unable to attend because of illness. He died shortly afterwards.]

1759 FRANCIS COWAN, licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 27th April 1758; pres. by John, Earl of Hopetoun; ord. 5th April 1759; died 28th Oct. 1789. He marr. 16th Nov. 1769, Janet Baillie, who died at Edinburgh, 17th Nov. 1815, and had issue-Samuel, born 10th April 1771, died 31st Aug. 1776; Ann, born 30th June 1772 (marr. John Thomson, D.D., min. of New Greyfriars); George, born 21st June 1774, died 7th May 1789; Janet, born 16th June 1776; Margaret, born 27th Feb. 1778; Christian, born 18th May 1780, died 2nd June 1782.

1790 GEORGE HAMILTON, born 15th May 1757, son of John H., min. of Bolton; educated at High School, Edinburgh, and Glasgow Univ.; M.A. (1775); originally intended for the legal profession, and entered at Inner Temple; licen. by Presb. of Haddington 1st April 1788; pres. by George III. and ord. 15th April 1790; a candidate for the Professorship of Moral Philosophy, Univ. of Glasgow, 1797; D.D. (Glasgow, Nov. 1804); Moderator of General Assembly 16th May 1805; died 4th Sept. 1832. He marr. 9th May 1790, Elizabeth (died 6th July 1825), daugh. of John Dickson of Conheath, Provost of Dumfries, and had issue-John James, H.E.LC.S., born 10th July 1792, died 1831; William Law, born 10th July 1792, died 17th Jan. 1796; George, min. of Kirkcudbright; Helen Wight, born 5th Dec. 1797, died unmarr. 14th March 1822; Jean Bell, born 5th March 1799, died unmarr. 30th Nov. 1876; Margaret Coates, born 18th Sept. 1800 (marr. Adam Forman, min. of Innerwick, and of the Free Church, Leven), died 24th Feb. 1832. Publications -Sermon preached for the Society in aid of the Sons of the Clergy (Edinburgh, 1810); Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Acc, vii.); joint editor of Goldie's Sermons; The Telegraph, a Political Poem. He is referred to in Burns's Reply to a Reproof. -[Steven's High School; Burns's Works, Wallace's ed., ii.; MS. Autob.]

1833 JOHN RAMSAY, born 9th May 1777, son of William R., Carstairs; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (12th April 1809); assistant librarian at Edinburgh Univ.; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 28th Dec. 1803; tutor to Henry Clay, an American statesman, and in the family of Lord President Hope; assistant at St Cuthbert's, and. St Andrew's, Edinburgh; ord. (assistant and successor) to Ormiston 12th Nov. 1812; pres. by John, Earl of Hopetoun, in Dec. 1832; trans. and adm. 14th Feb. 1833; died 7th Jan. 1871. He marr. 8th Aug. 1815, Mary (died 31st Aug. 1825), eldest daugh. of Andrew Johnston, min. of Saltoun, and had issue -Mary Jane, born 11th July 1816 (marr. 2nd July 1846, John Deas, H.E.I.C.S.); Charlotte Hope, born 16th Nov. 1817, died in infancy; Catherine, born 27th Dec. 1818 (marr. 26th Aug. 1847), Alexander Weir Robertson, C.A., Edinburgh); Charlotte, born 16th Aug. 1820 (marr. 1840, Archibald Culbertson, Greendykes); Isabella, born 5th June 1822, died 9th April 1878; William, born 12th April 1824, died in infancy; John Hope, born 25th Aug. 1825, died in infancy. Publications-An Account of the Game of Curling (Edinburgh, 1811;    reprinted 1882); An Inquiry into the Infidelity of the Present Tinges (Edinburgh, 1821); Sermons on Various Subjects, with, Occasional Prayers (Edinburgh, 1862); Articles in Brewster's Edinburgh Encyclopaedia; Accounts of Ormiston and of Gladsmuir (New Stat. Acc., ii.). He edited The Scots Magazine, 1xiv., lxv.

1871 WILLIAM MENZIES, pres. by the Crown; trans. from Ayr (Second Charge), and adm. 20th July 1871; trans. to Innerleithen 13th Jan. 1876.

1876 WILLIAM BELL TURNBULL, educated at Edinburgh Univ.; missionary in New Street Chapel, Edinburgh; ord. to St Mary's, Dumfries, 13th May 1862; trans. to Townhead, Glasgow, 7th June 1866; trans. and adm. 27th April 1876; died at Portobello, 3rd March 1906. He marr. (1) 10th Dec. 1847, Janet Hardie, who died 28th July 1887, and had issue-