1880 WILLIAM HENRY GRAY, born Hawkstone, St Madoes, Perthshire, 13th Feb. 1825, son of Andrew G. and Janet Kettle; educated at Perth Seminary and St Andrews Univ.; -M.A. (April 1841); licen. by Presb. of Perth 24th June 1843; ord. St Paul's, Perth, 26th Nov. 1846; trans. to Lady Yester's, Edinburgh, 9th May 1850. D.D. (St Andrews 1869); trans. and adm. 3rd June 1880; convener of the Colonial Committee 1880-8; Moderator of the General Assembly 1888; res. 10th Nov. 1897; died in Edinburgh 6th Dec. 1908. He marr. 1st June 1855, Mary Smith, widow of William Richardson Dickson, of Alton, Roxburghshire, and daugh. of Robert Mitchell, merchant, one of the magistrates of Edinburgh, and had issue Andrew, born 14th Sept. 1856, who died in infancy. By her previous marriage Mrs Gray had a son and two daughters. Publications-3lor9ting Seed, Sermons for the Young (Edinburgh, 1861); Sermons on Disestablishment (Edinburgh, 1893); A Simple Catechism (Edinburgh, 1895); Jubilee Jottings (Edinburgh, 1896); Old Creeds and New Beliefs (Edinburgh, 1899); Our Divine Shepherd, a Book for Young People (London, 1903); The Children's Friend (Edinburgh, 1907).

1898 ROBERT BURNETT, born Memsie, Fraserburgh, 11th Jan. 1865, son of James B.; educated at Univs. of Aberdeen and Edinburgh; M.A (Aberdeen 1886), B. D. (Edinburgh 1890); licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 4th May 1890; ord. 21st July 1898. Marr. 25th July 1900, Mary Couper, youngest daugh. of James Morrison, Viewbank, Liberton.

CRAIGMILLAR

(Chapel-of-Ease).

[Opened as a chapel-of-ease to Liberton parish, 24th Sept. 1904.]

WILLIAM COWPER ROBERTSON, M.A. (afterwards of Cleish); DAVID CRAWFORD (afterwards of Bressay); and THOMAS FERGUSON, M.A., B.D., served as probationers from 1905 to 1910.]

1910 JAMES WATSON, B.A., formerly min. of the Free Church, Leith; adm. to the Church of Scotland by the General Assembly 1910; adm. 1st Sept. 1910 ; res. 30th Sept. 1912, on appointment as Missionary Professor of Economics in the Scottish Churches College, Calcutta.

1913 THOMAS GILLIESON, born 11th Dec. 1882, son of Archibald G., min. of Olrig; educated at Miller Institution School and Univ. of Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of Westminster, B.C., 1911; ord. to St Paul's, Vancouver, B.C.,1912; received into the Church of Scotland, and app. 1913; trans. to Cranshaws 1914. He marr. 15th April 1906, Flora, daugh. of David Shaw, and has issue--Margaret, born 22nd June 1907; Archibald, born 5th May 1909; John, born 25th April 1910; Marian, 1st July 1912. Publications-Editor of Westminster hall Magazine and Western Review (Vancouver, 1909-11).

EAST CALDER.

[East Calder, or Calder-Clere, so named from Rudolph de Clere, an early owner, to distinguish it from the adjacent Calder Comitis belonging to the Earl of Fife. The church was dedicated to St Cuthbert, and belonged to the Abbey of Kelso. The parishioners petitioned the Presb., 14th July 1641, to be disjoined from West (Mid) Calder and erected into a parish; united to Kirknewton by the Commissioners of Teinds, 23rd Jan. 1751.]

1582 SAMUEL WARDLAW, pres. to the vicarage by James VI. 13th July 1582; adm. 8th May 1583; continued in 1585.-[Reg. Assig.]

1594 JOHN SPOTTISWOOD, pres. by James VI. July 1594; dem. 1596; vide Mid Calder.

1596 JOHN BROWN, pres. to the vicarage by James VI. 31st Jan. 1596; died before 3rd March 1610.-[Reg. Assig.]

1610 ROBERT GILMOUR, pres. by James VI. 3rd March 1610; vide Mid Calder.