BELHAVEN (Q.S.).

[Church built in 1838. Declared by the General Assembly a charge quoad sacra, 29th May 1839; the building was occupied by the Free Church from 1843 to 1850, when the House of Lords adjudged it the property of the Church of Scotland. Under the Home Mission Committee the church was reopened 22nd Aug. 1858; and the parish was disjoined from Dunbar by the Court of Teinds, 28th Jan. 1863.]

1840 WILLIAM SORLEY, born Dunfermline, 1803, son of James S., school­master, Liverpool, and Margaret, daugh. of James Luke, Edinburgh; edu­cated at Univ. of Edinburgh; ord. 14th Aug. 1840.  Joined the Free Church; min. of Free Church, Selkirk, 1843; died 4th Oct. 1859.  Marr. 11th July 1849, Anna (died 30th Jan. 1887), daugh. of William Hamilton Ritchie, writer, Dunbar, and Mary Simpson, and had issue—Mary Simpson, born 2nd May 1851; James, insurance director, London, born 15th Oct. 1853; William Ritchie, F.B.A., LL.D., Knightbridge Professor of Moral Phil., Cambridge, born 4th Nov. 1855. Publi­cations—Our National Church (Edinburgh, 1833); Prospects and Perils of the Free Church (Edinburgh, 1845); The Danger of Uncertain Sound (Edinburgh, 1847).

1858 [JAMES WILSON, served the Chapel of Belhaven as a probationer 1858-9; called to St Quivox 5th Nov. 1859.]

1860 ROBERT JAMES CRAIG, ord. 1st June 1860; adm. first min .of the parish 1st April 1863; trans. to Mochrum 24th Sept. 1863.

1863 DONALD M'CORQUODALE, ord. 24th Dec. 1863; trans. to Queen's Park, Glasgow, 9th July 1868.

1869 JAMES SYMINGTON, ord. 18th Feb.  1869 trans. to Leadhills 25th July 1878.

1878 JOHN OLIVER, M.A.; ord. 28th Nov. 1878; trans. to Maryhill, Glasgow, 17th May 1888.

1888 WILLIAM VEITCH, M.A.; ord. 20th Sept. 1888; trans. to St Margaret's, Edinburgh, 6th June 1911.

1911 DAVID MELVILLE STEWART, adm. 10th Aug. 1911; trans. to Erskine 9th Oct. 1913.

1914 NORMAN MACLEOD, born Dundee, 9th Jan. 1873, son of Donald MacLeod, D.D., min. of St Columba's, London; educated at Totteridge Park, London, George Watson's College, Edin­burgh, and Univ. of St Andrews; licen. by Presb. of St Andrews 5th May 1897; assistant at Pollokshields; ord. to Lossiemouth 11th March 1903; trans. and adm. 7th Jan. 1914.  Marr. 25th Sept., 1906, Mary Campbell, daugh. of Peter Salmon Faill, banker, Edinburgh, and has issue —Mary Lyon Campbell, born 8th Nov. 1907.