6th Aug. 1766, died 23rd April 1768; Douglas, born 1st July 1769; Johanna Russell, born 14th July 1771, died 15th March 1777. Publications - historical Account of the Bethunes of the Island of Skye (Edinburgh, 1778); Account of Lesmahagow (Weekly Mag., xx.); Account of the Parish (Archaeol. Scot., i.; abridged Sinclair's Stat. Ace., vi.). - [Test. Reg., Carlyle's Autob; Archaeol.. Scot., i.; MS. Geneal. of Bethunes, Tombst.; Morren's Ann., ii.; New Stat. Acc., i.]

1789 JAMES GRANT, M.A., born 1760, son of David G. of Limepots; licen. by Presb. of St Andrews 8th Sept. 1784; pres. by George III., and ord. 18th Aug. 1789; died unmarr. 8th June 1831. In the period of social and political danger which followed the French Revolution he was strongly and actively loyal, and chiefly instrumental in raising a local volunteer corps, in which he held a commission as lieutenant.-[ Tombst]

1832 WILLIAM PURDIE, born Carluke, 23rd Oct. 1805, son of Thomas P., farmer; educated at Glasgow Univ.; licen. by Presb. of Lanark 13th May 1829; tutor in the family of Lord Cockburn; pres. by William IV. in 1831; ord. 26th Jan. 1832; died unmarr.16th Nov. 1834.

1835 JAMES BEGG, born 31st Oct. 1808, son of James B., D.D., min. of New Monkland; educated at Glasgow Univ.; M.A. (1824); licen. by Presb. of Hamilton 10th June 1829; assistant at North Leith; ord. to Maxwelltown 18th May 1830; trans. to Lady Glenorchy's, Edinburgh, 23rd Dec. 1830; trans. to Middle Parish, Paisley, 25th Nov. 1831; trans. and adm, 25th June 1835. Joined the Free Church; min. of Newington Free Church, Edinburgh, 1843; D.D. (Lafayette College, Pennsylvania, 1847); Moderator of the Free Church General Assembly 1865; died 29th Sept. 1883. He marr. (1) 23rd Sept. 1835, Margaret (died 30th Sept. 1845), daugh. of Alexander Campbell, Sheriff substitute of Renfrewshire, and had issue -a son, born 27th Aug. 1836; a daugh., born 12th April 1838, died 16th Dec. 1840; a son, born 4th Nov. 1839; Margaret

Campbell, died 30th Sept. 1845; Fanny, born 20th April 1843: (2) 25th Nov. 1846, Maria (died 15th May 1892), daugh. of Ferdinand Faithfull, rector of Headley, Surrey, and had issue-Ferdinand Faithfull, stockbroker, London, born 27th Dec. 1847; William, actor [" Walter Bentley ''], born 7th Oct. 1849; Charles, born 2nd Oct. 1851; Henry, born 11th July 1853, died 26th Sept. 1854; Elizabeth, born 29th Aug. 1857; John, born 26th Jan. 1862; Frederick, born 20th May 1865, died 4th April 1870. Publications-Are you Prepared to Die? (Edinburgh, 1845); How to Promote and Preserve the True Beauty of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, 1849); Pauperism and the Poor Laws (Edinburgh, 1849); National Education for Scotland Practically Considered (Edinburgh, 1850); Social Reform (London, 1851); A Handbook of Popery (Edinburgh, 1852); Reform in the Free Church (Edinburgh, 1855); Scotland's Demands for Electoral Justice (Edinburgh, 1857); The Art of Preaching (Edinburgh, 1863); Account of the Parish (New Stat. A cc., i.); and many smaller works.-[Smith's Scott. Clergy, iii. ; Dict. Nat. Biog., Memoirs by Prof. Thomas Smith, D.D., 2 vols. (1885-8).]

1843 JOHN STEWART, born Greenock, 26th June 1793, sixth son of Roger S., shipowner, and Jean Stewart; educated at Glasgow Univ.; M.A. (1818); licen. by Presb. of Kintyre 21st Aug. 1821; ord. by Presb. of Glasgow 11th April 1823, as min. of Oldham Street Presbyterian Church, Liverpool; trans. to Sorn 11th March 1824; trans. and adm. 28th Sept. 18.13; died, Father of the Church, 27th Dec. 1879. He marr. 1st July 1824, Mary (died 23rd March 1872), daugh. of General Andrew Gammell, A.D.C. to Frederick, Duke of York, and had issue-James, MD., born 16th April 1825, died 18th April 1853; Harcourt, born 21st May 1827, a master mariner, drowned in the China seas, 1st Sept. 1854; Mary Gammell, born 18th April 1830 (marr. George Smyttan Davidson, min. of Kinfauns). Publication-A Letter on the Abolition of Tests in the Universities of Scotland (Glasgow, 1846).