1737 GILBERT HAMILTON, born 16th May 1715, son of William H. above mentioned; educated at Univ. of Edin.; licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith 7th Sept. 1736; pres. by John, Earl of Ruglen, 21st Sept. 1736; ord. 28th March 1737; D.D. (King's College, Aberdeen, 1760); Moderator of Assembly 19th May 1768; died 17th May 1772. He marr. (1) 9th Jan. 1742, Isabel, daugh. of James Smith of Nether Alderston: (2) 4th March 1754, Margaret, daugh. of John Craigie of Dunbarnie, and had issue-Anne Cockburn, born 27th June 1756; Mary, born 24th Feb. 1758 (marr. William Dinwiddie, Manchester); Susan, born 6th Jan. 1761 (marr. 14th Sept. 1786, Patrick Anderson, W.S.), died 18th July 1821. Publication -The Disorders of a Church, and their Remedies, a sermon (Edinburgh, 1752). [Wood's Cramond.]

1773 CHARLES STUART, born 1745, son of James S. of Dunearn, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, a descendant of James, fourth Earl of Moray, and Elizabeth Drummond; licen. by Presbyterian ministers in and about London, 25th Aug. 1772, and enrolled as a preacher by Presb. of Edinburgh 30th Sept. following; pres. by Willielma, Lady Glenorchy, and ord. 27th April 1773. Entertaining scruples about Church Establishments, he resigned 17th May 1776 and formed an Anabaptist congregation in Edinburgh, which was ultimately dissolved. Having studied medicine, he took the degree of M.D., 12th Sept. 1781, and practised as a physician; died 28th May 1826. He succeeded to Dunearn, and marr. (1) 29th Oct. 1773, Mary (died 12th April 1817), daugh. of John Erskine, D.D., Edinburgh, and had issue-Christian, born 24th Aug. 1774, died unmarr. 5th June 1808; James of Dunearn, W.S., born 24th Nov. 1775, engaged in a fatal duel with Sir Alex. Boswell of Auchinleck in 1822 (see Dict. Nat. Biog.), died 3rd Nov. 1849; Elizabeth Ann, born 29th Aug. 1777, died 6th April 1836; Mary, born 14th July 1786, died 1st March 1872 (marr. June 1814, John Burnett of Kemnay); John Alexander of Carnock, born 4th Nov. 1787, died 3rd Nov. 1869; Alison, born 6th Dec. 1791

(marr. 1816, Capt. J. W. Carmichael), died 1885: (2) 18th Jan. 1819, Margaret (died l0th Nov. 1821), youngest daugh. of Alex. Parlane, surgeon, Glasgow. Publications-The Present State of human Nature according to the Word of God (Edinburgh, 1773); Probation Sermon preached in Edinburgh (1777), from John xviii. 36; The Distinction between the Kingdom of Christ and the Kingdoms of this Morld, and applied to confirm the Loyalty and assert the Liberty of Christians, a sermon (Edinburgh, 1777); see Essays in Speculative Society's Proceedings on "The Motives of Human Actions'"; Dissertatio Xedica inauguralis De systematis nervosi ofciis (Edinburgh, 1781); edited the Edinburgh Quarterly Magazine, 1798-1800 [Douglas's Peer., ii.; Wood's Hist. of Cramond, Haldane's Hem., Kay's Portr]

1776 ROBERT WALKER, pres. by Willielma, Lady Glenorchy, and ord. 2 7th Nov. 1776; trans. to the Canongate 19th Aug. 1784.-[Wood's Cramond.]

1785  ARCHIBALD BONAR, born 23rd Feb. 1753, fifth son of John B., min. of Cockpen and Perth; originally intended for the legal profession ; educated at High School and Edinburgh Univ.; tutor in the family of David, Earl of Leven; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 29th Oct. 1777; ord. to Newburn 31st March 1779; trans. to North-West Church, Glasgow, 17th July 1783; pres. by Willielma, Lady Glenorchy; trans. and adm. 19th April 1785; died 8th April 1816. He marr. (1) 15th Aug,. 1782, Bridget (died 4th Jan. 1787), daugh. of David Black, min. of Perth (2) 16th Aug. 1792, Anne (died 8th May 1861, in her 94th year), daugh. of Andrew Bonar of Litchfield, and had issue-John, born 10th Nov. 1793, died 4th Oct. 1800; Elizabeth, born 31st May 1797 (marr. 13th March 1827, John Purves, min. of Lady Glenorchy's, Edinburgh, afterwards of Jedburgh), died 6th June 1865; Archibald, banker in Edinburgh, born 25th June 1799, died 29th Feb. 1872; John, min. of Larbert and Dunipace, afterwards of the Free Church, Aberdeen and Glasgow, and secre