KDINBUHGH] ST DAVID'S—ST GEORGE'S 105
1896
ALEXANDER WEBSTER, born Aber-
187_ deen, 5tli Jan. 1834, son of William
W. and Annie Hendry ; educated at
Grammar School, Aberdeen, and Edin-
burgh Univ.; MA. (Marischal College
1853) ; licen. by Presb. of Burntisland \
assistant at Kinghorn, Dysart, Kilrenny,
Edinburgh (Tolbooth and New Greyfriars) ;
ord. to Laigh Kirk, Kilmarnock, 9th Aug.
1866 ; trans, and adm. 1st June 1876 ; died
30th May 1896. He marr. 3rd June 1869,
Margaret Husband (died 16th Oct. 1914),
daugh. of William Dawson MacRitchie,
surgeon H.E.I.C.S., who afterwards marr.
William Findlay, ord. assistant at Saline,
Fifeshire.
WILLIAM RITCHIE BLACK, born
Inchture, 6th Aug. 1861, son of John
B. and Helen Murray ; educated at
St Andrews Univ. j M.A. (1884) ; licen. by
Presb. of Dundee 1887 ; assistant at Abdie
and Edinburgh (St David's) ; ord. 23rd Dec.
1896. Marr. 27th July 1897, Euphemia
Grace, daugh. of David Galloway, merchant,
Edinburgh, and has issue—Marion Gallo-
way, born 1898 ; John Murray, born 1899
;
"William Galloway, born 1901 ; Robert
James, born 1902 ; David James, born 1904 ;
Helen Grace, born 1905 ; Charles Ritchie,
born 1908.
ST GEORGE'S.
[Founded 14th May 1811, erected by
Presb. 26th Jan., and opened 5th June
1814. The church, built from a design by
Robert Reid, cost £33,194.]
ANDREW MITCHELL THOMSON,
born 11th July 1778, son of John
T., min. of Sanquhar, afterwards of
Edinburgh ; educated at Univ. of Edin-
burgh ; schoolmaster of Markinch ; licen.
by Presb. of Kelso 7th Oct. 1800 ; ord. to
Sprouston 11th March 1802; trans, to
East Parish, Perth, 31st March 1808;
trans, to New Greyfriars 16th May 1810
;
M.A. (Edinburgh 1811); pres. by the Town
Council 9th Feb., trans, and adm. 16th
June 1814 ; D.D. (Columbia College, New
York, 4th Aug. 1818, which he did not
accept, and by the Univ. and Marischal
College of Aberdeen, Nov. 1823). Return-
ing from a meeting of Presb., in whose
1814
business he had taken an active part, he
died instantaneously within a few steps of
his own door (29 Melville Street), from an
affection of the heart, 9th Feb. 1831. He
was an enthusiastic musical amateur, and
the composer of many psalm tunes. In
1820 he published Sacred Harmony, for the
Use of St George's Church, Edinburgh, in
which will be found "Redemption " and
" St George's, Edinburgh," and eleven other
original tunes by Dr T. In the "Apocrypha
Controversy " he very strongly opposed the
policy of circulating copies of the Bible in
which the books of the Apocrypha were
inserted, and he pleaded with great
eloquence for the immediate termination
of slavery in the British colonies. Able
character sketches have been drawn by
Dr M'Crie, Dr Chalmers, and Dr Burns
of Toronto. He marr. 26th April 1802,
Jane Carmichael, who died 8th June 1840,
and had issue—Jean and Helen, born 30th
March 1803; Agnes, born 24th Aug. 1804,
died 27th Sept. 1816; John, Professor of
Music in the Univ. of Edinburgh, born
28th Oct. 1805, died 1st May 1841 ; Janet,
born 2nd Oct. 1809; Isabella, born 17th
Nov. 1811 ; James, born 8th Oct. 1813,
died 23rd June 1815 ; Andrew, min. of
Maybole, born 10th May 1815 ; Christian
Bonar, born 8th Dec. 1819. Publications
—A Catechism on the Sacrament of the
Lord's Supper (many editions) ; A Letter
to Principal Hill (Edinburgh, 1803), a
second (Edinburgh, 1805), and another
on the case of John Leslie (Edinburgh,
1805) ; Our Guilt, our Danger, and
our Duty as a People, a sermon (Perth,
1809) ; Seven single Sermons (Edinburgh,
1809-10) ; Lectures, Expository and Practi-
cal, 2 vols. (Edinburgh, 1816) ; Sermons
on Infidelity (Edinburgh, 1821) ; Lectures
on Select Portions of the Psalms (Edin-
burgh, 1826) ; Sermons on Various Subjects
(Edinburgh, 1829); The Doctrine of Uni-
versal Pardon Considered and Refuted
(Edinburgh, 1830); Sermons and Sacra-
mental Meditations (Edinburgh, 1831); with
many smaller works. He edited for twenty
years the Edinburgh Christian Instructor
(30 vols.), writing many of its papers with
singular ability ; and not fewer than forty-