1711  JAMES NASMYTH, born Hamilton, 1683; studied at the Univ. of Glasgow and at Leyden, under Witsius, Frigland, and Boerhaave; tutor to Basil Hamilton, and to James, fifth Duke of Hamilton; licen. by Presb. of Hamilton 23rd March 1708; called 2nd Aug., and ord. 13th Sept. 1711; nom. Moderator in the Assemblies 1739 and 1744, but not chosen; died Father of the Church 27th Nov. 1774. He marr. 25th April 1716, Marion (died 7th June 1782), daugh. of Patrick Young of Killiecantie, Linlithgow, and had issue-Alexander; Anne, died 9th March 1816; Patrick; James; Margaret; Sarah (marr. William Paton, min. of Eckford); Isabel (marr. Dr Parlane, Glasgow). -[Test. Reg., Reg. Gen. Ass.; Meekly Mag., xxvi.; Carlyle's Autob.]

1775 THOMAS ROBERTSON, licen. by Presb. of Lauder 3rd Jan. 1775; pres. by Neil, Earl of Rosebery, and ord. 26th Oct. 1775; F.R.S.E. (1784); D.D. (Edinburgh, 26th March 1792); one of His Majesty's Chaplains in Ordinary 1793; died at Edinburgh, 15th Nov. 1799. He marr. 14th Nov. 1775, Jane Jackson, in the parish of St John, Westminster, who died 18th Dec. 1808, and had issue-Margaret, born 12th Feb. 1777; John, born 18th Jan. 1778; Janet, born 10th Feb. 1779; Mary, born 13th Aug. 1782; Charles Hope, writer, Edinburgh, born 2nd Sept. 1785; William Findlay, lieutenant H.E.I.C.S., born 31st Dec. 1786. Publications-An Inquiry into the Fine Arts, i. (Edinburgh, 1784); History of Mary, Queen of Scots (Edinburgh, 1793); Two single Sermons (Edinburgh, 1784, 1799); "An Essay on the Character of Hamlet" (Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin., ii.); Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Acc., i.).-[Kay's Portr., ii.; Dict. Nat. Biog.]

1800 JAMES GREIG, M.A. (Edinburgh, 16th Nov. 1785); licen. by Presb. of Kirkcaldy 10th July 1793; pres. by Neil, Earl of Rosebery, and ord. 18th Sept. 1800. He became involved in a dispute with the schoolmaster of the parish, and, disobeying the authority of the Presb. thereanent, was

suspended in 1827. Refused to give up the keys of the church to those appointed to officiate. The case was referred to the General Assembly, who (28th May 1825) unanimously disapproved of his disobeying the injunctions of his Presb., and declared, with similar unanimity, " that it is the ecclesiastical right of the ministers of parishes to have free entrance to their churches, for the purpose of divine worship and religious instruction, and that during vacancies or suspensions this right is vested in the Presb. of the bounds." Died 17th March 1829, in his 60th year. he marr. 1st June 1801, Anne Russell, who died 14th Sept. 1822, and had issue Eleanor, born 31st Oct. 1802 (marr. John Sibbald, surgeon, Edinburgh); James Dundas, born 8th Feb. 1804; Ann, born 6th Sept. 1805 (marr. George Ferguson, Edinburgh Academy); Andrew, born l8th Jan. 1807; John, surgeon, Queensferry, born 13th Aug. 1808; Eliza Christian, boric 30th May 1810; Christian, born 13th Aug,. 1812 died 13th Oct. 1827; David, born 22nd Oct. 1815.-(Acts of Ass. Steven's High School.]

1829  JAMES SCOTT , Trans. from Torphichen; pres. by Arch. John, Earl of Rosebery, and adm. 10th Sept. 1829; trans. to Dirleton 14th Dec. 1843

1844 ROBERT HUGH MUIR, born 26th Feb. 1819, son of  William  M., D.D., min. of St Stephen's, Edinburgh; educated at Edinburgh Academy and Univ.; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 16th Oct. 1843; pres. by the tutors of John Alexander, Earl of Hopetoun, 13th Jail. 1844; ord. 21st March 1844; convener of the General Assembly's Committee on Intemperance; one of the founders of Morning Rays; convener of the Colonial Committee 1866-80; res. 8th Nov. 1889; died 11th May 1903. Marr. (1) 28th 8ept. 1869, Margaret Flora (died 25th Sept. 1883), daugh. of Colonel Win. MacDonald of Powderhall and Ormiston: (2) 5th Oct. 1892, Annie, daugh. of James Black, sole of James B. of Craigmaddie. Publications-Words that  Take Hold (Edinburgh,1896): Faith and False Science, (Edinburgh,1898)