EDINBURGH] EAST CALDER—MID-CALDER 175
JOHN TENNENT, pres. by James VI.
1617 5th Oct. 1617 ; vide Mid-Calder.
JOHN DUNLOP, born 1617, son of
1642 ^onn -D., min. of Ratho ; educated
at Univ. of Glasgow ; M.A. (1636)
;
licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith 24th Oct.
1639; adm. 13th Oct. 1642; died 29th
May 1648. He marr. 14th Sept. 1643,
Elizabeth, daugh. of Alexander Barbour,
writer, Edinburgh, and had issue—John
;
Alexander, apprenticed 17th Dec. 1662, to
George Meyne, merchant, Edinburgh.
—
[Mun. Univ. Glasg., iii. ; Test, and Edin.
Reg. {Ba2)t. and Marr.).]
ANDREW KINNEAR, M.A. ; pres. by
1649 Francis, Earl of Buccleuch, and adm.
13th June 1649 ; trans, to Second
Charge, Stirling, in 1663.— [Test. Reg.
(Stirl.).]
EDWARD KINNEAR, M.A. ; pres. by
1663 Mary, Countess of Buccleuch ; ord.
and coll. 24th April 1663; trans, to
Second Charge, Old Church, Edinburgh,
same year.
—
[Reg. Collat.]
JAMES BROWN, second son of Robert
1665 B. of Finmont ; chaplain to David,
Earl of Wemyss ; pres. by Robert,
Bishop of Dunblane, 10th March 1665;
coll. 9th, and inst. 16th June 1665 (Reg. of
Deeds, Durie, 12th Dec. 1679). He was
probably outed in 1689 ; died Feb. 1691. He
marr. 17th June 1675, Helen Douglas, and
had issue—George, served heir to his uncle,
14th Dec. 1705 ; John, min. of Abercorn
;
Jean (marr. 30th Sept. 1709, Charles
Anderson, Kinglassie).—[Lamont's Diary,
Edin. Reg. (Bajyt., Marr., and Bur.), Reg.
Collat., Wodrow's Hist., Sjjec. Ret. Fife;
MS. Ace. of Min., 1689.]
JOHN KINNAIRD [KINNEAR], licen.
1694 ky Presb. of Linlithgow 2nd May
1693 ; ord. 10th Jan. 1694 ; died 10th
Jan. 1725. He marr. (1) Marion, daugh.
of Robert Wellwood of Touch, and had
issue—Margaret (marr. John Moubray of
Cockairny) ; Jean (marr. John Steedman
of Baldridge, min. of the Tron Parish,
Edinburgh) : (2) Rachel Sandilands, who
survived him.—[Test. Reg.]
ALEXANDER DOUGLAS, licen. by
1(-2_ Presb. of Biggar 14th June 1716
;
ord. to Skirling 29th April 1718;
dep. 1719 ; reponed 1721 ; pres. by George
I., and adm. 28th Oct. 1725; died 8th
Sept. 1749. He marr. Isabella (died 4th
June 1775), daugh. of Andrew Houston of
Calder, and had issue—Sholto ; Alexander,
merchant in St Kitts ; Jean (marr. Aretas
B. Akers of St Kitts); Robert, planter in
St Kitts ; Isabella ; Mary (marr. James
Stoddart, min. of Kirkintilloch) ; John
Leigh, lieut. R.N.
—
[Acts of Ass., Wodrow's
Anal., Burke's Commoner's.]
MID-CALDER, formerly
CALDER-COMITIS.
[Divided in 1646 into Mid-Calder and
West Calder; the latter being the new
parish. Disjoined from the Presb. of
Linlithgow and annexed to the Presb. of
Edinburgh by General Assembly, 1884.]
JOHN SPOTTISWOOD (primus), born
1560 1^10) second son of William S. of
Spottiswood, Berwickshire (killed at
Flodden), and Elizabeth Pringle of Tor-
sonce ; entered Univ. of Glasgow 27th June
1534, and took his degree of M.A. in 1536 ;
went to London soon after, where he im-
bibed the principles of the Reformation
from Archbishop Cranmer. He returned
to Scotland in 1543, and was pres. by Sir
James Sandilands of Calder in 1548. He
joined the Reformers in 1560, and was
one of six elected for drawing up the First
Book of Discipline, and Confession of
Faith ; became Superintendent of Lothian
9th March 1561. In 1562 the parishioners
complained to the General Assembly that
S.'s duties as Superintendent prevented him
discharging all his duties of min. of the
parish. The reply was that owing to the
rarity of ministers it could not be other-
wise, and that " the profit of many
churches was to be preferred to the profit
of one.
;
'
He died 5th Dec. 1585. His son
relates that he was "a man well esteemed
for his piety and wisdom ; loving and
beloved of all persons, charitable to the
poor, and careful above all things to give no