Univ. of St Andrews; M.A. (1823); licen, by Presb. of Fordoun 17th Sept. 1828: assistant to his father; ord. to Cults 1st June 1832; trans. to Second Charge; and adm. 19th Dec. 1833; suspended by the General Assembly loth May 1842, from his judicial functions as a member of Presb. and other superior judicatories, till after the first Wednesday of March 1843, for holding communion with the mins. of Strathbogie; trans. to First Charge, and adm. 20th June 1843; D.D. (St Andrews 1843); convener of the General Assembly's Committee on Education 27th May 1854; depute-clerk of Assembly 1859; principal clerk 1862; Moderator 24th May 1866; died nth Sept. 1874. He marr. 14th July 1840, Helen (died 3rd Jan. 1860), daugh. of Henry Davidson, sheriff clerk of Haddingtonshire, and had issue-Martha Mary Chisholm, born 9th Nov. 1841; Diana Shank, born 13th March 1843 (marr. John Forbes Watson Grant, M.A., min. of the Second Charge, Haddington, afterwards of St Stephen's, Edinburgh); Helen, born Nov. 1848; Harriet Anne Scott, born 7th Feb. 1854; Louisa Frances, born 8th Aug. 1856, died in infancy. Publications-Styles of Writs, Forms of Procedure, and Practice of the Church Courts of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1850, and various editions); Letter to an M.P. on the Parochial Schools of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1854); Speech upon the Parish Schools Bill (Edinburgh 1856); Remarks on the Recommendation and Draft Bill on Education (Edinburgh, 1868); Speech on the Scotch Education Bill, 1871.-[Acts of Ass., 1842; Dict. Nat. Biog.]

1874 WILLIAM ROSS, born Dingwall, 30th July 1828, son of John R.; educated at Glasgow Univ. and at Halle, Germany; ord. by Presb. of Greenock as chaplain to the Forces; served with the 42nd Highlanders during the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny, and in the Expedition to Abyssinia- adm. to. Second Charge 16th Dec. 1869; trans. and adm. 27th Oct. 1874 died 13th Dec. 1879. He marr. (1) Amy (died in India), daugh. of Colonel Tudor, R.A., and had issue Gertrude, born

27th June 1863, died unmarr. 22nd June 1894: (2) 6th July 1870, Emilie Aldis; daugh. of Charles Dupre Fisher, London, and Eleanor Bailiff, and had issue-Walter Gordon, accountant, born 6th May 1871; Charles Dupre, C.A., born 29th July 1872; William Alston, district commissioner, Lagos, West Africa, born 1874; Ada Frances, born 1877 (marr. 19th June 1901, Sir Edwin Arney Speed, barrister, Chief Justice of Northern Nigeria).

1880 ROBERT NIMMO SMITH, born Edinburgh, 16th Dec. 1842, son of John Lumsden S. and Isabella Nimmo; educated at High School and Univ. of Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh l0th July 1867; assistant at Livingston, and St Andrew's, Edinburgh; ord. to Cargill 14th July 1870; trans. to Second Charge, Haddington, 8th April 1875; trans. to First Charge 18th May 1880; LL.D. (Hobart College, New York, 1893); died 19th Sept. 1912. He marr. (1) 2nd April 1871, Jean Carmichael (died 26th Oct. 1881), daugh. of Andrew Haddow, and had issue-Robert John Haddow, born20th Jan. 1872, died 24th April 1890; Mabel, born 4th March 1874: (2) 9th Jan. 1883, Mary Anne, daugh. of Andrew Tod, and had issue-Francis Clement Nimmo, born 10th Oct. 1884; Austin Nimmo, born 15th Dec. 1886; Mary Dorothea Nimmo, born 8th Jan. 1889; Hilda Nimmo, born 5th April 1891.

1906 GE0RGE HENRY DONALD, trans. from Southdean, and adm. (assistant and successor) 4th Oct. 1906; trans. to West Parish, Aberdeen, 11th Dec. 1912.

1913 GEORGE WAUCHOPE STEWART, born Edinburgh, 5th March 1863, son of John Crawford S. and Charlotte Barnetson; educated at George Watson's College and Univ., Edinburgh; M.A. (1885), B.D. (1887); licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh May 1885; assistant at Girvan and Pollokshields; ord. to West Parish, Fraserburgh, 12th Feb. 1891; trans. to Rosemount, Aberdeen, 25th Sept. 1901;