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1761 WILLIAM DALGLEISH, born Galloway, 1733; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 26th March 1760; pres. by William, Earl of March, 26th Nov. 1760; called 26th March 1761; ord. 2nd July 1761. A grass glebe having been designed to him, an action of reduction was brought on the ground that it had been feued out in small divisions to the inhabitants of the burgh on the eve of the Reformation. The action was dismissed 23rd .June 1784; D.D. (Edinburgh, 20th Nov. 1786); chaplain to the Peeblesshire Regiment of Volunteers; died 20th Sept. 1807. He marr. 7th July 1773, Jean (born 19th Sept. 1748, died at Edinburgh, 7th Sept. 1819), daugh. of William Gibson of Greenknowe. Publications-The True Sonship of Christ Investigated (London, 1776). [This work was animadverted on by the Rev. Adam Gib in An Antidote against a New Heresy; concerning the trite Sonship of Jesus Christ; as also an Appendix concerning tire Wonderful Theory of Animalcular Generation, as lately brought in by a Clergyrnan of the Church of Scotland. It was also attacked by the Rev. Michael Arthur, min. of the Secession congregation, Peebles, in The Scripture Doctrine of the Eternal Generation of Christ as the Son of God Vindicated, etc.] In reply, Dalgleish published The Self existence and Supreme Deity of Christ Defended (Edinburgh, 1777); Two single Sermons (Edinburgh, 1793, 1808); Sermons on the Chief Doctrines and Duties of the Christian Religion, 2 vols. (Edinburgh, 1799-1807); Religion, its Importance etc. (Edinburgh, 1801); Addresses and, Prayers (Edinburgh, 1804); Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Acc., xii.). - [Morrison's Digest; Sinclair's, xii., and New Stat. Acc., iii.; Pennecuik's Works; Chalmers's Caled., iii.; Dict. Nat. Biog.]

 

1808 JOHN LEE, M.A., M.D.; pres. by the Commissioner for William, Duke of Queensberry, 8th Dec. 1807; called 24th March, and adm. 7th April 1808; dem. on appointment as Professor of Divinity and Ecclesiastical History in St

Mary's College, St Andrews, 21st Oct. 1812. He became min. of the High Kirk, Edinburgh (q.v.), and Principal of the University.

 

1813 ROBERT BUCHANAN, born at Trean, Callander, 16th Feb. 1786, son of John B., farmer; educated at Univ. of Glasgow.; M.A. (1808); tutor in the family of Francis, Earl of Wemyss and March; licen. by Presb. of Haddington 20th Oct. 1812; pres. by the said Earl 31st March, and ord. 1st July 1813; res. on appointment as Prof. of Logic in the Univ. of Glasgow 6th Oct. 1824; Vice-Rector 1831-4; LL.D. (Glasgow 1869); died unmarr. at Ardfillayne, Dunoon, 2nd March 1873. Founder of the Buchanan Bursaries,- familiarly known as "Logic Bob." Publications- Wallace, a Tragedy (1856); fragments of the Table Round (1860); The Fore of Glentreuil, arid other Poems (1862); Tragic Dramas from Scottish History (1868); Canute's Birthday in Ireland, a Drama in Five Acts (1868). His tragedy, Wallace, was performed twice for a charitable object at the Prince's Theatre, Glasgow, in March 1862, the principal characters being personated by students of the divinity and arts classes. -[Dict. Nat. Biog.]

 

1825 JOHN ELLIOT, M.A. (Edinburgh, 13th March 1809); licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith 31st -March 1818; pres. by Francis, Earl of Wemyss and March; called 2 7th Jan., and or d. 3rd March 1825; died 28th April 1847. He marr.

28th Aug. 1828, Janet (died 30th May 1841, without issue), daugh. of Joseph Scott. Publication-Account of the Parish (New Stat. Acc., iii.).-[Tombst.]

 

1847 GEORGE HOPE [BARRINGTON] MONILAWS, born 1805, only child of Captain M., R.N., and Elizabeth, only daugh. of Admiral Lord Barrington; educated at Kirkpatrick-Fleming (of which parish his uncle was min.), and at Edinburgh Univ.; licen. by Presb. of Annan 6th July 1831; assistant at Alloa; ord. to Tulliallan 18th Aug. 1836; pres. by Francis,

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