1821 HENRY GREY, M.A.; trans. from St Cuthbert's Chapel; pres. by the Town Council Oct. 1820; adm. 11th Jan. 1821; trans. to Bellevue (afterwards St Mary's) 13th Jan. 1835.

1825 ROBERT GORDON, D.D.; trans.  from Hope Park Chapel; pres. by the Town Council, and adm. 8th Sept. 1825 ; trans. to St Giles 9th Sept. 1830.

1831 JOHN BRUCE, trans. from Guthrie; pres. by the Town Council 1830; adm. (in the Methodist Chapel) 13th Jan. 1831; trans. to St Andrew's Church 12th Jan. 1837.

1837 CHARLES JOHN BROWN, born 1806, son of Alexander B., Lord Provost of Aberdeen, and Catharine Chalmers; educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen; licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen 22nd Dec. 1830; ord. to Anderston Chapel-of-Ease 21st July 183; pres. by the Town Council, trans. and adm. (in Brighton Street Chapel) 20th April 1837. Joined the Free Church; min. of Free New North, Edinburgh, 1843; D.D. (Princeton 1863); Moderator of Free Church General Assembly 1872; died 3rd July 1884. He marr. 28th Jan. 1834, Jane Bannatyne Wright, who died 12th Nov. 1895, and had issue-Alexander, born 2nd Jan. 1835; John Wright, born 19th Dec. 1836, died 23rd March 1863; Margaret Innes, born 28th Sept. 1837, died 15th June 1853; Catharine Chalmers, born 30th Sept. 1838, died 28th Feb. 1859; Charles John, born 14th May 1841; Ross, born 17th June 1845; David, born 16th Nov. 1846; Andrew Howden, born 31st March 1848; Robert Wright, born 14th Aug. 1850; Thomas Chalmers, born 10th May 1852, died 28th Jan. 1853; Jane Elizabeth, born 3rd April 1855 (marr. Dyson Weston, London). Publications - Church Establishments Defended, with Special Reference to the Church of Scotland (Glasgow, 1833); Rights of the Christian People in the Appointment of their Ministers (Edinburgh, 1839); Sermon

preached before the General Assembly of the Free Church (Edinburgh, 1844); State of Religion in the Land (London, 1844); Restraining of Spiritual Intercourse in Families (Edinburgh, 1855); Lectures II., on Protestantism (Glasgow, 1837), X., on the Revival of Religion (Glasgow, 1840), III., on the Conversion of the Jews (Edinburgh, 1832), and XI., before the Scottish Reformation Society (Edinburgh, 1851).

GILMERTON (Q.S.).

[The church was opened 20th April 1837. The district attached to it, all within the civil parish of Liberton, was by the Court of Teinds erected into a parish quoad sacra, 18th July 1860.]

1838 WALTER FAIRLIE, second son of Walter F., Dumbarton; educated at Univ. of Glasgow, where he matriculated in 1808; ord. by Presb. of Glasgow to Whitehaven lst Dec. 1819; adm. 16th Aug. 1838. Joined the Free Church; min. of Liberton Free Church 1843; died 25th Nov. 1856. He marr. 11th Feb. 1824, Sarah (died 12th Nov. 1858), daugh. of Adam Bittleston, Maryport. Publication - The Lawfulness and Stability of Councils in the Christian Church, a sermon (London, 1827).

[Between 1843 and 1860 the congregation was served by licentiates.]

1860 THOMAS FLEMING, born Avendale, fourth son of John F.; educated at Univ. of Glasgow; took charge of the church in 1853; ord. min. of the new parish 27th Dec. 1860; died unmarr. at Liberton Manse, 16th March 1862.

1862 PETER STEWART, born Dollar, 24th  May 1828, son of Alexander S. and Susau Cameron; educated at St Andrews Univ.; M.A.; ord. 21st Aug. 1862; died at Dollar, 4th Sept. 1873. He marr. 22nd Aug. 1871, Jane (died 15th March 1873), daugh. of William Glover,