PRESTONFIELD (Q.s.).

[Begun 13th Nov. 1898, as an extension charge, by Robert Buchanan, B.D., formerly min. of Clydebank (q.v.), who served till Oct. 1903. Disjoined from Liberton, Duddingston, and Mayfield, and erected into a parish quoad sacra, 30th Oct. 1908. A church was built in 1902.]

1908 DONALD MACMILLAN, born 7th Dec.

1866, eldest son of Duncan M., architect, Aberdeen; M.A. (Aberdeen 1887); licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen 6th May 1890; ord. to Careston Sept. 1892; dem. 30th Sept. 1904, to undertake Prestonfield extension charge, and ind. first min. 8th Dec.1908. Marr.12th July 1894, Edith Marjorie Eveline, youngest daugh. of John Watt, advocate, Aberdeen, and has issue-Sybilla Catherine, born 6th May 1895; Duncan Stewart, born 8th Nov. 1907. Publications-Contributor to Aurora Borealis Academica (Aberdeen, 1899); Farewell Sermon, Careaton Parish Church (Brechin, 1904).

RESTALRIG (Q.s.).

[Prior to the Reformation Restalrig was a collegiate parish church, founded (in connection with the tomb and well of St Triduana) by King James II., with a dean and nine prebendaries. It was a noted place of pilgrimage. After the Reformation the church was allowed to fall into decay, but in recent times it was partially restored. The revived parish is taken entirely out of South Leith, and was disjoined and erected into a parish quoad sacra, 31st May 1912.]

1870  GEORGE BOYD, born 9th May 1824, at Landguard Fort, Suffolk, son of Thomas B. (H.M. Coastguard Service) and Elizabeth Haskell; educated at Grammar School, Cromarty, and Univ. of Aberdeen; M.A. (1851); licen. by Presb. of Lewis 1855; ord. to St Andrew's, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1856; res. 1865; assistant at Tolbooth, Edinburgh; app. to Restalrig Mission 1870; res. May 1903; died 27th Nov. 1905. He marr. 15th Aug. 1856, Elizabeth (died 20th Feb. -1914), daugh. of John MacKeddie, shipmaster, Cromarty,

and had issue-Mary Matheson, born 1st June 1857 (marr. 6th Sept. 1895, John Deacon Murray, engineer, Egyptian Government Service); Thomas John, born 4th Sept. 1858; George Haskell, W.S., born 25th Dec. 1859; Elizabeth MacKeddie, born 27th July 1861 (marr. 2nd July 1896, William Auchie Alexander, C.A.); Alexandra Keith, born 17th Oct. 1863; John William Parker, born 11th June 1866, died 24th May 1912.

1912 WILLIAM BURNETT, born Edinburgh 19th June 1864, son of Peter S. B. and Elizabeth Mitchell; educated at George Watson's College and Edinburgh Univ.; M.A. (1884), B.D. (1887); licen. by the Presb. of Edinburgh, May 1887; assistant at Hawick and Dundee; ord. 4th Oct. 1891 to Woolloomooloo, Sydney, N.S.W.; inducted here Dec. 1904; adm. first min. of the parish 31st May 1912. He marr. 13th April 1892, Lena, daugh. of David Russell Dawson, Tayport, and has issue- Mary Johnston, born 16th May 1904.

ROBERTSON MEMORIAL, or,

GRANGE PARISH (Q.S.).

[Erected into a parish quoad sacra 30th Oct. 1871. The foundation stone of the church was laid, 28th May 1870, by John, Earl of Stair, Lord High Commissioner, and the building was opened, 1st Oct. 1874, as a memorial of James Robertson, D.D., Professor of Ecclesiastical History in Edinburgh University, formerly minister of Ellon, and founder of the Endowment Scheme of the Church.]

1872  WILLIAM LYON RIACH, born Aberdeen, 28th March 1824, son of John R. and Mary Dawson; educated at Grammar School, Aberdeen, and Marischal College and Univ.; M.A. (1846); licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen 1851; assistant at Broughton; ord. to Balmaghie 23rd. Dec. 1852; trans. to Pencaitland 1st Feb. 1855; trans. and adm. 14th March 1872; res. 11th Dec. 1895; died 13th June 1912. He marr. 25th July 1861, Agnes Geraldine, daughter of Edward Potter, Cramlington, Northumberland, and had issue-Margaret