Aug. 1826), eldest daugh. of Thomas Elder of Forneth, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, and had issue-Emelia Husband, born 1st Dec. 1793, died 5th June 1794; Thomas Elder of Forneth, advocate, born 30th Sept. 1795, died 1876; Marion Spottiswood, born 13th July 1797 (marr. 8th Aug. 1823, Isaac Bayley of Manuel, S.S.C.); James, born 27th Dec. 1799, died. 21st May 1823; Emelia Husband, born 22nd Oct. 1801, died 23rd Aug. 1824. Publications-A sermon on the Universal Propagation and Influence of the Christian Religion (of which only 48 pp. were printed, 1795); edited Poems of Michael Bruce (Edinburgh, 1799).-[Anderson's Sketches, Kay's Portr., Grant's Univ., Dict. Nat. Biog.]

1840 JAMES BUCHANAN, born Paisley, 14th April 1804, son of James B.; educated at Paisley Grammar School and Univs. of Glasgow and Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of Paisley 27th Sept. 1826; ord. to Roslin 23rd Nov. 1827; trans. to North Leith 25th Sept. 1828; trans. and adm. 20th Aug. 1840. Joined the Free Church; min. of the Free High Church, Edinburgh, 1843-4; first min. of St Stephen's Free Church, 17th March 1845; Professor of Apologetics in Free Church College, 30th May 1845; Professor of Systematic Theology, 1847; res. 1868; D.D. (Princeton 1844), LL.D. (Glasgow 1852); died 19th April 1870. He marr. (1) 10th Feb. 1829, Elizabeth (died 6th May 1832), daugh. of John Cochrane, merchant, Glasgow, and had issue-James, born 13th Dec. 1829; Elizabeth, born 5th Feb. 1831: (2) 12th Dec. 1836, Mary (died 25th Aug. 1887), daugh. of John Morison of Hetland, and had issue-Janet Morison, born 22nd Aug. 1840. Publications-Two Sermons (Edinburgh, 1835); Preparatory Discourse to Lectures on Civil Establishments of Religion (Edinburgh, 1835); Comfort in Affliction (Edinburgh, 1837); Improvement of Affliction (Edinburgh, 1840); The Office and Work of the Holy Spirit (Edinburgh, 1842); Faith in God and Modern Atheism Compared, 2 vols. (Edinburgh, 1855); The Essays and Reviews

Examined (Edinburgh, 1861); Analogy Considered as a Guide to Truth and applied as an Aid to Faith, (Edinburgh, 1864); The Doctrine of Justification (Cunningham Lecture, 1866).-[Disruption Worthies, Hist. Notices of Free St Stephen's, Dict. Nat. Biog.]

1844 JAMES M`LETCHIE, born Maybole, 24th Dec. 1800, son of John M'L., merchant, and Mary Thom; educated at Dalrymple School and Univ. of Glasgow; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 4th Jan. 1826; missionary at Larkhall, and ord. there 27th July 1837; trans. to Gartsherrie 11th Jan. 1838; trans. to St Thomas's, Leith, 6th May 1841; trans. to the College Church, Glasgow, 28th April 1842; trans. and adm. 13th July 1844; D.D. (Glasgow, 29th April 1857); died unmarr. 18th Sept. 1866. He was a capable classical student, and had few rivals as a linguist. Publication Sermon preached on a Special Fast (Edinburgh, 1849); Sermons, with memoir, by John Macrae, D.D. (Edinburgh, 1871).

OLD KIRK or SOUTH-EAST PARISH.

1598 WILLIAM WATSON, min. of St Giles; adm. 18th April 1598. Doubting the genuineness of the Gowrie Conspiracy, he refused to return thanks for the King's deliverance in the terms which had been prescribed; he was summoned to appear before the Privy Council 9th Sept. 1600, and ordered to be imprisoned, but recanted on the following day, a step he ever afterwards regretted. The King was resolved, however, that he should no longer retain his ministry in the city, and he was removed by the Assembly 16th May 1601, and admitted to Burntisland.-[Presb. and Edin. Counc. Reg.; Spottiswood's, Row's, and Calderwood's Hists.; Booke of the Kirk.]

1626 WILLIAM FORBES, D.D., min. of St Giles; adm. 27th Jan. 1626. He craved to be transported "on account of weakness of body" 12th Aug. thereafter, and was retrans. to his former charge at Aberdeen about Michaelmas. He became Bishop of Edinburgh Feb. 1634 (q.v.).-[Edin. Counc. Reg., Row's Hist.;