Edin. Clergy; Acts of Ass., 1802; Steven's High School; Kay's Portr. ii.]

1804 JAMES ROBERTSON, licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 2nd May 1781; ord. assistant at St Ninians 13th Aug. 1783; adm. to Gargunnock 12th July 1787; pres. by the Magistrates, etc., and trans. and adm. 13th Dec. 1804; D.D. (Edinburgh, 9th Dec. 1805); died at Balloan, Perthshire, 25th Aug. 1832, in 75th year. He marr. (1) 24th Sept. 1787, Ann Walker, who died 18th Oct. 1806, and had issue- Campbell, born 11th Sept. 1788, died 7th Jan. 1807; John Thomas, merchant, Leith, born 20th April 1793, died 17th April 1865: (2) 25th Feb. 1808, Alison (died 10th June 1858), daugh. of William Jamieson, Portobello, and had issue-Christian, died 3rd Dec. 1809. Publications-The Duty of Contending Earnestly for the Faith once delivered to the Saints, a sermon (Edinburgh, 1811); Account of Gargunnock (Sinclair's Stat. Acc., xviii.).- [Tombst. Kay's Portr.]

1833 DAVID THORBURN, born 31st Aug.  1805, son of William T., merchant, Leith, and Marion Marshall; educated at Leith High School, Edinburgh High School, and Univ.; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 27th July 1831; assistant to preceding; pres. Nov. 1832; ord. 14th March 1833; M.A. (Edinburgh, 30th March 1833). Joined the Free Church; min. of South Leith Free Church 1843; D.D. (Edinburgh 1885); died 22nd Aug. 1893. He marr. 12th Dec. 1843, Jane (born 25th June 1809, died 10th June 1874), daugh. of John Hay and Jane Pasley, and had issue William David, advocate, born 20th Feb. 1846, died 19th Feb. 1888; John Hay, born 9th Jan. 1848, general secretary, Free Church of Scotland, 1900-8; Jane Pasley Hay, born 2nd April 1850 (marr. J. J. Graham Brown, M.D.), died 1891. Publications-The Divine Origin and Perpetual and Universal Obligation of Tithes (Edinburgh, 1841); The Constitution of the Deacon's Court (Edinburgh, 1847); The Divinely-Prescribed Method for the Support of the Clergy (Edinburgh, 1847);

The Sustentation Fund of the Free Church (Edinburgh, 1852); Historical Review of the Legislation of the Free Church on the Sustentation Fund (Edinburgh, 1855); Supplemental Review on the Same (Edinburgh, 1855); Memorandum Relative to the Ter-Centenary of the Reformation in Scotland (Edinburgh, 1860); How to get rid of Parliamentary Grants to Rome (Edinburgh, 1860); Suggestions Relative to the Formation of a National Association for Scotland (Edinburgh, 1863); The Endowment of the Universities of Scotland an Object of National Importance (1864). - [Macfarlan’s Leith Clergy, Campbell Irons's Leith and its Antiquities, Family Papers.]

1844 HENRY DUFF, born Leslie, Fife, 5th July 1807, son of Peter D., Walkerston Flag Mill, and Anne Russell; educated at Leslie and Dunfermline, Univs. of St Andrews and Edinburgh; English master (1833), and latterly head- master of the Trades' House School, Glasgow; one of the originators of Queen's College, Glasgow; ord. 15th Feb. 1844; clerk to Presb. of Edinburgh 1845; died 12th June 1872, when the Second Charge ended. He marr. 11th July 1843, Margaret (died 19th Aug. 1894), daugh. of Robert Dunlop Mather, merchant, Glasgow, and bad issue-Mary Anne, born 17th April 1844 (marr. 11th Aug. 1864, Alexander Latta, solicitor); Henry John, born 1st April 1847 (deceased); Robert James, born 11th Nov. 1851; Alexander, born 2nd June 1854. Publications -Editor of The Literary Museum and Critical Review (Glasgow, 1832); editor of The Scottish Pulpit (1832); various papers to The Republic of Letters (Glasgow), and The Covenanter (Belfast).

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1901  GEORGE JACK, born Monquhitter, Aberdeenshire, 9th Feb. 1865, son of Alexander J. and Helen Legge; educated at Old Grammar School and