1896 ALEXANDER MILLER MACLEAN, M. A., B.D.; trans. from Turriff, and adm. 15th Oct. 1896; trans. to Peebles 9th May 1907.

1907  JAMES ALEXANDER MILNE, born Auchinblae, Kincardineshire, 23rd July 1869, son of James M. and Christina Anderson; educated at Fordoun, High School, Edinburgh, privately at Newlands Manse by his uncle, Aberdeen Univ,, and Univ. of Paris; M.A. (Aberdeen, 1890); licen. by Presb. of Fordoun; assistant at Forgue, Aberdeen (West Church), and St Andrews; elected in 1897 min. of Alyth, but declined in order to accept appointment as min. of the Scots Church, Paris; ord. there 25th Oct. 1897; ind. to Lyne and Megget 6th Dec. 1901; trans. and adm. 26th Sept. 1907; died 14th Nov. 1909. He marr. 7th Aug. 1906, Mary Lee, daugh. of John Davis Bowden, Church of Scotland chaplain, Dresden.

1910 GEORGE GORDON STOTT, born Montrose, 29th March 1868, son of George S. and Isabel Gordon Grant; educated at Craig Public School and St Andrews Univ.; M.A. (1890), B.D. (1893); licen. by Presb. of Perth 12th May 1893; Assistant Professor of Hebrew, St Andrews Univ. 1893-4; assistant at St Columba's, London, and South Leith; ord. to Dulwich, London, 15th Dec. 1898; trans. to Northesk 24th Sept. 1906; trans. and adm. 10th June 1910; Examiner for Degrees in Divinity, St Andrews Univ. Marr. 5th April 1899, Flora Corsar, daugh. of Mark Louden Anderson, D.D., min. of the Second Charge, St Andrews, and has issue-Richard Corsar Gordon, born 13th May 1900; Ian Fergusson Gordon, born 14th Jan. 1904; George Gordon, born 22nd Dec. 1909. Publications-Contributor to Hastings' Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels, and to One Vol. Bible Commentary.

ST COLUMA'S, BLACKHALL

(Chapel-of-Ease).

1900 WILLIAM BLACK STEVENSON, born  l0th May 1862, son of Robert Horne S., D.D., min. of St George's, Edinburgh; educated at Edinburgh Academy

and Univ. (M.A., 1884), and at Berlin and Bonn licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh May1888; assistant at Galashiels and St Bernard's, Edinburgh; ord. to Athelstaneford 17th Sept. 1891; res. Dec. 1899, in order to take charge of Blackhall Chapel of-Ease, Edinburgh, and adm. 5th Jan. 1900; res. 1912, on appointment as organising secretary of the Foreign Mission Committee. He marr. 5th June 1894, Jean Lilias, daugh. and co-heiress of Alexander James Dennistoun Brown, of Balloch Castle, Dumbartonshire, and has issue-Robert Dennistoun, born 7th June 1895; Meta Frances, born 26th Dec. 1897; Alexander James, born 15th July 1901. Publication-The St Columba Scrip (Edinburgh, 1904).

1913 CECIL TAYLOR THORNTON, born Edinburgh, 26th March 1886, son of George Boyd T. and Elizabeth King Galbraith; educated at Merchiston Castle School, and Univs. of Oxford (B.A. 1911) and Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. Of Edinburgh 1910; assistant at St Mark's, Dundee; ord. 12th Feb. 1913. He marr. 5th June 1912, Hilda Buchanan, daugh. of Robert and Elizabeth Batchelor.

CURRIE.

[Formerly Killeith. Belonged to the Archdeaconry of Lothian previous to the Reformation. The church was dedicated to St Mungo. Near by is St Mungo's Well.]

1568 ADAM LETHAM [LICHTON, LEIGHTON], adm. Nov. 1568. In 1574 Hailes and St Catherine .s of the Hopes were also under his care; said to be “in his old age” 1588 (Presb. Reg.); continued in 1591. His son Matthew succeeded to the charge.-[Reg. Min. and Assig., Test. Reg., Booke of the Kirk, Wodrow  Miscell.]

1591 MATTHEW LICHTON, son of preceding; educated at the Univ. of Edinburgh; DLA. (Aug. 1588). In 1590 he was " not of  the age " required by Act of Provincial Assembly of  Linlithgow, but was permitted " to serve with Mr Adam,