1765 THOMAS SCOTT, son of Walter S., merchant, Leith; M.A. (Edinburgh, 18th March 1742; ord. to Cavers 17th April 1747; trans. to Second Charge 12th Nov. 1762; pres. by George III. 19th Sept., and adm. 26th Oct. 1765; died 16th July 1790, in 68th year. He marr. 15th Aug. 1750, Helen (died at Edinburgh, 13th March 1806), daugh. of John Balfour, and niece of James Balfour of Pilrig, and had issue-Walter, born 3rd May 1753; Martha Janet, born 29th Sept. 1756; John, surgeon, 10th Light Dragoons, born 14th May 1758, died 7th Sept. 1791; Thomas, min. of Newton, born 4th April 1764.

1790 ROBERT DICKSON, son of D. of Locherwoods; licen. by Presb. of Annan 4th Dec. 1782; ord. to Second Charge 17th July 1787; pres. by George III., trans. and adm. 29th Sept. 1790; D.D. (Edinburgh, 27th March 1800); nom. principal clerk of the General Assembly, in opposition to Andrew Duncan, min. of Ratho, 21st May 1807, but was defeated by a majority of 48; declined nomination to the Moderatorship 1812; died unmarr. 25th Jan. 1824.-[Scots Mag., xciii.]

1824 JAMES GRANT, pres. by George IV. 22nd March 1799; ord. 26th Aug. 1824; D.D. (Glasgow, April 1842); suspended (with nine others, by the General Assembly, 30th May 1842), for holding communion with the deposed ministers of Strathbogie; trans. to St Mary's, Edinburgh, 16th Nov. 1843.

1844 WILLIAM STEVENSON, D.D.; trans. from Arbroath 10th May 1844; res. 30th Oct. 1861, on admission as Professor of Church History, Edinburgh Univ.

1864 JAMES MITCHELL, born 5th Oct. 1830, son of James M., min. of Garvock, Kincardineshire; educated at Aberdeen Grammar School and Marischal College; M.A. (1850); licen. by Presb. of Fordoun 16th May 1854; assistant at St Enoch's, Glasgow; ord. Peterhead 23rd Aug. 1855; trans. and adm. 24th March 1864; D.D. (Aberdeen 1831);

Moderator of the General Assembly 1901; res. 30th Dec. 1903; died 21st Sept. 1911. He marr. (1) 7th Sept. 1859, Georgina (died 4th Nov. 1860), only daugh, of James Skelton of Sandforth, Newton, Sheriff-substitute of Aberdeen, and had issue-Georgina, born 4th Nov. 1860 (marr. Major-Gen. Edwin Loftus M'Causland: (2) 19th Dec. 1862, Catherine (died 2nd Jan. 1867), eldest daugh. of Rev. Charles Haycock of Pytchley House, Northamptonshire: (3) 18th Jan. 1875, Janet Stewart, daugh. of James Sceales, merchant, Leith. Publications The Church and the People; Rulers and Subjects; The Voluntary Question; The Revised Version; Faithfulness in Little Things; The Minister in the Manse, the Pulpit, and the Parish (12th ed.), translated into German and Chinese; Significant Etymology (Edinburgh, 1908).

1904 JOHN WHITE, M.A.; trans. from Shettleston 27th Sept. 1904; trans. to Barony, Glasgow, 7th June 1911.

1911 WILLIAM SWAN, born Greenock, 31st Dec. 1865, son of Andrew S. and Catherine Bowes M'Fadyen; educated at Greenock Academy, Glasgow High School and University; M.A. (1887), B.D. (1890); licen. by Presb. of Greenock May 1890; assistant at Larkhall; ord. to Toward Chapel-of-Ease June 1892; trans. to Old Kilpatrick 26th Sept. 1893; trans. and adm. 12th Dec. 1911. Marr. 22nd Aug. 189.1, Catherine, daugh. of James Orr, Brigend, Islay, and Anne Christie, and has issue-Anne Eila, born 20th Oct. 1895; Noel Patrick Andrew, born 23rd Dec. 1896; Catherine Alison, born 21st July 1898; Dorothy Mary, born 19th July 1900; William, born 3rd Sept. 1904.

SECOND CHARGE.

[An Act of Parliament was passed for the discontinuance of the Second Charge and for other church purposes, 21st July 1873, vide page 21-Abbey Church.]

1570  JOHN DURIE, trans. from Colinton; adm. May 1570; trans. to St Giles, Edinburgh, in 1574.-[Reg. Min., Melvill's Autob., Scott's Reformers; New Stat. Acc., ix.]