Colinton - Corstorphine p. 5

 

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.

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