was erected on its site. Roxburgh Place Chapel was the meeting-place of the Convocation, 17th Nov. 1842, when of 465 present, 333 pledged themselves to secede if no other means could be taken.]

1833 JOHN JOHNSTON, born 1780, son of John J., Edinburgh; educated at  the Canongate Grammar School and Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A.; tutor in the families of Gordon of Cluny and Millar of Balmain; licen. by Relief Presb. 12th July 1807; ord. 14th July 1808; joined the Church of Scotland, and inducted 11th July 1833. Whilst preaching in the Middle Church, Perth, 1st Sept. of the same year, he was seized with illness, and died two days after. He marr. 4th Sept. 1812, Elizabeth (died 12th Jan. 1864), daugh. of John Home, land surveyor, Edinburgh, and had issue-Eliza (marr. 1848, Finlay Macpherson, min. of the Free Church, Larbert), died 1853; Charlotte (marr. David Purves, min. of Free Church, Maxwelltown), died 14th Sept. 1904; William Knox, died young; John, died 1st May 1820. Publications-The Gospel of the Kingdom to be Universally Preached, a sermon (London, 1818); Address to the Relief Congregation, Kelso (Edinburgh, 1829); Two Sermons preached in Roxburgh Place Church (Edinburgh, 1832); Sermons, with Memoir by Alexander Peterkin (Edinburgh, .1834).[Sermons; Acts of Ass., 1833; New Stat. Acc., xviii.; Knox Genealogy; Small's History of U.P. Congregations, i.]

1834 JAMES CHARLES FOWLER, M.A,; ord. 7th Aug. 1834; trans. to St Luke's, Glasgow, 16th March 1837.

1841 JAMES HAMILTON, born Paisley, 27th Nov. 1814, eldest son of William H.D.D., min. of Strathblane; educated privately and at Univs. of Glasgow and Edinburgh; M. A. (Glasgow 1835); licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 1839; assistant at St George's, Edinburgh, and Abernyte; ord. 21st Jan. 1841; inducted to the National Scottish Church, Regent Square, London, 22nd July 1841; D.D. (College of New Jersey, U.S.A., 1848);

F.L.S.; died 24th Nov. 1867. He marr. 1847, Anne Hovenden (died April 1886), daugh. of John Moore, Calcutta, and had issue-Anne, born 12th March 1849 (marr. 3rd July 1867, Sir Frederick Wills, Bart.), died 12th Feb. 1910; James, born 20th Oct. 1850, died 22nd Feb. 1911; Mary Isabella, born 5th Aug. 1853 (marr. Alexander Lawrence), died Aug. 1887; Christina Jean, born nth July 1856, died unmarr. Jan. 1885; Herbert William, born 1st Feb. 1861; Ada Frances, born 25th Feb. 1864, died unmarr. Jan. 1902. Publications-At the age of seventeen he compiled Lives of Richard Baxter, Jonathan Edwards, Thomas Boston, and others, for a Glasgow tract society, and in 1836 he wrote a short Memoir of his father and edited his posthumous works. His other publications include-Life in Earnest (1845); The Mount of Olives (1846); Memoir of Lady Colquhoun (1850); The Royal Preacher (1851); Memoir of Richard Williams (1854); Excelsior: Helps to Progress in Religion, Science, and Literature, 6 vols. (1854); Emblems from Eden (1856); Lessons from the Great Biography (1857); Our Christians' Classics (1857-9); Memoir of T. Wilson of Woodville (1859); A Morning beside the Lake of Galilee (1863); The Psalter and Hymn Book, three lectures (1865); Memoir of J. D. Burns (1869, posthumous). He edited the Presbyterian Messenger, and Evangelical Christendom (the organ of the Evangelical Alliance). He was a constant contributor to magazine literature, and the Botanical articles in Fairbairn's Biblical Dictionary were from his pen. A collected edition of his works, in 6 vols., appeared in 1869-73.[See Life by William Arnot, Hair's Regent Square, Dict. Nat. Biog.]

1842 ALEXANDER GREGORY, born Lossiemouth, 15th Sept. 1817, son of Thomas G. and Jean Duncan; educated at Elgin Academy and Univs. of Aberdeen and Edinburgh; M.A. (King's College, 1837); tutor at Altyre; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh; ord. 1842. Joined the Free Church; min. of Roxburgh Place Free Church 1843-52; of Anstruther Free