EDINBURGH] ROXBURGH PLACE 187
was erected on its site. Roxburgh Place
Chapel was the meeting-place of the Con-
vocation, 17th Nov. 1842, when of 465
present, 333 pledged themselves to secede
if no other means could be taken.]
1833
JOHN JOHNSTON, born 1780, son of
John J., Edinburgh ; educated at
the Canongate Grammar School and
Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. ; tutor in the
families of Gordon of Cluny and Millar of
Balmain ; licen. by Relief Presb. 12th July
1807; ord. 14th July 1808; joined the
Church of Scotland, and inducted 11th
July 1833. Whilst preaching in the Middle
Church, Perth, 1st Sept. of the same year,
he was seized with illness, and died two
days after. He marr. 4th Sept. 1812,
Elizabeth (died 12th Jan. 1864), daugh. of
John Home, land surveyor, Edinburgh, and
had issue—Eliza (marr. 1848, Finlay Mac-
pherson, min. of the Free Church, Larbert),
died 1853 ; Charlotte (marr. David Purves,
min. of Free Church, Maxwelltown), died
14th Sept. 1904 ; William Knox, died
young ; John, died 1st May 1820. Publica-
tions
—
The Gospel of the Kingdom to be
Universally Preached, a sermon (London,
1818) ; Address to the Relief Congregation,
Kelso (Edinburgh, 1829) ; Tivo Sermons
preached in Koxburgh Place Church (Edin-
burgh, 1832) ; Sermons, with Memoir by
Alexander Peterkin (Edinburgh, 1834).
—
[Sermons; Acts of Ass., 1833; New Stat.
Ace, xviii. ; Knox Genealogy; Small's
History of U.P. Congregations, i.]
JAMES CHARLES FOWLER, M.A.
;
ord. 7th Aug. 1834; trans, to St
1834 Luke's, Glasgow, 16th March 1837.
JAMES HAMILTON, born Paisley,
27th Nov. 1814, eldest son of William
H., D.D., min. of Strathblane ; edu-
cated privately and at Univs. of Glasgow
and Edinburgh; M.A. (Glasgow 1835);
licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 1839
;
assistant at St George's, Edinburgh, and
Abernyte ; ord. 21st Jan. 1841 ; inducted
to the National Scottish Church, Regent
Square, London, 22nd July 1841; D.D.
(College of New Jersey, U.S.A., 1848);
1841
F.L.S. ; died 24th Nov. 1867. He marr.
1847, Anne Hovenden (died April 1886),
daugh. of John Moore, Calcutta, and had
issue—Anne, born 12th March 1849 (marr.
3rd July 1867, Sir Frederick Wills, Bart.),
died 12th Feb. 1910 ; James, born 20th Oct.
1850, died 22nd Feb. 1911 ; Mary Isabella,
born 5th Aug. 1853 (marr. Alexander Law-
rence), died Aug. 1887 ; Christina Jean, born
11th July 1856, died unmarr. Jan. 1885 ;
Herbert William, born 1st Feb. 1861
;
Ada Frances, born 25th Feb. 1864, died
unmarr. Jan. 1902. Publications—At the
age of seventeen he compiled Lives of
Richard Baxter, Jonathan Edwards,
Thomas Boston, and others, for a Glas-
gow tract society, and in 1836 he wrote a
short Memoir of his father and edited his
posthumous works. His other publica-
tions include
—
Life in Earnest (1845) ; The
Mount of Olives (1846) ; Memoir of Lady
Colquhoun (1850) ; The Royal Preacher
(1851) ; Memoir of Richard Williams
(1854) ; Excelsior : Helps to Progress in
Religion, Science, and Literature, 6 vols.
(1854); Emblems from Eden (1856);
Lessons from the Great Biography (1857)
;
Our Christians
1
Classics (1857-9) ; Memoir
of T. Wilson of Woodville (1859) ; A Morn-
ing beside the Lake of Galilee (1863)
;
The Psalter and Hymn Book, three
lectures (1865) ; Memoir of J. D. Bums
(1869, posthumous). He edited the
Presbyterian Messenger, and Evangelical
Christendom (the organ of the Evangelical
Alliance). He was a constant contributor
to magazine literature, and the Botanical
articles in Fairbairn's Biblical Dictionary
were from his pen. A collected edition of
his works, in 6 vols., appeared in 1869-73.
—
[See Life by William Arnot, Hair's Regent
Square, Diet. Nat. Biog.]
1842
ALEXANDERGREGORY, born Lossie-
mouth, 15th Sept. 1817, son of Thomas
G. and Jean Duncan ; educated at
Elgin Academy and Univs. of Aberdeen
and Edinburgh; M.A. (King's College,
1837) ; tutor at Altyre ; licen. by Presb.
of Edinburgh ; ord. 1842. Joined the
Free Church; min. of Roxburgh Place
Free Church 1843-52; of Anstruther Free