1859 ANDREW KENNEDY HUTCHISON BOYD, trans. from Kirkpatrick Irongray, and adm. 14th April 1859; trans. to St Andrews, First Charge, 14th Sept. 1865.

1866 JOHN M'MURTRIE, born Ayr, 16th Dec. 1831, son of John At., bank agent, Dean of the Faculty of Procurators, Ayr, and Agnes Tweedie, daugh. of, James Nichol, Glasgow; educated at Ayr Academy and Edinburgh Univ.; B.A. (1854), M.A. (1856); licen. by Presb. of Ayr 12th Aug. 1856; assistant at New Kilpatrick 1856; ord. assistant at St ( George's, Edinburgh, 12th April 1858; adm. to Mains and Strathmartine 2nd Sept. 1858; trans. and adm. 11th Jan. 1866; res. 7th July 1885, on appointment as convener of the Church of Scotland Foreign 'Mission Committee, which he held till May 1908; -Moderator of the General Assembly 1904; D.D. (Aberdeen 1890), F.R.S.E. (1893), Fellow of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, member of Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland; died 2nd April 1912. He marr. 20th July 1875, Beatrice Somerville, daugh. of Alexander Brodie, Edinburgh, and had issue-Elizabeth Somerville, missionary at Kikuyu, East Africa, 1912, born 19th May 1876; Agnes Katherine, born 19th Feb. 1878; John, min. of Skene, born 2nd March 1879; Beatrice Somerville Brodie, M.A., classical mistress, Kentish Town School, London, born 16th July 1880; Isabel Mary Dorothea, born 12th Dec. 1881; Alexander Church Brodie, M.D., F.R.C.S.E., born 12th May 1883. Publications -Editor of Life and Work for nineteen years; papers to Journal of Conchology; etc.

1886 GEORGE MATHESON, born Glasgow, 27th 'March 1842, eldest son of George M, merchant, and Jane, daugh. of John Matheson of the Fereneze Print Works, Barrhead; educated at Glasgow Academy and Univ.; B.A. (1861), M.A. (1862), B.D. (1866); licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 13th June 1866; assistant at Sandyford; ord. to Innellan 8th April 1868; declined a call to Crown Court, London; D.D. (Edinburgh 1879), F.R.S.E.; Baird Lecturer 1881; trans. and adm. 12th May

1886; res. 26th July 1899; app. Gifford Lecturer in Univ. of Aberdeen for 1900-2, but declined; LL.D. (Aberdeen 1902); died unmarr. at North Berwick, 28th Aug. 1906. He was blind from his eighteenth year. Publications -Aids to the Study of German Theology (1874); The Growth of the Spirit of Christianity (1877); Natural Elements of Revealed Theology (Baird Lecture, 1881); Confucianism (St Giles Lecture, 1880; My Aspirations (1882); Moments on the Mount (1884); The Religions Bearings of the Doctrine of Evolution (1884); Can the Old Faith Live with the New ? (1885); The Psalmist and the Scientist (1887; Landmarks of New Testament Morality (1888); Voices of the Spirit (1888); Sacred Songs (1890); Spiritual Development of St Paid (1891) (translated into Chinese); Distinctive Messages of the Old Religions (1892); Searchings in the Silence (1895); lords by the Wayside (1896); The Lady Ecclesia (1896); Sidelights from Patmos (1897); Bible Definition of Religion (1898); Studies of the Portrait of Christ (vol. i., 1899; vol. ii.,1900); Times of Retirement (1901); The Sceptre without a Sword (1901); The Representative Men of the Bible (First Series, 1902; Second Series, 1903); The Representative Men of the New Testament (1905); Leaves for Quiet flours (1904); Rests by the River (1906); The Women of the Bible (1907); numerous contributions to contemporary literature; author of the hymn, " O Love that wilt not let me go.''-[Life, by D. Macmillan, D.D., 1907; Dict. Nat. Biog.]

1897 JAMES JOHNSTONE DRUMMOND, M.A., B.D.; trans. from Longformacus, and adm. (assistant and successor) 22nd Oct. 1897; trans. to Jedburgh 7th Dec. 1899.

1900 ALEXANDER FIDDES, born 17th Jan. 1860, son of Edward F., joint-manager of North of Scotland Bank, Aberdeen; educated at Aberdeen Univ.; M.A. (1879), B.D. (1882); licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen 2nd May 1882; ord. to Cairney 21st Jan. 1886; trans. to St Bernard's 17th May 1900. Marr. 10th Feb. 1886, Mary Ross, eldest daugh. of Colonel James