
[afterwards min. of Skelmorlie (q.v.)]; trans,
to St Mark's, Dundee, 18th Dec. 1925.
NICOLL, PETER HILL, M.A., B.D.;
app. in 1912 ; ord. assistant at St Andrew's,
Buenos Aires, Jan. 1914; dem. 1916; adm.
min. of Abbey, Arbroath (q.v.) 30th April
1919 ; adm. to All Saints', British Guiana,
1923 ; dem. 1927.
PORTEOUS, DAVID JOHN MOIR,
M.A., B.D. ; town assistant, Buenos Aires,
1890-2 ; locum tenens, Buenos Aires, 1902
[afterwards min. of Port-Glasgow (q.v.)].
ROBERTSON, CHARLES, M.A., B.D. ;
town assistant, Buenos Aires, 1884-5 [after
wards of Fearn] (q.v.).
SMITH, JAMES, born Foulis-Wester,
1825, only son of Thomas S. ; educated at
Univ. of Glasgow; B.A. (1844), M.A. (1845);
licen. by Presb. of Glasgow in 1849; assistant
at Buenos Aires 1850; app. by Lord
Palmerston May 1851; D.D. (Glasgow
1883); died 9th Oct. 1906. He was a
tower of strength to Presbyterianism in
the Argentine and was everywhere known
as "Padre." He marr. 1851 Matilda
Flatten, who died 10th Sept. 1868, and
had issue— Louisa Janet, born 28th Sept.
1852; Matilda Flatten, born 26th May
1855. — [Dodd's Records of the Scottish
Settlers on the River Plate and their
Churches (portrait), 232 et seq.]
STEELE, JOHN AULAY, M.A. ; town
assistant, Buenos Aires, 1910-11 [afterwards
min. of Mannofield, Aberdeen (q.v.); trans,
to St Vincent, Glasgow, 17th June 1926].
STRONG, WILLIAM BAILLIE, M.A.,
B.D., min. of Glencorse (q.v.) and locum
tenens at Buenos Aires in 1889.
TAYLOR, JAMES S., M.A., town
assistant, Buenos Aires, 1926.
TAYLOR, THOMAS EDWARD, M.A.,
B.L. ; town assistant, Buenos Aires, 1894-5
[afterwards missionary at Darjeeling,
India (q.v.)].
WANDS, VICTOR WILLIAM; ord.
16th Dec. 1921 ; app. to Nyasaland in 1924
(q.v.); res. 1925 [afterwards min. of Garvald,
East Lothian, 14th April 1926].
WILLIAMS, JOHN HUTCHEON,
M.A.; town assistant, Buenos Aires, 1912-15
[afterwards min. of West Church, Fraser-
burgh (q.v.)].
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SOUTH AMERICA— CHILE— PATAGONIA— PERU
WILLIAMSON, EDMUND EDWAED,
M.A. ; ord. to Chascomus 25th June 1903
[afterwards min. of Shurrery (q.v.)].
WILSON, WILLIAM LYALL, M.A. ;
town assistant, Buenos Aires, 1892-4 [after
wards min. of St Cuthbert's, Edinburgh (q.v.)].
CHILE.
VALPARAISO (UNION CHURCH).
[David Trumbull, D.D., a graduate of
Yale College and theological student at
Princeton (who claimed descent from John
Alden and the "Puritan maiden Priscilla"
of Longfellow's Courtship of Miles Standish)
landed on Christmas Day 1845 at Valparaiso,
after a voyage from America of more than
130 days. He had offered himself to the
Foreign Evangelical Society of the United
States, and at their request had gone to
conduct services in Spanish and English on
board the ships in the Bay. In 1847, in
response to an application from Scottish and
English residents at Valparaiso to the New
London County Association in the State of
Connecticut, a congregation was organised
on 5th Sept., fifteen persons being present.
In 1855 a church was erected. Objections
taken by the Romanist authorities that the
establishment of such a congregation was
an infringement of Article Five of the
Constitution of the Republic of Chile led
to the imprisonment of the builder, who
was soon released. It became necessary,
however, to hide the edifice behind a high
barricade. In 1869 the present place of
worship in Calle Condell was built, the
Chilian Congress having declared in favour
of religious liberty for all]
AITKEN, JAMES, M.A., 1894-6.
COLLINS, THOMAS, formerly min. of
the Free Church, Bonhill ; served in 1893.
DODGE, WILLIAM E., afterwards of
the First Presbyterian Church, Montecito,
California. His book El Devocionario is
widely used in Chile.
GRAY, JAMES, ord. min. of the Free
Church of Scotland ; dem. and resident in
Petersham, Surrey.
INGLIS, WILLIAM BALFOUR, M.A.,
B.D., formerly min. of the Free Church,
Foveran ; app. in 1896 ; res. 1919.
LAING, WILLIAM MACKIE, born
Menstrie, 2nd Nov. 1889, son of William L.
and Mary Anne Mackie ; educated at
Stirling High School and Univs. of St
Andrews, M.A. (1911), and Edinburgh;
licen. by Presb. of Dunblane in 1914 ;
assistant at Buenos Aires, 1914-16; ord.
August 1916 chaplain to Forces; adm. to
Ladykirk 13th May 1919; app. to Union
Church, Valparaiso, 8th Nov. 1920. Marr.
23rd Nov. 1921, Alice Irene, daugh. of
Adolphus Frederick Walbaum and Irene
Delano, and has issue— William Frederick,
born 12th Dec. 1922; Alice Mary, born
23rd Dec. 1923 ; Jean Walbaum, born 30th
April 1926.
TRUMBULL, DAVID, D.D., min. for
forty-two years ; died 1889.
PATAGONIA.
MACCOLL, NEIL HUGH, app. to
Patagonia in 1912; res. 1915. (See under
Argentina.)
MARSHALL, JAMES, M.A., B.D. (cf.
Vol. V., 48), formerly min. of Rosyth
Mission, Inverkeithing ; app. to Patagonia
in 1924; res. 1926.
PERU.
CALLAO.
YOUNG, JAMES ; app. in 1858.
FOREIGN MISSIONARIES
[Alphabetical List of Ordained Foreign Missionaries of the Church of
Scotland from 1822 to 1928.]
[A discussion in the General Assembly of 1796 on the subject of Foreign Missions
concluded with a resolution, by fifty-nine votes to forty-five, that the time was unfavour
able for the General Assembly adopting any particular measure in regard to missionary
work, but " that they will embrace with zeal and thankfulness any future opportunity of
contributing by their exertions to the propagation of the Gospel of Christ which Providence
may hereafter open." In that same year there were founded two Societies— the Scottish
(later called the Edinburgh) Missionary Society, and a similar Society in Glasgow, both
undenominational. Under the auspices of the first-mentioned, Peter Greig, from Donibristle,
Inverkeithing, undertook a mission to Sierra Leone, where, shortly afterwards, he was
murdered by the natives of the Fulha country. The same Society commenced a mission
(under Henry Brunton) to the Tartar tribes at Karass, in the Caucasus. This mission was
abandoned on account of interference from the Eussian Government. India and Jamaica
became their next fields. In 1835 those missions were transferred to the Church of
Scotland, and the Society passed out of separate existence. The Glasgow Society confined
its operations to Kaffraria, where a mission was established in 1821, the work eventually
passing to the Free and United Presbyterian Churches. In 1822, Donald Mitchell (infra)
was sent to India by the Scottish Missionary Society. In 1824 the General Assembly
resolved to undertake Foreign Mission work as an integral part of the work of the Church.
This decision was arrived at largely as the result of a commanding appeal from James
Bryce, D.D., chaplain at Calcutta (<•/. Vol. VI., 112). John Inglis, D.D., min. of Greyfriars,
Edinburgh, was appointed Convener of the first Foreign Mission Committee, but it was
not until five years afterwards that Alexander Duff (infra) was commissioned to India.
^India.— In 1837, a College, known as the General Assembly's Institution, was opened
at Calcutta, and had a continuous record of success. Dr Duff joined the Free Church in
1843, building a new Institution (after his death called Duff College) in connection with
his denomination. On 1st June 1908, the whole of the work at Calcutta was amalgamated
with that of the United Free Church, under the name of the Scottish Churches Mission.
The separate Colleges of the two Churches became the Scottish Churches College, the
largest missionary institution in India, with a normal staff of twelve Professors appointed
equally by the two Churches. In 1835 a station was opened by John Wilson (infra) at
Bombay, and continued until 1864, when it was considered advisable to transfer operations
to Poona, in the same Presidency. In 1836 a Mission was founded by John Anderson (infra)
at Madras, with a College similar to that at Calcutta. In 1911 this also was conjoined
with the Madras Christian College of the United Free Church. In 1900 a Mission was
began at Arkonam, forty-two miles distant from Madras. In 1857, the year of the Indian
Mutiny, there was inaugurated the Panjab Mission, under Thomas Hunter (infra), the
largest of the Church's Missions in India, having nine principal Stations— Sialkot and
District, Gujrat, Wazirabad, Daska, Youngsonabad, Jalalpur, and two in the Native
States of Jatnmu and Chamba. At Sialkot, the Murray College, opened 27th Oct. 1909
and named after Captain Murray, an old Panjab officer, is affiliated with the Panjab
University. In 1870 the Eastern Himalayan Mission was founded, comprising, in 1928,
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three divisions, each with its Headquarters and many out-stations : (1) Darjeeling and
Kurseong ; (2) Kalimpong and the Dooars, the special field of the Young Men's Guild and
Woman's Guild of the Church of Scotland ; (3) the Scottish Universities Mission, with a
Training College at Kalimpong and a Mission in Independent Sikkim, mainly supported
by the Missionary Associations of the four Scottish Universities. In 1843, with the
exception of one lady missionary, afterwards the wife of John Anderson, minister of
Culter, Lanarkshire (cf. Vol. I., 247), all the missionaries of the Church of Scotland joined
the Free Church. In 1903 there was formed the Presbyterian Church in India, uniting in
one Church the converts of the majority of the Presbyterian Missions in that Dependency.
Africa.— The Mission of the Church of Scotland in Africa was founded in 1876, in
Nyasaland, as a memorial of David Livingstone. Its Headquarters are at Blantyre, with
stations at Domasi, Mlanje, and Zomba, each with its European staff, besides fifteen
District Churches or Parishes. In 1913, work was extended into Lomweland, Portuguese
East Africa. In 1920 the Iringa Mission, Tanganyika Territory (formerly a German
Mission) was undertaken by the Church of Scotland. A Mission at Kikuyu, in Kenya
Colony, founded (at Kibwezi) by the Imperial British East Africa Chartered Company,
was transferred to the Church of Scotland in 1901 along with considerable tracts of land,
and an Endowment Fund of £38,000. In 1909 a station was opened at Tumu-Tumu on
the slopes of Mount Kenya. In 1926 a mission was opened at Chogoria, Kenya.
China.— In 1878 mission work was begun by George Cockburn (infra) at Ichang,
province of Hupeh, China, one thousand miles up the Yangtse from Shanghai. There is
an Institution for the Training of Native Workers, and extensive medical work is carried
on in a large and well-equipped hospital.]
AITKEN, JAMES, app. missionary
teacher at Poona, India, 1839, and arrived
6th April 1840. Joined the Free Church
in 1843; crd. by Presb. of Bombay 17th
July 1844; transferred to Sattara in 1850,
but returned to Bombay 1858 ; res. Oct.
1868 and became teacher in a Government
School at Berar, Central Provinces, where
he died 1870.— [Hunter's Hist, of F.C.
Missions, 281.]
ALEXANDER, JAMES FREDERICK,
born South Kensington, London, 12th
March 1882, son of Major James A. and
Augusta Marie Eck, and brother of John
Archibald A., missionary in Panjab, India,
and of Vincent Cassels A., min. of Rubis-
law; educated at Dulwich College, London,
and Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (1905);
licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh May 1908;
ord. (by same Presb.) to Nyasaland 7th
June that year; transferred to Domasi
1909-19, Zomba 1920. Marr. 29th Aug.
1917, Janet (Nita) Simson, daugh. of John
Brown, D.D., min. of Bellahouston. Publi
cation— Kulemekeza kwa Mulungu ["The
Worship of God," a devotional manual in
Manganja dialect (Central Africa)] (Edin
burgh, 1924).
ALEXANDER, JOHN ARCHIBALD,
born London 4th Jan. 1876, son of Major
James A. and Augusta Marie Eck, and
brother of James Frederick A. (above
mentioned), and of Vincent Cassels A.,
min. of Rubislaw; educated at Eton and
Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (1902); licen.
by Presb. of Edinburgh 4th May 1905;
ord. (by Presb. of Edinburgh) to Panjab
Mission (Jammu) 15th Oct. that year; at
Daska in 1927. Marr. 2nd Nov. 1909, Amy
Marion, daugh. of John Mackintosh, and
has issue — James Mackintosh, born 18th
Aug. 1910; John Cassels, born 28th Nov.
1912; Augusta Mary, born 14th Feb. 1914;
Elizabeth Marion Eck, born 18th Nov.
1915, died 1st April 1916 ; Edward Max
well, born 5th Nov. 1917, died 10th March
1918.
ANDERSON, ANDREW MELVILLE,
born Edinburgh, 6th Oct. 1875, son of
Henry A. and Elizabeth Lindsay; educated
at Daniel Stewart's College and Univ. of
Edinburgh; M.A. (1897); certificated
schoolmaster in 1899; licen. by Presb. of
Edinburgh 1902 ; ord. (by same Presb.) to
Nyasaland, 1st June that year ; trans
ferred to Iringa Mission, Tanganyika
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687
Territory, May 1920. Marr. (1) 22nd
March 1906, Annie (died 16th May 1918),
daugh. of John Farquhar and Jane Stewart,
and has issue — Elizabeth Lindsay, born
2nd Sept. 1908 : (2) 1st July 1920, Bathia
Findlay, daugh. of James Davidson and
Ikthia Findlay. Publications— Report of
Third General Missionary Conference of
Nyasaland (Blantyre Mission Press, 1910) ;
Book of the Fancy Fair (Zomba, 1918) ;
Victory and Peace (1919).
ANDERSON, GEORGE, ord. missionary
to Madras in 1863; served until 1865;
adra. min. of Carmylie (cf. Vol. V., 434),
23rd July 1869.
ANDERSON, JOHN, born at Craig
Farm, Kirkpatrick-Durham, 23rd May
1805, eldest son in a family of nine, his
father being blind ; educated at the Parish
School and Univ. of Edinburgh (which he
entered in his twenty -second year) ; during
part of this period he taught the Mariners'
School at Leith ; tutor in the family of
Alexander Cowan, Callander, and at
Troqueer Holm on the Nith ; licen. by
Presb. of Dumfries 3rd May 1836; offered
for service in India (impelled thereto
chiefly by Dr Duff's great missionary
address to the General Assembly) ; app.
by Foreign Mission Committee 28th June,
and ord. 13th July 1836; sailed in the
Scotia 13th Aug., arrived at Calcutta
27th Dec. and Madras 22nd Feb. 1837.
On 3rd April he took charge of St
Andrew's School (established by two
Scottish chaplains, Matthew Bowie and
George James Lawrie in 1835) beginning
his labours as a missionary with fifty-nine
Hindu boys and young men— the nucleus
of the Madras Christian College. Joined
the Free Church in 1843i; revisited Scotland
in 1849, when he was accompanied by the
Rev. P. Rajahgopaul, one of his first
converts ; returned Dec. 1850 ; died 25th
March 1855. His work for India was
entirely educational. He established schools
in various centres, and greatly helped by
his wife, devoted himself to the instruction
of native girls of all castes and creeds
giving special attention to those of higher
caste as being more difficult to draw within
Christian influences. Before his death
seven hundred Hindu and Mohammedan
girls were in attendance at his mission
schools. He marr. 29th Jan. 1847, Margaret
Locher (died s.p.), a Swiss lady from Zurich,
app. in 1845 missionary at Madras of the
Ladies' Association of the Church of Scot
land. She joined the Free Church April
1846. — [Braiclwood's True Yoke-Fellows in
the Indian Mission Field (portraits)
(London, 1862).]
ANDERSON, JOHN (cf. Vol. I., 247),
ord. missionary to Calcutta 12th Oct. 1846 ;
became min. of Culter, Lanarkshire, 27th
March 1863 ; died FATHER OF THE CHURCH
OF SCOTLAND 27th March 1922, aged 100
years.
ANDERSON, JOHN, born Roberton,
Roxburghshire, 20th July 1845, son of
Thomas A., schoolmaster, and Margaret
Dale ; educated at Roberton and Univ.
of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of Edin
burgh 1874; ord. (by Presb. of Edinburgh)
missionary to Darjeeling 8th July 1874 ;
res. (from ill-health) 1877 ; returned to
Scotland and engaged in literary work,
chiefly genealogical, assisting Sir William
Fraser in the compilation of his Family
Histories ; app. assistant curator of the
Historical Department, H.M. General
Register House, 1896; app. successor to
John Maitland Thomson, LL.D., as Curator
in 1906 ; died 3rd April 1911. A diligent
historical student, a man of fine scholar
ship, of courteous and gentle nature, and a
generous encourager in the field of local
antiquity and research. He marr. (1) Jessie
Thorburn, and had issue — Dora, died
young : (2) 1897, Mary Johnston, daugh. of
William Veitch, Depute-Clerk of Session,
and had issue— Elizabeth Mary (M.A.,
Edinburgh), Harrogate College, born 12th
Oct. 1898; Winifred Agnes (M.A., Edin
burgh), Secretary and House Tutor St
Bride's School, Helensburgh, born 5th
April 1900 ; John, engineer, Nigeria, born
16th Nov. 1902; William Veitch (twin),
born 16th Nov. 1902. Publications —
Calendar of the Laing Charters, A.D.
835-1837 (Edinburgh, 1899) ; Protocol Book
of Gavin Ross [with F. J. Grant] [Scot.
688
FOREIGN MISSIONARIES
Rec. Soc.] (Edinburgh, 1908) ; Protocol Book
of Sir Alexander Gaw [with William
Angus] [Scot. Rec. Soc.] (Edinburgh, 1910) ;
Contributions to the Scottish Peerage (Edin
burgh) ; Protocol Book of Sir William
Corbet [with William Angus] (Edinburgh,
1911).— [The Border Magazine, xvi., 104
(1911).]
ARTHUR, JOHN WILLIAM,
born Glasgow, 23rd April 1881, son of
John William A. and Margaret Dennistoun
Sloan; educated at Academy and Univ.
of Glasgow; M.B., Ch.B. '(1903); M.D.
(1906); app. medical missionary in 1906;
licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 16th May 1915,
and ord. to Kikuyu same date ; organised
and commanded the Kikuyu Carrier
Corps in German East Africa during
War, 1915-17; O.B.E. (1st Jan. 1920);
nominated unofficial member of the Legis
lative Council of Kenya to represent
African interests 1st May 1924. Marr. 16th
Sept. 1921, Evelyn Margaret, youngest
daugh. of James Coullie, min. of Pencait-
land [who died 25th June 1927], and has
issue— John William, born 15th Oct. 1922 ;
Caroline, born 1926.
BAILEY, THOMAS GRAHAME, born
India, 8th Sept. 1872, son of Wellesley Cosby
B., founder of Mission to Lepers in India
and the East, and Alice Grahame ; edu
cated at George Watson's College and Univ.
of Edinburgh; M.A. (1892), B.D. (1895),
D.Litt. (1920) ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh
May 1895 ; ord. (by Presb. of Edinburgh)
missionary to the Panjab 2nd June that
year; retired 1920 ; app. reader in Hindi and
Urdu, Univ. of London, School of Oriental
Studies, London. Marr. Agnes Bankier,
M.B., daugh. of Alexander Sloan, C.A.,
Glasgow [niece of John S., min. of Shaw-
lands (cf. Vol. III., 188), where the name
Rankin should be Bankier], and has issue —
Wellesley Grahame, born 7th Jan. 1915;
Winifred Agnes, born llth June 1917.
Publications — A Panjabi Grammar (Panjab,
1903); The Languages of the Northern
Himalayas [Roy. Asiat. Soc.] (London,
1905); Kanauri Vocabulary [Roy. Asiat.
Soc.] (London, 1908) ; Panjabi Manual
and Grammar (along with another) (Panjab,
1912) ; New Testament in Panjabi (Panjab,
1913) ; Panjabi Phonetic Reader (London,
1914); Genesis in Panjabi (Panjab, 1915);
Linguistic Studies from the Himalayas
[Roy. Asiat. Soc.] (London, 1920) ; Grammar
of the Shina Language [Roy. Asiat. Soc.]
(London, 1924).
BAIN, JAMES, M.A. (Glasgow); licen.
by Presb. of Dunbarton May 1905;
assistant at New Kilpatrick in 1905 ; ord.
(by Presb. of Dunbarton) to Cawnpore,
India, under Colonial Committee, 31st
Oct. 1906; dem. 1909.
BEGG, JOHN CRAIG, born Snabe,
Avendale, 1834, second son of William B.,
blacksmith ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ;
ord. missionary to India in 1865 ; died at
sea, on board the City of Manchester on
his way to Bombay, 1st Oct. 1865.
BOURQUIN, A., app. ord. missionary
at Bombay 1875 and served till 1888.
BOWMAN, ERNEST DREWITT, born
Aberlour-on-Spey, 4th Oct. 1883, son of
James B. and Helen Bowie; educated at
Aberlour School, Arbroath High School,
and Univ. of Aberdeen ; M.A. (1903), app.
missionary teacher to Nyasaland 1903;
B.D. (1910); licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen
3rd May 1910; ord. (by same Presb.) 8th
May that year, and returned to Nyasaland
as ordained missionary. Marr. 4th April
1912, Jessie Grant, daugh. of Joseph and
Margaret Yeadon, and has issue— Nancy
Grant, born 9th May 1920.
BRAIDWOOD, JOHN, born Ayrshire,
1810, fifth son of George B. ; educated at
Univ. of Glasgow; M.A. (1840); ord.
missionary at Madras 6th Aug. 1840 and
arrived 15th Jan. 1841. Joined the Free
Church in 1843; invalided home 1860;
died at Edinburgh, 30th April 1875. He
marr. 1840, Isabella Murray, and had
issue. Publication — True Yoke-Fellows in
the Mission Field : Rev. John Anderson and
Robert Johnston (London, 1862.)
BRANDT, F. C., min. of German Re
formed Church; app. to Bombay in 1845
and served till 1849.
FOREIGN MISSIONARIES
BRUCE, GEORGE (cf. Vol. VII., 46) ;
ord. (by Presb. of Perth) missionary Pro
fessor of English in the General Assembly's
Institution, Calcutta, 24th May 1891 ; dem.
1912; adm. min. of Kinlochluichart 27th
Oct. 1914.
BUCHANAN, WILLIAM, born 1822r
eldest son of Moses B., farmer, Dunbarton
shire, and Annie M'Allister ; educated at
I'niv. of Glasgow; licen. by Presb. of
Glasgow ; ord. missionary to Madras in
1856 ; dem. 1858 ; became a commission
merchant in Glasgow; died unmarr. at
Millhill, Helensburgh, 12th Oct. 1887.
CALDERWOOD, ROBERT GEORGE
MATHESON, born Garelochhead, 5th
May 1896, son of Robert Sibbald C., min.
of Cambuslang ; educated at George
Watson's College, Edinburgh, High School,
and Univ. of Glasgow; M.A. (1920); served
during European War as lieut. H.L.I. (M.C.);
licen. by Presb. of Hamilton 20th Dec.
1921 ; assistant at Twechar ; ord. (by Presb.
of Hamilton) to Kenya Mission (Tumu-
Tumu) 22nd Feb. 1922. Marr. 20th Oct.
1924, Isobel Shaw, M.A., only daugh. of
Adam Cowan, Cambuslang, and Isobel
Craven, and has issue — Marjory Isobel
Craven, born 28th Aug. 1925.
CAMERON, ALLAN, born Woodside,
Aberdeen, 23rd May 1887, son of Levi C.
and Jane Beattie; educated at Robert
Gordon's College, Aberdeen, and Univ. of
Aberdeen ; sometime teacher in Fordyce
Academy; M.A. (1908); app. to staff of
Scottish Churches' College, Calcutta, 1909 ;
B.D. (Edinburgh 1921); licen. by Presb. of
Edinburgh March 1921 ; ord. (by Presb. of
Edinburgh) missionary Professor of English
in the Scottish Churches' College, Calcutta,
24th April that year. Marr. 12th March
1913, Margaret Knowles, daugh. of George
and Mary Scott, and has issue — Mildred,
born 1st Jan. 1914; Margaret Scott, born
llth Nov. 1915; Jean, born 20th Feb.
1919; David Lyon Scott, born 20th Jan.
1921.
CAMERON, CHARLES JOHN, born
Kilmallie, about 1840 ; educated at Queen's
Univ., Kingston, Canada; B.A. (1862); '
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ord. (by Presb. of Glasgow) missionary to
Madras in 1865 ; served to 1868 ; went to
Australia and adm. to St Andrew's, Geelong,
1870; min. at Daylesford, 1872-5; returned
to Canada in 1875.
CHREE, WILLIAM, born Keig, Aber-
deenshire, 10th Feb. 1863, son of George C.,
M.A., schoolmaster, and Helen Johnstone ;
educated at Keig School, Old Grammar
School, and Univ. of Aberdeen; M.A.
(1882), B.D. (1886); licen. by Presb. of
Alford May 1886 ; assistant at Wemyss
Oct. 1886 to March 1893 ; min. at Wolfen-
dahl, Ceylon, Oct. 1893 to Oct. 1894; [ord.
March 1894]; acting chaplain at Fyzabad,
M. P., India, Feb. to Sept. 1895, Meerut,
Nov. 1895 to March 1896 ; app. Principal of
Church of Scotland College, Madras, March
1896; died unmarr. at Madras, 31st July
1911.
CLARK, ALEXANDER, M.A. (cf. Vol.
VII., 143) ; ord. missionary to Gyah, India,
1859 ; served afterwards at Madras ; dem
1873 ; adm. min. of Wick 9th March 1876.
CLELAND, ROBERT, born Coatbridge,
4th Sept. 1857, son of John C. and Mar
garet Williamson ; educated at Dundy van
School and Gartsherrie Academy; served
apprenticeship as an engineer, during
which he studied Latin and Greek; entered
the Univ. of Edinburgh at the age of
twenty; was summer missionary at Kil
mallie (Achnacarry) in 1886 ; licen, by
Presb. of Edinburgh April 1887; ord. (by
Presb. of Edinburgh) 29th May follow
ing for service at Mlanje, Africa (but
could not settle there till May 1890 on
account of the opposition of the chief
Chikumbu); took charge at Domasi,
1888-9 ; founded a mission station at Chira-
zulo, where he laboured for nearly three
years, the only white man in a very lonely
post; died unmarr. (of fever) at Blantyre,
10th Nov. 1890. He was one of the noblest
missionaries the Church ever sent to Africa.
A tablet was erected in Blantyre Church by
members of the Church of Scotland Young
Men's Guild "in memory of the First of
their Number laid in a Missionary's Grave."
—[Robertson's The Martyrs of Blantyre
(portrait), 105-37 (London, 1892).]
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COCKBURN, GEORGE, born Corbs-
hill, New Deer, 12th June 1853, son of
George C., farmer, and Mary Robb ; educated
at Grammar School and Univ. of Aberdeen ;
M.A. (1874); licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen
May 1877 ; ord. to Ichang, China, that
year ; retired 1894 ; locum tenens at North
Parish, Aberdeen ; Woodside ; New Deer,
and Slains; died at Aberdeen, 6th Jan.
1898. He marr. 16th Nov. 1878, Johanne
Garden, daugh. of James Thomson and
Isabella M'Bain, and had issue — John
George, electrical engineer, born 7th Oct.
1883 ; Harold, telegraphist, born 5th Sept.
1885; Alice, born 18th Sept. 1887 (marr. 17th
March 1921, Captain O. D. Jarvis, O.B.E.,
R.A.M.C.) ; Charles Buchanan, engineer,
born 29th Dec. 1888 ; Lucy, born 21st Jan.
1891 ; Maggie, born 22nd Dec. 1896 (marr.
29th March 1924, J. C. Pittendrigh, Aber
deen). Publications — Chin-tao-swin-mung
Pi-yao : an Introduction to Christianity
for the use of Catechumens ; Tracts for the
use of Pagans and Christians [in Chinese] ;
John Chinaman : His Ways and Notions
(Edinburgh, 1896). Contributions to The
Chinese Recorder, and other journals. —
[Tablet in Univ. Chapel, Aberdeen [erected
by his class-fellows, 1901].]
CRAIG, JAMES MANSON, born 28th
June 1885, son of Robert C. ; educated at
Univ. of St Andrews; M.A. (1908), B.D.
(1910); Keen, by Presb. of St Andrews in
1910; ord. to Madras Christian College
as Professor of English 20th April 1911 ;
died 10th Dec. 1912. He marr. 1911, Eliza
beth Gray Hunter.
CURRIE, ADAM, M.A. (cf. Vol. III.,
203); ord. missionary to Mlanje, Africa,
1891 ; served till 1894 ; adm. min. of North
Parish, Greenock, 29th April 1898.
DALGETTY, WILLIAM, born Ayton,
Berwickshire, 18th July 1868 ; educated at
Ayton School and Dairy School, Edinburgh;
sometime lay missionary of the Church of
Scotland Protestant Mission, Edinburgh;
became a student of the Bible Institute,
Chicago, U.S.A., and superintendent of
evangelistic work; app. lay missionary to
the Panjab, India, 1894 ; licen. by Presb. of
Panjab and North-West Frontier Province
25th Oct. 1899; ord. to Daska 6th Nov.
that year ; transferred to Sialkot 3rd Nov.
1902. Marr. 3rd June 1902, Lizzie Reid,
daugh. of James Simpson, and has issue —
William Simpson, born 15th July 1905 ;
James Simpson, born 13th Aug. 1907.
Publications — Baihal ka Mutallish, or Bible
Study ; Asha . . . Rabbani, or The Lord's
Supper (Lahore) [both in Urdu].
DAVIES, ALBERT EDWARD, born
Llangollen, Wales, 8th Sept. 1875, son of
Edward D. and Louisa Jones ; educated at
Walton Grammar School, Llangollen, and
Univ. of London; M.A. (1918); licen. by
English Presbyterian Presb. of London
(North) 1907 ; assistant at Prospect Place
English Presbyterian Church, Hull ; ord.
English Presbyterian missionary to Formosa
Nov. 1907; min. of Gravesend English
Presbyterian Church in 1910; adm. to
Church of Scotland by Presb. of Edinburgh
9th July 1912 in terms of Act XII. of
Assembly 1911, and app. missionary at
Calcutta; invalided home Feb. 1916 and
subsequently retired ; min. of Cricklewood
English Presbyterian Church, London,
1916; trans, to Whitley English Presby
terian Church, Northumberland, 1922.
Marr. 22nd March 1911, Christina Moore,
daugh. of Dr B. V. Taylor, and has issue—
Olwen Christina, born 20th July 1912;
Constance Birdwood, born 10th Jan. 1919.
DEANS, WILLIAM, ord. missionary at
Ichang, China, 29th Dec. 1889; served
until 1910; adm. to Twechar Chapel (cf.
Vol. III., 485) April 1911 ; res. on appoint
ment to Colonial Chaplaincy, India, 1916;
app. secretary of Jewish Committee of
Church of Scotland 1920. His son, Henry
Scott, is in Forestry Department of Indian
Civil Service [line 20, Vol. III., 485, is an
error]. His daugh. Minnie died Oct. 1922.
DOWSLEY, ANDREW, born Canada;
ord. missionary to Madras in 1876 ; app. to
Ichang, China, 1881; dem. 1885 and
returned to Canada.
DUFF, ALEXANDER, born Auchna-
hyle, Moulin, Perthshire, 25th April 1806,
but brought up at Balnakeilly (same parish),
where his father was gardener; son of
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James D. and Jean llattray ; educated at
Moulin and Kirkmichael Schools, Perth
Academy (dux), and Univ. of St Andrews
(where he was greatly influenced by the
teaching, missionary fervour, and person
ality of Thomas Chalmers, then Professor
of Moral Philosophy) ; M.A. (Honorary
1824); licen. by Presb. of St Andrews
April 1829; ord.. (by Presb. of Edinburgh)
12th Aug. following as first (official) mission
ary of the Church of Scotland to India;
left Edinburgh on 19th Sept. and sailed
14th Oct. He was twice shipwrecked on
his eight months' voyage, off Dassen
Island, near the Cape, losing in the Lady
Holland all his library to the number of
over eight hundred volumes, his presentation
Bible and Psalm Book alone being recovered
[the latter is in the Mission Museum at
22 Queen Street, Edinburgh], and again in
the Lady Moira, off Saugar Island at the
mouth of the Hoogly. At Calcutta (arrived
27th May 1830) he announced his policy to
afford, by means of the English language,
education inseparably allied with the
Christian faith as its animating spirit,
believing that English was destined to
become the chief medium of upper edu
cation in India. He espoused the ideal
of a native ministry as the surest method
of Christianising the vast heathen masses
of that country. His school, opened 13th
July 1830 with five young men, became an
immediate success, attracting within a few
weeks upwards of three hundred applicants
with whom he removed to a commodious
building. He received considerable en
couragement from Sir Charles Trevelyan,
Foreign Under-Secretary, and from the
Governor-General, Lord William Bentinck,
by whose efforts a Minute of Council (7th
March 1835) decided in favour of the
promotion of European science and litera
ture through English alone. From 1834 to
1840 he was in Scotland, his health much
broken by the climate and his ceaseless
activities. He addressed the General
Assembly in a three hours' speech of im
passioned eloquence and earnestness, and
travelled up and down the country collect
ing funds, creating interest in missions
generally and his own in particular ;
D.D. (Marischal College, Aberdeen, 22nd
Oct. 1835). In 1840 he returned to India.
Joined the Free Church in 1843 ; declined
Chair of Divinity, New College, 1846;
elected Moderator of Free Church Assembly
22nd May 1851; visited U.S.A. in 1854,
where he was received with such en
thusiasm as to call forth the statement :
"No such man has visited us since the
days of George Whitefield"; LL.D. (New
York 1854). That same year his evidence
on the subject of education before Indian
Committees of Parliament resulted in the
famous Despatch of Lord Halifax to the
Governor-General, in which Duff's early
views were officially homologated. He was
in India again from 1856 to 1863; con
demned the policy of the Government in
the Mutiny, and was a chief instrument in
establishing the Univ. of Calcutta in 1857.
In 1864 he finally left India, his health
having become so impaired as to necessitate
a permanent change of occupation and
scene. Numerous memorials were devised
in his honour, amongst others the erection
of a marble hall in the educational build
ings at Calcutta, the founding of four
Duff Scholarships, the painting of his
portrait, and the placing of a bust in one
of the colleges. A gift of £11,000 from
Scotsmen in India he handed over as a
fund for invalided missionaries of the Free
Church. On his homeward journey he
visited South Africa and its mission
stations, and on arrival in Edinburgh was
app. Convener of the Free Church Foreign
Mission Committee. He raised a sum of
£10,000 for a Chair of Missions in the
New College, and became its first occupant
as Professor of Evangelistic Theology. He
carried through the arrangements for the
inauguration of the Free Church Mission
in Nyasaland ; travelled in Syria, and
collaborated in the establishment of the
Gordon Memorial Mission, Natal [founded
to commemorate the sixth Earl of Aber
deen, who was lost at sea, and his brother
the Hon. James Henry Hamilton Gordon].
On 22nd May 1873 he was elected a
second time Moderator of the Free Church,
and was one of the inspirers of the
Alliance of Reformed Churches holding the
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Presbyterian System; died at Sidmouth,
Devonshire, 12th Feb. 1878 and buried
in Grange Cemetery, Edinburgh. His
personal property he left to found the
Duff Missionary Lectureship. Portrait in
New College, Edinburgh ; Memorial (lona
Cross with portrait bust) at Pitlochry
Church. He marr. 30th July 1829, Anne
Scott Drysdale, Edinburgh (died 22nd Feb.
1865), and had issue— Rebecca Jane, born
24th June 1830 (marr. 5th May 1852, John
Watson, East India merchant), died at
London, 7th Nov. 1896; James Murray,
born 26th Sept. 1831, died 5th June 1832 ;
Alexander Groves, physician, born 19th
July 1834; Ann Jemima, born 5th Aug.
1836, died 26th May 1841 ; William Pirie,
merchant, Calcutta, born 9th Nov. 1838, died
at Edinburgh, 31st Jan. 1899. Publications
— Extract of a Letter respecting the
Wreck of the "Lady Holland" East
Indiaman (Edinburgh, 1830); The Church
of Scotland's India Mission (Edinburgh,
1835); The Church of Scotland's Foreign
Missions (Edinburgh, 1836) ; Vindication
of the Church of Scotland's India Missions
(Edinburgh, 1837); The Mutual Duties
and Responsibilities of Pastor and People
(Edinburgh, 1837); New Era of English
Language and Literature in India (Edin
burgh, 1837); Missions, the Chief End of
the Christian Church (Edinburgh, 1839) ;
Female Education in India (Edinburgh,
1839) ; Farewell Address (Edinburgh, 1839);
India and India Missions (Edinburgh,
1839); Bombay in April 1840 (Edinburgh,
1840) ; Missionary Sympathy with the Free
Church (Edinburgh, 1843); The Cause of
Christ and the Cause of Satan (Edinburgh,
1843); The Headship of the Lord Jesus
Christ (Edinburgh, 1844) ; Lectures on
the Church of Scotland [delivered at
Calcutta] (Edinburgh, 1844) ; India Mission
previous to Disruption (Edinburgh, 1844);
The Jesuits, their Origin and Order, etc.
(Edinburgh, 1845); Missionary Addresses
(Edinburgh, 1850) ; Home Organisation for
Foreign Missions (Edinburgh, 1850) ; Speech
at Exeter Hall (London, 1851); Foreign
Missions and America (Edinburgh, 1854) ;
Farewell Address to the Free Church of
Scotland (Edinburgh, 1855); The Indian
Rebellion, its Causes and Results (Edin
burgh, 1858); Extension of Foreign Mission
ary Operations (Edinburgh, 1865); Evan
gelistic Theology [Inaugural Address] (Edin
burgh, 1868) ; The True Nobility [Sketches
of Lord Haddo and his son] (Edinburgh,
1868); Foreign Missions [Assembly Address]
(Edinburgh, 1869) ; Liberality, a Means of
Sanctification (Edinburgh, 1872); Foreign
Missions (Edinburgh, 1872) ; The World-
Wide Crisis (Edinburgh, 1873) ; a founder
and editor of the Calcutta Review, 1845-9.
—[In Memoriam, Alexander Duff (1878) ;
Life by George Smith, C.I.E., LL.D., 2 vols.
(portrait) (London, 1879, abridged edition,
1899); Alexander Duff by Thomas Smith,
D.D. (London, 1883); Recollections of A. D.
by Lai Behari Day (London, 1879) ; Maratt's
Two Standard- Bearers in the East (London,
1882); J. N. Ogilvie's The Apostles of
India, 380-431 (London, 1915); Memorials,
by W. Pirie Duff (1890); Duff Watson's
[grandson] Self Lost in Service (portraits)
(London, 1926); Diet. Nat. Biog.]
DUNCAN, HENEY CECIL, born
Crichton, 17th May 1876, son of Henry D.,
min. of Crichton ; educated at Merchiston
Castle School and Univ. of Edinburgh;
M.A. (1897) ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh
in 1901 ; ord. (by Presb. of Edinburgh) to
Darjeeling 17th Oct. that year. Marr. 26th
Feb. 1903, Rose Elsie, daugh. of James
Edwards, missionary Professor, General
Assembly's Institution, Calcutta, and has
issue — Henry Cecil, born 3rd May 1904 ;
James Edwards, born 4th Sept. 1907 ;
Archibald Sutherland, born 17th July
1914.
DUNCAN, JOHN MENZIES
BAILLIE, born 3rd Sept. 1879, son of
Henry D., min. of Crichton ; educated at
Merchiston Castle School and Univ. of
Edinburgh; M.A. (1901), B.D. (1905).;
licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh in 1905 ; app.
missionary to Calcutta llth July that
year; ord. (by Presb. of Edinburgh) 15th
Oct. same year; res. March 1917; adm.
to St Bride's Chapel, Edinburgh, 13th
Feb. 1918 ; app. joint-secretary for Scot
land and translator for Bengal Religious
Tract Society, 1st Jan. 1920 ; trans, to
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Tynecastle 30th April 1924. Marr. 28th
Sept. 1905, Clara, daugh. of Richard Brown
and Ann Smith, and has issue— Clara
Cecilia, born 17th Oct. 1906 ; John Henry,
born 30th Sept. 1908; Jean Mary, born
27th Jan. 1910 ; George Baillie, born 28th
May 1912. Publications— The Work of
the Christian Minister (1909) ; How we got
our Bible (1909); Book of Sermons (1910);
Honour Toivards God (1912); The Univer
sality of Jesus (1912) ; Laivs of Christ for
Common Life (1912); Poiver of Prayer
(1913); Our Sunday Schools (1913); The
Truth of Christianity (1914); The Junior
Course (1915) ; Exposition of the Pilgrim's
Progress (1915); My First Communion
(1915); The Believer's Life (1916); A
Litany of Remembrance (1916); Gospel
Questions and Answers (1918); The Next
Life (1920); Studies in Christian Truth
(1920); A Holy Life and How to Live it
(1922); The God we Trust (1923); New
Testament Pictures and Stories (1924);
My Keeper (1925) ; Old Testament Pictures
and Stories (1926) [all in Bengali]. Com
mentaries in Bengali on Psalms (1912),
James (1913), Isaiah (1914), Hosea (1914),
Amos (1914), Micah (1914), 1 Corinthians
(1915), Revelation (1917), 2 Corinthians
(1919), 1 Thessalonians (1920), 2 Thessa-
lonians (1921), Galatians (1921), Ephesians
(1922), Philippians (1923), 1 and 2 Peter
(1924), Colossians and Philemon (1925),
1, 2, 3 St John and Jude (1926) ; 1 and 2
Timothy (1927).
EDWARDS, JAMES, born Lossiemouth,
10th Aug. 1842, son of George E. and Janet
Mitchell ; educated at Lossiemouth School,
Univ. of Aberdeen, M.A. (1868), and U.P.
Theological Hall, Edinburgh ; licentiate of
U.P. Church ; adm. a licentiate of the
Church of Scotland by General Assembly
27th May 1874 ; ord. (by Presb. of Glasgow)
28th Aug. that year ; app. to Bombay ;
transferred to Calcutta 18th July 1876; app.
missionary Professor in the General
Assembly's Institution ; died at Perth,
26th Sept. 1918. He marr (1) Sept.
1874, Elsie, daugh. of James Suther
land and Elspeth Watson, and had issue —
Rose Elsie, born 12th Nov. 1875 (marr.
Henry Cecil Duncan, missionary at Dar-
jeeling); Jessie Mitchell, born 19th Aug.
1877 (marr. 1904, Dr John Lyell, Perth);
Isobel Sutherland, missionary at Poona,
born 12th Dec. 1880; Jean, born 31st March
1882 (marr. 1903 David Chisholm Simpson
of North British Mercantile Insurance);
James Sutherland, born 4th Feb. 1884 :
(2) Feb. 1890, Margaret, daugh. of Alexander
Thomas Niven, C.A., Edinburgh, and Agnes
Ballantine, and had issue — Alexander
Niven, born 24th Feb. 1891; Margaret
Main, born 15th Oct. 1892 ; Dorothy Agnes,
born 6th Dec. 1893; Cosmo Grant Niven,
Political Service, India, born 13th Aug.
1896.
EWART, DAVID, born Upper Balloch,
Alyth, 24th Sept. 1806 ; educated at Univ.
of St Andrews ; licen. by Presb. of St
Andrews ; app. to Calcutta and ord. July
1834. Joined the Free Church in 1843;
D.D. (St Andrews) ; min. of the Scots Free
Church, Calcutta. Possessed of a constitu
tion which enabled him to endure great
fatigue, he laboured for twenty- two years of
continuous service but was compelled to
make a journey home on account of ill-
health in 1856; returned 29th Dec. 1858;
died suddenly (of cholera) 9th Sept. 1860.
He was a man of untiring energy, modest
and unobtrusive, greatly beloved by the
natives of India and a host of friends.
He marr. Eliza Huntly. — [Hunter's Hist,
of Missions of Free Church of Scotland,
71, 122.]
FERGUSON, WILLIAM, born Saline,
Fife, 30th Sept. 1821, son of George F. and
Mary Keir ; educated at Saline School and
Univ. of Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of
Edinburgh; missionary, Robertson Memorial
Church, Grassmarket, Edinburgh, 1852-3;
ord. missionary to Bombay in 1853 ; chap
lain to Forces in India, 1854-63 (attached
to 71st Highlanders, served in the Mutiny
and was present at the capture of Lucknow);
res. in 1863 and became missionary at
Chamba, Panjab, which he carried on for
ten years as an independent mission until
taken over by the Church of Scotland ;
returned to Scotland and was Deputy for
the W.A.F.M.; app. a second time as
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military chaplain, served with the troops
in Cyprus and min. of the Scots Church at
Limasol, 1878-99; again volunteered for
foreign mission work and returned to
Chamba (in his 79th year); died at Chamba
1st Sept. 1904. Perhaps no minister of the
Church of Scotland had a more varied or
more romantic career. A man of unique
personality, of singular devotion and self-
denial, the friend of ryot and Raja, the
story of his work at Chamba is one of the
brightest chapters in the Christianisation
of India. Through all the coming years
his memorial will be the Church which he
founded in those Himalayan valleys. [Since
1873 this Mission has been superintended by
John Hutchison, L.R.C.P. and S.E., a native
of Johnstone-in-Annandale.] He marr. (1)
Isabel Rutland, who died at Malta, and
had issue — Isabel, born 30th July 1859
(marr. J. Treadwell, clergyman of Church
of England) : (2) 30th Jan. 1865, Alice
Maria, daugh. of Joseph Mullens, D.D.,
eminent Indian missionary, and Hannah
Lacroix, and had issue — George Argyll,
curate of Spittlegate, Grantham, born 13th
Jan. 1867 ; Macleod Menzies, banker, born
24th Jan. 1868; Agatha Mary, born 29th
Sept. 1872 (marr. F. B. Glover, shipowner,
London). Publications — Several Papers
and Pamphlets on Missions.— [Youngson's
Forty Years of the Panjab Mission, 143-67.]
FERRIE, WILLIAM WINKS, born
Glasgow, 20th April 1884, son of Alex
ander F. and Annie M'Kay; educated at
Hutcheson's Grammar School and Univ.
of Glasgow; M.A. (1907); app. to Scottish
Universities' Mission, Kalimpong, 1915;
transferred to Eastern Dooars, 1918; licen.
by Presb. of Eastern Himalayas in 1923;
ord. to Eastern Dooars 21st Nov. that year.
Marr. 29th April 1919, Ella, daugh. of
Joseph Corky, D.D., LL.D., and Isabella
Sloane.
FORBES, ALEXANDER, educated at
Univ. of St Andrews; ord. missionary to
Madras in 1860; transferred to Bombay,
where he served till 1866. He marr. 29th
Sept. 1859, Elizabeth Ann (died 26th Sept.
1862), daugh. of James Anderson, min. of
Cults.
FYFE, WILLIAM CRICHTON, born
Alyth, 1818; educated at Univ. of Edin
burgh; app. missionary teacher at Culna,
Bengal, 1841. Joined the Free Church in
1843 ; licen. 18th Nov. 1856 ; transferred to
Calcutta in 1860; ord. there 29th April
that year; res. 1881 ; died 1884. He marr.
(1) 1842, Annabella Wright, who died 1872 :
(2) 1875, Eliza Rhind Gordon.
GARRETT, JOHN, born Partick, 4th
Oct. 1888, son of William G. and Frances
Tagg ; educated at High School and Univ.
of Glasgow ; M.A. (1910) ; app. missionary
Professor in Murray College, Sialkot, India,
1913 ; licen. by Presb. of Panjab and North-
West Frontier Province, and ord. 14th Oct.
1923. Marr. 22nd Dec. 1925, Helen, M.A.,
M.D., daugh. of David Lillie, min. of
Watten, and has issue.
GRAHAM, JOHN ANDERSON, born
London, 8th Sept. 1861, son of David G.,
of H.M. Customs, and Bridget Nolan ;
educated at Cardross School, High School,
Glasgow, and Univ. of Edinburgh ; was
in Civil Service at Edinburgh, 1877-82 ;
M.A. (1885) ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh
21st May 1888 ; ord. as missionary of the
Young Men's Guild of the Church of
Scotland to Kalimpong 13th Jan. 1889;
Kaiser-i-Hind medal (1903); D.D. (Edin
burgh 1904); created C.I.E. 1911 ; was first
clerk of the General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church in India and Moderator
in 1921. He founded the St Andrew's
Colonial Homes at Kalimpong for the
education and development of the life of
Anglo-Indian or Eurasian children. In
1927 there were nineteen homes with 625
children in training, extensive educational
buildings, a hospital, workshops, and
experimental farm ; over sixty workers
were engaged in this service. Marr. 15th
Jan. 1889, Katherine (died 15th May 1919),
daugh. of John M'Conachie, Edinburgh,
and Margaret Smith, and has issue— David
Charteris, M.B., C.M., Selkirk, born 15th
Dec. 1889; John Stevenson, merchant,
Calcutta, born 24th May 1891; Margaret
Alexandra, born 21st July 1893 (marr.
Major Passy, Blackford, Devonshire); Isobel
Anderson, born 9th Dec. 1895 ; Katherine,
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born 5th Sept. 1897 (marr. 30th Nov. 1920
Arthur Norman Odling, Calcutta); Hannah
Elizabeth, born 29th Aug. 1899 (marr. 27tb
May 1922 Mervyn A. Hughes, Calcutta).
Publications— On the Threshold of Three
Closed Lands (Edinburgh, 1897, 1905); The
Missionary Expansion of the Reformed
Churches (Edinburgh, 1898). Editor of
the Church of Scotland Year-Book, 1886-9.
First compiler of the Church of Scotland
Prayer-Roll. Editor of Saint Andreiv
[organ of the Church of Scotland in India],
1893-1904, and of St Andrew's Colonial
Homes Magazine from 1900.
GRANT, CHARLES MARTIN, M.A.,
B.D.; app. missionary at Calcutta Nov.
1868 ; served till 1871 when through ill-
health he was obliged to abandon what was
the true ambition of his life ; adm. to
St Mark's, Dundee, 16th Nov. 1877 (cf.
Vol. V., 339).
GRANT, WILLIAM (cf. Vol. VII., 460),
formerly of Scots Church, Tweedmouth ;
app. to Madras in 1844 ; served till 1858.
GREEN, STEPHEN (see page 712).
HAMILTON, ARTHUR ALEX
ANDER, M.A., B.D. ; app. missionary at
Kikuyu 21st April and ord. 9th July 1914;
res. March 1920; adm. to St Stephen's,
Inverness, 27th Sept. 1922 (cf. Vol. VI., 467).
HAMILTON, JAMES MUIR, born
Newfield Mains, Dundee, 1857, son of
Matthew H. and Agnes Muir; educated
at Irvine Academy and Univs. of Edin
burgh, M.A. (1878), and Glasgow, B.D.
(1883); licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 4th
June 1884 ; ord. missionary Professor,
General Assembly's Institution, Calcutta,
that year ; served till 1891 ; returned to
England and became a barrister-at-law in
1894 ; drowned 12th Nov. 1899. He marr.
Georgina Douglas, s.p.
HARPER, WILLIAM, born Mon-
quhitter, Aberdeenshire, 28th March 1845,
son of John H. ; educated at Univ. of
Aberdeen; M.A. (1870), B.D. (1873); ord.
missionary to the Panjab (Sialkot) 1873;
transferred to Madras in 1887 ; res. 1893 ;
went to New Zealand, where he probably
died. He marr. and had issue.
HASTIE, WILLIAM, M.A., B.D. ; ord.
Principal of General Assembly's Institution,
Calcutta, 1878 ; served till 1884 [afterwards
Professor of Divinity, Univ. of Glasgow
(cf. Vol. VII., 403)].
HERDMAN, JAMES CHALMERS,
D.D. ; ord. missionary to Calcutta 22nd
Aug. 1845 ; app. chaplain, H.E.I.C.S., 1849,
and ruin, of St Andrew's Church, Calcutta ;
adm. min. of Melrose 8th Feb. 1866 (cf.
Vol. II., 189).
HETHERWICK, ALEXANDER, born
Auchnagatt, Aberdeenshire, 12th April
1860, son of William H., farmer, Knoxhill,
and Ann Shand ; educated at Savoch
School, Grammar School, Old Aberdeen,
and Univ. of Aberdeen; M.A. (1880)
[Simpson and Neil Arnot prizeman] ; licen.
by Presb. of Aberdeen 1st May 1883 ; ord.
to Blantyre Mission 8th May that year;
founded Domasi Mission in 1884 ; head of
Blantyre Mission 1898 ; chairman of
Nyanja Bible Translation Board 1900;
D.D. (Aberdeen 1902); F.R.G.S.; senior
unofficial member of Nyasaland Legislative
Council, 1908-13 and 1922-5 ; honorary life
governor of British and Foreign Bible
Society in 1910; created C.B.E. (1925);
retired 1928. Marr. 22nd June 1893, Eliza
beth Barclay, daugh. of James Pithie, and
has issue— Clement, captain Argyll High
landers, born 23rd Sept. 1895 ; Christian,
born 13th May 1903. Publications— Manual
of Nyanja Language (1901); A Handbook
of the Yao Language (1902) ; Our Central
African Mission (Edinburgh, 1906) ; Trans
lation of New Testament into Yao Language
(1907) ; Robert Hellier Napier in Nyasaland
(Edinburgh, 1925) ; The Building of Blan
tyre Church, Nyasaland (Edinburgh, 1926).
Contributions to Journal of the Royal
Geographical Society, Folklore, East and
West, Journal of African Society, and
Journal of Anthropological Institute.
HUNTER, THOMAS, born Aberdeen,
4th Dec. 1827, fourth son of John H., clerk
of Inland Revenue, and brother of Robert
H., LL.D., F.C. missionary at Nagpore ;
educated at Grammar School and King's
College, Aberdeen; M.A. (March 1852);
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licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh ; assistant at
Greeriside, Edinburgh ; ord. (by Presb. of
Edinburgh) first missionary of the Church
of Scotland to the Panjab, India, 19th July
1855 ; sailed 25th Aug. and arrived at
Bombay Dec. that year. For a year he
was detained in Bombay, where he took
charge of the General Assembly's Institu
tion ; reached Sialkot Jan. 1857. On 9th
June he wrote as his last message (the
Mutiny having broken out on llth May):
"I forbear laying before you our positive
danger — about fifty Europeans to defend
us against more than 1200 sepoys. We
have not followed the example of almost
everyone and taken refuge in the Fort of
Lahore. We hope still to continue at our
post. May the Lord be our Keeper ! " A
month afterwards, 9th July, he and his
wife and child were massacred. They were
buried with other victims of the Mutiny at
Sialkot in a garden in the shadow of the
Fort in which the rest of the Europeans
were saved. A church in their memory
was opened at Sialkot 22nd Jan. 1865. He
marr. 19th July 1855, Jane, daugh. of
James Scott, Edinburgh. — [Youngson's
Forty Years of the Panjab Mission
(portraits), 70-110 (Edinburgh, 1896).]
JAEDINE, ROBERT, born Augusta,
Grenville, Ontario, Canada, 19th June
1840, second son of John J., farmer and
contractor, and Jean M'Creath (both
natives of Girvan, Ayrshire) ; educated
at Brockville Grammar School, Queen's
Univ., Kingston, Canada; B.A. (1863),
M.A. (1866), B.D. (1866) ; licen. by Presb.
of Perth, Canada, 18th June 1866; studied
philosophy at Univ. of Edinburgh ; D.Sc.
(1867) ; app. Professor of English Literature
and Philosophy, Univ. of New Brunswick,
1867. In 1869, in the course of a walking
tour in the Scottish Highlands, he made
the acquaintance of Norman Macleod,
D.D., min. of The Barony, Glasgow, who
induced him to go to India ; app. Principal
of the General Assembly's Institution,
Bombay, with instructions to add a col
lege department if possible ; ord. (by
Presb. of Glasgow) 5th Jan. and arrived
at Bombay 12th Feb. 1870; transferred to
Calcutta in 1871 and app. Principal of the
General Assembly's Institution; Examiner
for Degrees, Univ. of Calcutta, and Fellow
of that Univ.; left Calcutta on furlough
16th Feb. 1877; lectured in the four
Scottish Univs. on Comparative Theology
from a missionary standpoint, 1877-8 ;
took charge of Dalbeattie Parish and of
The Park Parish, Glasgow [in absence of
Donald Macleod, D.D.]; res. Principalship
and returned to Canada; min. of St
Andrew's Church, Chatham, New Bruns
wick, Feb. 1879-81 ; adm. min. of St
John's, Brockville, 5th May 1881; was
afterwards min. of St Paul's Church,
Prince Albert, Saskatchewan ; res. 1893
and withdrew from the Presbyterian de
nomination on account of altered views on
orthodox doctrines ; became pastor of the
Church of Our Father, Chicago, U.S.A. ;
was later in St Louis; returned to Brock
ville in 1921 ; died in New York, 10th
Jan. 1924. He was a man of great force
of character, widely-versed in philosophy,
and a preacher of distinction. He marr.
at Calcutta, 27th Oct. 1873, Agnes (pre
deceased him), eldest daugh. of John
Hunter, manufacturer, Glasgow, and had
issue— Robert, in New York; Edward,
Isle of Pines ; Arthur, in New York ; Meta
(marr. J. Highee, New Britain, Conn.);
Jean Helen (Mrs M'Tavish), in Winnipeg.
Publications— The Elements of the Psy
chology of Cognition (London, 1874) ; What
to Believe (Calcutta, 1876). Contribu
tions to the Calcutta Review, and other
periodicals. — [The Brockville Recorder
(portrait), 15th Jan. 1924.] -
JOHNSTON, ROBERT, born Craigie-
burn, Moffat, 16th Dec. 1807, son of Robert
J. and Janet Gillespie [his mother died
when he was a child, and on her dying
bed expressed a wish that her son might
become a minister] ; educated at Moffat
School; taught at Crawford and other
places, and entered the Univ. of Edinburgh
in 1827; tutor at Tweedsmuir manse, 1829-30;
took charge of a school at Moffat in 1831 ;
licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 25th Nov.
1835 ; followed his friend, John Anderson,
as tutor at Troqueer Holm, June 1836;
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became missionary at Wallacetown, Ayr,
July 1837 ; app. by Foreign Mission Com
mittee 7th Aug. 1838, and ord. by Presb.
of Edinburgh 5th Sept. following ; sailed
10th Oct. and arrived at Madras 24th Jan.
1839. Joined the Free Church in 1843.
He was colleague to John Anderson until
his health broke down in 1850, when he
was ordered home, "unless he wishes to
die at his post." He spent some time in
Arran, addressed occasional meetings on
behalf of missions, but never regained
strength, and died (of consumption) at
124 Princes Street, Edinburgh, 22nd March
1853. He was buried at Moffat, and was
unmarr. A fine classical scholar, first
student in the Greek classes of his time,
a sound Biblical critic and theologian, he
was a man of deep and earnest purpose,
and one of the most devoted of Indian
missionaries. Publications — Address to the
Divinity Students (Edinburgh, 1853); The
Conversion of the Jews (Edinburgh, 1853).
— [Braidwood's True Yoke-Fellows in the
Indian Mission Field (portraits) (London,
1862).]
KEARNEY, THOMAS EAMSAY, born
Coatbridge, 21st July 1866, son of James K.
and Janet Ramsay ; educated at Gart-
sherrie Works School and Univ. of Glasgow;
licen. by Presb. of Hamilton May 1894;
ord. to Ichang, China, 26th Aug. that
year ; retired 1924 ; app. min. of Charteris
Memorial (St Ninian's) Church, Edinburgh,
1925 ; trans, to Hallside, Cambuslang, 21st
Sept. 1927. Marr. (1) 28th Aug. 1894,
Annie Strang (died Jan. 1897), daugh. of
James Simpson and Elizabeth Bobbie, and
has issue — James William Hutchison, born
19th Sept. 1895, died of wounds in France
17th Sept. 1916: (2) 12th March 1898,
Agnes, daugh. of Andrew Duncan and
Mary M'Neil, and has issue— Mary M'Neil,
born llth April 1902; Thomas Andrew,
born 30th Nov. 1913.
KELLAS, JOHN, born 7th July 1900,
son of John K., min. of Rathen; educated
at Univ. of Aberdeen; M.A. (1920); app.
missionary Professor in Scottish Churches'
College, Calcutta, 1923.
KENNEDY, WILLIAM BLACK, M.A.,
B.D. ; ord. chaplain under Colonial Com
mittee at Balgaum, India, 3rd Sept. 1893 ;
dem. 1895 [afterwards min. of Eyemouth
(cf. Vol. II., 47)]. His wife died 23rd May
1927.
KERR, COLIN MACKAY, M.A., B.D.,
Ph.D. ; ord. missionary Professor to Scottish
Churches' College, Calcutta, 10th March
1909 ; invalided home and retired 1911 ;
adm. to Kettins (<•/. Vol. V., 268) 25th
Sept. 1913; trans, to St George's-in-the-
Fields, Glasgow, 16th May 1922 ; app. min.
of St Andrew's Church, Halifax, Nova
Scotia, 1926.
RESTING, AUGUST JOHN, M.A.,
B.D. ; ord. missionary to Nyasaland, Africa,
13th Jan. 1898, served till 1901 ; adm. min.
of Mossgreen llth Sept. 1918 (cf. Vol. V.,
48); trans, to Fort Augustus 12th Nov. 1925.
KILGOUR, ROBERT, born Glasgow,
29th April 1867, eldest son of Robert K.
and Annie Laurie, and great-grandson of
William MacRitchie, min. of Clunie in 1784;
educated at Miller's Academy, Broomloan
Road School, Govan, and Univ. of Glasgow;
M.A. (1886), B.D. (1889); student missionary
at Cardonald, Govan, and Carrick Castle,
Lochgoilhead; licen. by Presb. of Dunoon in
1889 ; ord. (by Presb. of Glasgow) to Dar-
jeeling, India, 16th June that year ; served
to 1909, when he was app. editorial super
intendent of the British and Foreign Bible
Society, London ; examiner in Nepali for
the Univs. of Calcutta and Allahabad;
D.D. (Glasgow 1909). Marr. Nov. 1891,
Agnes Elizabeth, eldest daugh. of Ebenezer
Horn, and has issue— Robert Laurie, born
4th Oct. 1893, M.A. (Glasgow), ord. to
Kenmuir 3rd June 1926 ; William Watson,
merchant, South India, born 8th Aug. 1897.
Publications — Hymn Book and Prayer
Book [in Nepali]; The Old Testament in
Nepali; The Gospel in Many Tongues
(London, 1922, and other issues); Four
Ancient Manuscripts in the Bible House
Library (London 1928).
LAMB, JOHN, M.A., B.D. ; ord.
missionary Professor General Assembly's
Institution, Calcutta, 15th June 1890; adm.
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min. of Tenandry 9th Jan. 1913 (cf. Vol.
IV., 173); dem. 12th Nov. 1922; app. to
Robertson Memorial Mission, Grassmarket,
Edinburgh, 1924 ; dem. 1926.
LANG, JAMES PAISLEY, ord. mission
ary to Sialkot, India, 22nd Aug. 1867 ; app.
chaplain on the Madras Establishment 18th
Jan. 1875 ; adm. min. of First Charge,
Stirling, 14th March 1878 (cf. Vol. IV.,
323).
LEGATE, GEORGE WILLIAM, born
1850, son of George L., min. of the Secession
Church, Kilkinamurry, Co. Down ; educated
at Queen's College, Belfast; B.A. (1867),
M.A. (1869); licen. by Presb. of Rathfor-
land 3rd Oct. 1871 ; ord. (assistant and
successor) in Second Dungannon Presby
terian Church; res. 1st Oct. 1877; app.
missionary to Madras Nov. that year;
served till his death at Beyrout 1st July
1883.
LESLIE, GEORGE NEAVE, ord. to
Cawnpore 1st March 1914 ; dem. 1916
[afterwards min. of Kincardine in Menteith
23rd April 1919 (cf. Vol. IV., 350)].
LILLIE, WILLIAM, born 15th Sept.
1899, son of David L., min. of Watten ;
educated at Miller Institution, Thurso, and
Univ. of Aberdeen; M.A (1921); app.
missionary Professor in Murray College,
Sialkot, India, 1922.
LORNIE, JAMES TAYLOR, born 1888,
second son of Peter L., Allanton School-
house, Cambusnethan ; educated at Univ.
of Edinburgh; M.A. (1909); licen. by
Presb. of Edinburgh 9th May 1912; assistant
at Greenside, Edinburgh ; ord. to Cawnpore
in 1912; dem. 1915; adm. to Kirkgunzeon
20th Aug. 1918; died 24th Jan. 1923. He
marr. 15th Aug. 1918, Marjorie Agnes,
eldest daugh. of the Rev. George Jackson,
Christian Literature Society for India,
Edinburgh, and had issue — Isobel, born
12th June 1919 ; James, born 1st Dec. 1920.
LUGTON, THOMAS, M.A.; ord. for
service in India 5th May 1895; res. 1899
[afterwards missionary at Kingscavil, Lin-
lithgow (cf. Vol. L, 219)] ; died unmarr. 16th
Feb. 1917.
MACARA, JOHN, M.A., B.D. ; ord. to
Scottish Universities Mission, Sikkim,
India, 16th Oct. 1892; served till 1902; adm.
to Saline 13th Sept. 1906 (cf. Vol. V., 51).
M'COLL, HUGH CLARKE, M.A. ; ord.
missionary to Darjeeling (Kurseong), India,
16th Dec. 1908; res. 1917; adm. to Kilbirnie
19th Sept. 1918 (cf. Vol. III., 104) ; trans, to
St Matthew's, Dundee, 9th Oct. 1924;
resigned 23rd May 1928, and accepted a call
to Wood River, Nebraska, U.S.A. [Index
Vol. III., 526, should be M'Coll.]
MACDONALD, DUFF, M.A., B.D.,
formerly min. of Pulteneytown Chapel ; app.
to Blantyre, Nyasaland, 1878; served till
1881 ; adm. to South Dalziel 28th June
1883 (cf. Vol. III., 250); D.D. (Aberdeen
1923). Marr. (2) 27th June 1920, Christina
Gourlie, daugh. of William M'Pherson Reid
and Jane Gourlie. Publications (additional)
— Shorter Catechism with Notes and
Alternative Answers (Aberdeen, 1923) ;
The Thirty-Nine Articles Re-stated (1924).
MACDONALD, JOHN, born Edin
burgh, 17th Feb. 1807, son of John M.,
D.D., min. of the Gaelic Chapel, Edinburgh
[afterwards of Ferintosh (" the Apostle of
the North")]; educated at King's College,
Aberdeen ; M.A. (March 1824) ; licen. by
Presb. of Elgin 6th Jan. 1830; ord. to
Chadwell Street congregation, Pentonville,
London, 17th March 1831. Coming under
the spell of Dr Duff's missionary enthusiasm
he offered for foreign service, and was app.
missionary to Calcutta in 1837, arriving on
3rd Feb. 1838. Joined the Free Church
in 1843 ; died 1st Sept. 1847. A man of
remarkable devotion. He marr. 1st Aug.
1837, Anne, daugh. of Alexander Mac
kenzie, merchant, London, and had issue
— seven children. Publications — The
Suffering Saviour (1829) ; Statement of
Reasons for Accepting a Gall to
to India as a Missionary (1837) ; The
Oratorio (1840); A Pastor's Memorial to
his Former Flock (1842); What is the
Theatre ? (1842) ; May I go to the Ball ?
(1843) ; Isobel Hood's Memoirs and Manu
script (1843); The Government of India
charged with Spiritual Treason (1844);
An Address at the Ordination of Elders
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(1844) ; The First-fruits of our Flock in the
Grave (1845); Duelling Spiritually Con
sidered (1845); Memorial of Kailas Chunder
Mookerje (1845); Thoughts on the Observance
of Hindu Holidays (1846) ; The Ministra
tion of the Holy Spirit (1847); The Doctrine
of Divine Grace as Perverted by Romanism
(London, 1851). Many contributions to
periodical literature.— [Life by W. K.
Tweedie, D.D. (Edinburgh, 1849); Biog
raphies of Highland Clergymen (Inverness,
1889) ; Hunter's Hist, of F.C. Missions, 74,
96.]
MAC DONALD, JOHN FORREST,
born 29th Sept. 1897, son of Duff M., D.D.,
min. of South Dalziel; educated at Univ.
of Glasgow ; M. A. (1922) ; app. missionary
Professor, Scottish Churches' College, Cal
cutta, 1923.
MACFARLANE, WILLIAM,
born Drumbuie, Strathbraan, Perthshire,
5th Jan. 1840, son of Robert M., farmer,
and Ann Stewart; educated at Madras
College, St Andrews, and Univ. of St
Andrews (he was the most distinguished
student of his time, so excelling in mathe
matics that he was offered £600 to proceed
to Cambridge for further study in that
science but declined, having dedicated his
career to the ministry) ; M.A. (1858) ; licen.
by Presb. of St Andrews in 1862 ; assistant
at St Columba's, Glasgow. In 1865 at
a missionary meeting, on the question being
asked, "Who will go?" M. stood up and
quietly said, " Here am I, send me " ; ord.
to Gyah 1865 ; transferred to Darjeeling
1870; died in his sleep 15th Feb. 1887.
He was unmarr. His sister, Margaret
Ann, accompanied him to India, and was
his constant companion and co-worker.
The St Ninian of the Eastern Himalayas,
he was founder of the Darjeeling and
Kalimpong Mission, one of the most
laborious of missionaries, a man of devout
consecration, indomitable perseverance,
and unflagging faith in the ultimate
success of his endeavours. On the day of
his death he was busily engaged in the
erection of a building to be the Training
Institution for Native Catechists. He had
his first furlough after sixteen years of
service, in 1881, when he revisited Scotland,
addressed 329 meetings, creating and in
creasing confidence in the mission work
of the Church. A church, built to his
memory, was opened at Kalimpong 1st
Nov. 1892. — [Home and Foreign Mission
Record, April 1887 ; Weir's Hist, of Foreign
Missions of the Church of Scotland (portrait),
103.]
MACINTOSH, JAMES ARCHIBALD,
B.D. (Aberdeen, 1904) ; licen. by Presb. of
Aberdeen May 1904; ord. (by Presb. of
Aberdeen) 3rd Oct. that year ; app. Pro
fessor of English and Political Economy,
General Assembly's Institution, Calcutta;
acting Principal, Church of Scotland Col
lege, Madras, April 1906 ; dem. 1908.
MACKAY, WILLIAM SINCLAIR, born
Thurso, 8th May 1807, son of John M.
and Dorothea Jane Mackie ; educated at
King;s College, Aberdeen, and Univ. of St
Andrews ; ord. to Calcutta May 1831.
Joined the Free Church in 1843 ; mission
ary at Chinsurah; D.D. (St Andrews);
returned to Scotland 1st Feb. 1862 ; died
6th Sept. 1865. He was a man of modest,
retiring character, an accomplished scholar
and astronomer. During a visit to Tas
mania, for health reasons, he formed the
friendship of Sir John Franklin, the Arctic
explorer (then Governor), who desired him
to remain as minister to the colonists.
On his voyage back to Calcutta he was
shipwrecked on the coast of Orissa and
narrowly escaped death. He marr. (1)
Christina Paton, and had issue — three
daughs. (deceased): (2) Elizabeth Mary
Shillingford, and had issue— three sons
and two daughs. Publications — Explana
tory Statement respecting the recent Pro
ceedings of the Missionaries of the Church
of Scotland in Calcutta [with Alexander
Duff, D. Ewart, J. Macdonald, T. Smith]
(Edinburgh, 1843) ; A Warning from the
East, or the Jesuits as Missionaries in
India (London, 1845); The Missionary's
Warrant and the Church's Duty (Edin
burgh, 1850); editor of The Calcutta
Review— [Hunter's Hist, of F.C. Missions,
61, 77; Smith's Duff (1899), 61, 129,
268.]
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MACKEAN, WALTER GEORGE, born
Edinburgh, 17th June 1872, son of James
M., F.E.I.S., and Jessie Alcorn ; educated
at George Watson's School and Univ. of
Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb, of Edinburgh ;
ord. (by Presb. of Edinburgh) missionary
to Sikkim 10th Oct. 1900. Marr. 1st
Feb. 1906, Susan, daugh. of Morris Cars-
well, and has issue — Katharine Alcorn,
born 15th Jan. 1908; Morris James, born
20th March 1914.
MACKEGGIE, GEORGE ALEX
ANDER, M.A., B.D. (cf. Vol. VI., 426);
ord. (by Presb. of Aberdeen) to Panjab
Mission (Gujrat) 1st Oct. 1916; transferred
to Poona 16th Feb. 1921 ; returned to Scot
land and adm. to Kinloss 12th March 1925.
MACKENZIE, ALFRED JAMES, born
Edinburgh, 27th Jan. 1892, son of Andrew
M. and Agnes Williamson ; educated at
George Heriot's School and Univ. of Edin
burgh ; M.A. (1913); served with Scottish
Horse in Gallipoli, Egypt, and Salonica,
1914-19; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh
March 1920; assistant at Lady Glenorchy's,
Edinburgh ; ord. (by Presb. of Edinburgh)
to Madras Christian College (Professor of
Mental and Moral Science) 23rd May 1920 ;
retired 1925 ; adm. to Trinity Parish, Edin
burgh, 3rd March 1926. Marr. 1st July 1918,
Kathleen, daugh. of Donald Macdonald, and
has issue— DeirdreMacdonald,born 6th Jan.
1920; Fiona Margaret, born llth June 1922;
Ian Andrew Donald, born 16th Jan. 1924.
MACKENZIE, EVAN, born Daviot,
Inverness-shire, 21st Sept. 1868, son of
Evan M. and Christina Shaw ; educated
at Nairn School ; app. as lay evangelist to
Tibetans (Kalimpong) in 1897 ; licen. by
Presb. of Eastern Himalayas June 1909 ;
ord. for Tibetan mission work 5th Aug.
that year ; retired 31st March 1924. Joined
the Free Church of Scotland and app.
missionary at Laknadon, C. P., India. He
marr. (1) 2nd July 1892, Elizabeth (died
17th Aug. 1917), daugh. of William Macrae,
and has issue— Christina Elizabeth, born
at Dingwall 28th March 1893; William,
born at Darjeeling June 1894, died 1895 ;
Helen Watson, born llth Sept. 1896 (marr.
William Mackenzie Scott, missionary at
Kalimpong); Ewen, born 7th Nov. 1898,
died in infancy ; Roderick John, sugar
planter, Demerara, born 21st Jan. 1900 ;
Evangeline Ann, missionary nurse, born
26th July 1902 ; Evan James, born Oct.
1904: (2) 12th Dec. 1918, Eva, daugh. of
John Lumsden Anderson. Publications—
A Life of Christ [in Tibetan] (Calcutta) ;
A Tibetan School Primer (Calcutta); The
Pilgrim's Progress [in Tibetan]; Translation
of Old Testament into Tibetan.
MACKINTOSH, JOHN, M.A. ; ord.
1879 ; lecturer in the General Assembly's
Institution, Calcutta, 1879-81 ; returned to
Scotland, and was missionary at Amulree,
1883-4; afterwards min. of the Scots Church,
Carlisle, and Buccleuch Parish, Glasgow
(cf. Vol. III., 404).
M'LAREN, KENNETH DANIEL,
ord. to St Andrew's Church, Calcutta, 6th
Oct. 1892 ; dem. 1895 ; app. to Huthrieston,
Aberdeen, 1st Sept. that year [afterwards
min. of Errol (cf. Vol. IV., 208)].
MACLEAN, LACHLAN, M.A., B.D.;
app. missionary to the Dooars, India, 18th
Nov. 1913; res. 1921 on appointment as
chaplain under Indian Ecclesiastical Estab
lishment (q.v.).
M'LELLAN, DUNCAN TAIT
HUTCHISON, M.A.; app. Professor of
History Scottish Churches' College, Cal
cutta, 20th April, and ord. 18th July 1920 ;
dem. on appointment as chaplain under
Indian Ecclesiastical Establishment 1921
MACMICHAEL, DUNCAN, M.A., B.D.;
formerly min. of Duncansburgh ; app.
ordained missionary to the Dooars, India,
24th Jan. 1899; adm. min. of Largo 28th
April 1904 (cf. Vol. V., 220).
M'WILLIAM, GEORGE, M.A., B.D.;
app. Professor of History Scottish Churches'
College 19th April, and ord. 25th Sept.
1910; retired through ill-health in 1912;
adm. min. of East Parish, Peterhead, 25th
Feb. 1815 ; trans, to Clepington, Dundee,
25th March 1918 (cf. Vol. V., 325); trans.
to Auldearn 15th April 1926.
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MATHESON, PETER, born Bowhill,
Selkirk, 13th March 1838, son of John M.
and Jane Anderson ; educated at Selkirk
Grammar School and Univ. of Edin
burgh ; licen. by Presb. of Selkirk in 1866 ;
assistant at Kirkhope and Foulden ; ord.
(by Presb. of Edinburgh) missionary to
Madras in 1876 ; arrived there 6th Dec. that
year, died 20th Jan. 1877. He marr. 19th
Sept. 1872, Elizabeth, daugh. of James
Bell and Elizabeth Muirhead, and had
issue — Elizabeth Jane, born 5th April
1874; Johanna Margaret, born 1st May
1875 (marr. Thomas Watson, C.A., Edin
burgh).
MAUCHLINE, ALEXANDER, M.A.,
B.D. ; ord. as Professor of English, Scottish
Churches' College, Calcutta, 15th Sept.
1909 ; retired 1913 ; adm. to St Matthew's,
Dundee, 20th Nov. 1913 (cf. Vol. V., 340) ;
dem. 1920, having again offered for service
abroad ; app. to Nyasaland 12th July
1921; invalided home in 1922; adm. to
St Mary's, Dalziel, 12th Sept. 1923 ; trans,
to St Thomas's, Leith, 22nd Sept. 1926.
MENGRET, J. F., min. of German Re
formed Church; app. to Bombay in 1845,
served till 1849.
MILL, GEORGE SCOTT, born
Anstruther, 30th July 1891, son of James
M., M.A., lecturer in Latin, Univ. of Edin
burgh, and Janet Carlyle, daugh. of Adam
Davidson, min. of Yetholm ; educated at
George Watson's College and Univ. of
Edinburgh; M.A. (1914), B.Sc. (1914);
app. missionary Professor (Mathematics)
in Scottish Churches' College Nov. 1914 ;
served in India during European War,
captain and adjutant 3/5 Gurkha Rifles,
1917-19 ; took divinity classes at Edinburgh
during furlough, 1919-20; licen. by Presb.
of Edinburgh 23rd Dec. 1920; ord. (by
Presb. of Edinburgh) to Scottish Churches'
College, Calcutta, 24th April 1921 ; trans
ferred to Eastern Himalayan Mission
(Kurseong) 1st May 1924; app. Principal
of Training College 1928. Marr. 4th Nov.
1915, Catherine Wilson, daugh. of William
Clark, Rumbleton, Greenlaw, and Isabella
Thomson, and has issue — Malcolm David.
born 2nd Oct. 1918; Elizabeth Wilson,
born at Gordon 30th Aug. 1920 ; Catherine
Carlyle, born at Calcutta 22nd Sept. 1922.
MILNE, PETER, born Keithhall, Aber-
deenshire, 30th April 1865, son of James M.
and Helen Thomson ; educated at Keith -
hall School and Univ. of Aberdeen ; M.A.
(1885), B.D. (1888); licen. by Presb. of
Aberdeen in 1888 ; assistant at Fraserburgh
and Wallacetown (Ayr) ; ord. (by Presb. of
Ayr) for Colonial Mission, India, Jan. 1899 ;
min. at Beaconsfield, South Africa, April
that year ; trans, to Standerton, Transvaal,
Aug. 1905 ; to Ficksburg, Orange River
Colony, Dec. 1906 ; app. to Dooars Mission,
India, April 1907; res. 1920; adm. to
Gilmerton 13th Sept. 1921. Marr. 30th
Dec. 1912, Marion, daugh. of William
Beatty, D.D., missionary of Irish Presby
terian Church, and Fanny Wallace. Publi
cation — Pre-ReJormation Clergy in Ayr.
MITCHELL, DONALD, born 6th Jan.
1792, son of Donald M., min. of Ardclach ;
educated at Parish School and King's
College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (31st March 1809).
His intention to proceed to the ministry
was abandoned on account of Socinian
views which he had adopted, and having
obtained a cadetship (afterwards lieuten
ancy) in the H.E.I.C.S. he sailed for India
in 1809, where he remained for eight years.
While stationed with his regiment at Surat,
he came into contact with two agents of
the London Missionary Society [Skinner
and Fyvie] whose teaching and social inter
course compelled him to reconsider his
religious position. In 1817 he returned to
Scotland and completed his theological
studies at Aberdeen ; licen. by Presb. of
Nairn in 1822 ; app. missionary to India
by the Scottish Missionary Society, and
ord. (by foresaid Presb.) 24th June that
year; sailed in Aug., arrived Jan. 1823,
and settled at Bankote, near the mouth
of the Savitri ; died of fever at Poladhpur
20th Nov. 1823. He was not only the first
ordained min. of the Church of Scotland
to go to India as a missionary, but also
the first missionary from Scotland to land
on the shores of India. In his brief year
of labour he opened seven schools in
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Bankote and the Concan country, the
aggregate on the roll amounting to 435
pupils. He proved himself a capable
administrator, a true missionary in spirit
and action. He died with these words on
his lips : " The earth shall be full of the
knowledge of the Lord, Amen and Amen."
— [Tombst. at Poladhpur ; Thomson's
Autumnal Gleanings, 30-7.]
MITCHELL, JAMES, born St Ninians,
Stirlingshire, 1800; educated at Univ. of
Edinburgh ; ord. agent of the Scottish
Missionary Society Aug. 1822, and stationed
at Bankote ; transferred to the Church of
Scotland Mission Aug. 1835. Joined the
Free Church in 1843, and laboured in the
Poona district; died on the heights of
Matheran 28th March 1866, having been
a missionary for forty-three years. His
sphere of service was unusually difficult,
but he won many converts, and the native
congregation " looked on him emphatically
as a father." He marr. (1) Margaret (died
at Dhapuli 17th Jan. 1832), and had issue-
William Kinnaird, ord. missionary at
Poona 10th Aug. 1852 [afterwards min. of
Free Church, Cluny], born 1827, died 1876 :
(2) 1842, Margaret Shaw [app. in 1841
missionary at Poona under the Ladies'
Association of the Church of Scotland],
and had issue. — [Hunter's Hist, of Free
Church Missions, 275.]
MITCHELL, JOHN MUERAY, born
Aberdeen, 19th Aug. 1815, fourth son of
James M., burgess of Aberdeen, and Mar
garet Gordon, and brother of Gordon M.,
min. of Kilmadock, James M., min. of
Garvock, and Alexander M., D.D., min.
of North Parish, Dunfermline ; educated
at Kinneff School, Grammar School, and
Marischal College, Aberdeen (where he
won the Lord Rector's prize for an essay on
" The Septuagint and other Greek versions
of the Old Testament"); M.A. (1833), and
at Univ. of Edinburgh (gold medallist for
essay on "Eusebius as an Ecclesiastical
Historian"); took charge of a class at
Aberdeen Grammar School, 1837-8 (where
one of his pupils was James Augustus Grant,
explorer of the Nile); licen. by Presb. of
Aberdeen ; ord. missionary to Bombay in
1838. Joined the Free Church in 1843;
LL.D. (Marischal College, 18th Dec. 1858) ;
returned to Scotland and was min. of
Broughty Ferry Free Church, 1863-7;
proceeded again to India in 1867 at the
urgent desire of Alexander Duff, D.D., and
remained in Bengal for the next six years ;
app. secretary to the Foreign Mission
Committee of the Free Church in 1873;
attended the Pan-Presbyterian Council at
Philadelphia, U.S.A., 1880, and spent other
two years in India lecturing and preaching ;
min. of the Scots Church, Nice, France,
1888-98; Duff Missionary Lecturer 1903;
died at Edinburgh, 14th Nov. 1904, and
buried in the Dean Cemetery. He was
one of the most indefatigable of Indian
missionaries, a linguist and scholar of
singular merit, and a leading authority on
the religions of the East. He was mainly
instrumental in founding the Scots Church
at Simla. His portrait is in the New
College, Edinburgh. He marr. 22nd Dec.
1842, Maria Hay (died s.p. 31st March
1907), daugh. of Alexander Flyter, min. of
Alness, Ross-shire. Publications— Letters
to Indian Youth regarding the Evidences
of the Christian Religion, with a brief
Examination of the Evidences of Hinduism,
Parseeism, and Mohammedanism (Bombay,
1850; llth ed., 1894, various Indian transla
tions) ; The Conflict of Ancient Paganism
and Christianity (n.d.) ; Memoir of the Rev.
Robert Nesbit, Missionary (London, 1858);
The Lady and the Dove : a Bengali Song
composed by a Hindu Female and translated
into English Verse [Ind. Antiq.] (Bombay,
1872) ; The Zend-Avesta and the Religion
of the Pdrsis [Present-Day Tracts, 25]
(London, n.d.) ; " The Zend - Avesta or
Sacred Book of the Parsis" (Brit, and
Foreign Evangelical Review, Edinburgl
1878); Hinduism, Past and Present (London,
1885, 1897) ; Foreign Missions of the Pro
testant Churches (London, 1888); In Weste
India : Recollections of My Early Mission
ary Life (Edinburgh, 1899); The
Religions of India [Duff Lecture] (Edin
burgh, 1905).— By Mrs M. M. : A Mission
ary's Wife among the Wild Tribes of South
Bengal (1871) ; Sketches of Indian Life
Travel (1876); In Southern India (1885);
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703
Sixty Years Ago (1905).— [Scotsman, 16th
Nov. 1904; Diet. Nat. Biog., 2 Supp. ii.,
623 ; Jubilee of J. M. M. (1889).]
MORRISON, JOHN, born Logie-Pert,
10th May 1856, son of John M. and Elizabeth
Paterson Cameron ; educated at Logie-Pert
School and Univs. of St Andrews, M.A.
(1876), B.D. (1880), and Leipzig ; licen. by
Presb. of St Andrews in 1880 ; assistant at
West Parish, Perth, and St Cuthbert's,
Edinburgh ; ord. Professor of English,
Church of Scotland Mission College, Cal
cutta, 13th Dec. 1883; Principal of that
College 1889-1904 ; Fellow of Calcutta Univ.
and examiner for degrees 1890-1904 ; D.D.
(St Andrews 1901) ; retired 1904 and re
turned to Scotland ; Gunning Lecturer,
Univ. of Edinburgh, and Alexander Robert
son Lecturer, Univ. of Glasgow, 1904 ; Lee
Lecturer 1906 ["Religious Literature in
Scotland in the Sixteenth Century prior to
the Reformation"]; assistant in Divinity
and Church History, St Mary's College,
St Andrews, 1912-14; Supervisor of Re
ligious Instruction, Edinburgh Education
Authority, 1913 ; app. Librarian of Church
of Scotland Library, 1913; assistant in
Divinity, Univ. of Edinburgh, 1923. Marr.
llth Feb. 1887, Helen Johnstone (died 25th
Feb. 1925), daugh. of Adam Skirving and
Eliza Mylne, and has issue— John Tertius,
M.B., Ch.B. (Edin.), F.R.C.S.E., O.B.E.,
surgeon, Liverpool, born 19th Jan. 1888 ;
Beta Jessie, born 26th Sept. 1889 ; Kenneth
Steel, C.A., Leeds, born 20th Nov. 1892.
Publications— Notes on Historical Selections
(Calcutta, 1886) ; Notes on Edmund Burke's
"Present Discontents" (ibid.}; Notes on
Edmund Burke' s American Speeches (Cal
cutta, 1890); Barlaam and Joasaph (the
old Church Legend), in three Fourteenth-
Century dialects, with Notes (Calcutta, 1895);
New Ideas in India during the Nineteenth
Century— a Study of Social, Political, and
Religious Developments [Gunning and Alex
ander Robertson Lectures] (London, 1907).
Edited Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, with
Introduction and Notes (London, 1896);
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar [for Indian
Schools and Colleges] (Edinburgh, 1904);
Addison's The Spectator, Essays I. to L.,
with Introduction and Notes (London, 1908);
Edmund Burke's Speech on Conciliation
with America (1775), with Introduction
and Notes (London, 1912); Creeds and
Churches [Alexander Stewart, D.D.] (Lon
don (1916) ; The Message of Christ to India
[A. B. Wann, D.D.] (Edinburgh, 1925);
Contributions to Hastings's Encyclopedia
of Religion and Ethics.
NAPIER, ROBERT HELLIER, born
Auchnacrioch, Yoker, 12th Aug. 1884, son
of Robert Twentyman N., shipbuilder, and
Sarah Jane Harper; educated (dux) at
Morrison's Academy, Crieff, and Univ. of
Glasgow ; M.A. (1905), B.D. [Black Fellow
ship] (1908) ; licen. by Presb. of Dunblane
in 1908; assistant at Logie, Dunblane;
ord. to Nyasaland 31st March, and arrived
at Blantyre 16th June 1909 ; served as
lieutenant in the European War ; killed in
action in Portuguese East Africa about
10th Feb. 1918. By his unceasing energy,
his many talents and consecrated person
ality, he gave noble promise of a great
future. In the development and super
intendence of village churches, and in his
careful training of candidates for the native
ministry, he was described as the beau ideal
of a missionary. A tablet to his memory
was placed in Dunblane Cathedral in 1919.
He was unmarr. but was betrothed to
Isabella B. Murray, missionary nurse at
Kasunga, Nyasaland, daugh. of Charles
Murray, Dutch Reformed Church, Graaf-
Reinet, Cape Colony. Publications—
Nyasaland and Portuguese East Africa,
1876-1913 (Edinburgh, 1913); Nyasaland
Numbers (Blantyre, 1916). He wrote many
poems and hymns, and was one of the trans
lators of the Old Testament into the
Nyanja language.— [Robert Hellier Napier
in Nyasaland (portrait) [edited by Alex-
ander'Hetherwick, D.D.] (Edinburgh, 1925).]
NESBIT, ROBERT, born Bowsden,
Durham, 22nd March 1803, son of
Benjamin N., farmer ; educated at Univ.
of St Andrews (where the influence of
Thomas Chalmers inspired him with the
missionary ideal) ; was secretary of the
Univ. Missionary Society ; licen. by Presb.
of Caithness ; became a tutor at Exeter ;
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ord. (by Presb. of St Andrews) 15th Dec.
1826 as agent of the Scottish Missionary
Society; sailed 4th June and arrived at
Bombay 19th Sept. 1827; stationed at
Hurnee in the Southern Concan (where in
three and a half months he learned to
preach in Marathi) ; transferred to Poona
8th Aug. 1831. Joined the Church of
Scotland Mission Aug. 1835. Joined the
Free Church in 1843; died (of cholera)
27th July 1855. He was an expert linguist,
the best of all the European missionaries
in Western India as a Marathi speaker, his
pronunciation being faultless. A cultured
Brahman once took him for a god on
account of what appeared the infallible
rectitude of his judgments, and was not
convinced of his mistake till the fancied
divinity charged him with a fault which he
was conscious he had not committed. He
marr. (1) 25th June 1839, Hay (died at sea
while proceeding to Scotland for her health
18th May 1848), daugh. of Kenneth Bayne,
min. of the Gaelic Church, Greenock, and
sister of the wife of John Wilson, D.D.,
F.E.S. : (2) 31st March 1855, Marion (marr.
(2) Alexander Anderson, LL.D., of the
Gymnasium, Aberdeen), daugh. of Claud
Marshall, Greenock. — [Memoir by J. Murray
Mitchell, LL.D. (London, 1858); Hunter's
Hist, of Free Church Missions, 207 et seg.]
NICOLSON, ANGUS, born Broadford,
Skye, 15th April 1885, son of Alexander N.
and Ann Macrae Nicolson ; educated at
Inverness Academy and Univs. of Glasgow,
M.A. (1908), and Edinburgh; licen. by
Presb. of Skye 17th May 1911; assistant
at Invergarry and Morven; ord. (by Presb.
of Skye) to Panjab Mission (Daska) 13th
Sept. 1911. Marr. 14th Feb. 1924, Annie
Lawton, daugh. of Hugh Mackintosh,
shipowner, Nairn, and Henrietta Isabel
Mackintosh, and has issue.
OGG, GEORGE, born Auchanachy,
Cairney, Aberdeenshire, 12th May 1890,
son of George O. and Jessie M'Kay Lyon ;
educated at Milne's Institution, Fochabers,
and Univ. of Aberdeen ; M.A. (1912), B.D.
(1919), B.Sc. (1919); licen. by Presb. of
Strathbogie 7th May 1918; locum tenens
at Chapel of Garioch ; ord. (by Presb. of
Aberdeen) missionary Professor of Mathe
matics, Madras Christian College, 21st
Sept. 1919; transferred to Eastern Hima
layan Mission (Universities' Mission) March
1921, and app. Principal of the Training
Institution of the Scottish Universities'
Mission, Kalimpong.
OGILVIE, JAMES, born Newmill of
Keith, Banffshire, 27th Dec. 1811, son of
Joseph O. ; educated at Keith School,
Grammar School and Marischal College,
Aberdeen (where he was first bursar);
M.A. (1833) (with the gold medal as the
best student of his year); taught some
time at the Grammar School of Aberdeen ;
licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen 3rd May 1843 ;
ord. missionary to Madras 21st Nov. 1844 ;
transferred to Calcutta as head of the
Assembly's Institution, 1846; D.D. (Aber
deen 1867); died in the Island of Penang
25th Jan. 1871. He marr. 27th June 1856,
Eliza Broun (died 15th Feb. 1911), daugh.
of Alexander Nivison, min. of Roberton,
Hawick, and had issue — two sons and three
daughs. — [Memorial Stone in Keith Church
yard ; Weir's Hist, of Foreign Missions of
the Church of Scotland (portrait), 63-71
(Edinburgh, 1900).]
PATERSON, ROBERT, B.A.; ord.
missionary to Gujrat 24th Aug. 1859;
served till 1869; adm. to Glasford 16th
March 1871 (cf. Vol. III., 256).
PATERSON, ROBERT M'CHEYNE,
born Sialkot, Panjab, 5th Aug. 1862, son
of Robert P., min. of Glasford ; educated
at Hamilton Academy and Univ. of
Glasgow; M.A. (1882); B.D. (1885); ord.
(by Presb. of Hamilton) missionary to the
Panjab 25th Sept. 1885 ; O.B.E. 1926. Marr.
(1) Sept. 1885, Amelia (died 1894 ), daugh.
of the Rev. John Adamson, and has issue —
Emily, born 1886, died 1887; Ellison
Steven, nurse, Dow Memorial Hospital,
Gujrat, born 1888 ; Robert M'Cheyne,
Ripley, Derbyshire, born 1888; Jane,
parish sister, Airdrie, born 1890, died Feb.
1922; Eric, born 1892, died June 1911 : (2)
21st April 1896, Hannah Beatrice, daugh.
of J. S. Stephenson, and has issue— Basil
M'Cheyne, M.A., B.Sc. (Edin.), lieutenant
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instructor K.N., born 1897 ; Hannah
Beatrice, teacher, Darjeeling, born 1898;
Georgina Elizabeth, born 1900 (marr. 4th
Aug. 1927, H.Kinniburgh Robertson, Mus.B.,
L.R.A.M.); Keith Norman, divinity student,
born 1902 ; Margaret Anderson, student,
born 1903.
PHILIP, HORACE ROBERT
ANDREW, born Pailton, Rugby, 1st Feb.
1883, son of Robert P. and Mary Wicks;
educated at High School and Univ. of
Edinburgh; M.B., Ch.B. (1909); licen. by
Presb. of Edinburgh 27th July 1921 ; ord.
to Kenya Mission 31st July that year.
Marr. 22nd March 1912, Mary (M.A.
(Hons.) Edinburgh 1907), daugh. of John
Whyte, Hillside, Montrose, and has issue
— Robert Anderson, born 1913.
REID, ANDREW, born Paisley, 8th
Oct. 1889, son of James R. and Annie
Watson; educated at Camphill School,
Paisley, Technical College, and Univ. of
Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow
16th Dec. 1921 ; assistant at Barrowfield,
Glasgow; ord. to Nyasaland (missionary
of The Children's Mission, Lomweland,
Portuguese East Africa) 8th Jan. 1922;
retired for health reasons 1927 ; adm. to
Buckhaven 21st April that year. Marr.
13th Nov. 1917, Margaret, daugh. of James
Bell.
REID, JAMES POTTER, M.A. ; ord.
to Darjeeling, India, llth Oct. 1914; app.
to chaplaincy, Bengal Presidency, 1st Jan.
1923 (q.v.).
REID, WILLIAM ALEXANDER, M.A.,
app. missionary at Poona, 1904 [afterwards
min. of West Maybole (cf. Vol. III., 55)].
RICE, HENRY, born Bangalore, South
India, 4th Jan. 1846, son of Benjamin
R., missionary of the London Missionary
Society, and Jane Peach Singer ; educated
at Blackheath School, London, and Ches-
hunt College ; ord. missionary (London
Missionary Society) to India Sept. 1869,
and served at Madras ; app. ordained
missionary of the Church of Scotland at
Madras in 1880 ; died at Polton, 22nd Oct.
1922. He marr. 17th Jan. 1879, Louisa,
| daugh. of Frederick Hill Cumine and
VOL. VII.
Maria Mason, and had issue — Edith
Florence. Publications — Native Life in
South India (London, 1889); Christianity
or— What? (Madras); Helps to Truth-
Seekers (Madras). — [The Out-posts (por
trait), Oct. 1907.]
SCOTT, DAVID CLEMENT
RUFFELLE, born Edinburgh, 23rd April
1853, son of David S., C.A., and brother of
William Affleck S., M.B., C.M., missionary
at Blantyre ; apprenticed to an Edinburgh
insurance office, but resolved to become a
missionary; was a brilliant student at
Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (1878), B.D.
(1881) ; tutor at Mertoun House during
part of his curriculum, and spent a summer
at Quarff Mission, Shetland ; secretary to
Committee on Christian Life and Work ;
licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 13th May
1881; ord. (by same Presb.) 30th July
following, and, at the urgent request of the
Foreign Mission Committee, left for Africa
(though he had long cherished the hope of
labouring in India); D.D. (Edinburgh
1896); F.R.S.G.S.; died at Kikuyu, 13th
Oct. 1907. To the work at Blantyre
(begun in 1874) he gave all his remarkably
eager powers as a missionary administrator,
retrieving its disasters, and steadily up-
rearing one of the most successful foreign
missions of modern times. Under his
inspiring personality, his courage as a
leader, his devotion as an educator, varied
accomplishments as translator, industrial
organiser, and his wise and humane states
manship, the evils of barbarism became
broken, and a populous Christian com
munity established. A cathedral - like
church at Blantyre was erected from his
own design by his own hands and those of
the men whom he trained in every detail of
the work. In 1901 he became head of the
Mission at Kikuyu (founded and endowed
in memory of Sir William Mackinnon and
Alexander Livingstone Bruce, and gifted
to the Church of Scotland). Almost his
last public act there was to lay the memorial
stone of the Hunter Memorial Hospital,
and within a few hours of his death he
raised himself up in his bed to baptize
Karanja, his personal attendant, the first
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convert of the Kikuyu Mission. "Mar
vellous purposes are in store" were his
farewell written words. He marr. (1)
Isobel (died at Mozambique, 30th March
1895), daugh. of Henry Bowie, secretary of
the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution,
and sister of John B., M.B., C.M., medical
missionary at Blantyre (died 1891), and of
Harriet B. (died 1891), wife of Henry
Henderson, pioneer of the Blantyre Mission
(died 1891) (ef. Vol. IV., 163) : (2) Edith
Ruffelle, who died at Kikuyu 3rd Dec.
1903, and had issue — a child, died at
Blantyre.— [In Memoriam — David Clement
Ruffelle Scott, by A. H. Charteris, D.D.,
LL.D. (portrait) (Edinburgh, 1907) ; Drum-
mond's Tropical Africa, 24 ; Rankine's A
Hero of the Dark Continent; Kikuyu,
1898-1923 (Edinburgh, 1923); Robertson's
The Martyrs of Blantyre.']
SCOTT, HENRY EDWIN, born Edin
burgh, 2nd March 1864, son of George S.
and Isabella Creelman ; educated at High
School and Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A.
(1886), L.R.C.P. and S.E. (1889); licen. by
Presb. of Edinburgh 4th May 1890; ord.
(by same Presb.) 1st June that year; became
head of Zomba Mission ; app. to Kikuyu
Mission as successor to David Clement
Scott, D.D.; died there llth April 1911.
He was an all-round missionary in gifts,
patient and resourceful in the manage
ment of natives in a savage state. Pro
foundly interested also in the welfare of
the European population, he established a
Scots congregation at Nairobi, instituted
a Y.M.C.A. (gaining for it the public com
mendation of President Roosevelt), and
he originated a movement for federation,
with the hope of ultimate union, among
the Protestant Missions of East Africa.
He marr. 13th Oct. 1892, at Domasi, Isa-
belle, daugh. of William Govan and Isabella
Trench Wilson, s.p.— [Kikuyu, 1898-1923
(Edinburgh 1923).]
SCOTT, WILLIAM, born 24th Nov.
1866, son of .William S. and Elizabeth
Houston; educated at Dollar Academy
and Univs. of St Andrews, M.A. (1888), and
Glasgow, B.D. (1890); licen. by Presb. of
Stirling May 1891 ; assistant at Fauldhouse;
ord. missionary to the Panjab (Sialkot)
India, 24th Sept. 1891; Kaiser-i-Hind
Medal (1924) ; retired 1926 ; D.D. (Glasgow
1926) ; app. to Robertson Memorial Church,
Grassmarket, Edinburgh, 1926 ; returned to
Panjab 1927. Marr. 28th Oct. 1895, Mary Elsie
(died 25th Aug. 1926), daugh. of William
Wood and Mary Scrogie, and has issue-
William Russell, born and died 14th Sept.
1896 ; William Mackenzie (q.v.), missionary
at Kalimpong; Charles Grant, Dunlop
Company, Bombay, born 9th March 1901 ;
David Leslie, student, born 26th Nov.
1902 ; Elizabeth May, student, born 26th
Jan. 1905 ; James Murray, student, born
15th Oct. 1906; Margaret Eleanor, born
18th July 1912.
SCOTT, WILLIAM AFFLECK, born
Edinburgh, llth March 1862, son of David
S., C.A., and brother of David Clement
Ruffelle S., D.D. ; educated at Hunter's
School, York Place, High School, and Univ.
of Edinburgh ; M.A. (1883), M.B., C.M. (July
1888); licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh in
1889 ; ord. (by same Presb.) 7th April that
year; left next day for London, sailed
10th April and arrived at Blantyre in Aug. ;
died 21st March 1895. "He died at the
age of thirty-three, beloved by all, hardly
known to his Church, which scarcely yet
recognises what a gift from God she had
in him— a true son of Livingstone, and
one who truly proved himself to be a
hero of the Dark Continent." Blantyre
Church contains a memorial window, and
a tablet erected by the Young Men's Guild.
He marr. 10th Nov. 1892, Margaret, daugh.
of James Stewart Wilson, D.D., min. of
New Abbey, and granddaugh. of John
Brown, D.D., Professor of Exegetical
Theology, U.P. Church, and had issue-
Marianne, born 24th March 1894 (marr.
10th Oct. 1921, Hugh 'Boscawen Anderson,
lieut. R.N.). Publication— Translation of
The Pilgrim's Progress into Mang'anja
(1892).— [Rankine's A Hero of the Dark
Continent (portrait) Edinburgh (1896).]
SCOTT, WILLIAM MACKENZIE,
born Sialkot, India, 16th Dec. 1898, son of
William Scott, D.D., missionary at Sialkot ;
educated at Dollar Academy, George
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Watson's College, and Univ. of Edinburgh ;
M.A. (1921), B.D. (1923) ; licen. by Presb.
of Edinburgh 19th Dec. 1923 ; assistant at
Inveresk ; ord. to Guild Mission, Kalim-
pong, 3rd Oct. 1924. Marr. llth Sept.
1924, Helen Watson, M.B., Ch.B., daugh.
of Evan Mackenzie, missionary of the Free
Church of Scotland, Laknadon, C.P. India,
and has issue— a son (still-born) 20th July
1925.
SHERIFF, JAMES, born Belford,
Northumberland, 1812, son of William S. ;
educated in England ; sometime a teacher
at Lowick ; app. teacher at Madras in
1844 ; ord. missionary there 1854 ; trans
ferred to Bombay in 1858 ; invalided home
1861 ; died at Ratho 10th May 1870. He
marr. 1834, Jane Thompson, Belford, and
had issue — William, M.D., died at Juniper
Green 18th April 1875, aged 40; Peter
James, died at Edinburgh 10th Nov. 1860
when about to be licensed as a preacher,
aged 24 ; Thomas, M.D., died at Williams-
town, Australia, 21st Nov. 1890; James
Grant, died at Coquimbo, Chile, S. America,
10th July 1901; Mary Anne, born 24th
Sept. 1850 (marr. 10th July 1888, David
Lindsay), died at Edinburgh 29th June
1925.
SILVER, ALEXANDER, born 2nd June
1883, son of David S. and Margaret Allan ;
educated at Kingussie School and Univ.
of Glasgow ; M.A. (1907) ; licen. by Presb.
of Stirling 27th April 1909; assistant at
Strachur and Strathlachlan ; app. to
Arkonam, India, 19th April, and ord. 21st
July 1910; temporary chaplain to the
Forces in Mesopotamia 1916, and in Pales
tine, 1918-19. Marr. 28th Feb. 1923, Mary,
M.B., Ch.B., daugh. of William Alexander
and Joan Ross, and has issue — Joan Mar
garet Stevenson, born 21st May 1924;
Mary Alexander, born 6th Nov. 1925.
SLATER, JAMES, born Lossiemouth,
18th Nov. 1868, son of James S. and Mary
Cordiner ; educated at Lossiemouth and
Elgin Schools and Univ. of Aberdeen ;
M.A. (1892) ; B.D. (1895) ; licen. by Presb.
of Aberdeen in 1895 ; assistant at Fetteresso
and Holburn, Aberdeen ; ord. (by Presb. of
Aberdeen) for service in Africa 7th June
1896; died unmarr. (of typhoid fever) at
Beira 16th Sept. that year, on his way to
the Blantyre Mission. From his thirteenth
to his eighteenth year he led the ordinary
life of a fisherman, serving in the family
boat. He was originally a Baptist, but
joined the Church of Scotland, becoming
a member of the East Church, Aberdeen,
where he was greatly influenced and
encouraged by James Cooper, D.D. Publi
cation — Seaside Idylls [Memoir by John
Wellwood] (Elgin, 1898).— [Memorial Brass
in Aberdeen Univ. Ante-Chapel.']
SMITH, JOHN ARCHIBALD, born
Glasgow, 25th June 1858, son of John S.
and Ann Miller; educated at George
Square Academy, High School and Univ.
of Glasgow; teacher in Glasgow 1879-80,
in Nyasaland 1881-88, at Blantyre 1888-97 ;
licen. by Presb. of Glasgow Sept. 1897;
ord. (by Presb. of Glasgow) missionary to
Nyasaland, Africa, 20th Oct. that year;
res. May 1917; returned to Africa Feb.
1919; invalided home Jan. 1921. Marr.
22nd April 1887, Emma Hannah (died 10th
Oct. 1927), daugh. of John Young, en
graver, Glasgow, and Catherine Hood Fitch,
Orkney, and has issue — David Laurence,
born 1st Nov. 1889; Archibald Douglas,
born 8th Aug. 1891 ; Charlotte Elisabeth,
born 24th April 1898 ; Arthur William, born
25th July 1899; Sidney Ian, born 16th
April 1901.
SMITH, THOMAS, born 8th July 1817,
eldest son of John S., min. of Symington,
Lanarkshire; educated at Symington
School and Univ. of Edinburgh (where he
took the highest honours in mathematics
and natural philosophy); licen. by Presb.
of Edinburgh in 1839 ; ord. missionary to
General Assembly's Institution, Calcutta,
7th March that year. Joined the Free
Church in 1843; chaplain to the 42nd
Highlanders during the Indian Mutiny,
accompanying the regiment on active
service ; Honorary M.A. (Edinburgh 1858).
In 1859 he returned to Scotland and was
min. of Cowgatehead Free Church until
1879; D.D. (Edinburgh 1867); app. Professor
of Evangelistic Theology, New College,
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Edinburgh, 1880 ; elected Moderator of the
Free Church 21st May 1891 ; retired from
his Chair in 1893 ; celebrated the diamond
jubilee of his ordination 1899; LL.D.
(Edinburgh 1900) ; died at Edinburgh 26th
May 1906 and buried in Grange Cemetery.
In 1840, through an article in the Christian
Observer, he devised the plan of the Zenana
Mission (not begun until 1854). He was
one of the ablest scholars and linguists of
his time, with a, forte for mathematics which,
Lord Kelvin said, "would unquestionably
have raised him to the very highest
eminence in that science." His missionary
enthusiasm brought him many friendships
in all the Churches, and his influence on the
religious and educational life of India was
far-reaching and memorable. He was a
constant contributor to missionary literature
and to Indian journalism, editor of the
Calcutta Review, Nos. 35-49 (in which he
wrote thirty-two articles) and joint-editor
of the Calcutta Christian Observer. Portrait
in New College, Edinburgh. He marr.
1839, Grace (died 1886), daugh. of David
K. Whyte, paymaster R.N., and had issue
—David, died in infancy; John, died in
India; Annie; David Whyte Ewart; William
Whyte, M.A., B.D., min. of Newington
Free Church, Edinburgh, born 2nd Dec.
1849, died 1st March 1904. Publications—
An Elementary Treatise on Plane Geometry
according to ' the Method of Rectilineal
Co-ordinates (Edinburgh, 1857) ; Studies on
Pascal [trans, from the French of Alexandre
Vinet] (Edinburgh, 1859); The English
Puritan Divines, 50 vols. (1860-6); Key
notes of the Bible (Edinburgh, 1866);
Natural Laws (Edinburgh, 1867); The Clem
entine Homilies [" Ante-Nicene Christian
Library," xvii.](Edinburgh, 1870); Medieval
Missions [Duff Missionary Lecture] (Edin
burgh, 1880) ; Life of Alexander Duff, D.D.
[Men Worth Remembering] (London, 1883);
Modern Missions and Culture [trans, from
the German of G. Warneck] (1883); History
of Protestant Missions from the Reformation
[ibid.] (1884) ; Memoirs of James Begg, D.D.,
2 vols. (Edinburgh, 1885-8); Euclid; his
Life and System [World's Epoch-Makers]
(Edinburgh, 1902) ; The Christian's Patri
mony. Edited Letters of Samuel Rutherford
(Edinburgh, 1881).— [The Scotsman, 27th
May 1906 ; Memorial Notice [by Dr George
Smith] in Scottish Review (31st May 1906) ;
Diet. Nat. Biog., 2nd Supp., iii., 347.]
SMITH, WILLIAM, M.A. (cf. Vol. III.,
304) ; formerly min. of Forth ; app.
Professor in the General Assembly's Insti
tution at Calcutta 1884 ; became Principal
in 1885 ; died of sunstroke at Keadoin,
Sikkim, 21st Oct. 1889.
STOTT, IAN FERGUSSON GORDON,
born London, 14th January 1904, son of
GeorgeGordonS.,D.D., minister of Cramond;
educated at Daniel Stewart's College, Edin
burgh, St Bees School, Cumberland, and
Univ. of St Andrews [where he was Presi
dent of Students' Representative Council,
1926-7]; M.A. (1924); B.D. (1927); licen.
by Presb. of Edinburgh 8th June 1927;
ord. (by same Presb.) to Nyasaland, Africa,
2nd Sept. same year.
SUTHERLAND, WILLIAM
SUMMERS, born Fraserburgh, 4th
Jan. 1856, son of Neil S. and Barbara
Murison ; educated at Fraserburgh School,
Grammar School, and Univ. of Aberdeen ;
M.A. (1876) ; licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen
in 1879; assistant at Ruthrieston and
Holburn, Aberdeen; ord. missionary to
Darjeeling in 1879, and served to 1899;
organising secretary to Foreign Mission in
1902; D.D. (Aberdeen 1912); received
Kaiser-i-Hind Medal ; died at Fraserburgh,
9th May 1924. He marr. (1) Isabel, daugh.
of William Slesser, and had issue— William
Neil, min. of Dalmeny, born 10th Aug. 1888 :
(2) Annabella Jane, daugh. of Alexander
Mitchell, D.D., min. of North Parish, Dun-
fermline, and had issue— Marion.
TAYLOR, JOHN, born Dreghorn, Ayr
shire, 1st Feb. 1837, eldest son of William
T., merchant, and Grace Reid; educated
at Kilmarnock Academy and Univ. of
Glasgow; M.A. (1859); ord. to Sialkot,
India, 24th Aug. 1859; sailed on 3rd
Sept., reached Bombay 20th Jan., and
Sialkot 18th March 1860; died at Neils-
ton (while on furlough from ill-health)'
17th March 1868, and was buried in St
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Andrew's Churchyard, Kilmarnock, where
his fellow - students erected a cross to
his memory. He marr. 1858, Margaret,
daugh. of Robert Brown, and had issue
—William, died in infancy; Robert, in
U.S.A., born 1861 ; Grace, born 1862
(marr. David Graham); James, physician,
born 1865 ; Edmond, born 1867, died in
America.
TAYLOR, THOMAS EDWARD, born
Edinburgh, 2nd June 1866, son of Charles
Selkrig T., S.S.C., and Annie Learmonth ;
educated at George Watson's College and
Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (1887), B.L.
(1890); licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh in
1893; reader in St Giles, Edinburgh;
assistant at Buenos Aires in 1894, and at
Inverness ; ord. missionary to Darjeeling
(Scottish Universities' Mission) 18th March
1898 ; died in the Dooars, 25th Dec. 1906.
His chief work was charge of the training
institution at Kalimpong. The library
hall of the institution was built as a
memorial of his wife. He marr. 28th
March 1898, Mary Constance (died 22nd
Feb. 1902), daugh. of James Cameron Lees,
K.C.V.O., D.D., LL.D., min. of St Giles,
Edinburgh, and had issue — Charles
Cameron, M.A., in Penang, born 10th March
1900. — [Maclean's Life of Dr Cameron
Lees, 321 ; The Outposts (portrait), March
1907.]
TEMPLETON, ANDREW, born Glas
gow, 3rd Feb. 1882, son of William Pettigrew
T. and Isabella Fleming; educated at
Whitehill School, Dennistoun, and Univ.
of Glasgow; M.A. (1905), B.D. (1909);
licen. by Presb. of Glasgow; assistant at
North Berwick and Galashiels ; ord. to
Bargeddie 2nd Feb. 1911 ; trans, to Second
Charge, Lesmahagow, 26th Sept. 1912;
app. Professor Scottish Churches' College,
Madras, 15th April 1913; dem. through
ill-health Feb. 1916.
THOMSON, JAMES, M.A. ; ord.
missionary Professor in General Assembly's
Institution, Calcutta, 19th Sept. 1878, and
served till 1882 ; adm. min. of St Andrew's
Parish, Glasgow, llth Jan. 1894 (cf. Vol. III.,
435) ; died 19th July 1926. His son, John
A. G., was trans, from Tron Parish, Edin
burgh, to Hawick 19th Nov. 1925.
TOCHER, FORBES SCOTT, born
Whitehills, Banff, 9th Feb. 1885, son of
James T. and Elsie Tocher; educated at
Fordyce Academy, Univs. of Aberdeen,
M.A. (1906) [Fullerton Scholar], and Edin
burgh, B.D. (1909); licen. by Presb. of
Edinburgh in 1909 ; temporary assistant
at Galashiels; ord. to Ichang, China (by
Presb. of Fordyce) 4th Aug. 1909 ; served
as lieut. Royal Field Artillery in European
War (M.C.); created C.B.E. 3rd Jan. 1928,
having carried out negotiations with Yangtse
pirates for the release of Captain Lalor of
the steamer Siangtan, who was kidnapped
from his vessel while anchored near Paiyang,
thirty miles below Ichang, on 30th Nov.
1927. He " showed a fearless determination
and perseverance under the most difficult cir
cumstances." Marr. 8th Aug. 1917, Johanna,
daugh. of John Forbes and Maggie Moggatt,
and has issue— Agnes Forbes, born 9th May
1922.
TULLOCH, ARTHUR PENRHYN
STANLEY, M.A., B.D. (cf. Vol. L, 205) ;
app. to Darjeeling, India, 10th March, and
ord. llth Oct. 1903 ; invalided home in
1908, and subsequently retired ; adm. to
Ecclesmachan 20th Sept. 1910. Joined
the Church of Rome in 1924.
TURNBULL, ARCHIBALD, born at
West Binnie, Linlithgow, 26th July 1855,
son of Archibald T. and Agnes Wilson;
educated at High School and Univ. of
Edinburgh ; M.A. (1876), B.D. (1879), and
at Tubingen, Germany ; licen. by Presb. of
Linlithgow in 1879; ord. (by Presb. of
Edinburgh) as missionary to Darjeeling
27th Nov. that year, and served till
1900; died at Poldrait, Linlithgow, 3rd
Jan. 1905. He marr. (1) 9th Jan. 1882,
Mary Jane, daugh. of Hugh Macdiarmid,
D.D., min. of Callander, and had issue-
Archibald Macdiarmid, tea-planter, Dooars,
Bengal, born 29th Oct. 1882; Christina
Brooks Macdiarmid, born 16th Dec. 1883 ;
Agnes Macdiarmid, born 2nd Aug. 1888
(marr. 1916) ; Mary Macdiarmid, born 16th
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Aug. 1889 (marr. 1915); Hugh Mac-
diarmid, lieut. R.S., born llth June
1893, killed in action 5th Sept. 1917;
Kachel Mayo, born April 1895, died aged
14 months ; Betty Macdiarmid, born 25th
April 1896 (marr. 3rd Aug. 1922, John
Hubert Cooper) : (2) April 1900, Katherine
Agnes, widow of John Ferguson, sheriff-
clerk of Linlithgow, s.p.
WALKER, ALEXANDER, app. mission
ary at Madras under the auspices of the
Ladies' Association for Foreign Missions
in 1847 ; ord. llth March 1855, and trans
ferred to service of Foreign Mission Com
mittee ; adm. chaplain H.E.I.C.S. 28th
Sept. 1859; adm. min. of Rescobie 19th
Oct. 1880 (cf. Vol. V., 303). His widow died
4th March 1925.
WALKER, WILLIAM, M.A., B.D. ; ord.
missionary to Chamba, India, 15th Oct.
1884, and served till 1895 ; adm. min. of St
Leonard's, Ayr, 28th July 1898 (cf. Vol. III.,
15) ; adm. to Foss 23rd Nov. 1926.
WALLACE, ROBERT, ord. missionary
to Madras in 1853, and served till 1855.
WANDS, VICTOR WILLIAM, born
Shettleston, 2nd Sept. 1897, son of John W.
and Elizabeth Stewart ; educated at White-
hill School and Univ. of Glasgow ; licen.
by Presb. of Glasgow 21st Dec. 1921 ; ord.
assistant at St Andrew's Church, Buenos
Aires, 16th Dec. 1921 ; app. for service in
Nyasaland 1924 ; res. 1926 ; assistant at
Riccarton, Ayrshire ; adm. to Garvald,
Haddingtonshire, 14th April 1926. Marr.
29th Sept. 1924, Jean Taylor, daugh. of
Daniel Weir, and has issue — Victor Taylor,
born 22nd Sept. 1926.
WANN, ANDREW BLAIR, M.A.,
B.D. ; ord. missionary to Bombay 6th Oct.
1886 ; transferred to Calcutta June 1890 ;
Principal of Scottish Churches' College,
Calcutta, 1908-9; adm. to Corarie 20th Sept.
1911 (cf. Vol. IV., 264); died suddenly in rail
way train at Comrie 28th June 1923. Publi
cation — The Message of Christ to India
[Croall Lecture], edited with Memoir by
John Morrison, D.D. (Edinburgh, 1925).
WARREN, ANDREW, born Sheffield,
5th Jan. 1877, son of Thomas W. and
Jennie Foot ; educated at Silcoats School
and Univs. of Manchester and London,
B.A. (1897) ; became min. of Congregational
Church; Principal of Bhawanipore College
and Ramsay College, Almora, India; app.
missionary Professor at Scottish Churches'
College, Calcutta, 6th March 1917 ; adm.
as licentiate by General Assembly May
1919 ; ord. by Presb. of Bengal and Assam
22nd Aug. that year ; dem. 1923 ; assistant
at Portobello and locum tenens at Errol
1924; adm. (assistant and successor) to
Cameron, Fife, 4th July that year. Marr.
14th Oct. 1908, Gwynaeth, daugh. of Joseph
Arthur Lambert and Marian Walsh, and
has issue— Thomas, born 24th July 1909 ;
Robert Arthur, born 14th Dec. 1910; Richard
Lambert, born 5th March 1916, died 23rd
May 1918; Marian Elizabeth, born 3rd
June 1919.
WATSON, ALEXANDER CAMERON,
M.A., B.D. ; ord. missionary to Madras
21st Aug. 1883, and served till 1885 ; adm.
to Renton 18th Oct. 1887; trans, to St
Bosvvells 15th July 1897 (cf. Vol. II., 193);
died 13th Dec. 1923.
WATSON, HARRY STEEL, born
Renton, 23rd Sept. 1896, son of Alexander
Cameron W., min. of St Boswells ; edu
cated at High School and Univ. of Edin
burgh ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 27th
June 1923 ; ord. to Iringa Mission, Tangan
yika, 15th July that year. Marr. 25th July
1923, Margaret Elizabeth, daugh. of Alex
ander Milne, min. of Gourock, and has
issue.
WATSON, JAMES, adm. from Free
Church 1910; app. to Calcutta 9th July
1912 ; res, 1919 ; at Delhi in 1927.
WAUGH, GEORGE, born Slamannan,
22nd Oct. 1857, son of George W. and
Mary Stark ; educated at Slamannan Free
Church School, Free Church Training
College, and Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A.
(1882), B.D. (1885); licen. by Presb. of
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Linlithgow 3rd June 1885; assistant at
Slamannan (Limerigg Mission) April 1883
to Feb. 1890; ord. missionary to the
Panjab (Sialkot), India, llth Feb. 1890; res.
1915, and became chaplain to Infirmaries,
Glasgow. Marr. (1) 28th Feb. 1890, Jane
(died 3rd May 1897), daugh. of John Dykes,
and has issue— Jane Patrick, born 6th Feb.
1896: (2) 7th Dec. 1899, Jane, daugh. of
John Hogg, and has issue— George, C.E.,
born 2nd Nov. 1900 ; John Hogg, mining
engineer, born 20th June 1902 ; Christina
Stirling, born 30th July 1903 ; David Stark
Reid, born 10th Jan. 1906; Mary Stark,
born 23rd Nov. 1911. Publications —
First Catechism [in Hindustani] Scnptmr*
(Sialkot, 1896); The Uses of the Definite
and Indefinite Articles (Madras, 1906);
The History of the Murray College, Sialkot,
1889-1910 (Lahore, 1910); Notes on the
Laureate Poetry Book III. (Lahore, 1912) ;
Inventor of Ruling Frame for Panjab
Slates (Sialkot, 1911).
WHITE, WILLIAM, ord. missionary to
Calcutta in 1853, and served till 1858
[afterwards of St Peter's Square Church,
Manchester (q.v.)].
WILSON, JOHN, born Lauder,
Berwickshire, llth Dec. 1804, son of
Andrew W., farmer, and Janet, daugh. of
James Hunter, farmer ; educated at Lauder
School [the schoolmaster, Alexander
Paterson (a native of Earlston parish)
exerted an extraordinarily inspiring in
fluence over his pupils, many of whom
entered the ministry] and Univ. of Edin
burgh (surgery and medicine being among
his subjects) ; taught a school at Horndean-
on-Tweed during his summer vacations,
and was afterwards tutor in the manse of
Stow ; licen. by Presb. of Earlston in 1828 ;
ord. agent of the Scottish Missionary
Society 24th June that year and arrived
at Bombay 14th Feb. 1829; transferred to
the Church of Scotland Mission at Bombay
in 1835; D.D. (Edinburgh, 20th April 1836).
Joined the Free Church in 1843; F.R.S.
(7th Feb. 1845); President of the Cave
Temple Commission, 1848-61; Fellow of
Bombay Univ. 1857; Vice- Chancellor
1868; elected Moderator of the Free
Church General Assembly 19th May 1870 ;
died at The Cliff, near Bombay, 1st Dec.
1875 and was buried in the Old Scottish
burial-ground. One of the most industrious
and indomitable of missionaries, he gave
himself to the work with apostolic enthusi
asm and energy, scarcely ever halting
during his long-extended career. Specially
devoted to vernacular education, he set
himself to acquire the dialects of a varied
population, with whom he was able to
converse with ease and fluency. He was
the first to establish schools for native
girls and a native church on Presbyterian
principles. In 1832 he founded a more
advanced institution, out of which grew the
well-known College called by his name.
He made considerable journeys throughout
his own and other Presidencies, collecting
manuscripts and amassing Oriental know
ledge. Apart from his purely missionary
labours, his work of examining the
antiquities of the cave temples, his
deciphering of the hitherto unsolved rock
inscriptions of Asoka, at Girnar, and,
during the Mutiny, his expiscation of the
rebels' cryptic correspondence, and a pil
grimage to Palestine in 1843, were principal
incidents in his well-filled life. He was
one of the most learned of Asiatic scholars
and a leading member (President of Bombay
branch 1835-42) of the Royal Asiatic
Society. His private life was ennobled
by a truly religious spirit, and his influence
radiated over the whole of India. He
marr. (1) 12th Aug. 1828, Margaret, author
of Account of the Ancient Egyptians [in
Marathi] (Bombay 1839) (died 19th April
1835), daugh. of Kenneth Bayne, min. of
the Gaelic Parish, Greenock, and had issue
— Andrew, Oriental traveller, editor of the
Times of India, author of The Abode of
Snow (1875) and other works, born 1831,
died at Howton on Ullswater 9th June
1881: (2) Sept. 1846, Isabella (died s.p. Sept.
1867), second daugh. of James Dennistoun of
Dennistoun. Publications— Encouragement
to Active Missionary Exertions [anon.]
(Edinburgh, 1827) ; The Life of John Eliot,
Apostle of the Indians [anon.] (Edinburgh,
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1828) ; An Exposure of the Hindu Religion
(Bombay, 1832) ; A Second Exposure of the
Hindu Religion (Bombay, 1834); Missionary
Journey in Gujrat and Gutch (Bombay,
1838); Memoir of Mrs Margaret Wilson
(Edinburgh, 1838, 1840, 1858, 1860) ; Idio-
matical Exercises illustrative of the English
and Marathi Languages (Bombay, 1839) ;
The Pdrsi Religion . . . unfolded, refuted,
and contrasted with Christianity (Bombay,
1843) ; The Doctrine of Jehovah, addressed
to the Pdrsis (Bombay, 1847); The Lands
of the Bible Visited, 2 vols. (Edinburgh,
1847) ; The Evangelisation of India (Edin
burgh, 1849); "A Memoir on the Cave
Temples and Monasteries, and other
Buddhist, Brahmanical, and Jaine Remains
of Western India" (Journ. Bombay Asiatic
Soc., in., reprinted in 1850) ; Darkness and
Dawn in India (Bombay, 1853); History
of the Suppression of Infanticide in Western
India (Bombay, 1855); Sermon at the
Baptism of a Pdrsi Youth (Bombay, 1856);
India Three Thousand Years Ago (Bombay,
1858; Assembly Addresses (Edinburgh,
1870); A Poetical Address to India (Bombay,
1872); Indian Caste [edited by Peter
Paterson],2 vols (Bombay, 1877, Edinburgh,
1878) ; Hazer and Razor in the Scriptures
(n.d.). He founded the Oriental Christian
Spectator, 1830. Contributed articles to
the Bombay Quarterly Review, British and
Foreign Evangelical Revietv, and North
British Review. — [Life by George Smith,
LL.D., C.I.E. (London, 1879); Marrat's
Two Standard Bearers in the East (1882) ;
Diet. Nat. Biog.~\
YOUNGSON, JAMES, M.A., B.D. ;
ord. to Kikuyu 18th April 1911 ; res. Nov.
1915; min. of St Andrew's Church, Nairobi,
British East Africa, 1917 (q.v.).
YOUNGSON, JOHN FORBES
WHITE, born Pitsligo, 6th March 1852,
son of Alexander Y. and Helen Chapman ;
educated at Pitsligo and Skene Schools',
Old Grammar School, and Univ. of Aber
deen; M.A. (1873), B.D. (1884); ord.
missionary to the Panjab Dec. 1875 ; D.D.
(Aberdeen, 1893); Moderator of the Presby
terian Church of India 1905-6; retired in
1907 but returned to India, where he served
till his death 27th June 1920. Youngson-
abad was named in his honour. He marr.
19th Aug. 1875, Helen, daugh. of William
Mair, and had issue— Alexander, C.E., born
3rd July 1876 ; Helen, born 5th June 1878
(marr. Dr Alexander Brown); William,
engineer, born 14th May 1880 ; John, born
28th March 1882, wounded and reported
missing in 1917 ; Margaret, born 26th Feb.
1884 (marr. Dr John Clark Wilson); Jamesj
sometime min. at Nairobi, born 29th Jan.
1887 ; Elizabeth (twin), born 29th Jan.
1887, died 1918 ; Robert, in Canadian Civil
Service, born 27th Feb. 1889 ; Ernest, born
10th Sept. 1891 ; Mary, born 29th March
1896 (marr. James Macgillivray, min. of
Lochcarron). Publications— -//a^i Qur-
bani [The True Sacrifice] ; Qawaid-i-Yunani
[Greek Grammar] ; The Sat Gur, or Letters
to the Sikhs ; The History of the Churhas ;
Forty Years of the Panjab Mission (portrait)
(Edinburgh, 1896).
GREEN, STEPHEN, born Aberlour,
20th Dec. 1891, son of Robert G. and
Jane Georgina Stephen ; educated at Aber
lour School, Fettes College, and Univ. of
Edinburgh; M.A. (1914), B.D. (1920);
licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 30th April
1919 ; assistant at North Leith Oct. 1919
to May 1923 ; ord. to East Parish, Greenock,
14th May 1923 ; dem. on appointment as
missionary to Nyasaland 1928.
JEWISH MISSIONARIES
[Alphabetical List of Ordained Missionaries in connection with the Jewish
Mission Scheme of the Church of Scotland from 1841 to 1928.]
[In 1838 the General Assembly appointed a Committee to consider the subject of a
Mission to the Jews, and a Deputation [George Keith, D.D., minister of St Cyrus ; Alexander
Black, D.D., Professor of Divinity, Monachal College, Aberdeen; Andrew Bonar, minister
Collace; Robert Murray M'Cheyne, minister of St Peter's, Dundee, and Robert Wodrow,
lasgow elder] was appointed to visit the chief Jewish communities on the Continent and
J Bast Their Report led the Assembly of 1840 to adopt a Jewish Mission as one of the
greater Schemes of the Church. As the members of the Deputation were travelling across the
desert from Egypt to Palestine, Dr Black fell from his camel and was rendered unconscious
He recovered sufficiently to accompany his colleagues to Jerusalem and other places in
Palestine. But the heat of summer and the roughness of the mode of travel obliged Drs
Black and Keith to proceed homewards by the shortest route through Hungary, to the
nearest Continental port. At Pesth, Dr Keith was -seized with an illness so serious that
hie was despaired of. Dr Black also was taken ill, and the hapless condition of the
Scottish strangers evoked sympathy in the city. Their situation became known to
the Protestant Archduchess Marie Dorothea, whose husband was Viceroy of Hungary.
She ministered to them personally, heard the story of their mission, and encouraged them
to think of the Jews at Pesth, assuring them that should the Church of Scotland decide to
plant a Mission there, she would aid them to the utmost of her power. Thus it was that
the first Jewish Mission of the Church of Scotland had its origin in Hungary— at Pesth
and Jassy, on 21st August 1841. In 1843 all the missionaries, four in number, joined the
1 ree Church. Among them was the well-known " Rabbi " Duncan (infra). Many of their
converts rose to positions of eminence and influence in the Church. Of these, Alfred
Edersheim, D.D. [author of The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, minister of the
Free Church, Old Machar, of the English Presbyterian Church, Torquay, afterwards a
clergyman in the Church of England, Select Preacher to the University of Oxford,
Warburtonian Lecturer at Lincoln's Inn, and Lecturer on the Septuagint in the University
of Cambridge, born 1823, died 1889], and Adolph Saphir [B.A. (Glasgow, 1854), D.D.
(Edinburgh, 1878), minister of Belgrave Presbyterian Church, London, author of Christ and
the Scriptures and other works, born 1831, died 1891] are the best known. Both were
baptized (in April and on 9th May 1843 respectively) and admitted members of the Church
Following the Secession of 1843, the Continental stations remained with the
1 ree Church. Missionaries of German extraction and training were for a time employed by
Church of Scotland, work being carried on in India, Arabia, and Persia, by the Rev
Jacob Samuel, a Jewish convert, who had gone from Glasgow to Calcutta in 1830. Tunis
in North Africa; Cochin, on the Malabar coast of India; Karlsruhe, Darmstadt, Speyer,
and Wurzburg, m Germany, were occupied for longer or shorter periods, and in London
a Mission was also in operation [see under Halkin Street, London]. After the Crimean
War the Near East was definitely fixed upon as the most suitable sphere for the Committee's
work, and between 1856 and 1864 the following stations were opened : Salonica and
Smyrna (1856), Alexandria (1858), Constantinople (1859), and Beyrout (1864). The Corn-
gents were all home-trained men. From 1861 to 1867 an important and interesting
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work was carried on among the Falasha or Jews of Abyssinia. Its agents, Messrs Staiger
and Brandeis, were thrown into prison with other Europeans, by the Emperor Theodore, but
were rescued by the British Army. In 1882 medical mission-work was begun at Smyrna
under Levi Prinski Scott (M.B., C.M., Edinburgh 1880), a converted Jew. As all the
stations, except Alexandria, lay within the Turkish Empire, missionary enterprise was
abandoned during the Great War (1914-18). Two medical missionaries, Dr Sandier,
Constantinople, and Dr Mackenzie Newton, Smyrna, died at their posts. Salonica
and Beyrout were closed. In 1920 work was resumed at Smyrna and in 1921 the
Church of Scotland with the United Free Church inaugurated a joint Mission at Galata,
Constantinople. In Sept. 1922 the Kemalist Turks took possession of Smyrna, the city
becoming a scene of massacre and desolation, the Mission property being destroyed. In
1928 the stations of the Committee were three in number, Alexandria, Constantinople, and
Jaffa. In the preceding year the Jewish Medical Mission at Edinburgh was placed under
control of the Church of Scotland. A Mission to Jews is also carried on in Glasgow in
co-operation with the United Free Church.]
ALLAN, WILLIAM OWEN, born
Torthorwald, Dumfriesshire, 1812, third
son of Thomas A. ; educated at Univ. of
Glasgow ; ord. missionary at Budapest in
1842 ; transferred to Constantinople and
Damascus; became min. of the Danish
Protestant congregation at St Thomas,
West Indies, where he exercised much
influence in the community ; was afterwards
min. at Prague; lived in retirement at
Edinburgh, and died 8th Jan. 1885. He
marr. at Leghorn 1842, Annabella (died at
St Thomas, West Indies), elder daugh. of
John Torrance, surgeon, Kilmarnock, and
Janet, daugh. of James Douglas, min. of
Stewarton, and step - daugh. of John
Duncan, LL.D., Professor of Hebrew, New
College, Edinburgh, and had issue — Janet
(marr. an officer of the merchant service) ;
Annabella (marr. Eidgway, St Thomas,
West Indies). — [White's Life of John
Duncan, 106.]
BONTHORNE, JAMES, born 1830;
educated at Univ. of St Andrews; licen.
by Presb. of St Andrews ; ord. (by same
Presb.) in 1854 ; app. missionary at Cochin,
India ; res. 1856 ; became assistant to
John Gumming, D.D., Crown Court
Church, London; conducted a school for
boys at Addiscombe, Croydon, where he
held services in connection with the Church
of Scotland from 1865-7. Joined the
Presbyterian Church of England, emigrated
to New South Wales, and was min. at
East Maitland, 1871-1881 ; died 13th June
1881.
BROWN, GEORGE, (cf. Vol. V., 255),
app. as teacher at Alexandria in 1863 ;
res. 1864 ; adm. to Bendochy6th July 1875.
BROWN, WILLIAM MORRIS, M.A.
(cf. Vol. I., 112); ord. missionary at Con
stantinople in 1868 ; adm. to St Margaret's,
Edinburgh, 25th Oct. 1881.
CHARTERIS, WILLIAM, born
Wamphray, Dumfriesshire, 1822, second son
of Matthew C. and Jean Learmonth, and
uncle of Archibald Hamilton C., D.D.,
LL.D. ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ;
ord. (by Presb. of London) as a missionary
of English Presbyterian Church to the
troops at Corfu, and missionary to the
Jews 29th July 1845; returned home in
1864 on the abandonment of the British
Protectorate and the ceding of the Ionian
Islands to Greece ; adm. to Alderney Presby
terian Church, Channel Islands, llth July
1865 ; res. 8th Nov. 1869, on app. to Salonica;
transferred to Smyrna in 1870, to Alex
andria 1875 ; again at Smyrna ; died there
unmarr. 25th Nov. 1886. Publication—
Translation of the Shorter Catechism into
Modern Greek. — [Gordon's Life of Professor
Charteris, 390 ; Paterson;s Wamphray, 150.]
CHRISTIE, JAMES (cf. Vol. I., 149) ;
ord. missionary at Alexandria 30th Jan.
1861 ; missionary at Constantinople,
1861-79); adm. to Gilmerton 31st Oct.
1881.
COULL, GEORGE, M.A. ; ord. mission
ary at Smyrna in 1857; res. J870 [after
wards in Nova Scotia (q.v.)].
JEWISH MISSIONARIES
715
CROSBIE, PETER, born 25th Feb.
1828 ; educated at Univ. of St Andrews ;
ord. (by Presb. of St Andrews) in 1857;
app. to Salonica ; died there 22nd Nov.
1904. He marr. Sarah M'Morland, who
died at London (s.p.) 4th Oct. 1914, aged
89. — [Tonibst. at Salonica.]
DEWAR, JAMES STARK, educated at
Univ. of St Andrews ; was in Athens when
app. to Salonica in 1874 ; died there 20th
June 1877.
DONALDSON, PETER, born Muthill,
18th March 1855, son of William D.,
weaver, and Catherine M'Farlane ; edu
cated at Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A. (1879),
B..D (1882) ; app. to Constantinople in
1882; transferred to Alexandria 1884,
and to Smyrna 1885 ; ord. (by Presb. of
Glasgow) in 1886 ; res. 1888 ; became pro
prietor of a Boarding School at Salonica ;
died there 13th Feb. 1927. He marr. and
had issue.
DUNCAN, HUGH, M.A., B.D. (cf. Vol.
III., 252) ; app. assistant at Alexandria in
1886; ord. min. of Garturk 17th Oct. 1890.
DUNCAN, JOHN, LL.D. (cf. Vol. III.,
425) ; app. missionary to the Continental
Jews at Budapest 16th May 1841. Joined the
Free Church in 1843, and became Professor
of Hebrew in the New College, Edinburgh :
died 26th Feb. 1870. By his first wife he
had issue— Annie, born 1838 (marr. 1861,
John Leckie, West Indies) ; by his second
wife he had issue — Maria, born 1842
(marr. 1865, Adolph Spaeth, Lutheran min.,
Philadelphia, U.S.A.— [See Sinclair's Rich
Gleanings after the Vintage from Rabbi
Duncan (portraits) (London, 1925).]
EDWARD, DANIEL, born Edinburgh,
1815 ; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh,
M.A. (20th April 1836), B.D. (10th March
1841), and at Berlin ; ord. missionary at
Jassy, Moldavia (now Rumania) llth
March 1841. Joined the Free Church in
1843 ; transferred to Lemberg in 1848 ;
driven out of Austria in 1852 he began
work among the Jews at Breslau ; retired
1896, and died that year. He marr. 25th
Aug. 1846, Catherine (born 2nd April 1813,
died 21st Feb. 1861), eldest daugh. of
Patrick Grant, min. of Kirkmichael, Banff-
shire (cf. Vol. VI., 368) [omitted there,
as also, Mary, died 1841], and had issue —
Elizabeth, born July 1848 ; Isabella, born
Aug. 1849, died 1850 ; Catherine, born 16th
Sept. 1850; a son, born 16th March, died
April 1852; Mary, born 1856. Publica
tion — Job and his Three Friends, the Com
forters of Suffering Christendom [anon.]
(1857).— [Missionary Life among the Jews
in Moldavia, Galicia, and Silesia, Memoir
and Letters of Mrs Edward (portrait)
(London 1867).]
FENWICK, DAVID PITKAITHLY (cf.
Vol. V., 164); app. missionary at Alex
andria in 1868 ; transferred to Beyrout
in 1869; res. 1870; adm. to Logie (Fife)
12th Feb. 1874.
FREW, ROBERT, born Irvine 1857, son
of William F. ; educated at Univ. of
Glasgow, 1877-82, and in Canada (where he
completed his theological curriculum) ; app.
a missionary in Constantinople, and became
min. of Union Church, Pera, 1901. Joined
the Church of Scotland in 1907 and super
intended the Jewish Mission at Haskeui,
Constantinople; D.D. (Glasgow, 1915); re
turned home after the War, and joined the
Church of England. During the Balkan
War he displayed high courage in the
cholera camps, and his services to Europeans
and others in the Great War won universal
admiration.
KAY, DAVID MILLER, M.A., B.Sc. (cf.
Vol. VII., 427) ; app. to Constantinople in
1898; dem. on appointment to Chair of
Hebrew and Oriental Languages in Univ.
of St Andrews 1902.
KEAN, WILLIAM (cf. Vol. VI., 26); ord.
missionary at Alexandria in 1882 ; adm. to
Ruthrieston, Aberdeen, 1893 (q.v.); app.
assistant agent of the British and Foreign
Bible Society at St Petersburg in 1895, and
sole agent 1897.
MACKIE, GEORGE MONRO, D.D.
(See under Alexandria, Egypt.)
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MURRAY, JAMES, born Corfu, 30th
Nov. 1854, son of James M., soldier, and
Grace Fraser ; educated at Ardersier School
and Univ. of Aberdeen ; M.A. (1883), B.D.
(1886) ; licen. by Presb. of Nairn ; assistant
at Ellon Dec. 1886 to April 1888 ; ord. to
Smyrna 26th April 1888 ; res. 1920 ; D.D.
(Aberdeen 1919) ; died at Lakeland, Florida,
U.S.A., 2nd July 1923. He marr. (1) 19th
April 1889, Barbara (died 2nd Feb. 1890 \
daugh. of Robert Moir : (2) 10th Feb. 1892,
Elizabeth Emma Kirkland, and had issue —
Grace Elizabeth, born 20th May 1893 (marr.
25th Sept. 1915, William Wylie Ford);
James Sanford, born 3rd Jan. 1895, killed
in action in France 29th May 1915 ; Robert
Clarke, born 18th Oct. 1896 ; John Paton,
min. of Birse, app. army chaplain 1926,
born 28th Sept. 1898; Marjorie Louise,
born 26th Nov. 1901 (marr. April 1920,
Ivor Gordon Mackay); Elsie May, born
21st Sept. 1903; Eric Fraser, born 14th
April 1907 ; Barbara Rose, born 14th July
1909.
ROBERTSON, JAMES, M.A. (cf. Vol.
VII., 407); ord. missionary at Constanti
nople in 1862 : missionary at Beyrout,
1864-7; adm. to Mayfield, Edinburgh, 1875;
app. Professor of Hebrew and Oriental
Languages, Univ. of Glasgow, 9th Aug.
1877.
SCOTT, WILLIAM FRANK (cf. Vol.
VI., 198); ord. (by Presb. of Edinburgh)
llth July 1876; app. to Beyrout Sept.
that year; transferred to Alexandria, Egypt,
1879, and served till 1882; adm. to Logie-
Buchan 14th March 1889.
SCRIMGEOUR, DANIEL, born
Methven, 1845; educated at Perth Academy
and Univ. of St Andrews, 1860-7 ; licen. by
Presb. of Perth in 1867 ; ord. in 1868, and
app. to Alexandria : res. through ill-health
in 1871 ; sometime assistant at St Vigeans
and locum tenens at Hoy and Graemsay ;
died unmarr. at Montrose, 17th July 1885.
He lost all his savings by the failure of
the City of Glasgow Bank.
SMITH, ROBERT, born Benholme, 21st
Jan. 1817, son of Andrew S., farmer [after
wards at St Cyrus] ; educated at St Cyrus
School (where he was greatly influenced by
Alexander Keith, D.D., min. of that parish),
Marischal College, Aberdeen, MA. (1835),
and Univ. of St Andrews ; licen. by Presb.
of Fordoun in 1841; app. missionary at
Budapest that year; ord. April 1842.
Joined the Free Church in 1843; was at
Amsterdam in 1848, and Frankfurt, 1857-9 ;
some years a private chaplain in England ;
min. of the Free Church, Corsock, 1867-94 ;
D.D. (Aberdeen 1888); clerk of the Free
Synod of Dumfries; died 12th June 1894.
He marr. 1846, Emma Jackson, who died
llth April 1893, and had issue— Marie
Dorothea (named after the Protestant
Archduchess of Austria), only child, born
1847. Publications — Coming Events (I860);
Inspiration : Its Nature and Proofs (1891);
The Quiet Thoughts of a Quiet Thinker
[edited with Memoir (portrait) by Thomas
M. Lindsay, D.D.] (Edinburgh, 1896);
Early Days of the Mission to the Jews at
Pesth. He left unfinished a Commentary
on Isaiah.
SPENCE, DAVID BROWN, born
Tealing, Forfarshire, 2nd Aug. 1841, son of
John S. and Mary Lowson ; educated at
High School, Dundee, and Univ. of St
Andrews; MA. (1863); licen. by Presb. of
Dundee in 1867 ; assistant at St Mary's,
Dundee ; app. to Constantinople Nov.
1867 ; ord. to Smyrna 10th May 1870 ;
transferred to Constantinople June 1878;
retired 1897; died 23rd Dec. 1899. He
marr. Elizabeth, daugh. of Hugh M'Connell,
St Andrews, and had issue — John W. L.,
M.D., Edinburgh ; Alexander, master
mariner, Liverpool; James Constantino,
tea planter, Assam ; Randolph, in Edin
burgh, and four daughs. Publications-
Translations into Judaeo-Spanish of school-
books and tracts. Revised Judaeo-Spanish
New Testament (first pocket edition).
TAIT, WILLIAM MARSHALL, M.A,
B.D. (cf. Vol. VII., 287) ; ord. (by Presb. of
Glasgow) as missionary at Alexandria 7th
Sept. 1903 ; transferred to Salonica in
1905; res. 1909; adm. to Lerwick 27th
April 1910.
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717
TAYLOR, MALCOLM THOMAS
SHIELL, born Cheaters Schoolhouse,
Southdean, 22nd March 1859, son of Neil
T., schoolmaster, and Mary Shiell ; educated
at Univs. of Glasgow, M.A. (1886), and
Edinburgh, B.D. (1888) ; licen. by Presb. of
Langholm in 1887 ; missionary at Megget
(parish of Lyne) ; ord. (by Presb. of Sel
kirk) Oct. 1891 ; app. to Alexandria same
year; transferred to Constantinople 1903;
drowned at sea (near Gibraltar) on his way
back to Alexandria 13th Feb. 1907. He
marr. 1894, Miss Calder (died s.p. 20th
Jan. 1906), teacher in the mission school at
Alexandria.— [The Border Almanac, 1908.]
WINGATE, WILLIAM, born Glasgow,
7th Oct. 1808, eldest son of Andrew W.,
merchant, his brother was Sir George W.,
K.C.S.I., distinguished Indian officer, and
he was uncle of Sir Francis Reginald W.,
Bart., Sirdar of Egyptian Army, and High
Commissioner of Egypt; educated at
Grammar School and Univ. of Glasgow;
became a partner in his father's business at
the age of 21. He was at first a gay and
pleasure-loving youth, but the death of his
wife in 1838 changed his whole outlook,
and thereafter he devoted himself to
church and philanthropic work, becoming
an elder of the Tron Parish, whose min.,
Robert Buchanan, D.D., was his cousin.
Influenced by one of his associates, Robert
Wodrow, a member of the Jewish Mission
Committee, he interested himself on behalf
of the Jews, and proceeded to Berlin for
the study of German and Hebrew. At the
instance of Dr Candlish the General
Assembly abridged his attendance on
divinity classes in recognition of his dis
tinction as a classical student. In 1842
he joined the pioneer missionaries at Buda
pest. Joined the Free Church in 1843
and ord. [John Wilson, D.D., of Bombay
(a passing visitor), John Duncan, and
Robert Smith constituting themselves a
Presb. for the time] 20th Aug. that year ;
served at Jassy and other centres until Jan.
1852, when all the missionaries were expelled
by the tyrannous Austrian Government.
For a number of years he laboured in
London as an independent, unsalaried
missionary to the Jews. His house became
a centre of Jewish mission influence, and
he was a member of many institutions and
committees connected with the conversion
of the Jews all over the world. A main
article of his creed was the conviction that
the shortest road to the evangelisation of
all nations was through the Jews; died
24th Dec. 1899, and buried in Kensal Green
Cemetery. Hemarr.(l) 1835 his cousin Jessie
(died 1838), daugh. of Alexander Buchanan,
St Ninians, Stirling, and had issue — a son,
died in infancy; Sarah, died 1841, aged 5 :
(2) 12th Sept. 1843, Margaret Wallace
(born 25th Sept. 1824, died 1st Sept. 1909),
younger daugh. of John Torrance, surgeon,
Kilmarnock, and stepdaugh. of John
(" Rabbi " ) Duncan, LL.D., and had issue —
Janet Douglas, born 1844 (marr. 1865
Admiral Sir Richard Tracey, K.C.B.) ; Sir
Andrew, K.C.I.E., I.C.S., author of Meso
potamia the Gateway to Palestine (1910)
and other works, born 1846; Margaret
Miller; Louisa Theresa (marr. Frank
Hunter Barrow, I.C.S.) ; George, C.I.E.,
colonel Indian Army, born 21st Nov. 1852 ;
Annabella (marr. A. N. Macnicoll, London
Stock Exchange); Alfred Woodrow Stanley,
C.M.G., colonel Indian Cavalry, born 3rd
May 1861 ; Jessie Florence (marr. W. de
Quetteville, barrister-at-law); and two sons
died young. Publications — The Close of
the Times of the Gentiles (London, 1872) ;
"Reminiscences of Mission Work in
Hungary" (Presbyterian Messenger, 1878-9).
— [Life and Work of William Wingate, by
Gavin Carlyle (portraits) (London, n.d.]
YULE, JAMES W., licentiate of Irish
Presbyterian Church ; app. missionary at
Calcutta in connection with the Women's
Association for Foreign Missions of the
Church of Scotland 1850, and served till
1856 ; app. to Alexandria in 1858 ; res. 1880.
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHURCH AND PARISH
HISTORIES, ETC.
[The arrangement follows the text as far as possible. Family Histories and
Biographies are not included.]
SYNOD OF ROSS
PRESBYTERY OF CHANONRY
Notes on the Antiquities of the Black Isle. Angus J. Beaton. (Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot.,
xvi., 477-92. Edin., 1882.)
Notes on Ancient Fortifications in the Black Isle. Angus J. Beaton. (Proc. Soc.
Antiq. Scot., xvii., 414-23. Edin., 1883.)
Notes on Ormond or Avoch Castle in the Black Isle. Angus J. Beaton. (Proc.
Soc. Antiq. Scot., xix., 400-5. Edin., 1885.)
Historical and Traditional Notes on Cromarty. Angus J. Beaton. (Dingwall, 1894).
Gromarty: a Tourist's Visit to the Birthplace of Hugh Miller. N. Dickson.
(Glasgow, 1858).
Scenes and Legends of the North of Scotland, or the Traditional History of Cromarty.
Hugh Miller. (Edin., 1835, 1857.)
My Schools and Schoolmasters. Hugh Miller. (Edin., 1854).
Notes on the Urquharts of Cromarty. D. Murray Rose. (Trans. Gael. Soc. Inverness,
xxv., 308-20. 1907.)
Fortrose and Vicinity. Angus J. Beaton. (Inverness, 1885.)
Letters of a Village Governess descriptive of Rural Scenery and Manners. [Fortrose.]
Elizabeth Bond. 2 vols. (London, 1814).
Illustrations of Fortrose Cathedral. A. R. Scott. (Edin. Architectural Assoc., 1873.)
Fortrose: A Garden City by the Sea. " St Duthac." [Preface signed D. F.]
(Glasgow, 1912.)
Burgh Records of Fortrose, 1455, etc. (Local Records Commission Report, app. iii.,
92. 1902.)
Kilcoy Castle [Killearnan], Alexander Ross. (Trans. Inverness Field Club, ii., 238-40.
' 1888.)
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720 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHURCH AND PARISH HISTORIES
The History of Redcastle [Killearnan]. Alexander Ross. (Trans. Inverness Field
Club, ii., 241-3. 1888.)
Memorabilia Domestica, or Parish Life in the North of Scotland. Donald Sage,
minister of Resolis. (Wick, 1889, 2nd edition, 1899.)
PRESBYTERY OF DINGWALL
Description of Alness Parish. [Macfarlane Geog. Coll. i., 212.] (Scot. Hist. Soc.
Edin., 1906.)
Alness in the Eighteenth Century. Rev. W. L. Wallace Brown. (Trans. Inverness
Field Club, vi., 18-25. 19io.)
The Parish of Alness. Roderick Maclean. (Trans. Gael. Soc. Inverness, xiv., 217-32.
1889.)
Carnoch. See The Life of James Cameron Lees, K.C.V.O., D.D., LL.D., 72-96.
Norman Maclean, D.D. (Glasgow, 1922.)
Notes on Contin Church. Rev. A. C. MacLean. (Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., i., 71-8.
(Edin., 1914.)
Old Highland Days. [Dingwall.] John Kennedy, D.D. (London, 1901.)
The Romance of a Royal Burgh : Dingwall's Story of a Thousand Years. Norman
Macrae. (Dingwall, 1923.)
Strathpeffer Spa [Fodderty] . . . with Observations Historical, etc. Fortescue Fox,
M.D. (London, 1889.)
On the Climate of Strathpeffer. Fortescue Fox, M.D. (Proc. Royal Physical Soc.,
Edin., xi., 40-56. 1893.)
The Climate of Strathpeffer. H. W. Kaye. (London, 1909.)
Strathpeffer Spa, etc. Donald Manson, M.A., M.D. (Strathpeffer, 1884.)
Manual of Strathpeffer Spa, with a Short Guide to Strathpeffer. L. Munro. (Ding-
wall, 1881.)
Communion Tokens of Kilmorack. James Anderson. (Scot. Notes and Queries, 2nd
ser., vi., 73.) (Aberdeen, 1904.)
Parish of Kilmorack. Charles Fraser-Mackintosh. [Antiquarian Notes, ii., 1-12.]
(Inverness, 1897.)
Beauly Priory. Michael Barrett. [In Scottish Monasteries of Old, 191-6.] (Edin.,
1913.)
Beauly Priory. James Barren. (Trans. Inverness Field Club, iv., 130-7. 1891.)
Beauly Priory. James Barren. (Trans. North. Assoc. of Lit. and Scien. Soc., vol. i.,
pt. v., 13-20. Nairn, 1892.)
Historical Notices and Charters of the Priory of Beauly. Edmund Chisholm Batten.
[Grampian Club.] (London, 1877.)
Gleanings from the History of Beauly Priory. G. L. M'Keggie. (Trans. Aberdeen
Eccles. Soc., ii., 75-82. 1893.)
Beauly Priory and its Associations. J. A. MacKeggie. (Celtic Monthly, xx., 191-3,
204-7, 222-4. Glasgow, 1912.)
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Notice of the Priory Church of Beauly. Thomas Pilkington White. (Proc. Soc.
Antiq. Scot, viii., 430-64. Edin., 1870.)
The Beauly District. (Trans. Inverness Field Club, i., 355-61 (1880) ; iv., 130-7 (1891).)
Beauly and District. J. R. Pollock. (Beauly, 1902.)
The Beauly and Conon Rivers. Lionel W. Hinxman. (Scot. Geog. Mag., xxiii., 192,
202.' Edin., 1907.)
The Basin of the Beauly. Thomas Wallace. (Scot. Geog. Mag., i., 538-47. Edin.,
1885.)
Notice of Ancient Remains in the Beauly Valley. Thomas Wallace. (Proc. Soc. Antiq.
Scot., xx., 340-53. Edin., 1886.) '
Notes on the Baker of Beauly. William A. Clouston. (Folklore, iii., 190-2. London.
1892.)
The Baker of Beauly. Alexander MacBain. (Folklore, iii., 183-90. London, 1892.)
Traditions of Strathglass. Colin Chisholm. (Celtic Magazine, vi., 35 et seq. Inver
ness, 1880-1.)
Orain agus sgeulachdan Shrath-Ghlais. Colin Chisholm. (Inverness, 1884.)
Notes of a Visit to Strathglass and its Tributary Glens. James Farquharson. (Trans.
Edin. Bot. Soc.. iv., 474-9. 1868.)
A Short Memoir of the Mission of Strathglass. Rev. Angus Mackenzie. (Catholic
Directory, 97-104. 1846.)
The Strathglass Witches of 1662. William Mackay. (Trans. Gael. Soc. Inverness, ix.,
113-21. 1881.)
Notes on the Parish of Kiltearn. Roderick Maclean. (Trans. Gael. Soc. Inverness,
xv., 302-10. Inverness, 1890.)
Memorandum about the United Parishes of Urray and Kilchrist. [Macfarlane Geog.
Coll., i., 209.] [Scot. Hist. Soc.] (Edin., 1906.)
The Raid of Cillechrist. (New Monthly Magazine, ii., 515-17. London, 1821.)
The Burning of the Church of Cilliechriost. Kenneth Macdonald. (Trans. Gael. Soc.
Inverness, xv., 11-24. Inverness, 1890.)
Extracts from the Presbytery Records of . . . Dingwall, 1643-1688. William Mackay,
LL.D. [Scot. Hist. Soc.] (Edin., 1896.)
PRESBYTERY OF TAIN
Ane breve cronicle of the Earlis of Ross, including notices of the Abbots of Fearn.
(Edin., 1850.)
Fearn Abbey, Ross-shire. (Scots Magazine, xxiii., 98-100. Perth, 1899.)
The Kalendar of Fearn. Rev. Donald Macrae. (Trans. Inverness Field Club, ix., 1920.)
The Celtic Monastery and Roman Abbey of Fearn. Rev. A. B. Scott. (Trans. Gael.
Soc. Inverness, xxviii., 1918.)
The Parish of Rosskeen. Roderick Maclean. (Trans. Gael. Soc. Inverness, xii., 324-39,
1896.)
The Correspondence [in 1745] of Sir John Gordon of Invergordon. (P.P., Edin., 1835.)
VOL. VII. 2 Z
722 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHURCH AND PARISH HISTORIES
The Early History of Tain. G. A. Breguet. (Trans. Inverness Field Club, vi., 26-44.
1910.)
Fragments of the Early History of Tain. Rev. William Taylor. (Tain, 1865.)
Researches into the Earlier and Later History of Tain. Rev. William Taylor. (Tain,
1882.)
Account of the Parish of Tarbat. [Macfarlane Geog. Coll., i., 213.] (Scot. Hist. Soc.
Edin., 1906.)
History of the Ancient Province of Boss. Robert Bain. (Uingwall, 1899.)
Journals of the Episcopal Visitations of the Right Rev. Robert Forbes, Bishop of Ross,
. . . with a History of the Episcopal Church in Ross. James Brown Craven,
D.D. (London, 1886.)
Notes on Easter Ross. John Duns, D.D. (Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., xxi., 165-9. (Edin.,
1887.)
The Days of the Fathers in Ross-shire. John Kennedy, D.D. (Edin., 1861 ; Inverness,
1895.)
The Covenanters in Moray and Ross. Murdoch Macdonald, D.D. (Nairn, 1875 ;
Inverness, 1892.)
The Heraldry in some of the Old Churchyards between Tain and Inverness. William
Rae Macdonald. (Proc. Soc. Antiq] Scot., xxxvi., 688-732. Edin., 1902.)
Old Ross-shire ... as seen in Tain and Balnagown Documents. William MacGill.
2 vols. (Inverness, 1909, 1911.)
Ross and Cromarty in Prose, Verse, and Music. William Mackenzie. (Dingwall, 1907.)
Ross-shire in Dream and Drama. Rev. A. C. MacLean. (Scot. Notes and Queries,
3rd ser., iii., 12 et seq.) (Aberdeen, 1926.)
Church Life in Ross and Sutherland from 1688 to the Present Time. Rev. Colin
Macnaughton. (Inverness, 1915.)
The Gaelic Psalm-Tunes of Ross-shire and the neighbouring Counties. Joseph Mainzer.
(Edin., 1844.)
Religious Life in Ross. Rev. John Noble. (Inverness, 1909.)
A Short Account of some Carved Stones in Ross-shire. Charles Carter Petley.
(Archseol. Scot., iv., 345-52. Edin., 1857.)
Easter Ross. Alexander Poison. (Tain, 1914.)
Ross-shire Past and Present : Ecclesiastical, Antiquarian, and Traditional Notes.
Alexander Ross. (Invergordon, N.D.)
Some Sculptured Stones in Ross-shire. Arthur Sutherland. (Trans. Inverness Field
Club, iv., 188-202. 1898.)
Notes on some Ross-shire Churches. Rev. E. Thoyts. (Trans. Aberdeen Eccles. Soc.
1888.)
Place-Names of Ross and Cromarty. William John Watson, LL.D. (Inverness, 1904.)
The Celtic Church in Ross. William John Watson, LL.D. (Trans. Inverness Field
Club, vi., 1910.)
Ross and Cromarty. William John Watson, LL.D. (Cambridge, 1924.)
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHURCH AND PARISH HISTORIES 723
SYNOD OF SUTHERLAND AND CAITHNESS
PRESBYTERY OF DORNOCH
How the Macleods lost Assynt. William Mackay. (Trans. Gael. Soc. Inverness, xvi.,
197-207. Inverness, 1891.)
The Parish of Assynt. Sir Kobert Gordon of Straloch. [Macfarlane Geog. Coll., ii.,
412, 443.] (Scot. Hist. Soc. Edin. 1907.)
Wanderings by Lochs and Streams of Assynt. J. Hicks. (London, 1855.)
Place-Names of Assynt. John Mackay. (Trans. Gael. Soc. Inverness, xv., 107-22
1890.)
Place-Names of Clyne. John Mackay. (Trans. Gael. Soc. Inverness, xviii., 325-40.
1894.)
Brora and District. Alexander Poison. (Brora, 1902.)
Place-Names of Creich. John Mackay. (Trans. Gael. Soc. Inverness, xx., 103-25.
1897.)
Dornoch Cathedral and Parish. Charles Donald Bentinck, D.D. (Inverness, 1926.)
Dornoch Place-Names. C. D. Bentinck, D.D. (Trans. Gael. Soc. Inverness, xxxi., 1927.)
The Cathedral of Caithness at Dornoch. Hugh F. Campbell, M.A., B.L. (Trans.
Aberdeen Eccles. Soc., 31-42. 1892.)
Dornoch in the Eighteenth Century. Kev. Donald Grant [page 86.] (Trans. Inverness
Field Club, iv., 339-55. 1898.)
Place-Names of Dornoch. John Mackay. (Trans. Gael. Soc. Inverness, xx., 316.
Inverness, 1897.)
Dornoch and Vicinity. Donald Matheson. (Golspie, 1907.)
Old Dornoch : Its Traditions and Legends. Hugh M. Mackay. (Dingwall, 1920.)
The Ancient Tolbooths of Dornoch. Hector Mackay. (Edinburgh, 1896.)
Reminiscences of Dornoch. John McLachlan, M.D. (Glasgow, N.D.)
Dornoch. John Sutherland. (London, 1906.)
The Origin of " Skibo." George Fraser Black, Ph.D. (Caledonian, vi., 496-7. New
York, 1907.)
Skibo : Its Lairds and History. Peter Gray. (Edin., 1906.)
Place-Names of Golspie. John Mackay. (Trans. Gael. Soc. Inverness, xix., 172-88.
Inverness, 1895).
Golspie : Contributions to its Folklore, ivith a Chapter on the Place and its Peopling.
Edward W. B. Nicholson, M.A. (London, 1897.)
Notes on the Inscriptions of the Golspie and Neivton Stones. James, 9th Earl of
Southesk. (Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., xx., 14-40. Edin., 1886.)
Dunrobin. Kev. James M. Joass, LL.D. (Old Lore Miscellany, ii., 199-201.
London, 1909.)
Place-Names of Kildonan. John Mackay. (Trans. Gael. Soc. Inverness, xviii., 183-208.
Inverness, 1894.)
724 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHUKCH AND PARISH HISTORIES
The Earth Houses of Kildonan. Rev. Archibald Black Scott. (Scottish Antiquary,
xiii., 155-60. Edin., 1899.)
The Pictish Tower [Kilphedir Broch] at Salzcraggie, Helmsdale. John Nicol. (Old
Lore Miscellany, iii., 107-10. London, 1910.)
A Monument in a Highland Churchyard at Lairg. Alexander Gordon M'Gillivray,
D.D. (Edin., 1881.)
Place-Names of Lairg. John Mackay. (Trans. Gael. Soc. Inverness, xx., 103-25.
Inverness, 1897.)
Notes on the Parish of Lairg. Donald Macrae. (Wick, 1898.)
Place- Names of Loth. John Mackay. (Trans. Gael. Soc. Inverness, xviii., 183-208.
Inverness, 1894.)
The Pictish Tower of Kintradwell [Loth]. John Nicol. (Old Lore Miscellany, iii.,
230-3. London, 1910.)
Chronicles of Stratheden [Rogart]. Rev. Colin Macdonald. (Edin., 1881.)
Place-Names of Rogart. John Mackay. (Trans. Gael. Soc. Inverness, xix., 172-88.
1895.)
PRESBYTERY OF TONGUE
Durness from the Earliest Times. Rev. Adam Gunn. (Trans. Gael. Soc. Inverness,
xvii., 266-82. 1892.)
Country of Strathnaver : Durness, etc., 1726. [Macfarlane Geog. Coll., i., 186.] (Scot.
Hist. Soc. Edin., 1906.)
Place-Names of Durness. John Mackay. (Trans. Gael. Soc. Inverness, xvi., 39-59.
1891.)
Parish Register of Durness, 1764-1814. Hew Morrison, LL.D. [Scot. Record Soc.]
(Edin., 1911.)
Description of the Dune of Dornadilla [Durness]. Rev. Alexander Pope. (Archseol.
Scot., v., 216-23. Edin., 1779.)
Parish of Ederachillis, 1726. [Macfarlane Geog. Coll., i., 186.] (Scot. Hist. Soc.
Edin., 1906.)
Edir-da-cheulis, 1654 [with translation into English]. Sir Robert Gordon of Straloch.
[Macfarlane Geog. Coll., ii., 412, 443.] (Scot. Hist. Soc. Edin., 1907.)
Place-Names of Eddrachillis. John Mackay. (Trans Gael. Soc. Inverness, xvi., 39-59.
1891.)
The Rev. George Henderson, M.A., Ph.D., B.Litt. [min. of Eddrachillis]. Donald
Mackinnon, M.A. (Celtic Review, viii., 245-9 (portrait). Edin., 1912.)
Memoirs of a Highland Gentleman [Evander M'lver of Scourie]. Ed. Rev. George
Henderson. (Edin. 1905.)
Place-Names of Farr. John Mackay. (Trans. Gael. Soc. Inverness, xvii., 101-25,
1892.)
Parish of Farr, 1726. [Macfarlane Geog. Coll., i., 186.] (Scot. Hist. Soc. Edin., 1906.)
Place-Names of Tongue. John Mackay. (Trans. Gael. Soc. Inverness, xvii., 101-25,
1892.)
Notes from Tongue Presbytery Records, 1726-1824. Rev. Angus Mackay. (Old Lore
Miscellany, vii., 39-48, 62-9, 104-15, 160-77 ; viii., 31-8, 94-7. London, 1914-15.)
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHURCH AND PARISH HISTORIES 725
Ministers of the Presbytery of Tongue, 1726-1763. Hew Morrison, LL.D. (Trans.
Gael. Soc. Inverness, xi., 293-310. 1885.)
Tin- .\fediceval Church in Caithness and Sutherland, 1136-1445. (Old Lore Miscellany,
viii., 98-112, 154-60, 167-75. London, 1915.)
Robert the Bruce in Sutherland. Evan Macleod Barren. (Old Lore Miscellany, ii.,
90-4. London, 1909.)
Notes on the County of Sutherland in the Eighteenth Century. Hugh F. Campbell.
(Trans. Gael. Soc. Inverness, xxvi., 470-90. Inverness, 1910.)
Caithness and Sutherland. Hugh F. Campbell. (Cambridge, 1920.)
MS. List of Books and Pamphlets Relating to Sutherland and Burgh of Dornoch
Hugh F. Campbell. (Type-script. 1909.)
A Sutherland Snuggery. Charles Alfred Cooper. (Edin., 1878.)
Sutherland and the Sutherlanders : Their Religious and Social Condition. Dr Andrew
Crichton [but by Hugh Miller]. (Edin., 1844.)
The Geology and Scenery of Sutherland. Henry Moubray Cadell. (Edin., 1886,
1896.)
The Folk-Lore of Sutherlandshire. Miss Dempster. (Folk-Lore Journal, vi., 149-89,
215-52. London, 1888.)
The Sutherland Book. Sir William Fraser. 3 vols. (Edin., 1892.)
The Scandinavian Place-Names of Sutherland. James Gray, M.A. (Old Lore
Miscellany, ii., 213-26 ; iii., 14-21. London, 1909-10.)
Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time. James Gray, M.A. (Edin., 1923.)
A Review of Sutherland Place-Names. Rev. Adam Gunn. (Old Lore Miscellany, iii.,
182-7. London, 1910.)
Topographical Notes on Sutherland. Rev. Adam Gunn. Old Lore Miscellany, iv.,
140-2. London, 1911.)
Sutherland and the Reay Country. Rev. Adam Gunn [with John Mackay]. (Glasgow,
1897.)
The Dialect of the Reay Country. Rev. Adam Gunn. (Trans. Gael. Soc. Inverness,
xv., 35-46. 1890.)
Unpublished Literary Remains of the Reay Country. Rev. Adam Gunn. (Trans.
Gael. Soc. Inverness, xvi., 59-69 j xxiv., 5-28. 1891-1904.)
Traditions and Superstitions of the Reay Country. Hugh Macleod [MS. at Dunrobin
Castle, presented in 1837].
Brochs or Pictish Towers of Cinn-Trolla, etc., in Sutherland. James Maxwell Joass,
LL.D. (Archaeol. Scot., v., 95-130. Edin., 1874.) [See also pages 88-89 under
J. M. J.]
Diplomatarium Katanense et Sutherlandense : Caithness and Sutherland Records.
Alfred Wintle Johnston, Amy Johnston, and Rev. Henry Paton, M.A. [Viking
Club.] (London, 1909-13.)
The Sutherland Democracy. Daniel William Kemp. (Edin., 1890.)
The Sutherlandshire Magazine of 1826. (Ed. D. W. Kemp.) (Edin., 1898.)
The Tourist's Companion through Sutherlandshire. John Laurie. (Glasgow, N.D.)
Geographical Description of the County of Sutherland. Alice Lennie. (Scot. Geog.
Mag., xxvii., 18-34, 128-42, 188-95. Edin., 1911.)
726 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHURCH AND PARISH HISTORIES
Sketches of Sutherland Characters. Rev. Alexander Mackay. (Edin., 1889.)
Sutherland and Caithness in Ancient Geography and Maps. Rev. Angus Mackay.
(Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., xlii., 79-94. Edin., 1908.)
The Book of Mackay. Rev. Angus Mackay. (Edin., 1906.)
The Sutherland Clearances. Donald M'Leod. (Greenock, 1856.)
Sutherland as it Was and Is. Hugh Miller. (Edin., 1843.)
Sutherland and Caithness. Hew Morrison. (Brechin, 1883.)
Bibliography of Caithness and Sutherland. John Mowat. (London, 1910.) [See also
Old Lore Miscellany, ii., iii., iv., v. London, 1909-11.]
Ecclesiological Notes on . . . Sutherland. Rev. John Mason Neale. (London, 1848.)
Tour in Sutherland and Caithness in 1760. Richard Pococke. [Ed. Daniel William
Kemp.] (Edin., 1888.)
The Sutherland Evictions of 1814. Thomas Sellar. (London, 1883.)
Scenes and Stories of the North of Scotland [Sutherland]. John Sinclair. (Edin.,
1890.)
Report of Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments of Sutherlandshire.
(Edin., 1911.)
PRESBYTERY OF CAITHNESS
Description of the Parish of Bower. [Macfarlane Geog. Coll., L, 176.] (Scot. Hist.
Soc. Edin., 1906.)
Description of the Parish of Cannesbay [Canisbay]. [Macfarlane Geog. Coll., i., 176.]
(Scot. Hist. Soc. Edin., 1906.)
An Interesting Caithness Record [Canisbay]. Rev. Donald Beaton. (Old Lore
Miscellany, iv., 173-9. London, 1911.)
The Rev. John Morison, D.D. [min. of Canisbay]. Rev. Donald Beaton. (Old Lore
Miscellany, v., 166-74 ; vi., 50-61. London, 1912-13.)
Folk-Lore Notes from John o' Groats : Extracts from the Kirk Session Records of
Canisbay. Rev. Donald Beaton. (Old Lore Miscellany, v., 59-63, 129-34.
London, 1912.)
Parish Registers of Canisbay, 1652-1666. Rev. Donald Beaton. [Scot. Record Soc.]
(Edin., 1914.)
Sketches from John 61 Groats in Prose and Verse. James Traill Calder. (Wick, 1842.).
Thorns Town and John o' Groats in Fact and Fiction. William Campbell. (Thurso,
1902.)
Ye Booke of Halkirk. (Halkirk, 1911.)
A History of Dirlot Churchyard. William Gunn. (Northern Ensign.)
Notice of Nine Brocks from Keiss Bay to Skirza Head. Joseph Anderson, LL.D.
(Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., xxxv., 112-48. Edin., 1901.)
Notice of Sculptured Stone from Birkle Hills, Keiss. Sir Francis Tress Barry. (Proc.
Soc. Antiq. Scot., xxvii. Edin., 1893.)
Life and Times of the Rev. George Davidson, Latheron [Notices of Religious Life of the
County]. Alexander Mackay, LL.D. (Edin., 1875.)
KIHLIOGRAPHY OF CHURCH AND PARISH HISTORIES 727
Description of the Parish of Latheron. [Macfarlane Geog. Coll., i., 162.] (Scot. Hist.
Soc. Edin., 1906.)
Description <>f the Parish of Olrigg, 1726. [Macfarlane Geog. Coll., i., 174.] (Scot.
Hist. Soc. Edin., 1906.)
The Latheron Stone with Ogham Inscription. Joseph Anderson, LL.D. (Proc. Soc.
Antiq. Scot., xxxviii., 534-41. Edin., 1904.)
Account of the Town and Harbour of Pultenytown from their Origin in 1803 to the
Year 1844. James Bremner. (London, 1844.)
Autobiography of a Highland Minister. [William Taylor, F.C., Pultenytown.]
(London, 1897.)
Description of the Parish of Reay, 1726. [Macfarlane Geog. Coll., i., 181.] (Scot.
Hist. Soc. Edin., 1906.)
The Rev. Alexander Pope, Reay. Kev. Donald Beaton. (Old Lore Miscellany, iii.,
111-15, 166-9, 220-3 ; iv., 37-40, 94-8. London, 1910-11.)
A Sutherland Antiquarian of the Eighteenth Century : Alexander Pope. Rev. George
Henderson. (Northern Ensign, 6th May 1902.)
Place-Names of Reay. John Mackay. (Trans. Gael. Soc. Inverness, xviii., 183-208,
325-40. 1888.)
Memories of our Parish [Reay]. Donald Mackay. (Dingwall, 1925.)
Description of Thurso Parish, 1726. [Macfarlane Geog. Coll., i., 169.] (Scot. Hist.
Soc. Edin., 1906.)
Thurso and Neighbourhood. David Coghill. (Thurso, 1898.)
Memorials of the Life of James Mill, F.R.C.S.E., Thurso. Harriet Gordon Mill.
(Edin., 1885.)
Thurso and County of Caithness. John R. Russell. (Thurso, 1875.)
Gleanings in the North [Thurso]. David Stephen. (Haddington, 1891, 1898.)
Description of the Parish of Wattin [Watten], 1726. [Macfarlane Geog. Coll., i., 179.]
(Scot. Hist. Soc. Edin., 1906.)
Watten and Wick Notables. (Sydney, 1903.)
Watten in Olden Days. Dr John Mowat. (Northern Ensign from July 1908.)
Description of the Parish of Wick, 1724 and 1726. [Macfarlane Geog. Coll., i., 156-8.]
(Scot. Hist. Soc. Edin., 1906.)
Wick : In and Around It. Rev. John Home. (Wick, 1893.)
History of Wick Baptist Church. Rev. John Home. (Wick, 1894.)
Ye Town of Wick in ye Olden Time. Rev. John Home. (Wick, 1895.)
Ancient Remains of Caithness, and Excavations in Caithness Cairns. Joseph Ander
son, LL.D. (Anthropological Soc., ii., 226-56 ; iii., 216-42. London, 1866-70.)
Ministers and Men in the Far North. Rev. Alexander Auld. (Wick, 1868.)
Memorials of Caithness Ministers. Rev. Alexander Auld. (Edin., 1912.)
Ecclesiastical History of Caithness and Annals of Caithness Parishes. Rev. Donald
Beaton. (Wick, 1909.)
Some References to Witchcraft and Charming, from Caithness and Sutherland Church
Records. Rev. Donald Beaton. (Old Lore Miscellany, ii., 110-15, 171-2, 193;
iii., 47-8. London, 1909-10.)
728 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHURCH AND PARISH HISTORIES
The Early Christian Monuments of Caithness. Rev. Donald Beaton. (Old Lore
Miscellany, vi., 75-85, 119-29, 195-201. Lond6n, 1913.)
Fast Day . . . Controversy in the Synod of Sutherland and Caithness, 1737-58.
Kev. Donald Beaton. (Trans. Gael. Soc. Inverness, xxix., 1922.)
Bibliography of Gaelic Books, Pamphlets, etc., for the Counties of Caithness and
Sutherland. Eev. Donald Beaton. (Wick, 1923.)
The Bishops and Clergy of the Ancient Diocese of Caithness. Rev. C. D. Bentinck.
(Trans. Gael. Soc. Inverness, xxviii., 1918.)
Sketches of the Civil and Traditional History of Caithness from the Tenth Century
to the Present Time. James Traill Calder. (Glasgow, 1861 ; Wick, 1887.)
Report of Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments of Caithness.
(Edin., 1911.)
History of the Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Caithness. James Brown Craven
D.D. (Kirkwall, 1908.)
The Commissariot Record of Caithness, 1661-1664. Francis James Grant, W.S. [Scot.
Record Soc.] (Edin., 1902.)
Caithness Family History. John Henderson, W.S. (Edin., 1884.)
General View of the Agriculture of the County of Caithness. Captain John Henderson.
(London, 1812.)
The County of Caithness. Ed. Rev. John Home. (Wick, 1907.)
A Canny Countryside [Caithness]. Rev. John Home. (Edin., 1896, 1903.)
Some Caithness Originals. Rev. John Home. (Wick, 1906.)
Some Present-Day Songs and Singers of Caithness. Rev. John Home. (Wick,
1899.)
Two Ancient Records of the Bishopric of Caithness. Cosmo Innes. [Bannatyne Club
Miscellany, iii., 1-24.] (Edin., 1855.)
Prehistoric Remains of Caithness. Samuel Laing, M.P. (London, 1866.)
On the Age of the Burgs or Brochs. Samuel Laing, M.P. (Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot.,
vii., 56-100. Edin., 1870.)
The History of the Province of Cat from the Earliest Times to the Year 1615. Rev.
Angus Mackay [Ed. by Rev. Donald Beaton.] (Wick, 1914.)
History of the Free Church Case in Caithness. Andrew Matheson. (Wick, 1851.)
Notes on North Caithness [and Orkney]. Samuel Martin Mayhew. (Journ. Brit.
ArchcBol. Assoc., xlv., 265-79. London, 1889.)
The Despised Fathers of Caithness. William Mill (Achingills). (Inverness, 1884.)
Caithness People : Environment and Ethnology. A. D. Miller, B.A. (Wick, N.D.)
A Bibliography of Caithness, with Notes. John Mowat. (Wick, 1909.)
Caithness and Part of Orkney, an Ecclesiological Sketch. Thomas S. Muir. (N.P.
1861.)
Caithness Place-Names. D. Nicolson. (Northern Ensign, chaps, i.-v. Wick, 1902.)
On Caithness, etc. Alexander Pope. [Pennant's Tour in Scotland], i., 336-66. (London,
1776.)
Gilbert of Moray : Bishop of Caithness. Rev. Archibald iB, Scott. (Rec. Scot. Church
Hist. Soc., i. Edin., 1926.)
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHURCH AND PARISH HISTORIES 729
Six Letters on the Position and Prospects of the Established Church of Scotland,
especially in the Northern Counties. Sir George Sinclair, Bart. (Edin.., 18:">0.)
Caithness Events. Thomas Sinclair, M.A. (Wick, 1894, 1899.)
Notes on Caithness History. George Miller Sutherland. (Celtic Magazine, v., 271-4,
361-4, 445-9 ; vi., 59-65, 277-80. Inverness, 1880-81.)
Ancient History of . . . Caithness and the North. Thormodus Torfseus [Trans, by
Alexander Pope, min. of lleay]. (Wick, 1866.)
SYNOD OF GLENELG
PRESBYTERY OF LOCHCARRON
Saint Maolrubha : his History and Churches [Applecross]. William Reeves. (Proc.
Soc. Antiq. Scot., iii., 258-96. Edin., 1862.)
Saint Maolrubha. Rev. Archibald Black Scott. (Scot. Hist. Rev., vi., 260-80.
Glasgow, 1909.)
Gairloch : Its Records, Traditions, Inhabitants, and Natural History. John H.
Dixon. (Edin., 1886.)
Gairloch and Wester Ross. Alexander Poison. (Dingwall, 1908.)
Gairloch and Loch Maree. Alexander Poison. (Dingwall, 1909.)
Communion Tokens of Glenelg. James Anderson. (Scot. Notes and Queries, 2nd ser.
vii., 72. Aberdeen, 1905.)
Some 'Prehistoric Structures in Glenelg and Kintail. Lockhart Bogle. (Proc. Soc.
Antiq. Scot., xxix., 180-90. Edin., 1895.) x
Kintail and Glenelg, with Notices of the Brochs. Archibald Craig. (Trans. Edin.
Field Nat. Soc., ii., 229-46. 1891.)
The Ruins of the Broch of Dun Telve, near Glenelg. Alexander Onniston Curie.
(Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., 1., 241-54. Edin., 1916.)
Parish of Glenelg. Charles Fraser-Mackintosh. (Antiq. Notes, ii., 233-47. Inverness,
1897.)
The Sculptured Stone at Glenelg. J. Calder Ross. (Scot. Notes and Queries, vii., 66-7.
Aberdeen, 1892.)
Legends, Traditions, etc., from Glenelg. J. Calder Ross. (Scot. Notes and Queries, vi.,
134-6. Aberdeen, 1893.)
Dornie [Kintail] : Its Castles and Antiquities. Thomas Wallace. (Trans. Inverness
Field Club, iv., 108-16. 1898.)
The Battle of Glenshiel. C. Sandford Terry, LL.D. (Scot. Hist. Rev., ii., 412-23.
Glasgow, 1905.)
The Glengarry Evictions, or Scenes at Knoydart. Donald Ross. (Glasgow, 1853.)
A True and Particular Account of the Engagement at Lochalsh, 29th Aug. 1722.
(Edin., 1722.)
Antiquities at Lochalsh and Kintail. Thomas Wallace. (Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot.,
xxxi., 86-9. Edin., 1897.)
Lochbroom. (Ullapool, 1903.)
730 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHURCH AND PARISH HISTORIES
Priest Island, Lochbroom. J. A. H. Brown. (Edin., 1904.)
Description of Lochcarroun, 1723. [Macfarlane Geog. Coll., i., 209]. (Scot. Hist. Soc.
(Edin., 1906.)
" The Rev. Mr Lachlan " [Mackenzie] of Lochcarron : Lectures, Sermons, and Writings.
Compiled by James Campbell. (Inverness, 1928).
Ullapool. (Ullapool, 1903.)
Clerical Life on the West Coast a Hundred Years Ago [Extracts from Kecords of Presb.
of Lochcarron.] Roderick Morrison. (Trans. Inverness Field Club, iv., 234-50.
1898.)
PRESBYTERY OF SKYE
Communion Tokens of Bracadale. James Anderson. (Scot. Notes and Queries, 2nd
ser., vii., 73. Aberdeen, 1905.)
Parish of Bracadale. Charles Eraser-Mackintosh. (Antiq. Notes, ii., 296-8. Inver
ness, 1897.)
Brief Sketch of the Life of Donald McQueen, Catechist in Bracadale and Duirinishfor
the space of Seventy Years. James Ross. (London, 1891.)
Communion Tokens of Duirinish. James Anderson. (Scot. Notes and Queries, 2nd
ser., vii., 73. Aberdeen, 1905.)
Parish of Duirinish. Charles Eraser-Mackintosh. (Antiq. Notes, ii., 290-5. Inver
ness, 1897.)
Notice of Communion Cups from Duirinish. Norman MacPherson. (Proc. Soc. Antiq.
Scot., xx., 398-446. Edin., 1886.)
Archaeological Notes on Dunvegan Castle. Lockhart Bogle. (Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot.,
xxix., 255-71. Edin., 1895.)
Notes on the Ancient Relics preserved at Dunvegan Castle. Frederick Thomas MacLeod.
(Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., xlvii., 99-129. Edin., 1913.)
Dunvegan Castle. A. H. Malan. (Pall Mall Magazine, xxiv., 5-19. London, 1901.)
Side-lights from the Dunvegan Charter Chest. Reginald MacLeod. (Scot. Hist. Rev.,
ii., 356-62. Glasgow, 1905.)
Dunvegan Castle : A Descriptive and Romantic Poem. Harold S. Rathbone. (London,
1900.)
Communion Tokens of Kilmuir. James Anderson. (Scot. Notes and Queries, 2nd
ser., vii., 73. Aberdeen, 1905.)
Note of Sculptured Stones in the Churchyard of Kilmuir. M. F. Carmichael. (Proc.
Soc. Antiq. Scot,, viii., 419. Edin., 1870.)
The Estate and People of Kilmuir. James Davidson. (Celtic Monthly, x., 240-3.
Inverness, 1885.)
St Columba's Loch, Kilmuir. William Jolly. (Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., xi., 551-61.
Edin., 1876.)
Parish of Kilmuir. Charles Fraser-Mackintosh. (Antiq. Notes, ii., 286-7. Inverness,
1897.)
Communion Tokens of Portree. James Anderson. (Scot. Notes and Queries, 2nd ser.,
vii., 73. Aberdeen, 1905.)
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHURCH AND PARISH HISTORIES 731
Parish of Portree. Charles Fraser-Mackintosh. (Antiq. Notes, ii., 284-5, 449. Inver
ness, 1897.)
Communion Tokens of Sleat. James Anderson. (Scot. Notes and Queries, 2nd ser.,
vii., 73. Aberdeen, 1905.)
Macdonald Bards from Mediaeval Times. Keith Norman MacDonald. (Edin.,
1900.)
Gleanings from Lord MacDonald's Charter Chest. Lachlan MacDonald. (Trans.
Gael. Soc. Inverness, xiv., 63-78. 1887.)
Parish of Sleat. Charles Fraser-Mackintosh. (Antiq. Notes, ii., 263-75, 448. Inver
ness, 1897.)
Cross Shaft from the Island of Canna. [Small Isles.] Joseph Anderson, LL.D.
(Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., xxxi., 300-1. Edin., 1897.)
An Ancient Structure called " The Altar " in Canna. J. E. Somerville. (Proc. Soc.
Antiq. Scot., xxxiii., 133-40. Edin., 1899.)
Eigg of the Small Isles. Kev. William James Couper, M.A. (Celtic Monthly, xxi., 184
to xxii., 146. Inverness, 1913-14.)
Parish of Small Isles. Charles Fraser-Mackintosh. (Antiq. Notes, ii., 260-2. Inver
ness, 1897.)
Notes on Antiquities from the Island of Eigg. Norman MacPherson. (Proc. Soc.
Antiq. Scot., xii., 577-97. Edin., 1878.)
Die Insel Eigg. K. von Oeynhausen and H. von Dechen. (Karsten's Archiv fur
Min., i., 105-14. 1829.)
Topography and Traditions of Eigg. Rev. Charles M. Robertson. (Trans. Gael. Soc.
Inverness, xxii., 193-210. 1900.)
Notes on the Island of Eigg. J. Calder Ross. (Scot. Notes and Queries, in., 47-9,
82-4, 130-1 ; iv., 167. Aberdeen, 1889-91.)
Notes on the Island of Muck. J. Calder Ross. (Scot. Notes and Queries, xii., 174-5 ;
new ser., i., 27-8, 42. Aberdeen, 1899-1900.)
The Island of Rum. John B. Pettigrew. (Journ. Scot. Mountaineering Club, iii.,
278-83. Edin., 1895.)
Stories from Rum and Eigg. J. Calder Ross. (Scot. Notes and Queries, iv., 74,
Aberdeen, 1890.)
Communion Tokens of Snizort. James Anderson. (Scot. Notes and Queries, 2nd ser.,
vii., 73. Aberdeen, 1905.)
Parish of Snizort. Charles Fraser-Mackintosh. (Antiq. Notes, ii., 288-9. Inverness,
1897.)
Rev. John MacRury, Snizort [page 180]. A Collection of unpublished Gaelic Poetry
(Trans. Gael. Soc. Inverness, xv., 140-51. 1890.) Old Gaelic Songs with
Historical Notes and Traditions. (Ibid., xvi., 98-110. 1891.) See also Gaelic
contributions to vols. xiv., xvii., xix., xxi., xxii., xxiv.
The Dismissal of a Free Church Teacher. [Anon.] but by Cameron Mackay, min. of
Stenscholl, sometime teacher at Scotscalder [page 182].
Communion Tokens of Strath. James Anderson. (Scot. Notes and Queries, 2nd ser.,
vii., 73. Aberdeen, 1905.)
Strath in Isle of Skye. Rev. Donald M. Lamont. (Glasgow, 1913.)
732 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHURCH AND PARISH HISTORIES
Parish of Strath. Charles Fraser-Mackintosh. (Antiq. Notes, ii., 276-83. Inverness,
1897.)
A Description of Skye. [Macfarlane Geog. Coll., ii., 219.] (Scot. Hist. Soc. Edin.,
1907.)
The History and Traditions of the Isle of Skye. Alexander Cameron. (Inverness,
1871.)
Early Descriptions of Skye. William Douglas. (Journ. Scot. Mountaineering Club,
v., 205-30. 1899.)
Rambles in Skye. Malcolm Ferguson. (Irvine, 1885.)
Place-Names of Skye. Alexander R. Forbes. (Paisley, 1923.)
The Island of Skye. James David and Edward Forbes. (Edin., 1854.)
Twelve Days in Skye. Lady A. MacCaskill. (London, 1852.)
The Men of Skye. Rev. Roderick MacCowan. (Glasgow, 1902.)
The Misty Isle of Skye. John Arnott MacCulloch, D.D. (Edin., 1905, 1910 ; Stirling,
1927.)
Donald Macleod, the Skye Bard: his Life and Songs. Robert C. MacDiarmid.
(Trans. Gael. Soc. Glasgow, i., 18-33. 1888.)
Over the Sea to Skye. Alasdair Alpin MacGregor, M.A. (Edin., 1926.)
Notes on some Old Customs in the Isle of Skye. Rev. Alexander Macgregor. (Proc.
Soc. Antiq. Scot., xiv., 143-7. Edin., 1880.)
The Isle of Skye in the Olden Time. Rev. Alexander Macgregor. (Celtic Magazine,
vii., 19-23. Inverness, 1882.)
The Brave Sons of Skye. John Maclnnes. (London, 1899.)
Social Life in Skye from Legend and Story. J. G. Mackay. (Trans. Gael. Soc.
Inverness, xxix.-xxx., 1922-24.)
The Isle of Skye in 1882-1883. Alexander Mackenzie. (Inverness, 1883.)
Skye Bards. Magnus MacLean. (Trans. Gael. Soc. Glasgow, ii., 171-223. 1892.)
(Highland Monthly, iv., 686 ; v., 92. 1893.)
Sculptured Monumental Slabs and other Antiquities of Skye. Frederick Thomas
MacLeod. (Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., xliv., 373-89; xlvi., 202-12. Edin.,
1910-12.)
Eilean a' Ched : Articles on Skye by Skyemen. Frederick Thomas MacLeod. (Edin.,
1917.)
The Apparitions and Ghosts of the Isle of Skye. Norman Matheson. (Trans. Gael.
Soc. Inverness, xviii., 8-16. 1891.)
Some Notes on Skye. Alexander Nicolson. (The Scotsman, June and July, 1872.)
The Isle of Skye. Alexander Nicolson. (Good Words, 344-50, 384-92, 457-62, 561-8.
London, 1875.)
Skye Gaelic. Charles M. Robertson. (Trans. Gael. Soc. Inverness, xxiii., 54-89,
1898.)
A Summer in Skye. Alexander Smith. 2 vols. (London, 1865 ; Edin.. 1885,
1912.)
Two Months in . . . Orcadia and Skye. Charles Richard Weld. (London, 1860.)
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHURCH AND PARISH HISTORIES 733
PRESBYTERY OF UIST
Incised Stone at, Pabbay, Barra. Joseph Anderson, LL.D. (Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot.,
xxxi., 299-300. Edin., 1897.)
St Glair of the hies: or The Outlaws of Barra. Elizabeth Hulme. (London, 1803,
1867.)
Parish of Barra. Charles Eraser-Mackintosh. (Antiq. Notes, ii., 331-3, 450. Inverness,
1897.)
Barra Head. Thomas S. Muir. (Edin., 1866.)
The Island of Barra— Past and Present. Deavy Fearon de 1'Hoste Ranking. (Celtic
Monthly, xii., 175, 202. Inverness, 1904.)
Notice of a Sculptvcred Stone from Kilbar, Barra. George Stephens. (Proc. Soc.
Antiq. Scot., xv., 33-6. Edin., 1880.)
Antiquities Recently Discovered in Barra. John Williams. (Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot.,
ii., 229-31. Edin., 1863.)
Notice of Three Churches in North Uist, Benbecula, and Grimsay. Capt. Frederick
W. L. Thomas. (Archaeol. Scot., v., 225-48. Edin., 1871.)
Notice of Dun Stron Duin, Bernera. Joseph Anderson, LL.D. (Proc. Soc. Antiq.
Scot., xxvii., 341-6. Edin., 1893.)
Island of Bernera, Harris. John Wedderspoon. (Trans. Inverness Field Club, vii.,
86-108. 1909.)
Communion Tokens of Harris. James Anderson. (Scot. Notes and Queries, 2nd ser.,
vii., 104. Aberdeen, 1906.)
Parish of Harris. Charles Fraser-Mackintosh. x(Antiq. Notes, ii., 299-300. Inverness,
1897.)
Notice of St Clement's Church at Rowdill, Harris. Alexander Boss. (Proc. Soc.
Antiq. Scot., xix., 118-32. Edin., 1885.)
The Romance of Harris. P. G. A. Smith. (Edin., 1914.)
Harris in 1765. John Walker. (Trans. Gael. Soc. Inverness, xxiv., 135-9
1900.)
Communion Tokens of North Uist. James Anderson. (Scot. Notes and Queries, 2nd
ser., vii., 104. Aberdeen, 1906.)
North Uist : Its Archaeology and Topography. Erskine Beveridge, LL.D. (Edin
1911.)
Notices of Teampull Michael, North Uist. Alexander Carmichael. (Proc. Soc. Antiq.
Scot., viii., 278-86. Edin., 1871.)
Uist Old Hymns. Alexander Carmichael. (Trans. Gael. Soc. Glasgow, i., 34-47.
1888.)
Flora Macdonald in Uist. William Jolly. (Perth, 1886.)
The Norsemen in Uist Folk-Lore. Allan Macdonald. (Old Lore Miscellany, iii.,
413-33. London, 1903.)
A Holiday in North Uist. [Professor W. C. M'Intosh.] (London, 1865.)
Parish of North Uist. Charles Fraser-Mackintosh. (Antiq. Notes, ii., 301-4. Inver
ness, 1897.)
734 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHURCH AND PARISH HISTORIES
An Dotair ban. Murdoch MacLeod. (Caledonian Med. Journ., iv., 4-17. 1899.)
A Short Visit to St Kilda. Lady Baillie of Polkemmet. (Church of Scotland
Missionary Record. January 1875.)
A Description of St Kilda. Rev. Alexander Buchan. (Edin., 1727; Glasgow,
1818.)
St Kilda and the St Kildians. Robert Connell. (London, 1887.)
St Kilda and the St Kildians. J. Steele Elliott. (Journ. Birmingham Nat. Hist.
Soc., i., 113-20, 124-35. 1895.)
St Kilda. Norman Heathcote. (London, 1900.)
Letters from St Kilda. Anne Kennedy. (Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., x., 702-11. Edin.,
1875.)
The "Apostle of the North" : the Life and Labours of John MacDonald, D.D. [for
visits to St Kilda, 108-30, 137-59, 176-87]. John Kennedy, D.D. (London,
1866.)
Lady Grange in the Island of St Kilda. David Laing, LL.D. (Proc. Soc. Antiq.
Scot., x., 722-30 ; xi., 597-608. Edin., 1875-6.)
The History of St Kilda. Kenneth Macaulay. (London, 1764 } Paris, 1782.)
St Kilda and its Inhabitants. John MacDiarmid. (Edin., 1877.)
St Kilda. Hector Rose Mackenzie. (Celtic Magazine, xi., 9-16, 62-9, 121-4. (Inver
ness, 1885.)
Antiquities and Old Customs in St Kilda. James B. Mackenzie. (Proc. Soc. Antiq.
Scot., xxxix., 397-402. Edin., 1905.)
Episode in the Life of the Rev. Neil Mackenzie at St Kilda from 1829 to 1843. Ed.
James B. Mackenzie. (P.P., 1911.)
Sketches of the Island of St Kilda . . . from the Oral Narration of the Rev. Neil
Mackenzie. Lachlan Maclean. (Glasgow, 1838.)
A Late Voyage to St Kilda [in 1697] with a History of the Island. Martin Martin.
(London, 1698 ; London, 1753 ; Glasgow, 1818.)
St Kilda. John Mathieson. (Scot. Geog. Mag., xliv., 65-90. Edin., 1928.)
A List of Accounts of Visits to St Kilda, 1549-1900. Sir Arthur Mitchell. (Proc. Soc.
Antiq. Scot., xxxv., 441-2. Edin., 1901.)
Saint Kilda : a Fragment of Travel. Thomas S. Muir. [Edin.] (1858.)
A Visit to the Island of St Kilda. Alexander Ross. (Trans. Inverness Field Club,
iii., 72-91. 1893.)
Notes on the Antiquities of St Kilda. John Sands. (Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., xii.,
186-92. Edin., 1877.)
Out of the World: or, Life in St Kilda. John Sands. (Edin., 1876, 1878.)
St Kilda : Past and Present. George Seton. (Edin., 1878.)
A Visit to St Kilda. Robert Angus Smith, Ph.D. (Glasgow, 1879.)
Communion Tokens of South Uist. James Anderson. (Scot. Notes and Queries, 2nd
ser., vii., 104. Aberdeen, 1906.)
Account of Remains in South Uist. Sir Henry Dryden. (Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., iii.,
124-7. Edin., 1862.)
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHURCH AND PARISH HISTORIES 735
PRESBYTERY OF LEWIS
The Island of Rona, etc. [Barvas]. [Macfarlane Geog. Coll., Hi., 262-302.] (Scot. Hist.
Soc. Edin., 1908.)
Life of Robert Finlayson, minister of Lochs [in Gaelic]. John Macpherson. (Edin.,
1868.)
The Callernish Stones, Lewis. James Fraser. (Trans. Inverness Field Club, vi., 103-11.
1910.)
Twenty Years' Reminiscences of the Lews. Kev. G. H. H. Hutcheson. (London, 1871.)
Notes on the Pigmies Isle . . . with Exploration of the Chapel. William Cook
Mackenzie. (Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., xxxix., 248-58. Edin., 1905.)
The Book of the Lews. William Cook Mackenzie. (Paisley, 1919.)
The Island of Lewis and its Fishermen-Crofters. Donald Mackinlay. (London, 1878.)
Traditions, Customs, and Superstitions of the Lewis. Malcolm MacPhail. (Folk-Lore,
vi., 162-70, 303-4. London, 1895.)
Eorrapaidh in the Lews, an Ancient Church Restored. Rev. H. Anderson Meaden.
(Trans. Scot. Eccles. Soc., vi., 170-3. 1921.)
Description of the Lews, 1678-1688. J. Morisone. [Macfarlane Geog. Coll., ii., 210.]
(Scot. Hist. Soc. Edin., 1907.)
Lewisiana, or Life in the Outer Hebrides. William Anderson Smith. (London,
1875.)
Norse Topography of Lewis and Harris. Frederick William Leopold Thomas.
(Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., XL, 472-507. E^in., 1876.)
Traditions of the Morrisons, Hereditary Judges of Lewis. Frederick William Leopold
Thomas. (Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., xii., 503-56. Edin., 1878.)
The Clachans of Lewis. H. Whiteside Williams. (The Reliquary, vi., 73-9. London,
1900.)
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1773) with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. James
Boswell. (London, 1785 ; many other editions.)
Travels in the Western Hebrides from 1782 to 1790. Rev. John Lane Buchanan.
(London, 1793.) (See also Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., xxxv., 515. Edin., 1901.)
The Hebrid Isles. Robert Buchanan. (London, 1883.)
Carmina Gadelica : Hymns and Incantations Orally Collected. Alexander Carmichael.
2 vols. (Edin., 1900.)
In the Hebrides. Constance Frederica Gordon-Gumming. (London, 1883.)
The Wild Hebrides. Walter Cooper Bendy. (London, 1859.)
Wanderings in the Western Highlands and Islands. M. E. M. Donaldson. (Paisley,
1920, 1923.)
Journal of a Tour through the Outer Hebrides in 1870. H. W. Fielden. (Trans.
Glasgow Nat. Hist. Soc., ii., 58-9. 1876.)
Songs of the Hebrides. Marjory Kennedy-Fraser. (London, 1909.)
Sea-Tangle : some more Songs of the Hebrides. Marjory Kennedy-Fraser. (London,
1913.)
736 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHURCH AND PARISH HISTORIES
Christian Legends of the Hebrides. Ada Goodrich-Freer. (Contemporary Review,
Ixxiv., 390. London, 1898.)
Outer Isles. Ada Goodrich-Freer. (Westminster, 1902.)
The Power of Evil in the Outer Hebrides. Ada Goodrich-Freer. (Celtic Monthly,
ix., 142, 162, 193, 219. Glasgow, 1901.)
The Long Island or Outer Hebrides. James Geikie. (Good Words, 18-23, 234-8, 523-6.
London, 1879.)
History of the Western Highlands and Isles of Scotland, 1493-1625. Donald Gregory.
(London, 1836, 1881.)
Notes Regarding Various Remnants of Antiquity . . . during a Recent Visit to the
Hebrides. Donald Gregory. (Archaeol. Scot., iv., 362-5. Edin., 1832.)
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland [in 1773]. Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
(London, 1775 ; many other editions. Oxford, 1924 [edited by R. W. Chapman].)
Journal of a Tour in . . . the Western Islands in 1800. John Leyden, M.D.
(Edin., 1903.)
Place-Names of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. Alexander MacBain, LL.D.
(Stirling, 1922.)
A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland. John MacCulloch, M.D. 3 vols.
(London, 1819.)
The Highlands and Western Islands of Scotland. John MacCulloch, M.D. 4 vols.
(London, 1824.)
Behold the Hebrides ! or Wayfaring in the Western Isles. Alasdair Alpin MacGregor,
M.A. (Edin., 1925.)
Gaelic Incantations, Charms, and Blessings of the Hebrides. William Mackenzie.
(Trans. Gael. Soc. Inverness, xviii., 97-182. 1894.)
History of the Outer Hebrides. William Cook Mackenzie. (Paisley, 1903.)
Pigmies in the Hebrides. William Cook Mackenzie. (Scot. Geog. Mag., xxi., 264-8.
Edin., 1905.)
The Norsemen in the Hebrides. Donald Mackinnon. (Caledonian Med. Journ., iii.,
362-71. Edin., 1899.)
The Road to the Isles: Poetry, Lore, and Tradition of the Hebrides. Kenneth
Macleod [min. of Gigha]. (Edin., 1927.)
The Western Highlands in the Eighteenth Century. Roderick C. MacLeod. (Scot.
Hist. Rev., xix., 33-48. Glasgow, 1921.)
The Norsemen in the Hebrides. Roderick C. MacLeod. (Scot. Hist. Rev., xxii., 42-50.
1924.)
Remarks on Dr Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Hebrides. Donald MacNicol.
(London, 1779.)
Folk- Lore from the Hebrides. Malcolm MacPhail. (Folk-Lore, vii., 400-4 ; viii., 380-6 ;
ix., 84-93 ; xi., 439-50. London, 1896-1900.)
Some Hebridean Antiquities. David MacRitchie. (The Reliquary, new ser., i., 200-15.
London, 1895.)
A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland. Martin Martin. (London, 1703,
1716; Glasgow, 1884.)
The Cruise of the " Betsey." Hugh Miller. (Edin., 1858.)
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHURCH AND PARISH HISTORIES 737
A Description of the Western Isles of Scotland, called Hybrides. Sir Donald Monro,
High Dean of the Isles. (1549, 1774 ; Edin., 1884.)
Characteristics of Old Church Architecture [Hum, Eigg, Canna, Skye, Harris, etc.]
Thomas S. Muir. (Edin., 1861.)
Ecclesiolofjical Notes on some of the Islands of Scotland. Thomas S. Muir. (Edin.,
1885.)
A Voyage to the Hebrides. Louis Albert Necker de Saussure. (London, 1822.)
Report on the State of Education in the Hebrides. Alexander Nicolson. (Edin.,
1866.)
The Hebrides Two Hundred Years Ago. Alexander Stewart. (Scots Magazine, new
ser., iv., 333-42. Perth, 1889.)
On the Duns of the Outer Hebrides. Frederick W. L. Thomas. (Archseol. Scot., v.,
365-415. Edin., 1890.)
On the Primitive Dwellings and Hypogea of the Outer Hebrides. Frederick W. L.
Thomas. (Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., vii., 153-95. Edin., 1867.)
Report of Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments : The Outer
Hebrides, Skye, and the Small Isles. (Edin., 1928.)
SYNOD OF ORKNEY
PRESBYTERY OF KIRKWALL
Deerness : its Islands. John Mooney. (Proc. Orkney Antiq. Soc., iv. Kirkwall, 1926.)
Statistical Account of Evie and Rendall. J. Duguid. (Lit. and Stat. Mag., iii., 97.
Edin., 1819.)
Orkney Eighty Years Ago, with Special Reference to Evie. John Omond. (Kirkwall,
1911.)
Description of St Olla Parish and Kirkwall, 1726. [Macfarlane Geog. Coll., i., 141.]
(Scot. Hist. Soc. Edin., 1906.)
Diary of Thomas Brown, Writer in Kirkwall, 1675-1693. [Ed. by A. Francis Steuart.]
(Kirkwall. 1898.]
A Legend of St Ola's Kirk. W. Fordyce Clark. (Old Lore Miscellany, iv., 130-3.
London, 1911.)
The Bells of St Magnus. Sir Henry E. L. Dryden. (The Orcadian, 1855, 1861.)
The Ancient and Present State of Orkney, particularly . . . Kirkwall. George
Eunson. (Newcastle, 1788.)
Description of the Church Dedicated to St Magnus, and the Bishop's Palace at
Kirkwall. George Eunson. (Kirkwall, 1878.)
Kirkwall in the Orkneys. B. H. Hossack. (Kirkwall, 1900.)
Glimpses of Kirkwall and its People in the Olden Time. William Rodger Mackintosh.
(Kirkwall, 1887.)
VOL. VII. 3 A
•738 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHURCH AND PARISH HISTORIES
Curious Incidents from the Ancient Records of KirTcwall. William R. Mackintosh.
(Kirkwall, 1892.)
Discoveries in St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall. John Mooney. (Proc. Soc. Antiq.
Scot., lix. Edin., 1925.)
The History of Kirkwall United Presbyterian Congregation from its Formation in
1796 to the Union in 1900. Rev. David Webster. (Kirkwall, 1910.)
Church Life in South Ronaldshay and Burray in the Seventeenth Century. James
Brown Craven, D.D. (Kirkwall, 1911.)
Sir John Arnot of Barswick and the Family of Arnot in South Ronaldshay. James
Brown Craven, D.D. (Kirkwall, P.P. 1913.)
Two Old Pulpit Worthies of Orkney [John Gerard, min. of South Ronaldshay, and
Matthew Armour, Free Church, Sanday.] Rev. Alexander Goodfellow.
(Stromness, 1925.)
PRESBYTERY OF CAIRSTON
The Antiquities of Birsay Parish. J. Fraser. (Proc. Orkney Antiq. Soc., iii. Kirk
wall, 1925.)
Birsay Church History, including Harray. Rev. Alexander Goodfellow. (Kirkwall,
1903.)
The Palace of Birsay in Orkney. Rev. Thomas Miller. (Scot. Hist. Rev., xv., 47-52.)
Glasgow, 1917.)
The Kirk o' Kirkgoe and the Picky Dykes of Birsa. John Spence. (Old Lore
Miscellany, viii., 87-94. London, 1920.)
Birsay Palace. Edward Tyrrell. (The Antiquary, xlvii., 136-40, 185-7. London,
'
The Antiquities of Firth Parish. J. Fraser and A. Wood. (Proc. Orkney Antiq. Soc., v.
Kirkwall, 1927.)
Harray. [See Birsay Church History.]
Some Antiquities in Harray. J. Fraser. (Proc. Orkney Antiq. Soc., i. Kirkwall, 1923.)
The Dwarfie Stone of Hoy. Rev. William A. P. Johnman. (Trans. Hawick Archseol.
Soc. 1898.)
The Dwarfie Stone of Hoy. Alfred Wintle Johnston. (The Reliquary, ii., 84-101.
London, 1896) [has a Bibliography].
The Round Church and Earl's Bu, of Orphir. Alfred Wintle Johnston. (Coventry,
1903) [has a Bibliography]. [See also Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., xxxvii., 16-31.
Edin., 1903.]
Notice of the Remains of a Round Church . . . in Orphir. George Petrie. (Journ.
Archseol. Inst., xviii., 227-30. London, 1861.)
The Book of Orphir. Rev. James Alexander Stephen. (Kirkwall, 1910.)
Antiquities of Sandwich Parish. J. Fraser. (Proc. Orkney Antiq. Soc., ii. Kirkwall,
1924.)
Antiquities of Stenness Parish. J. Fraser. (Proc. Orkney Antiq. Soc., iv. Kirkwall,
1926.)
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHURCH AND PARISH HISTORIES 739
Rune-Stones in the Brodgar Circle, Stenness. Albany F. Major. (Old Lore Miscellany,
ii., 46-50. London, 1909.)
Account of the Stones of Stenness. Frederick William Leopold Thomas. (Archseol.
Scot., xxxiv., 88-136. London, 1852.)
Notes on Maeshowe Inscriptions. B. Dickins. (Proc. Orkney Antiq. Soc., ii. Kirk-
wall, 1924.)
The Runic Inscriptions at Maeshowe. Edward Charlton. (Soc. Antiq. Newcastle,
vi., 127-47. 1865.)
Mesehowe. John Mitchell Mitchell. (Edin., 1863.)
Maeshowe, Stennis, Orkney. George Petrie. (Kirkwall, 1861.)
On the Tumulus of Maeshowe in the Orkneys. Thomas Joseph Pettigrew. (London,
1863.)
Maeshow and the Standing Stones of Stenness: Their Age and Purpose. Magnus
Spence. (Old Lore Miscellany, iii., 445-53. London, 1903.)
Standing Stones and Maeshoive of Stenness. Magnus Spence. (Scot. Rev., xxii.,
401-7. Paisley, 1893.)
Excavations in the Chambered Mound of Maeshowe. John Stuart, LL.D. (Proc. Soc.
Antiq. Scot., v., 247-79. Edin., 1865.)
Account of Antiquities at Stromness. Rev. George Low. (Archseol. Scot., iii. London,
1773.)
PRESBYTERY OF NORTH ISLES
Sanday Church History [Cross and Burness.] Rev. Alexander Goodfellow. (Kirkwall,
1912.)
The Centenary Book of the East United Free Church, Sanday. (Kirkwall, 1913.)
Antiquarian Notes on Sanday. H. Marwick. (Proc. Orkney Antiq. Soc., i. Kirkwall,
1923.
Lady [in Sanday Church History],
The Place-Names of North Ronaldshay. H. Marwick. (Proc. Orkney Antiq. Soc., i.
Kirkwall, 1923.)
Excavations at the Broch of Burrian, North Ronaldshay. William Traill. (Archaaol.
Scot., v., 341-64. Edin., 1880.)
Eynhallow [Rousay] : the Holy Island of the Orkneys. John Mooney. (Kirkwall,
1923.)
Antiquarian Notes on Stronsay. H. Marwick. (Proc. Orkney Antiq. Soc., v. Kirk
wall, 1927.
Origin and Progress of the U.P. Church, Westray. Rev. William Harcus. (N.P., N.D.)
Antiquarian Notes on Papa-Westray. H. Marwick. (Proc. Orkney Antiq. Soc., iii.
Kirkwall, 1925.)
740 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHURCH AND PARISH HISTORIES
THE OKKNEY ISLANDS
[See also under The Shetland Islands.]
Saint Magnus of the Orkneys. Mary Monica Maxwell Scott. (Scot. Rev., ix., 79-108.
Paisley, 1887.)
Guide to the Orkney Islands. James Anderson. (Kirkwall, 1884.)
List of Books and Manuscripts Relating to Orkney and Zetland. William Balfour
Baikie, M.D. (London, 1847.)
Oppressions of the Sixteenth Century in the Islands of Orkney and Zetland. [(Ed.)
David Balfour of Balfour.] [Maitland Club.] (Edin., 1859.)
Odal Rights and Feudal Wrongs : a Memorial for Orkney. David Balfour of Balfour.
(Edin., 1860.)
Ancient Orkney Melodies. David Balfour of Balfour. (P.P., Edin., 1885.)
History of the Orkney Islands. Rev. George Barry, D.D. (Edin., 1805; London,
1808; Kirkwall, 1867.)
Descriptio Insularum Orchadiarum, 1529. Ben, Jo. [i.e. John Bellenden]. In Sibbald
MSS. (pressmark 33.3.20), and Balfour MSS. (pressmark 33.2.3), National
Library of Scotland, Edin. Printed in Barry's Orkney and in Macfarlane Geog.
Coll., iii., 302-13, with translation. (Scot. Hist. Soc. Edin., 1908.) [The earliest
historical account of Orkney.]
Folk-Lore of the Orkney and Shetland Islands. George Fraser Black, Ph.D. (Folk-
Lore Soc., xii., 277. London, 1903.)
A Brief Description of Orkney, etc. Rev. John Brand. (Edin., 1683, 1701, 1703, 1883.)
[Also in John Pinkerton's Voyages and Travels, iii., 731-810. (London,
1809.)]
Orcadian Papers. Malcolm Mackenzie Charleson. (Stromness, 1905.)
The Church in Orkney. Rev. Charles Clouston, LL.D. (Edin., 1845.)
Guide to the Orkney Islands. Rev. Charles Clouston, LL.D. (Edin., 1862.)
The Odal Families of Orkney. J. Storer Clouston. (Old Lore Miscellany, i., 27-32 ;
ii., 155-62, 227-34. London, 1908-9.)
Townships and Surnames. J. Storer Clouston. (Old Lore Miscellany, ii., 34-7.
London, 1909.)
Odal Orkney. J. Storer Clouston. (Old Lore Miscellany, vii., 85-100. London, 1911.)
Orkney Surnames. J. Storer Clouston. (Old Lore Miscellany, v., 28-33, 63-7.
London, 1912.)
The Battle of Summerdale. J. Storer Clouston. (Old Lore Miscellany, ii., 95-100.
London, 1909.)
Records of the Earldom of Orkney, 1299-1614. J. Storer Clouston. (Scot. Hist.
Soc. Edin., 1914.)
The Orkney Parishes [containing Statistical Account of Orkney, 1795-1798]. J. Storer
Clouston. (Kirkwall, 1927.)
The Lawrikmen of Orkney. J. Storer Clouston. (Scot. Hist. Rev., xiv., 49-59.
Glasgow, 1916.)
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHURCH AND PARISH HISTORIES 741
The Old Chapels of Orkney. J. Storer Clouston. (Scot. Hist. Rev., xv., 223-32. 1918.)
The Orkney Pennylands. J. Storer Clouston. (Scot. Hist. Rev., xx., 19-27. 1922.)
The Orkney Toivnships. J. Storer Clouston. (Scot. Hist. Rev., xvii., 16-45. 1919.)
Antiquities and Scenery of the North of Scotland and Orkney Islands [in a series of
Letters to Thomas Pennant]. Rev. Charles Cordiner. (London, 1780.)
History of the Episcopal Church in Orkney, 1688-1882. James Brown Craven, D.D.
(Kirkwall, 1883, 1912.)
History of the Church in Orkney, 1558-1688. James Brown Craven, D.D. 3 vols.
(Kirkwall, 1893, 1897, 1901.)
The Blazon of Episcopacy in Orkney, 1421-1688. James Brown Craven, D.D. (Kirk
wall, 1901.)
List of Books and Pamphlets relating to Orkney and Shetland. James Walls Cursiter.
(Kirkwall, 1894.)
The Orcadian Sketch-Book. Walter Traill Dennison. (Kirkwall, 1880.)
Orcadian Sketches. Walter Traill Dennison. (Kirkwall, 1904.)
Orkney Weddings and Wedding Customs. Walter Traill Dennison. (Kirkwall, 1905.)
Monumenta Orcadica : the Norsemen in the Orkneys and the Monuments they have
left. L. H. S. Dietrichson and J. Meyer. (Christiania, 1906.)
Ruined Churches in Orkney. Sir Henry Edward Leigh Dryden. (The Orcadian,
1867-70.)
Notices of Runic Inscriptions . . . in the Orkneys. James Farrer, M.P. (p.p., Edin.,
1862.)
A Short Essay on . . . the Brochs and other Rude Stone Monuments of the Orkney
Islands. James Ferguson, D.C.L. (London, 1877.)
A Visit to Orcadia. Malcolm Ferguson. (Dundee, 1898.)
Rambles in the Far North. Robert Menzies Fergusson, D.D. (London, 1883 ;
Paisley, 1884.)
Orkney Past and Present. John Foster. (London, 1895.)
Three Orkney Churches. Robert W. Gibbon and Francis Kelly, M.D. (Trans. Aber
deen Eccles. Soc., 367-72. 1898.)
Summers and Winters in the Orkneys. Daniel Gorrie. (London 1868; Kirkwall,
1869.)
Orkneyinga Saga sive Historia Orcadensium a prima Orcadum per Norvegos occupa-
tione ad exitum seculi duodecim . . . editit Jonas Jonceus. (Hafniae, 1780.)
[The most important book on the early history of Orkney. Translated from the
Icelandic by Jon. A. Hjaltalin and Gilbert Goudie, with notes and introduction
by Joseph Anderson, LL.D.] (Edin., 1873.)
The Commissariot Records of Orkney: Register of Testaments, 1611-1684. Francis
James Grant, W.S. [Scot. Rec. Soc.] (Edin., 1904.)
The Orkney Book. John Gunn. (Edin. [1909].)
Orkney and Shetland. J. G. F. Moodie Heddle and Thomas Mainland. (Cambridge,
1920.)
Survey of Orkneyan Place-Names. Alfred Wintle Johnston. [Viking Club Saga
Book, iii., 459-64.] (London, 1903.)
742 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHURCH AND PARISH HISTORIES
The Romans in Orkney. Alfred Wintle Johnston. (Old Lore Miscellany, i., 275-80.
London, 1908.)
Commissariat Records of Orkney. Alfred Wintle Johnston. (Old Lore Miscellany,
ii., 51, 173, 245. London, 1909.)
Bishops of Orkney during the Papal Schism, 1378-1429. Alfred Wintle Johnston. (Old
Lore Miscellany, iii., 151. London, 1910.)
Odal Law tn Orkney and Shetland. Alfred Wintle Johnston. (Old Lore Miscellany,
viii., 47. London, 1915.)
Scottish Influence on Orkney. Alfred Wintle Johnston. (Scot. Hist. Rev., xiii., 209-18.
Glasgow, 1916.)
Diplomatarium Orcadense et Hialtlandense : Orkney and Shetland Records. Collected
and Edited by Alfred Wintle Johnston, Amy Johnston, Jon Stefansson, and
Henry Paton, M.A. [Viking Club.] (London, 1907-13.)
Orkney and Shetland Folk, 872-1350. A. W. Johnston. (Old Lore Miscellany, vii.,
'84, 131, 183. London, 1914.)
The Orkney Dialect. J. T. Smith Leask. (Old Lore Miscellany, i., 317-28. London.
1908.)
History and Description of Orkney. Rev. George Low. [See under Birsay, page
241.]
The Orkneys in Early Celtic Times. James Mainland Macbeath. (Kirkwall,
1892.)
The Orkney Crofters. William R. Mackintosh. (Kirkwall, 1889.)
Around the Orkney Peat Fires. William R. Mackintosh. (Kirkwall, 1898 ; 3rd. ed.
1914.)
Rentall of the Provostrie of Orkney. Sheriff J. A. Maconochie. (Edin., 1836.)
Deeds Relating to Orkney and Zetland, 1433-1581. Sheriff J. A. Maconochie. [Banna-
tyne Club.] (Edin., 1840.)
The Testimony of Tradition . . . Orkney Finnmen, etc. David MacRitchie. (London,
1890.)
Trials for Witchcraft, Sorcery, and Superstition in Orkney, 1624-1643. James
Maidment. [Abbotsford Club.] (Edin., 1837.)
The Description of the Isles of Orkney and Zetland. Robert Monteith. (Edin., 1711,
1845.)
A Catalogue of the Bishops of Orkney, 1112-1477. Professor Peter Andreas Munch.
[Bannatyne Miscellany, iii.] (Edin., 1855.)
Why is the Mainland of Orkney called Pomona? Professor Peter Andreas Munch.
(Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., i., 15-18. Edin., 1855.)
A Week among the Antiquities of Orkney. [Sir] James A. H. Murray. (Hawick,
1861.)
Ecclesiological Notes on ... the Orkneys. John Mason Neale. (London, 1848.)
A Tour through some of the Islands of Orkney and Shetland. Patrick Neill. (Edin.,
1806.)
Orkney Past and Present. J. F. Palmer. (London, 1889.)
Descriptive and Historical Handbook to the Orkney Islands. William Peace. (Kirk
wall, 1862.)
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHURCH AND PARISH HISTORIES 743
Unpublished Documents relating to the Insurrection in Orkney in 1614. Edward
Peacock. (Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., x., 218-21. Edin., 1875.)
Rentals of the Ancient Earldom and Bishoprick of Orkney, 1299-1614. Alexander
Peterkin. (Edin., 1820.)
Notes on Orkney and Zetland, History, Antiquities, etc. Alexander Peterkin. (Edin.,
1822.)
Notice of the Brochs . . . of Orkney. George Petrie. (Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., v.,
71-94. (Edin., 1874.)
Orcadiana : Abstracts of Orkney and Shetland Deeds. Konald William Saint Glair.
(Old Lore Miscellany, ii., 176-80, 243-5. London, 1909.)
The Bishopric of Orkney. Ronald William Saint Glair. (Old Lore Miscellany, iv.,
17-19. London, 1911.)
The Saint Glairs of the Isles, being a History of the Sea-Kings of Orkney. R. W. Saint
Glair. (Auckland, N.Z., 1898.)
The Celtic Church in Orkney. Rev. A. B. Scott. (Proc. Orkney Antiq. Soc., iv.
Kirkwall, 1926.)
A General View of the Agriculture of the Orkney Islands. John Shirreff. (Edin.,
1814.)
The Rulers of Orkney. Thomas Sinclair, M.A. (Orkney Herald, Kirkwall, 28th May
to 16th Oct. 1901.)
Early Christian' Remains in Orkney and Shetland. Rev. J. Cromarty Smith.
' (Trans. Scot. Eccles. Soc., vi., 103-18, 1921.)
Armorials of the County of Orkney. H. L. N. Smith. (Edin., 1902.)
Annals of the Church of Scotland in Orkney from 1560. John Smith. (Kirkwall,
1907.)
A Peep into an Orkney Township in the Olden Times. John Spence. (Old Lore
Miscellany, iv., 183-7 ; v. 67-72. London, 1912.)
Biarne Kolbeinsson, the Skald, Bishop of Orkney, 1188-1223. Jon Stefansson. (Old
Lore Miscellany, i., 43-7. London, 1908.)
Orkney News from the Letter-Sag of Mr Charles Steuart, 1725-1797. A. Francis
'Steuart. (Old Lore Miscellany, vi., 41-9, 101-9. London, 1913.)
Documents Relating to Orkney and Shetland, 1438-1563. John Stuart, LL.D. [Spald-
ing Club Miscellany, v., 391-6.] (Aberdeen, 1852.)
Orcades, sen rerum Orcadensium historic, libri tres. Thormodus Torfaeus. (Havnise,
1697, 1715.) [See under Alexander Pope, page 133.]
The Orkneys and Shetland. John R. Tudor [has a Bibliography]. (London, 1883.)
Orcadian Sketches. David Vedder. (Edin., 1832.)
A Description of the Isles of Orkney. Rev. James Wallace. (Edin., 1693 ; London,
1700 ; Edin., 1883.) [See under Kirkwall, page 222.]
The Orkney and Shetland Islands. Charles Wood. (The Argosy, xxv., xxvi. London,
1878.)
List of Works respecting the Islands of Orkney and Shetland. "A. Z." (Archeeol.
Scot., Hi., 267-74. Edin., 1831.)
744 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHURCH AND PARISH HISTORIES
SYNOD OF SHETLAND
PRESBYTERY OF LERWICK
On the Interpretation of some Inscriptions on Stones in Bressay. James Hunt.
(Memoirs, ii., 373-9, Anthropological Soc. London, 1866.)
The Bressay Stone. (Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., v., 239.)
The Burg of Mousa [Dunrossness]. Sir Henry E. L. Dryden. (Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot.,
iii., 123-4. Edin., 1862.)
Notes on the Old Crosskirk at Quendale in Dunrossness, and its Monumental Stones.
William Fotheringham. (Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., xli., 173-80. Edin., 1907.)
Diary of the Rev. John Mill [Dunrossness] . . . with Selections from Local Records.
Ed. Gilbert Goudie. [Scot. Hist. Soc.] (Edin., 1889.)
Notes on the Brocks or Pictish Towers of Mousa, Clickemin, in Shetland. Sir Henry
E. L. Dryden. (Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., v., 199-212. Edin., 1874.)
The Fair Isle. Wilhelm Jensen. [Translated from the German.] (Kirkwall, 1881.)
Fair Isle. Robert Louis Stevenson. (Scribner's Magazine, Oct. 1888.)
The Fair Isle. (Leisure Hour, xxvii., 199-204. London, 1878.)
The Fair Isle. Sinclair's Statistical Account. [See Edition by E. S. Reid Tait.]
(Lerwick, 1925.)
The Parish of Lerwick, 1701-1901. Rev. James M. Crawford. (Lerwick, 1901.)
Lerwick During the Last Half Century. Thomas Manson. (Lerwick, 1923.)
Auld Lerwick : a Personal Reminiscence. Jessie Margaret Edmondston Saxby. (Edin.,
1894.)
The Court Book of the Bailie Court of Dunrossness, Sandwick, and Cunningsburgh.
George Hunter Thorns. (Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., xvi., 157-9, Edin., 1882.)
PRESBYTERY OF BURRAVOE
Fetlar Folk in 1716. Alfred Wintle Johnston. (Old Lore Miscellany, iii., 103-6.
London, 1910.)
Burial-Places and Standing Stones in Yell. James T. Irvine. (Proc. Soc. Antiq.
Scot., xxi., 215-19. Edin., 1887.)
Notes on Excavations in the Island of Unst. Thomas Edmondston. (Proc. Soc. Antiq.
Scot., ix., 283-7. Edin., 1873.)
PRESBYTERY OF OLNAFIRTH
Delting in Days Gone By : the History of the Parish. J. Cave-Brown. (London, 1880.)
Annals of a Shetland Parish [Delting]. P. W. Greig. (Lerwick, 1892.)
Account of the Island of Foula [Walls]. Capt. James Veitch. (Memoirs of Wernerian
Nat. Hist. Soc., iv., 237-52. Edin., 1822.)
The Sword-dance, Papa Stour [Walls]. Alfred Wintle Johnston. (Old Lore Mis
cellany, v., 175-85. London, 1912.) [See also Sir Walter Scott's The Pirate.]
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHURCH AND PARISH HISTORIES 745
THE SHETLAND ISLANDS
[See also under The Orkney Islands.]
A Glossary of the Shetland Dialect. James Stout Angus. (Paisley, 1914 )
Shetland Folk-Lore. Karl Blind. [Viking Club Saga Book, i., 163-81.1 (London
1896.)
Glimpses of Shetland Life, 1718-1753 [From the Letter-Books of Thomas Gifford of
Busta]. Robert Stuart Bruce. (Old Lore Miscellany, v., 156-9 ; vi., 31-7, 92-101,
129-35; viii., 84. London, 1912-13.)
Shetland Sketches and Poems. James John Haldane Burgess, M.A. (Lerwick, N.D.)
Some Shetland Folk-Lore. James John Haldane Burgess, M.A. (The Scot. Rev.,
xxv., 91-103. Paisley, 1895.)
History of Shetland. Rev. James Catton. (Wainfleet, 1838.)
A Visit to Shetland in 1832. Edward Charlton. (Old Lore Miscellany, iii., 159-61,
212-16; iv., 25-9, 88-90, 127-9, 187-92; vi., 110, 139-40, 188-92; vii., 16-27.
London, 1910-14.)
Northern Gleams : Tales of the Shetland Isles. W. Fordyce Clark. (Lerwick, 1898.)
The Story of Shetland. W. Fordyce Clark. (Edin., 1906.)
Shetland Nights : Tales from the Land of the Simmer Dim. W. Fordvce Clark
(Edin., 1912.)
Shetland : Descriptive and Historical, and Topographical Description of that Country.
Robert Cowie, M.A., M.D. (Aberdeen, 1871, 1874, 1879, 1896.)
A View of the Ancient and Present State of the Zetland Islands. Arthur Edmondston,
M.D. 2 vols. (Edin., 1809.)
The Home of a Naturalist [Laurence Edmondston, M.D.]. Rev. Biot Edmondston and
Jessie Margaret Edmondston Saxby. (London, 1888.)
Sketches and Tales of the Shetland Isles. Eliza Edmondston. (Edin., 1856.)
A Flora of Shetland. Thomas Edmondston of Buness. (Aberdeen, 1845.)
An Etymological Glossary of the Shetland and Orkney Dialect. Thomas Edmondston
of Buness. (London, 1866.)
The Young Shetlander : Life and Letters of Thomas Edmondston. (Edin., 1868.)
A Glimpse of Ultima Thule. John Gerard. (The Month, ci., 241-9, 372-82 London
1903.)
An Historical Description of the Zetland Islands [1733]. Thomas Gifford of Busta.
(London, 1786. Edin., 1879.) [See also Old Lore Miscellany, iv., 30-2. London
1911.]
The Norsemen in Shetland. Gilbert Goudie. [Viking Club Saga Book, i., 289-318.]
(London, 1897.)
The Celtic and Scandinavian Antiquities of Shetland. Gilbert Goudie (Edin
1904.)
Old Orkney and Shetland Charters and Papers. Gilbert Goudie. (Old Lore Mis
cellany, iii., 42. London, 1910.)
Shetland Folk- Lore. Gilbert Goudie. (Old Lore Miscellany, v., 16-20. London, 1912.)
746 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHURCH AND PARISH HISTORIES
The Ecclesiastical Antiquities of the Southern Parishes of Shetland. Gilbert Goudie.
(Trans. Scot. Eccles. Soc., iii., 279-93. 1912.)
The Danish Claims upon Orkney and Shetland. Gilbert Goudie. (Proc. Soc. Antiq.
Scot., xxi., 236-51. Edin., 1887.)
The Ecclesiastical Revenues of Shetland after 1560. Gilbert Goudie. (Proc. Soc.
Antiq. Scot., xliv., 302-13. Edin., 1910.)
Ancient Legal Documents (Lay and Ecclesiastical} among the Public Records of Shet
land. Gilbert Goudie. (Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., xvi., 181-203. (Edin., 1882.)
The Revenues of the Parochial Benefices of Shetland in the beginning of the Seventeenth
Century. Gilbert Goudie. (Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., xviii., 291-305. Edin.,
1884.)
Some Forgotten Incidents and Personages in the local history of Shetland. Gilbert
Goudie. (Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., xxv., 30-63. Edin., 1891.)
Diary of the Rev. John Hunter, Episcopal Minister in Shetland, 1734-1745. [Ed. Gilbert
Goudie and Francis James Grant, W.S.] (Scottish Antiquary, vi., 97.)
The Commissariot Record of Shetland, 1611-1649. [Scot. Eec. Soc.] Francis James
Grant, W.S. (Edin., 1904.)
The County Families of the Zetland Islands. Francis James Grant, W.S. (Lerwick,
1893, and as Zetland Family Histories, 1907.)
Thoughts on Orkney and Zetland, their Antiquities and Capabilities of Improvement.
Alexander G. Groat of Newhall [has a Bibliography]. (P.P., Edin., 1831.)
A Description of the Shetland Isles, with an Account of their Geology, Scenery,
Antiquities, and Superstitions. Samuel Hibbert, M.D. (Edin., 1822 ; Lerwick,
1891.)
Old Shetland Dialect and Place-Names of Shetland. Dr Jakob Jakobsen. (Lerwick,
1897; 2nd ed.,1926.)
Shetland und die Shetldnder. Dr Jakob Jakobsen. (Breslau, 1897.)
Old Teachers of Shetland, 1771-1852. Daniel William Kemp. (Scot. Notes and
Queries, 2nd ser., i., 180-1 ; ii., 7-9. Aberdeen, 1900.)
A General Geographical Description of Zetland. H. Leigh. [Macfarlane Geog. Coll.,
iii., 248.] (Scot. Hist. Soc. Edin., 1908.)
Shetland : an Ecclesiological Sketch. T. S. Muir. (Edin., 1862.)
Shetland Revisited. T. S. Muir. (N.P., 1863.)
Some Old-Time Shetland Customs. John Nicolson. (Old Lore Miscellany, v., 122-5.
London, 1912.)
Tales of Thule. John Nicolson. (London, 1904.)
Handbook to the Shetland Islands. William Peace. (Kirkwall, N.D.)
The Young Shetlander and His Home. Rev. B. K. Peirce. (New York, 1870.)
Shetland and the Shetlanders. Charles Rampini. (Kirkwall, 1884.)
Some Notes on the Place-Names and Dialect of Shetland. Dr David Ross. (Proc.
Phil. Soc. Glasgow, 1894.)
Three Years in Shetland. Rev. John Russell. (Paisley, 1887.)
Daala-Mist, or Stories of Shetland. Jessie M. E. Saxby. (Edin., 1876.)
Heim-Laund and Heim-Folk, being Folk-Lore Tales of Shetland. Jessie M. E. Saxby.
(Edin., 1892.)
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE UNIVERSITIES, ETC. 747
Shetland Phrase and Idiom. Jessie M. E. Saxby. (Old Lore Miscellany, i., 225-32,
267-74, 312-6. London, 1907-8.)
/•'«//« and Fanteens [Shetland Feasts and Fasts]. Jessie M. E. Saxby. (Old Lore Mis
cellany, viii., 22. London, 1920.)
Sacred Sites in a Shetland Me. Jessie M. E. Saxby. (The Antiquary, xli., 133-8.
London, 1905.)
Shetland and the Shetlanders. Catherine Sinclair. (London, 1840.)
Shetland Folk-Lore. John Spence. (Lerwick, 1899.)
Shetland Fireside Tales. George Stewart. (Edin., 1877 ; Lerwick, 1892, 1923.)
Dissertatio de Thule veterum. Kalstrom Swen. (Holm, 1673.)
Sinclair's Statistical Account of Shetland, 1791-1799. Ed. E. S. Reid Tait. (Lerwick,
1925.)
The Orkneys and Shetland : Their Past and Present State. John R. Tudor [has a
Bibliography]. (London, 1883.)
En Sommar pd Shetland. E. Westermarck [in Geografiska Foreningens Tidskrift].
(Helsingfors, 1891.)
Hjaltland. Thomas Pilkington White. (Scot. Rev., xxviii., 1-33. Paisley, 1896.)
Die Shetland Inseln. Alexander Ziegler. (Leipzig, 1858.)
Heine Reise im harden. Alexander Ziegler. 2 vols. (Leipzig, 1860.)
[The Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, the Transactions of the
Scottish Ecclesiological Society; the Transactions of Inverness Field Club and of the
Gaelic Society of Inverness ; the volumes of the Celtic Magazine, the Celtic Monthly,
and the Celtic Review ; the volumes of Scottish Notes and Queries (Three Series) ;
the Publications of the Viking Club (founded in 1892 as The Orkney, Shetland, and
Northern Society) and of the Orkney Antiquarian Society (founded in 1922) contain
many other papers and references to the ecclesiastical history and antiquities of the
Northern Synods. It has not been found practicable to record a complete list in this
Bibliography.]
THE UNIVERSITIES, ETC.
Saint Clement, Bishop of Dunblane and Builder of its Cathedral. Rev. J. Hutchison
Cockburn. (Trans. Stirling Archael. Soc., 1925.)
The Bishops of Scotland. John Dowden, D.D., LL.D. (Glasgow, 1912.)
An Historical Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops down to the Year 1688. Robert Keith.
[Ed. Michael Russel, LL.D. (Edin., 1824.)
History of the Scottish Episcopal Church from the Revolution to the Present Time.
John Parker Lawson. (Edin., 1843.)
History of the Scottish mriseopal] Church. William Stephen. 2 vols. (Edin., 1894-96.)
James Aitken, Bishop of Galloway [page 347]. See " A Seventeenth Century Bishop."
John A. Inglis. (Scot. Hist. Rev., xlvi., 135-44. Glasgow, 1915.)
Marischal College, Aberdeen. See Fasti, Bibliography, Vol. VI., 486-7.
King's College, Aberdeen. Ibid.
University of Aberdeen, ibid.
748 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE UNIVERSITIES, ETC.
A Catalogue of the Graduates in the Faculties of Arts, Divinity, and Law of the
University of Edinburgh since its Foundation. David Laing. (Edin., 1858.)
List of the Graduates in Medicine in the University of Edinburgh from 1705 to 1866.
(Edin., 1867.)
Alphabetical List of Graduates of the University of Edinburgh from 1859 to 1888.
(Edin., 1889.)
The History of the University of Edinburgh. Alexander Bower. 3 vols. (Edin.,
1817-30.)
History of the University of Edinburgh from 1580 to 1646. Thomas Craufurd.
(Edin., 1808.)
History of the University of Edinburgh from its Foundation. Andrew Dalzel. [Ed.
David Laing.] 2 vols. (Edin., 1862.)
The Story of the University of Edinburgh during its First Three Hundred Years.
Sir Alexander Grant, Bart., LL.D. 2 vols. (London, 1884.)
Tracts . . . Relative to the Discussions between the Members of the University and the
Presbytery of Edinburgh respecting the Election of Mr Leslie to the Professorship
of Mathematics. 2 vols. (Edin., 1806.)
The Edinburgh University Library. David Cuthbertson. (Edin., 1910.)
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the University of Edinburgh. 3 vols.
(Edin., 1918, 1921, 1923.)
Records of the Tercentenary Festival of Edinburgh University. (Edin., 1885.)
Quasi Cur sores [portraits of Tercentenary Professors]. William Hole. (Edin., 1884.)
History of the University of Glasgow, 1451 to 1909. James Coutts. (Glasgow, 1909.)
A Roll of the Graduates of the University of Glasgow, from 31st December 1727 to Z\st
December 1897. William Innes Addison. (Glasgow, 1898.)
The Matriculation Albums of the University of Glasgow, from 1728 to 1858. William
Innes Addison. (Glasgow, 1913.)
The Principals of the University of Glasgow before the Reformation. James Cooper,
D.D. (Scot. Hist. Rev., xi., 252-65. 1914.)
Principal James Fall of Glasgow, 1647-1711. Rev. James Fleming Leishman. (Trans.
Glasgow Archaeol. Soc., vii., 1924.)
The Divinity Principals in the University of Glasgow, 1545-1654. H. M. B. Reid, D.D.
(Glasgow, 1917.)
The Divinity Professors in the University of Glasgoiv, 1640-1903. H. M. B. Reid, D.D.
(Glasgow, 1923.)
Munimenta Alme Universitatis Glasguensis : Records of the University of Glasgow
from its Foundation till 1727. Cosmo Innes. 4 vols. [Maitland Club.]
(Glasgow, 1854.)
Record of the Ninth Jubilee of the University of Glasgow, 1451-1901. (Glasgow, 1901.)
The Snell Exhibitions. William Innes Addison. (Glasgow, 1901.)
Memories of the Old College of Glasgoiv. David Murray, LL.D. (Glasgow, 1927.)
The University of Glasgoiv, Old and New. Ed. William Stewart, D.D. (Glasgow,
1891.)
The Early Records of the University of St Andreivs, 1413-1579. James Maitland
Anderson, LL.D. [Scot. Hist. Soc.] (Edin., 1926.)
HIHLIOGRAPHY OF SCOTTISH CHURCH IN ENGLAND 749
Collections toivards a Bibliography of St Andreu>s. James Houston Baxter, B.D.
(St Andrews, 1926) [has a long list of University publications].
St Andrews University before the Reformation. James Houston Baxter, B.D.
(St Andrews, 1927.)
Duncan Dewar, a Student of St Andrews 100 Years Ago. Sir Peter Bedford Scott
Lang, LL.D. [Introduction by the Hon. Lord Sands, LL.D.] (Glasgow, 1926.)
For St Andrews University, see also Fasti Bibliography, Vol. VI., 496.
The Moderators of the Church of Scotland, 1690-1740. Rev. John Warrick. (Edin.,
1913.)
SYNOD OF THE SCOTTISH CHURCH IN
ENGLAND
PRESBYTERY OF NORTH OF ENGLAND
The History of Berwick-iipon-Tiveed, including Tiveedmouth and Spittal. John Fuller
M.D. (Edin., 1779.)
History of Berwick-upon-Tweed and its Vicinity. Rev. Thomas Johnstone. (Berwick
1817.)
Berwick-upon-Tweed : a History of the Town and Guild. John Scott. (London, 1888.)
History of Berwick-upon-Tweed. Frederick Sheldon. (Edin., 1849.)
The Presbyterian Churches of Berwick [High and Low Meetings]. Parts I., II. Edward
F. Herdman. (London, 1888.)
Berwick : its Monasteries and Churches. Edward F. Herdman. (London, 1887.)
The Jubilee Book of Wallace Green Church, Berwick-on- Tweed, 1859-1909. (Berwick
1909.)
Tweedmouth [see Berwick Histories].
History of the Presbyterian Church of Barmoor and Lowick. (Berwick, 1824.)
History of Presbyterian Nonconformity in Lowick. Rev. William Samuel, M.A.
(Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1902.)
History of the Scots Church, Newcastle-upon-Tyne [MS. of Mr John Mark, Newcastle-
upon-Tyne.]
PRESBYTERY OF WEST OF ENGLAND
History and Antiquities of Carlisle. William Hutchinson. (Carlisle, 1796.)
The History and Antiquities of Carlisle. Samuel Jefferson. (Carlisle, 1838.)
The Rise and Progress of Presbyterianism in Liverpool. Simeon Ross Macphail, D.D.
[Jubilee Memorial of Canning Street Church.] (Liverpool, 1896.)
Scotch Kirks and Congregations in Liverpool. David Thorn, D.D. (Trans. Lancashire
and Cheshire Hist. Soc., ii., 1849-50.)
750 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SCOTTISH CHURCH IN ENGLAND
Historical Sketch of St Andrew's Church, Rodney Street, Liverpool. (N.D.)
David Thorn, D.D., Ph.D., Rodney Street, Liverpool [page 465]. Publications
(additional) -.—Remarks on a Series of Charges . . . before the Presbytery of
Glasgow (Liverpool, 1825) ; Memorial Submitted to the Presbytery of Glasgow
regarding the Theological Points of his Case (1825) ; A Letter to the Rev. Richard
T. P. Pope (1827) ; Three Questions Proposed and Ansivered concerning the Life
Forfeited by Adam, the Resurrection of the Dead, and Eternal Punishment
(1828, 1835, 1849) ; Recent Correspondence between the Presbytery of Glasgoiv
and the Rev. D. T. occasioned by a Second Interference on their Part with him
(1828); The ^Miracles of the Irving School (1832); The Assurance of Faith, or
Calvinism identified with Universal-ism (1833); Why is Popery Progressing?
(1835, 1850) ; Dialogues on Universal Salvation (1838, 1847) ; Divine Inversion,
or a View of the Character of God as ... opposed to the Character of Man
(1842) ; The. Three Grand Exhibitions of Man's Enmity to God (1845) ; The
Number and Names of the Apocalyptic Beasts (1848) ; Sketch of the Life and
Character of Samuel M(Culloch (1853) ; Liverpool Churches and Chapels (1854).
—Edited Without Faith without God [John Barclay, Pastor of the Berean
Assembly, Edinburgh] (1836) ; The Restoration of all Things [Jeremiah White,
Chaplain to Oliver Cromwell] (1851).
PEESBYTEEY OF LONDON
The Story of Crown Court Church. [Black's The Scots Churches in England, 75-111 1
(London, 1906.)
The Book of the Congregation. Rev. Joseph Moffett, B.A. (Crown Court Church
Magazine, 1920-8.)
The Story of St Columba's Church. [Black's The Scots Churches in England, 153-72.]
(London, 1906.)
MS. Minutes of the Scots Presbytery of London. 3 vols. (1772-1843.) [In Library of
Presbyterian Hist. Soc. of England, llegent Square, London.]
CHAEGES IN ENGLAND, EXTINCT OR MEEGED
The Cheshire Classis. Eev. Alexander Gordon, M.A. (London, 1919.)
Historical Sketches of Nonconformity in the County Palatine of Chester. William
Urwick. (1864.)
The Date of the Ruthivell and Bewcastle Crosses. Albert S. Cook. (Yale University
Press, 1912.)
The Runic Roods of Ruthwell and Bewcastle. James King Hewison, D.D. (Glasgow,
1914.)
A Memoir on the Roman Station and Runic Cross at Bewcastle. Rev. John Maughan.
(London, 1857.)
Early Brampton Presbyterianism, 1662-1780. Henry Penfold. (Kendal, 1903).
Brampton Seventeenth Century Presbyterians. Henry Whitehead. (1886.)
Brampton in 1745. Henry Whitehead. (1907.)
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SCOTTISH CHURCH IN ENGLAND 751
History of Penrith Presbyterian Church. Rev. James Hay Colligan. (Penrith, 1908.)
History of Penrith. William Furness. (Penrith, 1894.)
Penruddock Presbyterian Meeting-House. Rev. J. H. Colligan. (Kendal, 1905.)
Notes on Penruddock Church. Rev. J. H. Colligan. (Journ. Presbyterian Hist Soc
England, i., 128-34. 1917.)
The Old Meeting, Whitehaven. Rev. J. H. Colligan. (Journ. Presbyterian Hist. Soc
England, ii., 142-6. 1922.)
Whitehaven and its Old Church. William Jackson. (1885.)
The Ejected of 1662 in Cumberland and Westmorland: their Predecessors and
Successors. Rev. Benjamin Nightingale, M.A. 2 vols. (Manchester, 1911.)
A History of Cumberland. R.S.Ferguson. (Carlisle, 1890.)
The History and Antiquities of Cumberland. William Hutchinson. 2 vols (Carlisle
1794.)
Transactions of Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological
Society [containing many Papers on Ecclesiastical History and Biography].
The History and Antiquities of Darlington. W. H. D. Longstaffe. (Darlington, 1854.)
History of Presbytery in Durham, 1643-1922. (Durham, 1922.)
Gateshead [see under Newcastle, Mackenzie's History.}
A Short History of St John's Presbyterian Church, South Shields. (Year Book of
Church, 1927.)
Presbyterianism in Sunderland and the North. Rev. John Black. (London, 1876.)
A Historical and Descriptive Vieiv of the Parishes of Monkw ear mouth, etc. George
Garbutt. (Sunderland, 1819.)
The Old Presbyterian Chapel in Maling's Rigg. Robert Hyslop. (Sunderland, N.D.)
A Short History of Presbyterianism in Sunderland. Rev. James T. Middlemiss and
Robert Hyslop. (Sunderland, 1897.)
Notes on the Early Nonconformist Ministers at Alston Moor. J. W. Robinson
(1909.)
Presbyterianism in Portsmouth. Rev. Gilmour Neill. (Portsmouth, 1916.)
Theobalds in Cheshunt. R. S. Robson. (Journ. Presbyterian Hist. Soc. England, i.
215-19. 1919.)
Historical Sketch of St Stephen's, Watford. (N.D.)
Nonconformity in Herts. William Urwick. (London, 1884.)
Presbyterianism in Canterbury. Rev. A. F. Taylor, M.A. (Canterbury, 1927.)
The Religious History of Bolton. Rev. Thomas Boston Johnstone, D.D. 2 vols.
(Bolton, 1887, 1892.)
Oldham Street Church, Liverpool. [See Liverpool, ante.}
The Country and Church of the Cheeryble Brothers [Ramsbottom.] Rev. William
Hume Elliot. (Selkirk, 1893.)
Ministers of Dundee Chapel, Ramsbottom. William Hewitson. (N.D.)
The Story of Presbyterianism in Wigan : a Record of Three Centuries. William B.
Shaw. (London, 1912.)
The History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster. Edward Baines. [Ed.
James Croston.] 5 vols. (1888-93.)
752 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SCOTTISH CHURCH IN ENGLAND
Lancashire : its Puritanism and Nonconformity. Robert Halley. 2 vols. (Man
chester, 1869.)
Lancashire Nonconformity : or Sketches of the Congregational and Old Presbyterian
Churches in the County. Rev. Benjamin Nightingale. 6 vols. (Manchester,
1890-3.)
Founders' Hall, London. [Black's The Scots Churches in England, 36-74.] (Edin.,
1906.)
New Light on the Story of the Old Scots Church, London. Rev. Alexander Jeffrey.
(Journ. Presbyterian Hist. Soc. England, i., 88-94, 113-18. 1916-17.)
Memorials of the Old Ministers, Founders' flail, London Wall, and Canonbury. Rev.
George Wilson, M.A. (London, 1882.)
The Founders' Hall Meeting. Rev. Philip O. Williams. (Journ. Presbyterian Hist.
Soc. England, ii., 133-8. 1922.)
The Story of Regent Square Church. [Black's The Scots Churches in England, 112-52.]
(Edin., 1906.)
Regent Square : flighty Years of a London Congregation. John Hair. (London,
1898.) [See also Biographies of Edward Irving and James Hamilton, D.D.]
History of Silver Street Church, London. James Bennett, D.D. (London, 1842.)
Islington, London. R. S. Robson. (Journ. Presbyterian Hist. Soc. England, ii.,
207-12. 1923.)
Swallow Street, Piccadilly. [Black's The Scots Churches in England, 218-28.] (Edin.,
1906.)
Origin and History of the Congregation now known as Marylebone Presbyterian
Church, 1676-1924. J. Graham Carter. (1924.)
Woolwich. John Hawkes and his Successors, 1662-1912. Rev. John Cairns, D.D.
(Woolwich, 1913.)
Ancient Meeting-Houses of London. Godfrey Holden Pike. (London, 1870.)
The History and Antiquities of the Dissenting Churches and Meeting-Houses in
London, etc. Walter Wilson. 4 vols. (London, 1808, 1814.)
The History of Alnwick. George Tate. 2 vols. (Alnwick, 1866-69.)
Middle Meeting, Berwick-upon-Tweed [see Berwick, ante].
Sketch of the History of Birdhopecraig Congregation. Rev. Thomas Newlands.
(Morpeth, 1896.)
William Veitch and Birdhopecraig. J. Nichol. (Journ. Presbyterian Hist. Soc.
England, ii., 204-6. 1923.)
Historical Account of the Presbyterian Church at Branton. Rev. James Blyth, MA.,
(Alnwick, 1891.)
Under a Border Tower. Rev. Hastings M. Neville. (Newcastle, 1896.)
The Priests of Etal, or Annals of Tillside. Rev. George M'Guffie. (Edin., 4th ed.,
N.D.)
Historical Sketch of Falstone-cum-Kielder Presbyterian Church. Rev. M. Gardiner
Campbell, M.A. (1909.)
Glanton, in Whittingham Vale, 231-53. David Dippie Dixon. (Newcastle, 1895.)
Harbottle, in Upper Coquetdale, 198-212. David Dippie Dixon. (Newcastle, 1903.)
Hexham and its Antiquities. James Hewitt. (Hexham, 1879.)
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SCOTTISH CHURCH IN ENGLAND 753
Hexham and its Abbey. Charles Clement Hodges and John Gibson. (Hexham, 1919.)
Holy Island and its Associations. William Halliday. (Newcastle, 1909.)
Historical Memorials of Presbyterianism in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. By an Episcopalian
[T. G. Bell]. (London, 1844, 1847.)
Nonconformity in Newcastle Two Centuries Ago. James Clephane. (Newcastle, 1862.)
A Descriptive and Historical Account of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Eneas Mackenzie.
2 vols. (Newcastle, 1827.)
Church of the Divine Unity, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1672-1922 : a Short History Kev
Alfred Hall. (Newcastle, 1922.)
Spittal [see Berwick, ante].
Thropton and Rothbury, in Upper Coquetdale, 366-429, 455-465. David Dippie Dixon
(Newcastle, 1903.)
The Story of the West Church, Wooler, 1729-1894. Kev. Alexander Gregory M A
(Edin., p.p., 1894.)
A History of Northumberland [issued under the direction of the Northumberland
County History Committee]. 12 vols. (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1893-1926.)
Northumberland: its History, its Features, and its People. Rev. James Christie
B.A. (Carlisle, 1904.)
A History of Northumberland. John Hodgson. 7 vols. (Newcastle-upon-Tyne
1820-56.)
Northumberland. W. W. Tomlinson. (Newcastle, N.D.)
Brief Sketch of the Rise of Northumberland Presbytery. Rev. William Thorp M A
(Chatton, 1925.)
Rev. William Veitch and Northumberland. R. S. Robson. (Journ. Presbyterian Hist.
Soc. England, ii., 11-17. 1920.)
St Columba's, Oxford : an Historical Outline. Rev. David C. Lusk, M.A. (Oxford,
1921,)
Bicentenary Memorial of the Old Stafford Meeting-Home. Rev. S. D. Scammell
1887.)
Presbyterianism in Croydon. R. S. Robson. (Journ. Presbyterian Hist. Soc. England,
ii., 24-7. 1920.)
Nonconformity in Warwickshire. J. Sibree. (1855.)
History and Traditions of Ravenstonedale. William Nicholls. (1877.)
Presbyterianism in Kendal. Rev. Marshall N. G. Gray, M.A. (Kendal, 1908.)
The Older Nonconformity in Kendal. Francis Nicholson and Ernest Axon (Kendal
1915.)
Horningsham [see page 523].
Nonconformity in Worcester. William Urwick. (1897.)
Yorkshire Puritanism and Early Nonconformity. Rev. Bryan Dale, M.A. (N.P., 1909.)
The First Century of Presbyterianism in Douglas, Isle of Man, 1825-1925. (Douglas,
Presbyterianism in the Isle of Man. Rev. John Davidson. (Journ. Presbyterian Hist.
Soc. England, i., 187-93. 1918.)
The Declaration of Indulgence, 1672. Frank Bate, M.A., B.Litt. (London, 1908.)
VOL. VII.
754 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SCOTTISH CHURCH IN IRELAND
The Scots Churches in England. Kenneth Macleod Black. (Edin., 1906.)
The History of Dissenters from the Revolution to the Year 1808. David Bogue, D.D.,
and James Bennett, D.D. 2 vols. (London, 1833.)
Eighteenth Century Nonconformity. Kev. J. Hay Colligan. (London, 1915.)
History of the Presbyterians in England. Alexander Hutton Drysdale, D.D. (London,
1889.)
The English Presbyterians. Alexander Hutton Drysdale, D.D.. (London, 1891.)
Freedom after Ejection : a Review (1690-1692) of Presbyterian and Congregational
Nonconformity in England and Wales. Alexander Gordon, M.A. (Man
chester, 1917.)
Annals of English Presbytery. Thomas M'Crie, D.D., LL.D. (London, 1872.)
The Presbyterian Churches. James Moffat, D.D. (London, 1928.)
The Nonconformist's Memorial [originally written by Edmund Calamy, D.D.]. Samuel
Palmer. 3 vols. (London, 1802.)
Our Heritage. R. S. Robson. (Journ. Presbyterian Hist. Soc. England, iii., 149-70,
219-33. 1926-27.)
IRELAND
A Short History of the Non- Subscribing Presbyterian Church of Ireland. John
Campbell,' M.A, M.D., LL.D. (Belfast, 1914.)
History of the Irish Presbyterian Church. Thomas Hamilton, D.D. (Edin., N.D.)
The History of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. James Seaton Reid, D.D., and
William Dool Killen, D.D. (Vol. i., Edin., 1834 ; vol. ii., London, 1837 ; vol. in.,
London, 1853.)
The Ecclesiastical History of Ireland. William Dool Killen, D.D. 2 vols. (London,
1875.)
History of Congregations of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. William Dool
Killen, D.D. (Belfast, 1886.)
A History of Irish Presbyterians. William Thomas Latimer, B. A (Belfast, 1902.)
In the Days of the Laggan Presbytery. Rev. Alexander Lecky, M.A. (Belfast, 1908.)
Two Centuries of Life in Down, 1600-1800. John Stevenson. (Belfast, 1920.)
The History and Principles of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. D. Stewart, B.A.
(Belfast.)
THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND OVERSEAS
Holland. For Scottish Churches in Holland, see " Notices of the British Churches in
the Netherlands," 257-344, in The History of the Scottish Church, Rotterdam,
Rev. William Steven, M.A. (Edin., 1833.)
A Short History of the English Presbyterian Church in Amsterdam. James Blinshall,
D.D. [in MS. 1764].
A Short Historical Account of the English Reformed Church, Amsterdam. William
Thomson, D.D. (Amsterdam, 1907.)
History of Amsterdam [in Dutch]. Jan Wagenaar. (Amsterdam, 1760-1788.)
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHURCH OF SCOTLAND OVERSEAS 755
The Staple Contract betwixt the Royall Burrows of Scotland and the City Campvere in
Zealand. (Edin., 1749, 1776.)
The Journal of Thomas Cuningham of Campvere, 1640-1654. Elinor Joan Courthope,
M.A. [Scot. Hist. Soc.] (Edin., 1928.)
Eenige Zeemvsche oudheden behehende eene beschrijving der stad Vere. J. Ermerins.
(Middelburg, 1790-2.)
An Account of the Scotch Trade in the Netherlands and of the Stajde Port in Campvere.
Rev. James Yair. (London, 1776.)
Bijdragen tot de Geschiedenis van den Schotschen Stapel te Vere. J. W. Perrels.
2 vols. (1903-5.)
Het Godshuis te Vere. H. de Zeemw. (1927.)
For Campvere, see also page 541, and Publications [Records] of the Convention of
Royal Burghs of Scotland.
Beschrijving der stadt Delft. R. Boitet. (Delft, 1729.)
Beschrijving der stad Dordrecht. M. Balen. (Dordrecht, 1677.)
Dordrecht. J. L. van Dalen. (Dordrecht, 1927.)
Kerklijk Dordrecht. Gilles Denijs Jacob Schotel. (Utrecht, 1841.)
Vlissingsche Kerkhemel. G. Vrolikhert. (Vlissingen, 1758.)
Geschiedkundige plaatsbeschrijving van Vlissingen. H. P. Winkelman. (Vlissingen,
1873.)
Records of the Scottish Church at The Hague. Ernest G. Atkinson. (Journ. Presby
terian Hist. Soc. England, L, 153-5, 1918) [gives account of Church Records
mentioned at page 545 : these are now preserved in H.M. Public Record Office,
London].
's-Gravenhage en den loop der tyden. W. P. van Stockum. (!s-Gravenhage, 1889.)
Geschiedenis eener Hollandsche stad [Leyden]. Pieter Johannes Blok. 4 vols
('s-Gravenhage, 1910-18.)
Beschrijving der stad Leyden. F. van Mieris. (Leyden, 1762-84.)
Index to English-speaking Students who have Graduated at Leyden University.
Edward Peacock. [Index Soc., xiii.] (London, 1883.)
Album studiosorum Academice Lugduno-Batavce MDLXXV-MDCCCLXXV. W N
Du Rieu. (The Hague, 1875.)
The History of the University of Leyden . . . till the Year 1825 [in Dutch]. Professor
Siegenbeck. 2 vols. (Leyden, 1829.)
Middelburg ; John Quick. Mrs W. W. D. Campbell. (Journ. Presbyterian Hist. Soc.
England, iii., 8-15, 1924) [has a description of his Icones Sacra/].
Bijdrage tot de kennis der geschiedenis en den verderen aamvas der stad Middelburg
in den stroom der Arne. J. Ehrlich. (Middelburg, 1848.)
Middelburg en omstrichen geschetst. F. Nagtglas. (Middelburg, 1872.)
Short Sketch of the History of the Scotch Church, Rotterdam. John Irwin Brown
D.D. (Rotterdam, 1915.)
Geschiedkundige beschrijving der stad Rotterdam. G. van Reyn. (Rotterdam, 1832.)
The History of the Scottish Church, Rotterdam. Rev. William Steven, M A. (Ediu
1833.)
756 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHURCH OF SCOTLAND OVERSEAS
Beschrijving der stad Utrecht. (Utrecht, 1757.)
Utrecht's oudheid en afbeelding en beschrijving. J. van Leifland. (Utrecht, 1857-62.)
Utrecht : Annales Academics Rheno-Trajectinae. 21 vols. (Trajecti ad Rhemnu.
1816-37.)
Utrecht. Alexander Leighton [see page 554]. See also An Epitome or Brief Discoverie
from the beginning to the ending of the many and great troubles that Dr
Leighton suffered. (1646.)
Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United
Netherlands, 1572-1782. James Ferguson. [Scot. Hist. Soc.] 3 vols. (Edin.,
1899-1901.)
Antiquities of Zealand. J. Ermerins. 8 vols. (Middelburg, 1780-97.)
The Scottish Staple in the Netherlands; an Account of the Trade Relations between
Scotland and the Low Countries from 1292 till 1676, with a Calendar of Illus
trative Documents. Matthijs P. Rooseboom. (The Hague, 1910 )
A Letter from the Synod of Zealand to the . . . General Assembly of the Kirk of
Scotland expressing . . . their Fellow-feeling of the Present Condition of the
Kirks of Ireland and England, etc. [Latin and English]. (Edin., 1643.) [Three
copies in Library of University of Edinburgh.]
The Story of the Church of the English at Geneva. Rev. C. H. D. Grimes, M.A.
(N.P., N.D.) [Has a list of early refugee members from 1555 to 1560, among them
"John Knox; Margery, his wife; Elizabeth, her mother; James, his servant;
and Patrik, his puple," 18th Sept. 1556.]
Catalogue des etudiants de V Academic de Geneve de 1559 a 1859. (Geneve, 1860.)
The First Scottish Missionary in South Africa [William Ritchie Thomson, page 565].
R. W. Barbour. (Catholic Presbyterian, iv., 101-9. London, 1880.)
Caffres and Caffre Missions. Rev. Henry Calderwood. (London, 1858.)
South Africa and its Mission Fields. Rev. J. E. Carlyle. (London, 1878.)
A History of Christian Missions in South Africa. J. Du Plessis, B.A., B.D. (London,
1911.)
The Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa. John M'Carter. (Edin., 1869.)
The History of the South African College, 1829-1918. William Ritchie. (Cape Town,
1918.)
Lovedale, South Africa. James Stewart, D.D. (Edin., 1894.)
History of South Africa since 1795. George M'Call Theal. 5 vols. (London, 1908)
[the most authoritative work on the subject].
African Wastes Reclaimed ; the Story of the Lovedale Mission. Robert Young.
(Edin., 1902.)
Rangoon. (See Journ. Presbyterian Hist. Soc. England, iii., 246. 1927.)
Burma, as it Is, as it Was, and as it Will Be. Sir James George Scott. (London, 1886.)
Christianity in Ceylon. Sir James Emerson Tennent, LL.D. (London, 1850.)
The Handbook of the Church of Scotland in India and Ceylon. (Calcutta, 1900, 1901 ;
Cawnpore, 1908.)
The Cleghorn Papers: a Footnote to History, being the Diary, 1795-1796, of Hugh
Cleghorn of Stravithie [by his instrumentality the island of Ceylon was annexed
to the British Empire]. Ed. William Neil, minister of Newburn (cf. Vol. V.,
225.) (London, 1927.)
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHURCH OF SCOTLAND OVERSEAS 757
Tin- Handbook of the Church of Scotland in India. (Ajmere, 1922 ; Madras, 1928.)
The Story of St Andrew's Church, Bombay. Rev. John C. Matthew. (Bombay, p.p. 1913.)
Centeii.it i-;i History of the Presbyterian Church in New South Wales [many portraits].
.lames Cameron, D.D. 2 vols. (Sydney, 1905.)
A it, Historical and Statistical Account of New South Wales from the founding of the
Colony in 1788 to the Present Day. John Dunmore Lang, D.D. 2 vols.
(Fourth edition, London, 1875.)
Jubilee Memorial of the Presbyterian Church of Queensland. Alexander Hay, D.D.
(Brisbane, 1900.)
Fifty Years of Presbyterianism in Victoria. Alexander James Campbell, D.D.
(Melbourne, 1889.)
A Jubilee History of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria. Robert Hamilton, D.D.
(Melbourne, 1888.)
The History of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria. Rev. Robert Sutherland, MA.
(London, 1877.)
History of Australia. G. W. Rusden. 3 vols. (Melbourne, 1908.)
The Romance of Tasmania. M. Hookey. (Hobart, 1921.)
The Fiji of To-day. John W. Burton. (London, 1910.)
History of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. John Dickson, MA. (Dunedin,
History of Knox Church, Dunedin. John Hislop, LL.D. (Dunedin, 1892.)
Fifty Years Syne : a Jubilee Memorial of the Presbyterian Church of Otago [many
portraits]. Rev. James Chisholm. (Dunedin, 1898.)
The Story of the Otago Church and Settlement. Rev. C. Stuart Ross. (Dunedin, 1887.)
The Literature relating to New Zealand ; a Bibliography. [Preface signed J. C.]
(Wellington, 1889.)
Story of the Kirk in the Maritime Provinces. James Croil. (The Presbyterian, xxviii.,
214-22, 237-47, 261-9, 285-96. Montreal, 1875.)
The History of the Presbyterian Church in Cape Breton. Rev. John Murray. (Truro,
1921.)
History of St Andrew's Church, New Brunswick. David Russell Jack. (St John,
New Brunswick, 1913.)
Letter addressed to the Rev. James Milne, M.A. George Burns, D.D. (Cf. Vol. I.,
297.) (St John, 1818.) [Only one copy is known to exist.]
The History of New Brunswick and the other Maritime Provinces. John Harper.
(St John, 1876.)
Reports and Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society. (Halifax, 1879, et. seq.)
Selections from the Public Documents of the Province of Nova Scotia, 1714-1761. Thomas
Beamish Akins, D.C.L. (Halifax, 1869.)
An Historical and Statistical Account of Nova Scotia. 2 vols. Thomas C. Haliburton.
(Halifax, 1829.)
A History of Acadia. James Hannay. (St John, 1879.)
A History of Nova Scotia or Acadie. Beamish Murdoch, Q.C. 3 vols. (Halifax,
1865-67.)
History of the County of Pictou, Nova Scotia. George Patterson, D.D. (Montreal,
1877.)
758 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHURCH OF SCOTLAND OVERSEAS
History of the Mission of the Secession Church to Nova Scotia and Prince Edward
Island from its Commencement in 1765. Kev. James Robertson. (Edin., 1847.)
History of Prince Edward Island. Duncan Campbell. (Charlottetown, 1875.)
Travels in Prince Edivard Island, 1820-1821, undertaken with the design to establish
Sabbath Schools, etc. Walter Johnstone. (Edin., 1823.)
History of Presbyterianism on Prince Edward Island. John M. Macleod, D.D.
(1904.)
A History of the Scotch Presbyterian Church, St Gabriel Street, Montreal. Robert
Campbell, D.D. [has account of other Presbyterian Churches in Montreal].
(Montreal, 1887.)
Pioneer Life in Zorra. William A. Mackay, D.D. (Toronto, 1899.)
A Brief History of the Church in Upper Canada. William Bettridge, B.D. (London,
1831.)
A Historical and Statistical Report of the Presbyterian Church of Canada in connection
with the Church of Scotland. James Croil. (Montreal, 1868.)
Genesis of Churches in the United States of America, in Newfoundland and the
Dominion of Canada [many illustrations of Churches]. James Croil. (Montreal,
1907.)
Life of James Croil, Montreal : An Autobiography, 1821-1916 (portrait). (Montreal,
1918) [contains chapters on the 1875 Union of the Canadian Church].
Dundas, or a Sketch of Canadian History. James Croil [contains notices of Churches
in the county], (Montreal, 1861.)
History of the Presbyterian Church in the Dominion of Canada from the Earliest
Times to 1834. William Gregg, D.D. (Toronto, 1885.)
A Short History of the Presbyterian Church in the Dominion of Canada from the
Earliest to the Present Time. William Gregg, D.D. (Toronto, 1892; 3rd
edition, 1900.)
Digest of the Minutes of the Synod of the Presbyterian Church of Canada. Alexander
Ferrie Kemp, D.D. (Toronto, 1861.)
The Story of the Old Time Communion Service and Worship, also the Metallic Com
munion Token of the Presbyterian Church in Canada. Rev. George A.
MacLennan, B.A. (Montreal, 1924.)
The Burning Bush and Canada. Roderick George MacBeth, D.D. (Toronto [1926].)
The Presbyterian Church in Canada, 1875-1925. John Thomas M'Neill, D.D.
(Toronto, 1925.)
Sketches of Celebrated Canadians. Henry James Morgan. (Quebec, 1862.)
A Cyclopaedia of Canadian Biography. George MacLean Rose. (Toronto, 1886, 1888.)
The Dictionary of Canadian Biography. William Stewart Wallace, M.A. (Toronto,
1926.)
Manitoba : its Infancy, Growth, and Present Condition. George Bryce, D.D., LL.D.
(London, 1882).
The History of Manitoba. Donald Gunn. (Ottawa, 1880.)
The Romantic Settlement of Lord Selkirk's Colonists [Pioneers of Manitoba]. George
Bryce, D.D., LL.D. (Toronto, 1909.)
John Black, the Apostle of the Red River. George Bryce, D.D., LL.D. (Toronto, 1898.)
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHURCH OF SCOTLAND OVERSEAS 759
The Selkirk Settlers in Real Life. Rev. Roderick George MacBeth, M.A. (Toronto,
1897.)
Lord Selkirk's Work in Canada. Chester Martin. (Oxford, 1916.)
The Red River Settlement : its Rise, Progress, and Present State. Alexander Ross.
(London, 1856.)
Makers of the Canadian West. Rev. Roderick George MacBeth, M.A. (Toronto.
1898.)
Presbyterian Pioneer Missionaries in Manitoba, Saskatcheivan, Alberta, and British
Columbia Hugh McKellar, D.D. (Toronto, 1924.)
History of British Columbia. Henry J. Boam. (London, 1912.)
Presbyterianism in British Columbia. Alexander Dunn, D.D. (New Westminster,
1913.)
Canada and its Provinces : a History of the Canadian People and their Institutions.
Ed. by Adam Shortt and Arthur G. Doughty. 23 vols. (Edin., 1914.)
The Scotsman in Canada. George Bryce, D.D., and William Wilfred Campbell, LL.D.
2 vols. (Toronto, 1911.)
Newfoundland, the Oldest British Colony: its History, Condition, Prospects, etc.
Joseph Hatton and Rev. M. Harvey. (1883.)
History of Newfoundland from the Earliest Times to 1860. Rev. Charles Pedley
(1863.)
Reminiscences of an Old Bermuda Church. Joseph H. S. Frith [ed. A. B. Cameron,
D.D.] (Edin., 1911.)
Biographical Sketches of the Founder and Principal Alumni of the Log College.
Archibald Alexander, D.D. (Philadelphia, 1851.)
History of American Christianity. Leonard W. Bacon. (London, 1899.)
Religion in America. Robert Baird. (New York, 1845.)
History of the United States of America. George Bancroft. 6 vols. (New York,
1888.)
A History of Presbyterianism in New England. Alexander Blaikie, D.D. (Boston,
1882.)
American Presbyterianism : its Origin and Early History. Charles Augustus Briggs,
D.D. (Edin., 1885.)
Records of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. William Engles.
(Philadelphia, 1841.)
Sketches of North Carolina. W. H. Foote, D.D. (New York, 1846.)
Sketches of Virginia. W. H. Foote, D.D. (Philadelphia, 1850, 1855.)
An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and
Georgia. Alexander Hewitt, D.D. 2 vols. (London, 1779.)
The Constitutional History of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America.
Charles Hodge, D.D., LL.D. (Philadelphia, 1851.)
History of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. Ezra H. Gillett,
D.D. 2 vols. (Philadelphia, 1864.)
History of the American Episcopal Church from the Planting of the Colonies. Samuel
D. M'Connell, D.D. (New York, 1891.)
Founders of Maryland. E. D. Neill, D.D. (Albany, 1876.)
760 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHURCH OF SCOTLAND OVERSEAS
A Concise History of the Presbyterian Church of America. William H. Roberts, D.D.
(Philadelphia.)
Annals of the American Pulpit. W. B. Sprague. 3 vols. (New York, 1860.)
Presbyterian Churches in the United States. R. E. Thompson, D.D.
History of the Presbyterian Church in America from its Origin until the Year 1760,
with Biographical Sketches of its Early Ministers. Richard Webster. (Phila
delphia, 1858.)
Scotland's Mark on America. George Fraser Black, Ph.D. (New York, 1921.)
America at College, as seen by a Scots Graduate. Robert K. Risk, M.A. Glasgow,
1908.)
The Story of the Kirk in Grenada. (Trinidad, N.D.)
History of St Mark's Church, British Guiana. Rev. John Mansfield. (Edin., N.D.)
Notes on the History of St Andrew's Kirk, Demerara. J. Graham Cruicksbank.
(Georgetown, 1911.)
History of British Guiana. Henry Dalton, M.D. 2 vols. (London, 1855.)
British Guiana : its Natural Productions . . . and Social Institutions. Rev. Rob'ert
Duff. (Glasgow, 1866.)
Records of the Scottish Settlers in the River Plate and their Churches. James Dodds,
(Buenos Aires, 1897.)
Patagonia. Rev. Douglas Bruce, M.A. (See "Patagonia," Life and Work, July to
September, 1925).
Valparaiso, Union Church. (Journ. Presb. Hist. Soc. England, ii., 34-9. 1920.)
Peru : its Story, People, and Religion. Geraldine Guinness. (London, 1909.)
The History of the Church of England in the Colonies. Rev. James S. M. Anderson,
M.A. 2 vols. (London, 1856.)
Presbyterianism in the Colonies. Robert Gordon Balfour, D.D. (Edin., 1899.)
The Influence of the Scottish Church in Christendom. Henry Cowan, D.D. (Edin.,
1896.)
The Burning Bush ; the Story of the Presbyterian Church in all Lands. John R.
Fleming, D.D. (Edin., 1925.)
The Scottish Churches' Work Abroad. Rev. J. H. Morrison, M.A. (Edin., 1927.)
The Presbyterian Churches of Christendom. James Nicoll Ogilvie, D.D. (London,
1925.)
On the Threshold of Three Closed Lands. Rev. John Anderson Graham, D.D. (Edin.,
1897, 1905.)
True Yoke- Fellows in the Mission-Field [John Anderson and Robert Johnston]. John
Braidwood, M.A. (London, 1862.)
Eastern Impressions [India]. Rev. David Gilmour Manuel, B.D. (Perth, 1907.)
A Gladdening River : Twenty-five Years' Guild influence among the Himalayas. Rev.
David Gilmour Manuel, B.D. (Edin., 1914.)
A n Indian Pilgrimage ; Travel Notes of a Visit to the Indian Fields of the Church of
Scotland. Rev. James Nicoll Ogilvie, D.D. (Edin., 1922.)
A History of Missions in India. Julius Richter, D.D. [trans, by Sydney H. Moore].
(Edin., 1908.)
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHURCH OF SCOTLAND OVERSEAS 761
In the Land of the. Five Rivers : a Sketch of the Work of the. Church of Scotland in the
r«njah. Henry F. Lechmere Taylor, M.A., M.B. (Edin., 1906.)
The History of the Missionary College, Sialkot, 1899-1910. Rev. George Waugh.
(Lahore, 1910.)
Forty Years of the Panjab Mission of the Church of Scotland. John F. W. Youngson,
D.D. (Edin., 1896.)
History of Protestant Missions in India, 1706-1871. Rev. M. A. Sherring. (London,
1875.)
The Shire* Highlands : a Colony and Mission. John Buchanan. (Edin., 1885.)
Church Building in the Mission- Field. Alexander Hetherwick, D.D. (Trans. Scot.
Eccles. Soc., vi., 4-7, 1919.)
Africa in Transformation. Rev. Norman Maclean, M.A. (London, 1913.)
Nyassaland and Portuguese East Africa. Rev. Robert Hellier Napier, B.D. (Edin.,
1913.)
The Martyrs of Blantyre. William Robertson, D.D. (London, 1892, 1912.)
The Story of Blantyre. Eva Rodger. (Edin., 1884.)
Four Months among African [Church of Scotland] Missions. Rev. William B. Steven
son, M.A. (Edin., 1927.)
Dawn in the Dark Continent ; or Africa and its Missions [Duff Missionary Lectures].
James Stewart, D.D. (London, 1903.)
The Redemption of Africa [has a Bibliography of literature of African Missions].
Frederick Perry Noble. 2 vols. (London, 1899.)
Afric's Sunny Fountains ; Travel Notes of a Visit to the African Mission- Fields of the
Church of Scotland. James Nicoll Ogilvie, D.D. (Edin., 1921.)
Kikuyu, 1898-1923 : Semi-Jubilee Book of the Church of Scotland Mission, Kenya
Colony. (Edin., 1923.)
Bee Showjay : being Letters from Nurse Bere [Church of Scotland Mission, Ichang,
China]. (Edin., 1912.)
The Missionary Expansion of the Reformed Churches. Rev. John Anderson Graham,
M.A. (Edin., 1898.)
History of the Foreign Missions of the Free Church of Scotland. Robert Hunter, M.A.
(London, 1873.)
History of Foreign Missions of the Secession and United Presbyterian Church. John
M'Kerrow, D.D. (Edin., 1867.)
The Missionary Ideal in the Scottish Churches. Dugald Mackichan, D.D., LL.D.,
(London, 1927.)
Scottish Outposts : being an Impressionist Sketch of the Missions of the Church of
Scotland. Rev. Robert Stevenson and Rev. W. H. Rankine. (Edin., 1914.)
A History of the Foreign Missions of the Church of Scotland. Robert Walter Weir,
M.A. (Edin., 1900.)
Our [Church of Scotland] Missions in Picture and Narrative. (Edin., 1924.)
The Outposts. Vols. i., ii., iii., iv. (Edin., April 1906 to Oct. 1909.)
Early Days of the Jeivish Mission. Thomas Nicol, D.D. (Edin., N.D.)
The Story of Smyrna Medical Mission in connection with the Church of Scotland.
L. Prinski Scott, M.B., C.M. (Edin., 1887.)
INDEX OF PARISHES AND CHAPELS
SCOTLAND
AlTHSTIVG, 314
Alness, 25
Applecross, 144
Assynt, 77
Avoch, 1
BALIASTA, 297
Barra, 185
Barvas, 199
Benbecula, 186
Bernera, 188
Berriedale, 112
Birsay, 234, 238
Bower, 113
Bracadale, 166
Bressay, 278
Burness, 258
Burra, 278, 287
Burray, 212, 229
CANISBAY, 116
Canna, 176
Carnoch, 28
Chanonry, 8
Clyne, 79
Contin and Strathgarve, 30
Creich, 81
Croick, 52
Cromarty, 3
Gaelic, 7
Cross, 201
Cross and Burness, 258
Cullicudden, 18, 21
Cunningsburgh, 288
DEERVESS, 210, 213
Delting, 306
Dingwall, 32
Dornoch, 83
Duirinish, 168
763
Dunbeath, 125
Dunnet, 118
Dunrossness, 282
Durness, 101
EDAY, 261
Edderton, 53
Eddrachillis, 104
Egilsay, 267
Eigg, 176
Evie, 214
FAIR ISLE, 282, 285
Faray, 261
Farr, 106
Fearn, 55
Ferintosh. See Urquhart
Fetlar, 295
Firth and Stenness, 235
Flotta, 237, 254
Fodderty, 36
Fortrose, 8
Foula, 285, 317
GAIRI.OCH, 146
Glenelg, 149
Glenshiel, 150
Glen Ussie, 36
Golspie, 86
Graemsay, 243, 245
Gress, 205
HALKIRK, 121
Hallin-in-Waternish, 170
Hamnavoe, 305
Harray, 238
Harris, 1 88
Hirt, 192
Holm or Ham, 217
Hoy, 243
764
INDEX OF PARISHES AND CHAPELS
KEISS, 124
Kilchrist. See Urray
Kildonan, 89
Killearnan, 10
Kilmalie. 86
Kilmaluaig, 171
Kilraorack, 38
Kilmorie in Uist, 190
Kilmuir-in-Trotternish, 171
Kilmuir-Easter, 58
Kilrauir- Wester, 14
Kiltarlagain, 173
Kiltearn, 40
Kincardine, 60
Kinlochbervie, 108
Kinlochluichart, 45
Kinnettas, 36, 38
Kintail, 151
Kirkmichael, 18
Kirkwall, 220
Second Charge, 225
Knock, 202
Knockbain, 14
Knoydart, 154
LADY, 261
Lairg, 92
Latheron, 125
Laxavoe, 306
Lemlair, 40, 45
Lerwick, 285
Lochalsh, 154
Lochbroorn, 156
Lochcarron, 159
Lochs, 203
Logic- Easter, 62
Logic- Wester, 46
Loth, 95
Lund, 297
Lunnasting, 309, 311
Lybster, 127
MARYBURGH, 51
Morinnis, 70
NESS, 201
Nesting, 309
Nigg, 65
Northmavine, 312
Northroe, 314
Norwick, 297
OLLABEIIRY, 312, 314
Olnafirth, 306, 308
Olrig, 128
Orphir, 245
PAPLAY, 217
PapaStour, 317
Plockton, 162
Poolewe, 163
Portree, 173
Pulteneytown, 131
QUARFF, 278, 287
RAASAY, 173
Reafirth, 301
Reay, 132
Rendall, 214, 228
Resolis, 18
Rogart, 97
Ronaldsay, North, 266
South, 229
St Mary's, 233
Rosemarkie, 21
Rosskeen, 67
Rousay, 267
ST ANDREWS, 210
St Kilda, 192
St Laurence, Burray, 212, 229
St Mary's, South Ronaldsay, 233
St Ola, 220
Sandness, 317
Sandsting, 314
Sandwick, Orkney, 249, 250
Shetland, 288
Shapinsay, 269
Shieldaig, 164
Shurrery, 135
Skerries, 285, 319
Skinnet, 121
Sleat, 174
Small Isles, 176
Snizort, 179
Spittal, 121
Stenness, 235, 250
Stenscholl, 181
Stoer, 99
Stornoway, 205
Strath or Strathswordale, 182
Strathgarve, 30
Strathy, 109
Stromness, 250
Stronsay, 272
Suddie, 14, 17
INDEX OF PARISHES AND CHAPELS
765
TATK, 70
Tankerness, 210
Tarradale, 48, 51
Thurso, 135
Tingwall, 290
Tongue, 109
Trumisgarry, 197
Twatt. See Sandsting
UIG, Lewis, 207
Skye, 179
Uist, North, 190
South, 194
UllapooJ, 165
Unst, 297
Urquhart and Logie-Wester, 46
Urray and Kilchrist, 48
WALLS, North, 257
and Flotta, 254
and Sandness, 317
Watten, 138
Weisdale, 290, 293
Westray, 276
Whalsay, 319
Whiteness, 290, 293
Wick, 140
YELL, Mid, 301
North, 295, 304
South, 305
ENGLAND
ALNWICK, 504
Bondgate, 504
St James's, 504
BELFORD, 505
Belsay, 505
Berwick, High, 459
Low, 458
Middle, 508
St Andrews, 460
Bewcastle, 473
Birdhopecraig, 506
Birkenhead, 473
Birmingham, 522
Blennerhasset, 474
Blyth, 507
Bolton, 486
Brampton, 474
Branton, 507
CARLISLE, 464
Fisher Street, 475
Cornhill, 508
Cotherstone, 524
Crookham, 508
Croydon, 522
DARLINGTON, 479
Deal, 485
Douglas, Isle of Man, 524
Dudley, 524
Durham, 478
EMBLETON, 509
Etal, 508
FALSTONE, 509
GATESHEAD, 479
Gillingham, 485
Glanton, 510
Gloucester, 483
Great Bavington, 510
HALLBANK, 511
Haltwhistle, 510
Harbottle, 510
Hebburn-upon-Tyne, 511
Hemel Hempstead, 484
Hexham, 511
Holy Island, 512
Holywell, 475
Horningsham, 523
Hurst, 472
IRESHOPEBURN, 479
KEIGHLEY, 524
Keswick, 475
Kirkley, 512
LITTLE HARBOROUGH, 523
Liverpool, Oldham Street, 486
Rodney Street, 465
St Peter's, 487
Toxteth, 487
766
INDEX OF PARISHES AND CHAPELS
London, Artillery Street, 492
Camberwell, 494
Chadwell Street, 495
Crispin Street, Spitalfields, 496
Crown Court, 467
Drury Lane, 496
Dulwich, St James's, 470
Founders' Hall, 489
Goodman's Fields, Whitechapel,
496
Greenwich, 497
Halkin Street, 497
Hammersmith, 497
Hanover Street, 497
Highgate, 497
Holloway, 466
Lambeth, Verulam, 498
Lisle Street, 498
Little St Helen's, 498
Monkwell Street, 498
Regent Square, 492
St Columba's, Pont Street, 470
Southwark, 499
Swallow Street, 499
Uxbridge, 501
Wapping, 501
Woolwich, 502
Longframlington, 512
Longtown, 475
Lowick, 461
MANCHESTER, Moseley Street, 487
St Peter's Square, 487
Marden, 485
Maryport, 476
Morpeth, 513
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, 462
Blackett Street, 515
Castlegarth, 515
Groat Market, 516
High Bridge, 513
Sallyport, 516
Silver Street, 516
West Gate, 517
North Shields, 517
North Sunderland, 517
OULTON, Norfolk, 503
Oxford, 521
PENRITH, 476
Penruddock, 477
Portsmouth, 483
RAMSBOTTOM, 488
Ramsgate, 485
Ravenstonedale, 523
Reading, 472
Riseley, 488
Roth bury, 518, 519
SOUTH SHIELDS, 479
Spittal, 517
Stafford, 521
Staines, 503
Stamfordham, 518
Stockton-on-Tees, 480
Sunderland Corn Market, 480
Maling's Rigg, 481
Robinson's Lane, 482
Rope Walk, 482
Swalwell, 483
THEOBALD 'S-IN-CHESHUNT, 484
Thornton, 524
Thropton, 518
Tunley and Wigan, 488
Tweedmouth, 460
UPPER WEARDALE, 483
WARE, 519
Warenford, 484
Wark, 519
Warkworth, 519
Watford, 484
Whitby, Devonshire, 478
Yorkshire, 524
Whitehaven, 477
Widdrington, 520
Wigan, 488
Wigton, 478
Windsor, 472
Wisbeach, 473
Wooler, Church Street, 520
Wester Meeting-House, 520
Workington, 478
Wycombe, 472
INDEX OF MINISTERS
AIJERCKOMHIE, Thomas, 258
Abernethy, John, Bishop, 337
Abernethy, John, 482
Abernethy, William, 136
Adair, Patrick, 527
Adam, James, 129, 584
Adam, Matthew, 584
Adams, David Laird, Professor, 387
Adams, John, 442
Adamson, Alfred Ernest, 311, 672
Adamson, David, 49
Adamson, Donald, 30, 32, 51
Adamson, James, £60
Adamson, John, Principal, 381
Adamson, John, 309, 443
Adamson, John Lindsay, 472
Adamson, Patrick, Archbishop, 325
Adie, Andrew, Principal, 357
Affleck, James, 544, 549
Agnew, James Martin, 128, 257
Aiken, James, 675, 680
Ainslie, James, 22
Aird, Gustavus, 52
Aird, James, 507
Airth, David, 527
Aitchison, James, 458
Aitchison, John, 513
Aitchison, Thomas, 259
Aitken, David, 509
Aitken, Edward, 516
Aitken, James, Bishop, 239, 347, 351
Aitken, James, 684, 686
Aitken, Mark, 482
Aitken, Patrick Henderson, 470
Aitken, Thomas, 58.', 613
Aitken, William, 624
Alexander, James Frederick, 686
Alexander, John, 82, 455
Alexander, John Archibald, 686
Alexander, Thomas, 624
Alison, Charles, 212
Alison, James, 219, 280
Allan, Andrew, 308
Allan, Daniel, 624
Allan, Hector, 61
Allan, James, 585
Allan, John, 474, 569
Allan, William Owen, 714
Allardyce, David, 129
Alston, James, 441 (2)
Amedeus, Alexander, Professor, 386
Amyraut, Paul, 554
Anderson, Alexander, 45, 441, 464, 473,
478, 512
Anderson, Andrew, 79, 90, 95, 242
Anderson, Andrew H., 657, 679
Anderson, Andrew Melville, 686
Anderson, David, Professor, 371
Anderson, David, 548
Anderson, Duncan, 625
Anderson, George, Professor, 371
Anderson, George, 122, 504, 585, 675, 687
Anderson, Gilbert, of Udol, 4
Anderson, Gilbert, 125
Anderson, Henry, 268
Anderson, Hugh, of Udol, 4, 5
Anderson, Hugh, 22, 487
Anderson, James, 248, 498, 499, 513, 544,
553, 608, 613, 625, 662
Anderson, James Alexander, 527
Anderson, James Duncan, 245
Anderson, James Forrester, 558
Anderson, James Robertson, 249
Anderson, James Storie, 668, 672
Anderson, John, Professor, 406 ; Principal,
413
Anderson, John, 4, 113, 265, 274, 482, 516,
527, 569, 585, 600, 667, 673, 678 (3)
Anderson, Joseph, 466, 625
Anderson, Matthew, 506
Anderson, Philip, 89
Anderson, Robert, 302
Anderson, Samuel Honyman, 559
Anderson, Thomas Knox, 479
Anderson, Walter, 90, 106
Anderson, William, Professor, 407
Anderson, William, 216 bis, 219, 256, 448,
517, 559, 625
Anderson, William Harley, 131
Andrew, Robert, 318
768
INDEX OF MINISTERS
Andrew, Theodore, 290, 319
Andrew, William, 314
Angus, David, 22
Anguson, Ronald, 208
Annand, James, 261, 276
Annand, Thomas, 141
Anton, Alexander, 36
Anton, Peter, 314
Arbuckle, William, 192, 196, 197
Arbuthnott, Alexander, Principal, 364, 438,
439
Archibald, Francis, 527
Archibald, Robert, 608
Archibald, William, 299, 512
Archibald, William Forrest, 448, 569
Armit, Andrew, 613
Armit, John, of Polduff, 278
Armour, John E., 585
Armstrong, John, 448
Arnot, Robert, Professor, 429, 443
Arthur, David, 448
Arthur, Edward, 461, 483, 509
Arthur, John William, 688
Arthur, Robert, 19
Arthur, William, 516
Atchison, Cunningham, 585
Atken, James, 314
Atkin, Daniel, 520
Atkin, George, 512,513
BADENOCH, George Roy, 448
Baikie, Thomas, 222, 223, 267
Bailey, Thomas Graham, 688
Baillie, James, Professor, 401
Baillie, John, 481, 516
Baillie, Robert, Professor, 399; Principal,
395
Baillie, Robert, 551 bis
Bain, Andrew, 89
Bain, James, 156, 202, 625, 688
Bain, William, 625
Baird, Andrew Gumming, Professor, 378
Baird, Archibald, Professor, 426
Baird, David, 585
Baird, David Wilson, 260, 294
Baird, George Husband, Professor, 386;
Principal, 382, 443
Baldie, Charles Nairne, 289
Balfour, George, 75
Balfour, John, 63, 66
Balfour, Peter, 216
Ballantyne, John, 232
Balmfort, Samuel, 545
Balvaird, John, 243, 267
Bannatine, James, 441
Bannatyne, Archibald, 157
Bannerman, Robert, Principal, 416
Barbour, John, 679
Barclay, James, 299, 303, 625
Barclay, John, 307, 625 bis
Barclay, Patrick, 315
Barclay, Thomas, 284, 286 ; Principal, 397
Barclay, William, 225, 228, 625
Baridon, Louis, 625
Barnett, James, 52
Barnett, John, 156, 165
Barnhill, William 448, 625, 676
Barr, James, 445, 486
Barr, John, 625
Barr, Robert Littlejohn, 281
Barr, William, 625
Barrett. A. De, 681
Barrie, William Dunlop, 561, 585
Barron, Cornelius, 314
Barren, John, Principal, 411
Barron, Robert, Bishop, 353; Professor,
361
Barrowman, James Storry, 464
Barry, George, 227, 270
Barry, John, 271
Barty, James Strachan, 445
Baxter, Andrew James Burt, 448, 455, 485
Baxter, Daniel, 455
Baxter, John Houston, Professor, 434
Bayne, Alexander, 38, 293
Bayne, Charles John, of Ardmeanach, 37,
112
Bayne, Donald, 34
Bayne, John, 34, 625
Bazely, Henry B. C., 502, 521
Beaton, Angus, 545
Beaton, James, Archbishop, 321
Beaton, Patrick, 448, 535, 539
Beaton, William, 667
Beatson, Henry, 178, 181, 184
Beattie, John, 477
Beattie, William, 217, 228
Beaumont, George, 545
Beck, John James, 561
Begbie, Donald Macaskill, 79
Begg, John Craig, 688
Begg, William Proudfoot, 608, 662
Beith, Alexander, 150
Bell, Alexander, Professor, 368
Bell, Andrew, 445, 626
Bell, Archibald, 681
Bell, Augustus Clifford, 569
Bell, Dugald, 167, 196
Bell, George, 626
Bell, James, 506, 510, 600
Bell, John, 440, 569, 673
Bell, Lindsay, 456
INDEX OF MINISTERS
769
Bell, Stephen, 459
Bell, Thomas, 675
Bell, William, 626 (3)
Bell, William Wilson, 461
Bellenden, Adam, of Kilconquhar, Bishop,
330, 338
Ben net, Israel, 474, 475
Bennett, John, 626
Bennie, John, 561
Bentinck, Charles Donald, 86
Bentley, James, Professor, 368
Berrie, Alexander Scott, 113
Berry, James Garrow, 608
Bertram, John, of Millhall, 478
Best, John, 555
Bethune, Alexander, 189
Bethune, Alexander Simpson, 202
Bethune, Angus, 27, 189
Bethune, Daniel, 67
Bethune, Hector, 28, 35
Bethune, John, 68, 85, 150, 166, 188, 189,
626
Bethune, Joseph, 669
Bethune, Kenneth, 171
Bethune, Neil, 119, 125
Bethune, William, 169, 187
Bicket, James, 245
Bicket, John, 304
Biggar, James, 475, 477, 527
Biggar, Matthew, 561, 569
Biggar, William, 527
Biles, Charles Ernest, 676
Binnie, John Montgomery, 301, 676
Binning, William, 291
Bird, John Turnbull, 448
Bird, William, 461
Birkmyre, John, 608
Birrell, George, 314
Birrell, John, Professor, 427
Birrell, Robert, 263
Bisset, Alexander, 539
Bisset, James, 445
Black, Alexander, Professor, 363
Black, Alexander, 174, 462
Black, Alexander Forbes, 44
Black, Archibald Pollok, 502
Black, David, 627
Black, Edward, 627
Black, Hugh, 167
Black, James, 449, 569, 627
Black, Robert, 214, 267, 552
Black, Thomas, 441
Black, Walter Kilgour, 308
Black, William, 483
Black, William M'Millan, 627
Blackburn, Peter, Bishop, 329, 439
VOL. VII.
Blackie, Andrew, 480
Blackwell, Thomas, Professor, 363; Prin
cipal, 358 bis
Blackwood, William, 463
Blackwood, William Stirling, 476
Blain, Robert, 585
Blair, Andrew Cathcart, 627
Blair, David, 441, 545, 551
Blair, George, 627
Blair, James, 511
Blair, Robert, 440, 527
Blair, Samuel, 524
Blair, Thomas, 508
Blakie, Nicholas, 489
Blaw, William, 277
Blinshall, James, 538
Blood, William, 627
Blyth, Thomas, 242
Blythe, James, 507
Blythe, John, 502, 507, 512
Blythe, Newton Ogle, 481, 507
Boag, George, 520
Boag, Robert, 505, 585
Boag, William Goldie, 308
Body, Gilbert, 217
Boe, William, 464, 476
Bogle, Colin, 318
Bogue, David, 494
Bonar, James, 440
Bonar, John, 266, 296
Bone, John, 520
Bonthorne, James, 522, 585, 714
Bonthron, John, 311
Borland, Francis, 662
Borland, William, 585
Borthwick, Gavin, 79
Borthwick, Hugh John, 627, 656
Bothwell, Adam, Bishop, 352
Bothwell, Francis, 272, 298
Bourquin, A., 688
Bowden, John Davis, 536
Bowie, Archibald, 84
Bowie, Matthew, 569
Bowie, Philip Macdonald, 545
Bowie, Walter Macdonald, 555
Bowman, Archibald, 613
Bowman, Ernest Drewitt, 688
Bowman, James Dunn, 461
Boyd, Alexander, 196
Boyd, Andrew, Bishop, 332
Boyd, Andrew Kennedy Hutchison, 446
Boyd, David, 585
Boyd, George, 613
Boyd, James, of Trochrig, Archbishop,
321, 439
Boyd, James, 492
770
INDEX OF MINISTERS
Boyd, John, 662
Boyd, Robert, of Trochrig, Principal, 381,
393
Boyd, Robert, 454, 627
Boyle, William Wilson, 480, 570
Bradbury, Thomas, 515
Bradfute, James, 476
Bradie, Thomas, 121, 122, 138
Bradner, John, 662
Braidwood, John, 688
Brand, James, 267, 272
Brand, William, 284, 289
Brandt, F. C., 688
Brechin, Edwin James, 3, 470, 535
Bremner, James, 256
Bremner, Thomas, 256
Brewster, Sir David, Principal, 382, 415
Brewster, George, 311, 566, 586
Brewster, William, 520
Brichan, David, 492
Brock, Walter, 261, 456
Brodie, Alexander, 90, 132
Brodie, George, 102, 104
Brodie, James, 117, 125
Brodie, John, 136
Brodie, Neil, 181, 613, 627
Brorafield, Robert Orange, 518
Brooke, John M., 608
Broom, Andrew, 463, 517
Brotchie, James, 278
Brotchie, James Rainy, 566
Brotchie, John Alexander Rainy, 511, 586
Brown, Alexander, 666
Brown, Andrew, 444, 613
Brown, David, 465, 527, 628, 662
Brown, George, 714
Brown, James, 442, 551, 570, 662
Brown, James Reid, 459, 501
Brown, John, 319, 447, 458, 482, 628, 662,
669
Brown, John Irwin, 553
Brown, John Low, 245
Brown, John Macdonald, 553
Brown, John Tod, 465, 466
Brown, Matthew, 513
Brown, Robert, 555
Brown, Robert Barry, 586
Brown, William, Professor, 430, 432, 555
Brown, William, 261, 276, 456, 628, 681
Brown, William Dawson, 628
Brown, William Laurence, Professor, 363 ;
Principal, 360, 555
Brown, William Leslie Wallace, 28
Brown, William Morris, 714
Browne, Archibald, 674
Browne, Robert, 541
Browne, Thomas, 586
Browne, William, 293
Brownlee, William Stevenson, 301
Bruce, Alexander, 527
Bruce, Andrew, Bishop, 340, 354
Bruce, Andrew, Professor, 428 ; Principal,
412
Bruce, David, 122, 129
Bruce, Donald, 210
Bruce, Douglas William, 681
Bruce, George, 46, 462, 689
Bruce, James, 527
Bruce, Michael, 527
Bruce, Patrick, 527
Bruce, Peter, Principal, 412
Bruce, Robert, 439 (2)
Bruce, Saul, 129, 132
Brunton, Alexander, Professor, 386, 444
Brunton, William, 628
Bryce, Edward, 527
Bryce, George, 656
Bryce, James, 518, 521, 570
Bryden, John Glendinning, 315
Brydon, George, 527
Brymer, John, 505
Bryning, John, 628
Bryson, Andrew, 461
Buchan, Alexander, 193, 628
Buchan, Charles Forbes, 517
Buchan, James, 313, 318
Buchanan, Andrew, 676
Buchanan, George, 628
Buchanan, George, Principal, 412, 437
Buchanan, James, Professor, 406
Buchanan, James, 656
Buchanan, Richard, 538
Buchanan, Thomas, 439
Buchanan, William, 689
Buchart, James, 17
Buist, George, Professor, 426, 432, 445
Buist, George, 663
Buncle, Edward, 476
Burgess, Edwin H., 614
Burgess, James, 609
Burgess, Robert, 228, 250
Burn, William, 504
Burnet, Andrew, 235
Burnet, Gilbert, Professor, 399
Burnet, James, 4
Burnet, John Smith, 628
Burnet, Joseph, 567
Burnett, Alexander, 323, 324, 331 ; Arch
bishop, 327
Burnett, Robert, 30, 628
Burnett, William, 586
Burns, George, 609
INDEX OF MINISTERS
771
Burns, James, 516
Burns, James Chalmers, 492
Burns, John, 625 bis
Burns, William Chalmers, 499
Burns, Robert, 628
Burns, Thomas, 603
CAIE, George Johnstone, 609
Caird, John, Professor, 402; Principal, 397
Cairncross, Alexander, Bishop, 324 ; Arch
bishop, 335
Cairns, Adam, 586
Cairns, James, 628
Caldcleuch, John, Professor, 428
Calder, Charles, 47
Calder, John, 68, 504, 522, 586
Calder, Peter, 81, 109
Calderwood, Robert George Matheson, 689
Calhoun, James, 628
Callan, John Mann, 614
Callander, Thomas P., 669
Callendar, Alexander, 229
Callendar, Daniel, 230, 239
Calvert, Henry, 527
Camelon, David, 628
Cameron, Alexander, 54, 135, 176, 278, 667
Cameron, Alexander H., 629
Cameron, Allan, 689
Cameron, Charles John, 586, 629, 689
Cameron, Donald, 40
Cameron, Donald Allan, 217, 278
Cameron, Hector, 178
Cameron, Hugh, 629
Cameron, James, 586
Cameron, John, 629
Cameron, John, 54, 122, 164, 206, 570
Cameron, John, Principal, 393
Cameron, John J., 629
Cameron, John Stuart, 681
Cameron, Kenneth John, 254
Cameron, Murdoch, 83
Cameron, Robert James, 609
Cameron, Samuel Wood, 570
Cameron, William, 7, 159, 164
Cameron, William Fotheringham, 460
Campbell, Alexander, of Carco, Bishop, 334
Campbell, Alexander, 173, 601, 629
Campbell, Andrew James, 287
Campbell, Archibald, Professor, 431
Campbell, Archibald, 21, 44, 94
Campbell, Charles, 629
Campbell, David, 76
Campbell, Donald Macdonald, 619
Campbell, Dugald, 154, 187
Campbell, Duncan, 43, 535
Campbell, Ewen, 187, 203, 204
Campbell, George, 76, 228, 275, 464
Campbell, George, Professor, 363, 383
Principal, 359
Campbell, Hugh, 15, 42
Campbell, Hugh Mackenzie, 456
Campbell, James, 91, 449, 474
Campbell, James Allen, 678
Campbell, James Archibald, 297
Campbell, James Eraser, 614
Campbell, James Kirkland, 460
Campbell, John, Bishop, 332, 348
Campbell, John, 87, 148, 189 bis, 444, 449,
527, 614, 629 bis
Campbell, John Cameron, 154
Campbell, Lauchlan, 527
Campbell, Neil, of Ederline, Bishop, 349
Campbell, Neil, Bishop, 332
Campbell, Neil, Principal, 396, 441 (2)
Campbell, Patrick, 13, 676
Campbell, Peter Colin, Principal, 378, 629
Campbell, Robert, 527, 629
Campbell, Robert Allan, 669
Campbell, Samuel, 112
Campbell, William, 114, 129, 138 bis, 295,
458
Campbell, William James, 619
Candlish, William, 135
Cannan, Francis, 449
Canning, William T., 629
Cant, Alan, 570
Cant, Andrew, Principal, 381, 440
Cant, Henry, 518
Carey, Stanley Buchanan, 630
Carlile, Warrand, 528, 669
Carlyle, Alexander, 442
Carment, David, 69
Carmichael, Alexander, 203, 489
Carmichael, David, 128
Carmichael, Dugald, 108, 134
Carmichael, James, 630 bis
Carmichael, James M., 630
Carmichael, John Dalglish, 308, 311
Carmichael, Samuel Gilfillan, 449
Carnegie, Sir John, 285, 296
Carp, William, 546
Carr, Robert, 476
Carruthers, John, 630
Carson, William Graham, 297
Carstares, William, Principal, 381, 441 (4),
481, 547, 551
Carswell, John, Bishop, 348
Carswell, Robert, 511
Carter, John Tunnadem, 586
Caskey, Joseph, 275
Caskey, William, 248
Cassie, John, 561
772
INDEX OF MINISTERS
Catanach, John, 299
Cathels, David, 447
Cattanach, David Lynedoch, 89
Cattanach, Joseph Hardie, 535
Chalmers, George, Principal, 367
Chalmers, Henry Reid, 59
Chalmers, James, Professor, 363
Chalmers, John, of Sclattie, Principal, 307
Chalmers, John, 542
Chalmers, Thomas, Professor, 383, 444
Chambers, James, 475 (2), 516, 519
Chambers, Robert, 630
Chapman, Thomas Henderson, 449
Charles, James, 570
Charlton, Harcourt Peter, 528
Charteris, Archibald Hamilton, Professor,
388, 446
Charteris, Henry, Professor, 382; Principal,
381
Charteris, John, 284
Charteris, Laurence, Professor, 383
Charteris, William, 714
Cheyne, Alexander, 262
Cheyne, George, 630
Cheyne, Jerome, 290
Cheyne, Robert, 290
Cheyne, Thomas, 290
Chisholm, David, 39
Chisholm, John, 506
Chisholm, Thomas, 39, 93
Chorley, Richard, 512
Chree, George Johnstone, 570
Chree, William, 567, 689
Christie, George, 311
Christie, James, 449, 614, 657, 714
Christie, John, Professor, 374
Christison, William, 438
Chrystal, James, 445
Clark, Alexander, 106, 143, 301, 689
Clark, Daniel, 630
Clark, Donald, 155, 156
Clark, John, 206
Clark, John Young, 681
Clark, Patrick Thomas, 91
Clark, Robert, 108, 512
Clarke, Duncan, 187
Clarke, William C., 630
Clayton, Raphael, 554
Cleghorn, Matthew, 212, 268
Cleland, James, 452, 486, 488, 525, 630
Cleland, John, 586
Cleland, Joseph, 528
Cleland, Robert, 689
Cleland, William, 630
Clerk, Alan, 149
Clerk, Alexander, l'2j
Clerk, Archibald, 169
Clerk, Farquhar, 205
Clouston, Charles, 249
Clouston, William, of Kingshouse, 253, 259
Clow, James, 570, 586
Clngston, John, 630
Clunes, Alexander, 18
Clunies, Patrick, 141
Clyde, William, 658
Cobb, John, 211, 226, 240, 274
Cobham, Thomas, 528
Cochrane, John, 509, 517
Cochrane, William, 258, 630
Cock, James, 262
Cock, Thomas, 258, 262
Cockburn, George, 690
Cockburn, Henry, 667
Cockburn, John, 477
Cogswell, Daniel Hezekiah, 464
Golden, Alexander, 528
Collie, Thomas, 667
Collier, John, 235
Collins, Thomas, 684
Colquhoun, Archibald, 630
Colquhoun, J, M., 567
Colquhoun, James, 528
Colquhoun, Malcolm, 586
Coltart, Robert, 678
Colvill, David, 136
Colvill, Henry, 246
Colville, Alexander, of Wester Comrie,
Professor, 382, 428; Principal, 420
Colville, Alexander, 528
Colville, John, 561
Colville, William, Principal, 381 bin
Colvin, John, 458
Colvin, Robert Francis, 571
Comrie, Walter, Professor, 428 ; Principal,
420
Comrie, William, 603
Connell, Archibald, 630
Cook, Archibald, 112
Cook, Finlay, 134,201
Cook, George, 444, 445, 571
Cook, John, Professor, 426, 429, 433, 444,
445
Cook, John, 445, 631
Cooper, Alexander, 191
Cooper, James, Professor, 409, 447
Cooper, James, 512
Coorne, Cornelius, 549
Copland, George, 2 JO
Corbet, George, 65, 154
Cornfoot, Allan, 479, 514, 520
Corrie, Samuel, 586
Corse, Hugh, 114
INDEX OF MINISTERS
773
Coskery, Alexander, 464
Cossou, Mortimer Aloysius, 676
Coull, George, 614, 714
Coulter, Hugh, 463
Couper, William, Bishop, 345
Court, Robert, 476
Coutts, James, 587
Coutts, John, 53
Covingtiie, Thomas, of Newark, 259
Cowan, Andrew, 277
Cowan, Charles, 296
Cowan, Henry, Professor, 375
Cowan, William, 449, 557
Cowe, Robert, 459
Cox, George Frederick, 242
Cox, Walter Percy, 561
Crabb, James, 304
Crabb, John, 282
Craig, jEneas Nelson, 214
Craig, Alexander, 298
Craig, Israel, 461
Craig, James, 561
Craig, James Manson, 690
Craig, John, 289, 311, 438, 439 (2)
Craig, Thomas, 587
Craig, William Pitcairn, 228
Craighead, Robert, 528
Craigie, James, 285
Craigie, James Thomson, 213
Craigie, Nicol, 219
Craigie, Thomas, Professor, 426
Craik, David, 571
Craik, James, 445
Crambe, John, 458
Cramond, Robert, 509
Craufurd, Hugh, 528
Craufurd, James, Professor, 386
Crawford, David, 282
Crawford, James, 567
Crawford, John, 571
Crawford, John Montgomery, 286
Crawford, Matthew, Professor, 389
Crawford, Oliver, 561
Crawford, Thomas Jackson, Professor, 383,
445
Creen, Thomas, 631
Crerar, Alexander, 109
Crichton, George, 459
Crichton, Patrick, 520
Crichton, William, 441 (2)
Crombie, Alexander, of Phesdo, 497
Crombie, Andrew, 8, 15 bis, 22 bis
Crombie, Frederick, Professor, 430, 536
Crombie, James Morrison, 501
Crombie, John, 445, 502
Crombie, William, 473
Crookshank, William, 500
Crookshanks, James, 512
Crosbie, John Geddes, 501, 522
Crosbie, Peter, 715
Crozier, James, 510
Cruden, William, 468
Cruickshank, John, 559, 631, 676
Cruickshanks, James, 506
Cullen, James, 472
Cullen, William, 587, 619
Cumin, Patrick, 528
Cuming, Alexander, 122
Gumming, George, 49
Gumming, John, Professor, 389
Gumming, John, 315, 468, 490
Gumming, Patrick, of Relugas, Professor,
389, 406, 442 (3)
Gumming, Robert, Professor, 390
Gumming, William, 95, 122
Cunningham, David, 528
Cunningham, Hugh, 528
Cunningham, John, Principal, 424, 446
Cunningham, John, 528
Cunningham, Robert, 528
Cunninghame, John Kellock, 459
Cunynghame, David, Bishop, 329
Currie, Adam, 690
Currie, Archibald, 631
Currie, George, 475
Currie, John, 165, 441
Currie, Simon, 474, 510
Curtis, William Alexander, Professor, 374,
339
Cuthbertson, Samuel, 631
DALOARNOCK, William, 255
Dalgety, James Boath, 673
Dalgety, William, 690
Dalgleish, Alexander, 663
Dalgleish, Nicol, 439
Dallas, James, 31, 506
Dallas, John, of Budzet, 71
Dalziel, — , 660
Dalziel, William, 138
Dandie, Alexander, 587
Dangerfield, John, 127, 265
Dargie, William, 462
Darling, John Millar, 465
Darroch, John, 174, 528, 631
Darroch, William, 631
David, Louis Stephen, 559
Davidson, Alan Munro, 449
Davidson, Archibald, Principal, 397, 443
Davidson, Archibald, 106
Davidson, Charles, 288
Davidson, David, 468
774
INDEX OF MINISTERS
Davidson, Donald, 669
Davidson, Edward, 515
Davidson, George, 112, 126
Davidson, George Moir, 140, 305
Davidson, James Mackintosh, 156, 181
Davidson, John, 25, 135, 609, 631
Davidson, Patrick, 528
Davidson, Peter, 100, 194
Davidson, William, 11, 106, 116, 132,239,
516
Davies, Albert Edward, 690
Davies, William Lewys, 571
Dawson, Alexander, 631
Dawson, John, 541, 571
Dawson, William, Professor, 386
Dean, William, 690
Deane, John, 509, 663
Deans, William, 571
Deming, Oliver, 660
Dempster, John, 82, 93
Dempster, William Elmslie Wilkie Brown,
275
Dennison, George, 264
Dennistoun, James, 669
Denoon, David, 12 bis
Denoon, James, 284
Denoon, John, 306
Denoon, William, 58
Denune, Walter, 87
Dewar, Daniel, Professor, 363 ; Principal,
361
Dewar, Duncan, 145
Dewar, James Stark, 715
Dewar, Thomas, 666
Dey, William Dunbar, 669
Dibbets, Francis, 543
Dick, Alexander, 229
Dick, Horace James, 260
Dick, John, 449
Dickey, John, 631
Dickey, William James Steele, 219, 234,
242
Dickie, John, 603
Dickie, John Macausland, 143
Dickie, Matthew, 528
Dickson, Alexander, Professor, 386
Dickson, David, of Busby, Professor, 283,
399, 440 (2)
Dickson, Francis, 660
Dickson, Jacob, 474
Dickson, J. Richards, 679
Dickson, Robert Nicol, 669
Dickson, William Purdie, Professor, 402,
404
Dill, Samuel Marcus, 446, 528
Dingwall, James, 107
Dinwiddie, William, 480, 488 (2)
Dishington, Andrew, 221, 243, 251, 255,
267, 274 bis, 303
Dixon, Archibald, 529
Dobie, James, 479, 505
Dobie, John, Professor, 387, 571
Dobie, Robert, 631
Dodd, George Edward, 572
Dodd, Henry, 135, 234
Dodds, William Nichol, 454
Dodge, William E., 684
Dods, George, 587
Dods, George Nisbet, 587
Dods, Marcus, 505
Don, Matthew, 319, 460
Donald, Andrew, 614
Donald, William, 609
Donaldson, Alexander, Professor, 375
Donaldson, Charles James, 127
Donaldson, Sir James, Principal, 416
Donaldson, James, Professor, 375
Donaldson, Peter, 449, 715
Donaldson, Thomas, 233
Doudiet, Charles, 631
Dougall, John, 587
Dougall, Thomas, 529, 601
Douglas, Adam Black, 479
Douglas, Alexander, Professor, 386
Douglas, Alexander, Bishop, 350
Douglas, George, Bishop, 350
Douglas, George, 72, 227
Douglas, Henry, 497
Douglas, James, 221, 222, 263, 632
Douglas, James Struthers, 234, 304, 632
Douglas, John, Archbishop, 325
Douglas, John, Principal, 417
Douglas, Louis Clarence Duncan, 257, 534
Douglas, Robert, Bishop, 335, 338
Douglas, Robert, 440 (5)
Douglas, William, Professor, 370
Dove, Thomas, 601
Dow, John, 17
Downey, John, 587
Downie, Alexander, 156
Downie, Charles, 31
Downie, John, 50, 147, 206
Dowsley, Andrew, 690
Drake, John, 547
Dray ton, D. F., 674
Drennan, Hugh, 449
Drew, Joseph, Principal, 413
Drummond, David, 460
Drummond, James, Bishop, 335
Drummond, Seth, 529
Dryden, James, 509, 518
Drysdale, John, 442 (2), 481
INDEX OF MINISTERS
775
Drysdale, William, 443
Duff, Alexander, 82, 88, 690
Duff, George, 309
Duff, Hugh, 56, 8-1
Duff, James, 614
Duff, Robert, 673, 678, 679
Duguid, John, 216
Dun, Patrick, of Ferry hill. Principal, 357
Dunbar, Alexander, of Weathersta, 306
Dunbar, David, 21, 129, 142
Dunbar, George, 14, 17, 21, 58, 529
Dunbar, James, 138
Dunbar, William, 632
Duncan, Andrew, 444
Duncan, David, 196
Duncan, George, of Huxter, 317
Duncan, George John Craig, 517
Duncan, George Simpson, Professor, 431
Duncan, Henry, 444
Duncan, Henry Cecil, 692
Duncan, Hugh, 715
Duncan, James, 450
Duncan, John, 280, 283, 715
Duncan, John Menzies Baillie, 692
Duncan, Robert, 632
Duncan, Thomas, 619
Duncanson, John, Principal, 412
Duncanson, John, 250, 439, 498
Dundas, A., 63
Dunipace, Henry William, 488
Dunlop, Alexander, Professor, 405
Dunlop, G. A., 450
Dunlop, Patrick, 529
Dunlop, William, Professor, 389, Principal,
396
Dunlop, William, 467, 663
Dunn, Alexander, 534, 567, 658
Dunn, Charles, 128, 614
Dunn, John, 227, 476, 632
Dunnet, John, 116, 119
Dunnet, Thomas, 118
Dunnett, William, 245, 462
Durham, Patrick, 22
Durie, Robert, 205, 546
Durie, William, 632
Dyall, William, 529
Dyett, Alfred E., 676, 679
Dykes, John Dalziel, 301
Dysart, John, 518
EASTMAN, Daniel Ward, 632
Easton, Andrew, 678, 679
Easton, Robert, 632
Edgar, James, 561
Edgar, James Pitt, 459
Edie, John, 306
Edie, William Henry, 536
Edmison, Henry, 632
Edmondston, Andrew, of Hascosay, 258,
295, 302
Edmondston, John, of Gravaland, 302
Edward, Daniel, 715
Edward, James, 561
Edward, John G., 314
Edwards, James, 693
Eipper, Christopher, 587
Elborough, Jeremiah, 554
Elder, John, 305, 318, 663
Elder, Thomas, 529
Enslie, John, 552
Erskine, Henry, 508
Erskine, Sir John, of Dun, 436 (4), 438
Erskine, William, Archbishop, 321
Esson, Henry, 632
Ethershanks, William, 505
Evans, David, 633
Evans, Joseph*, 633
Ewart, David, 693
Ewing, Sir James Alfred, Principal, 382
Ewing, Robert, 601
Ewing, Thomas, 541
FAIRBAIRN, John, 633
Fairbairn, Patrick, 266
Fairfoul, Andrew, Archbishop, 323
Fairlie, Archibald, 260
Fairlie, James, Bishop, 333 ; Professor, 382
Fairlie, John, 572, 633
Fairlie, Robert Paul, 287
Fairlie, Walter, 477
Fairweather, Robert, 553
Falconar, Colin, Bishop, 333, 352
Falconer, Alexander, 47, 104
Falconer, David, Professor, 428
Falconer, James, 518
Falconer, John, 253
Falconer, William James Stuart, 121
Fall, James, Principal, 396
Fallowsdaill, John, 301
Farquhar, Henry, 450
Farquharson, Alexander, 606
Farquharson, Donald, 156
Faulds, John, 81, 567
Faye, James De La, 555
Fenwirk, David Pitkaithly, 715
Fergus, John, 115
Fergus, Robert, 514
Ferguson, Alexander, 454, 529
Ferguson, Andrew, 529
Ferguson, Archibald, 529
Ferguson, David, 46, 438, 439
Ferguson, George D., 633
776
INDEX OF MINISTERS
Ferguson, James, 512
Ferguson, John, 633
Ferguson, Martin Paterson, 681
Ferguson, Peter, 633
Ferguson, Thomas, 70
Ferguson, William, 556, 633, 693
Fergusson, Adam, 442
Fergusson, Alexander, 677
Ferme, James, 142
Ferric, John, 529
Ferric, William, 609
Ferric, William Winks, 694
Ferrier, Alexander, 504, 572
Ferrier, James, 450
Ferries, John, 487, 656
Findlater, Andrew, 633
Findlater, William, 103
Findlay, Robert, of Waxford, Professor,
401
Finlay, Robert, 22
Finlay, William, 633
Finlayson, James, 315, 443
Finlayson, John, 7, 202, 303
Finlayson, Robert, 202, 204
Fisher, Harold, 257
Fisher, James Macnaught, 501
Fisher, Matthew, 214, 260, 261
Fisken, Andrew, of Southerhouse, 307
Fisken, John, 291, 307
Fitts, Hugo, 538, 545
Fleming, Archibald, 471
Fleming, James, 529, 567
Fleming, James Markland, 456
Fleming, James William, 681
Fleming, John, 281
Fleming, Robert, 489, 547, SfiO, 551
Fleming, Thomas, 243 bis, 251 bis
Fleming, William, Professor, 406
Fleming, W. C., 567
Fletcher, Alexander, 633
Fletcher, David, Bishop, 333
Flint, Robert, Professor, 384
Flyter, Alexander, 28
Fogo, George Laurie, 536
Fogo, William, 609
Forbes, Alexander, Bishop, 329, 337
Forbes, Alexander, 609, 633, 694
Forbes, Donald, 58
Forbes, Francis, 677, 679
Forbes, Harry, 141
Forbes, James, 128, 228, 233, 250, 282, 308,
459
Forbes, James, 587
Forbes, James David, Principal, 416
Forbes, James Lawson, 588
Forbes, John, of Corse, Professor,369 bis, 440
Forbes, John, Professor, 369
Forbes, John, 175, 542, 547
Forbes, John Robertson, 65, 118, 214
Forbes, Lewis William, 445
Forbes, Oliver, 305
Forbes, Patrick, of Corse, Bishop, 330
Forbes, Patrick, Bishop, 337
Forbes, Patrick, 444, 545
Forbes, William, Bishop, 341 ; Principal,
357
Forbes, William, 75
Forbes, William Augustus, 266, 681
Forbes, William John, 127
Ford, James, 519
Fordyce, James, 498
Forfar, Patrick Thomson, 487
Forrest, John, 663
Forrest, Robert, 634
Forrester, Charles Grant, 450, 561
Forrester, John, 484
Forrester, Thomas, Principal, 421
Forrett, John, 541
Forster, William, 458
Forsyth, James Shepherd, 466
Forsyth, John, 461
Forsyth, Walter Grant, 588
Forsyth, William, 86
Forterie, Isaac, 554
Foulzie, Robert, 238
Fowlie, John, 588
Fowlzie, Gilbert, 221
Franke, George Roosmale Cocq, 567
Fraser, Alexander, 2, 47, 145, 151, 154, 178
Fraser, Charles M'Kenzie, 245
Fraser, Colin Mackenzie, 561
Fraser, Daniel, 91
Fraser, David, 67
Fraser, Donald, 10, 12, 39 big, 46, 47, T^S"?
487, 588, 634
Fraser, Donald Allan, 614, 659
Fraser, Donald Dow, 51
Fraser, Hector, 53, 60
Fraser, Hugh, 57, 113 bis
Fraser, Ian Roderick, 572
Fraser, James, of Pitcalzean, 27
Fraser, James, 35, 607
Fraser, James William, 607, 614
Fraser, John, of Pitcalzean, 26
Fraser, John, 39, 67 bis, 203, 663
Fraser, Joshua, 634
Fraser, Lachlan, 166
Fraser, Roderick, 202, 208, 269
Fraser, Simon, 9, 39, 40, 206, 609, 666
Fraser, Simon Gumming, 634
Fraser, Thomas, 18, 298 bis, 634
Fraser, William, of Fanellan, 39
INDEX OF MINISTERS
777
Fraser, William, of Phopachy, 11, 39
Fraser, William, 135, 177, 588
Fraser, William Crawford, 454, 464
Kraser, William Forsyth, 588
Frater, Arthur Welle.sley, 545, 549
Frazer, John, 482
Freeland, James, 529
Freeland, John, 468
Freeland, William, 529
Frew, Robert, 715
Fullarton, James, 120, 529, 589
Fullerton, Thomas, of Kinnaber, 277
Fullerton, Thomas Fraser, 589
Fulton, William, Professor, 374, 404
Fyfe, William Crichton, 694
GALHKAITH, James, 675
Galbraith, Peter, 450, 609, 614
Gale, Alexander, 634
Gallic, Andrew, 61
Galloway, David, 589
Galloway, George, Principal, 425
Galloway, George, 634, 660
Galloway, James John, 562
Galloway, Patrick, 439, 440
Galloway, Thomas, 212
Garden, Francis, 680
Garden, Gilbert, 438
Garden, James, Professor, 371
Gardiner, Alexander, 634
Gardiner, Matthew, 444
Gardiner, William, 482
Gardner, James, 268, 287, 529
Gardner, John, 458, 473
Gardner, William, 602
Gardyne, John, 251, 272
Garrett, James, 601
Garrett, John, 694
Garson, John, 242
Garven, John Hill, 589
Gebbie, Francis, 681
Geddes, Alexander, 240
Geddes, William, 141 Ins
Geekie, James, 237, 308
Geggie, James, 634
Gellatly, David, 516
Gellatly, James, 462
Gellie, John Caithness, 603
Gemmel, James, 131, 140
Gemmel, John, 529, 634
Gemmill, David, 529
George, James, 635
Georgeson, Frederick Hugh, 553
Gerard, Alexander, Professor, 363, 372, 442
Gerard, Gilbert, Professor, 372, 443, 538
Gerard, John, 232
Gibb, Gavin, Professor, 406, 444
Gibb, George, 519
Gibb, William, 456
Gibson, Adam, 211, 270
Gibson, Alexander, 114, 117, 463
Gibson, Hamilton, 635
Gibson, James, 3, 589
Gibson, John, 215, 218
Gibson, John Mackenzie, 3
Gibson, Robert, 275
Giffen, Cornelius, 487
Gifford, John, 312
Gilford, William, 313
Gilbert, Francis, 280
Gilchrist, Hugh B., 589
Gilchrist, James, 95, 136
Giles, Andrew, 240
Giles, Charles, 454
Gilfillan, Alexander, 127, 128
Gillan, David Hedley, 89, 572
Gillan, George Green, 572
Gillan, Robert, 445, 459, 480
Gillespie, George, 440, 663
Gillespie, James, Principal, 422, 443
Gillespie, John, 446
Gillespie, Patrick, Principal, 395
Gillespie, William, 479
Gillespie, William Murdoch, 682
Gillies, Dugald, 188
Gillies, James, 506
Gillies, John, 203, 619
Gillieson, Archibald Hamilton, 130
Gillon, Robert, 518
Gilroy, James, Professor, 369
Gilruth, Patrick Gorthy, 232
Given, Hugh S., 667
Gladstone, William, 678
Glas, Alexander, 529
Glas, John, 30
Glas, John Robertson, 167, 169
Gledstanes, George, Archbishop, 326, 337
Glen, Andrew, 635
Glendinning, James, 529
Glennie, John, 544
Gloag, Paton James, 446
Goldie, Alexander, 669
Goldie, John, 459
Goldie, William, 504
Goodall, John, Professor, 3-6
Goodere, Wilfrid Scott, 238
Goodwill, John, 614, 619
Gordon, Alexander, Bishop, 343
Gordon, Charles, Professor, 371
Gordon, Charles, 78, 541
Gordon, Daniel Miner, 635
Gordon, Donald, 54, 100, 105
778
INDEX OF MINISTERS
Gordon, Donald Campbell Bryce, 284, 467
Gordon, George, Bishop, 345
Gordon, George, Professor, 368 bis
Gordon, George, 5, 22, 80, 96
Gordon, Henry, 635
Gordon, Hugh William Mackay, 486
Gordon, James, 296, 441, 529, 635
Gordon, James Drummond, 572
Gordon, John, Bishop, 344, 347
Gordon, John, 42, 635
Gordon, Joseph, 511
Gordon, Lewis, 444
Gordon, Patrick, Professor, 368, 425
Gordon, Robert, 444
Gordon, Roger, Bishop, 345
Gordon, William, 228, 293, 308
Goudgier, Hugh, 546
Govan, Thomas, 547
Govan, William, 562
Gow, John, 589
Gow, William, 601
Gowdie, John, Professor, 383; Principal,
382, 441
Gowdie, John, 291
Graham, Andrew, 140, 236, 268, 589
Graham, Archibald, Bishop, 350
Graham, David Cunningham, 663
Graham, John, 262, 267, 445, 463
Graham, John Anderson, 694
Graham, Matthew, 477
Graham, Robert, 10, 36
Graham, William, 463, 480, 659, 669, 676
Grahame, Andrew, Bishop, 338
Grahame, George, Bishop, 338, 353
Grahame, George, 251, 273
Grahame, James, 215, 218, 296
Grahame, Patrick, of Rothiesholm, 213
Grahamson, Alexander Patrick, 116, 125
Grant, Sir Alexander, of Dalvey, Principal,
382
Grant, Alexander, 100, 188, 198, 231, 518
Grant, Andrew, 443
Grant, Charles Martin, 615, 695
Grant, David, 516
Grant, Donald, 81, 86
Grant, George, 228, 266
Grant, George Monro, 615, 620, 636
Grant, James, 165, 173, 445
Grant, John, 15
Grant, Patrick, 50, 63, 66, 443
Grant, Peter, 178
Grant, William, 259, 460, 589, 695
Grant, William Charles Middleton, 29, 103
Gray, Alexander, 77
Gray, Andrew, 603
Gray, Archibald, 285, 300, 615
Gray, George, Professor, 406
Gray, George, 84, 95
Gray, Gilbert, Principal, 357
Gray, James, 18, 79, 80, 82, 92
Gray, John, 77, 79 bis, 83 bis, 509, 684
Gray, John Meikle, 674
Gray, Robert, 309, 677
Gray, Thomas, 521
Gray, William, 9, 77, 79, 81, 83, 86, 92, 97,
459
Gray, William Henry, 446
Green, Stephen, 712
Greenfield, William, 443
Greenlaw, John, 219
Gregor, John, 589
Greig, Archibald Ochiltree, 660
Greig, George, 468
Greig, Thomas Hutchison, 573
Greig, William, 544
Gribius, Peter, 547
Grierson, Alexander, 49
Grierson, James, 291, 441
Grierson, William, 538, 544
Grieve, George, 520
Grieve, James, 113, 266
Grieve, Henry, 443
Grigor, Colin, 636
Guild, James, 251
Guild, William, Principal, 365
Gunn, jEneas, 248, 482, 677
Gunn, Alexander, 139 bis
Gunn, James, 202, 208
Gunn, John, 607
Gunn, Peter, 589
Gunn, Robert, 126
Gunn, Thomas, 124
Gunn, William, 87
Gunn, William Ewen Bull, 456
Gunter, John, 551
Guthrie, Henry, Bishop, 340
Guthrie, John, of Guthrie, Bishop, 351
Guthrie, Patrick, 211, 263
Guy, Robert Cunningham, 669
HADOW, George, Professor, 426
Hadow, James, Professor, 429; Principal,
421
Haggart, John, 154, 162
Haig, Henry, 667
Haig, Thomas, 636
Haig, William, 677
Haigie, James, 211, 258, 267
Haining, Robert, 589
Hair, William, of How, 269
Halcro, Magnus, of Brough, 245
Halcro, Ninian, 230, 267
INDEX OF MINISTERS
779
Halcro, William, of Aikers, 230
Haldane, James, Professor, 431
Haldane, Patrick, of Gleneagles, Professor,
431
Haldane, Robert, Principal, 423, 444
Haliburton, George, Bishop, 332, 335, 339
Halket, Andrew, 609
Hall, Adam, 6
Hall, Edward, 461
Hall, James, 518
Hall, John, 440
Hall, Roger, 450, 472
Hall, Thomas, 508, 518, 530
Hall, William, 460
Halliday, Samuel, 530
Hally, Simon, 45, 109
Haltridge, John, 530
Halyburton, Thomas, Professor, 429
Hamilton, Archibald, 472, 530
Hamilton, Arthur Alexander, 695
Hamilton, Gavin, Bishop, 345
Hamilton, Gavin, 244
Hamilton, Gavin James, 511
Hamilton, George, Principal, 413, 441
Hamilton, George, 443
Hamilton, Gilbert, 442
Hamilton, Henry, 530
Hamilton, James, of Broomhill, Bishop, 346
Hamilton, James, Bishop, 332
Hamilton, James, 465, 494, 530
Hamilton, James Buchanan, 530
Hamilton, James Muir, 450, 695
Hamilton, John, Bishop, 340
Hamilton, John, 442, 530
Hamilton, Robert, Bishop, 337
Hamilton, Robert, Professor, 383, 442 (2) ;
Principal, 417, 438
Hamilton, Robert, 530
Hamilton, Robert Kerr, 573, 678
Hamilton, Samuel John, 562
Hamilton, William, Professor, 383 ; Prin
cipal, 381, 441 (5)
Hamilton, William, 589, 636
Hamilton, Zachary Macaulay, 281
Hannay, James, 609
Hardie, Robert, 675
Hardy, Thomas, of Navifie, Professor.
390, 443
Harkness, James, 636
Harle, Jonathan, 504 (2), 513
Harper, George, 620, 676
Harper, William, 677, 695
Harris, Malachi, 555
Hart, James, 478
Hart, John, 530
Hart, Thomas, 657
Harvey, John, 530
Harvie, Thomas, 480, 530
Hastie, Thomas, 590, 601
Hastie, William, Professor, 403, 695
Hauxwell, Francis Marmaduke, 603
Hay, Andrew, 438, 439
Hay, Archibald, Principal, 416
Hay, George, 438
Hay, James, 90, 298
Hay, John, 299, 637
Hay, Joseph, 590
Hay, Peter Scott, 603
Hay, Sir Thomas, 62
Hay, Thomas, 302
Hay, William, Bishop, 352
Hay, William, 8, 10, 21, 36, 290, 317
Heart, James, 270, 277
Hedley, Anthony, 512
Heggie, John, 211, 295
Heind (Hynd), James, 221
Hempton, William, 530
Henderson, Alexander, 440 (3)
Henderson, Alexander Colin, 219, 308, 319
Henderson, Cuthbert, 267, 272
Henderson, Elias, 505
Henderson, Gavin, 476
Henderson, George, 105
Henderson, George David, Professor, 375
Henderson, James, 450, 458, 573, 601
Henderson, John, 482, 545
Henderson, Patrick, 5
Henderson, Robert, 573
Henderson, Thomas, 673
Henderson, Thomas Henry, 100
Henderson, William, 104, 272, 610
Hendrie. George, 314
Heridrie, John, 235, 247
Hendrie, Thomas, of Whitsness, 307
Hendry, Robert, 530
Henry, David, 615
Henry, George, 637
Henry, Robert, 442, 459, 475
Henry, Thomas, 637
Hepburn, Alexander, 21 ; Bishop, 355
Hepburn, Thomas, 240
Hepburn, William, 79
Herald, James, 637
Herdman, Andrew Walker, 615
Herdman, James Chalmers, 658, 695
Hering, James, 67
Herkless, Sir John, Professor, 434 ; Prin
cipal, 416
Heron, Alexander, 507
Heron, George, 530
Heron, James, 520
Heron, John, 573
780
INDEX OF MINISTERS
Herries, John, 474
Herring, John, 555
Herring, Julius, 538
Hervie, Francis, 9
Hetherington, Irving, 590
Hetherwick, Alexander, 695
Heughan, Charles, 29
Hewat, Alexander, 512
Hewatt, Alexander, 663
Hickman, Henry, 547
Hiddleston, Robert, 213, 248, 475
Higgins, James, 229, 249
Hill, Alexander, Professor, 402, 444
Hill, Alexander Taylor, 682
Hill, Colin Cecil Pitcairn, 574
Hill, George, Professor, 429; Principal,
422, 443
Hill, James Edgar, 637
Hill, James Niven, 663
Hill, John P., 590
Hill, Joseph, 548
Hill, Ninian, 582
Hislop, Robert, 483
Hodge, Alexander, 538, 543
Hog, John, 550
Hog, Patrick, 295, 306
Hog, Thomas, 41, 42
Hogarth, Andrew Pringle, 574
Hogg, John, 637
Hogg, Robert, 567, 590
Holmes, John, 530
Home, Alexander, 1
Home, Frederick, 610, 637
Honyman, Andrew, Bishop, 354
Honyman, George, 251
Honyman, James, 663
Honyman, John, 476, 477
Honyman, Robert, 663
Hood, Robert, 474
Hoog, Thomas, 541, 543, 551
Hope, James, 482
Hope, Thomas, 507
Home, Robert, 86
Horsley, John, 513
Hosack, John, 82
Hosack, William, 65
Hossaek, Alexander, 58
Houston, James, 18
Houston, John, 210, 221
Howell, Alexander Rutherford, 682
Howie, Robert, Principal, 357, 418
Hownam, William, 462
Hugens, Walter, 283, 315
Hume, Abraham, 496
Hunt, James Malcolm, 670, 672
Hunter, Alexander, 637
Hunter, Andrew, of Barjarg, Professor,
383, 443
Hunter, Andrew, 554
Hunter, Archibald, 516
Hunter, Charles, 539, 544
Hunter, Charles Hay, 590
Hunter, Daniel, 520
Hunter, George, 487
Hunter, Henry, 491
Hunter, John, Principal, 415
Hunter, John, 530, 610
Hunter, Robert Condie, 603
Hunter, Thomas, 695
Huskie, James, 450, 676, 679
Hutcheon, John Mair, 254
Hutcheson, Alexander, 663
Hutcheson, Andrew, 519
Hutcheson, John, 129, 305
Hutcheson, Smith, 637
Hutchison, George, 446
Hutchison, John, 620
Hutton, Allan, 136, 276
Hutton, John, 514
Hyndman, John, 442
INCHES, John, 310, 318
Inglis, John, 443
Inglis, Patrick, 221, 239
Inglis, Thomas, 18
Inglis, Thomas Murray, 219
Inglis, William, 454, 670
Inglis, William Balfour, 684
Inglis, William Maxwell, 637
Ingram, James, 296, 300, 539
Ingram, James William, 574
Ingram, John, 300
Ingram, William, 232
Inkster, Edward, 229
Innes, James, 116
Innes, John, 141,215
Innes, John Boutch, 495
Innes, Robert, of Thursater, 113
Innes, Walter, 135
Innes, William, 136
Inverarity, John, 476
Ironside, Alexander, 450, 540
Irvine, Edward, 224, 227, 236, 217, 256, 493
Irvine, Sir James Colquhoun, Principal,
410
Irvine, James Stewart Watt, 233
Irving, Andrew, 511
Irving, Thomas, 615
Izat, James, 277
JACK, David Rait, 131, 219
Jack, William, Principal, 367
INDEX OF MINISTERS
781
Jack, William, 313
Jackson, Daniel, 475
Jackson, Robert Winchester, 603
Jackson, Thomas Thomson, Professor, 408,
430
Jacque, Gideon, 530
J affray, William Stevenson, 450
James, Thomas, 663
Jameson, James, 268
Jamie, George Hope, 450, 574
Jamieson, David, 603
Jamieson, George, 517
Jamieson, Robert, 445, 530, 658
Jamieson, Robert George, 574
Janvier, C. A. N., 574
Jardine, Fergus, 491, 670
Jardine, Francis, 680
Jardine, Robert, 610, 696
Jardine, Thomas, 615
Jay, Samuel, 544
Jeffrey, J. E. A., 676
Jenkins, John, 637
Jervey, Charles, 542
Joass, James Maxwell, 55, 88
Johnson, Thomas, 638
Johnson, William, 638
Johnston, David, 242, 301 ; Professor, 377
Johnston, John, Professor, 428
Johnston, John, 474
Johnston, Joseph, 638
Johnston, Kerr, 507
Johnston, Murdo, 144
Johnston, Robert, 696
Johnston, R. V., 670
Johnston, Samuel Knox, 51, 254
Johnston, William G., 610
Johnstone, David, 170, 288, 293, 477
Johnstone, Gabriel, Professor, 426, 663
Johnstone, George, 221, 246
Johnstone, Thomas, 458, 519, 590
Johnstone, William, 459, 518, 520, 549
Jollie, James, 574
Jolly, Archibald, 121
Jolly, David, 506
Jolly, Peter, 118, 120
Jolly, Thomas, 120, 124
Jones, Thomas Edmund Hill, 214
Jones, Thomas Henry, 562
Jones, William, 602
KAY, David Millar, Professor, 427, 715
Kay, George, 442
Kay, James, 226, 283
Kay, Thomas, 261, 266
Kean, James, 450, 459, 460
Kean, William, 715
Kearney, Thomas Ramsay, 697
Keay, Peter, 610
Keiller, John, 257, 266
Keir, Thomas, 128, 141
Keith, Alexander, 252
Keith, Charles, 141
Keith, George, 128, 590
Keith, James, 664
Keith, John, 255
Keith, Thomas, 263
Keith, William, Professor, 383
Keith, William, 87, 90
Kellas, John, 697
Kelso, Samuel, 530
Kemp, Alexander, 486
Kemp, Arnold Low, 257
Kennedy, Angus, 85, 94
Kennedy, Archibald Robert Stirling, Pro
fessor, 369, 387
Kennedy, Charles William, 531
Kennedy, David, 211, 239
Kennedy, Donald, 13, 64
Kennedy, George Rainy, 85
Kennedy, Gilbert, 531
Kennedy, Gilbert Alexander, 531
Kennedy, Hugh, 441, 552
Kennedy, James, 52 )
Kennedy, John, 13
Kennedy, Neil, 63
Kennedy, Samuel, 480
Kennedy, Thomas, 475, 487, 531
Kennedy, William Black, 697
Ker, Andrew, 226, 255
Ker, John, 442
Kerr, Colin Mackay, 615, 697
Kerr, Duncan Colquhoun, 271
Kerr, James, 638
Kerr, John, 135, 190
Kerr, Patrick, 511
Kesting, August John, 536, 697
Ketchan, James, 638
Kidd, James, Professor, 375
Kidd, James, 281, 610
Kidd, William, 518
Kilburn, John Robert de Lingen, 559
Kilgour, Robert, 697
Killen, James Millar, 234, 604
Kilpatrick, Hugh, 531
Kincaid, Henry, 45
Kincaid, John, 474
King, Andrew, 615
King, John, 531
King, Robert Alexander, 657
King, Thomas, 659
King, William, 638
Kingstoun, John, 282, 285
782
INDEX OF MINISTERS
Kinloch, Robert, 442
Kinnison, John, 670, 673, 675, 678
Kirk, Robert, 84, 516
Kirkland, Hugh, 638
Kirkpatrick, James, 503
Kirkpatrick, William, 486
Kirkwood, George, 450
Kirkwood, James, 451
Kirton, James, 510
Kirton, William, 510, 604
Knox, Andrew, Bishop, 348
Knox, John, 436, 438, 454
Knox, Robert, 615
Knox, Thomas, Bishop, 349
Knox, Walter, 517
Kyd, William Anderson, 604
Kyle, James, 475
LAHORE, William Campbell, 591
Laidlaw, Adam, 479, 517
Laidlaw, James, 474
Laidlie, Archibald, 545
Laik, Thomas, 512
Laing, Albert James, 219
Laing, James, 562
Laing, Malcolm, 145, 197
Laing, Norman, 182, 198, 201
Laing, Robert, 664
Laing, William Mackie, 682, 684
Lamb, Andrew, of South Tarrie, Bishop,
334, 346
Lamb, John, 123, 290, 697
Lamb, Walter, 228
Lambie, James, 638
Lamont, David, 444
Lamont, Donald Macdonald, 170, 184, 620
Lamont, Hugh, 638
Lamont, John, 170
Landell, James, 520
Landells, Adam, 509
Landess, Robert, of Robroyston, 531
Landreth, Adam Thomson, 519
Lang, Andrew, 219
Lang, Gavin, 615, 639
Lang, James Paisley, 574, 698
Lang, John Dunmore, 591
Lang, John Marshall, Principal, 380, 446
Lapeltrie, Emile, 639
Lauder, James, 1, 17, 295, 302
Lauder, John, 15
Lauder, William, 1, 295, 302, 473 (2), 510
Laughton, James Brotherston, 592
Laurie, Alexander, 592
Laurie, George James, 574
Laurie, Gilbert, of Crossrig, 457
Laurie, Gordon Albyn Douglas, 304
Laurie, James, 460, 475
Laurie, John, 531
Laurie, Joseph, 574
Laurie, Richard, 480
Laurie, Robert, 475, 511
Law, George, 639
Law, James, Bishop, 353 ; Archbishop,
322, 440
Law, John, 441
Lawrie, Robert, Bishop, 335
Lawson, James, 439
Lawson, John, 518
Lawson, Robert, 491, 664
Layal, Alexander, 544, 552
Lazenby, Ralph, 482
Lea, William Scrivener, 670
Learmonth, Peter, 253
Leach, William Turnbull, 639
Leask, John, 548
Leatham, William Harvey, 639
Le Brun, John Joseph, 559
Lee, John, Professor, 383, 432, 444 ; Prin
cipal, 382, 415
Lee, John, 497
Lee, Robert, Professor, 387
Lee, Robert Ewing, 574
Lee, William, Professor, 408
Lee, William, 481
Lees, James Cameron, 29
Lees, John, 197, 206
Legate, George William, 698
Leggat, William, 531
Leigh, Hugh, 280
Leighton, Alexander, 554
Leighton, Robert, Bishop, 338; Arch
bishop, 323 ; Principal, 381
Leishman, James Fleming, 451
Leishman, Matthew, 445
Leishman, Thomas, 446
Leishman, William, Professor, 400; Prin
cipal, 397, 442
Leitch, William, 639
Leith, Harry, of Balcairn, 639
Lennie, Duncan, 510, 671
Lennox, Alexander, 222
Leslie, Alexander, 60, 217, 228, 234
Leslie, Andrew, 17
Leslie, George Neave, 698
Leslie, James, 215, 268, 304, 320
Leslie, James, Principal, 358
Leslie, John, of Glaslough, Bishop, 349
Leslie, Thomas, 531, 670
Leslie, William, Principal, 365
Lesly, George, 114
Levie, William, 289, 310
Lewis, Alexander, 639
INDEX OF MINISTERS
783
Lewis, R. L., 675
Lewis, Wilfrid James, 639
Leys, Charles, 294
Liddell, Andrew, 291
Liddell, David, Professor, 399
Liddell, Francis, 239, 247
Liddell, Thomas, 639
Liddle, James, 511
Liddle, William, 562
Likly, John, 542
Lillie, David, 140, 261
Lillie, Gordon, 679
Lillie, James, 574
Lillie, John, 601
Lillie, William, 143, 698
Lindsay, Alexander, of Evelick, Bishop,
339
Lindsay, David, of Dunkenny, Bishop,
334, 341
Lindsay, David, Bishop, 355, 438, 439 (5)
Lindsay, Henry, 552
Lindsay, John, 639
Lindsay, Patrick, of Kirktoun, Bishop,
355 ; Archbishop, 322
Lindsay, Peter, 639
Lindsay, Robert, 639
Lindsay, Samuel, 567
Lindsay, William, Bishop, 340
Lippe, Robert, 454
Liston, David, Professor, 387
Listen, Robert, 443
Liston, William Alexander, 57^5"
Lithgow, John, 508
Litstar, Matthew, 306
Little, William, 476
Livingston, John, 481, 531, 639
Livingston, Peter Stratton, 640
Livingston, William, 90, 664
Livingstone, Martin Wilson, 640
Lochhead, Andrew, 620
Lochhead, John Somerville, 640
Lochore, Gavin, 212, 473, 480
Lockerby, Thomas, 514
Lockhart, John, 511, 515
Logan, Angus, 111, 113
Logan, Donald, 81
Logan, George, 442, 514
Logan, Robert, 284
Logic, John Deas, 108, 269
Logic, William, 224, 237, 265
Lomax, John, 520
Longueville, David, 538
Lorimer, James, Professor, 429 ; Principal,
420
Lorimer, Peter, 495
Lornie, James Taylor, 698
Lorraine, Joseph James, 308
Lothian, John, 604
Louson, Divid Robb, 464
Love, Andrew, 592
Love, John, 288, 303, 496
Low, George, 241
Low, James, 539, 545, 549, 552, 592
Lowe, George William, 505
Lowe, William Williamson, 9
Lowes, , 515
Lowthian, Samuel, 517
Lugton, Thomas, 698
Lumsden, John, Professor, 372, 442
Lunan, William, 4
Lundie, David, 109, 111
Lundie, Robert Henry, 473
Lundie, William John, 106
Lyall, Thomas, 263, 264
Lyle, Robert, 640
MACADAM, Alexander, 7, 66
Macalister, Charles, 187
Macalister, Sir Donald, Principal, 399
Macalister, John, 66
Macalister, Ronald, 35
M'Allister, William, 640
M'Anlis, Thomas, 592
M'Ara, John, 265, 567, 593, 698
M'Arthur, Charles, 451
M'Arthur, Duncan, 99, 154, 159
Macarthur, Hugh, 174
M'Arthur, John, 12, 63
Macaulay, ^Eneas, 144, 147
Macaulay, Aulay, 189
Macaulay, Daniel, 166, 171
Macaulay, Donald, 105, 134, 170
Macaulay, Duncan, 640
Macaulay, Ewan, 640
Macaulay, Hector, 187
Macaulay, John, 181, 185, 195 bis
Macaulay, Kenneth, 189
Macauley, Angus, 620
M'Bean, Alexander, 2, 61
Macbean, John, 567, 593, 610, 620
M'Beath, William, 123
M'Beth, Lawrence, 497
Macbride, Daniel, 59
M'Caig, Donald, 140
M'Callum, Archibald, 203
M'Callum, Donald, 70, 170, 204
M'Callum, Dugald, 59
MacCallum, Duncan, 169
MacCallum, John, 79, 153
M'Callum, John Donaldson, 447
M'Callum, John Stewart, 207
M'Callum, Julius, 319
784
INDEX OF MINISTERS
MacCallum, Malcolm, 154
M'Calman, Hugh, 126
MacCaskill, Malcolm, 177
M'Caughey, Samuel, 640
M'Caul, James, 640
M'Caul, Matthew Wilson, 575
M'Clatchey, George, 640
MacClean, Robert, 601
M'Cleave, John, 531
M'Clelland, John, 679
M'Clenaghan, William, 531
M'Clenaghen, A. T., 671
M'Clymont, James, 507
M'Clymont, James Alexander, 447
M'Colgan, John, 166
M'Coll, Alexander, 103, 640
M'Coll, Hugh Clarke, 698
MacColl, James, 615, 620
MacColl, Neil Hugh, 682, 684
MacConnachie, Alexander Edward Murray,
52
M'Connachie, Donald, 615
M'Connell, William, 479
M'Conochie, James, 477
M'Corkindale, Duncan, 303
M'Corkindale, Thomas Bayley, 640
M'Corkle, Robert, 531
M'Cormick, Joseph, Principal, 414, 443
M'Cosh, James, 664
M'Culloch, Colin, 593
MacCulloch, Finlay, 257
M'Culloch, George, 96, 679
MacCulloch, Hugh, 531
MacCulloch, James, 58
MacCulloch, John, 87
M'Culloch, William, 36
M'Cune, Thomas, 675
M'Cunn, Robert, 615
M'Dermot, Robert, 640
Macdonald, Alexander, 91, 162, 170, 181,
521, 523, 640, 679, 682
Macdonald, Angus, 14, 165 bis, 178, 195
Macdonald, Archibald, 64, 186, 207
Macdonald, C. G., 233
Macdonald, Charles, 135
Macdonald, Colin, 99, 203
Macdonald, Coll, 174
Macdonald, Donald, 50, 154, 176, 181, 187,
188, 192, 197 bis, 200, 575, 620, 640, 682
Macdonald, Duff, 128, 131, 698
Macdonald, Dugald, 64, 162, 164
M'Donald, Duncan, 640
Macdonald, Finlay Robert, 610
Macdonald, George, 69, 105, 610
Macdonald, Hector Kennedy, 682
Macdonald, Hugh, 173, 187, 188, 198
Macdonald, Hugh Ferguson, 163
Macdonald, James, 50, 150, 187, 202
Macdonald, James Alexander Donald John,
165
Macdonald, James Duff, 103
Macdonald, James Wallace, 53, 103
Macdonald, John, 47, 52, 74, 99, 112, 313,
495, 641, 698
Macdonald, John Forrest, 699
Macdonald, John Nelson, 467, 485
Macdonald, John Norman, 190
Macdonald, Murdoch, 102
Macdonald, Roderick, 190, 196
Macdonald, William, 50
Macdonald, William Cadell, 502, 593
Macdonell, Daniel James, 641
Macdonell, George, 641
Macdougall, Daniel, 113, 641, 660
Macdougall, Ewen, 621
Macdougall, James, 621
Macdougall, John, 29, 143, 260
Macdougall, John Pillans, 245
M'Dougall, Neil, 641
Macdougall, Robert Cumming, 20
M'Dowall, Charles, Professor, 386
M'Dowall, James, 24
M'Dowall, Robert, 641
Macduff, Alexander, 541
MacEchern, Christian Victor ^Eneas, 567
MacEchern, Dugald, 115
MacEchern, John, 115
MacEdward, Lachlan, 575
M'Elmon, B. K., 658
M'Ewan, James, 641
M'Ewan, William, 641
M'Ewen, Alexander, 593
M'Ewen, Andrew, 475, 476
MacEwen, Ewen, 55
M'Ewen, Sydney Melrose, 214, 233
M'Fadden, Jackson Loudon, 57
M'Farlan, Patrick, 444
Macfarlane, Alexander, 475, 482
Macfarlane, Alfred, 641
Macfarlane, Andrew, 319, 375
M'Farlane, David, 563
Macfarlane, Duncan, Principal, 397, 444 (2)
Macfarlane, Duncan, 667, 670
Macfarlane, Hugh, 666
Macfarlane, James, 445
M'Farlane, James Ruthven, 576
Macfarlane, John, 534, 604
Macfarlane, John Adam, 51, 109
M'Farlane, Robert, 641
Macfarlane, Thomas, 281
Macfarlane, William, 451, 539, 699
M'Farquhar, Colin, 144
INDEX OF MINISTERS
785
M'Fie, George, 507, 593
M'Fie, William Guelph, 128, 213
M'Garrity, Robert Forsyth, 213
M'Garvie, John, 593
Macgibbon, John, 593
M'Gilchrist, John, 38
M'Gill, Daniel, 664
M'Gill, John, Professor, 427
M'Gill, John Whyte, 673, 675
M'Gill, Robert, 641
M'Gill, Stevenson, Professor, 401, 444
M'Gill, Stevenson, 667, 676, 679
M'Gillivray, Alexander, 615
M'Gillivray, Angus Mackintosh, 109
M'Gillivray, Daniel, 642
Macgillivray, Donald, 112
M'Gillivray, Duncan, 78, 94, 112, 187
MacGillivray, James, 162
MacGilvray, Walter, 642
M'Glashan, Alexander, 502
MacGowan, John, 245, 303, 310
Macgregor, Alexander, 172
M'Gregor, Charles, 86
Macgregor, James, 446
Macgregor, John, 16, 45
Macgregor, John Macnab, 108
Macgregor, Peter, 79
Macgregor, Robert, 172
M'Gregor, Simon, 615, 658
M'Guffie, John, 680
Machar, John, 642
Machardy, Alexander, 131
M'Hardy, Archibald, 451
Machardy, Donald, 163
Machardy, James, 28, 127
M'Hutchison, William, 642
M'llraith, John, 539, 673
M'llvernock, Archibald, Bishop, 350
M'Indoe, David, 516
Macinnes, Alisdair Robert Ellis, 682
Maclnnes, George, 594
M'Innes, Joseph, 165
Maclnnes, Roderick, 171
M'Intosh, Alexander, 13, 539, 553
M'Intosh, Angus, 642
Macintosh, Donald, 50, 54, 106, 615, 679
M'Intosh, James, 621
Macintosh, James Archibald, 699
M'Intosh, John, 616
M'Intosh, Lauchlan, 441
Maclntyre, Alexander .(Eneas Ranaldson
Macdonnell, 165
M'Intyre, Allan, 594
M'Intyre, Angus, 621
Macintyre, Archibald, 287, 293
M'Intyre, Donald, 62
Maclntyre, Duncan, 518
VOL. VII.
M'Intyre, J., 682
M'Intyre, John Duncan, 307
Macintyre, John Walker, 52
Maclntyre, Neil, 156
Macintyre, Peter, 29, 610
M'Intyre, William, 594
M'Irvine, George, 559
M'Isaac, John, 642
M'lver, Alexander, 85, 154, 175
Maclver, Angus, 209
Maclver, Colin, 149
Maciver, Farquhar, 151
M'lver, Iver, 36
Maciver, Murdoch, 155, 172, 175, 189
M'lver, Peter John, 153, 249, 260
M'Kail, John, 279, 556
M'Kane, Thomas, 519
Mackay, Alexander, 200, 203, 616, 621, 642
Mackay, Angus, 320, 616
Mackay, Cameron, 181
Mackay, David, 134
Mackay, Donald, 100, 187, 202, 203, 616
Mackay, Eye, of Pettifine, 80
Mackay, George, 81, 104
Mackay, Hector William, 81, 181
Mackay, John, 93, 102, 104, 110, 154, 163,
202
Mackay, James Hutton, 549, 576
Mackay, John Sutherland, 163
Mackay, Mackintosh, 594
Mackay, Norman Donald, 67
Mackay, Thomas, 93
Mackay, Thomson, 111, 183
Mackay, William, of Golvall, 92
Mackay, William, 14, 84, 98, 109, 451
Mackay, William E., 642
Mackay, William Sinclair, 699
Mackbeth, William, 129
Mackey, Alexander Berry, 539
Mackean, Walter George, 700
Mackechnie, John, 94, 275
M'Kee, William, 594, 642
Mackeggie, George Alexander, 700
Mackellar, Angus, 444
M'Kellar, Dugald, 81
Mackellar, James, 604
M'Kelvie, George, 560
Mackenzie, Alexander, 10, 30, 44, 51, 146,
160 bis, 170, 601, 604
Mackenzie, Alfred James, 700
Mackenzie, Allan, 16, 99, 209
Mackenzie, Archibald Alison, 470
Mackenzie, Bernard, 4
Mackenzie, Charles Gordon, 567, 682
Mackenzie, Colin, of Glack, 37
Mackenzie, Colin, 11, 30, 31, 164, 203,
206
3 D
786
INDEX OF MINISTERS
Mackenzie, David, 7, 94, 107, 108
Mackenzie, Donald, 37, 642
Mackenzie, Donald Francis, 576
Mackenzie, Duncan, 181
Mackenzie, Duncan Simon, 45, 148
Mackenzie, D., 642
Mackenzie, Evan, 700
Mackenzie, Farquhar, 146
Mackenzie, George, 129, 178
Mackenzie, Hector, 37, 81
M'Kenzie, Hugh, 78, 80
Mackenzie, Hugh Ross, 7, 111, 616
Mackenzie, Hugh Skinner, 563
Mackenzie, James, 65, 71, 480
Mackenzie, James Skinner, 29
Mackenzie, John, of Inverlaul, 10
Mackenzie, John, of Tollie, 33
Mackenzie, John, 7, 11 bis, 12, 17, 20, 28,
30, 36, 37, 39, 45, 49 bis, 69, 75 bis, 99,
105, 155, 156, 157, 161, 187, 642
Mackenzie, John Francis, 172
Mackenzie, John Henderson, 311, 460,
464
Mackenzie, John Kennedy, 207
Mackenzie, John Robertson, 523
Mackenzie, Kenneth, of Ranitries, 56, 60
Mackenzie, Kenneth, of Torridon, 174
Mackenzie, Kenneth, 45, 63, 105, 109 bis,
576
Mackenzie, Kenneth Alexander, 162
Mackenzie, Kenneth John, 616
Mackenzie, Lachlan, 161
Mackenzie, Malcolm, 621
Mackenzie, Murdoch, Bishop, 351, 354
Mackenzie, Murdoch, 17, 30, 31, 33, 34,
157, 159, 259
Mackenzie, Neil, 194
Mackenzie, Percival, 470, 682
Mackenzie, Peter, 48, 111, 446
Mackenzie, Roderick, of Avoch, 2
Mackenzie, Roderick, 2, 15, 21, 31, 146,
157
Mackenzie, Thomas, of Inverlaul, 11, 75
Mackenzie, Thomas, 270
Mackenzie, William, 11, 39, 67, 75, 78, 110
bis, 130, 160, 163, 189, 482
Mackenzie, W. A., 576
Mackenzie, William John, 100
M'Keracher, Malcolm, 642
Mackerras, John Hugh, 642
Mackersy, John, 601
Mackersy, Robert Walker, 466
Mackichan, Alexander John, 45, 616
M'Kichan, Dugald, 607, 616
M'Kid, Alexander, 643
Mackie, George Monro, 557, 715
Mackie, James, 442, 464, 488, 676
Mackie, John, 640
Mackie, Robert, 294
M'Killican, Daniel, 27, 58
M'Killican, John, of Alness, 26, 36, 155
M'Killican, William, 91, 643
Mackinnon, Donald, 57, 79, 182, 183 bis,
187, 207
M'Kinnon, Finlay M'Nicol, 55
Mackinnon, Hector, 207
Mackinnon, James, Professor, 391
Mackinnon, John, 166, 175, 183, 194
Mackinnon, John Campbell, 52, 154
Mackinnon, Lachlan, 201
Mackinnon, Malcolm, 108
Mackinnon, Neil, 83, 167, 174, 182
Mackintosh, Angus, 72
Mackintosh, Charles Calder, 73
Mackintosh, Daniel, 147
Mackintosh, Donald Campbell, 164
Mackintosh, Gordon Urquhart, 237, 301
Mackintosh, James Grant, 601
Mackintosh, John, 462, 464, 700
Mackintosh, W., 237
Mackintosh, William, 112, 137, 198
M'Kissock, John Black, 594
Macknight, James, 442
Macknight, Thomas, 444
Maclachlan, Donald, 112
Maclachlan, John, 162
Maclachlan, Lachlan, 73
Maclagan, Peter, 594
Maclaine, Archibald, 532, 546
M'Laine, Hector, Bishop, 333
M'Laine, Patrick, Bishop, 347
M'Lardy, J. H., 610
M'Laren, David Duthie, 282, 308, 487,
672
Maclaren, J., 127
M'Laren, John, 643
M'Laren, Kenneth Daniel, 700
M'Laren, Robert G., 643
M'Laren, Walter Gray, 455
M'Laren, William, 621
M'Lauchlan, Simon Fraser, 180
M'Laurin, John, 643
Maclaurin, Robert, 311, 316
M'Lean, ^Eneas, 643
Maclean, Alexander, 44, 52, 123, 610, 616,
621, 643
Maclean, Andrew, 488
MacLean, Andrew Colquhoun, 32
Maclean, Charles, 45, 165, 190, 567
Maclean, Daniel, 621, 671
Maclean, Donald, 169, 177 bis, 190, 191,
198, 643
Maclean, Dugald, 148
Maclean, Duncan, 44, 187
INDEX OF MINISTERS
787
M'Lean, George Gordon, Professor, 376
Maclean, George Murdoch, 170
Maclean, Hector, 156, 184
Maclean, Hugh Baillie, 491
Maclean, John, 29, 152, 154, 156, 164, 167,
173, 191, 198, 316, 532, 594, 677
Maclean, John Kenneth, 94, 108, 170
Maclean, Joseph William, 294
Maclean, Lachlan, 185, 700
M'Lean, Lauchlan, 576
M'Lean, L. H., 610
Maclean, Matthew Wotherspoon, 643
Maclean, Neil, 123, 177
Maclean, Norman, 170, 447
M'Lean, Peter, 607
Maclean, Robert Norman, 594
Maclean, Roderick, 187 bis, 196
Maclean, Walter, 523, 524
M'Lean, William George Green, 164
M'Lean, W. G., 616
Macleay, Kenneth Alexander, 308
M'Lellan, Alexander, 677
M'Lellan, Duncan Tait Hutchison, 576,
700
M'Lennan, Alexander, 643
Maclennan, Allan, 149
Maclennan, Donald, 56, 152, 153
Maclennan, Duncan Macrae, 153
Maclennan, Farquhar, 36, 157 bis, 171, 182
Maclennan, George Robert, 138
Maclennan, John, 7, 31, 622
M'Lennan, Kenneth, 643
M'Lennan, Murdo, 146
M'Lennan, Roderick, 193
Maclennan, William, 643
Macleod, Alexander, 7 bis, 62, 193, 194
Macleod, Angus, 98, 194, 203
Macleod, Donald, of Grishernish, 168, 187,
191, 195
Macleod, Donald, 7, 31, 76, 86, 128, 148,
149, 155, 182, 194, 446, 469, 470, 643
M'Leod, George, 51, 616
Macleod, Hugh, Professor, 407
Macleod, Hugh, 64, 607, 616
Macleod, J. C., 616
Macleod, John, 159, 168, 187, 189, 208, 286,
445, 664
Macleod, John Matheson, 643
M'Leod, John Neil Macaulay, 643
Macleod, Lauchlan, 194
Macleod, Malcolm, 179
Macleod, Murdo, 76, 207, 209, 451
Macleod, Murdoch, 149
Macleod, Neil, 55
Macleod, Norman, 168, 182, 197, 444, 445,
446
Macleod, Roderick, Principal, 367
Macleod, Roderick, 77, 166, 167, 180,
607
Macleod, William, 166, 185
Maclorgane, Allan, 101
Macloy, William, 465, 532
M'Luckie, John Morrison, 671
M'Lure, William, 666
M'Master, Angus, 610
M'Master, James, 234
M'Meekin, Henry, 644
Macmichael, David Colville, 567
Macmichael, Duncan, 700
Macmillan, Donald, 190
M'Millan, Duncan, 644
MacMillan, Gilbert, 97, 113
M'Millan, James, 510
M'Millan, John, 616
M'Millan, William, 616, 664
Macmorine, John, 644
Macmorine, John Kerr, 644
Macmorine, Samuel, 644
MacMorine, William, 444
Macmorland, James, 76
Macmorland, Peter, 494
Macmurchy, John, 644
M'Murtrie, John, 446
Macnab, William Urquhart, 165
Macnair, Robert, 622
M'Naught, John Campbell, 46, 59
Macnaughton, Alexander, 29, 644
Macnaughton, Allan, 493
Macnaughton, Colin, 73
Macnaughton, John, 94, 468
M'Naughton, Peter, 644
M'Nee, Daniel, 644
Macneill, Angus, 185, 195
Macneill, Archibald, 176
M'Neill, Hugh Fraser, 62
M'Neill, John, 185
M'Neill, John Henry Horton, 576, 682
M'Neill, Lachlan, 682
M'Neill, Malcolm Maclean, 644
Macnicol, Robert Ferguson, 604
Macnie, Robert Lament, 97, 674, 679
Macnish, George, 664
M'Nish, Neil, 644
Macniven, John, 188
M'Nutt, William, 131
M'Omick, Robert, 577
M'Owan, Duncan, 266
Macphail, Alexander, 451
Macphail, Donald, 162, 188, 683
M'Phail, Dougald Neil, 644, 671
Macphail, Hector, 19
Macphail, John, 187, 202, 209
Macphail, Murdo, 187
Macphail, Neil, 173
788
INDEX OF MINISTERS
Macphail, William, 539, 552
Macphee, John Livingstone, 229
Macpherson, Alexander, 88
Macpherson, Andrew, 8, 109
Macpherson, Donald, 487
Macpherson, Dugald, 168, 171
Macpherson, Duncan, 577
Macpherson, George Cook, 577
Macpherson, Hugh, of Eigg, Professor, 368
Macpherson, James, 91, 118, 128
Macpherson, James Rose, 35
Macpherson, John, 106, 175, 185, 189
Macpherson, John Roderick, 217
M'Pherson, Joseph M'Kenzie, 234
Macpherson, Lachlan, 644
Macpherson, Malcolm, 168, 189
Macpherson, Martin, 87, 149, 168, 175, 182,
194
Macpherson, Peter, 683
Macpherson, Ranald, 501
Macpherson, Robert, Professor, 373
M'Pherson, Thomas, 645
Macpherson, William, 59
Macphilip, Andrew, 132
M'Phion, Peter, 677
Macquarrie, Alexander Joseph, 40, 48
Macquarrie, Neil John, 198
Macqueen, Allan, 187, 191
Macqueen, Angus, 175, 191, 195
Macqueen, Archibald, 179 (3)
Macqueen, Donald, 171, 177, 179, 191
Macqueen, Edmund, 185
Macqueen, Ewen, 168
Macqueen, James, 191
Macqueen, John, 145, 147
M'Queen, Peter, 594
Macqueen, William, of Corrybrough, 70
Macqueen, William, 32, 179, 197
Macrae, Alexander, 451, 469
Macrae, Donald, 49, 55, 94, 152 bis, 155,
163, 187, 611, 616, 660
Macrae, Duncan, 151
Macrae, Farquhar, 146, 152, 198, 205
Macrae, Finlay, 155, 192, 197
Macrae, Godfrey William Bosville, 202
Macrae, James Duncan, 32, 81
Macrae, John, 13, 16, 33 bis, 39, 150, 151
bis, 201, 207, 616
Macrae, John Alexander, 192, 197
Macrae, Roderick, 145, 164
Macrae, William, 200
M' Robert, David, 310
M'Robie, William, 611
MacRury, Donald Archibald, 683
MacRury, John, 180
Mactaggart, Alexander, 150
M'Taggart, David, 532
Mactaggart, John, 451
M'Tear, Hugh, 670
M'Turk, William, of Craigmaddie, Pro
fessor, 408
Macvicar, John Gibson, 567
Mac Vicar, Peter, 645
Mac Vicar, Robert Barr, 29
M'Vittie, Thomas, 594
Macward, Robert, 550
M'Whirter, William, 675
M'William, Alexander, 622
M' William, George, 700
Madder, Andrew, 510
Maden, Richard, 538, 555
Magill, David, 466, 486, 532
Main, Archibald, Professor, 410, 434
Main, Henry, 532
Mair, Alexander, 226, 244
Mair, Hugh, 124, 567, 645
Mair, James, 616, 645
Mair, John, 532
Mair, Patrick, 280
Mair, Robert, 516
Mair, Thomas, 552
Mair, William, 219, 446, 645
Maitland, David, 678
Maitland, James, 445
Malcolm, Gavin, 511
Malcolm, John, 49, 236
Malcolm, William, 237
Malcolm, William Cochran, 464
Malcolmson, John, 39
Maltby, John, 660
Mann, Alexander, 645
Mansfield, John, 678
Manson, Finlay, 65, 70
Manson, George Wright, 577
Manuel, William, 491
Marjoribanks, Thomas, 18
Markland, Robert, 595
Marr, Robert, 480, 520
Marsden, Jeremiah, 489
Marshall, Alexander, 595
Marshall, Alexander James, 485
Marshall, Alexander Porter, 645
Marshall, David, 680
Marshall, George, 281
Marshall, Hugh, 510
Marshall, James, 684
Marshall, John, 500
Marshall, Theodore, 446
Martin, Angus, 169, 180
Martin, Donald, 172
Martin, George, Principal, 411
Martin, James, Principal, 411
Martin, John, 28, 595
Martin, Sir Patrick M'Master, 199
INDEX OF MINISTERS
789
-f
Martin, Robert John Victor, 683
Martin, Thomas, 447
Marwick, William, 577
Masson, Donald Tolmie, 100
Masson, Evan Mackenzie, 45
Masson, Samuel, 543
Masson, William, 645
Masterton, Charles, 532
Masterton, Robert Shaw, 24, 683
Mathams, Walter John, 275, 451
Matheson, Charles Ross, 59
Matheson, Duncan, 202, 205
Matheson, Farquhar, 94
Matheson, John, 59
Matlieson, Peter, 451, 701
Mathie, James, 595, 602
Mathieson, Alexander, 151, 645
Matson, Enoch, 660
Matthew, John Crombie, 578
Matthews, Alexander, 677
Mauchline, Alexander, 701
Maxwell, David Skinner, 595
Maxwell, Gabriel, 90
Maxwell, James, 272
Maxwell, John, Bishop, 355
Maxwell, John, 670
Maxwell, Peter, 295, 312, 314, 317
Maxwell, William, 283, 664
Mearns, Duncan, Professor, 373, 444
Megapolensis, Samuel, 543, 544
Meik, James, 443
Meiklejohn, Hugh, Professor, 390, 443
Meiklejohn, William Hope, 578
Mein, Richard, 232, 258, 274
Mein, William, 460
Meldrum, Andrew, 81
Meldrum, George, Professor, 383, 441 (2)
Meldrum, John, 299
Meldrum, Neil, 578
Meldrum, William, 646
Mellis, David Barclay, 524, 536
Melville, Andrew, Principal, 393, 417, 439(5)
Melville, James, Professor, 428, 439 (3), 457
Melville, Peter, 228, 622
Mengret, J. F., 701
Menteith, William Neve, 683
Menzies, Allan, Professor, 430
Menzies, John, Professor, 362, 371, 383
Menzies, John, 38, 281, 286, 475
Menzies, John Forbes, 154, 562
Menzies, John Menzies, 207
Menzies, Peter Sinclair, 595
Menzies, Robert, 675, 677
Merchiston, Richard, 114
Merlin, John, 646
Mernis, George, 101
Mernis, William, 101
Merry, Robert Wilson, 118
Merson, Charles, 567
Metcalfe, William, 451, 562
Middleton, Alexander, Principal, 366
Middleton, George, Principal, 366
Middleton, Gerard, 568
Middleton, William, 578
Mill, George Scott, 701
Mill, James, 285
Mill, John, 283
Millar, Archibald, 499
Millar, David, 4 97
Millar, David Alexander, 455
Millar, David Bruce, 657
Millar, James, 498, 658, 677, 680
Millar, John, 497
Millar, Ogilvie, 284
Miller, Arthur, 211, 215, 226
Miller, Hugh, 509
Miller, James Aitchison, 459
Miller, James M., 451
Miller, John Stewart, 138
Miller, Matthew, 646
Miller, Patrick Leslie, 516
Miller, Thomas, 285
Miller, William, 646
Milligan, Archibald, 131, 646
Milligan, George, Professor, 405, 447
Milligan, William, Professor, 376, 445
Milling, John, 547
Milling, Robert, 546, 547
Milne, Andrew Jamieson, 446, 670
Milne, David Grant, 276, 294
Milne, James, 467, 544, 595 big, 604
Milne, James Alexander, 536
Milne, John, 451
Milne, Peter, 562, 701
Milne, William, 118
Mitchell, Alexander Arnot, 238, 308
Mitchell, Alexander Ferrier, Professor, 427,
433, 446
Mitchell, Alexander Gordon, 271
Mitchell, David, Bishop, 331
Mitchell, David, 131
Mitchell, David Russell, 557
Mitchell, Donald, 701
Mitchell, George, 667
Mitchell, Gordon, 480
Mitchell, Henry Lumsden, 452, 485, 568
Mitchell, James, 446, 479, 521, 702
Mitchell, James Donald, 485, 578
Mitchell, James Robert Mitford, 446
Mitchell, John, Professor, 430
Mitchell, John, 290
Mitchell, John Murray, 702
Mitchell, William, 291, 441 (5), 547, 596
Moffat, George Oliver, 510
790
INDEX OF MINISTERS
iviuifat, John, 228, 511, 611, 622, 646, 664
Moffat, William, 282, 452
Moffett, Joseph, 469
Moir, William, of Scotstoun, Principal, 357
Molyson, John, 254
Moncreiff, Matthew, 280, 477, 479, 509
Moncreiff-Wellwood, Sir Henry, 443
Monro, Alexander, Bishop, 334
Monro, Alexander, Professor, 428 ; Prin
cipal, 381
Monro, Alexander, Principal, 411
Monro, Alexander, 84, 87
Monro, John, 98, 532
Monro, John, of Craigston, 132
Monro, Robert, 82, 83
Monteith, Thomas, 504, 506
Montgomery, Robert, Archbishop, 321
Moodie, Adam, 254, 255, 288
Moodie, George, 225
Moodie, William, of Breckness, 229, 243,
255
Moodie, William, Professor, 386, 443
Moody, Duncan, 646
Moore, Gordon, 6
Moore, John Cunningham, 94, 305, 308
Moresby, Thomas, 477
Morgan, George, 562
Morgan, James, 544
Morgan, John, 286, 674
Morice, George, 604
Morison, Alexander, 25, 260
Morison, David, 646
Morison, George, 545, 549
Morison, John, 49, 117, 146, 149, 281, 307,
452, 596
Morison, Philip, 664
Morrison, ^Eneas, 30
Morrison, Alan, 191, 200
Morrison, Daniel (or Donald), 205
Morrison, Daniel Anton, 452, 485
Morrison, Donald, 200 bis, 205 bis
Morrison, Duncan, 646
Morrison, James, 28, 153, 215, 617, 661,
703
Morrison, John Duncan, 579
Morrison, John Scott, 452, 460
Morrison, Kenneth, 205
Morrison, Murdoch (M'Huiston), 199, 200
Morrison, Norman, 108, 188, 198, 208
Morrison, Peter, 514
Morrison, Roderick, 153 (3), 167
Morrison, Thomas, 646
Morrison, William Chisholm, 670
Morthland, Charles, Professor, 405
Moss, W. T. D., 617
Mowat, Gilbert, of Garth, 306, 312
Mowat, Hugh, 216
Mowat, James Sinclair M'lvor, 97
Mowat, John Bower, 646
Mowat, Robert, 295, 302
Mowbray, Thomas, 541, 596
Mudge, James, 566
Muir, David, 501
Muir, James, 661, 667, 677
Muir, James Breckenridge, 511, 647
Muir, James Creighton, 647
Muir, James Stirling, 466, 596, 604
Muir, Pearson M'Adam, 446
Muir, Sir William, Principal, 382
Muir, William, 444
Muir, William Bruce, 622
Muircroft, William, 532
Muirhead, George, Professor, 405
Mullan, Elias, 647
Mullan, James B., 647
Mullan, James S., 647
Munn, James, 44
Munro, Alexander, 54, 101, 119, 487
Munro, Andrew, of Coull, 136 bis
Munro, Andrew, 82
Munro, Daniel, 71
Munro, David, of Killchoan, 41, 75
Munro, David, 11, 67, 92, 125, 132, 460,
517
Munro, Donald, 40, 45, 161, 647
Munro, George, of Bearcrofts, 17
Munro, George, of Culcraggie, 65
Munro, George, of Pitlundie, 8, 17, 21,
22 bis
Munro, George, 46, 56, 74, 107, 179, 187.
196
Munro, Hector, of Daan, 53
Munro, Hector, 60 bis, 95, 139
Munro, Hew, 102
Munro, Hugh, 71, 75, 208
Munro, James, 5, 64, 120, 617
Munro, Sir John, 156
Munro, John, of Culcraggie, 25
Munro, John, of Feme, 74
Munro, John, of Pitlundie, 58
Munro, John, 18, 70, 104, 106, 122, 123,
132, 195
Munro (Williamson), John, 38 bis
Munro, Joseph, 53
Munro, Neil, 58
Munro, Robert, of Coul, 41, 106
Munro, Robert, of Creichmor, 32, 46
Munro, Robert, 15, 41, 53, 60, 67,
101
Munro, Thomas, 43
Munro, Walter Ross, 7
Munro, William, of Coul, 21
Munro, William, 32
Murchison, Donald, 151
INDEX OF MINISTERS
791
Murchison, John, 151
Murchison, Murdoch, of Ochtertyre, 151,
155
Murdoch, Alexander, 458, 539
Murdoch, David Albert, 293
Murdoch, James Rae, 250
Murehead, William, 235
Murison, George Raymond, 250
Murison, James, Principal, 421, 442
Murray, Adam, 458
Murray, Alexander, Professor, 386
Murray, Alexander, 664
Murray, Andrew, 563
Murray, Archibald Douglas, 674
Murray, Arthur, 263
Murray, Donald, 164
Murray, George, 617, 658
Murray, Gilbert, 71
Murray, Hamilton, 479
Murray, James, 134, 500, 509, 510, 513, 611,
617, 716
Murray, James Allister, 611, 647
Murray, John, 217, 462
Murray, John Clark, 647
Murray, John Gray, 480
Murray, John Paton, 452
Murray, Kenneth M'Kenzie, 250
Murray, Magnus, 254. 317
Murray, Matthew, 121, 122
Murray, Robert, of Stonewall, 306
Murray, Thomas, of Heriotshall, 520
Murray, Thomas, 92, 138, 520
Murray, William, 611
Muschet, Henry, 478
Muschet, Thomas, 524
Mutch, Andrew, 664
Mylne, Andrew, 1, 14
Mylne, George, 125
Mylne, Robert, 475
Mylne, Solomon, 647
NATSMITH, Charles, 617
Napier, Robert Hellier, 703
Neil, William, 128, 294
Neill, Gilmour, 483
Neill, Robert, 647
Neill, William, 568
Neill, William Notman, 560
Neish, David, 617
Nelson, Allan Manson, 579
Nelson, Archibald, 483
Nelson, John Leishman, 265
Nelson, Thomas, 488
Nelson, Timothy, 477
Nelson, William Lambie, 596
Nesbit, Robert, 703
Newcomen, Matthew, 546
Newlands, William, 671
Niblock-Stuart, James, 470, 532
Nichol, Archibald, 318
Nichol, Robert, 519
Nicholson, Alexander B., 659
Nicholson, Thomas Dickson, 461, 478
Nicol, David Bruce, 683
Nicol, Francis, 647, 660
Nicol, Thomas, Professor, 378, 380, 447
Nicol, John, 596
Nicol, Walter, 475, 476
Nicol, William, 500
Nicoll, Francis, Principal, 415, 443
Nicoll, Peter Hill, 673, 683
Nicolson, Alexander, 137, 171, 186, 187, 512
Nicolson, Angus, 704
Nicolson, Charles, 538
Nicolson, Donald, 171, 182
Nicolson, James, Bishop, 339, 439, 440
Nicolson, James, 122, 169, 290
Nicolson, Sir John, 39
Nicolson, John, 173, 181, 300
Nicolson, John Gunn, 38
Nicolson, Patrick, 137
Nicolson, Roderick, 165
Nicolson, Roderick Hay, 145, 452
Nicolson, Samuel, 163, 165
Nicolson, William, 492
Niltar, James, 298
Nimmo, James, 596, 648, 659, 677
Nisbet, Alexander, 226, 270
Nisbet, Charles, 664
Nisbet, James, 252
Nisbet, John, 252
Nisbet, William, 236
Niven, Hugh, 648
Niven, Thomas Brown William, 446
Nivison, William Brown, 539
Nixon, William, 463, 511
Noble, James, 474
Noble, John, 38, 127
Norsk, Magnus, 2^98, 302
OBERMAN, Heiko Tiberius, 549
Ochiltree, John, 506
O'Colgan, Alan, 168
Ogg, Charles Simmers, 604, 611
Ogg, George, 704
Ogilvie, Andrew, 516
Ogilvie, George, 516
Ogilvie, James, 704
Ogilvie, James Nicoll, 447, 579
Ogilvie, John, 596
Ogilvie, P. B.,250
Ogilvy, James, 317
Ogle, Luke, 457, 461
Ogston, Andrew, 116
792
INDEX OF MINISTERS
Oliphant, Alexander, 114
Oliphant, James, 115, 141
Oliphant, Patrick, 298
Oliver, George, 132
Oliver, James, 460, 512
Oostrum, Adrian Van, 538
Ord, Selby, 524
Orr, James Fleming Gordon, 558
Orr, John, 465, 518
Orr, Peter, 532
Osborne, John, Principal, 358
Osburne, James, Professor, 362
Oswald, George, 120
Oswald, James, 120, 139, 266, 442
Oswald, John, 543
Oswald, Thomas, of Dryburgh, 468
Otto, Julius Conradus, Professor, 386
Owen, John, 518
Oxenbridge, John, 457
PAGAN, John, 446
Pagan, John Hamilton, 563
Paget, John, 537
Paget, Robert, 543
Paget, Thomas, 538
Paip, Hector, 95
Paisley, Patrick, 551
Palm, John David, 452, 472, 553
Panter, Patrick, Professor, 428
Pape, Charles, 21
Pape, Thomas, 21, 97
Pape, William, 65, 83
Paplay, Magnus, 266
Park, John, 464, 465
Parker, Robert, 543
Parker, Stuart Crawford, 648
Parson, Robert, 235
Partington, John, 490
Paterson, Alexander, 278
Paterson, Charles Edward, 536
Paterson, David, 455
Paterson, James, 245, 268, 314, 511, 568,
596, 648
Paterson, John, Bishop, 342, 347, 356;
Archbishop, 324
Paterson, John Thornville, 482
Paterson, Robert, Principal, 358
Paterson, Robert, 568, 704
Paterson, Robert M'Cheyne, 704
Paterson, Thomas, 226, 273
Paterson, William, 293, 319, 596
Paterson, William Paterson, Professor,
374, 385, 447
Patillo, Henry, 665
Paton, Andrew, 648
Paton, James, of Middle Ballilisk, Bishop,
339
Paton, James, 476
Paton, John, 307, 452, 529
Paton, Robert, 442
Patrick, John, Professor, 389
Patrick, John, 498
Patterson, Alexander Simpson, 477
Patterson, J., 596
Patterson, James, 511
Patterson, James Dykes, 596, 660
Patterson, John Thomas, 455
Pattullo, George, Principal, 411
Pattullo, James Leburn, 604
Paul, David, 447
Paul, James T., 648
Paul, John, 445
Paull, James, 444, 661
Paxton, Richard, 476
Peacock, Patrick, 532
Pears, John, 482, 563
Pearson, James Hardie, 266
Pedder, Alexander, 1, 49
Peden, Robert, 648
Peebles, Guy Steel, 143
Peebles, Thomas, 532
Peirson, Thomas, 538, 552
Penney, Robert, 648
Pennycook, Alexander, 597
Pennycook, Peter, 483
Petrie, Alexander, 543, 560 bis
Petrie, George, 676
Petrie, Peter, 227
Philip, Alfred Morrison, 3, 469
Philip, Andrew, 125, 135, 141
Philip, Horace Robert Andrew, 705
Philip, James Gibson, 579
Philip, Robert, 32
Philip, William, 317
Philip, William Marshall, 617
Phin, Kenneth Macleay, 445
Phin, Robert, 142
Phin, William, 130
Pierson, William, 210, 217, 258
Pirie, William Robertson, Professor, 363,
374; Principal, 379, 445
Pitcairn, Alexander, Principal, 411, 421
Pitcairn, Alexander, 231, 251, 270,
285
Pitcairn, Andrew, 276
Pitcairn, David, 216
Pitcairn, James, 312, 532
Pitcairn, John, 235, 244
Pittendrigh, George Gordon, 504
Platt, William Francis, 481
Playfair, James, Principal, 415
Pollock, Robert, Professor, 363 ; Principal,
359
Pollock, William, 665
INDEX OF MINISTERS
793
Pollok, Allan, 617
Poison, Hew, 92, 132
Pont, Robert, Bishop, 336, 438, 439(5)
Pont, Timothy, 119
Pont, Zachary, 113
Poole, John, 505, 511
Pope, Alexander, 132
Pope, James, 133
Porteous, Alexander, 279
Porteous, David John Moir, 683
Porteous, George, 648
Porteous, John, 58
Porter, Josias Leslie, 515
Porter, Samuel, 648
Porterfield, John, Archbishop, 321
Potter, Michael, of Easter Livelands,
Professor, 400
Potts, John, 544
Potts, Robert, 474, 477
Potts, Thomas, 537, 544, 555
Pratt, William Rew, 466
Preston, Berry, 580
Price, John, 545
Price, William, 538
Pringle, Alexander, 676
Proctor, Henry, 521
Prophit, James, 284
Prouthock, John, 118, 125, 141
Pryde, James Johnstone, 657
Pryde, Robert Hamilton, 254
Pullar, James, 648
Purkis, Isaac, 648
Purves, William, 597
Pyper, David, 505
QUICK, John, 548
RADCLIFFE, John, 532, 670
Rae, Alexander, 2
Rae, Francis, 597
Rae, James, 304, 517, 668, 677, 630
Rae, John, 666
Rae, John Ellis, 505
Rag, Andrew, 116
Rag, John, 135
Rainey, Daniel, 538
Rainy, George, 82
Rait, David, Principal, 364
Rait, William, Principal, 366
Ralph, Hugh, 486
Ramsay, Andrew, Professor, 382, 440, 5-11
Ramsay, David, 254
Ramsay, Duncan, 229
Ramsay, Gilbert, 532
Ramsay, James, Bishop, 338, 350, 356
Ramsay, James, 441 (2)
Ramsay, John, 512
Ramsay, John A., 67], 677
Ramsay, John M'Tavish, 213, 214, 234
Ramsay, Robert, Principal, 411
Ramsay, Robert, 285, 302
Ranken, Alexander, 443
Rankin, Edward Blackmore, 607, 617
Rankin, Ewen Archibald, 40
Rankin, John, 445
Rankin, William Pillans, 605
Rannie, John, 648, 673
Rannie, Robert Robertson, 271
Rattray, Andrew, 477
Rattray, Sir Thomas, 229, 269
Reid, Alexander, 14, 18, 263
Reid, Alexander Ferguson, 456
Reid, Andrew, 705
Reid, Archibald, 214
Reid, Sir Donald, 62
Reid, Donald, 58, 106
Reid, Farquhar, 53, 60, 101, 106, 132
Reid, George, 285, 310, 442
Reid, Henry Martin Beckwith, Professor,
404
Reid, Hugh Park, 557
Reid, James, 226
Reid, James Potter, 705
Reid, James Seaton, Professor, 408, 532
Reid, John, 14, 101, 145, 200, 247, 487, 579
Reid, John Potter, 580
Reid, Peter Barr, 237, 261
Reid, Roderick, 170, 204
Reid, Thomas, 564
Reid, William, 320, 648
Reid, William Alexander, 705
Reid, William Laing, 131, 140
Rennie, John Yule, 580
Rennison, Alexander, 473, 488
Rennison, Lewis William, 602
Renny, Ebenezer, 617
Rentoul, John Laurence, 532
Reoch, Alexander, 676
Reoch, Donald, 106
Rettie, Adam, 216
Riccaltoun, John, 517
Rice, Henry, 705
Richardson, Adam, 512
Richardson, Edward, 231, 543, 547
Richardson, James, 463, 481, 482, 511
Richardson, William, 513
Richie, James, 483
Richmond, Robert Hill, 271
Riddell, Archibald, 665
Rintoul, David, 261, 648
Rintoul, William, 476, 649
Ritchie, David, 444
Ritchie, George, 268, 278, 445
Ritchie, John, 123
Ritchie, Maurice, 544, 552
794
INDEX OF MINISTERS
Ritchie, Robert Lament, 81, 83
Ritchie, William, 49, 605, 648, 677
Ritchie, William, Professor, 383, 443
Ritchie, William Blackley, 675
Roach, Walter, 649
Robb, George, 678
Robb, John, 649 bis
Robb, Richard, 476
Robbins, John, 452, 484
Roberts, James, 452, 580
Robertson, Alexander, 555
Robertson, Andrew, 43, 106
Robertson, Charles, 57, 79, 683
Robertson, Christian Arthur, 557
Robertson, Daniel, Professor, 426
Robertson, David Young, 30
Robertson, Francis, 80
Robertson, Gilbert, 61
Robertson, George, 541
Robertson, Harry, 43, 80
Robertson, James, Professor, 386, 390, 407,
428, 445, 716
Robertson, James, 5, 70, 157, 303, 446,
452, 518
Robertson, James (or John), 512
Robertson, John, Professor, 427
Robertson, John, 4, 8, 12, 21, 46, 93, 602,
611
Robertson, Peter, 40, 165
Robertson, Robert, 53, 94, 95, 504
Robertson, William, Principal, 382, 412
Robertson, William, 131, 271, 507, 564, 649,
680
Robertson, William Cowper, 536
Robinson, Isaac, 475
Robson, Andrew, 463
Roche, George Ralph Malvern, 534, 672
Roddick, James, 127, 597
Rodgers, Edward Baynes, 460, 649
Roger, John Morrice, 649
Roger, William M., 560
Rogers, James, 649
Rogerson, Richard, 517
Rogerson, W. G., 228
Rollock, Peter, Bishop, 339
Rollock, Robert, Principal, 381, 439
Romanes, George, 649
Rorke, E., 597
Rose, Adam, 34
Rose, Alexander, 649
Rose, Alexander, Professor, 399 ; Principal,
420
Rose, Arthur, Bishop, 333, 342, 347, 352 ;
Archbishop, 324, 328
Rose, Daniel, 34
Rose, Hugh, 72, 82 bis, 87
Rose, James, 313
Rose, John, 69, 95
Rose, Lewis, 62, 66, 73
Rose, William, 90, 95, 314, 316
Ross, Alexander, of Nether Pitkerrie, 56
Ross, Alexander, 77, 131, 165, 207, 452,
650
Ross, Andrew, 30, 47, 71, 75
Ross, Archibald, 532
Ross, Charles Beveridge, 650
Ross, David, 61, 62, 75
Ross, Donald, 30, 56, 88, 96, 99, 157 bis,
172, 650 bis
Ross, Duncan, 597
Ross, Francis Allan, 668, 676, 677
Ross, George, 60
Ross, Hugh, 7, 57, 60, 90, 622
Ross, James, 60
Ross, John, of Little Tarrel, 58, 62, 70
Ross, Sir John, 53
Ross, John, Professor, 368
Ross, John, 14 bis, 63, 68, 84, 90, 125, 564,
611, 617, 650
Ross, Kenneth, 167, 176
Ross, Malcolm Munro, 580
Ross, Neil, 170
Ross, Nicolas, 70
Ross, Peter, 519
Ross, Robert, of Ballon, 71, 92
Ross, Robert, of Kinloch, 25
Ross, Robert, of Logie-Easter, 46
Ross, Thomas, of Nether Pitkerrie, 60
Ross, Thomas, 25 bis, 56, 98, 158, 552
Ross, Walter, 18, 26, 32, 58, 60, 70, 80, 82,
98, 110, 650
Ross, Walter R., 650
Ross, William, of Shandwick, 56, 60
Ross, William, 7, 53, 58, 65, 67, 106, 452 bis,
597 bis, 671
Rough, John, 457
Roulston, Alexander, 622
Row, John, Principal, 366
Row, John, 438 (2), 439 (2), 554
Rowat, William, Professor, 405, 407
Roxburgh, Adam, 497
Ruddoch, Alexander, 227
Ruggan, John, 79
Rulach, George Bernard, 568
Rule, Alexander, Professor, 386
Rule, Gilbert, Principal, 381, 457, 504
Rule, Robert, 532
Rulitius, John, 537
Runciman, David Williamson, 605
Russell, Edmond Steuart, 164, 568
Russell, George, 6
Russell, James, 147, 257
Russell, James Curdie, 446
Russell, John, 319
INDEX OF MINISTERS
795
Russell, Patrick, 467
Russell, Robert, 602
Russell, Samuel, Gil
Russell, Thomas, til 7
Russell, William, 456
Rutherford, David, 545
Rutherford, Henry, 509
Rutherford, James, 485, 510, 524
Rutherford, John, Principal, 411
Rutherford, John, 225, 483
Rutherford, Robert, 512
Rutherford, William, 501
Rutherfurd, Samuel, Professor, 383, 42£
Principal, 418
Ruthven, George, 89
Ruthven, Robert, 452, 502
Rutledge, James William Renwick, 580
Rutledge, Thomas, 501
SABISTOV, James, 249
Sage, jEneas, 160
Sage, Alexander, 90
Sage, Donald, 19
St Clair, Duncan, 79, 96
Salmon, Alexander, 597
Sands, James, 240, 286, 292
Sands, Patrick, Principal, 381
Sands, Robert, 244
Saunders, Alexander Reid, 286
Savile, David, 523
Sawers, Peter Russell, 514
Sawers, William, 508
Sayers, John, 504
Scarth, John Riddoch, 289, 293
Scobie, James, 142
Scobie, William, 78
Scollay, John, 212, 227, 259, 274
Scollay. Robert, 274
Scott, Adam, 665
Scott, Alexander, 552
Scott, Alexander John, 502
Scott, Andrew, Professor, 369
Scott, Andrew Noble, 305
Scott, Archibald, 446
Scott, Archibald Black, 91
Scott, Archibald John Darling, 314
Scott, David, Professor, 426
Scott, David, 121, 128, 303
Scott, David Clement Ruffelle, 705
Scott, George Brown, 237
Scott, Henry, 213
Scott, Henry Edwin, 706
Scott, James, 121, 504, 508, 557
Scott, James Stewart, 597
Scott, John, 124, 245, 479
Scott, Oliver, 213, 219
Scott, Robert Baldock, 452
Scott, Thomas, 271, 510, 511, 554, 580,
605, 650
Scott, Walter, 6, 452
Scott, William, 227, 282, 523, 706
Scott, William Affleck, 706
Scott, William Frank, 536, 716
Scott, William Mackenzie, 706
Scott, William Richmond, 266
Scougal, Henry, Professor, 371
Scougal, James, 665
Scougal, Patrick, Professor, 383; Bishop, 331
Scoular, John Greenshields, 482
Scrimgeour, Alexander, Professor, 429
Scrimgeour, Daniel, 716
Scrogie, William, Bishop, 333
Selbie, George Alexander, 453, 485
Selkirk, John, 478
Sellar, James, 445
Sellar, John, 29, 48
Sempill, George Douglas, 453
Semple, Gabriel, 508
Semple, William, 532
Service, John, 598, 602
Seton, Alexander, 502
Shairp, John Campbell, Principal, 416
Shand, Alexander, 650
Shand, Alexander Watson, 289, 310
Shand, Robert, 564
Shanks, David, 598, 650
Shanks, James, 243
Sharp, James, Archbishop, 326
Sharp, John, Professor, 382
Sharpe, Patrick, Principal, 393
Shaw, Andrew, Professor, 429
Shaw, Anthony, 532
Shaw, David, 442
Shaw, Duncan, 443
Shaw, James, 580
Shaw, John, 167, 169
Shaw, John G., 680
Shaw, Walter, 94
Sheed, George, 650
Shepheard, Nicholas, 548
Shepherd, John, 285, 484
Sheriff, James, 707
Sheriffs, James, 443
Shield, James, 517, 524
Shields, Alexander, 665
Shilpes, John, 211
Short, George Murray Davidson, 581
Sibbald, James, 533
Sibbald, Patrick, Professor, 362
Sievwright, James, 479, 650
Silver, Alexander, 707
Silver, David, 668
Sim, George Innes, 605
Simpson, Alexander, 203, 650
796
INDEX OF MINISTERS
Simpson, Alexander Lockhart, 445
Simpson, Alexander Ronald, 257, 308
Simpson, James, 513
Simpson, John, 275, 307
Simpson, Macduff, 665
Simpson, Robert, Professor, 376
Simpson, Robert, 486, 492
Simpson, Thomas, 2
Simpson, William, 9, 57
Simpson, William, 605
Simson, Alexander, 154, 678
Simson, Charles, 602
Simson, Donald, 53
Simson, Dugald, 665
Simson, James, 533
Simson, John, Professor, 400
Simson, Matthias, 485
Simson, Patrick, 441 (2)
Sirason, Peter, 309
Sinclair, Archibald, 318, 660
Sinclair, Donald, 650
Sinclair, George, of Mey, 97
Sinclair, Hercules, 312
Sinclair, James, 237, 650
Sinclair, John, 139, 178, 543, 618
Sinclair, John Patrick, 456
Sinclair, Laurence, 282, 289 bis, 313
Sinclair, Malcolm, of Quendale, 282
Sinclair, Patrick, Professor, 386
Sinclair, William, 125, 511
Singer, William, 444
Siveright, Charles, 535
Sivewright, Robert Troup, 465
Skeldoch, John, 107
Skene, Alexander, Principal, 411
Skinner, John, 651
Slate, John, 519
Slater, James, 707
Slater, Thomas, 675
Sloan, John, 566
Sloane, John, 293, 316
Small, Robert, 443
Smart, John, 119, 141
Smart, William, 651
Smeaton, J., 598
Smeaton, Thomas, Principal, 393, 439 (2)
Smellie, George, 265, 651
Smellie, James, 212, 515
Smith, Alexander, 129, 564
Smith, Alexander, 651
Smith, Alexander Campbell, 598
Smith, Andrew, 219
Smith, Archibald, 552
Smith, Charles Erith Gordon, 651
Smith, Colin, 445
Smith, George, 278
Smith, Sir George Adam, Principal, 380
Smith, George Mure, 665
Smith, Henry, 265
Smith, James, Professor, 383 ; Principal,
381,441(2), 445
Smith, James, 2, 15, 82, 118, 147, 458, 523,
564, 568, 651
Smith, James Spence, 261
Smith, James C., 651
Smith, John, 447, 551, 651
Smith, John Archibald, 707
Smith, John Gould, 564
Smith, John Malcolm, 651
Smith, Robert, 6, 236, 459, 502, 568, 716
Smith, Robert Primrose, 651
Smith, Thomas, 477, 483, 510, 707
Smith, Thomas Gillespie, 651
Smith, Wallace, 668, 671
Smith, William, 115, 119, 131, 237, 301, 494,
708
Smith, William Adam, 598
Smith, William Beattie, 517
Smith, William Stables, 311, 657
Smyth, George, 269
Smyth, Henry, 243, 269
Smyth, William, 114, 251
Smythe, Kirkpatrick Dickson, 598
Snadden, Andrew Mitchell, 564
Snodgrass, John Allan, 651
Snodgrass, William, 622, 651
Snype, Andrew, 541
Somerville, Alexander, 25f>, 272
Somerville, James, 479, 483, 507, 523, 552, 652
Somerville, John, 459, 482, 483, 598
Somerville, Robert, 479
Somerville, Thomas, 516, 659
Soutar, Alexander Chalmers, 501, 605
Souter, James, 611
Souter, John Macgregor, 169
Souter, Robert Maitland, 234
Souttar, Alexander Chalmers, 131, 453
Souttar, Mansfield Collier, 502
Soutter, James Tindal, 558
Spang, William, 541, 547, 548
Spark, Alexander, 268, 652
Spark, John, 81
Spark, William, 225, 228
Speirs, James, 676
Spence, Alexander, 652, 671
Spence, David Brown, 716
Spence, George, 235, 240
Spence, John Aitken, 464
Spence, Nicol, 277, 485
Spencer, Adam, 652
Spens, Harry, Professor, 429, 443
?e - Spittall, Alexander, 309
Spottiswood, John, Archbishop, 322, 326,
440(4)
INDEX OF MINISTERS
797
Sprott, George Washington, 568, 618
Stalker, Hugh, 227
Stark, Alexander, 289
Stark, Mark Young, 652
Starke, William D., 652
Steele, James, 670
Steele, John Aulay, 683
Steele, R. L., 652
Steele, Thomas, 544
Steele, William, 490
Steen, James Cameron, 233, 305
Stephen, Charles, 453, 668, 679
Stephen, George, 498, 680
Stephen, James Alexander, 248
Stephen, Robert, 659
Steven, Andrew, 262, 266
Steven, George Forbes, 453
Steven, James, 468, 611
Steven, William, 539, 553
Stevenson, Alexander, 520, 674
Stevenson, David, 261
Stevenson, James, 510
Stevenson, John, 581
Stevenson, John Gordon, 121
Stevenson, Robert, 652
Stevenson, Robert Home, 445, 453, 581
Stevenson, Thomas, 214, 235, 246
Stevenson, William Barron, Professor, 407
Stevenson, William, 313
Stevenson, William, Professor, 390
Stewart, Alexander, 6, 35, 1 13
Stewart, Alexander, Professor, 374 ; Prin
cipal, 425, 446
Stewart, Colin, 598
Stewart, Donald, 678
Stewart, Duncan, 86, 88
Stewart, Frank White, 453
Stewart, George William, 622
Stewart, Hans, 533
Stewart, James, 105
Stewart, John, 163, 171, 173, 178, 181, 187,
214, 217, 221, 235, 486, 608, 618
Stewart, Murdoch, 608
Stewart, Patrick, 549
Stewart, Robert, Bishop, 336
Stewart, Robert, 218, 238, 243, 246
Stewart, Robert, 598
Stewart, Thomas, 618
Stewart, Walter, 230, 267
Stewart, Walter, Archbishop, 321
Stewart, Walter, Principal, 364
Stewart, William, Professor, 404
Stewart, William, 611, 618, 652 bis, 678
Still, Alexander, 581
Stirling, Archibald, 668
Stirling, John, Principal, 396, 441
Stirling, John, 444
Stirling, Robert, 533
Stirton, Thomas, 598
Stobbs, John Garrow, 598
Stobbs, Simon Somerville, 501, 652
Stobie, Charles, 319, 455
Stobie, Robert, 124, 261
Stobo, Archibald, 665
Stodart, William, 432, 539
Stollerie, Thomas, 500
Storie, John, 480, 517, 602
Storie, William Smith, 456
Stormonth, James, 228, 250
Story, Robert Herbert, Professor, 409;
Principal, 398, 446, 653
Stott, David, 214, 250, 611, 653
Stott, George Gordon, 470
Stott, Ian Ferguson Gordon, 708
Straaten, J. D. Vander, 568
Strachan, Andrew, Professor, 369
Strachan, David, Bishop, 335
Strachan, James, 201, 244, 258, 314
Strachan, John, Professor, 383
Strachan, William, 53
Strachan, William Greig, 275
Strang, Sir George, 309
Strang, John, Principal, 394
Strauchan, William, 556
Stronach, Alexander, 145, 158
Strong, Charles, 598
Strong, William Baillie, 683
Struthers, George, 618, 678
Struthers, James, 675
Struthers, William, 564
Stuart, Alexander, 207
Stuart, Alexander Moody-, 512
Stuart, Donald, 59
Stuart, Gregor, 45, 99
Stuart, James Niblock-, 470, 532
Stuart, James, 262, 533, 653 bis
Stuart, John, 671
Stuart, William, 42 bis
Sutherland, Alexander, 477
Sutherland, Arthur, 53, 125
Sutherland, David, 108, 109, 127, 261, 456
Sutherland, George, 98
Sutherland, Henry, 565
Sutherland, Hugh, 90, 98, 227, 240, 259, 314
Sutherland, James Rose, 313
Sutherland, John, 72, 84, 87, 98, 122, 314,
503
Sutherland, John M'Rae, 618
Sutherland, Robert, 599
Sutherland, William, 35, 112, 142, 159, 190,
618
Sutherland, William Summers, 708
Swanston, John, 178
Swinton, Henry, 215
798
INDEX OF MINISTERS
Swinton, John, 218, 235, 238, 295
Swinton, Robert, 317
Swinton, Thomas, 221, 238
Sydserff, George, 541
Sydserff, Thomas, Bishop, 334, 346, 353
Sym, Frederick Petry, 653
Syrae, John, Professor, 425
TAIT, George, 462
Tait, John, 599
Tait, Joseph, 506
Tait, William Marshall, 287, 716
Tanner, Charles A., 653
Tanner, John E., 653
Tarres, Robert, 129
Tawse, John, 653
Tayburn, John Oliver, 245
Taylor, Henry, 653
Taylor, James, 139
Taylor, James S., 683
Taylor, John, 89, 453, 565, 581, 653, 708
Taylor, John B., 653
Taylor, Joseph, 139
Taylor, Michael Campbell, Professor, 391
Taylor, Malcolm Thomas Shiell, 717
Taylor, Nathaniel, 665
Taylor, Thomas, 444
Taylor, Thomas Edward, 683, 709
Taylor, Walter Ross, 137
Taylor, William, Principal, 397, 443
Taylor, William, 298, 653
Taylor, William Caird, 99, 113
Taylor, William Ross, 495
Teelinck, Maximilian, 544
Telfer, William, 261, 305
Templeton, Andrew, 709
Tennant, William, Professor, 426
Thain, Daniel, 666
Thorn, David, 465
Thorn, George, 565
Thorn, James, 653
Thorn, John, 533
Thompson, John R., 618
Thompson, Peter, 653
Thompson, William, 533, 605
Thompson, William John, 245
Thompson, William Martin, 503
Thomson, Andrew, 484, 506
Thomson, Charles, 142, 517
Thomson, David, 17, 237, 284, 318, 538
Thomson, George, 654
Thomson, George Eddie, 464
Thomson, George Thomas, Professor, 74,
374
Thomson, James, 77, 92, 95, 241, 509, 517,
709
Thomson, John, 102, 499, 504, 612
Thomson, John Macalister, 581
Thomson, Richard, 125
Thomson, Robert, 80, 463, 671
Thomson, Samuel, 565
Thomson, Thomas, 517
Thomson, Thomas Napier, 599
Thomson, William, 38, 453, 467, 540, 581,
600
Thomson, William Aird, 444
Thomson, William Ritchie, 565
Thorburn, James, 478, 506
Tjeenk, Justus, 545
Tocher, Forbes Scott, 709
Tod, David, 498
Tod, George, 218, 235, 460, 512
Todd, John, 512
Tolmie, John William, 31, 167
Topp, Alexander, 654
Torry, Robert, 548
Toshach, Charles, 480
Tough, George, 459
Tough, James, 478
Trail, Robert, Professor, 401, 406, 442
Trail, Samuel, Professor, 242 373, 445
Trail, William, 533, 666
Trail!, George, of Hobbister, 120
Trail!, Thomas, of Hobbister, 264
Traill, Thomas, of Tirlet, 227
Trail!, Thomas, 247
Traill, Walter, of Westove, 264, 265, 281
Train, Joseph, 678
Trotman, Thomas, 678, 680
Trotter, Alexander, 510
Trotter, John, Professor, 426, 432
Trotter, John, 500
Trotter, Robert, 510, 513
Trotter, William, 479
Troup, James, 15
TrumbuU, David, 684
Tullidelph, Thomas, Professor, 429, 442;
Principal, 413, 414
Tullidelph, William, Principal, 413
Tulloch, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, 709
Tulloch, David, 45
Tulloch, George, 105
Tulloch, James, 267
Tulloch, Jerome, 251, 254
Tulloch, John, Principal, 423, 445
Turnbull, Adam, 602
Turnbull, Archibald, 709
Turnbull, George, 497
Turnbull, John, 292, 456
Turnbull, Thomas, 442
Turner, Coll, 478
Turner, Daniel, 502
Turner, John, 458, 483
Turner, Sir William, Principal, 382
INDEX OF MINISTERS
799
Tweed, David, 568
Tweedie, William, 474
Tweedie, William King, 491
Tyrie, James, Professor, 428
Tyrie, James, 252, 259
Tytler, Robert, 274
UDNEY, John, 512
Umphray, John, 317
Umphray, Laurence, of Whitsness, 317
Umphray, Theodore, 309
Umphray, William, 279, 280, 315, 317
Ure, William Broomfield, 220
Urquhart, Alexander, 14, 74, 98, 128, 135
Urquhart, George, 98
Urquhart, Hugh, 654
Urquhart, John, of Mounteagle, 56
Urquhart, Thomas, 4, 68
VAIXANCE, John MacWilliam, 453, 467
Van der Hoek, Sander, 545, 549
Van der Pyl, Simon, 545
Van der Wind, Martin, 549
Van Laren, Arn, 544
Van Shie, William, 543
Vassie, William, 495, 519
Vilant, William, Principal, 420
Vincent, John, 543
WALDIE, Thomas, 285
Walker, Alexander, 581, 710
Walker Archibald, 654
Walker, Donald, 238
Walker, George, 453, 485
Walker, George Arthur Everett, 214
Walker, James, 228
Walker, John, 443, 505
Walker, Robert, 131, 233, 442
Walker, Thomas, 654
Walker, William, 552, 710
Walker, William Montgomery, 654
Wall, Charles Wilfred Vander, 568
Wallace, Alexander, 654
Wallace, Archibald, 520
Wallace, Gavin, 461
Wallace, James, 222, 263, 444
Wallace, James Bell, 677
Wallace, John, 605
Wallace, Robert, Bishop, 350
Wallace, Robert, Professor, 391
Wallace, Robert, 442, 476, 523, 710
Wallace, William, of Solsgirth, 505
Wallis, James, 605, 677, 679
Walls, Thomas, 605
Walsh, George, 124, 301
Wands, Victor William, 683, 710
Wann, Andrew Blair, 710
Warden, John, 510, 524
Wardrobe, Thomas, 511
Wardrop, John Robert, 600
Warner, Patrick, of Ardeer, 457, 460
Warnock, Gavin, 281
Warren, Andrew, 710
Warrender, Hugh, Professor, 426
Waters, David, 505
Waterston, Patrick, 210, 211, 246, 267, 273
Watson, Alexander Cameron, 710
Watson, Andrew Bulloch, 115, 581
Watson, Archibald, 445
Watson, Charles, 464
Watson, David, 208, 221, 267, 276, 654
Watson, George, 43
Watson, George Bruce, 250, 485
Watson, Harry Steel, 710
Watson, James, 232, 710
Watson, John, 25, 113, 116, 118, 305, 505
Watson, Peter, 654
Watson, Robert, Principal, 414
Watson, Robert, 213, 245, 509
Watson, William, 44, 235, 243, 255, 297,
313, 314
Watt, Alexander William, 217, 219
Watt, David, 600
Watt, Gavin, 210
Watt, George, 309
Watt, George Christie, 314, 464
Watt, John, 533, 568, 671
Watt, Robert, 538
Watt, Thomas Meikle, 556
Watts, John, 678
Waugh, George, 455, 710
Waugh, John, 504
Waugh, Robert, 127, 266
Waugh, Thomas, 213, 512
Weatherston, Adam, 509, 510
Webster, Alexander, 288, 442, 581
Webster, David, 297, 304
Wedderburn, James, Bishop, 338; Pro
fessor, 428
Weir, Duncan Harkness, Professor, 406, 438
Weir, George, 654
Weir, James, 232, 236, 247, 268
Weir, Walter, 256
Weir, William, 533
Welch, John, 457
Wells, John, 612
Welsh, Alexander, 565
Welsh, David, Professor, 390, 444
Welsh, Joseph Rodger, 486
Welsh, Josias, 533
Wemyss, George, Principal, 411, 413
Wemyss, James, Professor, 399 ; Principal,
413
Wemyss, Patrick, 243, 262, 263
White, Adam, 266
White, James Smith, 600
800
INDEX OF MINISTERS
White, John, 447
White, William, 488, 654, 666, 711
White, William Ewart, 314
Whitefield, Charles, 507, 519
Whitehouse, William, 518, 519
Whitelaw, John Morrison, 558
Whitford, Walter, Bishop, 334
Why te, Alexander, 118
Whyte, John, 654
Whyte, Nicol, 282
Whyte, William Menzies, 507
Wight, Robert, 474
Wight, William, Professor, 401
Wight, William, 533
Wightman, John, 475
Wightman, Thomas Henderson, 654
Wilcock, Samuel, 549
Wilkie, Daniel, 654
Wilkie, James, Principal, 412
Wilkie, Robert, Principal, 412, 439
Wilkie, Thomas, 441 (2)
Wilkins, William T., 612, 619, 655
Willans, Angus, 319
Williams, John Hutcheon, 683
Williamson, Andrew Wallace, 446
Williamson, David, 45, 79, 441
Williamson, Donald, 92
Williamson, Edmund Edward, 135, 305, 684
Williamson, James, 285, 459, 582, 655
Williamson, John, 269
Williamson, Robert, 4, 11, 16, 18, 52, 619
Willis, Michael, 655
Willock, John, 436(4), 438
Wilson, Adam, 483
Wilson, Alexander, 520, 542, 544
Wilson, Andrew, 465, 519
Wilson, Augustus Forbes, 677
Wilson, Charles, Professor, 426, 432
Wilson, Hugh, 533, 600
Wilson, James, 203, 210, 462, 521, 655, 668
Wilson, John, 223, 226 bis, 273, 304, 511,
533, 711
Wilson, John Brown, 453
Wilson, John M'Laren, 308
Wilson, Matthew, 608
Wilson, Robert, 124, 128, 266, 612
Wilson, Thomas, 476, 533
Wilson, Thomas Clark, 655
Wilson, William, 477, 520, 525, 533
Wilson, William Augustus, 560
Wilson, William Lyall, 684
Wilson, William Macknight, 612
Wing, John, 544, 545
Wingate, Thomas Daniel, 254, 289
Wingate, William, 717
Winsley, Thomas, 533
Wishart, George, Bishop, 342
Wishart, George, 442
Wishart, William, Principal, 381 bis, 441 (5),
442, 490
Wishart, William T., 612
Witherspoon, John, 666
Witherspoon, Robert, 666
Wodrow, James, Professor, 399
Wodrow, William, 501
Wood, Aaron, 508
Wood, Alexander, 23 bis
Wood, Andrew, Bishop, 337, 350
Wood, Isaac, 508, 509
Wood, James, Principal, 411
Wood, James, 509
Wood, James Julius, 556
Wood, John, 23, 136, 320, 462, 482, 508
Wood, William, 524
Woodside, Robert, 464
Woodward, Richard, 538
Wordie, James, 671
Worsley, George Hughes, 549 r
Wressel, Nicholas, 457
Wright, Alexander Maclean, 605
Wright, Edward, of Kersie, Principal, 396
Wright, Francis, 128
Wright, James Johnstone, 582
Wright, John, 473
Wright, Stewart, 582
Wright, Thomas Henry, 536 (2)
Wright, William, Professor, 407
Wright, William, 519
YAIR, David William, 237
Yair, James, 542
Yeoman, Alexander Ross, 453
Youll, Robert, 518
Young, Alexander, Bishop, 342, 356
Young, Alexander, 568
Young, Archibald, 533
Young, David, 510
Young, James, 226, 453, 492, 510, 512, 676,
684
Young, John, Bishop, 333
Young, John, Professor, 399
Young, John, 655, 666
Young, Laurence, 262, 267, 276, 289
Young, Robert, 458, 491
Young, Robert Ogston, 9
Young, Thomas, 13
Young, William, Principal, 411
Young, William, 481
Youngson, Alexander, 109, 226
Youngson, James, 558, 712
Youngson, John Forbes White, 712
Yule, James W., 717
Yule, John, 224
Yule, Robert, 224
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