1863 JAMES LAMONT, born Rothesay 1820, son of Duncan L.; educated at Glasgow Univ.; licen. by Presb. of Dunoon 1855; ord. to Kelvinhaugh, Glas­gow, 20th Dec. 1856; trans. to Broughty Ferry 1856; trans. and adm. 8th May 1863; died 25th Nov. 1891.  He marr. 7th June 1859, Maria Jane Wallace, who died 29th Aug. 1863. He was an accom­plished amateur astronomer who made his own telescopes.

1883 HENRY FARQUHAR, born Guthrie, Forfarshire, 7th Nov. 1860, son of Alexander F. farmer, and Elizabeth Mitchell; educated at Guthrie, Aberdeen Grammar School and Univ., and Edin­burgh Univ.; M.A. (Aberdeen 1879), B.D. (Edinburgh 1882); licen. by Presb. of Arbroath 16th May 1882; assistant at North Leith; ord. (assistant and suc­cessor) 7th Aug. 1883; res. 17th May 1909. He marr. 18th Aug. 1884, Annie Muir, daugh. of Hugh Peace, schoolmaster, Mary-kirk, Kincardineshire, and has issue— James Lamont, banker, London, born 11th March 1887; Jessie Semple, born 5th June 1891, died 24th Sept. 1894. Publications— Nature's Story (Edinburgh, 1895); Memorial Sketch of Dr Lucas (Dalkeith, 1905); Inter­pretation of Nature (Guild Text-Book, Edinburgh, 1910); Frank Mitchell, Guilds-man (Edinburgh, 1911); Milicent, serial in Life and Work, 1913; editor of Church of Scotland Sabbath School Teachers' Maga­zine, from 1894.

1909 JOHN SCOTT, born Annacloy, Co. Down, Ireland, 9th Aug. 1865, son of John S., Belfast, and Jane Campbell; educated at Belfast (Queen's and Assembly's Colleges), Royal Univ. of Ireland; B.A. (1888); licen. by Presb. of Down 1890; min. of Stew-arts town Presbyterian Church, Co. Tyrone, 1891, afterwards of Yeoville Presbyterian Church, Johannesburg; adm. by the General Assembly of 1908 as an ord. min. of the Church of Scotland; adm. to this charge 16th Sept. 1909. Marr. 19th Jan. 1893, Mary Emma, daugh. of Joseph Houghton Buckley, Kirkham, Lancashire, and Sally Winterbotham. Publications— The Soldiers of the King (London, 1903); Man in the Net (London, 1912).

FALA.

[Previous to the Reformation the church, dedicated to St Modan, belonged to the Preceptory of Ednam. The kirk was in ruins 6th Sept. 1621.]

1590 JOHN HISLOP, reader.

159l JAMES HAISTIE [HASTINGS], trans. from Clerkington, and adm. 1591, having Soutra also in charge; trans. to Temple 1595.—[Reg. Assig.}

1612 JAMES PORTEOUS, min. of Soutra, and his successors were granted in 1612, by Andrew Edmonstone of that ilk, as patron of the Preceptory of Fala, a manse and glebe. They were to serve the cure at Fala every alternate Sunday (Reg. of Deeds, ccix., 177)

1618 JOHN LOGAN, M.A. (Edinburgh, 27th July 1611); Iicen- by presb of Edin' burgh; ord. min. of Soutra 1617; became min. of the united parish of Soutra and Fala 20th Feb. 1618.  He was a member of the Commission of Assembly 1642, and dem. in Feb. 1674. — [Stat. Reports, 1627; Acts of Ass., Wodrow's Hist., New Stat. Acc.]

1674 GEORGE MOODIE, M.A. (Edinburgh 1699); licen. by Alexander, Bishop of Edinburgh, 16th April 1673; pres. by Thomas Hamilton of Preston; ord. and coll. 12th May, and inst. 3rd June 1674. Deprived for refusing the Test in 1681; afterwards min. of Fogo 1693. — [Reg. Collat., Wodrow's Hist.}

1683 GEORGE JOHNSTON, M.A.; pres. by the Town Council of Edinburgh 6th Oct. 1682; adm. 12th Jan. 1683; trans. to Burntisland in 1688.

1689 ALEXANDER GRANT, son of Duncan G. of Branchell; educated at the Univ. and King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (11th July 1676); adm. 1689. De­prived by the Privy Council 4th Sept.