262 SYMINGTON—WALSTON [PRESB. OF
[The Symington Manse and Glebe Ex-
emption from Assessment for Poor-Rates
Case (1856) excited no little attention.
The litigation was costly and protracted,
as, raised against Mr Forbes, it was carried
from the local Courts and the Courts of
Session to the House of Lords. It resulted
in the decision that manses and glebes of
the Church of Scotland were exempt from
the tax.]
1881
JOHN ALEXANDER, born at Sydney,
New South Wales, 1st Feb. 1853, son
of John A. and Mary Auchie ; edu-
cated at CorstorphineandEdinburgh Univ.
;
M.A. (1875) ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh
April 1879; assistant at St Mungo and
Milton, Glasgow; ord. 15th Jan. 1881 ; res.
15th June 1891 to become chaplain of
H.M. Prison, Glasgow. He marr. 24th Feb.
1881, Isabella (died 11th Jan. 1914), daugh.
of William Hurst, C.E., West Derby, Liver-
pool, and widow of A. D. Hewat, Edin-
burgh, and has issue—Mary Auchie,
born 11th Jan. 1886. Publications—
Lectures on Philippians in The Christian
Treasury (1882) ; A Talk about my Work
in Prison, an address (Glasgow).
1891
GEORGE CALDWELL, born Kirkin-
tilloch, 24th Jan. 1858, son of James
C. and Mary Logan ; educated at
Lenzie Academy and Glasgow Univ. ; licen.
by Presb. ofGlasgow 1881 ; assistant atBoth-
well ; ord. 11th Nov. 1891. Marr. 30th June
1896, Margaret Anne, daugh. of Robert
Macdonald, Frederictown, Canada, and
has issue—James Robert Macdonald, born
23rd Dec. 1898 ; George Frederick Arthur,
born 8th Sept, 1903.
WALSTON.
[From early times a lay rectory in the
gift of the lord of the manor. A church
has occupied the same site from the close
of the thirteenth century.]
1560 DAVID DALGLEISH, reader, 1560.
LAURENCE LEECHMAN [Book of
1561 Assumptions; Chalmers's Caled., iii.]
WALTER TWEEDIE, pres. by James,
1567 Earl of Bothwell, 20th May 1567,
and again by King James VI. 3rd
Sept. 1567 {Reg. Sec. Sig., xxxvii., 5)
;
exhorter at Broughton 1567.
JOHN FOTHERINGHAM and
THOMAS LINDSAY, exhorters,
when Dolphinton, Dunsyre, and
Skirling were also in the charge.
1567
1570 ROBERT KINROSS, reader.
THOMAS LINDSAY, colleague ex-
horter in 1567; pres. by James VI.
4th Jan. 1580 ; died 17th June 1609.
He marr. Helen Smyth, who died 12th Jan.
1629, and had issue—Thomas, his successor ;
Annabel (marr., cont. 14th Aug. 1606, John,
son and apparent heir of Stephen Bell of
Fuillisland: Reg. ofDeeds, cxxi., 457).
—
[Reg.
Min., Tombst., Wodrow Miscell., Stirling
Presb. and Test. Reg. (Lan.) ; New Stat.
Ace, vi.]
THOMAS LINDSAY, son of preceding,
M.A. (Glasgow 1612) ; received on
trials by Presb. of Stirling 8th June
1614; adm. 1621; died 26th Nov. 1654,
aged about 62. He marr. (name unknown),
and had issue—Thomas, min. of Dunblane,
who was served heir 13th Jan. 1662
;
Charles, min. of Covington; Robert,
apprenticed 12th Sept. 1655 to Robert
Brown, bookseller, Edinburgh.— [Stirl.
Presb. and Test. Reg. (Lan.), Tombst.
;
Inq. Ret. Gen., 4532 ; New Stat. Ace, vi.]
PATRICK ANDERSON, M.A. (St
Andrews 1648); adm. between 1st
May and 1st Nov. 1655 ; deprived by
Act of Parliament 11th June, and of Privy
Council 1st Oct. 1662; indulged at Kilbirnie;
resided in Edinburgh for some years
;
called before the Privy Council on a
charge of having held conventicles at Bog-
hall, Biggar, and in his house at Potterrow
during the years 1674-8, and of correspond-
ing with John Welsh, Gabriel Semple, and
other intercommuned persons. He was
pronounced guilty and sentenced to im-
prisonment on the Bass, unless he found
caution to the amount of 2000 merks, and