successor) by the Town Council in 1829. A minority of the patrons challenged the right to appoint a successor, but having beer found lawful, both by the Court of Session and House of Lords, he was adm. 11th Oct 1832; D.D. (Edinburgh, 29th May 1847) He declined nomination as Moderator of Assembly. He died 21st July 1866. He marr. 25th July 1817, Caroline Felicite Hepburn (died 21st July 1866, aged 77); second daugh. of Archibald Mitchelson of Middleton. Publications-Two single Sermons (Edinburgh, 1837-48); Preface to Newton's Letters.-[Kay's Portr., i.; New Scots Mag., ii.; Acts of Ass., 1830.]

TYNECASTLE (Q.S.).

[Church built in 1901; disjoined from St Cuthbert's and erected into a parish quoad sacra by decree of the Court of Teinds, 5th July 1912.]

1891 JAMES BELL NICOLL, born Forfar, 24th Feb. 1849, son of John N., of Belfield, and Elizabeth Bell; educated at Forfar Academy, Univs. of St Andrewsand Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of Forfar April 1884; assistant at Largo; ord. 17th May 1891. Marr. 4th Aug. 1891, Jessie, daugh. of James Thomson and Jane Mackenzie, and has issue-James; Jean; Elsie; Maria.

WEST COATES (Q.S.).

[Disjoined from St Cuthbert's and erected into a parish quoad sacra, 5th June 1871. A church was built in 1868-9, and opened in Jan. 1870.]

1872  ROBERT GIBB FORREST, born Mill of Sandhaven, Pitsligo, 11th July 1838, son of George F.; educated at Parish School, Fraserburgh, and Grammar School, Univ., and King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1858); licen. by Presb. of Deer 1863; assistant at Lonmay, 1863-5; ord. 27th April 1865 to New Pitsligo; trans. to Macduff  4th Sept. 1868; trans. and adm. 22nd Feb. 1872; D.D. (Aberdeen 1892); died 19th Aug. 1913. Marr. 15th Dec. 1868, Margaret (died 21st Sept. 1899),

daugh. of Rev. George Stephen, schoolhouse, Fordyce, Banffshire, and had issue Margaret, born 4th Dec. 1869; Elsie, B.Sc. (Load.), Lecturer in Mathematics, London, born 11th Aug. 1871; Annie, born 18th Dec. 1872, died 12th June 1892; George, C.A., Inverness, born 20th July 1874; Robert, estate office clerk, London, born 13th March 1876; Jane, born 11th May 1879 (marr. George Victor Dunnet, min. of Cockburnspath); Stephen, M.D., Alexandria, Egypt, born 27th July 1881. Publication Christ the Corner Stone (Edinburgh, 1914), posthumous.

1909 WILLIAM ANDREW KNOWLES,  born Kinnoull, 3rd March 1868, son- of William Duncan K., B.A., Congregational min. at Perth; educated at Perth Academy and Edinburgh Univ.; M.A. (1889) ; B. D. (1893); licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 10th May 1893; assistant at Barony, Glasgow, 1893-7; ord. to Kerse 2nd Sept. 1897; trans. and adm. (assistant and successor) 1st Oct. 1909.

ST BRIDE'S (Chapel-of-Ease).

[Begun in 1880 as a mission within the Dalry district of West Coates Parish. A church was built in 1901, at a cost of £6500. JAMES GILLAN, B.D. (afterwards of St Margaret's, Edinburgh), took charge from 1898 to 1904.]

1904 WILLIAM GEORGE ANDREWS, born Lishawara, 11th July 1868, son of Joseph A. and Margaret Wilson; educated at Banbridge Academy and Royal Univ. of Dublin; B.A. (1893); licen. by Presb. of Banbridge May 1895; assistant at Rutland Square Church, Dublin; adm. to the Church of Scotland 1903; acting chaplain at Aldershot; assistant at St Mary's, Dundee; ord. 4th May 1904.

WEST ST GILES, or

NEW NORTH CHURCH.

[There was a meeting-house in the Lawnmarket in 1692, to which a parish was allocated 25th March 1698, termed the New North, for whose accommodation