1746 WILLIAM BENNET, son of Andrew B., min. of Muiravonside; licen. by Presb. of Linlithgow 10th July 1734; ord. to Denny 22nd Aug. 1738; pres. by James, Earl of Abercorn, 27th Feb., trans. and adm. 14th May 1746; died unmarr. 14th July 1785, in 78th year.-[Carlyle's Autob.]

1786 WILLIAM BENNET, born 1st July 1763, son of Patrick B., min. of Polmont, and nephew of preceding; licen. by Presb. of Linlithgow 21st Dec. 1785; pres. by James, Earl of Abercorn ; ord. 12th May 1786; chaplain to the Eastern Regt. of Midlothian Volunteers; found drowned in the loch adjoining the manse, 15th April 1805. He marr. 18th Dec. 1787, Mary (died 9th Jan. 1798), daugh. of John Archibald, wine merchant, Leith, and had issue-Patrick of Whiteside, born 1st Feb. 1790, died 4th May 1825; Margaret, born 10th Aug. 1791 (marr. 23rd Aug. 1814, William Clark, W.S., one of the clerks of Session), died 18th July 1830; John, min. of Ettrick, born 10th Aug. 1793; Elizabeth, born 19th July 1795. Publications-Three single Sermons (Edinburgh, 1801-5); Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Acc., xviii.).

1805 JOHN THOMSON, born 1st Sept. 1778, youngest son of Thomas T., min. of Dailly; educated at Dailly school and Edinburgh and Glasgow Univs.; licen. by Presb. of Ayr 17th July 1799; ord. to Dailly 24th April 1800; pres. by John, Marquess of Abercorn, 29th Aug., trans. and adm. 14th Nov. 1805; died 28th Oct. 1840. Distinguished as a landscape painter (H.R.S.A.). He marr. (1) 7th July 1801, Isabella (died 18th April 1809),daugh .of John Ramsay, min. of Kirkmichael, and had issue Thomas, M.D., Mayor of Stratford-on Avon, born 17th May 1802, died at Leamington,17th Jan. 1873; John, capt. H.E.I.C.S., afterwards inspector of the Coast Guard at Cromarty, born 15th Nov. 1803, died 4th May 1870; Margaret, born 13th Oct. 1805, died 12th Feb. 1827; Mary, born 27th Nov. 1806, died in infancy; Isabella, born 1st April 1809 (marr. l0th Sept. 1833, Robert Scott Lauder, R.S.A.), died 27th Aug.

1869: (2) 6th Dec. 1813, Frances Ingram Spence (died 11th Oct. 1845), widow of Martin Dalrymple of Fordel and Cleland, and had issue-Francis, M.D., born 17th Oct. 1814, died at Peterhead, 4th Oct. 1858; Emily, born 4th Sept. 1816; Mary Helen, born 6th Dec. 1817, died 13th Jan. 1819; Henry Francis, coffee-planter, born 3rd Aug. 1819, died in Ceylon; Edward, born 19th April 1821, died in Australia. Publications-Contributions to the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia. - [Murray's Biog. Ann., Baird's Duddingston, and Memoir; M'Kay's The Scottish School of Painting.]

1841 JAMES MACFARLANE, born Waterbeck, 27th April 1808, third son of John M., min. of the Relief Church; educated at Glasgow Univ.; M.A. (1825); entered the Relief Hall in 1825, but joined the Church of Scotland before his course was finished; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 31st March 1830; pres. by Town Council of Stirling to the Third Charge, and ord. min. of the North Church 3rd May 1831; min. of Stockbridge Chapel-of-Ease (now St Bernard's) 18th Jan. 1832; trans. and adm. 18th May 1841; D.D. (Glasgow 1848); F.R.S.E., Moderator of the General Assembly 1865; died during his tenure of office 6th Feb. 1866. He marr. 15th July 1841, Agnes Jane, only surviving child of Alexander Goodsir, manager of the British Linen Co. Bank (who marr., secondly, April 1869, John Gunn, secretary, British Linen Bank, and died 17th May 1895), and had issue-Agnes Goodsir, born 26th May 1842 (marr. 28th Oct. 1873, John Adam Macfarlane, min. of Urray); Helen, born 24th July 1843 (marr. Robert K. D. Horne, min. of Corstorphine) ; Eliza, born 13th Nov. 1844 ; John, a soldier, born 7th Oct. 1845, died 4th May 1878; Mary, born 3rd Aug. 1847, died 2nd July 1850; Alexander Goodsir, born 5th July 1849, died 6th March 1897; James, a merchant, born 17th Feb. 1852, died 15th June 1880; William, a merchant, born 27th Aug. 1855; Malcolm David, a lawyer, born 31st May 1860, died 25th Sept. 1895. Publications-A Nations True Glory (Edinburgh, 1838); Three single Sermons