of the Life and Character of Alexander Christison, A.M, late Professor of Humanity (Edinburgh, 1820). He compiled an elaborate History of America which has never been published.-[Hunter's Biggar.]

1835 JOHN LEE, born 22nd Nov. 1779, son of James L., weaver, Craenesshills, Torwoodlee Mains, and Helen Paterson; educated at the "Luggie," Clovenfords (John Leyden being his teacher there), and at Univ. of Edinburgh; M.D. (24th June 1801); M.A. (St Andrews 1801); amanuensis to “Jupiter Carlyle” 1804-5; licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith 16th July 1804; ord. by Presb. of Edinburgh min. of the Presbyterian congregation, Hanover Street, London; adm. min. of Peebles 7th April 1808; Professor of Divinity and Ecclesiastical History, St Mary's College, St Andrews, 1812; and in 1820 Professor of Moral Philosophy, King's College, Aberdeen, his lectures there being delivered by proxy; adm. min. of Canongate, Edinburgh, 21st March 1823; D.D. (St Andrews, 28th Dec. 1823); F.R.S.E.; trans. to Lady Yester's 17th Feb. 1825; principal clerk of the General Assembly 1827; Chaplain in Ordinary to George IV. 1830; pres. by the Town Council July 1834; trans. and adm. 22nd Jan. 1835; Principal of the United College, St Andrews, 12th June 1837, which he resigned in Nov. of same year. On the establishment of a Board in Scotland for printing and publishing Bibles in 1839, he was selected as Secretary, but declined to accept; Principal of the Univ. of Edinburgh 12th March 1840, a Deanery of the Chapel Royal of Stirling being annexed. He demitted his parochial charge 30th Sept. 1840, was app. Professor of Divinity at Edinburgh in 1843, and Moderator of Assembly 16th May 1844; died 2nd May 1859. With vast stores of varied and minute information he had much ill-health, which destroyed his energy and prevented him from accomplishing many cherished literary projects. He is the "Archdeacon Meadow" of Hill Burton's Book Hunter. He marr. (1) 5th July 1813, Rose (born 4th Jan. 1792, died 23rd Oct. 1833), daugh. of Thomas Masson,

D.D., min. of Dunnichen, and had issue -James, born 2nd May 1814, died 10th July 1870; Thomas Masson, M.D., Indian Army, born 24th Dec. 1815, died 30th Nov. 1858; William, min. of Roxburgh, and afterwards Professor of Church History, Glasgow Univ.; John Johnston, born 13th May 1819, died 17th Dec. 1828; Jane, born 21st March 1821; Helen Agnes, born 28th Sept. 1822, died 28th Feb. 1831; Isabella Euphemia, born 9th May 1824, died 19th Oct. 1895; David Henry, born 20th Jan. 1826; Alexander Henderson, C.E., India, born 9th Feb. 1828; Robert, Procurator of the Church of Scotland, Senator of the College of Justice, born 1st April 1830, died 11th Oct. 1890; Rose Masson, born 14th Oct. 1832, died 29th May 1839: (2) 30th June 1841, Charlotte E. Wright, who died 19th March 1871. Publications-Dissert. Med., Inaug. De Viribus Animi in Corpus Argentibus [graduation thesis] (Edinburgh, 1801); Six single Sermons (Edinburgh, 1809-29); Memorial for the Bible Societies in Scotland, and Additional Memorial (Edinburgh, 1824-6); Letter relating to the Annuity Tax and the Ecclesiastical Arrangements proposed for Edinburgh (Edinburgh, 1834); Refutation of the Charges brought against him by the Rev. Dr Chalmers and Others, 2 parts (Edinburgh, 1837); Lectures on Church History, 2 vols. (Edinburgh, 1860; ed. by his son); Inaugural Addresses (Edinburgh, 1862; with Prefatory Memoir by Lord Neaves); Pastoral Addresses of the General Assembly Edinburgh, 1864). He contributed a number of articles to Brewster's Edinburgh Encyclopaedia; edited Vita Rob. Rollock, for the Bannatyne Club (Edinburgh, 1826); Wodrow's Life of, James Wodrow, A.M. (Edinburgh, 1828); contributed Introduction to the Edinburgh Academic Annual for 1840; edited Joceline's Mother's Legacie to her Unborn Childe (Edinburgh, 1852), and contemplated editing the Tracts of David Fergusson, which was afterwards done for the Bannatyne Club (Edinburgh, 1860); edited Journal of Andrew Hart.-[Hogg's Instruct., Anderson's Sketches, Grant's Edin. University, Dict. Nat. Biog., Craig-Brown's Selkirkshire.]