father, born 30th March 1817, died 19th April 1843. Publications-Remarks on an Article in the Edinburgh Review, in which the doctrine of Hume on Miracles is maintained (Edinburgh, 1815); The Penitent Sinner Directed to the Peace of the Gospel (Edinburgh, 1838); Account of the Parish (New. Stat. Acc., iii.)-[Presb. Beg., Edin. Grad., Acts of Ass., etc.]

1843 JOHN TAYLOR, born 20th Dec. 1805, son of Thomas T., D.D., min. of Tibbermore; educated at Perth and St Andrews Univ.; licen. by Presb. of Perth 26th Nov. 1828; ord. to Lachine, Montreal, 16th Oct. 1834; pres. by the Presb. jure devoluto, and adm. 22nd Dec. 1843; died 28th June 1865. He marr. 14th July 1835, Eleanor Kay (died 23rd Jan. 1868, aged 49), daugh. of the Rev. John Hick, and had issue-Mary Alison, born 13th May 1836; Eleanor Janet, born 8th Aug. 1837 (marr. Alexander T. Cosens, min. of Broughton); James Keith, C.E., born 17th Feb. 1840, died in Mexico 18th Aug. 1898; Horatio Carwell, born 13th April 1841, died 14th May 1861; Edward Wilgress, born 26th Jan. 1843, drowned off the Cape of Good Hope 13th March 1859; Jane, born 24th March 1845, died 10th March 1856; Thomas, born 17th Nov. 1846, died 1st March 1900; Alice Margaret, born 1st Aug. 1848, died 3rd Feb. 1849; John, born 23rd Aug. 1857, died 13th May 1880.

1866 ROBERT MEIKLEM, born Boghouse, New Kilpatrick, 12th Oct. 1833, son of John M., farmer, and Margaret Aitken; educated at New Kilpatrick and Renfrew Schools, and Univ. of Glasgow; B.A. (1856), M.A. (1857), B.D. (1867); licen. by Presb. of Dumbarton 2nd July 1861; assistant at St Bernard's, Edinburgh, Drymen, New Kilpatrick; ord. 3rd May 1866; died 28th Dec. 1873. He marr. 31st July 1866, Jeanie (died 11th Sept. 1913), daugh. of Adam Ramage Black, Partick, and Helen French, and had issue John Aitken, born 3rd Feb. 1871, died 8th Oct. 1902; Robert Adam Ramage, lieut. R.N., born 4th Feb. 1874 (posthumous). Publications -- Luther, a

lecture (Glasgow, 1871); Occasional Poems ("Autumn Thoughts").

1874 JOHN HUME TOD, M.A.; ord. 25th Sept. 1874; res. 23rd April 1877; [afterwards min. of Langside and Athelstaneford].

1877 WILLIAM MILNE, born Braehead, Kincardine ONeil, 25th Nov. 1851, son of John M., farmer, and Barbara Merchant; educated at Inchmarlo, and Torphins Parish School, Grammar School and Univ. of Aberdeen; M.A. (1872); licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen 11th May 1875; assistant at Maryculter and Newbattle; ord. 26th Sept. 1877; died 20th Feb. 1900. He marr. 23rd Dec. 1879, Alexandrina Helen, daugh. of William Lindsay, farmer, Stanhope, and Marion Vassie, and had issue - John Frederick Lindsay, M.A., LL.B., born 15th Oct. 1880; Marion Vassie, born 17th July 1882 (marr. 1909, Dr MacCallum, Preston); Jeannette Murray Lindsay, born 16th Nov. 1885; William Fisher Lindsay, born 4th Nov. 1894.

1900 MUNRO SOMERVILLE, born Kirkin tilloch, 26th Aug. 1873, son of Thomas S., D.D., min. of Blackfriars, Glasgow; educated at Glasgow High School and Univ.; M.A. (1895), B.D. (1898); licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 1898; assistant at Middlebie; ord. 24th Aug. 1900. Marr. 7th June 1911, Louisa Christina Cart. wright, daugh. of Thomas Wood, of St Mary's Mount, Peebles, sometime Provost of Portobello.

EDDLESTON.

[Previous to the Reformation the church, dedicated to St Barr, was a prebend of Glasgow. St Barr's fair was long held here on his day in Sept.]

1560 GEORGE HAY, son of William H., fifth of Talla and Linplum, and Janet Spottiswood, and brother of Andrew H., rector of Glasgow Univ.; was parson of this parish and of Rathven, which he held by a dispensation from the Pope, but conformed at the Reformation.