Unconverted Sinners, a sermon (Edinburgh 1733); Sermon after the Death of the Rev, James Craig, 1731; edited Craig's Sermons 2 vols. (Edinburgh, 1732).-[Presb. and Test. Reg.; Wodrow's Anal., iii., iv.; Wood's Mist. of Cramond; Grant's Univ., ii.; Brown's Gospel Truth.]

1738 ROBERT WALLACE, born 7th Jan.  1696, only son of Matthew W., min. of Kincardine-in-Menteith; educated at the Grammar School of Stirling and Univ. of Edinburgh, where he acted as assistant to James Gregory, Professor of Mathematics. He was one of the founders of the Rankenian Club in 1717; licen. by Presb. of Dunblane 31st July 1722; became min. of Moffat 29th Aug. 1723, and on 22nd Nov. 1733 was trans. to New Greyfriars, and to this charge 24th Sept. 1738. The Town Council obtained an interdict from the Lord Ordinary against the settlement, but as the city was considered only one parish, and the appointment to the different churches was fixed by the Presb., and the " matter was purely spiritual," he had no hesitation in accepting, and the opposition proceeded no farther. Wallace was Moderator of the General Assembly 12th May 1743; he was app. by the Commission 9th Nov. 1743 along with George Wishart to approach Parliament in connection with the Act providing for the widows and children of ministers and professors. They were successful, and received the thanks of the succeeding Assembly. He was a Dean of the Chapel Royal and Chaplain in Ordinary to George II. June 1744; D.D. (Edinburgh, 13th March 1759); died 29th July 1771. On the overthrow of the Walpole administration in 1742, he was entrusted for four years with the management of Church business, and consulted in the distribution of Crown Patronage, and so well did he discharge this duty that no instance occurred in which there was not a harmonious settlement. To his knowledge as a man of the world, were joined an acquaintance and zeal in mathematics which rendered him of essential service in assisting to make the calculations on which were

founded the annuities and provisions to the widows and children under the Act above noticed. He marr. 14th Oct. 1726, Helen (died 9th Feb. 1776), daugh. of George Turnbull, min. of Tynninghame, and had issue-Matthew, D.D., vicar of Tenterden, Kent; George, advocate; author of various legal and other works, born 1727, died 13th March 1805; Elizabeth-all of whom died unmarr. Publications-The Regard due to Divine Revelation, and its Pretences to it Considered, a sermon (London, 1731); Reply to a Letter Directed to the Minister of Moffat [by William Dudgeon] Concerning the Positive Institutions of Christianity (London, 1732); The Letter to the Learned Author of the Queries Unmasked (Edinburgh, 1737, anon.); Ignorance and Superstition, a Source of Violence and Cruelty, and in Particular the Cause of the Present Rebellion, a sermon (Edinburgh, 1746); A Sermon on James iii., 18 (Edinburgh, 1746); A Dissertation on the Numbers of Mankind - in Ancient and Modern Times (Edinburgh, 1753, anon.; new ed., Edinburgh, 1809), with Life of the Author (the book was translated into French under the supervision of Montesquieu); The Doctrine of Passive Obedience and Non-resistance Considered (Edinburgh, 1754); Characteristics of the Present Political State of Great Britain (Edinburgh, 1758); Various Prospects of  Mankind, Nature, and Providence (London, 1761). He left in MS. an Essay on Taste, which was prepared for the press by his son, but never published; and many other unpublished MSS. now in the library of Edinburgh University.-[Wodrow's Anal., iii., iv., and Corresp., iii.; Scots Mag, xxxiii., lxxi.; Carlyle's Autob., Mackenzie's Life of Home; Morren's Ann., i.; Dict. Nat. Biog.]

1772  WILLIAM GLOAG, son of Andrew G., min. of West Calder; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; ord. to Cockpen 28th April 1758; trans. to Lady Yester's, Edinburgh, 22nd Oct. 1767; D.D. (Edinburgh, 1st Feb. 1770); trans. and adm. 21st July 1772. He was app.