27th June 1739. The Caledonian Mercury, 1739, calls him "a serious, honest, and worthy pastor, one of the most popular preachers of the time. He had six children, one being posthumous. Three years after his death appeared: Help to Patience under Affliction, in a poem written upon occasion of the late accidental death of a worthy venerable gentleman very much lamented (Edinburgh, 1742).-[Scots Mag., i.; Diary of a Senator of the College of Justice.]

1740 DAVID MOUBRAY, called 17th July; ord. 25th Sept. 1740; trans. to Liberton 28th May 1751.

1721 JAMES CRAIG, born Innerwick,; 1721 one of the masters in Heriot's Hospital 4th June 1739; licen. by Presb. of Dunbar 1st Sept. 1742; ord. 9th April 1752; app. Presb. clerk 31st Jan. 1753; died 24th June 1792. He marr. 11th Sept. 1744, Mary Buntine or Bontein, a quakeress with whom  he  had eloped, who died 5th June 1805, and had issue-Ann, born 20th April 1746 (marr. 24th Jan. 1781, John Bird of Cresfinhall, Norfolk, Who was buried at Currie).-[Steven's Mem. of Heriot, Carlyle's Autob.; New Stat. Acc., i.; Grant's Old and New Edin., ii., 224.]

1793 JAMES DICK, tutor in the family of Admiral Duncan; pres. by the Magistrates and Town Council of Edinburgh Aug. 1792; ord. 21st March 1793; died 12th Dec. 1815, in his 52nd year. He marr. 3rd June 1796, Elizabeth Lawrie, who died at Edinburgh 15th Feb. 1829.-[Tombst.]

1816 JOHN SOMERVILLE, born Dalmeny 1774; in agricultural employment till he met with an accident which injured his spine. He then entered the Univ. of Edinburgh, and distinguished himself by his proficiency in classical knowledge; was one of the masters in Heriot's Hospital 11th Nov. 1801; and House Governor 6th Sept. 1805, where “by a happy mixture of severity and gentleness, he came to be respected and loved by his numerous pupils beyond any former example." He was licen. by Presb. of Linlithgow 25th July

1809; pres. by the Magistrates and Town Council of Edinburgh, and ord. 20th Dec. 1815; M.A. (Edinburgh, 31st May 1816); D.D. (St Andrews, 13th April 1833); died unmarr. 7th June 1837. He was the inventor of several articles for use in curling - the, justice, the iron tee, the counter, and the crampits. The death of one of his congregation by the accidental discharge of a firelock led him to an ingenious contrivance for the prevention of similar accidents, for which he obtained patent, 4th Nov. 1824. He preached the sermon at the laying of the foundation stone of the National Monument on the Calton Hill, Edinburgh. Publications- Speech in the General Assembly on the Cowgate Chapel (Edinburgh, 1818); Presentation of the Rev. Dr M’Farlane to the High Church, Glasgow, Vindicated (Edinburgh,1824); Substance of a Speech in the Synod of Glasgow and  Ayr on Pluralities (Edinburgh, 1825); On the Methods of Preventing the Accidental Discharge of Fire-Arms (Edinburgh, 1825); Directions for the Use of the Safety Gun (Edinburgh, 1826), with Attestations in its favour (Edinburgh, 1827); Sermon on Cruelty to Animals, preached in the High Kirk, 1827; Essay on the Safety Gun (Edinburgh, 1828) 1828); The Duty of Relieving Strangers in Distress (Edinburgh, 1834); Essay on the Construction, Advantages, and Mode of Using Dr Somerville's Patent Safety Gun (Edinburgh, 1835); Sermon XIII. (Gillan's Scott. Pulpit); Two Songs (Lit. and Stat. Mag., ii.).-[Steven's Mem. of Heriot, Williamson's Fun. Serm. Taylor's Curling.]

1837 ROBERT JAMIESON, trans. from Westruther; pres. by the Magistrates and Town Council of Edinburgh, and adm. 14th Dec. 1837; trans. to St Paul's, Glasgow, 14th March 1844.

1844 THOMAS BARCLAY, born 14th June 1792, son of James B., min. of Unst; educated at home, and at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (28th March 1812); teacher of elocution at Aberdeen; from 1818 to 1822 he was a Parliamentary reporter for the Times in London; licen.