308 COCKPEN [PRESB. OF
EBENEZER MARSHAL, licen. by
1783 Presb. of Edinburgh 30th Oct. 1776
;
ord. by them 3rd April 1782, as
chaplain to a Scots regiment in the Dutch
service ; pres. by Archibald Cockburn of
Cockpen 22nd Nov. 1782 ; adm. 21st Jan.
1783 ; died 19th May 1813. He marr. 29th
Dec. 1784, Christian Goodsman, who died
13th Aug. 1824, and had issue—Mary,
born 11th Oct. 1785; William, born 25th
Aug. 1787, died 15th May 1788; Janet,
born 23rd Jan. 1789, died 19th April 1810 ;
John, born 2nd Sept. 1790; Ebenezer, born
6th June 1792 ; Robert, born 1st Aug.
1794, died 20th July 1800; Christian, born
30th Aug. 1796; Archibald, accountant,
Edinburgh, born 3rd Jan. 1799 ; Susan
Gloag, born 22nd April 1801 ; William,
born 6th Dec. 1803 ; Anne, born 7th Aug.
1807. Publications
—
History of the Union
of Scotland and England (Edinburgh,
1799) ; Abridgement of the Acts of Parlia-
ment relating to the Church of Scotland
(Edinburgh, 1799) ; Treatise on the British
Constitution (Edinburgh, 1812); Account of
the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace, ii.).
—
[Diet.
Nat. Biog.]
JAMES GRIERSON, born at Airds,
1814 Kells, 31st Jan. 1768, schoolmaster
of Balmaclellan 4th Dec. 1788 ; tutor
to Sir David Moncreiffe of Moncreiffe,
Bart., and afterwards in the family of
Colonel Macpherson at Blairgowrie ; edu-
cated at the Univs. of Edinburgh and St
Andrews ; licen. by Presb. of Meigle 15th
Oct. 1800; M.D. (Edinburgh, 12th Sept.
1810) ; pres. by George, Earl of Dalhousie,
13th Sept. 1813, the preferment being
written on the field of Echlar ; ord. 29th
April 1814; died 12th March 1844. He
marr. 1st April 1817, Janet Sinclair, who
died 13th Jan. 1863. Publications—
Delineations of St Andrews (Edinburgh,
1807) ; The Translation of Enoch and the
Law of the Gospel, two discourses (Edin-
burgh, 1831) ; contributed to Thomson's
Ann. of Philosophy—" Mineralogical Ob-
servations made in the Highlands," "On
Transition Rocks," " Mineralogical Observa-
tions in Galloway," "Notes of a Minera-
logical Excursion to the Giant's Causeway "
;
to the Wernerian Nat. Hist. Society—
"General Observations on Geology and
Geognosy, and the Nature of these
Studies," "Observations on the Natural
History and Habits of the Mole " ; and to
the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, " Boerhaave,"
and other articles.
—
[Kirkcudb. Presb. Reg.']
1833
THOMAS PITCAIRN, born Edinburgh,
5th Feb. 1800, son of Alexander P.,
merchant, Leith, and Jane Trotter ;
educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen. by
Presb. of Edinburgh 26th March 1828;
assistant at Erskine and at Perth ; pres. by
George, Earl of Dalhousie, and ord. 3rd
May 1833; Synod clerk 3rd May 1836.
Joined the Free Church ; min. of the Free
Church at Bonnyrigg 1843 ; principal clerk
of the Free General Assembly; died 21st
Dec. 1854. He marr. 7th June 1836, his
cousin, Ann Hay (died 28th April 1862),
daugh. of Young Trotter of Cruicksfield,
and had issue—Alexander Young, W.S.,
born 5th April 1837 ; Thomas, died in
infancy ; Jane Cranstoun, born 17th Jan.
1840, died 2nd Oct. 1841. Publication—
Pastoral Address on the Calamities of
Pestilence and War (1854). As convener
of a committee of the Church Law Society,
he published the Acts of the General As-
sembly, 1638-1842 (Edinburgh, 1843).—[Acts
of Ass., 1843.]
WILLIAM DAVIDSON, ord. (assistant
1844 an(* successor) 12th Jan « 184,i 5 trans «
to Largo 11th April 1851.
JOHN STENHOUSE MUIR, born 11th
May 1824, son of William M., D.D.,
min. of St Stephen's, Edinburgh
;
educated at High School and Univ. of
Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh ;
ord. 8th Aug. 1851 ; died unmarr. at Men-
tone, 23rd Dec. 1874. Publication—Ac-
cepted in the Beloved.
DAVID WILLIAM LAMONT WAL-
7 LACE, born Knockgray, Carsphairn,
4th June 1848, son of Archibald W.
and Margaret Lamont; educated at Cars-
phairn, AyrAcademy,Glasgow Univ.; licen.
by Presb. of Kirkcudbright 7th Aug. 1872 ;