death by orders of Tipu Sultan in the Third Mysore War, 1792; Margaret, born 18th Aug. 1754; Robert, born 8th April 1757; Abraham, born 28th May 1763. [Scots mag., Iv.]

1769 ADAM DICKSON, born 1721, son of Andrew D., min. of Aberlady; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (1744); liven. by Presb. of Haddington 2nd Sept. 1746; ord. to Duns 21st Sept. 1750; pres. by John Hay of Belton; trans. and adm. 22nd June 1769; killed by a fall from his horse when returning from Innerwick, 25th March 1776. He was a noted agriculturist, and some of his suggestions thereauent were widely adopted. He marr. 3rd April 1742, Anne Haldane, and had issue-Andrew, born 28th Jan. 1743, died 1764.; Agnes, born 18th Feb. 1745 (marr. 2nd Jan. 1766, Richard Dobbie, chief mate of the Worcester, Indianian); Dorothea, born 31st Oct. 1747, died 24th March 1775; William, born 25th Sept. 1751, died 14th March 1775. Publications-A Treatise on Agriculture (Edinburgh, 1762; 2nd ed., enlarged, 1765; vol. ii., 1769; new edition, 2 vols., 1785); Small harms Destructive to the Country in its Present Situation (Edinburgh, 1764); Essay on Manures (1772); The Husbandry of the Ancients, 2 vols. (Edinburgh, 1778; London, 1788; trans. into French by M. Paris, Paris, 1802).-[Aberlady Sess. Reg.; Scots Mag., xxxviii.; Weekly Mag., xxxii.; Farmer's Mag., i.; Biography prefixed to Husb. of the Ancients, i.; Carlyle's Autob., Somerville's Life, Dict. Nat. Biog.]

1776 JOHN EWAN, M.A. (St Andrews 1758); licen. by Presb. of St Andrews 28th Sept. 1763; assistant at Blackford 1767-71, to which he was pres. in 1776, but withdrew; pres. by John Hay of Belton, and ord. 15th Aug. 1776; died unmarr. 12th Feb. 1804. Publication-Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Acc, xxi.).

1804 JOHN LUMSDEN, born 1763, son of John L., schoolmaster of Smailholm;

educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of Dunbar 2nd July 1794; assistant to preceding; pres. by Robert Hay of Drumelzier, and ord. 6th Sept. 1804; died 15th April 1850. He marr. 27th Feb. 1807, Isabella Dale, who died 25th April 1859. Publication-Account of the Parish (New Stat. Acc., ii.).

1847 WALTER SCOTT, born Balmaghie, 15th April 1820, sonof Walter S, Boatcroft, and Stewart Edgar; educated at Edinburgh Univ.; liven. by Presb. of Kirkcudbright 8th April 1846; assistant at St Enoch's, Glasgow; ord. (assistant and successor) 22nd April 1847; died unmarr. 19th Nov. 1864.

1865 JAMES ROBERTSON, born Lethendy, Perthshire, 9th Feb. 1837, son of Charles R., schoolmaster, and Mary Ann Dawson, Culsalmond, Aberdeenshire; educated at St Andrews Univ.; M.A. (1855); licen. by Presb. of Dunkeld, July 1860; assistant at Kinghorn 1861 to 1865; ord. 20th June 1865; chaplain to Lord High Commissioner (Lord Aberdeen) 1883, 1884, 1885, and again in 1907 and 1908 (Lord Kinnaird); D.D. (St Andrews 1889); Lecturer on Pastoral Theology 1899-1900, 1902-4; chairman of Christian Unity Association 1908-13; Moderator of the General Assembly 1909. Marr. loth June 1885, Elizabeth Mary, daugh. of Robert Scott Moncrieff of Fossoway, Kinrossshire, and Mary Hamilton, and had issue-Charles James, born 13th May 1888, died 23rd June 1890. Publications- Our Lord's Teaching (Guild Library and Text-Book Series); The Christian Minister, His Aims and Methods (Edinburgh, 1899) 1899); Lady Blanche Balfour, a Reminiscence (Edinburgh, 1897; 2nd ed., 1911); Pages of Practical Help for Young Communicants (Edinburgh, 1888; 3rd ed., 1911); Graduated Syllabus of Religious Instruction (3rd ed., 1905); Christian Upbringing (Edinburgh, 1908; 2nd ed., 1909); Spiritual Power in the Church-its Elements and its Source, Closing Address to General Assembly of 1909; Contributor to Hastings' Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels.