Dec. 1791; adm. Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the Univ. of Edinburgh (held in conjunction with his charge) 21st Jan. 1799; D.D. (Edinburgh, 27th March 1800); Moderator of the General Assembly 17th May 1810; died 11th June 1831. Sir Robert Christison describes him as "a powerfully built man of six feet four, with a smooth round face that never bore any expression but that of good humour and contentment." He marr. 28th May 1792, Anne (died 27th March 1852), daugh. of Robert Liston, min. of Aberdour, and had issue-Eliza, born 12th June 1793; James Hope Johnstone, captain, 92nd Highlanders, born 5th March 1795; Hugh Cree, writer, born 27th Jan. 1797; Ann, born 26th June 1798; Robert, min. of Strathdon, born 1st Oct. 1800; Mary, born 17th Oct. 1802 (marr. James Bryce, D.D., min. at Calcutta); Andrew Cree, born 14th July 1805; Alexander, born 18th Feb. 1808; William Hope, D.D., min. at Calcutta, born 5th Aug. 1811. Publications -'Three single Sermons (Edinburgh, 17981823); Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Acc., xx.).- [Grant's Univ., ii.]

1831 LEWIS HAY IRVING, son of John I., W.S., Edinburgh; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of Dunblane 26th Oct. 1830; pres. by John, Earl of Hopetoun, and ord. 16th Dec. 1831. Joined the Free Church; adm. to Falkirk Free Church 1843; died 28th June 1877. He marr. (1) 12th Sept. 1832, Isabella Carruthers, Balmaclellan, who died 16th Aug. 1836, and had issue-Margaret Isabella, born 27th July 1836 (marr. David Mathie Peebles, banker, Falkirk): (2) 6th Oct. 1840, Catherine (died 16th Oct. 1890), daugh. of John James Cadell of Grange and Banton, and had issue - Catherine Cadell, born 28th May 1842, died 8th May 1843; Isabella Moubray, born 17th Dec. 1843 (marr. 20th July 1866, Robert Craigie Bell, W.S.), died 21st June 1911; Agnes Hay, born 16th June 1845 (marr. 27th Jan. 1870, Surgeon-Major Julius John Wood, Indian Medical Service); John, M.A., min. of Free Church, Innellan, afterwards of Nice. born 20th June 1847, died 1904;

Christian Katherine, born 28th July 1849 (marr. 25th July 1878, Thomas Stewart Omond, barrister, London); Mary Chancellor, born 24th Oct. 1852. Publication Account of the Parish (New Stat. Acc., ii.).

1843 DAVID PLAYFAIR, born 12th Sept. 1815, fourth son of Patrick P., of Dalmarnock, Glasgow, and Jean, second daugh. of Principal Playfair, St Andrews; educated at Glasgow Academy, the Univs. of Glasgow, Edinburgh, St Andrews, and Trinity College, Cambridge; B.A. (Cantab. 1838); licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 11th Nov. 1841; pres. by the tutors of John Alexander, Earl of Hopetoun, July 1843; ord. 14th Sept. 1843; res. 9th Nov. 1880; died at Edinburgh, 11th Aug. 1886. He marr. 7th March 1854, Jane Kincaid (died 2nd Aug. 1897), daugh. of James Pitcairn, M.D., Edinburgh, and had issue-David Thomson, M.D., born 24th March 1855, died 1st Nov. 1904; Cecilia Pitcairn, born 7th Nov. 1856 (marr. 15th Sept. 1895, William Vassie, B.D., min. of Castleton); Patrick Macdonald, D.D., min. (First Charge) of St Andrew's Parish; Mary Jemima Jane (died in infancy); Alice Jane Macduff, born 9th July 1865. Publications-Sermon, Comfort in Christian Sorrow for the Christian Dead (Abercorn, 1859); Sermon, Parting Words of Counsel (Abercorn, 1880).

1881 JOHN HOWARD CRAWFORD, born  Edinburgh, 7th June 1854, son of William C., missionary in connection with St Thomas's Episcopal Church, Edinburgh; educated at Edinburgh Univ.; M.A. (1878); lecturer in Moray House Training College, Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 12th May 1880; ord. 12th May 1881; died unmarr. 16th Aug. 1900). Publications-A Circle of the Soul -Poems of the Spiritual Life (Edinburgh, 1889); An Atonement of East London (Edinburgh, 1890); Thoughts at Opening Manhood; The Unity of the British Empire; Calvinism Taught in the Thirtynine Articles; The Brotherhood of Mankind -A Study towards a Christan Philosophy of History (Edinburgh, 1895).