by Presb. of Lerwick 27th June 1821; ord. to Dunrossness 12th Sept. 1822; trans. to Lerwick 13th Dec. 1827; clerk of the Synod of Shetland 27th April 1831; trans. to Peterculter 24th Aug. 1843; trans. and adm. 11th July 1844; D.D. (King's College, Aberdeen, 10th Feb. 1849); Principal of Glasgow University 13th Feb. 1858; died 23rd Feb. 1873. He marr. 21st Sept. 1820, Mary (died 18th Jan. 1881), daugh. of Captain Charles Adamson of Kirkhill, and had issue-Archibald, born 23rd Oct. 1821, drowned in China 9th April 1850; Elizabeth Mitchell, born 8th April 1823 (marr. 7th Oct. 1851, William Alexander Peterkin, general superintendent, Board of Supervision), died 1st April 1901; Charles Frederick, born 31st Dec. 1825; John, born 17th May 1827; Ursula Euphemia, born 5th April 1829, died 5th Dec. 1831; Bruce, M.D., born 14th Feb. 1833; Jean Adamson, born 31st Oct. 1835, died unmarr.; Mary Caroline, born 7th July 1837; Thomas, born 26th Feb. 1841. Publications-A Speech delivered in the Presbytery of Edinburgh, 25th March 1857, against the Transmission of an Overture condemning the System of Government Education in India; "Charity, the Characteristic of Christianity " (Church of Scotland Pulpit, 1845); "Explanation of Inscription on the Chambers of the Maes-Howe" (Collectanea Archoeologia, vol. ii.) [sec Wilson's Prehistoric Annals, ii., 284; Caird's Memorial Sermon, Sir Henry Holland's Recollections, Dict. Nat. Biog.]

1859 JAMES LANGWILL, born Greenock, 2nd April 1824, third son of Archibald L., H.M. Customs, and Rosina Watson; educated at Greenock Public School and Glasgow and Edinburgh Univs.; entered the Relief Theological Hall 1844; joined the Church of Scotland; licen. by Presb. of Greenock 1850; assistant at Currie; ord. to Legerwood 8th Sept. 1853; trans. and adm. 21st Jan. 1859; Presbytery clerk 1872; D.D. (Glasgow 1888); died 2nd June 1898. He marr. 2nd April 1856, Anne Adair (died 17th July 1908), daugh. of Robert Balfour Graham, D.D., min. of North Berwick, and had issue-Archibald, C.A., born 14th  June 1857; Robert Balfour, Royal Bank of Scotland, born 30th Sept. 1858;

James, born 22nd Aug. 1860, died 25th Feb. 1872; Mary, born 13th Jan. 1862, died 26th April 1880; William, M.A., student of medicine, born 28th Feb. 1865, died 16th June 1887; Hamilton Graham, M.D., born 24th April 1867.

1898 DAVID CALDWELL STEWART, born  Ochiltree, 25th Sept. 1860; educated at Ochiltree Parish School, Normal Training College, Glasgow, and Edinburgh Univ.; M.A. (1891); licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 1894; assistant at St Cuthbert's and Lady Glenorchy's, Edinburgh; ord. 25th Nov. 1898. Marr. 7th Feb. 1899, Annie (died 10th July 1902), daugh. of Hugh Morton, Barnockholm, Ochiltree, and had issue - Quintin Ridgley, born 11th Aug. 1900; Annie Morton, born 30th June 1902.

DUDDINGSTON.

[The church previous to the Reformation belonged to the Abbey of Kelso.]

1560 WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, styled vicar.

1564 JOHN BRAND, min. of Holyrood, had the oversight for some years, with the addition of the church in the Castle of Edinburgh.-[Reg. Assig.]

1574 NINIAN HAMILTON (Reg. of Deeds, xxi.), a prebendary of St Giles as far back as 1542, and in 1553 and 1556. He is called "Exhorter" in 1576, and held office till the appointment of a minister in 1588, in which year he probably died.-[Reg. Min.]

1588 CHARLES LUMSDEN (primas), son of Andrew L., tailor, burgess of Edinburgh, and Agnes Cor (G. R. Inhib., 2nd Series, viii., 77; Prot. Bk., John Hay, iv., 21); adm. burgess of Edinburgh in right of his father, 14th Dec. 1614; M. A.; regent in the Univ. of Edinburgh 1587; pres. by James VI. in 1611, and 30th Oct. same year had 50 merks allowed by the Town Council of Edinburgh, "for his paynes and travell in examination of the