1695 JOHN GILCHRIST, M.A.; called by the Kirk-session and delegates from the Incorporations 20th June, and ord. 11th Sept. 1695. He was one of forty four sent to supply the want of Presbyterian min. in the North (1696), of whom twenty two, it was agreed, should remain, if they received calls; trans. to Alves 16th May 1697.-[Acts of Ass., 1695, 1697.]

1700 JAMES DICKSON, M.A.; called 23rd April, and ord. 16th July 1700; trans. to Markinch 23rd Jan. 1712.

1712 WILLIAM BROWN, M.A.; called 11th April, and ord. 25th July 1712. He scrupled to take the Oath of Abjuration same year, and was trans. to Lady Yester's, Edinburgh, 19th Jan. 1721.

1721 JAMES STEVENSON, M.A.; called 20th April, and ord. 17th Aug. 1721. He had no sermon at the opening of Synod, 30th April 1745, for fear of the rebels, but was re-elected Moderator, and had the honour of signing an address to the King. Trans. to New Greyfriars, Edinburgh, 20th June 1745.-[Act Rect. Univ. St And., Scoonie Sess. Reg.]

1746 ROBERT WALKER, trans. from Straiton; called 15th May, and adm. 20th Nov. 1746; trans. to St Giles, Edinburgh, 11th Oct. 1754.[Kay's Portr., i.; Sermons, iii.]

1755 ALEXANDER STUART, pres. by George II. and by the Kirk-session and Incorporation of Shipmasters, and ord. 10th July 1755; trans. to St Cuthbert's 10th June 1762.

1762 THOMAS SCOTT, M.A.; trans. from Cavers; pres. by the Kirk-session, etc., 9th Aug., and adm. 12th Nov. 1762; trans. to First Charge 26th Oct. 1765.

1766  HENRY HUNTER, born 25th Aug. 1741, fifth son of David H. and Agnes H., Culross; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; tutor to Claude Irvine Boswell, later Lord Balmuto, and

in the family of Archibald, Earl of Dundonald; licen. by Presb. of Dunfermline 2nd May 1764, assistant to William Arthur, First Charge, for some months before his death (Home Office Cal., 1760-5, No. 1908); pres. by the Magistrates, etc., in 1766; - ord. 9th Jan. 1766; dem. (on receiving a call to the Scots Church, London-Wall), 31st July, and adm. there 11th Aug. 1771; D.D. (Edinburgh, soon after); Secretary to the Board of the Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge, 5th Aug. 1790; died 27th Oct. 1802, and interred in Bunhill Fields. He marr. 21st May 1766, Margaret (died 25th July 1803), daugh. of Thomas Charters, min. of Inverkeithing, and had issue-David, born 27th Feb. 1767, died 2nd Nov. 1767; Samuel, born 11th May 1768, and others, most of whom died young. Publications-Thirteen single Sermons (London, 1774-98); Sacred Biography, 6 vols. (London, 1783-92; 8th ed., 1820); Sermon V. (Scotch Preacher, iii.; Edinburgh, 1789); A Brief History of the Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge (London, 1795); Sermons, 2 vols. (London, 1795); A History of London and its Environs (London, 1796); Charge at the Ordination of William Nicol (Steven's Sermons, London, 1796); Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity (begun by John Fell; London, 1798); Sermons, and other Miscellaneous Pieces, 2 vols. (London, 1804). Translated from the French-Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy, 5 vols. (London, 1789-98); Studies of Nature, by St Pierre, 5 vols. (London, 1796-7); Sermons, by Saurin (vol. vi.; London, 1796); Travels in Egypt, by Sonnini de Manencourt, 3 vols. (London, 1799); Life of Catherine II., Empress of Russia, by Castera, 2 vols. (1800); and from the German-Letters to a German Princess, by Euler, 2 vols. (London, 1795; new ed., 1846).-[Sermons and Misc. Pieces, i.; Wilson's Diss. Churches, Load.; Dict. Nat. Biog.]

1773 JOHN LOGAN, born in 1748, at Soutra, Midlothian, was son of George L., farmer, and Janet, daugh. of John Waterston or Weatherston, Stow. He