78 OLD KIRK PARISH—LADY GLENORCHYS [presb. of
piece of ground on which church and halls
now stand disjoined from Canongate Parish
immediately adjoining. The church was
opened 11th June 1882.]
JAMES ANDERSON, born Conniven
farmhouse, Kirkgunzeon, 22nd Nov.
1883 1840 ; educated at St Andrews Univ.
and Congregational Hall, Edinburgh ; ord.
in Augustine Church, Edinburgh, a mis-
sionary to China, 28th June 1865, under
the London Missionary Society; laboured
in Hong-Kong and Canton for five years,
returned, because of illness, to Scotland,
1870 ; ind. to Elgin Congregational Church
Sept. 1872, and to Norwood, London, 1879 ;
adm. a min. of the Church of Scotland
May 1882 ; adm. to this charge 20th
Dec. 1883 ; died 4th Aug. 1894. He marr.
29th June 1865, Mary Jemima, second
daugh. of William Walker, Kirkcaldy, who,
on her husband's death,became a deaconess
of the Church of Scotland, and laboured
for the Church's Mission in China ; she
died in Edinburgh, 25th Nov. 1905. The
"Anderson Memorial Dispensary " atIchang
was built in 1909 from a legacy by Mrs
Anderson for this purpose.—[SeeA Mission-
ary Minister ; Memorials of the Rev. James
Anderson, with Selectionsfrom his Sermons,
and a preface by Arch. Scott, D.D. (Edin.,
1895).]
1894
THOMAS WILLIAM GRANT
SUTHERLAND, M.A., R.D. (Edin-
burgh) ; ord. (assistant and successor)
16th May 1894; trans, to Innerwick 16th
Nov. 1906.
JAMES RICHMOND AITKEN, born
Auchenlochan, Kilfinan, Argyllshire,
22nd June 1865, third son of James
A., builder and contractor, Glasgow, and
Jessie Richmond; educated at Glasgow
Univ. and Regent's Park College, London ;
M.A. (Glasgow, April 1891); min. of the
Baptist Church at Pitlochry 1893-4, at
Olney, Bucks, 1894-8, at Dunnington,
Warwickshire, 1898-1906; adm. to the
Church of Scotland May 1906, and licen.
by Presb. of Edinburgh Sept. 1906 ; assist-
ant at St Stephen's, Edinburgh; ord. 6th
March 1907. Marr. 2nd Sept. 1897, Ger-
trude, eldest daugh. of Rev. Joseph Allen,
B.A., Olney, and has issue—Marguerite,
born 27th Dec. 1898; Ronald Richmond,
born 14th Sept. 1900 ; Malcolm, born 15th
Jan. 1904, died 19th Jan. 1904. Publica-
tions
—
Love in its Tenderness (London,
1901) ; The Sins ofa Saint (London, 1903)
;
The Christ of the Men of Art (Edinburgh,
1913); A City Garden (London, 1913);
My Garden of the Red, Red Rose (London,
1913).
LADY GLENORCHY'S (Q.S.).
[Founded by Willielma, Viscountess
Glenorchy, Oct. 1772; opened 8th May
1774 ; and conveyed to five Trustees, 26th
Jan. 1786. The constitution was revised
20th May 1837, when the Trustees obtained
an Act of Parliament (1 & 2 Vict. cap. 22),
which extended and explained their powers.
It was then constituted a parish quoad
sacra. In 1845 the chapel was acquired
from the Trustees on erection of the
North British Railway Station. After a
protracted litigation Roxburgh Place
Chapel was purchased in 1856, and a
parish quoad sacra was created by the
Court of Teinds on 2nd July 1862. New
church and halls were built 1909-12, and
opened 10th Dec. 1913.]
FRANCIS SHERRIFF, born 1750, son
lt?tr7 of Francis S., Dremhills, East
Lothian ; educated at Musselburgh
School and Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A.
(1770); through the influence of John
Home, author of Douglas, he was for a
time tutor in a nobleman's family, and
afterwards a clerk in the War Office. In
1771 he visited Jamaica, and on his return
was licen. by the Presb. of Haddington,
30th March 1773; ord. 6th July 1775,
chaplain (assistant) to General Houston's
Regt. of the Scots Brigade in Holland
;
app. by Lady Glenorchy, and adm. 12th
Nov. 1777 ; died unmarr. 12th June 1778.
—
[Lady Glenorchy's Account, Wood's Hist,
of Cramond, Jones's Life of Lady
Glenorchy.']