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stable (one of his trustees) in Scots Mag., xci., xcii.-[Scot's Fun. Serm.
Murray's Biog. Ann.] 1823 LEWIS BALFOUR, born Edinburgh, 30th Aug. 1777, third son of John B.
of Pilrig, and Jean, daugh. of Robert Whyte [Whytt] of Bennochy, Professor
of Medicine in the Univ. of Edinburgh; educated at Edinburgh High School and
Univ.; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 30th Jan. 1805; ord. to Sorn 28th Aug.
1806; pres. by James, Earl of Lauderdale; trans. and adm. 28th Aug. 1823;
D.D. (Glasgow 1853); died 24th April 1860. He marr. 26th April 1808,
Henrietta Scott (died 13th March 1844), third daugh. of George Smith, D.D.,
min. of Galston, and had issue-John, surgeon, H.E.I.C.S., born 8th July 1809,
died 13th Dec. 1886; Marion, born 29th Oct. 1811 (marr. 7th April 1835,
Colonel J. A. Wilson, R.A.), died 14th Dec. 1884; George Smith, born 20th
July 1813, died 3rd May 1816; Jane Whyte, born 6th Nov. 1816, died 6th Feb.
1907; Lewis, merchant, born 14th Sept. 1817, died 13th Feb. 1870; James, born
30th July 1819, died 20th June 1824; William Somerville, born and died 1821;
George William, M.D., LL.D. Edinburgh, born 2nd June 1823, died 9th Aug. 1903;
Mackintosh, manager, Agra Bank, born 9th March 1825, died 7th June 1884; a
son, born and died 1826; Henrietta Louisa, born 14th Jan. 1828 (marr. 14th
Dec. 1847, Ramsay H. Traquair), died 25th Nov. 1855; Margaret Isabella, born
11th Feb. 1829 (marr. 28th Aug. 1848, Thomas Stevenson, C.E., and was mother
of Robert Louis Stevenson), died 14th May 1897; James Melville, C.E., born
8th June 1831, died 18th Dec. 1869. Publications-Sermon on the Death of the
Rev. Daniel Wilkie (Edinburgh, 1838) ; Account of
the Parish (New Stat. Acc., i.). [The Balfours of Pilrig, Graham Balfour's
Life of Robert Louis Stevenson, Simpson's The Stevenson Originals]. 1861 WILLIAM LOCKHART, born Denny, 17th May 1825, son of Robert L. and
Isabel Williamson; educated at Glasgow Univ.; M.A. (1853), F.S.A .Scot.; licen. by Presb. of Dunoon 23rd Nov. 1853; |
assistant at New Greyfriars, Edinburgh; ord. to Queensferry
11th Feb. 1855; trans, and adm. 11th Jan. 1861; D.D. (St Andrews 1893); died
unmarr. 30th Sept, 1902. By the will of his sister, Margaret; a considerable
sum was bequeathed for the erection of a church (preferably in the Grange
district of Edinburgh), in his memory, to be called The Lockhart Memorial
Church. Publications-On the Place and Importance of Ordinances; On Authority
in the Institution of Ordinances; 0n Oaths (Edinburgh, 1852); The Church of
Scotland in the Thirteenth Century, the Life and Times of David de Bernham,
1239-58 (Edinburgh, 1889; 2nd ed., 1892); Dies Tristes, Sermons for Seasons
of Sorrow (Edinburgh, 1892); contributions to the Proceedings of the Society
of Antiquaries of Scotland. 1903 NORMAN MACLEAN, M.A.; trans. from Glengarry, and adm. 18th May 1903;
trans. to the Park Parish, Glasgow, 23rd June 1910. 1910 THOMAS MARJORIBANKS, born 3rd April 1871, son of George M., D.D.,
min. of Stenton; educated at Stenton School, Collegiate School, and Univ. of
Edinburgh; M.A. (1891), B.D. (1894); licen. by Presb. of Dunbar 2nd May 1894;
assistant at West Parish, Aberdeen, and St Cuthbert's, Edinburgh; ord. to
Houndwood, 9th Dec. 1898; trans. to Callander 27th Feb. 1903; trans. and adm.
25th Nov. 1910. Marr. 9th Jan. 1907, Mary Ord, daugh. of William Logan,
Madras Civil Service, and Anne Selby Burrell Wallace, and has issue -George,
born 19th May 1908; William Logan, born 26th Feb. 1910; James Alexander
Milne, born 29th May 1911. Publications-In the Likeness of Men, Studies in
the Life of Our Lord on Earth (Edinburgh, 1908); The Fullness of the Godhead,
Further Studies in the Life of 0ur Lord (Edinburgh, 1910); The Sevenfold ` I
Am' (Edinburgh, 1913); editor of In Far Fields. CORSTORPHINE. [The church, dedicated to St John Baptist, and made
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