Congregational Independency in Scotland, Fraser's Maxwells of Pollok, Dict. Nat. Biog.]

1826 JOHN PURVES, nom. (assistant and successor) by the Trustees, and ord. 14th April 1826; res. 27th Oct. 1830 on presentation to Jedburgh.

1830 JAMES BEGG, trans. from Maxwell town; nom. by the Trustees (assistant and successor), and adm. 23rd Dec. 1830; trans. to Middle Church, Paisley, 25th Nov. 1831.

1831  THOMAS LIDDELL, trans. from Montrose Chapel-of-Ease; nom. (assistant and successor) by the Trustees, and adm. 22nd Dec. 1831; res. on app. as first Principal of Queen's College, Kingston, Canada, 27th Oct. 1841; [afterwards min. of Lochmaben].

1842 GEORGE RAMSAY DAVIDSON, born Brechin, 1801, son of David D.; educated at Brechin Grammar School and St Andrews Univ.; M.A. (1820); licen. by Presb. of St Andrews 25th June 1823; ord. to Drumblade 8th May 1828; trans. and adm. 14th July 1842. Joined the Free Church; min. of Free Lady Glenorchy's, Edinburgh, 1843; D.D. (St Andrews); died 17th May 1890. He marr. 8th June 1830, Jessie (died 10th Sept. 1876), daugh. of William Lumsden, architect, Edinburgh, and had issue-Eliza Maule, born 4th March 1831 (marr. 13th June 1851, Sir Thomas Clark, Bart.); Mary, born 15th Feb. 1833 (marr. Alexander Cusin, her father's successor, in Lady Glenorchy's Free Church); George Ramsay, born 29th Jan. 1836; David William, born 12th Feb. 1838. Publications-Privilege and Duty, a Pastoral Address (Edinburgh, 1845); Britain's Past Policy, Penitence, and Pledge, a sermon (Edinburgh, 1857); Account of the Parish of Drumblade (New Stat. Acc., xii.).

1863 DANIEL M`LAREN, ord. 29th Jan.  1863; trans. to Carluke 19th March 1874.

1874 JOHN GRIGOR, trans. from Fullarton, Irvine, and adm. 24th Sept. 1874; trans. to St David's, Glasgow, 16th Nov. 1876.

1877 ANDREW FYFE BURNS, M.A.; trans. from St James's, Kirkcaldy, and adm. 17th May 1877; trans. to St George's, Paisley, 21st March 1882.

1882 THOMAS BURNS, born 3rd March 1853, son of Thomas B., min. of Lesmahagow; educated at Glasgow High School and Univ.; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow May 1876; assistant at St George's Parish, Glasgow; ord. to Melville Parish, Montrose, 8th Nov. 1877; trans. and adm. 30th Aug. 1882; governor of George Heriot's Trust 1890; chairman of Royal Blind Asylum 1894; deputy- chairman, Edinburgh School Board 1903; convener of the General Assembly's Committee on Benefice Register and Records of the Church; D.D. (Glasgow 1906); F.R.S.E., F.S.A. Scot. He marr. 3rd June 1890, Sarah Frances Townsend, daugh. of Charles Wilson Murray of Croston Towers, Alderly Edge, and granddaughter of Sir Hugh Lyon Playfair, LL.D., St Andrews, and has issue-Agnes Mary Frances, born 26th April 1891; Reginald Thomas Murray, born 9th Aug. 1892; Norman Frederick MacGregor, born 4th April 1902. Publications-Old Scottish Communion Plate (Edinburgh, 1896); American Educational Institutions and Methods (1901); Benefice Lectures, delivered at the four Scottish Universities (Edinburgh, 1905).

LADY YESTER'S.

[Founded by Margaret, third daugh. of Mark, first Earl of Lothian, and wife of James, seventh Lord Hay of Yester. She died 15th March 1647. The church was badly damaged by Cromwell's soldiers in Nov. 1650, but being restored, was erected into a parish church, 24th Aug. 1655, for the south-east portion of the city. During the Episcopacy it was shut up and the parish annexed to the Tron.