adm. a min. of the Church of Scotland 1863; assistant at St Michael's, Dumfries; ind. to Swallow Street, London, 1864, to Lugar 1867, to St Matthew's, Montreal, 1876, to Messer Street, Jersey City, U.S.A., 1878; returned to Scotland and took up work in Elder Street Mission Church, Edinburgh, 1881; adm. first min. of this charge, 3rd Sept. 1891; res. 17th Oct. 1898; died 10th Feb. 1911. He marr. 10th June 1890, F. Eleanor Gordon. Publications-Heartsease; Self-Education; Hymns and Meditations in Verse; Budget of Holiday Letters; Chinese Views and Peoples; Light in the Darkness.

1899 THOMAS PORTEOUS, born Edinburgh, 3rd June 1861, son of James P. and Margaret Nicol; educated at George Heriot's School and Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (1880), B.D. (1883); licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 18th May 1883; assistant at St Ninians, Stirling, and Tron, Edinburgh; ord. to Gordon 24th Sept. 1885; trans. and adm. 30th March 1899.

ST JOHN'S.

[In 1840 a part of Old Greyfriars Parish was disjoined and erected by the Court of Teinds into a new parish, which was called St John's, because certain of the lands within the area had belonged before the Reformation to the Knights Templars of St John of Jerusalem.]

1840  THOMAS GUTHRIE, born Brechin, 12th July 1803, sixth son of David G., banker, Provost of Brechin, and Clementina Cay; educated at Brechin and Edinburgh Univ.; licen. by Presb. of Brechin 2nd Feb. 1825; ord. to Arbirlot 13th May 1830; trans. to Old Greyfriars 21st Sept. 1837; trans. and adm. 28th Oct. 1840. Joined the Free Church, and became min. of Free St John's 1843; D.D. (Edinburgh, 9th April 1849); Moderator of Free Church General Assembly 1862; retired 1864; F.R.S.E. (1869); founder of the Edinburgh Original Ragged Industrial Schools; one of the earliest Temperance reformers; an eloquent preacher, and writer of great popularity; died 24th Feb. 1873. He marr. 6th Oct. 1830, Anne (died 2nd June 1899),

daugh. of James Burns, one of the mins. of Brechin, and had issue-David Kelly, min. of the Free Church, Liberton, born 9th Aug. 1831, died 6th Sept. 1896; Christina:,  born 31st May 1833 (marr. 22nd 'March 1854, William Welsh of Mossfennan, D.D )., min. of the Free Church, Broughton), died 17th Feb. 1895; James, banker, Brechin. born 15th Jan. 1835; Patrick, banker, Edinburgh, born 1st Oct. 1836 Clementina, born 28th June 1839, died 22nd Jan. 1908; Annie, born 28th June 1841 (marr. 27th April 1859, Stephen Williamson, M.P.); Thomas; farmer, near Buenos Ayres, born 19th Nov. 1843, died 3rd Nov. 1900; Alexander, merchant, Liverpool, born 10th March 1846; Charles John, Senator the College of Justice, born 4th April 1849; Helen, born 30th Nov. 1851 (marr. David Gray, Glasgow), died 9th July 1883; John, born 11th Dec. 1853, died:) 9th Aug. 1855. Publications-On the Intrustion, of Ministers (Edinburgh, 1839); A Short Plea for the Public and Free Use of the Bible in Ragged Schools -A Plea for Ragged Schools- A Second Plea for Ragged Schools (Edinburgh, 1847-9); A Plea Behalf of Drunkards and against Drunkenness (Edinburgh, 1851); Lost and Found (Edinburgh, 1853); The Gospel in Ezekiel (Edinburgh, 1855); The City, its Sins and Sorrows (Edinburgh, 1857); Christ the Inheritance of the Saints (Edinburgh. 1858); A Word in Season: a New Year Tract (1861); The Way to Life (Edinburgh, 1862); The Disruption :its Obligations and. Responsibilities (Edinburgh 1862); Bear Ye One Another's Burdens (London, 1863); Speaking to the Heart (London, 1863); Man and the Gospel (1865); -The Angels' Song (1865); The Parables (1866; new edition, with memoir 1908); Our Father's Business (1867); Out of Harness (1867); Early Piety (1868); Studies  of Character from the Old Testament (1868-70); Sundays Abroad (1871); He edited The Street Preacher, or Autobiography of Robert Flockhart (Edinburgh, 1858), and wrote a Memoir of the Rev. Robert Coutts, Coutts' Sermons (1848); editor the Sunday Magazine (1864-73).-[Autobiography and .Memoir, by his sons, D. K. and C. J. Guthrie; Dict. Nat. Biog.]