92 ST BERNARD'S [PKESB. OF
1859
1866
ANDREW KENNEDY HUTCHISON
BOYD, trans, from Kirkpatrick-
Irongray, and adm. ]4th April 1859 ;
trans, to St Andrews, First Charge, 14th
Sept. 1865.
JOHN M'MURTKTE, born Ayr, 16th
Dec. 1831, son of John M., bank
agent, Dean of the Faculty of Pro-
curators, Ayr, and Agnes Tweedie, claugh. of
James Nichol, Glasgow ; educated at Ayr I
Academy and Edinburgh Univ. ; B.A.
j
(1854), MA. (1856) ; licen. by Presb. of Ayr
|
12th Aug. 1856 ; assistant atNew Kilpatrick
j
1856; ord. assistant at St George's, Edin- !
burgh, 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. (Aber-
deen 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. lOth 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.
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 Stud)/ of German Theology (1874) ; The
Growth of the Spirit of Christianity (1877)
;
Natural Elements of Revealed Theology
(Baird Lecture, 1881); Confucianism (St
Giles Lecture, 1882) ; My Aspirations
(1882) ; Moments on the Mount (1884) ; The
Religious Bearings of the Doctrine ofEvolu-
tion (1884) ; Can the Old Faith Live tvith
the New? (1885); The Psalmist and the
Scientist (1887) ; Landmarks of New Testa-
ment Morality (1888) ; Voices of the Spirit
(1888); Sacred Songs (1890); Spiritual
Develojwient of St Paul (1891) (translated
into Chinese) ; Distinctive Messages of the
Old Religions (1892) ; Searchings in the
Silence (1895) ; Words by the Wayside
(1896); The Lady Ecclesia (1896); Side-
lightsfrom 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 Hours
(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 ; Diet. Nat. Biog.]
JAMES JOHNSTONE DRUMMOND,
lgq
,_ M.A., B.D. ; trans, from Longfor-
macus, and adm. (assistant and
successor) 22nd Oct. 1897 ; trans, to Jed-
burgh 7th Dec. 1899.
ALEXANDER FIDDES, born 17th Jan.
1860, son ofEdward F.,joint-manager
of North of Scotland Bank, Aber-
deen ; 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
1900