80 LADY GLENORCHY'S—LADY YESTER'S [PRESB. OF Co)igregational Independency in Scotland, Fraser's Maxwells of Pollok, Diet. Nat. Biog.] JOHN PURVES, nom. (assistant and successor) by the Trustees, and ord. 14th April 1826 ; res. 27th Oct. 1830 on presentation to Jedburgh. JAMES BEGG, trans, from Maxwell- town ; nom. by the Trustees (assistant and successor), and adm. 23rd Dec. 1830 ; trans, to Middle Church, Paisley, 25th Nov. 1831. 1831 THOMAS LIDDELL, trans, from Mon- trose Chapel-of-Ease ; nom. (assistant and successor) by the Trustees, and adm. 22nd Dec. 1831 ; res. on app. as first Principal of Queen's College, Kingston, Canada, 27th Oct. 1841 ; [afterwards min. of Lochmaben]. GEORGERAMSAY DAVIDSON, born 1842 Brecnm > 1801, son of David D. ; educated at Brechin Grammar School and St Andrews Univ. ; M.A. (1820) ; licen. by Presb. of St Andrews 25th June 1823; ord. to Drumblade 8th May 1828 ; trans, and adm. 14th July 1842. Joined the Free Church ; min. of Free Lady Glenorchy's, Edinburgh, 1843; D.D. (St Andrews); died 17th May 1890. He marr. 8th June 1830, Jessie (died 10th Sept. 1876), daugh. of William Lumsden, architect, Edinburgh, and had issue—Eliza Maule, born 4th March 1831 (marr. 13th June 1851, Sir Thomas Clark, Bart.) ; Mary, born 15th Feb. 1833 (marr. Alexander Cusin, her father's successor, in Lady Glenorchy's Free Church) ; George Ramsay, born 29th Jan. 1836 ; David William, born 12th Feb. 1838. Publica- tions— Privilege and Duty, a Pastoral Address (Edinburgh, 1845); Britain's Past Policy, Penitence, and Pledge, a sermon (Edinburgh, 1857); Account of the Parish of Drumblade {New Stat. Ace, xii.). DANIEL M'LAREN, ord. 29th Jan. iooo 1863; trans, to Carluke 19thJ.OOO _ , - March 1874. JOHN GRIGOR, trans, from Fullarton, 18?4 Irvine, and adm. 24th Sept. 1874 ; trans, to St David's, Glasgow, 16th Nov. 1876. ANDREW FYFE BURNS, M.A. ; trans, from St James's, Kirkcaldy, and adm. 17th May 1877 ; trans, to St George's, Paisley, 21st March 1882. 1877 1882 THOMASBURNS, born 3rd March 1853, son of Thomas B., min. of Lesma- hagow ; educated at Glasgow High School and Univ. ; licen. by Presb. of GlasgowMay 1876 ; assistant at St George's Parish, Glasgow; ord. to Melville Parish, Montrose, 8th Nov. 1877 ; trans, and adm. 30thAug. 1882 ; governor ofGeorge Heriot's Trust 1890 ; chairman of Royal Blind Asylum 1894 ; deputy - chairman, Edin- burgh School Board 1903 ; convener of the General Assembly's Committee on Benefice Register and Records of the Church ; D.D. (Glasgow 1906) ; F.R.S.E., F.S.A.Scot. He marr. 3rd June 1890, Sarah Frances Town- send, daugh. of Charles Wilson Murray of Croston Towers, Alderly Edge, and grand- daughter of Sir Hugh Lyon Playfair, LL.D., St Andrews, and has issue—Agnes Mary Frances, born 26th April 1891 ; Reginald Thomas Murray, born 9th Aug. 1892 ; Norman Frederick MacGregor, born 4th April 1902. Publications—Old Scottish Communion Plate (Edinburgh, 1896) ; American Educational Institutions and Methods (1901) ; Benefice Lectures, de- livered at the four Scottish Universities (Edinburgh, 1905). LADY YESTERS. [Founded by Margaret, third daugh. of Mark, first Earl of Lothian, and wife of James, seventh Lord Hay of Yester. She died 15th March 1647. The church was badly damaged by Cromwell's soldiers in Nov. 1650, but being restored, was erected into a parish church, 24th Aug. 1655, for the south-east portion of the city. During the Episcopacy it was shut up and the parish annexed to the Tron.