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(Edinburgh, 1706); A Sermon at the Election of Magistrates (Edinburgh, 1706); The Covenants Displayed (Edinburgh, 1707); Lawful Prejudices against the Union (Edinburgh, 1707); The Author Defended [reply to Daniel Defoe] (Edinburgh, 1707); Second Defence of the Author (1707); Select Sermons (Edinburgh, 1723); The Wicked Life of Haman (Edinburgh, 1740).-[Edin. Counc., Test., and Reg. (Marr. and Bur.); Wodrow's Anal., iii.; Boston's and Webster's Mem.; Edin. Chr. Inst., xxiii.; Carlyle's Autob.; Kay's Portr., ii. See Some Tears from the South for the Death of Mr James Webster (1720).]

 

1721  WILLIAM GUSTHART, M.A. (Edinburgh, 16th July 1698); adm. min. of Crailing 10th June 1708; refused the Oath of Abjuration 1712; deputed to congratulate George I. on his accession; was successful in obtaining a modification of the aforesaid Oath, 1717; called 30th Aug. and 17th Nov. 1720; trans. and adm. 22nd Jan. 1721; one of His Majesty's Chaplains in Ordinary, and Dean of the Chapel Royal 1726; died 27th March 1764. He marr. (1) 24th July 1711, Ann, daugh. of Adam Tait of Howden: (2) 13th May 1718, Ann, daugh. of Robert Hepburn of Whitburgh, and had issue-Robert; Jane, died 1795; Elizabeth, died 1792  John.- [Edin. Counc. Reg.; Wodrow's Corresp., ii.; Morren's Ann., i.; Fraser's Life of R. Erskine, Carlyle's Autob.]

 

1765 DAVID PLENDERLEATH, eldest son  of Patrick P., min. of Saline; licen. by Presb. of Kincardine-O'Neil 6th Oct. 1731; ord. to Ormiston 20th Sept. 1732; trans. to Dalkeith 7th Oct. 1746; pres. by the Town Council 15th Aug. 1764; trans. and adm. 30th Jan. 1765; died 26th April 1779. He marr. 6th Sept. 1743, Helen (died 25th March 1796), daugh. of Matthew Simson, min. of Pencaitland, and had issue -Alison, born 20th Jan. 1745; Patrick, born 10th July 1746; Jean, born 16th Oct. 1749 (marr. Thomas Sellar of Westfield); Helen, born 18th Aug. 1753; Janet, born 10th Nov. 1755; Robert, hosier in Edinburgh, born 18th March 1759. Publication

-Religion a Treasure to Men and the Strength. and Glory of a Nation, a sermon (Edinburgh, 1754).-[Edin. Counc. Reg.; Kay's Portr., i.] .

 

1779 JOHN KEMP, born 1745, son of David K., min. of Gask; educated at Univ. of St Andrews; licen. by Presb. of Auchterarder 7th Feb. 1769; ord. to Trinity Gask, 4th April 1770; trans. to New Greyfriars 19th Dec. 1776; trans. and adm. 25th Nov. 1779; secretary to the Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge, 1789; D.D. (Harvard Univ., Cambridge, U.S.A., 1793); died 18th April 1805. He marr. (1) 2nd Oct. 1780, Beatrix (died 12th March 1796), daugh. of Andrew Simpson, merchant, Edinburgh, and had issue-David of Balsusney, born 13th Sept. 1781; Agnes, born 18th Aug. 1783; Jane, born 24th Sept. 1784, died 24th Aug. 1794 ; Robert, born 22nd July 1790, died 5th Sept. 1790: (2) 2nd June 1797, Lady Mary Anne Carnegie (died 11th Aug. 1798), youngest daugh. of George, Earl of Northesk: (3) 26th Aug. 1799, Lady Elizabeth Hope (died 17th Sept. 1801, aged 33), seventh daugh. of John, Earl of Hopetoun. Publications-The Gospel adapted to the State and Circumstances of Man, a sermon, to which are added Facts serving to illustrate the Character of Thomas, Earl of Kinnoull (Edinburgh, 1788); Account of the Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge (Edinburgh, 1796); Observations on the Islands of Shetland (Edinburgh, 1801); The Character of the Apostle Paul in some of its Features, Delineated (Edinburgh, 1802).-[Douglas's Peer.; Kay's Portr., i., 282.]

 

l805  JOHN CAMPBELL, born Glasgow,24th May 1758, son of Daniel C., merchant; educated at Grammar School and Univ. of Glasgow; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 1st Aug. 1781; chaplain to Willielma, Lady Glenorchy, 1782; ord. to Kippen 8th May 1783; pres. by the Town Council 31st July; trans. and adm. 24th Oct. 1805; secretary to the Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge, 1806; D.D. (Edinburgh, 10th Jan.

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