LINLITHGOW] UPHALL—WHITBURN 235
1823 ; pres. by David Stuart, Earl of
Buchan ; ord. (assistant and successor) 29th
April 1824 ; dcp. 19th June 1838 ; went to
Australia, where he engaged in agriculture,
and died 28th June 1873.
1839
GEORGE BOAG, born Glasgow, 2nd
March 1799, son of William B. and
Agnes Hamilton ; educated at Glas-
gow Univ. ; licen. by Presb. of Chirnside ;
ord. by Presb. of Northumberland to the
Scottish Church at Widdrington ; pres. by
Henry, Earl of Buchan, June 1839, and adm.
2nd Aug. 1839; died 3rd Feb. 1863. He
man*. 4th June 1833, Eleanor Goldie, died
14th Sept. 1872, and had issue—William
Goldie, min. of Delting, born 15th Oct.
1834; John George, born 11th June 1837,
died 29th May 1842; Ann Leithead, born
16th July 1839, died unmarr. ; Agnes
Hamilton, born 1st March 1842, died
unmarr.; George, born 16th July 1844;
Eleanor Goldie, born 23rd Jan. 1847
;
James, born 23rd Aug. 1849, died 1st
June 1908.
WILLIAM JOHNSTON, born Edin-
1863 burgh, 29thMay 1832 ; son ofWilliam
J., English master and chaplain,
Merchant Maidens' Institution, Edinburgh ;
educated at High School and Univ., Edin-
burgh ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 29th
July 1858 ; assistant at Lesmahagow and
Lady Yester's, Edinburgh ; pres. by David,
Earl of Buchan, 5th March 1863 ; ord. 24th
July 1863; chaplain to the volunteers for
upwards of forty years ; received volunteer
decoration from Queen Victoria ; died 8th
May 1912. He marr. 23rd Jan. 1872, Eliza,
only daugh. of William Arbuckle, farmer,
Wyndford, West Lothian.
CHARLES DUNN, born 1st May 1874,
1912 son °^ ^>e*er D- and Elspeth Strachan ;
educated at Grammar School and
Univs. of Aberdeen and Berlin ; M.A.
(Aberdeen 1895), B.D. (Aberdeen 1898);
licen. by Presb. of Alford 1900; assistant
at St Mary's, Dundee, and West Parish,
Aberdeen; ord. to Arbuthnot 2nd July
1903; trans, to Uphall 24th Sept. 1912.
He marr. 6th June 1911, Jean, daugh. of
William Munro.
WHITBURN.
[The church was opened 21st Oct. 1718.
Parish disjoined from Livingston, and
erected by the Commissioners of Teinds,
23rd June 1731.]
ALEXANDER WARDROBE, son of
1732 David W., of Colt, Livingstone
;
educated at Edinburgh Univ. ; licen.
by Presb. of Forres 13th March 1721 ; ord.
to Muckhart 7th April 1725 ; pres. by Sir
James Cunninghame of Milncraig ; trans,
and adm. 2nd March 1732 ; died 13th June
1759, in his 66th year. He marr. Julia
(died 8th July 1785), eldest daugh. of Sam
Telfer, min. of Kirkintilloch, and had issue
—David ; Barbara ; Julian ; Mary ; Henry ;
Quintin, all above 21 years of age in April
1759.— [Brown's Gosx>. Truth., Diary of
Alexander Johnstone of Kirbland.]
WILLIAM PORTEOUS, pres. by Lady
17 Mary Cunninghame Nov. 1759 ; ord.
10th June 1760; trans, to Wynd
Church, Glasgow, 28th June 1770.—[Con-
nell's Par. Law; New Stat. Ace, ii.]
WILLIAM BARRON, eldest son of
1V71 John B., Glasgow; educated at
Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb.
of Edinburgh 28th April 1762; ord. to
Wamphray 10th Feb. 1763 ; pres. by Sir
William Cunninghame of Livingston
;
trans, and adm. 25th April 1771 ; adm.
Professor of Logic in the Univ. of St
Andrews 2nd Dec. 1778; died 28th Dec.
1803. He marr. 2nd Nov. 1782, Margaret
Stark, and had issue—Thomas, born 28th
Oct. 1783; Helen, born 26th Jan. 1785;
John, born 27th May 1786 ; Ann, born
25th Nov. 1787, died 10th Aug. 1789;
Elizabeth, born 1st May 1790; Maria
Catherine, born 2nd Aug. 1793, died
16th June 1794 ; James, born 24th Jan.
1795, died 7th Sept. 1795. Publications
—An Essay on the Mechanical Principles
of the Plough (Edinburgh, 1774); History
of the Colonization of the Free States
of Antiquity (London, 1777, anon.) ; His-
tory of the Political Connexion between
England, and Ireland from the Reign of
Henry II. to the Present Time (London,