Edinburgh] EDINBURGH CASTLE-MARINERS
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CHURCH 1!
JAMES GLASGOW, M.A. (Glasgow,
17S8 10t^^arcn m&) > commissioned by
George II. 7th July 1737 ; ord. 14th
Feb. 1738 ; died 9th Feb. 1746, aged about
48.
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[Mun. Univ. Glasg., iii. ; Beg. (Bur.) ;
Trtistees Bep., 1745.]
WILLIAM SMITH, licen. by Presb. of
7 Haddington 12th Jan. 1727 ; ord. in
the Castle 4th Sept. 1746 ; died 6th
Feb. 1751.—[Test, and Edin. Beg.]
JOHN JOHNSTON, M.A.; ord. 10th
7
M
May 1751 ; trans, to Biggar 15th
Aug. 1754, having exchanged charges
with William Haig.— [Carlyle's Autob.,
Morren's Ann.]
WILLIAM HAIG, son of James H.,
Orchardfarm, Alloa ; adm. 13th Sept.
1754; died 19th Oct. 1761.
LEITH WYND CHAPEL.
[Opened as a chapel-of-ease, 18th Nov.
1792 ; declared a parish quoad sacra,
31st May 1834. Closed in 1843.]
JOSEPH ROBERTSON, licen. by
l7g2 Presb. of Edinburgh 29th Oct. 1788 ;
assistant at Stewarton 1790 ; ord.
13th Dec. 1792 ; dem. 21st April, and dep.
2nd May 1818, having been convicted by
the High Court of Justiciary of celebrating
unlawful marriages, and uttering fabri-
cated certificates of proclamations, and
banished for life 18th April preceding.
He marr., and had issue—Hamilton, died
12th Nov. 1861, aged 21; Joseph, W.S.
apprentice 1805. Publications
—
Lettersand
Dialogues on the Lord's Supper (Edin-
burgh, 1794) ; translated Lampe's Theologi-
cal Dissertations concerning the Endless
Duration ofPunishment (Edinburgh, 1796);
Outlines ofa Course of Theological Lectures
(1799) ; The Traveller's Guide through
Scotland (Edinburgh, 1799) ; The Traveller's
Guide through Ireland; Theological Lec-
tures (Edinburgh, 1806) ; SacredBiography ;
Sacred Contemplations ; The Ecclesiastical
Biography of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1810)
;
A Sermon on the Doctrine of the Trinity,
and the Dignity of the Bedeemed (Edin-
burgh, 1814).
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[Scots Mag., lxxxi.]
SAMUEL GEORGE KENNEDY, ord.
1818 10th Dec. 1818 ; resigned 26th April
1820, onappointment toWest Parish,
Perth.
JOHN THOMSON, ord. 16th Nov.
1820 1820; dem. 28th Jan. 1824, on
appointment to Dysart, Second
Charge.
WILLIAM SIMPSON, M.A., born
1824 Dundee, 1787 ; licen. by Presb. of
Cupar 8th Dec. 1807 ; ord. assistant
at Arbroath 11th Dec. 1813 ; afterwards
assistant at Dairsie ; adm. 21st Oct. 1824.
Joined the Free Church ; min. of John
Knox's Free Church, Edinburgh, 1843 ; died
unmarr. 4th Jan. 1858. Publication
—
Be-
membrance Bemembered (Edinburgh, 1839).
MARINERS' CHURCH, LEITH.
[Constituted by the General Assembly,
27th May 1839. Became, in 1843, St
Ninian's Free Church, Leith.]
1840
JOHN THOMSON, born Edinburgh,
1808, son of James T. and Katherine
Oakley ; educated at High School
and Univ.; M.A. (1830); licen. by Presb.
of Edinburgh; ord. 1840, to the "Bethel"
or Floating Chapel in Leith Harbour,
previous to the erection of permanent
building. Joined Free Church ; min. of St
Ninian's Free Church, Leith, 1843; clerk
to the Free Synod of Lothian and Tweed-
dale ; died 18th Nov. 1881. He marr. 3rd
April 1848, Elizabeth Gavin, daugh. of John
Brown, D.D., min. of Langton, and had
issue— John Brown, I.C.S. ; Katherine
Oakley (marr. A. A. Gillies) ; James
Douglas ; Georgina Elizabeth (marr. 1883,
David Ross, M.A., min. of the Free Church,
Crathie, afterwards of St Kilda, Mel-
bourne), died 1901. Publications—Trans-
lation of Hengstenberg's Commentary on
the Psalms ; Stier's Words of Jesus; con-
tributed to Kitto's Journal, etc.