1716; Grisell, born 1720. Publication Balm for the Mounded Spirit, 1719. He left in MS., Memorabiles temporum circzcmstantiae ac accidentia, qucedam notanda a Johanne Lukup notata.

1759  JAMES WATSON, born Closeburn,1723, son of John W.; educated at Glasgow Univ.; ord. to Torphichen 1751; pres. by Walter, Lord Torphichen; trans. and adm. 18th Oct. 1759; died unmarr. 12th Nov. 1772.

1773 JAMES DOBIE, licen. in Northumberland, and received by Presb. of Kelso, 5th Jan. 1773; pres. by the tutors of James, Lord Torphichen, and ord. 27th July 1773; trans. to Linlithgow 15th June 1792.

1792 JAMES WILSON, M.A.; pres. by James, Lord Torphichen, and adm. 20th Dec. 1792; trans. to Falkirk 2nd May 1794.

1795 JOHN SOMMERS, born in the parish of Hamilton, 1765, son of John S., farmer; educated at Glasgow Univ.; B.A. (1785), M.A, (1785); licen. by Presb. of Dumbarton 21st March 1791; pres. by James, Lord Torphichen, Oct. 1794; ord. 16th April 1795; D.D. (Glasgow, 15th May 1818); died 25th Sept. 1842. He marr. 16th Sept. 1811, Isabella Euphemia Hamilton (died 13th May 1821), second daugh. of Charles Donaldson of Calcutta, and had issue-John Charles, merchant in London; Charles; Euphemia, died 9th Sept. 1821; Bethia Hamilton; Henry William. Publications - Many articles in the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, of which he was a considerable proprietor, and editor of the last three volumes; Account of the Parish (New Stat. Acc., i.), also published privately (1838).

1843 WILLIAM WALKER, born Redburn, Torphichen, 4th April 1804, son of James W. and Jane Dale; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of Annan; pres. by James, Lord Torphichen, Nov. 1843, and ord. 14th Feb. 1843; died 2nd Nov. 1882. He marr. 29th.

Dec 1852, Anna (died 1st Aug. 1913), daugh. of George Campbell, Prospect House, Newton-Stewart, and had issue-Thomas Charles, M.D., Liverpool; George Alexander Campbell, merchant, Buenos Ayres; William, M.A., missionary of the Church of Scotland at Chamba, Panjab, India, and min. of St Leonard's, Ayr.

1883 MATTHEW GARDNER, ord. 24th April 1883; trans. to Peebles 20th Sept. 1893.

1894 DAVID JOHN MOIR PORTEOUS, M.A., B.D.; ord. 23rd March 1894; trans. to Port-Glasgow 6th June 1907.

1907 WILLIAM WEIR CLARK, born Larkhall, 8th March 7.875, son of William C. and Elizabeth Kirkwood; educated at Larkhall School and Univ. of Glasgow; M.A. (1903), B.D. (1906); licen. by Presb. of Hamilton 5th May 1904; assistant at Paisley Abbey; assistant garrison chaplain, Edinburgh, 1905-7; ord. 20th Sept. 1907. Marr. 8th Jan. 1908, Katherine Robertson, daugh. of Peter Dewar and Isobel Seggie, and has issue-William Arthur Weir, born 5th Dec. 1908.

WEST CALDER.

[Disjoined from Calder-Comitis, and erected in 1647. Disjoined from Presb. of Linlithgow, and annexed to the Presb. of Edinburgh, May 1884.]

1645 PATRICK SHIELDS [SHIELLS], M.A. (Glasgow 1638); ord. to Livingston 9th Dec. 1641; trans. and adm. 12th June 1645; was on the Commission of Assembly 1647; officiated at Mid-Calder in 1646-7; suspended by the Diocesan Synod in 1665, for non-conformity; died in 1668, aged about 50. He marr. (1) Isobel Sandilands, who died 7th March 1653, and had issue -James, born 1650: (2) Margaret, daugh. of James Readdie, schoolmaster at Dunfermline. By her he had Mary; Marjorie; James; Walter, served heir 27th Jan. 1670; Patrick; Elizabeth; Margaret.