Nov. 1754, W.S. apprentice 1770; Janet, born 27th Oct. 1758; Isabel, born 5th April 1761; James, surgeon, Edinburgh, born 23rd Jan. 1766; Sir Alexander, K.C.B., R.E., Inspector-General of Fortifications, born 23rd Jan. 1766, died 1832; William, D.D., min. of Aberdour, born 4th April 1770; Janet (secunda). Publications Several scientific papers in the Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond., "A New Method of Measuring the Velocity of the Wind," etc.; " Map of the North Coast of Britain, from the Raw Stoir of Assynt to Wick, in Caithness, with the Harbours and Rocks, and an Account of the Tides in the Pentland Firth, 1744 " (Trans. Philosoph. Soc., Edin.).-[Morrison's Digest; Nimmo's Stirlingsh., i.; Chalmers's Caled., ii.; New Stat. Acc., i.; Dict. Nat. Biog.]

1786 WILLIAM CAMERON, born Lochaber, 1751; studied at Marischal College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1770); pres. by Francis, Duke of Buccleuch, and ord. 17th Aug. 1786; died 17th Nov. 1811. A poet of no inconsiderable genius, he composed two (xiv., xvii.) and revised at least thirty-three of the Paraphrases and two of the Hymns used in the devotional service of the Church. He marr. 15th Sept. 1788, Agnes (born 1764, died 16th March 1837), daugh. of James Montgomerie and Agnes Hunter, Irvine, and had issue-James, born 26th Feb., died 1st Nov. 1790; Robert, accountant, born 1st June 1793, died 28th Oct. 1829; William, apothecary, born 19th Aug. 1795; Mary, born 6th April 1797 (marr. 15th Nov. 1816, Dr Zekariah Sillar, Irvine), died 1883; George Duncan, born 11th Oct. 1798, died 24th Oct. 1829; Thomas MacKnight, born 22nd March 1800; Margaret, born 4th Feb. 1802, died 2nd April 1803; Helen, born 31st March 1804 (marr. Alexander Christison, min. of Foulden); Catherine, born 15th May 1806, died 31st May 1810; Francis; Douglas. Publications-Poems on Various Subjects (Edinburgh, 1781, anon.); The Abuse of Civil and Religious Liberty, a sermon (Edinburgh, 1793); Ode on Lochiel's Birth Day (1796); A Review of the French Revolution (Edinburgh, 1802); Poems on Several Occasions, posthumous

 (Edinburgh, 1813); Paraphrases of Sacred Scripture, used in the Church of Scotland, xiv., xvii.; Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Acc., ix.).-[Forbes' Life of Beattie, i.; New Scots Mag., ii.; Rogers' Scottish Minstrel; New Stat. Acc., i.; Julian's Diet. of Hymnology, Dict. Nat. Biog.]

1812 ALEXANDER LOCKHART SIMPSON, born April 1785; a student at the Selkirk Hall of the Secession Church under Professor Lawson in 1803. Joined the Church of Scotland, and was licen. by Presb. of Kirkcaldy 17th Jan. 1810; pres. by George, Earl of Morton, 27th April, and ord. 22nd Oct. 1812; clerk of the Presb. of Edinburgh; joint clerk depute to the General Assembly 22nd May 1828; D.D. (Edinburgh, 20th March 1836); convener of the Assembly's Committee on Home Missions 29th May 1843; Moderator of the General Assembly 1849; principal clerk to the General Assembly 19th May 1859; died unmarr. 15th Dec. 1861. Publications -Letter to the Lord Provost of Edinburgh on the Sent Rents of the City Churches (Edinburgh, 1834); Statement in Reference to a Division in the General Assembly's Non - Intrusion Committee (Edinburgh, 1842); Remarks on the Memorial Presented to Her Majesty’s Government by a Committee of the Free Church, Relative to the quoad sacra Churches or Chapels in Connection with the Church of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1848); Account of the Parish (New Stat. Acc., i.).-[Report on Ch. Patronage; New Stat. Acc., i.]

1862 HENRY WALLIS SMITH, born Glasgow, 11th Nov. 1829, son of William S. of Carbeth-Guthrie, Lord Provost of Glasgow, and Sarah Wallis, daugh. of Henry Wallis, Marysborough, Co. Cork; educated privately and at Edinburgh Univ.; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 1854; assistant at New Kilpatrick; ord. to Durisdeer 10th May 1855; trans. And adm. 19th June 1862; D.D. (Edinburgh 1882); convener of the Jewish Mission Scheme 1875-85; Lecturer on Pastoral Theology 1878; died 12th Nov. 1885. He