Linlithgow] ABERCORN 191
Dec. 1791 ; adra. Professor of Ecclesi-
astical History in the Univ. of Edin-
burgh (held in conjunction with his
charge) 21st Jan. 1799; D.D. (Edinburgh,
27thMarch 1800) ; Moderator of the General
Assembly 17th May 1810; died 11th June
1831. Sir Robert Christison describes him
as " a powerfully built man of six feet four,
with a smooth round face that never bore
any expression but that of good humour
and contentment." He marr. 28th May
1792, Anne (died 27th March 1852), daugh.
of Robert Liston, min. of Aberdour, and
had issue—Eliza, born 12th June 1793;
James Hope Johnstone, captain, 92nd
Highlanders, born 5th March 1795; Hugh
Cree, writer, born 27th Jan. 1797; Ann,
born 26th June 1798; Robert, min. of
Strathdon, born 1st Oct. 1800; Mary,
born 17th Oct. 1802 (marr. James Bryce,
D.D., min. at Calcutta) ; Andrew Cree,
born 14th July 1805; Alexander, born 18th
Feb. 1808; William Hope, D.D., min. at
Calcutta, born 5th Aug. 1811. Publications
—Three single Sermons (Edinburgh, 1798-
1823) ; Account of the Parish (Sinclair's
Stat. Ace, xx.).—[Grant's Univ., ii.]
LEWIS HAY IRVING, son of John I.,
W.S., Edinburgh ; educated at Univ.
of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of
Dunblane 26th Oct. 1830; pres. by John,
Earl of Hopetoun, and ord. 16th Dec. 1831.
Joined the Free Church ; adm. to Falkirk
Free Church 1843; died 28th June 1877.
He marr. (1) 12th Sept. 1832, Isabella
Carruthers, Balmaclellan, who died 16th
Aug. 1836, and had issue—Margaret Isa-
bella, born 27th July 1836 (marr. David
Mathie Peebles, banker, Falkirk) : (2) 6th
Oct. 1840, Catherine (died 16th Oct. 1890),
daugh. of John James Cadell of Grange
and Banton, and had issue— Catherine
Cadell, born 28th May 1842, died 8th May
1843 ; Isabella Moubray, born 17th Dec.
1843 (marr. 20th July 1866, Robert Craigie
Bell, W.S.), died 21st June 1911; Agnes
Hay, born 16th June 1845 (marr. 27th Jan.
1870, Surgeon-Major Julius John Wood,
Indian Medical Service) ; John, M.A., min.
of Free Church, Innellan, afterwards of
Nice, born 20th June 1847, died 1904;
Christian Katherine, born 28th July 1849
(marr. 25th July 1878, Thomas Stewart
Omond, barrister, London); Mary Chan-
cellor, born 24th Oct. 1852. Publication
—
Account of the Parish {New Stat. Ace, ii.).
DAVID PLAYFAIR, born 12th Sept.
. 1815, fourth son of Patrick P., of
Dalmarnock, Glasgow, and Jean,
second daugh. of Principal Playfair, St
Andrews ; educated at Glasgow Academy,
the Univs. of Glasgow, Edinburgh, St
Andrews, and Trinity College, Cambridge ;
B.A. (Cantab. 1838); licen. by Presb. of
Edinburgh 11th Nov. 1841 ; pres. by the
tutors of John Alexander, Earl of Hope-
toun, July 1843 ; ord. 14th Sept. 1843 ; res.
9th Nov. 1880 ; died at Edinburgh, 11th
Aug. 1886. He marr. 7th March 1854,
Jane Kincaid (died 2nd Aug. 1897), daugh.
of James Pitcairn, M.D., Edinburgh, and
had issue—David Thomson, M.D., born
24th March 1855, died 1st Nov. 1904;
Cecilia Pitcairn, born 7th Nov. 1856 (marr.
15th Sept. 1895, William Vassie, B.D., min.
of Castleton) ; Patrick Macdonald, D.D.,
min. (First Charge) of St Andrew's
Parish ; Mary Jemima Jane (died in
infancy) ; Alice Jane Macduff, born 9th
July 1865. Publications—Sermon, Comfort
in Christian Sorrowfor the ChristianDead
(Abercorn, 1859) ; Sermon, Parting Words
of Counsel (Abercorn, 1880).
JOHN HOWARD CRAWFORD, born
Edinburgh, 7th June 1854, son of
William C, missionary in connection
with St Thomas's Episcopal Church, Edin-
burgh ; educated at Edinburgh Univ.
;
M.A. (1878); lecturer in Moray House
Training College, Edinburgh ; licen. by
Presb. of Edinburgh 12th May 1880; ord.
12th May 1881 ; died unmarr. 16th Aug.
1900). Publications
—
A Circle of the Soul
—Poems of the Sp>iritual Life (Edinburgh,
1889) ; An Atonement of East London
(Edinburgh, 1890) ; Thoughts at Opening
Manhood; The Unity of the British
Empire; Calvinism Taught in the Thirty-
nine Articles ; The Brotherhood ofMankind
—A Study toivards a Christan Philosophy
of History (Edinburgh, 1895).