Earl of Wemyss and March, 1847; called 8th July, and adm. 19th Aug. 1847; clerk of the Presb.; D.D. (Glasgow 1866); died27th Jan. 1870. He marr. 20th April 1837, Jane (died at Innerleithen, 3rd June 1878), daugh. of Andrew Macgeorge, solicitor, Glasgow, and had issue-Alexander, born 22nd Feb. 1838; Andrew Macgeorge, born 21st Aug. 1840; George, born 26th Dec. 1842; Elizabeth Jackson, born 14th Feb. 1845; Jane, born 24th June 1847, died 3rd Nov. 1852; Margaret Macgeorge, born 30th July 1849 (marr. Hugh Baird, Glasgow); Robert Macgeorge, born 8th March 1851, died 26th Sept. 1851; John Little, born 10th Aug. 1852; William Macgeorge, insurance manager, born 4th June 1857. Publications-A Catechism on Pauperism and the Poorhouse in Scotland (Edinburgh, 1845); Account of the Parish of Tulliallan (New Stat. Acc.).

1870 JOHN BELL LORRAINE, born Tinwald, 30th April 1844, son of Joseph Currie L., min. of Tinwald, afterwards of Caerlaverock; educated at Hutton Hall Academy, and St Andrews and Edinburgh Univs.; M.A. (St Andrews), B.D. (Edin.); licen. by Presb. of Dumfries 1867; assistant at Dalkeith and Peebles; pres, by the Earl of Wemyss and March 24th March 1870; called 22nd April, ord. 2nd June 1870; died 14th May 1893. He marr. 11th Oct. 1876, Sybella Richardson (died 25th Jan. 1894), daugh. of Wm. Blackwood, solicitor, Peebles, and had issue Joseph Edward Richardson, born 4th Nov. 1877; William Blackwood, born 18th Oct. 1879; Sybella Blackwood, born 23rd Oct. 1881; Mary Bell, born 27th Aug. 1884, died at New York 4th Jan. 1912.

1893 MATTHEW GARDNER, trans. from Mid-Calder; adm. 20th Sept. 1893; trans. to Hyndland, Glasgow, 1906.

1907 ALEXANDER MILLER MACLEAN, M.A., B.D.; trans. from Cramond; adm. 9th May 1907; trans. to Paisley Abbey (First Charge) 23rd Sept. 1910.

1911 THOMAS MARTIN, born Morningside, scone, 15th April 1856, son of Hugh M. and Ann Mitchell; educated at St Martin's Parish School and Univs. of Edinburgh and St Andrews; M.A. (Edinburgh 1880), B.D. (St Andrews 1883); licen. by Presb. of Perth June 1883; ord. to St Stephen's, Perth, 19th Sept. 1883; trans. to Forgan 20th Dec. 1884; trans. to Cramond 17th May 1890; trans. to St Mary's, Edinburgh, May 1896; trans. to Barony, Glasgow, 25th Oct. 1900; trans. and adm. 6th Jan. 1911; D.D. (St Andrews, 30th March 1905); convener of the Home Mission Committee 1910. Marr. 24th Dec. 1885, Christian Isabel, daugh. of Francis Robertson and Hannah Smith, and has issue-Hugh Forgan, M.A., Snell Exhibitioner, Oxford, born 25th Oct. 1886; Frances Margaret, M.A., born 14th Dec. 1888 (marr. John M. Hunter, min. of Abbotshall); Thomas, student of medicine, born 26th March 1891; Christian Isabel, born 23rd March 1895. Publication -Contribution to Anon-Churchgoing (Edinburgh, 1911).

SECOND CHARGE.

[Created in 1586 and abolished apparently in 1603.]

1586 ADAM DICKSON, reader at Eddleston 1574, and at Peebles 1576-86. He attended the Synod 12th Oct. 1586; trans. to Newlands 1589.-[Reg. Assig., Wodrow Miscell., Calderwood's Hist.]

1600 GAVIN MAKCALL, M.A.; adm. 15th Oct. 1600; trans. to Traquair 4th Aug. 1603.

ST0B0.

[The church of Stobo is of great antiquity, and was the plebania or motherchurch of nearly all the parish churches of Peeblesshire. It was dedicated to St Mungo, and previous to the Reformation was a prebend of Glasgow. Restored in 1863 at the expense of Sir G. Graham Montgomery of Stanhope, Bart.]

1560 JOHN COLQUHOUN, reader in 1560.