144 WEST ST GILES [PRESB. OF
Unconverted Sinners, a sermon (Edinburgh,
1733) ; Sermon after the Death of the Rev.
James Craig, 1731 ; edited Craig's Sermons,
2 vols. (Edinburgh, 1732).—{Presb. and Test.
Beg. ; Wodrow's Anal., iii., iv. ; Wood's
Hist, of Cramond; Grant's Univ., ii.
;
Brown's Gospel Truth.]
1738
ROBERT WALLACE, born 7th Jan.
1696, only son of Matthew W.,
min. of Kincardine-in-Menteith ; edu-
cated at theGrammar School of Stirlingand
Univ. ofEdinburgh,where heacted as assist-
ant to James Gregory, Professor of Mathe-
matics. He was one of the founders of the
Rankenian Club in 1717 ; licen. by Presb.
of Dunblane 31st July 1722 ; became min.
of Moffat 29th Aug. 1723, and on 22nd
Nov. 1733 was trans, to New Greyfriars,
and to this charge 24th Sept. 1738. The
Town Council obtained an interdict from
the Lord Ordinary against the settlement,
but as the city was considered only one
parish, and the appointment to the different
churches was fixed by the Presb., and
the " matter was purely spiritual," he had
no hesitation in accepting, and the opposi-
tion proceeded no farther. Wallace was
Moderator of the General Assembly 12th
May 1743 ; he was app. by the Commis-
sion 9th Nov. 1743 along with George
Wishart to approach Parliament in con-
nection with the Act providing for the
widows and children of ministers and pro-
fessors. They were successful, and received
the thanks of the succeeding Assembly.
He was a Dean of the Chapel Royal and
Chaplain in Ordinary to George II. June
1744; D.D. (Edinburgh, 13th March 1759);
died 29th July 1771. On the overthrow
of the Walpole administration in 1742,
he was entrusted for four years with
the management of Church business, and
consulted in the distribution of Crown
Patronage, and so well did he discharge
this duty that no instance occurred in
which there was not a harmonious settle-
ment. To his knowledge as a man of
the world, were joined an acquaintance
and zeal in mathematics which rendered
him of essential service in assisting to
make the calculations on which were
founded the annuities and provisions to
the widows and children under the Act
above noticed. He marr. 14th Oct. 1726,
Helen (died 9th Feb. 1776), daugh. of
George Turnbull, min. of Tynninghame,
and had issue— Matthew, D.D., vicar
of Tenterden, Kent ; George, advocate,
author of various legal and other works,
born 1727, died 13th March 1805 ; Eliza-
beth—all of whom died unmarr. Pub-
lications— The Regard due to Divine
Revelation, and its Pretences to it Con-
sidered, a sermon (London, 1731); Reply
to a Letter Directed to the Minister of
Moffat [by William Dudgeon] Concerning
the Positive Institutions of Christian-
ity (London, 1732) ; The Letter to the
Learned Author of the Queries Unmasked
(Edinburgh, 1737, anon.) ; Ignorance and
Superstition, a Source of Violence, and
Cruelty, and in Particular the Cause of the
Present Rebellion, a sermon (Edinburgh,
1746); A Sermon on James Hi., 18 (Edin-
burgh, 1746); A Dissertation on the
Numbers of Mankind in Ancient and
Modern Times (Edinburgh, 1753, anon.
;
new ed., Edinburgh, 1809), with Life of
the Author (the book was translated into
French under the supervision of Montes-
quieu) ; The Doctrine of Passive Obedience
and Non-resistance Considered (Edinburgh,
1754) ; Characteristics of the Present Politi-
cal State of Great Britain (Edinburgh,
1758) ; Various Prospects of Mankind,
Nature, and Providence (London, 1761).
He left in MS. an Essay on Taste, which
was prepared for the press by his son,
but never published ; and many other
unpublished MSS. now in the library of
Edinburgh University.—[Wodrow's - Anal.,
iii., iv., and Corresp., iii. ; Scots Mag.,
xxxiii., lxxi. ; Carlyle's Autob., Mackenzie's
Life of Home ; Morren's Ann., i. ; Diet. Nat.
Biog.)
WILLIAM GLOAG, son of Andrew G.,
1W2 min. of West Calder ; educated at
Univ. of Edinburgh ; ord. to Cock-
pen 28th April 1758; trans, to Lady
Yester's, Edinburgh, 22nd Oct. 1767;
D.D. (Edinburgh, 1st Feb. 1770); trans,
and adm. 21st July 1772. He was app.