1876 ALEXANDER WEBSTER, born Aberdeen, 5th Jan. 1834, son of William W. and Annie Hendry; educated at Grammar School, Aberdeen, and Edinburgh Univ.; M.A. (Marischal College 1853); licen. by Presb. of Burntisland; assistant at Kinghorn, Dysart, Kilrenny, Edinburgh (Tolbooth and New Greyfriars); ord. to Laigh Kirk, Kilmarnock, 9th Aug. 1866; trans. and adm. 1st June 18 7 6; died 30th May 1896. He marr. 3rd June 1869, Margaret Husband (died 16th Oct. 1914), daugh. of William Dawson MacRitchie, surgeon H.E.I.C.S., who afterwards marr. William Findlay, ord. assistant at Saline, Fifeshire.

1896 WILLIAM RITCHIE BLACK, born Inchture, 6th Aug. 1861, son of John B. and Helen Murray; educated at St Andrews Univ.; 'M.A. (1884); licen. by Presb. of Dundee 1887; assistant at Abdie and Edinburgh (St David's); ord. 23rd Dec. 1896. Marr. 27th July 1897, Euphemia Grace, daugh. of David Galloway, merchant, Edinburgh, and has issue-Marion Galloway, born 1898; John Murray, born 1899; William Galloway, born 1901; Robert James, born 1902; David James, born 1904; Helen Grace, born 1905; Charles Ritchie, born 1908.

ST GEORGE'S.

[Founded 14th May 1811, erected by Presb. 26th Jan., and opened 5th June 1814. The church, built from a design by Robert Reid, cost £33,194.]

1814 ANDREW MITCHELL THOMSON, born 11th July 1778, son of John T., min. of Sanquhar, afterwards of Edinburgh; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; schoolmaster of Markinch; licen. by Presb. of Kelso 7th Oct. 1800; ord. to Sprouston 11th March. 1802; trans. to East Parish, Perth, 31st March 1808; trans. to New Greyfriars 16th May 1810; M.A. (Edinburgh 1811); pres. by the Town Council 9th Feb., trans. and adm. 16th June 1814; D.D. (Columbia College, New York, 4th Aug. 1818, which he did not accept, and by the Univ. and Marischal College of Aberdeen, Nov. 1823). Returning from

a meeting of Presb., in whose business he had taken an active part, he died instantaneously within a few steps of his own door (29 Melville Street), from an affection of the heart, 9th Feb. 1831. He was an enthusiastic musical amateur, and the composer of many psalm tunes. In 1820 he published Sacred harmony, for the Use of St George's Church, Edinburgh, in which will be found "Redemption" and “St George's, Edinburgh," and eleven other original tunes by Dr T. In the " Apocrypha Controversy'" he very strongly opposed the policy of circulating copies of the Bible in which the books of the Apocrypha were inserted, and he pleaded with great eloquence for the immediate termination of slavery in the British colonies. Able character sketches have been drawn by Dr M'Crie, Dr Chalmers, and Dr Burns of Toronto. He marr. 26th April 1802, Jane Carmichael, who died 8th June. 1840, and had issue-Jean and Helen, born 30^th March 1803; Agnes, born 24th Aug. 1804, died 27th Sept. 1816; John, Professor of Music in the Univ. of Edinburgh, born 28th Oct. 1805, died 1st May 1841; Janet, born 2nd Oct. 1809; Isabella, born 17th Nov. 1811; James, born 8th Oct. 1813, died 23rd June 1815; Andrew, min. of Maybole, born 10th May 1815; Christian Bonar, born 8th Dec. 1819. Publications A Catechism on the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper (many editions); A Letter to Principal Hill (Edinburgh, 1803), a second (Edinburgh, 1805), and another on the case of John Leslie (Edinburgh, 1805); Our Guilt, our Danger, and our Duty as a People, a sermon (Perth, 1809); Seven single Sermons (Edinburgh, 1809-10); Lectures, Expository and Practical, 2 vols. (Edinburgh, 1816); Sermons on Infidelity (Edinburgh, 1821); Lectures on Select Portions of the Psalms (Edinburgh, 1826); Sermons ova Various Subjects (Edinburgh, 1829); The Doctrine of Universal Pardon Considered and Refuted (Edinburgh, 1830); Sermons and Sacramental Meditations (Edinburgh, 1831); with many smaller works. He edited for twenty years the Edinburgh Christian Instructor (30 vols.), writing many of its papers with singular ability; and not fewer than forty-