sacra was declared by Act of Assembly 31st May 1834. Disjoined from Lasswade and erected by the Court of Teinds, 15th July 1863.]

1827 JAMES BUCHANAN, elected by the managers and seatholders 17th Aug., and ord. 23rd Nov. 1827; trans. to North Leith 25th Sept. 1828.

1829 DAVID BROWN, born 1783, son of James B., Kilmarnock; educated at Univ. of Glasgow; licen. by Presb. of Paisley 3rd May 1820; elected 27th Feb., and ord. 5th June 1829. Joined the Free Church; min. of Roslin Free Church 1843; died unmarr. 3rd March 1870. Publication-Account of Lasswade (New Stat. Acc, i.).

[The parish was served for some years by missionaries: William Kirkton, 1847-9; Thomas Morrison, 1850-1; Archibald Stirling (formerly missionary at Stobhill and min. of St Andrew's, Grenada, to which he had been ordained by the Presb. of Dalkeith 19th May 1846), 1851-60; William Middleton (afterwards chaplain at Bombay), 1860-1; Robert Walker Mackersy (afterwards of Craiglockhart), 1861-4.]

1864 JOHN HENDERSON, ord. first min.  of the parish 5th May 1864; trans. to St James's, Glasgow, 29th Sept. 1876.

1877 JOSEPH LOUDON, born 6th Dec.  1847, son of Joseph L., min. of Dalziel; educated at Dalziel School and Glasgow Univ.; M.A. (1869); licen. by Presb. of Hamilton 14th June 1871; assistant at Dundee; ord. 5th April 1877. Marr. 28th May 1878, Margaret Mary Campbell, only daugh. of Andrew Buist of Berryhill, Fife, and has issue - Joseph, born 17th March 1879, died 24th March 1900 ; Andrew Walker Buist, born 27th Sept. 1880; Elizabeth Buist, born 12th March 1884.

STOBHILL

(Q.S).

[Disjoined from Borthwick, Cockpen, Newbattle,

and Temple, and erected into a parish quoad sacra, 16th March 1859.]

1859 JOHN DAWSON, ord. first min. of the parish 22nd Sept. 1859; trans. to chaplaincy in Bengal 29th Dec. 1859.

1860 CHARLES FINDLATER STEVENSON, ord. 10th May 1860; trans. to Barry 30th Nov. 1866.

1867 JAMES GORDON, ord. 22nd March 1867; trans. to Twynholm 20th Jan. 1876.

 1876 WILLIAM CORSON CALLANDER, ord. 9th May 1876; trans. to Lochrutton 20th Nov. 1879.

1880 THOMAS M'CRACKEN, born Pinminnock, Portpatrick, 22nd June 1841, son of John M'C. and Jane M'Kelvie; educated at Edinburgh Univ.; M.A. (1871); licen. by Presb. of Stranraer 2nd Dec. 1874; ord. 12th May 1880; died unmarr. 19th Jan. 1883.

1883 JAMES SMITH SIMPSON, ord. 11th July 1883; trans. to Kennoway 14th Feb. 1888.

1888 DAVID WILKIE WILSON, born Blairhall, Scone, 4th Sept. 1858, son of John W., farmer, and Euphemia Wilkie; educated at Stormontfield, Perth, Univs. of Edinburgh and St Andrews; M.A. (Edinburgh 1881); licen. by Presb. of Ayr; assistant at New Cumnock, and Tolbooth, Edinburgh; ord. 11th Sept. 1888. Marr. 29th Sept. 1896, Margaret James, daugh. of David Ritchie, merchant, Edinburgh, and has issue-Edith Agnes, born 7th June 1899; John Edward, .born 8th Feb. 1901.

TEMPLE.

[Originally the church of the Preceptory of the Knights Templars at Balintradoch (now Arniston). After their dissolution, and previous to the Reformation, it belonged to the Preceptory of St John at Torphichen. Moorfoot (originally Morthwait) and Clerkington, both of which, previous