EDINBURGH] CURRIE—DUDDINGSTON 17 by Presb. of Lerwick 27th June 1821 ; ord. to Dunrossness 12th Sept. 1822 ; trans, to Lerwick 13th Dec. 1827; clerk of the Synod of Shetland 27th April 1831 ; trans, to Peterculter 24th Aug. 1843 ; trans, and adm. 11th July 1844 ; D.D. (King's College, Aberdeen, 10th Feb. 1849); Principal of Glasgow University 13th Feb. 1858; died 23rd Feb. 1873. He marr. 21st Sept. 1820, Mary (died 18th Jan. 1881), daugh. of Captain Charles Adamson of Kirkhill, and had issue—Archibald, born 23rd Oct. 1821, drowned in China 9th April 1850; Elizabeth Mitchell, born 8th April 1823 (marr. 7th Oct. 1851, William Alexander Peterkin, general superintendent, Board of Supervision), died 1st April 1901 ; Charles Frederick, born 31st Dec. 1825 ; John, born 17th May 1827 ; Ursula Euphemia, born 5th April 1829, died 5th Dec. 1831 ; Bruce, M.D., born 14th Feb. 1833 ; Jean Adamson, born 31st Oct. 1835, died unmarr. ; Mary Caroline, born 7th July 1837 ; Thomas, born 26th Feb. 1841. Publications—^ Speech delivered in the Presbytery of Edinburgh, 25th March 1857, against the Transmission of an Overture condemning the System of Government Education in India ; " Charity, the Characteristic of Christianity " {Church of Scotland Pulpit, 1845) ; "Explanation of Inscription on the Chambers of the Maes- Howe 11 (Collectanea Archazologia, vol. ii.) [see Wilson's Prehistoric Annals, ii., 284 ; Caird's Memorial Sermon, Sir Henry Hol- land's Recollections, Diet. Nat. Biog.] 1859 JAMES LANGWILL, born Greenock, 2nd April 1824, third son of Archibald L., H.M. Customs, and Rosina Watson ; educated at Greenock Public School and Glasgow and Edinburgh Univs. ; entered the Relief Theological Hall 1844 ; joined the Church of Scotland ; licen. by Presb. of Greenock 1850; assist- ant at Currie ; ord. to Legerwood 8th Sept. 1853 ; trans, and adm. 21st Jan. 1859 ; Presbytery clerk 1872; D.D. (Glasgow 1888); died 2nd June 1898. He marr. 2nd April 1856, Anne Adair (died 17th July 1908), daugh. of Robert Balfour Graham, D.D., min. of North Berwick, and had issue—Archibald, C.A., born 14th VOL. I. June 1857 ; Robert Balfour, Royal Bank of Scotland, born 30th Sept. 1858 ; James, born 22nd Aug. 1860, died 25th Feb. 1872 ; Mary, born 13th Jan. 1862, died 26th April 1880 ; William, M.A., student of medicine, born 28th Feb. 1865, died 16th June 1887 ; Hamilton Graham, M.D., born 24th April 1867. DAVID CALDWELL STEWART, born Ochiltree, 25th Sept. 1860 ; educated at Ochiltree Parish School, Normal Training College, Glasgow, and Edinburgh Univ.; M.A. (1891); licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 1894 ; assistant at St Cuth- bert's and Lady Glenorchy's, Edinburgh ; ord. 25th Nov. 1898. Marr. 7th Feb. 1899, Annie (died 10th July 1902), daugh. of Hugh Morton, Barnockholm, Ochiltree, and had issue— Quintin Ridgley, born 11th Aug. 1900 ; Annie Morton, born 30th June 1902. DUDDINGSTON. [The church previous to the Reformation belonged to the Abbey of Kelso.] WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, styled 1560 vicar. 1564 JOHN BRAND, min. of Holyrood, had the oversight for some years, with the addition of the church in the Castle of Edinburgh. — [Peg. Assig.] NINIAN HAMILTON (Peg. of Deeds, 1574 xxi.), a prebendary of St Giles as far back as 1542, and in 1553 and 1556. He is called "Exhorter" in 1576, and held office till the appointment of a minister in 1588, in which year he probably died.—[Peg. Min.] CHARLESLUMSDEN (irrimus), son of Andrew L., tailor, burgess of Edin- burgh, and Agnes Cor (G. P. Inhib., 2nd Series, viii., 77 ; Prot. Bk., John Hay, iv., 21) ; adm. burgess of Edinburgh in right of his father, 14th Dec. 1614 ; M.A. ; regent in the Univ. of Edinburgh 1587 ; pres. by James VI. in 1611, and 30th Oct. same year had 50 merks allowed by the Town Council of Edinburgh, "for his paynes and travell in examination of the B