piece of ground on which church and halls now stand disjoined from Canongate Parish immediately adjoining. The church was opened 11th June 1882.]

1883 JAMES ANDERSON, born Conniven farmhouse, Kirkgunzeon, 22nd Nov. 1840; educated at St Andrews Univ. and Congregational Hall, Edinburgh; ord. in Augustine Church, Edinburgh, a missionary to China, 28th June 1865, under the London Missionary Society; laboured in Hong-Kong and Canton for five years, returned, because of illness, to Scotland, 1870; ind. to Elgin Congregational Church Sept. 1872, and to Norwood, London, 1879; adm. a min. of the Church of Scotland May 1882; adm. to this charge 20th Dec. 1883; died 4th Aug. 1894. He marr. 29th June 1865, Mary Jemima, second daugh. of William Walker, Kirkcaldy, who, on her husband's death, became a deaconess of the Church of Scotland, and laboured for the Church's Mission in China; she died in Edinburgh, 25th Nov. 1905. The "Anderson Memorial Dispensary” at Ichang was built in 1909 from a legacy by Mrs Anderson for this purpose.-[See A Missionary Minister; Memorials of the Rev. James Anderson, faith Selections from his Sermons, and a preface by Arch. Scott, D.D. (Edin., 1895).]

1894 THOMAS WILLIAM GRANT SUTHERLAND, M.A., B.D. (Edinburgh); ord. (assistant and successor) 16th May 1894; trans. to Innerwick 16th Nov. 1906.

1907 JAMES RICHMOND AITKEN, born Auchenlochan, Kilfinan, Argyllshire, 22nd June 1865, third son of James A., builder and contractor, Glasgow, and Jessie Richmond; educated at Glasgow Univ. and Regent's Park College, London; M.A. (Glasgow, April 1891); min. of the Baptist Church at Pitlochry 1893-4, at Olney, Bucks, 1894-8, at Dunnington, Warwickshire, 1898-1906; adm. to the Church of Scotland May 1906, and licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh Sept. 1906; assistant

at St Stephen's, Edinburgh; ord. 6th  March 1907. Marr. 2nd Sept. 1897, Gertrude, eldest daugh. of Rev. Joseph Allen, B.A., Olney, and has issue-Marguerite, born 27th Dec. 1898; Ronald Richmond, born 14th Sept. 1900; Malcolm, born 15th Jan. 1904, died 19th Jan. 1904. Publications-Love in its Tenderness (London, 1901); The Sins of a Saint (London, 1903); The Christ of the Hen of Art (Edinburgh, 1913); A City Garden (London, 1913); My Garden of the Red, Red Rose (London, 1913).

LADY GLENORCHY'S (Q.S.).

[Founded by Willielma, Viscountess Glenorchy, Oct. 1772; opened 8th May 1774; and conveyed to five Trustees, 26th Jan. 1786. The constitution was revised 20th May 1837, when the Trustees obtained an Act of Parliament (1 & 2 Viet. cap. 22), which extended and explained their powers. It was then constituted a parish quoad sacra. In 1845 the chapel was acquired from the Trustees on erection of the North British Railway Station. After a protracted litigation Roxburgh Place Chapel was purchased in 1856, and a parish quoad sacra was created by the Court of Teinds on 2nd July 1862. New church and halls were built 1909-12, and opened 10th Dec. 1913.]

1777 FRANCIS SHERRIFF, born 1750, son of Francis S., Dremhills, East Lothian; educated at Musselburgh  School and Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (1770); through the influence of John Home, author of Douglas, he was for a time tutor in a nobleman's family, and afterwards a clerk in the War Office. In 1771 he visited Jamaica, and on his return was licen. by the Presb. of Haddington, 30th March 1773; ord. 6th July 1775, chaplain (assistant) to General Houston's Regt. of the Scots Brigade in Holland; app. by Lady Glenorchy, and adm. 12th Nov. 1777; died unmarr. 12th June 1778.- [Lady Glenorchy's Account, Wood's Hist. of Cramond, Jones's Life of Lady Glenorchy.]