318 DALKEITH, WEST—FALA [PRESB. OF
JAMES LAMONT, born Rothesay 1820,
son of Duncan L. ; educated at18&S Glasgow Univ. ; licen. by Presb. of
Dunoon 1855; ord. to Kelvinhaugh, Glas-
gow, 20th Dec. 1856; trans, to Broughty
Ferry 1856 ; trans, and adm. 8th May
1863; died 25th Nov. 1891. He marr.
7th June 1859, Maria Jane Wallace, who
died 29th Aug. 1863. He was an accom-
plished amateur astronomer who made his
own telescopes.
HENRY FARQUHAR, born Guthrie,
Forfarshire, 7th Nov. 1860, son of
1833 Alexander F.. farmer, and Elizabeth
Mitchell ; educated at Guthrie, Aberdeen
Grammar School and Univ., and Edin-
burgh Univ. ; M.A. (Aberdeen 1879), B.D.
(Edinburgh 1882); licen. by Presb. of
Arbroath 16th May 1882 ; assistant at
North Leith ; ord. (assistant and suc-
cessor) 7th Aug. 1883 ; res. 17th May 1909.
He marr. 18th Aug. 1884, Annie Muir,
daugh. of Hugh Peace, schoolmaster, Mary-
kirk, Kincardineshire, and has issue
—
James Lamont, banker, London, born 11th
March 1887 ; Jessie Semple, born 5th June
1891, died 24th Sept. 1894. Publications—
Nature's Story (Edinburgh, 1895); Memorial
Sketch ofDr Lucas (Dalkeith, 1905) ; Inter-
pretation of Nature (Guild Text-Book,
Edinburgh, 1910) ; Frank Mitchell, Gtdlds-
man (Edinburgh, 1911); Milicent, serial
in Life and Work, 1913 ; editor of Church
of Scotland Sabbath School Teachers' Maga-
zine, from 1894.
1909
JOHN SCOTT, born Annacloy, Co.
Down, Ireland, 9th Aug. 1865, son of
John S., Belfast, and Jane Campbell
;
educated at Belfast (Queen's andAssembly's
Colleges), Royal Univ. of Ireland ; B.A.
(1888); licen. by Presb. of Down 1890;
min. of Stewartstown Presbyterian Church,
Co. Tyrone, 1891, afterwards of Yeoville
Presbyterian Church, Johannesburg; adm.
by the General Assembly of 1908 as an ord. !
min. of the Church of Scotland ; adm. to
this charge 16th Sept. 1909. Marr. 19th
Jan. 1893, Mary Emma, daugh. of Joseph
Houghton Buckley, Kirkham, Lancashire,
and Sally Winterbotham. Publications
—
The Soldiers of the King (London, 1903)
;
Man in the Net (London, 1912).
FALA.
[Previous to the Reformation the church,
dedicated to St Modan, belonged to the
Preceptory of Ednam. The kirk was in
ruins 6th Sept. 1621.]
1590 JOHN HISLOP, reader.
JAMES HAISTIE [HASTINGS], trans.
15gl from Clerkington, and adm. 1591,
having Soutra also in charge ; trans,
to Temple 1595.
—
[Reg. Assig.]
1612
JAMES PORTEOUS, min. of Soutra,
and his successors were granted in
1612,by Andrew Edmonstone of that
ilk, as patron of the Preceptory of Fala, a
manse and glebe. They Avere to serve the
cure at Fala every alternate Sunday (Reg.
of Deeds, ccix., 177).
JOHN LOGAN, M.A. (Edinburgh, 27th
1618 ^U^ 1611) > licen - by Presb. of Edin-
burgh ; ord. min. of Soutra 1617;
became min. of the united parish of Soutra
and Fala 20th Feb. 1618. He was a
member of the Commission of Assembly
1642, and dem. in Feb. 1674.— [Stat.
Reports, 1627 ; Acts of Ass., Wodrow's
Hist., New Stat. Ace]
GEORGE MOODIE, M.A. (Edinburgh
„ 1699) ; licen. by Alexander, Bishop of
Edinburgh, 16th April 1673 ; pres.
by Thomas Hamilton of Preston ; ord. and
coll. 12th May, and inst. 3rd June 1674.
Deprived for refusing the Test in 1681 ;
afterwards min. of Fogo 1693.— [Beg.
ColIat., Wodrow's Hist.]
GEORGE JOHNSTON, M.A. ; pres. by
the Town Council of Edinburgh 6th
Oct. 1682; adm. 12th Jan. 1683;
trans, to Burntisland in 1688.
ALEXANDER GRANT, son of Duncan
G. of Branchell ; educated at the
Univ. and King's College, Aberdeen ;
M.A. (11th July 1676); adm. 1689. De-
prived by the Privy Council 4th Sept.