adm. 5th Oct. 1731 ; died lst Jan. 1732, He marr. (cont. 23rd Feb. 1725) Katherine (died March 1737), daugh. of David Blair min. of the High Kirk, Edinburgh. Hi: brother, James, merchant, Edinburgh, was executor.-[Test. Reg.]

1732 DAVID PLENDERLEATH, ord. 20th Sept. 1732; trans. to Dalkeith 7th Oct. 1746.

1747 HUGH [or HEW] BANNATINE, pres.  by George Cockburn of Ormiston, and ord. 26th May 1747; trans, to Dirleton 26th Oct. 1749.-[Carlyle's Autob]

1751 GEORGE LOGAN, born 1723, son of George L., min. of Trinity Parish, Edinburgh; educated at the Univ. there; M.A. (18th March 1742); licen. by Presb. of Kelso 7th July 1747; pres. by John, Earl of Hopetoun, 8th March 1750; ord. 20th March 1751; died 23rd Feb . 1754. His settlement was opposed on the ground of heresy. After inquiry, the charge was found to be baseless. He undertook, at the request of some of his contemporaries, to refute the sceptical writings of David Hume, but was prevented by his early death. He marr., 12th March 1752, Susanna (died at Edinburgh, 21st April 1794), daugh. of Archibald Tod of Hayfield, West Calder.-[Carlyle's Autob., Mackenzie's Life of Home, Morren's Ann.]

1754 GEORGE BARCLAY of Middleton, licen. by Presb. of Linlithgow 18th April 1733; ord. min. of Wamphray, 29th March 1744; pres. by John, Earl of Hopetoun, trans. and adm. 23rd Oct. 1754; died 3rd Feb. 1765. He marr. 19th April 1744, Mary Barclay, who died 30th Sept. 1763, and had issue-Agnes; Margaret; George, min. of Haddington.

1765 ALEXANDER COLVILL, of Hillside,  licen. by Presb. of Dunfermline 7th May 1758; ord. min. of Gask 24th Sept. 1763; pres. by John, Earl of Hopetoun, trans. and adm. 30th Oct. 1765; died 3rd Nov. 1813. He marr. 20th Jan. 1769,

Margaret (died 30th June 1782), daugh. of David Hunter, min. of Saline, and had issue- Alexander, of Hillside, born 29th Jan. 1770; Margaret, born 1st Oct. 1771; Elizabeth, born 3rd Dec. 1773, died 31st Dec. 1829; Jean, born 19th Sept. 1776 (marr. Thomas S. Hardie, min. of Ashkirk); Janet, born 26th Oct. 1778; Christian Ann, born 5th March 1781. Publication Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Acc., iv., xxi.).

1812 JOHN RAMSAY, M.A., pres. by James Earl of Hopetoun, and ord. (assistant and successor) 12th Nov. 1812; trans. to Gladsmuir 14th Feb. 1833.

1833 JAMES BANNERMAN, born 9th April 1807, son of James Patrick B., min. of Cargill; educated at Perth Academy and Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (30th March 1826) ; licen. by Presb. of Perth 13th Jan. 1830; nom. assistant and successor at Dron, in 1832, but pres. to this parish by John, Earl of Hopetoun, and ord. 23rd Aug. 1833. Joined the Free Church; min. of Ormiston Free Church 1843; Professor of Divinity, New College, 1849; D.D. (Princeton, New Jersey, 1850); died 27th March 1868. He marr. 2nd April 1839, David Anne (died 11th April 1879), daugh. of David Douglas, Lord Reston, one of the Senators of the College of Justice, and had issue-David Douglas, D.D., min. of the Free Church, Dalkeith, and of St Leonard's Free Church, Perth, born 29th Jan. 1842, died 5th April 1903; Mary Turing Anne, born 30th May 1844; Elizabeth Craigie, born 24th Jan. 1846, died 12th Jan. 1875; Cecilia Helen, born 13th Nov. 1847 (marr. John Crommelin Brown, I.C.S.); Anne Jessie, born 6th Aug. 1850, died 9th Aug. 1869; Jemima Margaret, born 1852 (marr. Aug. 1875, John Campbell Lorimer, K.C., Sheriff of Aberdeen); James Patrick, W.S., Edinburgh, born at Edinburgh 8th Aug. 1854, died 3rd May 1905; William Burney, C.S.I., M.D., surgeon-general Madras, born 6th July 1858; Catherine Maria, born 16th May 1861 (marr. William Alexander Mackay, M.D., Huelva, Spain), died 13th March 1898. Publications- Letter to the Marquis of Tweeddale (Edinburgh, 1840);