1783 EBENEZER MARSHAL, Hcen. by  Presb. of Edinburgh 30th Oct. 1776; ord. by them 3rd April 1782, as chaplain to a Scots regiment in the Dutch service; pres. by Archibald Cockburn of Cockpen 22nd Nov. 1782; adm. 21st Jan. 1783; died 19th May 1813. He marr. 29th Dec. 1784, Christian Goodsman, who died 13th Aug. 1824, and had issue—Mary, born 11th Oct. 1785; William, born 25th Aug. 1787, died 15th May 1788; Janet, born 23rd Jan. 1789, died 19th April 1810; John, born 2nd Sept. 1790; Ebenezer, born 6th June 1792; Robert, born 1st Aug. 1794, died 20th July 1800; Christian, born 30th Aug. 1796; Archibald, accountant, Edinburgh, born 3rd Jan. 1799; Susan Gloag, born 22nd April 1801; William, born 6th Dec. 1803; Anne, born 7th Aug. 1807. Publications—History of the Union of Scotland and England (Edinburgh, 1799); Abridgement of the Acts of Parliament relating to the Church of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1799); Treatise on the British Constitution (Edinburgh, 1812); Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Acc., ii.).— [Dict. Nat. Biog.]

1814 JAMES GRIERSON, born at Airds, Kells, 31st Jan. 1768, schoolmaster of Balmaclellan 4th Dec. 1788; tutor to Sir David Moncreiffe of Moncreiffe, Bart., and afterwards in the family of Colonel Macpherson at Blairgowrie; educated at the Univs. of Edinburgh and St Andrews; licen. by Presb. of Meigle 15th Oct. 1800; M.D. (Edinburgh, 12th Sept. 1810); pres. by George, Earl of Dalhousie, 13th Sept. 1813, the preferment being written on the field of Echlar; ord. 29th April 1814; died 12th March 1844. He marr. 1st April 1817, Janet Sinclair, who died 13th Jan. 1863.   Publications — Delineations of St Andrews (Edinburgh, 1807); The Translation of Enoch and the Law of the Gospel, two discourses (Edinburgh, 1831); contributed to Thomson's Ann. of Philosophy—" Mineralogical Observations made in the Highlands," "On Transition Rocks," "Mineralogical Observations in Galloway," "Notes of a Mineralogical Excursion to the Giant's Causeway "; to the Wemerian Nat. Hist. Society—"General Observations on Geology and Geognosy,

and the Nature of these Studies," "Observations on the Natural History and Habits of the Mole"; and to the Edinburgh Encyclopedia, "Boerhaave," and other articles.— [Kirkcudb. Presb. Keg.]

1833 THOMAS PITCAIRN, born Edinburgh, 5th Feb. 1800, son of Alexander P., merchant, Leith, and Jane Trotter; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 26th March 1828; assistant at Erskine and at Perth; pres. by George, Earl of Dalhousie, and ord. 3rd May 1833; Synod clerk 3rd May 1836. Joined the Free Church; min. of the Free Church at Bonnyrigg 1843; principal clerk of the Free General Assembly; died 21st Dec. 1854. He marr. 7th June 1836, his cousin, Ann Hay (died 28th April 1862), daugh. of Young Trotter of Cruicksfield, and had issue—Alexander Young, W.S., born 5th April 1837; Thomas, died in infancy; Jane Cranstoun, born l7th Jan. 1840, died 2nd Oct. 1841. Publication— Pastoral Address on the Calamities of Pestilence and War (1854). As convener of a committee of the Church Law Society, he published the Acts of the General Assembly, 1638-1842 (Edinburgh, 1843). — [Acts of Ass., 1843.]

1844 WILLIAM DAVIDSON, ord. (assistant and successor) 12th Jan. 1844; trans. to Largo 11th April 1851.

1851 JOHN STENHOUSE MUIR, born 11th May 1824, son of William M., D.D., min. of St Stephen's, Edinburgh; educated at High School and Univ. of Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh; ord. 8th Aug. 1851; died unmarr. at Men-tone, 23rd Dec. 1874.  Publication—Accepted in the Beloved.

1875 DAVID WILLIAM LAMONT WAL LACE, born Knockgray, Carsphairn, 4th June 1848, son of Archibald W. and Margaret Lament; educated at Carsphairn, Ayr Academy, Glasgow Univ.; licen. by Presb. of Kirkcudbright 7th Aug. 1872;