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FASTI ECCLESI^ SCOTICAN^
SYNOD OF LOTHIAN AND TWEEDDALE
EDITORIAL COMMITTEE
The Rev. W. S. Crockett, Minister of Tweedsmuir, Convener and General Editor,
The Rev. Professor James Cooper, D.D., D.Litt., D.C.L.
W. Traquair Dickson, W.S.
Francis James Grant, W.S., Lyon Clerk and Rothesay Herald.
The Rev. Professor James Mackinnon, Ph.D., D.D.
Alexander T. Niven, C.A.
Sir James Balfour Paul, C.V.O., LL.D., Lord Lyon King-of-Arms.
The Rev. Stephen Ree, B.D.
The Rev. James Smith, B.D.
The Rev. Robert W. Weir, D.D.
GENERAL COMMITTEE
The Rev. Prof. Herkless, D.D., St Andrews
The Rev. James Brebner, D.D., Forgue
The Rev. Thomas Burns, D.D., Edinburgh
The Rev. W. W. Coats, D.D., Brechin
The Rev. J. B. Davidson, D.D., Peterhead
The Rev. R. Menzies Fergusson, D.D., Logie
The Rev. J. King Hewison, D.D., Rothesay
The Rev. W. M. Metcalfe, D.D., Paisley
The Rev. David Paul, LL.D., Edinburgh
The Rev. J. R. Aitken, M.A., Edinburgh
The Rev. William Auld, B.D., Carnock
The Rev. James W. Blake, M.A., Temple
The Rev. John Burleigh, Ednam
The Rev. Andrew Burns, Fenwick
The Rev. J. A. Cameron, B.D., Legerwood
The Rev. A. J. Campbell, B.A., Glasgow
The Rev. J. T. Cox, B.D., Dyce
The Rev. A. A. Duncan, B.D., Auchterless
The Rev. J. E. Gillespie, Kirkgunzeon
The Rev. A. H. Gillieson, B.D., Olrig
The Rev. John Hunter, B.D., Rattray
The Rev. Geo. D. Hutton, M.A., B.Sc, Bothkennar
The Rev. A. J. Macdonald, Killearnan
The Rev. A. M. Macgregor, Lochryan
The Rev. R. D.Mackenzie, B.D., Kilbarchan
The Rev. J. Mitchell, B.D., Mauchline
The Rev. John Muir, B.D., Yester
The Rev. J. Muirhead, B.D., Avendale
The Rev. J. W. Murray, B.A.(Oxon.), Manor
The Rev. W. H. Porter, Cults, Pitlessie
The Rev. Robert Pryde, M.A., Glasgow
The Rev. John Sharpe, Selkirk
The Rev. W. Stephen, B.D., Inverkeithing
The Rev. G. Walker, B.D., Castle-Douglas
The Rev. D. Macfarlane Wilson, Thornton
The Rev. Wm. Wilson, M.A., Trossachs
C. E. W. Macpherson, Esq., C.A., Edin.
Thomas Reid, Esq., M.A., Lanark
J. H. Stevenson, Esq., Advocate, Edin.
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FASTI ECCLESIiE SCOTICAN.E
918
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 tinder the Superintendence of a Committee appointed by the General Assembly
VOLUME I
SYNOD OF LOTHIAN AND TWEEDDALE
OLIVER AND BOYD
EDINBURGH: TWEEDDALE COURT
1915
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
The design of the present work is to present a comprehensive account of the Succession of Ministers of the Church of Scotland since the period of the Reformation. An attempt is made to give some additional interest by furnishing incidental notices of their lives, writings, and families, which may prove useful to the Biographer, the Genealogist, and the Historian.
The sources from which the work has been compiled are the various records of Kirk Sessions, Presbyteries, Synods, and General Assemblies ; together with the Books of Assignations, Presentations to Benefices, and the Commissariat Registers of Confirmed Testaments. From these authentic sources the information here collected will, it is believed, be found as accurate as the utmost care can render it. Having been com- menced at an early period of life, this work has been prosecuted during all the time that could be spared from professional engagements for a period of nearly fifty years.
Some idea of the labour and continuous research involved in preparing the work may be formed when the Author states that he has visited all the Presbyteries in the Church, and about seven hundred and sixty different Parishes, for the purpose of examining the existing records. In this way he has had an opportunity of searching eight hundred and sixty volumes of Presbytery, and one hundred volumes of Synod Records, besides those of the General Assembly, along with the early Registers of Assignations and Presentations to Benefices, and about four hundred and thirty volumes of the Testament Registers in the different Commissariats.
The Author has to express his grateful acknowledgments to the Synod and Presbytery Clerks, and, indeed, to almost all the Ministers of the Church to whom he applied. While carrying on his early researches in Edinburgh, he cannot forget his obligations to the late Thomas Thomson, Esq., Deputy Clerk Register, to the late Alexander Macdonald, Esq., and other gentlemen connected with the Record Department in the General Register House. He is indebted to the Rev. Thomas Gordon of Newbattle, and the Rev. John Struthers of Prestonpans, for revising the divisions which contain the Presbyteries of Dalkeith and Haddington; also, for
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other services, to the Very Rev. Principal Campbell, Aberdeen ; the Rev. Walter Wood, Elie ; Major A. Stewart Allan, of the Bengal Staff, India ; Mr William Troup, University, St Andrews; John Barron, Esq., C.A., Teind Office, and Adam C. Longmore, Esq., of the Exchequer. He likewise has, in particular, to acknowledge how much he owes to David Laing, Esq., LL.D., for the interest which he has uniformly taken in the progress of the work, and for suggestions while the sheets were at press.
The plan adopted by the Author was to follow the usual division into Synods and Presbyteries, and to embrace the Ministers of the several Churches from the Reformation in 1560 to June 1839. At the request, however, of some of his friends, in order to make the work more complete, by bringing it down to the present time, the names of Ministers are added who have since been appointed.
The Part now issued comprises the important Synod of Lothian and Tweeddale. The next Part, which is already in the Printer's hands, will include the three Southern Synods of Merse and Teviotdale, of Dumfries, and of Galloway. It will be followed by the Synod of Glasgow and Ayr. It only remains to add, that so far as the Author is able to calculate from what has already been completed, the work will be comprised in three volumes, forming a companion to the Origines Parochiales Scotice, of which it may, in some measure, be regarded as a continuation. Being undertaken altogether as a labour of love, the Author begs to add, that any profits will be devoted to the Societies for the Sons, and the Institu- tion for the Daughters of the Clergy.
H. S.
Manse of Anstruther Wester, 17 th November, 1866.
NOTE TO THE PRESENT EDITION
Following an Overture to the General Assembly, a Committee was appointed to deal with the Continuation of the Fasti Ecclesice Scoticance. A Revision of the whole work was afterwards agreed upon. The present edition, therefore, is the result. Synods and Presbyteries are arranged in the order of the Roll of the General Assembly, and Parishes alphabetically under Presbyteries. A condensed notice of each minister's career is now given under his last incumbency, except in the case of professors and bishops, who are placed under a separate heading. The genealogical and bibliographical details have been much extended, proper names modernised, and some irrelevant matter omitted. A selection of the authorities quoted by Dr Hew Scott has been retained, and some newer ones added. For the Continuation, authorities are only occasionally mentioned, the information having been derived from the ecclesiastical records and the ministers themselves, or their descendants and acquaint- ances. Session and Presbytery Records have been again consulted, and considerable additions made from the Separate Register. Parish and family histories, biographies, and books of reminiscence have yielded an abundant crop of fresh information. To each volume a Bibliography of local literature is appended, also an Index of Parishes and Ministers mentioned therein, and in the last volume a cumulative Index of the whole work will appear.
So many persons have kindly given assistance in the preparation of this work it is impossible to thank them in detail, but mention must be made of the Clerks of Presbyteries, whose help has proved in- valuable, and of John Maitland Thomson, LL.D., to whose learned researches the Committee is much indebted.
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CONTENTS
TAGE
Biographical Sketch of Hew Scott, D.D. . . xi-xvi
Abbreviations ...... xviii
I. Presbytery of Edinburgh ..... 1
II. Presbytery of Linlithgow ..... 189
III. Presbytery of Biggar ..... 238
IV. Presbytery of Peebles ..... 268 V. Presbytery of Dalkeith ..... 301
VI. Presbytery of Haddington . . . . .351
VII. Presbytery of Dunbar ..... 402
Bibliography of Church and Parish Histories, etc. . 429
Index of Parishes and Chapels .... 433
Index of Ministers ...... 436
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF HEW SCOTT, D.D.
The making of the Fasti Ecclesice Scoticance is a curious and stimulating- example of literary industry. Mainly the work of one man, it was the undertaking of a lifetime. Those who have tested the value of the work will best apj>reciate its magnitude, as well as the manifold difficulties which must have faced its projector. It was a toiler's task, possible only through much patient perseverance, and its completion after forty or fifty years' arduous labour was an achievement of infinite merit. As Dr Hew Scott's letters show, the strain was enormous, the sympathy depressingly sparse. At times there was disappointment enough almost to crush the eager spirit of the worker, and to put an untimely finis on his enterprise. Still he stooped to his self-imposed burden in the temper of which heroes are made. Year after year Scott pursued his remarkable perambulations, in the course of which he visited, he computed, about seven hundred and sixty parishes. He must have ransacked many hundreds of musty old registers belonging to every kirk-session and presbytery within his purview. As a probationer he began the Fasti, and as a veteran of eighty he gave the last touches to his opus magnum. Coadjutors were few and were mostly concerned with the first volume — enthusiasts like Dr Gordon of Newbattle, Dr Struthers of Prestonpans, and David Laing, LL.D., prince of bibliophiles. Laing may be described as prompter-in-chief. Indeed, but for him there would have been no Fasti at all. Soured at the lack of preferment, Scott volunteered for service in Canada, and was actually on his way to the boat when Laing met him and persuaded him to remain at home. Until he became the minister of a parish, the accumulation of material for the Fasti engrossed most of Scott's attention. He carried on researches in all the likely sources, copied extracts with minute, painstaking care, and left no stone unturned to ensure the thoroughness and completeness of his task. The
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first portion of the work (it was in three volumes of two parts each) appeared in 1866, the last in 1871. The price was twenty-five shillings a part, and the impression was limited to 250 copies.
The Fasti was pre-eminently a labour of love. Whatever profits might accrue from it were to be devoted to the Societies for the Sons of the Clergy and the Ministers' Daughters' College. At least £200 are known to have reached those institutions out of the Scott exchequer. That amount may or may not have been a contribution from Fasti profits. From Scott's letters to Laing we learn that the prospects were anything but rosy : "I thought, at least was always told, that the sales were greater, and as I expected something would be gained, perhaps not much, I find myself disheartened, and tremble at proceeding further. No gin-horse has worked harder than I have done for years, and here is the result — only making business for printers and booksellers." And again : "I am puzzled about going on with such a loss. The sales show that few of the great or literary folks care for it." A third letter informs Dr Laing that of 250 copies of one part, 96 were sold, 12 were in the author's hands, while 142 remained on the booksellers' shelves. Hew Scott's last letter to David Laing is full of pathos : "I received yours when in bed yesterday (4th Dec. 1871), where I have been for eight or ten days. I am very thankful my humble, or what you call great work, is so near a close. Dr Gordon wrote me lately something similar when I told him I intended doing no more, but he persuaded me it would be necessary to give the Moderators. The work at the very outset brought me into trouble, even with the purest intentions, and has been carried on under sometimes great privations, at times under great depression of spirit, exertions few constitutions could have undergone, and an expense which to many might have been a little fortune. For the last twelve months it has been carried on in a sick- room and nursing an affectionate partner, and last of all, threatened with blindness. So you may judge if I would not gladly be done with it. Whoever is dissatisfied with my past labour is very welcome to try his hand and make it better. I know of none such except two individuals."
But if the author of the Fasti toiled and sowed in tears, the herculean labour of his life has not been lost. The Fasti has filled a noble niche in Scottish ecclesiastical history. As a work of reference it has long taken a high place, and its pages have been a mine for the digging of every local annalist. By the triumphant realisation of his early dream, Hew Scott made not merely the Church but the whole of Scotland his debtor.
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II.
The story of his career can be told in few words. Hew Scott was an admirable illustration of the pursuit of knowledge under difficulties. Born at Haddington, 5th February 1791, he was the son of Robert Scott, an Excise officer (Scottice, gauger), who counted kin with Sir Walter's own sept of the romantic Border clan. His mother (her husband's second wife) was Catherine Dunbar, a native of Coldingham. Hew took to learn- ing early, " could conjugate amo in his tenth year," and was altogether a promising " lad o' pairts." Dr Lorimer of the First Charge of Hadding- ton encountered him deciphering Latin lines on an old tombstone there. " You'll be a minister yet," said the clergyman, and the words so rang in the boy's ears that he could not sleep. His father died about this time, leaving wife and family practically penniless. The opening of a little shop helped to keep the wolf from the door, and Hew was apprenticed to an ironmonger of the burgh. There is a tradition that he added stationery to his mother's slender stock, hawking that commodity from house to house in the evenings. At twenty we find him blossoming into a bookseller.1 But the minister's prophecy was coming true. Ambition may have been fostered by the example of George Dunbar, who, from a disabled gardener's boy, found his way to the University, and was rising into fame as a Greek scholar. It is more than likely that Dunbar himself paved the way for his kinsman's entrance on a scholastic career. Hew Scott's name appears in the Edinburgh matriculation album for the first time in Session 1813-14, and for the last time in Session 1819-20. He followed a somewhat unsystematic but comprehensive course — giving attendance on the classes of Humanity, Logic, Greek, Natural Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, Scots Law, Anatomy, Surgery, Chemistry, Practice of Medicine, Agriculture, Hebrew, and Divinity. " Had the war con- tinued," he said, " I would have been a doctor in the army instead of a minister of the Kirk." During two sessions he acted as assistant- librarian of the University, and for this service he was rewarded by a remission of the matriculation fee of half a sovereign. It is singular to find him graduating at Aberdeen in preference to Edinburgh. Aberdeen, it seems, was " a more frugal Senatus," and having applied to King's College, the degree of M.A. was conferred, 2nd December 1816, "in
1 The Foundliny, a tale, in verse, by Thomas Adams, Royal Artillery, Drivers. . . . Haddington : Printed for the Author by G. Miller, and sold by Hew Scott, bookseller (1811 ; 70 pp.).
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consideration of his attainments as a student, and on the recommendation of James Ferguson of Pitfour and John Buchan, W.S."
III.
Sometime in his Arts curriculum, Hew Scott became known to Thomas Thomson, Deputy Clerk-Register of Scotland, most erudite of legal antiquaries. Thomson had set out to reform the whole system of public registries and the method of the custody of records in rendering these records accessible to research, in rescuing and repairing old records, in editing the Acts of the Scottish Parliament and other governmental registers, under authority of a Record Commission. Scott became one of Thomson's best helpers. The work was congenial, and it may have inspired the idea of the Fasti, although the zealous researcher was acquainted with Le Neve's Fasti Ecclesiai Anglicanm — a monumental work like his own that was to be.
His divinity course completed, Scott was licensed by the Presbytery of Haddington 24th October 1820. In 1829 he received ordination in order to proceed to Canada — a step frustrated by the appeal of David Laing, as has been already stated. Assistantships followed at Garvald, Ladykirk, Cockpen, and Temple. The minister of Cockpen was his college friend, James Grierson. " I was not a little encouraged by his story," Scott used to say ; " like many of us, he had two strings to his bow, and kept a drug shop for years in the North Bridge till he was presented to a parish, Lord Dalhousie writing the preferment on the field of Echlar."
Promotion came at long last to the indefatigable investigator. On the death of Dr Carstairs, Sir Windham Carmichael Anstruther offered Scott the parish of Anstruther Wester, and he was admitted 12th June 1839. The Rev. Jardine Wallace, of Traquair, used to relate how Hew Scott arrived one evening at his father's manse of St Michael, Dumfries. In the course of conversation he spoke somewhat sadly of the changes which had taken place from the Secession of 1843. Mrs Wallace said : "Mr Scott, were you not tempted to go out ? " " No ! no ! " he naively replied, " I had too much difficulty to get in." Scott's curious story about the actual genesis of the Secession may be recalled : "In the arrangement of viands for a party at dinner, one of the guests, wife of the schoolmaster, who was also assistant minister in the parish [Marnoch], happened to make some observations about its
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF HEW SCOTT, D.D. xv
impropriety, which gave offence to her hostess. This caused considerable ill-feeling, and laid the foundation for disputes of various kinds in the Presbytery, which at length terminated in the Secession of 1843, inflicting a severe wound on the Church of Scotland." The author of the Fasti had no leaning towards the popular party. He stoutly opposed the measures of the non-Intrusionists, and supported Charles Rogers (after- wards his assistant) in the attempt to depose Sir David Brewster from the Principalship of St Andrews for his adherence to the Free Church.
Hew Scott received the honorary degree of D.D. from St Andrews in 1867. He was an exemplary minister of the old school — " his preaching much, but more his practice wrought, a living sermon of the truths he taught." Into all his work — both in the pulpit and out of it — he put his best. Parochial movements were assured successes under his sagacious pilotage. He had his peculiarities and foibles. From the established mode of worship he would brook no variation. A "repeating" tune was anathema — and he declined to preach in a church where the Doxology was sung. He was the strictest of disciplinarians, but behind all his outward severity beat a heart that was warm, and true, and kind. He was penu- rious to a proverb — his besetting fault — a relic, doubtless, of less fortunate days. " No nail, or potato, or turnip, or piece of coal was ever left on the road by Hew Scott." Dr Rogers declared that he never bought writing paper, but wrote all the Fasti on letter-backs — a precursor of the modern card index method, quaint, but in his hands thoroughly effective, the result showing a marvellous mastery of the multifarious materials collected at divers times and places. He used turned envelopes for his correspond- ence, a fact which was demonstrated after his death, when his desk was opened and disclosed " nearly 2000 envelopes all reversed, the stamps and addresses being in the inside, according to which the old economist had been in the habit, almost from the day of Sir Rowland Hill's penny postage, of refolding the covers of his correspondence for future use." It has been hinted that he was the hero of the story told by Dr William Chambers, about a minister who married the schoolmaster's widow for the sake of the dead dominie's new coat. That, however, is baseless. He married the lady (one who knew him well, told Dr Hay Fleming) "because she had shown so much kindness to her husband [Alexander M'Dougall] in his illness, and because if he married her she would receive a substantial allowance from the Ministers' Widows' Fund, and thus be rewarded for her untiring devotion to the schoolmaster." Dr Scott died at Anstruther, 12th July 1872 ; his widow, Sarah (daughter of James
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Kennedy, a Colmonell farmer), surviving him till 1st May 1874. He left £9000 mostly to the Kennedy family, and a parcel of land at Pittenweem — • two crofts and a toft" — to endow the "Scott and Dunbar Bursary" in his alma mater. His large and interesting library was disposed of by auction. Parsimonious he never was where any rare volume was at stake. The Laing letters are full of references to book sales and the picking up of rarities. Scott's passion was books, and his book-plate (displaying an array of books surmounted by a John Knox bust, a scroll with the " Amo " of the Buccleuch Scotts, and the "buck that in the cleuch was ta'en ") is a sure indication of where his heart lay. Hot and choleric on occasion, he was as a little child when surrounded by tomes that were his dearest treasures.
Such, then, was the compiler of the Fasti. Seldom has a finer piece of work been carried out with almost the minimum of encouragement. Yet one of the author's sunniest moments was Dr Chalmers's benediction on the superlative undertaking: "Go on, Mr Scott, go on; the unborn will bless you, sir. It is the work I would so like to do." Courtly compensation for much that might have been ! To have earned the approval of Thomas Chalmers was not only recognition worth while : it was stimulus sufficient for the perfecting of what was truly a patriot's legacy to posterity.
W. S. CROCKETT.
SYNOD OF LOTHIAN AND TWEEDDALE
ABBREVIATIONS
Adm. |
admitted |
Marr. . |
App. |
appointed |
Min. . |
Bapt. |
baptized |
Ord. . |
Coll. |
collated |
Pres. . |
Cont. . |
contract |
Presb. . |
(marriage) |
Pro. . |
|
Dl-111. |
demitted |
Res. . |
Dep. |
deposed |
Trans. . |
Ind. |
inducted |
Univ. . |
Inst. |
instituted |
Unmarr |
Licen. |
licensed |
married
minister
ordained
presented
presbytery
proclaimed
resigned
translated
university
unmarried
ERRATA
Page 11.
Page 77, Page 175. Page 189. Page 317. Page 364,
-Col. 1, line 45, delete " to St Boswells, 1662 ; trans."
Col. 2, line 2, delete " (1) Esther Scougall, and had issue— Janet (G. R. Sas.y xxix., 11): (2)."
-Col. 1, line 35, for "Canongate (Second Charge)" read "South Leith."
-Col. 1, line 20, for "Edward Kinnear " read "Andrew Kinnear."
-Col. 1, line 19, for "John Laing" read "James Laing."
-Col. 2, line 23, delete "Robert John, died at school, 1877."
-Col. 2, line 32, delete " died 14th Nov. 1903."
SYNOD OF LOTHIAN AND TWEEDDALE
[The Records, contained in nineteen volumes, date from 1st April 1589 to 27th April 1596 (volume recovered from University of Edinburgh — vide Presbytery); from 14th April 1640 to May 1661; and from July 1687 to the present day.]
PRESBYTERY OF EDINBURGH
[Excepting blanks from 1st November 1750 to 3rd June 1753, the Registers are com- plete from 14th May 1701 to the present day. One volume previous to 1638, and all after till 14th May 1701, were destroyed by a fire at the Presbytery Clerk's house in the Lawnmarket, 28th October 1701. Three volumes of Records, from 19th April 1586 to 24th August 1603 (with blanks from 24th March 1589-90 to 13th April 1591)— and the Synod volume mentioned above — were restored by the University of Edinburgh, in whose possession they had been for over two hundred years. The Presbytery raised an action in the Court of Session, which was defended. On 16th July 1890, Lord Well wood gave judgment in favour of the pursuers, finding the Presbytery entitled to the books and documents claimed, and ordaining the defenders to deliver them up. The grounds of decision were : (1) that the Presbytery were the successors of the Presbytery to whom they belonged ; (2) that the Records, being those of the established courts of the country, were extra commercium, and the pursuers were not barred by prescription or the presumption arising from long possession or acquiescence. The decision was appealed to the Inner House, but was abandoned by the University when the case was about to be heard in the Second Division of the Court, 28th November 1890. For a complete statement of the case see Appendix to Report to Assembly, 1891, and Scottish Law Reporter, xxviii., 567.]
ADDIEWELL (Q.S.).
[A Mission in connection with West Calder was started in 1871, the services being held in a hall. Amongst those who served as missionaries were William Fotheringham Cameron (afterwards of Tweedmouth) : John Kerr (Dirleton); John Gunson (Kingston, Glasgow) ; and, in 1879, William Peter M'Laren. The Mission became a separate charge in 1882. A church, costing £1550, was opened 3rd
VOL. I.
April 1885, and on 23rd Jan. 1893 Addie- well was erected into a parish quoad sacra.]
1893
WILLIAM PETER M'LAREN, born Edinburgh, 12th July 1843; edu- cated at Edinburgh Univ. ; student missionary at Addiewell from 1879 ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 6th May 1882 ■ ord. 12th July 1882; died 2nd May 1894. He marr. 1871, Jean Robertson, and had issue — William David, professor in Thomas- son College, Roorkee, India; David John,
ADDIEWELL— COLINTON
[PRESB. OF
min. of Patna; James Archibald, died in infancy.
1894
THOMAS HENRY JONES, a native of Canada ; educated at Edinburgh Univ. ; M.A. (1887) ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 15th May 1891 ; assistant at St George's, Edinburgh ; ord. 8th Nov. 1894 ; res. 15th June 1898 ; min. at Bulawayo, Rhodesia, 1898, at Beaconsfield, Cape Colony, 1914.
1898
WILLIAM LOW JAMIE, born Edin- burgh, 22nd Feb. 1860, son of David J. ; educated at Canongate Burgh School and Edinburgh Univ. j M.A. (1887) ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 14th May 1890; assistant at Northesk; ord. 27th Sept. 1898. Marr. 28th Aug. 1909, Eliza- beth Forster, daugh. of W. R. Scott, Addiewell.
COLINTON, originally HAILES.
[St Cuthbert's Church and parish of Halis or Hailes, now Colinton, was founded about 1095 a.d. by Ethelred, Earl of Fife, son of Malcolm III. and Queen Margaret. A church dedicated by David de Bernham, 27th Nov. 1248, was probably destroyed during the English invasion, 1544-5. A church built on the present site in 1636 was rebuilt in 1771, and again in 1907. Before the Reformation the church belonged to the Preceptory of St Anthony, Leith.]
ALEXANDER FORRESTER, probably 1567 of the Corstorphine family, reader in 1567.— [Reg. Min.]
JOHN DURIE, mentioned as min. in 156g 1569; trans, to Leith, May 1570.— [Spottiswood's Hist., iii., 83; Reg. Min. ; Wodrow's MS. Biog., i. ; Edin. Chr. Inst., v. ; Relig. Mon., v. ; New Stat. Ace, ix.]
ADAM LETHAM [LICHTON, LEIGH-
1574 TON], had charge of Currie, Hailes,
and St Catherine's of the Hopes
in 1574. There were readers at Currie
and Hailes, and the office of reader at St Catherine's was vacant. The reader at Hailes was Andrew Robeson. — [Reg. Min.]
JOHN HALL, min. in 1579; trans, to 1579 Leith 24th Oct. 1596.- [Reg. Assig., Booke of the Kirk, Wodroiv Miscell. ; Calderwood's Hist., iv.]
PETER HEWAT, trans, from the High
Kirk, Edinburgh, 26th Oct., and adm.
5th Nov. 1596; trans, to Greyfriars
Jan. 1597.— [Edin. Counc. Reg., x. ; Reg.
Assig.]
JAMES THOMSON, M.A. (Edinburgh, 159g 12th Aug. 1592); called 23rd Jan. 1597; elected 23rd May, and adm. 14th July 1598. He refused to conform to the Bishop's instructions regarding the method of celebrating Communion, 5th March 1634; died before 2nd April 1635, aged about 63. He marr. Helen, daugh. of John Leyis [Lees], merchant, Edinburgh, and through her was entered burgess and guild-brother of that city, 18th May 1608. His widow was admitted "as ane ordinar pensioner by the Session of Edin- burgh, to receive quarterly the sume of 20 merkis," 11th Oct. 1644.— [Test., Edin. Gen. Sess., Guild, and Reg. (Bapt.) ; Reg. Assig., Sec. Sigill., cvi. ; Old Dec, i. ; Sed. Book of Teinds ; Row's and Stevenson's Hists., i. ; Inq. Ret. Edin., 220.]
WILLIAM OGSTON, M.A.; regent in Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1619 ; on the commendation of Bishop Forbes, he was pres. by Charles I. 1635. Previous to the celebration of Communion, he caused his parishioners to undergo his examinations kneeling. Refusing to take the Covenant, he was abused in Edinburgh by a mob of women, 9th May 1637, who waited on him after sermon, "and did showre him with strokes." Deposed 4th Jan. 1639, for deserting his flock " twenty weeks togidder," etc. ; coll. at Corstorphine in 1664.— [Wodrow's MSS. ; Baillie's Lett., i. ; Peterkin's Rec. ; New Stat. Ace, i. ; Stevenson's Hist.]
EDINBURGH]
COLINTON
THOMAS GARVINE [GARVEN, 1639 GAVINE], M.A. ; adm. 1639 ; trans, to Old Kirk, Edinburgh, 1649 — [Midi. Univ. Glasg., Hi. ; Dalkeith Presb. and Edin. Comic. Reg. ; Stevenson's Hist., ii. ; Rutherf urd's Lett.]
ALEXANDER LIVINGSTON, M.A. 1650 (' Glasgow 1633). On the occupation of the country by the English army after the battle of Dunbar, he absented himself from his parish from Sept. 1650 to Sept. 1651. Died at Edinburgh, 4th July 1660. He marr. Mary Sharp {Reg. of Deeds, Mack., 6th Dec. 1671), and had issue —Elizabeth, died Nov. 1675 j Margaret (marr. an officer in the army) ; Alexander, died February 1664. — [Test, and Edin. Reg. (Bur.), Tombst.]
ROBERT BENNET, M.A. (St Andrews, 165g 20th July 1650) ; adm. (assistant and successor) 28th Sept. 1659. Deprived for refusing the Test, 1681 ; inst. to Ancrum 1687 (q.v.). Died before 4th June 1709. He marr. Magdalen, daugh. of Adam Cunningham, Commissary of Dumfries (Edin. Sas., xxvi., 303, 307), and had issue — Mary; Adam, M.D., who was served heir. — [Act. Red. Univ. St And., Test. Reg.; Spec. Ret. Fife, 101 ; Wodrow's Hist,]
THOMAS MURRAY, adm. and inst. 1682 26th Oct. 1682; trans, to Kinloch 1685.
SAMUEL NIMMO, M.A. (Edinburgh, 1686 27th July 1663); ord. min. of Old Cumnock 1673 ; trans, and adm. 15th April 1686. Accused of not having read the Proclamation of the Estates, and of not praying for King William and Queen Mary, but for King James ; acquitted by the Privy Council 22nd Aug. 1689; was " hindered to preach by some of the Earl of Argyll's Regiment " ; dep. by the Com- mission of Assembly, Jan. 1691, for declining their authority. He died June 1717, aged about 74. He marr. as a second wife (pro. 20th Aug. 1704). Isobel, daugh. of Thomas Halyburton, cordiner, Edinburgh. He had issue — "William, died
June 1692; Charles, died December 1694 (Grey friars Reg.)— [Test, and Edin. Reg. (Bur.); Acts Pari., ix. ; Peterkin's Con- stitution of the Church; MS. Ace. of Min., 1689 ; Murray's Biog. Annals, Warrick's Hist, of Old Cumnock.]
JAMES THOMSON of Newton of Col- 1694 lessie > called 19th Nov. 1693 ; ord. 7th March 1694 ; trans, to Elgin 21st May 1696.— [Murray's Biog. Annals.]
THOMAS PATERSON, called 3rd Jan.,
? and ord. 21st April 1697 ; trans, to
St Cuthbert's, Edinburgh, 22nd Oct.
1699. — [Mun. Univ. Glasg., iii. ; Murray's
Biog. Annals.]
WALTER ALLAN, M.A. (Edinburgh, 1?00 11th July 1696); called 20th Aug., and ord. 25th Dec. 1700 ; died 22nd Nov. 1732, in 54th year. He marr. (1) 6th June 1703, Margaret, daugh. of James Pillans, regent in the College of Edinburgh, and had issue — James, served heir 1734 ; Elizabeth, died unmarried before 1780 ; Bridget, died before 1738 : (2) (cont. 28th Aug. 1717) Isobel, daugh. of John Brown, merchant, Edinburgh, and had issue — Helen (marr. 19th April 1733, James Clerk, mason, burgess of Edinburgh) ; Isobel (marr. 22nd Feb. 1747, Alexander Maconochie of Meadowbank, writer, Edin- burgh).— [Test. Reg., Tombst., Edin. Mar. Reg.]
GEORGE GIBSON, born 1706, son of John G., physician, Kelso, and Catherine, daugh. of George Home of Bassendean ; licen. by Presb. of Kelso 1st June 1731 ; pres. by Charles, Earl of Lauderdale, 16th May, and ord. 25th July 1733; died 1st Jan. 1746. He marr. 1st Oct. 1736, Janet Blackwood (marr. (2) 21st June 1747, Alexander Young, brewer in Potterrow : Edin. Sas., exxxiii., 115). — [Test, and Edin. Reg. (Bur.).]
JOHN HYNDMAN, called 14th Aug., and ord. 25th Nov. 1746; trans, to 1746 St Cuthbert's 20th Feb. 1752.- [( !ai - lyle's Autob., Murray's Biog. Ann.]
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KOBERT FISHER, born 1716, son of Francis F., Cochram, Cumberland ; 1753 M.A. (Glasgow 1739); licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 27th Oct. 1742 ; ord. to Lauder 22nd Sept. 1747 ; pres. by James, Earl of Lauderdale, 13th July 1752; trans, and adm. 3rd March 1753; died 8th April 1782. He marr. 29th March 1763, Ann (died 24th Aug. 1774, aged 39), third daugh. of Sir John Jardine of Applegarth, Bart. Their only child, Jane Charteris, born 21st Jan. 1770 (marr. John Stewart, of the Trustees' Office, Edinburgh). — [Presb. Reg., Tombst., Murray's Biog. Ann. ; New Stat. Ace, i.]
JOHN WALKER, born 1731, son of 1783 J°nn W-> rector of the Grammar School of the Canongate, Edinburgh, and Eupham Morison ; educated by his father, and at Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of Kirkcudbright 3rd April 1754 ; ord. to Glencorse 13th Sept. 1758 ; trans, to Moffat 8th June 1762. In 1764 he was appointed by the General Assembly to make a survey of the Hebrides, being at the same time commissioned to make a report to the Society for the Pro- pagation of Christian Knowledge. He travelled 3000 miles in seven months. His report, found among his papers after his death, was printed by his friend Charles Stewart. M.D. (Glasgow 1765), D.D. (Edin- burgh 1765); app. Professor of Natural History, Univ. of Edinburgh, 15th June 1779, retaining also his post as min. of M. The Presb. of Lochmaben found the holding of both offices to be incompatible, but the Synod reversed the finding. On 13th Feb. 1783 he was adm. to this charge ; Moderator of Assembly 20th May 1790 ; died 31st Dec. 1803. During the last years of his life he was blind. He marr. 24th Nov. 1789, Jane Wallace (died 4th May 1827), eldest daugh. of Andrew Wauchope of Niddrie. Publica- tions — Two single Sermons (Edinburgh, 1756, 1791) ; Classes Fossilium, sive Char- acter es naturales et Chymici classium et ordinum in systemate minerali, cum nomibus Genericis adscriptis (Edinburgh, 1787) ; Institutes of Natural History (Edinburgh, 1792) ; Memorial concerning the Present
Scarcity of Grain (Edinburgh, 1801); An Economical History of the Hebrides ami Highlands of Scotland, 2 vols. (Edinburgh, 1808 ; reissued in London, 1812) ; Essays on Natural History and Rural Economy (Edinburgh, 1808; London, 1812) ; "Report to the Genera] Assembly, 1772, concerning the State of the Highlands and Islands ;' (Scots Mag., xxxiv.) ; " Experiments on the Motion of the Sap in Trees " (Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin.); many papers in Trans, of the Highland Soc. ; Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace, xix.). — [Grant's Univ., ii. ; Jardine's Nat. Lib., xxvi. ; Murray's Biog. Ann. ; New Stat. Ace, i. ; Diet. Nat. Biog.]
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JOHN FLEMING, born 1750, son of James F. of Craigs, and great- grandson of Edward Marshall of Keymuir, Muiravonside, who suffered martyrdom in 1685 ; educated at Bathgate School and Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of Linlithgow 23rd Feb. 1785; ord. to Carrington 7th May 1790; pres. by James, Earl of Lauderdale ; trans, and adm. 22nd Nov. 1804; died un- married, 23rd Jan. 1823. In early life he succeeded to his father's property, and devoted himself with much success to agriculture. He was, for a time, factor to Neil, Earl of Rosebery, and even after being called to the ministry, was frequently em- ployed as a valuator of landed estates. He bequeathed his library to the parish, after thirty of his most intimate friends had each selected a book as a token of re- membrance. He left £240 for educating " a certain number of free scholars in the parochial school," and the remainder of his fortune he conveyed to trustees for behoof of his nearest relatives, but in the event of their leaving no issue, for establish- ing professorships of Political Economy in the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow. Publication — Account of Primrose or Car- rington (Sinclair's Stat. Ace, xiv.). He is said to have been offered a hundred pounds for the right of publishing the sermon preached at the admission of John Kellock to Crichton, but it never appeared in print. See Memoir by Archibald Con-
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stable (one of his trustees) in Scots Mag., xci., xcii. — [Scot's Fun. Serm., Murray's Biog. Ann.]
LEWIS BALFOUR, born Edinburgh,
1823 30tk ^-Ug* 1777' ^^ SOn °f ^°^n
B. of Pilrig, and Jean, daugh. of Robert Whyte [Whytt] of Bennochy, Pro- fessor of Medicine in the Univ. of Edin- burgh ; educated at Edinburgh High School and Univ. ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 30th Jan. 1805; ord. to Sorn 28th Aug. 1806 ; pres. by James, Earl of Lauderdale ; trans, and adm. 28th Aug. 1823; D.D. (Glasgow 1853) ; died 24th April 1860. He marr. 26th April 1808, Henrietta Scott (died 13th March 1844), third daugh. of George Smith, D.D., min. of Galston, and had issue — John, surgeon, H.E.T.C.S., born 8th July 1809, died 13th Dec. 1886 ; Marion, born 29th Oct. 1811 (marr. 7th April 1835, Colonel J. A. Wilson, R.A.), died 14th Dec. 1884; George Smith, born 20th July 1813, died 3rd May 1816 ; Jane Whyte, born 6th Nov. 1816, died 6th Feb. 1907; Lewis, merchant, born 14th Sept. 1817, died 13th Feb. 1870; James, born 30th July 1819, died 20th June 1824 ; William Somerville, born and died 1821 ; George William, M.D., LL.D.Edinburgh, born 2nd June 1823, died 9th Aug. 1903; Mackintosh, manager, Agra Bank, born 9th March 1825, died 7th June 1884 ; a son, born and died 1826 ; Henrietta Louisa, born 14th Jan. 1828 (marr. 14th Dec. 1847, Ramsay H. Tra- quair), died 25th Nov. 1855 ; Margaret Isabella, born 11th Feb. 1829 (marr. 28th Aug. 1848, Thomas Stevenson, C.E., and was mother of Robert Louis Stevenson), died 14th May 1897 ; James Melville, C.E., born 8th June 1831, died 18th Dec. 1869. Publications — Sermon on the Death of the Rev. Daniel Wilkie (Edinburgh, 1838) ; Account of the Parish {New Stat. Ace, i.). — [The Balfours of Pilrig, Graham Balfour's Life of Robert Louis Stevenson, Simpson's The Stevenson Originals],
WILLIAM LOCKHART, born Denny,
1861 17th May 1825, son of Robert L.
and Isabel Williamson ; educated at
Glasgow Univ. ; M.A. (1853), F.S.A.Scot. ;
licen. by Presb. of Dunoon 23rd Nov. 1853;
1903
assistant at New Greyfriars, Edinburgh ; ord. to Queensferry 11th Feb. 1855; trans. and adm. 11th Jan. 1861; D.D. (St Andrews 1893); died unmarr. 30th Sept. 1902. By the will of his sister, Margaret, a considerable sum was bequeathed for the erection of a church (preferably in the Grange district of Edinburgh), in his memory, to be called The Lockhart Memorial Church. Publications — On the Place and Importance of Ordinances ; On Authority in the Institution of Ordinances ; On Oaths (Edinburgh, 1852); The Church of Scotland in the Thirteenth Century, the Life and Times of David de Bernham, 1239-58 (Edinburgh, 1889 ; 2nd ed., 1892) ; Dies Tristes, Sermons for Seasons of Sorrow (Edinburgh, 1892) ; contributions to the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
NORMAN MACLEAN, M.A. ; trans, from Glengarry, and adm. 18th May 1903 ; trans, to the Park Parish, Glasgow, 23rd June 1910.
THOMAS MARJORIBANKS, born 3rd 1910 April 1871, son of George M., D.D., min. of Stenton ; educated at Stenton School, Collegiate School, and Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (1891), B.D. (1894) ; licen.