HADDINGTON] GLADSMUIR 367 unable to attend because of illness, died shortly afterwards.] He 1759 FRANCIS COWAN, Keen, by Presb. of Edinburgh 27th April 1758; pres. by John, Earl of Hopetoun; ord. 5th April 1759 ; died 28th Oct. 1789. He marr. 16th Nov. 1769, Janet Baillie, who died at Edinburgh, 17th Nov. 1815, and had issue—Samuel, born 10th April 1771, died 31st Aug. 1776; Ann, born 30th June 1772 (marr. John Thomson, D.D., min. of New Greyfriars) ; George, born 21st June 1774, died 7th May 1789 ; Janet, born 16th June 1776; Margaret, born 27th Feb. 1778; Christian, born 18th May 1780, died 2nd June 1782. 1790 GEORGE HAMILTON, born 15th May 1757, son of John H., min. of Bolton ; educated at High School, Edinburgh, and Glasgow Univ. ; M.A. (1775); originally intended for the legal profession, and entered at Inner Temple ; licen. by Presb. of Haddington 1st April 1788 ; pres. by George III. and ord. 15th April 1790 ; a candidate for the Professor- ship of Moral Philosophy, Univ. of Glas- gow, 1797; D.D. (Glasgow, Nov. 1804); Moderator of General Assembly 16th May 1805 ; died 4th Sept. 1832. He marr. 9th May 1790, Elizabeth (died 6th July 1825), daugh. of John Dickson of Conheath, Provost of Dumfries, and had issue—John James, H.E.I.C.S., born 10th July 1792, died 1831 ; William Law, born 10th July 1792, died 17th Jan. 1796 ; George, min. of Kirkcudbright ; Helen Wight, born 5th Dec. 1797, died unmarr. 14th March 1822 ; Jean Bell, born 5th March 1799, died unmarr. 30th Nov. 1876; Margaret Coates, born 18th Sept. 1800 (marr. Adam Forman, min. of Innerwick, and of the Free Church, Leven), died 24th Feb. 1832. Publications —Sermon preached for the Society in aid of the Sons of the Clergy (Edinburgh, 1810) ; Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace, vii.) ; joint editor of Goldie's Sermons ; The Telegraph, a Political Poem. He is referred to in Burns's Reply to a Reproof. —[Steven's High School ; Burns's Works, Wallace's ed., ii. ; MS. Aatob.] JOHN RAMSAY, born 9th May 1777, son of William R., Carstairs ; edu-1833 cated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (12th April 1809) ; assistant librarian at Edinburgh Univ. ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 28th Dec. 1803; tutor to Henry Clay, an American statesman, and in the family of Lord President Hope ; assistant at St Cuthbert's, and. St Andrew's, Edinburgh ; ord. (assistant and successor) to Ormiston 12th Nov. 1812 ; pres. by John, Earl of Hopetoun, in Dec. 1832 ; trans, and adm. 14th Feb. 1833; died 7th Jan. 1871. He marr. 8th Aug. 1815, Mary (died 31st Aug. 1825), eldest daugh. of Andrew Johnston, min. of Saltoun, and had issue —Mary Jane, born 11th July 1816 (marr. 2nd July 1846, John Deas, H.E.I.C.S.); Charlotte Hope, born 16th Nov. 1817, died in infancy ; Catherine, born 27th Dec. 1818 (marr. 26th Aug. 1847), Alexander Weir Robertson, C.A., Edinburgh); Char- lotte, born 16th Aug. 1820 (marr. 1840, Archibald Cuthbertson, Greendykes) ; Isa- bella, born 5th June 1822, died 9th April 1878 ; William, born 12th April 1824, died in infancy ; John Hope, born 25th Aug. 1825, died in infancy. Publications — An Account of theGame ofCurling (Edinburgh, 1811 ; reprinted 1882) ; An Inquiry into the Infidelity of the Present Times (Edinburgh, 1821) ; Sermons on Various Subjects, with Occasional Prayers (Edinburgh, 1862); Articles in Brewster's Edinburgh Encyclo- ])oedia ; Accounts of Ormiston and of Gladsmuir (Neio Stat. Ace, ii.). He edited The Scots Magazine, lxiv., lxv. WILLIAM MENZIES, pres. by the 1R^1 Crown; trans, from Ayr (Second Charge), and adm. 20th July 1871 ; trans, to Innerleithen 13th Jan. 1876. WILLIAM BELL TURNBULL, 1876 educated at Edinburgh Univ. ; mis- sionary in New Street Chapel, Edinburgh ; ord. to St Mary's, Dum- fries, 13th May 1862; trans, to Town- head, Glasgow, 7th June 1866; trans, and adm. 27th April 1876; died at Portobello, 3rd March 1906. He marr. (1) 10th Dec. 1847, Janet Hardie, who died 28th July 1887, and had issue—