assistant to preceding; pres. by John, Earl of Hopetoun, and adm. (assistant and successor) 22nd April 1817; died 18th Jan. 1844.  He marr. 2nd Aug. 1810, Isabel (died 28th Feb. 1847), youngest daugh. of his predecessor, and had issue — Isabel Yeaman, born 22nd April 1811; Jessie Gumming, born 10th Dec. 1812; Henry, surgeon R.N., born 10th Oct. 1814; John, born 7th Oct. 1816; James, born 23rd Aug. 1818, died 10th Nov. 1833; Christina Ann, born 9th Sept. 1820; Patricia, born 17th Feb. 1823; Alexa, born 20th Aug. 1824; Margaret Hay, born 28th Aug. 1826; William, born 14th June 1828. Publication—Account of the Parish (New Stat. Acc., ii.).

1841 JAMES DODDS, born Hitchell Yett, Cummertrees, 13th Aug. 1812, eldest son of William D. and Helen, daugh. of Thomas Irving, farmer, Whitecroft, Dalton (a relative of Edward Irving); educated at Annan and Ruthwell schools, and Univ. of Edinburgh; tutor in the family of Dr Duncan of Ruthwell; licen. by Presb. of Annan 1839; assistant at Inveresk; ord. (assistant and successor) 9th Feb. 1841. Joined Free Church; min. of Dunbar Free Church 1843; died 3rd Sept, 1885. He marr. 3rd Feb. 1843, Barbara (died 21st Jan. 1901), only daugh. of Henry Duncan, D.D., min. of Ruthwell. Publications—A Century of Scottish Church History (Edin­burgh, 1846); Coast Missions, a Memoir of Rev. Thomas Rosie (London, 1862); Eminent Men of Dumfriesshire (Edinburgh, 1865, 2nd ed.); edited Lays of the Cove­nanters, by James Dodds (his cousin), (Edinburgh, 1880); Jeanie Wilson, or the Lily of Lammermoor; Biographies of Principal Fairbairn, Rev. John Walker of Newton - Stewart, Rev. Peter Hope of Wamphray; numerous articles in The Christian Treasury, Leisure Hour, Sunday at Home, etc. In earlier years he edited the Dumfries and Galloway Courier, the property of his father-in-law.

1843 GEORGE WEIR, born Galashiels, 13th Aug. 1814, son of Robert W., M.D.,

and Jane Broomfield; educated at Galashiels and Univ. of Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of Selkirk; ord. to Abbey Parish, Arbroath, 8th Nov. 1839; pres. by the Crown; trans. and adm. (assistant and successor) 28th Sept. 1843; died 13th Oct. 1863. He marr. 3rd Sept. 1844, Mary (died 22nd Nov. 1891), daugh. of William Roberts and Agnes Sanderson, and had issue— Agnes, born 24th Aug. 1845; Jane Broom-field, born 8th Nov. 1846; Robert, born 19th Aug. 1848, died 1889; Mary Roberts, born 21st April 1851, died 1885; Georgina, born 10th Feb. 1854 (marr. James H. Bryden, min. of Markinch); William Roberts, born 17th May 1857.

1864 DAVID M'LAREN, born Dundee, 12th Jan. 1839 son of Alexander M'L., D.D., Min. of Kemback; educated at Dundee High School and St Andrews Univ.; M.A.; licen. by Presb. of St Andrews; assistant West Parish, Aber­deen, and St Andrew's, Edinburgh; pres. by John Alexander, Earl of Hopetoun, 28th Jan. 1864; ord. 12th May 1864; died 10th Aug. 1904. He marr. 13th Aug. 1879, Fanny Campbell (died 25th July 1880), daugh. of William Brown and Adelaide Campbell, and had issue—Alastair Camp-bell, born 25th July 1880. Publications— The Light of the World (Edinburgh, 1878); Translation and Revision of Metrical Psalms (Edinburgh, 1883).

1905 ROBERT BALDOCK SCOTT, born  Geelong, Victoria, Australia, 11th Feb. 1868, son of Thomas King S. of Kenley, Melbourne, and Emmeline Fincham Baldock; educated at Toorak and Scots Colleges, Melbourne, Ormond College, and Univs. of Cambridge and Edinburgh; B.A. (Camb. 1895); licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh May 1899; assistant at St Cuthbert's, Edinburgh, North Berwick, and to garri­son chaplain, Edinburgh; ord. 18th Jan. 1905. Marr. 31st Aug. 1904, Alexa Evelyn, daugh. of John Macleod, D.D., min. of Govan, and has issue—Mary Alexa Baldock, born 12th Aug. 1908; Gelia Helen Baldock, born 9th July 1911.